Brandie Burton - Part 3 (The Solheim Cup)

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to do that.

Mike Gonzalez 0:15

You're coming off major number two. Again, uh that's when you've experienced some injuries now. I mean, you're still only 26 years old, so you maybe don't feel bulletproof, but uh uh you're still you're still young and relatively healthy, and probably thinking, man, I'm just gonna keep cranking these out. Uh what happens uh from sort of 98 over the next uh year or two?

Brandie Burton 0:38

Yeah, so after 98, about the end of 98, um was good. I started 99 and uh uh shoulder still wasn't quite right. Um I still tried to play through it, went over to the British and said, I can't do this anymore. My arm was literally popping out of the socket. Um so I flew home and straight to um Alabama to see Dr. Andrews, the best in the biz.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Yeah.

Brandie Burton 1:06

And um he he fit me in and um the next morning did surgery on my shoulder, you know, tightened it up, um, went through the whole rehab process again, which with shoulders it's very tedious. Um you can't get ahead of yourself where you're just gonna it's just gonna go right back to where it is again. So um that was a long that was a good six-month process. And so I didn't play very much in '99. Um then started 2000, started playing pretty good, and then you know got the pick from Bradley for the Solhein Cup. So that was that was huge. Yeah. And then um the injuries just started kind of piling up after that.

Mike Gonzalez 1:48

So you you picked up the uh in 2000, you picked up the LPG Heather Farr Player Award. Why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about the history of that award?

Brandie Burton 1:57

Yeah, so I was fortunate to know Heather Farr. Her sister uh Missy Farr was on my championship team at ASU. Um and now she's still continuing uh her coaching career and now the head coach at ASU. So I knew the Farr family and their amazing family. They've been through they've been through a lot. Um, you know, Missy has had her battles in the past too with breast cancer. Um but yeah, Heather was a special person. She uh just her whole determination, her fight, her wit, her hard work, um you know, this award was made in her honor. Um and to be the res and it's voted on from your peers.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Yeah, yeah.

Brandie Burton 2:44

Um, so that's what makes it that made it even more special that uh my peers uh saw that in me. Um the perseverance that I had and the hard work uh to keep playing this game. Um that was very special.

Mike Gonzalez 2:59

Yeah. Despite the fight, despite the perseverance, the persistence, at some point uh it was just very difficult to play at this level uh with the state of your body.

Brandie Burton 3:09

Yes. Um you know, and I was still, you know, rehabbing the shoulder at that time, but uh was able to play. And then we get into where I'm starting to have some back issues in the early 2000s, and that's when it really um was starting to sideline me.

Mike Gonzalez 3:26

Yeah, yeah. So um at some point you've gotta you gotta think about plan B. Um I didn't have one. I didn't have one, and it and you'd probably uh be not to be surprised to hear that most people don't, right? Yeah, um, but I'm sure you talk to a lot of people about hey, you know, this the uh I can't play forever here, what am I gonna do next? But uh tell us about the transition back to the real world.

Brandie Burton 3:55

Yeah, so um, you know, I played all the way to like the end of 2009, and I probably shouldn't have played that long because it just wasn't happening. Uh you know, I'd had a neck fusion, I had my back was fused at four levels. Um yeah, it was just it just wasn't good, and I was becoming miserable. I was probably on a little too much pain medication, and I'm not sorry about saying that. It's just just became too much. Um so um, you know, unfortunately I had a lot of people telling me I told you so, you should have stayed in college, but that's all hindsight, you know. You don't have the crystal ball in front of you.

Mike Gonzalez 4:35

Yeah, that that doesn't necessarily keep you healthy or three more years of education, does it? No.

