A Spotlight on the “Original Bubba,” U.S. Amateur legend

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The SGS Spotlight is back! With the U.S. Amateur this week, this Friday episode focuses on Bubba Dickerson, who won the U.S. Am during a legendary run in the summer of 2001. Brendan and Andy are joined by Bubba himself, Colin Sheehan, who is the golf coach at Yale and author of The United States Amateur: The History and Personal Recollections of Its Champions, and Steve Paramore, who played against Bubba in the 2001 Amateur. This episode is sponsored by the USGA’s new fan community, the Victory Club. The episode traces Bubba’s upbringing in a one-stoplight town in Northeast Florida, his outcast approach to the AJGA, and his career at UF under Buddy Alexander. Then the summer of 2001 is covered in detail, including the Western Am he won after initially trying to pass on it, a motivating Walker Cup snub from a weird scheduling quirk, the mad dash and absurdity of having to qualify for the U.S. Am as the Western champion, and his week fending off “cocky” challengers to take the Havemeryer Trophy. Bubba’s rounds with Tiger at the subsequent Masters are recalled as well as the uphill battle to make it as a pro right as his distance advantage started to evaporate with the introduction of the new ball in late 2001. Sound Engineering by J Vierck.

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics.
0:03.0	There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work.
0:08.0	So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.
0:13.4	And here we go.
0:17.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:20.0	Gentlemen!
0:23.0	Start your Indian! Griti. Greetings and welcome to a special spotlight edition of the shotgun start.
0:50.0	Andy, how are we doing?
0:51.0	Brendan, I'm doing great.
0:54.0	Just excited to recount one of my childhood heroes.
1:00.0	There you go.
1:01.0	So this is clearly a different little bit of a unique recording. We will be back to the regular
1:06.5	schedule on Monday. We will update you on the current events in golf news, but we thought this would be a little
1:11.9	appetizer to pin with US Amateur weekend coming up.
1:16.0	And it is brought to you by the USGAs Victory Club, which you can find at USopen.com forward slash victory club. That's US Open.com
1:26.7	forward slash victory club and the victory club is kind of they're really sort of a straw fan initiative get get people behind
1:37.1	the national championship offer some perks be part of a fan community for you know the toughest testing golf for the ultimate
1:45.4	testing golf and it's it's the way you can be involved with the championship
1:51.2	this year without being there.
1:53.0	That's right.
1:54.0	I was virtually involved with the PGA by, you know, sitting on press conferences.
1:59.0	I almost raised my hand a few times virtually, you know one of the great things with the Victory Club is you can raise your hand you can ask players
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