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nails and welcome to Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty and we have
dragged Jesse back into the studio. Haven't seen it in a while. How
you been a great thrilled to be back. Thank you. We tell the
audience, I'm Jesse Manackham. I'm the executive director and CEO of Mass Golf.
Okay, how many weeks it take for my producer to get you back
in here? We did some negotiating. Okay, that's a good thing.
Welcome back, Welcome back, Jesse. Sure, And I asked obviously for
mister Chad stump Out to be back in here since golf is not anything that
I should know everything about golf, right since my kids were playing it.
It's a passion project for him. It's passion for him. But again it's
not been cheap and never sending him to IMG Academy, right, So somebody's
got to actually go to work to make the money to have done all this
right, and then I could be honest chasing that ball around for like eight
hours. I don't know how you guys do that, Like I could get
a lot. So it's all mental And back to the MGA and all the
amazing things they've done. What efforts are being made to attract and retain younger
generations of golfers a mass. Yeah, I think it's you know, how
can the game game be welcoming, inclusive, fun? You know mentioned programs
earlier, first T Youth on course, you've got drive, chip and putt.
You know, an initiative from the Masters, the USGA PG of America
where any kid can sign up in a fun competition have the chance to play
in the national finals. That a gust the national right, how good is
that get On top of that, the PGA of America has a program called
PGA Junior League, So it's basically like Little League Baseball for golf, where
you've got some team competitions. They play in a fun, relaxed environment,
travel around and I think it's a clever way to get kids engaged and enjoy
the game together. On top of that, you know some off course activities
that have been successful on ramps for the game. And we talked previously about
top golf, drive shack. You've got you know, new technology and fused
mini golf venues. Right to me, anytime you get a club in someone's
hand, in a kid's hand, it's it's going to be impressionable, right,
and it's an opportunity to get them to become an offer for life.
Yep. So you guys do all like the physical stuff, teaching and all
that. Now let's talk about the really important side of the game, the
biggest six inches between the Do you guys do any work with mental mental side
of golf as an organization, we don't. You know, it's not stacked
into one of our services, but there's many groups out there that do you
know, sports psychology is becoming a very big industry. You know, you've
got organizations out there like core Golf and NATICK. You know Bill mcinernie involved
as a as a coach, a teacher, ian highfield. I mean,
this is an important part of the game that's going to allow kids to be
successful playing, you know, at the highest level potentially yep. And now
how with this also the technology in these kids? How's a game? In
my opinion of courses are huge. The game is way more powerful than it's
ever been. Do you think it's just the working out from the new generation
or do you think these clubs are well corked up? Am I? In
my words, I think it's a combination of things. I mean, the
clubs I grew up playing on are nowhere near you know what, kids have
available these days, right, So I think you've got to You've got to
give a tip to the cap, to the technology, but also the way
kids are working at it and kind of being instructed. You're you're seeing a
lot more athleticism. For one, I think you're you're seeing you you talk
about, you know, between the ears, right, some of these kids
I see they're just fearless out there, right, They'll grip it and rip
it. They don't care how hard or how fast they're swinging. They want
the ball to go far. And that's the advantage that they're they're helping them.
That's the old school way of teaching right there. In some respects.
Yeah, you can't teach it. I twitch muscles at certain age. You
got to grow up doing that. But also, where do you see this
golf welb going with all this technology getting more head ball far, these courses
getting longer. What do you see any stop to this? I don't know.
I see technology just just being a major component to the advancement of the
game. You know, whether that's for sustainability efforts right off course itself,
you know, managing the game operationally, but you know, for swing,
for mechanics, for coaching, it's here to stay. You know, the
track man systems of the world, right, You're getting instantaneous data. That's
what That's what people want in this world, in this in this day and
age, right, And if that's going to help you, if that's going
to help you advance in your career, no matter where that that may take
you. I think it's going to show coaches, you know that you've got
more than just a scoring record right from your competitive events. You know you
can dial into the data of you know, your your up and down green
and regulation. You know, you can really get hyper focused. Yeah.
