Speaker 1: Now, shotgun starting golf is full of mathematics. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of setup work that we have to do in
Speaker 1: order to make a tournament work. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun
Speaker 1: start here and there.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, alright, Dent.
Speaker 3: No man, Dart, your.
Speaker 2: Greetings are welcome to a Friday edition of a Shotgun Start.
Speaker 2: It is January twenty eighth. Andy, how are we doing, Brendan.
Speaker 4: I can't say that I'm complaining. I think we had
Speaker 4: we had to Tuesday show with.
Speaker 2: I can't say that i've't complained. I haven't heard it
Speaker 2: that way, all.
Speaker 4: Right, and a show with a call to the contact guy.
Speaker 4: So we need we need some juice nothing.
Speaker 2: Call a dance, a prayer, a seance, whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call it. And they delivered. They always delivered, Come on.
Speaker 4: They always deliver. We got brooksy DYNA's hair, which is
Speaker 4: just absurd. Just I don't know if I even want
Speaker 4: to really waste time on it.
Speaker 2: I don't need, I don't. It's so it's so superfluous
Speaker 2: and just so. I mean, we deal in the inconsequential
Speaker 2: and silly often, but this one is especially empty. Calorie
Speaker 2: and everybody made the same joke. If people couldn't resist,
Speaker 2: they had to talk about eminem they had to. Like
Speaker 2: everybody made the same joke. And I like just golf
Speaker 2: twitters like rubbed me the wrong way though, Like it's
Speaker 2: just bad. It's not no creativity anymore. It's just people
Speaker 2: who tweet videos and people on blasts out about this
Speaker 2: is a.
Speaker 4: Tweet video is maybe the worst thing that's ever been.
Speaker 2: Creating, ripping other people's transcripts, ripping. It's just not a
Speaker 2: good used to have some creativity and thought had to go.
Speaker 2: You had to. You had to. There had to be
Speaker 2: some wittyness to what you were doing. And now it's
Speaker 2: just not good. Everybody's like this is amazing, you know,
Speaker 2: and everybody just loves it thinks that's good.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Anyways, the Brooksy the Brooksy hair thing a bomb on.
Speaker 2: I'm not dropping a bomb. I'm not even calling anyone
Speaker 2: else specifically. The whole thing, the whole scene just bums
Speaker 2: me out. It's gone. Uh, it's all bombing gouge. Now,
Speaker 2: it's just no creativity no verride it's all bombing gouge.
Speaker 2: But yeah, everybody made the same everybody made the same
Speaker 2: Brooksy joke. So I'm not all funny Duddy, just a
Speaker 2: man quality and intellectual, uh you know, value added. But okay,
Speaker 2: go ahead. The Brooksie blond thing sucked. It was boring
Speaker 2: to me that we.
Speaker 4: Had Bryson launching, launching, sending shipping balls. As the quote,
Speaker 4: we got a little scoop scoop from the ground. Bryson's
Speaker 4: shipping balls into the caddy lot for the driving range
Speaker 4: with his driver broke a couple of wind shields. You know,
Speaker 4: I got herb reports of him aiming over there, purposely
Speaker 4: hitting it over there. Yeah, potentially rumors that he doesn't
Speaker 4: want to pay for the wind shields.
Speaker 2: Tournament's responsibility, right, something like allegedly remorseless, allegedly.
Speaker 4: Doesn't feel bad for the caddies with broken window shields.
Speaker 4: And uh and then you know, maybe a little dose
Speaker 4: of karma. You know, I don't wish well on anybody,
Speaker 4: but you're you might be allegedly potent actually being an urse.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden he's's hobbled, he's got
Speaker 4: a wrist problem. I don't know, you know how it happened.
Speaker 4: I said, you know, didn't look good all afternoon. Maybe
Speaker 4: a back issue too. I don't know.
Speaker 2: All right with the range thing. So we got this,
Speaker 2: you got this whatever early this morning.
Speaker 4: You know the Shotgus Star, Twitter got it. You're giving up?
Speaker 4: Who got the scoop?
Speaker 2: We got some good stuff today. I mean, we can't
Speaker 2: even go into some other, some other deeper, darker potential
Speaker 2: scandals which we're trying to hunt down, some real explosive
Speaker 2: stuff which we'll get to hopefully. We got the gumshoe
Speaker 2: work is being efforted right now, but this one is
Speaker 2: a little bit of whimsy. I don't look, I don't
Speaker 2: blame Bryson. I don't think we should pay him as
Speaker 2: a bad guy from all from everything we hear, this
Speaker 2: range so it's not good. It's two sided, and he
Speaker 2: was aiming over the fence to not hit into guys
Speaker 2: standing on the other end. And I got I got
Speaker 2: sent a picture I could not use of one of
Speaker 2: these back windshields. Just broken glass everywhere, just everywhere in
Speaker 2: this lot. I didn't use it, but I mean there
Speaker 2: were broken glass. There are broken wind shields everywhere this is.
Speaker 2: I just think Bryson was probably trying to avoid hitting
Speaker 2: people and he got a couple of cars. I think
Speaker 2: my colleague at Golf Digest, Todd Leonard, has been a
Speaker 2: San Diego writer for decades. He was, I think working
Speaker 2: on something and talk to me about it. So I
Speaker 2: don't want to step on his reporting. But like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. What we heard several times over was the
Speaker 2: range sucks. So I don't know that I like totally
Speaker 2: want to blame Bryson or put him in a bad light. Necessarily,
Speaker 2: we know he's he's a you know, a d bag
Speaker 2: for other reasons. But I don't think this is one
Speaker 2: where we want to see he's got malice or he's
Speaker 2: he's he's being a bad guy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think it's illustrative of a larger problem. We have
Speaker 2: ranges that are safety hazards on are we getting to
Speaker 2: a majority of courses that the pros go to? It
Speaker 2: feels like it. I mean there's just balls. At least
Speaker 2: with Bryson Riviera, they kind of extend the net. Harbortown
Speaker 2: Sony the wingfoot, remember wingfoot, he was popping cars they
Speaker 2: had to move.
Speaker 4: They should bring leaders from all those organization, all those
Speaker 4: setups in to examine the range, see what kind of
Speaker 4: fence and infrastructure they can add. Stat you know that
Speaker 4: that that superintendent from Harbor Town should be on a
Speaker 4: red Eye flight over there right now.
