Kenny Perry
Kenny Perry
James Kenneth Perryis an American professional golfer who currently plays on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour, for which he became eligible following his 50th birthday. On June 30, 2013, Perry won his first senior major championship at the Constellation Senior Players Championship, then won his second consecutive senior major the next month at the U.S. Senior Open, and then took the Regions Tradition in May 2014...
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth10 August 1960
CityElizabethtown, KY
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That was special to come up the fairway everybody chanting 'U-S-A.' It gave me goose bumps. Just brought tears to me eyes, ... I've never experienced anything like that in all my years on the golf course.
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My golf swing is out of sync. I've been hitting a lot of pull hooks. That's really caused me a lot of troubles. You can't survive on the tour playing out of the thick stuff. You need to hit fairways.
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I've never experienced anything like that, ... in all my years on the golf course.
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He can communicate with people and he understands the golf swing. He can take a player who shoots 120, and a scratch player, and help them both. I think that's the secret to a great teacher, being able to communicate with all types.
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I told him out there, 'I don't see how you do it, I don't see how you put up with all this every week,' ... It's pretty incredible out there. At 8 in the morning, it's packed wherever he goes. ... They're all just wanting a piece of him. They're wanting his golf ball, his autograph; cameras are flashing every which way. It's pretty unbelievable.
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Skill? That's kind of where the tour has gone. You can hit it 50 yards off-line and hit a wedge out of the rough. They can still fire at the flagstick. That's the way golf has played out the last couple of years.
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I think it's pretty neat he's here. He says he is playing great and he feels fine, so we've got to with what he says.
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I say a prayer for him every night.
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We played the eighth and ninth holes. The kid was smiling the whole way around. It was one of the biggest honors of my life.
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I thought I was just getting old. I didn't think nothing of it. But I decided this week to go get an MRI done. Now it all makes sense.
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Somehow, I've got to come back to earth here.
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That was a nice tip. I can't wait to call him and tell him that his tip actually works,
ending
The day was great. The ending was not.
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We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.