I’m with a COO right now who had a manufacturing plant in Sligo. Said he flew in and out of the airport there and that the “terminal” is literally like the Sweetens shed.
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It’s possible that Sligo was legitimately too charming.
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Mr. Pie, I do have a question: Is the birdie game the only money game being played during this season?
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It is. It will ramp up as the season goes on. We weren’t sure how the pairings and stuff were going to work, so we didn’t want to complicate it too much.
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Gotcha. Makes sense. I figured you weren’t doing a match play bracket like in Cali, but unsure if Tilt would be involved in some way.
do a season of Strapped in Austin and bring Tim Faust to the Willie Nelson Pitch n Putt for some sweet, sweet M4A takes
Lahinch is so much more than the course and I believe they stay in Spanish Point, a small little surfing village that between there and Lahinch the town, are truly special. This. Is. Gonna. Be. Sick.
Way more interested in seeing NLU play and breakdown the course than watching the Irish Open last year.
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At a Willie Nelson pitch and putt I was expecting tokes not takes.
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Considering Lahinch is the only Irish links course I have played, today’s episode will probably be my favorite.
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unfortunately, Willie’s decades-long crusade to legalize weed in Texas has been largely unsuccessful
20 minutes
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Hey All,
Many responses I see.
While I understand that the local politics can play a role in how a public municipal golf course gets funded and ran, that didn’t have anything to do with Doonbeg and they didn’t touch on anything there in their video. My concern wasn’t for how if a golf or courses can be impacted by political influences, but rather that their personal views on politics (read: Trump) impacted their assessment of the course and its depiction in their video. They weren’t bothered by political influences of the course itself (like Trump’s course in Aberdeen which I discuss below), rather they were bothered by the fact that Donald Trump owned the course and that they seemingly don’t like Trump as the face of American politics - which has nothing to do with the course itself. DJ’s and Randy’s responses in this video seemed to have little to do with the course, but rather their personal take on the owner and his role in American politics.
Randy - “…I’d probably not have gone there…umm…just personal preference”
DJ - “it just make’s it really hard for this to be such a black and white issue. And It makes it really hard to say “I will never go spend a dollar to support that guy…”…It’s a complex and interesting place, that you’re free to check out or not check out, but this is what it looks like (cue eyeroll & shrug)”
Neil - (in the podcast) “…it immediately clouds my thinking like…wha…its hard to get it out of your mind…when the name is a lighting rod…”
These quotes to me illustrate that their personal views on politics in America, namely Trump’s role as President, and in doing so incorporated their views on a myriad of things unrelated to golf or Doonbeg which influenced their assessment of the property. They say they weren’t inspired at all by the:
- 20th ranked course in Country (Golf Digest - per CelticGolf(Dot)com)
- 6th ranked course (per top100golfcourses(Dot)com) - Tron even points this out in the podcast
- 15th ranked course (per IrishGolfer(Dot)com)
- In DJ’s own words on the podcast he said it was “one of the 50 coolest courses I’ve ever played”. Not something that one would say when they were “uninspired” by the course. Just saying.
I am not lucky enough to own a copy of any of Tom Doak’s Confidential Guide to Golf Courses and don’t know if Doonbeg is included in any of his books, but it would be an interesting point of reference. While I am not saying that if I played there I may not come to the same conclusion and say it doesn’t knock my socks off - I may very well, but its hard to understand how they got to their answer when they don’t really explain it themselves.
To be totally fair, back in the TS Scotland Epsiode 11 (Brora & Coul Links) I thought their conversation and criticism for how the Trump Organization handled its construction work at Trump International Scotland in Aberdeen was completely appropriate. They discussed how the environment was impacted and how they took liberties in its construction that was not intended by the government allowing them to build there. That’s entirely relevant to the story of the course itself and how it would impact future projects in that area. It was worth a good conversation and was fair criticism to which I took zero issue with at all.
There is a big difference in discussing politics that matter to the content that you’re actually creating (i.e., Trump International Scotland) and you not liking a politician and therefore having your personal political lean spread into your content that really has nothing to do with the golf or the course - other than he owns the property. If that’s what was intended and desired by the audience, then I would assume people would want the NLU podcast interviews to start talking about non-golf political matters and getting their guest’s political beliefs on taxes, immigration, social matters, etc. I don’t listen to many of the NLU podcasts, so maybe they do, but the 10-15ish that I have listened to didn’t seem to get in that territory.
Looking forward to the rest of this and future TS seasons.
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Episode 2 Premiere!!!
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America is great because of the freedom of expression it affords us. If the NLU gentlemen want to voice their concerns about a golf course because of the person who owns it, that is fully their choice. If they never want to mention politics, that too is their choice. I KNOW that I would be biased in my evaluation of a golf course if the owner was someone like DJT. Many here couldn’t care less whose name is plastered about.
I guess I’m trying to figure out why you would spend your time and energy to rag on them for the free content they’re producing? It’s sort of like the instagram story discussion in another thread: if you don’t like it, nobody is tying you down and forcing you to watch it. My stomach gets upset by drinking coffee, but I don’t tell others they can’t drink coffee. I just avoid the coffee. Much like you can just avoid that episode of the TS series.
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Can I get a line on what the intro music was? @djpie @MerchCzar @rmattgolden? That was siiiiick
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BREAKING NEWS: MAN’S OTHER OPINIONS INFLUENCE HIS OPINIONS
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There are 3 options.
- they do what they did.
- They dont go. and people ask why, and they say because they didnt want to make it about trump, and then its about trump anyway.
- they go, and tell everyone not to go, because Trump is a dick.
You wouldnt be happy with any of the above, because its clear to me, you see things more politically than any of the NLU guys do. At least publicly anyway.
what evidence do you have of this?
Theyre on record as saying Aberdeen is a great course and you should absolutely go. Clearly the course was very “meh” for the guys, irregardless of ownership, and that came through very clearly.
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lol give it a rest, life isn’t lived in a vacuum.
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CC: @rmattgolden
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