October 10, 2024 • 15 mins
Mario Machi of the Golf Association of Philadelphia to talk all about the upcoming GAP Adaptive Championship on October 14 and 15 at Lookaway Golf Club and Doylestown Country Club. This inaugural championship is a 36-hole, two-day competitive event that strives to go beyond being an elite tournament.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Yeah, you're over here making noises with the weather, with
the weather updates, and no, you're mister it's.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Too hot in the summer time.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
No, you you take these frozen nights and you enjoy
them because you know.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm fine with it. I'm like, like, I love this
time of year. So don't get me wrong, I'm fine
with it. But I like seventy degree weather. Give me
more of like sixty seventies. Why why all of a
sudden we go from one extreme to next so fast.
It's your first time in Pennsylvania. This first is happening
more and more. It's like it doesn't exist anymore. Fault
weather doesn't exist. It's either hot as hell or it's
cold as hell.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, not fun.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Not fun.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's gonna be cold.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, out of her words was the one thing I
took away was frost. And that means delayed tea times
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And that's not a good thing in my world, especially
tea times. If you're a coward, get out there. Well,
you can't wait, swaying and dig it. I don't care
about the frost.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This guy doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Superintendents won't allow you to go off the greens, all right,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
With that being said, we're going to transition over to golf.
I'm not hitting the greens anyway, so that's it. You're
right about that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Joining us right now on the Gambler Hotline is Mario
Mackie is the assistant executive director at GAP, which is
the Golf Association of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
A tremendous event. This is the first year doing it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
These guys and girls are getting together here at GAP,
bringing an adaptive championship to two clubs in our area
and the Bucks County area look Away Golf Club, Doyleston
Country Club, and Mario. I get to play either one
of them. I'm not a selfish guy, Mario, but I've never.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Played either one of those. So maybe in twenty twenty
five you and I can make a trip.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I can't to tell us a little bit more about this.
Are trying to get out on the golf course. You're terrible,
Mario joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It can't hurt to ask. You always want to make
the ask.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Mario's got connections. As I said, okay, we will.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
We will make that happened.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
But first we got to get our own event on
our own exciting event done at these two great golf courses.
Well said, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
To talk about it.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
We're really excited, as you said, Seawan's our first GAP
Adaptive Championship, so adaptive golf players with disabilities, and we
got sixty of the best ones and not just the country,
but really in the world coming here to run this
event and competing this event for us next week.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
All right, So it's going down next Monday and Tuesday,
the fourteenth and the fifteenth, And where can folks find
more information at gapgolf dot org.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Gap golf dot org or GAP Adaptive dot org. Either
ones got all the information, you know. Spectators are welcome
to attend Monday at Lookaway Golf Club, which is about
five minutes outside of Doylestown Proper and Tuesday at Doylestown
Country Club, which is kind of right in the borough
there to premiere championship private courses and we're gonna have
a great experience for the players that get to come
down to compete in this. So if you're in that
(02:54):
area and you want to stop by, it's all free
to attend and it will be as inspirational thing as
you do. You know, we're talking about get to see
people who are have among thirteen different impairment categories, we've
got there, whether it's an arm and pairment, a leg impairment, neurological,
just really inspiring stuff. And by the way, great great golfers,
(03:14):
and you'll be really impressed with what you see out there.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Go ahead, johnn Yah and I'm seeing GAP celebrating amateur
golf since eighteen ninety seven. So you guys have been
around for a while. I've done some great things. What
made you want to start this?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well, you know, part.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Of our mission is to help grow the game and
find a way to bring more people to the game.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So a couple of years ago, the USGA, which is.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Kind of the national governing body rights the United States
Golf Association, you know, then they run the US Open,
but they started an adaptive championship and we said, okay,
here on the local level, what can we do for that?
