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RBC Heritage Highlights, LIV Golf's Future, and Golf Coach Insights · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  You are here live this morning for the Scratch Project Saturday cut line.
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  I'm joined by my cohost, Alex.
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  Well, pods, we're gonna kick it off here with our first segment, calling it the tee box.
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  Four.
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  Alright.
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  Yeah.
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  So, a quick view off the top here.
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  Obviously, we got the RBC Heritage going on.
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  The leader right now at 14 under, at least as far as I can tell, is Matt Fitzpatrick.
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  Patrick.
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  Yeah.
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  Shot an incredible 63 yesterday.
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  Had himself a day, but we always got, we also got some news out out of LIV Golf this week as
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  well.
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  We're gonna get more to the to the heritage in our next segment, but, I think a lot of the
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  golf world is paying attention to what's happening with LIV golf and if they will
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  survive the season.
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  Pods, tell us more.
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  Personally, I think Liv, they had a lot of good ideas, but we all know that some of the big
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  questions for them were right off the bat.
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  Okay.
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  First off, we got a guy, you know, in Norman who wasn't really on good terms with the PGA,
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  then they handed it over to Scott as the next CEO when Norman stepped down.
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  And then given current climate right now and some, issues that are going on near Saudi
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  Arabia and The Middle East, as a lot of people know, made the Saudis pull the PIF, what was
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  the private investment fund, which was supposed to basically fund to live through 2030.
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  But if they're pulling that, that's billions of dollars being lost in funding, which is
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  basically the money that they were using to pay your Bryce and DeChambos, your John Rams, you
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  know, your Brooks, Kepkas, and the likes.
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  So if that money is not there anymore and they have to go to ground to fund and get some
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  crowdfunding, then I think that they're gonna be in a world of trouble because the under is
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  whatever, you know, Liv says they're gonna do.
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  Like, oh, this is what we're gonna do going forward.
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  They had an announcement.
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  They're gonna have another one while they're doing their Mexico City event.
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  And I would take the under on whatever they say their trajectory is because you can't just lose
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  a PIF and then expect to fund half $1,000,000,000 overnight.
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  Yeah.
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  And and for people who for people who aren't aware of how Liv differentiates itself from the
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  PGA.
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  Now the PGA is all purse money and sponsorships.
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  Right?
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  So the the tour itself does not pay anyone to be part of it.
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  You have to win or place, you know, to get.
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  Now these guys are getting paid something for multiple places.
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  It's not winner takes all tournaments, although the people at the top are, you know, making
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  millions of dollars when you win.
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  For guys that are are not in that and are missing the cut line and and having that,
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  you're not getting any money.
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  Right?
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  So the the PGA can be a very tough, a very tough business for the players themselves.
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  Now Liv kinda turned that into their head, and the way that they were able to bring in some of
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  the biggest names in golf was by paying them essentially a salary saying, hey.
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  You're gonna get so much money to come golf in this league, and we'll pay you.
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  And that is why you are going to struggle if that private money is now pulled out of that.
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  How are you surviving paying out these massive, massive contracts?
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  I don't think you are, to be honest.
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  Look.
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  I'm not like a big PGA versus LIV guy.
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  I honestly think that, yes, it kinda sucks that this next competitive league is, you know,
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  that's in North America anyway is LIV and that the Saudis fund it because that's always gonna
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  be like, oh, they're trying to, you know, sports wash their reputation and stuff like
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  that, and it already had that stigma attached to it.
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  And now it still you know, it's been going on what now?
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  Like, five years?
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  Live is?
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  I think they started back in '21.
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  And now you're losing your biggest source of funding, and you don't have that money to pay
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  these big contracts.
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  Because when you look at Liv and when you were just talking about the difference between a PGA
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  and how a guy gets his money versus Liv, they almost had Liv contracts set up like it was a
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  football contract.
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  Like, alright.
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  Here's your base salary, and then here's some incentives baked in if you wanna make a couple
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  extra million.
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  And this is on top of the prize purse for each event.
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  I don't know what you do without that money.
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  Like, that's a big chunk of change just gone.
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  Right.
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  And without some of the major TV deals that the PGA has baked in, with, you know, your major
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  broadcasters, the NBCs and CBS for the majors and all of these tournaments going on, your
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  ESPN's who are covering them.
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  Now, obviously, that media landscape is changing a lot too, and maybe not as much money
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  coming in for, some of the, you know, tournaments or lesser known tournaments that
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  are on the PGA schedule.
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  But the the simple fact that you're getting the salary as opposed to just the purse money, I
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  think it changes the competition, and that's what a lot of people probably, in the early,
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  goings were were, you know, worried about.
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  I still think the golf action is just as good.
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  You have these massive names and some of the best talent in the world that are out there.
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  It just changes the conversation.
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  And because the PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization, and that's the way that their
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  structure is set up, that you're going to have a a bit of a difference inside of that, the way
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  things can run privately as opposed to nonprofit and the way these businesses are set
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  up.
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  But like you said, without, you know, half $1,000,000,000 or or more, funding being pulled
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  out of that, there's no way you're able to survive while the, while some of that other
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  money catches up to the league and brings it into there.
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  It's really, you know, you never like to see this, in the world because it was such a
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  shakeup when they came in.
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  Now with them leaving, it becomes an even bigger shakeup, I think, on the exit because
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  you may have this talent, coming back into the PGA, and, I think we can talk about that a
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  little bit too.
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  And not that you don't have I mean, obviously, the masters drew some of these players back,
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  your your John Rams and Bryson DeChambos in there.
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  But if you're bringing them back in on a weekly basis into the PGA, do you think it's going to
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  have an effect on some of those numbers and the talent or, you know, create a little bit of a
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  schism with some of the players who didn't leave to go over?
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  You see, this is kind of like a double edged question in my point of view because there's a
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  double edged answer.
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  Because there's what you're gonna see on TV and in public interviews, and then there's gonna be
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  what players really think in the locker room.
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  So on the interviews, nobody wants to make the tour upset or the governing body upset because
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  you have to remember too, the PGA Tour, they run themselves as a nonprofit.
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  Yes.
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  But they still have to do coordination with all of these other golf courses and all of these
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  other governing bodies too, like, you know, local because they still have all their
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  understuff too, like Korn Ferry, Q School, that kind of thing.
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  So there is gonna be a major shakeup because now you're having that vacuum of talent that
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  left all of a sudden being right back on the table.
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  Because I'll tell you this right now.
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  Whatever the live CEO says, I'm taking the under, or it's just it you just can't get
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  through that.
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  So I'm looking for the PGA Tour to just say, you know what?
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  There was a great divide in golf, and we need to come together.
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  That's gonna be their approach to it to get your major champions back, like your John Rams,
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  your Bryson DeChambos, and your newer blood too.
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  Like, we talk about major champions.
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  A a k could be coming back to the PGA tour.
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  He's been doing really good over in Liv.
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  Like, he won Adelaide, and now you've got the potential to get someone who the PGA really
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  wanted.
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  They may not say it out loud, but they wanted Michael Lesaso.
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  They really did.
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  But, you know, they're like, well, you gotta win, you know, and get your card and yada yada
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  yada.
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  And Liv's like, here's a guaranteed contract.
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  Come play for one of our teams.
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  And now there's that sinking feeling too for a lot of these guys.
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  I know there's a whole Korean squad that they added this year to live, some interesting new
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  names and also some older names, and now you're thinking, man, is that whole squad gonna have
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  to go?
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  Like, they're just brand new and the money's gone.
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  Like, where are you paying Anthony Kim's salary?
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  Where are you paying Ram's salary?
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  Where's Bryson's $300,000,000 salary gonna go?
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  You know, you can't make it all up in sponsors, but the PGA can.
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  And I guarantee you when these guys are available, all of those requirements that you
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  saw for Patrick Reed and Brooks Koepka, they're gonna be even lighter than when those two had
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  to pay 5,000,000 and lose equity or something in the PGA.
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  So they're gonna be like, okay, John Rom.
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  Okay, Bryson.
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  You guys can come back.
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  Because they need it.
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  They want the like, if they're gonna stay true to the PGA where this is where the best play,
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  then they need a Jaan Rom.
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  They need a Bryson DeChambeau.
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  You may not like their decision to go to live, but you know what?
