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Go Low - Cameron Young WINS The Players Championship over Matt Fitzpatrick · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is happening my people? How are we doing?
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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff a little go lo podcast. We had to
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Speaker 1: react to the players because my guy Cam Young, who
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Speaker 1: I gave out as my winner to bet on at
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Speaker 1: thirty one to one, won the players biggest event of
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Speaker 1: his career. I mean it's only a second win. I
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Speaker 1: was obviously glued with a baby over the last couple
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Speaker 1: of days, not leaving the house, just watching golf. Not
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Speaker 1: much going on football y, So I said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let's just fire up and do a golf podcast leading
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Speaker 1: into Monday. So that's what we will do today. Cam
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Speaker 1: Young his duel with Matt Fitzpatrick, whose former major winner
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Speaker 1: won the US Open up in Boston. We will dive
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Speaker 1: right into that. What a moment for the American up
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Speaker 1: and coming superstar. The meltdown that we saw out of
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Speaker 1: the last group Michael thorpe Bjornson, the Stanford Blue Chipper
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Speaker 1: blew up and then Ludwig followed suit a couple holes later.
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Speaker 1: So we'll dive into the meltdown. Some positives for guys
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Speaker 1: like Justin Thomas Sanders, Schoffle, what's going on with Scotti Scheffler,
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Speaker 1: does McElroy deserve a pass. The new CEO from the NFL,
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Speaker 1: Brian roll app he talked on Wednesday. He talked again
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Speaker 1: in the booth during the broadcast on Saturday. Some thoughts there.
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Speaker 1: We will also do a little bit of a mailbag
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Speaker 1: the majors, So go check that out on YouTube. And
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Speaker 1: obviously we have the audio feed as well, which you're
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Speaker 1: listening to, so appreciate it. And we'll be back probably
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Speaker 1: Tuesday with the three and Out podcast football wise on
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Speaker 1: some free agency stuff and we'll see if any stories
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Speaker 1: break on Monday. But today is gonna be pretty golf heavy,
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Speaker 1: so let's just dive right into it. We got to
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Speaker 1: start with Cam Young, who was just an incredible talent.
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Speaker 1: I mean there was no dispute, I mean hit the
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Speaker 1: longest drive of the week on eighteen after yesterday, pumping
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Speaker 1: it into eighteen three hundred and seventy five yards. He's
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Speaker 1: really like the American version of Adki when you factor
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Speaker 1: in elite ball striker. His swing is really slow, he
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Speaker 1: stops and then it's just like an explosion of golf pureness.
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Speaker 1: And over the last couple of days, listen, he was
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Speaker 1: He had moments these last couple days where he was
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Speaker 1: all over the place off the tee and the rough's
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Speaker 1: pretty penal there. But his putting he's turned into like
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Speaker 1: Brad Faxon or Steve Stricker. I mean he's his putting
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Speaker 1: was just elite and coming down that tournament that was electric.
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Speaker 1: That essentially turned in to a Ryder Cup match for
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Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup. I mean it was America versus the
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Speaker 1: Euros and one of the two guys a duo broke
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Speaker 1: out the last seven or eight holes and you're on
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Speaker 1: the edge of your seat, especially if you had money
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Speaker 1: on cam Right, they both Bertie thirteen I think fits
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Speaker 1: bogies fourteen cam pars, so then they're tied. They both
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Speaker 1: have birdie looks on fifteen cam misses Fitz makes, but
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Speaker 1: to me sixteen was pretty crazy. Fitz pumps it into
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Speaker 1: the trees. The part fives on this course are incredible
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Speaker 1: because you can have an eagle look or you can
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Speaker 1: make double. And we'll dive into the course a little
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Speaker 1: bit later, which I think is just just a few
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Speaker 1: fantastic track From a viewing standpoint, it's it's by far
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Speaker 1: the biggest, has the biggest variance of all the PGA
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Speaker 1: Tour courses. It has a little bit of a US
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Speaker 1: Open feel and like you can birdy basically any hole,
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Speaker 1: but you could also get a double, and we saw
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Speaker 1: the guys in the final group get some doubles and
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Speaker 1: a quad, so there's always a lot on the line.
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Speaker 1: But you know, Fitz pumps into the trees, kind of
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Speaker 1: gets a lucky break, bounces straight down, he chips it
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Speaker 1: out where he's gonna have one hundred plus yards in.
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Speaker 1: Cam is two hundred and fifty yards in. Now, I
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Speaker 1: get it. These guys hit it way farther than us civilians,
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Speaker 1: and clearly cam is one of the longer guys on
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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour. But even Bryson with his funky clubs
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards four iron with a twelve
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Speaker 1: to fifteen mile an hour win straight into your face
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Speaker 1: kind of a bizarre shot. Now tour players have said
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Speaker 1: over the years that that is a weird layuphole. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you're from the fairway. Obviously with the wind pumping,
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Speaker 1: if you put a little cut spin on it, you
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Speaker 1: could be in the so I understand not taking a
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Speaker 1: little bit more of a higher club. But he hooks
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Speaker 1: it into the that bunker with the tree. He gets
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Speaker 1: a Frida egg lie. I honestly thought the tournament was
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Speaker 1: over then. I'm like, he's probably gonna bogie. Fitzpatrick's gonna
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Speaker 1: par He's gonna have a multiple shot lead going to
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Speaker 1: the last couple of holes, and somehow he pulls a
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Speaker 1: par out of his ass because he just hits it
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Speaker 1: on the green in two putts and he's down one
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Speaker 1: going into seventeen. I mean, probably non major. I don't
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Speaker 1: know the most iconic hole in the PGA Tour in
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Speaker 1: terms of maybe waste management hole sixteen, but really that
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Speaker 1: hole is because of the stage and the stadium that's
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Speaker 1: built around this. This hole is again a kind of
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Speaker 1: a fake creation, an island green in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the water, but it's just had memorable moments. And he
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Speaker 1: birdies the hole. He drips it right in and the
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Speaker 1: place goes bananas. Then they go to eighteen, where the
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Speaker 1: irony of these two guys who were battling it out.
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Speaker 1: They would have both not even had to even think
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Speaker 1: about anyone else if they didn't double eighteen. Yesterday, Cam
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Speaker 1: hit it into the water. Now I think kids or
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Speaker 1: someone mentioned on the broadcast that he thought it was
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Speaker 1: a perfect shot. He went to pick up his tee
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Speaker 1: as someone that was gambling on him and watching yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Definitely by the tracer it didn't look great, so I
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Speaker 1: was pretty nervous. He pulls out driver. I was like,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have blamed if he went conservative, and like
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Speaker 1: went tiger Stinger hit a three hundred and seventy five
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Speaker 1: yard drive, And the pressure that put on Fitzpatrick, especially
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Speaker 1: coming off the birdie, who then just pumps in the
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Speaker 1: pine straw. Now this tournament's weird. These greens are really hard.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think the tournament was over because then Fitzpatrick
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Speaker 1: lays up right in front of the green. I'm like
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Speaker 1: he could make par. And the shot was clearly pretty hard.
