Golfin' Around - May 31, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (02:10):
Hello, and welcome to the Golfing Around Radio Hour. I'm
your host, Randy Tantlinger. And look if you've come here
to be bored, okay listening to a golf talk show,
Well we have Larry from the Omaha Links golf Course today. Larry,
how are we don't do it that way? This ain't

(02:33):
no normal radio show. I ain't no normal host. I
got problems in my head. Okay, I'm a drinking man
with a golf problem. Understand that. Now, I am a
drinking man with a golf problem. Thirty years of golfing
and I still hack around a golf course, embarrass myself.

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Smash uh beer cans off my head. Go to golfing
around dot org. Golfing around dot org.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
If you don't believe me, you'll see my interview I
did with John Daly. I hosted mcedon event with him
up in Michigan and John's got his own drink out now,
And after I chugged it while John cheered me on,
I smashed it off my head.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, that's a kind of golf show you're getting here
at Golfing around Radio Hour. You know, I look a
long time ago I learned in my discipline as a
radio host that radio is as Orson Wells. For you
young kids who don't know who Orson Wells and Mercury

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Broadcasting and the War of the World's was, you're ignorant
to the facts of life. Orson Wells said that radio
is the theater of the mind. Theater of the mind,
you know. And this is a golf show, so traditionally
with golf you're watching it, right, So it is my

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job as your host to paint a picture. So let's
teed it up this week on Golfing around Radio Hour.
I'm gonna paint a picture for you. I want you
to grab your luggage and your golf clubs. Arnold Palmer
is gonna put us on his private jet. Here we go.

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How are you, Arnie? Yes, we'd like a couple of
Arnold Palmer's lemonade Nicety mixto. Oh thanks, Oh, we're already here.
Arnold landed the plane. We're in a little place called
Saint Andrews, Scotland. Is the theater of the mind working
for you. Yet, what's that, Arnold? Do you want to

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go over to dun Vegan and have a drink. Yeah,
let's go over to the don Vegan. If you've never
been to Saint Andrews, the dun Vegan is this wonderful
little pub a block from the RNA building. And if
you would go into the dun Vegan when the Open

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Championship was being played in Saint Andrews after the round,
chances are you'd walk in if you could get in. See,
there's no reservations at the dun Vegan Bar and little
restaurant there. They don't care who you are, don't care

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if your name's Jack Nicholas, Gary Player, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer.
Well for those guys, they might reserve a table. But
the cool thing at the dun Vegan in Saint Andrews
was and always will be. If you could get your
foot in the door during an Open championship, you could

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be Robin Elbows with Tiger Woods, Rory Arnold, Jack Watson,
John Daly. That's the beauty of Saint Andrews. That's the
beauty of dun Vegan. Well, Tank, why are you? Why'd
you put me on an airplane and take me to

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Saint Andrews. Well, doesn't every golfer want a dream about
going to Saint Andrews, getting their picture taken on the
bridge in front of the RNA clubhouse and posting it
on Facebook and social media? Don't doesn't every golfer dream
of that dream? Well? Guess what, me, Randy the tank

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Tantlinger with golfing around, can make that a reality for you.
What Yeah, not just theater of the mind, but a reality.
Do yourself a favor. Log onto USA Scotland Golf dot com,
USA Scotland Golf dot com one more time, everybody say

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it together, USA Scotland Golf dot Com. There you will
see pictures, you will see videos of me in St
Andrews and Team USA. What is he talking about? It's
really simple. This is our fourth year for the Team

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USA Versus Team Scotland Amateur Golf Championships, where regular Joe
golfers like me and you get a chance to compete
here in the USA to win a trip to St. Andrews,
Scotland next April of twenty twenty six. You could be
in the dun Vegan Bar drinking with me because it's

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one of the places I love to go when I'm
in St Andrews. Log onto USA Scotland Golf dot com.
You'll learn about local qualifying tournaments where you don't need
a USGA handicap to play and register. Register and play,
or you can buy directly in our Team USA National

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Championships this August in Canton, Ohio, Friday night, August twenty second,
Opening ceremonies at the Hall of Fame. Then we're going
over the brew kettle Cutwater wonderful, ready to drink beverage.
As a sponsor, I'll give you as many Cutwaters as
you want. They have indoor simulators. Team picture in front

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of the Hall of Fame. Go in enjoy the Hall
of Fame. I'm gonna give you a ticket Saturday. You
better be ready to tee it up though at the
Quarry Golf Club, the best public golf course in all
of Ohio Uphill Downhill, Overdale, and it is stunningly beautiful.

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Sunday we play our championship round at the Venerable More
Country Club. Glenn Moore is where guys like Lawrence Taylor,
Rocky Blier and Hall of Famers go to golf the
week of Hall of Fame inductions. That's how prestigious it
is at glen Moore. You come, you play in the

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Team USA National Championships in one of five flights one
to five, six to ten, eleven to fifteen. We got
it up to twenty one and plus win your flight
in Canton, Ohio, and you win a trip to Saint Andrews,
Scotland in April twenty twenty six with me and you

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will play Team Scotland. More so that theater of the
mind we were speaking of. Well, let me take you
on a little trip right now. How'd you like to
play the number one new golf course in the world,
Dumbarney Lynx, Doumbarney Lynx. Well, every member of Team USA

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the last three years has gotten to play dumb Barney
Lynx and they love it. But I'll get back to
Dunbarney Lynks here in a second. You're listening to the
golfing around Radial Hour. I'm your host, Randy the Tank Tantlinger,
explaining to you how you, the average golfer, can make
your dream come true and win a trip to Saint

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Andrews log Onto USA Scotland Golf dot Com. Okay, so
you know all the great golf courses in the world
right then you're familiar with Krale, c r AI L
Crale Golf Links. Do you know them? Oh you don't,

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Well you should. It's one of the very first golf courses,
seventh oldest in the world, that old Tom Morris, Old
Tom Morris, Old Tom Morris designed and laid out. In fact,
it's home to two eighteen holes thirty six holes. A

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beautiful Links golf awaits you at Kraale. Yeah, if you're
a member of Team USA, you win your flight in
can't in Ohio, You're gonna tee it up on Krale.
I'm gonna push you though, because you're gonna play thirty
six holes that day on Kraale Golf Links in Saint Andrews.

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The Belcone golf course built by Old Tom Morris, hugs
the beautiful shoreline of Saint Andrews. It is links golf
the way you imagine it. The ball runs when it
hits the fairway. It may run depending on the weather

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and time of year, one hundred yards because that grass
is dried out. On the links course, pot bunkers you
want them, you got them at Crale. They stand as
guards and sentinels on the greens. It is everything you

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imagined at Krale. The Links golf is unbelievable golf course.
The Cragley shoreline with the rocks hugs the holes. It

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is a beautiful tapestry. It is a beautiful tapestry in
the art that is Crale Golf Links could be yours.
You know. Like I said, we were just there with
Team USA and it was an incredible journey and I
want to throw it over to David Roy. Now he's
the general manager of Crale Golfing Society. But you know,

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if you talk to anybody in Saint Andrews, they'll tell
you David Roy. It's like the golf historian of the area.
He knows just about everything. He loves golf. David does
and it was such a pleasure to hang out with him.
So I'm going to throw it over to David Roy
right now and he's going to take you on a

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little trip around Kraill and talk to you about the
history of it.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
In seventeen eighty six, eleven gentlemen met at the local inn,
put quill to parchment and formed Craile golf In Society,
one of the very first golf clubs in the world.
Today it is home to two courses and the club
is the epitome of what separates Scottish golf from the
rest of the world, a diverse and buoyant membership playing

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over some of the finest and most historic turf known
to man.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
It was formed at a tame print societies in general
being formed and Legion Lateman in Edinburgh from about the
seventeen forties through the eighteen twenties there was a Greek
number of societies and cobs formed, and to our original members,
the guys that formed the club, they would have known

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and kept company with the Greek thinkers of the age.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
And whilst the society was established by Landed gentry who
may well have rubbed shoulders with the likes of Adam
Smith and David Hume. It owes a great deal to
the artisans and workingmen who popularized the game as clubmakers,
caddies and eventually as professionals. Both the East Nook of
Five Golf Club and Crole Golfing Society used to play

