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Stump and and I am Jesse monockelm And who's Jesse? Well, first of
all, thanks for having me. I am the executive we want to have
you. I'm the executive director and CEO of Mass Golf, the State Golf
Association. Okay. And for people that don't cough with the people up at
they don't cough anymore, we're trying to get them in the family. Get
We'll bring them in. I don't know, bet, I was a golf
widow mcolf mother. I've been at golf. I don't even I don't like
golf. Okay, I've been the one making a living so big else can
go golf. Okay, but tell me, Jesse, tell me what's going
on out there? You how'd you take get into this position? Give me
the background, and how do you end up here? Sure? Yeah,
Well I grew up playing. My father introduced me to the game. I
was probably about four or five years old. Common story, right, I
mean that happens, played a little bit competitively through high school and then in
college was like anyone else, what am I going to do with my life?
Pursued sports management and always knew there was some sports administration interest, knew
there was an affinity for golf, and cold called a few organizations, the
Mask Golf Association being one, and they brought me on as an intern my
first summer in school and since then I stuck around for three summers. They
hired me when I graduated from school. So you started with them in college.
I did, I did, and I haven't left. So and that's
how many years later? This is? This is year eighteen all in,
so it took you eighteen years to become president. Well, I've been in
this world now eleven. So I ran our championships for about six years and
so three years is an intern, about six years running events and now year
eleven as executive director. And Chow, when did you meet Chessie? How
did you know Chesseay? On day one? He's noised since I was a
little kid running around out there, what thirteen twelve years old, competing absolutely
one event to the next, and you watch all these kids chasing the dream.
Yeah, you know, it's it's interesting because we serve all levels of
play, right, so you might have juniors that are looking to pursue,
you know, a competitive career in the game. But on the other end
of it, you might have a mid am who just enjoys the game.
They work for a living, but they have that competitive juice. Maybe they
played in high school, they played in college, and they still keep that
fire going where they can compete, you know, as a twenty five year
old or even as a senior amateur a fifty five and up. We offer
those events for everybody, and I think that was what your father wanted to
do. And don't remember it was called the Senior Tour. Yeah, you
want to try out back. It is a forty fifty senior tour. So
the Mascolf Association does all these type of tournaments. Yeah, it's one component
of our services. We're an organization of member clubs. So the clubs in
Massachusetts are a member of our organization. We service them whether it's through handicapping,
course raiding. But then on the golfer side, one of our major
show cases is really our championships and our tournaments. So who who heads up
like us AM is that you guys. So the USGA is the national governing
body. We're a partner of the us GA. We're kind of their local
affiliate if you will, and we conduct their local qualifying. So we'll host
the USAM qualifier in Massachusetts, okay, and then also do the us Open
call. That's been Chad. Your only turn is that you always come in
like, oh, I've had the USAM. I've had so many bad stories
on my home course, Blue Hill. It's mah, what's that kid?
Something broom, Matt broom. We're going to playoff because I just go I
went wild on the final nine. We go to one. He's in the
back of the green. This it's straight downhill. I too put. I'm
going to the us M. This thing hits a come from sixty feet,
go straight up and then he takes my spot. Wow yep. And apparently
his friend took my stys on the day of the night before. That was
great and his friend he did. The kid popped the ball. Yeah yeah,
and at least if not, it was off the green going into the
friends, you had to chip up and unces, you made the chip.
He's had some crazy like moments. Yeah, it's golf. Let me tell
you're playing against mother nature, right, and sometimes those stars just have to
line up and a your a lucky day. It's one of those crazy you're
grinded for every shot out there. Let me tell you that you're working for
every shot. So okay, so tell me about do you see these kids
that are getting younger and younger? You're how old? Now? I'm thirty
seven, so you're young. But if you ask golfers that are in their
fifties and sixties, they would tell you good golfers didn't hit the PGA till
the late middle thirties. Is that correct? I think years ago that might
have been the case. It's getting younger and younger. And how young are
they? Well, several are not going to college, going right to the
pros from high school. Really, yeah, we've seen that recently. But
you've also got college has a good development option. You know, a kid
like Michael thorp Jornson, he's he's at Stanford right now and he has an
opportunity to get to the PGA Tour just by way of his collegiate finishes.
