Behind Winged Foot: U.S. Open Week with Jason Gore & Winged Foot Superintendent Steve Rabideau
Fore Play
Barstool Sports
4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
It’s here. It’s finally here. The U.S. Open at Winged Foot has arrived, and the hype is REAL about the course condition, the difficulty, the “classic” U.S. Open expectations. We speak with Jason Gore (24:16), the USGA’s senior director of player relations & a member of the setup team, about the course, what the players can expect, and how he manages those expectations. Then we’re joined by Winged Foot’s head superintendent, Steve Rabideau (73:42), to dive deeper into this iconic venue, its famous greens, and the stellar team and commitment it takes to keep Winged Foot’s 36 holes in championship condition day in and day out!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey four play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple podcast Spotify or YouTube |
| 0:06.6 | Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music |
| 0:09.6 | We have the whole crew. We got myself Frankie Trent and Lurch. It's us open week. It's just I'm giddy. I'm pumped |
| 0:16.6 | nervous a little bit. I'm excited |
| 0:19.5 | anxious. I want to see this damn golf course. I want to see Wingfoot all of the chatter the videos the stupid media videos of people's feet and |
| 0:27.0 | Shoes and golf balls in the rough to the greens people putting it backwards and it comes behind their fucking ass and rolls right up next |
| 0:35.0 | It's just great. So since it's major championship week. It's us open week. We got a huge show |
| 0:40.2 | We have a loaded show. We have Jason Gore who is the senior director of player relations for the United States golf |
| 0:46.8 | Association. He's also part of the setup team and then we have Steve Rabid who is the head superintendent at Wingfoot Golf Club |
| 0:53.8 | We've had him on the show before but it's probably been three years or so |
| 0:57.4 | He is the star of the show for one of the coolest projects we've worked on |
| 1:01.7 | Frankie Jake bug a bunch of the production staff have been really grinding on this video that kind of documents |
| 1:08.3 | superintendents course maintenance staff and what they do |
| 1:12.2 | Focusing on the Wingfoot crew and they're 55 I think Steve said |
| 1:16.7 | Crew 55 person crew that they have preparing this place for United States open |
| 1:21.9 | So it's a huge show. It's us open week gentlemen. Let's fucking do this |
| 1:28.8 | Were we supposed to talk there were you going into something? I don't know. I was just |
| 1:35.8 | I thought maybe we were gonna like hit some new like |
| 1:40.6 | I was just pumped up. I don't know. I was just |
| 1:45.3 | I love it now. I was just waiting for it and go. I was waiting for I felt like I was at a horse race |
| 1:50.6 | I was waiting for the little thing to open like I need to hear that bell that gunshot |
| 1:54.9 | No, I think you said it. I think you said it very well |
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