Ride Home Rants
Ride Home Rants
Links, Laughs, and Life Lessons: A Golfer's Roundtable
Grab your clubs and join us for a laid-back journey through the world of golf with host Mike Bono and a lively roundtable of enthusiasts who share their passion, opinions, and occasional wild tangents about the sport that connects generations.
The conversation tees off with lighthearted icebreakers about preferred shower soaps and whether fighting angry deer or a coyote presents the better survival story—setting the relaxed, humorous tone that carries throughout. Matt Landowski introduces his customized golf glove business, Sweet Hand Sports, offering listeners a special discount code (BONO10) for 10% off their purchases.
As the discussion moves to personal golf histories, we discover how childhood experiences shaped each panelist's relationship with the game. From neighborhood courses where they snuck onto the sixth hole to emotional connections formed during family challenges, these origin stories reveal golf's unique ability to create lasting memories and relationships across decades.
The surprising revelation that the Midwest contains more golf courses than any other U.S. region sparks a geographical exploration of favorite courses, from local community gems to breathtaking destination resorts in the Carolinas. The panel passionately defends golfers as legitimate athletes, breaking down the complex coordination required throughout the entire body to execute even basic golf movements—with one panelist boldly asserting that driving a golf ball straight requires more variables than shooting a basketball.
Tiger Woods' transformative impact on golf viewership emerges as a pivotal moment that changed the sport forever, while YouTube creators and social media personalities like Bob Does Sports are credited with bringing fresh energy and younger audiences to a traditionally formal game. The conversation wraps with a spirited defense of miniature golf as a legitimate entry point to the sport, complete with the surprising revelation of professional putt-putt tournaments.
Whether you're a dedicated golfer or someone who hasn't picked up a club since childhood, this episode offers a refreshing perspective on a timeless sport that con
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I got a great show for us today and a round table filled with three great guests. We're going to talk all things golf. I'm going to let them introduce themselves here First and foremost. We got to get him in here first because he is one of the great sponsors to the show with Sweet Hand Sports and Lando, if you want to tell everybody about Sweet Hand Sports after that. But I also need the answer to these two questions, and it is is Old Spice soap the best shower soap? And number two would you rather fight two really mad deer or one pissed off coyote?
Speaker 2:hey everyone, matt Landowski. Here I'm going to go with dove being a better soap than Old Spice. I'm a dove guy, but, and I'd probably rather fight the coyote because it would be a hell of a lot better story than Old Spice. I'm a dove guy. I'd probably rather fight the coyote because it'd be a hell of a lot better story.
Speaker 1:at the end We'll let you get a little shameless plug in here with the golf gloves there now at Sweet Ant Sports, as we're doing the golf show. If you want to tell people how you got started with Sweet Ant Sports, go ahead.
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Speaker 1:Great, I've tried out the pair, the complimentary pair that you sent me. They're super comfortable, super breathable. I'll tell everyone that. And if you go there, don't forget to use the special code for the show Bono10. It'll save you 10% off of those gloves too, as well, for sure. But let's get to the other two guests here. Been on all the time here Seems like on the roundtable. We're going to just start making him a staple of the roundtables, and that's Marsco.
Speaker 3:How's it going? Christopher Marsco, hailing from Allen, ohio. This evening, warren, let's see, I use Head Shoulders Old Spice shampoo conditioner For that co-op and I'm pretty consistent with it. I'll say it's up there. I'm like you, lando, I'm a dove guy A dove for men, I don't know. I dig Old Spice. It's a good product. And then I'm struggling with this. I need to know how big the deer are, because I'm short but I got a lot of weight I could throw around. So if I could break some legs, deer's kind of screwed at that point, coyote might be able to get you and stagger you a little bit. So I'm going to fight the deer. Be able to get you and stagger you a little bit, so I'm going to fight the deer.
Speaker 1:Okay, these are wonderful, fitting questions to start the round tables but last guest story what's going on, guys?
Speaker 4:Bill story here coming out of Cleveland, ohio. The these questions, man, I love them. Getting going as far as Old Spice, I feel like Marthco is kind of taking my answers here. The Head Shoulders is kind of the go-to for me up here. I don't have the collab with Old Spice, so we'll go ahead and say Old Spice is not the best one and then, similar to Marthco, I think I'm going with the Deers. I don't know what's going to be a cooler story, but never really seen a deer trying to attack anyone. So, um, someone gets it on video. Gotta be a little bit funny. So we'll go with the deer gotcha, no worries.
Speaker 1:And uh, I'm gonna disagree with all of y'all when it comes to, uh, the body wash and the soap. I am an exclusive old spice guy. I don't know if that has anything to do with my age or anything like that, but Old Spice all the way. I don't have the collab with Head Shoulders. I do use Head Shoulders too as well, but now I'm going to have to get the collab to just complete the cycle and fight it up top and on the bottom. That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 1:As for two really mad deer or one pissed off coyote, I'm going to go deer because I hit a deer a couple months ago with my car and it really pissed me off. So I want to just take more of them out. That's really the only reason I'm fighting the deer. I mean, I grew up around coyotes and they're mean sumbitches. I don't think I'd fare too well against that anyway. So we're going to go deer on that one for sure, and shout out to Fitty for those questions Again, the wonderful manager of the podcast.
Speaker 1:Those came from him and I think we're not even going to get into it, but I have to mention it because I think it's the 100 men versus the one gorilla trend that's all over social media where that question came from, uh, but I digress on that. But we're going to get into this here and we're going to talk all things golf on this show, with uh spring in full effect of more people hitting the courses. Now figured, why not? Let's talk about a golf. I love to get out there and hit the links anytime I can. But, lando, we're going to start with you. How long have you been golfing?
Speaker 2:Golfing I say on and off since I've been a little kid but it wasn't really my main sport. But I hit the driving range, go putt-putt for fun and stuff yeah.
Speaker 1:I driving range, go putt, putt, you know, for fun and stuff. So, yeah, yeah, I've golfed since I was. I was little um, parents actually grew up in a little subdivision that had a little nine hole par three course like right across the street from where we grew up. So I would go out there, sneak on the like sixth hole where, which was across from the house, growing up you know, get a little chip in practice and a little putting, but yeah, so that kind of started it off. But I actually even took a golf class when I was at Bethany. I mean it counted as my PE credit. I didn't even think in college I would need a PE credit but apparently I did and got to get up you know 8 o'clock in the morning and go golf in college. Like you really can't beat that. And it wasn't a sport I got graded for it. Uh, but Marsco, what about you? How long have you been golfing?
Speaker 3:So mine has a little uh heartstring attached to it. So I started golfing, actually in uh fifth grade. My dad was uh late in his battle with cancer. At that point my cousin asked me they called me Butch. They said Butch, what do you want to do? Let's get out, let's go do something. I'm like everybody in my family golfs. I want to go golfing For my first time out. It was something I fell in love with. If it wasn't in the fall during high school, I would have loved to golf and played football. Unfortunately, given those two options, I picked football. But you know, I've been golfing since fifth grade, so I was 05. I've been golfing for about 20 years now. You'd think I'd be a lot better. It's a damn shame, but 20 years.
Speaker 1:I hear you on that. I got a terrible head of cap. It's awful, they just know. All right, bono can putt his ass off, but he's going to be no help until we get to the green, if there's any type of scramble going on.
Speaker 3:You played a lot of putt-putt. I'm backwards from everyone. Everyone likes the tee box. I like when we get close to the green 150,. In's my sweet spot. It's an adventure getting that tap point done, oh 100%.
Speaker 1:I have a terrible slice. I actually have to aim the complete opposite direction just to play the slice and the hook that I had to hit the middle of the fairway. It's ridiculous. But Story, what about you?
