September 12, 2024 • 8 mins
Doug Martin is the head coach of the Men's Golf program at the University of Cincinnati. He joined us on ESPN1530.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Every week. For a few weeks, we've chatted with one
of the coaches at the University of Cincinnati, the men's
golf program. Getting said for the Bearcat Invitational, which takes
place at Coldstream Country Club on Monday and Tuesday, a
great opportunity for the Bearcats to show off their home course.
The head coach of the UC golf program is Doug Martin,
(00:22):
kind enough to give us a few minutes. Coaches, good
to have you. What's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's great, great to be on though. I always always
enjoy catching up with you. And we're just we're actually
out here at Coldstream today qualifying for the tournament.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Do your players understand, you know there are there are
folks like us, like me at least who it's you know,
you got to know somebody to get on and yeah,
you want to do everything you can to maybe play
at a place like cold Stream and it's their home course.
To your players realize how lucky they are, and you know.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What, we really, we really are very fortunate that we
have tremendous support from the from the from cold Stream
and its membership, and our kids are very very aware
of the opportunity that they have here and you know,
it's part of part of college golf, and you know,
I would put Coldstream, you know, probably in the top
five or ten facilities that college players can have an
(01:13):
opportunity to play on. So we're very lucky and they're
very appreciative of what we have here.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's got to be quite a recruiting tool as well.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
An incredible recruiting tool when you when you bring a
bring a young man out here, and you know, see
the golf course, and you know, anytime you drive up
on Coldstream, just the bunkering of the golf course gives
it a usg a look and it's really, uh, it's
really it's really a great recruiting tool for us for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
All Right, explain to me what you what you did
I guess this past weekend where you sort of had,
for lack of a better way of putting it, like
a spring training split squad deal in both Knoxville and
I guess Richmond. Explain that for me.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So so basically what I've tried to do in our
program to help us develop depths is the team played
in Knoxville and Eastern Kentucky. Justin Teresco, who's a friend
of mine, They host their event and we sent four
individuals there, so they don't represent the as a team competition.
(02:20):
They go there and strictly play as individuals, strictly to
get reps. And so it's it's something that's really been
popular in college golf probably the last five or six
years really for you know, as I would say, the
Power four conferences to send players too, and you know,
(02:40):
gain some experience.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know, you're starting the year. You have freshmen. In
any sport, there's a major adjustment period for somebody who's
excels in high school and now they're playing it, and
not just the collegiate level, the Big twelve, you know,
like major college golf. It might be kind of a
dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. What's what's the
biggest on average, what's the biggest adjustment for a college freshman.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, I think number one, you're away from home. You
have to start making decisions for yourself. I think the coaching.
You know, most of your high school programs, you know,
you don't have coaches that are really coaching up the kids.
You more have, you know, guys who are teachers that
are taking kids that love the game of golf and
(03:29):
want to support, you know, the high school golf friends
we're in college golf. It's so much about the coaches
being able to identify what are the small and tangible
things that I can help this young man become a
better player. They're coming to us. All the kids that
we're recruiting now are coming to us really as top
(03:50):
hundred and twenty five, top hundred players in the country
who have played you know, great junior golf schedules, you know,
playing somewhere between nine and twelve times and tournaments every summer,
and so you know they're coming to a so much
more advanced, so much more polished. But I would say
probably the challenge is just the difficulty of the golf courses.
(04:13):
You know, in junior golf course, you might see a
whole location that they'll they'll put it in the center
of the grain, or they'll put it in the back
left of the green, but it'll be eight paces from
the edge of the green. And college golf you're going
to see those in three or four paces from the
edge of the green. So there's such a higher premium
on shot quality. So there is a tremendous adjustment just
(04:34):
strictly from the golf course difficulty. And then the second
thing is the weather. You know, when you're talking about
across the country and you're talking about most everybody plays
in pretty good weather in the fall semester, but in
the spring semester we start getting you know, the weather's
not great in too many places in February, March, April,
(04:55):
and May, and so the weather is typically an adjustment
for them as well.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, it was funny as you were talking about the
level of coaching. You know, I graduated from high school
almost thirty years ago, and I was thinking about our
golf coach. They they basically pulled him off the football
team so he could like fill the spot. And I'm
not sure he ever played golf, So a little bit
different at the at the collegiate level. Uh, what what
did you learn about your kids this weekend doing that
(05:22):
that split squad thing?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, I think you know, we we had, you know, again,
it's just getting the competitive reps. You know, we're back
here again today. We've got a fifty four hole qualifier
before we played the Bearcat to determine the last two
spots on our on our roster for the Bearcats. So
we've already identified our top three players after the first week,
(05:45):
and then we got two more spots opened up here
for the Bearcats. So I mean again, we had a
good We had a good preseason. We had nine rounds
of qualifying. We were creating some depth here and it's
really just up to me and my assist the coach
to pick the five guys each week who are playing
the best.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Describe for for the uninitiated, and I've I've had a peak,
I admit to have wanting to you know, logged in
and use my track man user and photos if I
could take a few swings, but to describe for those
who haven't checked out your indoor facility what it's like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It is stay of the art, you know, really unbelievable
support from you know, one of my former players, father
who had the had the piece of property. Unbelievable support
from John Cunningham and John Daniel internally to see this through,
you know, moving to the Big twelve. You know, we
(06:42):
had cold streams, we had everything on campus, but we
we needed something that could potentially take us over the
edge and we have built eight thousand square foot state
of the art, four track man bays, the simulators hut
View which is probably the greatest putting training aid there
(07:02):
probably is out there about a twenty five hundred square
foot putting area, team lounge, club repair room, team meeting room.
