Different generation. Throw in the media and social media misconstruing and misinterpreting everything said, weighing everything said in an effort to get clicks.... we're in a different time.
Edited to say.... there was a time, back in the day, when the beat reporters were well respected. They knew a lot of the players they covered were philandering, were cheating on their wives, were out drinking and carousing every night at the next tour stop. But there was a mutual understanding, a kinship. Sports writers back then were simply covering the game. They had interesting stories, they portrayed the players and their competitive dynamics. They weren't interested in their personal lives, who they'd slept with, or whether they'd been out the night prior on a all- night drinking binge.
Hell, half of the old guys can't remember many of those days on tour because many of them were completely wasted and don't know how in the hell they were able to put a ball on a peg on the first hole the following round.
Yet the sportswriters back in those days never felt the need to talk about that. And perhaps part of that was because they didn't want to lose access to the players because of their reporting.
But it was all about the golf back then. Not who so-and-so was banging, or how so-and-so spent the wee hours of the next morning drinking and living it up before their tee time 4 hours later.
It's a different time.