Golf With Jay Delsing - - Chaos in Canada

Jay Delsing spent 25 years on the PGA TOUR and is a lifetime member of the PGA TOUR and PGA of America. Now he provides his unique perspective as a golfer and network broadcaster. It's time to go On The Range with Jay Delsing.

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Nothing much. Just snuck in a few holes before the show and I'm ready to roll. Man, the early bird. Early bird.

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They will help you out. All right, John. A little unusual.

We're not going to have an interview this week. We are going to talk. I got into the Shaw Charity Classic last week in Calgary, Alberta.

It's a PGA Champions Tour. Yep. And man, I got to tell you, Pearl, it was the good, the very good, and the extremely ugly.

And so we're going to talk a little bit about that. First off, Canada, the borders are quasi-opened, but I found it to be unbelievable. So I could not get a flight from St. Louis to Calgary. Typically I go St. Louis, Denver, Denver to Calgary and it's a breeze. This time I had to go St. Louis to Chicago, Chicago to Toronto, all on American Airlines.

And then once I got to Toronto, clear customs and head over to a different terminal in the Pearson Airport in Toronto and catch an Air Canada flight to go from Toronto to Calgary. So what about, Jay, talk a second about, unless you're going to, about what you had to do to even get to that stage with the whole testing. Yeah, so there had to be a COVID, you had to have a negative COVID test 72 hours before you board the plane. But it couldn't just be a rapid test. It had to be something called a PCR test or CRP test, some certain test that I initially ran up to Walgreens, got the first one. It's a drive-through, hell, they gave me the results back in two hours, it was negative, no problem. Well, come to find out that wasn't any good. I had to go to a hospital, I didn't even, we'll have to remind me to put that on a balance sheet, because that test is going to cost me something. Exactly.

The other COVID tests are free. So folks, what we're going to do is we're going to break through this, the four segments of the show are going to be different spots on what we did, what I did for the trip. And the first trip, the air travel, it took me 15 hours from the time my flight left. That doesn't include waking up at 3.15 in the morning to catch a 5.40 flight. I just, I did the math from the, no I didn't, I did it from the time I got up. So it took me 15 hours from the time I got up to the time I went to, got to my hotel in Calgary. And for the low, low cost of $2,200 US. Probably the most expensive non-first class flight I've ever taken.

Ever. So, that's unbelievable. That's too big of a number. By the way, I'm flying up to see you next week and I think I'm paying $39 each way from Florida.

Can you cut that meat, that part? Cool. Okay, good. We're going to leave that out.

So, and then to top it off, we get to Calgary. I meet my buddy, our buddy, Bruce Rafuse. He is the General Manager of Canada for Platus Foods. He's been in the food business his entire life. A great guy. I've known him for 30 years.

Meet him in Toronto where he lives and we flew across together. Get into Calgary and guess what doesn't show up? No golf clubs. No golf clubs.

So, I've got a Pro-Am the next day but I'm not off until 2.10 and my clubs show up somewhere in the middle of the night. There is a knock on my door at the Westin in downtown Calgary and I am, you could have told me I was in, you know, Hungary or somewhere. I don't know where I could have been. I was so out of it. But I did have a Canadian $5 bill sitting in the thing so I popped this guy in the thing, took my clubs and went back to bed.

But it was, I was glad to see them. My clubs, you know, Pearl, if you think about this, my clubs have done way better traveling than I have over the years. There's no telling some of the cool places they've been to. Yeah, they have done but seriously, how many times just ballparking your career have the clubs been, whatever you want to call it, not lost per se, but just end up in the wrong flight, be delayed. It probably hasn't happened that many times, has it?

No. Well, I mean, think of the number of flights that I've taken. I've probably taken roughly, if you say that I'm playing, I played an average of probably 25 events a year for 25 years. Or for say for 20 years, maybe it wasn't quite 25. So that's 400, that's 500, 500 events.

That's 1000 flights at least. I'd say probably 15% of the time they didn't show up. Only one time. 15%? 15, yeah.

Wow. I'd say only one time. And as I got older, I was like, good, lose them. I don't care. I'll go get some new ones. We'll try something else anyway.

But only one time did they get lost entirely where they never showed up. And yeah, that was interesting. So that's kind of step one of the tournament. Step two is we have two pro-ams. We got a pro-am on Wednesday and a pro-am on Thursday. My tee time is 2.10 in the afternoon on Wednesday and Thursday. I got two, all the guys were laughing at me.

