Hawleywood Breaks Down the 2004 US Open at Shinnecock

me.

So re-watching the final round replay, if I had the phone I had now, I would have been texting guys as they were coming off the golf course because I played against half these guys that were showing on TV.

Today, I was just getting more and more steamed that I wasn't playing in the U.S. Open.

Even though after watching that, I was glad I didn't play in the U.S. Open.

Oh, how

funny.

So it was an interesting thing.

So let's just get right into it.

So the replay is on YouTube.

It's online.

It's on the USGA site.

And you can find other things, too, that kind of go adjacent to this.

So I did a little deep dive.

I'm just going through the highlights of the telecast.

I'm not going to relive shot by shot other than the ones that I found interesting from a broadcast perspective.

or just the ultimate effect of the tournament.

So let's just start with the very opening, the kicking off.

This is NBC kicking off with Bob Costas doing the monologue leading into the broadcast.

In the background, they're playing the theme music from Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, the Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman classic, which is pretty interesting for a U.S. Open.

It's a movie set in England.

Do

you know if this is the only time that they use this music? don't think so i think this you know they buy the

rights and then they have to like the whole yanni when they have the yanni yanni oh they bought it they paid for it So it's just really interesting to use music from a movie set in England for the US Open, even though the movie did have three primary stars at the time that were Americans.

The big bad is an Englishman.

But the more interesting thing is the two leading players from after round three were South African, had nothing to do with England or US other than both being US Open winners and Ratif Goosen and Ernie Els.