1121: The Great Nebraska Golf Trip

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“>> Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No-Lang Up podcast.”

Presented by our friends at Titleist No. 1 Ball in Golf. My name is DJ. We got a delightful, tidy little episode today as we are going to recap our trip to Nebraska. That many of you may have seen over, you know,

documented in our YouTube video that we did over on our YouTube channel. We put out a film, just called No-Lang Up in Nebraska. We covered a lot of different corners of the state. And it turned into one of our favorite videos ever. So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it.

If you have watched it, today's episode is going to shed a little bit more context for you on what we got into. And some of the stuff that didn't make it into the video. So looking forward to breaking that down with Neal and Tron. But before we get there, we are presented today by Titleist and

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Gosh, we got a good one today, guys. It's going to be a very fun trip to relive. We're going back to Nebraska, at least in our minds, and to help me do it. I've got the brothers, Schuster, the stars of the hit,

no laying up the film, NLU Nebraska.

First of all, the brainchild of this trip,

“Tron Carter, also known as Todd Schuster, TC, are you?”

I'm great, Haldie. I'm still, you know, I have to go back country. Now that we're now that we're adventuring back to Nebraska. Kind of a tough look with you going country, but that totally butchering that Toby Keith quote, you know, that's tough, a tough look for, you know,

what of what of country music's native song? I would say I evolved to the quote, I didn't butcher it. And of course, his baby brother, Niel Schuster, also on the pod, Niel, how are you, my man? Good, it's good to be with you. I'm going to crack open a coke diesel here.

I'm going to, it's Friday, gentlemen. No, no, I got it. Jesus. Guys, like I said, we're going to go back to Nebraska. We put out a video, I don't know when this podcast is coming out, but it probably a couple weeks ago, by this point showcasing our

road trip, the road trip that the three of us had been took through the sand hills of Nebraska last summer. One of my favorite trips we've ever taken, one of my favorite videos we've ever put out, we've started to our friends at Yeti for making that one.

Possible, T.C., let's start with kind of the basics. How long has it been swimming around in your head, and how did this one come together? This one's been swimming around in my head for probably, at least five or six years.

First time I went to Nebraska, it was like 20,

2018, 2017, maybe 2018. And then we did a video at Wild Horse. You were playing Lafty, I believe? Yeah, we did a video at Landman as well, which is in a different part of the state.

Why didn't you go to Landman? Because it's four hours away from these places that we won. It's not the sand hills. No old head, man. Exactly.

But Neil, I would say, Landman is more architecturally significant than old head. You understood what I was going for there. It did. But yeah, it's just been, like,

each time I've been in Nebraska, I've loved it.

I've wanted to share it with my buddies

and share it with the world a little bit. And yeah, so this has been kind of a passion project of mine for like, all right, like, but also, hey, can we film at Sand Hills? Can we, like, you got to establish

“credibility and relationships and all of that stuff?”

So, yeah, it's been a long time coming. Neil, what were your, I don't want to say, I guess preconceived notions. I mean, what did you think you were getting into? How did that differ from reality?

Just, just talk to me about kind of pre-trip post-trip and the similarities are disconnect between those two things. I was thinking more great planes and less, less rumple. Less rumple stills. Just some real land movement in Nebraska

and then I did not know about I canyons and trees and a lot of stuff that I didn't expect. I've been to Bali, Neil would be the closest, you know, eastern Colorado that I've been here so I was expecting a lot of that, which we saw.

You know, some courses kind of have that Bali, Neil look, but just some, a lot of diversity of landscape that I wasn't expecting. And to, to quote Big Randy,

just nostalgic for a place I've never been

is I felt that way like every day in Nebraska. There's like I've never been here, but man, I feel like I, I have. And it's like nostalgic for a time I was never a part of. I felt like going back in time in the best ways possible. Feels like home to me as, as I got Jay Trigo would say.

T.C. what? A lot of directions we could go with this one. Obviously, you've got landman and one corner. You've got, you know, a lot of other stuff in the complete opposite corner.

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it can be difficult.

“I think for you to whittle these trips down.”

You know, there's a lot of times there's 16 options for four slots. How did we end up kind of zeroing in on where we went? Yeah, I think you, you'll, you'll talk about diversity. You want diversity landscapes, but you also want diversity of, of courses and of clubs of, you know, the,

the base side, Mr. Belding's place.

Can I say on that on that note?

Super quick. Kevin and Ben, our, our video guys that, uh, Ben Hoteling people know Kevin Jackson, who is a masterful editor and shooter works on a bunch of our stuff. No idea.

They had no idea. It's, it's such a happy accident that that made it in the edit. The Mr. Belding's play stuff, because I don't know what that is. Are you guys, or? They're not saved by them.

No, I missed it. Absolutely missed it. No clue what, what any of those references are. It's just, it's like, I got more, more gray hair than ever. Yeah.

Kelly, you know. She's never felt older. Yes, she's spano when she took the, what does she take that? Yeah, feed pills or something, right?

A caffeine pills. Kind of like you with the cells. Yeah. Space, it's Stacy Karosi. Mr. Karosi at the feed club.

But they're like, I don't know. We put it in the edit because you guys seem super confident about it, but we had no idea what that was. Anyways, Mr. Belding's place, Frederick Peek, so, so on.

Yeah. Just making sure that we got the full spectrum, because I think, obviously, you know, we went to some highly exclusive, highly private places in San Hills,

and Cap Rock Ranch, especially. We went to, you know, more resort place in Prairie Club, but just as easily Dismal River could have fitted into those buckets as well. Grable as well.

So it's kind of making sure that you get places that are representative of the different types of clubs. And then mullin or Augusta wind or deadford, like, you know, those places, you know, kind of just more honesty box,

you know, mom and pop shops, and then you got wild horse, which kind of sits in the middle of all these places, that's kind of the best of all worlds.

“So I think with something important to keep in mind,”

like with San Hills too, it's exclusive and not a lot of people that watch this video are going to get to go experience it. I don't think that means that we shouldn't cover it, or we shouldn't, you know,

I just think there needs to be balance, right? And I think that San Hills is somewhere that kind of spawned an entire generation of great golf courses, whether that's band and dunes or farm boogle, or habit, you know, cabin Nova Scotia or wild horse,

right down the road. Yeah, exactly. And so I think there's, you know, even if you don't experience San Hills, you, it's tangentially experienced through some of these other places

that popped up. San Valley as well. That popped up and it kind of, you know, established that that stuff was possible, right? And yeah, so, you know,

and also like, San Hills is like, it's not fancy. It's very, very rustic, it's very, it's, it's very much about the golf. Like I think it's, it's one of those places where you go

and like Neil, you said,

when I first day or my first round and I think, I think San Hills, it's maybe disarming in certain ways, but it's almost even more intimidating because it is rustic and it's different from any,

you know, exclusive private club that you've been to, where it like, it's like, oh my gosh, like guys are just drinking beers out on the porch and eating burgers here, you know? Yeah, I think my, I said it,

you feel like you're in the museum and I'm like, oh, it's, and it's, especially San Hills, I hit out there, you're like, I don't want to mess anything up. I'm like, oh, got to get intimidated by like, man, this is a, heard so much about it.

