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Speaker 1: players week coming off, Arnold Palmer, Kirk Kiddiama gets it done.

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Speaker 1: We'll dive into some thoughts on last week, some thoughts

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Speaker 1: comes to the schedule, have some red flags. We will

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Speaker 1: talk to Sobel, who is a gambling man just like myself.

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Speaker 1: I might have put about five hundred dollars or some

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Speaker 1: different golfers today. Victor Hovlin will not be one of them.

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Speaker 1: Keegan Bradley, Maxhoma, Jason Day will be three of them. Though.

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Speaker 1: We will have that out on the Instagram and Twitter

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Speaker 1: and everything tomorrow at Golopod. At golopod is this podcast

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Speaker 1: going to start. Let's start with this. Jay Bonahan talked

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday morning. You know, this is kind of his

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Speaker 1: And I'm all four paying the top players more money.

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Speaker 1: Why because John Rom, Rory mc roy, Jordan Speak, Tony

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Speaker 1: way the business works. The NFL thrives because of Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, right, and those guys

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Speaker 1: Jannis Yoki, like, the top players get the most money

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Speaker 1: and all the other sports. Paul McGinley, I remember last

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Speaker 1: week where there's really not much going on. There's a

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Speaker 1: spotlight for golf. It was Tory Bines this year. Turned

429
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Speaker 1: out to be a really good event. Maxima wins. Everybody's happy.

430
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Speaker 1: It was a fun watch. But that should be a

431
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Speaker 1: special event, whether it's at Tory or Pebble or Phoenix

432
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 1: or somewhere else, that needs to be a designated event.

433
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Speaker 1: With all the big names playing, they can promote it

434
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Speaker 1: throughout the throughout the entire football playoffs that they've got

435
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Speaker 1: a big golf tournament coming up. And So I think

436
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Speaker 1: some of these things, now that we're sort of moving

437
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Speaker 1: into year two next year and we're starting to talk

438
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Speaker 1: about it already, I think some of these things are

439
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:49,919
Speaker 1: going to be fixed, but again some are just going

440
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Speaker 1: to create bigger problems as well. Yeah, I guess you

441
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Speaker 1: could rotate the pro am between the three on the

442
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Speaker 1: West coast, that one that's not designated right at Tori

443
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Speaker 1: a waste management, But then waste management might say we

444
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Speaker 1: don't even want that, right, you know. So it's you're

445
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: you're right, it's you open a can of worms. But

446
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 1: this is just the reality of the situation they're at

447
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,360
Speaker 1: and it leads to this week, which ironically last year

448
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: was an enormous moment for camp Smith and now he's

449
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 1: long gone. He said, he may show up. You're out there.

450
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: I know you've been grinding, but do you think live

451
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Speaker 1: I mean some of the guys that are just stalwarts

452
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Speaker 1: as has has taken away from this tournament a little bit,

453
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Speaker 1: or do you feel it is as powerful as ever? No?

454
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's an Australian flag flying, as it

455
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Speaker 1: does every single year for the defending champion, so no

456
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Speaker 1: one with the PGA Tour is going to mention his name.

457
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 1: But that AUSI flag is out there not too far

458
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: from where I'm sitting right now, and everyone knows that

459
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: Cameron Smith is a reigning champion. The fact that he's

460
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Speaker 1: not here, yeah, it's weird. It takes away from the

461
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Speaker 1: golf tournament. I'm not suggesting that they should have given

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Speaker 1: him some sort of exemption and let him back into

463
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Speaker 1: the field. He knew what he was getting into when

464
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Speaker 1: he left the PGA Tour for live. But is it strange? Yeah, absolutely,

465
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Speaker 1: it's strange. This week, who's your pick? I'm going to Maxhoma,

466
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: number two on the PGA Tour this season and strokes

467
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: gained total. You've got to do everything really well around

468
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 1: this golf course, as we've found over the last twenty

469
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Speaker 1: years or so, with such a variety of winners from

470
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Speaker 1: superstars to no names, old guys, young guys, big hitters,

