Golfin' Around - July 26, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Discover America's playing Field, home to the iconic Pro Football
Hall of Fame and the growing Hall of Fame Village.
Explore a vibrant city filled with award winning dining options,
exciting events, and entertainment.

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Find it here in America's playing Field.

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Connect with Visit Canton for personalized assistance planning an unforgettable tread.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Visit Canton presents Golfing Around.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
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Speaker 5 (00:38):
Change your Shoes, Change your games, Team USA Versus Team
Scotland Amateur Golf Championships Amateur Golfers.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
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(01:24):
Welcome to the Golfing Around Radio hor Is PGA Championship Weekend.
Scottie Scheffler is donned in his orange jumpsuit for the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'm Randy the Tank Tatlinger. You can just call me
your golf and buddy Tank. Say hey, Tank, I want
to go play some bad golf today and I will
show up because I can play bad golf anywhere. I
want to get into this week show. In this first segment,
it's crazy crazy. We're gonna talk about Scotland. We're gonna
talk about the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio in

(01:59):
his first segment. And you know what, it's really weird.
I wear a couple different hats. I wear the host
of a Golfing Around radio that you're listening to. Hopefully
you laugh, chuckle and get some great information. I also
host the Golfing Around TV show. I'm so excited about that.

(02:22):
That starts on the mid Atlantic Sports Network over ten
million apishods. We'll watch my ugly face play bad golf
from Scotland, Ireland, I can't know, Ohio own all points
in between. Can you imagine somebody giving me a TV show?
They must have been out of their mind at Masson.

(02:42):
And of course we have our magazine all that is
available at Golfing g O l FI n around dot Org,
golfing Around dot Org. I was gonna call it screwing
around dot org, you know, messing around, joking around. But
you know, I guess you put golf in a golf
TV radio magazine show. So this is interesting. My buddy Rich,

(03:09):
who's on a competitive national network, DA DA det that
could you read into that, Chris Berman? Uh? Read into
that what you want? Rich has a longtime friend. I
don't even know how long I've known Rich. He's a
wonderful gentleman, Southern gentleman. Not too few many of those left.

(03:32):
But Rich had me called into his radio show this
week at a meeting of the minds occurred, and I
think you'll enjoy it because it's me talking about how you,
the amateur golfer, can win a trip to Canton, Ohio,
then win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland in twenty

(03:53):
twenty six as a member of Team USA. For more
information about that, log on the USA Scotland Golf dot com.
How easy is that website? Follow me once more, you
morons us a Scotland Golf dot com? How hard is

(04:16):
that USA Scotland Golf dot com? Uh to check about
what Rich and I are talking about in this segment.
So have fun and then when we get back, we'll
tux some good golfing an welcome back.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
I'm Rich Stiles we're with Randy Tatlinger, who is the
team captain. I guess you'd call him for Team USA
versus Team Scotland and the Amateur Golf Championship. And Randy,
thanks for taking time to be with us.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
No, rich, glad to be here. I had you're heading over.

Speaker 7 (04:51):
To Scotland in a couple of weeks as well. Yeah,
I am, I am. I'm quite excited about it. It'll
be uh, it'll be quite the trip, I'm sure as
yours was. But you spent a lot of time over
Scotland and Ireland. But tell us more about this Team
USA Versus Team Scotland Amateur Golf Championship that you've been
involved with for a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, I appreciate you asking well. I always say this,
it's the greatest prize in amateur golf. Amateur golf rich
amateur golfers either want to play Augusta, which is never
going to happen for them, or we all want our
picture taken on the Swilcan Bridge. Yeah, from the RNA

(05:35):
building there are in St Andrew's right. That's what everybody wants.
That's what they want on their office wall, on their
social media posts and for the last several years, we've
been making that dream come true for amateur golfers like
me and you like your listeners. We have five flights,

(06:00):
five flights, one to five for those guys that don't
work much and have country club memberships. You know, those
guys that you know are on simulators all the time
and oh yeah, you know, hitting the one to fives.
We have six to ten, eleven to fifteen. Over the
last several years, most of our golfers rich, whether it

(06:23):
be our local tournaments we play, or of course our
national championships. I'll tell you about here in a little bit,
come from the higher handicaps, because that's the average golfer
out there, mister and missus America. You know that play
five to ten rounds a year. You and I are
blussed because of our career paths that we get to

(06:45):
play a little bit more than that. But that's why
I created the tournament several years ago, was for the
every day average Joe golfer that when he traditionally signs
up for a tournament, maybe it's his Elks club, maybe
it's a wonderful charitable event to help a young person,

(07:06):
a fire department, whatever it may be. You know, there's
really not much trophy at the end of the tournament.
What we're creating for those golfers is that chance to
win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland and get their
picture taken on the bridge, which is really cool.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
As you said, I mean, that is the other dream
place that they would like to be. So how does
someone in the US qualify for this based on their handicap?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
It's a great question. First of all, I'll encourage your
listeners to go to USA Scotland Golf dot com USA
Scotland Golf dot com. There you'll see our rules explained.
You'll see wonderful videos from our national championships in Latrobe, Pennsylvania,

(08:00):
Homer's hometown, my hometown of La Trobe Gettysburg. You'll see
all kind of videos there. But to answer your question directly,
how they get involved. First of all, we do not
require USGA handicap, and most tournaments do. And immediately red

(08:21):
flags go up and guys say, well, how can you
eliminate sandbagging? We do, we can. Those rules are explained
on the website. I'll explain it this way. You have
one of five flights to sign up. To play in
if Rich Styles tells me that he's a solid sixteen handicap,

(08:44):
whether you're playing in a local qualifier, for example, we
have them in Michigan, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, even Cleveland this year,
or if you're buying directly, buying directly into our team
USA National Championships, can'ton Ohio a petition. Let's say Randy
Tantlinger says he's a solid sixteen, but over the two

(09:09):
days of competition, I actually shot at a nine handicap
nine stroke variants. OK, you don't win. You do not
win the sixteen to twenty handicap because you shot a nine.
You get what your final score is, Rich, is where

(09:30):
you get flighted. Does that make sense? Sure? Sure that
does It is you know, and when that light bulb
goes off for people, what you shoot is where you
get finally flighted. So it doesn't behoove anybody to cheat. Now,
I'm not a sociopath. I've made it to the age

(09:50):
of sixty and nobody's ever looked. They've said I'm crazy
when I have a few drinks, Rich, no doubt about that.
I'm irish. I like to laugh and have a good time, right.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
I hear you, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
We don't know how crazy people, sociopaths, sandbaggers think, but
there's no way to cheat if your final score is
your final score. Well, over three years, well this is
our fourth year. In twenty twenty five, we only had
one problem out of all the tournaments we've run that
was simply solved. The tournament coordinator called me. All three

(10:26):
guys who played with the other guy in their flight
called me. Now, none of these guys met each other
before that day, and they all said, yeah, this guy
sandbagged us h. So they're telling the truth. And the
guy I didn't even protest when I when I called
him and told.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Him, okay, So all these qualifiers that you have, what
does it cost for them to be involved in that?
And how do they win? Do they have to win
their flight and then they're chosen as be part of
Team USA.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
It's a great question. Let's talk about our locals. For example,
up in Buffalo, New York, June twenty second, local players
in the Buffalo market will register to play online, and
we keep the registrations pretty low as low as possible.
You know, so many tournaments these days rich are charging

(11:19):
two fifty three to fifty four hundred dollars to play
in a tournament that doesn't end with them in Saint
Andrew's on the Bridge, we keep the fees inexpensive. At
the local even our national in Canton, Ohio this year,

(11:39):
it's two hundred and fifty five dollars.

