Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast.
Speaker 1: Sean Martin and Brendan poor Eth are back to recap
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Speaker 1: on the golf course. Now here's Brendan and Sean.
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Speaker 3: Out onto the green.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: different than playing out of a night and clean lion
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Speaker 3: You need to be aggressive on any show, whether it's
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Speaker 3: The dreaded Frida egg not to be feared, though it's
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Speaker 5: I just the Xander thing is more true today than
Speaker 5: it was when you asked it before the player.
Speaker 1: Is Xander overrated or underrated?
Speaker 5: It's more true today than it was before the player.
Speaker 1: So you're doubling down on him being overrated out.
Speaker 4: There was This was a nuanced take. It wasn't that stinks.
Speaker 3: It wasn't general. Yeah, the general ign name is public.
Speaker 3: He's vastly underrated. But to the in the know golf
Speaker 3: audience who like he's they, I'm just tired of me,
Speaker 3: like all woke because I know whose Andrew is. Like,
Speaker 3: we all know whose Andrew is. If you follow golf
Speaker 3: and don't know whose Andrew is, you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's more true today than it was the players.
Speaker 5: The question was or our point Our response was not
Speaker 5: that he sucks at golf, or he wasn't gonna win
Speaker 5: or this couldn't happen. It was that it was like
Speaker 5: this hipster crowd saying, you know, what I think.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm so woke.
Speaker 3: I know whose Andrew is. No, you're not woke. He's
Speaker 3: a good player. You should know who he is.
Speaker 4: John keeps interrupting me. Is sorry.
Speaker 5: It was like people saying, you know what, I think
Speaker 5: Brooks kept go like like last year, I think Brooks
Speaker 5: kept goes get a golf. He's my dark horse pick. Like, no,
Speaker 5: it's not dark horse. It's like, it's not it's not.
Speaker 5: That's the thing. Xander got to overrated with the hipster crowd.
Speaker 5: It's just like it's a ubiquitous take. He's good at golf.
Speaker 5: We know he's good at golf. I hope he does well.
Speaker 5: I would have been great. I would have been happy.
Speaker 5: If you want today, that's fine. But it's more true
Speaker 5: that what what we were saying then. It's more true
Speaker 5: today than it was that when than it was even
Speaker 5: before the players good autumn for his runner up finish,
Speaker 5: that was great, But I mean it only reaffirms like
Speaker 5: now everybody's like Xander man, he's got like I know golf.
Speaker 5: There's this guy with like kind of a funny name, Man,
Speaker 5: I know golf. And you hear about Xander Schoffley. You
Speaker 5: hear what you hear that name before? That's my guy.
Speaker 5: So that's the whole crew that it got that that's
Speaker 5: the whole genesis of this overrated thing.
Speaker 3: So the problem is that the pod is going to
Speaker 3: start in the middle of this ran somewhere that idiots.
Speaker 1: Again, No, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you guys the
Speaker 1: full runway here. Where where Doesander? Where does Xander ring?
Speaker 1: Among the young players in the game, let's just say
Speaker 1: twenty five and younger.
Speaker 3: I mean you still got to put speth in JT
Speaker 3: ahead of him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rom, how young are we going?
Speaker 4: Like cole Hammer.
Speaker 1: Had? I think have to be professional?
Speaker 3: There was an over under better career in majors Ram
Speaker 3: or Xanders somewhere in the Twitter replies, And I still
Speaker 3: I lean rom, I mean a lean rom in that
Speaker 3: sense question.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, I think we're getting a little
Speaker 4: carried away.
Speaker 3: But yeah, if Brendon and I don't realize that Xander
Speaker 3: Schoffley is good at golfer, both idiots should be immediately
Speaker 3: fire from our jobs.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, I just where do you do it? Andy?
Speaker 5: You seem to have preconceived thoughts on this before you
Speaker 5: asked it.
Speaker 1: So I think, like you know, two years ago you
Speaker 1: would say there was like Speith, JT and Berger, right,
Speaker 1: and I think he's he's moved into I put him
Speaker 1: ahead of Burger for sure. I think I think with
Speaker 1: with Americans, I mean, obviously you've got some young guys
Speaker 1: like D'shambo and Aaron Wise that are just getting there
Speaker 1: kind of footing on the PGA Tour. But you know,
Speaker 1: De'shambo and Xander essentially Ben Pro's you know, for the
Speaker 1: same amount of time and uh you know, on the
Speaker 1: PGA Tour for the same amount of time, both have
Speaker 1: two wins. But I think the thing that sticks out
Speaker 1: with Xander is like if you look at where he's
Speaker 1: gained all his world ranking points, they're like the biggest
Speaker 1: events of the PGA Tour schedule. I mean, he gets
Speaker 1: them in the majors, he gets them in WGCs, like
Speaker 1: you know, he had a really good finish at Riviera,
Speaker 1: Like you know, It's what impresses me is it seems
Speaker 1: like his game rises to another level when it's a
Speaker 1: stage with the best players in the world, you know,
Speaker 1: three totally.
Speaker 3: I mean his hisenis year are rivier the majors and players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like t second at the Players, t second at
Speaker 1: the Open, you know, first of the Tour Championship, he's
Speaker 1: got he's got three top sixes in majors and just
Speaker 1: t second at the Players, and he's he's played in
Speaker 1: six of them, you know, four you know, four top
Speaker 1: six finishes and the five biggest events of the year.
Speaker 4: You're cut off is twenty five years old? Is that
Speaker 4: what the question was?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know where you cut
Speaker 1: it off. I don't know what you. I think in
Speaker 1: today's day and age, twenty five is probably the young right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Clost twenty five, you're like already entering your prime, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, that's kind.
Speaker 1: Of that's It's interesting. I think the I think the
Speaker 1: prime of a golfer has changed from it used to be,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty to forty to now it's twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty five, really totally.
Speaker 3: I mean Patrick Rodgers ten years ago, Pattick Rodgers career
Speaker 3: would be very far ahead of the Kerk and now
Speaker 3: it's like he doesn't need to get mentioned with his
Speaker 3: with his boys because they've done so much. But I
Speaker 3: mean he's like twenty five, had a tour card for
Speaker 3: a couple of years, like that ten years ago. That
Speaker 3: was really really good.
Speaker 1: It's I was as Uh. The thing with Shoffley is
Speaker 1: I think rom I'd still give the edge to Ram
Speaker 1: over Shaffley, but I mean the way he hits the ball,
Speaker 1: so he's so good tee to Green. It's the way
Speaker 1: he drives it, like he drove it so well all week.
Speaker 1: That's he's just got so much confidence. And I think
Speaker 1: he's he's underrated because he played at San Diego State.
Speaker 1: Nobody really knew him, but I mean he went he
Speaker 1: made it to the finals of the Western m I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's a pedigree event. I think I think
Speaker 1: he's I think he's a stud. I mean obviously he's
Speaker 1: a stud, but I think he's uh, he's definitely gonna
Speaker 1: win at least one major. I just I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll see who gets more majors. Rickor or Shaffley.
Speaker 5: Wow, man, it's awfully just because of like the less
Speaker 5: the the year year's advantage and this less scar tissue.
Speaker 4: And I don't know, man, I.
Speaker 5: So Ricky's hard hard to hard to back right now,
Speaker 5: Like like it's he either gets one and then it's
Speaker 5: like this is great. You know, it's kind of I'm done,
Speaker 5: I made my career, my career achievement, or maybe, like
Speaker 5: the worst cliche in sports, the flood gates open. So
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's hard, hard to predict with Rick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean everyone goes back to the you know,
Speaker 3: Phil was what thirty four when he won his first major.
Speaker 3: I think Hogan was thirty four. Uh, you can have
Speaker 3: a fruitful career. I don't know. I just there's so
Speaker 3: many different Like the thing I love about baseball, all
Speaker 3: that they do is like they'll take a guy's stats
Speaker 3: and they find comparable players based on their like career
Speaker 3: paths from that point of order, and they'll compare like,
Speaker 3: all right, every guy who was hitting two fifty by
Speaker 3: his age twenty five season with fifteen homers, like this
Speaker 3: is the average of what his career looks like. And
Speaker 3: I don't feel like we do that well in golf.
Speaker 3: We just like some guy has a great season, this
Speaker 3: his aggression is gonna be linear, like you know, any
Speaker 3: you and I see an amateur golf of like, somebody
Speaker 3: dominates an amateer golfing, like, oh, he's obviously gonna be
Speaker 3: a great pro. And it's like, no, I think some
Speaker 3: guys actually had the best years of their career, like
Speaker 3: an amateur golf unfortunately, uh and earn nothing for it.
Speaker 3: And it's just, I don't know, career progression is so hard.
Speaker 3: We get so spoiled by these guys, Like we think
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna have a twenty year great career when like
Speaker 3: it's so hard in this game to have even ten
Speaker 3: years of just great play. There's just so many things
Speaker 3: that happen. Like I always look at like Keegan. Now,
Speaker 3: granted Keegan, I mean anchoring man obviously really hurt his career,
Speaker 3: but like Kegan twenty eleven rookie year wins twice, including
Speaker 3: a major. Like we all think, oh my gosh, where's
Speaker 3: this guy gonna You know, he went to Saint John's,
Speaker 3: a small school, and we all think of like he's
Speaker 3: gonna be unstoppable. But it didn't. It didn't pan out.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that Xander's gonna go to the
Speaker 3: same thing. But it's just like there's so many variables
Speaker 3: that you just never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well, Molinari is a perfect example of
Speaker 1: that career progression. You know, this is his moment and
Speaker 1: it's all because like he was always an elite ball striker,
Speaker 1: but you know, he shored up his short game and putting,
Speaker 1: and I mean he didn't make a bogie the last
Speaker 1: two two rounds, and you know five years ago that
Speaker 1: would never have happened. But he keeps working better, and
Speaker 1: I think that is that's at all levels of golf.
