Darius Rucker is an authorized golf nut. Simply ask him

The Hootie & the Blowfish frontman has performed one thing like 70 of our High 100 Programs within the World. Critically.

GOLF: The logical place to start out is how did you get into golf?

Darius Rucker: Oh, man, I used to be fortunate. My finest pal’s dad was within the Navy, and we had three completely different navy bases in Charles- ton [South Carolina] that every one had golf programs. He took me for the primary time after I was 14. It was prompt love for me, and I’ve had a love for golf ever since.

The place did the concept for Monday After the Masters, your charity golf occasion, come from?

It had been a event for a 12 months or two earlier than we bought concerned. We took it over and made it a giant pro-am. It simply took on a lifetime of its personal. It’s been nearly 30 years, and we’ve raised hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to assist youngsters. It’s a kind of issues the place you understand how simple and enjoyable it’s to have golf as a fundraiser.

You’re all the way down to a 4.7 handicap index, and also you’ve credited that to partnering with PXG. What drew you to them?

I turned associates with PXG founder Bob Parsons after he requested me to play a present for him. We hit it off on the golf course, and when he invited me to be a part of the model I used to be honored.

Do you assume being a musician helps your golf recreation? Do you ever hearken to your individual music whenever you apply?

I by no means hearken to my very own stuff, [but] I do hearken to music after I apply and on the course. Being a musician helps me quite a bit. I feel it’s one of many methods my handicap is what it’s, simply because I’ve fairly good tempo and rhythm.

You’re a South Carolinian. What are a few of your favourite programs there?

I like Bulls Bay. I like the Nation Membership of Charleston. Yeamans Corridor, additionally in Charleston. All of the programs at Kiawah. The Dye Course at Barefoot. The Dunes in Myrtle Seaside. There’s so many!

The place is your favourite place to play whenever you’re touring?

My favourite place to play ever is Augusta Nationwide. The truth that I’ve gotten to play there may be wonderful. The place I play recurrently [that] I like probably the most is Scottsdale Nationwide.

You give your identify to an annual girls’s collegiate occasion on Hilton Head. How vital is that to you?

For years, we had the Hootie, a males’s [collegiate] event, so I wished to do one thing for the women. We’re the primary non-NCAA Championship girls’s faculty event on TV. It’s nice to be bringing extra eyes to girls’s golf. You exit and play with these younger women and [they’re] hitting it 40 yards previous me. They’ll play, and I love to showcase that.

Watch the video on this web page for an prolonged interview with Darius Rucker, who riffs on his hit “Wagon Wheel,” a man named Woods and extra.