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Speaker 1: It was like fifteen mile an hour wins. Going straight
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Speaker 1: at the flag, you're hitting a sand wedge from what
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Speaker 1: are a lob wedge from one hundred yards and he
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Speaker 1: just leaves on the top shelf where he's got a
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Speaker 1: par one percent in the back. And it was just
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Speaker 1: gonna come down to once he missed the putt, could
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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick magas Par Putton he did in Cam tabs in
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Speaker 1: for the win. But I think what's so cool is
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Speaker 1: like we have such a group at the high end
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Speaker 1: of just elite American golfers. Obviously Scotty four majors, uh,
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Speaker 1: just an all time great player going through it a
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Speaker 1: little bit now for his standards, but his resume is elite,
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Speaker 1: you know, Justin Thomas is his career is gonna end.
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Speaker 1: He'll probably have twenty wins and three or four majors, right,
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Speaker 1: Jordan Spiece, ton of majors, ton of wins. Obviously, Xander
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Speaker 1: Schoffley knocked out the majors a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: A guy that's gonna be an all time American. I
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Speaker 1: do think Cam has the talent to be considered in
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Speaker 1: that group. But part of golfers, you gotta win, Like
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Speaker 1: this is a team sport. You can't just be Kevin
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Speaker 1: Durant sign up for the Warriors. Then all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden you get a couple of changs, like you've got
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Speaker 1: to do it yourself. He was our best player at
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Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup. They all the guys said that he
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Speaker 1: was coming in with a bunch of momentum and then
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Speaker 1: was awesome. It definitely wasn't his fault. We got our
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Speaker 1: ass kicked. But you gotta win these big tournaments. And
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Speaker 1: several years ago he was. He actually finished second at
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Speaker 1: the Old Course when Cam Smith won and Rory kind
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Speaker 1: of blew it. So he's played well in the majors.
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Speaker 1: He's top ten in every major, and I think he's
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Speaker 1: his best finished in the Masters is like seventh. He's
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Speaker 1: finished top five and the other three, so he has
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Speaker 1: been really really good. He's hasn't won up until the
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Speaker 1: end of last year. But you win a tournament like this,
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Speaker 1: it can change your course, you know, the course of
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Speaker 1: your career. And you know, justin Thomas, a lot of
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Speaker 1: emotion speak, a lot of emotion. You know, Rory shows emotion.
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Speaker 1: A lot of these guys pretty emotional out there, which
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Speaker 1: I like. I like some juice and energy. Cam Young's
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Speaker 1: the opposite, like he shows nothing. You know, Roger Federer
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Speaker 1: if you ever watched him, and I'm not the biggest
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Speaker 1: tennis guy. But like when guys like that would play,
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Speaker 1: you'd watch it never looked like Federer sweated. It's like,
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Speaker 1: is he even sweating? How is he not sweating? Cam
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Speaker 1: Young kind of has that vibe that there is no
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Speaker 1: ebb and flow with his emotion. So once you get
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Speaker 1: over that hump of having the confidence, like I'm clearly
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Speaker 1: one of the best guys on the PGA Tour, and
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Speaker 1: to get that confidence, you gotta win some of these tournaments.
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Speaker 1: Now you win him, he has the mental makeup that's
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Speaker 1: going to translate. He is going to be one of
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Speaker 1: the sexiest picks in all the majors, at the Masters,
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Speaker 1: at the PGA for sure, the next two majors, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna pick him, and rightfully so,
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Speaker 1: because he's turned into and they mentioned on the broadcast,
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Speaker 1: not just one of the best putters on the PGA Tour,
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Speaker 1: but the way he does it is unlike anyone else.
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Speaker 1: His caddie who probably deserves a raise though I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure he just won four million dollars. Cam did well.
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Speaker 1: If the caddy gets ten percent, just made four hundred k,
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Speaker 1: So a pretty good day at the office, right, So
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Speaker 1: the caddy's well compensated now and probably been well compensated.
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Speaker 1: I mean he's he's with a player that's a cash cow,
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Speaker 1: but he does all the green reading, like he lines
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Speaker 1: him up and tells him where to go. And Brad Faxxon,
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Speaker 1: who was on the broadcast, like, yeah, it's pretty unheard
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Speaker 1: of with the top player, Like, no one really does that.
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Speaker 1: And not only does he do it, Cam's turned into
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Speaker 1: one of the best putters in the world. And if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna hit the ball like that, one of the
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Speaker 1: problems with a decie. If a Decky ever put it
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Speaker 1: like Cam youngest putting right now, he'd win way more
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Speaker 1: So if you can putt like that and hit it
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Speaker 1: like that, he can get a little scorely off the teat,
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Speaker 1: which is probably why the US Open, which is several
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Speaker 1: months away, probably not gonna hammer Cam on that one,
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Speaker 1: but the Masters, the PGA, some of these tournaments where
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Speaker 1: you get spread around a little bit and just let
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Speaker 1: your irons, let the cream rise. He is going to
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Speaker 1: be an auto hammer for a top five, top ten
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Speaker 1: and it got to sprinkle to win for sure. So
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Speaker 1: I've told this story before, but one of my good buddies,
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Speaker 1: Scottie Raver, plays a lot of golfer did now who
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Speaker 1: lives in southern California, but when he lived in northern
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Speaker 1: California was Spencer Levigne, longtime tour pro. He's been on
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Speaker 1: the corn Ferry Tour now for years, just playing, you know,
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Speaker 1: in his early forties. And he said he played with
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Speaker 1: Cam Young. I don't know if this was like four
10:55
Speaker 1: or five years ago in an event in Chicago, and
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Speaker 1: Spencer's played with Tiger, with Phil with Ernie, like he's
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Speaker 1: played with some of the best guys in the history
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Speaker 1: of the game. I mean you could argue Tiger and
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Speaker 1: Philler two of the top five guys, and he played
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Speaker 1: with them on a day in Chicago. I think it
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Speaker 1: was raining and wins were blown like forty miles an hour,
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Speaker 1: and Cam I think shot four or five under and
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Speaker 1: no one else in the field was like sniffing par
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Speaker 1: He's like, I think that was the best ball striking
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Speaker 1: round I've ever seen. And the talent on this guy
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Speaker 1: is beyond iments, And to me, it's always cool when
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Speaker 1: you watch a guy with a ton of talent kind
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Speaker 1: of realize it. Like listen, I was kind of wrong
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Speaker 1: on my take on Caleb Williams coming into the season.