Speaker 1: Like I think one of the things about golf, like
Speaker 1: you you see it playing junior golf, Like you see
Speaker 1: these kids that are unbelievable at age fifteen. But the
Speaker 1: hardest thing golf is to get better once you're at
Speaker 1: zero plus two plus three handicap, Like getting better, it
Speaker 1: becomes way more difficult the better you get.
Speaker 3: Sure, I would just say this is a good transition
Speaker 3: to talk about the US. You here, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5: About you are like in here, got a good like
Speaker 5: ten minutes on Shoplet. Tiger just had like the biggest
Speaker 5: moment in golf, our biggest contention in five years. Got
Speaker 5: to get ten minutes on Shopley. I mentioned of Keegan Bradley,
Speaker 5: Patrick Rogers, Cole Hammer. We haven't talked about Tiger Molinario. Yeah,
Speaker 5: It's just this is like exactly how it to be so.
Speaker 1: So so you're bringing us back to the to the
Speaker 1: general here, Brendan, what what what? What? What was your
Speaker 1: takeaway from you know, the open what you know? What
Speaker 1: do you? What do you? What did you love today?
Speaker 1: Or what do you think?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: My favorite moment I think was the absurdity of that
Speaker 5: woman keeping her child in that stroller and shopping back.
Speaker 4: I mean, that woman should be ejected from the country.
Speaker 4: She should be thrown in prison, she should be like
Speaker 4: she was steadfast refused to move. The guy was over
Speaker 4: his ball and address, and the kids started chirping again,
Speaker 4: and she just stood there. He backed off, and then
Speaker 4: she just stood there, like wouldn't you skurry into the
Speaker 4: crowd and shame and hide your face?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad, I'm glad you circled the wagons
Speaker 1: to talk about a child in the crowd.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that my favorite moment. It was just
Speaker 5: added a sprinkled absurdity to a like to being in
Speaker 5: all seriousness. I think, you know, since I've been doing this,
Speaker 5: one of the maybe the top top day at a
Speaker 5: major championship. I think twenty eleven Masters is up there.
Speaker 5: Twenty thirteen Masters was bonkers, Like the whole weekend. You know,
Speaker 5: Adam Scott and Hulkerbrera aren't the names that we got today.
Speaker 5: And obviously twenty I don't know that whole twenty thirteen
Speaker 5: year was great. I think this, this is certainly one
Speaker 5: A or one B, and I think there's just too
Speaker 5: much to choose from that. I guess that's where I
Speaker 5: go is is this the best kind of the most
Speaker 5: enjoyable and manic and eventful final round of a major
Speaker 5: for you guys real quick?
Speaker 3: I to go back to the kid in the stroller.
Speaker 3: I have a two year old, and I don't understand
Speaker 3: how anyone brings a child under the age of thirteen
Speaker 3: to accompliment. It blows my mind. As far as manic,
Speaker 3: I think twe Masters is up there, but it's I mean,
Speaker 3: it's definitely up there.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I mean leaderboard wise with like the Superstar,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen that in a really long time, where
Speaker 1: legitimately on Sunday you had, you know, three of probably
Speaker 1: the three biggest names in golf right now, Speath, Rory
Speaker 1: and Tiger all with like a legit shot to.
Speaker 5: Win, you know, And then one of my favorite moments
Speaker 5: was like, for whatever reason, I flipped out onto the
Speaker 5: leaderboard online and like I just opened it real quick.
Speaker 5: It was before they had showed Rory's eagle putt and
Speaker 5: or maybe my DVR I at some point ended up
Speaker 5: thirty seconds behind, and it showed Rory at the top
Speaker 5: at six under. I was like, wait, what the hell
Speaker 5: we were like because you hadn't seen him in so
Speaker 5: long and he just he just wasn't like part of
Speaker 5: the story.
Speaker 4: I flipped up in the leader board was like, what
Speaker 4: the hell Rory McRoy?
Speaker 5: He was at the very top because he had just
Speaker 5: made you know, join the lead most recent and then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden it showed his eagle and it
Speaker 5: just like took what already was a crazy day so
Speaker 5: like a no other level. And I mean, anytime you
Speaker 5: get Rory joining the lead in the last like what
Speaker 5: I guess five holes of Major Championship, that's gonna be
Speaker 5: the biggest story of the day. But this was like way,
Speaker 5: you know, in the middle of the pack three four five.
Speaker 4: That was amazing. I looked at the boards like that
Speaker 4: can't be right.
Speaker 5: Rory's not first, And then as Ego plug came on
Speaker 5: the TV, you know, thirty seconds later, and I couldn't
Speaker 5: believe it.
Speaker 4: I think it was just there's too much to choose from.
Speaker 1: To me, the Open Championship has supplanted the Masters as
Speaker 1: the best event of the year. Wow, three years in
Speaker 1: a row it's been the best and then and then
Speaker 1: you know, if you look back, like Will Knights wrote
Speaker 1: an article about like the last ten and you read
Speaker 1: and you read through them and it's just like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, every year pretty much. I mean, you sink
Speaker 1: in Watson, you know they're every single year is seemingly
Speaker 1: a great championship. You know, when was the last time
Speaker 1: that you were disappointed with the Open Championship? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But why do you think that is?
Speaker 3: I mean aside, but I think so much of it
Speaker 3: is link golf because it allows so many different riise
Speaker 3: of play to compete. I mean, Watson's not competing if
Speaker 3: it's not a link course. Greg Norman is not challenging
Speaker 3: in Birkdale and it's not a link I think so
Speaker 3: much of it is that it is a links course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but even I think that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we keep getting the best names at the top
Speaker 5: of the leaderboard out.
Speaker 3: Of all but I know we got Rory. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to make my point. I think Andy will agree here
Speaker 3: that when it's firm and fast and yeah, the greens
Speaker 3: were soft, but the fairways were not. This week, when
Speaker 3: it's firm and fast and windy, you got to control
Speaker 3: your tras and so that brings out the best players.
Speaker 3: You know, It's one thing to hit an eight iron
Speaker 3: one point fifty and stick it. It's another thing to
Speaker 3: hit like a you know, a little punch seven iron
Speaker 3: baby cut back into the wind.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Pat. The Creed had a great quote earlier in the
Speaker 3: week of like, the fairways were so firm that let's
Speaker 3: say you were trying to hit a six iron and
Speaker 3: you caught it a groove low, it was actually going
Speaker 3: to go like twenty yards farther because the directory was
Speaker 3: lower and the spin was last, and so like that
Speaker 3: small little miship was going to be punished exponentially. So
Speaker 3: I think you just have to control your trade, strike
Speaker 3: your ball well when conditions are firm and fast and
Speaker 3: when you're running it on the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I think what it is is that
Speaker 1: players all of a sudden have to think about where
Speaker 1: they're going to land the ball. And that's a lot
Speaker 1: different than hey, it's one fifty two, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's is it like the yardages at an Open. I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't mean anything. One fifty two could be a
Speaker 1: wedge that you land one twenty or like you know,
Speaker 1: a chip eight iron that you land one twenty and
Speaker 1: let roll in. It could be you know, it could
Speaker 1: be a number of shots. You could hit all these
Speaker 1: different shots. The trajectory matters, This spin matters, like and
Speaker 1: I think that brings art to the game. It's not
Speaker 1: as scientific, it's it's much more fuel oriented. And I
Speaker 1: think it also brings all the skills to the forefront.
Speaker 1: And that's what you know, great golf courses do, is
Speaker 1: it makes players have to hit all the great shots.
Speaker 1: Like when you go to a great golf course, you
Speaker 1: generally hit every club in your bag, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's the kind of the essence of
Speaker 1: of why the Open has has done this is that
Speaker 1: it allows everybody to play their own game. But it
Speaker 1: also you know, to succeed, you have to hit all
Speaker 1: the shots.
Speaker 5: So do you not need to think about where it's
Speaker 5: going to land at Augusta or yourself?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not you do, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it's to the same degree you know, I think I think,
Speaker 1: I mean Augusta. You know, the tree planting has has
Speaker 1: taken away a little bit from that golf course. That
Speaker 1: golf course is, you know, just like it was built
Speaker 1: after the old course, you know, So that's I mean,
Speaker 1: but they've lost some of the you know, the essence
Speaker 1: of that over the years. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is nothing against august I just think
Speaker 1: that the Open, in my mind, has become the best
Speaker 1: event of the year.
Speaker 5: I thought Will Gray from Golf Channel had a great
Speaker 5: sweet about that. Is like USGA has every like technology
Speaker 5: and piece of equipment at their disposal and still get
Speaker 5: out of their own way. Well the harn I just
Speaker 5: like puts a sign in the ground pointing you to
Speaker 5: the first t and it's the best tournament ever.
Speaker 4: Like they just I don't know.
Speaker 1: In the in the defense of the USGA, I think
Speaker 1: that the media actually goes into the us Open and
Speaker 1: like looking for things that the USJA is going to
Speaker 1: screw up, you know, right like if if if the
Speaker 1: USGA had the greens as soft as as what the
Speaker 1: RNA had them this week, people would be throwing like
Speaker 1: a ship fit about it.
