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WATCH Drive On: LPGA All Access

Watch all episodes of the new LPGA docuseries Drive On: LPGA All Access - new episodes coming throughout 2023.

This year the LPGA announced the creation of “Drive On: LPGA All Access,” a multi-episode series that would air on LPGA platforms and give fans a beyond-the-course glimpse into the lives of some of the best golfers in the world – LPGA Tour athletes.

We're delighted to say that the first episode has been released and you can watch it now.

Watch Episode 1 - Drive On: LPGA All Access

In the first episode of Drive On: LPGA All Access we're taken behind-the-scenes of the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions with Gemma Dryburgh, Ashleigh Buhai, and Jodi Ewart Shadoff as the 2023 LPGA Tour season gets underway.

• Gemma Dryburgh  – Dryburgh entered the 2023 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions following a career-defining year where she became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the 2022 TOTO Japan Classic. Dryburgh made the most of her experience at Lake Nona, playing alongside idol and 72-time Tour winner Annika Sorenstam and meeting celebrities like Ellie Goulding.
• Jodi Ewart Shadoff  – After nabbing her career-first win at the 2022 LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, Ewart Shadoff finally got to play a “home game” at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, about 30 minutes from her residence in Orlando that she shares with her husband and local sports reporter Adam Shadoff.
• Ashleigh Buhai  – Buhai, who was exempt into her first #HGVLPGA thanks to her major victory at the 2022 AIG Women’s Open, had a busy offseason, capturing the  2022 ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open  in December and returning home to South Africa. She’s ready for competition with husband David Buhai on the bag for one week only.

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In the second episode of Drive On: LPGA All Access we're taken behind-the-scenes of the LPGA Drive On Championship at Superstition Mountain in Arizona, the first full field event of the season, with Lilia Vu, Maria Fassi, Mina Harigae and Leona Maguire.

Lilia Vu comes into the event after winning the Honda LPGA Thailand at the end of February, whilst Leona Maguire is looking to defend her title. Mina Harigae is on home soil and Maria Fassi has her family in support as she celebrates her 25th Birthday.

Watch Episode 3 - Drive On: LPGA All Access

In the third episode of Drive On: LPGA All Access we're taken behind the scenes of the Chevron Championship. The first Major of the season has moved from Mission Hills in California to The Club at Carlton Woods in Texas. There has also been a day change from the end of March to the beginning of April.

This episode follows Angel Yin, Lilia Vu, Cheyenne Knight, Georgia Hall and Ryann O'Toole - all who are looking to secure the first Major of 2023.

Watch Episode 4 - Drive On: LPGA All Access

In the fourth episode of Drive On: LPGA All Access we head to the 2023 Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown to follow Team USA and Team Australia during the event.

The Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown is a team match-play competition that features the best female golfers from the top eight countries across the globe. The competition returned to the LPGA this season after last being held in 2018. It was scheduled to be held in 2020, but went on an indefinite hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The eight countries competing TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, California were USA, Korea, Japan, Sweden, England, Thailand, Australia and China.

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In the fifth episode of Drive On: LPGA All Access we follow Brittany Lincicome and Angel Yin at the Cognizant Founders Cup.

We get an insight into what life is like on tour with a baby as Brittany Lincicome looks to get back into the swing of things since having her second daughter Sophia. Angel Yin reflects on her time on tour and how she had fallen back in love with playing golf again. She also reflects on how close she came at the Chevron Championship.

There is also an emotional reunion for Jane Park who has had to move away from tour life to focus on caring for her daughter - there is footage for a fundraiser in honour of Grace. Showing the family environment that the LPGA Tour has nurtured.

Watch Episode 6 - Drive On: LPGA All Access

In the sixth episode of Drive On: LPGA All Access we follow Amy Ruengmateekhun, In Gee Chun, Rose Zhang & Jenny Shin at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

In Gee Chun is back to defend her Major title whilst Rose Zhang has taken the golf media by storm after winning her first event as a professional at the Mizuho Americas Open the month before. Can she make her second pro start a Major victory?

There are approximately 10 episodes planned for the 2023 season. With all episodes being steamed via LPGA YouTube  and  LPGA.com .

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Full Swing Episode Guide: What's Covered In The Netflix PGA Tour Series

What's included in each of the eight episodes of the brand new PGA Tour Netflix Series 'Full Swing'?

