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Speaker 1: and let's just dive in. I mean, it's no way

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Speaker 1: around it. We knew Jalen Ramsey was going to get

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Speaker 1: have no problem bringing him on the team. He just

425
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,880
Speaker 1: won a tournament because you're like, well, uh, it's gonna

426
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Speaker 1: be a bunch of long rough It's a long course

427
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 1: to the Ryder Cup. Well what did he just play?

428
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 1: Of course with extremely long rough, where does that benefit him.

429
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,640
Speaker 1: He's got a great short game, so especially around the green,

430
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,400
Speaker 1: he can get up and down. I have no problem

431
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 1: entertaining that. And like, especially based on who else is

432
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix, Like what are we talking about?

433
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 1: It is not like we have some story a couple

434
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Speaker 1: of years ago. It is like we go like twenty

435
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 1: deep as the Americans now it's flipped. It feels like

436
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 1: their team goes twenty deep. Like two of the best

437
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,360
Speaker 1: players on the International Ryder Cup team are literally John

438
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: Rahm and Terrell Hadden. And obviously Terrell Hadden was one

439
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,880
Speaker 1: shut off at liv you know, missing the playoff where

440
00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,200
Speaker 1: Patrick Reid ended up winning, but like he is going

441
00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:01,679
Speaker 1: to be a guy that's going to be on that

442
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,159
Speaker 1: team for a decade plus John Rahm, when it's all

443
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 1: said and done, will go down as probably one of

444
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,880
Speaker 1: the great European players not named Sevi Ballasteros or Sergio Garcia.

445
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,360
Speaker 1: Like he's gonna be one of their better players right

446
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: there with Rory in the history of the event. So

447
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: I listen, Bryson's on the team if now Bryson's a

448
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: better player than Patrick Reid, but like to me, Patrick

449
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: Reed winning in Dallas, I think he has thrown his

450
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,919
Speaker 1: hat into the discussion. And here's the other thing. This

451
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 1: is an entertainment product. This is an exhibition right during

452
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,199
Speaker 1: football season. So like back in the day, and I

453
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 1: love golf, I mean I love it. I listened to

454
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 1: probably more. I definitely listen to more golf podcasts in

455
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: golf content than I do football content. I do think

456
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Speaker 1: back in the heyday of the Ryder Cup, like before

457
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: the Internet, going up against other sports was a little different.

458
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: And obviously the TV element there is no disputing that.

459
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Speaker 1: Like when I have it on my TV in a room,

460
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,479
Speaker 1: like three TVs either on Saturday or Sunday of the

461
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 1: fall It's like, it's hard for me to give it

462
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 1: all my attention. When you got fucking the Chiefs playing

463
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: the Bills, or you got Texas playing Georgia, it gets

464
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: lost in the shuffle. And I do think adding Bryson,

465
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: adding Patrick Reed, there has to be some sort of element.

466
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Speaker 1: And I understand Keegan is not factoring in television ratings,

467
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 1: but like from a standpoint of like, this guy's really

468
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: good and he's playing really well. He's also played really

469
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: well over the course of his career in some big moments,

470
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Speaker 1: and he can say, John, what about the Ryder Cup. Yeah,

471
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Speaker 1: it's like I've seen Jordan Speith have rough moments to

472
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Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup. I've seen Rory McElroy cry at the

473
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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup for playing like crap. Ryder Cup's hard Tiger

474
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: and Field notoriously aren't like great Ryder Cup players. It's difficult.

