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The Scratch Project: LIV Golf Prospects, PGA Tour Insights, Cadillac Championship highlights · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  You are here today for the Saturday cut line edition.
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  We are celebrating the Cadillac championship this weekend.
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  I am joined as always by my cohost Pods.
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  What's happening, Pods?
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  Not much.
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  Glad to be back.
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  Last week, our schedules just didn't line up, and I was on the bench on the IR.
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  So
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  Well, yeah, that's okay.
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  I I mean, we're gonna try to hit as many of these as we can and really focusing on, you
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  know, mostly the solo tournaments last week, the Zurich Classic.
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  A great tournament, a really cool one, but a little tough for us to, to cover.
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  Obviously, you sustaining a little bit of an injury and me being out of town.
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  But, nevertheless, we are back this week and, excited about this.
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  Seeing some good golf out there.
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  Cameron Young at 13 under is the leader right now heading into the weekend, playing some good
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  golf.
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  I I mean, Cam has really been playing well.
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  You know, obviously won the players and then going into the masters, you know, in that final
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  grouping.
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  So I not surprising to see him at the top of the leaderboard this weekend.
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  No.
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  He's always there hunting, and I think that if he can pull off this win here at the Cadillac,
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  it's probably gonna be some much needed momentum going into the next major, which I
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  think is either the PGA or the US Open.
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  I wanna say it's the PGA championship, though, coming up, I think.
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  I don't know.
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  I it's either that or the US Open because the summer is always the open.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and we're gonna get to, a lot of that and can't wait to cover more of the major
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  tournaments as we get out there.
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  Obviously, we don't wanna bury the lead.
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  We're gonna get more into the tournament as we go.
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  But kicking off the tee box here, Let's, I mean, let's not bury the lead.
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  There's been a lot of talk, obviously, about Live Golf this week and the the fallout of the
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  PIF investment gaining.
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  Would love to know your thoughts on on the future of Live Golf and if they can recover
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  from this funding snafu.
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  Okay.
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  Real quick.
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  Just on the tee box here, before I get into Liv, shout out to the Fitzpatrick brothers for
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  winning the Zurich Classic.
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  That's awesome.
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  There is no future going forward.
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  There really isn't because you're gonna have to find another private equity fund that's going
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  to invest in golf, which there's a lot that would like to do that, and there's a lot of
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  suitors for that.
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  But the problem is is that you had the Saudi money attached to it.
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  You had Greg Norman attached to it.
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  You came out of the gates.
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  You tried to poach some of the best players that they had, and you were trying to take the
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  PGA down.
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  And now with all the conflict going on in The Middle East and the problems, the Saudis looked
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  at it and said, you know what?
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  It's just not worth putting money into something we're not seeing any profit from.
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  It's not really been a great venture in The United States.
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  It's done great in other parts of the world like South Africa, you know, Adelaide.
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  They do great globally, but there's the DP World Tour that does even better.
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  And they've had more time to, you know, get their roots in, and they have an established
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  relationship with the PGA.
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  So there's no hostility there.
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  I really don't think they find any funding, especially after this PIF ends at the end of
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  the season in June, I believe.
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  Even though they pushed the event back to July, I just I don't see them getting money together
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  to be a major competition.
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  If anything, they become a feeder, you know, tour to people aspiring to get to the PGA or
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  the DP World Tour in this case.
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  Well and and and I don't know if they're considering that as a option to kind of change
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  the model a little bit for what they are.
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  I still think there's viable.
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  I don't think you can guarantee the the money and the contracts that they did, and it seems
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  like they would actually be more at like, to keep it going, they would have to honor the
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  long term contracts that they have signed, where if they fold it and just come back as
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  something new, that possibly a future for another league.
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  But I think LiveGolf as it is, they're just kinda sunk.
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  Like you said, without that funding, there's no real tear.
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  I I heard some other pundits saying, you know, time for the players to kinda put their money
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  where their mouth is if they wanna fund this and to go out there and do it.
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  But it doesn't seem like they were really, you know, courting a lot of other corporate
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  sponsorships and in in in that world, right, kinda banking on that Saudi money and thinking
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  that they have that to go out there.
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  I don't think that the product they put out was was terrible.
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  Right?
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  But you're already having some scheduling issues with the New Orleans event and then
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  trying to push it out there, and that just doesn't seem like there was, enough foresight
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  on theirs for your worst case scenario.
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  Right?
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  I don't think it's a coincidence either that as soon as the PIF gets mentioned of being pulled,
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  which it's officially been pulled now.
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  Like, that's done.
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  Like, it's it's over.
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  The PIF is gone.
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  So they have the funding from whatever they gave them until the end of the season.
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  And then after that, no more money from that private investment fund.
