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Go Low - U.S. Open Preview, Scottie vs. Rory Showdown?, Best Bets & Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on my people, John Middlecoff
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Speaker 1: a little Go Low podcast. We've been on a little
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Speaker 1: hiatus tar with Little Jack. I have had less time football.
0:24
Speaker 1: We've had so much going on football wise. I haven't
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Speaker 1: done one of these in a while. But we got Shinnacock,
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Speaker 1: we got the US Open, we got Rory, we got Scottie,
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Speaker 1: we got all the big dogs, and very very very
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Speaker 1: excited for this weekend. So we'll talk a little Shinnacock.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk Uh, We'll just go over some different stuff.
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Speaker 1: We'll do some at Golo Pod is the Instagram if
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Speaker 1: you want to fire in those dms. It's how you
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Speaker 1: get on the podcast for your golf questions. So we'll
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Speaker 1: do a bunch of those as well and have some
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Speaker 1: of my picks because I love to gamble. I mean
1:00
Speaker 1: i've been I haven't done a Golo Pod in a while.
1:02
Speaker 1: I have been watching a lot of golf. I mean
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Speaker 1: I watch it every weekend, So I've been keeping up
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Speaker 1: very closely with the tour the last couple weekends, Memorial
1:10
Speaker 1: Canadian Open, and very much looking forward to this weekend.
1:14
Speaker 1: Really just the build up. Golf channel all week live
1:18
Speaker 1: from I find myself rewatching some of the episodes, so
1:22
Speaker 1: you guys know the drill. We have a go loo
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Speaker 1: podcast feed so you don't miss anything. We also have
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Speaker 1: a YouTube channel you can go check that out as well.
1:30
Speaker 1: And let's just dive into some golf. Anytime you get
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Speaker 1: to the US Open, before you even get to the players,
1:37
Speaker 1: Like when I was a kid, you went into the
1:39
Speaker 1: US Open thinking carnage plus five, plus two plus one
1:44
Speaker 1: could win the tournament. And over recent years we obviously
1:48
Speaker 1: some courses are dependent on whether it hasn't always been
1:52
Speaker 1: the case and by all accounts, I was watching some
1:55
Speaker 1: of the Golf channel earlier today. The wind is pumping
1:59
Speaker 1: right now and it's Monday afternoon, and the forecast shows
2:04
Speaker 1: that the wind is gonna be even harder come Thursday.
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Speaker 1: So you know, if you've watched any of these guys
2:10
Speaker 1: play YouTube, the YouTube golfers at Shinnecock because they host
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Speaker 1: a bunch of media guys, the course looks fantastic, I
2:18
Speaker 1: mean it's and most of these guys are hacking it up,
2:20
Speaker 1: unless like Horvat and the Brian brothers. I haven't watched
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Speaker 1: them yet, but when they played this in twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: kep go one at plus one. So a little bit
2:30
Speaker 1: of a throwback. Now you could say that technology, you
2:34
Speaker 1: would say guys play are just better top to bottom
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Speaker 1: than they were back then. I mean a lot has
2:40
Speaker 1: to do with technology and figuring out how to maximize
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Speaker 1: with the track man. And when the wind goes thirty
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Speaker 1: miles an hour and it's US Open setup, the rough
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Speaker 1: is long, the greens are fast though they were just
2:54
Speaker 1: watering it. I don't give a shit how dialed in
2:57
Speaker 1: you are in your numbers. You kind of gotta be
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Speaker 1: just a ball striker. You kind of got to just
3:02
Speaker 1: be a player. I mean, what did Koepka really hang
3:04
Speaker 1: his hat on in his prime? He actually was playing
3:07
Speaker 1: pretty good at the Canadian Open, and then his fingers
3:10
Speaker 1: went numb and he melted down on Saturday and then Withdrew.
3:15
Speaker 1: So as of recording this, I'm not sure his status
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Speaker 1: on this tournament because he would have been a guy
3:20
Speaker 1: I liked a lot. But you got to be off
3:23
Speaker 1: that if he plays because of this finger issue. But
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Speaker 1: the one thing I would say is this is a
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Speaker 1: tournament that just tests you mentally, right regardless on a
3:33
Speaker 1: yearly basis. Last year, the weather came and Sam Burns
3:37
Speaker 1: kind of got boned with the water ball where they
3:39
Speaker 1: didn't give him a relief and JJ Spond just made
3:43
Speaker 1: some of the greatest shots of his life. And obviously
3:45
Speaker 1: his rolled in that putt on eighteen just an incredible
3:49
Speaker 1: moment for the guy. And he's actually turned a season
3:51
Speaker 1: around this year. He's playing great golf. And mean, he's
3:53
Speaker 1: a really good player. JJ Spond's a really good player.
3:55
Speaker 1: But one thing about the US Open is you can
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Speaker 1: have you know, obviously you can have the Tiger and
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Speaker 1: the Rory's win. You can also have the JJ Sponds.
4:03
Speaker 1: You can also have Lee Janssen. You can also have
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Speaker 1: Corey paven Right, Phil Mickelson finished like second in this
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Speaker 1: tournament twenty five times. That's an over exaggeration, but could
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Speaker 1: never win it like that. There are no guarantees. Sometimes
4:17
Speaker 1: like Ernie El's one of the greatest players I've ever watched,
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Speaker 1: because just never win the Masters. And part of the
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Speaker 1: US Open, we'll getting a Scott to here in a second,
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Speaker 1: is I would say mentally at tacks you more than
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Speaker 1: most of the other tournaments. I mean, the pressure to
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Speaker 1: win the Masters is obviously unlike anything else. I Mean,
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Speaker 1: Rory's gone on record about this for a decade. That
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Speaker 1: just the weight of the world he felt driving down
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Speaker 1: Magnolia Lane. But let's be real, it's not exactly the
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Speaker 1: hardest course in the world for these guys. I mean,
4:48
Speaker 1: just look at the scores. So when you go back,
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Speaker 1: that plus one won it. And Tommy Fleetwood, who finished second,
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Speaker 1: had one of the craziest weeks you'll ever see, seventy five,
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Speaker 1: sixty six, seventy eight, sixty three to finish second. So
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Speaker 1: you know, if the win's pumping, I doubt we see
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Speaker 1: many sixty threes. You could argue being around par, maybe
5:13
Speaker 1: one or two under could win this bad boy. And
5:17
Speaker 1: this is the tournament where I don't get as caught
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Speaker 1: up as some of the people in the golf media
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Speaker 1: when we get twenty underscores. I have a bigger issue
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Speaker 1: with individual courses than I do the scores on the television. Right.