475
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 1: So listen, if guys on that team are cool and

476
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 1: will vouch for him, and who knows, I have no

477
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: problem putting Patrick Reed on that team because and listen,

478
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Speaker 1: I think Patrick Red being and I'm not just saying

479
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: that because they bought ad space. I think Patrick Reed

480
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: was more interesting than anything that happened at the Rocket

481
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 1: Mortgage Classic. Now, in fairness, the Rocket Morgic Classic is

482
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: probably one of the worst events on the calendar when

483
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: you factor in the field, when you factor in it's

484
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: time of year. You know, you could argue this week

485
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Speaker 1: John Deere. But at least John Deere like knows its

486
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: place like no one expects. Like Morikawa, there's some big

487
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: names in the Rocket Mortgage. There aren't many big names

488
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Speaker 1: playing this week. Most people take the week off go

489
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Speaker 1: enjoy their families. That was a pretty boring tournament. Now,

490
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Speaker 1: I give pot Geter props for winning it. He was

491
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: close to winning in Mexico earlier this year. His ball

492
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: speed was ranging between like one and six. For those

493
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: of you, you know, they use this term a lot.

494
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: I think the average golfer is not on the track man.

495
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Speaker 1: The first time I've ever been on truly on the

496
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: track man was earlier this year when I bought like

497
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 1: a little Bushnell contraption. I swing pretty hard, you know,

498
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: for an amateur golfer, and I you know, got a

499
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: swing really really hard to hit one seventy and listening

500
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: to people talk about it, like once you get to

501
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: a certain number, use like one sixty five one seventy.

502
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: Gaining a couple miles an hour of ball speed from

503
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: from then on out is really really difficult to gain.

504
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,360
Speaker 1: Cruising in the one nineties is insane. I mean, this

505
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: guy blasts the ball. He's hitting driver iron like three ten.

506
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 1: His driver goes like three point fifty. I think there's

507
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: a lot of question marks with the short game, but

508
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 1: when you hit it that far, you know, I had

509
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: a wise man tell me years ago the most overrated

510
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: thing in golf is putting. Like most people are averaged

511
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: to below average putters, and we always say that driving

512
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: the ball doesn't matter. No hitting fairways. If I take

513
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: a seven handicap, or I take a scratch handicap, or

514
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: I take a fifteen handicap, and for ninety percent of

515
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 1: the par fours and par fives, I put them in

516
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Speaker 1: the middle of the fairway. Relative how far you hit

517
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: it two fifty to two to three hundred, you are

518
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: going to play dramatically better than if I say, hey,

519
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna make some putts, but every single hole I'm

520
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: gonna put you in the trees or where I live

521
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: in the cactus. It's it's really difficult to play. So

522
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: when you hit it far and you hit it straight,

523
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: the game gets relatively easier. So props to that kid.

524
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Speaker 1: He won one point seven million dollars. Uh, it is

525
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: really really lucrative to win these golf tournaments. Now, I

526
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: saw the list of all the you know, Scotty Cheffer

527
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: currently has made the most money this year, but like

528
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: every guy in the top ten just on the course

529
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: has made like seven million plus. I mean, it is

530
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Speaker 1: crazy the amount of money that at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year, all these guys, like every guy in the

532
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Speaker 1: top ten will be probably twelve million minimum, and obviously

533
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Speaker 1: some of these guys are gonna be twenty plus. And

534
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Speaker 1: then whoever wins the FedEx, you know, especially if it's

535
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Speaker 1: Scotty or Rory, will probably be close to like forty

536
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Speaker 1: or fifty million dollars. So the amount of money. Patrick

537
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: Reed just won four million dollars. I've said it forever.

538
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: It's like, it's funny about Florio. Doesn't understand why no

539
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: one cares about the NFL collusion case. It's because Florio.

540
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: Everyone's getting filthy rich. It's like Kyler Murray got screwed,

541
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: did he He's made every penny of his contract. He's

542
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: banked one hundred fifty million dollars, So like, did he

543
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: get screwed? Like, I don't see him out on the street.

544
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: I see that guy printing money. Same thing with golf.

