Golfers Golf & Travel

Covering update on US Open, LPGA, Travel to Alaska featuring James preview of his upcoming trip this week. A report on Denny Hamlin in racing world and his third win uniquely a week ago. Travel tips to Hawaii. What is a Shoulder Season!!!! and a new beer we found over Father's Day Weekend. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:49

James, how are you doing, young man? I'm doing good. I'm just full of uh big pocket full of envy because you are heading out of uh the world later this week and uh travel portion gonna be you gonna let anybody know where you're going?

SPEAKER_04 1:07

Uh headed on a cruise to Alaska, leaving from Seattle on uh Friday and cruising for a week and then coming back to PIAC. So uh really, really looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Well, that sounds exciting. Take a lot of pictures, write a lot of notes, and uh we want to live vicariously through uh what you're gonna do. Now when you go on that, is that a full I mean you're gonna s uh see a lot of sites. Do you get off the cruise to go any onshore?

SPEAKER_04 1:38

Yeah, there's uh three or four ports, um Juno, Ketchukan, um British Columbia. Um so yeah, we have definitely have some opportunity to get off the ship and see the sights, take in an activity or two. Um I think there's a whale watching hike that's on the agenda, as well as maybe one or two other things.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

A whale watching hike. Do they live indoor in inland?

SPEAKER_04 2:03

It's a new kind of whale at night. You hike through the rainforest and then get on a boat and go watch some whales.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Land-based whales. Very nice. Well, and that's right after a lot of a full day of drinking. Now they don't serve any alcohol on this ship, right?

SPEAKER_04 2:19

No, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

Is there any gambling on this ship?

SPEAKER_04 2:23

Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. I I didn't look to see if they have one casino. Hopefully not, so I could save a couple bucks.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Yeah, leave the pocket change at home. Anyway, getting back to what we're supposed to be doing, we got a big full show uh lined up. It was a big weekend. I know we're gonna get to your uh auto racing, and I want to talk about last week's racing a little bit because that was that was really a pretty interesting story. Uh but just first highlighting the world of golf. Wyndham Clark ended up uh winning his second U.S. Open title uh by a shot yesterday uh up at uh Shinnecock, uh one of the five founding golf courses in the United States, and um severe test of golf, and he won his second U.S. Open. But because, and if you're not following it, unfortunately, the fans in New York once again did not show any love. In fact, didn't even hardly applaud. There are a few people were uh exited, uh asked to exit during the day because of the rude comments. And uh I'm gonna be writing a big uh feature for our upcoming golfers, golf, and travel about this weekend because there were so many things that just didn't seem right from lack of fans from Thursday through Sunday in the stands. There's reasons for it. Uh the amount of commercials that were played yesterday were numbing uh on the broadcast early on. Um people got uh you know really upset with that because I mean honestly, there was in in 12 minutes they they had two commercial segments that had six commercials in each segment. So you thought ridiculous. Twelve commercials out of twelve minutes. And it just it was I decided to make lunch. And uh the last hour was commercial free, uh, but uh, you know, it was the damage was done, and uh people started hitting the uh, you know, if if it's negative, people are gonna be saying it. And um it just you know, it's just really sad in the world of golf when you have the feature premier. USGA did a great job. They always set it up as the toughest, most severe test of golf. And um the uh uh it's just crazy. Um in the women's world, LPGA Mio Yamashita captured the Meyer LPGA classic after a dramatic playoff finish with Lottie Wode. Uh several international stars rounded out the leaderboard. And um, in terms a lot of people never follow the earnings in men's golf. I always like to go back to that because finishing segment don't ever feel bad for those guys that finish in the top five. Um the uh Wyndham Clark finishing first won $4.5 million. Sam Burns, who just lipped out, I don't even know how the ball stayed out, second year in a row, but he finished second crying. Sad day, but he uh pocketed $2.43 million dollars.

