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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. Good morning, St. Louis. This is Golf with Jay Delsing. I'm your host, Jay, and Pearly is still in the sunshine in Arizona, so we hate him. I'm here with my buddy, Meat, and I've got to tell you, okay, so we format the show like a round of golf.

This is the On The Range segment, our social media outlets, or Twitter is at Jay Delsing, Facebook is Golf with Jay Delsing, and Jay Delsing Golf LinkedIn is just Jay Delsing, and our Instagram is a secret. You still haven't figured that out. Oh, no, we're going to leave it that way because people keep joining it, Meat, and I don't know how they're doing it.

But, okay, so we're going to just jump right into you, bro. The Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, sir. They are the biggest fan of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Oh, my goodness. And they just won their first football championship in 50 years. Hail to the Chiefs, man. Oh, Chiefs' kingdom, baby.

This was such a crazy run. So, for the fans out there, I compare the Chiefs to the Blues all the time. There have been so many years of heartbreak. They, until- Last year? Yeah.

The offsides? I mean, come on. I was celebrating. My friend Dustin, who takes me to the games, we'll get into that. We were hugging each other and celebrating, yelling that we were going to the Super Bowl. And then we looked down and there's the flag. The flag.

Oh, awesome. And hearts just broke. But that was the thing. It's like the Blues.

It's Eiserman. It's injuries. It's first-round picks, first overall picks that blew up. Everything went wrong. I hadn't seen my first playoff win until two years ago.

I'm 30 almost. Patrick Mahone was just amazing. It was the weirdest game. The game didn't have much flow to it. And usually a Mahone-type game, to me, has a lot of flow. And there's a lot of dramatic and flair. And there just wasn't that, this game.

Yeah. And credit San Francisco because they talked about that defense, how good it was. And they took him out of the game.

But his ability to adapt, overcome, and adjust physically and mentally. I think the mental adjustment, he had two interceptions. That was his first playoff interception ever. Second one wasn't his fault at all. But anyway.

No. But then he had the fumble. He recovered that. Things just weren't going well.

And then the fourth quarter, in a span of seven minutes, every 21 points. Yeah. It was just terrific. He's phenomenal. How about the Lamar Hunt trophy?

Named after Lamar Hunt. And they have never won that. And just watching the family, listening, reading about the family. The amount that they care so deeply.

These guys are billionaires over and over again. But they cared so deeply about the fans. It was a great story. Absolutely. And we had, here in St. Louis, such a bad relationship with the Rams and the ownership cronkey and all that.

And I mean, I don't want to say never. But I just do not see anything like that ever happening in Kansas City. It's such a unique ownership group. And there's so much history there. I think a lot of people relate them to the Green Bay Packers with how they do business.

It's a family-oriented organization. But they're so deserving. And the radio call was so phenomenal because they said the Lamar Hunt trophy is finally back home in the castle that Lamar Hunt built.

And it was just full circle. So let me ask you this. And this is kind of the way I was raised.

But you knew a good umpire at a ball game when you didn't see him. You know a good ownership when they're not making waves. They're not threatening to move like some of the folks that we've had here over the past.

And not doing some of this crazy stuff that you can't have from leadership in order for it to be solid. What do you hear about the Hunts? You hear how respected they are. How much money they give the community. Exactly. How they're involved.

And none of the negative drama. No, and they bring in, for the most part, I know the Chiefs have had their issues with some players here and there. But when it comes to coaches, they've brought in really good people. They might not have always been great coaches, but they were good people. And they have shown that they're willing to make the big move when they need to. People hate on the Cardinals all the time.

Why aren't you doing this? You're right there. The Chiefs have done that in recent years. They went and got Andy Reid. They traded up in the draft.

They go and get Tyron Matthew and Frank Clark. They did what they need to do to secure the title and it's here. Alright. That's enough football. But man, that was great.

I was thinking of you. It was really fun to watch. So let's get back into a little golf. We had a really funny kind of odd episode happen over in the Dubai tournament this week where Graham McDowell, who eventually won the tournament and beat DJ by a couple strokes and Phil by a few more, was asked to do an interview by Sky TV in the middle of the round. So me, they've been doing they've been coming to us since the time that I was playing, saying, Hey, do you mind walking down the fairway saying something to our guys because they want to know what it's like to be inside the ropes. And so some guys are into it.

