Deane Beman - "More Dave Hill" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to hook just a little bit.

Mike Gonzalez 0:15

So what's your memories of that win at Texas?

Deane Beman 0:19

Um I I wasn't playing very well. Uh I I remember playing a final round with uh you can help me here, Bruce, the two brothers from Michigan. Uh Hill? Yeah, Dave Hill. I played with Dave Hill.

Bruce Devlin 0:34

Dave Hill?

Deane Beman 0:35

Yeah. Yeah, Dave Hill. I I remember about the middle of the middle of the last round, I'm I'm either leading or one back. And he went to one T and I think Dave said to me something. He said, Beaman, he says, if you didn't have a short game, you'd vault right into the nineties. But I I I got around and and uh and uh and and kind of snuck in there and and uh won the turn, didn't play very well, but I scored well.

Bruce Devlin 1:09

I want to tell you that uh Mr. Dave Hill was one fine, fine player too. He was a heck of a player, David.

Deane Beman 1:16

Dave Dave Hill was could could really play. Yes, he could.

Mike Gonzalez 1:20

We just talked about him last week with Tony Jacqueline, uh kind of reminiscing about the 1970 U.S. Open at Hazeltine, and uh of course he had he had plenty of Dave Hill memories as well.

Deane Beman 1:31

Well I got one for there because I was there. I'm I'm I I went there early and and played practice round, and I went in the locker room and Dave Hill was there, and I said to Dave, hey Dave, I said, This is some golf course. I said, they they they really ruined a great uh farm here, you know.

Bruce Devlin 1:54

He was pretty outspoken that week, wasn't he?

Deane Beman 1:57

He did that. He said the same, he quoted he didn't quote me, but he said it to the press, and and I think Joe Dye fined him ten thousand dollars or something.

Mike Gonzalez 2:06

And you might have fed him the line, huh?

Deane Beman 2:08

That's right, I fed him the line. Yeah, I I was I was uh hooting and hollering in the locker room and he picked it up. That's funny.

Mike Gonzalez 2:18

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Intro Music 2:37

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. Then it started to slice, just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay.