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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Gettysburg's history has had a dramatic impact on how we
see our country and ourselves. These hallowed battlefields, legendary landmarks,
and powerful memorials tell story like nowhere else can as
a profound, inspired personal experience. There has never been a better,
more meaningful time to visit Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for the people.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Hello and welcome to Steelers Chot Talk. I'm oops, sorry,
wrong radio show. You know my ankles are taped up,
my wrists are taped up. I got my helmet on,
I got my mouthpiece in and at black junk whatever
it is you put under your eyes for a football season,
getting a little fired up for mind be loove it
(01:39):
Bittsburgh Steelers. But you know what, it's only August, sweetheart.
It's only August. It's still golf season. Yeah. Man, I'll
be swinging sticks until well, I can't uh might even
start to chili open this year, you know, go play
in the snow and eat some chili and raise money
for charity. It is the golfing around radio hour. I
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am your host, Randy the tank Tantlinger. I can't believe
it's almost September. Labor Day. Came from the gym this morning.
The kids, well, they were heading to school, getting ready
to go learn something. Go to gymnasium class, negotiate a lunch, lady.
It's pizza Friday at most schools. You know, you get
(02:24):
pizza on Friday if you behaved. If you don't, well
you got a lump of oatmeal or like Oliver, I mean,
have poort si. It is a lovely time of year,
but it is still summer. As I always say, look,
just because your kids go back to school doesn't mean
my summer is over. Man. September is the best month
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of summer. So we got plenty of golf to talk
about up until the Steelers kick off the regular season
down in hot Atlanta. Yeah, Hottlan, I'm sure Ben Roethlisberger
could give a hoots and holler about training camp and allures.
He's got a place down at Reynolds Lake Aconey, which,
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if you've never been to Reynolds Lake Cocony in Georgia,
it is golf paradise. They just keep building more and
more tremendous golf properties there. Home to a Ritz Carlton,
been there several times filmed. Go check it out at
Reynolds Lakecony and maybe you run into Bruce Arians and
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Ben Roethlisberger and you go, hey, well you sign my
golf ball for me, Ben, and he'll just look at
you and go no, much like Arnold Palmer, I don't
sign golf balls. You'm aron. Hey, you know I want
you to do something for yourself. I want you to
do something for yourself. Discovering new golf properties, new golf
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courses is one of my favorite things. I know it
is one of yours, too, You know, all golfers say
to themselves, Hey have you played you know? Have you Hey?
Have you played Pine Valley? No? Hey have you played Seminole? No?
Have you played Oakmont? No? Have you played Beth Page? No?
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You know the courses you can't get on too. But
I promise you there are so many golf courses to discover,
to discover, and you can say to your friends, hey,
have you played Kragan's golf resort courses? Two of them
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and much more in Brainerd, Minnesota, And they'll go, no,
never heard of it. Then you'll have a one upsman.
Everybody likes the one upman, right, discover a great golf
destination to find talk about brag about? You mean you
haven't been to Kragans and Brainerd, Minnesota, Well let me
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tell you all about it. My friend Robert Trent Jones,
Tom Layman, you know those names. Well, how do I
even describe this golf paradise in Brainerd, Minnesota? And that's
how I feel this week on the golfing around radio hour.
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But instead of being all cocky about it, like I'm
want up in you, that's not what my purpose to
hear is The Official Electronic Town Crier of golf in
the twenty first century. That's a hell of the moniker,
isn't it. I just gave myself. I want to announce
to you the golfing world my new discovery, well actually
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my new love, my new passion, Kragan's cr A g
u n s. Just go to Kragan's c r A
g u ns dot com and you'll see what I'm
talking about. Pretty soon you'll be able to go to
our Golfing Around Facebook page and YouTube page and see
some videos I shot with the Let me start with
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this first of all, get on a plane or drive
up to Minnesota. Never been there. Guess what, It's gorgeous.
It's the land of Garrison Keeler five points to you
people that know it is beautiful, It is peaceful. You
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fly into Minneapolis, Minnesota, it's about a two hour drive north,
but you're gonna enjoy the drive because you're gonna enjoy
driving in Minnesota, especially around Brainerd and Kragan's nobody tailgates you.
Everybody is nice in Brainerd, Minnesota. Everybody is polite, Everybody
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has a smile on their face. Doesn't that sound wonderful
to you? Can considering how things are these days, I
mean Americana lives in Brainerd at Cragan's Golf Resort. Who's
the guy that used to do all the wonderful Americana paintings,
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Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell, this is what the feeling in Brainerd, Minnesota,
at the Cragan's Golf Resort will give you a feeling of.
You know, I ain't Norman Walckwell probably lived here and
got his inspirations. Everybody's really nice, everybody but me. You know,
I had to give them the old Don Rickles up
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there in Brainerd. They're such nice people. I had to
give them the Don Rickles routine, you know, you know,
throwing out some insults with some love and tenderness and
sugar sugar. Just this my way of saying hello. You know,
if you listen to the show enough, you know, nothing
but a big, cuddly teddy bear who likes to have fun,
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you know, and mostly poke fun at myself is what
I do. But the wonderful, wonderful people in Brainerd, everyone
I met, everyone, everyone was just wonderful, friendly, open the conversation.
You know, it's a lost art in America these days,
especially with the kids with the cell phone nonsense and
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the YouTube and the giggles and the Googles and the
ex'es and the o's and the twitters and everything else.
You know, parents, make your kids put the cell phone down,
teach them how to speak to other people speaking. It
begins with listening, then speaking the full talk the wise
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man speaks. I was once told, go to Brainerd, Minnesota,
two hours north of Minneapolis, and you're going to discover
a golf paradise, like I did this week. So with
all that said, I want to tell you why it's
a golf paradise. First of all, it's nestled around Stevens
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and gall Lake. The lake life. Yeah, it is in
abundance because everything around the lake focuses on lake life.
You know, we had a tremendous Gall Lake cruise one evening.
It was our last evening in Brainerd at the Cragan's
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Golf Resort, Barbecue and ribs and Coltito's vodka with some
friends and cigars. I don't think I've been that relaxed
all summer long. I've been on the hamster wheel all
summer long, like you have, taken the kids here playing
a vacation, trying to get around a golf and go
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to Craigan's Golf Resort. Get on the Gall Lake cruise boat. Man,
It's great. It's like a one of those double decker
things if you're in Pittsburgh. It's the you know, tantamount
to the Gateway clipper fleet. Upper deck gives you full
panoramas of the beautiful area on gall Lake there and Brainerd.
The dinner is served bar on both decks, which appealed
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to the old tanker here. And the great thing is
I was allowed to smoke my Macan nudo cigar. It's
always saved the good ones for the last couple days
of a golf adventure and just sit on the back
of the boat and watch the evening and the sun
go down and talk with some new golf friends up
there in Craigan's Golf Resort and Brainerd Mini Soda. Hey,
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you're listening to Golfing around Radio hour with Randy the
tank tamtlier here every Saturday morning. Yes, I am, Well,
actually I record this show send it to the people
there at Fox Sports Net Wheeling, Pittsburgh one three point
nine FM. And so actually about this time, either I'm
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getting home from the gym or i am heading out
to a joy the weekend. Look, I really, really really
want to endorse Cragan's Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota. It
is a tremendous facility. It is a wonderful facility. And
the nice thing is, you know they are grougging right now.
