November 21, 2024 • 17 mins
Great to talk with these fellow golf addicts about a special event in Omaha on Dec. 6th featuring these two accomplished broadcasters!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORGIEZ.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We just talked to Sarah Brightman on the program. She
is an illuminary and incredible diva. And we have here
in the studio someone who also meets that description, now
honored for fifty years of broadcasting here, John Nicely is
in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Johnny Scott, good to see you, and good to see
you in action. You really know what's going on in here.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
As you know anyone, you know, a trained monkey can
do all of this. And that's how I got here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How did you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And this is what I challenged John on you never
like to talk about yourself and what you mean to
audiences in our community, my hometown who for all these
decades have turned on the TV and seeing that face
of yours giving us, whether it's the fun news the
solemn news we've dealt with in our community, it's comforting.
(00:53):
I challenge John to talk about John Nicely, what does
it mean to you to be that for our community
and having done it now fifty years of broadcasting, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well, you know, it's nice to you to put it
that way. I don't think of it that way. It's
been a privilege to have this job, and you know,
I think of fifty years and all the things that
I've been able to do and people that I've got
to meet and touch, And I think the fifty year
anniversary really underscored that for me because a lot of
(01:24):
just very nice response.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, you know what the outrageous thing is about that.
I noticed that WWT six News had put out, you know,
the picture of a young John Nicely just getting started,
a fledgling young broadcaster, and here's his picture, and you
look exactly the same. You know, I've been here on
this radio station eighteen years. I've aged one hundred years
in that span, and that's just because of Jim Rose.
(01:50):
So what is your secret? Do you eat yeshy? Do
you eat placenta every day? What do you do?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know? I I do. I am on a special
diet that I just stim cells. Yeah, yeah, every day. No,
I'll watch what I eat and I can be decaded
on the weekend and I can actually have sugar on
the weekend. Wow, that's kind of the way it works. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Is that just for your own health or do you
have like TV consulting people going all right, John, we
need to squeeze another ten to fifteen years out of you.
Here's your diet for this week.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Fortunately I do not have that. Yeah, put on my
own makeup too, But yeah, I think as I was
getting older, I just realized, you know, I want to
take care of myself and there are great ways to
do it. A lot of it is what you eat.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes, Well, it's always a pleasure talking with you or
teeing up a golf ball with you. And we've got
a special guest coming on here in seven minutes from now.
Tell me about who we're talking to and then we'll
talk with him next. Well, rich Lerner is probably have
seen him on the Golf Channel. He's just has great commentary,
great insight into the game, plays the game himself, but
(03:00):
he goes beyond that. He actually did Olympics gymnastics coverage
and he does basketball on a regular basis. But very
talented individual. And he's coming to Omaha to speak at
this big champions dinner that we're putting on and on
the phone, John, I love it. We have someone who
gets to spend about a week or so out of
(03:20):
his year on the grounds at Augusta National and joins
us now from the Golf Channel. Rich Lerner is here
on News Radio eleven ten kfab Rich, Hello, friends, it's
great to have you here.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh please now, Brob.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yes, man.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You know, no matter what anyone does for a living,
there's always those times and they're like, like, I just
wanted to stay at home this week. I don't want
to go hang out at Augusta National for the Masters
and do live from the Master's coverage. Does it ever?
Do you ever have to slap yourself in the face
and go I can't believe what I get to do
for a little me.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, it's nice to be on the show, guys. I'm
looking forward to coming out to Nebraska early December. We're
gonna talk some golf, watch some basketball. You guys are
taking me to see your beloved Creighton blue Jays against
the Jayhawks. I'm pretty stoked to see two of the
best big men in the country Brenner and Dickinson for Kansas.