SPEAKER_04 5:34

Yeah, I'm sure that'll help him get over it.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

Well, it just honey, could you just throw some more money up my side here? You know Tom Kim, who a young guy, both Tom Kim and Scotty Scheffler shared the same birthday yesterday. They practice a lot and yeah, they practice a lot in in Dallas together. And uh both of them, Scotty turned 30, and Tom Kim, young kid, really nice kid. I think he turned 24. Tom Kim finishing third. Well, let's see. He he nice birthday present. He gave himself 1.53 million, and never feel bad for Scotty and JT Post and each took home 960,000, tied for four. Did you have a good day yesterday? You did you make anywhere in that world?

SPEAKER_04 6:18

No, no, no. Definitely did not uh compete with uh with that amount of egg home for sure.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

Well, I just uh I got I got a segment here, I got a brief segment we're gonna go to. I just was shipped to me from the U.S. Open as a copy of it's only about 30 seconds long, but what um uh Wyndham Clark had to say at his news conference last night. We'll play this just for a second here.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

Man, I mean the first one was uh amazing, and this one seems even better. Um I think especially after such a sour taste last year in this championship to have some redemption and and win this again is I mean, gosh, it's almost surreal.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Yeah, and that's it. That's all we really need to know. Last year, when he played in the U.S. Open, uh he was just emotionally out of control and at Oakmont uh decided to kick in lockers, these were these wicker lockers, and decided to kick them in and damage this and that and the other thing, and it was terrible. I and everybody admitted it, but the thing about him and the and redemption is fine. He admitted it through the year, he apologized several times, he went to counseling over it, he has his mental uh counselor with him and right up to tea time, and he fully admitted, talked about it freely, you know, and said behavior is bad. So, you know, the New York reception, even though I guess when somebody again in the world of golf, yes, he had a tantrum a year ago, but uh he came back and played under the pressure of cat calls, no applause, very little applause, and people acting so poorly they got kicked out of the tournament yesterday.

SPEAKER_04 7:57

Huh. Well, I mean, that's good to take if there's some repercussions for people to act foolish.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

That's ridiculous. It's not the way the world of golf is.

SPEAKER_04 8:06

No.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

You know, and uh I would think that Arnold Palmer was firing down lightning rods, pointing people out in the crowd to the cops, you know. That one over there, that one over there. You know, we're not gonna do that. What's going on in the world of racing?

SPEAKER_04 8:21

Oh, let's see. Well, you know, we're getting into the summer, summertime, deep deep into the into the season, so it's getting uh even more competitive, everybody fighting the points and positions. Um in the world of NASCAR, let's uh kind of give a little bit of a reminder and backtrack for that. So if you remember, I think the last time we got together, we talked about getting happening and those two races or two races in a row qualified on the pole, two carriages back in the back, and then keep it from two races in a row, right? Same scenario. So third race after that to appear in the beautiful tokenole in Pennsylvania. So Denny once again qualified on the pole. So three weeks in a row on the pole. Now he did not have any situation that's got him to the back of the back, right? So you figure, well, you know, maybe not uh not quite the motivation as usual. Well, nope, but Denny and uh and his team had all their ducks in a row for the entire race, and he wound up winning again for third race in a row. Um now yeah, Denny very successful driver superstar had a lot of victories. I think that was his sixty seven victory in his career, so he'd been around a lot of time. That was actually the first time he won three races in a row, which is amazing how there's so much competition in that especially on how long you know winning three in a row. You know, it'd be very, very difficult. You know, when a guy that's been racing for 15 years has had a very successful career and never done it's originally an idea how hard that is. Just yesterday, um they went to a new track, so to speak. So they had a race at the naval base for a little while in California, San Diego. Um you know, helping to celebrate the upcoming 250th year of America and U.S. US Navy, so they had it on the naval base and put together you know, three courses just on the base. Um it was really easy, right? You know, brand new. So none of the guys, none of the drivers knew what to expect, and it was all brand new, right? Um you know, there's some guys that are typically good on road courses, um Shane and Gitzburg and Australia or New Zealand, um some guys that are just good on those actual tracks, and of course, you know, the hammering race are all up there fighting for first place. Three or four of them got into uh a little bit of an altercation and wounded up wrecking each other out because we go about the race. So that kind of opened it up for a little bit wider, you know, wider field so that some more guys could compete for that for that victory. That would be a really exciting race. Um there's a lot of really young talented drivers out there. Um one guy by the name of Corey Hine, who just recently signed with the 2311 racing, which is co-owned by mentioned Danny Hall, and some guy you may have heard of uh sometime before Michael Jordan. Um yeah, so and they have a very successful racing that he's gonna he's gonna be Corey is gonna be full-time for them next year. And you know, they didn't really have a schedule this year, you know, picking up some races, so April's uh you know next year decided they were gonna enter him in yesterday's race. You know, typically no expectations, right? You know, you're gonna driver, new dynamics, everybody getting to know each other well. The kid is so good that he won his way up to the up to the run. So he's a pretty good driver. Pass Tyler with three laughs ago, and one in the rest. Amazing, unbelievable. I see nothing but good things for this game in the future once he gets new game, they get a full schedule going next year, and I can see him really being a King Henderson championship next year. So that was really cool. And to win I mean they may go back to that track next year, maybe not, maybe it was just a one-off. But to be the the guy who wins the first one at a particular venue is always extra special because you're the first one to do it. So it was uh pretty pretty funny day in the world of NASCAR.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Do they have NASCAR in Alaska?

SPEAKER_04 13:14

Um I I mean the the major series don't go up there, but there are tracks in Alaska.

SPEAKER_01 13:19

That is amazing. Well, I guess they'd have you know sunlight all day. They could have 24 hours and never need lights on their car.

SPEAKER_04 13:25

Yeah, exactly. Right, exactly. You know, I mean I I think the racing season's probably pretty short, but uh yeah, they have they have tracks with them.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Hey, listen, the golf season's pretty short this year. I mean, good lord. I think the snow just melted two weeks ago. Uh when they played uh up in Canada, uh what was it, two weeks ago? Uh the Canadian Open, uh they played in Toronto, and literally that course up there had opened up like two and a half weeks prior, you know. Oh wow. It was just this long, this long, long uh winter, spring, terrible weather everywhere. Really, the golf world has been depressed. But in the Midwest, uh, we are going to be featuring in our golfers, and I'm really excited about this. I'm excited about our new magazine coming out, uh, called Golfers, Golf and Travel Magazine, and some highlights on racing, just simply because you have your talent and know it all, and it's just fun. Everybody loves to go to the track.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

You know, it's just I mean, it it really does fit into what we're doing. I mean, racing is definitely the destination sport, you know. People come from you know, they come from not only all over the country, but all over the world to attend to race. So, you know, so it's a it's a travel experience for exactly.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Exactly. And um the uh I I just I'm just so excited about it, I can't tell you. Uh the racing finally opened up here in our own hometown. And um uh, you know, Joanne, we because we because of you uh a year ago, uh we started looking at racing and we decided to go, well, let's just go to this one. You know, it's we've been here for you know since uh since the late 60s, early 70s, never went out to this track, just had a ball. I mean, just crazy. And it brings in people from all over the Midwest and probably nationally, but I was just shocked. And the track was only about four or five miles from my front door. We had a great time, just fantastic time, and I didn't see anybody I knew. And you know, living on my life, I'd know I'd see somebody I know, but no uh stands were packed just with people coming in from everywhere, so it's gonna fit right into. And as I said, I'm so excited about it. Our golfers, golf and travel magazine. Um, we're opening up this week a new segment on our website just for our magazine because our magazine did some research. I knew this for a very long period of time that Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois was the most dense area for golfers, golf courses, and majors throughout the country. Uh, there's more golfers in the Midwest, um, and golf courses uh it's just incredible. So we're gonna become the resource to go to uh for this three-state area. So it's gonna be a regional, uh a national magazine with regional features. Uh, and right now we're gonna be featuring this three-state area, probably for the next 24 months, but it doesn't mean we're not we're gonna not gonna cover the world. Uh, we've got some things coming up later in the show on pricing of how to get to Hawaii and another thing that's hitting them. But if you love great golf and memorable destinations, incredible food, unique resorts, and the stories that make travel worthwhile, I just wanted to put out some exciting news. We're launching the next edition of Golfers Golf and Travel magazine, and this is going to be your guide to people, places, courses, and experiences that make life worth living. Uh, from legendary links of Ireland to the hidden gems of the Midwest, from luxury golf resorts and scenic road trips to dining spirits and outdoor adventures, we'll bring you stories that inspire your next journey. And as I said, in the upcoming issues, we're going to be exploring the emerging Great Lakes Golf Coast in featuring coming on air later this week our edition. We've been threatening to have her come back, but Joanne Tallon is going to be doing a travel segment uh often, if not every week, just featuring highlights of places that she likes to go. Uh, she's been on Viking cruises, uh European Viking cruises, multiple cruises, multiple destinations throughout her life. But she just showed me some research of a trip that she wants to go on that we would start uh around Chicago. Of course, Chicago has been voted one of the most dynamic, if not first or second most dynamic city in the United States to travel to, dining that's incredibly exceptional. Um, but she has this trip that uh she's outlined and she'll be featuring on our next show that goes up the western side of Michigan. And of course, there they're just unlimited breweries, distilleries, wineries, golf courses, places to take lessons, and when the sun goes down, the ocean that's called Lake Michigan, you get these beautiful sunsets coming across the lake. Uh and uh we're gonna be going all the way up the the west coast of Lower Michigan, and then uh up there in Sault Ste. Marie, I think we can cross over, get back into upper what do they call that? Upper lower Michigan? No, lower, upper, upper. I don't know. It's the part just north of Wisconsin. So you can go by land into Wisconsin, but 2,000 golf courses across. We're not gonna play them all, but I did figure up the other day that I have played just in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana. I have personally played over 2,800 golf courses in my life.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Wow, really?

SPEAKER_01 19:11

Yeah. Yeah. A wasted life changing chasing a four and a quarter inch hole, you know, a quarter mile away. You know, I think it's just only a touch better than drivers in NASCAR because they start it and they finish at the finish line, they'll go 500 miles and don't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

So what's that all about? Uh I really am fascinated by your Alaska trip. I think that is just, man, that is gonna be um that is gonna be something. Um have you heard about the waves hitting Hawaii?

SPEAKER_02 19:46

No.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Yeah. Uh Hawaii, typically November, December, um wave action that starts up in the Aleutian Islands from whatever storms are up there. Um, you know, there's no resistance to waves in the Pacific, and didn't know this until we had traveled there. But uh we were on Maui in this area called Jaws on the, I guess it's called the north side, northeast side. Uh the waves get incredible. It's like the north shore of Oahu. Um, and you really expect every year that's going to happen. And when you see these guys going out surfing in it, you're going like, that's just that's just nuts. I mean, tons of water falling on them. They've done it all their life. And I found also early on that you don't ask them, you know, aren't you are you afraid? You know, don't even respond to it. It's not happening. But uh Maui has been hit over the past couple years. Of course, the fire in Lahaina, um, really, the rebuilding there really hasn't begun on Front Street. But they've had these amazing major rainstorms this year. It's washed out roads down in Kihay. They three weeks ago there was a 6.0 earthquake on the big island that rumbled across Maui. Yeah, yeah, people didn't hear about that. But these repeated storms, the fires of Lahaina, um, you know, a few sharks here and there that you know you don't need, but you know, that's where they live, by the way. Um, you know, sort of I don't think there's inland sharks like there's inland whales you're gonna go see. But uh uh the the so I see this video yesterday of this condo area, I believe it was on Oahu, where big waves were hitting the island again, going up and over the condos. Okay. Well, God, are you just pissed at Maui or Hawaii? I mean what you know, come on.

unknown 21:47

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

So I decided to look up uh for our travel segment, gonna be doing an article on it. Do you know what the I don't uh the what shoulder season is in travel? You ever heard that term?

