Sandra Post - 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. I talked to Gloria Ehret yesterday, and this may give it away a little bit, a little clue, but she's I told her who we were going to visit with today. She says, Will you make sure you say hello to Posty?

Bruce Devlin 0:29

That's right. Posty is right. A uh winner of the 1968 LPGA championship. Ten victories as a professional golfer. And it is indeed a pleasure to uh welcome Sandra Post with us today. Welcome, Sandra. Uh, we look forward to uh telling your story today in your words.

Sandra Post 0:51

Well, thank you. And I look forward to speaking with you for a while here, Bruce. It's great seeing you again and meeting Mike. And uh, let's go have some fun.

Mike Gonzalez 0:59

There you go. We've been looking forward to this. Uh and and as you know, Sandra, because we've talked, uh, we're here to tell your story. As Bruce said, in your words, uh, this is our 68th interview, uh, trying to get to all of the golf greats who have won majors and so forth. And uh as you know, the last several, I mean, probably the last 25 interviews we have done have been almost exclusively with the women of the LPGA. And as uh part of that journey we've gone down, we're not only telling their stories, but uh you guys help us tell the history of the LPGA, and I'm sure we're gonna get into some of that this morning. So we always like to go back to the very beginning. Uh you growing up in a small town in Canada, learning the game. So take us a little bit through that.

Sandra Post 1:49

Well, yes. Um I, you know, I was born in 1948 in a wonderful town called Oakville, when where nobody really knew where that was. It's outside of Toronto, except then a golf course was built there called Glen Abbey by Mr. Nicholas, and then everybody knew who where we were. So uh my my father, and I kind of I'm fourth generation uh uh an Oakville person, and they were all farmers, including my father, market gardeners, actually. My father was. And um, I guess that's why we I could go to Florida in the wintertime, and and because it he didn't have to look after any animals on a farm. So um I loved it, and I loved growing up um, you know, on the farm. He was a good golfer. It didn't sort of go together, but he was a club champion, he was a low handicap player, he was a baseball player, he was a good baseball player. But at his in his time, you know, he wasn't given much opportunity. So um my parents had two girls, which sort of just disappointed him, since I think I was the second one, and I think he hoped I would have been a boy. But nonetheless, um we uh we were, you know, we were a family that really worked together on the farm. We traveled together, we dreamt together. And we we my my parents had my father had a tremendous vision, and my mother went along with it, and that was for me to, you know, be try to be one of the best golfers in the world. And um, and you know, we we had a great journey together.

Mike Gonzalez 3:15

Did your older sister play golf?

Sandra Post 3:18

She did, and she got to be about a five-handicap. She just didn't like the competition. Uh, but she was a good player. I mean, she's five years older, so it was good for us to have each other for sure. But um, you know, she um, you know, she had she didn't have any, you know, competition. She's there was no competitive nature in her for sport.

Mike Gonzalez 3:37

Yeah, and how about your mom? Did your mom play?

Sandra Post 3:39

No, but she was, you know, she kept our clothes great.

Mike Gonzalez 3:43

Yeah.

Sandra Post 3:44

She drove us everywhere. We looked great. And and she she and because she didn't know anything about golf, it was it was it was good because there was everything was fine with her, you know.

Bruce Devlin 3:57

So you mentioned Glen Abbey, but uh you spent your early days, I believe, at a club called Trafalgar Golf and Country Club. Tell us a little bit about that. Was that a really good course?

