Charlie Van Kirk
speaker
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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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.
I'm not sure that he ever found out about that one, but they lived to tell the tale.
Let's go find out.
Let's go fuck around and find out.
This reminded me of a quote from an interview on, I believe it was the Turf Today podcast with a superintendent at a Pete Dye golf course, which we'll get to.
But the superintendent, Keith Christina said, essentially the reason that a bunch of younger people, younger superintendents call me and ask for advice is that I've killed more grass than they have.
Like, you know, I've figured out almost as many ways as possible to mess things up.
And then I've not made that mistake again.
And yeah, Pete kind of lived by that as well.
Which after a while of wondering about where that came from, like
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