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Are you ready to discover the sun-kissed greens and perfect drives of Florida's most exciting new addition to the golfing world? Dive into the splendid fairways at Cabot Citrus Farms, a tropical golf paradise that's swiftly capturing the hearts of golf enthusiasts everywhere. Named the 'Best New Golf Course,' this gem in Brooksville isn't just making waves; it's setting a new standard for golfing excellence. From the elegant layout mirroring the grandeur of historical courses to the innovative use of citrus-themed markers, Cabot Citrus Farms promises an experience as refreshing as a Floridian creamsicle beer from a local brewery. Follow us as we journey through this golfing haven in our podcast, where lush fairways, the sparkle of TrackMan-assisted drives, and the taste of victory await you! #CabotCitrusFarms #BestNewFloridaGolfCourse #GolfParadise
00:00: Imagining a ridiculous golf trip with friends.
03:50: World woods was one of our favorites and now Cabot made it better
09:00 Vision for World Woods Golf Club: "Imagine Augusta and Pine Valley and the most amazing practice facility in the world"- PGA
15:29: Expanding golf range with lodge offers convenience.
18:09: Excited for trip, bring your yoyos
19:47: creates enjoyable, inspiring golf courses.
22:42 DITYAMA plays 18 with Gerry Carey.
36:34 Adventurous golf hole offers two different approaches.
39:48 Golf hole reminiscent of original, still cool.
43:34 Course still early but will be amazing.
50:53 Appreciative of invitation, interested in future visits.
51:46 Grateful shoutouts to friends and kangaroo.
00:00: Imagining a ridiculous golf trip with friends.
03:50: World woods was one of our favorites and now Cabot made it better
09:00 Vision for World Woods Golf Club: "Imagine Augusta and Pine Valley and the most amazing practice facility in the world"- PGA
15:29: Expanding golf range with lodge offers convenience.
18:09: Excited for trip, bring your yoyos
19:47: creates enjoyable, inspiring golf courses.
22:42 DITYAMA plays 18 with Gerry Carey.
36:34 Adventurous golf hole offers two different approaches.
39:48 Golf hole reminiscent of original, still cool.
43:34 Course still early but will be amazing.
50:53 Appreciative of invitation, interested in future visits.
51:46 Grateful shoutouts to friends and kangaroo.
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What is Did I Tell You About My Albatross?
Host "Albi" made a 1/600 million, walk-off albatross (2 on a par 5) to win a 2 day golf tournament in Tampa, FL. So he started a podcast to tell the world about it and to find/share stories like his.
Welcome to ‘Did I Tell You About My Albatross’, the golf podcast that delves into the most incredible, improbable, and downright mind-blowing moments in golf.
Every episode feels like teeing it up with your favorite foursome, filled with laughter, storytelling, and the camaraderie that makes golf so unique.
The inception of this podcast is rooted in one of golf’s rarest feats: a walk-off albatross. In the 2020 Member-Member tournament at Carrollwood Country Club in Tampa, Florida, Albi (Host) defied 1 in 600 million odds, making a 2 on the final par 5, last hole/ last shot securing a miraculous win. This monumental shot wasn’t just a game-changer on the course; it transformed Albi’s life.
Join Albi and his Co-hosts: Sheppard (pro athlete whisperer/performance coach guru), and Panda (PGA Teaching Professional) as they uncover the best "did i tell you about...." moments in and around golf.
Discover the magic, the mayhem, and the moments that make golf the incredible game it is.
Let me just paint a picture here for you folks. Imagine
coordinating the most ridiculous guys golf trip ever.
You probably have a couple of yoyos in your group that are going to make
the trip really fun. You can't wait. You've been waiting all
year for this ditcom. And so you get there now, you guys get, you get
lucky. They put you in one of the lodges that's right next to this
amazing driving range that has track men right outside your
door. Now, your two knuckleheads that you brought with you, you're worried about them knocking
one over, breaking one. That's the only thing we had to worry about. But other
than that, you're so stoked. Then you play the most amazing golf ever, which we'll
get into the courses here in just a second. But then you're like, I want
more. So you could do that at the squeeze while there's light,
or you could even if you're really a degenerate and you still need more
time, you could go play the wedge at nighttime.
Did I tell you about my albatross?
Welcome to another episode of did I tell you about my albatross? I'm
your host, Albie. This is the golf podcast for honest degenerates. It's
like teeing up with your favorite foursome every week and diving into the best stories
in and around golf. You guys ready to tee off? Let's go.
We added chilling on the right. Welcome. Welcome to
another edition of did I tell you about my albatross?
I'm your host, Albie. Boy, we got a good one for you tonight. I got
my main man panda here. Say hey, panda. Hello,
world. So we got a special episode because we're going to be talking all about
a special experience we had recently at Cabot
Citrus Farms here in
Tampa. They're in Brooksville there. In Brooksville. Would you
call that Brooksville? Yep. In Brooklyn. The
address says it does, I think so. He who questions the panda
is wrong. Yeah, I should have learned my lesson on that a long time ago.
When we do stump the panda, which we may have time to maybe
sneak in a couple of, stump the pandas. I have a couple on deck for
you. But really, tonight's episode, panda Cabot Citrus Farms had us invited.
Dit Yama, did I tell you about Malbatraz for a,
what would you call that? A preview play? Yeah, for media day preview play. Yeah,
media day preview play. And it was spectacular. We're media.
That's one of the things I was like, wow, we got a media we are
media, and I know we are because we were there with a bunch of media
people. Like, there were newspapers. It was crazy. They had
tv people there. Actual media. Actual media, like, people with cameras.
And then we were there with our camera phones. I had a drone
with me at one point, but, man, I want to talk a little
bit about Cabot citrus Farms because this. Let me tell everyone a little bit about
Cabot citrus Farms and why it is so special to me.
World woods was a golf course in the
same location. They basically, Cabot bought it from the people that owned
woods. It was just a guy, too. I think the previous owner was like one
japanese dude. One japanese dude. They had an amazing vision for it. It
still was a great golf. The track was amazing. It's one of my
favorite courses to play in Florida back then,
when it was in good shape, in my opinion, it was one of the
most enjoyable rounds you could play in, least. At least for
me. And they had two main courses there. They had pine
barrens and they had rolling
oaks. Those were the two biggies. Right. Their practice facility there.
