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Speaker 1: Now, the Shotgun Starting Golf is full of mathematics. There's

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Speaker 1: have to do in order to make a tournament work.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how

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Speaker 1: we do a shotgun start here.

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Speaker 2: And where we go.

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Speaker 1: Alright, alright, alright, dig.

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Speaker 3: No man, dart your.

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Speaker 4: Greed to Welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start.

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Speaker 4: It is June twenty sixth, Kevin, how we do it?

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Speaker 2: Brendan, I am great coming to you from the lovely

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Speaker 2: state of Montana, the greatest states in the nation. It's

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Speaker 2: a Christmas player, no, but I mean, you know Gary

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Speaker 2: plays Eric Washington was the greatest state in the nation,

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Speaker 2: and he was. I think full of it then, so

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Speaker 2: I can I can brag in my home state a

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Speaker 4: Seems lovely, seems lovely. I would like to get out there.

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Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Yellowstone. I assume that's just

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Speaker 4: how it is. I think, ye, the Montana I want

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Speaker 5: Just taking murder, just taking people of the train station

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Speaker 5: every day.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a few murders. But I'm hearing myself.

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Speaker 2: If I can, if I can fit it in.

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Speaker 4: H didn't Taylor Sheridan get sit at some point last week?

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Speaker 4: Was that like Brandell? Didn't Brandall?

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Speaker 2: Randall said, you could not write a better script. I

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Speaker 2: don't think Taylor ship Sheridan could write a better script

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Speaker 2: than the Scottie Scheffler winning the US Open on his birthday.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that if mister Shimbley is familiar.

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Speaker 2: With Taylor Sheridan's catalog, right, that would be a pretty

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Speaker 2: lame Taylor Sheridan plot. There'd have to be, you know.

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Speaker 5: A murderer, someone have to run a governor.

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Speaker 4: Have we gone from like you know, Dave Chase, David

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Speaker 4: Simon to Taylor Sheridan being the citation for this kind

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Speaker 4: of thing? Or is that or Vince Gilligan writing? Wasn't

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Speaker 4: he the Are we just citing Taylor Sheridan now is

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Speaker 4: the foremost script showrunner?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I guess he has a fifteen different shows. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's like four different golf shows. Now, why can't Taylor

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Speaker 2: Sheridan write a golf show? Frankly?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know I was walking in the fire around

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Speaker 4: Wyndham Clark following Wyndham Clark and who's Windom Scotty little

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Speaker 4: little home player Scottie. There's an individual came up to

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Speaker 4: Owen Wilson or the Li Wilson which stick polo on

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Speaker 4: the stick? This year is like the hell of that?

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Speaker 4: Get here? Who's what was interesting?

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Speaker 2: So to anybody the stick? Right?

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Speaker 4: He was somewhet of notes. Yeah, yeah, but I was.

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Speaker 4: I was chuckling at the at the polo. So Taylor's

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Speaker 4: share and we have to get out. I'd love to

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Speaker 4: get out to Montana. It seems like what's the best

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say, actually, I love.

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Speaker 2: Early fall, Like September is probably like, but when it's

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Speaker 2: the next couple of days here. That's cosmic great, But man,

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Speaker 2: you get a Chris Fall day, you know, it's like

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's been it's been unseasonably cool here, I'd say

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Speaker 4: So the sort of codified Challengers and Champions Tours, you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean my main reaction was did Pine Valley

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Speaker 2: They were, please, but they were essentially like U is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, before you get too much of your commercial stink

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Speaker 4: just say that not Cypress for four years. Does that

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Speaker 4: Wherever Spanish Bay. I would like to now up Cypress

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Speaker 5: What is the benefit to Cyprus or Pine Valley for

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Speaker 2: Have this, Like, it's not like they need more members,

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Speaker 4: Think sometimes it's just cool and there's a there's there's

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Speaker 4: maybe a level of siege. I'm not saying with this

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Speaker 2: So the best players in the world, come up and

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Speaker 4: Like you can't You're not allowed to complain about Cyprus Point,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was a good overall, a good plan, right,

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Speaker 4: Uh no, no, no, we have more race than that

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Speaker 4: Tony fifty seven. By the way, this week, all right,

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Speaker 4: there we go another good deed. Jordan's speak in this

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Speaker 2: What an insane like Canet story, it is to like speak,

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Speaker 4: Like it's unfair. Good golf is good golf right sixty,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, was like he stunk against Ohio State and then

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Speaker 4: Yeh was it Sam Houston maybe or one of those Yeah,

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Speaker 2: But that was kind of weak. Yeah. No, I think

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's it feels bad, like you're like,

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Speaker 2: You know, these guys love being pampered by the travelers,

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Speaker 2: you gotta say, I mean, the travelers doing it right

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Speaker 4: I think they're doing it right in a couple of

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Speaker 4: different ways. Maybe the bank account might also be done

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Speaker 4: That's like the fact of the matter.

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Speaker 2: But they helped us boys this week, so that was great.

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Speaker 4: You know, multiple lunches Shane Lowry and I think the

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Speaker 4: I spoil?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: I mean we alluded to the rest buse.

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Speaker 6: Shane Lowry was a late add but we alluded to

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Speaker 7: Rustbus will be out.

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Speaker 4: Dad, Like you guys didn't want him and you want

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Speaker 4: to just we we.

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Speaker 6: We we said, hey, we'd like to speak to both

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Speaker 6: we went okay, and then it was oh, now Shane

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Speaker 4: Very late late in the game.

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Speaker 2: This is after we had to convince you that Shane

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Speaker 5: You and Joseph are kind of really like, I don't

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Speaker 4: We gonna get me piker like Nothinganks, I'm good.

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Speaker 7: We we were excited. We were excited about the rust bus.

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Speaker 7: We were gonna gast up the rest bus. We were

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Speaker 4: Up in that engine. We were very excited.

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Speaker 7: Joseph, Uh yeah, I'll do a little break and forth.

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Speaker 7: Weall preview here, Joseph. I don't know if Joseph's gassing

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Speaker 4: Had him on the back foot about discussing roll back

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Speaker 7: I would say we started off pretty well, and then

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Speaker 2: By the end, you got a little frost Nickson on

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Speaker 4: It's just lunch lunch. When lunch turns a little little contucious.

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Speaker 4: Love that, Yeah, I love that preview, all right? Love that?

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Speaker 4: Love that? Well? Uh, Kevin, I gotta ask you, you're

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Speaker 4: traveling cross country, gone from Long Island to Baltimore to Montana.

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Speaker 4: How you sleeping?

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Speaker 2: Not so great? You know? I think you know. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you this my parents don't listen to this, so

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Speaker 2: they'll never hear. This mattress in my parents' house is horrible.

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Speaker 2: It's just sprutal. My wife and I have been been

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Speaker 5: It turned up with like a few like last year.

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Speaker 2: We looked underneath it and the frame was all busted up,

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Speaker 5: Well, that'd be insulting to them.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's not awesome.

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Speaker 2: Alrighty, I have a quick question, but that when do

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Do you ever like rollover and like your arm gets

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Speaker 2: It's okay, I keep it.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have a king, So I just there's

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Speaker 2: good at sleeping in the same bed if they have to?

435
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Speaker 2: Or do they like kick the crap out of each other.

436
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Speaker 4: The ladder the ladder they sway and kick and bounce

437
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Speaker 4: and then they start yelling at each other. It's three

438
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Speaker 4: in the morning, and then like they might actually start

439
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 4: wailing away on each other like fisticuffs because one's pissed off.

440
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 4: Yeah no, it doesn't go well, so they're gonna be

441
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Speaker 4: jammed in together.

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Speaker 2: I can see you using your dad voice in the

443
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Speaker 2: middle of night, like enough, we are, We're done with this.

444
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Speaker 2: Go to sleep.

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Speaker 5: I'm I'm at my wits end here.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean yeah, goddamn it. It's three in

447
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 4: the morning. Go to sleep. Shut the hell up. Uh yeah, no,

448
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Speaker 4: I will do that.

449
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 2: Sorry.

450
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Speaker 4: I guess that makes you a bad father than guilty.

451
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Speaker 4: Any other Travelers thoughts. Besides Beltgate, there is a notable

452
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Speaker 4: absence Roy McElroy. I found it funny is prance around

453
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Speaker 4: Birkdale and Sir Nick probably didn't expect to be on

454
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 4: social media. Sir Nick Faldough also happens to be there.

455
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 4: It turns the selfie camera on, he does a little

456
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Speaker 4: walk and talk with Rory as the rest of the

457
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Speaker 4: tour is playing Thursday at Birkdale. Bob Herrick of The

458
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Speaker 4: Daily Drive newsletter formerly your colleague of ESPN, reported he's

459
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Speaker 4: been sort of on the case, well, like, how's Roy

460
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Speaker 4: going to stay a member? What's going on here? He's

461
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Speaker 4: skipped the Travelers. He'd skipped Heritage already the week after.

462
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 4: Excuse me, the Masters. He has reported and talking to

463
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Speaker 4: the tour that he will fall short of the minimum

464
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Speaker 4: fifteen events that is required to play via the quote

465
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Speaker 4: home tour rule, which allows him to get onlimited releases

466
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Speaker 4: in Europe and Middle East in exchange for having to

467
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Speaker 4: meet the minimum on tour. But there apparently is an out.

468
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Speaker 4: The PGA Tour provided this wording from the Player Handbook

469
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Speaker 4: that Heroic did not cite in his original report. He said,

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Speaker 4: quote notwithstanding the above, the Commission, upon application by a

471
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Speaker 4: foreign member and for medical reasons or other extraordinary circumstances

472
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Speaker 4: that the Commissioner, at his discretion determines to be a

473
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Speaker 4: valid reason for not playing in at least fifteen PGA

474
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Speaker 4: Tour co sponsored or proved tournaments, may reduce the fifteen

475
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 4: minimum tournament requirement. So that is gobblygook to say, we

476
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Speaker 4: can make it up as we go along and there

477
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 4: can be discretionary whatever, Bob Wrights, isn't that convenient. There

478
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 4: was little doubt McElroy would remain a member for next year,

479
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 4: but the tour took issue with the phrasing that it

480
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Speaker 4: would be quote bending the rules to make McElroy fully

481
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Speaker 4: eligible if he didn't meet the minimum. I assume Eric

482
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Speaker 4: wrote bending the rules. Well, you know, if there is

483
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Speaker 4: no real fucking rule, maybe you're not. It can't they

484
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 4: are bending the rules.

485
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: Like one of our rules is that we can make

486
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Speaker 2: up the rules, so we can't can't possibly be bending

487
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Speaker 2: the rules if our rules allow us to just make

488
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Speaker 2: up the rules.

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Speaker 4: Look, this is the world we'd live in. I get it.

490
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Speaker 4: Some things apply to some people. Everything's kind of some

491
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 4: objective you know, maybe Rory, maybe Rory should have face

492
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 4: timed his favorite the commissioner's favorite NFL coach, like Diana

493
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Speaker 4: Rassini getting out of a speeding ticket. Like everything subjective

494
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 4: in this world. I can't like we we you know,

495
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 4: there's different rules and different you know, workarounds. Although you know,

496
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Speaker 4: I'm saying we've lost the guardrails more than ever, what's

497
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Speaker 4: societally acceptable?

498
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Speaker 2: It did not have a Diana Rossini reference.

499
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Speaker 4: Today that I mean, that's an ethical issue exceptarate it's

500
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Speaker 4: like a straight up ethical issue, like you know, right.

501
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Speaker 5: The story was kind of a nothing burger though, like yeah,

502
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Speaker 5: time spece.

503
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Speaker 2: It was basically just like their opportunity to condescend to

504
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 2: the athletic and be like, these aren't real journalists as if,

505
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 2: like the people in their opinion pages aren't like a

506
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 2: complete hacks and elect in so many ways, sorry.

507
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Speaker 4: To go, I mean, yeah, I never mind. I was

508
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 4: going to start him up the New York Times sports page,

509
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 4: but we don't even need to get into that anyways.

510
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 4: So Rorys gets a discretionary excuse or discretionary exemption. It

511
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 4: just it's bending the rules. Like, I don't know, you're

512
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 4: gonna be mad about that? Well, then say, you also

513
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 4: the same same outfit that just said, well, Pine Valley's

514
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 4: not a wish list, you know. You just you're just

515
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 4: kind of throwing things out.

516
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Speaker 5: There are no rules. It's all just we're making it

517
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 5: up as we go. It's like that, whose line is it?

518
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 2: Anyway? The points don't matter. There are rules.

519
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 4: Yeah.

520
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Speaker 5: The only thing I'll say is like it does on

521
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Speaker 5: the surface, Like Rory was the guy who when they

522
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 5: were making up signature events, was like, Hey, everybody's got

523
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 5: to play. This is super important. And now he's basically

524
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Speaker 5: be like yo, scre y all.

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Speaker 2: But I also think that Rory's has a right to

526
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Speaker 2: sort of feel betrayed by like just the whole apparatus

527
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Speaker 2: in some ways, like he was the person who was

528
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Speaker 2: doing everything it could to sort of keep other people

529
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Speaker 2: from leaving, to keep the tour from you know, buckling

530
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Speaker 2: under or the pressure from Live, and then Tour turned

531
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Speaker 2: around and was like, yeah, like, thanks for that, but

532
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 2: we're gonna go ahead and just take Saudi money and merge.

533
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 5: And I think R right at that point was like, yeah,

534
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 5: you guys, just go ahead and figure this out.

535
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Speaker 2: I'm no longer a party to any of these high

536
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: level discussions. I'm just gonna go ahead and play where

537
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 2: I like to play. And I honestly think I think

538
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 2: when you pass the threshold of winning twenty times that

539
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 2: you shouldn't have to play a minimum of anything. You

540
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: should basically just have the right to be a member

541
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Speaker 2: and go. If you want to play four events a year,

542
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: that's your prerogative. If you don't like it, win twenty

543
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: times on tour, that's I mean. I think DJ could

544
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: have a great case of coming back from Live being like,

545
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm a lifetime member. I earned enough

546
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 2: victories to be able to come and go as I choose.

547
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 2: I resigned my membership before I left for Live. If

548
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 2: Live collapses, I should be able to come back and

549
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 2: play whenever I want, And you could make this dumb

550
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Speaker 2: case that Phil Mickelson should be able to do the same,

551
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 2: although they're probably extenuating circumstances. But I just like either

552
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 2: twenty plus wins matters in life.

553
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Speaker 4: It doesn't definitely some extenuated circumstances with Phil. I uh,

554
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Speaker 4: I agree. Look, I agree with the DJ point. I like,

555
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 4: is Rory clearly like getting preferential treatment? Yes, like that

556
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 4: is happening. Has he earned that? Probably separate debate that

557
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 4: you know, maybe Lanto Griffin or some mule might take

558
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 4: issue with.

559
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Speaker 2: I.

