Speaker 1: Are you guys practicing with Simmons and how does that?
Speaker 1: How's that going?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been practicing them ever since. The day we
Speaker 2: flew back from our last tournament. Our dad drove up
Speaker 2: and John Ashworth dropped off some Lynxoul for Simmons to us,
Speaker 2: which are super nice. Yeah, and we've just been practicing
Speaker 2: with them ever since. It's so hard, but I think
Speaker 2: I'm getting the hang of it a little bit and
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna try to not be nervous and let
Speaker 2: that affect me. Yeah, we have Lynksoul drivers and then
Speaker 2: I think we were trying out Ben Hogan like three wood,
Speaker 2: five wood, four wood, which we're hitting pretty good. So
Speaker 2: as long as I can overcome nerves, I think I
Speaker 2: think it'll be all right.
Speaker 3: Put another log on the fire.
Speaker 1: Nobody here is given time. Welcome to the fire pit
Speaker 1: with Matt Chanella. Good to be back around the fire
Speaker 1: pit before we get to all things. Wish Bone Brawl
Speaker 1: one of the greatest events in golf that involves bona
Speaker 1: fide tour players and elite amateurs playing for Simmon Woods
Speaker 1: at Goat Hill Park where there's no ropes, lots of
Speaker 1: kids and dogs all in the spirit of raising money
Speaker 1: for junior golf in Oceanside, California. Here's a quick summary
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Speaker 1: they're also sponsoring this year's Wishbone bral And so with
Speaker 1: that we start off with Peter Beams aka the Professor,
Speaker 1: a spiritual guide of sorts, a longtime friend of John Ashworth,
Speaker 1: a former European tour player who has written books on instruction.
Speaker 1: He starts every day off at the goat well before sunrise,
Speaker 1: prepping the fire pit and parking carts, making sure the
Speaker 1: place is presentable to the masses. He also serves as
Speaker 1: the rules official and referee on Saturday. I bumped into
Speaker 1: him on Wednesday morning as he was raking up leaves
Speaker 1: on the left side of the eighteenth fairway. What do
Speaker 1: you think about the Wishbone braw this year? I'm so
Speaker 1: excited always.
Speaker 4: Why do you think I'm out here getting the.
Speaker 1: Tinsel out of the way. I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean to have all these incredible golfers come here
Speaker 4: to our little golf course is amazing.
Speaker 1: You very kind and you will, all of you. How
Speaker 1: about the Layovow twins with the lead twins, Well.
Speaker 4: They're going to be number one and two in the world,
Speaker 4: so that's gonna be something to watch. Who's gonna be
Speaker 4: We won't even know who's one h two. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: gonna be something. I think they could win. I'm putting
Speaker 4: my money on they can win the whole damn thing.
Speaker 1: Jasmine and janey Laoval combined for the opening audio clip
Speaker 1: on practicing with per Simmons, and we'll get to more
Speaker 1: with them in a bit, but for now, here's John Ashworth,
Speaker 1: the self proclaimed caretaker of Goat Hill Park. He took
Speaker 1: over the lease of the municipality in twenty fourteen. It
Speaker 1: has gotten better every day since. Ashworth has literally saved
Speaker 1: an underachieving community asset and much needed green space. Simply put,
Speaker 1: the fashion icon is the Goat of the Goat, the
Speaker 1: Wishbone Brawl and kind of this evolution of this event.
Speaker 1: What's it mean to you now? Going into six years?
Speaker 5: Wow, I mean I can't believe it's six years. Really.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just it's kind of flown by, and
Speaker 5: you know, every year we just do it by the
Speaker 5: seat of our pants, you know what I mean, We
Speaker 5: kind of forget we're gonna do it, and then all
Speaker 5: of a sudden we're going, you know, oh god, we
Speaker 5: get the Wishbone Brawl coming up. But you know because
Speaker 5: the first year, literally it was my birthday on the
Speaker 5: driving range at goat Hill Park when Dean Wilson said, hey,
Speaker 5: why don't we do something, you know, to help raise
Speaker 5: money for the kids. And I was like, bingo, yeah,
Speaker 5: let's do something. He goes, I can invite some buddies,
Speaker 5: we can play, you know, maybe we can raise some money.
Speaker 5: You know, I'll get Charlie Hoffman and maybe we'll ask Sander,
Speaker 5: and you know, it kind of started super organic like that,
Speaker 5: and I was kind of going, yeah, right, okay. I
Speaker 5: was like, d okay, you go get those guys. We'll
Speaker 5: do something. And then it was sort of like, well
Speaker 5: they're kind of all off around Thanksgiving, so we just started,
Speaker 5: you know, piecing it together over you know, that first year,
Speaker 5: and you know, you were involved too, and it was like, God,
Speaker 5: it's such a short course. Let's haven't hit Persimmon woods.
Speaker 5: You know, we're always in the Persimmon Woods up there. Okay,
Speaker 5: check kids. You know, this is for the North kunt
Speaker 5: of Junior Golf. And I don't think we had even
Speaker 5: started the Caddy Academy yet. We hadn't really because that's
Speaker 5: been going four years, so anyway, that's kind of how
Speaker 5: it started. And it's you know, we don't rent it
Speaker 5: out to an event company. We do it all in house,
Speaker 5: so it's you know, it's kind of a homemade backyard
Speaker 5: hangout scene, you know. And uh, you know, Jeff, Jeff
Speaker 5: Cunningham came up with a name, which was brilliant, you know,
Speaker 5: because it was around Thanksgiving and you know, uh, when
Speaker 5: you fight for the wishbone, you know, that's our whole
Speaker 5: logo and whoever's the stronger it gets the bigger half
Speaker 5: and all that stuff. So you know, that was great
Speaker 5: and then, uh, yeah, it's just been it's been really
Speaker 5: every year is different for some reason. You know, there's
Speaker 5: a different I don't think we've ever had the exact
Speaker 5: same field, you know, Xander's you know, unfortunately Dean can't
Speaker 5: make it this year, which is a bummer, but he'll
Speaker 5: missed the first year. But Xanders would have played every
Speaker 5: all six of them. Him and Dean a pretty much dominated.
Speaker 5: I think they've won three maybe I don't know. You know,
Speaker 5: winning and losing doesn't really matter. It's just about having
Speaker 5: a blast and getting the whole community together. And you know,
Speaker 5: do something special for the kids.
Speaker 1: So again. This year's Wishbone Brawl consists of Xander Shoffley
Speaker 1: and Chris Riley versus Jeff Ogilvie and Colin Featherstone versus
Speaker 1: Jasmine and Janey Leovau. The format is best ball of
Speaker 1: the twosome, three teams of two, an eighteen hole stroke
Speaker 1: play brawl for it All. It tips at noon on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Here's Will Crop, former captain of the golf team at
Speaker 1: the University of Oklahoma who had a win on the
Speaker 1: PGA Tour Latin America, who now along with his wife
Speaker 1: Morgan and son calls Goat Hill Park home. Crop gives
Speaker 1: lessons and runs Goats Junior Caddy and Leadership Academy. He
Speaker 1: partnered with Fred Couples in the twenty twenty one Wishbone
Speaker 1: bra and has the course record of ten under. Oh
Speaker 1: by the way, he did that playing with per Simon Woods.
