WEBVTT - 2026 Open Championship Recap: Ryan Fox & Rules Drama Deliver Great Last Major 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.120 Now, the Shotgun Starting Golf is full of mathematics. There's 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.680 a lot of setup work that we have to do 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.000 in order to make a tournament work. So I'm going 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.399 to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:13.440 shotgun start. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.560 Here and where we go. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:24.320 Alright, alright, alright, did no man dart? 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:43.520 Your greetings. Welcome to a Monday edition of The Shotgun Start. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.639 It is July twentieth, Andy, how we doing. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:52.400 Brendan, It's victory Monday. What a great day. It is 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:57.400 a reel. You know, oftentimes you wonder, but there's no 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:02.160 doubt about it. A real proper player won this year's 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.480 Open Championship, Ryan Fox. Congratulations to one of the best 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.240 guys in golf. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.720 Proper Player explanned on that why a proper player he's been? 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.000 He's been easy to root for for a while, he's 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:19.240 been a fan, a podcast favorite for a while. Got 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.520 to know him slightly a little bit, wouldn't say, you know, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.880 you know extremely well, but he's a good person. But 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.399 why do we like his golf? For me, it's always 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.319 been he's like the last world player, right when everyone 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.520 kind of became these monoliths and we go to the 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.520 PGA Tour and we make our money on the PGA 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.240 Tour and we play. The guy has stuck to and 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.800 now he's also had to adapt and do more. PGA 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:47.120 Tour golf plays a global tour. It's not quite Ernie 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.680 L's in two thousand and two or whatever or late nineties, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.960 but being from New Zealand and kind of paying homage 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.360 to some of those locales and then being a deep 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.040 world tour player deep into his thirties. You talked about 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.280 I was a rookie on the PGA Tour at thirty 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.800 seven DP World to a rookie at thirty or whatever 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.840 it was. He's been all around the world, and it 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.840 just feels like a guy from a from a past 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.600 that doesn't exist anymore, of having to play everywhere because 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.280 that's what he wants to do or feels like he 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.520 needs to do as a global golfer, and he wanted 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.720 a different Definitely the global, most global major in the 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.880 world's major and unique major today. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:32.360 So that's probably some proper golf. Yeah, true sportsman. You know, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.760 obviously it got beat over his head. But son of 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.880 an All Black Grand grant, his mom was a great 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:44.679 cricket player too, and father great grand or his grandfather 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.160 was an amazing like cricket player for New Zealand grandpa 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.280 or father of rugby player yep, didn't start playing golf, 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.000 like really even thinking about playing golf competitively till eighteen. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.360 That's amazing you he started. We first played at thirteen, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.120 liked it and was missing like competition, So that's what 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:12.240 spurred him into golf. And then you know, I think 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.160 just like the pace of play. Obviously, his route to 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.240 the to the top of the world is very different 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:24.240 than most people. He's just not the cookie cutter PGA 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.960 tour out of the box player named Davis. You know 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.720 that wasn't meant to be a David shot at mission. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:30.720 But. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:37.520 You know, he just is. And he's genuinely like a 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.320 wonderful guy, like a guy that you love me, you know, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.800 having had a beer with him. He's just one of 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.520 the few people on tour, like not few, but you know, 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.080 probably a couple of dozen people on tour that you 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.640 could just sit at a bar and listen to stories 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:56.440 all day from so wonderful guy and really fun to 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.880 watch someone get it done that unexpectedly. And I think 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:04.280 we've had two majors this year where you enter the 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.560 back nine and it's really like anybody's game. And both 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.080 times we've had players that, you know, I think the 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.080 betting public or the general public wouldn't have expected to 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.320 rise to the occasion and win the tournament. Aaron Rye 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.000 did it in fat fashion at Irono Mink really just 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.479 taking the championship by the horns. And Ryan Fox did 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.320 it despite a couple of bad breaks. He just hit 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:27.880 wonderful shot after one. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.200 He's a friendly guy who could have a beer with 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.480 in a bar. Now you're worried about bad breaks. Now 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.280 you're policing fair policing. You're calling out bad breaks for 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.720 guys that you could have a beer with, are you feel? 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.400 But he persevered, like you see some people throw a 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.280 hissy fit after what happened to him on fifteen. You know, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.280 the t shot on seventeen was was a tough situation. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.520 You know, you wouldn't expect an iron to roll out 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.800 that far, but it did. You know, He's played to 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.200 play it short and it's like, you know, basically one 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.040 revolution from stopping in the perfect spot and making it 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.600 a shoe and birdie, and you know, I I just 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:10.480 think it was it was an awesome, awesome championship, really fun. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.719 All in all, there's tons of chaos, tons, a couple 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.240 of rules controversies and and that just adds up to 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.080 you all. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.160 It's a clean drop, totally clean drop, properly applied. We're 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.400 going to get the Scottie, which I'm sure you're wound 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:25.480 up about. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:27.240 I agree. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:28.799 I didn mean to cut you off. Go ahead, finish, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:29.840 great championship. 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.320 But yeah, you love love a late bloomer. Late bloomers 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.960 or sometimes the best stories. Thirty nine years old wins 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.400 his first major championship, and you know a couple of 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.640 years ago, you know, he he got completely shadow band 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.400 by the PGA Tour from the President's Cup team when 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.760 he should have been ranked in the top thirty. I 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.960 think that was for the uh, that was for the 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.200 Royal Melbourne one. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.159 Well, he's always been sort of caught between tours, like you. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.120 Listen to tour, yes, yes. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.120 Which is kind of a feels like a hole in 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.800 the President's Cup if an international player who you know 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.800 is not enough of your kind of tour member, kind 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.320 of a hole seems like a problem. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.800 Yeah, yeah, you know, it's funny. I played a round 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:22.880 of golf with him, in at in La And the 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.839 reason I was played a round of golf with him 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.200 was because he was sitting in La waiting hopefully getting 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.120 into Riviera as the thirty third rank player in the world, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.120 and he didn't get into Riviera, so he was playing 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.039 golf with a with a bum podcaster. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.000 Remember that it was a great I thought this was 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.559 a great championship. I thought this was a really fun open. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.120 I felt like today, you know, sometimes I feel like 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.000 this is kind of a slog or drudgery, or it's 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.240 always like a privilege to be out there. And I 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.159 spoke of that when I walked in for the first 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.280 time at the start of the week, of like how 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.360 special it feels to just as an American to get 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.080 over here to this open that can feel at times 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.720 unattainable and far, and so like your privilege to be 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.120 here from the beginning, and at no point to day 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.680 that I feel like there's enough juice. We don't have 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.440 enough going on, we don't have like it's a little slow. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.480 I think there was some at the start concern about 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.000 like who might win and how they might win, would 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.960 it be boring, would there be some duds on the leaderboard? 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:35.640 I thought between the Bryson stuff Scotty today, the manic 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.520 pace on the leaderboard, and it wasn't paced by Bertie 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.080 shooting ahead with Bertie's for I thought a good chunk 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.120 of the afternoon, it seemed like Camyon was gonna win 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.320 by just being in the clubhouse at nine under and 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.680 nobody was going to really have He's gonna do press, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.400 two press conferences. He did his post route and then 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.080 he was gonna have a winner's press conference two and 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.440 a half hours later. I thought, Birkdale, you know, just 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.960 for for We'll get to some of the changes and 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:03.320 comments about those, but I thought Birkdale, just conditions wise, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.680 it was beautiful the whole week. It was baked out, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.840 it was sunny, you know, required a certain amount of skill, 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.880 and definitely today as the wind picked up a little bit. Overall, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.040 I thought it was a fabulous Open championship. I don't 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.920 know if it was like the best ever, but if 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.600 you're giving a pass fail, it's passing with flying colors. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.560 And for the content game like that we're in and 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.120 just amusement and entertainment, it was pushing upwards of like 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.400 a B plus or an A minus, like a really 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.079 fun Open Championship for all that was baked into. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:38.120 The stew totally agree, and I think it was fun 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.200 that we got a little win today and that the 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:47.040 kind of dynamic of the tournament changed, you know, where 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.440 it became really tough. And you know, the first three 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.600 days it was like who's going to go out there 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.199 and get it? Who's going to go out and shoot 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.240 the sixty two, who's going to shoot the sixty five, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.400 who's going to shoot those loads? Numbers and up up 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:05.440 the board. And today, outside of Cameron Young, really nobody 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.040 put together a really great round and it was more 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.600 hang on for dear life. And you saw that with 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.760 all the guys that when they made the turn and 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.040 you know, Cameron Young, he posts nine and it felt 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.560 man if he if he would have gotten to ten 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.440 when he by that time, you were like, oh you 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.280 and he even said it, I would like to be 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.720 even a couple more than ten. At that point it 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.760 felt like, you know, eleven or twelve was going to 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.680 get it done. But you know, it just it just proved. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.800 You know, I think it it would have been really 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.320 you know, I think you got a little bit more 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.840 win today than you had the last few days. But 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.079 It just shows what that golf course would have played 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.400 like with the with the conditions it was in, with 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.200 how firm and how fast it was. If they had 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.319 had that that traditional Open Championship win all week, it 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.840 would have been a very, very very high scoring week. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.040 It was. It was a great I thought it was 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.320 a great venue. I thought it set up great for 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.960 what they wanted. Now back to Ryan Fox. Overall, very 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.200 positive feelings coming out of this Open Championship. Back to 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:13.520 Ryan Fox. That you might not be as familiar with 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:17.240 him as you are with some young star a Cameron 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.000 Young to Ludwig, maybe Sam Burns. If you're an American, he's 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.160 easy to root for. I think if you watch this dude, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.600 he he did not shrivel up and shrink. I loved 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.720 hearing him talk about, you know, I'm on the eighteenth 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.560 toll and I talked to my caddie Dean, and He's like, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.400 I'm gonna go and get it, like hard asshole. The 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.559 birdie in the last three he didn't Bertie, not Birdie seventeen, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.760 but sixteen and eighteen to be the two is kind 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.280 of the reverse of what you would expect, right and 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.200 to win it. We saw Cameron Young, you just talked 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.080 about getting he almost hold out for bunker, hold out 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.319 from the bunker to stay at ten for a part, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.160 a lot of bogies, only five birdies before fox. He 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.880 came through at eighteen. He said, we're going to take 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.200 this on. I'm going to try and win the tournament, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.439 and I will live with the consequences if I stuffed 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.080 it up. To go out there and execute the drive 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.080 is not comfortable, and to hit it in the fairway 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.640 and give myself a chance was huge. He said. They 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.400 got to twelve and he's like, well, we got to 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.120 get three more. And this was as it was getting 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.079 windier and a little more challenging, and the dunes on 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.840 those that more elevated back there, dipping between the dunes. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.839 And he didn't get just three, he got four. He 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:39.360 got four birdies and like a bogey quote save. He 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.320 talked about how that might have been more important than 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.920 any of the birdies, is how which he said he 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.720 felt better walking off there with the bogey that he made. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.640 Then maybe if he had walked off there with a 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.600 par which is kind of like you would be like 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.640 on paper, one shot better. So, but in terms of vibes, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.480 and juice saving that bogie after he gets a little 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.080 bit jammed in the bunker. But he said he was 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.160 short by a yard missed it. You know, it was 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.679 a good shot. It wasn't like he just hit a 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.679 poofy or shanky shot. He had a great shot. He 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.760 missed by a yard and then he save saves the 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.840 bogie coming out backwards. I just can't. I mean, if 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.200 you love golf and sports, you have to be fired up. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.280 Four birdies in the last six to seven holes. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.000 I think if you look at his last you know, 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.520 we'll just say four holes fifteen. I mean you could 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.320 go back, though, you could go back to fourteen or thirteen, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.959 wherever you want, you go back all the way to thirteen. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.480 I don't think he missed a shot like he I 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.880 think he hit every shot exactly how he wanted to 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:47.040 hit it. That shot on fifteen where he made a bogie. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.480 In order to hit that green, you had to take 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.680 on like all the risk, which he did, and he 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.920 came up literally probably a foot two feet. If he 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.760 carries the ball two feet further, he's got like a 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.959 dead red birdie. Look, you know, and that could have 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.880 just been a misjudge. The shot on seventeen that yielded 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.760 a par instead of a birdie was because his two 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.120 iron or three iron, whatever long iron it was rolled 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:20.520 an insane amount, like an unfathomable distance and just barely 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.520 trickled into the bunker he was trying to avoid by 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.960 hitting the long iron, like the guy hit every shot 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.120 out of the center. And I think, like to your point, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:38.920 the resilience, the kind of the ability to accept the 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.040 bad breaks and go hit great golf shots was a 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.199 was a just a championship moment, and I think that's 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.320 where he kind of won everybody over, is you know 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.600 he had he gets this terrible break on fifteen, and 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.160 how many times have we seen people just ruined by 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.920 this and you make a double bogie there and you 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.920 shut yourself out of the tournament. But that up and 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.800 down was awesome after he just you know had to 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.480 chip out, you know, getting up and down there the 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:10.080 putts he hold and uh yeah, I I you know, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.560 you love when people go out in moments and make 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.200 you know, big time players make big time plays. He 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.880 went out and won the tournament, and it's from somebody 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.200 that people probably didn't expect it. But he's now he's 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.080 won like twenty times across the world. He's thirty nine 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.560 years old. He didn't really start playing professionally until his 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:33.040 mid twenties. The guy, the guy has done it everywhere 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.760 he's gone and it takes a little while to get there, 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.160 to get comfortable. But now we've seen this is his 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.400 third win in the last two years. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.360 Contains multitudes. I mean he's won a dun Hill on 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.720 the Links course, He's won the Myrtle Beach Classic. Now 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.680 he's won the Open Championship, joins Lydia Cooe, Bob Charles, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.680 Open and the Open. In the Open, Michael Campbell, Lydia 0:14:55.760 --> 0:15:00.000 Coe and Bob Charles is a ki kiwi New Zealand 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:05.560 major winners. I think you know what he did make 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.880 the birdie on seventeen. I was like, well, let's just 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.760 hold on to your butts. It's like playoff at best, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.680 loss at worst. And what you're talking about the resiliency 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.360 there of like not getting the birdie that feels like 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.800 the best birdie, chance of maybe getting jammed off the 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.640 tee to were about with a T shot. They were 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.560 like debating, what's he going to hit? Is he just 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.200 going to hit like a low sort of driving iron 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.640 and he goes for it all and he said he 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.000 had a great yardage on approach and stuck it to 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.840 ten feet And then I don't know, a birdie to 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.120 win the Open in that arena is as good as 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.680 it gets. And I think one thing. I think sort 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.240 of with Aaron Rye. And I'm pretty sure Aaron Riyce 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:50.240 is definitely younger than Ryan Fox, I believe, but you know, 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:57.480 there are major winners who there's probably guys that expect 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.920 to win majors, right, and maybe they win them young 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.920 and like, well, yeah, this is sort of the progression 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.680 and this is my destiny and this is like and 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.840 I don't want to say it means less at all, 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.800 but there is sort of a sort of acceptance of 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.400 like this is what I should be doing. I think 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.360 with like Fox and Aaron ry like we you see 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.120 that he's won all over the world, like you said, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.440 but he's also like, look, I just needed to tour 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.920 to play off. It's a little different when he first 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.120 came out, like I almost quit. I thought about giving 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.280 up golf. On my second year on the Offsseie Tour, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.640 I kept missing the cuts and my dad came and 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.760 caddied for me. I think it was Joss Open, one 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.080 of those in RPGA. So is this game is supposed 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.880 to be fun. It's like it's supposed to be but 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.960 it's not. And you're talking about someone who's been through 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:48.440 like ups and downs, who quite frankly he said until 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.440 till like this week, he was just talking with this 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:55.600 team on Saturday night. Like when I turned pro, if 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.280 you told me this was my career, I would have 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.200 taken it in like a second a heartbeat. Now, of 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.640 course I'll take the one I have with the major. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.920 Oh no, there's something just a little more gratifying sees 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.680 someone who I don't want to say it means more 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.440 to them, but it certainly resonates and has a little 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.959 bit carries a little bit more power than so, like 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.359 I don't want to throw a name out there that 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.440 will just feel like I'm denigrating their major, but call 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.520 it like Justin Thomas winning like that's like he expects, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.600 that's like his progression and it means a ton to him. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.400 But I think like that that's just a mini takeaway 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:33.960 I'll have from someone like Ryan Fox and Aaron Rye 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.200 winning majors this year. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.200 I mean to echo that, so when I played golf 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:44.440 with them, and so it was twenty twenty four, it's February. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.639 He's at this point, you know, top forty player in 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:52.320 the world, but he's playing off of so he was 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.880 he had gotten screwed over by Adrian Marunk, who had 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.000 earned the number one spot as on the DP Tour list, 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.600 and because of when he went to live he didn't 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.600 get knocked off it. So Fox was the number two 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.119 guy on the on that list, but like, if you 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.080 were number one, you got a lot more benefits than 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.840 if you were number two. But the tour didn't reshuffle 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.280 it up, right, So this is like the thirty fifth 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.080 ranked player in the world. And I'm like, and he 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:25.879 had just had I think he had just had his 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.760 first kid, and we're talking and I'm like, so, what's 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.919 what's the plan. He's like, you know, my wife and 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.560 kid have just been traveling with me and we're gonna 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.479 get where. This was before the Florida Swing. He's like, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.399 I'm excited to get to Florida because we have just 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.960 this like airbnb rental house that I booked and we're 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.320 going to live out of that for like the next 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.920 you know, couple months. And and you think about this 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.000 is this is one of the fifty best players in 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.159 the world at that time, and he's just his whole 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:04.119 future in life is in flux as to whether, like 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.280 he doesn't know where he's going to play, he doesn't 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.639 know where he's going to live, and you know, and 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.720 at that time, like he did not have a good 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.520 start to his US Pro career. You know, he really 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.880 didn't have a very good start until last year when 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.560 he won them. I mean, he was playing the Myrtle 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.439 Beach you know, opposite field event last year he won that, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.000 and then he wins in Canada and it kind of 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.800 reasserts him as this, you know, player that gets into 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.960 all the top tier events. But you think about this 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.400 whole journey and this is this is a guy that's 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.560 in his mid thirties who's in the top fifty in 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:47.399 the world. But his entire future and like understanding of 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.360 where life was in a moment where you want to have, 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.520 you know, like a solid structure of life with a 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.080 young kid, is completely in flux. And I think that's 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.679 like kind of the the and flows of his particular 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.280 career that is fascinating to be is that you know, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.720 he go. Every time he goes to a new tour, 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.160 there's like a dip and then a rise back up, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:15.480 and you know, he's he's just a competitor. And I 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.439 think that I think you saw a lot of guys 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.320 fade in the moment and when you you know, if 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.480 you go watch the clip I posted from when I 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.400 had him on the on the Fried Egg pod earlier, 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.920 what he said he turned to golf because he missed competition. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:37.119 He was missing competing. And if I said one like 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.080 the one quality he hits it far, he hits it good, 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.720 he puts it good, he's he's got a you know, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.480 serviceable short game. The number one quality that came out 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.840 on the back line to day was he was he 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:53.040 competed harder than I think almost everybody else on that board. 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.879 Through bad breaks, through when through Yeah, it just played 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.560 his nuts off when it mattered and then when it 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.040 a place where a lot of players were not doing so. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.399 I thought it was interesting with his lineage obviously like 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.240 he's a late bloomer on golf or an atypical path 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.600 to golf, but like, can we not make a mistake 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.000 about this that he comes from like insane athletic stock 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.440 so like, you know, it's not like. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.720 Exactly well he was. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.000 He had like he was working with like a lot, 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.639 like a lot of full deck to begin with. It's 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.320 not no matter when he took up golf. Like, he 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:33.680 also has a very unique genes that he was working 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.080 with that not everybody can just say, you know, take 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:37.280 it up when you're seventeen. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.000 I've been told by numerous people he always downplaced his 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.600 dad in New Zealand. His dad is like a god. 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought he had some cool quotes 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.840 about like, look, I think he might have had concussion issues. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:57.600 Is that like he was like targeted for being you know, 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:05.920 this legends kid right in rugby and contact sports, And uh, 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:08.600 I thought it was interesting that he's like, there was 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.639 never any pressure on me. There was no pressure for 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:18.160 my parents to be like, you know, essentially Bronni of rugby. 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:20.760 I don't know that Lebron put that on Bronni. I 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.160 don't want to go there. And Lebron's perfect human being 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:23.560 in my. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:29.119 World, but Cleveland cav it sounds like, uh yeah, but 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.080 I about Luca out there from out out of the 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.520 Lebron shadow out there watching golfing. 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.359 That was kind of random. It was weird. Why is 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:38.160 he personal? 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:39.520 Talking about that? Yesterday? 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.879 Some some chap with the accent. I could not understand 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:46.440 it all kept asking me if he was out there 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:51.560 today Luca do I was who what Luke I was? 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.760 And finally he's like the NBA player And I was like, no, no, 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.679 I don't think he's back for a second day. Anyways, 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:00.639 you just said he had no pressure of his parents 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:02.600 to be like I have to do rugby because my 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:04.760 dad is a rugby or my my grandfather was a cricketer. 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:06.520 I need to be a cricketer. And that's kind of 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:08.879 the ideal way to grow up. And he obviously had 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:12.280 incredible genes. He was working with a couple more foxy 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.960 clean up things. He obviously picked up strokes on every 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.800 single shot on eighteen, which is amazing, like a good 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:23.680 chunk of strokes. He said his nerves, his hands were shaking, 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:27.320 talking about competitor who's also feeling it, like his pant 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.680 legs in the wind. See my pant legs flap. That's 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.280 how my hands were. I think he said that on Sky. 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:39.720 So he's recovery at fifteen one, I'm the championship. He 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:42.119 talked about the one thing with his dad. He's like, 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:44.959 my dad is awful when he's not in control, like 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:48.159 when he's not the person on the athletic field, Like 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:50.520 he's a disaster, like a mess. So I'm sure he 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:52.640 was a mess because he's when he can't have control. 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.000 I'm like that. I mean, obviously we probably all are 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:58.280 right we're watching our kids and playing. 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.760 I noticed this with caddying. If I like Caddie for 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.400 a friend in an amateur event, I'm more nervous than 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:06.760 I if I'm playing. 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:11.879 Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had some good stuff about links 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:14.280 golf too, because he'd won the dun Hill just like 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:17.639 hitting improper shots, What did you think was his Like, 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:20.159 best shot was the birdie on sixteen, nodding up on 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:22.280 sixteen after the fifty. 