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Speaker 1: The volume, What is going on? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: John Middlecop go Low a podcast, Bittersweet week, last Major

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Speaker 2: of the year, and then we started transitioning to a

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Speaker 2: little football. But we've had a good, good major season.

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Speaker 2: Rory easily could have won the US Open, gave it

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Speaker 2: to Wyndham, Clark, Kepka and Ram and I think it's

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Speaker 2: fair to say that we are going to get another

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Speaker 2: big boy to win this bad boy. We will have

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Speaker 2: Jason Sobele on the podcast break down the tournament, Rory's

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Speaker 2: effort last week at the Scottish Who he's betting this week,

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Speaker 2: who he likes, talk some odds as well as I

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Speaker 2: have some thoughts on Steph Curry. I saw Rob Gronkowski

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Speaker 2: and a lot of people were talking about this, could

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Speaker 2: Steph be a pro at golf? And then I'll give

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Speaker 2: my own pick for the Open as well as just

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Speaker 2: some overall thoughts. I think it's clearly going to come

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Speaker 2: from probably one of the top seven eight guys in

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Speaker 2: this tournament. I mean they've played this place twice since

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Speaker 2: two thousand and six, Tiger and Rory, so buckle up.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't bet on anyone one hundred to one, probably

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Speaker 2: not gonna get the job done. But let's enjoy this week.

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Speaker 2: It's always fun across the pond, the wind, the rain,

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Speaker 2: the cold, the sleet. Who knows, maybe it'll just be

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Speaker 2: sunny and pretty docile all weekend. You never know. It's

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Speaker 2: the great part about outdoor events. You know, the weather

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Speaker 2: channel can tell you one thing and then something else

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Speaker 2: can happen. Happened a couple of years ago, the year

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Speaker 2: Last week pretty calm, pretty calm. Then Sunday by the

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Speaker 2: So it makes golf very very fun as a viewer,

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Speaker 2: which is awesome but also kind of sucks. First and foremost,

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Speaker 2: Rory kind of got over the hump. I thought he

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Speaker 2: I was hoping to wake up and Tommy Fleetwood was

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Speaker 2: just said, Rory McElroy holds off or didn't upset him,

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Speaker 2: the guy is. The guy makes a ton of money

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Speaker 2: on the golf course. The guy is as long off

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Speaker 2: it's tournaments like that happened last weekend when he birdies

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Speaker 2: Now the Scottish Open is not a major and McIntyre

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 2: Because they're better. There's a reason Rory coming into this

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Speaker 2: it's spectacular to watch, but you go, yeah, it's Rory McElroy.

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Speaker 2: It's not fun when the wind is blowing forty or

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Speaker 2: So I love this major. It's just way different from

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Speaker 2: It's why they like the LA and the West Coast

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Speaker 2: Golf is very difficult, but It's also a unique test

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Speaker 2: It's like you can look at the stats, their eye opening,

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Speaker 2: just rattling off top fives. I think he has what

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Speaker 2: the Masters final group, who was keptaing Rom the PGA Championship,

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Speaker 2: saying that. But people, we got to bump the brakes

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Speaker 2: soaking in that Florida heat right now, Jason Sobele, last

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Speaker 2: The only story about Patrick can't lay this week, paired

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Speaker 2: when he's on, like, you feel good if you're gambling

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Speaker 2: on him. You saw that match play. It's like Ryder Cup.

428
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Speaker 2: His ceiling's really high. But another guy that's like probably could.

429
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Speaker 2: Just if Ledvigg becomes sweet, just put another guy you

430
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Speaker 2: don't really notice yet when Sam Burns is on, he

431
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Speaker 2: can just win a PGA tour against other really legit players.

432
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Speaker 2: So I'd say Sam Burns is like the Josh Jacobs,

433
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 2: you know, Alabama Sam Burns LSU so you know sec guy.

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Speaker 3: I like that comp I mean, how many of the

435
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Speaker 3: live guys are essentially what we're talking about, which you

436
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 3: know Patrick Reid was a polarizing player for eight nine

437
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Speaker 3: years on the Pie.

438
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Speaker 2: He's Antonio Brown.

439
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Speaker 3: He is not Antonio Brown. He is I don't know.

440
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Speaker 3: As a Pats fan. I was gonna say Tom Brady,

441
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 3: there's some cheating allegations there, but I can't give him

442
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Speaker 3: to Brady comparison. But he can just like only suddenly

443
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 3: he's a holarizing player in the game, he goes somewhere else.

444
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Speaker 3: It's just how to say that in mind.

