Speaker 1: Now, the Shotgun Starting golf is full of mathematics. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of setup work that we have to do
Speaker 1: in order to make a tournament work. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a
Speaker 1: shotgun start. Here and there are.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, alright?
Speaker 3: Did do man? Dark? You are.
Speaker 2: Ingredients and welcome to my Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start.
Speaker 2: It is Mark twenty seven, Shane.
Speaker 3: How we doing, Brendan, I love me a good golf hat.
Speaker 3: And for people that can't see this or see you,
Speaker 3: I gotta say maybe top three best golf hat I've
Speaker 3: ever seen that you're wearing right now, so good.
Speaker 2: I procured it at the Royal Port Rush. It's a
Speaker 2: good one rope hat we've we've I'm not a member
Speaker 2: of Royal Port Rush. I know some people are sensitive
Speaker 2: about getting hats for clubs. It's just a good look
Speaker 2: at hat that I wanted and I decided to get it.
Speaker 2: It's a rope we've swung the other way. I think
Speaker 2: a big one now is like the name of the
Speaker 2: club and the script or in some sort of typeface.
Speaker 2: I would caution not the ones that eliminate the vowels
Speaker 2: and just start throwing letters against the wall. But there
Speaker 2: is sort of a Jewish I didn't see those in
Speaker 2: the pro shop, but there's a lot of So this
Speaker 2: is just yeah that like whatever American Needles says it
Speaker 2: in print. Now sometimes I like the little the tiny
Speaker 2: little logo that with no words on it too, But
Speaker 2: we're in a moment here where I think a little
Speaker 2: more words are okay too on some styles, which brings
Speaker 2: us to someone tweeted at us they were getting hollered
Speaker 2: at by his wife or significant other. Why do you
Speaker 2: have this hat? It was the Gnomeses hat, which is
Speaker 2: you know that provokes a lot of separate questions for
Speaker 2: many different reasons. But I think this person was complaining
Speaker 2: about you have too many? You have just enough hats already.
Speaker 2: Why did you have to add this one to the collection?
Speaker 2: Never mind the whole Swinger implications for it. But they
Speaker 2: asked you, as an authority had of the day. I
Speaker 2: think you've had like a hat room in your one
Speaker 2: of your domiciles at some point, so we punped it
Speaker 2: to you. How many hats is too many hats?
Speaker 3: I mean it's a space issue for most people, right,
Speaker 3: So it's all about like how much space do you have.
Speaker 3: I would say for a regular non psychopath like me,
Speaker 3: with all the hats, I would say, when you're getting
Speaker 3: north to thirty, that's probably too many. I think north
Speaker 3: of thirty is probably to cut off, because again it's
Speaker 3: like you can wear a different hat every day of
Speaker 3: the month, you're probably good to go. I would say.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit like somebody once told me the
Speaker 3: Coade hangar rule of shirts, right where you flip the
Speaker 3: coat hangers the wrong way on January first, and if
Speaker 3: they're still flipped the wrong way at the end of
Speaker 3: the year and you'dn wear it for a year, like
Speaker 3: get rid of that shirt. I would say, like do
Speaker 3: that with your hats, like like stack them in order.
Speaker 3: Once you wear the hat, put it on the bottom,
Speaker 3: keep it going. And when you get to like the
Speaker 3: last hat in your stack, if you have no interest
Speaker 3: in wearing that one, that one that one can can
Speaker 3: see the curve.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's an interesting I probably have right now like
Speaker 2: seventy five to ninety to one hundred hats, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are like fifteen to twenty that are
Speaker 2: in the rotation, and then a lot of them are
Speaker 2: like I'll be honest. Freebies like oh I could wear
Speaker 2: that on the beach, you know, it just gets wet
Speaker 2: and sand and salt. Or I could work out in
Speaker 2: that one, but then you never actually do. And like,
Speaker 2: there's some I need to go through and find. I
Speaker 2: mean some of these that I were given to me.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to be ungrateful for that that you know,
Speaker 2: an equipment brand of some or are just like really garish,
Speaker 2: like terrible. I have a great Live under par hat
Speaker 2: that was so bad it's good. We'll get to the
Speaker 2: DLF here in a minute. But like the Live under
Speaker 2: par original that the tour sent me like six seven
Speaker 2: years ago, has gone from so bad it's good. That
Speaker 2: remains in my closet and I will never get rid
Speaker 2: of that on purpose because I'd like to break that
Speaker 2: out every now and then as a bit. But you're right,
Speaker 2: I need to. I like the code hainer. I've never
Speaker 2: heard that one where if you flip it for a
Speaker 2: year and it doesn't flip back, that's a great strategy.
Speaker 2: I like that with hats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean, like you know that the hat
Speaker 3: thing you're still right about, like when you're in the
Speaker 3: space we're in you get a lot of hats in
Speaker 3: the mail, right, you get a lot of hats sent
Speaker 3: to you. One good place to donate hats is like
Speaker 3: a caddy yard. So if you have a golf course
Speaker 3: in the area that has a caddyard, like a really
Speaker 3: good place to take hats is somewhere like that, you know,
Speaker 3: because again, like maybe you've worn it a couple of times,
Speaker 3: it's not gross, it's not dirty necessarily. I mean, somebody
Speaker 3: else could in theory still use that hat. So I
Speaker 3: would say finding like any place where people are working
Speaker 3: outside a lot is a good place to maybe take
Speaker 3: some hats that you're not using. But yeah, I think
Speaker 3: for a normal person, you know, that's maybe not in
Speaker 3: the golf media spacer doesn't do like a social media
Speaker 3: stick around it. I'd say thirty is probably a good number.
