233: Exploring the Intricacies of Golf with our new co-host Dan Hodges

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What is up everybody?

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Welcome to another episode of the chasing daylight podcast.

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Those of you on YouTube right now.

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Thank you so much for tuning in.

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You'll see a new face see up there.

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That is Dan Hodges.

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Dan, the man Hodges has agreed to come on to the show and be our fourth.

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We have a foursome is complete now.

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I said on what I say on threads earlier today the negotiations were long, brutal, overwhelming, but yeah, we landed them.

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So, dan, welcome to the show, sir thank you, thank you, guys, for adding me to your group so Dan is we promise it will get better.

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This is his.

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He's doing this from his phone sounded like a robot.

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Thanks for having me there will be some glitches, but yes, so I wanted to bring.

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Dan on.

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He's been hanging out with us for many, many years.

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It goes back to we met him at legends never die.

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Just out of the blue, he joined and came out and played and, yeah, we found out quickly that he is a stick.

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He can absolutely play golf, is many times over champion of the VGN, known for his major victories.

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So, dan, why don't you let everybody know a little bit about yourself, how long you've been in Vegas for and what?

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What's, what's your golf jam?

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yeah, and let's hear the Colombian drug lord story no Colombian drug lord.

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But yeah, grew up.

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Grew up starting playing golf really early, been introduced to the game by my dad five, six years old, fell in love with it from there played my whole entire junior golf career down there, moved here to Vegas in 1999 so I've actually lived longer here in Vegas than I ever did in California, but still continued playing golf, catting at Bears Best for a while, met a guy who was super loaded.

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He helped me kind of achieve a little bit of my dream as far as playing playing some tour events, many tour events, and traveling to play golf.

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Didn't have to work for about three years and he just kind of, you know, wrote the road like checks to me.

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So that was kind of that was kind of cool and unfortunately reality, you know, set in after a while and had to come back to Vegas and get a real job and still playing golf, still love it.

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And you know, now I'm part of the VGN with you guys yeah, another reason I wanted to bring you in because you travel a lot.

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Joe is travels a lot now, he's Mr Golf Trip and you guys have your own little private chat where you talk about all the trips you're gonna go on and not inviting any of us to so, but you know we're going, we're all going to banded next year.

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You know we just played this past weekend at Rio.

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We played Black Desert, and so it was just a very fitting thing to bring somebody else on that is as passionate as we are about the game, loves to play, loves to travel, loves all the aspects of it and yeah, so again, welcome to the show thank you, thanks guys, it's it's pretty cool, thank you.

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There's no and there's no secret golf chat, it's just.

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It just, it happens out of nowhere.

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I have, actually I've received invitations but I've declined, it may not anymore.

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Yes, yes yes, that's 100% you see a picture and you're like, yep, yeah why is?

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that the ultimate boys trip for on and up for courses under $100.

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And then you get hooked and XCN sending, sending these things to jail and in two days later there's a trip being planned.

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So it's just, it's a domino that's exactly what happens.

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That's it that's hilarious, all right.

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So on this week's show and cover some things we're gonna talk about.

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We've got a round in it.

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Tpc Las Vegas.

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We all played Rio Seco on Sunday.

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We got a VGN tournament this weekend out of Ali Ante.

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Yonah Wilson was just in the US women's amateur.

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I'm unfortunately not going to sleepy hollow for the US mid-am this year.

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Swing changes for me, so Andrew's in it but I'm not, I'm not going but he's he, so he's not in it.

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He's not in it now, okay some swing changes brought along some bag changes for me, yeah, yeah.

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So we'll be talking about that and let's see the PGA tour playoffs just the first round wrapped up.

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Top 30 advanced.

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We got some notables who aren't gonna, who are on the cusp of missing out on the finals.

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So I want to start off with TPC Vegas.

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Gotta invite to go out there with our boy, matt Plummer.

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I, you know, have been hesitant to go there because that they've really jacked up the rates, even for locals.

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I think it's a great layout, great course, great facilities.

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There's not a lot wrong with it other than the price.

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But you know, hey, you got a nice course right now, this time of the way the economy is going, they're gonna get as much as they can.