Speaker 3: Good point, that's a good point, But would they it's
Speaker 3: like eight under one, I think I think five to
Speaker 3: ten under is a great winning score.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, But I think people would still do that.
Speaker 1: Like you know, like a perfect example is people would
Speaker 1: complain about how thin the rough was, and like I
Speaker 1: thought that was absolutely like that fescue was so perfect
Speaker 1: because you could you saw shots, you saw unbelievable recovery
Speaker 1: shots from that stuff. But then you also saw Tiger
Speaker 1: try and do too much from it, and that's what
Speaker 1: killed him in the middle of the round. That's that's
Speaker 1: what costs Tiger. That like thin fescue cost Tiger a
Speaker 1: shot at the winning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, euphemism of tugging the shaft.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was always kind of parental advisory, kept kept
Speaker 5: using that phrase. Uh yeah, that's that's literally what cost
Speaker 5: him the championship in the middle of the That's a
Speaker 5: that's a great point though, about the different universes the
Speaker 5: organizations have to work in, especially with those green those
Speaker 5: soft greens. First couple of days, I don't know, it's
Speaker 5: just yeah, the bar the bar. I don't know if
Speaker 5: the bar is higher for the USGA or they just
Speaker 5: they you know, they've lost lost the luxury of having
Speaker 5: you know, margin for.
Speaker 4: Air or I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's more they've lost the trust. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, if a kid like constantly abuses the trust
Speaker 1: of a relationship, that the kids got a shorter release,
Speaker 1: you know, from whoever it is, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: their parents. But I think the USGA has, like, you know,
Speaker 1: they've had so many problems over the years, and in
Speaker 1: the RNA on the opposite end of the spectrum, has
Speaker 1: never really done anything that have you know, violated the trust.
Speaker 5: The biggest thing was what twenty fifteen Saint Andrew's and
Speaker 5: the winds. They said that they let the greens get
Speaker 5: too fast, so they had to wipe out the whole
Speaker 5: day of play because of whatever. It's like the eleventh green,
Speaker 5: it's too exposed. So they were just I mean, that's
Speaker 5: I think that's like the biggest screw, you know, the
Speaker 5: most criticism they received in the last you know, eight
Speaker 5: years or so.
Speaker 1: How about they put Spieth on the clock.
Speaker 5: I didn't get that. I didn't know that until I
Speaker 5: saw him talking about it. He said that was a
Speaker 5: turning point in his championship. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 5: I don't think I don't think he was trying to
Speaker 5: blame someone else, but he's like that.
Speaker 4: That threw me off.
Speaker 5: That really like changed changed the way I played. What
Speaker 5: would they come in at like three forty I.
Speaker 1: Think it was like four fifteen today.
Speaker 4: Well they were that long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little longer at two or something. Okay,
Speaker 1: but but you know they're actually enforcing the rules. If
Speaker 1: the USGA did that to leader, people would go nuts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, didn't they They put the final group on the
Speaker 3: clock this year? No?
Speaker 1: Yeah they did today I think No. I mean at
Speaker 1: the us Oh yes, they think they did, right.
Speaker 3: They did. Everyone's on the clock. They're all slow kidding.
Speaker 1: I don't know that pace of play was was also
Speaker 1: one of the most refreshing things. Like here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I tweeted this at Colonial and all these Scotts, well
Speaker 3: one Scott was coming at me, and I was like,
Speaker 3: people underestimate how much the walk from Green to Tea
Speaker 3: affects pace of play. Like Colonial is super walkable. I
Speaker 3: mean Green's right off of Teas now, granted feels a
Speaker 3: bit smaller. It's like one twenty I think, but like,
Speaker 3: guys get around in four uh under four on the
Speaker 3: weekend and so same with well, lace golf. I think
Speaker 3: people underestimate the walk from tea to green. And then
Speaker 3: also if you're not taking a ton of drops, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of hazards obviously on lace golf, so you're
Speaker 3: not getting a ton of rulings. I think those are
Speaker 3: two things that people underestimate about. Paper Play was.
Speaker 5: Talking about how Xander kept getting bugs on his ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and what else. They had a couple of rulings,
Speaker 4: but that was the only time.
Speaker 5: It's like he said, it was the fastest round he
Speaker 5: thought he really ever played, and he was surprised.
Speaker 1: He had that drop on what hole was it? On
Speaker 1: the front nine? It was eerily reminiscent of last year.
Speaker 3: Five right, yeah, yeah, six, Hogan Zally.
Speaker 1: How great is that hole?
Speaker 3: That hole?
Speaker 1: Those guys made double and and bogie on that holes.
Speaker 4: Tiger put it on the front edge of the green.
Speaker 1: It's what did you guys think of CARNOUSTI.
Speaker 3: I think Paul Casey put it the best. He said,
Speaker 3: it's not sexy, but it's good. Yeah, Like you can't
Speaker 3: see the water from the course, but so it's just
Speaker 3: it is kind of you know, it's not a mistique
Speaker 3: of Saint Andrews one the water views of some other courses.
Speaker 3: But it's just it is, it's it's good. It's so
Speaker 3: well bunkered. And Tyler kind of called earlier in the
Speaker 3: week of like some guys are talking about like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm going to a driver and bomb over the bunkers
Speaker 3: and tigers, like you can't really do that here. It's
Speaker 3: too well bunkered. And it really it's it is, it's
Speaker 3: very well bunkered. I think guys who tried to take
Speaker 3: that approach because it was so firm and fast, got ejected.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's some of the toughest pop bunkers.
Speaker 3: They're so small here. Some of the faces are like
Speaker 3: six feet deep that pop bunkers are almost a once
Speaker 3: er penalty here. And so I don't know, I think
Speaker 3: it was great the bunkering. I mean you had bunkers
Speaker 3: coming into the middle of the fairways. You didn't just
Speaker 3: have bunkers lining the size of the fairways. And so
Speaker 3: really if you wanted to have the best angle and
Speaker 3: you had to challenge the bunkers, which I mean that's
Speaker 3: with an angles one oh one right there.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's uh. I think like it reminds me kind
Speaker 1: of a Chicago golf in a way of like where
Speaker 1: it's like it's not a dramatic site, pretty flat, nothing
Speaker 1: really special in the architecture. You look at it and
Speaker 1: you're like, why can't more golf courses be this simple
Speaker 1: and this good? You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I tweeted after you posted that drone
Speaker 3: butt of school Chicago golf club, like this place is
Speaker 3: dead flat, Like why can we do this more often?
Speaker 3: This would be so cheap to build.
Speaker 4: Tiger was saying. Tiger was saying, it's he thought it
Speaker 4: was much It's much more.
Speaker 5: Undulating then than Hoylake, because they were asking him about
Speaker 5: you know, if you would do the hoyl like strategy.
Speaker 5: But it's like, well you got a lot more bumps
Speaker 5: and humps and hills there.
Speaker 4: But I don't know, yeah, extremely flat.
Speaker 1: Those bunkers are no joke there. I mean, how about
Speaker 1: that that shot Tiger hit on ten?
Speaker 3: That was Tiger looked back there. That was like that
Speaker 3: was old school Tiger. That was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I heard multiple people say like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is over. He's gonna win this thing after he
Speaker 3: hit that shot.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought, like in my head I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah, game over.
Speaker 5: That was like he was he was getting He was
Speaker 5: the spots where the first four or five spots where
Speaker 5: like things would go backwards or come undone didn't happen
Speaker 5: where he got used to that kind of in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 5: just like a couple of early bogies. But here he
Speaker 5: like saved par where there was eight I think it
Speaker 5: was eighty, got up and down from a pop bunker
Speaker 5: for par the one time, like as par saving putt,
Speaker 5: just like hunt on the edge of the cup and
Speaker 5: like fell in normally I would just kind of stay
Speaker 5: not normally, but you know.
Speaker 4: In recent years like it.
Speaker 5: And then then that that recovery out of the bunker,
Speaker 5: it just felt like he was the spots where like
Speaker 5: he would drop a shot like it just felt like
Speaker 5: those weren't happening. It combined with Saturday's t shot on
Speaker 5: eighteen kind of dancing on the edge of the burn
Speaker 5: there that when he yanked that iron to iron, it
Speaker 5: just felt like it was kind of coming together and.
Speaker 4: It was his week. And then the bogie's very much
Speaker 4: happened a couple.
Speaker 1: Holes later, that double bogie on I mean it was
Speaker 1: it was amazing to watch, and I think I get
Speaker 1: amazed by this every like Major where you're really watching
Speaker 1: and you're really engaged in the tournament, is like you
Speaker 1: just realize how small the margin of error is. Of
Speaker 1: like Mulinari, like he just he just didn't make mistakes.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Tiger like that one mistake,
Speaker 1: like the flop shot, by just not playing a little
Speaker 1: safer and giving himself a chance making that double bogie.
Speaker 1: You know, Molinari's web shot would have been a lot
Speaker 1: more difficult with Tiger and their tight if he didn't
Speaker 1: have that one shot lead or two shot leads. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know, And uh, I think I think that's something
Speaker 1: that's uh and that you look at Rory. Rory missed
Speaker 1: a short putt on on Saturday on twelve, and then
Speaker 1: he missed a short putt again today and those two
Speaker 1: putt so that's like, you know, that's that's the difference
Speaker 1: between him being in a playoff and being in second.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there were a couple with Rory that just what
Speaker 5: do you have two bogies in first five holes today
Speaker 5: eighteen yesterday where he kind of just you couldn't get
Speaker 5: up and down. There's so many like you said, like
Speaker 5: so many very minuscule things that you know end up
Speaker 5: being a big difference and put miles between the top
Speaker 5: of the leaderboard and.