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  And, I mean, your biggest issue now is that, you know, you you have you have this money that
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  was promised out to these, you know, these top players that you kinda poached out from the
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  PGA.
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  And now they're all in a position where they've kinda missed that grace period to come back,
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  and a lot of these guys are gonna have to requalify in whatever that looks like.
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  I would be surprised if the PGA kind of gives any grace to these players.
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  They were already given that once and kind of, you know, some of them have turned it down.
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  So interesting to see what the fallout is going to be from this.
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  I I won't necessarily say that I feel sorry for anyone.
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  Everyone makes their own decisions out there.
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  We've talked about the difference between it.
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  So
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  I will say this.
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  I do feel sorry for the players because I can sit here and be a moral arbiter and whatnot and
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  say, oh, the Saudi money, blood money, da da da da.
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  But if someone offered me $250,000,000 upfront to play, that's money that could change my
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  family's life.
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  Like, yeah, I'm taking the money.
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  Say what you want about me.
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  Say I sold out.
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  Say because you take an average PGA fan, and I love the PGA tour as well.
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  But you take an average PGA fan and you put them in that same position, say it's not 250,
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  say it's just a middle of the pack player to fill out one of these teams, say it's a
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  $5,000,000 contract, you're telling me you're not gonna take 5,000,000 guaranteed?
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  You know you're taking that money.
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  And all the golf purists and I'm gonna say this too.
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  Some of the people who comment on the golf channel and some of the people who comment on
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  ESPN, like your Trey Wingos, and I love him, but Rich Eisen and Brock, like, you guys are
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  just so giddy to see golf the a golf league die just because it was connected to the Saudis and
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  Greg Norman.
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  It's not gonna make the game any better.
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  And, like, Trey Wingo came out, and he's like, oh, you know, they play golf in their shorts,
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  and they have loud music, and they have teams.
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  Like, I'm not watching that.
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  And it's like and you're part of the problem why the PGA isn't garnering any new viewers.
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  Like, we need new blood in the PGA Tour.
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  We need new ideas.
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  We need momentum.
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  We can't keep being this good old boys sport.
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  We're never gonna get, you know, to the levels of the I'm not saying we'll get to the levels
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  of the NFL, but, like, we could easily be at the level of the NBA.
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  You know?
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  But we have nobody in charge who's going forward and saying, that Zurich classic, we
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  could make a whole league that's based on team play for the players who don't really get to
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  compete that often, who are sitting there as alternates, and now they're getting more reps
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  in, and the tour is getting more exposure.
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  Like, anything and everything to grow the game, I feel like the PGA just, like, just turn their
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  nose at.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and I think that, you know, they have shrunk the tour down, to get more.
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  They have adjusted out of necessity of having Liv out there.
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  So I think in the as a disruptor, even though it won't go on as a league, as a disruptor, it
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  did force the PGA to take a good look at themselves and to make some adjustments to look
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  at their league and their product and to say, what can we do better?
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  It it will be interesting to see if there's something else that spawns from this.
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  And and I think a lot of your a lot of your other corporate sponsors probably because of
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  the Saudi money stayed away.
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  And and your thoughts on, on that, it just kind of do you think that there is an opening now
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  for, like I said, a new league, to kind of come out of this that treats itself as more of a to
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  not come in and try to say that we're gonna take down the PGA.
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  I I don't think that that's going to happen.
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  You have a very established product there, but I do think there's an opening and maybe that is
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  you know, the door is wide open for, you know, the the Bryan brothers and Grant with their
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  your golf league, to come in here and to shake things up and to provide more opportunities for
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  golfers that are out there and to have, to grow the game of golf, which I think has always been
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  the underlining, you know, mission of a Bryson DeChambo or Grant Horvath or any of these
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  channels to grow that game.
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  Grant Horvath and Wesley Bryan and George Bryan, they recently just released a two
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  episode thing where they actually hosted an event between eight top level creators for a
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  spot on a PGA tour q I think it was a q school event or an Ant Pro Am event, and they did that
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  with the Bryan brothers.
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  So Wesley has actually kinda working with the PGA right now.
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  He got permission to do that in South Carolina.
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  So I don't think the Bryan brothers or Grant Horvath are gonna have any interest in
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  salvaging Liv because I think they all wanna get to the tour and be in the tour's good
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  graces, which is fine.
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  I think the tours
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  should listen.
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  I was saying, Pods, is that they they become that secondary league.
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  Right?
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  I think they already are.
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  Yeah.
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  In in some ways, you have this new feeder and maybe it expands their product that there isn't
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  necessarily a a salvaging of Liv.
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  I I think that business wise, they have to kinda let it die because if someone Liv's just
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  gotta go.
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  Keep it going, you would have to pay out those contracts.
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  Yeah.
