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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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And boy, we always have a lot of shit to talk about.
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But we got a lot of shit to talk about tonight.
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Dan was just over on the East Coast playing golf at Kiwa.
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We got a major at the VGN Weather guy came through with a big W.
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We got our interview with Patrick Lindsey coming up on Wednesday.
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We got a little contest, kind of a contest, a little raffle that we're going to be talking about later on.
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I got my knee checked out today I'm going to give a little shout out to that place because old man is back and reflection Bay I got around it at reflection Bay with Trey, and then we have a date for our very first King of the Green event.
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So a lot going on.
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But, dan, let's put oh.
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And then the headline topic of today's episode is what is wrong with golf, and there's not a question mark on that for a reason, because it's a statement what is wrong with golf.
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And we're going to all dig into that a little bit later and chat about it.
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But, dan, welcome back.
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Thanks, thanks.
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Yeah, it was pretty awesome out there.
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The weather was good, the humidity was up on a couple of days Got a little sweaty out there, but the golf was great and the company was good too.
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So can't ask for much more on a golf trip.
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All right, let's give the rundown when all did you play.
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So I was at Kiwa Island Resort so we played the ocean course, the Cougar Point, Oak Point, Osprey Point and Turtle Point pretty much all five of the public courses there and it didn't disappoint the obviously.
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The ocean course is what it is it's tough, it's beautiful.
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It's it wasn't super windy, so we got pretty lucky, but if the wind had been blowing like 20 to 30, it would eat your lunch.
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And but it was.
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It was very playable.
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Although the greens were the slowest of the bunch there, they were still in great shape and just just amazing scenery.
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The clubhouse is sick, the beach it was.
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It was quite the experience.
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It was awesome.
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Did.
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Did you get a feel for Phil's record round there?
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Like it was some special.
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Yeah, considering because I believe that weekend it was.
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It was pretty windy that weekend.
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I don't remember 100 percent, but I think I think I remember the wind being up and yeah, it's, there's some, there's some holes there where, if you don't you know, have any little bit of guidance.
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We had a cat, we had a caddy that joined our group.
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One of the guys that joined us got a caddy so he kind of gave the heads up on you know lines off the T box stuff.
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But if I wouldn't have heard his advice, I yeah I probably would have hit it into the beach or in with the alligators multiple times.
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How was the pro shop?
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A lot of Peter Malar out there, or what.
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Lots, lots of Peter Malar, lots of Johnny oh and lots of footjoy.
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I've been a lot of footjoy, yeah, lots of footjoy.
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And then, of course, matt's favorite is puka hats.
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The hats that don't fit my head by Puka Yep no new era Damn good to know new era hats.
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No new era.
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So I was disappointing but new era, Don't get me started.
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But it was.
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It was a beautiful clubhouse, nice golf shop, people, the people were great.
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You guys eat.
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Did you guys eat lunch afterwards there?
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I thought yours are hanging out on the patio.
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We did.
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We had a few, we had a few cocktails down there and well, quite a few, and and yeah, we went down to the beach.
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But when we got off the golf course it was like I don't know what was going on.
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But there was like an influx of beautiful women there and me being single, you know I was just like, oh, this is nice, but no joke, we got off, we got off the golf course and there was probably about I'm not even exaggerating like 30 girls that were just stunning man, what is what's going on?
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It happens every day at 2 pm.
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Yeah.
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It's like the rain in.
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Florida yeah, it was, it was nice.
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How did Tommy and Jared play out there?
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They actually did pretty good.
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Jared was a little.
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He got a little frustrated the first day, but he he recovered, made some good shots.
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And then Tommy he's the same thing he was.
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He was struggling a little bit with a couple of his swings but he turned it around at the end of the trip, started hitting more solid shots and black and pins, especially the last round.
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Tommy played really well last night.
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I miss those guys, man.
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Yeah, yeah they're.
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They're busy man.
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Those guys really haven't been playing a whole lot of golf and that's good, you know life gets in the way sometimes.
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Absolutely Just ask, adam.
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Oh, exactly, exactly.
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So what was your?
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What was your favorite course that you played?
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Ocean course, for sure, yeah Is it like a big notch above the others, or For me it was just because of the whole experience, the setting.
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I had the most beautiful clubhouse.
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It was literally on the beach.
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You can see.
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You can see the whole back nine is is right on the water so you can see everything.
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The front nine plays a little inland, but just overall that was.
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That was awesome.
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And then, honestly, I liked Cougar Point, the second best, and that's the Gary Player course over there.
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Oh yeah, that was so much fun.
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The layout was sick for me personally.
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I think those were the.
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It was the best condition course.
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The teams were super tight fairways with flush, just just an awesome time.
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But the others were were great they were great.
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Does it?