So no more C school for something like that, or there is still Q
school, but there's other avenues through the sponsors, exemptions and stuff like that.
Oh yeah, that you don't have to go. And this this kid,
Michael, he's he's a stick. He's the real deal. One thing
I would share to just locally. I think the junior golf scene has changed
dramatically. You grew up with it, but it's changed even since him.
It has. Yeah, there's more players number one, and there's more talent.
You can play year round, right, you can go through simulate.
You know, there's there's different programs, clinics. But here here's my question
to you. If you're living in Florida, why did you get to come
to mass and sign up here? Easier competition sometimes because they've been playing all
your in Florida, but that come back here. Well, given the kids
actually working, we're kind of in that snowbird scenario where you might have families
that go down south over the winter come back for the summer. So but
it is aren't they working the system? A bit? A little bit?
But you can't stop that? No. I mean, for us, if
if you're a member of Mask Golf, if you have an affiliation, a
handicap or membership at one of our clubs, you're eligible to Oh you are,
so you have to have some ties to Mask, you do, but
that's easy to get. No, relatively speaking, Yeah, okay, all
right, well let's go off to other questions. Are you happy who you
are? Extremely Yeah, this has been an incredible ride and seeing a lot
of change over eighteen years. Scotty still over there, No, Scottie is.
He's worked at actually a few clubs in the South Shore area. So
basically Start is an intern and ended up as present eighteen years. So you
ways stuck it out. I did not your typical millennial right, No,
not at all. Well, you have the attentions of being a fe I
like that. I okay, I'm the worst person talk golf, Chad.
You got questions there? This is joshtick, not mine. There you go,
all right? Did was worth to support it? All? Okay?
There you go? What it takes. So in your opinion, how is
the Masters's Golf Association evolves since its inception? Yeah, it's I'd say we've
professionalized. We've grown tremendously. You know. I even for my time within
the organization, I feel we were this mom and pop organization. Yeah,
you know a little bit I'm gonna say fraternal in a way. But now
I feel we're a community based organization that serves any golfer, no matter how
they want to engage a lot of that speaks to a merger that we UH
successfully accomplished back in twenty eighteen, So the Massachusetts Golf Association and the Women's
Golf Association Massachusetts. We merged both organizations, two one hundred year old organizations
into one with the intent to be of service to any again, any golferline
operation. And that's also doing because in the golf world that really didn't happen
before. No, no, there was. It was a bit segmentary,
and you know, call it territorial, but you know, six years in,
it's it's made us a strong organization and I think more visible. Yeah,
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Wo and welcome back to Tough His Nails on w BZ News Radio ten
thirty. And I'm here with Angelina and the Star Child Chad, the Star
Chad go ahead, and Jesse MONOCKELM all right, So Jesse knows Chad.
Chad knows Jesse. Chad played golf amateur, went to Europe, you played
for the European Tour, left Massachusetts, went moved to Florida and still played
the mass events up until COVID. Yep. And I'm coming back and hopefully
we have a great summer because I know the events are awesome. But now
let's get back to this. You will not see me out there for dinner.
No, no, no, because last year up there, hold on,
hold on, you forget. I was leaving. The friends that we
met with us was the sixty six. Did you hear she had got kicked
out the termin almost she had to write a letter to you guys. Did
you know what happened the going out this this Charles River? Oh, I
was so pissed them. I had the woman that helped me raise Chad and
she had cancer in the cart and this kid made such a big deal about
it, and I asked for permission pro but there was a kid and then
he went to the head. I don't, I don't care. So they
found us out there and they said you can't have a cart, and I'm
like, this is like the closest thing to Chad besides me being his mom,
is the second mom. It wasn't and it was nice, came out.
I was nice until they said she still can't be here. And I'm
like, wow, this is this is like terrible, right. So I
knew the kid said, Jesse Sen you out there. He's actually told you
put your phone down a couple of times. So I pulled up into the
ghost shop and I said, you had to start this, didn't you.
I said, well, let me tell you something. You started with the
wrong woman. And then all of a sudden, that night, I'm getting
finned. I walk off the eighteenth Green just happy as hell. I just
shot six under. I'm going at it with Herbie and my dad calls me.
He goes, cheat, I don't think you play tomorrow. I go,
what do you mean? I go, I go ahead, didn't do
anything. I'm thinking, like, did I dismiss a dibbit or something like?
What's going on? He goes your mother? I go, what the
hell did she do? And then I heard the story. I go,
oh God, I go, she's not gonna write the letter. I'm gonna
have to write this. I end writing a letter that I know. I
wrote a letter and I sent it and I think FITZI wrote the letter and
then I signed it and sent it. I'm like, I'm not apologizing.
I keep everything you have to apologize to challenge. I apologize. So that
that's my crazy story. I maybe had a couple more crazy stories out there.
Oh in the US opened a couple of times. Your phone's just ringing,
and it's always on the par fourards at whole number three with where the
bunker in the front at Pine Hills, and then it goes down to part
four of the water on the right. Meanwhile there's ten of us with shat
a Pine Hills. Her phone's going. I do remember there's always like,
yeah, always there was a pretty good group. Always not because it would
be it would be my caddie Mic and my dad does she had to come.
She can't drive alone. So be three people, four people and they
just don't know any golf edit, you know. And then Steve and all
your buddies show up like you always had like ten twelve people up there.
But go ahead, but they're not stressful to have out there. But all
right, let's go back to the Mask Association. How's it evolved? Yeah,
so I would evolve from where from where you were a kid to now
from actually let's go from your start from when you started with the mask off
today. Well, again, I would say we've grown in stature. We've
grown, you know, from a volunteer based organization now with a staff of
about twenty seven. You know, when I started, we had a staff
of about eight, very reliant on our volunteer network to you know, really
run the organization and be the front face of the organization. You know,
as technologies evolved, as the games evolved, services, et cetera. You
know, we need to support our golfers and our clubs in a different way.
So we still very much rely on volunteers, but there's a machine now
behind the operation. We're over one hundred year old organization, so we were
established in nineteen hundred. You know, early on, right, the likes
of Donald Ross Francis we met. I mean, these are the legends within
the game, not just here in Massachusetts but beyond, and you know they're
kind of the foundation of golf here in the state. Then you go to
the likes of Pat Bradley and moving on to the Frank Vanas and Marie Tobns,
Harry McCracken. Right, Ryah, another ambassador of the game. So
it's important that wed I mess him. He was a legend, he was
a good friend and to me, oh yeah, good role model all that.
But you know, it's important for us that we you know, honor
respect the traditions of it. But how do we continue to evolve as an
organization and making sure that we sustain this game long term? Well, keep
the tradition. I like that. And now so with evolving, Now,
you said you joined with the Women's League and all that. Are there any
co ed events for the listeners out there where you know, say a boyfriend
and girlfriend, husband and wife are two good golfers, they want to link
up and play a tournament. Do you guys offer that? Yeah, absolutely,
we have a handful of them, and actually one of them has become
a mixed four ball championship. So this was something new for the organization.
Once we merged, we felt, is there an opportunity to bring our top
players from the male side the female side and have them merge together. You
see combinations of Matt parzy Ally and Shannon Johnson, two of our best players
nationally pairing up as a team, Herbie Aikins and Megan b Sue curtain Frank
Vanna. You know, in a very natural way, this became really a
stable calendar and it just took off. So it's partnering up a female and
the male. Yeah, which has never really never happened because honestly, female
weren't really a lot of golf courses to when it probably depends what part of
the country or the mass mass was late late, yeah, relatively. Yeah,
mass is real old traditional golf coy. I remember even at Spring Valua
when we first longed to Spring Valley, I was in my early twenties.
I was twenty three. Dad could go out there early. We got to
look four o'clock. No, no, no, like twelve one o'clock after
lunch. The women could go out there and play. I think you'll find
a lot of that type of policy is still there. No, it's gone
six that is faded, and there were some clubs that you couldn't even bring
your kids to the country club. I mean, you want to talk about
down south, they still have some of their ways with their clubs and stuff.