545
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: Everyone involved in pro golf. You know, people always said

546
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: it was the best time to ever play was when

547
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: Tiger was in his prime. And relatively speaking, if you

548
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: were a guy out on the PGA Tour before Tiger

549
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,959
Speaker 1: got there, the money ballooned. So you went from winning

550
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars in a golf tournament to win

551
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: a million dollars. It's a huge difference, especially in two

552
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: thousand and two or two thousand and five. But when

553
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: you're talking about guys that are gonna make like solid

554
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: years might not win a tournament and make fifteen million

555
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,199
Speaker 1: dollars just on the course. I told Colin this the

556
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: other day. Like Maria is in this world now. She

557
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: works for this luxury real estate company that is pretty

558
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: ingrained with a lot of golfers because one of the

559
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: main guys that works there former big time golfer. Multiple

560
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: guys that are ingrained in the PGA tour scene, they're caddies,

561
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: they're caddies, and these aren't you know, Scottie Shuffler's caddies

562
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: or you know these are I'm not gonna put any

563
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: guy on blasts. I'm not allowed to, but it's guys

564
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 1: that are way down the money list looking at homes

565
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: two three, four million dollars. So it's there's never been

566
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: a time to be associated with this sport. The money

567
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: is flowing and it's why it's become so competitive, and

568
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: it will be fascinating to watch how this plays out

569
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Speaker 1: over the next couple of years. Is this sustainable? Because like,

570
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: should the rocket mortgage be paying one point seven to

571
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: the winner? I'll be I'll be fascinated to see the uh,

572
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: you know the television ratings on that one. I know

573
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: the PGA Tours rated really well this season, and I

574
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: get it, like the travelers or the players or some

575
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: of these tournaments, but that was the first time I

576
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it's kind of boring, Like Murray, you

577
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: want to go for a walk, It's like, no, it's

578
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten degrees. I'm like, yeah, good point.

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00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: So I'll watch golf. And I watched both the golf tournaments,

580
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: and I do think to live for the first time,

581
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying this because they are paying I

582
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: promise you this. I had him both on. I just

583
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: thought it was more interesting watching Bryson and Patrick Reid

584
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: play golf than Chris Kirk in pot Eater. Now again

585
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: part of that, if you tell me it was Scotti

586
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: and Colin morri Coowa. I changed my tune, but just

587
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: for the first time going up against that event, and

588
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: it's where live can, like at least enter the conversation

589
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: where they get a big name guy going up against

590
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: shitty event, and the Rocket Mortgage is now I would

591
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: say a pretty low level event. One event that was

592
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: pretty impressive was I watched the last five holes of

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Speaker 1: Padrick Harrington and Stuart Sink. Stuart Sink probably could have

594
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: won this tournament. He missed two birdies on sixteen and

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00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: seventeen from within I don't know, seven eight feet. I

596
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: mean he's stuck it cl on seventeen and he just

597
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: pushed it right, and even pat Patty Harrington admitted, like, like,

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00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: I feel pretty fortunate Sinks could have buried one of

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00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: those birdies. But I noticed, like the Senior Open I

600
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: found more interesting than the Rocket Mortgage because, like I've

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00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: watched Stuart Sink and Potty Harrington play Tiger and Phil

602
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: when I was young. It was actually really good. Sometimes

603
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: a scene and again, I'm a golf siko, like I understand,

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Speaker 1: like I'm not expecting this to be for the masses.

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00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: It's like recruiting. Guy, Like I love football, I don't

606
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Speaker 1: get into recruiting. I totally get if you don't like golf.

607
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: I see it all the time, like listen, I respect UFC.

608
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: I don't watch it. But that was a fantastic three

609
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: or four hole stretch with those two guys. These are

610
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Speaker 1: two major champions. Stuart Sink a couple of years ago

611
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: won on the PGA Tour, I think twice. I love

612
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: the body types on the Senior Tour. They're all just

613
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: fucking big, even guys that Potty Harrington talks about like

614
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: he lifts weights. If you ever want to go to

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00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,719
Speaker 1: a good YouTube channel for just a golf sick or Instagram,

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00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: I think Potty Harrington and Roco you just these guys

617
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: are golf sickos like Peyton Manning with football. They just

618
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: they eat, breathe and sleep it. They love talking about it,

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Speaker 1: they love giving tips. I think Rocco and Potty Harrington

620
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: are just two guys. I say this all the time

621
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Speaker 1: about like the Andy Reid and Belichick generation. I put

622
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: when I worked for Pat Hill in the same thing.

