Episode 116: Recapping the U.S. Adaptive Open with Alex Fourie
Get a Grip with Shane Bacon
Fried Egg Golf
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One of the coolest events in all of golf wrapped last week in Pinehurst, and we have one of the most impactful players in the field here to recap the championship.
Alex Fourie joins Shane to chat about the second U.S. Adaptive Open, what the week means to that community, and how cool it is to see this tournament alongside historical events like the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open.
Alex then gets into how he got into the game, what it means to be a role model to so many people out there and plenty more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to get a grip with Shane Bacon a production of iHeartRadio |
| 0:09.6 | Hey, hey everybody welcome to another episode of the get a grip podcast. I'm Shane Bacon's open week |
| 0:14.9 | So I figured I would put this out late in the week because I know it's gonna happen |
| 0:18.8 | You're going to get up in the morning |
| 0:21.2 | You're gonna watch a whole bunch of golf and then it's gonna end and you're gonna be sitting around wondering what the heck |
| 0:25.4 | Do I consume now and I have a great interview for you Alex fory if you don't know the name |
| 0:31.7 | You will great interview with him just wrapped up the second US adaptive open down at Pinehurst |
| 0:37.6 | No now Alex for a long time. He is a great dude with a great story |
| 0:40.8 | So I think you're gonna really enjoy the podcast just a couple of things before we get to Alex |
| 0:45.8 | One is I have another podcast. I don't know if you know this or not |
| 0:49.5 | It's the ping proving grounds podcast. I do that with Marty Jertson and this week |
| 0:55.2 | Out now we interviewed Teryl Hatton and if you like golf and you like characters and you like entertaining characters |
| 1:02.0 | I think you'll like that episode |
| 1:03.7 | So wherever you listen to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts check that one out ping proving grounds |
| 1:09.8 | Podcast and we have Teryl Hatton. We've interviewed let's say at the gala and we have a lot more interviews |
| 1:15.4 | Come in your way with players plus listening to Marty talk about golf will expand the brain you have right now |
| 1:23.5 | To a place you probably didn't even know it existed in in that school of yours |
| 1:27.1 | So definitely worth your time and I think the podcast has been a great great edition |
| 1:32.1 | To golf podcast out there over the last few months since we launched it so check that out this week |
| 1:36.8 | I also was a part of the Friday newsletter round table as we prep for the open |
| 1:41.8 | So if you go look at the archives there or if you subscribe to it read that I have my pick in there Tommy Fleetwood |
| 1:48.8 | I have my thoughts on the golf course and some of the quirky nature of |
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