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Speaker 4: This is sort of like he's done his time and

561
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 4: work on the tour. He's he's both worked on behalf

562
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 4: of the tour and personally succeeded there. I think, you know,

563
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 4: if he's still quote unquote supporting the tour, playing it,

564
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 4: but not maybe to the maximum, Like, then you take

565
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 4: it up with the rules, take it up with the

566
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Speaker 4: rules and the commissioner. This happens across sports, whether it's

567
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Speaker 4: the star gets to travel on a different plane, starting

568
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 4: to get the plan to play all the away games

569
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Speaker 4: or things like that. You know, like the the old

570
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 4: head who's you know, put his time in and done this,

571
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 4: that or the other. I is it black and white,

572
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 4: fair or it makes sense? Maybe not, but that's not

573
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Speaker 4: the way necessarily the world works. And I think as

574
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Speaker 4: long as he's well intentioned about still supporting the tour, right,

575
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Speaker 4: it's not like this is some sort of I got

576
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 4: a separate issue with the recent amateur champion and at

577
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Speaker 4: Ireland Stewart Griant, like, I don't think there's some scheme

578
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 4: he's running here. Rory to like, oh, I want to

579
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Speaker 4: go make a bunch of money elsewhere, but also still

580
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Speaker 4: be a tour member and make my mind like, I

581
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 4: don't know that that's necessarily the case. He's just at

582
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Speaker 4: a stage in his career where you'd probably go play

583
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Speaker 4: Burkedale and prep for that Ivan.

584
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Speaker 2: Rory and Brison can start their own tour and just

585
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: do it on YouTube, you know, a series of matches.

586
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure they'd be get right in the

587
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: same car together, you know, turn into a little series.

588
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 4: Egide Taylor, she could write it that that would be good.

589
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 4: Ego eyed front to the program last night yesterday texted

590
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 4: me that Bryson was walking around d C yesterday with

591
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Speaker 4: some bro lugging his clubs, his tour bag and going

592
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Speaker 4: into the Google like headquarters d c HQ. So Bryson's

593
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 4: in talent.

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Speaker 2: She need go right to the source to figure out

595
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 2: the problem, Jim, and I needs to really be like,

596
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 2: this is this is where it's all gone wrong for you.

597
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 4: A super super nerdy subject, but one that will cause

598
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Speaker 4: some discussion I would say in the locker room about

599
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Speaker 4: you know, fulfilling your membership requirements. On the Women's PGA

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Speaker 4: Championship at Hazel Tee, uh Na yn opens with the

601
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Speaker 4: sixty three the Creed. She leads by four way out

602
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Speaker 4: in front. Nellie Corda quitted herself pretty well. Watched a

603
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Speaker 4: good chunk of this in the middle of the middle

604
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Speaker 4: of the day Thursday with my daughter, but came in

605
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Speaker 4: with the seventy. Kind of was looking she's had a

606
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Speaker 4: double late, was looking like it was going to be

607
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Speaker 4: a five under. A round made it double late. So

608
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 4: she's two under. That's seven shots back. If Ina Ewan

609
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Speaker 4: just keeps running with it like a Wyndham Clark situation,

610
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 4: wired a wire and then there's nothing that they can do.

611
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Speaker 4: But I maintain that, you know, three for three is

612
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Speaker 4: certainly still within play. Kind of would be one of

613
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Speaker 4: the most remarkable stories in sports. I don't know if

614
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Speaker 4: it would get the get the run that it should,

615
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 4: but if she's three for three, that should be a

616
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Speaker 4: massive moment this weekend or with the ability to go

617
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Speaker 4: three for three.

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Speaker 2: Did you catch any of her press conference or in

619
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Speaker 2: the week No. She seems very comfortable with who she

620
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Speaker 2: is these days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This is not someone who was particularly loved doing media,

623
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Speaker 2: and I think, I honestly think winning to already to

624
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Speaker 2: share a particularly the US Open, has sort of like

625
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 2: unburdened her from like this idea that you're having you're

626
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Speaker 2: not living up to your potential in some ways, and

627
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Speaker 2: now she's sort of like, yeah, like I'm kind of good,

628
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 2: like I you know, she was making fun of herself.

629
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Speaker 2: She was telling stories about when she was you know

630
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Speaker 2: first you know, first was in the US Open playing

631
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 2: Sabonic or maybe it's PJA, but the first time she

632
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: played a major, I mean, she was great. She was like,

633
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: very charming, and I just thought, you know, this is

634
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Speaker 2: good for this. If the more comfortable she is with

635
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Speaker 2: this kind.

636
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Speaker 4: Of stuff, she also one thing does seems much more

637
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 4: comfortable with that. And this is some armchair psych stuff

638
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 4: or couchs. She seems much more comfortable with all the

639
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 4: adoration she's getting, right, Like she's realizes there's like hundreds,

640
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 4: hundreds of little girls that are there, thousands of girls

641
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 4: that are there in that day just for her and

642
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 4: like all about like wanting to cheer her on. It

643
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 4: seems to be really like be I don't know, reveling

644
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 4: in it, but but feels that and it is sort

645
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 4: of engaging with it and and sort of living up

646
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Speaker 4: there her that like, you know, kind of taking on

647
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 4: that role of being sort of an ambassador, even if

648
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Speaker 4: you you know, she's not doing YouTube videos or whatever,

649
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Speaker 4: but she's certainly it seems like in a very personal,

650
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Speaker 4: almost one to one level, super comfortable with the adoration

651
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Speaker 4: she's getting. And reportedly from Riviera she was like that

652
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Speaker 4: all the way around.

653
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Speaker 2: So what are we gonna do if she doesn't win

654
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Speaker 2: this one but then wins freaking heavy on and then

655
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Speaker 2: the British Uh.

656
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's not a hypothetical I'm ready to entertain yet,

657
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 4: but it's not the seasoned slam. I don't know, Like

658
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Speaker 4: I know, the USGA will claim that the US Women's

659
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 4: Open is the is the premier krem Dela Creme, and

660
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Speaker 4: that's they should. It's their championship. It's the oldest, and

661
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Speaker 4: if you don't, the Women's PGA is arguably like the

662
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 4: most significant major in women's golf. Josh Carboner had an

663
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 4: interesting point that, like, look, KPMG along with the PGA

664
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Speaker 4: pushed women's golf entirely to a different trata, not just

665
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Speaker 4: their own, but the entire sport. The person this week

666
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 4: is up to thirteen million. I think it was like

667
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 4: three and some change almost four when they came here.

668
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 4: Hannah Green won and several years ago, and like thirteen million,

669
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Speaker 4: they've elevated the entire sport. I thought that was an

670
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 4: interesting point by Carpenter. So in terms of prestige, whatever,

671
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 4: winning the US the Cox Trophy, the US Women's Open

672
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 4: maybe a different, different kind of prestige, but it's arguably

673
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Speaker 4: like if you win for majors and not the Women's PGA.

674
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Speaker 4: I just don't know that I'm calling it the slam.

675
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 4: It's not hypothetical.

676
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 2: I went on, you're not growing the game. You're just

677
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 2: disrespecting the fine tradition of the avon, aren't you.

678
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Speaker 4: The Cox Trophy is for the Women's Am though. I

679
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 4: made that not the Women's Open. Sorry, apologize, I'm gonna

680
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Speaker 4: get a trophy. Trophy checked on that one by the

681
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Speaker 4: USJA folks. Sorry, I I realized that in the moment.

682
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Speaker 4: Let's get to news real quick.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

684
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Speaker 4: John rab and Turrell hatt and are going to play

685
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 4: the Scottish Open, which is a PGA tour but technically

686
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Speaker 4: co sanction, sort of the live filtering to the dp

687
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 4: World Tour. It seems to be happening in greater numbers

688
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 4: this week. We have Joaque Neeman was playing well at

689
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 4: the Italian Open. There's a ton of live guys playing

690
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 4: that Italian Open. And now you're gonna get John Rahm

691
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 4: and Turrell at the Renaissance Club. Any reaction to that?

