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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lancing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields. Good morning, my friend.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No one has a handle on a community anywhere in
this country like you do, Michael Patrick. And thank you
for making us feel so welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Michael Patrick Shields has all the native charm of his
Irish background, and now that he's shot himself and on
his job, there's no holding him. Michael Patrick Shields is
on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Good morning world.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Those are two voices you would have heard on CBS
at Warwick Hills all those years for the Buick Open
Ben Wright and Jim Nantz and Greg Johnson a man
you've read in a voice you've heard, and he's an
inductee into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame, and it's
a busy week for him because it's a busy week
for golf in Michigan. Thank you for being here, Grand Rapids,
(01:20):
and welcome back to the program.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Hey Michael, how are you today.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I remember the Buick Open with such fondness and I'm
kind of very, very happy that some of those players
who were on CBS back then are still playing and
they're doing it again this week in Warwick Hills.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh yeah. I look at the player roster and it's
like brings back a lot of years. In fact, it's like, hey, hey,
some of the young guys are playing. That's how old
I am. You know, there's a second wave. There's a
second wave.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Now the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sixty eight year old guys have quit playing and now
it's all the new fifty guys who back then were
the flat bellies.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
It was like the Ben Crenshaws and the Corey Pavens
and those types that at the height of the Buick
Opened were and Tiger Woods for that matter too.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, Tiger played. He played a bunch of times.
He had an arrangement with Buick, which was, you know,
huge advantage obviously, and then and Buick was going strong
in Flint then, so thus the Buick Open. I think
I covered twenty five of them, twenty five buick opens
I counted.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It was like a charming stop on the PGA tour too,
because it wasn't in a glamour city like you know,
the tour is going to go back to Miami to
durrell I understand next year in the beginning of May.
That's cool because that's an old fashioned historic venue on
the tour as well. But going to Grand Blank wasn't
exactly like going to Miami.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, it was. It was a really different in the
and just had had a certain charm to it, and
it had local people. You saw people you knew. You know,
you'd be walking down a fair way, you know, or
are hanging out by seventeen and you saw a bunch
of people you knew because they all kind of came
out for that one week of golf celebration in Michigan.
(03:13):
Now there's so many weeks it's like a little bit chaotics.
But that was, Yeah, it was a special time. It was,
and there'd be so many people you'd be holy cow,
didn't you didn't know there were that many golf fans
in Michigan until the Beery Copen happened.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well that's the point of it. The town turned out
because you know, what else was there to do in
that area, not that much, and for the big time
event like that show up. I mean, they invented, if
I'm not mistaken, sort of in their own way, the
idea of stadium golf with those bleachers behind those two
par three holes, what is it seventeen and then eight
(03:51):
maybe on the front nine.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, they certainly had an impact on that because it
just became a necessity there to kind of control the crowd,
build something, and to create something. And they had the
same situation in Arizona at their tour stop, and and
so I think it kind of came out of that that,
you know, hey, we can we can control this situation
and not make it so rowdy and and so that
(04:15):
was the effort then.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
And well that didn't exactly work, did it, because.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It but the players, the players did seed into it,
and they knew it was going to happen when they
got the seventeen, so they were kind of ready for it,
and they would they would throw their balls in the
crowd or throw them in the water, and you know,
they did just made it a fun thing.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It was like an amphitheater and they would do the
wave sometimes. And here's a click by the way from
the nineteen is it eighty six fuzzy math eighty six
buick open.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And Ben Crenshaw after that quite remarkable recovery from underneath
the tree has this pot to tie the lead. And
having played a stroke like that Ken Venturi, sometimes you think, uh,
this faint takes a hand and this might have been
a winning stroke. Well, they went under that tree, Ben,
(05:06):
and there are not very many players that could hit
the ball left handed, let alone hit the right handed
from there, but they hit that shot. That's one of
the most miraculus shots I've ever seen in this situation.
One of your tips, incidentally, no, not my tip.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I can't hit the left hand. I hit a back handed.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Whoop.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Now there's a marauding insect that there is momentarily untracked
Ben Crenshaw. This part, we'll move fractionally to Ben's left,
(05:44):
if anything at all, that was a remarkable body and
it ties the lead at seventeen under par with Doug Jill.