SPEAKER_04 21:57

No, I do not.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

There are just times on the calendar when you have low travel. Okay? So uh for instance, during the summer kids are out of school. Um Hawaii fills up with people. Um it's easy for families to travel in this 10-week period because they can take their kids. Well, uh the end of August, early September, kids have to go back to school, parents can't really travel. So all that's gone. So from September through November, and actually, and I'm gonna tell you this, it's through about December 15th. The rates go down in Hawaii because there's just less people to travel. There's just it's less of you know, you it just it's called the shoulder season. It's a season around the heavy times of year where the prices go down, airline travel goes down, uh room fairs go down, the beaches open up, uh it's peaceful, and guess what? September, October, November, best weather. Best best weather. Um right now, uh I did some research on that uh on travel because of the war and gas prices and all kinds of different things, jet fuel pricing, um, where are the best places to travel? Weirdly, prices are down right now. Paris, Barcelona, Athens, Naples, and parts of Asia. You know, so you might want to, you know, look up uh go to orbits or something and just you know, Google. If somebody wanted to go to Europe right now, uh Google the destination and take a look. And we're gonna have on tomorrow Robert Mills with Hidden Travel Gems, and we're gonna be doing a six uh week series of places that he has gone, and those have taken off like crazy. So people love he's been to 63 countries, so so when you had Alaska, does that add an additional country to you?

SPEAKER_04 24:12

I mean, is that uh No Still within the United States, so Oh that's right.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

I forgot that we why'd we bought that for about twelve bucks, I think, from Russia. I think so, yeah. Something like that. You have you don't have to speak Russian to go there.

SPEAKER_04 24:26

Uh even though even though some people can't see it from their house.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

That's great. How long is this trip gonna be? You're going on week. Have you ever been on a cruise?

SPEAKER_04 24:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Really? Where where have you gone?

SPEAKER_04 24:42

Uh usually the Caribbean.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Where's your where's your most favorite place to go in the Caribbean?

SPEAKER_04 24:49

Um I mean one of the one of the four Mexico. Um that was a lot of fun. That was really nice. Um I should be all doing now, but one of them had their own islands kind of made it to a little destination where they have all kinds of activities and stuff. That was always fun. Um places in south when you go into the corner.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Well, we're gonna have um I'm gonna have excuse me, I'm my allergies are killing me today. Um you know, it's always not good if you play golf to be allergic to grass. Guess what my allergy is, you know. So I got that going for me. Uh so if you if people want to tune into golfers, golf and travel, just to reiterate, we're part of all the good things in life, which covers golf, dining, sipping, and all those great things. Uh from you know, sports, family, fun, spas, and never any political, uh, no religion, yeah, sort of, you know. If I see something, I I'm faith-based, but I I'm not sitting here uh reading the Bible to you. It's just that if I see a beautiful sunset, I know I didn't paint it. Um you know. Um, but the Caribbean, I've been down there. I we went back, we were down there on a company trip, and then we went back down to St. Martin's. And St. Martin you ever been at St. Martin's?

SPEAKER_04 26:20

Uh yes, I have.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Which side? Because they have what French and um Belgium, I think it is, the other side.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

Yeah. I think um the French side.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

Yeah, that that's actually, in my opinion, the best side. But we stayed on the other side. And if you want to get into some island experiences and you want to go out and party and have some fun going down some uh sultry little uh cobblestone roads, that would be the side to go to. The French side, absolutely opposite of that. Um I think I'll do a show on how St. Martin's became a two a two-sided island. It is really fascinating. Um short version is uh two fleets of uh navies were supposed to go to war to win St. Martin's. Captains got there and they said, Uh, why are we doing this? This is really a pretty place.

SPEAKER_04 27:13

So seriously.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Uh they got out on one side of the island and said, Okay, you and your team walk that way, we'll walk this way wherever we meet. That will who walks the fastest, you know, will have the most, but we'll meet on the other side somewhere, and then we'll divide the island, and uh we'll send a note back home, and um, you know, pretty much that was the end of it.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

That's my kind of war, you know.

SPEAKER_02 27:43

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Since and and if that's totally wrong, somebody email me, but I'm pretty sure I don't think I was that alcohol impeded. Um you drink beer.

SPEAKER_04 27:55

I do.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

What's your favorite beer?

SPEAKER_04 27:59

Oh boy. Um see I'm I'm not the popular ones are IPAs, and I'm not really an IPA guy. I don't like the hottiness of the business. Um so I tend to um gravitate towards like the Belgians. Um there's some good white beers out there, like kind of hazy, like cloudy Belgian beers that are good. Um but I don't necessarily have one particular favorite.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

Well, we do have this little thing called a distillery channel, and if you go to the distillerychannel.com, you're gonna sit and see where we have done a lot of uh uh sipping across the United States. We've actually worked with on there, if you find it buried, all uh I think it was 43 different state leading um uh leaders in the state, uh, the people that represent uh the actual breweries, wineries, distilleries at different states. Uh they were great interviews. Uh we I think we've gone or been featured or tried 800 different uh sips going to distillery either conventions or contests or uh Distill America is up in Madison that we've gone to every year, and up there basically you just sit and you can sip all the different distill products. But yesterday or on um on Saturday, we had our family get together for Father's Day, and my son says, Yeah, you want to try a beer? I go, Well, sure. And he gives me a beer, and I said, Man, what is that? It was really, really good. And of course, I'm not a hardcore drinker. I I don't go in and even though I'll sip bourbon or uh you know table wine, I'll have a drink tonight, but not very much. And in the summer, you know, I'll have a beer, any tap, you know, beer, I'll sit and get done playing a round of golf, I'll have a a glass or two. Never ever drive disabled or even close to it. However, Saturday, my son gives me this beer, and it's called Bistro Pineapple Banana Cream. I said that was really good. And uh then they had Bistro Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble that he brought. That was really good. And I said, Where did you get that? And he said, It's in a brewery just down the road from where we live. And he lives about 20 minutes from where I live.

SPEAKER_04 30:30

Right.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

And I said, I will be over there on Monday or Tuesday. Well, they're closed until Friday. But they're yeah, it's called Energy City Brewing. This is a non-paid um it's not a commercial, it's just an experience we had Saturday. Um, but listen to these bistro, mango, pineapple, lime, habanero.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Gotta do about three different languages just to order it.

SPEAKER_04 30:59

Yeah, I know, just order it.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

And the cans look great. I mean, I I just can't wait to go over and meet these people. Um, and again, we have visited, I don't can't tell you how many breweries, uh, how we all over the United States, from California to Florida, northwest to northeast. I think the last I counted 43 different states I've had a beer in.

unknown 31:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

And uh, and I'm pretty sure it's eight or nine hundred distilled products that we've had sips of in wine. We looked at California to go out there and do you know, features on California on wineries out there. And this is a true statistic. If we if we featured one winery a day on our show, seven days a week, how long do you think it would take to do all the wineries in California?

