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Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Alright, alright, dig Man.
Speaker 4: Dart, your.
Speaker 2: Greetings. Welcome to a Wednesday edition of The Shotguns Start.
Speaker 2: It is July twenty eighth. Andy, how are we.
Speaker 4: Doing, Brendan, I'm doing great. You know, I know I'm
Speaker 4: doing a lot better than you. You know, you've been
Speaker 4: what putting your you know, your feet bend to the fire.
Speaker 4: I'm the Coles hot coals. Australian's coming at you left
Speaker 4: and right.
Speaker 2: National headlines talking about this in public. That's not true.
Speaker 2: National headlines, that's not true. I've been learning a lot
Speaker 2: of new words, a lot of new I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm learning. I'm just staying in the
Speaker 2: dark when I'm being called a lot of mean things
Speaker 2: by Australians. Look, I didn't know we were talking about
Speaker 2: this on the podcast. I made a joke tweet about
Speaker 2: the swimming coach. Was you know, if I'm being honest,
Speaker 2: not joking, acting like a Yahoo acting like a buffoon
Speaker 2: up there over celebrating. But it's fine, he could do that.
Speaker 2: I don't have any serious criticisms of him. I tweeted
Speaker 2: something about him was a disgrace to the game. Clearly
Speaker 2: that's a joke because swimming's not a game. A lot
Speaker 2: of people are calling me an idiot for saying it
Speaker 2: was a game. This is a sport. Like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: it's a golf joke. Sorry, I mean it's in like
Speaker 2: the Daily Mail, my tweet like about how Americans are
Speaker 2: mad at the like it was a joke. I apologize
Speaker 2: to the content of Australia. I mean the coach, you
Speaker 2: know whatever, he could act however he wants. I don't
Speaker 2: know that I agree with it. But the tweet was
Speaker 2: just a just And now I'm getting it's two days
Speaker 2: on I just we just hear record and one called
Speaker 2: me somebody just tweeted me it sounds like a sore
Speaker 2: loser from a nation of sore losers. And you're getting
Speaker 2: all these lectures. It's unbelievable, and uh yeah, it's whatever.
Speaker 2: It's a little entertainment on the side during vacation week.
Speaker 2: Ause Australia, the continent gets worked out at me. I
Speaker 2: didn't know you were going to bring that up. All right,
Speaker 2: let's move on.
Speaker 4: Imagine, just imagine if you start, if you start talking
Speaker 4: about Mark Leishman's style of play, you know, batting it around,
Speaker 4: They're just gonna get You.
Speaker 3: Might bet me number one in Australia.
Speaker 4: We would have to consult Mike Clayton to get to
Speaker 4: rehab your image abroad.
Speaker 2: The tweet was a joke. I just can't have fun
Speaker 2: out to her. I should have known better that it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be interpreted, you know. It's just the disgrace to
Speaker 2: the game. I thought it was pretty clear I was
Speaker 2: just mussing route. But anyways, I'll be rooting for camp Smith,
Speaker 2: Mark Leishman and who had their caddies, whoever else is
Speaker 2: in the Green and Gold this week at Kasumigaseki Golf Club. Anyways,
Speaker 2: I love Australia. It seems like a much better place
Speaker 2: than here. I'm sure it's fantastic. All right, schedule, let's
Speaker 2: see our schedule for the week. The Wi fi spotty
Speaker 2: at least I'm not on a phone here, but we'll
Speaker 2: get through this schedule for the week we begin with
Speaker 2: the men's Olympics golf competition that is at the aforementioned
Speaker 2: Kasumigaseki Golf Club. It is not in Tokyo. It's you know,
Speaker 2: it's at least two hours, hour and a half from
Speaker 2: the Olympic village. Sixty man field. The men's this week,
Speaker 2: women's next week, sixty players. I don't think we need
Speaker 2: to get into you know, notables or who's not there.
Speaker 2: Who is there. We've lost Rom and Bryson, which we
Speaker 2: talked about on Monday. The hours for that are six
Speaker 2: thirty at three am. Wednesday is round one. So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be like that basically Wednesday through Sunday six thirty
Speaker 2: pm in the Eastern time zone of the United States
Speaker 2: to three thirty am. So you're gonna have like a
Speaker 2: metal ceremony Saturday night or Sunday morning, if you're being proper,
Speaker 2: three thirty in the morning, with live from and other
Speaker 2: things stressed up around it. So, I uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm moderately excited. I'm intrigued by this event. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously the format is a big whiff. We
Speaker 2: don't know, you need to get into that again. You know,
Speaker 2: everybody's trying to reinvent the wheel on.
Speaker 4: That thirty five articles about it. If you want to
Speaker 4: read about it, I'll just twist on the same idea
Speaker 4: that was the same idea four years ago.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I think you did you suggest
Speaker 2: n cuble a. I think I know you have at
Speaker 2: Cuba format. Everybody's that's double everybody everybody.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna the claim being the uh,
Speaker 3: the starter of that take.
Speaker 4: I feel like since the moment that the the format
Speaker 4: came out, that's, uh, that's been kind of a drum
Speaker 4: banged on and it's just, you know, a drum that's
Speaker 4: gonna be banged on all.
