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Speaker 1: This is John Middelkoff and this was I had recorded

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Speaker 1: we had breaking news that Russell Wilson, the former Seattle

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Speaker 1: Seahawk quarterback I don't know if you remember him, played

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Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. So did have to do

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Speaker 1: we just had some breaking news. Russell Wilson has officially

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Speaker 1: signed a one year contract with the New York Football Giants.

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Speaker 1: And some of us are old enough to remember when

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Speaker 1: him and Pete Carroll start butting heads and Russell put

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Speaker 1: out this kind of trade demand if he was to

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Speaker 1: get traded, he listed like four teams, and if memory

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Speaker 1: So he finally gets his wish of being the starting

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Speaker 1: or six days, they've signed Jameis Winston eight million dollar

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Speaker 1: looked at the details, not out. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much they guaranteed of that contract. We do know that

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Speaker 1: they have guaranteed Russell Wilson ten and a half million dollars.

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Speaker 1: So let's just say four or five million dollars they're

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Speaker 1: in this season. Guaranteed money at around fifteen million dollars

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Speaker 1: Who his backup will be yet to be determined. I

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Speaker 1: So when your job's on the line like it is

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Speaker 1: One of Russell's attributes that still works really well is

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Speaker 1: Maybe the coach pushes for that. I wouldn't blame him

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Speaker 1: Uh So I don't know, man, I think the headline

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Speaker 1: he is a good player now and while it looked

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Speaker 1: don't think signing Jamis Winston and clearly signing Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: we have seen is one, this team is that talented,

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Speaker 1: and two Russell Wilson is no longer really that good.

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Speaker 1: And if let's just give the hypothetical that chadore because

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Speaker 1: Me what month do people start going, should we go

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Speaker 1: to Jamis, I'd say late October early November like that

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Speaker 1: Though I understand why they made this move, if I

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Speaker 1: I'm desperate. I have no other options. What else am

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Speaker 1: if we feel like one confident that Chador is going

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Speaker 1: like if Chador can't beat out Jamis in training camp,

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Speaker 1: I was like kind of Cocky's the wrong word, but

434
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Speaker 1: I was. I was weirdly confident last year in Rory

435
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 1: McElroy going in to Augusta. I put a thousand dollars

436
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 1: on him, which is by far the biggest individual bet

437
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: I've ever placed on someone to win the golf s turn.

438
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,199
Speaker 1: I've done large bets on top twenties in top tens,

439
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: and but you got way more leeway there. And I

440
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: remember after I think it was round one, it might

441
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: have been two now it was one because the wind

442
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: was up and it was like Rory and Scotty are

443
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 1: playing a different game and I don't feel like that

444
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: right now, and I think part of that is, you know,

445
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 1: clearly over I feel like the offseason, which is kind

446
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: of weird in golf, but it's a couple of months.

447
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 1: But Rory doesn't play that much in the fall relative

448
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: to some you know, of the lower tier players. It

449
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: feels like he's much better with a sandwich in his hand.

450
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 1: Still not great. I'm not comparing him to like Tiger

451
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 1: or Phil here, but like if if you gave Rory

452
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: like Tiger or Phil's short game, he would have fifty

453
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: plus wins right now, right because actually now he's a

454
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 1: pretty good putter, but his short game and really he's

455
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: just his wedge game from like ninety yards for an

456
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: all time great player, you don't have that much confidence

457
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: in him yet, Like Scotty or Xander when they're playing well,

458
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: you have a lot of confidence in them with that

459
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: club in their hand. Like most human beings, if I

460
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,959
Speaker 1: gave you a ninety yard shot, even if you're a

461
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: single digit handicap, it's gonna be very hit or miss,

462
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: depending on the flag position, depending on the green. Like

463
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: but you give Scotty Scheffler when he's playing, well, a

464
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: short club in his hand, like it's gonna be relatively tight,

465
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Speaker 1: and I don't know what we've got to see.

466
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Speaker 3: I don't know if.

467
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Speaker 1: Scotty's losing his mojo a little bit. Putting definitely can

468
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: relate to that as well. But I think that the tour,

469
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: you know, I think they need two guys. They either

470
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: need Scotty to get it back or they need Roorer

471
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: to keep kicking ass. Because I respect Xander and he's

472
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: an awesome player. Obviously he got hurt as well with

473
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Speaker 1: the rib injury, but like he can't carry the sport

474
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: and the reality is for as great as Bryson is,

475
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: and he is one of the rare needle movers. He

476
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: only shows up four times a year. So Rory's playing

477
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: this week. I really don't think this week really matters

478
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Speaker 1: to him at all. Like if you told me he

479
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: was just working on one specific thing that he wanted

480
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: to carry over to Augusta, didn't even care about making

481
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Speaker 1: the cut. I'm not saying he's gonna do that. I'd

482
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Speaker 1: be like, yeah, it doesn't matter. I mean, he's already

483
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,959
Speaker 1: won twice and he looks fantastic, so I think it's

484
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Speaker 1: a big week for Scotty. I'm actually betting on him

485
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Speaker 1: to win, because if Scotty's gonna kind of get back

486
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Speaker 1: to where he's been, I think he wins this week

487
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Speaker 1: and a couple other guys. You know, I like Jason

488
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: Day this week. I mean I like Jason Day most

489
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: weeks to top twenty. Davis Riley is a guy that

490
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: when he first came out on tour from Alabama, I

491
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: used to gamble on and then he kind of fell

492
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: off a cliff. Well, he finished seventh at Puerto Rico.

493
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: Like a month ago, he finished I think top ten.

494
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: Last week he made the cut at the Players. He

495
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: just got a little momentum. And sometimes I just like

496
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: fighting guys when they're hot and you get them in

497
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: like three to one to top twenty. So this feels

498
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: a little weird because you get a lot of guys

499
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: that you know, just wait until the Masters to play,

500
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: which which is fine depending on who you are. But

501
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Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, I know Scotty, this is

502
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: a Texas event means something to him, but I think

503
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: on the course, playing well means a lot to him. Okay,

504
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: last week, Vals Bar, you know one of the things

505
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: with the PGA Tour that Live is just I was

506
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: in the car today and I was flipping around radio

507
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: stations and Webb Simpson was who's part of like the

508
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: player pack was calling in and doing an interview with

509
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: PGA Tour Radio, and clearly one thing that they are

510
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: butting heads with. I think why this negotiation is taking

511
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: longer is because the Saudis and Live and I don't

512
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: know if it's Yaser, I don't know if it's the

513
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: players on Live pushing back whatever is going down, is

514
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: like they're adamant of having like a legit team element

515
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 1: to when this merge happens. And at the end of

516
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: the day, golf is an individual sport, just like tennis.

517
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean we can't have a couple team events,

518
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: which golf does. It's called the Ryder Cup and the

519
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: President's Cup. But I don't think the consumer gives a

520
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: shit about team golf. Throughout the season, it does not matter.

521
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: So the problem is is the financial situation and I

522
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: don't want to say desperation, but the tour needs some

523
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: of those guys back that you know, It's not like

524
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: you can just tell them to kick rock. So you

525
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: have to negotiate with them. But you know, watching Hoveland

526
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: and watching Justin Thomas, who essentially turned into kind of

527
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: like a duel down the back nine last week in Florida.

528
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: And part of what the tour brings the table when

529
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: you get bigger names is there is such a built

530
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: up star to them with these human beings, right like

531
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: when you turn on the Lakers playing the Warriors, you

532
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: just get Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Lebron James Luca, Jimmy Butler.

533
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: Like you have so much history with these players. You know,

534
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: you have watched the ebb and flow of their careers.

535
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: Right with the Yankees this year, if they make another

536
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: push try to win a World Series, like you have

537
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: been following Aaron Judges' career now for a long period

538
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 1: of time. The good and the bad and part of

539
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: these two guys, And this is the nature of golf

540
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: for basically every player in the history of the sport

541
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: is you're gonna go through the mud. You're gonna have really,

542
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: really shitty times. Even when you're a player like Justin Thomas,

543
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: who you know, probably for his generation his age group,

544
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: is easily one of the most accomplished players of his generation,

545
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: probably one of the better Americans right one, fifteen times

546
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: on tour one a couple of majors, is probably, if

547
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: not the best top two or three writer player of

548
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: all time. You know, is now kind of synonymous with

549
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. They're best friends, obviously, his relationship with Jordan Spieth.

550
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: He's just a very very important part of American golf.

551
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: And Victor Hoveland, who several years ago, you know, if

552
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: golf was football, he would have been viewed as like

553
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: an Abdual Carter, a Jamar Chase, you know, a Miles Garrett.

554
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: Like he was a.

555
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: Blue chip number one overall pick, and then he got

556
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: to the PGA Tour and within like a year, You're like,

557
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: holy shit, if this guy can figure out how to chip,

558
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,239
Speaker 1: watch out. And then guess what, he figured out how

559
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: to chip. And in twenty twenty three, a couple of

560
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: years after he turned pro, he had three wins and

561
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: nine top tens and won thirty million dollars. At the

562
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Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty three, I would say most people

563
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: that fall golf pretty closely would have made the argument

564
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Speaker 1: this guy right now, not by the rankings, but just

565
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: right now is the best player in the world. And

566
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: then a year later it's like he's in the wilderness.

567
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: He's changed his swing, he's a tinkerer, and he just

568
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: looked like a shell of himself. He was missing cuts.

569
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: He only had two top tens in twenty twenty four,

570
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: and then this season got even worse. I mean, two

571
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: weeks ago at the Players he shot eighty, which for

572
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: most of us feel pretty good leaving the course. Shooting

573
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: eighty for a pro golfer like that number is a

574
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: pretty eye opening experience. But held the week before at

575
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: the Arnold, Palmer shot seventy seven and he was giving

576
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: quotes like, I suck, I don't know where the ball

577
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: is going. My shots are disgusting. These were quotes last

578
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: week at the vaalst Bar when he won. So it's

579
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: very relatable now when you're at the highest level, like

580
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: a guy like this, once you can kind of figure

581
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: out where your miss is, like you can kind of

582
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say fake it, but you

583
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: can figure it out. And then if you watched him

584
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: on Sunday coming down the stretch, he looked like the

585
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three version, especially with his irons from the

586
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: middle of the fairway. It's like this guy is pin hunting.

587
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: But like, one thing that was cool about those two

588
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: guys decking it out was like, these are two of

589
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: the better players when they're playing well in the world,

590
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: but we have history with them now of really struggling,

591
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: and it makes them very relatable. It's why, like Victor Hovelin,

592
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: who came out in Colin Morikawa's class. You look at

593
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: Colin's quotes from a couple weeks ago, I don't owe

594
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: anyone anything. And then you got Victor Hovelin, who probably

595
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: felt a couple weeks ago like I'm at the lowest

596
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: point of my career. I bet he hadn't felt that

597
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: way in his golfing career potentially, Ever, like high school, college,

598
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: the pros, like I would imagine he is never in

599
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: anything that is mattered, ever played this shitty, and never

600
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: felt that lost, and yet he is giving these eloquent answers,

601
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: these eloquent press conferences of just like wearing it, and

602
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: it's like God, that makes him more relatable. Justin Thomas

603
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: had a two shot lead on the back nine. This

604
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: is a guy that's won. I mean, he's five wins

605
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: away from having twenty plus wins on tour. And when

606
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: he blew the lead in Victor Hoblin, Now did he

607
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: blow it? Did Victor Hobblin take it? Kind of a

608
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: combination of him both. Justin Thomas gave multiple press conferences.

609
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: He talked, I think, to Smiley before he even signed

610
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: his card, and then he just gave a normal press

611
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: conference after and it actually and listen, he's older and

612
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: more cowa. It like made him and Justin's a guy.

613
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: I think that some people who's turned off over the years.

614
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: To me, it made him more likable, more relatable and

615
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: just kind of more real, Like, yeah, I'm a guy.

616
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: I've made a lot of money playing golf. You know,

617
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: no one feels sorry for any of us. It's viewed

618
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: as you know, this saw activity that you know, people

619
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: get labeled as country club guys. And I have felt

620
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: like one of the leaders in that clubhouse. Yet like

621
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: I can wear this and take this on the chin

622
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: and be and not act like a sore loser and

623
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: storm off and be a good partner for people I'm

624
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: in business with, aka NBC. So I give a lot

625
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: of credit to JT because even before he I mean,

626
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: he probably should have won that tournament. He's playing well

627
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean, that's his third top ten this year. Like,

628
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: I think you could bet the farm of Justin Thomas

629
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: winning a golf tournament this year. I feel pretty confident.

630
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: But I also watch a guy that feels a lot

631
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: more mature.

632
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: I saw this clip go viral of.

633
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, and when you watch Baker Mayfield talk now,

634
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: I don't think he's quite thirty yet late twenties. He

635
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: just comes off and sounds like a different human being

636
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: than the guy five or six years ago when he

637
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: first got to Cleveland. That's part of you get Mary's

638
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: You have kids, you kind of grow, you mature, and

639
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I feel like just and Thomas

640
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: has become. We know, like these guys, and I'd say

641
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: the same thing about Victor Hovland is that they are

642
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: not gonna.

643
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 3: Not figure it out.

644
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: I think it would be stunning if a guy like

645
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: that in kind of this era just disappears forever. I

646
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: think it used to happen more, but with technology, with

647
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Speaker 1: the resources they have, they're just gonna figure it out.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: One thing that Hoveland says that I do think a

650
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Speaker 1: lot of people push back, like why are you tinkering?

651
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Speaker 1: Why are you changing your swing. You're in your mid

652
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: to late twenties, you're in the peak of your powers.

653
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: You just won thirty million dollars on the PGA Tour,

654
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Speaker 1: you won the FedEx Cup, you won multiple times on

655
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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour. Why would you mess with anything? And

656
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: I do, And I've noticed this in myself, is like

657
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,760
Speaker 1: as you age, maybe you lift a little bit differently

658
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: and muscles change. I do think your natural swing path

659
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: and your flexibility can change. Jordan Speeth has been talking

660
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Speaker 1: about this for year. There are ways that he swung

661
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Speaker 1: in the peak of his powers in like fourteen fifteen

662
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Speaker 1: sixteen era that he's like, I can't make that swing.

663
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Speaker 1: My body does not allow me to do it. So

664
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Speaker 1: I have to figure out a way to still try

665
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Speaker 1: to play like that, but with a different swing, and

666
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Speaker 1: it can be very frustrating. And I don't think I

667
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Speaker 1: hear many people that cover golf ever discuss that element,

668
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Speaker 1: like bodies dramatically change now overnight, Like does Victor Hoblin

669
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Speaker 1: have to do it overnight?

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Speaker 3: I think we can question that.

