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Golfweek Amateur Tour - The Podcast
Lance LaCombe’s Bogey Free 63 & 2025 Blacksburg Regional Champions
What does it really take to go really low in Amateur Golf Competition? In this episode of Golfweek Amateur Tour – The Podcast, hosts Tim Newman and Chris Rocha sit down with Lance LaCombe, fresh off firing a bogey-free 63 at the Slammer & Squire course at World Golf Village, one of the lowest rounds ever recorded on the Golfweek Amateur Tour.
Lance takes us deep inside the championship mindset, sharing how he kept his head clear, managed every shot with intention, and why avoiding doubles is often more important than chasing birdies. You’ll hear how mental clarity, strategic course management, and knowing your own tendencies are the keys to scoring and how most players are just one mental mistake away from blowing up a round.
But that’s not all.
We also catch up with the flight champions from the 2025 Virginia Tech Regional, including A-flight’s comeback story of the week, an 82 followed by a 71. Every champion shares their unique approach to preparation, performance, and what it feels like to grind out a win in a high-stakes amateur golf tournament.
We wrap the episode with a data-packed look at some of the lowest scores in Amateur Golf Tour history, from legends like Joe Jaspers and Jeff Wong, and how those players continue to separate themselves through consistent, smart, competitive golf.
This episode is packed with insights for anyone playing Amateur Golf—from seasoned Championship Flight competitors to Weekend Warriors grinding for their first win. It’s all about mindset, strategy, and learning from the best.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How Lance LaCombe stayed bogey-free and what he was thinking on every shot
- The biggest scoring mistakes lower-flight players make (and how to stop making them)
- Why “avoiding the big number” matters more than you think
- The biggest differences in decision-making between Champ and A Flight golfers
- Tournament tips and emotional wins from the Virginia Tech Regional flight champions
- The mental habits elite amateur golfers use to stay consistent
- Historical low rounds from top names on the Golfweek Amateur Tour
- A statistical breakdown of score patterns among the best in the field
Featured Guests:
- Lance LaCombe, who carded a historic 63
- Regional champions from all flights at the 2025 Virginia Tech Regional
- Commentary and insights from hosts Chris Rocha and Tim Newman
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Chris, welcome back, and I mean that in both the figurative and literal meaning. So welcome back.
Speaker 2:Right, thank you. Thank you, it was a great trip. Took a couple extra days off to recover and ready to make my next trip. You know it's fun, good time.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you enjoyed it and I know this was a family trip and anniversary trips, so I know it was extra special happy anniversary to you. I think it's awesome and you had that time with her and the boys because, as you know, they're growing up fast and you're not going to be able to have that all the time it was a great time.
Speaker 2:It was, uh, there were some moments where you could tell they were overwhelmed, but uh, you know it was a good time and and uh, I think they'll. They'll remember that for for probably the rest of their life. Cause friend, but when you've got to stay in the same seat for six plus hours, it's different, it's very different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so just tell them next time that you forget their birthday. I took you to Hawaii. That's a get out of everything, pass for you know, For a while. For a while. Right, right, right. So you're back. So you got anything good. Rest a couple of days. You got anything good coming up in the near. Good, uh, you know. Rest for the rest of a couple of days. You got anything good coming up near future.
Speaker 2:Uh, just you know, finishing up the schedule Got a two day major up up North New Mexico and then um a couple of local ones, TPC Scottsdale and uh, and then we'll see you at nationals. That's two subs. It's the first spot I'm stopping by, not even the Airbnbbnb.
Speaker 1:We're going straight to stew subs, just going straight there. Well, we got, we, we gotta, you know, for that's that's watching, you know the. The finished product is um, it's only a small, small piece of what is actually recorded. Yeah, an episode is generally about an hour.
Speaker 2:We have like three hours per episode that we can't even put together to make any sense, one season that we do this, we need to do it for a blooper episode.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2:Give us a week Well, actually, give me two weeks off. You still gotta do the editing, but we need to have a blooper one, because man.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's what we'll do for the week off Between National Championship and.
Speaker 2:I like it Next season.
Speaker 1:I'll still work and put the episode together, but anyway It'll be, it'll be together, but anyway it'll be shorter, but it'll be all worth it, yeah we'll see here. Great episode this week got a 63 and we got winners from the come it Virginia.
Speaker 2:Tech Regional. Yeah, virginia Tech Regional 63 and from the Virginia Tech Regional.
Speaker 1:Yeah, virginia Tech Regional 63 and winners from Virginia Tech Regional, hang with us. You're going to hear some great stories. Let's get started. Let's do it.
Speaker 3:Ladies and gentlemen, golf Week Amateur Tour proudly presents Golf Week Amateur Tour, the podcast Talking about all things Golf Week Amateur Tour, including interviews with tour directors, players and course professionals. Now here are your hosts, tim Newman and El Paso Las Cruces. Tour Director, chris Rocha.
Speaker 1:Chris, welcome back. I got to get you one more time before you get on that plane to go to Hawaii, in case you never come back.
Speaker 2:I'll be back, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1:I can't leave you doing this all by yourself, yeah, and I'm not getting up at 2 in the morning to do this. I love you and all, but there's just no way. No, but we've had a really good weekend recently, had a couple 63s and you know, one guy I think was 63, 68, and Dennis said that's the lowest two-day score that he can ever remember for a two-day tournament. So we're not going to talk to him today, but we will talk to the other 63. We got a good episode. But one thing I want to ask you about.
Speaker 1:You know we've been, we've been making just a couple of structural changes that you know. Maybe a lot of people don't, don't realize, but I've been putting a lot of effort into the YouTube thumbnails you have. You know that. I know you know that because I sent you some. I sent you some some pictures that that don't go anywhere else. So what I'd like you all to do is just let me know what you think of them, because I'm just putting a lot of effort into them, trying to make them fun, trying to make them indicative to the tone of what we do here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's, it's a good time and uh, I'm glad that the other pictures that you have sent me aren't going anywhere. But, um, it's funny man, it's, it's all for fun and that's all I can bet it is.
Speaker 1:It is. It is so okay. We got a really good episode. Our first guest Shot 63. He's been a guest before. He's from the North Central Tour and I know you all are going to know his name. Let's go ahead and bring in Lance Lacombe. Lance, welcome to the show, bud. How's it going? Guys Doing awesome? Another 63, and congratulations.
Speaker 6:I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 1:I think it's a little bit of luck at this point. Well, my understanding is it's a 63 with no bogeys.
Speaker 6:Yes, it was Like I said, we shook a couple four-footers for par and it worked out.