Speaker 6 (11:42):
Okay, all right, that doesn't sound bad. I mean that
sounds fair.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
But that sounds fair. Yeah, it is totally fair. Cats.
For example, in Canton Friday night, if you want to
show up Friday evening, we're going to have our opening
ceremony at the Hall of Fame in Canton. We'll give
you ticket. Go in, enjoy yourself. Then when you come out,
come right across to the Kettle and Brew. We have

(12:07):
Michelobaltra as a sponsor that night. They have golf simulators
in there. A good way to kick Golf Championship weekend
there in Canton. Then on round one on Saturday at
the Quarry, we'll meet up. We'll play after that at
the Quarry on Saturday, and again this is all for

(12:28):
only two hundred and fifty five dollars. We'll be staying
at the quarry afterwards. And one of the things I'm
proud of what we do is we raise funds for
charities through our Team USA events. Okay, you know rich,
Only God himself knows how many billions of dollars have

(12:49):
been raised for charity through our game of golf that
we love. Yeah, quite a bit. Whether it's that local
fire hall that's trying to get a truck, whether it's
a kid who suffering and illness. Are maybe a Jack
Nicholas tournament that's raising millions, But we do raise money
for charities. That evening in Canton, Saturday, guys will be

(13:10):
able to help raise money for Autism Society of Canton, Ohio.
Also near and dear to me is Greenberry Charitable Trust.
We have some great auction items. We'll have some closest
to the Pen competitions that day as well to raise
money for charity. Then we'll tee it up at the

(13:31):
fabulous Glenmore Country Club. You can't, Ohio couldn't pick a
better site. Like I said, all the Hall of Famers
go there to golf at Glenmore Country Club. A beautiful
Jack Nicholas design and rich. What makes it so cool
at Glenmore It is Scottish themed, the carpeting inside is Tartan.

(13:54):
There's a yeah, yeah, you walk into the entrance which
there's a formal former monastery and there's a night there.
The rooms are called Glenmure Saint Andrew's, so you know,
the whole theme for Scotland will be on full display.

(14:15):
We'll even have a bagpiper that day. And again it's
really simple. Golfers register by going to USA Scotland Golf
dot com USA Scotland Golf dot com. You can play
in a local qualifier for seventy five bucks, whether it's
Cleveland or Buffalo or Pittsburgh. At the local level, Rich,

(14:39):
If you win your flight at the local level, your
entry into the national championship is paid for your entry.
So that's the incentive at the local guy. At the
local level, you guys in Michigan, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and a
couple of our other local qualifiers we've got going. I

(15:04):
keep the entry fee low, Rich, and then if you
win at your local golf course, your entry is paid
for for the national championships.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
All right, Randy, how many guys did you take over
for Team USA?

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Sure, it's five flights. Five flights, So five national champions
have been crowned in Latrobe Gettysburg. Five team members are crowned.
We give them a beautiful champion sword in Latrobe and
we will en Canton this year, keeping with the Scottish theme.

(15:42):
Rich we give them a beautiful sword. And I've always
asked the guys afterwards, what did you do with your
championship trophy the sword? And to the letter of a man,
they all said, it's proudly displayed in my game room,
but he has it in his living room over his
buyer place. Man.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
You know, okay, And Square Shoes is your sponsor, and
I you know, you and I both have a great
relationship with Bob. Square Shoes are just awesome. But let
me get back to this. So we get five qualifiers
in the different handicaps, and then do they pay their
own way going over or is that taken care of?

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Well, here's what I take care of for them. Now,
they've got to pick up their own airfare. Okay, we
get into a little bit more profitability. In the years
to come, we'll be able to cover that airfare as well.
But the week lays out like this. We stay at
beautiful Charlton Castle in the state. It's only ten miles

(16:44):
from downtown Saint Andrew's. The estate has been in the
owner's family for three hundred and fifty years. They've got
these beautiful little cottages. The one cottage I like, it's
called the Peaceful Cottage. It used to be the grounds
keepers families. Yeah, and the two little cottages are totally

(17:07):
modern up the speed Wi Fi, cable and rich I'm
telling you, I know you're going back to Scotland and
St Andrews soon. You kuild live in the Peaceful Cottage
at Charlton. You really could for all year or two.
I'll bet. I'll bet those accommodations. Okay. Then of course

