Speaker 1: Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Shane Bacon, and this week of Fun when Brandon Shambilee
Speaker 1: jumped on the podcast, and it's really just kind of
Speaker 1: an overview conversation of two thousand and nineteen. We touch
Speaker 1: on Brooks Kepka and what we have both learned about
Speaker 1: Kepka the last you know, six seven months since the
Speaker 1: Masters and doing what he did again in the Majors
Speaker 1: and now another win as he had in Memphis, and
Speaker 1: where he stands kind of in our minds. We touched
Speaker 1: on Rory McElroy in the last couple of weeks that
Speaker 1: he has had and you know, I mean, it's been
Speaker 1: a crazy couple of weeks for Rory for goodness sake.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about the Open Championship in the
Speaker 1: way he started and how emotionally wasn't honest he was,
Speaker 1: and then he gets to Memphis and he plays great
Speaker 1: for three days and gets in that final group with
Speaker 1: Brooks and then doesn't have the same stuff and just
Speaker 1: where Rory kind of sits in our brains right now
Speaker 1: as well. And then touched on the Senior Open. You know,
Speaker 1: Brandon qualified for the second straight year into that and
Speaker 1: he touched He talked a little bit about, you know,
Speaker 1: part of Tom Watson's last Senior Open championship and how
Speaker 1: impactful he's been on links golf in America and how
Speaker 1: special of a champion he was for so many years
Speaker 1: and will continue to be. And then lastly, we uh,
Speaker 1: we hit on Sergio Garcia. I mean, we had to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about him, the way he's acted
Speaker 1: on the golf course. I want to say the last
Speaker 1: you know, six months, but this has been Sergio his
Speaker 1: entire career and he's never changed. And I said it
Speaker 1: with Brandle, but you know, every single fan now is
Speaker 1: a camera person. I mean they have their phones in
Speaker 1: their hands, and if you're acting like an imbecile on
Speaker 1: the golf course, they're gonna catch it. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're throwing clubs, breaking clubs, you know, throwing something at
Speaker 1: your caddy, it is going to be seen by the
Speaker 1: world because it's gonna be shared with the right person,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna share it with more people, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're in trouble again. And and
Speaker 1: Sergio's behavior just continues to be distasteful for the game
Speaker 1: and for fans. Of his and uh and it's something's
Speaker 1: gonna have to happen and Brandle, you know, he he said,
Speaker 1: there's gonna have to be extreme measure is really if
Speaker 1: you want to stop this kind of stuff from people
Speaker 1: that seem to always find themselves heat it on a
Speaker 1: golf course and can't, for whatever reason, control it. So
Speaker 1: that was how we ended. It was a fun conversation.
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Speaker 1: Brandle Shamblee Golf Channel analyst, host of the Brandle Shamblely
Speaker 1: podcast with him DS, which Brandon I saw on social media.
Speaker 1: You were saying you've got a couple of episodes coming
Speaker 1: up next week. Is that right? That's right. We were
Speaker 1: supposed to tape one um I don't know. Before the Open,
Speaker 1: I guess, but just schedules got two hectic, and then
Speaker 1: we were supposed to take another one during the Open,
Speaker 1: so we're a bit behind. So we gotta two next
Speaker 1: week and getting out there. But but yeah, it'll be
Speaker 1: a busy week next week. Yeah, you just you just
Speaker 1: traveled back state side. You were obviously across the pond
Speaker 1: both doing your job and then playing a little bit
Speaker 1: of golf. How many days did it take you to adjust?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you right in that that peak? I
Speaker 1: don't know when I'm gonna sleep time, which is just
Speaker 1: my favorite when you travel east to west. Now, whenever
Speaker 1: I go east to west, it's it's it's a lot easier, um,
Speaker 1: I think. I think that's the case with most people.
Speaker 1: But east to west, what I love is you get
Speaker 1: home and it's time to go to bed where you
Speaker 1: just left from. So it's no problem. You go to
Speaker 1: bed at you know, six, seven o'clock at night and
Speaker 1: you get up at five, which is really if if
Speaker 1: I could draw up the perfect day, that that would
Speaker 1: be it for me. I think I'm not alone and
Speaker 1: probably wasting a little bit too much time scouring the
Speaker 1: TV at night looking for some you know whatever show
Speaker 1: that I can't live without, but really I could live without. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not the best TV time right now.
Speaker 1: We obviously got a chance. We're kind of right at
Speaker 1: the end of that morning golf, you know, all the
Speaker 1: stuff happening across the pond, which I think one of
Speaker 1: my friends calls it. You know, it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: the coffee golf season and you wake up super early
Speaker 1: and you got golf on TV. You qualified for your
Speaker 1: second straight Senior Open this year. And my question to
Speaker 1: you about it is, you know you are now known
Speaker 1: as a journalist, as an analyst more than a golfer.
Speaker 1: I mean that is your main gig. You put yourself
Speaker 1: out in the position to succeed, but to also fail.
Speaker 1: Do you put more pressure on yourself now knowing that
Speaker 1: if you went out and shot seventy nine or eighty
Speaker 1: or eighty one, you're gonna get ten thousand people on
Speaker 1: social media going, what do you know? You don't know
Speaker 1: anything about golf? No, I mean I don't think this
Speaker 1: would come as a shock to anybody, But I really
Speaker 1: do not care what people think. Absolutely could care less. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, this is my quest it's not there as
Speaker 1: they can criticize it. Fine, they're happy to christs. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't bother me if they did. Um, as I have
Speaker 1: said a million times. Uh. And it's hard to do.
Speaker 1: But you know, someone should be able to compliment you
Speaker 1: in the highest regard and then criticize you. Um. And
Speaker 1: you should be unaffected by either. You know, I know
Speaker 1: what I want to do, I know what I'm I
Speaker 1: want to do, I know how I want to do it. UM.
Speaker 1: I care obviously what the people in my life I think,
Speaker 1: and uh, I certainly you know, want to consider their thoughts.
