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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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Four Wow, does it feel good to say that again?
Let me hold on a second.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Four watch your ass?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Hey, Yeah, that's a little bit more realistic isn't it
all right? Kiddies, you're listening to the twenty twenty five
edition of the Gulfing Around Radio hour hour hour hour. Yeah,
that's right. You get to listen to me, Randy the
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tank Tatlinger, bellow, lament cry extole about the virtues of
the great game. We all love golf golf, which we
all knowing Gaelic is a swear word for a word
I cannot use on public airways or the FCC will well,
(02:17):
somebody's head will roll, so I can say in Gaelic golf, golf,
golfing Around. That's the name of the radio show. Yeah.
Absolutely really excited for the twenty twenty five season. It's
just gonna be an incredible golf year. Now, has my
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game gotten any better?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Probably not.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I am working on some basics. You hackers out there
will understand that your right foot must roll, rule roll, transferring,
balance of weight and rolling as you slam that club
down the fairway in front of your face, hoping the ball,
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praying the ball, we'll go straight. So yeah, I don't
think I've made any vast improvements over the winter. I
gotta go to a golf dome real soon. Fortunately, the
gym I work out here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dom, the owner,
has a golf sickness. We've talked about it, yes, and
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the doctor has prescribed more golf for Dom and his
golf sickness over there to Marrafit in the Mountain Elevenon
area of Pittsburgh. Dom suffers the golf sickness so bad
he has just installed a twenty five thousand dollars state
of the art golf simulator in the gym at Amerafid.
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So if you want to work on your game, go
over to a Marafit in the South Hills. I mean,
this thing is off the chart. What it does. I
mean it is, uh where's it made. It's made in
Europe somewhere, don't remember. But what it does as far
as analyzing your swing, I've never seen anything like it.
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I mean, it's unbelievable, state of the art. So I'm
looking forward to that to get a couple swings in there.
I gotta get my lower back loosened up because I
am going on an epic golf trip in April. I
cannot wait. You're not even gonna believe it when I
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tell you where we're going. I'm going you could be
going in twenty twenty six. Two weeks in Scotland, get
on a little puddle jumper, head into battle Fast up
in the North, up in the North of Ireland it
is Spettlefast and two weeks in Ireland. The Ireland trip
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is just off the charts. Myself and some friends are going.
We're playing Royal Port Rush. You will see Royal Port
Rush in all its glory and display during the Open
Championship This year as the Open Championship, the British Open
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returns to the hallowed grounds of the Emerald Island in
Ireland Northern Ireland. I've played rural Port Rush two other
times in my life. I'm still looking for a ball
that I crushed down a fairway. The green was blind,
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couldn't see it and it was downhill, probably one hundred
and twenty foot drop gradually from the fairway and for
me to not a golf ball dead center, very very
rare man. We went up to the green, it was
not on the green. I'm thinking you put it in
the cup, that's how straight it went. I will be
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looking for that ball in April when I go back
to rural Port Rush. Never found it. Kind of wonder
if the guys in front of me, who I knew,
picked it up just to you know, be a bunch
of jag offs. Hey, you're listening to golfing around Radio hour.
I'm your host, Randy the Tank Tantlier. Great Golf Season
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twenty twenty five coming up. Just talking about my trip
to Scotland, which I'll get back to again. You could
be in Scotland in April twenty twenty six. But the
trip to Northern Ireland. I'm so excited about Castle Stuart,
Castle Stewart also part of our Northern Ireland golf adventure.
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Can't wait to get on that. A return to Port Stewart,
which I have played before, just incredible, just incredible. And
as we head back to the South of Ireland into
the Republic of Ireland being March, it's very important that
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I distinguished in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
But that's a conversation for another time and place. Google
Art Glass A R D G L A. S. S. Links.
I simply can't wait to get on our glass either.
Our glass has a nickname called God's Pocket, God's Pocket
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and I just simply cannot wait to get on it.
An incredible links styled golf course right up against the
ocean and just can't wait. The greens look so fast.
I mean it just you know when you think Irish
golf article, ass is that golf course just majestic, right
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up against the sea, plot bunkers, dunes, just an incredible
links experience to be had, pot bunkers everywhere. Really looking
forward to that. Then the golf journey will continue into
Dublin proper and so excited. Was back in Dublin last year.
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Ireland last year had an incredible time. Irish hospitality that
you always hear about is off the charts. It is incredible.
It is second to none, as is the golf. The
second week is down around Dublin Jamison Golf Links, Jamison
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Golf Links and yes, if you know Jamison Irish whiskey.
This is what's our talking about the family that has
vented the Jamison's the touch of the medicine. Well, they
built the golf course there a long time ago. It's
recently undergone a redesign. Played it last year was in
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Golf Heaven, was in Golf Haveven. Then will play court
Ballast Links. Then to return to Colleen Castle Colleen Castle
about an hour outside of Dublin proper to the west.
Jack Nicholas designed Parkland Golf Course played it last year.
