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Southern Fairways Sports Radio Show 6.22.2024 w/guests Jimmy James and David Musial
[music] And hello again friends and welcome to another edition of Southern Fairways Sports Radio. Presented by McCall Automotive, the number one GMC dealer in the state of Alabama. They're located just east of I-65 on Dolphin Street and Mobile. You can check them out online at mccallautomotive.com. We are broadcasting today live from our Shrickson Studios right here in Lower Alabama. I am your host Randy Bergen. Bobby Hall is on assignment. He's in Maine this day, boys and girls. That's right, he's a rules official for a big celebrity event going on. So we have the cast of characters and we're going to start with the proprietor. One of the proprietors of Bojo's Cajun Grill. You know him as a voice, Matt Brant in the house. Matt, how you doing, my brother? I'm doing great guys, glad to be here. I'm a little jealous of Mr. Bobby, the sweet swing in Bobby Hall up there in Maine and doing the weather, running away from... On assignment? On assignment, yeah. The official rules official for something other than the Zips. What you're excited about for tomorrow? I am, I can't wait till tomorrow is going to be a great day. 10 o'clock, T-times at Lost Key down there in Perdido Bay Area. So I'm looking forward to scoring really well and hopefully winning... Beautiful, got some beautiful trophies. Winning some trophies, winning some money because I've lost so much lately. It's time to get some back. Just anyone out there that wants to make a bet, don't call me. Do call them, you will win. I'll win, they will win. The positive moments start now. There you go, there you go. Is there a website for that or not to pervert it to get on the board? Yeah, it's called PlayGolf with Me, I'll Pay You, .com. Take Man's Money. Take Man's Money, that's right. And then bring it back and spend it at Boudreau's and we'll be all right. I'll take that. Well also on this carousel of characters, World with TB's Doug. Hold the Doug, I believe last week, now we're going to talk about the US Open. Boy, did Bryson play well or did Rory give it up? We're going to talk about that. But I think you had picked Bryson DeChambeau as your winner. If I remember correctly, I know Matt and I picked Rory. Rory let us down. Well, I think, we talked about Bryson, but I will have to admit, I did pick Ludwig. Did you? Okay, go in last week at the US Open. Matt, you know that was a test right there, don't you? He was testing my honesty. And he won. I won. You did win? And once again, didn't I? Once again, Randy and I were losers. One stroke, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, a couple of things, Randy, on War Eagle TV on the Twitter page, if we have a second. Sure. Colorado defensive back, Jocquez Robinson, who you might remember from Alabama, has committed to Auburn. He's a graduate transfer, two years of eligibility left. And also, Alvin Henderson, who's from Elba, had committed to Penn State, a running back four-star guy, has swapped over to the Auburn Tigers. Sorry. All that stuff is on the Twitter page. If you'd like to go there or the website, you can get there either way. And how do they get there? WariggleTV.com or the Twitter page, which is probably where you want to go these days is. Do they still call it Twitter? Well, it's X, I guess most people still call it Twitter. But X, the address there is @TV_War Eagle. Good stuff. Yeah, good stuff if you're an Auburn fan. Hey, we got a big show lined up for you coming up on our next segment. You will not want to miss this guy. Jimmy James is going to come on now. He's a retired executive from ExxonMobil. And he's kind of the guy you probably want to play with if you're going to go play some golf because he has played the America's 100 greatest golf courses. He just came out with a new book called "Playing from the Rough," a personal journey through America's 100 greatest golf courses. He's going to be on to share that adventure. Hi, came up with it. I mean, it's really a neat story that Jimmy has got. He's actually in Seattle where the ladies of the LPGA are playing. And maybe we can get a live report from Seattle as well. So that'll be fun. Also, at the bottom of the hour, we'll be visiting with David Muge. Of course, David is one of our partners here at Southern Fairways Sports Radio. He's the general manager at Glenn Lake's Golf Club in Foley. He is also the great nephew of baseball Hall of Famer, Stan the Man, usual. And of course, we know that we found out Tuesday that Willie Mays from Alabama, Hall of Fame, everybody knows, say, "Hey, kid," he passed away at the age of 93 on Tuesday. And David has got a great story about his uncle Stan the Man and Willie Mays. It's the story you're not going to miss. It's pretty darn good. So yeah, really neat, really neat. Of course, we're going to get you caught up on the professional leaderboards. A lot going on. The ladies as a maturance in Seattle, the guys, the BGA, they're at the Driver's Championship. This is the last, the eighth of eight signature events. That means a limited field, no cut. And of course, Tiger looks like we'll be playing when he wants to. Which is what you would have done anyway. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Hey, going on starting the day too, you got the College World Series in baseball. So Tennessee and Texas A&M, we'll have to talk a little bit about that. Yeah, essentially a little bit of Texas A&M a little while ago. Yeah, I didn't get to see all of it, obviously. I was a little tied up. Yeah, interesting shot. You got to take a look at that. But yeah, that'll be an interesting series, I guess, between those two. Haven't watched a lot of College World Series to this point, but we'll have to check that out. Well, again, SEC teams in, and I think we talked about that last week, didn't we? And two really good teams. Yeah. I don't think there's a question at all about it. So we'll see who you're pulling for. See who I'm pulling for. You're gonna flip a coin? I'm going to taste straight up. I'm probably going with Tennessee on this. Are you? I think I'm going with Tennessee. Go with the bad boys, are you? I am. Huh? I'm going to go with Orange. Are you an A&M fan? No, I'm not an A&M fan. Okay. Is that who you're pulling for? No. Then you'll be pulling for Tennessee. I'm not sure about that. He's looking for a seven-game tie. Oh my goodness. Seven-game tie. I'm actually, I know some graduates from A&M and love them to death. They're some buddies of mine from Texas, and I'm going to pull for Tennessee the entire time. Just to have a little fun with them. Just to have a little fun with them. Yeah. We have a little text battle back and forth. A little teaser. Just a little teaser, but Tennessee does look strong. I think, I think they're favored. Well, that ranked number one. The Texas A&M ranked third. So they are favored. Just a couple of games difference. I think A&M is a 52 and 12 record, and I think Tennessee has a 58 and 13 record. Something like that. Pretty close. But I will get close. It is. It'll be a good game. I don't think there'll be any question as far as that goes. But we also saw Thursday night in Birmingham, a place you're very familiar with, Doug. They had a little baseball game up there in the old stadium. At the old record. That's exactly right. And I've been talking to my buddy Scott Griffin up there this week. He's been doing live shots from Rick Woodfield. And of course, the passing of Willie Mays kind of put an accent mark on what's happening in Rick Woodfield, I guess, in the past couple of days. Interesting timing there. But yeah, I've been to Rick Woodfield a few times. And did you watch any of that? Did you watch any of the game? I watched a little bit of it. Did you like the coverage of it? The way it was black and white. He didn't have the one I watched was all in black and white. And you didn't have the camera shots like you normally have. Yeah, kind of like old times. Old times, that's what it was. Yeah, it's good. It's an interesting week at Rick Woodfield. And like I said, with the news of Willie Mays this week, it kind of draws attention to what they're doing there. Yeah, no doubt. Matt, we've got about a minute left here in this segment. What's going on over at Boudroves? I'll tell you what we're doing a lot to keep you cool outside right now. We've got some great drinks from the bar, a little bourbon berry smash, a little southern bell. Those things will keep you fresh and refreshed, fresh and refreshed. While you're outside sitting on the deck, we've got the mistress going, the fans at high speed. I've got a new smaller version of what you call the big ass fan model of fan outside that I've got on one portion of the deck. We're trying to have to see if we can make that even more cool for all you. All you deck sitters out there, but right now we're having a great time. Great, great business last night. We had over 380 guests yesterday between five o'clock and nine o'clock. Oh my goodness. It was a mad house and everybody did a great job. A lot of people from out of town are coming down and staying at the local hotels and joining us for a great meal, a great time, great music and a great view. So come on out and check it out. Grant and alligator viewing there. Yeah, Willie the alligator was out last week when we were there. So Willie is no longer with us, but we have some great gator on the menu. I should have been the lead story. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Hey, real quick, back in the golf, did you see where Charlie Wood has qualified for first USGA event? I did see that. What do you think? That guy's got a lot of, I like his mentality, but I think he's got obviously a lot of pressure on him. He's got, you know, he's one thing he's got going for him, Randy. He's got good jeans. Well, there's no doubt. I mean, you got what? You're dead, one of the greatest golfers ever. Yeah, but a lot, like you said, a lot of pressure. So it'll be interesting to see which way that goes. He's obviously got talent and growing up playing golf. And how many times have you seen that when a dad plays golf on the PGA tour and then their son plays golf on the PGA tour? We've seen that quite a few times. Yeah, you have. I mean, who else has had that kind of pressure? How about Nicklaus? Well, Nicklaus, man. Yeah, Gary had a tough time following Jack. Yeah, you've got John Delly's son. I think that's a different dynamic. That could be, yeah. I think that's just a totally different dynamic. So he's got less pressure because of the pants that John wears. There you go, there you go. All right, let's take a time out. When we come back, you won't want to miss this interview. We've got it with Jimmy James. Just got a new book out. It's called Playing From the Rough. He just got through playing 100 of the greatest golf courses in this nation. We'll be back right after this. And welcome back to Southern Fairway Sports Radio. Randy Burgen, along with Matt Brandt, Doug Holton. Hanging out with us as well. Bobby Hall, the weekend off actually. He's working this weekend, is doing a celebrity event up in Maine. And we'll get a full report from him when he gets back. But guys, I got to tell you, I'm excited to have this gentleman on with us. He's been on with us before. Jimmy James is on our Shrickson guest line. Jimmy, how you doing? Doing great. How are you, Randy? I'm doing fabulous. I got to tell you, I'm excited about the new book. I think it just came out on the 11th. And it is a, I want you to share all this. You got the opportunity to play 100 of America's greatest golf courses. First off, I want to know how you came up with that. And then how did you, how did you get it done? I mean, you can't just pop on some of these golf courses. How did you do it? The idea came to me when I was getting ready to retire. And I wanted to take a year to transition from a 100 mile an hour job to retirement. And I knew I couldn't go to just an idle retirement. So I just got to travel across the country. Sort of my way of reconnecting with the country. Play golf in all 50 states, two rounds in each state, one with strangers, one with friends. But before I put together that plan, my wife gave me a book by Joe Sabino where he played the top 100 courses in the world over several decades. So I said, hmm, why don't I play the, I'm going to play 100 courses in a simply math. I'm going to play 100 courses. So why not play the 100 greatest and do it in a year? That year I'm going to use for transitioning. So that's where the year came from. That's where the idea came from. What's to do that is 87 of the courses were private, 12 or resort courses. And then best page black is the only truly public course in the top 100. And how I got it done was through the kindness and generosity of other people I met along the way. 75% of the people who helped me get on to the private courses, I did not know before I started that question. Wow, wow, that's good stuff. And if I remember, it seems like you flew, what was it, almost 74,000 miles, and you drove almost 18,000 miles, is that correct? That's correct. A little over 90,000 miles of travel at 33, 33 states, 8,796 books, I think. Wow, goodness gracious, goodness gracious. Visiting with Jimmy James right now, Doug, I know you got a question. Yeah, Jimmy, good to talk to you. How are you? I'm great, Doug. How are you this morning? Good, good. I was just thinking, maybe a sequel is in order, like you could do this every year, right? The next best 100 courses in the U.S. or the world. That I got away with it for a year. I am playing the world so fun, but I'm doing that over more than a year's time frame. I don't think I could get away with it with my wife and my kids for a sequel. Hey, I was just wondering, playing these courses that you played during the year, what was your favorite experience or most interesting thing about a golf course that you ran across? I'll tell you, the most interesting course was this course in Southern Illinois, Tenial, a C-A-N-Y-A-T-A. It's owned by one individual, Jerry Forsyth. It has no pro staff. Just Mike Boudreau, the golf course superintendent, and his groundskeepers. The course probably has maybe a couple of hundred rounds a year, but only about 100 people a year, 100 to 125 people a year played the course. They set the course up that they just for me. It's a beautiful course with some extraordinarily interesting holes that take you through the wilderness there where it's just so serene and peaceful. And so that was an interesting experience. One of the most fun experiences I had was in Idaho where I played the golf club at Black Rock with a couple of police officers and firemen. And so that was just a hoot. We're visiting with Jimmy James, Matt. Hey Jimmy, great to have you on man, an amazing story. I can't wait to get ahold of the book and check out all the details. But one thing that I noticed when I go out and I enjoy travel around with my buddies or family, and we do this probably more often than most, and it's a great experience. We always come back with that one or two people either at the course or during our trip that we relate to and have a great time with and remember, usually ends up going on to review somewhere on the website of a golf course or a restaurant. Anybody that stands out really for, that's a one year trip, but anyone, one person or two people that stand out in your journeys that really, really made an impact on you during your time? Yeah, there were multiple fascinating people that I met. One was the Caddy, my Caddy at Arcadia Bluff in Michigan, David Inderby. David at Caddy's on the Pro Tour, his first bag on the tour was Craig Sadler. He also caddied in rounds where he was in a round where on a parmer, our Jack Nicholas was paying against the guy who was back, he was on, and he just had some really great fascinating stories, and at the end of our round, he says to me, so you're paying the top 100 courses, do you have someone that's going to get you on to Oakland Hills? I said, "There's some people working on it, but I have nothing firm yet." He said, "Don't worry about it anymore. You took care of me today by giving me a loop. I'm going to take care of you. Someone's going to call you tonight." Wow. Give me a number. I'll have someone call you tonight, and they'll take care of you. That night, I got a call from Leo Savoy, the past president at Oakland Hills, and he said, "My buddy David Inderby, my childhood friend, called me and said, 'I need to take care of you.'" And David and I, we talk, we continue to be, we continue to be friends, and that story, those people that I met along the way, they're multiple people, that I play golf with, that I travel with