September 9, 2025 • 7 mins
Grant Boone from Golf Channel will be the play by play host for the Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G. Grant joined us to preview the event on ESPN1530.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thursday, we are going to be broadcasting from the Kroger
Queen City Championship presented by P and G. This has
become one of the signature events, signature events on the
Cincinnati sports calendar, the LPGA Tour in Town and Awesome
Field and it's going to be showcased on the Golf Channel.
Grant Boone Golf Channel play by play host for the Kroger.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Queen City champion Championship presented by P and G.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I believe on his way to Cincinnati tomorrow for Round
one on Thursday, but kind enough to give us a
few minutes this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Grant, it is awesome to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
How are you, Mo, It's great to talk to you.
I'm doing very well, and you're right. I'm headed up
to Cincinnati in the morning. And this is a trick
that I've made many times. I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee,
listening to Marty and Joe as a diehard Red fan
(00:55):
and went to Riverfront many many times as a kid.
So this drive from Nashville to Cincinnati is a familiar
one and it brings back all all the fields for me.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's for sure, very cool, that's awesome, to hear. What
makes this particular event unique on the LPGA tour.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, I think, first of all, you look at the
history of women's golf in Cincinnati. You go back to
the early nineteen sixties when Kenwood host of the US
Women's Open, and you know, that's where we were the
first couple of years of this championship, and then all
those years a dozen years or so when the then
(01:39):
the LPGA Championship now they know it as the KPMG
Women's PGA was there at King's Island and Nancy Lopez
she didn't win it every year, it just seemed like
she did. And there were so many great memories there
and it really had a i know, a great foot Yeah.
It really made a a strong connection with the community.
(02:03):
You know. I mean that the players loved coming there,
the community loved having the players there, and so to
bring it back as they did in twenty twenty two
was was really fun. I think the date this year
is perfect. Last year it was the week after the
Solheim Cup, which is the Ryder Cup for women's golf,
(02:25):
and so that you didn't get the Nellies necessarily of
the world. But you know, now you've got I think
I counted twenty eight of the top thirty four players
in the world are going to be there, including Lydia Coe,
who kind of capped off her magical twenty twenty four
with a victory there. It's got everything going for it.
(02:46):
It is not too far away, is it from King's Island?
So we get all those vibes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, no question about that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
In terms of storylines for this weekend, give me one
or two that you guys will be tapping into during
the broadcast it begins on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, can Nelly finally win? Here is the superstar who
last year went from great to sublime. She won seven
times five in a row in twenty twenty four. This
year her scoring average is actually lower than it was
last year. But he hasn't won on the LPGA Tour.
(03:22):
Can you tell him out walking in my parents neighborhood? Sorry,
but I'm not walking to Cincinnati, I promise you. Just
sounds like it. Yeah, So, can Nelly finally win? Here's
another thing. We've had this crazy run. So we've had
twenty three different tournaments on the LPGA Tour. One of
(03:42):
them was a team tournament. We've had twenty four different winners.
Of the twenty three events ex year, because neither of
the players who won that team event had also has
another victory this year. So well, back continue and you
think about it, Nelly hasn't won the year. Jim Young Coe,
who's the former number one in the world, she hasn't
(04:03):
won this year. Lily avou and agreeing they haven't won
this year. So could we see that trend continue? We're
seeing great parody in women's golf. The field just keep
getting deeper and deeper. Uh, there's I don't think there's
ever been a harder time to win on the LPGA
Tour than right now. And all that does is just
make everyone better.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I think, yeah, you were you you sort of just
touched on where I was going to go next. It
feels like the the LPGA Tour right now is is
in a really really good place.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I couldn't agree more. Uh, the PGA Tour uh is
is exciting. But when you look at how the the
governing bodies have have kind of collided over the last
few years. With with live golf, you don't have all
of the best players playing together except to the major championship.
