Speaker 1: I miss the green.
Speaker 2: For example, I'm already upset.
Speaker 3: When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
Speaker 1: And when I find my ball in a frid Egg
Speaker 1: Friday egg, the dreaded Frida Egg Friday, Frida Frida Egg
Speaker 1: Bride Egg.
Speaker 3: Lie, I'm about ready to run off of the course.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Frida Egg Podcast.
Speaker 3: I'm here with Kyle Nathan.
Speaker 1: We're going to break down and answer your questions in
Speaker 1: another mailbag pod.
Speaker 3: Kyle, welcome on.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Yeah, ready to go do some podcasting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the new?
Speaker 2: Not too much? Watch some USAM golf last weekend. It
Speaker 2: was exciting. You got the playoffs underway. Pretty good time
Speaker 2: for golf here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's uh, It's it's okay. I just can't seem
Speaker 3: to get excited about the FedEx Cup playoffs for some reason.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fan of watching. I watched this
Speaker 2: weekend and then once football starts, like gonna really lose
Speaker 2: interest rapidly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I guess that's why they're changing the schedule.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Let's just dive into the questions here.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of them, So thank you to
Speaker 1: everybody who asks them. If you if you're not on Twitter,
Speaker 1: just email us questions and uh we'll put them in here. So, uh,
Speaker 1: Tucker Blanket Ship is asking about fred Ridley, the new
Speaker 1: man at at the Masters in Augusta.
Speaker 3: So three things.
Speaker 1: You'd like to see fred Ridley change about Masters Augusta
Speaker 1: National within the first few years as chairman, Kyle, what
Speaker 1: why don't you start off by telling us a little
Speaker 1: bit about fred Ridley.
Speaker 3: I know he did some research.
Speaker 2: Who is Fred Ridley? I was interested to know because
Speaker 2: obviously that's such a prominent position in the golf world,
Speaker 2: and I was shocked. He's played in five majors, three
Speaker 2: of which were the Masters. He's a two time Walker
Speaker 2: Cup captain and ex president of the USGA. I think
Speaker 2: in two thousand and four to two thousand and six
Speaker 2: he started out as an agent at IMG. He managed
Speaker 2: Hal Sutton and he was handpicked by Billy Payne in
Speaker 2: twenty eleven to follow him up. And he's only been
Speaker 2: a member since two thousand. So obviously with this guy's pedigree,
Speaker 2: they hold him an extremely high regard because you think
Speaker 2: Augusta is such an old school club where you know,
Speaker 2: the guy that would be in charge is you know,
Speaker 2: his great grandfather was a member, and so the fact
Speaker 2: that they're going to a guy that's only been a
Speaker 2: member seventeen years, to me, says just how valuable they
Speaker 2: see him and how great they think he'll be in
Speaker 2: this role.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: I actually really like that he has played in a
Speaker 1: bunch of majors.
Speaker 3: I think they'll probably help the tournament.
Speaker 1: It might be just like a lot of little things,
Speaker 1: but that he does, but he knows what it's like
Speaker 1: to actually play, which I think is always important with tournaments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, it's huge. I mean there's no substitute.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: That's why they always say the USGA events are kind
Speaker 1: of gonna be bad because they are a bunch of
Speaker 1: amateurs running around running a tournament.
Speaker 2: We do have a lot of USGA questions to get to.
Speaker 2: But first, what about the rest of this The three
Speaker 2: things he'd like to see Fred change?
Speaker 1: Oh, well, I mean I think it. There's a big
Speaker 1: trend in the world of golf and golf courses of
Speaker 1: wiping away changes that any member of the Jones family
Speaker 1: has done to a golf course and I think that's
Speaker 1: the first one, getting Augusta back to what it used
Speaker 1: to be. Even Tiger Woods was talking about it in
Speaker 1: his most recent book about how much it's changed over
Speaker 1: the years and how there's you know, the inception of
Speaker 1: long grass, like you know, the idea of like if
Speaker 1: you hit a bad drive in the old days, it
Speaker 1: just would run because it was all fair. We it
Speaker 1: would just run into the pine straw, into the trees.
Speaker 1: Now the rough stops it all right. So that would
Speaker 1: be number one on my list. Number two, I think
Speaker 1: it'd be pretty cool if they did a tournament ball
Speaker 1: there so they stopped just adding length and buying land
Speaker 1: and just said, hey, you got to use this ball
Speaker 1: this week. Nobody's turning down an invite to the Masters.
Speaker 1: And Third, I think it'd have to be the telecast,
Speaker 1: like getting US Masters all day, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I think that's by far my least favorite
Speaker 2: part of the Masters is you get very limited coverage,
Speaker 2: and it's part you know, I think they see it
Speaker 2: as a prestige thing, you know, supply and demand, and
Speaker 2: I just I don't think in this day and age,
Speaker 2: with so many different ways to watch golf and the
Speaker 2: different ways it's being presented. I mean, you could watch
Speaker 2: it on Twitter earlier this year. I just I don't
Speaker 2: think that's a great strategy. People are gonna watch no
Speaker 2: matter what. You know, the Masters. I have plenty of
Speaker 2: friends that only watch the Masters, and you know they'll
Speaker 2: watch the extra four or five hours a day if
Speaker 2: you put it on there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember, like coworkers, like in an office setting,
Speaker 1: like even casual the most casual golf fans would have
Speaker 1: it on like on their computer and be exc I
Speaker 1: did about the Masters. So I feel like while the
Speaker 1: wall coverage would be uh would be very cool and
Speaker 1: a good it would probably be the best first and
Speaker 1: easiest step of his chairmanship.
Speaker 3: Hey do you do you know what happened to golf
Speaker 3: on Twitter? The live golf? Did it work? Like?
Speaker 2: I saw an article? I mean this was months ago,
Speaker 2: so I don't know how accurately I'm remembering it, but
Speaker 2: I remember seeing an article that it wasn't going well
Speaker 2: and I mean barely anybody was watching. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to guess that they, you know, kind of acts that out.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a tough thing to watch because
Speaker 1: they were putting it like the first hour of coverage
Speaker 1: on Twitter during the week which is like when people
Speaker 1: are on commutes to work. So I'm not surprised that
Speaker 1: it didn't go well. Like why not put it on
Speaker 1: Twitter on the weekend or something, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like simulcast it like they did with the Thursday night
Speaker 2: football in the NFL. Something like that.
Speaker 1: Just doesn't seem like it was a well thought out
Speaker 1: plan there.
Speaker 2: I want to see well before we go on. I
Speaker 2: want to see beer on the par three course. I
Speaker 2: know that it's a rule there where they don't serve
Speaker 2: beer or alcohol on the par three course during the
Speaker 2: tournament on Wednesday, and I'd like to see them do
Speaker 2: it simply because I think you'll have more guys out there,
Speaker 2: and it's not like your crowd at Augusta's your riff raff,
Speaker 2: you know, crazy baba boo yelling crowd, So I don't
Speaker 2: think there's any danger in letting them drink beer.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I've never been to Augusta, but I've heard the
Speaker 3: security is very over zealous, so I imagine that if
Speaker 3: you just serve beer during the part three you would
Speaker 3: let those security go. It's got through a few more
Speaker 3: people thrown out, which probably would make them happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll execute you if they catch you with a phone.
Speaker 2: It's weird loophole and Georgia.
Speaker 3: Law, you know.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Augusta, Pedro asks he saw that there there's
Speaker 1: a picture of Steve Spurrier peeing at Augusta National that
Speaker 1: dead Spin posted, and he wants to know, is this
Speaker 1: acceptable perceptible to do at like a high profile club
Speaker 1: such as Augusta or you know, any other high profile
Speaker 1: club for that matter.
Speaker 2: I will tell you a story were I was playing
Speaker 2: in a college tournament at Big Canyon out in California.
Speaker 2: I think it was uc Irvines tournament. And during the
Speaker 2: practice round, I guess this kid went on this I
Speaker 2: think the part three if it's eight or seventeen, I
Speaker 2: can't remember, sixteen something like that, went towards the houses.
Speaker 2: And and then that night at the welcome to the
Speaker 2: Tournament dinner, they made a stern announcement that you know,
Speaker 2: a lady was out, you know, her in her kitchen
Speaker 2: having breakfast, and she turned around and saw this guy's
Speaker 2: penis and it was a major issue, do not piss
Speaker 2: on the course in any circumstances, and literally got I
Speaker 2: got to the hole. The next day in the first
Speaker 2: round of the tournament and there was two like bodyguards
Speaker 2: guarding that lady's front lawn. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like this. So you think the
Speaker 2: answer is no, it's not acceptable. But as I've gotten
Speaker 2: to play with older guys at you know, my club
Speaker 2: back home and all that, I mean, they'll just whip
Speaker 2: it out and pee anywhere in mid conversation. I think they,
Speaker 2: the old timers, think it's not a big deal. You know,
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, what'd you hit there? Eight iron? And
Speaker 2: you look over and they're just pissing right next to
Speaker 2: the fairway. You're like, oh, okay, So I think that
Speaker 2: you know, it's a generational thing. I think now now
Speaker 2: it's probably viewed as unacceptable, but someone of Spurrior's generation,
Speaker 2: I think sees no problem with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: I think My big thing is I always look around,
Speaker 1: make sure there's no women, no children around before I
Speaker 1: before I pee.
