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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I'm Randy the tank Tantlinger. Sorry, you know I got
the Pittsburg Steelers on my mind, got the Oakland Raiders
on my mind?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
What else?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I got sunshine on my mind? I guess because it's
a dreary day in Pittsburgh. Welcome to the golfing around
radio Hour. I'm here a wacky radio host. If you've
turned in to listen to I don't know who was
that Paul Harvey back in the day or some serious
NPR talk. Ain't gonna happen here, buddy, This one's missing
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Tune Tom too too. Hey, it is the Golfing Around
Radio Hour. Look, if you're a golfer and you don't
like to laugh and joke and drink and smoke cigars
and have fun, this is not the radio show for you.
Go ahead, turn it to another station. They have on
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They have a show called Let's Paint Houses where they
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go around and paint houses in Steubenville.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Please turn to that channel because we like to laugh here,
we like to have a good time on the Golfing
Around Radio Hour. Just call me Tank. That's what my
grandmother used to call me, and my mother, so you
can call me Tank too. Well, this is gonna be
a great show this week. I mean, we've got so
much to golf to talk about, all right. So look,
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everybody knows Myrtle Beach, right, everybody knows Myrtle Beach. If
you're a golfer, you know Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Just a little north of there, okay, is Brunswick, North Carolina.
Check out the Brunswick, North Carolina golf trail. Yeah. Yeah,
so much going on, and it's all along that thing
we call an ocean, the big Blue water with all
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the fishes in it and mermaids and mister Limpett. Yeah,
that's Brunswick, North Carolina. And they've got some great golf
down that way, all right, the Sea Trail Golf Resort,
Sea Trail Golf Resort. You gotta try him out. Look
at Sea Trail dot com. See Trail dot com. Couldn't
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get any easier for you, your morons. What all right, Tank?
Why do I want to go to Sea Trail in Brunswick,
North Carolina. One because beside the ocean and seagulls and
slow pace of life, relaxation, getting out of the city
wherever you're listening to, whether this is on the iHeart
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podcast network nationally and you're listening to Omaha, Nebraska or California.
Even you want to leave California, come to the East Coast,
come to Brunswick, North Carolina. It's kind of like stepping
back in time. People take their time down there. It's slow,
it's leisurely. It's a nice place. People still say please
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and thank you. In Brunswick, North Carolina, home to the
Sea Trail Golf Resort, three distinct signature courses. I don't
do Matt real well, so eighteen thirty six, twenty seven
poles at Sea Trail Golf Resort, Rhys Jones Design, Dan Maples,
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Willard Bird really really some great golf at Sea Pines
Golf Resort. You know the sand base in the area,
it provides a wonderful, wonderful Well, how do I say
this tapestry to lay those beautiful green emerald carpets down?
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Since there's a sand base, guess what sand traps that
are natural to the topography of all three eighteens there
You've got a beautiful marsh beside it. You've got all
that goes along with a marsh all, the tranquility of
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the seabirds and lake bird. So look, I can't say
enough about Sea Pines Resort. Tell you what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I'm gonna get you a driver, a doorheage driver out
of my bag here, and I'm gonna crank one up
John Daily style, and we're gonna go down and talk
to Doug Donner.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Well, he's in charge of that joint down there at
Sea Trail in Brunswick, North Carolina. Beautiful Brunswick Island, North Carolina. Well,
not only is it home to nature and alligators and
sea turtles and just beauty and sunset beach. But here
at Sea Trails, they've got three great golf courses.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Doug.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Look, if somebody's coming down from Canada or Chicago or
or Pittsburgh, PA, let's do a geographical lesson here exactly
where Brunswick County, North Carolina is located.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, I mean we share a border with South Carolina,
so we're just located just north of the border in
North Carolina, right on the coast in Brunswick County.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And what is it five little islands you have off
the coast here?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
It's five? I think it's five total.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, wow, just gorgeous and it's a weird thing. Later
in the year.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Down here in Brunswick, North Carolina, you can actually get
a sunrise and a sunset at the right time on
some of the beaches down here.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Yeah, I mean it's called sunset beach here. Actually where
we're at.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Duh on me, Sea Trails resort. Here do we call
plantation resort Sea trails resorts resort?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yes, sea trail resorts.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Doug here is going to talk us about this lovely,
lovely property not only with accommodations but also three distinct
golf courses that are going to cause you to use
every club in your bag, no doubt, right, Yeah, definitely, Yeah,
you long hitters are going to have some options there.
You guys that are wedge players. Guess what we got
golf courses for you too.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Well. The good thing we'll start with is we've got
three full, eighteen whole golf courses actually by a different
designer each one of them. So we've got a unique
experience at each one of the courses.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, if you pay play a Pete Die golf course,
you know what you're getting with a Pete Die.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So you've got a Reese Jones design.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
We've got a Reese Jones. We've got a Willard Bird,
Willard Bird, and we've got a Dan Maples as well.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh, everybody loves Dan Maples in the South.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I do too. That's actually that's my favorite of the
three courses.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
When you say Maples has a soft, gentle way of designing,
like we just said, Pete Die, I mean Die gives
you the world railroad ties and problems and real rough lines.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Maple is more of a monet.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
It's it's a subtle just honestly, every time I'm out there,
it's like an easy feeling.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's what I like about it, right, Yeah, three great
different golf experiences.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yes, yes, we've got the three different golf experiences. We've
got the accommodations actually on property. So the good thing
here we like to have you. You know, once you
come here, you've got three courses to play, You've got
morning afternoon tea times. You know, you can do thirty
six holes a day three days. You can go right
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back to your condo, which is right on property. You
really don't have to leave the area.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The condos are really what we're staying in are just magnificent.
I know some properties are a little bit dated and
don't put back into their condo experiences, but you guys
are really top shelf in the condos. I'm really enjoying it.
Everything's all. Here's the crazy thing. You know what impressed me?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
A shower curtain.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
A shower curtain.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yes. Have you seen the shower curtains in the condos?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
You know I haven't.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It is the coolest thing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'll probably put it in the video, you know where
the loop comes over the shower. Yeah, instead of having
the loop exposed. It is a palm tree.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Oh that is cool.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It is just a little classy thing.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah, that's attention to detail and to me,
that's what so far as sea trails, I'm enjoying because
you can open up your doors and Okay, we'll renovate
every five years. Don't worry, we'll paint you.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Guys are on top of things.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, and that's you know, that's kind of being up
here in Brunswick County.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We have that.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Yeah, it's a little more of a laid back feel
and we try to do that with everything here on property,
you know, from the backdrop to in the pro shop.
