324 - USGA's John Bodenhamer

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The Senior Managing Director, Championships for the USGA, John Bodenhamer joins us to walk us through how they came up with the exemption categories for the US Open, his first time setting up a US Open, how the schedule change will affect Winged Foot, defining "tough but fair," how the USGA recovered from a potential boycott of the US Open, and a lot more. 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. The most.
0:24.0	Expect anything different?
0:29.0	Ladies and gentlemen,
0:30.0	welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast.
0:32.0	We are going to get to our interview here shortly with the USGAs John Bodenhamer.
0:36.3	You know him as the director of championships.
0:38.8	He's in charge of the course set-ups.
0:40.6	We didn't talk about this until about an hour in, but also a great player in his own right.
0:44.6	played a lot of a very high level of golf throughout a lot of his golf career and has a unique
0:50.5	perspective on a lot of things that we talk all things USG a US open exemptions all that good stuff
0:55.9	on Sunday night I know we mentioned on the pod the number one irons in golf as a part of a reader we were kind of
1:01.2	surprised that we hadn't said that in a while, maybe haven't emphasized that
1:03.7	enough and I think that kicked the guys at Calloway in the pants a little bit to realize that they
1:07.9	should ask us to talk about that a bit more.
1:10.2	So whether you're just picking up the game and we want to give a shout out to Christopher,
1:14.0	one of our Danish friends who told us on Twitter that he wants to hashtag get involved,
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