Speaker 1: But by and large, you know, like social media is
Speaker 1: full of nothing but critics. There's some great things about
Speaker 1: some great things about social media, and I honestly think
Speaker 1: it's had a lot to do with uh young players
Speaker 1: coming out and playing so well, because I think teaching
Speaker 1: has greatly improved because of social media, because it has
Speaker 1: it has done the one thing for teaching that the
Speaker 1: periodicals in the game would never do, and that has
Speaker 1: provide peer review. Uh. It was too much of a
Speaker 1: buddy buddy system. When I look at the top fifty
Speaker 1: teachers and in the various periodicals, I know for sure
Speaker 1: those are not the top fifty teachers. Those are the
Speaker 1: top most fifty popular teachers, the ones who are very
Speaker 1: good at promoting themselves. But social media has because it
Speaker 1: allows good ideas to be for the vetted apt ferreted out,
Speaker 1: and bad ideas to be kicked to the curve as
Speaker 1: they should be. It's it's provided this this wonderful. So
Speaker 1: I'll give social media's due. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: criticism of what somebody's trying to do, and this even
Speaker 1: goes to the role that you played recently in the
Speaker 1: U s g A Juniors, Um, you know, there's very
Speaker 1: few people that that who's criticism I pay attention to.
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. Yeah, I mean, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I was going to talk to you a little bit
Speaker 1: about that a little later because you chimed in and
Speaker 1: I thought what you said was kind of spot on.
Speaker 1: It was. It was at least, you know, in the
Speaker 1: same vein as we were kind of going about it
Speaker 1: is is you know that there was a viral video
Speaker 1: floating around from the Girls Junior last week at Century World,
Speaker 1: and one of the one of the players in the
Speaker 1: finals was playing fairly slow and the clip was kind
Speaker 1: of one moment in that championship match and it was
Speaker 1: floating around. And my point, and I think it's the
Speaker 1: same point you were making, is you know these players
Speaker 1: are sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years of age and they play
Speaker 1: slower or they play slow because it's either been taught
Speaker 1: that way or they've seen it. And and my point
Speaker 1: and something I've told people kind of off the record
Speaker 1: that have reached out to me via text messages, why
Speaker 1: weren't you more critical of them on the broadcast? First
Speaker 1: of all, that's not my job. But second is, if
Speaker 1: you go to a pickup basketball game and you're watching
Speaker 1: sixteen year olds right now and they're all throwing up
Speaker 1: three point after three point after three pointer, I'm not
Speaker 1: yelling at the young kids because that's what they're seeing
Speaker 1: on TV. And you know, slow play. The trickle down
Speaker 1: effect from slow play, at least to my opinion, is
Speaker 1: if pros are slow and nobody does anything about it,
Speaker 1: all the players watching are gonna do the same thing.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the line on the golf ball,
Speaker 1: you know, how you go play with a fifteen or
Speaker 1: twenty handicap and they all draw the sharpie line on
Speaker 1: the ball and they're probably not going to start the
Speaker 1: put on that line most of the time. That to
Speaker 1: me is because of what the pros have done for years,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing that now in junior golf, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be up to parents and coaches to say, you
Speaker 1: guys have to speed up. It's not necessarily to me
Speaker 1: on a on a young player trying to win a big,
Speaker 1: big championship. I can't disagree with the word you just said.
Speaker 1: You know, I I uh, you know, I mean breaking
Speaker 1: that down a little bit. Uh. I've never thought drawing
Speaker 1: a line on a golf ball should be allowed. UM.
Speaker 1: I don't know how in the world. You're not allowed
Speaker 1: to lay clubs down to line you up, why shouldn't
Speaker 1: be allowed to draw a line on your golf ball
Speaker 1: to line you up? I agree with this. In addition
Speaker 1: to in my eyes, I call that it's soft cheating. Um.
Speaker 1: In addition to it being soft cheating, it's time consuming.
Speaker 1: I don't do it. I could do it, but I
Speaker 1: don't do it. I put titlists down where it's whatever,
Speaker 1: it's horizontal to the ground, and I pod. It's like
Speaker 1: I don't want to get up over the golf ball
Speaker 1: and be be drawn to this line on my golf ball.
Speaker 1: I want to be thinking about the pot. I want
Speaker 1: to be thinking about my feel whatever um and and
Speaker 1: as as it relates to slow play, there's a lot
Speaker 1: to unpack there other than this girl is is purposely
Speaker 1: doing this to annoy your playing partner or it's disrespectful.
Speaker 1: None of that malicious intent was running through her mind.
Speaker 1: I've been right where she was. Time fades away into oblivion.
Speaker 1: You get up over that. You're taking care of all
Speaker 1: the things. Maybe she's fighting some battle. Maybe she just,
Speaker 1: you know, hit some poor pots, maybe she had some
Speaker 1: bad who In time, she'll figure out how to play
Speaker 1: her best golf. And you're right. If if the rules
Speaker 1: were strictly admit SI stared at the top or pace
Speaker 1: of play, it would trickle down into the game and
Speaker 1: you would not see people drop an anchor and taken
Speaker 1: sixty seconds on the PG eight tour, These conversations that
Speaker 1: happened between player and caddy on the p G A
Speaker 1: Tour while listen, I mean TV loves them. It's like, ah,
Speaker 1: that was great, Like no, I promised you to. The
Speaker 1: player knew within seconds from getting to the golf ball
Speaker 1: what club to hit what shot to hit? He knew
Speaker 1: it instinctively, she knew it instinctively. They just know it.
Speaker 1: And because there's all this information out there, people want
Speaker 1: to talk it through. But you walk up and with seconds,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the ball, you look at
Speaker 1: the winds, you look at the conditions, you know how
Speaker 1: fast all those things you know in a heartbeat. No,
Speaker 1: the conversation needs to take place. And if there was
Speaker 1: somebody out there who's who really did enforced the pace
Speaker 1: of play rules, not only the people play faster, they
Speaker 1: played better. The The European Tour has has done a
Speaker 1: pretty deep dive on that. I'm not gonna say they've
Speaker 1: proved it definitively, but their their study on that shows
Speaker 1: that generally speaking, the faster you play, the better you
Speaker 1: will play. You know, Brandon, I I personally in my
Speaker 1: golf game this past year, I was kind of a
Speaker 1: I wasn't I've never been a slow player, for goodness sakes,
Speaker 1: but I was a guy that would get over a
Speaker 1: shot at times and think it might be a nine iron.