Oh no, we're in Massachusetts. Yeah, even we're airing in thirty
seven states, we're in Massachusetts. So we'll stay with the mask because yeah
we do. But and specifically stand this show right now, we're able to
champion, you know, the women's game and having events like this So I
have a question like who would Lexi Thompson, Lexi and Chad go back to
kids? Very close to no, but who would they partner her up with
if she wanted to play? You choose? So I would play with Lexi,
but I can't because she's a professional. There's actually on the professional tours,
there's some I think behind the scenes discussion as to a mixed, a
potential mixed. It hasn't got to that level yet. Didn't they just do
some small event where they said two and two? They did? Lexi played
with uh yeah down in Florida. Yeah, yeah, the match, yeah,
the master happened. Yeah. But isn't she playing on the PGA Men's
No, she played one event I think most recently. That's right. Yeah,
she's exclusively on the LPGA Tour. But I think she had a sponsor
exemption to a PG tour and let me tell you, she kept up.
Have you met many women that can play absolutely better than put it on the
same tea, Well, let me give you an example. I mentioned Shannon
Johnson a few minutes ago. So Shannon won the US Women's mid Am just
a couple of years ago, and she has signed up and played in several
predominantly male events of ours, call it our mid Am Championship. Successfully competed
in that event. She qualified for it. You had Mollie Smith compete in
the mass Amateur last year, which and howl. So Molly's in college now
she's a freshman in college. Shannon is, Uh, she's a mid am
probably late thirties. So they're there are They're out there, and they can
definitely compete, but they can't play on the PGA Men's They have to again
Lexi, Lexi did play, so there's the ability to play. Is she
the first one to play on the men's I don't know. I don't think
she is. Then we shall we play the male event. Yeah, I
can't remember off hand, but I know I mean we played in the women's
amateur public links. Yeah. Right, Well, then I have a female
question here. I'm gonna ask the hard questions. I always ask the hard
questions, Right, why do male golfers make more money than female golfers?
In your opinion or you don't have an opinion, that's a good one.
Now that's well, I think you're starting to see that shift a bit.
You know, you're seeing the US Women's opens perse increase. I think it's
getting up to twelve million dollars. And what's the men's uh, I can't
remember off the top of my head. It might be it might be in
the around twenty thereabouts. Yeah, you know, then I guess the argument
might be eyeballs and awareness and and they like to watch the men's better.
I mean, that's it. It comes down to. It comes down to
sponsorship, pay advertise. That's what it comes down. So yep, it's
okay women, you can't complain. We've come a long way. But actually
no, but it's it's upcoming. I think things are changing quite rapidly.
Rapid Yeah, and now do you see any and that's kind of hard,
but actually we come back to that. All right, we'll hold that thought.
We're going to break chat and we'll let you take back. Go with
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I'm here with Angelina quiet one. Chad Stumpo. Chad's got a lot to
say today. I'm not Okay, there you go. I'm backing off of
this one because these are the golfers, right. I know when it's my
lane. I know when I'm off I ninety five. I'm not on I
ninety five. I'm not on driver. I'm on he sed I'm I'm in
the cast seat. Okay, go ahead, boys. She's like happy Gilmore
comes. I'm happy Gilmore comes to golf. Just destructive. That's a good
thing, all right, Jesse. So another question I have. What initiatives
or programs has a Masschosists Golf Association undertaken to promote the sport and foster community
engagement. Yeah, we are a five and one C three charity and we've
been and what's the five O one C. I mean, we're a nonprofit
organization and our development arm is ultimately around junior golf and we've been a champion
of first t National program under the PGA Tours umbrella. This is an opportunity
for us to bring young kids into the game, but teach them core values
of life and skills and really to be great people long term, and we
get them on the golf course through instruction, through coaching, and what have
you. And we're twenty years in. We are hugely proud of this program
serving all of Massachusetts. And on top of that, another program that's a
little bit newer for us, it's called Youth on Course, and we feel
this program complements the first t as it's an opportunity to get kids on the
golf course where they pay no more than five dollars per round and we subsidize
the balance of that round at any facility that they participate at. So it's
a way to get these kids on the golf course, to make it accessible,
yep, and affordable. One of the big challenges that we face as
an industry. Golf can be expensive in certain markets, right, and we
want to make sure that we're getting more kids in a game, that it's
affordable to them their families, and that there's no barrier to entry. And
now do you think with all that, do you think with bringing these kids
in a young age teach them, they're also learning life lessons through this game
and morals that which kind of our country is kind of lacking right now,
we do you think the game of golf teaches that, you know, that's
that's really the foundation of first tea, right, But think about it.