And so are any upcoming projects or initiatives that the MASK Associations are excited about.
I would say, you know, really just collaboration with some of our
affiliate organizations. We work very closely with the new ingle PGA US Challenge cup.
I mentioned on the last show the US Development Program, and I think
that's something we are really excited about. It's it's a new endeavor. Uh,
it's going to create a whole new platform for junior golfers. So we're
excited for year one to see where that that goes and hopefully it it can
morph into something pretty big. And substantial for the state in your opinion.
You know you've been around golf your whole life. Where do you want to
see the golf world in Massachusetts go? I would love to see, you
know, the sustainability of the game for one, right, keeping people in
the game no matter at what stage in their career or life they're in.
You know, if they have the ability to be competitive, great, If
it's more of a recreational sport for them, nothing wrong with that, right,
So how can we make sure for anyone interested in golf there's an outlet,
there's an opportunity, there's a way for that to fit into their daily
activity, right. I think we're starting to see the game become more relevant.
We're seeing laps golfers come back into the game. We're seeing a lot
of new golfers, golfers of you know, different diversity, a lot more
women playing the game than ever before. So, you know, I keep
saying that it's it's become relevant of it again. I think you know that's
because you can you can make it what you want of it. Right,
If it's an hour of practice and so fashion, you know, you don't
have to play that traditional eighteen hole round anymore. You can play nine,
you can play six holes. You know, a lot of facilities have a
different, unique type of loop. You know, that'll get you started,
get you back to the clubhouse in the car, and you can get home
and make dinner. Stupid right there. But so, you know, playing
golf in Florida and all around the world, you know, playing the European
Tour, I see as diverse. It's very diverse out there, which is
amazing. How is the diversity in golf in Massachusetts. It's improving, and
you know, we're we're making some strides in that effort. We want to
make sure our community is as diverse as it possibly can be. You know,
if that's increasing, you know, first t programming in different parts pockets
of the state, if it's increasing our ability to offer affordable access to kids
through youth on course, we want to be champions of that. We want
to work with facilities, with leadership around the state, with our affiliate organizations
as well. There's more that can be done. I think we're just scratching
the surface there. So something we're excited about. I love it. And
for the golf world, you know, everyone thinks about golf, as you
know, it is prima donnas sport and all that. What are the misconceptions
are golf in your opinion, Well, I think you kind of hit the
nail on the head. There are even well it's changed a lot, I
mean, even from you know, I think the old, old traditions and
such are starting to kind of morph into you know, the culture of where
we are in twenty twenty four. You're seeing golf clothing look a lot different
than I never did. You're seeing people engage in the game in a much
different way. You know, you've got music out on the golf course and
some some capacities. You know, that's not everyone's cup of tea, but
you know there's some acceptance to that. You're seeing hoodies at the golf course,
right, Yeah, So you know, little things like that I think,
you know, are starting to get people more comfortable. Yeah, change
attract a different audience. So it's not also uptight. They are a little
more loose out there, welcome. But I do think there's a balance there,
right, because you're you're bringing a lot of new people into the game.
They may not be as educated with with etiquette and ways to treat the
golf course. Things of that. Nature pace of play. Right, So
somehow, you know, I think we have an obligation, along with other
industry representatives, to make sure that we strike that balance and we continue to
educate all that air playing the game. Okay, hold that thought. We're
going to break sponsored by Floor and Decor, National Lumber, and Village Bang.
You know. Welcome back to Tough Nails on WBC News Radio ten Thory
and I'm Citney Stumpo, and I'm here with Angelina, and I'm here with
and Jesse. I just may good question. I'm coming out of the last
time I settle the dumb questions. I'm going back to dumb Okay, we're
making the turn. We're making the turn. Yeah, I need I need
some I need. Like all you people do is talk about golf. I
know it's a golf show, but I'm like, okay, golf, golf.
I listen, truthfully, you've been golfing your whole pretty much your whole
life. So like you got married, you had children, and we're still
playing Sage and Sunday's Golf. No oh, you were right, So it
happened. What happened is we had we have several obligations and activities that are
fun to be a part of. Right, I wouldn't be in politically correct
yet. Well, but given seriousness, right, I mean, given the
opportunity. Yeah. Like, I know when I was married, if if
joking' golf that six days or golf five days and he wanted to golf,
he'd pouts. So I'd be like, just go golf then, because it
was worth it for you to go golf. Come back six hours later,
and then you're not pouting anymore. Do you know what I'm saying? I
do, I do, I go so there many times have you pouted with
your wife like you really want to go golf and not do what she really
wanted to do. I'm without causing it, right, I'm around golf.
It's my job, it's my life. It's a passion, et cetera.
You know, married eleven years, streak, he's being politically quirk to save
his marriage right now. I don't know. I think Stephanie appreciates and understands.
Okay, well, Stephanie, if you say to Stephanie like out of
nowhere, you know, I really just want to go play eighteen holes and
nine holes. We'll make it work. We'll figure it out. We'll figure
it out so there's no ball break in like nose times, there can be
sure. Yeah, but I pick my spots. How about that? Okay,
that's a good thing. Yeah. So when do you believe that golfers
to get to the next level have to be the most selfish people at some
point until I get there. I think there's an argument for that. But
for any sport or any high level profession, there's got to be some some
self serving selfishness. The one thing I noticed with all my professional athletes,
and god knows, in thirty six years, I've had many many, many
come through Boston, whether they've been Bruins players, Soult's players, Red Sox
players, not a lot of football players because they go out further out.
I've noticed one thing in Calm with all the wives, they are behind those
men, and a lot met to college. It seems like they prepare with
the right meals, the right food right, and then when those men get
to a higher level and they're making massive contracts, I see the chefs come
in, but I see the women doing all the heavy lifting at home,
the kids. This the that I had a player get traded, they lived
in Brookline and didn't even know he's going to get traded and boom, she's
got to send his He just goes right from the locker room and goes right
to his next place, is going the next state, and the wife organizes
his clothes to get to the next state. It's a tough job on the
wives, no doubt. And it's it's to me. It's about the support
system, right, So let's talk about let's think about the window of opportunity
for any elite athlete, right, that might be from eighteen to twenty eight.
There you go, eighteen to twenty eight. You've got to capitalize in
ten years time, right, So you're going to need that support system to
take care of those odds and ends, right and build a team that that's
going to allow you to put your energy and focus in the training and the
well being and the and the health the psychology that we talked about earlier.
It's more than a full time job. You know, you're committing yourself to
be at that level to capitalize on the return on investment. Right. Do
you notice that golfers need more mental condition than others because it's just them,
it's the ball. Yeah, I guess I would. I would respond in
the club, yes, because it's also an individualized sport, correct, Yeah,
and you have nobody but you right now. You got tennis like that,
you have golf that's like and like Chad always says that, I know
you've talked about it before. The ball out of eighteen holes is only in
the year for how long? Three and a half minutes something like that,
what is it? Three and a half minutes and you're only hitting what seventy
shots? That's it. So you do a lot of walking, So you're
doing car. He took a lot of walking and thinking. That's right.
And when you're in a golfer's head when they're walking from the next hole,
right, this is what I would say. Knowing certain astrology signs. Germany
Is are probably I gotta look this up. How many pro golfers are Geminis
because they can look in the front windshield against the cancer of the virgo that's
always in the rear view mirror. I know. It's one thing about Chad
through the years of playing, when that kid would shoot Birdie, he'd go
another Birdie, Bertie. If you shoot a bogy, go another bugy bogy
Right, let's go car look like circle, circle, circle, big boxes,
big boxes. So I start to say to his dad, don't you
see this is all his head out there? Like if he shoots one birdie
shots another bird, he shoots another birdie. If he shoots a bog,
he shoot a bogue, he shoots up because he's still in the rearview mirror.