So we created programming, we hired you know, some staff
to help run that for us, and ultimately we did a.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Two pass this year.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
One path was our no limit clinics, and that's for
anybody in the area. So interview listeners who may either
have a disability themselves or know somebody who does. We
do twice a month clinics all summer long that are
free to attend to introduce people to the game, and
they're a great way just to show people the game
that we love. But the other part is to have
something competitive. That's what that's the other part of what
(04:17):
we do. On a regular basis. We run events, you know,
the Philadelphia Amateur, the Philadelphia Open Championship with some of
the best players in the region.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And this is our chance to show off.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
The Philadelphia area and our great golf courses by bringing
these people from twenty one states in four different countries
here to compete. You know, you mentioned eighteen ninety seven.
We've been around one hundred and twenty seven years. But
what I'm really excited about is there's not often that
we get to do something for the first time being
around that long, and this is really exciting for us.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Talking to Mario Maggie once again from GAP here Golf Station,
Golf Association of Philadelphia talking all things about the Adaptive
Inaugural Championship that's coming on Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Once again.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You can find all of the details on their website.
Once again at a gapgolf dot Org. Okay, so you
said sixty players guys and girls, and then could he
give us a couple of sample of the countries. What
are we talking about here Canada?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, so I'll give.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
You I'll give you a couple of good stories. Yeah,
men and women competing. I think our youngest competitors like fifteen.
Our oldest is eighty two. A wide range of great players.
And you know, here's a great example. We have a
player coming from Cameroon, a guy named Issa and Laura.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Lisa has an.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Unbelievable, incredible story where he was His mother died when
he was eleven, he was homeless. He then took up golf,
got to be a really good player, and then when
he was like seventeen years old, he contracted meningitis and
developed a cropsy and all of his limbs. Lost both
of his legs, so he has two prosthetic legs. He
lost most of his fingers. He only has a couple
(05:51):
of fingers between two hands. There's some adaptive of golf
equipment to help him play the game that he loves.
He's traveling here for the event he at the US
Adaptive Open. Was his first time this year in the
United States, only this year he shoots the seventies.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I mean, it is really incredible, incredible stuff, And every
one of our sixty golfers has a great story and
an inspiring story, whether it's somebody was born with the
disability or something that came later in life, but the
way they fought through it and accomplished so much and
learned to be so good at this sport something that
we're excited about telling the stories. You know, we have
(06:27):
the international players, we have local players too. We have
I think fourteen or fifteen local competitors too who are
getting a chance to show what they can do here
at the local level.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
But now at the national level.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
You know, this field of sixty golfers has roughly two
thirds of them have played in the usj's Adaptive Championship before,
so that's the national championship.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
So it's a high level of play as well.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's incredible and I'm sure a lot of these players
and stories will be detailed on all things socials that
gap and you can find them on all of the
major social channels, basically g A of Philly once again,
that's g A of Philly, That's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
They do it. All the guys and girls of gap
are incredible. Mario.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know that's the funny thing, right when you when
you think, when I've seen many of these stories, I
don't know if it's because it's it's a game played
with of course the clubs. And like one example I'll
tell you is I saw a gentleman who was literally paralyzed,
and they had them at the driving range or on
a green and he was swinging the club with the
help of this huge robot deal and and I mean
(07:30):
he was able to hit it. I'm sure, like that's
that's just incredible. That's an unbelievable story for a guy
that pretty much probably can't do much. Now, I'm not
saying that might be something like that happening out there.
But also other stories that have caught my attention over
the years with the game of golf and folks with
disabilities are blind golfers, and those are just incredible as well.
Will there be anybody playing on Monday and Tuesday that
(07:52):
are blind?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
We got people in both of those categories of you
do have one one woman playing in the vision and
paired category there and and what they do is they
have a coach with them who helps them line the ball.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Up and be prepared to hit. And then you know, these.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Are again the other playing golf better with that impairment
than frankly I myself can.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Plain about that.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, it's really really impressive and again inspiring. And then
you know you mentioned people who normally are in a wheelchair.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We call that the seated golfer category.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
We actually have gotten some grants this year, so we
purchased a couple of devices that are called solo riders.
It's a chance for somebody's in a wheelchair. It's a
golf cart that's equipped and it has a seat that
swivels and they can go to the ball and hit it.
