1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: The guys from paying They've kind of showed me how 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: much the equipment matters. 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 2: I just love that I can hit any shot. I 4 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 2: kind of want we're gonna be able to tell some 5 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 2: fun stories about what goes on here to help golfers 6 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 2: play better golf. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Pinging 7 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: Proving Grounds Podcast. I'm Shane Baker. This is either gonna 8 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 2: be the best episode we've ever done or the worst 9 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 2: episode we've ever done, and there's no middle ground. We 10 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 2: are on the Pinging Tour truck with two of the 11 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 2: men that run the show throughout the year, Adam and Jack. Jack. 12 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: I want to start with you because I think people 13 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 2: come to golf tournaments they see these trucks, you know, 14 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 2: across the range, by the driving range wee get in 15 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 2: week out. I don't think they totally understand the process 16 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 2: of what goes on. So can you give us an 17 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,919 Speaker 2: idea of like weeks on the road is what does 18 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 2: the week look like day in day out? How does 19 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 2: the truck process work when you're kind of in charge 20 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 2: of this whole thing. 21 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think most weeks over the years they kind 22 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 3: of run together a lot of times, but over the 23 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 3: years you get to know kind of each place, each setup. 24 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,319 Speaker 3: You're very familiar as time goes on and his experience, right, 25 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 3: so you get more comfortable and you kind of know 26 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 3: what to expect. Sometimes you can prepare weeks ahead of time, 27 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,639 Speaker 3: but for us, we function. I kind of always describe 28 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 3: it as like a NASCAR pit crew for a PGA 29 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: tour player or whatever tour or college that we might 30 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 3: be at with our truck. 31 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 2: And are you showing up, Like are you driving in 32 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 2: on Sunday of a tournament Sunday before and then you 33 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 2: guys normally exit on Wednesday mornings. Is that kind of 34 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 2: the plan. 35 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 3: Yes, So typically we'll roll in on a Sunday. Every 36 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: truck from every manufacturer has a similar setup like we do, 37 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 3: and our jobs are to support ping staff players or 38 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 3: any non staff player that might use our equipment whatever 39 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 3: they need. Monday Tuesday Wednesday the practice round days, usually Sundays, 40 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 3: we're setting up. If a player happens to be on 41 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 3: site Sunday afternoon, which is rare. It usually happens more 42 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 3: at major championships that players might need a little tweak 43 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 3: here there on a Sunday, But typically we're setting up 44 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 3: Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon, and then we'll tear down 45 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 3: Wednesday afternoon before the tournament starts Thursday. Then hopefully we've 46 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 3: done our job, whether that's regripping their clubs, checking off 47 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: and lies, building fourteen brand new golf clubs, and getting 48 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 3: them a staff bag and hats if their clubs got 49 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 3: lost in transit, or if they just want to start 50 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 3: all over. So we do anything and everything, and it's 51 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 3: sometimes it's kind of unpredictable. You kind of never know 52 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 3: what's going to happen once the door opens, or who 53 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 3: might walk in the door. You might hear some clubs 54 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 3: rattling outside. A few clubs got broken and transit UF 55 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: had that happened a few times, and you kind of. 56 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 4: Poke your head out the door. You're like, what the 57 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 4: heck is going on? 58 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 3: Then you see a caddie pulling about four or five 59 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 3: six broken clubs out. Well, we got work to do 60 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 3: some events. Let us set up early, which is great. 61 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 3: In between we can kind of go home and then 62 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 3: come back on a Sunday and get ready to go. 63 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 3: But typically it's mostly a Sunday setup and then a 64 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 3: Wednesday tear down, and then there's a couple of reasons 65 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 3: that we leave Wednesdays. A lot of people ask us 66 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 3: why were not what do you do? Why are the 67 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 3: whole turn why we're not there. 68 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 4: The whole time? 69 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 3: Well, for example, like at bay Hill, we used to 70 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: in the parking lot there, and these trucks there might 71 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 3: be ten to fourteen of them on a given week. 72 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 3: We take up a lot of space. Most trailers are 73 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 3: forty two feet long, they're sixteen feet wide once you 74 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 3: pop them all out, so they take up a lot 75 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 3: of room. So they want us out of there because 76 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 3: they can use that space that we take up for 77 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 3: parking for the rest of the week for family or 78 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 3: whoever else might be coming to watch the tournament. 79 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 4: And then the. 80 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 3: Best reason is we only have one trailer, so we 81 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 3: have to get from wherever it may be to the 82 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 3: next event in time to set up and be ready 83 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 3: to go Monday morning. So some of the drives are shorter, 84 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 3: some are longer. But those are the two main reasons 85 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 3: why we leave Wednesdays. 86 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 2: Adam, are you guys driving the truck? I mean you guys. 87 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 2: Are you guys are the ones in charge of the equipment? 88 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: I mean you guys, I know you guys are a 89 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: couple more people involved in the truck on a weekend 90 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: and week out, but you're driving the truck as well, 91 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 2: so you've got to fit in an iron for Victor Hovlin, right, 92 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 2: and you've also got to be able to kind of 93 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: like man this thing down the ninety five. 94 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 5: That's right. 95 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, we anyone who drivess has to have a Class 96 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: A CDL. 97 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 5: This is sixty five thousand pounds they do. Yeah about that. 98 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite a challenge, let me tell you. But no, 99 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: it's eventually, like anything, the more you do it, the 100 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: more you get comfortable. 101 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 5: You know. 102 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: We do say forty to fifty thousand miles on this 103 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: a year, which actually isn't a lot for an over 104 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: the road type truck. 