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  So you you have to let it die just as a a business to to avoid just
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  you're
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  not gonna come in and pay all those contracts.
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  It just doesn't matter.
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  Gonna go solvent and bankrupt.
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  That's it's it's just gonna have to happen that way.
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  And then how the settlement gets done between the players, like well, I'd say play it, John
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  Rahm and Dreisson DeChambeau.
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  They can pay everybody else, but those are their two biggest contracts on the books, is
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  those two.
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  I think the problem, though, that I have is LIV is gonna have to go.
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  It has to die because it's not even LIV golf anymore, you know, outside of the team aspect
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  and the music because, Bubba, do you know what LIV stands for?
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  No.
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  It's Roman numerals, l I v, 54.
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  Because LIV golf, when it first started, was 54 holes of golf.
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  It was three rounds.
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  It wasn't four.
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  Now they've switched to 72, so they're not even their own brand anymore because they had to
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  switch to 72 holes to get o, OWGR ratings, to get golf you know, world golf rankings.
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  And it doesn't even go to the whole people who participate in that tournament.
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  It only goes to the top 10 finishers because they recognize the competition is lesser than
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  the PGA.
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  So
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  yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, it was a fun experiment.
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  I I think it as a disruptor that it did great.
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  It did great.
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  It it exposed some things in the PGA and maybe exposed a lot of new people to golf that are
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  going to come in and follow the game.
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  And it really what it seemed to have done is to kinda crack that door wide open for your golf
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  league and to Yeah.
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  I
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  credit LiveGolf with creating YouTube golf at this point.
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  I really do.
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  Now the other thing is too, and I think I we can probably, you know, put a book put a
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  bookmark on it or whatever the saying is for this.
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  I think Liv has to be a lesson to the PGA and not an arrogance.
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  Like, this is gonna be test.
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  If they're gonna take Liv as like, their whole five years that we've had Liv, if they're gonna
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  take it as a lesson or if the PGA Tour and the old boys club is gonna show their ugly nose and
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  their arrogance again and go, well, now that the competition's out of the way, we'll go back
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  to doing things the way we did because then they're gonna look at it as, you know, a
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  monopoly again.
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  And that's the problem I have with the PGA Tour is you talk about Liv being a disruptor, making
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  them change things.
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  Well, what's making them gonna change now they have no competition again?
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  I but I think you've already because you can't go back.
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  Right?
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  You can't put the toothpaste back into the tube.
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  And you can see the influence of YouTube golf, a younger generation of golfers in the even the
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  masters.
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  Look at the ESPN coverage of the masters, and you can point to that as a byproduct of what
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  Liv and YouTube golf
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  gave hearing the masters.
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  I think a lot of the problem like, I love covering great golf.
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  I can sit there through the golf, but you know what?
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  I'm not a casual viewer.
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  I am a hardcore golf fan.
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  I am a golfer myself.
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  I can sit through four, you know, four or five hours of a golf tournament on television.
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  The average person can't because it's not entertaining enough.
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  You have quiet people whispering the shots, and it's like, you know, the it it just looks
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  boring to the normal person.
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  It's like me trying to watch nine innings of baseball.
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  I love baseball.
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  I watch baseball.
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  But if I have the chance to watch the highlights, the only team I'm watching is the
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  Dodgers in a full game.
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  I love my Royals, but they're too buns right now for me to even sit there and try to watch
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  six innings of that.
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  So
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  I and I think that rings true.
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  You know?
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  A lot of my baseball watching watching the Cubs, I'm not watching every pitch of every
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  game either, and it's really hard to do that.
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  I thought the coverage of the masters where you had the online presence that they had, and
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  that's why I looking spectacular.
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  Right off of their right off of the masters, you know, website.
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  And granted, you're talking about a a massive operation there.
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  I thought the production was done right, and I think there's things that can be learned for
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  maybe some of these other you know, especially the mat not the Mass, but the major tournaments
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  to have that kind of coverage is key because you can follow one group around or you're
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  following, you know, a certain set of holes.
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  Right?
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  You know, you have Amen Corner that is the most entertaining, you know, pieces to the master's
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  tournament.
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  I thought it was well done, and I think there's a lot that can be gained from it.
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  I mean, you look at the success of the waste management tournament.
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  Right?
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  And and the what that excitement brings and the newer fans, the younger fans and granted, it's
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  probably, like, a little out of control.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, it's really out of control.
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  Hey.
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  That's what arrests
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  this year than they did the last couple years combined.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you know what?
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  You you have to be open.
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  You have to bring in these fans.
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  You have to understand that the game of golf has changed.
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  It is not a buttoned down, you know, old man's game anymore.
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  You have a lot of younger people like you and I that are playing the game.
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  With that said, Bubba, I have one last thing to say.
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  Okay.
