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I'm Rady the tank Tantling.
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Sorry, you know I got the Pittsburg Stealers on my mind,
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Speaker 6 (02:48):
What else?
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I got sunshine on my mind? I guess because it's
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Tom to too. Hey, it is the Golfing Around Radio Hour. Look,
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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
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to talk about, all right, So look, everybody knows Myrtle Beach, Right,
everybody knows Myrtle Beach. If you're a golfer, you know
Myrtle Beach. Just a little north of there. Okay is Brunswick,
North Carolina. Check out the Brunswick, North Carolina Golf Trail. Yeah. Yeah,
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so much going on, and it's all along that thing
we call an ocean, the big blue water with all
the fishes in it and mermaids and mister limpet. Yeah,
that's Brunswick, North Carolina. And they've got some great golf
down that way, all right, the Sea Trail Golf Resort,
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Sea Trail Golf Resort. You gotta try them out. Look
at Sea Trail dot com, seetrail dot com. Could it
get any easier for you? Your morons?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
What?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
All right?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Tank?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Why do I want to go to Sea Trail and 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
podcast network nationally and you're listening to Omaha, Nebraska or California,
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even you want to leave California, come to the East
Coast come to Brunswick, North Carolina. It's 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 and thank you. In Brunswick, North Carolina, home
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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, Rhyes Jones Design,
Dan Maples, Willard Byrd. Really really some great golf at
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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? Since there's a sand base, guess what sandtraps
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that are natural to the topography of all three eighteen's there.
You've got a beautiful marsh beside it. You've got all
that goes along with a marsh all, the tranquility of
the seabirds and lake birds. So look, I can't say
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enough about Sea Pines Resort. Tell you what we're gonna do.
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. Well, he's in charge of that joint
down there at Sea Trail in Brunswick, North Carolina. Beautiful
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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 6 (07:55):
Doug.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Look, if somebody's coming down from Canada or Chicago or
or Pitts, PA, it's do a geographical lesson here exactly
where Brunswick County, North Carolina is located.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Yeah, I mean we we share a border with South Carolina,
so we're just located just north of the border in
North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Right on the coast in Brunswick County.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And what is it five little islands you have of
off the coast here, it's.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Five, I think it's five total.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, wow, just gorgeous and it's a weird thing. Later
in the year 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 7 (08:38):
Yeah, I mean it's called sunset beach here. Actually where
we're at.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Duh on me, sea trails resort here, do we call
plantation resort?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Sea trails resorts resort?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yes, Sea trail resorts.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
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.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
In your bag, no doubt, right, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Yeah, you long.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Hitters are going to have some options there. You guys
that are wedge players. Guess what we got golf courses
for you too.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Well, the good thing we'll start with is we've got
three full eighteen hole 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 6 (09:26):
You know, that's the thing. I mean, if you pay.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Play a Pete Die golf course, you know what you're
getting with a Pete Die.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
So you've got to Reese Jones design.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
We've got to Reese Jones.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
We've got a Willard Bird, Willard Bird, and we've got
a Dan Maples as well.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Oh everybody loves Dan Maples in the South.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
I do too. That's actually that's my favorite of the
three courses.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
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 6 (10:04):
Is more of a monet.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
It's it's a subtle just honestly, every time I'm out there,
it's like an easy feeling.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
That's what I like about it, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Three great different golf experiences.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Yes, yes, we've got the three different golf experiences. We've
got the accommodations actually on property.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
So the good thing here we like to have you.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
You know, once you come here, you've got three courses
to play, You've got morning afternoon tea times.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You know, you can do thirty six holes a day
three days.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
You can go right back to your condo, which is
right on property.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
You really don't have to leave the area.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
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 every things. Here's the crazy thing, you know what
impressed me. Yeah, A shower curtain.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
A shower curtain.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Yes. Have you seen the shower curtains in the condos?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
You know, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It is the coolest thing and 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 7 (11:21):
Oh that is cool.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
It is just a little classy thing.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Yeah, yeah, I have seen that. Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
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. Guys are on top of things.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yeah, and that's you know, that's kind of being up
here in Brunswick County.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
We have that.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
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.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
We want everybody to come here feel relaxed.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
You're on vacation, you know, you're not supposed to be