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So but they had their, the TPC interclub, where all the TPC clubs have a tournament, and they hosted it at TPC Vegas.

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And that was a couple days prior to when we played and the course was in phenomenal condition.

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I mean absolutely perfect golf course conditions.

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The greens were a little beat up, a lot of pitch marks, but bunkers were fantastic, the fairways were excellent, the T boxes were great, the greens were fast and it was.

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It was a really, really good time.

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So I mean, if you want to book now, it's probably worth the price, because the conditions are just stupid and you're gonna have the overseas coming up here soon.

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Pretty sure they're doing an overseas there.

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So if you, if you want to play some really great condition golf right now, head out to.

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TPC Vegas Sean was telling me that during like the week, like Monday through Thursday, it's 125 for locals, which is, I would say, that's a good deal.

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For sure I mean obviously weekends you're gonna get you, it's gonna get more pricey yeah, the 175 is a hefty price tag, especially for me.

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I used to play for I used to be able to walk on for 40 $50 when I worked up there and it's hard to drop it's hard.

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It's very difficult for me to be like, yeah, I'm gonna pay $200 to play TPC Las Vegas, when I, four years ago, I was paying $40.

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It's hard to do.

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It's a great course.

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I love the place, probably one of the the best courses that I used to play pretty often and it's I mean.

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But it like it goes back to the green fees and the influx of new golfers and it's like people are willing to pay whatever they need to play pay to play golf and the.

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The recession is coming and the great reset is happening soon reset.

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Bring it on we need the great reset.

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But it's a great place, but it's it's very difficult to for me to pay $175 yeah, I mean, if we were to want to hold a VG internment out, there would be a $300 entry fee yeah, yeah.

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I mean which is?

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just crazy, but it's a great spot, it's a great course, you know there's.

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You know John Daly has a low score out there, I think.

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I mean there's some stuff out there that's kind of cool and the champions tour, or PG senior tour, whatever you want to call it now.

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They used to host an event out there back when it was called TPC Canyons.

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It was part of the rotation for the Las Vegas invitation a couple times, so it's a good course and it's always in good shape, but it's it's expensive it was in really good shape, like I was like, wow, this is pretty freaking awesome.

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I mean, if I was an out of towner?

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I mean obviously out of towners aren't getting that 175 rate at TPC Las Vegas, but no, the out of town rate at Paiute is probably close to that.

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I mean, you weigh that I'd probably rather go to Paiute personally if I was visiting.

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Yeah, but that's got the TPC name so people think that hey yo yep, yep, yep.

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Okay, so you need to hit us up when you come to town.

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We'll let you know reasons to tune in.

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So Rio Seco I you know what.

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I was kind of surprised I I expected it to be in a little bit better shape than what it was.

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There was some kind of rough spots in the fairways, but I thought the I and what other than that?

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I thought the course was really really good, dan, let's get your.

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Let's get your first assessment of a golf course that we recently played.

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Tell the people what you think.

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I, I was actually, I thought it was in good shape the rough out there.

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There are some spots out there where, oh my god, I mean, it doesn't matter if you have a wedge or you know, whatever you have in your hand.

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If you don't, if you don't strike it right, that ball is going nowhere.

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And and fortunately, I can I tell the?

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spots?

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Yes, exactly, I was in a couple of spots a couple days ago, and other than that, though, I thought.

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I thought it was in good shape, the greens were healthy, they were in good shape, they were in the has to speak to them a little firm.

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You know, full, full shots would be received in the green pretty well, but any chip in you gotta pick, yeah.

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I was, I was surprised to hear Trey.

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I surprised to hear Trey say that he thought the greens were slow the whole group said that, though Colby said that I don't hear that I heard that from from Colby and Trey slow.

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I didn't think they were slow at all no, I didn't think so, hmm.

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I mean the the greens at.

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TBC Vegas were probably running 13's, maybe 13 and a half, so they were fast and I thought Brillo was 11-12's.

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Yeah, 1011.

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All right 1011, 12.

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I didn't think they were slow.

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I didn't think they were slow at all.

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I thought they were like the right pace.

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They were perfect speed.

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Yeah, yeah, you don't lose control.

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I mean, there's a few where we ran them by, but when you're above the hole.