Sandra Post 4:09

Well, yeah, you know, it was designed by uh an architect called Robbie Robinson, who sort of is a disciple of Stanley Thompson, who I um who I I'm on his board, actually. I I love golden era golf courses, okay? So uh, but Robbie didn't really design like Stanley did. He actually, there was great length in this golf course, so I had to sort of learn how to hit the ball. But before that, you know, I started playing at like five years old because I saw the LPGA at a young age. And let me tell you, there is no place in Canada for a five-year-old little girl to play golf. So I lived on driving ranges. Then to get on Oakville Golf Club, which was actually my first golf course, I had to, I we lied about my age. The general manager told us to, but I started saying I was 11 when I was nine. And, you know, and I was a small nine. And so finally it got, you know, it got it, well, it got to the point, thank goodness Trafalgar was built. And uh we went there. My father drove in there one day and asked the owners, and you know, she they said, I've got two young girls that play golf. Do you want them?

Bruce Devlin 5:15

Take them.

Sandra Post 5:17

And the and the woman who was you know became a very dear friend, Betty Robinson, who is a sister-in-law, by the way, of Robbie Robinson, said, Oh, we would love your daughters. Not only that, if they win the club championship, uh you won't even have to pay the $25 to be a member for the year. So I never even paid to be a member. So I because I kept winning something there. So yeah, and it was all juniors, it was good players, and it was it was a great place to grow up at Trafalgar.

Mike Gonzalez 5:49

So I it's probably understandable. You're growing up in Canada, it's a cold climate. Your family's growing fruits and vegetables, which don't grow very much in the wintertime, so they don't need a lot of attention. So you mentioned your road trips to Florida, which I know were very important in uh giving you an exposure to the game. So take us through that story of that first episode going to spring training and taking a detour.

Sandra Post 6:17

Yeah, my father, as I said, you know, loved baseball. And he was a good, he was a he played semi-professional ball. And so he wanted to go to spring training. And of course, we started over on that Tampa area and uh on our trip. And uh one day he came back uh to where we were staying and he said, I saw a sign that's a small sign. It said LPGA. And you've only seen men hit golf balls. Now I'm five years old, I've seen my father hit golf balls. Um he says, You're going with me tomorrow. We're gonna go and watch women, women play golf. And I said, Okay. And so we went to the Orange Blossom Classic. And um, and I I mean, I remember it so well, all the cum quat quat trees. I've never seen so many little things. I didn't realize they were gonna be so sour. You know, you know, you're five years old. You know, I think I even had I don't, I guess I had my mother dress me in Bermuda shorts, I'm sure. And off I went. But of course, you know, there's this little blonde. I'm the like the only little person on the golf course, and uh there's not much of a gallery. Um, but you there's this one woman who's like looks so friendly, and she starts talking to me, and of course, the one and only Marilyn Smith. I know, and I was five years old, and the LPGA was three years old, so I'm thinking, hey, we're both we're both, you know, really in our starting stages of life here. But I I I I followed her everywhere. It got so bad, my father said, Okay, Sandra, I really want to go and follow Joyce Seski. I like her swing. I I want to follow Betsy Rawls. Uh, I want to follow other players in Maryland. And I said, Well, I'm not leaving Maryland. And Marilyn says, I'll take care of her. Just she can just, she'll, she'll be fine. And sure enough, he would find me at the end of the day on the range, sitting on her bag, and I would never leave Maryland. And I would start writing Marilyn all the time, and she would write me back. I still have the letters. And we became, you know, and and little did I know. I mean, think about it. It would be 12 years to that tournament that I would put that T in the ground and tee it up with her as an LPGA player. And I mean, it's you know, it's a it's a road that you don't think, you know, you dream about, you know, you wonder, are you good enough? I mean, Bruce, you're terrolled out. And what am I doing when you, you know, but I teed it up and I won $155 that first week, more than Jack Nicholas won in his first tournament. So I thought, wow, I'm I hey, I, and my mother, they left me the car. They they left me their last $400 um that they had on their trip, and they said, you know, we'll send you more. And I said, no, don't, don't, don't. Let me see. Let me see. And they didn't. They never sent gave me another penny. And uh, they gave me a Texaco credit card, and that was it. And um, I was off and running. And then who would think six months later I'd win a major? I mean, talk about a turnaround. As I, you know, I tell juniors I went from being the Canadian junior champion, because that's all I had on the first T from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, three-time Canadian junior champion, and then six months later, LPGA champion. So I tell juniors anything can happen very quickly.