Speaker 1:That's right. Let's take what you can get. Man, don't apologize ever. You're the uh. We talked a little bit offline before we started here. There was a 64 uh last week or the week before from a kid in minnesota. His was also a no bogey 64. So but here the thing, and we'll get into this with you. He said it was a 64, but it could have been a 61.
Speaker 6:I like playing the coulda woulda shoulda because it tends to hurt my feelings and there there's a good story about hurting my feelings really bad when we left. Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, let's, let's just jump into what happened.
Speaker 6:So, uh, there is the. Well, let's just jump into it. What happened? So it's at the World Golf Village the Slammer Aspire Course, the King and Bear is the other one and in 2022, I shot bogey for 62 in a golf event to tie the course record there with Chris Kirk, and we got done. On Saturday my buddy was like yeah, it might be the course record. I'm like I guarantee you I missed about one, but let's go ask. So I walked in the second. I walked in. I'm like, hey, what's the course record? This guy's looking at me like who's this guy that came out asking what the course record is and I get 62, and I'm like, okay, I've heard my feelings enough today and we just walked out and my buddy's laughing as much as he can on the way out. But it would have been fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and especially at that place. I mean, those courses are phenomenal courses.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, they're great layouts, they're tough and the good thing is like almost doesn't matter what tees you play, because every tee shot's going to challenge you at some point, depending where you hit. So it's really good for like every flight. Then you're going to get the person that usually hit it the best out there. I mean, some courses are really wide open and you can kind of fake it off the tee or vice versa in other places, but out there, if you don't hit it straight, you're going to be battling an alligator to find your ball. Tim doesn't do that, we don't do that Pass.
Speaker 1:Do me a favor, just scooch over just a little bit, because we're cutting half your face off. There we go. I mean, if people have to look at my face, they got to look at everybody's face. I'll try to hide half of it, at least I understand. So tell us about the round overall, because again, you've got 62. So when Dennis sent me this message about I don't know Chris, it was actually like the next day he sent this. I was going to ask you for it anyway, but he sent all the lowest scores ever. So you've got a 62. You're on this list. A bunch. You've got 62, 63, 65s.
Speaker 6:So tell us about the round and how that compared to the one at King and Bear. So King and Bear was relatively dry. We got four inches of rain in two days leading up to the this saturday's event and that course usually is pretty firm and fast, so play is really short. But with all the rain was car path only, which I think helped me, because then you're not thankful anything, you're more worried about trying to hoof yourself back to the cart which I'm getting old, I got a bad foot, so it takes a little bit sometimes. And then we had we had a good grouping. Well, two of my best friends, kyle dodson, chase botson, and then one of my buddies, trevarius, was playing. So we everybody was in a good mood and ended up just didn't think he was gonna be a little around.
Speaker 6:No warm-up, no range, we were just hitting fun chip shots around the greens and first of all I hit driver wedge like 20 feet and left it right in the heart and I'm like here we go, we're gonna have another day where we just can count all the strokes you throw away. And I just kind of easing the round, made a birdie on three and then I took a ridiculously aggressive shot on four for no reason, got lucky, made birdie. But I made the turn at three. And then my buddy who was in the group front was just waiting on the lead group and, um, he's like, well, I'm one under, so I'm gonna catch you. You're three under. So kind of lit a fire under me and then got it going. I lipped out from the fairway on 10, birdie 11, 12. I left a 15, put it right in the heart. Then I almost made ace on 13, birdie 14. And at that point I'm thinking, oh, I'm seven under. I was like my record's 10 tied with someone else. I'm like if we go full under the last four, we could break the record.
Speaker 6:And then I missed my only green of the day with a wedge in the par 3, which was demoralizing. And then, birdie 16, hit a good chip in there for eagle, like 3 feet and 17,. I had a feeling I was going to birdie 18. I don't know what it was. I was just really confident. Obviously, when you're playing well and when you're getting away within some shots, that shouldn't do well, you're going to be very confident. So I hit a wedge to like six feet and I told myself, if I make this, I'm shooting 62. And when I tell you I snap, hooked this putt uphill that broke right, I mean it was a tight draw with the putter which was just demoralizing at the point. A tight draw my friend group, we're the kings of tight draws with the putters. Sometimes it's just bad.
Speaker 6:And at that point my buddy chase was three under going into 16, and 16 is par five. He's a long hitter so I'm thinking he might get to five or six. So when I got on 16 I'm like I gotta, I gotta put the pedal down because you never know, I mean there's birdies out there and 18. I hit a good seven iron in from like 178 to like five feet mid birdie. And it was the weirdest feeling because I was so focused on shooting 62 that like 63, like hurt. But at the same time it's like I didn't make a bogey, no warm-up, I made every putt that like I was supposed to make. So I can't really get mad, except that one tight draw. But those happen a lot, especially this year in tournaments.
Speaker 6:Right, and uh came in. Uh, my buddy, kyle donson, won a prop bet for 250 against chase. So it was a phenomenal day. So we, uh I was more invested in kyle's round than I was mine, which I think helped a lot, like how he hit six greens, made two birdies, two bogeys and we I mean the whole group's fist pump every time makes a six or four par. So we were no one was even thinking about my sports. We get on like 16 or 17. So it was just like a perfect mental game day to where I didn't even focus on. I was trying to get out of Kyle's way and, luckily enough, getting out of his way was hitting it close a lot that day. So I need to play a calm more, I think.
Speaker 1:So when they realized at 16, was it kind of like a pitcher throwing a no-hitter?
Speaker 6:They just kind of left you alone, didn't talk to you, made you ride by yourself, that type of thing A little bit, because they asked me on 15, the par 3. They're like Lance, are you 5? I'm like, no, I'm 7. They're like what? I'm like, yeah, I don't know what's going on, but we're kind of blacking out on all these wet shots and I'm tired. Then I miss the green. They're like oh, shouldn't have said anything.
Speaker 1:Man, I mean Chris, it's got to be fun to watch. I mean seriously.
Speaker 2:I bet I mean when you just get to hang out and watch somebody hit some golf shots.
Speaker 1:It's always fun, good golf shots, right? So let me ask it's kind of a series of questions, okay, you know, when we got this information and I started looking at all the tour's lowest scores, I went and kind of pulled a handful of players across the country who have the plus handicaps and just kind of as a point of reference for everybody, lance right now is sitting at a he's a minus three Of your scores and was sitting at a he's a minus three, okay, of your scores, and this is disgusting. I mean it really is. You don't have any. Any of the scores that are being used are plus scores. They're all minus, minus 7.2, minus 3.6, 3.2, blah, blah, blah, right on down the road. And what I wanted to do is I looked at your high scores. They're all minus, minus 7.2, minus 3.6, 3.2, blah, blah, blah, right on down the road. And what I wanted to do is I looked at your high scores and, chris, there weren't many Of your whole career with Golf Week, right. So I went.
Speaker 1:There's not many. I think you've got two, maybe three 70s, two maybe three 80s and a 79.
Speaker 1:And everything else is like a 75 and below. And so I looked and I went to some other players you know that have those types of handicaps and I'm finding the same thing. And I'm thinking you know, why is it that a good champ flight player like you, the dispersion of high scores there really isn't any compared to, let's just say, a good A-flight player? When you think about a good A-flight player, most people think, well, they're not really that far off. But when you look at a good A-flight player compared to you, it's not even close. Right, you're talking four or five shots easy. So why do you think there's that dispersion of high scores for a good A-play player as opposed to a good champ player?
Speaker 6:So with playing with the guys like Joe Jaspers, wong, corbin Holt, the biggest thing that I see that we do in particular is when you start bleeding you find a way to stop it and if that means you got to start hitting it 20 feet with a wedge and not trying to go at flags just to preserve the score until you kind of figure out where your swing's at, that's a big thing. And then for the most part we don't take unnecessary risks like we won't go for like an island green with a free wood that some people are like oh it's game which helps, and then just picking the right club off the tee, like sometimes I've seen with like a flight and b flight from their tees they can hit driver, but then they get down to like a wedge number they don't necessarily like right and you know I would say the average good a flight player is going to make the occasional double from a number they don't like, just because you know they get in your head. You think about it a little too much. I mean it happens to me too, like I do not like hitting nine irons so I try to avoid those, but it just adds up. If you can just make golf as more like a driving range, if that makes sense, like if you're good from 100, 100, 120 and you're not that great from 80 and in I mean tiger played the first four years of his career try not hit inside 80 yards. So if the greatest player ever was doing that, there should be some merit to it.
Speaker 6:And I've seen that with like a lot of us. When we'll go like with part fives, if it's like a tough pin, if it's a short pin, we're trying to hit tough pin. If it's a short pin, we're trying to hit it deep and if it's a long pin, we're never hitting a club that goes deep. And I feel like sometimes we're so focused with like the skin spot and trying to hit it close with a lot of people that you sometimes take a club that you know is going to get there but might go deep, but you don't think about the bad shot. And it's more like the decade golf systems where I've been using a lot this year. It kind of helps you pick your targets to where your bad shots are still on the green and a lot of times they'll turn into the flag more often than not. Okay, so I feel like that's something that the high level champ fighters do for the most part.
Speaker 1:But you also have the skill to be able to do that too, right, yeah, and I think that's a key point. So you said, like a good A-play player will take a double. How many doubles have you taken this year in a tournament?
Speaker 6:I took a lot of trip out on the first day. I found a couple of palmetto trees that were a yard off the fairway that I did not think could stay in there, trees that were a yard off the fairway that I did not think could stay in there. But I mean I probably made in golf week this year. I probably made five doubles, probably yeah Right around there, okay.
Speaker 1:So you only five five, five, doubles, okay, out of you know however many rounds. You know one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight out of nine rounds. That crazy rounds. You know one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight out of nine rounds. That Crazy it is. But but, but again, it goes back to something that you said, lance, you know, you know, you know where you want to hit it and you know how to hit it that far. You know, like, like you said, if, if you don't want to hit it to a nine, nine, I don't know cause you don't like your nine, iron, you don't hit it to that distance, and then they have to worry about it.
Speaker 1:Maybe A-flat players can do it, Maybe some B-flat players can do it, but C and D-flat players they're just swinging away. Let's just say they've hit their seven iron 180 yards once and then you think they hit their seven iron 180 yards, when they probably hit their seven iron maybe 150, 160 yards, 100%, you know, and, and so they're. They're taking that outlier as as a standard, and you're, you're, I mean, you've hit so many, you, you and you know how to hit that distance. And then it comes back down to to making that score, making that handicap Right, and so, as a, for example, you know how you get to your minus three is different than how Jeff Wong gets to his.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right yeah, and it's no different than an A-flight player who's a five. You know how they get to their five is how somebody else gets to their five, and so it's knowing your game and sticking to that and playing to what your strengths are, as opposed to worrying what everybody else is doing.
Speaker 2:For sure, lance, let me ask you this real quick what advice would you give somebody that's not a champ flight player Because I think I mean as much as you all will take advice you guys have your own set game but somebody in a lower flight, what advice would you give them if they're struggling bad and and they know they're a better player than what they're playing?
Speaker 6:I would say majority of the time, it's accepting that bogey's not that bad in the grand scheme of things. Uh like we'll talk about it. We have a bunch of big friend group that plays all different flights and we'll talk about how, like B flight, c flight, d flight, three-shot lead can go away in one hole. I mean it can in any flight. I did it last year in an event. It was great, made a great eight from the middle of the fairway. It was beautiful.
Speaker 6:But it's just kind of understanding sometimes if you don't have the shot to hit on the green or to hit it in the spot that you think is going to make it.
Speaker 6:Like you know, the hero shots aren't always the player. So if you're in a spot and you see the pins back right and you have a weird line, you don't think you can take it on. But you're going to try for no reason. I feel like that alone is going to cost you probably two, three shots around just from not just like almost accepting that like making a five is going to be fine, like I mean, the tour guys talk about all the time that bogeys don't kill you double too. So for champ flight it's more like double avoidance, but really in the grand scheme would be bogey avoidance. But anything in the higher flights I mean double or triple getting away from those is going to save you a lot of strips and help you move up quick. It's going to lower the handicap a lot. Cool, because everybody has the ability to hit a great shot. You know, everybody can hit a good shot, one up there or whatever.
Speaker 1:But the biggest thing that separates the champ flight from the a and the b is that the bat isn't, you know, retee for the most part right and that, that's, that's, that's huge you know the, the penalty strokes, the retees, the, you know, whatever it is, you know it's one thing I would almost say to to miss, hit, like and miss a green and take, take a stroke there.
Speaker 1:You know, bogey in there because you miss the green and then get it close as opposed to. You know you're giving a stroke away by hitting it into a penalty area. Yeah, you're dropping two, hitting three, now all of a sudden, and, and now you're from a, from a mental and a mindset perspective. You know you're, I, two and three, now all of a sudden, and now you're from a, from a mental and a mindset perspective. You know you're, I mean at least, at least me I'm, I've lost the hole because I'm pissed off because I gave a stroke away and hopefully, hopefully, I'll make bogey, but more than like, like you said, I'm going to make double because I messed up and then my mind isn't right and so it's, it's, it compounds itself.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I messed up, and then my mind isn't right, and so it compounds itself yeah.
