929: Exit interview with the R&A's Martin Slumbers on where golf is headed

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Golf, Sports

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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DJ catches up with Martin Slumbers, outgoing Chief Executive of the R&A, for a wide ranging discussion covering his time as the head of golf's oldest governing body and the state of the game from both a professional and recreational perspective. If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining The Nest: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at nolayingup.com/join Support Our Partners: Rhoback The Stack System Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Be the right club.
0:07.0	Be the right club today.
0:09.0	Yes.
0:10.0	That's better than most.
0:15.0	How about him?
0:18.0	That is better than most.
0:20.0	Better than most. Better than most.
0:26.8	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast.
0:31.6	My name is DJ.
0:33.0	Big shoes to fill with an interview today.
0:35.5	I'm standing in for our guy, Sali, who is at home with his brand new twins, I sent in us some text messages,
0:41.8	some videos, just harrowing scenes over there. He tries to wrangle his now three kids under
0:46.9	the age of two. So wishing him all the best and thankful to him for letting me sit in
0:52.4	the big chair here for an interview with Martin Slumbers,
0:55.8	who is the outgoing CEO of the RNA. He has been the CEO for the last 10 years or so.
1:01.8	Really enjoyed this conversation with Martin. He is someone who's given a lot of time to our
1:06.2	podcast over the years to talk about things like, you know, the distance rollback and the Open
1:12.1	Championship and how things work at the RNA.
1:14.7	But looking back on his tenure was really fun just to hear how he got into the job,
1:19.1	how he approaches it just from a business perspective, and also just kind of the push and pull
1:24.1	of trying to make what is probably one of the most traditional organizations
1:28.5	in sports, uh, in the game of golf, uh, you know, trying to usher them into a modern age of,
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