Speaker 4: Wherever you fall.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like Tiger would have made that Birdie
Speaker 1: putt on eighteen had it been you know, a different situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think why he saw whatever mulinary stuff it a
Speaker 5: minute later and I was just like.
Speaker 4: Oh whatever.
Speaker 1: So Andrew had a good question, Andrew K I think
Speaker 1: based on this week one, which is the one player
Speaker 1: you're buying stock? In? Which one are you selling?
Speaker 3: Cool? I didn't own any Tiger stocks. I guess Tiger.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's Andrew, this.
Speaker 4: Is what you're buying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, selling Ricky.
Speaker 4: Buying I mean, I don't know buying Tiger.
Speaker 3: I guess right, long term, long term is a better
Speaker 3: long term investment buying Xander if I didn't own already.
Speaker 1: I'm uh, I'm buying Tony Finow three straight top tens
Speaker 1: and majors, could could be four and Belle Reef probably
Speaker 1: is gonna fit him. Well, it's gonna be nice and
Speaker 1: nice and dough boy soft out there, and then uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell I'm selling mm hmm, how am I selling.
Speaker 5: Rom dj j T trying to messica. I meant a
Speaker 5: lot of good guys obviously not not worth selling.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying I think I'm probably probably selling right. Tough, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. Rick only has like you talk about, like
Speaker 1: these trajectories. Ricky doesn't have a lot of wins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and seventy three, I mean seventy three yesterday was
Speaker 3: really disappointing. Started in the mix, could have made a move,
Speaker 3: was playing easy. It was harder in the afternoon, but
Speaker 3: I mean still the seventy three yesterday was just wasn't good.
Speaker 4: What what's his last win? Honda?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Is it last last year's Honda?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, last year last year's Honda.
Speaker 5: It's just I don't know, it's it's it's like it's
Speaker 5: not easy to be as like consistently good as he is.
Speaker 4: But I mean it's easier than winning.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I he just doesn't. He doesn't win as much as
Speaker 4: he's peer.
Speaker 3: It is a tough one. It's like the Charles Howell argument.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't understand why either he doesn't win
Speaker 1: as much. He's kind of like Paul Casey in a way,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think like he he.
Speaker 5: It whether we want, whether it's subconscious or not. Like,
Speaker 5: the demands on him are greater because he's so exposed.
Speaker 5: There's so much exposure, whether we think whether we're doing it.
Speaker 4: Conscious or not, because he's in you know, he pops.
Speaker 5: Up in every commercial break of every telecast, whether it's
Speaker 5: you know, Mercedes or mortgages or insurance or whatever it is.
Speaker 5: And like his popularity with with just kind of the
Speaker 5: clickbait world, you know, like he does something on Instagram,
Speaker 5: it's immediately a post, whereas a lot of guys with
Speaker 5: more wins don't you know, do something it's not it's
Speaker 5: not the subject of some article. I think like the
Speaker 5: demands on him are higher and the disappointments are more
Speaker 5: conspicuous because because of because of that exposure, you know,
Speaker 5: off the golf cars.
Speaker 4: I know that's that's that's not exactly a new take,
Speaker 4: but but I think it is.
Speaker 5: Where we are when you're talking about you know, Paul.
Speaker 4: Casey or someone like that. It's just it just it
Speaker 4: just is the disappointments are more conspicuous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the Master's quote when he kind of said,
Speaker 3: you know, this was the first one I really felt
Speaker 3: like I should have won. I feel ready to win.
Speaker 3: I thought maybe that would bring maybe a harder edge
Speaker 3: to him. I think too, I mean the hard part too,
Speaker 3: like Ricky's content, which I think is fine, Like we
Speaker 3: want these guys to like always be mad, remember they
Speaker 3: don't win, and we want them to be, you know,
Speaker 3: just fiery, and you really you can't do that in
Speaker 3: this game because you win so little. But then we
Speaker 3: harp on them when they like seem content, which I
Speaker 3: think Ricky does, like you want to just be more
Speaker 3: fired up. I don't know, but he's really good by
Speaker 3: most metrics, he just except for wins.
Speaker 1: It's this whole thing is like, is winning overrated? Because
Speaker 1: if a consistency is you know, more important than winning,
Speaker 1: he's like one of the ten best players of you know,
Speaker 1: in the world. But if it's strictly based off winning,
Speaker 1: he isn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at his results, and so
Speaker 3: he finished runner up with the Masters, and since then
Speaker 3: he's missed one cut, and besides that miss cut, his
Speaker 3: worst finishes twenty first, I mean literally like second T
Speaker 3: twenty one, mc T fourteen, twenty twelfth, and sixth, and
Speaker 3: then I think he finished like twenty eighth this week. Like,
Speaker 3: that's hard to do to me, but then I do.
Speaker 3: I wonder if there's like that, so like Ricky is
Speaker 3: kind of coast and play really good golf, and Ricky's
Speaker 3: like Ricky's normal golf is really good, but you need
Speaker 3: to have that like spike of where you're really like
Speaker 3: so if you're like your strokes gain total, you know,
Speaker 3: some guys are pretty flat lined. Some guys have spikes,
Speaker 3: peaks and valleys, and their piece get them wings, their
Speaker 3: valis get them miss cuts. But we'd rather see that
Speaker 3: in a sense, see the wings and the misscuts, and
Speaker 3: see the guy's kind of flat line. Like Ricky just
Speaker 3: plays well every event. He's kind of got his range,
Speaker 3: whereas the environment favors those guys who will peak and
Speaker 3: get the wings even if they miss the cuts afterwards. Yeah,
Speaker 3: something you said for just playing a ton of good golf.
Speaker 1: It is. It is interesting because I think society values
Speaker 1: the you know, win twice in a year miss ten
Speaker 1: cuts over yeah, you know, missing three cuts, having tons
Speaker 1: of top tens and not winning, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what's better.
Speaker 5: Well, the market definitely, I don't know. Once whatever Ricky's
Speaker 5: selling I guess whether.
Speaker 3: He I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think, like, but our little corner of the world golf.
Speaker 5: Nerves and people who follow this, you know, I guess
Speaker 5: we can have reasonable debates about it. But you know, Skip,
Speaker 5: what did Skip Bayless say? Ricky's too short, like physically
Speaker 5: too small to win. He's not tall enough the take artists?
Speaker 1: You know, so is is Justin Rose the best player
Speaker 1: in the world?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I uh, I was gonna say Dustin, But Dustin
Speaker 3: missed the cut this week.
Speaker 5: The thing that was, the thing that kind of struck
Speaker 5: me was how really like unsurprising it was to see him, Yeah,
Speaker 5: as soon as he made that putt on Friday to
Speaker 5: make the cut on the numbers, like, oh, well, like
Speaker 5: he's gonna finish in the top twenty, top ten maybe,
Speaker 5: and then like it's just like it just felt natural
Speaker 5: and expected for him to cheat that sixty four at
Speaker 5: the round of the day on Saturday, and then you know,
Speaker 5: goes under under part again today, And I think that
Speaker 5: what struck me was just how like how natural and
Speaker 5: automatic it felt.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think to the thing with bros. He
Speaker 3: was an amazing ball striker for so long, right, but
Speaker 3: he couldn't put yeah, and then his putting improvement has
Speaker 3: been huge this year. And so basically you're taking a
Speaker 3: guy who was a perfect player except for his the
Speaker 3: one club in his bag, and now he's really good
Speaker 3: with that. So he's basically a perfect player right now.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It is because he'd stopped
Speaker 1: wearing the sunglasses. He can read the greens better.
Speaker 4: I didn't even think.
Speaker 3: I can't tell it. I can't. That feels like it
Speaker 3: could be a real take, but I just can't tell.
Speaker 1: No. He started to stop wearing the sunglasses last fall
Speaker 1: in the FedEx Cup.
Speaker 3: Actually, you know what that's right? I remember it Tour Championship.
Speaker 3: I asked it, or someone asked him. I was in
Speaker 3: the interview, and he said that if he starts the
Speaker 3: week with the sunglasses on, he would wear them throughout
Speaker 3: the week. So, like I think one day it was
Speaker 3: cloudy and he was wearing them, and someone was like,
Speaker 3: why are you wearing sunglasses? Is cloudy out? He's like, well,
Speaker 3: for consistency with my reads. If I start the week
Speaker 3: with the sunglasses on, I finished the week. So now
Speaker 3: there's just no sunglasses.
Speaker 4: He's a right, is that right?
Speaker 3: I think he does the claw. I don't know, my
Speaker 3: hand point, I've seen him do that.
Speaker 1: You know, twenty three starts since last year's Northern Trust,
Speaker 1: four winds and eighteen top ten.
Speaker 3: It's hard to be the guy who hits it really,
Speaker 3: really good and now punch for the really good.
Speaker 4: Less majors than Brooks Koepka.
Speaker 1: Less majors than Brooks Kepka. That's that's the This is
Speaker 1: like the whole debate. Yeah, you know, less wins than
Speaker 1: than Dustin probably, I think.
Speaker 4: I would say I think maybe not.
Speaker 5: I'd say Jason Day has had like the most tiger
Speaker 5: like run of the last five years. Maybe maybe DJ
Speaker 5: when he won three starts a row.