Some aren't. So McDonald's an affable guy. Great guy.

Sweet. He knows the interviewer. He's talking to him.

Well, what happens is it throws his group off a little bit. You can see time wise, right? Well, they had this thing over there. It was like a shot clock.

And so the referee, they had a referee who was watching this whole thing. He gave him a bad time because he stopped for an interview. So it threw everything off everything off. Not a great deal, but it threw it off timing wise.

So the issue is, if he gets one more bad time, and he had two rounds plus to go, he loses a shot. Oh my gosh. So it's all crazy like that. So Brooks Koepke was pissed off because he has been completely outspoken about slow play. He's really completely outspoken about everything.

He jumps on dramatic things all the time and is always willing to kind of tackle stuff where you're like, do you even care about that? Do you like that as a golfer? Because I think golf, it just has that reputation where you don't have a lot of guys speak out. I think it's kind of like baseball and hockey. You have the personalities, but you just don't hear as much.

And I think that's good for the game to have somebody that's outspoken like that. Well, it's different, right? Because the guys that we always had, Jack Nicklaus, the guys that led the charge, were these guys that would, if they had an issue, they'd pull you aside, and they'd talk to you in private, and it never made it to the press no matter what.

So it's different. But I mean, how do you do that in our world? With Twitter and with social media. And look, these guys all grew up with it.

I don't even know social media. I'm like, what? But these guys grew up with it. They know what's going on. This is part of the reason why they're making so much money. Because not only are these guys great golfers, but they've created their own celebrity.

So they have these followings, and they have all of this stuff that takes them to a whole different level. Well, and it's another platform that these advertisers give them. Look at Tom Brady, his announcement and everything in the Super Bowl. A normal announcement about his career, just easy comments.

Well, then you throw an advertiser on it, you use the social media, you use TV, and then it just blossoms. I'm not going anywhere. And everybody's like, what does that mean? Yeah, I know. It's interesting how Brady, how many Super Bowls in a row has he been? I mean, he has been a story one way or another in the Super Bowls, and now he doesn't play in the Super Bowl. And he's still a story. Right.

Yeah, it's amazing. He's got that much of an impact. He moves the needle. I mean, what he does and how he does it moves the needle. And I mean, whenever you put the GOAT title on, the greatest of all time title on somebody, well, of course, anything they do is going to be noteworthy or newsworthy.

So with this shot clock, we'll get you back to that and get you off track. So the players, the golfers aren't required to do this. It's all voluntary, correct? The interview.

Yes, correct. But again, the media and the networks have been honest. They want to mic us and people are like, no one's really wanted to be mic'd. It's just way too personal. Yeah. And you know, a lot of stuff happens in, you know, in the course of even one hole that you might say something that is really going to need to be, you know, the cough button needs to be hit, so to speak. So, yeah, they've been trying to do this. And some guys that, you know, Graham McDowell is still like, look, I can't believe the referee wasn't in on this. He got to give me a little leeway here because I think the next shot he had, Bud, was like a 214 yard shot into some wind.

It wasn't like he's chipping a ball, you know, to the front edge of the green. It's not going to take a little time and consideration. Right.

You need to prep a little bit. Yeah. So, but the European tour has been much more hard assy about this sort of stuff than the PGA tour. Our officials are much more, you know, they're willing to kind of flex with this a little bit. But the European tour has been more outspoken about this. And so they're going after slow play and much more strictly than we are over here. Well, and I think if you're going to, it's a double-edged sword because you want to increase play, but at the same time you want to expand the brand and the visibility, the reach that golf has. And that helps do that because those interviews, it's social media where they're growing.

You're going to TV. That's right. So without that, you don't get the access. You're not getting that publicity. But with it, it's causing the issues.

So where do you find the balance? Yeah, there has to be some sort of balance in there. And I don't think most guys on the regular tour are going to be too keen on these interviews.