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I didn't feel nervous that it was going to run 10 feet by, like some places, but they're okay, they're good.

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Yeah, it's a fun layout.

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It's a fun layout.

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It's a fun layout.

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It's a fun layout.

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It's one of my favorite in town the range.

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They've done a really good job, the way they've improved everything.

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Range attendants or the card attendants were a little snippety in the morning.

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You know range is closed, Range isn't open yet and I'm like, well shit, we tee up in 15 minutes.

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What the hell.

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Well, they typically don't expect people to tee in off at 6.30, to shove it 4.30 in the morning either.

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So hey, calm down, I was there.

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Good grief, sean was there before me.

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Is that what you sleep here?

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He wakes up at 3.30 every day.

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He had an hour drive to get there too.

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Yeah, true.

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But speaking of the rough spots, I think most of the rough spots that you're mentioning were kind of in the low like drainage areas for the most part that I saw.

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So Well, I was just surprised that there was some where I saw them at, if that makes sense.

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It just it might have been a couple yeah.

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It just seemed like there was some areas that that look bad, that you know it could be.

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Hey, the summer grass is done and they're.

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Hey, we're not going to bring it back for a month before we, you know, oversee the place, so let's just let it go.

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I can see that happening.

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Yeah.

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Like the entire Lexington golf course right now.

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Yeah, the rough was insane.

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I feel like like lately the courses we've been playing and I've been playing at, the rough has just been thick everywhere.

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I think the wet spring we had and early summer caused that, because that's this is the first time.

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Usually, if you want long rough, you go to like Arroyo or even Paiute sometimes gets that thick rough.

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Everywhere has it now.

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To wait till you play Allianz Saturday.

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I've never seen rough there.

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It's it's a panel it's it's a penalty stroke.

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I thought Rio's was a penalty stroke, because yeah 100% it's the same way.

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100% it's almost the same.

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Grass A little bit, not so much Bermuda Bermuda is that a word?

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But yeah, it's, it's a penalty stroke.

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It's because you cannot I don't care who you are, it's.

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It's very tough to get out of that shit.

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Yeah, it was just kind of like an each year medicine type of situation and just you know, punch out real quick and then get on with your day, because it was.

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It was like sitting up but it was sitting down and it was just kind of like like I saw I had one where I was like, oh, this is going to fly, because it was sitting up on it and it's like, no, but that's probably me, because I really hit it fat as fuck and it just died.

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That was beyond on six.

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It was in the rough off the tee and I knew I was 180 yards out.

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I'm like I know I'm not going to get this here, I'm just going to try and muscle it up there and uh, oh my God, it like it felt like I hit a wall with the club.

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It just didn't go through the grass at all.

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It just stopped.

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Yeah, I mean so for for you guys, like how do you judge?

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I mean you have to judge your lie right.

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Like we hear the players talk about all the time on tour like judging or lie.

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In that type of situation, like I mean, how do you judge that?

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Like, if it looks like it's sitting up, like how do you hit that?

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What do you?

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What do you think about?

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Like I had that one that looked like a flyer to me and it just died.

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So there were some that I had where you look at the ball looks like it's sitting down in the rough and then you put your club by it and your club is lower than the ball, is lower than the ball.

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So there's a ton of those and I'm a sweeper.

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So those were.

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Those weren't as bad, but the ones that are really deep.

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I try to get steep, which is hard for me because I'm not a steep.

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My swinging plane is not steep, but I try to get as steep as possible and just pop it up.

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Dan, you're really good at that.

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You hit several good shots the rest of the ball.

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So yeah, I don't do well out of that sweeping.

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Yeah, so it just really depends on the lie.

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I think you know, if it sits down, I try to go attack a little bit more.

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If it sits up, or if it's like going with the rough you're going to, you know, I've got to expect to jump a little bit.

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It's hard to gauge the jumpers though, because, like on our very first hole, I had 110 yards in, I hit a 54 degree and almost hit the street, and so, yeah, remember that yeah.

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You know that was, that was a 30 yard miscalculation.

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So you know, sometimes you just got to get lucky.

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You know, either it doesn't fly or club down, and hopefully you guessed right here.

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Yeah, I remember.

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I remember that one.

