Andrew Putnam, Episode 5: Previewing Scotland Golf + Talking Life on Tour

Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Shane Bacon is joined by a Scotland-based Andrew Putnam as the PGA Tour season heads overseas for the Scottish Open this weekend! Shane and Andrew discuss the John Deere Classic before getting into Andrew's time in Scotland thus far, his round at North Berwick and how players are excited for the next two weeks of links golf. The conversation then touches on the difficulties of traveling and being alone while on Tour before wrapping up with a look ahead at the Scottish Open.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody welcome back to the get a grit podcast I'm Shane
0:18.7	Bacon joined by Andrew Putnam in Scotland we'll get to that in just a bit. Of course this episode as all of them are in this season is presented by Pinehurst Resorts. An awesome host for the 2024 U.S. Open hope you guys enjoyed the battle between Bryson and Rory down the stretch there, Pinehurst Number 2.
0:36.0	And of course, it isn't just Number 2 there. For the first time in nearly three decades, Pinehurst opened its first original golf course. That's number 10. It opened
0:44.2	to the spring of this year Tom Doak design. Number 10 features dramatic
0:48.0	elevation changes, natural sandy areas, remnants of the early 20th century sand mining operation thus the awesome logo you see there if you go in the shop
0:56.7	number 10 number 2 number 4 any of those you want to play including the cradle all awesome and all worth your time plan your next golf trip to
1:05.0	pinehurst at pinehurst.com. Andrew we go from talking about pinehurst to my favorite
1:12.3	golf season the Scottish golf season links golf season where does it fall in your
1:17.5	world because you got over there I think on Sunday morning Saturday night and now you get to
1:22.0	spend a couple of weeks playing
1:23.3	links golf both for fun and obviously for your job. I mean to be honest people would
1:29.1	ask like what's my favorite tournament I've played and I've always said Port Rush British or the open
1:33.9	championship literally just was one of the coolest experiences of my life like
1:38.5	you know staying in these small towns there's not a lot to do other than golf. It's just pure you're out there playing
1:46.7	you know obviously link style a lot of different kind of golf and we're used to seeing in the
1:50.3	states. So great couple of weeks to get out of the summer heat. I mean, I think everyone just loves getting over here. It's a really fun. Really fun couple weeks.
2:00.0	Does it feel like that collectively? Does it feel like that as you're on the range and you're talking to your buddies on tour?
2:06.0	Does it feel like kind of across the board everybody international players American players are excited about this?
2:12.0	Yeah, everyone's pumped.
2:13.2	I mean, it's, it's, you know, it's like the home of golf, right?
2:16.6	This is where golf was embedded and we don't get to play
2:19.7	link style golf very often in the US.
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