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Go Low - PGA Championship 2026 Predictions & Best Bets: Cameron Young to WIN, Scottie vs Rory · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume What is going on Everybody, John Middlecoff Go
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Speaker 1: Low Podcast. As we get ready for the second major
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Speaker 1: of the year, we like to separate the Go Low
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Speaker 1: podcast from the football podcast. So you know, I thought
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Speaker 1: I would come on here bang out some of the
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Speaker 1: biggest storylines, my betting card, which I'm gonna be heavily,
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Speaker 1: heavily aggressive this week. We've got a lot of plays,
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Speaker 1: a lot of plays. I'm gonna ride the hot hand
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna hammer some top tens, in top twenties,
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Speaker 1: a couple of flyers. So we will do that today
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Speaker 1: I plan on probably doing a reaction on Sunday to
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Speaker 1: this event Sunday afternoon. But other than that, hopefully everyone's
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Speaker 1: doing well. And yeah, let's just let's talk ironomic. So
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Speaker 1: let's just the biggest storylines this week. And this is
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Speaker 1: a weird time of year right because we peak, we
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Speaker 1: go players basically right into the Masters, and it's just
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Speaker 1: a pretty incredible stretch there in late May, early April
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Speaker 1: and even right after the Masters the RBC Heritage in
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Speaker 1: Harbortown is awesome. Like that tournament slaps the last couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks at Trump Dral and last week Quail Hollow.
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Speaker 1: I love golf. I love watching professional golf on television.
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Speaker 1: I like it. I like a big golf tournament, whether
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Speaker 1: it's a major, whether it's a non major with big
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Speaker 1: time names, you know, facing off on Saturday and Sunday
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Speaker 1: as much as I do football in the fall, like
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Speaker 1: I love as a consumer watching these guys Cam Young
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Speaker 1: and Scottie Scheffler and Xander and Rory. You know, obviously
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Speaker 1: Bryson rom going head to head on television like it's
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Speaker 1: I am their go to consumer. I watch a lot
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Speaker 1: of golf. It was awful, like it was a bad product.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, one big picture in the summer months,
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Speaker 1: Postmasters and after Harbortown, this is going to be a
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Speaker 1: tough spot for because we really just start thinking about
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Speaker 1: the majors, right, the PGA Championship, which is clearly the
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Speaker 1: fourth major, right if you were ranking them and listen,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get in some semantics argument whether the
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Speaker 1: players should be considered one you can't retroactively start giving
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Speaker 1: people majors, but there is no disputing as of the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years, the players feels bigger than this tournament. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you win this tournament, because you can say I
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Speaker 1: won a major Scotty last year, you know, winning this
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Speaker 1: it's a bigger deal, similar paycheck, but the players just
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Speaker 1: feels bigger. Maybe it's because we're consistently going to that course.
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Speaker 1: It pops on television, you know, this tournament feels like
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Speaker 1: it's gotten a little easy. I mean a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago at Valhalla, I mean it was a cakewalk
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Speaker 1: for those guys. By all accounts, this course, the numbers
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Speaker 1: could be relatively low, in the mid to high teens.
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Speaker 1: I saw Ben Griffins ay twelve under. I've seen a
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Speaker 1: lot of other people. Even Rory in his press conference
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Speaker 1: kind of essentially said the course is too easy without
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Speaker 1: saying it. Now. I don't know if it was twenty
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Speaker 1: ten or twenty eleven. It might have been eleven. My
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Speaker 1: brother came out to visit me in Philadelphia, stayed with
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Speaker 1: me for a couple of weeks or not even maybe
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Speaker 1: a week, maybe not even that long. Four or five
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Speaker 1: days brought us clubs. It was I think the offseason
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Speaker 1: or maybe the spring, or maybe maybe it was the summer.
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Speaker 1: I forget the exact timing of it. Whenever this golf
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Speaker 1: tournament happened and we went we're like, oh, Tiger's playing,
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Speaker 1: and so it probably was eleven. I think it was
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Speaker 1: the year that Keegan won and we just went to
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Speaker 1: the tournament and it was it's a beautiful piece of property.
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Speaker 1: Now it's kind of tough to get to you know
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Speaker 1: the ingress egress, as Mark Davis used to talk about
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Speaker 1: about the Oakland Coliseum, which worst stadium probably in the
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Speaker 1: history of stadiums, but the ingress egress to that stadium
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Speaker 1: was pretty elite. And anyone knows that goes to a
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Speaker 1: basketball game, goes to an NFL game, the ability to
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Speaker 1: get in and out is key. I went to a
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Speaker 1: concert here in Glendale where the Cardinals play. It's got
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Speaker 1: to have the worst ingress egress you'll ever see. This
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Speaker 1: one could be tough. I remember we parked on the
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Speaker 1: side of the road, had to kind of hoof it back.
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Speaker 1: I would imagine they have shuttles. Most of you that
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Speaker 1: are listening to this are probably just gonna watch it
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Speaker 1: on TV, so it doesn't matter. But I remember thinking
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Speaker 1: we followed Justin Leonard, who was playing with Nick Watney,
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Speaker 1: who was a multiple time PGA Tour winner, who went
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Speaker 1: to Fresno State, who grew up a little older than me,
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Speaker 1: but grew up very very close to where I did.
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Speaker 1: He actually his senior year in high school went to
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Speaker 1: Davis High I think I was in eighth grade and
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Speaker 1: went on to have a fantastic professional career. So I
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Speaker 1: remember me and Jeff just followed Watney probably for like
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Speaker 1: nine holes, and I just remember thinking, like this course
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Speaker 1: is pure. Now that's fifteen plus years ago. The technology
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Speaker 1: has changed. These guys are so deep. I mean last
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Speaker 1: week we had one of the Hoary Guard brother on
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Speaker 1: like a four hundred and thirty yard Part four is
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Speaker 1: hitting driver nine iron. So the distance in which these
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Speaker 1: guys play is a completely different game than that which
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Speaker 1: was fifteen years ago. I mean some Tiger highlights are
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Speaker 1: him hitting like three iron stingers at the Players Championship
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Speaker 1: in like two like those days are done. Cam Young
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Speaker 1: pulls out driver hits at three hundred and forty yards,
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Speaker 1: so we were watching a different sport. Doesn't bother me
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Speaker 1: as much as some in the media that want this
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Speaker 1: rollback and that I was. Actually I just had to
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Speaker 1: go to the bank and had the PGA Tour radio on.
