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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone, it's Andy Everett. 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.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Golf Show brought to you by MK Golf Tech,
Joe Caruso's Golf Academy, and by Alamo City Golf Trail.
Now on the first t Andy Everett.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well, good morning. This is David munoson for Andy Everett. Andy,
the longtime voice of UTSA Athletics, is in Charlotte, North Carolina,
as UTSA Roadrunners take on Charlotte. Pregame starts at nine
o'clock as soon as his Golf Show is over, kickoff
at eleven am.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Right here on.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Sports Radio AM seven sixty The Ticket. We're going to
kick off today's show with a very very special guest.
He's the two thousand and two PGA champion and his
name is Rich Beam.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Rich. Good morning, Welcome to the Golf Show. How are you.
I'm great.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I'm doing all right. Thank you very much for taking
time out of your schedule to be with us. Now,
there's a special event going on today at Horseshoe Bay.
Let's chat about that before we chat about you and
your career. So what's going on up there at Horseshoe
Bay with you today.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Yeah, Me and the.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Director of instruction, Bobby Steener, we sort of chatting about
a year ago about putting together a little golf school
to day golf school. Just have some resort guests or
even some local members that they wanted to get into it.
Just come out there and we kind of talk about
the golf swing a little bit more, but more about
getting back out of the golf course and playing golf
and how to navigate certain things when you're playing instead
of just sitting on the driving range hitting shot after shot.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I kind of thought maybe it'd be better to kind
of teach folks how to play golf a little bit
more instead of instead of take practice wings all the time.
And he thought it was a great idea. So we're
gonna spend a little time with the folks on their
game and whatnot, and then we're going to take them
out of the golf course for a couple of hours
and play some golf and teach him a few things.
I think that's where most people lose their strokes. They
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just don't quite soak in all the things that they
probably could or should to lower their scores. So hopefully
that's what they're going to get out of the next
two days.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Rich being PGA Tour champion from the year two thousand
and two was when he won the Major. Rich we
have all heard this for many, many years about the
game of golf. It is extremely difficult to win on
the tour. But in your own words, how difficult is
it and how difficult was it for you to win
the PGA Championship back in two thousand and two.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well, winning any tournament is extremely difficult because you got
one hundred and fifty six, so the best players in
the world they're normally and then the major majors just
kind of amplify that a little bit. And you know,
it's hard winning any tournament, you know, you said, I
think it's just the fact that it's four days of
not just physical but the mental beat down. Sometimes. I mean,
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everything can be going extremely well for nine holes and
then the next nine holes it's like you've never played before.
Professionals are no different than any of the amateurs. We
just know how to control things a little bit better
when things go sideways. But I mean, even if you
look at some of the scores this past week, you know,
you had a professional go out the first day shoot
seventy five, and then you shot sixty five. Same guy,
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same golf course, different day. You know, we're not infallible,
so you know, it's just how do you treat it mentally?
How do you kind of get out of those funks
a little bit? And that's what makes the world's best
the best, and why guys can win without actually playing
their best sometimes. That's what you see from Roy McElroy, Scotti,
Scheffer obviously, and the other great players in the game today.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Rich Beam is our guest and very very happy to
have him on. Rich Back when you won the PGA
in two thousand and two, you had to fend off
somebody by the name of Tiger Woods, tell us about
that experience back then.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, it seems like forever ago, but it also seems
like it's two days ago in some regards as well.
But you know, I was playing incredibly well. I just
won the Internet two weeks prior, so my game was
all there, but I was very inexperienced when it came
to playing majors. All I did was treated like another
golf tournament, just a little bit bigger venue and some
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more folks, but playing against the same people that you'd
played against, you played against one hundred times before that,
so I didn't really think about it being a major.
I thought about the golf course and how much I
enjoyed playing the golf course, and everything kind of fell
into place a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Obviously Tiger was always going to be around. You kind
of know it, but I don't think that I was ever.
I don't think I ever had the capacity to really
think about him, because I was more worried about myself
in my game, which is where some of the guys
failed in the past. But it's hard not to pay
attention to what he's doing when you're playing right alongside him.