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Does it deserve a second trip back, or would you rather go somewhere else?
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I would.
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I would definitely go back, but I would still go someplace else first, because there's still so much to see.
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Yeah, so so much golf for me to golf courses for me to see before I go back there.
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Yeah, awesome, great, great trip.
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I know you guys are planning it for a while.
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While you were gone, we had our VGN major out at Coyote Springs and Coyote was flexing their muscle a little bit.
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Greens were quick in placements for a little tricky course was overall in good shape, would you say Joe?
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Oh, yeah, 100%.
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Yep, yeah, so the greens are fast.
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It's that course is.
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I didn't think they were that fast.
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You didn't think that really?
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No, well, I put my ass off, like I literally put my ass off on Saturday.
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I mean I was draining 12s, 15s, 18s, drained one from like 24 feet for a birdie like so I don't know, I didn't think they were that quick and I was just dripping them in the hole all day.
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Yeah, I mean they weren't like 14s but compared to what we have been playing lately, that yeah.
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I haven't played.
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That's the fastest greens I've played on, probably since TPC.
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I didn't think they they weren't deathly like fast.
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Well, how many downhill breakers did you play with?
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Because?
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I mean quite a few, because if you're at Coyote Springs you're probably getting a few downhill breakers or uphill breakers or side winding breakers, or you know there's there's most putts out.
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There are not straight.
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I mean I was happy I had.
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I had 32 putts, so I wasn't you know, and that was with the three jack.
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So yeah, I wasn't upset with my putting.
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It was other things that went.
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I wish, I really wish, I had taken my stats and my putts and all that, because I swear I probably have 10, 11 putts on the front line.
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Wow.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, that the pin location on to the par five was like on the left edge it was it was.
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Yeah, there were.
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There were some pins that were pretty, pretty rough out there for sure.
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The overall 14 14 was a tough one.
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But see, and I may, I one putted that I I was.
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I came up short of the green, chipped it all the way.
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I was in the front right, chipped it all the way over the hill, pat down down the little valley up, and then it curved down to the left and so I had a straight uphill putt.
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Yeah, straight uphill putt.
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Yeah, that's the key there.
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That exactly is the key there, because I didn't have many others.
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I had a like I had like a left to right four footer and I had been putting my ass off all day and just slipped it.
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But he's great man, I mean it's, it's so I don't even know if it, if you could consider it underrated.
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I just feel like it's like not well known because it's such a gem of a course, like if you are willing to take that hour drive, like it's completely worth it and it's probably like bang for buck compared to courses in Vegas.
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It's worth it, I mean absolutely.
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You know, like you can't get much better out there.
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I mean, even like out of towners, don't get charged as much as they would at pay you like it's completely worth it.
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It's a gem, it's and, like I said, I don't know if I'd consider under the radar, but just like it's not known, you know, I guess that is under the radar, but it's, you know, if you're coming out here it's, it's sick.
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How many bunkers were you in?
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I started off a few in the front and there was.
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It was pretty heavy, the bunkers were pretty heavy.
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There was a lot of sand.
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There was a lot of sand, like a lot of sand, yeah.
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And then then I get to 18 and the front left bunker.
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I, my approach came up short.
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I had to chip over it to that flag that was right on the left edge.
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And so, instead of just taking my medicine, chipping out to the right and trying to, you know, get two butts, I'd like, oh, I can, I got this shot.
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I got fill in my bag.
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Yeah, I can do this.
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And so I chipped it and I mean, if it goes, another two inches, I was sitting pretty, but it hit the rough and bounced back and dropped straight down in that bunker.
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And, yeah, that area, that bunker, there was no sand in, and it took me three, three swings to get it out because it was so firm and hard packed.
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Well, I don't know if you saw Manolo's golf lessons today, but he was talking about stop complaining about there's no sand in the bunkers.
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But I did play with Tyler Paul, mr Three, pup Bogey himself, he, he was county.
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He kept, he, he kept telling me that's two shots out of the bunker.
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I could have saved that's three, that's four, because he just kept hitting the lip or he couldn't get it out.
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And I think at the end of the round it was like six or seven, you know, strokes where he just hit the lip and it came back at him or he couldn't get it out and he only finished like six or seven strokes back.
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Yeah, I told him, you know, just don't go with the bunkers.
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They're out there, they're not hitting you, don't aim there.
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I got up and down a lot from that I got out.
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Had not all up and downs, but I got out a lot.
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I was really happy with my sand game and just that last hole.
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Just ate my lunch and I'm going to complain about if there's no sand in the bunker, if every other bunker you've been in is packed like flour, and then I get in one looking for consistency out here.
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Yeah, that's all for consistent.
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That's all, just give me the same shit across the course, but I get it.
