SIR – Is the Beeb trying to compete with Sky Sports? In four days, it devoted at least 50 hours to the 139th Open Championship from the old course at St Andrews in Fife, including two uninterrupted eleven-hour programmes.

Is this a ‘fair way’ to treat licence payers, the majority of whom have no interest in the game and think of eagles only as birds of prey?

D Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford