Nick Price - "Great Ball-Strikers - Trevino" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

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

Mike Gonzalez 0:15

Bruce, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but if we polled our uh oh, I don't know, 25 or so guests that we've had on and asked them for their opinions of the great ball strikers, uh uh some of it's age-dependent, I recognize, because some of the younger guys didn't see Hogan as much, but uh it seemed to be Hogan won, and perhaps uh you'd put Lee Trevino in their number two.

Bruce Devlin 0:35

Yeah, that's uh well that would certainly be my ranking. And as I said earlier, uh once you start going down after one and two, you're gonna find Nick Price's name very, very close to the top, I can assure you with that. Uh I had always had great respect for him as a player, and uh uh Nick, you and I didn't spend a lot of time together, but uh I sure admired uh your ability to play this game. It was quite wonderful.

Nick Price 1:02

I'm interesting you say Trevino. I mean, you know, one and two there. Uh uh I think nobody could make the ball talk like Trevino could. I always say that to my friends, you know. I mean, he just had an incredible control of the ball. And uh I mean it was it was it was lovely to watch. Um and you know, even later on, I mean I've played with him and his son and the father's son with my boy, and uh you know Greg, my son, I said you've got to watch this guy swing. I mean, it looks all over the place, but uh you'll not see anyone hit the ball straighter than this guy. And now he's got all these hybrids, and I'm telling you, it just he just rifles them. It's it's gonna say it's amazing. I mean, and you know, I mean, if you talk about the equipment, I think if he had had those hybrids at Augusta, he probably would have won Augusta three or four times, you know. Um I was a ball low ball striker, and I you know, you don't have to hit the ball low at August. I mean high at Augusta, but it does help. Sure, it really helps. You need to have that ball coming in soft, not those little bullets like I had, those knockdowns. And uh, you know, but I think if I'd had two hybrids back in my day, I think I might have been able to win it, Augusta.

Bruce Devlin 2:20

Well now now Travina's got a complete bag of them. I think he goes up to I I know he goes to seven hybrid, but he may even have an eight. But he's he's pretty pretty remarkable with it.

Mike Gonzalez 2:35

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Intro Music 2:55

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.