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Speaker 1: I wanted to start with Scotti Scheffler because I want

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Speaker 1: to celebrate greatness on this show when it comes to golf,

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Speaker 1: and we've done a lot of that over the years

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Speaker 1: when it comes to John Rahm, because how well he's

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Speaker 1: Scotti Scheffler, for as great as his year was last year,

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Speaker 1: all the wins, Masters Champion, you know, he hasn't won

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Speaker 1: Right now, he's made almost fifteen million dollars on the

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Speaker 1: course and starting in twenty twenty three, here are his finishes.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, and when it comes to golf, most

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Speaker 1: Okay, bo, you want to dive right into Michael Block

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Speaker 1: Like, I don't know, man, Like he's a PGA pro.

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Speaker 2: He played well, he got some exemptions, he said some stuff.

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Speaker 2: He probably should have said, Hey, if I could hit

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Speaker 2: it as far as Rory, I'd be one of the

429
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Speaker 2: best players in the world. Now you probably wouldn't be.

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Speaker 2: He'd probably still be a club bro that hits it

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Speaker 2: a long way. But I mean, it's not like he's

432
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Speaker 2: got a PR team helping him out with these hundreds

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Speaker 2: of interviews that he's doing after all this stuff. So

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Speaker 2: the guy a little slack air. It's just not even

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Speaker 2: that serious. Like for everyone I heard.

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Speaker 1: I was listening to Smiley Kaufman yesterday kind of being like,

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Speaker 1: you know what inerks some players on the range. It's like,

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Speaker 1: can you everyone fucking relaxed? I mean, you guys are

439
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Speaker 1: never going to see that. You got see this guy

440
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Speaker 1: maybe twice the rest of your career. I would understand

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Speaker 1: if Ludwig, you know, or some random young guy said that, okay,

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Speaker 1: but Michael Block, can you guys chill? I mean, can

443
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Speaker 1: everyone just take a chill pill.

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Speaker 2: This is not Patrick Reid saying I'm one of the

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Speaker 2: top five players in the world and us going well,

446
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Speaker 2: there's him and him, which one of you better then?

447
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Speaker 2: Because there are five really good, accomplished players. This is

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Speaker 2: Michael Block in his thirty seventh interview of the of

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Speaker 2: Tuesday Afternoon last week. Oh and yeah, you know what

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Speaker 2: if if Rory, you know, if I could hit it

451
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Speaker 2: like Rory, Yeah, I'd be one of the best players.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like you're supposed to think like that,

453
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Speaker 2: like what golfer is Like, Hey, man, if I could

454
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Speaker 2: it a lot further, I'd probably still not be that good.

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Speaker 2: I'd be okay. But I just said it further.

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Speaker 1: And I'd also say this if he had if he

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Speaker 1: had looked Dan Patrick in the eye or said it

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Speaker 1: on the Golf Channel set. If you're on the Ripper

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Speaker 1: Macgoo Cup podcast, I give you a little You're allowed

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Speaker 1: to say some crazy shit. I mean, what is the

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Speaker 1: Ripper Magoo. I like, I follow Bob on on Instagram,

462
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Speaker 1: but he said it on the Ripper Magoo podcast. So

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Speaker 1: everyone just let's chill.

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Speaker 2: I mean really like and by the way, and I

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Speaker 2: love Smiley. There are no guys on the range of

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Speaker 2: colonial going like, man, I'm so pissed at Michael Block

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Speaker 2: for saying that that really irks me, like nobody cares.

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Speaker 2: Nobody cares. This is such a twenty twenty three social

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Speaker 2: media type of you know argument where look, I try

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Speaker 2: to stay off Twitter for you know, at least part

471
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Speaker 2: of the week when you know, once we've got all

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Speaker 2: our predictions and stuff done, Like once we get to Thursday,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, I'm gonna watch golf, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: play golf. I'm gonna stay off social media. I kind

475
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Speaker 2: of have a life, have a life. I sort of

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Speaker 2: missed it. This is the kind of thing that people

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Speaker 2: who live their lives on social media, like, I'm in

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Speaker 2: sense that Michael Block would say, such a thing over yourself.

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Speaker 2: Go outside.

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Speaker 1: Well, one guy who can be a little edgy, and

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Speaker 1: he's been beating this drum. It feels like for I

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Speaker 1: would say six months ish. H is John Rahm, who

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Speaker 1: now really the you know, the big dog him and Rory,

484
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Speaker 1: but he's you know, it's weird, like Rory was more

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Speaker 1: unspoken last year. Now he's quieted down. Rom's just kept

486
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Speaker 1: pedal to the metal, easier for him to keep Talking's

487
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Speaker 1: playing well this season. Just talked about the Ryder Cup,

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Speaker 1: and I think he was specifically talking about Sergio, but

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Speaker 1: I think he just represents like who cares, just whoever

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Speaker 1: our best twelve guys are, I don't care where they play.