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Speaker 1: I guess Cam Young technically is using a ball that
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Speaker 1: would fall under the rollback guidelines, and that was the
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Speaker 1: ball that he played at the Players where he hit
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Speaker 1: a three hundred and forty yard drive. So the power
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Speaker 1: in which these guys possess now is pretty incredible, and
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Speaker 1: by all accounts, they are going to destroy this course,
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Speaker 1: I mean it is short pour fives. It is one
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Speaker 1: par five, which is like five hundred and forty yards.
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Speaker 1: I mean for some of these guys that they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be hitting six and seven irons in and just the
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Speaker 1: majority of par four's. By all accounts, these guys are
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Speaker 1: gonna have mid irons at most, and some of the
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Speaker 1: longer hitters are gonna have like you and I playing
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Speaker 1: a random course, have a lot of eight and nine
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Speaker 1: irons in our hand, and when they do that, they
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Speaker 1: usually dominated. Now, when you look at the biggest storylines
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Speaker 1: going into this Scottie Scheffler is a defending champion. Now,
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Speaker 1: unlike the Masters, this course changes on a yearly basis.
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Speaker 1: Last year was at Quail Hollow, but he has dominated
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Speaker 1: this event in recent memory. In twenty three he was
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Speaker 1: tied for second, in twenty four he was tied for eighth,
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Speaker 1: and last year he finished first. And his form coming
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Speaker 1: into this tournament is pretty unreal for a guy who
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Speaker 1: has it won lately. He has finished second in three
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Speaker 1: straight tournaments, so it is safe to say he's trending,
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Speaker 1: and he's probably a couple shots away from having like
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Speaker 1: four or five wins this year. Pretty easily, And I
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Speaker 1: was actually reading Brody Miller, who I don't know personally.
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Speaker 1: I've been reading this stuff on the Athletic for a while,
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Speaker 1: had a pretty good article like, you know, what'd be
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Speaker 1: fun Scotty versus Rory McElroy. You know, and forever when
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Speaker 1: I was a kid, it was like, when are Tiger
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Speaker 1: and Phil gonna gonna get into a duel? And it
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Speaker 1: never really happened. And it's kind of sad looking back that,
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Speaker 1: you know, Phil kind of peaked in the majors in
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Speaker 1: his mid thirties, in the mid to late two thousands,
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Speaker 1: and by then Tiger had everything going off the field,
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Speaker 1: got the yips, got injured, and it just wasn't quite
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Speaker 1: the same. But they never quite matched up together. And
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Speaker 1: now Rory is older than Scotty. I think he just
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Speaker 1: turned thirty seven. Scotty I think turns thirty here in
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Speaker 1: a month or two, so there's a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a generational gap. Obviously, Rory's playing the PGA Tour a
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Speaker 1: lot longer Scotti Scheffler, But like, Rory's playing for majors now,
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Speaker 1: and I think his goal is pretty clear to try
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Speaker 1: to get to double digits. And I think it's safe
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Speaker 1: to say that he's going to win another Masters, Like
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Speaker 1: is he likely to win next year? It'd be the
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Speaker 1: first time ever I think a guy would won three straight.
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Speaker 1: Probably not, but if you had to put like over
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Speaker 1: under on his majors the rest of his career, the
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Speaker 1: number would probably be said at like two and a
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Speaker 1: half three, Like he's winning another major now he you know,
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Speaker 1: he mentioned this last week. I was actually watching him
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Speaker 1: a little bit on Sunday, just a sleepy, sleepy Quail
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Speaker 1: Hall tournament. He started fast. I mean he was like
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Speaker 1: five or six under through eleven, so it's like got
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Speaker 1: a little momentum. Clearly was used as a tune up.
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Speaker 1: The problem is today I saw some pictures circulating on
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Speaker 1: the internet. He has like a bad blister on his
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Speaker 1: foot and had to quit a practice round after three holes. Now,
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Speaker 1: these guys aren't exactly like Lawrence Taylor, so you know,
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Speaker 1: on a toughness scale, could he have kept playing? I
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Speaker 1: would imagine, But it's probably a pain in the ass
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Speaker 1: when you're a golfer. And I think we would all
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Speaker 1: like I mean, Scotty on hard rock bet is plus
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Speaker 1: four fifty, Rory's plus eight hundred. They're easily the two
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Speaker 1: betting favorites going into this tournament, and that's gonna be
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Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future for all these majors. But I
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Speaker 1: think at this time I struggle betting Scottie Scheffler just
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Speaker 1: because the odds are so bad. I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: crazy if you want to take him and then take
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Speaker 1: another horse to top ten. To get those from like
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Speaker 1: plus fifty to like fifty to one makes it a
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Speaker 1: little more enticing. But I think, you know, kind of
10:13
Speaker 1: like the Indian app the Indiana Pacers when they lost
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Speaker 1: their draft pick to the Clippers. Part of the math
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Speaker 1: was like, hey, we got a fifty to fifty shot,
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Speaker 1: and you really thought about it. Once they missed out
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Speaker 1: on the fifth overall pick, You're like, that's not that great. Odds,
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Speaker 1: Like those odds you ever flipped a coin Like, those
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Speaker 1: aren't really now. If you say, hey, fifty to fifty
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Speaker 1: shot to win a major, that's incredible odds. And that's
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Speaker 1: what it kind of feels like. Scotty is coming into
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Speaker 1: this tournament. He's a coin flip, right, and I think
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Speaker 1: by all accounts, it would be stunning based on his
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Speaker 1: form if he's not top six or seven and definitely
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Speaker 1: in the mix come Sunday. Now, it's hard to win
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Speaker 1: these tournaments. Other guys get scolding hot. I mean, a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, he beat the entire field. Just
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Speaker 1: turned out, Cam Young beat the shit out of everybody.