(05:00):
In women's golf, you have a lot of weeks like
this one in Cincinnati in which the very best in
the words, it's rare on the LPGA Tour that you
don't at least have a week to week five or
six of the top ten in the world. There's it's
a great time. The Americans have dominated the last five
(05:23):
years on the LPGA Tour. Remember in the two thousands
and twenty ten's Korea really, you know, really rose. Now
you've got Japan rising up and having a great run
of different winners. But the Americans, you know, have really
been dominant in the last five years, and now Japan's
challenging them kind of on a country scale, and it
(05:47):
just makes for great golf. And it's just every week.
Like in Boston the last tournament, you had a player
from Duke, she's from China, went to college at Duke.
She'd never won on the LPGA Tour, but she takes
down the world number one, Gino Tittikun from Thailand, who's
who's been number one in the last six weeks. Uh,
and she stared her, you know, she stared her down
(06:09):
with the birdie on the seventy first hole, and it's
like she's a rookie, and yet it just shows you
how how really good these players are and how how
ready to win they are at a fairly very young age.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
How many miles are you walking right now?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, geez, I'm on Like, let me check my steps,
that's what's my My hooop band say says you need
to were says you need to calm down and find
a quiet place talk to Moe. I'm doing well, can't wait.
It's gonna be a little toasty. Last year was really hot.
It was in that it was in the nineties most
of the week. Little less than that. I suspect it
will be kind of humid, not quite football weather for
(06:47):
the Bengals. But they've got the home opener, don't They got.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
The home opener on Sunday, and so you know that,
plus uh, you guys in town.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It makes for a big sports weekend. It It should.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Be a lot of fun at a course that last
summer I shot a one hundred and three at, so
I'm assuming there will be none of those on the
card this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Did you break the heat index? Is my question? That's
really the only the only real question that no what
it was?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It was August, so so I probably didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But we call it a tie.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We'll call it a.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Tie, that's right. Grant Boon, the play by play host
of the Kroger Queen City Championship, resented by P and G.
Live coverage of all four rounds beginning on Thursday. We
will be there on Thursday, Grant, So I hope to
get a chance by Hi. Hi, Drive safely to Cincinnati
and thank you for your time.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We'll do go red there you
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Go, Grant Boone, Golf Channel the Kroger Queen City Championship,
presented by P and G
Thursday, we are going to be broadcasting from the Kroger
Queen City Championship presented by P and G. This has
become one of the signature events, signature events on the
Cincinnati sports calendar, the LPGA Tour in Town and Awesome
Field and it's going to be showcased on the Golf Channel.
Grant Boone Golf Channel play by play host for the Kroger.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Queen City champion Championship presented by P and G.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I believe on his way to Cincinnati tomorrow for Round
one on Thursday, but kind enough to give us a
few minutes this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Grant, it is awesome to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
How are you, Mo, It's great to talk to you.
I'm doing very well, and you're right. I'm headed up
to Cincinnati in the morning. And this is a trick
that I've made many times. I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee,
listening to Marty and Joe as a diehard Red fan
(00:55):
and went to Riverfront many many times as a kid.
So this drive from Nashville to Cincinnati is a familiar
one and it brings back all all the fields for me.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's for sure, very cool, that's awesome, to hear. What
makes this particular event unique on the LPGA tour.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, I think, first of all, you look at the
history of women's golf in Cincinnati. You go back to
the early nineteen sixties when Kenwood host of the US
Women's Open, and you know, that's where we were the
first couple of years of this championship, and then all
those years a dozen years or so when the then
(01:39):
the LPGA Championship now they know it as the KPMG
Women's PGA was there at King's Island and Nancy Lopez
she didn't win it every year, it just seemed like
she did. And there were so many great memories there
and it really had a i know, a great foot Yeah.
It really made a a strong connection with the community.
(02:03):
You know. I mean that the players loved coming there,
the community loved having the players there, and so to
bring it back as they did in twenty twenty two
was was really fun. I think the date this year
is perfect. Last year it was the week after the
Solheim Cup, which is the Ryder Cup for women's golf,
(02:25):
and so that you didn't get the Nellies necessarily of
the world. But you know, now you've got I think
I counted twenty eight of the top thirty four players
in the world are going to be there, including Lydia Coe,
who kind of capped off her magical twenty twenty four
with a victory there. It's got everything going for it.
