Imperfect Paradise: ‘Free the Tee’: Fighting Back Against LA Golf Course Scalpers

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4.2 • 887 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	I'm Helen Hong co-host of the trivia podcast go fact to yourself join a Saturday August 17th at the Crawford in Pasadena with guests
0:08.4	Taren Killum from s and l and comedian Jen Coburn tickets tickets at LAS.com
0:13.2	slash Go Fact Yourself.
0:15.0	We're introducing a new podcast from L.A.
0:17.8	is Studios Passing the Mansell.
0:19.8	Exploring stories that connect generations and sometimes divide them.
0:23.0	I'm Larry Mansell.
0:24.0	And I'm Desmond, his son and co-host.
0:25.7	Subscribe to Passing the Mantel from LAa Studios wherever you listen to Podcasts. House. This is imperfect paradise the show about hidden worlds and messy
0:47.7	realities. I'm Antonia Céreijido. When did you become the people's coach?
0:55.0	I've always been the people's coach because I don't coach for money and I don't coach for clout.
1:02.0	I met Dave Fink on a recent Thursday morning at the Wilson and Harding Public Golf Course in Los Felice,
1:08.0	an affluent hipster neighborhood in a hilly part of Los Angeles.
1:12.0	Dave is white and has the haircut and cadet in. a hilly part of Los Angeles.
1:17.0	Dave is white and has the haircut and cadence of the Big Lebowski's dude mixed with the motivational energy of D.J. Callad.
1:20.5	Sometimes you shoot your shot and you completely miss.
1:24.0	But that's how we learn.
1:25.0	That's kind of my mantra is
1:27.0	Simplify shit.
1:29.0	You can believe that out, but that is what I say.
1:31.0	No one except for you is going to remember
1:33.5	the score that you shot that day.
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