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  If Saudi Arabia wasn't attached to LIV Golf and Norman wasn't attached to LIV Golf as adamantly
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  as it was in the beginning, and it didn't have that schism going in, Live Golf would be
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  celebrated for paying the guys and then still paying them on top of that for not only single
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  individual placing, but for team placements because I thought the team aspect of Liv was
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  the strongest thing because, like, oh my gosh.
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  You have a bad individual around.
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  You're discouraged, but you look up and you see your teams within two or three strokes.
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  You're like, well, I may not be in it, but I can keep my team in it or ahead of it.
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  That's gonna be gone when I think that's a shame.
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  Well and I wonder if there's a way for Liv to downsize some of what they're doing.
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  Now I don't know what, you know, all of these contracts do and to get too far into there, but
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  it it would be nice if maybe they were able to save it, in some essence.
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  But as it's set up now without the money, you have to imagine they're folding.
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  And, obviously, this is going to be developing.
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  This news just broke this week, and we'll we'll have a lot more to come from this weekly to
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  talk about.
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  Moving on, though, pods, you've been tuning in to the RBC Heritage this weekend.
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  We hit it off the top.
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  Matt Fitzpatrick still in the lead there at 14 under after shooting a 63 on Friday.
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  Blistering second round.
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  Yeah.
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  That's just crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  So and and here's the crazy part.
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  He shot a risk, like, a competitive minus six going into this.
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  So he shot a 65 right before he shot the 63.
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  Pods, you think we'll ever get there?
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  I haven't seen you golf yet, so I couldn't say.
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  It's not good.
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  It's not good, but that's okay.
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  That's why we
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  love But is it but is it but is it content worthy?
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  Yeah.
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  I think so.
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  I I think regardless, we are, entertaining.
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  That's what makes us good at at what we do.
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  Right?
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  Well, let's move into the next segment, and we're gonna cover, everything from RBC, the
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  early rounds here, and, what's going on.
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  Hey.
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  Shout out to our guy, Big b, tuning in today.
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  What's up, B?
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  Yeah.
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  Had one question before we move on.
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  Could golf ever have a player like Adam Sandler's character, Happy Gilmore?
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  You know?
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  And live, maybe, in the PGA because of the competitive nature of it.
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  I don't know that's possible.
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  What's your thoughts though, Pods?
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  I think we already have a happy Gilmore.
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  He just doesn't do the the the step.
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  I think that's Bryson DeChambeau, to be honest.
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  Because he's a little bit more well dressed, but the way that he plays is like Happy
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  Gilmore.
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  Hit that thing far, get a close second shot in, and then Happy learn how to putt.
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  There's definitely a little bit of that, in his game, and it was really fun watching, Adam
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  Sandler hit with Bryson, on his channel.
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  Obviously, YouTube golf being what it is now.
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  Kind of a stick.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I mean Real life?
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  Money.
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  He's got he's got plenty of time to to get out on the course and to be decent.
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  Right?
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  And I think, you know, the I obviously, he was a golf fan before making Happy Golf.
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  I think he said his dad got him into golf.
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  Right.
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  So, I mean, you're talking about someone who's been playing the game for a a long time, and
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  he's got all the money in the world.
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  Right?
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  He can get out and golf 36 a day if he wanted to every single day.
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  Lessons more importantly.
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  Well and that's important too, and we're definitely gonna touch on more of that.
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  And with the Scratch Project, something that we really wanted to do was our in house expert and
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  golf coach Lance Christensen junior, who will be joining us more when his collegiate season
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  ends.
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  But, you know, you touched on q school and the Korn Ferry.
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  That's the next step for him.
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  He'll he'll finish his eligibility in the college ranks this year.
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  He's been you know, played division one golf, suffered a major injury in last season, and
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  then has battled his way back for the last, you know, eighteen months essentially.
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  Battling he back playing?
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  Course.
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  Now he's playing at Colorado Christian.
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  So division two now, high division two.
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  But even to come back from this massive injury that he suffered is huge.
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  So lot about more about Lance to come, and he's gonna be helping us get better and give us some
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  actionable tips for our game to improve us guys that aren't, you know, going on the tour
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  anytime soon, but wanna be better at the game that we love.
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  So a lot more of that action to come from here.
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  This is our next segment here, the cut line.
