Speaker 1: This is as much fun as we have as golfers.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a miserable existence sometimes. I mean
Speaker 1: it's like it looks so dreamy, but it can be
Speaker 1: a bit of a grand But this is exactly what
Speaker 1: we do it for. And this is as much fun
Speaker 1: as I've ever had playing golf. So put another log
Speaker 1: on the fire nobody hears. Give the time. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the fire pit with Matt Chanella. We're back for another
Speaker 1: Wishbone Brawl at Goat Hill Park in Oceanside, California, about
Speaker 1: forty minutes north of the airport, right off of I
Speaker 1: five yard Part sixty five. Municipal can be played for
Speaker 1: forty two dollars during the week. On weekends, members, seniors
Speaker 1: and active military play for twenty eight dollars. It's San
Speaker 1: Diego residents pay less than forty dollars to walk, and
Speaker 1: juniors under the age of seventeen pay ten dollars. There's
Speaker 1: also disc golf on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, which
Speaker 1: is fifteen dollars on weekdays and twenty dollars on weekends.
Speaker 1: So what is the Wishbone Brawl? In short, it's four
Speaker 1: professionals playing a mini municipal using vintage equipment in front
Speaker 1: of an animated crowd not confined by ropes. Kids and
Speaker 1: dogs are everywhere, and all the money raised supports junior golf.
Speaker 1: When people talk about growing the game, this is it
Speaker 1: on so many levels. What you'll hear in this podcast
Speaker 1: or all the relevant audio moments throughout the day which
Speaker 1: starts with a warm up session on the driving range
Speaker 1: and ends with the post round interviews on the eighteen green.
Speaker 1: In between our some walking talks on the course and
Speaker 1: throughout play with the players and some notables in the gallery,
Speaker 1: and you'll hear the occasional reacts from the crowd after
Speaker 1: key moments in the match. The teams are Xander Shaffley
Speaker 1: and Dean Wilson versus Fred Couples and Jeff Ogilvie. They're
Speaker 1: playing per Simmon Woods. The format is best Ball of
Speaker 1: the twosome. It's November, a perfect Saturday morning in San Diego.
Speaker 1: The crowd size is estimated to be a thousand adults,
Speaker 1: another two and fifty kids, and about forty or fifty dogs.
Speaker 1: All of the proceeds are going to support North County
Speaker 1: Junior Golf, which is based out of goat Hill Park,
Speaker 1: and the other half of what's raised goes to support
Speaker 1: the goat Hill Park Caddy and Leadership Academy. Before we
Speaker 1: get to the start of the day, I want to
Speaker 1: thank links Soul for their support of the Firepit Collective
Speaker 1: and specifically this podcast. The lifestyle brand, which was started
Speaker 1: by John Ashworth and his nephew Jeff Cunningham, is all
Speaker 1: I wear on and off the course. Go to link
Speaker 1: soul dot com and use promo code fire Pit off
Speaker 1: your next purchase. I'd also like to thank Truly hard
Speaker 1: Seltzer's for their support of this event. Their contribute of
Speaker 1: thirty six thousand dollars for the Skins game two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars per hole is the kick start to the fundraising
Speaker 1: aspect of the Wishbone Brawl, which raised over a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars last year. The money that's raised
Speaker 1: is through ticket sales, Truly's contribution, and the online auction
Speaker 1: which can be found at link soul dot com forward
Speaker 1: slash Wishbone. There are almost a hundred items to bid on,
Speaker 1: which includes golf trips to some of the top destinations
Speaker 1: in the world, signed surfboards by Legends, like Kelly Slater
Speaker 1: and Ramachado, fittings at Tailor Made and Titless v I
Speaker 1: P tickets to a Padres game, and so much more.
Speaker 1: The auction ends on December five at eight o'clock pm
Speaker 1: Pacific Standard time. And with that it's eleven am. It's
Speaker 1: about sixty eight degrees and it's time to address the
Speaker 1: crowd and catch up with the competitors. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Wishbone Brawl. This is the fifth annual Wishbone Brawl at
Speaker 1: Goat Hill Park. First, we'll give yourselves a round of applause.
Speaker 1: You got tickets before closed out, Fred you get anybody
Speaker 1: ask you for tickets in the last couple of days. Hey,
Speaker 1: for the kids in the crowd, if you want to
Speaker 1: come over here, there's a couple of mats set up.
Speaker 1: We have clubs if you want to take a couple
Speaker 1: of swipes, hit a gong and win a hat. As
Speaker 1: these guys are practicing and warming up and getting ready
Speaker 1: for the start of the brawl, any kid that wants
Speaker 1: to come over and take a take a rip, hit
Speaker 1: a gong, win a hat after his first year here
Speaker 1: last year, we're walking up the sixth hole to the
Speaker 1: green and Fred Couple said, you know what, I'm definitely
Speaker 1: coming back next year. And guess who's here, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Fred Couples, Freddie, what was it about this event that
Speaker 1: made you feel so early on like this is something
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of. I'm coming back.
Speaker 1: I'm in Oh. I've known John Ashworth forever and Mr
Speaker 1: Ogilvie right here couldn't come because of the COVID, so
Speaker 1: I filled in and now this year we're teammates. So
Speaker 1: that's how that works. But uh, I had will last
Speaker 1: year as a partner and I still have eight at
Speaker 1: my Caddy and her sister Annabelle's county for jeff So
Speaker 1: this is kind of like a family little deal. But
Speaker 1: really the charity is great and people don't know this,
Speaker 1: but this is kind of what I grew up on
Speaker 1: at Jefferson Park in Seattle, a little public golf course
Speaker 1: that I learned to play really really well, and it
Speaker 1: honestly got me to where I am. And Goat Hill
Speaker 1: is a lot like Jefferson Park. John Ashworth, obviously, you
Speaker 1: guys have a long history together, going back to the
Speaker 1: start of Ashworth. What's it mean to you to kind
Speaker 1: of stay connected to somebody like that supports some of
Speaker 1: what he's trying to do and which is a truly
Speaker 1: authentic grow the game sort of hub of of of
Speaker 1: golfing life here. Well, I think, first, you know, I
Speaker 1: lived fifty miles up the road or not even that far,
Speaker 1: and I've I've had a few people say let's go
Speaker 1: play John Ashworth's course. I've lived in Newport for seven years,
Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, I didn't know what the goat was.
Speaker 1: And then and then I think last year I saw
Speaker 1: a little thing on the Golf channel where you're superintendent,
Speaker 1: who I don't know if he's out here today, is phenomenal,
Speaker 1: and I just I got a big little rush listening
Speaker 1: to them talk about this gentleman who runs the goat
Speaker 1: and for what John's doing. You know, the first thing
Speaker 1: I said is this driving range is like Augusta National.
Speaker 1: It's perfect, and you guys just reseated or sought at it,
Speaker 1: so it's perfect. The kids can come out, dogs can
Speaker 1: come out. It's got a nice I'm not this kind
Speaker 1: of guy to talk like this, but they say it's
Speaker 1: got a nice vibe. What what do you know about
Speaker 1: the nice I'm a hundred years old. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: saying that. I think it's got a great feel to it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what a vibe is, but this
Speaker 1: is a great field to it. And what do you
Speaker 1: know about the masters anyway? But augustin Nashville, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: it's so good to have Fred Couples here. We'll get
Speaker 1: the more announcements later on. That's good luck today. Good
Speaker 1: luck Jeff Ogilvie. He kind of made Wishbone Brawl history
Speaker 1: in ten after play was extended, they go back to
Speaker 1: the ninety thirty three yards swish walk off game winner
Speaker 1: two thousand six US Open winner. Jeff Ogilvie's here, Ladies
Speaker 1: and Geffen, Jeff, you came. You had a great time obviously, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a global pandemic got in the way of
Speaker 1: being here, uh last year. But what do you feel
Speaker 1: as you are as you're back to kind of essentially
Speaker 1: defend your title? Wow? Yeah, we had a lot. I
Speaker 1: went in. Some may never come back after that, right,
Speaker 1: not right? Yeah, I mean it was pretty exciting. One
Speaker 1: moment that was good times. It's just a great, as
Speaker 1: Freddie said, vibe that we have out here at the goat. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of it since UM as started
Speaker 1: sort of on this program side go Hill and been
Speaker 1: by a lot and it's one of my sort of
Speaker 1: him away from home whenever I come through town. It's
Speaker 1: the greatest part. You're hosting in December right right prior
Speaker 1: to Christmas in Melbourne where you grew up, the sand
Speaker 1: Belt Invitational, and it's an event that's kind of like
Speaker 1: the Wishbone Brawl on steroids. It's for pros and amateurs, men, women,
Speaker 1: boys and girls. Uh. You're obviously a big fan of
Speaker 1: kind of this movement of something that's a little more
Speaker 1: alternative than just a traditional kind of professional event. Why
Speaker 1: and and and what do you see the benefits for
Speaker 1: you being part of something like that. I just think
Speaker 1: golf should be upon for all right. Um, this is
Speaker 1: just the one thing I would have loved when I
Speaker 1: was a kid was to get to play with the
Speaker 1: pros more often and to get to play the great courses,
Speaker 1: and we didn't get to do on this so um
Speaker 1: this is we're put on a tournament on the best
Speaker 1: courses in Australia arguably the world, some of them. Um.
Speaker 1: Four days in a row, men, women, pros and men,
Speaker 1: women avators like the boys and girls come and play
Speaker 1: with us and have a real tournament around the best stuff.
Speaker 1: It's I don't know, it's just it's a game for everyone.
Speaker 1: It's a very restricted game. And I think that's why
Speaker 1: places like they got its own boarding, because it makes
Speaker 1: golf fun. However you want to come play and just
Speaker 1: complay however you want to play, and if you're in,
Speaker 1: if you're a good person, um, you'll fit in. Um.
Speaker 1: And we're just trying to run a thing like that. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great to have you take us through your bag. What
Speaker 1: are you swinging in terms of of your true woods today?
Speaker 1: My true woods? My forwards a McGregor that I've got
Speaker 1: gifted from somewhere. It's pretty old. I think sixties maybe,
Speaker 1: but when they made a good one. There's Freddy all
Speaker 1: the test. He's using his games from the good old days. Um,
Speaker 1: when they when they made a good one, they stayed good,
Speaker 1: right like I cook. It didn't change as fast in
Speaker 1: those days. So this one's pretty special. My drivers are
Speaker 1: it's a hon mark from Japan's um and the Japanese
Speaker 1: have alway my beautiful golf clubs and it's just a Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a Norse pub. It's got a stiff enough shoft
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't think it guys very stride, but
Speaker 1: it's fun to hit. You've been popping through goat Hill
Speaker 1: Park over the course of John's resurrection of this, and
Speaker 1: you got to play at twelve Holes yesterday. But just
Speaker 1: talk about kind of the evolution of goat Hill Park
Speaker 1: from your eyes as a guy who works in architecture,
Speaker 1: who's a fan of of what's going on in development
Speaker 1: of golf. Yeah, I mean, what a cool place him
Speaker 1: in when Ashby said we're gonna side this place him
Speaker 1: and he kind of broke me up here and showed me.
Speaker 1: And there was no irrigation for years in the whole
Speaker 1: places of the bowl just landed hill and rolled at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hill and every hall. Um I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I was a long way back to that place, but um,
Speaker 1: he's done non labeled job. It just gets better and
Speaker 1: better every time I come the range. As Freddie said,
Speaker 1: the voluble of the field. The place is so special.
Speaker 1: It just makes you want to come and hang out,
Speaker 1: hit holes and play some holes and them, I don't know,
Speaker 1: just gets better every time I come back. Jeff Bogilby
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, who's always welcome. I go to Hill Park,
Speaker 1: but yet like goats own local legend, uh, six time
Speaker 1: winner on the Japan Tour, builds a lot of the
Speaker 1: clubs that some of the guys are either using or
Speaker 1: put with a bit of a like a clubmaking savant.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Dean Wilson being this was always kind of
Speaker 1: a thought and an idea that you and John kind
Speaker 1: of hashed out. And here it is as this trajectory
Speaker 1: of this event just keeps going in one direction. But
Speaker 1: what's it mean to you to kind of continue to
Speaker 1: see the evolution of what's happening here? Right? I mean,
Speaker 1: you'd inher. It's pretty awesome to me. It kind of
Speaker 1: started when John and I were just trying to He
Speaker 1: mentioned trying to make a tournament and to raise some
Speaker 1: money for charity. Uh. He made a couple of phone calls.
Speaker 1: He called Xander, I called Charlie, Chris Riley over there,
Speaker 1: and they were all open to coming out and helping,
Speaker 1: and he came out the first year and with six
Speaker 1: years later we got you got this. It's really really awesome.
Speaker 1: So I'm very happy to be a partner, take us
Speaker 1: through your bag? What are you? What are you swinging
Speaker 1: around here today? Right here? I goop got some Byron Nelson.
Speaker 1: What I think is cool about this is the number
Speaker 1: here is point three, which is his stroke average on tour.
Speaker 1: So I think that's pretty cool. I know it looks
Speaker 1: like I have a modern draft by Shafting, but this
Speaker 1: thing is from the nineties, so I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: it's a flexibility. It's kind of like a fishing pole.
Speaker 1: Um to talk to me about goat Hill Park? You're
Speaker 1: you're you know, Oh we got a goner. We got
Speaker 1: a goner. Come on out and take a round of applause.
Speaker 1: Come on. What does it feel like being the first
Speaker 1: gong or a goat Hill Park? Pretty good? Yeah? What's
Speaker 1: your name? Ian? What card? How old would that feel like?
Speaker 1: And what's he gonna feel like going to pick a
Speaker 1: hat from Mrs Shafley Signed ball by Xander Shafley. You
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Dean, that's really what
Speaker 1: this is about, right, It's about the kids, right, And
Speaker 1: I just want to echo what Freddie said. You know,
Speaker 1: I grew up out of Muni Muni's at my heart
Speaker 1: and just to come out here and see everybody from
Speaker 1: all walks of life. It's just awesome and I agree
Speaker 1: with everybody's This place has a great feel, great vibe
Speaker 1: and probably a part of yeah again. You know, what
Speaker 1: do you know about a good vibe? Come on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, always a pleasure. Dean Wilson, m Xanders
Speaker 1: Shafley is back Ladies and gentlemen. Been a part of
Speaker 1: all five young Xander. It's not like you don't have
Speaker 1: much going on, you know, you're not busy. Uh what's
Speaker 1: it mean to you for for you to be a
Speaker 1: part of this event and and sort of put this
Speaker 1: on your calendar every year? Yes, obviously been made, you know,
Speaker 1: a priority in my schedule. Everyone always sponsors everybody. You know,
Speaker 1: my crew knows that. You know, this day is is
Speaker 1: left open. So for me to be here and support
Speaker 1: the community and give back is very important. Dave Emrick,
Speaker 1: who runs North County Junior Golf Association, your longtime friends
Speaker 1: with his son here, San Diego native San Diego State.
Speaker 1: Uh is that kind of part of what this is
Speaker 1: all about? This is a giveback for you. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: on the piece of paper it says I'm in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas the Vata now, but everyone here knows that's not true. So, um,
Speaker 1: it does feel to be back here. It's nice to
Speaker 1: see a lot of familiar faces, and it's nice to
Speaker 1: see new faces as well. Uh. The idea of looking
Speaker 1: at the faces of these kids in the crowd and
Speaker 1: the experience that they'll have out there today in the
Speaker 1: years past, putting those memories in their planting that seed,
Speaker 1: does it feels like that's kind of part of the
Speaker 1: growth of the game. Yeah, And selfishly, you know, it
Speaker 1: makes me feel good to be able to be that
Speaker 1: sort of vehicle for them. And the more kids that
Speaker 1: can just sort of, you know, stay on the course,
Speaker 1: whether it's on this golf course or playing other sports
Speaker 1: is really important. And so you know, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: kids at some point in the future here, and I
Speaker 1: definitely would want them to be a part of something
Speaker 1: like this. Yeah, very special. So we'll take us through
Speaker 1: your bag. What are you swinging around in the woods category? Oh?
Speaker 1: I got just the one, three, and five switched ending up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like fred I don't really like to, you know,
Speaker 1: blame my person in woods for performances shots fired, but yeah,
Speaker 1: if it's official we'll get back to you can respond
Speaker 1: from timmy para. Fred does have a plethora of person
Speaker 1: and what's to choose? Front? Uh? Does are all the
Speaker 1: thing soul wood? Yeah, same same old, same finish saying great,
Speaker 1: same cheft. I guess this is a barrel here, same
Speaker 1: wound girl. So yeah, they feel good as ever. Thank you,
Speaker 1: living um, the the golf course and what John has
Speaker 1: done and the like you pop in from time to
Speaker 1: time and the improvements that have been made. What's that
Speaker 1: like for you to observe? I mean, every year, every
Speaker 1: year we come here, there's something new. I already heard.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of tricks here on property with a
Speaker 1: new tea boxes and things like that that I haven't
Speaker 1: seen yet. So I mean, it's just you can just
Speaker 1: tell what everything that's going on property. It's really catering
Speaker 1: to the kids, and cater's just sort of what golf
Speaker 1: is supposed to be, which is just you know a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, just wide open um and difficult at
Speaker 1: the same time. All right, well, here's another sign ball
Speaker 1: by you. I'm gonna encourage you to give that to
Speaker 1: any one of the kids here in the front. Real
Speaker 1: how you see did now there's Andrews Shockley signed ball.
Speaker 1: There is a kid who's wearing a shirt that says
Speaker 1: local legend. I think he may qualify. Where's Chris Riley.
Speaker 1: He's very shy, doesn't do a lot of talking, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna pull it out of him. Winner.
Speaker 1: Chris Rutley played and to wish Bone Brawls. His overall
Speaker 1: record is one and one. He played with Ogilvie when
Speaker 1: they won that tournament. Kept him alive with the hot
Speaker 1: with the flatstick obviously uh and and lost with Charlie Hoffman,
Speaker 1: a local obviously and the head coach of the University
Speaker 1: of San Diego men's golf team. Roles playing the two
Speaker 1: four just one in event. Give a give a round
Speaker 1: applause to Chris Riley for being battled two thousand four
Speaker 1: rider cumper winner on the PGA Tour rowlse. What's it
Speaker 1: like for you to be a part of this event? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean this is you know what Fred and Dean
Speaker 1: and Zander, we all come from Munis. I grew up
Speaker 1: at Techoloti Canyon Um in Claremont, and so to me,
Speaker 1: this is the route of golf, Like this is what
Speaker 1: it's all about really, um, and I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm officially retired. When when Jeff hold that shot and
Speaker 1: it was over, I'm like, I don't ever have to
Speaker 1: play again. It was literally a walk off for Chris Riley.
Speaker 1: It's walk off and walk away. It was. It was
Speaker 1: And um, it's great to see Jeff back. He's a
Speaker 1: he's a great guy. I'll never forget. In two thousand,
Speaker 1: in my first year on the tour, this guy hit
Speaker 1: a two iron like a pitching wedge. I've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like it. Um, but the great guy. Um. Love
Speaker 1: John Ashworth, love you love Dean's You're awesome, you know,
Speaker 1: San Diego. So it's just great to be out here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great to have Chris Riley and the crowd today, dog
Speaker 1: at all. Thank god he didn't bring his cat mass chaos.
Speaker 1: Where's Dave Emrick? How about a round of applause for
Speaker 1: the sponsor of this event, truly, round of applause who
Speaker 1: make make all this possible? The Efficient Drink, the official
Speaker 1: drink of the North County Junior Golf Association. Uh, coach Jave,
Speaker 1: you know you teach out of here. You and your
Speaker 1: wife help run the North County Junior golf station. You
Speaker 1: do run it? Uh, why does it matter? Why did
Speaker 1: you get involved? Why does it matter? And what's the
Speaker 1: trajectory of the program. Wow, that's a lot of that's
Speaker 1: a lot of good questions. Are well, you know, we
Speaker 1: just started this and our art initial statement is to
Speaker 1: hold fun, affordable and competitive golf tournaments for boys and
Speaker 1: girls half levels in ages. So we have two kind
Speaker 1: of tours. At the Executive Tour we played tournaments at
Speaker 1: and we also play on a Championship tour championship courses.
Speaker 1: And we do it because we love it. There's only
Speaker 1: one reason we're doing it because we love it. It's
Speaker 1: all about the kids. Look at all the kids here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're playing it forward my son. It's a family thing,
Speaker 1: you know. My my wife does a lot of work.
Speaker 1: I do a little bit, and the kids do more.
Speaker 1: And what's it mean to you? You know, for for
Speaker 1: people like Xander, Deane, Jeff and Fred to rock up
Speaker 1: at the go this is your home turf and be
Speaker 1: a part of an event that last year raised over
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty dollars for junior golf, both your
Speaker 1: North County Junior Golf Association and Go to Hill Parks,
Speaker 1: Junior Caddy and Leadership Academy. You know it's Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: That's thatdn't sleep much. I was waiting for Santa Claus
Speaker 1: to come, but it's so so killed these guys I'll
Speaker 1: come out and give their time to the kids, you know,
Speaker 1: like our North kind of junior golf is all about
Speaker 1: the kids. And how do people get involved? How do
Speaker 1: you sign up? How do you be a part of
Speaker 1: this programmer? Well, go to Hill Parks are home, so
Speaker 1: you can sign up at go Hill Park or you
Speaker 1: can go to the North County Junior Golf website. A
Speaker 1: big round of applause for Dave America's wife Marcia and
Speaker 1: everything they're doing out here. Well, I need to thank
Speaker 1: totally need to thank the players, you, Matt for coming out,
Speaker 1: John Ashworth Woody, I mean there's so many people that
Speaker 1: thank Jay, this golf staff, all those guys are. It's
Speaker 1: a big family out here in North County Junior Golf
Speaker 1: the family too, So thank you guys for coming out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put on a great show to So we're
Speaker 1: about forty five minutes into the day. Ashworth and his
Speaker 1: staff have been prepped being the course for weeks and
Speaker 1: after the pros spent a few minutes on the practice
Speaker 1: putting green, everyone gathers around the first tea a quick
Speaker 1: history of the competition. In the first Wishbone Brawl started
Speaker 1: and it was Xander Shaffley and Dean Wilson who beat
Speaker 1: Charlie Hoffman and Chris Riley. Dean Wilson and Mike Weir
Speaker 1: beat Xander and Hoffman in en Jeff Ogilvie and Chris
Speaker 1: Riley took Xander and Dean too extra holes and on
Speaker 1: the ninth a thirty three yard part three, Ogilvie ended
Speaker 1: it with a swish in there was no brawl due
Speaker 1: to COVID, but in Xander and Dean we're back together
Speaker 1: again and they beat Fred Couples and Will Crop on
Speaker 1: the eighteenth hole. All right, so you're up to date.
Speaker 1: Now back to the first tea and the start of
Speaker 1: the Wishbone Brawl. All right, ladies and gentlemen, my name
Speaker 1: is Matt Janella. Welcome to the fifth annual wish Phone Brawl.
Speaker 1: And got Hill Park in uh safe to say this
Speaker 1: golf course was it wasn't doing well and it was
Speaker 1: being threatened to be taken over, be churned up be
Speaker 1: turned into something anything other than what it is still today.
Speaker 1: A big part of the reason why it's still here
Speaker 1: is because of John Ashworth saying we can't let this happen.
Speaker 1: We gotta rally of the community. They went to a
Speaker 1: city council meeting. They did what they did. They said
Speaker 1: what they said in this city said fine, you want it,
Speaker 1: you can have it. John Ashworth went home and said, Honey,
Speaker 1: I think I bought a zoo in. Uh. They put
Speaker 1: a new irrigation system in and it's been getting better
Speaker 1: literally every day ever ever since. People like Bill Murray,
Speaker 1: Kelly Slater, Keegan Palmer who won the gold medalist. He's
Speaker 1: gold medalist for men's park skateboarding plays out here a lot.
Speaker 1: Christina Kim Kim Say, Heath Thagala, Bubba Watson, corn Ferry
Speaker 1: to Tour card recipient just recently, Colin Featherstone's in the crowd.
Speaker 1: Matt Beaconso who has status on the corn Ferry and
Speaker 1: is trying to get status on the Asian Tour. Matt
Speaker 1: Peconso plays out here on a regular basis. He's a local.
Speaker 1: Will Cropp played last year. He holds a course record
Speaker 1: at ten under with per Simmons All American in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: He has a win on the Latin American Tour, Adam Scott.
Speaker 1: You know. The list goes on, but none of this
Speaker 1: happens without the guy who is the leader of this place.
Speaker 1: Please give a big round of applause and a standing
Speaker 1: ovation for John Ashley. This is literally this time. We
Speaker 1: have so many great people involved over yere uh over
Speaker 1: the years, been amazing at christ Balls called thank peaseball
Speaker 1: guys showing up and doing I also want to thank
Speaker 1: our aquinible staff out here. I'm so luck to douce
Speaker 1: around about so many great people. Last Florence's superintendent, who's
Speaker 1: been a thirty five years. You know, in our whole
Speaker 1: crew a Bernie and Mike is kind of wrong. Boys
Speaker 1: better take up uh, as well as Hunter and Jane
Speaker 1: and Time and all shop and outside staff. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's get the kids up front when we can't, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's all work together on neck. That's all I got.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna turn it back up to man. Let's
Speaker 1: get this show on the boat, John Ashworth. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: all right, our first player of the day, and it's fitting.
Speaker 1: But it's a again he's he helped with the vision
Speaker 1: of this event. He is goats one. He won six
Speaker 1: times on the Japan Tour, one of which was the
Speaker 1: two thousand one Japan PG Championship, which is considered a major.
Speaker 1: He won the two thousand six Sprint International Colorado and
Speaker 1: recently recently at the Two Shot Charity Classic, he shot
Speaker 1: weekend rounds of sixties, seven, sixty six for a T
Speaker 1: three finish three and one at the Wishbone Brawl. Dean Wilson,
Speaker 1: you know not caddian for Dean is Aiden Watts. He's
Speaker 1: a junior at Carl's bat High. He's been two years
Speaker 1: in this caddy program here at goat Hill Park, first
Speaker 1: time on Dean's bag. His low round out here is
Speaker 1: sixty six one over Aiden Watts. Dean's partner in this
Speaker 1: best ball of the twosome is Xander shop Flee. He
Speaker 1: is the two thousand sixteen Rookie of the Year. Seven
Speaker 1: PGA Tour wins, one Olympic gold medalist, shot sixty seven
Speaker 1: in the on a round. He's been on two winning
Speaker 1: President's Cups, one Ryder Cup, and he has two wins
Speaker 1: at the Wishbone Brawls. Andrews Shopling cadet Fraxander is Kyler Phillips.
Speaker 1: He is a senior and captain of the Carl's Batt
Speaker 1: High School boys golf team. He has a four point
Speaker 1: three g p A. His low round out here is
Speaker 1: two under sixty three. Kyler Phillips leading the team to here.
Speaker 1: UH Masters Champion, fifteen wins on the PGA Tour, inductee
Speaker 1: into the World Golf Hall of Fame, and about a
Speaker 1: month ago he shot sixty to win his fourteenth Champions
Speaker 1: Tour event, the first to shoot his age or better
Speaker 1: in the final round to win on that tour and
Speaker 1: the lowest final round and PGA Tour champions history. Fred
Speaker 1: Couples Keddy and for Fred is really my caddy here
Speaker 1: whenever I played god Hill Park. She's a junior at
Speaker 1: Mission Vista, third year in the caddy program. Her low
Speaker 1: round is even par. The best reader of the greens
Speaker 1: in San Diego. Aid a league eight time PG eight
Speaker 1: Tour winner, which includes three World Golf Championships, a two
Speaker 1: thousand six US Open at wingfoot. He's played on three
Speaker 1: President's Cups and in nineteen playing with Chris Riley, switched
Speaker 1: it on nine for a walk off when welcome back
Speaker 1: Jeff Vogley. Caddying for Jeff is aids sister twin sister
Speaker 1: might notice Annabelle Lee, third year also in the program.
Speaker 1: Her low round is also even par. Here's a special
Speaker 1: little story about Annabelle Lee. Last Sunday, god Hill Park
Speaker 1: hosted what is called the pat Riley Caddy Cup. She
Speaker 1: was the logro and low net winner on a score
Speaker 1: of seventy. Uh. Their father is a twenty seven years
Speaker 1: in the San Diego law enforcement. Please give it up
Speaker 1: for Annabelle Lee. Now this is the trophy here. Annabelle
Speaker 1: coming out. Annabelle coming out here real quick. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: this is the pat Riley h Caddy Cup. A little
Speaker 1: bit about pat Riley. Okay, real quick, pat Riley. That
Speaker 1: trophy is from pat Riley's win in Pennsylvania is a
Speaker 1: junior event in ninety two, same year the Goat Hill
Speaker 1: Park was founded. Pat Riley was the six president of
Speaker 1: the PGA of America, passed away in May of this year.
Speaker 1: Known as the voice of the Little Guy, he told
Speaker 1: Shoal Creek, which was going to host the PGA Championship
Speaker 1: that year, that either you diversify your membership or we're
Speaker 1: moving the major championship, shoal Creek folded, signed a paperwork
Speaker 1: became diversified and uh what was what was considered a
Speaker 1: watershed moment in golf sort of speaks to all that
Speaker 1: we are representing a golf for all mentality. So give
Speaker 1: it up for pat Riley and all that he has
Speaker 1: contributions to the game of golf. Pat Riley's son, Rick Riley,
Speaker 1: who has been the head pro at Wilshire Country Club
Speaker 1: up in l a for like the last thirty plus years,
Speaker 1: is here with us. He's been on the bullhorn in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. The Riley family mottel, which
Speaker 1: is a good lesson to all kids and adults in
Speaker 1: the crowd for that matter. They had three things in
Speaker 1: the Riley family. Never give up. Jeff, you might want
Speaker 1: to listen to this because this is this is going
Speaker 1: could pertain to you. Never give up, do the best
Speaker 1: you can, and be nice to the people you meet
Speaker 1: along the way. And as pat Riley always said, it's
Speaker 1: nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Speaker 1: With that, we welcome Rick Riley Dazement, who has the
Speaker 1: kids back from played nine holes back then. But the
Speaker 1: core to resurrect. It's still here after fifties, and thank
Speaker 1: you and great to see only kids had here and
Speaker 1: have a great event like this for the kids. So
Speaker 1: thanks you guys, Love you guys. Let's have a great day.