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Speaker 1: We talked last week about Koepka, who currently is second

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Speaker 1: and feels like he's unique, right because he's well liked

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Speaker 1: by the guys, So it's not one of those where

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Speaker 1: and there were rumors that you know, he had talked

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Speaker 1: to people. I think I don't even think there were

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Speaker 1: rumors about like how he could get back, and it

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Speaker 1: feels like, you know, it's trending if he doesn't. If

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Speaker 1: he has another top five and one of these last

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Speaker 1: two majors, he's gonna be on the ryder Cup. Unless

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Speaker 1: you think I'm speaking I turn on that one. But

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Speaker 1: you know, John Rahm, the lift thing with the Euros

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Speaker 1: is a little different because those guys feelt like, talked

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Speaker 1: way more shit for the guys that could still, especially Sergio,

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Speaker 1: Like Fiel's not going to be on the ryder Cup, right,

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Speaker 1: Bryce is not going to be on the ryder Cup.

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Speaker 1: But Sergio is a guy that I clearly rom would

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Speaker 1: pick like I want him on, but he is kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, eviscerated everyone with his comments. It's I do

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Speaker 1: understand it's a weird position, but like John saying, who cares,

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Speaker 1: this is not this is separate from all this that

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Speaker 1: he's been talking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. This is the separate but inequal

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Speaker 2: I guess part of the Ryder Cup is that the

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Speaker 2: PGA of America runs things on the US side of

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Speaker 2: the Ryder Cup. And so the PGA of America, that's

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Speaker 2: where all your club professionals are members of the PGA

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Speaker 2: of America. And I'm saying this for the block of

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Speaker 2: the listeners and viewers right now that don't necessarily know

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Speaker 2: the difference between There's a major difference between the PGA

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Speaker 2: of America and the PGA Tour. They're not the same thing.

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Speaker 2: So the PGA of America, in my opinion, should look

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Speaker 2: out for the greater good of the Ryder Cup, of

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Speaker 2: the players, of anybody that it benefits. And so hey,

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Speaker 2: if if one guy's on the PGA Tour and other

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Speaker 2: guy's on live, but they're each two of the best

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Speaker 2: twelve players in the United States right now, they should

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Speaker 2: go represent the Ryder Cup. And I believe the PGA

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Speaker 2: of America ultimately will usher that in coming this fall.

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Speaker 2: The other side of This is that the European Tour

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Speaker 2: now called the DP World Tour runs the Europeans side

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Speaker 2: of things for the Ryder Cup. They don't have a

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Speaker 2: sort of I guess the RNA over there is sort

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Speaker 2: of like the PGA of America, although it's more like

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Speaker 2: the USGA over here. There's a lot of like intrinsic

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Speaker 2: similarities and differences between it. But the European Tour runs

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Speaker 2: that side of things for Europe and so they have

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Speaker 2: a direct connection and a direct benefit and into what

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Speaker 2: happens at the Ryder Cup. I mean, my buddy Bob Harrig,

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Speaker 2: back when he was at ESPN now with Sports Illustrated,

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Speaker 2: wrote a piece of years ago breaking down the financial

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Speaker 2: impact of the Ryder Cup on the European Tour and

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Speaker 2: essentially wrote that the European Tour wouldn't exist if it

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Speaker 2: wasn't taking in all the revenue from the Ryder Cup

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Speaker 2: every two years. And so this is a major major

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Speaker 2: driver for them. So what you're having on the European

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Speaker 2: side is guys like Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter and

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Speaker 2: folks that have been part of Ryder Cups for years.

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Speaker 2: Henrik Stenson, of course, who's supposed to be the captain

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Speaker 2: this year. I have left for Live, and there's a

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Speaker 2: true decisive divisiveness between Live and the European Tour, and

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Speaker 2: so I think it's harder for them to look at

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Speaker 2: these players and say, hey, objectively, you're one of the

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Speaker 2: twelve best players from our continent. You should be playing. Instead,

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Speaker 2: it's you've left our tour and so we have a

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Speaker 2: that has a direct impact on us and we're not

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Speaker 2: gonna let you play. It's a it's a maybe small,

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Speaker 2: but very consequential difference to the day of America running

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Speaker 2: the US side of things, and that you know, the

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Speaker 2: PGA of America should in and hopefully doesn't have necessarily

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Speaker 2: a bias towards PGA Tour players over the Live players.

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Speaker 2: I can see it though from the European side.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's transition into this week. And when you

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Speaker 1: look at really the next three of the next four weeks,

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Speaker 1: you got Memorial elevated event week off next week beside

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Speaker 1: from Michael Block at the RBC, and then you got

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Speaker 1: the US Open and then you hit the Travelers. Now

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Speaker 1: looks like it's an elevated event because the person is

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars So this is where Phil was tweeted

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Speaker 1: about last week, like, you know, say what you want,

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Speaker 1: but our schedule is just a little easier on everybody.

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Speaker 1: I think Homa is a Homa and finale. Only the

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Speaker 1: two top players this week that are out. I mean

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Speaker 1: a lot of the big names. Scotti, Scheffler waits all

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Speaker 1: the time of Justin Rose, a big name. He's the

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Speaker 1: guy that I liked this week I'd written down on

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Speaker 1: my list, and then he's not showing. So yeah, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's for the So I mean, a large, large

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Speaker 1: contingent of the guys that we're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about heavily in a couple of weeks of the US

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Speaker 1: Open are playing this week. So and this is a

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Speaker 1: big deal. I mean it's been a big deal my

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Speaker 1: entire adult life, this tournament with Jack and the course

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Speaker 1: you wrote about. You know a lot of names, maybe

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Speaker 1: not quote unquote long shots, but longer numbers than we've

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Speaker 1: seen so far earlier this year in rom it's mainly Scottie.

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Speaker 1: In all these tournaments, you can get guys anywhere from

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty to almost sixty to one. You know. Besides,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into your pick, but just some names that

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Speaker 1: you like this week kind of in that thirty to

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Speaker 1: sixty range. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So first of all, wait, what was Phil saying? Like

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Speaker 2: Phil Phil saying like the schedule is easier on Live.

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Speaker 1: Phil Phil, you know it's hard to follow his tweet

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Speaker 1: storms because he gets he's been aggressive. I'd say these

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Speaker 1: last couple of months that just the schedule of Live

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Speaker 1: has helped guys be fresher and peak for majors. In

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Speaker 1: terms of the double down on the PGA tour schedule

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Speaker 1: this year is wearing guys out.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they've already been to what Australia and somewhere

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Speaker 2: in the Far East, and they're going around the way.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Phil can.

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Speaker 1: They're not playing as much golf. I mean I I

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Speaker 1: flip channels on Saturday because like on my YouTube, TVCW

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Speaker 1: is right next to CBS, and it was Harold Varner

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Speaker 1: on a par three with water to the left, which

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Speaker 1: I think is the Potomac River, and it had like

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Speaker 1: Kodak black just blaring. I mean, you couldn't you could

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Speaker 1: barely hear the announcement. It was crazy. I'm like, this

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Speaker 1: is this is wild? You know, not that anyone's watching.

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Speaker 2: What is the Venn diagram of people watching Live that

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Speaker 2: at that moment, who could name the artist that was

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Speaker 2: playing in the background.

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Speaker 1: It had to be slim because I don't think many

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Speaker 1: people are watching the thing.

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Speaker 2: First of all, look, it's it's fine. I walked with

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Speaker 2: a few guys that I've become friendly with on on

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Speaker 2: Live on Wednesday during practice round at an Oak hillf

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Speaker 2: PJA Championship, and there wasn't like they were playing with

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Speaker 2: the PGA Tour player that they're friendly with. It wasn't like, man,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna beat you and Live sucks. Like it's just

621
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Speaker 2: sort of they went and did their thing, and everyone's like, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I get it. You know, it kind of makes sense

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Speaker 2: for you. It doesn't make sense for me. I look,

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Speaker 2: I have I don't have a problem with what Live

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Speaker 2: is for those who like it better than the PGA Tours.

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Speaker 2: I've said a million times now, I'm happy for you.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy that you've found something you like. That said,

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Speaker 2: let's not turn this into you know, Phil going, oh wow,

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Speaker 2: the schedule's better, and you know you've if you're playing

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Speaker 2: live right now, you have to play fourteen events this year.

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Speaker 2: If you're playing the PGA Tour right now, you have

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Speaker 2: to playing fifteen events this year. More of the live

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Speaker 2: events are international than the US events. I to sit

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Speaker 2: here and go, oh man, it's easier. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: if the live players weren't playing well the Major Championships,

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Speaker 2: the narrative would switch to, Man, these guys just started

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Speaker 2: getting battle tested enough and they're not playing. Instead, they

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Speaker 2: are playing well, and it's man, the schedules really nice.

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00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 2: These guys can stay fresh going into the Major Championship.

640
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: Really there's a bunch of really good players on LIV.

641
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 2: They've played well. Cameron Smith might wind up being number

642
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: one on my list for the US Open in a

643
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: couple of weeks because I really like him. There Brooks obviously,

644
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 2: he Brooks kept good. It doesn't matter what tour is playing.

645
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: He can played no tour. He was played four times

646
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: a year, and he would be up there at the

647
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 2: Major Championship. So I, you know, to sit here and

648
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 2: credit lives schedule at Phill's definitely not off the deep

649
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 2: end with some of this stuff. For as much as

650
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 2: I like Phil, let's getting a little ridiculous. But that said,

651
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 2: back to the memorial, some of the guys I like,

652
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 2: you mentioned them, Victor Hovelin seems like a pretty good

653
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 2: number at twenty to one this week. The record hasn't

654
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 2: been there at the Memorial. But what's happened over the

655
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: last few years, look no surprise. Victor Hovelin's short game

656
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 2: has been offul the last three years. I mean, and

657
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 2: really right now it's starting to get better. It's kind

658
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: of like what we say about the best ball strikers,

659
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 2: the Justin Thomas' and the Colin Morricowas and the Wills Alataurus,

660
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 2: is like, hey, if they could just put average, they

661
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 2: don't have to be the best putter in the field.