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The highly anticipated Full Swing docuseries is now streaming on Netflix to give golf fans, and non-golf fans, the chance to go behind the scenes of the PGA Tour and all four men's Majors.

Full Swing, of course, took place during one of the craziest years in the sport's history with the emergence and threat of LIV Golf .

The series follows the LIV Golf controversy, including some of its notable signings, as well as number of other popular PGA Tour pros and their stories both on and off the course. The eight episodes follow some of the game's biggest names including Rory McIlroy , Justin Thomas , Dustin Johnson and Ian Poulter .

Each episode follows certain players and tournaments, starting with Thomas and Spieth in the first, titled 'Frenemies'. The season builds to a crescendo with Rory McIlroy letting the cameras in during the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup conclusion at the Tour Championship.

Take a look at which golfers feature in Full Swing and what you can expect from each of the eight episodes, all available to watch now on Netflix...

Episode 1: Frenemies

The debut episode of Full Swing follows the friendship, and rivalry, shared between Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth . JT gets the bulk of the episode, which mainly follows him and his dad/coach during the week of his second Major victory at the 2022 PGA Championship.

• Episode length: 49 minutes
• Synopsis: Childhood best friends Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas become fierce rivals as they battle to win on the PGA Tour
• Main cast: Justin Thomas , Jordan Spieth , Mike Thomas , Rickie Fowler , Michael Greller , Sean Foley , Amanda Renner , Dan Rapaport, Dylan Dethier
• Tournaments featured: RBC Heritage, PGA Championship

Episode 2: Win or Go Home

Win or Go Home follows Brooks Koepka at The Masters and sheds light on the American's on-course struggles and lack of confidence following injuries and a loss of form. It also follows Scottie Scheffler , who is quickly rising to the top of the game.

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• Length: 40 minutes
• Synopsis: With his career in a frustrating slump, Brooks Koepka hopes to reclaim his place as one of the top golfers at The Masters.
• Main cast: Brooks Koepka , Jena Sims , Scottie Scheffler , Meredith Scudder , Amanda Renner , Dan Rapaport, Dylan Dethier, Sean Foley
• Tournaments featured: WM Phoenix Open, The Masters

Episode 3: Money or Legacy

Money or Legacy features Ian Poulter as he struggles to find form in the months between the WGC-Match Play and PGA Championship all the while wrestling over the career-defining decision to leave the PGA Tour, the Ryder Cup and his legacy and take the money to join LIV Golf.

• Episode length: 39 minutes
• Synopsis: Ian Poulter debates whether a lucrative LIV Golf contract is worth giving up his PGA Tour card - and facing the public scrutiny of his decision.
• Main cast: Ian Poulter , Luke Poulter, Katie Poulter
• Tournaments featured: The Players Championship, WGC-Match Play, PGA Championship

Episode 4: Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome follows the self-deprecating Joel Dahmen and his jouney from qualifying for the US Open to his week at Brookline. Joel reveals his lack of confidence in his game, why he thinks he'll never be great and also looks into the unique relationship between him and his caddie.

• Episode length: 42 minutes
• Synopsis: Ahead of the U.S. Open, fun-loving and self-deprecating Joel Dahmen must embrace growing responsibilities if he wants a place as a top professional golfer.
• Main cast: Joel Dahmen , Geno Bonallie , Lona Dahmen , Max Homa
• Tournaments featured: US Open qualifying, US Open

Episode 5: American Dreams

American Dreams features both Matt Fitzpatrick and Dustin Johnson. DJ explains his decision to join LIV Golf while the episode concludes with Fitzpatrick's US Open triumph following his disappointment of coming up shy at the PGA Championship.

• Episode length:  47 minutes
• Synopsis:  Tensions between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf reach new heights as Matt Fitzpatrick and Dustin Johnson face off at the U.S. Open
• Main cast:   Matt Fitzpatrick , Dustin Johnson , Paulina Gretzky , Austin Johnson , Billy Foster , Dan Rapaport, Thomas Pieters
• Tournaments featured:  PGA Championship, US Open

Episode 6: Don't Get Bitter, Get Better

'Don't Get Bitter, Get Better', a famous Tiger Woods quote, looks into the contrasting careers, and lives, of Tony Finau and Collin Morikawa , who both got into the game after being inspired by Woods. It offers a close look into the family, and tragedy, of Tony Finau and follows him as he wins in back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour.

