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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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?
Pete comes back with the plans for that other course and starts eviscerating it, just tearing it apart, talking about everything that they had done wrong with it.
Yeah, I mean, it can get precious very quickly.
Like, oh, here's this great man, this great genius, this designer.
Look at all the strategy.
Look at all the visual deception.
And then Pete in his book is like, yeah, fifth hole was an island dump.
We must have buried 30 cars, 10 trucks there.
It was an old asphalt pit.
You know, everything that we didn't want, we just put in that hole.
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