(04:27):
But anyway, it's the job of a lifetiming. This is
my I'm finishing up my twenty eighth year. And for
a kid who grew up in his dad's driving range
in Pennsylvania, you know it's you could have asked for
anything more. I will say this, it is an It's
(04:49):
an unbelievable job. People say, well, you know, what's it like,
what are you doing? I said, well, let me just
put it to you very simply. I sit when I
call golf, I sit in a trailer, a booth. I
look at a monitor and I say, let's go to seventeen. Yeah,
(05:10):
now at number nine, over to eleven.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Not just anyone, not just anyone can do that.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So I am a glorified bingo announcer and in just
a few years I will be calling the action at
the Sunrise Senior Center in Helendale, Florida. Oh boy, I
hope that everybody. I hope that everybody comes to this.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know, bragging is beneath you. Rich No, We're glad
to have you here on Friday, December sixth at the
Embassy Suites Conference Center in La Vista an eb goolf
dot org to get tickets for the twenty twenty four
Celebration of Champions featuring our guest rich Lerner. Here now
rich our guest in the studio from WWT six News,
John Nicely has one of the most heartbreaking stories. He
(05:55):
was picked as a member of the media to play
augusta National after the Masters but got rained out and
never got a chance to play. Do you want to
tell him what he missed out on Rich, because I'm
sure you played there.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I did. I was in one of the media days
years ago. I had a chance subsequently to play, and
I had a conflict and I couldn't make it. I
was actually invited down to go for two days, so
hoping I get another opportunity. It is every bit as
good as as it looks on television. What you can't
(06:27):
quite prepare for would be the speed of the greens.
In fact, I started on number ten Downhill Part four.
I had a beautiful approach shot just above the hole
about six feet nice bogey Rich. But once you get
(06:49):
the hang of the speed of the greens and the contours,
they're absolutely beautiful to putt. I remember to this day,
this is probably twenty years I remember what I did
on some of the famous holes. Obviously you don't forget
that kind of stuff. Number twelve, which is, as I say,
is a golden bell, the prettiest little graveyard in golf.
(07:13):
We had about a twenty minute wait. I stood up
and I bladed my shot and it skidded across raised creek.
I got a tremendous break. It skidded across raised creek
over the back of the green, and with that good fortune,
I bladed my bump and run back into the creek,
(07:34):
but I did. At sixteen, I tugged my t shot
another part three into the left bunker and the caddy
told me to play it up on the shelf and
it'll come back down. And I did and I made
the par. That was a fun and I think I
shot low eight eighty one, but I putted my rear
(07:55):
end off to do it after that opening three put
from six feet. But the whole experience, the condition of
the course, it's hillier than than you can imagine. It's
a it's a good walk. It's a tough walk. But
of course, nowadays you know the whole the golf course
has stretched out. Number one today is an absolute bear.
(08:20):
Uh Number one is as hard an opening holes as
I can think of in major championship golf. But the ambiance,
the aura, you know what is aura that's not easily defined,
but knowing the history, knowing who's won there, knowing what
it means. You know, I think for golfers it you know,
(08:44):
we all play certainly in Nebraska. You guys are just
talking about was the thirty three degrees. We're we all
play the waiting game. You're waiting, You're waiting for the
snow to melt, You're waiting for that first good day.
You're waiting for a chance to go to the range
and knock off the rust, and then we're all waiting
for the masters.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
This is John. I have to tell you you're kind
of upsetting me because I didn't get a chance to
how'd you do on corner?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wait, you didn't get a chance to play.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I got to the parking lot with my clubs. Sorry
boys putting back. We had too much rain one day.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
One day. You'll get there, John, And uh, but it was. Yeah,
it's a magnificent spot.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I do have to say I talked to rich on
a zoom call, and I think we could have him
back five years in a row and he would speak
about something different East year. He is. Uh, he's just
had quite a golfing life. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I didn't tell you guys. I mean my dad owned
a thirty star driving range, fully lighted eighteen hole pitching
pot Part three and a miniature golf and pinball room
and a hot dog stand, and my three brother and
I ran it for my dad. It was in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
I had it from the mid late fifties to the
(10:06):
early nineties. The state bought the land to build a
road through it, and there's a caravas and the Dunkin
Donuts there. Now it looks like any other homogenized strip
of America. And you could imagine the greatest job at
the range was driving the tractor to pick up the
balls with a chicken wire fence. Yeah, target, And if
(10:28):
there were thirty hitters on the range, and we had hitters,
not golfers. Many times we had drunk hitters, and we'd
be sitting on the patio at ten o'clock at night
and we'd look up and we say, Hey, I think
those three guys at the end are hitting balls at
the supermarket across the street. Maybe we should go up
there and remind them that the two hundred yards time
(10:50):
is that way. No, if you had if you had
a job picking the range and there were thirty hitters
and you were coming across the one hundred yard signs
right to last and back again, all thirty turned in
your direction and started firing was like a machine gun.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You're a flight at five iron away no matter where
you are.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, when they hit you, when they hit you, they
celebrated like they've made a hole in one of the
seventeenth at TPC Sawgrass.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Rich We just got a few minutes here with you,
rich Lerner from the Golf Channel with us Year and
John Niceley with me Scott Vorhees on news Radio eleven
ten kfab. Your Golf Channel was in the news this
week as it's one of those slated for being sold
off by your parent company. For golf fans, as you mentioned,
especially here in Nebraska during winter, being able to turn
(11:44):
on the Golf Channel and see Hawaii, for example, is
one of the ways that we get through this time.
What is the future of the Golf Channel.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I wish I could tell you. I think it's still
going to be delivering golf twenty four seven. It we are,
and I think we always will be the network of
the well struck seven iron. And if the sun's up
somewhere on planet Earth, someone's going to be trying to
shoot sixty five and get paid for it, and we'll
probably be covering it. Who owns it in what form
(12:16):
it comes to the audience. I couldn't begin to tell
you at this point. I you know, the media landscape,
as you two know, is rapidly changing, streaming, consuming it
on their phones, however they get it. I don't know
(12:38):
a whole lot. I think it will continue to be
the same. We have contracts with the PGA tour, with
the USGA, with the RNA into the future, so you'll
still find us, It'll still be what it is. And
I don't know a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh, we're gonna be so glad to have you here
in person on Friday, December sixth at the Embassy Suite
Lavista Conference Center for the twenty twenty four celebration of
champions from the Nebraska Golf Association and Foundation. John Nicely
does a lot of work with these guys. Anybgolf dot
org is the website to get tickets to this event
(13:17):
where we honor a young man here rich named Trevor Kachwski.
He did something that no Nebraska has done in almost
one hundred years, win one of these US Junior Amateur
USGA Amateur events here in our country. And as someone
who graduated high school with Trevor's daddy, PGA Tour professional
(13:38):
Scott Kachwski. We were hanging on every shot. It's a
big event to win the US Junior Amateur and to
have you here to celebrate him underscores how important that was.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right well, no doubt that was a great win at
Oakland Hills in Michigan. Viewed in top quarters as an upset,
but standing here now, I don't think it's that big
of an upset because we know how good Trevor is.
His brother Luke play the US Amateur in twenty twenty two.
(14:11):
Dad's been, you know, winning on the corn Ferry Tour,
he plays the PGA Tour. It is. It's a great
golf family. And you know Trevor is a is a
dynamic and promising player, and I would suspect we'll see
him in the professional ranks before too long. But you know,
you win a USGA event when you're from Nebraska, it
(14:34):
obviously colls to mind the great Johnny Goodman from nineteen
thirty three, the last to this day, the last amateur
to win men's professional major.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Hey, I should point out Trevor is a senior at
west Side. He gets to play in the US Open
next year.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
At Oakmont He'll be at Oakmont in Pittsburgh in June
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
His Caddy Jackson, his Caddy Jackson bench might be a
better golfer than him.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, I I'm friends with both of these kids and
their dad, so I had to throw a bone out
to him. John, tell everyone why they should join us
here on Friday, December sixth to meet rich Lerner and
be a part of this event.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's right. It's a big celebration. We call it the
Champions Dinner. All of the state champions from that you
in Nebraska for the year be honored. Trevor will be honored,
rich will be featured. And we have some great sponsors too.
