Brittany Lincicome - Part 1 (The Early Years)

Intro Music 0:07

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

Mike Gonzalez 0:13

Then it started to Welcome to another edition of FORE the Good of the Game and Bruce Devlin. This two-time major winner. I've got to tell you, this is the first guest I've ever met in person with my Christmas PJs on.

Bruce Devlin 0:29

I was worried about you guys last night. And this young lady, she happens to be the youngest uh major championship winner that we've had on for the good of the game. An eight-time winner on the LPGA, as you mentioned, two major championship winners, and uh a wonderful player in her own right, uh Brittany Lincicome. Thank you so much for joining us today. We've looked forward to uh chatting with you about about your journey in the golf business.

Brittany Lincicome 1:01

Yes, I am super excited. Thank you so much for having me.

Mike Gonzalez 1:05

Brittany, the the I I guess we're gonna start with the end, which is you just hung it up recently.

Brittany Lincicome 1:13

Man, we're gonna dive right in, huh? Um yeah, I'm I say like semi-retirement. Um, just because I know I'm gonna play maybe two or three next year. You know, it's it's been in my blood for 30 years. It's hard to kind of cold turkey and just be like, okay, I'm done. Um, so I'll play just maybe like a couple next year, you know, maybe something in the summer when my five-year-old doesn't have school. She's in kindergarten now. So um, but it's just it's so wonderful. Like, just like you saw last night, sitting around in my Christmas pajamas, not, you know, you know, no guilt, not having to go practice. I can do whatever I want. It's so great. I'm I'm enjoying it already.

Mike Gonzalez 1:48

Yeah, well, congratulations on that. Of course, we'll come back to that at the end, you know, as we talk about winding down and and uh what you think you might want to do going forward, including some part-time play. Uh, but as you know, we always start at the very beginning. We know you were born in St. Petersburg, Florida, probably been a Florida girl for your entire life, I guess. But uh so let's just start there. What was what was life like growing up in uh in Florida?

Brittany Lincicome 2:13

Oh, it's the best. I mean, especially being a golfer, you know, what what a better place to live in than Florida? So um, yeah, I just I started playing the game when I was nine and uh just loved it right away. It's just such a wonderful game. I just love being with my parents, my brothers, and just being on the golf course. There was nothing better.

Mike Gonzalez 2:32

So um what's your earliest recollections as a child? Uh was it sports, was it parties, was it your friends?

Brittany Lincicome 2:40

Um, well probably golf. You know, I remember getting a hole in one when I was nine, and I I told my dad, if I could just do that every time, the game would be so much easier. Um so I mean, I that's golf has been in my blood, like I said, forever. So I mean, I had like my fondest memories or your oldest memories are definitely on the golf course.

Mike Gonzalez 2:59

Yeah. Well, tell us a little bit about your mom and dad.

Brittany Lincicome 3:02

Yeah. So um we have owned a daycare preschool for oh gosh, 35, 36 years now. Um just my parents, two school teachers, you know, raising my brothers and myself. And um, it was just great, you know, growing up with other kids. I was always around kids. I love that. And uh just still to this day, they still own it. It's it's incredible. They love helping out the community, they love watching kids. I mean, they're both in their early 70s and they're still doing it. So uh God bless them because it's it's a tough job for sure.

Mike Gonzalez 3:33

Yeah. So did they teach like in the public school system for a while before opening this up or just starting into that?

Brittany Lincicome 3:40

Yeah. So my grandmother, my mom's mom, uh always had a home daycare. Uh so my parents started a home daycare in their house, um, you know, 36, 37, you're way beyond beyond the daycare now. Uh, and then it just kind of grew from there where they bought a building across the street from our house and they turned it into a daycare. And uh here we are 35, 36 years later. It's it's really incredible.

Mike Gonzalez 4:03

Wow. So I assume then you were educated the same way by your folks at home, probably, huh?

Brittany Lincicome 4:08

Yeah, in the beginning for sure. I I went to school um from you know kindergarten to sixth grade, and then I started doing homeschooling in the sixth grade through high school just to kind of dedicate more time to golf and focus on golf. But um, yeah, so I only went to school, I guess, half my life and then started doing homeschooling.

Mike Gonzalez 4:26

Very interesting.

Brittany Lincicome 4:27

Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 4:28

So how did you how did you find golf? I mean, it doesn't sound like you would have been a growing up typical country club kid, uh, you know. Uh how did how did golf, how did golf come to Britney Lindsacum?

Brittany Lincicome 4:40

Yeah, so my dad um was probably a scratch golfer back in the day. You know, he he loved playing golf. He was pretty good at it. Not uh everyone's like, oh, he was a he was a club pro. And I'm like, no, he was just an average, you know, weekend warrior like every other, you know, amateur golfer, um, but was pretty decent. And then um, my brothers are 13 and 15 years older than me. So they you know started playing with my dad. They would go out and play, and I'm like, hey, like, why are you leaving me behind? Um, so at the age of nine, they we had this great par three course that was lit at night. Um, so we would go there after dinner as a family, we would play around a golf. It was lit, it was awesome. Like every hole was probably under a hundred yards, so it was perfect for learning. Um, and so it was just like a family bonding thing. I love driving the golf cart, obviously, a what nine-year-old wouldn't. Um, and it just kind of grew from there. You know, it just you know, taking a lesson at the local, you know, golf course, you know, public course here and there, and then it just kind of kept growing from there.

Mike Gonzalez 5:35

Yeah. That's interesting. So your dad is a scratch golfer. I mean, that would tell me he's got some athletic genes. He probably played other sports well too.

Brittany Lincicome 5:44

Yep. Yeah. Um, I'm actually I'm not sure which sports, but I'm sure he did. Um, I think he played football. Um, but myself, I actually played boys baseball um from the age of nine to twelve and just love I love sports, all sports. I'm super competitive. Um, and then, you know, my dad at the age of 12 was like, hey, like girls don't turn pro in baseball. You you need to pick probably golf, you know, uh, which was obviously the right decision. So um, but I love playing different sports. I love seeing other kids playing different sports, you know, they're too young to kind of focus on one solely. So I love seeing when they do multiple sports, and um, it it's just so fun.

Mike Gonzalez 6:23

Yeah, yeah. So you had access to that par three course. Uh what what other courses were you playing back when you were uh, you know, nine, ten, eleven, twelve as your game was developing?

Brittany Lincicome 6:36

Yeah, there's just these local golf courses really. Bardmore was um probably my my favorite one that we we played at all the time. There was another one, you know, Bellevue Biltmore, which now is the Pelican, which is a super phenomenal golf course that they redid, and it doesn't even look nearly the same, but it's so beautiful. Um, but just public golf courses in the area, you know. My my parents got me a junior membership. Um towards the later part of my career, like high school career, I guess. Um, we actually moved to an apartment or condo on the golf course so I could walk to the golf course, so it was even more accessible. Um, so my parents really sacrificed so much to get me where I am, and it it was it was what I needed, and it was great.

Mike Gonzalez 7:16

Yeah, it's wonderful. Tell us a little bit about how your game developed. You mentioned lessons and so forth. Was there a favorite pro that uh you were kind of operating under their watchful eye for a number of years, or was it a combination of things that really helped you learn the game?

Brittany Lincicome 7:32

Yeah, it was a combination. There was there's been a couple. Um, you know, Pat McLannan, now Shriver, a female, uh, kind of started me with uh gentleman, Daryl Spellich, um, you know, when I was younger. And then I had a gentleman, Matt Mitchell, for probably nine years through high school to probably my second year or so on tour. Um, and he was definitely very instrumental getting me where I am and getting me, you know, the right tools to get where I am today. And that was really the last lesson I've had. It was probably 2006. Um, I'm so much of a field player. I just kind of go out and I feel my way around the golf course. I normally hit the ball left. Uh, like most fast, quick players, um, I just try to swing too hard and it goes left. So I just tell myself, slow it down. Um and it just it's kind of an easy fix. So um, but yeah, all three of those people were very instrumental getting me where I am today for sure.

Bruce Devlin 8:25

So when did you first start uh playing in any competitions there?

Brittany Lincicome 8:31

Great question. Um I think I mean I probably played some, you know, when I was nine, 10, 11, like early, uh probably shot a million. I I my parents still have all the trophies that we always say, like we're gonna take the plaques off of them and then make like a big board or something, because they obviously take up a lot of space. Um junior trophies, little plastic junior trophies. But um, yeah, so just uh probably I mean, probably right away, just playing either like first tea stuff or just local little uh junior tournaments. But um it was cool just to be around other kids and and and do stuff like that. I loved it.

Mike Gonzalez 9:04

Well, you would have learned much differently than a guy like Bruce Devlin in his day. You think about we've talked a lot of you know with our other guests and and you know, guys of of Bruce's era, you can imagine what technology uh was like or wasn't like back then, right? Uh so you know Bruce uh uh didn't have the benefits of video and didn't have the benefits of going to YouTube and other places to see all these things, no track bands, no track bands, right? No, oh no, and and you had pretty much all this stuff. I mean, even 20 years ago, there was a lot of this stuff available. Um so how did you how did you learn? Was it was it uh through observation? Was it through just like you say, feel and experience and just hitting a bunch of balls? Uh what was it?

Brittany Lincicome 9:54

Yeah, I would say it was more feel. You know, the first two um uh coaches that I mentioned, I don't remember ever doing video, and even with Matt Mitchell, the last gentleman. Um I I feel like my swing is so ugly, so I hated seeing it on video. Um it's just so not like normal, I guess, like a Tiger Woods swing or an Adam Scott swing. You know, it's it's kind of Jim Furick, it's a little bit different. Um, but obviously it has worked for me over the years. So most times it was just kind of feel. Um, maybe if I needed to see it, just to maybe I wasn't understanding uh what they were saying, you know, we would film it every now and again, but it was really just kind of feeling just tell me what you want me to try to do and how do I feel it and how do I figure it out? Kind of a we kind of just work through it that way.

Bruce Devlin 10:40

Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 10:41

Yeah.

Bruce Devlin 10:41

So you didn't fall into the trap of seeing other players swinging the club and then trying to emulate some of the things that you thought were good. So you just went about your own deal, right?

Brittany Lincicome 10:53

Yeah. And it obviously has worked my whole career until um there was one year on tour, I can't remember which year, it was like my worst year ever. I wanted to be like Annika. Annika can hit it high, she could hit it low, she could hit a fade, she could hit a draw, she could hit all these shots, and Britney can only hit a draw. My ball only goes right to left. So I was like, I'm gonna become a more rounded player, I'm gonna learn all these shots, I'm gonna hit a cut. Don't ever do that. Stick to what you know, stick to what works for you, and you don't need to reinvent the wheel to be a good player. So if the pin is tucked back right on a par three or any hole, I just go for the middle of the green. If I get lucky and kind of push it over there, wonderful. If not, I'm in the middle of the green. I two put I go to the next hole. Um, but yeah, you know, I I I thought I needed to be have all these shots in my in my bag, but um, that was a horrible idea.

Mike Gonzalez 11:43

Well, and and you know, we've talked about this a lot with folks, and and uh, you know, some some wise sage pro might have told you, you know, Brittany, you don't really need to do that because here's what's gonna happen, right? You're gonna re revert back to your natural ball flight. But but you're sitting there thinking, I've got to do this, I gotta try this. And until you do, are you then convinced that, oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, I can't do that. I can't move the ball right to left or left to right.

Brittany Lincicome 12:10

Yeah, you're exactly right. You gotta try it and see if it works, and then if not, we just go back.

Mike Gonzalez 12:17

Yeah. So what was it about golf that really grabbed you as a nine-year-old?

Brittany Lincicome 12:22

Probably driving the golf cart. Um, I know I enjoyed that so much, but just again, being competitive, I wanted to beat my brothers. I loved hitting the ball far, even from a young age. Um, so trying to outdrive them, I think, was another uh perk uh just to be on the golf course. But really, just being out there with my family. It was so fun to obviously, my brothers were a lot older than me, so just to kind of hang out with them, I just thought that was the greatest.

Mike Gonzalez 12:49

Yeah. Yeah. We we've talked to uh again a a number of different folks in terms of what attracted them the game. For some, depending on the personality type, I guess, uh you if you if you trended more toward introvert, it was the solitude of the game. They didn't mind practicing and being out on the course at seven o'clock at night with the sun going down.

