DAMON HACK covers golf as a studio host and on-course reporter for Golf Channel and NBC Sports. He has now spent more than a decade at Golf Channel after a newspaper and magazine career (New York Times, Newsday, Sacramento Bee, Sports Illustrated).
Show Notes:
:30 Introduction, New role at NBC Sports
5:45 Process of doing the on-course interviews
11:20 Journalism, human drama and entertainment
13:30 How golf is produced on television
16:25 Diversity in golf
19:00 Damon’s role in the conversation about race in sport
23:00 Covering the Masters
25:00 LIV golf
32:15 Woods and McIlroy leadership roles in PGA and challenges of LIV golf
34:00 Keeping the job fresh
