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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. The Golf Show
brought to.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You by MK Golf Tech, Joe Caruso's Golf Academy, and
by Alamo City Golf Trail.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Now on the first t Andy Everett.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, here we go and welcome to the show,
and thank you all for being with us. Yes, I
am back from Scotland after almost two weeks across the pond.
We'll talk about that in a little bit, but we've
got some other things to get to on the show
as well. We'll also talk about next week's US Open,
some club fitting stuff, all.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Kinds of deals to get to on the program. Today.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The team is all here from MK Golf Tech. It's
Mark Valier, Kurt James, and the owner Keith Becker. Await,
welcome all of you guys to the show. And I
know you guys have been super busy for people with
clubs and opening up a store in Marble Falls this week.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
That's right, Yeah, thanks for having us. Andy a little
bit closer there, if you can. Yeah, thanks thanks for
having us. Andy. Real excited this coming Monday, we'll be
opening a new location there in Cottonwood Shores, so serving
the whole Lake LBJ area, and really excited to get
to get up there and get going.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
All right, Mark, you told me you've been up there
several times to see what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's what about an hour drive from here.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It's an hour and a half, you know, And it's
easy drive up to eighty one, as long as you
don't run into a little bit of a issue with
yesterday with a big wreck in the middle of Johnson City.
I don't know how you're going to have a massive
wreck in the middle of Johnson City at forty five
miles no hour, but there was a big two airlife
helicopters and stuff. But yeah, and I will say this,
it is going to be the best build shop as
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far as club is concerned, in this whole region. There's
not a bigger, better build shop in South Texas that
I know of. It is is that better than the
one that we have here in San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's what makes it better.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
It's just bigger, it's more spacious, and yeah, it's it's
the same layout. Basically, it's just bigger and better and
it's just easier to move around in and and uh
but yeah, it's really really good and it's the fitting side.
Is is really cool looking. It's a good looking place.
What are your thoughts, Kirk, Yeah, I think it looks great.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's I'm really excited to see what happens when we
get where we get it open.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So Monday at nine o'clock, you're ready to roll.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We've got our first fitting booked at nine am on Monday,
so we'll be ready to roll. We'll be Monday through
Thursday nine to four pm. That's going to be kind
of our initial hours and we're going to go from
their subject to change, but we'll see kind of what
the customers tell us and and maybe we'll be open more.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Lots of golfers at Marble Falls, Escondidos in the area.
There's all kinds of resort and public golf courses. I've
driven by that place, Delaware Springs and Burnet a million time.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I's never been there, but I hear it's great. It's
none of our springs.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Isn't a bad place to go, And there's also actually
I didn't know this but there's actually a golf course
in Marble Falls as well.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I don't remember the name of.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
It, Yeah, Meadow Lakes. And then Atlanto's got a golf course.
Kingsland has two golf courses, lots lots of golf west
of Austin coming out seventy one that direction, and then
of course horse You Bay has four golf courses there.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, all right, all right, let's talk about Scotland twenty
twenty five for me, Mark and Kirk went last year.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You're going this year, correct, Keith?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I am.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I leave on the twentieth. Very excited, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Then, and so tell me some of the places I
know you got. You're trying to get on at Saint Andrews,
but there's other places that you're going to play on
this trip with with this group.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You're going with yep, playing Carnoustie, playing Royal Troon and Turnberry,
so real excited for that. The group is going to
be playing some more courses North Berwick, a hendful of others.
But my wife's going with me, so we're gonna kind
of do a little bit of golf and a little
bit of sight.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So you'll you'll, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You're gonna say, except ar roads and a lot of
a lot of castles and old buildings. But whatever it
takes is at that's great. I've never played, true, that's
the one course on your list I have not played.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You're gonna love Turnberry.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
They reopened the else, of course, a couple of weeks ago.
There was some vandalism there in the spring and they
had to shut that down for two or three weeks
or two or three months to get it fixed. But
you'll enjoy that and hopefully you get an old course
tea time as well. All Right, this was my fifth
trip to Saint Andrews into Scotland, and this was not
necessarily built around Saint Andrews. The only downside of this
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trip is of all the trips I've been before, this
was the worst weatherwise. We got wind every day most
we got five days of fifteen to twenty miles an hour,
We got one day twenty to twenty five, and then
we got another five days where it was thirty plus.
I'm pretty sure the last day at Saint Andrews there
would not have been an Open championship played that day
(04:56):
in those conditions, because the Greens from a speed standpoint
where exactly where you'd want them to be. But the
ball was oscillating on the greens. It was even oscillating
when you had it teed up and still moving a
little bit when right as you were making impact. But
it's still the old course. It's still a lot of fun.
And I would say the highlight of my.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Trip was a seventy four at Merefield. Wow, yeah, that's
pretty nice. That might even make the cut. Yeah, well,
and I hoped it might.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I played U Mirfield in twenty sixteen and we got
there kind of in a rush because we were staying
in Saint Andrews. The driver got us there late. We
barely got to warm up. They were rushing us to
the tee and I didn't hit the ball. The key
to to Merefield, and basically the key I think to
most Scottish golf courses is don't hit it in the weeds,
because there you're not going to get the ball out.
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And I had two drives that weren't very good, but
they got lucky enough to where the lie was good
enough where I could advance it back and play. But
I really wanted to play that golf course because I
felt like if I could drive the ball and play
I could play it well and I was able to
do that. I mean my first ever eagle in Scotland. Now,
(06:07):
the par five fifth hole is was playing right at
five hundred yards from our tee. There is a protea
that's another sixty yards back or forty yards back, whatever
it was. But to give you an illustration of the wind,
it was a driver eight iron par five right and
a ten foot or for eagle, and I say driver
eight iron. The pin was back left and the green
(06:28):
is fifty yards long, and the ball landed.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
On the front of the green, and the wind and
the and the slope took it to the hole. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
No, I always describe Scottish links golf in general is
par is irrelevant. The yardage is irrelevant. It's all about
the wind in which way it blows, because like you said,
a five hundred yard part five can be short, a
three hundred yard part four can be long.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, okay, It's like it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Depends on if you're going into the wind.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'll give you this illustration. And you and I have
talked about this. When you guys played at Castle Stewart
on your trip last year, you could see the golf
course across the bay called Fort Ros and Roast Markie,
and you asked me about that. We did play that.
There was a hole, I think it was thirteen and
fourteen were parallel holes. Thirteen was down winds three twenty
three and there's a whole bunch of bunkers out there
(07:20):
at about two ten and the caddy said, no, no,
you can go for it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You don't need a lay up. You'll probably drive this
green and I did.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I was all the measurements that you see in Scotland
are usually front of the green, not middle of the green,
and so three twenty three front and I hit it
to about about four steps on the green. So three
twenty seven is how far it went wind aided. The
next hole was about three point fifty going the other direction,
and it was driver for hybrid. I hit them both
well and barely got there. So that's a ten club wind.
(07:48):
It's how I at that up.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah? You ready for that, Keith, Yeah, we'll see. I
don't play as much as scouts go to have fun.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You just got to play every shot and just move
on to the next one.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And here's the one thing I will encourage people that
are going for the first time. The distance doesn't necessarily matter. Yeah,
it does for pros, and it does for Rory, and
it does for Scottie Scheffler and all that kind of stuff.
But if you're going to go over there and spend
that much money and walk that many rounds of golf,
(08:20):
have fun.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Check your ego before you get there.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
If you're playing a seven thousand yard golf course, you're
going to be hitting a lot of clubs with covers on.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Them more than once exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So would I would suggest that, I would say, I
would suggest that, But Mierfield was the highlight of that trip.
I would also recommend that if you are planning on
driving in Scotland that you do so with a lot
of carefulness. Now I did it because of expense, and
the other three on the trip wanted to be the
backseat driver, and they were. But all I did was
(08:55):
navigate on the left side of the road in some
very narrow areas.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of the country with buses coming at you from the
other direction, and you have you have about a foot
clearance if that right, if that, and then when you
get in the roundabouts that it's like the roundabouts to.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Me, I figure those out pretty quickly. Yeah, you approach
the roundabout. If there's anybody in the roundabout, you stop
if there if there's people, if it's clear, you go
and you don't stop. Never stop once you're in the roundabout. Yeah,
and the and the GPS says, you know, nine o'clock,
twelve o'clock, three o'clock. If you're exiting at at nine
or twelve o'clock, you're in the first or second lane.