now, and so I gathered more than this one or two. There are too many to even name. That's incredible. We're visiting with Jimmy James, the author of "Playing from the Rough, a Person of Journey Through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses." Jimmy, we got about four minutes left here, and I know you're in Seattle at the LPGA. Maybe we'll have time to talk to you about that, but I do want to ask you, of all the golf courses of the Top 100 A, which list did you go off of, and which was your favorite course to play? So, I used the golf digest list, and I won't give you one favorite, but I'll give you, I'll give you five, but I'll make it really quick. A gust of national experience. A gust of national, mythical place experience. Cypress Point, beautiful, diverse holes. Marion, the love and tradition of the game by the members at that great course. Pine Valley, where you don't have a layup hole, you don't even have a layup shot. And Fisher's Island, the beautiful Seth Rainer design along the eastern perimeter of that island, is charming and fun to play. Well, now, I got to follow that up with which course did you score the best on? The short course at Monterey Peninsula, I found my flow that day where everything I could think of doing with the ball happened without me even thinking about it. I saw the 76. That's, I started a bogey, double bogey, and then started 76 because it was nothing but parries and birdies until the last hole, I think, after that, where I bogey after not getting up and down from a bunker. That's awesome, that's awesome. Okay, the new book playing from the rough, a personal journey through America's 100 greatest golf courses. How do folks get that, Jimmy? They can get it from their bookstore, from the book service like Barnes & Noble, local bookstores, books a million. They can order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble online, bookorg.com, bookshoporg.org, and book the million. Good stuff. Now, I know, like, as I mentioned, you're out in Washington right now for the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Who is there a particular person you're following, or is there someone that stands out to you? So I'm following Maria, a stack house, and she's in on the player's exemption. She did make the cut after Cutline dropped yesterday, plus five. She had a great first day. Everybody struggled yesterday. I'm also following my friend that's sort of a local player. She's from Portland, but she's been on the tour for about four years. Caroline Ingrid, she is doing very well, and also made the cut. So those are the two primary players I'm following this week. Well, Jimmy, I got to tell you, we thank you so much for taking time to be with us. We're anxious to get the book and read it. Matt Doug, he might have a little system here that we might need to try to follow. I'm looking at you because I saw you eyes. Well, I'll be honest with Jimmy. I'm going to get that book and I'm going to start writing down names. And if you happen to put phone numbers in there for me to call and get some insight into playing some of these courses, pretty amazing, pretty amazing playing Augusta. Wow, that's incredible. It was incredible, but I have to get credit to my wife for arranging that one. Wow, very good. Jimmy, enjoy your stay and see how to look forward to having you back on. I can't wait to get our hands on the book. Have a great time and thanks for taking time to be with us. Thank you, Randy. All right, buddy. Jimmy James, we're going to get the book. All right. I got some coming. So hey, we'll take a quick time out when we come back. We're here to fully talk to David and usual. He's got a story about staying the man and willy maze. Starting to say something mad. I'm not going to say it. Just let it go. Just let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Hey, welcome back to Southern Fairway Sports Radio, Randy Bergen, Doug Holton, Matt Brant Time to go back to our Shrickson guest line of welcoming the general manager of Glenn Lace Golf Club in Foley, Alabama. We're looking for David Musial. Are you there with us, David? Yeah, I'm here, Randy. Okay, buddy. All right. I know you got an event going on. First off, before we get into the story, tell us what event you got going on there at Glenn Lace. I appreciate it. We hope you guys are doing well today. We've got a big crowd today. We've got our summer junior golf league going on right now. We've got about 40 kids that are on the Lace course play, and then we have just open play on the Dunes and Vista courses. So we got it all. Everything's full today, and a lot of people playing golf. David, you are the great, the great nephew of staying the man, Musial, who, if you're a baseball fan, you know, staying the man is. You have got a story that, and I know you had the opportunity to play a lot of golf with your uncle, and it's been a lot of time with him, but you got to tell us a story about staying the man and Willy Mays. That's real interesting. And this came straight from staying about this also ties into Hank Aaron, and that when Stan was, he played in, I don't know, over 20 All-Star games, but in the 50s that he played in All-Star game, I think it was 55 that he hit a home run in the 12th inning, and kind of the story there was he had that Willy Mays and Hank Aaron were very young, and Stan had been in the league, you know, 13 or 14 years, and they had been in those All-Star games together, but they really had not established a real friendship yet, that, you know, everything's good, but your outfield was Aaron Mays and Musial for many