PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Chad Mumm is stoked for you to see “Full Swing” Season 2 and he can’t hide it.
As executive producer of the Netflix eight-episode documentary debuting March 6, he wants to talk about it like an author who has been killing time waiting for the release of a book slaved over for years. To compare it to giving birth would be an insult to women everywhere, but Mumm knows that the new season contains a handful of never-before-seen moments that he predicts will light the internet on fire and it pains him to no end that he’s been sitting on the goods.
Mumm is a self-declared golf sicko — One of us! One of us! — and while “Full Swing” was designed to bring in a new audience and attract casual fans, he wants it to speak to the Golfweek gang of hardcore golfers too. He heard some of the criticism that while it scored with showing a vulnerable side of Brooks Koepka never before seen, we didn’t learn a lot about Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa’s story got lost in an episode that made Tony Finau so popular he could probably run for public office.
Season 2, which features both returning favorites and new faces, Mumm promises, hasn’t forgotten us golf junkies.
“As we were making choices, I was thinking about some of the hard-core fans’ commentary about what they liked and didn’t like about the show,” he tells Golfweek, “and I think we totally – I personally think you’re going to love it. I think you’ll be lik ‘Wow.’”
The following Q&A was conducted ahead of the Genesis Invitational (and before screeners were available so these questions were based on having not seen Season 2 yet) with Mumm and Gabe Spitzer, vice president of nonfiction sports for Netflix, and Chris Wandell, a PGA Tour executive participating, and has been condensed for clarity.
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