Special Guest: Davis Love III | Episode 180

In this episode, with Webb Simpson away on Presidents Cup duties at Medinah, William Kane and Ben Crane welcome Davis Love III to the podcast. Davis is a 21 time PGA Tour winner, two time Players Champion, 1997 PGA Champion at Winged Foot, two time Ryder Cup captain, six time Ryder Cup player, World Golf Hall of Famer, Payne Stewart Award winner, and Bob Jones Award winner. Davis talks Presidents Cup, Ryder Cup captaincy, losing his dad, Payne Stewart, faith, and what it means to finish well.

Davis Love III | Presidents Cup Medinah | Ryder Cup captain | 1997 PGA Championship Winged Foot | World Golf Hall of Fame | Payne Stewart faith | well done good and faithful servant | Matthew 25:23 | Sea Island | faith and golf

Topics in this episode:
- Davis Love III, 21 time PGA Tour winner, two Players Championships, 1997 PGA Champion at Winged Foot, six Ryder Cups, two time Ryder Cup captain, World Golf Hall of Famer
- Presidents Cup at Medinah: what the captains are feeling going into the Thursday Friday matches
- The hardest thing about being a captain is not the pairings, it is the details. Making sure everyone has the right clothes on.
- Tom Watson sat us down and said guys you are getting ready to go on one of the great adventures of your life
- The Bubba Watson story: calling him to say he was not on the Ryder Cup team and Bubba immediately said can I come anyway, can I be assistant captain?
- Bubba went into the team room and walked up to Tiger Woods and said hey good to see you, can you come sign a thousand flags please?
- Luke Donald and what Europe has done so well in the Ryder Cup
- I grabbed Ian Poulter by the shirt and said you were built for the Ryder Cup
- If Dustin Johnson cares enough to have a USA tee, they are fired up
- Tiger Woods beat me in a playoff to win his first tournament. Then he beat me to the all time leading money winner. He checked me off his list.
- My dad said play for points not for money. He was way ahead of his time.
- Tiger Woods just got passed on the all time money list by Scottie Scheffler
- Winning the 1997 PGA Championship at Winged Foot with the history of my family and Jack Lumpkin and that whole story
- The most fun moments of my career? Nine of the top ten are Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup moments
- We had a big house fire and luckily I had sent a bunch of stuff to the Hall of Fame including the Wanamaker Trophy
- Michael Jordan texted me back immediately: the driver I broke is worth at least a million dollars
- Losing my dad in 1988 was a blow. But he had set me up right.
- Larry Moody and Bob Rotella were the first two people I called after our house fire
- Payne Stewart was bigger than life. And then he was gone.
- We are in the land of the dying, going to the land of the living (Paul Azinger at Payne Stewart's funeral)
- I grew up in Sunday school, I thought I was a Christian. When Paul said that I said, wait a minute, I don't have a personal relationship like I need to have. What if I am the next guy in the jet?
- When I sit on the back porch with Robin I am amazed she has stuck with me for 40 years through what I put her through
- Well done good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little. I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master. (Matthew 25:23)
- I just want to serve other people. That came directly from my dad.
- Davis, from where we sit, it looks like you are stewarding your life so well. Webb whenever I ask him who are your heroes growing up, without even hesitation: Davis Love the Third.

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