At The Turn - Golf Podcast · Joe Simons & Nick Heidelberger

Tales From the Course: Spring 2025 Edition

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Joe walks through a five-putt on hole nine at U of I, including two shots off the green and a final tap-in.

1. At The Turn - Golf Podcast uses "Tales From the Course: Spring 2025 Edition" to trade golf rounds, tournament stories, and handicap updates. 2. Nick Heidelberger and Joe Simons host the show, and both matter because they are the players telling the round-by-round stories. 3. The episode asks what spring golf feels like when tournament season returns and every score matters. 4. Nick says he played two rounds of golf and posted 49-49 for 98 twice. 5. He says those scores moved his handicap from 20.1 to 20.8 and made his goal of getting into the teens harder. 6. Nick also describes a long day at Elk Ridge in Carson, Washington, where he played 36 holes after the Blazers season ended. 7. He says he shot 84 from the blues and 80 from the tips, including 24 greens in regulation across the two rounds. 8. Nick notes that his only birdie in that stretch came after driver, a 280-yard tee shot, and a birdie putt that finally dropped. 9. Joe then shifts to a hole at U of I where he believes he made his first ever five-putt. 10. He walks through the full sequence: a drive that used the last foot of fairway, a wedge from an upslope, and repeated long putts on a sloped green. 11. Joe says Matt Voorhees was in the group, and he jokes that Voorhees had to wait while Joe kept rolling the ball back and forth on the green. 12. Nick argues that the score was really a three-putt plus two shots off the green, not a true five-putt. 13. The show then moves to the PDX Best Ball Tournament at Rose City, where Joe and his partner were paired with the same group both days. 14. Joe says the first tee interaction included a player who thought the format was a scramble, and he had to explain it was best ball. 15. On Sunday, Joe says he hit a player with a snap hook after yelling "four," then later apologized in person on the 11th green. 16. Joe says that same Sunday round produced his best competitive score in about two years, a 78 from the tips. 17. The hosts spend time on the feel of tournament golf, including the pace, the waiting between rounds, and the pressure of keeping a score alive. 18. Their style is conversational, self-critical, and detail-heavy, with a lot of shot-by-shot talk and back-and-forth rule debate. 19. Listeners who enjoy golf handicaps, tournament stories, and local event recaps would like this episode. 20. Listeners who want polished instruction or minimal scorekeeping talk may skip it.

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A spring golf hangout built on hope, banter, and the usual on-course nerves.

Nick and Joe use a spring tournament week to talk through golf's familiar mix of hope, doubt, and rule-book confusion. The conversation moves from first-tee nerves to an 8 a.m. first-group-off tee time, then into the late-round wobble that every golfer knows too well.

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You want a golf story that starts with hope and ends in a double bogey.

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