You know, whether you're you're playing caddying the people that you're with, the
etiquette that you're learning on the golf course. You know, respect, integrity,
honesty, perseverance, all these values right that are going to help you
in your career. Accountability, No, I have. Let me tell you,
it comes back to you. One thing. I would one thing about
Chad. He would never lie on his and I'd say to his father,
everybody else is lying, why isn't he? And Joe would say that's not
a gentleman sport, that's right. And I remember Joe saying that accountable if
he ever threw his club, Oh my god, Oh no, Joe is
going to go like, I'm walking your club, and don't you ever cheat
on your score like they played for my bank, Village bank, like they
use those guys just like all the time. Completely a completely different world.
He completely different. I'm talking about that world. I want to tell all
you male golfers that get up there and lie and you put those scores that
you really didn't hit those scores, you're liars. You collect the gifts,
and you should feel guilty because that's like not even impossible. That comes out
when you play with the actual person about this one. They're playing and chat
shoots a hole in one right, like like they brought a score that was
crazy, and I'm like the president my bank, I'm like, how how
did they? I shot sixty two that day and we lost? Because how
can these kids? I have my stupid question. It's like only asked stupid
questions that comes off. Can these kids cheat without you guys knowing it?
Hot? Well, let's let's so so Chad knows, right, he's played,
I played numerous events. You know, yes, no, yes she
can and I've seen it done firsthand. But then I've also seen it catch
up to you. But let's talk about why. It's a little easier than
the pros. So, yes, you have a marker at the amateur level,
but you only have one you got. It's an honor system, it
really is. You got to be truthful and you know you play the same
ball. You can't change. You have to say the same market. You
have to find that ball. There's kids out here. You go in the
woods, and it takes two seconds to you know, drop a ball.
Some kids maybe get a little foot edge just to get a little fluffly and
then the catch it or you don't, I mean you kind of don't want
to be, you know, that person to catch them because then the conversation
will happen. But yes, there's cheating that goes on at a lower level
of golf, right chesse professional And when you catch these kids, what happens
like do you say, like, well, hey, we're we're you know,
a rules governing body, right, we've got to run an equitable competition
or event for all the players that are in the field. It's likely that
we're going to have a conversation with that player, maybe a parent, if
they're a guardian, if they're around, and you know, at times maybe
it's an education opportunity. But if you're in an amateur championship or you know,
a mid am it's a different different scenario. You know, if that
were to happen, it's going to come to light. Oh let me tell
you shape in the golf world, you'll be known and you don't want that
name? Is that true, Chad? You just say that in the golf
world, you don't want to be known as a cheater. Well, I
mean in any in any way of life, in anyway that way. But
it's a game of life, it really is. So when you guys go
out there and you play these amateur events, isn't something in the golf cut
with you most of the time you walk in. No, but you have
one marker, you have officials out there, but it's you have trees.
You catch one little thing. The guy times a right. Like you say,
if I'm walking right behind you can't go behind, then you can't hear
you. If you're away from the mic, Chad, we're not on TV
anymore, one radio. If I just walked right behind him real quick,
right, No, you can see you walking home. So if I walked
right behind him for two seconds, like a second, I could drop a
ball so fast you wouldn't even see it because the tree is covering you.
Got it. So say he's a tree, I walked by him, you
couldn't even see it. So it's the honest system being kept with the next
generation kids, I would say it is. Yeah, we're doing as much
as we can to educate it, to preach it. Hey, it's a
part of the game. A father's out there as much as they used to
be. Yes, I would say parents are out there quite a bit.
We don't run a ton of junior events, but for those that we do,
the parents are paying the club. We've got certain policies that keep would
be us. Just your famous in the MGA, Thank you. I got
to be famous for Rego. Okay, all right? So do you think
the kids and again I'm gonna ask the dumb questions, not the hard questions,
right because I'm a dummy in this game. Do you think having the
parents out there cause more pressure on these kids than the kids were just out
there having a good time playing In many cases, yes, I think it
depends on on their presence, on you know, what they're doing. Are
they being encouraging or relationship and the relationship right? And then what happens off
the golf course? Right? Is it going blow by blow? This is
what you did? Well? This is what you didn't or was it did
you have fun out there? Sport? Right? Then? But there are
kids that a father is that he had a father that was a scratch golfer.
Sure, so it's not like he had a father that's was a country
club golfer, you know, or no golfer. So of course his dad
was going to give him honesty. But had Timmy Tarney, who's like an
older brother to me my whole life. And so he put a club in
my hand three years old. There's a mentor there, right, Yeah,
mentor your dad put the club in Timmy's here and you see how it went.
Yeah, he was working for your dad as a lot boy. He
came out of his HackMaster we used to call him, and Joe put the
club in his hand. That's when he found in love of golf. And
that's the beauty of the game. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So that
was just my dumb question. Um at all. You can go back to
your smarty pant questions. Well, let me let me jump on the smarty
pant question again. I mentioned first T and youth on course, but we're
seeing another new initiative coming from the USGA. This is something from Mike wand
the new CEO there. He was the former LPGA commissioner for about eleven years,
but he recognized in his role as a commission of the LPGA that there
weren't a lot of Americans at the top of the leader board. For LPGA
events. That is true reason being we don't have a formal junior development program
for golf. We have it for all other sports, right hockey, baseball,
soccer. We have all these other countries that have a formalized program for
golf. They have houses in Florida, Arizona where they bring and kind of
raise these kids, teach them, develop them, provide different services that they
might need to improve their game and develop in their game. So we are
actually launching, we're one of seven pilot programs across the country to create Team
Massachusetts, So a junior golf development initiative that we hope will bear fruit down
the line. And perhaps you see a young girl from Massachusetts at the top
of the or boy at the top of the leaderboard. And what do you
think do you think you'll see in the female world's go to LPGA? Do
you think you'll see more female American golfers out there? I do think after
ten years, this is going to create a pipeline, you know, whether
it's through high school golf, a j G, a USGA competition's college golf,
and then hopefully at some time, you know, the tours. If
things are successful, I would love to see it. Even though I played
for Italy, I still love to see the United States too good. My
producer is knocking me on the shoulders. That means I got to get off
my phone because I can't keep it with a conversation and go off to break
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last name? Yeah, your son usually what's your last name again? Grilla?
No, it wasn't it was, It's stump She's not feisty anymore.
Would you say it's going to be what would you say it's going to be
Stumpo? Yes? Oh you sure about that? Very sure? Okay,
I'll be the golf widow taker, you'll be the golfer. I'll be the
golf widow, the golf widow. Ye, yes, I'll be divorced.
You need to understand that, yes, maybe it'll be a team. Yeah,
I want to caddy for me, right, she's have We've seen that
out in the PG to just watch. So let's get back to this listeners
out there. I hope everyone's having a wonderful night. Actually my list is
like to listen to see who my kids are dating and then they try to
picture like what they We'll come back with the reality show you all back to
TV. Never had it up. Honestly, I think I need one.
But let's talk about how the game's evolving. And in my opinion, because
I worked with First Team Miami Dade for a little while and I did a
lot of work within the city kids, I brought my own clubs for them
and stuff like that taught them. Do you see a lot more of that
mass now? Still? Are you guys developing a program for that here?
Do you guys have that? Yeah? Great question? And you know,
again, as I spoke earlier with our first TEA program, that's where I'll
put some focus and energy because the intent there is underserved communities. You know,
where can we bring golf to those that need it that can't afford it
too? First and foremost City of Boston has been a champion location for us.
We've had our first tea program at Franklin Park since twenty fifteen and it's
been hugely successful. You know, it's tied into parks and rec. Kids
have an opportunity to participate in the program for free three seasons out of the
year. On top of that, we're down in Brockton, We're at dw
Field, which has been another home run. We're out in Springfield as well.
So trying to put some like I said, some energy and focus in
these parts of the states that really we want to see golf thrive. And
you know, the municipalities, the parks and rec departments, they've all been
hugely supportive and it's allowed our game to grow and thrive. And we're seeing
these kids kind of graduate on become members of you know, our organization,
competitors and certain events and seeing a ton of success from that. Yeah.
Well, also one of my friends actually in Boston. Have you ever heard
of urban Golf? I have, So that's one of my really good friends,
pretty good. I did a little lesson last year with him in Franklin
Park. Just love to see like all those inner city because they like it.
But it's hard to focus them real quick, but once they get it,
they all in love with it. And I mean, I don't know
if you guys ever met, but i'd love to introduce you guys. Maybe
I think you're speaking about Marcos. Yeah, Marcos, well, yeah,
absolutely, Jesse. Where can parents find these programs? So you can start
with our website at massolf dot org. You can also go to first Team
mass and through those websites you can check out the programming, the scheduling.
I mentioned three seasons out of the year. We also do have off season
programming, so indoor clinics at boys and girls clubs, you know, gymnasiums,
virtual golf as well. Right, so there's a ton of different options
for them. That's awesome, all right. And with all that, with
all the you know, the technology coming up. Yeah, can you how
can you say, like has the technology impacted like the golf world it dramatically?
You know, let's talk about question. That's okay, I got the
interviewed. All my clients want golf simulas in the house. Everyone, it's
it's hey, it's a way to keep the golf clib in your hand.
Twelve months out of the technology get out of a golf simulator. You can,
you absolutely can. And not only that, but you can get data
right and it can you can analyze your swing and get feedback from coaches through
video technology and you can see all your all your angles, you know,
swing speeds, everything. So it's becoming tool. Even if you just have
a net, you get a track, you can see everything on the computer.
Come on these golf simulas I'm putting in houses Like yeah, I'm saying,
if you want to got that putting green and the little cheaper side.
I guess if you want a golf in the winter time? Do you think
they're simulating golf? They're blowing up. I see them opening them up everywhere.
Now we have we've seen league play you know where folks. You know
it's there's also the social element too, right, whether it's your your top
golf experience or uh is there the top golf is or are you outside playing
on top of it? Why you're indoor lire heated base tape but you're hitting
out indoor out door. And my last question, and I have no more,
the rest is on you in chat. If one more person tells me.
In my twenty year career with chat that golf is not a sport.
Can I punch them in the eyeballs and like hold them? Yes? And
then can I put my pants in your ears? Because to this day they
still say it's not a sport. There's athletes the hardest. It's one of
the hardest games. I think it's hardest. Is golf considered a sport?
But thank you? I think that can be answered differently by how you engage
with the game. Is it a sport or not? Absolutely? And how
long have people been saying that it's not a sport until COVID, I think,
well, I mean, just look at these athletes right on the LPGA
or PGA. No, look at the athletes at all. One of the
NBA players based you know, baseball basketball think they could hit the ball,
couldn't hit the easy. He couldn't even touch it. And I finally got
him hit it. He was hit a seven, nine, one fifty.
