ESPN senior NFL insider Adam Schefter is making his debut on golf telecasts Thursday serving as a featured group commentator for coverage of the PGA Tour 2025 Travelers Championship airing on ESPN+. Schefter will be covering the featured group containing Rory McIlroy and Keegan Bradley starting at 10:30 a.m. EST playing from TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn. Schefter has expressed his desire to explore becoming involved in other sports in the past, and he will now be assimilating into a game that WFAN host Gregg Giannotti affirmed he enjoys playing and watching.
Giannotti admitted that he is “so jealous” of Schefter having this opportunity on the Thursday morning edition of Boomer & Gio. In fact, he divulged that this is probably the best timing for Schefter when NFL teams are preparing for training camps since he is usually inundated with NFL news at other times and speaking to people around the league. Morning show co-host Boomer Esiason estimated that when playing golf with Schefter, he was on his phone for at least 50% of the time.
“Well yeah,” I mean, you got to be if you’re him,” Giannotti said, “but he’s like, ‘You know what? This is the time. These silly camps are going on. I’m going to go out there and do something else. It’s my passion – I’m going to follow these guys around,’ and I was like, ‘Damn, that is cool.’”
Schefter is widely regarded as one of the preeminent insiders surrounding the NFL, and he has been covering the sport since writing for the Rocky Mountain News in 1990 upon his graduation from Northwestern University. After writing for various local publications over the years, Schefter started covering the league at the national scale for NFL Network and proceeded to join ESPN in 2009. In addition to ESPN+ coverage of marquee and featured groups along with certain holes on the course, Golf Channel and CBS are also part of the media rights arrangement. Giannotti will be watching from afar with similar aspirations.
“Oh, I’m telling you, I would take that so [seriously],” Giannotti said. “They’d probably be like, ‘This guy – oh, he’ll make a mockery of it. He just does jokes and everything.’ I say, ‘No, no, no.’ I would take that so seriously.”
Giannotti recalled that they beat Schefter in golf and that he won more holes than him on the course. Esiason then mentioned how both sports media professionals possess the gift of gab and also know the parlance associated with the game. As Schefter prepares to make his debut on the broadcast, Giannotti wondered if he will be criticizing some of the shots, and Esiason added that it will be interesting to listen to him as he embarks on this new venture.
“And you know he’s going to be great at it and you know that he’s going to be prepared,” Giannotti said. “I just wonder, like, would his job be like, ‘Oh man, pushed that one a little right into the sand trap’?”
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