Brittany Lincicome - Part 3 (Winning the 2015 Dinah Shore)

Welcome to the final episode of our three‐part exclusive interview series with LPGA legend Brittany Lincicome – a two-time major championship winner whose storied career is filled with dramatic playoff battles, unforgettable victories, and moments of genuine humor. In this engaging installment of "FORE the Good of the Game," Brittany opens up about the highs and lows of her journey on the LPGA Tour, sharing candid reflections and personal insights that reveal the true heart of a champion.

We open the segment with Brittany recounting her second major win at the 2015 ANA Inspiration where she again eagled the final hole to get into a playoff and prevail over Stacy Lewis.

Throughout this episode, Brittany recounts the intensity of her most critical playoff moments, the strategic decisions on the green, and the adrenaline rush of making game-changing shots under pressure. She takes us behind the scenes of iconic tournaments, reliving the unforgettable atmosphere of championship play and the quirky traditions that made her career memorable – from impromptu celebrations to lighthearted moments with family and friends.

More than a tale of competitive triumphs, Brittany also discusses the challenges of balancing a rigorous tour schedule with the demands of motherhood. She shares touching stories of how her experiences on the road influenced her decision to eventually step back from professional golf, prioritizing her family while still cherishing her lifelong passion for the game. Her reflections on global travel, cultural encounters, and the evolution of the LPGA offer a unique perspective that resonates with both longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Join hosts Mike Gonzalez and Bruce Devlin as they dive deep into Brittany’s remarkable career, exploring the lessons learned, the legacy she hopes to leave behind, and the exciting possibilities for the future. This episode is a must-listen for anyone inspired by resilience, authenticity, and the enduring love of golf.

Brittany’s heartfelt reflection revisits both the triumphs and trials of her career while looking forward with optimism, humor, and immense gratitude for golf’s enduring magic, "FORE the Good of the Game."

Transcript

Intro Music 0:07

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

Mike Gonzalez 0:13

Then it started to Well, you almost got it done there in that LPJ Championship in 2014. And then Bruce, she did get it done again in 2015 at the dinosaur.

Bruce Devlin 0:23

So you mean a lot of sudden death deals, you were lose the lose the PlayStation.

Brittany Lincicome 0:30

I have never won a tournament by a bunch. And then you win next year.

Bruce Devlin 0:38

Tell us about that victory. Second major, uh, three-hole sudden death playoff with Stacey Lewis. And you came from four back after three rounds. So wow. Pretty good little finish.

Brittany Lincicome 0:52

Go me. Um, yeah, so again, my favorite hole in golf, par five, over water, lots of trouble, you know. Um, I don't look at the leaderboard when I play. So when I was playing this day, um didn't really know where I was. I I knew I was maybe top 10, like just was like, okay, we're gonna go for the green and two. McBirdie, make eagle, literally just gonna make a few extra dollars. Like, that's all I was thinking. Um, so again, I hit this beautiful shot. It goes to the back of the green, it rolls back down. Now I have like 10 feet, so a little bit longer than the first time. Um, and again, I'm just thinking, oh, if I make it, I make a few extra dollars, like no big deal. Um, so the ball goes in, and I'm I feel like I had like a two-second thought of like, oh, I needed to like do a reaction. So I started jumping up and down like a goofball. Um, which if you need a funny laugh, you can go back and look 2015 A inspiration and you'll you'll have a great laugh like I do. You will like. What what was I doing? Like, why did I do that? Um but in my head, I literally had no clue where I was in the tournament. I didn't know like that was to get in uh tied for first. Like it was just I made a few extra dollars that week and I was very excited. Um, so then to find out like I'm in a playoff with one of my best buddies, Stacey Lewis, um, and to have the three extra holes, like both of us, our wedge games were so awful that day. Hence why it took three holes. Um, but by the time we finished, it was pretty dark outside. Um, but just to to play against again your best friend and to get the win, I mean, obviously we're both trying to win, that was the goal, but uh to play against your buddy, it's tough.

