Stay tuned to the end of today's episodes that I can introduce you to our
newest podcast. Do you have any great anecdotal stories of people who maybe use
this as a launching pad for other success for themselves. I can't sit here
and say that anybody's gone on to greatness or glory. You know, at
the end of the day, some of we're still fifteen twenty handicaps. You
know. There isn't much else out there like this. But back in the
nineties someone made a ten foot put to win a condo. I think one
year a woman pulled out on the eighteen poll of the championship to win by
one. We've got seven guys who have played all forty years. They've never
missed a single year. Hi. This is Mark Kennedy from Windsor in the
UK and I play at the Forest Golf Club. This is GHOFSMATA number eight
hundred and eighty five. The World Am is the Everyman's US Open and they're
open for registration with tournament director Scott Thomas Ella. This is Golf Smarter,
sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your
score and raise your golf IQ here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to
the Golf Smarter podcast. Scott Oh, thanks for having me for it.
It's good to have you on because this is something I know nothing about,
so I'm excited to learn a lot today. And it's why don't you just
go ahead and introduce with the the World Amateur Handicap Championships. Yeah, and
if you want the full name, it's the play golf Myrtlebeach dot com Myrtle
Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship. How's that for a dot com correct? Yeah,
Well, we'll do what the press and the media do. Is the
shortned just too simply, the World AM That's what it is. So the
World AM. Yes, the World AM is is much easier to say because
it's very well recognized here in the golf capital the worldmrble Beach, South Carolina.
This is going to be our fortieth anniversary of the event, which is
kind of the every Person's US Open. So if you're a golfer but you're
not quite that tour level where if we're even just a beginner or a thirty
gundicap who loves the game of golf, this is the event you need to
be at. It makes you feel like a PGA Tour player and it's just
a lot of fun. Four rounds of golf in Myrtle Beach, a lot,
a lot to do, a lot to take in. If you've never
been, you have to see it to believe it really. Okay, So
it's for the every man. It's the US Open for everybody. How does
it work. Let's just start at the beginning. Yeah, so let's just
take the average golfer or just a hypothetical golfer who's fifty five years old,
who is a ten handicap mail. What we do is we take your index.
You do have to have a gin a certified handicap. Let's say that
person's the ten index. They sign up and they get flighted based on those
factors. So that person would be in our fifty to fifty nine division,
in the mail division, and then they would be a flight that's dedicated to
players of the same ability. So let's just say, and this is a
generally realistic example, that flight would be from nine point five to ten point
five index golfers. Because there are so many golfers here, handicap ranges that
you get flighted in are really small. So that you're really competing against people
that are just like you. So we've got divisions that go from under fifty
all the way up to et plus. We run the gamut. We also
run the game and in terms of handicaps, so you know, the thirty
six golfer is not excluded. We've got a flight for people that are I
think last year was around twenty five plus. And then we also have two
other kind of fun divisions which are the gross division, which the super competitive,
the no handicap division, and then we also have a just for fun
division, so that division is flat out. We don't keep score, we
don't care. Just go out play have fun. But whether you're playing competitively
or not, everybody gets four rounds of golf guaranteed on one different golf course
every single day, so we try to give you a little bit of everything
around the area. And then everybody gets entried into the nineteenth hole each evening,
where just where you let loose party, have way a lot a lot
to go intil on that one, and then if you're good, if you
play well, you get a chance to play a fifth round at this year
will be Grand Dunes for the fifth round, so we'll call it the world's
largest cut down for thirty three thirty three hundred players down to about eighty players
and from there, if you win that group, then you're the world champion.
Did I do that all right? I sut for you? Oh?
Overwhelmed with all these numbers here? Um, tell me more about the super
competitive, which is not my style, but the super competitive? How does
that one work? Yeah? So the gross division is exactly as it is.
If you don't want to play with a handicap, or if you're like
a sub five. If you did keep a handicap, that's a scratch division,
which we have three of those for men and one for women, so
under fifty, fifty to sixty and sixty plus for men, and then an
open age bracket for women. You know, the typical it's a Wagger ranked
tournament, So the typical winners shooting around par over four days. We'll get
some former collegiate golfers, maybe some players who've won some midam stadium stuff like
that. So it's it's technically the most competitive byability, but I would say
that those players take it just as seriously as some of our net players who
are fifteen handicaps everybody's there to win, and that's kind of why it's the
Everyman's Open is because even if you're a twenty handicap, you still feel like
you're playing very competitive golf. It's not your member guest on the weekend at
your club. And then the other extreme is just the just for fun group.