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We are playing a few guys there from Team Ireland
and looking forward to it Jack Nicholas design. In fact,
in front of the castle there at Colleen is a
massive like ten foot tall statue of Jack Nicholas himself
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on the first t and in the fair way of
the first t a good plug out there too is
this massive, massive shamrock in the middle of a massive,
massive waste area or sand trap area. So really looking
forward to that trip to Ireland. The reason I'm heading
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to Scotland and how you can get to Scotland. About
four years ago I created the Team USA versus Team
Scotland Amateur Golf Championships Amateur for hackers like me and you.
Log onto USA Scotland Golf dot com, USA Scotland Golf
dot com, USA Scotland Golf dot com to learn more.
(10:56):
We have five flights. No USG handicap, GA handicap GIN
is required. We have a fail safe system at our
national championship that we eliminate sandbagging it. It does not
behoove you to cheat, but you gotta go to the
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website USA Scotland Golf dot com to check it out.
We have played our national championships in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. We
have played in Gettysburg, and I'm honored to say this
year's national championship will be played in Getty's. Oh sorry, can't,
Ohio August twenty second, twenty third, twenty fourth. If you
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want to play, it's only two hundred and fifty five
bucks for your chance to win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland.
You heard me right, No usgagain handicap required to play
in one of five flights. Win your flight in Canton, Ohio,
and you will in a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland
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in twenty twenty six to be a member of Team
USA to play against Team Scotland. That event in Canton
in August begins Friday, August twenty second, opening ceremonies at
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We'll give you a ticket,
go in explore the Hall of Fame. Then at the
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Kettle and Brew they've got indoor golf simulators and we've
got some great beer sponsors for you. Then two competitive
rounds Saturday and Sunday. Round one is at the Quarry
Golf Course, the number one public golf course in all
of Ohio. And we're proud that on round two on Sunday,
the Venerable Jack Nicholas design at the glen Moore Country Club. Yes,
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I said Glenmore. It is be decked in scot flavor
right the top history of the of the the old
monastery there. You'll walk in, you're greeted by a suit
of armor, a night in. The pubs and restaurants within
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Glenmore are all Scottish themed. It couldn't be a better
place for us. But the Quarry is an incredible golf course.
So I want to take you on a little adventure
over to Canton out of the Quarry golf Course to
meet Doug and his brother John, the owners, Troy the
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golf pro, take you out on the golf course a
little bit. So let's finish up this first segment of
golf in a round with a trip to Canton, Ohio
and the round one golf course for the Team USA
National Championships at the Quarry. All right, I have no
idea where the pro and the manager and stuff is
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right now, but I am looking forward to playing. Oh hidy,
I just want to get down here. There's wonder where
they were.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
How you doing, buddy, good brother Doug.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
All right, I'll take a gatory instead of a cold
It's a beautiful day here in northeastern Ohio. If you
don't know where the Canton area is, a lot of
the people, you know, Johnny, they know the Hall of
Fame area. They may think it's in the middle of
the state. You guys are, how far from like the lake?
If we were gonna drive from Lake Erie down here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Get about an hour and ten.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
It's nothing. That's a cold drink gatorade to get to
the ocean. That's what I called it's an ocean. Other
people may call it a lake. You know, the Quarry
golf course is exceptional, exceptional in the fact that the
topography here is hilly. You have elevation changes. Let's talk
about this gem. Well, first of all, this clubhouse. Can
(14:53):
I rent a space in there and live in there? Well,
you can rent a space.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
I don't know about living, but come on, now, we
do a lot of different activities in there. Do We
do a lot of weddings, We do baby showers, bridal showers,
grad parties. Obviously, we do a lot of outings and
that type of thing. It's kind of unique for a
public course to have a clubhouse. It's ten thousand square
feet plus you ten thousand thousands square feet, so our
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back patio will hold roughly about four hundred people.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So we've even done Hall of Fame parties.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
You know, the year before last we did the Las
Vegas Raiders Hall of Fame party here, six hundred and
sixty people.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
We did everything in house.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
You Diana Ross saying right on the Raiders, and we
did the Bengals last year.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So yeah, it's not so much at the Bengals. Well,
you know what that speaks, you know, pedigree when you
talk about a property. Of course, the Pro Football Hall
of Fame in Cantons right down the road. If you've
never come up for that weekend, right, guys, it's a
great weekend. But when the Raiders, when the Bengals are
selecting a facility, you know it's got to be talking
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to us. Great service, a great golf course, John, what
do you like about your golf course?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Well, the first sight was the property itself was well,
I was very interested.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
We used to play here all this exclusively.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
When our father was still alive, we brought him out here.