Bruce Devlin 9:36

Yeah, what a stat. Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 9:38

All right, I promise you, we're gonna get to your your major win, but there's a lot of other ground to cover now. Your mention of Marilyn Smith as sort of a mentor early in your life. Uh, miss personality, right? I mean, what a what a special lady to to sort of uh be tucked under her wing for a while, huh?

Sandra Post 9:57

Well, I think she tucked on. She tucked on under a lot of little juniors along the way who didn't love Marilyn. I mean, she brought like, I mean, a lot of my friends, Debbie Ost and Renee Powell, she was waving to them too in other tournaments. And I mean, she everybody loved Marilyn. And um, and and she did so much. I mean, besides, you know, being president and everything else, she she was. She she really, really was so kind and such a you know, such a promoter. I'm an amazing. I mean, they all had to be promoters. I mean, that's all they had was themselves. You know, we hadn't have any money, they had to do everything themselves. But um, so you know, but she she was a great one to do that.

Mike Gonzalez 10:40

Yeah, just uh for our listeners, we're talking about Marilyn Smith, one of the 13 original founders of the LPGA Tour. Marilyn was uh inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2006. She won the 1963 and 1964 title holders. Those were her two majors. Well, what a delightful lady, and and I, you know, I've watched the The Legends, or the rather the founders. I'm sorry, the founders, the the program that uh was produced uh by among others uh uh Kari Webb back uh nine years ago or so. And and it just reminds me of what a just what a humble and sweet lady that she was because she was prominently featured in that program. She was at the time one of the four, I think, still living uh founders. Of course, we only have one uh left, and that's uh Marlene Hagee, who we've talked about a lot on the program, but uh just a special woman to learn from. And as you said, you maintained that connection for quite a long time, didn't you?

Sandra Post 11:36

Um all our lives until the the time that she you know passed away. And and um, and you know, and she was great with my parents and helped me along the way. We shared a teacher, an Elmer Priestcorn, out of out of Pine Lake, Michigan. And, you know, even like as every winter we would go to St. Petersburg. Sometimes we went to another some of the other tournaments, but we'd always start there, and Elmer would be there, and at seven, like every year. So now I'm seven years old, I'm on the tee at the Orange Blossom Classic. And I said, you know, Elmer, I'm gonna be out here one day. And he they I remember him like they patted me on my head and they said, Well, you're really gonna have to practice. And I said, Oh, I'm gonna practice. I'm gonna practice. I'm gonna be out here one day. And then he turned out he was my instructor after I left my dad, because I only had my dad, and then Elmer. So uh, yeah, it was like I was really putting it out there.

Bruce Devlin 12:28

Yeah, that's great. What a story.

Mike Gonzalez 12:30

A lot of times we we ask our guests, of course, you know, um, uh, to take us through their decision process on when they thought they might become uh a pro golfer. Well, this one was pretty early on, I think, didn't you?

Bruce Devlin 12:44

I would say so. And did you uh were you influenced at all by anybody else to turn pro, or you you just had it in your mind that you were gonna do it?

