Golfin' Around - September 9, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Looking for an inspiring place to golf, get away to Gettysburg and make your
own history. Stay and play inhistoric Gettysburg and choose from fifteen public courses
designed for golfers of all kinds.When you're not on the links, enjoy
great restaurants, a robust craft beverageindustry, and plenty of attractions, including

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the Gettysburg National Military Park, wherethe famous battle was fought one hundred and
sixty years ago. Check out DestinationGettysburg dot com and plan your historic golf
getaway, the Patrol, the twilightfinish, going to school, and letting
the big dog eat. For thoseof us who really love golf, we

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tend to speak our own language,but say hello to Gelord, Hemnica's summer
golf mecha. With championship courses sculptedalong Bichigan's northern forests. It's a place
that speaks your language rudely. Withworld class golf resorts and alpine spirt.
Here we find it with trunk likeno other. Start planning jour next golf
trip at Gaylord golfniper dot com.Spade down the middle of it went straight

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down the middle. Then it startedto the book just Buddy baboom Bing Crosby
right down the middle, hit theball, lose the ball, find the
ball, hit the ball, putit in water. Yeah, I'm no
Bing Crosby, trust me. I'mjust Tank Taylinger, your host for the
Golfing Around Radio Hour here on FoxSports Wheeling, Pittsburgh. How's that for

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a broadcaster voice Fox Sports Wheeling,Pittsburgh. I heard something like that.
I don't know. I'll leave thatup to the real professional announcers. I'm
just some schmuck hacker out of thetroupe pa place noodle golf balls and loses
them all the time. Hey,thanks for joining us here on the Golfing

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Around Radio Hour. I can't believeLabor Day came and went? Where did?
Where did Saint Patrick's Day go?Where did Memorial Day go? Where
did the Fourth of July go?Where did my summer go? It went
so quick it's gonna start snowing soon. I told somebody in a gym this

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morning. He goes, oh,man, you gotta be getting sad.
Your golf season's gonna be done.I said, no, I have plans.
He goes, where are you going? I said, I'm going to
Uruguay for the winner, he goesUruguay. Where the hell is Uruguay.
I said, it's in South America. It's just south of Brazil. And
I told Melinda, I'm going toUruguay. I mean, I gotta keep

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bringing you the radio show. Andthey got five or six seven eight golf
courses right in the water. AndI think golfing around from Uruguay is a
great way to spend my winter atleast, and you'll get the little escapism
to enjoy your time with me inUruguay. I'd be a little remiss if

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I didn't get into something personal thisweek, because it feels like a friend
died. It feels like a frienddied this past weekend. The whole world's
heard at this point that Jimmy Buffettpassed away. I have just been in

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shock all week Tank why you know, the guy had a good life and
they you know he did Margo,Ridaville and all that. I just have
been listening to Jimmy Buffett since Iwas in the army. Man, I've
got over fifty shows my belt withBuffett. And what a lot of people

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don't know, I was run tournamentsand back in two thousand and sixteen.
I came up with the Margaritaville GolfParty Tour, Margaritaville Golf Party Tour,
put together a business summary, sentit to Margaritaville Enterprises. They loved it.
They loved it. Man. Itwas gonna be basically a Jimmy Buffett

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party on a golf course, Buffettfamously saying I love playing afternoon golf and
drinking Cajun martinis. Buffett was agolfer, man. Unfortunate thing was the
licensing fee was just the litt't dSteve for the old tankers pocketbook here by

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a lot of money. But theyloved the proposal. They came close to
being I was honored. They gaveme and Melinda tickets to the Pittsburgh Buffett
show in two thousand and sixteen,and we were still negotiating. Those came
with two backstage passes pre show,and I got to meet the whole band

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except for the man himself, misterJimmy Buffett. The whole band was there.
So it's been weird this week.I don't know, it just feels
like a friend has died when Buffettpassed. If you know me, A
lot of my friends actually texted me, Oh, I'm sorry for your loss.

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Oh sorry. Man. Like oldfriends so I haven't talked to him
twenty years, got a hold ofme because they know I was a huge
parrot head man, and I guessI will be until my hair turns gray
and I finally fade away, asmister Buffett said. So, I don't
know. Maybe you didn't even likeJimmy Buffett, maybe it didn't care.