But all my addicted, all my athletes that live in my homes, they
always say, can chat teach me? Can chatt teach me? Because they
think it's a sport. Thinks it's a sport. I think about it too
post post career. If they're an NBA player or NFL player. Right,
they're not playing these sports until they're fifty years old. They need a competitive
atmosphere. How do they get that competitive outlet? And golf becomes for a
lot of them. Yeah, Like I played with Lawrence all the time in
Florida. Man, he just loves competing. He just came out that mental
state. They just love to compete. You know a couple of NBA players
that were in the bubble back in the pandemic right Orlando. They had a
lot of time in between their games. They were this this fraternity where they
really couldn't go anywhere. They were eating together. There were golf courses in
that facility Gate. All they would do is play golfer. And the guys
are young. But when the Ryder Cup came to the country club, Michael
Jordan was in town, cam they that was with all of them hanging out
like they were playing, they were watching. Then they would play their own
games and they were having a ball. Yeah. Who fell off the balcony
that year because he got so drunk. I will not say I keep that
one. There's certain things I can't discuss, But I just want to say
this because a lot of people say this, golf is not a sport.
Have we said now, golf is a sport? Yes, okay, RD
Golf's a sport. If anyone wants to argue that, go pick up a
golf club, yeah and go shoot. Yeah, let me know if you
can make a bird or a par I just I think you got to look
at you know, the best players in the world and how they train and
how they prepare themselves to be the best in the world. Right, it
looks a lot different than it did years ago. Oh yeah, now everyone's
at shay. It's a full times it's a full time job, it is.
I have another dumb question. Sorry, this will be my last dumb
work, I promised, Like, I'm sorry. We're out here hitting balls
to our hands are bleeding. That's how much you have to practice. Did
Tiger Woods change this game forever being one of the youngest guys to come out
there and play the way he played. Yeah, you know at that time,
he made it relevant for the next generation. Yep, no one worked
out he started that. Okay, I'm done with my dumb questions. You
know the pandemic, right, it was an unfortunate time, but great time
for the golf. Well, it was a boon for the industry. It
absolutely was, and I think it became relevant once again. I think there's
been some changes, and I think this is why people don't want to go
They want to do this. Don't go to work, go to work thing.
Don't want to go to the office because they go to play golf.
Okay, yeah, they' bring to laptops so there they do zoom calls.
Yeah, I think you're seeing more rounds early in the morning and then more
rounds at four o'clock in the afternoon than I agree. They're getting their licks
in right, all right, So let's get back to this. What are
some unique characteristics or features? A little dumb question? No, stupid question.
Good, I have another one. I'll play it. No, I'm
all done with my dumb questions to payroll. What are some unique characteristics or
features of golf culture in Massachusetts compared to the other regions. So a couple
things. Uh. One, I would start that two thirds of the facilities
in Massachusetts are publicly accessible. So I think that's that's something we should champion,
right, anyone can get on these facilities and enjoy the game. On
top of that, let's talk about the territory of the state. Right,
you go from Cape Cod, you know some tourists type attractions all the way
to Western mass You've got two very different experiences. Exactly in between, we've
got a plethora of nine hole venues. And to me, I think a
nine hole venue allows for, you know, an easy way for folks to
bake golf into their lifestyle. Right. It's a shorter experience, a little
less intimidating in some respects. You can fit into your schedule whether you're you
know, a working parent, right, You've you've got to juggle kids activities.
Yet an hour and a half, an hour and a half go play
night holes right now? For the listeners out there, where are a lot
of these night whole courses? How about this? I gotta step in hold.
I thought we're going to break on Cidney Stump and he listens to WBZ
News Radio ten thirty. It'll be right back to you. Yeah, it's
me again, would you know? And welcome back to Toughest Nails on WBZ
News Radio ten thirty And I'm City STUMPO. I got another dumb question,
Jess. We have too much to cover it, Okay, can you just
come back next weekend so we can do a two part of here. Just
make sure it's not seventy five degrees and sunny. Okay, it won't be,
I promise, because I might be on the golf course with you.
No, you won't be eight o'clock at night. You're not on the golf
course eight o'clock. Yes, you are, actually all right. I can
get on you absolutely boom. How do people get in touch you, Jesse
Fast, our website maskolf dot org, or on social playmask golf. Repeat
that, maskolf dot org. Our website and our social handles, play mask
golf. One more time, maskolf dot org and our social handles play mask
golf. And if you didn't get that, then I don't know what's wrong
with you. People, have a great, safe weekend, and I'll see
you next weekend. This is Cindy Stumpo toughes Nails WBZ News, raded ten thirty