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  For the love of god, let the boys wear shorts when it's a 110 in Arizona.
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  It's summer.
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  Let them wear nice shorts.
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  There's these things.
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  Hold on.
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  Ready?
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  There's these things right here.
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  They're called golf shorts.
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  They're nice.
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  They look presentable.
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  Pod, some leg on the scratch project today.
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  I love it.
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  Well, let's move on.
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  C'est la vie to live golf.
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  Enjoy the last
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  It was nice to know you when it was here.
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  You know, it it was cool to see something a little bit different, but, you know, now,
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  sadly, it's coming to a close, and we can, you know, take it from there.
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  So let's move into the next segment.
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  We're gonna move on to the cut line and talk about the turn
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  The tournament.
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  Yeah.
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  We have the Cadillac championship this week, and, Cameron Young, we mentioned off the top,
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  leading in the clubhouse right now before he starts his round at 13 under, playing some
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  incredible golf right now.
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  I'm gonna take a quick gander at the entire leaderboard with everyone here.
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  Bring that up.
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  It's Cam Young, 13.
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  You got, like I think it's, like, three three or four players tied for second, and then
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  you've got six players tied for six.
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  And Gary Woodlands got fifth outright.
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  There we go.
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  And the stage and get that up here.
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  Bring it around.
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  Wanna thank everybody for tuning in with us.
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  Make sure you give a subscribe and a follow to everything that we're doing.
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  We appreciate this, but here is the, yeah, the rundown here.
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  Taylor Spieth in there.
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  I mean, how does this guy not scare you?
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  Right?
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  Getting ready to hit the hit the course, here in just
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  I don't know.
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  But if I was Cam, I'd be going and having a chat with Matt Fitzpatrick right about now.
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  Yeah.
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  I to hold him off, and Fitzpatrick, gave everything he had, two weeks ago in there,
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  kinda just glancing over.
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  Is there anyone besides a, Scheffler?
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  You have the is it the younger Fitzpatrick, Alex?
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  That's the brother, Alex.
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  Yep.
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  Charging in here.
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  Speed shot a really good first round, but, you know, not so much in his second of the weekend.
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  Is there anyone on here that you see?
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  I know Siwa's been swinging it really well lately too.
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  Is there anyone else kind of in this top, you know, from this line?
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  I feel like if below here, you're gonna have a lot of trouble catching up to minus 13 without,
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  you know
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  The only person I could see outside of Scottie Scheffler catching the top you know, catch it
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  let's just say, catching Cam, because at this point, it's Cam's tournament to lose.
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  I'd say the only person who has a outside chance of catching him besides Sheffler is
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  either gonna be Siwoo Kim.
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  And if you could scroll down a little bit for me, is either Kiwu Kim.
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  And this one's kinda sneaky for me because he just you never know what to get, what you're
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  gonna get from him, but he plays some pretty good golf, is, Yelamaru right there, the title
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  less athlete.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, we got a couple to watch on there.
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  I you know, this thing is far from over as we have seen, you know, especially going back to
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  the RBC where you thought it was going as, Matt Matt's Yeah.
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  Up on on Friday and Saturday, and here comes Scottie Scheffler.
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  So, not over yet, but a lot of great golf here to come.
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  I really do think it's between those three guys.
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  I think it's between Cam and Scotty and maybe Siwu and Yelamaru because I don't think Nick I
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  I I hope Nick can finish the tournament and be in contention because he's a good player.
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  Shout out to the Canada's finest.
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  But that back injury that he was nursing, it really has me concerned because last time we
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  saw somebody, you know, midway through even make the cut, make, get a back injury, they had
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  to withdraw a la Tiger Woods.
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  You know?
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  And then on the masters back in April, you know, early April, you had Kalamorakawa go out.
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  These back issues are no nothing to joke about.
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  Like, that's almost, like, the worst thing you can see on a golfer.
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  There's three things you don't wanna see a golfer grab, his lower back, his knee, or his
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  wrist.
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  Because one of those is gonna injure a tournament.
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  It could injure season depending on how bad it is.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  And especially a back injury that can have, you know, career ramifications, and and we've seen
• 23:01
  that with the greatest out there.
• 23:04
  So, yeah, never never wanna see anyone injured and especially in this sport, in this league.
• 23:10
  It can just be so life changing because, of the business of the PGA and the way that it's set
• 23:17
  up, that it it can end it.
• 23:20
  And I actually had a great conversation.
• 23:23
  I recommend everybody go and check out my conversation with PGA professional Jason
• 23:28
  Prendergast, but he was a PGA pro for, you know, three decades nearly.
• 23:35
  And we talked about the identity crisis, right, of kinda leaving and who are you, once that
• 23:42
  title isn't there.