Ben Crenshaw making a mock come back from vilful thyroid.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Trouble, fearful marauding and fractionally.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Marauding insect. Who else can make a bug flying into
the guy's eye that more that incredible.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
And they were talking about the ken Venturi stroke saver.
That's what he was referring to me. He was talking
about that little feature. The other thing is that the
view of open the scores. Whoa boy. We had a
game yesterday at the Tiger Stadium downtown where there were
no runs, just a walk one to nothing. But if
you wanted scoring, you wanted to see birdies and eagles.
(06:37):
Warwick Hills was a spot for that, wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, well, you know what, they hit it at the
time of year when when grass is like perfect in
the chi and uh, and they always kept that place
perfect and the greens were smooth and they're and they're
relatively not undulating. You know there there there are some
tough grazer. It's not as easy as they made it look.
And uh, but I think they set it up because
they thought, hey, this tournament needs to have some kind
(07:01):
of you know thing, So they set it up fairly
easy and let the guys make berties. And it was
you know, twenty five under twenty three under crazy scores.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
The Tour Championship is on this week, but the Live
Tour is in Michigan at the same time at Saint
John's the Cardinal Course, I think is what it's called,
because it's on Seminary Land and Northville somewhere like that.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
No, it's in the Plymouth actual, right, it's in the
Saint John's Resort, which is Yeah, it's kind of a
luxury resort that had twenty seven kind of nondescript golf holes,
but then they they paid Ray Hearn to make it
into a big boy golf course and it's really nice
and beautiful golf course. And Ray Hearn's a Michigan based
architect and he did a nice job. And now they
(07:45):
got a live tournament there this weekend. So so yeah,
So there's a lot of golfers, a lot of the
elite golfers in the world are in Michigan this.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Weekend, including you. And how about that down in West Michigan.
They're going to open the week course on the twenty
fifth of August, as I understand it at Harbor Shores
in the Saint Joe Bett and Harbor area where we're
heard on ws JM designed by Colin Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, that's that's kind of neat. I the you know,
the little par three courses in the in those kind
of things for you know, that can be used in
so many ways kids to people really trying to work
on their short games. But they're so popular now and
they're in on the act, and they got Colin to
help them, who's you know, has a great relationship with
(08:33):
you know, playing in the in the Senior PGA there.
So it's it's cool. I'm sure it's going to beautiful.
So everything they do there is pretty, pretty pretty.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Making golf more accessible for generations and explaining it to generations.
Greg Johnson, the great Hall of Fame writer from Grand Rabbids,
Michael Patrick Shields, thank you sir, great to hear your voice.
It's MPs.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
It's a magical month of winning at fire Keepers with
our sweet sixteenth anniversary. Celebrate with a Mustang Magic Giveaway
on Saturday, August thirtieth, and you could win thousands in
cash and Red Hot credits plus one of two Smoking
Hot twenty twenty five Mustangs. Drawing start at two pm
(09:20):
with four winners of four thousand in Red Hot credits.
At four pm, two winners each get eight thousand in
Red Hot credits. At six pm, one winner score sixteen
thousand cash, and at eight pm we're giving away a
Mustang Ego Boost. Then at ten pm it's the Grand
Prize drawing for a stunning sixtieth anniversary Mustang gt Aaron
(09:42):
entries daily plus our double entries every Wednesday now through
August thirtieth for the Mustang Magic Giveaway, the best giveaways,
the biggest guaranteed prizes only at fire Keepers. Get your
vegas on at fire Keepers Casino Hotel on ninety four
to What's at one of fourig in Battle Creek. Management
reserves all rights.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Deane Transportation is looking for compassionate people to join our
team of school bus drivers and attendants. Visit Dean jobs
dot com to see all openings. Dean Transportation provides paid
training to obtain a commercial driver's license, increased starting pay,
comprehensive benefits, and flexible schedules with no weekend shifts, no
(10:20):
experience needed. Apply today at Dean jobs dot com and
train for back to school season. That's da n jobs
dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Whether they're dough boys, comments or even gremlins. Every public
school in Michigan is proud to be known for something,
and at the Michigan Lottery, we're proud to be known
for something too. Education. I'm Lottery Commissioner Susanna Shcrelli, and
one hundred percent of our profits go to support the
state School Aid Fund. Last year, the lottery contributed over
one billion dollars, So whatever hometown school you're from, we're
(10:52):
rooting for all of them. Michigan Lottery for Fun for schools.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Knowing your limits is always the best back
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lancing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields. Good morning, my friend.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No one has a handle on a community anywhere in
this country like you do, Michael Patrick. And thank you