105 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 5: I mean, this is a full eighteen wheeler. 106 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: We have to follow all the regulations for hours driving 107 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: also working. 108 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 5: So yeah, it's it's a full on eighteen wheelers. 109 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: So we do drive it, but then also have to 110 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: build and like Jack was saying, you know, as we 111 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: go and we do a week in and week out, 112 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,679 Speaker 1: a lot of times we go to the same venues 113 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's super challenging. 114 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 5: You know. 115 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: We'll be say Detroit, we have to get them literally 116 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: within a couple inches of each. 117 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 5: Other, Like every one will be in a row. 118 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: Within a few inches. That's the only way we can 119 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 1: fit in that parking lot. Other Times it's single file. 120 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: Other times it's an open field, and it's really easy 121 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: to get in and out. So you have to really 122 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: be able to do all those different places because most 123 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: of these country clubs aren't built to hold twelve to 124 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: thirteen eighteen wheelers. So that's part of the logistics of 125 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: getting this week in week out. 126 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 2: Are you guys both Like if you're driving from Vinue 127 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 2: to venue, so you'll leave in Wednesday, obviously you got 128 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 2: to get it to where if you need to get 129 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: it too. Sometime, as you mentioned Jack, sometimes you're going 130 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: Texas the Texas. Sometimes you might be going, you know, 131 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: over a few states. Are you guys both in the truck. 132 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 2: Are you guys both involved in that? Or do you 133 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 2: guys take time I'm gonna I'm gonna drive after riv 134 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 2: and you're gonna take it after Pebble. Is that kind 135 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 2: of how it goes? 136 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we took turns there was we usually 137 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: take turns. We'll kind of do a leap frog if 138 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: you will. I think when the PJA was Okill, we 139 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: had the Byron Nelson in Dallas, the PGA at o'kill, 140 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: and the week after was in Fort Worth. So those 141 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: golf courses are maybe thirty miles apart, and we drove 142 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: whatever it was, three thousand or so miles. 143 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 4: For three events. 144 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, is everybody good with their clubs at Rochester. I 145 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: don't think we want to get it all the way. 146 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: Up there, and so the nice thing is like I 147 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: took it there work the event, and Jack took. 148 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 5: It down to Fort Worth. 149 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: I was able to get home. And that's typically how 150 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: it works with our team. We do that kind of thing. 151 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: There was one time though, that we tandem drove, which 152 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 1: is when two people drive at the same time, and 153 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: that was we had to do PGA pedals and he 154 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: was wheel or yeah, right, yeah, it was. 155 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 4: It was actually twenty twenty. 156 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 3: It was the PGA, which was at Harding Park that 157 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: year in August. COVID schedule kind of got adjusted right 158 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 3: due to COVID. But I took it up to Harding 159 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 3: Park from Phoenix and then I drove to Flagstaff after 160 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 3: working Harding Park, picked up Adam and Flagstaff. Then we 161 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 3: high tailed it together. To Greensboro to get it there 162 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 3: in time for with the window. So yeah, ironically, we 163 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 3: were actually the first truck there and we had to 164 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: travel the farthest distance because we were the only one 165 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 3: that went from Harding Park to Greensboro. So that's definitely 166 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 3: one of the longest drives, so that one we had 167 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 3: to do together together. 168 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 2: That's do you guys like have seniority on who gets 169 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 2: to pick the music or the podcast or do you 170 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: guys kind of one of you naps in one of 171 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 2: your drives. 172 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 5: If it was up to me, I'd be napping the 173 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 5: whole time. 174 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 2: It's hard to nap and drive. 175 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,559 Speaker 1: But yes, yeah, true, No, usually it's the guy who's driving. 176 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 5: Like if you're driving, you're on the radio. 177 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: And you can do the pods. We talked a lot too, 178 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: and we've known each other for a really long time, 179 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: so you know, we get along well, I think, and 180 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: sometimes we so yeah, it's usually the guy who's driving, 181 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: But that doesn't happen very often. 182 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 5: That's pretty rare, and it's because of the hours. 183 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: Like I was telling you, we have federal hours that 184 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: mandate how long we can drive when there's two of 185 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: us in the car and in the truck. Now we 186 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: can go much further because we can take turns. 187 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 2: Jack, you were talking a little bit about scheduling and 188 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: you mentioned there's just one Ping Tour truck, so you 189 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 2: could be at the Solheim Cup. You might have to 190 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 2: go to PJ Tour events. How do you lay the 191 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 2: schedule out and if you're let's say you're not at 192 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 2: a pg Tour event for a week because there's something 193 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: else going on, what do those players do if the 194 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 2: ping truck's not there? 