Speaker 3: I mean, you gotta go, you gotta go, right.
Speaker 2: I agree, there's nothing worse than playing a tournament and
Speaker 2: you know the guy you're playing with has like his
Speaker 2: three sisters and mom and girlfriend watching, and you're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, where am I going to go piss.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, one one year when I was playing junior golf,
Speaker 1: I played with this kid and he had irritable bowel
Speaker 1: syndrome and we were playing this tournament and he turns
Speaker 1: out he had this problem regularly. He carried around toilet
Speaker 1: paper in his golf bag. And it was a course
Speaker 1: that was like a residential development. And next thing I know,
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, I gotta go to the bathroom. And
Speaker 1: he went and knocked down a couple people's doors and
Speaker 1: asked their bathroom.
Speaker 3: Well, that's aggressive carrying in his own toilet paper, So
Speaker 3: that that's a bigger problem.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, that would that would be a severe issue.
Speaker 4: So getting into the us GA, we got just tons
Speaker 4: of questions here about the Walker Cup and the us
Speaker 4: AM and it seems like it was a big hot
Speaker 4: topic over the weekend.
Speaker 2: People are getting fired up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll see which one's the best one to start
Speaker 1: with here?
Speaker 3: Worst move walker from the U s G A Walker Cup, private.
Speaker 1: Walker Cup, private selection process, ending pub links, or dropping
Speaker 1: state team.
Speaker 2: For me, that's an easy answer, dropping the state team.
Speaker 2: It was my I played in the last too, luckily,
Speaker 2: and I had so much fun. You know, it's obviously
Speaker 2: a big tournament. They got the USGA red flags, so
Speaker 2: you feel like you're you know, it's a huge thing.
Speaker 2: It's always at nice clubs in great shape, and you
Speaker 2: get to do it with you know, your friends or teammates,
Speaker 2: and obviously the fields are incredible. So I'm a huge
Speaker 2: fan of the state team. It was definitely my favorite
Speaker 2: tournament the Pub Links. I still don't really understand to
Speaker 2: this day what the rules were for playing in it,
Speaker 2: and I think that's where the big issue came, because
Speaker 2: you had guys whose parents were members at clubs but
Speaker 2: didn't use the club so they could play. And then
Speaker 2: you know, I had a buddy that actually got pulled
Speaker 2: off the golf course at the Publinks in Utah because
Speaker 2: he was had a range membership at a club even
Speaker 2: though he didn't belong at the club. So the rules
Speaker 2: around that were so weird. Plus they replaced it with
Speaker 2: the four ball, which I think is a major hit.
Speaker 2: Everyone loves. You got guys who you know, probably don't
Speaker 2: sign up for mid am qualifiers or am qualifiers, but
Speaker 2: will sign up for the Publink or excuse me, the
Speaker 2: four ball, So I think that's a great move and
Speaker 2: the Walker Cup. You know, as far as the private
Speaker 2: selection process that happens a lot, I just I don't
Speaker 2: really have a huge problem with it. Obviously we'll talk
Speaker 2: about some of the snubs, but yeah, it's their event.
Speaker 2: They want to win it. I guarantee you that the
Speaker 2: people in charge of that event care if they win it.
Speaker 2: So too, they might play a little bit of favorites
Speaker 2: here and there, but I don't have a huge problem
Speaker 2: with the private selection process. I mean, that's how a
Speaker 2: lot of the world does business anyway.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's my thing. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: I feel like this, people like especially media crying for
Speaker 1: like a Walker Cup points list just want it so
Speaker 1: that they can have like easy content to point to
Speaker 1: and easy storylines. And nobody really follows college and amateur
Speaker 1: golf that closely, with the exception of like three people.
Speaker 1: So then when the USAM or the Walker Cup rolls around,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I don't know anything about this guy,
Speaker 1: but if they had this list, they could be like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's six in the pointsless, you know, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I yeah, I think the State team I think
Speaker 1: the biggest problem they've done A bit worst thing they've
Speaker 1: done is dropping state team because what it does is
Speaker 1: it it has a trickle down effect and it hurts
Speaker 1: the local state golf associations as well, because to make
Speaker 1: the state team, you need to be one of the
Speaker 1: top three amateurs in the state that you represent. So
Speaker 1: you would have to play and it would often be
Speaker 1: dictated based off of these states pointless and season long
Speaker 1: points less or two year long points less. So in
Speaker 1: order to make the state team, which everybody wants to
Speaker 1: do because it's a cool event, as you alluded to,
Speaker 1: you would have to play in all the state events
Speaker 1: or the vast majority of them.
Speaker 3: Now without state.
Speaker 1: Team, there's like literally no reason to play in these
Speaker 1: events or the state am because you could go play
Speaker 1: in like a nice invitational instead and not lose anything
Speaker 1: in the state team rankings.
Speaker 2: Right, and you lose, you lose. I mean, there's so
Speaker 2: many cool experience. I you know, I had the fortunate
Speaker 2: of being in the final group of the final round
Speaker 2: in the twenty fourteen state team. I mean, in all
Speaker 2: likelihood will never be in the last group of a
Speaker 2: final round of a USJ event again, because I mean
Speaker 2: it's not really unless you're playing in the Masters. You know,
Speaker 2: in the Usam finals or in the mid Am finals.
Speaker 2: But and we played with Alaska, you know, and it
Speaker 2: was cool playing with them. And they were telling me
Speaker 2: their golf seasons like six weeks long and the stint
Speaker 2: meter green the green greens are running six on the
Speaker 2: stint meter. I'm like, that's crazy stuff. And the guy
Speaker 2: shot like eighty two or something. I'm like, wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 2: The guy plays twelve times a year. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: think you miss out on a lot a lot of
Speaker 2: cool experiences. And I think they did it. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: they did it for greed basically, which is what I
Speaker 2: have a problem with that. You know, they don't make
Speaker 2: any money off the event. It's it's a production to
Speaker 2: put on because you do have one hundred and fifty players.
Speaker 2: Actually a little more because I think Puerto Rico and
Speaker 2: and captains and you have you know, the dinners because
Speaker 2: it's generally an older crowd. But it's not just mid ams.
Speaker 2: I think that's kind of a misnomer. Juniors can play too,
Speaker 2: And you know, I know Sam Horsefield played in the
Speaker 2: one a few years ago. T K Kelly t K
Speaker 2: Kelly friend out of college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, friend of the pod now Latino American Tour winner
Speaker 1: to a star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's on Star.
Speaker 3: He just entered the LO Cinco. He's in the top five.
Speaker 2: Now, oh that's big in Narco's tour.
Speaker 3: Huge. I'm playing with tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Actually, oh boy, nice? What are you guys playing?
Speaker 3: Conway?
Speaker 2: Sweet?
Speaker 3: So it should be good.
Speaker 1: Let's see bigger Walk Cup snub John Peterson a few
Speaker 1: years ago or Sam Burns. Both happened to attend LSU.
Speaker 1: Both starred at LSU.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Maybe the selection
Speaker 2: committee members are Bama fans or something, because that seems
Speaker 2: like a total LSU vandetta. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say sam Burns, but I know you. I'll kick it
Speaker 2: to you because you probably probably have some better color
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's a tough one. Sam Burns had
Speaker 3: an unbelievable college here.
Speaker 1: But Peterson won Jones Cup and and the NCAAA, so,
Speaker 1: you know, to a certain extent, like the resume of
Speaker 1: Braden Thornberry. Maybe not quite as I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: he won anything that summer, but essentially Braden Thornberry, which
Speaker 1: was like all lock and Sam Burns had a kind
Speaker 1: of rough summer outside of his Barbersol when or is
Speaker 1: Barbersol T.
Speaker 2: Six which pretty huge though, yeah.
Speaker 1: It is huge. That leads us into the next question.
Speaker 1: Those last two were from Port Golf. Philip Johnson asked,
Speaker 1: should Burns have made it over Scheffler? And you know,
Speaker 1: so that's like the big debate, you know, Scheffler versus
Speaker 1: Burns when you know, so, how do you weigh Burns
Speaker 1: T six at the Barbersol versus a T twenty seventh
Speaker 1: at the US Open.
Speaker 3: Which one's more impressive?
Speaker 2: I think obviously the T twenty seven probably at the
Speaker 2: US Open, and for sure in the eyes of the USGA,
Speaker 2: that's more impressive. And that's really what it boiled down to, is,
Speaker 2: you know, Scheffler's USGA pedigree versus Burns. I mean, you
Speaker 2: got a guy that won the Junior Low Am at
Speaker 2: the Open. I mean, he's one of their own, He's
Speaker 2: he's they've all spent tons of time around him, and
Speaker 2: and that that just gives him a clear edge.
Speaker 1: He was on that World Amateur team last year too,
Speaker 1: that right, so, you know, I think, and it's like
Speaker 1: the other thing about the US Open T. Twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: there is like going through, getting through local, getting through
Speaker 1: sectional qualifying.
Speaker 2: Also, yeah, it's I mean, it's brutal to make you
Speaker 2: have to play what seven pretty solid rounds, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe six six great rounds, five great rounds and two
Speaker 2: solid rounds were you know, not to take anything away
Speaker 2: from a sixth on tour, but you know that's four
Speaker 2: solid rounds. So I'd give the edge to the US Open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, opposite field event too, so one of the weaker fields.
