Full Swing on Netflix hits screens this month and the series followed the PGA Tour and its players during truly unprecedented times as the emergence of LIV Golf started to really shake things up.
This time last year was when the rumors started to ramp up and the story took hold of the sport, and Chad Mumm of Vox Media has revealed what it was like following the Tour as the Saudi-backed circuit really started to dominate proceedings in the golf world.
“Riviera last year at the Genesis that’s when the LIV stuff started to really bubble over from speculation to like, ‘Oh my God, this is all happening’,” Mumm told Golf Monthly.
“I think it was Tuesday, Riviera, I was in the press room, we were sort of just waiting around to go out on the course with I think it was Collin Morikawa and all of a sudden these reports start coming out. Maybe Bryson’s gonna go, DJ’s gonna go and all of a sudden, there’s like ‘the people had signed’ and there was some report that there was like 20 guys who had signed up and you could just feel the energy in the room completely change.
“And what’s cool about Riviera, a lot of the PGA Tour media centers are in like trailers or tents or something like that. At Riviera it’s in this classic 100-year-old building on top of the hill, a very golf environment in the clubhouse there and like these huge windows and just a very cinematic room to be in for the press. And you just could feel the energy shift and people are murmuring to each other, they’re tweeting, they’re talking, you know, just you’re like, ‘what’s going on?’ and then you know, the day later, the Alan Shipnuck quote from Phil came out, and it kind of blew it up and and we thought, ‘Well, maybe that’s over’, you know, but a month or two later it starts to pick up steam again.
“That whole period between basically Riviera and Southern Hills, the PGA Championship, was just like transformation. And what’s interesting about kind of getting deep with the PGA Tour and being in the locker room and hanging out with those guys, you really understand that it’s a traveling circus kind of like high school feeling.
“Everyone who’s made it to the PGA Tour, the best in the world at what they do, there’s a sort of bond and kinship. Everyone’s not like friends but you’re looking around, you’re all peers, right? ‘We’ve all done this thing. We’re all this good. We made it here’. There’s sort of this camaraderie and that like vaporized when the LIV stuff happened and really in an unprecedented way,…
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