They're like, you're supposed to get an early time and a late time. I'm like, I was a late addition to the field. I got whatever was left over. I always hope, I was, that was probably my biggest concern for you is playing two pro-ams, especially at the end of the day like that. That's just, and then the three rounds for the tournament, how much you've been playing. That is a lot of golf, man.

That is, compared to what you've been doing, that's a tremendous amount of golf. I was concerned about that. I tell you what though, I was excited about it. I wanted a couple of rounds before I played so pearl. Sheer panic set in at 2.09 on Wednesday when I'm on the tee and they announced my name.

I hadn't heard that in five years and I just, just panic ripped through my body in a pro-am. I'm like, what? And so I stood up there and this, the tenth hole is kind of a short little dog leg left.

I hit a straight left into the hospitality, right where all the people are sitting, eating hot dogs and drinking beer. Hit it right into them. And they're like, where, I'm like, did anybody see the ball? I'm like, yeah, it hit this table over here and shot over there. I'm like, ah, we'll just drop one over here and play it out.

But it was, you know, it was just an experience to get back under the, under the gun like that again. I bet. I bet. So how long has it been since your last tournament or since you played regularly?

Over five years. And, and, um, I wound up getting off the golf course on Wednesday night, about 8.35. So that was just a six hour, six hour and 15 minute round of golf. And I was pooped, exhausted.

My caddie was tired. It was just about dark. And we went back to the hotel and got food at about 10.

Got our dinner at about 10. Now we're staying at a bubble at the Westin, which was the funkiest bubble ever because there's a restaurant called the keg in there that was open to the public. But we could go in there and order, but we couldn't eat in there. And then there was also a Starbucks in the, in the bottom of the hotel that was open to the public that had an entrance from the, to the public from the outside of the street to walk into the Starbucks. And then on the other side, there was a door that went into the hotel and guys were going in and out. So you're talking about a COVID bubble.

That's, that's what we're talking about with the basketball players, football players, the golfers, you guys have to live in a bubble. This was not about, we were not allowed to go out to eat any. We had to go to the golf course and back to our hotel and had to stay in the hotel. That's it. That was the only option.

So, but it was odd because there are people, there were people from the, you know, the public were just walking around and there were other people in the hotel and yeah. So, that's Wednesday night then. So that goes off kind of without a hitch. We get to play on Thursday and again, it's 2.10. I'm playing at 2.10. My first tee time on Friday is 11.30. So it's really no big deal that I'm playing that late. I've got to get plenty of sleep, plenty of rest.

It'd been a bummer if I'm off at 2.10, get finished at 8.30 and had to turn around and play at 7.30 in the morning. That'd have been tough. Yep. Yep. Wasn't the case.

Wasn't the case. So we go out on Thursday, get a great, I played with a guy named Gordon Norrie, who's the president of the Calgary Flames. Very cool guy.

Yeah. And some other really great guys. And I got to tell you, Canada is just golf crazy. They are just golf crazy.

It is awesome. I'm going to run the tip of the cap right now, Pearl. And the tip of the cap goes out, it's brought to you by the Dean team of Kirkwood, 314-966-0303.

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It's always been like that when I've gone to Canada. They are just terrific. So the tip of the cap, I'm tipping my cap to the Canadian golf fans this week and it's brought to you by the Dean team of Kirkwood. Colin and Brandy, thank you so much.

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Man, this is coming up early. September 6th through 12th. Norwood Hills Country Club. They're just now transforming the course. They're setting up the bleachers. They're setting up the skyboxes, the cabanas. Pearl, we've sold over 50 skyboxes and cabanas. All the guys up at Calgary are so excited about it. I must have had every single guy in the field ask me about the event, the course, where should we stay.

The Cardinals are in town playing the Dodgers. Just some really cool stuff. That is just absolutely fantastic.

I can hear in your voice and you can kind of sense the energy just growing and growing. I didn't realize sales were that good. That's great. The other thing that's really cool, Pearl, is that I fly in last night after a crazy-ass trip home, like 18 hours to get home. And the Ascension Charity Classic has got signage all over, baggage claim at the airport, all over some different media panels.

Ascension, I mean, these guys just don't miss a beat on anything. That's awesome. Jay, what's the crowd going to look like? Is there a sense of how many tickets they're going to try to sell?