(17:28):
we meet Sunday at four o'clock. I always tell the
guys meet me at the bridge, meet me at the bridge,
and that's a stunning moment. And I know you've been
to the bridge. Oh yeah. But for most of these guys,
and again we're making dreams come true. We've had Jimmy Wolf,
who's a coal miner in West Virginia. Love Jimmy, great

(17:50):
guy man. Chris. Chris actually won in year one in
a flight. He got better and went down to one
to five. He was honest about it. He won again.
Chris got out of the Air Force after twenty seven years.
So a lot of our our friends and family now

(18:14):
because these guys really bond on the trips. I mean
they're working guys. Remember those guys we were talking about
playing at Gatsta Oh yeah clubs in a wonderful Yeah.
Most of our guys are working class guys.

Speaker 8 (18:28):
And Randy, you've got about thirty seconds left, so you
got it. So give us the website again so our
listeners can learn more about this because the pictures you
sent back were fantastic.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
Give us the website again.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
I'll give you the radio voice. Log on to USA
Scotland Golf dot com USA Scotland Golf dot com for
your chance to win a trip to Saint Andrews. How
was that awesome?

Speaker 6 (18:55):
Randy, You're always a joy to talk to. Thanks for
talking with us, and good luck this trip and the
next year's trip.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Good luck. Yeah, you enjoy yours as well.

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Speaker 3 (21:16):
Hey, welcome back to the Golfing Around Radio Hour. I'm
Randy the tank Tantlinger. Wow. Talking about Oakmont, the US Open,
the history of Oakmont. We're gonna be talking a little
bit in this segment as well about the wonderful Firestone
Country Club in Ohio hosting the Senior PGA Championship. But
before we do that, we were talking a little bit

(21:39):
about how Henry Phones, who designed and owned Oakland Country Club,
premised his design on the beautiful courses in Scotland. Well,
you could win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland. You
the amateur golfer, I don't care if you're really good
or really bad like me, I don't care. You don't
need a us GA handicap. Log onto USA Scotland Golf

(22:04):
dot Com, USA Scotland Golf dot Com, USA Scotland Golf
dot Com. There you're gonna find out information about Team
USA versus Team Scotland Amateur Golf Championships. This is our
fourth year running the tournament. We've now taken three teams
amateur golfers Team USA to stand on the hallow grounds

(22:30):
of St Andrews and get their picture taken on the
swil Cambridge in front of the RNA. That could be you.
You don't need a USGA handicap to play in one
of five flights one to five, six to ten, Final
Flight twenty one and over in Cantonohio at the end

(22:50):
of August. Come play in the Team USA National Championships.
You got nothing to lose. It's only two hundred and
fifty five dollars to play and you get your money's worth.
Opening ceremonies in the Hall of Fame, Cutwater Spirits. As
a sponsor, you're gonna play two competitive rounds the Quarry

(23:13):
Golf Course, Gleamore Country Club. You don't need a USGA handicap.
Go to our rules page explains how we eliminate cheating
and sandbagging. Bottom line is what you score, what you
shoot is where the flight you get placed in. So
if you tell me you're sixteen, but by the end
of two rounds, you shot at a nine handicap, that's

(23:35):
where you get scored. It's really simple. That's how we
eliminate cheating. Log on a USA Scotland golf dot com
to learn how you can win a trip.

Speaker 10 (23:47):
So HC.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Phones and his boys buy Oakland one hundred and ninety
one acres nineteen oh one for seventy eight thousand dollars.
They go to work. By nineteen oh four they're opening
up the six four hundred and six yards Part eighty
at Oakmont. That incredible clubhouse now, which is just remarkable.

