November 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Joined by Vince Covello on his career, Philly Golf roots and what’s still to come! Sami Valimaki joins the list of First Time Winners this year. The Tea with D and more. Thanks for Wear SPF, Buy My Ballz and BetParx.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to get out there and swing and ding it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, you know, just guess it's gonna go out there
and try to swing it and ding it.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Welcome in to swing it and ding it. This is
Moose along with May's and Matthews and you know what.
We talk a lot about Philly Golf on this show,
but I don't know if you could tell the story
of Philly Golf about our next guest. Welcome to the show,
Vince Cabella.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Thanks guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Absolutely it looks like you were you were on site
somewhere doing the thing that you do the most.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Where are you coming to us from right now?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm at my Florida home, Atlantic Beach country Club to
Jacksonville area.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
It's a great, great place. It's my second home here.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
My first home is still at lant Our Country Club
in Philly, but this is where I spend most of
my time house down here in Atlantic Beach.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
A little warmer there this time of year than it
is Atlantic, right.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Seventy seventy five and sunny a lot of days here,
so a great place.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So, Vince, we talk a lot about the golf journey here, right.
You know how you started, how you got into things
where it's taken you. So just give give us a
quick little golf journey from your perspectives, starting out in
our area in Philadelphia and to where things are now.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Well, it's been a long haul.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Today's my forty third birthday, so I'll try and.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Keep it short. Appreciate it, yeah with us, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, exactly twenty one years as a pro now, Yeah,
it's been a long journey.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
But all started back at lant Our Country Club.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
My dad was a big golfer, got to grow up
there and my brother as well.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
You know, it was a great place to grow up.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We had a fantastic junior junior program there. You go
back and look at the Pennsylvania state junior records in
the late nineties and early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
We were a powerhouse.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We had the likes of the McDermott brothers, Michael the oldest,
probably being the most famous of the bunch there, and
you know, Billy Stewart's another Philly name that was a
class act and a great player, and so many other
guys that came through the ranks there that we had
wonderful competition growing up as a kid, and I think
that that still stands. It's still the same core group
of guys over at Lanark, which is what makes it
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so fun to go back. But growing up with so
many interested and athletic and competitive kids there at Lanark
had definitely pushed everybody forward to be the great players
that they are still.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
To this day.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I moved to Jacksonville, Florida for my senior year of
high school to get out of the cold weather. Finished
up down here and did two years of college golf
at University of North Florida, and then decided I was
ready to turn and pro at oh four, which I
don't know if I was ready for it or not,
but I decided to go for it.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Twenty one years later, I'm still standing here and still
wanting to chase my dream. So it's it's been a
great journey and gotten to see a lot of the
world and learned a lot of life lessons about myself
and other people and how to fit into different environments.
It's the game of Golf's been so good to me.
I'm just so thankful for it.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
It's amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And like moussaid, we can't really talk about Philly golf
without mentioning you twenty one years. You said, so, you've
been around professional golf for quite a while now, You've
seen kind of every side of the journey with so
many changes and things happening right now, what do you
think about the state of golf?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think, you know, I'm not fully qualified to speak
on the subject, but they're definitely doing a good job
to guarantee that they get their top product on TV
more often. You know, with everything that's happened over the
past few years, it's been a tough, yeah, tough sell
to the PJ Tour and to get everybody on board
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and and figure things out. But I think they're doing
a good job. I think new leadership has good ideas.
You know, Jay Jay did absolutely the best he could
there and it's just a tough boat he got he
got forced into. But you know, I think I think
golf is going to be be great in the long haul.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I think we were a storm on the.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
PGA Tour and and got through it and still have
a great product and fan interest and uh, you know,
golf's growing so much even starts. Since the beginning of COVID,
I think it became.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Way more popular than it was just before then as.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Far as the accessibility to all types of people and
the general people's interest in it. It was an outdoor sport,
so it gave everybody a chance to go check it
out during COVID, to get out there and figured it
out a little bit, and I think it hooked a
lot more people over those years. So yeah, I think,
you know, the PJ Tours had it in a good direction.
They're going to have uh, smaller fields and more of
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the time guys playing on a regular basis, which I
think is really good for the tour and their sellability factor.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Hey, Vince, could you please describe for the listeners the
grind that is the PGA Tour and what it's like
like we saw this last week's event. Guys are trying
to get inside the top one hundred. You know what
it's like to sweat out a cut on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, it's uh, it's a it's amazing, like all the
emotions that it gets it runled up inside you. You know,
we never, no matter how good you play, you're never
coming off the course completely satisfied. There was always one
more you could have had, or one thing you could
have done better, or one shot you wasted here or there.
And you know, it's such fine lines on the PGA
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Tour that you know, one three put over thirty six
holes can cost you getting paid that week. You know,
that's like a a three minute lack of focus, right,
like that that causes that over the course of you know,
eight nine hours playing.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Golf for two days, right, And so it's it is
a grind. You never.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You never really fully put it to bed, right, Like
you go home thinking about it at night, like dreaming
about how you could have done better, or you know,
how to improve.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Or how to be better the next week out.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And it is it's a hard thing sitting around to
figure out if you if you made the cut or not.
Most recently in Bermuda, I birdied my thirty fifth hole
and lipped out on my thirty sixth hole and ended
up missing the cup by one shot that week, and
you know, it's just one of those things I've I've
obviously been around long enough now that you have been
through it all. So to miss a cut by a shot,
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it is not something I haven't experienced before, but you know,
it's you're sitting now. It was the morning wave, so
I was waiting around all afternoon to see if the
number moved or what it was, and win ended up
dying down a little bit in the afternoon and so
I got I got run over and ended up missing
the cup by one. But you know, I know, I
tried my best, and ultimately that's all you can do
is show up and play all thirty six holes as
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best you can and if all where it falls, and
you know, hopefully end up getting to play seventy two holes,
but not every weeks like that, you know.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Yeah, just just saying that, that reminds me, Like you said,
like when you're in that morning wave and you're you know,
on the cut line right there, and you're just you know,
you're in the clubhouse and you're like, do I go
back to the hotel?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Do I pack up? Do I stay?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Like?
Speaker 7 (07:15):
What am I doing?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
That?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Is I love for listeners to hear that part where
you're just sitting around, like, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
You don't know where they're playing the weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You don't know whether or not to change your flights.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They're trying to get out of there and get get
home or get refreshed for the next week or whatever,
or you know, you have all these contingency.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Plans that are always sitting in the back of your
head and you ultimately you don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And you know some days, you know part of the
problem why they're why they're moving to smaller fields on
the PGA tourse, because not everybody gets to finish their
rounds Thursday Friday, so some of sometimes it's a Saturday restart,
so you might even have to wait around till Saturday
morning to figure out whether or not you made the gun
or not. And then you know you're on the last
little like quick run to the golf course.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Because you're like, oh, I made it, let's go, and
you're all excited, or you're like, oh you wake up
with bad news. You're like, well, now we got to
find the way home today, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
So the beauty of professional golf.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You know recent article that I just read about you.
When I asked why you do it, you said, I
love it, right, and you could see it, you could
hear it in your voice.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It's what we all wish we would be doing, is
going through this and just doing what we love the
most and playing golf. Talk about you also talked about
how much you've learned from the setbacks, right, and how
much they've helped you grow right off the bat, right
with an injury, right with a back injury, just as
things are really kicking in for you. Talk about that
process and how you had to stay kind of in
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the right frame of mind to get through that to
the next you know, to get on the other side.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, the back injury was like a nagging thing.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
That's you know.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I had a push real hard for three years straight
on the corn Ferry Tour just to get out here.
And you know, that's why I was getting up in
age and playing a lot of golf. Like in twenty seventeen,
I played nine weeks in a row, and in twenty
eighteen I played eleven weeks in a row without going home.
I mean, I get dropped off at the airport. It's like,
all right, I'll see you in three months and nice
knowing you you know, yeah, it's crazy. So you're living
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out of one suitcase for three months straight, Like I
had no idea what my hotel room number was that week,
what color my rental car was, like any of those
kind of things became tricky, Like as you got you know, five, six, seven,
eight weeks into it, it was ends up being a blur.
But you know, you're just out there to chase your
little white ball around and do the best you can,
like I said, and you know, win, pass, or fail.
