I assumed the low back right? yeah. These guys have gotten very close on the road
very, very platonic
how many time does he get this up and down out of ten I'm gonna go with the one
great shot very tight tight tight piece of property
we're making it work. Am I nervous about Icarito driving the RV? yeah, yeah I am...
Schuster! No Laying Up was here
You get any sleep? Eh, it's cozy back here
How was Randy's snoring?
It wasn't bad. Tron, how's the scripting look today?
I mean it's looking good all week. This is the deal today.
You look like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The modern version...
I was in fourth grade. We had a music teacher, Mr. Simpson. He was in
charge of putting on the Grandparents Day production which was Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which Donny Osmond starred in, so you know the
grandparents loved Donny Osmond. He had me playing Jacob he was like the Gankas
of musicals. And he said 'you gotta hit this falsetto. I know you can do it.'
So I was basically like (Neil sings in a horrible falsetto)...I did this in front of the whole school, like
a thousand people, and uh, I remember listening to the tape and I have never really
sung in public again let me put it this way I didn't hit the note.
the strap boys are taking over for round two. Let me putt on my driving glasses.
there's something else you need to do. Thanks for taking the pledge. Shout out Jordan Spieth
you get that back when we park safely. Exactly right. What do we know about
Rustic Canyon? We know it's near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
why did Ronny get the Air Force one plane and how
they get it up here? That's the other one. In fact, Air Force One is any plane the
president flies on...or better yet, any movie the president is in.
What's the game today? This is qualifying, and the competition we
settled on this week has two stages the first three rounds are qualifying. We're
going to be playing a game we call tilt in order to seed the group first to last
Tilt is a stableford game with eight points awarded for an eagle, four for a birdie
two for par, zero for bogey, and minus two for double bogey. But, if you
make it a net birdie your next hole is worth double. If you
continue making birdies, your next one's worth triple or quadruple
basically big multipliers can really expand the lead if you got it or you can
give it all right back with a double. The seed you win in the qualifying decides
how many byes you get in the winner goes on match play bracket four and five
seeds have to play every match to win this season while the number one seed
from qualifying advances all the way to the championship.Randy your index? 11.
5.0. My index is six point one six point one I'm a seven point two. Soly?
2.9. you're gonna be
playing to a 1.5 index apparently.
that's this month that's not recorded yet...But, you have a 70 and 76 before
who cares. I have an 86 but that's when I play a real golf course that's what I shoot you.
it's a game of honor. You want to be a three you can be a three.
If you like your index, you can keep your index Soly.
I'll switch to my trending index if I play too well. How bout that? 2.1 index.
I appreciate you reaching across the aisle
thank you thank you for having me here yeah what's the highest till you've ever been on?
5x. No way dude, you got to 7x at Bandon. Now explain what happened out there...
yeah, I double bogeyed.
That's Icarito right there. I mean there will be a subjective panel
that you know will make any tweaks and modifications to handicaps based
on performances in qualifying. For everyone or just Soly? Pretty much just Soly.
you know for me to describe Rustic Canyon: it's probably the most
low-profile ground-hugging golf course we've ever built.
Was it one of Hanse's first courses? Was built in 2002 with Geoff Shackleford it was a
golf course that was more found then designed good thing was we had
Geoff Shackleford, who lived not far away and he spent a ton of time out
there prior to construction roaming around finding golf holes and finding
little tiny features.
I think that it tried to embrace a lot of the really interesting aspects of
Golf Course architecture and introduce them to a segment of the golfing public
that doesn't have access to LACC or Bel-Air CC.
Let's say Mike Kaiser bought this course he could charge $200 a round and people would show up
and play it and rave about it like I can't figure out why it's not packed. It does
not make a sense. It looks like some mega width there I think I saw a centerline
bunker this table rose up a little bit DJ sitting there when he saw that
centerline bunker. We tried to build something that was fun and
interesting our words always been using for 25 years they're kind of getting old
I think but that words back if that was what
we're trying to do hey it's a good day for that it's really wet out super wet
high waters maybe a different pair of socks everything's coming up millhouse
me there is you know long socks I do yeah I think you look great just the way you are!
I wouldn't change at all.
So we met Brian Dietzen at the Epic Flash launch event. In Carlsbad. Friend of the pod! I was just watching or I just listened to you guys yesterday
on my way to work. And you work where? I work on the TV show called NCIS I play
medical examiner Jimmy Palmer. he's the medical examiner no he's a
forensic forensic autopsiest...so yea, the medical examiner!
he's a golfer okay last name is Palmer I don't want to say there's a relationship...
so I won't How's your game? I'm at a ten right
now but playing to about a sixteen. I've never watched NCIS...The weirder part I've
never seen a full episode. What has it been like 15 years 15 years
I've seen so many promos for it! NCIS stands for: Naval Criminal
Investigative Service it's like a law and order it's time yeah yeah only it's
way better. Neil have you ever watched NCIS? No, I'm an SVU guy.
The show is going strong? Yea, we're still number one show in
the world. Is that good? It's pretty good. It's number #1? Ya. Wow, that's wild man.
A hands-free push cart. I've never seen that before. I felt like I was living in the future.