We want everybody to come here feel relaxed. You're on vacation.
You know, you're not supposed to be stressed out about
work or any of that stuff. So you come here,
you relax. That's what we try to give you, is
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that experience to be able to relax. I'll enjoy this
beautiful sun.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, the southern sunshine, no doubt about it. Now it
is mid October. Now the people up north that's starting
to get a little bit colder, especially Canada. Yeah, it's
getting colder, you know, they're heading south.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Laid back lifestyle here.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The niceness to tranquility I think is not only a
selling point for someone that would want to come visit Brunswick,
North Carolina, but maybe even move here.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Oh definitely.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I mean that's kind of been a big, a big
push here now is we've seen a lot more people
actually come down here for retirement. Like, for instance, when
you first drove into the to the gates here, you
saw all these new single family homes going up. We've
actually got several single family homes. We've got a few
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multi family homes going up just in this property alone.
So that's been a big trend, is you know, people
actually moving down here, whether it's time or you know,
we have snowbirds, we have this people just having their
vacation homes. We've seen a lot more of that than
we've had in the path.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, let's get back into golfing around these three beautiful
golf courses. Yes, I mean, uh, the rece course I
really enjoy very much.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
There's the mounding.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You know, I hate the word lynx esque, yes, you know,
because you know lynx esk I hate. But you've got
a lot of mounding around the green complexes. And it's
to me on the on on the rece course, it's, uh,
you got nice fairways green complexes.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Uh yeah, I mean that's kind of where your strokes
are gonna be gained and lost out here on on
the Jones course that is, you know, it's generous from
tee to green, but around the green is where you're
gonna see the mounding around the green. So if you
miss the green, you know you're gonna have a tough
up and down.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And and here's the point with that for for me.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So if you mound and I really like them, okay, okay,
if you're a heavy bomber like these kids are anymore,
I'm buying three twenty off the tea box.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What you know, even to eighty yeah, you know to
me is long?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, well too right, And then their second shot is
equally as long. Then they're on the green and they're putting,
and then they're putting all kind of you know, eagles
and pars up to me, when you reached Jones designs,
the i'll call it the United Kingdom, Scottish Ireland, mounding
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around the greens.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, then your long ball doesn't help you.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You gotta go to work.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
If one of those balls gets, say, behind a mound
that's eight feet up above the green, guess what this
is called a pitching ledge.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It takes great.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Control, right, and it's to me that brings the game
more into it really, instead of just a green that okay, okay,
you got a bunker there and some water there.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Well, I'll tell you a perfect example, number ten, just
over three hundred yards from the back tees. We actually
had a hole in one on that whole the other day.
But I've seen plenty of.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Those three ten Yeah, you know, stop three ten hole
in one. Yes, yes, this is why you're using yeah, right.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
But I've also seen the same people, you know, go
for that green. There's water all in front of it,
there's a bunker that protects that green, and obviously all
the mounding around it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Talk us through the other course, what's like distinctive. I mean,
we know the Rhys Jones course has the mounding around
the greens.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
What would the maple, Yes, the maples is going to
be more your traditional tree line course. So that's actually
the oldest course that we have on the property. That
was the first one that was built, and it has
a lot of mature oaks on it. It gives you
a little bit more of that your typical country club,
old school field. I always love. I heard a guy
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today actually talk about how he was playing hickory stick clubs.
Yeah yeah, and I said, man, that would fit perfect
over the Maples. That's I always say. It's it's a
traditional feel. Everything there is kind of your your natural
traditional golf course. I love it because it's not it's
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not a long course, but again you know that's where
your drives have to be in play.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, I'm a member of the Golf Heritage Society, okay,
and we play hickory tournaments all the time. Okay, so
you know that HARKing back to the lineage of golf.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is the maple design.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
That's that's it. I mean, that's kind.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Of did I say, do I get a cookie?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
You get? You get a cookie? That's the big thing
over on Maples is it. It's traditional.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I love the feel of it. It reminds me of
when I was young. You know, I'm from smaller town
than Kansas, and it's it's a different feel than what
golf has turned into with the you know everything being grandioso.
This is just your straight up we're playing golf. I
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love that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah right, yeah yeah, every every every course anymore seems
to be eight thousand yards.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Alos, these kids are banging at three twenty. Well that's it,
you know all right. Our third course talk third.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Course is the bird course, will or bird that one
is going to be a little bit tighter of your course,
you know, not as tight as Maples. Bird is really
big into you know, creating the water hazards, the the
it has some some fairway bunkers in there, some waste areas.
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His whole thing is basically trying to make it feel
like you're in nature.
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Welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio Hour. I'm your host,
the world's greatest hacker, Randy the Tank Tatling or it
just called me tank. My grand mommy did, and my
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radio hour. It just feels so good to say it again. Man,
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it's been a long winter. Hopefully I can get this
first round of golf in next week, and it's gonna
be ugly. It's gonna be ugly, no doubt about it.
No delusions of about two hundred and eighty yard drives.
They'll be drives of one hundred and forty yard hooks
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and slices, slice hooks, one of the greatest shots in
all of golf if you can pull it off. The
old slice hook out there for one hundred and thirty
seven yards. Oh yeah, it's gonna be nasty. Chunks of
turf flying up in the air. Some people call them divots.
I call them runways. My old buddy, Jim McMahon, Mike McMahon,
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I get the too confused. Played quarterback with the Lions.
Does let's talk stealers here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Do it wheeling with me.
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We're gonna try to hit the links. It's gonna be
good to get out there and swing. Get loosened up
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Hall of Famers come to Canton, guess where they go play? Well,
they go play they they go play Glenmore, they play Glenmore, they.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Go back to Quarry.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We've got the two very best golf courses maybe in
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You do not need a USGA again handicap to play.
And you ask any of our winners and our losers
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we'll be playing one here in Pittsburgh. Very excited to
announce that coming up. So let's take a little trip.