692
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 2: Not really, Yeah, not really. It's nice to have them

693
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 2: in the mix of more, you know things, more real tournaments.

694
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just I wish I could understand

695
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 2: what the hell's going on wrong? Like why is he

696
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 2: just crashing out of majors like this? It seemed like

697
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 2: he was wink wink, had it figured out and fixed.

698
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 2: At the PGA Championship. He wouldn't share what his secret was,

699
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 2: but he had figured it out and was prep and

700
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 2: and then played really well in the first round of

701
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 2: the US Open and then just completely you know, pulled

702
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: the the ripcord from there and when the easy way

703
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 2: that when well, when well, literally while Wyndham was tearing

704
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: it up, was kind of coming apart. I I you know,

705
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: maybe it's just one bad round whatever, but it just

706
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: feels like a lot another lost year for rom Like

707
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Speaker 2: how are you you know this is kind of what

708
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: we always said, or like you're pissing away five years

709
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 2: of your prime uh for you know, granted for a

710
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: lot of money, But I don't know. I mean, I

711
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: think it's good the DP World Tour figured out a

712
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 2: solution because it would have been obnoxious to have the

713
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 2: debate of like John not being on the Ryder Cup

714
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 2: this and that. So I'm glad that they have come

715
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: to some sort of agreement. I don't you know. I

716
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: did hear from some people, uh at the Masters that

717
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 2: not everybody on Team Europe was like like, oh, we

718
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: got to have them. There was sort of like if

719
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 2: he doesn't figure this out, so be it. So Europe

720
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 2: feeling pretty cocky about themselves, like that they're they're they're

721
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 2: pretty confident that they got to figure it out. So

722
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 2: I threw something out earlier a week on Twitter. I

723
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 2: was like, we should just pair Patrick Reed and wind

724
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 2: them in the Ryder Cup and a dare uh and

725
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 2: a lot of people are like, oh, well, that's that

726
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: just means the US will lose. Man, the US is

727
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 2: losing anyway, Like this is not It's not like a coincidence.

728
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 2: They've lost for forty years over there, So you got

729
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: to try something. Might as well get two of our bigger,

730
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 2: like negative energy knuckleheads out there and just like the

731
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: middle finger to the Irish, like walking down the fairways

732
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: making birdies that that's maybe one of our only you know,

733
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Speaker 2: only shots.

734
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Speaker 4: I mean, if the hockey team can win for the

735
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 4: first time since a miracle on ice and the World

736
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Speaker 4: Cup team can is looking like game busters although they

737
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 4: lost at the Buzzer last night?

738
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Speaker 5: Can Iya did.

739
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Speaker 2: You know that they changed Turkey changed his name to Turkey?

740
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 4: Because I glad you brought this up. Is this like,

741
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 4: I don't want to be insensitive to some sort of

742
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 4: cultural this is how we do it. But I it's

743
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 4: the English broadcast, the Fox, It's the American English broadcast. Yeah,

744
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 4: for my whole life, it's just been Turkey, Turkey, sandwich Turkey.

745
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 4: Is this a recent rebranding? What is going?

746
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: Is this.

747
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 4: Always been and we were doing it ron and being

748
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 4: like kind of the the ignorant America. But like, you know,

749
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 4: if if it's some sort of like you know, an

750
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Speaker 4: Asian country, are they just pronouncing the characters like from

751
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 4: like if China's in it, it's the American English broadcast.

752
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm getting this into uncomfortable. Why are they called

753
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Speaker 4: Turkey I or whatever? It was all night, all night,

754
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 4: it was just turn It was.

755
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Speaker 2: Sort of a weird like double standard too. It's like,

756
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Speaker 2: why don't we call Spain?

757
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 4: Right, That's what I'm getting that, Like, I don't get it.

758
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 5: All of a sudden we got it honored k totally.

759
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Speaker 4: You know. If that's what they want, fine, I just

760
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 4: it's been away for the for the last forty years

761
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Speaker 4: my entire life, I don't.

762
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Speaker 2: Know, speaking the New York Times, I felt like I

763
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: should be reading more than New York Times if I

764
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 2: didn't understand that, like a year they've been jerk instead

765
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Speaker 2: of Turkey.

766
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Speaker 4: So I'm not Look if I'm not being in such

767
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 4: to hope, I'm not being in such stuff. I remember

768
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Speaker 4: when I remember Tiger went to the Turkish Airlines Open

769
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 4: and obviously for an appearance of some significant magnitude, and uh,

770
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Speaker 4: I think I think there must be. He was hitting

771
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 4: golf balls drives across some bridge that I think was

772
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Speaker 4: was the official point from Europe to Asia or something

773
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 4: like that. That was like, what a what an interesting

774
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Speaker 4: moment that was Tiger was Now he's announcing the new

775
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 4: to the Turkish Airlines Open. Had a moment there. Everybody

776
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 4: would go to that and whatever was November they were

777
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 4: rolling out cash.

778
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Speaker 2: Now they just give provide hair hair plugs to our

779
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 2: best fading athletes. Len Donovan, looking like a fliggies, played

780
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 2: lacrosse with his like full head of hair. Some haircuts

781
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 2: this week. I this lacrosse thing. You know, you're a

782
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 2: regular lacrosse dad. But all my Montana friends were I

783
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 2: took my daughters out to dinner last night with a

784
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Speaker 2: bunch of my high school buddies and they were kind

785
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 2: of grilling them and asking them and see looking at

786
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Speaker 2: pictures of their boyfriends on the phone, and my friends Montana,

787
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: we're just baffled by the Maryland haircuts, the birds upside down,

788
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Speaker 2: bird's nest or whatever.

789
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Speaker 5: It is totally unfamiliar with.

790
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 2: This phenomenon out here. Montana lacrosse hair.

791
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's a big thing. Last bit of the

792
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 4: is USO Open ratings I'd say were slightly down. Though

793
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 4: they'll claim they're own this whole big data they I

794
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,720
Speaker 4: think they just we saw even with our own stuff,

795
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 4: ratings behind the Peach Championship. I believe that's the first

796
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 4: time that's happened in a while. I think there's just

797
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 4: a lot going on with the World Cup. They got

798
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 4: out from under the NBA Finals at least they had

799
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 4: like the stage from that, But ratings behind the PGA Championship,

800
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 4: So I don't know if you're into ratings talk. Let's

801
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Speaker 4: get to T mobile flashback Friday. With T Mobile earlier

802
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 4: this month, they became the official five G network partner

803
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Speaker 4: of the USGA and all its national championships, including the

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Speaker 4: US Open and Women's Open. They have partnered with the

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Speaker 4: usjreing enhanced video review and communications capability for rules officials

806
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Speaker 4: directly to their phones. May have become an handy when

807
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 4: JaMarcus Neman was chucking clubs down the sixth fairway there,

808
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 4: you never know they were immediate connectivity at T Mobile. Now,

809
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Speaker 4: officials across the course have immediate access to HD video

810
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 4: replay capabilities anywhere when need it. So advanced network solutions

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Speaker 4: from T Mobile ensure the USGA has access to reliable

812
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 4: connectivity when it matters most at the height of competitions,

813
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 4: as major championships are on the line. We have another

814
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Speaker 4: team mode. We We've explored the space of Dustin Johnson's oscillation, wiggle,

815
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Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it. We've explored Bobby Jones,

816
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 4: what was the famous quote that may have been fake?

817
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 4: May have rather rob a bank sooner.

818
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,959
Speaker 5: Rather congratulate me for not robbing a bank.

819
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 2: I've just been invented by golf writers.

820
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 4: So we've done that. Where are we going today with

821
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 4: past us open USGA controversies or rules kerfuffles.