Speaker 1: You know, I had eight iron in my hand. And
Speaker 1: what I've done the last year is is when I
Speaker 1: look at a shot, look at a number or even
Speaker 1: a chip shot. I go with the very first thing
Speaker 1: that's popped in my head, and it's improved my golf game.
Speaker 1: I mean, I play more consistent golf because I'm going
Speaker 1: with my very first the very first thing that comes
Speaker 1: to my head over a golf shot as the club
Speaker 1: I'm pulling and the swing I'm making. And I think
Speaker 1: what you're seeing in professional golf, at least on the
Speaker 1: men's side right now, are the best players in the
Speaker 1: world are the fastest. I mean, you think about Kapka,
Speaker 1: He's quick, Rory's quick, Dustin's quick, pretty much Tea Green.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of the guys that are consistently
Speaker 1: atop these leaderboards are some of the fastest players. And
Speaker 1: you're hoping that that will kind of bleed out and
Speaker 1: you'll see some of these players, you know, following their
Speaker 1: footsteps because you know, you get a Brooks kept having
Speaker 1: to play with JB. Homes at the Open Championship, and
Speaker 1: Brooks can say whatever he wants, but there's no way
Speaker 1: that doesn't affect them at least a little bit if
Speaker 1: you're having to wait on the guy every single shot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's yeah, I agree with you. But there's
Speaker 1: a little bit nuance in that. I mean, as the
Speaker 1: game has become more power dominant. With few exceptions, power
Speaker 1: players play faster because they have less things to consider.
Speaker 1: They don't have to go around things, they go over them,
Speaker 1: and they they have a much higher trajectory, so they
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about what's going to happen on
Speaker 1: the back side of their golf shots. So long hitters
Speaker 1: typically have fewer things to consider. If the game were
Speaker 1: more or if say, if accuracy or at least equal
Speaker 1: to the success of power on the PC eight Tour,
Speaker 1: you would not see such fast players at the top. Okay,
Speaker 1: it just takes longer to play the game when you
Speaker 1: have to consider out how to get around something, as
Speaker 1: to how to get over something. Yeah, I mean John
Speaker 1: Dailey played fast, well so does Brooks. Kept going Why
Speaker 1: because they can carry trees, they can carry dog legs,
Speaker 1: they can carry bunkers, uh and so forth. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the game is not meant to
Speaker 1: be played fast, Okay, the game is. You're meant to
Speaker 1: play the game at a nice pace, and everybody who
Speaker 1: thinks that you should just you should just it's all
Speaker 1: about the speed doesn't understand the game. The game is
Speaker 1: about camaraderie. It is about nature, it is about taking
Speaker 1: a nice walk in the park. It's about a good
Speaker 1: story you tell me on the fifth hole. It's about
Speaker 1: a good story you're telling me on the eighteen toll.
Speaker 1: It's not about how fast do we play? Yeah, play
Speaker 1: with undue delay and what is that? Well you know
Speaker 1: it when you see it. But but it shouldn't be
Speaker 1: about how fast you But I've played in groups before
Speaker 1: where the primary concern was to play fast, and I
Speaker 1: can do it. But the game is not near as
Speaker 1: much fun that way. Uh, you know, I mean you
Speaker 1: can play. Everybody can play in four hours, you know,
Speaker 1: three hours, fifty minutes, four hours, fifteen minutes. Somewhere in there,
Speaker 1: everybody can and that's that's kind of the sweet spot
Speaker 1: of the game. I agree with you. I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask you about the Senior British. Were you disappointed that
Speaker 1: so many of the top players decided not to make
Speaker 1: the trip over to Litham. You know, I guess some
Speaker 1: of them were trying to make their own personal statement
Speaker 1: about purse. Uh, you know, I think that's what was
Speaker 1: going on. But you know, look, it's their loss. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean the market determines what things are worth.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I mean it's not like they arbitrarily
Speaker 1: decided to keep that. You know, they look at the ratings.
Speaker 1: The market determines what things are worth. And if if, if,
Speaker 1: if you don't like it, go home. I don't care.
Speaker 1: But it's the loss. I mean, they didn't get to
Speaker 1: play royal of them. They didn't get to be at
Speaker 1: the last event that Tom Watson played in his career
Speaker 1: of Open championships. Um. So it's it's their loss, you know.
Speaker 1: And and look, I mean, the game will not remember
Speaker 1: one bit that they weren't there, not one bent, but
Speaker 1: they will. You know, they could have gone over there,
Speaker 1: and the players that skipped it, some of them had
Speaker 1: the capability of going over there and winning it. They
Speaker 1: could have changed the outcome. But it's their loss. It
Speaker 1: literally is their loss. I stood on the range Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: hitting golf balls. Tom Watson drops his golf balls right
Speaker 1: down in front of me. He went through his whole
Speaker 1: sort of stretching routine and sure enough did start his
Speaker 1: warm up with the three iron, which was beautiful to watch. Um.
Speaker 1: And then you know, he turned around eventually and we
Speaker 1: started talking about horses and not about golf and horses,
Speaker 1: and Fred Fonk was behind me, and we had a
Speaker 1: wonderful you know, twenty minutes there. Uh And I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that. And I certainly didn't think about the purse
Speaker 1: when I was over there. I thought about playing Royalism
Speaker 1: and the experience of playing that kind of goal. And
Speaker 1: you you wrote something on Twitter that blew my mind
Speaker 1: about Tom Watson. You were talking a little bit about it,
Speaker 1: having a chance to chat with him his final Open.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was the you know, as American golf goes.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is the king of links golf on
Speaker 1: our side of things. In my opinion, one w D
Speaker 1: in his career is unbelievable. I mean, you know, considering
Speaker 1: guys pull out of tournaments all the time injury or otherwise.