Grab that driver. We're gonna bang it down the fairway
and head over to Campton. Right now, we're gonna talk
to the good folks over there at the Glenmore Country Club,
host a round two. Perfect venue. It's got a Scottish
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feel to it. There's an armored knight waiting for you
as you step into the clubhouse. Right all right, let's
go talk to Frank and Seawan over at the Glenmore
Country Club, site of our championship round for the twenty
twenty five Team USA National Championships. When you speak about well,
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lineage and prestige, when you mentioned the name Jack Nicholas,
he is the goat to me, sir, sir, he is
the goat. I don't want to hear about Tiger.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Jack is playing with persimean head clubs and golf balls
that were hard as rocks. But I'm taking Jack off
the He's the goat.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
No question about it. But Nicholas and his designs, He's
not only done this course, He's done a course up
north that I was accustomed to called Barrant. And the
owner that found Jack his name was bart L. Woolfstein
and his lovely wife Iris, and they encouraged him to
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build a couple of golf courses in you know, the
Ohio area, way back in. It was in nineteen eighty
nine is when I think.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
They approached him.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
And you look out at this city. My golf professional
can tell you about a lot more about the golf,
because my handicap's too hot to talk about the golf.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, I actually wrote a letter to the USGA and
see if they would take it as high as forty seven,
and I got an answer back he.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Knew, well, I could be at twenty some other places,
but I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Like forty years.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Glenmore Country Club.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, when you speak about prestige, Jack Nicholas signature golf
course here.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
This is a beautiful property.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
But be on the golf course and we'll get to
the golf course with Jean later. This building one hundred
years old, built in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
One nineteen twenty nine, there was an old Brunderdale seminary
and it's basically the only thing that's been added on
is the small area. So what they did they basically
got it the whole building. And back in nineteen ninety
three when I was here as the F and B manager,
we had a two rooms, two floors of hotel rooms,
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so we only had like twenty hotel rooms.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We had the.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Clubhouse which is built you don't get to see the
justice of it. There's a chapel which where they used
to do mass seven days a week is out one
of the most glorious ballrooms in northeast Ohio where we're
doing up words around thirty weddings of the year, are
you right.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
We also have another Turnbury room which can do two
to three hundred people.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Let's really build for.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The conferences, so we can still do conferences in it.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
We have smaller meeting rooms. There's seven of them, so
we can to all their needs. And since I've coming back,
we've added on two more floors of hotel rooms. Right
now we're fifty five overnight rooms.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh wonderful, so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Tell me what the accommodations look like I mean, I
imagine with this beautiful building formerly the monastery and the
church within it, they've got to be glorious.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I think they're all you know, Iris's Iris is still going.
Iris fol State is still once alive. Beautiful lady had
ninety five and she had all the architecture designs approved
by her, and I think all of her rich traditions
is what you'll see a lot of our hotel rooms.
We still have some I want to say, antique furniture
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in some of the rooms, but still really rich and
look to it very comfortable. Showed me to have a
couple of suitets with the hot tubs, and the building
is so particular, so neat. There are three personal condominiums
inside where they have their own condos. Two are in
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the front of the building and went into the back.
So there's a lot to do with the hotel rooms
and the rich tradition of looks, and it brings you
right to my next thing. You're like, we hardly ever
shut down.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
We serve food seven days a week, three restaurants. I
can't see it right now, but our pool area is
another food Avenue open May to September.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, I swear to you before that one of the
saddest things, you know, is when the pool closes down
for the year, the kids laughing, the splashing of water,
just you know, it makes people happy when you hear that.
And speaking of happy, you must you talked about it.
You're always busy here. People are coming for lunch, dinner
and the golf and staying here. I spoke with some
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of your members out there and a lot of times,
and you know this, you've.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Been in the industry for a while.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Members can be a little bit salty and crusty. Your
members are all happy, the least the ones I met
out there.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Oh yeah, they're all sitting right there. Some of them
been here since I was here in ninety three, so
I'm back to see them. Yeah, it's kind of cool. Well,
that's my members here when I was in ninety three
to ninety seven. They're still members, still enjoying their clue
golf and their lunch and their drink and their dinner.
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And you know, but we have a lot of.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
New members to us.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
It's a great membership.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
We'ret about three hundred and seventy members here, amore. We're
always looking to find more. There's always room to grow.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well, the fact that they're still here from the early
nineties when you first opened up, speaks of volumes to
you know. I'll use the word family feel so far.
When I went into the pro shop, the guys were friendly.
All your members have been friendly. There's a family fill
here Well.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I think that comes from the top down. Bart and
Iris always believed in trying to promote with Dan ain't
keeping people.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You know.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
I left here in ninety seven to go it's another property,
and I still have been with family ever since. And
I was encouraged to come back when the last manager
it's time from retire. He didn't quit, it's time from retired.
And you'll see most of my staff. My HR person,
her name's Pat she was my supervisor at Well. I
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was her supervisor back in ninety three to ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio. R I'm your host,
Randy the Tank Tantlinger. Excited for golf season to start.
I know you guys are. The courses were packed last weekend.
I couldn't even so busy, couldn't even make it to
a driving range, but a few short weeks. All right, them,
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they're pros. They've already been playing. Why I've been languishing
for around in Jones and here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We're
gonna get into some equipment review conversations now. I gotta
be honest. Like a couple of years ago, we got
sent these golf balls from a Korean manufacturer, Saint Cloud
(30:16):
or something. They had these cute animals on them. Just
garbage golf balls. I mean, just I can't even explain it.
They were garbage Saint nine, that was them. You saw
them in every clubhouse for a while. They're junk man,
You're wasting your money on any level. On any level,
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It's like hitting a brick. I mean, just got awful.
And one of the things that has really annoyed me.
In today's golf market, you got to take a step back. See,
golf's exploded since COVID globally. Globally, there's been at least
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a twenty seven to thirty percent increase in golfers. Those
are big numbers. I mean, when you already had thirty
two million people golfing, men and women and children in
America and you tack on twenty seven percent more new golfers.
It's a lot of golfers. It's great for the game.
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Love it new golfers. You're welcome to play as me anytime.
Just invited a new friend. He said, I don't even
have a golf clubs. I said, I don't care. I
got an extra bag. I said, if you hit the
ball two feet, we get to drink. If you hit
it forty feet, we get two drinks. That's kind of game.
We'll play that day and have some fun. But what
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gets my goat is this. There's always a snake oil
salesman somewhere, isn't there. I bought a heater a couple
of years ago, supposed to plug in the wall and
fill up the whole room. He stole my twenty five dollars.
Shame on me. There's so many crap clubs coming out now.
(32:08):
Is what I want to get to junk garbage. They
can sell them on Facebook pop up ads and the
price is always right. The price compared to a Cobra driver,
compared to a Cleveland shricks on wedge compared to tour Edge, well,
(32:33):
anything by tour Edge, trust me, take it to the
bank on tour Edge. Anything by ping PXG. But these
off brands, and one thing that's happened is they've taken
old names like Olamar that your grandfather knew, O R
(33:00):
l I m A r or Lamar O Lamar very popular.