471
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Speaker 1: short hitters, good ball strikers, good putters. So I like

472
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Speaker 1: the fact that Homa has a complete game. He also

473
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Speaker 1: led the field last week, only finished fourteenth of the API,

474
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: led the field and strokes gained approach shots. That's a

475
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Speaker 1: really good sign I think moving forward, and he's proven

476
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Speaker 1: he knows how to close too. I didn't give him

477
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Speaker 1: enough credit John for years. For a couple of years,

478
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, it's a feel good story. He's

479
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: good on social media. He likes, you know, roasting some

480
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Speaker 1: swings on Twitter and having fun with that. I didn't

481
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Speaker 1: give him credit for just how good he is, how

482
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Speaker 1: good he's become. Six career PGA Tour wins. Now he

483
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: stared down some really big names. I think it's time

484
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,640
Speaker 1: for him to win a big one. Hasn't finished top

485
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: ten in a major yet, but I do think a

486
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: big win is coming for him, could be this week.

487
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because he's a little older, but he's

488
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: clearly really comfortable playing around the superstars. Right. You can

489
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Speaker 1: put him with Rory and he's fine. You can put

490
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Speaker 1: him with Rom and he's fine. And historically you've seen

491
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: you've been around this longer than I have. Guy, Not

492
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: everyone's at his level, right, like the fringe top ten

493
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Speaker 1: guy comfortable with being around them. He like thrives in

494
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Speaker 1: that environment, right, Yeah, he really does. He's gonna get

495
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Speaker 1: a few of them this week. I what was it is?

496
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Speaker 1: He with Speak and JAYT? Yeah? I don't love the

497
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Speaker 1: number John. Depending on the book, he's twenty to one,

498
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Speaker 1: twenty two to one. Here's a little tip for those

499
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Speaker 1: out there that might want to jump on home. He's

500
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Speaker 1: in an afternoon tea time. We've got Rory, Rom Scheffler

501
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 1: at least in one grouping some other big time groups

502
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: going out in the morning. Maybe you don't even bet

503
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: him until noon Eastern time on Thursday, after some of

504
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Speaker 1: those guys are off the course. Let's say Ram shoots

505
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: six four, Rory shoots sixty six, Scheffler shoots sixty seven.

506
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, their odds get shorter. What that

507
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: does everybody else gets a little bit longer. Maybe you

508
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: grab Homa. I'm not saying it's gonna be fifty to one.

509
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: Maybe you can grab him at its twenty five to one,

510
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: and sent it's twenty to one, and you get a

511
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: little extra juice there. If I told you, I'll give

512
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: you three thousand dollars, you can spread around everyone, but

513
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: you can't touch Rory, Scotty your rom or you can

514
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: just place thousand dollars bets on those three guys and

515
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: just you could argue not just this tournament, but all

516
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Speaker 1: the majors moving forward. Isn't that the play? Because every

517
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Speaker 1: every week, I mean, two of the three of them

518
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: are right there. Roy showed signs of life. Scheffler's floor

519
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: now is so high it's I'm not going to touch

520
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: either three of them, But I mean I'm prepared for

521
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Speaker 1: two of them to be in the mix come the weekend.

522
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Speaker 1: I still I'm taking the other side of that. If

523
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Speaker 1: you're letting me spread of money around on Fantley and

524
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Speaker 1: Zander and Morikawa and JT. I mean, these are really good,

525
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Speaker 1: world class players. I know that right now it seems

526
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Speaker 1: like there's a Big three and then the rest of them.

527
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Speaker 1: My guess is that by Midsummer we're like, now there's

528
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Speaker 1: a Big five now because these two guys have separated

529
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,479
Speaker 1: from the rest again. I mean fee now Homo, who

530
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: we mentioned Sunjam is better than a lot of people. Realize.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of really really good players. I almost

532
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: hesitate to call them the next tier after those top three,

533
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Speaker 1: because there's not much difference between him those three or

534
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Speaker 1: definitely the three best right now, that can change, and

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00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: you know, certainly a Justin Thomas who's one year in

536
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: the past, two years ago, he's got seven for seven

537
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: making the cut at this event. Justin Thomas can certainly

538
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: go win this week and all of a sudden the

539
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: narrative changes from big three to a Big four almost immediately. Yeah,

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00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: I have a wager this week on JT. I hit

541
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: it a couple of years ago when he won. Other

542
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: two guys. I mean, I think Jason Day's a pretty

543
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: sexy pick. I know you wrote about him in your column.