Speaker 1: Having one w D throughout your career on the PGA Tour,
Speaker 1: I mean that is next level commitment to doing what
Speaker 1: you do best. Absolutely. You know, that's one of the
Speaker 1: things I look at, you know, when when we're around
Speaker 1: you know, people say, oh, this guy's you know, he's
Speaker 1: canacious and he's got wrong character. I'm like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know what I mean. He's withdrawn twenty two times
Speaker 1: and eight tours. He's pretty quick to sort of mail
Speaker 1: it in when things are not going this way. And
Speaker 1: you know, look, and if you play twenty years on
Speaker 1: tour and you've only withdrawn four or five or six times, uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's that's pretty good, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you invariably do get sick, or you do get hurt,
Speaker 1: or you know, your back aches, or but to see
Speaker 1: somebody play that long and only withdrawal ones, I mean,
Speaker 1: that is I promise you. He's had you know, a
Speaker 1: you know, bad back, bad crick in his neck. He's
Speaker 1: he's you know, made a tan on the hole and
Speaker 1: was you know, twelve over from fourteen or you know,
Speaker 1: he's done that. And you know, there's just no way
Speaker 1: he was gonna withdraw, he said, you know, he he
Speaker 1: said afterwards, he played the game it was meant to
Speaker 1: be played. And that sure, that takes talent, but it
Speaker 1: takes us a lot more tenacity. And uh he hats
Speaker 1: he literally did play the game the way it was
Speaker 1: meant to be played. He you know, look, there's you know,
Speaker 1: he he could have used alternative methods when his putter
Speaker 1: wasn't working for about ten or fifteen years, but he
Speaker 1: never did. You know, He's stuck with his same method,
Speaker 1: uh doggedly. So there's there's a lot all of us
Speaker 1: can learn about the way Tom Watson played golf, for sure.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'll count myself as pretty damn lucky for
Speaker 1: being in the last event that that he played in
Speaker 1: his Open career. Yeah, I mean it's uh, it was,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I think we all live and
Speaker 1: died throughout the moments playing Stewart Sink in that Open Championship,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I just thought it really said a
Speaker 1: lot about him as a human being when he walks
Speaker 1: into the press center after and says, I mean, this
Speaker 1: isn't a funeral, guys, like, it's a golf tournament and
Speaker 1: I had a chance to win it and I didn't
Speaker 1: win it. And I think everybody could take a breath
Speaker 1: after that moment. And he had to be the guy,
Speaker 1: the guy that should be, you know, I mean he
Speaker 1: should be in a complete and a terrible place. I mean,
Speaker 1: so many players would have had a hard time speaking
Speaker 1: to the media, and he's the guy that comes out
Speaker 1: enlightens the mood for everybody in that room who were devastated.
Speaker 1: I mean, media members wrote about being just as devastated
Speaker 1: as some of the fans, considering they had this, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, as good as stories you're gonna write about
Speaker 1: a golf about a major championship that you could ever
Speaker 1: think too write basically since eighties six and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: And Tom was the guy that said, everybody relaxed, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. Yeah, yeah, Look, he's an incredibly bright guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: incredibly bright. And you know, I mean I think I
Speaker 1: think his golf swing is you know, it's it's becoming
Speaker 1: a bit of a dinosaur. But again, there's so much
Speaker 1: to learn from the way he swung a golf club, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and there's so much to learn about, you know,
Speaker 1: playing injury free, the way he swung the golf club.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to be learned about the way
Speaker 1: he handled himself on the golf course and a lot
Speaker 1: of the way a lot to be learned about the
Speaker 1: way he swung the golf club. But you know that
Speaker 1: that coming into the press center and saying this isn't
Speaker 1: a funeral, I mean that that shows that he has
Speaker 1: the game and perspective. He played it the way it
Speaker 1: was meant to be played. It wasn't his whole life,
Speaker 1: you know, it was his life when he played golf,
Speaker 1: you know, when he was on the golf course, that
Speaker 1: was it. But as soon as he was done, there
Speaker 1: were much bigger things in life to be worried about
Speaker 1: than whether you win or lost loves of golf tournament.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a professional golfer and you're in
Speaker 1: a position to do that, you're you're making a nice living.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know his family life all
Speaker 1: that well, but you know, none of us needs to
Speaker 1: be reminded of how lucky we are to be involved
Speaker 1: in this game, either playing it professionally or even on
Speaker 1: the periphery of this game, you know, broadcasting commentating. There
Speaker 1: are a lot worse jobs to be had and pursuits
Speaker 1: to be passionate about. I wanted to bring up Brooks
Speaker 1: Kept just you know, obviously after the win, but just
Speaker 1: his twenty nineteen as a whole. I mean, you were
Speaker 1: critical as I was going into the Masters earlier this
Speaker 1: year when we found out that Kept had lost a
Speaker 1: lot of weight and he was kind of struggling with
Speaker 1: with his distances because he did it for a magazine
Speaker 1: shoot and it seemed like a really weird time to
Speaker 1: to go into that. Why would you do that when
Speaker 1: major seasons coming up and you have a chance to
Speaker 1: continue on this unbelievable role. Of course, he nearly wins
Speaker 1: the Masters. Then he goes on to win at beth
Speaker 1: Page and had a chance at the US Open, had
Speaker 1: a chance of the Open Championship. What have you learned
Speaker 1: about Brooks Keepka this year that maybe you didn't believe
Speaker 1: in going into the two thousand nineteen major season and
Speaker 1: what do you how do you look at him now
Speaker 1: as the next player in this kind of generational talent
Speaker 1: that can go out and went on any golf course. Well,
Speaker 1: there were two things that that I believed to be true.