(09:34):
And if you're exiting in the in the nine o'clock lane,
then you're in the in the in the far inside lane.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I got the roundabouts down, pat.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's driving a van that's wider than the truck that
I drive on a road that's narrower than the roads
we drive on here. And they don't have you know,
when you go north and south, they have highways, but
when you go east and west they have roads. And
and the other thing too, it's crazy, is that they
park in the middle of a major highway. You're driving
(10:02):
down the road on the left side, and all of
a sudden you come up and there's a park car
in the middle.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's off to the shoulder.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
But now you've got to veer into the other lane
to pass twenty cars that are parked along the side
of the road.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Looky than me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We have a Yeah, I would suggest that you hire
one if it's their shoulder. It's the only place you
could buy a shoulder. Yeah, well, they don't have room
for shoulders. Have to mmin up domain somebody's farm if
they did that. And there I was reading this story
and talking to this guy at ROSEMARKI and he was like,
when do you go to Aberdeen. We're going to leave
on Saturday or Sunday, whenever it was. And he said,
(10:38):
so when you make that drive over there, you're going
to be driving on some very narrow roads. And I said,
are they ever going to expand it? And he goes, well,
most of the people in Scotland want it to happen,
except those who have those rural farms that have been
in families for six hundred years and they don't want
to mess with that that and they would have to
take out you know, it would have to be a lot,
but it'd be ten feet on either side of the road.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Here's the thing I find really interesting about Scottish golf,
and I wish we had this here, but we don't.
Probably never will. I'll use fort Roasters and Roast Marquee
as an example. It is a town of probably fifteen
hundred people and twelve hundred of them belong to the
club and they pay five hundred pounds a year and
they get unlimited golf right that is a bargain right there,
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and they're all member of the club is all member owned,
and they hire a board to run it, and they
hire a pro to run the pro shop and they
get the revenue from that, and they get revenue from
guest fees. They pay five hundred pounds a year. The
guest fee there was ninety pounds. They have caddies if
you get them far enough in advance. But all these
little bitty towns have a golf course. There's not a
(11:43):
town in Scotland I can find that didn't have a
golf course next to it. Right, well, that's it'd be
like if you drove up, you know, towards Bandera and
Pipe Creek had a golf course that there are six
hundred people in Pipe Creek in Fourida and belong to
the golf club. And then you go to Bandera and
Lono and all these places and there's another golf course
(12:03):
and it's all owned by the people and that in
the community.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It's a good concept. Let's get it started.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, all right, just not enough golf fanatics here in
the small town.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, I guess that's all right, fanatics.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And the last thing I will suggest that you do
is get your legs in shape. Seven miles when you
haven't done it in a while is taxing. And then
tried doing that eleven straight days in a row.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It's pretty good. You did a good job. I'm proud
of it. So you're ready to walk up. They're not
giving you a card, Keith.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, No, we're ready. We're ready to walk. You can't
get me playing four times.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Also the courses can you can get a.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Card if you have a doctor if you have a
doctor's note an and you're over sixty five?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yeah, well so you qualified qualified on both both cases.
All right, But I did at one of the courses.
They didn't have carts, but they have carts there, and
I met a guy, I met a caddie, and.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
They actually pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
They picked me up the that worked there where he
would pick me up and take me to my ball, okay,
you know, and it was really cool. You had to
walk up. You didn't have to walk up the mountain,
go to right. And then I've become friends with that
caddy and they his daughter. His daughter works in Houston
and they he was on a radio.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Well, if what we're talking about is, uh, the the
night till at Cruton Bay is up on a hill
and it's and it's probably you need a sherpa and
a and a guy to get you up that hill,
and then you need oxygen once you're at the top
of that hill. It's about a i'd say, one hundred
(13:37):
yard walk and it's straight up.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, and it was it was all I was actually
my best round. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And so you're gonna have to, uh, You're gonna have
to make sure that that you take a little that
breath of your playing Cruton Bay. The last thing I'll
say on the Scotland thing is you can do all
this on your own. You can book everything online. You
just have to have the patience to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And the and don't necessarily disc out the courses that
are not famous. You always everybody wants to play the
Old Course, everybody wants to play Mirfield, our Carnoustie, and
those are all great golf courses, and they're going to
cost you three hundred plus pounds to play them. But
for seventy five to one hundred and twenty five pounds
you can play some really fun golf courses that are
true Scottish golf from decades and centuries ago. All Right,
(14:21):
Oatmant's going to host the Open next week, and we'll
tell you a history lesson about that and get you
some thoughts on what's going to take place and what
is Basically, if Scotti Schefler's in the tournament, it's now
the Scotti Scheffler Invitational.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
We'll talk about that next. It's a golf show on
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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. The Golf Show
brought to.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You by MK Golf Tech, Joe Caruso's Golf Academy, and
by Alamo City Golf Trail.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Now on the first t Andy Everett.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, here we go and welcome to the show,
and thank you all for being with us. Yes, I
am back from Scotland after almost two weeks across the pond.