Speaker 2: Hey, they got the PGA show going on. If you
Speaker 2: want the next great invention, you want to make it
Speaker 2: big in this game, figure out how to extend ranges,
Speaker 2: figure out how sure's there's somebody rang. I got the
Speaker 2: quick turn. I can you know, turn your range from
Speaker 2: three hundred yards into four hundred in the overnight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I think it's a range issue. This sounds like
Speaker 2: a real, real danger. This range sounds like a real hazard.
Speaker 2: Just the images I was getting to people like huddled
Speaker 2: under tents and stuff on the other side is crazy.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I don't blame Bryson too much he
Speaker 2: on this one, but it was a good nonetheless to
Speaker 2: see the broken glass and hear that He's like, that's
Speaker 2: not my problem, you guys, figure out how to pay
Speaker 2: for this. You don't have the range. So, uh, what's
Speaker 2: going on with this injury? I mean there's a lot
Speaker 2: of back nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is it a risk? Is it a bad I think
Speaker 2: it's a.
Speaker 4: Risk based off of like him gripping his Caddy's hand
Speaker 4: like over and over again. But I think there might
Speaker 4: be some back issues. I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 4: this is, uh, this is obviously something we talked about
Speaker 4: in the beginning when all this was going on, is
Speaker 4: an injury risk, but I don't think I think the
Speaker 4: wrist would be would be that maybe maybe it is
Speaker 4: from just beating drivers all the time and it's just
Speaker 4: not you know, like his Instagram it he'd just go
Speaker 4: to random rages and hitting double XL buckets of drivers everywhere.
Speaker 2: Trying to get to like twenty five and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You know, no real purpose. I mean, I know there's
Speaker 2: a purpose, but so much of it just seems like
Speaker 2: trying to get a higher feedback on a launch monitor,
Speaker 2: So just to get some feedback on a screen.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is what we were concerned about when
Speaker 4: he started doing the long drive thing, like, how can
Speaker 4: you be good at both of them? They right right
Speaker 4: MC by the way, Yeah, and I'm not I don't
Speaker 4: want to read too much into one start, but you know,
Speaker 4: he was really good about eighteen months ago or whatever
Speaker 4: it was what the US open what.
Speaker 2: Happened, it was, it was the he's ever been. Yeah,
Speaker 2: sixteen he needs to get back to pushing two sixty.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's really good and it's like, Okay, at that point,
Speaker 4: you probably maybe the best player in the world, whether
Speaker 4: or not the rankings said you were. I think everybody
Speaker 4: was like, whoa, I don't know who could stop this guy,
Speaker 4: and he's just kept pushing it. Like at a certain
Speaker 4: time it's okay to just halt and say, you know what,
Speaker 4: I think I'm in the right spot right now for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's only gotten more intense this lap station. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's beyond the golf at this point. It's beyond like
Speaker 2: the it's a bizarre beyond like being a tour pro,
Speaker 2: like being better at tour pro. It feels like it's
Speaker 2: it's like it's just just a side pursuit that might
Speaker 2: be more of a primary pursuit. I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 2: I'm wrong that the the sort of I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's delicious, but it would be or come up
Speaker 2: in But if he can't play in Saudi Arabia next week,
Speaker 2: I mean he's jammed his back or his wrist or
Speaker 2: whatever it's jamm do you think he goes and still
Speaker 2: like it's just this mouthpiece talking about I was growing
Speaker 2: the game for everyone over there, even though we can't play.
Speaker 4: I'd be worried about going over there, and then's saying
Speaker 4: I can't play. You know, I'd want to stay in
Speaker 4: the States If I can't play, you might you might
Speaker 4: might rub the wrong person the wrong way, and you know,
Speaker 4: find yourself like in a place that doesn't have an
Speaker 4: extradition policy.
Speaker 2: You know, they got this ad they're running like fans
Speaker 2: are back at the Saudi International. I was like, wait, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, and it's like it looks like it's some
Speaker 2: like you know, state Fair or something. There's kinsingt con kid. Shit,
Speaker 2: it's great fans. There were never any fans, or to
Speaker 2: begin with, they had like two people outside the ropes
Speaker 2: per hole. This isn't some big party card.
Speaker 4: Do you think their fan policy is with creating content
Speaker 4: like you know that. Do you think they're as liberal
Speaker 4: and free as the PGA two. They're a little bit stricter.
Speaker 4: With cell phone used over.
Speaker 2: There instead of a DMCA, you get a finger, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: finger taken off. Probably not something you should joke about,
Speaker 2: but you know, we're just talking about hypotheticals here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we'll see if you can play next week. But
Speaker 2: he's done at Tory Pines. He's not been he's not
Speaker 2: been good to his credit, he might give the least
Speaker 2: shits about the FedEx Cup points of anyone out there,
Speaker 2: like just did not play, did not play once after
Speaker 2: Tour Championship.
Speaker 4: Does he see the log drive?
Speaker 2: I know, but I mean he just he doesn't care
Speaker 2: about it. Like he could be two hundredth It just
Speaker 2: doesn't seem to bother him. I think, maybe you know
Speaker 2: that's that's laudable. I guess in a way, I suppose
Speaker 2: all right, other things from uh Tory by the way,
Speaker 2: I meant to lead off Congress to Brandon Harkins for
Speaker 2: winning the Abbaco the house that Darren Clark built, beat
Speaker 2: the dough Boy well Nights still day for well night
Speaker 2: crying in his beer. I think the dough boy had
Speaker 2: like two shot lead with three holes to go lost.
Speaker 4: What it hurts like, obviously, what do you have? Who
Speaker 4: do you have a two shot lead with three holes?
Speaker 4: If you don't win, that's it's not going to feel
Speaker 4: very good. It was very relatable, like.
Speaker 2: A disconsolate dome boy. I feel bad for Marty.
Speaker 4: Made me really chuckle, Uh don't will rise again?
Speaker 2: Love a good pond right over right over the plate
Speaker 2: for us that's good will. I appreciate that other Tory
Speaker 2: pines matters. We have a three way tie at the
Speaker 2: midpoint here Thursday night midpoint between how about this? But
Speaker 2: it's not working BJ tour dot com, if you can
Speaker 2: believe it or not, is not working for me.
Speaker 4: I got caught front up.
Speaker 2: It's gone from working seven out of eight times, so
Speaker 2: I think like five out of eight times for me
Speaker 2: when I go there, it never works.
Speaker 4: But J T.
Speaker 2: Shank and Rob I know, are tied for the lead
Speaker 2: at thirteen under.