Speaker 2:Interesting. For sure you got that, chris Yep. Get your mind right, get your mind right. I'm trying, I'm trying. That's why I asked.
Speaker 1:So, Lance, what other big tournaments you got this year?
Speaker 6:So not this weekend but the next next weekend. Uh, second to last week of july, we had the city amateur championship, which has been circled for a while, and then I have the state match play the week after. So I got those two and then I'm going to play the north central events. We're playing university of florida skyview. Uh, we have the season enders at Juliet Falls, which anybody listening, juliet Falls is one of the nicest courses in the Central Florida area, so definitely wouldn't miss that one. And then, other than that, nationals is circled on the schedule. I want to finally get myself in a better position than losing in a playoff, so we're going to try to keep it together for three days.
Speaker 1:That's the key Lays. I believe in you playoff, so we're going to try to keep it together for three days. That's the key Lays. I believe in you, bud. Let's talk about the City Am. Yes, we talked about that a little bit last year and that's an important tournament for you.
Speaker 6:Why is that so? For that it has World Amateur Golf Rankings points so you can get points for just playing in it if you're already on the system. But for that, if you win that, usually you get exempt until bigger events. Like if you win a city championship for the most part if it's a three-day one you'll get into the Gasparilla, which is the second biggest mid-end event in the world. That's in Tampa, florida.
Speaker 6:That is an awesome event I played for the first time this year. I've never played in front of so many people we there was 10,000 fans out there the last day, wow. So just playing good in the big events with ranking points is big, because then I mean, at one point I got to right around a thousand in the world ranking this year. Then we had a rough March. But it's, the better you play, the better you can move up there there and then it helps out with getting into big events and then getting exemptions and stuff like that as well. How'd you do in the castarilla? I finished t31 out of 156. I was in contention going to back nine and made a double. That wasn't on golf week, but I made a handful of those that weren't on golf week but to me those don't exist at all.
Speaker 1:You know, we just worry about you know well, yeah, it was a great event.
Speaker 6:The course was amazing. I've that's probably still the hardest golf course I ever played. So it was a really fun event and looking forward to playing again next year. So that's definitely probably my biggest event every year. But nationals is one of those that I it's circled every year. I try to sneak the course, try to like get all the courses out of dennis's brain beforehand. I want to know what's going on, which, as you know, takes takes a lot of course it does it does you know?
Speaker 1:I don't know if everybody knows what's going on. I'm not give up too much, but I covered a tournament for Dennis this weekend, this past weekend, and when Dennis texts or sends emails, you got to decipher some things. Man. Oh yeah, and I'm sitting at the scoring table with Susan. I'm thinking we've got to make a decision. I don't know what this means right now. I'm trying to figure it out. I said Susan, you text back and forth with him all the time. What does this mean? She looks at me. I don't know.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, dennis will play things close to the vest, and then you've got to figure some stuff out, but God bless him. I mean, the courses are out now, though.
Speaker 6:Yes, I think champ is Hampton Hall Country Club at Hilton Head, and I forgot the third one. It might be Oyster Reef, I think.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what. Let me pull it up up. But if you're at Hampton Hall and Country Club, I'm expecting low scores, like you had a couple years ago.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I like Hampton Hall. It's fun. That's one of my favorite courses we played.
Speaker 1:I love Hampton Hall. Here we go again, chris. I love all the courses, but seriously, hampton Hall, country Club and Golden Bear and Jones are some of my favorites there. I love them. I mean I say they're all my favorites, but he can't make a decision.
Speaker 6:That's a great finishing stretch at Jones. That's so good with that, because the wing can pick up and the holes that you would think you could score on can be like you're trying to survive and make par. It's just a really good finishing stretch for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't find that list off the top of my head. If you guys are at those two courses, Hampton Hall and Country Club, it's going to be a low score. Looking forward to that.
Speaker 6:Hoping, so Hopefully the game rounds into form there. Hopefully I didn't play too good now and then struggle a little bit coming in. We'll see.
Speaker 1:You know your game better than anybody else, but this is right about the same time last year that you shot 62. Right, let me pull it up.
Speaker 6:Something like that. Right, let me pull it up something like that. I think I shot 65, 67, 65 or something like that one 65.
Speaker 1:He's got you highlighted on here a bunch of times. But so June 23rd of 24 you shot 65 okay.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it was a two to three cove yeah, um.
Speaker 1:So I mean it's three weeks apart.
Speaker 6:I mean I think you're in a good spot maybe I figured I want to play tournaments right time that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Alright, bud. Well, I'm hoping I see you before before nationals. That you know. If you get any more low scores like this, you know, let me know we'll get you back on. But I love what you're doing man, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 6:Thank you Appreciate you guys having me on, take care of yourself.
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Speaker 2:Only from Strixon Tim. You know it's always great to hear players shoot real low. I'm telling you, when I get to play with HB or Ty Taylor, some of my champ flight guys and just watch them play, sometimes I forget that I'm playing in a tournament, because it's just so majestic is the word that came to mind. You know, 63 is not a thing to sneeze over. Anything that starts with a six is a thing to sneeze over. But it's just awesome. And you know, if these guys keep playing the way they are and they keep getting better and momentum keeps building, nationals is going to be a shootout for them.
Speaker 1:I know, Like we said, if they're playing those two courses Hampton Hall and Country Club and whatever the third one is, there's going to be some low scores. That's going to be a good time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a three-, four-player playoff. I would not be shocked.
Speaker 1:I'm good with that. It gives us a couple extra minutes to do what we do.
Speaker 5:Right right.
Speaker 1:But you know, but I love Lance. I mean he's such a good guy, so down to earth, so willing and open to talk with us and give us what really happened to him.
Speaker 2:Right. But I think this is cool with our tours. These Champ Flight guys aren't above themselves. They don't think that they're the best ever like, yeah, shout out 63. Oh what you want to talk with me? Yeah, let's talk about it. I don't care like it's, it's just cool to be. You know, we don't have to fight them to to come and just hang out with us yeah, I mean because I mean you text him can do it.
Speaker 1:He's 10 minutes later. Yeah man, we're good. Yeah, let's go. So I love that. And we'll talk a little bit in the closing about some of the scores low scores historically in this year, because I brought a little bit of it up in the interview with Lance. But if we get to a little bit more detail with some of these scores, it's incredible. I mean, when you actually look at some of the scores and the indexes and how these things are falling out and a lot of times I mean I didn't know this, I'm sure you didn't know, until you actually see some of the data here, it's mind-boggling.
Speaker 2:Right right, We'll get into it later, but it is pretty cool to see all this data it is. It is pretty cool to see all this data.