Speaker 1: One was it was incredibly reckless for him to diet
Speaker 1: in such a way that it changed his body chemistry
Speaker 1: and and and changed the type of golf that he
Speaker 1: was playing. Uh, if he if one has sort of
Speaker 1: talent that he has to disrupt that on the run
Speaker 1: up to the Masters seemed directless to me. But if
Speaker 1: there's anything I think we've learned about Brooks is that
Speaker 1: he has a defiant sort of thread that runs through
Speaker 1: him and sort of a carefree sort of I'll do
Speaker 1: it my way regardless of what you say, and that's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, more power to him. I think that is
Speaker 1: certainly the way to live your life. And if I
Speaker 1: had that kind of talent, I think I would have
Speaker 1: paid more attention to the you know, the run up
Speaker 1: to the Masters. But you know, maybe the body. Shoot,
Speaker 1: I've yet to see that or hear about it. Maybe
Speaker 1: that'll you know, in a in a weird way, making
Speaker 1: more popular. Who knows the way society works. What have
Speaker 1: I learned about him this year? That he's better uh
Speaker 1: than I thought he was? Um, you know, and too
Speaker 1: has A fourteen really is the first time he's played,
Speaker 1: you know, a full season on the p G A
Speaker 1: tour um and you know he's nineteenth and scoring average eleventh, ninth, fourteen, ninth,
Speaker 1: So he was really good. But you know, he wasn't
Speaker 1: in the upper echelon of consistency and of greatness of
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy or Jordan's speed or Dustin Johnson. Uh As
Speaker 1: we sit here and talk the's third and scoring average
Speaker 1: this year, and I think we can say quite definitively
Speaker 1: the major championships bring the best out in him. I
Speaker 1: certainly couldn't have said that prior to this year with
Speaker 1: the same sort of uh definitive attitude. You know, I
Speaker 1: needed to see more evidence. I thought that he won
Speaker 1: on very forgiving and soft golf courses off of the tea,
Speaker 1: and there were only a handful of players that could
Speaker 1: challenge him, and those and they either missed the cut
Speaker 1: or they played poorly for the most part, so it
Speaker 1: left the door up. But I mean, when it's all
Speaker 1: about power and that's all it is, then it's really
Speaker 1: just who can lift the most weight. And as as
Speaker 1: I learned at Bethpage Black, Um, you know, there's there's
Speaker 1: there's more to him. I think that's probably the best
Speaker 1: thirty six holes that I've ever seen play, and and
Speaker 1: that's saying a lot because I've watched Tiger, I've watched Rory,
Speaker 1: I've watched Speed up close. Um, so in Tiger's group,
Speaker 1: that was the best thirty six holes I've ever seen
Speaker 1: for a variety of different reasons. So he's better than
Speaker 1: I thought he was. Um, which is you know, I'm
Speaker 1: happy to learn because listen, I'm all about as you are. Uh,
Speaker 1: this game producing big, big stars where you can start
Speaker 1: looking forward and think, I wonder how good this player
Speaker 1: is going to be. I wonder if he can fulfill
Speaker 1: all that talent. I wonder if he can do things
Speaker 1: that I've never guessed, I never saw, because that's what
Speaker 1: we all want to see. We want to see athletes
Speaker 1: come along that can blow our mind. And he certainly
Speaker 1: did that at Bethpage black Well and on the flip side.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna get into Rory with you a
Speaker 1: little bit. I have. I'm at the point now where
Speaker 1: I think Rory McElroy is the hardest golfer to try
Speaker 1: to understand. And I say that with the most respect
Speaker 1: I can towards him. I mean, we all love the
Speaker 1: way he talks about life in the game and his
Speaker 1: journey to this point. And you know it's we're gonna
Speaker 1: be brandled two thousand and sixty nine days when we
Speaker 1: get to Augusta National on Thursday for the opening round
Speaker 1: since his last major title, you know, you think about
Speaker 1: stuff like that with the talent he has, and you
Speaker 1: use the word choke about his opening round at the
Speaker 1: Open Championship and used it and correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: used it in terms of how he's played opening rounds
Speaker 1: at major's basically since he was dominant in those four events.
Speaker 1: I mean, as as I mentioned, you got to go
Speaker 1: back five years and he struggled to get going in
Speaker 1: these majors, and he's put himself behind the eight ball
Speaker 1: so many times that even a good round doesn't really
Speaker 1: help him get back. At a contingent, it will help
Speaker 1: him get into the top ten, but not really in contention.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Brad Faxton about this and and
Speaker 1: just about you know, Rory and major championships, and I
Speaker 1: was going back through the years on majors that he's
Speaker 1: really been in the hunt at and outside of the
Speaker 1: Masters with Patrick Reid, I can't really think of a
Speaker 1: lot where he has been right there. Why is it
Speaker 1: that Rory can't seem to figure it out at the Majors?
Speaker 1: And then you know the week after in Memphis he's
Speaker 1: right there on Sunday with the chance to win. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's clear that it's first round to putting
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball. Um, He's now played nineteen majors
Speaker 1: without winning one. That's nineteen first rounds opening rounds where
Speaker 1: he is ten over par for those uh, opening holes
Speaker 1: nineteen opening holes, he's ten over par. So not only
Speaker 1: is he getting off to bas start in each of
Speaker 1: those rounds, more or less, he's posting a pretty poor
Speaker 1: score average right around now after the first round. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of ground to make up for major championships. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, you keep going why why y until you
Speaker 1: get to and it all boils down to, you know,
Speaker 1: unless there's an injury, or unless there's swing changes, it
Speaker 1: gets down to finding the right place mentally to play
Speaker 1: your best golf. And and look, with a few exceptions,
Speaker 1: everybody in this game has choked. Everybody has has let
Speaker 1: the moment get the better of them. I don't remember
Speaker 1: Tiger doing it. I don't remember Jack doing it. And
Speaker 1: I've looked at their records to find instances when they
Speaker 1: did it. Uh, can't really find it in every single
Speaker 1: other player. You can find moments where it looks like
Speaker 1: the moment got them, and it's it's true of Roy.
Speaker 1: So clearly he's not putting himself in the right is mentally.
Speaker 1: I know he's you know, he's looking. He's changed his
Speaker 1: golf swing to try to get more of a fade.
Speaker 1: I think that's a better play for him. At augusta
Speaker 1: National Wale question. Um, it looks to me like he's
Speaker 1: he's searching to try to find the right place mentally
Speaker 1: to be as good a person as he can be
Speaker 1: and as good at players he can be. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't have a degree in psychology, but I can tell
Speaker 1: you that to be a great player, you gotta be selfish,
Speaker 1: and to be a great person, you've gotta be selfless.
Speaker 1: And I give Rory a lot of credit because I
Speaker 1: get the sense that he's trying to balance those two
Speaker 1: and and that's a tough place to be because you know,
Speaker 1: ass much as I've heard him say he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be defined as a golfer, he is a golfer.
Speaker 1: It's you go look at those commercials where he's four
Speaker 1: years old hanting golf balls till he's sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: and he's lit up like a Roman candle. Golf. Golf
Speaker 1: is who he is. I mean, it certainly looks like
Speaker 1: it to me. It makes him happy. And I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything wrong with being selfish about your lifelong
Speaker 1: world pursuit. I mean those people who are selfish, you know,
Speaker 1: who are singularly, singularly focused. It's not necessarily pretty in
Speaker 1: their way. You know, it probably wasn't nice to be
Speaker 1: around Steve Jobs. Uh, it probably wasn't that nice to
Speaker 1: be around Tiger Woods when he was carving out that territory. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Rory doesn't want to be that that's singularly focused.