stressed out about work or any of that stuff.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
So you come here, you relax.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
That's what we try to give you, is that experience
to be able to relax and I'll enjoy this beautiful sun.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
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. Laid back lifestyle here,
the niceness to tranquility, I think is not only a
selling point for someone that would want to come visit Brunswick,
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North Carolina, but maybe even move here.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Oh definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
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 full 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 4 (13:23):
Well, let's get back into golfing around these three beautiful
golf courses. Yes, I mean, uh, the Recee course I
really enjoy very much.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
There's the mounding.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You know, I hate the word lynks esque, Yes, you know,
because you know lynkx 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 7 (13:51):
Uh yeah, I mean that's kind of where your strokes are.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Gonna be gained and lost out here on on the
Jones course, that is you know, it's.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Terists from tea to green.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
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 6 (14:09):
And here's the point with that for me at least.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So if you mound and I really like them, okay, okay,
if you're a heavy bomber like these kids are anymore,
that's I'm buying three twenty off the tea box. What
you know, even two eighty. Yeah, you know to me
is long. Okay, well now it is for me too, right,
and then their second shot is equally as long. Then
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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 Reache Jones designs the i'll call
it the United Kingdom Scottish Ireland mounding around the greens.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yes, then your long ball doesn't help you.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You gotta go to work if one of the those
balls get, say, behind a mound that's eight feet up
above the green. Yeah, it's guess what this is called
a pitching ledge.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
It takes great control, right, that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
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 8 (15:21):
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 hole the other day.
But I've seen plenty.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Of those three ten yeah you know stop three ten
hole in one.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yes, yes, this is why you're using this as an example.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Yeah, right, 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 4 (15:53):
Talk us through the other course, what's like distinctive. I mean,
we know the Rees Jones course has the mounding around
the greens.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What would the maple?
Speaker 8 (16:00):
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.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
I always love.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
I heard a guy today actually talk about how he
was playing hickory stick clubs.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
I said, man, that would fit perfect over the Maples.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
That's I always say. It's it's a traditional feel.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Everything there is kind of your your natural traditional golf course.
I love it because it's not it's not a long course,
but again, you know that's where your drives have to
be in play.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, I'm a member of the Golf Heritage Society, okay,
and we play hickory tournaments all the time.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Okay, so you know that HARKing.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Back to the lineage of golf, that is the maple design.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
That's that's it. I mean, that's kind.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Did I say that? Good?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Do I get a cookie?
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Yeah? You get you get a cookie.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
That's the big thing over on Maples is it.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
It's traditional. You know.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I love the feel of it. It reminds me of when
I was younger. 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 love that.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, every every every course anymore seems
to be eight thousand yards cause these kids are.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Banging at three twenty.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Well that's it, you know.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
All right? Our third course talk to third.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
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.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Bird is really big.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Into you know, creating the water hazards, the the it
has some some fairway bunkers and there are some waste areas.
His whole thing is basically trying to make it feel
like you're in nature.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Welcome back to the golfing Around Radio Hour. I'm your host,
the world's greatest hacker, Randy the Tank Tantling, or it
just called me Tank. My grand mommy did, and my
grand pappy did the gulfing around radio hour, Radio Hour,
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 grandeur. 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 play quarterback with the Lions.
Does let's talk stealers here on Fox Sports. Do it
wheeling with me We're gonna try to hit the links.
It's gonna be good to get out there and swing.
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Grab that driver. We're gonna bang it down the fairway
and head over to Campon. 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 Sean 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, I
don't know. 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 (25:30):
No question about it. But Dack Nicholas and his designs.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
He's not only done this course, He's done a course
up north that I was accustomed to called Barrington. And
the owner that found Jack his name was bart L.
Woolstein and his lovely wife Iris, and they encouraged.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Him to build a couple of golf courses in.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
You know, the Ohio area, way back in.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It was in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
I think they approached him.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
And when you look out at this setting, 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 4 (26:10):
Well, I actually wrote a letter to the USGA and
see if they would take it.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
As high as forty seven, and I got an answer back.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
You knew, well, I could be at twenty some other places,
but I'm like forty.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Years Glenmore Country Club. Well, when you speak about prestige,
Jack Nicholas signature golf course here, this is a beautiful property.