Speaker 1: You're somebody who has watched the Wishbone, played in the Wishbone,
Speaker 1: Like what in your mind you've played you know, highly
Speaker 1: competitive events, you're pro, You're like you've been all over
Speaker 1: the world playing golf. Like, try to summarize the essence
Speaker 1: and what makes the wishbone bral like special.
Speaker 6: Great question.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think the biggest thing that hit home
Speaker 7: right off the bat was being home, playing in front
Speaker 7: of the people that you're you know, in the community with.
Speaker 7: I think that was a really really cool experience, especially
Speaker 7: since it's so up close and personal. You're essentially walking
Speaker 7: around with a thousand of your closest friends right next
Speaker 7: to you, and I think that added a whole different
Speaker 7: level than in anything that I've experienced. When we play
Speaker 7: professional golf on the road, you're on the road, you're
Speaker 7: not playing in home tournaments and maybe very rarely does
Speaker 7: somebody have a home tournament, maybe a Jason Day and
Speaker 7: Columbus kind of thing, but very rarely does that ever happen.
Speaker 7: So kind that element in itself of being at home,
Speaker 7: being in front of the people that you spend every
Speaker 7: day with, it just made it that much cooler. I
Speaker 7: think that was the biggest takeaway, and even the week
Speaker 7: leading up to it, I felt pressure from myself in
Speaker 7: that sense, just wanting to perform well, wanting to play
Speaker 7: well in front of everybody because you feel like you
Speaker 7: have the whole community on your shoulders.
Speaker 1: A perfect segue to the idea of adding the lay
Speaker 1: of our Twins to the sixth Annuel Wishbone Brawl. Jasmine
Speaker 1: and Janey Lao are nineteen. They are sophomores at Long
Speaker 1: Beach State where they're on scholarship to play on the
Speaker 1: women's golf team. They've grown up at Goathill Park and
Speaker 1: their products of the North County Junior Golf Association and
Speaker 1: goad Hill Park's Junior Caddy and Leadership Academy, the two
Speaker 1: beneficiaries of all proceeds raised by ticket sales and the
Speaker 1: online auction, which can be found at linksoul dot com.
Speaker 1: As you'll hear, the Layovout twins have caddied in the
Speaker 1: Wishbone Brawl and now they're competitors Goathill Park at four
Speaker 1: five hundred yards par sixty five. It's the ideal venue
Speaker 1: and event to get women involved. Not just playing with
Speaker 1: the men, they're playing against them. Back to Ashworth, how
Speaker 1: did you let the twins know that they were in?
Speaker 5: I actually haven't even talked to them yet. I talked
Speaker 5: to Jan. Jan was the mediator on that one, so
Speaker 5: through I went through their dad Jen.
Speaker 1: And how'd that go?
Speaker 5: Well? You know it was, it was great. He was
Speaker 5: shocked and you know, surprised but loved it. And they
Speaker 5: were like saying, you know, there, you talked to him,
Speaker 5: So I haven't even talked to him. So you tell
Speaker 5: me how they just over the moon or what.
Speaker 1: Meet Jasmine and Janey Leoval, who are zooming in from
Speaker 1: their dorm room at Long Beach State. It's almost impossible
Speaker 1: to tell them apart, not only in person, but also
Speaker 1: as an audio experience. In this case, we start with Janey,
Speaker 1: but they both provide answers and anecdotes here and throughout
Speaker 1: the podcast. How did you guys find out you were
Speaker 1: in this year's Wishbone?
Speaker 2: Bro Our dad he sent us a text saying that
Speaker 2: he needed to talk to us, and we had no
Speaker 2: idea what it was about, so we were like nervous already.
Speaker 2: And then he called us and said that they had
Speaker 2: really good news. And then he said John Ashworth reached
Speaker 2: out to him and asked if we wanted to play
Speaker 2: in the Wishbone.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: At first, like our initial reaction, I was kind of scared.
Speaker 9: I was like.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what to say and was contemplating if
Speaker 2: we should play in it or not because didn't know
Speaker 2: how Like we've always been a part of the wishbhone,
Speaker 2: but like playing in his whole different story and in
Speaker 2: front of that many, that many people was definitely.
Speaker 9: Gonna be different than what we're used to because.
Speaker 2: At first we didn't really want to play because we
Speaker 2: didn't think we're ready for that. We've always like thought
Speaker 2: about playing in the wish Phone and like it was
Speaker 2: kind of a dream like come true to like be
Speaker 2: able to do this, but I thought we would be
Speaker 2: playing it as a pro.
Speaker 9: But here we are college amateur golfers. Super cool opportunity.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got chills for you guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I've been popping in and out of the Goat
Speaker 1: community for a long time, and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: we all feel like we've watched you guys grow up.
Speaker 1: You're still growing up, but like, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: been this amazing thing to watch and you know, to
Speaker 1: know that you grew up in North County Junior Golf
Speaker 1: and then Goadhill Park and caddying at the Wishbone Brawls
Speaker 1: from the beginning to now competing like that narrative arc
Speaker 1: and that storyline and again it's kind of still going.
Speaker 1: But that's that to me is what's so sweet and
Speaker 1: special about the community, goad Hill Park, the Wishbone Brawl
Speaker 1: and what's going to transpire on Saturday? Right?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We started I think we still as scorekeepers one year,
Speaker 2: and then we were sign bears and then caddies, and
Speaker 2: then last year we were working the hot dog stand
Speaker 2: with our brother and we actually didn't even get to
Speaker 2: watch the Wishbone because we were working. And now we're
Speaker 2: playing it. It's really funny to see how we've been
Speaker 2: like every part of this this event.
Speaker 1: They originally worked as like scorers and standard bearers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they caddied and last year they actually didn't
Speaker 1: get to see the Wishbone ball because they were helping
Speaker 1: their brother make hot dogs.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's I mean, how good is that? Oh
Speaker 5: my god?
Speaker 6: Well that's that's Isn't.
Speaker 5: That the greatest thing about it? Because and you know,
Speaker 5: like you said, you have to pinch I have to
Speaker 5: pinch myself because I mean I feel like I'm just
Speaker 5: objectively looking at the whole thing, going this is this
Speaker 5: really happening?
Speaker 10: What is this?
Speaker 5: It's such a unicorn, isn't it. That's the only way
Speaker 5: to describe it.
Speaker 1: It's actually a team of Unicorns. The Layovout Twins will
Speaker 1: have the Lee Twins, Ada and Annabelle, also products of
Speaker 1: North County Junior Golf and Goats Junior Caddy Program, who
Speaker 1: have caddied in the last two Wishbone Brawls. Remember when
Speaker 1: Fred Couples grabbed the bullhorn on the eighteenth green and
Speaker 1: declared they were the best two caddies in San Diego.
