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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I am Schad Millman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network.
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  Speaker 1: It's US Open week. Obviously a lot of conversations happening
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  Speaker 1: in Brookline, where the U s Open is being held.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time in a quarter century. Live golf
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  Speaker 1: started last week. We're gonna have Jason Sobel come on.
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  Speaker 1: He's at Brookline. He's gonna talk about handicap in the
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  Speaker 1: US Open. He's going to talk about the scuttle butt
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  Speaker 1: on the tour, generally about live golf, how players are
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  Speaker 1: reacting to it, our personal interpretations of everything. Before we
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  Speaker 1: get to that, my bff, my companion, Mike and Padre
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  Speaker 1: professional Better Simon Hunter. Hello, Siman, what's going on? Brother? Dude?
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  Speaker 1: You and I were together on Friday night. Facts. You
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  Speaker 1: picked me up in your slamming convertible beamer in front
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  Speaker 1: of my hotel and we've made our way out to
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  Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Ballpark to watch the Phillies, and my god,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It couldn't have been a more perfect night. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: perfect weather, good fan base, a lot of fans that
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  Speaker 1: are not a rowdy fan base either. No, we never
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  Speaker 1: felt threatened. You know, we got a bad rap here
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Chad and I both wore neutral colors. No
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  Speaker 1: one said a word to us the whole time we
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  Speaker 1: were there. I was surprised. I was surprised at how
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  Speaker 1: many people were there. I mean the stadium was pretty
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  Speaker 1: packed actually, and uh but it was a great night.
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  Speaker 1: We had ridiculously good seats, fourth row behind along the
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  Speaker 1: first baseline, just beyond the extension of the Phillies dugout.
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  Speaker 1: I believe we had three guys sitting behind us. So
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  Speaker 1: if anyone's ever seen the movie Slap Shot, and you
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  Speaker 1: know the triplets in that movie, the three Triplets, that's
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  Speaker 1: literally what was sitting right behind me and chat the
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  Speaker 1: entire game. It was great. These guys are described These
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  Speaker 1: were the hardest core Philly fans. You can imagine that
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  Speaker 1: guys have not missed the game ever. Someone walked, someone
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  Speaker 1: get walked, and the guy goes, remember Barry Bonds used
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  Speaker 1: to walk a lot. Barry Bonds. Can you imagine Barry
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  Speaker 1: Bonds on this lineup, and they were just about stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. It was truly incredible how these guys were
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  Speaker 1: just flowing, they were they were such It was like
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Bryce Harper starting to get warm. It's getting
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  Speaker 1: really warm summer months. He's really starting to do well.
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  Speaker 1: You know. They were talking about how they were freezing
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  Speaker 1: for opening night, like for Charlie Manuel's first game in
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  Speaker 1: his run as the Phillies manager. It was fantastic. You
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  Speaker 1: and I got to hang. I got to eat some
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  Speaker 1: ice cream in a helmet. You bought some peanuts, We
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  Speaker 1: had a hot dog, and then there was one particular
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  Speaker 1: moment I went to get some ice cream. We eat
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  Speaker 1: each had a beer. At that point, you wanted another beer.
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  Speaker 1: Went to get some ice cream and a beer, and
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  Speaker 1: then what happened to the woman behind the counter? What what?
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  Speaker 1: What did she say? Yeah, even though I had a
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  Speaker 1: full beard, this woman didn't believe me about my age,
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  Speaker 1: so she asked me for an I d I of
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  Speaker 1: course didn't bring it in. I left it in my
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  Speaker 1: car because I'm an idiot. Chad stepped up. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I have my idea on me. I said, I said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: he's not getting the beer. The beers for me, and
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  Speaker 1: she goes I don't need your idea, honey, you're too sexy.
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  Speaker 1: And I honestly was taken back when she said it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what, what did she just say? But
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  Speaker 1: she gave this little smirk and look at Chad and Chad, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I don't since I get that red and a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's because I'm, you know, pulling up
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  Speaker 1: polly walnuts and the side of my head is all gray.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's truly She's like, I'm serious, you're too sexy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need your I d I brought that home
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  Speaker 1: with me, told Stacy. I told the boys just to
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  Speaker 1: remind them that when I go out and I met
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  Speaker 1: a Phillies game, senior beer vendors who think I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little bit sexy, I think you're gonna say, when I
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  Speaker 1: go out and I go to baseball games, I don't
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  Speaker 1: drink beer. I go and get ice cream. Out of that,
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  Speaker 1: we're not surprised him, by the way, I was not
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  Speaker 1: surprised when it was happening, Chad. I'll be honest, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, this is right on course with who I
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  Speaker 1: think Chad is. I am. I was completely on brand
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  Speaker 1: and us because I knew Chad would love him. Chad
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  Speaker 1: was just going all in on those peanuts. I went
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  Speaker 1: all on the peanuts, and you actually said, should we
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  Speaker 1: go get another beer? I'm like, I can get some
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  Speaker 1: ice cream. Great night, great to hang with you. Philly
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  Speaker 1: is a great town. I freaking love Philly. You saw
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  Speaker 1: the best part though, top down and eighty degree weather
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  Speaker 1: driving around the city of Philadelphia. It's a beautiful city.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's as people know, there's definitely sketchy parts,
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  Speaker 1: but center city can't beat. It's just such a beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful city, especially the old with the new mixed together.
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  Speaker 1: It's just really pretty. Love it, Love it alright, Simon uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's bring our friend Jason Sobel in from Brookline, mass
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  Speaker 1: Um we'll prev the U s Open. Ye fit? All right,
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in Jason Sobel live on the scene from Brookline,
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  Speaker 1: Massachusetts for the US Open. First time in Brookline since
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  Speaker 1: Jason Sobel. And before we get to breaking down the course,
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  Speaker 1: breaking down the players, long shots, top five, top ten, etcetera,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about live versus p g A. Phil Nicholson
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  Speaker 1: another sort of shameful press conference yesterday. What's your take
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  Speaker 1: on what's happening? What's it like on the ground. So
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  Speaker 1: hello chack Low Simon, thanks for having me on as always.
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  Speaker 1: And boy, there's a lot of moving parts to this.
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  Speaker 1: And let me let me fill in those who aren't
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  Speaker 1: really sure what's going on in golf right now with
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a primer. Essentially, the PGA Tour
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  Speaker 1: has been the biggest game in town for oh sixty
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  Speaker 1: years or so. When the best players in the world
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  Speaker 1: played the PGA Tour, they get paid lots of money
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  Speaker 1: based on how they play, and we all know how
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  Speaker 1: it works. Uh. The Saudio rad In government, through the
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  Speaker 1: Public Investment Fund, has started a golf league called Live Golf,
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  Speaker 1: and they have gone after a lot of players and
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  Speaker 1: instead of just earning money and yes, they can still
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  Speaker 1: earn a lot of money for what they actually make
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  Speaker 1: in a tournament, they're giving them these wild essentially signing bonuses.
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  Speaker 1: And so you probably heard Phil Nicholson, Dustin Johnson and
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  Speaker 1: now Bryson to Shambo, Patrick Reid are going over to
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  Speaker 1: Live Golf. And there's going to be a huge fracture
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  Speaker 1: within the golf community of PGA Tour players and Live golfers.
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  Speaker 1: And so the reason this is so polarizing is if
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  Speaker 1: Live Golf and come around and said, hey, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a league. It's gonna be based in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 1: They play more events in the United States than anywhere
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  Speaker 1: else that they just had an event in London to
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  Speaker 1: kick things off. We're gonna have this league. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a rival league to the PGA Tour, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run it just like the PGA Tour, with the
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  Speaker 1: same monetary prizes, monetary values. All these players would say, no, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: I already play on a league. It does that. Why
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  Speaker 1: why would I want that? I'm perfectly happy with the
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  Speaker 1: PGA Tour. If Live Golf was let's say run through Canada,
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  Speaker 1: Let's say a billionaire in the maple syrup industry said hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'd like to give you millions and millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: to come play. There wouldn't be a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: controversy because I don't know, everyone kind of likes me syrup,
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  Speaker 1: and that would be you know that that seems like
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  Speaker 1: a good alternative to say, Hey, I'm just gonna go
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  Speaker 1: chase the money. We've all we've all got a price,
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  Speaker 1: and go play. The reason this is so polarizing is
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  Speaker 1: because it is essentially sportswashing at its finest, which is uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Saudi Arabian government trying to change the perception and
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  Speaker 1: the field globally of what their country, what their government
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  Speaker 1: has has done as far as human rights um and
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  Speaker 1: and trying to change their image. And they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: change it through sport, and they're trying to change it
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  Speaker 1: through golf. And we'll see if it works. And and
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is not gonna be something that happens tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be something that happens next week. It
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  Speaker 1: might be something that happens thirty years down the law
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  Speaker 1: line when our kids are grown and they look at
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and they say, oh, I don't remember that
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  Speaker 1: nefarious human rights stuff. All I know is they play
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  Speaker 1: golf over there and seems like a nice place you
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  Speaker 1: can go visit. And so that essentially is I think
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  Speaker 1: the long term plan of what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: And they're using guys like Phil Nicholson and Dustin Johnson
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  Speaker 1: essentially as pawns, and they're paying them big time money
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  Speaker 1: to come over and play. And I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of this is just a hunt for them. It's about
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  Speaker 1: the game. It's about the challenge. How can we disrupt
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  Speaker 1: the business and what number can we put out there
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  Speaker 1: to get these guys to come play for us. So, look,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's blood money and
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  Speaker 1: the players are taking it. And I would have more
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  Speaker 1: respect for the players who are taking it. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have any respect for the players who are taking it,
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  Speaker 1: but I would at least be sort of more accepting
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  Speaker 1: if when they were in these press conferences they just said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's I went on, I've decided to take
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  Speaker 1: the money. It's a lot of money. I can't turn
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  Speaker 1: it down. I believe in feeding my family and generational
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  Speaker 1: wealth and all the things that come with it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's gonna be. You don't like it, fine,
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  Speaker 1: But they're trying to have it both ways here in
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  Speaker 1: which they want to take the money yet maintain pristine
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  Speaker 1: reputations or say that they're doing it for the betterment
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  Speaker 1: of the game or to expand golf globally. And they
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  Speaker 1: sound like fucking idiots. They sound worse than just saying
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  Speaker 1: They sounded worse than just saying, yeah, I'm taking the
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  Speaker 1: money and that's what I'm doing. I've heard that from
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. I understand that I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: disagree with it. Although in that press conference on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: a very awkward press conference with Phil Nicholson, if he
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  Speaker 1: was being asked about nine eleven, he is being asked
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  Speaker 1: about being bet with the Sawties and becoming partners with them,
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  Speaker 1: It filtered up in front of everyone said, I don't care, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting paid. I got dollar bills. Looking at how
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  Speaker 1: much they're paying me. This is awesome. Man. Doesn't that
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  Speaker 1: sound a whole lot worse than what he said? Well,
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  Speaker 1: yes and no, because the truth is the people who
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  Speaker 1: are going to like Phil are gonna like him no
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  Speaker 1: matter what. There's a certain group of people who will
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  Speaker 1: root for him and not care and not have moral
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  Speaker 1: issues with what he's doing with Live Golf or Dustin
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  Speaker 1: Johnson or anybody else. Sure, but what he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: do is sort of hang on to the people who
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  Speaker 1: do care. And the truth is he can't have it
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  Speaker 1: both ways here, and he doesn't need to have it
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  Speaker 1: both ways because he's getting paid two million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: go do it. It's why he doesn't have any sponsors
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  Speaker 1: on any of his um on any of his clothes
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  Speaker 1: or anything else right now for this. So just fucking
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  Speaker 1: own it, man, That's all to me, that's what it is. Like.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's good for golf. I'm like looking at
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  Speaker 1: it from my standpoint of I look at it as
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  Speaker 1: do guys really move the needle on golf. I know
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  Speaker 1: we're acting like these are for stars, leaving you guys sport,
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  Speaker 1: but it's Tiger Woods and everyone else. It's like, I
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  Speaker 1: just don't remember people being like you gotta tune in
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  Speaker 1: this week and Michelson's playing in the Open or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is. I'm telling you, it's like maybe they like
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  Speaker 1: Rory mckroy. It's just there's just all these other players.
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  Speaker 1: They're all kind of the same level where it's like
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  Speaker 1: I don't really tell that I don't care if Phil
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  Speaker 1: is not playing. I I'm still watching golf regardless of
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  Speaker 1: Phil Michelson's in a tournament. So to me, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, there's certain guys who play golf that
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  Speaker 1: we know they don't really like golf, or they don't
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  Speaker 1: really care about golf, they don't care about the tournaments. Great,
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  Speaker 1: go let them playe live. I like it. I like
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  Speaker 1: that this has kind of made this thing where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if to me, if the media drops it,
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  Speaker 1: like if they stopped bringing up at these PGA tours,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about live all these other things.
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  Speaker 1: I see this going away pretty quick because to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about the tournaments, like the four Majors, that's
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  Speaker 1: what we care about. Like I care about the Big Four.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have that with this live tournament. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe down the road they might have some traction, but
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  Speaker 1: for right now, have nothing changed for me. I still
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  Speaker 1: I just care about the p G A well, at
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  Speaker 1: some point time when we're gonna stop stop talking about
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  Speaker 1: as much as we are still very new and that's
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  Speaker 1: still very much in the news right now. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: what I've heard from a lot of people, it's because
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  Speaker 1: sort of what you're saying is, hey, quantity is better.
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  Speaker 1: We could have choices, we have options. We have two
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  Speaker 1: great golf tours to watch instead of one. My response
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  Speaker 1: to that is, this is not like other industries. This
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  Speaker 1: is not like, hey, we've got one fast food restaurant
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  Speaker 1: in our town. It's McDonald's, and so we always eat
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  Speaker 1: a McDonald's, even though it's dirty and the food is
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  Speaker 1: not good, and now Burger King's coming in, and boy,
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  Speaker 1: Burger King looks pretty good. So now McDonald's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to clean up their act just so they keep their business.
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  Speaker 1: It's good for the business and it's great for consumers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it works that way in sports leagues.
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  Speaker 1: If the NFL was to say, hey, we're gonna break
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  Speaker 1: up into ten little NFL leagues all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: the competition would be deluded. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: happens now history history repeats itself the NFL. They've tried
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  Speaker 1: to do this. How many years shouts the NFL have
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  Speaker 1: been trying to get a second league. It just does
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  Speaker 1: not work. And even when they would poach players back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, it just it just doesn't work. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the difference, though, the difference is whether it's XFL or USFL.
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  Speaker 1: In that realm, they're trying to make money, they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to turn a profit, they're trying to have a league
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  Speaker 1: that's a viable league. The Sun of Arabian government they
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  Speaker 1: don't care it's not on TV. They're like, whatever you can,
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  Speaker 1: you can watch online if you want, but we really
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  Speaker 1: care if you do or not it's it's not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a viable league to playing fifty four holes.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting like, this is not real golf. We're just
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna pay guys, and you know, we're gonna see
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  Speaker 1: what what it takes, however, a hundred million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: pay these guys and have them come play. And we
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  Speaker 1: don't really care if you watch. We don't care if
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  Speaker 1: we turn a profit. We don't care about anything other
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  Speaker 1: than thirty years down the line, having some golf courses
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  Speaker 1: yere and having people change your mind about what the
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  Speaker 1: government is. So I think that's what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are having a hard time sort of wrapping their
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  Speaker 1: minds around, is that this is unlike anything we've seen
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  Speaker 1: before because the usual variables here aren't in play. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what makes it so dangerous is that they've got
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  Speaker 1: unlimited funds. They can they can essentially throw out any
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  Speaker 1: number they want to any player out there, and they
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  Speaker 1: can get these guys. And it's really it's it's not golf,
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  Speaker 1: it's the ice Capades. It's hey, we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get the world's best golfers in. We're gonna pay them,
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna go play around the world, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of they're competing against each other, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really matter win or lose. You're all still getting
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  Speaker 1: paid anyway. Well, you're right, Uh, it's very insidious because
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  Speaker 1: it is sort of a little bit akin to politics
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, where you can be on one
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  Speaker 1: side of the aisle or the other, but oftentimes politicians
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  Speaker 1: are playing the long game, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: parallels to what the Saudis are doing. You know what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like today, These players are getting used, they're
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  Speaker 1: lining their pockets. They don't give a fuck. The Saudis
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  Speaker 1: don't give a fuck. In thirty years, Jason, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty years, you know, I'll be really fucking old. He
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  Speaker 1: won't be as old as me. Simon will still be
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years old. But you know the truth is, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: like people won't care. My younger cuts fifteen right now.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't care about the p g A, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: care about golf, doesn't care about live golf. And in
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: thirty years he won't know what this was and probably
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: won't care. And in some aspects of this are not
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: absolutely horrible. I mean, if we want to call it
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: what it is, forty eight man fields with shotgun starts.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I don't like it for the final round, but for
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the first two rounds. I was watching it when it
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: kicked off last Thursday, guys, and it was kind of cool.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Kicked off nine fifteen a m. Eastern time, and all
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, within ten minutes, they're doing camera cuts
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: all over the golf course because every player is playing
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: rather than easing their way into the morning like the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: PGA Tour. I'm like, I kind of don't hate this.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I don't love it for the final round. I don't
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: want to see you guy winning a golf tournament on
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the sixth hole or something like that. But I think