Then we're talking about the old version. We're going to get back to the cabot
here in just a minute and what they've done with it. The practice facility there
was like barred. I mean, it was amazing. It was crazy. I think
they had the 360 range.
The old one was. Yeah, it was circular. Yeah, circular, which. I love those. And
then in the putting, you had practice putting facility. That was
unreal. Always just an incredible time. And the nice part about is the
location. So it's in the middle of nowhere, Brooksville. No offense to all the Brooksville
listeners out there, but there's just nothing around there now. That place is blowing up
lately. I'm not saying, but back then there was nothing there other than
farmland, but it's still really easy to get to. So, like, from
Tampa, it's just a 45 minutes drive on a very easy, like, tampa
is terrible for traffic, but getting out there is a piece of cake because you
just take what we call the veterans and it's about 45 minutes away
or so. Really easy to get to from Tampa, really easy to get to from
Orlando. And then it's just like
they just kind of ran out of money. I feel like. I don't really know
the exact story, like, what happened to Worldwoods, but it definitely
declined over the past few. The last few years that they were
around. But again, still, the layout, the track
was just unreal. Lots of trees. I'm talking about the old version. Lots
of trees. I believe that pine
barrens. That course was my personal favorite. A lot of people like rolling
oaks more, but that is a loose replica of Pine Valley.
Did you hear that? Is that true? Maybe, like, some of the holes were
templated the same. The whole big thing about Pine Valley is if you're on
one hole, you don't see the next hole. And there was, like, some
vibes of that out there. I also like pine barrens more. You did? Okay.
Instead of rolling oaks. Yeah. People said that rolling oaks was.
And this could be a rumor. I should probably dig into this here a little
bit. But people had said that that course was a loose replica of
Augusta. I think, once again, yes, some of the holes were
templated the same. Yeah. I think pine barrens was
really probably more of a pinehurst. Okay. With, like,
the waste area and the blowout and the sand and the elevated greens. Yeah,
exactly. So it's exactly what he just said. So in the waste
areas, you could ground your club. Lots of waste areas. I'm
talking about sand everywhere. And I spent a lot of time
there. I mean, the waste areas,
I kind of learned how to play out of them because you just find them
there. But I do think that the
layout for me, if I remember
correctly, the clubhouse was a joke. Like, the clubhouse. Clubhouse was very
1984. Right. Like, the experience was not. It's a public course. I mean, it
was always a top 100. Yeah. Let's see. So Pine barons hosted
a shell's wonderful World of
golf. Yes, that's true. Tom Fazio, this is the guy.
That great name, Tom Fozzie, gets a lot of
hate. Why does he. What do you mean? Yeah, the Foz. Why does he get
hate? Because it's, like very new school,
what he builds. He kind of does his own thing. I'm okay with.
I like Tom Fazio. Some of Tom Fazio courses are in
my favorite courses. But Tom Fazio gets a lot of
okay. Definitely from the architect.
Like, bro, you know what gets? He's not a tillinghast
or Alastair Mackenzie or Donald
Ross. So he's going to get hated on. Pete Dye gets hated.
I mean, you know, I'm looking here like, the people that his competitors were.
Pete Dye, Jack Nicholas, and Arnold Palmer. How do you feel
about architects that aren't. I mean, maybe this guy's just an amazing golfer, and I
don't know about it. He probably is, but how do you feel about the
golfers that are not pros, that are.
Sorry. The architects that aren't pros. You prefer pro
architects, or do you prefer. It doesn't matter to you?
I mean, I think anybody's capable of making a good golf course. I think
that the couple of courses that tiger has done have been really
good, at least the ones that I played. I think that. Which ones does
he have? He has blue Jack in Texas, which is sick. He
has Paines Valley in Missouri.
Terrible name. It's misery is the name. That's how I pronounce
Missouri, because it's a miserable state. Sorry. Missouri. Wow.
So all the Brooksville people are going to hate us. Missouri and Missouri
and the whole state of Missouri. All right. No, he has. Yeah, tiger has some
cool golf courses, for sure. I've never played
a Jack Nicholas course and walked off and been like, that was
sick. And then what did Arnold Palmer build? Was it Bay Hill? Is that.
He has saddlebrook? Okay. Yeah, the Palmer course is
Saddlebrook. No, there's. Arnold Palmer has some good golf courses. Honestly, I'm sure
Jack does, too. Yeah, he probably does. Jack seems to make
golf courses just super long. No, I think that the best
architects were from the early, kind of the turn of the
century, early 19th century. Your Alastair
Mackenzie's, your. Aw. Tillinghast. Jimmy Donald Ross.
What about Jimmy Demerit? Jimmy Demerit? I don't know that I've ever really
played a Jimmy demerit. I grew up playing a
Walter Hagen course in Billings, Montana. Okay. I
like that one. He played a lot of golf. I would love to maybe do
a deep dive on just, like, architects, because I know you know a lot about
it. I just want to learn a little bit more about
him. But all that being said,
maybe one. Day have albatross national. Exactly.
That is our ultimate goal. Our ultimate goal is to get enough subscribers, which I
have no idea what the number would be, but it would be to get enough
subscribers to where we can build our own golf course. And I think it's 18
par fives. 18 par fives. All albatrosses. And the
green slope towards the hole to make it pretty easy to get an albatross.
Okay, so this may be the tie back to what I was just saying. So
Joe Black, past president of the PGA of America,
said, this is like having Pine Valley and Augusta
plus the best practice facility in the world in the same
location. That was his comment on world woods.
That's a pretty crazy
saying. It was one of my favorite places. I would not put it. I mean,
I've never played Pine Valley. Everyone, maybe, like, when it opened. Yeah,
I mean, I think that was definitely the vision for it. So that was worldwide.
The tie back to that was. It was cool before. Exactly. It was cool before
and it's cool now. And top 100, I mean, it was a top 100 public
course. You could play. I mean, all the time. I don't think I ever saw
it out of it. Yeah. And we need good public golf. That's right.
