Recapping the U.S. Adaptive Open with Alex Fourie
Get a Grip with Shane Bacon
Fried Egg Golf
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One of the coolest events in all of golf wrapped last week in Pinehurst, and we have one of the most impactful players in the field here to recap the championship.
Alex Fourie joins Shane to chat about the second U.S. Adaptive Open, what the week means to that community, and how cool it is to see this tournament alongside historical events like the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open.
Alex then gets into how he got into the game, what it means to be a role model to so many people out there and plenty more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Get a Grip with Chain Bacon, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Get A Grip Podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Shane Bacon. |
| 0:14.4 | It's open week. |
| 0:15.1 | So I figured I would put this out late in the week because I know it's going to happen. |
| 0:19.1 | You're going to get up in the morning, you're going to watch a whole bunch of golf, |
| 0:22.4 | and then it's going to end, and you're going to watch a whole bunch of golf and then it's going |
| 0:22.9 | end and you're going to be sitting around wondering what the heck do I consume now and I |
| 0:27.7 | have a great interview for you Alex Fori if you don't know the name you will great interview with him just wrapped up the second US adaptive open down at Pinehurst. |
| 0:37.0 | I've known Alex for a long time. He is a great dude with a great story. |
| 0:41.0 | So I think you're going to really enjoy the podcast just a couple of |
| 0:44.2 | things before we get to Alex one is I have another podcast I don't know if you know |
| 0:49.1 | this or not it's the Ping Proving Grounds podcast I do that with Marty Jertzen and this week out now we |
| 0:56.6 | interviewed Tyrell Hatton and if you like golf and you like characters and you like |
| 1:00.9 | entertaining characters I think you'll like that episode. |
| 1:04.0 | So wherever you listen to this podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 1:07.0 | check that one out, PING, Proving Grounds Podcast, |
| 1:10.0 | and we have Tyrell Hat and we've interviewed, Saithagala, and we have Have interviewed us to hit the gala and we have a lot more interviews coming your way with players plus |
| 1:17.4 | Listening to Marty talk about golf |
| 1:19.7 | Will expand the brain you have right now to a place you probably didn't even know it existed in that |
| 1:26.4 | skull of yours. |
| 1:27.4 | So definitely worth your time and I think the podcast has been a great, great addition to golf podcast out there over the last few months since we launched it so check that out this week |
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