WEBVTT - Fried Egg Events, Explained 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.840 And when I find my ball in a frid Egg Friday. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.080 Egg, the dreaded Friday Friday, Frida Egg Egg, Frida Egg 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:11.840 bride Egg. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:13.640 Lie, I'm about ready to run off of the hump. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.599 Hello and welcome to the Frida Egg Podcast. My name 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.120 is Garrett Morrison and I'm here today with Andy Johnson. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.800 How you doing, Andy, Garrett, I'm doing wonderful. I'm ready. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.120 Uh, by the time everybody will be listening to this 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.320 will be past Christmas, but you know, just the holiday season. 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.760 Ready for a laid back week next week. And yeah, 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.880 excited to talk about events. That's a big thing for 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.120 twenty twenty two, it was a big part of our 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.800 twenty twenty one. And also excited to talk about a 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.640 couple of courses today. 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.920 Yeah, we are devoting this episode to events. If you 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.280 have no interest whatsoever in Frida Egg events, maybe this 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:16.600 isn't the episode for you. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:21.000 But we are talking about lossonia, so we are learning 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.400 course to talk about los Sonia. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.520 You know, we are doing that so that you know, 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:27.679 may just fast forward. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.840 There's some extra content. I'll put some timestamps in this description, 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.640 but I think a lot of people would be interested 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.960 in Frida Egg events. I mean they're they're really fun. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.760 But just telling you that that is the subject of 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.320 our discussion for the next I don't know, twenty minutes 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.840 or so, and then we're going to have some clips 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.360 from past episodes about courses and you and I are 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.800 also going to discuss loss Sonia, which actually we haven't 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.960 done on the podcast before, even though it's a very 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.520 important course to you and to the Friday Egg and. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.000 The og Frida Egg event course. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.960 Yeah, absolutely, the Steam Shovel. But first of all, the 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.600 reason we're doing this episode now is that sign ups 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.600 are opening for the first batch of Friday events on Monday, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.440 January third. The events that are going to be available 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.840 to sign up for are the King Tide at Charleston 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:21.360 Muni in Charleston, South Carolina. That's on April second. There's 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.560 sign ups for the Boomerang at Seoul Park in Ohi, California, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.880 that's going to be on April twenty third, The Steam 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.480 Shovel at Lasonia Links in Wisconsin that is going to 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.480 be May fourteenth, The Coup de Gras at the Dunes 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.920 Club in Michigan. That'll be May twenty sixth. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.119 We also have an add on for that the day 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.760 before for anybody that's playing in it at lost In 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.679 You know, if you can play Tom Doaks Course the 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:55.320 day before and then also play Dunes Club the next day. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.920 This is great, that's news to me. And then we 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.200 will also have a sign up for the Banker at 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.360 Dornick Hills in Ardmore, Oklahoma. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:04.639 I'm not sure that one's going on. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:06.520 Is that one not going on? 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.520 I don't think that one's going up. I thought I 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.120 thought you were going to. I think that one's in 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:10.840 the next batch. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.600 So but I excited about. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.359 That that one is going to be coming up at 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.399 some point. We'll we'll figure it. We'll figure it out everybody. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.080 In any case, there's going to be around of sign 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.160 ups for Frida Egg events. And where can people sign 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.560 up for an event or check out information for an 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.120 event if they're interested in it, Andy. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.560 It's on our website, which you know, I think is 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.360 something that we're we're looking at overhauling in the next year. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.880 But you have to go. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.480 If you go to the fridagg dot com, there's a 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.119 little sidebar that says browse topics, click there, and there's 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.520 an event tab, so it's all under the Frida Egg events. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.840 I'm sure if you google the Frida Egg event it 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.320 would just pull up that seems to be like how. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.320 People do things now, which is easy enough. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.560 So there you'll see the full calendar that's been announced 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.720 to date. We have a few extras that are going 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.640 to come in. I think we will be in Philadelphia 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.760 in late August, and then you know, we have a 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.919 couple other events that should pop up in the back 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.360 half of the year, so expect to see some more 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.839 events on there. And yeah, it's we're really excited about these. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:31.000 We were really thrilled with how they've gone over time. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:36.880 Obviously COVID was a challenging situation, but you know, we 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.240 last year they went swimmingly and we've had extremely good 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.239 luck with weather, so it's been it's been really fun. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.520 It's been great to get out and meet people. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.640 And you know, one of the things that when we 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.640 started these back in twenty nineteen, it would have been 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.920 you know, we didn't really know what to expect. It 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.080 had been something I'd been you know, ruminating on and 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.920 you know for a couple of years and had been 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.359 a part of Zach Blair's events that he was the 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.400 ringer that he had done. And you know, I think 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:17.520 from our standpoint, we really love our community of people 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.080 and you the listeners, readers, and this this is a 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.839 what we kind of view this as as an excellent 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.880 opportunity for people with that share real common interest in 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:34.360 in our complete golf nuts like golf tragics, love seeing 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.400 new and different and interesting golf courses a way for 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:41.640 them to get together, you know, full disclosure, we could 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.599 be doing things that would be better for our bottom 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.760 line than these. They take a lot of time and energy, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.680 and what we want to do is provide them at 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.880 the lowest possible costs we can so that they are 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.719 achievable and accessible for all types of golfers. So you 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.520 can look at it and say, hey, I can go 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.159 see a really neat course that I wouldn't be able 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.160 to otherwise with the frieda Egg or you know. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.240 And then also on the public side, you. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.280 Know, uh, in the first three events of the year 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.320 at public courses, we we want to celebrate and really 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:22.800 give these public courses that provide unbelievable architecture at you know, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.240 affordable rates a lot of publicity and host these events 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.800 and you know, host them. In the case of Lastonia, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.159 we're gonna have that one every year and and likely 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.560 we'll have the sole park event every year. And we're 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.440 really excited about the Charleston event. I mean early April, 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.640 and Charleston's about the best time of year to be there, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.640 and and you know, these these facilities that have that 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.680 do such a are such wonderful stewards of both architecture 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.240 and affordable golf. We want to celebrate those with with 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.960 our events out there. So that's kind of like why 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.159 we started doing Frida Egg events, and you know, it's 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.000 something that we will continue to do. I think, you know, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.839 our aim is to be around twelve events. Obviously, we 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.480 have a lot of other editorial things between the Shotguns 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.840 start three times a week, the Friday podcast, written articles 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.480 in major championship weeks, with daily newsletters and such like 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.720 that that we you know, it's going to prohibit us 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.880 from ever doing fifty events or whatever. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.800 We are not an events company. Yeah really this is 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.080 this is one of the things we do. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.280 But you know what we what we want to do, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.480 and one of the neatest things that I've seen and 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.680 experience with the events is you see these like complete 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.520 strangers and you know, they meet at the beginning of 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.679 the day and you come back in from eighteen holes 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.240 and it's lunch and you see these people. You walk 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.480 in the room and it's like everybody's best been best 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.000 friends for years. And that's I think kind of the 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.280 when we did the first steam shovel, I walked away 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.720 like I saw people, you know, exchanging numbers, and all 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.920 of a sudden, these new friends were made new golf friends. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.880 And you know, these are people that I've seen some 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.920 that play together in events the next year. And that's 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.200 been one of the most rewarding things that these events 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.520 have really brought out, is that you know, people are 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.040 becoming good golf buddies from the events, and I think 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.120 it's cool. You can come obviously with friends, but you 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:21.200 can also come solo. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.480 And that's the thing. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.000 You're going to get paired up with somebody that loves golf, 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.200 probably as much, if not more than you. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.840 All Right, so you've given a good sense of why 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.520 we hold the events, how they started all that kind 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.720 of stuff, just to give people an idea of where 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.880 we're going with this episode one, we wanted to let 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.360 you know about some of the events that we're holding 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.920 and the courses that we're holding them at. And so 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.080 later in the episode we'll talk about law Sonia and 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.719 we'll play some clips from episodes that we've done on 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.160 Charleston Muni, on Soul Park, maybe on Dorni Hills, and 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.840 so that's where we're ultimately going with the episode. But 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:04.920 first we wanted to talk about frequently ask questions about 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.920 the events, because we get a lot of the same 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:12.640 questions over and over again, understandable questions about Frida Egg events, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:17.960 and so one fundamental question is what's the basic format 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.120 of a Friday event? What does the day look like? 