Brandie Burton 4:41

So yeah, so I yeah, I just couldn't do it anymore. And I didn't have a plan B. I didn't know what I was gonna do. Um so in 2010, I uh you know, I just my sister-in-law was teaching at a high school and uh she was coaching high school softball, and she says, Why don't you come out and help it with the team a little bit? She's trying to get me out of my funk, basically. And uh, you know, I've been coaching ever since I'm in my 14th season of coaching high school football uh softball, let's just say football. Um, so that was that helped out a lot, and um but and and uh you know the injuries kept going, but I'm still playing to this day, and I love the game.

Mike Gonzalez 5:24

Good. Well, we'll we'll come back to uh more current things, what you're up to and so forth. But uh just going back to uh you know kind of the regular playing career, and before we get to the Solheim Cup, we always like to touch on LPJ playoffs because Bruce and I have done some stats and it's been kind of surprising as we compile the records of now 91 of you great, I mean literally the greatest golfers that have ever played, uh, to look at uh what experience is like for you champions in playoffs. Uh we noticed that your record was one and two. You had a couple of chances, one at the Sarah Lee in uh 92, and another one in uh uh in Adina, Minnesota, probably at the 1996 Adina Realty uh classic. Uh but you you you won the big one in the playoff. That's the one. But you know, one and two is not that much different, Bruce, is it, than what we've typically seen?

Bruce Devlin 6:16

No, it's a sh it's a shock, really, when when we tell tell our great players what their records are, but uh between all of the 91 players that we've talked to, they have a combined winning record of 0.43. So they lose more than they win, which is quite remarkable when you think about it. But it also says, you know, playoffs uh sort of you know, you never really know. One bad shot or one good shot from your opponent, and it's all over.

Brandie Burton 6:50

Yeah, exactly. I guess it's kind of like a crapshoot, isn't it? It's like you just uh you know, you gotta get that one lucky shot out or something. I don't know. Um, you know, like you said, I'm fortunate to win the big one. So I guess that's that's that's the good thing. The other two, uh the one and Sarah Lee, I remember um I hit a tree off the T, it just didn't play the hole very good. You know, I drove the ball great the whole day, but the one playoff hole I hit a tree. So it's like it's almost like you got you have this little break of signing your scorecard, and you got this, it's like, okay, am I starting a new tournament, or your mindset just kind of flips for a minute. Yeah. And you're either there or you're not. It's kind of weird.

Mike Gonzalez 7:31

Yeah, I think you're on it right there, Brandy, the word mindset, because you think about it. Some some people who win or lose, maybe they just came off the golf course shot 63 or 64, and now they're sitting an hour waiting to see what happens. Either they carry that momentum forward or they get cold and they don't. Uh you talked about your mindset about making bogey that last hole, but your thought was I'm gonna get revenge. It could have gone the other way, too, couldn't it?

Brandie Burton 7:57

Yeah, oh, absolutely. Yeah. And uh, you know, thankfully it didn't. But yeah, it definitely could have gone the other way.

Mike Gonzalez 8:03

Yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, we we wanted to throw that out there because we've we've thought that was quite interesting. You know, as you as you just sort of spin through the major championships very quickly, uh uh you mentioned being able to play at the dinosaur at a young age uh as an amateur. Uh that's one that's talked about quite fondly by all the LPJ players because it was really your masters, wasn't it?

Brandie Burton 8:27

It was. And uh what a special event. And like I said, it was close to home for me. So that was like my home, my home turf, so to speak. Um, had tons of family out there. Um at this time I was uh, you know, for 12 of my really good years, I was sponsored by Toyota, and they were the big sponsor. So um, luckily they were dishing out the tickets for my family. Yeah, but um yeah, and then I love that golf course. Boy, they always had it in pristine condition. Um, and you know, that's probably the one thing that I would love to have done was was to be able to, you know, have a little swim in Poppy's pond.

Mike Gonzalez 9:05

Yeah. Uh how about the U.S. Open? You know, we did talk about going back to Pineatles. You you thought you remembered playing pretty well. You only finished T3 to Annika, so that you must have played pretty well.