Speaker 4: Camera Shug Gali, he's at twelve, Peppie, Peter mel Nod.
Speaker 4: He said at five Aaron Raye, Alex Smalley, Luke list
Speaker 4: Seawoo Kim and look at that Jason Day. I heard
Speaker 4: T six as well as tahath the gala.
Speaker 2: So did Leishman make the cut?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know did he did?
Speaker 4: He hit it right to the I think he grounded
Speaker 4: it at a double play T twenty three.
Speaker 2: That's all right, he's through. He's through. That's exactly what
Speaker 2: you want to do. He did his job.
Speaker 4: He's got this. This guy, he's not a guy that
Speaker 4: turns the single in a triple with this with this steals.
Speaker 2: But how he got there is you know, inconsequential. He's
Speaker 2: there swinging one that when this will get swinging, But
Speaker 2: when this bit will get old, I don't know. But
Speaker 2: we're just gonna keep punted into the crowd for a.
Speaker 4: How so either of us have flee Schmid left and
Speaker 4: want and done.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well whatever, it will come up again this season,
Speaker 2: do we. I mean, Rob jt would be fun, would
Speaker 2: be good for long time golf. On Saturday, I have
Speaker 2: to shake the Shank lineup, which no one could get.
Speaker 2: When I did that, nobody knew Adam Shank wins. But
Speaker 2: go ahead, Rob.
Speaker 4: Rob is like pissed off about how he's playing. It's
Speaker 4: kind of like, actually, I would be frightened if I
Speaker 4: was a fellow. Ever heard the PGA Tour. He was
Speaker 4: like he was like cussing out, he was like swearing,
Speaker 4: he was camera. Yeah, he was all pissed off. And
Speaker 4: they asked Kira Dixon, I think, asked him after the
Speaker 4: round and he's like, well, he'll cutted six drives in
Speaker 4: a row. I couldn't keep the driver anywhere on the planet.
Speaker 4: Like he's all pissed off, and it's like and He's
Speaker 4: thirteen under through two rounds, a tory tied for the
Speaker 4: lead with a guy that made eight straight birdies.
Speaker 2: Shanke, we can talk about this now. Rom's comments. He
Speaker 2: was asked about how it's like a putting contest last week.
Speaker 2: That was Tuesday, you know, after we recorded, and he goes,
Speaker 2: you know, we're the PGA Tour, We're the best players
Speaker 2: on the planet and we're playing at a golf course.
Speaker 2: We're missing the fairway means absolutely nothing. I just think
Speaker 2: it was a bit too easy for the best players
Speaker 2: in the world. That's just my opinion. Rob added, this
Speaker 2: is Ryan Labner, who did a great job sort of
Speaker 2: talking to a bunch of players. Shake by the way,
Speaker 2: missed like every fairway he hit, like three or four
Speaker 2: fairways went nuts. Right, He made a bunch of putts,
Speaker 2: made a few from off the green missing the fairway.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's not like we saw from the
Speaker 2: Justin Raight stat beforehand. It's not a huge penalty here, right,
Speaker 2: and Shank showed that you can still shoot almost a
Speaker 2: course record round by missing most of your fairways.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: There were some good Shank facts on the on the telcast.
Speaker 4: This is a person that I you know, it's impossible
Speaker 4: to find these things about Adam Shank. He's kind of
Speaker 4: in the Tyler Duncan zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, both are Purdue guys, right, So, and if Shank
Speaker 2: shares a birthday with Waye Gretzky, random fact, that's terrible.
Speaker 2: I mean, what the hell does that mean? Like we
Speaker 2: could say anybody in the world shares a birthday with
Speaker 2: someone of Summer. Now like there's no connection there that
Speaker 2: does it? Okay? All right? Then? Uh, like everybody shares
Speaker 2: a birthday with somebody moderately or fairly famous, that's just
Speaker 2: not interesting fact about the person himself.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know this is this is some of the
Speaker 4: Shake facts. Hey. He he had a rough senior year
Speaker 4: at Purdue. He was thinking about taking a job and
Speaker 4: he it turned with Northwestern Mutual and realized that wasn't
Speaker 4: life for him. Selling insurance wasn't life for him.
Speaker 2: I mean, so he fell back on being a PGA
Speaker 2: Tour pro and making a million dollars or finished in
Speaker 2: t twenty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he tried to playing pro golf pretty good.
Speaker 4: H He grew up on a sod farm, so hot tip.
Speaker 4: Maybe he'll be at home in in the twin Cities, TVC,
Speaker 4: SOD Farm.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. We store that in the memory
Speaker 2: bank for your hot hot picks DFS sleepers Come July.
Speaker 2: I saw this was a big sort of topic. After
Speaker 2: he grew up. He said he had, like I don't
Speaker 2: know something, cubic yards of zoosia in his front yard
Speaker 2: and he got good at hitting balls, but he needed
Speaker 2: a chipping drink because it says I suck at chipping
Speaker 2: or I'm not that new what needs work, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. So anyways, those were the Shank facts.
Speaker 4: I learned something on the telcast. I appreciated that.
Speaker 2: You appreciate the Wayne Gretzky birthday.
Speaker 4: I just appreciated learning something about a guy that I
Speaker 4: didn't really know much about outside He played golf of
Speaker 4: Purdue and he was friends with Tyler Duncan and you know,
Speaker 4: equally obscure to find information on.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Shank lineups. He's one that you know, we're
Speaker 2: learning more and more about him and you know his
Speaker 2: face and what he looks like. Congrats to him. He
Speaker 2: made eight birdies in a row. I finally got the
Speaker 2: leaderboard to look.
Speaker 4: And congrats to Brooks Koepka for winning this week's thirst
Speaker 4: Bucket of the week. The week's not over, You've already
Speaker 4: won it.
Speaker 2: It's good for you bucket of the week. And we
Speaker 2: got a lot of tagged in on that. It did
Speaker 2: seem just without play a point a point pointless like
Speaker 2: but he was sure was ready to change his Twitter avatar.
Speaker 2: He had you know, the barberschare TikTok thing ready to
Speaker 2: post after where you know, he lift the curtain and
Speaker 2: now he's blonde, and so he was ready. He's ready
Speaker 2: to go, and there was a lot.
Speaker 4: He's smart, he's getting that. This is you know, did
Speaker 4: you die? Would you dye your hair if it meant
Speaker 4: you're making like four extra million dollars?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 4: Yeah, see I would too. So you know he's played
Speaker 4: the pip game. I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have a.
Speaker 4: Problem with it because he's doing He's just play the
Speaker 4: game that he's being.
Speaker 2: You know, put in the peroxide, Runneth over in the
Speaker 2: thirst Bucket of the week, Okay, anything else. Speth misses
Speaker 2: the cut. And I think there was the longest streak
Speaker 2: on toury had made twenty in a row.
Speaker 4: That justin Ray's Daddy. He only finished whatever one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty two starts short of tigers.
Speaker 2: Oh did you see that? Yeah, a long way to go.
Speaker 2: Any MC disappointments, if you can believe it or not,
Speaker 2: didn't make the Ricky. I mean, that's a bad one.
Speaker 2: I don't want to pile y. That's a bad one.
Speaker 2: He was six under yesterday. I know he went from
Speaker 2: north to south, but that's just completely booting it away.
Speaker 4: You know what laughable? You know, we do a Friday
Speaker 4: podcast where we don't we we talk about how inconsequential
Speaker 4: one round is?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Is that like you know, I some much feel bad.
Speaker 4: You know, you got to write something after each round
Speaker 4: if you're in media. But all the Ricky redemption stories
Speaker 4: yesterday that were coming, Oh he's coming, he's on his
Speaker 4: way back. It's like, it's just wait till, wait till
Speaker 4: it's like Saturday for that article.
Speaker 2: It's just sloppy one round.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: We got a tip, not a tip, but just an
Speaker 2: insight observation. His precipitous are consistent and slow decline in
Speaker 2: the O W g R appeared to be appears to
Speaker 2: begin when he started playing a new ball. When he
Speaker 2: signed a new ball deal. Now Taylor could be a coincidence,
Speaker 2: could be a cause. I don't know, but as the
Speaker 2: arc starts to trend downward, it's when he put a
Speaker 2: new ball in. I don't know if that's that's the
Speaker 2: primary cause. Could be just you know, concurrent, but that
Speaker 2: is Ah, I believe that's the case anyway. So that's
Speaker 2: just a bad, bad MC. It's a bad, sloppy way
Speaker 2: to go out. Anything else from Brooks missed.
Speaker 4: The cut too? Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of a
Speaker 4: lot of big a lot of big names missing the cut.
Speaker 4: I don't you know, I don't count Ricky as one
Speaker 4: of those, but you know, you know with Spieth and
Speaker 4: and uh and Brooksy or Brooksy and uh, do.
Speaker 2: We have a good enough leader board to call this
Speaker 2: a good court?
Speaker 4: You now missed the cut too? It's a machine in
Speaker 4: uh at Tory usually too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all these big names missing the cut at such
Speaker 2: a major championship venue that produces such good leader boards.
Speaker 4: Well, it was interesting, Uh.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I listened to the No Leg Up podcast with Adam Scott.
Speaker 4: Obviously it's it's a band that I enjoy listen to
Speaker 4: talk and he doesn't talk that much, and uh, it
Speaker 4: was a wonderful You know, discussion, but he was talking
Speaker 4: about how the games changed and he's just like these
Speaker 4: the best guys just aren't as consistent as they used
Speaker 4: to be. And it was he kind of singled out
Speaker 4: rom as being, you know, almost an outlier of in
Speaker 4: in more like the Ernie's, the Phils, the Tigers. You know,
Speaker 4: Tiger obviously was on a different planet he alluded to,
Speaker 4: but like where those guys had it every week.
Speaker 2: You know, hey, you want to do a weekend or
Speaker 2: a final round, a final two round, head to head,
Speaker 2: I'll take the Gala. You can ride your boy j Day.
Speaker 2: They're both nine under. I'm pumped. I'm big on th Gala,
Speaker 2: big time.
Speaker 4: He's a good guy to be big, and I think
Speaker 4: that's he's a big boy. He's built, he's a big guy.
Speaker 2: We'll go ahead to head on that. Maybe for something,
Speaker 2: I don't know, we can figure out the stakes. You
Speaker 2: still ow me a p XG polo or something.
Speaker 4: From what I do. I was somewhere I could have
Speaker 4: bought p XG polo too. I almost I couldn't get
Speaker 4: myself to buy something in there that was there was
Speaker 4: a because I knew that, like deep down, I just
Speaker 4: like thought somebody might know that I was mocking it
Speaker 4: by buying it, you know, and then you're an asshole.
Speaker 2: You know you're doing this for the content and nothing
Speaker 2: because they like the piece, like the article of clothing.
Speaker 4: I couldn't do it. I couldn't get myself to pull
Speaker 4: the trigger. I saw. I saw the hat, the flat brim,
Speaker 4: with the with the ear flaps. I wanted to buy
Speaker 4: it really bad.
Speaker 2: Did you miss the PGA show speaking of gear and
Speaker 2: the tire.
Speaker 4: And running into people that I know? I that part
Speaker 4: I miss? I Do I miss anything about it? No?
Speaker 4: Do I miss going to a conference?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Maybe? Maybe. One of the worst experiences in my life
Speaker 4: was having to go to the Orlando conventions that are
Speaker 4: two weeks in a row.
Speaker 2: A few years ago you were there forever it was
Speaker 2: the one after it or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought, I like completely lost my soul as
Speaker 4: a human being. Is two weeks in a row in
Speaker 4: that convention center, I'd love. I don't know why it
Speaker 4: has to be in a convention Why why does these
Speaker 4: things have to be in convention centers? Like, why can't
Speaker 4: they be like not in like a place that just
Speaker 4: kills your you know, any will to live you know.
Speaker 2: Because people are making a cut coming and going and
Speaker 2: this is the way it works. And there's you know,
Speaker 2: some business that sells floor space and a business that
Speaker 2: you know everything that just the way it works.
Speaker 4: All those stands are complete racket.
Speaker 2: Yeah it yeah, yeah. Anyways, all right, that's it. Two
Speaker 2: rounds through toy. I love that we're halfway done. Friday
Speaker 2: night Primetime, This the PGA Show. You didn't I never went.
Speaker 2: I've never been.
Speaker 4: I feel like you would really love, you'd really Oh,
Speaker 4: I haven't exploring.
Speaker 2: I'd have a field day with it. Not in the
Speaker 2: way they probably want me to or intended to, but
Speaker 2: I would. I've been to that Orlando area too much,
Speaker 2: but never gone into convention Center. But yeah, never went.