We purchased one. We actually store it for use by
the public at Paxon Hollow Golf Club in Delaware County,
and we'll have it out there for use for a
(08:44):
couple of our players. We have four seeded players in
this event. Just to show you the worldwide depth of
the event, you know, we have a guy Mariano Tubio
who's coming from Argentina, seated wheelchair golfer coming to play
in this event.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's incredible no, those are the stories, and of course
when you got sixty golfers out there with their own
unique story, it's going to be a very inspirational two
days of golf that's taken place, and in our area
here as far as locally in Philadelphia, Bucks County, and
it's just tremendous. Like I said, you guys are at
the GAP. You guys and girls are just top notch.
And I've only lived in Philadelphia as far as playing golf,
(09:21):
so I can't speak about every other city, but I
know what you guys do at GAP and this is
a huge deal. So I wish you guys nothing but success.
Once again, Mario, let the people know how they can
get involved, how they can come out and check everything
out and take a place on Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Yep, as you said, all the informations on our social
channels at GAF Philly on almost every major social platform.
You can visit us at gapgolf dot org on the
web and if you'd like to come out on Monday
or Tuesday, Monday at look Away Golf Club, Tea times
are gonna run from eight o'clock till just before noon,
so we'll be out there at the majority of that day.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That day, and then on Tuesday at.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Doylestown Country Club, we're actually teeing off number one and
number ten at the same time, so we can have
a nice awards ceremony when we're done for our winners.
But we'll be out there that day from around eight
o'clock in the morning till roughly two thirty in the afternoon.
Come out support these golfers, and I think you'll really
be impressed by what you see.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
In Mario Best news of the day, Sir sixty six
and Sunny on Monday fifty eight Looke Chili, Lou Chili,
But Sonny on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Sorry, jackets for a reason.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
That's nothing. That's nothing our quarters if.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Cannon, that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Hey, I know you're gonna be hopping on with the
boys of swinging and dinging. Ask Harry Mays. I don't
think he plays golf under sixty degrees. I'm just I
think that's the case. He's not gonna be showing up
on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
But we may have to send him a sweater or something.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He sounded like a Manning brother. There's nothing a quarters
I can said.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That's a nice Sorry, Mario continued success in any way
that we can help here at the Gambler. The doors
always open. You have my information, you hit me up
with anything to help promote. But this is excellent and
I can't wait to get the recap and good luck
this this upcoming week.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
There great thanks guys, thanks for having me anytime.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
There he is once again Mario Mackie on the Gambler
Hotline and uh gap.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Man, they do an unbelievable job. Yeah, Harry, Tom, it
might be not sixty. That's a little warm. It's it's
I think it's under a little warm. Yeah, I think well,
because look October is sixty. You know, you get out there,
it's a beautiful day to play golf. So Harry only
likes going in the cold. No, Harry, Harry won't play
under fifty.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I want to see.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So if it's under fifty, you won't have to. I
feel like you don't.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It depends how well I'm hitting it, and I'm not
hitting it the best right now, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I am.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I am ready for the off seventy degrees, I'm ready
for the off season. I'm ready to start working on
my game at the Penn Club Indoors over there in
concha hocking, and I need.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
To get you say the off season.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, come on, yeah, I need to call it an
off season.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I played it in an if you're training, I am
oh man, come on, dude, you kidding me.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I take this series rounds. I played this.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
When does the season start for you? When's the first
officialty of the season.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You know, Look, when I go on my golf trip
to Carolina Calina, I have like a kickoff. The season
starts in the vapriol.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I take this stuff serious, all right, fantasy football, some
people do bettings, you know, Like this is my I
love golf.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I eat, sleep, and drink it, and I suck at it.
I'm glad Mario said. I just want to follow up
by saying it because that's the only thing going through
my mind.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Is like he's describing that guy.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Who lost his limbs due to meningis, which is just horrible,
and I'm like, yeah, I bet you this guy's better
golfer than me.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Amazing. This guy goes out there and stripes it, and
that's always something.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It was highlighted a lot of the Special Olympics and
even just highlighting it here. The amazing things that humans
can do for each other with innovation to help these
these players golf. Also the amount of communication, like blind golfers,
they have coaches there, the amount of communication. You you
literally can do all of these things because of what
(13:03):
we do for each other. And the special Olympics was
like an amazing showing of that. And then even just
hearing now the kind of golf court cards that they have,
the coaching that they do, it's it's so amazing to
hear stuff like that. Your sports are awesome. I love sports.