Speaker 3: Week, which is it's very true.
Speaker 4: It sticks every other The Olympics are great because the
Speaker 4: team competition and there's no team competition.
Speaker 3: It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Also, like the qualification stuff, it kind of robs me
Speaker 4: the wrong way. Like I feel like, you know, like
Speaker 4: the US having four guys in there, and if you're
Speaker 4: a country that has like four guys in the top
Speaker 4: one two hundred, you should get four guys. And if
Speaker 4: you're in the top two hundred shouldn't be like regardless,
Speaker 4: if you're only top twenty.
Speaker 3: Like, let these.
Speaker 4: Countries have field full teams that have an equal opportunity
Speaker 4: to get medals, like there.
Speaker 2: Are ay, would you would you bump up the Americans
Speaker 2: then too, because they have a lot more on the
Speaker 2: top the cap it at four? Okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I think what is it four if you're
Speaker 4: if you have four in the top twenty or something.
Speaker 2: Like that, I think it's fifteen maybe, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, but like it should be. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I look at like the Belgian team.
Speaker 4: I just think it would add intrigue to the event
Speaker 4: if he and say it maybe it's top two hundred,
Speaker 4: top four hundred, I don't know it would be. I
Speaker 4: think it would make it a more you know, representative
Speaker 4: event that way, you know, limiting it to so few people,
Speaker 4: Like if one of your two guys is in a
Speaker 4: bad spot but played well for a year and it's
Speaker 4: just in a funk like it, it just gives more
Speaker 4: opportunity for countries like that aren't necessarily considered golf countries
Speaker 4: to win a medal.
Speaker 2: Right, which, which you know, if we're being honest, is
Speaker 2: a primary, like not a primary point of this to
Speaker 2: like maybe create national fervor in the game. Where it
Speaker 2: doesn't already exist, you know, is one of the great
Speaker 2: benefits that these competitions in the Olympics could.
Speaker 4: Like a perfect example is is Tom Tom Kim from
Speaker 4: South Korea. I don't know if he'd be qualified, but
Speaker 4: like he's an eight nineteen year old like Fena from
Speaker 4: South Korea. Like, it would be cool to see him
Speaker 4: play in this in the same you know, same goes
Speaker 4: for Japan. You know, they've got a bunch of players
Speaker 4: that could.
Speaker 2: Canaiah didn't make it. Yeah, Canaia got bumped out.
Speaker 4: So I just think that would be a neat little
Speaker 4: added twist, Like it's super cool with Chili having Nieman
Speaker 4: and Pereira in. They're like, that's that's really neat. That's
Speaker 4: like a team I'm kind of like rooting for. I'm
Speaker 4: really rooting for.
Speaker 3: A non golf country to really thrive in this Olympics.
Speaker 2: That's good good. I think it means a lot to
Speaker 2: answer Artis Mexico. That certainly means a lot to Gabby Lopez,
Speaker 2: who's there already practicing, you know, ten days out more
Speaker 2: or less she was a flag bearer. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's pretty cool to see different countries too.
Speaker 4: If there were more selections, potentially from South South Africa.
Speaker 4: We would gotten to see if the frugal one would
Speaker 4: have made the trip offer.
Speaker 2: Frugal one ain't doing that. There's no way, there's no way,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know. So anyway, so initial point
Speaker 2: we know that that there should be some team element,
Speaker 2: maybe a combination of individual team whatever. We know the
Speaker 2: format's a whiff, but hey, it's just something different with
Speaker 2: different stakes, with different prizes, with uniforms with I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is an overnight watch. Maybe you have a young one,
Speaker 2: Maybe you're out late drinking.
Speaker 3: You're maybe you're on the West coast.
Speaker 2: You're yeah, maybe you're on the West coast.
Speaker 4: You're doing your bullshit eastern Eastern time zone. You knows
Speaker 4: that that every Eastern time zone or person does, or
Speaker 4: they act like there's no other You're three hours ahead
Speaker 4: of the people on the West coast. So that ends
Speaker 4: at midnight on the West coast, this glorious golf watching time.
Speaker 3: You got the kids down, you pop the tubon and
Speaker 3: you watch golf.
Speaker 4: You know, it's cocktail golf there, and you're just acting
Speaker 4: like it's you know, like you're just a.
Speaker 3: Whack job if you're out up watching it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's me, the sort of East coast elite from Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 2: That's me, like.
Speaker 4: East coastallyite that hates Australia.
Speaker 2: I'm being pigeonholed again. What takes that I don't even
Speaker 2: actually have? All right, So anyways, I'm moderately intrigued by it.
Speaker 2: This gets back to our discussion last week about how
Speaker 2: the schedule is just so, it just stacks on top
Speaker 2: of each other, more sameness, same, like what sticks out?
Speaker 2: What's the masters? The men's majors just kind of suck
Speaker 2: up all the oxygen more or less from April first
Speaker 2: to the next April or I'm sorry, till January till capoloo.
Speaker 2: I would say, like nothing matter aside from like a
Speaker 2: Ryder cup here or there, and you know, maybe a
Speaker 2: FedEx CuPy. You want to get real, you know, defensive
Speaker 2: about it, but like this is just something different. I
Speaker 2: think it's different. It stands out. I don't. I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to show for it. If you think it's dumb,
Speaker 2: I'm okay here in that argument too. Clearly it doesn't
Speaker 2: have the best feel. It's diminished by you know, from
Speaker 2: the promise of what it could have been. You know,
Speaker 2: Tiger and Phil talked about this becoming an Olympic sport
Speaker 2: and how they were just going to try to do
Speaker 2: it every time they could and like that, you know,
Speaker 2: and a lot of guys passed, DJ passed, Brooks, you pass.
Speaker 2: So it's not like perfect. But to me, I'm just
Speaker 2: at least intrigued by it in a way that I'm
Speaker 2: not in the week to week PGA tour at this
Speaker 2: point of the year. So I don't know, you don't
Speaker 2: have to agree that.
Speaker 4: Well, it's I love the fact like in this might
Speaker 4: sound like I'm not saying I don't want these guys
Speaker 4: to make money, but like these guys playing golf for
Speaker 4: not like ten million dollars seven million dollars like they
Speaker 4: do every single week, and actually playing for their country.
Speaker 3: Like it sounds corny, but it actually does.
Speaker 4: You know, it does add like a layer of like, hey,
Speaker 4: these guys really want to go play in the Olympics,
Speaker 4: and that that makes me happy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it clearly means something to someone like Justin Thomas
Speaker 2: doesn't j oh about the twenty fived dumbbells and all that.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 4: That was good self deprecation there. I always appreciate self deprecation,
Speaker 4: and that was that was wonderful and.
Speaker 2: It clearly means something more Colin Xander, who seemed to
Speaker 2: have a real connection affinity to the to Tokyo to
Speaker 2: the Japan area. Certainly in Xander's respect too. They talked
Speaker 2: about how much they come back and how much they
Speaker 2: like love and respect the culture and and you know,
Speaker 2: wish I don't know that a little bit more of
Speaker 2: that bled into the American culture. So all right, we
Speaker 2: have something different.
Speaker 3: We have consumers like they were there. They're the things
Speaker 3: they liked the most were politeness.
Speaker 2: Clean efficiency, efficiency.
Speaker 4: Obedience, like people listened, rules like it.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, if I I don't know, Tokyo has
Speaker 2: like a billion people, and I'm just thinking, like if
Speaker 2: they tried to force some of this in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: where we are, like just the chaos in son of California,
Speaker 2: that you would get with some of the just trying
Speaker 2: to be that efficient and streamlined. All right, So what
Speaker 2: about Kasumika Seki. You see a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of comments on it. We got your boy Carrie Haig
Speaker 2: setting it up with the guy from the European Tour
Speaker 2: I'm missing I'm oh man, I'm blanking David what's his name,
Speaker 2: David Garland. They're setting up the course. They've had a
Speaker 2: a super that's sort of been there eleven weeks. That
Speaker 2: kind of I guess takes the rein and Dennis Ingram
Speaker 2: do you know him, We're familiar with the work.
Speaker 4: Okay, but I think if he doesn't go by Dennis
Speaker 4: the Menace, you know, he gets he's he's a tour agronomist.
Speaker 3: He gets shipped around the country. Oh god, Dennis the
Speaker 3: Menace is coming in.
Speaker 2: I did notice there's a lot of the tour has
Speaker 2: its fingerprints on a lot of this stuff. You know,
Speaker 2: the transcripts tour is all caps. You know the FedEx
Speaker 2: cut the playoffs is all caps. You can tell it's
Speaker 2: not it's they took the week.
Speaker 3: They took the week off.
Speaker 4: That's the biggest, right, there's no other tour. They're still
Speaker 4: competing tour event. The only time that we don't have
Speaker 4: competing tour events is the Players and the Masters.
Speaker 2: And well the US Open. Well, I guess they have
Speaker 2: a KFT. There's no KFT this week.
Speaker 3: I thought there is a KFT this week.
Speaker 2: Aren't they in Omaha, No, no, I think they went
Speaker 2: for price cutter. They're doing next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now you know what it is is they they've
Speaker 4: got the Superseedson schedule. I was looking at the schedule.
Speaker 2: You're looking at the other August.
Speaker 4: I saw the sprinkle Field Swing and I.
Speaker 2: No, but yeah, I think, rarely do you have a
Speaker 2: week where KFT and PGA Tour take off. I mean
Speaker 2: the Open, there's the opposite. For God's sake, there's two
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: There's two of them. It's the Masters of the Players.
