05/01/13 The Golf Insiders

NOTE: Users can add The Golf Insiders podcast to their iPhone as an app now. Click here and go to the bottom of the device's screen to create the "Quick Launch" icon for the Golf Insiders. Once you've done this it will add The Golf Insiders podcast as an App to your home screen. Holly G and Rich Bianco are in the studio. Rich just finished competing in the North Florida Section Senior Match Play. He lost on the 18th hole of the quarterfinals. Bob Dixon eventually won the tourney. LPGA Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez, 48-time career winning on the LPGA Tour including 3 major championships, calls in to the Golf Insiders from her home in Alabama. Nancy talks about life and that she recently became a grandmother when her daughter gave birth to Molly Dec. 16, 2012. Nancy and Holly talk about the the Legends Tour. The Legends Tour play 12 events culminating with the Handa Open Championship in November. The Tour was at The Villages this past weekend. Nancy Scranton earned her fifth career win at The Legends Tour’s inaugural $225,000 Walgreens Charity Championship. Nancy Lopez Golf provides everything for the ladies from clubs to apparel. Nancy believes that having the right club brings out the best in all players. Golf clubs are typically too heavy and designed for men. Nancy's company started designing clubs and grips for women. Nancy is excited that golf is coming to the Olympics. Bob Harig, ESPN.com, calls in to talk to Rich and Holly from the Wells Fargo Championship. Bob talks about the ruling with Vijay Singh and the ruling on Tiger Woods a few tournaments ago. In Bob's Birides and Bogies column, he feels that Vijay got off on a technicality. Bob said that Vijay committed the violation but they let him off. Gives golf a bit of a black eye. The USGA and the R&A released a statement in great detail about the ruling on Tiger's drop at the Masters. They should have talked to Tiger at the time they discovered the infraction. David Eger, Champions Tour player and former official, was the one who called it on Tiger and eventually saved him from being disqualified. Rich Smith, North Florida PGA ED/CEO, calls in to wrap up the show and talk about Friday's announcement that the HQ would be moving  from Daytona Beach to Reunion Resort. The North Florida section is the 4th largest in the country and runs from Jacksonville to Melbourne to Sarasota up to the panhandle of Florida. They have teamed with Salamander Resorts and Hotels to help grow the game of golf.