‘Full Swing’ is coming back for Season 5, says executive producer Chad Mumm — and he has a favorite at Aronimink
The Netflix documentary series recently debuted a fourth season that included Rory McIlroy’s Masters win and the 2025 Ryder Cup.
After four seasons of Full Swing, executive producer Chad Mumm confirmed he’s putting Season 5 of the Netflix golf documentary series at the top of his to-do list.
“Obviously, doing another season of Full Swing is at the top of the list and there’s so many great storylines every single year,” Mumm said during a panel Wednesday inside the T-Mobile tent at Aronimink Golf Club. “I think this year almost more so than Season 1, or as much as Season 1, we’re about to see a massive disruption at the pro game.
“Again, with some changes around what’s going on with LIV and their funding — but maybe even more importantly, the big changes coming to the PGA Tour schedule, which I think will create a lot of strong feelings in the locker room. I think this time there’s strong feelings — that’s good for us.”
The Netflix docuseries gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of professional golfers, following them on the course as they compete in some of the year’s biggest tournaments, and off the course as they grapple with the highs and lows of being on Tour.
An email to Netflix regarding details about a fifth season and whether or not there will be film crews capturing this week’s PGA Championship in Newtown Square was not immediately returned.
The first season of Full Swing debuted in 2023. One of the reasons Mumm wanted to start the series was to attract a larger, more mainstream audience to the sport.
“The casual viewer on Netflix is going to see this golf show, and they may give it a try, but I know for a fact that in the first five minutes we can subvert every expectation they have about what this sport is like,” Mumm said. “And then once we do that, we’ve got them hooked. And so, from the very beginning, the idea around that show and kind of anything that you do is trying to think about an audience that you want to suck them in because of the human stories, not because of, you know, compression factor on the driver or spin rates on wedges and guys tinkering with putters and stuff.
“You want to make it easy and relatable and human, and you want to take people on a journey. And it’s the hero’s journey. You take someone, you build them up, you take them all the way to the bottom and then you get them back on top.”
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Last season, which featured just four episodes and focused largely on the lead up to the Ryder Cup, included Rory McIlroy’s Masters win as he captured the career grand slam. And with the series potentially including content from this week’s PGA Championship, it could capture another, this time with Jordan Spieth at the center of it.
The three-time major champion hasn’t won a PGA Tour event since April 2022, and has won just twice since his most recent major victory at the 2017 Open Championship. Mumm thinks a win by the 32-year-old Spieth this week would be right up there with McIlroy’s slam last year.
“A hundred percent Spieth,” Mumm said when asked about the best storyline at Aronimink. “If there’s anything that could top Rory winning, I would say Jordan Spieth doing it here. He’s just — he still moves the needle, you know, despite not winning for a handful of years.
“And I was on the plane ride in today with just a general group of people. And all they were talking about was Jordan Spieth. Does he have the chance? Is he gonna do it? So yeah, Jordan Spieth, by far the best narrative. It would break through in the wider cultural landscape. I think the same way that Rory’s win did."
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Mumm also worked on Happy Gilmore 2 and is currently working on a golf comedy show called The Hawk, starring Will Ferrell, coming to Netflix this summer.
“It’s just about trying to capture this moment that golf is having culturally,” Mumm said. “And I feel like golf’s had periods of time when it’s waxed and waned in popularity over the course of the last years. And almost every single time, [the] popularity wave has been driven by a singular player who becomes successful and becomes a global brand.”
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