544
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: Just he's playing really well. He's had success here before.

545
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: It feels like not if, but when, and you know

546
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: he's odds. You know, I like him a little more

547
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: like forty five to one than once come thirty and one.

548
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: But still I feel pretty good about him. Another guy

549
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,479
Speaker 1: with an afternoon tea time. Maybe the same strategy as

550
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: I suggested with Homa. Just just wait. And I'm not

551
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: saying wait till he makes four bogies. It's wait until

552
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: before he teas off, and maybe some guys go low.

553
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: Should be perfect conditions out here on Thursday morning, So

554
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: some guys go low in the morning, their odds get shorter.

555
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: Maybe he gets a little bit longer before he even

556
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: teas off. So there's one strategy and four straight top

557
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: tens for Jason Day. Even if you don't want to

558
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: play him outright, I really like playing him for a

559
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: top ten this week. And I think every DFS lineup

560
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: that I've made as Jason Day in there already. I

561
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: feel like Keegan's gotta be, you know, a sexy top

562
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: ten bet right now. He's playing the best golf of

563
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: his life. He's just an almost won this last year.

564
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: Adam on the radio show yesterday, he said he's very

565
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: infrequently during his career come to a tournament and been good.

566
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: He said, Usually it's I got tweaked the driver a

567
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm gonna put a new edge in the bag.

568
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: Let me work with a couple different putters. Let me

569
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: see about the loftier the lie there. He said, I

570
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: showed up this week and everything's perfect, and he can't

571
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: wait to get out there. So very bullish on Keegan

572
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: as well. Two more names, Ricky Fowler, former winner here,

573
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: pretty decent odds. You know you can play twenty thirty

574
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: dollars on him and get a chance. And last, but

575
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: not least, I mean this guy, he's been injured a

576
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, was playing fantastic golf. I mean,

577
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: was right. Somehow came out of nowhere last week. Harris English.

578
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: I did look at his tournament history here. It's not

579
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: great for being a guy from the South, but he's

580
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: just a guy that has some win equity and a

581
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: high end ceiling. What are your thoughts on Harris? Yeah,

582
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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to get after Harris for a second

583
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: straight title contention. He was great last week. No Bogie's

584
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: on the weekend at bay Hill is really really good.

585
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: I'm not quite ready to jump on Harris for another

586
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: title contention. But I think this gives us hope moving

587
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: forward for him. The only problem is it's moved the

588
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: odds much shorter as well. You could have had Harris

589
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: at some events earlier in the year at one hundred

590
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: and fifty to one. Now he's gonna be in double

591
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: digits moving forward, just because he's shown that form. I

592
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: think I have a betting philosophy after the last couple

593
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: Victor Hoblin, no more picking him to win. You know,

594
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: I like him to top ten, and he's gonna be

595
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: in the mix. His floors high, but just he can't.

596
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,719
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy pumps into the water, the chipping,

597
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: it's just it's to hold on for your ass. It's

598
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: incredible how good he is with some of his floss.

599
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Speaker 1: Is it not correct? I'm totally with you there. I've

600
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: I've never seen now, granted, the around the greens numbers

601
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: have gotten much better this season. The last season he

602
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: was dead last on the PGA Tour. I've never seen

603
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: a top ten player who had one glaring weakness the

604
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: way that Victor Hovlin does. Maybe you look at you know,

605
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: Tiger back in the day with driving accuracy or somewhat

606
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: filled with driving accuracy. That's not necessarily that's not like

607
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: having a strokes gained stat where you're like not not

608
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: just in the middle of the back, not you know,

609
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: towards about the dead last player on the PGA Tour.