• Episode length: 44 minutes
• Synopsis: Tony Finau and Collin Morikawa take different approaches to the game heading into The Masters Tournament and the Open Championship.
• Main cast: Tony Finau , Alayna Finau , Collin Morikawa , Katherine Zhu
• Tournaments featured: The Masters, 150th Open, 3M Open, Rocket Mortgage Classic

Episode 7: Golf is Hard

Golf is Hard focusses on PGA Tour rookies Sahith Theegala and Mito Pereira as they each experience close calls, and heartbreaks, in their debut season in the big league. It follows Sahith Theegala's WM Phoenix Open near-miss and Mito Pereira's agonising PGA Championship loss.

• Episode length:  46 minutes
• Synopsis:  Rookies Sahith Theegala and Mito Pereira are both looking for their first win on The PGA Tour, but must learn the hard way that winning isn't easy.
• Main cast:   Sahith Theegala ,  Mito Pereira ,  Antonia Prida ,  Joaquin Niemann
• Tournaments featured:  WM Phoenix Open, PGA Championship

Episode 8: Everything Has Led To This

The final episode, Everything Has Led To This, belongs to Rory McIlroy. It follows him at the 150th Open at St Andrews and then takes in the FedEx Cup conclusion at the Tour Championship, all the while the PGA Tour continues to make changes amid the threat of LIV Golf.

• Episode length: 47 minutes
• Synopsis: As the season winds down, Rory McIlroy faces Cam Smith at the Open Championship, while fighting for a change within the PGA Tour.
• Main cast: Rory McIlroy

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook , Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

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'full swing': reviewing and ranking all 8 episodes of the netflix golf show, share this article.

The hype around a Netflix golf series from the creators of Formula 1: Drive to Survive has been building for more than a year.

The wait is now over for golf fans, as the streaming platform officially released all eight episodes of Full Swing .

The introduction was similar to the teaser and official trailers that dropped in the lead up to the show’s release. It set the scene for what fans would see across the first season: a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of some of the best players in the world and how they go about their craft amid a power struggle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

Here’s a review and ranking of each episode, including highlights and stars of the show.

Episode 1 – Frenemies

Netflix episode summary:  Childhood best friends Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas become fierce rivals as they battle to win on the PGA Tour.

Star of the episode: It has to be JT. The episode shows how his relationship with Spieth goes back to when they were teenagers playing junior golf together. They’ve competed against each other at the NCAA Championship and with each other at the Ryder Cup. Fans see the friendship between the two on Tour, but it was interesting to hear Thomas talk about how envious he was of Spieth early in their professional careers and how he’s grown over his own time on Tour.

Thoughts and highlights:

• Pro golfers, they’re just like us: Thomas walking around a CVS (while being in contention at a major championship) struggling to find allergy medication and then getting error messages at the self-checkout. Been there, done that. Except for the major championship part.
• Pro golfers, they’re not like us at all: Thomas and Spieth trying to guess what card would be flipped from a deck and gambling $1k per attempt on a private jet. It pays to play well on the PGA Tour .
• I forgot about all the great social media content that would come from the Spring Break boys trips taken by Thomas, Spieth, Rickie Fowler and Smylie Kaufman.
• Matt Fitzpatrick said success would be to win on the Tour in 2022. Hello, foreshadowing.
• Spieth once paid a valet in Phoenix to move Thomas’ cart off site. Classic.
• The producers did well to quickly explain how pro golf tournaments work for the casual sports fans. Same with money games. Probably could’ve explained the schedule a bit more for context.
• Mito Pereira coming to the realization in real time that he lost a great chance at a major: “I (expletive) it up. On the last hole, man.” Was difficult to watch last season when it happened, and his mic’d up clip made it all the more heartbreaking.

Episode ranking (1=Best, 8=Worst): 6

Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth on the Netflix show, ‘Full Swing.’ (Photo: Netflix)

Episode 2 – Win or Go Home

Netflix episode summary:  With his career in a frustrating slump, Brooks Koepka hopes to reclaim his place as one of the top golfers at the Masters.

Star of the episode: Scottie Scheffler is also heavily featured, but Koepka is the main focus. It was cool to see him open up and be vulnerable about his struggles on and off the course. Koepka portrays the tough guy exterior and it’s rare to get that sort of glimpse into what’s actually going on inside his head.

• With the Masters as the ending, it was a layup to start the episode at the Phoenix Open to help describe and detail just who Brooks Koepka is, given his personality and history at the event. It also paralleled well with Scheffler’s ascension to world No. 1.
• Pro golfers, they’re just like us: Koepka putting on the carpet at home and aiming at a wine bottle. Who needs a high quality mat or indoor putting green?
• Pro golfers, they’re not like us at all: Koepka’s wall of shoes in the closet is wild.
• Koepka has the number 33 on his golf balls because it’s his wife’s favorite number and they got engaged on March 3 rd . He’s not always the tough guy.
• Koepka forgot his clubs at home when he went to the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in 2017: “We got to the course, didn’t know where my clubs were.”
• Scheffler is leading the Masters and talking between shots with his caddie about his wife eating popcorn in bed at hotels and there being crumbs everywhere. What would you be thinking about if you were winning at Augusta National?
• The access to the majors was hyped up, but we didn’t see much of the Masters that isn’t already out there. But once again, it’s about the player, not the events.

Episode ranking: 1, my favorite of the season.

Brooks Koepka during filming of Full Swing. (Photo: Netflix)

Episode 3 – Money or Legacy?

Netflix episode summary:  Ian Poulter debates whether a lucrative LIV Golf contract is worth giving up his PGA Tour card – and facing the public scrutiny of his decision.

Star of the episode: Poulter the father and his interactions with his kids stands out a lot more than Poulter the player, who didn’t do himself any favors trying to explain why he went to LIV. He said there were uncertainties that came with joining LIV and rumors swirled about the outcomes from the Tour and Ryder Cup if they joined LIV when it was well known what would happen. Poulter would have been a prime candidate for a Ryder Cup captaincy, sooner rather than later, too. He said it would be devastating and disappointing if “it was taken away,” yet still went and put himself in the position.

• The episode introduces LIV Golf, then jumps briefly to the Players Championship, then it details the Ryder Cup – because you can’t explain Poulter without the Ryder Cup – then back to expanding on LIV. It was a bit jumbled.
• Pro golfers, they’re just like us: Poulter’s kids making fun of him for bailing on a diet and wearing “funky” clothes.
• Professional golfers, they’re not like us at all: The Poulter family putting on a private jet in “the 41,000 foot putt challenge,” as deemed by one of his sons.
• The PGA Tour can’t be happy the Players, its flagship event got, got passed over without any explanation of it importance in the schedule. That said, the series is about the players themselves, not the season or Tour.
• Poulter, Jhonattan Vegas and Pat Perez were discussing Instagram and Twitter follow counts during the Players and making fun of Rickie Fowler for having tons of followers but never posting. Guess you can’t be fully locked in for 72 holes.
• We saw it in the trailer but Poulter threw a temper tantrum and blew up in the locker room after losing to Matt Fitzpatrick at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play.
• Fitzpatrick driving down the fairway at the PGA Championship talking about Poulter and Lee Westwood definitely going to LIV Golf, as well as Sergio Garcia, just showed the players were talking about it as much as the fans and media.
• Poulter saying “I’m not traveling to the U.S. Open” was a next-level way to spin and frame that he didn’t qualify.

Episode ranking: 8, the worst of the season

Ian Poulter of England looks on alongside their son and Caddie Luke Poulter during a practice round prior to The 150th Open at St Andrews Old Course on July 11, 2022 in St Andrews, Scotland. (Photo: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Episode 4 – Imposter Syndrome

Netflix episode summary:  Ahead of the U.S. Open, fun-loving and self-deprecating Joel Dahmen must embrace growing responsibilities if he wants a place as a top professional golfer.

Star of the episode: How do you not walk away from this episode as a fan of Joel Dahmen? Koepka opened up, sure, but fans learn more about Dahmen than anybody else so far in the series. Executive producer Chad Mumm tabbed him as a breakout star from the series and he was absolutely right.

Oh, and his mustache continues to get better and better with each episode.

• Reliving the Dahmen and Harry Higgs WM Phoenix Open shirtless party on the 16 th green was a fun way to start the show and explain Dahmen’s personality.
• The mic picking up Higgs saying, “If this goes in, shirt’s coming off” was amazing.
• “It’s not like I don’t try and I don’t practice, but someone’s gotta be the 70 th best golfer in the world, might as well be me.” Dahmen is so brutally honest and humble to a fault, it makes you wonder how much he could be winning if he had more confidence and self-belief.
• This was just kind of slid in there, but there’s a clip where Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa are all hanging out together on Saturday at the U.S. Open. It was cool to see the camaraderie and relationship between the players, even at one of the biggest events of the year.
• Pro golfers, they’re just like us: McIlroy couldn’t help but show Rahm and Morikawa a picture of his daughter and Dahmen really struggled with a baby stroller.

