Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to
Speaker 1: you every Wednesday. This week a little US Open recap.
Speaker 1: Wyndham Clark gets his first major championship. I mean, what
Speaker 1: a impressive, impressive performance from Wyndom Clark. I think the
Speaker 1: beginning of twenty twenty two is outside the top one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty in the world and now firmly, firmly
Speaker 1: inside the top fifteen and a major champion now. And
Speaker 1: it's just been a rise and it's something that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people that have watched his golf
Speaker 1: swing over the years and seen how much confidence he
Speaker 1: has listened. You won't find a more confident golfer than
Speaker 1: Wyndom Clark. I mean, he rivals Brooks Koepka in confidence
Speaker 1: and I think that's a massive, massive asset. Someone that
Speaker 1: he works with on the mental game, Julie Ellien, who's
Speaker 1: a very very dear friend of mine. She was quoted
Speaker 1: as telling him stay cocky on Sunday. Every time that
Speaker 1: you hear everybody talking about Ricky Fowler's name, stay cocky
Speaker 1: and play well enough so that they start saying your name.
Speaker 1: And I think the the Sunday, the performance from Wyndham Clark.
Speaker 1: Some of the up and downs that he made on
Speaker 1: the front eight and nine, he could have made anything,
Speaker 1: and that was one of the I think one of
Speaker 1: the things about La Country Club. We saw Dustin Johnson
Speaker 1: make an eight by just hitting it in a bunker,
Speaker 1: missed the fairway by maybe five yards on two and
Speaker 1: ends up making an eight. Wyndham Clark and everybody saw
Speaker 1: on the eighth pole part five, where you're looking to
Speaker 1: try and pick up a shot, he hits just a
Speaker 1: little left and is staring double bogie in the face,
Speaker 1: takes a hack at it doesn't move it. If it
Speaker 1: does move it, it doesn't move it very far. Then hits
Speaker 1: it over the green and then just hits an unbelievable
Speaker 1: chip shot. I mean, just if you haven't been there
Speaker 1: and you haven't played that golf course, TV doesn't do
Speaker 1: that justice. That was down a massive, massive slope, gets
Speaker 1: out of there, and then on nine he could have
Speaker 1: made anything there as well, no green to work with.
Speaker 1: Somehow makes the downhill ten foot that if you're gonna
Speaker 1: win a major championship for parr you have to make those.
Speaker 1: The up and down on eleven was just rediculous. How
Speaker 1: good that was because when he hit it over there,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, okay, now this is you know, he'd been
Speaker 1: a little bit shaky on eight, a little bit shaky
Speaker 1: on nine, and then misses the green left on eleven,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, Okay, He's played so good up until
Speaker 1: this point. He's made all the putts that he's needed
Speaker 1: to make through three days, and he just hit an
Speaker 1: unbelievable shot. I keep saying unbelievable because that's he just
Speaker 1: couldn't believe that he could hit it where he did
Speaker 1: from that position. And then I think the shot of
Speaker 1: the tournament fourteen, you know, watching Royal McElroy right in
Speaker 1: front of him, hits a really good drive and then
Speaker 1: hits it onto the green in an opening from forty
Speaker 1: to fifty and the opening that he ran it up
Speaker 1: is probably five to seven yards wide, and you hit
Speaker 1: it in the bunker left or you get up on
Speaker 1: one of those collars like we saw Rory McRoy get
Speaker 1: up on. I mean, you could make anything. And then
Speaker 1: hung on down the stretch bogie on fifteen, and then
Speaker 1: he just did what he needed to do. And I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say this. I mean, I'm gonna go on a limb.
Speaker 1: I think you could see this coming from a player
Speaker 1: like Wyndham Clark. Like you said, massive, massive amounts of
Speaker 1: self belief. Some people see that as cocky. Some people
Speaker 1: see that as arrogant. I've been lucky enough to be
Speaker 1: around some of the greatest golfers on the planet. They're
Speaker 1: all cocky, They're all arrogant. You can't get to number
Speaker 1: one in the world if you don't. Some of them
Speaker 1: do it quietly. I think Scotty Schffler does it quietly.
Speaker 1: But Scotty Scheffler has a tremendous amount of self belief.
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy, Yeah, probably the most fan favorite player in
Speaker 1: the game right now. Rory has an incredible amount of
Speaker 1: self belief, and I think you have to have that
Speaker 1: as a player. And I think we saw Wyndham Clark
Speaker 1: reach a lot of the potential that a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought he had. But I loved his interview afterwards.
Speaker 1: He said, listen, I think I'm one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the world. I've always thought I'm one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the world. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I would much rather have a player think they're a
Speaker 1: great player than to have a player question it. So
Speaker 1: I think it was a great story. A lot of people,
Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, include myself. I was pulling for
Speaker 1: Ricky Fowler. I worked with Ricky for a long time,
Speaker 1: my dad's worked with Ricky for a long time. My
Speaker 1: dad's now back working with Ricky. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a real step forward for Ricky. I thought the way
Speaker 1: he played Thursday and Friday showed that his game is back.
Speaker 1: It's back to where he can start winning tournaments, where
Speaker 1: he can start contending in major championships. Didn't have his
Speaker 1: best stuff on Sunday. I think part of that is
Speaker 1: he hasn't been there in a while and it's a
Speaker 1: big stage and he didn't get off to a great start.
Speaker 1: But I expect good things from Ricky Fowler going I
Speaker 1: said to some people that know Ricky well that I
Speaker 1: thought Ricky would win before the US Open. He hasn't
Speaker 1: done that, but he had a legit chance to win
Speaker 1: the US Open, and I can definitely see a situation
Speaker 1: to where Ricky Fowler has more chances between now and
Speaker 1: the end of the year to win major. He's got
Speaker 1: a chance to win another major at the British and
Speaker 1: he's got chances to win more tournaments so definitely, I
Speaker 1: think his game is trending in the right direction. I
Speaker 1: think it has been a very smart move for him
Speaker 1: to go back to my dad. But Harmon, I think
Speaker 1: my dad brings a tremendous amount of calmness, tremendous amount
Speaker 1: of stability, a tremendous amount of confidence, and I think
Speaker 1: they're working on the right stuff. I think his golf
Speaker 1: swing is working in a really good position. I like
Speaker 1: the position that he's got at the top of his
Speaker 1: back swing. I don't see the club as flatt and
Speaker 1: is kind of laid off, and that change of direction,
Speaker 1: that transition. Ricky's got a fairly quick, fast tempo. I
Speaker 1: think Saturday night, the eighteenth hole was I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: a turning point, but it's a big two shot swing
Speaker 1: right Wyndham Clark just flags an iron shot, big club twirl,
Speaker 1: gonna make birdie. They're playing in the dark, yet another
Speaker 1: mystery decision by the USGA. We went early on Sunday
Speaker 1: and they couldn't have gone early on Saturday. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the USGA choice. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's an NBC choice, But I talked to Ricky at
Speaker 1: his Caddy and he said they were struggling to see.
Speaker 1: You if you saw Wyndham Clark's interview on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: he said he thought the lack of light affected Ricky.
Speaker 1: Ricky three putts and there's two shots swing and it
Speaker 1: looked very different going into Sunday. But I think Ricky
Speaker 1: is making the improvements that he needs to make, and
Speaker 1: I think he's trending in the right direction. I mean,
Speaker 1: what can you say about Rory McElroy. I've said this
Speaker 1: on the pod a number of times. I'm a massive,
Speaker 1: massive Rory McElroy fan, both on and off the golf course.
Speaker 1: But I thought the golf he played last week was
Speaker 1: was pretty solid. He drove the ball very, very well.
Speaker 1: It looked to me like he had gone back to
Speaker 1: hitting the high bomb nuke draw. Sometimes Rory moves around,
Speaker 1: likes to fade it, likes to cut it. I think
Speaker 1: he plays his best just my opinion. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I think Rory plays his best when he is
Speaker 1: hitting the draw, specifically with the driver. He moved the
Speaker 1: irons both ways. But when Rory is able to stand up,
Speaker 1: and we saw that on the first hole, very first
Speaker 1: first hole, an eighteenth hole, very very wide fairways the
Speaker 1: eighteenth hole some of the widest fairways I've ever seen
Speaker 1: for a US Open, and I've been to a lot
Speaker 1: of them, but I thought some of the drives that
Speaker 1: Ry McElroy hit all last week we were really impressive.
Speaker 1: And listen, it's been nine years since he's won a major.
Speaker 1: I'm as shocked by that as anybody. But he keeps
Speaker 1: giving himself chances. But this is now three weeks in
Speaker 1: a row, Memorial, RBC and the US Open where Ry
Speaker 1: McElroy is in the last group A Memorial and RBC
Speaker 1: and doesn't get it done, where everybody is expecting him
Speaker 1: to win, and then he's in the second to last group.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people were picking Rory
Speaker 1: to win that tournament, to win another major championship, to
Speaker 1: get to five, to break the duck that he's been,
Speaker 1: the cycle that he's been on of not winning one
Speaker 1: since two thousand, was it twenty fourteen, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's crazy. I mean, it's just crazy to think
Speaker 1: that it's been since Valhalla that Roy McElroy has won
Speaker 1: a major championship. I think they get harder to win
Speaker 1: the longer he goes without winning one. Because the question
Speaker 1: every week that he plays major championship is he's one
Speaker 1: of the favorites, but can he get it done? But
Speaker 1: I think his game is it's made for major championships.
Speaker 1: It really is. I think he is made for major championships. Yes,
Speaker 1: he hasn't won a major in nine years, but Roy
Speaker 1: McElroy is going to have. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: have another legit chance at Hoylake. He's won an Open
Speaker 1: Championship before, so I fully, fully suspect that Rory McElroy
Speaker 1: will be in the mix come Sunday, late Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: at Hoylake for the Open Championship. And listen you can see.
Speaker 1: I thought Roy looked different last week. I really did.
Speaker 1: I think everything that's gone on in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks in golf, it looked like Rory was focusing
Speaker 1: more on the golf and less on some other suf
Speaker 1: I saw him finish on Saturday night and come out
Speaker 1: of scoring and go straight from scoring into locker room.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him give any interviews. He looked all
Speaker 1: business last week. He didn't really I didn't see him
Speaker 1: talking to a lot of people. I didn't see him.
Speaker 1: I saw him being very, very focused. I saw Rory
Speaker 1: last week kind of doing the same thing that Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods didn't major championships. He didn't talk to anybody, didn't
Speaker 1: really give a lot of interviews, didn't really answer a
Speaker 1: lot of questions, and he looked all business last week.
Speaker 1: And he comes up one show he's got the game right.
Speaker 1: I mean he is. I mean, he's Rory McElroy. He's
Speaker 1: to me, he's one of the most dominant players of
Speaker 1: this generation, and I just love the way he plays golf.
Speaker 1: And he's going to win another major championship, if it's
Speaker 1: not at the Open Championship in a couple two three weeks.
Speaker 1: He's going to be one of the favorites going into
Speaker 1: the Masters, He's going to be one of the favorites
Speaker 1: going into the PGA next year. He's going to be
Speaker 1: one of the favorites going into the US Open and
Speaker 1: the Open Championship. So I think we saw some good
Speaker 1: things from Rory, and we've definitely seen some very very
Speaker 1: good golf from Rory of the last three weeks. He's
Speaker 1: playing his fourth tournament in a row, which he doesn't
Speaker 1: normally do. It's a designated event on the PGA tour,
Speaker 1: So there were a lot of players that are playing.
Speaker 1: They're playing a lot of golf, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how Hartford plays out. A player
Speaker 1: that I really really like. I like his game, minwou
Speaker 1: Lee finished I think tied for fifth. His sister is
Speaker 1: a major champion. His sister has a great golf swing.
Speaker 1: Minwu's got a great golf swing and he's a really
Speaker 1: really cool kid. Three four years ago, he would kind
Speaker 1: of use Dubai as a base when he was on
Speaker 1: the European Tour and he would hang out at my
Speaker 1: academy at the L's Club in Dubai, and you know,
Speaker 1: on Saturdays and Fridays when we would have all our
Speaker 1: junior junior camps and junior development courses, we'd have a
Speaker 1: bunch of games and be testing the players, and it
Speaker 1: was always cool. My god, Jamie McConnell, who runs my
Speaker 1: academy out there, who's been on the pod, would send
Speaker 1: me videos of Min Wu just you know, hanging out
Speaker 1: with sixteen seventeen year olds, fifteen year old kids, you know,
Speaker 1: going through skills test and trying to get better. So
Speaker 1: I thought that was a really cool thing to see.
Speaker 1: I think He's got a very very bright, bright future,
Speaker 1: and I think he's a player to watch. Tom Kim
Speaker 1: lit it up, had it going. I think he's a
Speaker 1: player to watch. I think I think the ceiling in
Speaker 1: the runway for Tom Kim is really really high. But
Speaker 1: Wyndham Clark is a major champion. And don't be surprised
Speaker 1: if Wyndam Clark keeps winning golf tournaments. And don't be
Speaker 1: surprised if Wyndam Clark gets inside the top ten or
Speaker 1: the top five in the world, because he is legit.
Speaker 1: He has a legit game, and there is no one
Speaker 1: that believes that he should be where he is more
Speaker 1: than Wyndom Clark. I think the emotion that he he
Speaker 1: showed and everything that he's gone through with losing his mom.
Speaker 1: He's a national champion. He played college golf at Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State and then senior year transferred to Oregon and they
Speaker 1: won a national championship. So he's doing all of the
Speaker 1: right things that you need to do to become a
Speaker 1: great player. And you win a US Open and it
Speaker 1: puts you in a very very different category. And he
Speaker 1: has his first major champion ship. So John Rahm, Brooks
Speaker 1: Koepka and now, Wyndham Clark, those are your three major champions.
Speaker 1: Who is going to get the last one? The Open Championship,
Speaker 1: I think is probably the most wide open of all
Speaker 1: the tournaments, all the majors, because you just don't know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get from a weather standpoint. The golf
Speaker 1: course will be lynxy. Is it gonna run fast? Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be hard? Is it? What are you going
Speaker 1: to get? So I'm really looking forward to getting over
Speaker 1: there and checking that out La Country Club. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest. It did not to me. It's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: It just didn't feel like a major. It really didn't.
Speaker 1: It felt like a new tournament on a golf course
Speaker 1: that no one had really. The golf course looked fantastic
Speaker 1: on TV, and it looked fantastic in person. There were
Speaker 1: players that liked it, and there were players that didn't. Brooks,
Speaker 1: Matt Fitzpatrick, Victor Hovlin. They weren't big fans. There were
Speaker 1: other player I'm sure Wyndham Clark's a fan, but I
Speaker 1: didn't hear en mass players and caddies just raving about
Speaker 1: the golf course the way that they normally do it
Speaker 1: at major championships. When we go to great golf courses.
Speaker 1: It felt flat. I mean, I think if you were
Speaker 1: looking at social media, there were a lot of people
Speaker 1: talking about it. It was next to impossible to walk.
Speaker 1: It was a very, very difficult spectator course to watch.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of t boxes that you couldn't
Speaker 1: get to, there were a lot of green complexes where
Speaker 1: you weren't necessarily able to get around them, and it
Speaker 1: just seemed like and I think due to the location
Speaker 1: right in the middle of Beverly Hills, they'd got two
Speaker 1: golf courses, but there were a bunch of reports that
Speaker 1: ticket sales weren't nearly what they normally are, and you
Speaker 1: could tell and listen major championships. The fans, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: play a huge role in major championship golf, and there
Speaker 1: was a definite subdued, corporate country club kind of feel
Speaker 1: to last week. And I'm just being honest, I'm just
Speaker 1: giving my opinion. I played that golf course before, I
Speaker 1: played it before the Gilhans redesign. It's one of those
Speaker 1: clubs in America to where there are more rules than
Speaker 1: you can read. It's very exclusive, and it just didn't
Speaker 1: have that. Like I said, I just I keep going
Speaker 1: back to it. It just it just didn't have that
Speaker 1: major championship feel to it. And I think the fans
Speaker 1: not being there in full force like they normally are
Speaker 1: played a big, big role in that. You just didn't
Speaker 1: hear all these roars that you normally hear from all
Speaker 1: over the golf course when somebody does something. You'd hear
Speaker 1: it occasionally, but yeah, it was the golf course I
Speaker 1: think was I heard funky from a player, I heard
Speaker 1: gimmicky from a player. I heard unique from a player,
Speaker 1: which is never a good thing when someone says it's
Speaker 1: unique and they don't back up the reasons why it's unique.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think the I mean they're
Speaker 1: going back there, I think, but I think they've got
Speaker 1: to find a way when they do go back there,
Speaker 1: they've got to find a way to get more fans in.
Speaker 1: There were just tons of rumors about why there weren't
Speaker 1: fans there. Did the membership buy up the tickets so
Speaker 1: that the golf course didn't get beat up? I mean,
Speaker 1: you just you just heard a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it felt to me a little flat. I've
Speaker 1: been to a lot of US opens, I've been to
Speaker 1: everyone since gosh, two thousand and I've been to every
Speaker 1: US Open for the last decade, and I went to
Speaker 1: a ton before I went to US opens in the eighties.
Speaker 1: I went to US opens in the nineties. I went
Speaker 1: to a bunch of US opens in the Tiger Era,
Speaker 1: and last week was the most subdued and flat that
Speaker 1: I've been to. And if I'm honest, it's probably my
Speaker 1: least favorite one that I've been to in my entire
Speaker 1: you know life. Now, I'm a massive LA guy. I
Speaker 1: used to live in LA. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't like Los Angeles. Traffic's terrible, but I spent
Speaker 1: almost three years in LA and it's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite places in the world. It was a great host town.
Speaker 1: There were, you know, all the manufacturers, a bunch of
Speaker 1: the organizations. Everybody was having parties. I mean La Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: I mean it showed out. I mean it was great.
Speaker 1: I mean there was a bunch of stuff to do.
Speaker 1: Food's great, the ViBe's great, the weather's great. But in
Speaker 1: my opinion, the golf course and the week just felt
Speaker 1: something felt different. Maybe maybe it changes the next time
Speaker 1: they go back there. Maybe the golf course changes. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it did feel a little bit, like
Speaker 1: I said, I just keep saying the same word flat
Speaker 1: and subdued. And it was an interesting It was an
Speaker 1: interesting week, but everybody's playing the same golf course. And
Speaker 1: I think it was a big boy golf course, but
Speaker 1: it was also it was a small golf course for
Speaker 1: certain players. I think one of the things I did
Speaker 1: like about L A c C As a major championship
Speaker 1: venue is we saw a big mix of different types
Speaker 1: of games on the on the leader boards, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw a guy like Brian Harmon, who listen, Brian
Speaker 1: gets it done very differently than Rory McElroy and Wyndham
Speaker 1: Clark gets it done right, you know. And so I
Speaker 1: think we I saw the golf course you could play
Speaker 1: it maybe different ways, but it did seem like if
Speaker 1: you hit the ball a yard offline, you could be
Speaker 1: making X. And I don't know if that's a great test.
Speaker 1: And then there were just some holes, especially on the
Speaker 1: back nine, that you know, it's like they can't you know,
Speaker 1: they weren't, you know, the thirteenth hole, the fourteenth tee,
Speaker 1: you know, there were no spectators out there. There were
Speaker 1: no spectators around really the fifteenth green, which is this
Speaker 1: tiny little green, and you know they played it at
Speaker 1: eighty something yards brooks Keepka may double on an eighty
Speaker 1: something yard part three and four putted. I thought that
Speaker 1: was kind of cool. It was fun to watch the
Speaker 1: best players in the world control a little eighty ninety
Speaker 1: one hundred yard web shot. I think one of the
Speaker 1: things that was that everybody was trying to figure out
Speaker 1: is do you tee it up? You tee up a
Speaker 1: lob wedge from Ady Art. If you do it tends
Speaker 1: to add more spin, the ball goes further, So I
Speaker 1: think club selection, I think that part of it was fun.
Speaker 1: But the eighteenth hole, for a finishing hole, it had
Speaker 1: one of the widest fairways I've ever seen for a
Speaker 1: major championship. And I mean, I think the jury's out
Speaker 1: on whether it's good, whether that's bad. Early in the
Speaker 1: week we get the news that the PGA Tour Commissioner
Speaker 1: Jay Monahan is taking a step back from the PJ
Speaker 1: Tour due to health reasons. I heared as many people
Speaker 1: last week. There were as many rumors last week that
Speaker 1: Jay was very, very ill as there were that there
Speaker 1: was nothing wrong with him. And this was just is
Speaker 1: this the way out for j I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever I've been around professional golf pretty much my entire life.
Speaker 1: You know, my dad played the PGA Tour when I
Speaker 1: was young. I'm told that I was on the PGA
Speaker 1: Tour two weeks after I was born, in the back
Speaker 1: of the station wagon, and pretty much the majority of
Speaker 1: my life. I'm fifty four years old, I've been involved
Speaker 1: with professional golf at some level, and really for the
Speaker 1: last fifteen years, it's been the major part of my life.
Speaker 1: And I've never seen a time where an entire sport organization,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. You had everybody there
Speaker 1: last week, and literally, to a man, no one has
Speaker 1: any idea what's going on in professional golf. They don't
Speaker 1: know if this merger is going to happen. They don't
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen with Live. They don't know
Speaker 1: if players who turn down live contracts are going to
Speaker 1: get money. And not only do the players not know,
Speaker 1: the agents don't know either. The manufacturers don't know. No
Speaker 1: one knows what's going on in professional golf right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe Jimmy Dunn knows, maybe Ed Early knows. Yeah, Sir
Speaker 1: Jay I guess they know, but I just don't know
Speaker 1: anyone else that I've been able to talk to that
Speaker 1: isn't in the dark like everyone else. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a very very interesting time because nobody knows what's
Speaker 1: going on right now in professional golf. I thought the
Speaker 1: week from a PGA tour versus live standpoint, I really
Speaker 1: didn't see a lot of animosity or you know, people
Speaker 1: really talking about it. I just see everybody was just
Speaker 1: kind of saying, hey, we don't know. And you would
Speaker 1: talk to somebody and you would say to somebody on
Speaker 1: the range, hey have you heard anything, and they'd say, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything, and somebody would ask, hey have
Speaker 1: you heard that? And then I think one of the
Speaker 1: things that's frustrating right now for everyone involved is right
Speaker 1: now everything is just a rumor. Everything you hear right
Speaker 1: now in professional golf, and for everybody listening, those of
Speaker 1: us that are inside the sport right now, I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody really has any idea what's going on. So
Speaker 1: very very interesting times. I hope Jay Monahan's doing well.
Speaker 1: The last thing that that you would want for someone
Speaker 1: like Jay, with everything that he's been through, Jay's had
Speaker 1: a tough go Jay had to deal with COVID and
Speaker 1: try and figure out how to navigate that, and then
Speaker 1: Jay had to try and figure out how to navigate
Speaker 1: this live situation. What I will say is that's why
Speaker 1: Jay Monahan gets paid the money that he gets paid,
Speaker 1: and he gets paid an enormous amount of money. Jay
Speaker 1: Monahan gets paid that money and has use of the
Speaker 1: PGA tours private jet and flies everywhere private and is
Speaker 1: it the Sun Valley Illuminaate business illuminat conference every summer.
Speaker 1: And so I did hear people saying last week, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been through a tough time, and he has. He's
Speaker 1: been through a very tough time. But but when you're
Speaker 1: the commissioner of a major sports organization like the PGA
Speaker 1: Tour and everything that's happening, there's a price you pay
Speaker 1: for the salary that you're going to make. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure that he has had a lot of sleepless nights
Speaker 1: and is trying to navigate this and and do what's
Speaker 1: best for the game of golf, at least I hope.
Speaker 1: So I don't believe that Jay's doing anything sinister in
Speaker 1: the same way that I don't think the Saudi's are
Speaker 1: doing anything sinister. I mean, you can call me naive,
Speaker 1: you can call me dom, you can call me you know,
Speaker 1: drinking the kool aid. But I think everybody's trying to
Speaker 1: figure this thing out and they're trying to make the
Speaker 1: best of a really tough situation. So I wish Jay
Speaker 1: monahana speedy recovery. I think the big question is is
Speaker 1: will we see j Monahan back as the PGA Tour commissioner.
Speaker 1: I did talk to a lot of players last week
Speaker 1: and caddies that said it seemed like they had they
Speaker 1: had lost confidence, that they didn't have the confidence in
Speaker 1: the leadership at the PGA Tour that they used to have,
Speaker 1: and I could see that. I could definitely see that.
Speaker 1: But it's very very interesting times. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I there's a Live event next week in Spain which
Speaker 1: I'll be going to on Saturday, and it will be
Speaker 1: interesting to get back into the Live ecosystem because since
Speaker 1: this announcement's happened, all the Live guys and everybody associated
Speaker 1: with Live that normally travels has you know, we've had
Speaker 1: some off weeks, so it will be interesting to get
Speaker 1: back inside the Live ecosystem and just see if there's
Speaker 1: any answers, see if there's any more. I mean, right now,
Speaker 1: I think there are more questions than there are answers.
Speaker 1: But it is my hope that in the coming weeks
Speaker 1: and months that everybody can try and find some common
Speaker 1: ground and try and figure out a way to move forward.
Speaker 1: And is their coexistence. I mean, I've heard it so
Speaker 1: many rumors that Lives dead. I don't see that. I
Speaker 1: think Live could change and morph and move into a
Speaker 1: different configuration. But you know, when you've got Rory McElroy
Speaker 1: talking at the RBC Canadian Open about at some point
Speaker 1: there'll be some sort of team element to the PGA
Speaker 1: Tour down the line, I mean that is that what
Speaker 1: happens to Live I don't know, and I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone knows. But what I do know is I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody really knows what's going on right now in
Speaker 1: professional golf. But what I do know is the performance
Speaker 1: last week from Wyndham Clark was it was very very
Speaker 1: impressive and I think he has a very very bright
Speaker 1: future and I think his runway can be very very long.
Speaker 1: He hits the golf ball with speed and I think
Speaker 1: he will take an enormous amount of confidence getting it
Speaker 1: done under the conditions with Basically you can argue that
Speaker 1: he is one of the to me right now, Rory
Speaker 1: John Rahm on the PGA Tour, Rory John ram, Scotti, Scheffler,
Speaker 1: they're kind of the gold standard on the PGA Tour.
Speaker 1: And you know, for Wyndam Clark to stare Rory McElroy
Speaker 1: down and come out on top, you have to play
Speaker 1: some great golf to do that. And if you're going
Speaker 1: to do that a major championship, you have to dig
Speaker 1: deep mentally, you have to have a big heart. And yeah,
Speaker 1: very very impressive from Wyndham Clark. And don't be surprised,
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, do not be surprised if you
Speaker 1: start seeing this guy win on a fairly fairly regular basis,
Speaker 1: and he is going to have chances to win more
Speaker 1: majors because he has big, big time game. Uh So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm excited going to Valderrama on uh
Speaker 1: live a great, great old You know, it's an iconic
Speaker 1: golf course on the European Tour. There have been Ryder
Speaker 1: Cups there. I was there with Tiger in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands. I can't remember I was like, oh, two
Speaker 1: thousand and two thousand and one, I think he won
Speaker 1: a WGC in a playoff with Miguel an Hellhamenez and
Speaker 1: I was with him that week, and I still have
Speaker 1: unbelievable memories of watching Tiger Woods in kind of the
Speaker 1: glory days of the back in the day Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just I remember he won and we
Speaker 1: got in a car and Steve Williams and I and
Speaker 1: Tiger were all going out to dinner, and we were
Speaker 1: driving out in the car and it was dark and
Speaker 1: it was just a sea of flash photography as we
Speaker 1: were driving out. I guess that's what being famous must
Speaker 1: feel like. I sure, as I wouldn't know, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a cool golf course. I'm excited for a bunch
Speaker 1: of the guys that have never seen it to see it,
Speaker 1: and it should be interesting and then another major championship
Speaker 1: not far away. I want to thank everybody for listening, rate, review,
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