At one point, they really were. They were decent clubs
back in the day. But the brand has been sold.
(33:21):
It's been sold. Hereul Rico Trading Company owns it. Let's
see where old hire Rico is out of huh herel
Rico Golf bought the brand. Think of it this way.
When you go to Wendy's, you expect that a Frosty's
gonna taste like a Frosty. You expect that a Wendy's
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triple is gonna taste like a Wendy's triple. And the
old Baconator baby tastes like the Baconator. Well, the folks
at here Rico hi r Eko Golf Clubs are betting
that the name they bought from Olamar, and we'll get
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into their other brands will carry the day, will carry
the day. These clubs won't even carry the water in
front of you. These clubs won't even carry the trap
in front of you. Their garbage, their garbage now they
(34:32):
do put some of the best grips on these garbage clubs,
Golf Pride Superstroke when of course they got a grip
called Karma that they make. But I'm telling you, it
(34:54):
upsets me to no end that all these junk clubs
up manufacturers are coming out because you guys that are
new to the game that twenty seven percent internationally worldwide.
You see it putter a Cameron, let's just say two
(35:17):
hundred dollars, and you go to the h I R.
E Ko golf dot com website and you see a
bionic golf assembled red potter for thirty eight bucks. And
you don't live in no mansion and you buyy beyond it,
(35:41):
you bought junk. How about the Dinercraft driving iron. How
about the intech approach two way chipper for seventy dollars.
Any golf pro hotel, you get a seven iron, I'll
show you how to make mad you come around the greens.
(36:02):
Don't grab your pitching wedge, grab your seven iron. Oh
you can pay seventy bucks for the piece of junk
in a tech approach to weight chipper. I know I
demoed one of them a couple of years ago. I've
been kind of like looking at their stuff the last
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couple of years, and every single time I had nothing
nice to say, Like the driver they sent me a
couple of years ago by power Built, power Built. Don't
they make tools, Yes, they make tools that power built. Well,
somehow power Bilt makes golf clubs. Now the shaft underneath
(36:53):
the grip broke into about four rounds junk garbage. But
had you a paid for the air attack by power Built,
you would have paid ninety dollars plus shipping and handling.
How about the power Built Series eight hundred putter for
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fifty bucks probably junk. All the other stuff's junk. Or
you can get yourself and invest four hundred dollars in
a pair of irons by power Bill. Now, Dear new golfer,
dear friend, I want you to enjoy the game. I
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want you and I to go golfing someday. I want
you to love the game. I don't want you to
get frustrated because you bought a cheap piece of junk
from Hyreco Golf that makes Olamar power Bill, because that's
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what's gonna happen. You think you're saving money by buying
junk clubs. By Power Build. All of them are in
tech Night. I don't you know what night is. Let's
see Night. It's on the h I R E Ko
(38:23):
Golf website. See what this piece of junk is. Oh
the Night Too saw me Driver sixty nine. The Night
Too saw me as a stylish driver for beginning golfers
at an affordable price. See this is what I'm talking about.
I'm on their website now. The four hundred cc volume
(38:45):
maximum strength allowed by usg It stills confidence. No it
you know what it does. It steals your money and
you're not gonna love the game and you're not gonna
stick with it. Again, you're listening to the golfer around
Radio hour. I like to keep things positive. But again,
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with all new golfers out there, I want you to
love and enjoy the game. I see so much junk
clubs coming over because they can market it to you.
You know, a guy starting out, maybe he's trying to
feed his family. Oh the Night Too saw Me for
(39:30):
seventy bucks. I'll buy it that he never plays after
the first year.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Again.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
How about the r L I m ar Olamar Big brand.
Back in the seventies, somebody bought the name Olamar Golf
Intercept single length iron set three nine brand new. What's
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it come with? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
oh seven irons like it should? Right, dude, Ladies, go
(40:25):
please do not buy junk clubs from h I R
e Ko Golf, whether it be Olamar, Knight in Tech.
Let me let you in on a secret. There's all
kind of companies out there and on Facebook used pin clubs.
(40:48):
Guys are always selling used clubs at good prices. Go
get a pair of tour Edges, irons a set, Go
get a U set of Pings. You'll love the game.
Callaway p XG all the major clubmakers. Find that Tommy Cameron.
(41:10):
Don't buy the junk in a Tech for fifty bucks,
You're gonna hate it. Don't buy the power Build driver
for seventy you won't fall in love with the game.
Go find seek out research Cleveland Tricks, on Ping, tour Edge,
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I can't say enough about tour Edge, Cobra Golf, Odyssey Putters.
I can't get off my Odyssey putter, Edison Wedges, Cleveland Tricks.
Anybody but con Ar just liked H I R E
(41:55):
Ko Golf. They're junk. You won't fall in love with
the game, You'll quit and we'll lose you. You're listening to
the Golfing around Radio hour. I'm your host, Randy the
Tank Tatler and again, I love to keep positive because
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I love our game. But I can't stand snake oral salesman.
I just can't. Let's see what they sell their golf
bags for. I mean, if they're giving a golf bag away,
but I'm not even the power built USA Flag Kirk
golf bag one hundred and fifty bucks. Go get a
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Sun Mountain
Oh, Steelers Nation, It's well, wait a minute, it's only April.
I was getting ahead of myself with some Steelers talk.
Anybody want to play quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in
twenty twenty five. Please submit your resume to Artronie the
Second at Pittsburgh Steelers dot Com. No prior experience necessary. Hey,
(00:27):
I'm Randy the tank Tantlinger. Sorry, you know I got
the Pittsburg Steelers on my mind, got the Oakland Raiders
on my mind?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
What else?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I got sunshine on my mind? I guess because it's
a dreary day in Pittsburgh. Welcome to the golfing around
radio Hour. I'm here a wacky radio host. If you've
turned in to listen to I don't know who was
that Paul Harvey back in the day or some serious
NPR talk. Ain't gonna happen here, buddy, This one's missing
(00:59):
a screw. And for some reason, the good folks at iHeartRadio,
Fox Sports Radio give me the keys on the weekend
and I can do whatever I want and say whatever
I want on the radio and no one can stop
me other than space aliens from the planet Nebble loot
(01:21):
Tune Tom too too. Hey, it is the Golfing Around
Radio Hour. Look, if you're a golfer and you don't
like to laugh and joke and drink and smoke cigars
and have fun, this is not the radio show for you.
Go ahead, turn it to another station. They have on
the ED that big am station over there out of Steubenville.