Speaker 4:yeah, some of these guys started when I was, I would say, pretty young, maybe 10 years old or so, somewhere in that ballpark. Uh used to get out with my grandpa, my pops kind of brought me out to uh standball a little nine hole course in youngstown, standball, uh golf course out there by the city and uh probably only played there until I was maybe in high school a little bit later and ended up playing with some friends and took a little bit of a break. Didn't really play all that much through college and stuff and then COVID time I think, as a lot of other people definitely picked it up and been playing quite a bit over the past four or five years. So that's been kind of my adventure with golf Started young, took a little break and been playing a lot lately.
Speaker 1:Can't complain. I wish I could get out more than what I do. For sure, schedule's just not allowing it right now, but I used to golf a lot, especially through high school, with my buddies. It was just something to do on the weekends and in the summer, when we had nothing to do and there was no football practice or anything like that, we'd get out and we'd golf almost every weekend, but a story that'll stay with you. What has been your favorite course that you've ever played on?
Speaker 4:That's a tough one We'll actually go with kind of nicest and probably favorite. It was a course called Shenandoah. It was up at a kind of casino resort up in upstate New York, kind of like a really nice Lynx golf course, but the most expensive and nicest course I've ever played on. I've been to quite a few around kind of northeast Ohio area and definitely got some favorites around here, but that was the nicest one up there. Like I said, I think it's called Turning Stone Resort up in kind of upstate New York area. They have four or five really really nice courses but we played the Shenandoah one and really enjoyed it that day.
Speaker 1:I can't complain about that. But Marcio, what about you?
Speaker 3:Well, this is going to sound so Homer for me if you're in the northeast Ohio area. But right here in Warren, two come to mind the Lakes, avalon Lakes, right here in Warren, ohio, wonderful course. Got to know somebody to get on. But same with the Lake Club in Poland, beautiful course. I feel blessed to even get to have gone there, because if they're watching me they'd probably not let me back. I have done pretty good, but those two are two beautiful courses right here, avalon and the Lake.
Speaker 1:Club. Okay, lando, what about you?
Speaker 2:I'd say that it was last summer, last time I golfed I think it was at a bachelor party and we were up at Hillcrest Country Club up in Pennsylvania and right down the road from me, so that was probably nicest place I've ever golfed or anything like that.
Speaker 1:so okay, for me it has to be, of course, near my hometown in Wellsburg, west Virginia, highland Springs, just up the road from Bethany. There's Lando. I don't know if you've ever been out there for any golf tournaments with Bethany or anything like that for the football team. I know.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the Bethany Golf Outing every year. Man, yeah, that's down there, yep, yep, anthony golf outing every year.
Speaker 1:Man, that's down there. Yep, yep, yeah, I played in it one year, uh, with my uncle, and, um, they didn't want me back after uh, after that one scramble showing, so, uh, but played there a lot and it's one of my favorite favorite courses that I've ever played on. Before, uh, ogilby, up there in Wheeling, west Virginia, also up there, but, yeah, I got to say Hot Springs takes the cake and Jesus, yeah, as we could have my never fails in this. In this household, people know when I'm recording, like my son as you can hear him in the background just screaming for no reason, like I'm not recording a show right now. Love you, father, love you too. Anyways, lando, where the hell was I? All right? What's your non-favorite course you've ever played? So what do you have? A course that you dislike the most?
Speaker 2:I'm not picky man. When I go out I just like to have fun and, you know, drink some beers and smoke some cigars and you know it really doesn't matter to me. So I'm not going to turn away a good time, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I really don't think I have a least favorite course out there. I'm just out there to spray some balls all over the course and try to be sober by the drive home. You know that's the main goal, marsco. What about you? You got a least favorite course.
Speaker 3:Two of them. They're not open anymore. Neither of them exist. But Walnut Run in Cortland, ohio, three minutes from my house Real narrow, not a very open course, very pretty, has its spots, but when it was open you had to be able to keep it straight. I needed the axe with me when I golfed there. And then, uh, another one was actually where I went the first time I went golfing. Uh, but uh, good old ash hills, also in courtland. We're saturated with them, not too far from tam, or when people in the mahoning valley are familiar, but uh, that was like putting on, uh, the grass in your backyard. Those greetings had a little to be desired. So I'd say those two Neither exist anymore, probably with good reason. No, I'm just kidding. God bless those people. I wish they were open. You can't have too much good golf around here.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 4:Stoy. What about you? I don't think I can say a least favorite course. I love the game, Love getting out at every course. It's challenging. I just love kind of getting out with some buddies hacking the ball around and doing whatever. But yeah, I'm going to leave it at that. I don't even want to throw some names out there. I love it. Love playing. No matter what course I'm on, I'll find a good time out there. I love it. Love playing. No matter what kind of course I'm on, I'll find a good time out there. I don't want to go with one here.
Speaker 1:I have to say one Now that I think about it. It's Brook Hills in Wellsburg, west Virginia. It's a little par 3 course that is deceptively hard for a par 3 course. One of those courses is like oh, it's a par 3. I'll get a little bit of t-box, get maybe get a chip or two in here and I'll work on my putting game. No, I've lost more golf balls at that course than any other course that I've ever played on. Like it's. It's terrible, um, that greens or it's. It's like putting on ice like're so fast, no matter where you're at you'll, you'll hook out a two foot. Give me putt, it's just. It's one of those courses that makes you like I'm never golfing again. It's one of those because it just it ruins your average Uh and uh story. We'll keep with you here now. Um, are you a Walker on the golf course or are you a cart guy?
Speaker 4:Card guy all day. I know you think I've walked up for 18. Ever it didn't play. Uh and I score nothing. Um, walk nine, maybe a handful of times, but uh, put me in a cart. I like having, uh, having some space or a place to throw some of my stuff and have the bag sitting there. Hey, car path only as well, give me a cart, let me drive around the course. I feel like that's half the fun of it is getting out driving and enjoying yourself 100%, Marcio.
Speaker 1:what about you? Are you walking or are you getting in that cart?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I used to be a walker, did a couple youth leagues since I fell in love with the sport and they made you walk during those. But I can't lie as soon as I was able to start driving, I started driving, and that's the way to consume golf, in my opinion. Now, if I was 170 pounds and in better shape, maybe I'd tell you that walking 18 holes has changed your life once a week. But I'm a cart guy now for sure.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Lando, what about you?
Speaker 2:I like flying around on the cart man. It's just fun to me, you know. And yeah, I wouldn't say I'm too much of a walker anymore.
Speaker 1:No, I'm definitely not. I got bad knees, a bad back. Give me a cart and I'm happy it's just coming with age. Marcio, you said you were in fifth grade in 2005. I was getting ready to graduate high school, so thank you for making me feel way older than I already am. So appreciate that Absolutely. But cart all day. You got a space for your cooler full of beverages. You got the bag. You don't got to carry that around. Yeah, I'm a cart. You can mess with your buddies, you know, put it in reverse, hear that beeping sound right in their backswing, just to kind of help your score a little bit if you're under a little bit, you know, but it's all good fun. With that being said, lando, what state do you think has the best courses?
Speaker 2:I would say if you don't mind the heat, I would say Florida or Arizona, somewhere where it's always hot out, it probably has the best courses. But fun fact, the area that has the most golf courses that I found out in the United States is the Midwest. That's true, yeah, which I was very shocked.
Speaker 1:It's just like overpopulated with golf courses, you would think it would be in a warmer climate, would have more golf, like in the South where you probably could golf year-round. I would think those would be overpopulated Midwest. That's just shocking to me, something you've got to shut down in the winter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my buddy actually sent me the whole map of all the golf courses in the United States. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll say this to the listeners out there Even if you don't like the content with golf, you can say you learned something today. There you go. We're here to educate. We're going to educate, that's right, that's right, man. I know, marantz, we're going to educate everybody here.
Speaker 3:Marisco. What about you? Sorry, my son was screaming in the background. What was?
Speaker 1:the question what state do you think has the best golf courses?
Speaker 3:So I really enjoy getting to go down. I have a couple buddies down there now. I'm a little mix of north carolina but mainly south carolina. Uh, a lot of courses on the intercoastal waterway. I just think there's a lot of kind of breathtaking scenes in there. Um, you know, if I'm getting on the plane, I heard arizona's got great golf. I've never really golfed out west but, uh, I really enjoy going down to the Carolinas. It's a little more of my speed with the temperature. Also, florida's a little bit. I've golfed down in Florida too, but that is a scorcher down there. Oh yeah, I'm more of a Carolina climate kind of guy.
Speaker 1:I can't argue with that Carolina. Climate is just perfect. I've never been out west so I can't say anything about golf out west. I don't know. Yeah, can't argue with Carolina, but Stoy, what about you?
Speaker 4:Yeah, somewhat similar. I haven't actually golfed all that many states. I don't think I've never been able to play out in Arizonazona. Um, did play one time down in myrtle beach area, had a good time down there, and I think obviously, carolina, florida, arizona, gonna be your, your top states, but I'll throw out, uh, michigan is one. I played up in, upstate michigan. Um, kind of all around the lakes and stuff. There's some really beautiful courses up there, hey, michigan. I don't know how they got so I hate to give them any type of props here, but they got some beautiful golf courses nonetheless up there, maybe a little bit of a sleeper one that maybe people don't think about all that much.
Speaker 1:You're good, as Marsco has his Michigan hoodie on today. We can't throw the shade when we can, for sure we can't. We gotta throw the shade when we can, for sure. I don't like either squad I. I we'll just get that little plug in there I. I dislike Ohio State a little bit more than I do Michigan. Yeah, we, we, we all see it, marsco. We all see the Michigan hoodie. Yeah, for sure, I figured you were going to come.
Speaker 3:First mister asks you when you need him. Right, come on, man. You got no backup. I need the vampire coach right now. I need a teammate.
Speaker 1:He couldn't make it. We actually wanted him to be on. He was like man, I don't know much about golf, I can't get him out of golf. Oh man, With all that kind of being said, Stoy, do you think that golfers are athletic?
Speaker 4:absolutely. Yeah, I mean it depends what athletic I think you're talking about, but, um, I think it's a sport that you're just able to play all the way. You mean 80, 90 years old. Sometimes you see guys out there so, um, it's not, you know, your traditional running, jumping sport, but a lot of athletic movement to it. Uh, you got to be able to to kind of bend and torque and, uh, swing it the right way. So I'll say, uh, for sure, especially some of these big time, um, golfers on the tour and stuff, they're, they're definitely athletes, they're working out, they're, they're grinding their craft out on the court. So I would definitely say, yeah, maybe some more than others, but uh, definitely an athlete, uh, getting out there playing yeah, I mean, you're not wrong with the being able to do it into your, into your later years.
Speaker 1:Um, a couple years before, uh, my mom's real dad passed away. He, he lost his sight but he was still able to go to the driving range and he would still hit a ball straighter than I could. Um, and it was, it's just that muscle memory that he had from golfing a guy that had his pro card. So, yeah, he was an avid golfer, loved the sport and, yeah, even without being able to see, as long as you told him, hey, you're lined up behind the ball, he was gripping it and ripping it and it was still straighter than anything I've ever hit in my life. To me that's a little bit of an athlete and athleticism right there in my personal opinion. But, marsco, what do you think?
Speaker 3:Oh, 1,000%. I'll argue there's more variables that go into hitting a drive straight down the fairway than there is to shoot a basketball. All the way from your feet down to you know keeping your neck and head steady, focused on the ball. I mean it requires a coordination of just about every level of your body and you know muscles that you know. It's like swimming in a way. You're using muscles golfing, that you don't really use at any other time. It's not your traditional uh athlete. I think people think about it, but yeah, you break down what a golfer does and goes through. It's a extreme amount of coordination. It's really impressive when you think about it 100.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you brought in the swimming analogy, as a former swimmer myself, so you know people don't give that the credit they deserve. It deserves Very well. So very demanding. A hundred percent, lando. What about you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to say, yeah, every sport's different and, like, every sport has this different type of athletes. And I'm going to say that I tell you what one of the best athletes I think that are out there right now is at the Shambo, and I mean he's like the Barry Bonds of golf man. That dude teeing off is like it don't even look real, you know. So yeah, I mean, it's a mental, you gotta be mentally focused, you gotta stretch all that good stuff. So a little bit of power. So, yeah, a little bit of power. So yeah, that's it. It definitely takes some athletic abilities to, uh, golf man.
Speaker 1:A hundred percent. I agree with all that. Uh.
Speaker 2:With that being said, Lando, with you watching DeChambeau, you watching golf on TV, no, but I watched a little bit of the masters the last day and uh, um, and I tell you what, man, I was hoping Rory was going to do it, he pulled it out and yeah, man, I was pretty pumped at the end of it all. So that's a pretty classy tournament, oh absolutely the Masters.
Speaker 1:that's one of the few that I'll watch. Like I'll watch the last day, I won't watch the early rounds.
Speaker 2:um yeah, I'll channel surf back and forth yeah, it's different to watch it in, like football or something. You know it's just relaxing and uh, but it still has that like towards the end it has that intensity, you know, kind of like baseball, where you're still sitting on the edge of your seat but you're you know what I mean Like you're waiting for that moment.
Speaker 1:It was like this past year where you know it was coming down to the last couple of holes and you know it was real close with the scores. You know it adds a certain level of excitement to it, but glad to see Rory pulled it out. But Marcio, what about you? Are you watching golf on TV?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I'm good for about six, seven tournaments a year. I make sure I watch all four majors. Love watching the Waste Management Open out in Arizona. I think it's kind of cool seeing a golf crowd like that, especially how it's. That's a party. Yeah, it looks great. I'd love to go down there sometime. I mean the camera. I think assuming that on TV probably doesn't do it all justice, but it does paint a nice portrait Like the Masters, but in a different category of beautiful, if you will.
Speaker 1:Not as majestic, but Like the Masters, but with Happy Gilmore sprinkled into it.
Speaker 3:Perfect analogy, yeah. And then you know, normally I'd see them playing at TPC Sawgrass or I'd normally catch another random weekend, one that you know, for whatever reason, I'll have some interest in. But yeah, as I get older and enjoy just relaxing, golf's perfect to put on TV. Like Lando said, very baseball-esque in a way. It's just kind of, you know, you pace it out and it's enjoyable to consume at its own speed. I think that's what's great about it too. No clock, I mean, it's a, and you can play 90. You can play when you're five, I think, and I don't know if he gets this in the question, but I'm going to throw it out there real quick.
Speaker 3:I think Tiger Woods, especially for people around my age, I'm sure a little earlier, he kind of changed that and made it a lot more popular, and I think that it's kind of taken on a life of its own. I think it's in a fever pitch with popularity, Even with a couple of those guys going to live not really being in the scene as much. I think golf's in a good place. Viewership is like it has never been.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't argue with Tiger Woods' fact that you just said there. I mean, I feel like once he came into the golf scene and started winning majors, the whole aspect of golf kind of changed and it became way more entertaining. The viewership went way up to see what he could do. I think some of these young guys like the DeChambeaus and that are kind of bringing that back. Rory's still kind of hanging around bringing it back. I'd love to see Ricky Fowler do a little bit more. I just love seeing what color he's going to wear and match everything from the hat down to the shoes and the socks and everything like that. Phenomenal bright orange colors normally most of the time, but you know it's phenomenal to see that. But uh story, what about you? We'll get to you on this when you're watching golf on tv yeah, good, good question.
Speaker 4:and as far as tournaments on tv, um, I'll be a sunday watcher, you know, uh, when it gets down to the nitty-gritty time, occasionally, maybe a Saturday doing some chores, just have it on the TV, kind of take a quick glance at that. But one thing I want to kind of give a shout-out to I've been getting into a lot lately is YouTube golf. So not really on TV, but more so on YouTube. I think I don't know if many people know, but, um, like Bob does sports, grant Horvat, even some of the new uh, even some of the uh the pros, like Phil Mickelson, um, like Lando mentioned to Shambo, um, they've been kind of getting into it. They put out, um, a lot of kind of cut it up and they kind of have fun with it as well. So I like watching some YouTube golf every once in a while. So a little bit different than, I guess, the traditional watching the tournaments, but I kind of go about it that way watch those, and I have fun with it that way as well.
Speaker 1:I will say I think you're right. Social media, and especially TikTok, is helping for golf. I see Bob does sports all the time. Coming across my TikTok page it's always him golfing. It's just interesting to hear what's going to come out of his mouth. I think most of the time is what I'm watching it more for as a comedian. I think a lot of the stuff he says and the comedic timing of it and getting a little bit of golf content in there too as well, I think it's pretty entertaining.
Speaker 4:I think it's changing the golf game, really bringing the consumers at a younger age to it. It's a serious sport, similar to baseball. It kind of has an integrity to it, but you get some of the comedians in there and it's bringing a little bit of a different crowd in and getting people, I think, interested in the game that might not have been before.
Speaker 1:I mean, I was even invested in. It was a whole long thing, I think it took like two weeks, but DeChambeau trying to hit a hole in one over top of his house by chipping Like at first I was like, okay, this is going to be quick, you know, and it was like 14 days I was. I kept finding myself going back to his place. Okay, Did you do it today? Like it, like, like what happened, you know, and I found myself being invested in that. So, yeah, I can, I can see definitely changing the social media. Social media changes fricking everything nowadays. It seems like so, um, that being said, story uh, is there any golfer? Uh, and if you do, know who's the best golfer that you personally know?
Speaker 4:Oh man if you do know who's the best golfer that you personally know. Oh man, I play with a whole bunch of guys that aren't too good, so this is kind of a tough question. I mean, we're all fine. Um, one of the best ones that I play with a lot. His name is mike minnie. Just one of one of my buddies. He's probably maybe a five handicapper. So I have some good rounds out there, but I I don't get to play with too many great golfers. I kind of keep it that way. Uh, we're all kind of mediocre out there. Have fun, don't take it too serious. So um, can't say I have, uh, really anyone that's a real good golfer that I played with okay, mars, okay Marsco, what about you?
Speaker 3:When you say no, is it someone that I'm going golfing with or someone that I used to get range balls for?
Speaker 1:On a personal level, this is a pretty question, so you take this.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go with the range balls one because I think it's pretty cool. Jason Kokrak Okay. He's been on the tour a little bit. I worked at the Trumbull Country Club for several years, you know, through college and even a little bit after, and he'd always come to TCC and so it was really nice, real cordial, but he always had to be careful being beyond the driving range because the net didn't really apply to him, so you kind of had to be on the lookout. So I'm going to say Jason Cogre, okay.
Speaker 1:Not mad at that at all, Lando. What about you?
Speaker 2:Well, a lot of my buddies golf, so I don't want to say any specific names because if I say one over the other they're going to get ticked. So I'm going to go with my brother on this one, because he's been playing for the past like three years and he's one of the best athletes I know and honestly I told him he's missing his calling. He's hitting the ball like 300 yards plus every time like dead on. You know, shout out to him, man, he's really working on his game.
Speaker 1:Hopefully one day we'll see another Lando on TV Getting the links.
Speaker 2:I hope he's less than an inch man.
Speaker 1:I got you man One I personally know. I grew up with him. He's been golfing forever. His name is Jared Simpson Golfed with him a little bit. Him and his dad now own Gordon's Office Supplies in Steubenville Ohio. But dude was phenomenal. I think he was like a four or five handicap four-year letterman at golf in high school. So I didn't see many freshmen making the varsity golf team. I mean so that that to me I mean he's like he's gone all over the place golfing. So I mean he's definitely the best one that I know. I hope he listens to this and he gets to hear it. I'll give him and his shop a shameless plug here on the show for sure. But, landon, we're going to round out the show here a little bit. It's right up, man, we've got to have a fun way to end the show. Putt-putt golf.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Putt-putt golf. I'm going to say my favorite place is the putt shack down in the Strip District.
Speaker 1:Putt-putt golf. Never been to that one at the Strip District, but but gonna put it on the list. The ones I gotta hit.
Speaker 3:Uh, marsco, what about you is putt-putt golf one thousand percent, and I attribute putt-putt golf to making real golf as enjoyable as it is for me, because, because I can putt, a lot of other people struggle with that. It helps me keep. Coming back to golf, but, uh, we had a course in born on our 422. Uh, there are three different uh 18 hole courses in the one spot, but they used to have a uh, us national uh competition there where players would come in from this circuit all over and they'd all compete there. This is back in the 80s and they televised it on who knows what channel the espn8, the ocho but uh, it was a pretty historic place and then, uh, over this past winter, it actually, uh, they had to sell it and, uh, it was turned into a car dealership parking lot, sadly so I don't have a home to play putt-putt anymore. I felt like I got to play some of the most legit putt-putt you could have anywhere. But yeah, putt-putt's great to play it in any sport or any age, all right.
Speaker 1:Stoy, what about you?
Speaker 4:I'll say I have to agree. I can't be the Debbie Downer and put down mini golf at all. So we'll say, yeah, I think it's very different. A lot of times you get courses, you got obstacles and you got barriers and stuff. It's a lot different than the game out on the course, but I love playing and it's a definite way to kind of get introduced to the game a little bit. So it's definitely golf, just a little different fashion of it 100%.
Speaker 1:I'm a huge putt putt fan. Um, try to take a trip up to Sandusky every year as a family and uh, there's a course up there we go to every time we go up there. Uh, love it, love golfing, I love putt putt. I will mess up a putt putt course for sure Anytime I see it. I, I just it's, it's like the little kid in me Definitely want to get out there Again.
Speaker 1:Going back to social media, there's actually a full page where they actually have tournaments throughout the year and it's putt-putt. People sponsor them, People put in donations so they're getting paid to go and film putt-putt courses and shout out to the courses that are letting them do that. Because it's just, it's intriguing. I found out a couple years ago it was during COVID actually that I was talking to another uh comedian friend of mine and he actually knows somebody who is a professional putt putter. Nobody needs to check their hearing that you heard that correctly a professional putt putter. It's become so much of a mainstream thing that they're like they have they have dress coats, like they have to wear polos and golf like it's just, like it's it's. I was like, okay, well, we need to start bringing back, uh, like you said, marcio espn ate the ocho. Let's get that back on and let's get some putt-putt tournaments getting. Get these guys some notoriety.
Speaker 1:Because I had no idea, because he just nonchalantly was like, yeah, my buddy, who's a professional putt putt golfer, and then just kept, was like what, you're not just going to speed past that, like you didn't just say what I think you just said he's a professional putt putter. Yeah, so I love putt putt. Yeah, it's definitely golf for me. I'll take putt putt over. You know a full 18 course any day. For sure, it's just a little kidding me.
Speaker 1:But, fellas, that's actually going to do it for this week's episode of the Ride Home Brands podcast. It was great to have Lando Marsco and Stoy back on the show and get to talk a little bit of golf and some nostalgia with it and I could talk about golf, seems like all day. I never knew I was going to turn to that guy. I attribute that again to my age, love golf now and, as always, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just because you did. That's going to do it for me and I will see y'all next week.