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I was like whoa shit fucking fluid, but I did the same shit and I was in a fairway so.

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Yeah, and I did these opposite.

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I came up short.

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What a game.

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What a game that was.

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That was my day.

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It's like one more way.

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The pros, the pros, I mean it's so impressive to see the the tour players because every week they play a course with different types of grass and different rough Right, and I'm sure they remember things about courses.

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You know they get jumpers out of this grass or they don't get the berry in this one.

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But for them to be able to adapt every single week, especially when these guys like these, the FedEx Cup you know the playoffs every single top players playing every week for three weeks and every course is different, and it's crazy how they can adapt and still score well out of different types of conditions.

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I wonder how deep those guys like go into like the agronomy of things, like like some of the players got to go pretty deep like diving deep into like grass and agronomy.

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Doesn't Tiger have three or four different grasses in his backyard?

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I think so, yeah, but like, how far, how deep does the like average tour player go with grass?

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And how much do they actually understand on, like the thickness of blades, on whatever the grass is, you know?

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Like do they wickipedia it before?

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I mean, that's the interesting thing, like if we could talk to Harry about that, like to understand how deep he goes into a course that he's never played like.

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Does he go as far down into the hole, like on the grass itself?

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Well, Dan Dan, how, how deep did you go when you were playing courses on the main tours, or did you just show?

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Up and light it up.

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Well, I didn't really light it up a whole lot, but yeah, I just pretty much just showed up and played.

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I didn't really didn't really have.

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You know, those guys are privy to getting to the course early and then playing a couple of practice rounds and all that stuff and spending all day out there.

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I didn't have that.

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I was more like, you know, go check out the course like the day before for a couple hours and then show up and get ready to go.

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You know, so I also feel too, like a lot of their caddies take on that responsibility.

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Maybe, you know, they go around, scope out the course, really get in deep, you know, just so they can take a little bit out of the mind of their player and just let them golf.

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You know, so they don't have to think about oh, I kind of like that.

00:18:22.564 --> 00:18:26.153
You know, they just get out there, give them their number, you know, go.

00:18:26.153 --> 00:18:35.592
I think the caddies do, on tour, do a big job of really getting into the roots and getting into the details of how the course is going to play.

00:18:35.592 --> 00:18:39.522
But as far as me know, I just kind of showed up, you just soul golfed it.

00:18:39.584 --> 00:18:41.673
Huh yeah, I just kind of winged it.

00:18:41.673 --> 00:18:56.190
There was a I can't remember who it was, but I saw I think last year on golf channel they were showing it might have been a major someone's caddy was out there and he actually had like a wedge with him and he was dropping balls in the rough and just hitting like chip shots out, hitting full shots.

00:18:56.190 --> 00:18:57.012
It was interesting.

00:18:57.012 --> 00:19:02.715
I never saw that, but I think there's some caddies are probably a lot more into that than others.

00:19:04.146 --> 00:19:08.492
Yeah, you know you also have your pros out there that are nerds.

00:19:08.492 --> 00:19:15.287
You know, like Phil, you remember that one interview where you're talking about the wedges flying in the grass and do in the morning.

00:19:15.307 --> 00:19:26.991
You know there's kind of be some pros out there that have that stuff on lock, how much percent he's taken off a trajectory and a 45 degree weather, with dew and a blade of grass that's bending to the right and sun hasn't hit it yet.

00:19:26.991 --> 00:19:27.512
Exactly, exactly.

00:19:30.288 --> 00:19:39.664
And they know, you know, because a lot of these courses they're repetitive, they play in the year after year after year, and they play during certain times of the year and during certain seasons, so they already kind of remember from the year prior.

00:19:39.664 --> 00:19:46.287
I remember this, when it was like a little dewy in the morning, we kept, you know, this ball was knuckling out of here, we couldn't get any spin on them or flying them, you know.

00:19:46.287 --> 00:19:48.314
So I think a lot of that plays in there too.

00:19:49.557 --> 00:19:51.344
Yeah, interesting.

00:19:51.364 --> 00:19:51.644
All right.

00:19:51.644 --> 00:19:54.978
So we got the VGN tournament this week.

00:19:54.978 --> 00:19:55.641
It's.