There's only one one winner each week and basically everybody
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else after that leaves still hungry or foaming at the
mouth to do better next week. And you know, whether
you missed the cut or not, like every every opportunity
that you get out there is a chance to learn
something from it. And like you know, if you if
you win the tournament, great, like you definitely learned what
worked and what.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You did well that week to get to that successful point.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And when you don't, you get to look back and
there's a million things you can pick apart to figure
out what to do better for.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
The next time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And I think that that leads to growth, that leads
to growth as a person and a golfer, because you've
got to be willing to take the bad with the good,
and having the bad makes the good that much sweeter,
right when it actually does happen truly.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yeah, well, Vince, with kind of going right off of
what you just said, with growing and learning twenty one
years out there, how do you prepare differently now, physically, mentally,
even emotionally compared to maybe five ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
You know, it hasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't know that I've changed my routines or my
deals all that much. I still am a grinder on
the range. I mean, I spend lots of times hitting balls,
and I think if I had to go back and
rework my life, I would.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Have spent more time on the chipping and putting green.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Than on the driving range, because ultimately, like the finality
of coming down to making the putt on.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
The green is what really matters.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You know, I've always been a ball striker, which is,
you know, eventually what got me there. But we all
want to make more putts, and the guy who wins
the tournament is usually the guy making the most putts.
You know, we all hit the golf ball really well
on the PGA Tour and even on the corn Ferry
or any of the many tours for that matter, and
it's the guy who makes the putts that's always in
the top.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Ten at the end of the week.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
So are you working with a putting coach?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I am not. I am working with seventy five different putters.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Sounds like my husband.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yeah, of course, I mean we're all nuts, right, I mean, yeah,
it's it's just the nature of the game.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I think, you know, it should be as simple as
shooting the free throw, right, they find your routine dribble,
drible shoot. But there's so many more things to it
than that. I mean, being able to read the greens,
get the speed right, the changing surfaces every week from
Bermuda to bent to pass palum to you know, all
these different things that we're dealing with as professionals. Like
people forget about that sometimes that we have to play
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differently and execute different.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Short game shots based off the surface that we're playing
off of.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And even that even comes down to putting too. It's
not necessarily that you need a different putter, but you
might need to, you know, have an extra degree aloft
on your putter or something silly like that. So, yeah,
more wing or whatever it is. Right, So it's it's
a constant tinkering a little bit. I've gotten better through
the years of you know, sticking with my thirteen clubs.
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But the putter is one that, yeah, she's she can
be pickled sometimes, so you never know. Sometimes you pick
up the right one and it gets hot and then
it cools off in a couple of weeks and you're like,
oh man, So they.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Don't make it easy for you.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
They don't make it easy for you either.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
When you show up and you go on the putting
green and there's like one hundred and five shiny new
potters from every you know company, you're like, oh, you
pick it up, You're a hit a few, you know.
It's like Moose going to the Golf Galaxy. He's like,
all right, fine, I'll take this.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
It's yeah, you got to touch them all.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah. You talked about growing up with the game Atlantic.
Was there a particular or is there a particular instructor
over your course of your time with golf that has
had the most impact on your career.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
His name's Andrews forest Brand. He's a long time European
tour pro from Sweden. He's been my biggest mentor. He
you know, has done it all in the world of
professional golf. He's won multiple times in Europe, played all
four majors, was assistant Ryder Cup captain. I got lucky
enough to meet him. So first off, speaking in the
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Philadelphia area, I mean, we had wonderful pros at Lanark
when I was growing up, Ben leslie Ak and John
Cooper who Ben leslie x over at pala now and
John Cooper's.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
At Green Valley.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
They would always take me out to play golf, and
you know, gambling is a big part of Lantark, so
we would always go out and play for some money
and and figure it out out there. And I was,
you know, the young kid that they would always so
along because they wanted to see me do well, and
I knew I could hang out there. So you know,
those two were inte girl in my youth growing up.
And I ended up taking a couple of lessons from
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a guy named Simon Holmes over at Ronimick who taught
Jay Siegel, who's another legendary Philadelphia golfer. And through Simon Holmes,
I met Anders Forest Brand. Simon is a British guy
who you know taught Anders Robert Carlson and Suzanne Patterson
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at the time when I started with him, and Anders
was I guess about forty years old when I was
seventeen or so, moving to Florida and lived around the
corner from me down here in Florida. So he took
me under his wing, still playing competitively in those early days,
and as he started to move on in his life,
he spent more and more effort with me in time
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with me, and it has been my long set of
eyes and mentor to bounce things off of ideas and
strategies and swing stuff and.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
All that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And he's been the biggest help of my career for sure.
I mean, I wouldn't be where I am without him today.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
So that's that's my guy. That's my guy. I love him.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well, let's let's stick in Philly real quick, right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
The Golf Association of Piladelphia, I think for people that
aren't from the area really just can't imagine impact that
that organization has, right, and just the level of golfers
that it has put out, the type of events that
puts on and you know, talk about the gap for
you and I know competing and how that kind of
maybe set you up to give you that competitive fire
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to take it to the next level of competing against
really good golfers on a regular basis in the area.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Absolutely Gap is, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I think it's the oldest golf association in the United States,
I believe, And they've always done a fantastic job.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Running tournaments and providing a place for juniors to grow
their game. I mean, like I grew up playing all
the local stuff around town. The Jock McKenzie gosh, I
can't remember some of the names of the other.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Ones, but I believe that Jock McKenzie was at Sandy Run.
Always looked forward to the Philadelphia Junior Boys. I had
a showdown with Billy Stewart in the finals at Huntington
Valley in the Philadelphia Junior Boys in like ninety nine
him in so it was an all Lanark final, which
is really cool. We had half the club out there
following us around and Bill bill Aint got the better
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of me that day, and I still dreaded to this
day because he he won't let me forget it either.
But it's yeah, it was a great place to grow
up playing golf and be competitive during the summertimes, and
they just did a fantastic job of running first class
tournaments and even still to this day. I mean I
come back up for US Open Locals lots of times
just as an excuse to see some family and friends
and spend some time at Lantark, and I'm still impressed
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with how they do locals.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I've done locals and.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You know, MultiMate MultiMate states around the country, and they
are by far the most organized and best run ones
that I've been to.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
So it keeps me coming back for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Well, this being your birthday turning forty three again, happy
birthday from all of us. Seven more birthdays. Is there
going to be a Vince Cavello champions that's something you're
thinking about about.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, you know there's I heard there's taking they're taking
away Champion Store Q School now, so I it could
be tricky by the time I get there. I hope
it's still around by the time I get there. But
you know, that's that's far enough down the road that
I'm trying not to think that far out in advance.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I still I still think like a twenty five year old.
I still play golf. It's like an idiot and a
twenty five year old sometimes. But you know, my body,
my body feels good. I still got enough pop.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
In my swing where I'm getting it out there, and
I think I got enough in me to keep competing
at the higher levels and the younger levels.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
For the time being.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So I'm more on the immediate future than the long
term future. But yeah, I mean, golf is all I know, right, Like,
I don't know how I'm gonna ever put this down.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Like I like I said in the article, I love it.
It's it's made me who I am.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I'm lucky to be outdoors every day and doing what
I love and and put myself to the test. And
I think that's that's something that I truly cherish.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
And it's great to see you out there.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I mean, I hadn't seen you since THENIPA Invitational, and
I think we are at the John Deere and I'm
just walking out to the clubhouse and I saw you.
I was like, wait, Vince, Like it's just you know,
it's You're easy to root for, you know, Philly guy.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
We love it.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
And when they texted me and said you were coming
on the PODO, I was super excited, So thanks for
making some time for us. But each guest we never
let them leave without sharing with us their favorite Philadelphia
golf course and Lanark can not be said.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
That can be one A, but we need we need
a one B.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You gotta give we one numbers number one. You know,
I grew up in Marble Road and Habertown, which backed
up to Maria West Golf Course. So I grew up
on the third green of Marion West golf Course. My
high school played high school matches out there. I would
go sledding out there in the winter time. Obviously, Marion
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East is the crown of the ground and a fantastic place.
If you ever get the privilege to go play golf there,
don't ever pass it up to anybody out there. I
still I used to drive through Ardmore Avenue which splits
that golf course on the way to school every day
and look at it dreaming and and think of what
a beautiful place and what a beautiful.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Area we live in.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And then had a fantastic little West course in my
backyard that I probably incriminating myself, but I used to
go out there and sneak around and you know, play
a couple of holes I'd play. I'd play four through
nine and then walk back to the house because nine
finished kind of a right by number three, so I could,
you know, sneak.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Home real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And thanks to the members at Mary and I, you know,
it definitely progressed my game there too. But yeah, Lanark
one A, Mary and maryon one B.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, so that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Sounds like we need to meet up in a couple
of months, grab some sleds and you know, recantle some
memories with some spledding.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
That fourth hole part three it was great, it was
It was so much fun during the winter time. So
uh yeah, it was a blast. A lot of good
memories out there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, what's in store for the immediate future for Vince
Cavella twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So I I still have past champions stats on the
corn Ferry Tour, which means.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
I, uh have very limited access.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I need to get in and get his answers in
Monday qualify and if I do that, make the cut,
my money counts and I reshuffle in and then we'ld
start getting in on a more regular basis. I'm signed
up for second stage of Q School next week down
on Palm coast, So hopefully I can sneak through that
and get the finals, which is at my second home
here in Florida, TPC saw Grass. My first moment to Florida.