They have a show called Let's Paint Houses where they
(01:44):
go around and paint houses in Steubenville.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Please turn to that channel because we like to laugh here,
we like to have a good time on the Golfing
Around Radio Hour. Just call me Tank. That's what my
grandmother used to call me, and my mother, so you
can call me Tank too. Well, this is gonna be
a great show this week. I mean, we've got so
much to golf to talk about, all right. So look,
(02:10):
everybody knows Myrtle Beach, right, everybody knows Myrtle Beach. If
you're a golfer, you know Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Just a little north of there, okay, is Brunswick, North Carolina.
Check out the Brunswick, North Carolina golf trail. Yeah. Yeah,
so much going on, and it's all along that thing
we call an ocean, the big Blue water with all
(02:38):
the fishes in it and mermaids and mister Limpett. Yeah,
that's Brunswick, North Carolina. And they've got some great golf
down that way, all right, the Sea Trail Golf Resort,
Sea Trail Golf Resort. You gotta try him out. Look
at Sea Trail dot com. See Trail dot com. Couldn't
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get any easier for you, your morons. What all right, Tank?
Why do I want to go to Sea Trail in Brunswick,
North Carolina. One because beside the ocean and seagulls and
slow pace of life, relaxation, getting out of the city
wherever you're listening to, whether this is on the iHeart
(03:23):
podcast network nationally and you're listening to Omaha, Nebraska or California.
Even you want to leave California, come to the East Coast,
come to Brunswick, North Carolina. It's kind of like stepping
back in time. People take their time down there. It's slow,
it's leisurely. It's a nice place. People still say please
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and thank you. In Brunswick, North Carolina, home to the
Sea Trail Golf Resort, three distinct signature courses. I don't
do Matt real well, so eighteen thirty six, twenty seven
poles at Sea Trail Golf Resort, Rhys Jones Design, Dan Maples,
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Willard Bird really really some great golf at Sea Pines
Golf Resort. You know the sand base in the area,
it provides a wonderful, wonderful Well, how do I say
this tapestry to lay those beautiful green emerald carpets down?
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Since there's a sand base, guess what sand traps that
are natural to the topography of all three eighteens there
You've got a beautiful marsh beside it. You've got all
that goes along with a marsh all, the tranquility of
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the seabirds and lake bird. So look, I can't say
enough about Sea Pines Resort. Tell you what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I'm gonna get you a driver, a doorheage driver out
of my bag here, and I'm gonna crank one up
John Daily style, and we're gonna go down and talk
to Doug Donner.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Well, he's in charge of that joint down there at
Sea Trail in Brunswick, North Carolina. Beautiful Brunswick Island, North Carolina. Well,
not only is it home to nature and alligators and
sea turtles and just beauty and sunset beach. But here
at Sea Trails, they've got three great golf courses.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Doug.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Look, if somebody's coming down from Canada or Chicago or
or Pittsburgh, PA, let's do a geographical lesson here exactly
where Brunswick County, North Carolina is located.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, I mean we share a border with South Carolina,
so we're just located just north of the border in
North Carolina, right on the coast in Brunswick County.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And what is it five little islands you have off
the coast here?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
It's five? I think it's five total.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, wow, just gorgeous and it's a weird thing. Later
in the year.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Down here in Brunswick, North Carolina, you can actually get
a sunrise and a sunset at the right time on
some of the beaches down here.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Yeah, I mean it's called sunset beach here. Actually where
we're at.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Duh on me, Sea Trails resort. Here do we call
plantation resort Sea trails resorts resort?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yes, sea trail resorts.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Doug here is going to talk us about this lovely,
lovely property not only with accommodations but also three distinct
golf courses that are going to cause you to use
every club in your bag, no doubt, right, Yeah, definitely, Yeah,
you long hitters are going to have some options there.
You guys that are wedge players. Guess what we got
golf courses for you too.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Well. The good thing we'll start with is we've got
three full, eighteen whole golf courses actually by a different
designer each one of them. So we've got a unique
experience at each one of the courses.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, if you pay play a Pete Die golf course,
you know what you're getting with a Pete Die.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So you've got a Reese Jones design.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
We've got a Reese Jones. We've got a Willard Bird,
Willard Bird, and we've got a Dan Maples as well.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh, everybody loves Dan Maples in the South.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I do too. That's actually that's my favorite of the
three courses.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
When you say Maples has a soft, gentle way of designing,
like we just said, Pete Die, I mean Die gives
you the world railroad ties and problems and real rough lines.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Maple is more of a monet.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
It's it's a subtle just honestly, every time I'm out there,
it's like an easy feeling.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's what I like about it, right, Yeah, three great
different golf experiences.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yes, yes, we've got the three different golf experiences. We've
got the accommodations actually on property. So the good thing
here we like to have you. You know, once you
come here, you've got three courses to play, You've got
morning afternoon tea times. You know, you can do thirty
six holes a day three days. You can go right
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back to your condo, which is right on property. You
really don't have to leave the area.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The condos are really what we're staying in are just magnificent.
I know some properties are a little bit dated and
don't put back into their condo experiences, but you guys
are really top shelf in the condos. I'm really enjoying it.
Everything's all. Here's the crazy thing. You know what impressed me?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
A shower curtain.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
A shower curtain.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yes. Have you seen the shower curtains in the condos?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
You know I haven't.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It is the coolest thing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'll probably put it in the video, you know where
the loop comes over the shower. Yeah, instead of having
the loop exposed. It is a palm tree.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Oh that is cool.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It is just a little classy thing.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah, that's attention to detail and to me,
that's what so far as sea trails, I'm enjoying because
you can open up your doors and Okay, we'll renovate
every five years. Don't worry, we'll paint you.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Guys are on top of things.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, and that's you know, that's kind of being up
here in Brunswick County.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We have that.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Yeah, it's a little more of a laid back feel
and we try to do that with everything here on property,
you know, from the backdrop to in the pro shop.
We want everybody to come here feel relaxed. You're on vacation.
You know, you're not supposed to be stressed out about
work or any of that stuff. So you come here,
you relax. That's what we try to give you, is
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that experience to be able to relax. I'll enjoy this
beautiful sun.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, the southern sunshine, no doubt about it. Now it
is mid October. Now the people up north that's starting
to get a little bit colder, especially Canada. Yeah, it's
getting colder, you know, they're heading south.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Laid back lifestyle here.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The niceness to tranquility I think is not only a
selling point for someone that would want to come visit Brunswick,
North Carolina, but maybe even move here.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Oh definitely.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I mean that's kind of been a big, a big
push here now is we've seen a lot more people
actually come down here for retirement. Like, for instance, when
you first drove into the to the gates here, you
saw all these new single family homes going up. We've
actually got several single family homes. We've got a few
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multi family homes going up just in this property alone.
