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00:00: Imagining a ridiculous golf trip with friends.
03:50: World woods was one of our favorites and now Cabot made it better
09:00 Vision for World Woods Golf Club: "Imagine Augusta and Pine Valley and the most amazing practice facility in the world"- PGA
15:29: Expanding golf range with lodge offers convenience.
18:09: Excited for trip, bring your yoyos
19:47: creates enjoyable, inspiring golf courses.
22:42 DITYAMA plays 18 with Gerry Carey.
36:34 Adventurous golf hole offers two different approaches.
39:48 Golf hole reminiscent of original, still cool.
43:34 Course still early but will be amazing.
50:53 Appreciative of invitation, interested in future visits.
51:46 Grateful shoutouts to friends and kangaroo.
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Let me just paint a picture here for you folks. Imagine
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coordinating the most ridiculous guys golf trip ever.
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You probably have a couple of yoyos in your group that are going to make
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the trip really fun. You can't wait. You've been waiting all
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year for this ditcom. And so you get there now, you guys get, you get
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lucky. They put you in one of the lodges that's right next to this
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amazing driving range that has track men right outside your
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door. Now, your two knuckleheads that you brought with you, you're worried about them knocking
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one over, breaking one. That's the only thing we had to worry about. But other
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than that, you're so stoked. Then you play the most amazing golf ever, which we'll
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get into the courses here in just a second. But then you're like, I want
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more. So you could do that at the squeeze while there's light,
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or you could even if you're really a degenerate and you still need more
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time, you could go play the wedge at nighttime.
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Did I tell you about my albatross?
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Welcome to another episode of did I tell you about my albatross? I'm
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your host, Albie. This is the golf podcast for honest degenerates. It's
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like teeing up with your favorite foursome every week and diving into the best stories
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in and around golf. You guys ready to tee off? Let's go.
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We added chilling on the right. Welcome. Welcome to
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another edition of did I tell you about my albatross?
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I'm your host, Albie. Boy, we got a good one for you tonight. I got
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my main man panda here. Say hey, panda. Hello,
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world. So we got a special episode because we're going to be talking all about
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a special experience we had recently at Cabot
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Citrus Farms here in
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Tampa. They're in Brooksville there. In Brooksville. Would you
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call that Brooksville? Yep. In Brooklyn. The
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address says it does, I think so. He who questions the panda
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is wrong. Yeah, I should have learned my lesson on that a long time ago.
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When we do stump the panda, which we may have time to maybe
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sneak in a couple of, stump the pandas. I have a couple on deck for
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you. But really, tonight's episode, panda Cabot Citrus Farms had us invited.
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Dit Yama, did I tell you about Malbatraz for a,
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what would you call that? A preview play? Yeah, for media day preview play. Yeah,
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media day preview play. And it was spectacular. We're media.
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That's one of the things I was like, wow, we got a media we are
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media, and I know we are because we were there with a bunch of media
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people. Like, there were newspapers. It was crazy. They had
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tv people there. Actual media. Actual media, like, people with cameras.
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And then we were there with our camera phones. I had a drone
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with me at one point, but, man, I want to talk a little
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bit about Cabot citrus Farms because this. Let me tell everyone a little bit about
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Cabot citrus Farms and why it is so special to me.
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World woods was a golf course in the
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same location. They basically, Cabot bought it from the people that owned
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woods. It was just a guy, too. I think the previous owner was like one
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japanese dude. One japanese dude. They had an amazing vision for it. It
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still was a great golf. The track was amazing. It's one of my
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favorite courses to play in Florida back then,
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when it was in good shape, in my opinion, it was one of the
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most enjoyable rounds you could play in, least. At least for
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me. And they had two main courses there. They had pine
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barrens and they had rolling
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oaks. Those were the two biggies. Right. Their practice facility there.
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Then we're talking about the old version. We're going to get back to the cabot
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here in just a minute and what they've done with it. The practice facility there
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was like barred. I mean, it was amazing. It was crazy. I think
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they had the 360 range.
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The old one was. Yeah, it was circular. Yeah, circular, which. I love those. And
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then in the putting, you had practice putting facility. That was
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unreal. Always just an incredible time. And the nice part about is the
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location. So it's in the middle of nowhere, Brooksville. No offense to all the Brooksville
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listeners out there, but there's just nothing around there now. That place is blowing up
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lately. I'm not saying, but back then there was nothing there other than
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farmland, but it's still really easy to get to. So, like, from
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Tampa, it's just a 45 minutes drive on a very easy, like, tampa
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is terrible for traffic, but getting out there is a piece of cake because you
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just take what we call the veterans and it's about 45 minutes away
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or so. Really easy to get to from Tampa, really easy to get to from
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Orlando. And then it's just like
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they just kind of ran out of money. I feel like. I don't really know
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the exact story, like, what happened to Worldwoods, but it definitely
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declined over the past few. The last few years that they were
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around. But again, still, the layout, the track
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was just unreal. Lots of trees. I'm talking about the old version. Lots
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of trees. I believe that pine
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barrens. That course was my personal favorite. A lot of people like rolling
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oaks more, but that is a loose replica of Pine Valley.
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Did you hear that? Is that true? Maybe, like, some of the holes were
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templated the same. The whole big thing about Pine Valley is if you're on
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one hole, you don't see the next hole. And there was, like, some
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vibes of that out there. I also like pine barrens more. You did? Okay.
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Instead of rolling oaks. Yeah. People said that rolling oaks was.
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And this could be a rumor. I should probably dig into this here a little
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bit. But people had said that that course was a loose replica of
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Augusta. I think, once again, yes, some of the holes were
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templated the same. Yeah. I think pine barrens was
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really probably more of a pinehurst. Okay. With, like,
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the waste area and the blowout and the sand and the elevated greens. Yeah,
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exactly. So it's exactly what he just said. So in the waste
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areas, you could ground your club. Lots of waste areas. I'm
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talking about sand everywhere. And I spent a lot of time
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there. I mean, the waste areas,
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I kind of learned how to play out of them because you just find them
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there. But I do think that the
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layout for me, if I remember
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correctly, the clubhouse was a joke. Like, the clubhouse. Clubhouse was very
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1984. Right. Like, the experience was not. It's a public course. I mean, it
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was always a top 100. Yeah. Let's see. So Pine barons hosted
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a shell's wonderful World of
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golf. Yes, that's true. Tom Fazio, this is the guy.
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That great name, Tom Fozzie, gets a lot of
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hate. Why does he. What do you mean? Yeah, the Foz. Why does he get
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hate? Because it's, like very new school,
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what he builds. He kind of does his own thing. I'm okay with.
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I like Tom Fazio. Some of Tom Fazio courses are in
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my favorite courses. But Tom Fazio gets a lot of
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okay. Definitely from the architect.
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Like, bro, you know what gets? He's not a tillinghast
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or Alastair Mackenzie or Donald
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Ross. So he's going to get hated on. Pete Dye gets hated.