Mike Gonzalez 2:32

Yeah, yeah. What a you know, again, we talk about the symmetry here. You got the eagle to go to to nine under again, same number from seven and nine. Uh, but uh, you know, as we go back and and look at just from round one, you weren't quite in the top ten with that uh opening 72, and then uh uh the 68 got you back right in at uh uh Morgan Pressell was in second. You were T3 with uh Katrina Matthew among others uh at four under. And then uh the 70 gets you, as Bruce said, four back. Um and you really uh you really made up a lot of ground that last day.

Brittany Lincicome 3:12

Yeah, I Mission Hills is in Palm Springs, is is one of my favorite golf courses. It's a long hitters course. Uh, like I mentioned earlier, the course was getting more and more narrow every year, which I was a long hitter um that drove the ball pretty straight most times. And if I didn't, you know, I still had a short iron in my hand, which was uh better than some girls, some of the shorter hitters that had longer clubs. So um I loved hitting driver there. I I I tended to play well there. Um just something about seeing the snow on the mountains with the beautiful little flowers when you drove in. It just it was like my happy place. I love playing Mission Hills and um for the record though, to jump in the pond after this win, now it's dark outside, like nighttime. That water was freezing, like even more cold. But um, you know, it was called the A inspiration at that time, a Japanese airline. So they had these beautiful robes for us. So uh I was nice and warm, so it was fine.

Mike Gonzalez 4:07

Yeah, well, I I'm as Bruce can attest also, and you know this, Brittany, when when when you're in uh out west, you know, Phoenix or out in the desert, when that sun goes down certain times of the year, it gets cold really fast, doesn't it?

Brittany Lincicome 4:21

It really does. It's quite crazy. A funny uh story too from the first time I won that event in 2009 when my dad, myself, and my caddy jumped in. My dad got smarter the second time. He took his shoes off the second time. So the first time we jumped in, you don't you just run and jump, like you don't think. Um, but he only has one pair of tennis shoes that he travels with. So when we flew home the next day after the first win, his feet were still wet. Um so the second time he was smart, took his shoes off.

Mike Gonzalez 4:49

Okay, so go back to that first dip in. Was that like wallet, watch, everything, or do you smart enough to take all that off?

Brittany Lincicome 4:56

I think he was smart enough to take all that off, yeah. All right. Because they they they ask you to like tuck your pockets, make sure you don't have your phone. Um but you don't think to take like I left my shoes on because I obviously have had my golf shoes on, so I could just leave those or pack those and then put my tennis shoes on, but my poor dad that first time so funny.

Mike Gonzalez 5:13

Yeah. Well, uh I know it was uh it was bittersweet uh on this tournament to leaving that venue to go to Texas with the name change and everything else. Were you at that last tournament at Mission Hills?

Brittany Lincicome 5:26

Um, I think so. Yeah. Um again, just having so many memories there. I had won twice there. I didn't want it to leave. I loved all the history, I loved all the fans that came out. I had great housing. I stayed with some lovely ladies. Um, they are close to the course. Um but obviously, you know, times change. They things grow in in new events, and uh Chevron has really stepped up and has really taken care of us at this new venue in Texas. Um, and then the last couple of uh champions have jumped in the pond on 18, so we're kind of keeping that tradition alive, but that water is not clean. Um but it's it's it's cool to kind of keep the tradition going. Obviously, it's it's one of the greatest traditions on the LPG to jump in the pond. Um, so I'm grateful that they are keeping that going.

Mike Gonzalez 6:14

Yeah, well, good. Uh and and of course, later that year you got a chance to compete again in the Solheim Cup, this time in Germany. And uh Julie Inkster is the captain of that one.

Brittany Lincicome 6:24

Yeah. Gosh, Julie is so direct, and you know, there's no sugarcoating it. You know, if you're doing something wrong or if she needs you to do something, or it's kind of one of those, you know, get your head out of your butt, let's go kind of uh motivational speeches, which is great. I love it. I love seeing her now doing TV and commentary, and you know, she lets the girls have it, which I think is so much fun. So Julia was the best captain, um, probably one of my favorites. She was she was so great.

Mike Gonzalez 6:52

Yeah. Well, let's go on to the next win then, Bruce, in uh 2017.

