On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar, 3-time PGA Tour winner Chris DiMarco joins Colt and Drew to dish on his President and Ryder Cups, who the biggest ‘bulldog’ is on Tour and all the times he ejected fans.
The Emergency 9 is our weekly segment featuring 9 fun questions that allow our listeners to get to know that week’s guest a little bit better. Up next: Chris DiMarco.
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All right let’s get to the E9 yeah9 be fun okay nine fun questions and we ask this to everyone which way do you want to go you want to go I’ll let you pick okay uh I’m G to ask give me uh Chris childhood Crush I know you’ve been
Married to your wife for a long time you know you guys but celebrity crush whoa celebrity crush wait probably Suzanne Summers oh yeah yeah yeah we could rephrase that like if you had a hall pass let’s just say or and my wife’s right here and she said she looked at me
Like no Jamie Le Curtis it was Jam Lee Curtis she’s right yeah Jam Lee Curtis yeah yeah that that one that one scene in in trading places that was a pretty good one I like it I love that she just told you what your celebrity CR you should say
Jamie all right I’ll give you um my first one here all right give me one guy on the champions tour that you weren’t friends with before you got out there but now that you gotten out there your buddy’s like wow this guy’s cooler than I thought
Oh that’s a hard one too because you know everybody out here’s there’s really nobody out here I dislike and there’s um you know I mean I always got along with VJ I mean people he gets a bad rap um it it’s it’s such a good fraternity
Out here I mean there’s a lot of guys that I didn’t know like like a guy like Scott Perell who’s one of the nicest guys in the world but I had no idea who he was before I got out here um a guy named Mike goodus the same thing um you
Know a guy like Rob Le britz I mean just a super nice guy that you know never would have an opportunity to do this but the champions tour is affording him this and he’s taking advantage of it uh you know it’s guys like that I mean all the
Other guys I’ve played golf with so much and and um dealt with and did whatever and you know you have your days you have your your good days your bad days with these guys but ultimately they’re like big brothers and little brothers and you
Just you go on and and make up and go to the next next week yeah man I don’t I don’t want to get older but it seems really fun out yeah I quit a long time ago but like when I turned 49 I might have to start practicing again I’ll CAD for you
I feel like yeah it’s they get it all right Chris um worst injury you’ve ever had in your career and how did it happen so I think the worst injury was um my I had I have shoulder surgery but I cracked a rib in my lower back the week before
TPC and I was skiing and I had a backpack on and I had a bottle of schnaps in there and a couple guys came out of the trees and I kind of went down and I didn’t I I first checked my wrists and my my um my knees and my um my
Ankles and all that was good and then my back was just starting to hurt a little bit so we kind of we we skied down and I started having a couple more beers thinking that would go away and actually the pain got a little worse so
I went and had an x-ray nothing was broken but I had a really bruised rib and it caused me to actually have um a shoulder surgery later that year but that’s the one that that you know I had I missed TPC that week and I played
Austa literally like just I mean I was hitting six iron 155 yards just because I could barely swing damn schnaps got in the way did the schnaps survive damn schnaps well the funny thing is is I had two in there but we finished one so there was only one left so I’m glad
There was only one left I probably would have hurt more of my back yeah well done um all right next one for me here Chris let’s see ask me I want to hear this one tell me about this recurring nightmare you used to have I don’t know if you
Still have it about going on the prices right oh yeah I mean I think everybody has that where you get on the prices right and of course you get there and for a new car and you know you answer all the question or you get up there what’s the
Game The Game’s the putting game this is before claw by the way and um you know you get up there and your foot from the hole and you know you ask what your profession is and you say professional golfer and then then you miss a putt on
National TV that that one was that one was um was crazy and yeah that one it doesn’t happen anymore thankfully ever since I went to the claw but that was before the claw that was there for sure that was like you had that over and over being on the price right getting called