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: for the first couple of rounds. I mean, like I said,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: it's not on TV, it's only streaming online. That's not bad.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: The broadcast wasn't terrible. All right, Well, let's talk about
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: what's actually happening on the course this week. Like we
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: said Europe, Brookline, it's the US Open. First time at
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: brook Line. Since you had a column on Action network
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: dot com your preview of the US Open that went
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: up yesterday, reminder, everyone can listen to Links and Locks,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the podcast from the Action Network, they can watch the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: gimme to get into even more detail on the US Open.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: But back at Brookline, tell us a little bit about
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the course. Uh, this course, I did a spin around
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you or yesterday. We're talking on Tuesday now one day,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: just kind of a little spin around the golf where
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: it looks awesome. It is in such good shape right now.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: It is gonna be fast, fiery, It's gonna get a
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: little baked out. It's gonna go a little crusty this weekend.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Uh excuse me. Hopefully the the temperatures remain hot. There's
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: a little wind coming through here. That's perfect for US Open.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of false fronts on these
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: greens where you'll see some shots that look like a
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: good shot approach into the green lands ten feetle over
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the hole. You're like, oh, that's good, he's got a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Bertie butt, And all of a sudden, that ball just
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: starts to move just a little bit, and then a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: little more and that starts rolling. Next thing you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you've got a sixty yard pitch shot straight back up
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the hill from where you started. You're gonna see a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: lot of that. You're gonna see guys, slamming their clubs
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: down and muttering to themselves and really frustrated with what
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: they think is a good shot that winds up being
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: really poor and really penalizing. So in the in the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: story you wrote um this week, you talked about how
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the evolution of champions at the US Open has changed
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: over the years. Uh, explain what you what you described there?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: So used to be the major championship for the little guys,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Corey Pavitt, Lee Jansen, Jim Furik, Graham McDowell, all guys
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: who didn't hit it three thirty yards off the team
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: weren't big, strong guys, but they would keep it out
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: of the rough. They would essentially keep in the fairway,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: hit the greens, make a lot of cars, don't make
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: too many mistakes. What's happened in the last six years
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and you you look at the five champions over six years,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: books kept because one twice, Dustin Johnson, Gary Woodland, Bryson
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Deshambo and John Ron last year. It's like the golf's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: version of an arm wrestling team. I mean, these are
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all big, strong, athletic looking dudes. I won't give you
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the Brooks kept. It looks like a linebacker line, because
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that's not quite true. But they all look like they
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: could be at least maybe like a third basement in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. I mean, they're all big, strong dudes,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: athletic guys. And so the reason for that is essentially
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: every year in the US Open starts narrowing and narrowing,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: narrowing more the fairways. So what's gonna happen is not
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: only the accurate guy, not only the long hitters are
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: gonna miss fairways. The guys who are used to hitting
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of fairways, they're gonna miss two. Now, you'd
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: rather be three yards off the tee than to eighty
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna miss a fairway. And the bigger advantage,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: even more so than that, is these big, strong guys
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: can get it out of the rough, muscle it onto
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the greens, whereas the guy who's five six, one thirty,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: he can't even He's just gonna have to pitch it
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: out and he doesn't have to strength the muscle to
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: get it up there. And so that's where the major
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: advantages for these guys. Now, it looks like the fairways
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: here this week at the country Club are a little
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: bit wider, a little bit more generous. The rough is
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it's thick, but it's not as long as we've seen
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: in recent years. So I do have at least some
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: hope that some of these shorter hitters, and I have
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a handful of them up on top of my list,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I think they have a chance of contending and even
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: winning this week. And quite frankly, guys, there are no
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: short hitters in the game anymore anyway. You're either long.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: You're either really long, or you're long enough. If you're short,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you're just you don't play. You're not a professional golfer.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You can't exist in this world anymore. And so um
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: even the guys that we look at and say they're
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: kind of short. Jordan's speech is a quote unquote short hitter.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I believe he's averaging right around the same number off
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the sea as Tony Finnow this year. And you look
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: at Tony Finell and you know, oh, big strong duty,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it's in a mile, yeah he I mean, if they
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: want to get into a driving distance contest, I'll take
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Tony all day against Jordan. But Jordan's speed certainly hits
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: it long enough. A lot of these guys they hit
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it long enough to at least compete and contend on
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: a golf course like this one. When you're looking at
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bet the Open, how is this one different than all
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the other major tournaments. I'm looking at guys. I look