623
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Speaker 1: These guys got involved in football back in the sixties

624
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: or the seventies there was no money, or the eighties

625
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: there wasn't You weren't getting involved in coaching to get

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Speaker 1: rich like Rocco and Potty Harrington and Stuart Sink when

627
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: they first got into golf. You weren't gonna be flying

628
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: private jets everywhere unless your name was Arnold Palmer or

629
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholas. And now everyone's filthy rich, you know. So

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Speaker 1: it was very, very enjoyable.

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Speaker 1: I do think with the fourth of July, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to Tahoe and Nevada for ten days. Got someone I

638
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: got to clear out the house. We got someone coming

639
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Speaker 1: over here to watch the dog and take care of this.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a big I say. I have a

641
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: lot of respect respects the wrong word jealousy. I'm just

642
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Speaker 1: I'm legitimately jealous of the people that have, like their

643
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: their parents live down the street from them, where they

644
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: can just it's it is more difficult to find somewhere

645
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Speaker 1: where you're comfortable dropping your dog off or having someone

646
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: come watch your dog. It's actually a more difficult task

647
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Speaker 1: than you would think. But when you live in I

648
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: don't want to say a foreign land, but an area

649
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: where you just you know, I've only been for a

650
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: couple of years, I don't know, and a lot of

651
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: people leave anyway in the summer because it's one hundred

652
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,719
Speaker 1: and fifty degrees. But we'll see. We got a new

653
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Speaker 1: person taking care of her, so we'll see how that goes.

654
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Speaker 1: But I was thinking about this because this is just

655
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Speaker 1: is a great drinking week. Fourth of July, as I've

656
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: gotten older, is easily my favorite holiday. I mean, I

657
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: don't even think, honestly, there's not a close second. The

658
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: only close second would be And maybe this changes, you know,

659
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: for those of you parents when you have kids, you know,

660
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,959
Speaker 1: Christmas is really cool giving presents to someone else. But

661
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: like in my state right now, Christmas is down on

662
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: the list. Thanksgiving would be up there. But I always

663
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: regret how much I eat Fourth of July. I just

664
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Speaker 1: never have a bad time, even if I'm not doing

665
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: that much, because it always involves the sun, it always

666
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: involves some water, sometimes from golf. And I think I

667
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: was thinking about this, where does the golf beer or

668
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: the golf cocktail rank going into this week? Because I listen,

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00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: there's nothing like the summer playing golf with some friends,

670
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: having a cocktail in the cart, maybe two, maybe five,

671
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: and then obviously the beer or cocktail after the round.

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Speaker 1: I think it is the best. I do think if

673
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Speaker 1: you had to go number one overall the ranking, there's

674
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: nothing like the Fourth of July cocktail beer on the

675
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: lake at the pool, by the body of water. That

676
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,720
Speaker 1: is easily the best. I think that is the best

677
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: drink of the year, the Fourth of July drink by

678
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: the pool or by the lake. And I'll be by

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00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: the lake this week. I can't wait. I would probably

680
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: put ahead of the golf beer would be the vacation.

681
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: So if any of you guys that are on vacation

682
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: this week are going on vacation, and vacation could just

683
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: be like not having a work, screwing around you can

684
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: just have a drink whenever you want. I saw this

685
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: on Instagram. It's like ten am, shit beer me. That's

686
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: a special feeling. I also think golf you can incorporate

687
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: that mindset, so you could argue those two are tied.

688
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: I'd put the vacation beer above the golf beer, though

689
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: they would basically be the same thing, because I think

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Speaker 1: you can approach it, especially during the summer, Like if

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Speaker 1: you're teeing off at eight o'clock in the morning on

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00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: a Friday, on a Saturday, you can get drinks before

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Speaker 1: you TFF and don't feel any and I mean any

694
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Speaker 1: hesitation doing it right. You don't sometimes if you're playing,

695
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: even if it's not this week, but during the week,

696
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know, I'm gonna play in the morning,

697
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: but I still got work to do in the afternoon.