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:24.240 You know, it's hard, it's hard to say what the 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:26.959 best shot was. I think you could make a real 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:32.720 real case for the chip on fifteen, the chip shot 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:35.560 on fifteen, or the chip shot on fourteen. I mean 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:39.200 the chip shot on fifteen so hard because like your 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:43.040 world's spinning. You know, after you get the bad break, 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:47.000 you've worked your ass off, worked your ass off to 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.960 get into the lead, you know, and you know at 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:52.960 that point that you're giving it away and you're going 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.280 to have to work your ass off again to get 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:59.400 back there. And for him, I think that chip had 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:01.080 all he had, all the green in the world to 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:04.359 work with. But it's such an easy chip to leave 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:07.359 fifteen feet short and to be able to hit that 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:09.879 to where it was easy, easy up and in. And 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:12.600 then I think the other shot that I mean, there's 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:14.879 a couple of shots. I mean, the the shots that 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:18.040 stayed out to be are the second shot I'm seventeen, 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:21.840 that would that would have been like a really easy 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.639 place to hit a really bad shot, like a really 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:28.639 bad shot just because of how awkward that was. And 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:31.360 then the shot on eighteen. I thought, that's a lot 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:34.320 of shots. Yeah, I mean, there's so many. That's what 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:37.359 I said, though at the beginning is from thirteen on. 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:39.120 He didn't really miss. 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:42.600 You know, I didn't see where his second shot on 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:45.359 seventeen ended up. I saw where it ended up, and 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:47.240 I come up there and I watch him. I didn't 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:49.480 see him hit because I decided looked. 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:51.439 Out and because he's so fast. 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:54.200 That's why I wanted to bring up, like everybody's talking 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:59.120 about it, when you're there in person, it's insane how 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:03.600 fast he's playing, whether it's putting, and definitely on the full, 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:08.280 the shots, the wedges. What a weekend for the rules 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:11.800 of golf and pace of play. The nature may be healing. 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:15.280 We may be shouting about it and tweeting about it 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:18.480 for the better part of ten years and just had 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:21.879 our weekend in the sun with you know, boys manipulating 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.680 their lives and matting things down and then pace and 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:29.439 play proving being rewarded justly in the ed incredible stuff. 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:33.480 So full, we'll get to the coverage. But NBC on 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:37.679 eighteen they just like they had no shot at setting 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:39.760 up the moment because he hit it so fast. No 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:43.679 leg up. Tweeted he hit the putt in twenty two seconds, 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:47.000 and then followed up with I can't even get a 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:50.240 tweet off in twenty two seconds he had at Winter. 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:55.040 But yeah, he's he's amazing. It's amazing how fast he is. 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:58.360 It's like you're always you're always between one or two 0:26:58.359 --> 0:26:59.919 clubs and you know the shot you got to hit, 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:03.600 and you know it's like I see shot and I 0:27:03.680 --> 0:27:05.240 hit the shot, and that's how I work, and that's 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.240 how the brain operates, and just I don't need to 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:10.199 overthink it. Uh, it's maybe a lesson for all of us. 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:12.280 You don't have to be that fast, but you know 0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:14.840 it's it's don't need to overcomplicate things. 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:37.199 Hey, let's bring in KVV, who was out following the 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:37.879 final group. 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:39.600 Let's get him. Let's get him in here. 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:44.760 Hello boys, Storia, you ready for it to be over? 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:48.119 At the Dream Week, I heard a rumor that that 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:51.320 some reporters had to take down some tweets about the media. 0:27:52.800 --> 0:28:00.040 There there's a sensitivity that's that's now present about. 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:04.719 To can I just I heard rumors you can confirm 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:07.359 or deny. I heard rumors of Lasagna today in a 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:09.160 touching tribute to Sergio Garcia. 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:13.360 I walked past there briefly. There was some steak pie. 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:15.520 I did have my first steak pie of the week. 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:17.720 It was good. I will say that today the food 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:22.240 was marginally better. But Brennan and I found this secret 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:23.640 out there terrible. 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:24.880 Don't do that much track. 0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:28.600 Listen, you know what it was. Here's I think I 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:31.760 will say this. There's always a choice at major championships 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:33.600 about who are you going to follow, and it's very 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:36.440 hard to figure that out. Brendan and I went out 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:40.000 and we watched Cam Young on eighteen. We watched him 0:28:40.040 --> 0:28:41.920 hit the chip that got It looked like it was 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:44.240 going in the entire way. I can just imagine Pja 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:47.920 just dying as it was creeping towards the hole. And 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:50.240 then we after Kim made that boat, we kind of 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:52.680 had a discussion and we were like, well, where do 0:28:52.680 --> 0:28:53.160 you want to go? 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:53.640 You know? 0:28:54.000 --> 0:28:56.520 And I was like, wow, you should take Scottie and 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:59.760 I'll take Sam Burns, I guess. And as I was 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:04.120 fucking way, as I got to Foxy and Burns and 0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:06.320 the Scotty, things started happening on the other side of 0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:08.240 the course and I knew Parth was there. I was 0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:10.800 really happy for him, but I was so jealous. I 0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:12.760 was like, man, he got the good end of the draw. 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:16.920 This is so unfair. And it prompted a whole discussion 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:20.760 with me and Shane Ryan Golf Digest about have you 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:22.800 ever been in a major and missed like the really 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:25.120 cool thing, like you just were somewhere else on the 0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:27.840 course whatever, And I smell like the whole hole kind 0:29:27.840 --> 0:29:30.479 of sulking, you know. It was. I got there right 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:34.320 at eleven when when Fox made a bogey from hitting 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:36.520 kind of a weak shot, right, and he couldn't get 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:39.200 up and down and Burns wasn't doing anything, and I 0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:42.920 was like, man, this this group has no juice. This stinks. 0:29:43.440 --> 0:29:45.120 And then it just all hell broke loose and I 0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:47.400 was like, well, this is awesome. I absolutely got the 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:49.640 best end of the deal. So it was a really 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:53.760 fun like final hour, but I was I was briefly like, man, 0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:56.320 this stinks. I'm Brendan got all the good stuff. 0:29:56.800 --> 0:30:00.640 Well, you inevitably when you go out no matter what, 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:03.680 because there's always lulls and golf rounds, you know where 0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:07.400 where the players you're watching are making pars no matter what. 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:10.360 When you're looking at the leaderboard, you're you're getting fomo 0:30:10.480 --> 0:30:12.560 that you're not somewhere else at all times. And it 0:30:12.640 --> 0:30:17.280 takes real perseverance and and and patience to to see 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:20.080 your cask out. 0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:23.160 Stick with it. When we said PGA to followed Ben 0:30:23.200 --> 0:30:25.360 Griffin at the Ryder Cup and then it was like 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:27.880 all coming down to pg's match, I thought, well, maybe 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:29.480 this is my moment here, you. 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:30.520 Know, and it did. 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:33.640 It turned out to be that it did. 0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:36.960 You got it. I honestly, Kevin, I thought like you 0:30:37.000 --> 0:30:39.560 couldn't really go wrong today and you can, We'll get 0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:41.800 to you. I felt like I had a Forest Gump 0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:43.720 kind of day where I was just dropping. I got 0:30:44.280 --> 0:30:45.800 this is such a fun day. 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:46.800 Tell me to go. 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:50.680 I got seen of Tommy Fleewood. I talked to Patrick 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:54.320 Creedive for his takes on Bryson like a rory. I 0:30:54.360 --> 0:30:57.200 got Scottie up, up and down, Scott in the front, 0:30:57.240 --> 0:30:59.040 Scott in the back at the right time, and then 0:30:59.240 --> 0:31:02.280 you got we got burns and Foxy, I don't know. 0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:04.120 I thought there was a ton of stuff out there, 0:31:04.120 --> 0:31:05.720 and that's why I thought it was a good championship. 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:08.160 Uh follow the let's stuck out to you. 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:12.440 I think, uh it was. You know, sometimes it's hard 0:31:12.480 --> 0:31:16.080 to see like what's going on, especially at Birkdale, because 0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:17.680 the dunes are kind of everywhere, and so they make 0:31:17.760 --> 0:31:19.720 and they make you stand in these awkward places. Sometimes 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:22.800 they can't quite tell and so I'm fifteen. It was 0:31:22.800 --> 0:31:26.560 really unclear like how bad his shot was. And Foxy 0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:28.640 had a great thing in the press conference afterwards, and 0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:30.520 he was like he was kind of on the same line. 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:32.760 He couldn't quite tell like how bad it was, and 0:31:32.800 --> 0:31:36.480 he said he could see Thomas Leavey up there and 0:31:36.560 --> 0:31:39.080 Rad r Riiley and he could see them like walk 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:42.320 into the bunker and he's like, usually when the encourse 0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:45.120 reporters they walk past the bunker, if they just look 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:47.680 down and keep going, you know, you're fine and you're good. 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:50.160 And he's like, I saw like Levey get down in 0:31:50.200 --> 0:31:52.080 there and then like stop and then like really look 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:53.320 down in there. And I was like he said to 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:55.640 my caddy. I was like, whoa, this is bad. We're 0:31:55.640 --> 0:31:56.640 in bad shape. 0:31:56.400 --> 0:32:01.520 Here, like trying to figure out how this substance. 0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:04.160 And then just like so fast. I mean, there was 0:32:04.280 --> 0:32:07.960 so many decisions throughout that final round where I was like, 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:11.120 this would take this would add another thirty minutes or 0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:13.520 forty minutes to this round if this were anyone else. 0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:16.600 But he would just literally step up and you know, 0:32:16.920 --> 0:32:20.200 take one look and take a swing. And the shot 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:23.080 that he hit, you know, into thirteen when he made 0:32:23.480 --> 0:32:26.680 birdie there was really really great and he hit a 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:29.360 monster drive down there, and the chip I mean, I 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:31.720 was like I could barely get into positions sometimes before 0:32:31.720 --> 0:32:34.160 the ball was already flying across the green with both 0:32:34.240 --> 0:32:37.520 him and Burns. And the last putt I think I'll 0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:41.360 remember forever, because it was truly like the crowd had 0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:46.320 not stopped clapping for Burns's putt when the winning putt, Like, 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:49.080 I mean, nice of Burns to put out and let 0:32:49.240 --> 0:32:51.600 you know, clear the stage and basically be like, here, 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:53.840 you have a chance to win the Open Championship, So 0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:56.440 I'll clean up my par putt, which is probably worth like, 0:32:56.760 --> 0:32:59.320 you know, a million dollars. I'll just kind of clean 0:32:59.320 --> 0:33:01.400 that up. And then the ball was like it was 0:33:01.480 --> 0:33:03.800 one step in and it was going towards the hole, 0:33:03.880 --> 0:33:07.000 and I just I was so kind of like it's 0:33:07.040 --> 0:33:10.440 golf can be such a mental thing and you watch 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.200 so many players agonize over it, think through it, and 0:33:13.240 --> 0:33:16.680 it just was so refreshing to see someone who absolutely 0:33:16.960 --> 0:33:19.120 was like, you know what, Fate's going to decide this anyway, 0:33:19.120 --> 0:33:19.880 so let's just go. 0:33:22.160 --> 0:33:27.080 There's something to every sport. Everybody talks about how tough 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:29.080 golf is, and I think like one of the reasons 0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:31.240 that golf is so difficult compared to a lot of 0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:36.040 other athletic endeavors is is this not reactionary, meaning like 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:38.480 it's not like ball coming at me, make a split 0:33:38.520 --> 0:33:44.360 second decision and react right, And golf is this thing 0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:46.400 where you have time to think about it. You know, 0:33:46.640 --> 0:33:49.120 he's talking about the ball going in the bunker and 0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:51.240 knowing it might be a bad shape because the way 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:55.280 the encourse reporters looked at it. And do you think 0:33:55.280 --> 0:33:58.880 about like golf like in terms of it gets more 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:02.640 and more difficult more you dwell over things. And his 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:05.480 kind of idea of looking at it, getting the number, 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:07.600 figuring out what it's going to be, and pulling the 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:10.480 club and hitting like kind of takes some of that 0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:11.040 out of it. 0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:14.680 Yeah, get a great quote early on in Presimas today 0:34:14.680 --> 0:34:16.480 where he said I didn't know how I was going 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:19.080 to feel today, and like early on in the round 0:34:19.440 --> 0:34:21.160 he I turned to my caddy and I said, you know, 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:23.600 I kind of feel better than I thought I might feel. 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.840 And he just kind of kept getting more and more comfortable. 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:29.919 But at the same time he was really honest about 0:34:29.920 --> 0:34:31.440 that putt on eighteen. He was like, I had no 0:34:31.520 --> 0:34:34.279 feeling in my hands. They were shaking the way that 0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:36.600 my pant legs were shaking blowing in the wind, that's 0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:38.640 how much they were shaking. And I have no idea 0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:41.359 how I hit that put straight, but I just sent 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:44.040 it towards the whole hoping that I wouldn't have a 0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:46.440 putt that was that far coming back if I missed, 0:34:46.920 --> 0:34:48.400 and it was pretty cool to see it go in 0:34:48.800 --> 0:34:51.440 Ah though. Holy cow, what a way to win an 0:34:51.480 --> 0:34:55.560 over championship. You know what, Bob Harrik have one more 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:57.680 thing about this. Bob Harrig told me a great stat. 0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:03.080 If he's the thirteen eighth straight first time Open Championship winner, 0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:06.680 it dates all the way back to Ernie Els, that 0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:08.719 we had someone win the Open Championship who had not 0:35:08.800 --> 0:35:09.160 won it. 0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:11.799 Well, twenty twelve, Ernie Els. 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:18.040 That live them really class the last great Open player, last. 0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:21.120 Plan, Andy, you should be here, Burman Fast, he could 0:35:21.160 --> 0:35:21.839 have contended here. 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:25.000 He's he's got more important things to do, like building 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:29.200 courses in Portugal or something. Now Orkan his foundation. He's 0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:34.600 still in picking grapes. Yeah yeah, watching this peers light 0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:37.000 themselves on fire is what he's doing. 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:40.399 Uh, Kevin? What else from the from your day out there? 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:43.640 Following the last group, we should just do away with burns. 0:35:43.680 --> 0:35:47.319 Now we're talking about burns, I should say, well, you know, 0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:48.000 can you. 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:50.600 Bring us to our first storyline that nobody's talking about? 0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:54.960 What Sergeant Sergeant Sam, what happened to sergeants god. 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:59.680 Behavior struggles in his first start with his new role 0:35:59.680 --> 0:36:00.880 in Consabladies. 0:36:02.160 --> 0:36:04.239 You know, young Jepine needs to grow into the job. 0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:08.359 It was there for him, like, come on, you shot lead. 0:36:09.480 --> 0:36:12.600 Just you know, we all sat on this podcast last night. 0:36:13.040 --> 0:36:15.120 I think we all picked Sam Burns. We're like, look, 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:18.960 he's played extremely well in multiple Sundays. He just hasn't 0:36:18.960 --> 0:36:21.680 started from the lead. He's doing it, sorry, from the 0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:24.360 lead and showing his metal on Sundays. That's a good combo. 0:36:24.600 --> 0:36:29.319 And no, he did not play his best Kevin, I 0:36:29.360 --> 0:36:32.160 know you tweeted about it, but but but Foxy was 0:36:32.160 --> 0:36:34.439 a fusion in his praise. Or Burne said, you know, look, 0:36:34.480 --> 0:36:37.520 he's like one of the best kids, the best players. 0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:42.839 They're both fast, both played really fast, like his time 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.280 will come. When he was this was after his press conference, 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:47.600 Bert fox he was like, look he will. He will 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:51.360 absolutely get one. Anything about Burns either impressed you or 0:36:51.440 --> 0:36:52.440 kind of leave you wanting. 0:36:52.880 --> 0:36:54.919 I mean, it was just was a true class acts tour. 