Speaker 2: So yeah, nothing else on the State Side Tour, the
Speaker 2: Poonavidra edition of the State Side Tour. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: It sounds like it's gonna be wet. You know, these
Speaker 2: guys are hoping for firm and fast. They talk about
Speaker 2: how meticulous the conditioning is. The greens are greens sound
Speaker 2: undulating a lot of contour. I was enthused to hear
Speaker 2: Carrie Haig say, you know, we want to try to
Speaker 2: keep it at like eleven eleven and a half, so
Speaker 2: we could use some actual slope, use some slope. That's
Speaker 2: an Andy Johnson, you know, mantra. But we'll see if
Speaker 2: that happens or not. It may rain, so much they've
Speaker 2: got a typhoon or a post typhoon. I'm not cure like,
Speaker 2: I'm not on the whole weather the delineation between that,
Speaker 2: but you know it's going to get wet. It sounds
Speaker 2: like it's going to be rainy. I did find it
Speaker 2: interesting that Leishman and Morikawa talked about how the bunkers
Speaker 2: were actually in play, and it was refreshing. I think
Speaker 2: the fas came in and, you know, more or less
Speaker 2: modernize this, to use the euphemism, where like these guys say.
Speaker 4: The bunkers they got modernized by Fasia in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 4: so you know, it's it's been updated, and I think
Speaker 4: it's you know, obviously it's Fazio doesn't really do restoration,
Speaker 4: so it's it's definitely more of a Fassio of course
Speaker 4: now of course.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they just seem to think the bunkers are
Speaker 2: right where they hit it leash in Moricao. So it
Speaker 2: seems like they've been pushing those back now maybe four
Speaker 2: years from now, if they played there, they need to
Speaker 2: be moved back to another thirty or forty yards for
Speaker 2: this time being, though they're in the right spot, I guess,
Speaker 2: so it just doesn't, you know. Unfortunately, it just looks
Speaker 2: like it might be a little wet, but should be enjoyable,
Speaker 2: should be in pristine condition. They're all raving a little
Speaker 2: bit of zoiza grass. I know that I said the
Speaker 2: ball is sinking to the bottom. They want there to
Speaker 2: be some penalty and unpredictability from the rough. So that's
Speaker 2: your course. That's just, of course, got in report anything else.
Speaker 2: We don't have one and done picks. I know there's
Speaker 2: that's not part of this pool, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Why don't you pick one? Why don't you pick one? Anyways,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna pick one.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take sun Jam.
Speaker 4: The goal with the guy with the pressure, Yeah, I'll
Speaker 4: take I'll take Demon.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good pick. Great pick, playing well, playing.
Speaker 4: Well, Yeah, I kind of wanted to take a Meto
Speaker 4: Meto or the boy from Bratislava.
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Speaker 2: in the shotgun the Friday Pro Shop had some logistical issues.
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Speaker 2: little crew n soccer games. Bradislava Athletic Department. What's that?
Speaker 2: That's a podcast that whatever? All right? So well, that'll
Speaker 2: be up Wednesday. Anything else on the Olympics you want
Speaker 2: to get into? You have three things to watch or no?
Speaker 4: I got things okay? At the military service obviously that's
Speaker 4: number one. That's the easy, easy one to pull out.
Speaker 4: We get the boy from brought to Slava. I love
Speaker 4: his pairing. He's got Mito Perreira and Renato Perritory. You know,
Speaker 4: two young youngsters playing with the wily vet might teach
Speaker 4: him a thing or two about national pride and citizenship.
Speaker 2: That it is interesting. I you know, this might be
Speaker 2: the most subdued scripting that Sabo has worn in like
Speaker 2: ten years, fifteen years. They got him just like basic Navies.
Speaker 2: They really let him down in the Slovak Golf Association,
Speaker 2: really let him down on that because some of these unis.
Speaker 4: Against the Do they have rules against bracelets in competition?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I wonder about that.
Speaker 3: How do you think that?
Speaker 4: How do you think the Slovak citizens will you know,
Speaker 4: react if he if he claims a medal and he's
Speaker 4: on there with all of his bracelets. Do you think
Speaker 4: that'll be a big hit and brought to Slava?
Speaker 2: It could become a trend, a national trend, that's what
Speaker 2: you're suggesting. There's there's like five million people that live there.
Speaker 2: I was researching that that nation a little bit. It's
Speaker 2: bigger than we give a credit for. So I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to.
Speaker 4: Do you think somebody do you think somebody could do
Speaker 4: a game within the game? Do you think somebody could
Speaker 4: create this leaderboard for us? Do you think that there's
Speaker 4: a listener out there that would do this?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Because this is my third thing?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 4: Competition? I want leader board? So there's a bunch of countries.
Speaker 4: I didn't do the math, but that there's a bunch
Speaker 4: with two players or two players or more so let's uh,
Speaker 4: let's break USA into USA one, USA two. I don't
Speaker 4: know who you want to put on USA one, USA two.
Speaker 4: England would get broken up. But let's get some two
Speaker 4: man two man competition. I this is what I'm kind
Speaker 4: of watching. I want to know, Like, I think it
Speaker 4: would be super cool. Like if Belgium with d Tree
Speaker 4: and Peters they could totally win.
Speaker 3: You know, and that would be neat.
Speaker 4: But they aren't gonna you know, they are gonna get
Speaker 4: a chance to win the team gold. So I want
Speaker 4: I want to shadow leader board just like the uh
Speaker 4: just like the championship. Yeah, that that features the two
Speaker 4: man teams.
Speaker 2: I don't think there is any anybody with four England,
Speaker 2: Great Britain just sent too because all those guys passed.
Speaker 2: I think it's just Casey and Fleetwood. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: love that. I love that idea. It's a great idea.
Speaker 3: Shadow who should we read with read and.
Speaker 2: Go by world rankings? Just reading JT. So the.
Speaker 3: Reading JT, Xander and Morikawa. That seems like that. That's good.
Speaker 3: That's good. I like that.
Speaker 2: You don't want you want to put the two likable
Speaker 2: ones together and then balance it out. You don't want
Speaker 2: to balance you know where You're just kind of torn
Speaker 2: on who to back the two two America teams. Anyways,
Speaker 2: the Thomases are a great bat I know you're England
Speaker 2: for that, you're a lion. I but they dominated that
Speaker 2: World Cup in Australia ago. Yeah, so they legit could
Speaker 2: win this thing. I don't know how well Peters has
Speaker 2: been playing, but obviously Detrie has played well.
Speaker 4: The thing is like, who knows what happens if a
Speaker 4: tea competition all of a sudden, it could get somebody
Speaker 4: out of rut that's like tired of playing for themselves.
Speaker 4: Like it adds some juice, like you play whether or
Speaker 4: not you anybody.
Speaker 3: Cares to admit it. Like, if you're in a team competition,
Speaker 3: you have a.
Speaker 4: Partner, your mindset's completely different than if you're playing by yourself.
Speaker 4: I think there's less time for wallowing if you're on
Speaker 4: a team. You know, there's no not as much woe's
Speaker 4: me time, you know, yeah for me, because you're you're
Speaker 4: you know, thinking about I got I can't let down.
Speaker 2: To these guys. Porter I saw was tweeting another game
Speaker 2: within the game about the spread. Obviously there's no cut.
Speaker 2: There's big, big gap between some of these lower world
Speaker 2: ranking guys. You know, I don't know who it could be.
Speaker 2: Gavin Green, He's probably more distinguished than driving by Gavin Green,
Speaker 2: you day in Maine from India. I don't know Juvik Pagnits.
Speaker 2: You just don't know Scott Vincent of Zimbabwe. And there
Speaker 2: just could be a big spread out there, no cut,
Speaker 2: you know, just you're kind of left out there to
Speaker 2: putter and billow home as you're fifty five strokes behind
Speaker 2: the lead. All right, And one other thing. It just
Speaker 2: did not to get set. But like the prize actually
Speaker 2: means something. It's memorable. Like I don't know if you
Speaker 2: asked me who won the twenty seventeen whatever, wells Fario,
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but we remember who won the
Speaker 2: gold medal. We remember who won, like you made this
Speaker 2: point actually, now that I think about it, you made
Speaker 2: this with Bacon, right, you talked about this recently, like
Speaker 2: you kind of remember who win place and show. I
Speaker 2: just think like it matters something to your career to
Speaker 2: say for some not at all, to say like I
Speaker 2: want a freaking gold medal, and so it's just for
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Speaker 2: provider of the Solheim Cup team. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: back to the schedule for the week the US Senior
Speaker 2: Women's Open. This is at Brooklawn Country Club in Connecticut,
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday only on TV two to five on
Speaker 2: Golf Channel. Oh, I got notables here. I was sent
Speaker 2: some notables. Yeah, Brooklawn CC and Fairfield defending champus Helen
Speaker 2: Alfredson from twenty nineteen. It's the third addition. This started
Speaker 2: a Chicago golf club a few years ago, then it
Speaker 2: went to Pine Needles, is that right? The second year,
Speaker 2: and then canceled last year and now we're back at Brooklawn.
Speaker 2: Notables Anika Joe, Anne Big, Mamacarner, Laura Davies, Julie Angster,
Speaker 2: Becky Iverson, Crystal Parker, Nancy Bowen, Laurie Kane, Elaine Crosby,
Speaker 2: Louri Rinker, Patricia Earhart, Cherry Wright, Amy Kennedy are some
Speaker 2: of the notables. And that is the.
Speaker 3: Earhart right in Kennedy like Earhart, the.
Speaker 4: Amelia Earhart, Kennedy, the Kennedy Space Center and right the
Speaker 4: right brothers, the first pilost.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 2: I just I just saw Caine, Crosby and Wrinker a
Speaker 2: little hockey trio, Kane, Iverson, Parker and Bowen. Oh god,
Speaker 2: I just like this all went flew right over my head.
Speaker 2: Tony Parker the front cart.
Speaker 3: Or Candace Parker.
Speaker 2: There's a second one. Fisher, Peers and Tanya Gill, Danka Krks.
Speaker 3: Fish that could be either fishing.
Speaker 4: They could be fishing or basketball still Derek Fisher, Paul Pierce,
Speaker 4: Kendall Gill or it could be fish.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. You're having fun with you. I like
Speaker 2: good stuff. So that's a that's a fun watch. It's
Speaker 2: late afternoon, two to five on Saturday and Sunday. I
Speaker 2: saw Shane Bacon's being quoted cited by Julie Yankster, Who's
Speaker 2: I think this is her day in this event US
Speaker 2: Senior Women's because Bacon, I guess he is giving her reads.
