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Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

Scottish Golf + The Old Tom Morris Trail

Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, News, Sports, Sports News

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Golf historian Stephen Proctor joins Shane to discuss his summer in Scotland playing all 18 courses on The Old Tom Morris Trail, his move from senior editor at The San Francisco Chronicle to studying the history and birthplace of golf, and those current players that are most like the legendary Tom Morris.

As a reminder, Shane's new children's golf book, The Golfer's Zoo, is available to order at back9press.com/bacon, so grab a copy for holidays.

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Special thanks to our partner Bonnie Wee Golf, a specialist in exclusive luxury golf trips and vacations to the best golf courses in Scotland and Ireland, including The Old Tom Morris Trail. Check it out at OldTomMorrisTrail.com.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Get a Grip with Shane Bacon, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:04.0

Hey, welcome to the Get A Grip Podcast.

0:13.0

I'm your host, Shane Bacon.

0:14.8

Got a fun one.

0:15.6

I think it's a little insider golf episode this week

0:19.6

that I think you're going to enjoy Stephen Proctor joins the program. We're talking to Scottish

0:24.1

golf. We're talking the old Tom Morris Trail. It's something new to Scottish

0:29.6

Golf Travel. There are 18 old Tom Morris designs involved in the trail and it's a pretty spectacular

0:36.5

undertaking if that's something that you're interested in and there will be details to follow.

0:40.8

So give that a check if you haven't already. A couple of items

0:44.4

before we get to Mr Proctor. I think I've mentioned this on the podcast at

0:48.4

least a dozen times maybe more, but I wrote a children's golf book. It's called the Golfers Zoo.

0:53.6

It's available to order now if you go to back nine press,

0:56.8

nine the number, back nine press.com backslash bacon.

1:01.2

You can order it right there and getting a lot of good

1:04.5

feedback. I'll be honest with you. I'm getting pictures of kids getting the book

1:09.4

read to them by their parents. A friend of mine sent me a text today and said their neighbor was taking the book. their I've only cried like 400 times over the last couple weeks from these images and stuff people are sending me but it's a great gift the holidays are coming up so a great gift to send to the golf parent in your life

1:30.6

somebody in your family that's expecting.

1:33.0

Just a reminder, back9 Press.com slash Bacon to order it.

1:38.0

One more item.

1:39.0

I have a logo company that I started with Kate Smith about a year ago. It's called

1:43.5

Ground Under Repair and we do logo designs for golf courses but also for Buddy's

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