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Speaker 1: think what I'm thinking about. Hello, this is Alan Chipknuck

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Speaker 1: back for another Fire Drill podcast. UM have online here.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Ogilvie from Melbourne, Michael Bamberger from Philadelphia. We wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about the coolest event in golf. I guess

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Speaker 1: it's up there with a wishbone brawl we'll call him

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Speaker 1: one in one A but the Sand Belt Classic, which

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Speaker 1: Jeff is the host of and it was his inspired idea.

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Speaker 1: I will be traveling down there with a couple of

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Speaker 1: other Fire Pits. Staff is Colton Neddler, Benny Westcott. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna blow out. The cover is super excited

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Speaker 1: to be there. I love the city of Melbourne, I

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Speaker 1: love the Sound Belt golf courses. So we just want

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Speaker 1: to preview this this great tournament, get folks excited about it. Jeff,

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Speaker 1: can you talk about what's gonna be new this year

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Speaker 1: in the second annual Playing of the sand Belt Imitational.

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Speaker 1: We're playing four courses four days, so Kingson heath Royal, Melbourne, Yara,

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Speaker 1: of this year, not the South course. Um. Someone say

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Speaker 1: They're both amazing, so I think it's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: Um it's a bit more dramatic to look at the

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Speaker 1: north So that's gonna be good. UM, a little bit

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Speaker 1: better field. I guess Cam Davis is coming to play,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. Presidents Cup player UM, and a

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Speaker 1: We haven't really Uh, we've just elevated all the little things,

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Speaker 1: Every time that happens, it seems like it just gets

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Speaker 1: Better balls on the range, yeah, his books, better food

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Speaker 1: I guess. But the concept I think is the winner.

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Speaker 1: I find matchplay infinitely more interesting than stroke play. UM.

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Speaker 1: Sandville last year. I'm sorry I couldn't come. I really

427
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 1: want to come this year, you know. I'm like, well,

428
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. And then he texted us

429
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 1: pretty soon after that actually and said I'm coming for sure.

430
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 1: I know I'm back in Australia the whole time put

431
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 1: me down on plane. So um Cam just loves got

432
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,879
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the ultimate to a pro. You know,

433
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: he just loves golf, thinks golf, works on golf. Every

434
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,719
Speaker 1: decision he makes is around being a better golfer. Um

435
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 1: and just just loves everything about it. And he's spent

436
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 1: like a lot of the AUSSI tour players or Aussies

437
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,400
Speaker 1: in general who are outside of Australia. When the pandemic

438
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,199
Speaker 1: came along, they all got stuck outside for two or

439
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,800
Speaker 1: three years. He hadn't been he hasn't been back here

440
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 1: for three years, and I don't think he played any

441
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 1: real tournaments on sand belts ever. It was since since

442
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 1: sort of am golf. So um. Yeah, he was very

443
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 1: very keene at the President's Cup and then a couple

444
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 1: of weeks later he backed up, backed up his enthusiasm

445
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: in Texas, US and said, put me down, I'm definitely coming.

446
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: So it was pretty exciting. Yeah, it's really neat, and

447
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 1: what an experience for a young kid. There's gonna be

448
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: some young kids who get to go out and play

449
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 1: with the kids one of the best players in the

450
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: world of just playing the President's Cup. That's just the

451
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: sort of part of what the tournament's all about. No,

452
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: that's cool, and that's on the reasons why it's held

453
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: so close to Christmas, right is who when you get

454
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: folks who are coming back home and you know, maybe

455
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 1: you can pick off some other players of like a

456
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: cam diva stature and in the years to come, they're

457
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: like I want to just go home for the holidays,

458
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,160
Speaker 1: but I want to stay sharp And is that part

459
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 1: of the d Yeah. I mean look the dates a

460
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 1: few things. I mean a couple of weeks earlier. Um,

461
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: it will always be in December for sure. When we

462
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 1: first um put this to these clubs coming out of

463
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: COVID last year, we we had sort of two two

464
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 1: sort of four or five months patches of no golf

465
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 1: at all in Victoria at least. So we were just

466
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: coming out of no golf at all and we were

467
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: trying to suggest to these golf courses, how can we

468
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: come and steal your golf course for a day. And

469
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: then we thought the members. The members were like, um,

470
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: we haven't been on here. We haven't been on here

471
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 1: for a month, like four months. You can't really like

472
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,439
Speaker 1: stealing golf course for a day. So we sort of

473
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 1: went late in December because that gets quiet and people

474
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: are getting ready for Christmas. It also adds up because

475
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: a lot of these kids go to school, um, and

476
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: it helped if they missed four days of I mean

477
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: it's very late in school obviously like December, but for

478
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,120
Speaker 1: here in Australia, but um it helped that they didn't

479
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: have to worry about that, the parents could get them there,

480
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: they didn't have to worry about missing too much school

481
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: and stuff. So it'll always be in December. And the

482
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: courses are great in summer um, because obviously Australia summers

483
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: we're upside down in Australia. So um, the courses are

484
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 1: probably just starting to come into their best in December.