It's just really, it really has really has separated us.
And you know, many of the recruits that we've had
in the last year and a half, you know, have
expressed to us there's nothing like it anywhere in the country.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Are you ever able to like operate in social situations
where you tell people what you do for a living
and they don't ask you to, you know, fix how
they're hitting the hybrid or their slice or something.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know what I think? You know, Fortunately, you know,
I don't get that that frequently, but you know, you
get those questions. And I've been involved in this game
for so many I've been involved in this game for
so many years when I played on Tour and I
played in the Wednesday Pro ams and tried to help
the amateurs that I was playing with. It's just, you know,
golf is such a great game. It's a game you
(07:56):
can play for a long time, albeit one of the
most difficut games ever to play.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I get attest to that. All right, Well, good
luck at Coldstream. This week. I appreciate you doing this.
Have a great year, and we'll chat soon. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Absolutely, I really enjoy I really enjoy your program. I
enjoy your work with the Bearcats, and I'm really excited
to get this basketball season underway too. I think we're
going to have a pretty special group.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I can't wait. It's also very rare that I have
a coach on my show where they tell me, Man,
I really enjoy your show, so you've actually, I think,
made history.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I do. I listen to you whenever, whenever I can.
I really enjoy I really enjoy what you do for
sports in Cincinnati. That's very kind of you.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, Well we'll chat again. Thanks so much, all right,
Every week. For a few weeks, we've chatted with one
of the coaches at the University of Cincinnati, the men's
golf program. Getting said for the Bearcat Invitational, which takes
place at Coldstream Country Club on Monday and Tuesday, a
great opportunity for the Bearcats to show off their home course.
The head coach of the UC golf program is Doug Martin,
(00:22):
kind enough to give us a few minutes. Coaches, good
to have you. What's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's great, great to be on though. I always always
enjoy catching up with you. And we're just we're actually
out here at Coldstream today qualifying for the tournament.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Do your players understand, you know there are there are
folks like us, like me at least who it's you know,
you got to know somebody to get on and yeah,
you want to do everything you can to maybe play
at a place like cold Stream and it's their home course.
To your players realize how lucky they are, and you know.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What, we really, we really are very fortunate that we
have tremendous support from the from the from cold Stream
and its membership, and our kids are very very aware
of the opportunity that they have here and you know,
it's part of part of college golf, and you know,
I would put Coldstream, you know, probably in the top
five or ten facilities that college players can have an
(01:13):
opportunity to play on. So we're very lucky and they're
very appreciative of what we have here.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's got to be quite a recruiting tool as well.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
An incredible recruiting tool when you when you bring a
bring a young man out here, and you know, see
the golf course, and you know, anytime you drive up
on Coldstream, just the bunkering of the golf course gives
it a usg a look and it's really, uh, it's
really it's really a great recruiting tool for us for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
All Right, explain to me what you what you did
I guess this past weekend where you sort of had,
for lack of a better way of putting it, like
a spring training split squad deal in both Knoxville and
I guess Richmond. Explain that for me.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So so basically what I've tried to do in our
program to help us develop depths is the team played
in Knoxville and Eastern Kentucky. Justin Teresco, who's a friend
of mine, They host their event and we sent four
individuals there, so they don't represent the as a team competition.
(02:20):
They go there and strictly play as individuals, strictly to
get reps. And so it's it's something that's really been
popular in college golf probably the last five or six
years really for you know, as I would say, the
Power four conferences to send players too, and you know,
(02:40):
gain some experience.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know, you're starting the year. You have freshmen. In
any sport, there's a major adjustment period for somebody who's
excels in high school and now they're playing it, and
not just the collegiate level, the Big twelve, you know,
like major college golf. It might be kind of a
dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. What's what's the
biggest on average, what's the biggest adjustment for a college freshman.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, I think number one, you're away from home. You
have to start making decisions for yourself. I think the coaching.