Have they sold? Well, last week, for example, in Calgary, they were only allowed 2,000 people a day. And Pearl, 2,000 people on a golf course that spans over 250 acres, it's nothing. You know, it's like a smattering of people here and there. I'm not exactly sure. I've heard some numbers of like 10,000 or so, 10 to 20,000 on the weekend. It's going to be an event like most of the guys are used to.

It's going to be as much like a regular tour event on the Champions Tour schedule as they have, for sure. That's great. That's just fantastic.

Yeah. All right, so let's get back into this. We talked a little bit about the bubble and go back and forth from the golf course. Couldn't go out to eat anywhere. We play our Thursday round, 2-10 again.

All the guys are laughing at me. How'd you get so lucky to be, you know, I was the last off both days. And get back to the hotel Thursday night and we're pooped. I mean, I'm tired. Bruce is two, three years older.

My caddie, Bruce Rafuse, is a couple years older than I am. And we order just from the restaurant there. He orders salmon and I get some sort of salad, you know, whatever. And, you know, throw it down and off to bed, you know. We're tired. We get back to the hotel at 9.30, order it up, get the food at 10. You know, who wants to eat that late?

And plus, we're tired. We're going to get up and meet in the morning at, we are going to meet at the morning around 10 o'clock to go out to the golf course for my 11.30 tee time. I'm paired by the way with Jay Williamson, who is a fellow St. Louisan who I played with, you know, three times in the last month here in St. Louis. We travel over 2,000 miles to get paired together.

And Omar Uresti. So anyway, we're the last group off at 11.30 on Friday in round one. And my phone doesn't have a calling plan that I can use in Canada. So I can text, I can send emails, but I can't make a phone call with it. And my phone, and the phone keeps ringing. I can't get it, I can't pick it up. And then my, the phone in my room rings and it's my caddy Bruce. He's been up since, he's been up since one o'clock. Food poisoning.

Both ends, not good. I said, man, he goes, I, I cannot go. I said, don't worry about it. I'll, I'll figure it out.

No problem. You just feel better. Let me know if you need to have the tournament, send a doc over, whatever.

So he. Hey, have you ever had a caddy get sick before where they couldn't caddy in the tournament? I had food poisoning one time in Miami. Oh really? I had food poisoning one time. Yep.

And I played anyway. Yep. It wasn't, I went to any other times and the caddy, caddy couldn't show. I've had caddies not show, but never for food poisoning. I think it was more like alcohol poisoning or something. I think it was a Bud Light flu, I think, or something. I'm not sure what it was.

There was the one event, I think it was New Zealand, where I, where I couldn't make, I couldn't make it either. Remember? That was a practice round though. That was the first two practice rounds because you contracted like the plague on the airplane going over. Yeah, I did.

I was so glad to move those hotel rooms. Remember how, man, you were down and out. So I'm sorry, so keep going with Bruce here.

No, so anyway, so he can't go. So now I'm thinking, oh hell, wait a second. The caddies have to be tested and everything too. This is not going to be that easy. So I start texting and emailing our PGA Tour liaison and say, hey man, my caddy's got food poisoning. We need help.

I need help. I need a caddy. He's like, hey, we got to, he's got to be tested, blah, blah, blah.

What the good news is, I started working on this at seven o'clock in the morning. And so we wound up getting a young man, Spencer. He couldn't have been, just a great kid, 18 year old kid, worked in the bag room, reminded me a little myself when, when I was a kid and just great.

He carried the bag. We had a, a fun day. I played with Jay Williamson and Omar Uresti. I shot even par. I think Jay Williamson shot two over and Omar shot even par. So I got Omar.

Well, let's just cut. I got to play with Omar all three days, which is like a punch to the face or lower. He's just, he's a nice, he's a really nice human. He's just so annoying to play golf with. He's super slow and he's just got the craziest mannerisms and he talks to the ball incessantly. Then he started talking to my ball and I said, Omar, Omar, my ball doesn't listen. No sense in talking to it.

Don't talk to it. Get your, get your, get your mouth off my ball. Get your lips off my ball.

Yeah. That I just said, Omar, Omar, don't worry about telling my ball to sit or go left. If you tell it to go left, it'll go right. So what's this him talking to his golf ball, Jason? He'll he'll go, get up, get up, get up, get up. And then it'll carry the bunker and he'll go, get down, get down, get down, get down within the, no, it doesn't work.

It's just as annoying to everybody around him. He'll hit a putt. It'll go, go in, go in.

And then it goes like six inches behind. He's like, stop, stop, stop. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, you gotta be exhausted.

There's so much to think about talking, your lips are moving constantly. He anyway, so we finished Friday night. I get back to the hotel room, I, to the hotel. I text my buddy, Bruce, how are you doing? Feeling better. I just laid low, got a bunch of Pepto and a bunch of, you know, over the counter drugs and feeling better. I think, what did he eat that night?

He had like a, I don't know, something really, really bland. And then just went to bed, got a good night's sleep and off we go for the second round, right? We're going to Saturday's round. One of the craziest rounds I've ever had in my life. No doubt.

Okay. So you've had some crazy ones. I've had some crazy. I've had some crazy ones. I had one where I drove. I was actually doing an outing for Bruce's company and we were in Halifax and I had to get myself to Flint, Michigan for the first tee time on Thursday.

Cause I, I was first alternate and someone had pulled out in the first group. I drove, I flew from Halifax to Toronto, drove from Toronto to Windsor, crossed in Detroit, got down there about 5.30. My tee time was 7.45, laid down for an hour, step up to the first hole, hit two balls out of bounds.

Shot. I made an eight on that par five. Remember the first hole at Flint, purled that par five, the little dogleg right ahead, two snap hooks off that tee. Wound up shooting 70 that day and finished about 15th for the tournament with a, with a triple bogey in my first hole. That was, that was a, cause Bruce reminded me of that cause that's how crazy this was.

So Saturday morning, I tee off at 10, 10 19. And so I'm looking at Bruce. I'm like, look, if you don't feel like going take another day off. He's like, no, I came all this way. I want to go. I'm like, okay, let's just get, get a little food in you.

Let's get some water, whatever. So off we go. And I start off on the back nine Pearl. I birdie three of the first five and I should have, could have easily birdied the first six holes I played.

It was just happened. And then I ran into a couple of bogeys here and there. And anyway, long story short, I am, what am I, I'm even par after 11 holes. We're walking over to the third hole, which is our 12th hole.

Okay. And of the day. And because we have Omar in the group, we're slower than hell. So there's always a hole open in front of us. And so we're what we basically can walk to the tee and hit right away. So Bruce sets the bag down on the back, right part of the tee and a back left part of the tee walks over to the back, right. And I just happened to look up as I was grabbing my driver out of the bag and getting ready to put my glove on. He's just about to take a sip of water. And I noticed his, the eyes roll, go all white roll in the back of his head. And the next thing I see is his tennis shoes up about chest high. He's he's gone. He's fallen over backwards.

His, his feet over top of his head flips over and on the ground, I dropped my driver and my glove on the tee. I jump over the table and he's making this horrible sound, this groaning sound. And I'm thinking, Bruce, Bruce, what the heck? So I grabbed my towel. I yelled to the crowd. Somebody's got to call 911. Call the paramedics.

Someone's got to do this. And I'm like, Bruce, can you hear me? And I'm just kind of tapping his face. He's laying face down in on a, on a down slope of a hill.

He's, uh, he's out making some groaning noises and I am freaked out. I am. I don't, I'm not at the time. I'm just reacting to what's going on and trying to help him, but I'm just, you know, I don't know much.

I don't know. Do I need to do CPR? What's happening? He's still breathing. I can see that he's still breathing. His face is bright red and he's got this groan going.

And I said, is anybody, a doctor, you know, in the crowd, does anybody know any sort of medical, anything, anything at all? So now I've got my, get my towel. I soak it with three bottles of really, really cold water, put it under his head. I lift his head up and I'm holding it in my right hand.

I've got my left hand under his left arm and just kind of cradling him. So he doesn't slide down to Hill anymore. Cause we're in grass.

His face was face planted in the grass. And some guy says, I am a, um, not an EMS guy, but I know some, I know some I'm like, what, what do we do? And it turns out he didn't know anything. He was, he's like, he was like, I'm like, give me some more water guys. Who's calling 9 1 1.

I'm talking to all these people. They're like, we got it. They're on their way. He's out. Bruce is out. So I'm just tapping him likely on a lightly on the cheek. I'm putting all this cold water on his head. I got it on the back of his neck. I'm pouring it on his shirt, just trying to cool him down.

He seems hot to me. He's still breathing, but I think he's had a heart attack. He's out unconscious and he is groaning. He is groaning. At one point in time, I look up on the tee and I see Omar taking a practice swing and I'm just like, where am I?