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Maybe you only know a couple ofsongs Cheeseburger in Paradise, Margaritaville. That's
fine. I had every book heever wrote, and I've read every album
he's ever produced. And like manyof us parrot had say, Jimmy's music

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is the background music to our lives. As you can probably figure out.
My younger day, the tank wasa little bit wild child, and yeah,
man, there wasn't a bar.I didn't stop in, whether it
be in Bangkok, Thailand, Tijuana, Mexico, or Reki of ek Iceland

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man our late trobe Pa and Buffett'smusic talks a lot about drinking, as
you can imagine. So it's funny. I haven't really talked to anybody about
this all week, but I'll sharethis with you, so thank you.
Jimmy Buffett, Hey, this isgonna be a great show this week.

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We're gonna go. You've probably hearda bunch of episodes this year from Gaylord
Michigan. Gaylord Michigan seven hour tripnorth, easy trip from Pittsburgh from Wheeling
to get to Gaylord in Upper Michigan. It is beautiful once you get past
Detroit and flint Man, it's nothingbut trees and nature in northern Michigan.

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Gaylord has the Gaylord Golf Mecca.You hear their commercials all the time.
Unbelievable. I don't even know howmany golf is the golf courses they have,
but I was up there for tworeasons. The good folks Barry Owens
and the guys there and ladies atthe fabulous, awe inspiring Treetops Resort had

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me up as a guest. Wefilmed the Golf and Around TV show and
also Dada Yours Julie was host ofthe Free Chicken and Beer Festival with Dada
John Daily Yeah talking about the guylikes to have a drink in a good

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time and John was able to bringout the old Tank for the weekend for
Monday of the event and later onhere you're gonna hear some interviews that I
did with John on the course.I got to spend all day with him
on the golf course, digging golfwith him, filmed with him. Three
guys paid to play with John thatday, and in addition, they helped

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raise money for John's Lionheart charity.It was incredible, the free chicken and
beer festival with John Daily at OtsegoResort, Otsego Resort there in gay Lord.
So I'm coming off just a fabulousweek and of course gets slapped in
the face with a dead fish withJimmy Buffett dying. But wonderful, wonderful

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time in gay Lord, Michigan.So we're gonna talk to the good people
in gay Lord at the Tree TopsResort. You gotta go there, gotta
go there. We're gonna talk toJohn Dailey. We're gonna hear some John
Daily music. Jeff the caddy masterYoder accompanied me on the trip. Jeff

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and I sat down after playing themaster's golf course there at Treetops. So
this is gonna be a great episode. So give me a second. We're
gonna play a couple of commercials andwe'll be right back to the golf and
around radio hour with the Madman Randy, that Tank Tantlinger. Looking for an

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inspiring place to golf, get awayto Gettysburg and make your own history.
Stay and play in historic Gettysburg andchoose from fifteen public courses designed for golfers
of all kinds. When you're notin the links, enjoy great restaurants,
a robust craft beverage industry, andplenty of attractions, including the Gettysburg National

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Military Park, where the famous battlewas fought one hundred and sixty years ago.
Check out Destination Gettysburg dot com andplan your historic golf getaway. The
don the Truth, the Twilight Finish, going to school, and letting the
big dog eat. For those ofus who really love golf, we tend

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to speak our old language. Sayhello to Gaylord HOMERICAUS summer golf mecca with
championship courses sculpted along Michigan's northern forests. It's a place that speaks low language
fluently with loyal class golf resorts atin alpine spirit. Here we find a
retreat like no other. Start planningyour next golf trip at Gaylord Golf Meca
dot Com. I hit it hardman, no, no, holy man,

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pay a prey and not all right. Welcome back to the golf and
around Radio Hour here in Fox SportsNet Wheeling, Pittsburgh. Ihearted media.
I'm your host, Randy. Thattank just call me Tank with a golfing
around Radio Hour. Hey, LikeI said in the first segment there,
we were just in beautiful, inspiringgay Lord, Michigan. Getting a car,

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getting a truck, getting the suv, Get the huskies ready, get
the sled dogs ready, head tobeautiful gay Lord, Michigan. Seven hour
drift to get there. Once youget past Detroit and Flint, it's gorgeous,
gorgeous, I mean tall pine treesthree hundred feet tall, gorgeous and
gay Lord Man, and they areliving a relaxed atmosphere. It's almost like

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they're in a beach town up there, but instead they're in a beautiful alpine
village and with three traffic lights ingay Lord. At least that's what it
felt like. And beautiful rolling countrysidein gay Lord. It felt like being
up in the Laurel Highlands at times, so gorgeous, but had the pleasure

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of staying at tree tops golf Resort, Tree Tops Golf Resort. Seriously,
go check them out on the oldinterweb. There unbelievable. We're going to
get into that in the second halfof the show. Here home to the
country's number one par three course.And if you think a part three golf