I'm, I'm overwhelmed with seeing it for the first time.

I always think about these trips to,

and hopefully this isn't to like, how the sausage is made or, or whatever. But I always think about the role of these trips. I've gotten a lot more comfortable with going to places like that because I think the goal is to,

is we do have access to go check those places out and to show what makes them great so that you can lay that over on other places is kind of, it's kind of how I look at those. I don't look at these trips,

and there are, there are elements of, oh, you should go check this place out, but I don't think these are like, we're not travel agents, you know? I don't think these are like,

you need to go, here's your, you're ready made itinerary, go follow the footsteps. So what the fuck you guys went to a private club? I, like, I don't look at those the same way.

I look at them almost more like,

I don't know, this is not comparing,

but like, chef's table is a good instance of like, man, I'm not going to eat it any of these restaurants, but I like to know what they're doing. That's interesting, you know? Where, where are they taking inspiration from?

Can I say, I've, I just rewatched our silvies episode from season five of Torasos, and for some other projects we're doing. Loved it, but we interviewed Scott Campbell, the owner of silvies,

and he's talking about, he's out in eastern Oregon and the town he grew up in and, you know, a lumber mill closed in the 80s and economic downturn. It's been tough out there in the high desert.

And he's like, he's saying with silvies, he's like, one eco resort, it's not going to change the economic situation for two counties, you know, in eastern Oregon, but hopefully it's symbolic and it's a start

for other people to invest in this area and show that like, people will come if you, you know, do a good job.

“And I think that's exactly what's happened”

in Nebraska over the last 30 years, right? You know, Sandhill's proves it like if you build it, they will come and then you get a wild horse and then you get this mole river, then you get the prairie club.

And so I think it was fun to see that almost from a different part of the country, a different guy talking about his resort almost economically similar to this. Yeah, I think that's what I'll say.

As far as kind of like who can take this trip, who should take this trip, the travel agent sort of element of it because I do think that, you know, some of that, like I said,

I'm not trying to speak out of full size of my mouth, but TC, how do you recommend this as far as like prerequisites? Is this like a,

oh, you have to go to Scotland first.

You have to go to Ireland. You got to go to Australia. The light bulb's not going to click until you've seen certain things or is this like a no go hop on,

go hop in the suburban and go check it out as soon as possible. You know, you're trying to get out of there. Totally. Yeah, I don't think it's,

I don't think there's any prerequisites for this trip.

“I think this trip is almost a prerequisite for”

some of those other trips of, hey, if you can't, you know, whether time wise or budget wise or, you know, like, if you can't get to Scotland or you can't get to, through Australia, this is, this is the best parts of that in your own backyard.

And, you know, coming from Jacksonville, it can certainly feel like, it's probably as quick for me to get to Scotland as they get to the first day at a wild horse or, you know, Frederick Beaker when he's places,

but you don't need a travel agent to book this, right? You can, you know, and then with the advent of rodeo dunes in the next few years and, you know, like you could fly in and out of Denver and stop it calming around on your way out

or there's just so many, like, you can make this trip your own. You could go out of Omaha. You could drive down from the Twin Cities and do this. I think, you know, you've got a warry dunes.

You've got landmen, like we said, then you've got, there's a dozen other courses out there and you can go to that are publicly accessible. Just cool stuff up in the northwestern part of the state that feels more like desertscapes

and maces and a rollo is kind of thing.

“So I think there's, there's something for everybody”

but it's, it's highly accessible. Like, you know, I 80s right there. And then you're kind of just taking johns off of I 80s to go up. And, you know, you could, you could do a,

three or four day trip, you could do a 10 day trip. You could, you know, you could build in fly fishing or tubing or something else to it. But yeah, you know, it's just one of those things that like, I don't think these places are getting overrun.

Like, I think it's probably a lot more difficult to get a tea time at wild horse or prairie club these days

You can go to, you know, you can stop at these honesty box places

and like those fill up the tank for me just as much as the, as the private clubs and the resorts. Like, it's, it's truly, to me like this trip was as much about the road trip and the windshield time as it was about the golf courses themselves.

And you're going through all these different landscapes and you're surrounded by just awesome wildflowers the whole time. And I don't know, I just hanging out with you guys. It was, it was fun.

I, you took the words out of my mouth. You mentioned those johns off of I 80 and to me that is going to be one of the lasting memories. Like all the golf courses are great. Sand Hills is probably my favorite golf course in the United

States. Like all of that stuff is so, so cool.

“But what I don't have a lot of in my life is”

true just driving fast on open roads and wide open spaces is that's lacking, you know? Yeah. And that is a man that was fun. It's just, it's, it's a great.

Yeah. It's, it's just a funny kind of push and pull, right? Where you, you pull into a place like a gust of winds or thedford or mulling golf club or whatever. And maybe if you don't have the eye or if you don't have the

context or you don't have whatever. It, yeah, maybe it doesn't look like a lot to to look at. But man, go do it for two, three days and see how much your heart rate drops and your blood pressure drops a little bit. You know, it's like, it's one of those trips for me where

it's like, yeah, maybe not every all the golfers in your life are going to understand what you're doing. But I promise it's going to click once you once you get out there. We're joking about it.

You know, and we kept kind of saying like, Oh, my God, this is Nebraska. There were so many people in my life where they're like, Oh, what do you got coming up? I was like, Oh, we're doing this, this big massive film in

Nebraska. What? And why? And what are you? What are you talking?

Nebraska? Really? And I think, oh, yeah, do people not realize like it's, it's kind of it. Like it's, that's, that's, that's the best.

We got pretty much, you know, and it's, it takes kind of a a week to, to package all that up in a way that I think

people like really resonates with people who have never been there.

There's a quote, this, this calls to mind. It starts. Her trips always ended near a city somewhere. Way out in the freight yard was smoke clouding the air. We're a turmoil of trains made a great noisy rumble on

Chris crossing tracks and impossible jumble. And that's how it feels. You know, kind of. Is this the, that the caboose got loose? The caboose that got loose.

Which I haven't seen yet, TZ. Did you put in the mail? I haven't seen it yet. I did. I.