195 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 3: Typically, if the truck isn't most typically our trailer goes 196 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 3: to most PGA Tour events and at least all the 197 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: ones that we can feasibly get to. If there are 198 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 3: the things that are come up in the schedule, it's 199 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 3: kind of our job to figure out how to get 200 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 3: it there between the two of us, and then we 201 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 3: kind of manage, you know, who's going to work the 202 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 3: event and what rep's going to be on site as well, 203 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 3: because typically with this trailer, we have five people that 204 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 3: travel with it every week. So I always describe, say 205 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 3: Adam and my role we were like the pharmacists in 206 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 3: the trailer. Then you have Kenton, Spencer Dylan, they're like 207 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: the doctor so they go, they spend more time on 208 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: the range or on the course with the players, and 209 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 3: then they write a prescription whether it's an order for 210 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 3: a new club, and we fill it out. That'd be 211 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 3: a good analogy to use kind of how we do 212 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 3: our roles. But we've all known each other for a 213 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 3: really long time. We all started it paying around the 214 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 3: same time and then worked our way through customer service, 215 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 3: went to the fitting apartment, so we all have fitting knowledge, 216 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 3: so we can wear many hats if we need to, 217 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 3: which is nice. Some weeks not everybody's there. You ask 218 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 3: specifically if there's a week where the truck's not there, 219 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 3: say Kent or Spencer or Dylan has to go to 220 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: an event on their own, then they take a club 221 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 3: love of stuff. And then we're also very friendly with 222 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 3: the other manufacturers out here as well, So even though 223 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 3: people might consider us competing brands, and it does get 224 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 3: competitive at times, we see each other every week, so 225 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 3: we are in a sense cowork, so we show up 226 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 3: at the events at the same time. Especially from the 227 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 3: text standpoint, we play tetris parking these trailers every week, 228 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 3: right getting them, you know, within inches of each other. 229 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 3: So if we need to say, pack a club love 230 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 3: of stuff. We know the truck's not going to be 231 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 3: at a certain event, we can throw it on, go. 232 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 2: To another truck and see if they'll take it for us. 233 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 4: And then they might let us work off of their 234 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 4: van for that week. Help our players. 235 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: Adam, I'm sure a question you guys get a lot 236 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 2: is what happens to a player's club after Wednesday? So 237 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: let's say the truck leaves. And there have been plenty 238 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 2: of instances over the years. I mean, you think about 239 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 2: Tiger back of the day at the Masters. You know 240 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 2: he hits that four and against the tree and the 241 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 2: fore iron snaps. I believe that's the third round. I mean, 242 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he's gonna need that thing repaired. 243 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 2: What a players do when something's tweaked within a tournament 244 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 2: round or they just want something to look different and 245 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 2: the truck has left Wednesday afternoon, Because it's not just 246 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 2: the pink truck that leaves. All the trucks. Everything's gone 247 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 2: on Wednesday. So what does a player do within a 248 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 2: tournament to get something fixed or tweaked. 249 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of them have backups for some of 250 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: those clubs that tend to break. You know a driver 251 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: because of how hard they swimm, putters, sometimes wedges, sometimes 252 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: out of anger. 253 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: So they might travel with twenty clubs in the bag. 254 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 5: You will have a. 255 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: Backup of some of those, but occasionally that doesn't happen, 256 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: and they sometimes we've had guys have to go to 257 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: like if we'll have a club area where they'll do 258 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: an adjustment, or if it's Thursday or Friday, we can 259 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: actually build a club in Phoenix, have it overnighted and 260 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: here and there on time, but if it's Saturday Sunday, 261 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: there's really not a whole lot of options. We have 262 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: had a few situations where we've had to actually pop 263 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: the trailer out wherever we were and fix something for 264 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: them so that they can do it if we were 265 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 1: close by. 266 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: I mean this is literally like pulling over on the 267 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: side of the road in theory, pop the side out, 268 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 2: regrip a club, ship it. However, you can ship it 269 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 2: close to the shipping center. I mean, it's really kind 270 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 2: of that adaptive if you will. 271 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: Basically, yeah, if we're close by, it's possible. Like Jack said, 272 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: sometimes the drives two days away, or like I just 273 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: was telling you with PGA, you know, it could be 274 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: in Ohio. By the time a club breaks, that's kind 275 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: of impossible. But we've had a few scenarios where we've 276 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: been close enough, and one where even Jack I think, 277 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: drove back to the venue to get a club for 278 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: the player because they were in contention and we definitely 279 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: wanted them to have their club. 280 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 2: So that does happen, yes, Jack, I want to transition 281 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 2: to kind of some of the stuff you've built and 282 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 2: some of the strange things you've seen over the years. 283 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: What event do you see players coming in needing tweaks 284 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 2: to their equipment the most? Because obviously this truck is 285 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 2: not going to be an Open championship. I mean, you're 286 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: not flying this thing across the pond. But in terms 287 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 2: of kind of domesticated you know, US venue golf courses, 288 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: is there one that stands out versus some of the 289 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 2: other ones in terms of players coming in early in 290 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 2: the week knowing I need new edges, I need you know, 291 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 2: something grinded down differently. 292 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think again, over the years, you kind 293 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 3: of learn what those events are, so a lot of 294 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 3: times we can prepare in advance for that. I would 295 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 3: say the tournament where we get the most tweaks is 296 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 3: probably the US Open, just because they do play it 297 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 3: one of the events that's at a different venue every year, 298 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 3: and the US Open is always one of the toughest 299 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 3: tests in golf, or at least considered that way. So 300 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 3: there's a lot of times where the course might be 301 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 3: you're trying to figure it out, but trying to figure 302 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 3: out what might help them on a certain place. For example, 303 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 3: like Wingfoot, you have had a lot of high loft 304 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 3: of fairy woods request that week. Tory Pine is the 305 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 3: same thing that year, so we actually built some nine 306 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 3: woods that got requested. Oakmont was another one that comes 307 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 3: to memory. I had a couple of players want to 308 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 3: try not a high loft affair with that week as 309 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 3: well British Open. We do have a European Tour vent 310 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 3: as well. 311 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 4: So. 312 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 3: There are weeks where you can anticipate certain things. So 313 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 3: sometimes we'll build ahead of time and then other times 314 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 3: the golf course dictates a lot, so once the players 315 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 3: actually see it, then maybe on Tuesday Wednesday they'll come 316 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 3: and ask like, hey, actually I think I might need 317 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 3: this for this week, whether that's a higher loft of 318 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 3: fairywood or a stronger driving iron type club, a little 319 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 3: extra distance, so try to build a longer link driver 320 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 3: with lower lofts something like that. So we do a 321 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 3: lot of that kind of thing. But i'd say US 322 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 3: Open or PGA just because those are your high profile 323 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 3: events that change venues quite. 