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course is gimmicky, tell that theLee Trevino who got a hole in one
on it during an event ten yearsago and one a million bucks. Also,
like I said in the first part, I was mc yep yours very
truly Tank hosted golfing around Radio hourGut the host the for each Chicken and

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Beer festival with John Daily at theSeago Resort in gay Lord. I had
a blast. I mean, allI gotta do is say John Daily,
and you know I had a blastspent the day with on the golf course.
A lot of people don't know thatBud martin Pittsburgh guy represents some of

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the top golfers in the world,Ricky Fowler, John Daily, so that
introduction to John had been around himbefore. Spent a great day of the
golf course with him. But besideswinning two major championships, John sings,
He's put out three different albums andThey're all outstanding and I love them.

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And when I first met John acouple of years ago at the eighty four
Lumber Tournament, I said, hey, can I use your songs from my
life album in my TV show JustI Don't Care Man? And we used
them for years. There's one calledlong Ball Rebel. You know, he
is the long ball Champion, andhe was cracking them up there too.

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But we'll get to more of thatin the second segment coming up. But
to finish out this first segment ofthe show, I wanted to play John's
song, which he loves and wetalked about up there, called hit It
Hard. And he ain't just talkingabout smashing a golf ball off a driver.
The song talks about John hitting ithard in life, which he does

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not shy away from who and whathe loves to do. So let's hear
it Hit It Hard by John Day. If I was going to write a
song about my golf, it wouldhit it, slice it, look it,
lose it in a gun and darnedpawn. That's what my song would
be. Well, I've won andlost against the best. This old road

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has been a hell of a test. I'm steel driving. I ain't slowing
down. There's rules. I lovedthe break and bend, mistakes I've made
again again. But I tell youthis, my friends, I'm still around.
I hit it hard man, hadso far, Man, no laying

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up, no holding man. Hain'ta freed of nothing. It's a natural
fame. They hit it long man. Tell it's gone, man, keep
taking chances and living lunch. Ihit it, hit it hard. Yeah,

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most people would have given up bynow, all the rough. I've
seen these ups and downs. SomehowI just keep on playing through. So
all your critics pull up a chairat the Winter's Circle, Ston I'll be
there with a high five. Iread a smile for you. Hit it

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hard man, had so far,man, don't lay enough, no holding
back, reading nothing. It's anatural fact. They hit it long man.
Until it's gone, man, Keeptaking chances, living love. I
hit it. I hit it.I hit it hard. Had enough of

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people trying to tell me how tolive my life. These lawyers and shrinks,
spending money like my ex wife.Sure, I gamble at a drink
and smoke three pack to day.Hell, ain't country music supposed to be
this way? It's from the hardman. I hit it hard. Man,

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Man, no laying up, nohold a man, hain't a freiding,
nothing that's a natural backin't alone.Man till it's gone. Man,
keep jaking chances, living larn.I hit it, I hit it hard.
I hit it. I hate it. I hit it hard. I
hit it hard. Man so farman, no laying up, no hold

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a man, ain't afraid and nothingthat's a natural fact. I hit it
alone. Man till it's gone.Man, keep taking chances, living lard.
I hit it, I hate ithard. I'll keep in it.
Man to golf, get away toGettysburg and make your own history. Stay

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and play in historic Gettysburg and choosefrom fifteen public courses designed for golfers of
all kinds. When you're not onthe links, enjoy great restaurants, a
robust craft beverage industry, and plentyof attractions, including the Gettysburg National Military
Park, where the famous battle wasfought one hundred and sixty years ago.

(18:38):
Check out Destination Gettysburg dot com andplan your historic golf getaway the dot,
the twilight finish, going to schooland letting the big dog eat. For
those of us who really love golf, we tend to speak our old language.
Say hello to Dealers homonic as summergolf mecca. Looking for an inspiring

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place to golf, get away toGettysburg and make your own history. Stay
and play in historic Gettysburg and choosefrom fifteen public courses designed for golfers of
all kinds. When you're not onthe links, enjoy great restaurants, a
robust craft beverage industry, and plentyof attractions, including the Gettysburg National Military

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Park, where the famous battle wasfought one hundred and sixty years ago.
Check out Destination Gettysburg dot com andplan your historic golf getaway the dotroth the
twilight finish, going to school andletting the big dog eat. For those

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of us who really love golf,we tend to speak our own language.
Say hello to Gelert, America's summergolf mecca with championship courses sculpted along Bichigan's
northern forests. It's a place thatspeaks little language sludly with world class golf
resorts, I mean alpine spirit herewe find it. We treat like no
other. Start planning your next gwelftrip at Gaylord Golfnecker dot com. Straight

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down the middle of it went straightdown the middle. Then it's started to
the book. Just welcome back tothe golf and around radio hour here.
I'm Fox Sportsnet, Wheeling, Pittsburgh. I'm Tank Tantlinger. Thanks for joining
us all summer long. It wentby too quick, it really really did.