Sandra Post 12:56

So, you know, amateur status, remember that, Bruce? Yeah, you weren't allowed to even breathe, professional golfers. And if you think about it, you know, the LPGA was born in 1950. I turned pro in 1968. So we're already in this country 18 years behind the United States, because we don't even have any women professional athletes at yet. So I don't, I mean, they know I'm going down. I'm now, you know, I'm getting older, I'm getting better, and I can play in the LPGA tournaments. And um, so I go at 14 and I go and I play in some of the LPGA tournaments. And so the people in Canada know I'm doing this, but I'm not allowed to say that's what my intention is, because we have a few players that are a little bit older than I am in Canada, and I think Lenny Wirtz, who was then, you know, becoming our executive director and everything at the LPGA, I think he was looking at a couple of them to get a Canadian to join the tour. I think I was not on his radar because I was really young. I mean, I turned pro at 19. So um I wasn't on his radar, but my parents were trying, they're getting trying to get me as much experience as possible. I was playing in all our national titles and our provincial titles, but I would go and when I could, I mean, starting at about 14, I got to play. I got to play on the tour. And let me tell you, you want a shock? You know what they did with the these these amateurs who were supposed to be pretty good, playing in the LPG. You know where they paired them? The back of the field. Like I went into Raleigh. I went in, I played in the North and South. My mom called the uh, you know, the person that was running the tournament in Raleigh, and you know, he she said, you know, his name was Mr. Dick. I mean, I remember everything so clearly. Um, you know, my daughter, she's 14, but she's a four-handicap. And she's, you know, and we're on our way home to Canada from the North and South. Is there any chance that she could play in the LPJ tournament, you know, in Raleigh? And he said, sure, we'd love her. So I go, I go up there. Oh, there's my pairing, Kathy Whitworth and Mickey Wright. Okay, and how's your day? You know? And they were so kind, both of them. I mean, they the you can't pick two kinder people than Mickey Wright and Kathy Whitworth, and how kind they were to me. I mean, I I couldn't even breathe, but I shot 75. I was respectable, and then I was paired, you know, the next day a little further back. But you talk about experiences. I mean, I remember I'm Jackie Pung and Joanne Prentiss, and I remember every one of my pairings. And so we would, you know, we would drive to Toledo and I would play there, whatever I could get in, and that's how I got experience.

Mike Gonzalez 15:34

Yeah. So let's let's go back uh again to your early years, right after meeting Marilyn that first time back uh down in Florida. You also had a chance to meet um what many would argue to be the greatest female athlete that ever lived.

Sandra Post 15:47

Yeah, babe. Babe Zaharius was at the tournament, but she was ill and she was actually in the wheelchair already. And I remember my mother saying, Go get her, go get her autograph, you know, go go up and get her autographed. You know, she's like really important like this. And I so I did, you know, but uh yeah, I I met the babe.

Mike Gonzalez 16:05

And your first exposure to Kathy Whitworth was uh playing in an exhibition together?

Sandra Post 16:09

And there you go. My parents would put me, you know, I was in Port Charlotte, Florida for the winter, and uh they they had, you know, these the gals went around and did clinics, and I'm sure you did them too, uh, you know, in the off season, Bruce. You know, and we we all sort of did those things. And actually, Kathy was with Haig Ultra at the time and another player called Marianne Reynolds, and they came to, you know, to Port Charlotte, it's a good golf course, and the pro had said there's gonna be a nine-hole exhibition after their clinic. Would you like to play? Yeah, I'm 13, you know, and I'm going, oh, and my my my parents are saying, Oh, yes, you know. So I did, and you know, you know, Kathy Whitworth, you know, I I'm 13, so you know, it's what, 1961? She had not won a tournament yet. You know.

Mike Gonzalez 16:55

Oh wow.

Sandra Post 16:55

Just think about it. Wow. I mean, I'm standing, I'm standing next to a woman, not only that's gonna win 80, gonna be the winniest professional in our history, and I'm gonna beat her in two playoffs. Like, really? Like, you talk about destiny, and and if you believe in any of that, you have to believe there's there's someone guiding you a little bit in life. Don't you believe that a little bit?

Mike Gonzalez 17:18

Absolutely, absolutely. She could have had 90 wins if not for you.

Sandra Post 17:23

I know, I'm I know.

Bruce Devlin 17:26

You took two away from her. I did. I did. How about how about winning 88 times and finishing second 95 times? What a record.