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't, there's going to be somebody that will,
Speaker 1: and they're going to get the better of him. So,
Speaker 1: you know, it's you can't bemoan the fact that you're
Speaker 1: not winning these things. If if it's not your entire life. Um,
Speaker 1: even Brooks kept go as much as he loves to
Speaker 1: say it's it's not his entire life except for majors um.
Speaker 1: In his own way, he does practice every day he got.
Speaker 1: He says he goes to the gym at least six
Speaker 1: times a week, maybe seven. And I promise you, you
Speaker 1: know I can. I could debate whether or not what
Speaker 1: he's doing in the gym actually makes him a better golfer,
Speaker 1: But if he thinks it makes him a better golfer,
Speaker 1: and if he believes it gives him more power physically
Speaker 1: and more power mentally, and also he believes the work
Speaker 1: he does there makes him deserving, it makes him deserving
Speaker 1: of the upper hand and major championships. Then that is practicing,
Speaker 1: That is commitment, That is putting yourself in the right
Speaker 1: place mentally to play your best golf. You gotta get
Speaker 1: there on that first tea and we're all trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to do it. Where you look around
Speaker 1: and you think nobody can beat me here, and I
Speaker 1: deserve to win this. This is mine. I've put in
Speaker 1: the work. Because if you're not going to put in
Speaker 1: the work, if it's not going to if it's not
Speaker 1: going to be some substantial um sacrifice on your point,
Speaker 1: on your behalf, well then some part of you is
Speaker 1: going to think that you don't deserve it. Um. You
Speaker 1: have to sacrifice to do extraordinary things. That's what makes
Speaker 1: them extraordinary. You've put in the sacrifice. Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: been interesting to see Rory who again, I think you know,
Speaker 1: you've talked a lot about Rory and his talent. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've mentioned Rory and Dustin as the two guys, and
Speaker 1: I think at this point, I'm I'm assuming that kept
Speaker 1: is on that list as the guys that were the
Speaker 1: next in line of the guy with with kind of
Speaker 1: the full arsenal of talent. I mean, they can hit
Speaker 1: it forever, they hit it straight enough, they've got a
Speaker 1: great short game when whenever it's clicking, those types of
Speaker 1: things that that equate two big wins. What I have
Speaker 1: found very interested, and it happened in Memphis with Rory
Speaker 1: is a lot of the time when he's face to
Speaker 1: face with the best players, and he was playing alongside
Speaker 1: Brooks captain, he played poorly on Sunday. You know, I
Speaker 1: go back to to the Masters a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago when he was in the third round final group
Speaker 1: of Jordan's Speed and he didn't make a birdie and
Speaker 1: shot seventy seven, and Speed kind of ran away, uh
Speaker 1: and distanced himself from Rory that day as well. Again,
Speaker 1: it just seems, and this goes back to your point,
Speaker 1: it's it's completely mental for this guy when he gets
Speaker 1: to these moments. And I wonder if it's I want
Speaker 1: to be so great that these moments are so huge,
Speaker 1: and I know it, and other guys go into it
Speaker 1: just just going out and going about their business and
Speaker 1: playing golf, and and maybe to him it's it's a
Speaker 1: little more cerebral because that's kind of the guy he is. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I know we get fixated on those moments.
Speaker 1: It's enough of them to give us plenty to talk about.
Speaker 1: But once again he leads the tour in bardon scoring average. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's going to win this year and that will be
Speaker 1: his third time. There's been two players when more than
Speaker 1: two Varden Trophies two. Um, Tiger Woods has one at
Speaker 1: nine times. Uh and Greg Norman wanted five times. So
Speaker 1: you know there's right, there's DJ now that doesn't count.
Speaker 1: They never recounted Jack because they said he didn't play enough.
Speaker 1: But Jack would have won six or seven. U. But
Speaker 1: you know, even if you look at player of the years,
Speaker 1: you know Tiger one at eleven times, Watson one at
Speaker 1: six times, Nickolas won at five times, so we want
Speaker 1: it four times. Uh, So we get you know, when
Speaker 1: used to I look at Vardon Trophy. You know as
Speaker 1: as to me, it is, it is, it is much.
Speaker 1: It's a much greater piece of territory than a major championship. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: you know McRoy, Couple's Kite, DJ Speed, those are the
Speaker 1: only players who have won it twice. McRoy is gonna
Speaker 1: now have won a third three times. Okay, so it
Speaker 1: goes Tiger Norman McRoy. Um, that's heavy territory, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean Rory won the Players Championship this year doing
Speaker 1: things that were and again there were plenty of good
Speaker 1: players in that field, and he beat him into oblivion.
Speaker 1: So and he's one four majors, so he's done it before.
Speaker 1: But I, you know, I I think at some point
Speaker 1: he'll figure out what he's been doing prior to major
Speaker 1: championships has not putting him into the best place mentally
Speaker 1: to play his best golf, and then he won't be behind,
Speaker 1: He'll be ahead, and and being ahead is where he's
Speaker 1: played his best golf. You I, I you know, some
Speaker 1: people were just better when they're in with the lead.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tiger was Tiger spoilers. He was with the
Speaker 1: exception of majors. And by the way, I mean, Tiger
Speaker 1: wasn't great chasing, and Majors still never won one chasing,
Speaker 1: um except the Masters this year. Um, so that was
Speaker 1: his first one ever. But the Tiger wasn't great chasing.
Speaker 1: He was a great leader, um. And that's sort of
Speaker 1: been Rory's domain as well. But I look at him
Speaker 1: leading the Garden Trophy this year is a far bigger
Speaker 1: indicator of his overall game and potential over the next
Speaker 1: five years than these sort of many collapses in early
Speaker 1: or late rounds of golf tournaments. I wanted to get
Speaker 1: your grade on the two thousand nineteen schedule change. Did
Speaker 1: you did you enjoy it? Did you like the condensed style?