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I lived in TBC saw Grass with my parents and
played thousands of realms there for you know, fun and
high school and.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
College golf as well.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
We played a lot at the Valley course in Sawgrass
Country Club are the two places that are hosting final
stage of Q School.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
So really pushing hard. The top five at final stage
gets their PGA Tour card back, so better bring it.
But uh yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So second stage next week, then a week off second
stage yep, yep, Conservatory course yep.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Friends, friends of the program, oh yeah, got folks, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And then final stages like I guess the second or
third week of December, we get a week off after
second stage.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Yeah, hopefully I see you up there.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Well, listen, thank you so much for taking some time
to join us. Yeah on your birthday, On your birthday, no,
happy birthday to you, and yeah we'll be rooting for
you and continued success.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Awesome, Thanks guys, thanks for having me. It's been a
pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
right back. All right, Welcome back to swinging and ding
it on this Thanksgiving week. A lot of Turkey trots
going out there in at Delare Valley today. I see
I did not make mine today at a legacy club unfortunately,
but I saw a couple going on.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But awesome to talk to Vince Cavella.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I mean, just going for it right, like yeah, it's like,
all right, I didn't get here, I'm going here.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I didn't do this.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I'm going like just this is my life, this is
my job, and like what else would I be doing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I love that attitude, like and.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
He said, He's like I love it. I love it,
you know golf.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Yeah, it's just so cool talking to these guys though,
because like the little things, a little intricacy is that,
you know, I kind of always forget about that, he said, Like,
you know, if you do have that early start, or
even if you have a late start and you're flirting
with that cut line and then it's canceled for dark.
You got to wake up on Saturday at three in
the morning to go play two holes and maybe not
even make the cut then, like there's just so many.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Like he said, he birdies a putt on seventeen and
the then lips out on eighteen.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
This is miss I mean, you know, like my if
I would never make it because my mental capacity, like
I'd probably break a club and half or something or
like lats of it into a pond.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Like yeah, yeah, guess what it was.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
It was awesome hearing about Lanta because Lanark is such
a great spot and I feel like it gets overshadowed
to some degree, like I think it's a little bit
like underrated, and I think it's just great membership obviously
a very competitive place to play golf. That and when
you talk about the guys like Coop and some of
the other people from that area too, it's just really
really cool.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Talking to Vince and getting his perspective on that.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
So and now I need to go come come up
there and go sledding at Marion.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
They have good sledding at Legacy Club too. A lot
of the courses have really good sledding.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
One and he I don't want you to be sledding.
I don't want any freaking snow. Okay, Danielle, come on,
well I come back.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
You guys know me. I come back because I'm like,
I hate the hot and blah blah blah. It's been
eighty every day.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
I come back for forty minutes and I'm like, eh,
clid me back exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
The R s M Classic, another first time winner, Sammy
VALLAMACKI yeah, first finish PGA Tour winner. Also yeah, yeah,
it gets gets a two year exemption, gets in the
first two signature events.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So I think he fell right right past that number.
But he gets in the first.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, he's in that eon, next ten.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yes, he leads that off.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
So yeah, he's in the Genesis and the Pebble Beach events.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Moves that's good, and then he can he can make
some moves from there.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
But yeah, a lot of a lot of obviously movement
in that tournament, a lot of people watching that line
to see where it would fall.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But another first time winner on the PGA Tour.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, and he was a hockey player too, Moose obviously
coming from where he got it, grew up. One of
his cousins is in the NHL. You so, Vallamachi. I
don't know if you've ever heard of him, but he
is currently in the NHL. And this guy wanted to
be a professional hockey player and ends up a professional golfer.
And I first came in contact with him. I remember
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him going toe to toe with Jake Knapp a year
or two ago in Mexico when Nap won his first event,
and it was pretty cool to see these guys battling,
battling it out on a Sunday afternoon. But yeah, I
mean he's been grinding, he's been closing in on this
win for quite some time. He's been close, and now
he finally got it over the line. And like you said,
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he moves into the fifty first in the FedEx Cup,
So that brings with it a lot more opportunities to
make some money. And I tell you some of these guys,
you know, Castilio ended up finishing third in this tournament
and one oh two, just outside the top one hundred.
Lee Hodges finished one oh one after finishing t four
(25:11):
this past weekend, he's won outside the guaranteed spot. Now,
of course those guys will, they'll get into tournaments.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
And yeah, I was gonna say, Harry, have to say
that because the PGA tour has been making it seem
their social media anyway, and Drew Carr, who we've had
on here, has.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Done a great job of it in a way.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Well I know, I was like, let's do a wellness
check on him, but uh, you know, they they took
some players who didn't, you know, finish within full status
and they were like basically made it.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Out to be like their jobless, what are they going
to do?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Hope is gone, and it's like, no, they still have
X amount of starts on PGA Tour and can get
into some corn events if they need to. You know.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
It's yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Their actual one. He's out, but you know you'll be
seeing him quite You.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Got to give a shout out to Nico when he
finished T four. Yeah, and then a little casualty four
to uh hopefully that pays for his wedding he's getting married.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, he got him into a really good spot, doubt. Yeah,
it's very good to see.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Don't forget our friends that buy my balls. They're actually
now selling clubs too, so you got to check.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Them out clubs that they find in ponds or.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Maybe Danielle threw a through a wedge.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
And yeah, Turtle Creek Intoquesta.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah, buy my balls dot com. That's balls with his Z.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
This is the time of year we talk about all
the time where you know, as golfers you get horrible
golf gifts from relatives.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh you're a golfer. Let me get you this horrible gift.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Uh, plant the seed, send them, send them the link,
buy my balls, get a subscription. Maybe just get some
new balls to try out, or even if you want to,
you know, we talked to Ben, talked about trying seventy
two putters. Maybe better way to grab it, more affordable
one just to try out over buy my balls dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That's balls with the Z. Check those guys out.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah. I forwarded their email to the one and done.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So maybe some people will be purchasing some Christmas gifts off.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, we have some clients that we're doing uh, you know,
golf Christmas gifts for. So we'll have to you know,
say skip the counting beads and buy a subscription to
buy my Balls.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
It's it's hilarious, I asked Brandon.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
I said, tell me about like your grandma and your
aunt and you know, people like that and the funniest
golf gifts you've got. We've done some episodes yeah before Yeah,
and I Twitter on Twitter. Yeah, and you know there's
just my mom even buys Brandon some silly things, like
you know, it'll be like a salt and pepper shake
Shagar with golfers on it, and we're like, these don't
belong to my house, Like I.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Don't just because there's a golfer on it.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
It's like it's it's funny the family and what they
give golfers around the holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, you talked about Nico moves. He moved into that
Nick on next ten from yeah, spot sixty two up
to fifty five. So he's in the first two events.
