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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over time become this let's make something out of nothing guy.
And he contained multitudes, as we were kind of talking about before, contradictions with the Ashok self-deprecation and his confidence.
Well, he also contained multitudes in terms of his...
infamous for his ability to receive an unlimited budget and manage to exceed it, which will come up a couple of times throughout this.
This wasn't necessarily one of those projects, but he had this utilitarianism, DJ, you were talking about earlier as well.
So at Harbortown, for example, he was proud of the fact that he spread sand and covered it with pine needles around many areas of the rough, which provided the course with the Pinehurst look that he was fond of.
decreased the amount of maintenance that was required and decreased the cost there.
That's kind of a small example, but the book is full of those things like, ah, look what I did there.
I managed to save a bunch of money on drainage by doing this or save a bunch of money on mowers by spreading pine needles over sandy areas and making them look native.
it was super motivating for him.
Yeah.
Let's build the most finessey shot making course possible when the guy on the scene at the moment is building these huge brawny courses.
So one anecdote to, to this effect, well, two, that was not the only time that he, he said, uh, you see what, whatever that guy's doing over there, like we'll be okay.
If we do the exact opposite, I, someone who
told me a different version of that story about a different course and a different designer.
But anyway, when I was talking with George and Mac Fry at Kiowa, George Fry was the original super at Kiowa and Mac is his son who developed a friendship with Pete.
Over the years, Mac told me that he was having lunch with Pete in Indiana one day and the subject of another golf course who Mac wouldn't tell me what the course was or who the designer was, but the subject of this course came up and Pete just stormed out of the restaurant.
No explanation.
They were like, what happened?
Did we say something to offend him?
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