Yeah, the just for fun is it's kind of catered to a few
different people. Whether you're brand new a golf and don't want the intimidation factor,
you know, you can just go tee it up and you can play
with your friends in that division. So if you've got some friends, maybe
you create your own side game where you've got a spouse that you want to
play with them, or you really just came down to enjoy Myrtle Beach golf,
which is great. And then maybe a lot of our first time players
play in that division because once they feel comfortable, they'll switch over to the
competitive side just to get a feel for what it's like here, because golf
can be intimidating. But that's the best part about it is, you know,
some people are here to win, some people are here to just to
get that get their feet wet. You know what we care about most is
whether you finish in first or last place. Did you have a good time?
You know, did you did you enjoy yourself? Did you get to
see the beaches, did you get to go shopping? Enjoy some of our
restaurants because the price is just unbeatable when it comes to turning golf. Okay,
so this is really this is a promotion for Myrtle Beach Golf more than
anything. It is, You're correct, So our our organization, Golf Tourism
Solutions, it is existing to bring tourism to this area. So we want
you to come into town. We try to keep the entry fee as low
as possible so that you can then go out and decide how you want to
spend the rest of your vacation. You know, we are a tourism board
of sorts for lack of a better word, So we watch. We don't
really care where you stay or what hotels where you play golf. We just
want you to get here experience it so that maybe this can be a staple
on your calendar every single year. And for all we know, there are
lots of those participants who come back in year after year, even when they
thought the first year is kind of a bucket list and maybe that was just
a one time thing, but nope, they tend to get hooked. Really,
that's awesome. So let's just say, how many golf courses are you
guys using if you have what thirty two hundred participants? Yep, so a
great question. We use about fifty five courses throughout the entire week, and
then generally we're using about thirty three courses per day simultaneously. So one of
the key questions that we get is you know what courses am I going to
play? There's there's so many listed on your website. Where am I going
to play? And we tell what we tell most people is we try to
give you one in each geographic region of the beach, a one north,
one south, one cent r and then we'll call it the last one a
wild card. And then in terms of quality, also we tried to make
sure that you've got and I don't you know, I don't like to say
there's any D courses out here per se, but just to make it easy,
we try to give you one top level a course, a BC and
a D. Now again I don't think there are any D courses out here,
but just to make it easy in terms of understanding. We want to
make sure you get one really great course. And then, of course we
want to make sure that you know, no matter who you are, whether
you're a good golf or a bad golfer, you get the same quality of
courses no matter what flight you land in. So like if you and I
were both playing in different sense, we would we would want you to be
arguing by who got the better reptation. It shouldn't be it should be a
question mark, and you should be ragging about which courses you've got, but
it would be a good argument at the end of the week. I actually
think that you should have the country club players who are used to it in
our low index. They should play the crappy courses. They should play the
ones with the most with the sand, the bunkers that are just like chunky
sand, because you know, let's see what these guys do. I always
felt like little leaguers, why do they have to play Little league baseball on
these fields that are have rocks on it and the balls were taking weird bounces
and hitting them in the head. They're little kids, and that's the court.
That's the fields that the pros should play. On. If they're that
good, let them play on the where there's instead of these pristine plays.
Yeah. I live about that too sometimes because when I play a course with
great greens, I know exactly what I'm doing wrong, and it's kind of
alarming that, Hey, yeah, I kind of want people in to shift
it right on the line. Maybe I do want it to hit a rock,
put it back on track right the way I'm used to. Do you
incorporate any um private courses in the area? Are you using private courses?
Of these all public? They're all public? Um, we used to have
a couple of private clubs in the mix, like the doing club we used
to use for our championship round. I think about Mirdle Beach Golf is that
we're very tourists friendly, so of the I'm just a ballparking it here.
Of the eighty or so golf courses in our area, you know, maybe
six of them or private or semi private, So we're very tourist friendly.
We don't have a lot of members specific golf courses because that's kind of what
Mirdle Beach is all about, you know, in very inclusive, no matter
of your ability, age, gender, or anything like that. Awesome.
Listen, we're gonna take a time out and we'll be back right after this.
Give me some history here. How long has this been going on?