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They are growing in a very positive way. They are
redesigning golf holes, they are building new nines. They have
a professional golf tourm We're going to talk all about
that on golfing around this week, but I want you
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to go to Kragans dot com. That's c r A
g u ns dot com and you'll see what I'm
talking about again. The lake life at Kragan's is what
it's all about. I mean, how can you be stressed
out looking at a beautiful, beautiful glacier lake like gall
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Lake and Steven's Lake. He can't, You can't. The world
will melt away. I didn't watch one bit of television
this week. I had the Frank Sinatra, the Dean Martin going.
The guys I was golfing with, they're like, that's really relaxing,
it's slowing down my swing. Who doesn't like Dean Martin? Huh?
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In fact, if you don't like Dean Martin from Steubenville, Ohio.
Hang up the phone right now. I have nothing more
to say to you. But the lake life is the
centerpiece at Craigan's resort, and what makes it really, really
inspiring is the golf that uses gall Lake in Brainerd,
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Minnesota as the backdrop and into play at many times.
They've got great golf packages. Tim the sales manager up there,
He's glad to bring your group up there. And here's
the real testament. The first night we were there, we checked
into a beautiful, beautiful, well, I won't call it a condo,
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it's a house, five bedroom, and right there, baby, one
of their best holes, number eleven on the Tom Lane
in eighteen course. I saw a group of guys golfing
and the sun was just going down. It was a
Sunday night, my favorite time to golf. So I grabbed
my white wine and my cigar in hand and went
out and said, hey, I'm thanking from Pittsburgh, how are you,
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and learned about the guys. They were great guys. Here's
the testament. They have been coming to Kragan's Golf Resort
in Brainerd, Minnesota for twenty years in a row. And
they're from Wisconsin. They're not even Minnesoultans. They're from Wisconsin,
which has great golf unto itself. That's a testament. We
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heard of another group of an older, older gentlemen. They
come up every year for their annual fishing tournament at Kragan's.
Get ready for their number. These cats have seen a
lifetime or two. They've been going for I think the
saleslady told us carry sixty one years. I believe if
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memory is correct, maybe it's forty one. Even if it's
thirty one, even if it was twenty one. That tells
you everything. You know, when you play a golf course,
you play it and you go, okay, played it, nice
bucket lift, check it off? Or do you play a
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golf course and go I got to get back out
there again. I got to get out there again and
test it that one hole eight and me up, man,
why did I take driver out? I knew to use
the highbred one hole where you you know, like my
buddy Steve Pike, we shamed him into going for it.
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If I can tell you a golf story, So my buddy,
my new buddy, Steve Pike, he's about one forty seven
out from the green, but there was this massive bunker
guarding the front of the elevated green, and uh, you
know he was gonna bail right, And I'm like, come on, man,
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you didn't come all the way from Miami to bail out.
Go for it, Steve, go for it. And it was
hilarious to tell you how friendly everybody up in Minnesota is.
The guys on the other green that were putting in,
they go, yeah, come on, Steve, go for it, go
for it. And I'm like, oh, your big mouth again.
I'm sorry, guys, I didn't mean to be so loud,
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but I'm like, no, we want to see Steve go
for it. Now.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
How often do you get that in a golf course
in a big city LA Chicago, Cleveland, man, don't even
get me start on playing golf at a Cleveland Metro
Park golf course, people threatened.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
To shoot you if you're not paying fast enough. Cleveland fun.
And Steve went for it and was the heck of
a golf shot. But again, the testimony to me is
you play a golf course like, okay, did that done that?
Moving on, not the golf here in Brainerd, Minnesota, at
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the Cragan's Golf resort, both courses, which we're going to
get into here in a little bit. I'm almost out
of time for this segment, but there's so much there.
There's two eighteens. There is the Layman eighteen Tom Layman design.
We're going to talk about that and the Dutch eighteen.
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Dutch eighteen Dutch Cragan Dutch Craigan hence the Dutch eighteen
Dutch's father began the entire Cragan's golf resort back in
the nineteen twenties or thirties, I believe, and it's a
family run business and they've grown through the years. Man,
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they are in a supersonic growth period these days, as
I mentioned, adding golf holes.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
They have the PGA America's Tour coming up. I believe
it's next week. Golfers coming in from all over the
world to Brainer to Cragan's resort. That should tell you
a lot right there about the pedigree, the pedigree of Kragans.
I mean, the tour does, doesn't you know, say, Hey,
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we're gonna have a golf tournament at the Eltuna Elks Club. Yeah,
the Altuna Elks Club. That'll work. No disparagement to the
actual Eltuna Elks Club. Disclaimer. If there is such a
golf course sees and desist talking about the El Tuna
Golf Elks course like that. You know what if I did,
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I'll come up there and buy a round of Harvey Wallbangers.
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Speaker 2 (18:54):
Gettysburg's history is at a dramatic impact on how we
see our country and ourselves. These hallowed battlefields, legendary landmarks,
and powerful memorials tell our story like nowhere else can.
As a profound, inspired personal experience, there has never been
a better, more meaningful time to visit Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
(19:20):
for the people.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Hello, and welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio Hour
with your host Randy the Tank Tantlinger. I don't know
where he is what he's doing. He's play out in
the backyard Putton. Now I'm him, I'm he the Tank.
How are you beautiful Saturday morning? No doubt about it.
Summer is still in full swing. As I said, see
(19:45):
what I did there, full swing. Ah, it is still
golf season. There is so much great golf to be had.
Yet if you listen to us on the iHeart National
Podcast systemart Our National Podcast System, I truly appreciate that
our listenership is going up every week. I don't know
(20:06):
why you like listening to me talk golf. I do not,
but as long as they let me, I will talk
about golf. G Lf, which translated into Gaelic, is a
swear word that I cannot repeat here. Google it. Research
at Golf is a Gaelic swear word which if you golf,
you understand the agony of defeat and the thrill of
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victory and all that good stuff. For Mabec's wide world
of sports in yonder days of your If you listen
to the first segment of the show, we're talking about Well,
I was just up in Brainerd, Brainerd, Minnesota, that is
about two hours north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Say
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that twelve times after a few shots of tequila, Minneapolis,
Minnesota and UH to a beautiful, wonderful golf resort. I've
just discovered Craigan's Golf Resort c r A g e
u n s dot com. C r A g u
n s dot com. It is set on the beautiful
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Gold Lake and Stevens Lake in Brainerd, Minnesota. You will
know Brainerd because it is the birthplace and he does
have a bursatificate. He will show you if you ask him.
I ran into him at about two in the morning.
He's about nine foot tall. He goes by the UH
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moniker of Paul Bunyon and his caddie, Babe the Blue Ox. Yeah,
it is the Brainerd, Minnesota area that birthed the legend
of Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox. And at
Cragan's Golf Resort, Paul Bunyon and Babe greet you as
you enter the resort. In statue form Paul is about
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eight to nine feet tall. If Babe the Blue Hawks
was real, I would say he weighs about the same
as two teslas put together. That's how big the statue is.
But just a lovely area at the Kragans Golf Resort.
