November 8, 2025 • 11 mins
Seeing more kids on the green as the game becomes more popular
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now from sports Radio AM seven sixty to 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 City Golf Trail. Now on
the first t Andy Everett.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here we go on a Saturday morning. Yes, I have returned.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I did take the I did take the afternoon show
off yesterday after a Thursday night football game, a flight
home that got us home at four thirty in the morning,
and a basketball game yesterday afternoon. So I'm back and
we'll talk golf for the next hour. Joe Caruso joins
us from the Joe Cruso Golf Academy. You said you
hear me all the time.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Afternoon a basketball game at one o'clock. Yeah, I was like, well,
you just get done with it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I did. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
In fact, when I signed off from the South Florida,
I said good night from Florida. I looked at the
clock and it was so I'll see you in thirteen hours.
For basketball, it was eleven o'clock Central time, eleven twelve
or eleven twelveleven fifteen, something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
So the plane landed about three fifteen. You bust from
the airport to UTSA and then from Utsa to here
where a couple of guys leave their cars, and then
I go home from there. So yeah, I went to
bed at five point thirty. But hey, that's the life
I chose, so I'm not complaining.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's fun.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But anyway, we'll talk golf here and things going well
at the academy. I did have a chance to go
out there last week in practice and then hit walls
the next day as well.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So you guys are rolling as usual.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
It's it's very busy and it's been uh, it's been
really good. Yeah night. We have Saturday clinics that just
ended with our juniors. We're going to start another one
in this starting today, matter of fact, and then we
have their Christmas camp that already is almost full, so
we're going to open up more more spots. So it's
(02:03):
been really, really good. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think COVID we've talked about this in the past.
There wasn't very much that was good about COVID except
the fact that it got kids off the couch and outside.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
To play golf.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I remember about ten years ago going up to Oklahoma,
and playing a golf course that I grew up playing
and it was two o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday,
and there were no kids on the golf course.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And now you're seeing that kind of come.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Back, and I think it's really good because it's one
thing to take up the game when you're twenty five
and you're doing it because of business purposes and it's
a place for you to go mingle with your clients.
But it's another thing if you learn the game from
the beginning, and even if you don't become a pro golfer.
I mean I've never I've always had the putting and
green contest, this eight footers for the Masters or whatever.
(02:48):
But realistically, I was never going to play pro golf.
But I still love the game, and I to me,
it's the one thing that I can still be competitive at,
whether I'm playing against somebody or I'm playing against the
golf course. I'm measuring success every day. And I think
the more the younger you start, the more enthusiasm you're
going to have for it, the more imagination you're going
(03:10):
to have when you start to learn the physics of
the golf swing, and it's the game of a lifetime.
As we've talked about, you can Gary players breaking eighty
at ninety years old.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It's what you'll see at San Pedro in the driving
range at night is young high school boys running around
all right, that don't play on a high school team,
that are picking up the game because they find it
(03:40):
a lot of fun. Last night, there was a seventh
some coming down hole number nine at eight o'clock at
night and we're just standing there and a good friend
of mine came in from Vermont. He was a director
of golf at Casper, Wyoming at Three Crowns, and he
was in for a lesson and he goes, it's amazing.
(04:00):
Those guys look like they're under the age of eighteen.
I go, yeah, and none of them play high school golf.
So the game is really really popular right now, and
I don't think it's going anywhere. They found the sport
that'sy he loved.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So last week on the Jeff Trailer Show out at
Rucka and Martillo, we had Dan Dishman, Utsa's one of
Utsa's three starting tight ends, and I said, so what
do you do when you're not playing golf or the subject,
I mean playing football? We got on that subject and
he said, well, I'm working on my golf game. And
I said, well, how good of a golfer are you?