years of those All-Star games, and they were in the 12th inning, and Stan's supposed to come to the plate, and they're sitting in the dugout and tired, and Willy Mays said to Hank here, and he said, "This Musial is so good." He said, "Why don't you hit a home run and get us out of here?" And Hank and Willy laughed about it, and Stan went to the plate, and he said, "I'm trying to do just get a hit." And hit the home run, and National League wins in the 12th inning, and they come back in the dugout and hug, and they became, you know, close friends, you know, from then on, and, you know, and not just past the playing days, from, you know, going to Hall of Fame each year, and, you know, sharing those stories about playing ball together. But, yeah, a lot of All-Star games of Aaron Mays and Musial all-playing together, and, you know, he said that Willy Mays was the best All-Around player in his mind. That was what Stan used to say. Yeah, and, you know, there's no doubt that Willy Mays was a story. Everybody remembers him catching the fly ball over his shoulder. I mean, that's what you remember, but share some of the experiences that you had with with you Uncle Stan. Well, the fun part is in watching the game, or when you're playing golf with him, of the things that come out, you know, in different things we talk about as far as we talk about golf instruction, and he used to talk about how that he could never teach hitting. He said, because to him, it was just as simple as leaning over and getting part of the plate off to lean it into it, take off the inside part of the plate, and he said he always liked it, felt comfortable, was feet close together, and that's what he did. I mean, he was just very, it was just very natural to him, and he was, you know, always hit for high average, and, you know, 331 lifetime average, and didn't strike out much, and saw the strike zone well, just kind of like a Ted Williams, but, you know, that he had something also in common with Willy Mays in the fact that sometimes those guys are so good for so long that they don't know when to quit, and that Willy played for so, loved the game, and played for so long, and Stan was the same way, and, you know, later in life that he said, you know, I should have probably retired two or three years earlier, but, you know, I played well when I was 40, and I'm thinking I can do, you know, I can continue to do this, and I think that happens with a lot of your great athletes, where they hang around for a long time, because they love the game, they love the lifestyle, and, you know, just kind of don't know when to, you know, hang up the cleats. A lot of good time, a lot of good stories. Yeah, I mean, it's just part of getting old, no doubt. One of the, let me, real quick, Doug, and I know you got a question for a, they were visiting with David Musial, General Manager of Glenn Lakes down in Foley, but a stat that I think is just, just a coincidental, crazy stat is, in the 22-year career, Stan, the man Musial, at home, he had 1,815 hits. On the road, how many hits do you think he had? The same. The same. 1,850. How do you do that? He said, we used to laugh about it, and he said, "You can't plan that." He said, "Yeah, that's pretty amazing." Hey, David, how are you doing? I ain't doing great, Doug, doing great. Hey, I was just thinking about the story you told about the outfield, and how sports kind of brings people together, no matter what background they're from, and thinking about some of the stories about Willie Mays this week, and I had a chance to talk to Hank Aaron many years ago back in the 90s. Of course, he had roots in Mobile, and I was just thinking about all the stories that they told and all the stories that have been told around Rickwood Field this week about what those guys went through in the early days, the 50s and the 60s, and how their teammates who may have been from a different background were the ones that stood up for them. I was just wondering if Stan ever shared anything like that with you. Without doubt that he used to talk about that if you look and you hear him talk about the Negro League players are not as good, and they couldn't play in the major leagues, and then all of a sudden this influx of them, they're filling up the All-Star games. And you look at the number hall of famers, but he used to talk about the time that he played in, he said was the best because he saw the changes that you saw when they went from wearing just ball cap to wearing helmets, and to wear that they start having air conditioning in the dugouts. And he said where they started playing night games, and where they started going on planes and not on trains. And he said just to his era of how it changed and how it changed and how things, those guys like Willie Mays and Hank Aaron and Stan, those guys they just love the game. And they played for the love of it. Stan's dad told him that you can't play baseball for a living, you're going to have to have something else to do also. And that's so much of those players of what they came up, and I was great watching that the other night by the way of Rick Woodfield and all the history that there is there. And all the great players that have come through there, but you missed a couple great ones from this area with Ozzy Smith and Billy Williams. I mean the number of Hall of Famers from Alabama and just from O'Beal, this is pretty amazing. And a lot of great players have come through here. Well, there's no question about that for sure. You know, you said they love the game. His quote is "I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on