Shinnecock, Father’s Day and watching U.S. Open with Dad

It’s always fun to catch up with Classic 5 Golf and Pine Ridge PGA pro Ed Miller, who has made a tradition of watching every U.S. Open with his dad on Father’s Day and shares his love of the game with Nestor once again as summer arrive and folks want to learn the game or pick up the best elements of their game on the course.

Nestor Aparicio and Ed Miller discussed the upcoming US Open and the significance of Father’s Day in golf. Ed highlighted the competitive nature of recent tournaments, with multiple players vying for wins. They emphasized the growing popularity of golf, driven by analytics and technology like top tracer. Ed shared his 25-year career as a PGA professional and the importance of golf in family traditions, mentioning his annual trips to Myrtle Beach with his father. They also touched on the accessibility of golf for all ages and the various programs at Pine Ridge, including the Baltimore Golf Academy for kids.

Father’s Day and Baltimore Positive

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, mentioning the Fourth of July parades and the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
• Nestor highlights the Maryland Treasures giveaways and sponsors like GBMC and Farnham and Dermer.
• Nestor discusses the significance of Father’s Day and golf, mentioning the US Open and other major tournaments.
• Nestor shares a personal anecdote about almost taking his wife to the BMW tournament in Philadelphia.

Ed Miller’s Golf Tournaments and Busy Schedule

• Ed Miller admits he did not attend the BMW tournament despite being a PGA professional.
• Nestor and Ed discuss the proximity of major golf tournaments and the busy schedule at Pine Ridge.
• Ed mentions the competitive nature of recent tournaments and the excitement surrounding the US Open.
• Nestor and Ed talk about the importance of golf majors and the competitive landscape of the PGA Tour.

Modern Golf and Analytics

• Nestor and Ed discuss the impact of analytics and science on modern golf, including club head speeds and launch angles.
• Ed explains how technology like top tracer and launch monitors enhance the game and make it more competitive.
• Nestor shares a personal story about his wife’s interest in golf and the need for professional instruction.
• Ed emphasizes the role of analytics in improving golf skills and making the game more accessible to beginners.

Golf as a Family Activity

• Nestor and Ed talk about the social aspects of golf and how it can be a family activity.
• Ed mentions the Baltimore Golf Academy and the various programs for kids and adults at Pine Ridge.
• Nestor shares his experience of playing golf with his wife and the importance of having a professional instructor.
• Ed highlights the benefits of golf for all age groups and the role of Classic Five in promoting the sport.

Personal Stories and Golf Traditions

• Nestor and Ed share personal stories about their experiences with golf and their families.
• Ed talks about his annual golf trip to Myrtle Beach with his father and the tradition they started.
• Nestor shares a story about playing basketball with his father during summer vacations.
• Ed and Nestor discuss the cultural and generational changes in golf and the sport’s growing popularity.

Golf and Father’s Day

• Nestor and Ed discuss the significance of Father’s Day and the tradition of playing golf with family.
• Ed mentions the busy schedule at Pine Ridge during Father’s Day weekend and the popularity of the course.
• Nestor shares a story about his wife spending Father’s Day with her father in Maine.
• Ed talks about the importance of starting golf traditions with children and the role of golf in family bonding.

Golf and Community Engagement

• Nestor and Ed discuss the role of golf in community engagement and the various programs at Pine Ridge.
• Ed mentions the junior summer camp and the efforts to introduce golf to kids and adults.
• Nestor shares his experience of seeing many kids at the golf course and the positive impact of the programs.
• Ed highlights the importance of making golf accessible and enjoyable for everyone, including beginners.

Golf and Personal Development

• Nestor and Ed talk about the personal development aspects of golf, including discipline and concentration.
• Ed explains how golf can help in building life skills and improving overall well-being.
• Nestor shares his thoughts on the analytical side of golf and the tools available to improve the game.
• Ed emphasizes the importance of having fun while playing golf and the social benefits of the sport.

Golf and Technology

• Nestor and Ed discuss the impact of technology on golf, including the use of simulators and analytics.
• Ed explains how technology helps in improving golf equipment and making the game more competitive.
• Nestor shares his experience of using technology in bowling and the similarities with golf.
• Ed highlights the role of technology in enhancing the golf experience and making it more enjoyable for players.