Sandra Post 17:37

And and you know, not only that, you know, being, I mean, if anyone didn't meet Kathy too bad in life, because one of the most gracious, most humble athletes you could ever meet and kind. And she served as our president, president through some very tumultuous times. And and, you know, like a lot of our leaders on our tour, like the Carol Manns and the Judy Rankins, they really stepped up because they had some power and and that we needed them too. And but Kathy, she was always her love for the tour. Uh, I think nothing surpassed that in her life. And and and to know her mom and to know her dad and to know her background, and her she was so kind to my parents. And um, but that's she is just the she the she's the epitome of greatness in everything. In everything.

Bruce Devlin 18:32

We were very fortunate to to start our uh LPGA ladies with Kathy Whitworth, and boy, what a you you're absolutely right. She was a gym to be around, talk to. Beautiful lady.

Sandra Post 18:46

The best, just the best, and you know, for advice, for advice. And you know, this is this was a tour back then. We only had each other for advice. And the nice thing about the early years, and I wasn't in the beginning years, I mean, I knew them, but then I had to grow up, and then I joined, I was sort of, I think, in the I call it the second wave. I was in with the Haneys and the Mans. So, you know, we I was we were right out on the cusp of television and getting a little bit more money. I would, you know, often people ask me, would you trade it for today for the money the women are playing? I said, Are you kidding? There isn't enough money for me to trade. My place back in the late 60s and what the United States was going through and the growth of women in sport and the women and the people that I was so fortunate to meet. I mean, I I I they befriended me. I would often say, I don't know why. But like, you know, Wentworth, you could you could ask Whitworth really tough things, like, how do you win? And she would share that. Like, can you imagine today, like someone, some young rookie like on the mince tour, Will Zeloturis going up, Tiger? How do you win? I mean, I don't know. Tiger would probably tell him. But you know, they would take a lot of time to nurture you week in and week out, especially when you were having problems or or life problems or just you know, travel problems. It was it was a it was more of a challenge for sure than probably today. They got different challenges. They've got different challenges today.

Mike Gonzalez 20:22

Yeah. But what you just expressed in terms of not wanting to really trade places with that with another era. Uh Bruce, we've heard heard that with many of our guests, haven't we? Absolutely. They love to play when they played.

Bruce Devlin 20:34

Yeah.

Sandra Post 20:35

Well, you know, it's a very strange dynamic. When your friends are people who you're trying to beat every week to make a living.

Intro Music 20:45

Yeah.

Sandra Post 20:45

What a dynamic that is. But the nice thing about our, no, it wasn't really nice, but the good thing about, I guess, about our time is none of us made so much money that there was no jealousy about someone having a lot of money. Because no one had a lot of money. So money was out of the equation. So, you know, it it we had to we had to absolutely galvanize together to survive. So we we had to, we had we were a unit. We moved as a unit.

Mike Gonzalez 21:18

You know, as you were uh as you were growing up getting into your teen years, you you you you were winning pretty much everything up in Canada, where you I mean uh the Ontario junior girls uh three out of four years and and the Canadian junior girls three years in a row. You bypassed college, but you were winning, your game was developing. Who was most instrumental at that time in developing your game? And as you played in some of these LPJ events or had exposure to the to the pros, what were you seeing that you knew you were gonna have to develop with your game to play on that level?

Sandra Post 21:52

Oh my goodness. You know, a couple of things there. I I the the college situation. You know, I knew that, you know, that that um you know that Kathy went to like a community college. I mean, I knew that because I'd read it. And I knew like Marlene Street, who is a great amateur here in our country, Marlene Stewart Street, um, she'd gone to Rollins College, but she never wanted to turn professional. I didn't really know, I mean, there wasn't any much information or opportunity. And so mostly those of us in the 60s, a lot of us didn't go to university. And we basically made a decision in our late teens. If you thought you could play a little, you went. And we were lucky enough that we could learn how to play out there. There was enough time that, you know, it wasn't like we had to perform immediately, that we could grow our game out there. And that's exactly what I had to do. Um, you know, we're I know George Newton's name, Canada's really foremost, you know, PGA player, will come up, but uh I'll never forget George. He, after I'd won the LPGA championship, and I'd known George for a long time, he came out to watch me play in the LPGA tournament here in Toronto, and I saw him kind of walk off the golf course. And that was back in 1969, and then I saw him later in 76, and he finally admitted this to me. He says, you know, I came out and watched you hit it there in 1969 at Bayview at the LPGA tournament, and I said, Oh yeah, George. He said, you know, you weren't much of a striker of the golf ball.