We want less people to play golf. I thought me and you, but we want
to shrink the game. But we do need more public golf. That's true. Okay.
All right. I now work at a public facility, so I got to be pro
public golf. Yeah. Shout out, by the way, just so everyone knows, I'm going to
give a free plug here because they're certainly not spending
the advertising dollars on us yet. But add to performance, why don't
you tell the folks what you're doing down there at add to performance? Add
to performance is now the world's hottest upstart golf
academy. We're going to single handedly, day in and day
out, create the next generation of
elite golfers. Yeah. Here in Lando Lakes, Florida, home of John
Cena. What
is his. Does he do that? Does he do the. What did you just
do? Did you do like his, like he plays when he comes
out. I also love wrestling. If you want to have a wrestling episode. Did you
go to the one in St. Pete? No. Did you want to kind of. Oh,
dude, just tell me what I got you on there. So your media
now. You could have got in Johnson.
I always forget. I think it's so funny he lives here.
I'm excited about the academy because I think you guys are doing some pretty cool
things. That's actually owned and created by a friend
of the show, Brad Brunery's part. And then also the kangaroo. The kangaroo,
we call him. And then we also have shepherd. So
friends of the show and everyone knows Shepard
started as one of our co hosts and still heavily involved
in the pod. So we're really excited about it. I think these guys are just
going to absolutely kill it. And you, if you live in the Tampa area,
in fact, if you don't live in the Tampa area, they even have ways that
you can still get involved with their academy. So check them out. All right, so
there's that. There's a free plug for. For you guys to build your academy.
You guys are going to be jam packed now. You already are. Yeah. Worldwide got
sold to Cabot about. In the Cabot family,
I think about two years ago, maybe a year. And a half.
And I've been so jazzed
about this to the point to mean between us and Cabot.
Please don't be mad at me about this. I've driven up to
Brooksville a few times during this whole process where you
guys were moving around tons of dirt and getting rid of a bunch of trees,
moving and shaping the whole earth around there. I went up there a few times
and just looked through the fence in awe. I could not wait for
this place to open because, again, it was one of my favorite tracks, and it's
just going to be spectacular. Everything I hear about Cabot, everything they're doing in Texas
with their courses there that they're building, everything they've done mean, you
name it. In fact, we're trying to plan a trip up to the Nova Scotia
course. We just start what happened with our day. So we get there just
chronologically. Yeah, exactly. Let's describe the day. So we
get there. They were. Again, we were treated like media, so it was just phenomenal.
We get there. Super nice people, by the way, canadian people.
They're all from. The canadian people are just. They've got to be the nicest people
on the planet. Like, name me another group of people that are nicer than
Canadians. Yeah. You don't have one? No. I mean, I grew up in
Montana, so we're cool with Canada.
Are Montana people nicer than canadian people?
No, Canadians really are pretty nice. Yeah.
They fucking giving away health care and
pills and maple syrup all the time. You can get maple syrup and pills. In
Canada for free. It's included in your taxes.
Okay, dude, that's. Well, like, people get, like, insulin from Canada because it's like,
four. But.
But I guess my point is the hospitality, the service was just
like, we've been abandoned. I've been abandoned. I know you used to work,
like, and I get it. People are spending a lot of money to go to
these destination type courses, and you've got to just kill it on service.
But right from the get go, I get into the guard
gate, and even the lady to guard gate was, like, the nicest lady ever. Oh,
dude. She's like, yes, exactly. And so we pull in a little chilly
that day. We've got all this on our socials. We're going to be posting all
this, and then I'll be flashing. We'll be editing in. If you hop on
our YouTube, make sure to check out all the videos, because we
did capture some pretty cool video of it. I flew a drone around, like I
said, but we get in there and then we had dit Yama
gear provided by Swanee's, which shout out
to Swannie's, thanks for hooking us up on that. We get there and they're like,
oh, why don't you walk in here? And we walked into their
new. What would you call that? Like, golf
pro shop. Was that the pro shop there that. They had us in, or what
was that? No, where we walked in was just really like,
merchandise house. They were like, selling headcovers and shirts. Dude, their
merch is great. Like, this hat they gave. Merch is cool. They gave us hats.
Give us hats. Towels. They give us a towel. Look at that thing, dude. And
over here, look how big that towel is. That a regular sized towel? Yeah, it's
like a caddy towel. Yeah. The logo is cool. So the logo is just kind
of like an orange, but then it says cabot. Yeah. Let me get this
on. Citrus. Citrus. Yeah. And I use
this, so thank you, Cabot. When you get there. For anyone that's ever been to
worldwoods in the property, it looks totally different in a couple of different ways. One,
I'd say that the fact that they have the
lodging already up, like, I knew they were going to be doing these really crazy
lodges. We actually, as a group of buddies, we looked
at investing in one. It was a little outside our price range,
but it looked like they're going to be really nice. And I think that
opens. And they're already going to open those in end of February, early
March, she said. So I thought that was crazy. And they're popping
them up all over. So they have that you pull in, you go to this
little thing, they get us some cider. We start walking down to the range,
and then, dude, my mind was absolutely
had. What's cool about the range there in the practice facility?
Keep in mind, you just heard that comment about the old PGA,
dude, saying that it was like Augusta and Pine Valley with
a world class practice facility. So, I mean, I don't
know how you top that, but these guys, they're heading in that direction because
all the lodges are like, at least they have a row of lodges that are
right in front of or right behind
the driving range and the driving range, which would
be amazing for a guy's golf trip. Like, you have a guy's golf trip and
you can literally walk out your cabin, go hit balls whenever you want. Oh, and
by the way, it's not just like a regular driving
range. Each bay or each. What would you call that?
Okay. Each bay has a track man, an outdoor track, man.
I've never seen an outdoor track, man. Have you? I've definitely seen an outdoor
track, man. Yeah. I've never seen it done the way that they did it, where
each individual little bay or stall has its own track, man. That's like, in
a little case. Yes. That you can dick around with and hit balls. That was
pretty cool. I've never seen that before. So what else is cool about it
is at nighttime, you could have a guy's golf
trip, and then if you wanted to go hit balls at 1030 at
night under the lights, you could do that putt or putt.
