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Golfweek Amateur Tour - The Podcast
Record-Breaking Scores, Fundraising Milestones & The Final Push to Nationals
With just 67 days until the National Championship, the competition is heating up, and so are the stories! In this episode, Tim Newman and Chris Rocha bring you a powerful mix of record-breaking golf, inspiring fundraising, and the camaraderie that makes the Golfweek Amateur Tour truly special.
We start in Arizona, where Gabe and his team are on the verge of hitting $10,000 raised for the V Foundation, proving once again that golf can be a powerful force for good. Then, we head to Louisiana to hear from Rod Baronet, who delivered one of the most jaw-dropping performances in tour history, rounds of 68 and 63 at Oak Wing, not only setting the lowest two-day score ever but also shooting his age for the first time at 65. His patient, strategic mindset is a masterclass for every amateur golfer.
Chris also shares highlights from his recent trip to Hawaii, including the unforgettable beauty (and challenges) of island golf. Plus, we give you the latest updates on regional championships, Player of the Month nominations, and the ongoing raffle for a brand-new set of irons.
Whether you’re chasing your own personal best, playing for a cause, or just soaking in the joy of our golf community, this episode is packed with the stories and strategies that make amateur golf competition so addictive.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- How the Arizona Tour is making a major impact in the fight against cancer
- The mental approach behind Rod Baronet’s historic tournament performance
- Why patience and course strategy can beat raw power in competitive golf
- Updates on Regional Championships and the road to the National Championship
- How camaraderie fuels performance on the Golfweek Amateur Tour
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All right, chris, I know you're back from Hawaii. You've been back for a couple weeks. I don't want to hear you. It's still island time and slow and hang loose and all this other stuff. Time is flying buddy. I mean, it's the middle of August, man. Yeah, it is, it's the middle of August, dude, we're about 60 days out, 62, 63 days yeah.
Speaker 2:What are we going?
Speaker 1:to do.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what to say. I mean, you blink and it's already almost the end of the season. I'm telling you, I say it every year, but as directors, as we're getting registrations in and getting tournaments ready, you start scrolling down the end of that list and it's relieved because you went through another season, but it's still kind of sad because you don't want it to end. You want to keep playing and having events and seeing the guys and the ladies. Yeah, it's a bittersweet moment. I guess you could say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we still got time. We still got time. We still got time, yeah, but we still got time, still got time, still got time. And, just so everybody knows, this is your last month for Player of the Month, so if you haven't got somebody in, get them in. Now's the time. But we got a good episode this week. One of these days, chris, I was like we're going to have the worst episode ever, so just don't listen, or listen to see how bad it is.
Speaker 2:I think that should have sailed. Is it Like the first five episodes? Those are going to be tough to beat.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they are.
Speaker 1:I know, I know, I know, but we got good stuff. We're going to talk with Gabe and his staff from the Arizona Tour. They've done some really good things. We've got the lowest two-day round in history of the Tour we're going to talk about and in the end we're going to get in and talk to Chris, see how his golf game is coming along now that he's back from Hawaii. So stick with us.
Speaker 2:Let's do it.
Speaker 5: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.
Speaker 2:Tour Director, chris Rocha. All right, tim, I'm back, so you didn't have to be by yourself for at least an episode.
Speaker 1:Thank God. Thank God, you know I don't like being alone.
Speaker 2:I saved you. You know I'm rested. It was a great time, great trip.
Speaker 1:I didn't get to surf. What yeah Waves?
Speaker 2:were a little big. But oh, stop for for being a first-time surfer.
Speaker 2:I no, I I didn't get to, but we're gonna go back, so I will do it then, all right all right, um, but you know it was a great time, got to make some core memories with uh, with my boys, which was nice. It's just so peaceful, man, I've been to the East Coast Beach, I've been to Florida Beach, I've been to California Beach, seattle's area but for something out there you would think it's a lot of people, tourism, but it really isn't. There's so many beaches you can go to. You can find that one. That's just. You know, you and maybe two or three other families, and everyone's in their own little area and you're not fighting for sand. I guess you could say right, right.
Speaker 1:did you go to North Shore and and and look at the look at the monster waves?
Speaker 2:We actually went to the North Shore and we stood and got attacked by the monster waves. Yeah, yeah, this is huge.
Speaker 4:This is huge.
Speaker 2:They were at least maybe waist high for me, and my youngest is probably a little bit higher than that, and he was having a blast. Of course I was holding his hand like he was flying away, but I mean mean he was having a blast, which is which is nice to see because he's he's a little scaredy cat at time or two, so that's all right, he'll grow out of it, but no they were pretty cool, and it was at sunset too, so they're apparently a little bit bigger when it gets close to sunset, so it was a good time what course did you play when you got there?
Speaker 2:played Royal Hawaiian, which is like they say. It's like the Jurassic Park course in the jungle. Yeah, that one ate my lunch. Lost three sleeves in the first nine holes. It is what it is and then played um, oh, what is it called? I can't even think of it right now, colina.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, colina, yeah, yeah, yeah, I played that one too.
Speaker 2:The Ladybug.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:That was a fun course. I think I played that one in two hours because there was nobody in front of me.
Speaker 1:So you should take your time. Take your time on that one. I like that course.
Speaker 2:I tried to. I just played so good. I thought they were so good. What can you do?
Speaker 1:Did you play 63 good?
Speaker 2:No, not 63 good.
Speaker 1:That's alright. Let's talk about Arizona Tour. I mean, they've got a lot going on bud.
Speaker 2:They do. They've got a lot going on. They got their regional coming up. But I mean, you know, like you said earlier, we got Gabe on again. He's probably been the one that's been on the most, the most, um, but he's the fundraiser that he does for the v foundation, uh, year after year, is just impressive and I love just picking his brain about it because, um, just the amount of money that they run or that they raise for a great foundation and someone that's, you know, kind of hitting home a little bit, a little hard this year.
Speaker 1:Hitting real hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it just seems like you know, you've said it before, Everyone's been touched by cancer one way or another. And just to see the commitment that these guys have, and every but don't get me wrong Every tour has a great commitment to the V Foundation. You know everyone does their part. But to be close to $10,000 was this third year in a row maybe? Yeah, I know for sure. Second year is just remarkable.
Speaker 1:It really is. Let's just go ahead and bring him in, and let's talk about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do it. Our next guest. He's actually pretty popular on the show but he's bringing two of his fellow friends on us for the first time. But I'm excited to bring him on because he is, year after year, one of our top contributors to our foundation that we support every year and he's always recognized. His tours are always recognized. But he does a lot of big things to help with that cause and not only with the regional that he hosts. It's just awesome to see the work that they do.
Speaker 1:It really is and the amount of money that they're raising for the Jimmy V and trying to get this cancer thing taken care of and you know as well as anybody else how it's affected tour members, the tour family and people going through it. Man and getting Gabe in the Arizonaours is really leading the charge and I'm so thankful for that. I am personally thankful for them and him leading the charge on that.
Speaker 2:For sure. I mean, let's just bring them in and let's talk about where they're at so far this year, because I hear it's pretty high.
Speaker 1:Let's see.
Speaker 7:What's happening guys?
Speaker 2:One, two, one more.
Speaker 1:You know those pop-ups right in front of my buttons. There we go. Gabe, jordan and Dan. Welcome to the show. I'm sure you heard the introduction from Chris, but I can't tell you personally how appreciative I am for what you all are doing and the work that you're doing in raising money for the Jimmy V Fund. As you know, the tour family has been hit hard by cancer. We got to get this thing figured out.
Speaker 7:Absolutely. You know it's never been, it's never hit closer to home, obviously, than this season. But having Dan and Jordan on board really coming in beginning middle of last season and then really jumping full board over both feet this year, we're off to a great start annual 10 cup shootout, which is one of the the big events where we do a lot of fundraising. But that's just the lead-in to the big one, which is a regional championship at the end of the year.
Speaker 1:So we're excited to talk with you guys about what we've done so far yeah, I think you probably would have made more at 10 cup shootout, but somebody bailed out on you some sort of sickness or whatever. I think he was more worried about you know where he was going to finish in the flight standings.
Speaker 7:But I don't know, not for nothing, but there's five flights in our events, as everybody knows, and the last two years Arizona players at the 10 Cup shootout.
Speaker 2:They've only won 10 of them. Here we go, there we go. Sir, I almost won your Sedona event, not even trying. Okay, I think cup would have been a breeze I've never played the sedona events, the golf or horseshoes gracious.
Speaker 1:So game I just I just before you, before you start, I do want to say I'm the one that has to encourage you to come on, because you know, chris says I'm done talking to these guys because they win the Ryder Cup, they win all these tournaments Wow.
Speaker 2:Wow, all right, all right.
Speaker 7:Not for nothing, but Dan just got back from Vegas. He and Wally Nelson both took their flights, so it's contagious and you know, it's just one of those things. Hey, look at that, that's a nice little truck. What's going on over there?
Speaker 1:So, Dan, did you hit any cows this time?
Speaker 3:Yes, I did actually. So I for those that don't know on the way up there I was diving up from Arizona to Las Vegas and I hit a cow with my car and it'll be in the shop tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yep, you are going to share pictures of that. I'm in Vegas and I hit a cow with my car and it'll be in the shop tomorrow.
Speaker 3:So, yep, you are going to share pictures of that If you want them. Yeah, I got to see it.
Speaker 1:I'm more impressed that you continued the journey in the cow car to Vegas. That's good on you.
Speaker 3:I was lucky, I think, because I was in a small car. I took the legs out and I minimized front-end damage. It just flopped onto the hood of my car. It was drivable. It just doesn't look dirty good.
Speaker 8:You're going to kill it.
Speaker 7:You're going to kill it, I'm done. We might need an edit the depth to kill it. You're going to kill it, I'm done. We might need an edit the depth part of the.
Speaker 1:That's funny. Well, I think, Chris, we talked about the thumbnails in the last episode.
Speaker 2:I think we have yours now.
Speaker 1:I think a cow is going to be in it. Love it Anyway. So tell us about the teacup shootout and how you all did with the auction.
Speaker 7:So we're still waiting on final confirmation on the numbers from the online auction itself. So I think most of you know how it works for us is with these online auctions. They, they handle everything. And it's one of our actual one of our local members, Tyler Woolridge, with Wire to Wire Golf, and what they do is they put a lot of packages together for us and and then we get a percentage of the sales.
Speaker 7:But the thing that we've really focused on the last couple of years and Dan and and Jordan and I have all worked together on this is if we are able to add packages to the auction and Tim, you helped us out with packages in the past as well, but we added packages to Seven Canyons, which was a huge course here in Arizona.
Speaker 7:And then you know the usual suspects of like Verado, WeKaPa and all of those.
Speaker 7:When we add packages, we get the full amount of the sale of that package, minus, just, you know, processing fees.
Speaker 7:So, just with the packages that we added, I'm expecting that number to be somewhere between twenty five hundred and three thousand, expecting that number to be somewhere between $2,500 and $3,000, on top of the fact that we assume that we're going to look at another maybe $2,000 to $3,000 from the auction house itself. When you couple that with the raffles that we did during the event, the giveaways you know, we gave away a regional championship entry fee, a couple of entry fees to that event for next year, I mean, after taking out all of the expenses for some of the packages and things that we purchased for those raffles, I really feel like we're going to be able to clear somewhere around $4,000 just from that one event. Wow. And if you add that, Dan Jordan, you guys can help me out with this. If you add that to what we've already got, you know, in the purse, I think we're pushing seven grand 7,500 when all is said and done. And we still got, you know, a third of the season left to go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. We've got a goal set this year for $10,000. And I think we're going to be pushing up close to that after this event. So now we've got really generous members on our tour and obviously, you know, a lot of guys came in from the El Paso tour with Chris and uh, you know we raised, we raised a lot. It was a good event.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean I will say you know, um, you all do the 50, 50, every event and last year I saw how successful it was. So we started doing it this year and I'm not as ambitious as you guys are with 10 grand. So I started with uh 2500, which is still a lot, and and my tour already surpassed that and we still got four events plus. You know the the regional that that's at tpc. So things like that, once you you kind of put where it's going to in the players' heads and the members' heads, it just shoots off like a rocket. Now we're able to contribute to what you guys have been doing nonstop.
Speaker 7:Well, the other thing, chris, and we haven't had a chance to talk with you about this, but we have a great partnership with the El Paso Tour and, not to go too deep into the history and the weeds and all of that stuff, but I think most of you guys know that I started the El Paso Tour back in 2012, I think it was. And then you know, chris, and you know they took it over and it's just grown exponentially since I left. So they've done a fantastic job with keeping that going. It's just grown exponentially since I left. So they've done a fantastic job with keeping that going. But we built a great team from that experience and so we do our Ryder Cup event.
Speaker 7:This event at 10 Cup is always a dual tour event, and then they have a lot of guys that come for the regional championship as well. So, chris, we haven't had a chance to talk with you about this, but Jordan and I had the conversation again. I think you were a part of that conversation or maybe we had it at a separate point. But, when all is said and done, before we go and, you know, after the regional championship, because I know you've got a good handful of guys that are planning to be at that event as well. We're going to take probably somewhere in the range of 500 to $750 of what we've raised so far this year and we're going to add it to the El Paso Las Cruces Chores. No, you guys are a great team for us and we want to make sure that not just you but your players understand that we appreciate all of the things that they do in helping us with a couple of events that we do, because they're a big part of the two big events that we hold most of our fundraising on.
Speaker 1:Gabe. That's awesome. I'll let Chris talk here in a second. I know I do this a lot of time, chris, but what people need to understand is the only time you're going to be successful is if you have a team that's working together. It's obvious from me, being an outsider from you all, from that perspective you all do work very well together and you all have a really good thing going in. You know el paso and arizona and you. You really should be applauded for it. Go ahead, chris, you can talk.
Speaker 2:You're from el paso, you can talk now I was just gonna say, you know, from big brother tour to little brother tour, we appreciate it where's the belt? Yeah, I was about to say I don't see that belt anywhere.
Speaker 7:Jordan's got it, and I have a feeling it's lingering around there somewhere.
Speaker 2:It's lingering.
Speaker 4:He's probably wearing it. I have it set right over my golf club so that way I always remember Wow.
Speaker 1:So, gabe, we do talk to you guys a lot, and this is the first time we've had Jordan and Dan on, so I kind of want to hear from them a little bit on this as well. Absolutely, the courses that you all play out there. For anybody that doesn't know, you guys are always on good courses to begin with, and you know, being in Arizona, in the Scottsdale Phoenix area, in Tucson area, there's a good course every other block right, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so when you go out there you know you're going to play on good courses. But you've got I mean, here we go again, chris Some of my favorites. Oh yeah, that's your own. All the time you spoke about Wee Kapow, southern Dunes. I love Southern Dunes, I love Wee Kapow. Let's go right on down the list. What are some of y'all's personal favorites that you play? And if you could tell somebody to come out to Arizona and not the regional, but come out to Arizona and play one course, which, would it be? Seven games, that's tough, I know it's tough.
Speaker 4:I would have to say my favorite year after year that's been top of my list has always been Oak Creek Country Club up in Sedona. That's probably been. It's a destination course and it's always in absolute fantastic shape. I mean you get actual rough out there versus a lot of the desert courses we get, but it's different scenery, the weather is always fantastic and the course is always in great shape and it's one of my favorites every year.
Speaker 1:When do you all generally play that one? What time of year do you play that one?
Speaker 4:Usually around this time, sometimes May, june, somewhere in there.
Speaker 7:So this year was added to the specialty of that event because we were able to lock in Seven Canyons and the timing of it worked out perfectly that we were able to combine Seven Canyons and Oak Creek Country Club into a two-day major championship.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, chris, that's the one you went out to a few weeks ago. Yeah, seven Canyons, beautiful course.
Speaker 2:Awesome, chris. That's the one you went out to a few weeks ago. Seven Canyons beautiful course reminds me of pain makers out here in Rio Doso. Gabe knows we'll get you guys out here and you can enjoy the pain that it brings. But Oak, what was it? Oak Creek? I don't want to remember that course, that rough Oak, or what was it?
Speaker 2:Oak Creek, Oak Creek yeah, I don't want to remember that course, that rough couldn't figure it out, and then going to a playoff and getting the rough and can't even get out of the rough. It's just very. It's depressing, so I don't want to talk about that. One Adds to the character.
Speaker 1:So Dan, how about you bud?
Speaker 3:Yeah, for me I think most of the people on our tour probably would say that two back is is like the air it's it's the tournament to go to, if it's not one, like you know, tpc scottville for me at least, because it's a small little two exit town off the highway down near the border, and we take over the town, for it's a resort, right. So we take over the resort for the weekend and they, the course, is great to work with. They give us free run of the place, essentially, um, so everyone stays at the resort. There's not really anywhere else to go down there, so everyone kind of hangs out. You know there's people bring their families and everything like that. So it turns into a vacation for everyone and their families and it's great to hang out with everyone out, you know, not just during the round but going out to dinner and hanging out at night and things like that. So definitely my favorite tournament every year.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, but, chris, do you want to tell them?
Speaker 2:It's not Tupac, it's Tupac.
Speaker 3:Tupac, it's Tupac, tupac actually.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, yeah, you know I hear the stories. You know Chris tells us the stories because I know he goes out to a lot of those torrents. He always goes to Tupac See Except for this year because of COVID to back except for this year because of COVID. He raved about the two-day he went to before that he said he would go back to that again. It's okay to travel. I know Arizona may seem out there a little ways, but it's easy. Getting in and out of, whether either Tucson or the 80s, it really is probably one of the easiest airports to get in and out of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. I mean all those events I go to, I drive, Even though Sedona I was a little overwhelmed on how far it was after Phoenix, I wasn't prepared for that, but I mean it's still a good time and it's just different courses than what we play here in our area. And if you're from the East Coast and you come out and play desert golf, it's a complete different mindset.
Speaker 1:Especially this time of year when it's hot and it's dry. You don't want to get off the grass, that's for sure. The desert can have the ball. It's yours. It belongs to the desert now. So let's talk a little bit about the TPC Regional. You all have been doing this for a number of years and obviously you do a great job with it. It's one of the largest ones we do.
Speaker 7:You got 180, right 180 is our max number. We're on pace to sell it out again this year. It's a bragging right for us, but I think if we can get over the 160 mark if I'm not mistaken that would make it the largest or the highest attended regional, for I believe it would be the seventh or eighth year in a row, so we're pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1:Just so you know, we had 200 at Western Straits.
Speaker 7:Yeah, well, I guess that was that. Yeah, but that was seven or eight years ago.
Speaker 1:That was 21. That was 21. 20 was canceled. 21 was the first year we were back.
Speaker 3:I think that year you were 240 at TPC.
Speaker 7:Yeah, we were at T40 for three years in a row, so that was two years.
Speaker 1:And see that was a tee time event too. So we actually the first day we did two waves of shotgun at one course and then two waves of double tees at straights.
Speaker 2:And then you ran out of daylight 6.30, 9 o'clock and you ran out of daylight and rushed the leaders because they ran out of daylight and someone took second place. We won't say who, but he's on this show, see.
Speaker 7:But as far as the regionals are concerned, again off to a great start. Again, tpc Scottsdale and and, um, um, andrew Yoder and their and that crew out there, they take great care of us. Um, that's, you know, that's for us that's the signature event and that's the one, um, you know, we do a Friday check-in party at a really cool place called putting world. Uh, it's an indoor putting facility out there. So they take care of us, tpc takes care of us, and if you ever get a chance to come out here, that's the event you want to definitely come to for sure.
Speaker 1:But you know, the roster of players coming from all over the place is huge. I don't know, gabe, I'm sure you've seen it, but for those that have not, I mean players are coming from literally all over the place. To that.
Speaker 7:And they always do. Yeah, last year I think it was 37 or 38 tours ever represented at the event.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they got the new sports book too.
Speaker 7:Yeah, they just opened a sports book right across the street from the Champions Course, so a little bit of extra to do this year.
Speaker 2:Way to go, chris, I'll be there on Saturday. College football is that Saturday, so I'll be there.
Speaker 7:Right, college football always kicks off that weekend.
Speaker 3:We don't have any gamblers there in Golf Week Tour no no, no, no, Mr Vegas I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:I have no idea at all, talking about no idea at all. So, jordan and Dan, you guys are in the same flight. Jordan, you got some work to do bud.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, it's been a busy year. I haven't gone out to practice as much as I'd like to. You know I went. I last year was probably some of the played some of the best golf in my life. I, after investing in a lot of lessons and improvement, improve my game and after I I just one of my most memorable rounds at Verado, or one of our two day majors last year, is going 79, 76 in the sea flight and and and just lining it up moving up to B flight. You know, I think there's a bit of a mental hill I need to climb over to get to kind of get back into that kind of game.
