1180: Story Time with Rich Lerner
7/1/20261 hr 23 min
Rich Lerner joins Soly to discuss his career broadcasting golf for NBC and Golf Channel and shares some of his favorite stories detailed in his book “Aren’t You That Golf Guy?: Doglegs and Detours from a Life in the Game”. From the early days of Golf Channel, the Tiger boom, working on “Life From” and a ton more, we really enjoyed having Rich on the pod for the first time.
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First 90 secondsRich Lerner· Guest0:00
[gentle music] Be the right club. Be the right club today. Yes.
Chris Solomon· Host0:10
[upbeat music] Johnny, that's better than most.
Rich Lerner· Guest0:15
How about him?
Chris Solomon· Host0:17
It is better than most. Better than most. [audience cheering] Expect anything different? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast. Solly here. Got an interview coming shortly with NBC and Golf Channel personality Rich Lerner. He's got a book out, it's called Aren't You That Golf Guy? This is Rich Lerner, uh, like you've never seen him before. Might be, might actually be a record for F-bombs dropped in, uh, in one particular interview. Uh, he's got amazing stories from 30 years in the business, and he tells them pretty much all here, uh, in the book and on this podcast as well. So I think you're gonna really enjoy, uh, this listen and see a different side of Rich. Just of note, we recorded this last week. Uh, this is coming out on June 30th. We recorded this before Alan Shipnuck's piece, uh, that dropped on Phil Mickelson. We do talk a little bit about Phil. We don't talk about any of that, uh, that came out in that article, as that article was not out yet. So that's just a little editor's note. Also of note, Monday morning, Viktor Hovland took home his eighth PGA Tour win, all of which have come with his Pro V1 golf ball. That's now 11 wins in the last 11 weeks on the PGA Tour for Titleist golf ball players. You heard a lot about managing spin on the broadcast,