WEBVTT - Ep. 141 - Tom Coyne 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.480 Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon. I am your 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:12.080 post Shane Bacon and this week's guest, Tom Coin, joins 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.560 a program again. Tom is traveling America writing another book 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.720 about travel, this time state side. He did one in Ireland, 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:20.160 he did one in Scotland. Now he's doing one of 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.320 the United States. And we actually played a hundred holes 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.400 of golf about a week and a half ago for 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.600 a charity youth on course, so we talked a little 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.160 bit about that, But then of course we dove into 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.239 what's happening with the book and the travels and the 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.280 golf courses and if he wants to throw his golf 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.760 clubs in a lake or an ocean yet, how tough 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.320 that can be. As golfers, we all know that there's 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:42.880 times where you love it and you can't wait to 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.760 get back out there, and there's times when you don't 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.320 even want to look at your golf clubs. So it 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.440 was a great conversation. I love the guy. 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Right now. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.639 In Phoenix there's no golf because every golf course is 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.840 under the knife and being overseated, which is a huge bumber. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.640 But I am actually headed to Oregon this weekend to 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.919 go to Bandon Dunes. I'm going to play a whole 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.520 bunch of golf with a couple of buddies of mine. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.240 Very excited about that. I'm also excited about this. I 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.639 mentioned Tom Coin is on the program. Tom is a 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.760 senior writer for The Golfers Journal. I've loved the Golfers 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.399 Journal since it first came out. I have a new 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.680 story coming out and the next issue that hits in November. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.160 And something cool that they're doing for us is if 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.760 you haven't heard, I have this hole in one fund basically, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.840 and I'm sure you've seen this if you follow me 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.040 on social media at all. I've never made an ace 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.760 in my life. I'm thirty five years old. I'm gonna 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.600 be thirty six in November. And I started this a 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.600 couple of years ago, just a jar, and I throw 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.840 a dollar in the jar every time I play around 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.000 a off without an ace. The jar now is over 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.639 five hundred dollars. Now, I haven't played five hundred rounds 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.160 of golf in a couple of years. I have had 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.200 people donate, I've had friends send money in. I actually 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.640 just mentioned this on Twitter last week and UH followers 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:18.320 Mike Rice and Nicole Montenez both donated on Venmo some 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.600 money to throw in there. Once I make an ace, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.240 I'm gonna just take the jar to the Phoenix Children's 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.520 Hospital and give it to them. And I've also had 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.840 some friends of mine. I've got professional golfer buddies that 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.080 have promised to pledge some money once it happens, if 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.200 it ever happens. They said they'll pledge more money if 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.280 they're actually playing with me in the round that it happens. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.400 So a little extra pressure. But what the Golfers journal 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.760 is gonna do and what why this matters is I'm 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.920 gonna have a specific subscription link I'm gonna send out 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.280 on social media. I will have it on my on 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.120 my Twitter feed and on my Instagram profile, and if 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.280 you click through that link and you sign up and 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.400 subscribe to the Golfer's Journal, they're going to donate a 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.240 portion of the money you send them to my Hole 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.440 in one jar for charity. So it really kind of 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.360 a win win. You get the Golfers Journal, which is awesome. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.000 Any golf fan that just likes to read interesting stories 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.240 that are evergreen and never go old, we'll love it. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:09.760 Trust me, I have them all. I read them every 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.480 time I get them. Within the first couple of days. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.200 Every story is interesting and different, and that's really what 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.520 they've been doing and changing really golf journalism in that regard. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.000 And you'll donate some money to charity, so it's a 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.240 win win. It helps us out. Our idea is to 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.760 make the jar so overflowed that we have to get 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.520 another jar, which is kind of depressing because that means 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.480 I haven't made an ace. But hey, you know what, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.880 if nothing else, I can be seventy years old and 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.240 sit here with a few thousand dollars and know that 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.360 I can donate it somewhere or once I croaked, because 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.000 my iron plate is that that bad, I'm gonna make one. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:41.800 Trust me, I'm gonna make one. I hope you guys 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.719 are having a great week. As I said, I know 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.400 winner is approaching for people in the Northeast and uh 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.920 and parts of the country, and golf is basically dwindling down. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.800 But there's you know, there's golf on TV. And we're 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.000 gonna roll out some more podcast throughout the next few weeks. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.640 I'll have a little bit of a recap about Banded 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.400 Dunes and my opportunity to get to play nineholes on 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.000 the Sheeper Inches I'm very excited about. But for now, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.159 let's get to our guest and we welcome back into 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.920 the clubhouse one of my favorite people in all of golf, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.000 Tom Cone. You can follow him on Instagram and Twitter 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.480 at coin Writer, c O y in E Writer. He's 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.240 a senior writer at The Golfers Journal. He also hosts 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.120 The Golfer's Journal podcast, which I highly recommend, and he 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.120 is working on his fifth book. And I would say, 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.720 Tom Coin, this might be the biggest, I would say, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.040 planned event you've done thus far. A course called America. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.719 Last I checked. America, a slightly larger place than both 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:42.120 Ireland and Scotland. It's the biggest undertaking of my life, Shane. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.719 It is. Yeah. I uh, I knew it was bigger 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:53.240 obviously than Ireland and Scotland, but it's proven to be 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.280 a beast. I'm I'm here in Massachusetts talking to you 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:00.760 right now. You're you're not. I'm talking to you from Massachusetts. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.239 And it's been wild, man. So I'm doing all fifty states. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.680 I'm doing every US Open venue. I've been on the 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:12.960 road since April. You'll notice it's October and uh, and 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.200 I'll be on the road through December. So by that 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.560 point I will have done you know, gold, I will 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.839 have golf in every state and it will probably about 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.600 be about two courses. Um. So, Yeah, there's just been 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:30.120 a lot to see, uh, a lot to take in 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.680 and but it's been awesome, man, I mean it's just 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.800 been it's been really cool to get to know my 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.599 own country, which was the whole point to do in 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.720 this project, is that I knew sort of Ireland and Scotland. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.160 I had traveled and researched there more than I had 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.120 in America. You know, I certainly knew Philadelphia. But you know, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.840 it's just been it's been awesome to get out and 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.960 be a tourist in in my own country. Yeah, I 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.360 mean when you when you first did the travel version 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.520 of your books and you started in Ireland, I mean, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.600 I can only imagine you ever envisioned that it would 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.919 become this. I mean, this is really it's kind of 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.800 your stick. I mean, you traveled Ireland, you walked a 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.800 lot of the country, You played all these golf courses 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.680 nobody had ever heard of. And what I love about 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.800 your journey is I feel like you kind of jumped 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:18.120 into this basically focus on travel and focus on fighting 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.680 hidden gems right about the time that became popular. I mean, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:22.880 you know, we used to have a top of a 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.920 hundred board on our wall, and we look at the 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.880 top one hundreds by every golf publication out there, and 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.200 those were the courses we wanted to play. And what 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.320 I find so fascinated about what you've been able to 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.600 do and uncover with your with your words in your 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.920 novels is you're showcasing a lot of places that once 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.320 you read about it, you want to go play there. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.040 And it has to be cool to finally get to 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.640 do that exact thing in America, because as you said, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.680 it's it's your backyard and you know in reality, yeah, no, 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.000 I mean that's definitely the goal and it's it's been 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.400 the best part of of all the books is to 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.880 sort of bring some light to lesser known places that 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:02.120 are deserving of visitors. You know. Um, yeah, I had 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.520 no idea when you know, when I pitched the Ireland Book. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.200 It was like, I think I want to write a 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.840 book about golf in Ireland and this is like, and 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.160 I'll walk it. That'll be crazy, right, And then a 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.120 publisher says yes, and you're like, oh my god, I 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.000 have to do it. And and so you know, that 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.720 becomes the Scotland Book and yeah, and that and that 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.840 sort of takes me to hear where I am, but 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.680 you know, I don't want to. I am visiting very 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.720 well known places, um, and I'm telling some of their 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.240 unknown history, which is cool. But I definitely it's always 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.720 about like the find the the you know, the hidden gems, 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:41.040 the places that people don't go. Um. You know, that 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.160 was something that you know, the Ireland Book comes out 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.480 and and people and more people started going to carn 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.280 Or two Crouch Island. Um. With the Scotland books, some 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.640 people are going to Macrone that might not have known 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.240 about it, or to Shiskin, or to Murker. Um. I'm 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.959 not saying the only reason that the people go there 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.160 is because of the books. But if it gets even 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.800 a few dozen people to go there in some of 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.560 these little places, that has a real impact. And um, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.280 and that's been definitely the most gratifying experience of those 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.280 two books. So if I can sense more folks to 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.920 some of these places that I've found, um, And I'm 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.959 not just finding cool places. I'm finding like cool golf 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.520 trips in America, you know, like that where you could say, hey, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.480 like who whatever, they can go in to Mississippi for 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.080 a buddy trip. But here's an idea for like a 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.960 really cool, you know, four day awesome golf trip in 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.640 Colorado and Mississippi or in Alabama or something like that. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.600 So that's been you know, yeah, So I'm always on 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.000 the lookout for for fine stuff that's off the radar. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.040 And how is how has it been juggling the social 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.280 media aspect of this, because really Scotland, you know, it 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.000 kind of led into Instagram and Twitter and now it's 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.000 really something I feel like you walk alongside I mean, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.400 you showcase where you're at and where you're playing, who 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.480 you're playing with. I know you have given ways with 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.480 some of your sponsors, like titlists where you can you know, 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.040 you can invite people to come out and play with 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:06.720 you and they get a chance to to kind of 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.280 be involved in the book. How has social media helped 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.599 both helped and in a way maybe even heard a 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.120 little bit giving away some of the stuff that you 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.320 know is going to be in the book. Yeah, it's true. So, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.800 I mean social media, right with the other books, is 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.360 just like every couple of days, Hey look at this 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.640 cool picture. Um, It's it's a huge part of this 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.440 adventure though. Right from the start, you know, when I 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.800 announced the project, it was via Instagram and Facebook and 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.360 Twitter that I got most of the course recommendations and 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.880 and also got most of the invitations, um from folks 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.440 to come play at them. You know. So it's been 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:48.040 hugely helpful in finding spots and in getting on them 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.760 as well. I mean, obviously the challenge in America versus 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.679 Ireland in Scotland is that most of our golf courses 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.720 are private, so so it's been very helpful that way. Um. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.680 What's been cool about it is that this sort of 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.880 community is growing up around the trip um and that's 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.640 something that you know I didn't have with the Scotland 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.080 book and uh. And so right, like you said, when 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.760 I have an open tea time or have a spot somewhere, 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.760 I throw it out on on Instagram or Twitter and 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.000 and three dudes show up, um or sometimes more. And 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.920 and that's been pretty amazing. Uh. And that's been great 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.599 for the story. And then I'm getting to meet a 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.959 lot of different people and get their stories, and um, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.480 it's just added a lot to you know, what will 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.640 be the larger narrative. Uh. You know in the Scotland 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.800 and Ireland books, like I invited a lot of friends, 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.000 and I still have friends coming on this trip. But 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.480 now it's like I'm inviting strangers. So like every day 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:47.480 I invite I'm playing with three or six usually you know, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.400 people I've never met before. Um, the Instagram world and 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.240 in this listen, you and I are kind of in this. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.120 I mean there are people that that I can only 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.360 imagine that that are way bigger than us, that get 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.000 these invites all the time. But a part and and 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.600 I mean I'm sure people know this, but a part 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.839 of quote unquote golf media is you do get invitations 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.320 a lot from people that are members of these really 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.200 knives golf courses, and it isn't in a way, it's 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.600 it's an interesting dynamic because you do I want to 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.320 go play here with these people I don't know, and 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.800 then you go and you have an unbelievable experience, or 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.240 maybe the person is a little weird, or they might 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:26.920 ask a whole bunch of questions that you get asked 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.120 all the time. So it is I can only imagine 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.240 it's a it's a balanced you have, but it's also 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.600 something that's helping you with the book. I mean, you 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.000 literally can can reach out and go I'm gonna be 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.920 and let's just say, let's just say Birmingham. I'm gonna 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.360 be in the Birmingham area this date, and you get 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.120 four invites to certain golf clubs that you're looking to play. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.840 So it's, uh, yeah, it is funny how it's kind 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.520 of mirrored now compared to maybe some of the other books. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.560 Is you have to go, Okay, today, I'm gonna play 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.000 with these random people that have been following me on 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.480 Instagram for two years. Totally. Yeah, it's and it's really 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.199 and it's really good. I it's you know, yeah, the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.520 folks who have been kind enough and generous enough to 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.920 invite me places. But you, like you said, I mean 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.400 more than not. It's it's a matter of having to 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.800 say no because there's only so many days and so 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.040 many courses. It's a very good problem to have to 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.760 have more invitations than than you can actually fit into 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.080 your into your calendar. And you know my attitude, you know, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.920 it's with the Scotland book and where I did play 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.840 with just a handful of strangers who came over to 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.000 play with uh to to join me um and and 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.800 had really good results with that UM in terms of 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.000 friendships and stories. I thought, you know, with this book, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.560 what the hell, I'm just gonna be totally open to 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:42.000 it and be happy to play with random people. And 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.520 and and from a storytelling point of view that if 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.560 I get weirdos, you know, that's actually really useful. UM. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.480 I haven't had enough weirdos, to be honest, I was 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:56.520 still looking for some. UM. This story needs some more villains. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.680 So if you're a real jerk, um reach out at 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.240 a writer on Instagram, send him all of the mesas yeah, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.559 bring all your weird things, your iron head covers, your trinkets, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.840 playing all of it, and he'll he'll definitely make the book. Well, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.320 you did get a chance to play with a weirdo 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.480 in San Francisco. You played with me, and you played 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.920 with me at Olympic Club. You invited me to be 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.680 a part of this thing with Youth on Course, which 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.600 they do an unbelievable job. And I'll let you kind 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.000 of dive a little deeper into that. But about a 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.760 week and a half ago, we played a hundred holes 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.440 of golf in one day, something I've never done, something 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:34.000 you've never done, considering how much golf you play. To 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.160 be a part of the most golf you've played in 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.720 one day, I have really felt like a big honor. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.360 It was Yeah, by far the most golf I've ever played. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.160 And I was so you were like, I can't, I 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.920 can't believe you said yes. And you were very quickly 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.120 said yes. Once you got the green light, um from 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.320 your better half. You you were in and uh, which 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.840 I really appreciate it because I needed a friend to 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.680 do this with me and um, and you brought some 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.040 great attention to the to the cause as well. I 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.000 mean Youth Phone Course. I met them at the PGA 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.800 show last year and they basically they're based out of 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.320 Monterey and they make it possible for junior golfers to 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:15.640 play um proper golf courses for five dollars, and they 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.880 underwrite their tea times. So it sort of picks up, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.680 you know, the first tea, you know, that introduction to golf, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.120 and then you get to this point that you know, 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.040 they saw this sort of void there of like okay, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.440 well where can they play now? They now they want 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.800 to golf and now what and and that's a big 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.320 barrier for for so many junior golfers. So I think 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.800 what they're doing is is really great. It's really smart. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.920 They have mentoring even you know, beyond the golf for 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.040 for um kids that are involved with youthhone course and 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.560 um so they're a big fundraisers LL hikes. So even 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.160 back then I was like, yeah, I'd be into that. Um. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.720 This was by the way, the p g A show, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.560 if people they don't know, is the very first month 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.440 of the year. So Tom was you know, he's Brian 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.280 eyed and she tailed for the year season. Oh that 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.720 would be great, not knowing that you know, five six, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.160 seven months later he's gonna have to go play a 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.840 hundred holes after he's played thirty six a day for goodness, 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.560 four or five months straight. Yeah, I mean it's January. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.960 I haven't played golf in there like you can plays golf. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:15.920 I'm like, yeah, let's go do it right now. And 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.840 but yeah, and then after the trip comes around, you know, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.080 and I've been on the road, you know for months. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.720 I've been in I was in Bend, Oregon, the day before, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:31.000 in Philadelphia, the day before that land in San Francisco. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.720 We get to the golf course that you know, six fifteen, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.560 six thirty in the morning and uh, you know, leaving 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.080 in the dark, team off at seven o'clock. Um, it 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.360 was just another one of those great moments that golf 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.720 has given me, a lot of them that, you know, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.520 I look around and I go, how the hell did 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.920 I get a here doing this? You know? And uh 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.160 and and there we were playing the Olympic Club. UM 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:01.480 a lot around and around and around, kept playing. You 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.680 can check out everything they do. It's Youth on Course 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.040 dot Org. They do an unbelievable job. We're big fans 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.040 of them. And uh. And if you want to go 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.800 donate or do whatever you can to help out or 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.760 be a part of the Hunter whole hike going forward, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.040 you can do it. What were you feeling like? What 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.520 what was your whole number where you were thinking, my goodness, 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.200 how many more do we have left? Um? Like four? 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:28.600 I think because I saw and everything, and I was like, 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.800 I can go chill over there and have snacks and 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.840 in water. Um no, I think there. You know, there's 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.520 that initial excitement. You know, we go around the first nine, 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:46.160 it's you're feeling good. Obviously you're still you're not tired yet. Um. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.760 You know what it was probably after we stopped for lunch, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.520 which you insisted on chowing down, and I'm glad you did, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.879 um because the Hokies well subs whatever, they were delicious. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.359 But after that, it was like, I don't want to 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.080 I don't want to golf. Yeah, fifty we stopped for 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.639 lunch at fifty two holes. We we we got to 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.679 we got the fifty and for some reason, so that 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.240 let's play two more. So you know, just because listen, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.879 we're against us, we're against the establishment. We were playing 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.520 fifty two, not fifty and uh and I my golf 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.520 I brought golf shoes that are really comfortable golf shoes, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.720 but I didn't realize that they weren't waterproof. They're more 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.720 like the casual, non spike golf shoes, and I brought them. Well, 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.280 it was really dewey in the morning, so part of 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.719 my lunch break was to take my shoes and socks 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.040 off and let him dry out, which was the best 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.480 thing I did the entire day. But yeah, the the 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.359 going back after lunch knowing you had basically the entire 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.159 what you've just done already to do it again. I 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.440 felt like that was that was a wall. We both hit. 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.240 That was a wall. And and seeing the other golfers 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.920 finish like way ahead of us. Um. So for the 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.600 folks who are listening, they were like, I don't know, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.879 maybe twelve people at this site doing um the hundred 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.439 all like, and we were just spread around the property 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.880 trying not to bum like get each other's way. But 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.120 you know, it's like like during a marathon when there's 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.760 also a half marathon going on, and like the half 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.359 marathon is like split off to the finished line, and 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.160 like the marathon people have to keep going. Like that's 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.000 what it felt like, you know, watching these guys like 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.119 kind of wrapped it up, and I'm like, jeez, because 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.080 and they were like and they these were veterans as well. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.040 I mean, you know they were playing with one club. 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.959 The most impressive thing was I mean they were so savvy. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.120 They had those bald suction cup things like on their 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.480 seven iron so they didn't have to bend over to 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.560 pick up the ball. I mean, talk about hundred whole 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.600 pros that was. That was a classy move. So they 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.960