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The Scottish Golf Show (STV, Thursday)
THERE is a lot of golf on television if you know where to find it, but there are still vast tracts of the sport which remain unexplored. We get the Ryder Cup, the majors and the USPGA and European Tours, the top level of the game in other words, but little underneath that.
In decades past, both the BBC and STV have shown some domestic competition - things like the Scottish Boys' Championship at somewhere such as Southerness or Glasgow Gailes, where as they were being interviewed by Arthur Montford the competitors invariably struggled to stand upright as their flares flapped around in a Force Nine. But there has never been consistent coverage of Scottish golf below the elite level.
It's strange really, given the number of people who are out on the course every week. The rough footballing equivalent would be if we were to get the World Cup and the Champions League on TV but little or nothing from the SPL. A furore would ensue.
First shown in 2006, and repeated...