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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everyone, It's Andy Everett.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Enjoy this podcast version of The Golf Show from sports
Radio AM seven sixty The Ticket Now from sports Radio
AM seven sixty The Ticket. This is another edition of
The Golf Show. The Golf Show brought to you by
MK Golf Tech, Joe Caruso's Golf Academy, and by Alamo

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City Golf Trail. Now on the first t Andy Everett.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
This is David Munios in for Andy Everett.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Andy the longtime voice of UTSA Athletics on the road
with the UTSA Roadrunners basketball team as a take on
Tulane today. Pregame at four thirty, tip off at five
right here on tickets seven sixty. Our number is two ten, seven, three,
six nine, seven sixty. If you'd like to give us
a call and tell us how maybe you might have
gotten some Christmas items as gifts this past holiday season,

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let us know what your plans are for the coming year.
We're going to be giving you the annual PAP Talk
here in just a moment. We've got a couple of
guests lined up for this morning show. We'll be chatting
with them a little bit later on in the hour.
This weekend, it is a Century taking place at Coppolua
in Hawaii. It is the opening event of the new year.
You're a leader. At the halfway point is Hideki Matsuyama.
Hedeki shot at second straight sixty five to be at

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sixteen hundred park, one shot ahead of Colin Morikawa. Beautiful
out there to watch a few hoses. I got a
chance to watch last night, and Hawaii is one of
those beautiful destinations.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Last month, Golf Magazine released its list of the top
one hundred courses in the US. At the top again,
it's Pine Valley and New Jersey. The rest of the
top ten are Cypress Point at Pebble Beach, Shnnacock Hills
in New York, National Golf Links in Southampton, New York,
Oakmont and Pennsylvania, Augusta National Sand Hills in Nebraska, Mary
and East in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Pebble Beach, and Los Angeles,

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North Now these are the top one hundred courses. A
lot of them include private clubs, private courses where memberships
are required and you can get on there by becoming
a member or by being invited by somebody. Now they
also have a list of the top one hundred golf
courses that you can play, courses that are open to
the public, including Pebble Beach Pineer's number two.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Those are the top two.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Actually, TPC Sawgrats came in at number eight and Whistling
Straights at number ten. I bring up those because those
are two golf courses that I've had a chance to play,
and I highly recommend that you do now. Usually when
I fill in for Andy Everett at the end of
a year or at the start of a new year,
I like to encourage you to take a golf trip,
whether it's to a place far away or a course

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right here in Texas that you've wanted to play, but
for any reason you haven't do it this year. The
last time I filled in for Andy was on December seventh,
just about four weeks ago. We were very happy to
have a PGA Tour player on that show by the
name of Rafael Compost. Now Here was the guy who
had played on the tour and was in danger of
losing his PGA Tour Player's guard. He had missed five

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straight cuts. He was ranked one hundred and forty seventh
on the FedEx Cup standings. If he didn't finish in
the top one twenty five, he would have lost his card.
He ended up winning the event, and now it's playing
not only this weekend in Hawaii, but it's exempt for
a couple of years. He gets to play in the
Masters and so many other events. It is a dream
come true for him. When I sit in for Andy,

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I always like to give a pep talk to our listeners. Yes,
you not to give up, even when it seems almost
impossible to keep going. So if you've been one of
those who doesn't feel that you can do something special,
possibly something that you've only thought of attempting, but have
never taken that first step in the right direction, do it.
Take that first step and move forward, and who knows,

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it might be the first step of so many that
you'll take in the years to come, or at least
in the coming year. We've all known people who have
reached certain points where they cannot physically do the things
that they used to do. Andy and some of his
buddies have been in Scotland I think four times, or
they're planning their fourth trip this year. They'll be going
in May once again. I've taken several trips with Andy
and some of the guys who have become good friends.