Oh yeah in February. So congrats to him.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, no doubt. Danielle, you want to spill some tig.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Yes, sir. Thanks thanks for covering my tea last week. Guys,
I had a little connection issues. We were in Brad's garage.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, that looks like a better episode than ours.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
I know I should have just went live from there,
but yeah, that's Brad Faxon.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
For people who don't know, Danielle just casually mentions.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Brad in Brad's garage's garage.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Okay, Bradford f Faxon, all right, let's get into some tea.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
So Fred Beyondy's comeback.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Ryan French dropped like a pretty awesome long read on
Fred Beyondy. I've been I mean, I've always been a
fan of Ryan French, the Monday Que, everything he stands
for and just his journey. But lately I've just been
so addicted and the algorithm knows or Twitter Instagram are
just throwing his stuff at me non NonStop. But I
read this one the morning bleeding hands, fifty hour range
(29:03):
weeks panic texts to his coach, no status, didn't know
what he was going to do, and fast.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Forward he's now a DP World Tour member. So story
of the year.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
If you guys love a grind and you know, just
love kind of you know, like we're just talking events
of just getting out there and just how you know,
one good week it's all takes right and what it
gives you.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
So has status on DP World Tour and just reading that.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
If you guys have some time, just head over to
Monday qu Ryan French and read that that article.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
That's always good stuff.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Oh yeah, big fan, and guys, it turns out that
Harry is not the only fan of Tommy Fleetwood. I
don't know if you guys caught up, but Nelly Corda
took a photo with him, and she, well, I don't
know who's selfie we should put Harry and Tommy selfie
versus Nelly and Tommy selfie, but she took she took
a photo with them, and she admitted that she wasn't
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nervous this time.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
So some good wholesome golf content.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
For two of I guess golf's more notable fun.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Players out there.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Anybody hear anything about Bryson breaking a Guinness Book.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Of World Record?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
What's he doing now?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
He officially broke the Guinness World Record for ball speed
and long drive testing, because of course he did. And
I'm sure on YouTube or his Instagram channel or something
that there's you know, hours of footage if you guys
want to watch that. But I have to say I
think my favorite one was still him trying to chip
into a cup up on the second story to give
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somebody a car.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, so actually I watched the videos Instagram post today
where Jod Patrick Reid walking up to him on the
range and he's like hitting balls.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
He's like one ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Patrick's like, come on, let me see you get the
two hundred and Bryceon's like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Just trying to eat.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I'm trying to he goes, He goes, you got to
do that breathing thing to hit it hard. He's like, no, no,
I'm trying to just like groove it and still get
the two hundred, and he just he just turns around
and boom.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
He's like two too. You know, speak.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Casual, casual, well, moose, That's what Harry was doing when
we rolled up at the Legacy Club, and so I'm
getting that lesson.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
He was just he didn't have to breathe.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
He was just yeah, right, yeah, Harry.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I get excited when I get one of the speed
sticks over one hundred miles an hour and clubhead speed.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Harry, You'll also be excited. Bryson's going to do a
breaking fifty with DJ Khalid. I know you're a big
nice J Kalid, J Kalid. Another one, yeah, another one,
I know you're I know that really gets you going.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Yeah, it gets his juices flowing.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I can't miss that one.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Set your alarm, Harry Bernhard Langer this is next level longevity.
He has won a professional tournament in forty two of
the last forty seven years.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Man, Wow, pretty crazy stat. When you read stuff like that,
you're just like, you try to do the math and
you're just like, wait, what that's wild.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Tankering works.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Moove you guys all that in my team.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Last week, those guys that were not around, Like, I
was like, that's funny with the uh.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
The rules dedication, the following rules.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, and then to be up there following him.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
With him on your You gotta follow the rules, right.
We all watched the internet invitational pages getting in trouble.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
He's getting in trouble. You know, you gotta follow the rules. Yeah,
you can't move the grass around.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Make sure you go to our our page we have
is the slope on yeah t shirts.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Yeah, oh I didn't see those.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I'm all about fluffing the line man, Winter winter rules,
winter rules.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
See it's it's funny.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
And actually on Thanksgiving we're gonna go Brendon and I
are gonna go play turtle in the morning. But that's
what we usually do down here because our family is
not close, so we generally play golf every holiday. But
sometimes he says to me. He goes, He's like, honey,
just just fix that.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Go you want me to improve my line? You want
me to pick up the ball. He's like, yes, I'm
like so hardcore, like I'm playing by the rules. And
he's like, you're not that good. Just pick up the
ball and move it to the fairway and keep it moving.
I mean, I you play quick, but I don't.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Like.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
I'm like, let me hit it from the roof so
I can practice the shot. He's like, pick it.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Up like that, Yes, sir, I'm brandon on that. Yep.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
Harry's like, fuff the ball, give me a better life exactly. Well,
I was trying to get a little bit more out
of events.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
But you know, the nice, respectable gentleman he is, he
just said, you know, kudos to the PGA Tour. There's
been some debates with all these changes and everything that's
going on. You guys talked about it last week with
them coming out saying like they can't compete with football,
which I think is great, Like we're not gonna most
people are going to watch the super Bowl, you know,
over the final round of golf. But the PGA Tour
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policy change they're doing a lot, and you know rightfully
so they need to with live and everything else that's
going on. But they've been announcing much needed updates, and
one of them being fifteen thousand dollars grants for certain
Corn Fairy Tour members PGA of America Tour grads that
are starting in twenty twenty six. Now, I don't know
(34:04):
if you guys remember, but the rookie class, I guess
it was like three years ago. They got a two
hundred thousand dollars bonus. But with that it's kind of
an earning assurance program. But with that, they did not
make any money until they paid that two hundred thousand
dollars back. And on top of that, they gave it
to you in Q four before you started your previous year.
(34:28):
So most of these guys having the most success that
they've ever had on corn Ferry to be able to
get statuts to get on tour, are already in a
higher tax bracket and then in December they throw two
hundred thousand dollars extra at you. So you're paying back
X amount in taxas and now you have that loan,
as you've said that you're paying back. So with this
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Is the second change
(34:51):
that they have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars earnings
assurance for PG tour members outside of the top one
twenty five, So you have to play twelve of it
and then the tour will make up the difference if
you don't make that one hundred and fifty. So you
this you will not have to pay that back. So finally,
something that's helping these guys out there grinding. Because again
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I always like to point out that there is no
team jet, there is no team hotel. There is paying
you know, anywhere from fifteen to twenty five hundred dollars
a week for a caddie paying for a hotel, everything else.
I forget his name off the top of my head,
but there's always that guy on social who shows you
his his earnings.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
So yeah, just you.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Know, I think that this is a positive in the
direction that they're going. It helps these guys continue chasing
a dream where some guys have to give it up
because they're flirting around that you know, thirty age range
and it's like, hey, I you know, I can't I
can't keep moving forward with life making twenty six thousand
dollars a year. So and also, guys, we talked about
(35:56):
slope range finders allowed full time on the twenty twenty
six Corn Faery Tour. So great for players relying they're
not relying on.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
It, but just using it. And you'll see if it
speeds it up at all, don't know, don't know for sure.
I guess it hasn't.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Haven't They tested that before and said it improved speed,
really changed much whatever.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
But they have caddies still doing their routine and then
and that right, they're not going to abandon their routine.
They're going to do it and they're gonna check it.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Like they're still going to walk off the pace.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
And yeah, I like.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
The GPS more than the range finders or anyway. Yeah,
a lot of times I have a tough time getting
the stick right, Yeah, getting the GPS.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Doesn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:43):
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Speaker 1 (37:09):
Beautiful, beautiful, I know, go ahead, Hars, I know. We'll
be watching the Eagles on a Friday afternoon, Yeah, at
three o'clock, but the Skins game returns that day and
it's on Prime. We talked about it last week. But Fleetwood,
Lowry Shaw Flet and Keegan Bradley are the four guys
playing at Panther National. Have you been over there, Danielle?
(37:30):
That the one that's designed by j T and Jack
not too far from you. More Inland.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
I guess it's a little wess. Yeah, so more Inland,
like you said, But I have not. But Brandon plays
I think weekly out there. Okay, we talked about it
slightly before when he was out there, I guess a
couple of months ago. He was behind all the ryder
Cup guys out there prepping. But I heard the place
is just awesome. I think I've put on brad Social
before a little recap of it too. So I haven't
(37:56):
been out there, but I've heard nothing but great things
about it.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, it's going to be a big promotional tool for
that place, because I had heard that they were having
trouble selling homes out there.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Well you know, and honestly, we've the homes.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
It's a little bit further out, it isn't he really
wants to go too much further? Like, when you live
this close to the coast, you want you.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Don't want more.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
You're there.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
So like it sounds silly, but going fifteen minutes further,
like I don't know, it's like moving to like the Pocono's.
Do you want to drive like thirty minutes to a
grocery store?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Like?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
But there has been a lot of change with it.
It's underway with a lot of land being purchased and
then they're creating.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
Like you know, the stores out in that direction.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
But I know at least two people who did move
out there because I don't know, I guess they just
wanted to, and then after probably six months they all
sold their house and came back this way.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
So definitely some truth to what you said with having
some struggles.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I'll be interested in checking it out though.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
But the course is beautiful. Yeah, we should get out there.
When you guys, come down here.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
We're talking about a little February weekend, so we need
to get we.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Have, well like a long weekend, a long weekend. Well,
we'll be in the chat about a.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Moose runs a radio company, Danielle. He has a lot
of work to do. I'm I'm the one that can
move around and do my stupid shows from anywhere with
a microphone. Moose has to actually manage People'll be okay,
we can take a nice yours sells all by himself.
Moves has to be there with the whip the whip man.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Just there to help him, just there to lend some
assistance where I can just look, that's that's my job.
That is one percent my job, all right, crack a
joker to look good and help close deals.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
There you go, all.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Right, Well, thank you bellow for Actually I'm going to
come down to your team.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Thank you Vince for for for coming on. Good luck
to him. Yeah, he's starting right off at Hammock Beach
for for Q School for corn ferry tours.
