Speaker 1: No shotgun starting.
Speaker 2: Golf is full of mathematics. There's a lot of setup
Speaker 2: work that we have to do in order to make
Speaker 2: a tournament work. So I'm going to demonstrate to you
Speaker 2: just exactly how we do a shotgun start here and alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 2: dent Man.
Speaker 1: Dart, your greetings, are welcome to a Friday edition of
Speaker 1: The Shotgun Start. It is July thirtieth, Andy, how are
Speaker 1: we doing.
Speaker 2: Brendan, I'm doing well. We're actually doing a July thirtieth recording,
Speaker 2: which is weird.
Speaker 1: You know, well, it's Friday morning. I'm at the beach,
Speaker 1: You're safe at home, you're traveling. I saw you're in
Speaker 1: Michigan yesterday. Yeah. With the time change like this, golf
Speaker 1: doesn't end till like two three in the morning, and
Speaker 1: we figure your time, just get my time, that's sure.
Speaker 1: We figured we would just get to the thirty six
Speaker 1: whole mark with our updates. Our eighteen whalle updates are
Speaker 1: even more relevant, have even more punch now that we're
Speaker 1: so we figured we'd wait, do it Friday morning, get
Speaker 1: it up Friday, as opposed to just talking in the
Speaker 1: middle of the second round on Thursday night. I've just
Speaker 1: come back from the beach. I think I've carried nine
Speaker 1: beach chairs at one time, feeling that might be the
Speaker 1: peak of my day, feeling great about myself about how
Speaker 1: many you know, it's like an Olympic sport for me.
Speaker 1: How many can I carry down at one time? Uh?
Speaker 1: You are? You got a little bit of punch a
Speaker 1: little bit? Are you tired? You worse for the wear
Speaker 1: or anything? You good? No?
Speaker 2: I was, you know, with our our friends over at
Speaker 2: No laying up yesterday and Grand Rapids, beautiful Grand Rapids,
Speaker 2: and uh played played some golf and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: always good catch it up with those guys and uh
Speaker 2: drove back late last night and now I'm now I'm here.
Speaker 2: I'm just getting their actual raps settled in. This is
Speaker 2: a question that we had, Actually, I was, I was
Speaker 2: discussing this with with Big Grant.
Speaker 1: I don't want to step on their their content coming
Speaker 1: if that's the focus of it, But like, are the
Speaker 1: rapids out there?
Speaker 2: It was leg This was a this was a question
Speaker 2: I asked Neil and Randy. I said, would you rather
Speaker 2: live in bigger Grand Rapids because there's a big rapids okay,
Speaker 2: And they said grand Big Rapids is a little bit
Speaker 2: further north in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Though. Okay, all right, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: But where would you rather live? Big or grand rappids?
Speaker 1: I think Grand. I think Grand is a little more
Speaker 1: versatile than just big, big little.
Speaker 2: I kind of like, how how blunt it is? Big?
Speaker 2: But I don't know, you know, I actually don't know
Speaker 2: if there are rapids that that was? That was None
Speaker 2: of us knew if there were rapids.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, it could be a misnomber could be you could.
Speaker 2: Walk They missed opportunity. Nobody walked around downtown and asking
Speaker 2: random people where are the rapids?
Speaker 1: Not yet anyways, maybe that'll be in their next season
Speaker 1: of Torres Sauce without the ten in all right, Olympic Golf,
Speaker 1: we're at the thirty six hole mark. It looked like
Speaker 1: the septic tank was on a heater or we're not
Speaker 1: fully at the thirty six hole mark. We got more weather.
Speaker 1: You know, there's three or four groups that have like
Speaker 1: three or four holes to finish on Saturday. Would be
Speaker 1: in Tokyo, but the x Man Xander goes low perfectly
Speaker 1: set up shoots sixty three.
Speaker 2: Now the limited the septic tank over over flowed there.
Speaker 1: Was maybe a pinhole in the septic tank. Not a
Speaker 1: massive league, but you know this started a little bit
Speaker 1: of a leak. The sixty three was nowhere to be
Speaker 1: found for the septic tank on the second round, but
Speaker 1: the x man did post to sixty three. Here he
Speaker 1: is loves his limited fields, you know. He just feasts
Speaker 1: on the wgc's the shadow leaderboard, Courier Cup events. He's
Speaker 1: set up for maybe a gold medal, who knows, but
Speaker 1: he posted sixty three in the wee hours of the night,
Speaker 1: leads Carlos Ortiz by a shot, Meto Pereira, Alex Norin
Speaker 1: and the septic tank, oh as well as Hideki, who
Speaker 1: has two holes left to play. Hideki shooting for a
Speaker 1: couples ago, could be his own sixty three. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you a.
Speaker 2: Question, does this event need Xander, Hideki or Rory really
Speaker 2: to win? Not Sabatini, mackail Roy.
Speaker 1: We'll get to low Rory. The game within the game.
Speaker 1: Low Rory is electric right now. I don't think it
Speaker 1: needs it. It is what it is, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's still like experiment.
Speaker 2: Stenson Rose going one to in the first year was
Speaker 2: like a grand slam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but for like whoa, I'm.
Speaker 2: Just saying, like to like elite, it was two elite players,
Speaker 2: you know, in a showdown, you know at the time, Yeah,
Speaker 2: before anybody gets about like in twenty sixteen, Stanton and
Speaker 2: Rose was just one of the best. Yeah, two of
Speaker 2: the best players in the world. So you know that's
Speaker 2: kind of what I think about a little bit with
Speaker 2: this is like, obviously the field took some big hits
Speaker 2: late and isn't you know what it could be, But
Speaker 2: like it would be really nice for the future of
Speaker 2: golf in the Olympics to.
Speaker 1: Have a big winner. Yeah, I mean what about world sport,
Speaker 1: Like Xander isn't a name yet. I know it would
Speaker 1: be a good story for us, Like golf nuts obviously
Speaker 1: it's great Hideki and Rory would probably be the top too,
Speaker 1: I would, I would imagine internationally globally. But here's what
Speaker 1: we talk about with like the Masters, right, Like it's
Speaker 1: like kind of hard to get a bad leaderboard at
Speaker 1: the Masters, right, there's just it's a small field. You
Speaker 1: got half of it wiped out because you know they're
Speaker 1: old timers or ameters things like that. This is like
Speaker 1: you'd think half of it would be wiped out because
Speaker 1: there's sort of guys in the fifteen hundreds of world
Speaker 1: rankings and then via you know international status, you know,
Speaker 1: the whoever the guns Charon'll call and the Christiaanio Hanson types.
Speaker 1: But like, it's a mixed bag right now. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not that mass I wouldn't say it's like elite.
Speaker 1: You got Xander. I guess it's made a late charge.
Speaker 1: McElroy got his act together somewhat somewhat, still hitting loose wedges,
Speaker 1: blasting you know, putts. He saved one. He almost had
Speaker 1: the worst part ever on that drivable par four, but
Speaker 1: he hit like a fifteen twenty footer for Birdie coming back.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's it's it's a mixed bag. I know.
Speaker 1: Porter was was tweeting about, like the average world ranking
Speaker 1: is like one hundred and fifty something. I'm on the
Speaker 1: top ten, and again there's just not a lot of
Speaker 1: elite players. I guess to maybe get up there. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's part of the problem too, whereas the masters you have,
Speaker 1: you know, at least the top twenty five in the
Speaker 1: world are definitely in the field. But I'm just surprised that.
Speaker 2: Bag there's three former number ones in the top eleven.
Speaker 1: What former number one FedEx Cup or what are we
Speaker 1: talking about here?
Speaker 2: Number stander Rory uh and Bassie Munos, Ry McElroy.
Speaker 1: We need to be clear here, not the BFB who
Speaker 1: is knocking on the door. This is a real thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's the chases on it. It might be happening.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 2: If the FedEx Cup was around in two thousand and five,
Speaker 2: two thousand and four, Sabo would have been would be
Speaker 2: a former number one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was cleaning up two decades ago for sure.
Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. Two nationalities and two decades
Speaker 1: ago he would have been a number one. All right.
Speaker 1: So anyways, I just Kyle Robbins front of the program,
Speaker 1: former colleague of mind, makeing jokes like this is a
Speaker 1: check Master's leaderboard. You know, this is what you wake up.