for making us feel so welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Michael Patrick Shields has all the native charm of his
Irish background, and now that he's shot himself and on
his job, there's no holding him. Michael Patrick Shields is
on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Good morning world.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Those are two voices you would have heard on CBS
at Warwick Hills all those years for the Buick Open
Ben Wright and Jim Nantz and Greg Johnson a man
you've read in a voice you've heard, and he's an
inductee into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame, and it's
a busy week for him because it's a busy week
for golf in Michigan. Thank you for being here, Grand Rapids,
(01:20):
and welcome back to the program.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Hey Michael, how are you today.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I remember the Buick Open with such fondness and I'm
kind of very, very happy that some of those players
who were on CBS back then are still playing and
they're doing it again this week in Warwick Hills.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh yeah. I look at the player roster and it's
like brings back a lot of years. In fact, it's like, hey, hey,
some of the young guys are playing. That's how old
I am. You know, there's a second wave. There's a
second wave.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Now the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sixty eight year old guys have quit playing and now
it's all the new fifty guys who back then were
the flat bellies.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
It was like the Ben Crenshaws and the Corey Pavens
and those types that at the height of the Buick
Opened were and Tiger Woods for that matter too.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, Tiger played. He played a bunch of times.
He had an arrangement with Buick, which was, you know,
huge advantage obviously, and then and Buick was going strong
in Flint then, so thus the Buick Open. I think
I covered twenty five of them, twenty five buick opens
I counted.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It was like a charming stop on the PGA tour too,
because it wasn't in a glamour city like you know,
the tour is going to go back to Miami to
durrell I understand next year in the beginning of May.
That's cool because that's an old fashioned historic venue on
the tour as well. But going to Grand Blank wasn't
exactly like going to Miami.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, it was. It was a really different in the
and just had had a certain charm to it, and
it had local people. You saw people you knew. You know,
you'd be walking down a fair way, you know, or
are hanging out by seventeen and you saw a bunch
of people you knew because they all kind of came
out for that one week of golf celebration in Michigan.
(03:13):
Now there's so many weeks it's like a little bit chaotics.
But that was, Yeah, it was a special time. It was,
and there'd be so many people you'd be holy cow,
didn't you didn't know there were that many golf fans
in Michigan until the Beery Copen happened.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well that's the point of it. The town turned out
because you know, what else was there to do in
that area, not that much, and for the big time
event like that show up. I mean, they invented, if
I'm not mistaken, sort of in their own way, the
idea of stadium golf with those bleachers behind those two
par three holes, what is it seventeen and then eight
(03:51):
maybe on the front nine.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, they certainly had an impact on that because it
just became a necessity there to kind of control the crowd,
build something, and to create something. And they had the
same situation in Arizona at their tour stop, and and
so I think it kind of came out of that that,
you know, hey, we can we can control this situation
and not make it so rowdy and and so that
(04:15):
was the effort then.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
And well that didn't exactly work, did it, because.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It but the players, the players did seed into it,
and they knew it was going to happen when they
got the seventeen, so they were kind of ready for it,
and they would they would throw their balls in the
crowd or throw them in the water, and you know,
they did just made it a fun thing.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It was like an amphitheater and they would do the
wave sometimes. And here's a click by the way from
the nineteen is it eighty six fuzzy math eighty six
buick open.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And Ben Crenshaw after that quite remarkable recovery from underneath
the tree has this pot to tie the lead. And
having played a stroke like that Ken Venturi, sometimes you think, uh,
this faint takes a hand and this might have been
a winning stroke. Well, they went under that tree, Ben,
(05:06):
and there are not very many players that could hit
the ball left handed, let alone hit the right handed
from there, but they hit that shot. That's one of
the most miraculus shots I've ever seen in this situation.
One of your tips, incidentally, no, not my tip.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I can't hit the left hand. I hit a back handed.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Whoop.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Now there's a marauding insect that there is momentarily untracked
Ben Crenshaw. This part, we'll move fractionally to Ben's left,
(05:44):
if anything at all, that was a remarkable body and
it ties the lead at seventeen under par with Doug Jill.
