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The Erik Anders Lang Show: Golf - Travel - Comedy

Ep 320: Erik van Rooyen on the Trials of Tour Golf

The Erik Anders Lang Show: Golf - Travel - Comedy

RGC Radio

Comedy, Golf, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Sports

4.8949 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

2x PGA Tour Winner Erik van Rooyen joins Erik at Panther National for a pre-match discussion of life, golf, and everything in between.


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0:00.0

What don't you want to talk about?

0:03.2

No, bro, I'm an open book.

0:04.8

Really?

0:05.8

Oh, fantastic.

0:06.8

Send it.

0:07.8

You know, I think for me a big question is with anyone who's devoted their life to golf.

0:13.8

You know you've talked about the difference between you know golf as work and I'm

0:17.6

curious to know like like going back as far as you can in your memory

0:23.2

when did you make the decision

0:25.5

to turn golf from a passion into a.

0:27.6

Oh, that's, I remember the moment exactly.

0:31.0

I was 14. I got back even further so I started playing when I was

0:36.9

eight and growing up in South Africa we played rugby, cricket, athletics and I don't know if a school that really has golf so you

0:47.8

kind of got to do it on your own, you know, my dad played and I started getting free him on Saturday you know mornings he'd give me

0:55.9

five bucks and I was bored out of my mind as a 10 year old but that's how I started and

1:01.5

then when I was 14 I started playing junior tournaments getting a bit of coaching and I remember sitting down on a couch like this talking to my dad and we're like, okay, no more rugby, no more cricket, like I want to do this.

1:16.0

And that was a moment.

1:18.0

And what, can you remember that there was, was there a feeling in that moment where it was like?

1:24.2

Yeah, like I love team sports.

1:29.5

So leaving especially leaving rugby was hard.

1:36.4

But it was excitement, man. It was exciting.

1:38.4

Seeing, you know, my heroes like Ernie and Redif and wanting to plan that stage and as a 14 year old kid having that dream like that's pretty freaking cool.

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