A cinema release in the winter might have proved more engaging, since June's late bright evenings are more apt to witness golf fans actually playing the sport.
In winter it's mostly dark, icy and ravaged by howling, bitter winds, while in summer the hot sunny days tail off into long bright evenings, a couple of hours of twilight, and then sunrise again while the nightlife is still in full swing.
Examples include: that one solid, round, oak dining table; these many fine, large, black racehorses; those countless memorable, long, bright summer evenings.
Meanwhile, Seattle still has the Tan Duc Pho House up on Aurora, the Northwest Crafts Center at the Seattle Center, the view of Elliot Bay from Queen Anne Hill and bright summer evenings when the Mariners will be in the gifted hands of Alex Rodriguez.
On the first Wednesday of Wimbledon this June, under a bright early-evening sky, Roger Federer trailed two sets to one in his second-round match against Sergiy Stakhovsky, a Ukrainian ranked 116th in the world and best known until that point for pulling out his cellphone during a match to take a photograph of a disputed ball mark.
Balding also has two other shows on air – BBC1 gameshow Britain's Brightest on Saturday evenings and Radio 2's Good Morning Sunday.
According to the old wives' tale, we are at our brightest in the evenings if we were born then and in the mornings if we emerged in the early hours.
Balding is in hot demand having taken over Channel 4's horse racing coverage at the beginning of January, as well as BBC1 gameshow Britain's Brightest on Saturday evenings and Radio 2's Good Morning Sunday.
Tall, white cow parsley is now in our field and bright skies and long evenings have encouraged more bracken and bluebells.
Charlie Stratton, who directed Bell's play on stage in LA, paints 19th-century Paris as a torpid dung-hole in which the suffocating air of death (Matt Lucas's bewigged Olivier literally stinks of the morgue) is alleviated only by the spark of lust – a rare bright spot amid darkened evenings of dominoes and overtight corsets.