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Speaker 1: But I'm a talent freak like ability, Like I watched
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Speaker 1: Pro sports for the guys with the ability that the
11:44
Speaker 1: average jos don't have. Like listen, I respect Mac Jones,
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Speaker 1: but I don't watch it in the NFL football to
11:49
Speaker 1: watch Mac Jones play and watching Caleb starting to realize that,
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Speaker 1: like you watch Lamar and Josh, once they start figuring
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Speaker 1: it out, You're like, God, this is incredible to view.
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Speaker 1: This is what you want to watch, right, And that
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Speaker 1: to me is Cam on a golf course. He just
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Speaker 1: has more talent than basically everyone else on in the
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Speaker 1: tournament beside a couple guys. So if he's going to
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Speaker 1: be on and putt like this, he's got a chance
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Speaker 1: to be easily one of the best players in the world.
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Speaker 1: And that was really cool to watch a guy. I
12:19
Speaker 1: mean he had to grind it out a little bit
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Speaker 1: like he was. I mean I was glued right, even
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Speaker 1: the shots they weren't showing yesterday. I'm looking on my
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Speaker 1: phone like he's pumping the ball under the rough. We
12:28
Speaker 1: gotta figure out the driver a little bit. But what
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Speaker 1: did he do today when he had to? He came
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Speaker 1: through sixteen right down the dick eighteen, biggest drive of
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Speaker 1: his life, especially after yesterday. I don't care who you are.
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Speaker 1: If you pump one in the water twenty four hours ago,
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Speaker 1: it's got to be in the back of your mind.
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Speaker 1: Didn't even hesitate. Beautiful draw three hundred and seventy five yards. Now,
12:47
Speaker 1: obviously the fairways are rock hard, but you play a
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Speaker 1: draw when you hit it that long, I mean, that's
12:52
Speaker 1: that's like a historic drive. Now, it wouldn't have been
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Speaker 1: if he would have screwed up and made a bogie,
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Speaker 1: but it probably would have been more memorable if he
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Speaker 1: would have burnt even walked off the putt. But what
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Speaker 1: a cool moment for the guy, and what just a
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Speaker 1: cool moment with those two guys going at it. A
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Speaker 1: ton of respect for Matt Fitzpatrick, who, to me feels
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Speaker 1: like a guy from my childhood, like an eighties or
13:14
Speaker 1: nineties golfer, you know, just the way he looks. But
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Speaker 1: he's like morphed his game into this modern day game
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Speaker 1: because he's got to keep up with guys like Cam
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Speaker 1: Young and Rory McElroy and Scotti Scheffl. Like he's got
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Speaker 1: to hit it hard, so he kind of swings out
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Speaker 1: of his ass. But he's kind of figured it out.
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Speaker 1: He's notorious for I think he's he has logged every
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Speaker 1: shot of his career. I'm not talking on the course,
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Speaker 1: I'm talking the range, Like he has notebooks and information
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Speaker 1: on every shot of his career. So this is a
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Speaker 1: guy when you talk about like maximizing all your ability.
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Speaker 1: Like I said about the mac Jones thing, I respect
13:48
Speaker 1: the hell out of whether it's football, whether it's basketball,
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Speaker 1: whether it's business, anyone who maximizes the most of their potential.
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Speaker 1: Most of us are not the most talented people at
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Speaker 1: what we do, so to maximize our ability in whatever
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Speaker 1: we're doing, it takes a lot of effort, takes a
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Speaker 1: lot of energy. And Mat Fitzpatrick to me, old school grinder,
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Speaker 1: just a fantastic player, and he was awesome. I mean
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Speaker 1: the difference today was Cam Young shot thirty three on
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Speaker 1: the back in matpits Patrick shot thirty five. I mean
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Speaker 1: it's really that simple. Cam Young shot three under on
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Speaker 1: the back and he didn't birdy any of the par fives.
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Speaker 1: So think about that and one of the par fives.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he hit it three hundred plus yard drive
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Speaker 1: right down the middle on sixteen and didn't even remotely
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Speaker 1: have a good birdie look right, so to shoot thirty.
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Speaker 1: If you would have told me he's not gonna birdie
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Speaker 1: when the when the back nine started, either of the
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Speaker 1: par fives, I would have been like, I need to
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Speaker 1: cash out in my bed because he's not gonna win
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Speaker 1: this tournament. But that he birdied seventeen, which I said
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Speaker 1: eighteen drive, I mean seventeen. That drippy Pott the place
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Speaker 1: going nuts, chanting USA. I saw Fitzpatrick had quotes that
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Speaker 1: he likes it, he enjoys it, it's cool, it's fun.
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Speaker 1: He's like, it wasn't This wasn't like a vile place
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Speaker 1: like the Ryder Cup. It was people having good fun.
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Speaker 1: He understands it. He's playing in America against one of
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Speaker 1: our Ryder Cup guys who's gonna be a Ryder Cup
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Speaker 1: consistent stalwart should be for years to come, you know.
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Speaker 1: And now that he got this monkey off his back,
15:14
Speaker 1: I mean technically did last year, but in terms of
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Speaker 1: a big tournament, what a cool moment for a guy
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Speaker 1: that honestly feels like he doesn't even care. I mean,
15:22
Speaker 1: he does have a little bit of Scheffler, a little
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Speaker 1: bit of more cowwa like not much emotion, which for me,
15:28
Speaker 1: I don't really love like i'd like a little bit more,
15:30
Speaker 1: but I do love when I when I bet on
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Speaker 1: you and you come through in a big moment like that,
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Speaker 1: that was that was really really cool. So congrats on
15:38
Speaker 1: becoming the Players Champion. Where that list in recent memory
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Speaker 1: is is Rory twice, Scotty twice, justin Thomas, Like it's
15:46
Speaker 1: the cream of the crop in this tournament. This course
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Speaker 1: to me shines like I love TPC Scottsdale. I play
15:54
Speaker 1: there in theory all the time. I haven't played golf
15:55
Speaker 1: in two months. But it's it doesn't have that you
15:59
Speaker 1: can spray the ball around. It's it's just an easier course.
16:03
Speaker 1: There is something that there's not as many bogies and
16:06
Speaker 1: doubles on the course now. Part of it there's not
16:08
Speaker 1: the water. They always trim the rough like they grut
16:12
Speaker 1: the rough in the water. Part of what makes a
16:14
Speaker 1: great tournament is variance. It's what's so special about the
16:18
Speaker 1: US Open, right because the Masters has variants, but it's
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Speaker 1: typically like you can egle fifteen, you can eagle thirteen,
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Speaker 1: you can birdy seventeen, you can birdy eighteen, like you
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Speaker 1: can birdie and catch up, but you don't typically see
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Speaker 1: coming down the stretch unless someone you know shakes it
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Speaker 1: into the creek, kind of like Rory did on thirteen.