822
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to go back to one of golf's

823
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 2: most famous nicknames, TC two Chips Chin, who I love this.

824
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Speaker 4: I don't think people of our generation quite comprehend how

825
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 4: significant of an issue this was, or how like what

826
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Speaker 4: five alarm fire would be today.

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Speaker 2: So TC Chen born in Taiwan, grew up there sort

828
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: of interested in golf through like hearing the legends of

829
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 2: Trevino and Nicholas and stuff, reading books whatnot. Came became

830
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 2: a turnpro at a very young age and was actually

831
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Speaker 2: one of the first like Chinese players to ever play

832
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 2: professional golf, certainly at a high level.

833
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 5: Became an infamous and people always misuse infamous.

834
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 2: Brennan I was just like teasing a writer at the

835
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 2: US Open that people are always like, oh, I just

836
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 2: want to I can't wait to be infamous.

837
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Speaker 5: Whatever, No, you don't want to be infamous. Infamous means

838
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 5: like evil fame.

839
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Speaker 2: So if anytime you see someone saying that for something

840
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: you know in they bring out through infamy. That's TC

841
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: Chen who became famous for an incident at the nineteen

842
00:43:55,239 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: eighty five US Open. He is the first guy I

843
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: did not know this before doing research, to ever have

844
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 2: an albatross in the US Open. Made that during the

845
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 2: first round hold out of three wood on the first

846
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 2: day from like two fifty four, and it sort of

847
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,959
Speaker 2: vaulted him into the lead of the US Open.

848
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 4: Of course, where we're talking about we're.

849
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Speaker 2: Talking about oak Oakland Hills.

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Speaker 4: Excuse okay, all right, okay, all right, And so.

851
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 5: You know, eighty five this is kind of the end

852
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 5: of the Jack era.

853
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 2: The beginning of you know, the you know, I guess.

854
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 5: What would you say, Crenshaws, Faldo, sort of you know

855
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,280
Speaker 5: Norman that kind.

856
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: Of you know, strange that elolution. I guess Norman has

857
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 2: already been on the scene a little bit at this point.

858
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 2: And this, you know, back when the US Open was

859
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 2: very like just thick rough. It was kind of more

860
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 2: of like a crap shoot, right Like this was, you know,

861
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 2: you could get some random winners in this kind of stuff.

862
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: And so tc Chin was leading by four strokes on

863
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 2: Sunday on the last day of the US Open.

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00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 5: When he came to it was the.

865
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Speaker 2: Sixth hole, the four hundred and fifty six yards something,

866
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 2: which back then was like a monster. And he hit

867
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 2: a four iron into the fifth hole on Sunday's final

868
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 2: round and it kind of landed a little short and

869
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 2: into some gnarly gnarly rough and basically tc Chen at

870
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 2: this point he was vibing. He was like, hey, like,

871
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna win the US Open.

872
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 5: Like I'm you know, I'm feeling feeling myself here.

873
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 2: I'm great. He was leading Andy North and Dave Wilson

874
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 2: and Dave sorry, Ny Bar maybe one other person playing

875
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 2: really well and he did what if you've ever done

876
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 2: this someone immediately probably throughout TC Chen's name. He tried

877
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 2: to hit a real like steep kind of shot in

878
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: this gnarly rough and the ball rarely popped out, and

879
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 2: as he swung through the club hit the ball for

880
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 2: a second time, and everyone, as you've probably seen the

881
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 2: replay review of it, you can hear the like the

882
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 2: cameras clicking and the ooh because everyone sort of knew

883
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 2: what a what a kind of disastrous thing it was

884
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 2: for the leader at this time to do this.

885
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 4: He end up taking an eight.

886
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 2: On the whole because back then rules are different now,

887
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 2: but back then you had to count your first stroke,

888
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 2: your second stroke, and a penalty stroke on top of it.

889
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 5: Now, if you managed to two chip.

890
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 2: Things, you just have to count the second stroke, which

891
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 2: kind of to me like opens up a can of

892
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 2: worms of like what's an intentional second hit?

893
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 5: Like can you actually like alley oop yourself in some ways?

894
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 2: Like what if you know? You know that, like you

895
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: know the what if you know you can't get the

896
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 2: ball on the green with like one stroke, but you

897
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 2: could potentially like bat it onto the green with a

898
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 2: second stroke. I'm sure if Michelson had this in mind.

899
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 2: He decided to we just revisited that on our live

900
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: blog during the US Open. But after TC hit this,

901
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 2: he basically said, like all of the confidence like just

902
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 2: sort of ran out of my body. He was still

903
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 2: in the US Open and actually like he only ended

904
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 2: up losing to Andy North by one shot ultimately in

905
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 2: this US Open, but he was basically like it kind

906
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,479
Speaker 2: of wrecked his confidence for for quite a little while.

907
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 2: And as he got older, I would say, like tis

908
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 2: really grew to embrace this. He didn't actually like feel

909
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 2: like a tremendous amount of embarrassment over it. He was

910
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 2: basically like, you know, if this hadn't happened to me,

911
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be as famous as I am. No one

912
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 2: wouldn't know who I am, no one to remember me.

913
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember him as a US Open winner.

914
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 4: But uh.

915
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 2: And he actually like when when he he played pretty well,

916
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 2: He he won a tournament later in life at Riviera,

917
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 2: he out do Ben Crenshaw down the stretch for his

918
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 2: only PGA Tour win and was like a solid player

919
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: on the Asian Tour and the Chpan Tour, and basically

920
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 2: like wasn't like when people would be like, oh, it's old,

921
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 2: you know, TC two chips chin. He would just be like, yeah,

922
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 2: that's fine, Like I appreciate that. And his when he

923
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 2: ended up playing back at Oakland Hills on the Senior Tour,

924
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: his he and his son, his son was on the

925
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 2: bag and his son basically was like, yeah, Like growing up,

926
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 2: I saw videos and news and media. I went to

927
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 2: Wikipedia search about my dad and you find out who

928
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,919
Speaker 2: won the tournament, what went wrong. But everybody knows about

929
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 2: that double hit, and I've never had the privilege to

930
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 2: see it. He says, what makes him more famous is

931
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 2: that people know him through the double chip. It would

932
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 2: be great to go on the fifth hole and see it.

933
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: This was like the week of the cer Us Open,

934
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 2: and he said, you know, I know somebody will ask

935
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 2: me about it, and his dad and his son was

936
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 2: basically like, yeah, maybe I'll try it. The dad was like,

937
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,280
Speaker 2: you know, it's tough to do. It's not an easy

938
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 2: thing to double hit like that. It was basically like

939
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 2: had a good sense of humor about it, which I loved. Yeah,

940
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 2: it's you know, and listen, like, I think it's fair

941
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 2: to say that the fact that TC didn't speak a

942
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 2: lot of English, the fact that he was one of

943
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 2: the first Asian players, the fact that this was certainly

944
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 2: not a time when the most enlightened press covered golf

945
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 2: in the world.

946
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 4: I call it Turkey I back then.

947
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were, they were kind of He was made

948
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 5: fun of often.

949
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 2: Dan Jenkins made a number of like really not very

950
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 2: funny jokes about TC Chen about so, you know, his

951
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 2: his third wedge should say like made in Taiwan.

952
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 5: That was just for like double hitting things, like really

953
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 5: like kind of like Dan, that's like seeing like.

954
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 2: A you know, Pedro Martinez, sort of like an eighty

955
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 2: two miles no fastball, just like what you know, you

956
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 2: used to be he used to have used to be

957
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 2: able to cook on this kind of stuff.

958
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 4: So, you know, I'm just incredible the incredible kismet of

959
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 4: his initials being TC and you could call it two

960
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 4: chip Chen Like it's just that the whole thing came

961
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 4: together for like this incredible memorial, like a branding of

962
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 4: the moment right of double chip two chip Chen tc

963
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 4: Chen and like obviously a very unique sort of penalty

964
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 4: to take in the gun in the in the heat

965
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 4: of winning a major, leading a major.

966
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always thought that it was. I don't know

967
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 2: why I thought this, but it was Jack Nicholas who

968
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 2: was sort of the beneficiary of TC sheen. But Nicholas

969
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 2: was no like he wasn't even really in this US

970
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 2: but at all. It was not had some you Sevvy,

971
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 2: Tom Kite, Payne Stewart right Floyd.

972
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 4: Not a good leader board, Andy North, Dave Barr was

973
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 4: the day of bar Canadian who appeared to went to

974
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 4: Oral Bob won twice on PGA tour Like I don't

975
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 4: not Dave mar but Dave Barr, TC Chen, Dennis Watson.

976
00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 4: I think that's Zimbabwe. So yeah, not a great leader board.

977
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 4: And then Andy North, you know, rumble and rumble into

978
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 4: victory with the double chip going on behind him.

979
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 2: Uh, speaking of a Dave Barr. Actually this I found

980
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 2: this in the research. Another weird rules incident, Dave, excuse me, uh.

981
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 2: Dennis Watson in the first round had basically like a

982
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 2: putt that was like right on the edge of the

983
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 2: hole like and it came to rest, but he thought

984
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 2: the putt was still moving and so he backed away

985
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 2: from it, and the the tour basically was like you

986
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 2: and then the putt dropped in and they gave him

987
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 2: a two stroke penalty for that uh, and was like

988
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 2: you waited like they claimed he waited like thirty seconds

989
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 2: for the putt to drop, and it was like essentially

990
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 2: like you know, he had dishonored the ten second rule

991
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:49,760
Speaker 2: and so he got hit with a two stroke penalty

992
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 2: and he also finished out out of like, you know,

993
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 2: two strokes out of you know, the final thing. So

994
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 2: it was like kind of shocking that there was two

995
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,320
Speaker 2: major rules controversies in this USOPA.

996
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 4: Love That, Love That, Hey, that's t Mobile Flashback Friday

997
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:09,239
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998
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999
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 4: last week last month? Can we do a few golf

1000
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 4: advice to send us another weekend? I've got a view.

1001
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 4: I think that would you'd be good for I did

1002
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 4: have a bunch in the holster keeps sending them. Summer

1003
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 4: Friday episodes will be full of golf advice. This comes

1004
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 4: from a gentleman and a scholar, smart guy. I like

1005
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 4: a lot forty five two kids, no interested in fighting,

1006
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 4: but I give Barry Switzer a knuckle sandwich if I

1007
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 4: had the chance. So it comes from the heartland. Maybe

1008
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,919
Speaker 4: are Texas. I don't know. I live about three hours

1009
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 4: from a golf course that has in recent years become

1010
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 4: a darling of the golf architecture community. He says it,

1011
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 4: but don't say it on air. I have to drive

1012
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 4: to that area for work for a few times a year,

1013
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 4: so I usually get to play it one to three

1014
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 4: times during the golf season. I've noticed that as a

1015
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 4: golf course's profile is increase, the cars in the parking

1016
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 4: lot are less local and increasingly frombout a town. As

1017
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 4: quote golf bro trips are stopping to play it. We're

1018
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 4: all trying to find the guy who did this, and

1019
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 4: I think that might be blood maybe on our hands. Sorry.

1020
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 4: I was traveling the same area again this week, so

1021
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 4: I clear an afternoon for my schedule. Went to the

1022
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 4: course website to book tea time. There was a single

1023
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 4: spot available and an ideal time, so I booked it.

1024
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 4: When I arrived, the guy working the pro shop before

1025
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 4: me that they'd accidentally opened the single and I'd be

1026
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 4: playing as the fifth and a fivesome with four other

1027
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:29,760
Speaker 4: guys who knew each other. The rest of the afternoon

1028
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,720
Speaker 4: was booked, so I couldn't move back into another opening

1029
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 4: not only that, but five minutes into my range session,

1030
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 4: I overheard that I would actually be in an add

1031
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 4: on to sixteen guys in four consecutive foursomes on a

1032
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 4: once in a lifetime golf trip from two time zones away.

1033
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 4: They were considerably younger than me, hammering pre round beers,

1034
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 4: planning the day's game Vegas, and discussing their shenanigans from

1035
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 4: the night before the question, I will likely be back

1036
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 4: at least once before the end of the year and

1037
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 4: can cancel my tea time without penalty due to the air,

1038
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 4: but our he cleared the day to play one of

1039
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 4: my favorite courses. Do I tagle on as the seventeenth

1040
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 4: wheel with a bunch of guys who know each other,

1041
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 4: don't know me, and likely have no interest in hanging

1042
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 4: out with the random thirteen handicap fifteen years older than them,

1043
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 4: Or do I cancel my erroneous tea time and play

1044
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 4: it later this summer without the bust full of bros,

1045
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 4: so that they can enjoy their day without the awkward pairing.

1046
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:28,280
Speaker 4: So he's a fifth guy in this pair foursome, considerably

1047
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 4: younger on a golf trip, and we'll probably be back.

1048
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 4: But he's there already and he's cleared the day. What

1049
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:35,240
Speaker 4: do you think of Kevin?

1050
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I would maybe first explore if

1051
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 2: I could join the the foursome head of the sixteen

1052
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 2: some I just abandoned any warm up session I had

1053
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 2: in mind and be like you can I Hey, hey, guys,

1054
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 2: I don't want to mess with your you obviously got

1055
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 2: a cool thing going on. Like what if I just

1056
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 2: you know, or like hop onto the back nine or something,

1057
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 2: and then if.

1058
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 4: The course is already to use to quote PGA Tour

1059
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 4: bending the rules like making a fivesome. They're making a

1060
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 4: fivesome here? Could they just not make the fivesome in

1061
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 4: the preceding game or the preceding tea time that's not

1062
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 4: the seven Yeah, yeah, it's a fair point.

1063
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 2: I'd be pretty unhappy, I got to say, with the

1064
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 2: starter with the golf.

1065
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, sure, the thing going on?

1066
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,479
Speaker 5: Would you do you just go get in the parking

1067
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 5: lot and be like I'm good, like I'm.

1068
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 4: Playing the I mean, yeah, I'm accused of being a

1069
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 4: little too curmudgeonly and cynical. I just like, no, thank you,

1070
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 4: But I think I might go I might go opposite here.

1071
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 4: I might say, f it we ball, and you got

1072
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 4: to deal with the awkwardness because I don't give shit.

1073
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 4: I'm fine and play golf. I've cleared you know how

1074
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 4: little golf I get to play this day at this

1075
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 4: point in my life. Where if I've cleared it and

1076
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 4: set it up and I'm literally on the tee essentially

1077
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 4: ready to go, and there's some awkward circumstances, I'm going

1078
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 4: to play properly, and you know, I'll do my best

1079
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 4: to to meet these guys in the middle, you know,

1080
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 4: try to understand whatever little tiktoks are filming and stuff

1081
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 4: out there, and you know where they're good, good apparel,

1082
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 4: whatever they got going on. And uh, yeah, I'm gonna

1083
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 4: play golf if I've done all the arrangements because I

1084
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 4: just don't get to play that much.

1085
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 2: So what if they're like just mashing beers, you know,

1086
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 2: smoking Jay's. Do you like do you try to fit in?

1087
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 2: You know when in Rome? Do you just really like

1088
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 2: go in? Or you just try to play your game?