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to get out there and swing and ding it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, you know, just guess it's gonna go out there
and try to swing it and ding it.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Welcome in to swing it and ding it. This is
Moose along with May's and Matthews and you know what.
We talk a lot about Philly Golf on this show,
but I don't know if you could tell the story
of Philly Golf about our next guest. Welcome to the show,
Vince Cabella.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Thanks guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Absolutely it looks like you were you were on site
somewhere doing the thing that you do the most.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Where are you coming to us from right now?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm at my Florida home, Atlantic Beach country Club to
Jacksonville area.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
It's a great, great place. It's my second home here.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
My first home is still at lant Our Country Club
in Philly, but this is where I spend most of
my time house down here in Atlantic Beach.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
A little warmer there this time of year than it
is Atlantic, right.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Seventy seventy five and sunny a lot of days here,
so a great place.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So, Vince, we talk a lot about the golf journey here, right.
You know how you started, how you got into things
where it's taken you. So just give give us a
quick little golf journey from your perspectives, starting out in
our area in Philadelphia and to where things are now.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Well, it's been a long haul.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Today's my forty third birthday, so I'll try and.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Keep it short. Appreciate it, yeah with us, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, exactly twenty one years as a pro now, Yeah,
it's been a long journey.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
But all started back at lant Our Country Club.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
My dad was a big golfer, got to grow up
there and my brother as well.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
You know, it was a great place to grow up.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We had a fantastic junior junior program there. You go
back and look at the Pennsylvania state junior records in
the late nineties and early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
We were a powerhouse.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We had the likes of the McDermott brothers, Michael the oldest,
probably being the most famous of the bunch there, and
you know, Billy Stewart's another Philly name that was a
class act and a great player, and so many other
guys that came through the ranks there that we had
wonderful competition growing up as a kid, and I think
that that still stands. It's still the same core group
of guys over at Lanark, which is what makes it
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so fun to go back. But growing up with so
many interested and athletic and competitive kids there at Lanark
had definitely pushed everybody forward to be the great players
that they are still.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
To this day.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I moved to Jacksonville, Florida for my senior year of
high school to get out of the cold weather. Finished
up down here and did two years of college golf
at University of North Florida, and then decided I was
ready to turn and pro at oh four, which I
don't know if I was ready for it or not,
but I decided to go for it.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Twenty one years later, I'm still standing here and still
wanting to chase my dream. So it's it's been a
great journey and gotten to see a lot of the
world and learned a lot of life lessons about myself
and other people and how to fit into different environments.
It's the game of Golf's been so good to me.
I'm just so thankful for it.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
It's amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And like moussaid, we can't really talk about Philly golf
without mentioning you twenty one years. You said, so, you've
been around professional golf for quite a while now, You've
seen kind of every side of the journey with so
many changes and things happening right now, what do you
think about the state of golf?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think, you know, I'm not fully qualified to speak
on the subject, but they're definitely doing a good job
to guarantee that they get their top product on TV
more often. You know, with everything that's happened over the
past few years, it's been a tough, yeah, tough sell
to the PJ Tour and to get everybody on board
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and and figure things out. But I think they're doing
a good job. I think new leadership has good ideas.
You know, Jay Jay did absolutely the best he could
there and it's just a tough boat he got he
got forced into. But you know, I think I think
golf is going to be be great in the long haul.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I think we were a storm on the.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
PGA Tour and and got through it and still have
a great product and fan interest and uh, you know,
golf's growing so much even starts. Since the beginning of COVID,
I think it became.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Way more popular than it was just before then as.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Far as the accessibility to all types of people and
the general people's interest in it. It was an outdoor sport,
so it gave everybody a chance to go check it
out during COVID, to get out there and figured it
out a little bit, and I think it hooked a
lot more people over those years. So yeah, I think,
you know, the PJ Tours had it in a good direction.
They're going to have uh, smaller fields and more of
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the time guys playing on a regular basis, which I
think is really good for the tour and their sellability factor.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Hey, Vince, could you please describe for the listeners the
grind that is the PGA Tour and what it's like
like we saw this last week's event. Guys are trying
to get inside the top one hundred. You know what
it's like to sweat out a cut on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, it's uh, it's a it's amazing, like all the
emotions that it gets it runled up inside you. You know,
we never, no matter how good you play, you're never
coming off the course completely satisfied. There was always one
more you could have had, or one thing you could
have done better, or one shot you wasted here or there.
And you know, it's such fine lines on the PGA
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Tour that you know, one three put over thirty six
holes can cost you getting paid that week. You know,
that's like a a three minute lack of focus, right,
like that that causes that over the course of you know,
eight nine hours playing.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Golf for two days, right, And so it's it is
a grind. You never.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You never really fully put it to bed, right, Like
you go home thinking about it at night, like dreaming
about how you could have done better, or you know,
how to improve.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Or how to be better the next week out.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And it is it's a hard thing sitting around to
figure out if you if you made the cut or not.
Most recently in Bermuda, I birdied my thirty fifth hole
and lipped out on my thirty sixth hole and ended
up missing the cup by one shot that week, and
you know, it's just one of those things I've I've
obviously been around long enough now that you have been
through it all. So to miss a cut by a shot,
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it is not something I haven't experienced before, but you know,
it's you're sitting now. It was the morning wave, so
I was waiting around all afternoon to see if the
number moved or what it was, and win ended up
dying down a little bit in the afternoon and so
I got I got run over and ended up missing
the cup by one. But you know, I know, I
tried my best, and ultimately that's all you can do
is show up and play all thirty six holes as
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best you can and if all where it falls, and
you know, hopefully end up getting to play seventy two holes,
but not every weeks like that, you know.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Yeah, just just saying that, that reminds me, Like you said,
like when you're in that morning wave and you're you know,
on the cut line right there, and you're just you know,
you're in the clubhouse and you're like, do I go
back to the hotel?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Do I pack up? Do I stay?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Like?
Speaker 7 (07:15):
What am I doing?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
That?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Is I love for listeners to hear that part where
you're just sitting around, like, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
You don't know where they're playing the weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You don't know whether or not to change your flights.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They're trying to get out of there and get get
home or get refreshed for the next week or whatever,
or you know, you have all these contingency.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Plans that are always sitting in the back of your
head and you ultimately you don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And you know some days, you know part of the
problem why they're why they're moving to smaller fields on
the PGA tourse, because not everybody gets to finish their
rounds Thursday Friday, so some of sometimes it's a Saturday restart,
so you might even have to wait around till Saturday
morning to figure out whether or not you made the gun
or not. And then you know you're on the last
little like quick run to the golf course.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Because you're like, oh, I made it, let's go, and
you're all excited, or you're like, oh you wake up
with bad news. You're like, well, now we got to
find the way home today, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
So the beauty of professional golf.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You know recent article that I just read about you.
When I asked why you do it, you said, I
love it, right, and you could see it, you could
hear it in your voice.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It's what we all wish we would be doing, is
going through this and just doing what we love the
most and playing golf. Talk about you also talked about
how much you've learned from the setbacks, right, and how
much they've helped you grow right off the bat, right
with an injury, right with a back injury, just as
things are really kicking in for you. Talk about that
process and how you had to stay kind of in
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the right frame of mind to get through that to
the next you know, to get on the other side.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, the back injury was like a nagging thing.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
That's you know.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I had a push real hard for three years straight
on the corn Ferry Tour just to get out here.
And you know, that's why I was getting up in
age and playing a lot of golf. Like in twenty seventeen,
I played nine weeks in a row, and in twenty
eighteen I played eleven weeks in a row without going home.
I mean, I get dropped off at the airport. It's like,
all right, I'll see you in three months and nice
knowing you you know, yeah, it's crazy. So you're living
(09:06):
out of one suitcase for three months straight, Like I
had no idea what my hotel room number was that week,
what color my rental car was, like any of those
kind of things became tricky, Like as you got you know, five, six, seven,
eight weeks into it, it was ends up being a blur.
But you know, you're just out there to chase your
little white ball around and do the best you can,
like I said, and you know, win, pass, or fail.
