WEBVTT - 2018 Open Championship Recap 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.960 Welcome back to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.000 Sean Martin and Brendan poor Eth are back to recap 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:12.680 an unbelievable Open Championship. We talk Tiger Surge on Sunday, 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:17.560 Xander Schafley, Ricky Fowler, and much more. First, I'd like 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.560 to thank our Open Championship sponsor, Greater Than. It's a 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.079 healthy and delicious alternative to your traditional sports drink, and 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.160 it packs two times of electrolytes with half the sugars 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.680 of its big brand competitors. 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What you need 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.840 to do is actually square the face so it'll dig 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.640 down underneath that bad lie and propell'm all right. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:01.280 Out onto the green. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:02.760 Here's the thing. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.280 Playing out of a buried lion of bunker is completely 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.760 different than playing out of a night and clean lion 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:08.800 of green side bunker. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.959 You need to be aggressive on any show, whether it's 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.920 sitting cleanly for its Friday Egg. Well, we've all faked it. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.160 The dreaded Frida egg not to be feared, though it's 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:20.680 actually a pretty easy shot to hit. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.560 I just the Xander thing is more true today than 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.800 it was when you asked it before the player. 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.080 Is Xander overrated or underrated? 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.920 It's more true today than it was before the player. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.520 So you're doubling down on him being overrated out. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.880 There was This was a nuanced take. It wasn't that stinks. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:00.800 It wasn't general. Yeah, the general ign name is public. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.000 He's vastly underrated. But to the in the know golf 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:09.720 audience who like he's they, I'm just tired of me, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.800 like all woke because I know whose Andrew is. Like, 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.040 we all know whose Andrew is. If you follow golf 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:15.840 and don't know whose Andrew is, you're doing it wrong. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.760 Yes, it's more true today than it was the players. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.640 The question was or our point Our response was not 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.959 that he sucks at golf, or he wasn't gonna win 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.520 or this couldn't happen. It was that it was like 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.280 this hipster crowd saying, you know, what I think. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.120 Uh, I'm so woke. 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.600 I know whose Andrew is. No, you're not woke. He's 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.160 a good player. You should know who he is. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.679 John keeps interrupting me. Is sorry. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.400 It was like people saying, you know what, I think 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.440 Brooks kept go like like last year, I think Brooks 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.400 kept goes get a golf. He's my dark horse pick. Like, no, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.240 it's not dark horse. It's like, it's not it's not. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:05.639 That's the thing. Xander got to overrated with the hipster crowd. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.040 It's just like it's a ubiquitous take. He's good at golf. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.560 We know he's good at golf. I hope he does well. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.520 I would have been great. I would have been happy. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.239 If you want today, that's fine. But it's more true 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.240 that what what we were saying then. It's more true 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.799 today than it was that when than it was even 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.400 before the players good autumn for his runner up finish, 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.360 that was great, But I mean it only reaffirms like 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.480 now everybody's like Xander man, he's got like I know golf. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.920 There's this guy with like kind of a funny name, Man, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.320 I know golf. And you hear about Xander Schoffley. You 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.680 hear what you hear that name before? That's my guy. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.400 So that's the whole crew that it got that that's 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.280 the whole genesis of this overrated thing. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.600 So the problem is that the pod is going to 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.320 start in the middle of this ran somewhere that idiots. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.800 Again, No, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you guys the 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.800 full runway here. Where where Doesander? Where does Xander ring? 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.960 Among the young players in the game, let's just say 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.280 twenty five and younger. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.720 I mean you still got to put speth in JT 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:09.520 ahead of him? 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.640 Yeah, Rom, how young are we going? 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.000 Like cole Hammer. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.479 Had? I think have to be professional? 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:24.800 There was an over under better career in majors Ram 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.240 or Xanders somewhere in the Twitter replies, And I still 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:34.479 I lean rom, I mean a lean rom in that 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:35.560 sense question. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.600 I mean, come on, I think we're getting a little 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:38.159 carried away. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.800 But yeah, if Brendon and I don't realize that Xander 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.560 Schoffley is good at golfer, both idiots should be immediately 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.000 fire from our jobs. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.960 No, yeah, I just where do you do it? Andy? 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.640 You seem to have preconceived thoughts on this before you 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:53.160 asked it. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.240 So I think, like you know, two years ago you 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:02.120 would say there was like Speith, JT and Berger, right, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:07.960 and I think he's he's moved into I put him 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.159 ahead of Burger for sure. I think I think with 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.760 with Americans, I mean, obviously you've got some young guys 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.680 like D'shambo and Aaron Wise that are just getting there 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.240 kind of footing on the PGA Tour. But you know, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:28.919 De'shambo and Xander essentially Ben Pro's you know, for the 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.599 same amount of time and uh you know, on the 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.440 PGA Tour for the same amount of time, both have 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.200 two wins. But I think the thing that sticks out 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.360 with Xander is like if you look at where he's 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.159 gained all his world ranking points, they're like the biggest 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.560 events of the PGA Tour schedule. I mean, he gets 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.720 them in the majors, he gets them in WGCs, like 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.560 you know, he had a really good finish at Riviera, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.880 Like you know, It's what impresses me is it seems 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.640 like his game rises to another level when it's a 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.839 stage with the best players in the world, you know, 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:03.800 three totally. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:09.279 I mean his hisenis year are rivier the majors and players. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.600 Yeah, like t second at the Players, t second at 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.800 the Open, you know, first of the Tour Championship, he's 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.560 got he's got three top sixes in majors and just 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.760 t second at the Players, and he's he's played in 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.400 six of them, you know, four you know, four top 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.400 six finishes and the five biggest events of the year. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.640 You're cut off is twenty five years old? Is that 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:35.640 what the question was? 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.800 Yeah, I don't know, I don't know where you cut 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.080 it off. I don't know what you. I think in 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:45.320 today's day and age, twenty five is probably the young right. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.000 Yeah, Clost twenty five, you're like already entering your prime, right, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:50.039 I mean, that's kind. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.040 Of that's It's interesting. I think the I think the 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.080 prime of a golfer has changed from it used to be, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.800 you know, thirty to forty to now it's twenty five 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.160 to thirty five, really totally. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.800 I mean Patrick Rodgers ten years ago, Pattick Rodgers career 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.000 would be very far ahead of the Kerk and now 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.240 it's like he doesn't need to get mentioned with his 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.760 with his boys because they've done so much. But I 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.400 mean he's like twenty five, had a tour card for 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.400 a couple of years, like that ten years ago. That 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:16.240 was really really good. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.280 It's I was as Uh. The thing with Shoffley is 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.480 I think rom I'd still give the edge to Ram 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.720 over Shaffley, but I mean the way he hits the ball, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:32.040 so he's so good tee to Green. It's the way 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.480 he drives it, like he drove it so well all week. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.880 That's he's just got so much confidence. And I think 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.000 he's he's underrated because he played at San Diego State. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.280 Nobody really knew him, but I mean he went he 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.560 made it to the finals of the Western m I 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.520 mean that's that's a pedigree event. I think I think 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.480 he's I think he's a stud. I mean obviously he's 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.160 a stud, but I think he's uh, he's definitely gonna 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.800 win at least one major. I just I don't know, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.400 we'll see who gets more majors. Rickor or Shaffley. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:11.440 Wow, man, it's awfully just because of like the less 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.360 the the year year's advantage and this less scar tissue. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.800 And I don't know, man, I. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.320 So Ricky's hard hard to hard to back right now, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.800 Like like it's he either gets one and then it's 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.679 like this is great. You know, it's kind of I'm done, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.160 I made my career, my career achievement, or maybe, like 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.520 the worst cliche in sports, the flood gates open. So 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.480 I don't know, it's hard, hard to predict with Rick. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.920 Yeah, I mean everyone goes back to the you know, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.480 Phil was what thirty four when he won his first major. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:53.520 I think Hogan was thirty four. Uh, you can have 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:58.160 a fruitful career. I don't know. I just there's so 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.120 many different Like the thing I love about baseball, all 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.559 that they do is like they'll take a guy's stats 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.760 and they find comparable players based on their like career 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.200 paths from that point of order, and they'll compare like, 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.160 all right, every guy who was hitting two fifty by 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.360 his age twenty five season with fifteen homers, like this 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.320 is the average of what his career looks like. And 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:20.920 I don't feel like we do that well in golf. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:25.240 We just like some guy has a great season, this 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.960 his aggression is gonna be linear, like you know, any 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.560 you and I see an amateur golf of like, somebody 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.319 dominates an amateer golfing, like, oh, he's obviously gonna be 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.240 a great pro. And it's like, no, I think some 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.960 guys actually had the best years of their career, like 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.679 an amateur golf unfortunately, uh and earn nothing for it. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.400 And it's just, I don't know, career progression is so hard. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.800 We get so spoiled by these guys, Like we think 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.920 everyone's gonna have a twenty year great career when like 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.000 it's so hard in this game to have even ten 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:55.480 years of just great play. There's just so many things 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.439 that happen. Like I always look at like Keegan. Now, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:02.120 granted Keegan, I mean anchoring man obviously really hurt his career, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.520 but like Kegan twenty eleven rookie year wins twice, including 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.160 a major. Like we all think, oh my gosh, where's 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.000 this guy gonna You know, he went to Saint John's, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.480 a small school, and we all think of like he's 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.480 gonna be unstoppable. But it didn't. It didn't pan out. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.319 And I'm not saying that Xander's gonna go to the 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.080 same thing. But it's just like there's so many variables 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:23.480 that you just never know what's gonna happen. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.320 Yeah, I mean, well, Molinari is a perfect example of 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.440 that career progression. You know, this is his moment and 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.160 it's all because like he was always an elite ball striker, 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.880 but you know, he shored up his short game and putting, 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.480 and I mean he didn't make a bogie the last 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.080 two two rounds, and you know five years ago that 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.439 would never have happened. But he keeps working better, and 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.040 I think that is that's at all levels of golf. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.960 Like I think one of the things about golf, like 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.080 you you see it playing junior golf, Like you see 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.320 these kids that are unbelievable at age fifteen. But the 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.440 hardest thing golf is to get better once you're at 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.959 zero plus two plus three handicap, Like getting better, it 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.440 becomes way more difficult the better you get. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.760 Sure, I would just say this is a good transition 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.040 to talk about the US. You here, I'm just kidding. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:22.040 About you are like in here, got a good like 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.520 ten minutes on Shoplet. Tiger just had like the biggest 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.520 moment in golf, our biggest contention in five years. Got 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.480 to get ten minutes on Shopley. I mentioned of Keegan Bradley, 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:37.800 Patrick Rogers, Cole Hammer. We haven't talked about Tiger Molinario. Yeah, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:43.559 It's just this is like exactly how it to be so. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.560 So so you're bringing us back to the to the 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:49.120 general here, Brendan, what what what? What? What was your 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.400 takeaway from you know, the open what you know? What 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.760 do you? What do you? What did you love today? 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:56.760 Or what do you think? 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:58.319 Well? 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.079 My favorite moment I think was the absurdity of that 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:07.760 woman keeping her child in that stroller and shopping back. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.400 I mean, that woman should be ejected from the country. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.640 She should be thrown in prison, she should be like 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:21.400 she was steadfast refused to move. The guy was over 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.960 his ball and address, and the kids started chirping again, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.439 and she just stood there. He backed off, and then 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.200 she just stood there, like wouldn't you skurry into the 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:31.920 crowd and shame and hide your face? 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.520 You know, I'm glad, I'm glad you circled the wagons 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.480 to talk about a child in the crowd. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.679 Yeah, I mean that my favorite moment. It was just 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:47.320 added a sprinkled absurdity to a like to being in 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:54.280 all seriousness. I think, you know, since I've been doing this, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.480 one of the maybe the top top day at a 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.319 major championship. I think twenty eleven Masters is up there. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:07.800 Twenty thirteen Masters was bonkers, Like the whole weekend. You know, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.120 Adam Scott and Hulkerbrera aren't the names that we got today. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.000 And obviously twenty I don't know that whole twenty thirteen 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:20.720 year was great. I think this, this is certainly one 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.640 A or one B, and I think there's just too 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.439 much to choose from that. I guess that's where I 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.800 go is is this the best kind of the most 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:35.079 enjoyable and manic and eventful final round of a major 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.800 for you guys real quick? 