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231 – The Magic In St Andrews! – Kevin Davidson Interview

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Within 24 hours, that Masters champion signed the flag and asked Kevin to tell the story again.

1. Game Improvement Golf Episode 231 centers on Tony Wright's interview with Kevin Davidson about The Magic in St. Andrews by the Positive Golfer. 2. Tony Wright is the host from Game Improvement Golf in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Kevin Davidson is the author whose St. Andrews stories drive the discussion. 3. The episode asks what happens when a lawyer, a golfer, and a positive mindset meet St. Andrews over 40 years. 4. Kevin says he did not really fall in love with golf until he moved to St. Andrews in 2020. 5. He contrasts Aberdeen, where he played about 50 times a year, with St. Andrews, where he says he played about 210 games by the end of December. 6. Kevin says his book began as '10 to Scratch in 10 months' before it became The Magic in St. Andrews by the Positive Golfer. 7. He traces the book back to attending the practice day of the 1984 Open with his dad. 8. Kevin says playing golf with friends and telling the Masters-flag story showed him it was a story worth writing down. 9. He says the book covers 40 years of 'weird, inexplicable things' that felt like they were being delivered to him. 10. Kevin says he is a lawyer by profession, but his first chapter changed his wife Kerry's reaction from caution to tears, laughter, and support. 11. He says Billy Casper signed the Masters flag in 2004 and told him not to let anyone else sign it unless they were a Masters champion. 12. Kevin says the flag now has 19 signatures, and one Masters champion initially said, 'I will not be signing your Masters flag, sir.' 13. He says that same champion signed the flag within 24 hours after asking him to tell the story again. 14. Kevin says the 150th Open at St. Andrews gave him his first exposure to a major tournament in the town as a marshal on hole 2. 15. He says he helped Kevin Kisner find a ball in a gorse bush, which left Kisner with a one-shot penalty instead of a two-shot penalty for a lost ball. 16. Kevin says he also held up the Open for 10 minutes on Saturday afternoon while Lee Westwood and Bryson DeChambeau were involved. 17. He says he later partied with eventual winner Cam Smith at the Old Course Hotel and calls Monique Calkman a 'sliding doors moment.' 18. The interview runs in a relaxed back-and-forth style, with Tony prompting stories and Kevin answering with detailed scenes, names, and exact lines. 19. Golfers who like St. Andrews stories, club competition talk, and positive mindset. 20. Readers who want technical instruction or a short, data-heavy golf episode.

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A warm St. Andrews golf conversation shaped by stories, positivity, and the Open.

Kevin Davidson's St. Andrews stories give the episode its appeal, with the conversation centered on The Magic in St. Andrews by the Positive Golfer and the major championship week that shaped it.

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Hear Tony Wright talk with Kevin Davidson about The Magic in St. Andrews and the stories that came out of a memorable Open week.

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