Speaker 3: And Scheffler. I think Scheffler was the fifty four.
Speaker 1: Hole leader at at the NCAA's too, so it's like
Speaker 1: not like he's like, you know, he he played really
Speaker 1: well there.
Speaker 2: Well, these two are kind of related here is it me?
Speaker 2: Or as Walker cup discussed and critiqued more than ever?
Speaker 2: Why is that just golf Twitter? That's from John Willis
Speaker 2: And then Todd wants to know Sam Bird's robbery. It
Speaker 2: seems magnified by golf Twitter. So basically is Twitter blowing
Speaker 2: this up?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think all these social networks like prey
Speaker 1: on outrage, you know, when outrage happens, like you know,
Speaker 1: like you could be out there throwing around like the
Speaker 1: most sensical takes on golf and and somebody that just
Speaker 1: is yelling at the clouds will probably get more attention
Speaker 1: than you.
Speaker 3: So anything that you can stir up drama with.
Speaker 1: And allow for people to get outraged about, I think
Speaker 1: is going to be magnified. And one of the things
Speaker 1: I find interesting about the Walker Cup is like you
Speaker 1: get all of these golf commentators, is that pay attention
Speaker 1: to golf, to amateur golf like three times a year,
Speaker 1: like throwing their two cent in about you know things
Speaker 1: because they watched, you know, a couple hours of the
Speaker 1: US am this this week.
Speaker 2: You know, you didn't like Shannon Sharp and Skip Bayless
Speaker 2: talking golf leading into the Open.
Speaker 1: I actually kind of did like that because like forever
Speaker 1: now we have like Ricky Fowler isn't tall enough to win?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was a huge fan of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think, I mean maybe now Risillo we could
Speaker 3: get him. Is it too soon?
Speaker 2: No, I think he'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, what do you I mean, what do
Speaker 1: you think about that?
Speaker 2: I think it's blown up? I mean, obviously I know.
Speaker 2: One of the questions down the line from our buddy,
Speaker 2: the angry golfer in glen View, he says, Walker Cup,
Speaker 2: why do they need two Ams or two mid Ams,
Speaker 2: I should say. And that was one thing that you know,
Speaker 2: being friends with a lot of mid Ams, following a
Speaker 2: lot of mid AM's on Twitter, like the outrage was insane,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, you know, I think I was following
Speaker 2: the four hundred people in the world that actually care
Speaker 2: that the Walker Cup is, you know, only doing one
Speaker 2: mid Am and not two. And the reason as I'm
Speaker 2: a huge fan of midam tournaments and I am a
Speaker 2: mid Am, but you know, for a mid Am gets
Speaker 2: to play in the Masters, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: what else these guys want, because you should take the
Speaker 2: twelve best guys. It should be a competitive team and
Speaker 2: the best team that gives you the chance to win.
Speaker 2: And you know, I hope it's eight mid Ams to
Speaker 2: be honest, but in reality it's probably not. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, Stuart deserves to go this year. He's proven it,
Speaker 2: not just by winning the mid Am but he you know,
Speaker 2: the Masters, he proved it, he made the US Open.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got he's he's definitely proved it. But
Speaker 2: that's enough for me. I think that there's no reason
Speaker 2: to force an honor. You know this that everyone's so
Speaker 2: against the participation medals, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you take away one of the Midam spots and these
Speaker 2: same people are like, oh my god, you know that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: The USGA has a bandetta against Midam's. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's the case. I just think they want to put
Speaker 2: the best team on the golf course, and I'm totally
Speaker 2: fine with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I think it's one spot's enough. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's pretty fair for one and I don't
Speaker 1: know how many. Like Hagastad's an example of a guy
Speaker 1: that like went above and beyond to get like if
Speaker 1: there were no spots, he probably still would have gotten
Speaker 1: a spot, right, So I think like he's a rare
Speaker 1: case where it's like extremely like this team especially, like
Speaker 1: I think some of the outrage came, but like the
Speaker 1: reality is that this was probably one of the more
Speaker 1: competitive and closely.
Speaker 3: You know contested Walker Cup, Like there were you could
Speaker 3: you could have picked twenty players for the last two
Speaker 3: spots on that team and and nobody it wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been like we could have made the same case for
Speaker 3: them over over Burns or whoever you might be.
Speaker 1: It could have been you know, John Odo was a
Speaker 1: guy that had like an incredible.
Speaker 3: Last year of golf. But you know, nobody brought him up.
Speaker 1: But he like he mondayed into a PGA Tour event.
Speaker 1: You know, he made it to the final sixteen of
Speaker 1: the US Am. He was a first team All American. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, that guy had a great year too. He
Speaker 1: qualified for the US Open. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's twenty guys that could have gotten that last spot.
Speaker 3: And I think when when you look at when you
Speaker 3: compare the next best mid am to that to those guys,
Speaker 3: it doesn't really compare.
Speaker 2: Oh a hundred percent. I mean, I know the guy
Speaker 2: we're talking about in particular, Scott Harvey, He's had a great,
Speaker 2: you know, great year. He took to Twitter to vent
Speaker 2: out some of his frustrations, which I thought was questionable.
Speaker 2: But you know, you look at like a guy like
Speaker 2: Nick Hardy or somebody, you know, they you know, they
Speaker 2: deserve they deserve it over Scott. So I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know what the what the big hubbub is about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Nick.
Speaker 1: Nick Hardy is another great example, Like until the US Am,
Speaker 1: he hadn't finished outside of the top ten in uh
Speaker 1: in an amvent for like the entire summer. It's like
Speaker 1: it is an it's a whole nother question. Like it
Speaker 1: is like, how do you value consistency in golf? So
Speaker 1: like a guy that is a top ten machine, I
Speaker 1: feel like Kocher gets aligned for it being a top
Speaker 1: ten machine versus a guy that wins once or twice
Speaker 1: a year, which which would you rather be?
Speaker 2: Oh? God, winning is really fun, but also playing bad
Speaker 2: is so frustrating. I think you're you would have you'd
Speaker 2: be happier and live longer if you were the couture
Speaker 2: of the world getting you know, T nine's all day,
Speaker 2: but you probably have more fun winning more. I don't
Speaker 2: know that's such a i'd say. I personally, I probably
Speaker 2: would rather win and do the old Calcavecia where you
Speaker 2: play well four times a year and you know you're
Speaker 2: thrilled with that. But but in reality, I think I
Speaker 2: value the consistency guy more because you can you can
Speaker 2: find yourself in the winner circle on accident if you're
Speaker 2: that consistent, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I feel like I think Tiger once
Speaker 1: said it is like in golf, everybody's just trying to
Speaker 1: get more consistent, right, So I think that's like the
Speaker 1: the thing that we all chase, like, you know, that's
Speaker 1: our crack as consistency is like, well if I could
Speaker 1: just play like that all the time. Is like what
Speaker 1: everybody says after they play the best round of.
Speaker 2: Their lives, right, it's funny.
Speaker 3: So it consistency. I think it just it's just doesn't
Speaker 3: get enough love. You know, in golf, here's.
Speaker 2: A midam cousse. Sorry, oh go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, how would you if you needed
Speaker 1: a better selection process, how would you do it?
Speaker 2: I mean, I you could do it. I think the
Speaker 2: obvious answer is to do something similar to you know,
Speaker 2: the Ryder Cup where you had a points list and
Speaker 2: it's it's tough though, because then you really cut out
Speaker 2: the mid AM's because all the event it's the same
Speaker 2: thing as kind of the world rankings. Why it's so
Speaker 2: hard for midam to gain any traction there is because
Speaker 2: you're not playing in the college events, and the college
Speaker 2: events have to be waited for the Walker Cup because
Speaker 2: that's primarily your team. So that that's tricky to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a great way to do it.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of these guys are eighteen, nineteen
Speaker 2: years old, so you know, having a player's vote doesn't
Speaker 2: really make sense. I'm fine with in the committee, I'm
Speaker 2: not I don't really support any alternatives.
Speaker 3: I think that that the captain.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know this until last week, that the
Speaker 1: captain doesn't actually have any say on the team. And
Speaker 1: he's the guy like trucking around all spring and all
Speaker 1: year round, like traveling to.
Speaker 3: These events, and he doesn't even get a vote. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's that's kind of crazy to me.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that either. Yeah, that's not even a vote.
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, that's what That's what I was informed
Speaker 3: last week. I was like, whoa, this is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: I think one solution might be like, hey, like you
Speaker 1: know how the Ryder Cup, like you get you got
Speaker 1: the top, you know, say six guys, you just put
Speaker 1: him on the team, you know before like the last
Speaker 1: two months of the season and like, hey, these are
Speaker 1: our six guys were rolling with no matter what, you know,
Speaker 1: and then and then do the last four at after
Speaker 1: the USM.
Speaker 3: That could be a solution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that's fine. But the argument
Speaker 2: against that obviously is you're you're one through six in
Speaker 2: this case, in this Walker cup. I mean to tell
Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong, But those guys are on the
Speaker 2: team anyway, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think like Dylan Meyer would have been on the
Speaker 1: team and probably burned if you did it.
Speaker 2: Wow, I don't know. Well yeah, two months ago, that's true.
Speaker 3: It's a good I think it's just fine. Just nobody.