610
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: That's where he was in strokes gained around the greens.

611
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: It's almost a testament to how good everything else is

612
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: t to Green because he is a top ten player

613
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: in the world and has been for a while. Well,

614
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: if you can, and I'll come out and meet you

615
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: next week, get us a five thousand dollars tea time

616
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: sometime at TPC Sawgrass next week, and let's go play.

617
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: I'll grab the sticks right now. All we gotta do

618
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: is hit some home of bets and we're right out here. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: so we'll have a good week. Talk to you soon,

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Speaker 1: here on the pod. Start with Ace. I'm watching Jordan

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Speaker 1: Speith playing here on Saturday, and he's playing really well.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he's playing well, playing this well this

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Speaker 1: weekend and being able to control his shots through the

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Speaker 1: wind that bay Hill will propel him to be more

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Speaker 1: competitive at the top of the leaderboard in future events

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Speaker 1: or could it just be this course? Well, if I

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Speaker 1: remember correctly, wasn't he in the mix at the Waste Management?

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Speaker 1: I think he's played very very well the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years, and to me, I'm gonna have some exposure

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Speaker 1: to him at the Masters, a place that he plays

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Speaker 1: well pretty consistently and has it should have a chance

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Speaker 1: to win. So I think Jordan Spieth is just re

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Speaker 1: establishing himself after a weird couple of years of just

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00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: being one of the better players and the players in

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Speaker 1: the world again. Now one thing that really separated him.

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Speaker 1: I had a close friend who's a high level golfer.

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00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: Him and his dad went to work with one of

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Speaker 1: the best teachers of all time. Pretty easy to probably

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Speaker 1: figure that out, and this guy told him that, like

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Speaker 1: what Jordan's run went in his apex, he's like the

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00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,959
Speaker 1: greatest putter we've ever seen. It's not really a sustainable

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Speaker 1: attribute because he never hit the ball like Tiger or

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Speaker 1: Phil or DJ or Rory. It's not really his thing.

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Speaker 1: Now I actually think he's become a better just striker

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Speaker 1: of the golf ball, Like in terms of length, he's

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00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: long off the team now, but his putting is more

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Speaker 1: than questionable. And that's what the same thing with Ricky. Now.

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Speaker 1: Ricky is becoming a better ball striker again. But both

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Speaker 1: those two guys were elite putters, especially Jordan made everything

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Speaker 1: when it mattered. So to me, it's like, does the

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Speaker 1: guy get to get the putting magic back because he's

683
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: never gonna strike the ball like Rom, like Rory, hell

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Speaker 1: even like JT. I currently work as a as an

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Speaker 1: assistant superintendent at a former PGA tournament. Check out the

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Speaker 1: Greater Hartford Open. Lots of cool history, I know what

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Speaker 1: the course is. Curious what your thoughts are on this side?

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Speaker 1: Favorite types of grass, green speeds, etc. Keep up the

689
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Speaker 1: great work, Love the refreshing honesty it takes. I would

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Speaker 1: say that playing most of my golf in Northern California,

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Speaker 1: like I didn't have a great feel for all the

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Speaker 1: different grasses across the country. The only I guess I've

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Speaker 1: played golf in Jersey, PA, and I've played golf in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: but I've never played Florida golf, and the majority of

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Speaker 1: my golf has been putted on POA. So like I

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Speaker 1: never quite understand when guys are bitching and moaning about

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Speaker 1: the bumpy grass on the greens on the West Coast swing,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't bother me. That's just what I've grown up

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Speaker 1: playing now. Honestly, like I play a lot now at TPC,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know the grass out there, So I'd

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Speaker 1: be the first to tell you I'm not super locked

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Speaker 1: in on that at all. I just play now. When

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Speaker 1: I'm playing well, like I'm a pretty good player, I

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Speaker 1: can also be pretty terrible. But I don't really think

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Speaker 1: about it like that. Maybe I should probably a hole

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Speaker 1: in my golf vernacular. Game watching, I obviously has talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about Bermuda bent Grass. For the professionals, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of irrelevant for me. It is probably the easiest

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Speaker 1: way to say it. In terms of my golf playing.

