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Speaker 1: go low. Okay. Brian Harmon wins the one hundred and

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Speaker 1: he's had one of the great seasons of all time.

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Speaker 1: How many major? How many tournaments did he went? Oh,

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Speaker 1: he didn't win a major. He's won two tournaments and

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Speaker 1: they were really early in the season. Like, it's pretty

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Speaker 1: wild that he was that successful and that good and

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Speaker 1: he was elite and he didn't win a major. It's

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Speaker 1: it shows you back to the rary thing, how difficult

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Speaker 1: this is. But you go, oscod he's gonna end up

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Speaker 1: winning six majors or maybe he just wins two, maybe

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Speaker 1: just wins one more and has just like a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame career. That's probably historically more likely than him

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Speaker 1: going to be a five or six time major champion. Right.

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Speaker 1: Even what Brooks Koepka did is pretty nuts. I mean,

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Speaker 1: to me, that's easily another big story a guy that

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Speaker 1: went to Live, which was understandable when you watch the

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Speaker 1: Live or not to Live, but the uh, the Full

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Speaker 1: Swing documentary. He talked about injuries, he talked about never

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Speaker 1: knowing if he could get back, and he's watching Scotti

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Speaker 1: Scheffler kick his ass and they offered him a ton

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Speaker 1: of money, Like I got it. I also thought that

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Speaker 1: we might never see that just killer again because Brooks

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Speaker 1: Kopka in the Majors when he's on is a fun

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Speaker 1: player to watch, and watching him win the PGA Championship,

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Speaker 1: and honestly he was right there with John Rahm at

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Speaker 1: the Masters. Really those two majors, it was fun to

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Speaker 1: have Brooks back in the mix when it mattered the most,

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Speaker 1: and that was he did a lot of weight caring

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Speaker 1: for Live this year because this was a tournament that

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Speaker 1: was live. Was MIA, which I understand. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: a lot of those guys, like I had a buddy

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Speaker 1: text me like what's up with DJ. It's like I

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Speaker 1: would guess DJ by about July fourth males in the

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Speaker 1: golf season now, so I think he'll get his best

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Speaker 1: early on. You know, he'll try for the Live and

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Speaker 1: we'll see how this whole Live thing plays out over

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Speaker 1: the next six months, what the tournament schedules are next year,

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Speaker 1: where they end up merging, how this whole thing works.

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Speaker 1: No one knows, I mean the people that are involved

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Speaker 1: in these negotiations, like, we don't have details yet. The

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Speaker 1: players go, we got no fucking clue, But it was

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Speaker 1: cool to have Koepka back. I would say one other

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Speaker 1: just big headline of the year. We're just kind of

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Speaker 1: the comeback stories because Jason Day, who has five top

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Speaker 1: two finishes in majors, this is first one in a long,

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Speaker 1: long time, Like Jason Dad a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: look kind of shot, and last year he started showing

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Speaker 1: signs of live. This year he's been excellent, Like he's

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Speaker 1: been really really good. Obviously won a tournament, was fantastic

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Speaker 1: this week with the T two, and he's just this

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Speaker 1: is a guy not just a former number one player

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Speaker 1: in the world. I mean, this guy is a high

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Speaker 1: end player at high end tournaments. You just pull up

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Speaker 1: his major record, like he has a ton of top

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Speaker 1: tens in majors, he has a ton of top fives

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Speaker 1: in maj This guy has shown up in his career

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Speaker 1: when he's been playing well when it's mattered the most.

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Speaker 1: And I would say Ricky, who is a bigger star

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Speaker 1: who hasn't accomplished as much as Jason, given that he's

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Speaker 1: never won a Major, but is easily of the post

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Speaker 1: Tiger Phil in their prime era of the last like

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Speaker 1: you know, eight ish years, eight ten years is one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest stars in the game, who's as famous

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Speaker 1: to a casual sports fan as probably a Rory a

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Speaker 1: rom Maybe Speed is probably the most famous. But both

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Speaker 1: those guys saw the ugliness and this usually doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: Was I've seen it in football when you start to

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Speaker 1: lose it, like when I worked in the NFL. I

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Speaker 1: remember signing Ronnie Brown to the Eagles, like two practice

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Speaker 1: in You're like, God, this guy can't move. His career

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Speaker 1: is over. It just it just ends. You're gonna see

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Speaker 1: it when training camp starts some of these older veterans.

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Speaker 1: You lose your legs, You just lose some of your talent.

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Speaker 1: Usually don't like two years later you're like thirty three,

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Speaker 1: like thirty five, thirty six, get it back. You just

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Speaker 1: get cut and your career ends. And so how it

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Speaker 1: happens for all the Hall of Fame players des Bryant.

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Speaker 1: I know he's not a Hall of Famer, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just using names. It just ends. In golf, you can

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Speaker 1: battle back. And two guys that were like All Star,

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level players if they were in team sports,

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Speaker 1: got cut like we're gone. Ricky Fowler couldn't even make

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Speaker 1: the US Open last year. He was an alternate and

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Speaker 1: got told by yeah, we don't have a spot. Jason

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Speaker 1: Day's back. We're like, is this thing gonna work? That

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Speaker 1: happens in other sports usually just get shoved to the side,

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Speaker 1: And these guys came back and they are top ten

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Speaker 1: players now right like just start to finish this year

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Speaker 1: they have both been fantastic, so it's been fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: And on the opposite end, golf's weird man. For as

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Speaker 1: good as you are when you're rolling, shit could disappear fast.

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Speaker 1: I mean Justin Thomas my overall take on the Ryder

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Speaker 1: Cup with JT. To me, it's pretty black and white,

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Speaker 1: like he's not on the team this year. And I've

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Speaker 1: been gambling on Justin TNS Thomas for three or four years.

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Speaker 1: I think he's easily I mean, he's an elite, all

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Speaker 1: time great talent, and I don't think he's done, but

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Speaker 1: based on this year, like he can't be on the

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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup period, point blank, end of story. And honestly,

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Speaker 1: he should call Zak Johnson and be like, listen this,

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Speaker 1: I'll make this easy on you. I don't deserve this.

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Speaker 1: I'll be a part of it. I'll come over for support,

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Speaker 1: I'll be an assistant captain. But I'm just off and

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Speaker 1: he won't do this. You could argue that's not what

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Speaker 1: competitors do. But you go back to back tournaments, back

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Speaker 1: to back major tournaments and shoot over eighty. This isn't

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Speaker 1: me or you plan. This is justin Thomas, the guy

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Speaker 1: that won a major last year can't break eighty. And

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Speaker 1: then honestly, his comments of like I was really close,

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Speaker 1: Like yeah, I think guys can be really close when

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Speaker 1: you shoot seventy four, but god, I wasn't that far

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Speaker 1: away from shooting sixty nine, Like yeah, I agree, Like

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, when you're eighty two or eighty one, you're

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Speaker 1: not just a couple shots off. That's a horrendous round

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Speaker 1: of golf for a professional golfer, and it is. It's crazy,

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Speaker 1: like when you see the Jason Days and Ricky Fowlers,

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Speaker 1: we saw speed a couple of years ago. Even Rory,

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Speaker 1: relative to him, had a couple of year stretch where

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Speaker 1: he was bad and now became back to the peak.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm not Justin Thomas is going through some shit

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Speaker 1: right now, and it's what makes golf like he might

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Speaker 1: go through eight more months of this, who knows, but

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Speaker 1: right now he's not remotely close. And so when the

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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup discussion comes, Brian Harmon or him, like, pull

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Speaker 1: up what they've both done this year. You can be like, wow,

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Speaker 1: he's a great team. I'm sorry Justin or Jordan, like,

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Speaker 1: you gotta play with Brian Harmon this year. Brian Hart,

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Speaker 1: you know the guy that just curb stomped Rom, Rory Hoveland,

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Speaker 1: Jason Day at the Open. I think the guy can

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Speaker 1: hold his own for a couple match play events and

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Speaker 1: a couple alternate shot events. But it's what makes golf very,

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Speaker 1: very unique about comeback stories, guys who battle from the

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Speaker 1: abyss hell. It happens to all of us. Right we go.

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Speaker 1: I've had a terrible twenty twenty three. I've basically taken

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Speaker 1: the last month off. I played golf one time in

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Speaker 1: the last thirty five days. Now, part of it is literally,

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Speaker 1: I don't think could be hotter in Arizona right now.

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Speaker 1: Just one eighteen, one seventeen every day, which I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna be playing because I'm inside most of the time.

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Speaker 1: I'll go for walks outside, but I'm just not really

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Speaker 1: feeling playing golf in it. Uh And yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: haven't been playing well before that. I just need to

567
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Speaker 1: take a mental break. Maybe that's what Justin Thomas needs.

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Speaker 1: Just take a mental break and take the Ryder Cup

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Speaker 1: off and then come back and start battling next year.

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Speaker 1: But uh, fun golf season. Really enjoyed it, looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the Ryder Cup seeing how Zach Johnson who he picks,

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Speaker 1: hopefully not Justin Thomas, because again I'm a Justin Thomas fan.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't deserve it. This year. The volume