The ongoing conversation surrounding players wearing mics took an interesting turn this weekend.
On Thursday, PGA Tour fans weren’t just treated to professional golf’s first round in three months. Viewers were able to listen to a mic’d-up Rickie Fowler make his way around Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, during the Charles Schwab Challenge’s opening round.
During Saturday’s broadcast, Jim Nantz said that Fowler was the lone player to volunteer to wear a mic.
“Audio is such an important part of any sport’s broadcast,” said Nantz. “Without fans on the course, we’re hoping to hear more of the exchanges between players and caddies. We invited every player in the tournament to wear a mic if they wished during tournament play. We had Rickie Fowler take us up on that on Thursday. We were grateful. That’s the only one so far who has volunteered.”
Adam Hadwin disagrees.
Currently ranked No. 55 in the world, Hadwin commented on an Instagram post saying he volunteered to wear a mic (noted by Golf.com’s Dylan Dethier).
No other players have chimed in saying they also volunteered, but you can bet that Justin Thomas won’t be one of them.
“I would not wear a mic, no. That’s not me,” Thomas said earlier in the week. “What I talk about with (caddie) Jimmy (Johnson) and what I talk about with the guys in my group is none of anybody else’s business, no offense. I mean, as close as those mics are on the tees and the greens and as close as I get to boom mics during competition anyway, I basically feel like I am mic’d up.”