SPEAKER_04 31:49

Oh boy. Um five years.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Uh thirteen and a half.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

Yeah, it it's nuts. Uh look up how many wineries I I don't know, I think it was 8,500 wineries or something like that. Um uh fun fact out in when they had the the problem out in California with all the water shortages, uh there were actually breweries popping up everywhere. And it I think the statistic was it took 13 gallons of water to make one gallon of uh of um beer. So they were like, Man, we can't let these distilleries keep popping up because it was lowering the water table. Well, they were converting it to beer. I mean, oh bang it would seem that that would be recycled, you know. I don't know. Long story short, the the water problems out in California no longer exist, and I think the breweries are doing fine. But um, yes, if you go to so anyway, this is I'm just giving you a free plug to Energy City Brewing. It's in Batavia or Itasca. I know I think my son said they have their their breweries in in uh Batavia, Illinois. But just pull up their website, it's nuts. Energy City, it's called shop dot energy citybrewing.com. And uh it's um it's it's pretty it's just it's so good. I mean ridiculously good. Um incredible. So anyway, what's the going on between now and uh the end of the week, James?

SPEAKER_04 33:20

Just uh you know stuff up for work and getting packed and making sure uh got everything that I'm gonna need for a week on a boat.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Well, and if you get any Wi-Fi, just uh text me some pictures so I can update everybody, put it up there on our website. Um and don't ever forget, we are now up on the Magic Matrix. Uh and you have to write to me uh to get your this is sort of like you know, NBC does a thing where at the end of the news cycle they say for more information on this last news segment, go to the NBC website or app. Um we now have Magic Matrix, M-A-T-R-I-I-X. The matrix is now getting loaded with our shows, and then our after-the-show segments, where we uh have uh upcoming our sponsors and advertisers will be linking specials to us that you can get those specials uh because they have to be last minute, we can put it up on the matrix. All of our shows we can put up in the matrix. People like the music we've been putting up there, my show Coffee and Tidbits, which is a reflection back into the 50s and 60s. Uh baby boomers will enjoy, but the music is really great. Um, and again, some of it's AI produced, but I write all the lyrics, do all the research, and talk about uh my youth. And uh, but a lot of people have been listening to that. We have our golf golfers, golf and travel, all of our shows will be up there, um, and tons of people are going to it, and it's a very cool thing, and it's called the matrix.network. But the the thing is you have to write to me, uh Randy, at golfersgolfandravel.com, and I give you my own private link, and then you can decide if you want to uh you know follow us, but it'll be worth it. We're gonna put our travel um tips up there. If I see a travel special, I'm gonna be doing research dealing with people that I know, or Joanne knows, or James knows, or after his trip, or hidden tips. We just can't really fit into these shows. Doesn't that make sense, James?

SPEAKER_04 35:31

Absolutely, you know.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Because if I found a way to go to Hawaii, people say, Well, how can I go to Hawaii, you know, inexpensively? There are ways to do it. Um but I don't want to bore people on the show, but in the same standpoint, I can put this package together up on the matrix. I can call up uh two or three of my destination friends over there and say, hey, give me a a great rate. And uh all I'm really trying to do is, you know, connect you with the right people. We do not keep the information of people that do any um linkage. It's so you don't have to worry about you know Google ads or things like that.

SPEAKER_04 36:07

It doesn't bombard it with emails.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

No, not gonna do that. And I'm not gonna take whoever signs up for it and take their email and all you're gonna do is get information about our shows, and if you want to listen or you want to participate or whatever you want to do, it's a direct email to me, and I'm sure James is gonna have one here when he gets back as a as a return present. It'll be James at golfersgolf and travel dot com. And uh we want you to be able to write to both of us, uh share your experiences, let us know what's going on in the world that we do not know. Strangely, we do not know everything that's going on in the world.

SPEAKER_04 36:42

As shocking as that would seem.

SPEAKER_01 36:44

Well, you know, I try to yeah, I try to let my wife know, you know. That doesn't go well ever. Just doesn't. I don't know why. Why would that be, James?

SPEAKER_04 36:57

You know I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

We're not gonna have a marriage counseling session.

SPEAKER_04 37:02

No, no.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

No, not at all. And if you're gonna go golf, uh, we are going to have uh around the Midwest uh destinations here. There are so many great places to go play golf. You hear about all these iconic places. What's the what's the best place you've ever played golf at? Have you ever gone to an iconic golf destination?