5:30
Speaker 1: To me, some courses are just kind of boring. Let's
5:32
Speaker 1: face it. The Canadian Open a little bit of yeh,
5:34
Speaker 1: had some cool holes, also had some holes where it
5:36
Speaker 1: just becomes a little redundant. You know, everyone had an
5:39
Speaker 1: issue with Aernomic didn't mind it. I actually enjoyed that,
5:44
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to watching this course. You know,
5:48
Speaker 1: anytime you get a major. Also, there are when you
5:52
Speaker 1: win the US Open at Pebble Beach, when you win
5:56
Speaker 1: the US Open at Shinnecock, like it's it's a really
6:00
Speaker 1: really big deal, right last year for JJ spund winning
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Speaker 1: it at Oakmont, Like it's a historic course. It's a
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Speaker 1: course that kind of carries a little weight, like if
6:09
Speaker 1: you ever win the Open Championship at Saint Andrew's kind
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Speaker 1: of a big deal on your resume. So I can't
6:17
Speaker 1: wait for this thing to start. I hope we get carnage.
6:19
Speaker 1: I hope the wind pumps. I actually think that makes
6:22
Speaker 1: gambling and betting on some of these guys a little
6:25
Speaker 1: bit easier. I think it's a little bit harder for
6:29
Speaker 1: some of the randos to separate when the conditions get outrageous.
6:34
Speaker 1: Now you could argue, you know, making some long putts.
6:37
Speaker 1: That's kind of how Aaron Rye won. He just didn't
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Speaker 1: fuck up, hit all the fairways and made a big
6:43
Speaker 1: putt when he had to, right, He didn't do anything stupid.
6:46
Speaker 1: That's kind of major golf. You know. Jack Nicholas has
6:48
Speaker 1: talked about it. It's like hit it to the middle
6:50
Speaker 1: of the green in the tough tournaments, if you make
6:53
Speaker 1: a lot of pars, like you're not going backwards. And
6:56
Speaker 1: these guys, you know, in the modern day PGA tour,
7:00
Speaker 1: let's face it, are used to just attacking literally everything.
7:04
Speaker 1: I mean most of these guys all their iron shots,
7:06
Speaker 1: like they can just hit straight balls. This isn't like
7:09
Speaker 1: the seventies and the sixties, the eighties, even the nineties
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Speaker 1: where you were just constantly working the ball. So I
7:16
Speaker 1: think the course this weekend is going to shine now.
7:20
Speaker 1: To me, number two is forever. All we ever wanted
7:25
Speaker 1: were Tiger versus Phil, and it never really happened, and
7:28
Speaker 1: it kind of sucked. You know, you look back or
7:31
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't alive for a lot of this.
7:33
Speaker 1: It felt like we got some Arnold verse jack. We
7:36
Speaker 1: definitely got some Trevino verse jack, right, We got a
7:40
Speaker 1: lot of like Faldo versus Norman, you know, I mean,
7:43
Speaker 1: Tiger had a lot of foes. They just turned out
7:46
Speaker 1: to not really be Phil. You know, it came down
7:49
Speaker 1: to Chris de Marco. They had some knockdown dragouts. Right.
7:53
Speaker 1: So if we could ever going into the weekend, just
7:57
Speaker 1: have Scottie and Rory both being in like the top
8:00
Speaker 1: six or seven, that would be fucking electric. And for
8:04
Speaker 1: this weekend, Scotty's going for the grant his career grand Slam.
8:07
Speaker 1: He turns thirty on Sunday. You know the video that
8:11
Speaker 1: went viral a couple weeks ago of him yelling at
8:14
Speaker 1: Ted Scott. I don't want to say unbecoming, because I
8:18
Speaker 1: heard someone bring up this point. With the modern day
8:21
Speaker 1: technology of the broadcasts, everything's on camera, everything's miked up.
8:27
Speaker 1: Like every shot Scotty hits over the last several years
8:31
Speaker 1: is there's gonna be video around it, even if it's
8:34
Speaker 1: in the early in the morning Thursday through Sunday. You
8:37
Speaker 1: can watch on ESPN Plus where a lot of players
8:40
Speaker 1: have moments that would be incredibly embarrassing that are just
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Speaker 1: not on camera that happened throughout the day on a
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Speaker 1: course where we just don't see. I would also say, like,
8:50
Speaker 1: and maybe it's remembering it a little bit different. Tiger
8:56
Speaker 1: would scream at himself. You know, he would constantly scream
9:00
Speaker 1: at himself, especially off the tee when he would hit
9:03
Speaker 1: an awful shot. I don't remember him undressing Stevie Williams
9:09
Speaker 1: very often. If ever, now maybe it happened, happened off
9:12
Speaker 1: camera in the clubhouse, when they were at home or whatever.
9:16
Speaker 1: But Tiger was really professional, like one of his underrated attributes.
9:20
Speaker 1: I mean, you see Victor webbin Yama over the course
9:22
Speaker 1: of the playoffs skipping media. You've seen Rory do it.
9:25
Speaker 1: You've seen a lot of modern day players do it.
9:27
Speaker 1: They just skip media. Tiger never did that. You know
9:30
Speaker 1: why because he knew he was the Michael Jordan of
9:33
Speaker 1: the operation. And whether he played well, which he did
9:37
Speaker 1: most of the time, but it's golf like he had
9:39
Speaker 1: some shitty days. He fucking sat there and the cameras
9:42
Speaker 1: were on him. Why because he was the number one
9:44
Speaker 1: guy everyone always wanted to talk to. And that's Scotty
9:47
Speaker 1: and Rory now, and they've proven over the years to
9:49
Speaker 1: get I mean, Scotty's been prickly over the course of
9:51
Speaker 1: the last year. Now, you could argue there's some dumb
9:53
Speaker 1: questions answered, Yes, comes with the territory. You know, this
9:56
Speaker 1: is this is part of the deal. You know. I
9:59
Speaker 1: asked Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen or Lamar if they
10:02
Speaker 1: get some dumb questions like yeah, it's gonna happen. You
10:04
Speaker 1: seen some of these media. I used to sit in
10:07
Speaker 1: the press box with some of them. I wouldn't say
10:09
Speaker 1: all of them are the most impressive individuals you're ever
10:12
Speaker 1: gonna come across. So I think the one question mark
10:16
Speaker 1: with Scotty at this tournament is if Kanditty's get outrageous,
10:21
Speaker 1: he can get a little whiny, and like Tiger can
10:24
Speaker 1: get whiny, but he could also immediately refocus, like he
10:28
Speaker 1: could immediately lock back in. And that's my question with
10:31
Speaker 1: Scotty for this weekend. If he gets off on a
10:36
Speaker 1: couple holes and the pressure of this major doesn't derail him.