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  I wanna just show off real quick the fancy graphics that I made pods.
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  I worked really worked really hard on this stuff today.
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  So, the cut line segment will be just about the PGA tour of the weekend.
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  As you guys know, that is RBC heritage Today, starting off Matt Fitzpatrick, like we talked
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  about, starting the round as the leader at 14 under.
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  But Victor Hovland, I do believe, is right there at 13 under.
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  Oh, I mean, it's not like Matt's running away with it.
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  Pods, what were some, highlights of the round from yesterday that caught your attention?
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  Honestly, like, I was going through, and there's a bunch of shots.
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  And one of the things that really stuck out to me was just Matt Fitzpatrick's aggressiveness
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  in at Harbor Town.
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  You know?
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  Like, Matt usually plays it I wouldn't say he plays it passively, but this time he came out
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  aggressive.
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  He was making putts, he was driving the green in two, hitting a bunch of greens in
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  regulation.
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  My personal highlight for him is he made a 25 footer on point and it looked like he was
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  putting from five feet.
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  Just he that hole is four inches in regulation.
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  Matt Fitzpatrick's hole must have been four feet wide because that ball was finding birds.
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  Like, my man had binoculars because he was bird watching.
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  Every time he was around the green, it is just it is special to watch right now.
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  Really is.
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  Yeah.
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  Beech chimed in with a question here.
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  What is harder in golf, being the leader or chasing the leader?
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  Being the leader.
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  I was gonna say, I I think there's always more pressure when you are the guy at the top
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  knowing that any little mistake can open the door when you are in that chasing mode.
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  You're playing with house money, essentially.
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  So you just gotta go out there and do things well knowing that you're already kind of out of
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  it.
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  What I think can be really tough that probably a lot of us don't talk about, you know, mostly
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  because we've never been there.
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  But being, someone who's in that, you know, second through fifth position that may be a
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  stroke or two behind, not knowing what the leader is going to do.
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  So just having to go out there and play your game, realizing that you could land in that top
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  spot by virtue of somebody else having a bad day and and one bad hole rather than that.
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  So I think there's plenty of pressure to go around, when you're in those two to five spots
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  as well to know that, you know, you may finish not at the top of the leaderboard, but as the
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  day goes on, could find yourself in that position.
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  Galf, little flashback to the masters.
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  Scottie Scheffler comes in.
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  You know, he's a stroke or two behind, but knowing how guys were playing at the end of the
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  day, you gotta keep yourself loose that you may find yourself in a playoff at the end of the
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  day even though your round finished a a few hours ago.
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  And let me tell you this.
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  I love Rory.
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  I'm glad Rory won, but Rory would not wanna play Huff with Scottie Scheffler.
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  Nobody like, people look at this and and they look at the leaderboard.
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  Scotty almost caught him and had a bad first round.
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  So if Scotty woulda had a average first round, I'm sorry, but I don't think Roy McElroy is
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  your repeating Masters champion after what he did in round two.
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  I think Scottie Scheffler would have won the tournament by three strokes.
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  Right.
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  And You see?
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  Scottie is still sniffing around, you know, this weekend at RBC.
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  I think if Matt can do it and I know Matt and Scottie were were paired up yesterday, were
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  they not?
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  Yes.
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  They were.
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  Yeah.
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  So, I I mean, you a guy like Scottie Scheffler is just so cerebral about this game and the way
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  that he takes it.
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  And no doubt, he was gaining, knowledge in watching Matt play his round yesterday as well.
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  Right?
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  The the way the greens are playing or maybe a different approach to a hole that he that, you
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  know, he didn't take, but but Matt did.
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  So I think there's a lot to gain.
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  And for somebody who thinks the game at a high level like Scottie does
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  The way that Scottie thinks
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  moves today.
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  He's a terminator.
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  He may start slow, but he will finish you if you let up on the gas.
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  Like, the worst thing in the world, I think, is going into day three and four, being paired up
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  with Scottie Scheffler or Rory McElroy, and they're chasing you.
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  Because that must feel like you've got a open cut in the ocean being chased down by a shark.
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  You don't know when they're gonna get to you, but when they do get to you, it's done.
