Golf Channel Has a New Morning Show and I Want In

Last night, Geoff Shackelford brought my attention to a piece on Links Magazine's website with Golf Channels' Keith Allo. Allo said the network would be launching a morning show in 2011. Hours later, Golf Channel released the news it was green lighting a show (hopefully very) tentatively titled Dawn Patrol.

Here's how the channel describes the show:

"Following a news/talk show format, the sports-driven morning show will place an emphasis on golf while also offering a fresh perspective on topical news, sports and pop culture. The program will feature field reporting and an array of in-studio guest appearances from a variety of industries."

Allo described it as their version of Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio. Well, then this is doomed. 

Maybe it's like Golf Channel's Fox and Friends? Oh, crap.

Squawk Box? Joe Kernen makes my heart bleed.

Let's hope not. The idea of a golf-ish morning show really is a pretty good one. I'm being completely serious about this.

It's kind of funny timing, really. I've been thinking about how great a golf morning show could hypothetically be. Frankly, though, it wouldn't be much in the studio. Let me set the scene of the better titled Need A Fourth for you.

The show has three hosts - the smart one, the funny one, and the one that clearly needs their head examined. We also need one of the three to be the sexy one. All three of us start the morning at the first tee of a golf course at right around dawn. It's a great opportunity to feature good golf tracks. Or, in the case of the remote from Bethpage Black, how to drink beer at 6am.

From the first tee, the hosts outline how the nine holes - taking approximately two hours - will go. There's nine holes, so there's nine segments. At any one time, any of the hosts could be playing golf. Always, though, there is a fourth player. They would be a guest, or a fan, or something like that. While we're playing the hole for that segment - and we keep the boring stuff to the par 3s - we cover the topic. 

Fall fashions? Par 4. A new season of generic Spike TV "for guys" show? Maybe the putting green.

Anyhow, the show is always outside and always somehow related to golf, either on topic or in the visuals on camera. The golf itself taking place shouldn't be a backstory, either. There should be a bet or a match or something happening among the hosts & guests. Maybe it could be a purse for charity. Or it could be that the hosts are playing for a prize for a viewer. Somehow, the golf is meaningful.

I really think this idea works. It covers everything a morning show should be. Oh, and we would have cart babes, too. You in?