1089
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 4: I mean, given that I probably have like other obligations

1090
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 4: and responsibilities that they don't have. Later, I know I'm

1091
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 4: probably not, but I will cast no judgment on them

1092
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 4: as well as they're not.

1093
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 2: I mean, you went to BC, you grew up in Ohio.

1094
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 2: These soft boys couldn't hang if you've decided to, really,

1095
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 2: you know, stretch your legs and get back to old days.

1096
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 4: I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't

1097
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 4: want to brag.

1098
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 2: I mean.

1099
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 4: Kids today today, they don't know. I mean, come on,

1100
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 4: you know, oh yeah, you do you want to? Do

1101
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 4: you want to drink thirty six bush lights? I don't

1102
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 4: think so. I don't think you could one more golf trip, commissioner.

1103
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 4: I think this is a good one for you as well.

1104
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 4: Fifty six years old. Last fight was in eighth grade.

1105
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 4: I sleep very well. So are we now adding this

1106
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 4: to the intro? I sleep well.

1107
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 2: Sleep.

1108
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 4: If you don't, you can go to eight sleep dot

1109
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 4: com slash yeah, yeah, all right. For a standard golf trip,

1110
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 4: eight guys over two to three days, playing three to

1111
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 4: four rounds at a resort. What is the appropriate recognition

1112
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 4: for the commissioner of the group. On one hand, they

1113
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 4: do a lot of work putting things together, scoring and communication.

1114
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 4: On the other hand, they have absolute authority on pairings

1115
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 4: and rulings. I guess I don't know all that works.

1116
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 4: Do they have absolute authority. Some say with the responsibility,

1117
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 4: you get the power. Some say, with all the work,

1118
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 4: the commission deserves a gift for you drink gift card

1119
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 4: or a dozen balls? What say you?

1120
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 2: Uh?

1121
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 4: You are you? You do a frequent well at least

1122
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 4: at one annual buyers, Do you have a commissioner who

1123
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,919
Speaker 4: is clearly doing a little more work than everybody else?

1124
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: Go?

1125
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 5: We kind of divide our commissioner duties between two of

1126
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 5: our guys.

1127
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 2: One guy is handles all the handicaps, uh, and one

1128
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 2: guy kind of handles the travel planning and stuff.

1129
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 5: We definitely do not reward them with any kind of gifts.

1130
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 2: In fact, we just revel in giving them shit about

1131
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 2: all of their jobs and constantly tell them that we

1132
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 2: could be doing a better job. So it is we're

1133
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 2: not the forgiving. Like I think they would be shocked

1134
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 2: if we like rolled up with a gift of some kind.

1135
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 2: In fact, you know, maybe like uh, you know, because

1136
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 2: because they're not Diana Orsini's, they would not accept the gift,

1137
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 2: so that you know, they would maintain their ethics ethical

1138
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 2: standards for future trip selection. I mean, yeah, I don't think.

1139
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 2: I think if you're like really good buddies. There's sort

1140
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 2: of more. The gift is like getting the ship and

1141
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 2: knowing from your friends and knowing that you've done a

1142
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 2: decent job. You don't need like a box of probi

1143
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 2: ones to or maximize or whatever.

1144
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 4: I do think, Yeah, I actualizes could see. I do agree.

1145
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 4: I think the power and the authority that you that's

1146
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 4: sort of whether it's it's explicit or sort of informal,

1147
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 4: is that is what you get for for going the

1148
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 4: extra mile. I could say I don't do buddies trips.

1149
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 4: I was commissioner of my kids school basketball program, like

1150
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 4: three hundred and fifty kids, and you know, I didn't

1151
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 4: expect anything, but I sure as hell was quick to

1152
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 4: say go pound sand or I could I could be

1153
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 4: the final decision maker, and so yeah, it was pretty thankless.

1154
00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 4: But you do have the power essentially at the end

1155
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 4: to be like no, go to hell or no, absolutely

1156
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 4: no chance, that's an insane request, or no, I'm not

1157
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 4: even gonna acknowledge your email and ignore it kind of thing.

1158
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 4: So there is the power that comes with being commissioner,

1159
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 4: and I think that's what you get even if I.

1160
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 2: Mean, look, if you're a nice classic group of fellas,

1161
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 2: like get a gift for your guy. We in my group,

1162
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 2: we divide everything up into so like what we call committees,

1163
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 2: and we have one guy who we like that the

1164
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 2: joke is like he's an idiot, and so we put

1165
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 2: him on charge of the snacks committee, and then we

1166
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 2: just make fun of the snacks that he gets, like

1167
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 2: all year round, like he just constantly roasting him for

1168
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 2: his snack selection. I like that.

1169
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 4: I like that. All Right, I'm gonna give me. You

1170
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 4: gotta go. You have to go in Montana? Do you

1171
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 4: have to go?

1172
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 2: Like you know ranch I meant or you know, absolutely,

1173
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 2: But I definitely will sit there for another few minutes

1174
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 2: if you're.

1175
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 4: I've got there's a lot of good ones. I want

1176
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:54,680
Speaker 4: people to send more. That's just golf a vice at

1177
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 4: gmail dot com. I want what's our it's incumed upon

1178
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 4: us to get through these. This is a great segment. Uh.

1179
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 4: This is from the lady of d SGS. Apparently thirty

1180
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 4: five year old female, absolutely no interest in fighting. I've

1181
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 4: played golf on and off for about seven years. My

1182
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 4: golf consists mostly of spurts where I play regularly with

1183
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 4: my partner for a few months and life and work

1184
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 4: at busy and you understand if he trades me in

1185
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 4: for friends or solo rounds. I'm not a great golfer,

1186
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 4: but I make contact and hit my driver reasonably well.

1187
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 4: I also took my dad's advice to heart years ago.

1188
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 4: Nobody cares if you're good, but they do care if

1189
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 4: you're slow. So I pick up when necessary, keep things moving,

1190
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 4: and try not to be a burden on the golf course.

1191
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 4: Just don't Yeah, that's a good priority, but don't let

1192
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 4: it overwhelm your entire mental approach to the game. Now

1193
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 4: for the advice part. This is the hot take, very

1194
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 4: firm stance. Now for the advice part. I cannot stand

1195
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 4: the idea of people riding along during a round of golf,

1196
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 4: so non playing riding a long or whether it's a

1197
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 4: casual weekend round or discussion about a golf trip, there's

1198
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 4: always someone who says, quote, oh, I'll just ride along

1199
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 4: in the heart. Whenever this comes up, I usually point

1200
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 4: out that it's not really a thing. Then everyone looks

1201
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 4: at me like I'm the rude one. In the past,

1202
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 4: we've been paired with people whose partners are riding along

1203
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 4: in the cart. I'm not sure if it's because I'm

1204
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,560
Speaker 4: not particularly good and suddenly feel like I'm playing in

1205
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 4: front of spectators instead of just with the other golfers

1206
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 4: or what. But I just don't like it. It almost

1207
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 4: feels like having someone on the basketball court the whole

1208
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 4: game who isn't actually playing. If you want to be

1209
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 4: a part of the game, learn to play, or if

1210
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 4: you just want to watch golf it's on TV every weekend.

1211
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 4: The thing is I seem to react much more strongly

1212
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 4: to this than anyone else. I would agree with that.

1213
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 4: So my question is, am I overreacting? Is this a

1214
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 4: perfectly normal thing that I really need to get over

1215
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 4: or am I right? And we should stop encouraging this?

1216
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: Ah?

1217
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 4: I love you know, a man or woman in this

1218
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 4: case must have a code, and I love that you

1219
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 4: have a code and this is your personal corner you're on.

1220
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 4: Don't I think you're overreacting? Would be I initiate, I think,

1221
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 4: But I.