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I mean, you know, I'm looking here like, the people that his competitors were.
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Pete Dye, Jack Nicholas, and Arnold Palmer. How do you feel
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about architects that aren't. I mean, maybe this guy's just an amazing golfer, and I
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don't know about it. He probably is, but how do you feel about the
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golfers that are not pros, that are.
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Sorry. The architects that aren't pros. You prefer pro
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architects, or do you prefer. It doesn't matter to you?
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I mean, I think anybody's capable of making a good golf course. I think
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that the couple of courses that tiger has done have been really
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good, at least the ones that I played. I think that. Which ones does
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he have? He has blue Jack in Texas, which is sick. He
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has Paines Valley in Missouri.
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Terrible name. It's misery is the name. That's how I pronounce
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Missouri, because it's a miserable state. Sorry. Missouri. Wow.
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So all the Brooksville people are going to hate us. Missouri and Missouri
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and the whole state of Missouri. All right. No, he has. Yeah, tiger has some
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cool golf courses, for sure. I've never played
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a Jack Nicholas course and walked off and been like, that was
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sick. And then what did Arnold Palmer build? Was it Bay Hill? Is that.
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He has saddlebrook? Okay. Yeah, the Palmer course is
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Saddlebrook. No, there's. Arnold Palmer has some good golf courses. Honestly, I'm sure
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Jack does, too. Yeah, he probably does. Jack seems to make
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golf courses just super long. No, I think that the best
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architects were from the early, kind of the turn of the
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century, early 19th century. Your Alastair
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Mackenzie's, your. Aw. Tillinghast. Jimmy Donald Ross.
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What about Jimmy Demerit? Jimmy Demerit? I don't know that I've ever really
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played a Jimmy demerit. I grew up playing a
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Walter Hagen course in Billings, Montana. Okay. I
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like that one. He played a lot of golf. I would love to maybe do
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a deep dive on just, like, architects, because I know you know a lot about
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it. I just want to learn a little bit more about
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him. But all that being said,
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maybe one. Day have albatross national. Exactly.
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That is our ultimate goal. Our ultimate goal is to get enough subscribers, which I
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have no idea what the number would be, but it would be to get enough
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subscribers to where we can build our own golf course. And I think it's 18
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par fives. 18 par fives. All albatrosses. And the
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green slope towards the hole to make it pretty easy to get an albatross.
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Okay, so this may be the tie back to what I was just saying. So
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Joe Black, past president of the PGA of America,
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said, this is like having Pine Valley and Augusta
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plus the best practice facility in the world in the same
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location. That was his comment on world woods.
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That's a pretty crazy
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saying. It was one of my favorite places. I would not put it. I mean,
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I've never played Pine Valley. Everyone, maybe, like, when it opened. Yeah,
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I mean, I think that was definitely the vision for it. So that was worldwide.
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The tie back to that was. It was cool before. Exactly. It was cool before
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and it's cool now. And top 100, I mean, it was a top 100 public
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course. You could play. I mean, all the time. I don't think I ever saw
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it out of it. Yeah. And we need good public golf. That's right.
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We want less people to play golf. I thought me and you, but we want
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to shrink the game. But we do need more public golf. That's true. Okay.
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All right. I now work at a public facility, so I got to be pro
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public golf. Yeah. Shout out, by the way, just so everyone knows, I'm going to
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give a free plug here because they're certainly not spending
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the advertising dollars on us yet. But add to performance, why don't
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you tell the folks what you're doing down there at add to performance? Add
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to performance is now the world's hottest upstart golf
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academy. We're going to single handedly, day in and day
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out, create the next generation of
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elite golfers. Yeah. Here in Lando Lakes, Florida, home of John
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Cena. What
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is his. Does he do that? Does he do the. What did you just
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do? Did you do like his, like he plays when he comes
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out. I also love wrestling. If you want to have a wrestling episode. Did you
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go to the one in St. Pete? No. Did you want to kind of. Oh,
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dude, just tell me what I got you on there. So your media
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now. You could have got in Johnson.
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I always forget. I think it's so funny he lives here.
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I'm excited about the academy because I think you guys are doing some pretty cool
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things. That's actually owned and created by a friend
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of the show, Brad Brunery's part. And then also the kangaroo. The kangaroo,
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we call him. And then we also have shepherd. So
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friends of the show and everyone knows Shepard
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started as one of our co hosts and still heavily involved
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in the pod. So we're really excited about it. I think these guys are just
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going to absolutely kill it. And you, if you live in the Tampa area,
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in fact, if you don't live in the Tampa area, they even have ways that
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you can still get involved with their academy. So check them out. All right, so
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there's that. There's a free plug for. For you guys to build your academy.
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You guys are going to be jam packed now. You already are. Yeah. Worldwide got
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sold to Cabot about. In the Cabot family,
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I think about two years ago, maybe a year. And a half.
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And I've been so jazzed
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about this to the point to mean between us and Cabot.
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Please don't be mad at me about this. I've driven up to
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Brooksville a few times during this whole process where you
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guys were moving around tons of dirt and getting rid of a bunch of trees,
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moving and shaping the whole earth around there. I went up there a few times
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and just looked through the fence in awe. I could not wait for
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this place to open because, again, it was one of my favorite tracks, and it's
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just going to be spectacular. Everything I hear about Cabot, everything they're doing in Texas
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with their courses there that they're building, everything they've done mean, you
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name it. In fact, we're trying to plan a trip up to the Nova Scotia
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course. We just start what happened with our day. So we get there just
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chronologically. Yeah, exactly. Let's describe the day. So we
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get there. They were. Again, we were treated like media, so it was just phenomenal.
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We get there. Super nice people, by the way, canadian people.
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They're all from. The canadian people are just. They've got to be the nicest people
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on the planet. Like, name me another group of people that are nicer than
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Canadians. Yeah. You don't have one? No. I mean, I grew up in
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Montana, so we're cool with Canada.
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Are Montana people nicer than canadian people?
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No, Canadians really are pretty nice. Yeah.
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They fucking giving away health care and
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pills and maple syrup all the time. You can get maple syrup and pills. In
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Canada for free. It's included in your taxes.
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Okay, dude, that's. Well, like, people get, like, insulin from Canada because it's like,
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four. But.
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But I guess my point is the hospitality, the service was just
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like, we've been abandoned. I've been abandoned. I know you used to work,
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like, and I get it. People are spending a lot of money to go to
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these destination type courses, and you've got to just kill it on service.
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But right from the get go, I get into the guard
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gate, and even the lady to guard gate was, like, the nicest lady ever. Oh,
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dude. She's like, yes, exactly. And so we pull in a little chilly
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that day. We've got all this on our socials. We're going to be posting all
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this, and then I'll be flashing. We'll be editing in. If you hop on
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our YouTube, make sure to check out all the videos, because we
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did capture some pretty cool video of it. I flew a drone around, like I
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said, but we get in there and then we had dit Yama
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gear provided by Swanee's, which shout out
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to Swannie's, thanks for hooking us up on that. We get there and they're like,
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oh, why don't you walk in here? And we walked into their
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new. What would you call that? Like, golf
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pro shop. Was that the pro shop there that. They had us in, or what
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was that? No, where we walked in was just really like,
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merchandise house. They were like, selling headcovers and shirts. Dude, their
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merch is great. Like, this hat they gave. Merch is cool. They gave us hats.
