Nickelodeon Takes New Swing With ‘Slime Cup’ Celebrity Golf Tournament (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNickelodeon is taking a new swing at mixing professional sports with its young audiences.After broadcasting two NFL Wild Card games aimed at kids in the past two football seasons, the ViacomCBS outlet will next tackle golf.

Nickelodeon plans to air a new one-hour special, “Nickelodeon Slime Cup,” that sets four teams of three against each other on a “Nick-ified” golf course with one-of-kind tee boxes, physical challenges, and far-out fairways.

Each team will consist of a professional golfer, a celebrity, and a Nickelodeon star.“We are inventing our own golf match,” says Brian Robbins, president and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon, in an interview. “It’s definitely different.” Confirmed participants include: top-ranked professional golfers like John Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas and Lexi Thompson; NFL superstars Terry Crews, Saquon Barkley and Justin Herbert; and Nick stars Isaiah Crews, Kate Godfrey, Jaidyn Triplett and Tyler Wladis.

Nickelodeon’s Gabrielle Nevaeh Green, who has provided commentary for the network’s Wild Card game-casts, will do the same for “Slime Cup.”  Other participants could be named at a later date.The teams will compete in a two-round tournament, with holes inspired by Nickelodeon shows, all in hopes of reaching “The Unfairway,”an unpredictable final round that will take place inside the Rose Bowl stadium.