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You know, I often say when the weather gets nice,
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I'll say, like Teraren, can we do the show outside?
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Today?
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We are, and even better, we're doing it at a
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golf course. We are doing it at TPC at Rivers Bend,
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the home of the twenty twenty five Kroger Queen City Championship,
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presented by P and G.
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And this is a really pretty day.
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Obviously it's going to be warm this weekend, but the
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course is awesome. The folks here do an awesome job
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with this event. Tickets on sale all weekend long, starting
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at thirty dollars Queen City LPGA dot com my friend,
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and I am ashamed to say that I don't remember this.
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Sarah Kellum, digital content manager LPGA dot com is with
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me and as she came up to the table said,
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we've met. You talked to me like ten years ago,
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and I have no recollection of that.
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I don't hold you to that. That's okay, it's been
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a long time. I was a different person ten years ago,
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you were a different person ten here.
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Sadly I was the same man. That's I haven't evolved
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at all talking to the same guy. I love it. Yeah,
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it's awesome to have you. You're a local girl, I
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am a woman.
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Well you can girls, I just don't call her our
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players girls called them women.
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But no. Yeah.
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I grew up in Great Kenny, Kentucky, Northern Kentucky girl,
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and went to Northern Kentucky University, played collegiate golf there
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for four years, and I now live in my dream
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with the LPGA, which is pretty cool. I thought i'd
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be playing out here, but writing about it and telling
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our athlete stories is just as good.
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But that's that's pretty cool, man.
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You know, if it's like the next best I always say,
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like I learned at a young age, I couldn't play
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anything well, so the next best thing is to talk
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about it.
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You played golf at a really high level.
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The next best thing beyond being on the LPGA tour
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would be the have the job you have I.
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Do, And I got lucky. Right out of college. I
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worked for Golf Channel for two and a half years,
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and I thought that was the dream job, and it was.
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While I was there, it was the best day ever
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every time I showed up to that office and got
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to cut highlights or sound or do whatever. But when
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I came to the LPGA, I didn't realize how hard
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and fast I was going to fall in love with
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this organization. And it's such a you know, top to bottom,
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all of our athletes are so great to work with,
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all the caddies, all the staff, like it's just such
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a fun time.
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It feels like the LPGA Tours in a really good place.
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It is.
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We play for over one hundred and thirty million in
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prize money this year. It's our seventy fifth anniversary season.
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We've been around for seventy five years, the old swim
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in sports league in the world, and we're really proud
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of that. And it's been cool to see our athletes succeed.
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I think a lot of people have missed. I've had
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twenty four different winners in twenty three events. We have
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one team event on the schedule right and that just shows,
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you know, the strength of the tour. Like I said,
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top to bottom and really what these athletes are made of.
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And then to get twenty one of those winners here
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the field they have is pretty awesome.
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This always is a good field. I think the players
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recognize the caliber of golf course, the caliber of event
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that this is. I know Karger and p Andng try
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to put on a really good tournament for our athletes,
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and it's noticed. I mean, we have a few different
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grocery store sponsors throughout the season, and Kroger's has come
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in and made a name for themselves the past four years.
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Yeah, and the course here is just awesome.
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It's a
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great golf course. It's a little bit soft
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this year, which I think everybody is very happy about. Obviously,
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some of the scores out there today with Steady wanted
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to say, and I mean nine under anywhere is impressive,
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particularly see River's Bend. But it's a it's been long
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for our athletes and they've been they've been able to
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take advantage of maybe hitting some drivers off the off
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these tea boxes and and going.
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Low nine hunder sounds like for you just sort of
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a casual Sunday morning.
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I wish man, I was really good at making birdies.
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It was really good at making doubles. That was kind
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of that was kind of my yeah. I mean, you know,
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and my dad would kind of go, you know, come on, man,
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you gotta clean up the doubles. I'm like, dude, I
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don't try to make them like it's intentional.
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Uh huh. Yeah.
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It doubles for me, that's that's pretty good. Get in
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the cart and put that in the cart and feel
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pretty happy about it. That that's not bad.
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What is it? What's the coolest part about covering the
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LPGA Tour?
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It's our athletes. You know, I talk all the time,
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people kind of ask me what my career aspirations are,
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and you know, hey, do you want to go to
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a different organization. I'm like, honestly, every time I'm out
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on the LPGA, every time I write a story, every
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time somebody wins out here, it's so cool because no
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matter if you're Nelly courtA, no matter if you're set
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you want to say in no matter who you are,
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your life changes every single time a player wins out here.
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And you've seen that this season with those twenty four
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different champion twenty one of them here, like you said,
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and you know Lydia co tallered her twenty third career
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win earlier this year, right, Yeah, it's a twenty third
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time winning, but it still is a life changing moment
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for her, no doubt. It's it's really cool. And
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you know, our athletes are so approachable, they're so accessible,
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and I think everybody says that about the LPGA or
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says that about their own organization, and that our athletes
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really are you could have a full conversation with Yeah,
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any of their any of their you know, athletes, or
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any of our athletes, excuse me, and their caddies, and
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they're just happy to be happy that you're out here,
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happy to be here.
