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Speaker 1 (00:02):
He's the golf show on the ticket Andrew Peterson from
the Almost City Golf Trail joining us. All right, I'm
gonna give you a tip of the week here. I
want you if you do not know how to rake
a bunker, and some of you obviously do not or
choose not to one of the two. I remember a
few weeks months ago we had Jake on here that
you're superintendent, and he said, understand, the superintendent is job
(00:26):
is not to follow you around and rake the bunkers
for you. That is your responsibility. But there was this
video that I saw about from Fluff Cowan, and obviously
Fluff's been a caddy on the tour for forty fifty years,
and he was talking about people don't know how to
rake a bunker properly, and honestly, until I saw that video,
(00:48):
I had no idea this was the proper way to
do it. But he said, you should be able to
go from the middle of the bunker out of the
bunker with about six to eight strokes of the rake.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And the key is is.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
To always push the sand away from you, not rake
it towards you. And that would make it so much
more easier to play from when the next guy gets
in the same spot that you are just in or
a similar spot, you're.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
One hundred percent right. What happens when you rake.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It towards you is you're removing sand from the lower
or the middle part of the bunker and moving it
to the edges. And the last thing you want to
do is get a plug lie in the edge of
a bunk that's either the high side or the low side,
or when you do hit your ball in the middle
and it's a real thin lie because all the sand's
been displaced to the edges. Yeah, so's that's one hundred
percent right. And I guess we just need to keep
(01:44):
doing like we did at Willow Springs and not have
any bunkers because to today's And I don't want to
generalize because there's so many awesome golfers out there and
so many really supportive people that play the trail. We
have really amazing customers and golfers that play our courses,
but we do need to get a little little bit
more help with raking bunkers. It's an elementary part of
the game and something that just kind of like that
(02:05):
pace to play we talked about earlier. We're going to
continue to mentor and help people understand the benefits of that.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Some people don't hit the ball high enough to put
spin on it or to make a divot in the greens.
Some and most of us probably do. But the other
thing too, is if you're walking on the green and
you're walking up to mark your ball and you see
a divot that somebody didn't fix, fix it. It doesn't
take you but about seven seconds to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
If you do it correctly.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You can do it with the tool marker, you can
do it with a te you can pat it down,
and it makes such a big difference in the greens.
And I saw this yesterday playing it almost about three holes,
there were several ballmarks. For the most part, there weren't
a lot, so I was glad to see that. But
there have been times on trail golf courses, on resort
(02:53):
type golf courses wherever, there's just sometimes where people don't
think they made a ballmark, or for some reason.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Don't see it and they pass by it. Yeah, there's
a cause and effect for everything. And I think the
statistic is that are repaired, a properly repaired ball mark
heals in a week. A ballmark that has not been
fixed or improperly repaired takes a month, and I think
that in itself is the big reason. But we top
(03:20):
dress our greens with sand on every other week basis,
and we do that because it helps smooth out the surfaces.
And it's particularly important because people don't fix their pitch marks,
but the ball marks often enough. So thank you for
saying that. Trailed golfers, we love you. Fix yours and
fix one more.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
All right, let's get to the twenty twenty five Skins game.
They brought this back this year. I didn't watch it yesterday.
I saw some highlights on my phone a little while ago.
Keegan Bradley two point one million, Tommy Fleetwood one point
seven million winnings, Shane Lowry, who had to fill in
for Justin Thomas who's injured two hundred and Xander Schoffley,
(04:01):
thank you for participating.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You in nothing and you'll like it.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I saw a picture this morning is Xander Schoffley holding
a check that said zero dollars. I thought that was
I thought that was kind of funny. But for for
for Tommy and Keegan, pretty good, pretty good haul for
one day's work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, I understand the reason for bringing this back.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
We it's if.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You're a golfer and you want to arrestpite from football
for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
This is something that you may may watch.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I don't know why you play it on Black Friday
when you had three Marquee football games back to back
to back that we're all implicating as far as say
CFP type rankings, I don't know where it's a good
time to do this. And nothing against Keegan, Tommy Shane
or Xander, but they're not Scotti, Scheffler and Roy McElroy.
(04:48):
And it's when when when we started this in the eighties,
we had Gary and Jack and tight and h and
Arnold the three that were the main and Tom Watson.
Those were the four best players on the planet when
we started this back.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
In the eighties. Oh don't forget Leech. Travino still got
that money.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So and as when you have these exhibitions, and then
back in the when Tiger was first playing, you had
the night Golf that we did with Tiger and Onica
versus whoever and whoever. If Tiger's playing, if Tiger's involved,
if Tiger's making a cameo appearance, people are going to
tune in to see what it is. But the four
(05:32):
that played yesterday are not star enough to really draw
a big audience.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I think it was on a streaming service.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Wasn't I think it was on Prime or one of
that wasn't even on on mainstream TV.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You're you're right.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I probably would have watched a couple of holes. Maybe
I played golf instead, so I didn't. I didn't see
any of it, but not really interested in following up
on it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You and I are both in agreement that the only
mistake that Keegan Bradley made at the Ryder Cup was
that he didn't make himself a player. I think I
don't know if the outcome would have been any different,
but he's still playing good golf, and hopefully he plays
good enough golf so that in twenty twenty seven he
can play in a dere mannor in Ireland four team USA.
(06:17):
But I thought Keagan should have been on the team.
I don't know who you take out. Obviously you can't
take the six that made it. I guess maybe Sam
Burns was the last guy that was picked. I don't
think that was a bad choice, but I think somehow
Keegan should have been part of that team. How old's
Keegan thirty eight, thirty nine forty.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I think that's what he is. Maybe he's Lambilder.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, he's gonna have shelf life for another four or
five six years. And so and he's such a nice
guy too, And it sounds like the player's really warmed
up to him and really really enjoying.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, he's right in the prime, right, Yeah, sure, keep
on going. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So, and I just mentioned Justin Thomas with a surgery issue.
Another player has a disk issue, And I'm gonna kind
of correlate this to something Bryson new Chambeau discovered in
the last three or four years. When Bryson got his
clubhead speed over one thirty and his ball speed over
(07:15):
two hundred, he realized that hurts. I can't do this
a lot and not get hurt. And now Justin doesn't
swing that fast. He could if he wanted to. Baseball
pitchers are basically realizing, I'm gonna go throw as hard
as I can for as long as I can. I'm
gonna sign a big time contract, I'm gonna blow out
(07:35):
my elbow. I'm gonna have Tommy John and then I'm
gonna play until I can't. But if I can throw
the ball at ninety seven every time, somebody's gonna give
me a lot of money. And Tommy John surgery and
a shortened career is okay as long as I get
fifty million dollars because of it. And every picture that
is examining baseball right now says you want to get
rid of Tommy John injuries. Go back to throwing in
(07:57):
the low nineties with location and change of direction and
less speed, and the analytics say, no, throw it one
hundred and ten if you can, which leads arm injuries.
And I think as golfers have gotten more and more speed,
they're also realizing they're getting more and more injuries. There
is a limit as to what the body can do.
For Bryson, it maybe one twenty five because of his
(08:18):
nature and how you know, big and bulky he is
compared to Justin who's a little bit more thinner and slender.
So whatever the speed is, that's where you're going to
have to get your golf club in order to prevent
yourself from getting injuries. There's a lot of people that
have a million different reasons why people get injured, But
to me, I think it has to do with speed.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Greg Maddox did okay with major league career throwing at
ninety two miles an hour. Pretty good, But the golf
courses continue to get longer, so the guys are chasing speed,
and as we've kind of seen over the you know,
the evolution of the last ten or fifteen years, it's
bombed as far as you can and even it's in
the rough, you should have enough loft on it to
be able to make it stop on green And occasionally
(09:01):
when you do hit the fairways and and you're flipping
a little something to the greens, you're probably going to
make a fair amount of birdies if you're a halfway
decent potter. And that's been the formula for success on
the PGA Tour. It started with Tiger Woods, and it's
it's just as strong as it ever was today. So yeah,
I think the you know we always thought is when
we were young, is how the heck do you get
injured playing golf? But then you start swinging at it
(09:23):
fast and you see what the human body is capable of.
Now with the with the tour level player, I can
understand when they get hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I don't think Jack Nicholas Ever swung one hundred and
twenty and I don't think he was able to number one,
wanted to number two, and even if he did, the
equipment wouldn't have allowed him to gain the extra yards
from it. He was still the longest straightest hitter on
the tour when he was playing. But I think that
as you can train all you want, and the advance
of all the pliometrics and stuff that they do and
(09:51):
the weight training that they do has allowed them to
swing to a level. Now maybe the human body evolves
a little bit further and you can swing one hundred
and third down the road. And that's the reason why
we link the golf courses. The old course is getting
six hundred yards added to three hundred yards added to it.