662
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: But with their iron play, if they can just put average,

663
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: they're going to contend for titles. I think the same

664
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 2: thing about Hovelin's wedge game around the greens. He's essentially

665
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 2: been average lately. Is gained around the greens and three

666
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 2: of his last six and been sort of neutral. You

667
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,479
Speaker 2: go back to last year at the Memorial, he lost

668
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 2: nearly two strokes around the greens per round. So all

669
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: he has to do is like, don't you don't have

670
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 2: to gain two strokes around, just just don't lose two

671
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 2: strokes around. He's gotten much better at that. I think

672
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 2: that puts him in position to play really well. Obviously

673
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 2: trending in the right direction the tea. The green game

674
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 2: is great, and so Holvel's at the top of my

675
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: list of this week. Yeah, I know.

676
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 1: First you had Thigala, who I've bet on a lot

677
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 1: and feels inevitable he's gonna win. Kind of the Zala

678
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: Taurus mode I would put. You know, cam Young's number

679
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: is higher consistently and as it should be than Thagalas,

680
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,399
Speaker 1: and he's another guy I would put that falls under

681
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: that you listed off in your column. The guys that

682
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: have won this tournament as Horsell can't lay and can't

683
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: lay one because Rom, you know, had to leave. Rom

684
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: could have been back to back winners. But I mean,

685
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: can't lay is a legit winner, can't He's won this

686
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: couple times. Bryson, that Bryson's first win, that first big win,

687
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: right second win. So I mean it's it's some pretty

688
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: big name guys. Uh, you know, th Gala, the one

689
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: thing you've been here before, can get a little squirrely

690
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: off the tee would be the only thing you got.

691
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: You gotta drive it relatively straight at this at this time.

692
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it doesn't come down to just strokes

693
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 2: gamed off the tee, but I would have said that

694
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 2: the PGA Championship, and he was playing pretty well, much

695
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 2: better than I thought he would play. Yeah, look he

696
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 2: knows he sprays it. It's really the one weakness in

697
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 2: his game. Right now, I'm okay with that. Usually you're

698
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: gonna have to find more of the fairways here. You

699
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 2: can't just spray it all over Mirfield Village and expect

700
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: to be up there on the leaderboard. But he showed

701
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 2: it last year. It was fifth place last year. This

702
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,479
Speaker 2: place where I've had my eye on Thigala for a while,

703
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: and historically over the last six years, we've seen the

704
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 2: section of like, well, we've seen a few times so

705
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 2: Deshambo's second career win can't Ley's second career win, Rom's

706
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 2: third career win. So all these guys are like kind

707
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 2: of at the level where Thigala is now, even though

708
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 2: he hasn't won yet. It was sort of like, hey,

709
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 2: we know this guy's going to be a superstar. Hasn't

710
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 2: quite become a superstar yet, but used the Memorial Tournament

711
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 2: kind of as that stepping stone. I think, being in

712
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 2: between the first two majors of the year and the

713
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 2: last two majors of the year. This is sort of

714
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 2: a litmus test for the guys who are like, Hey,

715
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: I want to go win this event. This event means

716
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 2: a lot to me. And the guys were like, all right,

717
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 2: let me catch my breath a little here, Like I

718
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: feel like I just walked off the eighteenth green at

719
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 2: Oak Hill, and I feel like I'm going to LACC tomorrow.

720
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: And I've kind of just kind of like used this

721
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 2: week as a all right, let's keep getting in the

722
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: right direction. But again, like they say all the time,

723
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 2: you don't want to peak on one of those non

724
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 2: major weeks, even though this is a very big event.

725
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 2: And so I think there's a trend there that shows

726
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: maybe some younger players who are a little hungry or

727
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 2: a little more motivated to win a stepping stone type

728
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: of event can play. Well, here's one other stat for you.

729
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 2: Because each of those names, I may their number was

730
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 2: just a little bit bigger pre tournament then you might

731
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: think that it would be. And the reason for it.

732
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: I went back and found this from deshambo in eighteen

733
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 2: to rom In twenty twenty, who was twenty to one

734
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 2: Brice was forty to one. Rom was twenty to one.

735
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 2: Can't Lay for his second win in twenty one. That

736
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 2: was the Rom year where he had to withdraw with

737
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: a six shot. Can'tley was twenty to one last year,

738
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 2: Billy Horsechell sixty to one. All those numbers seem a

739
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: little bigger than they should have been beforehand. Went back

740
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 2: and looked. All four of those guys in those situations

741
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 2: had finished outside the top twenty in their previous two starts.

742
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: So I think what happens is we get to this

743
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 2: point in the season, we only look at the players

744
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 2: who were in form. I'm not saying that an inform

745
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 2: player can't play well. I mean, I just talked about Hovland,

746
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 2: who's very much in form. But I don't think that

747
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 2: it's irrational to look at a player like a Cam

748
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 2: Young who you mentioned, who hasn't played well over the

749
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 2: last three or four starts, to jump in here and

750
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 2: all of a sudden win a golf tournament.