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Speaker 1: So sometimes it's out of your control, like you dominating
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Speaker 1: the field, but there is one guy just going nuclear,
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Speaker 1: which obviously can happen at any moment, right And I
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Speaker 1: think last year at this tournament, Scotty won comfortably by
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Speaker 1: five shots. So anytime you're winning a major, it's one
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Speaker 1: thing to be leading after a couple rounds like Rory
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Speaker 1: at the Masters and have a six shot lead means
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Speaker 1: maybe you chipped in, maybe you got you know, you
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Speaker 1: hit a bunch of twenty footers. It's hard to maintain that,
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Speaker 1: as we saw with Rory at the Masters. But when
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Speaker 1: you win a major by several shots, you are beating
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Speaker 1: the shit out of everybody. So I have no problem
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Speaker 1: anyone wants to take him. I'm rooting for him to
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Speaker 1: be in the mix. I hope Rory's foot's okay, because
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Speaker 1: I think one thing that's been missing in this whole
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Speaker 1: golf world that has been fractured that now looks like
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Speaker 1: it's coming back together. Has been these two guys doing
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Speaker 1: what we never get. I mean, think about it. We've
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Speaker 1: gotten Scotty head to head with a lot of other guys.
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Speaker 1: We've gotten Rory head to head with Bryce in a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago in the US Open it was awesome.
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Speaker 1: We've gotten Rory the last couple of years head to
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Speaker 1: head with you know, the Justin Roses of the world,
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Speaker 1: the Ludwigs, the Cam Young's. It's fucking incredible. Imagine if
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Speaker 1: it's those two guys, I think that's what I'm personally
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Speaker 1: rooting for. I would say based on the foot thing,
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Speaker 1: which is crazy to say, it's shows your golf's not
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Speaker 1: exactly a football or hockey. Makes you get a little
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Speaker 1: nervous with Rory. But if he can get that figured
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Speaker 1: out over the next couple of days, may put a
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Speaker 1: band aid on it. Uh, maybe we get you know
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Speaker 1: him playing pretty well, which you know I think is
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Speaker 1: he's definitely his odds are a lot lower than a
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Speaker 1: coin flip. I would say. The one guy, and this
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Speaker 1: is probably you know, the guy that I'm gonna hammer
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Speaker 1: to win this tournament is Cam Young and he won
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Speaker 1: the players he won a couple of weeks ago at
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Speaker 1: d'au by six plus shots. He's probably, you know, at
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Speaker 1: the highest level, you could say Alex Fitzpatrick, who's been
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Speaker 1: playing great the last three weeks. You could say the
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Speaker 1: Reton guy, Rayton, whose family's worth like billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: over in like Denmark is. I mean, we have a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys that are quote unquote hot. Justin Thomas
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Speaker 1: is actually trending. I would say start to finish. If
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Speaker 1: you go back to last fall, there's probably not many
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Speaker 1: guys with the high end talent that are hot. At
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Speaker 1: cam Young, you could say Scott is definitely roaring, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of roaring back into form. I was reading my
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Speaker 1: guy Jason Sobele, who does a betting column, puts it
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Speaker 1: up on his Twitter account every single week and at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. Because you can you can
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Speaker 1: do future odds on all the majors. Cam Young was
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Speaker 1: fifty to one for this tournament. After he won the Players,
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Speaker 1: he got to his low as thirty to one. I
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Speaker 1: looked probably a month ago and he was twenty two
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Speaker 1: to one. Right now on hunder Rock bet he's twelve
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Speaker 1: to one, which I think if you're gonna have a
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Speaker 1: guy behind Scotty and Rory, and usually the third or
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Speaker 1: fourth guy is hovering somewhere in the low teens, you know, fourteen, fifteen,
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Speaker 1: thirteen twelve. That's kind of feels about right. And that's
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Speaker 1: at this point in time. Now Ryder Cupper, you know,
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Speaker 1: won the Players, has won multiple events, so he's got
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Speaker 1: that kind of monkey off his back. It's all about like,
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Speaker 1: when's he gonna get his first major? Is he the
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Speaker 1: best player in you know, professional golf to not win
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Speaker 1: a major. I think there would be several guys that
14:24
Speaker 1: would kind of fit that. Bill Tommy Fleetwood, I think
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Speaker 1: you would have to you know, throw into that mix.
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Speaker 1: It might just be him and Tommy Fleetwood. To me,
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Speaker 1: Ludwig hasn't been doing it quite long enough. A couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago, it was definitely Xander and what happened.
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Speaker 1: Xander won two majors in the same year. And I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's inconceivable, Like if you told me someone
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Speaker 1: not named Scotti, Scheffler or Rory, because he would just
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Speaker 1: have to win one more, is gonna win two of
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Speaker 1: the next three majors. I think he would be the
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Speaker 1: guy you put your money on now I do think
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Speaker 1: Cam Young's winning a major this year. So when I looked,
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Speaker 1: wasn't a month ago when he was like twenty two
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Speaker 1: twenty three to one. That's basically was his odds for
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Speaker 1: this tournament, the US Open at Shinnacock and the Open,
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Speaker 1: which I didn't even look where they're playing it, and
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Speaker 1: I kind of regret it. Now I'm like, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'll take a thousand dollars and I'll basically cut it
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Speaker 1: into thirds and I'll just put a bet on each one,
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Speaker 1: and if he hits, I'll make my money back in space.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if I got distracted, whatever, I
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Speaker 1: didn't do it. Now the odds have dramatically changed, so
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Speaker 1: I'm almost just gonna take the approach of just betting
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Speaker 1: him on a weekly basis. But not only is he
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Speaker 1: my bet to win, I already have a relatively large
15:33
Speaker 1: unit size bet placed on him to win this tournament.
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Speaker 1: And I think, like Scotty, I think it would be
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Speaker 1: somewhat stunning if Cam Young come the weekend's name is
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Speaker 1: not hovering around the top of the leaderboard, might not
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Speaker 1: be in first, but like if you tell me going
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Speaker 1: into Saturday or in the middle of Saturday. Cam Young
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Speaker 1: is six and just birdied back to back holes and
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Speaker 1: is on the move. That's what I would expect now.
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Speaker 1: Last Sunday, I was glad because I made this bet
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Speaker 1: probably on Thursday or Friday of last week. For a
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Speaker 1: split second on Saturday at Quail Hollow, it looked like
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Speaker 1: he was gonna win, and I'm like, I don't want
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Speaker 1: him winning four days before the PGA Championship. And then
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Speaker 1: Sunday as Putter got squirrely, I think he four putted.
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Speaker 1: I was watching him four putt. I forget what hole,
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Speaker 1: but it was on the front nine, and he kind
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Speaker 1: of just blew himself out of the tournament. I was like,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad. Like I'm kind of glad. So
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Speaker 1: I like Cam Young a lot this week. If you
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Speaker 1: want to bet him top five, if you want to
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Speaker 1: bet him top ten, I think he is an auto hammer. Now.
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Speaker 1: The other two guys, and this is a regret of mine,
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Speaker 1: I picked Bryson to win the Masters. Obviously it looked
16:39
Speaker 1: like a fucking idiot because all time implosion, him screaming
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Speaker 1: at the ball to not hook, just a pretty embarrassing performance.
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Speaker 1: And John Rahm, who barely made the Cut is another
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Speaker 1: guy that I liked a lot going into that Masters,
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Speaker 1: who was atrocious to me. Both these guys are complete
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Speaker 1: stay aways from me. If you want to bet him
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Speaker 1: to top tens or top twenty, don't blame you. If
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Speaker 1: you want to bet either to miss the cut, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: blame you either. I mean the live conversation. You know,
17:09
Speaker 1: Bryson's a free agent. Obviously, He's like, you know, I'll
17:12
Speaker 1: just play on YouTube and then play the majors. It's like,
17:15
Speaker 1: are you really gonna do that. I enjoy internet golfing.
17:20
Speaker 1: I enjoy watching people play YouTube golf. I tend to
17:24
Speaker 1: lean to watch the shittier guys play, like I like
17:27
Speaker 1: watching Bob Does or you know, I watched Bob does
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Speaker 1: take on the four play guys. I do like watching
17:34
Speaker 1: you know, the Brian brows in Horvat. But to me,
17:37
Speaker 1: Bryson's been given this incredible talent. I think we're all
17:42
Speaker 1: better off, and I think deep down he knows this too,
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Speaker 1: like playing competitive golf against the best players in the world. Now,
17:49
Speaker 1: he did have some comments last week at the live event,
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Speaker 1: which I can't imagine many people watched, saying that like,
17:56
Speaker 1: you know, if this is not about the powers that be.
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Speaker 1: This is not about Brian Rollap. It has to be
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Speaker 1: the membership wanting me back, essentially saying, do the players
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Speaker 1: want me back on their tour now? I don't think
18:07
Speaker 1: they're gonna kiss his ass to get him on the tour.
18:09
Speaker 1: I do think they were pretty complimentary when he was
18:12
Speaker 1: on the Ryder Cup team. I mean Xander and Scotty,
18:15
Speaker 1: I mean they were really really kind of hyping them
18:18
Speaker 1: up going into that tournament. Now do these guys like them?
18:22
Speaker 1: Does brooks Kopka actually like him or did he fake
18:26
Speaker 1: it and still can't stand the guy. I think it's
18:28
Speaker 1: fair to say most of these guys on the PGA
18:31
Speaker 1: tour aren't big Bryson people, right, Like, he's not their
18:35
Speaker 1: number one pick to have to play with, to have
18:37
Speaker 1: to interact with. I do believe, though, the business model
18:43
Speaker 1: where they're trending, of these guys get equity, the importance
18:46
Speaker 1: of growing the brand and the business lines their pocket
18:50
Speaker 1: moving forward. Having Bryson around it like the powerfulness of
18:56
Speaker 1: Like it's powerful to have Bryson in your event. There
18:59
Speaker 1: is no dispute that he's easily one of the rare
19:02
Speaker 1: guys who is famous outside of the golf world and
19:07
Speaker 1: YouTube has been a huge reason that he's exploded in
19:10
Speaker 1: terms of his brand and people's understanding of who the
19:12
Speaker 1: guy is. Unique player, right, But I do have to
19:17
Speaker 1: wonder with Bryson and rom if in this major and
19:22
Speaker 1: at the US Open, some of the quote unquote powers
19:26
Speaker 1: that be or power brokers for the PGA Tour, these
19:30
Speaker 1: could be prominent players, These could be prominent agents. These
19:33
Speaker 1: could be as simple as role app in. Some of
19:35
Speaker 1: his cronies are are doing some communication, are doing some
19:41
Speaker 1: meetings with, if not them individually, their representatives to try
19:46
Speaker 1: to figure something out, because I think we'd all be
19:49
Speaker 1: better off as a consumer if we turn on a
19:52
Speaker 1: non major. And however many times a year these guys
19:56
Speaker 1: play together, and I can't speak for Rom, I know
19:59
Speaker 1: is con tracks a little complicated. I guess technically it's
20:02
Speaker 1: with Live not the Piff. And Scott O'Neill's trying desperately
20:06
Speaker 1: to get people to give him money, which I think
20:08
Speaker 1: is gonna be challenging because this thing only loses money
20:10
Speaker 1: and the money you need to keep this thing going
20:13
Speaker 1: is incredibly high. I mean, these guys have been used
20:16
Speaker 1: to playing for thirty million dollar purses. Are they gonna
20:18
Speaker 1: be cool with playing for five million dollar purses? Some
20:20
Speaker 1: of the random guys probably would. Is Bryson and John
20:23
Speaker 1: Rahm going to I have a hard time seeing that?
20:26
Speaker 1: So I think the storyline of those two guys is
20:29
Speaker 1: going to be, I mean huge in terms of the
20:33
Speaker 1: interest and people just watching what they do, but specifically Bryson.
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Speaker 1: Cam Young, Keegan Bradley, Justin Thomas not bad. This is
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Speaker 1: probably the marquee one. Rory McElroy, Jordan Speith, John Rahm
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Speaker 1: that's pretty hard to beat, Scottie Scheffler, Fitzpatrick, Justin Rowe
23:00
Speaker 1: that's not bad either. So I think John Rahm with
23:04
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy is that random? I don't think so, Like,
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Speaker 1: are they doing that on purpose? Obviously these guys are
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Speaker 1: teammates on the Ryder Cup. Justin Rose and Rory kept
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Speaker 1: pushing him to figure it out. He finally did in
23:19
Speaker 1: terms of paying the fines and he can be on
23:21
Speaker 1: the team moving forward. But I think there's some intent
23:25
Speaker 1: behind that pairing. Now I'm not saying they're talking business
23:28
Speaker 1: as they're walking down hole four and ironomic, but I
23:32
Speaker 1: don't think that was randomly put together. I think all
23:35
Speaker 1: this stuff you have to kind of put the piece
23:36
Speaker 1: of the puzzle together, and I think there's some I
23:42
Speaker 1: think there's some thought behind that that pairing. So here
23:46
Speaker 1: are my plays for this weekend, and I'm gonna get
23:48
Speaker 1: pretty aggressive on the board. Like I said, if you
23:51
Speaker 1: want to take Scotty to me, Rory. I don't feel
23:54
Speaker 1: as great about You could never discount him because he's
23:58
Speaker 1: one of the greatest players of all time, and if
23:59
Speaker 1: you right the blister, he hasn't really played beside last
24:03
Speaker 1: week where it didn't even look like he tried, so
24:06
Speaker 1: to me, he's a little bit of a wild card.