It's toughness, right, How do you shake that mindset? How do
you get how do you you know, erase put in the rear view move
on to the next. But that's what you need to do. Yeah,
and you need the support system around you. We can't support him or any
other golfer when they're We can't even talk to our kids. If I took
my I remember he had long here. Remember we had here. Preparation is
I'm never prepared. If I'm not prepared, you should. I remember had
long here. And I went to give him my point heail holder, you
know, and the official came right over to me, like, what do
you think I'm giving him a point heal holder? Like the kid's fourteen years
old. You can't be out there. The only one that can be talking
to him is his caddy. And I think there in lies one of the
Chad's biggest problems. He was so loyal to his caddy and all the sponsors
and everybody on Chad's team and the European They want an older person on his
bag. Trust Yet No, not that, not that his caddy wasn't He
needs somebody that was stronger than him. Yeah, and that would have been
somebody that had ten years on him at that time, somebody. If Chad
was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eighteen, the guy in his bag had to
be twenty seven, nine thirty. There's nothing when I was just freshing caddy
dynamic, right, yep. I mean, but in Chad's best friend with
my brother oorsually you know, we're not thinking we're not friends anymore, but
he was. It was It was a comfort zone for me, That's what
it was. I didn't need someone to read my gramps from me or anything
like that because I could do all that. And everyone's different, right,
you might need that mentor type individual. Although Chad's loyalty okay, and Chad
said I'm not going to play another game of golf if you try to take
him off my back. That's loyalty federation. Other people just need someone to
distract them, right, maybe to laugh throughout the four hours. That's what
That's what I like. It can make me laugh to my ball then about
fifty yards before my ball start got me, but yes, start get already
on the PGA. Those guys got caddies, that are what they're professional caddies,
right, that's their career, and their career is to do what what's
a professional caddies job to do? Really keep you in the game, guide
coach, you know, keep maybe focused, Yeah, give you the best
information at hand. Would you say at a young age, it's important once
they get to like sixteen, fifteen, sixteen seventeen, to have a good
caddy with them. Yeah, if that's your I'd say, once you get
to a certain level, yeah, exactly. Okay, well okay, if
you get to that age, of that better level, and keep in mind
to there's certain events, you know, college, you're carrying your own bag,
correct, there's no caddies in college. A lot of high school events,
same thing. You know, the local amateur scene we do allow caddies,
but usually it's it's a friend, it's a girlfriend, a spouse,
whatever it might be. I love. It was different for me because I
was already playing pro events at fifteen out in Florida. So that's why I
had my caddyes, because I like playing professional events then junior events where everyone's
like, so, what you would you make on this? Would you make
on this? Call for a check too? They just care about your money,
That's it. There was a couple of things I didn't like, and
I don't know if this is still going on. Chad would be on a
computer before, you know, before we went to bed or early in the
morning, and I'd be like, what are you looking at? And these
older men and other kids, Oh, child's going to take this tournament.
Our child's going to get wiped out. Stump was going to make this always
going to get killed. I'm like, why are you reading that stuff?
Like does that still go on? And why why were we doing that?
We're talking like social media? Yea, yeah, yeah, I think that's
the local stuff. Child. They were doing it, even the local stuff.
They were playing that game on. Yeah. When I came back and
I started playing like being on the European Door, I mean, yeah,
it's going to happen. They're going to talk well that I would say to
him. It was even younger, I remember, and I'd say shut that
down. Shut that down. Don't look at It's not going to help you
at all. It's not going to motivate. I mean, there may be
some people that that it did. It used to feeling at a young age
and stuff like that, but you know, at a certain age, talent
just doesn't keep going. You know, I was that good? Is all
talent? I was. I put the work in a little bit, but
that was just talent. You know talent within a half an hour of watching
it, And hold that thought and I'll let you answer when you come back.
My microration, does you know talent when you see it right away?
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You Got, And welcome back to Tops Nails on WBZ News Radio ten
thirty And I'm in the studio with who Angelina Chad Jesse. All right,
let's go. Jesse. My question as we were going off to break last
time was do you know talent from a mile away at this stage of the
game. Do you know the kids that are talented? Yeah, I do.
When I was running our events more regularly, i'd be around it much
more and I was much more in tune. Now, I think just just
being around the game for almost twenty years, I think I can point that
out. But I'm no expert. I'm no teacher. I'm not a pizza
professor. I get that. But yeah, I think it's you could see.