But be on the golf course and we'll get to
the golf course with John later. This building one hundred
years old, built in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
One, nineteen twenty nine, there was an old Brunderdale seminary
and it's basically the only thing that's been added on
is the fall area. So what they did they basically
got it the whole building.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Three when I was here as the F and B manager,
we had had a two rooms, two floors of hotel rooms,
so we only had like twenty hotel rooms. We had
the clubhouse which is built.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
You don't get to see the justice of it.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
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 a couple
of words around thirty weddings of years are you really yea?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
We also have.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Another Turnbury room which can do two to three hundred people.
Let's really built for the conferences, so we can still
do conferences here. We have smaller meeting rooms there, seven
of them, so we can meet 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 6 (27:53):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
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 9 (28:04):
I think they're all you know, iris'es Iris is still going,
iris Folstate is still once you alive.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Beautiful lady had ninety five and she.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
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. We still have some of them,
I want to say, antique furniture in some of the
few rooms, but still really rich.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
And look to it very comfortable.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Sure we have a couple of sweets with the hot tubs,
and the building is so particular, so neat. There are
three personal condominiums inside where they have their own condos
to her in the front of the building and went
into the back. So there's a lot to do with
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the hotel rooms and the rich tradition of looks and
brings me right to.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
My next thing.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
And we hardly ever shut down breakaice, lunch and dinner
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 6 (29:17):
Well, I swear to you before that.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
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.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
And speaking of happy, you must you talk about it.
You're always busy here. People are coming for.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Lunch, dinner and the golf and staying here. I spoke
with some of your members out there and a lot
of times, and you know this, you've been in the
industry for a while. Members can be a little bit
salty and crusty. Your members are all happy, the least
the ones I met out there.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
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 away my members here when I was in ninety
three to ninety seven. They're still members, still enjoying their
clude golf and their lunch and their drink and their dinner.
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And you know, but we have a lot.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Of new members to us when it's a great membership.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
We're at about three hundred and seventy members here in Glenmore.
We're always looking to find more.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
There's always room to grow.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
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 feel
here Well. I think that comes from the top.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Bart and Iris always believed in trying to promote within in.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Keeping people.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
You know, I left here in ninety seven to go
to another property, and I still have been with the
family ever since, and I was encouraged to come back
when the last manager it was.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Time for quit.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
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 was her supervisor back in ninety three
to ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio are 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 a few short weeks. All right, then
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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
(31:58):
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,
(32:20):
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
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least 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. Love it, new golfers. You're welcome to play
(33:08):
as me anytime. Just invited a new friend. He said,
I don't even have a golf clubs. They 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 gets my goat is this. There's
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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 is what I want
(33:51):
to get to junk garbage. They can sell them on
Facebook pop up ads, and the ice is always right.
The price compared to a Cobra driver, compared to a
Cleveland stricks On wedge, compared to tour edge. I well,
(34:16):
anything by tour Edge, trust me, take it to the
bank on tour edge, anything by ping.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
P XG.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
But these off brands, and one thing that's happened is
they've taken old names like Olamar that your grandfather knew
R L I M A R or Lamar. Olamar very
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popular at one point, they really were. They were decent
clubs back in the day. But the brand has been sold.
It's been sold. Heul Rico Trading Company owns it. Let's
see where old hire Rico is out of huh, heurel
(35:14):
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
triple is gonna taste like a Wendy's triple. And the
old Baconator baby tastes like the Baconator. Well, the folks
(35:40):
at here Rico, H I, R E Ko Golf clubs
are betting that the name they bought from Olamar, and
we'll get into their other brands will carry the day,
will carry the day. These clubs won't even carry the
(36:02):
water in front of you these clubs won't even carry
the trap in front of you. They're garbage, their garbage.