(02:46):
It is not too far away, is it from King's Island?
So we get all those vibes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, no question about that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
In terms of storylines for this weekend, give me one
or two that you guys will be tapping into during
the broadcast it begins on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, can Nelly finally win? Here is the superstar who
last year went from great to sublime. She won seven
times five in a row in twenty twenty four. This
year her scoring average is actually lower than it was
last year. But he hasn't won on the LPGA Tour.
(03:22):
Can you tell him out walking in my parents neighborhood? Sorry,
but I'm not walking to Cincinnati, I promise you. Just
sounds like it. Yeah, So, can Nelly finally win? Here's
another thing. We've had this crazy run. So we've had
twenty three different tournaments on the LPGA Tour. One of
(03:42):
them was a team tournament. We've had twenty four different winners.
Of the twenty three events ex year, because neither of
the players who won that team event had also has
another victory this year. So well, back continue and you
think about it, Nelly hasn't won the year. Jim Young Coe,
who's the former number one in the world, she hasn't
(04:03):
won this year. Lily avou and agreeing they haven't won
this year. So could we see that trend continue? We're
seeing great parody in women's golf. The field just keep
getting deeper and deeper. Uh, there's I don't think there's
ever been a harder time to win on the LPGA
Tour than right now. And all that does is just
make everyone better.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I think, yeah, you were you you sort of just
touched on where I was going to go next. It
feels like the the LPGA Tour right now is is
in a really really good place.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I couldn't agree more. Uh, the PGA Tour uh is
is exciting. But when you look at how the the
governing bodies have have kind of collided over the last
few years. With with live golf, you don't have all
of the best players playing together except to the major championship.
(05:00):
In women's golf, you have a lot of weeks like
this one in Cincinnati in which the very best in
the words, it's rare on the LPGA Tour that you
don't at least have a week to week five or
six of the top ten in the world. There's it's
a great time. The Americans have dominated the last five
(05:23):
years on the LPGA Tour. Remember in the two thousands
and twenty ten's Korea really, you know, really rose. Now
you've got Japan rising up and having a great run
of different winners. But the Americans, you know, have really
been dominant in the last five years, and now Japan's
challenging them kind of on a country scale, and it
(05:47):
just makes for great golf. And it's just every week.
Like in Boston the last tournament, you had a player
from Duke, she's from China, went to college at Duke.
She'd never won on the LPGA Tour, but she takes
down the world number one, Gino Tittikun from Thailand, who's
who's been number one in the last six weeks. Uh,
and she stared her, you know, she stared her down
(06:09):
with the birdie on the seventy first hole, and it's
like she's a rookie, and yet it just shows you
how how really good these players are and how how
ready to win they are at a fairly very young age.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
How many miles are you walking right now?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, geez, I'm on Like, let me check my steps,
that's what's my My hooop band say says you need
to were says you need to calm down and find
a quiet place talk to Moe. I'm doing well, can't wait.
It's gonna be a little toasty. Last year was really hot.
It was in that it was in the nineties most
of the week. Little less than that. I suspect it
will be kind of humid, not quite football weather for
(06:47):
the Bengals. But they've got the home opener, don't They got.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
The home opener on Sunday, and so you know that,
plus uh, you guys in town.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It makes for a big sports weekend. It It should.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Be a lot of fun at a course that last
summer I shot a one hundred and three at, so
I'm assuming there will be none of those on the
card this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Did you break the heat index? Is my question? That's
really the only the only real question that no what
it was?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It was August, so so I probably didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But we call it a tie.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We'll call it a.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Tie, that's right. Grant Boon, the play by play host
of the Kroger Queen City Championship, resented by P and G.
Live coverage of all four rounds beginning on Thursday. We
will be there on Thursday, Grant, So I hope to
get a chance by Hi. Hi, Drive safely to Cincinnati
and thank you for your time.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We'll do go red there you
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Go, Grant Boone, Golf Channel the Kroger Queen City Championship,
presented by P and G
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