00:19:55.641 --> 00:19:56.463
It sucks.

00:19:56.463 --> 00:20:09.691
Dan hasn't been able to play a lot this year because he's had a lot of going on at work, but I mean, you're still you're still really close to the top and the point standing, so it's not like you're taking a beating, jeremy, though.

00:20:09.691 --> 00:20:18.561
Jeremy's coming for you, though, but we got 48 players going to be teaming it up Saturday morning, kind of a little.

00:20:18.561 --> 00:20:23.704
730 am shotgun and I'm surprised.

00:20:23.704 --> 00:20:26.051
I really thought we were going to get more people for this one.

00:20:26.051 --> 00:20:36.596
It's, you know, kind of a chorus that the North people of North of the Valley really like, and did not get some of those guys to show up for it.

00:20:37.127 --> 00:20:39.684
And you know, it is what it is but I think it's going to be a good day.

00:20:39.684 --> 00:20:47.318
The weather is supposed to be typical monsoon thunderstorms, maybe maybe rain, maybe lightning.

00:20:47.318 --> 00:20:49.290
It may be 105.

00:20:49.290 --> 00:20:51.029
You just never know right now.

00:20:51.029 --> 00:20:58.670
So I'm looking forward to that and, like I said, the course it's in really good shape and we got a.

00:20:58.670 --> 00:21:01.704
We got a pretty balanced fields.

00:21:01.704 --> 00:21:04.251
We got, I think, 12, 12, 12 and 11.

00:21:04.251 --> 00:21:08.575
Of course, there are maybe 13, 12, 12 and 11.

00:21:08.575 --> 00:21:10.250
It's just going to be a good time.

00:21:10.724 --> 00:21:15.808
So I think I've only played Alliantay one time when there was grass there, and I think that was with Jeremy.

00:21:15.808 --> 00:21:20.432
Every other time I've played it it's just dormant, firm, hard run out.

00:21:20.432 --> 00:21:24.107
Yeah, I think.

00:21:24.107 --> 00:21:28.116
Look, I'm not a big fan of the Alliantay layout, but I think it's a fun course.

00:21:28.116 --> 00:21:38.103
I think it's kind of wonky after number one, I think it is and then you go two, three, four and then you kind of turn back around and but there's some good holes out there.

00:21:38.103 --> 00:21:38.664
I'm excited.

00:21:38.664 --> 00:21:44.111
I typically play pretty well out there, so I like that place, but it's all.

00:21:44.111 --> 00:21:48.259
It's, of course, going to be fun to see it with grass, because I don't see that very often.

00:21:48.865 --> 00:21:57.664
Yeah, I think when you leave two and you come around to three and you get that mountain the very first time, you see the big ass mountain on the golf course in the background.

00:21:57.664 --> 00:22:02.874
I think that's a really cool view, that a green golf on part five.

00:22:02.874 --> 00:22:09.394
That's got the ravine that runs sideways across it.

00:22:09.394 --> 00:22:19.704
You know I'm talking about yeah yeah, yeah, right before the part three yeah, great view of the mountain there and it's just like, wow, that's a really big ass mountain.

00:22:19.704 --> 00:22:20.808
You don't realize it.

00:22:20.808 --> 00:22:23.230
You know you're so close to it.

00:22:23.826 --> 00:22:26.664
Yeah, because you're always so far away from it, because it's on the other side.

00:22:27.346 --> 00:22:35.632
It's a little dot for me, but hey, I will tell everybody that is headed that way.

00:22:35.632 --> 00:22:43.517
From the south side of the valley, take the 15 out to the new to 15 out by the speedway and cut back up.

00:22:43.517 --> 00:22:46.419
It is an incredibly fast way to get out there.

00:22:47.041 --> 00:22:47.664
Yeah, you stop it.

00:22:47.664 --> 00:22:50.432
Taco Zogordo two over there on Craig as well.

00:22:51.634 --> 00:22:52.636
I've been to that one.

00:22:53.185 --> 00:22:56.055
That's the only time I've been to Taco Zogordo, and it was that one.

00:22:57.791 --> 00:22:59.181
And it was like 10 pm.

00:22:59.201 --> 00:22:59.704
It was very strange.

