Bill Rogers - "Our New Spokesperson" SHORT TRACK

The winner of the 1981 Open Championship, Bill Rogers, relates his observation that all of the golfing greats have shared a love of the game and an appreciation for the history of the game. That's why he strongly endorses what we are doing to capture and preserve the storytelling with these golf greats, "FORE the Good of the Game."

Transcript

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Then it's I wanna I want to say one thing. Uh and I think Bruce would agree with us. Uh and I wouldn't say that this is necessarily a statement made toward the financial aspect of our time on the tour, current day or whatever, but uh yeah, what y'all are doing right now uh is making a difference, and it it's so refreshing because uh when there's a lot of uh emphasis on discounting things that are really important to show emphasis on our game and from players that are uh visiting with you, of which uh you've already had a tremendous uh group before me and uh feel honored to be in that group, by the way. But the uh it's very important. I'm I'm uh and and for the good of the game, golly, that's exactly what it is. And there is a I I there is a your audience is gonna grow like crazy, and it's it it's I always believe in doing the right thing. I think y'all are doing the right thing, and you know the other things can do, social media, but uh I'm grateful you're you're you're you've taken this on.

Bruce Devlin 1:29

Well, I'm I want to add something to that. We had a suggestion today, which sort of hit me like somebody punched me in the mouth. You said that uh You know doing what you guys are doing, shouldn't you shouldn't the World Golf Hall of Fame or the PJ of America or the PJ Tour think about keeping these so that people thirty or forty years from now can listen to players like Bill Rogers and Lee Trevino and Gary Player and Baker Finch, you know, uh and find out what the game was then.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

Yeah, oh good. Absolutely, Bruce, I'd say one other thing too. Um uh all the great players, of which I would no way uh include myself in it. But when we start thinking about, you know, the joke from Jack to Arnold to Gary to Tom Watson to Lee Trevino to uh I'm I I know I'm leaving out it was Tiger, I I'll even modern day go for the tiger. But all of the truly greats of the game, and that uh I think they're easy to categorize, actually, but they all loved the game, they loved it so much, and I would throw Phil Mickelson in there as well. You could not do what Phil Mickelson does, has done, and not because of his current success. You can't do what he's done by not loving the game. And when I say that, all of those people that I mentioned are great Ben Crenshaw, all great champions are great historians. They have loved the game because they know what the game, where it came from, who was Jack's uh greatest idol, Bobby Jones, and there are several others that would comment on that as well. But the lovers of the game, the successful ones, have loved the history of the game. And if what you just said can you know fit in there some uh in some way, it it does, it's good for the game.

Mike Gonzalez 3:48

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Intro Music 4:08

It went smack down farewell, and it started to slice just smidge off line. My caddy says as long as you're still in the stage, you're okay.