Speaker 1: We don't need transparency into this. We don't need to
Speaker 1: know how all these decisions are being made.
Speaker 2: Yep, I agree, totally fine, leave it alone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's see here.
Speaker 1: This was a thoughtful question from Stephen Carroll, an Aussie,
Speaker 1: and it's it's staying on this mid am golf thing.
Speaker 1: Sorry for anybody not interested in this, but when did
Speaker 1: they lower the American mid am age to twenty five
Speaker 1: and how it affected the true middle aged golfers like
Speaker 1: me in the thirty five to fifty bracket.
Speaker 3: Is there any talk about.
Speaker 1: Reducing the age of seniors likewise to forty or forty
Speaker 1: five like the midam is so in Australia, the midam
Speaker 1: age is thirty to fifty, not twenty five to fifty
Speaker 1: like it is here.
Speaker 2: You know, I think I'm actually not sure when they
Speaker 2: lowered the midam age to twenty five, do you know?
Speaker 3: And I'm not sure either.
Speaker 1: It probably was like twenty years ago, I want to say,
Speaker 1: maybe less.
Speaker 2: And I think it's a fine idea thirty five to
Speaker 2: fifty or even thirty to fifty. In the reality, you know,
Speaker 2: when you play in a lot of these tournaments, for
Speaker 2: the most part, you don't see many guys under thirty.
Speaker 2: Obviously there's exceptions, like we just talked about Stuart. You know,
Speaker 2: he won the tournament last year. He was a young kid,
Speaker 2: barely twenty five, But for the most part, there aren't many.
Speaker 2: I think that the more angst from mid ams comes from,
Speaker 2: you know, guys with a million dollars in PGA Tour
Speaker 2: earnings playing in an event at forty two, rather than
Speaker 2: you know, a twenty five year old playing playing an event.
Speaker 2: I think. I think that's where the frustration comes from
Speaker 2: from some of my friends. Versus age. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: age is a big deal. I think reducing the senior
Speaker 2: age would be a neat idea, though I think you'd
Speaker 2: get a lot more competitiveness. It might not be fair
Speaker 2: to the guys that are pushing sixty, but some of
Speaker 2: them are. I mean, unbelievable. There's some fifty eight, sixty nine,
Speaker 2: sixty sixty five year olds that can still shoot sixty
Speaker 2: nine to seventy anywhere. So I think that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I think that mid am bracket is fine. Lawa in
Speaker 2: the senior could be cool though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think one of the things with mid ams
Speaker 1: is it's tough for most midams to play tournament golf
Speaker 1: from ages like twenty three to thirty because you're starting
Speaker 1: your career, you know, and it's like you're you're probably
Speaker 1: working a low tier job with limited vacation and limited
Speaker 1: you know, your weekend priorities are a lot different at
Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty five, twenty six than they are at
Speaker 1: thirty five.
Speaker 3: So I think.
Speaker 1: Being a really good midham at at age twenty five
Speaker 1: is is rare because of like just life, you have
Speaker 1: to have like the right kind of setup in situation
Speaker 1: to be you know, a really great midam, and and
Speaker 1: a lot of them, a lot of the really great
Speaker 1: players at that age are playing trying to play professional golf.
Speaker 3: At twenty five.
Speaker 1: So I think that age is fine, and I agree
Speaker 1: it's it's the uh, it's the former PGA Tour players
Speaker 1: that are Midam's is the bigger problem as far as
Speaker 1: lowering the senior age, Like I think you'd have to
Speaker 1: lower the senior tour age, but that's not that bad
Speaker 1: of an idea given where the tour is going. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's only getting younger, and you're going to
Speaker 1: see a lot of guys at age thirty eight who
Speaker 1: have been off the tour, who had good careers for
Speaker 1: three or four years without anything to do until fifty.
Speaker 3: So that that's a problem that's going to happen.
Speaker 2: I think that's also gonna I mean they're going to
Speaker 2: get if you take if you're not playing competitive golf
Speaker 2: from thirty eight to fifty, I mean you're going to
Speaker 2: probably lose the drive to play a little bit and
Speaker 2: your game is going to be nowhere near you know,
Speaker 2: in good enough shape I think to compete at fifty.
Speaker 2: So that is an interesting point. Yeah, I think they
Speaker 2: definitely need to do something. I mean, forty five, do.
Speaker 1: You see like a thirty eight year old tour pro
Speaker 1: in ten years like going and playing on the Dakota's
Speaker 1: Tour because he's got nowhere to play Because of how
Speaker 1: many young kids are in the game.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think that, yeah, that would be
Speaker 2: that would be a stretch.
Speaker 3: I could just see him hanging out in a casino.
Speaker 2: Chad Campbell, Yeah, playing the E Golf Tour this week.
Speaker 3: You know, Zach Blair is playing the Utah State Open.
Speaker 2: I did see that. That's funny, it's.
Speaker 3: Kind of amazing.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna have a news segment this week
Speaker 1: to the pod where we have to pick sides. I
Speaker 1: feel like we're very agreeable, so so we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna run down three topics and we're gonna each pick
Speaker 1: a side and argue for the side. We're gonna start
Speaker 1: with Kyle. Should Rory be playing or resting this week
Speaker 1: or the whole playoffs really the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: For me, that is an easy one. I think he
Speaker 2: should be playing. As we mentioned earlier, you know, you're
Speaker 2: playing for a significant amount of money, ten million dollars,
Speaker 2: so you should you should give it, You're all you know,
Speaker 2: they always say, you know this guy plays hurt in golf.
Speaker 2: I agree, it's not the greatest thing, but he seems healthy.
Speaker 2: I don't think if he was hurt he would have
Speaker 2: been playing. He wouldn't have played in the PGA. You know,
Speaker 2: he's probably very rusty. I think that injured and you know,
Speaker 2: getting back in the swing of things. Sometimes are are overlapped.
Speaker 2: I think he's healthy, he's not. He's not sharp because
Speaker 2: of his injury, but he's not hurt. So I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: you only live once. You're playing for ten million bucks.
Speaker 2: You're you know, you're trying to become one of the
Speaker 2: big legends of the game. I think you play all.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I'm going to take the other side. He's
Speaker 3: had a rough year.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just need to just need to close the
Speaker 1: book and start fresh. He's aid, uh, you know, new caddy.
Speaker 1: I guess you know, he's trying out new caddies. He's
Speaker 1: got some deep selection process, he's got new equipment in
Speaker 1: the bag. But the biggest problem is, like I heard
Speaker 1: that his like left arm goes numb sometimes from this
Speaker 1: rib injury. So like, get healthy, you know, start fresh
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen or whenever you want to start your season.
Speaker 1: Enjoy life is a married man, Yeah, just just take
Speaker 1: a chill pill. Because he's got plenty of money in
Speaker 1: the bank.
Speaker 3: He probably hasn't even touched the ten million dollars he
Speaker 3: won last year and come back in twenty eighteen, werefreshed
Speaker 3: and go win the Career Grand Slam with thop Masters.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you should just move to Augusta and
Speaker 1: just hang out down there all winter, be.
Speaker 2: A nice little life. Okay. Next one, should Maverick McNeely
Speaker 2: turn pro.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with no, because if he had, he's
Speaker 1: he's announced this week he's turning pro. But if he had,
Speaker 1: he could have become the greatest amateur to play the
Speaker 1: game since Bobby Jones, like his dad's worth a billion dollars,
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't need money, and frankly, I think
Speaker 1: if anything, you know, like he could find professional golf
Speaker 1: to be very difficult and hard and and he might.
Speaker 3: Have instant success.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's gonna have instant success and
Speaker 1: he's going to be strong. I mean, he'll obviously get
Speaker 1: a lot of sponsors exemptions, but I think in three
Speaker 1: to five years he'll get tired of it and go
Speaker 1: back to regular life. But and that'll just tarnish his
Speaker 1: opportunity to be this generation's Bobby Jones.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say he should turn bro. Like I mentioned
Speaker 2: with Rory, you have a chance to be. You know,
Speaker 2: I know his dad, and he's got more money than
Speaker 2: he could ever spend, and you know that whole argument.
Speaker 2: But it's not all about the money. Sometimes it's about,
Speaker 2: you know, creating a legendary spot for yourself. And he
Speaker 2: clearly has a ton of talent. You know, we've been
Speaker 2: hearing his name for so long, and I just think,
Speaker 2: out of a out of an interest standpoint, I want
Speaker 2: to see how he stacks up against the pros. You know,
Speaker 2: is he is he going to be that good? You know,
Speaker 2: maybe he is, maybe he isn't, But I'd like to
Speaker 2: see how he stacks up. And I know, you know,
Speaker 2: ten years down the road, he's gonna wish he knew
Speaker 2: how he stacked up. And lastly, when he's twenty five
Speaker 2: years old in a few years, I do not want
Speaker 2: to see him at the mid am. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say he should absolutely turn pro.
Speaker 3: But but here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Couldn't he be more legendary if he was actually different?
Speaker 1: Like you know, let's just say Maverick McNeely turns out
Speaker 1: to be great, like really great and wins a major.
