WEBVTT - Golf President Campaigns and Coul Links 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 --> 0:00:06.320 And when I find my ball. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.319 In a brid egg Friday egg, the dreaded Friday Friday, 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.920 Frida fridagg bride egg Lie, I'm about ready to run 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:13.280 off of. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:41.880 The Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.360 I am your host, Andy Johnson, and I am joined 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:50.240 by fellow co hosts Garrett Morrison and Joseph Lavania. This 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.720 is gonna be a fun episode. We're uh, you know, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.200 we're in the election spirit here. We did a podcast 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.560 about a serious podcast about what the election might mean 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.360 for pro golf last week. This week, we're gonna do 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.880 a little bit more uh silly front end here. We're 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.840 gonna be each running for president of Golf, and we're 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.480 gonna we've got five campaign topics that we're going to 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:18.880 talk about. Garrett, uh, Joseph and myself. I guess we're 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.400 gonna we could come up with our party titles. We 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.680 can see who's been influenced by big equipment, you know, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:30.720 based off their campaign uh campaign uh uh preferences and 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.679 and and sides they choose here. But we're gonna run 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.480 for for President of Golf. You guys can be the 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:42.440 judge of who wins this debate, and we've come up 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.640 with a couple of topics and then we will kick 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.480 it over to an interview I did with Rue McDonald, 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.280 who is with the DP World Tour, used to host 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.480 a a a podcast about Scottish Scottish golf, who came 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.920 on to talk about the critical juncture in the Cool 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.880 Links story, which is a potential golf development just north 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:11.840 of Royal Dorniic in Scotland, which has some important moments 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:16.320 in its potential development coming up. So we will kick 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.519 it over to that on the back end of this episode. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.000 But welcome on Joseph and Garrett. I am. I'm extremely 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.240 excited to share this debate platform with you guys. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.960 Well, my question is if we become president, will there 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.720 be any checks and balances on us? No, no checks 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:41.160 and balances. So we're really running for king King of Golf, Yes, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:46.359 King of golf. No no democratic system here. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.160 Well, it all depends on who you get in bed with. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.839 If you get in bed with, you know, with big 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.560 equipment or big agronomy, we'll see, we'll see, you know, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.359 here are the things things are. You could be elected, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.239 like you could run on something. You could be truly 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.400 political and waiver in the wind and uh you know 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.040 and know that you'll gardner votes if you say let's 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.120 let drivers go five hundred yards. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.760 You know, well, I could just say a bunch of 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:17.079 completely unrealistic stuff, get elected, and then just sell out 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.880 to the highest bidder immediately. Yes, yes, has never happened 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.280 in the United States. By the way, this is this 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.080 is completely imaginary here. Nothing of the sort would happen 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:27.720 in our country. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.440 No, nothing, nothing is the all all in all this 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.960 could be you know, it could be a week where 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.160 you know, people are are stressed out about the election. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.480 This is supposed to be all in fun and good 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.160 fun in spirits. So we have we have five topics. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.720 We have men's pro golf, women's pro golf. I'm gonna 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.480 throw a curveball and throw an amateur golf here. Oh, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.480 because I'm gonna add one, because it doesn't seem right 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.960 to just a drive the pro golf game, amateur golf. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.200 Grow the Game initiative. You have We have tasked everybody 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.120 to come up with one Grow the Game initiative. Equipment 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.600 and uh, golf course industry. Those are the big topics. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:22.120 We'll we'll debate and propose our our thoughts on each topic, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.200 and then uh, maybe we'll have PJ to clare winter end. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:32.960 PJ is the one voter, The one voter really has 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:33.800 all the power here. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:38.400 All right. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.440 By the way, PJ. Unlike on the Shotgun Start podcast, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.440 PJ is into silent booth right now in our recording system, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.160 so he can't say anything, but he gets to vote. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.920 He's in full producer mode, which does not give him 0:04:54.960 --> 0:05:08.160 any speaking privileges. Before we get to talking about our 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:13.440 campaigns here, let's talk about good Walk Coffee Company. We 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:18.719 are partners with good Walk Coffee. 