In most cases, you can see. I gotta tell you, if
I had a due over for Chad, I would have never let them go
to IMG Academy. No. See, I got to disagree that. I
know, no, that that actually shaped me. That actually got me technically
sound. Even though I don't totally agree with the lead better swing, it
got me technically sound. If I had to do over, I'm sorry,
I gotta say it, I would have never had a girlfriend at eighteen.
Okay, I just made it on the European Tour. I just made a
horrible decision. That's where I should have been selfish. That's where I come
back to what you said, do you need to be selfish in this game?
That's when I should have chose to be selfish. Okay, your opinion
that went Jesse because you know what, a young guy, well, he
can't really have an opinion because it was my life. I chose him to
do stupid things with that. It's a little personal, right yeah. But
most guys that age, you're out of high school, you're doing stupid still,
you know what I mean, It's time to do stupid right stupid?
Yeah I didn't. So I was a goody two shoe and then that that
world got introduced to me. At that time. What were your what was
your north star? What were you hoping to achieve? You know it.
I was on tour, I was playing unbelievable, I was winning everything around.
When I was coming to Florida, I was just trying to just keep
going. Yeah, I try to get to number one right there, and
uh yeah, girl in my life, stop practicing smoking weed, drinking,
doing drugs, doing stupid stuff. End up getting the yips on on Tori.
Oh yeah for a couple of years. If I had to redo,
that's my reado right there. I should have been selfish and just worried about
Wow, I made it. We just did this. I just finished low
amateur. My first European tour event was that also a circumstance of getting comfortable
with a different part of the world, living in a different part of the
world. That was the whole kick that I would have just stayed. I
would have stayed adjustment. Well, now he lived there tomorrow, because now
he's twenty nine, and now you know, at twenty five, if I
had the if I have a game that I had a seventeen, when I
played at twenty five with that mindset twenty six, I would have moved there.
But you know what they say, that was a big demise a couple
of years. Got to get out of the rear view mirror, got to
move forward. I ripped it off. It's gone. You ripped off the
beage. But you can tell talent. Yeah, yeah, I'm not an
expert again, but you can see someone has a talent with a swing and
all that. But it's a lot different. You have to have a special
kind of mind to play this game. Now, if you have a talent
of mind, that's a big difference. Okay, I've got a question.
How does the Mass Golf Association address issues with accessibility and affordability within the sport.
Yeah, we're a community for any golfer, right, no matter age.
Gender, you know, diverse background. Anybody I talked I think in
our last show about the affordability piece in our youth program of youth on course
where we're subsidizing rounds of golf, so kids paying no more than five dollars
per round. That's that to us is something for the future, right We're
building our future golfers, our future members, breaking down a barrier of entry,
if you will. Also with First T, you know, if if
any kid who wants to participate in First T has any financial challenges, we're
going to support that. We're going to take care of that in some way,
shape or form. Accessibility. There's quite a few programs right now in
this space, some of which we support. We own and operate a par
three golf course in Norton where we have several groups that are taking advantage and
enjoying the experience. There's groups like Golf for All. The New England PGA
has a branch where they're offering accessible programs and such. So you know,
you even look at on the national level, the USGA just rolled out an
adaptive Championship. You know, this is an area that they've been working on
for the past five years. There's a lot to it to put on an
adaptive event, you know, from a logistics and operations standpoint. Okay,
it goes to my next question. Yeah, how important is a community engagement
and outreach from Massachusetts Golf Association. It's vital, It's absolutely vital. Yeah,
I mean, we want to be the outlet for any golfer no matter
how you engage in the game. If you're twelve years old, if you're
seventy two years old, if you're a fan of the game, if you're
an elite compet editor, we have an option in a way for you to
engage in the sport, and we want to grow that community. We want
to support those that want to participate. Is that what donuts? Certainly with
donors corporations donating, we do, We absolutely do. Unfortunately, balls are
expensive, clubs are expensive. It's not you know, buying a basketball and
the basketball in net, right, Golf's expensive exactly. Yeah, So like
the companies that you know, they get rid of this line of golf clubs,
like we're looking for a stupid golf club for chatity, how to have
right on every was your big brother, big you're talking nineties and five.
