An SGS Spotlight on “Gentle” Ben Crenshaw

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode features our SGS Spotlight for the week and the subject is Ben Crenshaw. As usual for these Spotlights, it’s long, but take it in at your own plumb-bob pace. We get into Crenshaw’s outrageous amateur career, including his three consecutive NCAA titles, intra-UT rivalry with Tom Kite, and the “Ben’s Wrens” that followed him. We go long on some of these NCAA moments and early pro days that had writers calling him the next Jack Nicklaus with Arnold Palmer’s charisma. His repeated majors close calls that followed are put in context before his major breakthrough at the 1984 Masters. His struggles in the 80s, both with his swing thoughts and health, are considered against the monumental hype that followed him from his earliest days as a pro. The emotional 1995 Masters win and the stirring 1999 Ryder Cup are given the treatment. We consider his contributions as an architect, one of the game’s greatest putters, and one of its great historians, when discussing his legacy at the end of the episode.

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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.
0:14.0	And here we go.
0:17.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:20.0	Gentlemen! Start your engine! And the Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is May 8th.
0:52.8	Andy, how we doing?
0:54.6	Brendan! I'm doing good.
0:56.7	Happy birthday!
0:59.2	Thank you.
1:00.4	Birthday podcast. That's all we are now. Birthday podcast. That's all we are now.
1:04.0	Birthday Fox.
1:05.0	It's a big day one.
1:06.0	It's one of the hosts' birthday for a birthday pod.
1:09.0	Internet's already brutal.
1:12.0	This is the perils of a mid-morning podcast. You know, we got
1:17.2	Zoom meetings, school meetings going on all over this house right now, so the Wi-Fi may be
1:21.7	spotty. But we are are delayed we have a little
1:24.0	schedule conflict Thursday night figure to be no it's not the most time
1:29.6	sensitive we're doing a hopefully a good Ben Krenshaw spotlight today. So we figure we bump it will be at our
1:36.1	Freshest Bixby loaded up best this morning and release it by launch on Friday. Yeah, I just got a fresh shipment of Bixby.
1:45.0	My subscription came.
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