Maybe the problem is that there IS a golf channel!
Aren't most of us sick and tired of the press hyping every little thing to manufacture controversy and try and hold an audience, no matter what they are covering on these 24 hour cable channels? They don't have a program and couldn't draw a small crowd if they didn't hyperventilate every breath they speak. They are like a bunch of old wag tongue gossips and pettifoggers always looking to manufacture some controversy or stir up a dispute where none exists. You know you are at a lowlife gossip and dish the dirt session when the interviewer's best shot is: "so and so said this about you, what do you want to say back?"
Example in point, the pathetic interviewers at the press conference of McILroy, all flogging the comment by Faldo that 'Rory has too much on his mind' or some such. Then, whatever the innocuous 'brush it off' response is, they regurgitate it back and analyse it until they can stimulate yet another response from the first bloke, and on they will flog it for two or three news cycle days. All much ado about nothing.
I don't know what the solution is, as we want to view our golf, but then when it is over, we get played and conned into believing that some drama is afoot, at the slightest of comments over-hyped by these cable mavens.
And I'm not saying these guys that do the interviews are not able or competent or not decent folk. Of the two or three I met, they are fine gents in deed. But, the pressure to keep the interest up and the dial tuned into the cable channel after there is really nothing more to say until golf recommences the next day. Just too much prattle, methinks...
I know... the irony in that statement.