What kind of wild ass movie is this? You know, was he talking, was he talking to his balls at the same time? No, he hadn't hit it. It was still in his pocket.

So I didn't have anything to say to it. But anyway, so Pearl, I get probably my fifth bottle of water that I put on him. Bruce starts to, I can see his eyes start flickering almost like a damn movie. And so now I'm in the grass, I'm holding him and I'm like, Bruce, Bruce, are you here?

Wait, you know, what's going on? And he's like, he's groaning. Oh, you know, just kind of making these weird sounds and I'm thinking, man, I just don't want him to die. That's the only thing I can think of. The only thing I can think of.

And I'm like, where are these paramedics, you know? And he said, he starts waking up and he's like, I go, Bruce, can you hear me? Can you hear me? I'm talking to him.

I got you here. We're taking care of you. You fell. Do you remember anything?

He's like, no, I don't remember anything. And I go, you're not getting up. He kept trying to get up. I go, you're not getting up. Stay down. Stay down. You're fine. We're going to take care of you.

Does this water feel good on your neck and on the back of your head? And he's like, yeah. So I kept putting more water on him. And so he's kept getting more and more conscious. And I said, do you feel like you can roll over? And he's like, yeah, I want to roll over. And so roll him over. So now I'm holding his head like on my knee, you know, and I'm sitting on the ground.

And he's now all of a sudden, he's gaining a lot of consciousness. I'm like, bud, are you all right? He's like, what happened?

I don't, where? I go, do you know where you are? He goes, yeah, I'm caddying for you in Calgary. I'm like, well, bud, you took a glass of water and you passed out.

You were, you've been out for the last five minutes. He's like, what? I go, how are you feeling? He goes, I feel fine.

And I'm like, he looked like hell. I go, you know, stay down. And then I grabbed the cooler with my other hand and one of the volunteers came over and I put the cooler up and I said, come on, sit up. Don't stand up, sit up.

And this guy and I braced the cooler so he could lean up against the cooler. So now we got him sitting up, you know, and he's got, he's got grass and dirt and stuff on his face from, you know, so we come cleaning him up and I'm talking to him the whole time. And the whole time, I mean, there's golf tournament going on.

Right. You know what I mean? And it's like the most surreal, one of the most surreal moments of my life. And I'm like, what are, what's happening? What's happening?

And he's, he's like, I feel fine. I'm like, but you've been out. You have been unconscious for at least five minutes. It seemed like two hours.

I was playing with West short, Omar still taking practice swings and, and, and, um, uh, Jeff and his caddy Mike were right there, but you know, Pearl and everyone's defense, nobody knew what to do. Right. Right. You know what I mean?

It's not like, you know, and we could do something and make it worse. So I'm like everybody. So, uh, the paramedics finally arrived. We'll wrap up this front nine with this, but the paramedics finally arrived and these two women took over and, uh, started taking his vital signs and started giving him, um, uh, they, they, I think they even drew blood there or something in his, uh, and, and got him, uh, up and about. And, um, we'll, we'll continue this on, on the, uh, the back nine. Uh, this is a crazy golf with Jay Delson show, but, but join us for the, for the back nine. This is golf with Jay Delson.

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Adam at Family Golf Centers. Man, how you doing? Everything's going great, Jay. How are you?

I'm doing well, thanks. And your place, you are transforming the way that people can play and practice and learn golf in the Midwest. Man, tell us what's new and what's exciting over there. And I've been to your place. I love what you're doing.

Well, as always, Jay, thanks for your support. As you know, we're revamping what practice looks like in St. Louis. We've created an encouraging and friendly environment that gives everybody opportunity to learn the game, practice their skills, and do so at a quality facility. Newest addition, we've got our grass teas being sodded.

We've got new grass teas that are adjacent to our double decker. A huge short game area. 15,000 square foot short game green that we're going to be able to use. We're really excited to unveil this to the golfing community and hope to see everybody out here using it and practicing on the new facilities.

Oh my gosh, Adam. The fact that you give folks the option between hitting off a mat or hitting off a tee, you know, in climate weather, the mats are great, but nothing beats grass. And then how about some of the stuff that you can do inside with your track men and all the other things that you're offering?

Yeah, sure. I mean, along with that nine hole par three golf course and the new grass teas and the mats that are heated and cooled, we do have some awesome indoor offerings. The track man simulators are indoors. You can play golf with your friends. You can grab a pizza and play Pebble Beach indoors.