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  You have to keep distance between yourself and players like that, especially Scotty, because
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  you give him any breathing room and you will find yourself very quickly behind by two
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  strokes.
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  Well, and it looks like the course is playing, really well today.
• 25:41
  Just taking a look at early action, a young man here, and maybe not, but Chandler Blanchett is
• 25:51
  already seven under through 14 today.
• 25:54
  So the course is obviously playing very, very well.
• 25:59
  Well, Harbortown is a very birdie able curse.
• 26:01
  Our our yeah.
• 26:02
  The the scores are dropping and plummeting, and, you know, Matt Fitzpatrick is gonna have
• 26:08
  to repeat his performance from yesterday and the day before.
• 26:12
  Like, a 65 is nothing to sneeze at either, and then to go out and shoot a 63 the next day,
• 26:18
  pretty impressive.
• 26:19
  But he's gonna have to keep his foot on the gas pedal because if he lets up at all, like you
• 26:24
  alluded to, there's plenty of plenty of guys behind him that will be coming and dropping
• 26:29
  some low scores today.
• 26:31
  So gonna be an interesting one at RBC Heritage today and through Sunday.
• 26:38
  Yeah.
• 26:38
  I absolutely agree.
• 26:40
  But here's the thing too is Augusta is a humbling course on the masters.
• 26:46
  So we come off the masters into the RBC, and you're playing a much more golfer friendly
• 26:53
  course in the RBC at Harbortown.
• 26:56
  So Rory won tournament, you know, in the teens at Augusta, if that that was the projection.
• 27:07
  Harbortown, we're looking at potentially having a minus 25 winner, minus 26 winner, a maybe
• 27:15
  even higher because Arbor Town is that birdie able.
• 27:21
  It's that score friendly.
• 27:23
  Like, it will make the most elite player look like a god.
• 27:32
  You know, like, 20 this is something he's not the most elite player, but he's the most elite
• 27:37
  player on YouTube.
• 27:39
  2017, Wesley Bryan, his only PGA Tour win was the RBC Heritage, so shout out to him because
• 27:49
  he had the same thing.
• 27:52
  And I bring up, Wesley because there's a certain person who beat Wesley over in the
• 27:58
  Dominican to took his second PGA win away who's still playing to this day, Billy Horschel.
• 28:04
  And, we talked about some of the highlights from the RBC.
• 28:08
  Plus, I wanna talk about this one lowlight because Billy Horschel's no scrub.
• 28:13
  You know, he's a sneaky competitive guy.
• 28:16
  You'll find him sitting there in the top 20, the top 15 most of the time, and Billy came out
• 28:23
  and shot even par the first round.
• 28:27
  He had two birdies, two bogeys.
• 28:30
  I don't know what happened the second round.
• 28:32
  He came out and shot five over.
• 28:34
  I think he was plus three on the front and mine and plus two on the back.
• 28:40
  And he he's tied.
• 28:42
  Last I checked before this morning, started with the tournament.
• 28:46
  He's cut, but he was tied for 78.
• 28:50
  So
• 28:53
  Yeah.
• 28:54
  Just because the course can give up a lot of birdies doesn't mean that it does.
• 29:01
  You have to take advantage when you get birdie looks, but I watched some highlights or, in
• 29:07
  this case, lowlights from some of Horchall's round and some of the bottom people's rounds,
• 29:12
  and I think it's shot selection.
• 29:17
  They come you come off the masters, and you're thinking to yourself, well, this course is a
• 29:23
  lot easier than Augusta.
• 29:25
  I can take a lot more risk.
• 29:27
  But in doing so, you still have to make smart club and shot decisions.
• 29:33
  And I just I watched a lot of Billys around, and it just it looked like a collegiate golfer.
• 29:41
  I think he was just too much in his head, and I think he was just, like, way you know how you
• 29:49
  get jet lag when you go from, let's say, South Dakota?
• 29:54
  It'd be like you going from California to South Dakota.
• 29:58
  You got some jet lag.
• 30:01
  Well, he had Augusta lag.
• 30:05
  A lot of people had Augusta lag.
• 30:07
  They thought, I'm gonna come in here.
• 30:10
  I'm gonna score some birdies because Augusta whooped me a bit.
• 30:14
  Or in this in some cases, you had, hey.