Speaker 2: I had a field day from afar. But it looked
Speaker 2: the PGA club pros like there are some of our
Speaker 2: favorite people and if it like is useful for them,
Speaker 2: then I'm all, you know, it's helpful and go. But
Speaker 2: some of the turf one next week is that in Orlando,
Speaker 2: San Diego? Oh yeah, I gotta go.
Speaker 4: I'm going to I've gone to the turf of the
Speaker 4: Superintendent Golf Tournament, the Golf Championships, and it's at Tory Pines.
Speaker 2: Do they play golf? Yeah, they plays there's.
Speaker 4: Like a national championship.
Speaker 2: That's cool. Yeah, there's there's gotta imagine there's some good
Speaker 2: players in that set that cohort.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but is that Tory. I gotta go to cover
Speaker 4: a golf tournament Tory next week.
Speaker 2: That's all I got on Tory Pines for the first
Speaker 2: two oh one other thing, Matt Hughes played the wrong ball,
Speaker 2: kind of threw the Marshall under the bus.
Speaker 4: Man has some bad skeletons and Tory between the boy
Speaker 4: tree and playing the wrong ball that bad luck.
Speaker 2: I went and hit the ball where the flag was
Speaker 2: next to and I found out my ball was eight
Speaker 2: feet away. Like I don't know, you still got to
Speaker 2: kind of look at your ball, make.
Speaker 4: Sure of it would put your own fault.
Speaker 2: Marshall sees the ball, he puts a flag down. He's
Speaker 2: not going to try to, you know, look up close
Speaker 2: and personal.
Speaker 4: What time I was. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 4: played in this big It was like the Junior PGA.
Speaker 4: It was like you get there's like one spot from
Speaker 4: each state and I was leading after the first round.
Speaker 4: It was two rounds and you know I was super
Speaker 4: nervous that you're going into the second round. In the
Speaker 4: first hole, I played the wrong ball right off, right
Speaker 4: off the first second shot, I think I started so
Speaker 4: like I made a triple on one. I think I
Speaker 4: made a triple onto a double on it. It was
Speaker 4: just like the most It just shook me and it
Speaker 4: was the biggest disaster. But like after that, I was
Speaker 4: really diligent for a long time about checking the ball,
Speaker 4: Like it's your job. Yeah, you gotta make sure you're
Speaker 4: playing the right ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even if there's a flag next to it. Other scores,
Speaker 2: I don't think we need to do Dubai. You know,
Speaker 2: jakombe Hanson is our leader. That will all change by
Speaker 2: the time you listen to it. Lydia Co, I think
Speaker 2: shot her lowest career first round ever, which is getting
Speaker 2: a little too granular on the statistic front, but either way,
Speaker 2: it's sixty three nine under two ahead of Danielle Kane. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Ladidia show, that's an absurd stat What lowest opening round?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. It's like it's so like it depends
Speaker 4: on the course, Like was it her best round opening
Speaker 4: ground ever? Like is this this insinuation of like this
Speaker 4: is our best opening ground ever when it could have
Speaker 4: been something completely different where she shot sixty eight and
Speaker 4: nobody else shot seventy one or better. You know, this
Speaker 4: is this is the problem with statistics is there's no
Speaker 4: you know, everybody's rushing out there to get their stat
Speaker 4: out there, but there's no there's very rarely like contextualization
Speaker 4: around the you know what it actually means compared to
Speaker 4: the other rounds, Like it's not apples to apples, comparison
Speaker 4: one round to the next round, you know, at different
Speaker 4: courses over their entire career.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's too, too ahead of Danielle Kane. If we
Speaker 2: get a cane, DDI's in there too, yeah, said I
Speaker 2: gave her, yeah, popping it out there.
Speaker 4: Clear she's like a slap hitter. I mean she's like
Speaker 4: lead off, lead off, you know, maybe second in the
Speaker 4: two hole.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, Marvis Kel, like, who's the shortstops? You
Speaker 2: just like they get like they hit one homer a
Speaker 2: year in one hundred and sixty two games, they hit
Speaker 2: one or two homers and it like literally clears the
Speaker 2: fence by a whisker. Ozzie Smith was probably I think.
Speaker 4: Like that the Cups had this used to have this
Speaker 4: guy named Tony Campana, and he was just this like
Speaker 4: little skiddy guy. He called up. He was young. They
Speaker 4: were kind of a rebuilding face. He looked like he
Speaker 4: was twelve. My buddy and I always used to joke
Speaker 4: that he would like that the coach had to like
Speaker 4: monitor how much time you spend it on his Xbox, Like, Tony,
Speaker 4: you're not old enough to play that game, you know.
Speaker 4: But you know he could not hit the ball anywhere,
Speaker 4: but he was so fast when he got on on base.
Speaker 4: It was it was a nightmare if he got on base,
Speaker 4: but you know, he just everything was just you know,
Speaker 4: in field hit.
Speaker 2: Anyways, that Kane, if Daniel Kane is like on a mission,
Speaker 2: I mean, who knows, this could just be a good
Speaker 2: start for the year. And it's different by March or
Speaker 2: it's different by June. But Kane Korda would be delicious,
Speaker 2: right if Nelly and that Jane Young co well, I know,
Speaker 2: I mean Lydia's back kind of, but I know there
Speaker 2: are other names involved. I'm just talking. This time last
Speaker 2: year was kind of Nelly breaking out. Now it feels
Speaker 2: like Daniel Kane is coming back.
Speaker 4: But I feel like Daniel King does this though, because
Speaker 4: she right after the pandemic, she won back to back, right.
Speaker 4: I think so she did the two step.
Speaker 2: Sure, that's what we call it.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, I feel like she gets really hot.
Speaker 4: It's just a matter of sustaining it.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's all I got for leaderboards. I think I
Speaker 2: don't think we need to get to and you don't
Speaker 2: want to do Euro. I said, you don't sto by,
Speaker 2: I said, yakam be Hanson is our leader. Congrats to him.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it holds on. By the time you listen to us,
Speaker 2: this will all have changed.
Speaker 4: It starts, you know, to the first round. Overreaction is
Speaker 4: Tommy Fleetwood back? You know this is the Tommy. Look
Speaker 4: at that Ricky and and England's Ricky Tommy Fleetwood playing
Speaker 4: playing well first round to.
Speaker 2: His not back Victor Dube's song one one out of DFL,
Speaker 2: He's ahead, Monty Tapio Polkin and Manty is just I
Speaker 2: can't even get it to the fairway cut remember what
Speaker 2: he's talking about last week. He's eight over DFL. I
Speaker 2: feel bad for cut Sea and Marunker, Tide and and
Speaker 2: a bear or herb apparently just a lot of like covid.
