An SGS Spotlight on Juli Inkster, U.S. Women’s Open legend

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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On the occasion of this week’s 75th U.S. Women’s Open, this Spotlight episode focuses on the Hall-of-Fame career of Juli Inkster, and specifically her 2002 national championship triumph over Annika Sorenstam at historic Prairie Dunes. Brendan and Andy begin with Inkster’s earliest days as a player, growing up next to the 14th fairway at Pasatiempo, not taking up the game in earnest until 15, and then winning an astonishing three straight U.S. Women’s Amateur titles. Then they transition to her work as a pro, notably winning her first major at the Nabisco following some delectable TV controversy. Within the context of the continued challenges that only women pros must face, they discuss the impacts of motherhood on her career, and how it essentially split her career into two parts, with a lengthy drought in the middle. Then there’s a focus on her 35-year career at the U.S. Open -- there’s the questionable ruling and kick-in-the-gut playoff loss at Oakmont in 1992, her first win in an amusing Mississippi setting, and the all-time final round at a roaring Prairie Dunes to clip Annika in 2002.

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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.
0:19.6	Gentlemen!
0:22.4	Start! Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a special spotlight edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.5	It is December 8th.
0:45.3	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.1	Brendan, I am doing great.
0:50.1	Just ready to talk about Prairie Dunes and 2002 U.S. Women's Open.
0:56.9	Okay, so this is a special spotlight, as I noted off the top. It is sponsored by the U.S. Open Victory Club. We will be focusing on Julie Inkster, a two-time
1:07.4	winner of the US Women's Open. She won a couple other, more than a couple of other USGA
1:12.4	championships in her career.
1:16.2	So we thought this was a great sort of subject.
1:19.0	It's, you know, 2002 is a fabulous event in its own right. We're going to kind of drill down on that most specifically but
1:27.3	Discuss Angster's career in full with the with the larger focus on O2 and also her history at the US Women's Open.
1:36.0	There was a heartbreak in 92.
1:38.0	He got a first win in 99 and then O2 at Prairie Dunes against Anica, you know, she's into her 40s.
1:46.3	It was like, it's kind of like has the crowd whipped up on a July 4th weekend.
1:50.4	We thought that was like a really good specific USGA
1:53.2	championship. Yeah last uh last major of one of the all time great so last major
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