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.200 I to go back to the kid in the stroller. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.120 I have a two year old, and I don't understand 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.320 how anyone brings a child under the age of thirteen 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.360 to accompliment. It blows my mind. As far as manic, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:53.600 I think twe Masters is up there, but it's I mean, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:54.439 it's definitely up there. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:59.880 I think, yeah, I mean leaderboard wise with like the Superstar, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.360 we haven't seen that in a really long time, where 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:08.679 legitimately on Sunday you had, you know, three of probably 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.440 the three biggest names in golf right now, Speath, Rory 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.240 and Tiger all with like a legit shot to. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.320 Win, you know, And then one of my favorite moments 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.720 was like, for whatever reason, I flipped out onto the 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.600 leaderboard online and like I just opened it real quick. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.320 It was before they had showed Rory's eagle putt and 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.400 or maybe my DVR I at some point ended up 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.960 thirty seconds behind, and it showed Rory at the top 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.360 at six under. I was like, wait, what the hell 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.560 we were like because you hadn't seen him in so 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.400 long and he just he just wasn't like part of 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:45.920 the story. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.160 I flipped up in the leader board was like, what 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.400 the hell Rory McRoy? 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.360 He was at the very top because he had just 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.200 made you know, join the lead most recent and then 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.640 all of a sudden it showed his eagle and it 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.320 just like took what already was a crazy day so 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.000 like a no other level. And I mean, anytime you 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.600 get Rory joining the lead in the last like what 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.360 I guess five holes of Major Championship, that's gonna be 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.920 the biggest story of the day. But this was like way, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.400 you know, in the middle of the pack three four five. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.000 That was amazing. I looked at the boards like that 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:17.720 can't be right. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.480 Rory's not first, And then as Ego plug came on 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.040 the TV, you know, thirty seconds later, and I couldn't 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:23.400 believe it. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.200 I think it was just there's too much to choose from. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.400 To me, the Open Championship has supplanted the Masters as 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:36.600 the best event of the year. Wow, three years in 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.160 a row it's been the best and then and then 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.600 you know, if you look back, like Will Knights wrote 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.080 an article about like the last ten and you read 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.560 and you read through them and it's just like, oh 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.080 my god, every year pretty much. I mean, you sink 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:55.440 in Watson, you know they're every single year is seemingly 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.120 a great championship. You know, when was the last time 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.640 that you were disappointed with the Open Championship? Right? 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:02.479 Yeah? 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:03.640 But why do you think that is? 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:09.200 I mean aside, but I think so much of it 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.400 is link golf because it allows so many different riise 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.520 of play to compete. I mean, Watson's not competing if 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.120 it's not a link course. Greg Norman is not challenging 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.720 in Birkdale and it's not a link I think so 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.120 much of it is that it is a links course. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.080 Yeah, but even I think that. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.240 Yeah, we keep getting the best names at the top 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:28.640 of the leaderboard out. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:33.560 Of all but I know we got Rory. I'm trying 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.280 to make my point. I think Andy will agree here 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.200 that when it's firm and fast and yeah, the greens 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.000 were soft, but the fairways were not. This week, when 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.400 it's firm and fast and windy, you got to control 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.600 your tras and so that brings out the best players. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.440 You know, It's one thing to hit an eight iron 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.600 one point fifty and stick it. It's another thing to 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.880 hit like a you know, a little punch seven iron 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.760 baby cut back into the wind. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:59.240 Uh. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.640 Pat. The Creed had a great quote earlier in the 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.320 week of like, the fairways were so firm that let's 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.600 say you were trying to hit a six iron and 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.800 you caught it a groove low, it was actually going 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.520 to go like twenty yards farther because the directory was 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.639 lower and the spin was last, and so like that 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.800 small little miship was going to be punished exponentially. So 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.800 I think you just have to control your trade, strike 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.760 your ball well when conditions are firm and fast and 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.080 when you're running it on the ground. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.360 Yeah, I agree. I think what it is is that 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.240 players all of a sudden have to think about where 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.080 they're going to land the ball. And that's a lot 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.320 different than hey, it's one fifty two, you know, and 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.320 it's is it like the yardages at an Open. I mean, 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:47.640 they don't mean anything. One fifty two could be a 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.439 wedge that you land one twenty or like you know, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.280 a chip eight iron that you land one twenty and 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.280 let roll in. It could be you know, it could 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.120 be a number of shots. You could hit all these 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:04.159 different shots. The trajectory matters, This spin matters, like and 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.520 I think that brings art to the game. It's not 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.399 as scientific, it's it's much more fuel oriented. And I 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.680 think it also brings all the skills to the forefront. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.760 And that's what you know, great golf courses do, is 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.200 it makes players have to hit all the great shots. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.119 Like when you go to a great golf course, you 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.919 generally hit every club in your bag, you know. And 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.520 I think that that's the kind of the essence of 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.320 of why the Open has has done this is that 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.840 it allows everybody to play their own game. But it 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.320 also you know, to succeed, you have to hit all 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:39.840 the shots. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.080 So do you not need to think about where it's 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.720 going to land at Augusta or yourself? 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.280 I mean, I'm not you do, but I don't think 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:52.119 it's to the same degree you know, I think I think, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.920 I mean Augusta. You know, the tree planting has has 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.480 taken away a little bit from that golf course. That 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.520 golf course is, you know, just like it was built 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.000 after the old course, you know, So that's I mean, 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.080 but they've lost some of the you know, the essence 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.720 of that over the years. But at the same time, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.280 I mean, this is nothing against august I just think 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.720 that the Open, in my mind, has become the best 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:18.000 event of the year. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.840 I thought Will Gray from Golf Channel had a great 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.640 sweet about that. Is like USGA has every like technology 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.640 and piece of equipment at their disposal and still get 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:31.879 out of their own way. Well the harn I just 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.720 like puts a sign in the ground pointing you to 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.480 the first t and it's the best tournament ever. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:37.679 Like they just I don't know. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.840 In the in the defense of the USGA, I think 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.879 that the media actually goes into the us Open and 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.760 like looking for things that the USJA is going to 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:51.600 screw up, you know, right like if if if the 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.240 USGA had the greens as soft as as what the 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.119 RNA had them this week, people would be throwing like 0:19:58.440 --> 0:19:59.640 a ship fit about it. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.400 Good point, that's a good point, But would they it's 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.080 like eight under one, I think I think five to 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:06.439 ten under is a great winning score. 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.480 Yeah, I agree, But I think people would still do that. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.600 Like you know, like a perfect example is people would 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.600 complain about how thin the rough was, and like I 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.280 thought that was absolutely like that fescue was so perfect 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:25.280 because you could you saw shots, you saw unbelievable recovery 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.520 shots from that stuff. But then you also saw Tiger 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.959 try and do too much from it, and that's what 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.080 killed him in the middle of the round. That's that's 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.480 what costs Tiger. That like thin fescue cost Tiger a 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:38.560 shot at the winning. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.119 Yeah, euphemism of tugging the shaft. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:47.440 Yeah, that was always kind of parental advisory, kept kept 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.800 using that phrase. Uh yeah, that's that's literally what cost 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.480 him the championship in the middle of the That's a 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.080 that's a great point though, about the different universes the 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.320 organizations have to work in, especially with those green those 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.440 soft greens. First couple of days, I don't know, it's 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.119 just yeah, the bar the bar. I don't know if 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.679 the bar is higher for the USGA or they just 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:16.399 they you know, they've lost lost the luxury of having 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:18.280 you know, margin for. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:19.600 Air or I don't know. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.320 I think it's more they've lost the trust. It's like, 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:27.119 you know, if a kid like constantly abuses the trust 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.879