Brandie Burton 9:17

Yeah, I did. I don't have a lot. I you know, I I just don't remember a lot about I remember like I couldn't I see the holes. I don't um I just remember it playing really long and uh just really struggled down the stretch, I think a little bit, a couple of days that kind of hurt me.

Mike Gonzalez 9:34

Yeah. Uh you probably didn't have a chance to play too many British opens as a major, but even before uh 2001, did you get a chance to go over and play in a few of those?

Brandie Burton 9:45

I played in a couple of the Weedabixes, um but um didn't play great, which kind of surprised me because I you know I was kind of brought up in the wind and I knew how to keep the ball low, that's for sure. Um I enjoyed it. Um but I missed a lot of them with the that's the time of year that my injuries started settling in.

Mike Gonzalez 10:05

Yeah. August. Yeah, yeah, as you got deeper into your year.

Brandie Burton 10:09

Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 10:10

Yeah, yeah. Well, let's talk about some, I'm sure, fond memories uh with the Solheim Cup because you were a player on five occasions. I think you played in five straight Solheim Cups starting back in 1992 when you were age 20. Uh unfortunately it was a loss, but uh I'm I'm sure you quickly forgot about that. This this would have been the second uh Solheim Cup. Uh I think Lake Nonan was the first. Kathy Whitworth was the first captain, she was the winning captain, went up against Mickey Walker. In this particular one, Kathy again was the captain, but she had some family tragedy that kind of took her away, right?

Brandie Burton 10:52

Yes, she did. Her mom passed away. Um and you know, I was uh 18 at the time, or I mean, sorry, 20 at the time, and um I didn't really know what to expect about it. I didn't have I mean, I was so young on tour. Um, of course I knew it was an honor to be a part of the team, and anytime you can wear, you know, the American flag at any point is a truly honor and privilege and nerve-wracking all at once.

Bruce Devlin 11:19

All at once.

Brandie Burton 11:20

But yeah, but we uh, you know, we didn't mesh that as a team. We didn't have leadership. Um kind of, you know, I it was just didn't have a lot of fun that week. Um I went up against Laura Davies, she killed me. I was like five under after 16, and I had to, you know, I had to concede the match. But the best thing I did was wave the little white towels as I give in. And you know, I was I was I was Europe's friend from then on because I I know, but um, yeah, that was tough. So I that your that Solheim Cup kind of kind of gave me a bad taste in my mouth just because we just had unfortunate circumstances happen that week.

Mike Gonzalez 12:00

Yeah. Can you believe that was 32 years ago?

Brandie Burton 12:04

I know. It's scary. Time flies, but the memories are still there because the those are the best memories of my life was playing in Solheim Cup.

Mike Gonzalez 12:13

Yeah, well, let's come back home then, 1990. Now you're at Greenbrier. Uh you've got uh Joanne. Oh, I'm sorry, you've got uh yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got Joanne Carner and Mickey Walker still, because she did three in a row, I think, but uh or four in a row. But uh that was a little bit more fun.

Brandie Burton 12:28

Oh, definitely. I mean, how can you not have fun having Carner as your captain? I mean, she's unbelievable person. Yeah, and you know, probably one of the best matchplay players of all time. So to learn to play match play under her or give some kind of advice was the best. Um, you know, go out and win the first hole. That was the the thing of the week, you know, win get that first hole and get the momentum going on the red, white, and blue.

Mike Gonzalez 12:55

Yeah. I I would suspect her uh her team speeches would have been fairly brief.

Brandie Burton 13:02

Um they were brief with the cocktail in hand.

Mike Gonzalez 13:07

That sounds like Joanne.

