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Common Man & Timmy

BONUS PODCAST - The Fan at Muirfield: An Oral History

Common Man & Timmy

WBNS-FM - Columbus, OH

Sports

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Thanks for subscribing to this podcast. As a sign of gratitude from The Fan, we're giving you a bonus podcast featuring some of the best stories from Muirfield. The Fan has been on-site covering the Memorial Tournament for years, and many of our hosts have stories to tell. Among the things you'll hear in this special episode: Beau Bishop cops to hitting a house, Rothman getting some free cologne while hanging out in the clubhouse, Timmy Hall talking some big game to a member of the Nicklaus family, and much more. Scotty Vegas is your guide on this half hour podcast featuring our favorite memories from Muirfield. Enjoy this bonus episode, and again, thanks for listening to the Fan!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the fans special behind the scenes podcast at the Memorial Tournament.

0:04.4

I'm Skydy Vegas and you'll hear from 10 different fan personalities.

0:08.2

I told each one of them they have two minutes to tell a great story associated with Muirfield Village and the Memorial Tournament.

0:15.6

You won't want to miss these.

0:17.4

Most are stories that have never been told on air.

0:20.4

Let's kick things off with Bo Bishop from Bishop and friends about hitting a celebrity's house.

0:26.0

Bo?

0:28.0

So one of the privileges of being able to cover this event for so long was the ability to play in the media outing,

0:34.9

which happened usually a couple of weeks before the tournament.

0:37.6

So I played in it a half dozen times and always, it was always a mix of looking forward to it and completely terrified because I suck at golf.

0:46.7

And this was the last year that I played in it and I was playing with Dom and I was playing with Paul Spond who's a long time

0:54.7

sports director at Channel 10 and we had a group of guys who were going to go out

0:59.2

there and at the last minute I was feeling pretty good on the range and pretty decent for me at least at my best bogey golfer so out here you know if I if I could break a hundred it felt like a win but I never had before but was feeling good and so right before we went to go tee off they switched

1:17.6

our pro that we were playing with you it's three media guys and then you play

1:21.6

with a pro or a member out here.

1:24.4

Not a pro from the PGA tour, but a member out here

1:26.7

were somebody who is connected to the tournament.

1:29.0

So the guy that we got picked to play with

1:31.8

was a guy you maybe heard of named Jack

1:33.2

Nicholas Jr. so now I went from well this would be a lot of fun to oh my God

1:37.7

terrifying like this guy's on the bag in 86 like I'm gonna go play his

1:41.6

dad's course with him like and I'm going to go play his dad's course with him like and I I'd known Jack

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