Playing in a Web.com Pro-Am with Tour Hopeful Adam Long

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Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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GS#498 September 21, 2015 : This week we play alongside Web.com Touring Pro Adam Long at TPC Stonebrae the day before the start of the Web.com Stonebrae Classic in the SF Bay Area. During this Pro-Am round the Duke University graduate, Adam Long of New Orleans, talks about his career, his prospects of making it to the PGA Tour, and the strengths of his game. This is just a portion of the complete interview with Adam. The full interview is a video which includes selected conversations with his caddie Derek about club and shot selection, how to attack various holes and pin positions, reading greens, strategy conversations with Chas Narramore, another player on the Tour, our threesome and more. Watch the video featuring Adam here: https://youtu.be/oLKURrgnjBI?si=_Q9i6KBNN8WkvHzIFor exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Former GolfSmarter host, Fred Greene has been nominated for the 2025 Audiocaster of the Year by the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Vote now at BARHOF.org. Voting is open through July 1. Please welcome our new host of Golf Smarter, Josh Karp! Fred has retired and will be working on his game with more intention than ever. You can stay up-to-date with Josh on all the GolfSmarter social accounts or by reaching out at karpj2323@mac.com. To stay connected with Fred reach out at golfsmarterpodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mike Rainbows from Navar, Florida, and I played Gator Lakes Golf Course, Herbert Field.
0:06.8	This is Golf Smarter Number 498, published on July 21, 2015.
0:12.4	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:15.4	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:23.6	Great golf instruction never gets old. Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game
0:30.5	improvement conversations like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. I don't know what the winning shares exactly this year, but I think the purse is somewhere around 600,000 this week that we're playing for. So the top 65 in ties. But that's 600,000 is split among... Split between the top 65. That make the cut. But like the winning share, I'm not sure it changes every week, but it's usually close to $100,000. Last week was actually in Boise. It was $144,000 last week. And this week, I don't think the purse is quite as big, but it's 110 or something like that to the winner. But to give you the range, if you make the cut, which is great, but if you make the cut and finish last, you probably make about $1,300. So it's everywhere in between. If you finish fifth, you might make $20,000, something like that, $30,000 maybe. And everywhere in between, you know, top 25 would be somewhere around the 4,000 range, 5,000 range. So, you know, you're making money as you go and paying off your expenses. It's a big difference from the top to the...
1:27.5	It's very top-heavy.
1:28.9	It's actually modeled exactly as the PGA Tour.
1:31.8	Those top five finishes are huge.
1:33.9	But if you're finishing 30th every week,
1:36.0	yeah, you're making cuts and making money,
1:37.6	but you're not making the big money.
1:51.3	Playing in the web.com Stonebraith classic Pro Am with touring pro, Adam Long.
1:54.4	This is Golf Smarter Premium.
1:57.4	Here's your host, Fred Green.
2:03.6	Welcome to 2015 web.com official proam. On the first tee, Adam Long.
2:10.6	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Adam. Thanks, Fred. Thanks for having me today. Oh, well, thank you for joining us. We're at TPC Stonebray in the hills above the Bay Area in Hayward, California.
2:20.3	And it is a pro-am today for the web.com tour, which you are competing in the web.com.
2:26.3	How long have you been competing in web.com?
2:28.3	This is my second year on this tour.
2:30.3	And how's it going?
2:31.3	Pretty good, having a good year this year.
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