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Speaker 1: go hello baby, go low, Let's talk some golf Tory

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Speaker 1: Pines this week. It's actually starting, you know. I set

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Speaker 1: this podcast up. Obviously we do football Monday Tuesday, so

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Speaker 1: those days weren't really available. But I was like, Wednesday

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Speaker 1: So if we're gonna talk a little gambling, which we're

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Speaker 1: definitely going to in season. Jason Sobel, who's covered golf forever,

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna come on and kind of do

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Speaker 1: like a stucky roll if you listen to the football podcast,

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Speaker 1: don't want to pick a couple, you know guys he likes.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to him every week and we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that goes. Actually network on top of me just talking,

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Speaker 1: and of course at the Goal Pod, I have a

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Speaker 1: bunch of Goal Pod mail bag questions, so slide up

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Speaker 1: in those em and I'll answer him here on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: But because the PGA Tour, I give him a lot

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Speaker 1: of credit. I mean, to move this event up is genius.

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Speaker 1: To go Wednesday through Saturday is what you do. There

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Speaker 1: is no reason, and I mean zero reason to compete

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Speaker 1: against the NFL. I say it all the time, and listen.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm new school. I think baseball should end in

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Speaker 1: I think the NBA should start their season like January one.

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Speaker 1: Just avoid football at all costs. It doesn't make any

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Speaker 1: sense sometimes in life, you know, listen, like if you

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Speaker 1: Football is almost over. I am really really glad they

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Speaker 1: did this. I I enjoy watching Tory Pines, even though

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Speaker 1: I was actually at my brother's house. Uh would have

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Speaker 1: My brother he actually needs labor surgery. But he he's

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Speaker 1: a good player. He's a lefty. He you know, I

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Speaker 1: and he's like, screw, I'll take my clubs and I'll

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Speaker 1: play some courses down there. So he played Tory Pines

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Speaker 1: and they had just I think it was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: three fifty dollars because a non resident it costs like

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Speaker 1: if it's in great shape, you're playing a US Open course,

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Speaker 1: I get it. Like I had no problem with it,

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Speaker 1: Like I've paid two hundred dollars to play Harding. When

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Speaker 1: And that's sometimes I see it with Harding. I've been

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Speaker 1: I like watching people play golf for a lot of money. Right,

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Speaker 1: That's like I watched football. I want to see who

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Speaker 1: wins the game. Ultimately, all those guys playing football make

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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour signed enormous and I mean enormous television

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Speaker 1: And really they're just kind of making that up as

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Speaker 1: mentioned on three and Out you're buying some property in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be really cool if you get

425
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Speaker 1: Johnny Menzel on the show at some point, which is funny.

426
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Speaker 1: I'm just talking about it. I think he lives in

427
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Speaker 1: Phoenix now and is making a push to try to

428
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Speaker 1: compete on the tour. If you think he's a hack

429
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,640
Speaker 1: and are trying to stay away from him, I totally

430
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Speaker 1: get it. I just thought it would be a cool interview.

431
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Speaker 1: Uh and listen, like, I think Johnny Menzel would kick

432
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Speaker 1: my assid golf, Like he's probably a legit scratch My

433
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Speaker 1: point funny just bringing him up is that I think

434
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Speaker 1: it's so like his Him and Tony played in that

435
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Speaker 1: what was that? The Dallas the Dallas you know pro

436
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Speaker 1: I don't know if the pro am. It's got a

437
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Speaker 1: it's got a name to It's a big tournament in Texas,

438
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Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure Johnny Manzel finished dead asked, and

439
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,160
Speaker 1: this is guys that these aren't twour players. I think

440
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,479
Speaker 1: Tony was not that good either. The just the levels

441
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,439
Speaker 1: to this stuff. Like Johnny Manzel is never going pro golf.