this uniform." And it certainly showed over his 22-year career how he was so very consistent. One of the things, and I thought about you, I guess it was back in November, the the usual award. I know you and the family have to be very proud of that. Yeah, it's a neat thing. And it's a sportsmanship award, which, you know, you look at Stan in his career that he, you know, never was thrown out of a game. He is the guy that when he did not hit well later in his career that he went back and asked for a pay cut. You know, that type of thing is what, you know, it's what you want to see. You want to see these players that wear that they give autographs to players. Stan said that the life that he had was because of his fans. And you see it, you know, in the South because, you know, before you had the Braves in Atlanta, that, you know, your southernmost team was the St. Louis Cardinals and just still the following that they have, you know, from, you know, from so long ago. But he always appreciated what he had in life because of the game of baseball. And he said he never would have what, you know, the life that he had if it was not for the fans. So that's something real special and hope that everybody takes that, you know, takes that with them that, you know, so weren't for the fans that, you know, that we wouldn't, that we wouldn't have these sports that we have. And all the things that go with it, you know, Alabama football wouldn't be anything if you didn't have the 110,000 people in there and the number of people watching throughout the state are commodity or coach Brian or coach Saban. I have a VISTA with Dave Musial, General Manager Glenn Lakes talking about staying the man. Matt. Hey, David, how's it going, buddy? Good to see you. Good to hear you. Always good to see you at Boudreau's. Love having you come out and you bring the family out. We love it. Mom and dad. And you guys do, you guys have a lot of fun out there. Hey, that, that story about staying taking a pay cut for, for not performing as well. I, I don't know that I have the fortitude to do that to myself. Much less go ask somebody else for one. That's, that's pretty crazy. I think my, my guys will probably say, well, Matt, if you continue playing golf all week, you should probably take a pay cut. But I, I don't know that I could do that to myself. That's, that's a heck of a story. And, and pretty, pretty proud guy to be able to do something like that and, and a lot of integrity there. So what's, I'm curious, I've been Glenn Lakes in a while. So aside from the terms you got going on today, what else has happened down there? How's the course conditions? You guys doing any, any more upgrades? I know you've been doing all kinds of things to make that course even better all the time. Well, Matt, I sure appreciate it. And Boo's Rose is my number one place to go. And it is, it is Ted Musial's favorite restaurant. So by the way, my dad, but now we, we always love it. And that is his number one place that he always wants to see Matt. But, now the golf course is in fantastic shape. I can tell you that it's probably in the best shape that's ever been between the rainfall and the sunshine. We've had just the perfect mix. And the golf course is just fantastic right now. All three courses are in great shape that we've got your, Randy got your tour coming up next month. Got Southern Fairways tour coming. We just got through with the junior optimist qualifying tournament. We're going to send four kids from our club that will be, that were, that did qualify. We had a, you know, one of the strongest Jimmy Green tour events that we've ever had. Just a lot of things, a lot of things happening. We've got our parent junior tournament coming up on July the 27th. You know, we have a, we have a, it's adult junior. It doesn't have to be, you know, father's son. We've got several different divisions. So we'd love to have you there. We've got new golf carts that'll be coming in two weeks. We're excited about just to kind of give us a new look. And they're just excited about how things are going that the summer traffic has been good. And we appreciate all the listeners out there coming out and playing. Well, Dave, you do a great job. Your staff does awesome. And we always have fun coming out there and playing. I always enjoy having you on as one of our partners as well. And we appreciate everything that you do for us and what you do for golf. So thanks. Enjoyed the, enjoyed the stay in the man, usual talk. We could do that. I know you could do it for quite some time. And certainly we could sit here and listen. So thanks for that. Thanks for taking time to be with us. I appreciate you having me on Randy and, you know, Willie might as we missed. And he was a great one. Sam said he was the best all-around player ever. So appreciate you having me on. You guys have a great weekend. All right. There you go. David Musil, General Manager at Glenn Layskaw Club. If you have an opportunity to get out there and play the courses in great shape. So and catch one over the shoulder today. Randy, how about that? The way I've been hitting the golf ball, I could do that. I could hit it straight up and catch it over the shoulder. There you go. Perfect timing on the music bed. Perfect timing. Oh my goodness. We got to talk about the SFGT. We do. And I'll tell you what I did a couple of days ago on accident that made me get back in the cart and not finish the hole. Oh my goodness. A little teaser there. Hey, coming up in just a second too, we got something from Robin Williams. If you've not heard this, you got to listen to