Up getting it like answering questions getting a foot from the hole and then not being able to kick it in not be a yeah not a to kick it in forget having a foot putt to win The Masters price is right we got a problem I’m look like an
in front of Bob all right exactly um all right this one’s a thinker have you won more PGA PGA Tour tournaments or ejected more fans oh I’d definitely say ejected more fans without a doubt yeah uh it’s it’s happened quite a bit yeah I mean and
Again it’s it takes a lot for that to happen for me I mean they they’ve got to really be an for me to eject them um I I was pretty good at not necessarily listening to a lot but since I would say the late 90s to now I think
The fans are trying to get more into the players head they’re certainly a lot more obnoxious than they ever were before um you know I don’t mind anybody yelling out but you know when they’re yelling out you know bad things about you and you know nothing’s positive
That’s the kind of things that bother me I don’t care if they tell me I suck that’s fine you know I don’t if I miss a green at 16 at TPC I deserve to get booed it’s a nine iron I should get booed for that and you know but don’t
Tell me that my wife’s fat or my you know this is that or whatever it is you know just keep it to golf they get a little personal sometimes yeah yeah it it just inebriation is part of it and you know it was funny I was talking with
Um a guy um Jeff Fuji Cara you guys know Jeff don’t you I do and he’s a Thunderbird we were talking about that and I said the easy way to solve it is you just put a couple undercover cops in the stands at 16 and the first guy that says something he
Shouldn’t have done you throw them out you throw 10 or 12 guys out people are going to get the get the gist that you can only go so far it’s good for golf I don’t mind the hole I think it’s great I think it’s exciting it’s whatever it is
But I can tell you right now any player that says he loves it is lying we might have the National Guard in here next year after what happened this year there’s a few there there’s a few situations yeah I mean the guy that jumps over and goes into the bunker on
16 like you’re banned for life you’re out of here I’m done with you you should be for sure I agree yeah totally inter up play be loud yell after they hit don’t yell while they hit don’t yell crazy it’s not that hard and you can drink all you want have all the fun
You want that’s it and they just push the envelope to the point where until somebody tells them they can’t do it they just push it to the end until it gets to that point and it’s usually just just past the line usually half the time
Um all right next one for me this is this is a real here’s a golf one here because that you you get referred to as a bulldog right certain guys certain type of golf games he’s a bulldog Brian Harman comes to mind right now right give me the Chris DeMarco top three
Bulldogs of all time on the PJ tour you know I I think oh like alltime like guys like me that yeah like not not like a Georgia Bulldog like a you know their style of play they get called a bulldog um yeah and like now like now right now
Yeah or anytime just guys that you think like this is a this guy’s a tough out like he ain’t going to lay down and die like the same way you were probably not like the most powerful guy in the world got to grind get up and down you know who was like
That was was Paul ainger was like that for sure I mean Paul ainger he wanted that I mean the bigger the moment especially when it was a rider cup or a President’s Cup was huge like that um you know even though he’s not that vocal
David THS is like that I mean that guy you give him the ball when it matters he’s he’s he’s stepping on your neck um and he ain’t afraid of the moment either um yeah I’m trying to think of who else um so many guys that that are like that
I mean that are just Billy horel is like that yeah Billy horel he’ll I mean he he I mean he gets you talk about somebody who gets fired up that guy gets fired up I I love Max hom I think is a lot like that too I
Love watching Max play he gets fired up um you know I like the guys that show their their emotions that that aren’t afraid to you know to get crazy out there Justin Thomas I mean he’s awesome to watch I love watching him especially in the Ridder cup and President’s Cup
Because he he he brings the emotion you need there even though my favorite guy in the world isn’t in and I only say the only time I kind of like him is at the rider cups that guy um is Patrick Reed I mean I think he’s a dick in life but I
Think he’s a great player you know yeah at on the president’s cups and Rider cups I think he’s fantastic I just think you know he worked really hard to be an he embraced that too like being the villain like he loves that I like that match