And Jeff goes he's getting better and Dan said, well,
(04:37):
I finally broke ninety.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And I said how long you been playing? He goes, oh,
just a year or two.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And I said, so, what is it about golf that
makes you want to keep playing it?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Are you using the same skills or thoughts or whatever
you had when you were playing football? And he said, well,
you think it looks easy until you do it, and
then it pisses you off that it's not easy, so
you keep playing until you make it easy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, And it's that athletic mindset.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, you know when you when you play basketball or
football and you're all NBA or you're all NFL or whatever,
and then you go play golf and shoot one hundred
and seven, you're god, oh yeah, wait a second, I'm
an athlete that should be better than that. And it
drives those athletes insane almost to get better.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh yeah. The you go out there and you see,
like I have a lot of young men that are
in college now and they're playing. They send me videos
I got online videos. Okay that I'm teaching online. These
young men that they are in fraternities, they have fraternity
(05:42):
tournaments now. So all the fraternities at University of Texas
are playing each other in golf tournaments. They got bags,
they got shirts, they got hats, you got the you know,
you have club golf at college now, right for all
the young players that played in high school, they go,
you know, I don't really want to play in college.
I'm going to be an engineer or something. And it's
(06:03):
the same thing the National Championship was at Pinehurst last year,
I mean, and it's all paid for.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So I saw really cool.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I saw a kind of was like a video or
maybe a story. There was a group of college kids
that had gone to college together and now they're young
adults and there's like twelve of them and every year
they do a golf trip. And every year I do
a golf trip too with it's usually four to six
somewhere in there, but usually four.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And what they do is every year they draw six.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And six for teams and they play four days at a
golf on a golf trip Ryder Cup style, and they
all pitching up in money into the pot and win
the winner of the Rider Cup. For them wins the
Rider Cup.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It's extremely if you would have told me, you know,
ten to twelve years ago, how popular the game would
be right now instead.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Because it was like this.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It was after Tiger got hurt and couldn't play a lot,
we started to see a little bit of a decline.
We did yeah, and then COVID comes on and it's like, well,
what else were we going to do. Let's go play golf.
We can be outside and not have to wear a mask.
So that kind of I think sparked the interest for
a lot of people, especially young kids who couldn't were
encouraged to get outside, to not just sit around playing
(07:18):
video games all day. Some of them still do, but
it also gets them the opportunity to, you know, get
outside and play golf and learn the game. And that's
that's when you're first starting and you don't really have
any hindrances or or any thought process. You let your
imagination run a little bit wilder. When you're thirty years
old and the instructor says do it this way, and
(07:38):
do it this.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Way, and do it this way.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You don't think about, Okay, how can I make this look,
you just kind of play golf swing instead of play golf.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That's that's totally true. And you know what's interesting, and
he is all the fathers that bring their daughters out.
It's the tea lines full, that's what young they saw it. Yesterday.
He had their twin and they couldn't have been five
six years old out there with her pink set of
us kids and their outfit and their dad's trying to
(08:08):
teach me how to play.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I did about a year ago. I asked one of
my kids.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They were sitting around the house doing nothing, and I said,
what are you doing? And the youngest one and I said,
you want to go to the driving range and get
my phone. I want you to film my swing. I
want to look at my swing. And you know, inside
dad deal. This was just to get her to come
with me for an hour or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But she did.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And I said, okay, I had like twelve or thirteen
balls left that I didn't want to hit and she
I just gave her one of my c I think
it was a wadge or something. I don't remember what
it was, or maybe because I didn't have any clubs
for her. I don't have any kids clubs anymore, and
the clubs don't fit her. There's no way she can
swing when I'm swinging. But when she finally made contact
(08:52):
and hit the ball, it was like, Wow, that was awesome.
And that not that she's going to go play golf.
Their schedule is not going to let it. But you know,
just the spark in a player's eyes when they hit
a solid shot that goes one hundred yards straight with
their aimen is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I want you to think about it for a second.
How amazing is it that you have a stick all right,
with a rock on the ground and you're swinging one
hundred miles an hour. You really don't see the ball
when you hit it, and you hit it and the
ball goes flying in the air. It's an amazement every
time we stand over a shot and try to hit
(09:29):
it and we hit it, and it's like, I can't
believe I just hit the ball that's sitting on the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, and Robin Williams has the skin. I'm sure a
lot of people have seen about the scott'sn't been at
this crazy game that you hit a rock into a
gopher hole.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That's a funny skit, but.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's it's not untrue. And I've been told this story.