Speaker 1: But like, you know, Jason Day's the only guy that
Speaker 1: sustained it for eighteen months. Yeah, you know, like over
Speaker 1: a year of sustained dominant. You know, like there was
Speaker 1: like no question who the best player in golf was
Speaker 1: during Jason Day's run.
Speaker 4: You know, He's got one major PGA at Westland.
Speaker 3: Straight saying like about Roses, I feel like there's not
Speaker 3: a lot it's going to be changing his life. Like
Speaker 3: Jason's wife is pregnant, they have another kid. He wants
Speaker 3: spend all the time in his family, which I think
Speaker 3: is great, but like you're adding another kid and things
Speaker 3: like that, there's no there's no variables in Justin Rose's life, right,
Speaker 3: Like he's already he has his kids and now it's
Speaker 3: it's all about his game. And I don't know, I
Speaker 3: just don't see a lot changing with Justin Rose. I guess,
Speaker 3: like I feel like he's just gonna keep this up.
Speaker 3: Late thirties. Well, he was what eighteen and the ninety
Speaker 3: eight Open when he finished fourth, So he's thirty eight
Speaker 3: thirty seven. Huh.
Speaker 5: I'm just talking about like the Primes lasting, you know,
Speaker 5: being shorter a Rose, although he's Rose has a game
Speaker 5: that doesn't feel violent. Although he's got the uh the back,
Speaker 5: the back back witch doctor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that was the thing is so last year
Speaker 3: at Birkdale, I asked him, uh, because I've heard they'd
Speaker 3: been making swing changes for the back, and I mean
Speaker 3: that's one reason he's playing some much better is the
Speaker 3: back is so much better. And they've changed a lot
Speaker 3: in his swing. Not something's visible to like the naked eye,
Speaker 3: but they've changed stuff in his swing to alleviate the
Speaker 3: back pain. And that's when we playing so well, because
Speaker 3: they've gotten the back in a good place.
Speaker 5: In Surprise, Bully, one of Poley's students, says, that problem.
Speaker 1: You know, I I think with Uh, with Rose, I
Speaker 1: think we talked about progression earlier in the UH in
Speaker 1: the pod. Yeah, he was like a short hitter and
Speaker 1: now he's one of the longest. Yeah, nobody, nobody successfully
Speaker 1: does that.
Speaker 5: I remember at the Masters when he and Sergio were
Speaker 5: going back and forth. They were both heading at like
Speaker 5: three thirty with like with regularity on that on that Sunday,
Speaker 5: you know, not three thirty every time, but they were both.
Speaker 4: Plenty long enough. I just couldn't. Like everybody, it was
Speaker 4: just crazy. Rose.
Speaker 5: You just think of as kind of like this lanky
Speaker 5: ball striker. He's older and he's just like striping irons.
Speaker 5: But yeah, like I said, he's he's got, he's playing
Speaker 5: long enough.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: That that might be my my cell actually is.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, talk about variaballs. I mean you got
Speaker 3: married and had a child in not that long time span.
Speaker 5: Well that that's kind of what I was talking about
Speaker 5: with Ricky earlier. Is like I don't know, you spend
Speaker 5: your entire life trying to get this one thing and
Speaker 5: you get it, and that like like that just has
Speaker 5: to be a set of a comp Like, you know,
Speaker 5: you build a company and you I mean some people,
Speaker 5: you know, build a company and sell it for enough
Speaker 5: money to you know, retire one hundred times over, and
Speaker 5: that's what they do and they just hang out and
Speaker 5: have lived the life. And others want to build another
Speaker 5: company and sell it, sell another one for a couple
Speaker 5: hundred you know times over, you know, money.
Speaker 4: More money than they will ever need.
Speaker 5: I think like there's you can have that effect with
Speaker 5: winning a major.
Speaker 4: Sergio spent twenty years.
Speaker 5: In the spotlight and coming close to winning majors and
Speaker 5: they finally got it. And I guess, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: not saying he like doesn't care anymore, but whether that's
Speaker 5: whether it's deliberate or.
Speaker 4: Not, I mean that could that could have an effect.
Speaker 5: Where you're just like, Wow, I just achieved, you know,
Speaker 5: everything that I've been building towards and that's eluded me
Speaker 5: for so long and maybe some of you know, and
Speaker 5: I wonder about that with Ricky, that's what that's kind
Speaker 5: of what I was getting out earlier.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think Sergio is too talented to never contend at
Speaker 5: a major again or not win a couple more. But
Speaker 5: I think maybe that's what he's going through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of think the same thing with Sergio.
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, it's almost like you needed like
Speaker 1: he's on like a little bit of a golf break,
Speaker 1: and that's perfectly fine. You know, like when entrepreneurs sell
Speaker 1: their companies, a lot of times they take a couple
Speaker 1: of year break.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, I don't there, and it's understandable after
Speaker 3: decades of pursuing a major and then also pursuing marriage
Speaker 3: and a family.
Speaker 1: That's that's the unique thing I think with golf more
Speaker 1: so than like a lot of other sports, is like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think your body decays it, but
Speaker 1: your these careers are so much longer. You know. Sergio
Speaker 1: has been you know, in the spotlight since he was
Speaker 1: seventeen years old. Yeah, and now he's what thirty eight,
Speaker 1: thirty nine? Yeah, I mean that's like, you know, Kobe
Speaker 1: retired at what thirty seven? Right, So like you know,
Speaker 1: like he's at a point where most athletes are retiring,
Speaker 1: you know, And and with golf, he's he's got ten
Speaker 1: more years and it takes like such a special like
Speaker 1: drive for somebody to keep going, and I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, it's, uh, it's a tricky thing
Speaker 1: because I think after he won that major, I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to open the floodgates, and it's like, God,
Speaker 1: this guy's been so close so many times, and I
Speaker 1: think it's one of those things where it could go
Speaker 1: either way, and it went the other way at this point.
Speaker 5: It also coinciding with him getting married and having kids
Speaker 5: was like like an unseen like a just kind of
Speaker 5: an unexpected that's just just a lot I mean, achieving
Speaker 5: the end of your life and then also achieving so
Speaker 5: many personal so many things in your personal life happening
Speaker 5: at the same time. I mean, can have that kind
Speaker 5: of effect. I don't know, I was disappointed we make
Speaker 5: these Can we just talk about like how it's so
Speaker 5: dumb to make to think like a major eight ten
Speaker 5: years ago would have any impact on this week. Like
Speaker 5: the fact that he came close to Carnousti in you know,
Speaker 5: two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3: It just it doesn't we put so we put way.
Speaker 5: Too much weight in that kind of stuff. So I
Speaker 5: think like, while it felt disappointed, disappointing, he didn't you
Speaker 5: know whatever, He wasn't battling down the stretch like he
Speaker 5: was ten years ago.
Speaker 4: I just think like that storyline gets so.
Speaker 5: Overblown, Like every time we come to a new place,
Speaker 5: you know, in the three rotating majors, you come back
Speaker 5: to a place, it's like, I don't know, people weren't
Speaker 5: picking Paul Laurie this week. It's just it's just we
Speaker 5: put way too much weight in that.
Speaker 3: This week. Yeah, we just have ten top tens in
Speaker 3: the open.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand that, but people were just citing that
Speaker 5: two thousand and seven one, like, oh, he played well
Speaker 5: at Cournecy that that had no bearing on how he's
Speaker 5: playing right now.
Speaker 1: And when I got fooled by that, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm the idiot that picked Sergia.
Speaker 4: What's that pick? I mean, it's not like a crazy pick.
Speaker 1: So when I when I play like really good golf courses,
Speaker 1: I find myself getting sad at the end of the round,
Speaker 1: like on like the fifteenth hole, like on the green,
Speaker 1: I'll be just like kind of like in devastation knowing
Speaker 1: that the roundt ending. And today during the golf tournament,
Speaker 1: like maybe like the back nine, the leaders got to
Speaker 1: the back nine, I all of a sudden got really
Speaker 1: sad because I looked at the PGA Tour schedule and
Speaker 1: saw Glenn ab Be, Firestone bell Ree Like it's really
Speaker 1: I want you guys to get me, Like, how can
Speaker 1: I get excited about the PGA, because like it might
Speaker 1: be the all time lowest level of excitement for a
Speaker 1: major championship I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 3: That's uh, I'm excited because my wife's brother is getting
Speaker 3: married that week for running a beach house for the
Speaker 3: week in Pensacola. I am sad to not see Brendan
Speaker 3: and Kyle and Cad either. But I am excited for
Speaker 3: the vacation.
Speaker 4: I like when you talk about your feelings on this
Speaker 4: podcast and.
Speaker 5: Last time that day it's sin was the worst worst
Speaker 5: day of your life? That was the US Open, like
Speaker 5: post game, You're like, Saturday of the worst in my life?
Speaker 3: Well it was. It was such an upfront to win
Speaker 3: an angles.
Speaker 5: I I completely agree with you and have a good
Speaker 5: answer for why I should why I should get excited
Speaker 5: about this this PGA like and I almost think like if,
Speaker 5: like even if like Ricky or Roy or some big
Speaker 5: name wins it, it's like it should count as like
Speaker 5: a WGC wing or something. I just I'm not I
Speaker 5: don't have a good answer for you. I I completely agree.
Speaker 4: I'm not too amp about it.