Brandie Burton 13:09

Yeah, and you know, I think I might have helped her along with that view too. But um, you know, it was a great week. Um, I I got paired with my my good mate Dottie. Dottie and I are um you know, love playing with Dottie, and we have shared so many memories, good, good and funny. Um some pretty funny moments. I I'll tell you one story that happened at the Green Briars. We were playing alternate shot, and um I think it was a second hole. It's par five, and so she hit she hit the drive, and I said, Dot, I said, you know, what do you want left in the hole? And she goes, Oh, give me about 75. So I get out my five wood and I knock it about five yards short of the green, and she said, Nice layup, Burton.

Mike Gonzalez 13:59

I may not be as good from this distance.

Brandie Burton 14:02

Yeah. And I said, Oh, I think I had a little bit momentum going. I was a little pumped.

Mike Gonzalez 14:07

Little juiced up, huh?

Brandie Burton 14:09

Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 14:10

Well, you got you got a couple of wins paired up with her, didn't you?

Brandie Burton 14:13

Yes. Um I think we fed off each other. We had a lot of the same kind of mentality on the golf course. Um we were uh what's the word? I don't know that people people were kind of uh scared of us, I think.

Mike Gonzalez 14:31

You intimidated uh your opponents.

Brandie Burton 14:33

We intimidated our opponents, I think, some, but then you know, um we had a lot of fun, a lot of great, great times.

Mike Gonzalez 14:39

And what happened in singles?

Bruce Devlin 14:41

Yeah, I was gonna say you got back to some singles match, didn't you?

Brandie Burton 14:46

Yes. Um uh I was very fortunate to have my parents there that week, so that was a lot of fun. And uh my dad was really good friends uh at the Bloody Mary Bar with Lord Davy's dad. So they would walk along hand in, you know, beer in hand, bloody marry in hand, and cheering on their daughters. And um, you know, the sportsmanship was awesome. And then you know, I was able to get her back on 18 that day, so that was that was huge.

Mike Gonzalez 15:12

Yeah, oh that's great. Uh I can I I I I see now why you got a lot of fond memories from that week.

Brandie Burton 15:19

Yes, definitely.

Mike Gonzalez 15:21

Well, let's let's fast forward two years then. You get another win. Now it's uh on the other side of the pond at St. Pierre Hotel and and Country Club, and this time Judy Rankin is your captain. Yeah.

Brandie Burton 15:33

Uh yes. Um that was an interesting week. Um, I was um I was Judy's one of her picks. So a little bit of added pressure there, um, knowing that she picked me as and uh so I needed to to produce, I guess. Um but Dottie and I were playing in a practice round and I'm walking off the 6T and I step in a hole and snap my ankle. So and everybody heard snap, so we knew it wasn't good. So they put me in a cart and uh you know, we had some trainers there from Hell South, and we're icing, and it's yeah, it it doesn't look good. So they're they're having team meetings trying to figure out if they're gonna fly another player in to take my spot, and um they were having the meetings without me. So I think it was I think it was Meg Mountain because it was our team room was upstairs and uh I was downstairs on ice bags with um rolling rock beer in the ice bag, so I'd have a beer, put the ice bag on. Um I did like my beer if you couldn't tell why I was talking. Um but uh so yeah they were talking and then Meg says, Well, why don't we ask Brandy if she can play instead of talking about all this. So um Judy and Yippi, Yippie was her vice captain. He's like, You gotta be straight with me. He goes, Can you play? And and I said, I could play one round a day. I can't play two matches. But I said I'll get it done. And so they taped me up tight, and I we went after it and you know um got a singles. We came back strong on Sunday with the comeback and the singles, and uh yeah, that was a great week as well. I didn't start off so good, but I got through it.

Mike Gonzalez 17:19

Yeah, yeah. Well, how about 1998 at Jack's Place, Mirrorfield Village in Ohio, uh another win with Judy again as the captain.