With he was wanting all of it I mean I don’t I don’t deny his golf game I think his golf game is awesome it really is but you know he just worked really hard to to not really be liked well we can stay on the rider cup for my next one
You played two president cup two Ridder cups MVP of the Afterparty oh MVP the Afterparty oh God that’s a good one I mean probably me for sure perfect yep self 20 bucks into our cup here yeah I remember the one in um at the k club every time I’d walk out of
The bar with a full beer tiger was doing DJ and he’d say CD and I’d go over just go chug my beer and I have to go back back and get another one um so he was he was having a good time that night too
Even though we got we got smashed but we got smashed twice we got smashed that afternoon then we got smashed that night sidebar this doesn’t count as a question Tiger’s the DJ what’s Tiger Playing oh I know this answer oh what would tiger play it was I need to know this he
Was I don’t you know I don’t I don’t listen to that kind of music like as far as like I’m not a rap guy but I’m sure it was something to that extent some type of you know back that would have been 06 I don’t even know who was big
Back then in 06 um who is it it’s um Drake um nice good pull back in 2006 that was the gold there who’s who’s Beyonce married to JayZ JayZ TI maybe some JayZ way yeah he’s little Wayne Lil Wayne was monstrous every time I’ve been around it’s always like 90s hip hop and
He’ll throw some R&B in there too I love that yeah I know it’s your style that’s that’s beautiful that was the golden ER all right that didn’t count as a real question Chris my last one real question two-parter here okay which Tour player do you dread talking to the most after
Their Alma moer beats Florida in football and who do you look forward to talking to the most after you beat after Florida beats their school um it could it’s almost the same person but um I love I love when we win and Jeff sluman or Paul aing are both Florida State guys
So when we beat Florida State and then I hate when um and and he’s and he’s great about it but I just I because they’ve beaten us so many years but David Toms and he’s doesn’t say a bad word once but it’s just it’s so in annoying that he
Has just beaten my butt the Gators or the Gators have lost to them so many times yeah it’s tough that’s a tough conference to come out out of golf wise because it’s just like man they’re just Killers every year I mean Florida’s been it too but you got Georgia LSU I mean
There just somebody’s going to be sleep every year there’s so many there’s so many Georgia bald um you know kizner and you know the hair’s English Hudson swaer and all those guys you know um Tommy tol’s in my era um you know it’s it’s yeah Georgia Bulldog those
Were Georgia and Tennessee were the two schools my kids were not allowed to go to for college anywhere else they could go but they couldn’t go there I like that all right last one we’re going to go back to the 1988 us amiter okay which decision would you like to have over
Again would you actually like to book a hotel room or not giv buddy Alexander your Walkman um I think I probably would have liked to booked my um my my hotel room but he did come back with a great response because I said I said buddy I
Think I’m gonna need that Walkman back when we you know we were playing each other the next day and he goes you know I think I’m gonna need those irons back I said yeah you can keep the Walkman tonight you’re fine they had to play each other I using the university irons
Yeah so buddy Alexander was his coach at Florida they had to play each other in the second round of the US amiter and they were rooming together because Chris didn’t book a hotel room nice little bit awkward little bit awkward do you like your scholarship would you like to keep
It so so buddy said my his Walkman broke and so Chris let him use his each night to listen to it and then they end up playing each other and he’s like hey I’m GNA need my Walkman back he goes well I’m gonna need those irons back I’m
Gonna need I’m G need all the in your door back I’m GNA need it all back exactly what how the match end up forgive me that I don’t know he oh he no he he he whacks me he played some good money M mind games with me for sure um
But you know he was really good at that that type of format obviously he was a US amiter champion so um you know he w 86 and that was only three years later that we played Each Other Well I can tell you this I talked to him for a
Little bit this afternoon he speaks so highly of you he loves you said one of the most fierce competitors he’s ever had on his golf team yeah he’s he he taught me a lot about the game um I owe him a lot to that he taught me how to
Play the game I was natural I had my ability but he taught me about what the game of golf was and how to play the game of golf and I for that I owe him a lot because um you know he was really good at it all time great