Now they do put some of the best grips on
these garbage clubs, Golf Pride Superstroke when of course they
(36:26):
got a grip called Karma that they make. But I'm
telling you, it upsets me to no end that all
these junk club manufacturers are coming out because you guys
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that are new to the game, that twenty seven percent
now internationally worldwide. You see it putter a Cameron, let's
just say dollars, and you go to the h I
R e Ko golf dot com website and you see
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a bionic golf assembled red potter for thirty eight bucks.
And you don't live in no mansion, and you boughty
beyond it. You bought junk. How about the Dinercraft driving iron?
(37:31):
How about the Intech Approach two weight chipper for seventy dollars.
Any golf pro hotel, you get a seven iron, I'll
show you how to make magic around the greens. Don't
grab your pitching wedge, grab your seven iron. Well, you
can pay seventy bucks for the piece of junk in
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a Tech Approach two weight chipper. I know, I demoed
one of them a couple years ago. I've been kind
of like looking at their stuff the last couple of years,
and every single time I had nothing nice to say,
like the driver they sent me a couple of years ago,
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by Power Built, Power Built. Don't they make tools, Yes,
they make tools that power built.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Well.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Somehow power Bilt makes golf clubs. Now the shaft underneath
the grip broke into about four rounds junk garbage. But
had you have paid for the air attack by Power Built,
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you would have paid ninety dollars plus shipping and amling.
How about the Power Built Series eight hundred putter for
fifty bucks probably junk. All the other stuff's junk. Or
(39:09):
you can get yourself and invest four hundred dollars in
a pair of irons by power Built. Now, Dear new golfer,
dear friend, I want you to enjoy the game. I
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
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from Hyreco Golf that makes Olamar power Built, because that's
what's gonna happen. You think you're saving money by buying
junk clubs by power built OLAMR in tech night Ohn't
(39:58):
you know what night is? Let's see night. It's on
the h I R e Ko 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.
(40:23):
See this is what I'm talking about. I'm on their
website now. The four hundred cc volume maximum strength allowed
by usg It still's 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.
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Again you're listening to the golfer around radio hour. I
like to keep things positive, but again, with all new
golfers out there, I want you to love and enjoy
the game. I see so much junk clubs coming over
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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 seventy bucks. I'll
buy it that he never plays after the first year. Again,
(41:26):
how about the O R L I M A r
Olamar big brand. Back in the seventies, somebody bought the
name Olamar Golf Intercept single length iron set two ninety
nine three forty nine brand new. What's it come with? One, two, three, four, five, six,
(41:54):
seven oh seven irons like it should? Right, dude, Ladies
go please do not buy junk clubs from h I
R E Ko Golf, whether it be Olamar, night in Tech.
Speaker 6 (42:19):
Let me let you in on a secret.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
There's all kind of companies out there and on Facebook
used ping clubs. 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
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love the game. Call away p XG all the major
clubmakers find that Tommy Cameron. 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 fine, seek out research
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Cleveland Tricks on ping, tor Edge. I can't say enough
about tor Edge, Cobra Golf, Odyssey putters. I can't get
off my Odyssey putter, Edison Wedges, Cleveland Tricks. Anybody but
(43:35):
Conar is like h I r E 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 Tantler. And again,
(43:56):
I love to keep positive because I love our game,
but I can't stand stinking coral 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
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(03:57):
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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
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to talk about, all right, So look, everybody knows Myrtle Beach, Right,
everybody knows Myrtle Beach. If you're a golfer, you know
Myrtle Beach. Just a little north of there. Okay is Brunswick,
North Carolina. Check out the Brunswick, North Carolina Golf Trail. Yeah. Yeah,
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so much going on, and it's all along that thing
we call an ocean, the big blue water with all
the fishes in it and mermaids and mister limpet. Yeah,
that's Brunswick, North Carolina. And they've got some great golf
down that way, all right, the Sea Trail Golf Resort,
(05:05):
Sea Trail Golf Resort. You gotta try them out. Look
at Sea Trail dot com, seetrail dot com. Could it
get any easier for you? Your morons?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
What?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
All right?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Tank?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Why do I want to go to Sea Trail and 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
podcast network nationally and you're listening to Omaha, Nebraska or California,
(05:42):
even you want to leave California, come to the East
Coast come to Brunswick, North Carolina. It's 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 and thank you. In Brunswick, North Carolina, home
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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, Rhyes Jones Design,
Dan Maples, Willard Byrd. Really really some great golf at
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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? Since there's a sand base, guess what sandtraps
(06:56):
that are natural to the topography of all three eighteen's there.