Brandie Burton 17:28

Yes, another special week. Um, I actually stayed with Judy and Yippy in the house that they they had on the golf course, and Dottie was there as well, and then the rest of the team was down in the in the villas. Um you know, winning the Dumorier that year solidified my spot on the team without being picked, so that helped. Um and we we all just played really well. Um I had a little bit of uh an accident that week, shocker, I know. Um Dottie and I were playing best ball, and I on 11 the par five fell in the creek and it stunk so bad. I had white pants on. I was trying to get this shot, and the peak the creek wasn't very wide. So I took a whack at it and I went to try to leap over it, and I didn't quite make it. Shoe got stuck in the creek, and the mud just smelled like poo. It was bad. Dottie wouldn't even come near me. Oh my god. Yippy's yelling back to on the radio, Judy, get Brandy another pair of shoes, and he just fell in the creek. I was like, oh my gosh, this is happening. I had mud everywhere, and it was so they brought me a new pair of shoes. And uh, I think that was the day that uh Mark McGuire did the home run record, and so he was on the ESPN top 10 plays. Yeah, but I was on the ESPN not so good top 10 plays there there is video of that one. There is video of that one, and Dottie reminds me of that every year when she's doing the telecast at Mirrorfield Village. She goes, Oh, I'm out, I'm at the scene of the crime.

Mike Gonzalez 19:11

I'm like, great. And of course, you had to have white pants on that day, too.

Brandie Burton 19:16

Oh, yeah, of course.

Mike Gonzalez 19:17

Yeah, yeah.

Brandie Burton 19:18

I think the classic was that uh the next morning I showed up and that guy in the locker room had cleaned my shoes once they found him, and I'm like, oh boy. So he got a good tip that week.

Mike Gonzalez 19:28

He better, yeah, he better have gotten a good tip. So now let's go to the ripe old age of 28. You play your final and fifth Solheim Cup. This one is at Loch Loman, and Pat Bradley's your captain.

Brandie Burton 19:40

Yeah, I mean, I uh that was special to play underneath her. Um, you know, another World Golf Hall of Fame member Hall of Fame. You know, I actually in 91 I was paired with her when she had her final victory to get into the hall.

unknown 19:53

Yeah.

Brandie Burton 19:54

So that was that was special for me. But uh so yeah, to play under the and she was, and that was a pick again, um, because I was just come back from shoulder surgery, so I kind of had a brief stint of not playing those two years to collect the points, but I was playing well up to up to Loch Loman. And so she picked me. Um, you know, it was just a really bad situation. Uh golf course was in bad condition, almost unplayable, I think, that week. Um, and it just didn't go well for us. But um, you know, still some memories that I will cherish forever.

Bruce Devlin 20:28

Yeah, yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 20:29

Well, you probably know and remember the story of who hit the first shot in the first ever Solheim Cup. Do you remember this?

Brandie Burton 20:41

Yes, I do. It was it was Pad Rally, wasn't it?

Mike Gonzalez 20:46

Winner winner chicken dinner. Yeah.

Brandie Burton 20:48

There you go.

Mike Gonzalez 20:50

Do you remember how it happened?

Brandie Burton 20:53

I don't remember how it happened. I think I heard a story, but I can't I can't I can't bring it to my mind.

Mike Gonzalez 20:59

Yeah, so think about you know how things are done now. I mean the pairings, the the odds, evens, all that stuff is done ahead of time. It's well thought out, it's on the computer, right? So here's Nancy Lopez and Pat Bradley going to play in the first match.

unknown 21:13

Okay.

Mike Gonzalez 21:13

And the U.S. has the T because it's at Lake Nona, right? And so they're on the putting green, and as they're walking to the T, Nancy kindly says, Well, so you want to play odds or defense? Pat says, Well, I don't care, Nance. I mean, you know, I'm I'm I'm okay either way. And and Nance says, Well, uh I don't know, you want to you want to go first? I'm a little nervous. And Pat says, Yeah, I'm uh that's okay, Nance. I'm I'm okay. You know how she talks, I'm okay. So I mean, I don't think they'd really thought it through, but you know, she hits that first T shot and and and forever she's the she hit the first shot ever in the Solam Cup history. Yeah.