442
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Speaker 1: It is one million percent not happening. I would bet

443
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand dollars right now he's not going pro

444
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: golf and I'm not trying to talk shit. I'm basically

445
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,719
Speaker 1: trying to talk how impossible it is. You don't want

446
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 1: to know. The one of the most impressive things I've

447
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Speaker 1: ever seen on a golf course four or five years

448
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: ago the web dot com before it was that's before

449
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: it was it was web dot com now's the corn

450
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 1: Ferry hosted a tournament in the Bay Area at kind

451
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Speaker 1: of a tough course. I forget the name of the course,

452
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 1: but it's like thirty minutes away from my I'm sitting

453
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Speaker 1: right here. Steph Curry got a sponsored invite into the tournament,

454
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Speaker 1: and at the time, I had a radio show, and

455
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Speaker 1: obviously the Warriors are a big deal, and I'm like,

456
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm just gonna go, and I'm gonna

457
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Speaker 1: watch him play. And I knew a couple of guys

458
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Speaker 1: that worked at this course, so they got me a

459
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Speaker 1: ticket kind of go behind the ropes and it was cool,

460
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Speaker 1: and I watched him play. He shot seventy four. He

461
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Speaker 1: beat one of the guys he was playing with. It

462
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Speaker 1: was Steph Curry is legit. Like I think Steph Curry

463
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Speaker 1: pound for pound. I know he's been played bad in

464
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Speaker 1: the match, would beat Tony Romo and would drub Johnny Manziel.

465
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing with Steph. Steph played high school golf.

466
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Speaker 1: Steph didn't just pick it up when he was step

467
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Speaker 1: has been playing golf for how old Steff thirty? He's

468
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Speaker 1: been playing golf for twenty years. You know, if it

469
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Speaker 1: wasn't for basketball, he would have been a college golfer. Like,

470
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Speaker 1: it's not a hobby. He's been doing it for a

471
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Speaker 1: long time. The longer you do it in tournaments, you're

472
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Speaker 1: just more natural. This question maybe a little premature, but

473
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Speaker 1: am I too excited to not ask for your first mailback?

474
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Speaker 1: I was able to get a job in turning at

475
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Speaker 1: the Masters this year through my school, where I will

476
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Speaker 1: be working night shifts. That's badass. During the day, I'll

477
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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to walk around and watch the tournament

478
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Speaker 1: from a golf lover's perspective. What are some of the

479
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Speaker 1: camp miss things you would recommend seeing her going to

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Speaker 1: well First, as a lover of food, I would eat

481
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Speaker 1: all the sandwiches. I would eat the pimento sandwich. I

482
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Speaker 1: would eat the barbecue chicken sandwich. I would do all those. Uh. Obviously,

483
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Speaker 1: before we get into back nine, I would have to walk.

484
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Speaker 1: I would walk the entire course, whole by whole and

485
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Speaker 1: soak it all in. I would literally walk every step

486
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Speaker 1: parallel to the entire course. My cousins who all golf,

487
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: had a chance to play there, like six seven years

488
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Speaker 1: ago for a business thing, stayed there and it's just

489
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Speaker 1: a magical place. And you know, I've seen some pictures

490
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Speaker 1: of their trip. You know it's I would walk every

491
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Speaker 1: hole now, clearly once you hit the back nine, you know,

492
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Speaker 1: whole twelve, badass, whole thirteen, whole fourteen, the part five

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Speaker 1: and fifteen, Part three, seventeen eighteen, I mean, I I

494
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Speaker 1: just I take it all in the part three to

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Speaker 1: the two Part five. I don't even I don't even

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Speaker 1: have a recommendation. Maybe I think seventeen would be pretty cool,

497
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Speaker 1: you know, the part three, I guess it's sixteen. Uh,

498
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Speaker 1: seventeen always feels like it's kind of an irrelevant hole,

499
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Speaker 1: you know, because you have the sweet whole part six,

500
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Speaker 1: you have sixteen with the part three, and really fifteen,

501
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Speaker 1: right is a part five where eagles happened. But also

502
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Speaker 1: remember last year did a DECKI a DECKI pumping in

503
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Speaker 1: the water. Maybe it stayed dry that's when Xander kind

504
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Speaker 1: of got back into it. Then he pumped into the

505
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Speaker 1: water on sixteen. Um, I don't know, I've never been there.

