Al Geiberger - "Gary McCord and JC Snead at Sawgrass" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to Are you talking about the players?

Mike Gonzalez 0:17

Yeah, we talked we did talk to Dave about his victory there, but uh that was the start.

Al Geiberger 0:24

The year before was the start of the players' championship. And then we played in Atlanta at uh Atlanta Country Club, I think. And Jackson there. And then and then we went to Fort Worth. A lot of people don't know this history because they don't like to talk about the days before uh stadium course.

Bruce Devlin 0:47

TPC, yeah, right. Right.

Al Geiberger 0:49

I don't know. Bruce, were you there when the wind blew at Sawgrass Country Club? That would be the year or two before they moved over to the stadium.

Bruce Devlin 1:00

Do you I r I remember the tenth hole that day you were talking about, and I was playing with Art Wall, and Art Wall couldn't carry it to the fairway. It was so windy, and uh do you remember the tenth hole there? Used to have a lake in front of it, and then it was a bit of rough for about three or four yards, and he had to go left of everything because he couldn't carry it.

Al Geiberger 1:24

We had a lot of problems on that hole. In fact, Gary McCord remember there was a barber's chair in the locker room? And Gary McCord put on a hat and put on a little ticket in his hat that said press. And every guy that came in, he said, Did you have any doubles, any triples? And then he took a he and he interviewed you in the barber's chair, and he was trying to get a high ball for the Right.

Bruce Devlin 1:54

The worst score on every hole.

Al Geiberger 1:57

I think it was a hole.

Bruce Devlin 1:59

I I think it I think it ended up being like a hundred and three. At least.

Al Geiberger 2:04

I think it was a yeah.

Bruce Devlin 2:06

Thirty, thirty-one.

Al Geiberger 2:12

Yeah, I had a triple on number eight. Yay, and they all start cheering. Because now they had a triple the rumor score, whatever you want to call it.

Bruce Devlin 2:20

Uh I do remember that.

Al Geiberger 2:23

So funny, it's so spontaneous of Gary McCord. We didn't know that he was such a character then. Um but he had his hat on and he put a little like the writers used to put a little ticket in their hat and press and he would interview you and the if you didn't have any high scores you had to no, we don't want you. That was the tournament JC Sneed. I was playing with him, and we were at the end of uh I don't know if it was first green or tenth green. We weren't far from the clubhouse, and his hat blew off. Remember, JC used to wear those kind of straw hats, and it blew off, and it started rolling on the brim, yeah, and it started rolling across the green, and we're all over on the other side, and JC's balls way down there, and it rolled all the way down, and we could see it happen, and it ran into his ball, and he got penalized for we could see it happening, and it was like in slow motion. Oh my god, he wasn't too happy about that. Can you imagine?

Mike Gonzalez 3:33

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Intro Music 3:56

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. When it started just like just smitched off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddists, as long as you're still in the state, you're okay.