Webb Simpson Interview: His infamous encounter with the 'Bird Man', remaining successful despite hitting shanks

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🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, seven-time PGA Tour winner Webb Simpson joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and jicky jack legend Drew Stoltz for an exclusive interview at Quail Hollow. The winner of the 2012 U.S. Open talks his infamous encounter with the 'bird man' at the Olympic Club, meeting his wife thanks to a big assist from his dad, and remaining a world class player despite his tendency to hit shanks.

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0:00.0	Hello world. Welcome to another week of golf subpar. Colt knows and Drew Stoltz. Slays
0:17.2	I'm coming to you live from the PJ championship. I'm here at KIAWAL Island. I cannot wait to get
0:22.3	amongst it out on the ocean course. Yes, I can see that beautiful backdrop you got there.
0:26.5	I got to tell you, dude, I'm looking forward to this week for a lot of reasons. One being that I
0:31.0	can't remember in a long time, a PJ championship venue getting as much pub as KIAWAL
0:35.8	Island's got going into this thing. I mean, I'm reading about, it can play over 7,800 yards,
0:40.2	the longest major championship venue out there, all these new T-boxes and things like that.
0:43.8	And I'm anxious to see, I mean, it depends on the weather a little bit and the wind clearly,
0:47.4	but like, what's a good score around this place? I legitimately have no idea. I gotta,
0:51.9	I gotta think there's no chance in hell that they're playing at over 7,800 yards any single day
0:57.0	out there. I mean, pace of play has got to be six hours out there. If you're putting that thing
1:00.9	in the wind and it's 7,800 yards, I'd be just a deathmarsh. Yeah, I'm very excited to see it.
1:05.4	You know, I came here the Monday after the Masters for PJ championship media day. It's got to play
1:09.8	a couple of holes with Colin Moore at Cala. I played number 11 and number 12, so I know every
1:13.7	inch of those two holes. And they asked if I wanted to play the rest of it. And I said, no,
1:17.8	thank you. This place is way too freaking hard. I'm out of here. So I drove around the back nine.
1:22.6	And I mean, it's a beast. It's, I'm sure they'll move the tease around and stuff like that.
1:27.8	Fingers crossed, the weather looks incredible. No rain in the forecast, you know, high 70s every
1:33.3	day sunshine. So it's gonna be all they want, I would imagine. You know, it's not gonna play
1:38.7	anything like it did in August when Roy McRoy won in 2012. You know, they had a lot of rain. It's
1:44.2	soft and quite have to win. He ran away with it by eight shots. Look, it's a major championship.
1:48.7	It's gonna be an awesome test. Carrie Hague, who sets up the golf courses for the PGA of America.
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