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Give us hats. Towels. They give us a towel. Look at that thing, dude. And
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over here, look how big that towel is. That a regular sized towel? Yeah, it's
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like a caddy towel. Yeah. The logo is cool. So the logo is just kind
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of like an orange, but then it says cabot. Yeah. Let me get this
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on. Citrus. Citrus. Yeah. And I use
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this, so thank you, Cabot. When you get there. For anyone that's ever been to
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worldwoods in the property, it looks totally different in a couple of different ways. One,
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I'd say that the fact that they have the
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lodging already up, like, I knew they were going to be doing these really crazy
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lodges. We actually, as a group of buddies, we looked
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at investing in one. It was a little outside our price range,
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but it looked like they're going to be really nice. And I think that
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opens. And they're already going to open those in end of February, early
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March, she said. So I thought that was crazy. And they're popping
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them up all over. So they have that you pull in, you go to this
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little thing, they get us some cider. We start walking down to the range,
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and then, dude, my mind was absolutely
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had. What's cool about the range there in the practice facility?
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Keep in mind, you just heard that comment about the old PGA,
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dude, saying that it was like Augusta and Pine Valley with
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a world class practice facility. So, I mean, I don't
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know how you top that, but these guys, they're heading in that direction because
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all the lodges are like, at least they have a row of lodges that are
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right in front of or right behind
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the driving range and the driving range, which would
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be amazing for a guy's golf trip. Like, you have a guy's golf trip and
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you can literally walk out your cabin, go hit balls whenever you want. Oh, and
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by the way, it's not just like a regular driving
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range. Each bay or each. What would you call that?
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Okay. Each bay has a track man, an outdoor track, man.
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I've never seen an outdoor track, man. Have you? I've definitely seen an outdoor
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track, man. Yeah. I've never seen it done the way that they did it, where
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each individual little bay or stall has its own track, man. That's like, in
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a little case. Yes. That you can dick around with and hit balls. That was
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pretty cool. I've never seen that before. So what else is cool about it
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is at nighttime, you could have a guy's golf
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trip, and then if you wanted to go hit balls at 1030 at
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night under the lights, you could do that putt or putt.
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Here's the other thing. They have a short course, but wait, there's more. No, the
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short course. They have two short courses, I guess is what
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you'd call it. They have what's called the squeeze and. The
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wedge, in addition to putting course and
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218 hole courses. Correct.
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Let me just tell you a little bit about the squeeze. Squeeze offers nine holes
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that range from 100 yards to 550 yards. And
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architect Mike Nuso drew inspiration
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from the world's best short par fours to create a course that is full of
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fun and drama. That's the squeeze, the wedge,
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an eleven hole. Why? Have you ever heard of an eleven hole course? I've never
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heard of that. Yeah. If it's like a short course, okay. The preserve,
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abandoned, is 13. Okay, I've seen. Yeah. That's the only thing I could really compare
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it to. So the wedge eleven hole par three course that offers
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vast waste areas, greens with dramatic slopes, and lots of
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varied lies. Golfers will encounter some of the cabot citrus farm's most
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interesting design features at the Wedge and lights
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located throughout the course. So this is the lit one. Let me just paint a
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picture here for you folks. Imagine
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coordinating the most ridiculous guys golf trip ever.
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You probably have a couple of yoyos in your group that are going to make
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the trip really fun. You can't wait. You've been waiting all
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year for this ditcom. And so you get there now, you guys get. You get
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lucky. They put you in one of the lodges that's right next to this
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amazing driving range that has track men right outside your
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door. Now, your two knuckleheads that you brought with you, you're worried about them knocking
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one over, breaking one. That's the only thing we had to worry about. But other
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than that, you're so stoked. Then you play the most amazing golf ever, which we'll
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get into the courses here in just a second. But then you're like, I want
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more? So you could do that at the squeeze while there's light.
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Or you could, even if you're really a degenerate and you still need more
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time, you could go play the wedge at nighttime, which I think is kind of
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cool. Have you played night golf ever?
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Kind of, yeah. I see stuff on instagram all the time. I'm like, dude, they
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should totally. I've done it on lit golf courses. I've never done it
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with the ball that glows. It's just pitch black. That seems. Could that
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frustrating. Yeah, I don't think. Oh, no, they do that. No, but
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I've heard it can crack your cloth. You got to be careful with those because
00:19:08
they can crack your clothes, by. The way, though, the speed you
00:19:11
produce, that flip hook. Yeah.
00:19:15
You're my coach. Don't tell people that you're trying to sell an academy here,
00:19:18
dude.
00:19:23
That's interesting because this is real quick here. That's not
00:19:27
the same guy as what. We were talking about. That's the other. So that's Newso,
00:19:30
and then that guy's Kyle something. Okay. Got you. Yeah, Kyle.
00:19:34
Okay. So. Really? Okay. So let's talk about two. There's actually
00:19:37
two course designers, right? We have our main
00:19:41
man, Nuzo, which I didn't get an opportunity to meet Newso. His name is
00:19:45
Mike. We should probably call him Mr. Newso. I don't really know him on a
00:19:48
first name basis. So Mike Newso, he actually is the guy that led a lot
00:19:52
of the short course and practice facilities. He's also heavily
00:19:55
involved in what we think is the putting. The 21, which I think is the
00:19:58
putting course. And then he's got a goal
00:20:02
of creating. This is his tagline. I just want to make sure people get a
00:20:05
good feel of what we're talking about here. His goal of creating enjoyable courses
00:20:09
that inspire people to play. All right. He
00:20:13
also has the number. You'd appreciate this. He's also the designer of
00:20:16
Wolfpoint club in Port Lavica. That's probably not the
00:20:20
right way to say that. You probably know better. Me in Texas. Have you ever
00:20:23
heard of that? The number one golf course in Texas?
00:20:27
What? The number one golf course in Texas. It's called
00:20:31
World Point Club in Port
00:20:34
Lavaca. Lavaca. Lavaca sounds better, right?
00:20:38
Yeah. I'm going to have to fact check that, because I didn't.
00:20:41
You didn't know that? We'll circle back to that. Okay. We'll circle back around to
00:20:44
that. Yeah. So, anyway, I thought that was it. But then
00:20:48
the other gentleman, which we did get a chance to talk to really nice guy
00:20:51
Kyle Franz. Let me just say that
00:20:55
again. Kyle Franz. Kyle Franz. Now he's leading the renovation of Cabot
00:20:58
Barons. And that's really pine barons.
