Golf Smarter Premium, number 480, published on March 17, 2015.

A golf history of Hawaii and a T-tour of Maui's Pukalani Country Club with general manager, Ron Huffman.

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Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Ron. Hey, Fred. How are you? Excellent, thank you. Well, of course you're excellent. You live in Hawaii. You live in Maui. What a beautiful place, Fred. Oh, my gosh. Tell me how long you've been here, how you got here, and we'll get into your golf course, too.

Well, Fred, my story is like a lot of other people that live in Hawaii, I guess.

In 1996, my wife and I traveled to Hawaii, and on our way back on the plane, we both made a commitment that we turned in our resignations and gave it six months.

We had six months of savings at the time, and we said, we'll make it stretch as far as we can.

And believe it or not, the first week that we came out here, I was working. So that's how we moved here.

And you were working in golf before you let? Where were you before you were?

I was in Dallas, Fort Worth area.

Dallas, Texas.

Working for a golf management company. I managed two golf courses in Texas at the time.

Okay, okay. So you came out here looking for golf work?

Came out here looking for golf work.

There's no better place in the world.

Golf 365 days out of the year?

Yeah, well, not 364 maybe.

Today as we're doing this interview, I played two rounds yesterday on the course and

we'll talk about that, but today it's kind of gray and wet outside.

Well, Fred, I still can't wait to hear your story because you told me a couple of days ago that Wednesday is going to rain.

Yeah?

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