Episode ranking: 2

Joel Dahmen during the filming of Full Swing. (Photo: Netflix)

Episode 5 – American Dreams

Netflix episode summary: Tensions between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf reach new heights as Matt Fitzpatrick and Dustin Johnson face off at the U.S. Open.

Star of the episode: DJ was classic DJ but Fitzpatrick really stood out. The two are polar opposite people and players in completely different points of their careers, as well. That set up for a fun episode which showed just how different golfers can be.

• Dahmen’s run at the U.S. Open was a perfect segue to introduce Fitzpatrick, whose result at the PGA was great to set up his future run at the U.S. Open.
• The episode summary is slightly misleading. Yes, tensions were rising all year and yes, both played the U.S. Open. Fitzpatrick won at 6 under, while Johnson finished T-24 at 4 over.
• Fitzpatrick, 27, has tracked every shot he’s hit since he was 15 years old. Many people in the golf space may know that little anecdote, but to the casual fan that had to be shocking. How deep he gets in the numbers and analytics is truly impressive (and confusing).
• Johnson said his LIV decision came down to the offer and that he’d be playing less and making more money. He also said “something’s wrong with you” if you wouldn’t take a similar offer. We’ll just leave that one alone.
• Fitzpatrick, on the other hand, said he got a half-hearted proposal from LIV.
• Fitzpatrick’s brother, Alex, being there to cheer him on and celebrate his U.S. Open victory with the rest of the family after caddying for him at the U.S. Amateur at Brookline made a special story all the more touching.

Episode ranking: 4, which shows the quality of the top three

Matt Fitzpatrick during the filming of Full Swing. (Photo: Netflix)

Episode 6 - Don't Get Bitter, Get Better

Netflix episode summary:  Tony Finau and Collin Morikawa take different approaches to the game heading into the Masters Tournament and the Open Championship.

Star of the episode: It’s rare to see professional athletes open up, be emotional and vulnerable to the extent that Finau was in this episode. He’s known as one of the nicest guys on Tour and the episode shows why: his family. Executive Producer Chad Mumm said the players who embrace the series the most will get the most out of it, and outside of maybe Dahmen, I don’t think anybody embraced it more than Finau.

• By pairing the stories of Finau and Morikawa in this episode, the producers were able to show fans two completely different approaches to life on the road. Finau travels with his wife and kids, while Morikawa just has his fiancé (now wife) and dog.
• Finau’s dad, Kelepi, is one of the best interviews on the show. His laugh is infectious and he’s always got something to say.
• Pro golfers, they’re just like us: Finau told a great story about parking in the champions lot at the Masters on accident. Who hasn’t parked somewhere they aren’t supposed to?
• Morikawa explaining the consecutive hole-outs by he and McIlroy from the same bunker on No. 18 at Augusta National was hilarious. Poor McIlroy. He’s so good, yet so awkward at times when he celebrates.
• Loved the Adidas meeting and seeing just how much input a player like Morikawa has with his clothes on the course.
• Sean Foley emerged as the best commentator for the series this episode talking about Finau and his family being on the road or at home during tournaments.
• Once again, Finau really let the producers into his world and it showed throughout the episode just how important his family is to his success, both on and off the course.

Episode ranking: 5

Tony Finau during the filming of Full Swing. (Photo: Netflix)

Episode 7 - Golf is Hard

Netflix episode summary: Rookies Sahith Theegala and Mito Pereira are both looking for their first win on the PGA Tour, but must learn the hard way that winning isn’t easy.

Star of the episode: Tough to pick one. Both players came so close to their first wins and both admirably handled their respective brutal defeats. If I have to pick one, it’ll be Theegala. He’s relatable and has this certain swagger about him both on and off the course. Not only that, his answers were insightful and he was brutally honest, two things you don’t always see from guys in their early 20s.