• 23:44
  And for some of these guys, when you have a career shortened by injury, it can be very hard
• 23:50
  to to deal with.
• 23:51
  It can be very hard to recover from that.
• 23:54
  So, always always wanna see people do well.
• 23:58
  We never wanna see guys injured, I I think, in any sport that we cover here at the network
• 24:03
  and, especially when it has the kind of ramifications that that, you know, consecutive
• 24:08
  back surgeries and and that can bring to a player and the way it can quickly end someone's
• 24:14
  career.
• 24:15
  It's really a shame to see that.
• 24:18
  It really is because, I mean, I know he's got some controversy right now.
• 24:23
  And to be honest, I don't feel too bad for him because he makes his own decision.
• 24:26
  He's a big boy.
• 24:28
  But can you imagine how many more years of dominance we would have gotten if it wasn't for
• 24:32
  Tiger's back and knee injuries and the surgeries?
• 24:36
  It it would have been completely different.
• 24:37
  Right?
• 24:38
  It would change the whole game.
• 24:39
  I
• 24:40
  I think if Tiger doesn't get those back injuries and those knee surgeries, we're
• 24:43
  talking about a player who has 22 majors to his name.
• 24:48
  Yeah.
• 24:49
  Change change the, whole sport in in a lot of ways, in a lot of ways.
• 24:54
  Hey.
• 24:54
  What do you think about the, the course?
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  Are they at Doral this week?
• 24:57
  Right?
• 24:59
  First time they've been there in almost a decade.
• 25:01
  The course looks beautiful.
• 25:03
  Yeah.
• 25:04
  There's a lot of water to go over there, isn't it?
• 25:08
  Yeah.
• 25:08
  It is.
• 25:09
  It is a very hazardous course.
• 25:12
  I could easily see myself shooting about a one forty there.
• 25:18
  And that's not even the score on the golf cart.
• 25:20
  That's just gonna be the amount of money I'm gonna have to pay to get a new, you know, pack
• 25:25
  of balls.
• 25:26
  And by the time I'm done, I've probably gone through at least eight to 12 sleeves with how
• 25:30
  much water is there.
• 25:31
  So Beautiful course, though.
• 25:33
  Looks like the weather's been absolutely gorgeous too.
• 25:36
  Here in South Dakota, we just can't seem to warm up.
• 25:39
  We had a couple of days in April that were in the eighties and even the low nineties, and now
• 25:44
  we're back into, like, sixties and seventies for a high.
• 25:48
  So we're still not really sniffing the course of what's going
• 25:53
  Out here in SoCal, we've been having pretty steady weather now for the last couple days.
• 25:58
  But last week, thankfully, even though I was injured and it kinda sucked, it wasn't golfing
• 26:05
  weather anyway.
• 26:05
  We were having gale winds, and it was cold.
• 26:08
  And I don't know, man.
• 26:10
  Just mother nature does not wanna cooperate with the golf season right now.
• 26:15
  No.
• 26:15
  We're ready.
• 26:16
  Hopefully, that means we'll get an extra month at the end of the season.
• 26:19
  Right?
• 26:19
  If I could be golfing in November, that's just as good to me as golfing in March and April.
• 26:24
  So excited excited about finally getting on the course and doing a lot more.
• 26:29
  I wanna shout out our sponsor Skunk Golf Company and the Skunk Classic, coming up June
• 26:36
  27.
• 26:36
  If you are out here, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and, watching for the first time
• 26:42
  today, we would love it if you guys joined us out at the Skunk Golf Classic.
• 26:47
  I think it's gonna be an awesome, awesome time.
• 26:50
  Charity tournament.
• 26:51
  Really excited, to have a, great, great time with all of our friends at Skunk Golf.
• 27:00
  Trying to find the flyer here.
• 27:01
  I seem to have misplaced it.
• 27:04
  I think it goes along the lines.
• 27:06
  If you're playing stinky, at least you can look great.
• 27:08
  Yeah.
• 27:09
  Look good even if your game stinks.
• 27:11
  Right?
• 27:12
  So we're excited about that.
• 27:14
  Let's get a quick word from Skunked, and we'll come back and hit the lighter side of golf with
• 27:19
  my guy, Pods.
• 27:21
  Gotta show some love to our friends over at Skunked Golf Company.
• 27:25
  If you've ever stepped onto the course and thought, man, my game might not be it today,
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  don't worry.
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  They've already got you covered.
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  Skunked is all about one thing, looking good even if your game stinks.
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  And right now is the time to jump in because they're celebrating their two year anniversary
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  sale, which means you can grab some of the cleanest golf gear out there without breaking
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  the bank.
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  Go to their website and use code stay stinky to get 20% off on hats, polos, and gear that
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  actually turns heads on the course even if your scorecard doesn't.
