Curtis Strange

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I remember when Curtis Strange was talking about the, the new age of golf is gonna be the 6'3", 6'4" golfer, who's just so big and so strong, and they're gonna hit it a mile.

And we see a little of, we've seen a little bit of that with, like, Dustin Johnson when he came out, being, being 6'3" and big long arms, and swung it so athletically.

But the, the real guy who's doing that e- to me is Rory.

There were Champions Tour players, but they were great, great players, right? And I remember standing out there and I remember watching them I remember I was standing by watching Tom Kite, and I think Jerry Pate was playing there, a handful of great, great players.

Curtis Strange was playing, and they were hitting balls, and they would always watch the ball till the end.

They watched the ball till it finished.

then they'd take their time they'd pull another ball over and they'd re they would react to what that ball did by trying to think through and work whereas i feel like everybody today just reacts to the ball they like the the impact the kind like they don't watch the ball all the way to the finish they don't think about okay the ball did this what caused that based on what i'm doing They just react and they go in a tizzy and they spiral.

I know Andy North, who does commentary on ESPN, did that.

Curtis Strange has won it before multiple times.

Um, but only 24 players have ever done that, and they, they mentioned that.

I think this was the 100 and-

Forget about...

Wyndham Clark had Curtis Strange one year, Fred Ridley, the chairman of Augusta, who won the amateur.

You've had, you know, Jimmy Dunn, all these people coming from all over the place.

Tell me about that.

I've always tried to get someone who has been a part of Cherry Hills history.

Andy North, Brad Faxon.

I had Curtis Strange last year.

We have Ben Crenshaw coming this year to talk about history.

It doesn't need to be Tiger v. Ernie or Tiger v. Mickelson.

We want that, but we also want Jeff Sluman beating Nick Faldo at his pl- prime or Curtis Strange beating Nick Faldo at his prime, 'cause they're great stories too, which is why the Ryder Cup does so well, because Tiger Woods never really did that well in the Ryder Cup, and that was entertaining to watch, certainly if you were-

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... part of Team Europe fans.

We talk about the star-studded field that he had to compete against to get through Q School the first time in 1976.

And to give you some context, some perspective of how great that field was, tour legend Curtis Strange didn't make it through that year.

We also talk about his experience being the early leader at the 1984 U.S. Open, his tied for fourth finish at the 1988 Las Vegas Invitational, making the cut that year at the Memorial, being the 54-hole leader at the Southern Open in 89, plus what he enjoyed most about being out on tour across the mid-70s up until the late 80s.

Following David, we get our monthly visit from the confidence doctor, Dr.

I still kind of felt... that Wake Forest didn't think I was a better player than David Thor at the time.

And so they chose David as their local recruit.

You know, they had Curtis Strange, Jay Haas, and Eddie Pierce, players of that nature.

And so it was almost like every time I played against Wake Forest, Uh, I had a little bit of a giddy up on me there to try and beat them.

They couldn't.

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you know, again, Tiger physically wasn't, you know, he didn't drive it great.

You know? Because missing left is not good.

When I would watch Curtis Strange, the way that he would swing, people would say, oh, he has a big move off the ball and everything.

That's wrong.

I would say that that was right.

So Curtis was really great about that.

He'd move to the right, get that wide open, and then he would come through with that open face and that level rotation, and he eliminated the left side.

You never see Curtis Strange missing left.

And I think that I would really rather have Curtis Strange's ball striking than Mack's ball striking.