Report: Joe Buck and Greg Norman will be the featured broadcasting group for the 2015 U.S. Open
The 2014 U.S. Open is just two months away, but with NBC having the second major championship of the year for the last time, we are already looking ahead at what Fox is planning to do when they debut their golf coverage in 2015.
The latest announcement is an interesting one, as sources are telling Sports Business Journal that Joe Buck and Greg Norman will be the featured broadcasting group when the network turns to golf.
Norman, a two-time major champion, never won the U.S. Open, but competed in it 19 times, finishing second in 1984 and 1995. Buck, the man that seems to do it all for Fox, has never broadcasted golf but is apparently a scratch golfer who seems to be versatile enough to do just about anything the network asks.
The team is definitely going to be a different feel from what we've come to expect from the NBC team. Johnny Miller, who can get under viewer's skin at times with his pointed comments and thoughts back to his own accomplishments, is one of the most knowledgeable golf announcers out there, and Dan Hicks always seems to handle himself as a professional and do a solid job in the booth on the 18th.
Buck and Norman will be a new team broadcasting the second biggest golf tournament of the entire year on a golf course that has never hosted the U.S. Open, so if nothing else, it will be a debut for all involved when the golf world turns to Chambers Bay in 14 months.