Speaker 1:It is, and I can't wait until the next episode to talk to the other 63. That happened this past weekend, so we'll catch up with him in a couple weeks. But went out to Blacksburg, Virginia Tech Regional, and let me tell you something and I know people are probably tired of hearing me say this just like you know my favorite courses, If you didn't go, you missed out. You missed out. You put this on your, on your bucket list. It's a, it's a beautiful place, it's a phenomenal course. Um, obviously, you know, Lyle runs a good tournament and and it was a great time, Great time.
Speaker 1:Um, and so you know, interviewed winners and we're gonna gonna hear those uh interviews here in just a second, but we were gonna do it live, but but you were in hawaii so we couldn't do that. You know you're busy surfing or whatever was it you do in Hawaii, so you missed it. You better put that on your list.
Speaker 2:I will, because, remember my crew that I travel with. They're not doing anything in the early part of the year because it's too cold, so I'll have to put that one on there. I'll pencil it in. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker 1:I just can't do it, man. You guys, let's go ahead and hear some of these stories and we'll catch you back up in the closing. Let's do it. Welcome back to the Dye Course at Virginia Tech for the 2025 Blacksburg Regional and we're here with a Champlight winner, matt Green from the Cincinnati Tour. Matt, you had two really, really good days.
Speaker 8:Yep 70-70.
Speaker 1:There were only three rounds under par. You had two of them Today. You had a really good stretch those 12-13, excuse me, 11-12 and 13. Why don't you walk us through that stretch?
Speaker 4:I mean 11, I birdied it yesterday so I had good vibes. Big drive, wedge in 12 inches birdie. Big drive on the par 5, 2.11 to the pin, 6 iron to 10 feet. Oh my goodness, rolled it in 10 feet on the next birdie, 8 feet on the next slipped out and birdie. I'll definitely get on a here.
Speaker 1:I was and birdie, and I'll definitely get on it on a here I was just, I was just wanting as many as I proved. Well that's. I mean it's. It's amazing that you could do that, especially on this course again, when there's only three rounds on the par and you know, on that freehold stretch you were, you were four under um you want, you had even even par on the front. You know, two under on on the back. I mean you had a little hiccup on 15 um with double, but outside of that you, you pretty had had a pretty good, uh, clean card you know, one little poor chip on the front nine and then like a calculated miss on 15.
Speaker 4:That was the last difficult shot I could see left that could cause me some trouble and then just unfortunately lost my ball. But um other than that it was. It was good for two days.
Speaker 1:It was pretty, pretty stress-free well, kind of like we talked about yesterday. You just said you had a calculated miss, uh, and that again, that's just so important for I think you know for the high handicaps to understand. About this we talked about yesterday but, um, you know, you went, you went going away by, you know, I think, five strokes, nine, nine, nine starts. Closest was Mike Hartzell, out of the Tidewater Tour, for a two-day total of 149, so you won by nine.
Speaker 4:So what's next for you, I'm gonna go play a regional up in Michigan. Okay, oh, american News Played it last year great golf course. Yeah, it's a lot playing these regionals. It's fun. You meet people from all over the states. Yeah, play some wicked gold courses. I thought it was fun. You just get caught up. There's gold courses. You get lost in in the views all the way around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I was up at American News last year and if you haven't been to American News, you need to go. Have you been to the French Lick one?
Speaker 4:Yes, swallowed them too. They were all over. You just go to the real estate and it's hard to like. I was having some mess.
Speaker 1:Well, Matt. Thanks so much for spending some time with us. Congratulations on the win. Take care and drive safe. Thank you. All right, we're back with the A-flight champion, Zane Sanford, and we just talked to Matt Green, the champ flight winner. He went 70-70. I said there was three under par rounds on the tournament and Zane Sanford, the A-flight champion, had the third one. I'm just going to say you had the round of the day, Even though Matt shot 70,. I think you had the round of the day because we talked yesterday when you left. All you had to do, you had to play your game and you turned around and did that. You went 82-71, and you got a three-stroke win. So congratulations.
Speaker 10:Thank you very much. Yeah, I just saw you Literally last. I just, literally last night, I pulled out a putting match to work on my five footers, because yesterday that 82 was there was missing parts about this far off. Okay, so then last night we were having a party. I need to pause that a bit and let me go work on my putting.
Speaker 10:And I did that today and I was able to get revenge on hole 18, 17.
Speaker 10:Unfortunately, yesterday was doubled for putting two balls in the water and the 17 par and the 18 became a birdie about maybe six inches off the hole and I had the birdie there to keep the drilling going and I just had to push more and just make the punch.
Speaker 10:And I did not fall out of the drive in a day and just play my game, make the punch and did not fall out driving today and just play my game. I was, yeah, and I'm just and I really want this so bad to create another great memory up here and I just can't wait to go back home and talk to all of my Hokie buddies, knowing that that I got this and, and one more important thing, I'm getting ready to speak in front of Congress on September 7th. They want to know how I met Mandrill. I get to tell them I did one original tournament called the Peak Dive at Virginia Tuck and one of my bosses I think he's the top management he went to Virginia Tuck and I can't wait to meet him in DC and tell him I should go away here. What I've done.
Speaker 1:Dude, that's awesome, thank you. That makes me so happy for you hear what I've done.
Speaker 4:Dude that's awesome.
Speaker 1:That makes me so happy for you. Yeah, but let's break your round down just a little bit. I mean you had a relatively clean card today. I mean you bogeyed a hole on the front, but you still finished one under Because you went birdie, birdie, eight, nine, eight, birdie, nine, birdie. So walk us through eight and nine for me real quick.
Speaker 10:So eight and nine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a par four, nine's, a par five, back back.
Speaker 10:Well, I just had. First, the eight was just a hybrid, I just needed to get it down anywhere in the fairway and as long as I do the Ben Hogan elbow so you can keep the rear inside it was just going to go on the grain and it actually hit the top of the hill. And then I actually hit the heel of the hill, the hill, and then I actually hit the heel of my wedge. I thought it shrank a little bit and it went on top of the hill and it rolled into another six inches and I was able to tap that in and that was good luck. And then the next hole it was uh, I just had to same same thing hybrid down in the fairway and, trusted my gut, went in the face. Just just do, just, your litrovino, your body is a tree trunk, you can turn around. And I was able to keep doing that and that was how I made my body. I told myself your body is a tree trunk caught by litrovino.
Speaker 1:And I was able to stay consistently all that that that that's good, that you have those triggers to keep you mentally focused throughout the round, especially when things get a little wonky although things didn't get wonky for you today. I mean, again, real consistent. You go off to the back, you had two bogeys and all set by two birdies. So you put 10 to 18 at even par for that, 171. And again, when you look at the course and all the 120 players, there's 240 rounds, only three rounds under par and you were one of them. And after shooting 82 and how upset you were yesterday, I tell you what you should be really proud of yourself.