Koepka went, you know, crazy over it and said he hates it and very outspoken. But, you know, not everybody's like that. Some guys aren't even good interviews, but GMAC is a great interview. He's just a great Irish guy.

Very, very colorful and pretty much tells it like it is. And some guys can get away with it, too, when some guys can't. I mean, Koepka can when other guys, I'm sure, who are younger or, you know, if you're a veteran, you don't want to hear some guy that's been in for four or five years, you know, having these comments maybe when... You don't.

Yeah, you almost feel like they haven't earned their way enough yet and things like that. But, you know, what happens when you win four of the last major championships like Koepka has, you got a voice and it's a big one. And a scoreboard.

It's also number one in the world. So, yeah, so that's, well, man, we've got a bunch of stuff to talk about. We'll catch up on that later. That's going to wrap up the On The Range segment. This is Golf with Jay Delson. Come back.

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Welcome back. This is Golf with Jay Delsing. I'm your host Jay and we are going to the front nine. Before we get started, I got to tell you guys about this really cool place in Chestfield called the Great Frame Up.

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All right. I've got a great interview with my fellow North County guy, Kent Earhart. Kent went to Patonville High School. He's a phenomenal meteorologist on KMOV Channel 4. He's the host of Great Day St. Louis.

So let's take a listen to what Kent had to say. Through the wonderful Internet, you know, you get to pull up some accomplishments and things like that as I'm prepping for this. And man alive, you've been in the media business for a long time and really accomplished. St. Louis is really lucky to have you. Tell us a little bit about how you got started.

Oh, my goodness. Well, of course, I grew up here and went to Patonville and and then went on to Southeast Missouri State University. And my intention was to get into advertising and promotion and marketing. And and I was in a mass communications program with with a minor in marketing. And in my last semester, I took a TV class and literally stumbled into the the CBS affiliate in Cape Girardeau at KFCS as a prompter operator. And it just doors opened in front of me and I and I walked on through and and I've been very, very fortunate to to to have the positions that I've had that I moved to to Iowa from Cape Girardeau and did a show called PM Magazine. And I went from there back to Florida, where a television station offered me a job doing weather. But I but I didn't have the credentials, but they started me doing it anyway. And I said, well, I'll take the job, but I want to go to school. And they agreed to send me to school. So I I spent 14 years in Palm Beach, Florida, forecasting hurricanes and daily thunderstorms and beautiful weather and and got a call one day from Alan Cohen in St. Louis, who was the general manager at KMOV and was given the opportunity to come home. And and and I jumped on it. And and I've never really looked back.

I've had 22 great years with KMOV and hoping that I'm able to, to retire, you know, by choice. Right. Right.

And not too distant future. Get to play some golf, which we'll get to in a little bit. But, Ken, we got to go back and talk a little bit about the awards that you got covering the hurricanes down in Florida. Oh, well, you know, we tried to do some innovative things down there at WPTV where I worked. I had a management team there that was very supportive of my ideas about we had spent quite a few years actually right when I became the chief meteorologist there. Within a few weeks of that, we had Hurricane Andrew hit. And up until that point, they had been sending me off to and even after Hurricane Andrew, they had been sending me off to strike zones when these hurricanes would come into the U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico along the southeast coast so that I would be experienced in managing myself in that environment, knowing what to expect.

If a storm were to come ashore in South Florida, we're back home. And so I had, you know, six or eight landfalls of tropical storms and even just tropical depressions, which, as you know, can cause flooding and had a lot of experience and working around in that environment. In fact, early, early on, I was one of the few guys that was traveling like that.

Jim Cantore and I got to be very close friends and still are to this day from chasing storms. And so that when I got back to West Palm, it was clear to me that one of the things that we needed was some kind of a guide so that people knew where to go for shelter and what areas were going to flood, things like that. And so I started to produce a hurricane guide that was distributed in my market.

And I think that's where most of those awards came from was from the effort that we made at that station and putting this guide together and publishing it every year with new and up-to-date information. Oh, man, that's terrific. And then you said you got to come back to St. Louis. I want to talk a little bit, too, about this great day St. Louis that you're doing. I know you're having a blast with it. And what I like about it is that we get to see a little more of your personality in there because I want to talk about golf. We're going to talk about the band that you're playing in. You're just such an interesting guy.

