The most plugged-in man in the NFL is making his golf broadcasting debut at this week’s Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands.
Adam Schefter broke the news on ESPN’s “Unsportsmanlike” on Tuesday, although at the time saying he was still waiting for a featured group assignment for Thursday morning. ESPN+ has PGA Tour streaming rights, which is where golf fans can find early tournament coverage and featured group streaming well before (and during) the TV broadcast kicks off.
The Travelers Championship is in Cromwell, Conn., not far from ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Conn. And with the NFL in off-season mode, Schefter, who has long been a golf junkie, gets to jump in with the streaming action on ESPN+
According to Golfweek, getting Schefter to contribute to the ESPN+ streaming model has been in the works for months, but it worked out best for everyone’s schedule this week.
Since the original announcement on Tuesday, he’s been assigned to the Rory McIlroy/Keegan Bradley pairing, which teed off at 10:35 a.m. ET on Thursday. (You can follow along here.)
“It’s not like I had to sit down and study Keegan Bradley and Rory McIlroy. I have a pretty good idea of what they’ve done,” he told Golfweek. “People are always like what do you do to get ready for [the NFL] Sunday? I live my life. I kind of live my job. I feel like I kind of live golf Thursday to Sunday.”
You can watch the the ESPN streams of the Travelers Championship here. The first round goes live on Golf Channel at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday.
