{"id":482603,"date":"2026-03-18T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:17:12","slug":"pga-tours-chasing-sunday-documentary-series-huge-success-after-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482603\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour\u2019s Chasing Sunday documentary series huge success after Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Throughout all of the announcements last week during the Players Championship it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/golf\/1106585\/pga-tour-documentary-chasing-sunday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Studios, and NFL Films would all be linking up for what was being described as \u201cThe Hard Knocks of Golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For those unaware, Hard Knocks is a series from NFL Films that typically covers NFL teams throughout training camp. It is as much of a staple as football returning as the sounds of helmets crashing against one another are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is for this overall reason that many were excited to see what a golf version could look like.<\/p>\n<p>PGA Tour Studios and NFL Filims absolutely crushed this<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The premise of this specific run was simple. Si Woo Kim, Rickie Fowler, Akshay Bhatia, and Chris Gotterup all agreed to be mic\u2019d up throughout the duration of the Players Championship. It was all edited to produce an episode of reality television, for lack of a better word, like no other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You can watch the entire thing here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This episode worked for the exact same reasons that Hard Knocks does:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A key ingredient in the formula of success for Hard Knocks is that episodes are coming out while training camp is going on. You are putting together the puzzle of who that NFL team is as weeks stack up with one another, and the same thing happened here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Consider Si Woo Kim as an example. He was a part of the opening group that Collin Morikawa was. The episode captured Morikawa\u2019s practice swing that caused him to withdraw from the tournament, one of the more dramatic turns the whole event took. Ludvig Aberg was also in that group and he obviously was a huge storyline throughout his Sunday round where he couldn\u2019t hold on for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is amazing what happens when microphones are turned on and natural reality is captured. This is what fans want more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kudos to the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Studios, and NFL Films for delivering on all accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout all of the announcements last week during the Players Championship it was revealed that the PGA Tour,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}