So when the opportunity came to keep this course open
or the previous owners maybe shut it down, we thought
we had a step up. So I put together a
real diverse ownership group of businessmen, business owners, and a
golf director, and we made it happen. And it's a
really good fun here.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You like the guide the Patriots. I liked the company
so much, I bought.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It right right. I like it golf course so much.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I bought the golf course well.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
A great facility.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Obviously, lions and tigers and bengals and raiders are playing
there ten thousand feet. We're gonna head out onto the
golf course now and you're gonna discover why the Quarry
in Canton, Ohio is so special. The twenty twenty five
Team USA National Championship will be played in Canton, Ohio,
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Ohio's golf capital. You know, I'm here on number six
at the Quarry Golf Course. Golfing Around television and magazine
and radio rated it as the number one public golf
course in all of Ohio. Whole number six here is
an elevated t shop down to welt postage stampgreen guarded
by water. If you play in the Team USA National
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Championships in August of twenty twenty five, Round one of
the Team USA National Championships will be played here at
the Quarry Golf Course. You can compete in one of
five flights. No USGA gain handicap required. Win your flight
here in Canton, Ohio. After two rounds of competitive golf,
you'll become a member of Team USA and win a
(17:46):
trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland to be a member of
Team USA and take on Team Scotland. So log onto
USA Scotland Golf dot com.
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Hall of Fame and the growing Hall of Fame Village.
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Take Me Home Country Roads to the Place I belong, Minnesota,
Cragan's golf Resort, Take Me Home Country Roads.
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Hey, it's a Golfing Round Radio Hour. I'm your host,
Randy the Tank Tanliger. Here every Saturday morning at tenm
tenm tenm at least until my beloved Steelers kick it
off for this super Bowl bound season. Don't forget Steelers.
Chalk Talk will Talk start here on one oh three
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doesn't mean we stop golfing around. You can always get
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like my buddy Abby up and Iceland does. Yeah, I
really do. Got a buddy in Iceland named Abby and
(20:50):
I have filmed in Iceland one of the coolest golf
experiences ever in Iceland, they're Tourism Borrow brought the over
and I am Seed a awards ceremony one night, some
full rode on my golfing around dot Org golfing around
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dot org website that I am a hacker extraordinaire and
stand up comedian. Ah. So they read that, They're like,
please perform for us. So like I, you know, like
I'm always doing the old Don Ricos routine. The good
people of Iceland U got me free airfare on icelandic Air.
(21:37):
So we were as what was called the the what
was it, oh, the midnight open in Achary up north
where the sun never goes down. On this specific day
in Iceland and you don't te off until midnight. It
was incredible. But before that we had dinner and drinks.
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And anyway, they made a mistake of putting the CEO
of icelandic Care right in front of me, and you know,
I gave him the old Donracles tank routine and he
was he was great about it. You know, I've always said,
you know, if you can make people in foreign countries laugh,
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which I have, they've laughed at me mostly, but it
was great fun at the in Iceland. Then if you
ever get the chance down south in Iceland, they have
the volcano open. In nineteen seventy two on an island
off of Iceland. The island erupted because it was actually
(22:44):
a volcano underneath it, and they had to evacuate the island.
Thank god, nobody died and half of the volcano about
a billion years ago that was there. Another volcano fell
into the ocean. So the Icelandic people said. Then he
smiled at me because he got my sense of humor. Anyway,
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it's South Africa, Iceland, Thailand. Golf'sman Betty Betty good to
the tank and I thank God and my Savior Jesus
above for the incredible golf journey I have been able
to go on all all my talents are lack thereof
and my loft loft, loft. If you know what that
means is you should be laughing by now is due
(24:31):
to the man upstairs, no doubt about it. You know,
we're talking about Cragan's Golf Resort in this show, Cragan's
Golf Resort. You can check them out at c r
A g U n s dot com, Kragans dot com
and you're gonna learn all about their incredible golf resort.
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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, have a titos. Relax, have a titos
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and relax and look at gall Lake. Even if you
play bad golf on all the great golf they have.
They're at Craigan's Golf Resort and Brainerd, Minnesota, about two
hours north of Minneapolis. We were talking about their Too eighteens,
the lame In eighteen in the Dutch eighteen, both courses
originally designed by Robert Trent Jones. I believe in the
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early nineteen nineties. Well, driving on into the twenty first
century is Karagan's golf resort. They're not resting on their laurels.
They have Roddy in Minnesota native Garrison Keeler to redesign.
That was a joke if you followed it. So that's
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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 Wobegone Days illustrated Minnesota in life and its nuances
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and quirkiness. But Tom Lehman was brought in to redesign
the Kragan's golf courses and he's done a great job.
We talked about on how whole number four, five, six,
and seven they were basically redous, creating longer greens, redesigning
holes just incredible. We talked about whole number six beautiful
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par 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 to perfection
on all the holes. Whole number eleven, the one that
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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 Cragans for twenty years,
twenty years and Wisconsin guys, they got plenty of golf
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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 two earlier segments that you know testament
of a golf courses. You might play it and you
know I played it, check it off. Or or like
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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 in the lame In eighteen. Not
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that it'll wreck you, but what it will do is
it will challenge your game. It will force you to
go to your toolbox and use every club from the
wedge to the fairway, wood off the tees to crafting shots.
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It will make you do that. It is incredible the
lame In eighteen. But part of the whole leven was
just incredible. I forget which hole it was, just oh, sixteen.