485
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: And the lady you hold it sort of the better

486
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: they are. So at the moment, December I think is

487
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 1: a really good day for a lot of reasons. Um.

488
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: And it's really late December, um. And yeah, there's there's

489
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: nothing on in the world. It's the only tournament in

490
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: the world, I think that week, which is getting harder

491
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: and harder to find a week where there's no professional

492
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: golf tournaments because we seem to be adding more golf

493
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: tournaments and taking them away, which is good. Yeah, and

494
00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, December, the deeds we'll to be

495
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 1: blowing it out on Firepit, Collective, dot com and our

496
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: social channels and um, it's it's really gonna be fun.

497
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 1: I know that Colt and Benny and I are bringing

498
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: our clubs. That's optimistic given how busy the days are,

499
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: but maybe we can sneak in a little twilight golf.

500
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: We're gonna be staying at Pennsyla Kingswood, which I can't

501
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: wait to see. It's Um, I think the term golf

502
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: porn applies just the photos of the videos. It looks

503
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,679
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. So it's gonna be it's gonna be a

504
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: great show. UM. If if people want to get involved somehow,

505
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 1: Jeff as as fans or UM people in the game,

506
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: where would you direct them besides our channels? Like? How

507
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: else can they engage with the tournament? Uh, there's a

508
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: pretty good website, UM sand Belt Invitational. UM. I don't

509
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: know the exact address, but if you just look for

510
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: Standout Invitation on the website, you can register if you

511
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: want to come to one of the tournaments. I think

512
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: you just have to register online or register on the app.

513
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: UM it's free entry. UM, you just put your thing

514
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: down and come along, you know, um four different days. UM.

515
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know about anything else, but if

516
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 1: you want to come along, just out to the website.

517
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: It's got all the information. I should be apt to

518
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: spade with all of that sort of stuff. But another

519
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: website is really good. Just check that out and um, yeah,

520
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: light December if you want to come and say good

521
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: appliers by the best courses in Australia, come out. Look

522
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: yeah and maybe actually I've been an evangelist for the

523
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: sand Belt, you know, Matt Janelle and I and a

524
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 1: couple others went, came, came your way, and um, two

525
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen we did all the sand Belt courses, not

526
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: all of them, we did a lot of them. We

527
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 1: hit King's Island, played Cape Wickgum, which might be my

528
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: favorite course on Planet Earth, went to Barn Google. Like

529
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for a while, especially if you're

530
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: on the West coast like I am of the US.

531
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: To get to St. Andrews, you're gonna have to change

532
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 1: planes somewhere and door to door. I can fly NonStop

533
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: from San Francisco into into Melbourne. It's pretty much the

534
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: same journey. And I would say the golf is as

535
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: good or better than anything you're gonna find in Scotland

536
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: or Ireland, and and the experience of it is is

537
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: so special. So it might be a little late in

538
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: the ball game for some listeners, but I would say

539
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty three book a whole golf trip to Melbourne,

540
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: come watch some of the sand Belt. It would be

541
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: the trip of a lifetime where maybe we'll this gives

542
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: us a year to workshop that maybe we'll we'll put

543
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: something together for for the listeners and the readers that fact,

544
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: the collective, Like we could have a hoe down, get

545
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: more more American golfers down there to see these courses.

546
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: Would be would be super cool. But food for thought. Yeah, look,

547
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: I think I look when when Americans but whatever reason,

548
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: everybody loves the sand Belt. It's just something unique, something

549
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: about it is. You don't say it anywhere else in

550
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: the world. It's sort of a lot of people come.

551
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: I mean Taga loves it. Um, almost all the anyone

552
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: of any level comes and says, I live staying more.

553
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: That might be my favorite version of the game. You know,

554
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: it really is unique and special and um, yeah, it

555
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: would be definitely it would be a fun if if

556
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: like a little fire pit sort of crew dragged a

557
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: few people down. I think, yeah, you couldn't have you

558
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: couldn't have a bad time. If you love golf, um

559
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: and you kind even had a sad note trip, you'd

560
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: have a guitar. That'd be amazing, and of course the

561
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: Ostins was so much fun. Like one of my favorite

562
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: memories in golf was at the end of this long trip,

563
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: we played until dark at Victoria and went into the

564
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: clubhouse and had dinner. And because you know, Matt and

565
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: I and had had been tweeting about the trip and

566
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: putting stuff on Instagram, kind of folks knew we were there.

567
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 1: And all these members were in the clubhouse. They kept

568
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: wandering over the table and they're binus drinks and we were.

569
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: We were our friends Tom Junior, Kevin Prison the trip.

570
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: We were We just had a pen and piece paper

571
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: and we were trying to rank our favorite courses from

572
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: the trip. We wanted playing eight courses in the world

573
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: top one because we stopped in New Zealand as well,

574
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: and Um played tar Eat and and it was just

575
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: and then people are looking at our list, they're walking

576
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: around the table, look at the other guy's list, and

577
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: they're off on their momentary. You know, maybe if Victoria

578
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: is definitely better than the blah blah blah. It was

579
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: just the most convival of gathering and it was really

580
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: it was really special. Of course, you have Peter Thompson

581
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: waiting for you, in that statue as you come in,

582
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: it's just like perfect end or to an absolutely epic trip.