Bruce Devlin 23:34

And um Thank you, George.

Sandra Post 23:37

And what's wrong with a little bit of a hook, you know? No, you know, I'm good in the wind. No, I said, actually, you know what I said to him? Because I I am this type of a personality. I mean, I said, yeah, but George, you know, I always had a short game and I always could putt. He's a good striker of the ball, and that's all he cared about, being like Hogan. But, you know, I could putt. And I believed I could putt and chip. And that's boy, that's more than half of the game. So uh, yeah, I just had to learn to be a striker. And he said in 76, he said when he saw me, he said, You've become a striker of the game. I said, Thank you.

Mike Gonzalez 24:17

He was a great one. Was Sybil was Sybil Griffin? Was Sybil Griffin a teacher of yours as well?

Sandra Post 24:24

Yeah, a little bit in the winter, down again. You know, we were uh, you know, in in uh sort of the off-season she did. She uh she was playing on the tour too, and at the time. And um uh we'd settled sort of in the Lake Worth Boynton Delray area. And uh Sybil, uh Sybil did help me a little bit on my game, and and uh when I when I was hanging around Cypress Creek in Boynton Beach.

Mike Gonzalez 24:50

Yeah, she uh she was playing on the tour. I think I saw a ranking where she was ranked 56th of the women golfers playing in the 60s, was T4 in the 1969 Women's U.S. Open at Cena Kills, uh the one that uh Donna Capone won. So she could play.

Sandra Post 25:05

That was a hot one. Oh my gosh, that one was a very hot open. That Capone won that year. Yeah, Sibyl could play, and she, I mean, she'd been on tour. Do you know that when I joined the tour, there are different ways, I mean, over the years, you know, how the the what you require are required and how you get on tour. In 1968, to get on tour, you needed two letters from an LPG, from LPGA players to basically say that you were good enough to play on the tour. That was one of the requirements. So, my two letters, one came from Maryland and one came from Sybil Griffin. I'll never forget going into their room in Raleigh. This was like the year before, and I told them both. I didn't know what they were gonna say. Like, kid, you're not good enough or something. But you know, I said, would you write my letters, sort of a rec recommendation to the LPGA? And they said, we'd be thrilled to. You know, well, it was scary though. It was really, really scary to present these two letters, and and then you know, you you go ahead and you I write the amateur bodies here, which was the were the was Canadian Ladies' Golf Association at the time, and uh would be Golf Canada now, and then I wrote the USGA, you know, and you forfeit your amateur status and away you go.

Mike Gonzalez 26:22

Yeah. You know, you you mentioned a a couple of folks already uh that you probably would have viewed as either role models or, you know, up in Canada, that is, right? Um some of the greats of the of the game. Let's talk about a few of those before we get into your professional career. And and there's a there's a you know uh quite a list of accomplished golfers from up there. Uh you mentioned George Newtson, which Bruce, I don't know, he uh he used to watch Hogan, but a lot of people used to watch him.

Bruce Devlin 26:48

Yeah, true. Well, uh Sandra probably doesn't know, but Knudsen and I uh got a little uh uh RV out in California together. Uh I guess it was 1964, and we went from California through Texas to Florida, and of course we had to stop in Fort Worth because you know who's here in Fort Worth. Mr. Hogan was here. So we sat on we sat on our golf bags at Colonial Country Club uh three mornings in a row and just watch Hogan hit balls to to a practice green that is no longer there anymore. He used to go down uh left left-hand side of the ninth green and and first fairway there and hit balls to a to a green that used to be down by the creek. And uh it was it was quite something else. And uh Newton was uh, like you said, he was uh he was he was intent on striking it like Hogan and came pretty close too, I would say.