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:57.360 I mean, when's the last time you saw major champion 0:36:58.000 --> 0:37:00.360 make a winning putt? And then the first that he 0:37:00.440 --> 0:37:03.040 celebrates with is the guy who I mean Dinzar with 0:37:03.120 --> 0:37:05.880 his caddy, Like he literally just goes over there and 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:09.319 burns is like literally like clapping as the putt kind 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:11.960 of you know, as he's walking towards it. Like I 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:15.000 thought it was cool that Sam was able to sort 0:37:15.000 --> 0:37:18.680 of have recognize how cool that moment was, almost like 0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:20.600 he had become a fan in that moment and just 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:23.080 be like, man, a guy just made a putt to 0:37:23.120 --> 0:37:25.759 win the ten foot or whatever to win the Open Championship. 0:37:26.160 --> 0:37:28.160 I'm gonna give him his his love, even though I'm 0:37:28.200 --> 0:37:32.320 feeling absolutely devastated, and I think, I don't know, I 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:34.960 think some of the scenes when peat guys lose the 0:37:35.000 --> 0:37:38.319 Open Championships are the most real and human in all 0:37:38.360 --> 0:37:42.879 of sports. It just and so I watched him and 0:37:43.040 --> 0:37:46.520 Cam Young like kind of walk away and sort of 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:48.839 let it all settle in, And it was almost kind 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:51.960 of haunting, man, because it's like Cam Young and some 0:37:52.000 --> 0:37:53.319 of the probably saw the clip of him on the 0:37:53.360 --> 0:37:55.200 driving range, like when he heard the huge roar go 0:37:55.360 --> 0:37:58.520 up and he just sort of quietly like put his 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:03.120 headcover back on his driver and kind of shook hands 0:38:03.160 --> 0:38:05.360 with your people and then just started walking away. It 0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:08.080 was like, what a what a hard thing to have 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:11.359 to swallow knowing that you're you had a chip that was, 0:38:11.640 --> 0:38:14.040 you know, an inch away from straight up probably winning 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.960 the Open championship, and now you're just you don't actually 0:38:17.040 --> 0:38:19.440 even get to to have a playoff. It was it 0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:22.640 was unbelievably like real. Uh. I think as a way 0:38:22.640 --> 0:38:24.000 I would describe it. 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:27.120 It's a long walk in view from the home scorin 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:29.919 area all the way back to their like temporary locker room, 0:38:29.920 --> 0:38:32.600 and they kind of he was fine. It just looked 0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:35.279 like sort of was kind of slunking away and felt 0:38:35.360 --> 0:38:38.720 bad for him. Burns allegedly was emotional again and scoring 0:38:39.160 --> 0:38:41.680 or on the TV broadcast, which we didn't see. So 0:38:42.239 --> 0:38:43.480 all right, Kevin, anything else? 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:47.520 I think though with that, with Burns and Cam, who 0:38:47.600 --> 0:38:51.719 have now both had real close calls multiple times, you know, 0:38:51.840 --> 0:38:55.959 kind of the parting message is always and it's got 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:59.440 to be what Rory said after l a cc as, 0:38:59.520 --> 0:39:01.959 I'd take ye million Sunday. 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:03.759 One of. 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:09.280 Because yeah, it hurts. And like the thing about golf 0:39:10.040 --> 0:39:14.480 and is there's these just like micro moments and you 0:39:14.680 --> 0:39:17.799 just will sit and stew with them for you know, 0:39:17.880 --> 0:39:20.759 he's you know, for Burns and for Cam Young for 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:24.480 Lucas Herbert, like there are gonna be these moments from 0:39:24.560 --> 0:39:27.280 this tournament that they think about for like the rest 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:34.080 of their life, like decisions, shots, bounces. But this is 0:39:34.160 --> 0:39:37.000 all like part you just you just want to have 0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:39.919 a ticket and be in the dance at the end 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:43.000 and have have a chance for you to hit the shots. 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:46.480 And you know, for Burns today, it just just didn't 0:39:46.480 --> 0:39:49.040 feel like he ever hit the shots that we've kind 0:39:49.080 --> 0:39:51.759 of become started to become more accustomed to seeing them 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:56.759 hit on Sunday, especially at Shinnacock, and I thought the one, 0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.200 you know where he just couldn't get the putts to 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:01.680 to follow. But like the shot he hit on fifteen 0:40:01.800 --> 0:40:04.240 could have been that like kind of lightning rod moment 0:40:04.719 --> 0:40:07.120 that that sparked him. But then he doesn't make the 0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:09.520 putt and that's like the tricky thing. And we saw 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:12.600 Scotty do it all week long, is hit the shots. 0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:14.319 But you have to pay him off in golf. And 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.719 that's what Ryan Fox did, was he paid off all 0:40:16.719 --> 0:40:19.719 of the big all really the big moments coming down 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:23.719 the stretch, with the exception of seventeen, every time he 0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:25.920 had a chance, he saw blood in the water. And 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:28.640 he struck him, and that's the difference. He went out 0:40:28.640 --> 0:40:29.920 and won the damn tournament. 0:40:30.840 --> 0:40:32.920 I think the only takeaway I would say about Burns 0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:35.000 just is like, you know, we always hear like the 0:40:35.040 --> 0:40:37.040 best is the best putter on the PGA Tour. This 0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:40.279 guy like he's he's really great at putting, and it 0:40:40.440 --> 0:40:42.880 just feels a lot like those that doesn't show up 0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:46.000 on Sundays at a major. And I that's the one 0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:48.200 thing that's like it's almost like the expectations are set 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:49.719 for like, man, when are you going to make one 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:53.640 of these like huge, huge putts? And you know, maybe 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:56.000 you know, I didn't follow final around you it's open. 0:40:56.280 --> 0:40:58.440 You know, I was with Wyndham and and Scotti, but 0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:02.640 it just felt like cut you know, I don't know. 0:41:02.880 --> 0:41:04.920 That's what I kept thinking all day. My other takeaway 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:09.200 Brennan is just like Brokedale's a great open venue. I 0:41:09.200 --> 0:41:12.480 think from everything from like the train station is literally 0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:16.399 right here, like there you get a lot of fans there, 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:19.800 there's walkable things within town, like we get an exciting 0:41:19.840 --> 0:41:22.640 open championship. I didn't love that there was so many 0:41:22.760 --> 0:41:27.560 like sixty two's, but I think overall, like Brokedale's really 0:41:27.560 --> 0:41:29.960 held up in history as like a good place to 0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:32.319 hold an open and I'll be ready to come back 0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:33.440 here in ten years. 0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:36.919 Every version of Burkedale will say the real quick. 0:41:38.000 --> 0:41:41.160 I just I'd be remiss if we didn't talk about this. 0:41:42.960 --> 0:41:46.080 I think not not enough. I'm just seeing the early 0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:51.040 discourse has been made of Fox backing up is sixty 0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:54.520 two at a really hard day with the same shooting. 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:58.400 That was the one thing I wanted to bring up 0:41:58.520 --> 0:42:01.359 is I I'm glad you did it. It's like when 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:03.680 that guy, when we see those sixty twos, it's kind 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:06.520 of like, all right, cool, nice. I mean it's you know, 0:42:06.640 --> 0:42:12.640 Ricky at the first round of LA It just feels 0:42:12.640 --> 0:42:14.960 like sort of a footnote in a week or a 0:42:15.160 --> 0:42:18.959 memorable like trivia question. And yeah, it's a great point. Andy, 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:22.040 is is that like he converted on the sixty two 0:42:22.520 --> 0:42:26.279 like and that that to me is sort of the 0:42:26.280 --> 0:42:28.359 payoff of those last six holes. 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:31.719 Yeah, and uh and then and then birds obviously he 0:42:31.760 --> 0:42:35.640 had the sixty two on Friday, sixty five on Saturday, 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:38.919 and then you know, it's kind of what we said 0:42:38.920 --> 0:42:42.640 on last night is you know, the birds of this 0:42:42.800 --> 0:42:46.120 challenge is like can you shoot another good round? 0:42:46.320 --> 0:42:46.400 Like? 0:42:46.480 --> 0:42:48.920 Can you shoot another sixty eighty? You know, what he 0:42:49.080 --> 0:42:51.640 needed was a seventy to be in the playoff. But 0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:54.560 that's it's just tall task, like you know, it's it's 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:58.280 hard to play, you know, unless you're Tommy Fleetwood shoot 0:42:58.360 --> 0:42:59.680 four rounds in the six rounds. 0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:02.799 He's like the only player in the field to break 0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:03.480 bar every. 0:43:03.400 --> 0:43:08.400 Day, Tommy, you know. Or storyline nobody's talking about is 0:43:08.480 --> 0:43:12.000 Fleetwood inspires generations has come with us? Bertie on eighteen? 0:43:13.280 --> 0:43:16.600 Uh no't walk off, Bertie? There you go? What's wrong 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:16.960 with that? 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:18.040 Hey? 0:43:18.239 --> 0:43:22.160 To that point and the Ry quote about one hundred 0:43:22.239 --> 0:43:26.520 sundays or a thousand sundays like this, I mean, do 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:31.759 you think that's a universal mindset? I think Roy is 0:43:31.800 --> 0:43:36.120 pretty unique in his resilience or optimism. I don't think 0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:40.600 he's you know, completely unique, But I think some guys 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:44.439 are broken by the chances of winning and don't want 0:43:44.520 --> 0:43:48.000 that anymore or don't approach that anymore. And I'm not 0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:50.480 saying that you under Sam Burns in this instance, but 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:54.239 I don't know if that's a that's constant. 0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:57.600 I mean, you know, Brendan and I just I talked 0:43:57.600 --> 0:43:59.360 to Billy Foster today for a thing that we're going 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:01.200 to write next week, because it was as forty first 0:44:01.280 --> 0:44:03.879 Open as a caddy, and so we were talking through 0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:05.560 some of this stuff and he said, you know, he 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:09.920 took me through like losing the Open championship with Thomas 0:44:09.920 --> 0:44:12.919 Bjorn and he was like, it haunts me to this day. 0:44:13.320 --> 0:44:17.640 I think about it every day. Wow, that is like 0:44:17.800 --> 0:44:20.839 such a real, real, honest quote, and I think that's 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:24.319 totally true. Some guys never get over it. When they 0:44:24.360 --> 0:44:27.359 didn't it goes with obviously that's a caddy. But man, 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:32.480 that's what makes this kind of tension coming down the 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:36.239 stretch so compelling, because you know, one guy's going to 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:38.640 be devastated and sitting alone in his car an hour 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:40.839 from now and just be like what happened? How did 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:43.000 it all go wrong? And someone's going to have their 0:44:43.080 --> 0:44:45.120 name on a trophy that's been around for one hundred 0:44:45.160 --> 0:44:47.120 and fifty years. 0:44:47.000 --> 0:44:52.239 You know, with that moment, right, and this is just 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:56.560 a universal golfing. This is what everybody who plays golf, 0:44:56.600 --> 0:45:00.200 and even just in a match with buddies, it feels 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:03.600 pretty much the same, you know, it feels like maybe 0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:07.000 just like slightly different, if you're in the mix but 0:45:07.080 --> 0:45:09.799 you're standing over putts that batter coming down the match 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:12.000 and you don't want to lose your buddy. Is like 0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:16.279 those are the moments. That's that's what makes golf incredible. 0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:20.960 And it's you know, it is like it accepting, like 0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:23.719 there is like a certain mindset that you have to 0:45:23.840 --> 0:45:26.719 take on those on those moments where you have to 0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:30.200 say like, okay, I'm here and I like one thing 0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:33.960 I thought about Fox with this press conference talking that 0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:36.960 was like great advice for everybody was He's like, probably 0:45:36.960 --> 0:45:39.799 saw how deep I was breathing throughout it. It's like 0:45:40.040 --> 0:45:44.280 it is just about making sure you're you're breathing deep, 0:45:44.440 --> 0:45:48.280 making sure you're wiggling your toes and you're and you 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:52.280 you know, more importantly, are are understanding of the moment 0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:55.800 and your ability to do something great in the moment 0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:59.560 rather than loathing and thinking about the things that can 0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:01.840 go wrong in the moment. And it's such a hard 0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:06.080 thing to and it's you know, doubt, God, doubt is 0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:09.600 just an enemy of everybody and all aspects of life. 0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:12.560 But golf, more so than anything else, is is just 0:46:12.719 --> 0:46:16.520 riddled like everywhere you turns your your head is riddled 0:46:16.560 --> 0:46:17.040 with doubt. 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:21.080 Yep, good Will said, all. 0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:24.920 Right, Kevin, you're gonna be writing eloquently about Ryan Fox 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:28.600 tonight and other things of our experience from UH at Birkdale. 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:33.160 Thank you for joining us subscribing to Friday newsletter. I 0:46:33.200 --> 0:46:35.920 do know, uh, Kevin and I will be on our 0:46:35.920 --> 0:46:39.120 way to heath Throw tomorrow and a nice little Mercedes Benz, 0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:43.960 I you know, Foxy. When he finished up, said this 0:46:44.120 --> 0:46:46.239 was off to the side the scrum after his press 0:46:46.239 --> 0:46:48.399 conference was done. What are you gonna drink? Is gonna 0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:50.280 be lots of red wine? He said in the Claire 0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:52.560 Jog A lot of red wine, A lot of grape, 0:46:53.160 --> 0:46:56.600 said the say grip. He said, red wine like a 0:46:56.719 --> 0:47:01.120 normal human being and a lot of redline. Is that 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:04.360 I got a flight at seven am tomorrow or seven tomorrow? 0:47:04.480 --> 0:47:05.799 Is like I don't know if it's going to stay. 0:47:05.800 --> 0:47:07.920 There might be changing, So I don't know what is 0:47:08.000 --> 0:47:10.560 mode or time of transportation will be tomorrow. 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It's like, you don't want to stay here. 0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:51.800 It's like, I just watch him miss another six footer 0:48:52.680 --> 0:48:54.640 and he did miss. He missed one on eight, he 0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:55.680 missed one on nine. 0:48:57.200 --> 0:48:58.960 They were bad. I mean. 0:49:00.600 --> 0:49:05.759 Ed did yesterday and had a chance. He had a 0:49:05.840 --> 0:49:10.360 chance in the final hour thanks a little bit to 0:49:10.440 --> 0:49:13.920 an all world Bertie. I was just hoping and praying 0:49:13.920 --> 0:49:16.359 that would end up being like even more consequential than 0:49:16.400 --> 0:49:19.520 it was an insane Bertie. After hitting it off the 0:49:19.560 --> 0:49:27.200 planet at seventeen, he hits a drive that you know, 0:49:27.280 --> 0:49:30.239 it's cutting, he's said, or slicing, and gets hung up 0:49:30.560 --> 0:49:33.920 and the rough the Schmutz going just short of like 0:49:33.960 --> 0:49:37.160 a blowout bunker on a dude there on the left side, 0:49:37.239 --> 0:49:40.880 and he is hot. I was about seventy yards ahead 0:49:40.880 --> 0:49:43.440 on a forward tee and I was looking forward at 0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:46.359 the drive out of the fairway, and I hear him 0:49:46.520 --> 0:49:50.920 screaming from seventy yards like screaming, and already the loudness 0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:54.520 of a tournament, whether it's ambient noise or fans. I 0:49:54.560 --> 0:49:57.960 was like, whoa, what happened there? You ended up catching 0:49:58.000 --> 0:50:00.520 it on sky and tweeting it. So he gets hut 0:50:00.600 --> 0:50:03.160 up in the rough. He's not happy that the police 0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:09.640 were they were you know, affecting, you know, pepper spraying 0:50:09.560 --> 0:50:12.200 and and you know they were pissed off at that point, 0:50:12.200 --> 0:50:15.840 the fair police they were, they were out there pepper 0:50:15.920 --> 0:50:19.000 spraying and using tasers when he got caught up in 0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:22.120 the rough. One, how why how does that hang up? 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:22.880 He's screaming. 0:50:24.760 --> 0:50:27.360 It seems like him is damn we're talking about about 0:50:27.400 --> 0:50:29.000 Link Scoff all week together. 0:50:30.760 --> 0:50:33.280 What do you mean just with the like the running 0:50:33.280 --> 0:50:34.280 theme of their comments. 0:50:34.320 --> 0:50:36.640 Yeah, they're just probably were sitting in their rental house 0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:37.799 complaining all week. 0:50:38.560 --> 0:50:41.320 Why wait, that's so unfair. Why do you think Scotty 0:50:41.400 --> 0:50:44.040 hates Links Golf for complaints about he's a raining Open 0:50:44.160 --> 0:50:46.040 Champions talked about. 0:50:45.719 --> 0:50:48.040 You did all these drivers that should have been in 0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:49.200 the fairway that weren't. 0:50:50.280 --> 0:50:54.000 He did say that. He did say that. 0:50:54.160 --> 0:50:58.759 I can't easy that port Rush port Rush to be 0:50:58.840 --> 0:51:02.360 at this point to then no where like I felt 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:04.719 going into port RuSHA the real test was like, can 0:51:04.719 --> 0:51:08.400 you put these links greens? And this this year was 0:51:08.440 --> 0:51:10.760 like a huge step back in that. And in terms 0:51:10.800 --> 0:51:13.920 of just I don't know what it is about links 0:51:13.960 --> 0:51:16.799 golf in the greens, it seems like it really buffuddles. 0:51:16.840 --> 0:51:20.880 And bort Rush does have some of the more I 0:51:20.880 --> 0:51:23.080 don't know what, I call it normal ish, yeah, like 0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:27.359 more akin to normal greens for him, less links, even 0:51:27.360 --> 0:51:32.839 though it is absolutely a links course. So he he's 0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:35.480 in a goofy spot. He's got to go for broke. 0:51:35.560 --> 0:51:39.240 He's going for broke right, he needs to go. Bertie's 0:51:39.239 --> 0:51:43.479 sixteen needs to go in theory maybe eagle Birdie play 0:51:43.560 --> 0:51:47.520 like the last four get from six to ten. So 0:51:47.560 --> 0:51:49.640 he even talks about hating driver off the deck. He 0:51:49.680 --> 0:51:52.520 gets out his club I would say mashed down, but 0:51:52.600 --> 0:51:54.880 he put it behind the ball. The driver off the deck, 0:51:55.080 --> 0:51:58.239 he was not he was very careful, not legend anything here, 0:51:58.280 --> 0:52:02.279 don't don't giggle. And then he hits a doesn't hit 0:52:02.360 --> 0:52:09.640 the wood and it just is immediately miles my left, 0:52:09.680 --> 0:52:12.120 I mean Ted Scott comes running off the dune to 0:52:12.239 --> 0:52:14.360 like trying to figure out where it's. 0:52:14.239 --> 0:52:17.839 Going left of Bernie Sanders. 