Speaker 1: Do you see it continuing? Obviously? I know they announced
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty and it's very similar with the Olympics
Speaker 1: mixed in. But are you a fan of the way
Speaker 1: the schedule was moved around this year? Yeah? I mean,
Speaker 1: you look, it used to be the the Master started
Speaker 1: in April. Players was in March. Our our excuse me,
Speaker 1: Players was in May, US Open was in June, the
Speaker 1: Open was in July, the PGA was in August. So
Speaker 1: it was still love one every month, but they just
Speaker 1: moved it up a month. Uh. You know, I've I've
Speaker 1: heard the complaints about it, but you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: hear people who played well in the events complaining about it,
Speaker 1: you know, And and you know it's there's always complaints
Speaker 1: when things don't go your way, looking for a reason
Speaker 1: why they didn't go your way, and it and I
Speaker 1: get it's human nature. It can't be me. It was
Speaker 1: the system Um, but the system didn't just happen willy nilly.
Speaker 1: I mean it was well thought out. Players knew well
Speaker 1: in advance how to prepare for. Um. You know, players
Speaker 1: play the FedEx Cup and they come one after another,
Speaker 1: fact and furious playoffs and everybody knows how it end
Speaker 1: is basically if you win the Tour Championship. Even before
Speaker 1: this year, it's just worked that way for the majority
Speaker 1: of the years. If you win the Tour Championship, you
Speaker 1: win the you win the FedEx Cup. It's just worked
Speaker 1: that way all but one or two times. UM. So
Speaker 1: you know, I don't put much stock in the plaints
Speaker 1: that I heard. Um. I liked it. It was good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know what I think it did. And I
Speaker 1: thought about this before the season started. Was you mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier about keepka. We like the superstar because they can
Speaker 1: carry the event to the next event. You know, kept
Speaker 1: going the PGA Championship. What's he gonna do with the
Speaker 1: US Open and then US at Fox can talk about
Speaker 1: kept going in another US Open and Pebble Beach and
Speaker 1: and all of those things that come with that. I
Speaker 1: thought that the schedule change allowed somebody that was great
Speaker 1: A Brooks Kepta, Dustin a Rory, you know, go down
Speaker 1: the list, Justin Thomas Rose, those types of players to
Speaker 1: make a serious run and multiple majors in a season,
Speaker 1: because if you're playing well, you don't have that long
Speaker 1: of a wait to get to the next event. And
Speaker 1: so Keptka kind of did that. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: we only won one major, but he was right there
Speaker 1: in all of them. And you know, if you're talking
Speaker 1: about six seven eight week gap between a major, maybe
Speaker 1: he doesn't continue to play that consistent golfer, that great golf.
Speaker 1: If if that was the case, if that's how the
Speaker 1: schedule played. Yeah, and by the way, now there's going
Speaker 1: to be a significant off season between let's say big events.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want us, you know, after the
Speaker 1: FedEx Cup, if you want to keep playing and play
Speaker 1: all the fall events, you can do that. And if
Speaker 1: you want to play Philip your year with all the
Speaker 1: early events for the matter, you can do that. But
Speaker 1: if you wanted the premier players, I mean, you can
Speaker 1: shut it down after the FedEx Cup. And you you know,
Speaker 1: you've got eight months in between, seven months in between
Speaker 1: the biggest events, so you know, I mean, you've you've
Speaker 1: got a nice little break um, and you can let
Speaker 1: your body heal, you can get your you know, you
Speaker 1: sort of get that reacquainted with all those people who
Speaker 1: have to deal with the sacrifices it takes to be
Speaker 1: a great player and to travel the world. So I
Speaker 1: like the schedule. I don't I don't see any problem
Speaker 1: with it again, or gave a lot of thought to it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I mean fifteen million dollars to
Speaker 1: the FedEx top champion. I mean the sport is is
Speaker 1: now getting closer to the equivalent of other sports for
Speaker 1: their premier athletes, which is again as I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I mean the market determines what things are worth, clearly. Uh.
Speaker 1: FedEx thinks the market warrants this sort of investment. You know,
Speaker 1: the stars are such that they aligned perfectly with their
Speaker 1: demographic uh. And you know they see that the interests
Speaker 1: of other athletes, of superstar athletes is strong in the
Speaker 1: game of golf. All of these things are great for golf.
Speaker 1: And you can't convince me even even the critics love
Speaker 1: to criticize the FedEx Cup. Um, you go back and
Speaker 1: look at the ratings of tour events that were at
Speaker 1: the end of the year before the FedEx Cup and
Speaker 1: compare them to the ratings of the FedEx Cup, and
Speaker 1: they're up by a third over that period of time.
Speaker 1: They're up by a third. So it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: It's worked well. I know, you gotta run here in
Speaker 1: a minute, So I want to just end with this
Speaker 1: because we just talked about players making a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and you know, we've we've we've hit on a little
Speaker 1: slow placed stuff and you know, maybe pushing those guys
Speaker 1: to speed it up a little bit and how you
Speaker 1: do that, and it's probably gonna end up being you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get deemed by strokes, not by money. This
Speaker 1: lands me at Sergio Garcia. You know, he's thirty nine
Speaker 1: years old Brandle at this point, and this year has
Speaker 1: not been a good year for Sergio. Let's just I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's no other way to say it. I mean,
Speaker 1: early in the year he had issues. He was tearing
Speaker 1: up greens. You know, the video comes out at the
Speaker 1: Open where he kind of throws the driver back at
Speaker 1: his caddy, and then a video comes out in Memphis
Speaker 1: where he's slamming his driver off a t box and
Speaker 1: taking a big divot. Does the tour have to say
Speaker 1: you're you can't play in events, or how do you
Speaker 1: how do you stop these types of acts from a
Speaker 1: guy that has been doing this his entire career elevated
Speaker 1: fines you know, I mean even when I played the tour,
Speaker 1: if you did stuff like that, you get a five
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. Well, five thousand dollars isn't going to
Speaker 1: stop players who are worth fifty million dollars from doing
Speaker 1: those things. But a hundred thousand would. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand dollar fine happens, it should happen, or
Speaker 1: something like that. You're you're thirty nine. I know how
Speaker 1: frustrating golf is and can make you, but there is
Speaker 1: no denying the fact that you're you. You represent, whether
Speaker 1: you like it or not, a role model position in
Speaker 1: the game of golf. Um, it should be pretty clear
Speaker 1: on this should be it's there should be no tolerance
Speaker 1: for that kind of behavior. Um, tearing up a golf course. Look,
Speaker 1: everybody who's played the game is felt those emotion and
Speaker 1: done those things. Um, but as you get older, it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, it's inexcusable. You know, he's not sixteen, he's
Speaker 1: not fifteen. He's always had sort of a very volatile
Speaker 1: temper on the golf course. He's not alone. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's plenty of others that throw clubs and slam them.