Bruce Devlin 6:58

She was silk uh in the Bahamas uh at uh uh with a pla uh here we go again. Another playoff. What is your deal? Lexi Thompson this time.

Brittany Lincicome 7:12

I can't win a golf tournament by like ten shots. That would just be way too easy.

Mike Gonzalez 7:17

Yeah, you won uh you won in a playoff with Lexi, and then uh uh you win it again the next year. Uh this time by a very, very comfortable two shots.

Brittany Lincicome 7:30

Yeah. Um I mean again.

unknown 7:34

Yeah.

Brittany Lincicome 7:35

That was funny. The the second time it was um I don't know what happened or if there was a delay or what, but it was pitch black outside. They had to bring lights out to the 18th green. Uh, I was with a Chinese girl, Xin Shen Feng, and I was like dragging her down the fairway because I did not want to come back the next day and have to finish one role of golf. So I'm like, we're like trying to run. I'm like dragging her. I don't run either. So um that probably was a sight if that's online somewhere. But um yeah, super grateful. You know, I was sad when they, you know, can discontinue that event that that at the sponsor Barbazelle moved to a tournament in Virginia because I wanted to try for the three-peat. Um, that would have been very cool. But um I think just being in the Bahamas, being a Florida girl, I just love the water. The water is so blue down there. So uh most of the holes are kind of near water. You can see water. So I felt I just my brain, especially in between shots, would just kind of go away. I would just stare into the ocean. I was looking for turtles, looking for dolphin, fish, anything. Just I was just, you know, you focus on your shot, you hit your shot, and then it was like, okay, I'm gonna stare into the ocean. So um I think that's why I had so much success there. But um, that was a great event. I love going to the Palmas. So beautiful.

Mike Gonzalez 8:47

Yeah, that was played at the Ocean Club Golf Course at Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Beautiful place. Of course, between those two wins in the pure silk, you had a chance to compete in your sixth and final Solheim Cup. Again, this one back home in Des Moines, Iowa. And uh this time Julie Inkster again, and now going up against Annika Sornsdom.

Brittany Lincicome 9:11

I mean, anytime you go up against Annika, you need to bring your A game because she's gonna bring it. And uh again, Julie absolutely killed it. Um I wish I would have learned earlier in Solheim that Britney Lang and I were such good partners together. You know, we were the killer bees. I mean, if we would have been together our first Solheim together from then on, like our game, our we would have been like 20 and oh, we would have won every match. We were so good together. We're like the same person, we're best friends, we talk on the phone every day. Um, her and I are just super close, super similar on the golf course. We kind of pump each other up when we needed it, and um, we really meshed well on the golf course, especially in you know match play situations.

Mike Gonzalez 9:52

Yeah, yeah. Well, you weren't done with the Solheim Cup. We'll come back to what you did uh this year with Stacey Lewis, but before that, we'll go back to that, we'll go back to that win in 2018. Did you ever imagine walking off that green as the victor by two shots, I think it was, yeah, that that would be your last LPGA win.

Brittany Lincicome 10:11

No, for sure, definitely not. Um if I would have known then, I uh I don't know what I would have done differently, I guess, but um would have remembered the moment longer. I remember getting sprayed by shaving cream. That was a cool tradition for a while. Um but yeah, you know, especially having kids, like you have kids and you're like, oh, I'm not different, I'm the same. I can I can go on and win again. And it's just, I don't know if it's mentally, I'm like, I can do it, but then like your body is different. You obviously have different priorities. Um, you're always wondering, mom guilt is a huge thing. Um, just wondering what they were doing, if they needed me, like, am I doing the right thing, putting them in daycare? Or my parents really traveled a bunch, so that was very helpful. But um, I guess it's always in the back of your mind if you were doing the right thing or why am I still playing, or I don't know. But it I really just wanted to win so bad for my girls and have them there and have them come run out to me on the 18th grade, and like you see so many times on the PGA tour. Um, I thought that would have been such a cool moment.

Mike Gonzalez 11:13

Yeah. Well, you you you did you win this tournament in 2018. Emery was probably born the next year, is that right?