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Speaker 1: Occasional water shots on fifteen. It's not a lot of
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Speaker 1: blow ups. It's usually a guy making a lot of
16:46
Speaker 1: red numbers and chasing someone down and passing them. What
16:49
Speaker 1: makes this tournament so awesome Unlike all these PGA Tour events,
16:54
Speaker 1: and I know people like the Nitpick Xagrass and I
16:57
Speaker 1: think they charge like almost one thousand dollars to play around,
17:00
Speaker 1: which is pretty insane. But I would imagine if we
17:02
Speaker 1: check the t sheet on a random weekend, you know,
17:06
Speaker 1: in in June or in September, probably packed, so people
17:09
Speaker 1: are paying, like they wouldn't charge it if people didn't pay.
17:13
Speaker 1: Is the variance in the rounds, Like at any moment,
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Speaker 1: the leader the guy right behind him could make a birdie,
17:21
Speaker 1: you could have eagle looks on the par five, or
17:24
Speaker 1: easily you could double a hole in so much I
17:28
Speaker 1: love the PGA Tour, I watch a ton of these events.
17:32
Speaker 1: Most of these events don't have doubles out there, like
17:35
Speaker 1: you have to do something catastrophic here. You could just
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Speaker 1: slightly miss in the rough and you're chipping out and
17:43
Speaker 1: then if you fuck up on your approach, all of
17:45
Speaker 1: a sudden you have ten foot bogie putt, And we
17:49
Speaker 1: just don't get that very often. So to me, part
17:52
Speaker 1: of what makes this course so cool is like the
17:55
Speaker 1: amount of crazy numbers that are out there. And I'm
17:59
Speaker 1: not We'll get to the melt out here in a second.
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about getting a quad like Thor on
18:03
Speaker 1: the fourth hole, but at any moment, you could have
18:05
Speaker 1: a two shot lead, the guy behind you can birdie,
18:08
Speaker 1: and you can bogey, and all of a sudden you're tied.
18:10
Speaker 1: And I just for most of these courses now, with
18:12
Speaker 1: the length these guys have, we don't get the variants right.
18:16
Speaker 1: It's kind of like in football turnovers. The cool part
18:19
Speaker 1: about football is you can be up fourteen points going
18:21
Speaker 1: in the fourth corner, all of a sudden you throw
18:22
Speaker 1: a pick six, Like basically they're a drive away from
18:25
Speaker 1: tying this thing. We're just in complete control. It happens
18:28
Speaker 1: in football all the time. In basketball now with three
18:31
Speaker 1: point shot, it happens all the time, right And in
18:34
Speaker 1: golf a lot of these PGA Tour events, like once
18:37
Speaker 1: you get control and some of these courses so easy,
18:40
Speaker 1: it just doesn't happen as much. You basically run guys down.
18:43
Speaker 1: Guys don't implode toward you. And speaking of meltdowns, I
18:47
Speaker 1: said this with Shane Lowry. If you're betting on a guy,
18:52
Speaker 1: a meltdown sucks if you obviously, if you know the
18:55
Speaker 1: guy personally or you're a huge fan, it's tough to watch.
18:58
Speaker 1: But if you don't necessarily have a dog in the
19:00
Speaker 1: race and you're just watching to consume, watching someone melt
19:04
Speaker 1: down in golf is fantastic riveting TV. I mean, the
19:10
Speaker 1: final group today, what did what did Ludwig shoot today?
19:14
Speaker 1: Ludvig he shot seventy six, so they shot seventy seven,
19:19
Speaker 1: seventy six thor who easy got to root for Blue
19:24
Speaker 1: Chiper out of Stanford. I think top five in an
19:27
Speaker 1: event as an amateur, I mean has a chance. He
19:30
Speaker 1: could have won the waste management if he didn't pump
19:32
Speaker 1: it into the water on seventeen. I mean, he's he's
19:35
Speaker 1: a big time talent. I know some of the guys
19:37
Speaker 1: of Adidas that know him. I mean, he's he's got
19:40
Speaker 1: a lot of ability and to watch him get a
19:43
Speaker 1: quad on four was just wow. And I think sometimes
19:49
Speaker 1: when you're playing with the guy, because Ludwig's in complete control.
19:53
Speaker 1: He has a multiple shot lead on whole eleven. He's
19:56
Speaker 1: right down the middle of the fairway par five. He's
19:59
Speaker 1: been all striking like he's Tiger Woods. You're like, this guy,
20:03
Speaker 1: he burdies this hole, he's gonna he's gonna be fourteen
20:06
Speaker 1: under par. He just gotta par in. I mean, who's
20:11
Speaker 1: catching him? And honestly, if that would have would had
20:13
Speaker 1: Cam Young ended up finishing, if he would have burdied
20:16
Speaker 1: eleven and just parted, he would have won the tournament.
20:18
Speaker 1: And it felt like he was gonna win the tournament
20:21
Speaker 1: until he pumped one in the water and he bogies
20:24
Speaker 1: the par five. You're like, Okay, this thing's interesting. And
20:27
Speaker 1: then he snap hooks his drive on the following hole
20:29
Speaker 1: and doubles the hole, and that is the type stuff again.
20:33
Speaker 1: You know this happened to Shane Lowry, but Shane Lowry,
20:36
Speaker 1: I think would be the first one. I just hit
20:37
Speaker 1: two of the worst shots I've ever hit, like for
20:40
Speaker 1: the most part on those holes. You know, I on
20:42
Speaker 1: one of the hole Shane Lowry hit in the water.
20:44
Speaker 1: Who's the only guy that hit in the water all
20:46
Speaker 1: week long on this course, like the water balls are
20:49
Speaker 1: always available. If you watch this tournament over the last
20:52
Speaker 1: three or four days, guys are pumping in the drink constantly,
20:55
Speaker 1: especially on the par fives, because you can get aggressive,
20:57
Speaker 1: but the wind, you hit a little cut, you don't.
21:00
Speaker 1: All of a sudden you're in the drink. And Ludwig
21:02
Speaker 1: goes bogey double and he choos himself right out of there.
21:05
Speaker 1: He just implodes. He just imploded. And Kissinger said he
21:08
Speaker 1: had two of his worst wings in a thirty minute
21:10
Speaker 1: stretch in it. And it is tournament, and I do
21:12
Speaker 1: wonder like, even if you're a ten handicap, if you're
21:16
Speaker 1: playing well and you're playing with other people, just one
21:20
Speaker 1: other person, and they're playing really shitty, it's hard to
21:23
Speaker 1: get a vibe. Like if you looked at Fitzpatrick and
21:26
Speaker 1: Cam Young, they were kind of, you know, vibing off
21:30
Speaker 1: each other. It's like both making birdies, both hitting sweet shots,
21:34
Speaker 1: both making big potts, both just bowling right that it
21:38
Speaker 1: happened on the par three. I think it was like
21:40
Speaker 1: thirteen where they both knocked it within six seven feet.
21:43
Speaker 1: It's like you just kind of feed off the momentum.