24:08
Speaker 1: If you want to take Scotty, do not blame you
24:10
Speaker 1: at all. Plus four fifty. I do think if you're
24:13
Speaker 1: gonna do that, you basically take Scotty and you top ten,
24:17
Speaker 1: a Cam Young, a Xander Schaffle, a Ludvig, like one
24:21
Speaker 1: of the premium guys, and you try to get those
24:23
Speaker 1: odds up to like forty to fifty to one instead
24:26
Speaker 1: of just taking Scotty makes a little more entertaining. I
24:30
Speaker 1: have Cam Young. He is my only true, outright bet
24:35
Speaker 1: to win this tournament. I think betting Cam Young to
24:39
Speaker 1: top five or top ten is an excellent play. Now
24:43
Speaker 1: betting guys to outright win this is not football or basketball, right,
24:48
Speaker 1: You're not just betting the thunder to beat the Lakers.
24:50
Speaker 1: You've got to take down the entire field. This field's
24:52
Speaker 1: a little manipulated because you get all these PGA professionals
24:55
Speaker 1: in so it's you know, there's a large percentage of
24:59
Speaker 1: guys that don't have a shot to make the cut.
25:01
Speaker 1: So you're really if you're Scottie, you're Cam Young, you're
25:04
Speaker 1: any of the top guys. You know, Brooks always used
25:07
Speaker 1: to say this, you're probably truly playing twenty twenty five guys, right,
25:12
Speaker 1: because the top forty to fifty guys, half of those
25:16
Speaker 1: guys just aren't gonna play well. It's just not gonna
25:18
Speaker 1: be their week. And then you're gonna get a couple
25:21
Speaker 1: guys outside of the top fifty who are going to excel,
25:24
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be a handful of top fifteen to
25:27
Speaker 1: twenty players who are just on their a game and
25:29
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take down and you know, some
25:32
Speaker 1: of these US Opens or the Masters, it's about playing smart,
25:35
Speaker 1: taking your birdies while you can. If this tournament does
25:38
Speaker 1: turn out to be a little bit of a birdie
25:40
Speaker 1: fest where you're talking high teens twenty underwinning, it like
25:45
Speaker 1: your putter's gonna have to get hot. You know, that's
25:47
Speaker 1: just a fact, right, You're gonna need a lot of birdies.
25:51
Speaker 1: I did see them, you know, showing some of the
25:53
Speaker 1: course the undulation isn't exactly Augusta, but there are runoffs.
25:56
Speaker 1: The rough's gonna be a little deeper. You know, you
25:59
Speaker 1: gotta hit raw in the fairways that are fade fairways
26:02
Speaker 1: that if you hit a fade into it, it's gonna
26:04
Speaker 1: run right into the rough. So you've got to be
26:06
Speaker 1: able to work the ball, and if you're hitting fairways,
26:09
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of shorter irons in your hand.
26:11
Speaker 1: So to me, if you're telling me Scott he's accurate
26:13
Speaker 1: off the tee, it's like, holy shit, it's gonna be
26:15
Speaker 1: a problem. It's where you know Cam Young, if he's
26:18
Speaker 1: accurate off the te hitting it that far, good night,
26:21
Speaker 1: Because we've seen this year his putter has been looks
26:24
Speaker 1: like Brad fucking Faxon. I would say, listen, if you
26:29
Speaker 1: ever want to take the top of the board to
26:30
Speaker 1: top five or top ten, I have no issue with.
26:32
Speaker 1: I do like taking a little bit longer plays to
26:36
Speaker 1: top ten. Uh, you get Justin Thomas at plus four
26:40
Speaker 1: point fifty, you could get Ludwig at two to one.
26:44
Speaker 1: I guess JT that's the top twenty. But to me,
26:47
Speaker 1: my favorite top tens little bit of a longer odds.
26:51
Speaker 1: Ricky Fowler, who's had success at this course. Ricky Fowler,
26:55
Speaker 1: who easily is a couple miss putts away last week
26:58
Speaker 1: from winning the tournament, has a lot of momentum coming in.
27:02
Speaker 1: I do think if he got in the mix, it
27:04
Speaker 1: would be cool to see Ricky one day win a major.
27:07
Speaker 1: It does feel at this time like more than likely
27:09
Speaker 1: he's gonna go major list his entire career. But this
27:13
Speaker 1: is a guy who's still making a lot of money
27:14
Speaker 1: and still top ten and in a lot of these tournaments.
27:16
Speaker 1: So you can get Ricky Fowler right now at plus
27:19
Speaker 1: five hundred, which is five to one to top ten.
27:21
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I love it. You can get
27:23
Speaker 1: Gary Woodland, who has had a fantastic year, who has
27:27
Speaker 1: won this season, who hits the ball a mile and
27:29
Speaker 1: we saw if his driver is on. You know, eight
27:34
Speaker 1: to one is pretty tasty. But if you want to
27:36
Speaker 1: get a little less aggressive and just take Gary Woodland
27:39
Speaker 1: to top twenty, you can get plus three fifty. So
27:42
Speaker 1: like you're looking at pretty tasty odds on a guy
27:46
Speaker 1: who has won a major before, who's played in Ryder Cups,
27:49
Speaker 1: who's played in big events, who's had success in big events,
27:52
Speaker 1: and who's playing really really well. It feels like Xander,
27:56
Speaker 1: who has four top tens this year, if plus one
27:59
Speaker 1: sixty five to top ten, don't hate that. I would
28:02
Speaker 1: say two names that are kind of sexy right now
28:04
Speaker 1: is JJ Spawn is a guy that's trending and Seawou
28:08
Speaker 1: Kim is a guy that's just had a fantastic year.