We'll talk about that in a little bit, but we've
got some other things to get to on the show
as well. We'll also talk about next week's US Open,
some club fitting stuff, all.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Kinds of deals to get to on the program. Today.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The team is all here from MK Golf Tech. It's
Mark Valier, Kurt James, and the owner Keith Becker. Await,
welcome all of you guys to the show. And I
know you guys have been super busy for people with
clubs and opening up a store in Marble Falls this week.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
That's right, Yeah, thanks for having us. Andy a little
bit closer there, if you can. Yeah, thanks thanks for
having us. Andy. Real excited this coming Monday, we'll be
opening a new location there in Cottonwood Shores, so serving
the whole Lake LBJ area, and really excited to get
to get up there and get going.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
All right, Mark, you told me you've been up there
several times to see what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's what about an hour drive from here.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It's an hour and a half, you know, And it's
easy drive up to eighty one, as long as you
don't run into a little bit of a issue with
yesterday with a big wreck in the middle of Johnson City.
I don't know how you're going to have a massive
wreck in the middle of Johnson City at forty five
miles no hour, but there was a big two airlife
helicopters and stuff. But yeah, and I will say this,
it is going to be the best build shop as
(01:50):
far as club is concerned, in this whole region. There's
not a bigger, better build shop in South Texas that
I know of. It is is that better than the
one that we have here in San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's what makes it better.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
It's just bigger, it's more spacious, and yeah, it's it's
the same layout. Basically, it's just bigger and better and
it's just easier to move around in and and uh
but yeah, it's really really good and it's the fitting side.
Is is really cool looking. It's a good looking place.
What are your thoughts, Kirk, Yeah, I think it looks great.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's I'm really excited to see what happens when we
get where we get it open.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So Monday at nine o'clock, you're ready to roll.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We've got our first fitting booked at nine am on Monday,
so we'll be ready to roll. We'll be Monday through
Thursday nine to four pm. That's going to be kind
of our initial hours and we're going to go from
their subject to change, but we'll see kind of what
the customers tell us and and maybe we'll be open more.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Lots of golfers at Marble Falls, Escondidos in the area.
There's all kinds of resort and public golf courses. I've
driven by that place, Delaware Springs and Burnet a million time.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I's never been there, but I hear it's great. It's
none of our springs.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Isn't a bad place to go, And there's also actually
I didn't know this but there's actually a golf course
in Marble Falls as well.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I don't remember the name of.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
It, Yeah, Meadow Lakes. And then Atlanto's got a golf course.
Kingsland has two golf courses, lots lots of golf west
of Austin coming out seventy one that direction, and then
of course horse You Bay has four golf courses there.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, all right, all right, let's talk about Scotland twenty
twenty five for me, Mark and Kirk went last year.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You're going this year, correct, Keith?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I am.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I leave on the twentieth. Very excited, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Then, and so tell me some of the places I
know you got. You're trying to get on at Saint Andrews,
but there's other places that you're going to play on
this trip with with this group.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You're going with yep, playing Carnoustie, playing Royal Troon and Turnberry,
so real excited for that. The group is going to
be playing some more courses North Berwick, a hendful of others.
But my wife's going with me, so we're gonna kind
of do a little bit of golf and a little
bit of sight.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So you'll you'll, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You're gonna say, except ar roads and a lot of
a lot of castles and old buildings. But whatever it
takes is at that's great. I've never played, true, that's
the one course on your list I have not played.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You're gonna love Turnberry.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
They reopened the else, of course, a couple of weeks ago.
There was some vandalism there in the spring and they
had to shut that down for two or three weeks
or two or three months to get it fixed. But
you'll enjoy that and hopefully you get an old course
tea time as well. All Right, this was my fifth
trip to Saint Andrews into Scotland, and this was not
necessarily built around Saint Andrews. The only downside of this
(04:32):
trip is of all the trips I've been before, this
was the worst weatherwise. We got wind every day most
we got five days of fifteen to twenty miles an hour,
We got one day twenty to twenty five, and then
we got another five days where it was thirty plus.
I'm pretty sure the last day at Saint Andrews there
would not have been an Open championship played that day
(04:56):
in those conditions, because the Greens from a speed standpoint
where exactly where you'd want them to be. But the
ball was oscillating on the greens. It was even oscillating
when you had it teed up and still moving a
little bit when right as you were making impact. But
it's still the old course. It's still a lot of fun.
And I would say the highlight of my.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Trip was a seventy four at Merefield. Wow, yeah, that's
pretty nice. That might even make the cut. Yeah, well,
and I hoped it might.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I played U Mirfield in twenty sixteen and we got
there kind of in a rush because we were staying
in Saint Andrews. The driver got us there late. We
barely got to warm up. They were rushing us to
the tee and I didn't hit the ball. The key
to to Merefield, and basically the key I think to
most Scottish golf courses is don't hit it in the weeds,
because there you're not going to get the ball out.
(05:47):
And I had two drives that weren't very good, but
they got lucky enough to where the lie was good
enough where I could advance it back and play. But
I really wanted to play that golf course because I
felt like if I could drive the ball and play
I could play it well and I was able to
do that. I mean my first ever eagle in Scotland. Now,
(06:07):
the par five fifth hole is was playing right at
five hundred yards from our tee. There is a protea
that's another sixty yards back or forty yards back, whatever
it was. But to give you an illustration of the wind,
it was a driver eight iron par five right and
a ten foot or for eagle, and I say driver
eight iron. The pin was back left and the green
(06:28):
is fifty yards long, and the ball landed.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
On the front of the green, and the wind and
the and the slope took it to the hole. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
No, I always describe Scottish links golf in general is
par is irrelevant. The yardage is irrelevant. It's all about
the wind in which way it blows, because like you said,
a five hundred yard part five can be short, a
three hundred yard part four can be long.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, okay, It's like it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Depends on if you're going into the wind.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'll give you this illustration. And you and I have
talked about this. When you guys played at Castle Stewart
on your trip last year, you could see the golf
course across the bay called Fort Ros and Roast Markie,
and you asked me about that. We did play that.
There was a hole, I think it was thirteen and
fourteen were parallel holes. Thirteen was down winds three twenty
three and there's a whole bunch of bunkers out there
(07:20):
at about two ten and the caddy said, no, no,
you can go for it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You don't need a lay up. You'll probably drive this
green and I did.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I was all the measurements that you see in Scotland
are usually front of the green, not middle of the green,
and so three twenty three front and I hit it
to about about four steps on the green. So three
twenty seven is how far it went wind aided. The
next hole was about three point fifty going the other direction,
and it was driver for hybrid. I hit them both
well and barely got there. So that's a ten club wind.
(07:48):
It's how I at that up.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah? You ready for that, Keith, Yeah, we'll see. I
don't play as much as scouts go to have fun.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You just got to play every shot and just move
on to the next one.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And here's the one thing I will encourage people that
are going for the first time. The distance doesn't necessarily matter. Yeah,
it does for pros, and it does for Rory, and
it does for Scottie Scheffler and all that kind of stuff.
But if you're going to go over there and spend
that much money and walk that many rounds of golf,
(08:20):
have fun.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Check your ego before you get there.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
If you're playing a seven thousand yard golf course, you're
going to be hitting a lot of clubs with covers on.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Them more than once exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So would I would suggest that, I would say, I
would suggest that, But Mierfield was the highlight of that trip.
I would also recommend that if you are planning on
driving in Scotland that you do so with a lot
of carefulness. Now I did it because of expense, and
the other three on the trip wanted to be the
backseat driver, and they were. But all I did was
(08:55):
navigate on the left side of the road in some
very narrow areas.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of the country with buses coming at you from the
other direction, and you have you have about a foot
clearance if that right, if that, and then when you
get in the roundabouts that it's like the roundabouts to.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Me, I figure those out pretty quickly. Yeah, you approach
the roundabout. If there's anybody in the roundabout, you stop
if there if there's people, if it's clear, you go
and you don't stop. Never stop once you're in the roundabout. Yeah,
and the and the GPS says, you know, nine o'clock,
twelve o'clock, three o'clock. If you're exiting at at nine
or twelve o'clock, you're in the first or second lane.
(09:34):
And if you're exiting in the in the nine o'clock lane,
then you're in the in the in the far inside lane.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I got the roundabouts down, pat.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's driving a van that's wider than the truck that
I drive on a road that's narrower than the roads
we drive on here. And they don't have you know,
when you go north and south, they have highways, but
when you go east and west they have roads. And
and the other thing too, it's crazy, is that they
park in the middle of a major highway. You're driving
(10:02):
down the road on the left side, and all of
a sudden you come up and there's a park car
in the middle.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's off to the shoulder.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
But now you've got to veer into the other lane
to pass twenty cars that are parked along the side
of the road.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Looky than me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We have a Yeah, I would suggest that you hire
one if it's their shoulder. It's the only place you
could buy a shoulder. Yeah, well, they don't have room
for shoulders. Have to mmin up domain somebody's farm if
they did that. And there I was reading this story
and talking to this guy at ROSEMARKI and he was like,
when do you go to Aberdeen. We're going to leave
on Saturday or Sunday, whenever it was. And he said,
(10:38):
so when you make that drive over there, you're going
to be driving on some very narrow roads. And I said,
are they ever going to expand it? And he goes, well,
most of the people in Scotland want it to happen,
except those who have those rural farms that have been
in families for six hundred years and they don't want
to mess with that that and they would have to
take out you know, it would have to be a lot,
but it'd be ten feet on either side of the road.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Here's the thing I find really interesting about Scottish golf,
and I wish we had this here, but we don't.
Probably never will. I'll use fort Roasters and Roast Marquee
as an example. It is a town of probably fifteen
hundred people and twelve hundred of them belong to the
club and they pay five hundred pounds a year and
they get unlimited golf right that is a bargain right there,
(11:22):
and they're all member of the club is all member owned,
and they hire a board to run it, and they
hire a pro to run the pro shop and they
get the revenue from that, and they get revenue from
guest fees. They pay five hundred pounds a year. The
guest fee there was ninety pounds. They have caddies if
you get them far enough in advance. But all these
little bitty towns have a golf course. There's not a
(11:43):
town in Scotland I can find that didn't have a
golf course next to it. Right, well, that's it'd be
like if you drove up, you know, towards Bandera and
Pipe Creek had a golf course that there are six
hundred people in Pipe Creek in Fourida and belong to
the golf club. And then you go to Bandera and
Lono and all these places and there's another golf course
(12:03):
and it's all owned by the people and that in
the community.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It's a good concept. Let's get it started.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, all right, just not enough golf fanatics here in
the small town.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, I guess that's all right, fanatics.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And the last thing I will suggest that you do
is get your legs in shape. Seven miles when you
haven't done it in a while is taxing. And then
tried doing that eleven straight days in a row.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It's pretty good. You did a good job. I'm proud
of it. So you're ready to walk up. They're not
giving you a card, Keith.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, No, we're ready. We're ready to walk. You can't
get me playing four times.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Also the courses can you can get a.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Card if you have a doctor if you have a
doctor's note an and you're over sixty five?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yeah, well so you qualified qualified on both both cases.
All right, But I did at one of the courses.
They didn't have carts, but they have carts there, and
I met a guy, I met a caddie, and.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
They actually pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
They picked me up the that worked there where he
would pick me up and take me to my ball, okay,
you know, and it was really cool. You had to
walk up. You didn't have to walk up the mountain,
go to right. And then I've become friends with that
caddy and they his daughter. His daughter works in Houston
and they he was on a radio.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Well, if what we're talking about is, uh, the the
night till at Cruton Bay is up on a hill
and it's and it's probably you need a sherpa and
a and a guy to get you up that hill,
and then you need oxygen once you're at the top
of that hill. It's about a i'd say, one hundred
(13:37):
yard walk and it's straight up.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, and it was it was all I was actually
my best round. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And so you're gonna have to, uh, You're gonna have
to make sure that that you take a little that
breath of your playing Cruton Bay. The last thing I'll
say on the Scotland thing is you can do all
this on your own. You can book everything online. You
just have to have the patience to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And the and don't necessarily disc out the courses that
are not famous. You always everybody wants to play the
Old Course, everybody wants to play Mirfield, our Carnoustie, and
those are all great golf courses, and they're going to
cost you three hundred plus pounds to play them. But
for seventy five to one hundred and twenty five pounds
you can play some really fun golf courses that are
true Scottish golf from decades and centuries ago. All Right,
(14:21):
Oatmant's going to host the Open next week, and we'll
tell you a history lesson about that and get you
some thoughts on what's going to take place and what
is Basically, if Scotti Schefler's in the tournament, it's now
the Scotti Scheffler Invitational.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
We'll talk about that next. It's a golf show on
the ticket.
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