Speaker 2: Zwe love it. Speaking of caddies, we've got to start
Speaker 2: off with some shotguns. Start catnip. I'm getting reports from
Speaker 2: the ground at DLF, We've got some great stuff. We've
Speaker 2: got a backboarding issue in Houston on the tour, but
Speaker 2: on DLF really at one of our super Bowls. There
Speaker 2: are multiple super Bowls. We don't just not just you know,
Speaker 2: we don't discriminate here. DLF is a super Bowl here
Speaker 2: at the shotguns start, the Gary player. Of course Gary
Speaker 2: is proactively or preemptively tweeting about it. He's talking about
Speaker 2: as bunkers. Of course they've got the phone roll bunkers,
Speaker 2: the artificial you know. Barry Henson old front of the
Speaker 2: program wants to a tutorial for us from there, a
Speaker 2: personalized video that we were able to show of you know,
Speaker 2: him clinking and clanking the ball off these things. But
Speaker 2: DLF and the Indian Open on the DP World Tour
Speaker 2: really is kind of a staple. It was just one
Speaker 2: of the great sort of you know, I won't say tragedy,
Speaker 2: because there were many way worse things of the pandemic,
Speaker 2: but one of the great misfortunes of the pandemic was
Speaker 2: we had no hero Indie Open for like three or
Speaker 2: four years so for this podcast. But we have come
Speaker 2: back and come back with a vengeance. And speaking of caddies,
Speaker 2: I'm getting sources saying on the ground at DLF that
Speaker 2: there are many caddies grumbling grumbling this week about a
Speaker 2: potential yardage book issue, which brings up this whole like
Speaker 2: yardage book debate Apparently the yardage books by and large
Speaker 2: have gotten so good that it sort of marginalized the
Speaker 2: advantage of a good caddy versus a bad caddy. As
Speaker 2: one person explained to me, it's like you could just
Speaker 2: have any brother come out and it's just read the
Speaker 2: yardage book to me. But it's your brother and he's
Speaker 2: your caddy, and that's what it goes. And there's some
Speaker 2: older chaps grumbling about this, but apparently this one at
Speaker 2: DLF because d LF is so bad. It's good, so quirky,
Speaker 2: so weird, so bizarre that you'd need, I guess the
Speaker 2: personal annotations needed for this week are significant because hey, actually,
Speaker 2: if you hit it to that spot, it's not as
Speaker 2: someone explained to me, it's become golf by numbers with
Speaker 2: a lot of these yardist books, where's this one Gary player,
Speaker 2: the strategic master around that he is, has put them
Speaker 2: in a blender that maybe hitting to these certain spots
Speaker 2: eighteen that GOOFY eighteen being one of them, you're just
Speaker 2: totally screwed angle wise. So there's a lot of grumbling
Speaker 2: in the caddy yard apparently about this yardage book needing
Speaker 2: too many personal notes at DLF and that's the kind
Speaker 2: of course we would like to champion on this podcast.
Speaker 3: I will first say that for this podcast, could you
Speaker 3: imagine a better news dump on this week than that? Like,
Speaker 3: it's got to make you smile from me. You're you're
Speaker 3: like you, I listen. I know some stuff can rub
Speaker 3: you the wrong way. A lot of things probably can
Speaker 3: rub you the wrong wrong way. Brendan we've heard a
Speaker 3: lot about him on this podcast over the years, chicken citrus,
Speaker 3: things like that, but uh, nothing, nothing, nothing's better than
Speaker 3: than a good yardage book controversy and by the way,
Speaker 3: speaking of the bunkers in this event, I got a
Speaker 3: good laugh out of this. You know, Gary Player was
Speaker 3: tweeting about the bunkers or whatever he was saying preemptively,
Speaker 3: as you said, Mark Player responded to a tweet about
Speaker 3: the bunkers they look like a bear but play like
Speaker 3: a puppy about the bunkers, which I don't even know
Speaker 3: what that means. I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't either. That seems like a mixed
Speaker 2: metaphor of some kind. I don't really get it. Gary
Speaker 2: Players quote my favorite bunkers. I'm not going to try
Speaker 2: to impersonate him. That's k's a really good My favorite
Speaker 2: book occurs. They prevent the ball from plugging in the face. Well,
Speaker 2: that is true. That is a statement of fact. Gary,
Speaker 2: by the way, they reduce maintenance cost parentheses, especially after
Speaker 2: rain You can make them any color you want, which
Speaker 2: is just where he's really taken me on a ride
Speaker 2: and I am all in. You can make them you want.
Speaker 3: Brinted lead into it, like, let's make him red and
Speaker 3: orange and green and weird. Like, if you're gonna say it,
Speaker 3: let's see it.
Speaker 2: Well, each each like roll could be a different color.
Speaker 2: You could do every color in the spectrum a rainbow.
Speaker 2: You can start making all sorts of statements about anything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and in my opinion, they are esthetically pleasing. Now he
Speaker 2: gets to the subjective a lot of statement of facts.
Speaker 2: They don't plug. Yeah, then he goes esthetically pleasing, where
Speaker 2: I think gets into a more subjective debate. The all
Speaker 2: earth thing, though, is what everybody got. I love Gary Player,
Speaker 2: just leaning it all the best to play it in
Speaker 2: the India this week hashtag Gary Player design which I
Speaker 2: just got to click on that. Let's see what we
Speaker 2: got in here, Blue Valley, Wildstone Turn I mean, big seat.
Speaker 3: How many how many total? How many total tweets ever
Speaker 3: with that hashtag? Can you count them all?
Speaker 2: There's I mean, we're going I'm already at twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I didn't scroll a very long. I just
Speaker 2: went back about a decade of tweets a hashtag Gary Player.
Speaker 3: Listen, listen. Can I say something here real quick to
Speaker 3: everybody out in this world. It is twenty twenty four, guys,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Twitter, the way it used to exist,
Speaker 3: the whole hashtagging around things work. It doesn't work anymore,
Speaker 3: does it. Nobody uses them, Stop telling people to use them.
Speaker 3: Stop having these elongated, elaborate hashtags about your event. No
Speaker 3: body ever, nobody ever does it.
Speaker 2: No, it's not a it's not a functional thing anymore.
Speaker 2: I remember when Shaq was like on Twitter and that
Speaker 2: like remember like twenty nine to ten Twitter, it was
Speaker 2: like Shack and that was like he would use hashtags
Speaker 2: and it felt like you were supposed to be using
Speaker 2: them then. But now that's not a thing anyway.
Speaker 3: It was it was. It was literally in a world
Speaker 3: where the athletes that existed on Twitter were Shaquille O'Neill
Speaker 3: and Stuarts and that was it.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, that was twit a bit of a bit
Speaker 2: of a retort to Gary Player's design of Gary Players tweet,
Speaker 2: This is more intel from the ground. I've just got
Speaker 2: sources all over DLF getting at me about the caddyard
Speaker 2: grumbles a separate issue. This is a quote, and just
Speaker 2: imagine in a great accent. It's someone with a you know,
Speaker 2: year over year familiarity with DLF. You go around this
Speaker 2: golf course and every year people start to say, ah, no,
Speaker 2: it's okay, it's getting better. It's only it's growing on
Speaker 2: me or they're used to getting around it more now
Speaker 2: end quote. It's absolute insanity response to that. It's a
Speaker 2: response to that impersonation. It's absolute sanity. There are hints
Speaker 2: of Gary Player everywhere. Gary will tell us this is
Speaker 2: the greatest course in this part of Asia. Well he's
Speaker 2: clearly never played it, so that comes from the ground
Speaker 2: as well. Absolute insanity about people even suggesting that it
Speaker 2: might be getting up, growing on them or getting okay.
Speaker 2: So this is from someone who's been around it many times.
Speaker 2: So that's your DLF update.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's a bummer that Gary Player didn't
Speaker 3: like lean into Gary Player stuff more with his golf
Speaker 3: course designs, whereas like after like the sixth hole, you
Speaker 3: had to do like a five minute plank, and then
Speaker 3: after like when you made the turn, you had Now
Speaker 3: he holds the clubs with his fingers, Like I wish
Speaker 3: that that was a little bit more of his designs.
