[speaker001:] Are you a player?
[speaker002:] Uh, I, I think I am. It's, it's been a while now [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Has it?
[speaker002:] Yeah, I've, uh, oh, just recently I got married and we bought a house. We're about fifty yards from the golf course
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] but unfortunately the house is taking up my time.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] So it's been, uh, it's been almost a year, I guess, since I've actually, uh, swung a club for a purpose.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I hav-, I haven't played in about two years, and then I went out two weeks ago with the guys here. I work at T I.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And I played in a tournament out there, and I shot a net fifty-nine. They were kind of, little upset.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] I guess I laid off long enough to get rid of all my bad habits.
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] I have a hard time inventing shots, you know. Let's go around this tree, and
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] you know, try a slice through a hook here, and I can't do that so.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] I finally got out, and I've been watching quite a few videos. I had not been able to play so I took out a few videos and watched them for a while, and I, I hope I'm on the right track.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Shot a career low eighty-nine, so, and my handicap is twenty nine.
[speaker002:] That's, that's great.
[speaker001:] I like that.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Now it's, uh, like I say, it's been a while for me, too. I, uh, I've got my wife motivated about it, um
[speaker001:] Really.
[speaker002:] and, uh, I think that's probably going to be one of the next investments, is get her, get her a set of clubs and, uh, we'll get out of the driving range and, and get some interest built up and hopefully we can, uh, we can start in.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I've tried to get my wife, I bought her a set of clubs four years ago. She hasn't even swung them, but
[speaker002:] Really.
[speaker001:] she wants to get into it now after I came home and won the tournament the other day, she's
[speaker002:] Well, great, great. That's good,
[speaker001:] she's ready to get off into it, but, you know, I like, I just like getting out, being in the outdoors, and I'm a hunter and fisher anyway, but, you know.
[speaker002:] Yeah, same thing here.
[speaker001:] You know, at least I can get out and play a few hours of golf and it's not going to cost me an arm and a leg, really.
[speaker002:] Right, right.
[speaker001:] And I, you know, I walk, I don't ride so
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, yeah.
[speaker001:] you know, I get a little exercise there, too, so.
[speaker002:] That's, I've got the same attitude. I, uh, I tell you, I started, I guess, the first time I played golf has been probably about eight or ten years ago now, when I was in college.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] And, uh, I took, uh, I took it as a P E course and then kind of left it alone for a while, and then finally got, got into it when I was, while I was still in school
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] and since then, uh, we've made it, um, as, as the friends start getting married and things like that, we've made a tradition of, uh, having a, a Thursday, um, well, have, have probably like, like a Thursday night bachelor party and a Friday golf day before the wedding.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] And, uh, so, it, that's back in South Dakota where I grew up
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] and, uh, so that, that's, uh, that's been my main, my main involvement, is it seems like I go home and play golf more than I do around here, but, uh
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] eventually I get people to come and visit me in Dallas, and then I'll show them we can play golf in the middle of winter when we can't do it back home.
[speaker001:] Yeah, it's pretty nice. We played out here a couple of times in the middle of the winter when my parents came down and what not. They were amazed.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] You know, here it is, sixty-five degrees, we're out playing golf, and they're freezing cold back there, so.
[speaker002:] Yep, yep.
[speaker001:] But, I, uh, actually I picked it up when I was in high school, on the same as a P E course, you know, when I got into the service I got into it
[speaker002:] Oh, okay.
[speaker001:] and now when I come out here I just kind of let it go, and then one, one of the guys mentioned to me at work one day if I played golf. And I said, Well, yeah, you know, I've got my clubs, but I haven't swung them in quite a few years.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And then I got into it and then back out of it, and it just seems like every couple of years I get back in there [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's right.
[speaker001:] You know, I really enjoy it. It's really nice.
[speaker002:] Oh, it is, it's, it's a lot of fun, especially if you can find somebody that's, uh, that's got the same level of interest. That seem to be the hardest
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] thing. Well, about, that's, that's true of any sport, you know. If you want to play tennis, or
[speaker001:] Yeah
[speaker002:] racquetball,
[speaker001:] you don't want to go out and get beat to death, but.
[speaker002:] Right, and, and people don't want to play with somebody that they are going to beat every time, you know
[speaker001:] No.
[speaker002:] and, and, uh,
[speaker001:] And then, you know, we've got some guys here that they are, you know, four and five handicappers
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and they don't like to play with me because I'm too slow for them, so.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] You know, but get somebody around your own handicap, and you can just mosey on out for three or four hours and have a good time.