• 30:16
  I did okay at Augusta, and then you come into this thinking this is a significantly easier
• 30:21
  course, and then you walked in it.
• 30:26
  Just because it's an easier course doesn't mean the course won't punish you.
• 30:31
  So
• 30:34
  The you know, speaking of people who had some good rounds at Augusta, the Ludwig Oddberg
• 30:44
  Yes.
• 30:44
  Kind of a sleek phenom.
• 30:46
  Today.
• 30:46
  I think he he's gaining on his experience at the masters getting to, you know, golf in those
• 30:53
  final two days and, now bringing that momentum with him into this tournament.
• 31:01
  He's at nine under today.
• 31:02
  What do you got on Ludwig?
• 31:05
  Ludwig had a blistering first round, had kind of a tentative second round, but still good
• 31:13
  enough to put him for t four at the end of the second day, made the cut line, obviously.
• 31:19
  You know?
• 31:20
  He's only four shots back, sorry, of Haavland, and he's five shots back of Fitzpatrick.
• 31:28
  I actually think that the final group come tomorrow will be Fitzpatrick, Haavland, and I
• 31:39
  believe that Aubert will make his way into that final group along with Scheffler being just in
• 31:46
  the second group behind them.
• 31:47
  Now who's gonna be with Scotty?
• 31:49
  I have no idea because there's, like, 26 people tied for, you know, fourth.
• 31:56
  So
• 31:58
  Yeah.
• 31:58
  But I I would say that it's gonna come down to those three guys as Fitzpatrick, Augberg, and
• 32:05
  Havlund.
• 32:06
  I really do.
• 32:08
  Yeah.
• 32:09
  And you got Jason Straka up there, in that t four position.
• 32:14
  Patrick Canale, Brennan McIntyre's in there.
• 32:18
  Kitayama, Ricky Fowler
• 32:19
  Oh god.
• 32:20
  I feel so bad for the golf channel.
• 32:23
  If they gotta have Cantley in a featured group on the final day, they're gonna have to get
• 32:28
  some more advertisements to fill some time slots.
• 32:35
  Seeing a lot of movement.
• 32:37
  Obviously, there's golfers out on the course now, going through.
• 32:41
  It looks like, Bridgeman is advancing.
• 32:45
  He's through nine now.
• 32:47
  JJ Spawn in that t 20 range.
• 32:50
  A lot of people moving out here today.
• 32:52
  So there's the course is, giving them up early.
• 32:56
  I wonder if it's going to change through the day.
• 32:58
  Looked like the weather was gonna be beautiful out there again in Hilton Head.
• 33:03
  So, a a lot more to come.
• 33:05
  I think it's gonna be a a really fun tournament to continue watching, over the course of the
• 33:11
  next day and a half now.
• 33:13
  I think the pin locations over the next two days is gonna be what's the most interesting,
• 33:18
  especially for the last couple groups that come through that are in that featured prime slot.
• 33:24
  Because day one and day two, typically, in the RBC heritage, you're you're scoring pins, and
• 33:31
  then you get day three and day four while still gettable.
• 33:35
  You know, it's known in golf that those are called tournament.
• 33:38
  Like, those are champion pins right there the last two days.
• 33:42
  Once you make that cut, those pin positions don't get any easier.
• 33:47
  No.
• 33:48
  And that's what's gonna be fun about, you know, doing this show weekly is coming in.
• 33:52
  And while we can't provide full coverage of every single round, I think it's fun to come in
• 33:57
  on Saturday morning, take a look at who made the cut and and the action coming into that.
• 34:03
  Obviously, with as much media as there, you know, as there is now, you can go out and find
• 34:08
  the highlights.
• 34:08
  But this is a great chance for us to come on, get a chance to talk between the two of us, not
• 34:13
  that you're not helping us out on some of our other shows now as well on the Scene Project
• 34:18
  Sports Network, but really grateful to have someone to talk about the tournaments and to
• 34:23
  get that out there.
• 34:25
  Anything else from the tournament you wanna cover?
• 34:27
  Any other sleepers in there before we move on to our final
• 34:30
  There is one little sleeper in there.
• 34:33
  Song j m.
• 34:35
  Moe one of the most scrappy guys out of the bunker and out of the rough.
