Jerry Pate on Early TPC Sawgrass and His 1982 Players Win

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In February 2020, Garrett Morrison interviewed 1976 U.S. Open champion Jerry Pate about his win at the 1982 Players Championship, the first Players held at TPC Sawgrass. Jerry talked about his first impressions of the Pete Dye-designed Stadium Course, his post-victory leap into the pond next to the 18th green, and his fond memories of his friends Pete and Alice Dye. We used excerpts from Jerry and Garrett's conversation in our documentary podcast “Making TPC Sawgrass.” Since it’s now the 40th anniversary of the '82 Players, we figured it was a good time to air the interview in full. Check out our video on the history, design, and evolution of TPC Sawgrass.

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a bright egg.
0:07.0	Bright egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded bright egg.
0:09.0	Bright egg.
0:10.0	Bright egg.
0:11.0	Bright egg.
0:12.0	Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to the Friday podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today's guest is Jerry
0:40.1	Pate.
0:41.1	All right. So two years ago, we put out a documentary podcast about the story behind
0:46.3	TPC sawgrass and the first players championship that was held there in 1982.
0:52.7	For that story, I talked to Jerry Pate, who won that tournament and afterwards famously
0:58.2	jumped in the lake with architect Pete Dye and tour commissioner Dean Beeman.
1:03.2	Now Jerry Pate, and I don't think this is very well appreciated these days, he was one
1:08.3	of the most promising young players of his generation. He won the US Open as a rookie
1:13.4	in 1976 and he seemed to be on his way to superstar them, but then he injured his shoulder
1:19.4	and the 82 players ended up being his last win on tour. He still had a great career
1:24.3	in the golf industry. He served as a TV analyst for a long time and he built a very successful
1:29.6	landscape and golf course design practice. He even won a couple of times on the senior
1:33.9	tour.
1:34.9	Anyway, I had this conversation with Jerry in early 2020 and we used pieces of it in that
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