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Speaker 1: It's the son of Which podcast. I'm your host, Claude

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Speaker 1: Harmon a little two week break from the pod, but

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Speaker 1: back refreshed. I was trying to think about what to

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Speaker 1: There is a lot to talk about in the game

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Speaker 1: of golf right now. There's a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 1: I hear constantly about how bad professional golf is and

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Speaker 1: thinking about this on the flight home, and is the

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Speaker 1: game of golf in a bad place right now? And

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Speaker 1: the reason I bring that up is from a performance standpoint,

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Speaker 1: which is the world that I live in. I live

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Speaker 1: in professional golf. I'm lucky enough to work with players

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Speaker 1: And so I got to thinking about with all the

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Speaker 1: crazy stuff that's been going on with the PGA Tour

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Speaker 1: and live which I think everybody's tired of hearing about,

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Speaker 1: I think from a performance standpoint and from a actual

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Speaker 1: seeing some amazing golf by some amazing players. I think

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Speaker 1: that maybe we didn't know about three years ago before

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Speaker 1: all the craziness started. But I just don't think the

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Speaker 1: And it's just my opinion, and I'm gonna try and

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Speaker 1: So live happened in the summer of twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: when everything kind of got crazy. That year, Scotty Scheffler

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Speaker 1: First live event was in London. The following week was

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Speaker 1: the US Open. Since that, okay, since live happened, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to give you the main winners. Matt Patrick twenty

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Speaker 1: duel with Rory McElroy. Looked like Rory was gonna win.

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Speaker 1: Looked like Rory was finally gonna get another major. Cam

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Speaker 1: the PGA at o'kill. Great down the stretch duel got

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Speaker 1: US Open, Wyndam Clark Los Angeles, Ricky Fowler in the mix,

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Speaker 1: Roy McElroy again in the mix. Wyndam Clark hit some

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Speaker 1: Was a gutty, gritty performance. And then this year Scottie Scheffler,

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Speaker 1: now a two time Masters champion, Sanders Chaffle great duel

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Speaker 1: Deshamba two time Major champion, now two time US Open

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Speaker 1: champion Pinehurst beats Rory McElroy down the stretch again. Rory

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Speaker 1: trying to get another major, doesn't get it done. And

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Speaker 1: then now a two time major winners, Xaner Schoffle wins

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Speaker 1: from a major standpoint, everybody that keeps saying how bad

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Speaker 1: global superstars, Ryder Cup heroes. So this kind of talk

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Speaker 1: body standpoint, and can we figure out the live PGA

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Speaker 1: tour drama? I don't know. I mean you had business

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Speaker 1: people like Jimmy Dunn and guys like Seth Wall at

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Speaker 1: to throw their hat into the ring. Figure this out.

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Speaker 1: They're out of golf now professional golf. You've got billionaires

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Speaker 1: of the cool stories this year has been Matthew Levaughan.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Matthew had a chance to win deep deep

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Speaker 1: of the iconic golf courses on the PGA Tour, Tory Pines.

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Speaker 1: It's French first year on the PGA Tour, has a

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Speaker 1: So I think it's easy to look at all of

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Speaker 1: But I just look at the golf that's being played

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Speaker 1: I look at the winners from last year. I think

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Speaker 1: Vijaygis getting a win, Ludwig Oberg he was playing college

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Speaker 1: golf last year. Now the guy's top five in the world.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the Olympics that just happened.

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Speaker 1: We didn't even have Olympics ten fifteen years ago. Now

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Speaker 1: four out of his last five shoots sixty two on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Tommy Fleetwood a fan favorite, somebody that everybody is waiting

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Speaker 1: a Master's champion, He's a hero in Japan. So those

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Speaker 1: a big lead down the stretch, couldn't get it done again.

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Speaker 1: Is the game in a bad place. Is the quality

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Speaker 1: And I'm not even talking about what's going on on

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Speaker 1: I think we have loads of young talent. Akseh Batia.

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Speaker 1: Nick Dunlop this year as an amateur plays the MX

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Speaker 1: Davis Thompson turned pro in twenty twenty one, went to

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Speaker 1: think one of the best stories of the year. Bob McIntyre.

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Speaker 1: He wins the RBC Canadian Open again. Another duel with

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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy. Rory's trying to win again. Bobby Mack gets

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Speaker 1: It's what everybody wants. And I look at the winners

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Speaker 1: that Scotti Scheffler's been on, the things that he is

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Speaker 1: think generational in what he is doing a major. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be shocked if he doesn't win the FedEx Cup.

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Speaker 1: He seems to have a chance to win every single week.

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Speaker 1: Billy Horsewall won again. Billy was in a slump, figured

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Speaker 1: how lives handling this situation, how the governing bodies are

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Speaker 1: handling live coming into the professional golf world, the world ranking.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to just say, yeah, it's all negative, it's

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Speaker 1: quality of golf that I'm watching on DP World, the

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Speaker 1: I have really enjoyed watching professional golf. There is a

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Speaker 1: a fan of the drama that we have in professional

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Speaker 1: The Tiger Heyday, the kind of Ernie El's heyday, the VJ.

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Speaker 1: I like it. I like what I'm saying. I like

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Speaker 1: the drama. I like the shots that guys are pulling off.

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Speaker 1: I think an unbelievable story is Xander Schoffle. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Xander's everybody's favorite on tour, right. Everybody loves Sander. He's

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Speaker 1: a great guy. He and his caddy, Austin, they're they're

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Speaker 1: great people. His dad's one of my His dad is

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Speaker 1: Shane Lowry made a massive run at the Open Championship

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Speaker 1: a golf trip in an amazing location, checking off golf

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Speaker 1: courses on your bucket list. That's golf. Professional golf is

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Speaker 1: something completely different. But professional golf is not the game

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Speaker 1: us love, what all of us are obsessed with, what

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Speaker 1: that is what golf is. And golf, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: will always be in a great place because there are

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Speaker 1: people that care about golf. They love golf. It's part

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Speaker 1: of their life, it means something to them, it's part

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Speaker 1: of their DNA. They identify themselves as golfers. They dress

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Speaker 1: up like professional golfers and go to professional golf tournaments,

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Speaker 1: which still fascinates me that people get dressed up, But

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Speaker 1: Golf isn't in a bad place. Golf will always be

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Speaker 1: in a good place because the people that love the

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Speaker 1: game care about the game. The professional side of it,

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Speaker 1: that's something else. But unless you're a professional golfer, that's

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Speaker 1: not your world. That's not the world you live in.

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Speaker 1: playing a golf course that you've never played before. That's golf.

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Speaker 1: And I think professional golf right now, from a performance standpoint,

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Speaker 1: isn't a great place. I love what I'm saying. The

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Speaker 1: organizational side of it, that's for other people to figure out.

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Speaker 1: It's not that's not my job to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: My job is to help players get better at all levels.

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Speaker 1: And I still see joy in For as bad as

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Speaker 1: golf is supposed to be right now, I still see

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Speaker 1: divot for the first time with seven iron and hit

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Speaker 1: a high draw And I love that. I love that

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Speaker 1: part of the game. I still see people every year

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Speaker 1: go to Augusta National that have never been there before

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Speaker 1: and just it's like they've seen fire for the first time.

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Speaker 1: I think the game for as bad as everyone says

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Speaker 1: it is, I don't think it's that bad. Son of

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