10:41
Speaker 1: So like, I'm kind of off him this week relative
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Speaker 1: like top ten, the odds are terrible. I don't envision
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Speaker 1: Scotty winning, not that he can't. He's actually had a
10:52
Speaker 1: really good season. I know he hasn't won since basically
10:56
Speaker 1: essentially the first week of the season in Palm Springs,
10:59
Speaker 1: but like ninety nine percent of players on the PGA
11:03
Speaker 1: Tour would immediately sign up for the year he's having, right,
11:08
Speaker 1: But I don't see it. I actually like Rory Moore
11:12
Speaker 1: this week. Now, Rory turned to corner, you know, in
11:16
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. I don't even count that, honestly, like to me,
11:20
Speaker 1: Rory is like a completely different golfer the last two
11:24
Speaker 1: or three years. I know he won more majors early
11:28
Speaker 1: on in his career. This is the best version over
11:31
Speaker 1: the course of the last thirty six months we've ever
11:33
Speaker 1: seen of Rory McElroy on a golf course. I would
11:37
Speaker 1: also say the US Open is something he's kind of
11:39
Speaker 1: figured out. You know, he really blew back to back
11:43
Speaker 1: US Opens. He should have won at LACC. I played
11:46
Speaker 1: that course the last time I was with Colin and
11:49
Speaker 1: I actually I parted the hole, which he did too.
11:52
Speaker 1: That cost him the tournament. He hit a wedge in
11:55
Speaker 1: the bunker. I think it's the par five fourteenth. It's
11:58
Speaker 1: the Playboy Mansion hole, which is cool. You wear your
12:01
Speaker 1: tee off, you can hear the monkeys. I mean, obviously
12:03
Speaker 1: the Heffner has a state has sold the mansion to
12:06
Speaker 1: new people, but that the animals are still back there,
12:09
Speaker 1: and then it's a long asshole. I hit two incredible
12:13
Speaker 1: shots and I was still like fifty yards short. And
12:15
Speaker 1: we definitely were not playing with the t's. We were
12:18
Speaker 1: technically playing the back tees, but we weren't playing the
12:22
Speaker 1: version of the US Open. And I think he had
12:25
Speaker 1: under one hundred yard shot and he hit it into
12:26
Speaker 1: this front bunker and it cost him a tournament. It
12:29
Speaker 1: just did. And then Wyndam Clark hit two of the
12:31
Speaker 1: best shots of his life. But again he went back
12:35
Speaker 1: to back seconds in the US Open at LACC, which
12:38
Speaker 1: was definitely playing easier, and at Pinehurst, which he one
12:42
Speaker 1: should have won. So like, he has had a lot
12:45
Speaker 1: of momentum in this event, and even last year, like
12:50
Speaker 1: I give him a pass he wins the Masters. He
12:53
Speaker 1: even went on records to say, like I kind of
12:54
Speaker 1: lost focus. I was fucking wround. He finished tea nineteen
12:57
Speaker 1: last year, so it's not like he just missed the cutting,
12:59
Speaker 1: didn't even He's been up there a couple of times,
13:04
Speaker 1: played this course. I think Rory's going to be in
13:08
Speaker 1: the mix. And if you could say you could sign
13:10
Speaker 1: up for one kind of matchup. We got that Bryson Rory.
13:15
Speaker 1: We've got it a couple of times. We got it
13:16
Speaker 1: two years ago at the Masters, we got a couple
13:18
Speaker 1: of years ago at Pinehurst. I would love to get
13:21
Speaker 1: it this weekend, I really would. But if I'm betting
13:23
Speaker 1: on one of those two guys to truly have a
13:25
Speaker 1: chance on the back nine come Sunday. I mean, Scotty
13:29
Speaker 1: always kind of does I really believe Rory is going
13:31
Speaker 1: to I would say another major storyline. We got two
13:36
Speaker 1: big time thoroughbreds who are just kind of us open players.
13:40
Speaker 1: And you know, one thing's pretty clear with this live disaster.
13:46
Speaker 1: It's no fault of like listen Scott O'Neill, who is
13:49
Speaker 1: the CEO when me and Colin went to the event.
13:52
Speaker 1: He's a really impressive guy. It's you know, he didn't
13:55
Speaker 1: create this thing Norman and pifted, and I think he
13:59
Speaker 1: thought he was getting into something with unlimited funding and
14:01
Speaker 1: they yanked it on him. Now, I'm not a big
14:04
Speaker 1: believer in the product. It's not like I watched it
14:06
Speaker 1: on television, but I understood where he was coming from, Like,
14:09
Speaker 1: you have this type funding, maybe you take it to
14:11
Speaker 1: the next level and it works. He's not a golf guy.
14:15
Speaker 1: I do wonder he's a big basketball guy. If he
14:17
Speaker 1: had understood the golf landscape a little differently, if he
14:21
Speaker 1: would have been as interested. But he's clearly all in
14:23
Speaker 1: now and he's trying to keep this thing in survival
14:25
Speaker 1: mode and the players, specifically Bryson, are helping him pitch
14:30
Speaker 1: this to investors. You know one guy that has nothing
14:33
Speaker 1: to do with it and he said like, yeah, I'm
14:34
Speaker 1: staying out of it is John Rom. And I think
14:37
Speaker 1: John Ram sees the end inside. He hopes this thing
14:40
Speaker 1: just ends. Now. He'll probably lose a little money that
14:43
Speaker 1: he probably thought he was gonna make, but then he
14:46
Speaker 1: could just transition back to a normal competitive tour. But
14:50
Speaker 1: the one thing you would say about John Ram, who
14:52
Speaker 1: feels like he's got to swag back a little bit
14:55
Speaker 1: over the course of the last two years and some
14:57
Speaker 1: of these majors, I mean last year in the PGA Championship,
15:01
Speaker 1: he just did this year in the PJ Like he
15:05
Speaker 1: just he's just shown more momentum in these big tournaments
15:07
Speaker 1: because we really only see him right in these four
15:10
Speaker 1: weeks a year. He's obviously a US Open champion when
15:13
Speaker 1: he wanted a toy, But if you look at his
15:15
Speaker 1: career in this event T three, T twenty three, one,
15:18
Speaker 1: T twelve, T ten, he got injured and then T seven,
15:23
Speaker 1: Like this is an event he's pretty comfortable in. And
15:26
Speaker 1: why is he comfortable because typically this event just wipes
15:31
Speaker 1: out so many people. So the best players, the best
15:34
Speaker 1: ball strikers, the most mentally tough guys are just gonna
15:37
Speaker 1: be in the mix. And that is to me Xander's
15:39
Speaker 1: greatest strength. Pretty steady Eddie, like he's not really a
15:43
Speaker 1: whiny Scottie type, Like he's not gonna be one of
15:46
Speaker 1: those guys bitching a moan and walking down the fairway.
15:49
Speaker 1: And honestly, he doesn't show that much emotion when he
15:51
Speaker 1: gets a bogey, different from when he fucking knocks his
15:54
Speaker 1: stiff and as a tap in birdie. And to me,
15:56
Speaker 1: that bodes well in tournaments like this, And I do
15:59
Speaker 1: think it speaks to his first ever US Open was
16:02
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. In his career T five, T six,
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Speaker 1: T three, fifth, T seventy fourteen, T ten, T seventeen,
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Speaker 1: T twelve, This fucker is just made for this event. Now,
16:14
Speaker 1: do I think Xander is gonna win it? I don't
16:16
Speaker 1: think I would go that far, but I would say
16:19
Speaker 1: one of these two guys are definitely in the mix
16:22
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16:25
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17:46
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17:49
Speaker 1: a lock to win a major. Now it feels like
17:52
Speaker 1: he's kind of falling apart, Like where's Cam Young. What's
17:54
Speaker 1: going on? Obviously it's putting's falling off a map. And
17:58
Speaker 1: to me, if you go back to the eighteen when
18:01
Speaker 1: this guy shot sixty three, you would have been like
18:04
Speaker 1: six seven eight years later, how many tournaments as Tommy
18:07
Speaker 1: Fleet would gonna have won, you would have been like
18:09
Speaker 1: seven or eight and probably win a major. Well, he's
18:11
Speaker 1: won one and that was a thirty man field and
18:14
Speaker 1: he's majorless. But he is good. He has three top
18:18
Speaker 1: fives in US Opens. He's playing well coming into this event.
18:22
Speaker 1: Two of his last three events he's top fived. So
18:25
Speaker 1: and last week, honestly, he was playing pretty good. The
18:29
Speaker 1: weather got weird in Canada on Sunday. I like Tommy
18:32
Speaker 1: Fleet would a lot this by all accounts. This is
18:35
Speaker 1: a second shot golf course. And what's his advantage if
18:39
Speaker 1: the wind's pumping? Well, where's he come from? You know,
18:42
Speaker 1: he doesn't exactly come from Scottsdale or Los Angeles? Right.
18:46
Speaker 1: These international guys bode well when the conditions get weird.
18:50
Speaker 1: Why because they're used to playing in it. Across the pond.
18:53
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's used to playing in bad weather.
18:57
Speaker 1: Now the sun's gonna be out, but the Wind's gonna
18:59
Speaker 1: be going this guy that can control his irons, which
19:02
Speaker 1: is extremely important. He's a top five ball striker this
19:05
Speaker 1: year and honestly his around the green stats also a
19:09
Speaker 1: top six or seven guy. Now, putting can be very
19:11
Speaker 1: hit or missed. Do you trust Tommy fleet Wood like
19:15
Speaker 1: over the years Kopka when he was on obviously a
19:17
Speaker 1: guy like Tiger, you know, Rory and somebody even Bryson's
19:20
Speaker 1: been in some of his big wins, has been a
19:23
Speaker 1: big time putter. That to me is a thing that
19:26
Speaker 1: kind of leaves you wanting a little bit more so. Five,
19:29
Speaker 1: who's gonna win? Uh, I'm gonnaicker Rory hard Rock bet
19:36
Speaker 1: eleven to one plus eleven hundred. I'm going Rory McElroy
19:40
Speaker 1: to win. And I think that what did we say
19:45
Speaker 1: after he won the Masters the second time? Like this,
19:48
Speaker 1: this guy's looking to try to like become a legendary individual. Right,
19:53
Speaker 1: you start going, Okay, he's never gonna win the Master,
19:55
Speaker 1: He's never gonna win the Masters, and then he goes
19:56
Speaker 1: back to back and then you start going, well, he's
19:58
Speaker 1: got six majors, could he get to like ten to twelve?
20:02
Speaker 1: And I think the answer is yes, And one thing
20:06
Speaker 1: he has clearly instituted into his game is one off
20:11
Speaker 1: the tee and he showed this at Pebble last year.
20:13
Speaker 1: It is like this kind of low line drive. Guess
20:16
Speaker 1: where that's gonna play here this week. The other thing
20:19
Speaker 1: that he's been able to do over of course the
20:21
Speaker 1: last couple of years, because historically he's a really high
20:24
Speaker 1: ball player, Like his irons, they went really high, which
20:27
Speaker 1: is not great for the win, Like much more control
20:31
Speaker 1: keeping the ball low, especially with his wedges. Remember a
20:33
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when Scotty won the Masters, it
20:36
Speaker 1: would have been the year before Rory won it. He
20:38
Speaker 1: played with Scotty and the weather was just atrocious and
20:43
Speaker 1: Scotty looked awesome and Rory was a disaster and it
20:47
Speaker 1: was pretty talents Like Rory Man, you got to go
20:49
Speaker 1: back in the lab and figure some shit out, and
20:51
Speaker 1: over the next couple of years he did. And I
20:53
Speaker 1: would say that's that would define any great player, Like
20:57
Speaker 1: sometimes you lose, sometimes you get your ass kicks, times
21:00
Speaker 1: you get exposed next to another great player. I don't
21:03
Speaker 1: care what sport you're in. Victor win Binyama like time
21:06
Speaker 1: to get in the lab this summer, Man, time to
21:09
Speaker 1: really get in the lab. And my guess is that
21:13
Speaker 1: all that work he's done over the next couple of
21:15
Speaker 1: years is coming to fruition. So I'm taking Rory this week.
