The Rich Conwell Show - September 2, 2023

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Welcome to this week's Rich Comwell Golf
Show. A lot to talk about this
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week. We're gonna start locally,
then we're gonna go regionally, and then
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we're gonna go internationally. We're gonna
skip right over the national thing, get
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right to international. Obviously, the
big topic in the world of golf is
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the Ryder Cup, in the Ryder
Cup selection, which I'm going to talk
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about a little bit later. What
I wanted to do to start off the
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show is literally just talk about local
and something just occurred locally in the last
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week that is really, really,
really kind of cool. As everybody knows,
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I am the head golf professional at
Wheeling Country Club and it is the
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oldest golf course in West Virginia.
It has great history to it, obviously,
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being that old it was. It
was founded in nineteen o three,
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I'm sorry, nineteen o two.
I'm sorry. I always do that.
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So it's one hundred and twenty one
years and it's obviously gone through some some
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changes, none of which anybody alive. I don't believe anybody's alive that authorized
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the changes, but but they saw
oversaw the changes. But it spent through
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some changes. But it is the
oldest continuous continuously used golf course in the
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state of West Virginia, which is
really really really cool. And with all
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that history comes some pretty big events. We are there's three West Virginia Opens
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that were held there. One one
by GUYMANA Raider Jewett way back in nineteen
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thirty four. Raider Jewett was a
great player. He was also the president
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of the Tri State Section PGA,
so he won thirty four. And then
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in nineteen forty eight West West Virginia
Open was held and that was won by
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Sam Sneet. And then in nineteen
eighty two the last Westernia Open was held
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at the last Western You Open,
held at Willing Country Club occurred and that
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was one by Scott Davis from down
in Charleston. Obviously, I have never
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spoken to Raider Jewett because he was
alive in nineteen thirty four, which is
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almost one hundred years ago. I've
never spoken to Sam Sneet because he's been
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dead for fifteen years, if not
longer, but almost twenty years now.
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But I have spoken with Scott Davis. And it's a really really really cool
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to see somebody walk on that property
and go, yeah, I didn't win
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the Westernia Open here at West Virnia
Open is a a hugely important event in
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the region and obviously in the state. So it's it's really, really,
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really cool to kind of revisit that, and frankly in the interests of honesty,
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because I'm trying to be a pretty
honest guy. The country club has
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fallen on hard times in the since
about nineteen, about two thousand, two
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thousand, two thousand and five,
twenty ten, following them some hard times,
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and I think we've we've actually turned
the corner. We have we have
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new ownership, and we have a
new direction, and we are trying to
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to become much more part of the
community, and I think we're starting to
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succeed. It is not taken.
It's taken us longer than I wanted to
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take uh and it but it's it's
a it's a slow go, but we're
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gaining on it. And we have
I think, I know, a very
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welcoming atmosphere to us, to about
us, and we have a very welcoming
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environment when you walk on the property. So my point to all this is
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very simply this, we are a
we are turning the corner. And one
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of the ways we're turning the corner
is we actually were fortunate enough to obtain
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or not obtain, but two be
awarded a Tri State Section PJA Major Championship.
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And that was last Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and it was
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absolutely awesome. It's Tri State PGA
match Play Championship. So what happens is
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is that we have you have to
be a member of the Tri State Section.
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And I know that all of you
were taking really good notes when I
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talked the first time about how the
PGA of America is set up, but
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we are. The Tri State Section
is one of forty one sections in the
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in the country. So the Tri
State Section is all of West Virginia,
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part of Maryland, and part of
Pennsylvania. So golf professionals sign up,
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they come in, they qualify for
match play, and then they have a
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match play and then they have match
Play Championship. We have two divisions.
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We had the Senior Division and we
had the Regular Division. So the qualifying
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scores were really for. What happened
was they all teed off at eight o'clock,
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eight eight, eight o'clock, I'm
sorry, eight thirty, I apologize
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eight thirty on Monday, and play
eighteen holes low thirty two qualified for match
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play. We did have a playoff
and actually the number one seed was a
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defending champion who was John Aber from
Allegheny Country Club. And but the qualifier
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the low round was Kevin Shields and
Devin Gee. Devin is the head professional
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Oakmont Country Club and Kevin is a
tremendously good player. Also shooting sixty eight
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in the qualifier was Dan Rodgers,
who I will mention a little bit later.
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And Mike Van Sickle was two hundred
part in the qualifier as well,
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who is a very good player,
used to play the corn Ferry Tour,
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very very very good player. And
then Easton Renwick who is obviously a very
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good player. He shot one under
par. I'm I promise you that he
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I'll bring him up a little bit
later too. Some of you might know
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that name, but we'll talk about
him. So yeah. So then we
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then we got on from it,
We got after it from there, and
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we went right into the match play
Championship and you know it. Then Monday
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afternoon we played the first round and
we got down to the round of sixteen.
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We got down to the run.
We played the round of sixteen on
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Tuesday morning, round of eight on
Tuesday afternoon, played semifinals on Wednesday morning,
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and the finals on Wednesday afternoon.
So I bring all this up because
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people don't realize that a major championship, I'll be a regional major major championship
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was held on our property. And
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by
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the Wheeling newspapers and they indicated I
indicated to each of them that it was
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an at It was the first step
towards an returned to prominence for our golf
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course. I think we can return. We can return the prominence, because
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that's why. Outline to three Western
opens we've had, we also had way
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back in nineteen thirty six we had
a PGA Tour event. So I'm not
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advocate. I'm not saying in any
way, shape or form, we're bringing
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a PJA Tour event to wheel and
Country Club, don't get me wrong,
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but we can have events like this. This is a golf course that is
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good enough to do that. I
think that, and I do not begrudge
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them at all. Over at ogleby
Danny Ackerman, Shane Rice, PJA professionals
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friends of mine, good golf professionals, do a really good job at at
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the Jones Course and the Palmer Course
and the Crispin Course, and but and
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we seem to have fallen wheel and
country clubs seems to have fallen into a
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backseat situation when we think about big
time things happening, and we're not.
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And that's why it was so important
that we have this event, that State
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Section match Play Championship, and that
we had quality golf played, quality matches
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played, and very very very close
matches generally speaking throughout. Also with the
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with the senior division that was eight
players, and that was exciting too,
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because you know that got down to
obviously the final obviously the final two.
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Now that what they did is they
played eight on Monday afternoon, the round
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of eight, round of four on
Tuesday morning, in the finals on Tuesday
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afternoon, and that was run one
by, excuse me, run by one
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by Tom Bieler from Yakigany Country Club, who is a who is a veteran
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who was in the army. It
was a very good player, obviously,
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and he was fortunate enough to to
beat Dave Anderson. And I'm sorry,
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Steve superbric excuse me? Who is
Steve Suprick is a former West West Virginia
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University football player, and so Steve
has strong ties and his daughter actually is
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a former WVU cheerleader, and so
he, Steve has strong ties to the
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area. And Steve is a very
good player, and so he, uh,
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he and Tom Bieler battled it out
and they and Tom came out on
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top. And but then I and
I want to shout out to Tom because
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it's great playing by him. But
most notably, what I really wanted to
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talk about is I wanted to talk
about the fact that who was on our
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property and this is this is my
fault for not getting it out. This
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is my fault for not getting more
more publicity or pub as they say.
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But you know, as I said, we had the head professional Alleghany Country
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go out in Pittsburgh, head professional
Oakmont. You know, Dan Rodgers is
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the head professional I mean, sorry, excuse me, is the head golf
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coach at Carnegie Mellon University. Uh
he you know we you know, Frank
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Blaizewick is the head professional Econic Queneston
Country Club. Uh. I'm just looking
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at different names on the on the
leaderboard, and it's just it's fun for
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me because you got ty Rausch.
Ty Rausch is a West Virginia legend.
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I'm sorry, you know, West
Virginia slash Ohio legend, but ties ties
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from what it works in West Virginia. He is a legend. Shane Rice.
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Shane Rice made it to match play
from from Ogilby. You know,
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I you know that that's that's awesome
stuff. I mean, and I'm just
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I'm just kind of leafing through these
these names, and I know none of
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you none. It doesn't mean anything
to you, but it means a lot
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to me. And I was really
happy to have have them here. I
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mean, you know, the guys
that didn't qualify for match play, I
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mean friend of mine, good friend
of mine, Jay Maul from Saint Clair
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Country Club, good player, didn't
qualify, couldn't qualify for match play,
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so he didn't qualify for match play, you know. And you know another
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guy that made it into match play
was Roy Vucinich. You know. Roy
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is the former head professional at Allegheny
Country Club, one of the best players
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in the region for a long time. Is a well known name. He's
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he had won the event before he
contested in match play. He made it
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to match play, qualify for match
play. Roy seventy six years old.
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It was remarkable. It was remarkable
to see him play. It was remarkable
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to just watch it. And it
was really really really kind of cool to
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see it. You know. So
obviously with match play you get a limited
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of somebody gets a limited every match. And you know, it was the
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final four where Easton Randwick versus Kevin
Shields. I'm sorry, the final eight,
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excuse me, you know, and
you know I'm not gonna go through
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I'm not gonna read them to you. But but the finals were Talent Cryble
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and and Kevin Shields and it went
nineteen holes. It's a great match.
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It's a great match, absolutely great
match. And I'm going to tell you
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that I was really really really happy
to see Talent's behavior and Talent works over
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Glengary Golf Links. And I'm going
to tell you that I was fortunate enough
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to take a picture with with Talent
as the host professional. But I was
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talking to him before I before I
went over to to take the picture.
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And then and he was talking to
Kevin, the person he had just just
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beaten, and he said to Kevin, Kevin's older than Talent. Talent's a
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young guy. And he said to
Kevin, he goes you mind if I
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call you in a week or so, pick your brain about how I play
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this game. And a massive sign
and respect, I mean massive sign and
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respect. And and Kevin ever gracious
after just losing in nineteen holes, said
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hey, anytime you need to call
me, anytime you want to go play
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golf. It'd be great to see. But you know, it's just really
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really really impressive just to see them
interact that way, and just the absolute
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professionalism of it. You know,
it was really really really kind of cool
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and and and it's there's a there's
a deep, deep, deep effort at
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competitiveness. There's a deep competitive flow
and atmosphere going through it. And it
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was really really really cool to experience
it. It was really cool to host
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it, really really happy to host. It was sponsored by Rolex and as
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I said, the Tri State PGA, the guys who came in, Dave
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Wright, Andrew Wood, mac Wolfe, Larry Lipperetti, just unbelievable job and
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running it and conducting it. And
you know, I've got to tell you
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that that I've been told I was
told no less than four times by competitors
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in this event that was the best
the golf course has been in years in
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years, you know, and I
would shout out to Justin Eckman, you
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know, our golf course superintendent,
you know, in his crow. I
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mean, because to get ready for
those things, you got to cut grass
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at weird hours of the day,
whether it be five thirty in the morning
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or eight o'clock at night. You
gotta get ready for him. And it's
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just there's a lot of behind the
scenes stuff that goes on. You know,
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you have to be exactly where you
put your pin placements because the players
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know where it is because you do
a map and all that fun stuff.
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But it was it was really really
really kind of just an overall great experience.
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I truly think that, you know, we put our best foot forward
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Whillam Country Club debt. I mean
Chef Eric Hempelman and and his entire staff
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would be Chef Carl Pessi and and
and Chef Bailey Griham all and and the
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other guys in the kitchen. You
know, I want to mention everybody.
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I can't mention everybody, but but
they all put their best foot forward.
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Unbelievable food during the event, golf
course in incredible shape, you know,
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my golf shop staff, you know, did a really good job. Is
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it's a really strange event because you
kind of got to put your hands in
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and take your hands out because somebody
else was kind of running it. But
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uh, I just wanted to I
just wanted to to just kind of wrap
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this whole segment up by saying,
you know, I think whill And Country
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Club took a serious step forward in
the right direction and uh kind of returning
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some championship golf to the to the
Ohio Valley. I really really really do
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and I'm really looking forward to to
to more events and different events and bigger
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events and in that in that vein, because I know we can do it,
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and we just did it, you
know, And I'll be honest with
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you, I was nervous. I
was I was concerned. You know.
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We we had some had some turf
conditions we got surprised by and slapped in
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the side of the head with it. But we we put our best foot
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forward. We overcame all those and
and I just wanted to shout out to
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all the players who participated and all
the people who made it possible, from
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the Tri State PGA all the way
down to Jacob mar Martin who was there
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at six fifty every morning to open
the doors. So I just wanted to
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say congratulations of talent one more time. Great playing by all of them.
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And yeah, so if you get
the chance, take a look at some
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of the websites and some of the
some of the papers for the for the
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results. It was just absolutely an
awesome event. So that that wraps up
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our first segment. Like I said, we're gonna stay local and uh next
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segment, we're gonna get a little
bit regional. This is a rich Comwell
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Golf Show. Welcome back to the
rich Conwell Golf Show. We are going
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to spend the next few minutes together
talking about college golf. I know I've
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mentioned college golf before, and I
know that I try to keep it kind
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of local, and I will keep
this local too, but we're gonna spread
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out a little bit because some really
cool things happen in the last in the
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last year for college golf in this
area. And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell
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you that that I'm gonna I'm gonna
hit on a few of them, and
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I'm gonna tell you to keep out, keep your your ears out for and
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your eyes out for a couple of
names that will really really really make a
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difference regionally in college golf. But
but first off, we'll start locally.
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I'll start up on the hill.
I'm interested, full disclosure, I am
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the men's and women's golf coach at
Willie University. But we're gonna start with
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West Liberty. Fedo Beckney is the
men's coach and Shane Rice is the women's
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coach. Shane and both both let
me just say this right now, both
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of them. When I say West
Liberty, I'm talking about both coaches because
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I don't want to I'm not trying
to slight anybody. I just kind of
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want to summarize this. They both
do a really really really good job.
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They really do. Uh. Dad's
a really good player and Shane's a really
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good teacher and a good player.
And I'm not trying to pit him against
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each other, but they that that
there are formidable coaching staff on that on
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that on that hill, they really
really really are. And and so they're
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looking for a big year. Wheeling
university wise, which is even more local
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to where I'm sitting, because it's
only I think Ways tells me it's six
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minutes by car. I truly have
experienced it it's more like nine, but
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ways knows everything. So the on
the women's side, the four players that
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we're going with this we're going this
year with a little bit of a light
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light roster. We had we had
one player with graduate. We had two
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players graduate, and one one decided
to to not pursue a master's degree on
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our property, mainly because it was
some academic uh she had she wanted to
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field a specific field that we didn't
have a master's program in. So she's
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moved on and Emily Holsapp will graduated. So so we're down to four players
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for now, and I will wrap
up I will wrap up the Willie University
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thing by saying that I will show
you how we're going to turn that around
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two that that number thing. But
all four of those girls there, they
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are coming back, uh you know, Mara Johnson, Ella Effer, Nicole
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Lensi Home and Zeilo Herrera are all
going to represent Willie University very very very
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well, and they're gonna do some
damage in top ten finishes. Because I'm
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telling you specifically, I'm not getting
gonna single out any of them. They
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can all finish top ten. The
only one who might not know they can
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finish top ten is them and that's
my job. I gotta make sure they
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know it, and they will know
it. On the men's side at William
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University, I have eleven athletes competing
on a weekly basis to make the bus
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trip. I've forgot two two young
men from Indonesia, one from Sweden,
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one from Norway, one from New
Zealand, one one from recruit from Ohio,
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recruit from Arizona. My returning players
are from Ohio and well one's from
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Cleveland. So we really don't talk
about that a whole lot because we don't
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really like Cleveland. But but anyway, in all seriousness, we're looking for
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We start qualifying this week for the
five spots on the bus, and so
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with that in mind, we are
going to We are going to the California
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University of Pennsylvania Vulcan Invitational over Labor
Day weekend. So we're going to qualify
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to today and tomorrow the women will
qualify for seating you know, one through
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four, and the guys are playing
for one through five, and some people
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are gonna have to stay home.
But I do have to tell you that
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I've told every one of them,
every one of them, that we are
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going the hardest part of our competitive
week, and our schedule is going to
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be qualifying, and it's it's bearing
out to be true. You know,
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I was working with the guys on
arrange last night. I think it was
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seven fifteen at night. They came
out and worked on a short game for
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an hour, and you know,
and and and these kids, we're gonna
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be pretty good. And and but
I think it's because you know, Iron
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Sharpen's iron or whatever. We we
keep we keep scrapping in the gym,
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as they say in wrestling, and
then when it's time to go on the
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road, we're gonna be just fine. So really looking forward to that trip.
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Don't want to skip over. Don't
want to skip over over Bethany.
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Bethany's trying to make a strong comeback
athletically with golf. You know, Bailey
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is, Bailey's doing a really good
job. And and we're gonna have an
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event. We're gonna host an event
at Bethany at William University. We'll get
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some college, we'll get some other
colleges in and every step we take to
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get them, you know, Bailey
takes and she's taking all the right steps.
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I'm not I'm in no way,
shape or form an expert on any
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of this, but Bailey's doing a
great job up there, so I'm looking
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forward to big things from them.
So that's kind of the three, the
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three local schools. I want to
give a shout out to CALU. You
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know, they're they're starting a new
regime at cal U, and I know
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it's I know it's Penn West University
now, but technically it's it's it will
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always be CALU to me, and
they're they're gonna do a great job.
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We're starting with cal Bennett is now
the new, the new, the new
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head coach over there, and we're
gonna see his crew this week at cal
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you Invitational over Cedar Brooks, So
we're gonna see how that's shaping up.
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But I know Kyle will do a
great job. And I just wanted to
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kind of give a shout out to
to Kyle because he's first, he's stepping
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into his his first his first real
season, not real season, his first
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full season, so I'm sure I
wish him luck and not too much luck
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when we go against him, but
he'll do great. I also wanted to
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mention West Virginia University, you know, people don't realize that West Virginia University
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plays in the Big Twelve Conference in
golf. They go all the way down
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to Texas Tech, they go,
they go down there, they play those
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guys, and that's some good quality
golf, I mean quality golf. And
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West Virginia University is turning out quality
players, specifically you know Eddie and I
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never say his name right because I'm
not a Canadian guy. Eighty en at
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n Pagano is on the Canadian Tour
right now. He's one on the Canadian
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Tour. He played at w VU. That's that's a that's a game changer.