You've got a beautiful marsh beside it. You've got all
that goes along with a marsh all, the tranquility of
the seabirds and lake birds. So look, I can't say
(07:16):
enough about Sea Pines Resort. Tell you what we're gonna do.
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. Well, he's in charge of that joint
down there at Sea Trail in Brunswick, North Carolina. Beautiful
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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 6 (07:55):
Doug.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Look, if somebody's coming down from Canada or Chicago or
or Pitts, PA, it's do a geographical lesson here exactly
where Brunswick County, North Carolina is located.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Yeah, I mean we we share a border with South Carolina,
so we're just located just north of the border in
North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Right on the coast in Brunswick County.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And what is it five little islands you have of
off the coast here, it's.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Five, I think it's five total.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, wow, just gorgeous and it's a weird thing. Later
in the year 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 7 (08:38):
Yeah, I mean it's called sunset beach here. Actually where
we're at.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Duh on me, sea trails resort here, do we call
plantation resort?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Sea trails resorts resort?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yes, Sea trail resorts.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
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.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
In your bag, no doubt, right, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Yeah, you long.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Hitters are going to have some options there. You guys
that are wedge players. Guess what we got golf courses
for you too.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Well, the good thing we'll start with is we've got
three full eighteen hole 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 6 (09:26):
You know, that's the thing. I mean, if you pay.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Play a Pete Die golf course, you know what you're
getting with a Pete Die.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
So you've got to Reese Jones design.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
We've got to Reese Jones.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
We've got a Willard Bird, Willard Bird, and we've got
a Dan Maples as well.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Oh everybody loves Dan Maples in the South.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
I do too. That's actually that's my favorite of the
three courses.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
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 6 (10:04):
Is more of a monet.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
It's it's a subtle just honestly, every time I'm out there,
it's like an easy feeling.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
That's what I like about it, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Three great different golf experiences.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Yes, yes, we've got the three different golf experiences. We've
got the accommodations actually on property.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
So the good thing here we like to have you.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
You know, once you come here, you've got three courses
to play, You've got morning afternoon tea times.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You know, you can do thirty six holes a day
three days.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
You can go right back to your condo, which is
right on property.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
You really don't have to leave the area.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
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 every things. Here's the crazy thing, you know what
impressed me. Yeah, A shower curtain.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
A shower curtain.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Yes. Have you seen the shower curtains in the condos?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
You know, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It is the coolest thing and 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 7 (11:21):
Oh that is cool.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
It is just a little classy thing.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Yeah, yeah, I have seen that. Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
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. Guys are on top of things.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yeah, and that's you know, that's kind of being up
here in Brunswick County.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
We have that.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
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.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
We want everybody to come here feel relaxed.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
You're on vacation, you know, you're not supposed to be
stressed out about work or any of that stuff.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
So you come here, you relax.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
That's what we try to give you, is that experience
to be able to relax and I'll enjoy this beautiful sun.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
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. Laid back lifestyle here,
the niceness to tranquility, I think is not only a
selling point for someone that would want to come visit Brunswick,
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North Carolina, but maybe even move here.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Oh definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
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 full 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 4 (13:23):
Well, let's get back into golfing around these three beautiful
golf courses. Yes, I mean, uh, the Recee course I
really enjoy very much.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
There's the mounding.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You know, I hate the word lynks esque, Yes, you know,
because you know lynkx 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 7 (13:51):
Uh yeah, I mean that's kind of where your strokes are.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Gonna be gained and lost out here on on the
Jones course, that is you know, it's.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Terists from tea to green.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
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 6 (14:09):
And here's the point with that for me at least.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So if you mound and I really like them, okay, okay,
if you're a heavy bomber like these kids are anymore,
that's I'm buying three twenty off the tea box. What
you know, even two eighty. Yeah, you know to me
is long. Okay, well now it is for me too, right,
and then their second shot is equally as long. Then
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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 Reache Jones designs the i'll call
it the United Kingdom Scottish Ireland mounding around the greens.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yes, then your long ball doesn't help you.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You gotta go to work if one of the those
balls get, say, behind a mound that's eight feet up
above the green. Yeah, it's guess what this is called
a pitching ledge.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
It takes great control, right, that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
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 8 (15:21):
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 hole the other day.