324 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, the golf course gens. I mean you go to 325 00:12:58,360 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 2: riv you kind of know what your prayer prayer for 326 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 2: risk era to Augusta. You know, you said something interesting 327 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: about the like the lofted woods and preparing or getting 328 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 2: yourself set up. How many clubs travel in the truck 329 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 2: because let's say twenty players come in and want nine woods. 330 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 2: I mean you have to have twenty nine wood heads. 331 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 2: So what are we talking in terms of volume of 332 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 2: golf clubs within the truck? 333 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I could probably give a ballpark number. 334 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: Maybe I know our inventory, it's probably about our online inventory. 335 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 5: We have nineteen hundred close to two. 336 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: Thousand, almost two thousand clubs. 337 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, club that's just heads and that's okay, irons, and 338 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: that actually does include. 339 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 5: Putters so drivers through loboage. So we have nineteen hundred. 340 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 2: Two thousand clubs. I mean, I mean travel around in 341 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 2: this truck, and I mean, you know, we've talked about 342 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: it before. You know, you've got to have lefty clubs 343 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 2: for you know, certain players, right, come in, not just 344 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 2: ping players, by the way, I think that's something maybe 345 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 2: people don't quite understand, is you'll build clubs for any 346 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 2: pro that comes in and asks us help, right, I mean, 347 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 2: this isn't just ping staffers that come in and get built, 348 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 2: that's right. Yeah. 349 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 1: And we we've seen our drivers, who especially drive specifically, 350 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: do really really well with the people that. 351 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 5: Are non staff players. 352 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: So for example, most weeks this year, it feels like 353 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: we would have twelve to fourteen staff players in the field, 354 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: but we would have thirty drivers in play, So that 355 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: means more people are playing our driver that are non 356 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: staff And we'll do if you're in the field, we're 357 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: going to work with you. And there's a little bit 358 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: of a you know, an ecosystem, if you will, out 359 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: here where if a staff player from another manufacturer is 360 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: coming to us, like there's a little it can get 361 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: a little you know, hectic there because there's some personalities, 362 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: but also there's some contracts involved, and so you have 363 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: to be careful when that happens. But with those non staffers, 364 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: like if you're here, we're here to help you, and 365 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: we want you to get in our clubs. 366 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 2: All right, Adam, let's get in the weeds. Which player 367 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 2: kind of currently on tour and you can go across 368 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 2: both tours if you want. Is the let's say, easiest 369 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: to build clubs for. They don't necessarily care too hardy 370 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: on like the specs and things like that. And let's say, 371 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 2: who is the most particular about their golf clubs being built? Wow? 372 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 5: Right now, easiest? 373 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: I mean it's hard with not to say Saw I 374 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: mean Sahit Thigala. He's just so easy going out there 375 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: when we work with him. Obviously just an incredible player. 376 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 5: He's in a great place with his game. 377 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: And when when you see that, those guys are very 378 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: very easy to work with. And nice thing is about 379 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: when you're fitting or watching these guys play guys and girls, 380 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: you'll see you make these small changes, and those changes 381 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: you can see right away, Like if you guys like, hey, 382 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: I'm hitting a little bit too low, we had a 383 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: little half to reel off. Bang, it starts hitting their 384 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: window And that just makes it your life so much 385 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: easier because how consistent they are as far as the 386 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: most particular, I don't know, Jack, you might have to 387 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: jump in on this one. 388 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 5: Well, I think about it. 389 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 2: I mean, somebody that's i mean really you know that 390 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 2: really knows the specs. 391 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 5: Like well a team Bubba Watson is that way. 392 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: So with his lob wedge and his driver, he's most particular, okay, 393 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: and because he has his all the raps he has 394 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: under under his club. So it's it's fifteen thirteen driver, right, 395 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: fifteen thirteen under every other club except loboys is eleven 396 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: and thirteen. What that means is, yeah, fifteen under under 397 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: his bottom hand, fifteen extra wraps of tape under his 398 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: bottom hand, fifteen thirteen under the top. 399 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: Now, most tour players are doing a rap or two. 400 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 5: One maybe plus one, maybe plus two. 401 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure I'd be surprised if there's somebody 402 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 2: else on tour that does four raps. Yeah, under a grip. 403 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: Feno does four and three, but he has big hands 404 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: and all that. Fifteen, but fifteen and thirteen on a 405 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: midsized grip, and he wants it a certain way so 406 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: that the rib actually goes through his hand in a 407 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: certain position. And a lot of people will tell you, like, 408 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: there's no chance that he knows that that if that 409 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: that's wrong, or they're like, when you do a driver him, 410 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: you have to you have to mark down when you're 411 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: doing fifteen raps, so I literally have to tally it because. 