671
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Speaker 1: You know, did Justin Thomas do something similar when he

672
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: was playing pretty well a couple of years ago and

673
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Speaker 1: then not like his swing very possible, because the other

674
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Speaker 1: thing that's different now than probably even twenty years ago,

675
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Speaker 1: let alone in the seventies, eighties, nineties, is the power

676
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: of video, the phones, the being able to text stuff

677
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: to coaches, the being able to overstudy clearly the numbers.

678
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you can overthink I mean what I do,

679
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: the analytics of what works, what doesn't. You know, what

680
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: I should never do again, what you should stay away

681
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: from Sometimes like you just had a bad show. It

682
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: just wasn't an interesting topic. That doesn't mean to never

683
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: talk about that again. You just took a bad angle.

684
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: And I think with the amount of metrics that I

685
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Speaker 1: have access to that most people listening have access to

686
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: in whatever profession you're in, you can over quantify anything

687
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: in your head. And it's easy, especially if you kind

688
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: of like numbers. It's easy to throw yourself off by

689
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 1: diving too deep into them. There has to be some

690
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: sort I don't care what you do, of a gut

691
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 1: feel of like, yeah, this might not be the right

692
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Speaker 1: thing to do now. And you know, Victor Hoblin talked

693
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Speaker 1: to Depth about that after he won, because they asked

694
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Speaker 1: him if he was a perfectionist, and he said, isn't

695
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Speaker 1: part of being a pro athlete doing everything humanly possible

696
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Speaker 1: to get better. And I think he's not wrong with

697
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Speaker 1: that statement. But when you win the FedEx Cup and

698
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Speaker 1: you win three times on the PGA Tour, like you're

699
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Speaker 1: about as good as it gets. So can you just

700
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Speaker 1: maintain that for a while, Because if you just maintain

701
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: that level of play doesn't mean you're gonna win at

702
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: the same cliff, but you are gonna be in the

703
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: mix more often than not when you're as good as

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Speaker 1: you are. So and that's the difference between like, you know,

705
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: in football, like the Lions aren't gonna do a deep

706
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: dive and change a lot of things, but the forty

707
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Speaker 1: nine Ers, because they went six and eleven, like not

708
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: only look in the mirror, but it feels like they're

709
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: throwing a nuclear bomb on everything. If the forty nine ers,

710
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: instead of going six and eleven, had gone eleven and

711
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: six and lost to the Eagles in the NFC Championship Game,

712
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: they're probably not doing as big of a knee jerk reaction.

713
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 1: So like the Warriors, part of the reason they traded

714
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Butler because they had a couple of years

715
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Speaker 1: of realizing like this is not working, so we got

716
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Speaker 1: to make a change. You do not really making changes

717
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. Why don't really need to? Right, So

718
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: when you're doing things well, you can ride it out

719
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: for a while. Now when there's a light at the

720
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel of like, we're going to be

721
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: able to stream everything. These DVDs are going to be

722
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: irrelevant pretty soon. Yeah, maybe there's a time to slowly

723
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: start to pivot. But like I do think golfers probably tends.

724
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Speaker 1: It has a lot of parallels to kicking. Look at

725
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Speaker 1: guys that can fall off a cliff. Baseball a lot

726
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Speaker 1: of time to think.

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Speaker 3: You know, in.

728
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Speaker 1: Basketball, you just play, take more shots, just run, get

729
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Speaker 1: to the hoop.

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Speaker 3: You know.

731
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Speaker 1: In football it's like, just just make a play full speed,

732
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: just hit someone hard, just do something full speed and

733
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Speaker 1: good things will happen. And Coffee just spends so much

734
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Speaker 1: time thinking, and I think it gets in the way

735
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Speaker 1: of some of these great players, because I don't think

736
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Speaker 1: it's just random that Justin Thomas and Victor Hovlin played

737
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: bad golf for a longer period of time after they

738
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Speaker 1: had just dominated. I think get in your own head.

739
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Speaker 3: Let's end on this.

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Speaker 1: We will do a little at Golo Mailbag, So it's

741
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: at Golo Pod. At Golo Pod is the Instagram. Fire

742
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: in those dms and get your questions answered here on

743
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Speaker 1: the show.

744
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Speaker 3: This is from Bobby.

745
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: Question for the mail bag. If you could pick one

746
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: player who's never won a major before to win a

747
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Speaker 1: major this year, who would it be, Which major?

748
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Speaker 2: And why?

749
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Speaker 1: For me, It'd be Tony Fenaw to win the Masters,

750
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: as it feels like a major victory. It would take

751
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: him from a solid PGA pro to a household name.

752
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: And for the fact that he's such an incredible ambassador

753
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: of the sport. He's great off the tee which is

754
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: paramount out Augusta and has been in the mix of

755
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: the Masters in the past. I e twenty nineteen against Tiger.