Lake life. Lake life really is the centerpiece at Cragan's
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beautiful gall Lake, very trankful. We took the wonderful Gall
Lake Cruise on our last evening there, replete with BARBIEQ
and some cold Teeto's and I was able to smoke
a nice macanudo on the back deck, talking golf with
some friends, and just the lake life is at its
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very best at Craigan's Golf Resort. But more so, it
is the golf that you've come to Craigan's Golf Resort for.
And that's the special thing here, I mean really special.
As I often say, the thumbs up or thumbs down,
not even the thumbs down on a golf course, but
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a thumb's up for a golf course is if you
play it and you immediately say, I got to get
a crack at that again. Can we get a tea
time this afternoon? I'll do thirty six. It owned me.
But now I know the little nuances and tricks and
how on the Dutch eighteen, instead of going for that
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green over the sand trap and with the marsh to
the left, I should have put it to the right
on the hill, let it draw back down into the
fairway and I would have had a nice forty yard
either bump and run or a sand wedge up and
into the green and I could have gotten my par.
But instead, And these are the things that go through
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your mind. Right with a great golf course, When can
I play it again? You know, Okay, can't get on today.
What's the air? Lish can get me on in the morning.
I'm leaving it to Okay, great first tea time at seven.
I'll pack tonight. That's the golf sickness, the golf sickness
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that some of us have. And if you have it,
you understand it. But that's the quality of golf at
Kragan's Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota. You want to crack
at their two eighteens immediately immediately. Laman eighteen Tom Laman
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Design redesign. I should say the Dutch eighteen a Robert
Trent Jones design.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
To begin with with a retouching up of master proportions
was the old Minnesota native himself, Tom Watson.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
So let's get in to the gulf here at Kragan's
and they are just incredible. Let's talk about the Layman eighteen.
The Layman eighteen. It is challenging, it's picture esque, it's gorgeous,
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it's a Tom Layman signature plays in its seven four
hundred yards. Ain't no fifty two hundred yard little Jim
Dandy course built in the twenties. It is beautiful. It
is beautiful. Minnesota provides the backdrop, the tapestry, the canvas
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for to you to paint every single stroke upon. It's incredible.
Stevens Lake serves as the background, the peaceful, tranquil setting
that you will discover on each in every hole. You're
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in a wooded sanctuary, if you will. The beautiful trees
that Paul Bunyan himself would have been cutting down or replanning.
I mean, they just frame each in every hole. But
it's Layman's mastery of the land and the topography that
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really shines here on a few of the greens. I
think it was one or two Jack who's director of
golf up there a wonderful young man. Got to play
with Jack, got to make him laugh. He laughed with me.
At me as long as he was laughing, I didn't care.
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Really nice young man with some great golf game. I
think it was on one or two he went in
and again. It was originally a Robert Trent Jones design.
Tom Layman was brought in by the ownership group to
rebuild redesign upon the Trent Jones design, and boy, he
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did a great job. Again, I don't know if it
was one or two or third green that Jack showed
us that he said, look, here's where the green was
before we had you know, this was here, that was there.
People complained about the green for years. So we took
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out all the trees that surrounded the green, and now
the green is an additional I think it was like
forty or fifty yards. It extended the hole into the
green and it was gorgeous. And that speaks testaments to
the redesigned by Tom Layman and the vision of the
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owners of Craigan's Golf Resort and Raynard, Minnesota to say, look,
we want to continue to grow, we don't want to stagnate.
We want to offer golf property that again as you saying,
I got to get another crack at it, or like
I mentioned in the first segment, I met a group
of young golfers that have been coming there twenty years
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in a row, religiously. They played the old designs. They're
now playing the new designs at both the Laman eighteen
and the Dutch eighteen, and they love them. I mean,
these guys couldn't rave and they were coming from Wisconsin,
which has its own great golf. Really really just an
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incredible rebirth of the Kragan's Golf Resort, the Layman eighteen
Dutch eighteen. But staying on the Layman eighteen right now,
I'm pretty sure it was whole number two. It's an
awesome par five that is just stunning with the trees,
et cetera. The lake is creeping next to the fair
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ray at about the one hundred and fifty yard marker,
just really gorgeous. The green itself is three tiered green
and just a magical, magical painting. It is just incredible.
But again, this is the re design that Tom Layman
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came in and did on the Dutch eighteen at Craigan's
Golf Resort. I'm going to go to my notes here. Now, yes,
I do take notes. Well, I'm golfin. You know, holes
number four, five, six, and seven have the new Layman
touch added to them. I mean that's a pretty good
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effort there. I mean, totally new golf holes have been
designed by Tom Layman. Incredible. But it was holes number
six and seven that really stood out to me. Whole
number six on the Layman eighteen is a par three
and really the Minnesota beauty, the Minnesota peace and Tranquility.
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Let me set something up for you. I want you
to close your eyes. Imagine downtown New York City on
a busy Monday morning. How stressful is that brick brik?
Good morning, your moron. Hey, hey, get no, I'm walking
ahead New York City on a Sunday morning, Monday morning.
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I mean, now, let me take you to the Sanctuary
of Peace and Tranquility or his Superman called it his
Fortress of Solitude. That is Kragan's golf resort, located in
beautiful Brainerd, Minnesota. Pole six on the Layman eighteen as
a new redesign. It's a par three and it's a
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downhill par three, which I love those. Most of the
time I can hit those got to film with Jack
the director of golf there on that hole and just
I mean all inspiring. The green is the centuries that
guarded are a large bunker, then the wetland the marsh
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area surrounds the green. I mean it was beautiful. At
one point Jack said, are those looms out there and
the seabirds and lake ball birds and gauls just beautiful
And the weather was perfect. Look, if you're sweating to
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death in Arizona and Texas and Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida
in the summertime, get on a plane up the Brainerd,
Minnesota Craigan's Golf Resort. You won't be sweating, you won't
be suffering in high heat. You'll be enjoying pleasant seventy
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eight degree weather like we did with blue skies and
birds and marshes. Even if you miss your shop to
the right side, left side, you're going with the turtles.
See turtles. I don't know if they have those in
a marsh or it sounds good. You got to bail
out right if you miss that green, couple subtle tears
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on it. You know, provides great pin placements. When you
get to whole number seven, another one of my favorite
designs on the course redesigns. It's a it's a golf hole,
number four, par four, four hundred and forty one yards
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from the tips. Man, there are fairway bunkers guarding on
the left side. You hit into those at a stroke.
I mean it really really is. It will make the
approach shot very difficult, just beautiful. And the fairway is
hidden man, with some trees and whatnot. You've got to
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be spot on, dead solid perfect on number seven. All right, Wow,
how fast that segment went. You know, when you're talking
about the things you love like Craigan's golf resorts in Brainerd, Minnesota,
and Paul Bunyan and peace and tranquility and peace of mind,
I'm like walking here in New York City. Get up
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to Brainerd, Minnesota. All right, when we come back to
the golfing around Radio hour with your host Randy tank Tantlier,
guess where we're going back to Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Why?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
When you know, John Denver really screwed up not making
a song about He's got country roads take me Home
in Colorado and Rocky Mountain High He messed up not
talking about Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Speaker 2 (34:49):
Gettysburg's history has had a dramatic impact on how we
see our country and ourselves. These hallowed battlefields, legendary landmarks,
and powerful memorials tell our story like nowhere else can.