751
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 1: A little look ahead to the LACC. You know, Rory

752
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: I thought showed some metal in the PGA Championship. You

753
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: and I talked about that, is there anything this week

754
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: he can show to make you a little more confident

755
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: because it feels like now a lot of people are

756
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: off the scent, which is, you know, if you kind

757
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: of look at it, like you know, by low sell high,

758
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people buy Rory when it's probably too high,

759
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: and a lot of people get off the scent when

760
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: it's too low. And he feels like that, and it's

761
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: like I shifted away. But now I'm kind of like

762
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watching him pretty closely because if you can

763
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: get that number ten eleven to one, where he would

764
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: have been right there seven eight to one, it's still

765
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: not great, but you know, I do think that if

766
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: he gained a little confidence the PGA plays well this week,

767
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: he's not a terrible bet at LACC.

768
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: My hope for Rory at least all right, my hope

769
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 2: for me betting Rory. I guess it's a better way

770
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 2: to put it is that it looks very ordinary this week.

771
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: It looks very ordinary at the US Open, and that

772
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 2: number drops a little bit maybe at twelve to fourteen

773
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 2: to one, and we can play him at Royal Liverpool

774
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 2: where he's won before. So that's my hope, and that's

775
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 2: where I'm targeting him, And if he plays well this

776
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 2: week and he plays well at the US Open instead,

777
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 2: he's going to be eight to one because he's won

778
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 2: there for an Open championship before. So I don't know.

779
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 2: As far as this week, I don't know about Rory.

780
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 2: As far as the US Open, yeah, lacc, I don't know.

781
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 2: There's still something not quite right with Rory right now.

782
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: Well, he hasn't been very accurate. I saw a stat

783
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: his driving accuracy has not been good this year, which

784
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: is like his potent weapon. I'd be like, you know,

785
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson doesn't throw the deep ball or step Curry

786
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: doesn't choose the three, Like when you don't do what

787
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: you're great at, it does throw you off. And like

788
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I'm not, I'm hesitant still, I'm just

789
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: I'm just keeping an eye on because the other guy.

790
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: Did you see the stat going around I think yesterday

791
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: that if you had put one hundred dollars at the

792
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,959
Speaker 1: start of the season on Scottie Scheffler just to top

793
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 1: twenty his fourteen events and just kept rolling it over,

794
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 1: you'd have over twenty thousand dollars. You know, his season

795
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: is pretty fucking remarkable. Examined to come off what he

796
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: did last year. I mean he's I've been thinking, like,

797
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: do I just put like a thousand dollars on him

798
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: to win the LACC and just go all in on one?

799
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 2: Gay? I mean might as well if you feel like

800
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 2: if you're going big to thank Scotty scheffer you're right

801
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 2: benom top ten every week because that's what he's doing.

802
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 2: I mean the floor is more.

803
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: Take it and go like twenty five percent to win,

804
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: twenty five percent to top five and like figures out

805
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: of the top ten.

806
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, because I've seen it. Like, look, I still

807
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 2: think John robb is the best player in the world,

808
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 2: and I you know, however, we want to categorize that,

809
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 2: and I would love to get rid of the world ranking,

810
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 2: which is the pause of more consternation uh than support

811
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 2: these days. But in my mind, I think John Robm's

812
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 2: the number one player in the world. He has the

813
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 2: highest ceiling. I think Scotty Scheffler is number one when

814
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 2: it comes to floor, and it's not even close right now.

815
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 2: I Mean, we see weeks where Rom doesn't have his

816
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 2: best stuff. We certainly see weeks when Rory just doesn't

817
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 2: have his mind in it. And going back to Rory,

818
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: I would say that less about driving accuracy, less about

819
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 2: a stat It's just it's the six inches between the

820
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 2: years right now for me, that is just not getting

821
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 2: it done for Rory, and there's something not quite right there.

822
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 2: Until I see him change his tune a little bit,

823
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 2: I will probably be off Rory. It's not necessarily a

824
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 2: full fade, but I can't see me back in Rory

825
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 2: at these kind of numbers when I'm just not sure

826
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 2: about him. And so that said, all that said, Scotty

827
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 2: Scheffler's floor has been incredible over the last year. I

828
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 2: mean there are times when I look at and I go,

829
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 2: for instance, matchup bets. This week, you can get Can't Lay,

830
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 2: who's finished top four in for the last five years

831
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 2: at this event, at plus money against Scotty Scheffler. I'm like,

832
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 2: that sounds really good. Can't Lay always plays well here.

833
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 2: He's due for that big week. He's been trending in

834
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 2: the right direction for a long time, riving it better

835
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 2: than anybody else right now, and yet I still can't

836
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 2: dead against Scotch. I mean, it's just he shows up

837
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 2: every single week.