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Who amongst us would not reset theclock back to Easter and do summer
all over again. I hope youhad a blessed summer and got out there
and enjoy it with your family andfriends. As we wind down the golf
and around Radio hour for this season, we'll segue in tow Stealers Chuck talk

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with me in the former NFL quarterbackMike McMahon talking all things black and gold.
Steelers given it to you like onlyMike and I can. I ain't
gonna boviate it ain't gonna see it. If I see bovine droppings from your
Pittsburgh Steelers, I ain't gonna stepin it. By sure. I ain't

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gonna warn you that's sitting there,that's for sure. Also, we're gonna
also have some great Penguins talk foryou. Very excited to head down to
media day here in a couple ofweeks down at the Igloo and find out
what is the plan of action forLast year, they were said they were
gonna get the band together for onelast hurrah, and the whole season turned

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into an umpah band up Baba man. They had no rhythm at times.
So I'm curious to see what theBoston group wants to do with our Pittsburgh
Penguins this year. Anyway, backto golf and around again. Last week
I had the pleasure of heading tobeautiful, lovely Gaylord, Michigan. You've

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heard us all year playing their commercials, some episodes from me being up there
last year. Black Lake Golf Courseat Seago, just all the fabulous courses
around gay Lord golf mecca. Thistrip last week took me to the well
just perfection Treetops Resort. Like Isaid to the golf pro Mark Hooper,

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one of the best pros I've everworked with on the TV show side of
things. If you want to cometo Gaylord and have people, go someplace
and have people be nice to you, not deal with traffic, play awesome
golf. Don't come to Treetops becausethey're all really nice. It's awesome golf.

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Everybody is so polite there. Imean, it is an awesome resort
seven hours from Western PA, andit's such an easy drive, just a
little bit of getting through Detroit andFlint, but to drive up pass Lake
Erie, then boom man, you'reinto the beautiful countryside of northern Michigan.

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Go there, Go there. Imean, if you're gonna go for the
thirty seventh time to Myrtle Beach withthe guys, our girls, our family,
our fraternity brothers are army or Marineor Navy brothers, our sorority sisters
for the eighteenth time at nauseam toMyrtle, I bet you five bucks if

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you go to gay Lord, Michiganonce, you're gonna keep going back.
I kept making the joke to everybody. You know, the testament of a
great destination is that you say,you know, I could see myself living
here. I could. What doyou think, sweet, do you want
to move here? It's just youdon't say that when you go, say

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to Tawan on Mexico. I don'tthink anybody in our rate mind ever after
being in Teawana, when you knowwhat, Hun, I think we could
get some cheap property down here.I'd love to move to Tetawana. Don't
happen that way. But when yougo to Gaylord, you will find yourself

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saying that, you know, Icould move up here. The temperature is
awesome. I mean it's awesome.We had to wear a jacket a couple
of times. You guys were swelteringninety degrees last week and I had to
wear a jacket a couple of morningsand pants to go golf. I mean,
it's wonderful. So we're gonna beginour little visit to tree tops here.

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We talking to the general manager.Really just down to earth, nice
guy, Barry Owens, and learnhow easy it is to get the tree
tops. About tree Tops, We'refortunate to be located in beautiful northern Michigan,
about three and a half hours northof Detroit, about forty five minutes

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south of the Mackinaw Bridge, whichconnects the Upper and the Lower Peninsula Michigan.
Our address is Gaylord, Michigan,and Gaylord's moniker for their promotional pieces
is all outdoors, and you cansee where I'm standing. We're all about
that here in the Gaylord area.We're situated right now at Treetops North,
our North property, which has fourgolf courses, clubhouse, pro shop,

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eating facility, condos you can stayin up at this area. And we're
just three and a half miles northof our main property with all the resort
amenities. Yeah, so it's wetake for granted because we're up here.
You know, when I was quitea bit younger than i'm now, I
lived in metropolitan areas and so I'mvery familiar with traffic and the congestion and

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buildings and people and everything else.Treetops is situated on over twenty five hundred
acres, and you are when you'reout on the golf courses, you may
you may play eighteen and never seea building, never see a home or
anything until you get back to theclubhouse here. Uh, And it's it's
it's a gorgeous location in this county. Here for those outdoor lovers, we've

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got the headwaters to five Blue Ribbontrout streams. So anybody that's a fisher
person out there, it just givesyou an indication of the pristine and the
and the nature that you're going toenjoy when you're up here. So uh,
getting to getting to Treetops is easy, you know, for for your
viewers in your area. There's directair service from a variety of locations.