I ordered it through through, you know, delivery. Shoulda been there last Friday. So. All right. I got it.

I got it. I got it. What's going to be much more than the rest was a cabin. She'd seen on her trips to the west. A little log shack.

Have covered with vines. Purched on a slope in a forest of pines. There you go. Get that in a brass kit too. That's right.

Can I, the thing I would add is, uh, sometimes I don't want to say frustrated, but sometimes golf trips can feel so schedule. Yeah. If you were looking to take a golf trip that is unscheduled.

And. You're looking for that flexibility over a four or five day period. This is the perfect golf trip to take where yeah, you're going to have to do some driving, but you can roll up to. These honor boxes and places like Frederick's peak.

And, and you can, you can have that flexible schedule to work in. You know, yeah, you'll have to book things with prairie club and with wild horse, but you can work around that.

“I, that's what I really enjoyed about it.”

I think it's like we could change our tinerary on the floor. Well, then time for the rodeo.

Baby, you know, you never go when you're going to drive by one.

So. I think cafe to your. Exactly. The JNL cafe on the way out. Uh, I think that's a lot of a lot of throat clearing on on the actual trip itself,

but I think let's get into the itinerary a little bit. I'll keep you guys moving so that we don't get too bogged down with the left side of this fairway, the right side of this green type of type of stuff. But we started at Mr. Building's place, Bayside, like you said, Neil, I want to ask you a simple question.

What are you going to remember most about Bayside? Uh, the aquifer. Massive body of water out there didn't expect that. So that was the reservoir. We couldn't see the reservoir was under the ground.

Sorry. The aquifer. Yes. Or I'm sorry. God.

Now you got me to a set. The reservoir. Yes. Triple landlocked gentlemen. Triple landlocked.

All right.

“No, I think the some some dunes and what will I remember the routing a lot of blind shots.”

Just the the paralysis I would have to design some of these golf courses on and where to go next. It's you get off to a tea. It's like you could tell me we should be we're going 180 degrees that way. Like three or four times. I was like, Oh, we're going that way.

Okay, cool. Uh, that's just the thrill for me. I love that. I don't know what's I don't know what's coming next, but you see you don't know where you're going, but there's also no trees. So that's very disorienting and I I like plan of course like that from time hand up.

Can only get off the front the back head, you know, it was jam packed.

We have enough time to play all 18.

“I think a lot like the back is much more notable and gets all sorts of more notoriety.”

So hand up my fault there, but we did play 11. But I've heard that there's another, there's a part three on the back. It's even more outrageous. J.D. was telling me stuff. But shout out to J.D.

He was just a, a, a, a, a, a awesome council of the entire trip and, you know, in the pre planning segment, even down to like, hey, you guys got to go to this. You know, convenience store truck stop in Ogilala that. Okay. This is Nebraska for you. So yeah, that was great.

You mentioned the 11th hole that's going to stick with me.

Approximately nine hundred and fifty yard.

Part five that plays down a spine. Please go watch the video if you don't know what we're talking about. There's great great visuals of that. T.C. I'd like to commend you on just playing the real, real golf hole. Neil, you played it much, much the way that I probably would have played it.

And I not been behind the camera.

“I think you lost a couple balls and T.C. had like a 15 footer for birdie, which I think kind of sums up.”

The volatility of, of that golf hole. Yes. I'll remember as well. There was some flag being tossed around and on socials. It's just like, oh yeah, no laying up.

Like, you guys are way enough on the, on, I was like, it's like a 650 yard par a five street under the wind. Yeah, that's a real, you weren't there, man. You don't, you don't really know what it was like. The, I would throw a just kind of the resort.

Well, I don't know what I was saying. Like, kind of the resort set up without it feeling like a resort. I was, I was, that was unexpected. Vacation. Yeah, kind of a vacation rent a cabin, play golf, rent a boat, do some water skiing.

But you're in the middle of Nebraska. Was that that was an immediate, like, oh, this is not just not what I was expecting. I was expecting a lot of corn fields. There was, there was a lot of that. But that was a, you had just a bit of a zag and a cool kind of,

a cool kind of, yeah, vacation spot that felt like it was in the middle of nowhere that had a great golf course attached to it. So that was a, if you're within a couple hours drive, you're sure you already know about this place. But if not, uh, seem worth checking out seem like a very fun kind of family or buddies sort of destination. We tried to stop at Pelican Beach, but simply we're drawn away by the gravitational pull of the rodeo, the Arthur rodeo. Uh, shout out to the friends we've met along the way there and the barbecue truck that we got to go to.

Um, anything T.C. Pelican Beach, I know we didn't get to go there, but any kind of overview of that.

“No, I think it's, you know, like both Bayside and Pelican Beach.”

I think, uh, it's messing with me because on the, on the Bayside website, it says Dan Axlond and Dave Proctor.

And it just makes me second guess.

It's Dave Axlond and Dan Proctor. Right. So they, they both, you know, they were shapers in, in architects in their own right. At, at San Hills, but wild horse and then, you know, they're the architects record at wild horse and continue work on it. And then they also did, uh, Bayside, but then one of them did Pelican Beach.

So I felt like it was going to be a, you know, a good, a good ad on a little bit out of the way. Or us, I mean, there's only like, you know, there's a road every 30 miles out there too. And, uh, but yeah, we, we were driving by driving by the road. And Arthur, like, oh man, like, all right, we got to stop there. Um, and yeah, so we've sad to, sad to miss Pelican Beach.

Uh, we've, we've joked shoe program 24 hour lockdown. Shout out to Denzel. Um, but yeah, you know, like a basic enough. Yeah, just a lot, I think another one along another reservoir that's just, uh, you know, Yeah, like, whoa, we're in Nebraska.

Yeah, uh, big shout out to the bunk house in Arthur. If we've got any listeners, listeners there, great place to wet. Quiet, tired the bunk house. Yeah, I want to meet some of those people that ride there. Apparently ride the horses into the bar.

Uh, we had to get to beat eight of those people with sounds like, uh, that's a great place. I'd love to revisit sometime in my life. He was a big single horse trying to cowboy kind of. Exactly. Sure.

A real, yeah, yes. That's, that's, that's right. Frederick Peek was the next one we went. Uh, a Tom Laman joint. Uh, was 10 holes, right?

Uh, you know, by nine to get one free. Uh, which was, which was great. Uh, I was a, that was a little bit of driving from, like, that was a big day. We started, we flew in a Denver.

We stopped at the, the JNL cafe and Stapleton outside of, you know, just outside the Nebraska State line.

Uh, then drove two and a half three hours up to Valentine.

I was like, I'm trying to prepare you guys for like, hey, like, I'm not going to lose you guys day one here. Like, this is, it was a true travel.