Speaker 2: Bacon is a member now, he's a big Northeast He's
Speaker 2: an East Coast elitist. You know, if there ever was
Speaker 2: one living up in Connecticut.
Speaker 4: Taking a run, taking a run at Assis, I'm not
Speaker 4: taking taking a run at.
Speaker 2: Bacon, Connecticut, all of Connecticut. I don't not come on,
Speaker 2: get out of here, all right, some aigster. I think
Speaker 2: that's obviously we have some sort of we have I
Speaker 2: don't know, affinity firm with the spotlight we did and
Speaker 2: more of the research. Obviously, quoting citing Shane Bacon for
Speaker 2: course knowledge well is a good way to win our
Speaker 2: hearts as well. Uh So it'll be fun to watch
Speaker 2: her and her debut of this event. Obviously Joey and Carner,
Speaker 2: she's eighty two. It's just amazing she's out there. Great stuff.
Speaker 2: I saw there was some like they're trying to figure
Speaker 2: out how to stuff the course, right, I mean, because
Speaker 2: there's a great variant in play, you obviously set it
Speaker 2: up so it's playable. Or someone who might be on
Speaker 2: the older spectrum of the Senior Women's Open, but like
Speaker 2: they're then they're like the younger women on the spectrum
Speaker 2: who can still vomit. So it's interesting sort of not dilemma,
Speaker 2: but but a consideration certainly. All right. So that is
Speaker 2: the USGA, their run of championships continuing through the summer.
Speaker 2: We've got to mention the US Junior on Monday, but
Speaker 2: again we're on a cell phone and you're in a
Speaker 2: clubhouse bar, all right. Continuing on with our schedule for
Speaker 2: the week, we have a mixed event Try Try sanctioned
Speaker 2: between the LPGA, the LET and the European Tour. Excuse me, with.
Speaker 3: These organizations working together.
Speaker 2: Well, like this might be the longest title in the
Speaker 2: history of It's not can't be the longest, but it's
Speaker 2: up there. It has punctuation embedded within the title, with
Speaker 2: exclamation points flying around ips hand to world invitation, all
Speaker 2: presented by modest exclamation point Modest golf management. Isn't that
Speaker 2: kind of an oxymoron?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You're putting an exclamation point at the end of modest.
Speaker 2: It's kind of modest to just be thrown around exclamation
Speaker 2: points illy nilly Modest Golf management. I don't know what
Speaker 2: that is. What they do.
Speaker 4: Shout to Modest Golf Management and seek out their services
Speaker 4: just just to podcasts. Yeah, well just for this podcast
Speaker 4: to make you irritated that that there's the modest golf
Speaker 4: management involved with the with our podcast Modest.
Speaker 2: But it's but it's Modest golf managed, Modest golf management.
Speaker 2: You got to get that exclamation point.
Speaker 4: They should add all caps because anybody that writes anything
Speaker 4: in all caps just should be They should have email privileges,
Speaker 4: tweeting privileges removed revoked forever if you do all caps
Speaker 4: and an exclamation mark.
Speaker 2: And of course you the ISPs hand to which nob
Speaker 2: he seems to know what it is. But it's the
Speaker 2: modern debuick. Just you know, sponsoring golf tournaments all over
Speaker 2: the world, all right. This is at gal Gorm Castle GC,
Speaker 2: Ballyman of Northern Ireland and Massarene Golf Club golf Course
Speaker 2: in Antrim, Northern Ireland. So it's one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: four men, one hundred and forty four women person is
Speaker 2: the same amount for both, one point five million for each.
Speaker 2: Field notables Catlin Thorn, Chai jd you haven't heard that
Speaker 2: name in a while, Andy Sullivan, Charlie Hall and Jennifer
Speaker 2: Kupp Choe that looks like a whatever, Christopher Broberg, Demetrius
Speaker 2: Papadados and Jack Senior bro Papa and Senior, Catherine Perry, Hampski,
Speaker 2: Gabrielle La cow Hamski Cowi, Chloe Frankish, Maddy Lamb, David Horsey,
Speaker 2: I'll yeah, depending meets meets you, Cagrill if you're really adventurous.
Speaker 2: Maybe Horse he's getting a little too far, but Frank's
Speaker 2: and ham uh Ursula Wickstrom, Elana Uriel Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez
Speaker 2: looks like baseball players. Maybe Elizabeth Nagel, Alejandro Tossti and
Speaker 2: Pa Pavarisa Yachtan, David Dixon, Dick Sha Dagar and Justin Harding,
Speaker 2: and then Robin Williams ALRP. He's also notable. He or
Speaker 2: she I don't know is also a notable.
Speaker 3: James Morrison's Flying hit It Too.
Speaker 2: This is a coffee golf.
Speaker 3: The pop culture group A Little.
Speaker 2: Late for coffee golf. But nine to two pm all
Speaker 2: four days, more or less.
Speaker 3: You're doing it again.
Speaker 4: It's late for coffee golf in the Eastern time zone.
Speaker 4: It's not late for coffee golf. Were our friends on
Speaker 4: the West coast?