The finishing stretch on the Tom lame in eighteen and
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again they have two great eighteen holders there at Craigan's
Golf Resort, Brainerd, Minnesota. Whole number sixteen just unbelievable. Part
four overlooking at lake in the entire finishing stretch for
the back nine that elevated tea, I don't even know
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two hundred yards above the fairway, it's a long force carry.
You know, there's a fairway bunker that I almost caught.
I finally had a good drive. I turned, got that
shoulder turning all the way through and the right shoulder
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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 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,
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and I think I parted that all. I had four pars.
What's card said? You had four pars? Quietly? Yeah, went
about my business. Uh. But the Layman eighteen is just gorgeous.
Uh at Cragan's. Uh, and I've left very little time
in the show. We're down to about four minutes left.
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I guess we're gonna remember I told you throughout the show.
You know, mark of a good golf course is when
you when you say to yourself, I gotta play that
thing again. We're gonna have to go back to Craigans
next week too, so tune in. You know, we can
talk about the uh, the Layman eighteen again. Uh. We
can talk about the Dutch eighteen. Uh. Tom Lahman put
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his touches on it.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
The nice thing about the 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
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on a walking tour, driving tour of the Red nine
as 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
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say 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. You gotta have an ocean besides you to
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be a Lynx golf course. Calling the links at Huckleberry
Farms in the land in Locke, Nebraska is idiotic. Lynkx
esque if you can't go to a thesaurus and come
up with some better words to use. And I'm gonna
have to amonish myself right now because the green I'm
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gonna say it this way to avoid links esque. Tom
Lahman's played all over the world. Kids. You see you
see the Scottish and Irish Lynks influence on his design work,
especially on this whole I'm describing on the Red nine
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on the Dutch eighteen again. The Red nine will be
open next year. It's designed and built and growing in
They just want to let it mature. But the Green
complex was incredible. Well, 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
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anytime you want anywhere in the world. Abbey in Iceland,
if you're listening Abby in Iceland, 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 gonna talk about some of the
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great golf in Canton, Ohio and have a big announcement
coming up next week about Canton, 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
(33:41):
bless you be happy. Tank out.
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Discover America's playing Field, home to the iconic Pro Football
Hall of Fame and the growing Hall of Fame Village.
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Discover America's playing Field, home to the iconic Pro Football
Hall of Fame and the growing Hall of Fame Village.
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Hello, and welcome back to the Gulfing 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? At If you listen
to us on the iHeart National Podcast System, iHeart National
(35:59):
Podcast System, I truly appreciate that our listenership is going
up every week. I don't know 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
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Gaelic swear word which if you golf, you understand the
agony of defeat and the thrill of victory and all
that good stuff for Maybec'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
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just off in Brainerd, Brainerd, Minnesota, that is about two
hours north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Say that twelve times.
After a few shots at Tequila Minneapolis, Minnesota and to
a beautiful, a wonderful golf resort, I've just discovered Craigan's
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Golf Resort c r A g u n s dot com.
C r A g u n s dot com. It
is set on the beautiful Gold Lake and Stevens Lake
in Brainerd, Minnesota. You will know Brainerd because it is
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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 moniker of Paul Bunyon and his caddie,
Babe the Blue Ox. Yeah, it is the Brainerd, Minnesota
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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 eight to nine feet tall.
If Babe the Blue Hawks was real, I would say
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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 beautiful gall Lake, very trankful.
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We took the wonderful Gall Lake Cruise on our last
evening there, replete with BARBIEQ and some cold Teto'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 very best at Craigan's golf resort,
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but more so it is the golf that you've come
to against 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 a thumb's up for a golf
course is if you play it and you immediately say,
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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 green over the sand trap and with
the marsh to the left, I should have put it
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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 your mind. Right with a great golf course,
When can I play it again? You know, okay, can't
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get on today. What's the air? Lissn 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 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
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want a crack at their two eighteens immediately, immediately. Laman
eighteen Tom Laman Design redesign, I should say the Dutch
eighteen a Robert Trent Jones design to begin with with
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a retouching up of master proportions was the old Minnesota
native himself, Tom Watson. So let's get into the golf
here at Kragan's and they are just incredible. Let's talk
about the Layman eighteen. The Layman eighteen, it is challenging,
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it's picture esque, it's gorgeous. It's a Tom Layman signature.
Plays in its seven four hundred yards, ain't no fifty
two hundred yard little Jim Dandy Coourse built in the twenties.
It is beautiful. It is beautiful. Minnesota provides the backdrop,
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the tapestry, the canvas 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
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and every hole. You're 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
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and the topography that 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
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was laughing, I didn't care. 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
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Jones design, and boy he 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
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green for years, so we took 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
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and the vision of the 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 a 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
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young golfers that have been coming there twenty years 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
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has its own great golf. Really really just an incredible
rebirth of the Kragan's Golf Resort, the Layman eighteen, Dutch eighteen.
But staying on the Lameman 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.
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The lake is creeping next to the fair 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
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the re design that Tom Layman 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 golfing. You know, holes number four, five, six,
and seven have the new Layman touch added to them.