445
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's dive into golf. I opened up the pod

446
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Speaker 2: with before we dive into this week where he is

447
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 2: the defending champion at this venue whatever, twenty fourteen. I

448
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 2: thought those last couple of holes, given he was one

449
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,959
Speaker 2: shot back, I must have been watching on the replay

450
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,360
Speaker 2: because you couldn't keep track with how to consume the event,

451
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 2: and obviously us on the West coast, they were teeing

452
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Speaker 2: off at one in the morning, but the wind was

453
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Speaker 2: absolutely pumping by the time he got to fifteen sixteen,

454
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Speaker 2: but being down by one shot going into seventeen and eighteen,

455
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Speaker 2: which clearly was playing pretty hard to go Bertie, Bertie,

456
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Speaker 2: that's as speaking of football as grittiness. That's as much

457
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Speaker 2: grit as I've seen at a Rory like that was

458
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Speaker 2: tiger like. I thought like that, that was something Tiger

459
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Speaker 2: Phils like the greats would have pulled off in a

460
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Speaker 2: moment that even eighteen and I know he's long. I

461
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Speaker 2: felt he had to step off the shot a couple times.

462
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Speaker 2: It felt like the wind was pumping thirty yards. He

463
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Speaker 2: still had whatever he had hit a two hundred and

464
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Speaker 2: fifty yard club, give or take into that second shot.

465
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Speaker 2: It's gone viral with We've talked about him before. He's

466
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 2: a natural draw of the ball. He played that little

467
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Speaker 2: baby cut. I mean, that's I'm not trying to be

468
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Speaker 2: hyperbolic here, one of the better shots of his career.

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Speaker 3: Rory said the same thing. I mean, so you're not

470
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Speaker 3: being hyperbolic unless he is as well. When when the

471
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Speaker 3: player himself says that's one of the best shots in

472
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Speaker 3: my career, it's hard to argue with him. I was

473
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Speaker 3: asked yesterday, John, does it matter how Rory won? My

474
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Speaker 3: answer was a thousand percent. If Rory had a four

475
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Speaker 3: shot lead going into the final round, bogie the last

476
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Speaker 3: two holes and sort of swung to a one shot victory,

477
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Speaker 3: he would be sitting there right now going, yeah, he won,

478
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Speaker 3: but not sure he could do it in the clutch.

479
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Speaker 3: Not sure he can deal with the pressure. Not sure

480
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Speaker 3: he can hit the shots when it really matters, because

481
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Speaker 3: he sort of backed his way into a victory. When

482
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Speaker 3: he does it the way he did it, standing on

483
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Speaker 3: the seventeenth tee, down a stroke and needs to hit

484
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Speaker 3: a couple of great shots, That's exactly what he did

485
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Speaker 3: that shot in eighteen and the shot you're saying that

486
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Speaker 3: when viral is the swing from behind him. Quite honestly,

487
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Speaker 3: you watch it enough, that looks like Tiger. I mean,

488
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Speaker 3: it just looks like Tiger standing on a links course.

489
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Speaker 3: Looks like his swing. It was a beautiful swing by Rory.

490
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Speaker 3: He thought he missed the ten foot butt and someone

491
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Speaker 3: with a big ticket on Robert McIntire. I had a

492
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Speaker 3: second of hope there. I was like, oh, e men, No,

493
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 3: he didn't miss it, damn it, and so I didn't

494
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Speaker 3: catch my tickets. I was probably one of the very

495
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Speaker 3: few people in the world who was like kind of

496
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Speaker 3: bummed out. I love Rory, but well, bummed out my

497
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 3: ticket didn't cash. But other than that, I'd break to

498
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Speaker 3: see for Maury's been knocking on the door for a

499
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Speaker 3: long time now. Now he goes to the Open, grimming

500
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Speaker 3: with confidence, filled with momentum, back to a course where

501
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Speaker 3: he won back in twenty fourteen, all systems go again.

502
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Speaker 2: I think, well, and then you immediately check Monday morning.

503
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Speaker 2: He's the betting favorite, and it doesn't really feel that crazy. Obviously,

504
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 2: the last two guys to win at this course in

505
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Speaker 2: this tournament were I wouldn't say Pete Tiger Woods. You

506
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Speaker 2: could argue that was early two thousands, but six o

507
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Speaker 2: seven he is pretty damn good. And Rory when he

508
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 2: was shooting like a rocket ship. So you and I

509
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 2: were texting a couple of days ago, clearly gonna be

510
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 2: a big boy winning this bad boy, and it feels

511
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Speaker 2: like Rory the momentum maybe a little weights off his

512
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Speaker 2: shoulder after all this merger stuff, the talk, it's just

513
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Speaker 2: kind of out there. He's clearly playing really well. I've

514
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Speaker 2: you and I have talked the last couple of majors,

515
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Speaker 2: like I don't know about Rory feel a little more confident,

516
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Speaker 2: like if you got a ticket on him or want

517
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Speaker 2: to put some cash on him. I don't think it's

518
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: crazy at all where he's gotten really close. I mean, hell,

519
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Speaker 2: at the US opened, he easily could have won that thing,

520
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Speaker 2: but he didn't. I feel like I'm not going to

521
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Speaker 2: be shocked at all comes Sunday, if he's a champion,

522
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Speaker 2: I won't either.