It's really going to be fun for our listeners to see and hear about this side of you. Well, you know, the PM magazine thing that I did for a few years up in Iowa really kind of set the tone for that kind of work that I've always enjoyed doing. There just wasn't, TV kind of got away from that. There wasn't as much local programming for many, many years.

And now it's kind of come full circle back around. And, you know, I grew up as you did in St. Louis when you had Dialing for Dollars and The Romper Room and Corky the Clown and Cookie and the Captain and Captain Eleven and all these great shows that were done locally. I don't know how great they were, but they were done locally. And we, you know, we grew up with that local programming and local personalities that people could relate to. And it's nice to see that happening again. You know, the other stations are doing innovative things with local programming as well. And we've come up with this Great Day St. Louis program. And I wasn't one of the original hosts.

I came in a little bit farther down the line. But my goodness, it's so fun every day. It's a great way to cap off my work day. And we really do have a lot of fun with it.

And, you know, it's at the tail end of my career and I can't think of a better way to end things here down the road is, you know, continuing to do weather and then have this as well. And, you know, the other thing too, Jay, is I get that latitude in weather in the morning. We have a little bit more fun in our morning news and then perhaps I would be allowed to in the evenings as well.

So that all kind of it all kind of, you know, dovetails together running from the early morning for Great Day St. Louis. Yeah, well, it just tells I've been on the show once before and it's really a fun environment down there where, you know, there's, you know, no one's taking themselves too seriously, but they're having fun with some of the stories. I really enjoyed it.

Good. So let's talk a little bit about, okay, so there was great, you know, I grew up in St. Louis just like you did and I never thought we'd ever see the Blues win the Stanley Cup. Just spectacular and you committed to doing a dance on air if the Blues won the cup and that got quite a bit of attention.

I did. I grew a playoff beard. I said, you know, if the Blues win, I will dance because they I don't I forget what the premise was, but we were on one morning and somebody was doing a dance thing and I and I didn't I didn't participate because I'm not a dancer. And I said, I'll tell you what, if we win the cup, then I'll dance.

I don't want to jinx it by dancing before we win. It's like touching the cup, you know, you know. My gosh, what a magic time that was. I mean, I and you know, it's funny, Jay, because I used to sit and I would tell people that that love the Cardinals and and, you know, participate in these World Series and parades and celebrations and and people would talk about what a great baseball town is. There's nothing like these the St. Louis car.

And it's true. I mean, I'm not taking anything away from the Cardinals. I've been a car. I was a bat boy when I was a kid. So I mean, I've never you're never going to find another baseball town like St. Louis. But I used to tell people that if the if and when the Blues win the cup, this town is going to come unglued. These fans have been avid fans from day one, as I was. I can remember the first season of the Blues and I and just to be here when that happened and and to be at that parade and that celebration on the riverfront was just a moment that I will. I'm getting goosebumps right now. I will never, ever forget that.

And I don't think anybody will. That was something special. Kent, you know, my brother and I just followed him and watched all these the drive to the cup and there was about a minute and a half left in game seven. And I think we were up four to one and I called my brother and he screamed at me.

He's like, this game is not over, you know, because we we felt like we have been so snake bit and we were almost like jinxed. And so we hung up the phone and then afterwards it was, I agree with you. Sometimes I still feel like I can't believe it happened.

I feel the same way. We'll talk about it in the morning sometimes and and on the show and I'll just look back at it and say, can you believe that actually happened? And, you know, it makes me think of my dad because my dad and I used to go to a lot of games and and to be honest with him when my parents were divorced.

And there was a rift between my dad and I for a few years and and it was the Blues that kind of pulled us back together as we started going to games together again and and I just remember those long cold walks to the arena and and just the I try to describe to people what it was like when the Blues just stepped on the ice at the beginning of a game and the place went berserk and I just there's there's nothing better than Blues hockey and I'll always be a fan and I would be remiss. I would be remiss in this interview if I didn't mention having mentioned my dad. I want to mention your dad because as you know, Jim and I had a fun friendship that that started in physical therapy when I had an accident racing motocross and your dad I think had a hip, if I'm not mistaken. He had a hip replaced about 98 right?

