Fuzzy Zoeller - "How Did We Hit Those Things?" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

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

Fuzzy Zoeller 0:13

Then it started to Yeah, and that was with the old wood clubs.

Intro Music 0:18

Right.

Fuzzy Zoeller 0:19

Right. Yeah. The old wooden clubs.

Bruce Devlin 0:22

How many of those do you still have, Bruce? Uh fuzzy. I pull one out every now and again and look at it, and I wonder how the hell we ever played golf with that golf club.

Fuzzy Zoeller 0:33

Yeah. Did you pull the uh did you pull the irons out and see how short those irons were?

Bruce Devlin 0:38

Yeah, how big they are.

Fuzzy Zoeller 0:41

How did we ever make contact with those little things? Yeah.

Bruce Devlin 0:46

I don't know. But yeah, you know what's very interesting? I I do a lot of work with the Hogan Foundation here, and w when we have a little uh outing to raise money for the foundation, we always take one of Mr. Hogan's drivers and and put it on the first T and allow everybody to hit the driver and then they lay zero. Well, where do you think most of the drives go that people hit with each driver?

Fuzzy Zoeller 1:14

I'd say short, right. Yeah, way right.

Mike Gonzalez 1:24

Yeah, unlike today, and I'm sure we'll get to this because you've alluded to it, Fuzzy, about how the games change, but uh unlike today with these guys much like pitchers. You see pitchers now, they're more throwers. It's maximum effort every pitch. And back when Bob Gibson pitched, it wasn't maximum effort uh necessarily. These guys were actually true pitchers, and and you guys had to be pitchers in a way, because if you were swinging a hundred percent, it was probably going to be a little bit difficult to find the sweet spot on those small clubs.

Fuzzy Zoeller 1:55

Oh, I'm telling you. I I look at them uh every once in a while, even though I've retired from the crazy game, and I said, There's no way you could hit that throat. And I, you know, I look at the one iron, think of that. The one iron. And that one iron looked like a a butter knife sitting there with a very small head. And I used to just crush it with that one iron. Could I do it? Could I do it today? No, have no chance.

Mike Gonzalez 2:22

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Intro Music 2:42

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. Yes, it went straight down the middle, quite away.