Full Swing Season 3 cast member and TGL golfer, Justin Thomas pulled a Michael Scott this week and penned his own letter to the editor. But instead of naming Chili's as the place where business is done... he made a plea to fellow PGA pros about helping amp up future golf broadcassts.
His pitch? More on-course interviews.
To be honest, the letter was a bunch of paragraphs that amounted to Justin saying—come on fellas, just play ball and answer a few questions.
His argument is that golf should act like the other professional sports leagues where you get the chance to watch a coach or player field a softball question before the game, during timeouts or at halftime.
What amazed me was just how low a bar he tries to set. He writes that basically the audiences just wants to hear ANYTHING. It can be an easy, pre-cleared question that means nothing. Not sure if I totally agree there, but it is a way to fill the airtime with something besides two announcers waxing poetic about how JJ Spaun's swing reminds them of some obscure golfer's takeaway from 1998.
The other interesting piece was he drops a little data point saying that 18-34 year olds selected "on-course personality" as their highest driver of interest. See also: Bryson's YouTube.
Who knows what comes of this—for now, likely nothing. But I find it amusing when you get to see emails and letters written by athletes to one another—they really are just like us, sending memos that no one reads.