Speaker 1: Pay well. The standard bearer today is Kennedy Wallace. She
Speaker 1: is four and she gets to go wherever she wants
Speaker 1: to go, holding up the school ground of applause for
Speaker 1: Kennedy Wallace. Welcome to the t Peter the Professor Beams,
Speaker 1: who just fresh off writing a book. By the way
Speaker 1: from the Professor's Notebooks, he played fifteen years on the
Speaker 1: world tour, and he finished fourth at the South African
Speaker 1: PGA nineteen seventy in which he received seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty rands, which I'm not sure what that is, but
Speaker 1: it's not lunching nothing. He is our referee for today.
Speaker 1: He is going to flip the coins. Xander, come on out,
Speaker 1: you're gonna call it professor Bean's. Round of applause for
Speaker 1: the Professor's about half full of bones. Harp is the
Speaker 1: call horns is what it came up with. That means
Speaker 1: couples in ogilvie. You can choose to go first or second.
Speaker 1: Your call deliberation. Okay, By the way, there's also a
Speaker 1: simultaneous skins game going on, so it's guaranteed to go.
Speaker 1: All eighteen holds two thousand dollars per a hole available
Speaker 1: and that will go also to charity. So you guys
Speaker 1: are playing for two thousand dollars a whole, leading us off,
Speaker 1: Jeff Vogeley, let the brawl be get after Ogilvie switched
Speaker 1: at a nine and walk off. The crowd chanted, oh
Speaker 1: gol v oh o vie can we give that off? News?
Speaker 1: Can we kick it off here with a little oh
Speaker 1: govie chair, Let's go oh go v oh go vie,
Speaker 1: Oh go vie. Oh oh okay, oh go man, We're off.
Speaker 1: I could go no singing yeah, Freddy friend God, what,
Speaker 1: oh my god? De yellow ball coming, grab my shot?
Speaker 1: Turn the hall manly nobody USA USA USA plays underway
Speaker 1: and Xander strikes first with a birdie on the opening hole.
Speaker 1: A short part four Couples comes back and evens the
Speaker 1: match with the only par on the testy second and
Speaker 1: on the third fairway. I catch up with John Ashworth,
Speaker 1: who refers to himself as the quote caretaker of goat
Speaker 1: Hill Park. What do you think ash first impressions match
Speaker 1: all square. After two we had first blood on wine
Speaker 1: and then that Freddie comes back and wins two of
Speaker 1: the part. Yeah no, I mean, kind of what you'd expect,
Speaker 1: although I will say the crowd has swollen from last year.
Speaker 1: Kind of cool though, it's kind of cool. This is
Speaker 1: I mean, it almost feels like double this, Like this
Speaker 1: is bigger. This is way bigger. I just hope nobody
Speaker 1: gets hurt. These guys aren't used to hitting these squirrely
Speaker 1: percentage that you gotta hit just right, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a golf tournament, you know, got to be mindful.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Betty, No, this is just to
Speaker 1: me is like I first of all, I just love
Speaker 1: being a very small part of it. It just gives
Speaker 1: you great This is this is our home. This is
Speaker 1: you know, this is where we It's great to see
Speaker 1: those guys playing number two like that we always do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've been right, I've been left. I've been left and
Speaker 1: scolded over to the right. I haven't hit that green
Speaker 1: at least two two years the green. Wow. And Fred
Speaker 1: on the radio said, that's the hardest part. Three California.
Speaker 1: I think there's a few holes when you chop Cypress,
Speaker 1: all you think about is the sixteenth T shot. But
Speaker 1: show up at Sagress, all you think of as a
Speaker 1: seventeen T shot. At Stating Ques show we go down park,
Speaker 1: all you think about is your second T shot. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's those those shots defying your day. Beautiful shots. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be Ashworth was right. The drone shots are insane.
Speaker 1: I should tell you that. At Firepit Collective dot com
Speaker 1: we have a landing page of all Wishbone content from
Speaker 1: this year, which includes a digital short of drone highlights. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Shoffly and Ogilvy both birdie the third hole and on
Speaker 1: the fourth hole, Ogilvy is the only one to make part,
Speaker 1: which puts Freddie and Jeff one up playing the fifth
Speaker 1: I catch up with couples walking off the tea. How
Speaker 1: are we feeling? We're four holes in a couple of
Speaker 1: shots to five. Skanked the couple, but my partner's burnie
Speaker 1: a few so we are had, which is abulous. But
Speaker 1: the course is great, people are great, and I'm rust
Speaker 1: that's okay. The the idea that the know this, this
Speaker 1: is what this is got like. You play a lot
Speaker 1: of golf, right, You're playing a lot of different events.
Speaker 1: You're playing a lot of different There's nothing like this, No, no,
Speaker 1: And the people to get seven hundred or a thousand
Speaker 1: people last work makes it really the most fun because
Speaker 1: they're gonna see some birdies and it's not a long day,
Speaker 1: um and it's just a it's like a retreat. Just
Speaker 1: got known. So far, we've played four holes and I've
Speaker 1: heard you got goaded about six times, me personally, but everybody.
Speaker 1: So it's funny. Yeah, No, it's the goat doesn't play
Speaker 1: favorites right, like everybody is vulnerable though it doesn't know
Speaker 1: your name's go get him. We're now on the fifth green.
Speaker 1: Ogilvy has a put for a two from about eight feet.
Speaker 1: If he makes it, it would be his second birdie
Speaker 1: of the day. He gets the read from both Aida
Speaker 1: and Annabelle Lee. All right, I got genius right up? Patrick?
Speaker 1: There body Dan giving that FUNDI huh yeah, one of two.
Speaker 1: Shofftly follows Ogilvie's birdie with a two of his own.
Speaker 1: Fred and Jeff stay one up as they make their
Speaker 1: way to the sixth t where with Ben Higgins, co
Speaker 1: host of Bennon Woods. In Warning three in San Diego,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite radio people. Also one of my
Speaker 1: favorite people and usually a guy who play with Alan
Speaker 1: here at Gotill Park. Wishbone Brawl is in your mind
Speaker 1: perfect a man, it's perfect. This is awesome in a word. Right,
Speaker 1: it's a good, beautiful day. The golf is good, just
Speaker 1: bad enough that I don't feel like the worst golf
Speaker 1: of the planet. Yeah. In the second hole when they're
Speaker 1: going right left, I sad. It makes us feel good
Speaker 1: about ourselves. Yeah, oh, hang on, goat it again. Goaded again.
Speaker 1: He said he's played four holes and he's heard the
Speaker 1: word goading six times. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Spending Woods
Speaker 1: guys listen in the morning. Couples was the first to
Speaker 1: tee off on the sixth and yes kicked left toward
Speaker 1: the fence, which, as we say, is getting goaded. Dean
Speaker 1: and Xander even the match at the sixth by both
Speaker 1: making pars onto the seventh, where Ogilvy has a twenty
Speaker 1: footer for Bertie to win the whole. After chipping it close,
Speaker 1: Xander is the only one to Bertie the part four
Speaker 1: eighth hole, which evens the match yet again, and as
Speaker 1: the players approached the ninth, t Ashworth gets on the
Speaker 1: bullhorn to address the crowd for a special presentation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a good match here going everybody, good match.