We found it like we weren't ever used. And then he got I get
it, and one was I didn't even screw it like I took it out.
It was a half a screw like before a tournament. But he got
the new ones. But before But when these companies and they just stop making
a club, but they still have hundreds and hundreds of thousands and thousands in
the warehouse, they do they give them away? Do they? Yeah?
I think depending on the organization, there's channels that they go through, you
know, to make sure that those clubs can get get utilized. For us,
we've got sets upon sets. We offer donations of clubs, you know,
if people have not you guys got sets and sets we do, and
we put them to use, you know, through these junior programs. And
is that people donating the clubs they buy new clubs exactly? Yeah? And
balls balls to an extent. Yeah, And what about like shoes golf shoes,
I'd probably put in that same category with balls. I mean, you
can only use shoes so much, right, so they wear out or you
gotta change the spikes. But you know, I was actually just thinking of
questions, just pop out them to my mind because I've been watching a lot
of ESPN, a lot of college sports, and in the golf world.
So like you know, there's female golf and it's become more open and females
that common all. Uh with all this, you know, gender change and
everything. Do you see yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Do you see that playing in golf role? Yeah, I think it
has. We've seen it recently in college sports. Let me ask that question.
Yeah. So basically we'll take a trenchender man to a woman. He
definitely has more strength than a woman. Does. I have the same problem
with swimming. So this is me talking. Nobody takes any heat for what
I have to say. This is me, Cindy Stump for talking. Okay,
you are a man. You're swimming against women, when you're playing golf
against women. You are stronger than I am. You can take that ball
off the teeth, asset and how to than I can and longer. Right,
But this is the new world that we live in, right, So
man, it can be girls anything else. It's really and it's going to
open up to the golf community too. It's about access and opportunity. Yeah,
That's why I was ask where are we seeing I'm just going to be
very much careful on the delivery in that one. I think what you said
is fair. There's organizations and policies in place too, but a lot of
people in the and the swimming community does not think it's fair. There are
absolutely two camps, okay, And what is the consensus on the golf community.
And again, not holding anything you say for your company, I'm just
asking you a personal opinion because I haven't been haven't been paying attention to the
swimming community. I have for some reason basting. Is it a problem?
Yeah? Broadcast but out there okay, So I shall ask you. That's
why I was asking, because I'm not I haven't been in the golf well
in a couple of years, and I see all this going on. I
go for the people listeners out there, like is are they accepting? They
do? They have certain things for it, Like what's going on? Do
we see it? I think even you know, just recently there was a
women's golf tour I want to say out in Arizona that reverse their posture on
a trans player where they're no longer allowing them to anticipate where they did previously.
But there are organizations that that do permit it. You know, you've
got to go through the proper protocols and channels and transitional times, you know,
and that's something that we are currently working on right now. Right How
are we going to support a trans athlete, you know, to participate in
our events? You know, in a lot of ways, we are aligned
with the USGA, you know, because a competitor could be playing in a
mass golf event or USJA qualifier in Massachusetts that could get them on the national
scene at a USGA event. So in all likelihood we'll do a weekend to
follow their policy or procedure. But it's a challenging thing to overcome, and
I think at the end of the day, we want to be inclusive and
provide an opportunity for golfers to compete. I think that's that was the most
correct dance I've ever heard out of everybody's mouth. I think we handled it
just perfectly. Fine, Okay, we're going to break on that one.
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Wow, and welcome back to Tap his Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty
And I'm here with Angelina, Chad Jesse Minochem start again. Which last name?
Angelina Gorilla going into stump? Oh, okay, Chad, And what
does she do? I need a ring first, future wife, that's what
you say. Yeah, and you need a ring, you golf widow.
Yeah, he does have a beautiful girlf and we got to give it,
right, she's more beautiful on the inside. Schauscer, Okay, she is.
