The penultimate episode of Full Swing on Netflix features PGA Tour rookies Sahith Theegala and Mito Pereira. This article will contain spoilers so stop reading now if you’d like to avoid them!
Theegala and Pereira earned their 2022 PGA Tour cards via the Korn Ferry Tour, one of the many tours run by the PGA Tour.
Being a rookie on the PGA Tour is tough, as the episode quickly explains, with the first-timers lacking experience and knowledge of the courses that are played year-in, year-out by the world’s best.
Sahith Theegala puts it well: “College you’re playing against a lot of like really good players still, but you get to the PGA Tour it’s like ‘Oh everybody in this field is like a first-team All American. It takes a little bit of time to get used to it.”
However, despite their lack of experience and course knowledge, both Theegala and Pereira go on to have great, albeit winless, seasons and secure their cards for next year.
They also both go on to experience heartbreak late on in tournaments that they came oh-so-close to winning. We get to the drama, and heartache, of both near-misses in ‘Golf is Hard’.
The episode starts out by introducing the pair at the Players Championship ‘First Timers’ media day, showing Pereira’s three Korn Ferry Tour wins and describing him as a “rookie with pretty high expectations. One of the most promising young stars on the PGA Tour.”
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Mito Pereira has garnered a huge amount of attention, whereas Sahith Theegala doesn’t have that pressure.
“I’m just happy to be here and the goal is to secure my job for next year,” Theegala says.
“People don’t know exactly what they’re going to get when he makes his PGA Tour debut and no one expects a tonne,” journalist Dylan Dethier says of Theegala.
“We’re playing golf week-in, week out and we’re losing a majority of the time,” Collin Morikawa is heard in a montage of quotes. “If your win percentage is at 10% you’re one of the best to ever play the game,” Jordan Spieth says.
“Golf is hard,” Rory McIlroy says, giving the episode its title.
“Winning in your rookie year, that takes things to a new level. Do these rookies have what it takes to compete against the best in the world? We’re about to find out,” Amanda Renner says.
Theegala’s Phoenix Open heartbreak
Theegala is followed at the WM Phoenix Open where he is in with a shot of winning for the first time on the PGA Tour before an unlucky bounce sends his tee shot on the drivable 17th left and into the water. It costs him…
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