WEBVTT - Barstool Riggs, Part 2: His 99 days at Pinehurst 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.400 Watching it go from a text of what do you 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.640 think about this too? You know, two weeks later, I'm 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.720 riding a Pinehurst on a Tuesday afternoon to go stay 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.920 in the dorn At cottage and bringing a couple of 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.680 buddies from home and sitting around the campfire having some 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.440 beers with Riggs and boys before we played the night, 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:20.759 you know, walking out there the next day and there's 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.919 already a crowd around ready to watch this play. And 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.520 I'm like, man, this is serious, you know, over me 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.280 b s and with you over some text and and 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.120 we got standard bearers carry its sides out there in 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.920 the whole nine yard. We had a ball until Riggs 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:41.360 made that budd on eight team put another log on fire. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:52.040 Nobody here is getting time. Welcome to the fire pit 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.880 with Matt Chinella, always going to be back with yet 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.680 another story to tell. This being part two of Sam 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:05.120 Riggs Brazilians nine day Getaway to Pinehurst, it's mister Transfusions, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.679 total immersion into a town of Tartan. In part one, 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.720 we learned Riggs from Missouri. His father was a golfer, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.880 but together they went to more driving ranges than courses. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.640 Riggs and his older brother learned how to play a 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.360 lot of sports with an emphasis on the ice. Riggs 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.520 played hockey at Harvard and thus had the outside chance 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.640 of turning pro. Instead, he ended up writing a political 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:33.160 blog for Dave Portnoy and Barstool Sports. Once in the Door, 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.400 he launched four Play, which very quickly became the number 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.600 one golf podcast in the country, currently number fourteen in 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.720 the category of sports. Riggs, with the six index, is 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.240 the best golfer in the foursome of co hosts, which 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.560 includes Lurch who's about an eight handicap, Frankie at ten, 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.160 and Trent who's a twenty five. As Riggs explains, their 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.800 failures on the course are in part their success as 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:04.000 a brand of people fucking suck at golf. So like 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.080 we look at the handicaps dispersion, they love it and 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.320 they suck at it. And it might be they're trying 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.120 to break a hundred and trying to break ninety, and 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.800 like they're hitting awful shots and I'll post a score 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.760 guard where I'll go, you know, double double bogey, triple birdie, birdie, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.160 and people are like that's my guy. Hell yeah, Like 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:25.680 let's go. Riggs and team are a conveyor belt of 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:30.200 golf content. But on March sixteen, when COVID nineteen started 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.679 to overwhelm New York City, Riggs sent Tom Pashley, president 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.959 of Pinehurst, a text. He told him he'd rather quarantine 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.720 at the Carolina Hotel than at his apartment. A sixty 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.600 two dollar flight later, it was day one of nine 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.040 days of Riggs at Pinehurst. Pastially and his staff literally 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.760 welcomed to what the guys out front referred to as 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:57.240 quote home. Little did they know, he came out and 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.320 played every day. It just was non stole up. And 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.240 you have to love the game to come out and 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.280 play it as much as he did. And he shared 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.240 it with other people, and so uh, he is a 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.359 the number one fan of the game right now and 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.720 he's sharing it with a very wide audience. And I 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.919 think I think we should, as we did, find ways 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.200 to to support what he's doing and get behind it. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.120 Tendees into the trip. Riggs tapped into his extensive and 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.400 loyal following and helped support and host an auction to 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.600 raise money for the Pinehers staff, most of whom had 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:36.400 been furloughed due to the coronavirus. Ben Bridgers Pinehers director 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.880 of Golf reflects on the day that the community got 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.400 to see yet another layer to the blue collar man 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.000 and brand. That was one of those things where we 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.520 knew who he was as a person because he cares 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.280 about people and he wanted to help us and our employees, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.640 and you know, he's obviously starting to have a you know, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.040 having a better time, and I think you just really 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.880 got engaged to it. And uh so the members are 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.880 tuning in and just locals were turning in, and it 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.360 was it was it was a lot of fun to 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:08.800 watch together. They raised three thousand dollars that day. Riggs 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:13.680 and what he donated accounted for fifty dollars. That moment 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.920 sort of took it from Hey, I'm on like kind 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.839 of a weird, like pseudo vacation thing to like, no, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.719 I'm now like part of this team and this team 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.239 is trying to get through this tough time and and 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.279 I was very much supplanted on that team and I 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.039 was I was there to help and that kind of, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.880 I guess catapulted me into this relationship with more than 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.920 just the golf courses in the golfer's or but like 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.640 with the people, which which obviously culminated the other day. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.960 Not long after the auction, Mike Myers reached out to 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.880 Riggs on behalf of Peter Myers, his twelve year old son, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:53.760 and they challenged Riggs to a match. Over eighty thousand 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.359 people tuned in to watch Riggs get beat three and 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.800 two by the accomplished and polished kid who was already 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.039 and over fifty junior tournaments. So we shopped Justin Thomas 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.400 on the um the front nine, and he said, can 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.520 you beat in twelve year old? And Thomas applied and 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.719 said a twelve year old yes, the one you're playing no, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.760 And that gave me a little confidence that you know, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.039 I could really beat him. The bet was lunch, and 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.920 Riggs paid out by bringing Peter to a local hospital 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.320 where they treated the doctors and nurses to a meal. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.719 Riggs could do no wrong. He had gotten away and 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.320 he was given back, and when the circumstances called for it, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.520 he was even calling people. In. In Part one, you 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.960 hear details of how and why Riggs officially became the 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.000 moral compass of Pineers by blowing the whistle on a 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.480 group of guys violating cart code by driving on the course. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.840 If we find ourselves at a crossroads, and we need 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.280 to decide, you know, did we go down this road 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.640 or that road. We're going to consult with the compass 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.920 to make sure that we don't veer kind of from 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:03.680 the north Star. Really. Through countless rounds on the Cradle 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.359 the Nine Whole, Part three course, Riggs got so close 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.480 to some of the staff that he and his girlfriend 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:13.400 have been asked to be not at but in David 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.400 Golinski's wedding. Golinsky is one of Piner's assistant pros. I 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.359 get married on July team and him and his girlfriend 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.560 are coming. Um, he'll actually announce us at our wedding. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.680 You know how cool is that? So Riggs is in 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.600 deep not since Donald Ross has anyone brought more eyeballs 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.080 to pine Hurst. And as we get to roughly day eighty, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.440 I'm bringing in Kevin Kissner, a tenure PGA Tour player 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.679 who has three wins, one of which was last year's 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.080 w g C del match play. Kissner on how he 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.799 met Riggs three or four years ago. I had a 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.279 good body of mine at Fallow Barstool and he's like, 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.400 k you need to get in with this Riggs. Guys. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.360 He's starting his golf thing, and I didn't know who 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.960 he was. I said, whatever, whatever he goes if I 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.600 reach out to him when you do interview with him, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.640 I'm like, yeah, if you want me to. And uh, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.560 I guess my buddy emailed him like three or four 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.720 times and finally Riggs like, yeah, where you can get 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.680 him on? He seems kind of like a straight lace 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.440 guy and uh, my Buddy's like, now he's far from that. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.480 If you get him on, you love them. And I've 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.680 did a podcast and they text me like what time 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.120 do you want to do the podcast? I was like, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.720 well do you want like business? Kids are are laughing? 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.560 Kids said laughing. I said, call me at eight thirty 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.240 at night then, and we talked for two and a 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.880 half hours or something on the on the phone doing 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.880 this podcast. And he's like, this is the funniest dude 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.360 I've ever met. I said, well, that's just because I've 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.360 had four liquor drinks. Kids can do a long time ago. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.119 This was the kind of brand and content he wanted 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.840 to be a part of. I have a huge, huge 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.920 following that you know, people that are in a certain 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.600 certain writing in certain areas wouldn't bring me by writing 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.640 a story about me. So I think I kind of 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.720 got in front of it five or five years ago 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.400 examt and I've been you know, thankful that he's brought 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.480 me along with him, and we've done a lot of 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.040 stuff together, had a lot of fun, become good friends. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.200 And I just think that if the PGA Tour would 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.760 embrace more of that type of media, you know, our 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.320 sport would only grow immensely. Together, these guys are making 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.160 a significant impact on breaking walls down, creating healthy discomfort, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.520 and expanding the game and their fan base. You know, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.680 the problem with golf is there's it's too slow, it's 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.640 too expensive, there's too many rules, and we're gonna kill 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.600 the sport with the way our culture is changing. If 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.240 you're gonna tell all these young kids, hey, come be 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.360 this country club guy, and where your sear sucker shorts 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.160 and your college shirt tucked in and take your hat 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.960 off inside and keep your you know, keep your belt on, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.080 