But thankfully I wasn't playing alongside him. I was in
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the final group and he was in the penultimate group,
so I didn't have to sit there and deal with
him and also me and my emotion, so that was
certainly a better benefit for me. But he certainly gave
it it all burning the last four holes. But thankfully
I was just far enough ahead to keep the one
shot back.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Two thousand and two. PGA champion Rich Beam was our guest. Rich.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Other than winning the PGA champion back in two thousand
and two, can you maybe, in a nutshell give us
a couple of three of your other highlights in your career?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh, I mean, just for one, being on tour professionally wise,
I mean that's just getting on tour was a massive
achievement in itself. Two other wins on the PGA Tour.
But I think just more than anything else, is what's
that this game has provided me and my family. You know,
I've been I've got a chance to see most places
around the world, with the exception of a couple of them,
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which I will get to visit at some point in time.
But I just think that this game has given me everything,
and I'm very honored to have the opportunities, and you know,
to be able to kind of give back a game
today a little bit and helping people enjoy the game
that's given me so much. But you know, I think
I'm just out of the fact that I got on tour.
(06:01):
I stayed out there for quite some time, and I've
got a very understanding family behind me, especially a wife,
you know, traveling, traveling thirty two weeks out of the year,
chasing a little white golf ball around the world seems
like it's a lot of fun, but it's still thirty
two weeks that I'm away from home, away from my
loved ones sometimes and that gets to be a little
(06:23):
bit grueling. But again, it's also given me so much
this game, and I'm honored.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Last thing I want to ask you about, looking at
your Wikipedia page. In two thousand and seven, at the
Nissan Open, you made a hole in one of the
fourteenth only won a red Altimate coop.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
How did that feel back then?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I did that was pretty awesome. My dad was actually
there that weekend. It was his birthday that weekend. I
just got him some brand new clubs down at Callaway
and San Diego. Played some golf them in LA the
week before and made the holand one won a car
and we went out that night, had a nice bottle
of wine, and I believe they got me into the
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the final group, the penultimate group, but didn't play very
good on Sunday, but my dad was there with me
and it was pretty awesome. I made a commercial out
of it, and Nissan did and my son to this day.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
He loves that.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
He loves that commercial shows everybody he's a proud shit
of his dad.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think I remember seeing that commercial myself.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Rich Beam. It is so good to have you on.
Thank you very much and best of luck to you
down the road. Best to look at the school today
as well.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Appreciate it. Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
All right, Rich Beam. PGA champion back in two thousand
and two has been our guests. We're gonna get Bobby
Steener on the phone from Horseshoe Bay on the phone
here coming up in just another minute or so. The
update on the PGA Tour Right now, the Butterfield Bermuda
Championship is taking place, your leader. After the first two
rounds as Adam hadwent at eleven under par, one shot
ahead of Braydon Thornberry and Chandler Phillips. On the PGA Tour,
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the ladies are playing the AICA in bell Air, Florida.
There's a tie at the top of the leader board
with Lynn, Grant and Grace are in at nine under par,
good for a one shot lead at that particular point.
And on the Champions Tour, it's a Charles Schwab Championship
happening with Stephen Alker leading the way at eleven under par,
one shot ahead of Stuart Singh. That's at the Charles
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Schwab Championship. Now we're going to go back to our
phone lines and welcome the director of instruction at Horseshoe Bay,
Bobby Senior. Bobby, good morning, and how are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Good morning, David, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I'm great.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Thank you for having you know, mister Beemon here just
a moment ago. That was pretty cool having him on. Now,
Bobby Stenor and I go back to last year when
we first chatted, because last weekend we had a fantastic
event at Horseshoe Bay, not golf, it was the Windying
and Jazz Festival and Bobby, this year's event was it
was just huge in terms of crowds. Last year was
(08:44):
my first time there, but it was a twentieth annual.
But this is the biggest crowd that I believe they've
ever had, and it was a tremendous success.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It is.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
It's such a great event and it grows every year
and it's just something that we all look forward to.
