For more than 50 years, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper has been passionate about golf.
Since taking up the game nearly 50 years ago as he was recovering from alcohol addiction, Alice Cooper has been one of golf’s best-known celebrity devotees. He would say later that he had essentially traded one addiction for another.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has been on the golf course six days a week for the past 30 years (even while touring), boasts an impressive four handicap, and titled his 2007 autobiography “Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.”
In the past, Cooper credited the sport with helping him overcome alcohol issues. He has also hosted an annual charity golf event every April since 1998. Cooper’s next stop? A new golf radio show.
Starting Tuesday, July 2, Cooper, along with longtime PGA Tour pro and 2008 US Open runner-up Rocco Mediate, will debut a monthly golf show called Rolling the Rock on SiriusXM.
Starting Tuesday, July 2, Cooper, along with longtime PGA Tour pro and 2008 US Open runner-up Rocco Mediate, will debut a monthly golf show called Rolling the Rock on SiriusXM.
Sirius announced the new show in a release Monday morning.
“Rocco asked me to do this show with him, talking about rock and golf, and it could not be a more perfect fit,” Cooper said. “We‘ve known each other a long time. We’ve played in many tournaments together. He’s a frustrated rocker and I’m a frustrated golfer. It’s a match made on the fairway to heaven. It’s an anything-goes show that is all improv — we have no idea what we’re going to talk about until we start talking. We’re quite literally just ‘rolling the rock.’”
The show, which will air on SiriusXM’s PGA channel 92, will feature Cooper and Mediate sharing stories from their careers, talking to guests from the golf and entertainment fields, and more.
“Rocco asked me to do this show with him, talking about rock and golf, and it could not be a more perfect fit,” Cooper said. “We‘ve known each other a long time. We’ve played in many tournaments together. He’s a frustrated rocker and I’m a frustrated golfer. It’s a match made on the fairway to heaven. It’s an anything-goes show that is all improv — we have no idea what we’re going to talk about until we start talking. We’re quite literally just ‘rolling the rock.’”
The show, which will air on SiriusXM’s PGA channel 92, will feature Cooper and Mediate sharing stories from their careers, talking to guests from the golf and entertainment fields, and more.