and don't ride your golf card over there. And you 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.280 can't bring a guest out this way. I'm like, who 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.240 gives a ship man, Let's go play the game and 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.719 have fun. And whatever these people want to do, they 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.200 can do. And and I think that's kind of the 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.360 way Riggs and and the four play body was go 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:03.880 about it, and like, we don't give a ship if 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.400 you're Bryce and d Shambo our kids. We just want 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.719 to hear what you do and we want everybody to 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.600 think it's cool, you know, like that's your special you're 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.160 good at golf. We want to know why you're good, 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.199 and we won't tell the people that you're This is 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.120 what he does, but you don't have to do that. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.600 And oh, by the way, in the process, they're raising 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.240 a lot of money for charity, which brings us back 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.400 to Riggs at Pinehurst kis with a need for a 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.160 plan B you know, one of the the kids big motivations 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.280 as the Kidsner Foundation and being able to raise money 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:32.880 for that, and they're not able to do the events 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.960 this year that they typically do because of COVID. So 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.679 he was like, I'm looking for other options. So if 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.680 you can come up with something, I'm I'm in. I'll 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.200 come play and we'll figure it out. So I was 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.720 just gonna play him from like you know, we're gonna 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.040 do something crazy, like I play from yards or half 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.959 the yards or something and can I beat him? And um, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.040 and we started talking about the podcast meet Frankie Barelli 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.400 want a four placed co host who was in New 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.720 York at the time, and I was like, Ship, do 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.640 I really have to come up with this? Like do 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.200 I have to say this idea that popped in my hair? 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:04.880 Because then then we're all going to go down to 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.319 Pineers during this pandemic. I'm out to drive down their 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.000 nine hours. But it's the right idea, it's a good idea. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.240 So I just blurted it out him, like four man 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.520 scramble all four of our shots. We have to be 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.200 able to beat them. Kissner was in Riggs is an 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.280 unbelievable businessman, right. People don't give him the credit, but 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.920 and they get annoyed as his little you know videos 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.000 pumping these brands and whatnot. But that ship sells and 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.560 these people are buying you know, these old mixers and 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.520 Peter Millar pants because of the ship he's doing. And uh, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.840 I'm like, yeah, I'll get behind it. And we raised 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.559 like thirty grand in two days from announcement, just from 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.880 him and I talking Ship back and forth on Twitter again. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.880 Tom Passionlely, president of pine Hurst. The generosity of people 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.600 with their time and with their resources. Is one of 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.560 the foundations of this whole story, that that Kissner would 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.440 come up um, and that that Riggs and the four 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.040 play guys would have enough creativity to come up with 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:03.520 that four man amble not surprising. The more Frankie thought 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.839 about his idea, the more he liked it, until he 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.440 didn't anymore. UM, And confidence was really high at first. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.440 We're like, oh, man, like, I actually think this is 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.920 this is something that we can be competitive at. Right, 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:19.000 Because when you play in your local um restaurants, golf 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.240 outing or something, and you're playing at a public track 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.120 and you see these scores coming in of all these 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.480 these local drinkers at at the local pub, they're coming 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.400 in seven under, six under, You're like, wow, you can 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.880 actually put together a pretty good score here. So, um, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.240 I think confidence was high to start, and then the 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.319 more attraction it got on on Twitter, everyone's saying, you 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.880 know the yards pine us number two, you have four shots, 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.120 but all four shots are bad, right, and we're getting 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.360 a lot of hate on Twitter about there's no chance 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.120 we have it. So for me, it was a huge 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.720 roller coaster. First day I said automatic win. The second 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.720 day I said, we're absolutely dusted. This is the waste 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.000 of a trip. Anyone who plays golf a good amount, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.199 Like you've played four man scrammas before, whether it's a 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.880 charity event or whatever the hell it is, and you wonder, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.760 like I wonder how good we could really be as 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.319 a four man scramble on And so this was our opportunity, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.960 Like we can play the top player ranks player in 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.840 the world at a US Open course from US Open 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.439 teas and we'll just see what we shoot. Like we 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.200 might shoot eighty, we might shoot sixty, No idea, Let's 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.760 just do it and see what happens. It was amazing 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.079 to watch Riggs the whole day. I mean, he treated 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.600 the match like it was a tour event. When I 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.000 got to the range that day, he had like focus, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.360 didn't want to talk to me. I'm like, dude, what's 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.360 going on here. He's like, we're gonna beat your ass. Kids, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.600 We're gonna beat your ass. And I'm like, okay, you're 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.959 gonna take it serious all day. Riggs was so serious 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.600 he called on the services of Thomas Trinkitella, a longtime 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.400 Piner's caddy who has carried banks for both Tiger and 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.400 Rory in US open practice rounds. Even Thomas was in 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.760 camp Kisner. Yes, no, yeah, I was on Kisner side. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.760 I figured we were gonna be done around fourteen fifteen. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.600 Closed out. I hate to say, but that was my 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.720 first time ever seeing Lurch. He can absolutely murder the 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.240 golf ball. My not go in the right place, but 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.360 he can hit it very far, and that was part 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.400 of their chemistry. Even Riggs leading up to it said 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.520 that they he thought they were gonna shoot seventy five 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.440 and I would be right around there, and I was like, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.120 I'm not gonna shoot seventy five. So if y'all shoot 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.840 seventy five is over, I mean it's not. It wasn't 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.559 in like us open conditions, so it wasn't that firm 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.559 and that fast. No one thought they had a chance 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:31.319 at all. Um. We were really stretched out about this distancing. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.640 You know, there were people showing up and people calling, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.720 can we can we spectate? And we really weren't comfortable 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.320 having people spectate. But they came and we spread everyone out. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.520 They maintained their distance. The standard bearer was Peter Myers, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.800 twelve year old match playing ninja who beat Riggs earlier 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.200 in his stay. The first to the first team was 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.520 Trent Ryan, who admits he's the worst golfer in the 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.200 four play foursome. No, I was nervous too. I couldn't 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.560 get my ball in the tea on the toll. I 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.240 was like freaking out and so much to the point 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.760 where I looked over and doing Kissers Caddy was he 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.600 was just like just breathe, Like this is my competition. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:09.920 He's looking at me and he's like, you just gotta 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.600 breathe because otherwise you're gonna have a panic attack. And 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.880 we also had thousand people watching on a live stream, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.560 and I think that was also because, like you said, Math, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.000 there's no live sports. People are looking for something to watch. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.560 But you know, playing that close to a guy like 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.040 Kevin Kissner and it sounds stupid every time we say it, 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.520 but we had played with him before Paul Meadow, and 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.320 he's a professional golfer, and you're still just completely wowed 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.600 by the guy when he plays golf, like Frankie saying, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.400 you have these moments of barstool where you just gotta 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.480 pinch yourself and be like, I can't believe I'm doing this. Meanwhile, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.200 fort Play was holding their own. They birdied the fifth 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.280 hole to go one up, and Thomas the caddy was 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.440 being converted with the scramble with them, it was so 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:56.440 odds and evens. Everybody contributed at different times of the match. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.880 That's what was more impressive. Yeah, uh, not play out 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:05.080 as I plan. I assume that I could play very conservatively. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.720 Obviously I need to play conservatly. I only have one ball, right, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.040 so I'm playing pine nurse number two with us open pins. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.640 There's not a lot of birdies, so I'm thinking, you know, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.880 I'm gonna go out and play conservative. Hit it towards 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.760 the middle of green two caught him to death, and 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.640 when they screw up, I'll just pop in there and 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.600 makeup car for a win. I don't expect him to 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.080 make a lot of birdies. They made three birdies on 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:31.240 the front nine, including one at eight which tied the 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.600 hole four play stays one up as they approached the turn. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.160 I guess they they really did play to the definition 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.200 of a scramble, because really it always came down to 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.520 one one guy who everyone else was out of the hole, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.080 but one guy hit the miracle shot. Kids played great. Um. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.880 He just kept waiting for them to to show some 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.640 weakness and they just never did. On the front nine 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.760 four play shoots thirty four Kissner shoots thirty six four 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.320 play one up. All his kids said all day long, 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.320 one hit wonders. Here they come, one hit wonders. And 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.680 I hate to say it, that's exactly what happened. I 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.800 knew I was in trouble early because it would be 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.160 top shank and then all of a sudden, the third 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.160 or fourth guy would stripe it in there to ten 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.120 ft or they would not have a ball in play, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.520 and Frankie, out of nowhere would drive it to ninety 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.720 down the middle. And I'm like, man, this this is 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.560 not working out well. Early they're they're like, one shot 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.960 wondering me to death. So I'll tell you a good one. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.240 On on the thirteenth hole, they moved us up so 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.480 everybody could try to drive the green. Well, kids never 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.520 put it right in the middle of the green, and 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.600 so we had two choices we had I don't remember 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.640 who had to drive, but we had a fifty yard 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:50.880 chip shot and uh Lurge hit it greenside left to 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.480 the left of the green, okay, And so I talked 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.920 him into using the fifty yard chip shot from below 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.320 the hole. Well, the first two chunked it, and so 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.840 I started really sweating. Then I just talked him into 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:07.240 this ball, and Riggs pulled out a chip and stuck 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.280 it there two ft from the hole. It was beautiful. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.000 When the tides turned on, I birdied uh ten. I 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.640 think to go back to even, and then they bow 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.359 you to eleven and I was like, all right, this 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.280 it's over now there there, there's no way they're coming back. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.040 And Lurch hits his five iron on twelve from two 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.560 hundred yards into the wind, so a pen literally hanging 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.840 on an edge to four ft and I've already got 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:34.720 six iron out just in front of him. I'm gonna 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.280 hit it thirty ft right of the pin and just 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.040 make my car and stay one up. And when I 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.680 saw that shot, I'm like, oh ship, I'm not gonna 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.840 make birdie here because I'm not gonna hit it that flag. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.960 And we go back to even. And then the two 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.880 shots that Riggs hit on thirteen and fourteen last got 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.880 a chip. I'm like, I can't win. Ben Bridgers, pine Hurst, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.359 director of Golf, was in the small gallery these guys 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.399 and it was funny. We were out there while and 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.080 and kids just kind of gives it looks you know, 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.439 he looks back and the guys they got four push cards, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.480 they're all on their phones, and he's like, what am 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.960 I doing here? You know? It was awesome. It was 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.520 so awesome. I'm like, man, I don't even know what 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.000 he's thinking right now. They have toles through fifteen with 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:21.679 the birdie and two parts, then four play Birdie's they 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.240 go one up. It was so much fun. Kids was 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.919 such a trooper. Uh. He was genuinely like rattled, like 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.880 he wanted to win. Um, he's competitive. You don't get 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.760 to that level without being crazy competitive. So he wanted 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.960 to win badly. He could not believe that we kept 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.040 pulling shots out of our asses. On the seventeenth hole, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.920 in which Kisner had a much longer put for part four, 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.879 play offered the pro good good. My dad always says 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.080 there are two kinds of fools in golf, those who 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.959 give putts and those who don't take them. Kissner went 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.760 to the one down. Um, I don't know if it 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.800 gave me the charity twelve foot or seven team when 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.119 they had five feet. But as we were walking the 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.400 eighteen riggs goes Kids, we had a long discussion over there, 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.280 and we could not fathom the idea of you making 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.400 that putt and us missing the five ft and having 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.359 to go to eighteen all square. So we just wanted 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.520 to get it out of the way for one up 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.720 on eighteen. For those of you don't know, eighteeth holl 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.160 par four up the hill with the clubhouse behind the green. 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.919 Kissner is on in two while four players over the 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.359 green and two chipping in front of the assembled crowd 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.720 on the porch advantage. You know, as I saw them chipping, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:37.480 I'm like, all right, they can't get it within twenty 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.840 ft where this pin is and where they are, and 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.360 and that was about right, and I was already looking 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.399 at my butt. My put was breaking like four and 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.879 a half feet from fifteen feet, and so I was like, 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.520 I'm gonna have to lag the ship out of it, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.000 just so they'll give me the par to win the whole. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.000 Frankie Batt's third in the fourth place scrambled lineup, But 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.159 I think everyone once we were on the green and 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.919 we saw that kids had to make whatever that was, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.920 a thirty five forty ft slider to to win the whole, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.080 I think we all felt pretty comfortable because his position 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.199 wasn't too great to make that put, and ours was 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.280 barely moving. If anything, I had a little bit of 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.760 a turn at the end. You have four tries at it, 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.720 and it's almost identical to pain Stewart's. But in fact 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.040 Tom pat pactually was on the green with me, and 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.560 I'd go that that's almost the exact put they ain't 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.480 have when they were standing over starting the put, and 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.920 he said, no doubt. And everybody looks at it and 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.960 wants this ball to go left to right, but it 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.800