(24:18):
It was modeled by Pittsburgh architect Edward Stoates after a
traditional Scottish farmhouse. Don't forget Phones was introduced to golf
by Andrew Carnegie of Scotland. Originally Phones had been to
Scotland fell in love with the game. When it was done,

(24:38):
it cost thirty eight thousand dollars, so basically a million dollars.
Quite impressive, quite impressive. It has been an honor for
Oakmont to host prestigious golf events throughout the years, obviously

(25:03):
the Western Pennsylvania Open Championships and Amateur Championships. Since nineteen nineteen,
Oakmont has hosted twenty national championships three collegiate championships. On
top of that, it has hosted a record nine US Open,

(25:25):
six US Amateur Championships, three PGA Championships, two US Women's Opens.
That's pretty remarkable. That's pretty remarkable. In nineteen fifty three,

(25:50):
after the US Open, oakmonts underwent a dramatic change. The
New Yorker magazine writer Warren Wind called Oakmont an ugly
old brute of a course, and it was it is now.

(26:11):
I want to explain something. When Phones designed Oakmont, it
was premised upon the courses he had visited in Scotland
that were Lynks courses. He imagined a Lynks course right
there in Oakmont, and that's what he built. That's what
it resembles. If you've ever gotten a chance to play

(26:33):
true Links course and you play Oakmont, you're like, yeah,
this is a Lynks golf course. The only thing we're
missing is in the North Atlantic or the Irish Sea
beside it to make it really a Lynks course. And
I'll throw in sand ins, massive sand duns. I just
played Port Stewart golf Course up in Northern Ireland, and man,

(26:56):
at times it was like massive giants were standing along
the faaraways. The dunes were fifty feet high, so with
the exception of ocean and large sand dins. But a
funny thing happened. Oakmont eventually would grow close to five

(27:20):
thousand trees. They were planted, and it was transformed into
traditional American park parkland golf course. They continued to grow,
They got higher and higher. Along the way, open championships came.

(27:42):
US Open Championships came. Then a few years ago the
old ugly nasty brute reappeared again as Oakmont cut down
five thousand trees in the additional ten thousand that had grown.

(28:10):
Imagine that. Imagine that, prior to the two thousand and
seven US opened and an Oakmont, the trees were removed.
I wrote a story at the time that I loved it.
It was like a marine getting a haircut. Remember the

(28:33):
writer called it a big, ugly, nasty brute. Well, after
fifteen ten to fifteen thousand trees got cut down at Oakmont,
it was a marine with his head shaved tight, and
its lynx appearance came back. Now I could always see it,

(28:58):
But after the trees came out and I played it,
if you dropped Oakmont along the sand dunes of the
North Sea in Saint Andrew's right there beside the Greats,
the old Course down Barney Kings Barns, Carnousti. You would

(29:20):
think it always lived there. We talked a little bit
in the first segment about the sand traps and the
grooved rakes used to create those valleys that balls get
stuck in in the sand traps that VJ. Singh. But

(29:44):
to understand the word brute and how it applies to Oakmont,
you've got to talk about the greens. You got to
talk about the rough, you have to talk about the fairways.
The Stemp meter is used to gauge how fast a

(30:07):
green is rolling. For example, a four and a Stemp meter,
that's pretty darn slow. When you get into ten, eleven, twelve,
they're moving. Oakmont is like playing and putting on glass.
And what makes the green so treacherous is gravity. You

(30:33):
remember old Isaac Newton gotten a hit in the head
with a coconut or a walnut or grape nut, a banana,
I don't know what it was. I'm going with coconut
and he's like, wow, what made that coconut whack me
in my coconut a thing called gravity. The way the

(30:53):
greens are designed at Oakmont, not only are they rolled
as tight and hard and fast as they can be,
but the speed works against you because of gravity, because

(31:16):
the sloping on the greens. They're not just flat greens.
There are slopes in them that causes the ball on
all eighteen for gravity to grab your ball, blow it

(31:39):
by the hole and pull it back down into the fairway.
The greens at Oakmont are lightning. They are anxiety. They
are a test of any golfer skill.

