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And now, without further ado, here's 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:38.879 our PGA Championship preview. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.319 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.440 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:45.919 And when I find my ball in a. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.000 Brid egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida egg, Frida Egg, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.880 Frida egg, Egg, Frida egg bride egg Lie, I'm about 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.600 ready to run off with the up course. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.720 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another edition of the 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.319 Frida Egg Podcast. We are here to preview this year's 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:33.560 PGA Championship with sp Nations Brendan Porath and ESPN's Kevin 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:34.600 van Valkenberg. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.200 Guys, welcome on Andy, thanks for having me. Good to 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:39.640 be back. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.639 I tend to think of my partner my guest partner 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.800 here more is like a Lou Garrick stepping in for 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.560 Wally Wally, Pip. You know, we may never see our 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:50.960 old friend Shawn Martin again. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.760 I thought about doing the entire podcast in a Shawn 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.680 Martin impression, the Shawn Martin voice, but that would be 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.200 that's a committing to the bit. I'm not sure I 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.080 could quite live up to. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.600 Yeah. To clarify for the listeners, our regular preview and 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.399 recap guy, Sean Martin, he is. He's out on vacation 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.320 this week, and it begs the question I've often wondered 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.839 if Smartin was the smartest person in golf, and does 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.680 skipping the twenty eighteen PGA signal more about his intelligence 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.360 or is this just a coincident. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.440 I think you know, he's in the spot where the 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.720 company he works for has a busy schedule up coming. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.440 In this scene, this is not the company he works for, 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.880 so it's a suitable time to take a break. 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.320 Sure, he would, he would if he were here. We 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.400 want you to know the FedEx Cup playoffs are just 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.960 as big of a deal as the PGA Championship, and 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.520 maybe more so so. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.400 Definitely, the player the players is definitely a bigger deal. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.320 I will say the highlight of my family vacation last 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.400 week was pretending I needed to make a run for 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.880 coffee for fifteen minutes and using it as a reason 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.480 to just drive around for an hour to keep my 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:11.320 sanity and listen to your podcast week on the. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.480 Way you guys would change Golf. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.480 That was a fantastic and entertaining debut on the Friday Egg. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.919 For Kevin, it's just, you know, it's like a author 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.000 writ in his first book. Just pour everything you have 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:23.760 into your first your first novel. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.880 Yeah, now you're you're the quickest repeat guest of all time. 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:33.040 Wow, that's amazing. I gotta say I love the it's 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.160 a clutch move to pretend to get coffee move on 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.680 the family vacation for that's use that many times myself. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.600 Oh I got a little lost. I had to go 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.880 to they ran out of coffee at the first one. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.120 It was just like twenty five miles farther away. 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:46.720 Than I thought. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.840 So yeah, so uh PGA this week? What do you guys? 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:53.119 You guys excited? 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.000 What do you? What do you? 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.400 What are you looking forward to? 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.640 Well, I'm going to be on site sweaty Saint Louis. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.160 I've been trying. I've been begging poor out to join me, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.440 but I think he's He's never given me a definitive no. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.040 But you know, I'm pretty sure he's not going. So 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.560 it's gonna be me and Kyle Porter among others, sweating 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.840 it out down there AND's going. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:20.200 I'm coming down tomorrow, are you quick? Quick? Quick quick visit? 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.200 Maybe going back the weekend. I don't know, we'll see. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.360 I'm committing to tomorrow at. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:31.320 Least, Devin, I'm kind of disappointed you're not there already 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.440 pounding out thousand word columns on the Clydesdale's delivering the 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:36.479 Lawnamaker Trophy. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.919 The one thing I've learned covering the majors is the 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.400 like three day build up to the majors and writing 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.520 a thousand word columns every single day is not the 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.800 way to go do majors. The best way to cover 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.520 major is to get in Wednesday night and just just 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:53.800 write about the actual goal. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.680 And then for Andy's purposes, what are you the opposite? 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.480 Right you go, Scott the course, Yeah, get your content 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.520 and watch, take those learnings and apply them to watching 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:05.000 from home. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.039 No, yeah, I'm I'm the opposite. I'm a I'm a 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.039 I'm an early week guy taking the early week takeaways 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.360 and applying them to the to the weekend watching, you know, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.280 relating to the uh, to the everyday guys sitting at 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:20.880 home watching on the telecast. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.279 Oh yeah, I walk walk the pins like just you 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.400 know where he thinks the Sunday pans are going to 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.480 be and check them with his uh, his compass, make 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:30.520 sure that it is accurate. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.240 Yeah, yeah, well I definitely want to get a get 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.839 a feel for for what kind of what kind of 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.040 heat they're going to be dealing with, and and lou 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.720 Brown actually asked, uh, We've got a special segment here. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.480 We've got Gary Player calling in to describe this week's 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.560 forecast and what players are going to deal with from 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:54.560 a weather standpoint in Saint Louis, Indy. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.440 Thank you many much for having me on the Friday podcast. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.800 As you know, I conquer Bill Rieve once far long ago, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.080 and it was just a hot and sweaty and disgusting 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.360 as it will make me this week. So what I expect. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.039 There's a lot of swamp ass and a lot of 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.520 guys were big and Brownie hitting them all very far. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.680 Oh thanks Garry. That was that was a real treat. Yeah, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.760 it should be. It should be something else. I mean 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.960 last year's PGA was much of the same with with 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.240 the weather down in uh in Charlotte in August, and 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.080 this year will have probably a couple of rain delays 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.760 in a really soft course. In terms of uh, you know, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.200 there's all kinds of storylines. I was, I was doing 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.240 a piece of putting together all of them, and I was, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.520 I was wondering, what player do you guys think has 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.080 the most to gain from a PGA win. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.760 Mh, I'm gonna defer to pour out here because I 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.039 got mine and mine, but yeah, we may double up here. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:06.080 I mean, well, I think I think from like. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.200 Practically speaking, wouldn't wouldn't the answer be Jordan's speed? 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.800 Oh yeah, I mean, like I. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.680 Obviously like if he doesn't win, like there's not a 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:19.240 big loss. But if he if he does win, I 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.400 don't know, I feel like that's a pretty big launching 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.800 in like who who gains more? I mean, I don't 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.120 know Tiger all. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.920 Of a sudden, that's that's a great question. That's a 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.680 great answer because then not only does Jordan have as 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.640 many majors as Rory, but he also has the career 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.720 Grand Slam, and his entire season, the worst of his career, 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.640 has been a huge success. Yeah. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.760 Yeah, I think like the probably the default answer. I mean, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:50.640 the first percent goes Ricky, but just because whatever, it 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.040 just changes a lot of the narrative around him right now. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.880 But yeah, I think, like when you phrase it his 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.320 most to gain, I think it's Jordan's speed as the 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.160 most game out of winning this PGA. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.120 I was gonna answer something way labor like Kyle Stanley 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.240 or like Patrick Cantley, like a guy suddenly like a 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.160 grin elite ball striker, like taking themselves the next level. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.840 But Pooras's answer was like so much better than mine 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.120 that I'm just embarrassed that I threw those out instead. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.320 I think that's the fascinating thing with this one. You 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.440 could make a case for like almost probably like ten 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.880 players in the field, like you got Tiger. Tiger would 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:33.280 complete like the greatest sports comeback in recent memory. With 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.880 a win, Phil would become the second oldest guy to 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:41.880 ever win a major. You'd have like, you know, I 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.440 think Dustin Johnson. That's a big question, is like is 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.440 twenty eighteen a disappointment for DJ without a major? 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.400 I mean I go back and forth with DJ so 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.120 much that you know, are we overrating majors? Like it's 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.440 obvious the DJ is, like, you know, an amazing player. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:06.360 What if he were to win another fifteen twenty tournaments 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.240 and have forty wins and only one major, would his 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.880 career be a disappointment? Like, I don't know, like it 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.920 it seems ridiculous that DJ, if he got like thirty 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.000 plus win and thirty five wins, would be mentioned in 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.200 the same breath as Davis Love and Fred Couples, who 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.960 are going to finish, you know, with eleven twelve wins 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.080 and one major. Like, but that's the way that majors 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.240 kind of end up sort of measuring people. 