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: more simon at the personality of players for this event
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: than at other ones, because I think you need to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of patience. I think you need
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to be a guy that's not necessarily ill tempered. You know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a a guy like Terroll Hatton. We've seen him over
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the years. I mean, he was playing the art See
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Canadian Open last week, which was a pretty gettable golf course,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and he's slamming clubs his person and he's getting all
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: thrown out of whack. I mean, if if that's getting
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: a guy like that, um that upset about the golf
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: course and the condition that set up and all that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, he's gonna have no chance in the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: US Open. That's it. John rom is a he runs
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: pretty hot, he's pretty hot tempered type of dude. He
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: won last year. So I don't know if it necessarily
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: means just the patient guys still, but I'm looking at
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: guys who, you know what, You're gonna make bogies on
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: this golf course. You make a bogey, you walk off,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you go the next hole. You don't have to necessarily
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: take it with you to the next hole. So I'm
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: looking more personality, the things that won't show up in
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a model. We're always looking at statistics and analytical models
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: these days, and look I I look at as much
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: as anybody out there, but I'm also looking at what
• 22:50
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  Speaker 1: want to go backwards. I don't want to start with
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the outright. I don't want to start with a long shot.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Let's start with let's start with top tens. Who you're
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: seeing best odds, best value for top ten? Right now? Okay,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I mentioned Tony Finales named a minute ago. Tony figure
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: out won the Northern Trust last year back in August,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: when sixteen starts without a top five. Afterwards looked like
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it was Hey, now he's got momentum. We've been waiting
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: for Tony to become a superstar. Didn't happen afterwards, but
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: in his last five starts, he's got three top five finishes,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: including a runner to Rory back Roy this past weekend.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I like Tony a lot for a US Open type
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: of setup. He's got the right attitude. Like I was
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: just saying, I think he's a good play Max Homa.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Here's a guy who hasn't played major as well in
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the past, but he's he's literally getting better every single
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: week and you can tell the confidence on his face,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: like this is a guy that's improving right before our eyes.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He won the Wells Fargo Championship about a month ago,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and I think there's a nice little correlation. That was
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a tough Northeast golf course. I think you can look
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: at that one and say, I think some players from
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: that league aboard will show up on this one. Maximas
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: guy who was thirteen of the PGA Championship last month,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: that's his best career major finish. I like. I like
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: him a few notches higher for a top ten this week,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and then Matt Fitzpatrick is a great player this week.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Matt Fitzpatrick won the two thousand thirteen US Amateur right
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: here at the country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Plays his
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: best golf on tougher golf courses when the winning score
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: is closer in relationship part. Oh, by the way, he's
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: number two. He was number one for most of the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: season in total strokes gained on the PGA Tour. Rory
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: mclory just went past him this past weekend, but he's
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a close second. Essentially, that measures who's playing the best golf.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I know Fitzpatrick hasn't won anything this season, but he's
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: been very, very good. Just to give people in some context, uh,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Matt Fitzpatrick to one outright about plus two ten two
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to one for top ten, Tony Fine thirty five to one,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: plus three twenty for top ten. Uh, Maxima to one
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: plus four twenty for top ten. Simon, I want you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to follow up in a second, but I do have
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: one re quire and everything I've read this week, everyone
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: keeps talking about Maxima. Why are maximas odds so long
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: if everyone seems to like him so much? Twitter? Yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people. Look, a lot of
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: people are blinded by what's right in front of them.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: A lot of people look at social media. Look, I'm
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: out here all the time. I'm talking to players, I'm
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: around the game. I see things that other people aren't
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: necessarily seeing. When you're sitting at home and you're trying
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to figure out who's gonna win the golf tournament, you're like, hey,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: let's go on Twitter and let's click around. You're like, oh,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: there he is again. It's just it's front and center
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: in your mind. That's it. He is a very good player. Yes,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: he's a very popular pick. Look, Fitzpatrick is gonna be
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: an extremely popular pick this week as well. But um
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: are these are the guys that I think should play well.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Their their games should suit this golf course this week.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I know Chad want to hold off on if I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: gotta hear him long shots give it to you. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: know he wants to do favorite picks, but I wanted
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: to hear the long shots. I love the long shots,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: all right, So what kind of long shots do you want?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: We're talking like super random dudes for top forties, or
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: you're talking like, hey, guy with a big number that