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I mean that's a pretty good effort there. I mean,
totally new golf holes have been designed by Tom Layman. Incredible.
But it was holes number 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
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Minnesota peace and tranquility. 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? Get moving your moron? Hey, hey, no,
are you. I'm walking ahead New York City on a
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Sunday morning, Monday morning. 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 is a new read design and it's
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a par three and it's a 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 sentries that guarded are a large bunker.
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Then the wetland, the marsh 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,
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if you're sweating to death in Arizona and Texas and Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida in the summertime, get on a plane, get up
the Brainerd, Minnesota to Kragan's golf Resort. You won't be sweating,
you won't be suffering in high heat. You'll be enjoying
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pleasant seventy eight degree weather like we did with blue
skies and birds and marshes. Even if you miss your
shot to the right side, left side, you're going with
the turtles sea 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
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subtle tears 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
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forty one yards from the tips. Man, there are fairway
bunkers guarding on the left side. You hit into those
out of stroke. I mean it really, really is. It
will make the approach shot very difficult, just beautiful. And
the fair way is hidden man, with some trees and whatnot.
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You've got to be spot on, dead solid perfect at
number seven. All right, Wow, how fast that segment went
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somebody's head will roll, so I can say in Gaelic golf, golf,
golfing Around. That's the name of the radio show. Yeah.
Absolutely really excited for the twenty twenty five season. It's
just gonna be an incredible golf year. Now, has my
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game gotten any better?
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Probably not.
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I am working on some basics. You hackers out there
will understand that your right foot must roll, rule roll, transferring,
balance of weight and rolling as you slam that club
down the fairway in front of your face, hoping the ball,
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praying the ball, we'll go straight. So yeah, I don't
think I've made any vast improvements over the winter. I
gotta go to a golf dome real soon. Fortunately, the
gym I work out here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dom, the owner,
has a golf sickness. We've talked about it, yes, and
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the doctor has prescribed more golf for Dom and his
golf sickness over there to Marrafit in the Mountain Elevenon
area of Pittsburgh. Dom suffers the golf sickness so bad
he has just installed a twenty five thousand dollars state
of the art golf simulator in the gym at Amerafid.
(03:50):
So if you want to work on your game, go
over to a Marafit in the South Hills. I mean,
this thing is off the chart. What it does. I
mean it is, uh where's it made. It's made in
Europe somewhere, don't remember. But what it does as far
as analyzing your swing, I've never seen anything like it.
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I mean, it's unbelievable, state of the art. So I'm
looking forward to that to get a couple swings in there.
I gotta get my lower back loosened up because I
am going on an epic golf trip in April. I
cannot wait. You're not even gonna believe it when I
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tell you where we're going. I'm going you could be
going in twenty twenty six. Two weeks in Scotland, get
on a little puddle jumper, head into battle Fast up
in the North, up in the North of Ireland it
is Spettlefast and two weeks in Ireland. The Ireland trip
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is just off the charts. Myself and some friends are going.
We're playing Royal Port Rush. You will see Royal Port
Rush in all its glory and display during the Open
Championship This year as the Open Championship, the British Open
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returns to the hallowed grounds of the Emerald Island in
Ireland Northern Ireland. I've played rural Port Rush two other
times in my life. I'm still looking for a ball
that I crushed down a fairway. The green was blind,
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couldn't see it and it was downhill, probably one hundred
and twenty foot drop gradually from the fairway and for
me to not a golf ball dead center, very very
rare man. We went up to the green, it was
not on the green. I'm thinking you put it in
the cup, that's how straight it went. I will be
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looking for that ball in April when I go back
to rural Port Rush. Never found it. Kind of wonder
if the guys in front of me, who I knew,
picked it up just to you know, be a bunch
of jag offs. Hey, you're listening to golfing around Radio hour.
I'm your host, Randy the Tank Tantlier. Great Golf Season
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twenty twenty five coming up. Just talking about my trip
to Scotland, which I'll get back to again. You could
be in Scotland in April twenty twenty six. But the
trip to Northern Ireland. I'm so excited about Castle Stuart,
Castle Stewart also part of our Northern Ireland golf adventure.
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Can't wait to get on that. A return to Port Stewart,
which I have played before, just incredible, just incredible. And
as we head back to the South of Ireland into
the Republic of Ireland being March, it's very important that
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I distinguished in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
But that's a conversation for another time and place. Google
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Our glass has a nickname called God's Pocket, God's Pocket
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and I just simply cannot wait to get on it.
An incredible links styled golf course right up against the
ocean and just can't wait. The greens look so fast.
I mean it just you know when you think Irish
golf article, ass is that golf course just majestic, right
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up against the sea, plot bunkers, dunes, just an incredible
links experience to be had, pot bunkers everywhere. Really looking
forward to that. Then the golf journey will continue into
Dublin proper and so excited. Was back in Dublin last year.
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Ireland last year had an incredible time. Irish hospitality that
you always hear about is off the charts. It is incredible.
