Chad Underwood

I’m just here to talk golf man.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@DoerflerJared @HannaGolfCo These look great. Have you done any or considered doing any slant neck putters?

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@NjTank99 This is such a poor analogy. Dayton destroys the Spains and Argentinas in non-conference, then loses to Trinidad and Tobago, Panama and Suriname in Regular Season to miss out on qualifying for the World Cup as the last team out.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

Kind of like the “I wish American golf worked on the GB&I model.”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@chadmumm I’ve watched a few @cookiejargolf videos in preparation for my Scotland trip, very much enjoy.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@cbustruth @cbuscitycouncil @MayorGinther @CityAttyKlein @sdfavor Tell me know nothing about the longtime demographics of area without telling me you know nothing about the area.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

Wait until he finds out that he has Par 5’s longer than One World Trade is tall.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The President of the United States has discovered that a pool can be longer than a skyscraper is tall.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@JoshuaBarzon Is Edinburgh in B or C? Very important for golfers

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@sethbannon I worked for the BEP (not the Mint) for two years before I took the buyout. Patty signed off every email with “The Buck Stops Here” because, you know, we printed the money. The agency was decimated by DOGE, contracting in particular.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@SoConLOCKS I mean nothing says fighting the good fight like charging $350 US for a sweatshirt

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@SoConLOCKS 10/10 review. Although I think 1 is a fine hole, not weak. My favorite golf course I’ve played on Earth.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@SirPuttsalot @casualclubguy A touch up of NCR South would demand a major

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@casualclubguy @stayathomeMo Yea, I was going to say - tell me you haven’t played Moraine wi the out telling me you haven’t played moraine 🤣

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@WilkenWorks I’m always looking for more golf buddies!

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

Winged Foot West, a historic 🇺🇸 golf club. Tillinghast restored by Hanse. 1st green “Welcome to Winged Foot.” 2 very different 9’s - wasn’t prepared for the ⬆️ and ⬇️ of the land and boulders. Wonderful dining room, beautiful touches all around. Need to return & play East!

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@WilkenWorks It is. Highly recommend!

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@footlooper36 Which hole is that? Some of the green complexes looked terrifying!

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@johnnyginkle_76 Absolutely delightful golf course. So fun, and the land was unreal.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

Baltusrol Upper, Springfield, NJ. Tillinghast design, restored by Hanse. Lower gets majors, Upper is a delight. Secluded parkland feel w/ sneaky mountainous terrain, making putting visually difficult on subtly hard greens. Amazing course & club w/ incredible history.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

A few more.

[Chad Underwood @Chundeezy]

@DaytonFlyers Yet continue to ignore the mediocre product you put on the court year after year. Cool.