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I'm very thankful to have been able to play some
of the courses that I never thought I would have
played years ago. My advice to you is, don't wait
until it's too late. Take the bull by the horns
and do something specialist year. You won't have to thank me,
You'll thank yourself and the man of spars. Believe it.
It will be worth it when you do it. I
remember going to Pebble Beach in twenty sixteen. Yeah, it's

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hard to believe it. It's been nine years ago already.
My wife Betty, and I arrived on a Friday afternoon.
We had a late lunch at a restaurant at the
Inn at Spanish Bay, where we stayed for a couple
of nights. I was overwhelmed with emotion as we sat there.
My round of golf wasn't even until the next afternoon,
but just seeing my surroundings made me feel just a
tremendous feeling that I'd never felt before. You and I

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have known a lot of people who have had a
lot of physical disabilities. There's a long time friend of
mine who is not even able to walk anymore, and
he's probably in his mid seventies. He used to be
a dancer at a lot of the jazz events that
I hosted through the years of hosting Smooth Jazz San Antonio.
Don't wait till it's too late. You don't want to
have that happen to you this year. Make it a

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point to go somewhere, even if it's just out of town,
even if it's too of course, in maybe one of
the surrounding towns here in San Antonio or in South Texas,
you'll be very glad that you did it. We're going
to be very happy to have a gentleman from Topatio
Springs coming up at the bottom of the hour. It's
the first time I will have had anybody from Topatio
Springs on the air with us. But we're going to
be chatting about that beautiful golf course. We're going to

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be talking with Mark J. Caldwell again coming up in
a few minutes. He's been awarded another fantastic accolade, which
we're going to be chatting about as well. He's taught
so many people, so many kids, and yes, he and
I run into so many people who just don't have
the I don't know if you would call it the
fores sight. Now, granted they have the money to afford things.

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One of my best friends in the world has a
brand new car, brand new house, lots of money and
so forth. He plays golf. He's been playing golf for
a long time as well, but he doesn't want to
get out and do any golf travel and I've tried
to encourage him to do that through many years, but
he just chooses to which, of course, is his choice.
I understand we all have things that we want to do,

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we all have things that we want to accomplish. Now,
you and I have been on too many many golf courses.
We've seen a lot of guys in the range practicing
hitting balls before they start their actual round. Some of
these guys don't really hit the ball that well, which
sometimes makes me think that maybe this guy has not
undergone any kind of instruction, maybe he needs just a

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minor adjustment on his swing. And then when they're called
out to the first tea, they throw their arms up
as if you say, I'm not even through warming up.
But the thing is, you keep doing what you've been doing,
you're going to keep getting what you've always gotten. Because
if you don't try to improve your gam you're going
to get out there and just play and not have
a good round. Now, yes, there are people that play
the game of golf who don't want to undergo instruction,

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that are happy just being out there in the wide
open spaces. And I understand that, and I do appreciate that.
But if you want to improve your game, you got
to get some lessons, or maybe just a couple of adjustments.
Not taking a series of lessons, maybe one or two,
you might discover that, hey, I can really really do
a little bit better by just having gone through a
couple of quick tips here and so forth and so on.

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You and I have probably known some people that have
undergone a couple of golf tips, a couple of golf lessons,
breaking some of the old habits that they've been through
for so many years. But slowly but surely they go
back to their old habits and they go back to
the old scores that they shot before they underwent any
kind of lessons. If you're not going to do any travel,
maybe you take it upon yourself this year to go

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see a professional, go get some lessons, learn how to
play the game a little bit better. Minor adjustment in
your swing. Make that one of your new Year's resolutions
to improve your game, and yes, take the golf trip.
You'll be glad that you did again, even if it's
just to a surrounding county. Maybe you up at Horseshoe Bay,
at Marble Falls, maybe land to park, up in New Bronfels.
Courses that maybe you've never played before.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Do it. You'll feel a lot better about it.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
And again you won't thank me, you'll thank yourself and
you'll thank the men upstairs for giving you the wherewithal
to take that.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Step to do it.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
It is, of course a beautiful morning, foggy if you'd say,
you have some freezing weather coming up beginning, I believe
Monday morning, we're going to be I believe, in the
low to mid thirties almost every morning beginning Monday morning,
we're going to be chatting about golf course care at
the bottom of the hour with a gentleman from top
of the o Springs and giving you advice on maybe
to stay away from a golf course because it'll be closed.

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If there's frost on the ground, you can't go onto
a golf course. If there's frost, you can play on
a golf course if it's in the upper thirties low forties,
that they're open and the true diehards of the game
want to get out of play no matter what the
case might be. But yes, Frost, if you step on
a golf course, you're going to be killing that piece
of grats with every step that you do.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Take more details on that coming.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Up next up on the Ticket seven to sixty Golf Show,
it'll be Mark J. Caldwell from Canyon Springs Total Golf
Performance owner and a fantastic director of instruction. He's that
step on the Ticket seven sixty Golf Show.