It is second to none, as is the golf. The
second week is down around Dublin Jamison Golf Links, Jamison
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Golf Links and yes, if you know Jamison Irish whiskey.
This is what's our talking about the family that has
vented the Jamison's the touch of the medicine. Well, they
built the golf course there a long time ago. It's
recently undergone a redesign. Played it last year was in
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Golf Heaven, was in Golf Haveven. Then will play court
Ballast Links. Then to return to Colleen Castle Colleen Castle
about an hour outside of Dublin proper to the west.
Jack Nicholas designed Parkland Golf Course played it last year.
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We are playing a few guys there from Team Ireland
and looking forward to it Jack Nicholas design. In fact,
in front of the castle there at Colleen is a
massive like ten foot tall statue of Jack Nicholas himself
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on the first t and in the fair way of
the first t a good plug out there too is
this massive, massive shamrock in the middle of a massive,
massive waste area or sand trap area. So really looking
forward to that trip to Ireland. The reason I'm heading
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to Scotland and how you can get to Scotland. About
four years ago I created the Team USA versus Team
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We have five flights. No USG handicap, GA handicap GIN
is required. We have a fail safe system at our
national championship that we eliminate sandbagging it. It does not
behoove you to cheat, but you gotta go to the
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website USA Scotland Golf dot com to check it out.
We have played our national championships in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. We
have played in Gettysburg, and I'm honored to say this
year's national championship will be played in Getty's. Oh sorry, can't,
Ohio August twenty second, twenty third, twenty fourth. If you
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want to play, it's only two hundred and fifty five
bucks for your chance to win a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland.
You heard me right, No usgagain handicap required to play
in one of five flights. Win your flight in Canton, Ohio,
and you will in a trip to Saint Andrews, Scotland
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in twenty twenty six to be a member of Team
USA to play against Team Scotland. That event in Canton
in August begins Friday, August twenty second, opening ceremonies at
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We'll give you a ticket,
go in explore the Hall of Fame. Then at the
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Kettle and Brew they've got indoor golf simulators and we've
got some great beer sponsors for you. Then two competitive
rounds Saturday and Sunday. Round one is at the Quarry
Golf Course, the number one public golf course in all
of Ohio. And we're proud that on round two on Sunday,
the Venerable Jack Nicholas design at the glen Moore Country Club. Yes,
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I said Glenmore. It is be decked in scot flavor
right the top history of the of the the old
monastery there. You'll walk in, you're greeted by a suit
of armor, a night in. The pubs and restaurants within
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Glenmore are all Scottish themed. It couldn't be a better
place for us. But the Quarry is an incredible golf course.
So I want to take you on a little adventure
over to Canton out of the Quarry golf Course to
meet Doug and his brother John, the owners, Troy the
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golf pro, take you out on the golf course a
little bit. So let's finish up this first segment of
golf in a round with a trip to Canton, Ohio
and the round one golf course for the Team USA
National Championships at the Quarry. All right, I have no
idea where the pro and the manager and stuff is
(13:58):
right now, but I am looking forward to playing. Oh hidy,
I just want to get down here. There's wonder where
they were.
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What's going on?
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How you doing, buddy, good brother Doug.
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All right, I'll take a gatory instead of a cold
It's a beautiful day here in northeastern Ohio. If you
don't know where the Canton area is, a lot of
the people, you know, Johnny, they know the Hall of
Fame area. They may think it's in the middle of
the state. You guys are, how far from like the lake?
If we were gonna drive from Lake Erie down here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Get about an hour and ten.
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It's nothing. That's a cold drink gatorade to get to
the ocean. That's what I called it's an ocean. Other
people may call it a lake. You know, the Quarry
golf course is exceptional, exceptional in the fact that the
topography here is hilly. You have elevation changes. Let's talk
about this gem. Well, first of all, this clubhouse. Can
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I rent a space in there and live in there? Well,
you can rent a space.
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I don't know about living, but come on, now, we
do a lot of different activities in there. Do We
do a lot of weddings, We do baby showers, bridal showers,
grad parties. Obviously, we do a lot of outings and
that type of thing. It's kind of unique for a
public course to have a clubhouse. It's ten thousand square
feet plus you ten thousand thousands square feet, so our
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back patio will hold roughly about four hundred people.
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So we've even done Hall of Fame parties.
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You know, the year before last we did the Las
Vegas Raiders Hall of Fame party here, six hundred and
sixty people.
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We did everything in house.
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You Diana Ross saying right on the Raiders, and we
did the Bengals last year.
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So yeah, it's not so much at the Bengals. Well,
you know what that speaks, you know, pedigree when you
talk about a property. Of course, the Pro Football Hall
of Fame in Cantons right down the road. If you've
never come up for that weekend, right, guys, it's a
great weekend. But when the Raiders, when the Bengals are
selecting a facility, you know it's got to be talking
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to us. Great service, a great golf course, John, what
do you like about your golf course?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Well, the first sight was the property itself was well,
I was very interested.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
We used to play here all this exclusively.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
When our father was still alive, we brought him out here.
