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Blink and you would have missed it.
In the 135-minute BBC Sports Personality of the Year show, golf featured for – in total – comfortably less than one minute.
A fleeting bit on Sergio Garcia ending his major heartache at The Masters, a note on Jordan Spieth capturing The Open in one of the championship’s most dramatic final days in recent memory and mentions of Justin Thomas’s maiden major at the US PGA Championship and Tommy Fleetwood’s Race to Dubai triumph.
Garcia wasn’t even on the eight-person shortlist to win Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, which Roger Federer won for a record fourth time.
The sad thing? It really wasn’t all that surprising – and plenty golf fans took to Twitter during the show to vent their anger.
So far a footballer who has won exactly zero and a tennis player who got to a semi final are ahead of @TommyFleetwood1 #spoty
— Chris Kelly (@chrisjkelly1) December 17, 2017
Just a reminder... Sergio Garcia, a major winner at last in 2017, wasn't even nominated for the overseas #SPOTY award. A darts player was, of course.
— Michael McEwan (@MMcEwanGolf) December 17, 2017
The lack of golf during the @BBCSport #SPOTY is utterly embarrassing.
— DAN (@dansoutham89) December 17, 2017
Can someone @BBCSport please explain to me how female tennis player who made a semi-final is more deserving of nomination ahead of @TommyFleetwood1 #spoty
— One Eyed Crow (@RossKinnaird) December 17, 2017
Eddie Pepperell also weighed in with his thoughts.
I grew up loving SPOTY. I even dreamed one day of winning it! But with age I’ve either grown incredibly cynical, or it’s become a complete shambles of an award. I hope it’s the former, but sometimes wonder if it’s the latter.
— Eddie Pepperell (@PepperellEddie) December 17, 2017
What do you think of the amount of representation golf got on last night’s SPOTY? Let us know in the ‘Comments’ section below.
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