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That's a game changer, and and
that's really really really exciting. And
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and I'll tell you what I'm I'm
gonna tell you that's really really really exciting
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for them. And they have really
good history. I mentioned I mentioned east
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Easton Renwick in the Tri State Section
PJA match Play Championship. He played at
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w VU. You know Easton Easton's
is a friend of mine. Easton's a
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good player, uh and you know
he's he's just good and he bodes well
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for the history of that program,
in the future of that program down in
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Morgantown, They're gonna do great and
and I'm happy. Obviously, I'm happy
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for them. I don't compete against
them, and that makes me even happier
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because they got some really, really
really good players, you know. And
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just another local, kind of local
shout out to Carnegie Mellon University. Their
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head golf coach and the men's and
women's team is a young man by named
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and Dan Rodgers. Dan was down
here for the match Play Championship. I've
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known Dan for a long time.
I serve on the board of the Tri
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State Section PGA with Dan. But
I only call Dan's name out and kind
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of I didn't pick him out of
a hat, and I didn't bring him
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on. I don't, I don't. I'm gonna have him on the radio
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show maybe next week, the week
week after. But I bring Dan up
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for a simple reason. Dan won. Carnegie Mellon University men's team won the
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national championship last year, the national
Championship now NCAA Division three Men's National Championship.
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Now, if you don't think that's
an accomplishment, I mean, West
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Liberty played in the finals of the
basketball National Championship. They did not win.
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I'm not calling him out for it. Unbelievable accomplishment. Dan one at
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Division three at Carnegie Mellon. It's
a hard school. I'm not saying West
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Liberty's not. That's a hard school. That's a good situation up there for
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those students. And the Carnegie Mellon
is a great place, and they are
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very very very fortunate to have Dan
Rodgers in there. And he won a
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national and I'll tell you how fortunate
they are he delivered him in national championship,
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you know. So I just I
want to I want to make a
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shout out to that because this is
some great college golf in this area,
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you know. And I would be
remiss if I didn't. I didn't mention
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Dan brought up at iup he and
that's still iup. By the way,
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they didn't change that name. That
name, they didn't change. Dan's been
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a friend of mine for a long
time. Dan's a really good golf friend.
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Dan's a really good player. Dan's
a really good golf coach, a
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really good golf coach. And and
I think what's really really really cool about
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about all the people that I mentioned, whether it be Bailey at Bethany,
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and I didn't mention Wu by name, but I know it to be true,
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and and and Wheeling, as I
know it to be true about myself
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and West Liberty with that, and
Shane and Bailey up at Bethany, you
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know, And and and obviously Dane
at Carnegie Mountain, and all the college
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golf coaches that I come across because
I see them pretty regularly now, you
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know. And they have a new
one up at Mercy Hurst, and and
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and it's not a full time job. I know it's not for me.
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It's not a high paying job.
I know that. For me, if
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anybody wants to get me a raise, I can tell you the number to
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call, But I will tell you
what. It's a chance to make an
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impact in society. And that's why
we do it. Yeah, we love
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golf, Don't get me wrong.
We love golf, and it's it's it's
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a lot of fun. I need
to see a lot of things. And
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then the hardest and the hardest thing
in the world, if if my hardest
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day is to watch my four the
four women at Wheeling and the five guys
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at at Wheeling play around at golf
in a tournament over at Cedar Brook or
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down in Charleston, or or an
avalon. That's that's not a bad day.
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That's a pretty good day for me, you know. And I just
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I I know that I personally really
enjoy trying to to get those kids better
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at golf, of course, of
course, but let's just do it this
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way better at society, you know. And I will tell you this,
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and I and I'm very proud of
this. And I was in a meeting
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last week with the with the faculty
at Willing University, and I declared it.
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I declared it that every one of
my players, men or women,
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will have a three point two gpa
before they travel. My captain has been
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told and he has, he has
that three point two gpa. He's a
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very very very good player, and
he probably will qualify, but if he
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does not have a three point two
gpa, he won't travel. So because
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there is nobody nobody that can't that
I've recruited and brought a new Wheeling University
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or apt I inherited at Wheeling University
who does not have the capability of making
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a three point two gpa. The
difference between a C and a B in
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college is an hour a night.
B in an A is about an hour
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and a half. So per subject. So I just didn't. And I
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speak for all the golf coaches,
whether it be whether it be down at
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Charleston, up at mercy Hurst,
over at Iup wherever we're going, whoever
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we come across. Matt Cluck w
and J. Another good golf professional,
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another good golf coach. He is
concerned about the kids' lives. He is
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concerned about just how they turn out. And now circling back to Willing University.
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You know I mentioned before we have
four women on the team and eleven
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men. I ended last year with
three men. I now have eleven.
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I will end this year with four
May in May with four, and I
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will have ten. I'll come back, I'll have ten women. I'll have
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ten women coming back to I'll have
ten women on the team coming back in
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fall of twenty four. I will
because I committed to do that. I'm
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going to do that, just like
I committed to do it with the men
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and then, and I'll be honest
with you. I mean people would ask
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me how'd you get those kids to
come here? And you know, I
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kid around and say I'm the magnet. You know, I magnetize the kid
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from New Zealand. That's not why. I promised them an opportunity to compete.
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I promised them that they would get
a good education. I promised their
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parents they would turn out solid citizens. And the other thing I did as
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I told him, I will give
them something to do that in ten years
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they can look back and say there
was something bigger than themselves. They were
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part of something bigger than themselves.
And that's why we all want to be
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on a team. That's why it's
so much easier to be on a team
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than it is to be out there
by yourself. I'm going to tell you
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right now, these guys have the
support of each other. These girls have
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the support of each other because they're
part of some think it's bigger than themselves.
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Take advantage of opportunities and be a
part of something. And that's what
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I'm trying to do. And that's
what I will build on the women's side
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and the men's side, and that's
what we're gonna do. And I speak
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for all all of the golf coaches
in the Mountainees Conference and the ones I
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mentioned that are Division three, Division
two. By the way, I have
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to give a shout out to Andy
Garcia at Capitol University. Also great golf
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coach, not the actor, and
they're all concerned. In ten years,
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these kids can look back and say, I'm a solid citizen. I had
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a lot of fun, I learned
a lot, and I contributed to something
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bigger than myself. And that's really, really, really important. And that's
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why we go after what we go
after at all the local college programs because
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the chances of one of them playing
on the PGA Tour is not real high.
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I'm not saying it can't happen.
I'm not saying it won't happen.
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What I'm saying is in the process, we're gonna walk out of there with
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a solid degree, a solid citizen, and lifelong friendships. And that's what
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we're really after. So there's my
summary of college golf on The rich Comwell
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Golf Show. And the next segment
we're gonna go international because we're gonna talk
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about the Ryder Cup. And I
don't think I have a minority opinion,
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but I have a pretty strong opinion
on what just happened last week was Zach
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Johnson and the Boys. This is
the rich Comwell Golf Show. Welcome back
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to the rich Comwoll Golf Show.
As I said, we went through a
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bunch of local and international I'm sorry, local and regional information, talked a
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lot about college golf, and got
through a lot of really good information,
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and revisited, obviously, I'm gonna
revisit for just a minute, just how
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how happy and excited I was and
am to have said, to be able
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to say that I hosted the Tri
State PG match Play Championship. It's a
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really really really cool event and I'm
really really really happy. So having said
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all that, and we're gonna we're
gonna talk about We're gonna go international.
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Now, we're gonna talk about the
Ryder Cup. Okay, okay, So
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as we talked about last week,
and we all know, I mean,
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I went through it over ad nauseum
last week, but not really ad nauseum.
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I shouldn't say that, but I
got a I got a phone call
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from somebody that knows me that you
you wouldn't know, uh in Pittsburgh,
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who told me that they were very
very very excited to hear my opinions on
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the Ryder Cup on the radio show
last week. It's also on podcast obviously,
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So I'm gonna tell you that I
guess maybe I at least hit home
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with some things and or a couple
opinions. But so let's go backwards,
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all right. So we knew going
into the week that Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham
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Clark, Brian Harmon, Patrick Kntley, Max Homer, and Zanner Schoffley were
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guaranteed locks. They were in.
And we talked about since Zach Johnson had
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six captain's picks to make, who
is he gonna make? Who is he
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gonna pick? And would he be
political? Would he be just straight down
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the line? What do they call
it? Chalk right? Seven through twelve?
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Here we go? Or was it
a little bit of both. I'm
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going to tell you that what it
was was a fraternity house pick up.
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Okay, So I oddly enough keep
the notes that I make, And so
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last week, going into the event, before he was gonna pick, it
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was locked in those six I mentioned. But seven was Brooks or pic a
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Brooks or pick whoa we're not playing
hockey the Brooks work. Wow? I
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think that's because I'm that big of
a Penguins fan. And as soon as
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I said there were Brooks, I
think or pic lust I was talking to
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something about Brooks orpic the other day. So that's funny. So Brooks kept
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Good was seven, Jordan'speth was eight, cam Young was nine, more Cow
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was ten, and Keegan Bradley was
eleven twelve with Sam Burns. All right,
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here we go. So if we
just go straight chalk, that's what
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we're gonna get. But what did
we get? Well, we got Brooks
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kept go. If you don't pick
pick Brooks kept goa then you don't want
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to win. That guy is unbelievable. And I don't care about personality.