Speaker 11 (31:59):
Let alone the rough at Oakmont. Now you'll complain at
your local golf course if the rough you know, this
grass off the fairway.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
In case you don't know what the rough is, you're
moron is I mean, if it's highering two inches, you're crying.
You're like, why didn't they cut this? It almost feels
when you play. And I'm telling you the USGA will
let the rough go this week and it's raining today
on Friday. Before that grass is gonna grow. They ain't

(32:32):
gonna cut it. In the rough. It could be four
inches high, five inches high. If you know golf, you
know what that does to the hozzle. You know what
it does to the cub face. The younger golfers that

(32:55):
have never experienced Oakmont's well, their pride, their hubris is
gonna get in the way and they're gonna think, I'm
gonna muscle this thing out of the rough and get
it back into the fairway. If you tried to remember,
Nasty Brute is Oakland's nickname. If you dare try out

(33:19):
brooding the Brute of all brute golf courses, your nozzle
is gonna get stuck, Your club face is gonna turn
and if you thought you were gonna bang that thing
out of there at one hundred and forty yards, you'll
be crying when suddenly that ball Karren's a hard right.

(33:46):
If you're in the left fairway going at the green
and the ball koreens to the right at a right angle. Hey,
you're listening to the golf around radio hour. I'm Randy
the Tantlinger on USA Scotland Golf dot com. To learn
how you can win a trip to Saint Andrews, We'll
be right back.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Discover America's playing field, home to the iconic Pro Football
Hall of Fame and the growing Hall of Fame village.
Explore a vibrant city filled with award winning dining options,
exciting events and entertainment.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Find it here in America's playing Field.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Connect with visit Canton for personal lives assistance planning an unforgettable.

Speaker 9 (34:31):
Trip, Planning a golf trip to Scotland, take a look
at Scotland's Golf Coast, with twenty one golf courses or
within twenty minutes for each other. This is the greatest
concentration of Championship links golf courses in the world. Scotland's
Golf Coast offers courses for all abilities, from flagship courses

(34:54):
Millfield and North Berwick, must play courses Dunbar and Gullen
and hidden gems include in the Glen and Gifford. There's
a wide range of accommodation, many offerings, down play golf
packages and with Him are just thirty minutes away.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
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Speaker 3 (35:17):
Hello, welcome back to the golfing around the radio. What's it?
My wife's screaming at you. We're going on vacation. She
wants me to fold my underwear. You don't fold your underwear.
When you're going on vacation, you just throw it in
the whatever. I'm honey, she didn't know this yet. I'm
not even taking like a carry on luggage thing. I'm

(35:37):
just sticking my stuff for a week in Daytona beach
in a backpack with some cigars, sunscreen, underwear, swim trunks,
and one Hawaiian shirt and a toothbrush. I can buy
toothpaste when I get there. So she's up there. She
you know, we went to France a bunch of years ago.

(35:57):
I said, pack light, we're traveling this France and Switzerland golfing.
She it looked like the Barnum and Bailey circus. She
had so much luggage with her drove me crazy. Hey,
you're listening to golfing around radio hour. I'm your crazy,
wacky golf radio host, Randy the Tank Tamplinger. You can
join me here. Every when do they let me into

(36:19):
this point?

Speaker 12 (36:20):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (36:20):
When do you guys? Oh? The guard security guard escorts
me into Fox Sports Wheeling radio at nine five, they
set me down and Denny escorts me out proptly at
eleven oh three out of the building. At no other
time am I allowed in here into the studios of

(36:41):
iHeart Radio, Fox Sports Net Wheeling, Pittsburgh fourteen hundred one
oh three point nine FM MM. That means frequency modulation
FM in case you did not know that. All right,
give me a second. I'm gonna take a drink of
my boublet now that is Boublaz without the vodka. But

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I can promise you when you're thinking about me next
Tuesday at two forty five pm, which I know you
will be, my booblez will have some vodka in it,
good vodka, probably Gray Goose, and I will have a
cigar and I will be walking. I was gonna say stumbling,
but walking along the beaches to Saint Andrews. Ooh, was

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that a Freudian slip the beaches of Saint Andrews, Scotland.
I guess so, because in the first segment we talked
about going, Arnold Palmer threw us on his jet and
dropped us off. We had a drink at the Done
Vegan Bar and Grill right there in Saint Andrews. Then

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o' car to bar and grill. Though it's a pub,
a pub over in Saint Andrews is where you go,
and at a pub you can get to paint, or
you can get a wee dram of Scotch, a dram
of Scotch, a dram or a shot, as we say
in America. You know, we're talking about how you could