“I think it's important that we rip up to Valentine.”

Back into the comfort in, get there that night. Be able to stay there two nights. But, um, but man, that was, that was a lot of travel. That day. You must have so many counseling more on.

I had a, uh, on top of that. I had 10 string challenge going that month. So I hit, I hit the, the broken elliptical at the comfort in at, like, 1 a.m. Easy.

You must have so many comforted points. Uh, after after this trip as well. That's private. That's fine. I don't, I don't want to divulge.

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All right, well Frederick Peek Neil, we hit that first thing the next morning.

Awesome golf course crazy land movement, lots going on what stuck with you from there. I mean, why don't like I love I said it in the film community felt like a community golf course. My guy Steve talked to him before the round all the signs he did just all the little unique things that that. You know, like the make it the definition of a community golf course. It was awesome. It was quirky and fun just fun shots from start to finish.

And you know, very cool land form in Freddie's peak. The oriented we were talking about this in the car because all of us live in fairly big cities. You know, and don't have a ton of touch points to like very small towns and so you get into a town like that with 300 people 400 people and some of those towns. Sounds a little bit bigger but not much and we're kind of joking about it. Well, what would you you know, if you moved here, no link up doesn't exist.

You get dropped into this town like what do you what do you think you're doing? What's your what's your move? And then we met Steve like I think I try to just do that like that, you know, set up a golf course community golf course is small town like man. I don't know that might be the playbook. That's shut up. Yeah, but you have a cool too of like Steve was talking about how the

When they built it that you know the the local high schoolers they taught them. You know, like they built the clubhouse themselves and basically had all right. Yeah, they taught the local high schoolers like how to do. You know, electrician work how to do the sighting on the clubhouse how to how to put the flooring in in the you know and it's yeah truly felt like a. Center like a center of gravity just a focal point in the community right from the start there.

“Yeah, I'll remember that downhill par three was was severe. I remember that downhill par five that just felt like you're on hitting off the edge of the earth down, you know, 200 feet.”

And I remember the homemade sign to you show that out, you know, that was that's handcrafted stuff. Big walk. That was a cast. Like I saw Ian Gilley, triggerless social club posted like he did a Nebraska trip gosh. This was probably six, seven eight years ago.

And I remember him posted a bunch of carousels from that. It's always been on their hidden gem map. So this place has always been.

You know, you want to talk about different landscapes and landforms like that. I was like, whoa, where is that like, you know, filed that away in the back of my mind. It's just been like a source of inspiration to get there for a long time, but they also had that. It was like that little that little structure that was along the creek are on the river there and they damned up the thing and then it.

That was, that was I will say we like a big walk for a community course. Keep the, keep the community health.

Yeah, exactly.

“From there, we moved on to the prairie club. I think a couple of cool things to shout out about the prairie club is a kind of a, it sits on the land right adjacent to cab rock ranch, which is the private Gilhands.”

Jim Wagner golf course up there. It is a cool model that I, I know exists in a lot of places, but I hadn't really been in one of these places. I don't think where it's 36 holes and they basically flip flop each day. The members have one of the golf courses private to the membership one day and the public has the other one and then they flip. So you play one course on, if you're a member, you play one course on Monday, you put the other course on Tuesday and then you probably head out or whatever, but if you're the public, you still have access to both.

It's just a cool, very cool model that I hadn't really seen that seems to make it a lot of sense for those types of resorts that are far flung that takes them get into.

But maybe can't necessarily sustain their own private sort of membership, just kind of felt like a true best of all, best of all worlds. It seemed like they have a really cool thing going there with that. They did a great lunch. The two great lunch there. Yeah. Awesome lunch. It was a really fun, a lot of fun energy at the very club. I just sense like, man, if I can, I have so much fun staying here for two days playing golf, dawn of dusk with the horse course and in the two big courses, just a lot of options and look like very comfortable amenity.

I hated how I played on the horse course. I was, I was, he's myself. He was making up the rules classic T.C. No, I got my ass kicked on the horse course, but I liked it. Maybe not for that format, but I loved it.

“I think the ultimate compliment to the Prairie Club. So Kevin Jackson who I mentioned, our editor was not on this trip, but booked his own trip to Prairie Club before he finished editing.”

He was like, oh my god, I never, yeah, this place is it. I'm up gold here, which is a pretty good good test of it.

But I think it's also a mile that one away too for like, hey, like we need to go back and do years all, you know, however many 40 some, you know, 48 holes or whatever Prairie Club because I think like going around. It's the dunes course and the forest course or the pines course, you know, dunes course look crazy like you just, you know, awesome thrilling shots around dunes and crazy greens and stuff and then the pines course was designed by our guy Graham Marsh. Yeah, we did ocean dunes, but we kind of all were like, hey, who just on this place? I think we were all like seeing, yeah, like we're deja vu stuff and then when we, I heard his name were like, oh my god, yes, I have seen this before, you know, I have seen this.

“You know, he has a flourish to his design. Totally reminded me of remember that place we played in like on the Montana British Columbia border.”

Yeah, I can't remember the name of it. Something the what, you know, wasn't the wilderness club, but it was it was a Nick fouled area was it was a, it was a Gary player design and I remember being there and we're playing the 17th hole and I remember being there and I texted Rob Collins. And I was like, Rob like, this is really weird. Like I met this course in in Montana or his other Montana or, you know, Western Canada there and I swear to God, like this, this green reminds me of this green at Sweden's Cova. It's crazy. It's uncanny text back, he's like, oh, yeah, I shaped that green.

And it like there's just something in the DNA of, yeah, you know, of some of these architects for it's like you can see their their DNA on something very, very clearly. I think other notable things about the Perry club probably where we met, you know, hey to say the MVP of the trip, but certainly shortlisted our guy Roger to COO. It just drove us around at approximately 85 miles an hour at that ATV just harranging the members, you know, shout and stuff that that you can see in the video. I mean, just a shot of life. I think in the, in the best possible way, part stand up comedy part, you know, national park service tour guide. I mean, it was just just electric stuff. I could have done that for six or seven days without getting bored.

I think Roger might be the personification of the Kuboose that got loose. That's just living there along the river in his halfy place and yeah, he's the man.

And I was like, God, I kind of want to get to a point in life where I just wear white t-shirts should like that's that's that's good stuff.

Yeah, just to, but genuinely like an awesome way to to see the property too, because we didn't get to play the golf courses, but I weirdly remember those two courses better than some of the other ones. I've seen on trips like this, you know, just get him going around and I might be hitting that point in my life where I'm just like, I don't even know if I need to play anymore. I kind of get a more of a kick out of just going around and looking at stuff in detail and having an expert points stuff out to me.