Speaker 1: Like I think that it's Belle Reeve is almost so
Speaker 1: offensive that it's intriguing to me. And one way tonight
Speaker 1: I found out that they when they did their most
Speaker 1: recent renovations, they put brown dye in the cement mix
Speaker 1: so that the cart paths were brown and they were
Speaker 1: more aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 3: It's pragmatic.
Speaker 4: That's how you want to spend your maintenance budget. Yeah,
Speaker 4: car Pathesthetics.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I mean it, I don't know, it's wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a major. It should not be a major championship
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 5: Like somebody, I think it was Will Bardwell, somebody was like,
Speaker 5: can we talk about like the airball is not just
Speaker 5: not just going there but PG having a hundred. They're
Speaker 5: like the other like you know what, you know, RNA
Speaker 5: like threw off the schedule a little bit, so the
Speaker 5: one hundred fifty in twenty twenty one could specifically be
Speaker 5: at Saint Andrew's.
Speaker 4: What like they like bumped St. Andrew's back the year.
Speaker 5: What what it's a hundredth PGA, it's your one hundredth championship, Like.
Speaker 3: What happened? Who?
Speaker 5: Who didn't get the memo? Like that makes it extra
Speaker 5: I don't know, puzzling that you're supposed to like celebrate
Speaker 5: your organization, organization and your championship, you know, even in
Speaker 5: an extra way, and you're going to Bellery.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's the It's the closest major
Speaker 1: championship to me and I I'm really having a tough
Speaker 1: time getting myself to go. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can go down there.
Speaker 5: Well, the PGA, I feel like they're they're putting the
Speaker 5: stake of the ground on some better places, just not
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 4: That is that wrong? And am I mistaken?
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're they're booked till like twenty thirty
Speaker 1: venues and like, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think that they're always juggling the whole Ryder Cup thing.
Speaker 4: All these clubs are here, you know.
Speaker 1: That's another thing I got this for my like like,
Speaker 1: don't like article I've been working on that really grinds
Speaker 1: my gears. Is like the European Tour, the European Ryder
Speaker 1: Cup site.
Speaker 4: Oh god, yeah, Like We're.
Speaker 1: Watching this at Carnoustie and I'm like thinking, I'm being
Speaker 1: like I was like literally thinking, I'm like, how cool
Speaker 1: would it be if a Ryder Cup was out at
Speaker 1: a course like this or like Birkdale or Saint Andrew's,
Speaker 1: Like how amazing would a Ryder Cup be at St Andrews.
Speaker 1: But no, we're going to lay Golf National and we
Speaker 1: were at the Belfry and the k Club and Celtic
Speaker 1: manor like these just these courses that don't embody at
Speaker 1: all what the golf over there is, Like they play
Speaker 1: them at the most americanized golf courses in Europe.
Speaker 5: Is there is there stated rationale for that, like because
Speaker 5: it seems so deliberate that that there's a reason for it,
Speaker 5: Like it's not just like a anomaly.
Speaker 1: Like why can't it be at Royal County Down?
Speaker 4: Is it for infrastructure? Like why I don't like Glenn Hill.
Speaker 3: I think that's a big part of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but if they're the British, you can have
Speaker 5: the Open Championship at a place.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I know the Ryder Cup's a little different because you
Speaker 5: want everything's concentrated on like three and four holes at
Speaker 5: a time.
Speaker 4: But I I just yeah, Glenn Eagle was it's a gross.
Speaker 1: I mean the Ryder Cup venues in general just bother me.
Speaker 4: Like, but it's different.
Speaker 5: It's not about the venue, I mean, can it's a
Speaker 5: it's a competition that stands on its own venueless. I
Speaker 5: don't know as much as others your particular area of expertise.
Speaker 5: It's just it's an adversarial competition. It's not the player
Speaker 5: versus the course.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Ryder Cup, though, the the teams are
Speaker 1: like absolutely stacked this year.
Speaker 4: I've heard I've heard that.
Speaker 1: It's many are saying you guys want to want to
Speaker 1: do uh, overrated, underrated.
Speaker 3: Probably it's past midnight here in Scotland.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get Sean out of here, all right? Overrated,
Speaker 1: underrated the coverage.
Speaker 3: I think I don't know if I'm qualified here because
Speaker 3: I watched a lot of the world feed in the
Speaker 3: media center. I generally like, I have a lot of
Speaker 3: friends work in Golf Channel, so I'm biased, but I
Speaker 3: generally like, and you seeing Golf Channel the ground tracer
Speaker 3: thing was cool. I'm gonna say it's become cool to
Speaker 3: knock the coverage, so I'm gonna say underrated. And again
Speaker 3: that's probably the same problem Randew before with other controversial
Speaker 3: underrated overrated, is that I'm tailoring it for our small
Speaker 3: circle of friends and stuff. But I'm gonna say coverage
Speaker 3: is underrated because I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 3: just knock it because that's the cool thing to do.
Speaker 5: So I would say, talking about the coverage and this
Speaker 5: question is extremely overrated. And I and get as guilty
Speaker 5: of it as anyone, and I fall into it. I
Speaker 5: just I don't know, I've typed, I've written it a
Speaker 5: few times over the years. I just think like and
Speaker 5: I tweeted, I guilt. I'm as guilty as anyone. I
Speaker 5: tweet about too much. Just talking about the coverage is
Speaker 5: jump the sharp, It's overrated, it's annoying, there's something really bad,
Speaker 5: and go ahead, if you know somebody's being a particularly idiot,
Speaker 5: particularly big idiot, or said something really stupid, go for it.
Speaker 4: But I just think, like we talk like no one cares.
Speaker 3: No one, no one.
Speaker 4: People are just just people.
Speaker 5: Just tune in to watch Tiger, Like I know, no
Speaker 5: one's trying to see like you know, the amateur from whatever.
Speaker 5: It's just Sam walk what Sam Locke. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean I guess it gets to us a little bit
Speaker 5: too much. But and we do want to see some
Speaker 5: of the like lesser, you know, more random and I
Speaker 5: don't know off the radar stories, But just talking about
Speaker 5: the coverage is exhausting. I've been done with it for
Speaker 5: a while, I've written it over the years. I just
Speaker 5: I think it's like even worse now.
Speaker 1: I think golf is actually like probably the hardest thing
Speaker 1: to televise of any sport because it's happened. There's there's
Speaker 1: all these players in different spots across like every other
Speaker 1: sport is like there's one place that the game is
Speaker 1: being played and a focal point of the action, whereas golf, like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're all over the place all the time.
Speaker 1: So I think, also, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I saw I saw some talk on Twitter about we
Speaker 3: should have commercial free broadcasts of majors, and I was like, guys, like,
Speaker 3: what fantasy world are we living in? Like, you got
Speaker 3: to pay the bills. You paid billions for these broadcast
Speaker 3: rights for millions. You got to recoup that somehow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the Masters is an anomaly.
Speaker 3: I just yeah, it's just.
Speaker 5: Like people want all these articles for free, and then
Speaker 5: you know, expect I don't know expect, you know, deep
Speaker 5: reported investigations just happened.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, Twitter is just a place to complain, So
Speaker 5: it's not really surprising.
Speaker 1: Hey uh it was was Bryson's outfit on Saturday, the
Speaker 1: best outfit of the week.
Speaker 4: It it made me feel.
Speaker 5: Good for getting up at an hour that I really
Speaker 5: didn't need to. On Saturday, very little was happening. For
Speaker 5: some reason. I was down on my couch in front
Speaker 5: of the TV at five am or whatever, it was
Speaker 5: four thirty and I look at the screen. I'm like
Speaker 5: what the hell, what is going on? He looked like
Speaker 5: some like I don't know, Slavic, like gangster or I
Speaker 5: don't know, or like an old Italian guy, you know,
Speaker 5: the output of an old Italian. It just it was
Speaker 5: it paid off for me to you know, it was
Speaker 5: worth getting up early to see that. And of course,
Speaker 5: you know it's all this new fangled technology. It's just
Speaker 5: the look from Afar with like the all white shoes
Speaker 5: and the white you know, Hogan cap with the shiny
Speaker 5: gray jumpsuit was just absurd and wasn't sure. It wasn't
Speaker 5: intended him to look slick, and you know, like he's
Speaker 5: wearing pieces of technology, not some fashions, David.
Speaker 4: But it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: It was straight out of the Sopranos, that outfit. I've
Speaker 1: seen that look many times. You know, there's there's six
Speaker 1: seasons of it.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. Brendan had a great week of tweeting.
Speaker 3: It was. It was strong this week.
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think over an underrated Brendan, I think right.
Speaker 1: I think his tweets are the are the the bar.
Speaker 3: They're like they're funny without being just it's so easy
Speaker 3: just to like rip on guys and try to get
Speaker 3: engagements that way. But like they're funny without just being
Speaker 3: controversial or like without being like just mean. Like it's
Speaker 3: really easy to get people fired up on Twitter and
Speaker 3: just you know, pick some player you don't like and
Speaker 3: just harp on them and ignite the masses against them
Speaker 3: and get it going that way. But like they're funny
Speaker 3: while being intelligent, without just being like just mean for
Speaker 3: the sake of being mean, Like they're clever. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I think underrated, Brandon.
Speaker 1: I think you're like retweet, like per tweet percentage is
Speaker 1: like better than anybody on the internet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, blushing over here, gosh, let's take what the course
Speaker 5: gives me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: So that Bryson tweet was definitely, I mean, that was
Speaker 3: the example of the week, but there's there's definitely more
Speaker 3: than that.
Speaker 1: That came from overrated, underrated, out of bounds, overrated.