Speaker 3: You know, like like some Gary play one moment you
Speaker 3: have to like reveal how many hours you've been in
Speaker 3: an airplane, like to somebody like on a tee, and
Speaker 3: then they maybe like back check you to make sure
Speaker 3: you're accurate. Like, I just feel like you could have
Speaker 3: leaned into this a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Start calling people fat. You know. He called me fat
Speaker 2: once at the Masters, So I asked why. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I walked him in. I asked him to basically I
Speaker 2: walked him into it.
Speaker 4: It was a yeah, yeah, Can I ask you this
Speaker 4: was that?
Speaker 3: Was that part of you losing weight with the Gary player? No?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm not that insecure of a Gary player. Anything
Speaker 2: he says would drive me to do anything one way
Speaker 2: or another. God No, I tell him it's about time
Speaker 2: to get in better shape. But yes, I enjoyed. I
Speaker 2: enjoyed being a huskier boy. I kind of I asked him. Basically,
Speaker 2: I got him there. I wanted him to just rip
Speaker 2: on me for the content sake, basically is what it was.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was his That could be part of
Speaker 2: his stick, and the different colored bunker faces would be
Speaker 2: a well, uh second part of intel. We're gonna jump
Speaker 2: across an ocean here, maybe multiple oceans. We're not geographic experts.
Speaker 2: To Houston. The Memorial Park, another shotgun. Start catting at
Speaker 2: seventeenth hole. I've wrote extensively about this in a club
Speaker 2: TF tour tour guide. I got some good intel on
Speaker 2: this seventeenth hole. Of course, this is Tom dok renovated
Speaker 2: Memorial Park, maybe like the one of the best public
Speaker 2: values in golf if you're a resident in Houston. It's
Speaker 2: like I think weekend mornings, like the most expensive possible
Speaker 2: rate is like thirty eight dollars. Sometimes it's twenty, you know, weeknights,
Speaker 2: and fifteen for senior. Amazing deal. So Dok has renovated
Speaker 2: this course and they seventeenth hole supposed to be this
Speaker 2: driveable four. But like guys are hitting like nine iron,
Speaker 2: nine iron. I don't know if you remember this, because
Speaker 2: there's just like there's they just start hitting it two
Speaker 2: hundred yards out there and then hitting at like one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty in like it just they don't they're
Speaker 2: not taking it on. So Doak was there all summer
Speaker 2: shaping and renovating this whole update to make apparently by
Speaker 2: the tours, you know, wants more guys going for it,
Speaker 2: and probably Tom does too. I don't have any I
Speaker 2: haven't talked to him and he might have, but haven't
Speaker 2: talked to him yet. So they added like a more
Speaker 2: they lengthened it and then added more like generous run
Speaker 2: up right so like you could kind of hit a
Speaker 2: cut and run it in there, you know, just to
Speaker 2: promote more guys going for it. But maybe what he
Speaker 2: didn't envision while doing this was the PGA tour putting
Speaker 2: a giant backboard around the back and thirty five forty
Speaker 2: yards up the side of the fairway where guys could
Speaker 2: also now just wail away and get a soft landing
Speaker 2: off the ivy on the wall along this drive of
Speaker 2: a par four. So this a lot of people down
Speaker 2: in Houston are like, look, we had this work done.
Speaker 2: There's intent with the hole of risk if you just
Speaker 2: kind of if you do, you know, there's more you know, enticement,
Speaker 2: I should say to go for it, But there's also risk.
Speaker 2: Well some of that's been eliminated because you've got you know,
Speaker 2: the big green monster apparently just and it's not just behind.
Speaker 2: It's like running like thirty yards up the fairway on
Speaker 2: the left where there's not the water. So like if
Speaker 2: you're not going right for the green, even less risk
Speaker 2: is just to whale away and just launch and it's
Speaker 2: all short grass pretty much, so you're not getting some
Speaker 2: nasty little drop zone or something like that. So guys,
Speaker 2: I love that dok making these work, this work, and
Speaker 2: then just the tour slamming a backboard right on top
Speaker 2: of it seventeen.
Speaker 3: So so it feels Brendan like you're saying, we could
Speaker 3: see a rom at Riviera situation from last year. Remember
Speaker 3: he banked it off the grand stand on seventeen to
Speaker 3: like four feet made eagle. I think that was in
Speaker 3: like the second or third round. Like, I mean, you
Speaker 3: know rom won that week. I mean that that grandstand's
Speaker 3: not there. I mean he's not making prety likely, So
Speaker 3: I mean a chance here to really be influential, you know,
Speaker 3: and instrumental in the way that this thing shakes out potentially.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I mean I don't know if I don't know,
Speaker 2: if there's potential for that. Yes, it would take a
Speaker 2: really big hit and a kind of lucky bounce. But
Speaker 2: it's just one of these things where like you had
Speaker 2: all his work done. Apparently Douk was out there a
Speaker 2: ton like all summer. They shut it down in June.
Speaker 2: Also apparently the Green is like nuclear firm compared to
Speaker 2: all the others because it's new, like it's a newish
Speaker 2: green and it just hasn't taken as well as they
Speaker 2: thought it would by now, so it's going to be
Speaker 2: firmer and like you just have guys can launch it
Speaker 2: in the green and bounce it off the backboard, or
Speaker 2: launch it not even go for the green, take out
Speaker 2: all the risk and just right off the fairway backboard.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. It's just an amusing thing. Notes
Speaker 2: from the ground at DLF and now also a memorial park.
Speaker 3: You know, you know you mentioned the way it used
Speaker 3: to play Brendan and A last I was playing a.
Speaker 3: I think it was a met MGA qualifier for the Ike,
Speaker 3: which is like one of their bigger events up in
Speaker 3: the met area. And you know, you'll play these like
Speaker 3: super short, relatively quirky Northeast golf courses in these qualifiers.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like a lot of them are between
Speaker 3: sixty two and sixty four hundred yards not extremely long,
Speaker 3: but some can be very tricky, very quirky whatever. I
Speaker 3: was playing with one other guy, so it was a twosome,
Speaker 3: and we get up on this back nine tar four
Speaker 3: straight downhill like two ninety I think, max, okay, I
Speaker 3: mean it couldn't have been three of yards, and there's
Speaker 3: like a three group backup, and me and the guy
Speaker 3: I'm playing with her were comfortably inside the number, like
Speaker 3: I think we were both like one over and it
Speaker 3: looked like two or three over was gonna get through.
Speaker 3: And Brendan, we are just watching dudes. There's like trash
Speaker 3: out of bounds left and like super high like waist
Speaker 3: high rough right, okay, And we are just watching dude
Speaker 3: after dude snipe it left in the shit or push
Speaker 3: it right and have to retea. And we were watching
Speaker 3: this and I mean, I see about six dudes. Nobody
Speaker 3: hits one even on the planet. I mean, I'm seeing
Speaker 3: guys re tea over and over again. And I looked
Speaker 3: at the guy and play with him like, well, I'm
Speaker 3: not doing that. And I went nine iron lob wedge
Speaker 3: into a part four and I can't. And as I'm
Speaker 3: on the tee, I remember thinking to myself, nine iron
Speaker 3: might be too much. I was thinking that I might
Speaker 3: have too much iron and uh, a little sketchy, a little,
Speaker 3: a little icy there.
Speaker 2: A little too wild. You can reduce the reduced the
Speaker 2: chance for anything going too far astray. Just hit a wedge. Wedge, yeah, wedge.
Speaker 3: Not a great not a great design. It's my point.
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Speaker 3: I think it's sweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. Andy lives in those two. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have a few of them myself. All right, nice,
Speaker 2: let's get to our schedule for the week. We've mentioned DLF,
Speaker 2: we mentioned Memorial Park, so we'll start there. The Texas
Speaker 2: Children's Houston Open back after year off. This was last
Speaker 2: played in the fall of twenty twenty two. And of
Speaker 2: course with all the schedule changes, match plays out, match
Speaker 2: play comes, there's designated, there's elevated, there's signature, a lot
Speaker 2: of changes. Basically the PGA Tour. This has not been
Speaker 2: played since fall of twenty twenty two. It's back and
Speaker 2: it's sort of not exact pre Master spot. Remember they
Speaker 2: used to have the Shell Houston open the week before
Speaker 2: in the agronomy and the setup would try to approximate
Speaker 2: as much as you could Augusta and it really attracted
Speaker 2: a lot of guys for that reason. But it's back
Speaker 2: in a preferable spot. Then it's fall slot. The last
Speaker 2: few times it's played, that's Memorial Park. We talked about
Speaker 2: that being one of the great sort of public excess
Speaker 2: places certainly on the PGA Tour. That will be on
Speaker 2: Golf Chain all four to seven pm NBC on the weekends,
Speaker 2: finishing at six pm UH Featured groups we have tea
Speaker 2: times already. Feature groups Scheffler xalatoris Malnadi. Wow, that's Peppie
Speaker 2: Peter Petty Peter step stepping up into the big time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's like, I mean.
Speaker 3: That's Brendon. That's a great group to go watch, Like
Speaker 3: for a lower level events. That's that's an awesome group
Speaker 3: to go see. I mean more for the first two
Speaker 3: than the last guy. No offense to to Malmadi in
Speaker 3: the wind, but yeah, I mean, you know, like Xalaturus
Speaker 3: and s Sheffler playing together is about I mean, that's
Speaker 3: probably what two of the top four best ball strikers
Speaker 3: on the planet playing in the same group.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and been playing pretty well obviously Scheffler has, but
Speaker 2: Zala tauris much much better since his you know, kind
Speaker 2: of ugly return. So that's that's marquee group. Feature groups
Speaker 2: are Jake Knapp, Akha Batilla Adams fencing than Nick Dunlap,
Speaker 2: Luke List and k A not a not a great
Speaker 2: field For this evidence by Scheffler being an outrageous three
Speaker 2: to one outrageous by golf. I think he was three
Speaker 2: to one last I saw nuts for gold. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's Tiger and his prime type number three to one's
Speaker 2: crazy as low as it gets, really.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's also it seems like and I and
Speaker 3: you know you guys. I was listening to you guys
Speaker 3: last year, and I think it was around the Mexico Open,
Speaker 3: and I don't I don't know if it was you
Speaker 3: or Andy that made this point, But you guys picked
Speaker 3: Ram that week as you're one and done pick, and
Speaker 3: the point was he is so much better than everybody
Speaker 3: else that was in that field, as opposed to have
Speaker 3: taken him at a major championship where you'd kind of
Speaker 3: think to burn a John Rahm. You take him in,
Speaker 3: you know, a deluded field, and you got a way
Speaker 3: better chance of been winning. And of course he goes
Speaker 3: on and wins that week. If you were, if you were,
Speaker 3: if you hadn't u Scotti Schffer and won and Dudley.
Speaker 3: Yet this it feels like a pretty good week to
Speaker 3: use him. Does that make sense? Kind of backing off
Speaker 3: what you guys said with Ram in the Mexico Open.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's still it's not like a twenty
Speaker 2: million dollar perse, but it's got to be what eight
Speaker 2: or nine? I have it right here. It's it's nine
Speaker 2: point one. So yeah, it's like it's not like what
Speaker 2: mad like two weeks. Yeah, yeah, but again it's it's
Speaker 2: worth it. It's not like a four hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: winters perse. It's it's one point seven basically, so go
Speaker 2: for it. Yeah, he's down to like plus two fifty
Speaker 2: and some. That's nice. Rob last year at Mexico was
Speaker 2: like plus three eighty. I'm ringing a golf die just so, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's down to three to one essentially to fifty crazy
Speaker 2: fIF crazy great. Do you have one and done pick
Speaker 2: while we're doing gambling corner here? You can? It's awesome
Speaker 2: on my behalf.
Speaker 3: So I'm picking on and I've not discussed this with
Speaker 3: him at all, but I'm gonna take Adam Spenson is
Speaker 3: my one and done pick. He's been playing some solid
Speaker 3: golf as of late, and I just feel like off
Speaker 3: the heels of the playing with me and a pro am,
Speaker 3: you know, in my only pro am appearance ever, I
Speaker 3: feel like we've seen some great spins and momentum. So
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna lean into too. My pro am partner.
Speaker 2: How was he as a pro am partners? Genteel Canadian?
Speaker 2: Yeah he was.
Speaker 3: He was like he's quiet, but I mean quiet an
Speaker 3: extremely kind, very nice, very approachable. I was a big fan,
Speaker 3: I will say this. He we finished up the pro am.
Speaker 3: We were one of the last groups. And you know,
Speaker 3: when you're a last group at a pro am, especially
Speaker 3: at Riviera, I mean you're finishing almost in the dark.
Speaker 3: He sprinted, He shook her hands and said bye. He
Speaker 3: sprinted to the range off eighteen and almost pitch dark
Speaker 3: to work on the swing. And then he went out
Speaker 3: there in the first round shot some good number and
Speaker 3: had a great week of rib for the second straight year.
Speaker 3: So something had to get worked out. But it was
Speaker 3: just funny watching a pro like go try to find
Speaker 3: it at seven thirty pm on a Wednesday night when
Speaker 3: he's got an early t time on Thursday.
Speaker 2: You know, yep, yep, love that. I'm gonna go fee now.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what to make of
Speaker 2: Tony fin anymore. Right now. It feels like he hasn't
Speaker 2: played a lot almost. I don't know if he's just
Speaker 2: not been like on our television screen much. You obviously
Speaker 2: won it here. I think it was the very last
Speaker 2: time they played it, so but that was two years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with female. I'm not sure he's done okay.
Speaker 2: I think he started to trend better, like top twenties
Speaker 2: and like, you know, three or four of his last
Speaker 2: events done well here before. I'm gonna go with Tony.