Speaker 11: My partner and I had the best two caddies in
Speaker 11: San Diego.
Speaker 2: I think that's so cool. The twins and twins is
Speaker 2: just perfect.
Speaker 1: At some point, we're going to look over and we're
Speaker 1: going to see the two of you guys, you know,
Speaker 1: lining up a putt with the Lee Twins helping you
Speaker 1: read the green. Yeah, I mean, like, who do you
Speaker 1: defer to?
Speaker 10: Who?
Speaker 1: Actually who's love?
Speaker 2: I don't think they'll be able to tell who's who,
Speaker 2: Like we could all swish at any time, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: only like all twins, Like we can all tell easily.
Speaker 2: So that'll be funny for the August.
Speaker 1: Who's the best green reader of all four of you guys, I.
Speaker 9: Think definitely them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're actually pretty good at reading.
Speaker 2: I know, like I've seen them caddy and they're always
Speaker 2: like really confident in their lines when like telling people
Speaker 2: where to go, and I'm not confident in like telling
Speaker 2: people where to go because I don't want to be wrong.
Speaker 9: But they just straight up like yeah they trust.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think they're like really amazing caddies and
Speaker 2: it's super cool to have them there.
Speaker 9: It's just a perfect story for the Wishbone.
Speaker 1: Just give me a quick update on where you guys
Speaker 1: are in terms of your college careers. What's going on
Speaker 1: Long Beach State, and how's this season going, and how
Speaker 1: are your individual seasons going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just finished our fall season, and this one
Speaker 2: we broke eleven records.
Speaker 9: As a team. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we kept starting for the second tournament, we tied
Speaker 2: like a total team score record, and then in the
Speaker 2: next tournament we tied that in the first day and
Speaker 2: then we ended up breaking the record, and then we
Speaker 2: broke it again in the next next tournament and the final,
Speaker 2: and then we broke the individual low in the second
Speaker 2: day and I broke a I think a fifteen year
Speaker 2: old record of by one. Yeah, of my individual score
Speaker 2: because I shot sixty four.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And also today I found out that I won a
Speaker 2: Big West Golfer of the month in October and my
Speaker 2: scoring average.
Speaker 9: For October was under seventy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, Janney, here's Ashworth again.
Speaker 5: Those guys better buckle up, man, because they don't know
Speaker 5: what's about d Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got girls who have grown up playing
Speaker 1: that golf course and they've got two of the best
Speaker 1: caddies on property right now in their corner. So you
Speaker 1: got the layoout twins, the lead twins. You got like
Speaker 1: some serious, you know power, some like legitimate power going
Speaker 1: on there back to the twins. So things are going well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we won our last two tournaments as a team,
Speaker 2: which is the first time that Long Beach has ever
Speaker 2: gone back to back in the history of the entire program. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's setting so many records. It's super cool to be
Speaker 2: part of history there. And I'm going to continue to
Speaker 2: break it too in the spring. Yeah. We actually did
Speaker 2: an interview before before the second tournament and he was
Speaker 2: asking about how we feel, or is after the second
Speaker 2: After the second tournay, he was asking how we felt
Speaker 2: about breaking a record and I said that it wasn't
Speaker 2: safe still, and I wasn't satisfied because I know We're
Speaker 2: gonna break it in the next tournament, and then the
Speaker 2: next the first day of the next tournament, we broke it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, some serious power. I asked the twins
Speaker 1: what it's like to feel so much local love?
Speaker 9: So cool to see them support us all the time.
Speaker 2: I feel like every every time, like we stepped foot
Speaker 2: on go Hill, you can just like we have so
Speaker 2: much support and love and support from everyone. And I
Speaker 2: know that for this tournament, there's a lot of people
Speaker 2: that believe in us and that we can even win,
Speaker 2: which to me is slightly delusional, but it's super cool
Speaker 2: that they're rooting for us and that they'll be proud
Speaker 2: of us no matter what. Yeah, we've been telling a
Speaker 2: lot of people that we're going to play in this
Speaker 2: and that it's like a pretty big deal, and so
Speaker 2: a lot of people are like, I want to watch.
Speaker 2: So it's cool that we're bringing a lot of people here.
Speaker 1: Back to will Crop, who chimes in on the.
Speaker 7: Twins, I called Goat Hill home, but I've only been
Speaker 7: here since twenty twenty, so that is to put that
Speaker 7: in perspective. It has become my home, but it's not
Speaker 7: my home, and for them it's been their home since
Speaker 7: they could barely walk, so I can't imagine just the
Speaker 7: feelings and emotions that they have to be going through
Speaker 7: leading up to it. I know they've been playing a
Speaker 7: ton of golf in college, they've been playing tournaments, So
Speaker 7: I have confidence that they'll be able to handle that
Speaker 7: pressure because they've been doing it over and over and
Speaker 7: so I don't necessarily think that they I think that
Speaker 7: they're going to play great golf.
Speaker 6: I think they're going to show up.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be absolutely I think we'll
Speaker 7: have possibly one of the best moments.
Speaker 6: In Wishtown history.
Speaker 7: I don't know where it's going to come from, but
Speaker 7: I think it's going to come from them and just
Speaker 7: the moment that everybody's going to share, from Jasmine and
Speaker 7: Janey to Annabelle and Ada on the bag there and
Speaker 7: then jan and Bobby in the crowd. I think it'll
Speaker 7: just be incredible. I really think there's going to be
Speaker 7: an incredible moment.
Speaker 1: You can't lose, right, Like, there's no way you can
Speaker 1: walk away from this situation, lose them, because no matter
Speaker 1: where you finish, you're getting a chance to play in
Speaker 1: front of a big crowd. There's going to be love
Speaker 1: and support. It's your home course. You're playing with. You know,
Speaker 1: it's competition, but it's a friendly competition in the sense
Speaker 1: that there's no there's no you know, there's nothing really
Speaker 1: on the line other than trying to support you know,
Speaker 1: kids like you were a few years ago. Yeah, is
Speaker 1: that the way you see it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think I'm obviously just like extremely nervous for this tournament,
Speaker 2: just because we're playing with pros and in front of
Speaker 2: like a thousand people. But overall, it's just gonna be
Speaker 2: an opportunity of a lifetime. I don't think many people
Speaker 2: get to experience something like this, and it's just gonna
Speaker 2: be an amazing learning opportunity. And you know, if we
Speaker 2: want to become a pro golfer and become great, then
Speaker 2: we have to get used to something like this, playing
Speaker 2: with pros and in front of a large crowd. So
Speaker 2: super exciting that we get to do this early on
Speaker 2: in our career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jasmine, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is like a pretty big stepping
Speaker 2: stone in our career overall, and I'm just super excited.
Speaker 2: And yeah, we can't lose either way. I think we
Speaker 2: won the hearts of the people already. Yeah, looking at
Speaker 2: the comments on goa Hill's posts. Seeing some We're like,
Speaker 2: it's gonna feel like Rome to Xander because of the
Speaker 2: amount of people rooting for us, and it was so
Speaker 2: funny to see.
