Players 2025: Nick Faldo to host interactive Zoom program during final round

Golf fans have a chance to hang with Sir Nick Faldo Sunday while watching the final round of the Players Championship. Actually, more like HANG.

The six-time major champion and former CBS Sports lead analyst is joining forces with HANG Media to launch a pilot program for golf. Faldo and co-host Brandt Packer, a former Golf Channel producer, will be available 1-3 p.m. ET via Zoom for the interactive program, HANG with Sir Nick Faldo.

“It’s been rather nice for about the last year a lot of people have been saying, ‘Oh, we miss you on TV.’ And Pacman [Packer] came to me not so long ago and explained this thing called HANG, and I thought, well, that’s exactly what I’d like to do,” said Faldo, 67, who left CBS in 2022 but remains a contributor to Sky Sports in the UK at the Masters, Open Championship and Ryder Cup. “The challenge from TV was try and make it sound as if you're all sitting on your couch watching golf, which you can't obviously do when you've got people in different TV towers and you’re just in a mad rush to get to the next commercial. So this is exactly it. And so we can sit and do our own thing, which is kind of fun. We won't have anybody our ear telling us to, that's enough.”

Faldo and Packer will host the show from Faldo’s home studio in Montana where he has a Trackman simulator area set up. Fans can chime in to ask questions about the Players or golf in general or even ask for shot demonstrations.

“It’s a cool concept that hasn’t really been done in golf,” Packer said. “It’s a chance to be interactive and do something that captures a part of the golf audience that wants to participate in the event they are watching.”

Founded in 2021 by Jon Klein, the former head of CNN, HANG Media is a “direct-to-consumer” sports platform in which fans can participate in virtual watch parties hosted by athletes and celebrities. HANG sessions have been offered in a range of other sports, including pro and college football, basketball, baseball, soccer, auto racing and cricket.

If the reception to the golf pilot show is encouraging, Faldo and Packer will explore ways to add more HANG sessions scheduled around the majors and the Ryder Cup.

“We’ve got some crazy big ideas if this goes well,” Faldo said. “This year's going to be kind of like an experiment, see what the response is and the feedback and then we see what happens. But the great thing is that this is audience driven. It's like, if you want instruction, I can jump up instruction. If you want us to do commentary, we do that. If you want us to tell stories, we do that. What else? It’s going to be interesting.”

To participate in HANG events, fans can register at no cost by visiting letshang.live.