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.760 Absolutely so all of our events to date are thirty 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:28.320 six holes. The idea behind that is that we I 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.240 always like playing a course and then I like seeing 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.080 it again because you play it and you sometimes figure 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.120 something out and you say, God, I wish I'd got 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.600 a chance to play it again. But thirty six holes 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.160 of your own ball is pretty taxing. So what we 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.079 do is it's it's like a Mirfield day, So it 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.160 is eighteen holes of best ball with your partner. In 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.880 the morning, we have a gross and a handicapped division. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:10:00.600 You're automatically entered into both. So it starts at around 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:05.040 eight o'clock, depending on daylight, maintenance crews, how you know 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.760 what time we want to get going, But it starts 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.240 around eight o'clock eighteen holes the best ball. In the morning, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.760 we have breakfast set up, you know, just grab and 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.960 go breakfast sandwiches and you get your t gift then 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.920 and then we come back in after eighteen holes the 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.360 best ball with a it's a shotgun start, and everybody 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.360 has lunch, and then we go back out in the 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.199 afternoon for eighteen holes of alternate shot. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.000 This is really fun. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.839 One of the things that we do that I think 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.560 is unique is that everybody plays in eight sums and 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.520 ten sums, so there's four or five balls, and it's 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.280 just a great way to meet a lot of people. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:48.040 And I think alternate shot is a daunting format if 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.040 you've never played it, but the more you play it, 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.480 you realize it is probably the most fun and the 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.360 most team format of golf. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.000 You know, it really makes you work with your partner. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.280 And I think, like I always say this before events, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.720 like the best thing that you know, the best moment 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.320 in your alternate shot life is when you start to realize, 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.560 like I should I like you. Your mentality shifts away 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.240 from being sorry for your partner and it shifts to like, oh, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.600 thank god, I just don't have to hit that next one, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.280 you know, like you just like. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.640 Saying to your partner at the beginning of it, let's 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.360 not apologize to each other, yeah, about the positions that 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.960 we're going to put each other in, because it's going 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.920 to come back around at some point. This is just golf. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.439 It's what happens. Don't feel sorry. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.280 I think like that's like one of the funny things 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:37.720 is like people always apologize for golf shots, Like like 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.640 why are you apologizing if you try? Like the only 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.960 time that anybody could ever be mad if you like 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.480 just got up and just don't try. But everybody always 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.240 is trying, so so anyways, then it's that after the 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.240 alternate shot, we have or dervs, you know, typically we 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.560 buy a round or two of drinks for the group 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.600 and then everything else is kind of on your own, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.440 and then we have a shootout and who gets into 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.199 the shootout are net winners of the alternate shot and 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.320 the and the best ball, and then low gross winners 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.839 of the alternate shot and the best ball, and then 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.680 some wildcard teams which are basically the you know, total 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.640 based off of totals, so low gross, low net totals 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.400 the next three group, and it's usually about eight to 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.160 ten teams, and we go out and do a four 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.760 hole shootout. Typically, depending on light, it might be a 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.280 you know, a single elimination, so it's kind of a 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.600 flexible thing based off of a you know, the light 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:48.679 and the constraints of the day. So the shootout's really fun. Usually, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.320 you know, most people stick around and come out and watch, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.400 and that's an alternate shot format. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.520 And then the winners get you know, we do prizes. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.520 Typically, we've done golf Bay and custom betan Ardi putters, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.280 which are kind of one of two putters. They're really 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.520 deap they have the event logos on them, and we 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:14.320 have heavier derves and and people stick around so for 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.000 a little while. Monday's Monday events that at Private club's 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.400 a little bit shorter of a hang than the Saturday events. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.760 Yeah, but there's usually a really fun little scene afterwards 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.800 where people get to talk and circulate and make some 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.839 new friends. And that's always been my favorite part of 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.120 the day, you know, after the golf is done and 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.360 people are just relaxing and having a few drinks. So 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.000 all right, so when somebody goes to a Friday event, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.000 they get the golf, they get thirty six holes of golf, 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.640 they get this shootout. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.640 They get a tea gift, they get a t gift, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:50.160 and that ranges from you know, be dready polos to pullovers. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.960 Some events we do, you know ZR stuff. It's something 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:54.800 different every time. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.480 Yeah, it's it's all events specific. But you know, we 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.400 name all the events. I think that's one thing that 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:05.000 you know in all the names are based off of 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.920 like something that either happened to the course, something like local. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.960 So for example, like the King Tide was a you know, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.560 king tides used to wreck Charleston Beauni. It would cause 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.600 the place to flood, and it's a it's a you know, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.600 aspect of the low country, and every time there was 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.720 a King tide, the course would flood. So we're you know, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.640 that doesn't happen anymore, so that we're calling the event 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:34.240 the King Tide. The steam shovel, for example at at 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.960 at Lassnia, is based on the tool the equipment that 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.280 was used to build the course in nineteen thirty. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.160 This this course is just you. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.960 Know, out of this world bold, huge hazards and green 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.040 complexes that were built with this steam shovel. That is 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.200 pretty remarkable given the year that it was built. And 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.880 for the boomerang, for example, that's the there's a boomerang 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.960 green at at. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:03.040 Soul Park. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.400 And then the banker is called the banker because Perry Maxwell, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.560 when he built that golf course, was a banker in Ardmore, Oklahoma. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.480 Obvious enough. Yeah, all right, so you addressed this briefly earlier, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.760 but I want to reinforce it because it is a 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.440 really common question that we get. Can I come as 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.000 a single? And also sometimes what's behind that question is 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.440 would it be weird if I come as a single? 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.680 Will I feel out of place? And will it just 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.840 be kind of an odd day socially if I come 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.640 as a single? And I think the obvious answer to 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.520 that question having been to these events is no. But 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:39.720 maybe you can talk about that a little bit. What's 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.880 it like to come as a solo person to these events? 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:43.280 Yeah? 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.160 I think this is I highly encourage it. I think 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.359 this is a great way to do it. I obviously 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.400 you know, playing with your friends is great too, but 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.840 I always think that the singles get the most out 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.200 of it because they meet the most people, right, you know, 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.200 and and you know, you meet all these people that 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.360 you might not know that lived in your golf city 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.880 or near abouts, that that share this common interest. So 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.920 I highly encourage singles. Also, a big question that I 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.320 get is about skill level, Like I'm a fifteen, I'm 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.600 a twenty two. Is that going to ruin the day? 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:20.880 No? 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.240 Absolutely not, Like this is like we're very you know, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.520 I think the competition's been described the best as like 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.720 you know, everybody cares just about just enough and nobody 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.360 cares too much. And that's like the balance we go 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.160 for and I think we've achieved is where you have 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.920 these people where you know, people are trying, they're trying 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.880 their hardest, but nobody's like throwing clubs over shots. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:52.200 You shouldn't be really grinding. Yeah, yeah, exactly, it's not 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.840 that serious. I mean, yeah, people, as you say, people 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.800 try their best. You're trying to hit good golf shots, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.480 but you're not beating yourself up if you're not well. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.840 I mean, listen, like in our company, Andy is a 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.280 really good player, Will is a really good player. These 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.320 are low handicap scratch or better players. I am more 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.760 like a ten handicap. I've gone to several of these events. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:19.560 I've never felt like I'm uncomfortable with being there. I've 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.040 played with people who are more like twenty to twenty 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.679 five handicaps at these events. Again, we use a handicap system, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.760 so it kind of evens out. This is the magic 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.920 of golf and its handicap system that you can play 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.240 on an even playing field with people of different skill levels. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.840 But in terms of just the competitive atmosphere, if you're 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:44.240 not a competitive golfer, this is not an uncomfortable environment. Yes, absolutely, Okay, 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.399 I think that's pretty much all of the questions that 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.760 we wanted to address. I mean, are there any other faqsh? 