• Pereira and Theegala were both rookies and both came awful close to winning in 2022. Their stories were eerily similar and provided a natural pairing for the episode.
• Pro golfers, they’re just like us: Joaquin Niemann breaks a cork in a wine bottle and it’s really unfortunate the cameras were there to catch it. We’ve all done it, fortunately for us just not on a Netflix show.
• Theegala uses a cardboard box for a laundry hamper. Golf is hard, so is adulting.
• Was great to see the family-esque bond between guys like Pereira, Niemann and Carlos Ortiz on Tour (all have either signed with LIV or reportedly are joining LIV now). I’d bet casual fans will be shocked to learn they stayed together out on the road.
• Theegala’s perspective on why it’s important to show your emotions and not hide them was refreshing to hear from a pro athlete.
• It was interesting to hear Pereira say he was encouraged by Theegala’s close call in Phoenix because they’re both rookies. If Theegala could contend, why can’t he? Weirdly enough he suffered a similar fate to Theegala, but in a major championship.
• I thought Pereira’s reaction was tough to watch. His girlfriend and friends’ reaction wasn’t any better.

Episode ranking: 7

Episode 8 - Everything Has Led to This

Netflix episode summary: As the season winds down, Rory McIlroy faces Cam Smith at the Open Championship, while fighting for change within the PGA Tour.

Star of the episode: Lee Trevino for talking smack to Jack Nicklaus at the Open Championship at St. Andrews.

In all seriousness, it’s definitely McIlroy. He wasn’t initially scheduled to be involved and it took some time before he got joined the project, and it’s a great thing he did because the show was better for it. You can’t talk about professional golf in 2022 for long without mentioning McIlroy. He

Thoughts and highlights: 

• Show opens with McIlroy admitting he may have leaned into the contention and made the LIV vs. PGA Tour battle too personal while also saying he’s just defending what he thinks is right. It was a great way to begin the episode and explain just why it’s so divisive between the two sides.
• Pro golfers, they’re just like us: McIlroy waxing poetic about Tiger Woods showed the players view him in a similar light as the fans.
• Koepka defending his decision to join LIV because his future family for generations will be taken care of is tough to argue against. But for a guy who last year said people will “sell out” and take the LIV money , it really, really makes you think how much they offered and what the breaking point was.
• It’s rare to get insight from the great players in the game, but McIlroy blew me away talking about how over his major drought he’s won everything else, except for a major. “So I feel like I’m trying to win my first one again.”
• Cameron Smith’s non denial of joining LIV was just as awkward to watch a second time around.
• The casual fans of golf must think the Tour Championship’s staggered scoring format is so silly. Hearing it explained is always kinda goofy.
• McIlroy sitting down with Andy Pazder, the PGA Tour Chief Tournament and Competitions Officer, and telling him the guys felt “blindsided” by the mandatory commitment for the elevated events was one of the more eye-opening things we learned over the eight episodes.
• McIlroy talking to Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis making fun of Patrick Reed for dropping in the rankings after playing an Asian Tour event. “Beautiful” said McIlroy with a laugh.
• McIlroy saying “(Expletive) you, Phil. I hope that makes it in,” in the training room at the Tour Championship.
• The show probably could’ve done a bit more to contextualize the seasons of McIlroy and Scheffler since it showed so much of the finale at the Tour Championship.
• It all ends with McIlroy describing how Woods is always the first to send a congratulatory text after he won the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup. The smile on his face said it all.

Episode ranking: 3

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Nelly Korda, LPGA in prime position to lift women's golf. So far, they're whiffing.

As nelly korda continues to dominate, generating new interest in women's golf should be one of the easiest sales jobs the lpga will ever have..

Last Sunday, a peak audience of 1.9 million people tuned in to NBC and watched Nelly Korda record her fifth consecutive tournament victory at the Chevon Championship, the first major of the LPGA season. 

It’s not a Caitlin Clark rating, but for a sport that has been plagued by poor television coverage, lack of breakthrough stars and questionable management, it was one of the better days women’s golf has seen in quite some time.

In theory, the LPGA should be in prime position to reap some of the benefits being generated by the recent surge of interest in women’s sports. 

For one thing, their counterparts on the men’s tour have turned off scores of fans thanks to the interminable struggle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf and the odious greed driving so much division and dissatisfaction. 

After years of unfairly blaming the prominence of Asian players for struggling to connect with stateside audiences, the LPGA now has a 25-year-old American from a prominent sporting family dominating the sport. 

And given that fewer than 100 days remain before the Olympics, where Korda will be defending her gold medal from Tokyo three years ago, this should be one of the easiest sales jobs women’s golf will ever have to generate real, enduring new interest in what has always been a very good and watchable product.  