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win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland. That's right, I'll
pay for your hotel. Well, it's not really a hotel.
We stay at the Charlton Castle and a state and
they've got these beautiful cottages outside the castle. That's where
we stay. That's where you could stay for a whole

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week in St Andrews. Log onto USA Scotland Golf dot com.
I tried to make the website as easy as possible.
Follow watch my lips, Watch my lips USA Scotland Golf
dot com, USA Scotland Golf dot com. Did you see

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my lips? Move and tell you that's how you could
win a trip to Saint Andrews. Join us in Canton, Ohio,
August twenty second, twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. There you'll
play in the Team USA National Championships in one to
five flights. No Dragconian USGA handicap required. And yes, kiddies,

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there is a way to score a two day tournament
that you don't need a USGA handicap. You know, we
hear a lot of times from golfers who play in
our events over the last four years. Why do you
eliminate cheating if there's no USGA handicap? Read my lips again.

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This is really simple. What you shoot after two days
of golf is what you shoot. That's what flight you
get put into. Now, you could tell us you're fourteen
on day one. If you shoot down with the nines,
guess what the next day you play with the nines,

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you get scored down in that flight. It's really simple.
You don't need a USGA handicap. What you shoot is
what you shoot. Win your flight in Canton, Ohio in
one of five flights one to five, six to ten,
eleven to fifteen, all the way up to twenty one
and plus baby, you will become a member of Team USA.

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You will win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland, the
Charlton Castle in the state I told you about. It's
been there for four hundred years. This will provide your accommodations.
It provides our championship golf course where we play Team Scotland. Yeah,

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Team USA versus Team Scotland Amateur Golf Championships. That's what
you're playing for at one of our local qualifiers Pittsburgh, Michigan,
Buffalo and others. If you buy directly for two hundred
and fifty five dollars into the National Championships, you'll play

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in two rounds in Canton, Ohio. Win your flight in Canton,
you win a trip to Saint Andrews. In the first
segment we talked about one of the golf courses we
play as members of Team USA. I literally just got
back from basically a month of April in Scotland and Ireland.

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You'll play Krale Golf Links, home to two eighteen courses
thirty six total holes, Balcomy and Craighead. Balcomy was laid
out by the Man the Goat, Old Tom Morris. It
is everything you can imagine a golf course to be

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both of them at Craighead. But when you win your trip,
like our previous three teams did on Team USA, you
could be one. Log Onto USA Scotland Golf dot Com
broadly sponsored by Squares Golf, Shoes, Ahead Outerwear, some other

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great sponsors too, Superstroke, Every major PGA player is using
superstroke these days, you'll play Craighead. Now I'm gonna push
you thirty six holes. But you've come all the way
to Scotland, you competed at a local, you competed in
our national championship in Canton, Ohio this year, and you're

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not going to play thirty six at Krele. Right. Well,
how about this too. How about if you win the
trip to Saint Andrews, you play the number one new
golf course in the world, and she's a Jim Dandy,
I promise you. Dumbarney Golf Links, Dumbarney Golf Links. It's

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off the charts. It's incredible. Our guys always try not
to build it up. All I say it's hey. It's
was voted the number one new golf course in the
world last two years. It was voted the best golf
experience in Scotland. I don't know. Tee it up and
see what you think. It's like a kid at Disney

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World by the time they come off of the eighteenth.
It's incredible. So log onto USA Scotland Golf dot com
check it out. I'm gonna throw it to well who's
become a good friend of mine David Scott. Now, he's
the general manager over there at Tombarney in St Andrews,

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and drum roll please for David Scott. David has been
appointed for the twenty twenty five season the Honorary Captain
of the Royal and Ancient Yeah St Andrews Royal and
Ancient Golf Links. He is the honorary captain, but he

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is also general manager and head pro at Dombarney. So
let me have you listen to David now and tell
me if Dombarney doesn't sound incredible.

Speaker 10 (44:18):
We are Team USA.

