David Cannon on Capturing Seve and the Euro Tour's Glory Days

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Decorated Getty Images photographer David Cannon joins Garrett to talk about his career, which has spanned more than 40 years and nearly 200 men's and women's golf majors. David tells Garrett about his early years as a competitive golfer—when he played with Sandy Lyle, Nick Faldo, and Seve Ballesteros, among other European legends—before getting into his experiences, techniques, and philosophies as a photographer of golf tournaments. He talks about capturing a couple of particularly famous images of Seve (one at the 1984 Open and the other at the 1993 European Masters), learning how to get in the right positions at a golf tournament, documenting raucous post-Ryder Cup parties, making the transition from film to digital, and much more.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
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0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today I'm
0:39.2	talking with David Cannon about his illustrious career in golf photography.
0:45.7	It's hard to sum up David's accomplishments in tournament golf photography.
0:49.5	He's been at it for 45 years at this point. He's been on site for somewhere in the range of 200
0:56.2	men's and women's majors, and he's captured many famous images, including the one you all know of Sevy Biosteros celebrating his 1984
1:06.8	open victory with a fierce fist pump.
1:11.1	And so we have a lot to talk about. David is a legend and I'm really looking forward to this conversation with him about his career, some of his experiences with Sevy and other great players, his takes on the craft of photography, all sorts of fun stuff on the agenda for today.
1:27.6	But before we get to that interview, a quick word about Club TFE. This is Friday Golf's membership. You can check it out at the Fridayg.com
1:37.1	slash membership. It's $120 a year and you get all kinds of perks with it like exclusive content a lively member
1:45.4	comment section monthly virtual hangout with Friday staff an annual gift all that
1:51.6	kind of stuff we also recently announced our 2024 club TFE member guest event,
1:57.7	and it's going to be held at a pretty cool golf course. That's all I'll say about that for now. But mainly I just wanted to
2:04.7	speak for a moment about what this membership means for Friday golf. This is not
2:10.7	something where we're buying a yacht with this money.
2:13.6	We're not going to be building a massive headquarters with a moat around it.
2:18.0	Maybe we'll get a latch for Andy's shed door, but that's really the only luxury we would consider. What Friday
2:24.8	Egg members are actually doing is supporting our ability to make the kind of
2:29.4	content that our audience wants from us.
2:32.8	Club TFE subscriptions help us get out to tournaments, go see new courses,
2:37.9	film those courses, write about them in an in-depth way that would be hard to do with a purely ad-supported model.
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