Comedian Katt Williams is about to do a very different kind of one-man-and-a-microphone stand-up gig: PGA Tour on-course correspondent.

Williams is joining PGA Tour Live as an on-course correspondent at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. He’ll be inside the ropes with ESPN analyst Michael Collins to add color and commentary — and maybe some comedy. Williams previously joined Collins as a special guest over the course of a few holes at the 2024 Tour Championship — this latest gig is a vote of confidence and an upgrade.

The intention here is to bring a new audience to the PGA Tour, and Williams is a great admirer of the pros — and a great ambassador to the sport. He loves the game of golf — and he’s happy with the state of his game, Williams told The Hollywood Reporter. Though he carries a 19 handicap, which is pretty much the threshold of what is considered to be a “high handicap,” Williams said the number is a misrepresentation of how he plays.

“OK, so I had to establish a handicap when I tore my rotator cuff. So, I came in as a 19 handicap, but I shoot low 80s,” Williams said. “You certainly don’t want to bet me! I know it won’t be that when I get ready to do it again. Eighty-three is a good and gettable score for me all across the country at excellent courses.”

Don’t make the mistake of referring to golf a “hobby” with Williams, as I did. The comic and actor sees golf as a metaphor for, well, pretty much everything.

“The thing that I like about golf is that it permeates so many different parts of your life,” Williams said. “It’s not like it fixes everything, but it gives you a new parameter for things. The first four holes not going to your liking? It has the ability to ruin the day, but it [doesn’t have to]. You can fix this front nine, you see? And level this front nine out to where you can still have a good 18.”

The man is a philosopher.

“I’m to the point where I don’t even really have bad shots. You know what I mean? Like if I aimed right, and I meant for the ball to go right, but the ball went left — where I am in my journey, I feel like the ball knows better than me, and that that must be the angle that I must need to take this at (the pin), and that’s why it went over there — not I made a mistake and shanked it, and it went over to the right,” he continued. “I don’t even look at it like that, and because that’s the way it is in golf, that’s the way it is in my real life. It’s almost toxic positivity. I know that that happened because I didn’t keep my head down, and I’m just going to try to make sure that I keep it down (the next time). It takes away a lot of pressures of doing poorly, because you’ve got so many opportunities to do a better job.”

Williams will get an opportunity to do another good job on Thursday, Aug. 7 and Friday, Aug. 8 beginning at 9 a.m. ET — we guess he didn’t make the cut (golf joke) — at the first postseason event of the 2025 FedExCup Playoffs. Williams will follow the marquee group (of an already pretty marquee group of golfers) while he’s there; the tournament will continue, sans Williams, through the weekend.

PGA Tour Live streams on ESPN+. The 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship will also be live-streamed on Peacock.

The FedExCup Playoffs are the PGA Tour’s, well, playoffs. Beginning in 2007, the FedExCup is a season-long points competition; the top 70 points-getters make the postseason. The winner of the playoffs gets a $10 million bonus check; across the field, a total of $100 million is up for grabs.

All 70 FedExCup Playoffs golfers will tee off at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, with 50 making the BMW Championship and 30 ultimately deciding it all at the Tour Championship. By the end of the summer, we’re going to have a lot of rich(er) golfers.