Brittany Lincicome 11:19

Yeah, 19, yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 11:21

Yeah.

Brittany Lincicome 11:21

Yep. So I again just I had just won not long ago, coming back, uh playing, you know, obviously COVID. I think the COVID thing, um I had never taken that much time off. Like we said earlier, I had never had an injury. So um to Emory came eight weeks early, which was very unexpected. So we had to stay in the NICU for five weeks. Um, so that was extra time. So by the time we got home, it was basically the end of the season, so not much to play in. So uh then 2020 came around and then COVID. So that year, obviously that we only played a couple events towards the end. Um, so I had taken a lot of time off from competitive golf, and I think that really um changed something in my brain mentally. Um, it was just hard to come back from taking that much time off.

Mike Gonzalez 12:07

Yeah, yeah. Uh tell us about uh playing in the PGA Tours Barbasol Classic in 2018.

Brittany Lincicome 12:17

Yeah, that was really cool. And it, I mean, my aunt and I had talked about it multiple times. Um, obviously, Michelle, we had done it, and just seeing kind of negative and and positive feedback that she had received, you know, I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it, if it was something I wanted to do. And um, you know, Barbasol was one of my sponsors. They said, hey, we have the sponsor invite, we can give it to whoever we want. So I knew it wasn't taking a spot from a player, which, you know, I knew some people would think, like, hey, you're taking a spot from a player, you shouldn't be doing this. So um lots of pros and cons. But at the end of the day, we were like, hey, I'm gonna go do it. I've always wanted to do it. I was a long hitter at the time. Uh, unfortunately for me, though, they had gotten four inches of rain the week of, the Monday of.

SPEAKER_05 12:58

Yeah.

Brittany Lincicome 12:58

Um so the golf course was really, really wet and the ball was not going anywhere. So uh the course played a lot longer. There was uh uh obviously rain delay the second day, so fans and and media weren't even allowed to come out, which I think that's why I played so good the second day, because it was a little bit calmer. It was just me and the boys, uh kind of what I do at home, you know, either playing with my husband or the pro at our club. Um, it was just me and them and the golf course, like what I was used to, and there wasn't so many fans around. So, but it was the coolest moment. I am so grateful to do it. I the guys were so welcoming. Uh, everyone on the range was like, hey, glad you're here. They were so nice, the media was nice. Um, so it worked out really well, and I uh I was grateful to have the opportunity.

Mike Gonzalez 13:39

Yeah, you shot under par that second round. There's only one other woman that's ever done that.

Brittany Lincicome 13:44

Yeah, that was again just um from the weather of the day before, you know, the golf course was so wet. I think parking was an issue. Um, so nobody was allowed to come out. So again, it was just me and these two guys playing around a golf. Um, I had had the same caddy for m eight, nine, ten years. So her and I were having a great time on the golf course together, and um, it was just us and the golf course. So it was a great day.

Mike Gonzalez 14:08

Yeah, well, good. All right, so Brittany, we will come back to the gaps now. 2018, uh, you win the your your last event. You just retired. Tell us a little bit about what life was like as a young mother with one and then two little girls and trying to compete and juggle all that.

Brittany Lincicome 14:29

Yeah, um I have the greatest uh support system. So my mom and dad traveled every week that I brought Emory, uh, our first daughter out on the road with me. And then um we have the most amazing daycare on the LPGA tour. Um, one of the ladies has been there my whole entire career. So I have known Bardeen my whole, my whole career, which is so great to obviously get to know them. Um, and then when you decide to have children, you're like, oh, I'm super comfortable with her because I see her all the time, like I know her. Um, so that was super great. Um, but yeah, traveling, it was cool. Like I I wanted to be able to show her, my daughter, daughters now um the world, kind of what mommy does or did. Um, so maybe if they could remember just even a tiny little bit of it, maybe the five-year-old will remember, the two-year-old probably will not, but um, at least we will have videos and pictures of them out on the road and kind of I can show them when they get older. Like mommy was pretty cool back in the day. Um but just to have them out, like again, I've I've always wanted to win on tour and have them with me. So I I I brought them to as many tournaments as we could. Obviously, my husband works, so um, it was just easier to kind of bring them with me on the road. And uh with the daycare was super helpful. So it was so great. I I loved every minute of it, wouldn't change it for the world. Um, so grateful to have both of them in our lives. They're so wonderful.