There's only one one winner each week and basically everybody
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else after that leaves still hungry or foaming at the
mouth to do better next week. And you know, whether
you missed the cut or not, like every every opportunity
that you get out there is a chance to learn
something from it. And like you know, if you if
you win the tournament, great, like you definitely learned what
worked and what.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You did well that week to get to that successful point.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And when you don't, you get to look back and
there's a million things you can pick apart to figure
out what to do better for.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
The next time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And I think that that leads to growth, that leads
to growth as a person and a golfer, because you've
got to be willing to take the bad with the good,
and having the bad makes the good that much sweeter,
right when it actually does happen truly.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yeah, well, Vince, with kind of going right off of
what you just said, with growing and learning twenty one
years out there, how do you prepare differently now, physically, mentally,
even emotionally compared to maybe five ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
You know, it hasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't know that I've changed my routines or my
deals all that much. I still am a grinder on
the range. I mean, I spend lots of times hitting balls,
and I think if I had to go back and
rework my life, I would.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Have spent more time on the chipping and putting green.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Than on the driving range, because ultimately, like the finality
of coming down to making the putt on.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
The green is what really matters.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You know, I've always been a ball striker, which is,
you know, eventually what got me there. But we all
want to make more putts, and the guy who wins
the tournament is usually the guy making the most putts.
You know, we all hit the golf ball really well
on the PGA Tour and even on the corn Ferry
or any of the many tours for that matter, and
it's the guy who makes the putts that's always in
the top.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Ten at the end of the week.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
So are you working with a putting coach?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I am not. I am working with seventy five different putters.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Sounds like my husband.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yeah, of course, I mean we're all nuts, right, I mean, yeah,
it's it's just the nature of the game.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I think, you know, it should be as simple as
shooting the free throw, right, they find your routine dribble,
drible shoot. But there's so many more things to it
than that. I mean, being able to read the greens,
get the speed right, the changing surfaces every week from
Bermuda to bent to pass palum to you know, all
these different things that we're dealing with as professionals. Like
people forget about that sometimes that we have to play
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differently and execute different.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Short game shots based off the surface that we're playing
off of.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And even that even comes down to putting too. It's
not necessarily that you need a different putter, but you
might need to, you know, have an extra degree aloft
on your putter or something silly like that. So, yeah,
more wing or whatever it is. Right, So it's it's
a constant tinkering a little bit. I've gotten better through
the years of you know, sticking with my thirteen clubs.
(12:17):
But the putter is one that, yeah, she's she can
be pickled sometimes, so you never know. Sometimes you pick
up the right one and it gets hot and then
it cools off in a couple of weeks and you're like,
oh man, So they.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Don't make it easy for you.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
They don't make it easy for you either.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
When you show up and you go on the putting
green and there's like one hundred and five shiny new
potters from every you know company, you're like, oh, you
pick it up, You're a hit a few, you know.
It's like Moose going to the Golf Galaxy. He's like,
all right, fine, I'll take this.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
It's yeah, you got to touch them all.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah. You talked about growing up with the game Atlantic.
Was there a particular or is there a particular instructor
over your course of your time with golf that has
had the most impact on your career.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
His name's Andrews forest Brand. He's a long time European
tour pro from Sweden. He's been my biggest mentor. He
you know, has done it all in the world of
professional golf. He's won multiple times in Europe, played all
four majors, was assistant Ryder Cup captain. I got lucky
enough to meet him. So first off, speaking in the
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Philadelphia area, I mean, we had wonderful pros at Lanark
when I was growing up, Ben leslie Ak and John
Cooper who Ben leslie x over at pala now and
John Cooper's.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
At Green Valley.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
They would always take me out to play golf, and
you know, gambling is a big part of Lantark, so
we would always go out and play for some money
and and figure it out out there. And I was,
you know, the young kid that they would always so
along because they wanted to see me do well, and
I knew I could hang out there. So you know,
those two were inte girl in my youth growing up.
And I ended up taking a couple of lessons from
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a guy named Simon Holmes over at Ronimick who taught
Jay Siegel, who's another legendary Philadelphia golfer. And through Simon Holmes,
I met Anders Forest Brand. Simon is a British guy
who you know taught Anders Robert Carlson and Suzanne Patterson
(14:18):
at the time when I started with him, and Anders
was I guess about forty years old when I was
seventeen or so, moving to Florida and lived around the
corner from me down here in Florida. So he took
me under his wing, still playing competitively in those early days,
and as he started to move on in his life,
he spent more and more effort with me in time
(14:39):
with me, and it has been my long set of
eyes and mentor to bounce things off of ideas and
strategies and swing stuff and.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
All that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And he's been the biggest help of my career for sure.
I mean, I wouldn't be where I am without him today.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
So that's that's my guy. That's my guy. I love him.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well, let's let's stick in Philly real quick, right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
The Golf Association of Piladelphia, I think for people that
aren't from the area really just can't imagine impact that
that organization has, right, and just the level of golfers
that it has put out, the type of events that
puts on and you know, talk about the gap for
you and I know competing and how that kind of
maybe set you up to give you that competitive fire
(15:20):
to take it to the next level of competing against
really good golfers on a regular basis in the area.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Absolutely Gap is, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I think it's the oldest golf association in the United States,
I believe, And they've always done a fantastic job.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Running tournaments and providing a place for juniors to grow
their game. I mean, like I grew up playing all
the local stuff around town. The Jock McKenzie gosh, I
can't remember some of the names of the other.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Ones, but I believe that Jock McKenzie was at Sandy Run.
Always looked forward to the Philadelphia Junior Boys. I had
a showdown with Billy Stewart in the finals at Huntington
Valley in the Philadelphia Junior Boys in like ninety nine
him in so it was an all Lanark final, which
is really cool. We had half the club out there
following us around and Bill bill Aint got the better
(16:07):
of me that day, and I still dreaded to this
day because he he won't let me forget it either.
But it's yeah, it was a great place to grow
up playing golf and be competitive during the summertimes, and
they just did a fantastic job of running first class
tournaments and even still to this day. I mean I
come back up for US Open Locals lots of times
just as an excuse to see some family and friends
and spend some time at Lantark, and I'm still impressed
(16:30):
with how they do locals.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I've done locals and.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You know, MultiMate MultiMate states around the country, and they
are by far the most organized and best run ones
that I've been to.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
So it keeps me coming back for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Well, this being your birthday turning forty three again, happy
birthday from all of us. Seven more birthdays. Is there
going to be a Vince Cavello champions that's something you're
thinking about about.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, you know there's I heard there's taking they're taking
away Champion Store Q School now, so I it could
be tricky by the time I get there. I hope
it's still around by the time I get there. But
you know, that's that's far enough down the road that
I'm trying not to think that far out in advance.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I still I still think like a twenty five year old.
I still play golf. It's like an idiot and a
twenty five year old sometimes. But you know, my body,
my body feels good. I still got enough pop.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
In my swing where I'm getting it out there, and
I think I got enough in me to keep competing
at the higher levels and the younger levels.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
For the time being.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So I'm more on the immediate future than the long
term future. But yeah, I mean, golf is all I know, right, Like,
I don't know how I'm gonna ever put this down.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Like I like I said in the article, I love it.
It's it's made me who I am.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I'm lucky to be outdoors every day and doing what
I love and and put myself to the test. And
I think that's that's something that I truly cherish.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
And it's great to see you out there.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I mean, I hadn't seen you since THENIPA Invitational, and
I think we are at the John Deere and I'm
just walking out to the clubhouse and I saw you.
I was like, wait, Vince, Like it's just you know,
it's You're easy to root for, you know, Philly guy.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
We love it.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
And when they texted me and said you were coming
on the PODO, I was super excited, So thanks for
making some time for us. But each guest we never
let them leave without sharing with us their favorite Philadelphia
golf course and Lanark can not be said.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
That can be one A, but we need we need
a one B.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You gotta give we one numbers number one. You know,
I grew up in Marble Road and Habertown, which backed
up to Maria West Golf Course. So I grew up
on the third green of Marion West golf Course. My
high school played high school matches out there. I would
go sledding out there in the winter time. Obviously, Marion
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East is the crown of the ground and a fantastic place.
If you ever get the privilege to go play golf there,
don't ever pass it up to anybody out there. I
still I used to drive through Ardmore Avenue which splits
that golf course on the way to school every day
and look at it dreaming and and think of what
a beautiful place and what a beautiful.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Area we live in.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And then had a fantastic little West course in my
backyard that I probably incriminating myself, but I used to
go out there and sneak around and you know, play
a couple of holes I'd play. I'd play four through
nine and then walk back to the house because nine
finished kind of a right by number three, so I could,
you know, sneak.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Home real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And thanks to the members at Mary and I, you know,
it definitely progressed my game there too. But yeah, Lanark
one A, Mary and maryon one B.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, so that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Sounds like we need to meet up in a couple
of months, grab some sleds and you know, recantle some
memories with some spledding.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
That fourth hole part three it was great, it was
It was so much fun during the winter time. So
uh yeah, it was a blast. A lot of good
memories out there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, what's in store for the immediate future for Vince
Cavella twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So I I still have past champions stats on the
corn Ferry Tour, which means.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
I, uh have very limited access.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I need to get in and get his answers in
Monday qualify and if I do that, make the cut,
my money counts and I reshuffle in and then we'ld
start getting in on a more regular basis. I'm signed
up for second stage of Q School next week down
on Palm coast, So hopefully I can sneak through that
and get the finals, which is at my second home
here in Florida, TPC saw Grass. My first moment to Florida.
