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Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

Waste Management Musings

Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, News, Sports, Sports News

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Waste Management Phoenix Open week, Shane recounts three of his favorite memories from the tournament in years past, including his first trip as a college kid, his first time with a media credential, and the 2020 tournament with Max Homa that fed the very first episode of this podcast.

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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, everybody, welcome to the Get a Grip Podcast. I I am Shane Bacon hope you guys are having a good week.

0:15.0

It's it's the first week to me that feels like golf is really truly back.

0:21.0

You know you go through Tori and that's a big check mark but not everybody's

0:24.8

playing and then you go to Pabble and I started to just so you know I started to contribute to

0:29.8

the fried egg newsletter you can subscribe to that at the Friday Egg website, but I wrote a piece for

0:35.3

this past Monday's Friday Egg newsletter about Pebble Beach and the rotation and the need to just

0:41.4

bring juice to that event.

0:42.8

It's too important of an event that it's lost its juice

0:46.2

and the hope and the rumors are

0:49.0

it's going to become an elevated event

0:50.8

and then that'll take care of that.

0:52.0

But my point was to bring Cypress Point back into the rotation.

0:55.0

Obviously, in 1990, the PGA Tour introduced an anti-discriminatory clause for all the

1:00.8

tournament hosting courses and Cypress Point didn't fit the criteria

1:05.6

they didn't have any black members and they got kicked out of the Rhoda at the

1:08.4

Pebble Beach Proam. The director of the Monterrey Peninsula Foundation by the, at the time was a Cypress Point member.

1:15.0

So a bit awkward there, I could only imagine the next time he showed up to the golf course.

1:18.5

But rumors are they now have all sorts of members there and they've changed that policy and of course the

1:25.4

Walker Cup is going there in 2025. I just feel like if the event wants something

1:30.2

to pop bring in Cyprus there with what CBS I can only imagine would do with that

1:34.5

broadcast would give it that pop you can read the whole article in the past issues

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