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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I think a lot of it comes back to his early days turning sprinklers on and off when he was eight or nine years old at Urbana.
There was something planted in there in those formative years.
In the early 50s, he was on the country club of Indianapolis football.
Green's committee.
The course had been through some rough times, apparently, and he asked to be on the committee.
And so they allowed him on and they may have come to regret that decision later.
They didn't know how much, he says, the quote is, it took a while for them to realize how much of a disaster it would be that they...
Let him into the boys club.
Uh, so the, the club at the time had what he calls some of the finest players of the day as part of their, their membership who quote, remember me as the man who single-handedly annihilated their golf course.
Pete had studied, we know that he didn't graduate from any university, but he studied turf management, took some classes with a few professors and academic doctors at Purdue, went to superintendents meetings in the area to learn some techniques, got a little dangerous, emboldened with- I like Cody.
He's a turf head.
Yeah, exactly.
So he started tinkering, started experimenting with some of this new knowledge, tried out some chemical mixes on the fairways at the country club, didn't get the ratios quite right, caused the course to lose a little grass.
The quote is that he caused the course to lose the little grass it once possessed.
He wasn't in the million-dollar club of designing courses at that point, but still, it clearly got the juices going enough for him to jump ship from insurance land.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This struck me in that they're all dressed up with nowhere to go phase was about four years long.
They're just looking for jobs.
It's not clear to me exactly when they stopped taking salaries.
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