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I lived in TBC saw Grass with my parents and
played thousands of realms there for you know, fun and
high school and.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
College golf as well.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
We played a lot at the Valley course in Sawgrass
Country Club are the two places that are hosting final
stage of Q School.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
So really pushing hard. The top five at final stage
gets their PGA Tour card back, so better bring it.
But uh yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So second stage next week, then a week off second
stage yep, yep, Conservatory course yep.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Friends, friends of the program, oh yeah, got folks, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And then final stages like I guess the second or
third week of December, we get a week off after
second stage.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Yeah, hopefully I see you up there.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Well, listen, thank you so much for taking some time
to join us. Yeah on your birthday, On your birthday, no,
happy birthday to you, and yeah we'll be rooting for
you and continued success.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Awesome, Thanks guys, thanks for having me. It's been a
pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
right back. All right, Welcome back to swinging and ding
it on this Thanksgiving week. A lot of Turkey trots
going out there in at Delare Valley today. I see
I did not make mine today at a legacy club unfortunately,
but I saw a couple going on.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But awesome to talk to Vince Cavella.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I mean, just going for it right, like yeah, it's like,
all right, I didn't get here, I'm going here.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I didn't do this.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I'm going like just this is my life, this is
my job, and like what else would I be doing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I love that attitude, like and.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
He said, He's like I love it. I love it,
you know golf.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Yeah, it's just so cool talking to these guys though,
because like the little things, a little intricacy is that,
you know, I kind of always forget about that, he said, Like,
you know, if you do have that early start, or
even if you have a late start and you're flirting
with that cut line and then it's canceled for dark.
You got to wake up on Saturday at three in
the morning to go play two holes and maybe not
even make the cut then, like there's just so many.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Like he said, he birdies a putt on seventeen and
the then lips out on eighteen.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
This is miss I mean, you know, like my if
I would never make it because my mental capacity, like
I'd probably break a club and half or something or
like lats of it into a pond.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Like yeah, yeah, guess what it was.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
It was awesome hearing about Lanta because Lanark is such
a great spot and I feel like it gets overshadowed
to some degree, like I think it's a little bit
like underrated, and I think it's just great membership obviously
a very competitive place to play golf. That and when
you talk about the guys like Coop and some of
the other people from that area too, it's just really
really cool.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Talking to Vince and getting his perspective on that.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
So and now I need to go come come up
there and go sledding at Marion.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
They have good sledding at Legacy Club too. A lot
of the courses have really good sledding.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
One and he I don't want you to be sledding.
I don't want any freaking snow. Okay, Danielle, come on,
well I come back.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
You guys know me. I come back because I'm like,
I hate the hot and blah blah blah. It's been
eighty every day.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
I come back for forty minutes and I'm like, eh,
clid me back exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
The R s M Classic, another first time winner, Sammy
VALLAMACKI yeah, first finish PGA Tour winner. Also yeah, yeah,
it gets gets a two year exemption, gets in the
first two signature events.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So I think he fell right right past that number.
But he gets in the first.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, he's in that eon, next ten.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yes, he leads that off.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
So yeah, he's in the Genesis and the Pebble Beach events.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Moves that's good, and then he can he can make
some moves from there.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
But yeah, a lot of a lot of obviously movement
in that tournament, a lot of people watching that line
to see where it would fall.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But another first time winner on the PGA Tour.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, and he was a hockey player too, Moose obviously
coming from where he got it, grew up. One of
his cousins is in the NHL. You so, Vallamachi. I
don't know if you've ever heard of him, but he
is currently in the NHL. And this guy wanted to
be a professional hockey player and ends up a professional golfer.
And I first came in contact with him. I remember
(24:29):
him going toe to toe with Jake Knapp a year
or two ago in Mexico when Nap won his first event,
and it was pretty cool to see these guys battling,
battling it out on a Sunday afternoon. But yeah, I
mean he's been grinding, he's been closing in on this
win for quite some time. He's been close, and now
he finally got it over the line. And like you said,
(24:50):
he moves into the fifty first in the FedEx Cup,
So that brings with it a lot more opportunities to
make some money. And I tell you some of these guys,
you know, Castilio ended up finishing third in this tournament
and one oh two, just outside the top one hundred.
Lee Hodges finished one oh one after finishing t four
(25:11):
this past weekend, he's won outside the guaranteed spot. Now,
of course those guys will, they'll get into tournaments.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
And yeah, I was gonna say, Harry, have to say
that because the PGA tour has been making it seem
their social media anyway, and Drew Carr, who we've had
on here, has.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Done a great job of it in a way.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Well I know, I was like, let's do a wellness
check on him, but uh, you know, they they took
some players who didn't, you know, finish within full status
and they were like basically made it.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Out to be like their jobless, what are they going
to do?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Hope is gone, and it's like, no, they still have
X amount of starts on PGA Tour and can get
into some corn events if they need to. You know.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
It's yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Their actual one. He's out, but you know you'll be
seeing him quite You.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Got to give a shout out to Nico when he
finished T four. Yeah, and then a little casualty four
to uh hopefully that pays for his wedding he's getting married.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, he got him into a really good spot, doubt. Yeah,
it's very good to see.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Don't forget our friends that buy my balls. They're actually
now selling clubs too, so you got to check.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Them out clubs that they find in ponds or.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Maybe Danielle threw a through a wedge.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
And yeah, Turtle Creek Intoquesta.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah, buy my balls dot com. That's balls with his Z.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
This is the time of year we talk about all
the time where you know, as golfers you get horrible
golf gifts from relatives.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh you're a golfer. Let me get you this horrible gift.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Uh, plant the seed, send them, send them the link,
buy my balls, get a subscription. Maybe just get some
new balls to try out, or even if you want to,
you know, we talked to Ben, talked about trying seventy
two putters. Maybe better way to grab it, more affordable
one just to try out over buy my balls dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That's balls with the Z. Check those guys out.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah. I forwarded their email to the one and done.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, I saw this.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So maybe some people will be purchasing some Christmas gifts off.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, we have some clients that we're doing uh, you know,
golf Christmas gifts for. So we'll have to you know,
say skip the counting beads and buy a subscription to
buy my Balls.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
It's it's hilarious, I asked Brandon.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
I said, tell me about like your grandma and your
aunt and you know, people like that and the funniest
golf gifts you've got. We've done some episodes yeah before Yeah,
and I Twitter on Twitter. Yeah, and you know there's
just my mom even buys Brandon some silly things, like
you know, it'll be like a salt and pepper shake
Shagar with golfers on it, and we're like, these don't
belong to my house, Like I.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Don't just because there's a golfer on it.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
It's like it's it's funny the family and what they
give golfers around the holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, you talked about Nico moves. He moved into that
Nick on next ten from yeah, spot sixty two up
to fifty five. So he's in the first two events.