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over a short strip of common ground known in the
village as Sohope Links, but by eighteen fifty they had
moved to a new ground which we know today as Balcomi.
Then in eighteen ninety five the society engaged Old Tom
Morris to make the course suitable for wider developments in
the game.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
But once metal play became important and they were recording
a score, you had to then obviously formalize the course.
You had to formalize the teen areas and create some
rules for the greens and so on. And that's why
they would have said, right, would better get Old Tom
down to actually root the course properly and let us
have a proper scorecard with very few exceptions. I mean,

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the tee and grounds and some of the greens will
have changed a bit, but the actual routing hasn't changed
very much. So the course that you guys who have
played today would be pretty much recognizable to the one
that Old Tom played when he finished off in nineteen
oh two.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
Old Tom, in many ways the father of golf course design,
sought drama and an intrigue when establishing those early routings,
and little has changed in that sense. The opening halls
played out along side the bay with exciting landforms, memorable
tea shots, elevation changes and dramatic path three approaches. Space

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doesn't permit excessive lengthening of the course, but the intriguing
features leave the lasting memory a sense of adventure, but
also an understated simplicity of the many memorable tea shots
four and five may look familiar, perhaps from the closing
stretch of many a venue on the PGA tour. Both

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could be considered an early example of a cape hoole,
part of the lexicon associated with template holes, and particularly
the work of Charles Blair MacDonald, who studied under Old
Tom whilst at the University of s Andrews. Providing the
ultimate risk reward experience. Cape holes create a sense of
drama and excitement, luring players into a more aggressive line

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in the hope of making birdie. Another standout feature on
Balcomi is Constantine's Cave, located along the short walk from
the fourteenth Green to the fifteenth Tee, in which several
in size crosses and Celtic style animals carved on the
cave walls point to signs of an early Christian worship.

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Remnants of a Viking fence structure directed to protect against
Pictish settlers, are still visible today, and only a keen
eye will spot the machine gun turrets placed around the
cliff face that are visible from along the shore. But
this narrative of conflict and upheaval is a million miles
away from the tranquility you now get to experience on

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this small stretch of coastline. Progress has always been part
of Croyle's DNA. The club was a pioneer in the
development of the women's game in the early twentieth century,
and in nineteen nineteen the club invested in its own
motor transport to help promote the links to outsiders. In
the nineteen seventies, Crow made a bold decision to acquire

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the common land they sat on, a gamble which has
paid dividends and most recent Crail is proud to have
made twenty seven year old Max Bailey captain in twenty twenty.
Golf in Scotland caters the many different tastes, but Crail
is one of those rare, very special places which has
it all. You can soak in the history of the game,

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enjoy stunning scenery and feel totally at ease amongst a friendly,
welcoming membership. Nowadays, it's far too easy to take for
granted the beauty of what is around us. To help
truly understand what the early pioneers, like the founders of
Craile Golfing Society, conceived of all those years ago, David

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Roy can perhaps offer a more poignant view.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
I know this.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Hello, welcome back to the Golfing Around radio. What's it?
My wife's screaming? An't we 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 money. She doesn't know this yet.
I'm not even taking like a carry on luggage thing.

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I'm 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. I said, pack light, we're traveling to France

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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 Tamtlinger.
You can join me here. Every when do they let
me into this point?

Speaker 8 (19:45):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
When do you guys? Oh? The guard security guard escorts
me into Fox Sports Wheeling Radio at nine five, They
set me down and then he escorts me out properly
at eleven oh three out of the building. At no
other time am I allowed in here into the studios

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of iHeart Radio, Fox Sports Net Wheeling, Pittsburgh, fourteen hundred
one oh three point nine f M M M. 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 booblez Now that is boubley without the vodka.

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But 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
a 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,

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

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Then on cart a 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 in 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 Saint Andrews. On the 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 Kanton,
Ohio August twenty second, twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. There
you'll play in the Team USA National Championships in one
of 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 out.
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, Team USA versus Team Scotland Amateur

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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 in two rounds in Canton, Ohio.