756
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: Curious to hear your thoughts, Well, I do it on

757
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Speaker 1: this one. I do have five hundred dollars. After I

758
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: had a big win on Tony few month ago, I

759
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: spread some of it out on Ludvig Aidberg to win

760
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: the Masters at like sixteen to one, so it would

761
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: win me like eighty five hundred dollars. So and that's

762
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Speaker 1: the only bet I have on the Masters. I think

763
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna place another one on Rory, so it would

764
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Speaker 1: be Ludvig. But if it was a non Ludwig player,

765
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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good question. Like I I don't have

766
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Speaker 1: like I I root for the guys that already have

767
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Speaker 1: majors that there's probably not a guy on the PGA

768
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Speaker 1: Tour right now that does not have a major that

769
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Speaker 1: I'm like in the bag for Like if Patrick Cantlay

770
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Speaker 1: never wins a Major, I'd have no issue with it.

771
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Speaker 1: I don't hate your Tony Finow. Like if Tony Fenow

772
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Speaker 1: were to win a Major, I think that would be

773
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Speaker 1: really cool. I would imagine that Tony is. I know

774
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Speaker 1: he's played well at the Masters before, but it does

775
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Speaker 1: feel like he'd be more likely to win. I don't

776
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: know the PGA Championship. He actually played well last year

777
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: at Pinehurst. If I was a betting man right now,

778
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: I doubt Tony Finale ever wins the Masters. Now over

779
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: under like how many majors is Tony ultimately gonna win?

780
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Speaker 1: I think the over under right now would be like

781
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: point five. Probably feels like a one major guy like

782
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia and they he'd have an incredible

783
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 1: career if he wins the Major. But yeah, I don't

784
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Speaker 1: know if I have a guy like I think there

785
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 1: are guys with huge droughts, like Speith. When's the last

786
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: time he wons? I'm like sixteen or seventeen. I think

787
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: Jordan Speith winning a major would be just legendary. I

788
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: think if Rory could win the Masters, it would be

789
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Speaker 1: great for golf. I think Bryson. I think if Bryson

790
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 1: could win the Masters, I mean, how incredible would that be?

791
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: So I you know, I like Tommy Fleet would but

792
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: like if he doesn't win a major, I don't really care.

793
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: Most of the guys I feel like I root for

794
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: are already major champion, and it would have to be

795
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Speaker 1: someone specific that I'm gambling on, because there aren't.

796
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Speaker 2: Ludvig. I just like watching Ludwig play.

797
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: I saw Xander say in an interview that like one

798
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: thing that taught him at playing the TGL, He's like

799
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: I was trying to play like draws and cuts into

800
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Speaker 1: the screen, and I was playing Ludvig, and I just

801
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: watched Ludvig just aim and fire, and then I realized

802
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: Ludvig just basically plays golf like he's playing in a

803
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: simulator when he's playing just regular golf.

804
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 2: So he's like, I just.

805
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: Copied him and just aimed at the pen and tried

806
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: to hit straight balls. So I again, he hasn't played

807
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: well lately. He fell a part of the players. But

808
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: I do think it'd be cool if Ludwig won a

809
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: major this year. Myrtle Beach extremely overrated. I live in

810
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: Charleston and work two days a week in Myrtle Beach.

811
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: There was good golf, but it's not worth flying all

812
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: the way from Arizona. Charleston has fewer options, but you

813
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 1: have a much better weekend in Charleston versus Myrtle Beach.

814
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 2: I know this.

815
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: No one and I mean no one like Southern charm

816
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: as much. Maybe there are people or more. Maybe there

817
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: are people as much, but not more than Maria. She

818
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: desperately wants to go to Charleston, so we might have

819
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: to do that this summer. Maybe I'll play little golf

820
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: and hang out there. Hi, John Hope all as well

821
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: with a new marriage. Looking to hit the ball farther.

822
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: I weigh about one hundred and fifty five pounds and

823
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: hit the ball two fifty two sixty on a good

824
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 1: floor today. My friends say I can hit the ball

825
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: farther if I change to a new driver, since mine

826
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Speaker 1: is fifteen years old, it's my best club because I

827
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Speaker 1: hit fairways. Working out is also the other option. So

828
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Speaker 1: this begs the question how many yards do you think

829
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Speaker 1: someone like me could gain with a workout regiment. I'm

830
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: a flexible dude, but not very muscular. Also, do new

831
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Speaker 1: drivers actually make us civilians hit it far and straighter

832
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: like the one Rory uses? Would love to hit it

833
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: too eighty consistently. I mean Rory and Tiger are pretty

834
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: like strong, But I mean what's justin Thomas Away one

835
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five pounds? Hitting the ball far is

836
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: not necessarily about like how much you can curl and bench.

837
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: It is way more about your swing path slash speed.

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00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: I do think the way if you have a fifteen

839
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: year old driver, I mean that is really old and

840
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Speaker 1: you are hitting the ball.

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Speaker 3: Two hundred and sixty yards.

842
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: If you got newer technology, you don't need to get

843
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: a brand new one. Just go to the PGA superstore

844
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: and buy a couple of year old head of what

845
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: you know? Callaway Taylor may titleist whatever him hit him

846
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: into the thing. See what you like and just you

847
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: could take the shaft and you have right now basically

848
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: the same shafted grip, take the head off and put

849
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: the new head on the on the club like that.

850
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Speaker 1: That's what I would recommend doing. You could add probably

851
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: fifteen yards. The technology over the last fifteen years, I

852
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: would say over the last ten years has changed dramatically.

