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Speaker 1: The opening sound is coached Devin Browse, Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: part one of how and why the women's regional win

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Speaker 1: they get to go out there and do with this

428
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Speaker 1: all started over, which is which is to play golf

429
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: and and you know give it their their best. So

430
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 1: now not only was it, it's it's lovely and it's Hurrahan.

431
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 1: Everybody's happy, but like they're actually they're actually coming out

432
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: here to play some golf and that's gonna be really,

433
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. Ellie Slam is also from Oregon State,

434
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 1: and as we learned in Part one, she had a

435
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 1: chance to compete for the individual title. In the general

436
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 1: aspect of women's sports and women's golf specifically, I think

437
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 1: that this is probably the most publicity that the sport

438
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: has ever had for amateur women's golf, which is very cool.

439
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not the right kind of publicity, but um no,

440
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: I think it's a obulous idea. I would love to

441
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 1: be a part of it. We're trying to figure out

442
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,239
Speaker 1: all the details right now as a team, but I

443
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: think I think it's an incredible thing that our stool

444
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: is doing, and hopefully the n c A will realize

445
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: what they've done wrong and formally apologize and change the

446
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: rules back to Riggs. On the format and structure of

447
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 1: the LTP Classic, you know, they'll play at Whirlwind. There's

448
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: two courses. The plan right now is for them to

449
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 1: play both courses and then Friday um to finish up

450
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 1: with eighteen holes and have there be basically a first, second,

451
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,439
Speaker 1: and third from the individual competition. Um, we we hit

452
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: up you know, our team and said, who's got a

453
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: trophy guy? Like, we need a trophy guy, we need

454
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: some medals. Uh. So we're hipping up stuff that they

455
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: can actually compete for, and then we have to run

456
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,919
Speaker 1: all that by compliance. What can they actually compete for?

457
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 1: What can they win? You know, we've had tournaments reach

458
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: out pro tournaments that have said we want to offer

459
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: in free entry to whoever wins UM the LTP Classic

460
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: and is turning professional afterwards, Like we want to offer

461
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: up free entry. Um is that compliant? Is I gonna

462
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: get anybody in trouble? So? Um? What prizes can we

463
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 1: actually give up to? What dollar value? Uh? You know

464
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: we're trying to figure all of that out and those

465
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 1: are questions we have to run through legal None undoubtedly

466
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: be a fifty four whole individual stroke play competition where

467
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: there will be a first, second, and third who would

468
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: be awarded you know those those prizes, um, and if

469
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: we can get unofficial team aspect in it, we're gonna try. Um,

470
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: but there will be a a fifty four whole you know,

471
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 1: individual stroke put on Monday, the day after our interview,

472
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 1: Riggs confirmed that the n C Double A approved a

473
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: team competition wh're awin. The host of the LTP Classic

474
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 1: is thirty five miles from Grayhawk, host of the National Championship.

475
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,360
Speaker 1: So we're able to cover all their expenses, flights, hotel

476
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: for four nights, UM, all their taxis and ubers and

477
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: all their food. UM. The the kind of compliant aspect

478
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: of that is as long as you offer the same

479
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: thing to everyone, UM, then you're fine. So UM. So

480
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: there's like, you know, certain format ways that you have

481
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: to do that, which is you know, they book at

482
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: their own and then we reimburse them and we offer

483
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: you know everyone again the same kind of coverage of that,

484
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: and we're able to then in order to fund that,

485
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, we came up with merchandise. So again our

486
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: our merchandise team mobilized quickly, um to come up with

487
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: MOX and come up with inventory of of items that

488
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 1: people will buy and in that proceeds of that is

489
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: going to those expenses. UM. And then we've brought on

490
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of partners who are allowed to come on

491
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: as sponsors the expenses. And then there's certain regulations in

492
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: terms of you know, the names and likeness of the

493
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: players that you can't use. UM, but Bushnell's come on,

494
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: Whoop has come on, G Four's come on, Cisco's come on,

495
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: Trifecta's come on, UM Seekik has come on. UM. And

496
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: so we've got all those partners who have committed a

497
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: good amount of money to basically put all that into

498
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: a pool that we will use to pay the expenses

499
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: of every player and UM in a coach or two

500
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: from each team. I asked Riggs who he thought was

501
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: to blame for Baton Rouge. I just don't know the

502
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: answer to that question because I don't know enough about it.

503
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,719
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about the nuts and bolts of

504
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: how it goes down. I don't know who has more

505
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: pull than others. I don't know who ultimately makes the

506
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: call and send somebody down that staircase. UM, I don't

507
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: even know anything about who actually made the announcement. What

508
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: I know was you know that the twelve teams and

509
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: several individuals we're not giving the chance to play. UM.

510
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: I wasn't on site. So what you know is it

511
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: is it possible that the course wasn't playable? Maybe that's

512
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: not even my problem. UM, you know, was it possible

513
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: that there couldn't be another venue founder that they couldn't

514
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: play after a certain date. Maybe that's not my problem.

515
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: What my problem was was they weren't allowed to play.