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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. You'll play Krale Golf Links,

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home to two eight 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 both of them at Craighead. But

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when you win your trip, like our previous three teams did,
five golfers on Team USA, you could be one. Log
Onto USA Scotland Golf dot com broadly sponsored by Squares
Golf Shoes, Ahead Outerwear, some other great sponsors too. Superstroke.

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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 shy year, and you're not gonna play thirty

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six at Krale. 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 off the charts. It's incredible. Our

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guys always try not to build it up. All I say,
it's hey, it's It 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 World by the time they come
off of the eighteenth. It's incredible. So log on a

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USA Scotland Golf dot com check it out to Well,
who's become a good friend of mine David Scott. Now
he's the general manager over there at Dumbarney in St Andrews,
and drum roll please for David Scott. David has been
appointed for the twenty twenty five season the honorary Captain

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of the Royal and Ancient Yeah St Andrews Royal and
Ancient Golf Links. He is the honorary captain, but he
is also general manager and head pro at Dombarney. So
let me have you listen to David now and tell

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me if Dombarney doesn't sounds incredible.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
We are Team USA.

Speaker 9 (27:46):
Welcome to the twenty twenty five Team USA Versus Team
Scotland Amateur Golf Championships. Behind me is Team USA. 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

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behind me can bring it home for Team USA this
year as they stand on the hollow grounds of Saint Andrews. Hi,
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

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Royal and ancient clubhouse behind me, and of course the
world famous swill can Bridge. Team USA is 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, Join US in Can't, Ohio this

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August 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

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to 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
Charlton Castle in the state, and of course Team USA
while they're bringing the Red, White and Blue in all
its glory to Saint Andrews, Scotland. Behind us is a

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Charlton Castle in the State golf course, a beautiful Parkland
golf course. Just ten miles down the road is the
Hallow Grounds of Saint Andrews.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
I introduced to.

Speaker 9 (29:46):
You Team USA USA.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
And Team Scotland.

Speaker 9 (29:53):
When I was talking to David before. I talked about
some of the world famous golf courses in America. Oakmont Seminole,
beth Page, Dom Barney. In my humble opinion, you were
recognized as the number one new golf course in the
world when you first.

Speaker 10 (30:08):
Opened up, you know, right, yes, and now people are
starting to know you. Yeah, well we opened twenty twenty.
Design was by Clive Clark Ryder Cupper. We're excited about
the way things are going five and a half years end.

Speaker 11 (30:22):
Feedback's being very good, with one quite a few Wars
won Best Scottish Experience three times out of four in
the last four years, so we're super excited with that.
We're doing something right. If we're getting these awards from
people that are independent, we're not saying.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
Hey, look at us, we're really good.

Speaker 11 (30:37):
We don't do that. We remain humble. We let our
clubs do the talking. We let our delivery do the talking.
That people love us and give us awards and that
even better. But we're enjoying the right so far, and
we're only five and a half years.

Speaker 9 (30:49):
Old, which is amazing. And you think where we are.
The bridge at Swain Andrews is just.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
Ten miles twelve miles down the road, the home of
golf here in Saint Andrew for the new kids on
the block, you know, England got mad at America once
for being the new kid on the block.

Speaker 11 (31:06):
Yeah, yes, uh huh.

Speaker 8 (31:07):
You know you have the hallowed grounds of Saint Andrew's
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.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Well, yeah right, we're really thrilled.

Speaker 11 (31:22):
We're getting well supported by two or operators who bring tens
of thousands of golfers into Scotland every year. And then
St Andrew's being the mecca of golf as being you know, Insaye,
twenty minutes from the mecca golf from standers know the
great hotels are they're you know, in and around Saint Andrew's.
We're fortunately now, I think on many people's bucket lists.

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You know. So Kingsbarn is a wonderful course just maybe
eight or nine miles from Saint Andrew's. Just go along
from Crele you the Gold Course, you got Carnesie just
over over the you know the river, the River Tay,
and then you know we're siding visit.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
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