I actually like that. So that's a good thing. Right, that's
a good thing coming from me. One time I found someone has morals and
it's a good person. Well say that's morals values, old school sponsored with
liable, dependable. That's all the stuff that everybody needs to make the next
generation healthy kids and what you're raising because you're raising like I don't even know
what these kids can turn out to be. But anyways, they might be
playing golf on the moon. I don't know. They might never leave the
house. They'll play the video games on the golf. But anyway, back
to golf. Okay, Jesse, here's what I want to know. I
want to know all the events that are coming up. What do you got
coming up? Talk do you think and let the lissas know and understand if
the kids want to participate, how they get involved. Blah blah blah.
Yeah. So the beauty of mass Golf is we've got an event for everybody.
You know, whether you're an elite competitor playing in a state championship or
you just want to play in a casual tournament type setting. So you know,
from Chad's perspective, we've got the state championship level of play from the
Mass Open to the Mass Amateur and Midam to the Women's Amateur, where you'll
see top collegiate players, mid am players, and seniors competing. We have
tournaments, we have mixed events, we have our Member Days, which allows
for access for any member of mass Golf to enjoy an experience at a public
facility within the state. And then we've got junior competition, so our Junior
Amateur Championship, Girls Junior, our young golfers thirteen and under. So,
like I said, any age, any type of competition, we've got it.
I do want to touch though. We've got a couple of high profile
events coming to Massachusetts very fortunate the last couple of years. Yeah, well
the first one here is the LPGA Tour. They are coming back after about
a thirty year hiatus. They'll be playing over Labor Day weekend at TPC Boston
for the FM Global Cha. Last time we the here, wasn't it the
Welchers or something like that over Hill Hell yeah's right, Yeah, that's right.
So really exciting to have that back in play. There's a lot of
support in around Boston within the community. You know, our office is in
that backyard, so we're doing a lot to support them and excited for what
that stage and platform can offer. You know, we've got the likes of
Megan Kang, you know, one of our own who grew up in Massachusetts,
playing on the LPGA Tour. She won her first event I think about
a year ago up in Canada, so we'll be rooting her on, but
that'll be special. And then we've been on a little bit of a sequence
with the USGA. You know, we had the US Open just a couple
of years ago at Brookline. We had the US Senior Amateur at Catansit.
We had the US Midamateur over on Nantucket at Sancity Head. This coming year,
Brayburn is hosting the US Women's Mid Am Championship, so that's right,
this is one of two championships that the club's hosting. Then in twenty twenty
eight they're going to host the US Women's Amateur Championship. So really the best
females from around the country, around the world. We'll be writing Newton Center,
Newton Corner. So really, you know, two staples in the women's
calendar and to look forward to in twenty twenty four. And Megan, good
luck out there. I wish you all the best. Love to see another
mass resident, no doubt, okay again? And what about parents that their
kids are just starting how can they get into these events if they don't know
how to do it as a participant. Through our website maskolf dot org also
first tmass dot dot com, we have first t programming, youth on course
accessibility programming. I would also encourage you know those for looking for more competition
in the junior space. The US Challenge Cup, the New England PGA,
they have two very strong junior tours yep. And I grew up with the
folks out there. I grew up playing those and there's a strong competition run
by great people and honestly it's just unbelievable terms all around. I had a
blast playing them and they shaped me to where I got my career from.
What ages did you feel that from twelve eleven, twelve to seventeen to sixteen,
right before I went to Europe? And what was the hottest year is
with you playing? When did you feel the competition getting heavier? Oh?
When I went to IMG fourteen, Yeah, fourteen to fifteen, I went
down South, so I saw the top of the top golfers. I was
the top of top down South. But I went to the number one sports
school. I went to No. One sports school in the world. I
went to IMG and then I went to Gary Golchrist and so I saw some
of the best I had Jesus Roots Patrick went there in my place. I
saw Peter u Line at IMG. Do you believe how many clients send their
kids to IMG lot They've had a heck of an operation and yeah, I
mean, and the place looks completely different than when Mike Kid went to school.
