The egolf radio show
Saturdays 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
WFNZ 610AM - Charlotte, NC
Every week Taylor Zarzour brings the world of golf to the airwaves with his insight and special guests .the tour's greats, national known golf writers, and sport celebrities. It is an entertaining two hours each Saturday reviewing the tours, instruction, and special features. Taylor is joined each week by Ben Wright with his unique perspective and Scott Lefevre and his vast instructional experience. Listen in to keep your pulse on what is going on in golf.
Host - Taylor Zarzour
Taylor has worked as a broadcaster all across the fruited plain, starting as a sports reporter for WEAR TV in Pensacola, Fla., in 2000-01. From there he went on to host the Morning Show for Sports Radio 560 in Nashville, Tenn., for a year, before returning home to Mobile where he served as the Program Director and Afternoon Host for Sports Radio 105.5 until 2004.
He first came to North Carolina in June of 2004, serving as Program Director and Morning Host for Triangle Sports Talk 1490/1090 in Raleigh/Durham until the summer of 2006. Before coming to 680 WPTF, Taylor hosted the pre and post game shows for football and men's basketball for the Tar Heel Sports Network in addition to being the play-by-play voice of Carolina's women's basketball team.
Ben Wright
Ben Wright is a name widely known in the world of sports. An Emmy- and Peabody-award winning announcer for golf and many other sports broadcasts for CBS TV for 23 years, Ben Wright, though a native of England, resides in Flat Rock, North Carolina, a short distance from the course he designed:
The Cliffs Valley located in Travelers Rest, SC.
Wright, who has attended major golf events since 1954 and has announced the world's best matches, including the Ryder Cup and the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. A prolific writer, Wright is a published author of two books: his autobiography Good Bounces and Bad Lies and Speak Wright. He served as Editor-at-Large for Links magazine and remains a contributing editor with his column "There I Was." Wright was awarded the MacGregor golf writing contest in both 1982 and 1989. He was also featured in Kevin Costner's successful golf film Tin Cup. Since leaving CBS in November 1999, Wright continues to regularly contribute to Canadian Television, write, commentate, and appear on various programs, prime time specials, and panel discussions.
Scott Lefevre
Scott Lefevre is a PGA Master Teaching Professional and the Director of Instruction at the egolf Center of Charlotte as well as the swing coach for the University of North Carolina Charlotte 49'ers. A native of Western Pennsylvania and a 1987 graduate of Flagler College, Scott became the youngest of the PGA of America's first class of Master Teaching Professionals in 1998. Scott has taught at several of America's top hundred private clubs (Salem Country Club in Boston, Country Club of Detroit, Apawamis Club in New York, Old Elm in Chicago, and Palm Spring's Bermuda Dunes), as well as some of the finest resorts (PGA West, Sea Pines Plantation, El Conquistador in the Caribbean, La Cala in Spain. In the 1980's Scott worked with Jim Flick and Golf Digest Schools at Scottsdale's Desert Mountain.
In the 1990's he joined David Ledbetter's team at Lake Nona working with the top three players in the world at that time Nick Price, Nick Faldo, and Ernie Els. During his Ledbetter years, Scott became fluent in German while teaching in Austria and coaching the Swedish Girls team in Spain. Upon leaving Ledbetter, Scott spent the next five summers instructing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Bigfork, Montana, and Alaska's North Star Club pursuing his passion for fly fishing. Among Scott's motivations is junior golf, where he was lead instructor at Hilton Head's International Junior Golf Academy. He has also served as an assistant coach at Georgia State University.