Speaker 1: Back to Ashworth, Laveo Twins said they've been monitoring the
Speaker 1: social media and that they've seen that they feel like
Speaker 1: they already have the hearts of the crowd, and that
Speaker 1: some people were making comments like Xander's gonna feel like
Speaker 1: he's in Rome with everybody rooting against him.
Speaker 5: It's true.
Speaker 12: Everybody, I run up everybody, I run into it the goats,
Speaker 12: and my money's on the Twins. I swear I must
Speaker 12: have had twenty people say I'm rooting for the Twins
Speaker 12: or something about the Twins, and seriously, everyone's gonna be jacked.
Speaker 1: Also jacked is Colin Featherstone, Another local and first time
Speaker 1: wishbone brawler. Featherstone graduated from San Diego State in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: He turned pro shortly after. He had a long run
Speaker 1: on many tours, specifically the Canadian Tour and PGA Tour
Speaker 1: Latin America. In twenty twenty, after a mixed bag of
Speaker 1: success and struggles and when COVID hit, Featherstone stopped chasing
Speaker 1: it and started working at Titlist, only a few miles
Speaker 1: from Goat Hill Park. He collected data and feedback on
Speaker 1: prototype clubs.
Speaker 10: I learned a lot while I was there, and it
Speaker 10: was a really cool experience.
Speaker 13: And I was lucky enough to be based at TPI,
Speaker 13: the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, and I placed as
Speaker 13: Golf Heaven, so.
Speaker 10: It was a pretty cool office to go to every day.
Speaker 13: And then yeah, in twenty twenty two, I got the
Speaker 13: opportunity playing again. I had someone I played a few
Speaker 13: rounds of golf with asked why I wasn't playing professionally anymore,
Speaker 13: and they offered to help me with some expenses that year.
Speaker 13: And I got through Q school that year in twenty
Speaker 13: twenty two and played the full year on the Contrary
Speaker 13: Tour this last year.
Speaker 10: So it's been a wild ride.
Speaker 5: Okay, he's paid his dues. Man, he's you know, we've
Speaker 5: seen Colin you know, over the years. I mean he
Speaker 5: went from trying to play, then he got a job
Speaker 5: at tide List and found himself, went back, got on
Speaker 5: the corn ferry. But throughout all he's always hung out
Speaker 5: of the Goat. He's always played the monthly medals. He's
Speaker 5: always he's helped us on the course, driving the workmen
Speaker 5: up to number seven, dropping dirt, you know, and we
Speaker 5: had projects going on, weeding the hill on b Hill.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: He always shows up and I just love that kid.
Speaker 5: He's just awesome.
Speaker 13: Anyone that meets is immediately drawn to him just for
Speaker 13: his personalities, so open and humble, and Ash has become
Speaker 13: a good friend of mine, which I'm proud to say
Speaker 13: he's you know he I met Ash in like twenty fifteen,
Speaker 13: and I was just playing on many tours and I
Speaker 13: was delusional thinking I should have some sort of clothing sponsor.
Speaker 13: And I met Ash and he hooked me up with
Speaker 13: some clothes, and honestly that that gave me more confidence
Speaker 13: than anything, knowing that I had some sort of clothing sponsor.
Speaker 10: For some reason, it was like, oh, I've made it.
Speaker 10: I have a clothing sponsor, which in no way should
Speaker 10: he have given me any clothes at that point.
Speaker 13: But that's just Ash, Like he's such a good guy
Speaker 13: and so humble and open to helping people. And yeah,
Speaker 13: we've our relationship has grown over the past, you know
Speaker 13: how for many years, eight years, and he's just always
Speaker 13: in good spirits and what he's done for the community
Speaker 13: and what he continues to do for the community and
Speaker 13: for Goat Hill. He's always out there, you know, he's
Speaker 13: getting his hands dirty every day, every project that's going
Speaker 13: on out there.
Speaker 10: Ash is right in the middle of it, which is
Speaker 10: really cool to see. And yeah, proud to call him
Speaker 10: a friend.
Speaker 1: So what's your history with Goad Hill Park.
Speaker 13: Oh, that's a complicated question. My history with Goat is
Speaker 13: that I kind of stumbled.
Speaker 10: Upon it as well.
Speaker 13: I played it a few times before it was saved,
Speaker 13: I guess in twenty fourteen, and the boy was it
Speaker 13: different after it it was. It was saved by Ash
Speaker 13: and the crew. But yeah, I went out there, I
Speaker 13: believe in twenty fourteen, right after Ash took over, and
Speaker 13: just fell in love with the place. It's so it
Speaker 13: was so raw, it still is, and I just love
Speaker 13: the fact that you could go get around in with
Speaker 13: your buddies for twenty bucks and you got an ocean
Speaker 13: view and an ocean breeze and you can play music
Speaker 13: and everything's just so casual. And at that time, you know, I.
Speaker 10: Was a couple of years out of college.
Speaker 13: I was playing professionally at the time, and I was
Speaker 13: playing a lot of serious golf, so it was really
Speaker 13: fun to go to a place that allowed for casual
Speaker 13: golf but also serious still at the same time, because
Speaker 13: most golfers are competitive, so we get some really good
Speaker 13: games out there. And but I just I loved the
Speaker 13: laid back vibe of Goat Hill and fell in love with.
Speaker 10: It at that time, and it's kind of a second
Speaker 10: home for me now.
Speaker 1: So how did you find out you were involved in
Speaker 1: this year's Wishbone bra.
Speaker 13: So Ash called me. Ash just, uh, yeah, I saw
Speaker 13: I Yash out there all the.
Speaker 10: Time and and he kind of gave me a.
Speaker 13: Heads up like, hey, we're we're kicking the tires on
Speaker 13: a few guys and if they can't make it, you're in.
Speaker 10: And you know, I totally understand.
Speaker 13: We got to try to get some some really big
Speaker 13: names in there that are affiliated with Link Soul, and.
Speaker 10: And the scheduling just worked out.
Speaker 13: And called me and said, hey, you're in, and I
Speaker 13: was like, perfect, I've been waiting five years to play
Speaker 13: in this thing.
Speaker 10: I'm ready.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a special call once I knew Fred
Speaker 5: was for sure out, and Fred was he was trying
Speaker 5: to make it work, but he had a commitment that
Speaker 5: he just couldn't get out of. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 5: to see if he wants to come back next year.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I hope so, but but yeah, uh
Speaker 5: and he yeah. Colin's like I couldn't believe it either.
Speaker 5: He was like, you don't kid me.
Speaker 6: You know this?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: Are you sure it's just real? Come on? So he's
Speaker 5: all fired up. I saw him today out there playing.
Speaker 5: Who's out of practicing. He can't wait for it to start, once,
Speaker 5: to start tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You're been an observer, You're a part of the community.
Speaker 1: There have been years where it's been hard to watch,
Speaker 1: feeling like I want I want in on this. Let
Speaker 1: me I could, I can do this? And now you
Speaker 1: get that chance.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think as a competitor, anyone would watch that and.
