945: NLU Special Projects - The Mystery Behind Why Bethpage is Always Booked

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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For our second edition of NLU Special Projects, we continue to look at the unbelievable difficulty of booking tee times at certain public golf courses as we head to Long Island and Bethpage State Park - the host of this year's Ryder Cup as well as the 2002 & 2009 US Opens and the 2019 PGA Championship. Support our sponsors: Rhoback The Stack GolfPride Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining The Nest: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at nolayingup.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Be the right club.
0:07.0	Be the right club today.
0:09.0	Yes.
0:10.0	Johnny, that's better than most.
0:16.0	How about him?
0:18.0	It is better than most.
0:20.0	Better than most. Better than most.
0:26.8	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast.
0:31.8	Sala here.
0:32.4	We have another edition of NLU special projects coming your way.
0:36.4	It's part of our continuing spotlight on public
0:38.8	golf in America and beyond. Hopefully you caught our last installment about the ongoing tea time
0:43.4	scandal in Los Angeles. Our guy Kevin Van Valkenberg is jumping back into a similar pond in this
0:48.4	episode, but this time on the opposite coast at Beth Page, the People's Country Club, and host for
0:53.7	this year's Ryder Cup. Why is it become such a nightmare to snag a tea time at Beth Page, the People's Country Club, and host for this year's Rider Cup.
0:55.1	Why is it become such a nightmare to snag a tea time at Beth Page's five municipal courses?
1:00.4	I've did some real digging here. I'm not going to spoil it. It's just, it's just as
1:04.0	scandalous as Los Angeles. I really enjoy this one. I know you will too. Without any further
1:07.7	delay, here's KV. I want to begin today's episode with an ode to
1:12.3	the most meaningless sign in all of golf. In fact, I'm not sure the word meaningless accurately
1:18.2	captures the message the sign ultimately delivers because it's the rare cautionary declaration
1:23.9	that backfired entirely. I'm talking, of course, about the warning sign that hangs on the iron railing
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