Golf and Future Generations

• Nestor and Ed talk about the future of golf and the importance of introducing the sport to younger generations.
• Ed mentions the efforts to engage kids in golf and the various programs available at Pine Ridge.
• Nestor shares his thoughts on the growing popularity of golf and the role of Classic Five in promoting the sport.
• Ed emphasizes the importance of making golf accessible and enjoyable for all age groups and the role of analytics in improving the game.

Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson Baltimore. We call this parade Baltimore Positive. We’re about to get up on Fourth of July parades. You’re having my Heritage Fair like a week early, so don’t sleep on a Heritage Fair. It’s this week, so like pay attention to what’s going on out there. Also, this week we’re doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Sorrento of Arbutus, making our way around the Beltway, meeting some new friends, some old friends. Gonna be a great day. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery. Have the Maryland Treasures giveaways, as well as we’ll be next week at Green Mount Station in Hampstead. It’s all brought to you by GBMC, keeping me healthy, as well as our friends at Farnham and Dermer, it’s this side, Farnum and Durham are there, the comfort guys, 410 36777 and you know the weather’s been mainly comfortable here lately, and that’s why this guy’s been unavailable to me, but it is Father’s Day week, and he is, I think it’s sort of a tradition, I think, like five six years now, we’ve been doing this, which is a long time in local radio. As my friends over at the Bay, who I’m praying for right now, we’re 35 years into this, and you know, Father’s Day, sort of synonymous with the golf weekend. If you’re in a golf family, I think this time of year we’re running Belmont, we’re running Stanley Cup, NBA, we’re greasing down polls in New York, Carolina wins the Stanley Cup, we got World Cup going on everywhere, the rooms, rooms are even going this time of year. We got baseball happening every day, but this is a big golf tournament. Ed Miller’s my pal, I want to say you’re freshly back from Augusta. We’ve already had another major up the road, dude. Do you know how close I came to taking my wife up to Philly, because of like when I went to the BMW, I’m like, my wife would love this, walking in the park and watching guys hit golf balls all day long, like she likes it, and we didn’t do it, but like for 150 bucks in a parking pass right on up Philadelphia, about 80 miles, like we would have been there an hour and a half. Weather was perfect. Yep, we didn’t do it. Did you do

Ed Miller 2:08
it? I actually did not. I could not believe it. You’re right, hour and a half away. And as a PGA professional, I did not make it. What

Nestor Aparicio 2:15
shocked that I didn’t even green room you, man. I thought you were gonna tell me you stopped at Kenneth Square and went to Longwood Gardens on a walk up there, and you took your family. Listen, I almost went, and Shinnecock’s are up the road too, right? So, like, this is.. there’s been quite a bias when you say, in the, you know, this particular year that all these events are happening among us, that I think you probably have some pals and stuff that are probably taking it in, that wouldn’t be you, man, because I know you’ve got, you got plans this weekend, it’s a big thing for you, dude, right, big

Ed Miller 2:46
thing, big thing, and always busy here at Pine Ridge, so sometimes hard to get away in the summertime, you know how that is.

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Nestor Aparicio 2:52
Well, I, you know, and I know you’re big, that’s why you’re in your office right now, you’re like, hey, it’s very functional, we’re into the prime golf season, bring me up to speed on all of this, because it’s even on my radar, as I said, with majors being around the corner, and this live thing, or live thing, or it ain’t gonna be alive too much longer. Nicholson in the news last week for bad reasons, so you know, I, but when you watch the guys hit the ball on the weekend, and the ladies too, but when you watch the guys hit the ball this weekend, um, you know, very, very competitive. I mean, no idea who’s going to win week to week or who’s going to show up on a leaderboard, right?