Speaker 10: Just want to be involved.
Speaker 13: So, you know, I've always had a lot of fun
Speaker 13: watching watching the event, but every year I just think
Speaker 13: I just want to be playing. So I'm really excited
Speaker 13: to get my chance this year and hopefully I can
Speaker 13: show up and make a lot of birdies.
Speaker 1: Your year this year on the corn Ferry kind of
Speaker 1: summarize the season, the events, the highs and lows.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there were plenty of highs and plenty of lows.
Speaker 10: For sure.
Speaker 13: It's a long season, twenty six events coming off of
Speaker 13: a couple of years of not playing tournament.
Speaker 10: Golf, it was a really long year for me, just.
Speaker 13: The travel and not having played a full season out
Speaker 13: there before.
Speaker 10: I was going into.
Speaker 13: Every week trying to learn every course, figure out where
Speaker 13: to hit it or not to hit it. And it's
Speaker 13: just like I said, it's a long season. And I
Speaker 13: really enjoyed my time out there, and I ended up
Speaker 13: finishing ninety first on the points list, which should give
Speaker 13: me some fairly good conditional status in the next year.
Speaker 13: So hopefully I'll get into some of the early events
Speaker 13: at the start of the year and reshuffle.
Speaker 10: In and play the whole year again. So I'm really
Speaker 10: hoping to get.
Speaker 13: Another opportunity to go play all these courses that I've
Speaker 13: now played and kind of don't have to get in
Speaker 13: on Monday and just grind Tuesday Wednesday to figure out
Speaker 13: the courses and then get into Thursday. So yeah, it
Speaker 13: was it was really fun. It was fun to be
Speaker 13: back into competition and competition on that type of stage
Speaker 13: with an opportunity to get a PGA tour card. So
Speaker 13: just looking forward to next year and having that same opportunity.
Speaker 1: You have three nine unders that go to a park
Speaker 1: with for Simmon Woods.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, yeah, does haunt me now that Will has
Speaker 13: ten under.
Speaker 1: You're really good at second best.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 13: It was first best for a while and then we'll
Speaker 13: shot ten under and then I was back to the
Speaker 13: drawing board. Now I'm just trying to shoot ten under
Speaker 13: every time I play, which is also a great mindset
Speaker 13: to be in.
Speaker 1: Back to Will Crop on all things course record.
Speaker 6: Somebody eventually will go to eleven.
Speaker 7: I'm not under the impression that I'll hold it forever.
Speaker 6: It might be me that goes to eleven. I don't know,
Speaker 6: but we'll see.
Speaker 7: If Collins shot eleven under in the Wish John on Saturday,
Speaker 7: I would be the first and happiest guy to shake
Speaker 7: you his hand because that would be an unbelievable accomplishment.
Speaker 7: So I think the cool thing about having Calling up
Speaker 7: there along with Peko, along with every great player up
Speaker 7: at Goat Hill, is that we push each other to
Speaker 7: do better. And I think that is such an amazing
Speaker 7: opportunity for us, and we've talked about that, is we're
Speaker 7: always traveling on the road. Now some of us have
Speaker 7: kids and stuff, but man really leaning in and setting
Speaker 7: up these games where I mean, we have world class
Speaker 7: players right there at the goat and using each other
Speaker 7: to you know, make that course record fourteen under. I mean,
Speaker 7: I think that legitimately somebody can shoot fourteen or fifteen
Speaker 7: under at the goat with per Simmons. And I think
Speaker 7: that if we can catapult on each other and use
Speaker 7: each other and you know, get better off of each other,
Speaker 7: it will happen and it'll just go eleven, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 7: kind of like the five minute mile once it was.
Speaker 6: It's just going to keep going. So to see.
Speaker 7: Colin playing in the Wishbone myself and knowing what Colin's
Speaker 7: going to embark on on Saturday, I'm just excited for him.
Speaker 7: I think it's such a cool opportunity. And I mean
Speaker 7: he's in front of his home crowd way more than
Speaker 7: I was, you know, so I think it's going to
Speaker 7: be a special moment. I saw his father last weekend
Speaker 7: at the Xander event, and his dad was, you could
Speaker 7: tell over overflowing with joy about what Saturday is going
Speaker 7: to bring in. I think, regardless, it's not really about
Speaker 7: the score as much.
Speaker 6: As it is just I mean, what an accomplishment.
Speaker 7: He's going to be out there playing in front of
Speaker 7: his his friends, his family, the Goat family, and I
Speaker 7: think that there's no doubt Colin's going to have an.
Speaker 6: Unbelievable moment as well.
Speaker 7: So it's going to be exciting and I'll be front
Speaker 7: row and he has it and I can't wait to
Speaker 7: see what it is.
Speaker 6: It's like a good movie. It's you know it's going
Speaker 6: to happen.
Speaker 7: You know the ending's coming, but it's just exciting to
Speaker 7: see where it pieces in.
Speaker 1: A your expectations going into something like this, I.
Speaker 13: Mean, my expectations stayed the same. I'd like to play
Speaker 13: really well, and you know it's not it's hard not
Speaker 13: to think ahead when you have one round. It's kind
Speaker 13: of like a Monday qualifier, right, and you know you
Speaker 13: need to go shoot a low number, but you just
Speaker 13: kind of have to settle in. And I mean, I've
Speaker 13: played that place so many times, so my expectations are
Speaker 13: to play well, but we'll see what happens. It's one
Speaker 13: day of golf.
Speaker 10: You never know.
Speaker 1: What about the twins, what are your thoughts on you know,
Speaker 1: we've all watched them grow up. We're still watching them
Speaker 1: grow up. I mean they're you know, they're nineteen, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're they're playing you know, college golf, not unlike
Speaker 1: what you did, what Xander did. They're having some success.
Speaker 1: They obviously know the Goat. They're playing really good golf.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on just this being kind of
Speaker 1: the perfect kind of an event and venue and where
Speaker 1: women's golf is and where the Goat clientele is with
Speaker 1: all the we see it right daily women girls, and
Speaker 1: just the kind of the feel good, you know, opportunity
Speaker 1: for them to be a part of this and to
Speaker 1: compete in a way in which, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody would be surprised if they freaking won this thing.
Speaker 13: No, definitely not. They're both really good players, and they've grown.
Speaker 10: Up at Goat, and.
Speaker 13: You know, I've had my fair share of battles with
Speaker 13: them over the years when they were sixteen or seventeen
Speaker 13: years old, which is humbling when I'm playing professional golf.
Speaker 13: They're really good players, and it's really cool to have
Speaker 13: them involved in this year, and they definitely deserve to
Speaker 13: be playing, and it's great.
Speaker 10: To have some women playing in the event.