But I've seen plenty.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Of those three ten yeah you know stop three ten
hole in one.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yes, yes, this is why you're using this as an example.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Yeah, right, 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 4 (15:53):
Talk us through the other course, what's like distinctive. I mean,
we know the Rees Jones course has the mounding around
the greens.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What would the maple?
Speaker 8 (16:00):
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.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
I always love.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
I heard a guy today actually talk about how he
was playing hickory stick clubs.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
I said, man, that would fit perfect over the Maples.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
That's I always say. It's it's a traditional feel.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Everything there is kind of your your natural traditional golf course.
I love it because it's not it's not a long course,
but again, you know that's where your drives have to
be in play.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, I'm a member of the Golf Heritage Society, okay,
and we play hickory tournaments all the time.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Okay, so you know that HARKing.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Back to the lineage of golf, that is the maple design.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
That's that's it. I mean, that's kind.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Did I say that? Good?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Do I get a cookie?
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Yeah? You get you get a cookie.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
That's the big thing over on Maples is it.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
It's traditional. You know.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I love the feel of it. It reminds me of when
I was younger. 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 love that.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, every every every course anymore seems
to be eight thousand yards cause these kids are.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Banging at three twenty.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Well that's it, you know.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
All right? Our third course talk to third.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
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.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Bird is really big.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Into you know, creating the water hazards, the the it
has some some fairway bunkers and there are some waste areas.
His whole thing is basically trying to make it feel
like you're in nature.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Welcome back to the golfing Around Radio Hour. I'm your host,
the world's greatest hacker, Randy the Tank Tantling, or it
just called me Tank. My grand mommy did, and my
grand pappy did the gulfing around radio hour, Radio Hour,
Radio Hour. It just feels so good to say it again. Man,
(18:27):
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 grandeur. 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,
(19:14):
I get the too confused play quarterback with the Lions.
Does let's talk stealers here on Fox Sports. Do it
wheeling with me We're gonna try to hit the links.
It's gonna be good to get out there and swing.
Get loosened up as it were excited about this segment.
This segment brought to you by visit Canton, Ohio. Visit Canton, Ohio,
(19:39):
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(20:22):
right we'll be heading back across the pond as that team,
which could be you, will play Team Scotland again. This
is our fourth season and we're so excited. I had
a lot of people tell me a couple of years
ago when I started this project, you ain't taking nobody
(20:42):
to know Scotland Year Bowls. You know, sugar, 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
(21:02):
of five spots on Team USA playing the Team USA
National Championships in Kantonohio this August, log on too www
USA Scotland Golf dot com, USA Scotland Golf dot com,
USA Scotland Golf dot Com. There you'll see videos from
(21:27):
our previous championships. You'll see our winners in Saint Andrews
having a well dream golf trip of a lifetime. Believe me,
when you stand on the bridge in front of the RNA,
your legs will shake. It is hallowed golf ground. You
do not need a USGA gain handicap to compete. We
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have a full safe system to eliminate sandbaggers. After two
rounds in Canton, It's gonna be a great event. It's
only two hundred two 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
(22:11):
Kettle and Brew, then two rounds of golf the Quarry
ranked as the number 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
(22:32):
they go play Glenmore, they play Glenmore, they go back
to Quarry. 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.
(22:54):
And you ask any of our winners and our losers
that have lost in La Trobe and Getty's Burg or
other national championships. This is a fair and legitimate competition
for golfers of all skill levels. And if you're lucky
enough like Jimmy Wolf down in a wheel in West
(23:15):
Virginia area, Jimmy one in Gettysburg. He went to US
to St. Andrews last year. Him and his uncle had
a fabulous time. It's real, guys, you're doing yourself a
disservice not to play in the golf events. Plus we
(23:36):
raise money for two great charities, the Autism Society of
Canton and Near and dear to my heart, at 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,
(23:57):
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 Campon. 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
(24:19):
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 Sean 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,
(25:13):
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, I
don't know. 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 (25:30):
No question about it. But Dack Nicholas and his designs.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
He's not only done this course, He's done a course
up north that I was accustomed to called Barrington. And
the owner that found Jack his name was bart L.