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00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: Someone's like, hey, should we get some transfusions on whole three?

699
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: And you look, it's like eight forty five in the morning.

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Speaker 1: You're like, ah, should I You know you kind of

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Speaker 1: have hesitation. You have no hesitation this week. This is

702
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: just an incredible week to trenk. I mean it really is.

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Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, I did want to

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Speaker 1: bang out a couple of your questions from the from

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Speaker 1: the Golf mail bag, so we will start with this.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with Bryce. This is at Golopod. At Golopod

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Speaker 1: is the Instagram firing those DMS gear questions answered here

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Speaker 1: on the show. Hey John, the last five years, I've

709
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: used my grandfather's clubs because he's physically unable to play anymore.

710
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: Feel for your grandpa. They are a good, reliable set

711
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Speaker 1: and they're around twenty years old and I'm saving up

712
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: from my own set. I currently have one hybrid in

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Speaker 1: my back and it's one of my favorite clubs. Don't

714
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Speaker 1: have any woods. What is the difference between a hybrid

715
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,959
Speaker 1: and a wood? What should I get for my new set?

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Speaker 1: One hybrid, one wood? Two hybrids? Since I like them

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Speaker 1: so much, I wouldn't consider a hybrid a wood to

718
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: me a hybrid. Back when I started playing golf in

719
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 1: like the nineties, hybrids did not exist, so you would

720
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 1: get to like a three, a four, three, two iron.

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Speaker 1: Those clubs are very difficult to hit. Honestly, once you

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Speaker 1: get to like a six, five iron, these are tough

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Speaker 1: clubs to hit right. So a hybrid is technically depending

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Speaker 1: on the loft. It can be a four iron, it

725
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: can be a three iron, it can be a two iron,

726
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: it can operate closer to a five wood. It's just

727
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: a very, very I would say player friendly club because

728
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: a three wood can be a difficult club to hit. Obviously,

729
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: the driver, depending on who you are, is not easy

730
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Speaker 1: to hit. Even with the technology. I would say there

731
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: is not an easier club to hit than the hybrid,

732
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: just in terms of a club that you could hit

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Speaker 1: far and flush and somewhat control. I would say, if

734
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Speaker 1: you like the hybrid, I think Freddy Cupples is a

735
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: guy with a ton of hybrids. You could hybrid up.

736
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you're relatively new to golf. You could do

737
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: a hybrid version of like a three iron, a hybrid

738
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Speaker 1: version of a four iron, a hybrid version of a

739
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Speaker 1: five iron. You can, you know, you can be shameless.

740
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: Who cares hot take Keegan is a fine as a

741
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: playing captain. The importance of the captain the Ryder Cup

742
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: is overblown. In the end. It comes down to pairing

743
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: guys together who get along and whose ball matches. All

744
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: the planning in the world won't mean shit if the

745
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: players suck like Scheffler did. At the Ryder Cup or

746
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: the other team shoots low sixties. Ryder Cup is not

747
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Let's talk golf. Miss Putt for doe,

748
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: drive for show is wrong. It's the opposite. I totally agree.

749
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Speaker 1: I mean Brooks Kopka and Scotti Scheffler. And obviously Brooks

750
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: isn't playing well now, but a couple of years ago

751
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: when he played with Scotty, they got beat in like

752
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: ten holes they got I forget were they playing. Was

753
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: it Victor Hovelin and Ludwig or Victor Hovelin and rom

754
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: I forget the exact It was Hovelin and somebody. They

755
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: beat the living shit out of those two. Those two

756
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: have a combined what Scotty has three majors kept as five,

757
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: they have eight majors, and they lost like ten and

758
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: eight or something. I mean, it was. It has to

759
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: be one of the worst losses in the history of

760
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup. So I'm completely with you. If your

761
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: top guys, like, if you bring Ben Griffin and he

762
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: plays bad, you're gonna get smoked. That's why I would entertain,

763
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: bring Patrick Reid over Ben Griffin, right, I would entertain,

764
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, the pairings are very important,

765
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: and who's playing well is really really important. I totally

766
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: agree from you hitting the fairway unless you are playing

767
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: like some of these tour events. I will take my

768
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: chances hitting the fairway then, because how good are you

769
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: ever gonna putt? Like? Are most people gonna bang out

770
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: a bunch of twelve footers? No, even if you're like

771
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: a I'm a three handicap. Actually played my best round

772
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: of the year, shot seventy seven at TPC on Saturday.