• 28:00
  Don't miss the Skunk Golf Classic tournament happening June 27 in Minot, North Dakota.
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  It's not just a tournament, it's a whole vibe.
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  Good people, good golf, and let's be honest, probably a few questionable swings.
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  It's all for charity.
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  Join us June 27 in Minot.
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  So whether you're scratch or just scratching your head trying to find your ball in the
• 28:25
  rough, check out Skunk Golf Company.
• 28:28
  Take advantage of that anniversary sale and get yourself ready for the Skunk Classic.
• 28:33
  Skunk Golf, look good even if your game stinks.
• 28:41
  Always appreciative of the team over there at Skunk Golf.
• 28:46
  You can use our code, or our link to, get some great gear there.
• 28:54
  Pods, yours is in the mail.
• 28:55
  I promise, brother.
• 28:56
  I know that we got, I got mine on.
• 28:59
  Right?
• 28:59
  I got my retro hat, and I got the polo on today.
• 29:04
  I know Bea and our other cohost, Cody, I'm pretty sure got theirs in the mail just
• 29:09
  yesterday.
• 29:10
  So, keep an eye peeled for your, for yours coming soon.
• 29:16
  I hope I get your hat.
• 29:18
  The vice hat looks so sick.
• 29:20
  It's pretty awesome.
• 29:21
  I I enjoy it.
• 29:22
  I can't wait to get it out on the course.
• 29:25
  We've been, talking with the veteran golf association.
• 29:29
  Obviously, you guys can see behind me operation combating veteran suicide, a foundation near
• 29:34
  and dear to my heart.
• 29:35
  I'm also the director of marketing and PR, so I've been reaching out to, a lot of other
• 29:40
  organizations out there.
• 29:42
  And the Veteran Golf Association is a great nationwide, and we've been in contact with our
• 29:46
  South Dakota chapter to tag along a few of their events this year.
• 29:50
  So really grateful for that opportunity to go out there, take the Skunk brand with us, also
• 29:56
  CVS, and to continue bringing people together.
• 29:59
  And and I think that's what the Scene Project Sports Network is really all about, building
• 30:03
  out that community and, yeah, having an opportunity to spread the game of golf,
• 30:08
  especially here in the Upper Midwest.
• 30:11
  Pod, should we move into our final segment?
• 30:15
  I don't know.
• 30:16
  Should we?
• 30:17
  I think so.
• 30:18
  You got some videos to share with me?
• 30:19
  This is the nineteenth green, guys.
• 30:21
  This is our weekly, chance to see the lighter side of golf.
• 30:26
  Sometimes that'll be ourselves or other cohosts who join in with us and sharing some of their
• 30:34
  videos.
• 30:35
  Pods, can I cruise your Instagram?
• 30:38
  You can cruise my Instagram or my YouTube.
• 30:40
  I do not care.
• 30:41
  YouTube.
• 30:43
  Go ahead.
• 30:44
  Give us a little, preview, I guess, pods, of what we can expect from this segment, and I'll,
• 30:49
  I'll go dig up some videos for us.
• 30:53
  Well, here on the nineteenth green, we like to do promotion of sometimes ourselves, a small
• 31:03
  video, some things that we're doing.
• 31:06
  In other cases, we like to shout out others.
• 31:08
  Like, I know that Shady is gonna be in here at some point in the next couple of weeks, I hope,
• 31:14
  because, you know, he's got a knowledge of golf as well.
• 31:17
  He's got a plethora of it.
• 31:20
  I know Shady has been getting lessons.
• 31:22
  I was actually watching a video of how his instructor was trying to explain to him how
• 31:27
  power pitching, because he used to play baseball as a pitcher, can actually translate
• 31:33
  to a stronger golf swing and how he already has a basic understanding of the mechanics from
• 31:41
  baseball to golf because there was one thing that Shady was saying about when he throws the
• 31:46
  baseball, even though it's 60 feet six inches, when he actually gets fully extended and out
• 31:52
  there, it's more like 54 feet because of how his mechanics work.
• 31:55
  So getting to see him hit and see how shady's doing it even on a bad hip, it's really
• 32:02
  awesome.
• 32:03
  And then you might get to see some other stuff too.
• 32:05
  I'm sure Bubba's got some things that he's gonna post when he finally gets a chance to get
• 32:10
  out there on the course.
• 32:11
  Maybe a couple videos of his wife, you know, draining a few putts like the eagle eye she is.
• 32:18
  Well, we're gonna have a lot of content.
• 32:20
  I hope it's not the first time I get to hit the the course in June for the skunk classic, but,
• 32:25
  we got some great stuff coming.
• 32:26
  So, went got onto your YouTube here.
• 32:30
  Make sure that I'm sharing the sound from there as well.
• 32:33
  Oh, that is an oldie, bro.