Speaker 2: What if he did that as an amateur? So I
Speaker 2: would say in our world of you know, avid Gulf fans. Yes,
Speaker 2: he would be more legendary, but I think in the broader,
Speaker 2: broader world he would not because I think that you know,
Speaker 2: I just you know, pop culture legend status. You know,
Speaker 2: he could win seven majors as a pro, you know,
Speaker 2: and I think eventually people are going to be like, look, turnpro,
Speaker 2: turn pro, turn pro. And I just think as an
Speaker 2: as a as a professional, he can accomplish more towards
Speaker 2: being a legend.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't be able to play in like the Ryder Cup.
Speaker 3: In the PGA, he could. I bet he could play
Speaker 3: in the Ryder Cup, could you that.
Speaker 2: I'm interested to know that.
Speaker 1: Actually, he wouldn't be able to play in the President's Cup,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 2: So Ryder Cup is open to anyone, huh, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think so.
Speaker 1: Actually, I think it's it's only open to pros now
Speaker 1: that I think because it's run by the PGA of America.
Speaker 1: So if you can't play in the PGA, you probably
Speaker 1: can't play in the Ryder Cup.
Speaker 2: So that's you're missing one of the you know, the
Speaker 2: casual golf fan or the non golf fan, you know,
Speaker 2: that's one of the events they.
Speaker 3: Watch yeah, but think about winning the US Opener, the
Speaker 3: Masters is an amateur?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think I think you're you're you're
Speaker 2: It's a little bit. You know, you picture an amateur
Speaker 2: winning a major, and you immediately picture a kid, and
Speaker 2: so you're like, oh my god, this kid won them
Speaker 2: won a US Opener, This kid, you know, finished second
Speaker 2: in a tour event, blah blah blah. But I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're saying that when he's you know this, you know,
Speaker 2: older than the guys he's playing with, It's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: why is this guy not you know what's going on here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You could do a lot of cool stuff with all
Speaker 1: that money. I feel like golf, being a professional golfer
Speaker 1: would be a waste of a life.
Speaker 3: But that's just me.
Speaker 1: I'd have I'd have more fun doing other stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: starting stuff and listen to cool ideas.
Speaker 3: All right, do do blimps deserve a place in the
Speaker 3: game of golf?
Speaker 2: Since you are now Twitter's blimp expert, I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: you this question to answer first. I'll let you pick
Speaker 2: your side. No, and I think I.
Speaker 3: Need They don't. They don't at all. They just are
Speaker 3: a nuisance. I mean, look at what the what the
Speaker 3: blimps have been doing this year. At the Players, it
Speaker 3: was flying really low and you know, buzzing around and
Speaker 3: and then you know that's where blimp gate started. You know,
Speaker 3: it was like it seemingly was flying lower in the.
Speaker 1: Morning on Thursday than it was on on in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: It was clearly had a vendetta against one of the
Speaker 1: early morning players. And uh, then you know, one crashes
Speaker 1: at the US Open and talk about craziness.
Speaker 3: We're just lucky that nobody got was hurt. And then uh, and.
Speaker 1: Then at the at the PGA, people are complaining about it,
Speaker 1: like you know, players are complaining, players are stepping off balls,
Speaker 1: it's casting shadows over the greens, like you know, it's
Speaker 1: a nuisance of the game that can easily be solved
Speaker 1: by like modern technology, like you could fly a drone
Speaker 1: up and do the same exact thing as a blimp.
Speaker 2: So drones and blimps obviously. I so that you just
Speaker 2: stole one of my arguments. I was gonna say, you
Speaker 2: got the great views, which I love. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: that's always a cool sight to see how the golf
Speaker 2: course kind of fits together and you know, the routing,
Speaker 2: and you get that view from a blimp, which I
Speaker 2: like so much, just to kind of get a standpoint
Speaker 2: where you are and all that. Plus you get nance
Speaker 2: and is a oh what a fantastic view. Ill here
Speaker 2: is San Antonio. You know you'll miss out on that.
Speaker 2: And I do agree the renegade pilot was an issue
Speaker 2: at the US Open. But I'm gonna say I like
Speaker 2: the blimps. There's a big staple of of golf. I
Speaker 2: remember taking off from Ohair during the last time what
Speaker 2: was it, the last time a tour event was in town,
Speaker 2: uh at Conway, and we saw the blimp from the
Speaker 2: plane and I thought it was pretty awesome, And you know,
Speaker 2: I waved at the guy. He for sure didn't see me,
Speaker 2: but you know that's what people in the air do,
Speaker 2: you kind of wave at each other. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: all for blimps.
Speaker 3: You know, you missed a big part of that argument.
Speaker 3: Four blimps is the marketing dial of dollars. Yeah, true,
Speaker 3: good Year, good beer, Good Year. My arch nemesis is
Speaker 3: the Goodyear blimp. This guy's had to had to tweet
Speaker 3: at me on their way out of town last time.
Speaker 2: Just speaking of vandetta as you have one against blimps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, blimps. Blimps need to go. All right, Let's uh,
Speaker 3: let's move back to the questions.
Speaker 2: Sounds good, All.
Speaker 1: Right, here's a good question. Changing the subject. Chad from
Speaker 1: Deer Park back again. What's worse someone telling you about
Speaker 1: their fantasy football roster or someone telling you a shot
Speaker 1: by shot detail of their round?
Speaker 2: Chad from Deer Part It's funny. I have a friend Chad,
Speaker 2: and he always tells me about his fantasy league and
Speaker 2: it is super annoying. And so is the shot by shot.
Speaker 2: I think they're both like unacceptable. They should you should
Speaker 2: be arrested if you do either one. What's the worst
Speaker 2: golfer is the one that says I shot seventy four,
Speaker 2: but you know I should have birdied these six holes
Speaker 2: where I was twenty feet and I just barely missed
Speaker 2: a twenty footer, So really, my seventy four should have
Speaker 2: been sixty two. You know, just a couple of bad breaks. Though,
Speaker 2: those guys are the worst, but you know they're both
Speaker 2: equally bad. I don't know what I can't pick between
Speaker 2: which is more annoying.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the shot by shot detail is
Speaker 1: worse because like legitimately you're the only one that cares
Speaker 1: about it, and there's like no common bound, no common bond.
Speaker 1: Like if somebody's telling me about fantasy football, which is
Speaker 1: equally it's that it's it's egregious.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't be talking about your fantasy football roster.
Speaker 1: But you might have the same player and you could say, oh,
Speaker 1: did this guy score a touchdown? You know, or or
Speaker 1: that's great, but like you telling me about how you
Speaker 1: made a four on the seventh hole and like the
Speaker 1: details of every shot, like I could care less, Like
Speaker 1: I almost don't like when people tell me about their
Speaker 1: hole once.
Speaker 2: Like like that that's funny.
Speaker 3: That might be the only acceptable shot to tell about
Speaker 3: talk about, Like I don't really care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I only I only like hearing about like consecutive
Speaker 2: holes you've holed out. Like if you get a nice
Speaker 2: string of like three hole outs in a row and
Speaker 2: a three hole span, then you can tell me about it.
Speaker 2: I'm excited. But fantasy football, that's a good point you made.
Speaker 2: There's somebody else in the world that feels your pain.
Speaker 2: You know that Odell just drop the past. You know
Speaker 2: you don't know him, probably, but there's a guy in
Speaker 2: Biloxi who's so upset because he just lost his fantasy
Speaker 2: game too. So at least you got somebody you could
Speaker 2: throw a dart and maybe get lucky. But yeah, golf,
Speaker 2: you're right, you're on your own. Nobody, nobody gives a shit.
Speaker 2: As Jake Cutler would.
Speaker 1: Say, I would say, also, like the oh I should
Speaker 1: have shot thirty one, or I should have shot thirty two,
Speaker 1: like or seventy one instead of seventy five. Like that's golf,
Speaker 1: Like everybody, nobody. You never finish a round of golf
Speaker 1: where you walk off and say, oh, you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't leave any shots out there?
Speaker 3: Have you ever done that? No?
Speaker 2: Zero time? I mean the only way you do that
Speaker 2: is he shot fifty four, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, only that.
Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of fifty four, you told me
Speaker 2: Louis Ustazen was three under through three, so potentially on
Speaker 2: the next podcast we'll be discussing Louis fifty four.
Speaker 3: He bogied four, so damn it, it's gone.
Speaker 2: So that's too bad.
Speaker 3: King Louis. All right, Uh, journeyman, you'd most like to
Speaker 3: see win a major? Uh?
Speaker 2: Jerry Kelly. I think Jerry Kelly is he plays well
Speaker 2: with the players these days, you know, every now and then.
Speaker 2: It probably hasn't been for a few years, and I'm
Speaker 2: probably just selectively remembering his successes. But he seems like
Speaker 2: a great guy, Wisconsint guy. Wisconsin people are such good people.
Speaker 2: Seems like, you know, he gets angry, lets his emotions show.
Speaker 2: He's put in, you know, years and years of work
Speaker 2: on the tour. I would love to see him win
Speaker 2: a major.
Speaker 3: You know what would Monty count.
Speaker 2: Monty's got three majors. I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: That's true, I'd say, you know, I'd like to see
Speaker 3: a man.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna go with Zach Blair.
Speaker 3: He's I don't think he's a journeyman yet.
Speaker 2: No, not yet. He's too young. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: He like got to the tour right out of college,
Speaker 3: so that doesn't count. I'm gonna go over thirty.