773
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: Three birdies, No big deal. I actually didn't hit the

774
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: driver that well, but actually made putts. And I think

775
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: sometimes listen, ideally you want to do both. You want

776
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: to hit fairways. Now the thing at TPC, you can

777
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: spray it a little bit and it's fine. But if

778
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: I would have played it a tighter course, I would

779
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: have been in some trouble. But when I hit fairways,

780
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: even when I'm putting like shit, I shoot anywhere between

781
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: seventy eight and eighty two. I mean, if I miss

782
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 1: every fairway, I'm probably gonna shoot eighty eight. Totally agree

783
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: with you. I had someone tell me this years ago.

784
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: Unless you're playing the Masters, driving the ball straight and

785
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: hitting is much more important than You're not gonna be

786
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: Brad Faxon with a putter in your hand. Are Colin

787
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: and Rory competing this year to be the soft softest

788
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: golfer of the year. Both have been handling the media terribly.

789
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like they're both trying to be

790
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: tough guys and treat the media like shit, but don't

791
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: realize how they come off. I'm gonna give Rory a

792
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: little grace in the sense that who knows, maybe he's

793
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: got the divorces back on. Who knows what's going on.

794
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: I don't even want to speculate, but I thought Brandall

795
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: had a good point. He's like, listen, if you have

796
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: a good friend in life that has done everything right,

797
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: treated you well and then starts acting weird for a month,

798
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: you don't just kick him to the curb. Like Rory

799
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: for like three years has been pretty important to the

800
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: media and golf and handle himself pretty well. Got a

801
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: little weird after the Masters. I'm giving them Colin's acting

802
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: weird for a while now. This notion that, like Colin,

803
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: I don't owe you any Colin, You're not fucking Joe

804
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: Montana here, buddy. If you disappeared tomorrow Honestly, if Colin Morrikawa,

805
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: if Rory disappeared tomorrow, we'd have problems. If Colin Morrikawa

806
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: disappeared tomorrow, and I like the guy as a player,

807
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: no one would care his importance to the business of

808
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: golf relative to how much he makes. Like if Josh

809
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: Allen disappeared from the NFL, it would be a problem.

810
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: If Lamar Jackson disappeared, it would be a problem. Colin

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Speaker 1: Morrikawa on like the rankings, in where he stands from

812
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: like a status standpoint, is like that. Yet his importance

813
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: to the business model of the cash that everyone's making,

814
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: including himself, who's filthy rich, it's kind of irrelevant. He's

815
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: an irrelevant great player. He's much closer to like Patrick

816
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: Cantlay than he is Rory Bryson or Scottie in terms

817
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: of importance to the business model of the sport. And

818
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,760
Speaker 1: then when he starts acting like he's running through caddies

819
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: like you know, you would bottled waters at a party,

820
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: It's crazy how often he's going through guys. Someone told

821
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: me last week that they had heard that there was

822
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: like an incident, maybe like the second time, you know,

823
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 1: because Max Holma's Caddie jumped to Colin whatever a couple

824
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: months ago, and I don't know if it was either

825
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: the second or third tournament. There was like they butted

826
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: heads and it was clearly fractured since and now they

827
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: broke up firing, broke up quit who knows the exact term,

828
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: but like the Holm Grinder thing was clear, like it

829
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: was just time for a split. They were good friends.

830
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: The Colin mark, like, Colin, can you work with anybody?

831
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 2: Like?