00:21:03
That we played. Yeah, that we played. And we'll get more into that. So that's
00:21:06
actually going to be called. Let me pull up the rue. The
00:21:10
rue. That's the rue course. How do
00:21:14
you think they came up with the names for these? I don't know. You could
00:21:16
have asked him. I didn't get a chance. Well, they did actually have a CEO
00:21:20
there, like I mentioned, and really nice guy. He just had
00:21:23
a lot of actual media around. Like, they were
00:21:27
newspapers and stuff, asking questions. I could have probably found that out. He's probably told
00:21:30
people. So, anyway, I guess my point is
00:21:34
that the practice facilities
00:21:38
are just going to be unreal. And then the fact that they're lit up, I
00:21:42
love. All right, so now let's get into. So, once we hit
00:21:45
golf balls, we're feeling good, by the way. They had an entire spread there with,
00:21:49
like, I'm talking about muffins. We had, like,
00:21:52
continental bread, but, I mean, it's a different level. You got more cider. You're all
00:21:55
hopped up on the cider. You loved it. And then they
00:21:59
had. When I say, like, parfait, it was like
00:22:02
granola. You had fruit. You had the whole deal, and it was like, take what
00:22:05
you want. Just go take it. Everything was. Yeah, we didn't pay shit.
00:22:09
Didn't pay shit. They were super nice. Generous. Okay, so now
00:22:13
we're all hopped up on the cider. We've hit balls in the track,
00:22:17
man. Our stats are off the chart. I'm
00:22:20
cracking golf balls with the lit golf. There's no, like, lit golf
00:22:24
balls. I don't think. I think they just left, of course. So now we're ready
00:22:27
to go play. And they were like, okay, it's a shotgun deal. And
00:22:30
we started on hole 18. We were 18.
00:22:34
A. 18 a on Yama is not a b group kind of
00:22:38
group. Nah, dude, we're a group specifically.
00:22:42
Now, this is important because I want to describe the dit Yama
00:22:45
foursome we had. We had quite the forsome shout out to Kangaroo, because
00:22:49
kangaroo, actually, I think, in my opinion, was the all star of this trip,
00:22:53
because he actually took a backseat. And that never happens for friends of the show.
00:22:57
But he did it because we had a very
00:23:00
special late ad. Mr. Jerry
00:23:04
Carey. Now, anyone that's in golf, like, social
00:23:08
world, like, if the social media stuff or the content creators. Dude,
00:23:11
this guy, Jerry Carey, first of all, super nice
00:23:15
guy. I reached out to him. I told him we were playing cabot. He wanted
00:23:19
to come play and check it out. He's from Canada, the
00:23:23
western side, British Columbia area, I think. And he was like, oh,
00:23:26
my God, if you guys are playing that new cabot course I want guy to
00:23:29
play like I want to play. And I was like, all right, I've already got
00:23:32
to force him. Let me just talk to Brad Bruner. Brad Brunner,
00:23:35
Kangaroo resident tour pro of.
00:23:40
You know, big hand in this academy that these guys are doing and just a
00:23:43
super nice guy. And Brad was like, and it was great
00:23:47
because actually what happened? Shepard, our
00:23:51
other co host, he said, oh, yeah. Like, I can't believe you do
00:23:54
that to. I can't believe you'd ask Brad to take a seat. Like,
00:23:58
he's not even going to want to, man. Like, why would you do that after
00:24:00
you've already invited him to play? I felt like a complete jerk. I'm like, he's
00:24:04
totally right. I'm sorry. And
00:24:08
I called Brad and I'm like, look, man, I apologize.
00:24:12
And he said, dude, who fucking cares? I'm going to go play
00:24:15
like Cabot. First of all, that's amazing. And he was like, I'm going to go
00:24:18
play a couple random people that I'll meet. That's fine. Who cares?
00:24:22
So it's just know, throwing more shade at your boy being
00:24:26
here, it's fine. But it was great. So he's the MVP, but
00:24:30
Jerry Carey joined the foursome with shepherd and
00:24:33
Panda and myself. We teed off on,
00:24:38
I mean, right from the beginning. So the couple of things I noticed right away.
00:24:42
So we'll get more into this here in a second. We interviewed the architect. We
00:24:45
interviewed Kyle. Yeah, Kyle Franz. We interviewed him after
00:24:49
and he said some really insightful things, which I wish I would have talked to
00:24:52
him before because I would have played the course a little different and it would
00:24:54
have been cool to kind of see his vision for it beforehand. I was trying
00:24:58
to remember it after the fact. I will say the thing that was really
00:25:02
interesting is the trees. Like, if you played worldwoods in the
00:25:05
past, pine barrens especially, there's lots of trees everywhere.
00:25:09
Lots of pine trees, lots of vegetation. Now, I know these guys are still built.
00:25:12
This is a preview play. So this course hasn't been final.
00:25:16
Like, it's going to just get better and better and better. Of course, still spectacular,
00:25:20
but it's going to get better. The first thing you notice, or at least I
00:25:24
notice, is that trees are gone.
00:25:28
There are some trees. They kept, I guess, the really healthy and the beautiful ones.
00:25:32
But like the ones that you have to hit around. Right on 14.
00:25:35
Exactly. I don't think that they got rid of close. He said something like
00:25:39
5000 trees, but I don't think they were critical
00:25:43
to the experience. And I think the other reason he said that was because
00:25:47
he was trying to open it up for a couple of things. One,
00:25:51
obviously, this is sort of the trend with a lot of these courses. Streamstong is
00:25:54
very much like this. I don't know. Stream song had trees there in the beginning,
00:25:58
but they're also trying to let through a lot more wind. So it was
00:26:01
extremely. I don't know if it was just the day or if what he was
00:26:04
saying. I'm sure it had something to do with it. Dude, the wind was crazy.
00:26:08
Like, the wind was actually really crazy. There's no trees to block it. And that
00:26:11
is one thing. When you'd play in the summer at pine barrens, or even
00:26:15
rolling oaks for that matter, it was just stagnant because there was no
00:26:18
airflow through there. So that's the one thing they wanted to change. The other thing
00:26:21
he mentioned is just that he wanted the experience to be more of
00:26:25
a. He wanted the distance between tea
00:26:29
boxes to be a lot shorter, a lot easier and just a better experience. And
00:26:32
I think they accomplished that really nicely. I think that was just one
00:26:36
thing I observed. But those were my initial. When I first
00:26:40
got out there, I'm like, it looks completely different.
00:26:44
It's a new course, so that would be my. Any other
00:26:48
observations on your initial thoughts when you first got out there? What was going through
00:26:52
your head? Caddy. We had a caddy. We did have a caddy. So
00:26:56
you can take a caddy initially.
00:26:59
Yeah. I mean, that's the thing that you notice is it's like way more open.
00:27:05
Like a band in that isn't trails. Or like a
00:27:08
scottish course or a stream song. I think a stream
00:27:12
song is like a good comparison. I think that
00:27:16
it's a stream song kind of feel. Which one?
00:27:21
I guess black is it? So it's a link. You're saying it's like a links
00:27:25
course? I don't like using that word when it's not an actual links
00:27:28
course. That is actually one of my big frustrating things.
00:27:32
All right, sorry. It has to. A links course links the
00:27:36
land to the sea. There's no sea there. Is that what that means? That
00:27:40
is what that means. Wow.
00:27:44
So when there's no actual ocean. I hate when
00:27:48
people say links. I had no idea that's what that meant.
00:27:51
I thought why they put road bunkers in middle of nowhere
00:27:55
Florida anyway, to me it felt like,
00:27:58
okay, that makes total sense now. You can say it's kind of. Yeah, Linksy.
00:28:02
There's a lack of trees. It's very windy. There's sandy areas.
00:28:06
But yeah, to say links is
00:28:10
actual. Yeah, that's a panda. No, no. Okay. No bamboo for
00:28:14
you. Good to then. So then we
00:28:17
start playing. I mean, I think being with
00:28:21
of, I was really interested to see how good Jerry Carey was.
00:28:25
He's got literally tens of millions of
00:28:29
TikTok views. He does this thing. For those of you who don't know, he does
00:28:32
this amazing thing. I'll put a link here. And all the stuff that we do.
00:28:35
He does this amazing thing where he walks to someone randomly in a parking lot
00:28:39
in like a random country club. He did Carawood, by the way. Carowood. Yeah.
00:28:42
And he's like, hey. He says, oh, this
00:28:46
guy's going to be perfect. And he walks up to him and he's like, oh,
00:28:49
can I caddy for you today? And these are just random.
00:28:53
Typically these are higher handicap. Like the guy got a. Carol was like a 27
00:28:56
handicap. And they're like, they've never had caddies in their life. They don't even know
00:28:59
what they are. And he's like, come on. What if I get you a par
00:29:02
today? I'll give you a new pair of italian golf shoes or
00:29:06
like something crazy. And they're like, okay. And then he learns
00:29:09
their story on the walk, which I love. I mean, it's a great concept gone
00:29:13
viral. Tens of millions of views nice enough to join us.
00:29:17
And I was really curious to see how good of a golfer he was. Pretty
00:29:19
good. I mean, he could get around like the know. I don't know what his
00:29:22
handicap was, but he was good. He scraped it around. He scraped
00:29:26
it around. I mean, it was a tough course, like for probably Jerry for.
00:29:30
We made Jerry play the backs. We did. We didn't play the
00:29:33
backs, but we played pretty. We played the one ups. We
00:29:37
did. Yeah. We went on one up for him. We played the one ups. They
00:29:39
were like, you should play the tangerine. We like, nah,
00:29:43
plays the one ups. That's funny. So they have different types of citrus
00:29:46
for the tea. Well, they had specific
00:29:50
oranges on the tea box and I think
00:29:53
literally everybody else played from like 5500 farms
00:29:57
and we played from like 6800. And it was still. And Brad
00:30:01
played from like 74. Yeah. So Brad Bruner again, previous pro,
00:30:05
he walked off the course with the course record. Did he tell you that? No,
00:30:07
they gave it to him. No, because he didn't finish because we had
00:30:11
practice. Well, then he didn't get the course record. What do you mean? If he
00:30:14
would have pared out, he would have had it. Oh, well, he didn't part out,
00:30:17
though, right? We can't give that. Well, come on. What are you talking about? You
00:30:20
know what really drives. If that drives you nuts about links. You know what really
00:30:23
drives me nuts are when people try. You think he couldn't have course records 17
00:30:27
and 18? I mean, could he? Sure. Did he?
00:30:30
No, I think it was just 17. Because we
00:30:33
started 17. He left. He had to play one hole. Yeah, one hole. Which I
00:30:36
cannot believe he's saying. The Caddy wanted him to say. He's like, nah, why wouldn't
00:30:39
he? I mean, I don't. Because we had practice. I left, too. Yeah. Boy, you
00:30:43
could have helped practice together for him a little bit.
00:30:49
Well, dude, he left before I did. Listen, I mean, I played 18 holes. I
00:30:52
get the course record. Dude, it's been open for. It's not even open. This is
00:30:55
a preview play. So of course he's going to get the course record. He even
00:30:57
said, you're not going to witness the course record, which I guess no one did
00:31:01
because he didn't get it because he stopped early. Okay, we'll just go back. Yeah,
00:31:05
exactly, Cabot, we'd love to. Hey, we need to go get that.
00:31:08
Course free on Wednesday. We're free on Wednesday. We can probably make Thursday next.
00:31:12
Anyway, we'll send you our dates when we're available for this. Again, we can't wait
00:31:16
to get but that. No, I think that's a really good
00:31:19
point. Know, with Jerry, he did kind of tough it out with this. And
00:31:23
I thought he kind of held his own. Jerry also, by the way, got closest
00:31:26
to the pin on one of the holes, which was the most ridiculous.
00:31:30
Yeah. If you remember, it was not a very well struck.
00:31:34
No, but I have a theory on that. I have a theory on that. Like
00:31:37
hole in ones and shit like that happens from
00:31:41
not always super great golf shots. Oh, totally. Because you got
00:31:45
to get it like. Running like a putt sometimes to go in. And so, yeah,
00:31:48
it's like Jerry hit one to a foot on a
00:31:52
190 1 yd par three that carried 108
00:31:55
yards. Now, here's the other thing. He let his girlfriend shout out to
00:31:59
Carol. She was with her. She was with him, and she was awesome. They're
00:32:03
both super nice and great. Again, canadian people.
00:32:07
She knocked in this putt. That was amazing. All right, so then we have Jerry
00:32:11
Carrey, and then as we're kind of making our. And there are holes out there,
00:32:15
I will say for Pine barons, if you remember, there are a lot of holes
00:32:18
that, look, you can kind of tell that those are absolutely the
00:32:21
same holes that were there. That was what Shepard was
00:32:25
very like. I don't know. He was like, they're all
00:32:29
different. I was like, no, they're not. No, not at. Like, a lot of them
00:32:33
are not the same, but
00:32:36
they're the same. Right. They're super,
00:32:41
Kyle. But they left the cool holes. Exactly. I thought Kyle did a really good
00:32:45
job with. I'll put excerpts of the interview we
00:32:49
had with him on the podcast here. I'll mix some of these in. But I
00:32:51
thought he did a really good job keeping the
00:32:55
essence of a lot of those marquee holes. Like, at least I say
00:32:58
marquee. They were my favorite. They were the ones that I remembered the most. So
00:33:02
you had mentioned the wide world or the shells world
00:33:05
of what the fuck they call. I think it's wonderful world of golf. Wonderful world
00:33:09
of golf. It's like 2002 or three. I tried to watch
00:33:13
it. It was Phil and somebody. It was Phil and Tom's, I believe.
