Chris Solomon
speaker
1,772 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Chris Solomon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And now he walks over to where Saracen has been sitting for probably 45 minutes, not moving a muscle.
I'm not convinced that he isn't the lawn ornament.
Nance leans down with the mic and says, Mr. Saracen, how about that?
Wasn't that nice?
And Saracen with a shaky hand takes the mic and he looks right up at Ernie and he says, Ernie Els, first time in my life I seen a man blow a chip shot for $500,000.
And the place just lost it.
I thought, damn, this man is hitting shots.
He's hitting shots.
63 years after the shot heard around the world, which 12 people saw, by the way, in 1935.
But Grantland Rice and other myth makers at the time lived on.
And that's one of the great shots I've ever seen in my life.
that's yeah that yeah it i i i uh to your point i i couldn't i wouldn't have pictured your career spanning the the life of gene saracen right like that's just a little bit yeah he passed soon after that's what i said when i got there i had a moment with sneed uh by the clubhouse after he hit the ceremonial first tee shot uh at the masters and it was so old school there were like a gaggle of reporters i remember lenny shapiro the washington post was there time and
There was always a chance, it's 10 of 8 in the morning, to spin a yarn.
And hey, Sam, how's the swing?
Still looks good.
What do you remember about your wins here at Augusta National?
And he launched into a story one morning.
It didn't take much for Sam to launch into a story even into his 80s.
And one year, I'm playing here with Eisenhower.
And if a guy starts a story with one year I'm playing with Eisenhower, you know, he's had a life in the game.
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