506
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Speaker 1: I would the number one thing I would do because

507
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Speaker 1: I always find it cool when you play a new

508
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Speaker 1: course that's pretty high level is just taken in every

509
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Speaker 1: hole and you just I think one thing with the Masters,

510
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Speaker 1: just speaking as a guy that's watched on TV his

511
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Speaker 1: whole life, is the back nine is just so much

512
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Speaker 1: more entrenched in our minds. Right even hold ten, We're

513
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Speaker 1: Bubba hit that great shot, and just where so many

514
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Speaker 1: sweet shots happened. You gotta play the draw off, the

515
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Speaker 1: off the tea, then whole twelve where everyone hit in

516
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Speaker 1: the water. Um in Tiger remember had like the ten

517
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Speaker 1: or maybe it was the twelve a couple of years ago. Uh,

518
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Speaker 1: it would have been in two twenty to fall, and

519
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Speaker 1: then he went on to like birdie five of the

520
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Speaker 1: next six holes, those part threes, I mean thirteen, that's

521
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Speaker 1: got to be just an incredible hold. That Watch whole fifteen,

522
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Speaker 1: I mean those second shots into that green, whole sixteen,

523
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Speaker 1: it's hard to beat the whole twelve through sixteen. That

524
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Speaker 1: that feels like the best stretching golf. First off, love

525
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Speaker 1: the pot. Glad you're golf now too. I know, like

526
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Speaker 1: most of us, love the big Cat. What are your

527
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Speaker 1: top three Tiger moments? Also, gut feeling? Do you think

528
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Speaker 1: he plays a gust of this year? I don't think

529
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Speaker 1: he plays a PGA Tour tournament this year. Major included. Um,

530
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Speaker 1: I just you know you saw him with Charlie. He

531
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Speaker 1: was in pain Man by the second day and he

532
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 1: was riding a cart. Uh. I just I don't know

533
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Speaker 1: if we ever see him. It's pains me to say that,

534
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: but I think there's a chance he I never play

535
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Speaker 1: competitive golf again. I hope I'm wrong. I would say,

536
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Speaker 1: and again recency bias. The number one thing I ever

537
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Speaker 1: saw was two thousand nineteen. That was I remember, I'm

538
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Speaker 1: sitting exactly where I sat. Remember they te off early

539
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: because of the rain. They played in threesomes. It felt

540
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Speaker 1: like going into the back nine like he's not gonna

541
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Speaker 1: win it. He was kind of struggling, and then whole

542
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Speaker 1: twelve happened. And that's whole twelve through eighteen is one

543
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Speaker 1: of the most magical moments of my sport watching life.

544
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think I valued young Tiger enough.

545
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Speaker 1: I mean I was young, junior high high school. If

546
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Speaker 1: you're my age, he was just it's different, you know,

547
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: you grow to really appreciate someone as you get older.

548
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Speaker 1: Um so I would say two thousand nineteen and easily

549
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, I would just got a job

550
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: at Fresno State. I was moving out of cow Poly

551
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: and uh, I didn't have a TV at my house anymore,

552
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: so I had to go to my neighbor's house and

553
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: they were gone, and I watched Sunday and then Monday,

554
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: and it was something you never forget, right, him limping around,

555
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 1: him hitting the plot on eighteen to force a playoff,

556
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Speaker 1: and then the next day watching him and Rocco and

557
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: then third. I don't know, man, I mean maybe I'm

558
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: living in the present, but I think him when he

559
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: won the Tour Championship in eighteen, six months before he

560
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: won the Masters. It's just a comeback of his life

561
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: and his career. Remember he almost won the Open in

562
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Speaker 1: eighteen when Molinari won it, and he hit it in

563
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,959
Speaker 1: like the tall grass on the back nine, it might

564
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: have been like whole eleven and it kind of sucked

565
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: him up. But I love the comeback. He was so rich,

566
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Speaker 1: he was so famous, he had nothing left to prove,

567
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: and that fucker just was like, I'm gonna win again

568
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: at a high level. And that visual in Atlanta at

569
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Speaker 1: what's it called Lake? I can't even I can't even

570
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,239
Speaker 1: think straight right now, But walking down eighteen on that

571
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: part five and everyone walking around the water, that was cool. Man.

