British Open closed to cellphones
By Omar McFarlane 
posted Jan 24th 2007 4:50PM
posted Jan 24th 2007 4:50PM
Ahh, another day, another ban -- David Hill, Director of Championships for The R & A, has recently announced that for this year's British Open cellphones will not be permitted. After numerous complaints by the players regarding last year's event, no spectator will be allowed to have a phone on the course and to make sure that happens, security checks will be done at the pay gates. We're glad to see that the British Open is now in line with all the other major golf championships, as we were tired of listening to people chatting it up with their friends at home wondering if they could be seen on TV or not. So, can we get a round of golf claps for the ban -- anyone?[Via Tech Digest]
Not a big deal, cell phones and cameras are prohibited at all PGA tour events.
The ban is not just because of people talking on their phones. Apparently, Tiger Woods and some other golfers at previous tournaments were upset about the noise spectators made while taking camera phone photos.
I wrote about this for Sprint's new camera phone weblog, http://www.sprint.com/photobility, but because Sprint lawyers have to read every article before it's posted (sigh), it's not yet public.