Brittany Lincicome 13:09

Oh, for sure. Yeah. I mean, um nowadays I don't remember having them back in the day, but uh putting in an AirPod and going to putt, um, there is definitely something to that. I've uh I did that not long ago, and I was like, man, I really should have done this more. Like it's just so calming and relaxing to be out there by yourself and hitting a few putts or hitting some wedges and just listening to some music, and probably because I have two kids now. So just being out there in the quiet is actually really nice.

Mike Gonzalez 13:38

Yeah, you'll treasure those moments more and more as as life goes on. But uh so you you're kind of uh sort of mid-high school age when you start competing and winning in some of these uh these junior events. So uh you mentioned being homeschooled I I think you said through high school. So were you able to compete for a high school team at the same time or not?

Brittany Lincicome 14:00

I was, yeah. I actually played for two different schools. We started uh my freshman year at one school, and then uh my parents moved again for me to go to a better school that had a better golf team. Um, had to play on the boys team all the years until my senior year of high school, we finally got a girls' team, which bless their hearts. They tried. They were volleyball players, softball players. They were shooting, you know, 100 for nine holes. Um, but we had a team which was awesome. It's great to see more females playing the game now. But um, yeah, so I definitely got to play on the boys' team. And then to go back a little bit, um, my parents were so great, especially my dad, you know, doing homeschooling, I never um, you know, jumped ahead, you know. So I always played in the Pinellas County tournaments here in our area. And then I went to Tampa and then I went to Orlando. You know, we my dad pushed me very slowly um until I could beat all those kids kind of in my area. We weren't gonna go to the next county, the next, you know, state, you know, we weren't gonna advance. So um he he made me go very slow, which was very good. It was what I needed. Um, and we only went to tournaments that we could drive to, even when in high school days when I was playing AJGA stuff. Um, I mean, I remember driving all the way to New Jersey once uh for a tournament. So um, yeah, we obviously two school teachers, we didn't have a lot, we didn't have a lot of money. So um we drove to whatever we could, and that's what we played in. So it was great.

Mike Gonzalez 15:21

That sounds like a smart approach on uh you know by your father in terms of just having you progress like that. I remember talking with a uh a guest recently, and they they talked about that progression you make from you're the best kid in the city, and then you go to the county, and then you go to the state, and then you go to national. Then you see some worldwide players. Pretty soon you get on tour and you look up and down the range, you said, you know what? All of these people were all Americans. They're all all Americans.

Brittany Lincicome 15:48

Yeah, for sure. I mean, gosh, if I could, I should have made a list before of the the high school players that I grew up playing with and the people that turn pro when I turn pro, it had to have been one of the best um classes, you know, uh of all time. So because you look at the names, either from the it was a junior tournament called the Canon Cup, it was the East Against the West, uh, or even junior Solheim Cups. Um, both sides had so many wonderful talented players, and like we all turned pro within a year of each other, you know. It was either 2005 or 2006. Um it was it was pretty cool to have such a amazing class of people to play against.

Mike Gonzalez 16:25

Well, Bruce, let's just run down some of the highlights. We're not we obviously aren't gonna talk about each one of your trophies.

Brittany Lincicome 16:32

There's not that many, but we don't have that time.

Mike Gonzalez 16:35

Well, but you know, just some of the some of the big ones that we've learned about. Uh Bruce, starting in 2001, you can go through some of those.

Bruce Devlin 16:42

Yeah. Uh 2001 and 2003, the American Junior Golf Association Championship at Chateau Alain, just outside of Atlanta. Uh 2002, the Junior Solheim, 2003, same thing. And then uh the Avala Junior Classic in 2003, Harder Hall Invitational in 2004, and then you played in the uh women's US Open in 2004. And uh somebody told me that you were leading after the first round. That had to be a lot of fun.

Brittany Lincicome 17:18

It really was. Um, the only thing that I really remember from there, uh, I was in the trees and I was hitting this punch out. I think it was like a five-iron, and I hold it. I made it somehow. I don't know how. And I was walking up the fair with my dad, and I just started crying. And he was like looking at me like, what is happening? You know? Um, but just all the emotions of, you know, just being at the US Open, being an amateur. Uh, I was probably 18 years old, you know, just so cool. All these emotions hit me at once, and it was a really cool moment.

Mike Gonzalez 17:50

I I I look at that leaderboard, it was uh July 1st, 2004. And uh here's Brittany Linsicomb shooting a smooth little 66 to lead the women's U.S. Open. There are five other major winners on that leaderboard, including Beth Daniel, Pat Hurst, Sari Pack. Uh pretty fancy playing now. So you you had the double sixes. I won't ask you what number you doubled up on your second round.