00:33:16
I don't know if that's right. Yeah, we got to find that. Yeah, we got
00:33:19
fat. Check that. But it was awesome
00:33:23
because I just remember there's one hole in
00:33:26
particular which we can just talk about now. So number
00:33:30
15 is my favorite. Yeah. 15 is the
00:33:33
short guy. Yeah. Again, for all of
00:33:37
our Tampa people or anyone that's played worldwoods in the past. Awesome hole you get
00:33:41
up there, depending on what your tea box looks like, depending on where you're playing.
00:33:44
If you're playing the dit Yama stick or you're playing the dit Yama teas. What
00:33:48
kind of citrus was it? All the tangerines. The tangerine. The way ups
00:33:52
tangerines is probably like a part three. Yeah. Tangerines are. We played it from
00:33:55
258, I remember. Was that it? We played it from
00:33:59
258. And there's only one tea box back. Yeah. Adjusted
00:34:03
258. Yes. I'm going to put this in the
00:34:06
YouTube. Please subscribe to our YouTube because
00:34:11
I'm going to put a picture of the hole. And it's
00:34:15
just so cool the way it is because, again, we're in the middle of nowhere.
00:34:18
Brooksville. It's just all waste area world
00:34:22
was always. But. But he kept a lot of the essence of that hole, and
00:34:26
it's an elevated t box. And then you can go left, you can lay
00:34:29
up left, and then it's a real easy approach. Again, real short hole.
00:34:33
Or you can take the right version and you got to clear.
00:34:37
Now, before I remember worldwoods, you actually had to clear some water and
00:34:40
stuff. Was there water there this time? I can't remember. I
00:34:44
don't think that in the current iteration there's any water. Yeah, I think,
00:34:48
yeah, it used to be a little bit more challenging if you took
00:34:52
it right. Basically, you can hit, like, a short iron
00:34:55
way left, and then flip a wedge. Or you can physically
00:34:59
try to drive the green. You can't miss right. That's kind of what you
00:35:02
did. You're in the weeds. If you miss right of
00:35:06
anything, you can kind of miss Long, but you definitely can't miss right.
00:35:10
So if you take the green on, you've got to physically land the ball, like,
00:35:13
basically on the green or just long. Yeah. If you do, then it's like
00:35:17
you make birdie. Yeah. That was one
00:35:21
where you and shepherd were just a little, like a hair short of the green,
00:35:24
which, I mean. Again, it was high, flew the flag, and lipped out
00:35:28
for eagle. Oh, you did? So you were on the other side of the green.
00:35:31
Or wait, I thought you were short of the. I hit the top ten shot
00:35:35
of my entire life, so thank you for remembering it. I was too busy finding
00:35:38
mine over on the right hand side when this. We have video of yours, though,
00:35:41
and you saying, that's not drawing. That's true. I do have that. All right,
00:35:44
I'll put that up on the YouTube, too. It was funny. Yeah. And you're like,
00:35:47
well, it's kind of drawing. And then it tried. It went way right, but no.
00:35:51
And then I flipped a little mean. I got a par on. Yeah, you
00:35:54
saved. I. But
00:35:58
Shepard was short. Okay, so you hit the most amazing shot in your life. Almost
00:36:01
went in, and you got an eagle. That's right. I do remember your eagle now.
00:36:04
That's right. I leapt out for eagle. I just remember abatrosses more than.
00:36:08
Yeah, okay. But that is a really fun hole.
00:36:12
And he kept a lot of the essence there. Yeah. I vividly
00:36:15
remember playing there before and hearing
00:36:19
the last time I played it, I knew that it was going to be sold
00:36:23
and it was going to get redesigned, and I was like, I hope that they
00:36:26
keep this hole the same. They made it
00:36:29
different, but not worse. They made it better, and it's still there,
00:36:33
so that makes me happy. Yeah. And then the one before that one, actually,
00:36:37
14 is pretty cool because that's a
00:36:41
par five. You can go left or right. I
00:36:44
always went right. So, like, you hit a drive and then you can actually go
00:36:47
up the right side and you have an elevated shot into
00:36:51
the green. Like a really cool green there. Almost like a postage stamp
00:36:55
or like what most people do, and I know you guys did. You can go
00:36:59
left, and that's probably even an easier shot. I
00:37:03
was just all over the place off the tee, so I had to. Play that
00:37:05
right side. But anyway. But anyway, that's also a cool hole. And I felt like
00:37:08
that looked a lot different just because of the lack of trees, but it was
00:37:12
still the same. You played it the same and that was fun. So that's cool.
00:37:15
So the other one that I'll call out is 16. So that was
00:37:19
your favorite one, right? Par three. Yes. 16 has probably
00:37:23
the wildest green that I've ever seen on a golf
00:37:27
course. I kind of agree.
00:37:30
It has a bowl that kind of funnels everything
00:37:34
towards it. So if you use the
00:37:38
backstop and play the bowl correctly, at least where the pin was, you
00:37:42
have a 1ft putt for Birdie like I did. And if you don't
00:37:45
hit that exact spot, you make a seven
00:37:49
like you and Shepard did. And there's really no in between.
00:37:53
Yeah, because. Exactly. I mean, I hit some bad putts.
00:37:57
Think. But you're right. You also had some good putts, though. That's
00:38:00
just tough. If you're standing in the
00:38:03
middle of that bowl, what is the shelf? The shelf
00:38:07
is at least 4ft tall.
00:38:11
Four and a half feet around you. Like, all around you. I've never
00:38:14
seen. Well, I wonder. They're not always going to put that. They're always not going
00:38:18
to put the flag there. No, but it doesn't. Yeah, that's okay.
00:38:22
If they put it above it, you still have to deal with it. No,
00:38:26
totally. I think it can work out to your benefit. They had a hole in
00:38:29
one on that hole. They did. Because. I think it can work out to your
00:38:32
benefit. Because if you get anywhere near there and you land right, then you can
00:38:35
go around the bowl and it'll kind of feed it down. And who knows? They
00:38:38
had a clown face on it, too. And a windmill. No, they didn't. They should
00:38:42
have some of that. But I think it's kind of cool.
00:38:46
I don't like the gimmicky stuff, and that is a little gimmicky, I will
00:38:50
say. But I also think you can play it and they can position the
00:38:54
flag where it's just a really. I don't mind it.
00:38:58
I'm not ascribing. It's not really like a gimmicky thing where it's like. I don't
00:39:01
enjoy playing it. It's actually kind of interesting and fun. It kind of reminds me
00:39:05
of a very small version. It'd be like a micro
00:39:08
version of streamsong black number nine, where you have that huge
00:39:12
bowl and all that kind of funnels down. It's like that just
00:39:16
shrunk down to like a micro machine level. Yeah. The green itself is not
00:39:19
that massive, but the bowl that you
00:39:23
have to deal with is pretty severe. There was another par
00:39:28
three, though, on the beginning front that has
00:39:31
like a. That's like a baritz hole. That's a template that a lot of people
00:39:35
use. Yeah, well, that par three
00:39:39
number, man, I wish I knew the numbers here.