Orthro Nebraska Union Bank and Trust and Lexus of Omaha
and the Dormy Network is our presenting sponsors. We're really looking.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Forward to rich and be great to have you here
in Nebraska. It took a kid, you know, winning the
US Junior Amateur and it shocked the world to get
you here. And so excited to welcome you to Omaha
on Friday, December sixth. N ebgolf dot org for tickets
to see rich Lerner and John Nice at this event.
(16:01):
Rich can't wait to have you here, and I can't
wait to ask you in person for your Arnold Palmer story,
because anyone associated with the game or fans and who
love the game have one. So I can't wait to
hear yours that night.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I have some phenomenal Palmer stories in fact related. In fact,
it starts with my dad's driving range. Will keep that
a little bit of a mystery plate. We almost had
him involved. It's a long, beautiful story going back to
my home state. I'm really excited to come to Nebraska.
I've got a ton of good stories, funny stories, and
(16:38):
I want to share them with all the.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Great Rich is a six handicap too, by the way
he can play the game.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
The stays I think these YSI explain to a twelve
way to go. I'm the guy now. When I come
off the course, I talk about how pretty the flowers were. Hey, Rich,
had you played it? You see the new flower?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I was in it. A few few are flowers in there.
I took a whack out of there. Ay, Rich, thank
you very much. Save travels to Omaha here in just
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Scott John, thank you for having me on Look Forward
to seeing everyone. Meeting some new friends early December in
tickets of.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
A n eb goolf dot org. That is rich Lerner
from Golf Channel here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
and from WWT six you got new logos?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Is there a First Alert six?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
First Alert six. I got to retrain my brain here John.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Sorry, we've had to do the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, From from WWT First Alert six, John nicely, congratulations
on fifty years of broadcast. Thanks, it's always a pleasure
to talk to you, my friend. Thanks a lot for
stopping in bet Scott by mornings nine to eleven our
news Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott VORGIEZ.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We just talked to Sarah Brightman on the program. She
is an illuminary and incredible diva. And we have here
in the studio someone who also meets that description, now
honored for fifty years of broadcasting here, John Nicely is
in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Johnny Scott, good to see you, and good to see
you in action. You really know what's going on in here.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
As you know anyone, you know, a trained monkey can
do all of this. And that's how I got here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
How did you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And this is what I challenged John on you never
like to talk about yourself and what you mean to
audiences in our community, my hometown who for all these
decades have turned on the TV and seeing that face
of yours giving us, whether it's the fun news the
solemn news we've dealt with in our community, it's comforting.
(00:53):
I challenge John to talk about John Nicely, what does
it mean to you to be that for our community
and having done it now fifty years of broadcasting, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well, you know, it's nice to you to put it
that way. I don't think of it that way. It's
been a privilege to have this job, and you know,
I think of fifty years and all the things that
I've been able to do and people that I've got
to meet and touch, And I think the fifty year
anniversary really underscored that for me because a lot of
(01:24):
just very nice response.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, you know what the outrageous thing is about that.
I noticed that WWT six News had put out, you know,
the picture of a young John Nicely just getting started,
a fledgling young broadcaster, and here's his picture, and you
look exactly the same. You know, I've been here on
this radio station eighteen years. I've aged one hundred years
in that span, and that's just because of Jim Rose.
(01:50):
So what is your secret? Do you eat yeshy? Do
you eat placenta every day? What do you do?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know? I I do. I am on a special
diet that I just stim cells. Yeah, yeah, every day. No,
I'll watch what I eat and I can be decaded
on the weekend and I can actually have sugar on
the weekend. Wow, that's kind of the way it works. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Is that just for your own health or do you
have like TV consulting people going all right, John, we
need to squeeze another ten to fifteen years out of you.