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's it's all right. I'm just reading off the
Speaker 2: Eastern They're listed on the Eastern time zone. All right,
Speaker 2: I apologize. We're not doing the conversions in my head.
Speaker 2: Pready challenged enough to make any kind of mouth and
Speaker 2: on the fly adjustments on this podcast. So it's nine
Speaker 2: to two, big window. That's a big window. Now. Granted
Speaker 2: some of that's European Tour, but the LPGA, you know,
Speaker 2: sometime relegated to these tape delay and this hour here,
Speaker 2: hour there. It's more or less. It's it's in a
Speaker 2: prime window every morning after Olympics and nine to two.
Speaker 2: So that's your uh, that's your schedule for the week.
Speaker 2: We have the Olympics, Men's Olympics, the Senior Women's Open,
Speaker 2: and this mixed event in Northern Ireland between the LPGA
Speaker 2: let and the European Tour. Got it? Anything else on
Speaker 2: your schedule?
Speaker 3: I got event, I got a vent of the week.
Speaker 2: I think I know where you're going with this. Where where?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: Two amateur events? Grabbed my grabbed at my heart.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know we've got the Pennsylvania Amateur being played
Speaker 4: at Mary.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, we got it. I was
Speaker 2: getting DMS from Chris Rozel about that pretty good stuff
Speaker 2: I heard. It's a minute condition.
Speaker 4: This is a this is a golf state. And you know,
Speaker 4: the city of Philadelphia does a great job along with Ohio,
Speaker 4: in Wisconsin and the met they do a wonderful job
Speaker 4: providing excellent championship venues for their amateur golfers. It's great
Speaker 4: for you know, think about the sixteen year old kid
Speaker 4: that gets to play in this, you know, amateur. It's
Speaker 4: going to better prepare him when he plays college golfer,
Speaker 4: plays qualifies for his first USGA event. You know, this
Speaker 4: can be said about some state golf associations, others not
Speaker 4: you know, naming any names.
Speaker 3: You know, continually field.
Speaker 4: These events at very poor venues that you know, they
Speaker 4: don't really put the work in.
Speaker 3: These guys put the work in.
Speaker 4: This is an awesome experience for everybody involved. Right now,
Speaker 4: it's through two rounds. Patrick Shehan is leading John Sowin
Speaker 4: by two shots.
Speaker 3: So and then the end of the week.
Speaker 4: Is the Western m the Masters golf being held at
Speaker 4: the glen View Club. It's of course that caddy at
Speaker 4: for a couple of years. Surprisingly, you know, nobody, nobody
Speaker 4: even asked me to caddy for him.
Speaker 3: Do people know that the back No?
Speaker 2: All right, so well, maybe they'll call you in for
Speaker 2: the matchplay bracket. Maybe they'll get the call of the
Speaker 2: bull plan you come running out. I'm back the bag now.
Speaker 2: So God, what's the format that's the most largest march
Speaker 2: and the amateur golf?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: What refresh my mind on this?
Speaker 4: Thirty six holes cut, fifty four holes cut, and then
Speaker 4: it goes to, you know, seventy two holes. The top
Speaker 4: sixteen players make matchplay match play in thirty six hole final,
Speaker 4: so just an absurd amount of golf.
Speaker 3: It's very hot here right now. It's like it's like
Speaker 3: ninety five degrees.
Speaker 2: So it's all in five days too, right, twenty six
Speaker 2: to thirty first, I think it's.
Speaker 4: You're basically just playing thirty six So after the first
Speaker 4: two days after the eighteen eighteen actually there might not
Speaker 4: be there might there's not a fifty four hole cut
Speaker 4: it's eighteen eighteen thirty six hole cut then you play
Speaker 4: thirty six holes. That's thirty six holes in a day.
Speaker 4: From there, it's brutal.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: It's a lot.
Speaker 1: Ok.
Speaker 4: The thing that it's physically exhausting, but the thing that
Speaker 4: kills you with the back to back thirty six old
Speaker 4: days is the mental exhaustion that you know you're playing
Speaker 4: these matches or you're you're on the cut line to
Speaker 4: make the top sixteen really great players. Uh, Ricky Castilio
Speaker 4: is in the field, you know. I saw I saw
Speaker 4: one of the one of the teammates of the Burly Boys,
Speaker 4: Logan McAlister, who's right now in T six, was wearing
Speaker 4: a fried Egg hat today.
Speaker 2: No, really, that's awesome, that's great.
Speaker 4: He's wearing a fried Egg rope hat out there. This
Speaker 4: is three hundred.
Speaker 3: He's in t.
Speaker 2: Sticks over the locals. He comes to Chicago. He knows
Speaker 2: like it's like Payne Stewart wearing the local NFL team
Speaker 2: when you go to the local regional market when the
Speaker 2: tour would stop. When he's in Chicago, wear the egg hat.
Speaker 4: Honestly thinking about driving up to the our shipping shipping
Speaker 4: facility and just grabbing a ton of gear and just
Speaker 4: driving it down.