How did he get started? And how has it grown? Those three questions
you can do driff on it. You got a lot of time to go.
Yeah. So it's it's started in nineteen eighty four and it was originally
founded by Golf Digest and some other partners that you know still to this day,
we are about tourism business here Myrtle Beach. You know, late August,
which is when the event is every year. It was always kind of
a shoulder season between when the kids go back to school and maybe the golf
business in our area was not exactly you know, booming, So it's always
existed to try to pump that tourism up at a time of year where we
could utilize some extra rounds of golf on the t sheets. And you know,
I think the first year we had six hundred and eighty four players in
the very first edition and that was fantastic, I think, and then over
the years it's just kind of casually grown. I've over three thousand players.
I think we hit three thousand after the first five years, give or take,
and for for thirty plus years, it's kind of hovered between anywhere from
three thousand to four thousand participants. Um of course, you know, with
the booming the Tiger area it was, it was really high, and so
it's it's just kind of stayed steady with the amount of players that have come
through the ranks here. But we've always stayed true to the mission of trying
to keep the entry fees low in order to get you into town and just
see what Myrtle Beach is about, because you know, people a lot of
people don't know about Myrtle Beach if you're from the West Coast, where you
don't know how easy it is to get here, how valuable of a destination
it is. You know, we're one of the best Buddies trips in the
country in our opinion, and the prices are very reasonable across town. So
we just want as many people to know about it and try to get yourself
on a plane and come and come see it. Okay, so I am
coming from the West Coast. I'm not planning on playing in your event,
but I do buddy trips and I need to convince my Buddies, one in
Chicago, another one here in California. How do I convince them it's we
should be meeting in Myrtle Beach. So we just signed up with Southwest to
have I want to say, ten non stop destinations bagflight free on Southwest,
So great partnership with them. We have non stops as far west as ls
Denver, Chicago, so we've got a lot of non stops just just across
the Mississippi. But even if you're you know, Salt Lake or l we've
got one stop destinations through Charlotte or through Atlanta, So it's not as far
as a lot of people think. And we've got you know, with those
route networks between Southwest Spirit Airlines in America. I mean it's it's not that
difficult to hop on a plane. And you know, I like to joke
with people and not to down any other destinations, but you know, there
are certain places out west that you can't play one round and one night that
you could get three nights and three rounds here at Myrtle Beach. So might
be a little farther to get to, but when you get here, it's
going to be a lot more valuable and similar to all to the golf.
Okay, now you really captured my attention. Keep going on that price point
you're talking about like playing playing one course and on the West Coast. So
let's let's give you the World Am for an example. The World Am is
five hundred ninety nine dollars for the early bird entry fee, and when you
get here, you're gonna get four rounds of golf guaranteed. You're going to
get open bar and free food for four straight nights for yourself and a guest
if you have one. You're gonna get a gift bag that's filled with a
poll of a pullover towel hat, about three hundred dollars worth of retail goods.
And then if you're good, or even if you're not good, there's
about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of randomly drawn items to be given
away. So we've got great arners in the PGA Towards Superstore who help out
with that. But you know, I implore people, if you find a
value to better value tournament on this planet, I need to see it,
because I don't I don't think it exists. Now you're doing this in August,
correct, it's always the week before Labor dat yep, so the this
year's event dates or August twenty eighth to September first. We always do it
that Monday through Thursday before Labor Day weekend. And what's the weather like in
Myrtle Beach in late August. I'm not very good with humidity because I live
in California, so I don't do well with the humidity. You knock me
out? Do you get a little high? Like I said, it's it's
kind of that shoulder season of the kids are going back to school, so
it's still sour. It can. We tend to have some afternoon showers here
and there, but we try to avoid that. So every morning we've got
eight thirty am shotguns, so we try to beat the heat and get out
there before the rain could come in the early afternoon. So we still we
still understand that. Yes, you know, that's why the World End kind
of tends lends itself to a lot of participants from Florida, from Texas who
are actually escaping maybe some even warmer weather. But we love our friends north
of the border too. We've got a great relationship with the Canadian Golf Associations
and uh yeah, people come from oliver Every year we have over all fifty
states represented, so they don't really care what the weather is like back home.
They just need to be here. People come from outside of the United
States as well, Yes, sir, of course, so we've got I
think last year we had about twenty six foreign countries represented, one of our
biggest countries outside of Canada, which is kind of obvious there. Outside of
Canada, we've got a lot of players from Portugal, Mexico, Brazil.