Speaker 13: It's like you said, I mean, we've got a lot
Speaker 13: of women playing out of Goat Hill, and and it's
Speaker 13: cool to see the game grow not only on the
Speaker 13: men's side, but on the women's side too. So I
Speaker 13: think they're gonna have a great time, and I think
Speaker 13: they're gonna play well. It's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 13: a fun match. I hope they play well, but just
Speaker 13: not quite as well as Jeff and I do.
Speaker 1: To be honest, you know, you guys are probably wearing
Speaker 1: T shirts and it's gonna be casual, and there's gonna
Speaker 1: be dogs, and you got the kids and the girls
Speaker 1: playing in the tournament with the guy. I mean, isn't
Speaker 1: this just some sort of like mashup of like what
Speaker 1: really matters?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean you said it perfectly. With all of
Speaker 13: those things coming together, that is Goat Hill, right. It's
Speaker 13: you got the kids, the dogs, the T shirts and
Speaker 13: shorts and flip flops, and it's just a it's just
Speaker 13: a casual, easy going, fun time. But also we're all
Speaker 13: there to compete, which I think everybody loves to see
Speaker 13: as well, which is I think what Goat does best.
Speaker 6: It's it's.
Speaker 10: It's casual but you better bring your a game so
Speaker 10: otherwise it'll eat you up.
Speaker 1: So that's an introduction to the newbies. But before we wrap,
Speaker 1: there are a few other things to address. Back to
Speaker 1: Will Crop on the evolution of the course, leadership, Ashworth,
Speaker 1: the staff, and the emerics.
Speaker 7: Seems like I've been here for ten years, but it's
Speaker 7: only been three and a half. So to see what
Speaker 7: John's done in three and a half years at the
Speaker 7: Goat is just incredible. And I mean it's only picking
Speaker 7: up momentum and he's the one that spearheaded it. He's
Speaker 7: the one on the tractor at six point thirty am
Speaker 7: driving plants up and down the course. So there's not
Speaker 7: any you know, surprise when the leader is you know,
Speaker 7: behaving and acting like that that the.
Speaker 6: Place is going to be successful.
Speaker 7: I think everybody just falls in line and rides the
Speaker 7: wave that John creates. And to see him in his
Speaker 7: happy place up at the Goat, you know, laying laying
Speaker 7: pavers down or you know, digging up dirt, it's like
Speaker 7: it's like a kid in a candy store and it's
Speaker 7: just cool to see him so happy, and that happiness
Speaker 7: just reflects into everybody else.
Speaker 6: So from last at Bernie.
Speaker 7: To Jay to Hunter to Bradford to all the way
Speaker 7: down the list.
Speaker 6: I mean, we haven't even talked about.
Speaker 7: Dave yet and what David Marsha have done, it would
Speaker 7: be there without them. So I think that everybody there,
Speaker 7: you know, piggybacks on this idea that John had. But
Speaker 7: he had so many great people around him, like the
Speaker 7: Emirates that you know, built back up North County Junior Golf.
Speaker 7: And you know, Dave's been doing instruction at the Goat
Speaker 7: and doing the kids and creating such an inviting environment
Speaker 7: for kids and people to get into the game that
Speaker 7: it's just like an all star lineup up there and
Speaker 7: there's you know, no no surprise of where it's, where
Speaker 7: it's come and the exciting part is where it's going.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 11: I'm David Emrick, PJ member, an instructor here at the
Speaker 11: Godhill Park and partner and host professional so and I'm
Speaker 11: the founder and I guess president of the North County.
Speaker 6: Junior Golf Association.
Speaker 11: We started that in nineteen ninety eight by Mike Marsha
Speaker 11: and I we kind of run the thing. We have
Speaker 11: twenty four tournaments a year. We have about fourteen hundred
Speaker 11: kids playing this year and it's a great, great event,
Speaker 11: great place to get the kids started in junior golf,
Speaker 11: and we love what we do and that's why we
Speaker 11: do it, I guess.
Speaker 1: I asked Emeric for more details on North County Junior Golf.
Speaker 11: The home is Godhill Park, so not too many junior
Speaker 11: golf associations have a home have support like we do
Speaker 11: from John Ashworth and we run like twenty four tournaments
Speaker 11: introductory and we also have classes we teach kids, you know,
Speaker 11: and our home motto is you know, accessible, affordable, competitive
Speaker 11: and fun event. So we make sure all the kids
Speaker 11: love playing golf. And it's a lot of times your
Speaker 11: first experience with tournament golf, so we want to make
Speaker 11: sure it's gets off to a good start and they
Speaker 11: love the game. And we've been doing this since nineteen
Speaker 11: ninety eight and it's grown a lot. I mean when
Speaker 11: we first start out, we were just at Rancher Carlsbad
Speaker 11: had three four events a year, and as we kids
Speaker 11: got older, I wanted to have more tournaments, so we
Speaker 11: started the Championship Tour.
Speaker 8: We play eighteen whole courses now and executive courses, so.
Speaker 11: I think we're one of the only tours that really
Speaker 11: catered to all the kids, you know, all age and
Speaker 11: skill levels, and we've been doing it. This will be
Speaker 11: our twenty fifth year, which is really really amazing. It's
Speaker 11: been really it's been so fun.
Speaker 1: What's your relationship with Xander and what's his involvement with
Speaker 1: North County Junior Golf and how has his involvement impacted
Speaker 1: the program in general.
Speaker 11: Well, you know, we met Xander when he was playing
Speaker 11: at Santulist as my son Evan played dre and was
Speaker 11: coaching there. So we've developed a bond with Xander and
Speaker 11: he wanted to give back, and you know, him and
Speaker 11: step On and the whole family thought that North County
Speaker 11: you got was the right fit for them.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 11: Just playing in the Wishbone and having the number six
Speaker 11: player in the world playing in the Wishbone at Gohill
Speaker 11: Park is just simply amazing.
Speaker 8: It's we get thanks every day for Xander's involvement.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 11: Our main goal now is to build the North County
Speaker 11: Junior Golf Clubhouse, which will be located on the east
Speaker 11: end of the property and it's gonna be a great
Speaker 11: event center for the community and Xander's all behind it
Speaker 11: and He's just been amazing, Like we have things like autograph,
Speaker 11: Ryder cup shoes and Ryder cup back and also Austin's
Speaker 11: Caddy's a good, really good family personal friend.
Speaker 8: We have Thanks Stevens together and he's really given a
Speaker 8: lot back too. So we really appreciate.
Speaker 11: Them, you know, giving and living and just being a
Speaker 11: great part of it.
Speaker 1: I asked Emeric for his thoughts on the twins.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, they got a chance, right, they're playing it.
Speaker 11: They got a chance, and they're I mean, they are some
Speaker 11: special kids and they've earned everything that they've nothing's been
Speaker 11: given to him.
Speaker 8: They've dug it out of dirt.
Speaker 11: I mean they in high school they call me, you know, hey, coach,
Speaker 11: we play Sunday morning.
Speaker 8: It's five thirty.
Speaker 11: They show up with their pajamas and you know, a
Speaker 11: bag of donuts, and you know, we used to whoop
Speaker 11: them jan I and you know that lasted a couple
Speaker 11: of years. Now they just whoop us all the time,
Speaker 11: and we're so proud of them. They are just the
Speaker 11: whole family, the whole Layot. Our family is a big
Speaker 11: part of North kind of junior golf for many years
Speaker 11: and now the great thing I think that we provide
Speaker 11: with North kind of junior golf is a place to win.
Speaker 11: I mean the kids played in so many tournaments now,
Speaker 11: but I think the important factor is learning how to win.
Speaker 11: And Jasmine Jenney would they played, they didn't win, They
Speaker 11: were at the bottom of the list, and they you know,
Speaker 11: each year they worked their way up until you know,
Speaker 11: they were just dominating. You know, they won ten twelve
Speaker 11: events a year, and I think that gives them the conference.
Speaker 11: I think it's really important to learn how to win.
Speaker 11: And the girls they get back. I mean anytime we
Speaker 11: ask them for anything, there more than welcome.
Speaker 8: You know, there were caddies in the Wishbone and Xander said,
Speaker 8: it isn't that Jasmine Jay caddies for me one time.
Speaker 11: And go yeah, now that they're playing with you, and
Speaker 11: He's like, oh boy, the get out those pursuemons.
Speaker 1: Which brings us back to will Crop and Goats Junior
Speaker 1: Caddy and Leadership Program, which was started about four years ago,
Speaker 1: similar to the Solage Caddy and Leadership Academy at common
Speaker 1: Ground in Denver, Colorado. If you show up at Goat
Speaker 1: Hill Park and take a junior caddy, their fee of
Speaker 1: forty dollars is subsidized. All you have to do is
Speaker 1: agree to engage with them, mentor them, and if they've
Speaker 1: earned it, you can give them a tip. Everyone wins.
Speaker 7: The whole goal of the program is to give these
Speaker 7: kids not only a job for the summer, but a
Speaker 7: place to go that they can be a part of
Speaker 7: a community and they can learn things through golf that
Speaker 7: lessons that will stay with them for the rest of
Speaker 7: their lives. And that's really There is an element of
Speaker 7: wanting them to get into golf. Sure, we do want
Speaker 7: to grow the game, but it's about so much more
Speaker 7: than anything to do with golf.
Speaker 6: It's about learning to communicate with adults.
Speaker 7: That's learning how to hold yourself around a golf course,
Speaker 7: how to interact with people that you're working for and
Speaker 7: that you're working with.
Speaker 6: And golf is such a beautiful.
Speaker 7: Canvas and I can't think of a better place to
Speaker 7: do it than goat Hill to teach these kids.
Speaker 6: I mean, we had the Caddy.
Speaker 7: Ending tournament this Sunday, and one thing that I really
Speaker 7: reflected on is watching these kids come in in May
Speaker 7: and kind of be, you know, deer in a headlights,
Speaker 7: not really know where they're going, what's going on, kind
Speaker 7: of shy to the members and stuff, and by the end,
Speaker 7: you know, they're part of the community. We have members
Speaker 7: come out that caddy for them, want to caddy for them,
Speaker 7: be a part of the program, and they're rooting them
Speaker 7: on like they're their own kids. And I think that's
Speaker 7: what has been the coolest part of the academy for
Speaker 7: me running it for the first year is seeing the
Speaker 7: kids get involved, get comfortable, become a part of this
Speaker 7: great community that we have. That has been extremely rewarding
Speaker 7: into something that I wasn't necessarily expecting right off the bat,
Speaker 7: But in terms of taking it to the to where
Speaker 7: I believe it can go, is I mean, this guy's
Speaker 7: the limit with that program. We've had so much feedback
Speaker 7: people wanting to be involved in it, so many ex
Speaker 7: caddies that just talk about how caddying was the number
Speaker 7: one job they've had their entire life and they couldn't
Speaker 7: imagine a better.
Speaker 6: Job as a kid.
Speaker 7: So I think that adding you know, adding some more
Speaker 7: leadership aspects, being able to get the kids up at
Speaker 7: the course more and more and more and more, that's
Speaker 7: really my huge goal for it. I mean, building this
Speaker 7: clubhouse for them to have kind of a home up
Speaker 7: at Goat Hill will be something that will take it
Speaker 7: to the next level for sure, but you know, creating
Speaker 7: that experience more. I want them to learn more lessons
Speaker 7: that I've learned through golf and that we all have
Speaker 7: and kind of exedite that process through a summer if possible.
Speaker 7: That's really my goal with it. You know, I'd like
Speaker 7: to teach some of the stuff that maybe they don't
Speaker 7: learn in school and be able to use golf to
Speaker 7: be able to teach them that stuff.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, Crop has been an incredible addition to
Speaker 1: the Goat community. Now back to the wishbone brawl, the
Speaker 1: crowd and the kids and the dogs and you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, what what do you have in terms of
Speaker 1: information for people listening in terms of what time they
Speaker 1: should get there and parking and is there some logistical
Speaker 1: stuff you'd like to share with anybody who listens?
Speaker 5: No, No, yeah, I will, well I will okay, So yeah,
Speaker 5: I would say, you know, I think the gates open
Speaker 5: nine point thirty ten o'clock. I mean we tee it
Speaker 5: up at noon. We're pretty clock. We're pretty on that right,
Speaker 5: usually typically pretty close. The guys will be hitting balls
Speaker 5: on the range and warming up, and you'll be acting
Speaker 5: with them.
Speaker 6: About eleven.
Speaker 5: The kids will have a little contest to hit the gong,
Speaker 5: and they also are going to be coloring golf. The
Speaker 5: little kids will be doing golf balls, coloring or something
Speaker 5: like that. And then parking wise, you know, we don't
Speaker 5: have a ton of parking, so we do have enough
Speaker 5: for the first probably a couple hundred cars, which is
Speaker 5: fair about so I would either carpool or take an
Speaker 5: uber or park in the in the houses directly north
Speaker 5: of the golf course on Greenbrier, there's a couple of streets.
Speaker 5: There's also a church that we have about a block
Speaker 5: away or two blocks away, has a huge parking lot,
Speaker 5: so that's an easy walk. And we will have a
Speaker 5: gate open on the eighteenth holl if you park in
Speaker 5: that neighborhood or the church, super easy access. We'll have
Speaker 5: some butody, you know, man at that gate and otherwise
Speaker 5: take an ober. Then you can party and go back
Speaker 5: when you want to.
Speaker 1: You know, if you have thirteen hundred people, a thousand adults,
Speaker 1: three hundred kids, and probably one hundred dougs, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's full house.
Speaker 5: Well, it's going to be a full house. It's kind
Speaker 5: of be a full house.
Speaker 1: And lastly, some final reflections from everyone involved. We start
Speaker 1: with Ashworth. This community concept and what you've done. You know,
Speaker 1: like you know the park mentality where you happen to
Speaker 1: play golf and you know, this cultivation of everybody feels
Speaker 1: like they're part of something, you know, bringing people together,
Speaker 1: the linking of souls, but also you know, the saving
Speaker 1: of a community asset, right like you know that that
Speaker 1: it all kind of feels like on days like Saturday,
Speaker 1: it's it's this it's this collision of all the good things.
Speaker 1: You know, it's got to feel like one of those
Speaker 1: days where you kind of take a second stop, look
Speaker 1: around and is it days like that that that keep
Speaker 1: you going on some of those hard days when you
Speaker 1: know you're dealing with all the the turmoil and the
Speaker 1: troubles that come with managing a facility like that or
Speaker 1: life in general, is it a day like a wishbone
Speaker 1: brawl day that makes you kind of soak it up
Speaker 1: and keep it moving forward.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely one that's definitely a big day that
Speaker 5: just kind of just it's such a big you know,
Speaker 5: it's such a big energy and to see the community
Speaker 5: come together and everybody enjoy it and be part of it.
Speaker 5: It is It is one of those days that kind
Speaker 5: of just more than just makes it all worthwhile. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just like, you know, the world's in such a
Speaker 5: crazy place right now, and to have a place like
Speaker 5: Goat Hill Park or any golf course really, I mean,
Speaker 5: golf is really such an important aspect of you know,
Speaker 5: I guess our lives right because we can get away
Speaker 5: to the golf course and to have an affordable sort
Speaker 5: of situation like we do with the Goat for everybody.
Speaker 5: You know, I think mental health it plays such a
Speaker 5: key role in that, And I can't imagine if we
Speaker 5: didn't have a place to go to like that.
Speaker 1: The layovout twins on the big picture, the deeper meaning
Speaker 1: of Saturday. It starts with Jasmine dan Jenne. Do you
Speaker 1: also see an opportunity to try to positively impact some
Speaker 1: some you know, not just young women but kids in general.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's so cool, like how we're given
Speaker 2: the opportunities to be in a position where we can
Speaker 2: inspire younger kids. And knowing we started kind of late,
Speaker 2: but like it doesn't matter, like when you start, and
Speaker 2: I think it'll be really cool to see them and
Speaker 2: just make make them our fans. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 2: that it's just super amazing that we were alumni of
Speaker 2: the program that this is supporting, and so I hope
Speaker 2: that they can see that we're just a product of
Speaker 2: this amazing program and.
Speaker 9: That they can be inspired by that.
Speaker 2: But I'm just gonna try to have fun and smile
Speaker 2: a lot and and try to try my best inspire them.
Speaker 1: All of it is there for you. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a beautiful day. The golf course is in great shape.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, your advantages are each other, your caddies,
Speaker 1: your knowledge of the golf course, you know, the crowd
Speaker 1: support and the home crowd, and you guys are playing damn.
Speaker 9: Good golf right, trying our best.
Speaker 1: Here's Colin Featherstone on how and why the Wishbone Brawl matters.
Speaker 13: Well, I think when you get a superstar like Xander involved,
Speaker 13: and then you've got another superstar like Freddie Couples involved
Speaker 13: the last couple of years, and then Jeff Ogilvie and
Speaker 13: Dean Wilson and the names that have come through here,
Speaker 13: Charlie Hoffman and Chris Riley, and those are all guys
Speaker 13: that resonate locally and nationally, so to be able to
Speaker 13: come out to a place like Goat Hill, where, like
Speaker 13: I said, it's so casual, it's just a fun place
Speaker 13: to be.
Speaker 10: It's such a great walk and watch.
Speaker 13: These guys hit for Simmon Woods, which you never see anymore,
Speaker 13: and you get to hear the sound off of a
Speaker 13: person would and you get to be close and it's intimate.
Speaker 6: It's just that group.
Speaker 13: It's not surprising to me that it's grown into what
Speaker 13: what it's grown into.
Speaker 10: And then to top.
Speaker 13: It off, all the proceeds go to North County Junior
Speaker 13: Golf Association, which is in my opinion, a great tour
Speaker 13: because it gives opportunities to kids to to play tournament
Speaker 13: golf that is becoming increasingly harder, I think for you know,
Speaker 13: a regular parent.
Speaker 10: To pay for financially.
Speaker 13: And so it's it's just a it's a good cause,
Speaker 13: a really fun day and I'm proud to be a
Speaker 13: part of it.
Speaker 1: And here's will crop on the evolution of the course
Speaker 1: and the cause.
Speaker 7: I mean, how many people are going to go out
Speaker 7: to Goat Hill on Saturday and be like, holy cow,
Speaker 7: what has happened in a year out here or in
Speaker 7: six months or in you know, one week with the
Speaker 7: new fire pit, it's like something's always changing out there.
Speaker 7: And I think that that's that's that magnet. I mean,
Speaker 7: people just love to see from the owner down putting
Speaker 7: in you know, the hard work and effort, and it's
Speaker 7: not glamorous work, but it's for such a greater cause
Speaker 7: that I think it's just I mean, it's why I
Speaker 7: got attracted here.
Speaker 1: And you gotta love a new fire pit.
Speaker 6: Gotta yeah, yeah, gotta love a new fire pit.
Speaker 1: And finally, Dave Emrick, Yeah, we go it to.
Speaker 8: The volunteers too, Like we just built the fire pit.
Speaker 8: Have you seen it this morning? The new fire pit.
Speaker 11: It is amazing that was built, what in three days,
Speaker 11: with you know, ten guys who helped members, who helped
Speaker 11: out and just got in and dug it out. And
Speaker 11: it's insane, you know. But we do it because we
Speaker 11: love it, and we'll always do it because we love it.
Speaker 11: And we just love people coming out and supporting the
Speaker 11: Goat and we appreciate you because you're a big.
Speaker 8: Part of the family. Is you know, the old family
Speaker 8: just keeps growing and growing.
Speaker 11: You know, it's like grandkids and great grandkids and locals
Speaker 11: and new people. It's just a it's just a I'm
Speaker 11: very thankful. It's an amazing place and thanks for all
Speaker 11: you do.
Speaker 1: Of course, Well no, everybody, you know. I think what's
Speaker 1: really beautiful is, you know, almost everybody has an attitude
Speaker 1: of gratitude. And that's that is the you know, it's
Speaker 1: it starts at the top and people like you and
Speaker 1: John and and uh and the people like Laz and
Speaker 1: Fernie and Jay Bird and Hunter and you know, the
Speaker 1: list just keeps going on and on. There's nobody who's
Speaker 1: not trying to pitch in and participate. H And you know,
Speaker 1: the beautiful thing is when John says, hey, I need
Speaker 1: some help, that's it. That's all he has to say
Speaker 1: is I need some help. And then the next thing
Speaker 1: he has is help. And and it's unconditional. It's unconditional
Speaker 1: in so many ways.
Speaker 11: So yeah, it's a it's you know, it's just really
Speaker 11: it's I think a little bit of a footprint of how.
Speaker 8: It should be.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, dogs, community, fun, golf, friends, all all the
Speaker 11: good stuff.
Speaker 3: Put another log on the fire me here is get
Speaker 3: the time