Graeme McDowell works magic at LIV Golf UK, however might begin TV profession

[ad_1] Graeme McDowell has only a single top-10 end on the LIV Golf circuit this 12 months, and he admitted to the British golf website Bunkered that he is severely contemplating a dive into the media world if his taking part in days on the fledgling league are coming to a detailed.

In actual fact, after per week on the microphone for Sky Sports activities and the R&A’s “World Feed” protection in the course of the 2025 Open Championship at Portrush, McDowell mentioned his urge for food has formally been whetted.

"Is there any TV in my future? Doubtlessly, after I’m executed taking part in golf, it was all the time one thing that I needed to dip my toe into to see if I favored it. And final week was a strategy to have a bit of chip at it and see if there’s something there," he informed Bunkered.

“At the beginning. I imply, I gained a particular appreciation for the ability stage concerned in being very, superb at it, you recognize, surrounded by guys like, you recognize, Ewan Murray and Nick Dougherty and Andrew Cotter and Ken Brown."

McDowell is again on the opposite aspect of the mic this week at LIV Golf UK, the place he pulled off a masterful shot throughout Friday's opening spherical.

After discovering some thick stuff on the par-4 eleventh gap at JCB Golf & Nation Membership, the 2010 U.S. Open winner confirmed his creativity across the greens as he pitched a ball up on a slope and introduced it again down inches from the cup.

Now 45, McDowell signed a one-year cope with Smash GC, Brooks Koepka's squad, however he is on the surface trying in for subsequent 12 months, by way of relegation. The Northern Irishman is thirty second within the LIV standings and he must get into the highest 24 within the subsequent three occasions to safe a spot for 2026.

Understandably, he is retaining his future choices open.

“Say I used to be executed with LIV on the finish of this 12 months and I obtained unceremoniously dumped out, what would I do? Would I'm going again to the European Tour for a 12 months, take up a 12 months’s membership and considered one of my exemptions there? Or would I make the soar into the media world?” McDowell informed Bunkered. “It might actually simply rely upon how I really feel, how I really feel my recreation is, how my well being is, what the world would appear like from a media viewpoint."

"I’ll proceed to speak to a few of these media retailers and perhaps perform a little coaching on the aspect, you recognize, simply to get myself prepared. I really feel like I do know numerous these guys very nicely and I perceive the game. I’d give it a go for a 12 months or two simply to see if I prefer it.