As a profound, inspired personal experience. There has never been
a better, more meaningful time to visit Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
(35:15):
for the people.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Take me Home Country Roads to the place I belong Minnesota,
Craigan's Golf Resort. Take me Ome Country Roads. Hey, it's
a Golfing Round Radio Hour. I'm your host, Randy the
Tank Tanliger here every Saturday morning at TENM TENM TENM
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buddy Abby up and Iceland does. Yeah, I really do.
Got a buddy in Iceland named Abby, and I have
filmed in Iceland one of the coolest golf experiences ever.
In Iceland, they're tourism borrow brought me over and I
(36:30):
am seed a awards ceremony. One night, some fool 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,
(36:54):
you know, like I'm always doing the old Don Ricos routine.
The good people of Iceland, 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
(37:16):
on this specific day in Iceland and you don't tee
off until midnight. It was incredible. But before that we
had dinner and drinks and Uh. Anyway, they made the
mistake of putting the CEO of icelandic are right in
front of me, and you know, I gave him the
(37:38):
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 foreign countries laugh, which I have,
they've laughed at me mostly, But it was great fun
at the in Iceland. Uh. Then if you ever get
the chance down south in Iceland, they had the volcano
(38:02):
open in nineteen seventy two on an island off of Iceland.
The island erupted because it 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
(38:24):
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, and they did. They built
a links golf course in half of the volcano with
the ocean right there. And I don't even know how
high the walls of the volcano were, they were massive.
(38:48):
And just to close out the story, so like, they
paired me with the Arnold Palmer of Icelandic Golf, their
greatest professional golfer whole time. 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
(39:11):
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 that good at a golfer
to begin with, and I'm long over. And he looked
at me in a very stoic voice and said, I
(39:33):
don't know about the hangover, but you're right about not
being a very good golfer. Then he smiled at me
because he got my sense of humor. Anyway, you're listening
to the golfing around radio hour, so check us out
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Look for that. And if you go to the old
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it's South Africa, Iceland, Thailand. Golfsman 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 there
(41:00):
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 Craigan's Golf Resort in this show. Craigan's
Golf Resort. You can check them out at c r
A g u ns dot com, Kragans dot com and
(41:25):
you're gonna learn all about their incredible golf resort. Lake
Life is a tranquil life. Lake Life is a peaceful life.
What he got worried about? Man, chill out, there's the lake.
There's the lake. Golfs. Relax, have a cigar, having Arnold Palmer,
(41:46):
have a titos, Relax, have a titos and relax and
look at gall Lake. Even if you play bad golf
on all the great golf they have there. At Craigan's
Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota, about two hours no of Minneapolis,
we were talking about their Too eighteens, the lame In
(42:07):
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 twenty first century is Kerrigan's
Golf Resort. They're not resting on their laurels. They have
brought in Minnesota native Garrison Keeler to redesign. That was
(42:32):
a joke if you followed it. So that's a really
deep inside joke too. Man. If you get it, you
get it. If you don't, I cannot help you. You
will have to google who. Garrison Keeler the acclaimed award
winning writer from Minnesota who fabulously in his book Lake
(42:53):
Wobegone Days illustrated Minnesota life and its nuances and quirkiness.
But Tom Lahman was brought in to redesign the Kragans
golf courses and he's done a great job. We talked
about on how whole number four or five, six and
seven they were basically redous, creating longer greens, redesigning holes
(43:17):
just incredible. We talked about whole number six beautiful Part three.
You'll be able to see the video online on Facebook
and YouTube here in 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
(43:39):
the holes. 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. I saw 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 Craigan's for twenty years, twenty years and Wisconsin guys,
(44:04):
they got plenty of golf in Wisconsin. They're coming to Kragans.
What does that tell you? Whole number eleven, great hole, uphill,
narrow fairway, incredible green complex. And I said in two
earlier segments that you know testament of a golf courses.
You might play it, and you know I played it.
(44:26):
Check it off. Or like a 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
(44:49):
in the Layman eighteen. Not that it'll wreck you, but
what it will do is it will challenge your game.
It will force you to go to your tool box
and use every club from the wedge to the fairway,
wood off the tees to crafting shots. It will make
(45:14):
you do that. It is incredible the lame in eighteen,
but part of the whole eleven was just incredible. I
forget which hole it was just oh sixteen the finishing
stretch on the Tom Lameman eighteen. And again they have
two great eighteen holders there at Craigan's Golf Resort, Brainerd, Minnesota.
(45:42):
Whole number sixteen just unbelievable. Part for overlooking at lake
in the entire finishing stretch for the back nine that
elevated tea. I don't even know two hundred yards above
the fairway, it's a long for carring. You know, there's
(46:03):
a fairway bunker that I almost caught. I finally had
a good drive. I turned, U got that shoulder turning
all the way through and the right shoulder 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. But I was well lubricated at
(46:26):
that point and finally hit a good shot in Jack,
the director of golf up there, said, hey, you finally
got one. Yeah, I did, and it felt good and
I think I parted that hole. I had four pars.
What's card said? I had four pars? Quietly, Yeah, went
(46:47):
about my business. Uh. But the Layman eighteen is just
gorgeous at Craigan's. Uh, And I've left very little time
in the show. We're down to about four minutes left.
Guess we're gonna remember I told you throughout the show.
You know, a mark of a good golf course is
when you when you say to yourself, I gotta play
(47:07):
that thing again. We're gonna have to go back to
Craigan's next week too, so tune in. You know, we
can talk about the the Layman eighteen again. We can
talk about the Dutch eighteen. Tom Layman put his touches
on it.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
The nice thing about the Dutch eighteen is they're adding
another nine eighteen nineteen, twenty two, twenty seven holes. Is
gonna be the Dutch eighteen. And the good folks there
at Craigan's Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota, took us on
(47:48):
a walking tour, driving tour of the Red nine is
they're calling it, and it is gonna be spectacular. I
forget which hole it was on the nine, geez on
the Red nine the new one. I want to say
(48:10):
it was six or seven. That just is gonna be
an unbelievable greens complex. Now I hate using the word
lynx esque. I think it's a garbage, nonsense word in golf.
(48:30):
You got to have an ocean beside you to be
a Lynx golf course. Calling the links at Huckleberry Farms
in landlocked Nebraska is idiotic. Lynks esque if you can't
go to a thesaurus and come up with some better
words to use. And I'm going to have to amonish
myself right now because the green I'm gonna say it
(48:54):
this way to avoid lynks esque. Tom Layman's played all.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
Over the world.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Kids. You see you see the Scottish and Irish links
influence on his design work, especially on this whole I'm
describing on the Red nine, on the Dutch eighteen again.
The Red nine will be open next year. It's designed
(49:20):
and built and growing in They just want to let
it mature. But the Green complex was incredible. Wow. That
has been an incredible quick hour on the Golfing Around
Radio Hour this week with Tank tandlier Er. Please listen
to us on iHeart Podcasts anytime you want anywhere in
the world. Abby in Iceland, if you're listening Abby in Iceland,
(49:42):
if you're listening, Hello, it's probably already winner up there
in Iceland. Anyway, folks, thanks for joining us. Tune in
again next week. You know, we're gonna go back to
Craigan's a little bit next week. We're also going to
talk about some of the great golf in Camp Ohio
and have a big announcement coming up next week about Canton,
(50:04):
Ohio golf and how you can win a trip to
Scotland in Canton, Ohio next August, you'll be having I'm
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Hello and welcome to Steelers Chot Talk. I'm oops, sorry,
wrong radio show. You know my ankles are taped up,
my wrists are taped up. I got my helmet on,
I got my mouthpiece in and at black junk whatever
it is you put under your eyes for a football season,
getting a little fired up for mind be loove it
(01:39):
Bittsburgh Steelers. But you know what, it's only August, sweetheart.
It's only August. It's still golf season. Yeah. Man, I'll
be swinging sticks until well, I can't uh might even
start to chili open this year, you know, go play
in the snow and eat some chili and raise money
for charity. It is the golfing around radio hour. I
(02:03):
am your host, Randy the tank Tantlinger. I can't believe
it's almost September. Labor Day. Came from the gym this morning.
The kids, well, they were heading to school, getting ready
to go learn something. Go to gymnasium class, negotiate a lunch, lady.
It's pizza Friday at most schools. You know, you get
(02:24):
pizza on Friday if you behaved. If you don't, well
you got a lump of oatmeal or like Oliver, I mean,
have poort si. It is a lovely time of year,
but it is still summer. As I always say, look,
just because your kids go back to school doesn't mean
my summer is over. Man. September is the best month
(02:47):
of summer. So we got plenty of golf to talk
about up until the Steelers kick off the regular season
down in hot Atlanta. Yeah, Hottlan, I'm sure Ben Roethlisberger
could give a hoots and holler about training camp and allures.
He's got a place down at Reynolds Lake Aconey, which,
(03:10):
if you've never been to Reynolds Lake Cocony in Georgia,
it is golf paradise. They just keep building more and
more tremendous golf properties there. Home to a Ritz Carlton,
been there several times filmed. Go check it out at
Reynolds Lakecony and maybe you run into Bruce Arians and
(03:32):
Ben Roethlisberger and you go, hey, well you sign my
golf ball for me, Ben, and he'll just look at
you and go no, much like Arnold Palmer, I don't
sign golf balls. You'm aron. Hey, you know I want
you to do something for yourself. I want you to
do something for yourself. Discovering new golf properties, new golf
(03:56):
courses is one of my favorite things. I know it
is one of yours, too, You know, all golfers say
to themselves, Hey have you played you know? Have you Hey?
Have you played Pine Valley? No? Hey have you played Seminole? No?
Have you played Oakmont? No? Have you played Beth Page? No?
(04:19):
You know the courses you can't get on too. But
I promise you there are so many golf courses to discover,
to discover, and you can say to your friends, hey,
have you played Kragan's golf resort courses? Two of them
(04:40):
and much more in Brainerd, Minnesota, And they'll go, no,
never heard of it. Then you'll have a one upsman.
Everybody likes the one upman, right, discover a great golf
destination to find talk about brag about? You mean you
haven't been to Kragans and Brainerd, Minnesota, Well let me
(05:03):
tell you all about it. My friend Robert Trent Jones,
Tom Layman, you know those names. Well, how do I
even describe this golf paradise in Brainerd, Minnesota? And that's
how I feel this week on the golfing around radio hour.
(05:23):
But instead of being all cocky about it, like I'm
want up in you, that's not what my purpose to
hear is The Official Electronic Town Crier of golf in
the twenty first century. That's a hell of the moniker,
isn't it. I just gave myself. I want to announce
to you the golfing world my new discovery, well actually
(05:47):
my new love, my new passion, Kragan's cr A g
u n s. Just go to Kragan's c r A
g u ns dot com and you'll see what I'm
talking about. Pretty soon you'll be able to go to
our Golfing Around Facebook page and YouTube page and see
some videos I shot with the Let me start with
(06:11):
this first of all, get on a plane or drive
up to Minnesota. Never been there. Guess what, It's gorgeous.
It's the land of Garrison Keeler five points to you
people that know it is beautiful, It is peaceful. You
(06:31):
fly into Minneapolis, Minnesota, it's about a two hour drive north,
but you're gonna enjoy the drive because you're gonna enjoy
driving in Minnesota, especially around Brainerd and Kragan's nobody tailgates you.
Everybody is nice in Brainerd, Minnesota. Everybody is polite, Everybody
(06:54):
has a smile on their face. Doesn't that sound wonderful
to you? Can considering how things are these days, I
mean Americana lives in Brainerd at Cragan's Golf Resort. Who's
the guy that used to do all the wonderful Americana paintings,
(07:15):
Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell, this is what the feeling in Brainerd, Minnesota,
at the Cragan's Golf Resort will give you a feeling of.
You know, I ain't Norman Walckwell probably lived here and
got his inspirations. Everybody's really nice, everybody but me. You know,
I had to give them the old Don Rickles up
(07:37):
there in Brainerd. They're such nice people. I had to
give them the Don Rickles routine, you know, you know,
throwing out some insults with some love and tenderness and
sugar sugar. Just this my way of saying hello. You know,
if you listen to the show enough, you know, nothing
but a big, cuddly teddy bear who likes to have fun,
(07:59):
you know, and mostly poke fun at myself is what
I do. But the wonderful, wonderful people in Brainerd, everyone
I met, everyone, everyone was just wonderful, friendly, open the conversation.
You know, it's a lost art in America these days,
especially with the kids with the cell phone nonsense and
(08:21):
the YouTube and the giggles and the Googles and the
ex'es and the o's and the twitters and everything else.
You know, parents, make your kids put the cell phone down,
teach them how to speak to other people speaking. It
begins with listening, then speaking the full talk the wise
(08:43):
man speaks. I was once told, go to Brainerd, Minnesota,
two hours north of Minneapolis, and you're going to discover
a golf paradise, like I did this week. So with
all that said, I want to tell you why it's
a golf paradise. First of all, it's nestled around Stevens
(09:04):
and gall Lake. The lake life. Yeah, it is in
abundance because everything around the lake focuses on lake life.
You know, we had a tremendous Gall Lake cruise one evening.
It was our last evening in Brainerd at the Cragan's
(09:26):
Golf Resort, Barbecue and ribs and Coltito's vodka with some
friends and cigars. I don't think I've been that relaxed
all summer long. I've been on the hamster wheel all
summer long, like you have, taken the kids here playing
a vacation, trying to get around a golf and go
(09:46):
to Craigan's Golf Resort. Get on the Gall Lake cruise boat. Man,
It's great. It's like a one of those double decker
things if you're in Pittsburgh. It's the you know, tantamount
to the Gateway clipper fleet. Upper deck gives you full
panoramas of the beautiful area on gall Lake there and Brainerd.
The dinner is served bar on both decks, which appealed
(10:11):
to the old tanker here. And the great thing is
I was allowed to smoke my Macan nudo cigar. It's
always saved the good ones for the last couple days
of a golf adventure and just sit on the back
of the boat and watch the evening and the sun
go down and talk with some new golf friends up
there in Craigan's Golf Resort and Brainerd Mini Soda. Hey,
(10:35):
you're listening to Golfing around Radio hour with Randy the
tank tamtlier here every Saturday morning. Yes, I am, Well,
actually I record this show send it to the people
there at Fox Sports Net Wheeling, Pittsburgh one three point
nine FM. And so actually about this time, either I'm
(10:55):
getting home from the gym or i am heading out
to a joy the weekend. Look, I really, really really
want to endorse Cragan's Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota. It
is a tremendous facility. It is a wonderful facility. And
the nice thing is, you know they are grougging right now.
(11:19):
They are growing in a very positive way. They are
redesigning golf holes, they are building new nines. They have
a professional golf tourm We're going to talk all about
that on golfing around this week, but I want you
(11:40):
to go to Kragans dot com. That's c r A
g u ns dot com and you'll see what I'm
talking about again. The lake life at Kragan's is what
it's all about. I mean, how can you be stressed
out looking at a beautiful, beautiful glacier lake like gall
(12:03):
Lake and Steven's Lake. He can't, You can't. The world
will melt away. I didn't watch one bit of television
this week. I had the Frank Sinatra, the Dean Martin going.
The guys I was golfing with, they're like, that's really relaxing,
it's slowing down my swing. Who doesn't like Dean Martin? Huh?
(12:28):
In fact, if you don't like Dean Martin from Steubenville, Ohio.
Hang up the phone right now. I have nothing more
to say to you. But the lake life is the
centerpiece at Craigan's resort, and what makes it really, really
inspiring is the golf that uses gall Lake in Brainerd,
(12:54):
Minnesota as the backdrop and into play at many times.
They've got great golf packages. Tim the sales manager up there,
He's glad to bring your group up there. And here's
the real testament. The first night we were there, we checked
into a beautiful, beautiful, well, I won't call it a condo,
(13:15):
it's a house, five bedroom, and right there, baby, one
of their best holes, number eleven on the Tom Lane
in eighteen course. I saw a group of guys golfing
and the sun was just going down. It was a
Sunday night, my favorite time to golf. So I grabbed
my white wine and my cigar in hand and went
out and said, hey, I'm thanking from Pittsburgh, how are you,
(13:36):
and learned about the guys. They were great guys. Here's
the testament. They have been coming to Kragan's Golf Resort
in Brainerd, Minnesota for twenty years in a row. And
they're from Wisconsin. They're not even Minnesoultans. They're from Wisconsin,
which has great golf unto itself. That's a testament. We
(14:00):
heard of another group of an older, older gentlemen. They
come up every year for their annual fishing tournament at Kragan's.
Get ready for their number. These cats have seen a
lifetime or two. They've been going for I think the
saleslady told us carry sixty one years. I believe if
(14:23):
memory is correct, maybe it's forty one. Even if it's
thirty one, even if it was twenty one. That tells
you everything. You know, when you play a golf course,
you play it and you go, okay, played it, nice
bucket lift, check it off? Or do you play a
(14:44):
golf course and go I got to get back out
there again. I got to get out there again and
test it that one hole eight and me up, man,
why did I take driver out? I knew to use
the highbred one hole where you you know, like my
buddy Steve Pike, we shamed him into going for it.
(15:09):
If I can tell you a golf story, So my buddy,
my new buddy, Steve Pike, he's about one forty seven
out from the green, but there was this massive bunker
guarding the front of the elevated green, and uh, you
know he was gonna bail right, And I'm like, come on, man,
(15:29):
you didn't come all the way from Miami to bail out.
Go for it, Steve, go for it. And it was
hilarious to tell you how friendly everybody up in Minnesota is.
The guys on the other green that were putting in,
they go, yeah, come on, Steve, go for it, go
for it. And I'm like, oh, your big mouth again.
I'm sorry, guys, I didn't mean to be so loud,
(15:50):
but I'm like, no, we want to see Steve go
for it. Now.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
How often do you get that in a golf course
in a big city LA Chicago, Cleveland, man, don't even
get me start on playing golf at a Cleveland Metro
Park golf course, people threatened.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
To shoot you if you're not paying fast enough. Cleveland fun.
And Steve went for it and was the heck of
a golf shot. But again, the testimony to me is
you play a golf course like, okay, did that done that?
Moving on, not the golf here in Brainerd, Minnesota, at
(16:29):
the Cragan's Golf resort, both courses, which we're going to
get into here in a little bit. I'm almost out
of time for this segment, but there's so much there.
There's two eighteens. There is the Layman eighteen Tom Layman design.
We're going to talk about that and the Dutch eighteen.
(16:49):
Dutch eighteen Dutch Cragan Dutch Craigan hence the Dutch eighteen
Dutch's father began the entire Cragan's golf resort back in
the nineteen twenties or thirties, I believe, and it's a
family run business and they've grown through the years. Man,
(17:12):
they are in a supersonic growth period these days, as
I mentioned, adding golf holes.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
They have the PGA America's Tour coming up. I believe
it's next week. Golfers coming in from all over the
world to Brainer to Cragan's resort. That should tell you
a lot right there about the pedigree, the pedigree of Kragans.
I mean, the tour does, doesn't you know, say, Hey,
(17:40):
we're gonna have a golf tournament at the Eltuna Elks Club. Yeah,
the Altuna Elks Club. That'll work. No disparagement to the
actual Eltuna Elks Club. Disclaimer. If there is such a
golf course sees and desist talking about the El Tuna
Golf Elks course like that. You know what if I did,
(18:01):
I'll come up there and buy a round of Harvey Wallbangers.
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and powerful memorials tell our story like nowhere else can.
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(19:20):
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Hello, and welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio Hour
with your host Randy the Tank Tantlinger. I don't know
where he is what he's doing. He's play out in
the backyard Putton. Now I'm him, I'm he the Tank.
How are you beautiful Saturday morning? No doubt about it.
Summer is still in full swing. As I said, see
(19:45):
what I did there, full swing. Ah, it is still
golf season. There is so much great golf to be had.
Yet if you listen to us on the iHeart National
Podcast systemart Our National Podcast System, I truly appreciate that
our listenership is going up every week. I don't know
(20:06):
why you like listening to me talk golf. I do not,
but as long as they let me, I will talk
about golf. G Lf, which translated into Gaelic, is a
swear word that I cannot repeat here. Google it. Research
at Golf is a Gaelic swear word which if you golf,
you understand the agony of defeat and the thrill of
(20:30):
victory and all that good stuff. For Mabec's wide world
of sports in yonder days of your If you listen
to the first segment of the show, we're talking about Well,
I was just up in Brainerd, Brainerd, Minnesota, that is
about two hours north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Say
(20:54):
that twelve times after a few shots of tequila, Minneapolis,
Minnesota and UH to a beautiful, wonderful golf resort. I've
just discovered Craigan's Golf Resort c r A g e
u n s dot com. C r A g u
n s dot com. It is set on the beautiful
(21:17):
Gold Lake and Stevens Lake in Brainerd, Minnesota. You will
know Brainerd because it is the birthplace and he does
have a bursatificate. He will show you if you ask him.
I ran into him at about two in the morning.
He's about nine foot tall. He goes by the UH
(21:40):
moniker of Paul Bunyon and his caddie, Babe the Blue Ox. Yeah,
it is the Brainerd, Minnesota area that birthed the legend
of Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox. And at
Cragan's Golf Resort, Paul Bunyon and Babe greet you as
you enter the resort. In statue form Paul is about
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eight to nine feet tall. If Babe the Blue Hawks
was real, I would say he weighs about the same
as two teslas put together. That's how big the statue is.
But just a lovely area at the Kragans Golf Resort.
Lake life. Lake life really is the centerpiece at Cragan's
(22:30):
beautiful gall Lake, very trankful. We took the wonderful Gall
Lake Cruise on our last evening there, replete with BARBIEQ
and some cold Teeto's and I was able to smoke
a nice macanudo on the back deck, talking golf with
some friends, and just the lake life is at its
(22:53):
very best at Craigan's Golf Resort. But more so, it
is the golf that you've come to Craigan's Golf Resort for.
And that's the special thing here, I mean really special.
As I often say, the thumbs up or thumbs down,
not even the thumbs down on a golf course, but
(23:14):
a thumb's up for a golf course is if you
play it and you immediately say, I got to get
a crack at that again. Can we get a tea
time this afternoon? I'll do thirty six. It owned me.
But now I know the little nuances and tricks and
how on the Dutch eighteen, instead of going for that
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green over the sand trap and with the marsh to
the left, I should have put it to the right
on the hill, let it draw back down into the
fairway and I would have had a nice forty yard
either bump and run or a sand wedge up and
into the green and I could have gotten my par.
But instead, And these are the things that go through
(23:55):
your mind. Right with a great golf course, When can
I play it again? You know, Okay, can't get on today.
What's the air? Lish can get me on in the morning.
I'm leaving it to Okay, great first tea time at seven.
I'll pack tonight. That's the golf sickness, the golf sickness
(24:16):
that some of us have. And if you have it,
you understand it. But that's the quality of golf at
Kragan's Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota. You want to crack
at their two eighteens immediately immediately. Laman eighteen Tom Laman
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Design redesign. I should say the Dutch eighteen a Robert
Trent Jones design.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
To begin with with a retouching up of master proportions
was the old Minnesota native himself, Tom Watson.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
So let's get in to the gulf here at Kragan's
and they are just incredible. Let's talk about the Layman eighteen.
The Layman eighteen. It is challenging, it's picture esque, it's gorgeous,
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it's a Tom Layman signature plays in its seven four
hundred yards. Ain't no fifty two hundred yard little Jim
Dandy course built in the twenties. It is beautiful. It
is beautiful. Minnesota provides the backdrop, the tapestry, the canvas
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for to you to paint every single stroke upon. It's incredible.
Stevens Lake serves as the background, the peaceful, tranquil setting
that you will discover on each in every hole. You're
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in a wooded sanctuary, if you will. The beautiful trees
that Paul Bunyan himself would have been cutting down or replanning.
I mean, they just frame each in every hole. But
it's Layman's mastery of the land and the topography that
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really shines here on a few of the greens. I
think it was one or two Jack who's director of
golf up there a wonderful young man. Got to play
with Jack, got to make him laugh. He laughed with me.
At me as long as he was laughing, I didn't care.
(26:48):
Really nice young man with some great golf game. I
think it was on one or two he went in
and again. It was originally a Robert Trent Jones design.
Tom Layman was brought in by the ownership group to
rebuild redesign upon the Trent Jones design, and boy, he
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did a great job. Again, I don't know if it
was one or two or third green that Jack showed
us that he said, look, here's where the green was
before we had you know, this was here, that was there.
People complained about the green for years. So we took
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out all the trees that surrounded the green, and now
the green is an additional I think it was like
forty or fifty yards. It extended the hole into the
green and it was gorgeous. And that speaks testaments to
the redesigned by Tom Layman and the vision of the
(27:55):
owners of Craigan's Golf Resort and Raynard, Minnesota to say, look,
we want to continue to grow, we don't want to stagnate.
We want to offer golf property that again as you saying,
I got to get another crack at it, or like
I mentioned in the first segment, I met a group
of young golfers that have been coming there twenty years
(28:18):
in a row, religiously. They played the old designs. They're
now playing the new designs at both the Laman eighteen
and the Dutch eighteen, and they love them. I mean,
these guys couldn't rave and they were coming from Wisconsin,
which has its own great golf. Really really just an
(28:39):
incredible rebirth of the Kragan's Golf Resort, the Layman eighteen
Dutch eighteen. But staying on the Layman eighteen right now,
I'm pretty sure it was whole number two. It's an
awesome par five that is just stunning with the trees,
et cetera. The lake is creeping next to the fair
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ray at about the one hundred and fifty yard marker,
just really gorgeous. The green itself is three tiered green
and just a magical, magical painting. It is just incredible.
But again, this is the re design that Tom Layman
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came in and did on the Dutch eighteen at Craigan's
Golf Resort. I'm going to go to my notes here. Now, yes,
I do take notes. Well, I'm golfin. You know, holes
number four, five, six, and seven have the new Layman
touch added to them. I mean that's a pretty good
(29:50):
effort there. I mean, totally new golf holes have been
designed by Tom Layman. Incredible. But it was holes number
six and seven that really stood out to me. Whole
number six on the Layman eighteen is a par three
and really the Minnesota beauty, the Minnesota peace and Tranquility.
(30:19):
Let me set something up for you. I want you
to close your eyes. Imagine downtown New York City on
a busy Monday morning. How stressful is that brick brik?
Good morning, your moron. Hey, hey, get no, I'm walking
ahead New York City on a Sunday morning, Monday morning.
(30:41):
I mean, now, let me take you to the Sanctuary
of Peace and Tranquility or his Superman called it his
Fortress of Solitude. That is Kragan's golf resort, located in
beautiful Brainerd, Minnesota. Pole six on the Layman eighteen as
a new redesign. It's a par three and it's a
(31:04):
downhill par three, which I love those. Most of the
time I can hit those got to film with Jack
the director of golf there on that hole and just
I mean all inspiring. The green is the centuries that
guarded are a large bunker, then the wetland the marsh
(31:29):
area surrounds the green. I mean it was beautiful. At
one point Jack said, are those looms out there and
the seabirds and lake ball birds and gauls just beautiful
And the weather was perfect. Look, if you're sweating to
(31:49):
death in Arizona and Texas and Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida
in the summertime, get on a plane up the Brainerd,
Minnesota Craigan's Golf Resort. You won't be sweating, you won't
be suffering in high heat. You'll be enjoying pleasant seventy
(32:10):
eight degree weather like we did with blue skies and
birds and marshes. Even if you miss your shop to
the right side, left side, you're going with the turtles.
See turtles. I don't know if they have those in
a marsh or it sounds good. You got to bail
out right if you miss that green, couple subtle tears
(32:32):
on it. You know, provides great pin placements. When you
get to whole number seven, another one of my favorite
designs on the course redesigns. It's a it's a golf hole,
number four, par four, four hundred and forty one yards
(32:52):
from the tips. Man, there are fairway bunkers guarding on
the left side. You hit into those at a stroke.
