Have any of you seen the commercials for DirecTV's NASCAR Hotpass? I would love to see something similar with the PGA. Have a few different channels, each with a camera and mike following a golfer throughout his round. Nothing intrusive, just where you could see them play their round and hear the player and caddy discussing the different shots. No commentary or extras. This is something I would pay a premium for. One of the best parts of watching golf for me is to see how the pros handle different shots.

golf isn't that popular of a sport(that is watched on TV) to do such a thing. At least I don't think so. The best thing about Nascar on TV is there's a channel that randomly does a Turn It Up! feature type thing where they have cameras really close to the track and they pick up all the noise and such. So when you turn it up with surround sound, it sounds really cool. Also, golf isn't a constant action sport(not to mention all the golfers on the field during the first couple of rounds). Not to mention the talks between players are probably private at times.

What WOULD work for golf is something like a top 20 thing. Where they follow the top 20(PGA ranking/FedEx ranking) with each of their own channels. But instead of the player/caddy thing, they have a slow-motion thing of each shot or maybe a PIP of a shot like in the Luke vs. Christian Donald videos on Mizuno Europe.

Relatively speaking, Golf Channel already does this when comparing the Nationwide coverage to PGA Tour Coverage. For the PGA, we get one shot every minute or two if we are lucky....the camera just lingers on the most boring moments for what seems like an eternity....here's Boo putting a tee in the ground, did you hear about Boo doing this, Boo doing that (tee still not in ground)....boring.

For the NW coverage, it's shot after shot after shot with just a casual conversation in the background.

At the rate the PGA Tour is going with shotlink it won't be long before we get streaming video of whatever player we want on the course....who needs TGC?

You're probably right. Not a big enough market. It's just something I think real golfers would enjoy more than the current broadcasts we get. And it would be relatively inexpensive to operate. When I attend tournaments, I prefer to follow one group, rather than sit at a hole. It really helps you see how the average guys get it around. You only see the best of the best for that week on TV.

I guess with the bigger purses, come the increases in advertising. And with the DVR's, broadcasters are having to incorporate advertising into the middle of the broadcasts. It just really detracts from the overall quality of the broadcast.

The worst isn't advertisements. It's lack of REAL coverage. Actually, now that I think about it, I kinda see why I like watching Nationwide/LPGA more than the PGA tournaments when it comes to the golf channel. More shots seen. Although, I gotta admit, watching Greg Norman in the Open was pretty cool.

I would pay $50 a month for a channel that just followed Tiger around for every second he was at the golf course on a tournament/ practice round day. It's not like it would change a thing for him. I really want to see his actions inbetween shots and his full routine for putts and chips or pitches. I haven't been able to see him play in person - and I imagine then it's still hard to keep a set of eyes on him 24/7 in those crowds.

I would bet that there's alot of blue language as well

there's alot of time to kill when you bomb it huge distance and then have to walk all the way to the ball

Reminds me of the Cobra commercials. "You ever wonder why range balls are stacked like cannonballs? ...mystery solved." "Could use a little more squint."

DirectTV did something similar to this during the Masters, and US OPEN, on certain channels you could watch featured pairings or certain holes and there was no commercial breaks what so ever.