• 34:41
  He had a spectacular chip in out of the bunker.
• 34:46
  He's still in there too.
• 34:47
  I think he's one of those guys that's either right there at t four or basically right there
• 34:52
  at five.
• 34:53
  And I think us I have to go back and look at his score, but I wanna say right now he's,
• 34:58
  like, minus five, minus six.
• 35:00
  And he's right there too.
• 35:02
  So I wouldn't be surprised to see Sungjae win or at least be in contention by Sunday.
• 35:10
  Like, if if Matt let's just say if Matt Fitzpatrick my personal pick to win this is
• 35:17
  actually Victor Hovland.
• 35:19
  His he's got a lot of momentum rolling into the weekend, and he's been close to winning this a
• 35:26
  couple times over the last few years.
• 35:29
  And I think I I think Victor's due.
• 35:32
  And I'm just I'm gonna say this is my last insight from the RBC heritage is my way too
• 35:39
  early prediction.
• 35:42
  I got Ludwig Abberg and Victor Hovland playing each other next year in the masters in a
• 35:50
  playoff to see who's gonna be the next masters champion.
• 35:52
  That's who that's what I think it's gonna come down to.
• 35:55
  I really do.
• 35:57
  Write that down.
• 35:58
  Clip this for later.
• 36:00
  Shouting out our our AI editor in the background here.
• 36:04
  So, awesome.
• 36:06
  Well, moving into the final segment, we are so happy to have you all with us.
• 36:11
  Make sure you subscribe to the channel.
• 36:13
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• 36:15
  This is the Scratch Project.
• 36:17
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• 36:24
  that's going on in the golf world and give you a little, recap of the first two days of the
• 36:30
  current tournament and preview the championship rounds moving in.
• 36:35
  Our last segment though is called the nineteenth green, and that is, the lighter side
• 36:43
  of golf.
• 36:44
  And just want a chance to, kinda talk about, some things that have happened during the week,
• 36:50
  whether it's in our personal life or it's some things that we have coming up.
• 36:53
  Pods, I I know, you see, today, it's such a it was, like, 80 degrees a few days ago in South
• 36:59
  Dakota.
• 36:59
  Now granted the wind was blowing, like, 50 miles an hour all day.
• 37:03
  But today, the wind changed directions out of the north, and it's, like, 30 degrees.
• 37:07
  So I love this time of year here in South Dakota.
• 37:10
  But you guys get wild weather swings out in California as well.
• 37:14
  You were on the course this weekend.
• 37:16
  Tell us a little bit about your experience.
• 37:20
  So I was on the course on Monday going golfing with my wife and my father-in-law, and we
• 37:30
  actually got through about six holes uninterrupted.
• 37:35
  It was a little windy, a little overcast, and we heard a little bit of thunder far away, but
• 37:41
  we're like, alright.
• 37:41
  Whatever.
• 37:42
  This side's clear, and this side's got clouds.
• 37:45
  Right?
• 37:47
  And by the time I tee off on the seventh hole and I get about a third of the way down the
• 37:51
  fairway, I hear the loudest crack of thunder.
• 37:54
  The wind just picks up more than it already is.
• 37:56
  It was already moderate with a little bit of a breeze, and then it just picks up to these
• 38:02
  really strong gusts.
• 38:04
  And before you know it, you got sleet falling out of the sky and hail, and I actually posted
• 38:11
  a picture on my Instagram.
• 38:22
  Dude, there was hail on the green and on the fairway.
• 38:25
  Like, you could see the little like, I had polka dots on my black jacket from just hail
• 38:32
  and sleet.
• 38:33
  And I was like, we're in California.
• 38:35
  Right?
• 38:39
  I love it.
• 38:40
  I'm seeing if I can, well, here.
• 38:42
  We'll see if I can do a quick screen share, and we'll throw it up for everybody.
• 38:52
  I mean, today, it's supposed to be sunny.
• 38:54
  So I'm gonna get out on the course today too.
• 39:00
  I got the course today, and then I've got the course tomorrow.
• 39:03
  Yeah.
• 39:03
  This was just this is nuts.
• 39:07
  Like, so if you look in that photo, you see all the white that's on the green there.
• 39:12
  That's all hail.
• 39:15
  So
• 39:18
  You gotta love early season golf.
• 39:20
  Yeah.
• 39:24
  It was so crazy.
• 39:27
  That could happen at any point in South Dakota.
• 39:31
  So if you ever come out here to play around in the Upper Midwest, be prepared for that same
• 39:37
  kind of action.
• 39:38
  It doesn't matter when it is.
• 39:40
  So and and on that note and the weather side, I wanna send some prayers out to a lot of our
• 39:49
  friends and family and listeners in the Midwest here.
• 39:53
  Tornadoes through Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin yesterday.
• 39:58
  I know a lot of people are hurting, so sending out our prayers to everyone out there.
• 40:03
  I I know there were some really powerful storms going through the state of Wisconsin.
• 40:07
  We got a bunch of family and, obviously, a lot of our listeners in the Midwest as well.
• 40:11
  So prayers to anybody who's dealing with the effects of the storms out there.
• 40:16
  And if you guys are needing a new roof in any of these areas, make sure to get ahold of our
• 40:24
  friends with Odyssey Exteriors who sponsor our Vikings United program.
• 40:29
  But a quick shout out to them, and they are always here, to help you as well.
• 40:36
  Yeah.
• 40:37
  Yeah.
• 40:39
  That's, I used to live, in Kansas and in Michigan for a little bit.
• 40:44
  So especially living in Kansas for a little bit, I understand how quickly the weather can
• 40:50
  turn there.
• 40:51
  They don't call it tornado alley for no reason in the Midwest, especially like, I feel bad for
• 40:57
  Missouri, especially after what they had to go through with Joplin.
• 41:01
  So
• 41:04
  Yep.
• 41:05
  So make sure, if you're in need of a roof, if you suffer storm damage this year, contact our
• 41:11
  friends at Odyssey Exteriors and look them up, especially up here in the Upper Midwest.
• 41:17
  Quick shout out to our sponsors.
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• 41:48
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• 41:54
  the charity golf tournament in Minot, North Dakota.
• 41:57
  They will be coed, so you have to have at least one female that's on the team.
• 42:02
  I think that's really fun.
• 42:03
  Actually, my wife's a much better golfer than I am in a lot of ways.
• 42:07
  A dead eye around the greens for sure.
• 42:10
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• 42:16
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• 42:19
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• 42:22
  Awesome show, Paz.
• 42:23
  I appreciate you jumping on with me today, getting this, show kind of started, but we're
• 42:30
  obviously gonna get a lot better and more in-depth with a lot of our coverage as we go
• 42:33
  on.
• 42:34
  But this is pretty well put together, I feel like, for, you know, hey.
• 42:38
  On Wednesday, would love to do another show, and here we are on Saturday already making it
• 42:44
  happen.
• 42:46
  Yeah.
• 42:47
  Kinda seamless if you ask me.
• 42:50
  Well, I got a lot of experience in the studio and on camera now.
• 42:55
  So when you kinda brought it up, wanting to do something to cover a bit more of the
• 42:59
  tournaments, I was all about it.
• 43:01
  I'll always love a challenge, and, most of my my wife and kids are usually kinda just laying
• 43:07
  low until the afternoons during, Saturday mornings anyway.
• 43:12
  So it was a great opportunity for us to get up here and and to make it happen.
• 43:16
  So, Pods, anything that you wanna tell the people before, we jump off today, leading into
• 43:22
  next week?
• 43:25
  I will say to the people that it is a very, very beautiful weekend here in SoCal, and I
• 43:33
  hope that the weekend is beautiful for you guys as well.
• 43:36
  If you're in a position to go out and get on the course, I highly recommend that you do.
• 43:42
  Go out there.
• 43:43
  Enjoy the nature.
• 43:45
  Enjoy it.
• 43:46
  It's very therapeutic.
• 43:48
  And, also, tune in tomorrow for our seven eight nine baseball show, and I got some West Coast
• 43:58
  coverage for you.
• 44:00
  Yep.
• 44:00
  Looking forward to seven eight nine tomorrow.
• 44:03
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• 44:08
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• 44:12
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• 44:17
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• 44:23
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• 44:24
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• 44:27
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• 44:33
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• 44:35
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• 44:41
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• 44:42
  We'll see you then.