Golf: Twitter gets TV rights for first two rounds of the PGA Tour tournaments (4 rounds total)

The social network Twitter has the digital rights to broadcast the PGA Tour, the men's professional golf circuit in North America, announced the American body on 05/01/2017. The broadcast will include the first 60 to 90 minutes of the first two rounds of every tournament on Thursday and Friday mornings. The agreement runs for the entire 2017 season.

The first tournament to be broadcast including Twitter coverage is the CareerBuilder Challenge which begins on 19/01/2017. "This agreement follows the successful collaboration between the two entities during the 2016 FedExCup Playoffs (four tournaments played between 25/08 and 25/09/2016)," said the PGA. This coverage will include analysis, interviews, and a live broadcast of the first two holes on Thursdays and Fridays. Additional content will be broadcast via Periscope, the live-streaming application of Twitter. The content broadcast by the social network will be available on the dedicated OTT platform of the PGA Tour. This platform, which broadcasts all the mornings on many days of golf tournaments, is available by subscription…