Whats more pressure, hosting the CMAs or that twisting downhill 12-foot putt?
VINCE GILL: There is nothing as gut-wrenching as this for me. Not only is it the fact that you play golf in front of people not very often, you don’t very often — I mean, I do some of this stuff but not a lot, and you get a golf club in your hand in front of people, and it’s totally different to the guitar. I don’t have a problem with a guitar and a microphone in front of people, but put that golf club in my hand, and all of a sudden it just takes your nerves and ratchets them up a little bit. It’s also extra pressure for me because I aspire to be a very good golfer. I’ve been a scratch player most of my life and had aspirations of doing what these guys do and was never probably quite good enough. Had I applied to golf what I did to music, I might have been a decent player. But still, you come out here and everybody sees that you have a 0 handicap or a 1 handicap, so then all of a sudden there’s extra pressure because they think you’re going to play great. But just that element of peo