The door is open. There are no excuses. The time is now. 

But is women’s golf truly ready for this moment? I’m not so sure.

Up until now, three things have been undeniably true about women’s golf and its struggle to break through outside of its small, niche fan base:

• The LPGA has failed to craft a compelling narrative for why people should watch, outside the mere fact of its existence. 
• Some of its stars, including Korda prominently, haven’t gone above and beyond to promote the game and make themselves familiar to large audiences.
• And television has struggled to give the product its due, both in terms of exposure and quality of broadcast.

The third point, in particular, was disappointing Sunday. While NBC should be given credit for putting the Chevron on its over-the-air network and not stuffing it on Peacock or the Golf Channel, it would have been jarring this weekend to flip between the LPGA and the concurrent PGA Tour event being shown on CBS. 

While the latter featured sharp graphics, high-tech camera angles and shot-tracing gizmos that are now standard in men’s golf broadcasts, the NBC coverage looked like a penny-pinching, outdated endeavor – the bare minimum to get these women on TV. 

At a time when we’re now used to a women’s basketball broadcast on ABC or ESPN looking and feeling the exact same as a men’s broadcast, it was actually jarring to turn on NBC and see something that was so technically inferior to what the same network does when it shows The Players or the U.S. Open.

And because NBC clearly didn’t devote as many camera crews as it would have for a men’s major championship, it couldn’t show much of what was happening in the groups ahead of Korda. As a result, the broadcast felt like it dragged along at a glacial pace because there just wasn’t much action in-between Korda’s shots. 

While NBC may be happy with the rating and proud of giving women’s golf an opportunity to be shown on network TV, it should be embarrassed by the way it presented the product. The magnitude of Korda’s achievement and the moment for the LPGA were simply not done proper justice.

But this is more than a television issue. 

Korda has been a potential gold mine for the LPGA ever since she won her first event at age 20 but has been known for being quite discerning about how much time she’s willing to spend doing the kind of extra promotional work that the sport badly needs. 

Whether you attribute it to her preference for privacy or wanting to focus only on the birdies and bogies, the reality is that it’s hard for women’s golf to maximize this moment when its biggest star is not known to be particularly media-friendly or willing to promote something other than her golf swing.  

It was interesting before the Chevron that Stacy Lewis, a two-time major winner, said point-blank that Korda had a responsibility to be more visible and more accessible in service of the LPGA. 

“Every week, she needs to be in here (with the media) talking about it and talking about how good she’s playing, and I don't know what that’s going to be, what that looks like for her,” Lewis said. “I've been in her shoes, I’ve been No. 1 in the world, I’ve been the top American and you’re asked to do a lot of things.

"But give the media a couple hours every week. That’s what she’s going to have to start doing. But her playing great golf, that's what pushes us more forward than anything.”

It was notable that Korda, shortly after her victory Sunday, showed up for a brief chat on the "No Laying Up" podcast that is particularly popular with younger golf fans. That was a positive step. On the other hand, it wasn't so great that Korda pulled out of this week’s JM Eagle LA Championship, citing exhaustion from winning four events in five weeks. 

While it’s hard to criticize an athlete for being cautious with their schedule and their body, it’s also true that Korda skipped the LPGA’s Asian swing in February and early March and won’t have another tournament to play until May 9. Barring an injury, there's an argument to be made that Korda should have at least tried to give it a go as the LPGA stops in the nation’s second-biggest media market.

The responsibility on star women’s athletes to both perform and promote can often seem unfair, and maybe it is. Does Scottie Scheffler get the same scrutiny for how many media and promotional commitments he takes on or which tournaments he skips?

That’s a legitimate conversation, but if the LPGA and its players aspire to capitalize on the wave of enthusiasm for women’s sports and Korda’s historic streak, they need to show more readiness than we’ve seen so far.

Korda needs to do better. The LPGA needs to do better. And television networks definitely need to do better. 

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Hannah Green wins LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship for 2nd straight year

LOS ANGELES — Hannah Green won the LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship for the second straight year Sunday, holing out twice from off the greens in a pivotal back-nine stretch at challenging Wilshire Country Club.

A year after making a 25-foot birdie on the final hole of regulation and winning on the second hole of a playoff, Green — with help from Maja Stark — took the late drama out of this one for her fifth LPGA Tour victory and second of the year.