A Masters Preview with Scott Van Pelt

Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

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Sports, News, Sports News, Golf

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We all know the tradition unlike any other is the actual Masters Tournament, but in terms of a podcast tradition that never stops, it's ESPN's Scott Van Pelt joining Shane to preview the Masters.

Scott and Shane discuss the special week for the both of them, what it was like last year prepping for a potential Tiger Woods return to Augusta National and the week that followed, the pressures of winning at the Masters, and plenty more.

Scott also gets into the ESPN approach to golf broadcasting and why the network has become one of the most popular for golf fans when they get a shot at major championship golf twice a year with the Masters and the PGA Championship.

After Shane's chat with Scott, Noah Syken, the VP of Sports and Entertainment Partnerships at IBM, jumps on to discuss the best app in the world, The Masters app, and why it's unmatched.

Noah also shares some new features this year like broadcasting AI ("Henry" the broadcaster!) that'll be an option with every shot live.

A huge thanks to Scott and Noah for taking some time to chat about the best week of the year.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Get a Grip with Chain Bacon, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:04.0	Hey, welcome to the Get a Grip podcast.
0:12.8	We made it.
0:13.7	We did it.
0:14.7	Good job everybody.
0:15.7	I'm really proud of you.
0:16.7	We made it to the Masters.
0:17.9	It is officially Masters Week.
0:20.2	I wrote about the anticipation factor for this week, particularly 2023, and the Masters for the
0:27.6	Friday newsletter on Monday.
0:29.4	If you're not subscribed, make sure you dial up that subscription.
0:32.1	It's great stuff and a lot of talented people involved in that weekend and week out but
0:37.3	263 days
0:39.1	It'll be since Cameron Smith won at St Andrews and Thursday starts off another major season that is a long time that is 72% of the calendar year we go without a major championship and obviously with the schedule change and the
0:53.6	PGA moving we get it all relatively concentrated then we go a long time without a
0:58.1	men's major championship and we are back it's gonna be an interesting week
1:01.7	Tigers back which is exciting.
1:04.0	You know, all the live guys playing brings a completely new wrinkle to the Masters.
1:09.0	And of course we get the 13th hole and some changes to the course.
1:12.0	And an excellent
1:13.2	Augusta National Women's Amateur by the way shout out to Roseang for winning
1:16.5	without her best stuff which is a very important thing when you're
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