Speaker 2: Ken Duke, Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: Did you see that, uh that swamp ass display he
Speaker 3: put out there last week?
Speaker 2: I didn't have to google it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he.
Speaker 2: Was Ken Dukes swamp ass.
Speaker 3: He was. He was wearing like cloth khakis. It was
Speaker 3: it was. It was honestly like he like he like
Speaker 3: took a seat in a.
Speaker 2: Pool that's legendary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it only.
Speaker 1: Seems fitting that the man that played the greatest round
Speaker 1: of golf ever wins a major.
Speaker 2: I agree. I'll agree with you on kin Duke, but
Speaker 2: I'm still Jerry Kelly is slightly more than kin Duke.
Speaker 1: But Stricker would be cool too. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's a journeyman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't consider him a journeyman. If you captain
Speaker 2: of President's or Right Cup team, you can't be considered
Speaker 2: a journeyman. Okay, let's go best way to ensure the
Speaker 2: top players participate in early events without the tour requiring it,
Speaker 2: or just best way to improve the playoff.
Speaker 3: Oh so, like I think like the early events almost
Speaker 3: have become too popular and it and it kind of
Speaker 3: limits the events that these young guys can play. That
Speaker 3: like they get their card from the web dot Com Tour.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, congratulations, you have you have three starts
Speaker 1: in the fall, and if you don't play well, you
Speaker 1: might not play again till Pebble Beach.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, here's your card. Now get on a plane.
Speaker 2: You got a tournament in three days.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then and then if they don't play. Like
Speaker 3: one of the most important things when you come.
Speaker 1: Up from the web dot com is is playing well
Speaker 1: in one of those three starts. Like if you don't,
Speaker 1: like you're kind of shit out of luck because your
Speaker 1: next starts coming in, Like you know, there's a low field.
Speaker 1: So like what's happened is those fall events like the
Speaker 1: veterans have seen, Oh my god, this is a great
Speaker 1: time to just rack up FedEx cup points because none
Speaker 1: of the star players are playing, so they all sign
Speaker 1: up and play, and it limits the amount of starts of.
Speaker 3: The young guys get.
Speaker 1: And it's like, especially like the guy that finishes twenty
Speaker 1: second on the web dot Com Tour money list, like
Speaker 1: he's like at the very bottom of the total poll
Speaker 1: and he just there aren't any.
Speaker 2: Starts, right, I'm gonna rope this into a question that
Speaker 2: Golf and Whiskey asked us if I can find it, Oh,
Speaker 2: here we go. Should the PGA Tour add more Monday
Speaker 2: qualifying spots? Thoughts of the Tour Championship being match play
Speaker 2: for ten million dollars thirty two spot bracket winner take
Speaker 2: af so I mentioned that because I think I kind
Speaker 2: of like where that's at. We talked about in the
Speaker 2: last part we did about the PGA Championship possibly being
Speaker 2: match play. I think it would be really neat if
Speaker 2: you did a three weekend, three different venue golf course,
Speaker 2: you know, the first and second rounds, third and fourth rounds,
Speaker 2: and then fifth and sixth rounds, and it was a
Speaker 2: best and you played each each bracket. Each match was
Speaker 2: a best of three. You know, you'd get to see
Speaker 2: a lot of golf from your favorite player. You'd get it, would,
Speaker 2: you know, playing a best of three instead of best
Speaker 2: of one. Obviously you get the better player should rise
Speaker 2: to the top in that situation. I think you generate
Speaker 2: interest in the playoffs. I don't know if there's I mean,
Speaker 2: you'd lose an event because you could do it over.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could maybe do the finals separately if
Speaker 2: you wanted the fourth weekend. But I think it would
Speaker 2: be really cool and I would be much more inclined
Speaker 2: to watch that than I would the current format.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the idea of match play a lot. Also,
Speaker 1: I think it, Yeah, it would cool. Like you get
Speaker 1: you're in the final thirty or thirty two guys, Like
Speaker 1: you know you're in the final thirty now, Like it's
Speaker 1: kind of boring to watch a stroke play event. And
Speaker 1: you know, one of my pet peeves is also is
Speaker 1: like when people include, like, oh, you finished t twentieth
Speaker 1: at the Tour Championship, It's like, well, there's thirty guys.
Speaker 3: In the field, right, you can't finish worse than that
Speaker 3: thirty nail.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's like, from a perspective, I like the idea
Speaker 1: of match play in some some sort of format.
Speaker 3: Nine hole matches would be really cool too.
Speaker 2: It would be crazy, I mean, but you'd risk getting
Speaker 2: some crazy results or even doing it. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you wanted to get real crazy kind of a six
Speaker 2: hole thing like.
Speaker 3: The the golf sixes, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The golf sixes like the Euros are doing.
Speaker 3: That'd be cool.
Speaker 1: I feel like there should be some more alternative formats
Speaker 1: in the Fall, like talking about like ways to Spye,
Speaker 1: like there should be some crazy like the stroke play
Speaker 1: all year round, Like stroke play is the best because
Speaker 1: like it identifies the best players you know, like you,
Speaker 1: But I'd like to see some different formats in that
Speaker 1: Fall series and you know, get some excitement. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be so dead come twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: I agree, I think I one hundred percent agree and
Speaker 2: think about it, like, you know, I think most people
Speaker 2: would agree with us. They'd like to see different variations
Speaker 2: of golf. I mean, I don't know, the sixers is
Speaker 2: kind of crazy, but you know, you get more a
Speaker 2: little more stable for a little more match play. And
Speaker 2: the people we talk to and we are like, you know,
Speaker 2: the most avid golf fans, So exactly who is against this?
Speaker 2: You know? That's what I want to know. Who's against
Speaker 2: doing these different things and you know, try and do things.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm all for it.
Speaker 3: Let's do it, yeah, dude.
Speaker 1: And then like the other thing is adding more opposite
Speaker 1: field events for those bottom guys, you know, like if
Speaker 1: you don't qualify for the top sixty event, that's some
Speaker 1: crazy format. Like you know what play you get to
Speaker 1: play in the the Barber Cell Championship somewhere else. It's
Speaker 1: like the you know, the the Shick Championship in somewhere somewhere.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just was pulling another shaving product out.
Speaker 1: Of my my ass.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Does Neil Smith wants to know Hendrick Stenson Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame worthy career. He got a major of players a
Speaker 1: WGC two playoff wins, nineteen worldwide wins, also a FEDEPX
Speaker 1: Cup win.
Speaker 2: So I put Louis on the fringe last time of
Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame spot, and I think Henrick's career
Speaker 2: is better. So I'm gonna have to say, yes, he's
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer. I mean, you know, if you
Speaker 2: count the players, is a major, you know, major, half,
Speaker 2: a major whatever, he basically has a Major and a
Speaker 2: half and a WGC and a FedEx Cup, So there's
Speaker 2: no I mean it's almost in pop plus it's he's
Speaker 2: had really good longevity. I mean think about he he literally,
Speaker 2: you know, it went broke because you know, he got
Speaker 2: caught up in that Stanford Ponzi scheme and then rebuilt
Speaker 2: his entire net worth through winning golf tournaments. Again. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's how long his career spanned. So one hundred
Speaker 2: percent Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's His career probably if you match
Speaker 3: it up to Jim Furick, looks like really similar, So
Speaker 3: you got you gotta be he's gotta be a Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer.
Speaker 2: I agree. All right, here's our first big Cat question
Speaker 2: with the hacked picks of Big Cat surfacing online. Will
Speaker 2: seventeen at the redesigned Jackson Park hole be named renamed
Speaker 2: the Tiger's Tale.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard much about the the Jackson Park project lately.
Speaker 3: I think that they hit a roadblock. But I would
Speaker 3: I would hope, I hope, you know.
Speaker 1: I feel like Tiger in his older age has been
Speaker 1: able to embrace humor and like the humanism of life,
Speaker 1: whether it be like the mac Daddy Santa, and I
Speaker 1: think he should, he should take this in stride and
Speaker 1: and and be proud of.
Speaker 2: Be proud. What are you trying to say?
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, and and I think you know,
Speaker 3: it'll make him more uh more approachable by the common fan.
Speaker 2: That question, by the way, it was from our friend,
Speaker 2: our good friend, David Horlander, which so this reminds me
Speaker 2: of a story. I was at the eighth grade dance
Speaker 2: and I was standing in the corner like most people
Speaker 2: do in eighth grade dances, and I'm talking to a
Speaker 2: girl that I was friends with her dad, and the
Speaker 2: movie Boogie Nights had just come out, and we're kind
Speaker 2: of talking. You know, I don't even know what we
Speaker 2: were talking about, probably the bulls or something at the time,
Speaker 2: and uh, I'm like, I just so I'm trying to
Speaker 2: act like a grown up. I look at him and
Speaker 2: I said, Hey, have you seen Boogie Nights? He goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: have you? And I'm like, oh, yeah, I've seen Boogie Nights.
Speaker 2: He goes, what'd you think at the end. I'm like, ah,
Speaker 2: you know, it was fine. He goes, it's not that big,
Speaker 2: and I'm like oh, and he starts laughing and I
Speaker 2: kind of smile. And it literally took me four hours
Speaker 2: to get the joke. So I'm gonna go with that,
Speaker 2: with the whole tiger situation. Eh, it's whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody, nobody's gonna know what it is, right, Steve Messner.
Speaker 3: He he asked a great question about ideal breakfasts a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. Now he wants to know what
Speaker 3: we're eating during the round.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go mine's pretty simple. I really eat a
Speaker 2: lot of like trail mix. I mean to be honest,
Speaker 2: I I wherever you know, you go to Walgreens or
Speaker 2: CBS and pick up one of those big bags. And
Speaker 2: I don't even know why. I probably read it in
Speaker 2: like a nineteen ninety nine Golf digest with Duvall on
Speaker 2: the cover that it said you know, eat trail mixed
Speaker 2: during your round, but that's what I do. It's pretty
Speaker 2: much all you eat.
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a big fan of cliff bars. But then,
Speaker 3: you know, I realized later this year that a cliff
Speaker 3: bar isn't healthy. It's like actually like a candy bar.
Speaker 3: Somebody informed me, and that's probably why they're so good.
Speaker 1: I know, right, it's just a miss missed. They're misleading customers,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know. Beef Jerky seems like a popular one.
Speaker 1: One of my buddies who's a complete health nut, and
Speaker 1: you know, he grills up chicken breasts and he'll just
Speaker 1: open his bag up and he's got chicken breasts.
Speaker 3: In it, which is seems unhealthy.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's gonna catch up to him one
Speaker 1: time with like like equal eye or food. Salmonilla, Yeah, salmonilla,
Speaker 1: Like it can't be good to have in your golf
Speaker 1: bag for eight hours at a time.
Speaker 2: Jesus, if I saw somebody pull out some pre made
Speaker 2: chicken breast during the round, i'd probably I did not
Speaker 2: speak to that in the rest of the round.
Speaker 1: Funny story is we we played once and he had
Speaker 1: him and then we went to Chipotle after and he
Speaker 1: ordered a burrito bowl without chicken, and then put his
Speaker 1: extra chicken breast in the burrito bowl.
Speaker 2: Now I know who this is. You're welcome for not
Speaker 2: sharing your name. Buddy.
Speaker 1: Well, he asked the question greater than under an alias.
Speaker 1: I think it was about the Walker Cup.
Speaker 3: Though I didn't write it down. Actually it wasn't good enough.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is another food question. We people
Speaker 2: had a lot of follow up coffee questions and now
Speaker 2: we got ideal round food. We may have to have
Speaker 2: a guess nutritionist on at some point we should I
Speaker 2: answer hard hitting questions.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people actually asked us to
Speaker 1: do some more coffee talk, and unfortunately we haven't done
Speaker 1: any research.
Speaker 3: We'll maybe get on it for the next edition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need some you know, is three coffees too many?
Speaker 2: Is eighteen course lights too many during a round? We
Speaker 2: need some really good, good answers to the nutritionists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Uh, let's do.
Speaker 1: All right, this is a good question. I forgot to
Speaker 1: write down who asked it. My friend looked up from
Speaker 1: the range at Liberty National and saw himself alone there
Speaker 1: with Jordan Speed.
Speaker 3: What do you do in a situation.
Speaker 2: Like this, Oh man, I guess you just walk up
Speaker 2: and say, hey, you know, nice to get. I assume
Speaker 2: that it's his home club, so you know, I would say,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, you know, how's it going? Blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: I hope you like this week? Can you know? Do
Speaker 2: all that. I wouldn't ask for an autograph or anything
Speaker 2: like that, but I would definitely I think it would
Speaker 2: be cool to say, hi.
Speaker 3: You know, I had this thing.
Speaker 1: I think the cooler thing to do, Like when you
Speaker 1: think about autographs is like, Okay, you get something autographed
Speaker 1: and then it's there and like it's gone, like you know,
Speaker 1: you don't really care about it as an adult.
Speaker 3: Really no offense to anybody that does care.
Speaker 1: But like, I think the cooler thing is just simply knowing, Hey,
Speaker 1: I could have gotten an autograph now, but I didn't
Speaker 1: want to bother them.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to be that guy. I would just
Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I may might not even say anything, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: just a good like a hey, good luck in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks here, hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 3: But like I would just treat him like a normal guy.
Speaker 3: I think that's what everybody wants.
Speaker 2: Right, right, yeah, I hope you like the course, enjoy yourself,
Speaker 2: and you know, let me know if you need anything.
Speaker 2: You could throw one of those in there too.
Speaker 3: Let's see that.
Speaker 1: Was Scott do Dick. I missed like the whole back
Speaker 1: half of this question. Oh Derek from Matt too? Another
Speaker 1: repeat A question asker should the champion of the Canadian
Speaker 1: Midam get an exemption into the Masters?
Speaker 3: He's asking for a friend.
Speaker 2: Well, Derek, I hope you're playing well at the Canadian
Speaker 2: Midam this week and if you win, I would like
Speaker 2: to change my answer on this to yes, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say no because I think that, unfortunately for the
Speaker 2: Canadian Midam, there are a lot stronger fields where guys
Speaker 2: are probably more deservingly deserving of a Master's invitation.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how an American and can go up there.
Speaker 1: I think there's only a couple in the field. But
Speaker 1: you know, isn't there a better tournament to play in America?
Speaker 2: Well, you know you get the reason. So there's usually
Speaker 2: a lot more. This year, it's literally in the middle
Speaker 2: of nowhere. I think it's like an hour from moose
Speaker 2: Jar or so, you know, one of those moose Head
Speaker 2: one of those funny sounding Canadian towns, and I think
Speaker 2: it's like you fly somewhere and then it's like a
Speaker 2: three hour drive. It's literally hard to get there. So
Speaker 2: I think a lot less guys than usual went, but
Speaker 2: I mean I think normally there are quite a few,
Speaker 2: you know, Americans, and you get the exemption into the
Speaker 2: Canadian Open, So it's kind of cool. I mean I'd
Speaker 2: like to play it.
Speaker 3: Ah, do you have to qualify? Like how do you
Speaker 3: get into that? No?
Speaker 1: I think it's just resume another event that would actually
Speaker 1: be cool.
Speaker 3: I mean I have to look at and see where
Speaker 3: they're playing. Let's see, Will Knights, this is for you,
Speaker 3: Kyle as a past I.
Speaker 1: Eighty champ, aight am champ. It's a local amateur tournament
Speaker 1: in Chicago.
Speaker 2: That should get an invite to the Masters, that should
Speaker 2: what percentage of the time do you go for it?
Speaker 3: On number five at Sanctuary?
Speaker 1: And is it the most architecturally sound hole in America?
Speaker 2: Thanks? Will, So, I will so those of you that
Speaker 2: probably many most of you don't know the fifth hole.
Speaker 2: It is literally the worst hole I think I've ever
Speaker 2: played in my entire life. It's like a five hundred
Speaker 2: and forty yard par five, and just to put it
Speaker 2: in a perspective, I'm almost certain it was like three
Speaker 2: years ago. There's a Skins game. You know, there's out
Speaker 2: in the field. It's pretty good. I mean, it's all
Speaker 2: the good Illinois amateurs and I want to skin on
Speaker 2: the hole with a birdy four. That's how bad of
Speaker 2: a hole it is. There's a there's a twenty foot
Speaker 2: not yard twenty foot window where you have to lay
Speaker 2: up to with like a nine iron, or you're you
Speaker 2: have to hit a rope hooked sand wedge or you
Speaker 2: punch shot. It's just, I mean, it's not describable how
Speaker 2: bad the hole is. I actually did try to hit
Speaker 2: a rope hook three wood once on the green and
Speaker 2: I think I made eight because I don't know how
Speaker 2: to draw the ball and it was a disaster. So
Speaker 2: that was the one time. Yeah, but that.
Speaker 3: It actually is a good future post.
Speaker 1: Maybe I will I'll write something about the worst golf
Speaker 1: alls in America.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would. I would love to love to read that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an early contender for number one.
Speaker 2: Worst two holes before that is not much better. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's another story.
Speaker 3: You want to do.
Speaker 1: Overrated underage, Sure, let's get after it driving irons.
Speaker 2: Driving irons for good ams and average joes. Ch Yes,
Speaker 2: what do you think? Over right under it?
Speaker 3: Oh? I'm all in on driving irons.
Speaker 1: I got I have the titleist one that MTMB or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And I used to hit a hybrid
Speaker 1: and the hybrid would go left like it. I never
Speaker 1: liked the way hybrid is set up. They always seem
Speaker 1: to look close to me, and i'd when I missed it,
Speaker 1: i'd hook it. And since I've picked up this iron,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever hit it left.
Speaker 3: And my life quest is never hit the ball left.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that. I I can't stand hybrids.
Speaker 2: I finally got one that I is decent, but before
Speaker 2: that I was always using irons. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: a very long player by any means, but I would
Speaker 2: much rather have a two iron in my bag than
Speaker 2: you know, a hybrid that went too forty.
Speaker 3: I just I have.
Speaker 2: Trouble because they do go left. You know you can
Speaker 2: miss them both ways, where as you know with a
Speaker 2: long iron, you know your your misses are much more controllable.
Speaker 2: So I am I'm also all in on driving irons.
Speaker 3: I think for the average Joe. It depends on who
Speaker 3: you are.
Speaker 1: Not to get any advice here, but like, if you
Speaker 1: hit the ball like high and far but just kind
Speaker 1: of suck at other things, I would say driving irons
Speaker 1: are for you. But if you have trouble hitting the
Speaker 1: getting the ball in the air like and that's an issue,
Speaker 1: I would use a hybrid because it's easier to hit high.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, all right, Zoija, Fairways Porter Golf, Overrated, underrated.
Speaker 3: You know I've played.
Speaker 1: I played once on a dormant and Zoija and it
Speaker 1: was like the best thing ever. It was like the
Speaker 1: ball was on a tee all the time. So I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna go with underrated.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with overrated only because I obviously grew
Speaker 2: up on bent and I'm more used to that. But honestly,
Speaker 2: I don't spend too much time worrying about it. I
Speaker 2: probably should, you know, knowing how the ball reacts, but
Speaker 2: unfortunately I don't. So it's not my pre preferred grasp,
Speaker 2: but it is what it is, all right. This one's
Speaker 2: for you too. Stream song Overrated, Underrated.
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, it's underrated. Actually, I think it
Speaker 1: gets ah, it gets a it's a little underrated. I
Speaker 1: think that Red Course is really really good there. I
Speaker 1: think the Blue Course is pretty good and overall it's
Speaker 1: the other thing is it's like everybody compares it to
Speaker 1: abandoned but like stream songs, at least like somewhat close
Speaker 1: to reality, you know, and so that that's got to
Speaker 1: have something to do with it.
Speaker 3: I don't like their their their hotel. It looks like
Speaker 3: a an office building in oak Park, Illinois or Oakbrook.
Speaker 3: So I think it's underrated in general.
Speaker 2: All right, I haven't played yet, so yeah, I'll take
Speaker 2: your word for it.
Speaker 1: Hey, winning the FedEx Cup overrated, underrated.
Speaker 2: This is a tricky one because you get a ton
Speaker 2: of money, which is awesome, but I would I guess
Speaker 2: excluding the money, I would say overrated because there's no
Speaker 2: way I could name the last five FedEx Cup winners,
Speaker 2: and I could probably name the last five major winners
Speaker 2: in each major, so I would say underrated. Excuse me, overrated?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, Actually, I'm gonna go with underrated
Speaker 1: just because of the money. Okay, And it's actually kind
Speaker 1: of cool when you think about it, like it it
Speaker 1: doesn't have like all of the best players.
Speaker 3: Because some people don't play in it.
Speaker 1: But like like a major, you're the best of one week,
Speaker 1: like the FedEx Cup, you kind of have to be
Speaker 1: the best of like four weeks plus a year.
Speaker 2: I feel like I need to pay. I mean, I
Speaker 2: like I said, I think whether it was it was
Speaker 2: today or the last one. I get so into football,
Speaker 2: I forget to follow the last couple of tournaments. But
Speaker 2: I mean, does it really matter those four weeks how
Speaker 2: you play? I mean, I know you can play okay,
Speaker 2: you know, I feel like you can play okay the
Speaker 2: first couple pretty good, the third, and then you win
Speaker 2: the Tour Championship. You win the fed X Cup, right,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: You have to play like I think you have to
Speaker 1: play pretty well, Like there's anybody could win, but it
Speaker 1: requires like the guy that's in like the first, like anybody.
Speaker 2: In the fish like seventh or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think it's if you're in the top
Speaker 1: five heading into the Tour Championship, if you win, you win.
Speaker 1: So I think I think it's I actually think it's underrated.
Speaker 3: I think what the they just I feel like what
Speaker 3: happens is people get.
Speaker 1: So turned off about the FedEx Cup because they show
Speaker 1: those damn standings like eighty five fucking times a telecast,
Speaker 1: Like the second week of the year, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're at We're in Las Vegas for the Shriners, and
Speaker 1: here's your FedEx Cup update.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't that's the last thing I want
Speaker 3: to think about in the middle of October.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, what do you think about fiddling with
Speaker 1: a putter? Choice to improve putting as a pro from
Speaker 1: Justin Anderson.
Speaker 2: So there's two schools of thought on this. One is
Speaker 2: that if you're practicing something you're not gonna use or
Speaker 2: don't intend to use, you're just wasting your time. If
Speaker 2: you know, if you're putting with a putter that you
Speaker 2: don't use, you literally be better off, you know, going
Speaker 2: for a bike ride or something. And the other the other,
Speaker 2: the other school of thought is that which I kind
Speaker 2: of agree with. An old golf teacher told me this,
Speaker 2: that you immediately get ten percent better when you get
Speaker 2: a new club. Maybe just for a week or two,
Speaker 2: but it does improve. And I feel like putting, as
Speaker 2: long as you know you're comfortable with the putter to
Speaker 2: a certain extent, I'm fine with it. I think that
Speaker 2: you know that's obviously you know, ask because Rory and
Speaker 2: his whatever it was. You know, I forgot what you
Speaker 2: mentioned nine putters he's used this year or something. But
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. You know, he'll find one and
Speaker 2: he'll get hot with it and maybe maybe he'll just
Speaker 2: play his whole career like that where he you know,
Speaker 2: keeps switching. I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not a candidate for like having a signature
Speaker 1: putter for sure.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I don't never switch equipment, and I never try new equipment,
Speaker 1: so I'm like the worst person when it comes to equipment.
Speaker 1: Like the driving iron is the most recent.
Speaker 3: Change in my back.
Speaker 1: Actually I changed butters recently too, but that was after
Speaker 1: like three years of using the same one.
Speaker 2: So all right. Andy's titles for Frida Egg Newsletter way underrated.
Speaker 2: Speeed's third leg was epic. That's from Tom and I'm
Speaker 2: also gonna say underrated. I'm a huge fan of the headlines.
Speaker 2: You've had some real creative ones, which I'd like to know,
Speaker 2: what's what's one you didn't use that you wish you did,
Speaker 2: or some good ones.
Speaker 1: I can't remember one week, I'd have to go back
Speaker 1: and look through them. One week, there was some you know,
Speaker 1: there was I was trying to decide between two of them,
Speaker 1: and I thought both of them were like incredibly good.
Speaker 1: But you know, I picked one of them and everybody
Speaker 1: loved it. You know, I think my favorite, you know,
Speaker 1: the speaces third leg happened. I was it was at
Speaker 1: the end of me watching all of the first two
Speaker 1: rounds of the uh the Open Championship.
Speaker 3: I'd slept like.
Speaker 1: Three hours in the last three days, and I was
Speaker 1: sitting at LaGuardia and my flight was delayed for like
Speaker 1: three hours and then it ended up getting canceled. But
Speaker 1: like during the delay, I was like semi delirious, having
Speaker 1: a couple of beers, and I just went with that
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, anybody that doesn't understand this
Speaker 1: will just be like, oh yeah, it's third leg of
Speaker 1: his major. And anybody that does understand this will be like,
Speaker 1: we'll just laugh out loud.
Speaker 3: So that's how I try and do a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Is if the people that, you know, one of my
Speaker 1: other favorites was Hot Charle, you.
Speaker 2: Know, charl I don't remember that one. That is a
Speaker 2: real good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always one of my favorites because you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's like, Oh, he's just a he's hot.
Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna need a Sanchez guy to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think there are are any Sanchezes, but yeah.
Speaker 1: The the newsletter headline actually like takes me the longest
Speaker 1: of anything to do that.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Like sometimes it will take me four hours to figure
Speaker 1: out what I'm gonna go with. And when you see
Speaker 1: really bad ones, like it's just because I couldn't think
Speaker 1: of one or was really tired.
Speaker 2: I don't blame you. It's a pretty big part. I
Speaker 2: feel like that's like right when I get my you know,
Speaker 2: look at my emails in the morning, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: wonder what it's going to be, and then I see
Speaker 2: hot charl Yeah.
Speaker 3: I liked Redman's method the other day.
Speaker 2: That was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Actually, gonna give it to you. It's probably the best
Speaker 1: one of all time. I don't know, though, it's Uh,
Speaker 1: what do you think about vertical scorecards?
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it. I think it it's a cool,
Speaker 2: little different thing. I Uh, I think it's easier on
Speaker 2: a horizontal scorecard to keep track of, you know, if
Speaker 2: you're doing a Scotch game or points or whatever. I
Speaker 2: find it's somewhat easier, just because the way the eyes
Speaker 2: work and how we've learned to read. But I'm cool.
Speaker 2: I don't mind it. It's different. It's usually I mean,
Speaker 2: it's rare to see a vertical scorecard in a bad
Speaker 2: golf course, right, so I think I associate it with
Speaker 2: a pretty nice experience, So I'm.
Speaker 3: Cool with it.
Speaker 1: I hate the big horizontal scorecards.
Speaker 2: Oh, the giant ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that like you like can't walk with like
Speaker 1: it would be impossible to use walking. I think like
Speaker 1: smaller better to a certain extent, you know, because you
Speaker 1: do need space for bets and stuff.
Speaker 2: I agree, smaller the better. Yeah, right, I don't need
Speaker 2: a pamphlet anything else.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about?
Speaker 2: What do we got? No, I mean that was it's
Speaker 2: pretty good. We got a questions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a couple of the mm hmmm. And
Speaker 3: then and that done answering questions.
Speaker 2: You've had enough, Charles.
Speaker 3: Yea, all right, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll do We'll see you guys.
Speaker 3: Peace later