838
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: Well, I think I'm gonna throw a couple Nuggies on

839
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: the dollar this week and let it ride and have

840
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: a good time. So lacc right around the corner. Soble uh,

841
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna be fun. I'm pretty juiced and we're still

842
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: what two and a half weeks away, So I will

843
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 1: talk to you next week and have a good week.

844
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 2: Man, thanks brother, appreciate you. And yeah, this would be

845
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: a good one. This'll be fun week.

846
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: Okay, let's bang out a couple quick mail bag questions

847
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: at golopod is the Instagram at golopod fire in. Like

848
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: Hayden did, had a thought on the majors in this

849
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: post Live world. Part of what's cool about bull season

850
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: in college football, and specifically the playoff is teams that

851
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: don't normally face each other finally square off. We speculate

852
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: all year long, sec ACC, Big ten, how would amit

853
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: Major do against one of the big boys, Then at

854
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: the end of the year we actually get to find

855
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: out makes the games really compelling. Totally agree. Now you

856
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: think of the majors, it's kind of the same thing

857
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: we speculate about live who would compare somebody on the

858
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: PGA Tour, But in the major you actually get to

859
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: find out makes a really good compelling storyline. Would I

860
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: like to see them compete every week. Sure, I definitely

861
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: miss seeing Brooks djuh on Sunday, but honestly, most weeks

862
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: and I assume, like a lot of other golf fans,

863
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: only up watching Sunday anyways, and sometimes there is such

864
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: a crappy field it's really not worth watching. Byron Nelson

865
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: totally agree. So it just makes me that much more

866
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: amped for the majors, And finally, together agree or disagree,

867
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 1: I could not agree anymore. The majors feel dramatically different

868
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: right because everyone's involved. And I do like your college

869
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: football analogy because Ohio State, Michigan when they play or USC, Oregon,

870
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: Texas and Oklahoma can still feel really good, right, just

871
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: like if Scottie Scheffler, John Ram, Sam Burns and Rory

872
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: are all in the mix. Right come the memorial where

873
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: it's Cam Young VERSU JT with speed a couple shots

874
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: behind him and John Rahm. I use John rom twice

875
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: because it's m R. Scotti are usually in the mix.

876
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, but I hear you, Yeah,

877
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: it's It's definitely made the majors really bigger. I think

878
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: the problem is for golf, whether it's the live events.

879
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: They don't really care about television ratings because money they're

880
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: on the CW it doesn't matter. The PGA Tour does,

881
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: and the PGA Tour season is dependent on making some

882
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: of those tournaments relevant because people gave them a lot

883
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: of money to show their content, and I think their

884
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 1: content is now diminished a little bit. You know, it

885
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,959
Speaker 1: felt like early in the season, I think they're gonna

886
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: be tournaments that are pretty full proof, that are pretty

887
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: like h recession proof would be the wrong way to

888
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: put it, but just are always gonna work. The waste

889
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: management now is gonna work, right, That's gonna work the players.

890
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: That's gonna work, and it really has for a long

891
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: time now. To me, waste management the players. Pebble Beach

892
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: doesn't work anymore. No one plays Riv's cool. But I

893
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: would say waste management is bigger than RIV because it

894
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: gets a more casual fan, especially now with the branding

895
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: of social media. So yeah, the majors, the gap has

896
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: only widened, and the interest because of these cam Smith

897
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: and DJ and obviously Kopka now wins the PGA has

898
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: only added to it. I hear you. I mean, like

899
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: the Byron Nelson. We didn't need to watch. I didn't really.

900
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: I'm sure you didn't really, most people didn't. I would

901
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: imagine the television ratings are pretty low, but that's not

902
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: ideal for the PGA tour. I mean that they got

903
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: to figure out the reason the NFL is king is

904
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: not because one hundred million people watch super Bowl or

905
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: because you know, the playoffs at thirty forty fifty million

906
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: people watching. Is because, like Week eight, they could put

907
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: Atlanta versus the Jags and fifteen million people will watch

908
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: if it's on Thursday Night football or Monday night football.

909
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: And you know, part of being a powerful entity is

910
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: being is growing with your audience. And I think when

911
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:25,959
Speaker 1: you diminish the weekly product, that hurts. But it can't

912
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: be argued that the majors are bigger and better than

913
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:34,320
Speaker 1: ever just because of the split. And you got guys

914
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: Cam Smith, Brooks, I mean, Bryson. DJ hasn't really been

915
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,919
Speaker 1: playing well and I saw Paulina Instagram there on the water.

916
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't even blame DJ, how

917
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: locked in he is. I love watching DJ play golf,

918
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: but like that group of guys that can win, maybe

919
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: Patrick Reid to question for the mailbag, what's your thoughts

920
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: on Bryson after his performance at the PGA Championship. Do

921
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: you think he will get back to top ten form.

922
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of golf podcasts and a

923
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: lot of guys media, guys that go to these tournaments,

924
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: and I heard a lot of good points about some

925
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 1: of the parallels to Oak Hill, which I thought showed

926
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: really well. We're kind of wing foot e long golf course,

927
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: as the guys on tour call it, a big ballpark,

928
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: long rough So what happens when you can hit it far?

