The Golf Bag Dave West

“Don’t be late”. Simple advice.  Advice from a college coach.  Advice that carries  weight.  Especially when you are a junior golfer looking to play big time college golf!

Growing up in the shadow of SMU, it was an easy decision to go to school and play golf close to home, then after a journey career that left him fighting too many injuries, he found himself living back near campus when he got a call that changed his life. 

“Would you like to be my assistant coach?”  He wasn’t late, he was right on time!

Now he is the head coach and brings a lifetime of experience on and off the course.  

He runs a program of respect and hard work, he leads by example in life. The goal is simple, compete at a high level and win.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including golf! SMU has a deep golf history that includes Payne Stewart and Bryson DeChambeau.  Hear what Harry Higgs and Colt Knost have to say about their time there.

The head coach of the SMU Men’s golf team, this is Coach Chris Parra.

"You’re not everything that you could be! "

That’s advice that is definitely enough to motivate someone.

A career that started working with Special Forces in the military and the desire to work with athletes, lead him to Kinesiology - the study of exercise and human movement.  

The talk of things like Ground Reaction Force and the development of a platform to gauge Bio-Mechanical Analysis charted a new path.

-All movements start and end with posture

-What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t get managed.

-When the tides rolls in, all boats rise….this is what strength brings

-How do we produce strengths instead of just producing strength?

Phrases that never left his thoughts!

All of this is incredibly clear to the man who helps train, motivate and sculpt the modern athlete.

Director of Bio-Mechanics at Integrity Golf Performance in Frisco, TX - this is Ambrose Coleman.

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That advice wouldn’t work for everyone but it worked for today’s guest. When a career in music didn’t work out the way he planned, he rediscovered an old love…..golf!  He put all of his energy into learning the game and the skills required to become a PGA professional and taking on the task of teaching this generation and the next and the next to become not only the best golfers they could be but the best people they could be.

He was the tour director of the US Kids Golf Los Angeles local tour for 12 years, but he eventually listened to that advice and started California Junior Golf. 

CJG brings camps, academy’s, lessons and a tour all in one place under one fantastic golfing umbrella.

His coaching philosophy is to develop the physical, technical, mental, emotional, social and spirit of a young golfer!  It’s not only about the athlete, it’s also about the person!

PGA professional Dan Martin  … on The Golf Bag!

-post script:  Dan is still in the Los Angeles are now at Hansen Dam Golf Course You can find out more about Dan and California Junior Golf on his Instructor page on Reel Athlete.

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“Swing easy”

A Brit in America is my story today. Living deep in the London suburbs my guest today dreamed of moving to America to chase his dream of being an actor. But he had to wait until he was old enough to go out on his own. He filled his time with sports and learning how to cook.

By the time he was 13 he picked up the game of golf and fell hard for the American tv show, Baywatch.

Two dreams would come true when he finally got to America…. he saw his acting career take-off and was a cast member on a show with Pamela Anderson!

Hard work, determination, a soap opera and some California sunshine set the stage for Aiden Turner … my guest today on The Golf Bag!

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“Life is short … enjoy the ride"
Very few people have been involved in something so big that not only did they have no control over any part of it, but it became the “blueprint” of their life.  A huge sports fan, born and raised in Milwaukee, WI the calling of bright lights and more sunlight brought him west to Los Angeles.  In a sequence of introductions he met O.J. Simpson and became a guest on the property at the Rockingham Estate where he rented out the guest house.
In June of 1994, an innocent trip to McDonalds thrust him into the national spotlight.  Kato Kaelin became part of a crime timeline and a witness for the prosecution in the “trial of the century”, the O.J. Simpson murder trial.  His life would never be the same.
But after coming out the other side of such a tragic event the funny, goofy, gregarious Kato re-surfaced.
The lover of golf and all sports Wisconsin, the self-deprecating, charming guy now years removed from his time in Brentwood … Brian Gerard “Kato” Kaelin is my guest on this episode of The Golf Bag.

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"Slow Down"

A career in the music business is tough but it’s definitely made easier when you blow up with your first single and become part of a musical revolution igniting an entire region and bringing it all to a national stage.  Then, the bottom falls out.  Do you quit? Never!  You re-adjust, re-organize, come up with an unconventional plan and go after it!  
In 1996, The Refreshments from Tempe, AZ, were all over the radio with their single, “Banditos” then after a record company changing course and leaving them to fend for themselves, the band found itself at a crossroads.  The lead singer, Roger Clyne, and the drummer P. H. Naffah reformed into a new quartet called, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.

Hailed as one of the most exciting live acts on the road today, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers are musical beacons of the Southwest fueled by witty and insightful lyrics, crunching guitar riffs, a dynamic rhythm section and tequila. RCPM are the only act to release seven consecutive studio albums to land on the top 10 of Billboard’s Internet Sales Chart, two at No. 1, all released on a 100% independent record label.

Dubbed the “Springsteen of the Southwest” by the Asbury Park Press, this is the story of how a totally independent band not only succeeded but created a following that borders on cult-like.  The fans, also called Peacemakers, are some of the greatest, most loyal fanbase in music today.  The band tours to soldout shows all over the world, they own TWO music festivals, wrote the theme song for TV’s “King of the Hill” and have their own brand of tequila, affectionately called, Mexican Moonshine.

This is the greatest rock band that you might have never heard of and at the heart of it all is their fearless, totally independent leader. 

I am proud to have as my guest on The Golf Bag, Roger Clyne!

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