28:11
Speaker 1: One problem with Sea Wou not a great putter, honestly
28:14
Speaker 1: has some comps to Hideki. You know from years ago,
28:18
Speaker 1: like Hadeki was clearly one of the best ball strikers
28:20
Speaker 1: on the PGA Tour, but he couldn't putt. And then
28:23
Speaker 1: when when Hideki now his putter can get streaky and
28:26
Speaker 1: hot and he can fucking run you know Riv a
28:29
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Obviously the year at the Masters,
28:32
Speaker 1: like he's won a lot of events because of his
28:34
Speaker 1: putter because he's hitting it so close. See Wu is
28:37
Speaker 1: putter is kind of a bugaboo. But Sea Wu to
28:40
Speaker 1: top ten and top twenty. Don't hate it all. So
28:44
Speaker 1: my mains are Cam Young to win, Fowler to top ten,
28:48
Speaker 1: Gary Woodland to top ten and top twenty. Don't hate
28:51
Speaker 1: Justin Thomas at all, who's won the PG Championship a
28:54
Speaker 1: couple of times. Who's playing really well top ten, top twenty.
28:58
Speaker 1: I think Ludwig if he's on is dry accuracy, if
29:00
Speaker 1: he's hitting fairways, he's so good with his irons. Putting
29:03
Speaker 1: can be a little bit of an issue. But like
29:05
Speaker 1: top ten two to one, like that a lot, And
29:08
Speaker 1: like I said, Si Wu and JJ Spahd are two
29:11
Speaker 1: kind of longer odds guys. If you want to just
29:14
Speaker 1: have like a heartstring play. He's a PGA Championship away
29:18
Speaker 1: from completing the career Grand Slam. It's hard not to
29:22
Speaker 1: root for just or Jordan Speith. I did. I read,
29:26
Speaker 1: I read, and I heard some people talking about it
29:28
Speaker 1: that he has implemented a new titleist driver that's like
29:31
Speaker 1: an inch longer, and it might add to some driving accuracy,
29:35
Speaker 1: which I would say has been over the year somewhat
29:38
Speaker 1: of a downfall of Jordan speed. You can just turn
29:41
Speaker 1: on the television. It's like, oh Jordan's on TV. Where
29:43
Speaker 1: is he? He's in like the middle of a bush
29:45
Speaker 1: on another hole, like a fairway over. So he's been
29:49
Speaker 1: known to spray at a time or two. My main
29:52
Speaker 1: issue that even if you tell me that Jordan is
29:54
Speaker 1: driving the ball well and hitting his irons well. I
29:57
Speaker 1: have watched him so many times this year from four
30:01
Speaker 1: to five feet not even come close to hitting the
30:05
Speaker 1: cup like he is. The numbers might disagree. I feel
30:09
Speaker 1: like from the eye test he has become terrible, would
30:13
Speaker 1: be too strong, but he's not a confident putter. And
30:16
Speaker 1: one of his greatest strengths in his heyday was he
30:19
Speaker 1: didn't miss and he banged out a lot of twenty
30:22
Speaker 1: thirty forty footers. It feels like those things are or
30:25
Speaker 1: those days are kind of a thing of the past.
30:28
Speaker 1: So another name is kind of red hot. I mean,
30:30
Speaker 1: he's got to be on the most in terms of financially.
30:35
Speaker 1: One of the greatest three week stretches of the guy's
30:37
Speaker 1: life is Alex Fitzpatrick, Matt's brother. You know, they won
30:42
Speaker 1: the the Zurich where they played together. Then he finished
30:48
Speaker 1: he was I mean, he had a pretty good chance
30:50
Speaker 1: to win it last week and then he started awful,
30:53
Speaker 1: but then he came storming back, hit a couple squarely
30:56
Speaker 1: shots down the stretch. He had an awful iron shot
30:59
Speaker 1: on seventeen which caused a double and basically ended his chances.
31:03
Speaker 1: But he's fucking played well man to me, Alex Fitzpatrick.
31:06
Speaker 1: Now the majors are a little bit of a different animal.
31:09
Speaker 1: Do not hate just a flyer top twenty on a
31:12
Speaker 1: guy that is just red hot. Okay, let's do a
31:14
Speaker 1: couple of mail bag questions at Golopod. At Golopod is
31:19
Speaker 1: the Instagram fire in my dms and get your questions
31:24
Speaker 1: answered here on the show. What are some of your
31:28
Speaker 1: favorite courses on the PGA Tour that visually quote pop
31:32
Speaker 1: from the TV? For me, it's the RBC Heritage. Yeah,
31:37
Speaker 1: I mean I would say, I think non major right
31:42
Speaker 1: because Augustus, I would say always number one. And then
31:45
Speaker 1: depending on where they're playing, the US Open or the
31:48
Speaker 1: British Open, they could have some pretty incredible, you know,
31:51
Speaker 1: TV viewings, and then there's some boring like Texas tournaments
31:54
Speaker 1: and Florida tournaments. I mean, Quail Hollow doesn't pop. RBC
31:58
Speaker 1: Heritage is always like I want to go to Harbortown,
32:02
Speaker 1: and I mean, my wife's always wanted to go to
32:05
Speaker 1: kind of the Charleston area, and I understand why the
32:09
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick's coming from London used to vacation over there because
32:12
Speaker 1: that area just looks incredible. Anyone that's watched Bravo and
32:16
Speaker 1: Southern Charm or Southern Hospitality. It looks like it's got
32:19
Speaker 1: a cool downtown. The RBC Heritage would have to be
32:23
Speaker 1: near number one. You know, it's it's you know, the
32:26
Speaker 1: course has become if it's not windy, wet and cold,
32:29
Speaker 1: pretty easy for these guys. But you could argue it's
32:32
Speaker 1: really hard to be Pebble Beach. There is something pretty
32:35
Speaker 1: special about you know, whole six seven, eight nine up
32:39
Speaker 1: against that water that anytime you see the ocean. To me,
32:42
Speaker 1: Tory doesn't quite do that. I've never played Tory Pines,
32:45
Speaker 1: but it's a pretty boring course, I feel like on television,
32:50
Speaker 1: where Pebble is just truly pretty awesome. So I would
32:54
Speaker 1: say the RBC Heritage and Pebble Beach are really really high.
