Podcast: The Shack Show Episode 5 With Guest Cliff Drysdale

If you’ve been watching tennis on ESPN for the last forty years you’ve listened to Cliff Drysdale.

The former grand slam doubles champion, a U.S. Open finalist and International Tennis Hall of Fame member has also served as the first ATP President and popularized the two-handed backhand. Oh and he loves golf.

Knowing how he sprinkles in golf comments, has worked the The Open and played a lot of golf and tennis with Jack Nicklaus, I’ve long wanted to hear from Drysdale on what similarities he sees between golf and tennis. Namely, what he thinks of the shifts to power emphasis, tennis’ effort to dial in a one-dimensional approach, and even the emergence (again) of a team concept as golf considers the Premier Golf League’s dreams of a team competition. We even talked a bit of golf TV vs. tennis TV coverage.

Oh, and I just figured we could all enjoy listening to the 78-year-old’s ageless, calming voice that has made him ESPN’s longest serving on-air presence.

Here’s the iHeart show page, the Apple podcast link and the embed below are good starting places. Or, check out The Shack Show wherever you get your podcasts.