929
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: You just have instead of hitting driver five iron, your

930
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: driver eight iron, driver nine iron. So he's not doing

931
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: what he did a year ago hitting it four hundred yards.

932
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: He's still pretty deep. He's still really deep, and that's

933
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: an advantage. So I think those type courses let it

934
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 1: rip right. I think if you play Tory Pines, good

935
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: setup for Wingfoot, good setup for him. The Masters not

936
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: a good setup for him. Next year. Pinehurst will not

937
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: be a good setup for lacc and all you boys

938
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: played there once? Is I like to tell you every time,

939
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: probably not ideal because it's not it's not a big

940
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: rough course. It's in a weird way. It's California compared

941
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: to North Carolina, but it's kind of got some California

942
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: Pinehurst vibes to it. It's gonna it doesn't look like

943
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,280
Speaker 1: things were used to on the West Coast. It doesn't

944
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: look like Tory Pines, doesn't look like Pebble Beach, doesn't

945
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: look like Olympic Club, doesn't look like the way you

946
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:25,919
Speaker 1: know TPC Scottsdale. It'll just look completely different. And I'm

947
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 1: not sure it's a great fit for him. So I

948
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: think Bryson clearly is starting to get a swag back

949
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: a little bit, which is good. I think he's more

950
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: entertaining for the golfing world. But I think of all

951
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: the guys that have major championship ability, like a guy

952
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: that can win a major, he's probably the most course dependent,

953
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: right like Brooks, Scottie, rom Rory, cam Smith, JT. If

954
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: he can get his mojo back, like those guys can travel,

955
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: they can play a lot of different places. I think

956
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: Bryson kne it's long courses, thick rough. I think that's

957
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: kind of his thing. Curious to know if you watched

958
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: the College Natural Championship on Golf Channel, are you guys

959
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: interested in watching. Are guys you're interested in watching going forward?

960
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: I hope your Memorial Day is going well. I watched

961
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: a lot of it on Sunday. I guess it was Monday.

962
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: I watched the playoff between Stanford and Arizona State to

963
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: get into the match play, and then I watched it

964
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 1: today at the gym. North Carolina beat Arizona State. Ludwig

965
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: the dude from Texas Tech. Texas Tech didn't qualify to

966
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,240
Speaker 1: the match play that got knocked out, but he's obviously

967
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: gonna be really good. I think Preston Summer Hayes. Boyd

968
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: is his father who teaches you know, Fenale Taylor Gooch.

969
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: He's a really good teacher. I mean, high end guy.

970
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,919
Speaker 1: I think Preston Summer Hayes. He's a sophomore at Arizona State.

971
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: He became I mean by I don't know, win this year.

972
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,439
Speaker 1: He's clearly their best player. That guy's gonna be really

973
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 1: really good. I think he's a tour player and you're

974
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: probably still gonna got a couple. He'll probably stay all

975
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: four years of Arizona State, but just the way he

976
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,720
Speaker 1: carries himself. I watched him conduct an interview on Monday

977
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: after he had won his match. I would bet on

978
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: that guy. You know, I think there are some parallels

979
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,839
Speaker 1: to like some of the guys in pro sports. I'm

980
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: not comparing him the player to these guys, but like

981
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,800
Speaker 1: Mahome Steph Clay, he's just been around the big leagues,

982
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: man Like he just plays rounds with Tony Fenow like

983
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: he plays. He was in the day that Fenw and

984
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: Ram both shot like fifty nine and sixty one at

985
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: silver Leaf. Preston was playing with him, So he's just

986
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: kind of used to it. And I just watched him

987
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: after his match get interviewed by the Golf Channel and

988
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: I was like, this kid's kind of got it. I'll

989
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know many of the other players,

990
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: like On Pepperdine in North Carolina. I think North Carolina

991
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 1: the colors in golf just kind of work. Eberdine clearly

992
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: he's got a squad. But I'm telling you, Preston Summerhse,

993
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: you know that name is gonna be one you'll remember.

994
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: Stanford has a guy who is coming back next year,

995
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: will be a senior. I can't say his name correctly,

996
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: Michael Long something. He's going to be a really good player.

997
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: He is a good player. Scottie Scheffler to win the

998
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,919
Speaker 1: US Open is a lock guy plays his best golf

999
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 1: in majors. Only did the Masters in PGA Championship because

1000
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: he had an off day one time in pouring rain

1001
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: and cold. The East Tournament LA country Club should be

1002
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: nice and hot. The Texas kid will love agree. I'm

1003
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: tempted to put like a thousand dollars on Scheffler. I

1004
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: saw to day it was like seven and a half

1005
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 1: to one. Though if he wins Memorial Day he could

1006
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: kick off or the Memorial at like five to one.

1007
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: But it feels like he's the guy to play, Okay.