Here's your diet for this week.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Fortunately I do not have that. Yeah, put on my
own makeup too, But yeah, I think as I was
getting older, I just realized, you know, I want to
take care of myself and there are great ways to
do it. A lot of it is what you eat.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes, Well, it's always a pleasure talking with you or
teeing up a golf ball with you. And we've got
a special guest coming on here in seven minutes from now.
Tell me about who we're talking to and then we'll
talk with him next. Well, rich Lerner is probably have
seen him on the Golf Channel. He's just has great commentary,
great insight into the game, plays the game himself, but
(03:00):
he goes beyond that. He actually did Olympics gymnastics coverage
and he does basketball on a regular basis. But very
talented individual. And he's coming to Omaha to speak at
this big champions dinner that we're putting on and on
the phone, John, I love it. We have someone who
gets to spend about a week or so out of
(03:20):
his year on the grounds at Augusta National and joins
us now from the Golf Channel. Rich Lerner is here
on News Radio eleven ten kfab Rich, Hello, friends, it's
great to have you here.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh please now, Brob.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yes, man.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You know, no matter what anyone does for a living,
there's always those times and they're like, like, I just
wanted to stay at home this week. I don't want
to go hang out at Augusta National for the Masters
and do live from the Master's coverage. Does it ever?
Do you ever have to slap yourself in the face
and go I can't believe what I get to do
for a little me.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, it's nice to be on the show, guys. I'm
looking forward to coming out to Nebraska early December. We're
gonna talk some golf, watch some basketball. You guys are
taking me to see your beloved Creighton blue Jays against
the Jayhawks. I'm pretty stoked to see two of the
best big men in the country Brenner and Dickinson for Kansas.
(04:27):
But anyway, it's the job of a lifetiming. This is
my I'm finishing up my twenty eighth year. And for
a kid who grew up in his dad's driving range
in Pennsylvania, you know it's you could have asked for
anything more. I will say this, it is an It's
(04:49):
an unbelievable job. People say, well, you know, what's it like,
what are you doing? I said, well, let me just
put it to you very simply. I sit when I
call golf, I sit in a trailer, a booth. I
look at a monitor and I say, let's go to seventeen. Yeah,
(05:10):
now at number nine, over to eleven.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Not just anyone, not just anyone can do that.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So I am a glorified bingo announcer and in just
a few years I will be calling the action at
the Sunrise Senior Center in Helendale, Florida. Oh boy, I
hope that everybody. I hope that everybody comes to this.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know, bragging is beneath you. Rich No, We're glad
to have you here on Friday, December sixth at the
Embassy Suites Conference Center in La Vista an eb goolf
dot org to get tickets for the twenty twenty four
Celebration of Champions featuring our guest rich Lerner. Here now
rich our guest in the studio from WWT six News,
John Nicely has one of the most heartbreaking stories. He
(05:55):
was picked as a member of the media to play
augusta National after the Masters but got rained out and
never got a chance to play. Do you want to
tell him what he missed out on Rich, because I'm
sure you played there.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I did. I was in one of the media days
years ago. I had a chance subsequently to play, and
I had a conflict and I couldn't make it. I
was actually invited down to go for two days, so
hoping I get another opportunity. It is every bit as
good as as it looks on television. What you can't
(06:27):
quite prepare for would be the speed of the greens.
In fact, I started on number ten Downhill Part four.
I had a beautiful approach shot just above the hole
about six feet nice bogey Rich. But once you get
(06:49):
the hang of the speed of the greens and the contours,
they're absolutely beautiful to putt. I remember to this day,
this is probably twenty years I remember what I did
on some of the famous holes. Obviously you don't forget
that kind of stuff. Number twelve, which is, as I say,
is a golden bell, the prettiest little graveyard in golf.
(07:13):
We had about a twenty minute wait. I stood up
and I bladed my shot and it skidded across raised creek.
