Scrambling with Dylan Otto

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto is a final update on my journey in summer golf and how tournaments have been going. I played in the 2023 NCGA Am at Spyglass Hill which was a ton of fun and talk about each round. I'll take you through my though process with each round as well as what the game of golf has done for me in my life. I love being fully transparent with the liste...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features University of Oregon golfer Nate Stember. Born in Portland, Oregon and playing for the Oregon Ducks... Nate Stember is the hometown kid. Nate got into the game from the help of his grandpa and father at the age of 3 years old which is the definition of starting them young. He played most of his competitive golf in the summers and found...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Univeristy of North Carolina Golfer Austin Greaser. Golf was something that Austin fell in love very easily with the help of his father who found the love of the game later on in life. Greaser was always known as the smaller guy who didn't hit very far, but that didn't stop him from playing in competitive junior events and givi...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features University of Oregon Women's Assistant Coach Krissy Carman. You've probably seen this name a lot because she's a legend in the state of Oregon and amateur golf world. Krissy grew up in Canby, Oregon where she played most of her junior golf and went onto play at both Oregon State University and Portland University. As her ye...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto is an update on my journey in summer golf and how tournaments have been going. The game is in a really good spot right now off the tee, from the fairway, and around the greens. I touch on positives and negatives from each round as well as the matches my Dad and I have been playing in at Kings River Country Club in the Summer Matchplay. The coll...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Auburn University golfer Jackson Koivun. What a career this young man has had from winning AJGA events, playing in the Junior President's Cup, and much more... and he hasn't even started college golf yet. Jackson got started really early on with the game with the help of his family, he started playing competitive golf at the ag...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Washington State University Golfer Drayton Joseph. For a majority of Drayton's childhood he was known as a baseball and football player until he torn his rotator cuff which meant only one thing... time to play golf! He saw results pretty fast as he was grinding on his game and started playing in local SoCal junior events like SoCal...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Southern Methodist University golfer Aaron Jarvis. You don't hear many golfers coming out the Cayman Islands nowadays, but Aaron Jarvis is leading the way for his home country. He first started playing soccer until his brother got introduced to the game and Aaron was hooked as soon as he started playing. As he was developing his ga...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features University of Illinois golfer Piercen Hunt. This man has played golf in all sorts of places from his years living in Canada, The Netherlands, Wisconsin, and now Illinois. Of course hockey was a sport he fell in love with because golf was hard to play when there was snow on the ground, but he soon gave everything he had into golf in his...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features professional golfer David Kim. A majority of the guests I have on the podcast either got into the game with the help of a family member or they did it on their own... not David Kim. He doesn't even remember the experience, but his mother said that when he was 3 years old he saw a photo of Tiger Woods in a sports magazine. His mothe...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features BYU alum & newly professional golfer Carson Lundell. The way Carson got into the game of golf is a story you've never heard before. He had no interest in the game of golf until he dislocated his pinky finger at a camp he didn't even want to go to and the only thing he could do in his cast was chip and hit putts. Ever since...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Mississippi State assistant coach Kolton Lapa. Yes, the name Kolton Lapa does sound familiar as he appeared in episode 28. However, he's made the transition from playing professional golf to coaching D1 golf in the SEC. Lapa was at last year's NCAA National Championship behind the ropes missing the coaching aspect of it. A day...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto is a little different as we go over a few things with the podcast, photography business, and summer golf. I've been wanting to give the listeners a little update on how things have been going as well as a quick assessment of how my 1st tournament of the summer went. I'll take you through round-by-round of the 2023 Fresno City Amateur an...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Arizona State University golfer Michael Mjaaseth. Competitive skiing and soccer are the sports Michael Mjaaseth grew up playing in his home country of Norway. The game of golf didn't come into his life until he joined a summer golf camp when he was 10 years old and he was hooked! Mjaaseth then joined a so-called academy and started...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features professional golfer Hunter Epson. Golf was always something Hunter did growing up, but he was really invested in soccer and ice hockey as well. Once he started to realize that he could go practice on his own and create his own success, he gave golf all of his attention. He started playing in a lot of local junior events in the Long Bea...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features USC Golfer Gavin Aurilia. At a very young age Gavin Aurilia only knew baseball since his father, Rich Aurilia, was a successful baseball player in the MLB. However, around the age of 12 he decided to put baseball to the side and give golf all his attention. He grew up playing a lot of local junior events in the Arizona area, but eventu...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features UCLA assistant coach Patrick Murphy. You don't hear many golfers come from Canada to not only play college golf, but coach it as well. Patrick Murphy is one of those guys! He grew up in Crossfield, Alberta, Canada where golf wasn't the biggest sport to play. He grew up playing hockey like any other Canadian, but was playing in...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features professional golfer and swing coach Dylan Crowley. As I've said numerous times... every golfer has a different story and Dylan Crowley's is one you don't hear about too often. He's originally from the New York area, but moved to Southern California at a young age. He got into the game of golf by going to a local range j...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Fresno State golfer Joseph Lloyd. Joseph grew up in a very saturated area with a ton of talented golfers... Scottsdale, Arizona. He played most of his junior golf in his home state and found great success doing so by having multiple wins like the 2020 Arizona Junior State Championship as well as being medalist at the 2020 Arizona Am. W...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Texas Tech University golfer Calum Scott. What a journey it's been from Nairn, Scotland to teeing it up in his 1st college event at Pebble Beach. It all started with the help of his father getting both him and his brother Sandy into the game, though he didn't get to play much with his brother growing up. Calum grew up playing i...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Alabama alum and professional golfer Charlie Nikitas. What a story Charlie Nikitas has with some amazing experiences and stories. His family was a big into basketball so golf wasn't the main sport in the family, but that didn't stop Charlie from wanting to pursue it. He played in whatever junior events he could get in and had a...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features CSU Bakersfield head coach Tiffanie Yabut. From Omaha, Nebraska to Bakersfield, California... Tiffanie Yabut will go wherever she needs to because she loves coaching that much! Before she was a coach though she was a player, growing up and learning all she could from her father. She had always been around the game and knew she wanted t...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features Colorado State University head coach Michael Wilson. What a journey coach Wilson has been on from growing up on the Monterey Peninsula to coaching his 1st season at Colorado State. Wilson was a player before he was a coach though and earned a scholarship to go play at UC Berkley where he was on the National Championship team. There&#39...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features University of Arizona golfer Chase Sienkiewicz.  My first impression on Chase Sienkiewicz's game back at the Sacramento City Amateur when he was 16 was... wow this kid hits a mile.  Golf wasn't the only sport he played growing up though, he was pretty involved in basketball at the same time.  It wasn't until his junior/senio...

This week's episode of Scrambling with Dylan Otto features University of Nevada, Las Vegas golfer Ben Sawaia.  Ben is the definition of playing for his city because he was born and raised in the state of Nevada!  He played both soccer and golf growing up, but he had to make a decision to play one or the other.  It's safe to say that golf was the right path for him as he was ranked 2...