21:19
Speaker 1: My other two top ten bets are gonna be Tommy
21:23
Speaker 1: Fleetwood plus two to twenty five, Matt Fitzpatrick, who is
21:27
Speaker 1: just having an incredible season. Another guy won a US Open,
21:32
Speaker 1: so youse like excels in tough condittis plus two hundred.
21:38
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to hammer Rom or Xander,
21:42
Speaker 1: they will be on my card as well. But my
21:44
Speaker 1: big three plays are Rory to win it, Tommy and
21:47
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick to top ten. I would say one guy a
21:51
Speaker 1: little bit of a flyer. He's he's basically one hundred
21:55
Speaker 1: to one, so if you bet one hundred dollars you'd
21:57
Speaker 1: win ten thousand. But Gary wood to top ten is
22:01
Speaker 1: plus eight fifty and Gary Woodland to top twenty is
22:05
Speaker 1: plus three to fifty. Another guy who can hit a
22:08
Speaker 1: low liner off the team, who can control the trajectory
22:11
Speaker 1: of his irons, who's won a US Open before, so
22:15
Speaker 1: tough COUNDITTI player, he's having an excellent season. He to
22:20
Speaker 1: me would be a little bit of a flyer if
22:22
Speaker 1: you wanted to go down the board a little bit. Uh, well,
22:25
Speaker 1: let's take a couple of questions, because there's a lot
22:27
Speaker 1: going on in the golf world. Some of you guys
22:29
Speaker 1: hit me up in the mail bag at Golo Pod
22:33
Speaker 1: and we can answer the questions. We didn't even mention
22:38
Speaker 1: this guy's name. This is from Eric. How crazy is
22:42
Speaker 1: the Bryson roller coaster? Dude went from being a douche
22:46
Speaker 1: to a likable major winner, then back to being a
22:49
Speaker 1: douche who doesn't look like he's good at golf anymore.
22:52
Speaker 1: I'm not touching Bryson de Chambeau this weekend. I actually
22:55
Speaker 1: think if you wanted to take him to miss the
22:58
Speaker 1: cut not a grazy play. Uh. He clearly has got
23:01
Speaker 1: a lot going on. He's like working hand in hand
23:03
Speaker 1: with O'Neil to try to save live. Godspeed to him.
23:08
Speaker 1: But it's sad. I love watching Bryson when he's on,
23:12
Speaker 1: but he's missed the last two cuts of majors right,
23:15
Speaker 1: miss the miss the Masters, missed the PGA Championship, and
23:20
Speaker 1: I think betting him to miss the cut this weekend
23:22
Speaker 1: is not a crazy play at all. What are your
23:26
Speaker 1: thoughts regarding Garrett Higgo firing his caddy for him being
23:31
Speaker 1: late to his tea time. Does that speak to the
23:33
Speaker 1: victimhood that is prevalent in our society. Well, he's an
23:37
Speaker 1: international guy, not an American guy. Not even sure. I can't.
23:42
Speaker 1: I don't know where he lives. But he's a good player.
23:47
Speaker 1: I think it's specific to golf. As a golfer, your
23:50
Speaker 1: inherently selfish. It's just you and who do you typically
23:54
Speaker 1: blame your caddy and your swing coach? Look at look
23:58
Speaker 1: at Scotty, Like Scotty, fuck, You're standing there too. You
24:02
Speaker 1: can feel the win. Hit a different club if you
24:05
Speaker 1: disagree with him, pull the six iron. If he's telling
24:07
Speaker 1: you hit the seven iron and Scotty did it somewhat,
24:14
Speaker 1: you know. I don't even want to say politely, but
24:16
Speaker 1: he kept saying we we we. He never said you
24:19
Speaker 1: you you. I think it's so easy for these guys
24:23
Speaker 1: to point the finger at their caddy. I do feel like,
24:27
Speaker 1: and I'm sure someone's done a study that the modern
24:30
Speaker 1: day player, over the course of the last ten years
24:33
Speaker 1: goes through way more caddies than any of these guys
24:36
Speaker 1: did historically. When I was a kid, most of the
24:39
Speaker 1: pro golfers like pre Tiger had the same caddy the majority,
24:44
Speaker 1: if not their entire career unless the guy got old.
24:47
Speaker 1: So I think it's so easy, and part of it
24:50
Speaker 1: is the agent the manager. These guys are such big
24:53
Speaker 1: businesses now they just blame that guy. It's like, Higo,
24:57
Speaker 1: since you play junior golf, if your tea times at
25:01
Speaker 1: one ten or ten, ten or three ten or eight
25:04
Speaker 1: in the morning, like you fucking have a watch, there
25:07
Speaker 1: are typically clocks around like I'm sorry that is on you.
25:14
Speaker 1: That seems to me like a pretty easy out and
25:18
Speaker 1: playing the blame game. I think it's less about society
25:22
Speaker 1: and more about the golfing world. I think that's just
25:26
Speaker 1: the natural move in pro golf is to just point
25:30
Speaker 1: the finger at the caddy. Now, question for the next
25:34
Speaker 1: pod as Americans, who do we need on the twenty
25:37
Speaker 1: seven Ryder Cup that will help bring the juice back? Kopka, Spieth,
25:42
Speaker 1: Patrick Reid. I think we're gonna get smoked. I mean
25:47
Speaker 1: I seriously do. I think their team is so much
25:52
Speaker 1: more consistent and better than ours, it's not even funny.
25:55
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the guys they have one. They're
25:58
Speaker 1: best players, like always played great in these majors. There
26:02
Speaker 1: was a moment in the Canadian Open Fitzpatrick Birdie's eighteen.
26:07
Speaker 1: He ended up finished in second last week and Hoveland
26:11
Speaker 1: missed an eagle putt and birdied it and they kind
26:14
Speaker 1: of hit each other and started laughing, and I was like, God,
26:17
Speaker 1: these guys know each other pretty well well. The Ryder
26:19
Speaker 1: Cup teammates. It's like, that's that's not even their like
26:23
Speaker 1: star power on the Ryder Cup. That's like their middle tier.
26:27
Speaker 1: That's not Rory, that's not rom, that's not even Fleetwood.
26:31
Speaker 1: Justin Rose is gonna go down as like one of
26:33
Speaker 1: the great Ryder covers of all time. So I I
26:36
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna matter. We need a we need
26:40
Speaker 1: a major reset. I mean, I would say, besides, like Scottie,
26:46
Speaker 1: everything's on the table. Do you prefer watching tournaments that
26:51
Speaker 1: are more challenging courses like Ironomic in Oakmont last year,
26:56
Speaker 1: that really test the players, or do you prefer to
26:58
Speaker 1: watch earlier courses where guys go really low, like Valhalla
27:02
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I view golf a little
27:06
Speaker 1: bit like I do football. I wouldn't want everyone to
27:09
Speaker 1: play in thirteen to ten games like I enjoyed Mike
27:14
Speaker 1: Leech's teams. I enjoy teams that are all offense, no defense,
27:19
Speaker 1: and then I like watching the Houston Texans play. So
27:22
Speaker 1: I view my golf courses the same way, like I
27:25
Speaker 1: enjoy variety. I don't get caught up like I enjoyed Valhalla.
27:29
Speaker 1: Why it was Xander Bryson, Victor Hoveland, like I like
27:35
Speaker 1: watching the players excel, and wherever they're playing, people are
27:39
Speaker 1: oh too many birdies, Like that's this one week a year?
27:43
Speaker 1: This isn't you know? It's one thing in pro in
27:45
Speaker 1: like the NBA or the NFL, where you you sign
27:49
Speaker 1: a guy to a four year contract, you're kind of
27:51
Speaker 1: stuck with him, you know, unless you cut them or
27:53
Speaker 1: able to trade them, like it's four days a year.
27:56
Speaker 1: Then unless it's the Masters, they ain't coming back there.
27:59
Speaker 1: So I I like variety, like I didn't hate Valhalla,
28:05
Speaker 1: just like I will will enjoy this weekend just like
28:09
Speaker 1: next year. I think it's a pebble beach. Well, if
28:11
Speaker 1: pebble beach is weather's not bad. These guys are gonna
28:14
Speaker 1: dominate that course unless they grow the rough out like
28:16
Speaker 1: a foot long. So I don't get as caught up
28:19
Speaker 1: in that maybe because I'm so close to football and
28:23
Speaker 1: this is more entertainment to me. It's the one thing
28:28
Speaker 1: that I can just watch unless I have a guy
28:31
Speaker 1: like you know, a play, a guy to win a
28:33
Speaker 1: tournament or to top five or top ten that I'm
28:35
Speaker 1: really invested, where I can just sit on the couch
28:37
Speaker 1: and enjoy the golf like Canadian Open. Are there many
28:41
Speaker 1: holes on that course that I'm going to remember? No?
28:44
Speaker 1: Did I enjoy watching that tournament? I did. Nothing else
28:48
Speaker 1: was on I so I it doesn't. I don't know.
28:52
Speaker 1: I'm not as bothered by that. I just like variety.
28:56
Speaker 1: I have a hot take watching bryceon meltdown and play
29:00
Speaker 1: awful in the Majors is actually better content than him winning.
29:04
Speaker 1: I don't hate the guy, but watching him struggle, combined
29:07
Speaker 1: with his personality makes for amazing television. I can't take
29:11
Speaker 1: my eyes off him, I would agree, I said this.
29:16
Speaker 1: Watching a guy triumph like Rory at the Masters is incredible.
29:21
Speaker 1: Tiger in nineteen Tiger when he was young, Phil finally
29:25
Speaker 1: winning the Masters, Scottie winning a major like a great player,
29:31
Speaker 1: just accomplishing. Is Jalen Brunson win the NBA Championship, Steph forever,
29:36
Speaker 1: like it's Tom Brady is awesome. There's something pretty special
29:41
Speaker 1: about watching again if it's not your team, watching the
29:44
Speaker 1: Falcons bull at twenty eight three league. There is something
29:47
Speaker 1: special in golf to watch someone implode because unlike football
29:53
Speaker 1: or basketball, like none of us can play at that level.
29:56
Speaker 1: We can all play golf, and what do most of
29:58
Speaker 1: us do? Some of us ain't playing that well. I
30:03
Speaker 1: played for the first time in like three weeks the
30:04
Speaker 1: other day, shot eighty two, forty four, thirty eight front nine.
30:10
Speaker 1: I'm just hitting balls all over the place, had no
30:12
Speaker 1: clue what to do. It's pretty relatable to watch guys struggle.
30:17
Speaker 1: Chunk of chip three putt hit one into another fairway.
30:21
Speaker 1: So in Bryson, he's very demonstrative. He gonna let you
30:25
Speaker 1: know about it. He starts bitching with his caddy. Why
30:27
Speaker 1: is it not hooking? We aimed it there. So when
30:30
Speaker 1: you add his personality of Bryson's a great front runner,
30:35
Speaker 1: He's an incredible front runner. Like when we talk about
30:38
Speaker 1: Xander why he's so good here, He's not a front
30:41
Speaker 1: runner Fleetwood. These guys are just grinders. They don't get
30:46
Speaker 1: as emotional like Bryson's very emotional So when things are
30:51
Speaker 1: going well, it's fucking awesome. When things are going bad,
30:54
Speaker 1: you could argue it's must watch television. My wife loves
30:58
Speaker 1: Bravo TV. Well, well, I thought I would never watch it.
31:02
Speaker 1: The one reason you can kind of get into it.
31:04
Speaker 1: It's like emotional head cases. When you're watching an emotional
31:08
Speaker 1: headcase go through stuff, it's kind of hard to look away.
31:12
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. What are your thoughts on Phil
31:15
Speaker 1: as a person? I grew up loving him because he
31:18
Speaker 1: always had a smile with tip his cap, and he
31:20
Speaker 1: always would sign autographs at attorneys. Yet I read about
31:24
Speaker 1: him online and I see as not well liked by
31:26
Speaker 1: his fellow tour players. Is that overblown or true? Do
31:29
Speaker 1: you know anyone that has met Phil personally? Well? This
31:33
Speaker 1: DM was actually before the story broke last week. Phil
31:38
Speaker 1: has retained a defamation lawyer to sue. I was looking
31:45
Speaker 1: like I had a post that actually blew up. I
31:48
Speaker 1: was like, one off, He's gonna sue me. It's like, Phil,
31:51
Speaker 1: the Farms acknowledged they didn't put your name in it,
31:55
Speaker 1: but they acknowledged they kicked someone out for that. I
32:00
Speaker 1: don't think it's Joe Schmoe the businessman in San Diego.
32:03
Speaker 1: They wouldn't have released a statement for that. I think
32:07
Speaker 1: the thing with Phil. I was actually in a tournament,
32:10
Speaker 1: probably a month ago, and I was playing against in
32:15
Speaker 1: this member guest tournament, one of his college teammates, and
32:19
Speaker 1: this is before the story broke, but he hadn't played
32:22
Speaker 1: in forever because of the family issue. And I asked
32:25
Speaker 1: the guy. I wasn't gonna ask him anything personally. He
32:29
Speaker 1: was having a good time. I just said, how's Phil doing.
32:33
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy has known Phil for thirty five
32:35
Speaker 1: years And his response was like, WHOA, Because I remember
32:41
Speaker 1: last year we talked a lot about I've played with
32:43
Speaker 1: him multiple times. He said not good, and I just
32:47
Speaker 1: let that live and we just changed the subject. And
32:49
Speaker 1: the way he said it now makes a little more
32:52
Speaker 1: sense when this story breaks, and I just think, Phil,
32:58
Speaker 1: you know, you see the visuals of time coming back
33:00
Speaker 1: from rehab and you can tell his face looks way better.
33:03
Speaker 1: Tiger obviously had the the issues with the seven million mistresses,
33:08
Speaker 1: banging chicks and parking lots like it was. It was.
33:12
Speaker 1: It was like a movie. But the thing that he's
33:14
Speaker 1: clearly battled and he's been single for a long time
33:17
Speaker 1: so he can do whatever he wants. Is this opioid addiction,
33:22
Speaker 1: like he's just sucking down pills. It's clear, like looking
33:25
Speaker 1: back once he has the car crash, you can just
33:27
Speaker 1: see it on his face. The stuff that allegedly we
33:31
Speaker 1: don't want to get sued by Phil's defamation lawyer. It's
33:35
Speaker 1: I don't know how Phil ever plays professional golf again.
33:39
Speaker 1: Like if liv disappears, the PGA Tour is never letting
33:44
Speaker 1: Phil back. The senior tour guys where Phil would have
33:48
Speaker 1: been a star, I are not gonna want to fuck
33:51
Speaker 1: with him. He if he wanted to, could have been
33:57
Speaker 1: I mean, made millions of dollars sitting right next to
34:00
Speaker 1: Jim Nantz calling golf. He could have been a star broadcaster.
34:05
Speaker 1: That's done. CBS is a very conservative kind of stiff operation.
34:09
Speaker 1: They are not hiring Phil Nicholson. Now, I don't know.
34:13
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never met him personally. I've heard kind
34:17
Speaker 1: of mixed reviews. Again, people's one person. How am I
34:22
Speaker 1: gonna put this? My wife works with someone in the
34:28
Speaker 1: real estate world, and his brother is a was a
34:33
Speaker 1: very prominent PGA tour golfer for a long time. And
34:36
Speaker 1: I've always got this vibe whenever I've been around someone
34:39
Speaker 1: like that. When you just bring up Tiger and Phil
34:42
Speaker 1: and they were in that era, they all like Tiger Woods,
34:46
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's a respect thing because
34:48
Speaker 1: not like Tiger was friends with most of them, but
34:51
Speaker 1: they never really have bad things to say about Tiger.
34:54
Speaker 1: The reaction you get when you ask about Phil and
34:57
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about his asu teammates have known him forever.
34:59
Speaker 1: I'm talking about people that just were on the tour
35:01
Speaker 1: or around that kind of world, and I'm just now
35:04
Speaker 1: living in Scottsdale, just kind of one degree of separation
35:07
Speaker 1: from a lot of these people. It doesn't seem that positive.
35:10
Speaker 1: So I have no personal interaction with him. I always
35:13
Speaker 1: enjoyed him. I'm with you, I was a fan, but
35:17
Speaker 1: this is a fucking disaster. Embarrassing isn't strong enough. If
35:22
Speaker 1: the stuff is true allegedly, you just don't recover from that.
35:30
Speaker 1: The other thing is these country clubs, Because I text
35:33
Speaker 1: a couple of people, I said, how do you think
35:37
Speaker 1: Phil has been a member there? They're like thirty plus years.
35:40
Speaker 1: Phil's been going there since he was like in his
35:43
Speaker 1: twenties or whenever the course first was created. I don't
35:47
Speaker 1: know when the farms was created, but Phil has been
35:49
Speaker 1: a member there like since the Internet was invented. For
35:53
Speaker 1: them to boot him again allegedly. If it's true, they
35:56
Speaker 1: confirmed it, just didn't put his name on it. I
35:58
Speaker 1: think it's pretty clear to put the piece of the
36:00
Speaker 1: puzzle together. That's insane. I asked someone the other day,
36:05
Speaker 1: I'm like, have you ever heard of anyone getting kicked
36:07
Speaker 1: out of a club? He's like, yeah, there was a
36:08
Speaker 1: story recently at this club I used to belong to.
36:11
Speaker 1: Its two guys got into a fistfight, and one consistent
36:16
Speaker 1: I would say theme at most country clubs is the
36:21
Speaker 1: number one rule is when you treat the staff. And
36:25
Speaker 1: this is just being a dick not doing what Phil's
36:27
Speaker 1: allegedly doing. It's like, that's a no no, I mean
36:32
Speaker 1: a complete no no, a disqualifier. And this goes to
36:37
Speaker 1: Augusta Monterey Peninsula country club. You just go around Oakmont,
36:41
Speaker 1: you know the shinnecock, the these nice country clubs, you
36:44
Speaker 1: treat the staff shitty, that's fucking You're gone, Especially in
36:50
Speaker 1: two thousand and like modern day, what do you think
37:06
Speaker 1: the penalty for live players going back to the tour
37:08
Speaker 1: is gonna be Bryson, rom etc. Since they didn't accept
37:12
Speaker 1: the all of branch like Brooks, I imagine it will
37:15
Speaker 1: be even more steep. What do you think of fair
37:17
Speaker 1: penalty is for them? Well, let's just think who the
37:20
Speaker 1: tour wants Bryson ram I would say, Hatton, Joaque Nieman.
37:27
Speaker 1: Like I think DJ just retires, Patrick Reid's already back,
37:33
Speaker 1: Kepka's back, trying to think being out there? Who am
37:37
Speaker 1: I missing? Phil's done, the old guys they don't give
37:41
Speaker 1: a shit about. I don't think Bryson necessarily wants to
37:46
Speaker 1: come back. I really don't, because I don't think he
37:49
Speaker 1: believes that everyone likes him and the one thing he's
37:52
Speaker 1: got with live he's got to be a star. He's
37:54
Speaker 1: got to tell them what to do. Even now, like
37:57
Speaker 1: he gets to kind of give his ideas to pitch
38:00
Speaker 1: to investors. No one gives a shit what he thinks
38:03
Speaker 1: when he comes back to the PGA tour besides like
38:04
Speaker 1: play and be a big name sar. But like he's
38:08
Speaker 1: not gonna tell Brian Rolapp what to do at this point, right,
38:11
Speaker 1: Scotty and Rory run the tour and if Tiger gets
38:14
Speaker 1: a shit together, Tiger So I don't think Bryson's a
38:19
Speaker 1: lock to come back. I really don't. Rom I think
38:24
Speaker 1: he misses it. I do think as a human being,
38:29
Speaker 1: because put yourself in their shoes, you take the money,
38:32
Speaker 1: you'll leave. You kind of start drinking the kool aid
38:36
Speaker 1: and kind of talk shit, Right, we're gonna be something.
38:41
Speaker 1: This is gonna work. I mean, Bryson never shuts up
38:44
Speaker 1: about Team Golf like this is the future. It's like, no,
38:48
Speaker 1: it's not, guys, and then it fails. And the only
38:52
Speaker 1: reason it existed is because the oil Fund, with trillions
38:57
Speaker 1: of dollars, gave them almost six million dollars over the
39:01
Speaker 1: course of five or six years. This would never have
39:04
Speaker 1: existed without piff no American business investors. It couldn't have
39:10
Speaker 1: happened because the only way those guys would leave it
39:13
Speaker 1: took hundreds of millions of dollars to buy all the
39:15
Speaker 1: top players. It's not like, well, I believe in it,
39:18
Speaker 1: Give me some equity and give me ten million bucks
39:21
Speaker 1: and I'm in. That's not the way it wor A.
39:23
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be difficult. Now, Kopka wanted out,
39:29
Speaker 1: you know, I think you kind of got to want
39:30
Speaker 1: out even if you're worth a ton of money. Kepra
39:34
Speaker 1: gave five million dollars, like through the PGA tour to
39:36
Speaker 1: a charity, essentially a five million dollar fine. Is Bryson
39:41
Speaker 1: orrom doing that? And I think Kepka looked at it, well,
39:44
Speaker 1: I already made one hundred and fifty million dollars. What's
39:47
Speaker 1: you know a couple percent of that just to get
39:49
Speaker 1: away from here. I don't know. If they're doing that
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Speaker 1: to me, I would have no problem giving those guys
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Speaker 1: the same kind of all branch, but I am not
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Speaker 1: convinced that they are just gonna here's five million bucks
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Speaker 1: and to do all the shit he did, which you
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Speaker 1: don't get into the big events right away. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I've also thought, like Jackson Coaven, this star amateur just
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Speaker 1: announced he's going pro. He's playing this weekend in the
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Speaker 1: US Open. That you know, like when the Jets they
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Speaker 1: draft David Bailey, or the Cowboys Caleb Downs or the
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Speaker 1: Commanders Sunny Styles. Those guys start week one like Sunday
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Speaker 1: Week one. That guy's you're starting middle, linebacker, pass rusher, safety,
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Speaker 1: whatever they are starters. Now the PGA Tour is gonna
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Speaker 1: go from they're gonna have Tier one events and Tier
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Speaker 1: two events. If you are a superstar amateur, shouldn't you
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Speaker 1: just start in the big leagues immediately, like you have
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Speaker 1: to work your way up. I think that's kind of
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Speaker 1: a big question moving forward as well, and roll up
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Speaker 1: from the football background. I wonder if he's gonna want
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Speaker 1: an easier path like Ludwig Boomers in if you were
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Speaker 1: the commission, give me your perfect PGA schedule, what courses
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Speaker 1: and when? Well they did announce recently. I do think
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Speaker 1: starting at Tory Pines and the waste management is a
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Speaker 1: good way to start, and I personally would move waste
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Speaker 1: management away from the Super Bowl. I think the Thunderbirds
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Speaker 1: that run waste management are adamant they want it that weekend.
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Speaker 1: So if they're not gonna budget, you just leave it
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Speaker 1: and you just do those two weekends. I think it's
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Speaker 1: really key in June and July around the majors to
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Speaker 1: find a way to get primetime golf. There's nothing going on.
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Speaker 1: This is a little bit of an outlier year because
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Speaker 1: the World Cup. But I was thinking last night, like
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Speaker 1: the NBA, the NHL, the playoffs are done. Now you
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Speaker 1: have this runway in June and through July. Of like,
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Speaker 1: could you play on the West coast and just get
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Speaker 1: golf Thursday, Friday, Saturaday and Sunday for the East coasters
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Speaker 1: that's on TV at like eight nine o'clock at night.
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Speaker 1: So I think you've got to figure out a way
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Speaker 1: to intertwine some of that. Now, part of it is weather, right,
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Speaker 1: you can't like, you can't just go to Florida in
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Speaker 1: July or August. It's too hot. You can't go to Texas.
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Speaker 1: So part of the hard part about golf is the
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Speaker 1: weather like plays a huge factor, which is like Pebble
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Speaker 1: Beach sometime in the summer, Tory Pines sometime in the summer,
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Speaker 1: Riviera sometime in the summer. Maybe go to Chambers Bay
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Speaker 1: sometime in the summer. Do a West Coast swing where
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Speaker 1: you get primetime golf when you're not competing against anything.
42:46
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, the White Sox are playing the Tigers again,
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Speaker 1: no shit, play each other like twenty times a year,
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Speaker 1: so you're going up against baseball. That to me is
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Speaker 1: something I would emphasize, is how to get primetime golf
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Speaker 1: really in May, June, and July. You could even if
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Speaker 1: you want to kick May and look more August. That's
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Speaker 1: what i'd be thinking. When would that great questions at
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Speaker 1: Golo Pod, firing those d ms, and we will talk.
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