Speaker 1: I'll square After eight, we got an announcement. A lot
Speaker 1: of people were here in two thousand ninth with Jeff
Speaker 1: Dunk Slam dunk today's playoff walk off, and we thought
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen very often, and we wanted to commemorate that,
Speaker 1: so we made a little quaque here that we want
Speaker 1: Jeff to unveil. It's under this little red carp over here.
Speaker 1: So check it out. Are we ready spading for more
Speaker 1: on the plaque again? We have a short feature on
Speaker 1: the making and unveiling at Firepit Collective dot com. As
Speaker 1: for the ninth, Dean makes a three to win the
Speaker 1: tricky little hole, and so as they turned to the tenth,
Speaker 1: Wilson and shotly take their first lead since the birdie
Speaker 1: at the first. My next conversations with Will Cropp, who
Speaker 1: holds the goat Hill Park course record at ten under
Speaker 1: playing Per Simmons and who partnered with Fred in last
Speaker 1: year's Wishbone Brawl. Will and his wife Morgan gave birth
Speaker 1: to baby Oliver on August nine. The Crops live locally
Speaker 1: and Will, an all American from Oklahoma, gives lessons to
Speaker 1: kids and adults at Goat Hill Park. Will we're through
Speaker 1: nine holes. We got Dean and Xander one up, their
Speaker 1: two under best Paul. Xander has four birdies, Jeff Ogilvy
Speaker 1: has three. Bertie's there one under on best ball. I
Speaker 1: mean it's a pretty even mash. Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: this is the mash that we want. We wanted to
Speaker 1: be close, but I think the goat showing its teeth.
Speaker 1: We've got a little different wind today. It's blowing pretty
Speaker 1: hard out of the northwest, it looks like, and it's
Speaker 1: been a I've heard the greens are fast. That's what
Speaker 1: Dean came by and said. They're rolling out. So I
Speaker 1: think though this backman, we're gonna see some berties. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt. I heard double cut, double roll this morning.
Speaker 1: Fernie and our boys put a little extra sauce. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they wanted to see. They wanted to test the voice,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. But I think that this
Speaker 1: back nine they're gonna light it up. I was feeling
Speaker 1: this is it. I think Freddie's about to get up,
Speaker 1: and I think it's about to get up but then again,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the wind, Look at the pin
Speaker 1: on the leven. The wind is up a little bit
Speaker 1: to them. There's a fine line of the goat and
Speaker 1: this has gotten my double in size. Yeah, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you haven't been out here, if you
Speaker 1: haven't come here, I mean you've got to make it out.
Speaker 1: You can't put it into words. We can try to
Speaker 1: explain it, but not going to do any justice. No,
Speaker 1: never couldn't be with you. Crop was right. The boys
Speaker 1: were about to light up the back nine. Wilson and
Speaker 1: Ogilvie both birdie ten. There were a lot of threes
Speaker 1: at the testy eleventh, which is known as quote Nemesis.
Speaker 1: Shoflely and Ogilvie both birdie the part four twelve and
Speaker 1: the whole is halved with pars on the recently revamped
Speaker 1: thirteen toll as they played the reachable part four. There
Speaker 1: is a four hole carry over on the skins. Wilson
Speaker 1: and Shoffley are still one up on the way to
Speaker 1: the green. I get time with Ogilvie. What do you think, Jane,
Speaker 1: I went through left. You got five birdies on the day.
Speaker 1: Guys are one down, dodged a little bullet there at Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just widen Freddies lock a back non specialists. I
Speaker 1: think him to kick get a special good magic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a thought. It feels good. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks looks good. Uh game? How how much the
Speaker 1: crowded um? What's unbelievable? This is unbelievable. What of tape
Speaker 1: like this should be to a golf We should play
Speaker 1: in this atmosphere and this is this is as this
Speaker 1: is the way it should be. No ropes, dogs, kids
Speaker 1: up front, like priority on like that to me is
Speaker 1: what it grows the game? Well, we know, we know
Speaker 1: because we know this net actual feels like it feels
Speaker 1: like ocean side golfers coming out into a golf and
Speaker 1: they applight. Yeah, feels like it's like we open our
Speaker 1: home to major champion when he's gold medal went. Like
Speaker 1: people who who you know, grew up in municipal golf
Speaker 1: who appreciate the home. Like you walk into somebody's home
Speaker 1: and you say, oh, you have a lovely home. You
Speaker 1: know that's it's just coming courtesy and appreciation for other
Speaker 1: people's whereabouts. It's perfect. This this is actually exactly how
Speaker 1: golf should be and and do you kind of pull
Speaker 1: off of some of this stuff for the sand Belty
Speaker 1: is you're building out what you're building out in your
Speaker 1: home and we have nice robs and we have everybody
Speaker 1: out there. Like golf. What's your golf from behind? This?
Speaker 1: How much better than watching golf from the sod? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course. Yeah. And when you're on the families you
Speaker 1: get to watch golf from behind. Yeah. Right, the old
Speaker 1: Hogan shot right at Marian. That's that's the that's view
Speaker 1: that you want to watch golf from right to the
Speaker 1: big sides and might go on to ramon grains like
Speaker 1: Catty shack on the right. Good, all right, finished strong here,
Speaker 1: let's go. We gotta and before the results of the
Speaker 1: fourteenth hole. Another quick conversation with a notable member of
Speaker 1: the gallery. But Jamie Mulligan obviously works very closely with
Speaker 1: Patrick cant Lane, but also spends a lot of time
Speaker 1: with Andrew Shoff that you guys are under the hoods with,
Speaker 1: you know, two of the best players in the world.
Speaker 1: Obviously an event like this, what's this, what's this? What's
Speaker 1: this mean to you? So much? And that's talking to
Speaker 1: Fred during his warm out this morning, like We drew
Speaker 1: up at Paula golf courses. My parents used to drop
Speaker 1: me off at the Heldorado and wrecked parking Rombach a
Speaker 1: monthly ticket, very smart by them, cheap baby sitting. But
Speaker 1: you know, I get to go in a swanky world
Speaker 1: and how to Zander and Fred and these players. You
Speaker 1: get to see all these cool country clubs. But at heart,
Speaker 1: we're all kind of public off people. And I'm really
Speaker 1: proud of what John's done here on an amazing vision,
Speaker 1: Dean's Investment Care. You're dealing this, It's cool. And if
Speaker 1: there's anything that we can never do to he isn't
Speaker 1: that kind of what it's all about, right? That whole
Speaker 1: give back, pay it forward, grow the game, no ropes,
Speaker 1: put a premium on kids access, you know, value all
Speaker 1: of it, experience, right, Well, life is about doing, not saying,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think not that you social many
Speaker 1: would be great to promote this, but I love the
Speaker 1: idea that we're getting to make this beautiful game that's
Speaker 1: been really good to us for so long better by
Speaker 1: doing stuff like this. And I'm really proud of these guys.
Speaker 1: I've known him, you know, Fred, and I even know
Speaker 1: John for I hate to say it, you know, over
Speaker 1: four decades and it's a long time. That's amazing. And
Speaker 1: like you say, it's about doing that saying. And John's
Speaker 1: a guy out here with the rakes, with the shovels,
Speaker 1: building the bunkers, changing the team like he's leading by example. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most people, we all say this a preach excellence and
Speaker 1: practice mediocrity. You know, he's a low key, chilled guy
Speaker 1: that's not acting like he's kind of doing a thing
Speaker 1: of excellence and everything thing he's going to excellence and
Speaker 1: quiet by himself and knocked the thing out. And it
Speaker 1: was cool to hear about his vision about the same
Speaker 1: before whatever happened. And every time I get a chance
Speaker 1: to stop by and look at it, um, I love it.
