Charlie Van Kirk
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1,326 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
Charlie Van Kirk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It took almost a full year, apparently, for Paul and his crew to rough out six of the holes on 60 acres.
And they might have been moving slow, might have been busy selling drinks at the bar or doing post-work or selling insurance.
I'm not sure what was happening exactly at that time.
But
I see this and Pete kind of frames it this way as like,
Followed by example, Apple not falling for our dad's going out in the dirt and building this course.
And 70 years later, uh, in a kind of a heartwarming story, Pete's son PB came back and designed a second nine at that course.
Um, which looks very charming today.
It's still still around Urbana.
Uh, Pete compares it in the book to Olympic club and Oakmont for its blind uphill shots, like severely sloping side Hill stances, which I thought was interesting.
They did build the Ross course, which is Springfield, but it was after they built it, Paul Sr.
said, ah, that's kind of far away, like I want something next door.
I presume so.
He might have been on the board, the founding board, founding member, something of that nature.
Totally.
So by the time Pete was eight or nine, he was in charge of turning the sprinklers on and off at Urbana.
Started to get a little responsibility creeping in.
His dad, for better or worse, left him in charge of a beautiful bright red Fordson tractor just before World War II broke out.
And Pete let his brother drive the tractor who turned it over sideways in a ravine.
They managed to rescue it before their dad got home.
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