Speaker 13 (44:21):
Welcome to the twenty twenty five Team USA Versus Team
Scotland Amateur Golf Championships.

Speaker 10 (44:27):
Behind me is Team USA.

Speaker 13 (44:29):
Well, they're in for a challenge this week as they
play some of the finest golf courses in all of
Saint Andrews and of course the last two years the
boys from Team Scotland have won the trophy, so hopefully
these guys behind me can bring it home for Team
USA this year as they stand on the hallow grounds

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of Saint Andrews.

Speaker 10 (44:51):
Hi.

Speaker 13 (44:51):
I'm Randy Tantlinger, founder of the Team USA Versus Team
Scotland Amateur Golf Championships. It's twenty twenty five and I'm
standing here on the hallow grounds of Saint Andrews, the
Royal and Ancient clubhouse behind me, and of course the
world famous Swill Cambridge.

Speaker 10 (45:10):
Team USA is.

Speaker 13 (45:11):
Going to tee it up this week to challenge Team Scotland. You,
amateur golfer, can be standing on the Swill Cambridge behind
me in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 10 (45:22):
Join us in Can't Ohio this August.

Speaker 13 (45:26):
For the twenty twenty five Team USA National Championships. You
do not need a USGA gain handicap to play in
one of five flights. Win your flight in Can't Ohio
and you'll become a member of Team USA and win
a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland. Hello and welcome to

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the twenty twenty five Team USA versus Team Scotland Amateur
Golf Championships. You know, Team Scotland's got some of the
very best players from their home course here at Charleston
Castle in the State, and of course Team USA, well
they're bringing the red, white and blue.

Speaker 10 (46:05):
You know, all its glory to Saint Andrews.

Speaker 13 (46:07):
Scotland behind us as a Charleton Castle in the State.

Speaker 10 (46:11):
Golf course, a beautiful Parkland golf course.

Speaker 13 (46:15):
Just ten miles down the road is the Hallow Grounds
of Saint Andrews.

Speaker 10 (46:20):
I introduced to you.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Team USA, USA.

Speaker 10 (46:25):
And Team Scotland.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
When I was talking to David before, I talked about
some of the world famous golf courses in America Oakmont, Seminole, Beth.

Speaker 14 (46:34):
Page, Tombarney.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
In my humble opinion, you were recognized as the number
one new golf course in the world when you first
opened up.

Speaker 10 (46:43):
You know, right, yes, huh, And now people are starting
to know you.

Speaker 15 (46:47):
Yeah, well we opened twenty twenty. Design was by Clive
Clarke Rader Cupper. We're excited a byway things are going.
Five and a half years end feedback it's being very
good with one won Best Scottish Experience three times out
of four in the last four years.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
So we're super excited with that. We're doing something right.

Speaker 15 (47:07):
If we're getting these awards from people that are independent,
we're not saying.

Speaker 10 (47:10):
Hey, look at us, we're really good.

Speaker 15 (47:12):
We don't do that. We remain humble. We let our
clubs do the talking, we let our delivery do the talking.
People love us and give us award and not even
better but we're enjoying the right so far.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
And we're already five and a half years.

Speaker 14 (47:23):
Old, which is amazing. And you think where we are.
The bridge at Swain Andrews is just ten miles twelve
miles down the road, the home of golf here in
Saint Andrews for the new kids on the block. You know,
England got mad at America once for being the new
kid on the block.

Speaker 10 (47:41):
Yeah, it's uh huh.

Speaker 12 (47:42):
You know, you have the hallowed grounds of Saint Andrews
just down the road and quickly for doun Barney to
be recognized as the number one new course in the
world and growing in those annual rankings speaks well, yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Right, we're really thrilled.

Speaker 15 (47:57):
We're getting well supported by two ye old parators who
bring tens of thousands of golfers into Scotland every year.
And then Sat Andry's been the mecca of golf as
being you know, inside twenty minutes from the mecca golf
from Saint Ander's and know all the great hotels they're
you know, in and around Saint Andrew's. We're fortunately now,

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I think, on many people's bucket lists