Ed Miller 3:32
Oh, absolutely. The last couple weeks has been pretty amazing. The leaderboards have been stacked. You go into Sunday, and it’s, uh, it’s been six or seven, eight people with a chance to win coming into the back nine on Sunday, so it’s been a great time to be a golf fan, and like you said, we’re in the season, everything’s rolling, US Open always synonymous with Father’s Day weekend, so another great major, usually one of the best majors, and looking forward to it, season’s rolling

Nestor Aparicio 3:58
all right, let’s start at the top here with golf as the people on your course see it on television, and how they react to it. Give me top down where professional golf is for you, because you’ve already admitted, like, you get in your, you get your car and drive to August, you fly to Charlotte, fly to Linda. How do you, you go a lot, you go to Augusta every year, you’re a PGA pro, you’re at Pine Ridge, you’re living in golf every minute of every day, but I do think it’s sort of like kids that play baseball and watching the Orioles, and hey, they’re about to do a labor thing at the end of the year too, but golf has been really, it’s been tumultuous in a spotlight on Tiger in the wrong way, spotlight on politics in a bad way, spotlight on players just evaporating and disappearing, and then you have all the usual Ryder Cup country type of stuff, but you know, at its heart, these majors of the heart, heartbeat, right? I mean, of golf, they really are

Ed Miller 4:55
absolutely.. now you hit, you hit the nail right on the head, you know, Tiger’s kind of on the way out, the. The bad news on Phil Mickelson and the whole live and all this stuff, but the PGA Tour’s actually been pretty healthy. They’ve been very competitive and great rivalry, kind of starting with Scotty Scheffler and Rory McIlroy. You know, Scotty Scheffler is the closest thing to Tiger we’ve had in a long time. His last two years have been awesome, and I

Nestor Aparicio 5:18
took a selfie with him at Cage last year,

Ed Miller 5:21
big man, that’s why

Nestor Aparicio 5:23
I was just like he was just behind me. It wasn’t pose with me, but we’re in the same picture. He’s carrying a trophy, the whole thing. Yeah, it’s fine. Yeah,

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Ed Miller 5:31
no, but he’s got his

Nestor Aparicio 5:33
Neto torpedo when he went and shot the way he did right around the corner here last year. That, that does bring some shine. It’s like when the Rolling Stones come to your town or something, you know what I mean. Yeah,

Ed Miller 5:44
absolutely, absolutely. And you know, for all count, you know, all purposes, Scotty seems like a good guy. Fans love him, and you know, so like all sports, you know, not everything can last forever. So I think the tour is lucky to have Scotty Shuffler, and the way he’s playing, and if they can get a couple rivalries going, you know, not that we’ll ever forget, but we’ll be able to move on from Tiger and that generation and enjoy this new generation of golfers.

Nestor Aparicio 6:08
Well, yeah, I mean, I think that’s what it’s all about. And you’re, you’re growing them out there with the simulator, and these kids have all of these tools and all of these metrics that Ben McDonald confuses me and Jim Palmer, with well, with pitching every night, how analytical has it gotten for you with a 12 year old kid that may have a baseball game or soccer game or may play video games or may be a math nerd as well as a kid that wants to golf that really is into that part of it that is so readily available, you know, that that was my dad’s lane for sports, as much as teaching me was batting averages, era, he could teach me math and all of that. My dad, I always tell Luke that my dad would have loved the analytical part of baseball, but I think golf isn’t all that far behind in regard to measurements, and in regard to what I’ve seen, that I could take my wife three miles from where I live, right up the Pine Ridge, where you’re sitting right now, where there is some shade today, right? There’s always a little bit of shade, great

Ed Miller 7:12
weather today, yeah, there’s,

Nestor Aparicio 7:13
I mean, there’s some, there’s some courses don’t have a lot of shade, yours got some trees, you’re out in the middle of forest skeeters, too, watch out for the skaters, don’t do the afternoon golf or the early morning golf, but, but for me, with, you know, teaching someone, my wife being in early 50s, if she, and I always say to you, like, if she’s ever going to do something like that, it won’t be tennis or pickleball for her, it would be golf, because she’s always, when it’s on TV, she strangely, she likes golf, she just does, and so she were to, and I’ve seen her hit the ball, and she needs you, she needs Joe, she needs a pro, she needs somebody like you, so, but, but if you bring her up, you’re taking her out onto the onto that, that’s going to be a pathway for her to learn the game. Oh yeah,

Ed Miller 7:56
absolutely, and you’re absolutely right, golf is definitely just like all the other sports, getting into debt, the analytics of it all, and all the science behind it. You know what club head speeds and launch angles, launch monitors. We’re, I think, that’s one of the reasons why the modern golf has become so competitive, is because you had, you do have the science, and you do have the numbers to back things up, and utilizing stuff like top tracer, and all that kind of stuff. If we know you swing 100 miles an hour, we, we know that we want to launch a ball at this height, and you’ll maximize your distance, and we’ll be able to tell you what kind of path your club is on. And

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Nestor Aparicio 8:31
by the way, Ed doesn’t tell you that, the computer tells you that.