00:39:44
I don't know the number, but par. Three, so it's like six, seven,
00:39:48
eight or something. Yeah, it's exactly. It's one of those. And I remember
00:39:51
that one actually looks very similar to the old hole, except,
00:39:55
again, the trees and surrounding area look different. But I love
00:39:59
that par three on the original pine barrens because you'd go over
00:40:02
what had that really cool lake in the front of it, and then you can
00:40:06
actually hit it on the right side and it would funnel everything down the left.
00:40:09
So I thought that still. You could still see a lot of that in that
00:40:12
hole. It was a little different. It was shaped a little different, but that was
00:40:15
still a cool hole. I didn't play very well in that
00:40:19
one. Who has the most templates? Does
00:40:22
Palmer have a template that everyone follows? So it's just CB?
00:40:26
No, it's not just CB, but there's. All sorts of
00:40:30
McAllister or what's his name?
00:40:34
Alistair McKenzie. Yeah, I mean, he has some
00:40:37
stuff that people definitely are going to copy, for sure, because he's really good,
00:40:41
by. The way, this episode, panda. So excited because this
00:40:45
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you're a proud divot user. Yeah. So, I mean, I will say so. We are
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doing the segment. It's been slow rolling to try to get going. We just got
00:40:59
so much other stuff going on. But I've got like three or four of these
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recorded. I've got just about every swing aid imaginable. Like,
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I really do. I'm the swing aid guru, as you know. We're going to get
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so divot board. Amazing. And I'm not just saying
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going to promote something. Now. We may review stuff that I don't necessarily believe in.
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Give you my. Well, I think we should rank all the. Yeah, I think you
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00:41:31
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00:41:39
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then in the coupon section, you type in,
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or I think code section, you just want to type in
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albatross. All right. So then the other thing that we
00:42:11
had was the halfway house. Those are
00:42:15
sick. Yeah. So mid round, he passed it a couple of times. We passed it
00:42:18
at least twice. Like on the front. On the back. Yeah, they have this amazing.
00:42:22
I mean, it kind of looks a lot like the lodges that they're building, but
00:42:24
it's all, like, modern. I don't even know what you call it. Like modern farmhousey.
00:42:28
Kind of like really well done. Like, you go inside side, and it's like, oh,
00:42:30
shit. They had beers that we'd never seen before. They had this one creamsicle
00:42:34
beer. I wish I could give a shout out to the
00:42:37
brewery. I mean, it was a local brewery.
00:42:41
Maybe I'll try to put that in our comments, too, so they can sponsor us.
00:42:44
But it was delicious. I kept going back to them, like, hey, do you have
00:42:46
any more? And they're like, no, we don't have any more of those. No, you
00:42:48
drank them all. Yeah, we're giving you everything else. Please leave us alone. They gave
00:42:52
us sandwiches. It was barbecue. Was incredible. Well, that. The other thing. So the
00:42:56
food at the turn, it wasn't like your typical, like, I think
00:42:59
Carol would shout out the concert. You go in there
00:43:03
and they're like, oh, yeah, no, we got this hot dog that's been spinning for
00:43:06
three days. That'd be good for you. And then the bread's got mold on it,
00:43:09
but whatever. Shout out concert. We love you. Thanks for having us. But
00:43:12
no, it's like, no, I was actually there. They did have hot dogs. They were
00:43:16
hot dogs? Yeah. Like, really good ones. And then the guy goes,
00:43:19
oh, yeah. Or you could do our barbecue sandwich. And by the way, this barbecue
00:43:22
has been, like, slow roasted or whatever they smoked for the last two days. It
00:43:26
was incredible. And we went in and talked to the guy,
00:43:29
and just the service and the food and everything was just phenomenal. So that's going
00:43:33
to be great. So then after that,
00:43:40
the rest of the course, just in general, I thought,
00:43:45
it's still really early. A lot of the vegetation needs to still grow in,
00:43:49
like, the stuff that they just planted. And it's going to be
00:43:52
spectacular.
00:43:56
And then I think it's going to be an amazing. For a
00:43:59
guy's golf trip, it's going to be whoever,
00:44:03
listen to this. If you don't live in the area and you're trying to look
00:44:06
for a good guy's golf trip, especially if it's easier for you to get to
00:44:09
here in Florida, dude, this should be at the top of your list, in my
00:44:12
opinion. This should be definitely up. If you're. If you're
00:44:16
looking to travel, for sure. I mean, you can
00:44:19
make a pretty sick week of fly
00:44:23
into Tampa. Fly into. Yeah. You can hit Cabot. You can hit
00:44:27
streamsong and then probably go back to Orlando because
00:44:31
Orlando is better golf than Tampa, but you can hit a lot of sick places,
00:44:34
for sure. Yeah. Where would you go in Orlando? Where would you go play golf
00:44:38
in Orlando? Yeah, you specifically. I like the,
00:44:42
like, I do like the Waldorf. I mean, Orange County national is.
00:44:47
I mean, and by the way, if you guys would have us out there, I
00:44:50
could easily edit this out. They had a live event. Well, they did.
00:44:54
But to me, I've played Orange County. I used to live in Orlando.
00:44:57
Shout out College park. Shout out all my I four cup guys.
00:45:02
I love a lot of courses in Orlando. The Orange County national, to me,
00:45:06
was hit or miss on.
00:45:10
Not quality, but the condition. It's a
00:45:14
factory. It is a factory. They have a lot of play out there. They play
00:45:17
a fuck ton of golf. And they've had Q school out there a bunch. I
00:45:20
know. I mean, it's a great track. I don't know. I'm not trying to
00:45:24
knock them because their tracks are awesome out there. With Panther,
00:45:28
what do they have? Panther. Oh, crooked cat. Crooked cat.
00:45:32
Yeah. Crooked cat. Yeah. The Waldorf's good.
00:45:36
There's like the four Seasons. There's a Ritz course. There's lots of good golf
00:45:39
in Orlando. There's a ton of amazing. The private courses in Orlando are amazing.
00:45:43
Like, you got Lake Nona, you got. Some of the private courses are just.
00:45:47
Yeah, so, I mean, I think all in all, it was just an incredible experience.
00:45:50
So then afterwards, they had an amazing food truck
00:45:54
situation. So their food trucks are great. They had all kinds of different
00:45:57
brewery, craft beers, really
00:46:00
eclectic stuff, like cornhole. It's just a really fun
00:46:04
vibe. Like a really fun, down to earth. I don't think that was just for
00:46:08
media day. They're going to have those food trucks there. They're going to be
00:46:11
there for the guests there, which is awesome.
00:46:16
And then that's right next to the short courses. So then that's kind of leads
00:46:20
you right out there. I think the rate for the course that we played.