Speaker 10:Thank you, I really am. It's been a big, big struggle, big struggle with me. I just had to work on a lot of things. It was literally just the putting and putting. I just had to change it up a little bit, just believe in yourself and have faith in yourself and know everything is going to be okay. And I actually did that and I have great people that encouraged me to do what you do and I was able to do that.
Speaker 1:And before you had come in, there was a bunch of guys in here who saw the scores and they said good for you, good for Zane, and it's one thing I love the encouragement and everything else and to see people with you, not even being around, saying good for you, congratulations, he did a great job today. You need to know that. So, congratulations, marsh, thank you very much around saying good for you, congratulations, he did a great job today. You need to know that. So congratulations, march, thank you very much. Good luck the rest of the way. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1:Thank you all right we're back with with the b-flat champion, joe benson from the tidewater tour shot 76 84 for a two-stroke win congratulations on the win today.
Speaker 8:Appreciate it, man.
Speaker 1:Thank you so you know, walk us through today how it went. You know you led after round one. All right.
Speaker 8:Walk us through the round today. Today's round a little bit different than yesterday, you know. It was a lot wetter. They got some rain last night, evidently, and made the course a lot more difficult today. Just made sure I hit four out of every tee, made sure I kept the ball in front of me and we made it happen, man.
Speaker 1:So you know again, leading after day one, you still won by two strokes. What was your mindset actually going through? You know when you went to bed last night and what you were going to do today, because very rarely does somebody win have low ground on day one, come back on day two to keep the win, and three flights did that today.
Speaker 8:How about that? That's very unusual, very unusual. Yeah Well, for me, I try not to think about it, because if I do like you said, you know I'll fall to pieces. I don't even check the leaderboard throughout the round, I just play golf and at the end of it it is what it is Right. So I try not to worry about it. I slept pretty well last night, came out here today, and so I'm just going to play the same game I played yesterday and it worked out. That's awesome. Did you win any skin money in that? None, I didn't even have a birdie in there.
Speaker 1:But you walk away with this national championship ticket from Chisard and you're ready to go.
Speaker 8:What's next for you? I think it'll be KDMT, I think it's Dogwood for Richmond Tour. Awesome, that guy was showing a little bit of his life. That was your buddy today, so try to get back to it. Awesome. Hope you guys are ready to win Everyone. See you soon. Appreciate it, take care. All right, we're back at the die course.
Speaker 1:You've got the sea flight champion Kenny Price from the Tidewater Tour. Kenny, you went wire to wire this weekend.
Speaker 8:Feel pretty good.
Speaker 7:I do. I do. It was a grind out there. Just wanted to make sure that you didn't make any stupid mistakes and you know, hold steady and let everything fall as it may.
Speaker 1:So, you shot 83 yesterday and, like I said, got a tie for first with with titus simmons from from dc tour and you guys were paired together today. How did that pairing go?
Speaker 7:and kind of walking through the round a little bit um it started out obviously, um, you know you're a little nervous, so you know the little slow start. But then, once everybody settled in, I think we got into a groove. Um, at that point, um, you know, you just start focusing on, you know, the shot at hand and, uh, not looking ahead, I'm not thinking too much about where everybody's at on the leaderboard and, um, you know, believing that as long as you put some pars up there in our flight, that, um, you're gonna have a good chance to hang in there. And, um, you know, once I saw I had a lead and at that point it was just a matter of just uh, executing shots and you know not getting ahead of yourself yeah, I mean you're pretty consistent over both days.
Speaker 1:I mean you had, you know, two double bogeys today, but you also had a birdie on uh hole number three. What was?
Speaker 7:for that hole. So that hole was actually, um, the wind had picked up today, so the wind was in our face and it's a long par five for us, it's over 500 yards. So, um, decent tee shot. But it did get off the fairway. Um, what happened? Basically, my uh, my second shot I was about 165 out. I took an eight iron and I hit it within about four feet and I was able to execute the putt, to get the birdie, and it was a crucial point in my round because it kind of settled me down a little bit and I got back on track. From that point on it was just a matter of, you know, executing the rest of the shot. So, yeah, it was crucial, especially with that wind, and I had a feeling that it was going to hold up, because my flight anyways, because it's a long haul, it is a long haul, so I felt good about that.
Speaker 7:So what did you think of the course? Love it, love it. The scenery. I mean, you know we have trains going by. You know I couldn't ask for anything better With the rain stuff. I think the course drained great as much as it could. It took a lot of rain on, so great as much as it could. It took a lot of rain on, so today, with the wind picking up, it changed it a little bit, gave it a little bit of different of a look. Um, but beautiful, beautiful course it is absolutely well, congratulations on your win today.
Speaker 1:Again, five-stroke win over uh josh uh mulaton from from charlotte kenny, bryce, 2025 blacksburg regional champion congratulations.
Speaker 8:Thank you, sir. Appreciate it, man. All right, all right, here we go. We're back here with the d flight champion, kenny Bryce, 2025 Blacksburg Regional Champion Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it, man.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, here we go we're back here with the D-Flight Champion, hal Lair, from the Tidewater Tour. Hal, congratulations on the win today. Thank you, you had a tough one starting out?
Speaker 5:I did. Yeah, we started out on 18 and I pulled my ball a little bit left and we thought it was in the trap, hit a perfect shot out of the trap and then realized it wasn't my ball. So I didn't take a two-stroke penalty and go play my regular ball and started out with a triple. So I had a lot of work to do from there.
Speaker 1:So you started out with a triple and you already had two strokes back to begin with, so you clawed your way back for a two-stroke win over Ed Sitico from Tidewater Tour. So talk about the battle back and forth between you and Ed all day today.
Speaker 5:It was a bit of a battle. I didn't hit very many fairways all day, so it was quite a battle for me just to keep it in play and keep up with him and he started struggling a little bit. And let me back in and Wayne Enzer kept us in the mix, so it was a good mix out there. Every day we had a really good foursome. So how was?
Speaker 1:the course playing different today than it was yesterday.
Speaker 5:Maybe a little bit more sluggish because there's a little bit more water on it in a couple of spots, but by and large it played about the same to me. Okay, I got very fortunate on number nine, had a really, really hard drive down there, but it hit the car path All right, and we looked for it for about two and a half minutes and then we finally saw it. I'd hit about a 300-yard drive. Was it like a fire path? There you go, yeah, yeah, shot of the day. That's awesome. What do you?