00:23:00.351 --> 00:23:05.335
Those fools are good on those fucking spickets man, those fucking slice them shits up, real nice.

00:23:05.335 --> 00:23:11.093
Sorry that transitioned quickly Spicy pork on them.

00:23:12.046 --> 00:23:17.523
Oh, good lord, I'm excited I can't wait.

00:23:17.523 --> 00:23:19.692
Yeah, I think it's going to be a good time.

00:23:19.692 --> 00:23:21.992
So the pairings got sent out to everybody today.

00:23:21.992 --> 00:23:26.327
Side money you and you.

00:23:26.327 --> 00:23:28.231
You need to pay your side money.

00:23:28.231 --> 00:23:28.913
It'll come.

00:23:28.973 --> 00:23:33.633
Don't worry about me, me, me, me, me, I got an email today hey all my slackers.

00:23:34.146 --> 00:23:40.497
Yep, because you, I, you know why, you know, I said that because I do it just to irritate you.

00:23:40.497 --> 00:23:42.664
We have a lot of people that have already paid.

00:23:42.986 --> 00:23:44.313
I'm kind of happy about that.

00:23:44.313 --> 00:23:47.574
I get that email Just to irritate you a little bit, that's.

00:23:47.574 --> 00:23:48.704
That's the only reason I wait till the end.

00:23:49.185 --> 00:23:53.157
Well, what I do is I won't remind you, and then, you'll send me 30,000 emails.

00:23:53.157 --> 00:24:00.353
Yeah, I just won't let, you won't be in the game, and then you're like you know, oh, come on, you knew I was in it.

00:24:03.846 --> 00:24:06.684
The rest of the field gets 29,999.

00:24:06.684 --> 00:24:08.633
I get 30,000.

00:24:08.785 --> 00:24:16.704
So now I I I don't send you to quite a few that I send everybody else.

00:24:16.704 --> 00:24:19.598
Just imagine that, yeah, okay.

00:24:19.598 --> 00:24:28.214
So, uh, yeah, andrew, my buddy, andrew Ganey, uh tried last week, qualified for the U S mid-am.

00:24:28.214 --> 00:24:43.704
Uh was hoping he got through, like he did a couple of years ago, cause it's at sleepy hollow and I really want to go to sleepy hollow and also made a connection, uh for somebody at winged foot, so we were going to have a really good week but uh fell a couple of strokes short.

00:24:45.269 --> 00:24:51.664
So no, uh, new York trip for Matt and uh, we'll have to wait again until next year to see if he can do that.

00:24:52.608 --> 00:24:55.082
Hey quick, quick little shout out real quick.

00:24:55.082 --> 00:25:04.684
Um, at JSH underscore golf on Instagram he is a fellow uh true links where collective member.

00:25:04.684 --> 00:25:09.940
He won the Jake Hutt uh giveaway for the Shrixon iron.

00:25:09.940 --> 00:25:10.201
Oh nice yeah.

00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:12.916
So shout out to him I, he just messaged me.

00:25:12.916 --> 00:25:17.704
I messaged him a little bit but he was like never played the ZX irons from Shrixon.

00:25:17.704 --> 00:25:22.362
And yeah, I was telling him, like you know, they're great, like good win, you know that's a huge win to win some iron.

00:25:22.362 --> 00:25:28.098
It's like, yeah, I didn't know Jake Hutt was going to give away five sets it looks like it was five sets Like that's a hell of a win.

00:25:28.098 --> 00:25:37.041
I did watch the video but I may have had a few hazees, but, um, he won.

00:25:37.041 --> 00:25:38.423
Fellow true collective member.

00:25:38.423 --> 00:25:40.940
Um, good on him.

00:25:40.940 --> 00:25:42.833
He's.

00:25:42.833 --> 00:25:43.739
He's up in.

00:25:43.739 --> 00:25:46.564
I think he's in Wisconsin or real, I think he's in Wisconsin.

00:25:46.564 --> 00:25:54.079
He was the guy that came out here and he was asking for advice on the on the discord and we told him go to pay you at any way to pay you, and he loved it.

00:25:54.079 --> 00:26:01.061
So, um right, shout out to him Like that's a big win, man, a full set of irons $2,000 right there.