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A couple of the airports in NewYork Philadelphia has flights, DC has flights,
and they fly right into Traverse City, which is just over a little
bit a little over an hour away, and you can make your way over
here with those direct flights. Carrentals of course available, and then when
you get here, it is it'sit's all inclusive opportunity to stay here.

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And we've got lodging accommodations from traditionalhotel rooms to sweet type hotel rooms to
chalets which are been completely redone herejust reopened and July of twenty two,
twelve two and three bedroom units,kitchenette. Each bedroom has its own bath.

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Great for couples, great for groupsof guys, gals, you know,
families, whatever it may be,your own private putting green right out
in front of a great story.I ran into some guys and I was
just talking to one guy. Igo, how's your stay been? He
goes, He goes, great,he goes, I've been winning on the
golf course. He goes, butI lost everything on the putting green last

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night. You know. It's soit's people love them. And then We've
also got these these wonderful homes calledthe Jones Cottages. They of course sat
on a Robert Trent Jones Senior Course. There's four of them there with more
coming under construction yet this year.They're four bedroom units and three bedroom units
their own bathroom, full catching deckwith the barbecue grill. So all different

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ways to relax, depending on thesize and the mixture of what your group
wants to accomplish. Awesome, awesome, just a wonderful time. Like I
said in Gaylord Michigan last week,that was Barry Owens with the beautiful,
incredible Tree Tops Resort. Also,as I mentioned, I was the MC

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for the Cree, Chicken and Beaversof Old John Day. It was awesome.
It was awesome, you know,And I don't know if you know
this. John has released three countryalbums. His newest album he got to
sing with Willie Nelson, which heis so proud, a great song called

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Whiskey and Water. It's about redemption. So let's hear from me and John
just bs and on the golf coursewhile he was playing in the Free Chicken
and Beer Festival and talking about Johnletting me use his music in my TV
show, and we actually do alittle duet together. It was it's such

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a cold day. John invited meonto his Good Boy Vodka bus afterwards,
and he gave me his John Dailylighter. He said, tank because my
zippo, my army zippo broke outon the course. I'm smoking a money
Christo. If you know cigars,you know Monties, and my lighter went
dead. And he goes, you'resmoking that crap like it's a money Christo.

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Man. He goes, I gotmy own cigar brand. I go
what he goes? Yep, hegoes, are better in Monties. I
goes, Son, that's a bigstatement, but your cigars better in Monte
Christo. So anyway, when wegot on, John invited me and the
three guys he played with to goonto his tour bus. That's like Santa
Claus saying come into the workshop.That's like the Pope saying, hey,

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now that I'm done talking on thebalcony on Easter Sunday, once you come
into my room while have a glassof red wine for me at least to
go on to John's bus. Sowe're on there and he goes, here,
I got a zippo for you,he goes. Zippo made these for
me last year, only two hundredof them for the Master's tournament, to

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go with my cigars. So Johngave me one of his John Dailey lighters
while we're on his bus, addinga few more good Blue of Walking drinks.
By the way, I think Idrank twenty of those things that day.
But just a time of my life, for sure. I mean,

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I've been blessed to interview mister Palmer, mister Nicholas, Tom Watson. This
is my third time with John andfor him to go, hey, Tank,
come drink with me on my bus, and here's a lighter. So
here's me and John talking on thegolf course and singing, followed by John's

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song Whiskey and Water with John Dailyand the legend Willie Nelson. I got
a friend who's a preacher, knowsmost of my sin. He don't criticize
me and say I'm damn. Hetells me. Next Sunday they're having bathtism.

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I go down in that water.They'll all be forgiven. My old
friend Jack Daniel's only me along.I'm here standing at the cross room.

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One can leave me the old streetto the farther and I'm somewhere between whiskey
hag water. I've danced with thedevil, laid down with the angels.

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Both of them found me willing unable. Water can't works clean the sins of
a man. My whiskey is thegame way to the rom slander. My

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old friend gigantiel on me alone.I'm here standing at the cross roodss.
One can't leave me to hell,the other street to the father room.