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I walked down to autograph alley before I got on
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the air here at two o'clock.
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How did you get in because it's it's quite tall. Yeah,
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kind of duck down.
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Duck down, Yeah, but there were players signing.
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It was nice, you know, and you see that it's like, okay,
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they set that up, but the player is actually going
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to cooperate.
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And then it felt to me like the answer was yes.
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It's always yes. And I think that's you know, our
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thirteen founders in nineteen fifty, that was what they had
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to do. They had to say yes to everything. They
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would do fashion shows, they would do clinics, they had
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to they had to fight to get this tore off
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the ground. And I think that's been instilled in our
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athletes as this organization has grown. Is we act like
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found out here and you know, if you have a
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twenty second interaction with a kid, you're creating a fan
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for life in that moment. So it's make we make
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a priority for the autographs.
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That's for sure.
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This event is it's maybe not in its infancy, it's
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maybe in the toddler stage, and so it's it's only
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going to grow and get better. But I mean, it's
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it's got to be a source of pride for you
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to watch something in effectively your hometown take off and
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become in this area at least one of the major
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events on the Cincinnati sports calendar.
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I'm so trying
to convince our athletes that Skyline Chili
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is good.
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They done of them believe I'm over here.
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Okay, we'll work on that.
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We'll take care of that for him.
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But I was really, really, really excited in twenty two
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when I heard that Kirger and p and g We're
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going to bring this event to town. You know, I mean,
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you know, of all people, we're such a great sports
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city and women's golf does have quite a bit of
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history here. It's just history, and we needed to bring
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some sort of golf event back, I think to the
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Tri State area. And I'm really excited to see what
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this continues to do.
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How does this compare to other events of this on
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this tier on the tour.
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It's a pretty good field. I mean, I think that's
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everybody's first questions, who's gonna come? I think this week
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we have a substantial amount of our role ex. Women's
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World Golf rankings, top twenty five in the field, there's
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top four players in the world are here, and I
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think that tells you everything you need to know. The
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athletes are coming. They appreciate the golf course, they appreciate
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the caliber of what this event has been coming and
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has become over the years, and they continue to show up.
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I mean, Nelly's played it I think two or three times,
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if actually debut is last year since their second time here.
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A couple other of our athletes have played it. Every
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year has been out here, So it's been cool to
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see them buy in to what Cincinnati Golf can offer.
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Do you like do you get to play the courses?
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I wish this one I actually played in college. Did
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not play well, so I will not elaborate on that further.
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Those records are probably kept on the internet. Unfortunately.
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It's really yeah, I had a rough rough time here,
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but it's beautiful now. I mean they're they're tearing it up.
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I couldn't certainly couldn't do that, right, But now I
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haven't played too terribly many of our courses is.
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On my list though, okay, very I mean you got
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to be able to pull some strings. I'm sure you'll
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be okay.
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I've played timber On, which is where our SEAMI Group
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Tour championship's at, and that one eats my lunch every
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time I play it. But it's fun. It's fun to
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go out there and pretend I could do this.
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Now when you say to eat your lunch, what is that?
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What is that versus me?
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At Dad hadn't played in a while, was probably eighty
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low eighties.
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Oh yeah, first world problems.
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Yeah, college golf problems.
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It's hard to be retired. Oh come on, yeah, I've
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never shot an eighty in my life.
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We'll work on it.
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I got you. I was. Hey, we've had LPGA professionals
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all over them. That will absolutely help you.
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I need the help.
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Yeah, we've got all sorts of teaching professionals. I'm sure
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we can get hooked up with.
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Somebody, no doubt about it. What will I find if
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I go to LPGA dot com this.
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Weekend, lots of things I'm right in like the wind.
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We have so many great stories already on the on
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the leaderboard as we speak. Nellie Corda's at the top.
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Obviously is now World Sprinkings number two, but she won
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seven times this season, still looking for that first one
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of the year. So excited to see how she continues
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to turn over the weekend. And we've got quite a
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bit of really cool video content you I should go
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check out. There's a you scroll down on our homepage.
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There's a little kind of story section you can quickly
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digest highlights and check out what's happened over the course
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of the first round and throughout the rest of the weekend.
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Awesome. Can't can't thank you enough for stopping by.
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Appreciate it.
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And uh maybe next year we'll be back.
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I hope it's not ten years again. We got we
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gotta hang out more next.
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If I'm here next year and you say to me, hey,
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I talked to you a year ago, I promise you
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I'll remember.
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Are you sure?
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Where did we Where do we talk to It was?
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It was over the phone, So I did give the phone.
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I can't remember who connected us, but I remember they're like, yeah,
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Muhager's a real deal. It's like you need to.
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Use your tex I guarantee you. Whoever you're talking about
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didn't say that. No, Mowagger is a real person.
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He made said not the real deal. H thank you
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so much.
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Appreciate it.
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I appreciate it.
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Sarah Kellum, Digital Content Manager, LPGA dot com