There is a brutal truth about the current state of exhibition golf: when the check clears before the first tee shot, the drama disappears. We saw it in Las Vegas on December 17. The hype for “The Showdown” promised a fierce grudge match between the PGA Tour’s golden boys and LIV Golf’s heavyweights. Instead, fans got polite banter and awkward silences. A distinct feeling that the stars were simply fulfilling a contract lingered, too. Now, the man behind the industry’s next big experiment, the Skins game, is explaining exactly why that model is broken. And he isn’t holding back.

“The banter is never really as good as they want to be because they’re kind of faking it,” Chad Mumm , the executive producer of Full Swing and the creative force behind the Skins Game reboot, said on The Loop p

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