Ben Crenshaw making a mock come back from vilful thyroid.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Trouble, fearful marauding and fractionally.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Marauding insect. Who else can make a bug flying into
the guy's eye that more that incredible.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
And they were talking about the ken Venturi stroke saver.
That's what he was referring to me. He was talking
about that little feature. The other thing is that the
view of open the scores. Whoa boy. We had a
game yesterday at the Tiger Stadium downtown where there were
no runs, just a walk one to nothing. But if
you wanted scoring, you wanted to see birdies and eagles.
(06:37):
Warwick Hills was a spot for that, wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, well, you know what, they hit it at the
time of year when when grass is like perfect in
the chi and uh, and they always kept that place
perfect and the greens were smooth and they're and they're
relatively not undulating. You know there there there are some
tough grazer. It's not as easy as they made it look.
And uh, but I think they set it up because
they thought, hey, this tournament needs to have some kind
(07:01):
of you know thing, So they set it up fairly
easy and let the guys make berties. And it was
you know, twenty five under twenty three under crazy scores.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
The Tour Championship is on this week, but the Live
Tour is in Michigan at the same time at Saint
John's the Cardinal Course, I think is what it's called,
because it's on Seminary Land and Northville somewhere like that.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
No, it's in the Plymouth actual, right, it's in the
Saint John's Resort, which is Yeah, it's kind of a
luxury resort that had twenty seven kind of nondescript golf holes,
but then they they paid Ray Hearn to make it
into a big boy golf course and it's really nice
and beautiful golf course. And Ray Hearn's a Michigan based
architect and he did a nice job. And now they
(07:45):
got a live tournament there this weekend. So so yeah,
So there's a lot of golfers, a lot of the
elite golfers in the world are in Michigan this.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Weekend, including you. And how about that down in West Michigan.
They're going to open the week course on the twenty
fifth of August, as I understand it at Harbor Shores
in the Saint Joe Bett and Harbor area where we're
heard on ws JM designed by Colin Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, that's that's kind of neat. I the you know,
the little par three courses in the in those kind
of things for you know, that can be used in
so many ways kids to people really trying to work
on their short games. But they're so popular now and
they're in on the act, and they got Colin to
help them, who's you know, has a great relationship with
(08:33):
you know, playing in the in the Senior PGA there.
So it's it's cool. I'm sure it's going to beautiful.
So everything they do there is pretty, pretty pretty.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Making golf more accessible for generations and explaining it to generations.
Greg Johnson, the great Hall of Fame writer from Grand Rabbids,
Michael Patrick Shields, thank you sir, great to hear your voice.
It's MPs.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
It's a magical month of winning at fire Keepers with
our sweet sixteenth anniversary. Celebrate with a Mustang Magic Giveaway
on Saturday, August thirtieth, and you could win thousands in
cash and Red Hot credits plus one of two Smoking
Hot twenty twenty five Mustangs. Drawing start at two pm
(09:20):
with four winners of four thousand in Red Hot credits.
At four pm, two winners each get eight thousand in
Red Hot credits. At six pm, one winner score sixteen
thousand cash, and at eight pm we're giving away a
Mustang Ego Boost. Then at ten pm it's the Grand
Prize drawing for a stunning sixtieth anniversary Mustang gt Aaron
(09:42):
entries daily plus our double entries every Wednesday now through
August thirtieth for the Mustang Magic Giveaway, the best giveaways,
the biggest guaranteed prizes only at fire Keepers. Get your
vegas on at fire Keepers Casino Hotel on ninety four
to What's at one of fourig in Battle Creek. Management
reserves all rights.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Deane Transportation is looking for compassionate people to join our
team of school bus drivers and attendants. Visit Dean jobs
dot com to see all openings. Dean Transportation provides paid
training to obtain a commercial driver's license, increased starting pay,
comprehensive benefits, and flexible schedules with no weekend shifts, no
(10:20):
experience needed. Apply today at Dean jobs dot com and
train for back to school season. That's da n jobs
dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Whether they're dough boys, comments or even gremlins. Every public
school in Michigan is proud to be known for something,
and at the Michigan Lottery, we're proud to be known
for something too. Education. I'm Lottery Commissioner Susanna Shcrelli, and
one hundred percent of our profits go to support the
state School Aid Fund. Last year, the lottery contributed over
one billion dollars, So whatever hometown school you're from, we're
(10:52):
rooting for all of them. Michigan Lottery for Fun for schools.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Knowing your limits is always the best back
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