00:26:01.103 --> 00:26:03.090
Fuck yeah, that is, that's amazing.

00:26:07.124 --> 00:26:07.724
I'm you do Do.

00:26:07.724 --> 00:26:10.959
Oh, yeah, I cross over.

00:26:10.959 --> 00:26:12.680
Yeah, did you guys watch that at all?

00:26:13.116 --> 00:26:18.201
Did you watch any of the or watch some like a little bit the laws are made into the finals.

00:26:18.301 --> 00:26:22.042
Yeah, so yeah, she, she.

00:26:22.655 --> 00:26:24.980
Oh my god, Does that place not look amazing?

00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:27.420
I mean to be the fresh prince.

00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:28.343
Good, sick.

00:26:28.343 --> 00:26:32.124
Yeah, I mean shout out Will Smith that place.

00:26:32.124 --> 00:26:32.987
I know, I don't know.

00:26:33.777 --> 00:26:33.856
It.

00:26:33.856 --> 00:26:37.626
I thought it looked way better than the LA Country Club.

00:26:37.626 --> 00:26:38.397
I thought it too.

00:26:38.397 --> 00:26:42.083
I mean, how are they not playing the US Open there?

00:26:42.423 --> 00:26:45.394
Good Lord, and maybe it's not long enough.

00:26:45.394 --> 00:26:51.522
I don't know the yardage of that, but some of that bunkering looked really sick, like those green complexes looked dope.

00:26:52.096 --> 00:26:53.320
Dan, have you been on the property?

00:26:54.276 --> 00:26:56.083
No, that's super exclusive.

00:26:56.786 --> 00:26:58.353
Yeah, super, super, the only thing.

00:26:58.753 --> 00:27:08.207
Yeah, the only thing I know about that place is I don't know if you guys are familiar with Eddie Marins, the somewhat someone called a legendary teaching professional.

00:27:08.207 --> 00:27:16.425
He's pretty sure he's long gone now, but yeah, he used to teach at a country club.

00:27:18.335 --> 00:27:22.284
Yeah, that place is sick, I mean that, that bridge that crosses.

00:27:22.284 --> 00:27:23.519
That's the one with the bridge.

00:27:23.881 --> 00:27:26.277
Oh my god, so freaking, cool and they have.

00:27:26.557 --> 00:27:29.200
Don't they have the coolers with the uncrustables on them too?

00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:31.281
I think that's the place where it's like.

00:27:31.758 --> 00:27:33.550
You know how, like when we went to Purcell Farm.

00:27:33.570 --> 00:27:36.664
They had the apples and the coolers.

00:27:36.664 --> 00:27:43.780
I think I think at Bel Air they have uncrustables in the coolers so you can just grab an uncrustable and get on your way.

00:27:43.780 --> 00:27:44.943
That's nice.

00:27:44.943 --> 00:27:47.989
Yeah, yeah, that's very nice, that's kind of cool.

00:27:49.297 --> 00:27:55.785
I mean, you know, it's a couple million dollars a year to be a member there, but they got uncrustables.

00:27:55.785 --> 00:27:56.226
Let's do it.

00:27:57.377 --> 00:27:59.134
Hey, a lot of those people are going to be coming to Vegas soon.

00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:06.083
So yeah, right, but yeah, so Yana had a heartbreak, she it was.

00:28:06.083 --> 00:28:17.295
It was crazy because she was up five and I texted these guys and I'm like, hey, yana's up five, and then Yana's up four, yana's up three, yana's up two, they're tied, she's down.

00:28:17.295 --> 00:28:17.857
It was like just the.

00:28:17.857 --> 00:28:31.147
What had happened was a girl she was playing, just started putting her ass off and was making everything that ironically, she gets to the first playoff hole and has a two footer to win and misses it.

00:28:31.147 --> 00:28:33.163
So then they go to the next hole.

00:28:33.163 --> 00:28:41.579
Yana sticks it to 10 feet, girl hits it long, she's got a 30 foot putt coming back and drains it and Yana ends up missing hers.

00:28:41.579 --> 00:28:44.894
But congrats to her for making the 16.

00:28:44.894 --> 00:28:46.942
You know she didn't make it last year.