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I don't care about any of that. And I'm going to get into that
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in a little bit too, okay, because I gotta be honest with you.
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I'll tell a writer cup story and
then we'll talk about personality. So
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Brooks gets picked, fine, absolutely
fine, has to be eight. Jordan's
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Beef he gets picked, so wow, he's number eight. That's we're going
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chalk. Then we go we jump
to ten and Colin Colin Morikawa. Well,
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okay, so we're off the we're
a little bit off the chart.
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Now, we're a little bit off
the chart now. So then the next
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one is twelve, Sam Burns.
Okay, So the next one that we
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pick is Ricky Fowler at thirteen.
Then we pick Bryson, whoops. Then
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we pick Justin Thomas at fifteen.
So now so we have six automatic Brooks
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and Spieth is eight, Morikawa is
nine, foul Fowler and Justin Thomas.
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Okay, so the deepest we went
was fifteen. So let's talk about what
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we did. First of all,
if you are if you are Cam Young,
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like, think about this man.
If you're Cam Young, what are
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you saying right now? What do
you want me to do? I mean,
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I mean Kim Young's going. Look, I got five top tens,
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five, not one. Five.
I'm ninth in the standings, ninth,
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So you took seven, you took
eight, then you took ten. If
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you don't think this is personal,
you're crazy or he's not in the cool
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kids club, which I'm going to
get into it another minute. If you're
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Keegan Bradley at eleven, you are
devastated. Two wins, one second,
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six top tens and you got skipped
for Sam Burns. Okay. If you're
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Lucas Glover, you're little upset because
you threw back to back wins in there.
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So if you're gonna get people,
we are playing well. Lucas Glover's
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guy's playing well as anybody in the
world. But that's okay. You can
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make the argument, you know,
obviously not a flash in the pan.
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The guy's forty two years old,
but really good. But that's okay.
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So if you're Zach Johnson, No, by the way, when did we
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didn't need six vice captains? I
mean, if I had known, maybe
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I could have been considered. But
anyway, so you skip Cam Young,
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Okay, you skip Keegan Bradley.
Okay, I'm not going to recite the
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resumes again. Tell me who in
the world you picked over him? You
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go Ricky Fowler, Well, you
go Sam Burns. Okay, fine,
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I don't agree with it because there
are guys ranked higher. You go Ricky
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Fowler. Really, Ricky Feller,
what are we doing here? Okay?
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Granted he did win. I give
him credit. He won this year.
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He did, and he had a
really good, a really really really good
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run in the PGA, So that
one I'm okay with kinda. I would
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like to have seen him up with
around ten or eleven and then it would
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be easier to swallow. But you
take Justin Thomas, you take you get
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a guy who the last two two
of the last three major rounds he played,
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he did not break eighty. He
didn't break eighty. He missed six
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straight cuts on the PGA Tour six. Okay, let me go back to
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what I just said a minute ago. He shot eighty one eight in PGA
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Tour events, actually major championship events, and you're gonna call them, Oh,
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it's important for the room. The
room. Okay, so last I
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checked. Now, I could be
wrong because they might do the Ryder Cup
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differently this year, but there's nobody
playing golf in a room, and you
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think that those guys. Now here's
the interesting thing. And this is where
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this team concept falls apart for me. With the Ryder Cup, well,
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we gotta get guys to get along
with each other. They play an individual
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sport. The Ryder Cup occurs once
every two years, so I'm not that
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good at math. But if you
take twenty six weeks in a year times
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two is fifty two weeks, and
you take one week off up to the
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Ryder Cup, that's fifty one weeks
fifty one week and I'll throw in the
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Presidents Cup you have too, So
fifty weeks fifty weeks a year. These
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guys are playing individual sport, and
you're gonna try to pick people who play
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on a team together. How can
you do that? You can't? He
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picked he being Zach Johnson picked the
cool kid's table. They picked the cool
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kids table. So, you know
what, I would have been much more
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content. And I did watch a
little bit of it of his press conference
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announcing it. I don't love him
more cool with it. If he had
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just flat out and said that these
guys are more easy going, they get
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along better, you know whatever,
they're friends. Okay, she can't say
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that because that means that King Bradley
doesn't have friends. Is that really what
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you're trying to say? Or you
just trying to say that those kids are
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at the cool kids table and you're
at the cool kids table. So now
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we're gonna pick the cool kid It's
table. Now, here's the other thing.
