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The Clubhouse with Shane Bacon

Ep. 160: Sophia Popov

The Clubhouse with Shane Bacon

The 8 Side

Golf, Sports

4.8696 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon, Shane is joined by Women's British Open Champion, Sophia Popov, to discuss her week at Royal Troon which includes a conversation about her incredible driver off the deck shot. Sophia also talks about her run through the Cactus Tour, her motivation to continue grinding through low points and the biggest differences between the Symetra TOUR and LPGA TOUR

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:11.6

Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon.

0:13.5

I am your host, Shane Bacon.

0:15.6

An exciting guest this week, our Women's British Open Champion,, Sophia Popoff, in-person interview.

0:22.4

Did it in North Scottsdale.

0:23.8

That was exciting.

0:24.8

Obviously, a whirlwind last few weeks for her after the victory.

0:28.9

And we talked about everything.

0:30.0

We hit on her run through the Cactus Tour this year and how helpful that was to get some wins under her belt professionally.

0:38.0

Obviously, the week that was at Royal Trune and the victory there, we talked driver off the deck.

0:42.7

I think it's, I said this in the interview.

0:45.7

Her driver off the deck on Saturday, it might be the best driver off the deck in the history of major championship golf. I would love to hear

0:57.8

from people that have an answer better than that because I was trying to rack my brain and think

1:02.2

of one that the winner pulled off and I can't really come up with a great one. I don't think Mo

1:07.1

hit driver. I think it was a three wood that she hit when it hit the flagstick and

1:11.7

nearly went in when she won the British Open. So if you have a great driver off the deck

1:15.1

for a major championship title story, I mean, nobody hits driver off the deck at Augusta. I don't

1:19.8

think. Maybe on eight. I can't really think of a great one that got close for the winner.

1:24.6

And of course, you don't see a lot of U.S. Opens and P.J. Championships.

1:31.0

The Open would be the one. Nothing really comes to mind. But we talked about a lot of stuff.

1:35.1

You know, obviously the struggles that she went through professionally after having such a great career at USC. And what it's been like now being, you know, a person of interest that everybody's

1:40.5

trying to get a hold of, including, you know including yours truly. I mean, obviously reaching out to get an interview was a big, a big priority of mine,

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