You can do, you know, individual practice and work on your driving or your wedges. The track man simulators are just the top notch technology in golf today. And we're really excited to have it. Not only, you know, this time of year, but especially in the winter, you know, it's going to start getting colder here soon. And we look forward to watching everybody practice and use the simulators. We're going to be coming out with our dates for our fall league.

So we encourage you to get with your friends to come out and become part of our fall league. That'll be all indoors. And then obviously, as you remember being here before the scoring lab is our indoor practice room. It's got that indoor synthetic green that you can hit chip shots to you can putt practice your short game indoors as well. So we're excited to have all the all the offerings any any golfer could ever need to practice their skills and get better.

I love the scoring lab. Adam, tell folks how they can reach you. Yeah, reach us at on our website, www.familygolfonline.com. We got all of our information on there. Or you can give us a call our golf shop number 636-861-2500. Or just come on out. Everybody's welcome to come check us out and use the facility. So we're open to the public.

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My caddy is down. I think he's had a heart attack. It turns out this is related to the food poisoning.

He was dehydrated. But anyway, once the paramedics show up, I've got a hit. The other two guys have already hit.

I didn't realize it. I don't even know where my clubs are. I don't have a caddy. I pull a guy out of the crowd. He caddies for me. And I'm up on the tee.

So I was going to drive around. Wait a second. They don't give you 10 or 15 minutes? No, I said to them, why don't you let the group behind us go through?

Give me a few minutes to get it all together here. They're like, no, you got to go. And then later that night, they came. They called me and said, we screwed that up. We should have let the group behind you go through.

No kidding. I'm like, God, this man's life was in danger, I thought. Anyway, so I stand up on the tee, Pearl, and I basically tap this 3-wood about 150 yards. He had 6 inches behind it. Couldn't feel anything. And it goes into a bunker.

Long story short, I hit it on the back edge of the green from that bunker in 3-putt for bogey. And I'm like, I don't care. I'm breathing so hard and fast, it's a joke.

So back up for a second. That's what I was going to ask you. Could you tell, you and I talk about this all the time. We kind of want you in this 1 to 5 out of a scale of 1 to 10 zone of kind of being in there relative to excitement, energy, etc. Could you just not even plug into where you were at that time and you're just trying to manage a way to continue? Or where was your head? My head was all with Bruce and it had nowhere to be found with golf. And by the time I was swinging, I don't know, I was probably a 15.

I was probably a 15. My heart was pounding. But then as I got to walk it off, I started going, okay, all right. We did everything we could. And I said to my walking scorer, because they're all miked and wired up, I said, please keep me informed. Let me know what's happening here.

He's in the hospital where he is. What's going on? So I make that bogey, go to the next holes of par 5, and I hit a nice drive. And we're walking off the tee and a guy comes up and says, your caddie's feeling much better.

He wants his wallet out of the bag. And I'm like, because it's credentials and stuff. And I'm like, okay, fine. And they said, he's up talking.

They think he's going to be just fine. And I'm like, oh my gosh. So that was, you know, one minute after hitting the drive on number 4. So I get up and I hit the next 3, what, about 300 yards right on the front edge of the green and make a birdie on this par 5.

And now I'm back kind of feeling more of a little bit of wank. To make a long story short, I somehow birdie 7. I hole out a bunker shot, a green side bunker shot on 7, which is our 16th hole. And I hit a nice iron shot in on par 3, 9th, which is our 18th hole, to about 10 or 12 feet and make a nice downhill left to right putt. And I wound up shooting 68. And it was the most incredible round. But, Pearl, what I wasn't prepared for is when I got to the room, I called you, I was, what happened out there hit me.

Yeah, I remember. And I just, it's almost like the blood left my head. I'm like, oh my God, what just happened? What could have happened? Oh, man. In the heat of the battle, you're trying to keep on going.

I know the paramedics have told you that Bruce is going to be fine, but that'd be very unnerving. And then you start coming down off of that, whatever you call it, between not having played for all those years and you're out there competing. And yeah, just all of a sudden, an absolute crash. I remember because we did FaceTime and I'm like, what is wrong with you?

And then he would tell me all that was going on. I'm like, oh my gosh. I know.