832
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: Can you work with anybody? What's your deal? Bro? Like? Seriously,

833
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: what's You're not like a big enough like a hole

834
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: to be a villain. You're just kind of in no

835
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: man's land where people just don't like you. You just

836
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: kind of turned people off. So I think Marikawa the

837
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: situation he just had with Alan Ship Knuck, who I

838
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: talked some shit about Big Jay's but I also appreciate

839
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: a good Big j moment and him and Ship not

840
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: getting into it. I just think that Morikawa feels pretty

841
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: exhausting right now, So I would say he's in a

842
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: different Rory at the end of the day. Rory's extremely

843
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: important to the business of golf. Golf needs him more

844
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: than he needs them at this point. Marikawa needs golf

845
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: way more than golf needs him. Promise you that UH

846
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,280
Speaker 1: big fan of both your pods. I know you're big

847
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Speaker 1: on the top dogs in majors, but wanted to see

848
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Speaker 1: your opinion change post JJ Spahn win the US Open.

849
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: Was Oakmont just an outlier? I know for the most

850
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 1: part he's been a mess Postmasters, but I think Rory

851
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: has a big chance at the Open, especially since his

852
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: home area. I also would love to see Scotty win

853
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: because it's such a great player. I want him to

854
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: win a lot of majors and some solidify his greatness.

855
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: I do think there's gonna be a couple of majors

856
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: over the course of five six years, depending on the

857
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: course that bring other people in play Oakmont, they all

858
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: said toughest course we've ever played. They thought they called

859
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: it the toughest and most difficult course in the entire world.

860
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: So anytime you put people on that scenario, they're probably

861
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: is going to be more variables. Right, Bryson missed the cut.

862
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: All these guys got ejected, So I thought Bryson was

863
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: one of the favorites. I bet like five hundred dollars

864
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: on him to top five, to top ten to win,

865
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: and he didn't even get close to making the cut.

866
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: So I think anytime you go to a difficult course,

867
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: which doesn't happen that we don't see these guys get

868
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: tested that often, so you kind of forget and I

869
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: think Oakmont, you know, Shinnacock next year, I think falls

870
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: under that category. Even you could say Pinehurst is difficult,

871
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: but look who dominated at Pinehurst, all the best players.

872
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: So I think anytime they go to Oakmont, I think

873
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: Shinnacock is going to fall into that. Next year it

874
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 1: might just be like I don't know, you could take

875
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: some flyers. I think the Masters, the top dogs are

876
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: going to dominate. I think that the Open is a

877
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: good examp because weather comes into play. You get a

878
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: lot of variety, like last year was justin Rose, Billy

879
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: Horschell and Xander. Right. I think if the Master is

880
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: moving forward, it's gonna be five six of the group

881
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: of ten, right, Scotty More, Kawa, Rory, Ludwig, Rohm. You

882
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: know it's Xander if he's healthy, it's a top cut.

883
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: Hatton now is an elite player. I watched the live

884
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: Dallas Day three. What an ending question? Is there anything

885
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: that the new commissioner with the PGA can model from

886
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: Live to enhance the viewer experience. The PGA TV experience

887
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: has become painful, too many commercials and too many spotlights

888
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: of sponsors in the booth. Meanwhile, Lived showed the best

889
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: players and the favorites over and over. Well, the business

890
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: model is a little different, right, I mean the contract

891
00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: with Fox for Live. There aren't many requires. It's not

892
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: like a huge lucrative business proposition. The PGA Tour took

893
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: a ton of money from CBS and NBC, so for

894
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: them to make their money back, given that one thing

895
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: unique about the PGA Tour consumer, and the same consumer

896
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: would watch Lived to the golf consumer, same thing Senior

897
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: US Open. The audience is much smaller than all these

898
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: other major sports, right, It's a big deal for a

899
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: PGA tournament to get what five million people is a

900
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: massive day. For a non major three and a half

901
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: four million day people is a big deal. But that

902
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: percentage of a consumer like the NBA Final consumer, Let's

903
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,959
Speaker 1: say beside Game seven, they were getting like eight million

904
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: people watching, so double a PGA Tour event. The PGA

905
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: Tour consumer, their demo is like fifty percent have like

906
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: they have more money than the NBA or NFL consumer.