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Speaker 1: It does factor in when I gamble because some guys

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Speaker 1: like playing in Florida, Keegan Bradley, Jason Day, some guys

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Speaker 1: like playing on the West coast. Right, it feels like

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Speaker 1: Max homeless kind of translating to both Tiger could play anywhere,

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Speaker 1: Phil could play anywhere. But that's a cool job. Man.

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Speaker 1: Where I went to school at cal Pauly Big Agg School,

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Speaker 1: we had a program, I forget what it was called,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of people become, you know, working the

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Speaker 1: superintended business at golf course. There was a guy in

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Speaker 1: the Bay Area, actually was cal Pauly grad that worked

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Speaker 1: at Contra Costa Country Club, nice little track. John Absolutely

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Speaker 1: love the golf pod. I'm a pro. I'm a golf

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Speaker 1: pro from Michigan and love betting on golf. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to share my strategy for betting on golf with you

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Speaker 1: and your listeners. Before the first round on Thursday, I

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Speaker 1: usually take two different golfers, two top ten on straight

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Speaker 1: bets with odds around three to four to one, hoping

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Speaker 1: that at least one covers. Last week at bay Hill,

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Speaker 1: I took Hatton and Fowler. However, I never bet on

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Speaker 1: a tournament winner until Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning before

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Speaker 1: the teaoff, because you can still get great odds on

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Speaker 1: a tournament winner through thirty six and fifty four holes

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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon. Though, through Saturday afternoon through about twelve holes

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Speaker 1: was Kitty Am was one stroke behind and he was

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Speaker 1: twelve to one to win the tournament with Tim Tucker

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Speaker 1: on his bag, obviously Bryson's former caddy who rumor has

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Speaker 1: it fired Bason. That was my take, not this Connors.

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Speaker 1: I threw one hundred dollars on Kiddiama to win the tournament.

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Speaker 1: Most exhilarating twenty five holes of golf I've ever watched anyway, Anyway,

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Speaker 1: hope this helps your listeners. I like that strategy now typically,

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Speaker 1: especially when you look at the guys that have won

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Speaker 1: some tournaments this year. Scheffler, Homa, and Ram I think

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Speaker 1: it's fair to say, and you'd have to admit Connor,

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Speaker 1: those odds in that same situation, instead of being twelve

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Speaker 1: to one, might be two to one or one to one,

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Speaker 1: so it is very dependent. Like to get a twelve

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Speaker 1: to one guy who's one shot behind with you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five holes left, it's usually gonna be

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Speaker 1: kind of a random guy a Nick Taylor, a Kittiama,

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Speaker 1: you know, a Brendan Todd that type verse. The heavy

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Speaker 1: hitters like even Terrell Hatton or Kegan Bradley would be

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Speaker 1: like three to one, four to one, so good hit.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. I you were kind of in a unique situation,

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Speaker 1: like how many Kittyamas are gonna win these type tournaments?

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Speaker 1: I would say they're gonna be few and far between.

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Speaker 1: The guy with crappy odds because hell, some weeks like

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Speaker 1: Rom and Homa and I would never do this when

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Speaker 1: they're like two shots behind, you know, late Saturday or

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Speaker 1: early Sunday, there's still like one to one or two

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Speaker 1: to one to win. But I hear you. I like

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Speaker 1: hearing different strategies. I love the odds, And that's why

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Speaker 1: I like gambling on golf. Like I put one hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars on Home basically twenty to one. I put seventy

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Speaker 1: five on jt At basically twenty one to one, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then I'll sprinkle. But again, I'm betting five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: You know, I gotta hit a couple to make it

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Speaker 1: all worth it, which luckily throughout the year I hit

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Speaker 1: a couple, but I blow through, you know, these majors.