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: has a chance of winning, big number, chance of winning always. Okay,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I would started off with I I told you guys,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I took a little spin around this golf course yesterday.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find like a great comparison golf course.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Excuse me to what this looks like. And the best
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I can come up with is Marrying Marrying golf Club,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: a famous course, Ben Hogan's one Iron. We all know
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the story last l the US Open. The guy who
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: won that week just happened to shoot sixty a couple
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of days ago. Probably should have shot a fifty seventy,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: made three bogies and shot sixty in Canada, that's justin Rose.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: The number has moved. I think you could have gotten
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: him before that sixty at right around eighty or maybe
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: even a hundred to one in some books. I think
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: roses down to to one in a lot of places
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: right now. I still like the number. I still think
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: there's some win equity there. He's playing some very good golf. Yeah,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: he's not the same player in his prime as he
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: was at marrying uh back nine years ago. But I
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: do think you can go out and still win this
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: golf tournament. You know what's interesting You mentioned guys like speed,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: If you mentioned guys like Justin Rose, I feel like
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: their moment came and went so quickly. You know, like
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you just sort of think, Okay, he's in his prime
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: as a golfer. He should get a good six, seven, eight,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: nine years in that prime, given sort of how your
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: game evolves, how sometimes you can get better as you
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: get older. Players are starting to play a little bit earlier. Um,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the way to extay in shape sort of fitnesses is better. Uh,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: These guys like they came and went so quickly. Some yes,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: some now. I mean, look, Justin Rose has been out
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: there for twenty years doing this and he's still a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: very good player. I mean, it's still a guy who
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: on it on again. We can choose sixty in the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: final round. I mean, he's still still good. He's not
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: gonna do it every single week. I think it's a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: combination of Look, you do it for a long time,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: you just get injured, you kind of lose maybe little
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: desire and motivation for especially non major championships. Some of
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: these guys, I mean, you mentioned Jordan speaking, he's still
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: very much in his prime. He's still one of the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: top ten golfers in the world. I like him this
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: week as well. Then you look at look how many
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: good young players there are. I mean, we were just
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: talking a few years ago about Hey, Colin Morricala and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Victor Hoblin, they're gonna be really good. Those guys have
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: been top five players in the game, and now they're
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: getting pushed by the Wills alaturus Is and Cameron Young
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and Mito Pereira and Davis Riley, and there's more and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: more coming up on a regular basis. So it's really
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: hard to be a thirty eight, thirty nine, forty year
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: old golfer and trying to compete with these kids who
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: are twenty two and twenty three and feel like they're
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: they've got all the confidence in the world. It goes
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: back to the live golf situation where a lot of
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: these guys who are going over to live they're late
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: thirties early forties, and they see the writing on the wall,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and they're saying, Look, I'm in the back nine of
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: my career. Anyway, these kids are pushing me out. I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: may never win anything of substance again. Why not take
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: my knocking figure payout and go play fifty four whole
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: events and not have to deal with these kids were
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: beating my butt every week. Jordan's to one match, Fitzpatrick
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to one. I mentioned before, Kylin Morracylo Hugh just mentioned
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to one, all right, we did top ten, We're gonna
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: do top five, and then Simon is going to ask
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you for your outrights after I give everybody the right
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: context for who's got the shortest odds, right now, give
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: me your top five. Okay, so guys, the top five,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: they're like, now giving up my my favorite outright play. Look,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a couple of them are very choky. I've got Justin
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Thomas Mori McElroy. They're both right at the top of
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the leaderboard. This past weekend, Wory wound up winning. Good
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: for golf, good for the PGA Tour. Everyone celebrates. Look,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Rory's playing some of the best golf that we've seen
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: him play in an awful long time. We talked about confidence,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: we talk about let's look beyond the analytical models and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: let's look at the guy and and and understand what
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: we're seeing from him. Rory is absolutely brimming with confidence
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: right now, both on and off the golf course. He
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: is a must watch golfer on the course. He's a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: much watch, must watch interview. Off the golf course. He's
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: just he's fired at all cylinders and all facets of
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: what his job is right now. And so love Rory
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: this week. Love Justin Thomas. I was uh coming to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the course today with a couple of p g A
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: tour pros who um who were working on the radio
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: side US Open Championship radio with me this week, and
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: they were talking about Justin Thomas, who has every shot
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: in the bag. They said, no other player in the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: world right now can flight the ball however they want,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Like Justin Thomas, he wants to hit a low cutty.