0:52:18.200 --> 0:52:20.960 I was right there behind him. And I thought it 0:52:21.000 --> 0:52:23.839 was an illusion, like there's no way that went that 0:52:23.920 --> 0:52:28.319 way that far. He hits a provisional talking to the 0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:32.279 referee and then goes and fine goes in marching to 0:52:32.360 --> 0:52:37.160 his ball and way left behind Clarence the two story 0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:41.760 hospitality arrangement with some I'm sure, no doubt dopey slogan 0:52:41.840 --> 0:52:44.120 on the side of it about greatness lives in these 0:52:44.200 --> 0:52:48.680 dunes or something, and so it goes marching off. It 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:50.319 was interesting. I don't know if this is on TV. 0:52:50.440 --> 0:52:52.880 He walked past his dad, who was right there in 0:52:52.960 --> 0:52:55.480 the crowd, and they had like a moment like balls 0:52:55.520 --> 0:52:58.120 over here, right, and yeah, like nodded. I don't know 0:52:58.160 --> 0:53:00.360 what was said, and it was just like kind of 0:53:00.360 --> 0:53:02.799 a cordial, funny exchange. Is like his dad was one 0:53:02.840 --> 0:53:07.400 of the persons he walked right by, and I was 0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:11.840 bouncing behind this hospitality suite and we're like in amongst 0:53:11.880 --> 0:53:15.359 the kegs and these servers and these security guards who 0:53:15.400 --> 0:53:17.319 don't like all the fans are just like coming in 0:53:17.360 --> 0:53:19.040 because there's no security over there. 0:53:20.680 --> 0:53:23.640 And John Wood is upright, John at the guy with 0:53:23.719 --> 0:53:25.680 the beer while they're making the rule. 0:53:25.800 --> 0:53:29.960 Yes, yes, I mean I was all I was right, 0:53:30.000 --> 0:53:35.359 there isn't it And the rules official did a did 0:53:35.360 --> 0:53:38.319 a nice job. I thought he got got a big 0:53:38.360 --> 0:53:41.799 commendation from the like chief referee Mark Litton, who I 0:53:41.840 --> 0:53:46.000 talked to afterwards for getting the I don't know, being 0:53:46.040 --> 0:53:51.680 expedient and getting the right rule down. So they find him, 0:53:52.000 --> 0:53:55.919 they find they do not find the ball, and he's 0:53:55.960 --> 0:53:58.560 talking to this referee who I think was Spanish because 0:53:58.560 --> 0:54:01.600 he was talking Spanish with a by a stare earlier 0:54:01.640 --> 0:54:06.760 in the round and uh, and Scott is chatting over things, 0:54:06.760 --> 0:54:10.200 and up in the up in the schmutz the thicket 0:54:10.560 --> 0:54:14.879 is John Wood and I think another person a security guy, 0:54:14.920 --> 0:54:17.520 the usher Brucey, who he called who's had the last 0:54:17.560 --> 0:54:20.120 couple of years. And it didn't look like fun, like 0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:24.799 you're getting caught in the you know, bramble bushes. He goes, yeah, 0:54:24.840 --> 0:54:27.640 we don't want to find it. Stop stop, stop looking. 0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:29.600 We don't want to find it. And he says this 0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:34.040 on the record afterward, because if they find it, he 0:54:34.120 --> 0:54:39.440 then he then will have to take relief the nearer 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:41.560 side of where the ball is, which would have been 0:54:41.640 --> 0:54:44.080 according I talked to Mark Litton, who was the same 0:54:44.120 --> 0:54:47.360 guy who was out there on five with with Bryson 0:54:47.760 --> 0:54:51.880 on Friday and Shackelford asked him, or Shackford talked to him. 0:54:51.880 --> 0:54:52.960 He was like, I bet you're ready for this week 0:54:53.000 --> 0:54:57.680 to be over. This Litton guy's like, yeah, crazy week. 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:01.640 And I talked to He's like, well, if they've found it, 0:55:02.640 --> 0:55:04.480 he'd have to take relief on the near side, it 0:55:04.480 --> 0:55:06.600 would have been a shit show. It's in some schmutz 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:12.400 over by eighteen getting yardage super blind. Probably. Instead, they 0:55:12.600 --> 0:55:16.520 purpose they purposely stop looking for the ball. They do 0:55:16.600 --> 0:55:20.719 not find it, but they are quote virtually certain that 0:55:20.840 --> 0:55:24.160 it is in there, and if it is in there, 0:55:24.560 --> 0:55:26.000 then he would be. 0:55:26.800 --> 0:55:29.960 It seems it seemed like they were pretty it was 0:55:30.080 --> 0:55:32.560 in there. And on the other side. 0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:37.640 You mean where he would higher up, farther up towards 0:55:37.719 --> 0:55:42.400 the junk. Yeah, So because they're virtually certain it's there, 0:55:44.040 --> 0:55:46.560 he then gets the TiO relief as if it's there. 0:55:47.960 --> 0:55:51.799 But because it was not found, he can choose or 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:56.239 they choose the point of entry. Now, the point of 0:55:56.360 --> 0:55:58.880 entry is just a nice little wet shot up to 0:55:58.960 --> 0:56:03.040 the elevated green, and of course they take the drop 0:56:03.080 --> 0:56:05.160 to get on the other side of TiO. They find 0:56:05.200 --> 0:56:07.719 a nice little lie and the mix of Hay and 0:56:07.920 --> 0:56:12.000 Ted Scott was very Ted Scott was, you know, calling 0:56:12.040 --> 0:56:14.200 the plays on the drop zone, where to wear the 0:56:14.239 --> 0:56:17.600 little inch by inch centimeters to drop it, get that 0:56:17.719 --> 0:56:19.800 hay out of there, make sure it's not too sandy, 0:56:20.920 --> 0:56:23.879 and so they purposely don't look for it. They'd stop 0:56:23.960 --> 0:56:26.080 looking for it. He gets to pick the point of entry. 0:56:26.120 --> 0:56:28.080 He gets kind of a nice, pretty nice little web 0:56:28.160 --> 0:56:31.320 shot line, hits a great web shot to his credit 0:56:31.360 --> 0:56:33.960 and makes the punt, and she makes the four. So 0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:38.280 he hit an awful, awful, awful shot into the into 0:56:38.280 --> 0:56:44.040 the miles left, and there's zero penalty for it. 0:56:44.239 --> 0:56:47.120 And not not one shot, two shots miles left. 0:56:47.920 --> 0:56:53.600 He did his provisional, which just who knows. And there's 0:56:53.719 --> 0:56:58.480 the point. The problem is, like on paper and sensibility, 0:56:58.600 --> 0:57:03.240 this just this does doesn't seem quote fair, It doesn't 0:57:03.239 --> 0:57:07.120 seem justified, doesn't seem commensurate with the shot. But he 0:57:07.200 --> 0:57:12.239 was bailed out by this TiO and there's virtually certain rule. 0:57:12.360 --> 0:57:18.600 And then did you have this extra topping seasoning of 0:57:18.640 --> 0:57:23.800 the don't look for it that gets him a further advantage. 0:57:25.040 --> 0:57:26.640 And I think it's just left the bad taste in 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:30.400 everybody's mouth for me personally being in the thick of it, 0:57:30.480 --> 0:57:33.800 like behind the hospitality and on top of him when 0:57:33.840 --> 0:57:38.120 he was making his drop and shot. Ah, it was delightful. 0:57:38.200 --> 0:57:40.040 I'll never forget it. And I was in and out 0:57:40.080 --> 0:57:42.080 of service and I come back to you and Joseph 0:57:42.120 --> 0:57:48.200 texting like the end of the world is happening, and 0:57:48.240 --> 0:57:52.960 I this Litton the rules officials like he was incredulous, 0:57:53.000 --> 0:57:55.920 like he's one lucky boy that if that had if 0:57:56.000 --> 0:57:58.360 they have not found it, like he didn't say he 0:57:58.400 --> 0:58:00.680 was screwed, but it was going to be. It was 0:58:00.720 --> 0:58:04.120 a way worse option going to the nearer side of 0:58:04.160 --> 0:58:06.960 where it was found from the TiO like he is 0:58:07.240 --> 0:58:10.120 very he was like very happy. He should be very 0:58:10.160 --> 0:58:13.160 happy they didn't find it. And he gave the Spanish 0:58:13.240 --> 0:58:16.320 or the walking referee like a ton of credit for 0:58:16.400 --> 0:58:18.919 how fast he adjudicated and got it done and did 0:58:18.920 --> 0:58:21.760 the right ruling. It was the correct ruling on paper, 0:58:21.960 --> 0:58:24.120 Was it the correct ruling spirit to you? 0:58:24.160 --> 0:58:28.720 No, No, it was a total disgrace. The fact that 0:58:29.040 --> 0:58:31.920 like I love that people are like, well, they found 0:58:31.920 --> 0:58:34.240 the ball and this was the drop. No, they didn't 0:58:34.320 --> 0:58:37.480 find the ball. He was they instructed him not to 0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:41.040 find the ball, and like there is like this whole 0:58:41.080 --> 0:58:44.640 presumption of like, okay, like we're going to assume it 0:58:44.720 --> 0:58:48.320 went in there. But then, you know, the thing I 0:58:48.400 --> 0:58:51.080 found interesting is there's two drop points, and we're just 0:58:51.160 --> 0:58:55.320 giving him the better drop point if we're assuming, if 0:58:55.320 --> 0:59:00.040 we're assuming when somebody hits it a mile offline and 0:59:00.080 --> 0:59:03.440 it went in too there even though we haven't found it, Okay, 0:59:03.680 --> 0:59:06.400 I'm I'm I think I might be able to get there, 0:59:08.160 --> 0:59:10.760 might be able to get there. With that, we're just 0:59:10.760 --> 0:59:14.000 gonna assume that it goes in there. But then to 0:59:14.000 --> 0:59:17.560 give him the good drop point when he just hit 0:59:17.960 --> 0:59:20.400 one of the worst shots I've ever seen him hit 0:59:20.480 --> 0:59:23.280 in his life, to where it was like, oh, like 0:59:23.360 --> 0:59:25.200 if I had just laid up, I would have had 0:59:25.240 --> 0:59:29.320 an equally good shot. So I got basically a free 0:59:29.360 --> 0:59:32.480 attempt to hit it at the green and with it 0:59:32.640 --> 0:59:36.120 try and hit it in two. And instead I get 0:59:36.160 --> 0:59:38.280 over there and I get this free drop point. The 0:59:38.360 --> 0:59:42.040 drop point should have been in the bad spot, And 0:59:42.520 --> 0:59:45.960 I don't know, I'm curious if Bryson had done the 0:59:46.000 --> 0:59:48.120 same thing, what do you think the reaction would have been? 0:59:50.640 --> 0:59:53.080 This is what Joseph and I were were wondering. 0:59:55.080 --> 1:00:02.600 I kind of they did everything right on paper. I 1:00:02.600 --> 1:00:05.439 think TiO is sort of a disgrace and has been. 1:00:05.560 --> 1:00:07.000 Cio is such a disgrace. 1:00:07.600 --> 1:00:11.600 That's that's sort of the issue. I like, And you're 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:14.600 bailing him out, like he didn't lay up because he 1:00:14.640 --> 1:00:16.600 has to go for broke. That's the context. He his 1:00:16.720 --> 1:00:18.480 two holes up in his championship and he thinks he 1:00:18.520 --> 1:00:21.080 has to get to nine or ten under, and so 1:00:21.200 --> 1:00:22.920 he's going for it, and that's why he doesn't lay 1:00:22.960 --> 1:00:24.480 up to the web shot that he ended up getting. 1:00:27.040 --> 1:00:29.200 I think if Bryson was doing it, we would have 1:00:29.240 --> 1:00:34.760 been were people furious about this? If I misreading the reaction, 1:00:34.920 --> 1:00:38.240 we're people really upset about it. I think I think 1:00:38.280 --> 1:00:40.520 we would have been doing the same, but like it 1:00:40.560 --> 1:00:45.000 wouldn't have been untoward or illegal. They did the right thing. 1:00:45.200 --> 1:00:47.400 I don't think it would have been changed much. He 1:00:47.400 --> 1:00:49.640 would have been like, oh, maybe more people who hate 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:52.800 Bryson would have been like that lucky sob and stuff 1:00:52.840 --> 1:00:57.280 like that, But I don't think it would have changed much. 1:00:57.480 --> 1:01:00.000 It sounds like we're people furious on Twitter. 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:02.640 We're furious. I think I think they I don't. I 1:01:02.640 --> 1:01:04.440 don't know if Bryson would have gotten the same treatment. 1:01:06.360 --> 1:01:08.880 I think the drop, the whole drop thing, I don't think. 1:01:09.280 --> 1:01:13.600 I think the double assumption is such bullshit, frankly speaking, 1:01:14.080 --> 1:01:18.280 So we're just going to take some volunteers word that 1:01:18.400 --> 1:01:23.320 it went in here. Okay, I'll I'll accept that, But 1:01:23.400 --> 1:01:26.640 we're also going to take we're going to assume that 1:01:26.720 --> 1:01:30.320 it went in on the point that's most favorable to 1:01:30.360 --> 1:01:34.880 the player is total horseshiph. 1:01:33.840 --> 1:01:37.480 It's it's not as bad as the one of the 1:01:37.560 --> 1:01:41.480 sony find a backboard and they send it over. The 1:01:41.600 --> 1:01:42.000 send it. 1:01:41.960 --> 1:01:42.800 Over the backboard. 1:01:43.240 --> 1:01:46.720 If you don't find it, you should have to go 1:01:46.760 --> 1:01:50.280 to the bad area. Is the way the rules should work. 1:01:50.520 --> 1:01:52.880 You hit a ball so bad it was lost. 1:01:54.840 --> 1:01:58.160 Like my other question about t i oh is like 1:01:58.360 --> 1:02:01.919 why is the why is the lost ball rule null 1:02:02.000 --> 1:02:04.840 and void? Why? 1:02:05.200 --> 1:02:06.880 That's your question that needs to be asked. 1:02:06.960 --> 1:02:09.840 Yeah, actually have a way better chance of finding it 1:02:09.920 --> 1:02:11.640 if you hit it into TiO. 1:02:12.120 --> 1:02:16.000 Then if you hit it into a gorse bush. But 1:02:16.080 --> 1:02:18.000 if I hit it into a gorse bush, I have 1:02:18.240 --> 1:02:21.280 I get a lost ball, even though I saw it 1:02:21.360 --> 1:02:23.600 go in there, I don't get a free drop out 1:02:23.600 --> 1:02:27.840 of a gorse bush like that. That's my my. I 1:02:27.880 --> 1:02:31.080 have no issue with what Scottie Scheffler did. I have 1:02:31.160 --> 1:02:34.880 a lot of issue with the rule and how it's been, 1:02:35.000 --> 1:02:38.360 how it's always administered in pro golf. And we saw 1:02:39.080 --> 1:02:43.480 that the way that unfolded almost completely changed the championship 1:02:43.680 --> 1:02:46.360 where a competitor hit one of the worst shots of 1:02:46.400 --> 1:02:49.480 their career, made a terrible decision, hit one of the 1:02:49.560 --> 1:02:52.640 worst shots of their career, and then was rewarded with 1:02:52.760 --> 1:02:56.040 a simple pitchin putt birdie that then gave him a 1:02:56.120 --> 1:02:58.320 chance to win the Open Championship. 1:02:59.200 --> 1:03:01.400 I mean that was the context as well, is like 1:03:01.680 --> 1:03:05.000 he can cashed. He cashed it, cashed in on it, 1:03:05.920 --> 1:03:08.480 and we don't know that ten is gonna win. We think, like, 1:03:09.120 --> 1:03:13.200 holy shit, this might be one of the worst shots 1:03:13.200 --> 1:03:15.320 of his career, that that could lead to him at 1:03:15.400 --> 1:03:19.680 least getting to a playoff. Yeah, it was. It was 1:03:19.720 --> 1:03:21.560 a circus and I'm glad we got a dose of 1:03:21.600 --> 1:03:23.720 it we needed. We needed an injection of that kind 1:03:23.720 --> 1:03:27.320 of intrigue, anger, feur and debate and drama in the 1:03:27.360 --> 1:03:30.160 final route. 1:03:29.920 --> 1:03:34.240 Over our Scotty though, what a what a rough week. 1:03:34.760 --> 1:03:37.760 The sad thing too, is he's gonna go. He's about 1:03:37.760 --> 1:03:41.520 to go on a tear. He's hitting a good barnstorm through. 1:03:41.760 --> 1:03:44.720 He's gonna win a bunch more. But what a tough 1:03:44.960 --> 1:03:50.120 tough spot here for Scotty going going bagel boy. It 1:03:50.200 --> 1:03:53.640 makes the Scottie Shuffler. Honestly, it makes Scotty Scheffler way 1:03:53.680 --> 1:03:56.560 more interesting that he did not get a major this year. 1:03:57.480 --> 1:04:00.720 If for some reason you still have Scott available in 1:04:00.760 --> 1:04:03.360 one and done, I think the three M is setting 1:04:03.440 --> 1:04:04.520 up wonderfully. 1:04:04.800 --> 1:04:08.000 I think I d the save it for the twenty 1:04:08.040 --> 1:04:12.240 five million dollar FedEx Cup events too. Maybe he's gonna 1:04:12.280 --> 1:04:13.680 go and make Hay there. 1:04:15.640 --> 1:04:15.920 Scott. 1:04:15.920 --> 1:04:17.880 He had some comments too as well. After the round. 1:04:17.880 --> 1:04:23.520 He said, we need to be policing policing guys about 1:04:23.560 --> 1:04:27.080 the Bryson drop a little bit more. I think we 1:04:27.160 --> 1:04:28.520 need to be a little bit more strict in the 1:04:28.520 --> 1:04:34.800 way that we are policing guys, because I think that 1:04:34.960 --> 1:04:37.080 he like swerved out of his way to say Bryson's 1:04:37.120 --> 1:04:40.000 not a cheater. We'll talk about Bryson, We'll clean up 1:04:40.040 --> 1:04:42.760 there a little bit. But why are all these guys like, 1:04:45.920 --> 1:04:49.240 I mean, you talked about last night Rory sort of 1:04:49.280 --> 1:04:53.240 putting it out there. I'm saying, you know, I found 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:54.840 a Bryson. I think he did what he did. I 1:04:54.880 --> 1:04:58.520 think he's performative. And the way he acted on Friday Night, 1:05:00.000 --> 1:05:01.520 why did these guys feel like they need to go 1:05:01.600 --> 1:05:04.080 out of their way to defend Bryce? Not defense, but 1:05:04.080 --> 1:05:07.960 but just throw it extra cookie to Bryson, to Shambeau 1:05:08.040 --> 1:05:09.960 and say, he's never been a cheater I've known in 1:05:10.000 --> 1:05:14.640 my life. It's not his nature. Like it's unsolicited. Just 1:05:14.720 --> 1:05:17.920 give it take. Let's be honest with Like, can we 1:05:18.000 --> 1:05:20.439 just be honest with ourselves. A lot of people don't 1:05:20.480 --> 1:05:23.960 like Bryson to shambo on tour and otherwise they think 1:05:24.000 --> 1:05:26.960 he's a phony, and they might be right, and we 1:05:26.960 --> 1:05:28.880 could just say that and that doesn't mean he's a 1:05:28.920 --> 1:05:34.280 bad golfer or necessarily even a bad person, but he's inauthentic, 1:05:35.200 --> 1:05:38.920 and for our sake, it's hilarious. I find it comical 1:05:38.960 --> 1:05:41.480 when he does these, you know, he goes through these 1:05:41.520 --> 1:05:48.360 phases of you know, just I'm the people's golfer, now, 1:05:49.520 --> 1:05:52.080 you know, or there's a grievance golfer, like he's a 1:05:52.120 --> 1:05:58.360 phony and I just one of the biggest, most symbolic 1:05:58.480 --> 1:06:02.760 things of the weekend was I saw he threw a 1:06:02.800 --> 1:06:05.080 ball to a kid walking from nine Green to ten 1:06:05.240 --> 1:06:09.880 Bryson yesterday, and the kid got the ball and this 1:06:09.920 --> 1:06:13.000 camera guy for either Sky, NBC or Open or something 1:06:13.600 --> 1:06:18.640 went to him. It made him stage this scene of like, smile, 1:06:19.000 --> 1:06:21.320 hold the ball, and the cameraman is like tilting the 1:06:21.360 --> 1:06:24.160 ball perfectly in his hand with like I don't know 1:06:24.240 --> 1:06:28.080 so you can see it the logo or something, and smile. 1:06:28.160 --> 1:06:30.880 You have to start smiling and wave right now, start smiling, 1:06:31.000 --> 1:06:33.440 wave and the camera And it felt like so a 1:06:33.480 --> 1:06:35.320 piece of the Bryce that they because it was just 1:06:36.000 --> 1:06:39.800 completely manufactured and it wasn't Bryson himself making all this, 1:06:40.120 --> 1:06:42.960 but this is the Bryson verse where everything feels a 1:06:43.000 --> 1:06:46.960 little manufactured. I just felt that necessary for Scotti, who 1:06:46.960 --> 1:06:49.560 I think clearly seems upset that they're not policing this 1:06:49.760 --> 1:06:53.360 more strictly whether he thinks Bryson did intentionally or not 1:06:53.400 --> 1:06:55.880 to go out of his way to just defend him 1:06:55.920 --> 1:06:59.480 all the time. Bryson's great. I think he's for content, 1:07:00.200 --> 1:07:01.760 but like clearly he's just. 1:07:03.360 --> 1:07:07.000 It's the pros way of of of of a you know, 1:07:07.560 --> 1:07:10.560 the the Larry David having said that, you know where 1:07:10.560 --> 1:07:13.720 you start with, like, I'm I'm a huge fan. You 1:07:13.720 --> 1:07:16.880 know Bryce, this isn't in the spirit of Bryson having 1:07:16.960 --> 1:07:20.479 said that, you know, Bryson would never treat Cheep, having 1:07:20.520 --> 1:07:26.120 said that we need the police more. I this is 1:07:26.160 --> 1:07:29.000 a way to cover bases. None of these people want 1:07:29.040 --> 1:07:30.880 awkward moments in the locker room. 1:07:31.040 --> 1:07:31.240 You know. 1:07:31.320 --> 1:07:32.240 It's the thing. 1:07:33.400 --> 1:07:36.160 Why can't like, if everybody feels a certain not everybody 1:07:36.160 --> 1:07:38.040 if you feel a certain way, why do you go 1:07:38.080 --> 1:07:39.800 out of your way to say the opposite? At least 1:07:39.840 --> 1:07:48.360 just be moot. It's bizarre. It's bizarre anyways, Uh do 1:07:48.400 --> 1:07:50.360 you think any of this starts to compound with Scotty 1:07:52.080 --> 1:07:56.280 the you know T threes, the T fives of majors, 1:07:57.360 --> 1:08:00.160 the you know the ball that gets caught up up 1:08:00.160 --> 1:08:03.160 in the rough, you know, the one bad hole there's 1:08:03.160 --> 1:08:05.440 a bad shot, get a bad break, and these are 1:08:05.440 --> 1:08:07.000 all these close but no cigars. 1:08:08.680 --> 1:08:11.560 I do I think this this is the way that 1:08:11.720 --> 1:08:16.960 droughts start happening. You know, winning seems so easy until 1:08:17.320 --> 1:08:21.080 until it isn't, you know, And I think he's in 1:08:21.080 --> 1:08:24.280 this phase of like, Okay, there's so many close calls 1:08:24.320 --> 1:08:26.920 like you could. It could be it could go two ways, right, 1:08:26.960 --> 1:08:28.880 it could just be like a blip on the radar, 1:08:29.400 --> 1:08:32.200 or it could lead to him winning way less frequently. 1:08:32.640 --> 1:08:35.479 I mean, it's crazy to think the guy after the 1:08:35.560 --> 1:08:38.519 last two years has only won once this year, given 1:08:38.600 --> 1:08:41.439 how often he's been in the mix. I mean, he's 1:08:41.520 --> 1:08:45.240 just been sloppy too, Like, let's call a spade a spade, 1:08:45.280 --> 1:08:48.880 Like he hasn't hit the shots that we've grown accustomed 1:08:48.920 --> 1:08:51.639 to him hitting in the moments he needs them, whether 1:08:51.680 --> 1:08:55.479 they're putts or whether they're driver or the great drives 1:08:55.840 --> 1:08:58.599 that like take advantage of the par fives like I 1:08:58.720 --> 1:09:01.520 you know, I think that today was his first birdie 1:09:01.840 --> 1:09:07.360 on seventeen all week, or maybe it was fifth, I 1:09:07.400 --> 1:09:10.719 can't remember. It was fourteen or seventeen, that he hadn't 1:09:10.720 --> 1:09:12.680 burdied all week, he had played one of them one 1:09:12.760 --> 1:09:15.120 over to date, and you just think about it, it's 1:09:15.160 --> 1:09:20.639 like that that's not Scotty's recipe for just demolishing these fields, 1:09:20.640 --> 1:09:22.880 and he's just been a little off. You know, he's 1:09:22.880 --> 1:09:24.920 still the best player in the world, and he's still 1:09:24.960 --> 1:09:29.200 the most consistent player in the world, but this is 1:09:29.240 --> 1:09:32.800 the way that mental scar tissue. I think, like that's 1:09:32.840 --> 1:09:38.439 the thing that I marveled that last year was these 1:09:38.560 --> 1:09:42.360 moments where he could develop scar tissue never happened. They 1:09:42.439 --> 1:09:46.080 just he would always win. This year has been just 1:09:46.720 --> 1:09:49.640 moment after a moment of heartbreaking scar tissue, Like he 1:09:49.760 --> 1:09:53.439 has to feel this one, I would guess hurts more 1:09:53.479 --> 1:09:57.880 than any other one this year because this one he 1:09:58.080 --> 1:10:00.639 absolutely was the best player t degree in the field. 1:10:01.560 --> 1:10:05.320 Yeah, it's interesting a couple of different ways to feeling close. 