Speaker 2: It feels like a good spot to use him. In
Speaker 2: this field. So those are your that that is your
Speaker 2: What else do we have for.
Speaker 3: Do you do you even keep do you keep track
Speaker 3: of the one and done so?
Speaker 4: Or do you guys just say I just know it's
Speaker 4: a bit Yeah, No, it's yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: Okay and Doude, do you know if you've used anybody
Speaker 3: at any point or no, it's just off of memory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's off of memory. I think I got I
Speaker 2: think I used like Max or something like twice in
Speaker 2: like four weeks and within the first like six events year, Like, well,
Speaker 2: that's a bagel zero for you. This week you just
Speaker 2: used home of two weeks ago. So there are people
Speaker 2: tracking it for us, but we are not done. That's
Speaker 2: way too much, too generous of us to be that organized.
Speaker 2: But other notables are Wyndham Clark, Jason Day, Nick Dunlap Fino,
Speaker 2: Patty Harrington stepping down to play with the young Bucks,
Speaker 2: Bobby McIntyre, Scheffler, we mentioned Woodland, and Xalatoris. So those
Speaker 2: are your notables. We should get to Cutthroat Corner third week.
Speaker 2: We've done Cutthroat Corner two weeks ago. Is Troy Merritt, Like,
Speaker 2: how did he in? The players? We looked at the
Speaker 2: resume a little closer. Last week was JB. Holmes, who
Speaker 2: ended up w DAN hadn't had a top ten since
Speaker 2: before the pandemic, which started was four years ago. I
Speaker 2: don't want to be mean again. This isn't mean. This
Speaker 2: isn't to be mean or to call people out. We're
Speaker 2: just sort of applying some of Rory's comments about the
Speaker 2: Tony need to be more cutthroat. Wyndham Clark making a
Speaker 2: look at were it to be more cutthroat where some
Speaker 2: people might be left on the outside looking at not
Speaker 2: my not my cold heart at all looking at this.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of options. This week. JB. Holmes
Speaker 2: is back, so he's just a we'll see if he
Speaker 2: wd's or not. You know, again, there aren't alternates. There
Speaker 2: weren't because there's these fields are so big. A lot
Speaker 2: of people asking for Ryan Palmer, who got a sponsor's
Speaker 2: exemption to be put in there, the tugboat brand Snedeker,
Speaker 2: he's on Cutthroat Corner Watch. He'll probably be a nominee
Speaker 2: in a subsequent week. But what I'm gonna go for
Speaker 2: here just to start a discussion, because this made my
Speaker 2: eyes bulge on a two year winners exemption. So on
Speaker 2: a two year winters exemption where time doesn't matter because
Speaker 2: it's been way more than two years. Is Kevin Kissner Okay?
Speaker 2: So Kevin Kissner a real pro, has won many multiple
Speaker 2: times on the PGA tour contended, Uh, kind of doesn't
Speaker 2: fit the modern circuit that well, like he has to
Speaker 2: pick and choose the spots a colonial the travelers. You know,
Speaker 2: his game is great. It doesn't fit. But I needed
Speaker 2: to look a little closer because two year winner exemption, well,
Speaker 2: that two year winner's exception goes back to the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one Greensboro. It's twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, yes, if you listen to the Andy episode,
Speaker 3: you know I'm not a math person. That's more than
Speaker 3: two years, Brendan. I'm almost positive.
Speaker 2: I know there's some COVID year like extra baked in COVID, this,
Speaker 2: that and the other. But what I think. I don't
Speaker 2: have a big problem with him being in the field.
Speaker 2: He's a pro, he's been injured, he's trying to get back.
Speaker 2: But the two year exemption thing is like, if we're
Speaker 2: gonna be cutthroat, why that's more than two years. That's
Speaker 2: more than give a major medical person, give us something else.
Speaker 2: So I looked a little closer. He's playing off in
Speaker 2: August twenty twenty one win. He's five hundred and sixth
Speaker 2: in the world since his last top ten. I think
Speaker 2: he said twenty one miss cuts three wds. That's from
Speaker 2: his last win, So that August twenty one like a
Speaker 2: lot of miss cuts. He made only six cuts last year,
Speaker 2: his best finished last year. Now he had injury. I
Speaker 2: want to say he should probably like he's a guy
Speaker 2: who's done consistently well over time on the tour. But again,
Speaker 2: if we're being cutthroat, like where are we at now?
Speaker 2: He's missed all five cuts that he started in this year.
Speaker 2: He beat seven guys at Sony, he beat four guys
Speaker 2: at Amex, he beat only eleven guys at Honda. He
Speaker 2: beat forty six guys at the pr Open, and he
Speaker 2: beat only one guy last week at the valspar So
Speaker 2: he's missing cuts and not you know, finishing pretty low.
Speaker 2: He's been hurt. I'm trying to be as benevolent here
Speaker 2: as possible. He got hot in March of two years ago,
Speaker 2: two years ago where he finished fourth at the Players
Speaker 2: and then did runner up at WGC match play, and
Speaker 2: that was kind of his last, like it's two years
Speaker 2: in March of two years ago his last real kind
Speaker 2: of and it was like a four week stretch. Part
Speaker 2: of that's been injury, part of that's been form. He
Speaker 2: really he's five hundred and six in the world and
Speaker 2: he's fallen off and to be playing off a two
Speaker 2: year winter exemption, it just feels like, you know, this
Speaker 2: ain't no hobby, as he would say, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if we're getting too hobby time, like he just
Speaker 2: it's not fair to him given the injury circumstances. I
Speaker 2: think you should get exemptions and have the chance to play.
Speaker 2: It's not been good with those chances this year, but
Speaker 2: just something I just didn't realize he'd fallen off so hard.
Speaker 2: I knew there were injuries, but I just didn't realize
Speaker 2: he had fallen off so hard. So that's your cutthroat
Speaker 2: corner again. I'm not saying he shouldn't be in PGA
Speaker 2: tour fields anymore given all he's done in his career
Speaker 2: and the injury being sort of intervening issue, but it's
Speaker 2: not been very good for like two plus years now,
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean It's it's hard, Brendan. It's hard to be
Speaker 3: trying to be really good, like a plus at two
Speaker 3: things at the same time. Right, And obviously we've seen
Speaker 3: him kind of bouncing the TV thing over the last
Speaker 3: few months, and then we've seen him improve in the
Speaker 3: TV space. I thought he was at his best at
Speaker 3: the Players in my opinion, in those seats, both with
Speaker 3: Smiley and in the booth like that. But that takes
Speaker 3: up time. And you know, I mean, I remember listening
Speaker 3: to Max talk it might have been a year, a
Speaker 3: year and a half, two years ago or something about
Speaker 3: like maintaining the greatness that he has right now, and
Speaker 3: how you know, you're just feeling like you're almost putting
Speaker 3: in more hours to just maintain how good you are.