Speaker 2: To him shipping facility. Okay, okay, your sister's house, right,
Speaker 2: can tell everybody. We've already told her that. You've already
Speaker 2: told everybody that. All right, you said that. The last
Speaker 2: time we give him a crew neck brought us a
Speaker 2: lot of athletic department crew neck too. While you're there,
Speaker 2: get him that. I probably can't wear that this week,
Speaker 2: but that's awesome. He was in an eggcat. That's great.
Speaker 4: So we got we got five tied for the lead.
Speaker 4: This is the premiere. This is the Amateur Western am
Speaker 4: that went with the at Western Open. It's two golf
Speaker 4: events schedule, two majors. Yeah, unfortunately there's only one left.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about. I'm going to the Western
Speaker 2: a Western Open this year. I will go drive up
Speaker 2: the road to my East coast elitist. We we took
Speaker 2: your Western Open. It's now in the great city of
Speaker 2: Baltimore or the nearby Baltimore sub suburb Owens Mills or
Speaker 2: whatever it is. Yeah, the Western Open in Maryland. Love that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, at least the Western m is still standing.
Speaker 2: So that's your event of the week. It beat out
Speaker 2: the PA amateur. Is that what you're saying? Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: better event it is. I mean I think I'd probably
Speaker 2: rather play Marion. I don't know anything about glen View, but.
Speaker 4: The first version, the Western since nineteen oh six there
Speaker 4: the original right club, glen View Club was a US
Speaker 4: Open host.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not saying it's bad. I just Marion's good.
Speaker 4: The thing with glen View is it's on the Chicago
Speaker 4: River and uh, like the North Branch, and because of
Speaker 4: all the development up north, when it rains, like if
Speaker 4: it rains an inch, the course just underwater like nothing.
Speaker 2: Do you mean the development all these people know how
Speaker 2: to get running off their homes.
Speaker 4: And yeah, just because of how much stuff has been
Speaker 4: built up north. Where it rains, the water comes down
Speaker 4: the river, it floods like yeah, so pray for pray
Speaker 4: formidable no rain. Brian Moore, the superintendent there, is truly
Speaker 4: one of the best superintendents in Chicago, one of the
Speaker 4: best superintendents of the United States. So like it's been
Speaker 4: the weather's been great, it's probably it's probably playing and
Speaker 4: judging by scores, it's a super forgettable golf course. When
Speaker 4: it's soft and it's it's gotta be firm since four
Speaker 4: unders leading, obviously it's par par seventy this week. But
Speaker 4: it's got to be playing nuclear right now. He's got
Speaker 4: When he gets that thing going, it flies out there.
Speaker 4: So if you're in the Chicago area and just I
Speaker 4: think they're doing streaming this weekend on golf. Really they're
Speaker 4: doing streaming on Saturday and Sunday, I believe, but.
Speaker 2: I wish it was on TV. That's good.
Speaker 4: And if you're in the Chicago area, like you go
Speaker 4: watch like future stars, like I mean, I watched, uh,
Speaker 4: I watched manually play Nick Hardy a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: I caddied for my buddy a few years ago at
Speaker 4: Skochy uh Ricky Castill still oh in the practice he
Speaker 4: played the first rounds with him, but then in the
Speaker 4: later rounds he played with thirty six holes with Davis Riley,
Speaker 4: which was cool. I mean, you see these guys, like
Speaker 4: the field is stacked with guys that are legitimately going
Speaker 4: to be on tour in three years more Cowa played
Speaker 4: a few years ago. Like, I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 4: It's it's a cool event. I'm gonna try. I'm really
Speaker 4: busy this week, but I'm gonna try and get over
Speaker 4: there at least for one day because it's a great event.
Speaker 2: I almost confuse this with the place that has the
Speaker 2: KFT event, that's just the Glen Klu Club, because she
Speaker 2: is a Glen View. Okay, I don't know. You know,
Speaker 2: there's too many up there. All right, News, we have nothing.
Speaker 2: We need to get out of here. My wife's yelling
Speaker 2: at me to get out of the main room the
Speaker 2: vacation house where the WiFi is better. All just before
Speaker 2: I got to get my pops in. On news, you
Speaker 2: see Tony Romo playing in the Texas Open stayed Open
Speaker 2: with Johnny Football. Johnny Football forgot to wear pants or something.
Speaker 2: The Monday que was tweeting about it didn't get to
Speaker 2: warm up because they had to scramble to go put
Speaker 2: on pants. It showed up in shorts. But you see
Speaker 2: what Romo's playing it, see what he's doing. He's riding
Speaker 2: around in a cart that has ac indoors. It's a
Speaker 2: hundred degrees and Tony Romo's got a cart that has
Speaker 2: air conditioning in it, but like it looks like legit
Speaker 2: full on doors that open and close. So that's uh whatever,
Speaker 2: I guess it's not. It's it's an open so whatever,
Speaker 2: it's hot. But that's that's our guy, Tony Romo.
Speaker 3: They got protect the club pros. You know. Club pros
Speaker 3: are used to riding carts around love clubs.
Speaker 2: Get out of here. That's her, that's her. What all right? Everyone?
Speaker 2: Enjoy your Wednesdays. We'll be back. Enjoy the enjoy the
Speaker 2: Olympic golf. Uh and we'll be back with you on Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll be back with you on Friday. M. M.