So that's been a big trend, is you know, people
actually moving down here, whether it's time or you know,
we have snowbirds, we have this people just having their
vacation homes. We've seen a lot more of that than
we've had in the path.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, let's get back into golfing around these three beautiful
golf courses. Yes, I mean, uh, the rece course I
really enjoy very much.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
There's the mounding.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You know, I hate the word lynx esque, yes, you know,
because you know lynx esk I hate. But you've got
a lot of mounding around the green complexes. And it's
to me on the on on the rece course, it's, uh,
you got nice fairways green complexes.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Uh yeah, I mean that's kind of where your strokes
are gonna be gained and lost out here on on
the Jones course that is, you know, it's generous from
tee to green, but around the green is where you're
gonna see the mounding around the green. So if you
miss the green, you know you're gonna have a tough
up and down.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And and here's the point with that for for me.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So if you mound and I really like them, okay, okay,
if you're a heavy bomber like these kids are anymore,
I'm buying three twenty off the tea box.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What you know, even to eighty yeah, you know to
me is long?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, well too right, And then their second shot is
equally as long. Then they're on the green and they're putting,
and then they're putting all kind of you know, eagles
and pars up to me, when you reached Jones designs,
the i'll call it the United Kingdom, Scottish Ireland, mounding
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around the greens.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, then your long ball doesn't help you.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You gotta go to work.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
If one of those balls gets, say, behind a mound
that's eight feet up above the green, guess what this
is called a pitching ledge.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It takes great.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Control, right, and it's to me that brings the game
more into it really, instead of just a green that okay, okay,
you got a bunker there and some water there.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Well, I'll tell you a perfect example, number ten, just
over three hundred yards from the back tees. We actually
had a hole in one on that whole the other day.
But I've seen plenty of.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Those three ten Yeah, you know, stop three ten hole
in one. Yes, yes, this is why you're using yeah, right.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
But I've also seen the same people, you know, go
for that green. There's water all in front of it,
there's a bunker that protects that green, and obviously all
the mounding around it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Talk us through the other course, what's like distinctive. I mean,
we know the Rhys Jones course has the mounding around
the greens.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
What would the maple, Yes, the maples is going to
be more your traditional tree line course. So that's actually
the oldest course that we have on the property. That
was the first one that was built, and it has
a lot of mature oaks on it. It gives you
a little bit more of that your typical country club,
old school field. I always love. I heard a guy
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today actually talk about how he was playing hickory stick clubs.
Yeah yeah, and I said, man, that would fit perfect
over the Maples. That's I always say. It's it's a
traditional feel. Everything there is kind of your your natural
traditional golf course. I love it because it's not it's
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not a long course, but again you know that's where
your drives have to be in play.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, I'm a member of the Golf Heritage Society, okay,
and we play hickory tournaments all the time. Okay, so
you know that HARKing back to the lineage of golf.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is the maple design.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
That's that's it. I mean, that's kind.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Of did I say, do I get a cookie?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
You get? You get a cookie? That's the big thing
over on Maples is it. It's traditional.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I love the feel of it. It reminds me of
when I was young. You know, I'm from smaller town
than Kansas, and it's it's a different feel than what
golf has turned into with the you know everything being grandioso.
This is just your straight up we're playing golf. I
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love that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah right, yeah yeah, every every every course anymore seems
to be eight thousand yards.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Alos, these kids are banging at three twenty. Well that's it,
you know all right. Our third course talk third.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Course is the bird course, will or bird that one
is going to be a little bit tighter of your course,
you know, not as tight as Maples. Bird is really
big into you know, creating the water hazards, the the
it has some some fairway bunkers in there, some waste areas.
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His whole thing is basically trying to make it feel
like you're in nature.
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Welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio Hour. I'm your host,
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just called me tank. My grand mommy did, and my
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radio hour. It just feels so good to say it again. Man,
(16:45):
it's been a long winter. Hopefully I can get this
first round of golf in next week, and it's gonna
be ugly. It's gonna be ugly, no doubt about it.
No delusions of about two hundred and eighty yard drives.
They'll be drives of one hundred and forty yard hooks
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and slices, slice hooks, one of the greatest shots in
all of golf if you can pull it off. The
old slice hook out there for one hundred and thirty
seven yards. Oh yeah, it's gonna be nasty. Chunks of
turf flying up in the air. Some people call them divots.
I call them runways. My old buddy, Jim McMahon, Mike McMahon,
(17:31):
I get the too confused. Played quarterback with the Lions.
Does let's talk stealers here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
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ago when I started this project, you ain't taking no boy.
I need to know Scotland your bowls. You know, sugar,
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it ain't gonna happen. Well's cupcake, it is. We've already
taken our amateur winners to Scotland. We're heading back again
in April. Can't wait. Look if you want your chance
at one of five spots on Team USA playing the
Team USA National Championships in Kanton, Ohio this August, log
(19:31):
on too www USA Scotland Golf dot com, USA Scotland
Golf dot com, USA Scotland Golf dot Com. There you'll
see videos from our previous championships. You'll see our winners
in Saint Andrews having a well dream golf trip of
(19:53):
a lifetime. Believe me, when you stand on the bridge
in front of the RNA, your legs will shake. It
is hallow golf ground. You do not need a USGA
gain handicap to compete. We have a full safe system
to eliminate sambaggers. After two rounds in Canton, it's going
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to be a great event. It's only two hundred and
fifty five dollars to play. That two hundred and fifty
five dollars investment gets you opening ceremonies at the Hall
of Fame, cocktail party at the Kettle and Brew, then
two rounds of golf the Quarry ranked as the number
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one public golf course in all of Ohio. Then of course,
the Glenmore Venerable Glenmore Country Club. You know when the
Hall of Famers come to Canton, guess where they go play? Well,
they go play they they go play Glenmore, they play Glenmore, they.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Go back to Quarry.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We've got the two very best golf courses maybe in
all of Ohio for this year's national championship. Again five
flights one to five, six to ten. You get it.
You do not need a USGA again handicap to play.