907
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: So while the audience is smaller, from an advertiser perspective,

908
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: you are getting the richest sports consumer. It's a huge

909
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: advantage for golf. So like they have to find a

910
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: way to like your consumers unique, but you just you know,

911
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: hit them over the head with these ads. It is

912
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: pretty boring to watch. It's easier for Fox to do

913
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: the live because the financial situation is different. I also

914
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: think if you get a huge sponsor, Rocket Mortgage, Wells, Farco, Chevy, whatever, whatever,

915
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: the Coca Cola, part of the package to get that

916
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: guy to give you fifty million dollars for the year

917
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: to be the official bank and then to host a

918
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: tournament is you got to throw them some bones. And

919
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: I think they are big clearly on getting that sit

920
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: down with Nance during the tournament. It's it's one thing

921
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: if it's Tiger and Jack's tournament and those guys are

922
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: in the booth, no one cares. But when it's like,

923
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: let's go to the CEO of Barclay's, like, can I

924
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: just watch Scottish Effer and hit these shots? But I

925
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: don't think that's going away, So I don't know what

926
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: he does because the television contract was signed before he

927
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: got there. Now, his job at the NFL was to

928
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: deal with these contracts, so maybe he could. I don't know.

929
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: I don't expect anything to change. In the past three years,

930
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: I've become a big golf fan, not only playing but

931
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: watching it. I heard you and Colin talking the other

932
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: day about Rory and Koepka and how they have lost motivation.

933
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Hoblin fan. He's my favorite golfer since

934
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: I started watching the sport. He had this to say

935
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: during the US Open. We'd all like to win. There

936
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: is also a deep passion in me that I want

937
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: to hit the shots. I want to stand on the

938
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: tee and hit the shots that I'm envisioning. Do you

939
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: think his first major win is in the horizon and

940
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: with this mentality of quote unquote hitting the shots what

941
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: it can open the floodgates to multiple major wins. I

942
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: do think it's a little unfair to I would say

943
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: compare like rory situation to Hoveland in the sense of like,

944
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: he's one of the best quotes in the sport, but

945
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: he's obviously chasing. You know, he hasn't won a major uh.

946
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: And I think why people root for him is how

947
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: open he is, you know that stuff, Like Tiger and

948
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: Phil would say, They're like, I want to be the best.

949
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: I know when I'm hitting the shots, I'm gonna win.

950
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: When Hovelin's playing his best, he can beat anybody in

951
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: the world. I mean two years ago he was the

952
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 1: best player in the world essentially at the end of

953
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: the year when he won the FedEx Cup, I mean,

954
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: he's fucking dominating. So I would say he's a lock.

955
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: Do you know where I see Victor Hoblin his career ending.

956
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how many majors, like you convinced me

957
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: only wins one. You could convince me he wins four.

958
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna win a US Open and maybe

959
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: multiple US Open. I think he's tailor made for the

960
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: US Open. I think that's his tournament. He obviously can

961
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: compete if he's playing well at the Masters and the PGA.

962
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: But like I envisioned that guy winning a US Open

963
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: really really tough track. And I think, listen, it was

964
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: like a draft class. It was three guys came out

965
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 1: of his class that were like can't miss prospects. It'd

966
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: be like Cooper Flag, Trevor Lawrence and uh and and

967
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson. It was Victor Hovelin, Colin Morricawa and Matt

968
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: Wolf and it and Matt Wolf looked like the best

969
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: version right off the bat and then clearly fell off

970
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: a cliff and Mari Cowa and Hovelin are just are

971
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: I mean, are high level players. And I think Hovelin

972
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: the difference of Hoblin and marcaw is like Hoblin is likable.

973
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: It's just it's just easy to watch Victor Hovelin and go,

974
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for this guy, and that that's what Marikawa lacks.

975
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. I think Hoveland I think he's

976
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,479
Speaker 1: destined to win a major for sure.

977
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 2: The volume