Flashback Reheat: Lumpy wins the Honda, "Spider-Man's" journey, and a sweaty 1987 PGA Championship

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy a special reheat of three Flashback segments remembering events at PGA National! First, Andy shares some details about Bruce Lietzke, the 1984 Honda winner, who changed his entire schedule to spend more time with his family and had an affinity for a timely hot dog. Brendan then recaps Tim "Lumpy" Herron's win at the 1996 Honda Classic. Lumpy won the tournament as a rookie, but this segment also has plenty of nuggets about the eventful week Greg Norman had and his ongoing issues with the TPC Network. The second Flashback in this episode covers Camilo Villegas’ 2010 Honda win, the cycling career of "Spider-Man," and some good karma for Graeme McDowell after calling a penalty on himself at PGA National that year. Finally, take a trip back to the 1987 PGA Championship at PGA National, where the competition almost literally melted away in the Florida heat.

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics.
0:04.0	There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work.
0:09.0	So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.
0:14.0	And here we go.
0:17.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:27.0	Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings and welcome to a bonus episode of the Shotgun Start.
0:43.9	We are doing something special here this weekend or whenever you listen to it.
0:48.4	It's Evergreen content.
0:50.0	We are combining a few old flashbacks related to the Honda classic,
0:57.3	now known as a cognizant classic at the Palm Beaches.
1:01.7	Hey, shotgun start is not getting lawn in the tooth, but we're aging a little bit.
1:04.7	We got some archives now, maybe some new listeners.
1:07.7	We've done a lot of work on Flashback Friday,
1:10.8	spotlights on some of the great players of the old.
1:12.8	And we wanted to reheat some of these.
1:16.9	It certainly doesn't mean we're not going to do our normal three day a week cadence, but just an experiment here.
1:18.3	We've done a lot on the Honda Classic and PGA National.
1:22.0	We decided to put some of it together to listen at your leisure either again or for the first time.
1:27.3	So today, this is going to be a combined sort of flashback Friday or flashback
1:31.5	whatever day episode.
1:32.7	We're going to start with a combo of the 1984-1996 Honda Classic, won by Bruce Litsky first,
1:40.1	and then Tim Heron, aka Lumpy, which was a fun one to go down.
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