853
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: So I don't even think if you're hitting the ball

854
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty years old with a relic of

855
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: a club face or club head, I would just go

856
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: see if you can find a deal at some golf

857
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: store and just take the head and continue to use

858
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: your shaft. The gym is not as important. A flexibility matters,

859
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: but I think it's much more swing speed than you

860
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: know hidden the machines at the local gym. In terms

861
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: of golf, a question for the bag. If you had

862
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: to build the perfect player in terms of driving, irons, wedges, putting,

863
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: and overall mentality, who are you picking for each category?

864
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: Can't pick the same player twice. By the way, I'm

865
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: a watch dealer out here in Philly. No, you said

866
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: you're not a watch guy, but if you ever in

867
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: the market, Well, what's funny is I got my first

868
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: nice watch a couple of years ago, and when you

869
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: first get it, you're like, God, I'm gonna get a bunch.

870
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: And then I realized, I just wear it not that often.

871
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: Now some people know I'm a podcaster. So if I

872
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: went into meetings, and like, even the meetings I have,

873
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: like a big business meeting is over zoom, so like

874
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: it's not like I'm putting on a coat and a watch. Hell,

875
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: I don't even put on my wedding ring. So the

876
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: nice one, I wear a rubber one. Actually not one

877
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: on my hand right now because I forgot in the bathroom.

878
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: But I appreciate a good looking watch. I just given

879
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: my profession, I just don't wear them that often. And

880
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: once I have one, like do I need another one?

881
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: If I went into an office more often, I think

882
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: I would be more into them. And I understand people

883
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: that are in offices and meetings that they matter or

884
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to say they matter because

885
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: they I don't think they do. Like if you don't

886
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: have one, it doesn't matter. But I understand why people

887
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: wear them on a daily basis when they're interacting with

888
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: other people. Perfect player driving would be one rory if

889
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: if you pick Ludvig, I don't think that would be

890
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: crazy either. I would go Rory Irons. Last year you

891
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: go Scotty. This year you'd probably go Marikawa Wedges. I

892
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: think you could go this, you go driving Rory Irons,

893
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: Morekawa Wedges. I mean, last year Scotty around the Green

894
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: was incredible. H Now Phil in twenty twenty five, I

895
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: think historically you'd feel pretty good about Phil putting again,

896
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 1: are we doing historically? Like can I do like Steve

897
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: Stricker or Brad Faxon, or do I gotta do like

898
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: Russell Henley or you know, Danny McCarthy, Because if you're

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00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,280
Speaker 1: going historically, you'd go Rory Tiger.

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Speaker 2: Short game, I.

901
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: Don't know who would considered to have the best short

902
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: game ever, like Ben Crenshaw or something like Tom Kite putting,

903
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: who's the greatest putter of all time? I feel I

904
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: just I just think Brad Faxon overall mentality. But if

905
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: you're doing current players, you go Rory Morikawa, Scottie with

906
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: the Wedges putting, you.

907
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 3: Just take whoever like Danny McCarthy.

908
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: Overall mentality of guys currently playing, I think Justin Thomas

909
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: is just Tiger's not really close to him for no reason.

910
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean, jt Is is a fucking killer now. His

911
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: driver let him down in that tournament, which you know,

912
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: it's kind of his downfall. Sometimes putting feels like he's

913
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: better on the greens now, but like he's aiming for

914
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: the big cut on eighteen and he just.

915
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:06,280
Speaker 3: Pumps it left.

916
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: It happens, But it does feel like with this modern

917
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: technology and how hardy swings, you know, sometimes he just

918
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: pumps it into the trees. I mean a couple of

919
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: years ago, remember when he was trying to make it

920
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: to the next level of the playoffs, he hit one

921
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: of the most incredible shots ever to give him his

922
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: chance to chip it in. I forget where they playing

923
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: like Hartford, but the reason he had to hit one

924
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,280
Speaker 1: of the best shots ever because he was behind a tree.

925
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: He's got a little tiger in him too, like he

926
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: can be squorely off the tee. But I do think

927
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: his mentality in his mindset is as good as it

928
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: gets on the tour when he's playing right. What's in

929
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: the bag currently? I was thinking I've been asked this

930
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: question a bunch. I think I'll do a video for

931
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: Instagram in the next week or two and post up

932
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: what's in the back. It's actually not that cool. Think

933
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: in my wedges. Sometimes when you see like a pro

934
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 1: on Instagram, they're like how often you change your wedges,

935
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 1: and the guy's like, uh, every other week keep the

936
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: grooves clean, or like at minimum once a quarter. I

937
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: think I have had the same sand wedge and gap

938
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:20,760
Speaker 1: wedge fifty degree like titleist wedges easily five or six years,

939
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: maybe even long, maybe even like seven years. My fifty

940
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: eight degree. I think I had lost my sixty degree

941
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: one day playing. This is when I lived in the

942
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Speaker 1: Bay Area, So I just went into like the local

943
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 1: golf shop to just try to buy like a lob wedge.