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:52.800 That's it? 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.919 You know, at some of these, you know, depending on 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:00.240 our time constrictions and what's going on beforehand, a lot 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.159 of them will do, you know, get together the night before, 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.680 and some of these will, well, this year we'll have 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.520 some golf before or after and we'll kind of do 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.359 that as a depending on how many spots we have 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.760 at different places in the area, it will be kind 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.240 of a lottery system based off of people that are 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:21.080 attending the event. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.960 Yeah, and one thing that we haven't really mentioned specifically 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:29.560 so far is the criteria that we use to choose courses. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:30.480 That's good call. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.560 Yeah, So why do we choose the courses that we 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:34.600 choose for these events? 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.840 These are places that I go see. They are not 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.960 based off of a list. They are not based off 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.480 of where we think we'll get the most people to 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.280 sign up. These are places that we go to that 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.600 I find to be extraordinarily fun golf courses to play. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.560 They are the courses you know that aren't the high 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.879 They don't have to be. Some are very high in rankings, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.080 but there are places that we feel like our very 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.800 unique golf courses that expose you to some sort of 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:10.800 architecture that you need to see and provide a different 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.359 experience than your status quo golf club. So, you know, 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.320 if you look down our list of courses, you know, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:22.439 Charleston Muni gives you a great example of template hole golf. 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.840 You know, for people that haven't played a Rainer or McDonald, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:28.719 this is a golf course you can go and see 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.560 how some of these templates work. You know, the boomerang 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.080 at Soul Park is a great you know, Gilhans golf 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.120 course that's in a idealic setting. It's just a wonderful 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.240 place that you want to spend time at. Like I 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.240 just can't think of many courses that I just when 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.760 I'm out there in the afternoon, I just I just 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.200 look in basket and like you're sitting in this little 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.160 mountain canyon playing just this this beauty in this beautiful 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.879 setting on a really fun golf course. You know the 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.639 steam shovel, that's that architecture you have to see to believe, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.159 Like you know, photos don't do justice. Like until you 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.080 see that first grain and the cliff off the left 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.600 of it that's like twenty five feet that was man made, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.000 You're just like, wow, unbelievable. Obviously, the Dunes Club that's 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.480 where the Kaiser, you know, the whole idea of Bandon 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.080 Dune started. And with the law students add on, you 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:21.720 have a Tom Doak design that's that's really neat Dordic Hills, 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:26.080 where Perry Maxwell's career started. A really important golf course 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.199 in golf course history and like golf course architecture history, 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.520 and a very very good and very unique piece of 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.040 ground like something that you wouldn't expect in. 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.440 Oklahoma, freshly restored fresh yeah. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.280 And and freshly restored like one of the biggest I 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.919 think like one of the most important restorations you know 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.440 that has happened in recent years is that golf course 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.600 getting it back from you know where it was a 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:57.280 far far cry from what its original design was. Obviously Yale. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.840 We have those two days set out. I don't think 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.679 we need to talk that much about it. This is 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.800 a seth rain or Cebe McDonald design was one of 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.879 the great golf courses, is one of the great golf 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.399 courses of the world, and it's a great chance to 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.720 see it before the restoration goes. It happens, and then 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.000 you'll have a frame of reference of where it was 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.240 and what it became with the gil Hans working there. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:26.680 Meadow Brook, that is one of the most fun golf course. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.040 This is a repeat from last year. We're going back 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.480 there just because the golf course is so fun. Andy 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:37.760 Staples renovated this what was a Willie Park and had 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.600 a lot of like a long history of design changes, 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:45.040 but renovated it in Willie Park's kind of style. And 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.320 this golf course, I mean there's so many fun shots 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.560 out there, so many bowls and neat greens, and that 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.160 is that's one of the most fun places. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.919 To play golf in America. 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:01.159 Totally delightful. Yeah. I mean, as you're saying, even if 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.359 you haven't heard of a course that we're holding an 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.120 event at, check it out a little bit, look into 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.280