Jonathan Byrd, PGA Tour Pro
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Episode 243
Jonathan Byrd made his professional golf debut in 2000 after a successful college career at Clemson University where he was the first four-time First Team All-ACC player in the school's history.
In 2002, Jonathan was named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year ands gone on to a golf career that has seen him finish with 5 PGA Tour wins and 2 Web.com wins.
In 2003, he finished tied for 8th at the Masters and tied for 15th at the U.S. Open.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jonathan about his beloved Clemson Tigers, how to "struggle well," playing the Masters, and living a life of faith on the pro tour.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Jonathan Bird, PGA Tour Pro, 2002 PGA |
| 0:26.3 | Tour rookie of the year, is brought to you by Compassion International for $38 a month. |
| 0:32.2 | You can release a child from poverty. |
| 0:34.3 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum, food, education, medical care, and vocational |
| 0:40.4 | training, all done in the name of Jesus. Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum and sponsor a |
| 0:46.7 | child today. Jonathan Bird is our guest here on the podcast today. The PGA Tour Pro was a first team All America in 1999 and a graduate of Clemson University, |
| 1:00.1 | the first four-time first-team All-ACC player in Clemson history. He was the 2002 PGA Tour rookie |
| 1:08.1 | of the year, just a couple of years after Turning Pro in 2000, and he won the |
| 1:13.1 | 2017 Web.com Tour Championship. He's got five PGA Tour wins to his credit. Two web.com |
| 1:21.2 | wins as well, and once finished tied for eighth at the Masters in 2003 in time for 15th at the U.S. Open in |
| 1:29.5 | 2003 as well. He's played in all the majors, the British Open as well as the PGA Championship. |
| 1:35.1 | And it was fun getting to know Jonathan, getting to talk a little golf with him as well as |
| 1:39.1 | hearing his journey of faith. And there's some good nuggets here. So get a notebook out, |
| 1:44.0 | maybe get your phone out, maybe get your |
| 1:44.4 | phone out, get the note section out in your phone and take some notes because he's got some |
| 1:48.8 | really good, just practical advice. And there's something that he talks about towards the end called |
| 1:53.9 | Struggling Well, which I wrote down in my prep and really enjoyed hearing about from him. |
| 2:00.8 | We also get a great story of playing with Tom Watson and BJ Singh and Jack Nicholas |
| 2:05.4 | and really just a cool moment there playing with some legends in the game of golf. |
| 2:12.6 | Here's our conversation with Jonathan Bird, PGA Tour Pro here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
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