Speaker 3: And it's so exhausting to just simply maintain, and to
Speaker 3: improve takes even more of a step, right, takes a
Speaker 3: bigger leap if you want to improve when you're trying
Speaker 3: to be one of the best golfers in the world,
Speaker 3: and if your kisner and now you've got meetings and
Speaker 3: you've got calls, and you've got to fly out on
Speaker 3: a windy morning, you know, to do a production meeting
Speaker 3: and do all the planning and prepping that you got
Speaker 3: to do. That's simply taking away hours that you could
Speaker 3: be putting in to your craft on the golf course.
Speaker 3: And so I just feel like, you know, you're kind
Speaker 3: of caught in the middle a little bit right where
Speaker 3: you're coming back from injury, the golf game's not great.
Speaker 3: You're potentially considering this transition to another field and another profession,
Speaker 3: all while it's kind of still in the same ecosystem
Speaker 3: as golf, and that is going to take an effect
Speaker 3: on something, right, It's going to take effect on your
Speaker 3: personal life, your professional life, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 3: And obviously it seems like it's been the golf I mean,
Speaker 3: and some of the numbers this year, Brendan, I mean,
Speaker 3: I know you said he's missed cuts and he hadn't
Speaker 3: beat a lot of guys, but I mean some of
Speaker 3: the numbers, it's some of the scorable golf courses. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're talking like seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine's in
Speaker 3: that space right now. So it's not that he's missing cuts,
Speaker 3: it's that he's not even really that close in terms
Speaker 3: of playing good golf.
Speaker 2: Right right, I think he's probably like, if we're being
Speaker 2: really cut throught, there's way more guys on this. This
Speaker 2: just the two year winners exemption is what jumped off
Speaker 2: to me, like like a guy who has won on
Speaker 2: the tour and again, but I just didn't realize how
Speaker 2: like kind of fallow it's been for almost and some
Speaker 2: of that's injury related, but certainly the year, the start
Speaker 2: of this year has not been been great either, but
Speaker 2: we should give him some time. He's shown he he's
Speaker 2: not a guy that like, he's won four times, but
Speaker 2: he's not a guy that just like misses cuts he's
Speaker 2: or makes cuts. He's a guy that's like a lot
Speaker 2: of top tens and top twenty five at least super
Speaker 2: took in and that just hasn't really been the case
Speaker 2: really since that March of like twenty twenty two. So
Speaker 2: that's your Houston Open. I don't know abstract real quick
Speaker 2: on that, we got to the DLF. That's the Indian Open,
Speaker 2: the hero Indian Open, that's one of our favorites. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Do we want to do notables? Do we
Speaker 2: need to do we need to get notables. Shub Sharma
Speaker 2: of course. Rafa Cabarabeo will always have the twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: Ryder Cup at Hazel. Team haven't really seen him since
Speaker 2: Rasmus Hoyguard, Kazumi Kabora, Honor Bon Lahiri of h what's
Speaker 2: he on? Crushers? Crushers GC? Honorbon is coming in?
Speaker 3: By the way, do you know that? Like? Are you
Speaker 3: one hundred percent he's on crushers? Are you sure about that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Because I'm very oppressed. Yeah, I'm actually very impressed. You
Speaker 3: know this?
Speaker 2: He's with Bryson and uh Charlie Halle the third and
Speaker 2: who else? Paul Casey. I think that's my crusher's roster.
Speaker 3: Now, No, now here's that? Do you know that from YouTube? Like?
Speaker 3: Is that why you know that? Because of the YouTube
Speaker 3: video with Bryson and Lahari? Or do just know that
Speaker 3: because your brain's weird.
Speaker 2: Brain's weird. I do a podcast three times a week
Speaker 2: on golf and professional golf, and I just, yeah, committed
Speaker 2: that from memory.
Speaker 3: I guess there you go.
Speaker 2: So that's coffee golf three thirty eight thirty in the morning. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's that's your European Tour event DP World Tour person
Speaker 2: is only two point twenty five million. That is not
Speaker 2: a lot of money. But you know, I did they
Speaker 2: did say other report the waters drink ball this week
Speaker 2: at the Indian Open. But guys, a lot of players
Speaker 2: are taking a tiny flask of whiskey and they're taking
Speaker 2: a nip of each each morning and evening to ward
Speaker 2: off germs and stomach ailments. At the hero Indian Open,
Speaker 2: caddies and players taking just a quick little bite. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe there's various medicines, vaccinations, but apparently this is the
Speaker 2: thing that's going around the Indian Open, a little nip
Speaker 2: in the morning and evening to kind of word off
Speaker 2: stomach ailments, the nip of whiskey.
Speaker 3: So all right, So I got my golf clubs, I've
Speaker 3: got my band aids, I've got my practice tools. I've
Speaker 3: got my little bottle of Elijah Craig in my bag
Speaker 3: or somewhere. You know, It's like would have been such
Speaker 3: a weird like addition to what you're.
Speaker 2: Doing right right right on the LPGA Tour with the
Speaker 2: Ford Championship presented by Casey C. I don't know what
Speaker 2: that is. That's at Seville Golf and Country Club in Gilbert, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with that? The Prospector Course. Where's Gilbert, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Area.
Speaker 3: I think I've played it, but I mean I think
Speaker 3: it was like if I'm dating how long it's been,
Speaker 3: I think it was a Gateway Tour event and that
Speaker 3: was when I was in I was like, oh seven,
Speaker 3: so it's been a minute. I can't tell you a
Speaker 3: lot about the Prospectors.
Speaker 2: The Prospector as opposed to I don't know the forty
Speaker 2: nine or Court. I don't know what what what the
Speaker 2: other course name is.
Speaker 4: There's a Tucson by you by the way. In case
Speaker 4: you're wondering, I'm sure I bet uh notables. You know
Speaker 4: Seline but j Elson, Corpu's Ayaka Feru, Lydia, Nellie Minji,
Speaker 4: Lily Avu, Roseying good Field. This is a little bit
Speaker 4: of primetime golf for US East Coaster seven to nine
Speaker 4: on Thursday, Friday, six to nine on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 4: So a chance to watch a pretty good field on
Speaker 4: the LPGA. I can't say much about the Prospector Course,
Speaker 4: but it is a chance to watch them.
Speaker 2: Continuing on with our schedule for the week, we have
Speaker 2: the Champions Tour, we have the gall of Gallery with
Speaker 2: an Eye Classic. This is that Mission Hills Rancho Mirage.
Speaker 2: This is a second annual Galleri Classic, which you know,
Speaker 2: uh used to be Mission Hills, the old Dinah shore area.
Speaker 2: Now it's a Champions Tour event and the women are
Speaker 2: in Houston and you know, jumping into alligator infested pods
Speaker 2: and no longer the poppies pond, but uh, the Champions
Speaker 2: Tour is out there. I don't think they jump into
Speaker 2: poppies pond. They're too old, and you know they'll want
Speaker 2: to break a leg or something like that.