Brittany Lincicome 18:23

Oh, well, I don't we don't probably want to talk about that.

Mike Gonzalez 18:27

What an experience, so I mean wonderful. What was what was what was Thursday night like trying to sleep?

Brittany Lincicome 18:34

Oh, it was crazy. You know, I had some friends and family there. It was just um there's a picture that was put in the paper that has me on it with my dad, and then a friend actually just randomly in the background, but it's just a memory that I'll remember forever. Obviously, having my dad on the bag. Um it was just so cool. I don't, I probably didn't sleep. That's probably why I shot so bad the next day.

Mike Gonzalez 18:55

Yeah, and you'd probably love just going back in a time machine back on that practice tee before that first round, and you think, wow, I I know all these people now, you know? I know a lot of these ladies.

Brittany Lincicome 19:09

Yeah. Gosh, I mean, my rookie year, just going to the range, and I always wanted to hit balls next to like Julie Inkster, Annika Sornsam, and I like it's like surreal. You like look around, you're like, I have watched you guys on TV for so long, and now to be hitting golf balls next to you, it's really I can't even is so cool.

Mike Gonzalez 19:27

Yeah. Uh, but that was uh that was the U.S. Open at Orchards uh golf club up in Massachusetts. Meg Mallon won that one. I don't remember which one for Meg that was, maybe her first. I'm not really sure. Yeah, but uh uh tell us a little bit about the junior Solheim Cup uh uh experience because uh uh you had a you had a win in 2002, you you didn't have a win in 2003, but you played for some cool captains, and that must have been a great experience.

Brittany Lincicome 19:56

It was. I mean, anytime you get to wear the red, white, and blue and represent your country, it's like the coolest thing ever. So um to be a part of a junior Solheim and to come together as a team and and to play, and um it's really there's really nothing like there's no not even words that I can come up with. Like it's just so cool to to be a part of it and um you know, to get to meet the big players, you know, after uh gosh, it was just the coolest moment.

Mike Gonzalez 20:22

Yeah, yeah, you had uh Sherry Steinhauer was your first captain, and then uh the second year, Val Skinner was your captain, Helen Alfredson on the other side. Of course, we've had uh both Sherry and Helen on the program as as major winners. So uh, and we I'm sure we talked about those.

Brittany Lincicome 20:39

Yeah, yeah. They're both wonderful ladies. I remember Sherry Steinhauer telling me at my first like um like professional Solheim Cup, like you're gonna probably throw up on the first tea. And I was like, oh my gosh. And she was right. I felt so awful. It was out of the country, the wind was blowing, it was cold, it was raining, it was like nothing I had ever experienced. Um, obviously outside the country, which didn't help. But um, yeah, that first tea shot is is awful.

Bruce Devlin 21:05

And you hit it right down the middle, right?

Brittany Lincicome 21:07

I think I think I did, but it was probably a groove low or two, but it went straight.

Mike Gonzalez 21:13

Uh well, look, you know, we'll go back to 2004 again. Uh probably after that women's U.S. Open would have come the State Farm Classic uh playing in that professional event. So, how did you get into that event as an amateur?

Brittany Lincicome 21:27

Yeah, it was the rail uh in uh Illinois. Um Springfield, yeah. Yeah, that was the only sponsor invite um that I got as an amateur. So um was super grateful to go do that event. Um one early in my career that I really enjoyed. I had wonderful housing. I stayed with a family that knew um that Natalie Golbus stayed with. Um, so that was really cool. Um, but yeah, I was so grateful for them to give me that opportunity just to kind of get my feet wet a little bit. You know, we were debating, you know, going to uh term pro or to not. Um, so it was it was great. To get kind of get my feet wet a little bit to go into that event. And um yeah, it was it was it was awesome.

Mike Gonzalez 22:06

What do they say about the rail?

Brittany Lincicome 22:09

Oh, I've I'm you're putting me on the spot.

Mike Gonzalez 22:12

There's no jail at the rail. Jail at the rail. That's right. Yep. That's right.

Brittany Lincicome 22:17

I knew that. Yep.

