580 Rounds in 365 Days: The RGV Tour 2.0 with Patrick Koenig

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Patrick Koenig hears a hiss on a New York road and finds his RV's fire extinguisher has discharged into the living room.

1. The IMAGEN Golf Podcast episode 'The RGV Tour 2.0' covers Patrick Koenig's 580 rounds in 365 days, played from an RV across 48 states. 2. Host Daniel Guest talks with Patrick Koenig, a golf course photographer from Laguna Beach, California, who once held the world record for most courses played in 12 months and now holds the North American record. 3. Patrick says the record matters less than 'the experience and living that dream for a year', and that he motivated a UK golfer to go after it. 4. Patrick explains how Instagram interest in his course photographs led him to leave a Bay Area sales job in 2018, with a supportive boss, and buy a first RV he calls 'Cousin Eddie vibes.' 5. He lists the RV failures, including a broken slide-out, failed AC units, a fridge that went down the stairs and an exhaust torn off on a curb, and says the whole list is in his book 'The United States of Golf.' 6. Daniel shares his own RV trip to the Ryder Cup in New York, where a 10-6 bridge clearance on the parkway nearly caught his 28-foot rental, and Patrick describes hitting a swinging low-clearance sign in Boston. 7. Patrick says the tour was constant work, with photographing every course, editing and blogging all day, and scheduling complicated because over half the courses were private, while visitors signed the guest book and donated to The First Tee. 8. Patrick reports 106 courses in California, a 77.8 average, a low of 67 and a high of 92, and says he 'maxed out as a scratch golfer' with no tour-pro talent. 9. Patrick has witnessed 13 holes-in-one but has none of his own, saw only Evan Johnson ace Terranea's seventh across both tours, and puts his lifetime total near 1,900 courses. 10. Golf travelers, RV owners and course-photography fans will enjoy this one.

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