Sports are awesome. It does bring us all together and
it also makes us hate all together. Thank you, Philly. Yeah,
it also gives us anger in our hearts. We need
(13:24):
to we need I woke up so mad this morning.
I woke up mad. Yeah I was, Yeah, I was mad.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Curious at a g L and hurts comment at the
podium where Mark Henry Junr is like, what's so bad
about that?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I'm like, Mark, I just hate everything.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
So what do you think we did? Do we have
our moments today? Do we have good moments? Okay, well
we oments. I forgot my chargers my computer.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That's not good. That was a terrible, bad moment. I've
never forgot.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You know what it is is I'm djaying and I'm
doing this, and I'm back and forth to two different
spots and next thing, and I forgot some Monday, I
forgot my headphones and.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Oh yeah, I'm just like doing all these cool whatever. Yeah,
doing it all. Grinding your boys, grinding over here, and
I will be You gotta check out out a Friday
Night apparently.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Apparently Sha Bernard and his lovely lady Maggie are coming
tomorrow once again at the Daisy Tavern and Concho Hoc
and come on out.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Friday nights have to stop eight pm. We're rapping out.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Beautiful location, great food and conchot and stuff. All right,
great show today, fun stuff. Shout out to Mario for
stopping by from Gap. Of course we had Luke Carcaney.
We had little Pete dropping off some wings.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
No, he's still out there. I need some Oh. The
sales reps are like circum like vultures. Oh, the sales
reps conto him. It's done. It's over, I kid.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I'll love and respect to everybody here at the iHeart Community.
And also shout out to Julian Edlo for drafting sportsbook
we had to cut him short. He was like, dude,
you really getting rid of me. It's early. I like
to wrap with you for twenty five minutes, and I'm like,
oh man, I'm sorry. We gotta stop our face. Anyways,
speaking of swinging and digging, that's coming up next brand
new episode Moose Maze, Dan Yelle, don't go anywhere, keep
(15:03):
it locked right here to the game.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But I've talked to the mouth. Peace
Yeah, you're over here making noises with the weather, with
the weather updates, and no, you're mister it's.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Too hot in the summer time.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
No, you you take these frozen nights and you enjoy
them because you know.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm fine with it. I'm like, like, I love this
time of year. So don't get me wrong, I'm fine
with it. But I like seventy degree weather. Give me
more of like sixty seventies. Why why all of a
sudden we go from one extreme to next so fast.
It's your first time in Pennsylvania. This first is happening
more and more. It's like it doesn't exist anymore. Fault
weather doesn't exist. It's either hot as hell or it's
cold as hell.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, not fun.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Not fun.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's gonna be cold.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, out of her words was the one thing I
took away was frost. And that means delayed tea times
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And that's not a good thing in my world, especially
tea times. If you're a coward, get out there. Well,
you can't wait, swaying and dig it. I don't care
about the frost.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This guy doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Superintendents won't allow you to go off the greens, all right,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
With that being said, we're going to transition over to golf.
I'm not hitting the greens anyway, so that's it. You're
right about that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Joining us right now on the Gambler Hotline is Mario
Mackie is the assistant executive director at GAP, which is
the Golf Association of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
A tremendous event. This is the first year doing it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
These guys and girls are getting together here at GAP,
bringing an adaptive championship to two clubs in our area
and the Bucks County area look Away Golf Club, Doyleston
Country Club, and Mario. I get to play either one
of them. I'm not a selfish guy, Mario, but I've never.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Played either one of those. So maybe in twenty twenty
five you and I can make a trip.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I can't to tell us a little bit more about this.
Are trying to get out on the golf course. You're terrible,
Mario joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It can't hurt to ask. You always want to make
the ask.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Mario's got connections. As I said, okay, we will.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
We will make that happened.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
But first we got to get our own event on
our own exciting event done at these two great golf courses.
