Imperfect Paradise: ‘Free the Tee’: Fighting Back Against LA Golf Course Scalpers
California Love
LAist Studios
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
LA was rocked on March 4 when Dave Fink, a golf influencer, posted a viral video on Instagram detailing how brokers - largely using a Korean messenger app- were snatching up prime time tees at Los Angeles’ public golf courses and reselling them. Here’s how an unlikely crew of golf enthusiasts’ fight to keep golf in L.A. accessible and affordable is paying off. Host Antonia Cereijido reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for LAists comes from FX, presenting the Bear. |
| 0:03.6 | Season 2 follows as the crew transform their grimy sandwich joint into a next level spot, |
| 0:08.4 | starring Jeremy Allen White, I. O. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E.ary and Eben Moss Backrack. |
| 0:12.6 | Am eligible in all comedy categories. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Emily Kwong, host of the new podcast Inheriting from L.A. studios. |
| 0:19.6 | Join me for an immersive evening about Asian American and Pacific Islander families and their histories. |
| 0:25.0 | June 27th at the Crawford in Pasadena. |
| 0:28.0 | Tickets at LAS.com slash events. |
| 0:30.0 | This is Imperfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Andonia Cérejido. |
| 0:37.0 | When did you become the People's Coach? |
| 0:41.0 | I've always been the people's coach. |
| 0:44.8 | Because I don't coach for money, and I don't coach for clout. |
| 0:49.6 | I met Dave Fink on a recent Thursday morning |
| 0:51.4 | at the Wilson and Harding Public Golf Course in Los |
| 0:53.9 | Felice, an affluent hipster neighborhood in a hilly part of Los Angeles. |
| 0:59.6 | Dave is white and has the haircut and cadence of the Big Labowski's dude mixed with the motivational energy of |
| 1:05.2 | DJ Callid. |
| 1:07.2 | Sometimes you shoot your shot and you completely miss, but that's how we learn. |
| 1:12.2 | That's kind of my mantra is simplify shit. |
| 1:15.0 | You can believe that out, but that is what I say. |
| 1:18.0 | No one except for you is going to remember |
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