And so the main resort, Yest we've got something people
who we see them once a year and and it's
during the festival, so it's it's it's a great time
and something we always look forward to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Now, this event you have going on today is going
to be a school with Rich being teaching a few kids,
a few people actually members and so forth how to
play the game of golf. A little bit better tell
us about the event itself.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
So it's a two day golf school. Rich and I
are collaborating. He and I go way back, and we decided,
we've said for a long time we're going to put
together a golf academy with the two of us, and
and this this is kind of the shoulder of season
for HUM. He's out there covering golf with a different
broadcast with Guy Sports Television throughout the year, and so
we so we're doing it this fall and next spring,
and basically two day golf schools where he and he
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and I get with groups of either six or eight
and we spent three hours of the morning working all
in basic fundamentals, shipping, pitching, putting, as well as full
swing and video analysis and all that, and then we
play nine holes in the afternoon and so half the
group plays with him on day one in the afternoon,
the other group plays with me, and then we switched
the following day. So it's great fun and a great
off tunity for people to learn from a major champion.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So this is going on today and tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Okay, Now have you done this event and have you
done this event in past years?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
No, we're just starting out. This is our first ones.
We've been looking forward to it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
All right, so this may become an annual event.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
We we intend to do it again in the spring
a couple of dates and then that's I think that's
basically what we intend to do is two to three
dates in the spring and two to three days.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
In the fall.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Just going forward. Yeah, you know, he's he's out here,
so he spends the time when it's not on the
road at his home here at Summit Rock, and and
so it makes it possible for us to get together
and have a golf school.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Bobby Steiner from Horseshoe Bay Golf Resort is our guests
right now. And Bobby, for those that are tuning into
the Golf Show for the first time, how many golf
courses do you guys have out there?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
We have three Robert Trent Jones Senior golf courses but
are called Slick Rock, Apple Rock, and ram Rock. And
then we also have Summit Rock, which is a Jack
nickl signature course. And so seventy two holes altogether.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Now, of all the seventy two holes you have, is
there one that might stand out as the most signature hole?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Oh, certainly number ten at Apple Rock. Oh my gosh.
The view is absolutely breathaching. You know, people take take
their pictures on different holes one and five and six,
and then the lea gets to ten to go, Holy moly,
we should have waited for this one. This is the
only picture we need overlooking link LBJ And it's just,
you know, this whole terrain here is left pretty much
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as nature has shaped it. It's absolutely so. They didn't
have to do a lot to make this beautiful golf
course when they you know, the various golf courses when
they built the place, and so it's you know, the
stunning viscus. It's just there's just a whole lot out here.
If someone blindfolds you and then drop you right here
in horse youe bay and ask you what state you
were in, there's no way of Guess, Texas. It's green,
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it's rolling, and it's absolutely beautiful and a great place
to call home.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Abby Steeners are Guess right now from Horseshoe Bay. He's
the instructor out at Horseshoe Bay and Bobby. Another thing
that I want to ask you about is about height.
For example, Rich Bean PGA Tour winner, he's five foot
eight inches tall. Now, some people might have the mindset
and they might say, well, you got to be taller
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than that to be able to do well, but that's
not necessarily the case. We've seen short guys go on
to greatness on the PGA too, are many of them.
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
You know that's absolutely true. But you know it's kind
of when it comes to I mean height, a size.
I guess what someone might be referring to when they
say hid it is it's surprising that they could hit
the ball so far. And in the case of Rich
it is, I mean he can absolutely smoke it. But
you know it kind of it goes along with two things.
Number one, your technique, but number two, some people can
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just move fast. You've got some people who can for
whatever reason that you can't discern. They can throw a
baseball ninety five miles an hour, or they can just
at five foot eleven, they can slam duck a basketball
and just it's sort of built into them. Well, he's
one of those guys who can just move fast through
that golf ball. And it doesn't help that he has
a pretty big pair of paws. I mean really, when
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you shake his hand, you know you got to hold something.
And so that's something that you typically see in someone
who maybe is many of the inn stature, but yet
can really crank it out there as they usually have
pretty good grip strength.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Bobby's senior, the director of instruction and Horseshoe Bay. Bobby,
one last thing I'll ask you to give, maybe an
impromptu tip. Now, we all have different idiosyncrasies in our swings.
One of the things I'm going to bring up in
our next segment is that this week Golf Magazine told
about five typical mistakes that a lot of golfers to do,
and one of them is standing too close to the
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ball during their practice swings. We've all seen people do this.