Those are so our highest tingents from outside of the country. And I know
there's a few players every year the UK up on that list too. You
know, I would have too, but I you know, surprisingly they're not
that high on the list. Um. I think there's a lot of great
golf in the UK and not a lot of time frame in the year for
golf. In August is one of those months, so it's tough to full
people from from countries where they don't have a big window and that's their window,
right. Oh, okay, that makes sense. That makes sense.
So I'm a I'm my late sixties and I'm hovering around let's say, I'm
you know, around the single digit area back and forth, kind of sliding
back and forth in and out of single digit. How many people would I
be competing against? And what division would I be part of? Sure,
So I'll give you last year as an example of where you would be.
M Every flight is approximately fifty players, so we break them up into groups
of fifty. You would be in the sixty to sixty nine men's net division.
And if you let's just say a nine handicap last year after that division
of fifty players was eight point five to nine point zero, so not even
a full shot for we're fifty players of those similar abilities within a half a
shot, and from there you do still compete net, but with such a
small range, that might be a difference of one to two shots against another
player throughout the course four days, So very tight knit. You're one of
our most popular demographics in terms of who plays in this event. That's why
that range is so small. And how many people would be in that group?
How many guys would I be competing against? That would be fifty players,
so you would so ultimately you would want to be the whole course would
be yeah, So we put two flights on each golf course, so one
hundred total players on the golf course. Each flight has fifty players there.
Last year there were sixty two flights I believe, so you would make up
last year that would have been flight twenty seven twenty eight. We just number
them straight down the way, and you know, if you are the winner
of that flight of fifty players, you get the chance to play on Friday
after the cut down from thirty two hundred players down to about seventy or eighty
players. Those winners all get to advance to play against each other for the
Jets. Have that world champion crowned. Okay, another quick time out,
We'll go right back. This is our second week of the Tony Manzoni series
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every Friday from wherever you're listening right now. Back in twenty sixteen, I
did an episode five hundred and fifty eight with a young man named Justin Krybec,
and he should have known about this. This would have been good for
him because he knew he wanted to play in some sort of national open,
but he wasn't good enough. He was a nineteen handicap, so he knew
he wasn't good enough, so he did some research. He ended up playing
in the South Korea, I'm sorry, the North Korean Open. He snuck
into North Korea and played in the North Korean Open. And it's a story
that, like we kind of broke the story years after he did it,
because after he finished, he came back where he was living in San Francisco
and went back to work and didn't tell anybody what he did that weekend,
maybe because it was illegal. Can you even do that? Well, he
had a passport from a European country as well his parents, and you know,
I think he was born in the Czech Republic or something, but he
was able to flew to China, and then from China, I spent a
day or two, then flew to North Korea and played in their open championship.
And that's the punchline, is that he was he was one shot behind
the leader going into the last round and kind of freaked out on the eighteenth
hole because he wasn't sure what would happen if he won. So he had
a quadruple bogey on the last hole to come in fourth place. But but
it's just an incredible story. He should have played in this and this would
have made him champion way last lights in order to win a championship. That's
I've never heard that story. But man, that's that's a golf tale for
the ages. Oh yeah, Oh, that's a great one. It was
episode again, it was episode of five hundred fifty eight back from twenty sixteen.
Amazing. Um, do you have any great anecdotal stories of people who
maybe something that happened during the round or even that they use this as a
launching pad for other success for themselves. Yeah, I mean over forty years,
you get hundreds of stories. You know, I can't sit here and
say that anybody's gone on to greatness or glory. You know, at the
end of the day, some we're still fifteen twenty handicaps. You know.
There isn't much else out there like this. But we do get a lot
of stories just from exciting experience that happens over the years, and just some
quick ones for you. You know, back in the nineties, someone made
a ten foot put to win a condo here in the area, So I
think one year a woman hold out on the eighteenth hole of the championship to
win by one in the finals. You know, there's just so many things
that have happened. We try to have fun with it. You know,
it is a competition, but like you know, we've got seven guys who
have played all forty years. They've never missed a single year. I wish
I could talk to them every day and ask them there's stories. You know.