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Speaker 1: I could blow through a thousand dollars pretty quickly. I

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Speaker 1: like betting on out right guys. Twenty six has been

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Speaker 1: playing consistently for about six years and now hover around

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Speaker 1: ninety considering going to get a driving lesson or meeting

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Speaker 1: with a swing coach, given that the drive is the

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Speaker 1: weakest part of my game. Have you ever gotten a

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Speaker 1: coach or gotten a swing looked at or you just

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Speaker 1: adjusted on your own? Over the years, when I lived

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Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, I went to a guy several times.

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Speaker 1: He was like a fringe PGA tour player. It was actually,

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Speaker 1: looking back, relatively cheap. I think he cost me like

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars for two hours. He was awesome. He

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Speaker 1: really helped me out. I'm constantly making tweaks now, but

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Speaker 1: I no longer pay for it. I would gladly, and

782
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Speaker 1: I'm maybe a month away from really doing it. I

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Speaker 1: send my swing to some of my buddies who are

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Speaker 1: better golfers than me sometimes to look at. But I

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Speaker 1: am one a fan and a believer in having people

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Speaker 1: look at your swing. Now, you know, like I haven't

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Speaker 1: met the guy yet, but the guy that teaches out

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Speaker 1: at TPC Scottsdale. I was playing within the last month

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Speaker 1: with another member out there and he was telling me

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Speaker 1: that the guy he went to him and he was like,

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Speaker 1: this is the best thing I ever did. And this

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Speaker 1: was like five years ago. He was like one hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars an hour. Now it's so popular out there. He's

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Speaker 1: Joel Damon's teacher. He charges like four or five hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars an hour. Like for me, I wouldn't spend five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars an hour, but if you can find a guy,

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Speaker 1: I would say between like seventy five and one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars an hour that has a pretty

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Speaker 1: good reputation. I do not think it can hurt, because

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Speaker 1: sometimes you can only get so much better without someone

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Speaker 1: helping you. And I would say this in any sport

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Speaker 1: there there's a reason we pay football coaches basketball coaches.

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Speaker 1: Like coaching matters, it helps, and specifically with golf, you

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Speaker 1: need people to have a different perspective and to be

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Speaker 1: unbiased and unemotional with your swing. We're just wondering if

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Speaker 1: everyone wats live golf in low definition or was it

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Speaker 1: just me? I feel like nobody is addressing this, but

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Speaker 1: it looked like shit. Honestly, don't remember. I think I

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Speaker 1: talked about YouTube TV. It might have been on three

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Speaker 1: and out and someone's like, you get YouTube TV, it's

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Speaker 1: low death. I'm like, no, I paid twenty dollars a

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Speaker 1: month for four K, so I'm pretty sure it was

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Speaker 1: in four K, But maybe you're right. Maybe CW is

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Speaker 1: not in that high definition. If that's something, I will

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Speaker 1: definitely keep an eye on this next go round. I'm

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Speaker 1: on the fence about going. If it wasn't during NFL

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Speaker 1: free agency, one would drive down to two soon. I'm

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Speaker 1: still probably like fifty fifty gonna drive down there, pay

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Speaker 1: a couple hundred dollars for like the seventeenth hole, unlimited booze.

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Speaker 1: I just want to take it in because, let's face it,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna last forever. And just to be like,

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, remember when Live golf I'll be able to

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Speaker 1: talk about like when I'm fifty. Yeah, I went to

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Speaker 1: an event. It was kind of crazy sab Bryson and Phil.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was quite the experience. You know if

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Speaker 1: if you knew someone that was like, yeah, I went

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Speaker 1: to an AFL game with Steve Young, Right, that's it's

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Speaker 1: kind of something cool you have forever. I went to

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Speaker 1: a what was the It was the NBA and the ABA,

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Speaker 1: Like I saw the ABA. Now it's a little different,

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Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, the NFL in the

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Speaker 1: AFL back in the day. You only get some of

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Speaker 1: these opportunities. So often love the show, curious to see

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Speaker 1: what if you have seen John Neucie's Twitter thread of

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Speaker 1: all the restriction Live is putting players up who join

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Speaker 1: The thread is very eye opening. Going through it, it

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Speaker 1: seems like Live actually has a lot more control over