I mean it really really is. It will make the
approach shot very difficult, just beautiful. And the fairway is
hidden man, with some trees and whatnot. You've got to
(33:14):
be spot on, dead solid perfect on number seven. All right, Wow,
how fast that segment went. You know, when you're talking
about the things you love like Craigan's golf resorts in Brainerd, Minnesota,
and Paul Bunyan and peace and tranquility and peace of mind,
I'm like walking here in New York City. Get up
(33:37):
to Brainerd, Minnesota. All right, when we come back to
the golfing around Radio hour with your host Randy tank Tantlier,
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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, they're tourism borrow brought me over and I
(36:30):
am seed a awards ceremony. One night, some fool 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,
(36:54):
you know, like I'm always doing the old Don Ricos routine.
The good people of Iceland, 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
(37:16):
on this specific day in Iceland and you don't tee
off until midnight. It was incredible. But before that we
had dinner and drinks and Uh. Anyway, they made the
mistake of putting the CEO of icelandic are right in
front of me, and you know, I gave him the
(37:38):
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 foreign countries laugh, which I have,
they've laughed at me mostly, But it was great fun
at the in Iceland. Uh. Then if you ever get
the chance down south in Iceland, they had the volcano
(38:02):
open in nineteen seventy two on an island off of Iceland.
The island erupted because it 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
(38:24):
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, and they did. They built
a links golf course in half of the volcano with
the ocean right there. And I don't even know how
high the walls of the volcano were, they were massive.
(38:48):
And just to close out the story, so like, they
paired me with the Arnold Palmer of Icelandic Golf, their
greatest professional golfer whole time. 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
(39:11):
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 that good at a golfer
to begin with, and I'm long over. And he looked
at me in a very stoic voice and said, I
(39:33):
don't know about the hangover, but you're right about not
being a very good golfer. Then he smiled at me
because he got my sense of humor. Anyway, you're listening
to the golfing around radio hour, so check us out
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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, Thailand. Golfsman 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 there
(41:00):
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 Craigan's Golf Resort in this show. Craigan's
Golf Resort. You can check them out at c r
A g u ns dot com, Kragans dot com and
(41:25):
you're gonna learn all about their incredible golf resort. Lake
Life is a tranquil life. Lake Life is a peaceful life.
What he got worried about? Man, chill out, there's the lake.
There's the lake. Golfs. Relax, have a cigar, having Arnold Palmer,
(41:46):
have a titos, Relax, have a titos and relax and
look at gall Lake. Even if you play bad golf
on all the great golf they have there. At Craigan's
Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota, about two hours no of Minneapolis,
we were talking about their Too eighteens, the lame In
(42:07):
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 twenty first century is Kerrigan's
Golf Resort. They're not resting on their laurels. They have
brought in Minnesota native Garrison Keeler to redesign. That was
(42:32):
a joke if you followed it. So that's a really
deep inside joke too. Man. If you get it, you
get it. If you don't, I cannot help you. You
will have to google who. Garrison Keeler the acclaimed award
winning writer from Minnesota who fabulously in his book Lake
(42:53):
Wobegone Days illustrated Minnesota life and its nuances and quirkiness.
But Tom Lahman was brought in to redesign the Kragans
golf courses and he's done a great job. We talked
about on how whole number four or five, six and
seven they were basically redous, creating longer greens, redesigning holes
(43:17):
just incredible. We talked about whole number six beautiful Part three.
You'll be able to see the video online on Facebook
and YouTube here in 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
(43:39):
the holes. 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. I saw 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 Craigan's for twenty years, twenty years and Wisconsin guys,
(44:04):
they got plenty of golf in Wisconsin. They're coming to Kragans.
What does that tell you? Whole number eleven, great hole, uphill,
narrow fairway, incredible green complex. And I said in two
earlier segments that you know testament of a golf courses.
You might play it, and you know I played it.
(44:26):
Check it off. Or like a 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
(44:49):
in the Layman eighteen. Not that it'll wreck you, but
what it will do is it will challenge your game.
It will force you to go to your tool box
and use every club from the wedge to the fairway,
wood off the tees to crafting shots. It will make
(45:14):
you do that. It is incredible the lame in eighteen,
but part of the whole eleven was just incredible. I
forget which hole it was just oh sixteen the finishing
stretch on the Tom Lameman eighteen. And again they have
two great eighteen holders there at Craigan's Golf Resort, Brainerd, Minnesota.
(45:42):
Whole number sixteen just unbelievable. Part for overlooking at lake
in the entire finishing stretch for the back nine that
elevated tea. I don't even know two hundred yards above
the fairway, it's a long for carring. You know, there's
(46:03):
a fairway bunker that I almost caught. I finally had
a good drive. I turned, U got that shoulder turning
all the way through and the right shoulder 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. But I was well lubricated at
(46:26):
that point and finally hit a good shot in Jack,
the director of golf up there, said, hey, you finally
got one. Yeah, I did, and it felt good and
I think I parted that hole. I had four pars.
What's card said? I had four pars? Quietly, Yeah, went
(46:47):
about my business. Uh. But the Layman eighteen is just
gorgeous at Craigan's. Uh, And I've left very little time
in the show. We're down to about four minutes left.
Guess we're gonna remember I told you throughout the show.
You know, a mark of a good golf course is
when you when you say to yourself, I gotta play
(47:07):
that thing again. We're gonna have to go back to
Craigan's next week too, so tune in. You know, we
can talk about the the Layman eighteen again. We can
talk about the Dutch eighteen. Tom Layman put his touches
on it.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
The nice thing about the Dutch eighteen is they're adding
another nine eighteen nineteen, twenty two, twenty seven holes. Is
gonna be the Dutch eighteen. And the good folks there
at Craigan's Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota, took us on
(47:48):
a walking tour, driving tour of the Red nine is
they're calling it, and it is gonna be spectacular. I
forget which hole it was on the nine, geez on
the Red nine the new one. I want to say
(48:10):
it was six or seven. That just is gonna be
an unbelievable greens complex. Now I hate using the word
lynx esque. I think it's a garbage, nonsense word in golf.
(48:30):
You got to have an ocean beside you to be
a Lynx golf course. Calling the links at Huckleberry Farms
in landlocked Nebraska is idiotic. Lynks esque if you can't
go to a thesaurus and come up with some better
words to use. And I'm going to have to amonish
myself right now because the green I'm gonna say it
(48:54):
this way to avoid lynks esque. Tom Layman's played all.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
Over the world.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Kids. You see you see the Scottish and Irish links
influence on his design work, especially on this whole I'm
describing on the Red nine, on the Dutch eighteen again.
The Red nine will be open next year. It's designed
(49:20):
and built and growing in They just want to let
it mature. But the Green complex was incredible. Wow. That
has been an incredible quick hour on the Golfing Around
Radio Hour this week with Tank tandlier Er. Please listen
to us on iHeart Podcasts anytime you want anywhere in
the world. Abby in Iceland, if you're listening Abby in Iceland,
(49:42):
if you're listening, Hello, it's probably already winner up there
in Iceland. Anyway, folks, thanks for joining us. Tune in
again next week. You know, we're gonna go back to
Craigan's a little bit next week. We're also going to
talk about some of the great golf in Camp Ohio
and have a big announcement coming up next week about Canton,
(50:04):
Ohio golf and how you can win a trip to
Scotland in Canton, Ohio next August, you'll be having I'm
out of time. You got to tune in to find
out about Canton. God bless you be happy. Tank Out
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