And you ask any of our winners and our losers
(21:15):
that have lost in La Trobe and Gettysburg are other
national championships. This is a fair and legitimate competition for
golfers of all skill levels.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And if you're.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Lucky enough like Jimmy Wolf down in a wheel in
West Virginia area, Jimmy one in Gettysburg. He went to
US to Saint Andrews last year. Him and his uncle
had a fabulous time. It's real, guys, you're doing yourself
(21:50):
a disservice not to play in the golf events. Plus,
we raise money for two great charities, the Autism Society
of Canton and Near and dear to my heart, the
Greenberry Charitable trust. It's a great weekend. Now. Look, we
also have local qualifiers. You gotta go to the website
USA Scotland Golf dot com check out our events in Ohio, Michigan. Right,
(22:14):
we'll be playing one here in Pittsburgh. Very excited to
announce that coming up. So let's take a little trip.
Grab that driver. We're gonna bang it down the fairway
and head over to Campton. Right now, we're gonna talk
to the good folks over there at the Glenmore Country Club,
host a round two. Perfect venue. It's got a Scottish
(22:37):
feel to it. There's an armored knight waiting for you
as you step into the clubhouse. Right all right, let's
go talk to Frank and Seawan over at the Glenmore
Country Club, site of our championship round for the twenty
twenty five Team USA National Championships. When you speak about well,
(23:30):
lineage and prestige, when you mentioned the name Jack Nicholas,
he is the goat to me, sir, sir, he is
the goat. I don't want to hear about Tiger.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Jack is playing with persimean head clubs and golf balls
that were hard as rocks. But I'm taking Jack off
the He's the goat.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
No question about it. But Nicholas and his designs, He's
not only done this course, He's done a course up
north that I was accustomed to called Barrant. And the
owner that found Jack his name was bart L. Woolfstein
and his lovely wife Iris, and they encouraged him to
(24:11):
build a couple of golf courses in you know, the
Ohio area, way back in. It was in nineteen eighty
nine is when I think.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
They approached him.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
And you look out at this city. My golf professional
can tell you about a lot more about the golf,
because my handicap's too hot to talk about the golf.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, I actually wrote a letter to the USGA and
see if they would take it as high as forty seven,
and I got an answer back he.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Knew, well, I could be at twenty some other places,
but I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Like forty years.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Glenmore Country Club.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, when you speak about prestige, Jack Nicholas signature golf
course here.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
This is a beautiful property.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
But be on the golf course and we'll get to
the golf course with Jean later. This building one hundred
years old, built in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
One nineteen twenty nine, there was an old Brunderdale seminary
and it's basically the only thing that's been added on
is the small area. So what they did they basically
got it the whole building. And back in nineteen ninety
three when I was here as the F and B manager,
we had a two rooms, two floors of hotel rooms,
(25:22):
so we only had like twenty hotel rooms.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We had the.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Clubhouse which is built you don't get to see the
justice of it. There's a chapel which where they used
to do mass seven days a week is out one
of the most glorious ballrooms in northeast Ohio where we're
doing up words around thirty weddings of the year, are
you right.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
We also have another Turnbury room which can do two
to three hundred people.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Let's really build for.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The conferences, so we can still do conferences in it.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
We have smaller meeting rooms. There's seven of them, so
we can to all their needs. And since I've coming back,
we've added on two more floors of hotel rooms. Right
now we're fifty five overnight rooms.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh wonderful, so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Tell me what the accommodations look like I mean, I
imagine with this beautiful building formerly the monastery and the
church within it, they've got to be glorious.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I think they're all you know, Iris's Iris is still going.
Iris fol State is still once alive. Beautiful lady had
ninety five and she had all the architecture designs approved
by her, and I think all of her rich traditions
is what you'll see a lot of our hotel rooms.
We still have some I want to say, antique furniture
(26:44):
in some of the rooms, but still really rich and
look to it very comfortable. Showed me to have a
couple of suitets with the hot tubs, and the building
is so particular, so neat. There are three personal condominiums
inside where they have their own condos. Two are in
(27:07):
the front of the building and went into the back.
So there's a lot to do with the hotel rooms
and the rich tradition of looks, and it brings you
right to my next thing. You're like, we hardly ever
shut down.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
We serve food seven days a week, three restaurants. I
can't see it right now, but our pool area is
another food Avenue open May to September.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, I swear to you before that one of the
saddest things, you know, is when the pool closes down
for the year, the kids laughing, the splashing of water,
just you know, it makes people happy when you hear that.
And speaking of happy, you must you talked about it.
You're always busy here. People are coming for lunch, dinner
and the golf and staying here. I spoke with some
(27:56):
of your members out there and a lot of times,
and you know this, you've.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Been in the industry for a while.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Members can be a little bit salty and crusty. Your
members are all happy, the least the ones I met
out there.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Oh yeah, they're all sitting right there. Some of them
been here since I was here in ninety three, so
I'm back to see them. Yeah, it's kind of cool. Well,
that's my members here when I was in ninety three
to ninety seven. They're still members, still enjoying their clue
golf and their lunch and their drink and their dinner.
(28:29):
And you know, but we have a lot of.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
New members to us.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
It's a great membership.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
We'ret about three hundred and seventy members here, amore. We're
always looking to find more. There's always room to grow.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well, the fact that they're still here from the early
nineties when you first opened up, speaks of volumes to
you know. I'll use the word family feel so far.
When I went into the pro shop, the guys were friendly.
All your members have been friendly. There's a family fill
here Well.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I think that comes from the top down. Bart and
Iris always believed in trying to promote with Dan ain't
keeping people.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You know.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
I left here in ninety seven to go it's another property,
and I still have been with family ever since. And
I was encouraged to come back when the last manager
it's time from retire. He didn't quit, it's time from retired.
And you'll see most of my staff. My HR person,
her name's Pat she was my supervisor at Well. I
(29:30):
was her supervisor back in ninety three to ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio. R I'm your host,
Randy the Tank Tantlinger. Excited for golf season to start.
I know you guys are. The courses were packed last weekend.
I couldn't even so busy, couldn't even make it to
a driving range, but a few short weeks. All right, them,
(29:55):
they're pros. They've already been playing. Why I've been languishing
for around in Jones and here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We're
gonna get into some equipment review conversations now. I gotta
be honest. Like a couple of years ago, we got
sent these golf balls from a Korean manufacturer, Saint Cloud
(30:16):
or something. They had these cute animals on them. Just
garbage golf balls. I mean, just I can't even explain it.
They were garbage Saint nine, that was them. You saw
them in every clubhouse for a while. They're junk man,
You're wasting your money on any level. On any level,
(30:37):
It's like hitting a brick. I mean, just got awful.
And one of the things that has really annoyed me.
In today's golf market, you got to take a step back. See,
golf's exploded since COVID globally. Globally, there's been at least
(31:01):
a twenty seven to thirty percent increase in golfers. Those
are big numbers. I mean, when you already had thirty
two million people golfing, men and women and children in
America and you tack on twenty seven percent more new golfers.