It's absolutely, I mean, you couldn't make it up. And I mean, Sunday isn't any easier. Wait till we get to Sunday. But so, so I think, I think I was somewhere starting the day, Pearl, after the first round, I think I was starting the day at like 40th or 42nd after my even par, my 70, and then my 68 moved me up to like maybe 30th or 35th or something like that. So I was starting Sunday's round in about 35th place. Right. You know, pretty much the middle of the pack, but, but I had a lot of, I got to tell you, I was really pleased with the golf I was playing. With a, maybe a better decision here or there, and maybe a lipped in putt instead of a lipped out putt. I'm right in it. Absolutely.

You know, I'm right in it. 12 under was leading the tournament and I'm at two under, but with a little, like I said, a little bit of that in the magic dust, I'm seven or eight under and it's not any big deal, but we go back to the hotel. Bruce is not eating anything now. He doesn't feel very good. And we're just, you know, hanging out, grabbing something to eat and making it an early night. I mean, it was, man, I got into bed and I T I'm the very first group off playing with Omar again on Sunday and I'm off at nine 35 and I can't sleep that night, which is really unusual for me.

I been through a lot of different personal things with a divorce and things like that. And I've always been able to pretty much sleep this. I just couldn't sleep. I was, I was kind of wind up. So like right around, I think the last I remember looking at the clock, it was like 1230.

All right. And I go to sleep and at two 35, we have a fire alarm in the hotel. The smoke alarm goes off at the Westin and everybody's got to evacuate for two hours and 20. There goes the bubble.

There goes the bubble is exactly right. Not to mention that I had to leave the course right after I played on Saturday to come back to get a COVID test. Cause I have to have a negative COVID test to get back into the United States 72 hours before I get on my last flight or else.

And if it's not negative, I have to stay in Canada for 10 days. Yikes. So crazy. Turns out there was a little fire in some closet down in the, down on the lower level and everybody, and this is beautiful. David Moreland, who, you know, he's a Canadian, just a character of all characters and Omar Urest, David Moreland gets dressed for what his outfit is going to be on Sunday because he's afraid the hotel might burn down, but the tournament's going to go on and he wants to look good.

And he and Omar were the only two golfers to have their golf clubs with him. Everybody else was like, let them burn. We don't care. They're fine.

They're fine. So, you know, Pearl, this is going to wrap up the back nine. Let's come back and we'll wrap this crazy shindig up on the 19th hole. This is Golf with Jay Delsing.

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Doing great, Joe. Thanks so much for the support of the show. I really appreciate the opportunity. Congratulations. This is your third year and we're really proud to be a sponsor all three years since the very beginning. It's a great show and we look forward to it every Sunday morning.

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Grab your friends, a cold one and pull up a chair. We're on to the 19th hole on golf with Jay Delsing. The 19th hole is brought to you by Michelob Ultra. Alright, Pearl, welcome back.

Everyone, welcome back. This is Golf with Jay Delsing and the 19th hole is brought to you by Michelob Ultra. Pearl, after this damn tournament, I need two cases of ultra and an intravenous feeding, but here's where we are. We've got a fire alarm in the middle of the night. They let us back in the hotel at 4.40 and we got a Sunday round to play, an IT off at 9.30. And, oh yeah, I don't have a caddy. Bruce still can't go.

Bruce cannot go. And I look at him and I know he's not feeling well, but he wants to go to the course and hang out. And the tour official comes up and says, you know, if you don't get a caddy, you're disqualified. You get DQ'd. And I said, we're going to find a caddy. But he goes, they have to be vaccinated.

And I'm like, fine. It turns out all he had to do was ask people. I asked the locker room kids, all of them wanted a caddy. I had 15 caddies. I just didn't know it.

That's awesome. They wanted to be in the show. They wanted to be in between the ropes. Oh my gosh, they did. And so I'm the only guy in the field that had four caddies for three rounds of golf, I can tell you that.

But Sunday's round was crazy. Yeah, Pearl, what's going on? What are you thinking? I got a question for you. Trivia question. Has anybody had more than four caddies in a tournament in the history of the PGA Tour?

Oh my gosh, in a three-round champions event, I can't imagine it. Okay, you got to get that out there. That's the stuff they don't get. I'm a warehouse of useless records.

Nobody keeps track of stuff like that. I don't think they're useless. I think they're all about you. I think they're so funny. I'm sure you do think they're all about me.