So when the opportunity came to keep this course open
or the previous owners maybe shut it down, we thought
we had a step up. So I put together a
real diverse ownership group of businessmen, business owners, and a
golf director, and we made it happen. And it's a
really good fun here.
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You like the guide the Patriots. I liked the company
so much, I bought.
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It right right. I like it golf course so much.
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I bought the golf course well.
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A great facility.
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Obviously, lions and tigers and bengals and raiders are playing
there ten thousand feet. We're gonna head out onto the
golf course now and you're gonna discover why the Quarry
in Canton, Ohio is so special. The twenty twenty five
Team USA National Championship will be played in Canton, Ohio,
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Ohio's golf capital. You know, I'm here on number six
at the Quarry Golf Course. Golfing Around television and magazine
and radio rated it as the number one public golf
course in all of Ohio. Whole number six here is
an elevated t shop down to welt postage stampgreen guarded
by water. If you play in the Team USA National
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and I am Seed a awards ceremony one night, some
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So we were as what was called the the what
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you know, if you can make people in foreign countries laugh,
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Thank god, nobody died and half of the volcano about
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soon for that. And if you go to the old
YouTube you can see videos from the icelandic trip. Yeah
(24:08):
it's South Africa, Iceland, Thailand. Golf'sman Betty Betty good to
the tank and I thank God and my Savior Jesus
above for the incredible golf journey I have been able
to go on all all my talents are lack thereof
and my loft loft, loft. If you know what that
means is you should be laughing by now is due
(24:31):
to the man upstairs, no doubt about it. You know,
we're talking about Cragan's Golf Resort in this show, Cragan's
Golf Resort. You can check them out at c r
A g U n s dot com, Kragans dot com
and you're gonna learn all about their incredible golf resort.
(24:52):
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, have a titos. Relax, have a titos
(25:13):
and relax and look at gall Lake. Even if you
play bad golf on all the great golf they have.
They're at Craigan's Golf Resort and Brainerd, Minnesota, about two
hours north of Minneapolis. We were talking about their Too eighteens,
the lame In eighteen in the Dutch eighteen, both courses
originally designed by Robert Trent Jones. I believe in the
(25:37):
early nineteen nineties. Well, driving on into the twenty first
century is Karagan's golf resort. They're not resting on their laurels.
They have Roddy in Minnesota native Garrison Keeler to redesign.
That was a joke if you followed it. So that's
(25:58):
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 Wobegone Days illustrated Minnesota in life and its nuances
(26:20):
and quirkiness. But Tom Lehman was brought in to redesign
the Kragan's golf courses and he's done a great job.
We talked about on how whole number four, five, six,
and seven they were basically redous, creating longer greens, redesigning
holes just incredible. We talked about whole number six beautiful
(26:44):
par 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 to perfection
on all the holes. Whole number eleven, the one that
(27:04):
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 Cragans for twenty years,
twenty years and Wisconsin guys, they got plenty of golf
(27:28):
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 two earlier segments that you know testament
of a golf courses. You might play it and you
know I played it, check it off. Or or like
(27:52):
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 in the lame In eighteen. Not
(28:14):
that it'll wreck you, but what it will do is
it will challenge your game. It will force you to
go to your toolbox and use every club from the
wedge to the fairway, wood off the tees to crafting shots.
(28:36):
It will make you do that. It is incredible the
lame In eighteen. But part of the whole leven was
just incredible. I forget which hole it was, just oh, sixteen.
The finishing stretch on the Tom lame in eighteen and
(28:56):
again they have two great eighteen holders there at Craigan's
Golf Resort, Brainerd, Minnesota. Whole number sixteen just unbelievable. Part
four overlooking at lake in the entire finishing stretch for
the back nine that elevated tea, I don't even know
(29:17):
two hundred yards above the fairway, it's a long force carry.
You know, there's a fairway bunker that I almost caught.
I finally had a good drive. I turned, got that
shoulder turning all the way through and the right shoulder
(29:38):
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 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,
(30:01):
and I think I parted that all. I had four pars.
What's card said? You had four pars? Quietly? Yeah, went
about my business. Uh. But the Layman eighteen is just gorgeous.
Uh at Cragan's. Uh, and I've left very little time
in the show. We're down to about four minutes left.
(30:22):
I guess we're gonna remember I told you throughout the show.
You know, mark of a good golf course is when
you when you say to yourself, I gotta play that
thing again. We're gonna have to go back to Craigans
next week too, so tune in. You know, we can
talk about the uh, the Layman eighteen again. Uh. We
can talk about the Dutch eighteen. Uh. Tom Lahman put
(30:46):
his touches on it.
