Next on the Tee: Aspiring pro Andrew Strother gets taste of PGA Tour
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On this episode of Next on the Tee, host Chris Mascaro is joined by three of the best instructors and PGA professionals in the game — Tom Patri, Tom Wildenhaus and Nancy Quarcelino, plus aspiring Tour Pro and Trackman Golf rep Andrew Strother.
Patri tries to make sense of what’s going on in the game with Jon Rahm signing with LIV when the proposed partnership deadline is still weeks away. Has Patrick Cantlay gone all Alexander Haig on the PGA Policy Board? Why has yet another tournament sponsor pulled out? Could we be headed for tournament specific golf balls at USGA and R&A hosted tournaments if the PGA Tour and PGA of America hold fast to not adopting the rolled-back ball. If so, who’s going to produce that ball? As usual we try to solve the world’s problems in segment one.
Wildenhaus is a two-time South Florida PGA Professional of the Year. He has also spent more than two decades at one of the top courses in Florida, Olde Florida Golf Club. He discusses the high expectations of one of their founding members, Mike Ditka. He also talks about things the section has done for people away from the game of golf and some of the tremendous junior talent that has come up through the section as well.
Quarcelino is not only annually named one of the Top 50 LPGA Teachers by Golf Digest, she has now reached elite status. She talks about that recognition and the new influx of money into the LPGA Tour, a return to mixed team events like the Grant Thornton tournament, the recent loss of her friend and Kentucky women’s golf coach Betty Lou Evans, working with Alison Curdt and how talented Minjee Lee is.
After playing high school golf in rural Kentucky, Strother went on to the University of Kentucky and graduated with a triple major in finance, marketing and communications. He didn’t play college golf but did help establish club golf at UK. In his late 20s, he decided to give professional golf a try after competing in long-drive contests. He talks about his grind to get through Q-School to play on the Mexican Tour, his Top 30 finish in the Colorado Open, and caddying at the Barbasol Championship earlier this year.
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