I don't know how true that it actually is. Golf
has been around so long and golf floor has so
long that you know, golf was twelve or fourteen or
twenty one holes. But one day Scotsman decided to take
a shot after every round, after every hole, and he
ran out of whiskey on the eighteenth hole, so that
was the end of the round. And that's how why
(10:08):
I wear it eighteen holes. Now, that could be true,
so that that's a pretty cool thing. But I think
it's just to see young kids playing, to see the
growth of the game starting to kind of come back
what we saw in the renaissance of the Tiger days
in the late nineties.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And I don't know how much golf they watch, but
they're at least playing it, and that's the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
They watch a little bit. I've had a couple of
kids that said they went to the Ryder Cup. They
watch a little bit, not a whole lot. Why don't
you watching the game? Well, like I'm playing playing in
one out and play well there.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I remember when Nicholas won the tournament the Masters in
twenty and nineteen eighty six. I watched it on VHS videotape.
I was playing golf that day. I didn't think there
was any way he was going to win. It was
either going to be Norman or Savvy. And I was like,
I'll watch one of those guys win it. When I
get back on video and I go in the pro
shop and they go, You're not gonna believe what happened.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Nicholas just won. No way.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I was sitting there, I was I was a big
Sevy fan, and I was hoping Sevie was going to win,
and then all of a sudden, Nicholas was playing great.
You know, back then it was our TVs were barely color.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, it was a bad It was a bad color TV.
And it might have been I think mine was like
thirty six inches and that was the biggest TV you
could get.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Sitting on the ground in the box and the do
you hit? And you were just sitting there going I
wonder where it went?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know, you know, you didn't get the aerial shot,
you didn't get the high stuff or shot trace or
any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
All Right, we've got some live golf news to share
with you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
We'll talk about a bunch of golf tips, tigers, a
future on the Champions Tour, the Ryder Cup news, all
that kind of stuff coming up.
Now from sports Radio AM seven sixty to 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 City Golf Trail. Now on
the first t Andy Everett.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Here we go on a Saturday morning. Yes, I have returned.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I did take the I did take the afternoon show
off yesterday after a Thursday night football game, a flight
home that got us home at four thirty in the morning,
and a basketball game yesterday afternoon. So I'm back and
we'll talk golf for the next hour. Joe Caruso joins
us from the Joe Cruso Golf Academy. You said you
hear me all the time.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Afternoon a basketball game at one o'clock. Yeah, I was like, well,
you just get done with it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I did. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
In fact, when I signed off from the South Florida,
I said good night from Florida. I looked at the
clock and it was so I'll see you in thirteen hours.
For basketball, it was eleven o'clock Central time, eleven twelve
or eleven twelveleven fifteen, something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
So the plane landed about three fifteen. You bust from
the airport to UTSA and then from Utsa to here
where a couple of guys leave their cars, and then
I go home from there. So yeah, I went to
bed at five point thirty. But hey, that's the life
I chose, so I'm not complaining.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's fun.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But anyway, we'll talk golf here and things going well
at the academy. I did have a chance to go
out there last week in practice and then hit walls
the next day as well.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So you guys are rolling as usual.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
It's it's very busy and it's been uh, it's been
really good. Yeah night. We have Saturday clinics that just
ended with our juniors. We're going to start another one
in this starting today, matter of fact, and then we
have their Christmas camp that already is almost full, so
we're going to open up more more spots. So it's
(02:03):
been really, really good. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think COVID we've talked about this in the past.
There wasn't very much that was good about COVID except
the fact that it got kids off the couch and outside.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
To play golf.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I remember about ten years ago going up to Oklahoma,
and playing a golf course that I grew up playing
and it was two o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday,
and there were no kids on the golf course.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And now you're seeing that kind of come.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Back, and I think it's really good because it's one
thing to take up the game when you're twenty five
and you're doing it because of business purposes and it's
a place for you to go mingle with your clients.