583
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: So um. But anyway, Jeff, when you're working on a

584
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: really classic Midwestern American golf course like be Diana, you know,

585
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: as far away from an ocean as could be, not

586
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: even near a lake. But does some of your love

587
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: of links golf show up in in the work that

588
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: you're doing there? Yeah? I think so. I mean every

589
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: way it's different, obviously, And I think one of the

590
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: mistakes that's been made by everybody who's an architect as

591
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: well anonymoustake. It's everyone has the ambition I want to

592
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: build this somewhere else, and you just can't. There's something

593
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: unique about the sand. I mean the sand belt, um

594
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: just be the name sort of gives it away. There's

595
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: lots of belts of sand in the world. You know,

596
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: there's one in Georgia. You know, there's there's Nebraska sandhills.

597
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: I mean, there's sand everywhere. But the sand in Melbourne

598
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: is really really unique. It's sort of very angular, they

599
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: tell me, and it just compacts really hard and you

600
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: can just cut an edge to a bunker against a

601
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: green and it doesn't cave in it doesn't get soft.

602
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: You can drive a mower over and it doesn't. It's

603
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: just it turns into concrete effectively. But then you rake

604
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: it a little bit and it just gets perfect. Um,

605
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: it's really unique sand. So you kind of, I guess

606
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: you learn the lessons that you go to the old course,

607
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: and the old course probably influences every golf course you

608
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: ever build, but you don't build the old course. You know,

609
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: you sort of try to find the lessons or the

610
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: sort of what's this, why is this so great? Can

611
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: we recreate this sort of philosophy in the Midwest situation?

612
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: You know? So I think we're obviously we're clearly all

613
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: three of us, me, Michael and Ashley at our um

614
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: at o CM, we're clearly heavily influenced by the sand belt.

615
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: But we wouldn't ever really try to recreate it anywhere else.

616
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,959
Speaker 1: We just sort of try to learn from the lessons

617
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: that shows you, you know, yeah stuff, because the bunk

618
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: is the bunk is what everyone falls in love with

619
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: in Melbourne, and you just you'd love to be able

620
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: to build them everywhere because everyone would build them because

621
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: they're so it's so nice to have the green edge

622
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: at the bunker. You know, you're can have such more

623
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: interesting looking pin. You're gonna have a pin three or

624
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: what three yards away from the sand, as opposed to

625
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: most places where you've got the little band of fringe grass.

626
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: You end up having the the pins three from the

627
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: edge of the green, but it's actually five or six

628
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: from there, but from the sand and Melbourne, it is

629
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: actually three from the sand, which is a really unique

630
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: look and scary look sometimes and really amplifies strategy, amplifies

631
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: the angle you need to be on and you try

632
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: to you try to do your best you can, but

633
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: you're never gonna be able to do the same thing. Well,

634
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: this has been a great little preview of a very

635
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: special golf Tournamentum, Michael or Jeff any any parting thoughts

636
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: for the Steners as we lead into the Sand Belt Invitational. Now,

637
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: I'm just excited. It's gonna be fun. It's uh, I'm

638
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: tomp to you guys are coming down here. Um, hopefully

639
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Speaker 1: the weather is great. The weather is been attractions and

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Speaker 1: the coursest being on sand I'd dried really well, so

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Speaker 1: they're all in great shape. So I mean hopefully we

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Speaker 1: get an US, we gets foiled with the weather and

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Speaker 1: we have a good weight. That's great. All right, Well

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Speaker 1: this was a fire Drill podcast and starting really the

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Speaker 1: days before the tournament, I would say in December seventeen eight,

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Speaker 1: team will start putting out a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun content around this event. So thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: please tune in. Um I promise you that it's it's

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Speaker 1: a it's an evertent event worth paying attention to it.

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Speaker 1: It's a great model for other golf tournaments. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to be about a huge purse and corporate tents

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Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. It's really pure and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be very special to be there. So this is

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Speaker 1: Alan SHIPNUK. That was Jeff Ogilvie and Michael Bamberger. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening, and we'll be coming back to you from Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: Australia at some point with some more conversation about when

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Speaker 1: this tournament wraps up. So that's it for now. Thanks

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Speaker 1: a bed big played to win. Made a fortune within

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Speaker 1: my ship game, man, I ran the table and never

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Speaker 1: thought I could fall. Then the wintertime hit me like

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Speaker 1: a cannon ball, and now I can't shake this losing

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Speaker 1: the streak. Every road I take is a dead end stream.

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Speaker 1: I got thoughts in my head, can't get out, trying

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Speaker 1: and nothing think what I'm thinking about. That God of

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Speaker 1: thoughts in my head, I can't get him out, trying

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Speaker 1: not to think what I'm thinking about