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The Open - Winners' acceptance speech, Sport, Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards in 2017

14 May 2017

 Winner's acceptance speech by on behalf of Sky Sports, European Tour Productions and Sky Sports 1 for The Open in the Sport category

SPEAKER:  Wow.  Thank you so much. This is an incredible, incredible thing.  BAFTA, thank you so much for recognising what we tried to do here, which was to make golf entertaining, exciting, engaging, accessible, fun. Thank you to -- I am the unlucky one having to make the speech, by the way.  These are the talented guys behind me, but this is an incredible collaborative effort between organisations.  Sky, European Tour Productions, CTV, Telegenic, and of course the Royal & Ancient Golf Club, the R&A.  Special thanks to them for their vision and their ambition and for backing Sky and European Tour Productions to create this production.

Most of all, this award goes to the hundreds, literally hundreds of people behind us, the hardworking production, crew on site at Troon, and the hardworking people behind the scenes back at Sky who made this happen.  This is for you.

 Thank you very much.

(Applause)