Brandie Burton 21:56

Yeah, I guess who would have thought she probably, yeah, she probably didn't even think about it. They just Not like today where they have it figured out a month in advance, right? Who's going to play the odds and evens? I just told Auddy, I said, You're playing the odds because I don't want to tee it up on the first hole. So there was just nothing there.

Mike Gonzalez 22:11

There you go. So we got to ask you about, we got to ask you about foreign travel. You probably had a chance to uh to travel around the world and play, maybe uh go to Asia. We've heard a lot of stories about Japanese bus trips. And if you were on one of those trips, I got a feeling, Bruce, we know which bus she was on.

Bruce Devlin 22:31

I know which one she was on for sure. Did you did you have two buses when you were there?

Brandie Burton 22:40

Yeah, I mean, I think that most of those bus rides were a little bit before my time. I'd heard about them. Um I was probably on one or two of my trips, uh eventful trips were in Korea. Um we played the World Championship there. Um you know, you're 10 miles away from the golf course, and it's a three and a half hour bus ride. So, you know, hopping on, hopping off, you know, cases of beer on the in the back of the bus, and yeah, people have to go to the bathroom, and you're running to catch the bus, and you're trying to find where to go to the bathroom and singing, singing and dancing, and um yeah, great memories.

Mike Gonzalez 23:25

A lot of fun. Yeah, you know, Bruce, we heard we heard that very story, and it was in Korea where uh one was a bathroom break, one was a beer break, but where they got off the bus, had a chance to go in, buy whatever they need, and still get back on the bus very very easily, right?

Brandie Burton 23:43

Yeah, yeah. I actually had a little uh the the bathroom break was in the ditch, but and I couldn't quite couldn't quite get out of the ditch to try and catch the bus. So it was quite interesting. I cut I showed up on the bus and I had all these little stickers and stuff all over my shirt. They're like, Braddy, where have you been? I'm like, I'm here. I I made it.

Mike Gonzalez 24:04

Yeah, and and no videos of that one either. Yeah, thank God. Yeah. Oh well. So uh, you know, for you, I I suppose it was an easier decision to wind down the career, just the fact that you couldn't perform at this level the way you you'd like. And uh you mentioned you didn't have a plan B, but you did you did come into something and you mentioned it earlier about uh coaching. But bring us up to speed on some of the other things you've done since sort of hanging up the clubs.

Brandie Burton 24:33

Yeah, you know, I really haven't done a whole lot because I I still have been having surgeries. So I've been rehabbing. Um uh I I've had a surgery every year. Well, you can go back to 1998. I've had a surgery or two every year, so I'm in the mid-30s somewhere, not a record that I like to hold. Yeah. Um, as far as the surgeries are concerned. So I'm either rehabbing, coaching, softball, and but luckily um I'm still able to play this wonderful game. And the legends of the LPJ has given me the opportunity. And we got the U.S. Senior Open that I can now eligible for. I guess that's a good thing. Um, so I just played my second U.S. Open, senior open, and I'm enjoying playing more. I don't get to practice as much because my body can't quite do like it used to. Like, you know, I guess it's just the getting older thing, but with the injuries. And um just to you know, in the last year or so, got really close with Dave Stockton again over at Redlands Country Club, and he plays almost every day. He's amazing. Yeah, and you know, he's we're having fun working together. He's showing me some parts of the game that I never worked on before in the short game because now that's what I have to do instead of banging balls on the range.

Bruce Devlin 25:45

Yeah, there you go.

Brandie Burton 25:46

So I'm having a lot of fun doing that.

Bruce Devlin 25:49

And he's got some great stories, doesn't he?

Brandie Burton 25:52

Oh my gosh.

Bruce Devlin 25:53

For our listeners, we might also tell them that uh Brandy is the member of four Hall of Fames. Uh Rialto, uh ASU at the university, Southern California Golf Association, and back at her high school as well, uh, Keenis. That's very nice.