Well said, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
To talk about it.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
We're really excited, as you said, Seawan's our first GAP
Adaptive Championship, so adaptive golf players with disabilities, and we
got sixty of the best ones and not just the country,
but really in the world coming here to run this
event and competing this event for us next week.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
All right, So it's going down next Monday and Tuesday,
the fourteenth and the fifteenth, And where can folks find
more information at gapgolf dot org.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Gap golf dot org or GAP Adaptive dot org. Either
ones got all the information, you know. Spectators are welcome
to attend Monday at Lookaway Golf Club, which is about
five minutes outside of Doylestown Proper and Tuesday at Doylestown
Country Club, which is kind of right in the borough
there to premiere championship private courses and we're gonna have
a great experience for the players that get to come
down to compete in this. So if you're in that
(02:54):
area and you want to stop by, it's all free
to attend and it will be as inspirational thing as
you do. You know, we're talking about get to see
people who are have among thirteen different impairment categories, we've
got there, whether it's an arm and pairment, a leg impairment, neurological,
just really inspiring stuff. And by the way, great great golfers,
(03:14):
and you'll be really impressed with what you see out there.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Go ahead, johnn Yah and I'm seeing GAP celebrating amateur
golf since eighteen ninety seven. So you guys have been
around for a while. I've done some great things. What
made you want to start this?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well, you know, part.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Of our mission is to help grow the game and
find a way to bring more people to the game.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So a couple of years ago, the USGA, which is.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Kind of the national governing body rights the United States
Golf Association, you know, then they run the US Open,
but they started an adaptive championship and we said, okay,
here on the local level, what can we do for that?
So we created programming, we hired you know, some staff
to help run that for us, and ultimately we did a.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Two pass this year.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
One path was our no limit clinics, and that's for
anybody in the area. So interview listeners who may either
have a disability themselves or know somebody who does. We
do twice a month clinics all summer long that are
free to attend to introduce people to the game, and
they're a great way just to show people the game
that we love. But the other part is to have
something competitive. That's what that's the other part of what
(04:17):
we do. On a regular basis. We run events, you know,
the Philadelphia Amateur, the Philadelphia Open Championship with some of
the best players in the region.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And this is our chance to show off.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
The Philadelphia area and our great golf courses by bringing
these people from twenty one states in four different countries
here to compete. You know, you mentioned eighteen ninety seven.
We've been around one hundred and twenty seven years. But
what I'm really excited about is there's not often that
we get to do something for the first time being
around that long, and this is really exciting for us.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Talking to Mario Maggie once again from GAP here Golf Station,
Golf Association of Philadelphia talking all things about the Adaptive
Inaugural Championship that's coming on Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Once again.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You can find all of the details on their website.
Once again at a gapgolf dot Org. Okay, so you
said sixty players guys and girls, and then could he
give us a couple of sample of the countries. What
are we talking about here Canada?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, so I'll give.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
You I'll give you a couple of good stories. Yeah,
men and women competing. I think our youngest competitors like fifteen.
Our oldest is eighty two. A wide range of great players.
And you know, here's a great example. We have a
player coming from Cameroon, a guy named Issa and Laura.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Lisa has an.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Unbelievable, incredible story where he was His mother died when
he was eleven, he was homeless. He then took up golf,
got to be a really good player, and then when
he was like seventeen years old, he contracted meningitis and
developed a cropsy and all of his limbs. Lost both
of his legs, so he has two prosthetic legs. He
lost most of his fingers. He only has a couple
(05:51):
of fingers between two hands. There's some adaptive of golf
equipment to help him play the game that he loves.