00:28:46.942 --> 00:28:52.228
So to the to the round of 32, I think they're 64.

00:28:52.228 --> 00:28:54.134
So big accomplishment.

00:28:54.134 --> 00:28:58.855
You know these are the best young women players in the world.

00:28:58.855 --> 00:29:01.144
So Yana is going to be fine.

00:29:01.682 --> 00:29:02.375
Oh, she's going to be fine.

00:29:02.916 --> 00:29:06.038
She's, she's, yeah, she's going to be fine.

00:29:06.038 --> 00:29:11.406
So, all right, can I talk about this?

00:29:12.449 --> 00:29:13.109
It's a trophy.

00:29:17.058 --> 00:29:20.214
So this is this is one of my my favorite clubs in my bag.

00:29:20.214 --> 00:29:21.974
I love to hate it.

00:29:23.224 --> 00:29:23.425
It's.

00:29:23.425 --> 00:29:24.090
What is it because?

00:29:24.111 --> 00:29:31.184
for the non viewers, oh yeah, it's, it's a tailor made Sim titanium, the original Sim titanium five wood.

00:29:31.184 --> 00:29:35.718
It's, you can see, it's, it's getting you know those of you who are watching.

00:29:35.718 --> 00:29:37.563
You can see it's getting a sweet spot.

00:29:38.345 --> 00:29:43.474
No, yeah, most most legit players.

00:29:43.474 --> 00:29:45.575
There's like a little bit of silver right here.

00:29:45.575 --> 00:29:47.414
Yeah, I like to use the hole.

00:29:47.414 --> 00:29:49.075
I like to get all aspects.

00:29:49.075 --> 00:29:50.814
Don't want to waste any of this metal.

00:29:50.814 --> 00:29:52.305
But yeah, so this is.

00:29:52.305 --> 00:29:53.634
This is the first for me.

00:29:53.634 --> 00:30:03.233
I've I've never broken a club, never broken a club, never in a fit of rage of throwing a club or, you know, got in an alter.

00:30:03.233 --> 00:30:04.565
You've never thrown a club.

00:30:07.005 --> 00:30:12.067
I mean I've like tossed one up in the air just, but not like chucked it across the course.

00:30:12.067 --> 00:30:14.528
So I'll tell you what?

00:30:14.548 --> 00:30:18.875
it was my first time, whitney, seeing someone snapping a ventis over their knee.

00:30:18.894 --> 00:30:23.770
So that's the second, to me it's like that's two hundred dollars.

00:30:24.734 --> 00:30:28.253
That's the second ventis I've seen snapped over a body part, though.

00:30:28.701 --> 00:30:30.944
Yeah, it was blue, it's it, bobby's was blue.

00:30:33.444 --> 00:30:35.333
I'm starting to think it like grass fed rib eyes right there.

00:30:35.353 --> 00:30:37.398
I mean, come on, goodness, did it feel good after?

00:30:37.439 --> 00:30:39.929
or was the?

00:30:40.510 --> 00:30:40.992
guilt immediate.

00:30:41.154 --> 00:30:42.561
Oh no, I had no remorse whatsoever.

00:30:43.296 --> 00:30:47.621
I know, that's my thing I would have been so pissed off I mean I was like I'm not gonna get it.

00:30:48.695 --> 00:30:50.403
I'm so pissed at myself if I did that.

00:30:50.954 --> 00:30:52.199
Well one.

00:30:52.199 --> 00:30:57.605
I was ready to take that shaft out of that club because it has not been doing well for me.

00:30:57.605 --> 00:31:02.625
I thought it might help with my just what.

00:31:03.974 --> 00:31:04.698
It was the shaft.

00:31:05.675 --> 00:31:06.961
Oh, oh, 100 percent.

00:31:10.694 --> 00:31:11.618
Nothing to do with me.

00:31:11.618 --> 00:31:15.565
My swing the shaft has not been doing what it needs to do for me.

00:31:15.914 --> 00:31:22.167
This shaft was clearly the issue, not my literate golf swing right now.

00:31:22.167 --> 00:31:24.377
No, I had.

00:31:24.377 --> 00:31:32.798

233: Exploring the Intricacies of Golf with our new co-host Dan Hodges

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