Speaker 1: It's the magical Keny Open. But I just get got
Speaker 1: a little more juice in the second round. The first
Speaker 1: round was with the Septic Tank and Jessey Jay was
Speaker 1: an interesting, interesting collection.
Speaker 2: Hey with with Rory McElroy not to be confused. So
Speaker 2: he goes on to win this week. Can we say
Speaker 2: that the that him wearing a hat is affecting his play.
Speaker 2: Last time was not where hat was what twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: Ryder Cup.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was great. He wasn't great. He was good.
Speaker 1: I mean Patrick Reed still being a This is like
Speaker 1: the amount of attention that Rory's hat gets is unbelievable
Speaker 1: to me. I'm getting somebody like I.
Speaker 2: Have friends taxing me, like why is any wearing a hat?
Speaker 1: I got, you know, I got a thousand word email
Speaker 1: from Irish Irish listener like just spouting all these conspiracy
Speaker 1: theories about his hat. These people are so worked up
Speaker 1: about the hat, whether it's you know, the branding or
Speaker 1: he doesn't care for you know, Ireland, or he doesn't
Speaker 1: care for you know. They say, well, the counter theory
Speaker 1: that this this emailer got was he's self sabotaging himself
Speaker 1: because he's not managing the heat, like you play better
Speaker 1: in a hat, you're actually hurting yourself with the heat
Speaker 1: and the saw, the septic tank and the full on
Speaker 1: bath towel around his neck. On Thursday Friday, the Thursday
Speaker 1: first round, it's like eighty seven, feels like ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Humidity sounds intense over there right now, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's a contra theory that the hat is actually hurting
Speaker 1: his play because he's not, you know, managing the heat better.
Speaker 1: So I just see.
Speaker 2: Something to watch. That's something to watch this week. Let's
Speaker 2: see how that plays out. That's that's a storyline to
Speaker 2: watch for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: More hat content, absolutely absolutely anything else from the Olympics
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about. The BFB. Look, he's
Speaker 1: talking about the Slovakian shooter, the skeet shooter and how
Speaker 1: he's inspired Steve Sands. At three in the morning or
Speaker 1: whatever it was midnight, I saw that. I just stayed
Speaker 1: up for that and then I turned in at the beach.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, it's so absurd, this whole thing that
Speaker 2: is actually like he's in the mix. It's just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I think it's actually kind of like a farce to
Speaker 2: the whole Olympics that this guy is playing under the
Speaker 2: Slovakian flag. I love that they're interviewing him about like
Speaker 2: being you know, Slovakia, and he's got this thick South
Speaker 2: African accent. Like it's just it's just a whole the
Speaker 2: whole situation is absolutely incredible. He decided that he wanted
Speaker 2: to be a Slovakian citizen at age forty four or whatever.
Speaker 2: He just becomes one AND's overnight playing on it. Like
Speaker 2: it's just My wife's like, why doesn't he play for
Speaker 2: the South African team? And I'm like, well, he's not
Speaker 2: good enough, and she started laughing. She's like, oh, so
Speaker 2: he just went to Slovakia. I'm like, yeah, basically.
Speaker 1: He cares. Though. At least you got someone who cares
Speaker 1: to play for these medals. It's an honor, you know,
Speaker 1: it really matters to him. It's it's ridicul He's leaned
Speaker 1: into it. He's got it on his hat, shoes, ball,
Speaker 1: even when he's not playing the Olympics for Team Slow Anyways,
Speaker 1: it's sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Is he the best case scenario winning?
Speaker 1: I mean the best case scenario are the Koreans, right,
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard to like that's real world consequences,
Speaker 1: Sea wu Is. I guess, yeah, it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: looking great, but I guess the one thing we've seen
Speaker 1: is the course does seem ripe for rounds? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a word I guess they use when talking about course conditions,
Speaker 1: I'm told, but it's dartboard. It's dartboard, which is somewhat regrettable,
Speaker 1: but hey, they got a lot of rain. He can't
Speaker 1: control mother nature. The balls are just there's ball marks
Speaker 1: all over these greens. As soon as he land, these
Speaker 1: guys are hitting like three woods into par fours and
Speaker 1: the ball is just stopping on a dime. And hey,
Speaker 1: it's just is what it is. So low sixties rounds
Speaker 1: do seem, you know, possible out there. Even on the
Speaker 1: weekend we may see even more movement. So anything else
Speaker 1: on the Olympics. Look, there's BFB merchandise out there if
Speaker 1: you want it, you want to celebrate this absurdity. We
Speaker 1: have some shirts left, I think the krew neck sweatshirts.