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Speaker 3: It's still a really short number. I can't bring myself

524
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Speaker 3: to go plus six fifty plus seven hundred on anybody

525
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Speaker 3: in a major championship field. US are giving me Tiger

526
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Speaker 3: in his prime. That said, I'd like to wait and

527
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Speaker 3: see Rory tends to get off to some slow starts.

528
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Speaker 3: Maybe he shoots one over seventy two in the opening round.

529
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Speaker 3: Five shots back, that number goes to say plus eleven

530
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Speaker 3: hundred plus eleven fifty, and now I can rationalize taking

531
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Speaker 3: him at that point and a little bit bigger of

532
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Speaker 3: a number. But no, it's gonna be a big boy.

533
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Speaker 3: I think there's some myths about the Open Championship. Those

534
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 3: myths that I wrote about this week is that I

535
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 3: think we tend to look at the guys who are

536
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Speaker 3: from England and Scotland and over in Europe and we

537
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 3: go those guys are the good links players. Those guys

538
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 3: are the ones who like dealing with the elements Shaneward.

539
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 3: On a radio show last week, Shane Lowry goes man,

540
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 3: I moved to Florida, so I would have to deal

541
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Speaker 3: with that stuff anymore. I hate playing in the rain.

542
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Speaker 3: Shane Lowry, Like, the first thing you think of is

543
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 3: like that dude loves playing in the wind and rain.

544
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 3: He's like, no, I don't. That's what play.

545
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: So I think we tend to nobody nobody credit.

546
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we tend to give too much credit to the

547
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Speaker 3: Europeans and not enough credit to the Americans. I am

548
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 3: completely guilty of that fact every summer myself. The other

549
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 3: part of this is the fact that we tend to

550
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Speaker 3: look at the Open Championship and say, oh, this is

551
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 3: one where anybody can win. You know, like that ball

552
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 3: starts bouncing around on a links course, you get some

553
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: big breaks. You can be a Todd Hamilton or a

554
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Speaker 3: Ben Curtis or Tom Watson into nearly one at age

555
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Speaker 3: fifty nine, Darren Clark who won in his forties in

556
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Speaker 3: twenty eleven. You can be a player like that and

557
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 3: still win this thing. Well, I got news for y'all.

558
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 3: You go back over the past decade, and it's stud

559
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 3: after stud after stud. Bost not only won this golf tournament.

560
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 3: I went back in my preview this week the last

561
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Speaker 3: four editions of the event over the last five years.

562
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Speaker 3: They didn't played in twenty twenty. Essentially the top five,

563
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 3: there's no surprise. Maybe a Dylan for Telly like three

564
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 3: or four years ago, finishing in fifth place. It's about it.

565
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 3: Other than that, it's pretty much household names up and

566
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Speaker 3: down the top of the leader board. And so if

567
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: you're looking for guys who are like, well he's four

568
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: hundred to one, we're gonna take a shot. I don't

569
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Speaker 3: mind the idea. But what we've seen is essentially the

570
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Speaker 3: chalk plays out at this golf tournament.

571
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my girlfriend looked at me when we were watching

572
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 2: Rory win. I said, God, I had the long haired guy.

573
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: She's like, do you ever win outright bets, I'm like, well,

574
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Speaker 2: I haven't won one since Tory Pines, but I hit

575
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Speaker 2: a lot of top five top tens, and I think

576
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Speaker 2: my favorite bet this weekend is Tommy Fleewood to top ten.

577
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: And if you wanted to get aggressive to top five,

578
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 2: he's obviously had a lot of success. He's your classic, like, well,

579
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: just don't just been on a guy from across the pond. No,

580
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: he plays well and he's trending. Betted him to win

581
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 2: will let you down, even though his odds, you know,

582
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Speaker 2: twenty five to one feels like he's bound to get it,

583
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 2: but to be safe, top ten feels like almost like

584
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: a lock. And definitely if you want to get aggressive

585
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 2: top five, he's playing really, really well. It's just and

586
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 2: every single week he's got like you look up, oh

587
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: he's got sixty two today, And it's always why he

588
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: gets really high on the leaderboard. He just can't finish

589
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 2: for whatever fucking reason. On Sunday, I mean that played

590
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: into his hand. On Sunday, the wind was pumping, Rory

591
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: was a little off early and then I look up

592
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 2: and it's just nowhere to be found. Except I would

593
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 2: say all.