944
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:38,280
Speaker 2: And I found this fifty eight degree.

945
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 3: I kind of liked.

946
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: That was probably four or five years ago. It's probably

947
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: one of my favorite clubs in the bag. Then I

948
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: just have like seven ninety tailor made irons, which I've

949
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: probably had for five or six years.

950
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 3: Four or five years.

951
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: Did I remember instagramming a guy It was a tailor

952
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: made rep on Instagram, and he gave me a code

953
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: for forty fifty percent off, So I remember getting the

954
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: set for like fifteen hundred dollars and it costs me

955
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: like seven hundred, and then I just took it to

956
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: like a Club Champion and they kind of bent them

957
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: and cut them down for me. My woods, I have

958
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: a tailor made hybrid and three wood that I bought

959
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: from the PGA superstore. Literally just went and hit them

960
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: and bought them. And then I have a special shaft

961
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: from Club Champion that I used to use with a

962
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: different head that I have like the Maverick head on

963
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: it now from Callaway. So it's it's a mixed mismatch

964
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: of clubs, probably why my handicap is currently rising at

965
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: rapid speed. Would you rather win Augusta one time or

966
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: when the other three each once? I feel like three

967
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: majors is hard to beat, but the prestige in history

968
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: behind Augusta gives me reason to stop and think about it. Also,

969
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: it's cool knowing that you'd always be invited back to

970
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: each year. I think if it was two of them, right,

971
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: if it was like one was the PGA and one

972
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: was the other, the US Open or the Open, I

973
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: think the answer, unequivocally, without hesitation is the masters. I

974
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: think when it's the three of them, like you win

975
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: three majors you're a Hall of Famer even if those

976
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: are your only three wins. Ever, if you've won a

977
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: US Open, the Open, and the PGA Championship, I think

978
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: you're a law Hall of Famer. But I still think

979
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: you think about it because you know, golf is not

980
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:40,839
Speaker 1: the NFL or basketball or the Stanley Cup.

981
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 3: Or it's just it's there is a.

982
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: Very in Listen. I'm passionate and I watch it, I

983
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: play it. I love it, but I'm not I'm in

984
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: the football business. I understand it's lack of gravity on

985
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: the on a bigger scale. Now it's more popular than

986
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: ever from a playing standpoint, But I mean, Grant Horvat's

987
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: more popular than probably ninety eight percent of the PGA tour,

988
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: and rightfully so.

989
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 3: He does good shit. Actually, I watch a lot of

990
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 3: YouTube golf, Like I watched.

991
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: Wesley Bryan play this shitty course yesterday or last night

992
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: with Jason Day.

993
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 3: They're just entertaining.

994
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: It was very entertained, whether it's the Brian Bros. Grant,

995
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: I watch good, good take on Joel Damon, like ten

996
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: of them that was entertaining at Wikipa. Obviously, Bob does

997
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: is just the best and hilarious like it's just a

998
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: good product. It's just very entertaining. And unless you're just

999
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: a golf nut, I do understand where PGA golf cannot

1000
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: be entertaining. It's not exactly Bill's Chiefs. I get it.

1001
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 3: Even if it's Rory and Scotty. It bores a lot

1002
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 3: of people.

1003
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 1: But you win the Masters. If you just say, hey,

1004
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: I've won the Masters, someone that doesn't give a shit

1005
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: about golf, and that's an NBA fan or a hockey fan,

1006
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: knows exactly what you mean. So I think the power

1007
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: of being a Master's champ, having the green jacket and being.

1008
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 2: Part of that.

1009
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: I think if you wanted to decide that, I'd have

1010
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: to think long and hard. I'd probably just choose the Masters.

1011
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: I probably would, but it is hard. Three majors and

1012
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: that's you'd be considered like one of the great players

1013
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: in the sport. But like Xander Shaffley is a good

1014
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:31,399
Speaker 1: example because he's won he's a US Open away from

1015
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: having three of them.

1016
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 3: Right.

1017
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: He won the PGA last year, he won the British

1018
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 1: Open last year. If he wins the US Open, he'll

1019
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: probably end up with like fifteen victories. And let's just

1020
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: say he ends up winning the US Open, never wins

1021
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 1: the Masters, Like, would Xander have been way more famous

1022
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: if Xander Shaffley just won the Masters and never those tournaments,

1023
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: I think you could say, yeah, he wouldn't be as rich. Probably,

1024
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: But that's a great question. If the PGA was really

1025
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: worried about ratings and viewership, don't you think they would

1026
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 1: figure out the utter disaster of setting tea times. Here

1027
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: I am watching the first round of the biggest non

1028
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: major tournament of the year and Speith, Wyndam Clark, Scepstraca,

1029
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: Tom kim Aberg, Thagala Henley are already through fourteen or

1030
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: fifteen holes. Can you speak to all the broadcasting network

1031
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 1: rights that the PGA is going on right now because

1032
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: it is not working and if they want to increase viewership,

1033
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: they need to change. Well, the way a golf tournament

1034
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: works on Thursday and Friday one beside the Majors, every

1035
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: other golf tournament is just on Golf channel, and a

1036
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 1: good golf channel viewership is not seven figures. So you are,

1037
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,240
Speaker 1: and I'm definitely this. We are a very very small

1038
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 1: audience relative to most sports watching Golf channel non majors.

1039
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday. But the way golf tournament works is

1040
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: there are two flights of people. Groups go off in

1041
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: the morning and groups go off in the afternoon, So

1042
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: you have to split the groups. So one of your

1043
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 1: TV windows on Thursday is going to get the afternoon group. Well,

1044
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: if you load up like you're saying, Thursday afternoon with

1045
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: every guy that's in the field, that's worth the shit.

1046
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: You know, all the top twenty five players, well, the

1047
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: next day they would tee off in the morning, so

1048
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: it would change the viewership window Friday. Who you'd be

1049
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 1: watching a bunch of random no name guys. Now they

1050
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 1: might be leading that individual tournament or playing well, but

1051
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 1: the group of Scheffler's and Rory's and you know, justin Thomas's,

1052
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 1: even in a major, Bryson's and you name it would

1053
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: have already played. So it's not like you can't put

1054
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: them afternoon afternoon because there is an integrity of the

1055
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: field and playing in the morning is different playing in

1056
00:56:56,520 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: the afternoon. I would imagine if I talk to rules

1057
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: official or you know, Jack Nicholas, like, why do they

1058
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: do rotate the tea times? It's because the integrity of

1059
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:07,720
Speaker 1: a golf course.

1060
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:09,399
Speaker 2: If you've ever me and you.

1061
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: T off tomorrow at TPC Scottsdale at seven am, and

1062
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: then we teed off the following day at one o'clock

1063
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. Like our experiences could be a lot different.

1064
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 1: Sometimes the wind kicks up around lunch, so it makes

1065
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: the golf course play different. Where on the weekends, anyone

1066
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: that's in the mix are all playing at the same time,

1067
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: but they cut down the field. And the other thing

1068
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: is because of the size of the field, right, you

1069
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: have one hundred and fifty guys playing, not fifty. You

1070
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: can't put them all in the afternoon or some of

1071
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: these events, like the elevated events that have seventy people in.

1072
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: You can kind of cook the books on that, but

1073
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: that's not how the players is. There's one hundred and

1074
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: fifty people playing in it. Love the pod. Been listening

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Speaker 1: to your content, Appreciate it. This from Nick had to

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Speaker 1: laugh at your wedding ring golf story. I'd married fifteen

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Speaker 1: years in an avid golfer and Jim Goer. I was

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Speaker 1: taking off my ring to do both and lost it

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Speaker 1: three times the first six months of marriage, replacing it

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Speaker 1: each time. Eventually I just acknowledged I will keep losing

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Speaker 1: it and told my wife, Honey, I love you and

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Speaker 1: we are married.

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Speaker 2: A piece of jewelry.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't need to prove that haven't worn one, since.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Listen, unless you are, I would say, one of those

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Speaker 1: horn dogs out there and just has ulterior motives in

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Speaker 1: the head, right, or just a really good looking dude.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're not out attempting to do nefarious stuff,

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Speaker 1: not having your ring on is not going to phase

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Speaker 1: most guys.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: It's not like women are walking up to the majority

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Speaker 1: of humans and hitting on you, but like it does

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Speaker 1: mean something to her. What I've done is I just

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Speaker 1: ordered I forget the they're called no free ads here,

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Speaker 1: but the thunderfit. They're the rubber black rings, and I

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Speaker 1: have about twenty already.

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Speaker 2: I've already lost a couple.

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Speaker 1: I just have unlimited amount of black ones, and those

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Speaker 1: are just I wear to the gym, shower, play golf,

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Speaker 1: just do activities, just in life. I don't have it

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Speaker 1: on right now because I.

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Speaker 3: I took it off earlier for some reason.

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Speaker 1: Oh because sometimes when I put lotion on my face,

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Speaker 1: I hate the lotion that gets into it, so I

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Speaker 1: take it off and then you forget, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: worried about losing it. If if I would have worn

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Speaker 1: the ring that I bought myself, I would have it

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Speaker 1: already be gone. And I've been married for three weeks,

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Speaker 1: two and a half weeks, it would be it'd be

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Speaker 1: one lost it just it would not exist. I would

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Speaker 1: have no.

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Speaker 3: Clue where it is.

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Speaker 1: But the rubber rings are a game changer for me

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Speaker 1: because I actually don't look bad and that they're you know,

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Speaker 1: if you buy a pack of however many, they're like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, seven bucks a ring. I don't even care.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it just it doesn't and I haven't even

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Speaker 1: I don't even maybe I've lost one, but you don't

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Speaker 1: even think about it. And when you bought it, they

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Speaker 1: give you this thing that has like fifty percent off,

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Speaker 1: so you can buy another pack for like a pack

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Speaker 1: of ten for I don't know, thirty forty bucks.

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Speaker 3: That's the game changer.

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Speaker 1: Okay, audios, everybody, have a great day. Talk to you soon,

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Speaker 1: see you. The volume