Curtis Strange - "The Inaugural Eisenhower Trophy" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

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

Mike Gonzalez 0:13

Then it started to hook I'll relate a quick story with Bruce not with us, but he might I usually have him mention this. He's talked about it before. He played in the inaugural Eisenhower Trophy back in 1958.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Really? Well, he is a little older than you and I.

Mike Gonzalez 0:33

So this was his first sort of trip away from home, you know, as a young man.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

Yeah, yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 0:38

He it he said it took him 50 hours to get from Australia to St. Andrews.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

They played St. Andrews? They played the old course in 1958. Wow. Wow. What a thrill that must have been. And what a shocking, what a shock to go to that plane.

Mike Gonzalez 1:03

Wow. He gets there. Old course, of course, he's a young man, you know, this is all you're just taking it all in. Australia wins as a team. Bruce Devlin is the medalist. One of the evening festivities featured a famous dinner in town where the featured speaker was Bobby Jones. And you've probably heard segments of the speech, but it was a speech where he was in a wheelchair at a time, wheels up to the podium, and then steals himself up out of the chair and stands and delivers this fairly famous speech. So we're talking to Ben Crenshaw about this. Of course, you know how Ben is such a historian, right? Yeah. Ben knew the speech. He knew it word for word. He had no idea that Bruce was there and was just in awe that Bruce was able to witness this in person, but he actually recited some of the speech to us.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Mike, you tell me that story, and I have goosebumps. Um I I I can't imagine being able to relive that memory uh for Bruce and his teammates. Um that's something that you know I didn't even know. And those who don't know Bruce very well don't know. And it goes to show you what we have, what we've done in our life, that uh it's not just about you know winning a tournament here or there, it's it's about these things that you experience and and that are sometimes even more uh relatable and or more important in your career than winning a tournament. And that's just that's terrific. I mean, Bobby Jones I never met. Um he died a couple years before I played in the Masters, but it was uh it must have been a great honor and a great thrill to be there.

Mike Gonzalez 2:52

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Intro Music 3:13

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