I don't get a couple of years. Yeah, like, I don't know if I'd be to play it, but I love, I love talking about the exercise.

“I think my favorite moment of the entire trip was that, or one of them, maybe top three favorite roles was just making a dip in the river.”

Yeah, and looking up at just respecting the canyon physically, respecting the f*ck out of the canyon.

Well, while we were down there, you could look up to the top of the canyon, you can see the flag sticks from Caprock Ranch, which is just like how close those, properties aren't. It's just so far up there, though, that canyon's huge. It's huge, not what I was expecting. But again, just kind of a funny, you know, a funny element to this trip where I'm like, okay, I haven't heard of a million golf courses in Nebraska, but I know they're out there and I know they take some driving and it was just very funny back. Oh, these two are like touching.

Oh, that's, you know, so there was land that was originally owned by the people on the Prairie Club, I believe, who sold off that land to Caprock folks to develop that.

Gosh, probably, I don't know, six, seven, eight years ago now, something like that. But my gosh, was that place stunning. That was, that was one that is again, you almost feel a little, going back to what I was saying about San Jose, feel a little guilty.

“Oh, this is tough. I know you guys can't come to see this place, but if you have, if you have a way, you should, because it's, it rules, it's the Caprock was kind of blew away.”

I am a little quieter over there, you know, very, very polished, but I said it on the video, I don't, I haven't seen a ton of Gil Hanses original stuff and that is for me the best one. It's just like, whoa, just, just really, really well routed golf course with some multiple signature holes, great use of the landscape. I mean, it was awesome. I think, I think getting out to the canyon to pay respects early. Could we just, I don't even know if this was in the video. Was that, was it at Caprock or the pencil? Yeah, yeah, it's their tagline, like, respect, so we were, yeah, Katie and respecters, though, the whole trip. I think for a lifetime now.

And yes, you get out to it early, you got, you know, a couple of holes out there and then you go away from the canyon, to me those were just as good as the parfibes were really cool. It's, you know, it's like, so, like, so often you play a course like that similar to certain courses along the ocean, right? We're, oh, we're going back inland. All right, cool. Like, I'm just going to low power mode for a while, anything. I felt like the holes were like, and let's say another thing with Gill and Jim courses. I love trying to sus out.

“All right, I know eggs designed this green because it's like, it's sadistic or there's something crazy going on. And there's a few of those greens out there. And I think one of the coolest things at Caprock was the different T boxes.”

It's much more about offering up a different angle than it is just adding distance. And there was so much of really, really messing with your eyes as far as the angle, like if you looked at where, where various T boxes were, it was much more like, you know, lateral as opposed to just straight depth, which is cool. I don't know if that makes sense. It does almost like the circumference of a circle, right, that you're kind of, you're kind of moving around. Think of that one. And this is what's crazy. Again, I'm behind the camera. I didn't even play this golf course, but I'm like, I can picture exactly what you're saying. I can picture every square inch of 15, 16, 17, 18.

The, the one you're talking about, it's the part three. I forget what number it is, right? It's probably 10 or five or six. No, it's later in the round 11 or something, 10 or 11. Right, where like that with almost felt like Kingsley club, number nine Kingsley where it's like, man, you could, you could make this a 360 degree part three, you know, just move the T box all the way around this thing. It just changes it's so much and it's so cool, especially with how much of, you know, the wind plays a factor, the firmness plays a factor. Yeah, I totally get what you're saying.

The one thing I'll say, it messed with me for until I finally looked it up was it is the snake river, but it's not that snake river in the canyon. I was like, man, I'm just like, god, I feel like we're pretty far in the middle of the country. I didn't, I thought this was landlocked.

Yeah, I'm trying to think what else from Caprock great post round beer the parking lot highlight of the highlight of the trip there that was that was lovely.

And then we're back and uncrossed. Yeah, I thought I made that the, the eight on 16, it's very close. Very close. Yeah, the light got good. Yeah, good golf made played by the boys out there. Next up, we moved over to wild horse. We stopped at a couple different places on the drive the next day back towards Gothenburg. That's where we stopped, I think this is becoming a DJ T.C. trademark. I hear is, you know, just stopping at golf courses without play at him. I think I get it. I get a big kick out of that as well. Just stop, you know, driving 15 minutes 20 minutes out of the way. Like let's just go see that place kind of stay to the parking lot, look around throw the drone up, get back in the car.

We did that in a couple of fun little little mom and pop places, which is great minute to wild horse for the Thursday night, men's league or Tuesday night men's league, I forgot what night it was, but a a girthy robust men's league going on. There was people competing out there and you know what, say wild horse, you know what wild horse had was the, I think this where we developed the parking or the pick up truck index, you know, it's like, yeah, how many pick up trucks are in the parking lot is, I don't know what it means, but I know it means it means something as far as what my enjoyment of that golf course is going to be and you pull in every every member.

“It's like a 90-10. Exactly. I was like, oh, I think I've got so many trucks going to like this place. I think this is going to be a good vibe and a good, you know, a good, good offering, you know, a good value proposition for this golf course. Yeah.”

And that's exactly what it was. TC, you've called it the Great American golf course. Do you like to expound on that? Yeah, no offense to Tom Coin or to our very own Ben hoteling, which I think he's some guy's backyard was glossed the Great American golf course, but for me, this is it of just.

Everything that you want to see at, when you, when you rock up to any sort of course, it's got.

You got the Thursday night men's league kind of thing going on. You got great agronomy. I missed pronounce his name in the video, but Josh Mayhar, the superintendent out there, you know, he's he's kind of along with Kyle, like he, you know, he's like the guy. It's a not only Nebraska, agronomy, but just probably generally speaking.

Nationwide worldwide, one of the, one of the best ones doing it right now, and you see that from start to finish out there, like the the collars and the surrounds.

But those greens are still pure not to mention the greens themselves. You know, Tony and the staff inside is just. Just friendly, you know, like you, you can rock up to that bar and grab a drink, you can, you know, they do, they do a nice nice dinner. They do a great hot dog. They got that porch out back, they're building several more cabins.

“The whole thing is just it's like world class and local at the same time, and I think it's, yeah, like that place reminds me of like, man, if we had more wild horses, golf would be thriving to a level that, you know, like, like it's just.”

It definitely reminds me more of what you'd see in Scotland, as far as great great golf courses that are just community bound. Good name to sum up the course, you know, just instead of sort of rate, a lot of race horses in the golf world in the US, you know, thoroughbreds. It's like, we need more wild horses, man. Just anybody can rock up. Just no fences. Let's go. It's going good, Jerry, rope in the wind. Yeah, to coastline all of it. Place I'd wanted to see forever and do not disappoint, just I don't know what else you're, I can't really belabor it. I don't know what else people looking for out of golf course, the Matt great shape, great people, great price.