Ed Miller 8:34
Yeah, the computer tells you that. Absolutely. And I might have a trained eye for, but I couldn’t tell you all that information, Nestor. Have you

Nestor Aparicio 8:41
literally, and you know, I know you are the PGA Pro Pine Ridge on behalf of Classic Five. Have you seen in your.. how long have you been a golf pro?

Ed Miller 8:51
Uh, 25 years, actually. Oh my god, how many of these

Nestor Aparicio 8:55
five courses have you been on? You’ve been on all of them, right? You, you’ve managed.. you’ve managed three, right?

Ed Miller 9:00
Yes, sir.

Nestor Aparicio 9:01
Forest Park, Mount Pleasant, Pine Ridge. I don’t want to leave Carroll Park out, and I know I’ll leave one out. What did I forget? I forgot one already.

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Ed Miller 9:08
Clifton Park, the old Clifton. I’m

Nestor Aparicio 9:09
sorry.

Ed Miller 9:10
No, it’s all good, Desiree. Why do I

Nestor Aparicio 9:12
always forget Clifton Park was the one I went through? It was the one my 22 bus went through. It was the only golf course I’d ever been on in my life. It was Clifton. I swear to God, until the Skipjacks practice at Mount Pleasant, then I went there. That was about 8485 but I mean, I look, I’m a kid that mr. Frank had golf clubs, the only one I knew that in my neighborhood that, like, so it didn’t come to me. So when I find young people, and I do see it’s exciting, because you get to hit the damn ball, I mean, baseball wasn’t fun when they gave you a glove, and stuck it. Soccer wasn’t fun if you couldn’t kick the ball, but I think golf’s one of those things, man. I mean, lacrosse, if you want to hit people and like all that, and a basketball, if you know, if that’s if it’s more team-oriented, but you don’t. Tennis sucked for me, dude. You know why? I couldn’t find anybody to play with.

Ed Miller 10:00
Yeah, he’s gonna say, you gotta find people to play with. Yeah, golf, golf, you

Nestor Aparicio 10:03
didn’t need to worry about that, right? I mean, and that really is an entry point for young people, but more than that, that they can see their game and prove their game. Listen, I bowl a lot when I was a kid, I did duck pin bowling, because that was what was available to me on Saturday, that was my social thing. Great bowling alley pizza at the East Point Fair Lanes. Thank God they have the Crickle Cut Fries at Pizza John’s for me, same Freddie, but they don’t have that fruit punch that probably would spike my sugar, make me diabetic. But Miss Pac-Man, too – it’s another lot of emotion, but like if I would have had more than just my, the math of bowling was the fun part, right? Like adding up how many pins you got, you got to 108 when you were duck, you felt, I mean, it really was a source of pride amongst all of us to play, but I can’t imagine the science of, I mean, I’m lining up with my eyes and trying to spin the ball or whatever, Danny Wiseman comes along later and has his Hotcy Totsy Hall of Fame big balls, and he should, but like, I can’t imagine being a 10 or 12 year old kid and falling into a lane to say I like this game, or like golf, like I like whacking the ball, and I do, but how that computer’s going to make me better at it quickly. So what I’m asking you is, in the 25 years when Ed’s eye could see a person, not even a kid, just a person 25 years ago teaching them there must be something about this that can expedite your ability to not lose your ball and get pissed off and not want to play, that you can direct the club a little better to get on a course, a little quicker, so that you can play like not, and not be lost all day, and beard be just a beer drinking stuffer, you know what I mean. Yeah, I mean,

Ed Miller 11:50
oh yeah, no, you’re right. The science helps improve your swing, the science helps put you in better golf equipment that fits your, your height, your power, all that kind of stuff. How you swing the club, you know, if you’re a short, aggressive swinger, if you’re a long smooth swinger, the science has definitely allowed us to make you make the equipment better for you, that’s so that you can improve faster. And then the top tracer stuff actually just not only does it give you those kind of numbers, but it actually also makes it more fun to practice, you know, not to, not to pull the Allen Iverson, you know, we’re just talking about practice, but at least with that you can play games. It makes it better to practice with a friend, you can do competitions with each other, and I think the one neat thing about golf compared to other sports is, you know, when you’re out there playing golf, you can still be competitive and you can try to beat the pants off your friend or the golf course, but there’s still opportunity for you to have social time with friends and family, and to me that’s one of the unique things about golf. And if you want to walk too, it’s still a great form of exercise, but you get four hours to hang out with friends and family, you’re still playing a sport, you’re being active. It’s to me, it’s what that’s why it’s one of the greatest sports that you can play, and, and the fact that you can play it into your 60s, 70s, 80s, that kind of, you can start when you’re 1011, 12, and with the science, you know, we have equipment that can fit an 80 year old slow swinger, we got the equipment that can fit a 15 year old fast swinger, that, that is a neat thing about golf, you know, so

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Nestor Aparicio 13:22
Ed Miller is mercy. I, you know, I once I put you in your lane to be the teacher, you know, it’s like all good leagues kids signing up, give me all that, and then we’re going to go to Shinnecock, here, because I like saying Shinnecock,

Ed Miller 13:35
yeah, there you go, yeah, no way, hey, we’re in the heart of it, you know, school’s out now, and, like, as a matter of fact, this week at Pine Ridge we have our first week long junior summer camp, so you know we’re home of the Baltimore Golf Academy. What does

Nestor Aparicio 13:47
junior mean? Does that mean under 18, under 16? Yeah,

Ed Miller 13:50
under 18. So we’re teaching kids from the age of six to 17, you know. We have single day events, but

Nestor Aparicio 13:57
I’ve been out there every time I.. it’s always a lot of kids. I mean, I don’t know whether it’s just like when I wind up there or what, I’m there during the day, I’m usually there, it’s usually weather’s good, which means kids are out of school, so I mean, but I do, when I think of your course, I think of kids, I do, yeah,

Ed Miller 14:12
yeah, no, it’s a great haven, it’s, uh, you know, hey, I’m a parent of three, what better place to drop my kids off and get a two hour break than to be here at Pine Ridge, at least I know they can’t get in too much trouble out here. I’m thinking of the

Nestor Aparicio 14:24
stuff we got into in Dundalk this time of year, or worse, yet Ocean City in Senior Week. You know what I’m saying? Ed Miller is here, he’s my dude, he’s at Pine Ridge, he is a PGA professional with Classic Five golf. They sponsor us, put us out on the road. I love having you on during this time of year to talk majors and Father’s Day, and all of that stuff, so, but just somebody wants to come out and hit the ball, no problem, right? You’re not a country club, man, you just make it go online, make it time this weekend, you like the weather, Father’s Day, now this weekend, harder to get on, right? You go play with your dad, or everybody plays with their dad this weekend, if they can, right? Right,

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Ed Miller 15:00
yeah, you know how it is. Mother’s Day, you go to brunch. Father’s Day, you go play golf and hang out, and then go home and watch the US Open. Yeah, so this weekend, if you don’t have a tee time, you may not be able to get one this weekend, because we’re pretty well booked. But yeah, spend time with your dad, definitely

Nestor Aparicio 15:15
watch tour with your dad over Costa’s or something like that. I, you know, exactly for you with the actual tournament itself, and watching, so run me, you know, look, I don’t want to break your heart. My wife is with her dad right now. Her dad gets a timeshare every year this week, and it’s Father’s Day week. Every year he spends Father’s Day in Maine, up in the middle of nowhere, like literally. It’s beautiful, it’s on the water, it’s like a five-star resort, but it has tennis courts, golf, go, it has all that, but he likes hiking, and you know, in the water, and all of that. So she’s up with him this week on her sister after coming back from Italy, so her dad’s alive, all my dads are dead, right? So you got your dad this weekend on Father’s Day, I have my son, my son and I will not be watching, we’ll be golf will be on, because we’ll probably be sitting at Costa’s eating crabs. If you really want to know the truth, but I have to go to Dundalk for that, not to moan him, just so you know. But, like, I don’t have that tradition around that sort of thing with my son or with my dad. I’d love to sit with my dad and talk about a ball game, especially this team right now I miss out. What will you talk about with your dad on Father’s Day in regard to golf and your mutual love of golf?