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  Speaker 1: It's a low cut you want to say to high
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  Speaker 1: draw high drug. You can do it from sixty yards,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it from two and thirty yards. He's
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  Speaker 1: got this variety of shots that's gonna work really well
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  Speaker 1: for him. So again, those aren't names from off the board.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't heard. Daniel Berger isn't getting enough love in
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the marketplace yet this week. Daniel Berger is a guy
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  Speaker 1: who often comes up to New England the summer. He's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: sort of as de facto New England or his old
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  Speaker 1: bro Matt Doyle's at the Msquamaket Club in Rhode Islands.
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  Speaker 1: He goes up there and practices. He's playing ball at
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  Speaker 1: the Travelers Championship, just a couple of miles or excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of hours down the road in Connecticut. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think it's gonna be a good week for Burger.
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  Speaker 1: I might not have said that a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: because he was dealing with some injuries, some inconsistencies. But
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  Speaker 1: he finished the sheriff fifth place at the Memorial Tournament.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really tough one. This is gonna be tough
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  Speaker 1: as well. I think his game really suits his golf course.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Burger eight to one for a top five rory
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  Speaker 1: plus two Justin Thomas plus two seventy five the Travelers
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  Speaker 1: mere minutes from West Hartford. I'll be there in a
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  Speaker 1: few days. I know. I'm looking forward to me all
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  Speaker 1: right outright winners right now, Rory's attend to one and
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  Speaker 1: dropping justin Thomas eleven and one, John Ram defending fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to one, Scottie Scheffler fourteen to one, Cam Smith one,
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  Speaker 1: Xander Schoffley one. Then Can't Lay, Patrick can't one. Simon
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  Speaker 1: ask you a question, here's your favorite bet? Alright? So,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: first of all, those names mentioned, Xander Shaffley and Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Cantley at those numbers are very very intrigued. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good week for both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Can't Lay has played some of his worst golf in
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the Majors over the last year or so. I think
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: people are gonna be scared off. I think that's kept
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  Speaker 1: his number from being too short. I think it's a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: really good number for him. He's better than where he's
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: being priced at. That said, you didn't mention my guy
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: who's a little bit lower down the board. Shane Lowry
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  Speaker 1: is playing some of the best golf of his life
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  Speaker 1: so far this year. Twelve starts in two, nothing worse
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  Speaker 1: than thirty five, and really it's this all around game.
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  Speaker 1: He eats driving it well. The irons are solid soft
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  Speaker 1: fans around the greens. He makes some butts he's got
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  Speaker 1: the right attitude for US Open. He was runner up
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  Speaker 1: to Dustin Johnson at Oakmont back in and so I like,
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  Speaker 1: but irishman in Boston, who would think that that can
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: ever go well? But I really do think Shane Lowry
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  Speaker 1: can h can go and take this thing this week.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he won the Open Championship a few years
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  Speaker 1: ago at Royal part Wich, I've always thought he's probably
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: got a better chance of winning a US Open. I
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: think he's better US Open player than even the Open
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Championship where he's from. And quite frankly, guys, maybe I'm
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: just rooting for it, not only for my own personal benefit,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: but that's celebration for Shane Lowry here in Boston Sunday night.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: That could be a pretty damn good party. Shane Lowry
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: currently thirty one to win the US Open. Jason Silbell,
• 35:43
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• 35:47
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• 35:58
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• 36:04
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• 36:09
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