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Speaker 1: the players than a lot of people originally thought, what

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Well, if I pay you, let's just

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Speaker 1: pick one hundred million dollars or fifty million dollars. Did

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Speaker 1: anyone think that they money is never free, especially a

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Speaker 1: lot of money. It usually comes with stipulations. If you

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Speaker 1: have a company and I'm an investor and you're like middlecoff,

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Speaker 1: I need some money to invest in my company to

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Speaker 1: get it going, I'm gonna need five million dollars. I'd

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Speaker 1: be like, well, okay, I'll give you five million dollars.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go shark tank. I want fifty one percent. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you manage it in everything, but any major decision,

849
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want a piece of it. Like one thing

850
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: the tour has is up until this year, they never

851
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: mandated you to really do anything. Now they owned your

852
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: right so they could sell it. But that's where the

853
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: money came from. So if I'm going to pay you

854
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: an upfront flat fee fifty one hundred, one hundred and

855
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, yes, I'm gonna dictate. One of the

856
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: things was like who you're able to interview with. You

857
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: gotta get it checked off of the ownership of your team.

858
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: The apparel. When you play in majors, you got to

859
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: wear the level apparel. My personal thought reading through that

860
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: thread and then it's been a couple of weeks, was like, yeah, no, shit,

861
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that crazy at all. If

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00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: I was on live side and I was checking, you know,

863
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: how allocating this money, I would have some restrictions on you.

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00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: And especially when you factor in you know, Saudi Arabia.

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00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: I can't just have you talking to anybody. We've seen

866
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: Phil Mickelson. It can get really ugly, really fast. So yeah,

867
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: it's more restrictive than we thought. I guess if you

868
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: thought they were just gonna get free money and be

869
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: allowed to do whatever they wanted, and I just think

870
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: the older you get, you realize that's not how the

871
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: world works. Whether we're talking about hey, I got five

872
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for you, or hey I got five million

873
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: dollars for you, it all comes with stipulations. Usually it's

874
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: rare that someone just hands you a lot of money

875
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: and it's like, just do what you do. You know,

876
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: It's just not the way it works. So I hear

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Speaker 1: what you're saying, but I wasn't shocked. Are we going

878
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: to get see a Ricky victory sooner than later? I

879
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: love him at the Players next week he seems to

880
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: be a hot putting week away from a vintage rick

881
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: Also love Scottie this week and Mitchell as a long shot. Yeah,

882
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: I threw twenty five dollars or thirty dollars on Ricky.

883
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: I think he's like fifty five sixty to one. Now,

884
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: Never forget this. Ricky, when he was one of the

885
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: best players in the world, was not winning a lot,

886
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: you know, So like Speeth went through some struggles, Speth

887
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: won a lot when he's playing well. Ricky played really well.

888
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: Top fives a lot, you know, is he You know,

889
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: Jason Day has a lot more win equity than Ricky,

890
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: so that's something you got to balance. Like, I think

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00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: Ricky has five career wins and his biggest win obviously

892
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: is at the Players, but he's never won a major.

893
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: He wasn't winning a lot of big tournaments. Now he

894
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: was a major factor in a lot of them. So

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00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him. I'm a huge Ricky Fowler fan.

896
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: I mean, who's not his game? His swing looks awesome

897
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: right now, but I'm always gonna spread a little as

898
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: long as his odds are pretty, you know, between fifty

899
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: and seventy to one. But I do think we need

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00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: to take into account it's a flyer bet, you know,

901
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: It's not like you know Tiger was healthy again. Yeah

902
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: he can win. You know, I'm gonna google Ricky's resume.

903
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: Not as many wins as the name, And that was

904
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: always kind of the knock on him was he was

905
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: more famous than he was like a winner, which to me,

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Speaker 1: you get credit for being a great businessman and being

907
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: a good ambassador, so that never actually bothered me. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate everyone firing in. Enjoy the golf this week, get

909
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: out there, swing him yourself, and we'll see you next

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Speaker 1: week at Golopod. Fall on Instagram, fire in those d

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Speaker 1: MS audios,