Andrew Putnam, Episode 9: Andrew's First Trip to St. Andrews for the Dunhill Links

Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Shane Bacon and Andrew Putnam return to the feed to discuss Andrew's first trip to St. Andrews after his T-25 finish at the Dunhill Links last week. The two discuss what's so special about the town of St. Andrews, the challenges of links golf at this time of year, and how players navigate the layout of the Dunhill Links across three different courses. Andrew shares how he prepared for such a unique tournament, and the two highlight the pro-am aspect of the Dunhill as well. After wrapping up on Scotland golf, Shane and Andrew discuss the Korn Ferry Tour following the season-ending championship. Andrew reminisces about being part of the 2014 class of KFT grads following the PGA Tour's 10-year look back at that group. They discuss the differences between the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour, and how players often find more camaraderie on the KFT before graduating to the big tour. To wrap things up, Andrew shares some insight into the new Evergreen Golf Club facility in Tacoma, Washington.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody welcome back to the get a grip
0:16.6	podcast presented by Pinehurst Resorts. Pinehurst continues to invest in
0:21.1	its president future embarking on a three phase process to
0:24.7	renovate the guest rooms and lobby in its flagship hotel the Carolina anybody that's
0:28.9	been a Pinehurst knows the Carolina of course that finished this spring.
0:32.9	This year Pineers debuted its newest restaurant, the Carolina Vista lounge expanded cocktail bar with a contemporary
0:39.3	menu unlike any others at Pinehurst, offering guests stylish and satisfying respite benefiting.
0:44.5	It's setting in the historic, historic of course, Carolina Hotel and oh, by the way, they got some
0:50.4	golf there at Pinehurst.
0:51.8	Now they have 10 golf courses and of course the
0:53.4	cradle. It is everything you want more in terms of a golf destination on a golf trip.
0:57.6	playing your next golf trip there at Pinehurst.com. I would say Pinehursthurst I'd say the closest thing to maybe a pinehurst
1:06.4	experience would be going to St Andrews Andrew Putnam on the podcast to wrap up his
1:11.1	week at the Dunhill just in terms of like feeling like you're in a town that is only dedicated to golf
1:17.0	How many times put them have you been to st Andrews first time? Yeah, first time I didn't know that. I never been there.
1:23.0	That was yeah, that was a huge motivating factor of going over there.
1:25.8	Obviously we got the FedEx fall series on which is important but got the
1:30.7	invite and I'd never been to that area so man had to go.
1:34.0	All right so A where'd you stay like do you stay at the hood they put you up in the whole
1:38.1	course hotel do you stay around the city where do you stay when you play the
1:41.2	Dunhill well luckily for me, my, my Am partner had some connections.
1:45.4	He was, he's a hotel guy.
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