Theather it's changed so much in ten years. But like Morgan Hoffman went
to Gary Goo Christ. Yeah, what you're feeling on that just as.
Okay, this has nothing to do with with with masks. If your son
was a golf and said I want to go to IMG one of those,
you know, would you send him if that's the path that you know he
or our daughter would be looking for. You know, I don't know enough
about them right as a as a dad, right if that's the right platform
for them. But if they're you know, hard and fast on pursuing a
career at the highest level of golf, you know I would want to do
as much as I can to support that. Okay, even if you here's
my take on golf. As again, it's only my opinion. I think
golf is a game like any other sport, but especially golf. You don't
have to become a PGA player to always be able to make a living with
golf. And let me explain to you why Check could go. He could
be a teacher. He could be teaching, he could be one a pro
shop. You could own a pro shop. There's many other avenues, but
the big one for me is I literally could send him out five days a
week playing with my clients, tournaments, sending how much for Chad can Chad
teach me? My clients would keep pulling him in every country club event so
they could win the fourth son right and be the big shots on the on
the There's a lot of ways to the game here, but here here's the
big one. For any business, there's more deals made on a golf course
than anywhere else in any boardroom in this country. Okay, you get out
there and you play golf and you have that scotch, you're lighting that cigara,
you're not overdoing the drinking, and you're playing on the attention to that
office. No, you cannot know. You cannot. So my point is
just because your daughter or your son doesn't become the next PGA, you know
phenom it is for business. It's a great tool. So I'm always telling
Chad, okay, need you go pay play for Village Bank? And I
need you. And he shoots a hole in one and my president of my
bank is going jumping up and down because he had never saw anybody shoot a
hole in one. There's Chad, right, and he was like going crazy,
calling me like you sound your shot a whole one. But again,
golf also I think makes a man out of a of a boy and makes
a woman out of a girl. But more for the boys because they have
to learn responsibility and they and the one thing about golf is very It's a
very respectful, right, That's where I was going. It's a very It's
a gentleman sport. It has always been a gentleman sport and it probably will
stay a gentleman sport. Right. There's no throwing your baseball bat like Chad
would do. Right when you play baseball, well, and think about it
too, right, you're taking it helmet off and throwing it, calling a
penalty on yourself if you do that, you know. So. I just
think that golf. I think that it's the honor system. I think golf
brings a core that some of the sports just don't bring. And I don't
think it could hurt your child being out there in for eight hours, out
there golfing and doing something constructive and doing stupid stuff. It's a lifetime.
It adds so much. It brings so much to the table. I know
absolutely how to hold myself accountable. I don't know about the cod pop.
I'll give you the accountable. Pot was still learning. But what it did
give him was he knew how to shake a man's hand at twelve years old
and look him in the eye. He knew how to be with older people
from golf and sit down the country club in the clubhouse with his dad and
carry himself with me and and thank you and please and all the things that
I would have taught him at home, because I'd be like, go get
the life. No. I came home from a IMG said, y'all,
thank you, sir, ma'am. She's like, who's this kid? Lee,
I'm like, please, thank you, Who's he? But anyways,
we're going to break. I'm Sidney Stumpley. He listen the Toughest Nails on
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I'm on Gemma got out up and I'm Sinny stumping You. Listen the Toughest
Nails on w BZ News Radio ten thirty. Jesse, how do people leat
you? Well, let me first off just say thanks, it's great to
be with team Stumpo here. Love it with Chad and Cindy. Obviously mask
golf, you know we are we are the community within Massachusetts to engage with
the game, to be part of the sport and and to enjoy the sport.
However, that you know fits into your lifestyle. So our website massolf
dot org. Check us out, become a member. Make today a golf
day. That's our phrase, right, so whatever that means, if it's
an hour of practice, it's nine whole rounds or going out with you know,
a couple of generations and enjoying yourself in what we have to offer here
in the Commonwealth. And congratulations. Let me shake your hand on your new
position. You deserve the money, can't. I gotta go out. We
have a great, safe week and everybody, we'll see you next weekend.
This is Cindy Stumbo Top his Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty