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Is it It's Ohio, Ohio's call Capital, Hello.
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And welcome to gulfing Around. Can you believe it is August?
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No?
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No, no, no, no no no.
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I need to get ready for the Saint Patrick's Day parade.
I need to get ready for Easter.
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God bless aerca land that I love, Stand beside her
and guide her, you know the rest fourth of July.
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What has happened to my summer? Your summer? It's August?
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Man?
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Wow.
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All I can say is I hope you've hit a
lot of fairways, a lot of greens. You've had a
lot of chuckles, laughs and giggles with your friends. I
hope you've gone to a lot of charity golf outings.
I hope you've had fun. Hey, I'm ready the tank tantlinger.
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You're listening to the golfing around radio hour? Yeah, whole hour.
I get to talk about what I love, golf, golf,
and God, by the way, not in that order either,
but just amazing how quickly the summer has gone and
it is August already. You know I touched on a
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second ago about you know, hopefully you were able to
play in some charity golf events this year. One of
the reasons I love our great game of golf is
the fact that only the good Lord Father above knows
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how much money has been raised for charities from the
great game of golf, whether it's the Altoona Fire Department
or police department having a fundraiser to get money together
through a golf event for new equipment. Oftentimes we see
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people people in need, in need, in trouble, whether it
be the folks in Texas.
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In the floods and the fourth of July this year,
whether it be a small.
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Child who's suffering some incurable disease, or somebody that has
been befallen by a personal tragedy and finds themselves in
dire straits. The golf community comes together. The golf community says,
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I don't even know this guy. I don't know this child.
I don't know the people in Texas or wherever it
may be. The tragedy has befallen, but I feel moved
to go donate my time, my money, hard earned money
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to a charity. That's one of the major reasons I
love our game of golf.
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Yeah.
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I love going out and drink with the guys.
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I love a beautiful sun shining, crisp day where the
humidity's low and at seventy two and I'm banging the
ball around in October, even if I got to look
for it under a leaf somewhere.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Jack Nicholas Arnold Palmer two of the greatest names. Jack's
the goat.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
Anytime you want to call in the show and argue
with me about that that it's tiger, be glad to
put you back on your heels and in your place.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Why.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Jack Nicholas, winner of eighteen majors and some twenty two
second places in majors, is the greatest playing with persimeon clubs,
playing with balls that were rock solid, not hand crafted
with titanium, and ever other alloy out there like Tiger,
but I digress. I use Jack and Arnold Palmer as
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an example. With their foundations. They have built hospitals for children.
They have donated money to charities, two hospitals. Arnold Palmer
in his own hometown had done tremendous work extensions at
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the La Trobe Hospital, donating twelve I think it was
twelve million towards the end of his life to the
Greater Trope High School to build a new athletic field.
Jack's Hospital down in Florida will ever, firtestand.
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And forever help people.
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Danny Thomas's Saint Judes, who does not know about Saint
Jude's outreach through the Danny Thomas Foundation and its efforts
with its PGA event through the years and other efforts,
millions of people have been helped through charity golf tournaments
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and again, only God himself knows the amount of money
that's been raised. I bring this up because a couple
charity golf tournaments I want to talk about right now.
First of all, we'll talk about the first Daniel Veterans
Day Parade slash golf outing that happened just last week
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in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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That I went to.
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We'll talk about them hiring Cokefoge Phasio celebrity golf outiting
benefiting Pittsburgh Autism. Yeah. So many great fundraisers happen, and
we have one up in Ohio at our Team USA
National Championships August twenty third and twenty fourth in Canton.
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Log Onto USA Scotland Golf dot com, USA Scotland Golf
dot com. That is USA Scotland Golf dot com. You
don't need a USGA handicap to play in one of
five flights. You could win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland.
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But more so that weekend, we'll have a wonderful cocktail
party on Saturday night at the awesome Querrying Golf Court.
That money will raise funds for the Autism Society of Campton,
Ohio and also the Green Beret Foundation. We've got some
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great shoes that have been donated, putters, training equipment, you
name it. Hey, you're listening to Golfing Around Radio Hour
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You'll be able to check out well some of our
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That's why we go golfing around Iceland. That's what we do.
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Baby, I can look, I can hack and play bad
golf anywhere. Golfing around dot Org. The annual Veterans Date
Parade here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, obviously happens Veterans Date weekend
in November. This year, they're also having a dinner before
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the parade to celebrate honor and basically give a big
hug and thank you to the guys who ladies who
fought in Vietnam. Almost fifty nine thousand young people lost
their lives in Vietnam conflict. Those veterans were never welcome home. Correctly,
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a lot of them, if you know that, spit upon
words I can't use here were spoken to them. They
were drafted. They were drafted into the unimaginable horrors of
war and the insanity and violence and evilness it unleashes
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on humanity.
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Do you think they chose to go there?
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Do you think they choose to struggle with civilian life
even fifty sixty years later?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Now, No, it's not easy.
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So the Veterans Day Parade committee is put together a
dinner to welcome the guy's home and thank you, honoring
Vietnam veterans.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
They've done it in the past, Korean War veterans, World
War Two veterans. I don't think they've ever done the
Spanish American War veterans. If you don't know what that is,
look it up.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
But they had their first annual golf tournament a couple
of weeks ago to raise money to have that dinner
at Quicksilver in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Great Golf Course used to
host the Hooters Tour, the Ben Hogan Tour. Great Golf Course.
Warren and Carl p out there do a great job.
But James dooc Hay, James dock Hay, he's on the
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Veterans Day Parade Committe and guess what he love him
some golf, does the doc and he put together, along
with his team of volunteers, this great, great first event.
It's hard getting tournaments up, man, I've been doing it
since ninety five. Especially first year. Everybody's like, we'll wait
and see what happens. Are you gonna fall in your face?
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It was a great day nineteen foursomes. If you know
anything about golf there's only eighteen holes, so they had
to have an eighteen B group go out. Isn't that awesome?
Wonderful day. Many of the golfers weren't even veterans.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
We asked them.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
I asked them, why are you here? Grandpat fought in
World War Two? Dad fought in Vietnam. My brother lost
his life on some far away field, whether it be
Afghan Iraq, the First Golf War. Then of course the
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veterans themselves. If you're not part of the veteran community.
I was in the United States Army.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Hoorah.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
It's good to be around the boys. Female lieutenant colonel
was there from United States Air Force. Her and her
lady golfers won the best dressed of the day. But
it's good to be around like minded golfers and friends
and military smoking cigars. There is a true honesty you
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will get from these people you will not find normally
in the civilian world.
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And one asked.
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Of a veteran, why you're here, not even knowing they
were a veteran, they would tell you. One gentleman was
brought to tears as some memory from Vietnam came back
up and we cut the interview short as a few
tears came down his eyes. I gave him a brotherly hug.
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That pain still there for that man all these years later.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
That pain.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
So that's what charity golf tournaments do. They help people
go find one if you've never played in one. Most
of the time they're scrambles like the Veterans Day. If
you're a Pittsburgh sports fan boy, I got one for you. Yeah,
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Monday September twenty second, at Edgewood Country Club near Murnerville, Pennsylvania.
Go log onto Autism Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh go to events. Look
at the Myron Cope Voach PHASEO Celebrity Golf Challenge outing.
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Monday, September twenty second.
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I'm proud to say that I am on the golf
committee for the Myron Cope Foach PHASEO event. It benefits
the Autism Pittsburgh Foundation. Jesse Trisky, Executive Duresk Dirt Almost sorry, Jess,
mess to your name and I almost choked it. Let
me get some water, Jesse Trisky. I had to spit
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that up, just joking, Jesse, you love you.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Great event.
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Honorary team captain this year is one Russ Grimm, pitt
Panther legend, Washington Redskin legend Fama.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yeah, Russ is gonna be there. He's not golfing that day.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
We might get him to put putt a couple times,
but russeill be there honorary team captain. Why is Russ
Grim former pitt superstar because last year we honored now
wasn't the only Myron and Coke voice of the Pittsburgh
Steelers For many years.
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Award winning writer.
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Myron used to write for Sports Illustrated The Myron Coke
Foach Phasio.
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Coach Fasio was my coach at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Hail pitt.
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When I played left bench.
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A lot of people say, Tank, what position did you
play a pitt I say left bench.
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It was great. I ate hot dogs, drank Coca Cola
while other guys were getting beat up.
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Russ Grim, pitt legend, Sam the Man Clancy, known for
his basketball and football prowess, Troy Benson, former inside linebacker
at pitt New York Jets, and the list of celebrities
goes on and they're all there that day too. Help
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Pittsburgh dot com. Go to events, sign up to play.
It's very affordable. We have all kinds of great auction
items open bar. You won't want to miss it. All right,
we'll be right back to golfing around and then we're
gonna talk about Team USA.
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All right, let's take a look at the tg L.
The Tomorrow Golf League. The twenty twenty whatever season is
behind us. The inaugural season. The brain chat of one
Tiger Woods and Rory mackelroy combined simulator golf with live
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action chipping and putting. Players t off, take fairway shots,
then they go into live action chipping and putting.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
So what was your take on the TGL. Did you
find it quirky? Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 9 (23:43):
A lot of people didn't like the announcers, Matt Barry
and Marty Smith. They said they were like used car
salesman are listening to a bad w and we broadcast
on ESPN there, you know, And Marty actually took some
criticism because he actually made the statement, what is more
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nerve wracking watching these guys try to win a DGL championship?
Are winning a major championship? Come on, man, you can't
even say that with a straight face. I mean, the
Open Championship is at Royal Port Rush in Ireland this year.
You're gonna tell me our Augusta is in a few weeks.
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That simulator golf on any level is more exciting and
thrilling than that.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I guess for Billy Herschel if he's.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Playing, and Tiger if they've got a gambling addiction, not
saying they do, but the thrill of dopamine rush maybe,
but it ain't no nowhere near major championship.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You more on Marty Berry, no Marty Smith for ESPN.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
But the ratings were there, and Week two Tiger played
over a million people turned in to see it.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Tune didn't I say.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Their average over fifteen matches was about half a million people.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I don't know how much money was spent.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
On advertising and how the ad agencies aggregate those things
and say that was a success. We had a half
a million people. Yeah, but Larry, we spent a billion
dollars building the thing. I know, but you know, what
else are we going to do with money? Feed homeless people?
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You get the point there now, It was imaginative of times.
If you saw it mid season.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
They had to hammer throw the mallet throw uh huh.
It was interesting. You'd get.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
A team declining and you know, a team would throw
or a rubber hammer out there and the other team
could accept the challenge and if they made the shot,
it was two points.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
If they declined, the other team got a point. I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
It seemed kind of contrived at times, but again I
come from a generation where we were still using still cleats,
not these fancy shoes you guys got today. No, it
was a piece of leather with steel mounted on the bottom.
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Your back and your feet hurt for six years after
you played around the golf. I do appreciate technology. I
do like indoor simulators, and this is really what this is.
At the heart, simulators are popping up coast to coast,
big cities, little cities, five to six bays or just one.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Simulator. Golf is a reality. More so, it's an economic reality.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
For those who in put the investment into a simulator,
Tiger Woods probably will never.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Win another major.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
I can't say that with absolutism, because as we know,
Jack the goat at forty six won the Masters, and
Tiger keeps himself in good shape.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
But the point is, it ain't the Tiger.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Woods in nineteen ninety eight or nineteen ninety nine, and
two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand and two,
two thousand and three.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
You get the point.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
The best of Tiger is dumb. And to define golf,
it is a club hitting a ball. Does it matter
the venue, it is still a ball being hit by
a wellstrup club face in doing what you wanted to do.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Whether you take that.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Ball and club from Augusta or to the Sofi simulator,
there is skill required. Tiger's impact on the TGL was significant.
One million viewers tuned in. We do to see him.
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It gives him a new edge, It gives him a
new realm of golf to play in and have fun.
I don't believe for a second when he grabbed the
pitching wedge for a four hundred and seventy seven yard shut.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
That that was non intentional to get some buzz, get
some ratings going get some in.
Speaker 9 (29:02):
You mean Tiger's fallible, Yes, yes he is on many levels.
In fact, you know I can see in year two
with them coming up with the Legends team, the Legends
team Jack Nicholas, John Daily and Gary Player versus Ricky Fowler,
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Herschel and Rory Man. Who wouldn't want to see that?
Mark my words, that's coming something to that emphesis. So
the TGL made its impact. Its ratings weren't through the roof,
nor are they horrible. I really want to see the
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Legends event happen. I haven't seen anything like that, but
you know that's what they got.
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Listen to us like my buddy Abby up and Iceland does. Yeah,
I really do.
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Got a buddy in Iceland named Abby and I have
filmed in Iceland one of the coolest golf experiences ever
in Iceland. Their tours and Borrow brought me over and
I am seed a awards ceremony one night. Some full
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wrote on my golfing around dot Org golfing around dot
org website that I am a hacker extraordinaire and stand
up comedian. So they read that They're like, please perform
for us, so like, you know, like I'm always doing
the old Don Ricos routine. The good people of Iceland,
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uh got me free airfare on icelandic Air. So we
were as what was called the the uh what was it, Oh,
the midnight open in Achary up north where the sun
never goes down on this specific day in Iceland and
you don't tee off until midnight.
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It was incredible. But before that we had dinner and
drinks and uh.
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Anyway, they made the mistake of putting the CEO of
icelandic Are right in front of me, and you know,
I gave him the old Donracles tank routine and he
was he was great about it. You know, I've always said,
you know, if you can make people in.
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Foreign countries laugh, which I have, they've laughed at me mostly,
But it was great fun at the in Iceland. Then
if you ever get the chance down south in Iceland.
They have the volcano open in nineteen seventy two on
an island off of Iceland. The island erupted because it
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was actually a volcano underneath it, and they had to
evacuate the island, and god nobody died and half of
the volcano about a billion years ago that was there.
Another volcano fell into the ocean. So the Icelandic people said,
this is going to make a great Lynx golf course,
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and they did. They built a links golf course in
half of the volcano with the ocean right there.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
And I don't even know how high the walls of
the volcano were, they were massive.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
And just to close out story, so like they paired
me with the Arnold Palmer of Icelandic Golf, their greatest
professional golfer.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
A whole time.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
And let's just say I had a good time with
the people on the island the night before drinking for
the volcano festival. And I think we teed off at
eight and I went to bed about four and was
not playing my best golf and said something to the
effect to the gentleman, a really nice gentleman, I'm not
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that good at a golfer to begin with.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
And I'm long over.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
And he looked at me in a very stoic voice
and said, I don't know about the hangover, but you're
right about not being a very good golfer.
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Then he smiled at me because he got my sense
of humor.
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to go on all all my talents are lack thereof
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and my loft loft loft. If you know what that
means is you should be laughing by now. Is due
to the man upstairs, no doubt about it. You know
we're talking about Cragan's golf Resort in this show Cragan's
Golf Resort. You can check them out at c r
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and you're gonna learn all about their incredible golf resort.
Lake Life is a tranquil life. Lake life is a
peaceful life. What you got worried about, man, chill out,
there's the lake, there's the lake, golfs. Relax, have a cigar,
have an Arnold Palmer, have a Tito's, relax Titos and
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relax and look at gaul Lake.
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Even if you play bad golf on all the great.
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Golf they have, they're at Craigan's Golf Resort and Brainerd, Minnesota,
about two hours north of Minneapolis. We were talking about
their Too eighteens, the Lameman eighteen in the Dutch eighteen,
both courses originally designed by Robert Trent Jones. I believe
in the early nineteen nineties. Well driving on into the
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twenty first century is Karagan's Golf resort. They're not resting
on their laurels. They have rough in in Minnesota native
Garrison Keeler to redesign.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
That was a joke if you followed it. So that's
a really deep inside joke too.
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Man.
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If you get it, you get it.
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If you don't, I cannot help you. You will have
to google.
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Garrison Keeler, the acclaimed award winning writer from Minnesota who
fabulously in his book Lake Wobegone Days illustrated Minnesota in
life and its nuances and quirkiness. But Tom Lehman was
brought in to redesign the Kragan's golf courses and he's
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done a great job. We talked about on how whole
number four, five, six, and seven. They were basically Redo's
creating longer greens, redesigning holes. Just incredible. We talked about
whole number six, beautiful par three. You'll be able to
see the video online on Facebook and YouTube here in
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a couple of weeks when we're done editing it, editing
all of it. Just an incredible I mean the land
is used for perfection on all the holes.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Whole number eleven, the one that was right outside of
our condo house for the week. Like I said, I ran.
First thing I did.
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I saw some a group of golfers out there when
we checked in and grabbed a white wine and a cigar,
went out and said, hey, how you doing tank from Pittsburgh.
These guys have been coming to Kragans for twenty years,
twenty years and Wisconsin guys, they got plenty of golf
in Wisconsin.
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They're coming to Kragans. What does that tell you?
Speaker 9 (40:20):
Whole number eleven, great hole, uphill, narrow fairway, incredible green complex.
And I said two earlier segments that you know testament
of the golf courses. You might play it, and you
know I played it. Check it off, or like a
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sirene bringing in a ship along the outer banks. Get closer,
get closer, there's a lighthouse. Next thing you know, it's
wrecked and you got destroyed the boat. There is a
Sirenes call here on the lame in eighteen. Not that
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it will wreck you, but what it will do is
it will challenge your game. It will force you to
go to your toolbox and use every club from the
wedge to the fairway, wood off the t's to crafting shots.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
It will make you do that.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
It is incredible the lame in eighteen, but part of
the whole eleven was just incredible.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
I forget which hole it was, just oh.
Speaker 9 (41:40):
Sixteen, the finishing stretch on the Tom Laman eighteen and
again they have two great eighteen holders there at Craigan's
Golf Resort, Brainerd, Minnesota. Whole number sixteen just unbelievable. Part
for overlooking at lake in the entire finishing stretch for
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the back nine that elevated Tea. I don't even know
two hundred yards above the fairway, it's a long force carry.
You know, there's a fairway bunker that I almost caught.
I finally had a good drive, I turned, got that
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shoulder turning all the way through and the right shoulder.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
Was pointing at the target. I got a bad lower back.
I broke it in the army and a turn is
not something I do well.
Speaker 9 (42:34):
But I was well lubricated at that point and finally
hit a good shot in Jack, the director of golf
up there, said, hey, you finally got one.
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Yeah.
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I did, and it felt good and I think I
parted that home. I had four pars. What's card said?
I had four pars quietly, Yeah, went about my business.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Uh. The Layman eighteen is just gorgeous at Craigan's.
Speaker 9 (43:04):
Uh. And I've left very little time in the show.
We're down to about four minutes left. I guess we're
gonna remember I told you throughout the show. You know,
mark of a good golf course is when you when
you say to yourself, I gotta play that thing again.
We're gonna have to go back to Craigans next week too,
so tune in. You know, we can talk about the
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The Layman eighteen again. We can talk about the Dutch eighteen.
Tom Lahman put his touches on it. You know. The
nice thing about the Dutch eighteen is they're adding another nine.
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Eighteen nineteen twenty two, twenty.
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Seven holes is going to be the Dutch eighteen.
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And welcome to gulfing Around. Can you believe it is August?
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No?
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No, no, no, no no no.
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I need to get ready for the Saint Patrick's Day parade.
I need to get ready for Easter.
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God bless aerca land that I love, Stand beside her
and guide her, you know the rest fourth of July.
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What has happened to my summer? Your summer? It's August?
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Man?
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Wow.
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All I can say is I hope you've hit a
lot of fairways, a lot of greens. You've had a
lot of chuckles, laughs and giggles with your friends. I
hope you've gone to a lot of charity golf outings.
I hope you've had fun. Hey, I'm ready the tank tantlinger.
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You're listening to the golfing around radio hour? Yeah, whole hour.
I get to talk about what I love, golf, golf,
and God, by the way, not in that order either,
but just amazing how quickly the summer has gone and
it is August already. You know I touched on a
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second ago about you know, hopefully you were able to
play in some charity golf events this year. One of
the reasons I love our great game of golf is
the fact that only the good Lord Father above knows
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how much money has been raised for charities from the
great game of golf, whether it's the Altoona Fire Department
or police department having a fundraiser to get money together
through a golf event for new equipment. Oftentimes we see
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people people in need, in need, in trouble, whether it
be the folks in Texas.
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In the floods and the fourth of July this year,
whether it be a small.
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Child who's suffering some incurable disease, or somebody that has
been befallen by a personal tragedy and finds themselves in
dire straits. The golf community comes together. The golf community says,
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I don't even know this guy. I don't know this child.
I don't know the people in Texas or wherever it
may be. The tragedy has befallen, but I feel moved
to go donate my time, my money, hard earned money
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to a charity. That's one of the major reasons I
love our game of golf.
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Yeah.
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I love going out and drink with the guys.
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I love a beautiful sun shining, crisp day where the
humidity's low and at seventy two and I'm banging the
ball around in October, even if I got to look
for it under a leaf somewhere.
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Jack Nicholas Arnold Palmer two of the greatest names. Jack's
the goat.
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Anytime you want to call in the show and argue
with me about that that it's tiger, be glad to
put you back on your heels and in your place.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Why.
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Jack Nicholas, winner of eighteen majors and some twenty two
second places in majors, is the greatest playing with persimeon clubs,
playing with balls that were rock solid, not hand crafted
with titanium, and ever other alloy out there like Tiger,
but I digress. I use Jack and Arnold Palmer as
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an example. With their foundations. They have built hospitals for children.
They have donated money to charities, two hospitals. Arnold Palmer
in his own hometown had done tremendous work extensions at
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the La Trobe Hospital, donating twelve I think it was
twelve million towards the end of his life to the
Greater Trope High School to build a new athletic field.
Jack's Hospital down in Florida will ever, firtestand.
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And forever help people.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Danny Thomas's Saint Judes, who does not know about Saint
Jude's outreach through the Danny Thomas Foundation and its efforts
with its PGA event through the years and other efforts,
millions of people have been helped through charity golf tournaments
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and again, only God himself knows the amount of money
that's been raised. I bring this up because a couple
charity golf tournaments I want to talk about right now.
First of all, we'll talk about the first Daniel Veterans
Day Parade slash golf outing that happened just last week
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in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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That I went to.
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We'll talk about them hiring Cokefoge Phasio celebrity golf outiting
benefiting Pittsburgh Autism. Yeah. So many great fundraisers happen, and
we have one up in Ohio at our Team USA
National Championships August twenty third and twenty fourth in Canton.
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But more so that weekend, we'll have a wonderful cocktail
party on Saturday night at the awesome Querrying Golf Court.
That money will raise funds for the Autism Society of Campton,
Ohio and also the Green Beret Foundation. We've got some
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great shoes that have been donated, putters, training equipment, you
name it. Hey, you're listening to Golfing Around Radio Hour
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You'll be able to check out well some of our
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That's why we go golfing around Iceland. That's what we do.
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Baby, I can look, I can hack and play bad
golf anywhere. Golfing around dot Org. The annual Veterans Date
Parade here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, obviously happens Veterans Date weekend
in November. This year, they're also having a dinner before
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the parade to celebrate honor and basically give a big
hug and thank you to the guys who ladies who
fought in Vietnam. Almost fifty nine thousand young people lost
their lives in Vietnam conflict. Those veterans were never welcome home. Correctly,
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a lot of them, if you know that, spit upon
words I can't use here were spoken to them. They
were drafted. They were drafted into the unimaginable horrors of
war and the insanity and violence and evilness it unleashes
(10:56):
on humanity.
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Do you think they chose to go there?
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Do you think they choose to struggle with civilian life
even fifty sixty years later?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Now, No, it's not easy.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
So the Veterans Day Parade committee is put together a
dinner to welcome the guy's home and thank you, honoring
Vietnam veterans.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
They've done it in the past, Korean War veterans, World
War Two veterans. I don't think they've ever done the
Spanish American War veterans. If you don't know what that is,
look it up.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
But they had their first annual golf tournament a couple
of weeks ago to raise money to have that dinner
at Quicksilver in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Great Golf Course used to
host the Hooters Tour, the Ben Hogan Tour. Great Golf Course.
Warren and Carl p out there do a great job.
But James dooc Hay, James dock Hay, he's on the
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Veterans Day Parade Committe and guess what he love him
some golf, does the doc and he put together, along
with his team of volunteers, this great, great first event.
It's hard getting tournaments up, man, I've been doing it
since ninety five. Especially first year. Everybody's like, we'll wait
and see what happens. Are you gonna fall in your face?
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It was a great day nineteen foursomes. If you know
anything about golf there's only eighteen holes, so they had
to have an eighteen B group go out. Isn't that awesome?
Wonderful day. Many of the golfers weren't even veterans.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
We asked them.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
I asked them, why are you here? Grandpat fought in
World War Two? Dad fought in Vietnam. My brother lost
his life on some far away field, whether it be
Afghan Iraq, the First Golf War. Then of course the
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veterans themselves. If you're not part of the veteran community.
I was in the United States Army.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Hoorah.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
It's good to be around the boys. Female lieutenant colonel
was there from United States Air Force. Her and her
lady golfers won the best dressed of the day. But
it's good to be around like minded golfers and friends
and military smoking cigars. There is a true honesty you
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will get from these people you will not find normally
in the civilian world.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
And one asked.
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Of a veteran, why you're here, not even knowing they
were a veteran, they would tell you. One gentleman was
brought to tears as some memory from Vietnam came back
up and we cut the interview short as a few
tears came down his eyes. I gave him a brotherly hug.
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That pain still there for that man all these years later.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
That pain.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
So that's what charity golf tournaments do. They help people
go find one if you've never played in one. Most
of the time they're scrambles like the Veterans Day. If
you're a Pittsburgh sports fan boy, I got one for you. Yeah,
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Monday September twenty second, at Edgewood Country Club near Murnerville, Pennsylvania.
Go log onto Autism Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh go to events. Look
at the Myron Cope Voach PHASEO Celebrity Golf Challenge outing.
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Monday, September twenty second.
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I'm proud to say that I am on the golf
committee for the Myron Cope Foach PHASEO event. It benefits
the Autism Pittsburgh Foundation. Jesse Trisky, Executive Duresk Dirt Almost sorry, Jess,
mess to your name and I almost choked it. Let
me get some water, Jesse Trisky. I had to spit
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that up, just joking, Jesse, you love you.
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Great event.
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Honorary team captain this year is one Russ Grimm, pitt
Panther legend, Washington Redskin legend Fama.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yeah, Russ is gonna be there. He's not golfing that day.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
We might get him to put putt a couple times,
but russeill be there honorary team captain. Why is Russ
Grim former pitt superstar because last year we honored now
wasn't the only Myron and Coke voice of the Pittsburgh
Steelers For many years.
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Award winning writer.
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Myron used to write for Sports Illustrated The Myron Coke
Foach Phasio.
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Coach Fasio was my coach at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Hail pitt.
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When I played left bench.
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A lot of people say, Tank, what position did you
play a pitt I say left bench.
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It was great. I ate hot dogs, drank Coca Cola
while other guys were getting beat up.
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Russ Grim, pitt legend, Sam the Man Clancy, known for
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Pittsburgh dot com. Go to events, sign up to play.
It's very affordable. We have all kinds of great auction
items open bar. You won't want to miss it. All right,
we'll be right back to golfing around and then we're
gonna talk about Team USA.
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All right, let's take a look at the tg L.
The Tomorrow Golf League. The twenty twenty whatever season is
behind us. The inaugural season. The brain chat of one
Tiger Woods and Rory mackelroy combined simulator golf with live
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action chipping and putting. Players t off, take fairway shots,
then they go into live action chipping and putting.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
So what was your take on the TGL. Did you
find it quirky? Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 9 (23:43):
A lot of people didn't like the announcers, Matt Barry
and Marty Smith. They said they were like used car
salesman are listening to a bad w and we broadcast
on ESPN there, you know, And Marty actually took some
criticism because he actually made the statement, what is more
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nerve wracking watching these guys try to win a DGL championship?
Are winning a major championship? Come on, man, you can't
even say that with a straight face. I mean, the
Open Championship is at Royal Port Rush in Ireland this year.
You're gonna tell me our Augusta is in a few weeks.
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That simulator golf on any level is more exciting and
thrilling than that.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I guess for Billy Herschel if he's.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Playing, and Tiger if they've got a gambling addiction, not
saying they do, but the thrill of dopamine rush maybe,
but it ain't no nowhere near major championship.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You more on Marty Berry, no Marty Smith for ESPN.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
But the ratings were there, and Week two Tiger played
over a million people turned in to see it.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Tune didn't I say.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Their average over fifteen matches was about half a million people.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I don't know how much money was spent.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
On advertising and how the ad agencies aggregate those things
and say that was a success. We had a half
a million people. Yeah, but Larry, we spent a billion
dollars building the thing. I know, but you know, what
else are we going to do with money? Feed homeless people?
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You get the point there now, It was imaginative of times.
If you saw it mid season.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
They had to hammer throw the mallet throw uh huh.
It was interesting. You'd get.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
A team declining and you know, a team would throw
or a rubber hammer out there and the other team
could accept the challenge and if they made the shot,
it was two points.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
If they declined, the other team got a point. I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
It seemed kind of contrived at times, but again I
come from a generation where we were still using still cleats,
not these fancy shoes you guys got today. No, it
was a piece of leather with steel mounted on the bottom.
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Your back and your feet hurt for six years after
you played around the golf. I do appreciate technology. I
do like indoor simulators, and this is really what this is.
At the heart, simulators are popping up coast to coast,
big cities, little cities, five to six bays or just one.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Simulator. Golf is a reality. More so, it's an economic reality.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
For those who in put the investment into a simulator,
Tiger Woods probably will never.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Win another major.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
I can't say that with absolutism, because as we know,
Jack the goat at forty six won the Masters, and
Tiger keeps himself in good shape.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
But the point is, it ain't the Tiger.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Woods in nineteen ninety eight or nineteen ninety nine, and
two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand and two,
two thousand and three.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
You get the point.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
The best of Tiger is dumb. And to define golf,
it is a club hitting a ball. Does it matter
the venue, it is still a ball being hit by
a wellstrup club face in doing what you wanted to do.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Whether you take that.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Ball and club from Augusta or to the Sofi simulator,
there is skill required. Tiger's impact on the TGL was significant.
One million viewers tuned in. We do to see him.
(28:38):
It gives him a new edge, It gives him a
new realm of golf to play in and have fun.
I don't believe for a second when he grabbed the
pitching wedge for a four hundred and seventy seven yard shut.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
That that was non intentional to get some buzz, get
some ratings going get some in.
Speaker 9 (29:02):
You mean Tiger's fallible, Yes, yes he is on many levels.
In fact, you know I can see in year two
with them coming up with the Legends team, the Legends
team Jack Nicholas, John Daily and Gary Player versus Ricky Fowler,
(29:30):
Herschel and Rory Man. Who wouldn't want to see that?
Mark my words, that's coming something to that emphesis. So
the TGL made its impact. Its ratings weren't through the roof,
nor are they horrible. I really want to see the
(29:54):
Legends event happen. I haven't seen anything like that, but
you know that's what they got.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
To be thinking.
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Speaker 6 (32:11):
But that doesn't mean we stop golfing around.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
You can always get golfing around on the iHeart podcast Network.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Listen to us like my buddy Abby up and Iceland does. Yeah,
I really do.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Got a buddy in Iceland named Abby and I have
filmed in Iceland one of the coolest golf experiences ever
in Iceland. Their tours and Borrow brought me over and
I am seed a awards ceremony one night. Some full
(32:46):
wrote on my golfing around dot Org golfing around dot
org website that I am a hacker extraordinaire and stand
up comedian. So they read that They're like, please perform
for us, so like, you know, like I'm always doing
the old Don Ricos routine. The good people of Iceland,
(33:12):
uh got me free airfare on icelandic Air. So we
were as what was called the the uh what was it, Oh,
the midnight open in Achary up north where the sun
never goes down on this specific day in Iceland and
you don't tee off until midnight.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
It was incredible. But before that we had dinner and
drinks and uh.
Speaker 17 (33:38):
Anyway, they made the mistake of putting the CEO of
icelandic Are right in front of me, and you know,
I gave him the old Donracles tank routine and he
was he was great about it. You know, I've always said,
you know, if you can make people in.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Foreign countries laugh, which I have, they've laughed at me mostly,
But it was great fun at the in Iceland. Then
if you ever get the chance down south in Iceland.
They have the volcano open in nineteen seventy two on
an island off of Iceland. The island erupted because it
(34:23):
was actually a volcano underneath it, and they had to
evacuate the island, and god nobody died and half of
the volcano about a billion years ago that was there.
Another volcano fell into the ocean. So the Icelandic people said,
this is going to make a great Lynx golf course,
(34:46):
and they did. They built a links golf course in
half of the volcano with the ocean right there.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
And I don't even know how high the walls of
the volcano were, they were massive.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
And just to close out story, so like they paired
me with the Arnold Palmer of Icelandic Golf, their greatest
professional golfer.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
A whole time.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
And let's just say I had a good time with
the people on the island the night before drinking for
the volcano festival. And I think we teed off at
eight and I went to bed about four and was
not playing my best golf and said something to the
effect to the gentleman, a really nice gentleman, I'm not
(35:35):
that good at a golfer to begin with.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
And I'm long over.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
And he looked at me in a very stoic voice
and said, I don't know about the hangover, but you're
right about not being a very good golfer.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
Then he smiled at me because he got my sense
of humor.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
Anyway, you're listening to the Golfing Around radio hour, so
check us out on the iHeart you know, iHeartMedia man.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
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You can listen to Golfing Around Golfing Around fifty two
weeks a year. I'm chattering, but we take the show
down to a half hour show in the off onnes
So thanks. If you're listening to Golfing Around, please log
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Speaker 6 (36:20):
Check out our website.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
Better yet, if you want to see what the old
tank looks like, he got an ugly mug, looks like
he got a hit in a face with a frying
pan that one. Check us out on Facebook Golfing Around.
We also have Golfing Around the Caribbean, Golfing Around the
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Around magazine. The Fally Show will be coming out real soon.
(36:47):
Look for that and if you go to the old
YouTube you can see videos from the Icelandic trip. Yeah
it's South Africa, Iceland, Titland. Golf'sman Betty, Betty good to
the tank and I thank God and my Savior Jesus
above for the incredible golf journey I have been able
to go on all all my talents are lack thereof
(37:10):
and my loft loft loft. If you know what that
means is you should be laughing by now. Is due
to the man upstairs, no doubt about it. You know
we're talking about Cragan's golf Resort in this show Cragan's
Golf Resort. You can check them out at c r
A g U n s dot com, Kragans dot com
(37:36):
and you're gonna learn all about their incredible golf resort.
Lake Life is a tranquil life. Lake life is a
peaceful life. What you got worried about, man, chill out,
there's the lake, there's the lake, golfs. Relax, have a cigar,
have an Arnold Palmer, have a Tito's, relax Titos and
(38:01):
relax and look at gaul Lake.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Even if you play bad golf on all the great.
Speaker 9 (38:06):
Golf they have, they're at Craigan's Golf Resort and Brainerd, Minnesota,
about two hours north of Minneapolis. We were talking about
their Too eighteens, the Lameman eighteen in the Dutch eighteen,
both courses originally designed by Robert Trent Jones. I believe
in the early nineteen nineties. Well driving on into the
(38:30):
twenty first century is Karagan's Golf resort. They're not resting
on their laurels. They have rough in in Minnesota native
Garrison Keeler to redesign.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
That was a joke if you followed it. So that's
a really deep inside joke too.
Speaker 9 (38:47):
Man.
Speaker 13 (38:49):
If you get it, you get it.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
If you don't, I cannot help you. You will have
to google.
Speaker 9 (38:55):
Garrison Keeler, the acclaimed award winning writer from Minnesota who
fabulously in his book Lake Wobegone Days illustrated Minnesota in
life and its nuances and quirkiness. But Tom Lehman was
brought in to redesign the Kragan's golf courses and he's
(39:16):
done a great job. We talked about on how whole
number four, five, six, and seven. They were basically Redo's
creating longer greens, redesigning holes. Just incredible. We talked about
whole number six, beautiful par three. You'll be able to
see the video online on Facebook and YouTube here in
(39:37):
a couple of weeks when we're done editing it, editing
all of it. Just an incredible I mean the land
is used for perfection on all the holes.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Whole number eleven, the one that was right outside of
our condo house for the week. Like I said, I ran.
First thing I did.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
I saw some a group of golfers out there when
we checked in and grabbed a white wine and a cigar,
went out and said, hey, how you doing tank from Pittsburgh.
These guys have been coming to Kragans for twenty years,
twenty years and Wisconsin guys, they got plenty of golf
in Wisconsin.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
They're coming to Kragans. What does that tell you?
Speaker 9 (40:20):
Whole number eleven, great hole, uphill, narrow fairway, incredible green complex.
And I said two earlier segments that you know testament
of the golf courses. You might play it, and you
know I played it. Check it off, or like a
(40:40):
sirene bringing in a ship along the outer banks. Get closer,
get closer, there's a lighthouse. Next thing you know, it's
wrecked and you got destroyed the boat. There is a
Sirenes call here on the lame in eighteen. Not that
(41:02):
it will wreck you, but what it will do is
it will challenge your game. It will force you to
go to your toolbox and use every club from the
wedge to the fairway, wood off the t's to crafting shots.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
It will make you do that.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
It is incredible the lame in eighteen, but part of
the whole eleven was just incredible.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
I forget which hole it was, just oh.
Speaker 9 (41:40):
Sixteen, the finishing stretch on the Tom Laman eighteen and
again they have two great eighteen holders there at Craigan's
Golf Resort, Brainerd, Minnesota. Whole number sixteen just unbelievable. Part
for overlooking at lake in the entire finishing stretch for
(42:01):
the back nine that elevated Tea. I don't even know
two hundred yards above the fairway, it's a long force carry.
You know, there's a fairway bunker that I almost caught.
I finally had a good drive, I turned, got that
(42:22):
shoulder turning all the way through and the right shoulder.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
Was pointing at the target. I got a bad lower back.
I broke it in the army and a turn is
not something I do well.
Speaker 9 (42:34):
But I was well lubricated at that point and finally
hit a good shot in Jack, the director of golf
up there, said, hey, you finally got one.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (42:46):
I did, and it felt good and I think I
parted that home. I had four pars. What's card said?
I had four pars quietly, Yeah, went about my business.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Uh. The Layman eighteen is just gorgeous at Craigan's.
Speaker 9 (43:04):
Uh. And I've left very little time in the show.
We're down to about four minutes left. I guess we're
gonna remember I told you throughout the show. You know,
mark of a good golf course is when you when
you say to yourself, I gotta play that thing again.
We're gonna have to go back to Craigans next week too,
so tune in. You know, we can talk about the
(43:26):
The Layman eighteen again. We can talk about the Dutch eighteen.
Tom Lahman put his touches on it. You know. The
nice thing about the Dutch eighteen is they're adding another nine.
Speaker 17 (43:44):
Eighteen nineteen twenty two, twenty.
Speaker 6 (43:49):
Seven holes is going to be the Dutch eighteen.
Speaker 9 (43:53):
And the good folks there at Craigan's Golf resort in Brainerd, Minnesota,
took us on a walking tour, drive tour of the
Red nine as they're calling it, and it is going
to be spectacular.
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