572
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: That's I'll never forget that Tour Championship and uh and

573
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,239
Speaker 1: the Masters obviously they're more recent, but I'm glad as

574
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Speaker 1: a viewer and a sports fan like I witnessed the

575
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: whole thing start to finish. Just watch it all. Get

576
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Speaker 1: the fans what they really want. Once in the bag.

577
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: I have Taylor made irons, I have Taylor made wedges,

578
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: and I got Callaway Woods. I haven't done much golf

579
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Speaker 1: gambling before. What would like to get into it? What

580
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: are some factors you look at before betting on a tournament? Uh?

581
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Speaker 1: You know, I watch a lot of recent form, So

582
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Speaker 1: how a guys playing a guy's history out of course,

583
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Speaker 1: has he finished top five, top ten there before? Has

584
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Speaker 1: he won there before? Uh? Like the next several tournaments.

585
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: I like West Coast guys at West Coast tournaments um,

586
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: and some is just value, right, Like part of the

587
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: reason I bet Bryson. I wouldn't have bet Bryson attend

588
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: to one, right, Rob seven and a half to one,

589
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take that. But he's twenty to one. He's

590
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: probably played Torrey Pines in his life twenty times and

591
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: he almost won here last year. So why I took

592
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: Justin Thomas last year at the Players Championship. He wasn't

593
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: playing great, but he was twenty to one. J T

594
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: used like eleven to one, twelve to one. So I

595
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: like value with thoroughbreds. When I can get a thoroughbred,

596
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Speaker 1: a guy that's one, a Bryson, Justin Thomas, a Brooks,

597
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: a DJ Uh. You know Xander against those odds, but

598
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't win like those guys, guys that have double

599
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: digit wins when they're not playing well and you can

600
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: get them cheap to one. Whenever I see kept go

601
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Speaker 1: like thirty to one, I fucking hammer. Do you have

602
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Speaker 1: any picks of golfers you think and break through their

603
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: first major? This one? This year? Um? I think Xander

604
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: Shaw he's gonna win a major. I mean he's finished

605
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: top five in them all. Uh, you know it it

606
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: was like that with DJ for a while. It's like,

607
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: when's he gonna do it? When's he gonna do it?

608
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: Was actually more like with a second major, when's it

609
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: gonna happen? When's it gonna happen? Once you get so good,

610
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Speaker 1: I think phenwe is some feenales. I wouldn't say as

611
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Speaker 1: good as and Ander, but like I just I don't

612
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Speaker 1: see how Xander doesn't win a major. He's too good.

613
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: He can do it all. But for whatever reason, he

614
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: doesn't win. And He's been in the mix several times.

615
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: I've gambled on him several times. Uh, he would be

616
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Speaker 1: a guy that that I think wins. What are your

617
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: thoughts on Cam Smith after winning the Tournament of Champions

618
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: Guys stick, I mean, love his mullet, just absolutely flush

619
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Speaker 1: his irons and can put his face off. I mean,

620
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: I think that guy's gonna keep winning. Zalatorus at forty

621
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Speaker 1: five to one seems like good value. He's a quality player,

622
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Speaker 1: be more like twenty to thirty range, in my opinion,

623
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Speaker 1: one of the top ball strikers in the game. Absolutely

624
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: love you started a golf podcast. He was in the

625
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: mix last I think this was for last week. I

626
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: love Wills elt Tours. I love a guy with like

627
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: a thirty inch waistline who just hits it like three twenty.

628
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: It's like I'm all in on Wills out Tours. Also

629
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: like the Wills elt Tours. Plays golf with Tony Rama

630
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: and their buddies. So anytime that a golf guy's friends

631
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: with a football guy, cool with me. Keep the keep

632
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: the questions coming, We'll keep answering them. Uh L A

633
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: country club, my man, Michael, I will definitely play with

634
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: your ass uh and we'll talk podcasting and hang out.

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