ImPhilMickelsonProGolfer.

glennmagusharvey

There's a TV ad for the prescription medication Enbrel (it treats psoriatic arthritis I think) starring professional golfer Phil Mickelson.  It typically comes on during the evening news and primetime on the non-PBS major networks.

Except, his first line is this:

"I'm Phil Mickelson pro golfer."

No comma.  No pause.  No mercy.

Nyktos

No matter what?

IanExMachina

>There's a TV ad for the prescription medication

There's your problem.

Perhaps there was meant to be one in the script but he can't understand punctuation?

glennmagusharvey

Well, a lot of people don't really punctuate their sentences correctly a lot of the time while speaking.  If you hear people flitting between topics without a pause, then yeah, they're missing commas.

captainbrass

IJBM: The (mostly US, I think) use of "pro" when referring to sportspeople.

I mean, by the time golfers are fronting adverts, they're hardly likely to be amateurs, are they? More or less any sportsperson who gets extensive media coverage is a professional, or might as well be. It's redundant. 

glennmagusharvey

Would you prefer he name himself Phil Mickelson Golfer?

captainbrass

Yes. It's what he is. With a comma, of course.

As I say, I think stressing the "pro" bit is an American quirk. I can't honestly claim to have seen many ads over here fronted by British or European golfers, but the couple I have just stated their name at some point and showed a few clips of them playing some golf.

Otherwise, it comes across as completely heavy-handed and as assuming the audience is stupid. It's probably some kind of trope in its own right for adverts, a bit like "You may remember me from [crappy film previously done by actor]."