21:45
Speaker 1: It's like in racing, you draft off the guy, and
21:49
Speaker 1: I just think Ludwig, it's hard to draft off a
21:50
Speaker 1: guy when he gets a quad on whole four AND's
21:53
Speaker 1: tournament's basically over and he's just kind of in la
21:56
Speaker 1: la land. Now, he maintained it for several more holes,
21:59
Speaker 1: but to keep that that focus for another three hours,
22:02
Speaker 1: I'm not absolving him. I don't know why he made
22:04
Speaker 1: a bad swing for a guy that had just been
22:06
Speaker 1: striping the ball but shot himself right out of the
22:09
Speaker 1: tournament in thirty minute stretch. It's for a guy that
22:12
Speaker 1: felt like, I don't want to say infallible, but it
22:16
Speaker 1: felt like there was no way at minimum he was
22:19
Speaker 1: gonna be in like a in a playoff. In no
22:22
Speaker 1: circumstance did you see going into the back nine Ludwig
22:29
Speaker 1: finishing four shots off the league. It would have been inconceivable.
22:33
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have believed it unless you would have been like, well,
22:36
Speaker 1: do someone go birdie birdie, eagle birdie birdie to finish
22:39
Speaker 1: and just lap him, because how is anyone like, how
22:44
Speaker 1: is this possible? And as possible at Tbczagress because it's
22:49
Speaker 1: got water everywhere, and if you make disastrous shots. You're
22:53
Speaker 1: not just on some other fairway, which happens a lot
22:56
Speaker 1: in PGA Tour golf. It happens in a lot of
22:58
Speaker 1: golf that we play, not there and not really in
23:00
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23:04
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23:07
Speaker 1: a big part of their sport. Even the picture of
23:11
Speaker 1: Cam Young ting off on eighteen, did you notice what
23:14
Speaker 1: was like, not quite in the middle of the lake,
23:17
Speaker 1: but probably fifty feet away from sure looked like a
23:21
Speaker 1: big alligator. To me, sure looked like a massive alligator.
23:25
Speaker 1: My guess is eyeball on it because it was like,
23:27
Speaker 1: is that thing like ten foot alligator right there? And
23:31
Speaker 1: the answer is probably yeah. I mean they got alligators
23:33
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23:38
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26:02
Speaker 1: major signs of life, you know, for a guy who'd
26:05
Speaker 1: had a really shitty season and he was for his standards,
26:10
Speaker 1: I mean atrocious shit. It felt like Xander shot eighty
26:12
Speaker 1: five yesterday, but other than that, he was really good
26:15
Speaker 1: this tournament. I mean he shot sixty nine, sixty five,
26:18
Speaker 1: sixty nine. If he just instead of shooting seventy four.
26:21
Speaker 1: If he just shoots seventy one, he wins a tournament.
26:24
Speaker 1: If he shoots seventy two, he's in a playoff. And honestly,
26:27
Speaker 1: to shoot seventy four with as bad as he played
26:29
Speaker 1: yesterday was a remarkable accomplishment. So it's nice to see Zander,
26:36
Speaker 1: who part of what makes these majors big. I was
26:39
Speaker 1: watching him before I went to bed last night. Bryson,
26:42
Speaker 1: and you need your heavy hitters. Scotty was off obviously
26:46
Speaker 1: this week relative to his standard. Rory was a non factor.
26:51
Speaker 1: Like this is star driven sport. There's a reason in tennis, Sampras, Agasy, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic,
26:57
Speaker 1: Like you're led by Tiger Woods, by Phil by Speak,
27:00
Speaker 1: by Koepka, by Scotty, by Rory. You need those guys
27:03
Speaker 1: carrying the flags. And I'm not saying Xander's on their level,
27:06
Speaker 1: but he's that next tier and you need him in
27:08
Speaker 1: the mix. You can't have a bunch of random guys
27:10
Speaker 1: that the casual fan can't point out of let Um.
27:12
Speaker 1: Same thing with Justin Thomas, who has the back injury
27:15
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago at Bayhill, shoots seventy nine, seventy nine,
27:18
Speaker 1: and he's like, God, this could be a weird start
27:21
Speaker 1: to the season. And he immediately gets it back and
27:23
Speaker 1: he finishes. He finishes the top ten, and he was
27:27
Speaker 1: pretty good the last couple of days. He had a
27:30
Speaker 1: triple yesterday where he pumped it into the water like
27:32
Speaker 1: Ludwig all time. Bad shot that hole under the trees
27:36
Speaker 1: on whole six, tried to hit driver. I think he
27:38
Speaker 1: double crossed it. I mean he hit that thing deep
27:40
Speaker 1: into the water. But those two guys important, Ryder Cup
27:43
Speaker 1: guys important, just American golfers that should be competitive in
27:49
Speaker 1: the majors, in all the big tournaments, and they just
27:52
Speaker 1: kind of flex their muscles this week. Now to me,
27:54
Speaker 1: Scotty who was way better on the weekend. They showed
27:57
Speaker 1: him a lot on Thursday and Friday. Randall had this take.
28:01
Speaker 1: I think on like Thursday night on the Golf Channel
28:04
Speaker 1: that he's messing with his swing and his way shorter.
28:07
Speaker 1: So why he's all off some other guys on instant
28:11
Speaker 1: or Twitter, we're breaking it down. Listen. I can barely
28:16
Speaker 1: you know, I just try to hit fairways here. I
28:18
Speaker 1: to pretend to break down someone's golf swing, especially at
28:21
Speaker 1: that level, No fucking clue. Here's what I do know.
28:25
Speaker 1: If you watch him, he is hitting some especially Thursday
28:28
Speaker 1: and Friday, some like crazy slices. I wouldn't even call
28:33
Speaker 1: him fades or cuts. They are starting at the left
28:36
Speaker 1: rough and they are ending up in the right rouff.
28:38
Speaker 1: And clearly he is battling his driver, or was over
28:43
Speaker 1: the course of the last couple rounds or the course
28:45
Speaker 1: of the last couple of tournaments. And early in this
28:48
Speaker 1: round he was all over the map and same thing
28:50
Speaker 1: with just his longer woods. I remember watching him at
28:52
Speaker 1: riv he was doing the same thing. So whatever's going
28:55
Speaker 1: on there, if he can get that figured out, because
28:58
Speaker 1: he was much better on the weekend. He finished sixty
29:01
Speaker 1: seven seventy one, so he shot five shot six under
29:05
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now early on he just he was
29:09
Speaker 1: seventy two seventy three. Just he was just off. I mean,
29:11
Speaker 1: he's just watching him like this is not the Scottie
29:13
Speaker 1: shuffler I know. And if he can just get that
29:16
Speaker 1: figured out, which I would imagine is gonna be the
29:18
Speaker 1: number one thing he's gonna be working on going to Augusta.
