[speaker001:] Do you play?
[speaker002:] Yeah, I, uh, consider myself a hacker. How about you?
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah? *Is that really a question mark on what appears to be an answer? Well, I'm into it. Uh,
[speaker002:] Yeah, uh, I'm not as good as I'd like to be but it's a,
[speaker001:] Is anybody?
[speaker002:] No [LAUGHTER] I don't think so.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Uh, I'd started playing when I was in elementary school actually. We lived
[speaker001:] Really?
[speaker002:] really close to a par three golf course. And I'd go up there with friends after school a couple of times every week and then
[speaker001:] Oh, wow.
[speaker002:] for, uh, [sigh] for years, I don't know, after elementary school, all through junior high and stuff, I didn't play cause I think I just got so frustrated when I was little I'd, my body wasn't, you know
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] physically developed and all that kind of stuff and then I'd started picking it up again a couple of years back and I've really been enjoying it.
[speaker001:] Super. Yeah, that's kind of the way I did it too actually. I, I played, uh, just a tiny bit when I was real young and then, uh, I w-, I got on to a team in high school but wasn't very good still.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] But, and then quit for awhile and recently I picked it up, like you say, about a couple of years ago and, uh, I've been playing, you know, off and on when I can.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Up in Minneapolis it's not too easy to play in the winter of course
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] but I actually live in Florida so, uh
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] uh, I'll be going back down there in May and hopefully be picking it up a little more regularly.
[speaker002:] Right. Th-, the one factor that really bothers me is the expense of playing golf.
[speaker001:] I was going to say [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] I mean it's a great game but I mean to play a really nice course, you've got to have a really big wallet [LAUGHTER], I mean.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's, that's true, all too many times.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Fortunately, uh, down where I live in Florida, there's some golf courses that are pretty reasonable if you know where to look.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Uh, one of them is the University of Florida golf course
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] which is open to the public and that's pretty, pretty good.
[speaker002:] Yeah. I, uh, attend the Indiana University and it's the same way here. They have a really nice championship style course that
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] is fairly reasonable to play on.
[speaker001:] Can you get like a, a student discount type of thing or,
[speaker002:] Uh, a little bit but not a whole lot. I mean I, you'd think you would [LAUGHTER] but, uh, you don't so. I,
[speaker001:] Yeah. What, what, what are green fees run there?
[speaker002:] Uh, well they range anywhere from about five bucks for your basic city type course up to fifty, sixty dollars for a really, really nice course.
[speaker001:] Okay. That's, yeah, that's about the same I guess as it is in Florida. But,
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. My dad is a member of a golf club over in my home town and I can play for free there and it's a pretty nice course.
[speaker001:] Really. Oh, that's super.
[speaker002:] Yeah. And I guess, well it's free for me [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Yeah, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Somebody's paying but not me.
[speaker001:] Well, that's the way to do it though.
[speaker002:] Yeah [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] That's the way to get in some good practice without having to pay for it all the time [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, definitely. As far as watching golf, I mean, I can watch it on T V but it's kind of boring.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] It's nice to see those who, guys. They have such good style that, uh
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] it's, uh, [LAUGHTER] it's pretty fun to watch.
[speaker001:] They need to get a new photography method.
[speaker002:] [Noise].
[speaker001:] Because once the guy hits the ball and they got to try to follow the ball [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Right. Yeah.
[speaker001:] that's, that's a little difficult. I mean, it, they do, they do a generally okay job but like you said, it's, it's kind of boring actually.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. What I really, I, uh, had a chance, they had the P G A tournament up in Indianapolis last year
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah?
[speaker002:] and I was able to go and see one of the rounds of that and that was really fun. I mean you knew it
[speaker001:] Yeah. I bet that would be.
[speaker002:] I never really thought it was, would be that much fun to go to a big golf tournament and watch but, man, it was, it was something else just to follow those guys around and actually watch them play.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Yeah, I've never been to a tournament. Uh, you know, looking at it on T V, you're thinking, man, [LAUGHTER] what a boring thing, you know.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] But, uh, that's, that's wild though. I'll have to see if I can't get a chance
[speaker002:] You got
[speaker001:] to go,
[speaker002:] I mean it's, uh, it's a lot more exciting than actually w-, than watching it on T V. And if you pick a group of golfers and follow them around, I mean, it's just, watching them the whole time instead of like on T V, you get to see them make a tee shot
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] and then they go off to some other hole and they come back when they're putting,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] but, you know, it's really something else.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I can imagine. What do you do for a living?
[speaker002:] Uh, I'm a student right now.
[speaker001:] Oh, you are?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Which, uh, which university?
[speaker002:] At, uh, Indiana University.
[speaker001:] Okay. All right, great. What are you going into?
[speaker002:] Uh, I don't really know. I'm a math computer science major right now.
[speaker001:] Okay. Definitely not golf, right [LAUGHTER]?
[speaker002:] No [LAUGHTER]. I wi-, it'd be nice to be a pro golfer. I mean, it seems like that, that would be an okay life just to hang out and,
[speaker001:] Yeah. If you're good, you can really rake in the bucks. Wh-, what was
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah.
[speaker001:] what was that movie that they had out? Th-, there was a movie about a professional golfer and I, I
[speaker002:] Huh.
[speaker001:] can't remember. It was on network T V a couple of times.
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah?
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Well, you know, it seems like, well you go to work every weekend. Play, maybe, one, two tournaments a month. You come in about tenth, you'd still
[speaker001:] That's right..
[speaker002:] be doing pretty well.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] So.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's a good thing.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] But, uh, yeah. I guess when I get back, I'm going to school in Florida actually. Uh, and, fortunately, I've been able to, to play some golf on a student budget which is
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] [Noise] real helpful, you know. But, it, it's unfortunate, you know. You hear about Japan.
[speaker002:] Right [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] I guess, you know, it's, it's like two hundred fifty dollar minimum or three hundred dollar minimum just to, like to practice even.
[speaker002:] Yeah. And those fees to join a club. Like a million dollars or whatever is just
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] that is out of control.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] I mean you'd really want to [NOISE], really be liking your golf.
[speaker001:] Yeah. I guess they have those, uh, driving ranges that are actually stacked one on top of the other.
[speaker002:] Yeah [LAUGHTER], I saw one of those on T V. That is pretty wild.
[speaker001:] . Yeah. Yeah, I, I played, uh, uh, eighteen holes with some Japanese guys in, in Gainesville, as a matter of fact. And it was really wild. They were into it.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] You know, they kicked our butt all the way to,