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It's not easy to do, but the weatherman was was a big winner, yeah, so let's bring in Matty G to talk about him out there and before that news looped were the news this morning so we got a couple of people reach out to it was.
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It was awesome.
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Yes, I definitely saw him.
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I jinxed it by raising my hands and being excited that the audio file played this morning.
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So, yeah, good, good test.
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Yeah, it failed miserably.
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Oh, here we go, all right.
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What's up everybody.
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This is the first place winner of the Hearts Division I got a TARC, what a great tournament.
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I honestly shocked myself with how I played that day.
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Took about a two month hiatus.
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Man, I mean I did not golf at all.
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I went to the range, maybe once or twice and came out.
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Great.
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The irons were flush and the driver and putter were working.
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So that's all you really need to play good and that's how it went that day.
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So great tournament, love the group I was in and overall VGN just a fantastically to be in.
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But looking forward to the upcoming weekend, temperatures are going to be much, much cooler 84 on Saturday.
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We're only up to 87 on Sunday.
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Might be a little breezy, but conditions are staying dry heading to the weekend.
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So a great golfing forecast and a great first weekend of fall as it begins on Friday.
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So looking forward to it and have a great rest of the week.
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You know, you know, sometimes it just takes a little bit of a break.
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It's, that's sometimes that's all it takes.
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Really like like for nutcases and psychos.
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Like us, like where we have to or else we'll start shaking Sometimes.
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You just got to take a break.
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My issue would be OK, it's been 18 hours, is that long enough?
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Yeah, ok it's been two days.
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Is that a long enough break, or do I need to take?
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a longer break.
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I think the the minimum break you need to take is like two weeks.
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Oh, you're talking like time off.
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Yeah, yeah, time off.
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Like you got a clock out pick a vacation.
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Well, I'm going, I'm going to Boise this weekend.
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I'll be up there Thursday, friday, saturday, sunday.
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So that's about as much taking off that I'm going to be able to Muster, but I am going to go up to it's hard, though.
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That's the thing, is the course up there?
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So I may grab a rental set.
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That's the thing.
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I mean for like us, that are like psychos, like love the game and just love playing.
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I mean it's so hard to just drop the sticks and take the break, because it's what feeds our soul, kind of like, you know, for us soul golfers.
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Yes, hey, steven Jackson is in the chat right now.
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What's up, brother?
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He's taken a matter of break moment.
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He said one of these he's he's helping us with some potentially new artwork and so those of you on watching on YouTube can get a little glimpse that maybe something coming down the line.
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That's the first draft, so thanks for doing that.
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Sir.
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Appreciate it.
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Didn't respond to your text because we're doing this, so that's why I wasn't ignoring you.
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All right.
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Also, yeah, I talked about this a little bit a couple weeks ago, but Tamarack Resort up in Cascade in Idaho it's it's about an hour, hour and a half north of Meridian and Eagle they are opening back up.
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They have nine holes open right now and I got to play the course years ago before it shut down.
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It's an absolutely spectacular Robert Trent Jones design on a lake up in elevation.
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It's at 7000 feet, I think.
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Just gorgeous country, beautiful and there's bald eagles everywhere and the recession kind of hurt it really bad and they ended up shutting down, but they got it back up and running.
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They said nine holes are rolling right now and so we may take a drive up there and go check it out, because definitely one of that's an amazing golf course and definitely worth a trip up there if you're in that area.
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And then Wednesday Wednesday well, when this comes out, today we're interviewing Patrick Lindsey.
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He is the director of the Shriners Open event, which is a month away, and he was on last year.
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We had a great time chatting with him.
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There's some crazy new thing that they're doing called Club 360, where they put another level on top of the hill that has oh, it's on top of the hill.
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Yeah, yeah, it's on top of what was on top of the hill.
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It's a second hill is going to be two stories.
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Yes, hmm, yes, and they call it Club 360, because you're going to be able to see people coming in on nine, people coming in on 16.
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People hitting on 17, people coming in on 18 and people leaving on 10.
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Hmm, and one and one.
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Yeah, so it's that's pretty damn cool.
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Yeah, so it's bad for it yeah.
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And then working on getting our media passes, and so you know we'll be out there as much as we can.
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I know it's tough for you guys during the week and it's tougher for me on the weekend, so, uh, well, I know we'll figure something out, but we're going to get out there and check it out and see everybody all the Vegas guys that playing it and and that what did.
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What did you think?
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Did you guys watch any of the Fort net?
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I know, dan, you were out, so you probably didn't really care.
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I didn't watch a ton.
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I mean I watched a see Heath coming in because obviously I'm a fan of see Heath, so I didn't want to see him blow it like he did at Greenbrier.
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Hmm.
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But, he tried to.
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He, I mean he tried to, but uh yeah, dude.