Tom Knapp cannot catch a break, let alone a big one.
Shortly after The Hollywood Reporter published an interview with the Golf Channel senior executive timed to the return Big Break, Knapp was forced to pull its premiere episode.
“Golf Channel is postponing tonight’s premiere of Big Break x Good Good to next Tuesday 9/1. This will allow for necessary production updates following a request from one of the show’s sponsors to remove its branding from the series,” the Versant-owned cable network said in a statement sent to THR. “Golf Channel will air encore presentations of Payne Stewart Award coverage this evening.”
The sponsor in question is no ancillary advertiser: Golf Galaxy, owned by Dick’s Sporting Goods and the title sponsor of Big Break x Good Good, yanked its endorsement hours before Tuesday’s scheduled airing, THR has learned. Golf Galaxy has no beef with Golf Channel — Knapp is simply caught between his Big Break boulder (below) and a hard place — but being in business with Good Good Golf these days is pretty bad bad.
As we wrote in our preview story:
