Speaker 1: I talk about the Rocket Classic. What do you got
Speaker 1: going on with the Rocket Classic pl official?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I am the official ambassador for Rockets
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it much love, much love.
Speaker 2: I've been golfing for around six years now, obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: you know I'll take it serious. I practice every single day.
Speaker 2: I've got a simulator in my garage. Golf is very
Speaker 2: near and dear to me, and it's a part of
Speaker 2: my sobriety story.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I stopped drinking in twenty twenty one and picked up
Speaker 2: golf clubs.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, which is amazing because I gotta be honest
Speaker 1: with you, there's a lot of alcohol on a golf course.
Speaker 3: Oh a ton. So that's yeah, really, so you used this.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to get good at golf as
Speaker 1: I don't need to have this substance in my body.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And that's no knock to anyone who drinks.
Speaker 2: I'm totally comfortable with people drinking around me. I'll never
Speaker 2: touch alcohol again and it's definitely a big thanks to golf.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, Rocket rocket.
Speaker 2: Man is something that is a blessing from that from
Speaker 2: me stopping drinking and picking up the golf club and
Speaker 2: here we are, you know, five six years later, I'm
Speaker 2: the official ambassador for a PGA event in the beautiful
Speaker 2: city of the people.
Speaker 1: Don't understand that one of the coolest events, and actually
Speaker 1: you do understand because many go.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's you know, tens.
Speaker 1: Of thousands of people that go to the Rocket Classic
Speaker 1: every single year. It's one of the most fun weekends
Speaker 1: in the city. And it's such a cool thing to
Speaker 1: have it in the city because the PGA typically was
Speaker 1: not in the city. The PGA was always playing games
Speaker 1: out in Bloomfield at Oakland Hill's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like outside of the limits. And that's that's really
Speaker 2: what's important. The model for this year is undeniably Detroit. Obviously,
Speaker 2: like you said, it's one of the biggest summer events
Speaker 2: in the city. We definitely want all of you guys
Speaker 2: to come out. So everyone here is personally invited to
Speaker 2: every single day. July thirty through August second is the dates.
Speaker 2: But you guys are totally invited. I got Combana on
Speaker 2: fifteen fifteen, Yes, totally.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Do you think that they're going harder this
Speaker 3: year now that it was announced that this is the
Speaker 3: last year. I don't think they're going harder.
Speaker 2: I think that Detroit has always been involved in sports,
Speaker 2: and I know that personally. I think you guys know
Speaker 2: that personally, and I think that going hard is something
Speaker 2: that's synonymous with Detroit. We're always gonna go hard for
Speaker 2: for anything that we're doing, So going harder, no, I
Speaker 2: do feel like that that makes it a little bit
Speaker 2: more personal for Detroit. But regardless, I think that it's
Speaker 2: just gonna be a great event, hands down.
Speaker 1: I saw the stat of how many charities and how
Speaker 1: much money Dan Gilbert and the great people at the
Speaker 1: Rocket Classic have raised. I mean, there's millions upon millions
Speaker 1: of dollars that are going to Detroit charities and helping
Speaker 1: out kids in Detroit.
Speaker 3: I really hope.
Speaker 1: That that you know, and I know that Dan will
Speaker 1: figure out a way to do it, but I hope
Speaker 1: that they carry that torch with something else that comes.
Speaker 1: Why are you trying to take it away to I
Speaker 1: think that I think that I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't want to put pl in
Speaker 1: this positionst me.
Speaker 2: Let me, I'm really good at this. I'm really good
Speaker 2: at this. I think that we should just focus on
Speaker 2: the positive guarding Rocket Classic. And the reason that I
Speaker 2: think that we should focus on the positive is because
Speaker 2: it's about Detroit, you know what I'm saying. And it
Speaker 2: highlights Detroit, highlights the city. It highlights the people who
Speaker 2: are doing great things in the city. Like Joe Hooks.
Speaker 2: He's yeah, you know what's up with Joe. Joe is
Speaker 2: a professional golfer that will be playing in Rocket this year.
Speaker 2: This is his second year playing off of a sponsor exemption.
Speaker 3: Joe went to you a d uh. He graduated from
Speaker 3: Wayne State.
Speaker 2: Joe balled yet last year he didn't make the cut,
Speaker 2: but this year he will. And I guarantee that Joe
Speaker 2: is super ready. I just I just was talking to Joe.
Speaker 2: So shout out to Joe. You got to do me
Speaker 2: a favor.
Speaker 1: There's a young man that I play with that has
Speaker 1: been such a honestly encouragement for me and my kids,
Speaker 1: Grant Hafner.
Speaker 3: Grant. Grant played in the US Open this year. He
Speaker 3: made the cut.
Speaker 1: He actually yes, and he's a local kid, also a
Speaker 1: Wayne Steak kid. And you got to figure out some
Speaker 1: way to talk to Mark Hollis or any of those guys.
Speaker 1: We got to get Grant Haffner in there too. It's
Speaker 1: one of those exemptions because it is really awesome to
Speaker 1: see the professionals that are out there. You know, the
Speaker 1: people that you see on TV all time, but to
Speaker 1: get the local you know in there and to be
Speaker 1: able to see maybe a dream come true.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it is awesome.
Speaker 1: And I want to.
Speaker 4: Say, I'm not a golfer. I think I've golfed maybe
Speaker 4: a few holes once in my life. This event is
Speaker 4: so fun even if you are not a golfer. The food,
Speaker 4: the people, the DGC Detroit Golf Club is freaking beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3: Let's let's definitely talk about this. It's a fund.
Speaker 2: The spent sixteen million dollars renovating the course. So there's
Speaker 2: two courses, the South and the North at Detroit Detroit
Speaker 2: Golf Club, and the north course will be played for
Speaker 2: Rocket this year and it's totally revamped. They did that
Speaker 2: to make the course way more difficult. People were saying
Speaker 2: that the course was easy to play in this year.
Speaker 2: All of the greens, all eighteen greens, are totally different.
Speaker 2: Everything's crazy. The bunkers, some of the bunkers are ten
Speaker 2: eleven feet tall.
Speaker 3: They're taller than you. Yeah, crazy yeah?
Speaker 1: Is there a ladder getting in and out of elevator?
Speaker 3: What are the dates again? July thirty through August second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta pull up man pl official definitely asking the.
Speaker 3: City to pull up too for sure.
Speaker 1: Follow follow on social media. You are the official ambassador
Speaker 1: the Rocket Classic. Yeah yeah, yeah, I love it, buddy.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in, hey, and thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I got some merch for you. Happy birthday.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I will be bringing some stuff for you guys too, Anna,
Speaker 2: Shannon cav I got something for you right now and
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Speaker 2: tickets until June thirty.
Speaker 1: And I will not let Kevin win when we golf together.
Speaker 1: Not gonna have channing thirty under thirty in the morning.