Ep. 156 - LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan

The Clubhouse with Shane Bacon

The 8 Side

Golf, Sports

4.8 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this episode of the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon, Shane is joined by LPGA Commissioner, Mike Whan, to talk about the LPGA's return to competitive golf at Inverness Club. Mike shares how the LPGA has handled the pandemic, the relationships with sponsors, and how the LPGA has approached and educated themselves on the social justice movement.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Clubhouse with Shane Bacon, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:12.4	Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon.
0:14.2	I am your host, Shane Bacon.
0:16.2	And a good one this week, LPGA Commissioner Mike Juan joins the show.
0:20.4	He was on before, a little bit different
0:22.6	this time, considering everything that's happened over the last few months with COVID and with
0:27.9	quarantine. And now the LPGA tour returning this week at Enverness in Toledo, Ohio for the
0:33.9	LPGA Drive-on championship. This is their return. The LPGA tour, of course, has been back for a few weeks,
0:39.2	but this is going to be exciting.
0:40.7	I mean, a chance to see the LPGA back on one of the most unbelievable golf courses
0:45.8	that I've had a chance to call events on.
0:48.2	We had the junior amateur last year that Preston-Summer-hays won in dramatic fashion at Inverness,
0:54.0	and of course, a lot of
0:55.0	history at that golf course. But I was blown away when I got to Toledo for the first time.
0:59.7	I had a chance to drive around this golf course in a golf cart. I think I FaceTime to Andy Johnson
1:05.5	of the fried egg on about the fourth hole and just said, hey, this is as good as I think it is, right? And he said, oh,
1:11.1	it's, it's unbelievable. I mean, it's, it's one of those golf courses that I feel like if
1:15.0	everything wasn't able to happen somewhere, say a U.S. Open was in San Francisco or, you know,
1:22.6	a PJ championship was in Vermont and some natural disaster happened.
1:28.3	I feel like you'd go to Inverness the next day.
1:30.0	The golf course is long.
1:31.2	The rough is thick,
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