Speaker 1: It's just they're not as big a player, as most
Speaker 1: as talented as he is. You know, he's played at
Speaker 1: eighty two straight major champions Sergio Apes eighty two. No
Speaker 1: one else has sniffed that, no one else, So, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you need a little general reminder of a
Speaker 1: how good you are, how rare your talent is, the
Speaker 1: longevity you have, how lucky you are to possess that
Speaker 1: talent and that ability to make the money you make,
Speaker 1: to just relax, bad shots happen. I love what Brooks
Speaker 1: kept and Dustin Johnson, you know, they both have this
Speaker 1: sort of easy come, easy go attitude on the golf course.
Speaker 1: Dustin john was on our set at the Open Championship.
Speaker 1: We asked him about why he seems to play the
Speaker 1: game with so little temper, and he said, why am
Speaker 1: I gonna get mad when I get a bad shot?
Speaker 1: I had bad shots all the time. Why am I
Speaker 1: gonna get mad when I get a great shot? He goes,
Speaker 1: I had great shots all that. You know, he's like
Speaker 1: I'm just out there playing the game. This is what
Speaker 1: I do. I thought. I mean, we can all learn
Speaker 1: from that. UM bad shots all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like grow up, just grow up. And if you're
Speaker 1: not gonna grow up, when we're gonna find you into
Speaker 1: oblivion in um a hundred thousand dollars, fine, you know,
Speaker 1: pay it or you don't get to play the next event.
Speaker 1: UM well, sooner or later, he'd learned. If he hasn't
Speaker 1: been taught by the game, he should be taught by penalties.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't speed on the highway because if
Speaker 1: you get caught two or three times, you either lose
Speaker 1: your license or your insurance goes up ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And so you don't. I mean that's how you that's
Speaker 1: how you appropriately affect, you know, monitor behavior of people. Um,
Speaker 1: it's always worked, it always will work. It's it was
Speaker 1: you know I I we get to cover these these
Speaker 1: junior events, and we talked about it when we started chatting.
Speaker 1: Is you know, we get a chance to cover the
Speaker 1: Junior Amateur and and the girls Junior and we have
Speaker 1: the US Women's Amitor next week, and then the US
Speaker 1: Amateur at Pinehurst and It's crazy how how how these
Speaker 1: young teenage players control their tempers now, I feel like
Speaker 1: more than ever. I mean, they don't get really frustrated,
Speaker 1: and they they stay within themselves. And you see it
Speaker 1: from these young players, and then you see somebody like
Speaker 1: Sergio as you mentioned, who has been around forever, that
Speaker 1: can't seem to buck that, and you you, obviously you
Speaker 1: know there's a red flag there and you want to
Speaker 1: you want to just remind him, as you said, that
Speaker 1: people are watching you. There's a country that is watching
Speaker 1: you all the time, and you're the most popular player
Speaker 1: from Spain and people still love you and they still
Speaker 1: want you to do great and when you're doing these
Speaker 1: things and their circule lady in and hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: every single golf fan out there is now a cameraman
Speaker 1: because the phones are allowed and they can video this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna go away. I mean, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: do something like that and it not find its way
Speaker 1: out on the internet. And so you know, as you said,
Speaker 1: I guess the fund that you know up in the
Speaker 1: fines and forcing players to pay a whole bunch of money,
Speaker 1: We'll do that, Brandon, As I said, I know you
Speaker 1: gotta run. I appreciate the time as always. Check out
Speaker 1: the Brand of Shambley podcast with himI Diaz and I'm
Speaker 1: assuming we're gonna see you this weekend next on Golf
Speaker 1: Channel and through the playoffs. That's right, I'll be uh
Speaker 1: doing this through the playoffs. I have a few other
Speaker 1: events to do at the end of the year, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna play a few on the PGA Tour
Speaker 1: champions So I'll be busy either talking or playing until
Speaker 1: the end of the year. Saying I, I always enjoy
Speaker 1: your telecast. You guys have a great team and really
Speaker 1: enjoyed the year that's uh you'll put together on Fox.
Speaker 1: So thanks for having me on. It's always fun talking
Speaker 1: to you. Shane, Thanks, brand, appreciate it. Cheers. It looks
Speaker 1: like I'm arect A big thanks to Brandon Shamblie for
Speaker 1: jumping on. You know, one of the voices of this
Speaker 1: generation of golf. Really and when he talks, you listen,
Speaker 1: that's all. It's the best compliment I can give the
Speaker 1: guy is when he when he speaks, either you agree
Speaker 1: with it or you don't, that's fine, But when he talks,
Speaker 1: you have to listen because he obviously does the research.
Speaker 1: He does the homework, and he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: And I respect and appreciate that more than anything else
Speaker 1: in really broadcasting is people that are prepared and ready
Speaker 1: to rock. So thanks to Brandon, a big thanks to Titleist.
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Speaker 1: the US Women's Amateurs next week, we have two events
Speaker 1: left on our nine fox schedule, which is bananas. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's flown by. We have the US Women's
Speaker 1: Amateur next week at Old Waverley that gets going on
Speaker 1: Wednesday at on FS one and we will take you
Speaker 1: all the way through to the championship match on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then the following week is the US Amateur at Pinehurst.
Speaker 1: Same deal. Wednesday, we rock, Sunday, we end on Fox,
Speaker 1: and that'll be it for the two thousand nineteen Fox
Speaker 1: Golf schedules. So up, you get two more weeks of
Speaker 1: US I hope you DVR it, and I hope you
Speaker 1: want you live, and I hope you enjoy it because
Speaker 1: we're excited about it. Two of my favorite events to
Speaker 1: do in the entire season. And we get going, like
Speaker 1: I said, Wednesday, bright and early, and we don't stop
Speaker 1: for two weeks, and then we'll go on a little
Speaker 1: bit of a bid break. I hope you guys have
Speaker 1: a great weekend, get out, play some golf, and we'll
Speaker 1: check back next week.