Charlie Rymer - Former Golf Channel Tour Player - Afterhours
The principal focus of this podcast episode revolves around the candid and engaging discussions between Charlie Reimer and host, JT, highlighting both personal anecdotes and reflections on the sport of golf. In our dialogue, we traversed various topics, including Charlie's fondness for the country artist Riley Green and his nostalgic recollections of past fishing excursions, particularly in picturesque locales such as Burkesville, Kentucky. Furthermore, we delved into the unsung contributions of golf course superintendents, whose diligent efforts often go unnoticed yet are vital to the maintenance of the sport's venues. Additionally, Charlie shared insights into his experiences on the PGA Tour, emphasizing the importance of a supportive environment and the wisdom imparted by his wife. This episode encapsulates a blend of heartfelt reminiscences and profound observations, offering listeners an intimate glimpse into both the world of golf and Charlie's personal journey.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Yeti
- Riley Green
- Nike
- Korn Ferry
- Bass Pro
- Guinness
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy
Transcript
Welcome to Grilling at the Green After Hours.
Speaker A:The conversation that took place after the show ended.
Speaker B:Everybody, welcome to After Hours here on Grilling at the Green.
Speaker B:I'm jt.
Speaker B:We've got Charlie Reimer, the Big Timer with us.
Speaker B:Do you miss being called that?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:Okay, a little bit.
Speaker A:My favorite coffee cup.
Speaker A:I'm a. I'm a yeti snob.
Speaker A:And I mean, you could put.
Speaker A:Quite literally, you could put yeti logo on the side of a dog turd and I'd probably buy it.
Speaker A:That's how much I like yeti.
Speaker A:I mean, just keep stuff colder, longer it stays.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:I've got my mind anyway.
Speaker A:But a few years ago, somebody gave me a really fancy yeti coffee cup, and it says the big Timer spelled T Y M E R, and I generally drink my cup of coffee out of that.
Speaker A:So that nickname and I doesn't bother me.
Speaker A:I mean, there's a lot worse nicknames to have than Big Timer, right?
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:I actually have a few of them, I think.
Speaker B:Anyway, got some new questions for you on After Hours here.
Speaker B:So let's roll with this, Charlie.
Speaker B:What's the one song you want to hear on the radio?
Speaker B:Could be Sirius xm, if you do that when you start your car in the morning.
Speaker A:You know, I don't let a day go by that I don't listen to the.
Speaker A:The country artist Riley Green.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker A:And I've never met him, but he's from this area.
Speaker A:I live in northwest Georgia, and he's from.
Speaker A:Not too far from here on the Alabama side.
Speaker A:And that guy can sing.
Speaker A:And I. I'll tell you what, anything Riley Green is playing, I'm interested in listening to his.
Speaker A:He had a new album out earlier this year, and the name of the song, it's just very creative and that, you know, the vibe is right and all that.
Speaker A:But the name of the song was Real Problems.
Speaker A:R E E L Mission Real.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:But that's.
Speaker A:That's really good song.
Speaker A:But I. I listen.
Speaker A:In fact, my wife gets sick of listening to Riley Gray, but he's.
Speaker A:He is really an outstanding singer, songwriter.
Speaker A:I love listening to him.
Speaker B:Are you doing any fishing anymore?
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:I hadn't had a chance to do much fishing this year.
Speaker A:I. I probably only been on the water three or four times, and.
Speaker A:And that's been with a fly rod in my hand and.
Speaker A:And I took a trip back.
Speaker A:That's good trip I had.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was earlier this year I went to fish the Cumberland river, which is, it's, it's a tail water underneath one of the big dams on one of the Great Lakes.
Speaker A:Not Great Lakes, but one of the big lakes in, in Kentucky.
Speaker A: , Kentucky, which is stuck in: Speaker A:And, and I've been told it's, it's highest quality in terms of size trout on the entire east Coast.
Speaker A:And I'll tell you what, we, we caught a lot of big trout out of there for public water in particular and that was a lot of fun.
Speaker A:And then Berkshire is a beautiful place, but it really is like you go to eat breakfast and you get like a sausage biscuit and it's a dollar 25.
Speaker A:You get like a hamburger and it's like, you know, 225.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:I love that the inflation hasn't hit Burkesville, Kentucky but it's really a beautiful place.
Speaker A:But I did a two or three day trip up there was the last good fishing trip I had.
Speaker B:Okay, you were on the road a lot throughout your career, not only as a golfer, but as a broadc like that.
Speaker B:Tell us one place you always look forward to going to.
Speaker B:And it could be because of the food, it could be because of the golf, it could be because of the, the town had something cool in it.
Speaker B:What's one place, Charlie?
Speaker B:I always look forward to unpacking the suitcase for a few days.
Speaker A:You know, a couple places that I really enjoyed.
Speaker A:It was early on in my career and it's grown a lot since then, I hear.
Speaker A:But Boise, Idaho I thought was spectacular.
Speaker A:We would play.
Speaker A:Oh gosh, when I played it was called Nike Tour.
Speaker A:Now it's called Korn Ferry Tour.
Speaker A:And the Boise river runs right through downtown.
Speaker A:And lawyers come out during their, you know, lunch break and, and catch fish and waiters and the, you know, and a tie still on and oh yeah, spectacular town.
Speaker A:And I'd find a little fishing place, you know, up, up towards sun river and, and I remember not being disappointed and making the, and missing the cut because I could always find plenty to do that.
Speaker A:That was always a neat town.
Speaker A:And then I always enjoyed Springfield, Missouri too because we go to the original Bass Pro shop there and that, that was really neat.
Speaker A:And I didn't grow up with frozen custard.
Speaker A:There was always a place in Springfield, Missouri, that frozen custard.
Speaker A:I definitely would visit that place every night.
Speaker A:But kind of those, you know, mid sized towns a little bit smaller I enjoy visiting as much as anything.
Speaker A:And you know, everybody would know, caddies would know, players would know best.
Speaker A:Place to go eat what you need to eat this week.
Speaker A:I remember going to Endicott, New York, when the terminal was called the BC Open.
Speaker A:And I believe they still play a Champions Tour event there.
Speaker A:But they had a marinade in there.
Speaker A:It goes speedy.
Speaker A:And so it was either pork or chicken.
Speaker A:You get a speedy sandwich.
Speaker A:It's just kind of a, you know, vinegar based marinade.
Speaker A:And the way they did the sandwich was so good.
Speaker A:And so it always be, you know, one is every week was like, what are you gonna have this?
Speaker A:What are you gonna have this?
Speaker A:There's a pizza place near Hartford and.
Speaker A:Yeah, so, you know, we'd always do that.
Speaker A:That was always a lot of fun to me, finding out what we're gonna have to eat this week that we don't normally see.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:What's your favorite color?
Speaker B:Lifesaver.
Speaker A:Favorite color?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Color, flavor?
Speaker B:Lifesaver.
Speaker A:Lifesaver.
Speaker A:Oh, butterscotch.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:They're really nice too.
Speaker A:In the wintertime when fairways go dormant, you can, you can slide a butterscotch Lifesaver up underneath the golf ball and get driver off the deck.
Speaker A:Nobody can see it.
Speaker A:You know, use the green and you know, green in the, in the summer when everything's green, you know, it just helps a little bit.
Speaker A:Just give it a little tip to everybody out there.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:Okay, Charlie, what's name something the funniest thing you ever saw happen to a colleague, not you, while on the air, that we did not see at home.
Speaker A:This got a bad word in.
Speaker A:Is that okay?
Speaker B:That's okay.
Speaker B:We're on After Hours.
Speaker A:Okay, so Bruce Devlin, who's just a international treasure, it was a very good player, Australian, played very well.
Speaker A:Just, just a real personable guy.
Speaker A:When I first got into tv, he was still doing some tv, and I got a chance.
Speaker A:The end of his career kind of coincided with the beginning of my career and.
Speaker A:And so he, he was very stubborn.
Speaker A:So we were doing this event on ESPN in Vancouver and there was an Australian player whose name was Stuart Ginn.
Speaker A:And Bruce kept calling him Stuart Ginn, Hard G. And, and so I'm.
Speaker A:I would tell the producer, I was walking on the ground.
Speaker A:Bruce was the analyst.
Speaker A:And I'd tell the producer, I'd say, Bruce is getting it wrong.
Speaker A:It's Jen, he's calling again.
Speaker A:And so the, the producer checked into it, told Bruce, and Bruce just kept doing what he was going to do.
Speaker A:So finally, about halfway into this show, Bruce, Jens or Jen's wife calls in and says Bruce is getting the name wrong.
Speaker A:It's not gin, it's Jen.
Speaker A:So we went to commercial, and our producer told Bruce Devlin so everybody could hear.
Speaker A:Bruce, I'm telling you, you're getting it wrong.
Speaker A:He says, it's not gin, it's Jen.
Speaker A:He says, nope, it's gin.
Speaker A:And the producer says, bruce, his wife just called in and said, it's Jen, not gin.
Speaker A:And Bruce, so everybody could hear, says, what the f. Does she know?
Speaker A:I love that.
Speaker A:He just went with gin the whole time.
Speaker B:I love that.
Speaker B:Charlie, what's the, what's the first thing you reach for when you're done with a round of golf?
Speaker A:Well, I know what you're looking for.
Speaker A:It depends on where I am.
Speaker A:Most of the time I'm hungry, so I'm reaching for something to eat.
Speaker A:I, I, I, I'm not above, you know, reaching for a nice cold Stella when I get finished with it.
Speaker A:Yeah, something like, you know something about that.
Speaker A:I'll tell you what's really a lot of fun is I had a group of guys.
Speaker A:There was myself and a golf pro by the name of Doug Abore, who's here at McLemore, who's just a great human being.
Speaker A:We, we took 14 folks with us to Ireland this year.
Speaker A:And there's something about when you play golf in Ireland, of course, you're walking with a caddy and you get finished, and there's that tired and, and they have Guinness there that's different than the Guinness that we get here in the US and you sit down and you tired, and you generally sit where you got a good view, and you get that Guinness and, and that sip of that Guinness is just the best.
Speaker A:And there's nothing, nothing quite like that.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker B:Looking back, is there anything you would change in your life or your career?
Speaker A:Oh, gosh, you know, I.
Speaker A:Listen, I, my, my life has been a blessing.
Speaker A:You know, I've got a wonderful wife, great kids.
Speaker A:I've been able to feed them, which is good.
Speaker A:Send them to school.
Speaker A:My wife is just a. Yeah.
Speaker A:An absolute angel.
Speaker A:And, and I might have tried to be a little smarter about some things here and there.
Speaker A:In particular, maybe I'd listen to my wife a little bit more.
Speaker A:Like when she said, so do you really think it's productive to walk around and tell yourself that you suck at golf when you're playing the PGA Tour?
Speaker A:You know, I was, I was a little too hard on myself and kind of, kind of in a negative way.
Speaker A:And I wish I had just listened to her a little bit.
Speaker A:She had a lot of Wisdom.
Speaker A:And she's not a golfer, but it's kind of common sense things and, and if I had had, you know, a little bit, a little more patient and a little kinder to, I, if I had a mulligan, that, that's kind of where I would play, that mulligan.
Speaker A:But overall, gosh, I, I really, you know, I can't, can't complain at all.
Speaker A:Even later on here, these last five, six years, dealing with some health problems I've had, you know, great team around me.
Speaker A:I learned a lot going through that and, and, and, you know, just, just maybe be a little smarter.
Speaker A:A few things when I was early, when I was early in my career in life.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, now this is recorded for posterity, so I'm going to send her a link to, specifically to that answer.
Speaker A:It wouldn't, it wouldn't surprise her to hear that.
Speaker B:Charlie.
Speaker B:Name an unsung hero of the golf world can be anybody, doesn't have to be a player.
Speaker A:You know, I'm gonna name a position our superintendents in, in the world of golf, they do, they do amazing work, and it's, it's largely unseen.
Speaker A:And, and generally, if the spotlight shines on them, it's because something has gone wrong.
Speaker A:And a lot of times that's not their fault.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:There's budgetary issues.
Speaker A:There's, you know, rainfall or temperature issues.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, golf at its, at its, its heart is, you know, we're, we're all of us that are in the golf business.