Woolstein and his lovely wife Iris, and they encouraged.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Him to build a couple of golf courses in.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
You know, the Ohio area, way back in.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It was in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
I think they approached him.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
And when you look out at this setting, 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 4 (26:10):
Well, I actually wrote a letter to the USGA and
see if they would take it.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
As high as forty seven, and I got an answer back.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
You knew, well, I could be at twenty some other places,
but I'm like forty.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Years Glenmore Country Club. Well, when you speak about prestige,
Jack Nicholas signature golf course here, this is a beautiful property.
But be on the golf course and we'll get to
the golf course with John later. This building one hundred
years old, built in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
One, nineteen twenty nine, there was an old Brunderdale seminary
and it's basically the only thing that's been added on
is the fall area. So what they did they basically
got it the whole building.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Three when I was here as the F and B manager,
we had had a two rooms, two floors of hotel rooms,
so we only had like twenty hotel rooms. We had
the clubhouse which is built.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
You don't get to see the justice of it.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
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 a couple
of words around thirty weddings of years are you really yea?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
We also have.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Another Turnbury room which can do two to three hundred people.
Let's really built for the conferences, so we can still
do conferences here. We have smaller meeting rooms there, seven
of them, so we can meet 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 6 (27:53):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
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 9 (28:04):
I think they're all you know, iris'es Iris is still going,
iris Folstate is still once you alive.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Beautiful lady had ninety five and she.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
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. We still have some of them,
I want to say, antique furniture in some of the
few rooms, but still really rich.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
And look to it very comfortable.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Sure we have a couple of sweets with the hot tubs,
and the building is so particular, so neat. There are
three personal condominiums inside where they have their own condos
to her in the front of the building and went
into the back. So there's a lot to do with
(28:54):
the hotel rooms and the rich tradition of looks and
brings me right to.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
My next thing.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
And we hardly ever shut down breakaice, lunch and dinner
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 6 (29:17):
Well, I swear to you before that.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
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.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
And speaking of happy, you must you talk about it.
You're always busy here. People are coming for.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Lunch, dinner and the golf and staying here. I spoke
with some of your members out there and a lot
of times, and you know this, you've been in the
industry for a while. Members can be a little bit
salty and crusty. Your members are all happy, the least
the ones I met out there.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
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 away my members here when I was in ninety
three to ninety seven. They're still members, still enjoying their
clude golf and their lunch and their drink and their dinner.
(30:11):
And you know, but we have a lot.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Of new members to us when it's a great membership.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
We're at about three hundred and seventy members here in Glenmore.
We're always looking to find more.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
There's always room to grow.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
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 feel
here Well. I think that comes from the top.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Bart and Iris always believed in trying to promote within in.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Keeping people.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
You know, I left here in ninety seven to go
to another property, and I still have been with the
family ever since, and I was encouraged to come back
when the last manager it was.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Time for quit.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
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 was her supervisor back in ninety three
to ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio are 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 a few short weeks. All right, then
(31:37):
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
(31:58):
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,
(32:20):
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
(32:43):
least 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. Love it, new golfers. You're welcome to play
(33:08):
as me anytime. Just invited a new friend. He said,
I don't even have a golf clubs. They 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 gets my goat is this. There's
(33:30):
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 is what I want
(33:51):
to get to junk garbage. They can sell them on
Facebook pop up ads, and the ice is always right.
The price compared to a Cobra driver, compared to a
Cleveland stricks On wedge, compared to tour edge. I well,
(34:16):
anything by tour Edge, trust me, take it to the
bank on tour edge, anything by ping.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
P XG.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
But these off brands, and one thing that's happened is
they've taken old names like Olamar that your grandfather knew
R L I M A R or Lamar. Olamar very
(34:50):
popular at one point, they really were. They were decent
clubs back in the day. But the brand has been sold.
