SportsFource Champions: Landmand GC sees monstrous success
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And then for'}, {'start': '24.480', 'end': '29.359', 'text': '2025, it took 1 hour. Tucked away in the'}, {'start': '27.680', 'end': '31.199', 'text': 'rolling hills of the Homer Nebraska'}, {'start': '29.359', 'end': '33.120', 'text': 'countryside sits what Wall Street'}, {'start': '31.199', 'end': '35.760', 'text': 'Journal calls the toughest tea time in'}, {'start': '33.120', 'end': '37.760', 'text': 'America, the Landman Golf Course. But'}, {'start': '35.760', 'end': '39.520', 'text': "for owner operator Will Anderson, it's"}, {'start': '37.760', 'end': '41.760', 'text': 'been a labor of love transforming parts'}, {'start': '39.520', 'end': '44.719', 'text': 'of his family farm into the beautiful'}, {'start': '41.760', 'end': '47.440', 'text': 'course you see now. And I felt like it'}, {'start': '44.719', 'end': '49.520', 'text': 'was the time where either we were going'}, {'start': '47.440', 'end': '51.039', 'text': 'to or either I was going to just take'}, {'start': '49.520', 'end': '53.760', 'text': 'over the farm and be a farmer the rest'}, {'start': '51.039', 'end': '55.760', 'text': 'of my life or try something else. One'}, {'start': '53.760', 'end': '57.760', 'text': 'thing Will had to do, convince his'}, {'start': '55.760', 'end': '60.000', 'text': 'father, who he had been farming with, to'}, {'start': '57.760', 'end': '64.400', 'text': 'build a course on their family farm. I'}, {'start': '60.000', 'end': '67.360', 'text': 'would say his um his aha moment was when'}, {'start': '64.400', 'end': '70.640', 'text': 'I took him out to a golf tournament in'}, {'start': '67.360', 'end': '73.040', 'text': 'uh California. It was uh called the'}, {'start': '70.640', 'end': '75.439', 'text': "Stalker Cup and it's at the preserve in"}, {'start': '73.040', 'end': '77.759', 'text': 'Carmel. That was a top 100 golf course'}, {'start': '75.439', 'end': '79.360', 'text': 'in Golf Digest and he said, "Well, if'}, {'start': '77.759', 'end': '81.840', 'text': 'you can build something or we can build'}, {'start': '79.360', 'end': '84.799', 'text': 'something like this, yeah, I\'ll do it."'}, {'start': '81.840', 'end': '86.720', 'text': 'So in 2015, Will started putting'}, {'start': '84.799', 'end': '88.960', 'text': 'together the plans for Landman Golf'}, {'start': '86.720', 'end': '90.640', 'text': 'Course and began the long process of'}, {'start': '88.960', 'end': '94.000', 'text': 'designing and piecing the course'}, {'start': '90.640', 'end': '96.799', 'text': 'together hole by hole. Just one issue,'}, {'start': '94.000', 'end': '98.640', 'text': 'the farmland was not exactly ready for a'}, {'start': '96.799', 'end': '101.840', 'text': 'golf course. And the type of soil that'}, {'start': '98.640', 'end': '105.040', 'text': "we have here, it's easily erodable. And"}, {'start': '101.840', 'end': '108.240', 'text': 'when they started pushing big big pushes'}, {'start': '105.040', 'end': '110.640', 'text': 'every single day, filling up valleys 40'}, {'start': '108.240', 'end': '113.119', 'text': 'foot, you know, 50 foot higher, taking'}, {'start': '110.640', 'end': '117.200', 'text': 'hilltops down, we saw a lot of like'}, {'start': '113.119', 'end': '118.799', 'text': 'earth move. And when massive rains came,'}, {'start': '117.200', 'end': '121.439', 'text': 'yeah, it would wash stuff out and it'}, {'start': '118.799', 'end': '124.479', 'text': 'would bring goalies. No, 20 going into'}, {'start': '121.439', 'end': '127.600', 'text': '21, I decided to uh sod the whole thing'}, {'start': '124.479', 'end': '129.360', 'text': 'in 2021. And that was probably the best'}, {'start': '127.600', 'end': '131.440', 'text': 'idea I ever had.'}, {'start': '129.360', 'end': '134.000', 'text': 'Once opened up, Anderson and the rest of'}, {'start': '131.440', 'end': '135.920', 'text': 'the crew at Landm had no idea what would'}, {'start': '134.000', 'end': '138.560', 'text': "happen, filling their second season's"}, {'start': '135.920', 'end': '141.280', 'text': 'tea times in 3 hours and then this'}, {'start': '138.560', 'end': '143.200', 'text': "season's tea times in less than an hour,"}, {'start': '141.280', 'end': '145.440', 'text': 'creating some technical difficulties for'}, {'start': '143.200', 'end': '150.319', 'text': 'the course. As we opened up the T- sheet'}, {'start': '145.440', 'end': '153.200', 'text': 'at 8:00, our tech guy, our IT guy said,'}, {'start': '150.319', 'end': '155.920', 'text': '"All right, it it crashed like within'}, {'start': '153.200', 'end': '157.200', 'text': "the first second and couldn't get it up,"}, {'start': '155.920', 'end': '160.319', 'text': "couldn't reboot it. We were all trying"}, {'start': '157.200', 'end': '162.160', 'text': 'to get on our computers and we got so'}, {'start': '160.319', 'end': '164.400', 'text': 'much a flood like just a flood of'}, {'start': '162.160', 'end': '166.959', 'text': 'emails, a flood of direct messages from,'}, {'start': '164.400', 'end': '170.400', 'text': 'you know, social media that people were'}, {'start': '166.959', 'end': '172.400', 'text': "very upset. For next season, you'll just"}, {'start': '170.400', 'end': '176.239', 'text': 'have to keep your eye out for how Land'}, {'start': '172.400', 'end': '177.599', 'text': 'Man will fill its tea times. Um, we'}, {'start': '176.239', 'end': '180.640', 'text': "don't know yet. I don't know what I want"}, {'start': '177.599', 'end': '184.360', 'text': "to do. Um, we're going to brainstorm a"}, {'start': '180.640', 'end': '184.360', 'text': 'little bit for 2026.'}]