Four Time PGA Winner Chip Beck Shares Lessons from Life on Tour in 80s & 90s

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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771: Chip Beck was only the second player in PGA Tour history ever to card a 59 in a sanctioned PGA event. He’s also only one of two that posted that score in the 90s (1991 Las Vegas Invitational) along with David Duval who did it at the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. The very first 59 was in 1977 by Al Geiberger, all the rest have come since 2000. Jim Furyk posted a 59 in 2013, yet he also has the all time low Tour event score of 58 posted in the 2016 Travelers Championship. Chip is also a four time winner on the Tour. But today he’s a golf coach and wants to help you get better. In the first of two episodes featuring Chip, we talk about how he got started playing at the age of 10 and shares incredible stories from his time on the Tour between 1978-2015 that include Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd, Lanny Wadkins, and more. Next week will have two guests. Chip will finish it up talking about PerfectMotion app and make an exclusive offer to Golf Smarter listeners that you’ll definitely want to consider as your holiday gift. Then we’ll also conclude our episode with the CEO of PerfectMotion to learn all about how it works and why it help. Here’s a short video from Chip about how PerfectMotion.io can help you. This week on the Golf Smarter Mulligans episode 87, we get the chance to hear an episode that was originally For Members Only and has never been released in public. Our conversation is with PGA Certified Teaching Professional Tommy Masters answering listener questions about their swings and other faults.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The 1967, the year I took up golf, Ray Floyd invited Jack Nicholas to come in and play
0:06.0	for the grand opening of this golf course that Ray Floyd's dad was 30% owner of.
0:11.0	Nicholas was like 27 years old, had won seven majors in like seven tournaments.
0:16.0	And I remember walking in those doors following Nicholas and Floyd, Raymond gave me 30 brand new Wilson
0:21.4	staff golf balls. And heck, 40 years later, my mother called me and say, Chip, L.B. Floyd's not
0:26.7	doing well. You need to come pay your last respects. Well, I drove over to Cyprus where his home is.
0:32.4	He was coming out in a wheelchair and he looked up and he said, Chip, the greatest day of my life was when
0:38.1	you and Raymond finished one, two, in the U.S. Open. That was 1986 at Shinnok. I remember
0:43.3	feeling so good with him telling me that, and he passed very shortly thereafter. But going in that
0:49.2	locker room, the smell from the time I was 10 years old, it was a life-changing experience.
0:55.1	I said, that's what I want to do.
0:56.5	And I never looked back.
0:58.4	Golf Smarter, number 771.
1:03.1	Four-time PGA winner, Chip Beck, sharing stories of his life on the tour during the 80s and 90s.
1:09.8	This is Golf Smarter.
1:12.8	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise
1:18.7	your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Chip.
1:25.1	I'm so glad to be with you, Fred. It's finally, I get to see you and speak with you.
1:30.5	It's exciting.
1:31.8	It's not that exciting, I promise.
1:34.1	I promise, but it is great.
1:35.8	It's an honor to speak to you.
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