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Jessep Leamanya, you are up first. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.000 The way we're talking about this, I kind of wish 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.040 I may have may have taken this exercise too seriously 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:32.920 and probably should have pandered a lot more. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.120 There's time time to switch. I I have nothing written down. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.800 I'm I'm speaking third on every topic. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.720 We know how voting is done, we know who to 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:43.200 pand or to. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:50.200 The ARBs have changed champions tour every verses on Long Island. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:56.160 Yeah, exactly. No, my New York platform, that's. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.800 Save the New York Jets. Yeah, make the Yankees trade 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:02.960 Wan soda to the Mets. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.720 I'm gonna have to change some things on the fly 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:12.760 here my men's professional golf platform. Jay Monahan's getting fired. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.560 But that's not the main thing I'm sticking to completely. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.520 We're doing away with TiO relief. No TiO relief in 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.840 any if it rubs up against the concession stand. If 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.520 your ball goes up a concession stand, you can have 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.800 a one shot penalty, but otherwise it is on course setup. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.840 There's no more cio relief, No more cart path relief. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.199 Players are gonna have an absolute uprising. But PJ is 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.760 gonna love it, which is the most important contingency here. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.240 And there's the only one sport right now that is 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.760 actively compromising the field or the court. You don't have 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.000 cameras getting in the way on an NBA court interrupting shots. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.199 We're doing away with TiO relief completely. Let's restore some 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.200 consequence back to professional golf. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.959 I like that one. You know I shouldn't say that 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.079 because I'm running against you. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.600 You could take on playables, you could like you. If 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.280 you don't like what you the only your only options 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.800 to take it unplayable. And one of the options of unplayable, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:13.440 which rarely gets used, is replaying your last shot. Actually 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:13.880 it's the. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.319 Player player round organization, the PGA Tour. If they don't 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.000 like it, then talk to the PJ Tour setup crew 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:21.400 and move the infrastructure around. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.640 But no more t I Yeah, lots of potential Tin 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.160 Cup situations. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.959 There if we get if we if somebody reunites the 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.720 game and you get Patrick Reid there, he could start 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.520 to say that all the all the t I, all 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.920 the obstructions are on the left side of the golf course. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:45.319 People are people? Are they? The players have banded together 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.800 against me every obstructions on the left side of the 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:48.480 golf course. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.120 Yeah, Patrick Reid does not like things on the left 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:57.480 all right. My proposal for my platform with regard to 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.400 men's pro golf is to a the FedEx Cup playoffs. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.559 Get rid of him. We are destroying the FedEx Cup 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.560 playoffs and we're not looking back. We're going to focus 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:16.520 on establishing strong, distinct tournament brands. Make the Tour Championship 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.839 what it should be, one of the three best non 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.559 majors on the PGA Tour schedule. You can keep it 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:27.160 at Eastlake. Eastlake's fine, seems like it has a lot 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.679 of support there. But make it the Tour Championship, not 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.719 this weird, staggered star thing that we have right now 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.600 and then. And this is really appealing to Andy rather 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.480 than PJ, so I should probably change this. But bring 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:48.560 back the Western Open. Make it a rotation between Olympia Fields, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.800 Harding Park, Chambers Bay, Cherry Hills maybe or Castle Pines 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.439 would probably be the most likely candidate in Denver, but Chicago, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.880 San Francisco, Seattle, Denver or three great cities that are 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.120 underserved by PGA Tour golf. Right now, that is the 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.199 good MW Western Open. You can keep the sponsor. You know, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.559 you could have some nice BMW ads with with golfers 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.680 driving across the desert or the great planes or whatever 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.320 to get wherever they're going. It seems like an obvious 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.400 sort of partnership between a brand and a concept for 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.920 a tournament. That's my proposal. Focus on creating great tournaments 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.160 on the PGA Tour schedule. Abandon these notions that you're 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:34.960 ever going to generate an enthusiasm about a season long 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.520 race on the PGA too. I just don't think it's 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.480 gonna happen. This is not f one. So make those 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.440 tournaments great. What's valuable in golf is an awesome tournament, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.880 like the Masters or the US Open or the Open. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.400 That's what we should be focusing on. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:56.800 I like the idea of incentivizing each individual tournament to 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:01.960 be great on itself, Like the idea of oh, nobody's 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.760 coming to our event. Well, maybe your event sucks, that's 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:06.839 why nobody's coming. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.880 It's not like that came from nowhere, because it's an 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.760 awesome tournament at an awesome course. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.280 So it's like, oh, players aren't coming. That's not the 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.400 PGA Tour's fault, that's your fault. If you put the 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.640 onus back on that, like you would get fresh ideas, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.079 you would get events doing creative stuff to to entice 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.360 players to come, you might get new formats, you might 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.559 you know, like there's a way, but you know the 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.760 way the PGA Tour is going. What I like about 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.120 this both both of the discussed options seem to be 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.240 the opposite of the way that the tour is running. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.600 You know, they're trying to get every tournament run by 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.880 championship management, which is basically the death to any soul 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.480 of an event. If you want to if you want 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.120 to kill the soul of an event, turn it over 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:03.840 to championship management. Is abolished champions So one thought. One thought, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.319 I was, I was there was. There's a large contingent 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:14.640 of people, a big collect cohort of of of funding 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.719 sources that was trying to say it was trying to 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.960 convince me to just say just end ment pro golf, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.760 just end it. But I I said, artists, I said 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:32.240 no to that money. Instead, I am I'm going to 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:38.520 run on the platform of everybody's saying, make pro golf smaller, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.880 make it a you know, like, make the the top 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.240 end of the tour really small. I'm gonna say, just 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:50.480 make it really big. Have a thousand have a thousand 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:56.160 person tour. Just put the the European Tour, the PG 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:03.079 eight Tour, Live Golf, Cornfieur, the Challenge Tour, and PGA 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:08.240 Tour Americas all it. Call it the same tour, but 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:14.040 have different levels and exempt statuses that you cycle up 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.120 and down. You play for the same points, and it's 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.720 one giant tour that feeds up and down constantly. There's 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:27.840 no relegation event. There's relegation events. Every single week. You're 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.200 either up, you're either down. If you fall out of 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.360 the top fifty, you're out. You know, Oh we're playing 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.560 a tournament in November. If I'm forty fifth, I don't 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.880 get an off season. I gotta go play. I gotta 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.400 go grind to keep my status up high. And I think, like, actually, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.040 like everybody's like, Ben, this was just a thought this morning. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:53.400 Everybody's been talking about making pro golf smaller. And when 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.360 you think about the idea of pro golf like and 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.360 you think about it, it makes sense off the off, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.320 the b off the bat. Yeah, we need a smaller tour. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.080 But in reality, most things in golf are completely the 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.400 opposite of what you think. You know, if you're if 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.640 you're hitting the ball right, you know, if you're hitting 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.200 a slice, you swing right. You don't swing left like 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.400 naturally you think, oh I need a swing left. You know, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.320 everything in golf is actually the opposite of what you 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.400 your natural instinct is to think. So my my platform 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.560 is going to be make a giant tour and have 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.520 just playing up and playing down all the time. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.360 Would that be the theme of your administration? Just do 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.280 the opposite of whether whatever the common sense approach would be. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.520 I think there is like with golf, there is a 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.240 strong if you did the opposite of what the general 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.560 public thinks you should do with golf, you would generally 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.120 be on the right side of history. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.480 Andy, have you run this idea of one giant tour 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:54.760 by the Department of Justice? 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:56.960 I have not. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.480 I have not well which department of Justice? 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.200 True? True? If I'm if I'm the king, I don't 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:05.920 have to worry about this, right apartment. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.760 You're you're dismantling the Department of Justice. You're you're staffing 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.560 it with uh with cronies. Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.280 Andy's Project twenty twenty five. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.920 Let's move on. I'm an I'm gonna pause on the 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.320 whitmen's golf. I'm gonna throw a wrench. I'm a I'm 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:26.280 a misdirect going different order, Garrett, what's your grow the 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:27.160 Game initiative? 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.600 My Grow the Game initiative is to establish a registry 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:39.280 of public courses that are historically and or architecturally important 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.720 and create grants for restoration projects at these courses. Do 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.480 I know where the money's coming from. No, But since 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.560 I'm the king, I can just kind of appropriate a 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.480 certain portion of the of the tax funds that come 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.760 in and and that'll that'll be that. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.800 But you could tax pro golfers, That's right. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:06.680 They love being taxed. So create these grants for restoration projects. 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.800 Maybe establish a panel or something like that of independent 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:15.720 history and architecture experts who could determine which courses qualify 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.240 for these grants, but provide these courses some money to 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:24.879 do legitimate restoration work. And I believe that that would 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.239 help grow the game. I don't know it would make 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.720 the game better. I don't really like growing the idea 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.840 of growing the game, because usually when people say that, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.560 they just mean I want more money from the game. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.359 But I believe this would be good for the game 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.840 in the sense that one thing we need right now 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:49.800 is a greater supply of golf courses. And one place 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:55.119 where we can find that is struggling historic courses in 0:17:55.359 --> 0:18:01.200 urban centers. Right now, those courses are closing down rather 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.160 than you know, getting to the next level because it's 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.760 so hard to make the finances work. But the demand 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:12.080 is there right now for golf. We need, if anything, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.600 more golf courses. Right now, we are under supplied with 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.920 public golf courses. The public golf courses that we have, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.840 especially in urban areas, are booked up to the gills. 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.680 People can't find tea times, and so we need to 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.440 preserve the great golf courses that we have in city centers, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.520 historic golf courses that have been there for a long 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.280 time but just need a little bit of TLC. And 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.000 that's what this registry and grant system would do. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.119 It's almost like farmer subsidies. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:46.119 Yeah right, yeah, grow some corn, you know, grow some 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:46.880 good architecture. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.920 We know, we know it's not you could make more money, 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:51.800 growing something else but gross corn. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:57.159 Yeah, exactly. We need corn, We need architecture. 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.840 We know you could sell your golf course to private equity, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:01.639 turn it pop private. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.920 Or turn it into a mixed use residential development. Not 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.760 to make this too serious right now, but I just 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:13.639 heard recently that a great old course in the Philadelphia area. 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.840 I believe JC Melrose you know about this place. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:21.400 Yeah, Maxwell, the Maxwell Course, it's closing down. I saw 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:22.240 that it's done. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.040 It's being redeveloped. And the fact that that is happening 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:31.000 right now when there's so much demand for golf is 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.680 a problem, and it's something that we need to address 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.520 urgently or else the game is gonna wither on the vine. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.679 We need a supply of golf courses, and we need 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.080 a financial system that allows those golf courses to exist 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.960 and be affordable and be affordable and be good. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:53.439 Joseph, what's your Growth the Game initiative? Not too dissimilar, Garrett. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:54.119 I like your idea. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:59.359 I'm going to reimagine the way that public golf courses 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:04.679 are booked. It's a problem specifically in Austin where I live, 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.160 but I think it's a problem, huge problem. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:13.160 Yeah, Yeah, about this about LA specifically recently put together 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:14.400 by Kevin Van Wolkenberg. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.159 Yeah, so, like you're saying, Garrett, there is high demand 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.439 right now and often not enough supply at certain golf courses. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:23.920 Like the way it works in Austin, people have to 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.200 line up at certain hours to get a tea time, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.480 which really only allows certain people, like a lot of retirees, 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.200 to get those tea times. I think there should be 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.639 a solution where people who want to play golf have 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.000 some level of access. It might not be like a 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.800 perfect priority order where everyone's getting an equal booking time, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:45.840 but I think that we could do a little bit. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.959 We can make some strides on getting people who are 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.800 interested in playing golf out onto the golf course. I'm 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.840 interested in looking at dynamic pricing. I think it's sometimes 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.960 crazy how tea times that are sixty dollars all the 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.159 time go on un used, and then nobody's using them 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:04.080 when they could pay I don't know, twenty four twenty 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.200 eight dollars. I know that there's some pushback on dynamic pricing, 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.359 but I want to explore it. I'm going to take solutions. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.920 We're going to solicit solutions from the smartest minds. I 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.399 don't have a full plan to lay out here, but 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.480 I want to completely reimagine the way that public golf 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.240 is booked in this country and potentially in the world. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:22.960 If this solution works, we'll take it worldwide. 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:23.879 I like this. 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:29.920 You know, we're Joseph is proposing some some capitalist ideas, 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:34.119 some you know, free market speech from Joseph here for 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:35.640 public golf. 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:38.240 And then saying that he's going to spread it worldwide. 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:43.280 I haven't heard this love the idea of spreading democracy worldwide. 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.480 I'm not talking about democracy. We should pursue this and 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.000 if we don't accept it, then we should go to 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:50.560 war with them. 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:54.320 This is this is being misconstrued. 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:55.679 I just didn't want to leave out all of our 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:57.719 friends across the globe who get mad when we're too 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:58.600 American centric. 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.320 I want to offer the solution. I'm a Garrett Garrett's 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.280 Garrett's talking about subsidies. 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:12.240 Exactly. I'm all about government. Yeah, I'm just I'm gonna 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.600 grow the government so much. I'm not growing the game. 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:17.480 I'm growing the government, all right. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:22.040 I uh, I guess what I want to propose for 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:25.160 grow the game. I think kids clubs should be free. 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.520 Here's the thing kids clubs are good for like a year. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.720 Your kid grows all the time. So you go into 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.160 the golf shop, you sign out a set, and then 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.080 you bring it back a year later and you get 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.920 the new set. There's no reason that people should have 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.400 to pay to get these golf clubs, like you should. 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.280 So it should be free because like you, by the 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.560 time you buy them and you out, you outgrow them 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.240 in like a year or two. So make these golf 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:56.119 sets like you go in, you sign out. If you 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.320 don't bring it back, you don't get the next size up. 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:01.840 And yeah, sure, Like is this gonna cost a little 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.840 bit of money, absolutely, but this is a way to 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.119 actually get golf clubs in people's hands. Like have you 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.879 have you tried has your kid tried golf? Oh no, 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.359 I heard its super expensive. Well, actually, kids get freak 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.120 clubs if they go and they you can go pick 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:20.920 them up here. Like there's nothing special about kids clothes. 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:24.360 You go, kids clubs. You don't need like big time 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:28.119 teching them. You don't need anything like that. And the 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:30.400 thing about it is like there's great programs like Youth 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:34.600 on Course that offer affordable golf for kids. Why don't 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:37.320 we make the golf clubs really affordable and easy to 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:39.920 use too. This is like one of the great virtues 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:43.880 of basketball is that literally the only thing you need 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:47.600 to play basketball is a basketball. Yep, and there are 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.840 hoops all over the play soccer. The most popular games, 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:55.680 uh in terms of participation generally are the easiest ones 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.680 to play. So let's remove some of the barriers for 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:02.439 kids playing sports. Let's give them free golf clubs. 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.160 I love that you know your daughter's not old enough 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:07.520 right now, I think to have golf clubs yet maybe 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:08.840 you're already starting her right that. 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:13.320 I haven't back always Yeah, okay, we haven't used them. 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:16.680 My kids are. My kids are are seven and ten, 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:20.159 and so they both have sets of golf clubs, and 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.760 it has been expensive to keep them in golf clubs 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:27.959 that actually fit them because, as you say, they grow quickly. 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:31.359