Well, they are about you. Who the hell else can pull this off? Oh my gosh, just absolutely crazy. So Sunday's round turns into a nightmare. I start off well. I'm under par, back to even. I make a bogey and I'm laying up on a par-5 on 18. And I Cole shank a ball from the dead center of the fairway with a perfect lie into the bushes, make double bogey, and everything snowballed out of control from there. And I wound up finishing, I don't know, like 50th or something, 52nd in the tournament.

But this is the good part, okay? So this, we talked about, there were some really good golf being played. I love the Canadian golf fans.

They're terrific. Here's the ugly part. This is what the delsing economic ledger looks like for my six days in Canada. Airfare, $2,200. When I got to Calgary Airport, I had screwed something up in my flight and got dinged for another $159. So airfare, $2,359. Hotel room, $1,515 because I paid for Bruce's hotel.

At an expense of one round. I know. Yikes. I paid the locker room guy $100, which most of the time, anyway. Food, about $400. And the rental car, $900. My grand total is going to be $5,274 is what went on my Visa card.

Okay? I got my text message back from the PGA Tour after I finished and I made $4,996. For, should we do the difference?

Here goes some real quick math. We're at a loss. I lost $475 that week.

So I got a question for you, and I didn't prep you on this one. Do you get any points for playing in the event in your retirement package? No. You have to play a minimum. You have to play a minimum number.

And I only played one. I was going to bust your chops for that one. I was hoping you were going to tell me you get four or five grand or something like that. Oh, that'd be awesome.

I'd be glad to tell you. That's brutal. That's brutal. But the key is you've got to turn it under your belt. You've got to be that much more prepared for the Ascension, which is going to be absolutely fantastic.

You know the golf course. Plus, Jay, you've got the confidence. Seriously, the confidence that you can play five rounds. You've got two problems in the Ascension too, don't you? I think so.

I hope so. You weren't sure you were going to be able to walk five rounds. I told you. I wasn't sure. I have not walked five rounds.

So I figured it out. We did the steps. It's eight and a half miles. Calgary's course was eight and a half miles a day.

That's what I walked. It was five days. And it was hot. The other thing that was so weird about, and this is a non-golf-related thing, but Western Canada has been going through, in the B.C. areas, a lot of fires. And so the last two days, you know how crystal clear the blue skies are and how fresh the air is?

It was not the case this year because of the fires. It was really a different experience. The last two days were really, really hazy. That no-sky haze. Never saw the sun. Just weird. Just a weird day. But I want to tell you something.

Takeaways. Omar Uresti is a great guy. He's terrible to play golf with.

It's like a five-shot penalty. Second, Scott Perel, who I played with on Sunday, is unbelievably good. And so is Wes Short. Two guys that no one's really heard much of. These guys can play their ass off. And Wes Short shot 64 on Sunday and finished 12th. And Scott Perel, who I played with, shot 65 on Sunday and finished like 17th. And it was so easy. And I said to both of those guys, and this is the kind of stuff we would have never said on the regular tour. I said, you guys played great.

I could watch you swing all day long. They're shorter in stature, guys. They absolutely slam it. They crush it. And they can play. And it's impressive.

It's really impressive. There's so many good players out there. And that's the other reason. And both tours, obviously. But the senior tour has so many good players.

It's another reason that Ascension would be so much fun to go out and watch. Because it's a deep field. And you're right. Some of those names you don't know. Wes Short's had some physical challenges, I think, through the years.

Perel, I'm not sure what his story is, but I don't even think he played regular tour. But there's so much talent out there. And I think no matter who you pay a little bit of attention to, you're going to be impressed.

Oh, there's no question. I mean, whether it's Ernie Els you're watching, or hopefully Mickelson comes, but Furyk's going to be there. Jerry Kelly's going to be there. Bernard Langer is up in the leaderboard every single week. It was a crazy week. One of the craziest weeks I've ever had playing golf. There's no question about it. The fact that I hadn't played in five years, this thing soars right to the top of my memory.

But like you said, I didn't get the results that I wanted, John, but it was from a golf standpoint, it was really, really fun. I'm glad I did it. And from a friendship standpoint with Bruce, it's one of those things we one day can maybe laugh at or shrug at more than we are right now.

And thank God it went the way that it went. Oh, you'll laugh about it. He's a wonderful guy and you get to be around him before too long again, I hope. Pearl, that's another show. You know how many times I told Meat to turn your microphone off?

I think he finally did, because you didn't get to say much this show. No problem. It was a great story. Great story. Great adventure. Great Canadian adventure. Up in the great white north.

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