Speaker 2: Just In discrete like COVID, Like guys positive everywhere, but
Speaker 2: some play some don't. It just sounds sort of indiscriminate,
Speaker 2: like whether guys are getting out there or not. But
Speaker 2: all right, that's it for scores at this Friday Juncture news.
Speaker 2: Colin more Kawa wins the Golf Writers Association of America
Speaker 2: Player of the Year. Nelly Corda wins it on the
Speaker 2: women's side. Phil won it. I assume for the old
Speaker 2: the Champs Tour. But yeah, Marikawa. A lot of people
Speaker 2: saying this is proof that the writers don't care about
Speaker 2: the FedEx Cup. I don't know. It just this is
Speaker 2: what we talked about the end of last year when
Speaker 2: he won Dubai, Like, did that push him ahead of
Speaker 2: rom I don't know if it matters. It's a subjective
Speaker 2: thing you could argue into the night. The PGA Tour
Speaker 2: is the first major sports organization to be included in
Speaker 2: the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index. Big ups to them, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's congratulations. I mean, you know, I don't know that
Speaker 2: you need the extra metate room or the moat or
Speaker 2: anything like that, but they're doing some good stuff down there,
Speaker 2: the Global Home. So that's congrats to them. Saudi more
Speaker 2: Saudi invitational stuff, focusing more on the Asian tour saw
Speaker 2: Tom Kim got his The Chew Chew Train is going
Speaker 2: to Saudi uh and the fourteen year old the Thaie
Speaker 2: Kid Sensation also got invitations. That's it. That's all I
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Speaker 4: No, if it was Matt and Ryan, you know they
Speaker 4: could be Error Bears, Bears GM or head coach.
Speaker 2: Well what is that deal of elaborate us on that?
Speaker 2: I don't know if everybody saw that.
Speaker 4: So the Bears fired Ryan Pace and Matt Naggy. Ryan
Speaker 4: Pace the GM, Matt Naggy the head coach, and they
Speaker 4: hired Ryan Polls as this new GM.
Speaker 2: With him good Gude, good dude, go ahead, and.
Speaker 4: Matt Eberfless another. So literally hired a Matt and a
Speaker 4: Ryan in same positions. So I kind of now think
Speaker 4: that they should assemble a team full of Matt's and
Speaker 4: Ryan's and Matt Ryan should be their quarterback.
Speaker 2: They should trade the farm for Matt Ryan.
Speaker 4: Somebody else tweeted back at me they could get Ryan
Speaker 4: Matthews as running. But I just find it, you know,
Speaker 4: I know this is just a coincidence, but it's just
Speaker 4: an absurdly insane coincidence. Yeah, It's like, how is that
Speaker 4: even possible. I almost would say, we're not hiring this
Speaker 4: Matt after we hired Ryan just because of the name thing.
Speaker 2: I hope you get somebody good, offensive minded to take
Speaker 2: care of Justin Fields. I hope, I assume you will.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but yeah, the Ryan matt things great.
Speaker 4: I heard that the you know, Kevin Clark told me
Speaker 4: that he was he was he was pumped for me
Speaker 4: about the ryot poles higher, so that I feel like
Speaker 4: that's that's a good sign. You know, I don't know
Speaker 4: anything like this is like when people get worked up
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Speaker 4: a guy that this is their job to do this,
Speaker 4: you know, and you like parachute in the day before
Speaker 4: the draft and read a couple of articles and you know, so.
Speaker 2: Was blocked for Matt Ryan at BC. Yeah, maybe he'll
Speaker 2: trade for him. You know, there you go, give Moore
Speaker 2: ryans and mats.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Good, Well, congrats, got new new era. I hope it
Speaker 2: goes out, works out for you. Let's go to flashback Friday.
Speaker 4: Do you have one?
Speaker 1: I have?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got one.
Speaker 2: You want to go first? Go ahead, all right, I'll go.
Speaker 2: I'll go, I'll go, I'll go. I'll start. Nineteen fifty two,
Speaker 2: Joe Lewis comes the first African American to play on
Speaker 2: the PGA sanction event. It's at the San Diego Open
Speaker 2: at the San Diego Country Club. Is a ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars perse. It is a historic challenge to the PGA
Speaker 2: Tour PGA. I should say, which would become the split
Speaker 2: become the PGA Tour, but the PGA's ban on players
Speaker 2: of color. He was obviously the boxer, right. He was
Speaker 2: a heavyweight champ of the world eleven years, like twenty
Speaker 2: some defenses of his title legend in Detroit, and then
Speaker 2: just became a golfer. He talks about how he like,
Speaker 2: I went out, I shot like one twenty first time,
Speaker 2: then slowly I was loved it though shooting seventy six,
Speaker 2: seventy five occasionally I'll shoot maybe a seventy, but I'm
Speaker 2: mostly a seventy five player. But he becomes the first
Speaker 2: African American to play a PGA sanction event at the
Speaker 2: I guess the San Diego San Diego Open would eventually
Speaker 2: become what we now know is the Farmer's Insurance Open.
Speaker 2: So let's read a little bit. This is from Jack Murphy.
Speaker 4: What Joe Lewis played the Farmer's Insurance Open.
Speaker 2: Well, that's cool, that's right. If you're watching PGA Tour
Speaker 2: Live today or the Twitter PGA Tour count that's probably
Speaker 2: how they would portray it. Yeah, hell they probably you know,
Speaker 2: we are farmers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: He knew all the ads too. So this is Jack Murphy,
Speaker 2: the legendary sports writer. How many sports writers have a
Speaker 2: stadium named after him, Jack Murphy Stadium, where the Chargers
Speaker 2: and Pods used to play. Like, did you imagine that
Speaker 2: happening nowadays? Like Skip Bayless Field or something.
Speaker 4: PC rename the stadium after you one day.
Speaker 2: That feels like a cheap shot. That's a good one.
Speaker 4: I liked that.
Speaker 2: It's preposterous, but that feels kind of like a cheap
Speaker 2: a cheap shot at all. Anyways, Jack Murphy the San
Speaker 2: Diego Union Tribune in nineteen This was nineteen fifty two,
Speaker 2: writing because the non salaried president of the PGA Professional
Speaker 2: Golfer Association set sail for Chula Vistia the idea of
Speaker 2: participating in the ten thousand dollars San Diego Open. But
Speaker 2: Horton Smith the golf.
Speaker 4: Spent at San Diego Country Club.
Speaker 2: Yes, I said that, Yes, San Diego country Club. But
Speaker 2: Horton Smith the golfer soon took a back seat to
Speaker 2: Horton Smith the executive. So he was the unsalaried sort
Speaker 2: of head of the PGA, while also being a player.
Speaker 2: Of course, he'd won two Masters, and he played with
Speaker 2: Joe Lewis in the first couple of rounds of this event.
Speaker 2: I'll get to how Lewis got in in a minute.
Speaker 2: So so they play alongside each other. Jack Murphy has
Speaker 2: all these like how they went back and forth. It
Speaker 2: was the day's largest gallery. Smith and Duke Gibson, a
Speaker 2: member of the PGA's tournament tournament committee, chatted amiably with
Speaker 2: Joe Lewis as they left the first tea, and there
Speaker 2: was no apparent hostility throughout the round. Smith's game wavered
Speaker 2: under the tension as he chopped his t shots out
Speaker 2: of bounds and suffered suffered sixes on the first two holes,
Speaker 2: kind of like you and your junior PGA thing. In
Speaker 2: the first Instant, Smith grinn this is just so cheesy,
Speaker 2: like old school writer, like out of a movie. In
Speaker 2: the first Instant, Smith grinn and told Lewis taking a
Speaker 2: six on that easy hole is just like a punch
Speaker 2: to the chin, countered the fighter. Only differences in boxing,
Speaker 2: you recover from a punch. In golf, it's on the
Speaker 2: card to stay.
Speaker 4: Oh god.
Speaker 2: On the second hal Lewis the amateur. Terrible Lewis the amateur.
Speaker 2: We're just getting started. Put his drive thirty yards beyond Gibbs,
Speaker 2: while Smith again straight, I'll be just like you, say,
Speaker 2: Smith informed Lewis, I know what to do, but the
Speaker 2: old reflexes won't react. Both Lewis and Smith ventured in
Speaker 2: the rough where the PGA president equipped only place a
Speaker 2: left hook is any good is in the rain. So
Speaker 2: there's just like they got this dialogue and these guys
Speaker 2: just throw a terrible banter back and forth at each other.
Speaker 2: But here's some more, and are writing from Murphy. I
Speaker 2: gotta say this conjured up sort of the Rick Riley
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven Masters Gamer, as Murphy Wrights, Negro waitresses,
Speaker 2: serving officials and players in the clubhouse jammed excitedly into
Speaker 2: the press room, which affords an excellent view of the
Speaker 2: tenth tee. As the threesome made the turn, that's our boy,
Speaker 2: exclaimed to Louis Joe Lewis admirer as the fighter prepared
Speaker 2: to assault the little white pellet on the tee. I've
Speaker 2: been running in here every few minutes to read the board,
Speaker 2: said another. He's doing really good. So like the wait
Speaker 2: staff and service staff. You remember Rick Riley's legendary gamer
Speaker 2: about how the wait staff at Augusta National were on
Speaker 2: the balcony and when Tiger was winning and they kind
Speaker 2: of came out top fort I don't know, ponjured up
Speaker 2: images of this. In the nineteen fifty one San Diego Open,
Speaker 2: Lewis went out in thirty eight, beating Smith by a shot.
Speaker 2: Pretty good. Beat Horden Smith, two time Masters winner and
Speaker 2: president of the PGA the time.
Speaker 4: Like Peyton Manning out played Nicola.
Speaker 2: Come on, but on the back he it flipped a
Speaker 2: little bit and Smith beat him by three shots. So
Speaker 2: that Smith was like pressed about this, He's like, what
Speaker 2: you have this non Caucasian rule. Let's get into more
Speaker 2: of how Lewis got there. This is a rhiannon walker
Speaker 2: article from The Undefeated. This was Lewis ahead of times. PGA,
Speaker 2: of course has this non Caucasians band. Lewis leading into it.
Speaker 2: In January fourteenth, nineteen fifty two, in the New York Times,
Speaker 2: this quote was everywhere. I want the people to know
Speaker 2: what the PGA is. We've got another hitler to get by,
Speaker 2: saying this band, We've got another hitler to get by.
Speaker 2: So he's like, Lewis is obviously an athlete of incredible stature, right,
Speaker 2: and the PGA is like the last major sport to
Speaker 2: not integrate to have an over. Jack Robinson spoke similarly
Speaker 2: of God, yeah, yeah, Frida egg podcast. Right, So like
Speaker 2: Lewis realizes I got to just like shame the hell
Speaker 2: out of him. So he's got you know, I got
Speaker 2: to take this publicly. I need to drag them. We've
Speaker 2: got another hitler to get by. Next one. The list
Speaker 2: is the last major sport in America in which negroes
Speaker 2: are barred. He told the Los Angeles Sentinel. It's about
Speaker 2: time that is brought out into the open. He told
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Times his humiliation. This is again Rihanna
Speaker 2: Walker writing for The Undefeated. His humiliation tactic worked and
Speaker 2: he became the first black golfer to compete. We talked
Speaker 2: about blow by blow. He went one fifty eight over
Speaker 2: thirty six holes. He was there with Bill Spiller, who
Speaker 2: of course was a professional. Lewis was an amateur. So
Speaker 2: the end around, like the band and the Bye law,
Speaker 2: was he got a sponsors exemption. Joe Lewis, he's an
Speaker 2: exempt amateur. He wasn't like a pro. And the Chevrolet
Speaker 2: Dealers of San Diego County sponsored to the tournament, invited
Speaker 2: him to compete, and the money they raised on inviting
Speaker 2: him was expected to be about two grand and it
Speaker 2: was going to be given to organizations that helped disabled children.
Speaker 2: Spiller went with him. Monday qualified. He was also there
Speaker 2: with Ural Clark, who didn't Monday qualify. Spiller Monday qualifies,
Speaker 2: and they say you can't play. Lewis can play because
Speaker 2: he's an amateur, but you cannot play because you're a pro.
Speaker 2: You're also not a sponsor's invite. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a useful way to spend a sponsor's invitation, right,
Speaker 2: breaking the color barrier, raising a bunch of money for
Speaker 2: disabled children.
Speaker 4: The best Spasters invite of all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Probably, so they thought he was exempt from the
Speaker 2: PGA's bylaws because of that he plays the San Diego Open.