29:20
Speaker 1: But right now, the way he's playing, I couldn't be
29:22
Speaker 1: confident picking him to win Augusta. Now maybe he shows
29:25
Speaker 1: some more signs of life before he plays another tournament.
29:27
Speaker 1: But something just a little off again. He's not shot,
29:31
Speaker 1: he's not like not a factor. But you go from
29:35
Speaker 1: consistently finishing the top ten winning all these tournaments. It
29:39
Speaker 1: being weird when you finish like fourth, to all of
29:42
Speaker 1: a sudden back to back tournaments where you don't crack
29:45
Speaker 1: the top twenty. Like it just that's comes with the territory.
29:49
Speaker 1: And it's also a unique pressure. And I was texting
29:52
Speaker 1: with a buddy the other day, like everyone's gunning for you,
29:55
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about you. I understand he's super humble guy,
29:58
Speaker 1: superligious guy. He's got a a new baby, a second
30:01
Speaker 1: baby coming. I know he's very grounded. Rory says how
30:04
Speaker 1: jealousy is of how simple his life is. And I
30:07
Speaker 1: get that, But you can't tell me when you come
30:09
Speaker 1: to these golf tournaments and everyone's looking at you, everyone's
30:12
Speaker 1: anointed in you, is that they're comparing you to Tiger Woods.
30:16
Speaker 1: If you get compared to Tiger Woods, that is a
30:18
Speaker 1: heavy burden to wear. And it's like, oh, he's already
30:21
Speaker 1: won four majors, he can win ten more. I mean,
30:24
Speaker 1: people are talking like, what's this over under run majors
30:26
Speaker 1: ten to eleven. I mean the way they talk about him,
30:28
Speaker 1: And I'm guilty too. It's it's got to just put
30:31
Speaker 1: an immense amount of pressure when you just play and
30:34
Speaker 1: then you're a little off and then you start forcing it.
30:37
Speaker 1: So it's kind of cool. Like part of what makes
30:39
Speaker 1: golf cool is the Sea guys go through it. The
30:41
Speaker 1: Sea guys grind it out right. Golf's weird. You could
30:45
Speaker 1: be really shitty one week and then all of a
30:46
Speaker 1: sudden finished top five. It's kind of like baseball. You
30:50
Speaker 1: can not have a hit all week, and then the
30:52
Speaker 1: next two games you get four home runs. You know,
30:54
Speaker 1: it's like all these guys that the margins are really thin,
30:57
Speaker 1: even for the elite guys like Scotti. Scheffer's gonna go
30:59
Speaker 1: down one of the all time greats. But you know,
31:02
Speaker 1: to me, it's why I give Rory a little bit
31:04
Speaker 1: of a pass this week because a couple of weeks
31:06
Speaker 1: ago at Bay Hill, he was trending. He's had four
31:08
Speaker 1: hundred Friday, he looks pretty good, and who knows, I
31:12
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be a factor that weekend. You know,
31:14
Speaker 1: at the Arnold Palmer and then the back thing happens.
31:17
Speaker 1: He doesn't show up here till Wednesday. I watched him
31:22
Speaker 1: on Thursday. He was just had no clue where it
31:24
Speaker 1: was going. So I give him a little bit of
31:27
Speaker 1: a pass. Just probably didn't touch a club from having
31:31
Speaker 1: to back out WD for the second time in his career.
31:35
Speaker 1: But it's definitely something to keep an eye on. I
31:37
Speaker 1: think he will be fine by the time we get
31:39
Speaker 1: to the Majors, which is really not that far away.
31:42
Speaker 1: We're about a month away from the Masters, which is
31:44
Speaker 1: pretty cool. The other thing is Brian Rollapp, the new CEO,
31:49
Speaker 1: talked on Wednesday. He came into the booth on Saturday.
31:56
Speaker 1: My overall take, I think he's really impressive. He had
32:00
Speaker 1: a vibe of like clearly been trained by the NFL.
32:03
Speaker 1: There's a corporate feel to him, but there's also like
32:06
Speaker 1: a human feel to him. You know, sometimes Roge can
32:09
Speaker 1: feel a little bit robotic, which is somewhat understandable. He's,
32:13
Speaker 1: you know, the CEO or commission of one of the
32:15
Speaker 1: biggest businesses in the world, and he's got thirty two
32:19
Speaker 1: billionaires that he answers to, but he also kind of
32:21
Speaker 1: tells them what to do. It's it's just a unique gig.
32:25
Speaker 1: Golf's a lot different. I mean, this is a niche
32:27
Speaker 1: sport that this isn't football never will be. Like rolapp said,
32:31
Speaker 1: there's a thirty billion dollar media market right now and
32:35
Speaker 1: the NFL is looking to gain twenty three to twenty
32:38
Speaker 1: four of that and basketball already has six or seven
32:40
Speaker 1: of that. So where does that leave us. It's it's
32:44
Speaker 1: a challenge, but I think he understands and the players
32:47
Speaker 1: is unique. I mean, it's one of the biggest. It's
32:49
Speaker 1: probably the biggest right there with waste, but probably bigger
32:54
Speaker 1: than waste because football it's during the Super Bowl, you know,
32:58
Speaker 1: tournament of the year. He's got to find a way.
33:00
Speaker 1: I saw a stat on Instagram that and this is
33:04
Speaker 1: makes sense. Ever since twenty twenty, golf has boomed. Recreational
33:09
Speaker 1: golf forty percent growth over the last five years. Anyone
33:14
Speaker 1: knows this. If you go to your shitty course that
33:16
Speaker 1: used to charge twenty five dollars, it now charges eighty.
33:19
Speaker 1: The course that you started one hundred now charges two
33:22
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty. The course that used to charge two
33:24
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty now charges five hundred, and you complain
33:26
Speaker 1: about it. And then you go and they're just packed.
33:29
Speaker 1: You have young people, old people, women. The growth of women,
33:33
Speaker 1: it's seen a enormous boom, and the access to these
33:38
Speaker 1: golf courses, these public courses, they're all especially if you
33:41
Speaker 1: live in a big city, and he clearly wants to
33:42
Speaker 1: inject the PGA tour in the big city. The more
33:46
Speaker 1: people that play golf, the more people that will casually
33:49
Speaker 1: watch the pros. Part of the reason football, basketball, and
33:52
Speaker 1: baseball have always been so big, you go back fifty
33:56
Speaker 1: years because if I just take a random care in
34:00
Speaker 1: high school, more than likely he has played one of
34:03
Speaker 1: those three sports. In a decent percentage of those guys
34:06
Speaker 1: play one of those sports at least through junior high
34:09
Speaker 1: or high school. And if you play those sports, you're
34:12
Speaker 1: just more invested to the guys who are best at
34:15
Speaker 1: those sports. Like why did I fall in love with
34:17
Speaker 1: college football in the NFL? He started playing football, right?