Speaker 3: Maybe like a cold plunge. Maybe you turn it into
Speaker 3: it like a little cold plunge. Yeah, would you you
Speaker 3: get like ten guys in there, just like in the mornings,
Speaker 3: like just getting the body going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just have them jump in one of these buckets.
Speaker 2: They cost ten thousand dollars to put on your back porch.
Speaker 2: Just set it off the eighteenth green they can jump in.
Speaker 3: It feels like that fat's going away, by the way.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's not really going away, but
Speaker 3: it seems like the boom has settled a bit. Your
Speaker 3: thoughts on the cold plunge.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would like to try it. Seems like
Speaker 2: very many reputable and people I respect speak highly of it.
Speaker 2: Where I have the issue is buying a bucket that's
Speaker 2: eight seven thousand dollars to put on your patio. Just
Speaker 2: just figure out something that's like a hundred bucks or
Speaker 2: a couple hundred bucks or nothing and put in your
Speaker 2: tongues like go.
Speaker 3: Buy the trash can at home. Deep. Yes, it's like
Speaker 3: forty dollars.
Speaker 2: It probably doesn't have the self regulating bullshit that they
Speaker 2: try to sell you. Why it's eight thousand dollars and this,
Speaker 2: you know, the ice doesn't melt in this one and
Speaker 2: all this, But like it's still eight thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: a bucket, and I just think that fad is thankfully
Speaker 2: going away. One of them tried to advertise with us.
Speaker 2: They said, no, I'm not doing that. So that's the
Speaker 2: Gallery Boys, the Gallery Classic. I don't know Alker, Chroy, Couples, El's, Jansen, Markomira, Andy's,
Speaker 2: you know Vaunted at now, MSS Marco, Mira, Steve Stricker,
Speaker 2: uh Tom's and Mike whir. Where do you go to say,
Speaker 2: I have a.
Speaker 3: Question because you've now read You've now read I believe
Speaker 3: two brands that I have legit never heard of in
Speaker 3: my life that are sponsoring golf tournaments if we win it.
Speaker 3: So I ask you this, if we went across every tour,
Speaker 3: every major tour, Yeah, how what's the percentage of brands
Speaker 3: that you would know what they do that sponsor professional
Speaker 3: golf tournaments? Do you think it'd be more than sixty percent?
Speaker 2: Ah, that's a good that's a good over under. Well,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of these brands don't even know
Speaker 2: what they do themselves, quite honestly, and they just make
Speaker 2: this mumbo job. We are like people management software solutions
Speaker 2: for the digital age. Wells, they just we love you know,
Speaker 2: we make world seamless and better for you. They don't
Speaker 2: even know what they do themselves. Uh, I think, Yes,
Speaker 2: I I go like fifty five percent? Yeah, I go
Speaker 2: under six. What do you think? I don't know Gallery?
Speaker 2: I don't know KCC, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I'd have a hard time
Speaker 3: breaking fifty percent, dude, Like, I mean you could guess,
Speaker 3: like I could guess bank or software or AI like
Speaker 3: I could guess these things. But I got no clue,
Speaker 3: Like never heard of half these things.
Speaker 2: What do you think Gallery is g A L L
Speaker 2: E R. I you will not get this twenty five
Speaker 2: thousand guesses. I don't think I wouldn't know. What do
Speaker 2: you think?
Speaker 3: It sounds like it should be like a strip mall.
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I mean, I'll guess what is
Speaker 3: this chance tour? Yes, I mean I'm guessing something medical.
Speaker 3: It's got to be something medical. What is it?
Speaker 2: That's great powers of deduction on that it is a
Speaker 2: multi cancer test screening test, which you know, all the
Speaker 2: more power to gallery if that's what they're doing a
Speaker 2: great We don't want to be smirched the product in
Speaker 2: any way. I just didn't have any clue what it was. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean stops.
Speaker 3: Many, thank you. There's just so many brands. There's so
Speaker 3: many brands that make so much. This is my my Scottsdale.
Speaker 3: Take Brendan. When you go to like North Scottsdale and
Speaker 3: you're driving around and it's just four million dollar homes
Speaker 3: as far as the eye can see, and I just
Speaker 3: think to myself, how do all these people have enough
Speaker 3: money to buy a four million dollar home that they
Speaker 3: probably only stay at half the year. And I think
Speaker 3: the same thing with these companies, where I'm like, listen,
Speaker 3: you're doing this, You're helping with cancer research. Good on you.
Speaker 3: We are applauding you, and we're proud of you. I
Speaker 3: just don't know how there's this many companies that have
Speaker 3: enough money to be like, we'll just we'll sponsor golf
Speaker 3: tournaments too, Like we'll just throw that into the marketing budget.
Speaker 2: Say, never understood that. I completely agree. That's a great analogy.
Speaker 2: I think that does it for our schedule for the week.
Speaker 2: I don't have anything else news. You know, TGL is back.
Speaker 2: They're coming hot and heavy. They're committed January twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: They've got schedules and dates and you know, the the
Speaker 2: arena is gonna have steel instead of bubble wrap or
Speaker 2: whatever it was. And uh so they're coming out. They
Speaker 2: had an animation thing with Ricky that had to cost
Speaker 2: a fortune to make, you know, just so much thousands
Speaker 2: and but those things called those animations cost so much money.
Speaker 2: So they did that.
Speaker 3: They're back there.
Speaker 2: They're just they don't have all the teams and players announced,
Speaker 2: but that is that's news that they came.
Speaker 3: Out with that. Oh hey, Brendan, I did add a
Speaker 3: question for you, had a question for you. Ippose this
Speaker 3: on Twitter yesterday. So Claire Rogers goolf dot com. We're
Speaker 3: both friends and fans of hers. She did a thing
Speaker 3: with Rory where she was talking about Rory and Shane
Speaker 3: Lowry teaming up for the Zurich And and Rory told
Speaker 3: her on this video for golf dot Com that they
Speaker 3: made the decision over a drunken lunch. And I asked
Speaker 3: this question on Twitter that I'll ask you you what
Speaker 3: do you think they were drinking? What are Rory and
Speaker 3: Shane Lowry drinking for a drunken lunch? I had the
Speaker 3: favorite of white wine, and I think my second favorite
Speaker 3: was beer, and the long shot I think I had
Speaker 3: was Mimosa's. What do you think it was? Because we
Speaker 3: know Rory's not a Guinness guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he said Guinness ship. That's a good question. Everywhere?
Speaker 3: Did you really say everywhere?
Speaker 2: On the Explorations podcast when we had Wow, he said
Speaker 2: it's a Guinness better and you asked Ireland, like everyone says,
Speaker 2: it's like it's ship everywhere. That's what he said.
Speaker 3: Didn't hear that? My goodness, Rory, He's he's up man.
Speaker 2: Oh man, what do you think you think they're doing?
Speaker 2: Like vodka red Bull? I'm just I'm trying think of
Speaker 2: something just completely preposterous. I'm kidding this right now.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like Rory McElroy, of all
Speaker 3: human beings, has probably never had a vodka red Bull.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really seem like it's up his eyes. Seems
Speaker 3: a little cunny.
Speaker 2: We were in we were in college about the same time,
Speaker 2: about the same age. Like, I mean, that stuff was
Speaker 2: just coming out of every tap hole in the wall everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, the vodka red bull fat there in the
Speaker 2: early two thousands is probably not good for everybody's health.
Speaker 3: I'll go, we have we'd have like eight of them, dude,
Speaker 3: you have like, yeah, was insane? So much red bulls good?
Speaker 3: I mean, think about having anything about having any red bulls.
Speaker 3: And then you're like, you know what would make it
Speaker 3: better for your body? A little pop off vodka in
Speaker 3: there on the plastic bottle.
Speaker 2: Of course, it masks the vodka like you could put
Speaker 2: like a ninety percent of vodka in there and you
Speaker 2: just put a d like it was not a good time. No,
Speaker 2: you know, no, I'll go, I like, the white wine
Speaker 2: is a good one. I'll go. Vodka soda so sort
Speaker 2: I don't know, vodka soda maybe starting to go down
Speaker 2: the cocktail round, some sort of lighter cocktail, not a
Speaker 2: dark liquor type thing. I'll go with the hard liquor.
Speaker 2: They just won the Ryder Cup, I believe, where the
Speaker 2: circumstances around it, and it seemed like they weren't drinking
Speaker 2: necessarily to ease their way into the day. They were
Speaker 2: drinking to celebrate and take a full swing at it.
Speaker 2: So I'll just say they went with something hard liquor, vodka, vodka, soda, vodka, drink.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you think?
Speaker 3: I think? I think I'm gonna I'm still sticking with
Speaker 3: white wine just because I mean, I think Rory's a
Speaker 3: big wine guy, and I could see like that one
Speaker 3: the first I could see a lunch bottle being ordered
Speaker 3: as like a casual order, and then that that inevitably
Speaker 3: being like six bottles on the table. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: lean white wine. But you know, like these are those moments, Brendan,
Speaker 3: where like Rory gives you and I mean like obviously
Speaker 3: Rory and Claire have like a freemly relationship, like you
Speaker 3: can see that they like get along well, right, but
Speaker 3: like these are those moments where Rory gives us just
Speaker 3: a little bit of realty to who he is, and
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, it's what we're kind of looking for
Speaker 3: from athletes, Like you don't have to like reveal everything,
Speaker 3: but just little things like this every now and again
Speaker 3: kind of remind us that the mere billionaire, great athlete,
Speaker 3: you know, Hall of fame golfer, is also like a
Speaker 3: thirty year old dude, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 3: just think it's it's nice to see these types of
Speaker 3: things sprinkled in every now and again.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, I think more of the pros have gotten
Speaker 2: a little bit better at this, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I think Greek a lot of them I have gotten
Speaker 2: better at this the last few years. Last bit of news,
Speaker 2: Tim Nicholson is retiring, so Phil will have a new
Speaker 2: caddy on the bag. I think it's John Yarborough is
Speaker 2: going over and Sarak Kilp Sarada is also taking I
Speaker 2: believe Oxha's caddy to live. The guaranteed money apparently was substantial,
Speaker 2: So so Phil will have a new caddy on the bag.
Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of it's just news. I'll say,
Speaker 2: been a tumultuous run for Phil there last few years.
Speaker 2: Not as much now a little smoother, but you know,
Speaker 2: in the light of the ship Nott quotes and everything,
Speaker 2: I think Phil probably greatly benefited from having like a
Speaker 2: super lockdown camp. Andrew Getson was like completely in his corner.
Speaker 2: Obviously your caddy is your brother, completely in his corner.
Speaker 2: So he had like a couple like when a lot
Speaker 2: of sponsors ran, he was completely ostracized more or less there.
Speaker 2: I think it was probably a great benefit to have
Speaker 2: his brother sort of as his caddy in that stretch
Speaker 2: when he came back. So yeah, and obviously one a
Speaker 2: major with him too, So it felt like it was
Speaker 2: hadn't been that long, but they said it was like
Speaker 2: eight years he's been on the back.
Speaker 3: Crazy. I was surprised by that number two. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean he was I believe he was.
Speaker 3: Was he at ASU and then was Rom's agent and
Speaker 3: then was a caddy. Is that is that kind of
Speaker 3: the process there.
Speaker 2: I think that's right. Yeah, I think that was the timeline.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And it seems like it seems like he's
Speaker 3: got little kids and I mean that will live schedule
Speaker 3: is I mean, if nothing else, it's a ton of travel.
Speaker 3: I mean in terms of like global travel, and so
Speaker 3: if you have little kids and you want to be home,
Speaker 3: like all all respect to Tim for for saying, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna be home with the with the
Speaker 3: little ones while I got him.
Speaker 2: So yep, yep, all right, this does it for this Wednesday. Shane.
Speaker 2: You are a gentleman and a scholar. I really appreciate
Speaker 2: you jumping in here. You can follow him at Shane Bacon.
Speaker 2: What do you need? What do you got?
Speaker 3: I just have. I just have two things. One is
Speaker 3: you do schedule the week. Every week a reminder that
Speaker 3: next week is corn Ferry back on TV, which is exciting.
Speaker 3: It'll be a man James Nitty. So that's next week.
Speaker 3: So get yourself excited for a little kft before you
Speaker 3: know the master's boom. And then if you don't mind,
Speaker 3: I just plugging. I have got a project I'm working
Speaker 3: with you guys on in the podcast space. But in
Speaker 3: the meantime, I've been doing the Ping Proving Grounds podcast
Speaker 3: that is a super inside baseball golf podcast that I
Speaker 3: think listeners here would be a fan of. So if
Speaker 3: you ever I mean, I hate to even say this sentence,
Speaker 3: if you're looking for another podcast to listen to because
Speaker 3: that's become almost a joke. But Marty is a great
Speaker 3: dude to bounce like just questions about like nerdy golf
Speaker 3: step off of and I've really enjoyed that. So check
Speaker 3: that out of you if you haven't already.
Speaker 2: It seems like a real like I think what you
Speaker 2: want with the podcast is like a unique value proposition,
Speaker 2: and it feels like that one offers it. It's like
Speaker 2: getting in the weeds and like with someone who's I
Speaker 2: don't know, last time he said, he's like really like
Speaker 2: he can communicate super nerdy things in ways that are
Speaker 2: moderately understandable or at least interesting to the listener. So
Speaker 2: that I mean, I think that's like a real value
Speaker 2: proposition that.
Speaker 3: Pain Yeah, approving anyway, Thanks thanks for that.
Speaker 2: Of course, thank you for your friendship contribution. Jumping in
Speaker 2: follow him on Twitter at Shane Bacon. We will be
Speaker 2: back with you on Friday
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