He had a hip replaced. Yeah, it was a hip and we were in therapy together and physical therapy. We probably should have been in other kinds of therapy as well, but we we spent time next to each other on the machines with the therapist and we became gym buddies and then we had lunch a couple times and he would talk about you. And you know, he's a little older than I was so he would provide me guidance and he was just such a nice man and and you know, I told you when we first met that we went for some time before he ever told me about his baseball career and all of that. We just we were just gym buddies and and I so enjoyed my friendship with him and and and it was brief before he passed but we shared some special days.

That was a lot of fun. I so appreciate that and I miss him every day. You know, I can remember my dad going through this rehab and saying some look at how good I'm walking and I'm looking at him like that's the worst walk I've ever seen. He didn't have a good day, but you know what it was it was he was he fought it and and you know that he was a guy that was just dealt with the pain and whatever he was given to deal with he dealt with it and and you know, we talked at length about his his his days with the Yankees and and being traded and and all these different things and you know, it's he was a he's a tough guy and he kept us suffering to himself and had a great outlook on life. He was a very inspirational guy. He really was. I can remember Ken standing on the second tee out at a golf course in Milwaukee called Brown Deer and my buddy Pearly who does a show with me is Kenny for me and we're looking probably 300 and over 300 yards up the right side of the just in the ropes and my dad's walk was so bad we could pick him out from 300. There's my dad up there by the tree.

Yeah, it was so grateful. I know you're a lover of the game. I before I talk to you a little bit about golf. Tell me about the Blue Moon Blues band you're a guitar playing singer, I had no idea about that.

Well, it's just it happened a few years back. I you know when I moved to the morning show and I was and I would come home from work every day and the rest of the world was was still working and and I thought you know that the girl I was dating at the time said you want to start, you know, you got to learn how to play guitar and I said that would be fun and you know YouTube now you can learn anything on YouTube. So I had an old guitar that I never really learned how to play and I just started picking on it and and learning things off of YouTube and and kind of got steered toward the blues because I just I love the blues music and I started going to some clubs in town and the old bill on Broadway before they closed it and Marquis Knox and, and some of the great local blues. Jeremiah Johnson and and big Mike Aguirre and some of the great blues artists here in town and and got inspired and and fell into a group of guys that we just decided to start a little blues band and most of us are older and don't have a lot of time for practice and and digging and all of that but about average is about once a month that we can get out and play gigs and, and it's it's been very rewarding and very fun and it's, you know, it's a lot like golf it's I look at it as being something that I can carry into my older years and hopefully continue to do it.

And that, you know, you can't let racing motocross was my true love that was the one thing I really loved with dirt bikes and obviously you're not going to do that at a certain age. So, that's, that's where I am now golf and and and blues music, we have more from Ken coming up that's going to wrap up the front nine. This is golf with Jay Delson. WX OS WX OS HD one East St. Louis, 101 ESPN for 67 years Loose has been the ride to take 15 brands and 11 locations Loose Automotive, we are St. Louis. Quick note, we just got a call from our friend Joe Caesar at USA mortgage.

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He is with Washington University. It's the head of urology with Seitman Cancer Center, and one of the worldwide experts in prostate cancer. Doc, thanks so much for joining me. Let's talk a little bit about why you're on the show, and some of the advancements and things that you have discovered and your team has discovered with prostate cancer. Well, you know, I would just say the simplest message that I think we need to impart today is that prostate cancer is not one disease.

It's different in different men. And consequently, we need to personalize or we need to individualize how we look for prostate cancer in terms of screening for it with the PSA blood test, and furthermore, how we treat prostate cancer. It's not one size fits all, have surgery, have radiation. There are so many nuances now, and we now have the tools to take an individual man's tumor and figure out the optimal way of treating him. So far and away, the message I'd like to leave the listeners today is that the tools are available, whether they're genetic testing, specific blood tests, or specific gene abnormalities in a given man's tumor, they can make the whole difference in terms of successfully eradicating prostate cancer. These new advancements help with quality of life, and they're not quite as debilitating.