it. We're back right after this. Here's my idea for a sport. I knock a ball into a golfer hole. Oh, you mean like pool? No, forget pool. That was a state stick. A little broken stick. I wet a ball into a golfer hole. Oh, you mean like okay. Oh, no, not okay. I said, put this ball. I put the whole hundreds of yards away. Kind of like a bowling alley. Oh no way. The way. I put stuff in the way like cheese and bushes. So you're whacking the ball and you're sitting there whacking away and you feel like you're going to have a stroke. That's what we'll call it because every time you hit the ball, you think you're going to die. And right near the end, they'll put a nice flat bit with a tiny flag to give you a hook. I'm going to put a pool and a sandbox to grab your ball. Do you do this one time? Oh no, eat in downtown. Oh my goodness. There's a lot of orange flowers there. Oh my goodness. And it's sometimes when we're playing Matt, it certainly feels. Yes, it does. You have a little story. This is a little embarrassing, but I figured what the heck. What better time than just bringing up amongst friends. I mean, you two guys aren't talking to anybody else about this. So I figured, yeah, the other day I was at Magnolia Grove and just playing, but you know, decent round. And had a wayward shot, pushed right a little bit, caught the cart path on a par five. And unluckily it bounced on the cart path, rolled all the way down to the next next hole. And I had about a hundred yard shot to get back on the green and get a chance at par. Well, after I dropped it off the cart path, I took a swing at it and my son was standing, the carts were on the cart path between me and the whole. My son was standing next to the cart path, next to the carts. And I took a big swing at it with a 52 degree. And just to get to the hundred yards up and down, got under it a little bit. My son's looking at it. I see his head. He's looking up at the ball. And then all of a sudden, he moves very rapidly away from the cart because he was standing next to the bags that were on the cart. The ball went straight up in the air, straight down to land it in the bag. Straight didn't like nothing but net straight into the bag right where your putter would normally go. He's standing next to it. He's shaking his head. He looks at me, I said, "Where'd it go?" He said, "In here." So he pointed directly into the bag. I walked over my golf bag. And so it was obviously a sign from the golf gods to get back in the cart, recoup and let my son and Colin finish up the whole cart path. Bobby, you can't call for that one. And you can't make that up. I got to hold on one some sort of way. We couldn't even get it. We were going to take all the clubs out and dump it out. So the ball is still in the bag. What's the ruling on this? You just decided to get a drink instead. I decided it was time to sit that one out. At least you didn't hit your son. No, I didn't. But he was a little scared. He's like, "Oh, that might be good." All of a sudden it wasn't. How long does that hold that par five the way you played it? Yeah, about 700 yards. It's the longest par five in history. It's a world. No doubt about it. Doug, you want to share something? I was just thinking, listening to David talk about fans and how important they are and thinking about the Indiana fever last night playing in Atlanta against the dream. A lot of people are talking about Caitlin Clark. The dream, usually playing an arena 3,500 seats, they had to move the game because of the ticket sales to the NBA arena in Atlanta. 17,500 still sold out. Almost six times or five times as many folks. And Caitlin Clark in the Indiana fever and all our teammates there pulled out another victory. So they're getting better, I think. Four in a row, I think. That's incredible. I mean, you get somebody polarizing. I mean, it's almost like the, you know, maybe smaller scale, but the Tiger Woods of golf when Caitlin Clark is. Well, she certainly, I mean, absolutely. I mean, she's got eyeballs there. Folks are coming to see your play. She's and she's good. Yeah. Okay. So I'm not sure why somebody from basketball could share it with me why she's not on the US Olympic team. Yeah, interesting. They've lost $500 million in sponsorships is what they're saying because she's not on the team. Wow. But anyway, talking about fans again, it's interesting that to me that what David was talking about after the game, before the game, you see Caitlin doing it, you see Bryson DeChambeau doing it last week, spending time with the fans, the kids, Nellie Corda, same thing. You know, that's so important in building the sport, growing the sport, growing your own brand, if you will, you know, it's just that's what it's all about, really. It's not about the, there's a lot of money involved in sports now, but it's really about the fans and having fun. And Doug, I have to agree with you, especially if you look at the polarizing effect that DeChambeau's had. I mean, four years ago, he was untouchable. No one wanted to talk to him. He was dry on the media. He wasn't, he wasn't really fan friendly. And something happened, whether it was all the money he got from Liv, or a family friend or a friend or some epiphany he had, he decided that, you know what, I need to start, you know, having fun. And he started having fun, not only with his game, but with the fans on social media. And I can tell you, I wasn't a huge fan of DeChambeau back when he was in the PGA. But he has done an amazing job of turning around who he is or who he appears to be, and how he interacts with people, especially with the