WEBVTT - How to Construct a World Tour 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.520 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.920 When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.920 And when I find my ball in a brid egg 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:11.440 Friday Egg Frida Egg Friday Friday. 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.319 Bride Egg Lie, I'm about ready to run off the 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:14.080 golf course. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.000 Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. We are back. What 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:38.960 an exciting week. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.160 I think that nobody was really expecting such a big 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.959 week in golf, but we you know, golf always delivers. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.040 We get a Rory McElroy win in Dubai. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.159 Uh, we get a Lydia co win in Florida, and 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.880 then to top things off, while the while the big 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:01.480 football weekend, I think Nick Dunlap actually kind of took 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.560 some of football's audience away as an amateur one for 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.000 the first time on the PGA Tour since nineteen ninety 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.280 one since Phil Mickelson. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.760 So pretty historic weekend. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.000 Not really something that you would have thought would happen 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.080 with the with the AMX, it's usually kind of a 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.000 sleepy weekend that seeds to the to the football. But 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.720 I do think that there were, you know, golf fans 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.680 that were lured away from football for once. So today 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:34.200 I am joined by Friday Golf's Joseph Lamannia and Garrett Morrison. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.120 We've got a fun exercise. We're gonna we're gonna talk 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.800 a little bit about a couple of things. We're gonna 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.559 do segment we're rolling out in and out where we're 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.520 in on something, out on something, and then we're gonna 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:50.000 roll into a discussion about a potential world tour. Rory 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.560 McElroy and Keith Pelly have been kind of beating the 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.040 drum on this, the idea that golf needs to go 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.760 global with the you know, kind of framework agreement, the 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.280 private equity money that they're bringing in. So we decided, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.760 why don't we build out what a world tour could 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.959 look like and where it could go for the elite 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.240 players in the professional and the men's professional game. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.160 So excited to get this going. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.520 Joseph Garrett thoughts on the weekend, do you think that 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.560 we cut into football at all? 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.400 Joseph, I'll get your take on this. I mean, I 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.560 don't really I don't really watch football myself, but I 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.680 understand that it's quite a popular sport. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.160 I'm a huge football fan. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.359 I have to say I respectfully disagree with Andy's take 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:38.440 that golf should steer away from football and Andy. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.160 Andy says that golf shouldn't. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.440 Steer away from right, I think it should. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.160 You think it should run scared. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:44.040 I think it should. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.520 Well, I don't know if it should run scared, but 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.720 I do think it should find its windows that aren't 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.000 competing with the most popular sport in America. That said, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.440 we got a little bit of a blowout towards the 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:58.079 end of Lion's Buccaneers yesterday, which played well with Dunlap 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.480 being in contention, So it works in that sense. I 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.400 definitely was glued to both. I was double screening it. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.480 But yeah, really exciting weekend in golf and Dounlap being 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:10.040 in contention. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:11.120 That was unbelievable. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.480 Yeah, I mean, clearly they the PGA Tour got a 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.440 little bit more from this weekend than it had any 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.959 right to expect, and so that was a big win 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:26.000 for the PGA Tour this weekend. Obviously. You know, I 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.280 don't think I normally would have even tuned in too 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.080 Sunday at the American Express, you know, and I'm trying 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:32.760 to pace myself here at the beginning of the year 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.120 with my professional golf consumption, but certainly I was I 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.440 was locked in to the last few holes. It was 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.160 absolutely engrossing. And you just never know when these things 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.040 are going to pop up. Golf is golf is so 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.760 random like that, and so it's obviously a great weekend. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:52.200 It's just a it's a big marker of why they 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.800 need to get talented people in the field with sponsors exemptions. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:57.960 It's just perfect. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.160 You think it's a well, I think it's the perfect example, 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.120 honestly of why they should let Zack Johnson in the 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.080 field whenever possible. What was he t twenty five this 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:07.760 week or something? 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:09.680 Yeah? Right, Yeah, that. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:12.160 Was nice story. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:16.360 Nobody could have seen that regression coming. All right, let's 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.280 get into in and out news segment. We're going to 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.560 do this weekly on this show just quickly. You know, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.360 it could be anything. Could be I'm in on uh 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.279 on iron Head covers, if you wanted to get into that. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.320 It could be I'm out on uh on walking and 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.320 carrying your bag and golf, but you know that's not 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:35.800 gonna happen. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.680 I would be in on iron Head's iron Head covers. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.360 That's a huge opportunity. If they haven't done that. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.120 If they haven't already merchandised that. Then that's a that's 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.040 a big miss. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.039 All right, let's start, Joseph, you kick things off. What 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:53.279 are you in on this week? 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:54.080 Sure? 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.839 My, these these are actually both related to AMX. I 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.559 don't think it's going to be that way every week, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.520 but I am in on the way Justin Thomas handled 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.320 the downswing in his career, and I think it's a 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.200 very good lesson for a lot of junior golfers out 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.479 there or aspiring professional golfers the way Justin Thomas how 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:19.120 poorly he was playing last summer, he acknowledged it. He 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.240 didn't pretend like it wasn't happening. He was accepting of it. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.000 He talked about it. He wasn't offended when somebody asked 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.400 him about it. He posted some really bad scores and 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.479 fought back the next day. At the Open Championship last year, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.719 he shot eighty two in the opening round, didn't withdraw, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.240 fought back, shot seventy one. The next day. At the 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.360 US Open at LACC he shot seventy three to eighty one. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.440 Back to back majors with scores in the eighties, and 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.600 he's battled back. He played through it again. It accepted 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.760 that it was happening. To him kind of Scheffler, like 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.160 when Scotti Scheffler has talked about, for example, going into 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.200 the final round of the Masters, not sure if he's 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.760 able to do it. I just think the modern athlete 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.080 is more willing to let us in on their struggles 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.520 a little bit and acknowledge that it's happening instead of 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.160 running from it. And now Justin Thomas has four top 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.760 fives in a row, sort of soft setups, like one 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.839 of those is the Hero World Challenge, but he kind 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.960 of feels back, and I think it's an exceptional example 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.840 to young golfers out there of how to handle a 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.120 down swing in your career, because it can happen to anybody. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.679 Mine is also Justin Thomas, so we're wow. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.200 I was the most Justin Thomas love that has ever 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:31.880 happened on this podcast. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:32.080 That's for sure. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.480 So anyways, I think, like one of the things you said, Scheffler, 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:36.880 like I. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.359 Would say that the way he handled his down swing 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.520 was on Scheffler. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.160 Like if you recall last summer, Scottie Scheffler going through 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.880 putting woes similar to Justin Thomas's woes obviously, like not 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.520 similar in like the way they're playing since Scotty Scheffler 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.320 was the best player in the world at the time, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.080 but puttig's holding him back from winning wreckers setting amounts. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.360 It's very there's a putting problem, Scottie Scheffler was saying 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.920 it was a media narrative when he's you know, finishing 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.159 in the back have the field week after week, like 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.560 complete opposite of how Scheffler handled that situation was so 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.240 open and talked about it. I think the other thing 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.440 he's been grinding. He's been signing up for events, making 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.760 sure that he's he's qualifying for things like playing at 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.160 the end of last year, you know at the three 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.400 M which he missed the cut, and then the Windom 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.160 which you know he almost chipped in to make the 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.680 FedEx Cup playoffs, playing this week at Amax because he 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.840 needed to make sure that he stayed in the top 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:43.080 thirty of the owgr for the designated events spot exemption. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:44.720 So doing things. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.080 But like the big thing I see with justin Thomas's game, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.760 the approach play is back. He has got back that 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.520 that skill that you know makes him an elite player. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.440 He's not the longest player, he's not the best putter, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.160 but he is one of the great greatest iron players 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.960 in the game, and that seems to be back whatever 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.200 they tried to do with that golf swing that got 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.600 him into the funk. I believe that they did some 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.000 tickering that got him into a funk. He and you know, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.240 really what he had to do was get out of it. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.920 He had to undo what they had, what they had 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.000 tried to change in his golf swing. And it looks 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.320 like it's undone and he is back. All the poo 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.120 pool noodles, the people making fun of the pool noodles 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.960 when he was you know, posting is his you know 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.960 what he was doing to grind on his golf game. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:34.800 The pool noodles are working. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:39.120 So I'm in on the pool pool noodles rehearsals, and 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.240 I'm in on Justin Thomas for twenty twenty four. And 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.040 I think he's super important for the PGA Tour. As 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.080 you know, the Rob departure, the PGA Tour needed him 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.160 or speed and or. It'd be great if both of 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.640 them kind of stepped up and became the superstars they 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.160 used to be. And it looks like Justin Thomas is 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.800 on his way back to superstardom. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.480 Look, there's a lot of Justin Thomas haters out there. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.400 I'm not going to name names who might be feeling 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.839 a little bit bashful right now, maybe not speaking up 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.240 and uh and and that would be that would be me. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.120 I'm on the record as not not digging his vibe, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.600 but I totally agree with you guys that he has 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.920 handled this downturn really well and it seems like it 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.000 seems like he's back. But it's no surprise really that 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:31.520 that he's back. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.240 I'm not one hundred percent ready to say Justin Thomas 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.320 is back, And I think that's an interesting conversation in 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.440 and of itself, like, is Justin Thomas back? 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:39.680 Well? 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.319 Some of the courses he's done really well on recently 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.160 like that were declaring him back a lot of driver wedge, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.520 not the most demanding setups. So I am still interested 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.400 to see how the long game is. He's hitting some 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.160 loose long irons. You didn't have to do a lot 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.360 of that at AMX. So I don't think I'm ready 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.520 to say that he's fully back. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.880 I love it. I love it. Thank you for saying that. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:02.839 So should I do what I'm in on? 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:03.880 Yeah? 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.280 San Diego, I'm in on San Diego as a as 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.160 a like, you know, a spot to go on a trip, 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.600 especially if you're a golfer. There aren't like some like 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.600 super strong courses in San Diego, but it's an extremely 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.600 pleasant place to visit. Obviously, the weather's really good, airports solid, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.960 there's a lot of fun things to do in town. Look, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.120 I've been to San Diego many times. I have family 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.959 in San Diego, and it's not exactly a hot take 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.240 to say that it's a great place to go, but 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.320 specifically for golfers, you know, if you're looking for like 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.600 a city to go to and play some cool golf 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.800 while also doing other stuff with your family, I think 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.760 San Diego is a great candidate because yeah, okay, so 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.480 we've said what we've said about Tory Pines that the 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.040 South Course isn't what it could be, but it's a 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.280 public course that's right on the Pacific Ocean cliffs, and 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.960 that's pretty incredible. It's a great place to spend a day. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.959 And I'd recommend the North Course. I think it's I 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.840 think it's more fun to play. But the San Diego 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.680 public municipal course that I can really get behind is 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.400 Balboa Park. There's a lot of things that have gone 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.080 wrong with Balboa Park, and you know, it's the stewardship 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:26.640 of its architecture, which is best credited to William P. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:27.000 Bell. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.520 That's Billy Bell Senior. Nineteen thirty three or so is 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.360 when he did his design there. And the original design 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.200 looks looks awesome, And obviously they've departed from that quite 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.000 a bit as things have grown up around the course. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.920 But what you still have at Balboa Park is golf 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:50.160 on big landforms like big bluffs and barankas with views 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.360 of the San Diego skyline. It's an incredible place to 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.640 play golf. And yeah, a lot of the holes are 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.560 kind of funky. They did some bad things to the 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.679 greens and there's there's some things that I wish they 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.120 would fix. But when it comes down to it, this 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.000 is a really outstanding place to play some municipal golf. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.080 And then after year round you can go to this 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.400 little restaurant that they have. I forget what it's called, 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.160 but it's like a great place to get a breakfast 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.600 or a brunch and it overlooks the golf course and 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.760 has views of the skyline and everything. I mean, it's 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.600 it's just a wonderful place. So yeah, highly recommend San 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.880 Diego as a golf and kind of destination. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.400 It's hard to have a bad day in San Diego. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.520 I feel like I've been seeing some pro San Diego 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.520 sentiment on social media recently, so I think this is 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.959 your playing in. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.960 A good way. It's a trend, it might be. But 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.800 also torri Pines week this week, so. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:47.800 That's why I'm mentioning it. By the way, I should 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.880 have probably mentioned that at the beginning. That's why it's 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.960 on my mind. We're going to Tory Pines this this 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.000 week for the the you know, no longer the Farmers 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.080 and I guess it's the Farmer's Insurance this year. But 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.920 it's not going to be for very much longer the 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.920 San Diego Open, so let's hope that tournament continues. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:04.720 All right. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.880 I'm going to do one thing that I'm out on 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.040 and want to address something that Andy said. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:09.320 With that. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.480 What I'm out on, I'm out on Scottie Scheffler's putting 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.439 right now, and this. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.839 Was a little bit of a story over the off season. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.280 I think he should go to the broomstick. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.439 I mean, I think every player should experiment with the broomstick. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.640 To be frank, but as much as I don't. There's 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:26.240 a whole other. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.840 Conversation should be banned, the broomstick, which maybe is for 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.760 another day. But Scotti Scheffler's putting looks like a problem, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.880 and it was a huge problem last year held him back. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.040 I don't know if I fully agree with you Andy 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.360 that he was in complete denial about it. I feel 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.240 like some of his comments I'd have to revisit some 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.120 of that. But I feel like some of his comments 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.320 were more around there's a lot of variance in putting, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.520 and I'm just going to keep doing my thing and 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.680 it'll come back eventually. I don't know if he went 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.520 full Hey, this is just a media narrative, but I 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.200 would need to revisit some of those comments. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.600 There was a little bit of crooked media coming out 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:57.880 of him. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.079 There might have been there might you. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.440 Could tell, You could tell that he was there with it. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.880 But I think generally Scotti Scheffler has a mindset that's 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:10.160 accepting of his own imperfections, whether that's with his mentality 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.320 or with his skills on the course. But all that aside. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.480 Watched a lot of Scotti Scheffler this past week on 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:22.160 featured groups. Putting looks off. He hit all eighteen greens yesterday, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.960 really impressive shot one of the low rounds of the day, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.000 barely gained any strokes putting. The only other day that 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.200 had shot link data so you can capture strokes gained. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.600 He lost over a shot on the greens. It just 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.840 it looks not great. And sure some of that is noise, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.080 small sample, but we've now seen for longer than a year. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.400 It looks like a problem. There are some setups where 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.160 it's going to hurt you more than others. Amex is 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.120 somewhere that being a bad putters more of a problem 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.600 than other golf courses on the PGA Tour, But I 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.040 think it's something to watch. Looks shaky and it's going 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.520 to hold him back, and especially some of these soft setups. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.560 Hard to disagree there, obviously. I think the other aspect 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:07.400 of this is that, you know, major championships and just 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.360 golf tournaments in general. I think one of the amazing 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.800 things I always think about and about golf is that 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:20.320 in high leverage situations, you know, the sport always has 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:26.480 a way of exposing your flaws or making you overcome 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.600 one of your weaknesses. Right, if you think back to 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:34.640 LACC the Rory wedge on fourteen, right, the wedges have 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.760 been a problem, and you know, sure enough coming down 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.080 the stretch he had to hit a wedge and he didn't. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.280 You think about Scottie Scheffler. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.640 To win big time golf tournaments, you have to make putts, 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.320 and you have to make those five foot like. The 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.880 thing that's scary to me is the I almost feel 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.160 like it's similar to like Hideki Massiyama, where when you 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.440 just see these four or five footers that just don't 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.040 even hit the hole. It's not like they're lipping out 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.280 because he's catching a lot of cup and it's just, oh, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.480 you know, it was a good putt, but maybe misrounded 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.040 a little bit. He hits putts that missed the hole 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.600 from four or five feet, you know, fairly not I'm 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.880 not gonna say regularly, but fairly often like you see these, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.040 and that is the big problem, is that there is 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:27.800 something fundamentally wrong I think with whether it's mental or 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.320 whether it's technique, I don't know, but like to me, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.680 he seems like I think one of the one of 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.880 the things we see I and I I you know, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.360 I don't know what the current setup is, but it 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.000 seems like he knows the putting's an issue, and he's 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.680 working really, really really hard to not make an issue. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.920 I think putting's one of those things that, like, the 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.720 more you work at it, sometimes the worse it can get, 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:53.000 if that makes sense. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.760 Yeah, I mean it's like it's one of those mental games. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.960 Yeah right, We're all familiar with these where you just yeah, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.800 it's it's a it's like free throws. It's uh, there 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.560 are a few athletic things that are that are like this, 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.840 but we're all familiar with it in our own lives, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.240 right where you just get something in your head and 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.120 becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.440 Buffalo kickers in the fourth quarter of God Martin playoff 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:18.640 Games and you know. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:19.399 The right miss. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.159 But but anyways, I think like one of the things 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.800 with him is that he needs to actually like kind 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.480 of try less because a couple of years ago, the 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.960 I mean, I'm not saying the allure of Scottie Scheffler 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.440 is worn off because all he's done is gotten better 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:38.240 from tea to green, But the allure of Scottie Scheffler 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.440 was that, look at this guy, He's great at everything. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.600 Like he's really good a really good putter, a really good. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.000 I thought he was a good putter basically until this, 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.040 until the second half of last year. I I you know, 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.000 maybe that the stats didn't bear that out at that point, 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.119 but my impression of him was this guy has a 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:01.160 really strong short game, including. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:01.520 Well that was the yeah. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.480 So so anyways, the lure of Scheffler is like, there 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.080 are only so many guys on the PGA Tour who 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.119 are really above average to elite at every skill set, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.119 and I feel like he was one of those guys. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.960 And uh and and now it's you know, this is 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:23.080 the the the amazing thing about golf, right, It can 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.919 put It can put you through mental gymnastics and and 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.159 wrap you up like a pretzel. And it seems like 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.400 the putters got into that state with with Scheffler. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.480 All right, Andy, what are you out on? 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.680 All right? I'm you know what I'm out on. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:43.720 I'm out on on multi course pro am golf. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.160 Yeah, the PG especially without the without the shot link. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:49.480 No shot link. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:55.320 Yeah, we got foursomes with on Saturday with you know, 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.640 we got just like guys playing And I'm fine, I'm 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.959 fine with the pro I under stand that you know 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:05.600 that these these tournaments need to generate cash and have 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.760 some sort of angle. But I think it's way more 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.040 palatable the way that the AT and T Pebble Beach 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.600 is going this year with like a smaller field and 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.880 only a couple days. Like, you just can't have these 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.480 guys out there on the weekend. You can't have the 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.120 field split between three courses like they did this year 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.040 at Palm Springs that they always do. You've got Nick 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:35.160 Dunlop Dunlap, I got the gips with his name, Nick Dunlap. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.680 You can't have Nick Dunlap out there threatening to break 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.280 fifty or sixty, you know, shooting up the leader board, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.879 playing the most That was probably the most consequential round 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.000 of the tournament. And there's no cameras around because he's 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.280 playing Lakita when all the big names are playing PGA 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.520 to ur at PGA West. Like, I don't like the 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.240 split courses, split days for the sake of competition. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:00.439 This is the. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:06.400 Biggest golf league there is, and like the. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:13.160 Competition cannot be sacrificed so often with these setups. Obviously 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.960 we've got one this week with North and South at Tory. Again, 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.640 we don't have shot link this is twenty twenty four. 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.720 We're in twenty twenty four. This shouldn't like there should 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:27.840 be enough personnel enough. There's a multi billion dollar league 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.680 that we should have shot link across two courses. Two 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.200 courses I'm our right with, you know, with no amateurs 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.800 on them, three courses with you know, the t sheet 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.719 full of amateurs like pace a play a disaster. Like 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.040 you imagine you're trying to win a tournament and you're 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.080