1:10:06.400 --> 1:10:08.360 I thought I thought the US Open was a little 1:10:08.479 --> 1:10:10.200 arming because it was the first time he's ever just 1:10:10.200 --> 1:10:15.240 like totally a passenger, like never close, just a guy 1:10:15.320 --> 1:10:19.240 that was a passenger for Wyndham Clark. This was what 1:10:19.400 --> 1:10:21.519 this was the other way, whereas like you know, he's 1:10:21.600 --> 1:10:24.000 kind of in the battle all the way around, even 1:10:24.040 --> 1:10:29.320 with the drop. A very interesting examination as we go 1:10:29.439 --> 1:10:34.040 to Masters next year. Could win, could win five times 1:10:34.040 --> 1:10:36.880 between on the Masters, who knows, could win six times, 1:10:36.920 --> 1:10:40.840 eight times? I don't know, But yes, that he's now 1:10:40.920 --> 1:10:43.439 at a stage where that's that's sort of I don't 1:10:43.439 --> 1:10:45.400 want to say we completely judge him by the Majors, 1:10:45.439 --> 1:10:48.240 but those are those are the big deals for him, 1:10:48.280 --> 1:11:09.400 for someone of that caliber that wins that much. Any 1:11:09.479 --> 1:11:12.519 any Rory cleanup you want to go through sort of 1:11:12.560 --> 1:11:14.800 the other top player in the world of this era. 1:11:17.040 --> 1:11:21.479 I mean talking storyline, nobody's talking about Rory. He's an 1:11:21.600 --> 1:11:26.360 important role this week, lead negotiator. He finishes T forty, 1:11:26.479 --> 1:11:29.120 but he plays a pivotal role in freeing the open 1:11:29.200 --> 1:11:33.280 from hostages. I have to say with Rory, I thought 1:11:33.320 --> 1:11:37.719 this this week was like the short misses that plagued 1:11:37.840 --> 1:11:41.880 almost every round. He was missing short putts and at 1:11:41.880 --> 1:11:44.000 one point I think he missed a short one early 1:11:44.120 --> 1:11:46.800 today and I was thinking about it. It's like he's 1:11:46.840 --> 1:11:50.520 missed at least like six putts inside of six feet 1:11:50.640 --> 1:11:53.280 and he's two hunder right now. He'd be at eight 1:11:53.400 --> 1:11:55.840 under if it wasn't for those putts. Like when you're 1:11:55.920 --> 1:11:58.360 really sharp, you just you know, you see this all 1:11:58.400 --> 1:12:01.280 the time on tours, Like this guy is leading the 1:12:01.360 --> 1:12:03.320 term and he hasn't missed a putt inside ten feet 1:12:03.360 --> 1:12:06.920 this week. You know, if you just there's a certain 1:12:06.960 --> 1:12:10.240 thing with Rory and a player of like Rory's eel. 1:12:10.280 --> 1:12:13.080 Because Scotti missed a lot of short putts this week too, 1:12:13.800 --> 1:12:15.799 so he could be in the same bucket like Scotty. 1:12:15.920 --> 1:12:18.120 I feel like Scotty played well enough from tea to 1:12:18.200 --> 1:12:21.439 green to win this event by like five or six shots. 1:12:22.560 --> 1:12:25.600 With Rory, I thought he played well enough to be 1:12:25.720 --> 1:12:28.160 in in the mix, but he had just like some 1:12:28.240 --> 1:12:31.360 critical like the first round was just a killer in 1:12:31.479 --> 1:12:36.040 terms of like he played outstanding golf t degree he 1:12:36.080 --> 1:12:39.000 had the chip shot on seventeen was killer. All the 1:12:39.040 --> 1:12:41.400 short misses and then he had a few more short 1:12:41.400 --> 1:12:44.280 misses peppered in over the weekend, and it's like, there's 1:12:44.360 --> 1:12:47.120 the term that's the difference between finishing T forty and 1:12:47.160 --> 1:12:50.040 being you know what we talked about, like all you 1:12:50.120 --> 1:12:52.640 want to do is have be in the arena on 1:12:52.720 --> 1:12:55.479 Sunday afternoon, have a shot to win, have a shance 1:12:55.720 --> 1:13:00.639 Like today's tournament was, it's wide open and whoever plays 1:13:00.640 --> 1:13:02.080 the best how the back line is going to win. 1:13:02.240 --> 1:13:04.439 And Ryan Fox did it. And that's the thing with 1:13:04.600 --> 1:13:07.720 Rory was he was just sloppy and he wasn't wasn't there. 1:13:09.720 --> 1:13:12.000 Uh he had some good shots in the press conference too, 1:13:12.160 --> 1:13:14.680 not just on the golf course. Those were maybe his 1:13:14.760 --> 1:13:18.160 best shots of the week Saturday night. Get do you 1:13:18.200 --> 1:13:20.360 think more people agree with them or disagree with them. 1:13:20.520 --> 1:13:23.840 It's a very subjective, unanswerable question about the golf things. 1:13:24.600 --> 1:13:25.679 No about Bryson. 1:13:26.200 --> 1:13:31.200 Yeah, I think more people agree with him than disagree. 1:13:31.400 --> 1:13:35.680 He's just the only one that has reached the the 1:13:36.040 --> 1:13:41.000 don't give a f standing in the game. If this 1:13:41.160 --> 1:13:46.840 was sounding off, somebody should go to the Champions Store 1:13:46.880 --> 1:13:49.200 event next week and just get them all to ask 1:13:49.240 --> 1:13:52.000 them all about Bryson and what they think, because they 1:13:52.120 --> 1:13:54.280 all they are all at the age or they don't 1:13:54.600 --> 1:13:57.800 don't don't care what other people think of them. 1:13:58.200 --> 1:14:02.519 I just we all, Okay, Yeah, it's just I don't know. 1:14:03.680 --> 1:14:06.160 Everybody knows and thinks in a certain way. And I 1:14:06.200 --> 1:14:09.040 know he has a very rabbit online fan base, but 1:14:09.160 --> 1:14:11.559 that doesn't mean he's a bad part. It's just clearly phony. 1:14:11.720 --> 1:14:12.360 I don't know. 1:14:14.200 --> 1:14:14.400 Rory. 1:14:14.479 --> 1:14:20.080 Also, I think unintentionally or maybe intentionally maybe intentionally, sort 1:14:20.080 --> 1:14:27.080 of didn't gloss the new course changes as good. So 1:14:27.200 --> 1:14:31.120 it didn't play like a Links course. I'm paraphrasing. All 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:35.679 the severe runoffs, the elevated greens. It just basically didn't play. 1:14:35.720 --> 1:14:38.040 It wasn't Links golf. It was at least a lot 1:14:38.120 --> 1:14:40.320 less like Links golf compared to being here last time 1:14:40.360 --> 1:14:47.080 in twenty seventeen seems like an issue if you know, 1:14:47.120 --> 1:14:49.679 the Links golf course is changed and then it doesn't 1:14:49.680 --> 1:14:53.280 play like Links golf. This is in Rory's pov. And 1:14:54.120 --> 1:14:57.360 by the way, I should add, maybe he had some 1:14:57.400 --> 1:15:01.160 of the most pristine Links conditions you will get in 1:15:01.479 --> 1:15:05.640 with the with the turf, uh, there wasn't win, but 1:15:05.720 --> 1:15:08.360 with the turf being what it's what it's been, and 1:15:08.360 --> 1:15:11.120 and not having some deluge of reign the week of 1:15:11.360 --> 1:15:16.760 or during the tournament in the summer they've had, it 1:15:16.840 --> 1:15:20.919 seems like kind of an indictment of the changes. And 1:15:20.960 --> 1:15:23.960 maybe those changes weren't necessarily made just in talking to 1:15:24.000 --> 1:15:26.320 some people here, were made were made with the thought 1:15:26.320 --> 1:15:28.000 that it would be this firm. But then I think 1:15:28.040 --> 1:15:32.200 that's also an indictment of the changes, because right, I mean, 1:15:33.520 --> 1:15:35.880 if the golf course and a Links can't play when 1:15:35.960 --> 1:15:41.120 they get it like perfecto conditions for Links golf firmness, 1:15:41.600 --> 1:15:44.679 that maybe those aren't great changes either. I personally found 1:15:44.720 --> 1:15:46.559 the venue to be great. I found some of those 1:15:46.560 --> 1:15:51.320 holes to be exciting. I know they were architecturally I 1:15:51.560 --> 1:15:55.400 had came with some controversy and critique, but but some 1:15:55.439 --> 1:15:58.280 of them were amusing for me and enjoyable. 1:15:59.040 --> 1:16:05.320 I enjoy the week. I I thought the fifteenth hole 1:16:05.439 --> 1:16:09.040 was humorous and how hard it was and challenging to hit, 1:16:10.960 --> 1:16:14.040 you know. Overall, I think like the big question I 1:16:14.080 --> 1:16:17.240 would have if I, if I'm if I, if I'm 1:16:17.520 --> 1:16:23.960 Mark Darbin and I run the RNA, my question would be, 1:16:24.320 --> 1:16:28.280 and this is like should be anybody's question, is how 1:16:28.320 --> 1:16:31.200 many times are we going to hire a group of 1:16:31.320 --> 1:16:35.519 architects that consistently have to have their work redone after 1:16:35.600 --> 1:16:40.680 we stage our biggest championship on their new work? And 1:16:41.000 --> 1:16:43.479 that would be my big question. I don't think their 1:16:43.560 --> 1:16:46.519 work on on the old course that I saw this 1:16:46.640 --> 1:16:50.920 year is going to be celebrated next year, which you know, 1:16:51.040 --> 1:16:55.559 defaming the old course and uh is is just like 1:16:55.640 --> 1:16:59.280 a whole whole new level of of of of kind 1:16:59.280 --> 1:17:03.360 of malprectice. And I think, just like to me, the shaping, 1:17:04.120 --> 1:17:06.439 uh I don't want to talk about this too much, 1:17:06.520 --> 1:17:09.200 but to me, and it's probably better suited for an 1:17:09.280 --> 1:17:13.680 article of some sort. The shaping the level of projects 1:17:13.720 --> 1:17:19.479 that the the architects that are administering this work are 1:17:19.520 --> 1:17:24.960 getting and the quality of work don't match up as 1:17:24.960 --> 1:17:29.400 someone who looks at golf architecture quite a bit and 1:17:30.040 --> 1:17:32.679 visits a lot of the great golf courses in the world, 1:17:34.720 --> 1:17:37.640 I can unequivocally say that I don't think that the 1:17:37.760 --> 1:17:40.840 shaping work is up to snuff for for the for 1:17:40.920 --> 1:17:44.000 the great cathedrals of the game that these people get 1:17:44.040 --> 1:17:47.800 to work on. And that's an opinion. That's what what 1:17:47.840 --> 1:17:51.240 I what I think of it. Having seen a good 1:17:51.240 --> 1:17:53.320 amount of their work, and I would say, like in 1:17:53.360 --> 1:17:56.080 their praise, like they've done great work at places like 1:17:56.320 --> 1:17:59.599 Royal County Downs to Antlee Course, I think the work 1:17:59.640 --> 1:18:03.360 they've done around the Open Rota has been pretty lackluster, 1:18:03.600 --> 1:18:06.880 and it's just evidenced by all these places redoing the 1:18:06.920 --> 1:18:08.479 work as soon as the tournament's over. 1:18:09.520 --> 1:18:13.840 Do you think this played well for an Open Championship? 1:18:13.960 --> 1:18:16.960 I I've obviously been gone off a few times this 1:18:17.040 --> 1:18:19.800 week about like not having a ton of time to 1:18:19.800 --> 1:18:22.000 talk about shaping and tie ins and those things. While 1:18:22.000 --> 1:18:24.599 I understand that there that is a point that should 1:18:24.640 --> 1:18:26.760 have it, that should be a discourse somewhere. Do you 1:18:26.800 --> 1:18:29.519 think that they played decently? Rory didn't seem to think 1:18:29.520 --> 1:18:32.479 so from those comments or suggesting it wasn't. 1:18:32.640 --> 1:18:40.439 Maybe you saw it with like h five, right, we're like, 1:18:42.280 --> 1:18:44.920 what do you you want to make this drivable? Part four? 1:18:44.960 --> 1:18:49.800 But like was it really drivable? It was? 1:18:51.400 --> 1:18:54.040 It was like put it in the neighborhood, but not. 1:18:54.840 --> 1:18:56.280 All you're trying to do is on the front. 1:18:57.600 --> 1:19:00.280 Yeah. I think like the other issue with that was 1:19:00.320 --> 1:19:02.559 like you look at the scatter plots and that you know, 1:19:02.640 --> 1:19:04.760 this is what they'll say is they can't wait to 1:19:04.800 --> 1:19:07.719 dive into the scatter plots. It's like, Okay, we created 1:19:07.760 --> 1:19:10.599 binary decisions. You hit it here or you hit it here, 1:19:11.080 --> 1:19:13.240 and some of the greatest holes in the world. And like, 1:19:13.360 --> 1:19:15.800 I think what you're trying to do is like have 1:19:15.920 --> 1:19:19.080 a lot of gray. It shouldn't just be black or white, right. 1:19:19.520 --> 1:19:23.280 The golf thrives of the gray. I think the venue 1:19:23.320 --> 1:19:27.759 is really cool. I enjoyed watching golf here. The conditions yielded, 1:19:28.040 --> 1:19:31.320 you know, gave it so much pop. But you know, 1:19:31.360 --> 1:19:36.080 if we had wind, it would have been really spectacular. Yeah. 1:19:36.120 --> 1:19:39.680 Overall though, like I yeah, like Birkdale, I'm excited to 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:42.280 go play it. I think it's it's a shame when 1:19:42.320 --> 1:19:45.000 somebody works on you know, these golf courses, when they 1:19:45.000 --> 1:19:46.960 can't get the golf court or the new stuff to 1:19:47.040 --> 1:19:49.559 look like the old stuff like that. That's kind of 1:19:49.640 --> 1:19:52.080 part of the job is to get a golf course 1:19:52.120 --> 1:19:57.640 to feel cohesive together, and you know whatever causing that 1:19:57.640 --> 1:19:59.880 that misconnect because the work they did at the w 1:20:00.040 --> 1:20:03.639 of course looks the same way. It's it's like wait 1:20:03.680 --> 1:20:06.679 a second, like what the hell is that? Like why 1:20:06.840 --> 1:20:10.080 was that built there? Like why how did this come out? 1:20:10.120 --> 1:20:10.400 Like this? 1:20:10.479 --> 1:20:13.240 Who signed off on this? And I think that's the 1:20:13.400 --> 1:20:16.720 issue with their work is like frankly, like it just 1:20:16.840 --> 1:20:20.320 has no quality control. So anyways, I don't want to 1:20:20.320 --> 1:20:23.240 talk any more about this on this podcast. 1:20:23.400 --> 1:20:29.679 But it was a good championship venue. But maybe there were. 1:20:29.560 --> 1:20:31.360 Some great venue. Great venue. 1:20:31.360 --> 1:20:32.920 You're going to come back, it's going to be here 1:20:33.000 --> 1:20:35.160 and should be here, and it's the right kind of 1:20:35.320 --> 1:20:38.559 locale and and I don't know, maybe someone else will 1:20:38.600 --> 1:20:41.000 work on it, maybe they'll do it differently. I found 1:20:41.000 --> 1:20:43.720 the finish to be pretty in Sea sighting. 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:45.759 Bob Max's comments about the golf. 1:20:45.640 --> 1:20:48.760 Course more Gorse any more Gorse bushes. 1:20:48.920 --> 1:20:53.439 Well, he made like you know, like you know, and 1:20:53.520 --> 1:20:57.400 this is something that architects should think about, is like, Okay, 1:20:58.360 --> 1:21:00.960 and maybe they'll say there wasn't enough wain or whatever, 1:21:01.840 --> 1:21:04.519 but you know, effectively, like if you hit it by distance, 1:21:04.680 --> 1:21:07.919 like I'm paraphrasing Bob mack here, you have to contend 1:21:07.960 --> 1:21:10.800 with everything. And you know, this is a golf course 1:21:10.840 --> 1:21:14.679 that spent millions of pounds overhauling the entire golf course. 1:21:15.080 --> 1:21:18.680 And Bob McIntyre later he's like, you know, basically like 1:21:18.720 --> 1:21:20.439 if you hit it at a certain distance, you could 1:21:20.439 --> 1:21:24.120 just bypass all the bunkers, all the hazards, all the issues. 1:21:24.840 --> 1:21:27.639 And if you're gonna if somebody's going to overhaul the 1:21:27.640 --> 1:21:29.919 whole golf course, these are things that should be considered. 1:21:31.040 --> 1:21:33.320 It kind of goes back to like I mean, I 1:21:33.320 --> 1:21:35.280 don't want to run down the litany of things that 1:21:35.320 --> 1:21:38.160 have happened, but like, okay, so they redid port Rush 1:21:38.240 --> 1:21:41.920 and the seventh Green was an utter disaster. It's it 1:21:41.960 --> 1:21:46.840 got renovated. Right after the nineteen Open Championship. They renovated 1:21:48.600 --> 1:21:52.519 Hoylake seventeenth hole, brand new golf hole that got blown up. 1:21:52.720 --> 1:21:56.679 Members were skipping the hole all the word this week 1:21:56.760 --> 1:21:58.920 out of it was okay, So they renovated the fIF 1:21:59.240 --> 1:22:02.600 fifteenth yere this week. This year this week and that 1:22:02.640 --> 1:22:05.280 hole is going to get Everything said pre tournament was 1:22:05.320 --> 1:22:08.280 that hole is going to get reworked this season, Like 1:22:08.720 --> 1:22:11.160 how many times does this happen? Like the work they 1:22:11.200 --> 1:22:13.360 did on the at the old course is a disaster. 1:22:14.120 --> 1:22:16.479 It looks completely out of place compared to all the 1:22:16.520 --> 1:22:18.519 other stuff. So it's like, how many times are you 1:22:18.560 --> 1:22:21.880 going to do this song and or something changes? 1:22:23.120 --> 1:22:23.960 What do you think about? 1:22:24.479 --> 1:22:26.960 You're just flushing down the toilet. The RNA loves to 1:22:27.000 --> 1:22:29.120 talk about like, oh like, look at all the money 1:22:29.160 --> 1:22:32.000 we're making for all our initiatives. Look at all the 1:22:32.000 --> 1:22:32.879 money you're wasting. 1:22:33.400 --> 1:22:37.240 Also, that's that that so that that's the theme from 1:22:37.240 --> 1:22:41.320 this this this this year, certainly with Mark Darbin on Wednesday, 1:22:41.680 --> 1:22:46.520 is you know they're Dempster head reporting uh from Scotland 1:22:46.760 --> 1:22:49.120 that they're changing or would like to change the fifth 1:22:49.120 --> 1:22:51.840 hole at mirror Field. That for for crowd control so 1:22:51.880 --> 1:22:55.040 that they can have more fans or crowd flow, not control. 1:22:59.200 --> 1:23:02.160 And you know we seen that repeatedly here, you know, 1:23:02.200 --> 1:23:05.560 whether it's from thirteen to fourteen where that was a 1:23:05.640 --> 1:23:08.160 choke point. I can say like crowd control is tough, 1:23:08.280 --> 1:23:10.400 it's not good, it's not a good situation, especially when 1:23:10.439 --> 1:23:12.519 you get dunes land like this and you're like just 1:23:13.200 --> 1:23:18.280 on the side of these slippery fescue dunes and it 1:23:18.439 --> 1:23:25.880 is important. And the RNA will say, well, you know, 1:23:26.160 --> 1:23:29.160 changing the fifth pole a lot we pay for. We'll 1:23:29.160 --> 1:23:34.639 pay for you know, X amount of programs, whether it's amateur, 1:23:34.640 --> 1:23:37.840 whether it's grow the game, whether it's opening up golf 1:23:37.840 --> 1:23:41.080 and new locales and new parts of the world. And 1:23:41.120 --> 1:23:44.400 we make so much money on this week that we 1:23:44.400 --> 1:23:46.519 should probably try to change a golf hole on one 1:23:46.600 --> 1:23:51.080 hundred year old links. It's like they are quick to 1:23:51.120 --> 1:23:54.719 point that out. And Joel bial had a great article 1:23:54.720 --> 1:23:57.479 about how has it lost its soul a little bit? 1:23:57.880 --> 1:23:59.840 And I think that's been a tension at all the 1:23:59.840 --> 1:24:02.680 main this year. Obviously with the Masters, people got really 1:24:02.760 --> 1:24:05.519 worked up about the merch halls and the you know 1:24:06.080 --> 1:24:08.519 what it was a Kevin Hart and all these things 1:24:08.600 --> 1:24:11.559 that like, and then the US Open had, you know, 1:24:11.680 --> 1:24:14.880 scaled down quite honestly, like we're going to leave, how 1:24:15.040 --> 1:24:17.799 lose money and leave millions of dollars on the table 1:24:18.000 --> 1:24:21.559 scaled down at Hinnacock, and then it became another focus 1:24:21.600 --> 1:24:27.519 here at the Open about are you changing courses for 1:24:27.600 --> 1:24:30.640 a one week event, and that one week event is 1:24:30.720 --> 1:24:33.679 probably doing a lot financially, a lot of financial good 1:24:33.760 --> 1:24:36.600 for the game that these organizations, especially the USGA and 1:24:36.680 --> 1:24:41.479 RNA are trying to put, propose and put forth. And 1:24:41.479 --> 1:24:44.760 then you have the PGA Tour of course taking on 1:24:46.080 --> 1:24:48.160 a for profit model, so like that has been a 1:24:48.160 --> 1:24:52.760 theme throughout the year and it feels a little sacrilegious 1:24:52.800 --> 1:24:58.800 to There's a couple points of view, like people say, like, oh, 1:24:58.840 --> 1:25:01.080 you are clutching your per rolls and being a complete 1:25:01.240 --> 1:25:06.439 dork if you're holding onto a golf hole when money 1:25:06.479 --> 1:25:10.720 made a gate could provide could grow the game or 1:25:10.720 --> 1:25:13.719 provide champion Like that is the balance that they will 1:25:13.760 --> 1:25:16.720 put forth. Now, could there be some middle ground where 1:25:16.720 --> 1:25:18.240 you don't have to change a golf course and figure 1:25:18.240 --> 1:25:21.240 out how finance things or make more money a different way? 1:25:21.439 --> 1:25:25.000 Probably that's that sort of the tension that was clear 1:25:25.320 --> 1:25:30.360 this week, and I think the RNA will cite these 1:25:30.400 --> 1:25:33.799 are all member driven changes for golf courses, member driven. 1:25:33.880 --> 1:25:36.439 Member We can't tell members how to change their clubs. 1:25:37.640 --> 1:25:42.040 It's their their club. But the office rebuttal is like 1:25:42.080 --> 1:25:45.160 if they want to uphold the open, they can't decide 1:25:45.200 --> 1:25:49.200 whether the open comes there or not, and sometimes if 1:25:49.200 --> 1:25:49.960 they want it open. 1:25:51.200 --> 1:25:55.160 There's a reason that Martin Papers and Tom McKenzie work 1:25:55.240 --> 1:26:02.599 at every single potential open road of course. And if 1:26:03.400 --> 1:26:05.880 if they if they want to squash the narrative of 1:26:06.160 --> 1:26:09.639 that that you can host hold an open championship without 1:26:09.640 --> 1:26:12.160 working with these architects, then they should actually hold an 1:26:12.160 --> 1:26:14.479 open championship at a golf course that they don't work with. 1:26:15.800 --> 1:26:15.920 Uh. 1:26:17.960 --> 1:26:22.880 Yeah, that that was certainly. I don't want to feel 1:26:22.880 --> 1:26:25.920 like we're talking about this too much, but it we 1:26:26.040 --> 1:26:27.960 just had an open at a at a golf course 1:26:27.960 --> 1:26:32.120 to change something on every single hole, more or less 1:26:32.240 --> 1:26:36.160 member driven or otherwise. And a lot of it was 1:26:36.640 --> 1:26:40.120 to you know, whether it was to improve play for members, 1:26:40.200 --> 1:26:41.720 but some of it for sure was to have the 1:26:41.760 --> 1:26:44.920 open and change the test there. So that was a 1:26:44.920 --> 1:26:49.360 big theme for the week. What else do you have 1:26:49.760 --> 1:26:52.439 coming out of this? Do you feel like you want 1:26:52.479 --> 1:26:55.680 to talk about Bryson anymore? How do you feel like 1:26:55.760 --> 1:27:00.320 it ended for Bryson? Obviously flamed, fall of Love, blast 1:27:00.400 --> 1:27:01.800 ball left and the triple. 1:27:01.520 --> 1:27:03.840 Boge that kind of took him completely out of it. 1:27:03.840 --> 1:27:06.120 It felt like it for a while today was just 1:27:06.160 --> 1:27:09.280 hanging around and you know, it's like, I think a 1:27:09.320 --> 1:27:14.080 lot of guys on the leaderboard Bryson. Also, like, if 1:27:14.120 --> 1:27:17.439 you would have told Bryson that ten under got it 1:27:17.560 --> 1:27:20.439 done while he was in the middle of his temper 1:27:20.520 --> 1:27:24.680 tantrum on Friday, I think he probably would have just 1:27:24.720 --> 1:27:29.479 shut up, conserve some energy and been like, all right, 1:27:29.920 --> 1:27:32.760 I'll take my penalty and I'm ready to go. You know, 1:27:33.040 --> 1:27:35.000 I think the scoring had caught a lot of people 1:27:35.040 --> 1:27:38.320 off guard today, him being one of them. 1:27:39.000 --> 1:27:41.960 The more challenging course conditions. Yeah. 1:27:42.040 --> 1:27:45.280 Yeah, Also like, I don't know if it's a coincidence 1:27:45.320 --> 1:27:47.920 that the wind picked up and Bryson got shipped out 1:27:47.920 --> 1:27:49.320 to see that's the other thing. 1:27:49.560 --> 1:27:51.679 Well, that's the other thing. Now, the port Rush wind 1:27:51.760 --> 1:27:56.280 last year was so so for an open for port 1:27:56.360 --> 1:27:59.439 Rush and then it wasn't existent this week, And so 1:27:59.640 --> 1:28:02.679 we're like, he's cracked the code Links Golf, He's cracked 1:28:02.720 --> 1:28:06.240 the code. I think probably requires a little closer examination, 1:28:08.960 --> 1:28:12.439 I don't I Look, we've done a nightly podcast on Bryson. 