young kids, the fans just walking and talking. That's not what some of you see. You know, a lot of times whenever you see a golfer who makes a nice putter, a nice shot, whatever it may be, and the fans clap and all that, and they have, they don't recognize the fans at all. Kind of like, do tip your hat, wave out on something, you know, and you see that a little bit with Scotty. Scotty kind of told you, I'm keeping my head down, I'm driving, keeping my nose on the ground. But I kind of liked the attitude that Bryson had with the fans. Did you see what Scotty did? I think it was last night, or the night before, he was his birthday, right? And Tom Kim's birthday. Who's leading by the way of traveling. He was in the clubhouse, I guess, and the fans were waiting outside for him, and he takes his birthday cake out and gives it to the fans out there and signs the cake for him. That's great. That's good. Did you see, if you didn't see Johnson Wagner, what Bryson did after, he went out, he went out and said, "Hey, I'm going to try this bunker shot the first." And he didn't know where the ball went. It was dark, but the second one, he put that thing, I mean, he almost holed it, and Bryson gives him the trophy, the USO patrol. I thought they were just good, good TV. They should play in the dark more often. Maybe that might be possible. I should as well. You would have never hit your golf bag. I mean, technically, I didn't lose the ball. I know where it's at. It was a lost ball. Well, let me just, real quick, Tom Kim does lead the travelers. He's at 13 under. He'll tee off at about 1 o'clock, 12 o'clock our time. Call him or a cower. Batilla, and I like Batilla. This guy doesn't weigh 120 pounds lefty, but he's in there at 11 under as well as Scottie Scheffler. Xander Schoffle back at 10 under. I looked him up last night of this morning, Ockshay. Ockshay, Batilla. You know where he's from? Southern California. Yeah, Los Angeles. It went to school at. Did he go, is he a UCLA? Wake Forest. Oh, he went to Wake Forest. Yeah, that's right. That was interesting, I thought. Galway across country. He's playing well. How about Xander Schoffle? I mean, Xander's playing good. It's a great leaderboard. At the travelers. Great event. One person you don't see there is who? Rory McIlroy. He's taking a couple weeks off. What you thought about that? You know, after what happened at the US Open, he probably needs a couple weeks off. He's going to play in the, he's a defending champion at the Scottish Open, I think. So, he'll be back in a couple weeks. So, my question is, did Bryson win it? Or did Rory lose it? Yes. I think, I think Rory, I think Rory lost it. Okay. Because he, Bogey's three of the last four holes. Yeah. And he missed two, three footers. So, now. Which, we've done that, but from that level, and the greens as good as those are, she got to make those. Yeah, those are, those, those are bad misses. I mean, that's not something you see from any of those guys out there, but to do it, three of the last four holes and give up a two stroke lead. I mean, that puts, that puts Bryson right back in there. And Bryson did what he had to do to win. There's no doubt. But, but. How many times have you seen that in the US Open when a guy just par, par, par, and the other guy misses the three, four footer. And the guy that makes the par wins the US Open. Look, if you guys saw the 18th hole where that Bryson, how he played that 18th hole, he was doing everything in his power to lose. He really was. And the native grass. Yeah, hitting it off a root, then hitting it out of the sand trap and then making that putt. I mean, that was incredible that he was able to even get that up and down for par while Rory was sitting there three feet away for par and didn't make it happen. It's only one thing you didn't do, Matt. Let's hit it in his golf. I did not do that. I have, I have skills unknown to most of them. That would have lost the tournament point. And most golfers do that one. Had to be thanks of our great sponsors, McConnell Automotive, Shrickson Golf, Boudreau's Cajun Grill, Glenn Lyskoff Club, and folded great to have David on with us. Ben Murphy roofing, Eastern Shore Toyota and Hyundai, craft farms. If you get a chance, you want to go down and play some good golf golf courses. You want to play craft farms, the only on a Palmer's signature design course in Alabama. Don't forget about Peninsula also, fantastic places to play. Lisa Johnson Realtor, Fair Hope Golf Works, Boomsday Kitchen, and the PSR radio network. Got about a minute and a half left here. What is on the menu today? Look, I tell you what guys, it's hot outside. We've got the heat index rising up. It's sunny, it's fun. Come out and get you a nice bushwhacker. If you haven't been bushwhacked with bluebell ice cream, you haven't been bushwhacked the right way. Come on down to Boudreau. You know, I got to mention real quick, Nilly Porter. All right, she was 500 on Thursday. Speaking of three footers. She's human. She is human. She's missing some kind of shots now. She's she's struggling a little bit. Doug, thanks for hanging out. Fast hour. Appreciate it Randy. Always fun. Matt, always good to see you. I'll see you tomorrow at Mother. Let's go tour as we'll be at Lost Key. It will be a blast down there. If you haven't been to Lost Key, you sure want to go to check them out. Thanks to Jimmy James and to David Musil for being with us and thank you for hanging out with us as well. Let's say a prayer. Hit a knee. God bless America. We'll see you next week right here on Southern Fairway Sports Radio. Bye, everybody.