412 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 5: You'll do eight raps. So come and ask you a question. 413 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 5: You're like, oh, man, where am I? 414 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 2: I don't want to start again? 415 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: No, And so if you miss a rap, and he'll 416 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: tell you every single time. And because we have calipers, 417 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: like I get a little stubborn, and when a player 418 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: says something, you know, like they'll say this is wrong, 419 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: and I'm like, I know I built that right. And 420 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 1: with Bubba though, if you go in there you get 421 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: the calibers, he's right every time. Like you cannot pull 422 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: a fast one on him. His feel is unmatched to 423 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: anybody that we've ever worked with that I've ever worked with. 424 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: What does he do with the lob wedge? You said, 425 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 2: particularly with the driver of the lobotch? What's the loboardge do. 426 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 5: The same with its? Same for the grip. 427 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: He likes it in a certain orientation and he also 428 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: just likes it. We a lot of times we have 429 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 1: to build it, built three or four of them. Then 430 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: he'll find one that he really, really likes and hits 431 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: were Jack, you work with a lot more than I have, 432 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: but those are the two that he's very, very very 433 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: particular about. 434 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 3: So let's say Bubba is one of the players that 435 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 3: kind of likes to watch you and what you're doing, 436 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 3: can make sure kind of looks over your shoulder. So 437 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 3: the first time, you know, it's very nerve wracking as well. 438 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 3: So oh yeah, then you kind of get used to it. 439 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 3: And there's some players that like to know what's going 440 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 3: on and other players kind of just you know, you 441 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 3: earn that trust over time as well, hopefully that they 442 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 3: can kind of drop their bag off. We'll check it 443 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 3: off on lies, we'll break up your clubs and send 444 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 3: you on your way. 445 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 2: You know, Ping has this very big family environment feel 446 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,120 Speaker 2: to it, and I think about you guys a lot 447 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: and the whole team that travels a week to week 448 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 2: because you think about a player and they talk a 449 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 2: lot about their team, and you know, you know, I 450 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 2: think if you're at home you're watching, you're like, okay, caddy, manager, coach, 451 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. But on a week to 452 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 2: week basis, I mean, you guys are as involved in 453 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 2: terms of what's going on in the bag and the 454 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 2: dependence they have to have on you guys as well. 455 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 2: Is that does those relationships grow? I mean if the 456 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 2: players understand who you guys are and how important y'all 457 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 2: are to what they're doing out on the golf course. 458 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 2: I mean, is that something that you find very cool 459 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 2: within the job? 460 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 3: Oh, without a doubt, And that's one of the I 461 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 3: think the coolest, most special parts about the job is 462 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,719 Speaker 3: that you know, obviously we're not the ones out there 463 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 3: hitting the golf shots they are, but you do feel 464 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 3: like you have a small part in somebody's success. And 465 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,199 Speaker 3: when they're in contention on a Sunday, you may have 466 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 3: built say the driver that they're using that week, or 467 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 3: the new way edge or new iron or new high 468 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 3: lofted would and they hit a great shot with it. 469 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 3: You know, that's a very rewarding feeling. And we are 470 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 3: very much a family oriented company, and I think one 471 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 3: thing is that one of the things that sets separates 472 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 3: Peing from everybody else, no matter who you are, like, 473 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 3: genuinely to the core, whether that's an engineer to out 474 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,959 Speaker 3: here on tour, to our sales team, we genuinely want 475 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 3: to help you play better golf. And that speaks through 476 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 3: our product and through our people, and we love to 477 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 3: see you have success and enjoy golf. 478 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 4: Yeah, so from us, from our. 479 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 3: Standpoint, see somebody win hoist a trophy on Sunday. That's 480 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 3: as good as it can get. 481 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 2: And I'm assuming players will come in at them and say, yo, 482 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 2: I love this nine wood or man, you know, either 483 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 2: the tweak of the driver's been great, Like the feedback 484 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: from them has got to be rewarding as well. 485 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Like like he said, seeing you know, Victor 486 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: Hoven go out and hoist a trophy back to back weeks, 487 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,199 Speaker 1: FedEx Cup all that, Like it's just nothing better than 488 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: the feeling. And obviously yeah they're hitting the shots, but 489 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: we do, you know, get to build them. And yeah, 490 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: the clubs that we built went on to win the 491 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: FedEx Cup. Like and we're grinding over it, like we're 492 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 1: not the type that leaves on Wednesday. 493 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 4: We don't have. 494 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: Golf on Like we are golf nuts, all of them. 495 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: We have a group text with everyone in our on 496 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: our team, with our boss Christian and I remember specifically 497 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: one of our I remember what tournament was, but there 498 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: was a guy in contention and I was driving to 499 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: the venue, and you can't text and drive, especially in 500 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: this thing, which I don't do. Just what everyone knows. 501 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 2: Everybody at home, do not text and drive. Don't text 502 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 2: him when he's driving. 503 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 4: That's right. 504 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 5: Take the pledge, don't text and drive. 505 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: I don't do that. So I got to arrest stop, 506 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: went to go to the bathroom. I look at my phone. 507 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: I have two hundred text messages and I'm like, what 508 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: is going on here? And I saw it was one 509 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: of our guys in contention. That just shows like we 510 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: very much care, Like we are watching all of our 511 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: guys and girls and we are just grinding over their 512 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: success because that's why we do what we do. We 513 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: obviously we get paid to do it, but we love 514 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: doing it. It is so great getting to watch all 515 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: the success we have out there. 