They where they unintentionally hit the golf ball accidentally. It
doesn't count as a stroke when you're standing too close
to the ball in your practice swing. But the tip
is to basically standard foot or two away, so you
have more of an open swing rather than kind of
having some sort of a you know, a shorter compact
swing that will probably hinder your shot.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Actually, sure you don't want to crowd that saying you
don't want to have any anything making you feel like
you've got to crowded. You know, a person must spread
the wings at impact if you're going to air generally
speaking in terms of your how far you are from
the ball is to strike it let alone on a
freck swing, but just at address when you're actually going
to hit the ball. Always air on the side of
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being just a little farther away, because being farther away
makes you reach just a little bit, and when you
reach at least to square up your body. If someone
gets too close, they can have shoulders that are completely
misaligned to their feet and it will go on completely
apart from their knowledge. And so air always on the
side of being a little bit farther away. That allows
you to really link in your arms and impact and
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at the same time will typically straighten out any body
alignment problems.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
If anyone listening, would like to set up a time
to go up there to meet Bobby Steemer and maybe
spend a weekend or maybe three or four days up
at Horseshoe Bay. All they need to do is go
to HSB dot com look up golfing. I'm sure you
see Bobby's name right there.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Bobby. They can do that easily, can't.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
They absolutely, and we will certainly look forward to having
them here.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Bobby, thank you so much for arranging everything. We appreciate
you very much, and we'll have you on again sometime soon.
And listen, this is going to be a fair warning
to you and all the members. One of these days,
I'm going to get out there and playing golf, so
watch out for some low flying golf balls.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I will jump with the chance of having you out.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Thank you very much, Bobby, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Once again, it is a ticket seven sixty golf show
and we're gonna be chatting with a couple of other
guests a little bit later on the show, coming up
in the segment right now some more. You know of
these very very simple mistakes that we make that a
lot of golfers make, and you know, in the realm
of golf, in terms of the swing and some other
things as well. We'll be chatting about that next and
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Tiger Woods turning fifty next month.
Hi everyone, it's Andy Everett. 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.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Golf Show brought to you by MK Golf Tech,
Joe Caruso's Golf Academy, and by Alamo City Golf Trail.
Now on the first t Andy Everett.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well, good morning. This is David munoson for Andy Everett. Andy,
the longtime voice of UTSA Athletics, is in Charlotte, North Carolina,
as UTSA Roadrunners take on Charlotte. Pregame starts at nine
o'clock as soon as his Golf Show is over, kickoff
at eleven am.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Right here on.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Sports Radio AM seven sixty The Ticket. We're going to
kick off today's show with a very very special guest.
He's the two thousand and two PGA champion and his
name is Rich Beam.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Rich. Good morning, Welcome to the Golf Show. How are you.
I'm great.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I'm doing all right. Thank you very much for taking
time out of your schedule to be with us. Now,
there's a special event going on today at Horseshoe Bay.
Let's chat about that before we chat about you and
your career. So what's going on up there at Horseshoe
Bay with you today.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Yeah, Me and the.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Director of instruction, Bobby Steener, we sort of chatting about
a year ago about putting together a little golf school
to day golf school. Just have some resort guests or
even some local members that they wanted to get into it.
Just come out there and we kind of talk about
the golf swing a little bit more, but more about
getting back out of the golf course and playing golf
and how to navigate certain things when you're playing instead
of just sitting on the driving range hitting shot after shot.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I kind of thought maybe it'd be better to kind
of teach folks how to play golf a little bit
more instead of instead of take practice wings all the time.
And he thought it was a great idea. So we're
gonna spend a little time with the folks on their
game and whatnot, and then we're going to take them
out of the golf course for a couple of hours
and play some golf and teach him a few things.
I think that's where most people lose their strokes. They
(01:56):
just don't quite soak in all the things that they
probably could or should to lower their scores. So hopefully
that's what they're going to get out of the next
two days.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Rich being PGA Tour champion from the year two thousand
and two was when he won the Major. Rich we
have all heard this for many, many years about the
game of golf. It is extremely difficult to win on
the tour. But in your own words, how difficult is
it and how difficult was it for you to win
the PGA Championship back in two thousand and two.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well, winning any tournament is extremely difficult because you got
one hundred and fifty six, so the best players in
the world they're normally and then the major majors just
kind of amplify that a little bit. And you know,
it's hard winning any tournament, you know, you said, I
think it's just the fact that it's four days of
not just physical but the mental beat down. Sometimes. I mean,
(02:51):
everything can be going extremely well for nine holes and
then the next nine holes it's like you've never played before.