Speaker 1:But I definitely need to get out and practice more too. Just play your game because it is what it is. Don't worry about what anybody else is doing. We talked a little bit ago, chris and I did worry about what anybody else is doing. We talked a little bit ago, chris and I did. Let's just say, you're 14, the way you get to you're 14 is different to how somebody gets to their 14. 14 is a 14 is a 14. Just play the way you play and let everything else fall where it falls.
Speaker 3:For sure.
Speaker 1:I think that's probably from a tour director's perspective, seeing these things over and over and over again every year. That's probably from a tour director's perspective, seeing these things over and over and over again every year. That's probably the best advice I can give somebody. Don't worry about it, Don't worry about the length, Don't worry about anything else, Just, however, whatever your strength of your game is, just play to that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, absolutely, and that's something I definitely need to keep in mind and just keep working towards, and I know I have that game in me, so don't worry, dan, I'll be catching back up to you.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Well, guys, thank you so much again for all that you do for the tour. I can't thank you enough. I mean personally, especially everything that's been going on this year. You all know who's touched and we we got to get this thing figured out Absolutely.
Speaker 7:And, tim, if I could, both, for both Dan and Jordan Chris, do you understand this as well the the new things, the smaller things, that they've filled in the gaps, in that I'm not very good at online stuff and, and you know, just back and forth with with membership and things like that, it's something that you mentioned earlier and, chris, we've talked about it, but the team that we've got out here, not just with the El Paso tour, but with the Arizona tour and you know the the West Coast groups in general we understand that we're a little bit further apart from everybody you know from each other than most, and so the camaraderie that's being built out here is a really great thing, and we want to see it continue to grow, and so we invite anybody that's willing to come out and share ideas with us.
Speaker 7:Come out and join our events and see how we do things a little bit different maybe, but Chris and I talk about this all the time the best ideas are the ones that are taken from other directors and just added onto, and that's what we do a lot around here. And so for those directors that see this and their membership, that see this, that shared the online auction that we were doing, you know, encourage players to travel to our regional championships and things like that.
Speaker 1:It's much appreciated and we hope to see as many of those guys out here as we can come Labor Day weekend Second. But you know, Gabe, I will say this you know, part of the reason why you get so many guys out there is because of the hospitality that you all provide, Right? Yes, yes, TPC Scottsdale is a great course, Sure, I mean, how many great courses are we on? We're on a lot across the country, right? But you know, they come out there because of the hospitality, because of the way you run a tournament, because they know the quality event that you're going to provide to them, and that I don't think is talked about enough. We joke about the numbers and this, that and the other thing, but there's a reason why those numbers are those numbers.
Speaker 7:Right, great, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Anyway, Chris, you got any last words.
Speaker 2:Just beware, I'm coming for you both. Anyway, chris, you got any last words? Just beware, I'm coming for you both.
Speaker 7:We're looking forward to having you out here again. My friend, glad you're feeling better and again with all of the I can't say it enough and I'll say it over and over again For anybody that helped out with that online auction. We really appreciate it. The fundraising is a big thing that we do. We've got a couple of members whose family members are dealing with it. You know dealing with cancer right now. It's nonstop. So the, you know the fight continues, you know every day and and you know we're we're not going to keep, we're not going to stop, we're just going to keep doing what we're doing and try to come up with ways to do it bigger and better each year.
Speaker 1:So keep up the good work, guys. We'll talk to you soon. Let's take a break from the show to hear about Strixon's ZX Mark II irons.
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Speaker 2:Tim, it's always great to have Gabe on and you know he was really excited when we asked him and to get his assistance on there as well, because they've been doing a lot of good work over there helping them out, especially with these fundraisers that they're doing. He just continues to impress year after year and, you know, just trying to catch, even catch up to him, it is difficult as it is, uh, but I mean, they just always have great ideas and I just think it's cool to see what, how much they raise, how generous that tour is yeah, it's, it's incredible and and you know you have to be able to catch up to him, man, he's like ricky boggy.
Speaker 1:Ricky bobby, he wants to go fast, right, fast and quick and and do it all, but you know to to to be able to come close, hitting that ten thousand dollar mark. That's huge. Um, uh, you know I love what he's doing, like you said, you know I love the generosity of the tour, uh, and and all those things, and, um, I love the generosity of the tour and all those things and he's doing really good things. And again, what's going to happen? It's going to get even bigger with the regional coming up here in a couple weeks. Just remember everybody, there's only two regionals left and my guess is both of them are sold out by now. So if you're maybe getting on the wait list, if it's not sold out, grab one of those last spots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely. I know TPC still has a couple spots left, but it's the last couple chances to get a Nationals paid for if you're interested in that, and it's just. They're fun events. Both of them are fun events regardless of whether you go to the East Coast or the West Coast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it or Midwest, midwest or West Coast.
Speaker 2:Still East Coast to me.
Speaker 1:Oh, come on, Get out of here. Just because you're West Coast, you know West Texas, I guess everything else is East Coast of West Texas. I'll give you that. I'll give you that.
Speaker 2:When you've got to drive 10 hours to find another town east, it's East Coast now.
Speaker 1:All right, We'll go ahead. And it's kind of like I keep making Jen shorter, you keep making finding the next town a little bit longer. Oh man, so I know you've been back for a couple weeks and you hopped on. You said you're still in Hawaii time. But man, time is flying by. It is Over the last couple episodes we've had some guests on with some really low scores, Whether it was Kurt Lambert with a 64 from Minnesota or Lance Lacombe with his 63 out of South Florida. But let me tell you what, just when you thought that you've seen it all, we've got a really good guess for you today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just seems that we keep getting emails of these low scorers. I mean, I had a low score at my last event too, but we'll talk about that later. It was pretty crazy.
Speaker 1:Well, hold on a second now. You didn't happen. You had a low score, completely disregarding the other end of the spectrum. You and I are going to talk.
Speaker 2:We're going to have a conversation. I'm confused on what that means.
Speaker 1:Well, when we got the email for this gentleman, I was surprised and you know we'll talk about it, but apparently this is the lowest two-day score in the history of the tour and you would think, at 30 years and 25 years with a senior tour, obviously there's always going to be a lowest two-day score ever, but this is really low.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So let's go ahead and welcome in Rod Baronet and Trey Coker from the Senior Louisiana Tours. Well, rod, thanks for joining us bud.
Speaker 6:Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:Thanks for training here. So tell us about your tournament. At Oak Wing you went 68-63. When Dennis sent me that email, I was shocked. So tell us about the rounds.
Speaker 6:The 68, that's my home course. Oak Wing is my home course. I was pretty comfortable to begin with. The 68 was a really good ball-striking day and the greens were a little slow and I could not get the putt. I couldn't get a putt to the hole all day long. So Sunday when I came out, my whole mindset goal was just try to get everything to the hole all of them and I hit it really good and apparently I got nine. Get everything to the hole, all of them and I hit it really good and I apparently got nine of them to the hole. I had a couple two putt birdies but I made made six or seven good putt, really good putt you said, like two putt birdies yeah chris, that's.
Speaker 1:That's not a term you hear very often.
Speaker 7:No.
Speaker 6:Well, we had a downwind par 5 on the front and then we had a downhill par 5 on the back. I was able to reach the slope on both of those. I think it was a 3 rescue on one of them and a mini driver on the other.
Speaker 1:Three rescue on one of them and a mini driver on the other. So you know, on the first day with the 68, any bogeys in that? Or are we talking two rounds of bogey, three 60s?
Speaker 6:No, I'm not positive, but I think I made one bogey on Saturday. Okay, it seemed like I had. I mean, I think I'd have made a note of that if I played bogey free for the whole weekend, but I think I'm pretty sure I made one. I made five bogeys in the one bogey.
Speaker 1:That's still amazing. And you know and I bring this up rod just for for for effect here you know, as golfers it doesn't really matter what we score. Um, let's just say you chris shot a really low score for him the other day at 79. He's a little bit later he's gonna tell me it was a 79, but it could have been a 73. And a couple weeks ago we had Kurt Lambert on from the Minneapolis tour. He shot a bogey-free 64, and he legitimately said it could have been a 61. So on any of your rounds, whether it was 68 or 63, what do you think the lowest it really could have been or should have been?
Speaker 6:Well, it should have been exactly what it was. It's golf man. I had some violent lip outs, but a couple things could have gone. I mean, during the Sunday round I made a 35-footer, which is the longest putt I had that day, but I probably had 10 or 11, maybe 12 looks inside of 15 feet. Any of those could go Right Playing on grass. They don't do what they're supposed to all the time, so a couple more could have went.
Speaker 6:But I hit the ball really good and I struck a lot of really good putts, but they never all go in, not for me anyway. I could have made three or four more. I could have missed three or four more, chris. How did that happen? Three or four more? I could have missed three or four more. So it was a 68. On the 68, I had at least five that I know of dead in the mouth, three inches short, I mean and I'm a pretty firm putter by trade and that's hard for me to take. Leaving one short is just. I'd rather be in bed with a high fever than than what.
Speaker 6:You butt short. It's just painful for me and that kind of set up Sunday. So I guess we worked out.
Speaker 1:Well, chris, I'll, I'll, I'll leave it. I'd rather be in bed with a fever at that. But you know, brian, I'm going to steal that from you if you don't mind. I love that line. But, chris, it's also telling that you know his longest putt was 35 feet. I mean, could you imagine that? Could you imagine playing two rounds with your longest putt being 35 feet?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I only have that at, like putt, or you know, bob's Show things like that. Everything else is longer than that.
Speaker 6:I wish that was the case all the time. It just happened to be the case that weekend. It was a good ball striking.
Speaker 1:So, rod, what's your lowest round ever? 61. Wow, and where was that? It was at Oak.
Speaker 6:Wing.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 6:Unfortunately, I was 60 years old when I did it, and so I didn't shoot my age that time. This time, it was the first time I shot my age. I'm 65, and the 63 was the first time I shot my age.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, Rod, that's amazing. Congratulations on that and, trey, welcome in. Glad we got you back, but I'm not sure if you want to keep having tournaments at Oak Wing, because we kind of know what the result's going to be.
Speaker 8:We have our club championship there as well and I call it the Rod Baronet Open. He's a wonderful player. He's a great friend of mine. If you can't tell, he's one of the best competitors you ever meet. He doesn't like to second place, he competes, competes, competes. So as he kind of he called me the other day, I actually texted and we were talking about he wanted to do the scorecard so he could kind of refresh his memory. So he plays the course a lot, so I could see where he'd be kind of refresh his memory. So he plays the course a lot, so I could see where he'd get kind of confused. But I said, look, you've got a 50-50 chance of guessing what you made birdie or not. So you birdied half the hole. So that's not too hard of a scorecard to remember.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Trey, right now you've got him in the point standings. I don't know how much longer that's going to hold up for you.
Speaker 8:He don't play enough. He needs to play more often.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but all he has to do is win right. That's right, you know. That's the other thing. You know, Chris, this is, and it's amazing. Every time we have these Champ Flight players on that are shooting these great scores, does it seem like they could all be the same person?
Speaker 2:They could, I mean. What I've noticed, you know, with all these players, is their attitude towards the game.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like Rod said, you know it's golf, anything can happen. And sometimes you know putts go in or putts don't, and you move on with your day and it is what it is. And that's the inspiring part, because anybody can hit a golf ball. Whether you're plus or you're Tim, you can still hit a golf ball too.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:But it's their attitude, you know. And you see some champ guys that get very upset when they hit their approach shot and it's five feet away from the hole instead of four feet and a half. And then you see guys like Rod that come in and he's just saying you know, it's golf, the putts will roll in or the putts won't. It is what it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I kind of wonder sometimes if that's a a trait of somebody that's gonna that that's really gonna be good at golf, right I mean and I I liken it back to a lot of the, the, the mid to high handicappers that we talk to um all the time, um, you know, if they get upset, if, if they've got, you know, double bogey here, double bogey there and maybe kind of lose focus of the one shot at a time.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Rod, what's your approach when you go into a round, a competitive round like this? Are you somebody who thinks your way around the course? Take Oak Wing out. You know where you play there all the time. What's your approach going into a tournament?
Speaker 6:Well, depending on the length of the tournament, if it's a one-day event, you kind of just go with what you got. If it's a three-day event, the first, especially the first day my mindset is just don't lose a tournament today. Just stay relevant. Hit fairways, hit greens If they go in, fine. If they don't go in, stay away from the bad stuff and stay patient. Don't force a bad situation.
Speaker 6:If I don't have a good number, if I don't have a good pin, whatever it is, if you shoot 68, you can make a lot of pars yeah, a lot of pars, yeah, a lot of pars. And so you don't have to bogey, you don't have to have a birdie putt on every hole. You can two putt from 20 feet and stuff like that. So, going into uh, going into a multi-day tournament, the mindset's a little different than playing just a one-day event. Uh, one-day event, you got to pay attention what's going on around, you see if you got to put the, the pedal to it, or what you got to do to win or to give yourself a chance to win. And that's all I've ever done is, I've always tried to give myself a chance to win. I've had a lot of success, but I don't ever go. I don't ever hang winning on one swing. I try not to.
Speaker 1:You know, aside from a playoff situation, it's very calculated, it's always meant yeah, and Chris, as I look at Rod's scores again, you know just kind of like we talked about with Lance a couple weeks ago, the variation right of scores, of scores, the spread of scores. He's got one round of 80, and pretty much everything else is 60s to 75. So you're talking about it. I mean it's very, very consistent. A bad round is 77. A bad round is 78. And I put that in the airfinger score. It's a bad round is 78. And I put that in the air finger score. It's a bad round.
Speaker 2:When your dispersion scores like that, it's really telling about the mindset and the skill of the player. Yeah, it definitely is. I mean, an 80 for me is a good round.
Speaker 6:Well, everything's relative.
Speaker 8:If it's really cold, it's a good round of a ride. Just so you know, it'd have to be really cold though.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I don't like cold. Trey and I played a lot of tournaments together and I just I was like man, as long as it's not cold, I'm in. And we went. I remember you.
Speaker 2:I think you and me are going to be good friends now. And we went, I remember you. I think you and me are going to be good friends now. I'm just saying.
Speaker 6:Who knows. Well, Trey and I went to a tournament I think that often there's a four ball. We played the practice round in shorts and short sleeves and by the third round I had all my clothes on. That I brought. I had on some of Trey's clothes. It was so ridiculously cold I couldn't even take it back and it was miserable for me. And we played in college. We both played in college and I don't know if you guys played in college or not, but you play in some really lousy weather, bad, bad weather, and I got full of it. I just don't like it anymore. I don't want to play in the cold. I don't really play in the wintertime. I play from from early march to about september, october, when it starts getting really nice. No one's at the golf course. Golf course in great shape. It's cold. I ain't going.
Speaker 1:I'll go fishing or find something else to do yeah right, I don't play very much anymore, but when I was playing a lot, I was the same way. If it's cold, I'm not going for training, I'm not going you know, because I played not going. You know cause I played enough. I, you know I didn't have to subject myself to, to to bad weather. I mean just because to me it's not miserable, it's not fun.
Speaker 6:It's beyond miserable for me to be cold.
Speaker 8:There's too many good days to go play.
Speaker 1:Especially where you guys are.
Speaker 6:Although you know right now I'm sure it's pretty hot and steamy down there. We actually had three days of really nice weather. Last three days we had a north wind, which is on you before in the in the summertime but uh, it was in the low nineties and the humidity was really low. It was nice, nice.
Speaker 1:So, so, Rod, what, what's your favorite course? Uh?
Speaker 6:Uh, all down.
Speaker 1:Can't say Oak wing.
Speaker 6:Uh, probably show Creek in Alabama Uh where is that?
Speaker 1:Is that um?
Speaker 6:Birmingham. I believe Uh, it's a. Uh, it's an. Old style golf courses, no carts. Uh, everybody has caddies. Old style golf course. It's.
Speaker 1:Uh, and I I hadn't played it in 20 years, but that's probably my fondest memory of playing a golf course Trey going through your points race, you've got a bunch of really good champ players. What's it like on a week-in, week-out basis in champ play?
Speaker 8:Talking about. As far as competition, yeah, yeah, we have on the rod, we have Wendell Akins and then Kate Hebert, who all can win at any time. They all play very well as far as the points race. Sometimes, as far as the points race, you know I'm at every tournament so it's kind of hard for kind of hard. You know, for them guys that just kind of spot play to catch me has been the issue.
Speaker 8:I kind of wish they would, could could kind of change it maybe to where they'd put a little bit more emphasis on the wins and not so much on the on the, you know, just playing. And I understand both sides. If you're trying to, you're trying to get the guys to keep playing, get more points that way way. But for me I don't think I've won this year and I'm at the top of the list and these guys are shooting new scores. I don't feel that I'm worthy to be up there. But we have good points raised all through the A flight, the B flight, the C flight and the D flight. I don't know if you all noticed, but I got 20, some 20, some odd d flight or playing this weekend in our tournament at beaver creek. So it's that that flight's been growing tremendously on our tour, so yeah and good well you, I'm glad you said d flight.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at that now. You got clarence whittington and and you uh, desert desormo. Both of them with a good round will be will be bumped up to c flight. Right and it's, you know, I look of them with a good round will be bumped up to C-flight. I look at that as a good thing. You're getting better A-flight with Ronnie he's always a good player. Tim Rusk is there always a good player. Keith's always a good player. You've got some really big names that are recognizable across the country and it's you know, at least from my perspective, that's always good for a local tour to have those names because it grows your tour.
Speaker 8:That's right, and a lot of them they travel to some of the regionals and all that kind of stuff to support and we have a pretty good. I think we had like 27 last year that went to the nationals. So yeah, it'd be good support for that right he does a great job with the tour down here.
Speaker 6:We um, the way he runs the tour, the way the participation is and the people come out, it's uh, it's. I wish I could play more of them, my schedule and and, uh, just the way it works out. I don't get to play as many as I want to, but Trey does a fantastic job with the pace of the play, the tour, the setups, the courses he picks. It's really nuts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's obvious, you know, with the member count, I mean you guys have 181 members, you know. And Chris, don't go too far off the rails with this one. When we talked to Amal from Indianapolis, he talks about that being a small market. But Louisiana with 181 members, I would consider that more of a small market than Indianapolis, even though you can play longer, I would say that I feel like anybody over 125 members is not a small market.
Speaker 2:That's just me, but I mean 181, that's awesome. I'd give a couple of berries away for these children at 81.
Speaker 1:So, trey on your normal schedule, what would be the tournament that you tell people that they cannot miss? So if you've got people coming into town, they want to play a tournament, what would be the one that you say don't miss this tournament, we have a tournament. What would be the one that you say don't miss this tournament.
Speaker 8:We have a couple. One of our courses in the area at Central Louisiana is in Marksville, tamaka, which has a casino attached. To anybody wanting to travel into that big it'd be a good weekend to come in. That's our finals of this year. We also have one earlier in the year, just a single day event there as well. And then I play a couple country clubs on the Mondays one down at Lake Charles Country Club which is just a phenomenal golf course, and then also we play University Club. Coming up not this Monday but next Monday is a good course. I have a Sunday tournament which is a one-day on Sunday and then the next day is. University Club is another one day, but that way if people want to make a couple days of it, they can. But University Club is where LSU is where the LSU practice or the team practice and all that stuff, and it's a wonderful course as well. I think Rod won the Senior Amateur there, if I'm not mistaken. For Louisiana that was my first one.
Speaker 1:Your first one. How many Louisiana Senior Amateurs have you won? Two, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 8:They cheated. They brought them to Oak Wing too.
Speaker 1:Right, it still counts. I don't care, it still counts, man, it absolutely counts.
Speaker 6:It's about them at Oak Wing. They were a little poor to have me. That's what we should have scored on record. There too, I was 13 under for that tournament.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness gracious, everybody still got to play the same course, just because it's your home course.
Speaker 6:Fortunately, in that tournament I beat my four-ball partner, Robbie McWilliams, who's a wonderful player. He's played nationally and internationally, but I got him at home, so usually he beats my brains in where we work. It was fun to skin him up one time.
Speaker 1:Well, guys, thank you so much for joining us today. I really do appreciate it. And, Rod, congratulations on the two rounds and the low score in a two-day tournament that we ever had.
Speaker 6:I mean that's amazing. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1:Appreciate you having me and Trey take care, and we'll see you here in a couple months.
Speaker 8:Appreciate you all. Thank you, bye guys. Thank you Rod.
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Speaker 1:how about that? 68, 63, longest putt in two days was 35 feet.
Speaker 2:That's just wild, that's the round that you want to just watch, and it's just effortless at that point.
Speaker 1:I know it's insane, insane.
Speaker 2:You know I I mean you. You feel bad playing with people like that and you're having a bad round because you don't want to slow them down or make them, you know, get bored or whatnot, so you're like trying to hurry up. Yeah, it's, I've seen rounds like that and it's cool to watch, but to be in that mindset, it's, it's. It takes a lot of determination.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't even get there. You know, from a mind perspective, you know. But when you listen to Rod and you listen to other good champ flight players, they're just so matter of fact. It's this shot, then the next shot, then the next shot. It doesn't work, it doesn't work. It doesn't work, no big deal, just okay, here we go. Um, you know one bogey out of 36 holes. All right, here we go. You know it's. Can you imagine? I mean, I just I can't. And and he won by nine strokes.
Speaker 2:He even mentioned a two-putt birdie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a two-putt, birdie.
Speaker 2:Nothing, just two-putt birdies.
Speaker 1:I got lots of two-putt triples.
Speaker 2:You know, at one point like okay, let's just get it out of here. You know I had a tournament this weekend after I came back. First round, not too good. Second round 79. But I mean I'm hitting greens, two put in for par and getting out of there. Yeah, and I'm okay with that because I know pars are not bad. Right, I can't go 18 birdies in a round, but I can go five birdies and let's say 12 pars and be okay right.
Speaker 1:You know that's, that's the. That's the other thing that that I think you know the mid high handicappers need to really look at is is their mindset and what's par right? Is par the actual par that's on the scorecard, or is par five, or is par four, or is par bogey, whatever it is, and play to your par, as opposed to playing to what the scorecard par is, and only think about that and not where you are from the scorecard. Only think about that and not where you are from the scorecard. I think that that mindset shift if you take that, you're going to be much better off and you're going to find that you've got much better scores because you're not you know you're not playing against a fictional number right, right, right.
Speaker 2:And sometimes you got to learn to take your medicine. Yeah, and if you get a couple bad shots or a couple bad lies, take your medicine. Get out of the woods in one, instead of trying to hack it out there four times. Play your layups and sometimes the top shots is a good layup, but you just got to take your medicine and play the next shot the way it is.
Speaker 1:And just make sure you get the ball out of the hole because, like Rod said, he'd rather be in bed with a fever than leave the ball short.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:That was funny, that was funny, that was funny. So you know, let's get back and talk about you a little bit. You know 79, and you know you and I talked about your first-round score and I give you a hard time about it, but it's kind of funny. But that's part of being a tour director, right? I mean, sometimes you have to deal with stuff and it affects your golf and it is what it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is what it is and I don't think I've had that issue in a very long time. So, being able to now be what, three days since this happened, and kind of like analyze it, I think the next time it won't be as a disaster as it was on saturday, um, but I mean, I mean that whole flight played, played lights out that day and yeah it. You know, we're getting to the point of the season where everybody's in their a game and, with the flights being so close points-wise, everybody's, you know, going out there shooting the best they can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know, one thing I really like about you know your tour is you've got you've got players that are posting stuff on social media and you know, it's. I like it when they post their scores and they post their scorecard and they talk about it, like Jordan Morrow. You know I bring him up because he's always posting stuff about it, and whether I mean so. Jordan shot 84-79. Two really good B-flight scores. He finished. I think he finished fourth.
Speaker 1:Fourth, and not that he was happy finishing fourth but posting. It was a great two days, loved it, and so they're. You know I love it. Even if they're not winning that, they're still posting and enjoying their time on tour. That to me, that says it all.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and you know Jordan played with me on the first day. He saw the train wreck of what happened and you know being able to laugh about it after the round and the next day he was laughing about it. It's always good to see these guys and I mean you've been down this road. You know when you time events it's hard to keep everybody around afterwards, especially like the champ guys, because they don't want to wait two hours, right, three hours at most. But we had a lot of guys stay and wait and that was pretty cool because you know they're just hanging out and you look at tables and there's some champ flight guys, some A-flight guys, some C-flight guys just hanging out having a good time. You know the wives out there just hanging out. You know the wives out there just hanging out. It was a nice time and I can't wait to see what we bring moving forward because you know we got the Ryder Cup here in El Paso this year and we need to bring all the big guns.
Speaker 1:Well, before we get to the Ryder Cup, let's talk about your champ flight player First off. You know I already brought Ricky Bobby once, but I mean Marshall Daniel. He's got two first names.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm not sure what. He called him Daniel, he called him Marshall, whatever.
Speaker 2:It's funny you say that because when I have to announce his name every time, I have to like slow down and think about it and find out where that comma is, because I think the first time I called him Daniel Marshall, and then he looked at me I went sorry, marshall, daniel. So yes, man, this kid came out of nowhere. He's a solid golfer. He's a minus 4.5, and he's a new member. But yeah, 66 at a UNM championship course, which is a course that hosts a US Open qualifier every year. Okay, I mean, this guy's a stick. He played. I got to talk to him a little bit. He played golf at West Point.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, okay.
Speaker 2:And he's in the military right now, stationed in El Paso, so we may be seeing him at Nationals. I really talked to him and his dad about it and we may be seeing him if he can get the time off.
Speaker 1:That'd be awesome. 66, 68. You know, again, it's mind-boggling.
Speaker 2:And I mean mean the 68 was. I'm going to say it probably could have been lower, but I think with a 9 stroke advantage he won by 16. I know with a 9 stroke advantage he might have not had to push the gas as much, just kind of put it on cruise control and shot a 68. But yeah, it was good to talk to him. Everyone was impressed and just trying to pick his brain was, honestly, after the round, just having conversations with him, which was pretty cool to see, like all flights down the line. Yeah, just trying to get to know the guy.
Speaker 1:So does he play for the Army in any of the Armed Forces tournaments?
Speaker 2:I didn't ask. Next time I see him I'll ask. But I mean, he's a great guy, he just loves to play golf. He basically was like you know where there's a golf tournament I'm going to play and I found yours online through social media and I mean it's been a great time.
Speaker 1:Well, tell them, there's a golf tournament in Hilton Head in October. I did tell them that.
Speaker 2:I also told them there's a golf tournament in TPC Scottsdale at the end of the month. See, come on, is he going to Scottsdale. Hopefully Depending again. You know you know what, what the way the military is as long as he can do his off. He said he'd be out there. But, um, I love to see him out there Cause he he can do some, some big things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pull up the pull up the the, the uh roster for that.
Speaker 2:I did. I literally just looked at it. I don't see him on there yet.
Speaker 1:Well, I was thinking more about what champ players are out there, Because again, that would be a good one to win. Oh wow, there's a name I haven't seen in a long time Fred Blaylock. I knew him from Upstate. I haven't seen his name for time. Fred Blaylock, I knew him from Upstate. I haven't seen his name for a while. Let's see Randy Merrow from Vegas, Not recognizing most of his names, but that's all right.
Speaker 2:There's a couple of them down there in the bottom too Wallace Nelson from Arizona. He's a solid golfer too ok he's come to a couple of my events and I mean he's just like we said. He's just hit it down the fairway. Second shot one putt birdie, two putt par. Get out of there Next hole.