Speaker 1: A lot of dads out there looking forward to leaf
Speaker 1: raking season and they're brought a Slava like department krew
Speaker 1: neck patrol on the sidelines it's fall soccer or whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, and you're you know, you're brought a
Speaker 1: Slava sweatshirt. But there's some left, I believe in some
Speaker 1: T shirts left too, if you want those.
Speaker 2: Friday, what's the what's the national sport for Slovak? Like,
Speaker 2: what are they best at?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. That's a good question. You know
Speaker 1: it's Slovak authorities. You put me on the spot here.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. You see, we're on the Wikipedia page.
Speaker 1: People keep sending us this to us, Yeah, not to
Speaker 1: this is what we don't want attention. Please take it down.
Speaker 1: But there's some we are cited as a source with
Speaker 1: a reference and a citation and as why his nickname
Speaker 1: is the shotguns Star podcast calls it the boy from
Speaker 1: brought us Lava on Roy Sabatini's Wikipedia page. So anyways,
Speaker 1: that's that's the Olympics. That's your Olympics recap with thirty
Speaker 1: six holes to play. What's your ideal winner? What's your
Speaker 1: best case scenario? Hideki probably right, Hideki would be sweet.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, without a doubt Hideki winning. I mean what
Speaker 2: a year it would be if he capped that off, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that would be a matter what happened, like
Speaker 2: the rest of his career, it's like that year. This
Speaker 2: year would be you know, like I'm not it's not
Speaker 2: when Trevino won you know, the US Open and the Open.
Speaker 2: You know, he won the Sportsman of the Year. It's
Speaker 2: not like on that level. Yeah, but it's like I
Speaker 2: think like in terms of like it's a very high
Speaker 2: achieve like in terms of like a season for the
Speaker 2: last decade, Japanese player winning the first major championship in
Speaker 2: Japanese golf history and the Olympic gold in his home
Speaker 2: country would have to rank like very very high, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would be a massive, massive achievement,
Speaker 1: massive year. They keep getting asked this question like is
Speaker 1: this bigger, bigger than a major, better than a major?
Speaker 1: What would you like more? And they're like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just different. None of them have an answer for it.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, the Brits were like which major? They
Speaker 1: like looked at each other fleetwood in cases. So it's
Speaker 1: just a different kind of achievement in it's different little box.
Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think they were
Speaker 2: they were insinuating with this major?
Speaker 1: What do you mean the Brits? Which major? What probably
Speaker 1: want they wanted to duncan? I think that probably the PGA,
Speaker 1: maybe the US Open. I would imagine the Masters in
Speaker 1: the Open Championship are held there in high regard for
Speaker 1: the British. All right, so that's your Olympics. Hey we're talking.
Speaker 1: Do you think three on three basketball should be in
Speaker 1: the Olympics, and what would be the analog for this?
Speaker 2: Here's Here's the thing about three on three basketball is
Speaker 2: that if if the best basketball players in the world
Speaker 2: played three on three basketball, they would beat these three
Speaker 2: on three teams. So what are we doing. It's the
Speaker 2: same sport and the best players are still the same players,
Speaker 2: and they're playing five on five basketball. Why why does
Speaker 2: the three on three basketball exist? It's enjoyable to watch,
Speaker 2: but like, it's just it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: Well, you could say the same for like different swimming strokes,
Speaker 1: right or different No, I don't know skiing of that.
Speaker 1: Those are different forms.
Speaker 2: But this is the thing. If you're the best butterfly
Speaker 2: in the best free style, you swim both races. Lebron's
Speaker 2: not lasening it up. Kevin Durant a better comp for
Speaker 2: this Olympics. Kevin Durant's not just like playing a five
Speaker 2: on five game and then lasen them up for the
Speaker 2: three on three comp Like, are you telling me that
Speaker 2: any of these teams would beat like Kevin Durante, well,
Speaker 2: Kyrie and James Harden if they played. It's a three
Speaker 2: on three team.
Speaker 1: Part of my nativite but who even is on? I've
Speaker 1: watched it. I've seen it on my screen. I think
Speaker 1: the women's three on three has popped on. I've watched
Speaker 1: a little bit of it. But who even are the
Speaker 1: American players? Are they like these G League stars? Are
Speaker 1: they like washed out guys? Is is it?
Speaker 2: I don't know?
Speaker 1: A mile? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Pick three?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do remember that, all right.
Speaker 2: Robbie Hummel former Purdue Uh great, isn't he broadcasting?
Speaker 1: I think he's like, yeah, he could work, yeah, like
Speaker 1: the yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Think he's a studio guy. Yeah he's an Olympia.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Dominique Jones five nine, thirty three year old who played
Speaker 2: at Fort Hayes State, Joey King from University of Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and Kareem Maddox from Princeton, Like, how did these guys.
Speaker 1: That is? I mean, hey, that's kind of almost that's
Speaker 1: more farcical than BFB being an Olympian. That's just as absurd, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are not nearly like whatever whatever
Speaker 1: the Olympics are, it's own. I'm telling you curious.
Speaker 2: Maybe if you're if you're a good great, you know,
Speaker 2: but not quite good enough national basketball team you should
Speaker 2: send your best players for the three on three so
Speaker 2: you could win a goals.
Speaker 1: Good point pick off a medal. Yeah, like a like
Speaker 1: a Greece or a or I don't know, Argentina. Some
Speaker 1: of those teams are good though in actual five on
Speaker 1: five I don't know that's a good strategy.
Speaker 2: So here, here's my camp. Here's my camp for golf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what would it be, long drive?
Speaker 2: It'd be like if we know, if we played a
Speaker 2: par three competition, like it was a par three tournament
Speaker 2: Part three course, but none of the top none of
Speaker 2: the top four hundred players in the world were allowed
Speaker 2: to play, and it was all like many tour guys
Speaker 2: and like so the best wench players and iron players
Speaker 2: in the world weren't allowed to play.
Speaker 1: Sonny Abacoa get him in there. Yeah, you could have
Speaker 1: a gold medal.
Speaker 2: You could have Monday Q could be the selection committee. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, he could, he could pick the guys. But none,
Speaker 2: none of the none of the top four hundred players
Speaker 2: in the world were eligible.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. I like that.
Speaker 2: Anybody, anybody eligible for the Olympics not eligible for the
Speaker 2: part three tournament.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Can you just get a poop poop platter of players,
Speaker 2: be like, be like the Colorado Open Field.
Speaker 1: It could be really fun to watch. I'd love to
Speaker 1: watch a Part three I prefer to watch you know,
Speaker 1: Tiger and Justin Thomas, those types. But anyways, yeah, I
Speaker 1: like the idea of a Part three competition. That'd be good.
Speaker 1: Good analog. All right, that's your Olympics debrief. Let's do
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Speaker 1: my eighteen month old coming out on the porch to
Speaker 1: join the recording the US Senior Women's Open. Dana Ebster
Speaker 1: and Anika Sorenstam are your early leaders. This also did
Speaker 1: not finish because just torrential rain at Brooklawn, which looks
Speaker 1: like a just crispy course, not crispy and conditioning with
Speaker 1: all the great yeah yeah tilling hass I believe up
Speaker 1: in Connecticut course looks really cool. But Anica and Dana
Speaker 1: Ebster are early leaders after the course got soaked late.
Speaker 1: Anaka would probably be an ideal winner for publicity of
Speaker 1: this event, you know, giving it some real juice in
Speaker 1: year three. But I kind of have a problem with
Speaker 1: her playing the celebrity events and then playing real events.
Speaker 1: She was just a celebrity in Tahoe. She played an
Speaker 1: LPGA event as a celebrity at the Diamond Resorts, then
Speaker 1: played as a pro at her backyard game bridge event
Speaker 1: at Lake Nona. I just kind of have like you
Speaker 1: hear the seagulls in the background. I just kind of
Speaker 1: a gaggle or is it a flock? I kind of
Speaker 1: have an issue with it. I think like, once you
Speaker 1: turn celebrity, you shouldn't be able to turn pro back
Speaker 1: back to playing pro events again, Like you're either like
Speaker 1: reinstated AM or pro. So I don't think you can
Speaker 1: go to Tahoe and try to beat up on Mark
Speaker 1: Mulder and Marty Fish and the like and and you know,
Speaker 1: Larry the cable guy. Yeah, I get that this is
Speaker 1: an open but what was her what was her exemption? It? Like,
Speaker 1: is she playing Provence or is she a celebrity? You know?
Speaker 1: And the gamebridge thing then playing in the Diamond resorts
Speaker 1: against like the Cordas, it's like the greatest of all time,
Speaker 1: but she's playing on the on the celebrity side. I
Speaker 1: think she's got to make up her mind. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's right. I think it's I think she should
Speaker 1: be ineligible if she's now a celebrity tour golfer, she
Speaker 1: can do that or you know, or she could still
Speaker 1: play the Senior Tour or the play on the LPGi
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't like her putting there's.
Speaker 2: Here's my counter. You're putting too much stock in the
Speaker 2: celebrity h celebrity matches.
Speaker 1: I don't think she can't beat up on those guys
Speaker 1: on that circuit. Who cares she doesn't even win. That's true,
Speaker 1: that's fair, that's fair, all right. Anyways, that would be
Speaker 1: a massive boost for this event if Bonica does win
Speaker 1: anything else. Joanne Carner I think beat her age by
Speaker 1: three mistaken yeah, unbelievable, big mom. So she shot her
Speaker 1: age right on the number. I think. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: that will be on TV Saturday and Sunday, so keep
Speaker 1: an eye out for that after I don't know, no TV.
Speaker 1: I think the first two rounds elsewhere? What do we
Speaker 1: have on the European Tour? Daniel Hillier Hillier, who I
Speaker 1: mistakenly called an Australian in a previous podcast, absolutely a
Speaker 1: New Zealander. He's your early leader and the modest golf
Speaker 1: Management I SPS hand a World Invitational. I guess modest
Speaker 1: golf management is a is like a Nile horror am thing.
Speaker 1: The the what's the what's the group? Not Backstreet one Direction, Nile?
Speaker 1: Whatever he's from? Have you heard yeah. I walked with
Speaker 1: him at the Ryder Cup at Hazel Team. He's a
Speaker 1: he's a short little guy, but I have to say so.
Speaker 1: But anyways, Daniel Hillier, New Zealander Kiwi. He leads, he's
Speaker 1: he's one up on Jordan Smith and a host of
Speaker 1: others on the LPGA side and the left side. Emma
Speaker 1: Tally is your leader. She leads Chilli Choi. Jennifer Cupp
Speaker 1: Show by three cup. Show is fighting for a Solheim
Speaker 1: Cup spot she'll probably get.
Speaker 2: She's like a top ten player in the world. She
Speaker 2: hasn't gotten the win yet. I think it'd be big
Speaker 2: to get a win, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, yeah, so there's three events left.
Speaker 2: For so long, there's some expert analysis right there. Really,
Speaker 2: it would be really great if she.
Speaker 1: Got to win, Like I mean, hey, you could get
Speaker 1: a studio show by saying even less controversial things. There's
Speaker 1: some some of these pregame post game whether it's whatever, baseball, basketball, golf,
Speaker 1: even I don't know. It's like they need to stop
Speaker 1: him on defense and then you're you're done, all right,
Speaker 1: what else? Roun you want to talk about the Western
Speaker 1: am Where are we on the Western m thor Jordan
Speaker 1: thorpe Jornson is kicking ass or was where thorpe.
Speaker 2: Jorn thorpe yoursen Son was the medalist. Yeah, he's not
Speaker 2: a heater. He won the mass am, he was dominant.
Speaker 2: It killed everybody. Then he shot, you know, he said
Speaker 2: a new course record at glen View shot sixty two.
Speaker 2: I think sixty two. I swear it was kind of
Speaker 2: like ordinary.
Speaker 1: I thought I saw something like he was medalist with
Speaker 1: like eight bogeys or something like that, or like a
Speaker 1: he had like a bunch of bogies in a tupple
Speaker 1: and he was the medalist.
Speaker 2: So let's yeah, he made just a shitload of birdies.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a wedge veest out there. It's not
Speaker 2: like a long golf course, but like they've been, it's
Speaker 2: in prem primo shape all accounts i've heard, it's like incredible,
Speaker 2: okay and uh, and then they're putting the pins in
Speaker 2: really tough situation. I think, like I'm guessing for match
Speaker 2: play they'll have them in a little bit more normal
Speaker 2: spots now that like scores aren't being posted on the
Speaker 2: on the on the board, protect the courses on her
Speaker 2: a little bit. But you've got great I mean great
Speaker 2: sixteen players, as you'd expect when you put the best
Speaker 2: amateurs in the world in a field and you play
Speaker 2: seventy two holes, the top sixteen's pretty stout. So you
Speaker 2: know you got thorp Jornson, Ricky Castilio, Joe high Smith,
Speaker 2: the bucket half.
Speaker 1: Boy, Oh bucket boy? Is his coach there walking with
Speaker 1: them for prolonging the matches by an extra hour and
Speaker 1: a half? Or no?
Speaker 2: Probably Caddy in forum Pierson Coup from Texas, Carl Phillips
Speaker 2: from Australian who plays at Stanford with Thorbe Bjornson, and
Speaker 2: then Trent Phillips, a Clemson guy. Uh, lots of lots
Speaker 2: of great players.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a lot of firepower on that bracket. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna go up there? Well?
Speaker 2: We got uh no, No, I can't. I'm too too
Speaker 2: busy this but I got Little Will Knights is up there?
Speaker 2: Sign on a big adventure?
Speaker 1: Do you have an adult with them? Do you get
Speaker 1: free admission or what? What's the deal? Okay, let's not,
Speaker 1: let's not. We don't need to get it off. Some
Speaker 1: shots well here at the end. Also very notable the
Speaker 1: great fanfare on Twitter Pennsylvania amateur John Peters wins with
Speaker 1: a whole out eagle on the eighteenth that maryon Marion, Marion, Marion, Marion.
Speaker 1: This I saw outside the cut had like a really
Speaker 1: cool photo of jumping for joy. It was not a
Speaker 1: walk off. Chris Roselle clarified that there was a somebody
Speaker 1: had a six foot birdie put I think to for
Speaker 1: us extra holes. But he did come from one down
Speaker 1: to win by one with a whole whole out eagle
Speaker 1: incoming duke freshman. So John Peters, congrats. That looked. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty cool thing to have happened at a
Speaker 1: pretty cool place. You know, win a state am with
Speaker 1: a whole out of eagle. So would that be more?
Speaker 1: Would that qualify as more?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's more impressive. You know,
Speaker 2: a whole out eagle on the eighteenth hole at Marrion,
Speaker 2: it's like a million times more impressive than a whole
Speaker 2: one anywhere. That means you hit a good drive too,
Speaker 2: probably like a decent drive that hole is impossible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not. That's not that's not a easy little
Speaker 1: flip wedge probably, So that's great. Yeah. Longtime listener Chip
Speaker 1: hunt Her messaged recently said he had a whole in
Speaker 1: one and a whole out eagle and back to back
Speaker 1: holes recently. I assume I think old Talent Club or something.
Speaker 1: He was like, I didn't know which one felt better,
Speaker 1: but it was like the pinnacle. So he's another the
Speaker 1: term again finnacle in my golf career. That's like a
Speaker 1: real sort of experiment back to back, like which one
Speaker 1: felt better when you have him back to back, the
Speaker 1: whole out eagle or the ace or I don't know
Speaker 1: the same route. I don't know if it was back
Speaker 1: to back. So all right, that does it this Friday episode.
Speaker 1: Do you have any parting thoughts?
Speaker 2: I really excited to watch Savo attempt to, you know,
Speaker 2: make history. It is the great go down? Is the great?
Speaker 2: Is he already the greatest Slovakian golfer of all time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He has to be. I hope we're not disrespecting some
Speaker 1: guy from like the early nineteen hundreds who was like
Speaker 1: a legend, but I'm pretty sure that he is. All Right, everyone,
Speaker 1: enjoy your weekends, enjoy the Olympics. We'll be back Sunday
Speaker 1: night with the episode to recap it. All to potipotent
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