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The nice thing about the 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
(31:10):
on a walking tour, driving tour of the Red nine
as 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
(31:33):
say 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. You gotta have an ocean besides you to
(31:55):
be a Lynx golf course. Calling the links at Huckleberry
Farms in the land in Locke, Nebraska is idiotic. Lynkx
esque if you can't go to a thesaurus and come
up with some better words to use. And I'm gonna
have to amonish myself right now because the green I'm
(32:16):
gonna say it this way to avoid links esque. Tom
Lahman's played all over the world. Kids. You see you
see the Scottish and Irish Lynks influence on his design work,
especially on this whole I'm describing on the Red nine
(32:38):
on the Dutch eighteen again. The Red nine will be
open next year. It's designed and built and growing in
They just want to let it mature. But the Green
complex was incredible. Well, 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
(32:59):
anytime you want anywhere in the world. Abbey in Iceland,
if you're listening Abby in Iceland, 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 gonna talk about some of the
(33:20):
great golf in Canton, Ohio and have a big announcement
coming up next week about Canton, 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
(33:41):
bless you be happy. Tank out.
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Hello, and welcome back to the Gulfing 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? At If you listen
to us on the iHeart National Podcast System, iHeart National
(35:59):
Podcast System, I truly appreciate that our listenership is going
up every week. I don't know 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
(36:21):
Gaelic swear word which if you golf, you understand the
agony of defeat and the thrill of victory and all
that good stuff for Maybec'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
(36:41):
just off in Brainerd, Brainerd, Minnesota, that is about two
hours north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Say that twelve times.
After a few shots at Tequila Minneapolis, Minnesota and to
a beautiful, a wonderful golf resort, I've just discovered Craigan's
(37:04):
Golf Resort c r A g u n s dot com.
C r A g u n s dot com. It
is set on the beautiful Gold Lake and Stevens Lake
in Brainerd, Minnesota. You will know Brainerd because it is
(37:26):
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 moniker of Paul Bunyon and his caddie,
Babe the Blue Ox. Yeah, it is the Brainerd, Minnesota
(37:47):
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 eight to nine feet tall.
If Babe the Blue Hawks was real, I would say
(38:10):
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 beautiful gall Lake, very trankful.
(38:32):
We took the wonderful Gall Lake Cruise on our last
evening there, replete with BARBIEQ and some cold Teto'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 very best at Craigan's golf resort,
(38:55):
but more so it is the golf that you've come
to against 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 a thumb's up for a golf
course is if you play it and you immediately say,
(39:19):
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 green over the sand trap and with
the marsh to the left, I should have put it
(39:40):
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 your mind. Right with a great golf course,
When can I play it again? You know, okay, can't
(40:01):
get on today. What's the air? Lissn 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 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
(40:26):
want a crack at their two eighteens immediately, immediately. Laman
eighteen Tom Laman Design redesign, I should say the Dutch
eighteen a Robert Trent Jones design to begin with with
(40:46):
a retouching up of master proportions was the old Minnesota
native himself, Tom Watson. So let's get into the golf
here at Kragan's and they are just incredible. Let's talk
about the Layman eighteen. The Layman eighteen, it is challenging,
(41:13):
it's picture esque, it's gorgeous. It's a Tom Layman signature.
Plays in its seven four hundred yards, ain't no fifty
two hundred yard little Jim Dandy Coourse built in the twenties.
It is beautiful. It is beautiful. Minnesota provides the backdrop,
(41:36):
the tapestry, the canvas 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
(41:59):
and every hole. You're 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
(42:24):
and the topography that 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
(42:44):
was laughing, I didn't care. 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
(43:07):
Jones design, and boy he 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
(43:28):
green for years, so we took 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
(43:51):
and the vision of the 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 a 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
(44:12):
young golfers that have been coming there twenty years 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
(44:33):
has its own great golf. Really really just an incredible
rebirth of the Kragan's Golf Resort, the Layman eighteen, Dutch eighteen.
But staying on the Lameman 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.
(44:58):
The lake is creeping next to the fair 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
(45:22):
the re design that Tom Layman 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 golfing. You know, holes number four, five, six,
and seven have the new Layman touch added to them.
(45:47):
I mean that's a pretty good effort there. I mean,
totally new golf holes have been designed by Tom Layman. Incredible.
But it was holes number 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
(46:14):
Minnesota peace and tranquility. 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? Get moving your moron? Hey, hey, no,
are you. I'm walking ahead New York City on a
(46:37):
Sunday morning, Monday morning. 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 is a new read design and it's
(47:00):
a par three and it's a 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 sentries that guarded are a large bunker.
(47:25):
Then the wetland, the marsh 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,
(47:46):
if you're sweating to death in Arizona and Texas and Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida in the summertime, get on a plane, get up
the Brainerd, Minnesota to Kragan's golf Resort. You won't be sweating,
you won't be suffering in high heat. You'll be enjoying
(48:08):
pleasant seventy eight degree weather like we did with blue
skies and birds and marshes. Even if you miss your
shot to the right side, left side, you're going with
the turtles sea 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
(48:29):
subtle tears 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
(48:50):
forty one yards from the tips. Man, there are fairway
bunkers guarding on the left side. You hit into those
out of stroke. I mean it really, really is. It
will make the approach shot very difficult, just beautiful. And
the fair way is hidden man, with some trees and whatnot.
(49:12):
You've got to be spot on, dead solid perfect at
number seven. All right, Wow, how fast that segment went
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