516 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 2: It's just such a so rewarding Adam, I know you are. 517 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 2: You're a great player. I mean, you can go out 518 00:20:58,119 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 2: there and win golf tournaments, something we've talked a lot 519 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 2: about before the podcast. Going on a recent play at Papago, 520 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 2: No big deal, big winners broke seventy. You had a 521 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 2: moment at the PGA. I believe it was either this 522 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 2: year or come to here. You don't always get to 523 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 2: hit golf shots at a golf tournament, but there was 524 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 2: an opportunity for you to hit a drive at the 525 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: PGA Championship. How did that go? Did that go? Well? 526 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 5: Look, I was I worked all day, I mean just 527 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 5: backbreaking work. So we're gonna start with excuse yeah, that's right, 528 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 5: that's right. That's how it works. We were building clubs. 529 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: Is o kill a lot of a lot of demand 530 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: for our product because it's so good, obviously. 531 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 5: And so I'm tired, I'm sore. It's late in the day. 532 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: I go out to see player Seamus is out there, 533 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: great friend of the of the tour trailer Seamus and 534 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: as caddie Simon. But we I had a driver that 535 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: we were testing with another player similar to my spec 536 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: and Seamus is like, you should tee one up here 537 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: right now, and. 538 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 5: Like, ah, I can't do I can't do that. 539 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: And one of the volunteers is behind me. He goes 540 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: and he's a PGA guy. 541 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 5: I'll give you fifty bucks to to hit a t shot. 542 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 5: You know what I would do? 543 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 6: Fifty bucks. It's a free fifty bucks. I mean, come 544 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 6: on one on a range at a major fine big deal. 545 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:09,239 Speaker 2: That's right. 546 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: So I peg it and uh took a swing and 547 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 1: it went all of about twenty yards right into the 548 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: tall grass and probably rolled out to about twenty three yards. 549 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 2: So didn't get the like the nod for maybe the 550 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 2: marker that week, not the PGA. They were not to 551 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 2: bite you in there. 552 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 5: They were not. 553 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: And that volunteer you know who you are, did not 554 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 1: pay me the fifty dollars. So if you're out there, 555 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for it. 556 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 2: We'll throw his Venmo in the notes. Yeah, show and 557 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 2: please so people can get a can get a feel 558 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 2: for that. What's the what's the strangest club you've built 559 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 2: over your years of deal with tour players? Is there 560 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 2: a club that comes to mind that you mentioned nine Woods? 561 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 2: And I feel like maybe two years ago to hear 562 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 2: nine Wood on the podcast might have been a bit shocking. 563 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 2: I feel like they're more in play now you're seeing one. 564 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: I just got a nine Wood bill built me one, 565 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,239 Speaker 2: loving it. I'm loving the lofted Woods by the way. 566 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 2: I'm sorry into that right now. But is there a 567 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 2: club that stands out that was weird, strange, unique, different 568 00:22:58,400 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 2: than what you typically build for tour players? 569 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 3: Um, it should be an easy question, but there's been 570 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 3: several over the years. 571 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of one that's really stuck out. 572 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 3: I kind of always go back to my first year 573 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 3: on the van when you were that the US Open 574 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 3: at Chambers Bay. 575 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 4: So it's two fifteen, Yeah. 576 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 3: And we had a player come in on Monday morning 577 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 3: and decided that this is Monday of the US Open. 578 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 3: They wanted fourteen new golf clubs an inch shorter than 579 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 3: what they currently played. Okay, so that's a little off 580 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 3: the wall. I kind of not what you would typically expect, 581 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 3: especially in a major championship. And ended up playing very 582 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 3: very well that week. But that was kind of when 583 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 3: we were a whole it's a whole new bag, and 584 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 3: it's a whole, completely different setup than what he had. 585 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: How many iterations of that did you have to go 586 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 2: through un till he was comfortable playing those? I mean, 587 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 2: was that build it? Give it to him he went 588 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 2: out there and was happy or was that he was 589 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:49,959 Speaker 2: good to go? 590 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:51,959 Speaker 3: It was one of those things that he had an 591 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 3: idea in his mind. It was done the research, He 592 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 3: researched it himself. He's like committed before he even showed 593 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 3: up and this is what I want to do. And 594 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 3: it literally driver through plutter an inch shorter than what 595 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 3: he currently was playing and went out and played great. 596 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 2: Crazy. I mean, Adam, do you have one? Do you 597 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 2: have one that comes to mind in terms of a 598 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,199 Speaker 2: weird club you've kind of takered with or weird questions 599 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 2: from a player. 600 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: That was similar Louis's nine wood I think we built 601 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: for him was like thirty nine inches maybe, like I 602 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: called it, this little baby nine wood. The other one, 603 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 1: it's not for a pink player, but it was for Hideki. 604 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: It was a swing trainer. 605 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 5: This guy came in. 606 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: He's got a guy who does all his clubs, and 607 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: he had like a steel shaft with a grip on it, 608 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: and we and he was their trailer wasn't here, so 609 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: we needed help building this swing trainer. It was like 610 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: a ball, like a key chain ball kind of thing 611 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: you put on your keys, attached to a large like 612 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: screw and we had to basically we had to epoxy 613 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: it into the tip of the shaft and let it cure. 614 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: And he was doing some drill with this ball and 615 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: this steel shaft, and I was like, I mean it's Hideki. 616 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 5: I mean he Master champion. 