Sandra Post 27:46

Well, he was built like him too.

Bruce Devlin 27:48

Yes, he was.

Sandra Post 27:49

You know, so I think that the that that really helped. And and I think it the proportions uh you know of the two were very, very similar. So uh yeah, he he absolutely tried to um you know swing like emulate him, yeah, all the way.

Mike Gonzalez 28:05

Yeah, you know, we'll we'll we'll tell our listeners that Sandra was uh when she came on tour in 1968, the first Canadian to play on the LPG tour. And and some you know, some people that know the game will say, Well, what about Marilyn Street? Well, no, as you mentioned, Marilyn was an amateur, she stayed an amateur.

Sandra Post 28:21

Well, Marlene was is you know, we're we're we're 14 years apart. So she came from that generation of amateur golf, and and uh and she loved it, and she got married and had children, and uh she just loves and to this day, you know, we we speak almost daily. And uh you know, and she's 89, uh just turned 89, and she's fantastic, plays lots of golf with Carner in Florida in the winter, Joanne Car Gunderson Carner, because they they went really head to head in the in the US amateur in that. But they are best buddies. And um, but uh yeah, Marlene, you know, Marlene again, uh you you're absolutely right. You know, I I didn't have a lot, you know. I if I went south, I had a lot to choose from to be able to to copy and to watch and to learn from. And here I had like Al Balding and Mo Norman and George Newsom, Marlene Street, and some gals you might not have good players, but they just didn't, and they were just ahead of me. And they could might could have made it like there was Gail Harvey and Gail uh uh Hitchens and really some good amateurs, but none of them, you know, they just they just uh the LPG was in the in that after 1965, they really started to to come into their own. And um, and if you believed in women and of and and sort of having a career in professional sports and like I always have, um yeah, you you you sort of think let's let's give this a let's give this a chance. I mean, let's face it, we are the oldest sports organization. Women's golf is the the oldest of all the the uh the sport women's sports out there today. We're the oldest.

Mike Gonzalez 30:08

Yeah, just for our Canadian listeners, I want to toot Marilyn Street's uh horn a little bit more. Uh for those that don't know. Of course, she's into World Golf Hall of Fame, a lot of people know that. But uh what people may not realize is she won the US Am, the Canadian Am, the British Am and the Australian Am. Nobody's ever done that. Amazing.

Sandra Post 30:33

Yeah, she and a lot of those are match play. And to this day, I mean, she loves match play. She kind of goes like this with metal. And I'm the metal player. I mean, I am always saying metal, metal, metal, and she's going, no, watch this match play. You know, it's it's great, you know, on television when we get into the you know, the writer cups and all that, you know, that's what she loves.

Mike Gonzalez 30:53

Yeah, some of the other uh Canadians uh uh either either of your era or they were yet to calm Stan Leonard, of course.

Sandra Post 31:00

Yeah, yeah. Um Gary Cowan, Gary Cowan?

Mike Gonzalez 31:04

Yeah, yeah, Gary.

Sandra Post 31:05

Aren't you U.S. amateurs?

Mike Gonzalez 31:07

Yeah, yeah. We had Mike Weir on the show. He was probably our first Canadian guest. Brooke Henderson, uh Lori Kane, uh you mentioned uh Mo Norman, Stephen Ames. Uh there's quite a list.

Bruce Devlin 31:17

There's a bunch of them. Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 31:19

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Intro Music 31:40

Squack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. And it started to slice just smitch offline. My caddies, as long as you're still in the stage, you're okay. Went straight down the middle.