Mike Gonzalez 15:49

Yeah. So let's take you back again to the beginning because you had mentioned something about uh, you know, that first year out there and you don't know anything, you feel a little bit lost. What would you have liked to have known back then that you know now?

Brittany Lincicome 16:05

Um, probably that I was gonna make it. I think, you know, going into it, you know, once you turn pro, there's no going back to college. So if I wouldn't have made it, I guess my first year, I guess I would have, so if I would have not made it maybe my second year, and then I would have ended up on what now is the Epsom tour, used to be the futures tour. Um, and then I would have struggled for a little bit, I would have maybe been like, hey, like I should have gone to college, I should have got my degree, like what am I doing? And nowadays I sound like such a hypocrite because anytime I see a young girl, I'm like, go to at least two years of college, like to learn how to travel, to learn how to play a uh as a team, like because your coach and all those people will, you know, set everything up for you. So it's actually you're learning how to travel on the LPGA through college. So I think that's very helpful. Obviously, too, you'll have some kind of a degree you can fall back on. You know, if golf, you don't make it in golf, you have uh maybe a two-year degree that you can kind of work on. Um, but just just I think I mean now, just knowing that I was gonna make it and not have that much stress, but we don't have crystal balls, I guess. So here we are.

Mike Gonzalez 17:06

But yeah, yeah. So what was plan B?

Brittany Lincicome 17:11

Um, I didn't really have one. I think um everyone always says, like, if you weren't a professional golfer, like what would you do? And my parents have always been in uh the childcare business or raising, you know, kids. So um I probably would have followed in their footsteps, you know, worked at our daycare, ran our daycare, um, which I still might do now. Uh obviously just a couple weeks into retirement, I still don't know what I'm doing with my life. But um, yeah, just go maybe going over there and helping or working at our my parents' daycare would have been plan B, I guess.

Mike Gonzalez 17:42

Yeah. So uh again, back to year one and learning the ropes. Uh is there no sort of one-week indoctrination session that they're bringing these young people into to teach them the ropes uh day one?

Brittany Lincicome 17:57

Well, uh, after you make it through Q school, we do have rookie orientation, which uh a couple of girlfriends on tour now caddies uh remind me that I asked a lot of questions during more specifically the ones on how you get fined. Um, because if you caddy doesn't rake the bunker, right, you get fined. Or if you do something, you know, you get fined. You don't go to a program party, you get fined, like all this stuff. So um a girl who now caddies, you know, always says, like, if you would have asked one more question in those meetings, um, but it's two days, uh, two long days of just kind of learning the ropes and learning how things are gonna go. But obviously, you're so excited you just made it on the LPGA tour that you're you're getting ready to turn pro. You don't pay attention too much in those meetings. And um, again, if I could write a tell-all book or a book on how to make it on the LPGA tour, that would probably be very helpful.

Mike Gonzalez 18:48

Yeah. Um, we didn't talk much about global travel during your career. Were were you much into going around the world and playing everywhere?

Brittany Lincicome 18:57

Oh, absolutely. I had to get those frequent flyer miles to get my status up. Um, yeah, I mean, I went everywhere. I loved it. I loved um each country, I feel like has something that's so great. So we always started, um I actually started in Hawaii, uh Hawaii in my first couple years and then kind of went to the Thailand-Singapore route that we do now. Um, but Thailand, six dollar foot massages for an hour. Like it's the most amazing thing ever. Like, I love going to Thailand, I love getting the massages every day. Singapore um was just the cleanest city. They are out there with brooms and and streeping uh sweeping the streets, like keeping things clean. You're not allowed to chew gum, you can't litter, you can't throw your trash on the ground. Um, just every country I feel like there was something amazing that I loved. I love Korea, I love the food in Korea, um, bubble tea in Thailand, Taiwan. Um, it's just the best, it was the greatest.

Mike Gonzalez 19:49

How about uh any any play in China or Japan?