But I think that there's a limit as to what
the body is going to do no matter how hard
you work it out and train. And I think Justin
(10:14):
Thomas may have found his swing is a little bit
too fast in order to stay healthy. Hopefully not all right,
we'll talk a little bit about twenty twenty six coming
up and a couple other things to finish up the show.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Next on the ticket
He's the golf show on the ticket Andrew Peterson from
the Almost City Golf Trail joining us. All right, I'm
gonna give you a tip of the week here. I
want you if you do not know how to rake
a bunker, and some of you obviously do not or
choose not to one of the two. I remember a
few weeks months ago we had Jake on here that
you're superintendent, and he said, understand, the superintendent is job
(00:26):
is not to follow you around and rake the bunkers
for you. That is your responsibility. But there was this
video that I saw about from Fluff Cowan, and obviously
Fluff's been a caddy on the tour for forty fifty years,
and he was talking about people don't know how to
rake a bunker properly, and honestly, until I saw that video,
(00:48):
I had no idea this was the proper way to
do it. But he said, you should be able to
go from the middle of the bunker out of the
bunker with about six to eight strokes of the rake.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And the key is is.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
To always push the sand away from you, not rake
it towards you. And that would make it so much
more easier to play from when the next guy gets
in the same spot that you are just in or
a similar spot, you're.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
One hundred percent right. What happens when you rake.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It towards you is you're removing sand from the lower
or the middle part of the bunker and moving it
to the edges. And the last thing you want to
do is get a plug lie in the edge of
a bunk that's either the high side or the low side,
or when you do hit your ball in the middle
and it's a real thin lie because all the sand's
been displaced to the edges. Yeah, so's that's one hundred
percent right. And I guess we just need to keep
(01:44):
doing like we did at Willow Springs and not have
any bunkers because to today's And I don't want to
generalize because there's so many awesome golfers out there and
so many really supportive people that play the trail. We
have really amazing customers and golfers that play our courses,
but we do need to get a little little bit
more help with raking bunkers. It's an elementary part of
the game and something that just kind of like that
(02:05):
pace to play we talked about earlier. We're going to
continue to mentor and help people understand the benefits of that.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Some people don't hit the ball high enough to put
spin on it or to make a divot in the greens.
Some and most of us probably do. But the other
thing too, is if you're walking on the green and
you're walking up to mark your ball and you see
a divot that somebody didn't fix, fix it. It doesn't
take you but about seven seconds to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
If you do it correctly.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You can do it with the tool marker, you can
do it with a te you can pat it down,
and it makes such a big difference in the greens.
And I saw this yesterday playing it almost about three holes,
there were several ballmarks. For the most part, there weren't
a lot, so I was glad to see that. But
there have been times on trail golf courses, on resort
(02:53):
type golf courses wherever, there's just sometimes where people don't
think they made a ballmark, or for some reason.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Don't see it and they pass by it. Yeah, there's
a cause and effect for everything. And I think the
statistic is that are repaired, a properly repaired ball mark
heals in a week. A ballmark that has not been
fixed or improperly repaired takes a month, and I think
that in itself is the big reason. But we top
(03:20):
dress our greens with sand on every other week basis,
and we do that because it helps smooth out the surfaces.
And it's particularly important because people don't fix their pitch marks,
but the ball marks often enough. So thank you for
saying that. Trailed golfers, we love you. Fix yours and
fix one more.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
All right, let's get to the twenty twenty five Skins game.
They brought this back this year. I didn't watch it yesterday.
I saw some highlights on my phone a little while ago.
Keegan Bradley two point one million, Tommy Fleetwood one point
seven million winnings, Shane Lowry, who had to fill in
for Justin Thomas who's injured two hundred and Xander Schoffley,
(04:01):
thank you for participating.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You in nothing and you'll like it.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I saw a picture this morning is Xander Schoffley holding
a check that said zero dollars. I thought that was
I thought that was kind of funny. But for for
for Tommy and Keegan, pretty good, pretty good haul for
one day's work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, I understand the reason for bringing this back.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
We it's if.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You're a golfer and you want to arrestpite from football
for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
This is something that you may may watch.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I don't know why you play it on Black Friday
when you had three Marquee football games back to back
to back that we're all implicating as far as say
CFP type rankings, I don't know where it's a good
time to do this. And nothing against Keegan, Tommy Shane
or Xander, but they're not Scotti, Scheffler and Roy McElroy.
(04:48):
And it's when when when we started this in the eighties,
we had Gary and Jack and tight and h and
Arnold the three that were the main and Tom Watson.
