272 - Lanny Wadkins

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Hall of Famer Lanny Wadkins joins us to talk about his decorated career, the 1977 PGA Championship, some Ryder Cup stories, being let go by CBS, broadcasting, and so much more. We also discuss the evolution of technology in golf, the harrowing 1979 Players Championship at Sawgrass Country Club, Arnold Palmer, and what it was like being a young professional in the 1970's. Thanks a ton to Lanny for the time, this is one of my favorites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Be the right club today.
0:07.0	Right club today.
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:11.0	That's better than most.
0:15.0	How about in?
0:18.0	That is better than most.
0:20.0	Better than most. Most.
0:24.0	Expect anything different?
0:28.0	People know me for broadcasting now.
0:30.0	That's, that's, that's almost hysterical to me well I mean I started watching golf probably late
0:36.6	90s early 2000s like I don't have memories of watching you play golf and I love going like doing these setting up these interviews with you guys because it I feel like I just start uncovering this stuff like I was reading we're going to get to the 77 PGA
0:49.6	reading stories of gene Littler's quotes after it. I think about like how we
0:53.9	approach media now we would have a field day with some of those quotes and all the
0:58.2	things that happened. Yeah I never saw I don't even know that I saw any
1:01.5	quotes of his. Well, that was something about in the playoff,
1:05.9	he hit it over the third green at pebble,
1:08.1	and he said if it was Palmers or Nicholas's ball,
1:11.7	the crowd would have stopped it and nobody stopped it.
1:14.3	Oh that was in the during the tournament the third that was that wasn't
1:18.5	playoff that was during the tournament. It was interesting because in the
1:22.3	playoff we both did the opposite of what we did in the morning.
1:27.0	Okay. I spun it off the front of the green in the morning and I knocked it, I had wedge and knocked it over the green in the afternoon.
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