Professionals are no different than any of the amateurs. We
just know how to control things a little bit better
when things go sideways. But I mean, even if you
look at some of the scores this past week, you know,
you had a professional go out the first day shoot
seventy five, and then you shot sixty five. Same guy,
(03:13):
same golf course, different day. You know, we're not infallible,
so you know, it's just how do you treat it mentally?
How do you kind of get out of those funks
a little bit? And that's what makes the world's best
the best, and why guys can win without actually playing
their best sometimes. That's what you see from Roy McElroy, Scotti,
Scheffer obviously, and the other great players in the game today.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Rich Beam is our guest and very very happy to
have him on. Rich Back when you won the PGA
in two thousand and two, you had to fend off
somebody by the name of Tiger Woods, tell us about
that experience back then.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, it seems like forever ago, but it also seems
like it's two days ago in some regards as well.
But you know, I was playing incredibly well. I just
won the Internet two weeks prior, so my game was
all there, but I was very inexperienced when it came
to playing majors. All I did was treated like another
golf tournament, just a little bit bigger venue and some
(04:12):
more folks, but playing against the same people that you'd
played against, you played against one hundred times before that,
so I didn't really think about it being a major.
I thought about the golf course and how much I
enjoyed playing the golf course, and everything kind of fell
into place a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Obviously Tiger was always going to be around. You kind
of know it, but I don't think that I was ever.
I don't think I ever had the capacity to really
think about him, because I was more worried about myself
in my game, which is where some of the guys
failed in the past. But it's hard not to pay
attention to what he's doing when you're playing right alongside him.
But thankfully I wasn't playing alongside him. I was in
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the final group and he was in the penultimate group,
so I didn't have to sit there and deal with
him and also me and my emotion, so that was
certainly a better benefit for me. But he certainly gave
it it all burning the last four holes. But thankfully
I was just far enough ahead to keep the one
shot back.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Two thousand and two. PGA champion Rich Beam was our guest. Rich.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Other than winning the PGA champion back in two thousand
and two, can you maybe, in a nutshell give us
a couple of three of your other highlights in your career?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh, I mean, just for one, being on tour professionally wise,
I mean that's just getting on tour was a massive
achievement in itself. Two other wins on the PGA Tour.
But I think just more than anything else, is what's
that this game has provided me and my family. You know,
I've been I've got a chance to see most places
around the world, with the exception of a couple of them,
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which I will get to visit at some point in time.
But I just think that this game has given me everything,
and I'm very honored to have the opportunities, and you know,
to be able to kind of give back a game
today a little bit and helping people enjoy the game
that's given me so much. But you know, I think
I'm just out of the fact that I got on tour.
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I stayed out there for quite some time, and I've
got a very understanding family behind me, especially a wife,
you know, traveling, traveling thirty two weeks out of the year,
chasing a little white golf ball around the world seems
like it's a lot of fun, but it's still thirty
two weeks that I'm away from home, away from my
loved ones sometimes and that gets to be a little
(06:23):
bit grueling. But again, it's also given me so much
this game, and I'm honored.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Last thing I want to ask you about, looking at
your Wikipedia page. In two thousand and seven, at the
Nissan Open, you made a hole in one of the
fourteenth only won a red Altimate coop.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
How did that feel back then?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I did that was pretty awesome. My dad was actually
there that weekend. It was his birthday that weekend. I
just got him some brand new clubs down at Callaway
and San Diego. Played some golf them in LA the
week before and made the holand one won a car
and we went out that night, had a nice bottle
of wine, and I believe they got me into the
(07:00):
the final group, the penultimate group, but didn't play very
good on Sunday, but my dad was there with me
and it was pretty awesome. I made a commercial out
of it, and Nissan did and my son to this day.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
He loves that.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
He loves that commercial shows everybody he's a proud shit
of his dad.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think I remember seeing that commercial myself.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Rich Beam. It is so good to have you on.