But it's another thing if you learn the game from
the beginning, and even if you don't become a pro golfer.
I mean I've never I've always had the putting and
green contest, this eight footers for the Masters or whatever.
(02:48):
But realistically, I was never going to play pro golf.
But I still love the game, and I to me,
it's the one thing that I can still be competitive at,
whether I'm playing against somebody or I'm playing against the
golf course. I'm measuring success every day. And I think
the more the younger you start, the more enthusiasm you're
going to have for it, the more imagination you're going
(03:10):
to have when you start to learn the physics of
the golf swing, and it's the game of a lifetime.
As we've talked about, you can Gary players breaking eighty
at ninety years old.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It's what you'll see at San Pedro in the driving
range at night is young high school boys running around
all right, that don't play on a high school team,
that are picking up the game because they find it
(03:40):
a lot of fun. Last night, there was a seventh
some coming down hole number nine at eight o'clock at
night and we're just standing there and a good friend
of mine came in from Vermont. He was a director
of golf at Casper, Wyoming at Three Crowns, and he
was in for a lesson and he goes, it's amazing.
(04:00):
Those guys look like they're under the age of eighteen.
I go, yeah, and none of them play high school golf.
So the game is really really popular right now, and
I don't think it's going anywhere. They found the sport
that'sy he loved.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So last week on the Jeff Trailer Show out at
Rucka and Martillo, we had Dan Dishman, Utsa's one of
Utsa's three starting tight ends, and I said, so what
do you do when you're not playing golf or the subject,
I mean playing football? We got on that subject and
he said, well, I'm working on my golf game. And
I said, well, how good of a golfer are you?
And Jeff goes he's getting better and Dan said, well,
(04:37):
I finally broke ninety.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And I said how long you been playing? He goes, oh,
just a year or two.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And I said, so, what is it about golf that
makes you want to keep playing it?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Are you using the same skills or thoughts or whatever
you had when you were playing football? And he said, well,
you think it looks easy until you do it, and
then it pisses you off that it's not easy, so
you keep playing until you make it easy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, And it's that athletic mindset.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, you know when you when you play basketball or
football and you're all NBA or you're all NFL or whatever,
and then you go play golf and shoot one hundred
and seven, you're god, oh yeah, wait a second, I'm
an athlete that should be better than that. And it
drives those athletes insane almost to get better.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh yeah. The you go out there and you see,
like I have a lot of young men that are
in college now and they're playing. They send me videos
I got online videos. Okay that I'm teaching online. These
young men that they are in fraternities, they have fraternity
(05:42):
tournaments now. So all the fraternities at University of Texas
are playing each other in golf tournaments. They got bags,
they got shirts, they got hats, you got the you know,
you have club golf at college now, right for all
the young players that played in high school, they go,
you know, I don't really want to play in college.
I'm going to be an engineer or something. And it's
(06:03):
the same thing the National Championship was at Pinehurst last year,
I mean, and it's all paid for.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So I saw really cool.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I saw a kind of was like a video or
maybe a story. There was a group of college kids
that had gone to college together and now they're young
adults and there's like twelve of them and every year
they do a golf trip. And every year I do
a golf trip too with it's usually four to six
somewhere in there, but usually four.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And what they do is every year they draw six.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And six for teams and they play four days at a
golf on a golf trip Ryder Cup style, and they
all pitching up in money into the pot and win
the winner of the Rider Cup. For them wins the
Rider Cup.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It's extremely if you would have told me, you know,
ten to twelve years ago, how popular the game would
be right now instead.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Because it was like this.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It was after Tiger got hurt and couldn't play a lot,
we started to see a little bit of a decline.
We did yeah, and then COVID comes on and it's like, well,
what else were we going to do. Let's go play golf.
We can be outside and not have to wear a mask.
