Netflix Full Swing exec producer hits back at season one critics
Chad Mumm, the chief creative officer of Full Swing on Netflix, has hit back at critics who didn't enjoy the first season of the golf documentary.
There was one common criticism about the first season of Netflix's golf documentary Full Swing.
And that was the repeated explanations of what a cut is in golf.
Time and time again, each episode set out very clearly professional golfers on the PGA Tour can expect to go home early if they don't play well enough over the first 36 holes.
It drove golf fans mad. "If you don't understand the cut in golf, you should watch Full Swing on Netflix as they explain it every 10 seconds," one angry X user wrote.
The team behind Full Swing obviously wanted to emphasise the importance of a cut to create tension and also make the show understandable for those that perhaps aren't a fan of the game.
Full Swing was renewed for a second season and will be available to stream on the platform from 6 March.
Chad Mumm, the executive producer of the show, sat alongside 2023 U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark before the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am to explain what we can expect.
Season one saw episodes dedicated to Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka, Ian Poulter, Joel Dahmen, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Tony Finau, Sahith Theegala, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
There was arguably no better time to film behind-the-scenes given the schism between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf which has split the men's game in two.
Mumm confirmed the cast for season two will feature the aforementioned Thomas, McIlroy, Dahmen, Clark, Fitzpatrick and his brother Alex, plus Tom Kim, Keegan Bradley and Justin Rose.
There are also episodes dedicated to the 2023 Ryder Cup captains Luke Donald and Zach Johnson.
Mumm revealed the crew shot 900 hours and got 10,000 hours worth of archive.
He clearly got the message about the cut.
"We don't explain what a cut is in this episode or this series, which I'm very excited about for season two," he joked.
"You know, part of it you've got to realize Netflix is such a global audience.
"It's the largest platform for entertainment and this is going out to in like 51 different countries."
So what can we expect from season two?
Mumm said: "We start off the year and, you know, follow the first part of the season kind of culminating in an eventful early June announcement that kind of threw the world of pro golf into a really interesting moment of turmoil that we were riding along for."
He was referring to the 6 June announcement the PGA Tour had agreed to enter into peace discussions with their LIV rival.
Mumm continued: "I think you'll be shocked and excited to see, you know, just how much we are able to show you what it was like on the inside during that moment in time.
"And then following up, we'll get back to Wyndham and his amazing win at the U.S. Open at the Los Angeles Country Club, but everything from Tom and Matt and Alex and their journey, then kind of ending the season with the lead-in into the Ryder Cup and then culminating with a two-part special, two-episode Rome Ryder Cup finale to the season."
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