I got a tremendous break. It skidded across raised creek
over the back of the green, and with that good fortune,
I bladed my bump and run back into the creek,
(07:34):
but I did. At sixteen, I tugged my t shot
another part three into the left bunker and the caddy
told me to play it up on the shelf and
it'll come back down. And I did and I made
the par. That was a fun and I think I
shot low eight eighty one, but I putted my rear
(07:55):
end off to do it after that opening three put
from six feet. But the whole experience, the condition of
the course, it's hillier than than you can imagine. It's
a it's a good walk. It's a tough walk. But
of course, nowadays you know the whole the golf course
has stretched out. Number one today is an absolute bear.
(08:20):
Uh Number one is as hard an opening holes as
I can think of in major championship golf. But the ambiance,
the aura, you know what is aura that's not easily defined,
but knowing the history, knowing who's won there, knowing what
it means. You know, I think for golfers it you know,
(08:44):
we all play certainly in Nebraska. You guys are just
talking about was the thirty three degrees. We're we all
play the waiting game. You're waiting, You're waiting for the
snow to melt, You're waiting for that first good day.
You're waiting for a chance to go to the range
and knock off the rust, and then we're all waiting
for the masters.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
This is John. I have to tell you you're kind
of upsetting me because I didn't get a chance to
how'd you do on corner?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wait, you didn't get a chance to play.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I got to the parking lot with my clubs. Sorry
boys putting back. We had too much rain one day.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
One day. You'll get there, John, And uh, but it was. Yeah,
it's a magnificent spot.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I do have to say I talked to rich on
a zoom call, and I think we could have him
back five years in a row and he would speak
about something different East year. He is. Uh, he's just
had quite a golfing life. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I didn't tell you guys. I mean my dad owned
a thirty star driving range, fully lighted eighteen hole pitching
pot Part three and a miniature golf and pinball room
and a hot dog stand, and my three brother and
I ran it for my dad. It was in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
I had it from the mid late fifties to the
(10:06):
early nineties. The state bought the land to build a
road through it, and there's a caravas and the Dunkin
Donuts there. Now it looks like any other homogenized strip
of America. And you could imagine the greatest job at
the range was driving the tractor to pick up the
balls with a chicken wire fence. Yeah, target, And if
(10:28):
there were thirty hitters on the range, and we had hitters,
not golfers. Many times we had drunk hitters, and we'd
be sitting on the patio at ten o'clock at night
and we'd look up and we say, Hey, I think
those three guys at the end are hitting balls at
the supermarket across the street. Maybe we should go up
there and remind them that the two hundred yards time
(10:50):
is that way. No, if you had if you had
a job picking the range and there were thirty hitters
and you were coming across the one hundred yard signs
right to last and back again, all thirty turned in
your direction and started firing was like a machine gun.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You're a flight at five iron away no matter where
you are.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, when they hit you, when they hit you, they
celebrated like they've made a hole in one of the
seventeenth at TPC Sawgrass.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Rich We just got a few minutes here with you,
rich Lerner from the Golf Channel with us Year and
John Niceley with me Scott Vorhees on news Radio eleven
ten kfab. Your Golf Channel was in the news this
week as it's one of those slated for being sold
off by your parent company. For golf fans, as you mentioned,
especially here in Nebraska during winter, being able to turn
(11:44):
on the Golf Channel and see Hawaii, for example, is
one of the ways that we get through this time.
What is the future of the Golf Channel.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I wish I could tell you. I think it's still
going to be delivering golf twenty four seven. It we are,
and I think we always will be the network of
the well struck seven iron. And if the sun's up
somewhere on planet Earth, someone's going to be trying to
shoot sixty five and get paid for it, and we'll
probably be covering it. Who owns it in what form
(12:16):
it comes to the audience. I couldn't begin to tell
you at this point. I you know, the media landscape,
as you two know, is rapidly changing, streaming, consuming it
on their phones, however they get it. I don't know
(12:38):
a whole lot. I think it will continue to be
the same. We have contracts with the PGA tour, with
the USGA, with the RNA into the future, so you'll
still find us, It'll still be what it is. And
I don't know a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh, we're gonna be so glad to have you here
in person on Friday, December sixth at the Embassy Suite
Lavista Conference Center for the twenty twenty four celebration of
champions from the Nebraska Golf Association and Foundation. John Nicely
does a lot of work with these guys. Anybgolf dot
org is the website to get tickets to this event
(13:17):
where we honor a young man here rich named Trevor Kachwski.
