Alan Shipnuck

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1,382 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Jul

Alan Shipnuck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 3.

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And that's just not how the world works.

You can't game plan a war in your backyard like has happened to the Saudis.

You don't know what's going to happen in the next presidential election.

And no one in today's world has 10 years.

One of the few times golf as an institution ever showed any backbone was when the PGA of America pulled the PGA Championship from Trump bed minister.

It was in reaction to some of the inflammatory rhetoric of the presidential campaign.

And the PGA Tour repudiated Trump.

They took away his event at Doral.

sent it across the wall to Mexico City.

The LPGA and Trump had been longtime partners.

That ended.

The British Open has famously repudiated Trump and refused to bring the Open Championship to Trump Turnberry.

Golf means more to Trump than any of us can ever imagine because he's always found a way to buy himself into the highest echelons of society.

The one thing you cannot do is buy your way into the great old clubs of America.

So he was never allowed to become a member at Augusta National or Pine Valley.

And you can buy the biggest, ugliest house in Florida in Mar-a-Lago, but you can't buy your way into Seminole Golf Club.

And this burned Trump to the core that golf had always turned its back on him.

And so he had to create this whole empire of his own clubs in his image with the tacky waterfalls and the Roman columns and all that stuff.

And so hosting these tournaments was the pat on the head from the establishment he'd always needed.

Like, we still don't want you as a member, but we will bring our tournament to your venue and we'll accept you in that manner.

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