Speaker 1:That's all you got to do, man. That's all you got to do. You know, as I'm looking at this, it kind of reminds me. You know, we talk to people all the time and I got a couple messages. You know who. We haven't heard from much. We haven't heard from Mick. We haven't heard from much, we haven't heard from Mick?
Speaker 2:We haven't.
Speaker 1:Haven't heard from Mick and the Columbus Boys. I wonder what's going on. I wonder if they're mad at us.
Speaker 2:He just keeps winning the flag and doesn't want to talk about it Doesn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Tell you what. I'm going to reach out to him. I think in our next episode, I think we've already got who?
Speaker 2:we need to have won, but maybe we can get see if we can get him on, find out what's been going on this year and what's going on up in Columbus yeah, we need an update because I think that was a cool story last year and I mean, if my courses are on town sold flags, I probably have started that, but not everybody sells flags there on my area. We're not building courses.
Speaker 1:Maybe what you could do as a maybe, as an end of season. How know how you do? You know the, the, the tour championship or what have you? Um, but the last, the last tournament. You know, give out flags for last place in each, in each flight, but as last tour of the year, you're going to walk away with something. Thanks for coming out. It'd be maybe something fun, I don't know Um you know, with with the golf, With the Golf Week, El Paso flag right.
Speaker 2:Right, I have an idea that I want to do, but I need to run it by so I can get them printed. I do want to do some Golf Week flags. I just don't know where to get those from, but we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll figure that out. So I think I mentioned this earlier in the episode, but August is the last month for Player of the Month. Then we'll have our eight and then we'll pick the Player of the Year. You know Tracy Taylor, the Player of the Month for June. We'll announce the Player of the Month July in the next episode. Again, a bunch of good nominations for that. Love sharing them. So, tour directors, make sure you get your nominations in for August. It's the last opportunity for that. And also, we got the raffle, got the club raffle.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Whole set of irons. They're literally sitting right behind me, still in a box, chris. I haven't opened them. They don't have dirt on them. They're brand new irons. They're literally sitting right behind me, still in a box, chris. I haven't opened them. They don't have dirt on them, they're brand new irons. I promise you, when you get them, whoever wins them will get them. I'm not going to promise them to be brand new, but as of now, they're still brand new in the box.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, it's 10 bucks to win a new set right before Nationals too. Yeah, give you about a month, month and a half, to get used to them, try them out and take them out to.
Speaker 1:Nationals. Oh, you know, I meant to tell you. I don't know if we talked about this in the last episode or not, but when I went out to the Blacksburg Regional with the Fuj Fuji car guys out there, let me tell you what, man, the technology in those shafts is phenomenal and those guys were fitting guys with shafts in under five swings.
Speaker 1:Really, that's how good that technology is. So we talk a lot about Strixon and the irons, but with these Fuji car, those are really good. But on a different note, the Fuji car shafts phenomenal and getting fit by really good fitters. That's the other thing. We talked about this a lot last year about being fitted. If you find a good fitter you should always get fit. But I mean, these shafts are phenomenal, phenomenal.
Speaker 2:I want to check them out. I'm in the market for a new driver just snap it over your leg it got close on Saturday.
Speaker 1:I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2:No, the time that I've done that would have been coming back from Hawaii. On Saturday they got rid of it. I don't know what happened. No, the town that I've done that with had been coming back from Hawaii. Ah, dang it. They dropped my bag, my travel bag.
Speaker 1:My whole bag is gone, my whole bag. You'll get caught doing that. I don't know that for my experience.
Speaker 2:You've met that. She's smarter than that she is.
Speaker 1:Yes, she is, but I tell you, you know, I don't know if I told this story before or not, but you know, when I was traveling a lot and playing a lot, I actually had two full sets, two, two full of the exact same sets, one that I used to travel with and one that I was was normally playing with, and that came because I was traveling and the airline lost my bag, or I thought they lost my bag, and I I almost ended up in jail. I was Chris, I was hot. I mean, you can imagine I was hot. Um and uh, the the the airport policeman came over on a segue and I was.
Speaker 1:There was one bag, one bag going around on a different carousel. Right, it was my clubs. And so that made me even more mad. I said you know what? Because that's not even our flight. So somebody could you know what? Oh, wow, here's a bag of clubs. And Jen dragged me out. I was hot, and that's the next day I purchased a complete, complete set. The only thing that was that was different was a putter, because that.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you ever seen my putter. My putter is is custom made and I couldn't get that done. But yeah everything else.
Speaker 2:Wow, what was the airline going to do?
Speaker 1:Like $150 voucher. Oh shit, exactly, and I'm hot.
Speaker 2:You know we'll find it.
Speaker 1:Here's $150 voucher. We'll find it. Here's a $150 voucher. We'll find it. What?
Speaker 2:you should have still taken the voucher and then walk out with your clothes. I think I was thinking they were also going to give me a restraining order well, I mean nowadays, like I have an air tag in my golf bag and an air tag in the suitcase that the golf bag goes in, in case somebody takes the golf bag out. Okay, and that was with Southwest. They scan every bag that goes in, so on the app you can see if it's been scanned on the plane or not. Oh, really app.
Speaker 2:Oh really, and I'm. I am sitting in the plane monitoring both the air tags and the app till I see where is this scanned on plane or loaded on plane, and then, all right, now I can relax well, I I don't know what my issue is.
Speaker 1:I can't figure out the air tag I mean you and I talked about.
Speaker 2:I can't figure it out no, it it's not for everybody, I guess.
Speaker 1:I guess not. I guess you gotta be. You know, I don't know, I don't know. Well, get your money in for the raffle. Venmo me at TimNATC. Let's get these clubs raffled off and so you can bring them out to the National Championship.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:Anything going on next couple weeks.
Speaker 2:No, just trucking through trying to. You know there's a bunch of city championships that are happening, so I kind of try to avoid that weekend because a lot of guys like to play other things. You know I hate to have a low turnout to one of our ending events, so you know, nothing crazy just trying to finalize everything else. You know get Ryder Cup ready, kids back in school, get life back together again.
Speaker 1:Good luck with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good telling me.
Speaker 1:All right, bud. Well, it's good seeing you again and we'll we'll catch up again here real soon. Everybody, take care, be safe and likewise start registering for Tornes.
Speaker 2:Man only got a few out if you're waiting now, you're gonna blink and it's gonna be in the season, it's gonna be over. So just register and register the for the events and then wait for that email saying hey, I need payment, and then you can decide.
Speaker 1:Then no, just pay, register and pay today for everything. That way you're just lock it in, lock it in get over with quicker you lock it in, the less excuses you'll make for not going unless it's cold it does put this way if it's cold, If it's cold somewhere now and you're playing, even if you're in Minneapolis or upper northwest whatever, you don't have to live there. Move.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 2:If you don't.
Speaker 1:All right, my friend, best of family, take care, we'll talk to you soon. Likewise Be safe.
Speaker 7:See ya, thank you.