No, that's exactly right. But even, you know, we could start before that, Jay. You know, men have pretty much heard about the PSA test for prostate cancer, and most men do get one. In addition to getting that test now, there is a genetic test that a man can do, you know, by rubbing the inside of his cheek to determine how worried he ought to be about getting prostate cancer. There's sort of one of these tests that can tell you that, gosh, based on the genes you were born with, you have a high risk of having an aggressive prostate cancer within the next 10 or 15 years. And armed with that information, that guy will be compliant, you know, and get the PSA tests that he needs, and to get the other X-ray tests that he needs to look for prostate cancer. On the other hand, if his genetic test said he was at low risk for prostate cancer, then he doesn't have to worry quite as much. You see what I'm saying about personalizing our approach to looking for the disease in the first place, and then, you're right, if a man does have a disease, prostate cancer, we can, again, interrogate the genes that are turned on in that guy's prostate cancer. And from that information, figure out the optimal way of treating him. So, Doc, we have an acronym, CHARM, which stands for Care for Men with High-Risk Advanced or Recurring Metastatic Cancer. And we're going to be hearing a lot about that in our community, aren't we?

That's exactly right, Jay. We would like to say we're launching a CHARM offensive, and the reason we want to do this is that there are men who have these forms of prostate cancer that you mentioned. High risk, meaning they have very aberrant genes turned on in their cancer. Advanced, meaning even though they got screened, the cancer had spread beyond the confines of the prostate. Recurrent, meaning even though their original doctors thought they could cure them, they did not, and the cancer came back. And metastatic means that the cancer not only came back in one spot, but it came back in multiple spots. So we're launching a CHARM offensive where, at the Seitman Cancer Center, we have multidisciplinary specialists, urologists, radiation therapists, medical oncologists, and also excellent imaging or x-ray type tests that we've developed that can actually pinpoint where the recurrent or metastatic disease is and guide a very specific targeted treatment for those men. So yes, we'd like to launch this CHARM offensive. Well, we want to shine some light on this thing, let people know what's going on, and Doc, tell them how they can reach out to you or one of your departments.

Well, go to our webpage, urology.wustl.edu, or to the Seitman Cancer Center webpage, or they can always call me, 314-362-8200. The Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association is a proud sponsor of golf with Jay Telsing. The MAGA has been the USGA Allied Golf Association in the St. Louis Central and Southern Illinois region since 1992. The MAGA provides over 30 days of competition opportunities and conducts qualifying for nine USGA championships while supporting more than 140 member clubs with amateur golf services.

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Welcome back. This is Golf with Jay Telsing. I'm your host, Jay, and we are on the Back Nine. And I got to tell you, folks, you might be thinking, some of you listeners might be thinking, why did you just have Dr. Andrew Yolan talking about prostate cancer? Who the hell wants to talk about that?

Well, nobody. Okay? But it's really important, and this doctor is a golf lover. And I got to tell you a story. Arnold Palmer wound up with prostate cancer. And I am in my late 20s, and we are in a locker room, and Arnold Palmer calls a player meeting, and guess what?

Every damn player's in there. And Arnold Palmer says exactly what's happened to him. I had this elevated test.

Here's what you need. And he looked us in the eye, and he said, everybody go get this test. So I'm like, I'm in. Arnold Palmer, I'm going to do it. So I call my doc.

He's like, what are you talking about? You're only 27. I go, Arnold Palmer told me to call and get this test done. I need to get it done.

He goes, you're fine, man. Wait till you're like over 40. But that's kind of why it was special to bring out on the show.

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All right, let's go and listen to the Kent Earhart interview. Let's jump into the golf. I know we text back and forth.

I can remember at the Schwab Cup Championship when Goosen missed that four-foot putt that would have won the tournament for him and taken away the Schwab Cup Championship from Scott McCarron. I got a text from you and I was kind of on the edge of my seat as well. So you love the game. Tell us a little bit about your game and how long you've been playing.