Thank you very much and best of luck to you
down the road. Best to look at the school today
as well.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Appreciate it. Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
All right, Rich Beam. PGA champion back in two thousand
and two has been our guests. We're gonna get Bobby
Steener on the phone from Horseshoe Bay on the phone
here coming up in just another minute or so. The
update on the PGA Tour Right now, the Butterfield Bermuda
Championship is taking place, your leader. After the first two
rounds as Adam hadwent at eleven under par, one shot
ahead of Braydon Thornberry and Chandler Phillips. On the PGA Tour,
(07:49):
the ladies are playing the AICA in bell Air, Florida.
There's a tie at the top of the leader board
with Lynn, Grant and Grace are in at nine under par,
good for a one shot lead at that particular point.
And on the Champions Tour, it's a Charles Schwab Championship
happening with Stephen Alker leading the way at eleven under par,
one shot ahead of Stuart Singh. That's at the Charles
(08:11):
Schwab Championship. Now we're going to go back to our
phone lines and welcome the director of instruction at Horseshoe Bay,
Bobby Senior. Bobby, good morning, and how are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Good morning, David, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I'm great.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Thank you for having you know, mister Beemon here just
a moment ago. That was pretty cool having him on. Now,
Bobby Stenor and I go back to last year when
we first chatted, because last weekend we had a fantastic
event at Horseshoe Bay, not golf, it was the Windying
and Jazz Festival and Bobby, this year's event was it
was just huge in terms of crowds. Last year was
(08:44):
my first time there, but it was a twentieth annual.
But this is the biggest crowd that I believe they've
ever had, and it was a tremendous success.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It is.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
It's such a great event and it grows every year
and it's just something that we all look forward to.
And so the main resort, Yest we've got something people
who we see them once a year and and it's
during the festival, so it's it's it's a great time
and something we always look forward to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Now, this event you have going on today is going
to be a school with Rich being teaching a few kids,
a few people actually members and so forth how to
play the game of golf. A little bit better tell
us about the event itself.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
So it's a two day golf school. Rich and I
are collaborating. He and I go way back, and we decided,
we've said for a long time we're going to put
together a golf academy with the two of us, and
and this this is kind of the shoulder of season
for HUM. He's out there covering golf with a different
broadcast with Guy Sports Television throughout the year, and so
we so we're doing it this fall and next spring,
and basically two day golf schools where he and he
(09:40):
and I get with groups of either six or eight
and we spent three hours of the morning working all
in basic fundamentals, shipping, pitching, putting, as well as full
swing and video analysis and all that, and then we
play nine holes in the afternoon and so half the
group plays with him on day one in the afternoon,
the other group plays with me, and then we switched
the following day. So it's great fun and a great
off tunity for people to learn from a major champion.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So this is going on today and tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Okay, Now have you done this event and have you
done this event in past years?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
No, we're just starting out. This is our first ones.
We've been looking forward to it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
All right, so this may become an annual event.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
We we intend to do it again in the spring
a couple of dates and then that's I think that's
basically what we intend to do is two to three
dates in the spring and two to three days.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
In the fall.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Just going forward. Yeah, you know, he's he's out here,
so he spends the time when it's not on the
road at his home here at Summit Rock, and and
so it makes it possible for us to get together
and have a golf school.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Bobby Steiner from Horseshoe Bay Golf Resort is our guests
right now. And Bobby, for those that are tuning into
the Golf Show for the first time, how many golf
courses do you guys have out there?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
We have three Robert Trent Jones Senior golf courses but
are called Slick Rock, Apple Rock, and ram Rock. And
then we also have Summit Rock, which is a Jack
nickl signature course. And so seventy two holes altogether.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Now, of all the seventy two holes you have, is
there one that might stand out as the most signature hole?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Oh, certainly number ten at Apple Rock. Oh my gosh.
The view is absolutely breathaching. You know, people take take
their pictures on different holes one and five and six,
and then the lea gets to ten to go, Holy moly,
we should have waited for this one. This is the
only picture we need overlooking link LBJ And it's just,
you know, this whole terrain here is left pretty much
(11:35):
as nature has shaped it. It's absolutely so. They didn't
have to do a lot to make this beautiful golf
course when they you know, the various golf courses when
they built the place, and so it's you know, the
stunning viscus. It's just there's just a whole lot out here.