You know, most of your high school programs, you know,
you don't have coaches that are really coaching up the kids.
You more have, you know, guys who are teachers that
are taking kids that love the game of golf and
(03:29):
want to support, you know, the high school golf friends
we're in college golf. It's so much about the coaches
being able to identify what are the small and tangible
things that I can help this young man become a
better player. They're coming to us. All the kids that
we're recruiting now are coming to us really as top
(03:50):
hundred and twenty five, top hundred players in the country
who have played you know, great junior golf schedules, you know,
playing somewhere between nine and twelve times and tournaments every summer,
and so you know they're coming to a so much
more advanced, so much more polished. But I would say
probably the challenge is just the difficulty of the golf courses.
(04:13):
You know, in junior golf course, you might see a
whole location that they'll they'll put it in the center
of the grain, or they'll put it in the back
left of the green, but it'll be eight paces from
the edge of the green. And college golf you're going
to see those in three or four paces from the
edge of the green. So there's such a higher premium
on shot quality. So there is a tremendous adjustment just
(04:34):
strictly from the golf course difficulty. And then the second
thing is the weather. You know, when you're talking about
across the country and you're talking about most everybody plays
in pretty good weather in the fall semester, but in
the spring semester we start getting you know, the weather's
not great in too many places in February, March, April,
(04:55):
and May, and so the weather is typically an adjustment
for them as well.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, it was funny as you were talking about the
level of coaching. You know, I graduated from high school
almost thirty years ago, and I was thinking about our
golf coach. They they basically pulled him off the football
team so he could like fill the spot. And I'm
not sure he ever played golf, So a little bit
different at the at the collegiate level. Uh, what what
did you learn about your kids this weekend doing that
(05:22):
that split squad thing?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, I think you know, we we had, you know, again,
it's just getting the competitive reps. You know, we're back
here again today. We've got a fifty four hole qualifier
before we played the Bearcat to determine the last two
spots on our on our roster for the Bearcats. So
we've already identified our top three players after the first week,
(05:45):
and then we got two more spots opened up here
for the Bearcats. So I mean again, we had a
good We had a good preseason. We had nine rounds
of qualifying. We were creating some depth here and it's
really just up to me and my assist the coach
to pick the five guys each week who are playing
the best.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Describe for for the uninitiated, and I've I've had a peak,
I admit to have wanting to you know, logged in
and use my track man user and photos if I
could take a few swings, but to describe for those
who haven't checked out your indoor facility what it's like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It is stay of the art, you know, really unbelievable
support from you know, one of my former players, father
who had the had the piece of property. Unbelievable support
from John Cunningham and John Daniel internally to see this through,
you know, moving to the Big twelve. You know, we
(06:42):
had cold streams, we had everything on campus, but we
we needed something that could potentially take us over the
edge and we have built eight thousand square foot state
of the art, four track man bays, the simulators hut
View which is probably the greatest putting training aid there
(07:02):
probably is out there about a twenty five hundred square
foot putting area, team lounge, club repair room, team meeting room.
It's just really, it really has really has separated us.
And you know, many of the recruits that we've had
in the last year and a half, you know, have
expressed to us there's nothing like it anywhere in the country.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Are you ever able to like operate in social situations
where you tell people what you do for a living
and they don't ask you to, you know, fix how
they're hitting the hybrid or their slice or something.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know what I think? You know, Fortunately, you know,
I don't get that that frequently, but you know, you
get those questions. And I've been involved in this game
for so many I've been involved in this game for
so many years when I played on Tour and I
played in the Wednesday Pro ams and tried to help
the amateurs that I was playing with. It's just, you know,
golf is such a great game. It's a game you
(07:56):
can play for a long time, albeit one of the
most difficut games ever to play.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I get attest to that. All right, Well, good
luck at Coldstream. This week. I appreciate you doing this.
Have a great year, and we'll chat soon. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Absolutely, I really enjoy I really enjoy your program. I
enjoy your work with the Bearcats, and I'm really excited
to get this basketball season underway too. I think we're
going to have a pretty special group.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I can't wait. It's also very rare that I have
a coach on my show where they tell me, Man,
I really enjoy your show, so you've actually, I think,
made history.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I do. I listen to you whenever, whenever I can.
I really enjoy I really enjoy what you do for
sports in Cincinnati. That's very kind of you.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, Well we'll chat again. Thanks so much, all right,
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