Speaker 1:think of the course.
Speaker 5:I like it. Yeah, it's pretty much. If you can hit the fairway, you can score pretty well on race. Yeah, not a whole lot of trouble and it's just what's in front of you. Just play it. Yeah, that's all I like it. So what's next for you? Kiln Creek, that'll be the next one up for me. Awesome, that's home course, so I'm looking to do well there too. Very good.
Speaker 1:Well, congratulations on the win, Congratulations on punching you take the national championship and good luck the rest of the year. All right, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1:You know, chris, there really isn't anything like it, like talking to winners after a regional tournament. You know, national championship is a completely separate deal, but when you talk to winners from a regional tournament it really is special, especially when you're competing against players from all over the country at a great course. Good competition, great event right on down the line. How happy these guys are to walk away champion at a regional, especially this course at Virginia Tech. I'm telling you it's beautiful man, absolutely beautiful, like you said, any regional it's.
Speaker 2:It's a milestone win because you are playing people that are not from your your tour, that aren't visiting you know you're paying people from really around the the country, um, and it's a good indicator on how you can do at nationals. You know, mine is an extra day of playing, but if you play a practice round you your body's probably conditioned to it. Um, if I want a regional, I think I would go in there with a chip on my shoulder, um, because you and 15 other you know 14, 15 other regional winners are probably there. So you kind of have that little edge, but I can imagine how much weight is off your shoulders winning a big tournament like that. I mean, I've been close. I think I have a second place, a fourth place, so I've been there, but to be able to actually pull it off is just a huge thing. I don't want anyone to think that it's just a normal tournament, because it's way different than your local tourist two-day event.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is, and again, Lyle does such a good job running events. Anyway, you got to go.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean all the directors that have regionals I think run around amazing. The ones we've been to have have been top notch phenomenal, phenomenal, yeah, it's, uh, it's really.
Speaker 1:And so I, I think a lot of times, when we say that people say, oh, they're just saying that there they go again. Right, the same thing again, again. But let's put this way, I wouldn't do if it wasn't like I wouldn't do.
Speaker 2:I, I would just wouldn't say anything well, and you know, I challenge, I challenge anybody to go to a regional that we've talked about, that we've been to, and tell us we're wrong tell us we're wrong, right and I, I guarantee you no one will be able to.
Speaker 1:You can't do it you know, even when we were at American Dunes last year and pouring down rain on Saturday.
Speaker 2:Right, these guys were walking in soggy, looked like a dog, that was left outside just all soaking, wet, dripping, and I mean, yeah, they were probably upset because they had to deal with the rain, but it's part of the game, you know it happens. I mean, yeah, they were probably upset because they had to deal with the rain, but it's part of the game, you know it happens. Luckily, it was just one flight that it happened to, so they were all out there and had to deal with it. But you come back Sunday and you play your day two round and anything can happen. It's the people you go with too, because usually with these regionals, if they're people from out of town, they're bringing a handful.
Speaker 2:They're probably not going just by themselves exactly these trips are planned ahead of time so get on out there.
Speaker 1:I'm just telling you. You know I, bill Prosecki, you know, know. The Chicago tour director sent me an email today asking if we were going to be out at Grand Dunes. Unfortunately, we're not. You know it's next week and you know you just come back from Hawaii. You got to take a nap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's going to be tough, but one day, one year Tim, we'll get enough sponsors. We can go to every single one and we'll make sure they all spread them out and we'll just, we'll hop into your RV and we'll just go.
Speaker 1:We'll just drive. That's how we'll spend the summer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll just do it Jack and Diane.
Speaker 1:Jen and Diane will say we'll spend the summer. Yeah, we'll just do it, jack and Diane.
Speaker 2:Jen and Diane will say we'll see you when you get back in November. Yeah, because we'll have to end the trip at Hilton Head and then call it a day. Then we'll take a whole month off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, you're back, you got kids start school, you get a couple days to yourself and then we're right back at it for you. So obviously still a lot going on. We got it's only like 45, maybe 60 days tops left in the season.
Speaker 2:It's quick, it's gone by quick.
Speaker 1:So I would suggest, if you haven't signed up for the rest of your local tour, do that Sign up for. I guess, the last two regionals. Do that quickly. If there's space Right, there may not be space anymore, but you know? And then let's buckle down and get your handicaps right, get them down and let's get into the national championship. That's what I say, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, it's gone by quicker this year than I think last year. I mean, maybe for me it's because I had big trips planned, but it's been awesome to see, you know, some great golf played all year so far. And man, I just I can't wait to see that leaderboard come national championship, because if the guys that we've talked to all show up it's going to be a dogfight.
Speaker 1:Well, we know Lance will be there. I mean, if Lance would go, he'd camp out there, if that's what it meant.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:He's hungry. Yeah, I can't wait to the next episode. You know, talk to the other guy who shot. I think he shot 63-68.
Speaker 2:I shoot that in PGA 2k 25 on my PlayStation, probably on easy mode after what 500 rounds that you know to practice to get that?
Speaker 1:how many mulligans?
Speaker 2:yeah it's. It's insane what to see what these guys score that you sent me. I mean, I think, the 80s, and above those bad rounds that they have stand out more than all these good rounds.
Speaker 1:Well, to a certain extent, yeah, and that's what makes it really so interesting, right? I mean so like Lance had two bad rounds almost back-to-back, so he shot an 80. Wait a second, now this is okay. So here we go. This is what it was. Let me just double check, make sure that I have my dates right here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he shot an 80 at Atlantic Dunes National Championship which you know he mentioned that that first day at Atlantic Dunes the winds were blowing Right, and then he shot 70 at Golden Bear the next day and then turned around with a 79 at Langtons again. So he had two of his highest rounds almost back-to-back in the national championship on a very, very difficult course. What are you going to do? I mean that happens. But then he shot an 80 at Fripp and he kind of walked me through that. I just thought it was bad luck there. But he's got three 80s and a 79 out of what's it? 67 rounds.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm of what's it? 67 rounds, mm-hmm, you know. And the rest are, you know, 75 and below. So, and again, joe Jaspers. So Joe's got history all the way back to 2009. So, you know, he's got a couple more higher rounds, but you're also talking a decade more, but you're still only talking 81s, 82 the crazy thing about Joe Jaspers is I'm looking here right and obviously your handicap is your best 8 scores pass.
Speaker 2:He's using only one score from this year and obviously your handicap is your best eight scores pass. He's using only one score from this year in his eight lowest scores. It's insane, it's wild, I mean, and they're so tight 73, 72, 73. Height 73, 72, 73. And he can go out there and just throw up a low 70, 69, and call it an average day, yeah.
