Hell Of A Break: Producer Of 'Full Swing' Confirms Cameras Were Rolling In Players Cars And Houses When The LIV Merger Was Announced

I know this should be 'expected' I guess, but the fact Full Swing had the cameras going during this announcement and players finding out is now the story for season 2. I don't know how else it can't be the main point of season 2. In fact, they even basically confirm that: 

[Source] - “This is proof that real life is always going to be stranger and more interesting than fiction,” Mumm, who is the chief creative officer of Vox Media Studios, told The Athletic on Wednesday morning. “This is why I got into documentary filmmaking. If I turned this script into Netflix at the beginning of the year and said, ‘This is what Season 2 is going to look like,’ they would have tossed it back and said, ‘This is too fake.’”

Season 1 was awesome. One of the best documentary series or whatever you call it that I can think of. I knocked all of season 1 out in legit one day. It was that addicting and entertaining. That's the key word. Shows like Full Swing need to be entertaining. It's not as much of about what happens on the course, we watch that weekly. It's how these guys live their life consistently battling week in and week out. Whether it was Brooks dealing with the mental block of not winning or Finau with his family, everything in season 1 was awesome.

But now? Now season 2 has the easy chance to be unreal. They were given a gift by having cameras rolling in two different places during this: 

Mumm said they had a crew at the RBC Canadian Open in Toronto and locker room access to the players as they learned of the news.

“We had a player who was literally driving to his first PGA Tour event as a professional and we wanted to see what that was like, following someone who just turned pro,” Mumm said. “We were with him when the news broke. I wasn’t there personally, but the feedback from our team was the mood was palpable. You could just feel the uncertainty and the waves of questions that arose. It just was a dramatic day to be on-site at a PGA Tour event.”

They also had a crew at a second player’s home and got real-time reaction as the player and his family received a call from an agent with the news.

I don't care who those players are, I want to see the genuine reaction. Not the canned answers. Not the let me sit down and formulate a response. I want to see them in the moment they found out this merge happened. Again, you can read everyone else for the breakdown of that but for some of these non tier-1 guys, you gotta feel like they lost a little by not just taking the money and then coming back to the PGA. 

That first quote is right too. It would have seemed fake to have this as season 2 if you write the script. But here we are. I know every sport, every team and seemingly every person now is getting a documentary. But Full Swing is worth watching if you haven't seen it yet. 

Crazy we still have 2 majors and the Tour Championship to go yet it seems like we have more than enough for Season 2 of this. Shit, just put that out now and have Season 3 be everything else.