SGS Spotlight on Davis Love III -- Part I with Shane Bacon
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode begins with some brief discussion on MJ vs. LeBron to stir the pot in Chicago, as well as some brief comments on the Ryder Cup unlikely transitioning to an “all captain’s picks” format for this year. Then we turn to an SGS Spotlight on Davis Love III and we have the absolute privilege to be joined by Shane Bacon, broadcaster for Fox Sports and of multiple podcasts, including Get A Grip with Max Homa. We cover DL3’s rise to becoming a Tour Pro, his early struggles to even compete at the majors, then his struggles to close at the majors. A focus of this Part I is also on how Dru got his name. DL3’s prodigious length off the tee as he burst on to the Tour drew comparisons to Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan, and John Elway, which we review. We also spotlight his propensity to openly discuss his nerves and anxieties after big rounds. The personal tragedies in his life are discussed in the context of how it shaped his career. The hype and faded hope of a grand Love v. Couples era is also highlighted, as well as DL3’s first big win at the 1992 Players.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics. |
| 0:03.0 | There's a lot of set up work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. |
| 0:08.0 | So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:20.0 | Gentlemen! Start your engines! |
| 0:27.0 | Engage! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is April 29th Andy how we doing Brendan doing good how about you |
| 0:57.6 | I'm good I'm good I've having a couple of cocktails here. |
| 1:03.0 | The lion's share of this episode's been recorded. |
| 1:07.7 | With the interview with Shane Bacon |
| 1:09.4 | on the subject of Davis Love the third, Spotlight. |
| 1:12.1 | Had a couple of, a little bit of bourbon now we're back here doing this front end intro and I'm feeling good therefore feeling groovy |
| 1:20.7 | feeling groovy how are you? How's the birthday? |
| 1:24.0 | Birthday was wonderful, you know, just aside for me antagonizing you. |
| 1:28.6 | You're not happy about that. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, yeah, it's nighttime on my birthday and Brendan sending me text messages with tweets about |
| 1:38.3 | LeBron James being better than Michael Jordan. |
| 1:41.6 | I didn't say anything, I just say you a screenshot of a tweet that made that argument. |
| 1:46.4 | And I put my phone down walk away watch the will come back to just the world on fire. You're angry |
| 1:52.2 | you're all worked up, wound up. |
| 1:54.4 | Ironically, I happen to be watching at that very moment. |
| 1:58.3 | The Miami Heat, the LeBron James Miami, he losing a finals, final series. |
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