32:57
Speaker 1: I think non major I would say I would put
33:00
Speaker 1: the players number one. I've always been a fan of
33:04
Speaker 1: Memorial Jack's Tournament. I think just it always looks really
33:06
Speaker 1: good in the summer. I would say, you know, Riv,
33:11
Speaker 1: I think sometimes the country clubs they play don't pop
33:14
Speaker 1: as much. I know it's kind of a little rinky dink,
33:17
Speaker 1: but I'm a sucker for the Palm Springs the Amex
33:21
Speaker 1: because it always I've been to Palm Springs four or
33:24
Speaker 1: five times in my life. It always makes me go, God,
33:27
Speaker 1: I wish I was in Palm Springs right now. Kind
33:28
Speaker 1: of a sleepy town. You know, it's a big retirement community.
33:32
Speaker 1: Obviously Frank Sinatra finished his life there. There's just something
33:37
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hold in high regard when it
33:40
Speaker 1: comes to Palm Springs. So I would say the Amex,
33:43
Speaker 1: something about the dead grass in the rough. I don't know.
33:46
Speaker 1: I just I just enjoy it. But I'm with you.
33:49
Speaker 1: Put Harbor Town, I would probably the players one pebble two.
33:54
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think anywhere. You know, Bayhill doesn't do
33:57
Speaker 1: it for me. Uh, Memorial, It's not bad. East Lake.
34:05
Speaker 1: I've never totally hated on TV. I know it's not
34:08
Speaker 1: the greatest. Like finishing situation for the PGA Tour question
34:14
Speaker 1: for the mailbag, I've really been struggling with my driver.
34:17
Speaker 1: I started playing about two years ago and fully picked
34:19
Speaker 1: up on a functional golf addiction. I played multiple times
34:22
Speaker 1: a week and have even gotten my handicapped down around
34:25
Speaker 1: to ten. My biggest issue currently is my driver. I
34:29
Speaker 1: find myself having to go seven wood or hybrid off
34:31
Speaker 1: the tee. I tend to swing down on the ball
34:34
Speaker 1: and duck hook it short left or hit an absolute
34:37
Speaker 1: worm burner. Anytime I pull out the driver, I have
34:39
Speaker 1: a decent amount of swing speed and can't pump my
34:42
Speaker 1: and can pump my seven wood that I can still
34:44
Speaker 1: manage low scores without the driver, but I feel unlocking
34:47
Speaker 1: it will allow me to shoot a low round moving forward.
34:51
Speaker 1: Any suggestions you have to be able to bring the
34:55
Speaker 1: driver in play. If you're a ten, you're probably hitting
34:58
Speaker 1: it decently far. Let's pick a number. If you hit
35:01
Speaker 1: a good drive, probably two sixty, and if you're hitting
35:04
Speaker 1: your hybrid or seven wood two twenty. Like you're talking
35:07
Speaker 1: big amounts of distance throughout a golf course. Now, like
35:11
Speaker 1: you said, we're all gonna hit drivers in the shit,
35:14
Speaker 1: we're all gonna miss drivers. I'm by no means a
35:17
Speaker 1: teaching pro or have any understanding of the golf swing
35:20
Speaker 1: beside my own, but I do think I don't think
35:24
Speaker 1: it's crazy to get some sort of lesson and just
35:28
Speaker 1: hit someone up wherever you play at, whether it's a
35:31
Speaker 1: local club, whether it's a MUNI maybe ask some friends
35:34
Speaker 1: that you play with if they've ever got a lesson
35:37
Speaker 1: and basically, if you are able to find an individual
35:40
Speaker 1: some sort of teaching pro just beck, I want him
35:43
Speaker 1: a driver better and maybe for that hour my cost
35:46
Speaker 1: you a couple hundred bucks if he can give you
35:48
Speaker 1: a tip or two to give you some confidence, because
35:52
Speaker 1: you can't play modern day golf without the driver and technology.
35:57
Speaker 1: Now which I would imagine you're hitting it well enough
36:00
Speaker 1: with all your other clubs, you should be able to
36:02
Speaker 1: function with the driver. But you cannot play golf and
36:07
Speaker 1: get to a ten handicap and aspire to get to
36:09
Speaker 1: a single digits where you can never hit a driver.
36:12
Speaker 1: It's just it's not possible. Has John Rohm ruined his career.
36:16
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk about recently about live
36:18
Speaker 1: but he's also thirty one, which is relatively young for
36:21
Speaker 1: a golfer. He may have time to salvage things. I
36:24
Speaker 1: don't think he's ruined his career obviously. You know, as
36:28
Speaker 1: an individual, he financially changed the course of his children's
36:33
Speaker 1: children's children's lives. I mean he's made there's probably beside
36:37
Speaker 1: Tiger Phil and like Rory, there's not a richer golfer
36:41
Speaker 1: or maybe Jack because of his businesses or Arnold Palmer,
36:44
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he's got to be top five
36:46
Speaker 1: or six richest golfer of all time. And so if
36:50
Speaker 1: your money motivated, which he claims he's not, but the
36:53
Speaker 1: only reason you accept that much money is because money
36:56
Speaker 1: did motivate you. And he's basically wasted the last several years. Now,
37:00
Speaker 1: like you said, he's thirty one years old. This is
37:02
Speaker 1: not these other sports where once you get in your
37:05
Speaker 1: thirties it could end at any moment. He could easily
37:08
Speaker 1: be a great player for another ten to fifteen years.
37:11
Speaker 1: And by all accounts, with his swing, he doesn't get injured.
37:15
Speaker 1: His swing feels pretty repeatable. I believe that John Rohm
37:22
Speaker 1: can resurrect his career, but there it's not even arguable.
37:26
Speaker 1: In the last couple of years he's pissed it away
37:30
Speaker 1: because at liv he has not been good or ready
37:35
Speaker 1: for the majors. And he could argue that, but the
37:37
Speaker 1: results speak for themselves. Where if you told me he
37:42
Speaker 1: had never left the PGA Tour. And I don't blame
37:45
Speaker 1: any of these guys. I don't blame any individual. The
37:48
Speaker 1: older we get, we all have to make decisions. I
37:51
Speaker 1: don't get caught up like I make fun of the
37:53
Speaker 1: Rassini Vabel situation. That's that's their fucking issue. Like I
37:58
Speaker 1: get you want to cheat, you cheat, that's your problem.
38:00
Speaker 1: You deal with your wife. You know, you want to
38:03
Speaker 1: marry this girl that no one likes. That's when maybe
38:06
Speaker 1: you do like her. Any time you make a personal
38:10
Speaker 1: or financial decision, the older you get that impacts you,
38:15
Speaker 1: and you only because that's what it did, right, He's
38:19
Speaker 1: it's not you know, the he he was a member
38:21
Speaker 1: of the PGA tour, but it's there were independent contractors.
38:26
Speaker 1: I have no qualms or issues with these guys making decisions,
38:30
Speaker 1: but decisions have consequences, right, And I think his goal,
38:35
Speaker 1: he always stated, was to be a legendary player the
38:37
Speaker 1: history of the golf and meant a lot to him
38:39
Speaker 1: to be one of the greatest international players. He idolized
38:41
Speaker 1: savvy ballisto's and it kind of derailed them for a
38:44
Speaker 1: little bit. Now we'll see with live ending. It'd be
38:48
Speaker 1: stunning if it doesn't, but you never know. Uh, maybe
38:51
Speaker 1: it has nine lives. It feels like they've already used eight,
38:55
Speaker 1: maybe nine, especially with the money gone. But maybe Scott
38:58
Speaker 1: O'Neill can pull a rabbit out of his head because,
39:00
Speaker 1: as John Rahm stated, because of my contract, I'm kind
39:02
Speaker 1: of stuck. Now. If it just disbands, I guess he
39:05
Speaker 1: would become available. It's kind of confusing, like, I don't
39:11
Speaker 1: how is how is live going to a Ford John Rahm?
39:15
Speaker 1: If they don't have the funding, If the PIFF is
39:17
Speaker 1: gone a little above my pay grade, maybe that will
39:20
Speaker 1: be reported on as the year goes on, because that
39:23
Speaker 1: would be pretty complicated if we're talking hundred million dollars
39:26
Speaker 1: just to pay him alone to keep him on the tour.
39:30
Speaker 1: I also a little stunned that I'm no lawyer, but
39:35
Speaker 1: I've done a few contracts, and you would imagine if
39:39
Speaker 1: you were him, one sticking point would be listen, I'll
39:43
Speaker 1: come to live. But it is contingent on PIFF being involved.
39:49
Speaker 1: If the PIFF financing leaves or pulls specifically pulls out,
39:54
Speaker 1: they they want to move in a different direction. This
39:58
Speaker 1: contract at that point comes no one. It's it's it's
40:02
Speaker 1: no longer valid that Why would PIFF have been anti
40:06
Speaker 1: that language? Like if you guys yank out and you
40:09
Speaker 1: are no longer associated with I'm free, you would think
40:13
Speaker 1: all the top guys would have had that in their
40:15
Speaker 1: contract that this contract is directly connected to PIFF because
40:21
Speaker 1: PIFF is lift. But it, by all, you know, according
40:25
Speaker 1: to John Rahm, that's not really the case. So yeah,
40:29
Speaker 1: I mean I I I by no means think his
40:32
Speaker 1: career is over. But these last couple of years do
40:35
Speaker 1: feel like a waste of a guy that had won
40:37
Speaker 1: a couple of majors, who looked like he was gonna
40:39
Speaker 1: be a dominant, dominant force and then just took a
40:42
Speaker 1: lot of money and kind of wasn't that relevant for
40:45
Speaker 1: a couple of years. We'll end on this. Another question
40:52
Speaker 1: beside the obvious, like augusta Pebble and Sawgrass, what's the
40:55
Speaker 1: best course to watch on TV? For me, it's toy.
40:58
Speaker 1: I also think it depends where you live, right if
41:03
Speaker 1: you live in Philadelphia or New York, or Washington, d C.
41:08
Speaker 1: Or Boston or Chicago. When Tory comes on at the
41:13
Speaker 1: end of January and it's eighty five degrees and you
41:17
Speaker 1: see the ocean and you're freezing your ass off. One
41:21
Speaker 1: I didn't bring up, and they're not going there anymore.
41:23
Speaker 1: It was hard to beat Caapalalua, even if you were
41:26
Speaker 1: on the West Coast and living in Scottsdale where seventy
41:28
Speaker 1: five degrees Kappealua comes on early January. You're like, that's
41:33
Speaker 1: where I wish I was. Now I understand there's economic
41:40
Speaker 1: situation that got little murky with the Hawaii situation. I was,
41:47
Speaker 1: I had a soft spot for Cappaloua and then the
41:50
Speaker 1: Sony Open, like that sucks. I'm not cool with them
41:55
Speaker 1: leaving Cappealua. Probably better for the players because unlike them,
42:00
Speaker 1: we would you want to go play Kapalua. Who would
42:02
Speaker 1: be like, yeah that those guys are so numb that
42:05
Speaker 1: they look at they look at a nice golf course
42:09
Speaker 1: like I look at a football game. It's just just business, right.
42:13
Speaker 1: But that tournament to me, slapped that that was and
42:16
Speaker 1: I understand it was easy painting the ass for some
42:19
Speaker 1: of those guys, especially now with TGL if you're playing
42:22
Speaker 1: in Jupiter one night to fly to Hawaii, even if
42:25
Speaker 1: you got a golf stream, it's a long flight. But
42:29
Speaker 1: that might have been number one. There was nothing like
42:31
Speaker 1: the start of the golf season early January. Football playoffs
42:35
Speaker 1: are starting and like Thursday and Friday just flipping on.
42:38
Speaker 1: Even for us on the West Coast, like five o'clock
42:40
Speaker 1: in the afternoon and they're just on like whole five
42:43
Speaker 1: and you see the Pacific Ocean in the back Capalua,
42:46
Speaker 1: which is just like God, that's where I want to be,
42:49
Speaker 1: so rip Cappealua because I'm gonna Missia. And that, honestly,
42:55
Speaker 1: beside sawgrass might have been my It wasn't the hardest,
43:00
Speaker 1: probably one of the easiest. Nothing like that that final
43:03
Speaker 1: hole where they hit that crazy hook shot with the
43:05
Speaker 1: ball above their feet to the below, you know where
43:08
Speaker 1: you kind of can run it up the right side.
43:11
Speaker 1: Some legendary moments between Ernie and Tiger, Bubba's hit some
43:15
Speaker 1: legendary shots there. Gonna miss it, gonna miss it a lot.
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Speaker 1: So I would put Hawaii pretty high on the list
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Speaker 1: for me. The volume