Brandie Burton 26:15

Yes, thank you. I'm uh you know it's funny talking, you guys bringing all these memories up and my accolades and stuff. It's like, well, I guess I I did have a pretty good career. Because you kind of lose track after a while, right? You just kind of go about your daily life and uh you realize how I realize how lucky I am to achieve what I have with you guys sharing this with me.

Mike Gonzalez 26:38

Well, uh quite a career you did, uh Brandy, and before we let you go, uh Bruce and I have a tradition of asking our guests three final questions, and I always defer to my partner and give him the first spot on the T. So Mr. Dublin. All right, you ready, Brandy?

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Okay.

Bruce Devlin 27:00

Okay. If you were to have known when you were twenty what you now know, what would you have done differently?

Brandie Burton 27:16

Hmm. I mean, I guess uh you know, the obvious answer that you probably would expect would to treat my body a little kinder. Um, but I don't know. You know, I uh I was pretty lucky to have achieved what I did and to have the lengthy career that I did even with the injuries. I think probably most of all I maybe may have enjoyed the ride a little bit better, longer. Um you know, like we talked about earlier, you think once you're on top that it's just gonna keep happening over and over and it doesn't. It's hard, it's hard to win out there.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

Yeah.

Brandie Burton 27:52

And uh yeah, I probably should have enjoyed it a little more and not been so hard on myself.

Mike Gonzalez 27:57

And I think with the schedule that you guys keep, it's hard to find time to smell the roses, isn't it? Because you're off to the next one.

unknown 28:04

Yeah.

Brandie Burton 28:04

Yeah, absolutely. And I I found myself in that rut, I think.

Mike Gonzalez 28:09

Yeah. Okay, so this one, I'm not sure if Bruce and I know the answer to it yet. I I have a I have a guess at what it might be, but we're gonna give you one career mulligan. Where do you take it?

Brandie Burton 28:25

I think I would take it um, I think it was 1996 when Patty Sheehan won and dinosaur. I was one shot back going to 18 and uh I had this little Ben Hogan metal three would 13 and a half degree that the face barely fit a golf ball on it. I saw it the other day. I'm thinking, how in the hell did I ever make contact with this ball? But I used it and placed them on when the driver went awry because it just would hit these little screamers. So I would put it in the bag when the golf course is running fast, and I'm like, I can get home in two today, and I'm one shot back on 18. And I hit it, I decided to hit it off the T, and they have these little tiny little skinny little palm trees on the left side of the fairway, and I nailed this palm tree right in the middle, and the ball embedded in the palm tree.

Bruce Devlin 29:18

Ooh.

Brandie Burton 29:19

Rule official comes over with binoculars, we identify the ball, unplayable eye, bogey the hole, and then obviously, but that was my big opportunity to win that tournament because that was that's what I wanted so badly. But yeah, who would have thunk?

Bruce Devlin 29:33

Yeah, that would be that would have been a good one. Okay, last one. How would Brandy Burton like to be remembered?

Brandie Burton 29:48

Um I think I'd like to be remembered just as a fierce competitor who loved to compete, who loved the game of golf, um, who was uh selfless, kind, respectful. Because that's the the person that my parents raised me to be.

Bruce Devlin 30:10

That's what you've been today, too, Brandy. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. All your little stories of uh of all your problems going through physically, but what a great career, and we thank you for your time today.

Brandie Burton 30:24

Well, thank you. You guys are doing an awesome thing here, and like I said, it's so humbling to uh to be a part of your podcast and just to be you know mentioned in the same arena as all these fabulous players that you've been interviewing.

Mike Gonzalez 30:39

Randy, thanks for joining us on For the Good of the Game.

Brandie Burton 30:42

Thank you.

Mike Gonzalez 30:44

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Intro Music 31:08

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