Just close to I. 80, I mean, it's thrilling holes. Yeah, it's, it's awesome and I don't think we're certainly not sharing the secret with anybody who lives within a couple hundred miles of that place.

“I think that the secret's kind of out, but that is a man of business brings you there. If a trip like this brings you there, it's just kind of inexcusable to miss it.”

Yeah, and props to the peak. I think Gothamburg's a really cool little town or city too of just, you know, kind of one of those central hubs along I 80, there's, there's, you know, a pop up every 50, 75 miles, you got north platform, Ovalala Gothamburg,

T walkers was just a killer killer lunch spot, a few other spots in town there too, so it's, yeah, and it's like, it just feels like that, I think that feels like what you think Nebraska is going to be.

“Yeah, um, of like the stereotype of Nebraska in the best way, and then, and then you can go up north and get, and get weirder and get, you know, it kind of adds layers the farther farther north, you go from Gothamburg or north platform.”

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Later that afternoon, we drove to Mullen, we played a Mullen Golf Club, which is the nine-hole community golf course that's maintained a little bit by the San Hills agronomy team, what do they call it the North Course, the South Course, North Course, I mean, just this is my stuff right here, there's an unlocked barn that has everybody's golf carts, everybody's kind of custom golf carts, very low-key type of vibe, everybody's got a parking spot and they've got all kinds of just great memorabilia tucked away in this barn.

“The golf course is, you know, it's not much to look at, but man, it's just everything you need to go get out and look at some beautiful landscapes and have a great time and, you know,”

knocked a ball around, it was, we got our guy coach with the big handlebar mustache out there, maintain and things, it, it, it rules.

So you see, I know you got dosed with a, with a Celsius, I don't know how much of this day you even remember, but we had a great time. I mean, this golf course will jump, you know, jump all over you, if you let it, it's simple, it's not easy. If you get on the wrong side of the whole or if you, you know, you get above the whole, some, some tough stuff out there, we play with one of the, the agronomy interns from San Hills.

Sorry, right on me on that note, Neil, like some of the strap courses we play where it's like, there's nothing to it.

“Don't look for anything, but if you have to hold out and hit cups, you have no chance of shooting better than like 78, like no chance.”

Well, there's no hiding from the wind, it's just, it's like vast, there's just, it's very, very exposed, but like, yeah, there's nothing. You will not make anything outside of two feet, you have no chance of making those putts, and it's just, you're going to be battling all day, even though there's, there's not much to it. It's just in sync, it's so fun. I mean, like, every once every, I don't know, maybe 25 to 30 shots, I would just bank on like I'm the whole trip off to Shankon, which was both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.

But yeah, we play with one of the, the agronomy interns at San Hills, they, they doing awesome program there, he came out with us, that was great, and then, you know, just seeing, yeah, like seeing coach and his element up there too, just, you know, that's what the, with the irrigation heads and, you know, just kind of looking after the place was awesome, you know, just thinking about holes too. Like, Neil, I love that you, you ended up under one of the trees out there, one of the few trees that's one of very few.

you might have an awkward angle into this green, because the screen's tilted this way, you know, it's, it's, you play, you played good golf that day too.

“So, and it was cool to see, can't, like, cam, the, you know, one of the kind of OGs at San Hills, his son is out there.”

You know, grinding when we started and he was still out there grinding when we finished, like there's, there's juniors out there, it's, it's awesome. It's like the centerpiece of that community. I was, I was going to say one thing, I would love more of or, I know I'm in the right place is when there's horses or cattle, budding up against the golf course. Multiple times on this trip at Frederick's Peak and at Mullen specifically, I was like, oh, got, got to go pet the horses. You know, you can throw dogs like, oh, everybody loves a course dog.

At Wild Horse ran into a course dog. I just, I love having an animal encounter on playing golf. You were, you were pretty bummed, you didn't bring your helmet. I know, no. Just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride.

I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride.

I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride.

I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride.

I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride.

I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride.

I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I'd just jump over the barbed wire, take a quick bear bag ride. I don't know how to-- I didn't say that. They just don't-- it's all very subtle. And it's disorienting because there's just-- it's vast.

And so, first time around, you're like, well, I don't--

“One-- how'd you decide to go this direction and not that direction?”

And there's not a lot of landmarks. So it's a place that I can see why members return and continue to return. And I-- I could just see the year love for this course, growing with every round you play out there. It's awesome. It's, uh, I mean, even holes that we didn't really feature in the-- in the film.

A good example is number four. Like, four's like, one of my favorite parfours and all of golf. And the greens just-- this is downhill parfour and the greens just kind of benched in to the side. This little null slopes in left to right. And then if you miss low right, like, your chip and uphill and you're all right, cool.

Like, you're making five or six there. No problem. It's a thrilling second shot, you know? It reminds me so much of-- there's so many that one specific instance. Like, there's so much stuff like that scattered throughout band and dunes. Which, again, is when you-- you start looking at, like,

that's kind of the point of trying to go to these types of places and show them off as to see how some of these influences have kind of percolated all around. And that's-- that's a great example. Yeah. Yeah. And just, yeah. Dick Young's cap, like, great, great man status.

You know? Yeah, it's unquestionable. Hey, guys, I've got an idea here. Just go with-- just go with me, man. Go with that. Yeah, Asian. People tell him he's crazy. No, all right. I'm going to see this thing through and he thought through.

And then he's stewarded it through the last three decades. And it's retained, you know, retained the soul of the place and not lost. That that rusticity and simplicity, I think. It's remarkable. And the other thing, and this is, you know, I don't want to make it sound like this is true,

just because we had cameras there because I've lucky to have been there before and it didn't feel this way either. But it is not-- Neil, you talked about, you know, sometimes you can show up to these great golf courses of the world and you feel a little uneasy and you're a little walking on egg shells.

Like, yeah, man, it's hard to-- it's hard to get out there. It's a very small membership and all of those things. But when you do get there, you don't feel like you're intruding. It is truly like welcome on in, man. You're-- you're member for the time that you're here.

This is what-- it doesn't feel pretentious at all. It doesn't feel like you can't pronounce the things that are on the menu.

“It doesn't feel like you need to, you know, act a certain way.”

