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FORE the Good of the Game

Bruce Devlin and Mike Gonzalez

"FORE the Good of the Game” is a golf podcast featuring interviews with World Golf Hall of Fame members, winners of major championships and other people of influence in and around the game of golf. Highlighting the positive aspects of the game, we aim to create and provide an engaging and timeless repository of content that listeners can enjoy now and forever. Co-hosted by PGA Tour star Bruce Devlin, our podcast focuses on telling their life stories, in their voices. Join Bruce and Mike Gonzalez

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41:58

Todd Hamilton - Part 4 (The 2004 Open Championship...

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/05/30

2004 Open Championship winner Todd Hamilton takes us through that riveting final round at Troon and the ensuing four-hole playoff with Ernie Els where he captured the title as the "Winner of the Gold Medal and Champion Golfer of the Year." The emotion of that win is still raw as Todd recounts this twenty years later. Listen in as he remembers the Sunday night celebration and his gratitude to Royal Troon for granting him an honorary membership. Todd reflects back on his career and wraps up

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40:00

Todd Hamilton - Part 3 (The 2004 Open Championship)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/05/30

Major champion Todd Hamilton remembers how a new driver turned his fortunes around in 2003 when he won four times on the Japan Golf Tour and finally succeeded in getting through PGA TOUR qualifying school. An early 2004 win at the Honda Classic was only a harbinger of things to come as he headed to Royal Troon for the 2004 Open Championship. As the final player to check-in for the event after a flight cancellation, Todd didn't arrive in Ayrshire with his "A" game. After an even-par

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40:04

Todd Hamilton - Part 2 (Playing in Asia)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/05/23

Major championship winner Todd Hamilton begins his professional career playing in Asia. Listen in as he recalls the challenges of finding his winning form while changing countries and currencies on a weekly basis. Playing predominantly on the Japan Tour, Todd became the 2nd leading, non-Japanese career money winner amassing 11 wins on that Tour as he positioned himself for bigger things in 2004. Join Bruce and Mike as they continue their visit with Todd Hamilton, "FORE the Good of the

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30:17

Todd Hamilton - Part 1 (The Early Years)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/05/23

2004 Open Championship winner Todd Hamilton begins his life story by recounting the days of his youth spent in a small Midwestern town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Todd was introduced to golf at an early age by his grocer father. Mostly self-taught at his local nine-hole course, he had no boys golf team to compete on in high school yet won two individual state championships. This self-drive was noticed by the University of Oklahoma where Todd was a 3-time All American. After college he

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39:55

Mary Bea Porter-King - Part 1 (The Early Years)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/05/16

With an astounding record of lifetime contributions to the game of golf off the course, Mary Bea Porter-King begins her life story by recounting her early life on the course. Taught at a young age by Betty Hicks, who introduced Mary Bea to many of the game's greats, her game developed quite quickly. She golfed with Eddie Merrin's UCLA golf team while still in her teens, and had access to famous courses and people in and around Los Angles. As an all-around athlete, Mary Bea set off for

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33:47

Helen Alfredsson - Part 4 (Solheim Cup and the 2019...

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/04/04

Major Champion Helen Alfredsson wraps up her life story by painfully recalling several close calls in the U.S. Women's Open with real chances to prevail in 1993, 1994 and 2008. Helen was a participant in the inaugural Solheim Cup at Lake Nona in 1990 and participated as a player 8 times and as Captain once, in 2007. Interestingly, Helen qualified to play for the European side in 2009 after serving as Captain. She joined the Legends Tour in 2012 and won the Senior Slam in 2019 with victories in

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29:41

Helen Alfredsson - Part 3 (Three Wins at the Evian...

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/04/04

The winner of four tournaments before they were considered LPGA major championships, Helen Alfredsson continues her life story recounting her individual accomplishments in the world of women's golf from 1994 forward. Coming off her major win at the Diana Shore the previous year, Helen began 1994 with the first of her three career wins at the Evian Masters, destined to be considered a major beginning in 2013. We also discuss the LPGA Founders and others who came before to create the

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26:37

Helen Alfredsson - Part 2 (1993 Dinah Shore)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/03/28

Helen Alfredsson, winner of 29 professional events including 7 on the LPGA Tour, takes us back to her early days starting out on the Ladies European Tour where she began as its Rookie of the Year in 1989. A bit ahead of her time, Helen won four events that were destined to become majors including her first pro win, the 1990 Women's British Open. Seven more wins would come in rapid succession in 1991 and 1992 before Helen broke through with her first LPGA triumph, the 1993 Dinah Shore, becoming

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30:41

Helen Alfredsson - Part 1 (The Early Years)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/03/28

Helen Alfredsson, winner of the 1993 Dinah Shore, joins Bruce and Mike and begins her story as a child in Gothenburg, Sweden. A multi-sport athlete in her youth, Helen was introduced to golf by her father, himself an accomplished athlete, at age 11. She showed a natural ability that earned her a spot on Sweden's National Junior and Amateur teams, the youngest ever at age 14. Helen won several national championships before representing Sweden in the 1986 and 1988 Espirito Santo competitions

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41:20

Larry Nelson - Part 3 (The Ryder Cup and Senior Tour)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/03/21

The major champion who didn't learn the game until age 22, Larry Nelson looks back on his trips over the pond for the Open Championship before taking us back into the transformative years of the Ryder Cup. His first was in 1979, the year the GB&I squad added continental European players for the first time including Seve Ballesteros and Sandy Lyle. Larry and his partner Lanny Wadkins took down Seve three times in team play and then prevailed against Seve in singles going 4-0. He went 5-0 in

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40:16

Bernhard Langer - Part 7 (The Senior Tour - Act 2)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/03/14

We conclude our 7-part series with Bernhard Langer by looking back on his final two Senior majors including his win at the 2023 U.S. Senior Open at SentryWorld. He took down Wisconsin natives Steve Stricker and Jerry Kelly to capture his 12th major and his record-breaking 46th win on the Champions Tour, surpassing Hale Irwin's total by one. Bernhard was quite candid in this episode about his putting woes that plagued him throughout his career and give us insights into how he overcame the

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38:56

Bernhard Langer - Part 6 (The Senior Tour - Act 1)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/03/14

In this sixth episode of our seven part series with World Golf Hall of Fame member Bernhard Langer, we begin with him reflecting on his recently passed mother and how she influenced him as a human being. Bernhard then delves into his incredible senior career which to-date includes these highlights: 2008 Rookie of the Year, 9-time Player of the Year, 11-time Money Leader, 7-time Byron Nelson Award winner for lowest scoring average, 6-time Charles Schwab Cup winner, winner of 12 Senior majors and most

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34:13

Jenny Lidback - Part 2 (Winning the 1995 du Maurier...

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/03/07

Named Peru's "Golfer of the 20th Century", Jenny Lidback recounts her days as a touring professional getting her start on the Epson Tour before graduating to the LPGA circuit. If you're going to win once on the LPGA Tour it might as well be a major championship. Jenny looks back on her win at the 1995 du Maurier Classic where she prevailed by one stroke over Liselotte Neumann at Beaconsfield Golf Club. She played for the World Team eight times in the Handa Cup and dabbled with

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33:00

Jenny Lidback - Part 1 (The Early Years)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/03/07

The winner of the 1995 du Maurier Classic, Jenny Lidback, begins her story recounting life as the daughter of an Italian mother and a Swedish father growing up in Lima, Peru. Born into a golfing family, Jenny's grandfather was one of the founders of Lima Country Club and access to the game and great instruction enabled her to develop her game quickly. After a move to Baton Rouge, Jenny began taking lessons from Gardner Dickinson in Palm Beach, Florida and she performed well in Junior events

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31:34

Brandie Burton - Part 3 (The Solheim Cup)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/02/29

We conclude our 3-part interview with 5-time LPGA victor and 2000 Heather Farr Player Award winner Brandie Burton as she recounts the toll the game took on her body and her decision to wind down her competitive career in 2009. We look back on her play in the major championships and the joy she found in team competition as a 5-time participant in the Solheim Cup. She was privileged to play for Captain Kathy Whitworth in the second-ever Solheim Cup and enjoyed her pairings with Dottie Pepper in team

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33:35

Brandie Burton - Part 2 (Winning the 1993 and 1998 du...

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/02/29

We begin this second installment of our interview with Brandie Burton with her recounting life on the road as an LPGA newbie. Brandie earned Rookie of the Year honors in 1991 and was the youngest player ever to surpass $1M in career earnings. It didn't take her long to secure her first win at the 1992 PING/Welch's Championship and her first major win came the next year as a 21-year-old at the 1993 du Maurier Classic in a playoff with Betsy King. She won her second major in 1998, again at

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33:48

Brandie Burton - Part 1 (The Early Years)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/02/29

We begin our three-part interview with 2-time major champion Brandie Burton with a look back at the days of her youth, growing up in a working-class family in Southern California. With supportive parents and two older brothers to compete with, Brandie became a competitive swimmer before burning out at age 13. On her 9th birthday, her gift of choice was a day with her Dad learning to play golf which sparked a lifelong love for the game. Beginning with lessons from a driving range pro, Brandie quickly

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39:12

Lee Trevino - Part 2 (The 1968 U.S. Open at Oak Hill)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/02/28

World Golf Hall of Fame member Lee Trevino takes us back to three very important U.S. Opens in his career, the 1966 Open at Olympic Club for which he qualified and won $600 for a 54th place finish, the 1967 event at Baltusrol where a 5th place showing earned him $6,000 and playing privileges for the rest of that season, and the 1968 U.S. Open at Oak Hill where Lee won his first major and becoming the first winner ever to score in the 60's in each of his four rounds. Interspersed throughout are

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43:47

Lee Trevino - Part 1 (The Early Years)

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/02/28

Six-time major championship winner Lee Trevino begins his story with a few hilarious tales involving him and Bruce Devlin before he takes us back to his humble upbringing in Texas. Raised by his mother and grandfather, Lee was self-taught as a golfer but undisciplined as a young man. Entering the Marine Corps at age 17 was a life-changing experience for Lee and it wasn't until age 23 that he began to take the game more seriously. He hadn't heard of Jack Nicklaus when the PGA came to the

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42:43

Sherri Steinhauer - Part 2 (2006 Women's British Open...

FORE the Good of the Game ·

2024/02/27

Winner of three Women's British Opens, Sherri Steinhauer, reflects back on the one that counted as a major, in 2006 at Royal Lytham. She fondly remembers her teacher, the late Manuel de la Torre, long-time professional at Milwaukee CC and recounts her other Tour wins and the physical and mental challenges that present themselves when playing golf at the highest level. Sherri was a 4-time member of the Solheim Cup teams and is proud of her undefeated record in foursomes and singles play and she

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