I can't really like escape this thing...
he's still following me. Is there anything that transfers between acting and golf? yes composure yeah yeah like if you are
in a scene and you get outside of yourself and you're wondering if the
other scene partner knows their stuff you're worrying about stuff
that's just outside the realm of acting. Same with in golf like if you're
standing over the shot you're thinking swing you're thinking about your feet you're you're thinking wind this that just just play and forget that shit
and then usually it'll you'll play a lot better.
thanks man my condolences on your home burning down in Malibu. Thanks, I mean like
the sun's out today you can never be too vigilant about sun protection
This is an all time outfit for Tron.
yeah, #1 was a great hole. I like the Barranca on number one and number three I
was the short 4. Yeah, I like the options on three in the short par-4 and we did
utilize a boundary which was you know frequently used in an old-school
architecture as a hazards we've got the boundary down the left inside so all
different different ways to play that golf hole.
my favorite part I thought the green surrounds were really cool and so the
green kind of just float into the surrounds. There's no collar. It's the
first canvas that we had the opportunity to do some of the link'ish things that
we really liked. We liked a lot of the runoffs around the greens, a lot of bump-and-run
options. It's sort of sandy soil that was out there gave us
the opportunity to make the ground game be an important part of the of the golf
course. It's really deceiving they're trying to come in like so many times I
thought I was on the green and I was like fifty feet away
holy shit I haven't seen you hit a ball like that you in months.
I'm worried...I think I might have speed! I might have speed!!
I feel like six really just sits in that landscape quite nicely.
okay, now we can hear!
Is it gonna be our handle this? We'll see man...
go go go go
Tron, how'd you play? you know I had some flourishes. And, I had some left misses
Weird Flex but ok!
9th green, watching you guys finish up, and Tron putted twice and both came back to his feet
And DJ was like,
put it in my veins. You also hit a really really skanky 3-wood...oh you know what I'm
talking about you. You hit it in the shit that was one of my left misses! I totaled a
whopping four points on that side. DJ you uh you came in with twenty. Brian you
had a whooping 4 points. I'm level man even Steven. So low number is good Right? No you want a high number
okay I'll do it different on the back nine then. Your favorite: Front nine or back nine?
Which is surprising since the front nine is supposed to be like really good but the
back nine that part of the property that just keeps climbing, climbing, climbing
higher and higher is awesome. I think eleven was the hole that we're most
excited to build just the way that it hugs the Hazard and down the left and the
way that that green sits in there you can make the case for like six or seven
different holes as my favorite hole out there. I think yeah I think that stretch
eleven twelve thirteen fourteen is probably my favorite on the entire golf
course. Twelve, a short par-4 with a bit of an homage to ten a Riviera, and then
thirteen with the boomerang green that was one of the first things we built, and
it was kind of exciting to start the whole project off with a boomerang
green wrapping around a bunker.
what do you think? Do you think you got me? I think I'm the deep one on the right
yeah, you're back here buddy Gankas told me last night I could get
more speed, which is dope. I agree cuz you're back there bud.
Soly, where's your ball?
There's a ball in the fairway I thought was yours...that one back there? yeah, mines up
there. Yeah with the bad angle. Wait, I might have to zoom in to see it I don't know
if I can get it on camera.
I got the angle man you're not playing the right game.
Soly didn't think I could hear him on the 10th green, but he said to Brian
" I don't play too good today because those guys they want me
to shuffle my handicap, so he was literally sandbagging. See I don't think you thought I could hear your conversation but I did.
That was a priveleged conversation with a medical profession! How long does it take to learn lines? Does it
take all week do you memorize everything or do you have cue cards? No cue cards unless
you're really messing up but I have a cool system now. My daughter's 11 years
old, so every night before she goes to bed, she runs lines with me. She does
all the voices and stuff of the other characters
DJ, how did you play today? You know what, I play pretty good on the
front, and then I kind of started Curt Schilling it on the back. Any concerns about about
the foot? I mean it's gone from bad to worse my play has not improved.
We saw you use the sharpie Randy has a red sharpie...It's missing...
do it..come on do it...
I don't want this to sound like we did anything super special,
but I think it's it's high style or high class architecture for a public
golf setting. yeah we were talking to the guy that works here, and when it first opened,
care would line up at that main gate down the road before they would open up
each morning. So why it not packed? I mean I guess it is on
weekends I'm sure it's jam-packed but like it was $20 for an afternoon
Twilight tee time. Brian said this is a special day.
This place is usually packed. I think people who love to play it over
and over again...it's a broad audience, and they figure out something new every
single time they play it and that's part of the architecture that Jim Wagner Geoff
Shackleford, and I we're trying to go for. It's really wide, but I didn't
think it was a big advantage to be able to pound driver everywhere.
You'll notice there's all these elements of
classic golf architecture that we copied and brought to Rustic Canyon, but
I think that they make the golf course. There's a lot of inspiration out there
but it makes the golf course that much more fun.
So many rounds of golf get played across it and I think that there's a
level of appreciation and dare I say sophistication in the design that keeps
people intrigued in a beautiful setting and really sort of a natural landscape.
Yeah thanks for coming out. Nice to meet you, and yeah, thank you for joining
us. Randy, it's always a pleasure being out here with you big guy!
Always a pleasure. 28 points for DJ. 18 for Tron. 16 for Randy
And then Neil had 32 and Soly had 32, and I am on tilt to start in the next round!
Make sure we get both cameras
so we can get this rise all the way to the top and then the melt and then the fall!
Folks, get there early, first tee, 3-x tilt...Daddy's mashing!