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:34.960 Right, DJ doing the uh you do the summer the 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.760 Summer triple with the TPC South Glen Glenn Abbey Bellery. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:44.280 It's like, you know, Starberry putting up like triple doubles 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.880 on a twenty five win NXT team, you know, it's 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:49.160 like that. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.640 It's a little bit depressing that we were like rooting 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.200 the end of Firestone and yet it's gonna it's gonna 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.240 go to TBC south Wind next year for the the 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.600 bridge Stone, like where guys are going to hit wedge 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.000 in every hole, every hole. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.920 It's it's like, uh, I don't know if it's an upgrade. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.959 Yeah, I want to talk Do you want to talk 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.040 about Can we talk about that that WGC for a second? 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:17.320 Yeah? 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.200 You know it was it was brutal, wasn't it. I 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.600 mean it was boring. I think like part of it 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.600 is the course, which you have illuminated so well for 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:26.439 people over. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:27.400 The last few years. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.120 Andy, Well, Like I think another part of it is 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.280 like the WGCs are just kind of eating their own 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.120 Like it's like everyone's getting too fat and rich to 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.440 the point where like the golf is not compelling. Like 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:45.280 I just think, like what is the incentive to Like 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.120 there's obviously there's strategy involved in the golf course, but 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.000 there's also some in the golf course you played, But 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.520 I think there's also some strategy involved, Like there's a 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.559 strategy taken out of it when everyone just makes a 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.200 cut and everyone's guaranteed fifty grand and like everyone that's 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.480 already in the field is kind of set for life, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.680 Like you know, it's already kind of you know, the 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.360 rich and the fat of the you know, living off 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.120 the walking in high con whatever the whatever, the bad 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.760 metaphor you want to use is like, I just I 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.320 think like there's a lack of interest. The players are 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.040 kind of their lethargic about it. Yeah, And think of 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:24.719 going from Firestone the TPC South Wind the week exactly, 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.280 like right after the Open, like you think guys are 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.319 going to be just showing up to collect checks and 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.400 get the hell out of there. Three or four guys 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.320 who are maybe trying to play on Sunday, and that's it. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.600 Amazing. I would say that they're talking about ahead. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:46.480 Yeah, I would say that the WGCs are the most 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.599 disappointing thing in golf at this point. You get the 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.079 best players together right now and they play a Muni 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.000 in Mexico, they play a cool match by tournament at 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.679 a at a pretty cool course. They play TPC South 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.679 one now moving forward, and then they play you know, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:09.040 a terrible golf course in China that barely anybody shows 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.280 up to you know, that's just the world deserves better 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.360 when the top seventy golfers all come together. I will 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.000 say yesterday, I think one of the things that's been 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.679 lost in all the golf course hate, and I'm probably 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.640 a chief offender of the golf course hate, is like, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.719 is how unbelievably good Justin Thomas is, and how he 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.520 just he was playing a different golf course than everybody 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.760 else in the field. And if I did all this 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.240 number crunching and and I was looking at top tens, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.320 and I started this because I wanted to look at 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.360 Ricky Fowler specifically, like top tens compared to wins, you know, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.200 long term overtime. And I found that Justin Thomas has 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.120 ten wins and twenty four top tens in his young career. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.120 He's at like thirty seven and a half percent of 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.760 the time he's in the top like versus top ten 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.480 and when he wins, you know, so tell me that 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.440 when he's at his best, he's probably better than everybody 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.000 in the game of golf. Right now, obviously the all 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.679 time high guy is Tiger and he's at sixty six percent, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.839 which is absolutely. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.120 Not it was I am I wrong? Though? In the 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.360 funnest part of watching JT and the whole tournament was 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.880 when he would get into trouble and when he'd hit 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.720 like ridiculous shots from you know, I think he curved 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.920 a wedge with a ball below his feet, like, you know, 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.040 twenty yards in the air out of the bunker, and 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.440 then that shot where he hit and the other fairway 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.200 on Friday, I think, and then curved it back towards 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.440 like those are the kind of things that I want 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.800 to see from JT because that's what makes golf fun. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.120 And he when he's playing well, he just is murdering 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:47.800 a drive right down the middle and then like hitting 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.880 an unbelievably towering iron to the green and making putts 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.959 like it's it's amazing, But it's like kind of boring 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.480 to watch over and over again. And I don't know why. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.720 Maybe like some of when Rory was doing that seemed 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.520 a little more compelling, but maybe I'm just seeing so 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.200 much of it now that I'm numb to it. Like 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.319 I was getting all kinds of hate from JT fanboys 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.200 about pointing that out when actually I really like Justin Thomas, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.160 like he's one of my favorite players to watch. But 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.240 it also just I want to be seeing him like 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.760 use the full display of all his skills, all the 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.000 arrows in his quiver, like we talk about, you know 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.800 that Rory can hit like all those different kinds of shots, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.800 But why would he learn Why would he sort of 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.960 hone them and sharpen them because the courses are set 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.120 up so he doesn't ever really have to unless he 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.120 gets into trouble. Yeah. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.440 Yeah, I just think like as bad as yesterday, kind 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.120 of yesterday should I had so much more juice given 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.800 the later bore we had, And I just think like 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.800 next year we're overlooking the impact, Like the wgc's just 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.200 lack like player enthusiasm for it. And I think next year, 0:14:54.640 --> 0:15:04.800 going from Royal Port Rush to Memphis, it's gonna show 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.960 up cast or check and Sunday's gonna lack a little 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:08.760 more even more. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.520 Do you think there's a red eye from what is it? 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.520 What's the airport that they have to fly on due 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:20.680 to Port Rush? All fast fast Memphis, the regular ragar 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.280 red eye there. The most amazing ce SAT that we 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.200 saw one of our friends put together is Ricky Fowler 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.200 has played in twenty seven of them. He has zero 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.960 wins and has made four point three million dollars, so 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.480 he like Arl Palmer, made like a million dollars his 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.360 entire career. Like the fact that like obviously the money 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.520 is way different, but that's nuts to think that that's 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.760 that's a great example of how the wgc's are just 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.960 a money grab like cash out. Like you, Yeah, Ricky 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.680 Feller's probably had some like top tens in there obviously, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.160 but he never won one, and he's made an obscene 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.200 amount of money, like four times as much more is 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.440 Greg Norman made in his entire career. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.200 Another just so another thing that bothers me and I 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.280 started thinking about this and I couldn't get it out 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.720 of my head last night. Is a right, So they 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.400 PGA Tour has to know that Firestone is somewhat of 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.280 a boring golf course, right, but they've set the golf 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.000 course up the exact same way for the last fifteen years, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.440 like no variation is set up. Like they have four 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.640 par threes that all of them are between one hundred 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.240 and eighty five and two hundred and twenty yards, but 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.080 every day they set them up that distance, like you 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.240 can play a forward te you can make one of 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.040 them one hundred and twenty yards one day like that 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.240 would be fun. Like the sixteenth hole, like move it 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.240 up one day, make it reachable for everybody one day, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.920 Like that would actually be a somewhat interesting shot where 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.880 people would have to decide whether to go for it 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.240 or not rather than just having you know, people lay 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.320 up all day long. Like how come the PGA Tour 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.320 never changes set up day to day when they go 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.239 to the same golf courses every single year and they 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.920 set them up the exact same way, Like like how 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:07.280 does this? 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:07.600 Like? 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.639 Am I am I crazy? Or is this crazy? 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.800 I think it's spot on. I want to like a 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.280 deep dive into who, like who's doing the setups each day? 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.520 Like is it you know, I don't know who's the 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.280 PGA tour'st set up people. Do we know anything about anyone? 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.000 It's Mark Russell and slugg or White. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.639 Yeah, it's those the guys you see come riding in 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.639 the carts to administer, you know, rulings and things. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.480 I think here's what I think is a here's a 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:43.240 take is that because the players are so powerful, it's 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.120 it's like what we saw at the baron Nelson. They're 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.560 afraid to piss them off. They're afraid to say, like, well, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.720 screw it, I won't come to this thing if you 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.159 set this up hard whatever, I want to be what 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.320 it normally is, because they would whine and wine and 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:59.879 wine and complain if it was something that was abnormal. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.880 And you know what, like I understand it. They're they're 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.400 used to what they're used to. Nothing, there's no incentive 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.320 for them to want to change. They don't want to 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.800 look bad. They want to just be comfortable. So much 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.600 about being golf is being comfortable, and so that's how 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.959 it is. Just it's a cycle that feeds itself over 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.920 and over, right, right, I think, like. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.280 Andy, like you're not crazy, this is crazy, but I 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.400 think we could lose sight of who the constituents are 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.200 like at the end of the day, Like the tour 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.320 answers to the players like Roger Gandelli, the NFL owners, 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.000 and that's just how it worked, you know. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.720 So, uh, in some sort of attempt to get this 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.800 train back on the tracks, you know, we were supposed 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.360 to talk about the beautiful city of Saint Louis and 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:46.439 a major championship in Saint Louis and the PGA. What 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.520 if you know, Brooks Koepka had a great week at 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:54.840 Firestone despite putting horribly and looking at the golf course, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.960 I really think that somebody that absolutely bombs the ball 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.560 is going to win this thing. There's really thick rough 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.960 and the golf course sets up well for guys that 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.920 hit it far and high. If brooks Kepka wins, he'll 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.080 have won three of the last five majors he's played in, 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.080 and he will only have one PGA Tour win in 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.800 his career. Like, does that say something about the PGA 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:26.000 Tour setups or is it more about brooks Kepka and majors. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.359 Just the brooks Kepka is just a big game hunter. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:31.199 I think it. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.880 I think it says more about Kopka in my opinion. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.200 I mean, like he's got the game to win on 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.439 the PGA Tour and PJ Tour setups. No, I mean 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.280 I think it like, of course, I think I just 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:49.040 shows he kind of turns it on, cares more, you know, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:53.720 and turns it on, realizes it full potential at on 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.880 like the biggest stages and at the most toughest, toughest 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.720 and challenging venues, and kind of I think it says 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.679 more about Koepka that he has that he had, that 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.720 Ricky has lower odds than he does is kind of 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:12.160 a an injustice, almost a crime. You know, Ricky's eighteen 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.159 to one and Brooks is twenty. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.199 On how much how much of mark money do you 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.160 think that like they get on Ricky, Like Ricky's made 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.639 Vegas so much money from like a lot of just 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.399 lame fish betting on Ricky who don't know anything about golf. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.879 I bet the rick has made DraftKings like five million 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:31.800 dollars himself. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:36.879 It's I'm in this, like this majors pool with my 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.560 buddies and a lot of them are like buddies from college, 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:44.320 and where there's thirty two guys and it's a snake 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:48.640 draft every year, right or for every major and the 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.120 WGC match play that's why there's thirty two, so all 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.120 sixty four guys get picked. And anyway, so I had 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.520 like the eighth pick this uh this time around, and 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.000 it started today and like I was on a text 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.000 chain with a couple of my buddies that are you know, 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:07.800 big golf fans, and we're like at pick six and 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.760 justin Thomas and Brooks haven't been picked yet and and 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.639 like people were losing their minds, you know, like on 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.840 this text chain, like how is Justin Thomas still not 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:22.439 been picked? So Justin Thomas ended up going seven and 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.200 I got Brooks at eight, and it's just crazy. I mean, 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.800 Tiger got picked ahead of him. I mean I think, 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.600 like Spieth obviously is having a bad year, but Fowler 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.080 got picked number three, and it's just like this is 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:37.840 it's kind of crazy. It's just but this it gives 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.680 you a lens into the public opinion of these golfers. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.120 Is here's what I think Rick's projections. And fourth knows 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.480 this because we were texting about it. I think Rick's 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.720 going to get his like Sergio Major, like when he's 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.240 almost forty, and that's going to be it, like he 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:58.280