[speaker002:] That's right, yeah.
[speaker001:] And I've, you know, I've never, never yet have I walked up, now I've walked up a few times on the golf course by myself with nobody else to play with, and never yet have I met anybody on the golf course that wouldn't allow me to join their twosome or threesome.
[speaker002:] That's true.
[speaker001:] They are always friendly.
[speaker002:] That's true.
[speaker001:] Sure, come on out, you know, and they don't mind if you make a mistake, they don't mind saying, Well, you know, let me tea-, tell you how to do that or teach you how to do that, or,
[speaker002:] Well.
[speaker001:] You know, it's, it's pretty nice and friendly out there
[speaker002:] That, that's, that's so.
[speaker001:] and you can't find that in all sports.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's absolutely right, and you can gain a lot of ground doing that, too, if you, if, you know, you gets, you get in a rut if you do play a lot but you play with the same people, you, you aren't going to learn anything.
[speaker001:] Yeah,
[speaker002:] After a short period, once you learn everything they've got to offer, then
[speaker001:] Yeah, you need to,
[speaker002:] you've basically tapped your resources there.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] But, uh, I'd like to, uh, eventually I'd like to work up, if, if my wife does get interested, and maybe get involved in a league in a, in a mixed, mixed doubles league, or something like that.
[speaker001:] Oh yeah, we, we have one down here in the summertime. Uh, it runs from like five o'clock to seven thirty
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] or eight o'clock, you know, because it doesn't get dark until nine thirty or ten.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] And we play in the summertime out here. We get a mixed league in, and that's what I'm trying to get her ready for. It's going to start, well, when we change time back whenever that is
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] next month, I guess, and it will start then, and, you know, we had a lot of girls out there a couple of years ago, and they were just starting to learn, and, you know, they were shooting a hundred, hundred and twenty
[speaker002:] Sure.
[speaker001:] but they were, you know, now they're down into the hundreds
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] nineties, so, it won't take her long.
[speaker002:] Well, that's good
[speaker001:] You know,
[speaker002:] that's good, that's sounds like a lot of fun.
[speaker001:] And it's something we can do together, so. Well, she doesn't do much hunting, she could care less about that.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] She's does a little fishing, but, you know, golf would give her the exercise, she'd be outside, give her something to do that we both enjoy, so.
[speaker002:] Yeah, it, it sounds like we've got real similar situations.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I, I, I go home, uh, I've gone home every year now since I've moved to Dallas to, to go pheasant hunting, and, uh
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] um, the, the last time I, I took my wife along and, uh, k-, kind of the same situation. She's, she's up in the house and talked to my mother the whole time we were out hunting and stuff, but,
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] She'll definitely, uh, she'll make the trip for fishing
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] if [LAUGHTER] that comes along, but, uh
[speaker001:] All right.
[speaker002:] it's, it's interesting,
[speaker001:] Yeah, and it's, you know, it's a game that you don't, like bowling, you know, you feel bad if you bowl a hundred. But if you shoot a hundred in golf, you know, you don't have to be an expert to play,
[speaker002:] That's right.
[speaker001:] Any novice can pick up a club and learn how to hold one and learn how to do it and do it right.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] So, you know, you don't have to be an expert in any aspect of it at all.
[speaker002:] That's right, well, yeah, I've, I've kind of formed the attitude that, you know, if I could just, if I could pick two or three shots out, uh, out of my game every time and put them together on one hole, then I do pretty good
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and then, and I keep, I keep rationalizing that well, you know, I can do it, I just got to do it all at th-, on the same hole, and, and then it will get better, and you just keep going, and in the meantime, just enjoy what you're doing.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] It, it, it really works that way [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] And when, you know when I first got back into it, I used to get mad because I knew I could do something and I didn't get it done.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] You know, and I just, well, I need to slice this ball around here, I naturally slice anyway, now you know, the ball will go straight and I go [NOISE],
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I never broke a club or anything, but, you know
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I'd get upset about it sometimes, and now I guess, you know, being in my forties, I just kind of mellowed out a little bit.
[speaker002:] Sure.
[speaker001:] I don't get upset any more. So, and,
[speaker002:] Sure. And well, that's great.
[speaker001:] Well, I've enjoyed talking to you.
[speaker002:] Well, you bet.
[speaker001:] I guess I'll go back to work.
[speaker002:] Okay, sounds like it.
[speaker001:] All right. See you later.
[speaker002:] Okay.
[speaker001:] Bye-bye.
[speaker002:] Bye.