It's been sold. Heul Rico Trading Company owns it. Let's
see where old hire Rico is out of huh, heurel
(35:14):
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
triple is gonna taste like a Wendy's triple. And the
old Baconator baby tastes like the Baconator. Well, the folks
(35:40):
at here Rico, H I, R E Ko Golf clubs
are betting that the name they bought from Olamar, and
we'll get into their other brands will carry the day,
will carry the day. These clubs won't even carry the
(36:02):
water in front of you these clubs won't even carry
the trap in front of you. They're garbage, their garbage.
Now they do put some of the best grips on
these garbage clubs, Golf Pride Superstroke when of course they
(36:26):
got a grip called Karma that they make. But I'm
telling you, it upsets me to no end that all
these junk club manufacturers are coming out because you guys
(36:46):
that are new to the game, that twenty seven percent
now internationally worldwide. You see it putter a Cameron, let's
just say dollars, and you go to the h I
R e Ko golf dot com website and you see
(37:10):
a bionic golf assembled red potter for thirty eight bucks.
And you don't live in no mansion, and you boughty
beyond it. You bought junk. How about the Dinercraft driving iron?
(37:31):
How about the Intech Approach two weight chipper for seventy dollars.
Any golf pro hotel, you get a seven iron, I'll
show you how to make magic around the greens. Don't
grab your pitching wedge, grab your seven iron. Well, you
can pay seventy bucks for the piece of junk in
(37:52):
a Tech Approach two weight chipper. I know, I demoed
one of them a couple years ago. I've been kind
of like looking at their stuff the last couple of years,
and every single time I had nothing nice to say,
like the driver they sent me a couple of years ago,
(38:13):
by Power Built, Power Built. Don't they make tools, Yes,
they make tools that power built.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Well.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Somehow power Bilt makes golf clubs. Now the shaft underneath
the grip broke into about four rounds junk garbage. But
had you have paid for the air attack by Power Built,
(38:47):
you would have paid ninety dollars plus shipping and amling.
How about the Power Built Series eight hundred putter for
fifty bucks probably junk. All the other stuff's junk. Or
(39:09):
you can get yourself and invest four hundred dollars in
a pair of irons by power Built. Now, Dear new golfer,
dear friend, I want you to enjoy the game. I
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
(39:34):
from Hyreco Golf that makes Olamar power Built, because that's
what's gonna happen. You think you're saving money by buying
junk clubs by power built OLAMR in tech night Ohn't
(39:58):
you know what night is? Let's see night. It's on
the h I R e Ko 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.
(40:23):
See this is what I'm talking about. I'm on their
website now. The four hundred cc volume maximum strength allowed
by usg It still's 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.
(40:43):
Again you're listening to the golfer around radio hour. I
like to keep things positive, but again, with all new
golfers out there, I want you to love and enjoy
the game. I see so much junk clubs coming over
(41:05):
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 seventy bucks. I'll
buy it that he never plays after the first year. Again,
(41:26):
how about the O R L I M A r
Olamar big brand. Back in the seventies, somebody bought the
name Olamar Golf Intercept single length iron set two ninety
nine three forty nine brand new. What's it come with? One, two, three, four, five, six,
(41:54):
seven oh seven irons like it should? Right, dude, Ladies
go please do not buy junk clubs from h I
R E Ko Golf, whether it be Olamar, night in Tech.
Speaker 6 (42:19):
Let me let you in on a secret.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
There's all kind of companies out there and on Facebook
used ping clubs. 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
(42:44):
love the game. Call away p XG all the major
clubmakers find that Tommy Cameron. 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 fine, seek out research
(43:11):
Cleveland Tricks on ping, tor Edge. I can't say enough
about tor Edge, Cobra Golf, Odyssey putters. I can't get
off my Odyssey putter, Edison Wedges, Cleveland Tricks. Anybody but
(43:35):
Conar is like h I r E 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 Tantler. And again,
(43:56):
I love to keep positive because I love our game,
but I can't stand stinking coral 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
(44:17):
hundred and fifty bucks. Go get a Sun Mountain
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