Mike Gonzalez 22:19

That place was about 30 minutes from where I grew up in uh Jacksonville, Illinois. And uh uh I've never played the golf course, but I've heard 12 women now say that. I always come to that. There's no jail at the rail. So I mean the ladies used to shoot some pretty low scores in that tournament.

Brittany Lincicome 22:37

Yeah, which is super fun. I think you know there's time for hard tournaments and time for easy ones. And uh who doesn't like to see, you know, somebody shoot, you know, 10 under, you know, make that many birdies during a round. So um, but yeah, if you didn't have your A game, you were gonna miss the cut for sure.

Mike Gonzalez 22:53

Yeah. Well, that was your high school graduation year. Was college ever in your sights, or was it always, no, no, I'm gonna go do this for a living?

Brittany Lincicome 23:04

I feel like we were probably 50-50. Um, you know, obviously I I was getting all the letters from the schools, you know, inviting me to maybe come be a part of their school and um kind of had narrowed it down to either UF uh Florida or um Auburn just because they were close to home. I was probably gonna be a gator just again, being closer to home in Florida. You know, the further north you go, the colder it gets. And um being kind of from the Tampa St. Pete area, it doesn't get too cold normally, even though it's 51 outside today. Um, so probably would have been a gator. But um, you know, my parents again, we just kind of sat down as a family and we discussed, you know, pros and cons. And back then there was no um problem like you could turn you could try to turn pro if you got your card, you could accept it, or if not, you could you could still go to college. So it was no risk to really go try. Um so we're like, okay, we're gonna go try, and then we'll kind of see what happens. And I made it through on my first try. So here we are.

Mike Gonzalez 24:00

Well, there you go. Bruce, what were you what what were you doing, Bruce, at age 19? I was in the plumbing business.

Bruce Devlin 24:10

Yes, I was uh I I became a master plumber and uh started to work with my uh I work with my dad since uh from the from the day he lost his arm in an automobile accident. Uh so I never I never got to go to college or anything like that. So you and I have that in common, really. No college.

Brittany Lincicome 24:31

Perfect. Yeah, just like the you know, playing as a team, I would have loved that, or you know, probably the you know, parties I would have gone to, but um I I love the decision to turn pro. It's been a it's been a blessing.

Mike Gonzalez 24:48

Yeah, so in in terms of that decision, Brittany, uh you're looking back on it, uh did your game develop better just jumping right into the fray, you think?

Brittany Lincicome 24:58

I think so. You know, it's um I think a lot of players turn pro maybe from other countries and they come over and they don't really have the support system, the family support or friends, you know, because they're not from here. Um so I think that's very challenging and very lonely. So it's it's hard to make it if you don't have the support. And my parents literally to the tournament I played, you know, two, two, three weeks ago, my last one, full-time one, um, my parents were there. My parents have been to every tournament, um, obviously now helping me with my two girls, but um my dad caddied for me my first two years. So um, you know, having my dad on the bag at Q school and then just having their support, being out every week with me uh on the road was very comforting. You know, it's it's very lonely. The game can has very much ups and downs, and um, it was great to have them with me and and to be there and and to keep me company.

Mike Gonzalez 25:49

Yeah, well, you probably know who some of them were. I I'm I'm not I'm trying to recall off the top of my head, but there weren't too many women or girls coming out of high school and going right into the professional ranks.

Brittany Lincicome 26:02

Correct. Yeah, I think Christina Kim, a couple years, maybe or a year or two before me, was like the first to do it. And everyone was like, oh my gosh, like this is crazy. And then um, it's definitely become a a more of a thing here of late. But um, you know, when you go to a junior tournament, like I know everybody on the range. I know all the golf courses, it's the same golf courses over and over, and you know that you know the girls there. So not as scary. So obviously, turning pro, now I have to learn all new golf courses. I'm hitting balls on the range next to women. I have no clue who they are. I mean, I knew who I know who they are, but they have no clue who I am. Um, so it's a different ball game, you know, scary, you know, lots of different things trying to figure out how to register, how do I get a yardage book, where do you stay, where do you eat? Like all these things you're trying to figure out. So, again, just having that family support, trying to figure it out with me as a 19-year-old kid. Um, I think that was definitely instrumental of helping me make it on the tour.

Mike Gonzalez 26:55

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Intro Music 27:18

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