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Here's the other thing. They killed
that. That's a little bit alarming.
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Zach Johnson can't play for him,
so if justice. Oh, by
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the way, Justin Thomas did not
make the playoffs in the FedEx Cup.
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He didn't make the top He didn't
make the top thirty, did not make
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the playoffs. It's fifty actually,
but so but he's playing well. So
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he's playing well, more better than
than Keim Young. Oh, he's in
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the playoff, Kegan Bradley, he's
in a playoff. But it's okay because
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we have the cool kids table.
So now here's what's gonna happen. I
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don't know what Europe's gonna do,
and I'll be honest with you. We're
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trying to weep in the United States
of America, trying to go over there
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and score a victory for the first
time in wait for it, thirty years,
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thirty years. Granted it's fifteen fifteen, and so it's basically seven Ryder
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Cups in Europe because every year it's
Europe America every other year, every other
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year's played. So cut the thirty
years and a half it's fifteen, and
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cut the years played in Europe in
half because it's every other one. So
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it's seven. They're all for seven. Do you think these guys are gonna
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turn it around? They probably will. I hope they well, I hope
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they do. But this is this
is this became high school all over again,
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especially when the guy who gets skipped
says it out loud. I'm not
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on the inside and golf I'm not
on the inside and golf two wins,
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one second, six top tens.
He's not in the inside and golf give
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me a break. So now let
me ask you a question. These guys
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play. These guys play on the
PGA Tour. They try to be in
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the top six to be automatic,
and they try to be as close to
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it as they can. They try
to win as much as they can to
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earn participation in the Ryder Cup.
Now, I'm not saying this is gonna
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happen. If you're Cam Young,
I gotta live tomorrow. See you.
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I worked really, really, really
really hard for this. My eye on,
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my eyes on that prize, and
you can't turn around to him and
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say you didn't play well enough.
Yeah I did because I beat out guys
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that got picked. So guess what
I'm out of here because oh, by
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the way, we're merging anyway.
And oh, by the way, I
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learned that with brooks Kepka rightfully,
so on the team he played live,
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I can still get on the Ryer
Cup team. So why am I hanging
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over here with being disrespected? Okay? What does Keathan Bradley have to prove
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on the PGA Tour. He's won. He has to win him. He
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has to. He has to play
in majors and win majors to be all
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time great. Right, Okay,
cool, I'm good with that. You
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don't think he can practice on Live
as well as you can't hear Brooks just
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left Live and won a PGA championship. So guess what if I'm if I'm
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Cam Young and I'm not, doesn't
call me, doesn't ask my opinion.
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I call Greg Norman, ask him
if his spot lived for me? Do
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I'm Keegan Bradley, I do the
same exact thing, because I'm here to
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tell you those guys got host.
You know there's a word my well,
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I won't use it, but my
mom never wanted to like me to say
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that, but so I won't.
But they got a host. They got
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They got screwed out of a position
they did. Sorry, mom. So
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that's exactly how it plays out.
So Zach Johnson now looks like the senior
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at the cool Kid Junior Junior class
table. You can make an argument that
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that Justin Thomas is a really good
match play player. Yeah you can.
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I it's an argument. He has
a good record, Don't get me wrong.
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Check his scores. I don't care. I don't care. If you're
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playing match play against a lot of
people you shoot at you want eighty,
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you're gonna lose a lot of guys. Ride er cup or not. This
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is a disappointment for the United States
team. Has nothing to do with teammates,
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has nothing to do with any of
that. It has to do with
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the fact that Zack Johnson picked his
friends. If it comes back to bite
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him, he's gonna have to stand
there and say, you know what,
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So what's he supposed to say?
Well, Cam Young wouldn't have won either,
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Well, we'll never know. The
guy should have been pecked. Shows
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you the social Keygan Bradley. It's
a shame. But you know what,
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we're gonna make it about the cool
kids, and we're gonna make it about
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the cool logos. And oh,
by the way, you might want to
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check what apparel Justin Thomas is wearing
because he already alienated Polo because he said
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something he shouldn't have. But that's
okay, he's a cool kid. This
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is absolutely not a sad day.
Sad day when people die. This is
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a bad day for American golf when
we let people pick their friends instead of
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the best team. So I hope
they proved me wrong. I hope they
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proved me wrong. Part of me
hope they proved me right, but I
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hope they proved me wrong. So
that's my take on that. Next week,
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I'm gonna have at least one guest, maybe two. We might go
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architecture, we might code college golf. I'm not sure which it's gonna be
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yet. So this is I thank
you all for listening. If you play
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this week, make sure you replace
your divots, fix your ball marks,
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Raku bunkers so I don't have to
yell in the radio anymore. And this
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is a Rich Como golf show.