It truly is just about like playing great golf and drinking cold beers and maybe having a cheeseburger. You know, it's like just take all the other stuff and get it out of the way and what are people actually here to do? Like, play golf all day, just sleep in a comfy bed

It just-- it banished. It just blows me away. I love it so much. And it's such a credit to--

“Yeah, to Cam, to Kyle, to Clint, to, you know,”

a whole staff there for fostering that environment. And I think also, it's like, you know, respect the canyon is certainly the tagline at Caprock. I think, I think if there's a tagline at San Hills, it's like, it's a respect the course, respect the staff

and like respect the porch too. Because Ben's porch is like, that's kind of the-- it's like the inner sanctum. And you know, like, we didn't, you know, we filmed a little bit at the end of the day up there,

but like during the day, it's like, you don't want to, you know, infringe upon people like that's a sacred space. And you don't want to, you know, you've dropped on anybody or record up there because it's like, no, like that's, you know, people are going up there to get away from the world.

Yeah. I think maybe that-- that might take us to the five senses game. The big randy, honorable five senses game. Because I got to think maybe Ben's porch is going to get some run in the five senses games.

You never listen to this in the past.

I think this started with maybe a trap draw that you guys were doing. Randy was maybe talking about his hunting.

“And I think is the first time I remember it.”

And him and his wife Kat liked to play a game. That's like, all right, favorite smell, favorite sound, favorite touch, favorite sight, favorite taste. So we can start in kind of-- we can go in that order if that's that's easiest.

But TC I'll start with you favorite, favorite smell from the trip. Favorite smell. I have one if you want me to go ahead. Yeah. You need to set because I feel like this is a, for easy first round

draft pick is, I mean, it's a grill at Ben's porch, right? Like you get done, you get done playing golf, sun's hot. Everybody kind of flops down at a table. And there's just a rip, roaring grill. Dishon out, cheeseburgers is like, that's, that's kind of it for me.

That's a hard one to beat. I would say, I mean, that is a hard one to beat. A nominee for me would be, I just love this smell of rolling around in a ranger. Yeah, all right, you know, the, the ATV vehicles that

take a dump like a prairie club. Yeah, and it's just like you get the fresh air, but you got the dust, but you got the gas. I don't know, it just feels like, hey, we're doing stuff. I love, there's something about that.

It's like, you know, you know, like, let's get it. And it's more of a smell than anything than any other, maybe the feel of the wind, but I feel like it's more of a smell than it is any other thing. I'd say the, the smell of like being out there at 6 a.m.

with Kyle, you know, he's cut and pins and we're just picking his brain for like two hours, which is the smell of sunrise on a golf course that's an hour and a half from the nearest city or, you know, like, that's, that's a cool.

“I think the smell, the smell encapsulates like what,”

what all the other senses are doing, because it's truly like a sensual experience, right?

You've got the, you know, the quiet and that first light,

like the brightness of that, but the smell, to me, is like, it's, it's just, yeah, it's just pure. Favorite sound? I, I would, I don't want to squat on the wind. Yeah.

Or lack of weight. Or lack of weight. Yeah. It's like the head silences is my first one, but I, I think trains.

Yeah. I love the sound of a distant train, like wild horse. There's a train every hour or so. It felt like or maybe maybe I'm imagining that, but just hearing a train while you're playing golf is awesome.

I think we got the sound of those trains right next to us at the San Hills Motel. That's right. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of too. Yeah.

That place was great. That's a good one. T.C. any other nominees? You'll move on. I would say the sound of the rodeo.

I've never been to a rodeo before.

And just, yeah, that was, I don't know. That was cool. Not the gun going off, but the, the, the signal that it's, you know, open the gate and then the, the stomping of the horses as they're, they're tracking down calves.

Previsceral. It's great. Favorite touch? That's an interesting one on this trip, because it was a, a little bit of a,

a little bit of a, a, not harsh trip, but I mean, it was a lot of sunburned wind and scratchy kind of motels. So I don't know if, I wouldn't say we're. I have one.

That at each of these courses, they had like water pumps. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. And so like the, the touch of that, like the metal, you know, when you're thirsty and you're just like,

I'm just going to drink water straight out of the ground is like a, I don't know, a very, uh, you could say it's not really a taste. It's more of a, like, water feels more like a touch, even if it, even if you're drinking it,

but like drinking it out of like a tin, uh,

It's a great one.

Yeah, Neil, Neil kind of is squatted on water there.

And we mentioned it earlier, but like the, yeah, just getting in the river. Yeah, that's, that's the no brainer, too, for sure. Oh, really good. I would say also just the touch of the steering wheel.

I want to, I want a big ass American made. SUV, you know, I, and just having the open road of, I love, I love just road trips like that and just driving and feeling like, all right, like we are. We're going to pile up this thing to some cool spots today.

I need some cool people along the way. And, you know, yeah, that was great. Favorite site?

“Uh, I think for me is, uh, that storm rolling in to, to San Hills,”

to, to truly, uh, wrap up the trip and capture some unbelievable shots of the lightning and the storm clouds. As you're, just looking out over to the coolest holes in the world. Uh, it's just a big ass storm comes in over the big sky.

I mean, it was like, that's, that's hard to beat as well.

I would say it's the, um, the golden hour at Caprock. But you could say the same when we were at Molen golf course. Like, there's a, uh, I don't know, there's almost like a filter on the light when you get out on, like, the vastness, the vast, I don't want to say planes, but like, in these sand hills,

where just, it looks like you're in the 1950s. I can't really explain it. It just looks different. And I think that site, that hit me a couple times. And I, I love it. Well, said.

Uh, I would say favorite site was rocking up to the drive through with the runs. And they were still, they stayed open for us. Like, we, we got there. No, we got, they didn't stay open.

We got there with like two minutes to go. And I thought, you know, sometimes people close like a five minutes early, they shut it down. And they didn't, they, they took that. That was, that was a, a really, really welcome site.

Because I was starving. And then Neil and Neil had booked for all the dates. I think. Try to book a hotel. And sometimes you do it on your phone.

It's like the dates will reset to, you know, how they just like, sometimes you try to book a flight. And they just like, they just pick like random dates like two months out. You're like, oh, yeah. You know, you want to go to, uh,

Monterey California March 40, like 23rd. No, I want to go like in two weeks.

“Like, why do you keep defaulting to two months out?”

Same thing with the hotel. He's he was not pleased. Sorry about that. That was, that was, that was wonderful. We'll catch her with the baddest.

Yeah. Yeah. The runs are was good. I don't think, I don't think it wins a favorite taste for me. necessarily.

I think T walkers probably going to get a lot of run here. The pie. I would throw out the, the, the coolers bank with beers that we had after that day after cabrock sitting on the tailgate and just like kind of first sip of it.

It always nice to have a cooler in the back of a road trip vehicle.

Shout out to Yeti for that one. I would say I got deep in the patty melt game on this trip. Like, you know, pat patty melts at lunch was kind of my go to was really feeling those. Yeah, that lunch we didn't, yeah, the guy was a T.C. the gaslight cafe. The coach like coach like that.