Speaker 5: It's why, I don't know, I think I think it's hmm,
Speaker 5: I think it's underrated as it's is that the most brutal.
Speaker 4: Penalty and golf, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: So arbitrary, Like there's so many things that are marked
Speaker 3: like okay, number one at Carnoustie, the Barry Burn us
Speaker 3: on the left side kind of early off the tee.
Speaker 3: You have to really you have to hit a snipe
Speaker 3: hooke to get it in there. But it's OB on
Speaker 3: the first hole, but it's it's the Verry Burn. But
Speaker 3: like so on the first hole, if you hit it
Speaker 3: left into the burn, it's OB. On a team, if
Speaker 3: you hit it left into the burn, it's a hazard. Like.
Speaker 3: It's so arbitrary with OB sometimes, I don't know, I
Speaker 3: just and the penalty is so much worse than any
Speaker 3: other penalty in golf. Really, I don't it's overrated. I mean,
Speaker 3: I feel like also though we can't change it because
Speaker 3: then I feel like all scoring records almost are rendered
Speaker 3: obsolete because if you take away OB and make everything
Speaker 3: at hazard like, it's a huge thing you've changed in
Speaker 3: the game. And it's almost like raising the pitcher's mound
Speaker 3: or lowering it, or like changing the height of basketball
Speaker 3: rooms in basketball. Maybe not that drastic, but I don't know,
Speaker 3: I just I don't understand OB. It's so arbitrary. When
Speaker 3: something is OB versus martis hazard.
Speaker 4: That was the end the end of rick.
Speaker 3: OB should be off the property, like you hit on
Speaker 3: the train tracks. That's ob If you hit it slightly
Speaker 3: left into like a backyard where you could maybe play it,
Speaker 3: that should be a hazard.
Speaker 1: Well isn't that off the property?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right, true?
Speaker 4: But was that the case this week?
Speaker 5: It was like the property was literally constraint, like that's
Speaker 5: where the property ended, don't know.
Speaker 3: But left of one into the very burn, like there's
Speaker 3: play a property there. There's no reason that left of
Speaker 3: one in the very burn should have been anything beside
Speaker 3: the hazard. Like literally if you just hit it off
Speaker 3: the grass into the burns, if your ball was sitting
Speaker 3: in the water on one, you were out of bound,
Speaker 3: but you were in water, which is ninety nine in
Speaker 3: a time of hazard.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's underrated. I hate it. I
Speaker 1: think it. I hate so many things about it. But like,
Speaker 1: for example, that six hole wouldn't be as brilliant if
Speaker 1: it was a hazard down the left as it is
Speaker 1: bounds like they were, people were terrified of hitting the
Speaker 1: ball left and they just kept sailing them right and
Speaker 1: making sixes without you know, going in any hazard on
Speaker 1: a part five, When do you ever see.
Speaker 5: That it's as its as menacing as the hazard I
Speaker 5: think right.
Speaker 3: To be honest, Hogan's alley is wider than I thought
Speaker 3: it was going to be. I was a little bit disappointed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wider, but that that out of bounds makes
Speaker 1: it like when you're when you're trying to hit that
Speaker 1: t shot as like in a tournament, it's absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 1: You like can't get yourself to hit it over there.
Speaker 3: Also, under the aspect of it, the ground slopes right
Speaker 3: to left, so slopes towards the ob so you've got
Speaker 3: to like hit a cut in there. No, I totally
Speaker 3: it's that I wouldn't take that line. I mean that
Speaker 3: it was wider than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 5: Ended Ricky's championship, right, I mean he pumped on O
Speaker 5: B and then got spooked mentally and shot and ray
Speaker 5: right went way right and then get.
Speaker 1: You know, not to go back to Belle Reeve, but
Speaker 1: just that hole, the six hole, the six hole at Krnousti,
Speaker 1: like I look at that and just Carnousti in general,
Speaker 1: Chicago golf, like what they do well is so simple.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how something like beller Reeve happened. Like
Speaker 1: good golf architects so simple.
Speaker 4: Hey, can you give us like the.
Speaker 5: I don't know sixty second skinny on bell Reeveh. Give us,
Speaker 5: give us a little paste of why it's so. It's
Speaker 5: why I said, what's happened there? It's certain holes or
Speaker 5: what's what's.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just narrow fair aways long and then
Speaker 1: it's just bunkers on both sides. You know. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, hit it. It tells you where to hit everything.
Speaker 1: You know, like six of Carnusty is great because you
Speaker 1: could hit it left and take that line, but they
Speaker 1: give you all this room to the right where it
Speaker 1: is like a delayed penalty where if I hit it
Speaker 1: over here, I might not be dead right now, but
Speaker 1: I'm actually dead unless I hit a perfect shot back.
Speaker 1: It's this delayed penalty. Like everything at Belle Reeve is
Speaker 1: is just you know, it's immediate, you know, ruling like
Speaker 1: you're either good or you're bad. And I think where
Speaker 1: the brilliance in golf is is when there's this gray
Speaker 1: and when recovery is allowed, and when you know you're
Speaker 1: forced to take on the aggressive line you know, and
Speaker 1: you might not know what the aggressive line is. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing why these opens are so
Speaker 1: captivating is because everybody can has their different strategy. Like
Speaker 1: at Belle Reeve, the strategy is going to be exactly
Speaker 1: the same. But at Carnoussie we saw guys everybody was
Speaker 1: playing a different game plan. You know, Tiger was hitting
Speaker 1: irons off there. You know, like that it allows for people,
Speaker 1: It forces people to think and execute, as opposed to
Speaker 1: bell Reeve tells you the answer on every and just
Speaker 1: asks you to execute that answer, hit it straight and far.
Speaker 3: With an angles. Does that make sense totally? I mean
Speaker 3: I think, I mean carnis Do is great in that
Speaker 3: sense of like you had to take on the pop Bunkers.
Speaker 3: You wanted the best angle.
Speaker 1: And you could play safe, but like you're not gonna
Speaker 1: play safe all round long and be at the top
Speaker 1: of the leader boar no.
Speaker 3: Harrington said it great. Harrington was like, look, yeah, you
Speaker 3: can lay back short of the pop punkers if you
Speaker 3: want here, but you're gonna have two hundred yard approaches
Speaker 3: almost all day long and so you're not gonna score
Speaker 3: which But the same time, if you're like a twenty
Speaker 3: handicap and you're playing that course, like it's great, you
Speaker 3: can roll it. You know, all great holes should be
Speaker 3: able to be played without a putter or with a putter,
Speaker 3: except for the seventeenth Sawgrass a great hole, but you
Speaker 3: can't play with a putter. Let's you get on the left.
Speaker 3: But no, I think that's the reason Carnoustie is great.
Speaker 3: I think because someone had a great quote that some
Speaker 3: of the other links courses like you can kind of
Speaker 3: lay back from the pop bunkers, but you'll still have
Speaker 3: like if you lay back, you'll have you know, one
Speaker 3: seventy in, but if you kind of go for it,
Speaker 3: you'll have like one thirty in. But that's like an
Speaker 3: eight iron versus a nine iron, eight iron versus wedge maybe,
Speaker 3: whereas that Carnoustie, you lay back and you have like
Speaker 3: two hundred in. If you go for it and push it,
Speaker 3: you have like one fifty in. And now you're talking
Speaker 3: about like six iron versus like nine iron, and that's
Speaker 3: a huge difference. So I think that was an interesting
Speaker 3: point of like a Carnusie, you really have to push
Speaker 3: it unless you just want to be hitting long irons
Speaker 3: all day long.
Speaker 1: All right, last, overrated underrated tiger.
Speaker 3: Hmm, I'm gonna say underrated man, Like I think you know,
Speaker 3: we it's kind of we've heard him say it a
Speaker 3: lot every week of like, you know, this time last year,
Speaker 3: I didn't think I'd be playing golf again. But honestly,
Speaker 3: like this time last year, he never thought he'd played
Speaker 3: golf again. And the guy is contending in major championships.
Speaker 3: That swing he took on ten out of that fairry
Speaker 3: bunker was like, I mean, there are very few people
Speaker 3: on the on the on the planet who can make
Speaker 3: that kind of a golf swing, let alone people on
Speaker 3: the planet who've had four back surgeries and can make
Speaker 3: that golf swing. And it's easy to get jada with Tiger. Obviously,
Speaker 3: every time he gets in contention, the gifts are is
Speaker 3: gonna start flying. Uh, There's nothing I hate more than
Speaker 3: a tweet that has more exclamation points and gifts than
Speaker 3: it does words, and that always happens when Tiger gets
Speaker 3: gets in contention. But at the same time, like the
Speaker 3: guy literally, I mean you know what he was saying,
Speaker 3: like he was bedridden and like how do he use
Speaker 3: a golf club as a cane to walk out of
Speaker 3: his bed and now is contending in major championships. You know,
Speaker 3: Like I know, like it's not cool to gush about Tiger,
Speaker 3: but I mean that's insane.
Speaker 1: That shot he hit on ten was like one of
Speaker 1: the greatest golf shots I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was ridiculous to get it that high. Then
Speaker 3: also to move it that far forward.
Speaker 1: In that situation too, Like hey, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: a shame the green.
Speaker 3: You can hit that in the burn easily.
Speaker 1: If he goes on to win that event, it's like
Speaker 1: into his top fifteen shots of all time. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that shot was unbelievable. And I that's like, I think
Speaker 1: the thing about Tiger is like he regularly does things
Speaker 1: that you don't ever see anybody else do. He's He's
Speaker 1: way underrated. Is Brendan there?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think he's gone.