SPEAKER_04 37:21

Not an iconic, no, no, no. I just I played some decent courses. Um that's about it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I just played on Saturday and donated uh several golf balls in the woods, so uh I don't think my game is ready. My game is not worth spending uh several hundreds of dollars in greens fees to uh just get out there and you know beat the ogre class.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

Well, uh strangely, equipment does make a difference. Oh, by the way, during last week the USGA, the United States Golf Association, did announce and they are in charge, along with the Royal and Ancient, they were gonna do the golf ball rollback. Do you know what that is?

SPEAKER_02 38:03

No.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

So with the guys on tour hitting the ball so far, they were concerned about golf courses that you know, running out of real estate to make the golf courses longer, more difficult. Well, they're running out of real estate. Um, so you know, but the problem is that when guys start hitting the golf ball longer, they forgot that Tiger Woods came along the line and started working out, getting strong, you know, flexibility, golf coaches, equipment changes, these big-headed drivers, uh shafts make a big difference. Uh there's all kinds of things that made the golf ball go longer. And again, admittedly, the golf ball, you know, titles being the leader, they have, you know, really wound up the ball. So like, but the other thing that people don't realize, like this past weekend, is that the fairways are hard as you know, if you go out and you hit a golf ball on a on a runway at an airport, your drive is gonna go five to six hundred yards. Okay. The fairways they played this weekend are, you know, a lot of SAM compaction, they're dry, they're compacted, they're real short grass, so they get a lot of run out. That's the way the USGA wants it. They want to make it really hard driving. But, you know, I'm gonna tell you, golf manufacturers like it also because they can sit and say, hey, you know, Joe Blow over there using our driver hit uh his average now is 365 yards of drive. Well, if you played PGA Tour every week and had those, you know, fairways, you could do it too.

SPEAKER_04 39:36

So I I could only do it if the woods were like that too. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 39:40

Yeah. Uh yeah, yeah, if you go get the drivers that they're using, and I'm gonna tell you the shaft technology in it, the way they get them, there's a whole bunch of technology I'm not gonna go into. It's it's really going down Nerdville. But uh it's it's spin launch ratios, it's it's all kinds of things that they get into. And um, however, on days where it's really rainy, like at Pebble Beach or San Diego or someplace where it's just raining, I mean their ball speed when they're on the launch monitors, they take off somewhere between typically the average PGA Tour Pro, when that ball hits the face of the club, it launches at about 172 miles an hour. Between 168 and 172. You get up to Bryson D. Chambeau, he was the only one that really came close to 200 miles an hour. But of course, every mile an hour you pick up any, I don't know, four to six yards. But 172 is pretty much it. On a wet course, that flies about 275 yards. Maybe. Maybe 268. Weirdly, they do not fly 350 yards on a dry course. Because they don't roll in mud. So, yeah, I mean I could go back and you know, I sat there with my son a couple years ago watching him hit. I'm pretty sure it was in, I want to say San Diego, but I could be really wrong in that. But it's someplace very, very wet and the ball would hit and stick, oh yeah, 268-yard drive, 272-yard drive. Rory hits at 285. And, you know, during the this past week, there were drives that were rolling out nearly 400 yards. Ridiculous ridiculous. Over well over 300 most of the time. So it's all about the you know, more than just what you know. It's a lot of marketing that goes on in golf, and uh they want to make sure things work out real well. So now that we've busted everybody in the world to golf, it's time to leave, James. Yeah, well, again, uh strong note to follow from almost everybody we talked about. So you know what are we gonna do? Well, anyway, you have a great time on your trip.

SPEAKER_04 41:47

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I'm sure I'm sure it'll be uh it'll be a good time. Looking forward to reporting back and uh sending some pictures.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

Well, I'm looking forward to that big time. And uh we're coming here to the end of the show, and like my grandfather always said, always leave a better footprint, be kind to everybody around you, and uh you just never know who's watching it. You want to have those that uh you leave behind, yeah, say kind words. Uh anyway, travel safety.