![]() ![]() And as a privately owned club, our professional management team’s vision has set the standard for exclusive clubs in the Omaha area and throughout the region. The surroundings and amenities, as well as the personal attention and extra services, have elevated Shadow Ridge to one of the Midwest’s most prestigious Clubs. And so, yeah, he shone a light on us.Shadow Ridge Country Club is an unforgettable, family-oriented club experience located in the heart of The Ridges community in West Omaha. My dad uses literature and he uses a 7-iron. It’s there’s no difference between Michael Block and my dad and his dad. And by the way he connected with everybody in town because it was kind of the people needed to know.Īnd we got away from that because he came a business and everybody’s stuck behind the counter and it became numbers instead of, ‘Yeah, I’m out there in the dirt.’ They’re teachers, that’s what they are. Because he could he could do something nobody else could. The lawyer, maybe the minister and the golf guy. ![]() Now all of a sudden everyone’s going, ‘Yeah, my pro is like a real guy.’ When you got into playing golf there was like three guys in town that had a secret sauce, right. So here’s an everyman that goes out there and, you know, he’s Rudy, right? The only thing better than his 7-iron is his earbud game. Because at the end of the day, everything we’ve been talking about, LIV, elevated events, it’s all code for money. And what it can bring from gratitude, as opposed to money. Waugh: I think the thing that is striking this enormous chord is we’re finally talking about the joy of the game again. What is your takeaway from what he did last week? I’m not sure you could put a price tag on what Michael Block did to shine a light on what the PGA of America is about. And so this week is the beginning of the test to see whether it does (host a Ryder Cup). We have committed two PGA Champs and everything else we’re doing. Waugh: We’ve committed a 26 championships. Do you still hope to host a Ryder Cup here when the next one’s available, in 2041? The PGA has said it would like PGA Frisco to host Ryder Cups in the future, although all the U.S.-hosted Ryder Cup sites have been granted through 2037. I really do.ĭarren Clarke brought this up about PGA Frisco’s East Course, mentioning that it would be ideal to host Ryder Cups because of the way the layout can be set up to accentuate match play. Anyway, so I firmly believe this is a renaissance for the game. You came with your family and you kind of liked carrying your own bag and you didn’t mind there not being a 19th hole. So all of a sudden, it’s the only thing on television it’s the only thing you can do and people fell in love with it. And he got it back in late June, which was a miracle. And then Jay did what he did, which was talking about getting back on TV. And then we rallied the industry around it. And we developed this thing called Back2Golf, which was a staged return to the game. He said, ‘Let me get your guys to the CDC. I talked to Fauci and he said, ‘That makes a lot of sense. ![]() He wasn’t a golfer because let me get you to Fauci. ![]() They said, yeah, come like, maybe part of the solution is posted in a symbol. So I called our medical advisors and said, ‘Am I crazy or can we be part of the solution?’ One of them said, ‘Yeah, let me get you to Fauci. I was like, ‘We ought to do some things.’ And I realized, golf was it. For 45 days we all lived there, and it was like close to being reality TV. But when we were sitting around hiding under our beds, I had five kids and two refugees in my house, my goddaughter and a cousin who were stuck in Manhattan and couldn’t get out. And it’s good for your mind and your body and your soul.Īgain, it’s not like I’m trying to take credit, but back during COVID, everybody said COVID was the elixir for golf. Yeah, you’re with people for a long time. Right? Like, yeah, you’re out at a beautiful place. Īll the negatives of the game that we worried about sort of pre-COVID - because I thought we were on a little bit of a rise before that - all became strengths. Josh Allen, we couldn’t keep him off the property last week. The National Golf Foundation now asks that as a question: Do you think golf is cool? I don’t mean to take credit for it, but people are thinking about it. I started talking about this more than a year ago. Look, the game’s getting younger and it’s cool. ![]()
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