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I'm Stowe whiskids i high water.Looking for an inspiring place to golf?

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Get away to Gettysburg and make yourown history. Stay and play in historic
Gettysburg and choose from fifteen public coursesdesigned for golfers of all kinds. When
you're not on the links, enjoygreat restaurants, a robust craft beverage industry,
and plenty of attractions, including theGettysburg National Military Park, where the

(34:29):
famous battle was fought one hundred andsixty years ago. Check out Destination Gettysburg
dot com and plan your historic golfgetaway. The dotroth the twilight Finish,
going to school and letting the bigdog eat. For those of us who
really love golf, we tend tospeak our old language. Say hello to

(34:52):
Gelert Homnicas summer golf to Meca.With championship courses sculpted along Bichigan's northern forests.
It's a place that speaks your lifeinstrudly. With world class golf resorts,
I mean alpine spirit here we findit. We treat like no other.
Start planning your next golf trip atGaylord Golfnecker dot com. Straight down

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the middle of it went right downthe middle. Then it started to the
book. Just welcome back to thegolfing around a radio hour here on Fox
Sportsnet Wheeling, Pittsburgh. I'm yourhost, Randy the Tank Tantlinger, and
I got a little tear in myeye this week's guys, because you know,

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golf season's coming to an end.It's been a great season of golfing
around. I didn't get enough timewith my friend Mark. They're willing country
club by any means, because Ilove talking with Mark, whether it be
golf or sports. It's been acrazy, weird summer on my end,
busy with the Team USA National Championshipscoming up in Gettysburg. You still have

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a chance listen, real quick amateurgolfers. I don't care if you're good,
I don't care if you're a twentyone and over, you could win
a trip to Scotland. Log onto WWWUSA Scotland Golf dot com, USA
Scotland Golf dot com, USA ScotlandGolf dot com. Tank Why would I

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do that? That's because you're gonnalook for the special discount of one hundred
and fifty dollars on the website.Destination Gettysburg is providing you that disctount for
one hundred and fifty bucks. Youcome to Gettysburg Party Friday night, September
twenty second, Union Cigar Shop,free booze wonderful liquor provided by Mason Dixon

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Distillery. Then afterwards party, goover to Mason Dixon. Get a good
meal. You're gonna need it.Saturday, September twenty three, you got
a busy day coming, cupcake.First of all, one thirty you're gonna
be teeing off at Gettysburg National forRound one of the Team USA National Championships.
I don't care what your flight is, your handicap. You don't need

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an official USAGAIN handicap to play USGAgain. You don't we trust your handicap.
We got us fail safe. Ifyou're lying, if you're sandbagging,
we'll dq you. We know You'llplay round one Saturday, September twenty three

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at Gettysburg National. That night wego to Beyond the Battle Museum Beyond the
Battle Museum for another cocktail party,also raising money for two great charities,
the United Way of Adams County,Gettysburg and Near and Dear to Melhart the
Green Beret Foundation, who Rock.We've got close to two thousand dollars worth

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of great golf items for people tobid on to raise money for the charities.
Again, cocktails provided by Mason DixonDistillery, beer sponsored by Guinness,
Heineken, and delightful Seagram's Escapes.Then you're gonna have to go to bed

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early in Gettysburg because Round two ofthe Team USA National Championships are played again
back to Gettysburg National after two competitiverounds. At the end of the day
on Sunday, we're gonna crown fiveTeam USA National Champions, five flights,

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five individual flight champions will be crownedTeam USA Champions. They get these incredible
beautiful five hundred dollars swords as trophies. Then you know what happens. Those
five guys are going to find themselvesin St. Andrew, Scotland in April
twenty twenty four, playing Team Scotland. We just did it a couple months

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ago in April, Team Scotland beatUS beat our Team USA. But I
want you to be a part ofthe Team USA in Scotland. It all
begins by going to USA Scotland Golfdot com. USA Scotland Golf dot Com
register look for the special discount tabby destination Gettysburg. Only one hundred and

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fifty dollars to enter. All thatis on the website with videos you can
watch. It's real. I hadpeople say last year, then ain't real.
He ain't taking nobody to know Scotland. Guess what we did. We're
gonna again. But there's only oneway for you, the amateur golfer,
whether you're a two handicapper or twentyone plus like me. You got a

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register at USA Scotland Golf dot com. We're only talking two weeks from now
to go to Gettysburg. You're gonnato get a cheap hotel room. Drive
on over, bring the misses,bring the kids. Let him toward the
battlefield while you're playing golf. Ifyou've never been to Gettysburg, you must
go out of respect and reverence tothe gentleman who died there to preserve our