617 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 2: One of the Sure, let's do it. 618 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 5: How am I? Who am I to say? 619 00:24:59,080 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: No? 620 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 2: Is that a right? Is that a priority thing? Though? 621 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 2: I mean if somebody comes in that's not a ping 622 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 2: staffer and they ask for something off the wall, like 623 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 2: can you get a can you do a trainer? Golf club? Yeah? 624 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: I mean is that sure? Go down the priority list 625 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 2: in terms of what you need to build or do 626 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 2: you kind of just like take the request and run 627 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 2: with them. 628 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 5: Yeah. 629 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean it depends on how we're doing that day, 630 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: you know, if we have a big cue. 631 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 5: But yeah, in general, we'll we'll do it. Yeah. 632 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: Well, like I said, we're here to help them play, 633 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 1: and if they need a swing trainer or some sort 634 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: of device. We put putter grips on seven irons for players, 635 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: not not small ones, you know, big like those big 636 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: flat cats we've had, put them on there. 637 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 5: We'll do it. Yeah, whatever they need. 638 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 2: Jack, if the entire crew that runs the tour truck 639 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 2: played a seventy two hole golf tournament, who's who's running 640 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: out victorious? Oh, who's the who's the betting favorite? Let's 641 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 2: say that? 642 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 5: Oh boy, tread here. 643 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 4: I think we're all pretty competitive bunch some more. 644 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 2: You can say, you if you want to okay with it. 645 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 3: Some more hourly than others. I would say, but uh. 646 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 2: Well, I mean I think you've talked about his win twelve. 647 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 2: That's true, and Adams the most, the most vocal about it. 648 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 3: I think, honestly, it would be you put us all 649 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 3: on a tee, we had to play seventy two holes, 650 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 3: it would be very close at the end. 651 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 2: You guys ever do it? 652 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: No, we we played like nine after work on occasion. Yeah, 653 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: but Jack's being very modest. And I've said this a 654 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,479 Speaker 1: million times. Jack played Division one golf. If we were 655 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: all playing, because like I've been playing a lot, that's 656 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: the only reason. 657 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 2: I'm I'm right decent, were aware. 658 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, But Jack played Division one golf. He 659 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: Jack is the most naturally talented golfer of all of us. 660 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: And I think everyone on the trailer will will say that. 661 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: I remember when we, like he said, we've known each 662 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: other for twelve years when we worked in fitting, we 663 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: had little money games on Saturdays we'd go out and play, 664 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: and I remember the first time I played with Jack 665 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: literally shooting the most casual sixty six I've ever seen, 666 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 1: and it was just like it could have been sixty 667 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: two easy, and I was just like, this guy can play. 668 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 2: So Jack would be probably the paper favorite. That's what 669 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: you're saying. 670 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: If we were all playing like let's say too much 671 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: an hour, all gonna play in Jack. 672 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 5: He had a new baby. 673 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: He's got it, you know, not even to life in 674 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: a way, not a lot of play as much. I 675 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: just have two cats, So very easy for me to play. 676 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 2: Uh not on the truck. 677 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 5: That's right now on the truck. 678 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: And so if you put on the calendar, my money's 679 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: on Jack. 680 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 4: Does that feel good? 681 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 5: Jack? 682 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 4: It's very nice to me to say. 683 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 3: But yeah, those sixty six is were a long long 684 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 3: time ago. 685 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 4: So I don't know. 686 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 2: I don't know, dude, you I mean, do you guys 687 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: play much on the road? I mean we've talked kind 688 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,679 Speaker 2: of about the system and the process and in the 689 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 2: in the time range you have, you also got to 690 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 2: go home at some point, see the family and all that. 691 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 2: Do you get to play much golf on the road 692 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 2: doing this? 693 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 3: Uh in the summer months? Yeah, there's there's definitely tournaments. 694 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 3: You kind of have spots where some courses are very 695 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 3: friendly and they'll let you come out after work play 696 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 3: nine holes. Obviously when we go kind of in the 697 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 3: northern part of the country, it stays light later, so 698 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 3: we can sneak out play maybe sneak in eighteen after work, 699 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 3: depending what's going on. There's a spot where a lot 700 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 3: of the trucks would go in Pennsylvania and is a 701 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 3: very fun golf course talk about a kind of a 702 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 3: fun experiences in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, But we haven't been up there, 703 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 3: I don't think in a while. But usually if the 704 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 3: events were in the northeast, there was a good chance 705 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 3: in the Hazelton area you would see about fourteen trucks parked, yeah, 706 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 3: and tour trailers parked in the parking lot of the 707 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 3: spring Hill suits. 708 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. 709 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 4: And Haileton, Pennsylvania a. 710 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 3: Golf course like NASCAR, yeah, oh yeah, and then yeah, 711 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 3: we'd have a big match, you know with all the 712 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 3: manufacturer texts amongst ourselves and the head pro Valley Country 713 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 3: Club was always very very gracious to us. So there's 714 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,639 Speaker 3: a few spots around like that around the country. But 715 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 3: to be honest, uh, it's not a ton no. But 716 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 3: occasionally one of the questions we always get asked to 717 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 3: is you get to play the courses. 718 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 4: That you work at. 719 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 2: People always ask ask that question. 720 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 4: I wish is the answer. 721 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: We wish, we wish, but we get to see a 722 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 3: lot of awfully beautiful places. 