1222
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 2: Will say it's a weird energy when like you are,

1223
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 2: you show up as a foursome, you know, maybe maybe

1224
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 2: like this guy who got paired, When you get thrown

1225
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 2: into the mix and then there's like it's often like

1226
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 2: a spouse who's just sitting there like in the cart,

1227
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 2: reading a book, and you don't know whether I can

1228
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 2: talk with her, whether she doesn't want to talk to you.

1229
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 5: Whether it's you know, you want to like make the

1230
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 5: experience enjoyable.

1231
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 2: Oh how you doing? Like you know you don't play?

1232
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah. What's what's going on? You know

1233
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 2: it's it's a little bit strange. So I get the

1234
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:33,919
Speaker 2: the feeling about it. Ah, what do you what would

1235
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 2: you do?

1236
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 4: I think she's too like in tense about this, too

1237
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:43,560
Speaker 4: righte hot a stance. I I who cares? They're just there.

1238
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 4: I get it. Maybe it adds in that energy. It

1239
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 4: does change a little bit of the dynamic. Like I like,

1240
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 4: clearly if they are becoming obnoxious in some way, like

1241
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 4: trying to point out give you a swing advice, or

1242
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 4: point out the rules, or like talking basically at all.

1243
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 4: In my instance, you talk at all, I would be annoyed.

1244
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 2: There reading the book. You're good.

1245
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the problem. If they want to be outside

1246
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 4: and hang out with their friends or family and but

1247
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 4: don't want to play golf. I think that's great. I think,

1248
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 4: uh yeah, I think that's great. My issue sometimes there's

1249
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 4: county courses around here that like we'll try to charge

1250
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 4: charge Like my wife who's like in flip flaps just

1251
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 4: not playing golf and just watching her kids and me

1252
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 4: or something on a night out. Well that's like, you know,

1253
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 4: twenty five bucks to just walk on the course. I'll

1254
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 4: tell them to go pound stand. I don't I don't

1255
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 4: have an issue with this at all.

1256
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 2: Isn't this I've never played a Pebble Beach, but I've

1257
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 2: heard this is a thing. At Pebble there's like just

1258
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 2: an entire throng of like family members, like you know,

1259
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 2: because it's pdeographers like you know, weddings whatever, like walking

1260
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 2: along with you that eage group at Pebble. That's why

1261
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 2: it takes six hours, because there's like fifteen people who

1262
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 2: have to move with the.

1263
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 4: I mean, then they're has to be some that we

1264
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 4: live in a society with rules. There has to be

1265
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 4: some kind of common sense line that's crossed there.

1266
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 2: Can I tell you about some insane thing that happened

1267
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 2: to me this yesterday? Yeah, So going to Montana Daughters,

1268
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 2: you know, she likes golf a lot. She probably aware

1269
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 2: bring her up, you know, all the time, and she's like, hey,

1270
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 2: i'd like to go hit some balls. So it's like,

1271
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 2: all right, well let me take it to the old

1272
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 2: University of Montana nine hole driving range golf course. And

1273
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:32,480
Speaker 2: you know, I caidn't get out. They had like a

1274
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 2: leak going on. But we just go hit on the range.

1275
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 2: And it's a grass range. You know.

1276
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 5: It's like there's there's maybe like one or two grass

1277
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:39,920
Speaker 5: ranges in all Maryland and.

1278
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 4: Public prop to personal golf advice on the I like this. Yes,

1279
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 4: it's great fact pattern. I like it.

1280
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 2: So we were hitting balls. We get a couple of

1281
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 2: buckets and gentleman rolls up to the range, big guy,

1282
01:05:56,680 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 2: full sleeve tattoos, bigger gentleman, and he's got like a

1283
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 2: baby in his arms. Like I'm not I would say

1284
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 2: this kid was not more than six months old.

1285
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 4: House house plant territory, okay, and.

1286
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 2: The kids being kind of fussy, and I'm like, oh,

1287
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 2: this is interesting, Like what's what's gonna happen here?

1288
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:19,439
Speaker 5: He just like plops the kid down in the rough.

1289
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:25,040
Speaker 4: Uh scroller no, like no troll or no nothing. All right.

1290
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 2: Kid is like, you know, like a turtle that has

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01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 2: been like turnover on its back. He can't like wiggle

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01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 2: around they can't, and kid is like he just starts

1293
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 2: hitting balls. Uh and like kids fussing. Occasionally he'll go

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01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 2: goes over there and like throws the kid another like

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01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 2: driver head cover, uh to hit, you know, to distract it.

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Speaker 5: And it's hitting some more balls.

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Speaker 2: It's it's pretty sunny out Brendan like, I can't don't

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01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 2: imagine this child had sunscreen on it. Uh, they're raising

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Speaker 2: him tough in Montana. Like, I'm thinking this kid's gonna

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01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 2: you know, if he crawl, he'd be out there like

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Speaker 2: at the one fifty yard marker at this point, but

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Speaker 2: he can't move, and guys just working through his bag,

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01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 2: you know, hidden wedges hit and I'm like, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I guess like you.

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Speaker 4: Know wild the Great West out there where you just

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Speaker 4: kind of like the kids are raised a raised like

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Speaker 4: wolves and just love it.

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Speaker 5: Can you bring a baby to driving range?

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Speaker 2: Like is that? Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Baby? No no leash, no strollers, nothing, like.

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Speaker 4: They didn't tie him up to the you know, the

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Speaker 4: hitting bay. Yeah, you can bring a baby, it's just

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Speaker 4: the range. Like if people have issues with that now,

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Speaker 4: there should be probably some form of enclosure. It feels

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Speaker 4: like and that being said, Bigger fellow tatted sleeves. I'm

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Speaker 4: in no hurry to give this person parenting advice or

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01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 4: pointers or corrective action about what may be happening.

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Speaker 5: Uh I on the East coast of which we are

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Speaker 5: adopted sons.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure vative sons that someone would come booking

1322
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 2: out of the clubhouse and be like this is not allowed,

1323
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 2: Like you cannot do this. This is a liability issue.

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01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 2: Shout out to Montana. I think gives zero fox. They're

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01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 2: just like whatever.

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Speaker 4: About Bennett prancing around the travelers. Bennett was kind of

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01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 4: had his own bag. Now Bennett can walk, kind of talk.

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Speaker 4: I guess at this point he was out there on

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01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 4: the range. Nobody was given the number one in the world.

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Speaker 4: Then he's true.

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Speaker 2: Bennett has no chance to not grow up to be

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01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 2: a golf bro. I mean he is just you know it.

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01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 2: This is not a kid who's gonna play out of

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01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 2: public golf throughout his life. I don't think. Maybe maybe

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Speaker 2: if they play the US Open someday at a public golf.

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Speaker 4: Caurs that's good. I like that. That's an interesting encounter.

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Speaker 4: I think it's fine as long as the kid's not

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Speaker 4: in danger from the golf. The adjacent golf going on

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01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 4: the sunburn maybe a separate danger, but I think it's okay.

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Speaker 4: Did you say something or you Oh no, I'm not.

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01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 5: Too much of a libertarian doing to yourself, you know.

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01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 2: I reserve back to my most libertarian self.

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Speaker 4: Love that, Love that all right. That does it for

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Speaker 4: this Friday episode, Kevin, thank you for the great flashback

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01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:20,799
Speaker 4: on tc Chen for talking you know travelers Rory Women's PGA,

1346
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,560
Speaker 4: and answered some golf advice questions. Enjoy your weekend in

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01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 4: Montana fourth of July comment, great time to be out there.

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Speaker 4: I love it all right. Thank you. Talk to you

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Speaker 4: guys on Monday.