Ed Miller 16:27
Oh, just, you know, always thankful for being introduced to the game of golf. To me, I always thought that golf was a great life lesson, and honestly, I have a 17 year old son that I’ll be, you know, trying to incorporate him into this whole tradition. Does he

Nestor Aparicio 16:39
still want to hang out with you, 17, Dad? No,

Ed Miller 16:43
not as much as he did just two years ago, but he’s in the golf, so he likes to play golf. So, not that we’re going to play on Father’s Day, because I’ll be working. But I

Nestor Aparicio 16:52
went to the Greek festival last weekend at St. Nicholas, and my lifelong friend Dimmy, her son’s 12 now, and he does the Greek dancing, you know what I mean, like that, and by the way, I love all you Greek people, Kalatzos, all the trientophilos, my friends at Coco’s, they’re all Greek, Greek music,

Ed Miller 17:13
yeah, no

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Nestor Aparicio 17:13
good, no, no, it’s terrible, I’m just, I’ve just decided I’d rather hear a poco, that’s all I’m gonna say, but nonetheless, he’s the, and she’s like, he’s 12, you don’t want to be with me anymore. I’m like, so I’m thinking 17, maybe. Do they come back on Father’s Day? I don’t know. I mean, I’m thinking about this. My kid’s 41 you got to flip a coin whether we’re gonna have crabs on Friday or Sunday or not. I don’t know, you know what I mean. Yeah, I like him, he likes me, but we don’t feel like it’s mandatory. You know what I mean,

Ed Miller 17:40
yeah. No, it’s a, it’s definitely a challenge. I would say about the same age, I lost 12 or 13 years old. He kind of drifted away from golf. Oh, okay.

Nestor Aparicio 17:48
So he’s not playing right now.

Ed Miller 17:50
Yeah, no, he’s got, he’s gotten back into it last year. Okay, high school that played golf, so he’s back into it. Is that

Nestor Aparicio 17:56
important to you?

Ed Miller 17:57
Well, I hope so. Yeah, I want him to play golf, because I think, like I said, for me personally, it’s been a great sport for me. It’s, it’s helped me meet a lot of people, maybe kept me out of a little bit of trouble in Essex as well. On the

Nestor Aparicio 18:08
radio today, you grew up in Essex with part of Essex. Yeah,

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Ed Miller 18:11
well, technically the Bullies quarters area, you know, eight

Nestor Aparicio 18:14
Essex, that’s Middle River.

Ed Miller 18:16
I went to Kenwood High School, that’s Essex. Yeah, see, yeah. What

Nestor Aparicio 18:20
year were you, Kenwood?

Ed Miller 18:21
1991

Nestor Aparicio 18:23
Oh, you see, a little younger than me. All right. Well, I chase some of the girls from 88 and 89 at Skateland Essex, and you know, we ran from the boys down to the A one crab haven, and you know, down to the Thunderbird, and we didn’t make it to Pizza Jobs. They make making a right turn heading toward a seagull, you know what I mean. So, yeah, hey, all right. So I didn’t know that about you, bonus quarters. All right,

Ed Miller 18:44
man. So you know what was

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Nestor Aparicio 18:46
your course then? Did you play Rocky Point?