723 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 2: So yeah, adam uh as we kind of wind down, 724 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 2: you've got to drive this thing. This is not small, 725 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 2: it's not easy to drive. I'm assuming you guys feel 726 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 2: comfortable at this point driving it around. Do you get 727 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 2: recognized on the road? Do people honk, wave, do weird 728 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 2: stuff like that? I mean it says being pretty loudly 729 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 2: along the side, as most of them do. And what's 730 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 2: maybe your scariest moment with the truck? Have you had 731 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 2: anything that's been if he's scary, whatever the case may be. 732 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: Yes, it happens. I mean when you're on the road 733 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: as much as you have, you see some ugly accidents. 734 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: You see Amazon trucks turned over with packages everywhere. 735 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 5: And I wonder what any of my packages that? Right? Yeah, 736 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 5: so you see that, I've seen it. 737 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: I had a couple in going down from Donner Pass 738 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: down from the Reno area down into Sacramento. Actually two 739 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: truck accidents. I didn't see them, but the aftermath of 740 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: them within about a five mile stretch and both of 741 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: those times, I was on the highway for at least 742 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: another hour. The second one happened minutes before we got there, 743 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: and they closed the whole road, and I just had 744 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: to basically set the brakes, roll away windows down, and 745 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: just watch golf because I wasn't going anywhere for a 746 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: few hours. And so thankfully, when I got past it, 747 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: the driver was okay in that situation. But you see 748 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: that more often than not. And I think the thing 749 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,479 Speaker 1: that people that shocked me the most is how little 750 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: cars respect the size of this trailer. When you're going 751 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: down the road, you get cut off a lot, you 752 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: get pulled out in front of the lot. And so 753 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: I say, if you see any semi, or especially our semi, just. 754 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 2: Give us a little room, slightly more room. 755 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 5: We are professionals. 756 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: We can we can maneuver it, we can stop it. 757 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: But you'd be surprised that some of the things you 758 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: see out on the road. 759 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 5: It's shocking. 760 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 3: And do you get noticed, do you get that? Do 761 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 3: you get waves? Do you get your waves? Do you 762 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 3: get people kind of sticking their driver out the windows? 763 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: No? 764 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 2: Way, that happened a few times. 765 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 3: Usually if we're passing a golf course, I always try 766 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 3: to make it a habit. 767 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 4: Blow air. 768 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, usually when nobody's swinging that Instagram guy with exactly 769 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 3: waving or yelling at the pink truck, So. 770 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 5: I do I wait right for the swing. 771 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 2: You're looking at that like a ping. No, give this 772 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 2: ale loud one. As well as this has been great, 773 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 2: I did one. I had one more question. I wanted 774 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 2: to ask time, how long does it take you to 775 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,719 Speaker 2: regrip a club build a club? Like, are we talking 776 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 2: you could regrip a club in a minute or less. 777 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you want it to be efficient, you 778 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 2: want do a good job, But I mean you guys 779 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 2: are pros, Like, what's the time it takes you to 780 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 2: to clean up a golf club and put a new 781 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:27,239 Speaker 2: grip on it? 782 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 3: I think I would start the answer to that question 783 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 3: by saying, there's a lot of really smart people in 784 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 3: Phoenix that make our job very, very easy. So to 785 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 3: build a complete set of golf clubs, for example, if 786 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 3: we had to do that, we had nothing else going on, 787 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 3: the two of us could probably knock out Driver through 788 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 3: plutter if we had to in forty five minutes. 789 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty forty. 790 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 2: Full set of club, forty five minutes. That shaft, that's yeah, 791 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 2: that's head, that's grip everything. 792 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,479 Speaker 1: We were challenged to get a set of irons out 793 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: in less. 794 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 5: Than thirty and we got it done on like twenty five, 795 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 5: the two of us. 796 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's because, like you said, we have some 797 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: machinery here that helps us really speed those builds up. 798 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: And that that's been really and our process is very 799 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: much around quality but also getting. 800 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 5: Things out quickly. 801 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 2: Have we done that? That feels like a video we 802 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,959 Speaker 2: should shoot like like kind of like a like we 803 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 2: need to see how fast we can grip one. Let's 804 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 2: see who can build a club the fastest. Let's see 805 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 2: how how quick you can get one out to the range. 806 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 2: It's like, I feel like this could be kind of 807 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 2: like the Olympics for the truck. And I mean to 808 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 2: get Olympics be tough man, yeah, really good shape. I 809 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 2: mean he'd be out there pretty quick. 810 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 3: He'd be the sprinter from the truck to the range. 811 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. Or or we challenge like the other manufacturers. 812 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. 813 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 2: You're like, all right, we're starting here with the grip. 814 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 2: Then you got to do the club. Then you got 815 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 2: to get in the back. Then you got to get 816 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 2: to the range and see you win. 817 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 5: Keo would run the anchor leg, that's for sure. 818 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 6: I'm not running that. We all know that you're a 819 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 6: truck guy exactly. You know, you're you're you're giving us chemistry, 820 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 6: getting people excited. 821 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 5: That's right. 822 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 2: Awesome fellas. Great chatting with you obviously. I mean, I 823 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 2: feel like the truck is such a part of golf 824 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 2: and such a part of pro golf specifically. But nice 825 00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 2: to get a little bit of insight because I'm not 826 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 2: sure he will totally understand it. So thank you guys 827 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 2: so much. 828 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 4: Thanks thanks for having us on. 829 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 2: Thank you. This is the Ping Proving Grounds Podcast 830 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: M HM.