Brittany Lincicome 19:53

Yeah, uh definitely went to both of those. Um again, uh loved both of them. I just just getting to being a young kid, getting to travel the world, seeing all these new places, uh, again, picking up little things here and there that I loved going to all these countries for, what they had to offer. Um it was just so great. Riding this the train in in Japan, the the speed train, I can't remember what it's called, but because it was so fast, and I thought that was like the greatest thing ever.

Mike Gonzalez 20:19

Yeah, well, uh I didn't ask you about Australia, but uh Bruce is back with us, so I will. Did you get a chance to play much in Australia?

Brittany Lincicome 20:27

I did. I think I lost in a five-way playoff there once. I think Jessica Corda won that year. Um I remember, so um one of my favorite places was it reminded me again of Florida. We stayed right on the was the Gold Coast. We stayed on the it was by the beach, there was water, people surfing every day, so great. And then I might have lost in the playoffs maybe in Melbourne. Um anyway, uh there was kangaroos hopping down the fairway. Like they were like lizards to me in Florida, but to these people it was just kangaroos, and I thought that was the coolest thing.

Mike Gonzalez 21:04

Well, uh, we've we've heard some great stories from the ladies over the years with their travels, particularly in Asia, some great stories from Japan, some great stories from the Philippines meeting and playing with Fernando uh uh Fernand Marcos and meeting his wife Amelda, going into her shoe closet and seeing her 10,000 pairs of shoes, which was probably almost before you were born, but it was pretty famous back then. Uh but anyway, uh okay, so I'm gonna ask you this, and you've been asked this a zillion times lately, I'm sure, which is give us the lead up to your final decision to say, okay, this is the year. I'm hanging it up.

Brittany Lincicome 21:39

Yeah, so I kind of started at the beginning of this year. Obviously, hadn't been playing good the last couple years, you know, trying to decide like, do I talking with Julie Inkster again, you know, do I want to dedicate the time? So I've always in my career have always gotten away with natural talent. I've never had to practice. I just, like I said, I play golf on Fridays with the pro and then I Show up at the tournament and I play good or whatever. So to get in my later career with two kids, like now I actually have to practice to be good, or the girls are just getting so much better on the LPGA that now I actually have to practice. The tour is so great. They're so young. They're they're crushing it. You know, um, even par two over used to make the cut every week. And now two under par is almost the cut or more to four under was one this year, um make the cut every week. So if you don't have your A game every single time, you can't cut it out here anymore. So um I was kind of dealing with those emotions and then um talking to my buddy Britney Lang. She had kind of shut it down uh the last couple of years, just playing a few here and there. And she was like, when you know, you know. Like you're gonna know. And I'm like, guys, like I still have this, I'm still good, I can still win. I hit these amazing shots on the golf course. I hit like a flop shot to like two feet and you know, save par. Like, if you don't have the game, you can't hit those shots. And I can still do that. So I'm like, nope, I'm not ready. It's not my time. So Emory started kindergarten in August, September. And I remember the first two weeks of first starting kindergarten, I went and volunteered um at lunch. And I was the lunch lady for like two weeks straight because I was the helicopter mom and I wanted to make sure my kid was okay. Um, so I volunteered and I remember thinking I would rather go volunteer at her school for lunch than go to the driving range right now and hit golf balls. And that was kind of my like aha moment of okay, I'm done.

Mike Gonzalez 23:31

I know.

Brittany Lincicome 23:33

Yeah, exactly. Like she was Britney Lang was right, Julie was right. Like, when you know, you'll know. And it's so crazy. It's how they always said, like, when you find the one you know, like you'll know. And I'm like, what do you mean? And then you know, I met my husband and I'm like, oh, I know that's that's what you guys meant. Um so it was so crazy. It was such a crazy moment, and um I don't regret it. I love it. It's gonna be the greatest.

Mike Gonzalez 23:56

Yeah. Well, before we ask you about what you think the future might bring for you, I know Bruce wants to ask you about your LPGA playoff record.

Bruce Devlin 24:08

It's very interesting. This subject comes up every time, Brittany. Uh before I before I well, I'll tell you your record was not too wonderful, two and five. But nope. Here's an interesting thing. I'm gonna ask you the question what do you think all of the major championship and hall of fame golfers winning percentage is in playoffs?

Brittany Lincicome 24:34

Oh, I feel like I would have said originally like they were like five and oh or something crazy, but I wonder if you're gonna tell me it's similar to mine.

Bruce Devlin 24:44

It's not too different, it's about 43%, and you are 40%. So Oh wow. So uh it's amazing, isn't it?

Brittany Lincicome 24:52

That is truly incredible. And I don't if something about playoffs, like again, it's like match play. Like that was something that I was really good at, I thought. So you would have thought I would have been better, but um yeah, Solheim, my match play, especially singles, is was dreadful. I don't I wish that was better.

Mike Gonzalez 25:12

Yeah, well, the the playoff record to Bruce's point, uh 43%, but when you adjust for multi-people playoffs, like three or more, right? It probably works out to a 50-50 proposition. It's just a it's a crapshoot.

Brittany Lincicome 25:26

Yeah, 100%. Um, who can hit the the greatest shot at that moment, you know, is is what you're looking for.

Mike Gonzalez 25:34

Yeah, I mean Kathy Whitworth, eight and twenty.

Brittany Lincicome 25:38

Oh.

Mike Gonzalez 25:40

Okay. Uh Ben Crenshaw. Ben Crenshaw, oh and eight.

Brittany Lincicome 25:46

Oh wow. I wonder if it's like a mental thing. Like you go into it and all of a sudden you're like your instincts kind of shut down, and you're like, oh, I finished second. That's good enough. Like I don't need to I don't know. That's interesting, very interesting.

Mike Gonzalez 26:02

Yeah, so it has been fascinating, but but that that statistic uh that that Bruce uh gave you was the records, playoff records of all of our guests so far.

Brittany Lincicome 26:13

Wow.

Mike Gonzalez 26:13

So these are the greatest players that have ever played the game, and they only win 43% of the players. Both men and women.

unknown 26:19

Yeah.

Brittany Lincicome 26:20

Wow. That's fascinating.

Mike Gonzalez 26:22

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, okay, so uh you're retired. I I know you you don't know the answer to this yet, but what's in your mind right now in terms of what's to come? Uh near term, long-term? What are you thinking?

Brittany Lincicome 26:34

Yeah, that's a great question right now. Um, right now it's just, you know, hanging with my two girls, you know, maybe volunteering at Imry's uh kindergarten class here and there. And um I feel like just, you know, maybe some charity outings, charity fundraisers, stuff like that, um, just to kind of still stay in the game a little bit. I mean, obviously I've been it's been 30 years, I've been playing golf for 30 years. Um, so it's just it's in my blood, it's in my veins. It's hard to shut it down fully. But um, I'm in the first major of the year next year, the Chevron for Life, because I've won that event and it's a lifetime um invite back. So um I'll do that just to kind of go play, why not? Um, but then after that, maybe something in the summer, and then just some charity fundraisers here and there and be a mom. It's uh it's gonna be great.

Mike Gonzalez 27:24

But at some point, your two-year-old's gonna be in school full time as well. Then you're gonna be sitting around wondering, all right, what am I doing now? I mean, what do you what uh anything you I mean, what are you thinking about?

Brittany Lincicome 27:34

I don't know, Jace. Uh really just kind of the charity fundraisers. You know, people have mentioned, like, would you ever get into TV? Um, so I could maybe try a week of that just to see if I would even like it. Um But yeah, right now, that's a great question. You know, a couple years. You think? Yeah, thanks. Um, I don't because I always feel like when I watch like um Grant Boone or like Morgan Pressell, they're very technical with the golf swing. They're like, oh, they hit a bad chat because this, this, and this. And I don't, I'm not like, I haven't taken a golf lesson since 2006. So um, but if people are like, oh no, like it would be fun to hear it from like a player's perspective of what they were feeling, what they were going through. Like, talk us through like what you were feeling during the shot. So maybe I could give I could be like that person to do that side. Um, but yeah, I don't know. I haven't I haven't really thought about it too much.

Mike Gonzalez 28:23

Well, Bruce was a longtime TV guy, and Bruce, day one, you didn't feel like you knew a lot either, did you, of the the broadcasting part of things. I didn't.

Bruce Devlin 28:32

Yeah, that's right. And I uh I I got uh I got an early lesson from my my producer. I said to him, uh what you know, what do you want me to do? He said, Well, I'll just give you one piece of advice. What you see on your monitor in the booth, the same people's people at home see the same thing that you're seeing, so don't talk about that. Talk about the players and relationships and conditions. So uh it's uh it was a it was a great learning immediate learning lesson for me. I thought it was a terrific way to look at it.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

Oh, for sure, absolutely. I could do that.

Mike Gonzalez 29:18

So as we uh as we kind of wind down your life story, Brittany, Bruce and I always asked our guests the same three questions, and being the senior member of our podcast team, I always give the honors to to Bruce Dublin.

Bruce Devlin 29:37

Okay, Brittany, number one. If you knew what you know now back when you started on the tour, what would you do differently?

Brittany Lincicome 29:51

Oh gosh, um I don't know. I don't know if I would change anything because I feel like like we mentioned this time of just making sure I took enough breaks, taking enough time off, um believing in myself, having my family support. Um I don't I don't know. I don't think I would I don't think I would change anything. I think it I think it all worked out how it was supposed to, and we went about it the way we were supposed to. And I mean obviously would have liked one more, but um, but yeah, I don't think I would change anything. I know I don't think I would change anything.

Mike Gonzalez 30:31

Okay, fair enough. Uh question number two, we give you one career mulligan, one do over. Where do you take it?

Brittany Lincicome 30:39

Uh that chip shot against NB Park at the you know K uh LPJ Championship. Yeah. That was so bad. But again, I think I was just so excited to be in contention on a Sunday, to be in a playoff. Um but I mean that was that was so bad. I would love to do that one again.

Mike Gonzalez 31:01

Okay. Too bad we can't give it to you.

Brittany Lincicome 31:03

But I know, I don't, that's a major that I don't have, and I always wanted to win the US Open.

Mike Gonzalez 31:08

Yeah, yeah.

Bruce Devlin 31:09

So Brittany, last last question. Um how would you like to be remembered?

Brittany Lincicome 31:17

Um, I would like to be remembered just as a a good person, a good human. You know, I don't I always try to sign the autographs, I always try to take care of the kids, I always try to give back to the game. I always have wanted to leave the game better than when I started, which if you look back 20 years ago, I think we've done a pretty good job of, you know, we used to have 20 tournaments, now we have 35 plus tournaments on the schedule. We're playing for more money, we have more TV time. Um, just knowing that I had even the smallest little part in making the tour better, uh, and just being a nice person. You know, I've I've always wanted to stay true to my roots. Um, money has never gone to my head. I still shop at the dollar store. Um just being a good human. My parents raised me so well um that I was never stuck up or, you know, was too fancy for anybody. You know, I'm just me and I've always been me and um stayed true to my friends and um just want to be remembered as a nice person.

Bruce Devlin 32:17

Well, you've made you've made our uh podcast a lot better too, having you on it. And appreciate your time. Uh thank you, Bruce. Fun, fun living your life with you. And uh uh thanks thanks a million for joining us.

Brittany Lincicome 32:32

Yes, thank you guys so much. This was so fun, and I can't wait to see it after. And I'll this will be I could show my girls, you know, when they get older and and and see, you know, mommy used to be really cool.

Mike Gonzalez 32:44

Yeah, you've been able to add your story to the stories of some many, many great golfers here on For the Good of the Game. And uh we sure appreciate you being with us.

Brittany Lincicome 32:54

Yeah, thank you guys so much. I really appreciate it.

Mike Gonzalez 32:58

Thank you for listening to another episode of For the Good of the Game. And please, wherever you listen to your podcast on Apple and Spotify, if you like what you hear, please subscribe, spread the word, and tell your friends until we tee it up again for the good of the game.

Intro Music 33:16

So long, everybody whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway, and it started to slice just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay.