452: The Drought Crisis of 2014 with Don Chemeledos of The Presidio GC

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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452: Fourteen states are struggling from severe drought conditions. Now in it's third year in California, things have become so desperate that courses are starting to close because they cannot maintain playable conditions. General Manager of The Presidio Golf Course in San Francisco, Don Chemeledos joins us to discuss the severity of the drought and the unique ideas he's instituted to make it through this critical period. He also shares players' tips on how to play off of dry, hard pan and areas of the course that have no grass to get your club under.This episode is brought to you by Audible.com. For a free audio book of your choice, open a new account today at http://audiblepodcast.com/golfsmarter.Golf Smarter Members have till Oct 1 to get an additional, exclusive discount on a new GameGolf unit. Prices have just dropped to $199US, but our Members are the only golfers who also get an additional 10% off with the checkout code "golfsmarter". To take advantage of this offer, click on the Game Golf ad on our home page at GolfSmarter.comFor exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For members only, Golf Smarter number 452 published on September 2, 2014, is brought to you by Audible.com, the internet's leading provider of audiobooks, with more than 150,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature, including fiction, nonfiction, and periodicals.
0:18.3	For a free audiobook of your choice, go to audiblepodcast.com slash golf smarter.
0:24.7	Smarterpodcasts.com delivering sound advice.
0:30.9	The Trout Crisis of 2014 with Don Chimilettos of the Presidio.
0:35.6	This is Golf Smarter.
0:38.1	Sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals to help lower your score.
0:43.9	It's worked for your host, Fred Green.
0:46.5	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Don.
0:49.5	Hi, Fred. How are you?
0:50.9	I'm doing well.
0:52.4	How things going in San Francisco today?
0:56.2	Well, it looks a little overcast outside, but it'll probably...
0:59.6	Yeah, it is summer.
1:01.9	It is summer.
1:02.9	August in September, I mean, August in San Francisco, you can always tell the tourists because they're the ones who have the new fleece and pair of shorts
1:11.5	and they're walking across the bridge freezing.
1:14.7	Exactly.
1:16.7	What is the busiest time of year for you at the Procedo?
1:22.0	You know, we're actually getting into it right now.
1:24.6	It's probably September, October, November.
1:29.1	And the toughest time for you each year? Well, the last couple years, you know, typically it's probably December
1:35.4	through March, but the last few years, it's been pretty dry. So we've actually had very mild
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