I don’t know what the numbers for the U.S. Open Webcast were yesterday afternoon, but they were probably huge. It was a great playoff, some say the best golf has ever seen. Odds are a lot of office doors were closed so the occupants could *ahem* "focus on paperwork."

The Webcast itself was a little uneven, occasionally freezing or having trouble keeping the video synched up with the audio (I was watching it on FiOS). There were several times that the picture was doing something akin to fast-forwarding in order to catch up to the sound.

My initial attempts to log in to the broadcast took me six tries before I could successfully connect with a working stream — each of those six times, of course, the American Express commercial that preceded the Webcast linkup played flawlessly.

Even so, NBC and the USGA did a tremendous job blending the Web with their televised coverage with a remarkable golf event. The only thing that could have made it significantly better, imho, would have been for Rocco to have made one more putt than he did.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 6:00 am and is filed under Internet Stuff.