He's traveling here for the event he at the US
Adaptive Open. Was his first time this year in the
United States, only this year he shoots the seventies.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I mean, it is really incredible, incredible stuff, And every
one of our sixty golfers has a great story and
an inspiring story, whether it's somebody was born with the
disability or something that came later in life, but the
way they fought through it and accomplished so much and
learned to be so good at this sport something that
we're excited about telling the stories. You know, we have
(06:27):
the international players, we have local players too. We have
I think fourteen or fifteen local competitors too who are
getting a chance to show what they can do here
at the local level.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
But now at the national level.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
You know, this field of sixty golfers has roughly two
thirds of them have played in the usj's Adaptive Championship before,
so that's the national championship.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
So it's a high level of play as well.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's incredible and I'm sure a lot of these players
and stories will be detailed on all things socials that
gap and you can find them on all of the
major social channels, basically g A of Philly once again,
that's g A of Philly, That's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
They do it. All the guys and girls of gap
are incredible. Mario.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know that's the funny thing, right when you when
you think, when I've seen many of these stories, I
don't know if it's because it's it's a game played
with of course the clubs. And like one example I'll
tell you is I saw a gentleman who was literally paralyzed,
and they had them at the driving range or on
a green and he was swinging the club with the
help of this huge robot deal and and I mean
(07:30):
he was able to hit it. I'm sure, like that's
that's just incredible. That's an unbelievable story for a guy
that pretty much probably can't do much. Now, I'm not
saying that might be something like that happening out there.
But also other stories that have caught my attention over
the years with the game of golf and folks with
disabilities are blind golfers, and those are just incredible as well.
Will there be anybody playing on Monday and Tuesday that
(07:52):
are blind?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
We got people in both of those categories of you
do have one one woman playing in the vision and
paired category there and and what they do is they
have a coach with them who helps them line the ball.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Up and be prepared to hit. And then you know, these.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Are again the other playing golf better with that impairment
than frankly I myself can.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Plain about that.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, it's really really impressive and again inspiring. And then
you know you mentioned people who normally are in a wheelchair.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We call that the seated golfer category.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
We actually have gotten some grants this year, so we
purchased a couple of devices that are called solo riders.
It's a chance for somebody's in a wheelchair. It's a
golf cart that's equipped and it has a seat that
swivels and they can go to the ball and hit it.
We purchased one. We actually store it for use by
the public at Paxon Hollow Golf Club in Delaware County,
and we'll have it out there for use for a
(08:44):
couple of our players. We have four seeded players in
this event. Just to show you the worldwide depth of
the event, you know, we have a guy Mariano Tubio
who's coming from Argentina, seated wheelchair golfer coming to play
in this event.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's incredible no, those are the stories, and of course
when you got sixty golfers out there with their own
unique story, it's going to be a very inspirational two
days of golf that's taken place, and in our area
here as far as locally in Philadelphia, Bucks County, and
it's just tremendous. Like I said, you guys are at
the GAP. You guys and girls are just top notch.
And I've only lived in Philadelphia as far as playing golf,
(09:21):
so I can't speak about every other city, but I
know what you guys do at GAP and this is
a huge deal. So I wish you guys nothing but success.
Once again, Mario, let the people know how they can
get involved, how they can come out and check everything
out and take a place on Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Yep, as you said, all the informations on our social
channels at GAF Philly on almost every major social platform.
You can visit us at gapgolf dot org on the
web and if you'd like to come out on Monday
or Tuesday, Monday at look Away Golf Club, Tea times
are gonna run from eight o'clock till just before noon,
so we'll be out there at the majority of that day.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That day, and then on Tuesday at.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Doylestown Country Club, we're actually teeing off number one and
number ten at the same time, so we can have
a nice awards ceremony when we're done for our winners.
But we'll be out there that day from around eight
o'clock in the morning till roughly two thirty in the afternoon.