594
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 3: The exact same words everything you just said and put

595
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 3: the name Turtle Hatton instead of Tommy Fleetwood in there,

596
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 3: and it all rings true. It's like man Lenk's golf course.

597
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 3: Top ten, no doubt, probably a top five. Love him

598
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 3: this week. Him on these types of tracks, shoots a

599
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 3: low number every week and not get it done. And

600
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Speaker 3: I don't know why it. Look, you know those guys,

601
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 3: all of the averages, would go out there and win

602
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 3: this golf tournament. Exactly. You're looking at them more props,

603
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 3: more as DFS options than you are as outright plays

604
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 3: this week, just because they don't seem to win.

605
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: Powler's another guy that I think top ten, He's got

606
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: read and all over him. He finished second obviously whatever

607
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 2: a decade ago to Rory in this tournament. But it's

608
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: less about that and more just he's really good and

609
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 2: it's cool to have him back to me, Fowler Fleetwood,

610
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: I wrote down Hatton as well. To me, the long

611
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 2: shot feels crazy, but Potty Harrington's number is just so

612
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: high to win it. If you want to dabble in

613
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 2: the top ten's top twenties. Top ten is probably a

614
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 2: little strong, but top twenty he's a guy another don't

615
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: just go across the pond. Well, he actually plays pretty

616
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 2: well given his age. Clearly what's unique about him is

617
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 2: Tiger and Phil. Obviously Phil left the PGA Tour and

618
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 2: Tiger's injured, but like he would have been right with them.

619
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Speaker 2: Of just a guy that feels very comfortable, who's a

620
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: senior tour guy, but playing still with the guys Like

621
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: I look up at Scottish Open come Saturday morning, he

622
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: was like top ten and he can play really well.

623
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Speaker 2: He's really impressive. I would pick him for the Ryder

624
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 2: Cup team. By the way, No, he's not making the

625
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 2: Ryder Cup team. I think so there are enough other

626
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 2: options out there that are sort of that'd be pretty

627
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 2: cool though, wouldn't it.

628
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: I guess so, I look, we played well there. Yeah,

629
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Speaker 3: I guess I'm fine with I don't know.

630
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: We've talked about it's not to get on a tangent,

631
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 2: but like, does Sergio have any chance or they're not

632
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 2: going to mess with those guys?

633
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 3: Do you think? I don't think they're gonna let him

634
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 3: on the team. I've gone through the list and there

635
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 3: they're eight essentially, and I'm right in front of me

636
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,479
Speaker 3: right now. But from Rory rom hovelin Hatton Fleetwood fits

637
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 3: Rose Lowry. There we go. I did all eight of them.

638
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 3: Those eight are essentially lots. You know, whoever makes it

639
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 3: in the top six, whoever's named to the team. I

640
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 3: can't imagine those guys aren't on the team last four.

641
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 3: Bludwig Ludwig has a great chance. I think McIntyre now

642
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 3: has a great chance. I think I don't know how

643
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 3: you pick one Hoyguard and not the other one, but

644
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 3: you think they make a pretty good team if you

645
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 3: want to put both Hoyguards on there. You know, Adrian

646
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 3: Moroc's got a chance, but I guess Harrington has a chance,

647
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 3: and especially if you play as well. I like him

648
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 3: a lot this week. Look, there's two things about Patty

649
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 3: and I think we tend to look at guys who

650
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 3: are the senior player. I mean this goes back to

651
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 3: spread couples and Bernard Longer making the cut and contending

652
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 3: at the Masters for years into their fifty and over years.

653
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 3: But Rodrick Aarerton's made the cut in seven straight starts

654
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 3: against non senior competition, So in the Scottish Open, in

655
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 3: the US Open, and the PJ Chant these making cuts

656
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 3: every single week and then there's fact that usually when

657
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 3: you're playing an old player against all the great players

658
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 3: in the game, they're saying, well, hopefully it's a golf

659
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 3: course where you don't need that power. Harrington's as long

660
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 3: as almost anybody out there. He is gained distance as

661
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: he's gotten older and gained a lot of distance. So

662
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 3: it's not even like you're saying, hey, you know, as

663
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 3: long as he can knock it out there two point

664
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 3: fifty and still contend with these guys, the old guy

665
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 3: can get it done. Now it's three h five three

666
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 3: ten average off the tee. I'm not worried about Prodrick

667
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 3: Arrington not having enough distance, So.

668
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: I'm with you.

669
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 3: I listed him for a top thirty in my preview

670
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 3: this week, but I wrote if you want to take

671
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 3: a chance on him as the top ten, I have

672
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 3: no problem with that.