Oh yeah in February. So congrats to him.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, no doubt. Danielle, you want to spill some tig.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Yes, sir. Thanks thanks for covering my tea last week. Guys,
I had a little connection issues. We were in Brad's garage.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, that looks like a better episode than ours.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
I know I should have just went live from there,
but yeah, that's Brad Faxon.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
For people who don't know, Danielle just casually mentions.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Brad in Brad's garage's garage.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Okay, Bradford f Faxon, all right, let's get into some tea.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
So Fred Beyondy's comeback.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Ryan French dropped like a pretty awesome long read on
Fred Beyondy. I've been I mean, I've always been a
fan of Ryan French, the Monday Que, everything he stands
for and just his journey. But lately I've just been
so addicted and the algorithm knows or Twitter Instagram are
just throwing his stuff at me non NonStop. But I
read this one the morning bleeding hands, fifty hour range
(29:03):
weeks panic texts to his coach, no status, didn't know
what he was going to do, and fast.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Forward he's now a DP World Tour member. So story
of the year.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
If you guys love a grind and you know, just
love kind of you know, like we're just talking events
of just getting out there and just how you know,
one good week it's all takes right and what it
gives you.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
So has status on DP World Tour and just reading that.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
If you guys have some time, just head over to
Monday qu Ryan French and read that that article.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
That's always good stuff.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Oh yeah, big fan, and guys, it turns out that
Harry is not the only fan of Tommy Fleetwood. I
don't know if you guys caught up, but Nelly Corda
took a photo with him, and she, well, I don't
know who's selfie we should put Harry and Tommy selfie
versus Nelly and Tommy selfie, but she took she took
a photo with them, and she admitted that she wasn't
(30:01):
nervous this time.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
So some good wholesome golf content.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
For two of I guess golf's more notable fun.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Players out there.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Anybody hear anything about Bryson breaking a Guinness Book.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Of World Record?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
What's he doing now?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
He officially broke the Guinness World Record for ball speed
and long drive testing, because of course he did. And
I'm sure on YouTube or his Instagram channel or something
that there's you know, hours of footage if you guys
want to watch that. But I have to say I
think my favorite one was still him trying to chip
into a cup up on the second story to give
(30:38):
somebody a car.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, so actually I watched the videos Instagram post today
where Jod Patrick Reid walking up to him on the
range and he's like hitting balls.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
He's like one ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Patrick's like, come on, let me see you get the
two hundred and Bryceon's like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Just trying to eat.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I'm trying to he goes, He goes, you got to
do that breathing thing to hit it hard. He's like, no, no,
I'm trying to just like groove it and still get
the two hundred, and he just he just turns around
and boom.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
He's like two too. You know, speak.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Casual, casual, well, moose, That's what Harry was doing when
we rolled up at the Legacy Club, and so I'm
getting that lesson.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
He was just he didn't have to breathe.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
He was just yeah, right, yeah, Harry.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I get excited when I get one of the speed
sticks over one hundred miles an hour and clubhead speed.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Harry, You'll also be excited. Bryson's going to do a
breaking fifty with DJ Khalid. I know you're a big
nice J Kalid, J Kalid. Another one, yeah, another one,
I know you're I know that really gets you going.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Yeah, it gets his juices flowing.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I can't miss that one.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Set your alarm, Harry Bernhard Langer this is next level longevity.
He has won a professional tournament in forty two of
the last forty seven years.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Man, Wow, pretty crazy stat. When you read stuff like that,
you're just like, you try to do the math and
you're just like, wait, what that's wild.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Tankering works.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Moove you guys all that in my team.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Last week, those guys that were not around, Like, I
was like, that's funny with the uh.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
The rules dedication, the following rules.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, and then to be up there following him.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
With him on your You gotta follow the rules, right.
We all watched the internet invitational pages getting in trouble.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
He's getting in trouble. You know, you gotta follow the rules. Yeah,
you can't move the grass around.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Make sure you go to our our page we have
is the slope on yeah t shirts.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Yeah, oh I didn't see those.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I'm all about fluffing the line man, Winter winter rules,
winter rules.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
See it's it's funny.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
And actually on Thanksgiving we're gonna go Brendon and I
are gonna go play turtle in the morning. But that's
what we usually do down here because our family is
not close, so we generally play golf every holiday. But
sometimes he says to me. He goes, He's like, honey,
just just fix that.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Go you want me to improve my line? You want
me to pick up the ball. He's like, yes, I'm
like so hardcore, like I'm playing by the rules. And
he's like, you're not that good. Just pick up the
ball and move it to the fairway and keep it moving.
I mean, I you play quick, but I don't.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Like.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
I'm like, let me hit it from the roof so
I can practice the shot. He's like, pick it.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Up like that, Yes, sir, I'm brandon on that. Yep.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
Harry's like, fuff the ball, give me a better life exactly. Well,
I was trying to get a little bit more out
of events.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
But you know, the nice, respectable gentleman he is, he
just said, you know, kudos to the PGA Tour. There's
been some debates with all these changes and everything that's
going on. You guys talked about it last week with
them coming out saying like they can't compete with football,
which I think is great, Like we're not gonna most
people are going to watch the super Bowl, you know,
over the final round of golf. But the PGA Tour
(33:44):
policy change they're doing a lot, and you know rightfully
so they need to with live and everything else that's
going on. But they've been announcing much needed updates, and
one of them being fifteen thousand dollars grants for certain
Corn Fairy Tour members PGA of America Tour grads that
are starting in twenty twenty six. Now, I don't know
(34:04):
if you guys remember, but the rookie class, I guess
it was like three years ago. They got a two
hundred thousand dollars bonus. But with that it's kind of
an earning assurance program. But with that, they did not
make any money until they paid that two hundred thousand
dollars back. And on top of that, they gave it
to you in Q four before you started your previous year.
(34:28):
So most of these guys having the most success that
they've ever had on corn Ferry to be able to
get statuts to get on tour, are already in a
higher tax bracket and then in December they throw two
hundred thousand dollars extra at you. So you're paying back
X amount in taxas and now you have that loan,
as you've said that you're paying back. So with this
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Is the second change
(34:51):
that they have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars earnings
assurance for PG tour members outside of the top one
twenty five, So you have to play twelve of it
and then the tour will make up the difference if
you don't make that one hundred and fifty. So you
this you will not have to pay that back. So finally,
something that's helping these guys out there grinding. Because again
(35:12):
I always like to point out that there is no
team jet, there is no team hotel. There is paying
you know, anywhere from fifteen to twenty five hundred dollars
a week for a caddie paying for a hotel, everything else.
I forget his name off the top of my head,
but there's always that guy on social who shows you
his his earnings.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
So yeah, just you.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Know, I think that this is a positive in the
direction that they're going. It helps these guys continue chasing
a dream where some guys have to give it up
because they're flirting around that you know, thirty age range
and it's like, hey, I you know, I can't I
can't keep moving forward with life making twenty six thousand
dollars a year. So and also, guys, we talked about
(35:56):
slope range finders allowed full time on the twenty twenty
six Corn Faery Tour. So great for players relying they're
not relying on.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
It, but just using it. And you'll see if it
speeds it up at all, don't know, don't know for sure.
I guess it hasn't.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Haven't They tested that before and said it improved speed,
really changed much whatever.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
But they have caddies still doing their routine and then
and that right, they're not going to abandon their routine.
They're going to do it and they're gonna check it.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Like they're still going to walk off the pace.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
And yeah, I like.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
The GPS more than the range finders or anyway. Yeah,
a lot of times I have a tough time getting
the stick right, Yeah, getting the GPS.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Doesn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:43):
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Speaker 1 (37:09):
Beautiful, beautiful, I know, go ahead, Hars, I know. We'll
be watching the Eagles on a Friday afternoon, Yeah, at
three o'clock, but the Skins game returns that day and
it's on Prime. We talked about it last week. But Fleetwood,
Lowry Shaw Flet and Keegan Bradley are the four guys
playing at Panther National. Have you been over there, Danielle?
(37:30):
That the one that's designed by j T and Jack
not too far from you. More Inland.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
I guess it's a little wess. Yeah, so more Inland,
like you said, But I have not. But Brandon plays
I think weekly out there. Okay, we talked about it
slightly before when he was out there, I guess a
couple of months ago. He was behind all the ryder
Cup guys out there prepping. But I heard the place
is just awesome. I think I've put on brad Social
before a little recap of it too. So I haven't
(37:56):
been out there, but I've heard nothing but great things
about it.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, it's going to be a big promotional tool for
that place, because I had heard that they were having
trouble selling homes out there.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Well you know, and honestly, we've the homes.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
It's a little bit further out, it isn't he really
wants to go too much further? Like, when you live
this close to the coast, you want you.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Don't want more.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
You're there.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
So like it sounds silly, but going fifteen minutes further,
like I don't know, it's like moving to like the Pocono's.
Do you want to drive like thirty minutes to a
grocery store?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Like?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
But there has been a lot of change with it.
It's underway with a lot of land being purchased and
then they're creating.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
Like you know, the stores out in that direction.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
But I know at least two people who did move
out there because I don't know, I guess they just
wanted to, and then after probably six months they all
sold their house and came back this way.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
So definitely some truth to what you said with having
some struggles.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I'll be interested in checking it out though.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
But the course is beautiful. Yeah, we should get out there.
When you guys, come down here.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
We're talking about a little February weekend, so we need
to get we.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Have, well like a long weekend, a long weekend. Well,
we'll be in the chat about a.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Moose runs a radio company, Danielle. He has a lot
of work to do. I'm I'm the one that can
move around and do my stupid shows from anywhere with
a microphone. Moose has to actually manage People'll be okay,
we can take a nice yours sells all by himself.
Moves has to be there with the whip the whip man.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Just there to help him, just there to lend some
assistance where I can just look, that's that's my job.
That is one percent my job, all right, crack a
joker to look good and help close deals.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
There you go, all.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Right, Well, thank you bellow for Actually I'm going to
come down to your team.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Thank you Vince for for for coming on. Good luck
to him. Yeah, he's starting right off at Hammock Beach
for for Q School for corn ferry tours.
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