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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I believe he was the captain, which we'll get to.
He was the captain of his college team.
He won the individual title at the 1942 Ohio High School Golf Championship, which is a title that Jack held later.
He considered turning pro.
But in those days, you had to be finishing in the top five, roughly, to make a living at it.
And he decided that his game wasn't at that level.
He said that his long iron game didn't match up.
But you'll like this, Neil.
He was a hooker.
Hit his patented hooks in the center of the fairway.
Yeah, he just tosses this in like many other anecdotes, just real quick offhand.
By the way, one time I was training, jumped out of a plane, my parachute got caught in a tree on the way down and we were doing a night jump.
He's just dangling from this tree, terrified, not sure how high he is off the ground.
He dangles all night, stressing out until finally the sun comes up and he realized that he was about 10 feet above the ground and he just managed to get himself down to the mushy terrain.
big mistake paul senior paul senior decides being apparently also a practical joker paul senior decides to tell a military policeman that his son had falsified his leave pass military policeman did not like that and he got put in the brig for the last 60 days of his military career with a big p on the back of his uniform
So then he was out there with the Italians.
Yeah, the quote from the book directly from Pete is, I was so enthralled with Mr. Ross's design that I convinced my fun-loving friend Jack Lear to let me ride with him in an old Ford 13 hours from Indianapolis to Pinehurst to play in the North and South Amateur.
Jack, who, apropos of nothing, later had a habit of sleeping in a pen with his beloved pack of 17 gray eastern timber wolves, thought I was crazy when I made him stand and hold a measuring rod so I could look through a transit and record the contours on Mr. Ross's greens.
He was studying up.
Yeah, would he have been like a JT Poston level tour player or something like that is what I wrote in the doc, which is maybe a strange, depressing thought to think about him not designing all these courses and
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