• 32:34
  That is Yeah.
• 32:35
  But I was really heavy.
• 32:36
  Going down here.
• 32:38
  There's I do a lot of my stuff in shorts, but if you wanna see how I used to swing it, go
• 32:43
  ahead.
• 32:44
  Yeah.
• 32:44
  Well, let's get a little let's get a little preview of what we can expect.
• 33:00
  Man, I think you picked the one video where I got absolutely destroyed on the course.
• 33:08
  That's when I had my old spider just watching me.
• 33:13
  This is the perfect thing for, skunked and shank it right there, man.
• 33:21
  Many trees fell victim this day.
• 33:27
  Man, this was like, This had to be, like, November, December.
• 33:44
  Wow.
• 33:46
  My swing looks so much better now then.
• 33:54
  Oh, I'm getting, like, firsthand embarrassment from watching how I used to smoke the.
• 34:01
  I just I wanted the people to feel better who are watching us knowing that, you know, we're
• 34:06
  we're just a couple of couple of guys.
• 34:09
  Right?
• 34:10
  Love the game of golf.
• 34:11
  I'm having a blast watching this.
• 34:12
  I'm be perfectly honest.
• 34:14
  I know you are.
• 34:24
  Let's see improvement now.
• 34:25
  Right?
• 34:26
  This is what we have to look forward to.
• 34:28
  You didn't read that one very well, buddy.
• 34:30
  No.
• 34:30
  I didn't.
• 34:32
  So anyone watching, we would love to have you send in your clips and videos, and we'll play
• 34:39
  them on here.
• 34:40
  Send us the highlights.
• 34:41
  Send us the lowlights.
• 34:43
  We really don't care.
• 34:45
  I think this is great.
• 34:48
  Send us the video of you just duck hooking one right into a trash can like I have.
• 34:54
  I oh, my most recent short that I have up is me hitting a ball into a house, I'm pretty sure.
• 35:02
  I got I gotta go find that one.
• 35:04
  Hold on.
• 35:07
  Oh, this is awesome.
• 35:10
  We're gonna go
• 35:11
  find it.
• 35:12
  If you go to my channel, I think there's a tab that says shorts.
• 35:15
  It should be, like, the first or second one.
• 35:17
  Perfect.
• 35:18
  I
• 35:18
  I'm almost certain it's the first or second one.
• 35:23
  Oh, man.
• 35:28
  Nice pods.
• 35:29
  Yeah.
• 35:29
  You're getting some good views on these too, man.
• 35:40
  Pause.
• 35:40
  Hold on.
• 35:41
  This is funny.
• 35:42
  You're getting a like from me there too.
• 35:48
  Yeah.
• 35:48
  Make sure you play the audio with this one.
• 36:08
  The thud.
• 36:09
  Oh, the thud that created was incredible.
• 36:13
  The thud and then the run.
• 36:17
  Babe, get in the cart.
• 36:19
  We gotta go.
• 36:20
  Right now.
• 36:21
  We gotta go.
• 36:22
  Gotta go.
• 36:23
  Well, we just like to share that, to show off our amazing skills, but we love the game of
• 36:30
  golf.
• 36:30
  It it really doesn't matter how we're shooting out there.
• 36:32
  We love the camaraderie of the game, the ability.
• 36:36
  After that hole, my driver was money too, which is crazy.
• 36:40
  You're like, hey.
• 36:41
  Don't record this anymore.
• 36:43
  And then it's awesome.
• 36:44
  So, Pods, I appreciate you jumping on with me today, allowing us to share some of your golf
• 36:49
  content.
• 36:50
  You guys make sure you go subscribe to his YouTube channel, Pods Plays Golf.
• 36:54
  Some great stuff over there.
• 36:56
  The shorts are doing very well, man.
• 36:57
  So keep up the good work and putting that out there.
• 37:00
  We hope to see some more, long form videos from you as well, and I can't wait to get a chance
• 37:05
  to come down to sunny Southern California and play around together and shoot some great
• 37:10
  content around that.
• 37:11
  I think there's a lot of momentum happening right now around the network and around
• 37:15
  everything that we're doing.
• 37:17
  We got some big news on the horizon, waiting for the ink to dry on a few things, yet, but,
• 37:23
  we have distribution on, some major networks that are coming out, and we'll be getting a lot
• 37:29
  more views out on the Roku, Amazon, and, Apple TV channels.
• 37:33
  So a lot of great stuff coming from the network.
• 37:37
  Amazing opportunities abound for us everywhere.
• 37:40
  So really grateful for you, Pods, joining us not on this just this show, but on seven eight
• 37:45
  nine on Sundays and dipping in occasionally on Tuesday nights for Vikings United as well.
• 37:51
  Yeah.
• 37:51
  Just, I know this is golf related right now, and we keep it pretty tied to the subject.
• 37:56
  But, how'd you feel about that, draft?
• 38:01
  I thought the draft went fine.
• 38:03
  I I know a lot of people people with the, you know, Vikings organization a little stunned by
• 38:08
  the first round pick at 18.
• 38:10
  But as you saw the rest of it play out, you could definitely tell that, you know, the the
• 38:17
  Minnesota Vikings, with you know, we're kinda focused on that, that they had a type of player
• 38:24
  and a profile that they were going after, people that they liked on that athletic
• 38:28
  profile.
• 38:29
  And I think they felt really confident that they were gonna get, you know, you had four,
• 38:34
  five picks in the top 100.
• 38:36
  So five twenty purse or, you know, a sizable percentage of those top 100 picks, right, were
• 38:42
  coming your way.
• 38:44
  So you felt pretty good about what you were getting, and I think that's why you saw maybe a
• 38:49
  lot of people calling it a reach at 18.
• 38:52
  We have only because of injury.
• 38:54
  Right?
• 38:54
  Be before the draft combine, Caleb Banks was, you know, a lot of times
• 39:00
  He'll be fine.
• 39:01
  And a top five player.
• 39:03
  And we've had to scold doc on our friend Raps channel.
• 39:07
  He'll be fine.
• 39:08
  You you take the chance to I think that you couldn't live with the regret of passing on a
• 39:14
  physical specimen like that and watching him go somewhere else when you could just make the
• 39:18
  pick.
• 39:19
  And then you double down with another defensive tackle later in the third round as well.
• 39:23
  So I think they did really well.
• 39:25
  I think this defense of the Minnesota Vikings is gonna be incredibly, dangerous throughout
• 39:31
  the season and forecasting for the next several seasons with some younger talent, that you can
• 39:37
  hopefully get some better quarterback play this year, whether it's from, you know, newcomer
• 39:41
  Kyler Murray or JJ McCarthy takes a big step forward in his development.
• 39:46
  It would have to be a pretty sizable step on that side.
• 39:49
  But, you could get, I would say I don't wanna say mediocre, but you could get good enough out
• 39:55
  of your quarterback play this year and still win 10 games.
• 40:00
  Right?
• 40:00
  So can you All get plus and really
• 40:04
  All Kyler Murray has to do is play just as good as Case Keenum, and he'll be alright.
• 40:10
  Yeah.
• 40:11
  I mean, really, don't turn the ball over.
• 40:12
  Becomes the biggest
• 40:13
  But my last thing on this is to anybody who's skeptical about the Vikings reaching at 18,
• 40:21
  there was no quarterbacks in this class or, you know, that you could reliably say, oh, this guy
• 40:27
  is gonna be it besides Mendoza.
• 40:30
  So There's a lot of question marks there as well.
• 40:34
  So, but, yeah, if you guys love football talk, come and join us on Tuesday nights at eight.
• 40:39
  We do a live stream called Vikings United right here on the Scene Project Sports Network.
• 40:44
  If things keep going the way they are, we're gonna have a lot more football to talk about
• 40:49
  year round, whether it's in the amateur ranks with our coaches show that we do with our local
• 40:56
  high school team or it is arena football.
• 41:00
  We got a lot of cool things coming up.
• 41:01
  So appreciate you hanging out, pods.
• 41:03
  Appreciate you being a part of the network.
• 41:05
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• 41:07
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• 41:08
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• 41:16
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• 41:22
  So come check us out tomorrow when we do seven, eight, nine.
• 41:28
  Correct.
• 41:28
  Let me get this, link in here.
• 41:31
  And For all my West Coast peoples go.
• 41:33
  That is, 4PM our time.
• 41:39
  Because you guys start at six.
• 41:41
  Right?
• 41:42
  No.
• 41:42
  It's at seven.
• 41:43
  Okay.
• 41:44
  Well alright.
• 41:48
  It'll be 5PM West Coast.
• 41:51
  There you go.
• 41:51
  7PM central and 8PM East Coast.
• 41:56
  We hope to see you there.
• 41:58
  Awesome.
• 41:58
  We'll see you all tomorrow.
• 41:59
  Have a good one.
• 42:00
  Enjoy the round from the Cadillac championship.
• 42:05
  Hey, guys.
• 42:06
  I just wanted to pop in and tell you about a great new company that we just started working
• 42:10
  with.
• 42:10
  Skunk Golf Company out of North Dakota sent us some awesome gear.
• 42:15
  Man, they got some great stuff, y'all.
• 42:17
  They got some awesome hats.
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  They sent us some great polo and collared shirts, some T shirts, skorts for the ladies
• 42:24
  too, and some sweet visors.
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  Go check them out.
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