If someone blindfolds you and then drop you right here
in horse youe bay and ask you what state you
were in, there's no way of Guess, Texas. It's green,
(11:56):
it's rolling, and it's absolutely beautiful and a great place
to call home.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Abby Steeners are Guess right now from Horseshoe Bay. He's
the instructor out at Horseshoe Bay and Bobby. Another thing
that I want to ask you about is about height.
For example, Rich Bean PGA Tour winner, he's five foot
eight inches tall. Now, some people might have the mindset
and they might say, well, you got to be taller
(12:20):
than that to be able to do well, but that's
not necessarily the case. We've seen short guys go on
to greatness on the PGA too, are many of them.
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
You know that's absolutely true. But you know it's kind
of when it comes to I mean height, a size.
I guess what someone might be referring to when they
say hid it is it's surprising that they could hit
the ball so far. And in the case of Rich
it is, I mean he can absolutely smoke it. But
you know it kind of it goes along with two things.
Number one, your technique, but number two, some people can
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just move fast. You've got some people who can for
whatever reason that you can't discern. They can throw a
baseball ninety five miles an hour, or they can just
at five foot eleven, they can slam duck a basketball
and just it's sort of built into them. Well, he's
one of those guys who can just move fast through
that golf ball. And it doesn't help that he has
a pretty big pair of paws. I mean really, when
(13:10):
you shake his hand, you know you got to hold something.
And so that's something that you typically see in someone
who maybe is many of the inn stature, but yet
can really crank it out there as they usually have
pretty good grip strength.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Bobby's senior, the director of instruction and Horseshoe Bay. Bobby,
one last thing I'll ask you to give, maybe an
impromptu tip. Now, we all have different idiosyncrasies in our swings.
One of the things I'm going to bring up in
our next segment is that this week Golf Magazine told
about five typical mistakes that a lot of golfers to do,
and one of them is standing too close to the
(13:43):
ball during their practice swings. We've all seen people do this.
They where they unintentionally hit the golf ball accidentally. It
doesn't count as a stroke when you're standing too close
to the ball in your practice swing. But the tip
is to basically standard foot or two away, so you
have more of an open swing rather than kind of
having some sort of a you know, a shorter compact
swing that will probably hinder your shot.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Actually, sure you don't want to crowd that saying you
don't want to have any anything making you feel like
you've got to crowded. You know, a person must spread
the wings at impact if you're going to air generally
speaking in terms of your how far you are from
the ball is to strike it let alone on a
freck swing, but just at address when you're actually going
to hit the ball. Always air on the side of
(14:26):
being just a little farther away, because being farther away
makes you reach just a little bit, and when you
reach at least to square up your body. If someone
gets too close, they can have shoulders that are completely
misaligned to their feet and it will go on completely
apart from their knowledge. And so air always on the
side of being a little bit farther away. That allows
you to really link in your arms and impact and
(14:47):
at the same time will typically straighten out any body
alignment problems.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
If anyone listening, would like to set up a time
to go up there to meet Bobby Steemer and maybe
spend a weekend or maybe three or four days up
at Horseshoe Bay. All they need to do is go
to HSB dot com look up golfing. I'm sure you
see Bobby's name right there.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Bobby. They can do that easily, can't.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
They absolutely, and we will certainly look forward to having
them here.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Bobby, thank you so much for arranging everything. We appreciate
you very much, and we'll have you on again sometime soon.
And listen, this is going to be a fair warning
to you and all the members. One of these days,
I'm going to get out there and playing golf, so
watch out for some low flying golf balls.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I will jump with the chance of having you out.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Thank you very much, Bobby, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Once again, it is a ticket seven sixty golf show
and we're gonna be chatting with a couple of other
guests a little bit later on the show, coming up
in the segment right now some more. You know of
these very very simple mistakes that we make that a
lot of golfers make, and you know, in the realm
of golf, in terms of the swing and some other
things as well. We'll be chatting about that next and
(15:47):
Tiger Woods turning fifty next month.
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