Chris Solomon
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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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So that's the Byron Nelson hook there back to my dad's driving range.
So anyway, Byron Nelson actually was the assistant pro not far from where I grew up.
And I grew up in Allentown.
The club that I played at, my dad's modest club, was in between Allentown and Reading.
And when Byron won the 1939 US Open at Philadelphia Country Club, famously when Snead made eight, Byron was an assistant in the pro shop in Reading and used to drive over to Philly Country Club every day.
That's a period of time where a lot of the great players were pros or assistant pros.
Hogan was in Hershey.
Henry Picard was in Hershey.
Claude Harmon, you know, won a Masters coming out of the pro shop at Wingfoot.
The one, the very first one in the book, that was- Yeah, the opening chapter is Jack and the Giraffe.
And first of all, Jack, I think was the best interview in all my years covering golf that I can remember.
Rory, when you get him, just as good or almost as good.
But Jack was expansive and transparent.
He loved to talk once he got going.
And there's not a lot you can critique with Jack.
So in the book, I try to pull out some of these more human moments.
Did an interview with him where his fly was slightly unzipped.
It's called Jack on the Fly.
Another story which is personal for me and very sweet and funny.
It's called Son of a Bitch, Son of a B. I take my dad on his 75th birthday to the opening of the Nicholas Museum, 2002 in Columbus, Ohio, where I'm interviewing Jack for a one-hour special.
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