Some of the more interesting and kind of taboo ones are the fact that
we do scrutinize handicaps very very particularly so sometimes we have some very difficult conversations
that are necessary evil of the tournament. I won't go down that road,
but I think it's key to know that our event cares deeply about the integrity
of the tournament, and that can be bad news for some, but generally
speaking, it's good news for the ninety nine percent. So I think that's
important for someone to understand when they hear about that connotation, you know,
playing a member of guests all the time that you know, oh, I
can't win that thing. There's there's these people out there that they're just they're
always going to win because they're doing that thing, and we take that very
serious. They are out here. Well, good for you. I'm glad
you're maintaining the integrity here. I want to hear more stories of what people
want. I want to hear crazy stories of what people want. Okay,
So a twenty nineteen I believe, we had a one and from Germany who
qualified for one put from sixty feet and on her first attempt and only attempt,
she made the sixty foot put and took home twenty five thousand dollars.
Wow, it was incredible the crowd. I've never heard a louder roar she
had. We had to ask if we could get paid in euros because she
was from Germany, so we you know, I was a little afraid on
that insurance policy to make sure they got paid out, I'll be honest,
But everything shook out just fine. You know, We've had some lot,
a lot of good sponsors over the years, between golf dot com, the
PGA to our SUPERSTOREM Dude. Pont was a big one back in the day.
That's what everybody counter refers to. But also the real estate business was
one where we had that person take home a condo. That same person who
won a condo also won the World Championship one year, so she maybe you
could say that that woman was the pathway to greatness. She's won a condo
in the World championship. Who else can say that it's pretty good? That's
pretty good. Do you ever have like um divisions for parents and children or
family members who play together, siblings, things like that. Yeah, So
we have a sub competition. We call it the Corey Lemky competition. That's
paying homage to Corey Lumky, who passed away, who was at who's father
and son played in the event for a long time. So we created a
sub competition for parents and children in any sort of familial relationship to aggregate scores
into a two man event within the tournament. It's free to play in that
event, just because we wanted to pay homage to that family. So it's
kind of a fun way. You know, if you and I were father
and son, we wouldn't be playing all the same courses because of the fact
that we're not, you know, the same age and ability. So we
just combined the two scores compared to other fathers and sons, so we give
out a prize. That way, we actually have another event in the summer
called Family Golfweek, which has specifically meant for that relationship. It's Family Golfweek
dot com. You can check that out too. It's it's a great event.
It's the world's largest familial tournament at eight hundred players or about four hundred
teams participating in July. Here Myrtle Beach Family Golfweek dot com. That's it.
Okay, all right, so let's talk about registering. What it takes,
where to go? What did costs? What you get? Sure?
Yeah, so Myrtle Beach World Amateur dot com. That's Myrtle Beach World Amateur
dot com. Every participant gets four rounds of golf guaranteed nightly interest to the
nineteenth hole, which includes open bar, free food, live music. It's
got a little minipga show for vendors and exhibitors, all sorts of games.
Children are free, with the paid adult chance to win tons of prizes.
Then entry fee is five ninety nine through March twenty thirty. Got some tied
for that early bird registration. But if you are a new participant out there
listening, we've got a promo code for new players golf Smarter that'll take fifty
dollars off that registration whatever the current registration fee is at time. Again,
that's golf smarter for any new participants who've never yet played in the event,
okay, and that's for the pre registration or for any registration. It'll take
fifty dollars off whatever the current entry fee is. Eventually the price will jump
up to six ninety nine, but currently we've got an earlier promotion going on.
It's five ninety nine. Okay, so after March twenty third, so
from March twenty fourth on, it's six ninety nine. And what is the
deadline for entry? Because people listen to podcasts much later do yeah, yeah,
so we we typically you'll close registration at the end of July and the
price won't go up actually before March twenty third. It'll increase later in the
summer, but we haven't sentis pretty much all year long TOI for a reason
to get signed up early. So for right now, it's we're given away
I want to say, you know, drivers and irons and all sorts of
prizes as an incentive to sigeh up early. And then in April we're gonna
give away one hundred pairs of shoes thanks to true links where if you sign
up by I want to say it's April twenty, so you've got all sorts
of reasons to sign up other than price. The price will go up eventually,
but you know a lot of people get signed up by March. But
if you don't hear about this until August are late June, you can still
get signed up then at the current entry fee. Okay, So I just
need to confirm what an amazing deal this is. So for the price that
you've quoted, and if you've never registered before, you get fifty dollars off
with the coupon checkout code Golf Smarter one word. You get all the golf,
all your dinners, and your room room is not no room is room
is separate. Okay, that's what I need to make sure of. Okay,
that would be a little too good to be true. That yeah,
that is way too good to be true. So you've got to have access
to a lot of hotel rooms. Yes, so I'd say we have about
twenty two thousand room nights read across all the participants. So one of our
harners in the Sheraton, which is where the nineteenth hole actually takes place.
The nineteenth Hole takes place at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, which is about
one hundred thousand square feet of just golf paradise. It's everything you could want.
I'd like to say, if you can't have fun at the nineteenth Tull,
you're you're just probably not one person in general. But the great thing,
the Sheraton is attached for you the convention Center, So you can stay
at the Sheraton, walk downstairs, having your spirits, had your food,
and then walk right back up to your hotel room. And I want to
say that the hotel rate for them is I don't know, one hundred and
twenty nine. That's a night for a world and participants. So it's still
and it's a great place. Yeah, two blocks from the beach, very
centrally plated, and you can just walk right down to the party every single
night. So yeah, but if you want ocean film, you've got that.
If you want to have a condo that shoots the whole family, we've
got that too. So tell me exactly where Myrtle Beach is located in Florida,
because I was recently in Florida went to the PGA show I went to
a wedding and down South Carolina. I'll jump in there. South Carolina,
South Carolina. Well that's why it's not in Florida. Okay, So so
it's north of Florida, right, yes, yes, see how good my
geography is. So we're no, okay, we're in South Carolina. So
that's why the Grand Strand is kind of I'm sorry, but the Grand Strand
is kind of another name that we utilize here. And we're in the very
northeast corner of South Carolina, so the Grand Strand kind of tips over into
North Carolina. Um. We run about sixty miles of coastline, um,
all the way down to Pauli's Island area, So very northeast corner of South
Carolina and then maybe a little bit into the southeast corner of North Carolina is
where our golf courses go to. So you know, if you say at
the Sheraton, which is where a lot of people do, you know,
one of your golf courses might be thirty miles away, but most of them
are in the ten to fifteen mile away range. Um, And we try
to make sure you see a little bit of everything. So like I said,
you'll get one north, one south, one central, and then we'll
call it the other one card. But you get to see a lot of
the area. Another thing that you know, people really appreciate about our tournament
is is that if you've played ten years, you might not have played the
same golf course twice, which is insane to think about, but it's possible.
That's crazy. Wow. Well, Scott, best of luck. Thanks
so much for the information. I hope the success this year is even greater
though you've ever experienced in the past. Well, thank you, Fred.
We look forward to seeing you guys at Myrtle Beach. Did you happen to
follow the PGA Tour this past weekend where Kurt Kitty Yama won his first PGA
title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Now, you know, I don't talk
about PGA events, but what made this unique is that just before the event,
Kurt fired his caddy of four years and hired Tim Tucker to be And
this is a quote from Golf Week at USA today, A calming influence when
Kitty I'm needed him most. Yeah. I bring this up for two reasons.
One, Kitty Yama was a beast on the greens, and his lag
putting guided by Tucker was spectacular and two. Tim was featured three episodes ago
in an episode we called reading greens like a Pro requires these five things.
Of course, I'm trying to get Tim back on the podcast to give us
an inside view of how each round developed and played out, but I can
imagine he's going to be busy for the rest of the golf season. I'll
keep trying, but either way, congratulations to Tim and Kurt on the important
victory. Again. Tim's putting tool is available at true aimmarker dot com,
True Aim True aimmarker dot com and to hear his story about the tool and
how he approaches caddying at the highest level, he was on episode eight hundred
eighty two. I want to thank Mark Kennedy from Windsor in the UK.