Speaker 1:Unbelievable. So well, jeff Wallen. So again, look at Jeff's scores. I think his highest is a 77. That was his first round. He's got a couple 77s and 76. Everything else low 70s, low to mid 70s. You know and we talked a little bit about this with Lance you know Jeff Wong is a good player, but how Jeff plays is very different than how Lance plays. And still, I mean watching two of them go head-to-head or watching the three of them, joe and Wong and Lance, or any of these guys that we have on this list here, corbin or HB or Chuck Spears, or pick a good jam flight player, I don't care who it is. Watching those guys go head-to-head, it's fun to watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, we can even throw Matthew in there. He can hold his own, his champs can hold their own.
Speaker 1:It's fun man.
Speaker 2:It is fun to watch.
Speaker 1:Dennis sent us the all-time low scores. We've got three 62s, three 62s. You know we talked to Andrew Buse a couple years ago. He shot a 62 at Lowell Kentucky golf course. Jeff Allen shot a 62 in November of 2016. And Lance had his 62 August of 22 at World Golf Village, king and Bear. You know a bunch of 63s now One, two, three, four, five 63s, because we've got one that's not on there.
Speaker 2:Won that national championship, won that national championship.
Speaker 1:You know it's just go down this list. It's unbelievable, it really is.
Speaker 2:Matt Mitchell had a 64 this year from Nashville. It's unbelievable, it really is. Matt Mitchell had a 64 this year From Nashville. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1:One day I'll be on this list. I hope you are. I hope you are.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm just curious. Let's see here, let me see if it'll do it. Joel Jasper's on there. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times HB. Twice Lance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times HB. Twice Lance one, two, three, four, five, six times. Will Morgan twice Chuck Spears one, two, three, four times Jeff.
Speaker 1:Wong one, two, three, four, five, six times on that list. That's insane. Yeah, so Chuck Spears tried 66 when we were out there at the regional last year.
Speaker 7:Yep.
Speaker 1:Wow, good times, man, good times.
Speaker 2:I'm in awe of that great golf that's out there.
Speaker 1:Well, hold on a second here. Look at the 66s.
Speaker 2:Just close it 66s okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there's been one, two, three, four 66s shot at the club at Irish Creek in Charlotte.
Speaker 2:So what you're saying is I need to go play there and maybe I'll get a 66.
Speaker 1:Maybe, and so this is funny. So Jim Maltry shot a 66 on June 29th of 2013. And Joe Jaspers turned around and shot a 66 on June 30th 2013. And Joe Jasper's turnaround shot 66 on June, 30th, day after Yep. So I wonder who won that tournament.
Speaker 2:Pull it up, let's find out. You've opened the can of worms, my friend See that's a 2013, charlotte, you got it. No, I was checking a different stat All right, I'll pull it up, I'll get it.
Speaker 1:Let's see what we got here 2013.
Speaker 2:Well, you pull that up. September 10, 2018. 66. Two different tours that day Wow, this is interesting Neither one won Jim Maltry, jim Maltry. Interesting.
Speaker 1:Neither one won Jim Autry. Jim Autry won by two over Joe and Scott Patnode. Wow. So Joe shot 74-66. Patnode shot 69-71. And Autry shot 66 72. Wow, what that look at this you're ready, okay, so. So so Dennis shot 88-80 that day.
Speaker 2:You have to put that one out there. All right, national Championship 2022. Okay, okay, hampton Hall, october 15th, hb Kim 63. October 16th, genki and Lance 64-65. And we know that we talked about that one. That one went to the wire. Yeah For a champion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good times right there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very good times. It's good for them. Very good times.
Speaker 1:Good for them. What we need is we need people to give us some money for the raffle for the clubs. Don't forget that. Yes.
Speaker 2:We want to get you out there to at least TPC this year. We need you out there one. We almost got you at Firestone. We need to get you. Need you out there one. We we almost got you a Firestone, Um, so we need to get you out to at least one. I know I threw that out there, but it was too cold for you.
Speaker 1:I had to stay inside.
Speaker 2:I know With with the clubhouse they had, I should have stayed inside too.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, all right, my friend, glad you're back, rested for the final run-up to Nationals Yep, or rested to the run-up to TPC.
Speaker 2:Let's do TPC first, because I'm going to win that one, and then have an easy way into Nationals All right bud Sounds good to me. Just got to get back on the routine man Got to get back on the practice regimen.
Speaker 1:Do that Now that the kids are back in school. We don't have to.
Speaker 2:I don't have to worry about it. I can just go hit the range for four hours and go pick them up and make dinner.
Speaker 1:There, you go there, you go there you go. Well, send my best to family, get some rest and, uh, we'll see you soon do me a favor, don't send me any more stew sub pictures, yeah well, I was. I was gonna tell you, if I make it out to tpc, I'd bring you a stew sub. But that's a lie. Um yeah, it's not gonna make it. It would never make it.
Speaker 2:It would make it, wouldn't make it out to TPC, I'd bring you a stew sub. But that's a lie. Yeah, it's not going to make it.
Speaker 1:It would never make it. It would make it off the island.
Speaker 2:Checking all the stuff and eat it. See, here we go. Here's the thing, okay, I think, and you need to pull this. Either you or JR need to pull this. I know JR's listening when we get to pull this. Either you or JR need to pull this. I know JR is listening. When we get to nationals, we need to go and have a small segment at Stu's place on our iPhone, so we don't have to do the whole setup or anything, but something to where people can understand. We can do a review, our first review on the podcast.
Speaker 2:We can do that that wouldn't be that hard to do, because because here's the thing, we talk about it so much. I think we need to let our viewing audience see exactly what we're talking about. I don't know about stew subs dude, that's.
Speaker 1:We could do that. We don't even need a reason, there you go.
Speaker 2:No, we need the reason, so we can go okay.
Speaker 6:More than once.
Speaker 2:I can't figure out why I'm fat but okay, I can't wait to see what your AI-generated thumbnail is going to be for that one.
Speaker 1:It'll probably be one that can't be shown anywhere, probably.
Speaker 2:It'll still be funny.
Speaker 1:Maybe what I'll do is I'll put some of those first AI-generated pictures that were generated up Us with no shirts on. Oh geez, People would love that.
Speaker 2:Oh geez, People would love that. Oh man, that might get me in trouble. They'll definitely know what they generated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand, oh boy.
Speaker 2:All right, man, it's always fun. Man, it's always fun to do this I just laughed way too hard.
Speaker 10:Glad you're back. We'll talk to you soon. Fun man, it's always fun to do this. I just laughed way too hard. Glad you're back. We'll talk to you soon. Yes, sir, be safe. Thank you.
