Richard Bland spoke to the media after winning the Senior PGA Championship, and he shares an emotional interview about his personal motivation behind the big win.
I think I put The Frighteners uh on the putter I went out on the put and green for an hour with a different putter so uh I think I uh yeah I puted so poorly yesterday um so yeah I would I bought a different putter with me and I yeah I kind of just scared my gameer in going out there maybe thinking about putting another putter in today but um I’m glad I didn’t yeah I’m going to go home now um and then uh I come back out to uh two live events in Houston and Nashville um and then yeah I think I think the Senior Open is maybe after that um so yeah I might be now extending my instead of 3 weeks I might be out for four um but yeah um you know this is just you know obviously British Masters was very special at 48 um you know this is this is right up there so uh you I couldn’t be happier yeah um sorry yeah you got um diagnosed with cancer about 14 months ago and he’s just been diagnosed with lung cancer last week so um sorry um this isn’t mine it’s his that’s uh all this week was I just wanted to win for him so but yeah obviously this is my first event um you know I was interested to see how you know if I bought my game how it would stack up against these guys and uh yeah thankfully it does so uh you know we’ll see in the future um I don’t know kind of how many doors this is going to open for me going forward um obviously right now I’m committed to live um so uh uh but like you say I’m just going to enjoy this uh I can’t wait to get home see my brother um see my wife um I’m just going to celebrate the hell out of this one
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Well done Richard , congratulations
Great play sir congratulations, I’m a local from near benton harbor, I’m definitely going to go see the legends play next year. Im sorry to hear about his brothers diagnosis. Hope he recovers
Great stuff