Well, I stink, but I do love the game. And I've just recently, things have kind of come back together a little bit. I'm a member out at Old Hickory. You and I have a mutual friend, Mark Nelson, who's a principal partner out there.

And Mark and I are lifelong friends. And I joined there a few years back, had some back issues. And golf has kind of come and gone.

It's another thing that my dad loved and we didn't get to do it as much as I would have liked. But I played some in college and then I played some when I was in Iowa, when I was doing PM Magazine. And then I moved to Florida and I played a little bit, but then I got into the dirt biking and boats and of all things, I stepped away from golf for many years when I lived in Florida, which was probably the stupidest move I ever made because I had access to every, we lived down the road from PGA National and we had access to all these great courses.

And I wasn't playing at that time. And then I picked it up again here when I joined at Old Hickory, obviously. And for me, I love to follow the game. I'm a big fan of the PGA Tour and having grown up. And when I went to school in Cape Girardeau, I used to go down to the Danny Thomas, which did really well in that tournament. Right. I love Memphis. I love that golf course down there.

Yeah. So we would go down and watch. It was hot as hell. I remember that. It was blazing hot down there.

It was in the summertime. I remember walking that course one time when, who was it? Lee Trevino and Fuzzy Zeller were teamed together. Now, what a day of, you talk about a fun day to watch a couple of guys play golf. Two guys who could move the ball at will wherever they wanted to land on the golf course. It was just, it was a clinic and it was a comedy routine at the same time.

It was so much fun. I was going to say, Ken, you watched that group and you could smoke a cigarette with either one of them. You could have a drink with them. They'd tell you a joke and they'd hit some of the best golf shots you'd ever seen. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. And not the fittest guys you would ever follow around a golf course either. But it's like, you know, it's like following John Daly. I mean, all that matters is putting the club on the ball. And they did it with such finesse. It was really fun to watch. And, you know, I thought that we in St. Louis had an unbelievable sports year that was kind of capped off with the Blues. But really that Bell Reef tournament was one of the, I've said it was the best sporting event I've ever been to in my life. And I, I was spoiled because I had media passes. I had no idea what these media passes were going to get for me because we were out there doing live coverage during the week.

But they were good for the whole weekend. And we had access to all the media privileges and it was, I mean, I was a spoiled brat at that tournament. But I just walk in that course and seeing the vibe that was coming out of it and the way St. Louis held up was just unbelievable for me. That was, that was my favorite sporting event of all time. Kent, I think, I think you're 100 percent right when you talk about 500 countries that that thing was being shown to and hundreds of millions of people were watching that.

I mean, it dwarfs anything else that the city's had in relation to it. Yeah, and it's so exciting and I didn't even get to tell you that my kids grew up with Brooks Koepka. We were, his mother and I worked together in West Palm for years and Brooks and my kids and some of the other station kids, they all grew up together, Brooks and Chase both.

And I've kept in touch with Denise all these years and used to play softball with his dad for years, but probably 12 years I played softball with his dad. And so to see him out there like that on the tail of the end of the U.S. Open and to see him perform like that was a real treat. This is Golf with Jay Delson Comeback.

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I'm your host, Jay. Let's go and listen to the Kent Earhart interview. Isn't it amazing, Kent? The life that you're living and the life that you've led has and the things that you've done have crossed over into so many different spaces.

I mean, your kids grew up with Brooks Koepka. I mean, it's just amazing. It's fantastic.

It is. And I'm, you know, you get to a point in your life where you do start looking back on the things that you've done. And, you know, not just the high end career type things, but growing up in St. Louis and the opportunities that I had here and the opportunity to come home and reattach to old friends like I've done with so many people here that I grew up with.

And, you know, a lot of us don't have those opportunities. We move on to different places and we set up shop in different communities and we have close friends, obviously. But there's something about being close to the people that you grew up with and, you know, you can't pull anything over on them.

They know you and they've known you for day one. And to see the community coming along like that, I'm so excited about this Champion's Tour at Norwood. I think it's going to be great.