1:28:12.439 --> 1:28:14.400 It feels like he's probably the biggest story or most 1:28:14.439 --> 1:28:18.200 memorable moment taken away from this. We given the comments 1:28:18.240 --> 1:28:21.439 around it. Is there some sort of longer tail where 1:28:21.479 --> 1:28:27.880 enforcement changes. Probably not on the PGA tour. I initially 1:28:27.920 --> 1:28:31.040 thought it was an odd choice to make him make 1:28:31.200 --> 1:28:35.360 to decide to you know, enforce the rule there. That 1:28:35.600 --> 1:28:41.679 was my surprise. I don't think it was necessarily ron 1:28:42.600 --> 1:28:46.320 to penalize him. The one thing I've thought about more 1:28:46.600 --> 1:28:48.320 as like, the two days have gone on and we 1:28:48.360 --> 1:28:50.640 did a podcast literally live as it was happening. We 1:28:50.680 --> 1:28:52.479 started it not knowing it was gonna happen at all. 1:28:54.200 --> 1:28:59.000 Is how kind of like picking back on it, how 1:28:59.080 --> 1:29:04.680 silly and like you bid, the whole show afterwards was. 1:29:06.400 --> 1:29:08.760 And that's just as the week has gone on. It's 1:29:08.800 --> 1:29:10.840 just like I had a lot of fun with it 1:29:10.880 --> 1:29:14.600 as someone who talks about this stuff and reading kvv's 1:29:14.600 --> 1:29:22.080 tweets from the scene, but it was just silly bullshit 1:29:22.640 --> 1:29:25.280 at the end of the day and not necessary. And 1:29:27.040 --> 1:29:28.960 you know, if he's a showman and that was a 1:29:29.000 --> 1:29:32.439 moment to put on a show, so be it. But 1:29:32.479 --> 1:29:34.320 that's that's sort of the thing that sunk in a 1:29:34.320 --> 1:29:38.080 little bit more of like that was really stupid. All 1:29:38.120 --> 1:29:41.439 that stuff afterwards doesn't mean it was harmful or wrong 1:29:41.720 --> 1:29:45.519 in any way. I just it felt like kind of stupid, It. 1:29:45.400 --> 1:29:49.679 Was silly, I think, like the whole antics of it. 1:29:50.000 --> 1:29:53.400 I think also the RNA though, was a piece of 1:29:53.439 --> 1:29:54.160 this too. 1:29:54.920 --> 1:29:56.720 Like what they do just. 1:29:58.320 --> 1:30:01.000 You know, entertaining it is you have just been like, hey, 1:30:01.240 --> 1:30:05.080 we're this is it, this is the deal. You know, 1:30:05.200 --> 1:30:07.960 you're you're being penalized, and like the fact they went 1:30:08.040 --> 1:30:10.840 back out there. I think like there's some like letting 1:30:10.840 --> 1:30:14.960 the player status case, the wording and the thing about accidental, 1:30:15.120 --> 1:30:18.240 which I think covers their bases like a lot, you know, 1:30:18.280 --> 1:30:23.680 if you also protect well, it protected Bryson, that's what 1:30:23.760 --> 1:30:27.719 it was. And I you know, it's like I don't 1:30:27.720 --> 1:30:29.240 think you have to, but if you don't put it 1:30:29.320 --> 1:30:30.720 in there, then people are going to be like, oh, 1:30:30.760 --> 1:30:34.520 Bryson's a cheater. And I think like what that the 1:30:34.520 --> 1:30:39.720 the the accidental wording was put in there because they 1:30:39.840 --> 1:30:42.519 know that this is a common occurrence occurrence in the 1:30:42.560 --> 1:30:45.200 game of golf, and that people do this all the time, 1:30:45.600 --> 1:30:49.000 and they did not want to put that stigma on Bryson. Now, 1:30:49.520 --> 1:30:52.599 like my my greater point was like at a certain 1:30:52.640 --> 1:30:54.880 point you need to you need to close the door 1:30:55.280 --> 1:30:59.400 and say hey, you're getting penalized. You can decide if 1:30:59.439 --> 1:31:03.000 you're playing tomorrow, but we're going to send out tea times. 1:31:04.560 --> 1:31:06.920 Yeah. I think the aftermath was a little giffee, and 1:31:06.960 --> 1:31:11.200 that's sort of the held hostage stuff. I talked to 1:31:11.280 --> 1:31:13.920 Patrick Read today on the record about it. He ended 1:31:14.000 --> 1:31:18.240 up saying he thought it was handled correctly in the end, 1:31:18.640 --> 1:31:22.800 so you just got to be really careful, just you know. Interesting. 1:31:23.200 --> 1:31:25.840 I thought he was very mature and wide ranging in 1:31:25.840 --> 1:31:28.360 his comments to me, but you know, obviously he's had 1:31:28.360 --> 1:31:33.240 to navigate that before. And I also asked, like a 1:31:33.240 --> 1:31:35.080 handful of people like hey, do you think this is 1:31:35.120 --> 1:31:37.799 like a big problem or not a big more prevalent 1:31:39.600 --> 1:31:43.200 and they don't seem to think it is players. I 1:31:43.240 --> 1:31:47.280 don't think that's a commonly held view that guys are 1:31:47.320 --> 1:31:55.360 are intentionally or unintentionally. And they would always say unintentional like, oh, 1:31:55.439 --> 1:31:57.960 you know, you get so locked into your book, or 1:31:58.000 --> 1:32:01.479 you get locked into like looking around and you might 1:32:01.560 --> 1:32:07.360 unintentionally step behind, or you think I got that today, 1:32:07.600 --> 1:32:11.080 or you're you think you're playing one shot one way 1:32:11.200 --> 1:32:13.280 and you're all of a sudden you're changing directions and 1:32:13.360 --> 1:32:17.640 you you accidentally did something. So they would never say intentionally. 1:32:19.680 --> 1:32:21.680 But the reaction was, it's not really a problem as 1:32:21.760 --> 1:32:23.720 much as you think, as much as Twitter would say, 1:32:23.760 --> 1:32:26.720 as much as maybe we would say here, why do 1:32:26.760 --> 1:32:30.600 you think that is because they don't want to go across. 1:32:30.400 --> 1:32:35.479 Just protect it's politics, it's you know, locker room, and 1:32:35.560 --> 1:32:38.040 I think, like to a certain extent, you have to 1:32:38.080 --> 1:32:41.640 have the mentality of everybody's out there protecting the field 1:32:43.040 --> 1:32:46.479 just to deal with the mental strain of of golf. 1:32:46.560 --> 1:32:49.759 Like I think if you thought the worst of people, 1:32:49.920 --> 1:32:53.479 then your head would go places when you got there. 1:32:53.680 --> 1:32:53.880 You know. 1:32:55.280 --> 1:32:58.760 Yeah, I think some differences o the professional golfers. You 1:32:58.880 --> 1:33:06.040 do this every single week. I just Scott I will 1:33:06.120 --> 1:33:08.000 say this for Scotty's point, he's the one who does 1:33:08.080 --> 1:33:10.200 seem to think it's a little bit more saying we 1:33:10.280 --> 1:33:12.320 need to be more strict in the way we're policing this. 1:33:14.400 --> 1:33:17.120 And maybe that's he just likes to use the word police, 1:33:17.160 --> 1:33:19.680 but he was somebody that said, like, we need to 1:33:19.680 --> 1:33:22.040 be more strict about how we're policing it. Well, while 1:33:22.040 --> 1:33:25.800 the others were like, that's not really a problem. Live manipulation, 1:33:26.680 --> 1:33:28.960 but this was certainly a big week for that. In 1:33:29.040 --> 1:33:32.640 a moment that will the reaction of it. Seeing the 1:33:32.720 --> 1:33:35.479 sort of circus act on Friday probably one of the 1:33:35.479 --> 1:33:37.640 big takeaways from Burkedal. It certainly added a lot of 1:33:37.640 --> 1:33:38.400 intrigue for us. 1:33:38.520 --> 1:33:40.720 I mean, it felt like the RNA said, we need 1:33:40.760 --> 1:33:44.439 to take this more seriously with their penalty, and I 1:33:44.479 --> 1:33:46.880 thought it, you know, all of a sudden, the way 1:33:46.920 --> 1:33:49.559 people maneuvered around the ball the rest of the weekend 1:33:50.160 --> 1:33:52.360 was a lot more like the way that they should 1:33:52.400 --> 1:33:53.320 maneuver around. 1:33:53.120 --> 1:33:53.679 A golf ball. 1:33:54.000 --> 1:33:57.280 Good on the RNA for standing up. And I don't 1:33:57.280 --> 1:34:01.400 think the other not necessarily a major or organization or 1:34:01.400 --> 1:34:04.040 tour would have the stones to do it when it's 1:34:04.080 --> 1:34:06.720 a star, even if he is controversial or maybe not 1:34:06.880 --> 1:34:11.120 loved beloved and the star is one shot off the lead. 1:34:12.040 --> 1:34:14.120 Uh So I do think we should applay, you know, 1:34:14.479 --> 1:34:18.160 applaud the stones to try and do it, whether you 1:34:18.160 --> 1:34:19.120 thought it was right or not. 1:34:22.000 --> 1:34:25.840 Anybody that you were today particularly disappointed with that we 1:34:26.560 --> 1:34:30.360 that we haven't talked about. I wasn't disappointed with Lucas Herbert, 1:34:30.520 --> 1:34:37.600 I wasn't disappointed with Ryan Girard. I wasn't necessarily disappointed 1:34:37.600 --> 1:34:41.000 with Sea Wou's fade on the back nine anyone, anyone 1:34:41.040 --> 1:34:44.720 that that that you didn't thought, didn't raise to the moment. 1:34:49.200 --> 1:34:52.400 It got harder. I would have loved to seeing a 1:34:52.479 --> 1:34:57.720 little bit more from Tommy Fleetwood. He shot sixty eight. 1:34:57.960 --> 1:35:01.519 I guess I can't say he like gagged, but that 1:35:01.680 --> 1:35:03.800 was just felt like another one where if you told 1:35:03.800 --> 1:35:06.920 them you know, you might have a chance coming down 1:35:06.960 --> 1:35:12.719 the stretch. He bogies ten and eleven. Those just you can't, 1:35:12.920 --> 1:35:15.439 I can't do that, like he gets in the mix 1:35:15.479 --> 1:35:20.639 and then immediately bogi's ten and eleven. I I found 1:35:20.640 --> 1:35:23.000 the Tommy story to be really compelling, and it sounds 1:35:23.000 --> 1:35:25.439 like they overdid that on the broadcast, maybe like too 1:35:25.439 --> 1:35:30.080 many interviews with Tommy. I thought listening to him was 1:35:30.120 --> 1:35:35.800 really powerful this week. I think you know Tommy for me. 1:35:37.880 --> 1:35:39.760 You know, they asked him Saturday, like have you thought 1:35:39.800 --> 1:35:41.320 about this or dreamt about I was like since I 1:35:41.320 --> 1:35:43.759 was seven years old, Like this is all, this is everything, 1:35:44.000 --> 1:35:46.280 this is all I've dreampt about, Like this is the best. 1:35:46.360 --> 1:35:48.680 And I think he walked out of here this week 1:35:48.760 --> 1:35:50.800 saying like I didn't win, and but this will be 1:35:50.840 --> 1:35:52.720 an experience, like these people are giving me more than 1:35:53.040 --> 1:35:57.559 I could ever ask for. You talk oftenly about often 1:35:57.600 --> 1:36:00.880 about how like for a lot of golfers, this is 1:36:00.880 --> 1:36:04.200 a job, right, and it's just like they don't necessarily 1:36:04.240 --> 1:36:08.400 like golf. I think, I think Tommy's pretty well balanced, 1:36:08.400 --> 1:36:13.000 Like we're all really lucky when like our profession is 1:36:13.040 --> 1:36:15.560 also our passion, right, Like I don't know if a 1:36:15.640 --> 1:36:18.200 ton of people are like super passionate about private equity 1:36:18.320 --> 1:36:21.040 or super passionate about accounting or stuff like that, but 1:36:22.520 --> 1:36:27.519 some golfers aren't balancing passion and profession anymore either. And 1:36:27.560 --> 1:36:31.160 I think for Tommy, like that's a pretty that vent 1:36:31.280 --> 1:36:33.360 diagram is a pretty close to a circle, Like he 1:36:33.479 --> 1:36:37.920 is passionate about this and this is super rewarding and 1:36:39.360 --> 1:36:44.880 gives a lot back to him, and he seems to 1:36:44.960 --> 1:36:47.360 have that perspective. He seems to have that like I 1:36:47.400 --> 1:36:49.960 love being a golfer, and I love the opportunity to 1:36:50.000 --> 1:36:53.320 just play here. I love the memory of being able 1:36:53.360 --> 1:36:56.040 to play here. And so I think he feels really 1:36:56.080 --> 1:37:00.639 like not too detached from having made so much money 1:37:00.640 --> 1:37:03.160 and having the life that he has, from being like 1:37:03.320 --> 1:37:06.559 feeling really really like passionate and fortunate to do this. 1:37:06.800 --> 1:37:09.000 And so that was one of the big takeaways I 1:37:09.040 --> 1:37:11.559 watched him roll into whatever sixty foot or ninety foot 1:37:11.640 --> 1:37:13.800 it depends on who you've read today at one, and 1:37:13.840 --> 1:37:16.800 it was super cool at the moment. I think, like, 1:37:18.280 --> 1:37:21.160 I don't know, the live stuff has just gotten so tedious, right, 1:37:21.200 --> 1:37:25.000 Like I just don't like money, I like don't care anymore. 1:37:25.240 --> 1:37:31.400 And I I think we've moved a little bit past 1:37:31.439 --> 1:37:35.040 that with like Rory winning the Masters last year, Aaron 1:37:35.120 --> 1:37:39.160 Ryes win, like Scottie's soliloquy last year about like why 1:37:39.160 --> 1:37:42.080 do I, like, I don't know why I do this, 1:37:42.200 --> 1:37:45.000 like why it's finding finding meaning and why I'm do 1:37:45.120 --> 1:37:46.960 this and why I want to win these so bad 1:37:47.160 --> 1:37:49.960 like totally just has nothing to do with the business 1:37:49.960 --> 1:37:53.760 of golf. And for me, that like really resonated with 1:37:53.760 --> 1:37:57.240 with with Tommy this week of someone who like I 1:37:57.280 --> 1:37:59.400 do this because I love it and I feel super 1:37:59.439 --> 1:38:05.080 fortunate to have these skills. And for me that's been 1:38:05.160 --> 1:38:08.360 like a notable moment at Majors where it's felt very 1:38:08.400 --> 1:38:11.800 different from all the other PGA Tour golf and kind 1:38:11.840 --> 1:38:16.559 of six years of tedium about one live to like 1:38:16.640 --> 1:38:19.760 how is the PGA Tour changing or restructuring? And so 1:38:19.840 --> 1:38:26.639 that was something like just listening to however, old man 1:38:26.800 --> 1:38:29.200 talk about like this is all I've ever dreamed about, 1:38:29.320 --> 1:38:32.160 and it's been the best to even just be here 1:38:32.800 --> 1:38:35.640 to realize this in any way, shape or form, this 1:38:35.640 --> 1:38:38.839 thing that I've thought about for thirty years. So anyways, 1:38:38.840 --> 1:38:41.920 that's my Tommy soliloquily, I suppose after watching him and 1:38:41.960 --> 1:38:44.920 listening to him for a lot, but just felt like 1:38:44.960 --> 1:38:47.040 he could have shown out a little harder on the 1:38:47.080 --> 1:38:47.679 back nine. 1:38:48.120 --> 1:38:50.439 Eh, it's hard. You got to hit the shots, and 1:38:50.560 --> 1:38:55.000 it was tough conditions, and you know, frankly, like sometimes 1:38:55.000 --> 1:38:57.559 you just don't have your A plus A plus game 1:38:57.600 --> 1:38:59.800 and I don't think he did. He did, and you 1:39:00.040 --> 1:39:02.840 know when when a major when you don't have it, 1:39:02.960 --> 1:39:05.400 you know, I think like too much is made of like, oh, 1:39:05.400 --> 1:39:07.600 you didn't show up when you know, I guess it 1:39:07.680 --> 1:39:10.000 is your game not showing up. But it's hard to 1:39:10.040 --> 1:39:12.360 just summon. It's not like you just summon your A 1:39:12.479 --> 1:39:13.960 game every week. 1:39:14.880 --> 1:39:18.240 And I think there is anybody, anybody for you be 1:39:18.280 --> 1:39:20.360 a house cat. How about Russ Henley. 1:39:20.880 --> 1:39:23.519 I'll tell you who I was disappointed most and was 1:39:23.840 --> 1:39:27.400 NBC Uh Tommy roy Uh. If I have to hear 1:39:27.479 --> 1:39:31.479 him call it described Tommy Roy again. I will, I will, 1:39:31.720 --> 1:39:35.400 I will use this Open Championship as my my my 1:39:35.560 --> 1:39:40.800 tape to to say, this is the the opposite of great. 1:39:40.960 --> 1:39:46.280 What a disaster this week's coverage was for US Americans. 1:39:47.479 --> 1:39:49.960 You know, I I know about the world Feed. I 1:39:50.120 --> 1:39:52.040 I feel like I was one of the people that 1:39:52.120 --> 1:39:55.679 tipped people off of the world Feed option years ago, 1:39:55.920 --> 1:39:57.840 and this week I was like, I'm just gonna stay 1:39:57.880 --> 1:40:00.679 committed to watching what everybody you know for the most 1:40:00.680 --> 1:40:04.679 part of podcast audience watches. This morning, I just couldn't 1:40:04.720 --> 1:40:07.000 do it again. I felt like I just had no 1:40:07.080 --> 1:40:11.759 feel of what was going on as commercial after commercial 1:40:11.840 --> 1:40:16.240 was jammed down my throat, and then like on top 1:40:16.280 --> 1:40:19.360 of it, like it's a terrible presentation. They were off 1:40:19.400 --> 1:40:22.920 on graphics, they were off on facts, they had an 1:40:23.000 --> 1:40:26.840 insane commercial load, and then on top of it, you 1:40:26.960 --> 1:40:31.920 just don't even get analysis is the other issue coming down? 1:40:32.000 --> 1:40:34.839 And I'll use this as an example. Coming down the stretch, 1:40:35.280 --> 1:40:38.600 see what Kim is squarely in the mix and I'm sixteen. 1:40:39.200 --> 1:40:42.599 He's playing from I think maybe just barely rolled into 1:40:42.600 --> 1:40:46.160 the short rough great angle. He's playing at his approach 1:40:46.200 --> 1:40:49.000 shot into sixteen, and that pins stuffed over on the 1:40:49.080 --> 1:40:52.519 right side of the green and he misses right, and 1:40:52.680 --> 1:40:55.080 he misses right, and they're like, oh, you missed right, 1:40:55.800 --> 1:40:59.719 and it's like that's it. And it's like, wait a second, 1:40:59.760 --> 1:41:02.160 this is one of the most impactful shots of the 1:41:02.200 --> 1:41:04.760 tournament right there. Could we get a little bit of 1:41:04.800 --> 1:41:07.880 analysis like that is the worst place he could have 1:41:07.920 --> 1:41:12.240 missed it. That was a horrible shot under the circumstances. 1:41:12.520 --> 1:41:14.960 That was a terrible shot and is likely going to 1:41:15.040 --> 1:41:17.880 cost him the tournament. And sure enough, he chips it 1:41:17.920 --> 1:41:20.840 to like twenty five feet and I can't remember which 1:41:21.120 --> 1:41:22.960 whether it was an even or an odd hole. I 1:41:22.960 --> 1:41:24.880 think it was an even it was an even hole, 1:41:24.920 --> 1:41:26.599 So I think it was Kissner because he was calling 1:41:26.680 --> 1:41:29.120 eighteen and he's just like, well, that was a tough 1:41:29.160 --> 1:41:32.240 spot he was he was in, and you know it 1:41:32.280 --> 1:41:35.040 wasn't that bad given where he was. Well, you're missed 1:41:35.040 --> 1:41:38.639 the whole setup of like he literally flushes, like he 1:41:38.720 --> 1:41:42.160 went for the pin and he and he missed in 1:41:42.200 --> 1:41:46.080 the exact wrong spot and he flushes tournament chances down 1:41:46.120 --> 1:41:49.120 the drain with that shot. That's what the discourse should be. 1:41:49.360 --> 1:41:55.360 So like my issue, my issue, I was texting with 1:41:55.400 --> 1:41:59.439 a friend about this and and I think like they 1:41:59.439 --> 1:42:04.400 summed it up really well. Is on top of just 1:42:04.640 --> 1:42:08.640 every the litany of things I listened before, the analysis 1:42:08.840 --> 1:42:11.600 is never anything. It's just they're just telling you what 1:42:11.680 --> 1:42:15.559 you're seeing. There's nothing else there. And that is my 1:42:15.720 --> 1:42:19.240 issue with NBC. I think this whole thing needs to 1:42:19.240 --> 1:42:22.160 be blown up. They've got like a lot of like 1:42:22.520 --> 1:42:24.880 I like a lot of people that work for them. 1:42:25.000 --> 1:42:29.400 I like Kevin Kistner, I like Bones, I like facts, 1:42:29.920 --> 1:42:34.800 like I like Smiley. I think they all but all 1:42:34.880 --> 1:42:37.720 of them together right now is not working and it's 1:42:37.840 --> 1:42:41.600 like doing it's a total disservice to golf fans. And 1:42:41.640 --> 1:42:45.599 it's like, look at the golf glow, like, oh, it's 1:42:45.640 --> 1:42:49.040 growing so much in all these areas. One of the 1:42:49.080 --> 1:42:53.120 reasons it's not growing, you know, at the same rate 1:42:53.400 --> 1:42:56.280 in terms of golf coverage, in terms of golf, is 1:42:56.360 --> 1:42:59.920 that this coverage, this was laughable. It was such an embarras, 1:43:00.800 --> 1:43:03.720 such an embarrassment, especially like when you compare it to 1:43:03.800 --> 1:43:06.679 like the way you get to watch soccer, where it's like, oh, 1:43:06.840 --> 1:43:10.479 like I just like this is like uninterrupted for like 1:43:10.600 --> 1:43:13.800 thirty minutes. I know you was tracking this. There were 1:43:13.920 --> 1:43:17.200 six commercial breaks in the last hour in the in 1:43:17.280 --> 1:43:19.599 the for in thirty three minutes as they were coming 1:43:19.600 --> 1:43:23.920 down the stretch. Six commercial breaks in thirty three minutes. 1:43:24.360 --> 1:43:28.000 It was like two shots commercial. It was just Mickey 1:43:28.040 --> 1:43:28.960 Mouse crap. 1:43:30.080 --> 1:43:32.559 Well I had a blast on the ground. Yeah, I 1:43:32.560 --> 1:43:35.759 bet I saw it. I would say, you're not really 1:43:36.960 --> 1:43:38.800 You're not really the boy who cried wolf on the 1:43:38.840 --> 1:43:39.599 coverage stuff. 1:43:39.760 --> 1:43:39.840 No. 1:43:40.320 --> 1:43:43.160 I would say, you get worked up occasionally, but very rarely. 1:43:43.200 --> 1:43:47.000 Are you like declarative and use big words like disaster, 1:43:47.160 --> 1:43:50.599 embarrassment things like that. I saw a few of your tweets. 1:43:50.600 --> 1:43:52.559 I was like, Wow, it must be pretty bad if 1:43:52.600 --> 1:43:56.920 Andy's like going to public with that kind of language, 1:43:57.479 --> 1:44:01.920 because you save it for when it is bad. I 1:44:01.920 --> 1:44:04.280 I find that really befuddling. I think they're towards the 1:44:04.320 --> 1:44:07.599 end of a rights deal here. I know the Open 1:44:07.640 --> 1:44:10.000 cares a lot about how it's presented in America right now. 1:44:10.040 --> 1:44:15.320 I think they're sort of befuddled. They're flabbergasted that it's 1:44:15.360 --> 1:44:17.879 not it needs to be elevated more in America. 1:44:18.439 --> 1:44:22.760 Doesn't sound like real commercial loads unbearable, and then on 1:44:22.840 --> 1:44:27.680 top of that, the analysis is just so it says, like, 1:44:29.240 --> 1:44:32.479 I get not wanting to speak over people. I get 1:44:32.479 --> 1:44:35.400 the idea of golf's a tough, but like you have 1:44:35.479 --> 1:44:38.599 to give people that are watching something that they say, 1:44:38.680 --> 1:44:40.680 you know what, I didn't really know that, Like I 1:44:40.680 --> 1:44:42.439 didn't know that, and that's cool. 1:44:44.880 --> 1:44:49.400 Yeah, that's that sucks because it's like really one of 1:44:49.400 --> 1:44:52.000 the best majors. It's such a fun major to consume 1:44:52.120 --> 1:44:56.559 on television and in person. And so I don't know, 1:44:56.680 --> 1:45:00.559 Mark Darbin's a new chief. I I think their rights 1:45:00.560 --> 1:45:03.360 are coming up in a couple of years. I know 1:45:03.400 --> 1:45:05.920 there are some constraints about World feed, but like that's 1:45:06.000 --> 1:45:07.800 you can still choose the commercials. You got to take 1:45:07.800 --> 1:45:11.439 the commercials when you know that that's a decision, business decision. 1:45:11.640 --> 1:45:15.759 And that sounds super frustrating to watch for an event 1:45:15.840 --> 1:45:18.760 that's so beloved by the golf fans. Golf nuts, right, 1:45:18.840 --> 1:45:21.840 what's insane to me? People in the boat already? 1:45:22.320 --> 1:45:25.559 What's insane to me as someone who consumes way too 1:45:25.640 --> 1:45:28.559 much of the Open every year? You know, not way 1:45:28.560 --> 1:45:31.479 too much. I love watching it four in the morning though, 1:45:31.640 --> 1:45:37.599 watching but like you know, the telecast gets worse the 1:45:37.640 --> 1:45:42.920 more the crew gets elevated with this tournament, like Sam 1:45:43.040 --> 1:45:46.519 Torrence is amazing in the morning, in the early hours 1:45:46.520 --> 1:45:51.000 of the morning, Furick was great. I think like one 1:45:51.040 --> 1:45:54.040 of the issues, one of their big issues is that 1:45:54.120 --> 1:45:55.599 they have way. 1:45:55.400 --> 1:46:01.439 Too many guys, way too many guys, way like this, 1:46:01.960 --> 1:46:05.519 every other whole thing does not work at all. There's 1:46:05.640 --> 1:46:08.640 no continuity, there's nothing. 1:46:09.080 --> 1:46:12.800 Like I I think it's actually insane the more I 1:46:12.800 --> 1:46:14.519 think about the every other hole, like. 1:46:15.240 --> 1:46:18.200 Yeah, it's announced, it. 1:46:19.760 --> 1:46:22.920 Shoot somebody off into the sun. But this was supposed 1:46:22.920 --> 1:46:26.320 to be some great innovation, like they released this, like 1:46:26.400 --> 1:46:31.080 this was some amazing innovative, innovative idea. Like can I 1:46:31.160 --> 1:46:34.160 just make a comparison. Imagine if you were watching a 1:46:34.200 --> 1:46:37.240 fucking basketball game or a football game and they switched 1:46:37.280 --> 1:46:41.760 announcers every quarter and the other announcer didn't watch the 1:46:41.800 --> 1:46:44.000 first quarter and they were trying to call the game. 1:46:44.320 --> 1:46:48.240 This is the most idiotic, on the face decision ever. 1:46:48.640 --> 1:46:52.080 And I can't believe that we're like three years into this. 1:46:52.200 --> 1:46:56.160 It's a disaster. It's awful. It's awful, and I I like, 1:46:56.240 --> 1:46:57.120 this is the thing. 1:46:57.520 --> 1:46:59.600 I don't I'm not. I don't think any of the 1:46:59.640 --> 1:47:03.920 personal at NBC are to blame. It's the people that 1:47:03.960 --> 1:47:06.519 are running this, they're putting them out there, that just 1:47:06.560 --> 1:47:09.840 put them out there to look like a bunch of idiots. 1:47:10.280 --> 1:47:14.240 It's like, who would ever construct the idea that you're 1:47:14.280 --> 1:47:19.680 gonna watch half the holes but not sequential order, and 1:47:20.160 --> 1:47:21.680 you're gonna watch the other half of. 1:47:21.680 --> 1:47:24.639 The holes, and and that's the way it's gonna work. 1:47:25.760 --> 1:47:28.479 This is the this is the arrangement where just for 1:47:28.600 --> 1:47:31.439 clearic Hicks and Kissner called the evens. 1:47:32.600 --> 1:47:32.880 Max. 1:47:35.360 --> 1:47:38.240 It's just insane. It's been that way. It just seems crazy. 1:47:38.320 --> 1:47:40.760 Maybe try I think Pinehurst was the first one. I 1:47:40.800 --> 1:47:43.360 don't know, it just I've always wondered, like when did 1:47:43.360 --> 1:47:46.320 they cut, Like when does it flip when the guy 1:47:46.400 --> 1:47:49.200 like crosses the T box, are you now in his 1:47:49.320 --> 1:47:52.280 possession of that call because now he's on an odd 1:47:52.400 --> 1:47:53.040 Like there's. 1:47:52.840 --> 1:47:56.920 No it would work if any sport, if eddy sport 1:47:57.120 --> 1:48:02.160 sequentially happened in a vacuum. But the key to all 1:48:02.240 --> 1:48:06.680 sports is tying the threads between all these moments that 1:48:06.800 --> 1:48:07.800 happened throughout the. 1:48:07.680 --> 1:48:09.479 Game narrative arc. 1:48:09.800 --> 1:48:14.719 Yeah, so if you decide between Faxon or Kissner, which 1:48:14.720 --> 1:48:18.400 it seems like they can't decide between facxin or Kissner 1:48:19.400 --> 1:48:23.559 then like you might the baby aside and you're not 1:48:23.640 --> 1:48:27.160 the guy for the job because both of them look 1:48:27.320 --> 1:48:30.880 worse because of the situation you're putting them in well. 1:48:30.920 --> 1:48:33.080 And now it's compounded by the issue that Golf Channel 1:48:33.120 --> 1:48:38.479 is no longer the same company, just as NBC. Just 1:48:39.240 --> 1:48:40.879 the golf presentations compounded. 1:48:41.000 --> 1:48:42.160 McGinley comes in too. 1:48:42.360 --> 1:48:44.599 I forgot the facts and can't get I don't think, 1:48:45.400 --> 1:48:48.120 and there faxon and Kissner can't work the start of 1:48:48.160 --> 1:48:54.240 the week. It's just, yeah, it's compounded by that fure 1:48:54.439 --> 1:48:56.599 I think can only do Golf Channel. I could be wrong. 1:48:56.720 --> 1:49:00.360 Maybe he's NBC, but like they're different companies. Now you're 1:49:00.400 --> 1:49:03.920 in there too, he's Golf, yeah, and he's just golf. 1:49:04.040 --> 1:49:07.240 Like I can't for there are two walls. So I 1:49:07.280 --> 1:49:09.000 didn't watch any of it. So I thought it was 1:49:09.000 --> 1:49:12.200 perfectly fine. I have no criticism whatsoever. I love NBC 1:49:12.479 --> 1:49:13.439 or whatever it was. 1:49:13.600 --> 1:49:21.960 Peacock actually became the thing to do online. It was like, 1:49:22.680 --> 1:49:27.240 I mean, like people world tell you that people that 1:49:27.400 --> 1:49:34.400 are literally work in broadcast, we're online suggesting everybody go 1:49:34.479 --> 1:49:37.760 to Peacock and turn on Sky Sports if you if 1:49:37.800 --> 1:49:41.400 you don't like the coloring of the golf course was 1:49:41.439 --> 1:49:47.200 different the I mean, it's insane. It's honestly insane. I 1:49:47.320 --> 1:49:52.560 found it insane that on Sunday morning of the Open Championship, 1:49:52.880 --> 1:49:56.760 the last day of major championship golf in America or 1:49:57.000 --> 1:50:01.560 across the world, and in America, the rights partner, like literally, 1:50:01.720 --> 1:50:07.040 people are suggesting go watch Sky Sports feed because it's 1:50:07.080 --> 1:50:12.559 available on peacock. That was the suggestion. Also, storyline, nobody's 1:50:12.600 --> 1:50:16.680 talking about tweeting through it while we're on broadcasts. I 1:50:16.840 --> 1:50:21.400 love the kissener. Kissener's out there on Twitter. It beftweet 1:50:21.439 --> 1:50:24.920 his breaks. Maybe when they're on odd or on odd holes. 1:50:25.000 --> 1:50:28.000 He's out there tweeting at people odd holes. 1:50:28.080 --> 1:50:32.880 Well, that's maybe he's got an odd hole situation. You 1:50:32.920 --> 1:50:33.799 can go to Twitter. 1:50:34.200 --> 1:50:38.400 We're through all the playing throughs. Well, he's putting the 1:50:38.439 --> 1:50:43.599 caption here, tweeting through it while we're playing through. Tweeted 1:50:43.960 --> 1:50:45.799 it was tweeting through it for a Kistener. 1:50:47.040 --> 1:50:50.200 That's good. Any other storylines do you have. 1:50:50.160 --> 1:50:52.520 Any di miss anything with the broadcast? 1:50:53.360 --> 1:50:54.080 No? 1:50:54.080 --> 1:50:56.320 No, I think you summed it up pretty good today. 1:50:56.479 --> 1:50:59.200 I mean it was I much like you. I was 1:50:59.280 --> 1:51:02.679 just watching mb see because I wanted to be aware 1:51:02.720 --> 1:51:05.439 of what the discourse was. I didn't want to miss anything. 1:51:06.160 --> 1:51:08.840 Uh yeah it was. There was a lot going on today, 1:51:09.400 --> 1:51:10.599 not a lot of it good. 1:51:11.800 --> 1:51:14.960 Seems bad, Peach, what do you think about Cameron Yon. 1:51:15.720 --> 1:51:18.200 Were you believing on the front nine? Were you believing 1:51:18.240 --> 1:51:19.479 then when nobody could get. 1:51:19.720 --> 1:51:22.000 To Yeah, I just figured we would push this to 1:51:22.160 --> 1:51:25.600 Wednesday or whatever. Yeah, I was believing certainly on the 1:51:25.640 --> 1:51:29.439 front nine. I was like really believing the miss on ten. 1:51:30.640 --> 1:51:34.280 There was a handful of missed putts that, obviously in 1:51:34.360 --> 1:51:36.640 a one shot deficit, would have been the difference. I 1:51:36.680 --> 1:51:40.200 think the miss on ten really that one, That one 1:51:40.280 --> 1:51:42.280 was important at the end of the day to kind 1:51:42.320 --> 1:51:44.519 of keep the momentum going because it kind of stalled 1:51:44.520 --> 1:51:48.240 out a little bit from there. But uh yeah, I 1:51:48.240 --> 1:51:51.080 mean great, great, great effort, great run. 1:51:52.600 --> 1:51:53.720 I think it's easy. 1:51:53.479 --> 1:51:56.920 To point oh, we worried forty on the back nine yesterday, 1:51:57.080 --> 1:51:59.840 Easy to point that out at this moment in time, 1:52:00.080 --> 1:52:04.200 But you know, made made an effort, Unlike if I 1:52:04.200 --> 1:52:07.120 could just like gesture broadly at most of the rest 1:52:07.120 --> 1:52:10.760 of the leader board. Making an effort, I think is 1:52:10.760 --> 1:52:14.400 a win of itself today. Am I worried, like, I mean. 1:52:15.520 --> 1:52:18.360 Really good at being three and second I was gonna say. 1:52:18.160 --> 1:52:20.040 I said to Andy, I said, what if it just 1:52:20.080 --> 1:52:22.040 doesn't happen? And he piles up a lot of two 1:52:22.120 --> 1:52:24.400 threes and fours like I mean it's possible. 1:52:25.040 --> 1:52:26.400 I don't it's gonna happen. 1:52:26.920 --> 1:52:29.320 You know, you know, I hate to do this. I 1:52:29.360 --> 1:52:33.400 hate to be cheeky here, but honestly, the way the 1:52:33.439 --> 1:52:36.760 major played out, it was like a like a like 1:52:36.840 --> 1:52:42.839 a clever fox stealing stealing the the prize. 1:52:43.160 --> 1:52:44.840 Yeah, kind of coming right in. 1:52:48.240 --> 1:52:52.360 There. Then that is his best play at the end 1:52:52.400 --> 1:52:55.000 and deserved it, like undoubtedly. 1:52:55.479 --> 1:52:58.559 Well, everybody was shouting about Bryson and then Scotty's drop 1:52:58.600 --> 1:53:01.000 and then he just kind of sneaks in. 1:53:00.880 --> 1:53:04.120 Like a fox and our text threat. I thought the 1:53:04.680 --> 1:53:07.759 camp's decision on eighteen in the moment was really bad. 1:53:08.200 --> 1:53:11.880 I was surprised by it, especially when like the last 1:53:11.920 --> 1:53:14.320 thing they laid out, Smiley laid out, and the last 1:53:14.360 --> 1:53:16.320 thing you could hear Camp say was I just have 1:53:16.360 --> 1:53:19.400 to make sure I get this over the lip and 1:53:19.439 --> 1:53:23.880 then just immediately getting matumboed was like pretty bad. 1:53:24.920 --> 1:53:25.479 I think it was. 1:53:25.600 --> 1:53:29.160 I think it was just a mishit more than a 1:53:29.200 --> 1:53:32.920 bad decision per se. But I think if you tell 1:53:32.960 --> 1:53:38.519 him that ten wins or gets in a playoff, like 1:53:38.720 --> 1:53:41.360 maybe doesn't happen. Differently, he said he would hit driver 1:53:41.479 --> 1:53:43.519 again in the playoff. 1:53:44.040 --> 1:53:47.400 So I don't have an issue with the driver. I 1:53:47.400 --> 1:53:50.880 have an issue with you know that number one rules, 1:53:51.000 --> 1:53:53.519 Like number one you get out of the bunker. Yeah, 1:53:54.160 --> 1:53:57.640 And at that moment, I just felt like, if you 1:53:57.720 --> 1:53:59.519 get that thing up to the front of the green, 1:54:00.600 --> 1:54:04.040 you're getting up and down, and that's what that's what 1:54:04.439 --> 1:54:09.120 you know. I don't know. I And there's the whole 1:54:09.160 --> 1:54:11.640 other theory of like if he gets to ten, I 1:54:11.640 --> 1:54:16.240 don't know, if Fox gets to ten, yeah. 1:54:16.120 --> 1:54:19.000 We're needing a birdie on eighteen to tie. 1:54:19.120 --> 1:54:22.519 A birdie or like it's just like what you to 1:54:22.560 --> 1:54:26.240 feel like you have to put your foot on the gas. Yeah, 1:54:26.280 --> 1:54:28.599 Like the number being nine made it so much more 1:54:28.640 --> 1:54:32.040 attainable for all those guys that were chasing like Burns, 1:54:32.080 --> 1:54:32.840 like you know. 1:54:32.840 --> 1:54:34.520 Yeah, Burns. 1:54:34.760 --> 1:54:39.200 I mean I felt like he was just like mentally 1:54:39.320 --> 1:54:41.680 I had just ruled him out for most of the 1:54:41.760 --> 1:54:43.720 back nine and then you look up and it's like, oh, 1:54:43.760 --> 1:54:46.440 it's only really one shot. He has to get and 1:54:46.480 --> 1:54:50.280 he just couldn't end up doing it. But I yeah, 1:54:50.320 --> 1:54:52.800 I think being in the house at ten would have 1:54:52.960 --> 1:54:56.360 made like a big difference. It kept all of these 1:54:56.400 --> 1:54:59.680 guys in punching distance. And again Fox, he went out 1:54:59.720 --> 1:55:00.720 and took like that. 1:55:00.840 --> 1:55:05.960 Can I you know, I think it wasn't a yeah, 1:55:06.200 --> 1:55:08.200 it wasn't a great day for Burns. I think on 1:55:08.320 --> 1:55:11.080 equivocally the biggest loser of the weekend is Bryson, though, 1:55:12.480 --> 1:55:16.360 don't you think I think the way he played I 1:55:16.360 --> 1:55:20.360 think after the show maybe in his mind are aren't 1:55:20.360 --> 1:55:24.000 you like disappointed with how he played this, especially on 1:55:24.080 --> 1:55:26.560 Sunday text dread. 1:55:26.680 --> 1:55:28.760 I think Joseph nailed it. I think he ran out 1:55:28.800 --> 1:55:31.080 of gas. I think he was I think he was 1:55:31.080 --> 1:55:33.520 on empty today. I didn't think he had a chance. 1:55:35.080 --> 1:55:38.920 I just he was a non factor. And he might 1:55:39.000 --> 1:55:41.680 probably be the most memorable moment from this major and 1:55:41.720 --> 1:55:46.160 the most talked about in his cultural moment. But I 1:55:46.200 --> 1:55:50.080 thought he was a housecat all weekend after doing the 1:55:50.160 --> 1:55:55.200 show on Friday night, which is pretty disappointing. And I 1:55:55.240 --> 1:55:58.840 could trast it with what I just said about Tommy. 1:55:59.000 --> 1:56:01.760 He just feels like the opposite of all that of 1:56:01.840 --> 1:56:08.600 like be like being genuinely like, yeah, just leaving it 1:56:08.640 --> 1:56:12.080 at that genuine and super moved and appreciative. It just 1:56:12.080 --> 1:56:16.320 feels like a manufactured show. And he didn't show up. 1:56:17.600 --> 1:56:19.080 I thought, when you talk about this. 1:56:19.480 --> 1:56:22.520 Player, he writes the story though he hasn't shown up 1:56:23.120 --> 1:56:27.400 on the weekend since since uh since. 1:56:27.200 --> 1:56:30.480 Pinehurst, whether you like him or not, that was like 1:56:30.840 --> 1:56:34.240 a failure of a weekend coming back with the sixty 1:56:34.320 --> 1:56:36.320 nine pretty strong Saturday. 1:56:36.600 --> 1:56:40.280 But I really just think the difference the difference between 1:56:40.360 --> 1:56:45.880 like being extremely competitively sharp and not being sharp, like 1:56:46.400 --> 1:56:48.920 at this level, at the highest level in the game. 1:56:49.440 --> 1:56:53.080 The difference between sharpness is how you put together four rounds. 1:56:53.760 --> 1:56:58.200 Sam Burns's sharpest. Shit, you know, he put together a turn. 1:56:58.480 --> 1:57:01.560 Yeah he finished fell short, oh, but he put together 1:57:01.600 --> 1:57:06.440 a tournament. Bryson didn't put together four rounds, and that's 1:57:06.480 --> 1:57:10.720 to be expected for somebody that doesn't really play competitive golf. Like, yeah, 1:57:11.200 --> 1:57:14.480 you can play. You can play two good rounds, two 1:57:14.520 --> 1:57:16.640 and a half good rounds, three, I think even he 1:57:16.680 --> 1:57:19.080 played three good rounds. But to win a major, you 1:57:19.080 --> 1:57:21.680 have to play four really good rounds of golf. That's 1:57:21.680 --> 1:57:24.720 what Ryan Fox did to an extent. Cameron Young had 1:57:24.760 --> 1:57:27.440 one bad nine holes, which is like what you can 1:57:27.560 --> 1:57:31.160 have and win a major is legitimately you can play 1:57:31.280 --> 1:57:36.000 one bad nine and that's usually like you could. You 1:57:36.000 --> 1:57:39.360 could go down the list of like, okay, somebody played 1:57:39.440 --> 1:57:41.920 nine bad holes. They had a four hole stretch that 1:57:42.000 --> 1:57:44.760 killed him. Cameron Young's Saturday afternoon is gonna be the 1:57:44.760 --> 1:57:46.960 thing that he lows more than anything, more than a 1:57:47.000 --> 1:57:49.040 shot on eighteen. It's gonna be the thing that he 1:57:49.120 --> 1:57:53.120 looks back and it's gonna kill him. But for Bryson, 1:57:53.320 --> 1:57:56.760 he just did not get off the bus today at all, 1:57:56.840 --> 1:57:59.800 and he played a bad round and you're not gonna win. 1:58:00.240 --> 1:58:02.840 You're not going to win anything playing your worst round 1:58:02.880 --> 1:58:04.640 on Sunday generally. 1:58:04.920 --> 1:58:06.560 If you want to be the center of attention, and 1:58:06.640 --> 1:58:09.960 maybe like he wants to be the center of attention 1:58:10.000 --> 1:58:12.360 in other ways, and that's it. I just it feels 1:58:12.360 --> 1:58:13.720 like a guy got the bus if you want to 1:58:13.760 --> 1:58:15.520 be the center of attention. I'm not trying to like 1:58:16.440 --> 1:58:17.640 take shots at him, But. 1:58:21.120 --> 1:58:23.400 Back to Cameron Young, do you know how manors and 1:58:23.480 --> 1:58:24.400 majors he has. 1:58:24.240 --> 1:58:32.240 Now at least like four? I want to say, what 1:58:32.360 --> 1:58:33.080 is it five? 1:58:33.840 --> 1:58:35.320 And I think it's five. 1:58:35.560 --> 1:58:40.800 He's got five, five top fours, obviously, tons of close calls. Third, 1:58:41.000 --> 1:58:44.320 I think this is third top four and open, No, 1:58:44.680 --> 1:58:48.680 the second course, second runner up at the Open, so. 1:58:50.200 --> 1:58:50.720 Interesting. 1:58:51.440 --> 1:58:54.560 Just yeah, he's gonna get across the line in one 1:58:54.600 --> 1:58:57.840 of these things. Do we want to run through storylines? 1:58:57.920 --> 1:58:59.840 Nobody's talking about what's left? 1:59:00.040 --> 1:59:03.680 What do we have a handful? This one. I take 1:59:03.720 --> 1:59:05.720 exception to you calling him a house cat. 1:59:06.640 --> 1:59:09.800 He went out Russell Henley earned that yellow square today, 1:59:09.920 --> 1:59:13.600 yellow school bus. Henley make sure everyone gets home safely 1:59:13.640 --> 1:59:16.720 with a Wikipedia T nine. He earned that thing. Man 1:59:17.000 --> 1:59:19.280 really put the pedal to the medal and the bus today, 1:59:19.600 --> 1:59:21.960 making all the stops earned. 1:59:22.640 --> 1:59:25.600 I was on the eighth green looking at the scoreboard 1:59:25.720 --> 1:59:28.840 with the fellow journalist and I saw Henley come into 1:59:28.880 --> 1:59:31.400 like top five or he's like six or something, and 1:59:31.440 --> 1:59:35.680 we just started laughing, like, well, he's there, but he's 1:59:35.680 --> 1:59:36.360 not gonna win. 1:59:38.680 --> 1:59:41.720 Uh, yellow square. But never never worried about. 1:59:41.440 --> 1:59:45.800 It, Happy trails. Bryson heads home in high spirits after 1:59:45.960 --> 1:59:50.880 consecutive top fifteens in the Open. Nobody's talking about, Hey, 1:59:51.280 --> 1:59:53.440 prin of this guy has played two good opens in 1:59:53.480 --> 1:59:55.880 a row. No, that's not the story we're leaving with. 1:59:56.040 --> 2:00:00.440 Huh you take that form to JCB or whatever Live 2:00:00.600 --> 2:00:02.080 UK next week. 2:00:03.280 --> 2:00:08.200 Up next, Prepare the Shield. This was a huge week 2:00:08.240 --> 2:00:12.440 for the Peak Cup, huge week for the international squad. 2:00:13.760 --> 2:00:18.880 Eight international eligible players in the top fourteen of the 2:00:18.920 --> 2:00:23.560 Open Tom Kim wins last week. Are we heading? Is 2:00:23.640 --> 2:00:26.000 this like how well the Europeans were playing ahead of 2:00:26.080 --> 2:00:29.840 last year's Ryder Cup. Brendan, what are your thoughts on this? 2:00:32.760 --> 2:00:35.240 They've got a lot of guys doing well. I mean 2:00:35.240 --> 2:00:38.960 there've been years where this has happened and then they 2:00:39.000 --> 2:00:43.680 get boat raced, molly wopped or whatever at the at 2:00:43.680 --> 2:00:49.040 the when the matches come around. I asked Brendan Deyon 2:00:49.120 --> 2:00:51.480 if Richard Sterney should be on the team, his former 2:00:51.520 --> 2:00:55.280 teammate at Mirefield Village twenty thirteen. He looked at me 2:00:55.400 --> 2:00:59.680 curiously and said, no. I mean you guys go back right, 2:00:59.720 --> 2:01:01.960 you were teammate. He won this year because he's done 2:01:02.000 --> 2:01:03.760 anything else. It's like, I'm not sure, but he won, 2:01:04.480 --> 2:01:06.440 so that he should the team, right? 2:01:07.040 --> 2:01:10.240 Yes, I think he's auto. He has the auto quality. 2:01:09.960 --> 2:01:12.000 For winning a major. Yeah, I think so. 2:01:12.960 --> 2:01:18.280 Speaking of Foxy, the fastest fan alive, Renato Paratory. I 2:01:18.280 --> 2:01:22.640 love that, called out and Fox's interview after the round 2:01:22.680 --> 2:01:25.040 about the only player that he's ever played with his 2:01:25.280 --> 2:01:29.600 faster face of play wise than him. I'd I'd love, 2:01:29.920 --> 2:01:32.080 I'd love. You know, what would be a dream? Just 2:01:32.160 --> 2:01:37.760 like a fever dream, Ryan Fox and Renato Parritory finish, 2:01:38.080 --> 2:01:40.760 like make the cut on the number and are out 2:01:40.880 --> 2:01:44.000 first in a major championship, and it's like Saturday morning 2:01:44.040 --> 2:01:46.760 at Augusta and you can go loop the whole course, 2:01:46.960 --> 2:01:50.320 know exactly what's going on in two forty you know, 2:01:50.520 --> 2:01:51.520 with those two. 2:01:52.640 --> 2:01:56.080 I'm happy for Ronado Parato getting the positive moment in 2:01:56.120 --> 2:01:58.120 the sun and the last men's major of the year. 2:01:58.560 --> 2:02:01.120 It's kind of like the reverse window. Clark is stamping 2:02:01.160 --> 2:02:03.000 down behind the ball, like why are you dragging me 2:02:03.040 --> 2:02:06.040 into this? The opposite parator getting his well. 2:02:05.920 --> 2:02:08.480 You said, a moment in the sun that brings us 2:02:08.480 --> 2:02:12.800 to the Duel of the Sun. Jordan Smith blows out 2:02:12.920 --> 2:02:16.400 Shortan Smith in their annual Battle from the Top. 2:02:16.520 --> 2:02:22.560 Jordan's seems like blowout, seems like Smith is no longer 2:02:22.600 --> 2:02:23.720 going to Minnesota. 2:02:23.960 --> 2:02:28.680 Well that right here, de committed. Jordan Smith will have 2:02:28.800 --> 2:02:32.240 play the three m after committing earlier in the year. 2:02:33.520 --> 2:02:36.000 Uh, it's like a month ago, a week ago. It 2:02:36.120 --> 2:02:37.080 wasn't that long ago. 2:02:37.160 --> 2:02:41.200 I think he's making any changes. I brought this up 2:02:41.280 --> 2:02:47.080 on Friday. Friday I was listening. I don't, but it's 2:02:47.120 --> 2:02:49.520 just rare in golf. You go from the very best 2:02:49.520 --> 2:02:53.520 player in the world to eight years of sort of meh, 2:02:53.600 --> 2:03:00.560 and not change a coach, caddy, anybody, agent anything. I'm 2:03:00.600 --> 2:03:02.880 not saying these and his people are bad. It's just 2:03:03.000 --> 2:03:06.040 that would be a trend that happens. So I don't 2:03:06.040 --> 2:03:07.920 think he's changed anything. It seems really loyal. 2:03:10.080 --> 2:03:13.680 Uh, good storylines. Nobody's talking about everybody's We're out of 2:03:13.720 --> 2:03:14.600 the three. I'm open. 2:03:15.160 --> 2:03:18.720 Hey Peach, did you tally gay both of the game? 2:03:19.320 --> 2:03:21.360 I didn't. We'll do that for Wednesday, all right. 2:03:23.560 --> 2:03:26.280 Any other party shots. This has been a great men's 2:03:26.320 --> 2:03:29.480 major year. We have fun doing these live shows. Well, 2:03:29.640 --> 2:03:30.440 great to be here. 2:03:30.840 --> 2:03:34.800 You'll be off off the next one because you're traveling 2:03:34.880 --> 2:03:36.760 back from abroad. I assume. 2:03:38.280 --> 2:03:41.680 I'm traveling Wednesday. Well, I think we're going. 2:03:41.480 --> 2:03:46.840 Live Wednesday, same morning. Me Me, peaj and Joseph, me 2:03:46.880 --> 2:03:47.640 and the boys. 2:03:47.880 --> 2:03:48.960 I haven't heard about this. 2:03:49.520 --> 2:03:52.160 Yeah, we're so we're just we're lending you know now 2:03:52.280 --> 2:03:52.680 on air. 2:03:52.680 --> 2:03:54.080 Why aren't recording Tuesday? 2:03:55.280 --> 2:04:01.760 Just obligacious? Maybe Tuesday, maybe a Tuesday whatever. 2:04:01.960 --> 2:04:05.200 I haven't heard about this, all right, we'll talk about it. 2:04:05.200 --> 2:04:09.320 It's been a great Men's Major Major year. I really 2:04:09.480 --> 2:04:13.280 enjoy enjoyed doing it again, my eighth year doing these 2:04:13.360 --> 2:04:15.200 on shotguns start twenty nineteen. 2:04:15.840 --> 2:04:21.160 Here's of dailies. I text you, I don't think I'm 2:04:21.200 --> 2:04:26.360 missing another daily after after If you're. 2:04:26.240 --> 2:04:30.040 Just listening now, come back. Listen to Friday Night Bryson. 2:04:30.200 --> 2:04:33.960 Saturday was fun, you came in, had some good Bryson takes. 2:04:34.000 --> 2:04:36.400 Been a great week, great year doing these at the 2:04:36.400 --> 2:04:40.000 Men's Majors. We'll be back. Thank you for listening, supporting. 2:04:40.040 --> 2:04:42.680 It's obviously a privileged to do this, so when you 2:04:42.720 --> 2:04:46.960 listen that, we are very grateful for that. Grateful Mercedes 2:04:47.000 --> 2:04:49.839 sponsoring again this year. 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