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to say. Just write to golf Smarter podcast at gmail dot com or click
on the Hey Fred button at Golfsmarter dot com. Now, before we go,
I want to introduce you to a new podcast called in This Story with
Joanne Green. This is my wife's new show in which she shares short most
or less than four minutes microessays set to music, showcasing tales and observations of
her animated life. Joanne's book By Accident, a memoir of letting Go,
is coming out this June. It's now available for pre order at your favorite
online booksellers. Actually, I'm in the book a lot, so when we
get to episode nine hundred this June, which is actually scheduled to be the
same day as the book's released, I'm gonna have Joanne on to share stories
about me in our life so that you get to know us each a little
bit better, so to build momentum for its release. She's publishing these podcast
episodes every other Friday. You'll definitely recognize her voice as she's who you hear
opening Golf Smarter and Golf Smarter Mulligan's episodes. Check out her website at Joanne
Dashgreen dot com. That's JOA n n E with a dash hyphen g R
e e ne dot com Joanne Dashgreen dot com. Please follow her from wherever
you're listening right now now. There are two available episodes already, and here's
the first one called I Shared a Cigarette with Jane Fonda. In this story,
I share a cigarette with Jane Fonda. I'm Joe Anne Green. In
nineteen seventy seven, the new film starring Jane Fonda was Julia. It's about
the writer Lillian Hellman's lifelong friendship with Julia, a wealthy American who fought against
the Nazis when they invaded the university she was attending in Vienna. I worked
at KRI Radio in Berkeley, and it was rare for me to land an
interview with an A level celebrity. The publicist had instructed me to meet miss
Fonda at the Stanford Court Hotel on Knob Hill in San Francisco. Jane Fonda
was not only an actress at the time, but a major anti war activist
an environmentalist, and that's what gave her hero status for me. I was
nervous as I knocked on the door of her suite, twenty three year old
me about to interview Jane Freakin Fonda. She answered the door herself, wearing
jeans and a sweater like a normal person. Woe. I'd expected a staff
or at least a personal assistant. She seemed to be alone as she welcomed
me in so warmly. It was like we were longtime friends. The space
was gorgeous but stiffly formal, with silk upholstered Louis the fourteenth I'll furniture in
various beige tones. I got the sense that she'd be more comfortable in a
big burgundy velvet armchair. As soon as we sat down and I started setting
up my cassette player and microphone on the mahogany end table, she asked,
Joe Anne, do you buy any chance? Have a cigarette? Actually I
do, I said, flabbergrafted that she needed something for me. Would you
mind if we shared one? I barely smoke and I don't buy my own,
but every now and then, like just right now, I want to
have a few puffs. Happy too, I said, pulling my pack of
Marlboroughs out of my purse. It was the hard pack I loved, at
least at that moment in my smoking life, somewhere between the Anthony and Cleopatra
skinny cigar phase and my brief run with menylated cools before finally quitting in nineteen
eighty. But I digress. We shared a cigarette, which I lit with
a match before smelling the sulfur, a habit I maintained to this day.
It's fells so good. It was like two high school girls sneaking a sig
before class. With every puff, I tried not to physically pinch myself.
Am I really here in an extravagant San Francisco hotel suite, chit chatting with
thee Jane Fonda. One more thing, she said, before I hit record
to start the actual interview. Can this cigarette be our secret? I have
a reputation to uphold, absolutely, I said, But for sure, the
statute of limitations is up by now, don't you think. Here's the feature
that ran on kr radio of my interview with Jane Fonda. No. The
film Julia, due to open in San Francisco on November seventeenth, is one
chapter in the life of playwright Lillian Hellman. Jane Fonda portrays Lilian, who,
in the film has a tough time integrating her success and fame with her
political ideals. The story is about a woman who is Jewish at the time
of the rye of Nazism, and the indecision comes about whether she is going
to go into Nazi Germany on a mission where if she was caught, she
would probably be killed. Now it's all well and good for me to say,
you know, I sort of make decisions very quickly. I'm not Jewish,
and this isn't nineteen thirty five Europe. And if I were confronted with
those kind of things, I don't know how I would react. Yet,
clearly, Jane Fonda has risked her reputation to speak out for what she believes
in not my life. There are people in this country who have risked their
lives and they're they're never hurt about, and they're not famous, and they
should be. And in that sense I identify with Lillian creatures of the media
created into things that you know. Her career was not destroyed by the fifties.
My career was not destroyed. I am still I have more privilege than
people should have, than anyone should have. I earn more money than anyone
has a right to earn. And the people who are truly courageous are either
unknown, some of them are dead. They've been destroyed, they've been run
out of the country, are there in jail. On November seventeenth, two
opening shows of the film Julia at the Metro Theater in San Francisco will benefit
California Public Policy's development of solar energy details on the solar coal proposal upcoming on
Kaleidoscope. I'm Joann Rosenswig for KI re Public Affairs