Speaker 1: Last thing that is kind of funny is he was
Speaker 1: asking me today because you've played the course since we've redone,
Speaker 1: and I said, out with golf clubs, I played first
Speaker 1: peak golfair with a beer, which is what Another cool
Speaker 1: aspect of all is it that you can go out
Speaker 1: and play this for fifteen bucks as a disc golfe Jamie,
Speaker 1: appreciate you man, Thank you, Thank you. Fred and Jeff
Speaker 1: both make Birdie on the short fot Dean and Zander
Speaker 1: both make pars and so for the fourth time in
Speaker 1: fourteen holes, the match goes from one up to all
Speaker 1: square after they all ripped drivers on the par five.
Speaker 1: I catch up with Xander as we walk to their
Speaker 1: approach shots. How are you feeling? But is this exceeding
Speaker 1: expectations again? Always every year? Right Then't that crazy pro
Speaker 1: golf with all the bullshittery that's happening and all the craziness,
Speaker 1: This at the core is what it's all about. Right now?
Speaker 1: We still have this right right kind of all the
Speaker 1: things you play and all the access you've had, all
Speaker 1: the big events, isn't this set you know? This is
Speaker 1: its purest form? Yeah, I mean I pretty much I
Speaker 1: feel like I pretty much do what I what I
Speaker 1: want to do. And you know, if I really didn't
Speaker 1: want to play this, I just would not playing it,
Speaker 1: you know. So I really I really enjoyed playing in
Speaker 1: this and honestly look forward to every year on the calendar, so,
Speaker 1: you know, and with people kind of committing like you know,
Speaker 1: Fred got everyone excited for this year committing last year
Speaker 1: that was big for us. It's just it's just a
Speaker 1: really special thing for me. And yeah, I can't believe
Speaker 1: it's already been five years. Now. Does it feel like
Speaker 1: you're kind of coming home when you come to something
Speaker 1: like this, this is a connection to the beginning, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, I mean brings you, brings you back,
Speaker 1: um and in the best way possible. Yeah. And the kids, right,
Speaker 1: like all that's happening right, I mean, from the first
Speaker 1: year to now, there's way more kids, which is great,
Speaker 1: more doggs, which I love as well. And do you
Speaker 1: remember do you remember an experience as a kid for
Speaker 1: you when you like got access to like maybe farm.
Speaker 1: I mean you you told us a story about how
Speaker 1: you watch Tiger played two thousand U s hoping as
Speaker 1: a kid. Are there some things that kind of relate
Speaker 1: to I mean, just everyone's so relaxed and you never
Speaker 1: have to worry about sort of anyone really, you know,
Speaker 1: overstepping from a from from our standpoint, which is which
Speaker 1: is really cool. Um, everyone just kind of gets it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, No one's really like hounding
Speaker 1: yet do you do anything? And of course Fred Jeff,
Speaker 1: do you know? And I would love to sign everyone's stuff,
Speaker 1: which is what kind of what's happening organically throughout the day.
Speaker 1: So the whole the whole field just kind of just
Speaker 1: continues to just you know, flow through this whole property.
Speaker 1: So it's it's awesome. It's a beautiful thing, it really is.
Speaker 1: Keep it going, finish strong. We need some meats, some
Speaker 1: juice here for anyone who's listening and knows the goat
Speaker 1: the fifty, especially for the pros, and regardless of the
Speaker 1: fact that they're playing per Simmons, they're all gunning for
Speaker 1: the green and two. It was Zander who was pin
Speaker 1: high right, and he'd be chipping from the fringe while
Speaker 1: he waited for the other players to chip and put up,
Speaker 1: he was approached by two little girls from the crowd
Speaker 1: who wanted to offer him a friendship bracelet. Shoftly, of
Speaker 1: course obliged, and what transpired was something special. We have
Speaker 1: a separate video on this specific moment again on our website,
Speaker 1: social channels and our fire Upit collective YouTube channel, but
Speaker 1: I'll also let you listen in here. No surprise, he
Speaker 1: gets some lucky friendship bracelets. He chips in for Eagle
Speaker 1: and Wilson. Shoftly take a one up lead headed into
Speaker 1: the par four six, the number one handicap hole on
Speaker 1: the course, they have that hole with Pars and after
Speaker 1: they all hit ta shots on the five yard, it's
Speaker 1: Fred Couples who puts first. The fun detail here is
Speaker 1: that Fred finds himself in that same spot where Will
Speaker 1: Cropp needed to make a birdie at the Wishbone Brawl
Speaker 1: last year, almost the same exact pin placement, same caddies
Speaker 1: providing the read. It's twenty five ft ish straight uphill
Speaker 1: with some break left to right. Again. Couples in Ogilvie
Speaker 1: are one down and need to secure a two to
Speaker 1: guarantee the match goes to the for is over his pot.
Speaker 1: Crop is in the crowd. Couples makes the plot, crowd
Speaker 1: goes wild. He high fives Ogilvie and then meets Crop
Speaker 1: in the middle of the green for a chess bump,
Speaker 1: and then Wilson steps up and proceeds to douse any
Speaker 1: ideas of a comeback by making yet another clutch pot
Speaker 1: a two of his own, and the score remains. Wilson
Speaker 1: and Shoffly one up, heading to after they all hit
Speaker 1: t shots up and around the green to the very
Speaker 1: reachable Part four. I walk with Stefan shof Ley, Xander's
Speaker 1: dad who's enjoying a cigar and the golf with a
Speaker 1: few of his friends. And this is what it's all about, right,
Speaker 1: Shrink it down, make it simple that it wasn't like
Speaker 1: in the twenties. I guess remember those old videos when
Speaker 1: they were diving for the balls in the hall. Unlike you, Stefan,
Speaker 1: I don't remember the ts what I mean, like I
Speaker 1: saw the videos, but I mean there's something to be
Speaker 1: said for that, like getting back to the basics. Golf courses,
Speaker 1: no ropes. Kids are freemans, like in a priority, Like,
Speaker 1: isn't that what it's talking about? Yeah, it's real, it's
Speaker 1: really I mean, in one word, if I would have
Speaker 1: to sum it up in one word, it's it's really. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Someone else said perfect, Fine, that works too. I mean
Speaker 1: I was part of you. Proud of Xander for sort
Speaker 1: of staying close to sort of home and the roots
Speaker 1: and giving back and being a part of something that
Speaker 1: is so influential on so many people. Yes, certainly that's
Speaker 1: part of it. But I think the boys are having
Speaker 1: a lot of fun too, you know, It's it's just
Speaker 1: something you don't ever get to do. They still don't.
Speaker 1: They don't like to lose, as they can see that
Speaker 1: the competitiveness is right there, and I think they're having
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I mean, that's why Freddie is here.
Speaker 1: It's loving it. And you can watch the evolution right
Speaker 1: and David and John and all that they've put into this.
Speaker 1: This is this is the good stuff. It's great. I
Speaker 1: think this. We have to limit the tickets the next
Speaker 1: few years even more. Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and thanks for always making services always happen.
Speaker 1: Thank Now we're at the eighteenth green. Fred chips his
Speaker 1: past the whole by about fifteen feet. Wilson chips on
Speaker 1: and has about five ft for Birdie. Zander chips close
Speaker 1: and has a very short put for Birdie. He's within
Speaker 1: four feet, but there's some break to it. Ogilvy has
Speaker 1: a chipped from just off the front edge of the
Speaker 1: green and it's for Eagle. If he makes it, he
Speaker 1: forces extra holes. Ogilvie's chip hits and rattles depend and
Speaker 1: stays on the edge of the cup. We can't believe
Speaker 1: our eyes. It seems crazy. It didn't drop. It's a
Speaker 1: gimme three. And now Wilson and Shotley have to make
Speaker 1: their Birdie puts to end the match, Wilson puts first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was it. Wilson makes it. Wishbone Brawl five
Speaker 1: is in the books. We end the podcast with some
Speaker 1: post round reflections from the players. Team d Zander aid
Speaker 1: under Jeff Freddie seven under on best ball, Jeff, you
Speaker 1: gave it everything you got. Why had a good chip there?
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, well pretty good, pretty good. Now it
Speaker 1: looks so much fun. I mean, what a what a time.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is truly community golf at its best.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is good players trying to help out
Speaker 1: sort of everybody at one of the coolest places in
Speaker 1: the world. I mean, what else can you say? This
Speaker 1: is like I just do this is this is as
Speaker 1: much fun as we have. It's golfers. I mean, we
Speaker 1: have a miserable existence sometimes. I mean it's like it
Speaker 1: looks so dreamy, but it can be a bit of
Speaker 1: a grind. But this is exactly what we do it for.
Speaker 1: And this is as much fun as I've ever had
Speaker 1: playing golf. So you were just staying on a podcast
Speaker 1: last night. There's a lot of lonely nights. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of lonely days as a professional golfer. You're traveling
Speaker 1: you're grinding, you're you know, sometimes the score uh can
Speaker 1: impact what you think of yourself as a person. And
Speaker 1: you come out of something like this, a community like this,
Speaker 1: does this kind of story restore your faith and what
Speaker 1: the game is all about. I always had faith. I mean,
Speaker 1: the game is always there. The game is bigger than
Speaker 1: all of us clowns who play it for a living.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, this this is just what it's all about.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's as I says, community getting together. It's
Speaker 1: it's all inclusive. It's golf is actually meant to be fun.
Speaker 1: It's not meant to be a ground. It's not to
Speaker 1: be too too hard. Um yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 1: else to say. I mean, this place sums up everything.
Speaker 1: If everyone in the world did what Goad Hill does
Speaker 1: with golf, golf would just be like Jeff og will
Speaker 1: be is flying out tonight back to Australia. Big round
Speaker 1: of applause for him making the effort and being here
Speaker 1: and being a part of what's going on here. Jeff Ogi,
Speaker 1: how about Ada and Annabelle By the way, the best
Speaker 1: caddies out here by a long stretch. If anybody wants
Speaker 1: to come out here and like work out how to
Speaker 1: put out here these two there your girls, Freddie, I
Speaker 1: mean hard fought battle, came down to the end. Make
Speaker 1: that put on seventeen, Jeff, you know breaks the Flag
Speaker 1: on eighteen was an incredible display of of the good stuff.
Speaker 1: Right well, yeah, I would like to say, first of all,
Speaker 1: Jeff said a lot of great things, but I I
Speaker 1: want to say real quick, all the people who came out,
Speaker 1: the thousand people, it means a lot to us to
Speaker 1: play in front of a big crowd from the Champions Tour.
Speaker 1: This is like a major. So but a second I
Speaker 1: want I want you all to realize Mr Ogilvie, who
Speaker 1: was my partner, who I let down a little bit
Speaker 1: or a lot, you buried three out of like saw
Speaker 1: Australia to go home tonight. So I just want to say,
Speaker 1: you know, when when people say, like my favorite tour
Speaker 1: stop is Riviera, everyone kind of knows that. But when
Speaker 1: we sit here and we say how important go to
Speaker 1: Hill Go Hill is, we're not just saying it because
Speaker 1: we're here. It's a hell of a spot. And I'll
Speaker 1: finish by saying, I know John Ashworth forever and he
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything second class us and he's done a
Speaker 1: hell of a job here and I really really really
Speaker 1: want to thank everybody, but for coming out watching last
Speaker 1: last year. He grabbed the bullhorn. You said, you know
Speaker 1: Aida and Annabel two of the best of caddies in
Speaker 1: San Diego. I think you can probably reaffirm that. No,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're my two favorite. Um. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: him in a year, one of my buddies, Jamie Mulligan.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to try and get him the
Speaker 1: coming Big Canyon or or Virginia. We said that last year.
Speaker 1: It was difficult, but these two right here, they had
Speaker 1: great caddies too. I don't know him very well, but
Speaker 1: Jeff and I the two twin sisters are very special
Speaker 1: to me. They're just incredible young girl guys. Fred Couples
Speaker 1: of Si Zander. I mean again, we were talking a
Speaker 1: couple of holes ago. How this continues to exceed expectations,
Speaker 1: which is that's saying something right, because every year it
Speaker 1: kind of gets a little bit better, a little bit sweeter,
Speaker 1: a little bit more, a little more kids involved, a
Speaker 1: little more dogs, just keeps going right. I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you summarize this? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I was walking down was talking to Kyler my caddy
Speaker 1: and I saw a baby, you know, going through the
Speaker 1: moguls and the stroller. I saw like ten dogs, kids running,
Speaker 1: saw parents chasing kids, a drone flying around. Um, these
Speaker 1: boys with us. So it's uh, it is so hard
Speaker 1: to sort of keep it, keep this feel, um, and
Speaker 1: you guys have just managed to do it. Kyler and Aiden.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about their efforts and and the fact that
Speaker 1: you're able to spend time with kids and that kind
Speaker 1: of mentorship and the and the the impact you could
Speaker 1: have on kids like this. Yeah, that's awesome. It's definitely
Speaker 1: an important thing to our irresponsibility that we all have
Speaker 1: to get back and um, this is just a small
Speaker 1: part of it. And to John Ashworth, he's a man
Speaker 1: where where where as Yeah, I mean he's just sort
Speaker 1: of our quiet hero out here. You know. Um we're
Speaker 1: in the spotlight and he's just roaming around in the back. So, um,
Speaker 1: we know how important he is. Everyone out here should
Speaker 1: know how important he is. Without him, this one't all
Speaker 1: be here. So thanks to him, Xander shop thing guys.
Speaker 1: Dean Wilson goes to four and one at the wish
Speaker 1: phone four and one. It's the goat of the goat,
Speaker 1: you aced the fit, you rattle at home, you see
Speaker 1: you the deal here on eighteen. Just just summarize an
Speaker 1: event like this, I mean, what can I say? Honestly? Um,
Speaker 1: just coming out here and being able to share this
Speaker 1: with not only with everyone, but just to play with Xander,
Speaker 1: Freddie and Jeff. I mean, it's a it's a dream
Speaker 1: come true for anybody. And just to do it at
Speaker 1: our home at gold Hill Park in front of all
Speaker 1: these people, and everybody's having a great time. And I
Speaker 1: just want to echo everything that they said. I love
Speaker 1: the dogs, I love the babies. I love the noise.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's it's what golf should be and it
Speaker 1: should be fun and enjoyable. Dean Wilson, guys, Dean Wilson's here.
Speaker 1: Let's go, guys. One more round of applause for not
Speaker 1: only the players, but for John Ashwood. What a great day.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for coming out. It does get better and
Speaker 1: better every year. And uh it's because of these guys
Speaker 1: right here. I mean, God, they take their time out
Speaker 1: of the you know, they do it the kindness of
Speaker 1: their heart and their soul. And uh, anyway, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. And hey, let's present the Wishbone. So the Wishbone.
Speaker 1: I got a little something to say. Oh yeah, So
Speaker 1: Dean Birdie's three out of the last four. Xander makes
Speaker 1: six birdies and an eagle. They're eight under combined. The
Speaker 1: winner of the Wishbone Brawl, Dean Wilson and Xander shoffer
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Speaker 1: five at eight pm Pacific Standard time, and if not
Speaker 1: before then, I hope to see you out at the
Speaker 1: Goat for Wishbone Brawl six next November. Put another log
Speaker 1: on the fire. Nobody here is get the time