Speaker 3: Oh I see him.
Speaker 1: We might we might just have to call it. Brendan
Speaker 1: just left the left. We'll get him in here real quick.
Speaker 3: You know he's back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the last one. I don't know Whenny we
Speaker 1: lost you, but the last one is uh.
Speaker 3: I heard.
Speaker 4: I heard the whole thing. I heard it.
Speaker 5: I think, Yeah, like you guys are talking about a
Speaker 5: year ago. I wrote that Saturday, like a year ago.
Speaker 5: He was sending weird ass tweets about his Open Raiders
Speaker 5: pool table and then what's the.
Speaker 3: Fact that the fact that you remember that stuff is
Speaker 3: really like the key to your greatness? Like I don't
Speaker 3: remember that at all, but that was a great tweet.
Speaker 5: I mean that was up there with whatever Mac Daddy Santa.
Speaker 5: For me, It's just like, Wow, he should not have
Speaker 5: his account. What is the purpose of this, Like he
Speaker 5: shouldn't have the keys, so why did he send I
Speaker 5: just remember it in the moment.
Speaker 4: I agree with all that. I agree with all that.
Speaker 5: I think, like this is like he says, it's a gift.
Speaker 5: Hashtag blessed. I'm weighing on Tiger, I'm buying them all that.
Speaker 5: I think we're kind of overrating.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think based on the last five years of
Speaker 5: injuries and personal scandals and all that stuff and barely
Speaker 5: being able to walk kind of makes us a little
Speaker 5: more lenient. But he was having trouble closing before all
Speaker 5: that happened. He was having that trouble in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 5: He had that trouble at Mirrorfield, at Oak Hill. He
Speaker 5: was having that trouble, and he did again today. I
Speaker 5: know he led a major championship on the back nine
Speaker 5: on a Sunday, And I'm not like denegrating that that's amazing.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying. And I thought golf Brandle and Frank
Speaker 4: went into this.
Speaker 5: Better than anyone after a round as we were all
Speaker 5: kind of it was a hit us some and we're
Speaker 5: on this high and they kind of like brought it
Speaker 5: back down to earth. For me, was like, well, you know,
Speaker 5: he hit five and six fairways on every nine all week.
Speaker 4: On his back nine on Sunday.
Speaker 5: He hit one fairway and they put up like a
Speaker 5: graphic about how many bogies he has on Sunday back
Speaker 5: nine this this year, whether it's you know, pumping it
Speaker 5: out of bounds.
Speaker 4: At bay Hill or.
Speaker 5: Quick Loans Wells Fargo, the players, you know he put
Speaker 5: in the water at seventeen, like they're like the bogies
Speaker 5: or doubles, bogies are worse.
Speaker 4: Stats for his final round back nine aren't great.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, I thought Rory had a great
Speaker 3: quote and Rory said it. They said that this tiger
Speaker 3: does things a tiger of fifteen years ago did not do,
Speaker 3: Like this tiger is not infallible.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the tiger was here, And have
Speaker 5: my words twisted like we did with Xander.
Speaker 1: How many times you said that this podcast.
Speaker 3: But I'm not.
Speaker 4: Trying to pour cold water on it.
Speaker 5: I just think, like, wow, I know what this is going,
Speaker 5: everything that's going to go last five years. We tend
Speaker 5: to kind of tend to just focus on the positive.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure that's necessarily the wrong thing to do,
Speaker 5: but there is says Tiger is over.
Speaker 1: It might be the headline of the of the title
Speaker 1: of the podcast.
Speaker 5: There is some there is some you know, we need
Speaker 5: to approach this with an equitability that you know, the
Speaker 5: fanboys may not have.
Speaker 3: Come for the architecture takes, stay for Brendan calling Tiger
Speaker 3: Woods over it.
Speaker 1: You won't believe it. You will't not believe what Brandan
Speaker 1: Poorath from Espanation said about Tiger Woods.
Speaker 5: Fortunately small deal, but you know, people don't aggregate my podcast.
Speaker 3: Brendan Poora said, what click here to find out?
Speaker 1: And it's also at minute seventy five of the podcast
Speaker 1: You'll never leave.
Speaker 3: But Brendan pora I said about Tiger.
Speaker 5: Woods, we didn't get into blistering Tiger Takes until the
Speaker 5: last two minutes.
Speaker 1: All Right, what do you guys, what do you guys
Speaker 1: coming out? Uh, this about the Open, Brendan, are you
Speaker 1: published anything yet?
Speaker 5: Sean? I, I just did a quick jam on on
Speaker 5: Frankie Am this afternoon and then started gathering things for
Speaker 5: the morning. Gonna have gonna have a thing on Tiger,
Speaker 5: probably gonna have a thing on, just a separate thing
Speaker 5: on like the holistic the entire Sunday.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I wrote a Tiger piece. I thought's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I asked Xander. I got to ask him Saturday, but
Speaker 3: being a San Diego guy, if he was at the
Speaker 3: two thousand and eight US Open, and it was kind
Speaker 3: of cool. I thought he was at He was there,
Speaker 3: he was at the seventy second hole watching as like
Speaker 3: a fourteen year old when Tiger made that putt and
Speaker 3: the last major he won, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: now you know, Xander is being chased by Tiger. So
Speaker 3: that was cool and so sort of Tiger piece on that.
Speaker 3: And I don't know, like his kids were there, which
Speaker 3: I thought was a cool moment. You can tell it
Speaker 3: really means a lot to him. I know it's kind
Speaker 3: of sentimental and easy to make fun of, but sero
Speaker 3: Tiger today, I don't know what I have coming in.
Speaker 3: I'm very intrigued by Francesco, wrote stats post after after
Speaker 3: we want to Quicken that he could have finished third
Speaker 3: to last in the field and he still would have
Speaker 3: won because he hit the ball so well according to
Speaker 3: Troe's gain. So I don't know. I'm very intrigued by Francisco.
Speaker 3: I feel like no one hits the ball like straighter
Speaker 3: like than he does, Like he's the Italian Hogan. So
Speaker 3: I'm trying something with that.
Speaker 1: But he didn't hit any foul balls like any no, no.
Speaker 3: And also it's crazy too, people no one mentioned ed
Speaker 3: Wardo like at all today, but like Wardo won the
Speaker 3: US NAM and Marian so the Molinaris now have a
Speaker 3: US Amateur and a Clarig jug which is insane, and
Speaker 3: like it's crazy too because they don't look anything like brothers.
Speaker 3: And Wardo's really skinny, and he like doesn't hit it
Speaker 3: very straight and he's a scrambler and has an amazing
Speaker 3: short game. And Francesco fors forever couldn't putt, but just
Speaker 3: hit it dead straight like every time, like he's the
Speaker 3: iron Italian, the iron Iron. Uh. And it's so like
Speaker 3: if you saw them play golf and saw each other,
Speaker 3: you never know they were related, but they're both very
Speaker 3: good golfers.
Speaker 1: The Molinari Slam might be the greatest record in golf.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, I'm writing an exhaustive piece about
Speaker 1: the I'm back moment of this weekend, which is Hunter
Speaker 1: Mayhon tied first at the barbers.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so excited for that to tee off tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I think they're right now, it's seven.
Speaker 3: I don't know, well they know. The leader work said
Speaker 3: they had an eight pm T time, which I assumed
Speaker 3: wasn't happening, and I assume.
Speaker 1: They're just zb texted during this during this pod that said,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm walking the first t.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very exorited that that's a big story. I
Speaker 3: feel like, yeah, I got nothing to Ironomy. Yeah, BMW Championship.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna be there? I know it's not in
Speaker 3: the tribal area, but it's pretty woke.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm I'm thinking about, uh, you know, investing
Speaker 1: some resources and uh getting the low down, doing doing
Speaker 1: some stuff on for Marion or for Aronomic and uh
Speaker 1: and Ridgewood.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I'm playing Hickory golf tomorrow. I'm woke.
Speaker 1: So other than that, hick Fever. You're gonna be Yeah,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be you and Brandon Stone. That was one
Speaker 1: of the coolest moments of the of the week. That'll go.
Speaker 3: I love Ryan. I love when you see professional golfers
Speaker 3: who love golf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so underrated.
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, it's like ZB why we love.
Speaker 1: Them too many guys, Like I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the problems though, is like you know,
Speaker 1: is when it's your job, you lose what made you
Speaker 1: so great, you know, Like, I don't know, It's it's tricky,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I agree. The guys that just can't get
Speaker 1: enough of golf are the best.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out ZV in mid ninety seven of this podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, guys, I'm calling it. Unless you got
Speaker 1: anything else to say about the open.
Speaker 4: Oh see a Firestone and Bellery.
Speaker 1: I might. I might go to Firestone, you know, just
Speaker 1: so I can I can put the put the final
Speaker 1: uh final, you know, dirt on top of its grave.
Speaker 1: As a PGA Tour site.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. As a from a journalist standpoint,
Speaker 3: I love Firestone. It's like summer camp because you have
Speaker 3: the two other courses there. It's light till like ten pm,
Speaker 3: and so we would just go like take carts around
Speaker 3: and play golf to like tens So selfishly, I love
Speaker 3: Firestones events to go to.
Speaker 1: I'm recording this from Northeast Ohio, so I'm on published
Speaker 1: and get out of town.
Speaker 4: A great question.
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