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Jordan Spieth "pain free" as he nears return · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: He speaking of Scotland, the birthplace of golf. There was
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  Speaker 1: another golf note that I meant to get to and
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  Speaker 1: did not get a chance to get to when we
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  Speaker 1: were talking last segment. And that's the game. That's the
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  Speaker 1: guy that were always seemingly you correct me if I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong on this.
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  Speaker 1: I know where you're going with this, and you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Always seemingly he's a prodigal son. Yeah, rooting for and
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  Speaker 1: the prodigal son. And yet you know, after the absolutely
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  Speaker 1: fabulous start to his career, he's had no end of
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  Speaker 1: slings and arrows. We speak of course of lifetime Longhorn
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Speeth. He says he doesn't have any pain in
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  Speaker 1: that surgically repaired left wrist that was in late August
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  Speaker 1: when he did that, said the recovery's going to plan.
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  Speaker 1: He went from a I hadn't heard this in golf before,
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  Speaker 1: So you can help me out if I need a
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  Speaker 1: limited did ball count to practice to no restriction? Does
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  Speaker 1: that just mean not taking as many practice swings and
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  Speaker 1: stuff as that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So this sounds like you know, he probably instead
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  Speaker 3: of hitting you know, maybe one hundred and fifty shots
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  Speaker 3: on the range on Monday. Yeah, maybe it was fifty
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  Speaker 3: something like that. So it's a it's an injury that
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  Speaker 3: impacted him last season because a year ago at the
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  Speaker 3: Hero World Challenge he finished second the Scottie Scheffler, and
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  Speaker 3: of course he you know, he's been all right at
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  Speaker 3: and then he comes to Kapalua in Hawaii. I think
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  Speaker 3: he finished second or third, was in the hunt, played
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  Speaker 3: very well at the Waste Management, and it was playing
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  Speaker 3: great at Riviera. It was probably the best start to
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  Speaker 3: a season for him in a couple of years. But
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  Speaker 3: then the injury began to flare up, and there was
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  Speaker 3: a couple of tournaments this past season where he thought
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  Speaker 3: he was going to have to withdraw because the pain
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  Speaker 3: was so substantial and basically he was driving the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It's the best season with him the driver, but anything
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  Speaker 3: where we had to make contact with the ground so
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  Speaker 3: iron shot short game. You noticed. It was one of
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  Speaker 3: the worst seasons in terms of strokes gain, and that's
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  Speaker 3: because you know, mentally and the pain of him making
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  Speaker 3: contact with the ground was not the same ball striker.
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  Speaker 3: So he realized that the last season in the fext
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  Speaker 3: Cup playoffs, like, I got to fix this.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only way.
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  Speaker 3: So he oughted for the surgery, and good to hear
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  Speaker 3: he's pain free because that's what was holding him back
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  Speaker 3: to this past season. We'll see, but I feel optimistic.
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  Speaker 3: I feel very optimistic, he said, and here was the quote.
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  Speaker 2: It feels good.
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  Speaker 1: None of the shots, you know, I don't really have
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  Speaker 1: any problems with it, no pain, no nothing. So now
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of just taking care of it, continuing to
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  Speaker 1: do therapy probably through the new year, and just be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to go start playing some golf and be prepared
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  Speaker 1: to play three weeks in a row.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the grind is what you're talking about. He didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't give an indication when he might be back though. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: I because usually you know, he would play in Kapalua
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  Speaker 3: and then would come back. He's not a part. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't make the cut to be a part of the
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  Speaker 3: the I don't know what they call it now, the
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  Speaker 3: Sony Open, maybe something different. So I guess is.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about the one in Hawaii of the area.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be the tournament where the champions would
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  Speaker 3: winning it. Now it's like top fifty in the the
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  Speaker 3: next cup. He's on invite to that because he didn't
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  Speaker 3: finish top fifty or top thirty or whatever. My guess
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  Speaker 3: is his first tournament back will probably be the Waste Management. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: maybe he'll play over the La Kinta over in California.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. By the way, who is Colt.
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  Speaker 3: Nast cult Ghost played at SMU, former PJ golfer. Now
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  Speaker 3: he is on the CBS telecast. He is the Dottie
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  Speaker 3: Pepper for CBS Golf, and he hosts a PJ Tour
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  Speaker 3: series x SIM show with I forget who who the
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  Speaker 3: other guy is?
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  Speaker 2: But so that's where he did the interview with Colt Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it sounded vaguely familiar, but I couldn't remember. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't place him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, short white balld guy. He's opposed to you, a
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  Speaker 2: tall white ball guy.
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  Speaker 3: He's a little bit more stocky.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I don't think I'm stocky.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, you're You're properly proportioned. The all right, So
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  Speaker 1: I've heard you mention Kapalua twice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, thinking about today actually really all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So you've never played it because you haven't been right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I would say if if you know the Good
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  Speaker 1: Lord smiles down on both of us, and we're still
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  Speaker 1: around and doing our regular jobs. And the long Worn
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  Speaker 1: basketball team goes to Mali next year. Well we should
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  Speaker 1: try to play I've played it. I played it, played me.
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  Speaker 1: I did it with Bill Shooning. That's the time when
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  Speaker 1: we were playing the Plantation course. That's the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the Crenshaw course, and that's the one where you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've got this bad slice and we get we get
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  Speaker 1: up on the thing and it's a down. It's a
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  Speaker 1: dog leg to the left and and so I'm aiming
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  Speaker 1: way left to bend it back and sometimes that works
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it and I think it came off the
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  Speaker 1: toe or something and searing down it was good distance
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  Speaker 1: on it away slice.
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  Speaker 2: Rice and I just kind of tossed the club sound.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, come on, Ben, and Shony goes Ben,
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  Speaker 1: what are you getting mad at him for?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, well he laid out the course. He
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  Speaker 2: could have put the fairway over there. Said no, he
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  Speaker 2: can't the oceans over there. So uh. But we had
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  Speaker 2: a good time.
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  Speaker 1: We were playing Kapallui. It was it's good. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful golf course. There's there's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back to wrap up today's program
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