It's a lot of golfers. It's great for the game.
(31:21):
Love it new golfers. You're welcome to play as me anytime.
Just invited a new friend. He said, I don't even
have a golf clubs. I said, I don't care. I
got an extra bag. I said, if you hit the
ball two feet, we get to drink. If you hit
it forty feet, we get two drinks. That's kind of game.
We'll play that day and have some fun. But what
(31:43):
gets my goat is this. There's always a snake oil
salesman somewhere, isn't there. I bought a heater a couple
of years ago, supposed to plug in the wall and
fill up the whole room. He stole my twenty five dollars.
Shame on me. There's so many crap clubs coming out now.
(32:08):
Is what I want to get to junk garbage. They
can sell them on Facebook pop up ads and the
price is always right. The price compared to a Cobra driver,
compared to a Cleveland shricks on wedge compared to tour Edge, well,
(32:33):
anything by tour Edge, trust me, take it to the
bank on tour Edge. Anything by ping PXG. But these
off brands, and one thing that's happened is they've taken
old names like Olamar that your grandfather knew, O R
(33:00):
l I m A r or Lamar O Lamar very popular.
At one point, they really were. They were decent clubs
back in the day. But the brand has been sold.
(33:21):
It's been sold. Hereul Rico Trading Company owns it. Let's
see where old hire Rico is out of huh herel
Rico Golf bought the brand. Think of it this way.
When you go to Wendy's, you expect that a Frosty's
gonna taste like a Frosty. You expect that a Wendy's
(33:45):
triple is gonna taste like a Wendy's triple. And the
old Baconator baby tastes like the Baconator. Well, the folks
at here Rico hi r Eko Golf Clubs are betting
that the name they bought from Olamar, and we'll get
(34:12):
into their other brands will carry the day, will carry
the day. These clubs won't even carry the water in
front of you. These clubs won't even carry the trap
in front of you. Their garbage, their garbage now they
(34:32):
do put some of the best grips on these garbage clubs,
Golf Pride Superstroke when of course they got a grip
called Karma that they make. But I'm telling you, it
(34:54):
upsets me to no end that all these junk clubs
up manufacturers are coming out because you guys that are
new to the game that twenty seven percent internationally worldwide.
You see it putter a Cameron, let's just say two
(35:17):
hundred dollars, and you go to the h I R.
E Ko golf dot com website and you see a
bionic golf assembled red potter for thirty eight bucks. And
you don't live in no mansion and you buyy beyond it,
(35:41):
you bought junk. How about the Dinercraft driving iron. How
about the intech approach two way chipper for seventy dollars.
Any golf pro hotel, you get a seven iron, I'll
show you how to make mad you come around the greens.
(36:02):
Don't grab your pitching wedge, grab your seven iron. Oh
you can pay seventy bucks for the piece of junk
in a tech approach to weight chipper. I know I
demoed one of them a couple of years ago. I've
been kind of like looking at their stuff the last
(36:22):
couple of years, and every single time I had nothing
nice to say, Like the driver they sent me a
couple of years ago by power Built, power Built. Don't
they make tools, Yes, they make tools that power built. Well,
somehow power Bilt makes golf clubs. Now the shaft underneath
(36:53):
the grip broke into about four rounds junk garbage. But
had you a paid for the air attack by power Built,
you would have paid ninety dollars plus shipping and handling.
How about the power Built Series eight hundred putter for
(37:16):
fifty bucks probably junk. All the other stuff's junk. Or
you can get yourself and invest four hundred dollars in
a pair of irons by power Bill. Now, Dear new golfer,
dear friend, I want you to enjoy the game. I
(37:38):
want you and I to go golfing someday. I want
you to love the game. I don't want you to
get frustrated because you bought a cheap piece of junk
from Hyreco Golf that makes Olamar power Bill, because that's
(38:00):
what's gonna happen. You think you're saving money by buying
junk clubs. By Power Build. All of them are in
tech Night. I don't you know what night is. Let's
see Night. It's on the h I R E Ko
(38:23):
Golf website. See what this piece of junk is. Oh
the Night Too saw me Driver sixty nine. The Night
Too saw me as a stylish driver for beginning golfers
at an affordable price. See this is what I'm talking about.
I'm on their website now. The four hundred cc volume
(38:45):
maximum strength allowed by usg It stills confidence. No it
you know what it does. It steals your money and
you're not gonna love the game and you're not gonna
stick with it. Again, you're listening to the golfer around
Radio hour. I like to keep things positive. But again,
(39:09):
with all new golfers out there, I want you to
love and enjoy the game. I see so much junk
clubs coming over because they can market it to you.
You know, a guy starting out, maybe he's trying to
feed his family. Oh the Night Too saw Me for
(39:30):
seventy bucks. I'll buy it that he never plays after
the first year.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Again.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
How about the r L I m ar Olamar Big brand.
Back in the seventies, somebody bought the name Olamar Golf
Intercept single length iron set three nine brand new. What's
(40:04):
it come with? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
oh seven irons like it should? Right, dude, Ladies, go
(40:25):
please do not buy junk clubs from h I R
e Ko Golf, whether it be Olamar, Knight in Tech.
Let me let you in on a secret. There's all
kind of companies out there and on Facebook used pin clubs.
(40:48):
Guys are always selling used clubs at good prices. Go
get a pair of tour Edges, irons a set, Go
get a U set of Pings. You'll love the game.
Callaway p XG all the major clubmakers. Find that Tommy Cameron.
(41:10):
Don't buy the junk in a Tech for fifty bucks,
You're gonna hate it. Don't buy the power Build driver
for seventy you won't fall in love with the game.
Go find seek out research Cleveland Tricks, on Ping, tour Edge,
(41:35):
I can't say enough about tour Edge, Cobra Golf, Odyssey Putters.
I can't get off my Odyssey putter, Edison Wedges, Cleveland Tricks.
Anybody but con Ar just liked H I R E
(41:55):
Ko Golf. They're junk. You won't fall in love with
the game, You'll quit and we'll lose you. You're listening to
the Golfing around Radio hour. I'm your host, Randy the
Tank Tatler and again, I love to keep positive because
(42:15):
I love our game. But I can't stand snake oral salesman.
I just can't. Let's see what they sell their golf
bags for. I mean, if they're giving a golf bag away,
but I'm not even the power built USA Flag Kirk
golf bag one hundred and fifty bucks. Go get a
(42:37):
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