He did something that no Nebraska has done in almost
one hundred years, win one of these US Junior Amateur
USGA Amateur events here in our country. And as someone
who graduated high school with Trevor's daddy, PGA Tour professional
(13:38):
Scott Kachwski. We were hanging on every shot. It's a
big event to win the US Junior Amateur and to
have you here to celebrate him underscores how important that was.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right well, no doubt that was a great win at
Oakland Hills in Michigan. Viewed in top quarters as an upset,
but standing here now, I don't think it's that big
of an upset because we know how good Trevor is.
His brother Luke play the US Amateur in twenty twenty two.
(14:11):
Dad's been, you know, winning on the corn Ferry Tour,
he plays the PGA Tour. It is. It's a great
golf family. And you know Trevor is a is a
dynamic and promising player, and I would suspect we'll see
him in the professional ranks before too long. But you know,
you win a USGA event when you're from Nebraska, it
(14:34):
obviously colls to mind the great Johnny Goodman from nineteen
thirty three, the last to this day, the last amateur
to win men's professional major.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Hey, I should point out Trevor is a senior at
west Side. He gets to play in the US Open
next year.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
At Oakmont He'll be at Oakmont in Pittsburgh in June
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
His Caddy Jackson, his Caddy Jackson bench might be a
better golfer than him.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, I I'm friends with both of these kids and
their dad, so I had to throw a bone out
to him. John, tell everyone why they should join us
here on Friday, December sixth to meet rich Lerner and
be a part of this event.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's right. It's a big celebration. We call it the
Champions Dinner. All of the state champions from that you
in Nebraska for the year be honored. Trevor will be honored,
rich will be featured. And we have some great sponsors too.
Orthro Nebraska Union Bank and Trust and Lexus of Omaha
and the Dormy Network is our presenting sponsors. We're really looking.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Forward to rich and be great to have you here
in Nebraska. It took a kid, you know, winning the
US Junior Amateur and it shocked the world to get
you here. And so excited to welcome you to Omaha
on Friday, December sixth. N ebgolf dot org for tickets
to see rich Lerner and John Nice at this event.
(16:01):
Rich can't wait to have you here, and I can't
wait to ask you in person for your Arnold Palmer story,
because anyone associated with the game or fans and who
love the game have one. So I can't wait to
hear yours that night.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I have some phenomenal Palmer stories in fact related. In fact,
it starts with my dad's driving range. Will keep that
a little bit of a mystery plate. We almost had
him involved. It's a long, beautiful story going back to
my home state. I'm really excited to come to Nebraska.
I've got a ton of good stories, funny stories, and
(16:38):
I want to share them with all the.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Great Rich is a six handicap too, by the way
he can play the game.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
The stays I think these YSI explain to a twelve
way to go. I'm the guy now. When I come
off the course, I talk about how pretty the flowers were. Hey, Rich,
had you played it? You see the new flower?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I was in it. A few few are flowers in there.
I took a whack out of there. Ay, Rich, thank
you very much. Save travels to Omaha here in just
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Scott John, thank you for having me on Look Forward
to seeing everyone. Meeting some new friends early December in
tickets of.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
A n eb goolf dot org. That is rich Lerner
from Golf Channel here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
and from WWT six you got new logos?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Is there a First Alert six?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
First Alert six. I got to retrain my brain here John.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Sorry, we've had to do the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, From from WWT First Alert six, John nicely, congratulations
on fifty years of broadcast. Thanks, it's always a pleasure
to talk to you, my friend. Thanks a lot for
stopping in bet Scott by mornings nine to eleven our
news Radio eleven ten KFAB
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