Addiction. Recovery. Victory.

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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SVP chats with 4x PGA Tour winner Chris Kirk who had his first victory on the Korn Ferry Tour last week after stepping away from golf for more than a year to deal with alcohol and depression issues. Chris talks about when he realized he needed help and what the road to recovery was like. Plus, what it's like to love the game of golf again and the feeling he had when he won last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	How are you? I'm Scott VanPelt. Welcome to S. Vapod. Your boy, Stanford, Steve, packing up the house. He's getting
0:26.2	ready to move. We're heading down to DC this summer. We will be back in the fall, hoping
0:32.0	that there are sports. I'm not optimistic I stopped reading as you
0:36.9	know they're just words but my God these numbers every day yikes wear masks
0:41.8	it's not you're not weak if you wear a mask, wear a mask.
0:45.0	It's just, could you wear a mask?
0:47.0	Could you not go to city council and yell at people because they're asking you to wear a mask?
0:50.3	Is that, is it that difficult? Anyway, Stanford Steve's packing up, he's heading south before me.
0:56.0	He's going to beat me to Maryland, which that's fine.
0:59.0	Because again, my friends like him more than they like me.
1:01.0	I don't blame him.
1:02.0	He's more likable than I am. But it's just me this week and as you know we do the
1:08.8	silly and the fun plenty. I enjoy that like everybody does. But every now and then I don't mind
1:17.6	rolling up the sleeves and getting serious about something. And there's a story from last week about a guy named Chris Kirk who won a golf tournament.
1:26.3	Now he won a golf tournament on the Corn Ferry Tour and if you're like what the
1:30.4	hell is the Corn Ferry Tour well it used to be the Hogan tour.
1:33.3	Then it was the Nike tour, then it was the nationwide tour,
1:35.6	then it was Web.com tour.
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