673
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 2: Before we get into your pick to win it, you

674
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 2: got some fades because for me one name, I mean,

675
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: his odds are just so spicy given how talented he

676
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: is his you know, throughout his career. But JT just

677
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 2: I don't know if I could play. I don't care

678
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 2: if his odds are two hundred to one. It just

679
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: feels like he's speed. Speech feels like he's just heading

680
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 2: the wrong way. Though I think his success in leaks

681
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 2: golf over his you know, his time playing is the

682
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: best right shots game whatever over the last ten years.

683
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: He's as good as anyone over that period of time.

684
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 2: But god, he he does not look great. JT does

685
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: not interest me at all, even at that number. I mean,

686
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 2: it's such a sucker play. It's like the books are

687
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: begging us just to go, all right, I'll play a

688
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 2: little JT. It't seventy five to one.

689
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 3: It's an unbelievable number for a guy who's one of

690
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 3: the best golfers in the world, or at least has

691
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,280
Speaker 3: been has been talking.

692
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 2: He's typically, like I would say, hovers between fifteen and

693
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 2: nineteen to one in every tournament, including majors.

694
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 3: If I had told you John six months ago you

695
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 3: could have Justin Thomas at a Major at seventy five

696
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,959
Speaker 3: to one, you'd be like, here's all of my money,

697
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 3: Like I'm gonna take a loan out from the bank

698
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 3: and put more on JT. Because that's ridiculous. And now

699
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,479
Speaker 3: you're like, Eh, don't really want him at that number.

700
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 3: Speech I liked for like a single round investment, and

701
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 3: so I've got him for first round leader because at

702
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 3: any given moment, especially on a links golf course, he

703
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 3: rolls in four thirty footers and shoots sixty four and

704
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, here come speed. I don't know that

705
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 3: he can get it done for four rounds right now,

706
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 3: but I certainly don't dislike him this week. There's those

707
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 3: other guys that I like better as far as fains.

708
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 3: For me, I look at guys without much links experience,

709
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 3: who are younger players that maybe they get there at

710
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 3: some point. You mentioned Sam Burns. I love Sam Burns's game.

711
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 3: I think he's a terrific player, not a ton of

712
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 3: links experience. Younger guy American Wyndham Clark won last month

713
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 3: of the US Open. I know a lot of people

714
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 3: like him this week. Those are the types of guys

715
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 3: that I look at and I'd go, I just maybe

716
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 3: they finished in the top twenty, but I don't see

717
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 3: them coming close to a serious title contention on a

718
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: golf course like this.

719
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 2: We about Bryson d Chambeau seventy to one. It feels

720
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: like he's been playing a lot better reading about this course,

721
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 2: right obviously that in course, ob it's a little tighter,

722
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 2: but his driving has been really good.

723
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 3: He can't get me there. Look Brice in the US

724
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 3: Open venue, at a PGA Championship venue. That's his kind

725
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 3: of stick and an Open championship. I look, I just

726
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 3: I can't get there on him. I don't think it's

727
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 3: gonna happen. By the way, internal ob it's the dumbest

728
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 3: thing ever. It's like, look cover the NFL. It's like,

729
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 3: we take the NFL and we're just gonna paint a

730
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 3: white stripe, an out of bound stripe like four yards

731
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 3: into the field at some point, and you're like, hey, sorry, man,

732
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 3: you run a fly pattern. You caught the ball, but

733
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 3: you went out of bounds because we moved out of

734
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 3: bounds into the field to play. That's the best thing

735
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: I've ever seen.

736
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 2: What's the logic behind it? On their side, I think.

737
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 3: They're trying to prevent guys from just hammering driver off

738
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 3: the tee and then being able to get home in

739
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 3: two on a par five, which tells me there is

740
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: a an architectural problem with that golf hole. If you've

741
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 3: got to put in internal ob so that guys have

742
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 3: to lay up, so essentially it's gonna be a four

743
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 3: iron four iron hole. You're making a hole stupid as

744
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 3: opposed to making it a risk reward kind of hole.

745
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 3: I'd rather just why not, Like part four, I don't

746
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 3: care what you do internal out of bounds. At some point,

747
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 3: someone's gonna hit the right side of that fairway. Ball's

748
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 3: gonna take a weird hot it's gonna go two yards

749
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 3: off the fairway to the right and be out of bounds,

750
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 3: so they're gonna have to read tea. I mean, it's

751
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 3: it's really I can't stand that. I am one who

752
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 3: like when i'm playing, like I don't care, Like if

753
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 3: my ball's in somebody's backyard and I can hop a

754
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 3: fence and get a club on it, like I know

755
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 3: that's not the rules. I know that's not what we're

756
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 3: supposed to do. Like if me and my buddies are like, hey,

757
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: we're playing local rules. We've got our own rules, Like

758
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 3: I don't care. There's your ball, go hit it, like

759
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 3: there's no out of bounds just because someone decided to

760
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 3: put a boundary here and put someone's backyard at this

761
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 3: spot and put a stake there, and that's where your

762
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 3: golf course ends. I don't know if your ball's there.

763
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: Hit your ball. That's how the game works.

764
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 2: Who you got this week?

765
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 3: Going with Victor Hobland at twenty to one. I've had

766
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 3: him circled for this one ever since he won the

767
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 3: Memorial Tournament. In fact, even before that, you and I

768
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 3: have talked about it. PGA Championship double Bogie leaves on

769
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 3: in the fairway bunker on sixteen. H takes himself out

770
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 3: of contention. Afterwards, about thirty forty five minutes later, I'm

771
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 3: standing the scoring area and Hoblin walks off, and I've

772
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 3: never seen him like this, But kay, I don't expect

773
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 3: him to be the usualpy go lucky Victor who's like

774
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: bouncing around as he as he normally is, with big

775
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 3: smile on his face. But he was not this straw.

776
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 3: He was not discouraged. He was mad, and I have

777
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 3: never seen him with steam coming out of his ears

778
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 3: like he was in that moment. I looked at him

779
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 3: and go, A switch was just flipped in, Victor Hovelin.

780
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 3: He's gonna start winning stuff very soon. Two weeks later,

781
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 3: won the Memorial Tournament in a playoff. A lot of

782
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 3: people were on for the US Open. I thought, that's

783
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 3: too quick. To win two within a three week span,

784
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 3: but wait for this one. We talked about guys who

785
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 3: play links golf courses really well. He is a guy

786
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 3: that was twelve two years ago. Last year played in

787
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 3: the final pairing alongside Mary McElroy, didn't get it done,

788
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 3: finished in fourth place. He's proven that he can play

789
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 3: well on this type of golf course. So I love Hoflin.

790
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 3: He's my guy this week. Others that I like, we

791
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 3: talked about Hatton and Fleetwood, Ricky Fowler, Adam Scott. I

792
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 3: was on last week for the Scottish Open. You and

793
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 3: I didn't do a podcast, but he was about fifty

794
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 3: to fifty five to one for the Scottish and look,

795
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 3: he's been trending in the right direction. He loves links golf.

796
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 3: He missed the cut last week, but he missed the

797
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 3: cut going seventy two sixty seven. He shot eighty three.

798
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 3: I mean seven the second round is a damn good score.

799
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 3: Miss is the cut, doesn't get there on the weekend,

800
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 3: shows up this week and now he's eighty eighty five

801
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 3: to one. That's a massive number for Adam Scott, so

802
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 3: I like that as well. If you want a couple

803
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 3: of other big time long shots. The live players at

804
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 3: the top are finally being priced correctly, like Kopka and

805
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 3: cam Smith, probably have the right numbers next to their names.

806
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 3: The guys from live who are further down the board

807
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,959
Speaker 3: don't necessarily have the right numbers. Louis Ustays is forty

808
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 3: years old. We treat Louis like he's seventy four. We

809
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 3: treat Louis like he's an old man. He's six years

810
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 3: older than Ricky Fowler. He's not that old. He's been

811
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 3: around for a while. He's been playing some good golf.

812
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 3: He's one hundred and ten to one this week. I'll

813
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 3: take a little shot on him, and then a big shot.

814
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 3: Hendrick Stenson again, another guy who's He's won the Open

815
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 3: in the last ten years. He's had multiple top three finishes.

816
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 3: Besides that, No, he's not playing his best golf. I

817
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 3: don't think he's gonna win. But if they played this

818
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 3: event this week one hundred different times, could Hendrick Stenson

819
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 3: win one of them? Sure? So I'm looking for that

820
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 3: one in one hundred play. At four hundred to one,

821
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 3: it makes sense to take a chance on him.

822
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 2: God, Louis us Stays, I mean so him and DJ

823
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 2: are essentially the same age. If you just ask people

824
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 2: that follow golf, like Louis and DJ, what's the age gap,

825
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: people be like nine years. You know it's because I'm

826
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: pretty sure DJ's like nine, Louis forty. I would have

827
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 2: guessed he was forty seven years old. I would have

828
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 2: guessed he was like Ian Poulter's age or something. That's

829
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 2: that's the wildest thing I've heard in a long, long time.

830
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 3: Louis October nineteenth, nineteen eighty two. He is forty. Hang on,

831
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 3: I bet DJ was born in eighty three, so he's

832
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 3: June twenty second, eighty four. So essentially Louis like a

833
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 3: year and a half older than DJ.

834
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 2: Would you agree that if you just asked the casual

835
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 2: golf fan, they would say a minimum five year age

836
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 2: gap between those twos.

837
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 3: Because Louis hurt a lot. I don't know, we haven't

838
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 3: seen him a while, feels like he's been around. Like,

839
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 3: at no point has Louis ever felt like a young

840
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 3: guy who's gonna go tear it up. He just he

841
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 3: went to live last year, and we're like, oh, all

842
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: the older guys in the back nine in their career

843
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 3: are going to live. He was in his thirties still

844
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 3: when he went to live he's still got some game.

845
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'll take a chance on him.

846
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 2: There's not really to state with Scotti. Besides, he's in

847
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 2: absolutely ass kicker. But the guy who's kind of just

848
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 2: disappeared and you text me like get ready for him,

849
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 2: he's pretty dialed. Is I'm gonna start calling him the

850
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 2: venture capitalist because I saw that he got an equity

851
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 2: stake in top Golf is John Rahm. So he's been

852
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 2: a little out of sight, out of mind. He started

853
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 2: this season. I mean, he's got more wins this Scotty Scheffler,

854
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: who it feels this is having a much better season

855
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 2: than him. He's got more wins than basically everybody. He's

856
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 2: made fifteen million dollars this year. This tournament, I mean,

857
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: he's it feels like he's inevitably going to win a

858
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 2: Grand Slam. Right, He's already got two of the four

859
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,399
Speaker 2: and he's gonna win this tournament. Like I would bet

860
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars that he's going to win an Open

861
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 2: in his career.

862
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 3: Right.

863
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 2: It feels like a lock at some point in time

864
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 2: over the next decade. This week, though, is that is

865
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: that crazy to say, And you're right, and you'll come

866
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 2: back and say, hey, no one's hard. And he could

867
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: win multiple masters and never win this tournament. Lee Trevino

868
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 2: never won the Master. It's it's you're not guaranteed to

869
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 2: win every major. I don't give a shit who you are.

870
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 2: But this, this clearly is going to mean a lot

871
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: to him, given his given where he comes from and

872
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 2: who he looks up to.

873
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 3: Right, So a bunch of stuff here. First of all,

874
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 3: we talk about the quote unquote big three right now

875
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 3: in golf. Okay, Scotty Scheffler. Everyone's got Scotty Scheffler stats.

876
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 3: In fact, you texted me on Sunday. You're like, he's

877
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 3: only lost to nine guys in his last four starts.

878
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 3: I went through the whole thing. This year. He's played

879
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 3: sixteen times, he's beaten one nine hundred and thirty five competitors.

880
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 3: He's lost to seventy one of them. He's essentially averaging

881
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 3: like he's getting beaten by four players and he's beating

882
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty nine players. I mean, it's unbelievable,

883
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 3: Scott he's doing with his ball striking, with the results.

884
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 3: But you talked about the Big Three. Okay, Scotty's getting

885
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 3: all the attention for how well he's playing. Rory gets

886
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 3: attention because he's worry he's coming off a victory. John

887
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 3: Rahm essentially the question around him right now is, hey,

888
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 3: where's he been. I spoke with him a month ago

889
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 3: as soon as he finished final round sixty five at

890
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 3: the US Open, finished in tenth plays. It was fine,

891
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 3: and he goes, man, I got one more start, and

892
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 3: then I can't wait. I have not taken an extended

893
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 3: vacation over a year. I'm looking forward to It should

894
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 3: be no surprise that a week later he missed the

895
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 3: cut at the Travelers.

896
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 2: But I can tell you John, So he was with

897
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 2: over July fourth week and JJ Watt has a house

898
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 2: I don't know where, on some lake. He was out

899
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 2: there with him. He was hanging out with him for

900
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: the week, Him and him, TJ Watt, JJ Watt just

901
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 2: kicking it.

902
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 3: There you go. I mean, I look, and I have

903
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 3: no doubt that John's coming into this one prepared. Two things.

904
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 3: First of all, I've heard that, I mean, he's going

905
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 3: down the rabbit hole like he spends nights instead of like, yeah,

906
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 3: I don't know. I watch reruns of the Office every night.

907
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 3: John Ram sitting there going down the rabbit hole, watching

908
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 3: old editions of the of the Open Championship on YouTube,

909
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 3: like watching guys play links golf, watching Royal Liverpool. He

910
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 3: is that focused on what he's gonna try to do

911
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 3: this week. And secondly, Herb, were you on the Masters

912
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 3: three months ago? There was a question asked of him

913
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 3: when you were growing up? Is this the major that

914
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 3: always spent the most of you, that you always wanted

915
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 3: to win? He goes, Look, he's very deferential. He said,

916
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 3: anything that Seve did I wanted to do. So the

917
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 3: fact that Sev won the Masters it made it something

918
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 3: that I wanted to accomplish. But to be honest with

919
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 3: you know, growing up, the Open Championship is the one

920
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 3: that I always wanted and as a European that's still

921
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 3: the one that I'm gonna want. I'm telling you he

922
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 3: has fired up for this one. I think that we

923
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 3: almost over the last month or so, have forgotten how

924
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 3: good he is. When John Robb's playing his best golf,

925
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 3: still might be the best player in the world. I

926
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 3: know that's hard to say. What Scotty's doing, what Scotty's

927
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 3: doing right now. But John Rahm is really, really, really good,

928
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 3: and we tend to forget it. We're so fickle that,

929
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 3: you know, if we haven't seen it in the last

930
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,760
Speaker 3: three or four weeks, it's like it doesn't exist anymore.

931
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, watch out for.

932
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 2: Gen Ra And if you just look at it from

933
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 2: an odds perspective, right if we say, you know, on

934
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 2: a given week, if they're all playing well, they're basically

935
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: even the three of them. John's odds are basically almost

936
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 2: double what those two guys are. I mean, you can

937
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 2: find him eleven twelve to one. So from a value standpoint,

938
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 2: if we all acknowledge it's gonna be one of the

939
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 2: top eight nine ten guys, well you can get one

940
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: of the top three guys at much better odds than

941
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 2: the other two. So you just convinced me. I think

942
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put some shekels John Ramz odds. I'm just

943
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 2: looking at it right now.

944
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: Twelve to one.

945
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 2: I mean you got to put, like you said, six

946
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,399
Speaker 2: and a half or whatever for Rory. Who love the guy,

947
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 2: but when's the last time he won a major tournament?

948
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 3: Top five this week is my favorite play for him.

949
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 3: I just think he's he's going to be there.

950
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 2: Do you like Ron more than Cam Smith? This week?

951
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 3: Yes, I am about to do my rank. I'll do

952
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 3: like a top twenty five or so ranking of the field,

953
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 3: and I've kind of got in my head. I've got

954
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 3: to write it all out and i'll have it out

955
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 3: later today. But Rom will be somewhere around third or

956
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 3: fourth on my list. Cam Smith will be somewhere around

957
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 3: six or seventh.

958
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: Gotcha.

959
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 3: So you know it's not there's not a massive differential.

960
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 3: I like looking for matchup bets. I think it's a

961
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 3: really good exercise. Like and for people that are listening,

962
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 3: go do the same thing. Go essentially make your own

963
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 3: top twenty five ranking, and then you go look at

964
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: the matchup bets. And if you have a guy who's

965
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 3: fourth and he's matchup against a guy who you have six,

966
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 3: all right, you're probably not betting that, not much of

967
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 3: a differential. But you have a guy who's fourth and

968
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 3: another guy that you have twenty fifth on your list,

969
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 3: you go, Okay, there's a massive differential. I should bet

970
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 3: that guy who's fourth on my list.

971
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 2: Okay, So this podcast is all over Hovelin Rom Fleetwood Andhattan.

972
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 2: Let's get it baby.

973
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, love that. So we'll have a good weekend. Let's in.

974
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 2: Uh, let's enjoy the open and sad day because this

975
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 2: is the last major of the year. So the Masters,

976
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 2: you're you're wearing a Master shirt, wet. We got a

977
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 2: little while, yeah, nine months away for the next major

978
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 2: after this week.

979
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,399
Speaker 3: Uh. Look, I've got some fomo not being there this week.

980
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 3: I've covered probably seven or eight of these in the past.

981
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 3: I kind of wish I was there. But that said

982
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 3: so funny. We had John Wood, who does great job

983
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 3: for NBC on our show, Uh not that long ago,

984
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 3: and he said, yeah, unfortunately, it looks like a lot

985
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 3: of wind, a lot of rain, some bad weather. I go,

986
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 3: hold on, that's unfortunate when you're there and you're covering

987
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 3: the event, and I've been there. Look, I've been there

988
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 3: when it feels like the roof is going to blow

989
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 3: off of the media tent and it feels like, you know,

990
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 3: we're all getting sucked up into the vortex. That said,

991
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 3: when you're not there, like, there's nothing better than laying

992
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 3: on the couch at six in the morning watching guys

993
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 3: trudge around in rain pants and Beanie caps, you know,

994
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 3: dealing with the conditions when you got like it's bacon

995
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 3: an egg sandwich, sitting on your chest, laying on the

996
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 3: couch watching them. I can't wait for that this week.

997
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: Well, let's enjoy the open soble and have a good weekend.

998
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 3: Thanks Buddy, you too.

999
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: The volume