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union. Go see where Lincoln madehis famous Gettysburg address. So the Team
USA National Championships coming up in acouple of weeks, and of course I'm
sad. Well not really, becauseI'll be talking black and gold Steelers with
Steelers Shock Talk here on Fox SportsWheeling with Mike co host. He's the

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better looking one, I'll admit it. I'm the smarter one. I can't
even say that. Mike played quarterbackfor the Lines and the Eagles. So
look, Mike knows his stuff,and so does the old Tank. So's
tune in every Saturday morning on tenAM for Fox Sports Wheeling. I don't
know why Craig Bloomer, the stationmanager, and Corey Clug are great Technichian

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put up with me. I haveno idea why they put me on the
air every week to blatter away andjust annoy the people of Ohio, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania. I don't knowwhy. I have no idea why they
do it, but I am gratefulto iHeartMedia and the gays here in Wheeling,

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Stoupenville. Love you guys, allright. As I mentioned before,
I was up in beautiful, beautifulgay Lord, Michigan. Seven hours to
get there, guys, go trustme. Go to the website gay Lord
GOLFMCA dot com. Go to treetopsotcom the resort I was just at.
It's awesome there. Man. We'regonna talk to Mark Hogan, the pro.

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I like Mark. He's a proprofessional. I like him. We'll
talk a little bit in this segmentto Mark about the beautiful courses at Treetops
and you'll learn more. But I'mtelling you go and check out the videos
online. Go to our Golfing AroundYouTube page or Facebook page Golfing Around Facebook

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YouTube, Like them please and you'llsee the great video from Treetops. Unbelievable
golf there. But let's tee itup and talk to Mark Hogan with Treetops
now, and he's going to fillyou in on everything. Four great golf
courses here, Mark, we're standingin one of the hundred and fifty nine
bunkers on the Smith's Signature Course.One hundred and fifty nine bunkers gives you

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a chance to use one of these. Baby. The thing about it,
I love about these bunkers. They'reall in play. They're just not eye
candy, you know they are.And one of the great things about the
bunkers too, is that they're funto hit out of. You know,
it's not because simply because there's thehigh grass on the edges. So I'm
sure all the players would agree thatyou'd rather be in the sand not in

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that tall grass. Oh yeah,there's no doubt about it. Nobody wants
to play out of the fescue.You get a cookie for point out the
obvious, Yeah, thank you.Yeah, no doubt about hungry. I'm
hungry too. Yeah. Absolutely.You know four incredible golf courses here at
Tree Tops. One of them happensto be the number one golf course of
its gun. It is a parthree course here at Tree Tops. You

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know, I'm glad you brought thatup, Randy, because I love talking
about Three Tops. It's a numberone rated part three course in America.
And the story I have is yearsago I had a group of twenty come
into the golf shop and they said, hey, we have time for nine
holes, what can we play?And I said, you guys got to
play three tops. We're not playinga Part three course. We're from downstate.

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We've got a ton of Part threecourses down there. We're not planted.
You've got to play three tops.Okay, So they did. So
the next day they come in andthe winning score was four over par with
a scramble. Oh yeah yeah.Depography in northern Michigan. If you've never
been up here, why don't youget past Detroit the city in Flint.

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All of a sudden, the majestyof nature abounds, pine trees, three
hundred tall oak trees. The topographygives you elevation changes, like, for
example, on signature number sixteen that'sabout two hundred foot draw it is right,
and the same on seventeen right heretoo, and on three tops whole
number three, I think it's oursignature hole. It's called Devil's Drop.

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The drop from the tee to thegreen is I think of roughly two hundred
feet there as well, and it'sprobably a three or four club difference.
So I'm those range finders. Yougotta you have to use your slope.
I'm at I'm at hole for sure. So imagine consistently Royal County down in
Northern Ireland is ranked the number onegolf course in the world. Tree three

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Tops is ranked the number one Partthree course in America. It is,
I mean, it's not a gimmickof a golf course. Go ahead and
met fifty dollars a hole and seeif you think it's a gimmicky golf course.
It is. You know, wejust had a group come in off
the Off three Tops and they saidit if you missed the green chipping on
that golf course to try to savefire, it's very difficult, you know,