I know Barney Hinkle's in charge of things up there and he does a great job. And I'm excited to see how this pans out. And I hope we can stay on the schedule for many, many years. Oh, I do, too. And I don't know if you're familiar with the Ascension Health Group, but boy, are these guys community rock stars just doing amazing stuff.

And they've the title sponsor for four years and they're already talking about trying to extend it. And we haven't even had our first event yet. Yeah, that's awesome. I think that this is a great golf community. I really do and always has been.

I remember growing up with, you know, and watching Hale Irwin and just seeing him perform on the big stage and what a fantastic talent he was. And so many great golf courses in this community and great golfers that have come out of here, including yourself. And it's exciting to see something like that taking root.

Well, it is. And one of the things you mentioned, I just want to touch briefly our corporate community here, because, you know, our market is what we're twenty third or twenty four size in the country. But our corporate community is so robust and so supportive for events like that. And like what they did at the PGA Championship and what they'll do for the Champions event at Norwood. It's going to directly benefit the North County area is fantastic. Yeah, you're you're absolutely right. And that's what it takes is these these public private, which this isn't a purely a public private partnership, but it does take that that corporate sponsorship and corporations doing things for the right reasons, wanting to be a part of the community.

I think that's so important. And and my hats off to them for for supporting this tournament at that level, because, you know, it's kind of an unknown. It's one thing to have the PGA come in here with a major major tournament. And of course, that that, you know, has has hosted major tournaments before, as has Norwood. But but for something like this, for them to go out on a limb and make that kind of a commitment, I think it's great. And and I think it'll be great for the golf course, too.

And I can't wait to see some of those champions come into town and tear it up. Yeah, it's pretty amazing how good the old geezers still play, isn't it? It really is. And, you know, I'm as glued to them on Golf Channel and and the networks as I am to the PGA stuff, the tour, because it's there's some great golfing played there and on the corn tour as well.

I mean, there's so many young guys that could are just, you know, stacked close to breaking through and doing really, really well. Golf is such a grind. You know, we were talking about this, I think, at lunch the other day with my with my golf buddies. And I just said, I can't imagine just playing four days of tournament golf and having the sponsorship responsibilities that you have and then getting on a plane. And especially for the guys that aren't flying private jets and that have families and that are trying to live from paycheck to paycheck and make a living doing it. As you well know, it is just such a grind.

And it's amazing to me that they can play as well as they can with that kind of pressure and the timing and everything else. And, you know, I don't know about you. Well, you did that. But I mean, I sleep in a hotel. I don't sleep. I lay there. I don't know how you get a good night's sleep in a strange bed. I guess you get used to it after a while.

But then to go out and perform for four or five days at a world class level like that in a sport that is so emotionally driven. It just it's beyond me. It's because I wasn't very smart.

I didn't think about it too much. I just lay my head down and fortunate enough to go to sleep. But, man, I got to tell you, it says so much about sort of person you are and how much you love this community. You know, you're down in West Palm. You went to these other areas.

You came back. I know you're involved in charities and stuff. And you can just tell by the way you talk the passion that you have that you love St. Louis. And we just do love having you on the show. Keep doing what you're doing with great day St. Louis. It's fun to get to see that side of your personality, obviously, with all the awards you won from your your meteorologist society. I know you're a national board member of the Weather Association and have been for what, almost 25 years or so.

Well, it's it's backed off on that stuff a lot these days. And my schedule is pretty grueling with these morning hours. But you're right. I mean, I do love I do love this community. I'm here by choice.

You know, everybody always says, let me get this right. You were in Palm Beach and then you moved to St. Louis. She's supposed to do the opposite, but it was home. And and, you know, I certainly miss Palm Beach County. But at the same time, it's great to be home and great to do your show. Thank you so much.

And that's going to wrap up another show. Appreciate you tuning in. This is Golf with Jay Delsing. Intimstrate St. Louis. That was Golf with Jay Delsing brought to you by Whitmore Country Club. Tune in next Sunday for more from Jay, John and the other pros and experts from the golf world. In the meantime, you can find all of Jay's shows at one oh one ESPN dot com, as well as at J. Delsing Golf Dotcom.