So that kind of I think sparked the interest for
a lot of people, especially young kids who couldn't were
encouraged to get outside, to not just sit around playing
(07:18):
video games all day. Some of them still do, but
it also gets them the opportunity to, you know, get
outside and play golf and learn the game. And that's
that's when you're first starting and you don't really have
any hindrances or or any thought process. You let your
imagination run a little bit wilder. When you're thirty years
old and the instructor says do it this way, and
(07:38):
do it this.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Way, and do it this way.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You don't think about, Okay, how can I make this look,
you just kind of play golf swing instead of play golf.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That's that's totally true. And you know what's interesting, and
he is all the fathers that bring their daughters out.
It's the tea lines full, that's what young they saw it. Yesterday.
He had their twin and they couldn't have been five
six years old out there with her pink set of
us kids and their outfit and their dad's trying to
(08:08):
teach me how to play.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I did about a year ago. I asked one of
my kids.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They were sitting around the house doing nothing, and I said,
what are you doing? And the youngest one and I said,
you want to go to the driving range and get
my phone. I want you to film my swing. I
want to look at my swing. And you know, inside
dad deal. This was just to get her to come
with me for an hour or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But she did.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And I said, okay, I had like twelve or thirteen
balls left that I didn't want to hit and she
I just gave her one of my c I think
it was a wadge or something. I don't remember what
it was, or maybe because I didn't have any clubs
for her. I don't have any kids clubs anymore, and
the clubs don't fit her. There's no way she can
swing when I'm swinging. But when she finally made contact
(08:52):
and hit the ball, it was like, Wow, that was awesome.
And that not that she's going to go play golf.
Their schedule is not going to let it. But you know,
just the spark in a player's eyes when they hit
a solid shot that goes one hundred yards straight with
their aimen is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I want you to think about it for a second.
How amazing is it that you have a stick all right,
with a rock on the ground and you're swinging one
hundred miles an hour. You really don't see the ball
when you hit it, and you hit it and the
ball goes flying in the air. It's an amazement every
time we stand over a shot and try to hit
(09:29):
it and we hit it, and it's like, I can't
believe I just hit the ball that's sitting on the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, and Robin Williams has the skin. I'm sure a
lot of people have seen about the scott'sn't been at
this crazy game that you hit a rock into a
gopher hole.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That's a funny skit, but.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's it's not untrue. And I've been told this story.
I don't know how true that it actually is. Golf
has been around so long and golf floor has so
long that you know, golf was twelve or fourteen or
twenty one holes. But one day Scotsman decided to take
a shot after every round, after every hole, and he
ran out of whiskey on the eighteenth hole, so that
was the end of the round. And that's how why
(10:08):
I wear it eighteen holes. Now, that could be true,
so that that's a pretty cool thing. But I think
it's just to see young kids playing, to see the
growth of the game starting to kind of come back
what we saw in the renaissance of the Tiger days
in the late nineties.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And I don't know how much golf they watch, but
they're at least playing it, and that's the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
They watch a little bit. I've had a couple of
kids that said they went to the Ryder Cup. They
watch a little bit, not a whole lot. Why don't
you watching the game? Well, like I'm playing playing in
one out and play well there.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I remember when Nicholas won the tournament the Masters in
twenty and nineteen eighty six. I watched it on VHS videotape.
I was playing golf that day. I didn't think there
was any way he was going to win. It was
either going to be Norman or Savvy. And I was like,
I'll watch one of those guys win it. When I
get back on video and I go in the pro
shop and they go, You're not gonna believe what happened.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Nicholas just won. No way.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I was sitting there, I was I was a big
Sevy fan, and I was hoping Sevie was going to win,
and then all of a sudden, Nicholas was playing great.
You know, back then it was our TVs were barely color.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, it was a bad It was a bad color TV.
And it might have been I think mine was like
thirty six inches and that was the biggest TV you
could get.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Sitting on the ground in the box and the do
you hit? And you were just sitting there going I
wonder where it went?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know, you know, you didn't get the aerial shot,
you didn't get the high stuff or shot trace or
any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
All Right, we've got some live golf news to share
with you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
We'll talk about a bunch of golf tips, tigers, a
future on the Champions Tour, the Ryder Cup news, all
that kind of stuff coming up.
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