Ed Miller 18:48
Yeah, yeah, I was a Rocky Point guy, and actually got my first high school summer job at Rocky Point. All right,

Nestor Aparicio 18:55
well, that, but hey, there weren’t there weren’t a lot of options, which is why I think, listen, as a kid in Dundalk, I drove through Clifton Park, and I, and I’m not being, don’t laugh at me, I’m a kid from Dundalk, heading to see Kiko Garcia play on the 22 bus in 1977 7879 we’re in that golf course, you know what I’m talking about, right past Ed Lauer’s house, where the liquor store and the clock and the bank were we would go right up a burning highway, we’d make, or was it urban, whatever it is, whatever that we urban, we make the left into the park, and we would avoid like those mansions along that way where we would make that left on Bel Air, so we would cross over Bel Air by Lake Clifton to be on the left, and we would see Montebello on the right, and that that school, whatever that school was, on the right, where everybody would park their cars on Colts games, because they had all that grass, so all the busses would park by Montebello, and then we go down 33rd street, and it was the only golf course, I’m not kidding you, Ed. That I had ever been on in my life until Jack Gibbons sent me to the LPGA LPGA Open up in New Jersey at some highfalutin country club, and it rained all day, because it was a year before Annika Storenstrom won the US Open here in the late 80s. I mean, I’m telling you, like I had never been on a golf course in my life, never held a golf club, putt putt, lot of putt. Oh man, old pro, I owned it now down at the beach, but I’m talking about like on a golf course. Clifton Park’s the only golf course I had ever been on, and my dad never played golf, he was a basketball, boxing, baseball guy, never played hockey, never played lacrosse, so but went through, I, I can’t honestly tell you what I thought about the men in the funny hats and the little parts that were there when I was a boy. Sometimes always afraid the golf ball was going to hit the bus, sometimes it did. I took the bus a lot. No, no, no, no. And we went to a lot of real games, so I mean, I was in and out of that park 3040 times a year, Colts games too. Sunday, Sundays, oh my god, Sundays, everybody’s playing golf. Yeah, you know, we, I take the Sunday special over there. So, so what I’m saying is, I didn’t even know, like, who to pay or where to go or how to play or how to get on. So I’m thinking the same thing that you’ve been a kid in Bowie’s quarters, like, you know, finding your way to a golf course in your childhood, this is readily available now, and I think everybody knows about Tiger Woods. It’s not hiding anywhere. Golf’s out in front of people, and I think everyone understands that it’s a way to make business, a way to make friends, a way to get out of trouble. It’s a way to improve your game, like concentrate, all of that kind of stuff. Gamble a little bit of side. I can say that now, because everybody bets on everything. Yeah, yeah, but I’m just.. I think it’s a different era in that way. And then there’s somebody like you to meet him at the door to put him into a top tracer to get him into a league, like I did with bowling, because it was available. My parents put me into bowling, because it was across the street. They could, five bucks, get out of here,

Ed Miller 22:04
get out of here. But that’s what

Nestor Aparicio 22:09
you want to be, and I think that’s what Classic Five really is, as an entryway that my dad never said, “Hey, you want to hit a golf ball? I can 8o’clock we can get the boss and come over here, and the boss will let us off in the middle of the golf course, and mr. Ed will teach you how to hit the ball. Come on, I’ll teach, because my dad would have done anything for me if I, if I would have told my dad I love golf. Damn it, we would have played golf. We would have. I didn’t. My dad did not like hockey, but I had dragged in the Clippers game. So I’m saying, like, if there’s a connection between father and son, this is a weekended take it, take a kid out and have hit a bucket of balls, right? I mean, it’s up to do, right?

Ed Miller 22:44
Yeah, and you know, start a tradition, like my dad and I went to Myrtle Beach, he can’t do it anymore, or play like that. But 25 years in a row, we go to Myrtle Beach, a little family vacation, me and him play golf seven days in a row. It’s a.. I don’t know, it’s one of them sports. Oh,

Nestor Aparicio 22:58
so that was like your summer camp with your dad,

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Ed Miller 23:01
yeah. You’re not gonna go play catch with your dad when he’s 75 or 80, but my

Nestor Aparicio 23:05
dad and I went to Abbeville, South Carolina, because it was where my mother was from, and it’s where the film Sleeping with the Enemy was filmed. If you ever seen the town square, that’s Abbeville. I went back, mourned my mother, saw Sammy Hagar about three years ago. It’s right outside of Greenville, it’s right near Augusta. Okay, I told you I had family in Augusta, right? You discussed this in Martinez and Evans, Georgia. You can look it up. My cousins, John Allen and Wood Woody, all Confederate flagged up, trumped up, Trump – they’re all Augusta, Georgia people. I spent summers in Augusta, I spent summers in Abbeville, but my dad, in the summer we were bored in Abbeville, we went up to the Civic Center. We shot hoops. One time my life, I played hoops with my dad every day. I dragged my dad up, so that was my summer vacation. Was shooting hoops with my dad in an indoor gym was 185 degrees when you could have put bacon in there, but probably the same thing’s true on a golf course in Myrtle Beach. My little breeze, though, right? Little