Speaker A:I mean, it's essentially agriculture.
Speaker A:You can't irrigate everything.
Speaker A:You know, you got to get, you know, normal weather and, and, and there's just some curveballs that come at you that, you know, nobody can see.
Speaker A:But superintendents, by and large, I mean, they're in early, they're, they're in the, in the tough times.
Speaker A:A year, no matter where they are, they're there late, and they just don't get the credit that they deserve.
Speaker A:And, and the superintendents, all the folks work for them and that half of the industry, it, it literally business.
Speaker A:And, and they just don't get the credit that they deserve.
Speaker A:And, and they prepare golf courses that we all enjoy every day, and, and they don't get a whole lot of heartfelt thank yous.
Speaker A:All they ever do is get bitching when something small goes wrong.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Unsung hero in our industry.
Speaker B:Okay, two last questions, bud.
Speaker B:What's one thing you wish spectators would not do?
Speaker B:Now, we talked about the Ryder cup in the, in the Whole show.
Speaker B:But this.
Speaker B:Maybe this is something different.
Speaker B:One thing that you wish spect do.
Speaker A:Well, I guess the.
Speaker A:You know, there was a beer that came in that.
Speaker A:That rushed Rory's wife.
Speaker A:I did see some video later on.
Speaker A:I don't know how intentional that was, but, you know, when you got objects flying around, that's.
Speaker A:That's no good.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:And then, you know, just.
Speaker A:There's a line.
Speaker A:Just don't.
Speaker A:You know, you can.
Speaker A:You can criticize, you can be vocal, you can be excited, but stay away.
Speaker A:Stay away from the realm of personal criticizing players.
Speaker A:You know, that's just.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's no good for anybody.
Speaker A:And, you know, have fun, enjoy yourself, and, you know, be emotional.
Speaker A:Bring it.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But do it in an appropriate way and, and stay away from the.
Speaker A:The personal comments.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:It's a real dark spot on what's otherwise very bright and beautiful game.
Speaker B:Okay, one last question.
Speaker B:If I gave you a box with everything you have lost in your life, Charlie, what is the first thing you would reach for in the box?
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:I don't lose many things.
Speaker A:You can ask my kids.
Speaker A:I've got a place for everything.
Speaker A:The one thing that I lost when I was a kid, I. I had a coin collection that was my grandfather's, and I. I used to get that coin collection out and I'd look at it and it was really cool coins, you know, like old buffalo nickels.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, coins and all of that.
Speaker A:And I was, you know, I was pretty young, but probably a little too young to have access to it.
Speaker A:But somehow, some way, that coin collection got lost.
Speaker A:And I know what you're thinking, it was before ebay.
Speaker A:I didn't sell it, but I wish I had it now is all I could say.
Speaker A:There's no telling how much that was worth, but just sentimental value as well.
Speaker A:But, oh, sure, coin collection.
Speaker A:I don't know how in the world I lost that, but it sure been gone for a long time.
Speaker B:I'm pretty sure you weren't playing in that crap game in third grade.
Speaker B:Well, okay, maybe.
Speaker B:Maybe second grade was the line there.
Speaker B:I'm not sure.
Speaker B:Charlie.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:If you ask my wife, it'd be a nice Rolex I gave her after about my second or third year on tour.
Speaker A:Oh, did I say that?
Speaker A:Yeah, the Rolex my wife would be looking that box for.
Speaker B:Okay, all right.
Speaker B:Charlie Reimer, big time diamonds on it, too.
Speaker A:Jt.
Speaker B:We'Re just gonna leave that right there.
Speaker A:She got a Timex now, so.
Speaker B:Yeah, I understand that too.
Speaker B:Anyway, thank you, Charlie.
Speaker B:It's always a pleasure.
Speaker B:And we'll.
Speaker B:We'll make this happen more often, bud.
Speaker A:You got it.
Speaker A:Great catching up with you.
Speaker A:And I appreciate you having me on as always.
Speaker B:No problem.
Speaker B:That's going to wrap it for after hours here on grilling it to green.
Speaker B:Go out there, have a good week, everybody.
Speaker B:Play some golf, have some fun.
Speaker B:And most importantly, be kind.
Speaker B:Take care.