Come out support these golfers, and I think you'll really
be impressed by what you see.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
In Mario Best news of the day, Sir sixty six
and Sunny on Monday fifty eight Looke Chili, Lou Chili,
But Sonny on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Sorry, jackets for a reason.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
That's nothing. That's nothing our quarters if.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Cannon, that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Hey, I know you're gonna be hopping on with the
boys of swinging and dinging. Ask Harry Mays. I don't
think he plays golf under sixty degrees. I'm just I
think that's the case. He's not gonna be showing up
on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
But we may have to send him a sweater or something.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He sounded like a Manning brother. There's nothing a quarters
I can said.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That's a nice Sorry, Mario continued success in any way
that we can help here at the Gambler. The doors
always open. You have my information, you hit me up
with anything to help promote. But this is excellent and
I can't wait to get the recap and good luck
this this upcoming week.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
There great thanks guys, thanks for having me anytime.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
There he is once again Mario Mackie on the Gambler
Hotline and uh gap.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Man, they do an unbelievable job. Yeah, Harry, Tom, it
might be not sixty. That's a little warm. It's it's
I think it's under a little warm. Yeah, I think well,
because look October is sixty. You know, you get out there,
it's a beautiful day to play golf. So Harry only
likes going in the cold. No, Harry, Harry won't play
under fifty.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I want to see.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So if it's under fifty, you won't have to. I
feel like you don't.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It depends how well I'm hitting it, and I'm not
hitting it the best right now, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I am.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I am ready for the off seventy degrees, I'm ready
for the off season. I'm ready to start working on
my game at the Penn Club Indoors over there in
concha hocking, and I need.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
To get you say the off season.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, come on, yeah, I need to call it an
off season.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I played it in an if you're training, I am
oh man, come on, dude, you kidding me.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I take this series rounds. I played this.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
When does the season start for you? When's the first
officialty of the season.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You know, Look, when I go on my golf trip
to Carolina Calina, I have like a kickoff. The season
starts in the vapriol.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I take this stuff serious, all right, fantasy football, some
people do bettings, you know, Like this is my I
love golf.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I eat, sleep, and drink it, and I suck at it.
I'm glad Mario said. I just want to follow up
by saying it because that's the only thing going through
my mind.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Is like he's describing that guy.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Who lost his limbs due to meningis, which is just horrible,
and I'm like, yeah, I bet you this guy's better
golfer than me.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Amazing. This guy goes out there and stripes it, and
that's always something.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It was highlighted a lot of the Special Olympics and
even just highlighting it here. The amazing things that humans
can do for each other with innovation to help these
these players golf. Also the amount of communication, like blind golfers,
they have coaches there, the amount of communication. You you
literally can do all of these things because of what
(13:03):
we do for each other. And the special Olympics was
like an amazing showing of that. And then even just
hearing now the kind of golf court cards that they have,
the coaching that they do, it's it's so amazing to
hear stuff like that. Your sports are awesome. I love sports.
Sports are awesome. It does bring us all together and
it also makes us hate all together. Thank you, Philly. Yeah,
it also gives us anger in our hearts. We need
(13:24):
to we need I woke up so mad this morning.
I woke up mad. Yeah I was, Yeah, I was mad.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Curious at a g L and hurts comment at the
podium where Mark Henry Junr is like, what's so bad
about that?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I'm like, Mark, I just hate everything.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
So what do you think we did? Do we have
our moments today? Do we have good moments? Okay, well
we oments. I forgot my chargers my computer.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That's not good. That was a terrible, bad moment. I've
never forgot.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You know what it is is I'm djaying and I'm
doing this, and I'm back and forth to two different
spots and next thing, and I forgot some Monday, I
forgot my headphones and.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Oh yeah, I'm just like doing all these cool whatever. Yeah,
doing it all. Grinding your boys, grinding over here, and
I will be You gotta check out out a Friday
Night apparently.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Apparently Sha Bernard and his lovely lady Maggie are coming
tomorrow once again at the Daisy Tavern and Concho Hoc
and come on out.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Friday nights have to stop eight pm. We're rapping out.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Beautiful location, great food and conchot and stuff. All right,
great show today, fun stuff. Shout out to Mario for
stopping by from Gap. Of course we had Luke Carcaney.
We had little Pete dropping off some wings.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
No, he's still out there. I need some Oh. The
sales reps are like circum like vultures. Oh, the sales
reps conto him. It's done. It's over, I kid.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I'll love and respect to everybody here at the iHeart Community.
And also shout out to Julian Edlo for drafting sportsbook
we had to cut him short. He was like, dude,
you really getting rid of me. It's early. I like
to wrap with you for twenty five minutes, and I'm like,
oh man, I'm sorry. We gotta stop our face. Anyways,
speaking of swinging and digging, that's coming up next brand
new episode Moose Maze, Dan Yelle, don't go anywhere, keep
(15:03):
it locked right here to the game.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But I've talked to the mouth. Peace
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