Who watched PGA golf on the weekends in the late 70s/early 80s?

[OrwellwasRight]

Here is my question. One of the networks used a theme song that may have been any one of these three and I can't remember which. Can anyone else remember? This question has been driving me crazy for a couple of months now.

Just when I think I know that it was Love's Theme, I'll hear Breezin' and I'll be sure it was Breezin'. I'm pretty sure it's isn't Feels So Good, but I can't rule it out entirely. One thing I know, the 70s were a great time for funky smooth (or smoothly funky) instrumentals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=RLTJ95kj9ng&feature=emb_title

[Awsi Dooger]

1. The first one, beginning at about the 30 second mark

I didn't recognize the music at all to begin with, at least not associated with the PGA, but just prior to reaching that section I knew what was coming and it brought back memories.

I think it was ABC

[choie]

2. Agree!

#1

[OrwellwasRight]

6. Thanks!

[OrwellwasRight]

5. I had thought ABC too, but wasn't sure.

It was definitely Love's Theme.

I used to watch sometimes when my brother in law came over and I'd hang with him (he was an adult and I was a kid -- he married my oldest sister -- I thought he was cool -- otherwise I wouldn't be caught dead watching golf on TV b/c I found it very boring). I remember names like Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Nicklaus, Ray Floyd, Curtis Strange, Lee Trevino, and Fuzzy Zoeller.

[Awsi Dooger]

3. Here's a clip from the 1982 US Open on ABC

I think this is what you are referring to. Doesn't seem exactly like either of the first two but very similar to the first. Could be a house blend specially created for the theme. Go to 2:00 mark:

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[OrwellwasRight]

4. Great detective work!

It is definitely Love's Theme, and you're right it sounds like a more mellow cover. Thanks!

[Awsi Dooger]

7. You are welcome

I actually remember when they changed the theme, at least for the US Open. It lasted all the way through the '80s but then the 1990 US Open at Medinah they scrapped it and replaced with a completely different theme solely for that year only, to the tune of, "That's Entertainment."

The change drew quite a bit of debate among golf fans and golf columnists.

I can't find a clip but I remember the words they used in the golf version of "That's Entertainment:":

"The rough...will be high as a kite...and the greens...will be faster than light..."

"...so on with the show...on with the show, the US O-Pen"

[OrwellwasRight]

8. Lol

So not The Jam’s version of That’s Entertainment? https://m.