34:22
Speaker 1: I just it's like, if you're just how does it
34:24
Speaker 1: guy do that? And that's why I love pro golf
34:27
Speaker 1: because I started playing golf when I was young. Why
34:30
Speaker 1: do a lot of people that watch back or played
34:32
Speaker 1: basketball when they were in high school or college love
34:35
Speaker 1: college basketball? Or the NBA because they played it in
34:38
Speaker 1: basketball is unique because even if you didn't play, you know,
34:42
Speaker 1: in high school, you still could play pick up basketball.
34:44
Speaker 1: I'm a good example. I didn't play high school basketball,
34:46
Speaker 1: but I played pick up basketball throughout my twenties. So
34:50
Speaker 1: there is a direct correlation of people that will just
34:52
Speaker 1: casually pay attention. And YouTube golf has exploded. Bob Grant, good, good,
35:00
Speaker 1: the barstool guys, there was just an avenue. If they
35:03
Speaker 1: could figure this out, they can gain new people. And
35:07
Speaker 1: there's just gonna be a lot of pressure on roll
35:09
Speaker 1: app to get this right. And I don't have all
35:11
Speaker 1: the answers. I'm glad they said they're gonna do events
35:13
Speaker 1: with cuts, make them bigger, not like fifty seventy guys
35:17
Speaker 1: make it one hundred plus one hundred and twenty guys
35:19
Speaker 1: have a cut. I think that. I think Tiger is
35:21
Speaker 1: really big on that, Like that is at the soul
35:24
Speaker 1: of the game. You play in an event, If you
35:27
Speaker 1: play shitty, you do not make the weekend. Right, this
35:31
Speaker 1: is not football or basketball. Yeah, he's had a bad game,
35:33
Speaker 1: had a bad week, Like he's on contract. If you
35:35
Speaker 1: have an awful year in professional golf, you might miss
35:39
Speaker 1: the majority of cuts and make no money. To make
35:42
Speaker 1: money on the course, you have to play well. That
35:46
Speaker 1: is not true in any other sport. All these guys
35:48
Speaker 1: have just signed free agent contracts. In football, they could
35:51
Speaker 1: all play like shit this upcoming year. Now, they might
35:53
Speaker 1: not get their entire contract, but all that guaranteed money
35:55
Speaker 1: they're guaranteed to make. There is no such thing in golf.
35:58
Speaker 1: Their kind is now because they give you five hundred
36:00
Speaker 1: thousand dollars retainer. They've added some stuff since live, but
36:03
Speaker 1: it's nothing like these other sports, which I think makes
36:06
Speaker 1: it like so cool. I mean we had like I'll
36:11
Speaker 1: just list some names, Sun jaym Jake Knapp, Gary Woodland,
36:19
Speaker 1: Harry Hall, Joel Damon, Cam Davis, Mark Cubbard. I mean,
36:24
Speaker 1: these guys play like crap. They missed the cut. Colin
36:27
Speaker 1: Morkowell Withdrew doesn't get any money right in football or basketball.
36:31
Speaker 1: If I start the game Markowall Withdrew on a second hole,
36:35
Speaker 1: if Josh Allen breaks his ankle on the second play
36:38
Speaker 1: of the game, he still gets paid. Colin Morkoweed gets
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Speaker 1: no money for this tournament. So I'm fascinated to watch
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Speaker 1: what roll app does. I think there's a ton of
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Speaker 1: pressure on him, and I'm really excited to watch. Before
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Speaker 1: we get out of here, I'm just gonna bang out
37:04
Speaker 1: a couple at Golo Pod. At Golo Pod, we got
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Speaker 1: an Instagram. We're gonna do these Instagram questions like we
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Speaker 1: do on the football podcast. Fire in my DMS. Get
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Speaker 1: your questions I answered here. This is a question that
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Speaker 1: just pertains this week. Can you explain your strategy for
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Speaker 1: betting on golf? For example? Do you like to bet
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Speaker 1: more top fives, top tens tournament winners? Can you share
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Speaker 1: experience about betting on players that are not household names,
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Speaker 1: whether they are hot in a tournament or fizzled out.
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Speaker 1: My strategy has been as changed when I first started
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Speaker 1: doing it. I would bet on guys to win. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I hit Cam one hundred dollars bet for thirty one dollars.
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Speaker 1: That's very difficult to do, Like, you're not gonna make
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Speaker 1: a living off betting guys to win a golf tournament.
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Speaker 1: Cam Young took on what one hundred and fifty guys
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Speaker 1: this week. This is not football or basketball, where if
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Speaker 1: you bet on one of the teams to win, you
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Speaker 1: only have to beat one opponent. In golf, you have
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Speaker 1: to beat the entire field. It is it is very
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Speaker 1: difficult to do. The smart way to gamble in golf
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Speaker 1: is to bet top tens in top twenties. The bet
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Speaker 1: on Cam Young, the smart bet would have been to
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Speaker 1: hammer him top ten. You know Colin Moore Cowa, I
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Speaker 1: know he withdrew hammer him top ten and then like
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Speaker 1: part of why I like Cam Young, I think he's
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Speaker 1: an elite talent. He had top ten in his last
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Speaker 1: couple events. So part of my strategy is I take
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Speaker 1: bigger names who are playing well besides Scotty and Rory,
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Speaker 1: unless you want to take one of those guys to
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Speaker 1: win in the majors, which is not crazy, but top
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Speaker 1: tens when you can get plus one fifty plus two hundred,
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Speaker 1: like when you can get guys like Justin Thomas, Xander Schoffley,
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Speaker 1: guys like that at plus one eighty plus two hundred
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Speaker 1: to top ten and they are playing well, like you
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Speaker 1: feel pretty good about those. I have stopped betting random guys.
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Speaker 1: I don't do that very often. A couple of year
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Speaker 1: years ago, I Jake Knapp was I bet him at
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Speaker 1: the Mexico Open. But for the most part, my strategy
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Speaker 1: has really turned into take the big boys, take the
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Speaker 1: top twenty ish players, the Hadekis Fitzpatrick, when we get
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Speaker 1: to the majors, Rom Bryson, Scottie, Rory Xander, and just
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Speaker 1: to hammer those guys. Now, if you want to take
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Speaker 1: some flyers on, like a couple guys top twenty parlays,
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Speaker 1: you can put twenty bucks to win five hundred or
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Speaker 1: one thousand. You can figure out some of those. But like,
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna get aggressive to me, bet good players
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Speaker 1: to top ten with positive odds, and if you want to,
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Speaker 1: like it's fun to bet winners. But for every guy
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Speaker 1: that I've hit winning, and I've hit four or five
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Speaker 1: over the course of you know, maybe seven or eight
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Speaker 1: over the course of my career, I've lost a lot.
