Welcome back to another edition of the Friday's podcast and to the third installment of Friday's stories, our audio documentary series.

Today's episode is about Tiger Woods's professional debut at the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open.

And today's sponsor, appropriately enough, is visit Milwaukee.

Wisconsin is an amazing golf destination.

You have courses designed by Langford and Moreau, Pete Die, Corin Crenshaw, David McLean

Kidd, many of which are accessible within a few hours drive from Milwaukee Mitchell Airport

which itself is just 8 miles from downtown. You can fly into Milwaukee and choose from an array of different courses that you can play in the same day.

Now the Greater Milwaukee Area has also been the site of some really memorable golf tournaments

and some big ones that are coming up.

You've got the Rider Cup in 2020 at Whistling Straits.

You've got PDA Championships 2004, 2010, 2015 also at Whistling Straits. You had the 2017 U.S. Open at Aaron Hills.

And of course, for much of the 20th century you had the Greater Milwaukee Open at Brown Deer Park

Golf Course just outside of Milwaukee where Tiger Woods said

Hello World in 1996.

To learn more about golf in Milwaukee in Milwaukee. go to visit Milwaukee.org

slash golf.

All right, let's get to the story.

We're excited about this one.

We've been working on it for a while. We talked to U.S. Open

champion Curtis Strange, journalists Jaime Diaz and Gary Damato. We talked to

the Greater Milwaukee Open Tournament Director Tom Strong.

We even talked to Jim Rizwald, the guy who wrote that famous Hello World Nike ad and they were all great,

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