Here's the other thing. They have a short course, but wait, there's more. No, the
short course. They have two short courses, I guess is what
you'd call it. They have what's called the squeeze and. The
wedge, in addition to putting course and
218 hole courses. Correct.
Let me just tell you a little bit about the squeeze. Squeeze offers nine holes
that range from 100 yards to 550 yards. And
architect Mike Nuso drew inspiration
from the world's best short par fours to create a course that is full of
fun and drama. That's the squeeze, the wedge,
an eleven hole. Why? Have you ever heard of an eleven hole course? I've never
heard of that. Yeah. If it's like a short course, okay. The preserve,
abandoned, is 13. Okay, I've seen. Yeah. That's the only thing I could really compare
it to. So the wedge eleven hole par three course that offers
vast waste areas, greens with dramatic slopes, and lots of
varied lies. Golfers will encounter some of the cabot citrus farm's most
interesting design features at the Wedge and lights
located throughout the course. So this is the lit one. Let me just paint a
picture here for you folks. Imagine
coordinating the most ridiculous guys golf trip ever.
You probably have a couple of yoyos in your group that are going to make
the trip really fun. You can't wait. You've been waiting all
year for this ditcom. And so you get there now, you guys get. You get
lucky. They put you in one of the lodges that's right next to this
amazing driving range that has track men right outside your
door. Now, your two knuckleheads that you brought with you, you're worried about them knocking
one over, breaking one. That's the only thing we had to worry about. But other
than that, you're so stoked. Then you play the most amazing golf ever, which we'll
get into the courses here in just a second. But then you're like, I want
more? So you could do that at the squeeze while there's light.
Or you could, even if you're really a degenerate and you still need more
time, you could go play the wedge at nighttime, which I think is kind of
cool. Have you played night golf ever?
Kind of, yeah. I see stuff on instagram all the time. I'm like, dude, they
should totally. I've done it on lit golf courses. I've never done it
with the ball that glows. It's just pitch black. That seems. Could that
frustrating. Yeah, I don't think. Oh, no, they do that. No, but
I've heard it can crack your cloth. You got to be careful with those because
they can crack your clothes, by. The way, though, the speed you
produce, that flip hook. Yeah.
You're my coach. Don't tell people that you're trying to sell an academy here,
dude.
That's interesting because this is real quick here. That's not
the same guy as what. We were talking about. That's the other. So that's Newso,
and then that guy's Kyle something. Okay. Got you. Yeah, Kyle.
Okay. So. Really? Okay. So let's talk about two. There's actually
two course designers, right? We have our main
man, Nuzo, which I didn't get an opportunity to meet Newso. His name is
Mike. We should probably call him Mr. Newso. I don't really know him on a
first name basis. So Mike Newso, he actually is the guy that led a lot
of the short course and practice facilities. He's also heavily
involved in what we think is the putting. The 21, which I think is the
putting course. And then he's got a goal
of creating. This is his tagline. I just want to make sure people get a
good feel of what we're talking about here. His goal of creating enjoyable courses
that inspire people to play. All right. He
also has the number. You'd appreciate this. He's also the designer of
Wolfpoint club in Port Lavica. That's probably not the
right way to say that. You probably know better. Me in Texas. Have you ever
heard of that? The number one golf course in Texas?
What? The number one golf course in Texas. It's called
World Point Club in Port
Lavaca. Lavaca. Lavaca sounds better, right?
Yeah. I'm going to have to fact check that, because I didn't.
You didn't know that? We'll circle back to that. Okay. We'll circle back around to
that. Yeah. So, anyway, I thought that was it. But then
the other gentleman, which we did get a chance to talk to really nice guy
Kyle Franz. Let me just say that
again. Kyle Franz. Kyle Franz. Now he's leading the renovation of Cabot
Barons. And that's really pine barons.
That we played. Yeah, that we played. And we'll get more into that. So that's
actually going to be called. Let me pull up the rue. The
rue. That's the rue course. How do
you think they came up with the names for these? I don't know. You could
have asked him. I didn't get a chance. Well, they did actually have a CEO
there, like I mentioned, and really nice guy. He just had
a lot of actual media around. Like, they were
newspapers and stuff, asking questions. I could have probably found that out. He's probably told
people. So, anyway, I guess my point is
that the practice facilities
are just going to be unreal. And then the fact that they're lit up, I
love. All right, so now let's get into. So, once we hit
golf balls, we're feeling good, by the way. They had an entire spread there with,
like, I'm talking about muffins. We had, like,
continental bread, but, I mean, it's a different level. You got more cider. You're all
hopped up on the cider. You loved it. And then they
had. When I say, like, parfait, it was like
granola. You had fruit. You had the whole deal, and it was like, take what
you want. Just go take it. Everything was. Yeah, we didn't pay shit.
Didn't pay shit. They were super nice. Generous. Okay, so now
we're all hopped up on the cider. We've hit balls in the track,
man. Our stats are off the chart. I'm
cracking golf balls with the lit golf. There's no, like, lit golf
balls. I don't think. I think they just left, of course. So now we're ready
to go play. And they were like, okay, it's a shotgun deal. And
we started on hole 18. We were 18.
A. 18 a on Yama is not a b group kind of
group. Nah, dude, we're a group specifically.
Now, this is important because I want to describe the dit Yama
foursome we had. We had quite the forsome shout out to Kangaroo, because
kangaroo, actually, I think, in my opinion, was the all star of this trip,
because he actually took a backseat. And that never happens for friends of the show.
But he did it because we had a very
special late ad. Mr. Jerry
Carey. Now, anyone that's in golf, like, social
world, like, if the social media stuff or the content creators. Dude,
this guy, Jerry Carey, first of all, super nice
guy. I reached out to him. I told him we were playing cabot. He wanted
to come play and check it out. He's from Canada, the
western side, British Columbia area, I think. And he was like, oh,
my God, if you guys are playing that new cabot course I want guy to
play like I want to play. And I was like, all right, I've already got
to force him. Let me just talk to Brad Bruner. Brad Brunner,
Kangaroo resident tour pro of.
You know, big hand in this academy that these guys are doing and just a
super nice guy. And Brad was like, and it was great
because actually what happened? Shepard, our
other co host, he said, oh, yeah. Like, I can't believe you do
that to. I can't believe you'd ask Brad to take a seat. Like,
he's not even going to want to, man. Like, why would you do that after
you've already invited him to play? I felt like a complete jerk. I'm like, he's
totally right. I'm sorry. And
I called Brad and I'm like, look, man, I apologize.
And he said, dude, who fucking cares? I'm going to go play
like Cabot. First of all, that's amazing. And he was like, I'm going to go
play a couple random people that I'll meet. That's fine. Who cares?
So it's just know, throwing more shade at your boy being
here, it's fine. But it was great. So he's the MVP, but
Jerry Carey joined the foursome with shepherd and
Panda and myself. We teed off on,
I mean, right from the beginning. So the couple of things I noticed right away.
So we'll get more into this here in a second. We interviewed the architect. We
interviewed Kyle. Yeah, Kyle Franz. We interviewed him after
and he said some really insightful things, which I wish I would have talked to
him before because I would have played the course a little different and it would
have been cool to kind of see his vision for it beforehand. I was trying
to remember it after the fact. I will say the thing that was really
interesting is the trees. Like, if you played worldwoods in the
past, pine barrens especially, there's lots of trees everywhere.
Lots of pine trees, lots of vegetation. Now, I know these guys are still built.
This is a preview play. So this course hasn't been final.
Like, it's going to just get better and better and better. Of course, still spectacular,
but it's going to get better. The first thing you notice, or at least I
notice, is that trees are gone.
There are some trees. They kept, I guess, the really healthy and the beautiful ones.
But like the ones that you have to hit around. Right on 14.
Exactly. I don't think that they got rid of close. He said something like
5000 trees, but I don't think they were critical
to the experience. And I think the other reason he said that was because
he was trying to open it up for a couple of things. One,
obviously, this is sort of the trend with a lot of these courses. Streamstong is
very much like this. I don't know. Stream song had trees there in the beginning,
but they're also trying to let through a lot more wind. So it was
extremely. I don't know if it was just the day or if what he was
saying. I'm sure it had something to do with it. Dude, the wind was crazy.
Like, the wind was actually really crazy. There's no trees to block it. And that
is one thing. When you'd play in the summer at pine barrens, or even
rolling oaks for that matter, it was just stagnant because there was no
airflow through there. So that's the one thing they wanted to change. The other thing
he mentioned is just that he wanted the experience to be more of
a. He wanted the distance between tea
boxes to be a lot shorter, a lot easier and just a better experience. And
I think they accomplished that really nicely. I think that was just one
thing I observed. But those were my initial. When I first
got out there, I'm like, it looks completely different.
It's a new course, so that would be my. Any other
observations on your initial thoughts when you first got out there? What was going through
your head? Caddy. We had a caddy. We did have a caddy. So
you can take a caddy initially.
Yeah. I mean, that's the thing that you notice is it's like way more open.
Like a band in that isn't trails. Or like a
scottish course or a stream song. I think a stream
song is like a good comparison. I think that
it's a stream song kind of feel. Which one?
I guess black is it? So it's a link. You're saying it's like a links
course? I don't like using that word when it's not an actual links
course. That is actually one of my big frustrating things.
All right, sorry. It has to. A links course links the
land to the sea. There's no sea there. Is that what that means? That
is what that means. Wow.
So when there's no actual ocean. I hate when
people say links. I had no idea that's what that meant.
I thought why they put road bunkers in middle of nowhere
Florida anyway, to me it felt like,
okay, that makes total sense now. You can say it's kind of. Yeah, Linksy.
There's a lack of trees. It's very windy. There's sandy areas.
But yeah, to say links is
actual. Yeah, that's a panda. No, no. Okay. No bamboo for
you. Good to then. So then we
start playing. I mean, I think being with
of, I was really interested to see how good Jerry Carey was.
He's got literally tens of millions of
TikTok views. He does this thing. For those of you who don't know, he does
this amazing thing. I'll put a link here. And all the stuff that we do.
He does this amazing thing where he walks to someone randomly in a parking lot
in like a random country club. He did Carawood, by the way. Carowood. Yeah.
And he's like, hey. He says, oh, this
guy's going to be perfect. And he walks up to him and he's like, oh,
can I caddy for you today? And these are just random.
Typically these are higher handicap. Like the guy got a. Carol was like a 27
handicap. And they're like, they've never had caddies in their life. They don't even know
what they are. And he's like, come on. What if I get you a par
today? I'll give you a new pair of italian golf shoes or
like something crazy. And they're like, okay. And then he learns
their story on the walk, which I love. I mean, it's a great concept gone
viral. Tens of millions of views nice enough to join us.
And I was really curious to see how good of a golfer he was. Pretty
good. I mean, he could get around like the know. I don't know what his
handicap was, but he was good. He scraped it around. He scraped
it around. I mean, it was a tough course, like for probably Jerry for.
We made Jerry play the backs. We did. We didn't play the
backs, but we played pretty. We played the one ups. We
did. Yeah. We went on one up for him. We played the one ups. They
were like, you should play the tangerine. We like, nah,
plays the one ups. That's funny. So they have different types of citrus
for the tea. Well, they had specific
oranges on the tea box and I think
literally everybody else played from like 5500 farms
and we played from like 6800. And it was still. And Brad
played from like 74. Yeah. So Brad Bruner again, previous pro,
he walked off the course with the course record. Did he tell you that? No,
they gave it to him. No, because he didn't finish because we had
practice. Well, then he didn't get the course record. What do you mean? If he
would have pared out, he would have had it. Oh, well, he didn't part out,
though, right? We can't give that. Well, come on. What are you talking about? You
know what really drives. If that drives you nuts about links. You know what really
drives me nuts are when people try. You think he couldn't have course records 17
and 18? I mean, could he? Sure. Did he?
No, I think it was just 17. Because we
started 17. He left. He had to play one hole. Yeah, one hole. Which I
cannot believe he's saying. The Caddy wanted him to say. He's like, nah, why wouldn't
he? I mean, I don't. Because we had practice. I left, too. Yeah. Boy, you
could have helped practice together for him a little bit.
Well, dude, he left before I did. Listen, I mean, I played 18 holes. I
get the course record. Dude, it's been open for. It's not even open. This is
a preview play. So of course he's going to get the course record. He even
said, you're not going to witness the course record, which I guess no one did
because he didn't get it because he stopped early. Okay, we'll just go back. Yeah,
exactly, Cabot, we'd love to. Hey, we need to go get that.
Course free on Wednesday. We're free on Wednesday. We can probably make Thursday next.
Anyway, we'll send you our dates when we're available for this. Again, we can't wait
to get but that. No, I think that's a really good
point. Know, with Jerry, he did kind of tough it out with this. And
I thought he kind of held his own. Jerry also, by the way, got closest
to the pin on one of the holes, which was the most ridiculous.
Yeah. If you remember, it was not a very well struck.
No, but I have a theory on that. I have a theory on that. Like
hole in ones and shit like that happens from
not always super great golf shots. Oh, totally. Because you got
to get it like. Running like a putt sometimes to go in. And so, yeah,
it's like Jerry hit one to a foot on a
190 1 yd par three that carried 108
yards. Now, here's the other thing. He let his girlfriend shout out to
Carol. She was with her. She was with him, and she was awesome. They're
both super nice and great. Again, canadian people.
She knocked in this putt. That was amazing. All right, so then we have Jerry
Carrey, and then as we're kind of making our. And there are holes out there,
I will say for Pine barons, if you remember, there are a lot of holes
that, look, you can kind of tell that those are absolutely the
same holes that were there. That was what Shepard was
very like. I don't know. He was like, they're all
different. I was like, no, they're not. No, not at. Like, a lot of them
are not the same, but
they're the same. Right. They're super,
Kyle. But they left the cool holes. Exactly. I thought Kyle did a really good
job with. I'll put excerpts of the interview we
had with him on the podcast here. I'll mix some of these in. But I
thought he did a really good job keeping the
essence of a lot of those marquee holes. Like, at least I say
marquee. They were my favorite. They were the ones that I remembered the most. So
you had mentioned the wide world or the shells world
of what the fuck they call. I think it's wonderful world of golf. Wonderful world
of golf. It's like 2002 or three. I tried to watch
it. It was Phil and somebody. It was Phil and Tom's, I believe.
I don't know if that's right. Yeah, we got to find that. Yeah, we got
fat. Check that. But it was awesome
because I just remember there's one hole in
particular which we can just talk about now. So number
15 is my favorite. Yeah. 15 is the
short guy. Yeah. Again, for all of
our Tampa people or anyone that's played worldwoods in the past. Awesome hole you get
up there, depending on what your tea box looks like, depending on where you're playing.
If you're playing the dit Yama stick or you're playing the dit Yama teas. What
kind of citrus was it? All the tangerines. The tangerine. The way ups
tangerines is probably like a part three. Yeah. Tangerines are. We played it from
258, I remember. Was that it? We played it from
258. And there's only one tea box back. Yeah. Adjusted
258. Yes. I'm going to put this in the
YouTube. Please subscribe to our YouTube because
I'm going to put a picture of the hole. And it's
just so cool the way it is because, again, we're in the middle of nowhere.
Brooksville. It's just all waste area world
was always. But. But he kept a lot of the essence of that hole, and
it's an elevated t box. And then you can go left, you can lay
up left, and then it's a real easy approach. Again, real short hole.
Or you can take the right version and you got to clear.
Now, before I remember worldwoods, you actually had to clear some water and
stuff. Was there water there this time? I can't remember. I
don't think that in the current iteration there's any water. Yeah, I think,
yeah, it used to be a little bit more challenging if you took
it right. Basically, you can hit, like, a short iron
way left, and then flip a wedge. Or you can physically
try to drive the green. You can't miss right. That's kind of what you
did. You're in the weeds. If you miss right of
anything, you can kind of miss Long, but you definitely can't miss right.
So if you take the green on, you've got to physically land the ball, like,
basically on the green or just long. Yeah. If you do, then it's like
you make birdie. Yeah. That was one
where you and shepherd were just a little, like a hair short of the green,
which, I mean. Again, it was high, flew the flag, and lipped out
for eagle. Oh, you did? So you were on the other side of the green.
Or wait, I thought you were short of the. I hit the top ten shot
of my entire life, so thank you for remembering it. I was too busy finding
mine over on the right hand side when this. We have video of yours, though,
and you saying, that's not drawing. That's true. I do have that. All right,
I'll put that up on the YouTube, too. It was funny. Yeah. And you're like,
well, it's kind of drawing. And then it tried. It went way right, but no.
And then I flipped a little mean. I got a par on. Yeah, you
saved. I. But
Shepard was short. Okay, so you hit the most amazing shot in your life. Almost
went in, and you got an eagle. That's right. I do remember your eagle now.
That's right. I leapt out for eagle. I just remember abatrosses more than.
Yeah, okay. But that is a really fun hole.
And he kept a lot of the essence there. Yeah. I vividly
remember playing there before and hearing
the last time I played it, I knew that it was going to be sold
and it was going to get redesigned, and I was like, I hope that they
keep this hole the same. They made it
different, but not worse. They made it better, and it's still there,
so that makes me happy. Yeah. And then the one before that one, actually,
14 is pretty cool because that's a
par five. You can go left or right. I
always went right. So, like, you hit a drive and then you can actually go
up the right side and you have an elevated shot into
the green. Like a really cool green there. Almost like a postage stamp
or like what most people do, and I know you guys did. You can go
left, and that's probably even an easier shot. I
was just all over the place off the tee, so I had to. Play that
right side. But anyway. But anyway, that's also a cool hole. And I felt like
that looked a lot different just because of the lack of trees, but it was
still the same. You played it the same and that was fun. So that's cool.
So the other one that I'll call out is 16. So that was
your favorite one, right? Par three. Yes. 16 has probably
the wildest green that I've ever seen on a golf
course. I kind of agree.
It has a bowl that kind of funnels everything
towards it. So if you use the
backstop and play the bowl correctly, at least where the pin was, you
have a 1ft putt for Birdie like I did. And if you don't
hit that exact spot, you make a seven
like you and Shepard did. And there's really no in between.
Yeah, because. Exactly. I mean, I hit some bad putts.
Think. But you're right. You also had some good putts, though. That's
just tough. If you're standing in the
middle of that bowl, what is the shelf? The shelf
is at least 4ft tall.
Four and a half feet around you. Like, all around you. I've never
seen. Well, I wonder. They're not always going to put that. They're always not going
to put the flag there. No, but it doesn't. Yeah, that's okay.
If they put it above it, you still have to deal with it. No,
totally. I think it can work out to your benefit. They had a hole in
one on that hole. They did. Because. I think it can work out to your
benefit. Because if you get anywhere near there and you land right, then you can
go around the bowl and it'll kind of feed it down. And who knows? They
had a clown face on it, too. And a windmill. No, they didn't. They should
have some of that. But I think it's kind of cool.
I don't like the gimmicky stuff, and that is a little gimmicky, I will
say. But I also think you can play it and they can position the
flag where it's just a really. I don't mind it.
I'm not ascribing. It's not really like a gimmicky thing where it's like. I don't
enjoy playing it. It's actually kind of interesting and fun. It kind of reminds me
of a very small version. It'd be like a micro
version of streamsong black number nine, where you have that huge
bowl and all that kind of funnels down. It's like that just
shrunk down to like a micro machine level. Yeah. The green itself is not
that massive, but the bowl that you
have to deal with is pretty severe. There was another par
three, though, on the beginning front that has
like a. That's like a baritz hole. That's a template that a lot of people
use. Yeah, well, that par three
number, man, I wish I knew the numbers here.
I don't know the number, but par. Three, so it's like six, seven,
eight or something. Yeah, it's exactly. It's one of those. And I remember
that one actually looks very similar to the old hole, except,
again, the trees and surrounding area look different. But I love
that par three on the original pine barrens because you'd go over
what had that really cool lake in the front of it, and then you can
actually hit it on the right side and it would funnel everything down the left.
So I thought that still. You could still see a lot of that in that
hole. It was a little different. It was shaped a little different, but that was
still a cool hole. I didn't play very well in that
one. Who has the most templates? Does
Palmer have a template that everyone follows? So it's just CB?
No, it's not just CB, but there's. All sorts of
McAllister or what's his name?
Alistair McKenzie. Yeah, I mean, he has some
stuff that people definitely are going to copy, for sure, because he's really good,
by. The way, this episode, panda. So excited because this
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had was the halfway house. Those are
sick. Yeah. So mid round, he passed it a couple of times. We passed it
at least twice. Like on the front. On the back. Yeah, they have this amazing.
I mean, it kind of looks a lot like the lodges that they're building, but
it's all, like, modern. I don't even know what you call it. Like modern farmhousey.
Kind of like really well done. Like, you go inside side, and it's like, oh,
shit. They had beers that we'd never seen before. They had this one creamsicle
beer. I wish I could give a shout out to the
brewery. I mean, it was a local brewery.
Maybe I'll try to put that in our comments, too, so they can sponsor us.
But it was delicious. I kept going back to them, like, hey, do you have
any more? And they're like, no, we don't have any more of those. No, you
drank them all. Yeah, we're giving you everything else. Please leave us alone. They gave
us sandwiches. It was barbecue. Was incredible. Well, that. The other thing. So the
food at the turn, it wasn't like your typical, like, I think
Carol would shout out the concert. You go in there
and they're like, oh, yeah, no, we got this hot dog that's been spinning for
three days. That'd be good for you. And then the bread's got mold on it,
but whatever. Shout out concert. We love you. Thanks for having us. But
no, it's like, no, I was actually there. They did have hot dogs. They were
hot dogs? Yeah. Like, really good ones. And then the guy goes,
oh, yeah. Or you could do our barbecue sandwich. And by the way, this barbecue
has been, like, slow roasted or whatever they smoked for the last two days. It
was incredible. And we went in and talked to the guy,
and just the service and the food and everything was just phenomenal. So that's going
to be great. So then after that,
the rest of the course, just in general, I thought,
it's still really early. A lot of the vegetation needs to still grow in,
like, the stuff that they just planted. And it's going to be
spectacular.
And then I think it's going to be an amazing. For a
guy's golf trip, it's going to be whoever,
listen to this. If you don't live in the area and you're trying to look
for a good guy's golf trip, especially if it's easier for you to get to
here in Florida, dude, this should be at the top of your list, in my
opinion. This should be definitely up. If you're. If you're
looking to travel, for sure. I mean, you can
make a pretty sick week of fly
into Tampa. Fly into. Yeah. You can hit Cabot. You can hit
streamsong and then probably go back to Orlando because
Orlando is better golf than Tampa, but you can hit a lot of sick places,
for sure. Yeah. Where would you go in Orlando? Where would you go play golf
in Orlando? Yeah, you specifically. I like the,
like, I do like the Waldorf. I mean, Orange County national is.
I mean, and by the way, if you guys would have us out there, I
could easily edit this out. They had a live event. Well, they did.
But to me, I've played Orange County. I used to live in Orlando.
Shout out College park. Shout out all my I four cup guys.
I love a lot of courses in Orlando. The Orange County national, to me,
was hit or miss on.
Not quality, but the condition. It's a
factory. It is a factory. They have a lot of play out there. They play
a fuck ton of golf. And they've had Q school out there a bunch. I
know. I mean, it's a great track. I don't know. I'm not trying to
knock them because their tracks are awesome out there. With Panther,
what do they have? Panther. Oh, crooked cat. Crooked cat.
Yeah. Crooked cat. Yeah. The Waldorf's good.
There's like the four Seasons. There's a Ritz course. There's lots of good golf
in Orlando. There's a ton of amazing. The private courses in Orlando are amazing.
Like, you got Lake Nona, you got. Some of the private courses are just.
Yeah, so, I mean, I think all in all, it was just an incredible experience.
So then afterwards, they had an amazing food truck
situation. So their food trucks are great. They had all kinds of different
brewery, craft beers, really
eclectic stuff, like cornhole. It's just a really fun
vibe. Like a really fun, down to earth. I don't think that was just for
media day. They're going to have those food trucks there. They're going to be
there for the guests there, which is awesome.
And then that's right next to the short courses. So then that's kind of leads
you right out there. I think the rate for the course that we played.
Isn't that insane either? Well,
yeah, I think it's like 160 right now, but I think that could be because
it's so new. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe not. I hope they kind of
keep it closer to that. Yeah, I don't ever like
$500 golf courses. No. I mean, no, not at all. And
hopefully we'll have some resident rates. But I think for me,
the overall consensus is just. I
think it's got some growing in to do. But you can
tell it's going to be absolutely spectacular. You can tell to me, in
my opinion, I think it's going to be better than streamsong. Very
comparable. I love stream song. I'm not a huge. I'll just say
it. Streamsong. You haven't had us out. Cabot did. That's true. Have us out,
dude. Change my mind. But I've played black a dozen times and it's. Black's my
least favorite, though. Yeah, me too. I love red and blue. Why do you keep
playing it, then? Well, I mean, I'll still play. No,
no, it's still a great chorus. I'm just saying for the expensive, that's
usually an expensive know. And I don't like. I don't
like spending a lot of money, but I mean, if I'm going to spend a
lot of money, then I'd rather play blue or red, honestly. And I'm usually playing
it in the summer to kind of save a little bit of money. And it
just gets so hot out there. It is. And that's a
man, like, you're beat to shit after that. And then you're like, you get in
your car and you're like, God damn, I got to drive back to Tampa.
Yes. It's not easy to get to. It's so much easier to get to
know. I do have to pay the caddy, though. You do. Because of PGA. I
don't pay old memorial. I don't pay streamsong. I don't pay anywhere.
It's crazy, dude, get your shit done. I just need to get my shit
together. What would it take? What would you take? Someone like me, you know
where my swings at? I'm a five, like a four and
a half. What would it take for me?
Tell me the exact process. For me to get my PGA card. You got to
pass a pat, which is you got to shoot, like,
7777-7878 it depends on the course
in the same day. That's the one. Kind of got to play five rounds in
one day. What are you talking about? No, you got to pay 36 holes in
a day. It's 15 above the slope or the course.
Dude, I could totally do that. Then what? I take a test or, like, three
years of bookwork. They stagger so that you
can't just, like, I'll just do it on a weekend. Like, you have to do
it. Go to a seminar. Do it. Go to a seminar. Do it. Go to
a seminar. But I could do. Yeah, it's open to everybody. Yeah.
Anybody with checkbook. Dude, that could be a really good hook for
the show. Is like, Brandon becomes a PGA of America
member. Yeah, take. Take. You guys on a journey. I got two kids. Can
a regular guy get his PGA card? What do you call
that? PGA professional? Just say, be a PGA of America member.
Okay, PGA of America. You do get a physical card, but I always feel like
card insinuates like I'm a tour player, which,
yeah, if I'm drunk enough, then, yeah, I am. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, if you're
drunk enough. Dude, when I tell people about you on the show, I'm like, yeah,
I want my co host. He's a PGA tour card. That happens
all the time when you're like, yeah, PGA member. They're like, you play with
Rory, and. It'S like, yeah, dude, all the time. How many high noons have I
had? Yeah, I've had, like, ten. And I'm like, yeah, and he's sick.
Yeah, I love Rory. He's a different level than us,
but, I mean, we're all kind of, like, we're all good golfers. No, I fix
slices, bro. Yeah, you're slice fixer. And then would I actually be
able to go give lessons? Yeah, shut the fuck. I mean, if
somewhere hires you, you can play free golf for damn near forever. That's
all I could. So I could do that. Yeah. All right. The only
place I've paid money to play golf in in the last, like, five years is
Carolwood. No way, dude. Because I pay a membership, dude. But
it's a discounted membership. Hopefully I didn't pay an initiation. Oh, that's
good. All right. All right. So that
shout out concert. Shout out concert. Dude, I got to be honest with you,
man. I still pay them monthly, though. Anyway, we'll do
another episode on my thoughts on concert. We should review
all the concerts. There's actually a lot of courses now.
Yeah, there are. I think we can play them for
free ish. It's 25. You pay the cart fee so it's included. Oh, yeah. We
should do that for sure. Yeah, we played the one in Amelia.
We played the one in a couple of them,
like near Ponte. Pontavidra. Thank you. Yeah, you don't like
that one, do you? Well, I don't like saying that word. I can't say
that sounds go.
So. Yeah, man, I think overall, thanks for having us.
Thanks for having us, Cabot. It was really a special day.
You guys got a lot of special things going on there. We'd love to go
have us at some of these other courses, dude. We'd love to go check out
some of these. Mean we're going to plan a trip out there anyway. Yeah, we'll
make you a deal, everybody. If you pay for us, we'll come
to. We don't have to pay. We'll come review your golf course. You don't have
to pay anything. And we'll make a podcast about it. We will do a whole
entire podcast like we just did here. And you don't really even have to treat
us all that. You can leave us alone. Just give us a tea time. Yeah,
we'd like us to the first tea. What's the course record? I think cabbage
got a really good model for people to follow with the free towel, the
breakfast spread, the interview with the architect, actor,
the ball marker. And then Jerry Carey coming
in thought, well, they didn't have anything to do with that.
That was us. That was all us. All right. Shout out Jerry Carey. Shout out
to Carol, Jerry's companion. She was
awesome. Shout out to kangaroo. Thanks again for taking the backseat to
Jerry. And thanks, Shepard, for allowing
Panda and I to run shop on you that day. We took lots of money
from him, which I loved. That was amazing. We love doing
that. And then most importantly, of course, shout out all of our
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