Scottie Scheffler<\/a> won the tournament.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
And the Golden Bear noticed something which really irritated him.<\/p>\n
When speaking during the broadcast of The Memorial in 2025, Nicklaus was not happy when Ben Griffin was approached for an interview midway through his second round.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI can\u2019t stand that, the interview on the golf course,\u201c the tournament host exclaimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me tell you how I think, how I feel\u2026I mean, seriously, here\u2019s a guy, leading the golf tournament, he\u2019s just hit the edge of the rough, he\u2019s got a very difficult shot on a very difficult hole, and you\u2019re talking to him about stuff that totally takes his mind off of what he was doing.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHow do you think Hogan would respond to that question? You would not have any teeth left if you did. He\u2019d hit you right in the face with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was a very fair observation from Nicklaus, and it\u2019s worth pointing out that the players surely don\u2019t like taking part in mid-round interviews.<\/p>\n
Why mid-round PGA Tour interviews should be scrapped<\/p>\n
There is absolutely no way that professional golfers can undertake a mid-round interview while maintaining 100 percent focus when they are competing.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s fair to argue that the fans don\u2019t actually gain anything from the mid-round interviews either.<\/p>\n
The golfers never say anything insightful anyway because it\u2019s clear that their focus is on their round, rather than the interview, understandably so.<\/p>\n
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I feel like a better course of action would be to make it an obligation for the very biggest names to address the media after their rounds.<\/p>\n
As golf fans, we have all been desperate to hear the likes of Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau speak after particularly challenging rounds, only to be let down when they choose to skip media duties.<\/p>\n
Making it non-negotiable for players to speak to the press would definitely enhance the experience for golf fans, whereas mid-round interviews don\u2019t really offer anything, as Jack Nicklaus rightfully pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Nicklaus will welcome the best players in the world to Muirfield Village for the latest version of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,15634,25760,20554,296268,296269,3332,99],"class_list":["post-679998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-golfer","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-major-championships","tag-memorial-tournament","tag-muirfield-village","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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