516
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: They were told to go home. They were booking flights

517
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 1: to actually go home to their real homes because their

518
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: seasons and some of them's careers were over, and we

519
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: had the resources to offer them an opportunity at least

520
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: to play and to play with their school colors on

521
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: their school you know, mat Scots on and and that

522
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: that was what our focus was. So I don't know,

523
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: I just don't know who's, um, who's at fault, Who

524
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: could have changed it, who could have offered up a

525
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: solution that allowed it to be term be determined on

526
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: a golf course, you know, and not on a weird

527
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: viral video on on a staircase. Um. I just know

528
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: that that that those that were able to accept that

529
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: invite are gonna have a chance to play on a

530
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: golf course and compete against the other schools that were there, um,

531
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: And that that's not the same thing as going to

532
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: the n c A Championships. And it's a damn bumber

533
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: that they weren't afforded that opportunity. Uh, but that at

534
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: least their careers and their seasons can end on a

535
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: golf course and not you know, over social media. Are

536
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: we gonna be able to see this? Definitely? We're, um,

537
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, we're sending out basically our top social media folks,

538
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: UM who will be using bars those platforms to cover it.

539
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: So we're gonna We're gonna go live as much as

540
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: we can. UM. Cisco, who's, like I said, coming on

541
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: as as a sponsor who wants to help in this,

542
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: has um some pretty cool surprises that I think will

543
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: lead to some some pretty special moments out there. UM,

544
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be there to cover it and just

545
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: showcase it as as much as we possibly can't big

546
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: thanks to you know, you guys, to a lot of

547
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: the media outlets that have reached out that have been

548
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: interested in this and kind of been able to amplify

549
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: the coverage of it. And and ultimately the girls, I mean,

550
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, getting the young women out there and their

551
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: names out there and and you know, their their results

552
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: and the competition is um is the whole goal of

553
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: the whole thing. So we're gonna live stream, put you know,

554
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: videos and footage out all over our different channels, from

555
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: four Play to bars a little to my personal ones

556
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: and get them out there as much as we can

557
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: so that people can watch them play and they can

558
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: feel supported and feel like people care about their um

559
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: you know, their careers, because clearly, as you've seen, people

560
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: do care. Here's Karen fred Guard who we met in

561
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: Part one. She plays for Garrett Chadwell at the University

562
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: of Houston and was in the odd spot of advancing

563
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: as an individual while her team was sent home. Yeah,

564
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: I definitely think that my team will take advantage of

565
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: that opportunity and go there, and I really hope that

566
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: they do, and they are going to have so much

567
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: fun and go and just show up and kick as Yeah,

568
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: that's I'm really excited for them that they get to

569
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: do that. The whole mission and execution of Barstool on

570
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: behalf of the LTP Classic is beyond impressive. Eric and Nardini,

571
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: Barstool CEO, told the Oregon State team, I'm so proud

572
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: that we're going to put this thing on. I cannot

573
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: wait to watch you guys play. I hope there is

574
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: the biggest crowd on the planet to come cheer you

575
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: on because you guys deserve that moment. Riggs about the

576
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: status of a gallery, I might just open it up

577
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: and just tell as many people as want to come

578
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: as possible, because I think if we could do it

579
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: in a way again we keep people around like the

580
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: first team and the eighteenth Green, we can can create

581
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: a legitimate, like rowdy environment where people were going nuts

582
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: and like chanting, and the girls have never played in

583
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: front of something like that, and I think it would

584
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: just be so cool. Back to Charlie Ewing of Mississippi State,

585
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: I think right now it's really really cool to see

586
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 1: a lot of people from so many different places across

587
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: the country, all the golf, golf media, professional athletes, professional

588
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: golfers are providing an unbelievable amount of support for women's

589
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: golf in general. I think it's gonna be pretty fucking

590
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: cool and it's gonna be very supportive. Like j J.

591
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: Watt d M to me right after we announced that

592
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: we were doing DM to me immediately, It's just like, bro,

593
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: like this is so awesome, like awesome work. If I

594
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: didn't have this other commitment, like I would be in town,

595
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: like he yeah, he dared me this. He's like this

596
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: is awesome, like get, you know, get. He's all fired up.

597
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: He wrote, this is awesome, great work by you and

598
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: everyone involved. Special stuff. J J. Watt. J J Watt

599
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: with his you know, I mean he's got millions of

600
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: five five point six million followers and and he's all

601
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: jacked up about it. So it's it's resonating. I had

602
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: guys today, you know, like Alex Colorin just you know,

603
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: Wanta Stanley Cup, you know, Stanley Cup game kicking off

604
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: their playoffs, and he just texted me while we were

605
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: doing this and just said, great job with the LTP.

606
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: But that's great stuff for real. So I mean, it's

607
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: just resonating with so many people as it should like it.

608
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: It should have pissed people off and it should make

609
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: people happy that they're going to be able to play.

610
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: Thanks again for this. In Part three, I'm joined by

611
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,959
Speaker 1: j Billis, the college basketball analyst and lawyer who has

612
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: been exposing a lot of the dysfunction of the n

613
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: C Double A for a decade. And thank you to

614
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: our partners at Part Points who have developed an app

615
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: that changes the way we score the game. Here's Alan

616
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: Schipnuk on why this app has peaked our interest. I mean,

617
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: when you think about the game as long as its

618
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: been around, the best thing you could come up with

619
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: as an alternate scoring system with a stable for and

620
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: that's it. You know, basketball, you can play horse, you

621
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,959
Speaker 1: can yet you have three pointers, you have two pointers,

622
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: you have one pointers like one seven up. You know,

623
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: like the golf is so static, there's just not a

624
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: lot of different ways to compete. So I love the

625
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: idea of just introducing a new format because they're so

626
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: rare in this sport. Download Part points and go make

627
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: part