Nick Faldo and Kelly Tilghman lead a Golf Channel team eager to ...

The rhythmic rap of hammers accompanied by the shrill whine of power saws played an appropriate overture for the 2007 -season at the Golf Channel. But the carpenters and electricians who transformed what two days earlier had been a gutted studio into a nearly completed array of new sets were only part of the air of anticipation that occupied every corner of the network's Orlando headquarters at year's end. The PGA Tour is coming to the Golf Channel, along with the most sweeping changes in the network's 12-year history. The new slogan for the Golf Channel is "Every PGA Tour event begins here," but it is more than that. It is a new beginning for the network itself. The switch to a digital signal New Year's Day will provide a sharper picture. High-definition coverage of Thursday and Friday rounds beginning with the Buick Invitational will bring a startling realism to golf on TV.

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