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because there's some taller grass or somebunkering there, some hills, there's
a bunch of unevenlyes. So it'sand that was Mark Hogan and myself in
a sand trap at Treetops Resort,Gaylord, Michigan. Seriously, seriously,
if you've got an annual golf tripor you want to take your first golf
trip, seven hours, get inthe car, go to Gaylord. It's

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unbelievable. It is gorgeous. Unlessyou like traffic and congestion and noise and
the smell of fumes from cars,go back to Myrtle Beach. Knock yourself
out. That'll take about fourteen hours. To get there. Go to Gaylord
seven hours north and man, it'slike you're up in Latrobe and Ligonier in

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the mountains, a peaceful way oflife. Try Treetops Resort, Try Gaylord,
Michigan, and if you go once, you'll go back year after year.
Hey, Like I said before inthe show, not only was I
in Treetops Resort in Gaylord, thegood folks over and on Seago Resort in

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gay Lord hosted You're Ready There Freechecad and Beer Festival with John Daily,
yep, him two time major winnerJohn Daily, Yours truly Tank was honored
to MC the event for the day. Got to hang out with John all
day long on the course. Idrank way too many of his John Daily

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Good Boy vodka drinks, got tosing with John, got to have a
good time with John, and itwas a blast. So I'm gonna play
some of the interaction between me andJD on the golf course that day.
First thing you'll hear is me drinkingone of his good Boy vodka drinks.
And when John goes that professionalism,I chugged it. Yeah, I did.

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Had to. Then John and Isang a little bit on the golf
course. Uh. Then we'll wrapup this week's show with playing one of
John's songs, hit It Hod HitIt Hod Man good Ball, I got

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it too much? Now you're allright, it'll catch it there, cat's
part of the green anyway, right, he caught it all right? Perfect?
All right? John Snow, goodBoy block is here for you.
Swear by this right? What doyou like about it? It's non carbonated,
noncarbonated, gluten free, gluten free, four point four point five percent
alcohol, no artificial plate hand donationsgo to every four helps of pup are

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veterans, are pucks, and alot of other pucks too. So you
gotta do something, all right,and you can down and see selters they
suck because they're carbonated. You can'tdo this. This is professionalism. I
did. I don't know about thatGood Boy bucket by John Dailey, highly

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endorsed by the Tanks. Now inthe g box playing out a dark now
looking show. Let's here's a boyto everybody open and the British open.
John, So thank you for lettingme use my life in my TV show.

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He made a better long ball rebelAnd what else did we have on
that album? That was pretty damnrope, ain't got a page. You
my name, there you go mylife. If you can find the album,
John helped raise some money for charitieswith It's got some really good music.
The Boy from Arkansas got some lungsHe coming up on again. He

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got something to say here. Well, you gotta get the album. Hit
it hard, Hit it hard?Was it my favorite music? But I'm
a golfer. I'm not a musician. Right. Check out a Whiskey and
Water me and Willie Nelson. Whiskeyand Water is a new song. I
love it the beer song too.I mean, check out John's music.
The Boy from Arkansas got some lungsoff great. I mean, it was

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quite an honor for us to useJohn's songs in our show for many years
long. Ball Rebel Drawn, combroke. So you know John Daly is
who he is because he's the realdeal. Support his charity. Well,

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I've won and lost against the best. This old road has been a hell
of a test. I'm steel driving. I ain't slowing down. There's rules
I love to break and bend.Mistakes I've made again again. But I
tell you this, my friends,I'm still around. I hit it hard,

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man, so far man, nolaying up, no holdly man,
hain't afraid of nothing. It's ina real baby. Hit it long man,
Tell it's gone man. He takingchance of living lone. I hit
at, hit it hard. Yeah, most people would have given up by

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now, all the rough I've seenthese ups and downs. Somehow I just
keep on playing through. So allyour critics pull up a chair at the
winter circle. Soon I'll be therewith a high five and a smile for
you. Hit it hard man,so far man, don't laying up,

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no holding night reading nothing, it'sa natural back. They hit it long
man. Until it's gone man,keep taking chance, liveing larn. I
hit it, I hit it,I hit an hard. Had enough of

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feeple trying to tell me how tolive my life. These lawyers and shrinks
spending money like my ex wives.Sure I gamble at a drink and smoke
three packs a day. Hell,ain't country music supposed to be this way?

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It's from the hard man. Ihit it hard man. Man,
no laying up, no holding man, hain't a breeding nothing, that's a
natural man. I ain't alone manTill it's gone, man, keep taking
chances, live and larn I hitit, I hit it hard, I

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hit it, I hate it,I hit it hard, I hit it
hard. Man so far man,no laying up, no holding back,