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Speaker 1: And you have to like, I had Kopka this week,
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Speaker 1: I had speed this week. I had some other guys
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Speaker 1: to went Fleetwood. It's not like Cam Young was the
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Speaker 1: only guy I bet. I've been fitted for new set
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Speaker 1: of irons. Old Club Pro recommended regular stiff, while another
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Speaker 1: said I'm pushing extra stiff, which seems like a big difference.
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Speaker 1: I'm a tall guy six three sixty four with a
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Speaker 1: six iron. My swing speed is around eighty five to
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Speaker 1: eighty seven miles an hour, and my average carry is
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Speaker 1: eight one hundred and eighty yards. I'm no fitter. I
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Speaker 1: would imagine with your swing speed, your distance, a stiff
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Speaker 1: shaft is fine. MY guess would be extra stiff is
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Speaker 1: not necessary. I would go stiff over regular would be
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Speaker 1: my recommendation. Again, not what I do for a living.
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Speaker 1: Don't really know. I have stiff shafts. I swing relatively hard.
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Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Can you give us a
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Speaker 1: walkthrough of your equipment in your bag? I'm a mid
40:44
Speaker 1: handicap exploring new irons. Well. A couple of years ago,
40:48
Speaker 1: it's probably like six or seven, one of the Tailor
40:51
Speaker 1: Made guys followed me, I think on Twitter Instagram. He
40:56
Speaker 1: was one of their big reps. And this is probably
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Speaker 1: like two thousand, eighteen or nineteen, and I remember talking
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Speaker 1: to him. He was a big Raider fan, and he
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Speaker 1: gave me like a forty percent off basically promo code
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Speaker 1: for Tailor Made. So I just got a set of
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Speaker 1: I think they're seven ninety cavity back irons. You know
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Speaker 1: they were like at the time. I think they're way
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Speaker 1: more expensive now. Someone told me they spent like three
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Speaker 1: grand on a set of irons. Like Jesus, you know,
41:24
Speaker 1: they were like fourteen hundred dollars. I got for six
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Speaker 1: hundred or whatever. I got really cheap. I've had the
41:28
Speaker 1: same irons forever. I've had the same Vokey titleist wedges forever.
41:34
Speaker 1: I have multiple putters, and I have Calloway Woods, which
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Speaker 1: I purchased at like the PGA Superstore, with some like
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Speaker 1: fitted shafts that I've had for a while. But I'm
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Speaker 1: I would love a club sponsor here. I would play anything.
41:56
Speaker 1: My buddies and I are going to the PGA Championship
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Speaker 1: this year and spending five there but only going to
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Speaker 1: one round. We're gonna play a couple other days. I
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Speaker 1: know you spent time in Philly, Oh, the PGA Championships
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Speaker 1: at Aronomic didn't know if you had course recommendations that
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Speaker 1: are willing to pay one hundred to two hundred dollars
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Speaker 1: any suggestions in these crowded areas, it is really hard
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Speaker 1: to find golf courses at one hundred bucks. Obviously, I
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Speaker 1: haven't played golf there since twenty ten, eleven, twelve range.
42:26
Speaker 1: I remember west Chester, which I don't know how far
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Speaker 1: away that is from Ironomic. I don't know where you're staying.
42:32
Speaker 1: Used to have some pretty good tracks. My brother came
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Speaker 1: to visit. We played out there. Beautiful country, hilly nice
42:39
Speaker 1: west Chester I think that's the name of the town.
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Speaker 1: Had some really cool tracks. But again I don't know
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Speaker 1: the price. When I was with the Eagles, we had
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Speaker 1: a there was a course in Jersey. I mean it
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Speaker 1: wasn't a great it was just a solid country club
42:51
Speaker 1: we had access to. I remember we used to play
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Speaker 1: in the offseason. Me and some of the guys. Do
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Speaker 1: you like betting golf matchups? I started doing that with
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Speaker 1: miss mixed success. I only bet. I've done it before
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Speaker 1: in the in the majors, where you take like a
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Speaker 1: group of five and you get odds on the guys.
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Speaker 1: I basically just bet. I do a lot of top
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Speaker 1: tens in top twenties and parlays type stuff with the
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Speaker 1: top tens and top twenties, and then sprinkle on winners.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of the that's what I focus on. I
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Speaker 1: don't day one leaders. That's a crap shoot, you know,
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Speaker 1: country of origin, low guy like, I don't really do that.
43:31
Speaker 1: I've actually never bet a guy to miss the cut.
43:34
Speaker 1: I feel like betting a guy to miss the cuts,
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Speaker 1: like betting an under like I don't really like betting
43:39
Speaker 1: for you know people that bet that in basketball, like
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Speaker 1: people to miss or football people like go three and out,
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Speaker 1: Like that sucks. What do you think is harder to
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Speaker 1: accomplish shooting a fifty nine in golf or making a
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Speaker 1: sixty yard field goal in an actual game. Well, it's
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Speaker 1: not possible for any normal human being either, So I
44:00
Speaker 1: think you're talking alluding to the pros. I would say
44:04
Speaker 1: now that kicking, these guys are kicking like sixty five
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Speaker 1: yard field goals. So sixty yard field goal when I
44:12
Speaker 1: in the nineties was a really big deal. If you kick,
44:16
Speaker 1: they would punt if the field goal was anything more
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Speaker 1: than like fifty two yards. Now it's like sixty five yards.
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Speaker 1: Half the teams in the league roll out their guy.
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Speaker 1: So I would say, if you're just basically on pro
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Speaker 1: kickers and pro golfers, if we're just going to assume
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Speaker 1: par seventy two, it's harder to shoot a fifty nine
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Speaker 1: than it is to kick a sixty yard field goal.
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Speaker 1: My guess would be the majority of guys there's thirty
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Speaker 1: two teams. I would guess more than half teams would
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Speaker 1: be pretty comfortable, pretty comfortably be strong, but would roll
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Speaker 1: out their kicker. The Jags, the Cowboys, Seattle. I'd have
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Speaker 1: to think I'm out of the kicker mode, but maybe
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Speaker 1: less than sixteen, but there's definitely ten. Plus the teams
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Speaker 1: are trying from sixty yards, so I would say shooting
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Speaker 1: fifty nine would be harder. That'll do it. Congrats to
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Speaker 1: Cam Young, Congrats to me, and what an awesome tournament
45:19
Speaker 1: on kind of a slow weekend as we head into
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Speaker 1: March madness. Who props to John Calipari who fired from
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Speaker 1: Kentucky forced out, went to Arkansas, now when's the SEC
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Speaker 1: tournament and has a baller. I think Arkansas is going
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Speaker 1: to be a team that I'm a roof for in
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Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament in Saint Mary's like always, but I
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Speaker 1: always root for Saint Mary's. I always get bounced in
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Speaker 1: the first round. So enjoy the night and we will
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Speaker 1: talk soon again. Subscribe audio version GOLO pod. I think
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Speaker 1: we'll link it to the three and out Pod two tomorrow,
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