00:46:23
Isn't that insane either? Well,
00:46:27
yeah, I think it's like 160 right now, but I think that could be because
00:46:30
it's so new. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe not. I hope they kind of
00:46:34
keep it closer to that. Yeah, I don't ever like
00:46:37
$500 golf courses. No. I mean, no, not at all. And
00:46:41
hopefully we'll have some resident rates. But I think for me,
00:46:45
the overall consensus is just. I
00:46:49
think it's got some growing in to do. But you can
00:46:52
tell it's going to be absolutely spectacular. You can tell to me, in
00:46:56
my opinion, I think it's going to be better than streamsong. Very
00:47:00
comparable. I love stream song. I'm not a huge. I'll just say
00:47:04
it. Streamsong. You haven't had us out. Cabot did. That's true. Have us out,
00:47:08
dude. Change my mind. But I've played black a dozen times and it's. Black's my
00:47:11
least favorite, though. Yeah, me too. I love red and blue. Why do you keep
00:47:14
playing it, then? Well, I mean, I'll still play. No,
00:47:18
no, it's still a great chorus. I'm just saying for the expensive, that's
00:47:22
usually an expensive know. And I don't like. I don't
00:47:26
like spending a lot of money, but I mean, if I'm going to spend a
00:47:28
lot of money, then I'd rather play blue or red, honestly. And I'm usually playing
00:47:32
it in the summer to kind of save a little bit of money. And it
00:47:34
just gets so hot out there. It is. And that's a
00:47:39
man, like, you're beat to shit after that. And then you're like, you get in
00:47:43
your car and you're like, God damn, I got to drive back to Tampa.
00:47:46
Yes. It's not easy to get to. It's so much easier to get to
00:47:51
know. I do have to pay the caddy, though. You do. Because of PGA. I
00:47:55
don't pay old memorial. I don't pay streamsong. I don't pay anywhere.
00:47:58
It's crazy, dude, get your shit done. I just need to get my shit
00:48:02
together. What would it take? What would you take? Someone like me, you know
00:48:06
where my swings at? I'm a five, like a four and
00:48:10
a half. What would it take for me?
00:48:15
Tell me the exact process. For me to get my PGA card. You got to
00:48:18
pass a pat, which is you got to shoot, like,
00:48:21
7777-7878 it depends on the course
00:48:25
in the same day. That's the one. Kind of got to play five rounds in
00:48:29
one day. What are you talking about? No, you got to pay 36 holes in
00:48:31
a day. It's 15 above the slope or the course.
00:48:35
Dude, I could totally do that. Then what? I take a test or, like, three
00:48:38
years of bookwork. They stagger so that you
00:48:42
can't just, like, I'll just do it on a weekend. Like, you have to do
00:48:45
it. Go to a seminar. Do it. Go to a seminar. Do it. Go to
00:48:48
a seminar. But I could do. Yeah, it's open to everybody. Yeah.
00:48:52
Anybody with checkbook. Dude, that could be a really good hook for
00:48:55
the show. Is like, Brandon becomes a PGA of America
00:48:59
member. Yeah, take. Take. You guys on a journey. I got two kids. Can
00:49:03
a regular guy get his PGA card? What do you call
00:49:06
that? PGA professional? Just say, be a PGA of America member.
00:49:10
Okay, PGA of America. You do get a physical card, but I always feel like
00:49:13
card insinuates like I'm a tour player, which,
00:49:17
yeah, if I'm drunk enough, then, yeah, I am. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, if you're
00:49:20
drunk enough. Dude, when I tell people about you on the show, I'm like, yeah,
00:49:23
I want my co host. He's a PGA tour card. That happens
00:49:27
all the time when you're like, yeah, PGA member. They're like, you play with
00:49:30
Rory, and. It'S like, yeah, dude, all the time. How many high noons have I
00:49:33
had? Yeah, I've had, like, ten. And I'm like, yeah, and he's sick.
00:49:37
Yeah, I love Rory. He's a different level than us,
00:49:40
but, I mean, we're all kind of, like, we're all good golfers. No, I fix
00:49:43
slices, bro. Yeah, you're slice fixer. And then would I actually be
00:49:47
able to go give lessons? Yeah, shut the fuck. I mean, if
00:49:50
somewhere hires you, you can play free golf for damn near forever. That's
00:49:54
all I could. So I could do that. Yeah. All right. The only
00:49:58
place I've paid money to play golf in in the last, like, five years is
00:50:02
Carolwood. No way, dude. Because I pay a membership, dude. But
00:50:05
it's a discounted membership. Hopefully I didn't pay an initiation. Oh, that's
00:50:09
good. All right. All right. So that
00:50:13
shout out concert. Shout out concert. Dude, I got to be honest with you,
00:50:16
man. I still pay them monthly, though. Anyway, we'll do
00:50:20
another episode on my thoughts on concert. We should review
00:50:24
all the concerts. There's actually a lot of courses now.
00:50:27
Yeah, there are. I think we can play them for
00:50:31
free ish. It's 25. You pay the cart fee so it's included. Oh, yeah. We
00:50:34
should do that for sure. Yeah, we played the one in Amelia.
00:50:38
We played the one in a couple of them,
00:50:42
like near Ponte. Pontavidra. Thank you. Yeah, you don't like
00:50:45
that one, do you? Well, I don't like saying that word. I can't say
00:50:49
that sounds go.
00:50:53
So. Yeah, man, I think overall, thanks for having us.
00:50:57
Thanks for having us, Cabot. It was really a special day.
00:51:01
You guys got a lot of special things going on there. We'd love to go
00:51:05
have us at some of these other courses, dude. We'd love to go check out
00:51:07
some of these. Mean we're going to plan a trip out there anyway. Yeah, we'll
00:51:11
make you a deal, everybody. If you pay for us, we'll come
00:51:14
to. We don't have to pay. We'll come review your golf course. You don't have
00:51:18
to pay anything. And we'll make a podcast about it. We will do a whole
00:51:20
entire podcast like we just did here. And you don't really even have to treat
00:51:23
us all that. You can leave us alone. Just give us a tea time. Yeah,
00:51:27
we'd like us to the first tea. What's the course record? I think cabbage
00:51:30
got a really good model for people to follow with the free towel, the
00:51:34
breakfast spread, the interview with the architect, actor,
00:51:38
the ball marker. And then Jerry Carey coming
00:51:41
in thought, well, they didn't have anything to do with that.
00:51:45
That was us. That was all us. All right. Shout out Jerry Carey. Shout out
00:51:49
to Carol, Jerry's companion. She was
00:51:53
awesome. Shout out to kangaroo. Thanks again for taking the backseat to
00:51:56
Jerry. And thanks, Shepard, for allowing
00:52:00
Panda and I to run shop on you that day. We took lots of money
00:52:03
from him, which I loved. That was amazing. We love doing
00:52:07
that. And then most importantly, of course, shout out all of our
00:52:11
friends at Cabot anyway, thanks for listening. We'll catch you all
00:52:14
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00:52:29
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00:52:33
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