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Recapping the first US Tour speedgolf event of 2024 Speedgolf USA Director Scott Dawley and Adam Lorton recap the 2024 Missouri Speedgolf Open, including a hole in one, a new speed record, and more. https://www.instagram.com/scottdawleygolf https://www.instagram.com/speedgolfusa -- The Speedgolf Baby Audio Experience follows speedgolf -- the faster, fitter variant of the beautiful game of golf. Subscribe for interviews, tournament previews, tournament broadcast audio, and more! Speedgolf baby, let's go! ⛳🏃🏌🔥 👕 Buy Merch → https://speedgolf.baby/store​ 🍎 Subscribe → https://youtube.com/@SpeedgolfBaby​ ​❤️ Follow → https://www.instagram.com/speedgolf.baby

  📍  📍 Warning. The speed golf baby audio experience contains radical ideas about how fast you can play golf and how good you can feel while you play. If that's not your thing, there are a thousand golf podcasts you can listen to instead. So go find one of those and now speed golf baby, let's go. I'm Adam Lorton, executive producer of speed golf baby, and welcome to the speed golf baby audio experience, where we are all about speed golf, the faster, fitter variant. Of the beautiful game of golf,  whether you wear a hat or a headband on the course, please subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you're listening to. Also rate and review us. It's a par five, five stars for speed golf, baby. And if you haven't yet subscribed to the speed golf baby YouTube channel, that's where the magic happens. And finally, if you're speed golf curious, get the speed golf starter pack for free at speed golf dot baby slash start.  Last time on the speed golf, baby audio experience, you learned the official 2024 rules of speed golf with PGA pro Garrett Holt  on today's episode. We've got a major championship preview talking about the Missouri speed golf open coming up Memorial day weekend at Horton Smith golf course in Springfield, Missouri, joining me on the hype train. It's Scott Dolly director of speed golf, USA owner of the world record, which he set at this very golf course. So synchronize your watches people, because we're about to step up to the starting line. And now Scott Dolly. Scott, welcome to the show Adam. Good to be back, man. major championship preview. And this marks 10 years of speed golf in Springfield, Missouri. A long time speed golf hotspot. So I wanted to open the show by asking you to recount a couple of your favorite early memories from Springfield speed golf.  Absolutely. I didn't get a chance to go to Springfield. I wanted to, for the longest time. My first chance to go was in 2019. Back then they actually hosted the event at Rivercut. Rivercut had a flat front nine, kind of along the river. The back nine got up into like these little tiny hills and stuff. Great golf course. I just remember  the community aspect of it. You know, finishing up on the 18th and, and a lot of the people in Springfield I'd never met before now, of course, we're all friends. They come out every year. I've seen them for five, six years in a row, but back then it was just great to be welcomed into this local speed golf community there in Springfield. That was great. Then of course we hopped over to Horton Smith. In 2020 that was the year when I played some really, really good speed golf. And I, I felt like I lipped out five or six putts.  And there's a video that Nick Evans did pink streak speed golf. It was the 2020. Front nine and back nine. And actually, I believe that was the first fully recorded speed golf round. Kind of  preemptive of, of speed golf baby. But I think that was the first fully recorded speed golf round. And I mentioned at the end of that round, I think I shot 72 or something like that. And, and I said, man, I know this sounds crazy, but I could have shot 66 today. There's a world record out there. Well, one year later, I went out the first round shot 66 and 42 minutes and shot the world record. And you know, so I felt like that was just kind of planting the seed from a year before. It was really cool to see that turnaround. And for that to happen, I've got nothing, but good memories of that golf course. It is out there for the taking, but that doesn't mean that it's easy. Cause you can, you can very, very easily get yourself, you know, behind a tree, you can get yourself out of position and then you're struggling to make par. So yeah, Garrett's done a great job there. Andy Dalton is another, long time member of that community. And just, just a great experience.  I hope everyone who plays speed golf gets a chance to go to Springfield one year. I agree. You got to make the pilgrimage to former speed golf USA ambassadors of the year. Garrett Holt and I shared the award in 2022, Tim Shrike last year. Springfield, definitely a hotspot for speed golf.  Another memory of mine that I'm I'm not going to be quick to forget Rob Hogan closing in the back nine in the 2022 U S open. I mean, it looked like he was just out of the tournament because he had shot one. What? 85 in the first round. And you know, of course he was going fast, but it was like the opposite of what you would expect in a normal speed golf tournament. Usually as the golfer, you shout out your scores to the scorekeeper. Hogan was going so hard. He was going to 10 intensity. His scorekeepers were yelling the scores to him. That's crazy. Yes. You know, I was on the receiving end of his great back nine. Actually, I, I had a pretty good start to, to that final round that day. I went Eagle.  And, you know, I had the tournament in my hands. We've talked about this before, so I see it from a little bit of a different angle. But at the same time, you know, it's great to see Rob come over. We had international participation. He had already won the French open. He'd already won the British open. He'd already run the one, the Irish open. And it just almost seemed inevitable. And I gave him my best shot. I know the other guys out there, Nick and Jason were working their hardest. And Hogan came through with the win. But it's been great. Pretty cool to see his name on the US Open trophy. I'll tell you that it's never going away.  Iconic performance from the big bearded Irishman. And to think that that's not even close to, you know, top five career highlights for him.  Exactly. I kind of want to have him following me around one day and every time I mess up, he can just go, no, no, no, no, no.  Really put me in my place.  Yep. I love that. Let's talk about world's qualifying. So the stakes are a little bit higher this year than they would just be at a traditional Missouri speed golf open because people who compete in the open division can earn qualifying points toward world championships. Now, only if you're qualifying for team USA, the British speed golfers are going to have a different qualifying system, I'm sure.  Let's take a look at that. So we've got our preseason leaderboard your preseason top four qualifiers right now, Jason Hawkins will not be in attendance at Missouri. Scott Dolly will be there. Nick Gooden will be there. Expect Nick Gooden to post a score. He's been so close so many times.  Listen, I gotta say something about Nick. He has not had, he has not had that round yet for him. And it's like, he's so close. He shot 32 on the front nine one year. And that's his home course. So he hasn't gotten the fullness out of his game. He hasn't had that round where everything comes together. And I feel like it's just a bullet train coming at us at some point. He's going to let it go. He's going to let it ride. And he could shoot the world record to be honest with you.  Well, right. And  Nick Gooden. He just did a marathon like three weeks ago or something like that. So he is going to be in probably the best aerobic shape that he's been in a long time.  The remainder of the world's qualifying leaderboard for now, Jonathan, Jeff, Steve Vansel, Garrett Holt would normally be playing, but we'll be out with injury this year, West cup, Nick Evans, Luther Olson, Luke Granallo, and somebody has got to be the last place on the leaderboard. It's Adam Come on, Adam. Let's go.  Time to climb, baby. Nice. It's climbing time. Indeed. I ran Hills this morning as a matter of fact. All right. So that's your world's qualifying picture. The top performers from the open division they will get their two scores on the leaderboard for now, and they'll be able to update as they produce better rounds throughout the year. Your top four scores from any of the seven qualifying major rounds. So there'll be, two rounds in Missouri, two rounds in Kentucky and three rounds at the brutal U S open. We have coming up in New York.  One more storyline from Missouri. We've got YouTuber Josh Mayer, who's going to be playing in this speed golf tournament, 115, 000 YouTube subscribers. This guy, makes a full time living, making golf, YouTube videos. And Scott, you're going to meet up with him tomorrow. Is that right?  Yeah, that's right. We, we talked at the beginning of the year and he said, Hey man, I want to come play. Like, I think a great challenge for me. I, he had some sort of injury leg injury that he was recovering from. And he's like, I've wanted to do this for much longer, but I was injured. I want to train and then I want to come out and play in one of your events. What do you think would be good? He's up in Dallas. And I said, come up to Missouri, man. It'd be  a great time. So he has been training with, along with his wife over the spring. And he, what he wants to do is come down and just get a quick nine hole training session with me before. Yeah. So he has a better idea of what he's doing when he goes out in the tournament. So he will be there. He's going to play 18 holes on the Sunday of the event, first round. And I'm really looking forward to it. He obviously is going to have a blast. It's going to be amazing. And I think the way that he films his content, it's going to attract. A lot of his viewers to be more interested in speed golf and possibly even looking for ways for them to be able to play. Well, you know what I love about this? So much of the speed golf you see on YouTube or in social media is like people want to try it for the first time. And so they appropriately, they try to bite off a manageable chunk. And so usually they play a single hole. Now, I actually think that's a terrible idea. A single hole. Like, all right, here's a pop quiz for you, Scott. What's harder  running a 400 meter or running four miles?  yeah. I mean, for me emotionally, I don't mind running 400 meters, but yeah, I think, I think for most people maybe it's the

  Warning, the speed golf baby audio experience contains radical ideas about how fast you can play golf and how good you can feel while you play. If that's not your thing, there are a thousand golf podcasts you can listen to instead. And now   speed golf, baby, let's go. I'm Adam Lorton, executive producer of speed golf, baby. Welcome to the speed golf, baby audio experience, where we are keeping up with speed golf, the faster fitter variant of the beautiful game of golf. Whether you're a golfer who runs. Or a runner who plays golf, please subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you're listening to, please rate and review us. It's a par five for speed golf, baby. That's five stars.  And if you're speed golf curious, get the speed golf starter pack. It's free. And it's at speed golf dot baby slash start.   Last time on the speed golf baby audio experience, you heard the audio feed from the 2023 Missouri speed golf open round one on today's episode. We're talking to Garrett Holt, PGA professional and the new speed golf USA official rules official to review the 2024 rules of speed golf. So put on your reading glasses because we're about to read the fine print. And now, Garrett Holt.  What's up speed golf family. We're live with Garrett Holt official speed golf, USA rules official for 2024. Garrett I'm happy to help. You know, everyone's kind of doing their own thing to get this thing off the ground and running and building. And I'm excited to help provide some expertise or consistency with the rules, which is pretty big in our sport. Fantastic. The purpose of this conversation is to clarify what are the new and updated rules for speed golf, USA tournaments, 2024, I'm going to be the host Garrett. You're going to be like the expert witness and we're going to jump right into section one, which says USGA rules apply. Do you have anything to add?  No, no, we want this to be very similar to regular golf. Obviously there's a couple of things that we do slightly differently but , if it's not written on there, you guys should know the USGA rules. If not, take a little refresher course, visit the website.  Fantastic. So the remainder of this video will be the exceptions to USGA rules, exceptions or modifications to USGA rules that we make for the purpose of making speed golf more like speed golf. So pacers and caddies. Players are not permitted to have caddies or pacers during a round.  Garrett, what does that mean?  Well, you know, it's pretty common for for most of us, whenever we go out to follow along other people we don't want people to be at an advantage or disadvantage because they do or do not have a little group that's helping them pace or giving them advice. Advice is a really big thing. That's pretty standard in the USGA. You can't get advice on how far you are, what club you should hit. They can help spot balls. Spectators can do all that stuff. Just imagine that you're at a regular golf tournament. You can spectate and spot balls, but you can't pace. You can't. Help. You can't provide advice or anything like that. Yeah. So what I'm hearing is the only way a spectator is allowed to help is to help you find your ball.  All right. Equipment. So there are really three rules of equipment, no equipment assistance. Players have to carry all their equipment without assistance. However, in most speed golf USA tournaments, there's a provision that allows your scorekeeper riding the cart to carry water and golf balls if you want them to, which is nice because I like to carry about nine golf balls just, you know, on the off chance it's a really rough day and nine golf balls would really weigh me down if I had to carry them on my person. Yeah. It would weigh you down. I mean, you need zippered pockets. I've tried all that. They, they hop out of your pockets. Having a couple of extra golf balls. I think that's still within the spirit of it. They're not carrying half the clubs or the bag or anything like that.  Okay. So you must carry all your equipment generally with the exception that you can put your water and golf balls on the cart with your scorekeeper.  No equipment on the greens. This is unfortunately now called the Nick Gooden rule. So let's say you have a wedge and a putter for green side play. You're not allowed to rest the wedge on the green while you putt, for example, and you sure as heck are not allowed to place your bag on the green. However If you drop it by accident and pick it right back up, that is not a penalty. That was established in the gin OTA case in the 2023 us open for one.  That actually happened to me at Worlds in Florida. Was the accident on maybe the 17th hole. I wasn't aware of this. I docked myself a stroke. I told the scorekeeper, add a stroke to it. This has been a longstanding thing where you can't put clubs on the green. It doesn't matter whether you lay down gently or you drop it. Or you put the bag on it. Doesn't matter whether the bag is soft or hard. If you're, You have a slip of mind or you do it on purpose to gain an advantage. The penalty is still the same. Yep. Speed golfers take care of the golf course. And this is part of that effort to always take good care of the golf course, no matter how careful you feel like you're being the safest thing to do is just not place any equipment on the green. And so, and that's why there's a penalty stroke applied. Third rule in the equipment section, you must finish with all equipment  all speed golf USA tournaments this year are going to have a finish line. And so you must pick up your ball out of the cup and cross the finish line with the ball you tapped in on the last hole. Yeah. Finishing with all the equipment. I mean, in theory you could, if you were creative, if we didn't have this rule, you could hit your driver on the last hole, drop the driver. You could hit an iron from the fairway, drop the iron. You hit the green, you drop all your clothes, but your putter and you run up. I don't know how much that's going to save you. I don't know why you would want to have to walk back, you know, after the round, after your gas to get it, but this prevents that it's been a common practice, at least in my event to have a line painted in front of the green. To where you have to finish with all of your clubs and then you drop it. The one thing we're adding in this year is after you hole out the ball in the hole, you have to grab the ball, the rest of your clubs, and then run past that finish line we're going to make this uniform this year. Yep, definitely. So that all makes sense. This is a slight update from prior years. It looks like in prior years you would be charged one penalty stroke per incident, and now the penalty has been changed to a blanket two stroke penalty for any equipment left on the golf course.  Yes. In 2025, there will be an additional entry in the equipment section of the rules, and that is about adjustable golf clubs. Now Scott has made it very clear that he doesn't want to mess with the 14 club rule. And so it will be stipulated that adjustable clubs have to have distinct club settings. And so for example, you know, a Q golf club has 11 settings, so that would count for 11 golf clubs. So you could carry a Q plus three clubs potentially, but not plus four clubs.  So your 11 settings would count as 11 golf clubs in the bag in 2025 and 2024 adjustable clubs are not allowed in speed golf USA events. Yeah. I think if you speed golf for the last six months or a year, you're aware of Q golf and what they've done with the golf club,  they've been one of the most recent manufacturers to get after this. It's really cool. I've got one myself. Everyone knows how fun it is to run around with only one or two clubs instead of six or seven. I think this adds to the fun. I think it makes it more accessible. I don't yet know whether it would have an effect on performance. Time will tell on that All right. Section four lost ball or out of bounds. It's very simple here. In regular golf, You lose your ball or you hit it out of bounds. You must go back to the spot you hit it from. For speed golf, there's a much more pleasant remedy, which is you play it as though it's a hazard. So you drop on the line on which you hit it and play from there with a one stroke penalty. Garrett, please explain. Yeah. Very close to the hazard scenario and this is where at the beginning we follow all USGA rules. The USGA rules for a lost ball are out of bounds. If you're a recreational player you may not really know the real rule on that. You may with your buddies just drop it and then maybe add a stroke, maybe not. So, the USGA introduced this rule and I think the purpose was for pace of play. So you hit the ball down there, you lose it, you can't find it. USGA dropped that down to three minutes for looking for a lost ball. Well then you would technically have to go back to the tee and you'd be hitting your third. First one goes out. You drop two, you hit your third from the tee, that third ball is going to end up pretty close to where the first one was, maybe equidistant to it, maybe toward the fairway, and then you're hitting four from there. So technically the USGA model local rule  would be that you hit the first one that you can't find. So it's lost or it's out of bounds. And they added an extra option. Instead of going back and routine and hitting three or having a one shot penalty stroke and distance, you could do a two shot penalty and drop  I would charge everyone to find the picture, that diagram is excellent because they actually allow you to go toward the fairway and then almost two clubs into the fairway  basically you draw a triangle between the spot where your ball went out of bounds the fairway at the same distance away from the T and then the T would be the third point of the triangle. And then anywhere in that triangle is a legal drop with two stroke penalty. And so then the speed golf rule would be the

Official broadcast coverage of the 2023 Missouri Speedgolf Open, Round 2 from Horton Smith Golf Course in Springfield, Missouri.   Featured speedgolfers: Nic Goodin https://www.instagram.com/nic.goodin/   Garrett Holt https://www.instagram.com/garrett_r_holt/    Scott Dawley https://www.instagram.com/scottdawleygolf/   Course: Horton Smith Golf Course | Springfield, Missouri Commentary: Adam Lorton Garrett Holt Camera crew: Mark Heintz Joey Heintz Nicholas Finke Special thanks: Nicolai Manaloto, Speedgolf USA -- 🏌️ Get the Speedgolf Starter Pack → https://speedgolf.baby/start 🍎 Subscribe → ​https://youtube.com/@SpeedgolfBaby 👕 Buy Merch → ​https://speedgolf.baby/store​ ​ ❤️ Follow → ​https://www.instagram.com/speedgolf.baby -- The Speedgolf Baby Audio Experience follows speedgolf -- the faster, fitter variant of the beautiful game of golf. Subscribe for interviews, tournament previews, tournament broadcast audio, and more! Speedgolf baby, let's go! ⛳🏃🏌🔥

Official broadcast coverage of the 2023 Missouri Speedgolf Open, Round 1 from Horton Smith Golf Course in Springfield, Missouri.   Featured speedgolfers: Nic Goodin https://www.instagram.com/nic.goodin/   Garrett Holt https://www.instagram.com/garrett_r_holt/    Scott Dawley https://www.instagram.com/scottdawleygolf/ Course: Horton Smith Golf Course | Springfield, Missouri Commentary: Adam Lorton Nick Evans   Camera crew: Mark Heintz Joey Heintz Nicholas Finke Special thanks: Nicolai Manaloto, Speedgolf USA -- 🏌️ Get the Speedgolf Starter Pack → https://speedgolf.baby/start 🍎 Subscribe → ​https://youtube.com/@SpeedgolfBaby 👕 Buy Merch → ​https://speedgolf.baby/store​ ​ ❤️ Follow → ​https://www.instagram.com/speedgolf.baby -- The Speedgolf Baby Audio Experience follows speedgolf -- the faster, fitter variant of the beautiful game of golf. Subscribe for interviews, tournament previews, tournament broadcast audio, and more! Speedgolf baby, let's go! ⛳🏃🏌🔥

Scott Dawley joins Adam Lorton to preview the 2024 US Speedgolf Tour season and announce the Speedgolf USA policy on adjustable golf clubs for 2025. -- 🏌️ Get the Speedgolf Starter Pack → https://speedgolf.baby/start 🍎 Subscribe → ​https://youtube.com/@SpeedgolfBaby 👕 Buy Merch → ​https://speedgolf.baby/store​ ​ ❤️ Follow → ​https://www.instagram.com/speedgolf.baby -- The Speedgolf Baby Audio Experience follows speedgolf -- the faster, fitter variant of the beautiful game of golf. Subscribe for interviews, tournament previews, tournament broadcast audio, and more! Speedgolf baby, let's go! ⛳🏃🏌🔥