1008
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: Last question from Brian, would love your thoughts on lives

1009
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: ongoing complaints about not being included in the owg R

1010
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: Official Golf World Rankings. Clearly, Brooks showed these guys can

1011
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: still play well. Brook showed that he can still play,

1012
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: and I don't care where the money does come from.

1013
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: But Mickelson's response to a recent question about liv's format

1014
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,399
Speaker 1: needing to change to get ranking points not being their

1015
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: job just makes no sense to me. How would he

1016
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: feel about world ranking points going to five guys that

1017
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,479
Speaker 1: decided to hold a closed nighthole alternate shot exhibition event.

1018
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: What about fifteen guys that play an eighteen hole scramble

1019
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: or thirty that play twenty seven holes over two days,

1020
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,240
Speaker 1: but forty eight guys playing a fifty four hole shotgun

1021
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: start that he feels can't be compared to a full field,

1022
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: seventy two hole event with cuts promotion and relegation. I

1023
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: just don't get how they can see there are basic

1024
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,720
Speaker 1: event standards for any ranking to be able to accurately

1025
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: compare players apples to apples. Totally agree. I'm in agreement

1026
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 1: with the live guys that owgr now that Brooks cam Smith,

1027
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: even Bryce and Patrick reed like, we can't act like

1028
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: those guys are not top ten players. I totally agree.

1029
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,399
Speaker 1: I also disagree with Claude harm and talking a bunch

1030
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: of shit about like will Zalatorus and Maxholma. Like I

1031
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: saw will z Alaturus at the Majors, I've seen Maxhoma

1032
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: win turn. Those guys can fucking play. No one's acting

1033
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 1: like Brooks Kopka's worse than those guys. No one's saying that.

1034
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: No one is saying that Xalatorus or Maxhoma are better

1035
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: than Maxhoma or I mean the Kopka. No one is

1036
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: saying that out loud. But we also standards of standards, right,

1037
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: If you want to run a financial operation, you have

1038
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: to follow certain guidelines by the government. If you want

1039
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: to open a restaurant and sell alcohol, there are rules

1040
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: you have to follow. You have to get an alcohol license.

1041
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: You and I can't just start go open a restaurant

1042
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: in some you know, commercial building, call it Johnny's and

1043
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: just start selling alcohol without going through the proper channels

1044
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: or we will get shut down. So I am one

1045
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: hundred percent with you. You can't just start a tour,

1046
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: I guess is what it's called. I didn't even know

1047
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: a group that plays golf and just be like, we

1048
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: deserve it too, just because you have big name guys, right, Well,

1049
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: it's like, well, yeah, there are standards here. You don't

1050
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: even play like literally, even if you had no cuts,

1051
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: you play one less round. And anyone that's gambled on

1052
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: golf knows that, Like hell, I hit jat to win

1053
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: the players a couple of years ago, he had no

1054
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: business winning it. After Friday, if it would have been

1055
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: a fifty four whole event, he doesn't win it so

1056
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: like that's part of the Yeah, I'm in agreement there.

1057
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: Do the Golf World rankings have as much merit as

1058
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: they once did? Of course not, But like where the

1059
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,240
Speaker 1: standards pretty well established?

1060
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1061
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: Right, you want to get your driver's license, you gotta

1062
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: do something to get your driver's license, right, I don't

1063
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,959
Speaker 1: know past a drivings test. It's literally in every walk

1064
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 1: of life, whether it's business, whether it's a like I said,

1065
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: a license, an ID to become a citizen, I don't know.

1066
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: It's like there are rules. Hell, I've never liked rules.

1067
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: I hate rules. I'm not a big rule follower, but

1068
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: there are certain times in life you gotta Follow'm right.

1069
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just part of the world we live in.

1070
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: And they refuse and now they're bitching and moaning about it.

1071
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: It ain't gonna change the fact. You can complain about

1072
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: it all day long. You can open that restaurant, but

1073
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,720
Speaker 1: until you get that liquor license, you cannot sell liquor

1074
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: or you will get shut down. So you can start

1075
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: the tour, but if you're not following their standards, they're

1076
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: not gonna give you the points. And that's not gonna change,

1077
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: especially when you sue everybody, so they handled it completely

1078
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: the wrong way. Part of getting business deals done, even

1079
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 1: if you don't like who you're dealing with, you know,

1080
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: part of playing politics is just like learning when to

1081
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: shut your mouth if you want to get something done.

1082
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge like play politics guy, just in

1083
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,280
Speaker 1: life in general, but there comes a time in business

1084
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 1: when you just got to do it, and live had

1085
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: their opportunity and they just tried to come out double

1086
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: middle fingers, do it our way, hell over hell or

1087
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: high water, and what's happened. Everyone's laughed at him, like

1088
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: you're not getting any points, and it hasn't changed. So

1089
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: I hear you. I appreciate everyone listening. Have a good week.

1090
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: Like I said Thigala, Cam Young, Shane Lowry, I just

1091
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: I don't know why I keep gambling on Keegan, but

1092
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: it feels like he's bound to win a tournament this year.

1093
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: Hopefully he does. Audios