Those were the four best players on the planet when
we started this back.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
In the eighties. Oh don't forget Leech. Travino still got
that money.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So and as when you have these exhibitions, and then
back in the when Tiger was first playing, you had
the night Golf that we did with Tiger and Onica
versus whoever and whoever. If Tiger's playing, if Tiger's involved,
if Tiger's making a cameo appearance, people are going to
tune in to see what it is. But the four
(05:32):
that played yesterday are not star enough to really draw
a big audience.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I think it was on a streaming service.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Wasn't I think it was on Prime or one of
that wasn't even on on mainstream TV.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You're you're right.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I probably would have watched a couple of holes. Maybe
I played golf instead, so I didn't. I didn't see
any of it, but not really interested in following up
on it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You and I are both in agreement that the only
mistake that Keegan Bradley made at the Ryder Cup was
that he didn't make himself a player. I think I
don't know if the outcome would have been any different,
but he's still playing good golf, and hopefully he plays
good enough golf so that in twenty twenty seven he
can play in a dere mannor in Ireland four team USA.
(06:17):
But I thought Keagan should have been on the team.
I don't know who you take out. Obviously you can't
take the six that made it. I guess maybe Sam
Burns was the last guy that was picked. I don't
think that was a bad choice, but I think somehow
Keegan should have been part of that team. How old's
Keegan thirty eight, thirty nine forty.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I think that's what he is. Maybe he's Lambilder.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, he's gonna have shelf life for another four or
five six years. And so and he's such a nice
guy too, And it sounds like the player's really warmed
up to him and really really enjoying.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, he's right in the prime, right, Yeah, sure, keep
on going. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So, and I just mentioned Justin Thomas with a surgery issue.
Another player has a disk issue, And I'm gonna kind
of correlate this to something Bryson new Chambeau discovered in
the last three or four years. When Bryson got his
clubhead speed over one thirty and his ball speed over
(07:15):
two hundred, he realized that hurts. I can't do this
a lot and not get hurt. And now Justin doesn't
swing that fast. He could if he wanted to. Baseball
pitchers are basically realizing, I'm gonna go throw as hard
as I can for as long as I can. I'm
gonna sign a big time contract, I'm gonna blow out
(07:35):
my elbow. I'm gonna have Tommy John and then I'm
gonna play until I can't. But if I can throw
the ball at ninety seven every time, somebody's gonna give
me a lot of money. And Tommy John surgery and
a shortened career is okay as long as I get
fifty million dollars because of it. And every picture that
is examining baseball right now says you want to get
rid of Tommy John injuries. Go back to throwing in
(07:57):
the low nineties with location and change of direction and
less speed, and the analytics say, no, throw it one
hundred and ten if you can, which leads arm injuries.
And I think as golfers have gotten more and more speed,
they're also realizing they're getting more and more injuries. There
is a limit as to what the body can do.
For Bryson, it maybe one twenty five because of his
(08:18):
nature and how you know, big and bulky he is
compared to Justin who's a little bit more thinner and slender.
So whatever the speed is, that's where you're going to
have to get your golf club in order to prevent
yourself from getting injuries. There's a lot of people that
have a million different reasons why people get injured, But
to me, I think it has to do with speed.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Greg Maddox did okay with major league career throwing at
ninety two miles an hour. Pretty good, But the golf
courses continue to get longer, so the guys are chasing speed,
and as we've kind of seen over the you know,
the evolution of the last ten or fifteen years, it's
bombed as far as you can and even it's in
the rough, you should have enough loft on it to
be able to make it stop on green And occasionally
(09:01):
when you do hit the fairways and and you're flipping
a little something to the greens, you're probably going to
make a fair amount of birdies if you're a halfway
decent potter. And that's been the formula for success on
the PGA Tour. It started with Tiger Woods, and it's
it's just as strong as it ever was today. So yeah,
I think the you know we always thought is when
we were young, is how the heck do you get
injured playing golf? But then you start swinging at it
(09:23):
fast and you see what the human body is capable of.
Now with the with the tour level player, I can
understand when they get hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I don't think Jack Nicholas Ever swung one hundred and
twenty and I don't think he was able to number one,
wanted to number two, and even if he did, the
equipment wouldn't have allowed him to gain the extra yards
from it. He was still the longest straightest hitter on
the tour when he was playing. But I think that
as you can train all you want, and the advance
of all the pliometrics and stuff that they do and
(09:51):
the weight training that they do has allowed them to
swing to a level. Now maybe the human body evolves
a little bit further and you can swing one hundred
and third down the road. And that's the reason why
we link the golf courses. The old course is getting
six hundred yards added to three hundred yards added to it.
But I think that there's a limit as to what
the body is going to do no matter how hard
you work it out and train. And I think Justin
(10:14):
Thomas may have found his swing is a little bit
too fast in order to stay healthy. Hopefully not all right,
we'll talk a little bit about twenty twenty six coming
up and a couple other things to finish up the show.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
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