It didn't nice in the great lunch. Yeah. I mean, I got a shout out. Favorite taste was, you know,

“non burger at Sandhill's division was definitely the,”

I think it was a breakfast burrito. Oh, my God. I was just, I should have been our lead story. Molen. Ah, that place was ridiculously good.

And then also on the way along. Oh, not just that. You guys were saying this is like the best breakfast burrito I've ever had of my life. It is. It means grandiose things about this gas station breakfast burrito.

Yeah. And I was, I was, I, so the other day I hopped on the Nebraska Golf Association's podcast with Ben Ben Vigil and he, he said his, his buddy like owns owns our operates that gas station. That quick stop in Molen. I said, well, please send my regards to the chef.

That's doing a hell of a job. And then, and then Ben got us onto the, you know, we stopped at a taco bell. Yeah. Just on the way back to Denver.

You know, we all had like midgeaths. What was Ben's hack? Spice potato. Taco ad beef. Yeah.

Ad beef. That's right. I've, I've put into motion multiple times since that trip. Yeah. Also, I, I do want to shout out.

We didn't make it to this place. But JD gave us the recommendation of at Ogil in Ogilala. He said, quote, The water hole in Ogilala.

Gas station that couple of his buddies Jeremy and TJ run both golfers, quirky place, but might be right up the strap was alley. We did not have a chance to hop into there. And that's one of my, my great regrets from 2025.

Next time.

Gotta have something, gotta have something to do next.

Well, I feel like we've hit a lot of, a lot of what's on the agenda here. Any other kind of awards or, or lasting sort of,

“you know, takes you, you need to get into the record here.”

No, I don't, I want to go back. And there's places you go where you're like, good. Like, like, T.C. Center, like, check it off the list. Glad I saw it. Nebraska doesn't feel like that to me.

It feels like I would love to return. I think the, you know, A, like, you know, had off to, to Ben, bird, you know, all his hustle, deged to you for, you know, all your hustle and wisdom on that front. And then to Kevin as well.

Like, I think Kevin, Kevin and Ben, like, kind of unsung heroes of our operation on the, the video side of, you know, like, for Kevin to put a lot of this together that, without being on the trip, is like a percolion monumental task and to be able to pick up on all the,

the themes and characters and it's in bobs and, you know, kind of, just hit the ground running as soon as we give him this big ass pile,

footage is never ceases to amaze me.

So, um, yeah. Yeah, just to go, just add to that, I mean, you know, in this past year where we didn't have a tour sauce trip, we've kind of been trying to do these mini one-off sort of things and figure out the right way to not necessarily like systematize that,

but have a little bit better process for how we can bring those trips to life, with a smaller group and a smaller footprint. And, yeah, Ben and Kevin largely are the people that have brought all of that to life, and they do an unbelievable job in this trip, kind of felt like the culmination of, culmination of that, and, you know, what started in really like Argentina,

and then, you know, when does wide ranging is Milwaukee, upstate New York, Montana, Northern Ireland, all the other places that we, that we went over the past year, like this, this kind of felt like the, yeah, the culmination of that and kind of the best of all of those, those aspects, so I'm just so proud of how it turned out.

They did an awesome job bringing it to life.

“And I think it's important to note, like, that stuff's not in lieu of Torasos or Strap.”

It's just, like, it's additive and it's because we can't go with that in the newspaper. We can't go do that stuff or, like, you know, like, sometimes, and things have, like, schedules have to align with all that. We have plenty of that stuff planned for this year, but it's like, hey, this is, you know, this is, this is a different thing and it's passionate about the stuff.

Yeah, and a lot more in the hopper, too, right? I mean, there's, there's just a bunch of stuff that's already been shot,

which is always kind of fun with these types of trips.

It's like, yeah, a lot of times by the time they, they come out, it's been like a couple weeks, months. So we've got a Jacksonville film, Guatemala, Casa de Campo, kind of other stuff I'm even probably forget about, by this point. So lots more coming, but this was a great high watermark, I thought.

So it appreciate all the people who reached out and had some great feedback. Again, I would direct most of that to Ben and Kevin on the video front. But TC just a job well done on, you know, execute the vision here as well, because I know this one's been rattled around for a while. It was it turned out, you know, we always joke.

It's like, if you, if you could show me that finished product at the end of, or at the beginning, like, when we're doing our first pre-production meeting, I'm like, no, no, yeah, that's kind of exactly what I wanted to look like, you know, it's good to, so it's good to get to that point at the end. TC's vision, TC's weedy board.

I think the, it's actually good to do, if you could do a trip like this, you know, I wouldn't recommend doing it in the order that we did it in.

“I think some of that's just like you have to make a lemonade with, all right,”

like, this is the day that we can get on this course, and this is the day that we can get on this course. We, but these are the places we want to go, and we have to figure out how that routes, and how that, you know, ladders up, and sometimes it, it creates a longer drive, or it creates, you know, and night at the comfort in in this place that we weren't anticipating on,

which show up at the comfort end, too. They were great. Yeah. Yeah. Free breakfast.

Yeah. But yeah, and just, you know, can't say enough great things about Kyle Hagland. Like, one of the most, competent, thoughtful, earnest, like direct people I've ever met in golf, of just very, you can tell that like,

people that work for them, the people that work with him, just, you know, just immense respect for him. He commands respect, and I think it's, it's well earned. Yeah. But undoubtedly agree.

One last shout out. Josh at Wild Horse puts up.

And I want to say how cool I think that is.

“Like, there's so many courses that when you're planning a trip,”

you don't know what you're, you know, when in the season you're planning of, you know, we could parachute in somewhere, and, oh, you know what, guys, we forgot to tell you, we aerated three days ago. That sort of thing.

They have aeration. They have top dressing.

They have all that stuff on there.

“And, you know, built out for the whole year.”

And I just think like that's such a cool feature of their website, but also a reflection of like those guys have their stuff together, there of, of, you know, the pro shop, the agronomy staff, you know, all of that of like that's so reflective of competency,

and Neil, he shouted it out of like,

there's a lot of competence and see going around at Wild Horse,

“specifically, but just generally speaking in Nebraska.”

So, just gotta say out of the wall, good. People just hand on their business. All right, just hand on your business. Get ahead. Hand on your business.

You're there. Oh, guys, let's put that one in the books. If you haven't watched the film on, on our podcast or on our, if you haven't watched the film on our YouTube channel, go, go rectify that.

I'm an old link up YouTube channel turned out great. And guys, until the next one, cheers. Mama, how do you feel about the great love? Hmm, is it? And so creamy.

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