Ed Miller 24:02
ocean breeze, you know, doesn’t get quite that hot, but yeah, I mean, I lived in Florida too, for a couple years, that gets pretty hot, but you know, going back to our generation, golf wasn’t necessarily cool back then, even when I played on the high school golf team, we had a hard time getting six people to make a whole team, well,

Nestor Aparicio 24:17
it was barely on television too, right, it wasn’t like, and Jack Nicholas was like an old man, Arnold Palmer. It wasn’t, yeah. And there were a lot of these, they were like international people, but like, you know, like, what was it? Chichi would, he would slay the giant, so there was Fuzzy, was dressed up, and and then there were some pissing matches between the Spaniards and the British and the South Africans and the cultural differences, and like all of that, but and the redneck, uh, and like all of this, the Stanford versus the South, or something, all of that going on, country club versus John Daly smoking beaters, and you know,

Speaker 1 24:54
yeah, wife

Nestor Aparicio 24:55
beaters, you know what I mean, like something, so right, I mean, but now it’s you be. Liquid is, you don’t have to look hard to find golf, right? No,

Ed Miller 25:02
no, not at all. And, like, even though you know the fashion, you know, we used to laugh at how they dressed. Heck, half the people that work wear golf clothes to work half the time, you know. Look at this

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Nestor Aparicio 25:11
shirt I’m wearing on behalf of Farm in Durham, or you think this is a little more Hawaiian Oreo-inspired? I think, but they give me this. Ed Miller is with our friends at Dub. Tell me what you do and where to find y’all. I’ll let you, you do the commercial. Ed Miller,

Ed Miller 25:25
thank you. Nestor, yeah, Ed Miller, the PGA professional here at Pine Ridge Golf Course, which is part of the Baltimore Classic Five. You can check out all of our golf courses, make tee times and lessons on www dot classic five golf.com It’s the summertime. Come out, play golf, learn golf, get your kids in golf. Just come on out, have a great time.

Nestor Aparicio 25:48
Do me a favor, send me a picture of you and your dad, so I can put that up on this one. You and your dad doing something golf-oriented that I can put up on Baltimore Positive, because I want to put you and your dad up, because it’s to me, this isn’t even a golf segment, it’s not even this was a Baltimore Father’s Day segment, you and me, you know. So

Ed Miller 26:08
today, absolutely, all

Nestor Aparicio 26:10
you out there, got your dads, go do something good with him this week, go do something with our sponsors, go get a crab cake, go eat a golf ball, go in a bucket or two. How about that?

Ed Miller 26:19
Yeah, hey, my dad always loved Costas as well, go get a crab cake and a Miller Lite, that’s your

Nestor Aparicio 26:23
dad still hit the golf ball,

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Ed Miller 26:25
no, no, not at all. Okay, so yeah, well, you

Nestor Aparicio 26:28
and your boy go hit it for me. All right,

Ed Miller 26:30
absolutely, absolutely. Ed

Nestor Aparicio 26:31
Miller’s there for you. Our classic five partners are always there for you. Five courses, let’s see, without memorizing, here we go, Clifton Park, Carroll Park, Pine Ridge Forest Park, Mount Pleasant.

Ed Miller 26:43
There you go. Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 26:45
see, I’m not even reading, no teleprompter here or anything like that. I’m Nestor. He said we’re doing the Maryland Craft Gate Tour this week at Sorrento of Arbutus on Wednesday of this week. Next week on the 24th we will be at Green Mount Station in Hampstead. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery, our partners at GBMC and Farnham and Dermer, they are the comfort guys, and this shirt’s really kind of comfortable. I kind of like it. Zach’s coming on this week too. We’re both more positive. Stay with us.

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