Speaker 2: This is smith. Then we have rules, and we don't
Speaker 2: make them just to be tough, but to control play
Speaker 2: in the tournament. Section one of Article three of our
Speaker 2: by law states any professional golfer of the Caucasian race
Speaker 2: over eighteen years old of age residing in North or
Speaker 2: South America is eligible to become a PGA member. So
Speaker 2: it doesn't explicitly, I mean it says you have to
Speaker 2: be of the Caucasian race. In view of that section
Speaker 2: are rules. Spiller obviously could not become a member and therefore,
Speaker 2: under PJA rules, cannot play in the San Diego Open.
Speaker 2: But lewis breaking the barrier this week. The next it
Speaker 2: kind of started to it started a movement or a
Speaker 2: awaken I don't know if it's awakening, but they realized
Speaker 2: they were this was obviously retrogressive and horrendous rule. Spiller, Clark,
Speaker 2: and Ted Rhoades joined Joe Lewis at the next PGA
Speaker 2: sponsored event, the Phoenix Open. As a result of Lewis
Speaker 2: breaking the color barrier, Spiller and Lewis became good friends.
Speaker 2: Spiller Bill Spiller eventually like actually criticized Lewis for playing.
Speaker 2: He's like, you're not helping the cause by playing, like
Speaker 2: you need to continue to press for us as the
Speaker 2: pros to get in. But Lewis thought he was just
Speaker 2: raising more awareness by getting in the field than being
Speaker 2: able to speak out more. The exclusionary PGA membership clause
Speaker 2: this is a Bob Denny article would not be eradicated
Speaker 2: for nine more years. Came at a casual round at
Speaker 2: Hillcrest Country Club when Spiller Bill Spiller was playing with
Speaker 2: a couple entertainers and the Attorney General California was there
Speaker 2: and issued a moratorium on the use of California courses
Speaker 2: by the PGA until it stopped discriminating against non whites
Speaker 2: and got other state attorneys. So this was nine years
Speaker 2: after the nineteen fifty one San Diego Opened. I think
Speaker 2: in November sixty one was when the PGA annual meeting
Speaker 2: where they did away with the discriminatory by law. One
Speaker 2: more final note on this is George Willis article I
Speaker 2: found at the Morning Read talks about obviously they renamed
Speaker 2: the Horton Smith Award the PGA did recently in the
Speaker 2: past few years because he was a supporter of this law,
Speaker 2: and this was George Willis's article before Smith is painted
Speaker 2: as a heartless racist, there's evidence that he favored a
Speaker 2: change in the rule. One day after the San Diego opened,
Speaker 2: which crole won, Smith pulled the PGA Tournament Committee to
Speaker 2: approve participation by blacks and PGA co sponsored golf tournaments,
Speaker 2: thus allowing them the same treatment as non touring professionals. Quote.
Speaker 2: I hope that this action will allow Negro participation in
Speaker 2: both the Phoenix and Tucson opens. Smith's set of upcoming tournaments. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: I feel that most of my efforts have been in
Speaker 2: vain so little San Diego opened Farmer's Insurance Open history
Speaker 2: Joe Lewis the heavyweight champ of the world, breaking golf's
Speaker 2: color barrier in San Diego. So flashback Friday.
Speaker 4: What do you got a story?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Nothing, nothing like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, add a little light light hard in
Speaker 2: it or Something'm gonna I'm gonna have a short one.
Speaker 2: What do you got, Andy bean y one? Okay? You
Speaker 2: know that is.
Speaker 4: No what only win of their career recently has been
Speaker 4: on some like alternate lists because of.
Speaker 2: This, come on Champions Tour, PGA appreciate Tour.
Speaker 4: No like doesn't even play on the Champions Tour anymore.
Speaker 2: Neil Lancaster, who is it? No Ja Don Blake, Oh god,
Speaker 2: oh my god. Okay the mustache Man.
Speaker 4: First first win for Jada on, first and only win
Speaker 4: in his PJ Tour career. It was his fifty year
Speaker 4: on tour. He had gone to Q school six times.
Speaker 4: You know, he was most famous at this point before
Speaker 4: this win for winning the nineteen eighty NCAA Championship at
Speaker 4: Ohio State's Scarlet Course and a four hole playoff against Halimony.
Speaker 2: Hell so sary gent Yeah how about that?
Speaker 4: So he started the round two shots behind Steve Pate,
Speaker 4: who had won the tournament in nineteen eighty eight and
Speaker 4: then won the next year in ninety two. So Steve
Speaker 4: Pate was a Tory Pine's assassin at this point. Pate
Speaker 4: made triple on seven and in Faxon was also ahead
Speaker 4: of Jay Don. He made double on seven, and that's
Speaker 4: what opened the door for a guy jay Dot and
Speaker 4: he never looked back, but they both hit shots into
Speaker 4: the canyon. We never see shots into the canyon, you
Speaker 4: know why ca, Yeah, I'm asking that Reys Jones mastermided.
Speaker 2: So of having arranged that they like can't accommodate like
Speaker 2: very little. It's like, I mean, just you know, right,
Speaker 2: spent through the nose on all this other stuff. Right anyways,
Speaker 2: go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: So the wind was surprising for Blake because on Monday,
Speaker 4: while he was playing with some buddies in Palm Desert
Speaker 4: at at the Springs, Blake, you know, he was really frustrated.
Speaker 4: He wasn't making any putts and he flung his bullseye
Speaker 4: putter into a pond on seventeenth. So this week he
Speaker 4: used to ray cook blue goose model putter, which was
Speaker 4: happier since since his high school days. Now now jay
Speaker 4: Don was really broken up about the bullseye that was
Speaker 4: at the bottom of the pond because his dad had
Speaker 4: given it to him and he had used it since
Speaker 4: high school.
Speaker 2: Ah, what an intemperate, just rashful, rash move.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just a spin of rage, he tossed. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I wonder what was going on was he played a
Speaker 4: big money game, like you know, you know that that
Speaker 4: caused this. So but they said that the heavy putter
Speaker 4: might have helped him out because of the bumpy and
Speaker 4: slow Tory Pine's greens, you know. And and so anyways,
Speaker 4: Jaydon got good news on Monday because the course sent
Speaker 4: divers into the pun oh my God, to fish the
Speaker 4: butter out, and the pro Jim English at the Springs
Speaker 4: Club said, we will be happy to keep it for
Speaker 4: Jaydon at the normal storage rate, whatever the costs. I'm
Speaker 4: sure he can afford it now. So the Monday after
Speaker 4: he wins, it gets pitched out. So what Jadon said
Speaker 4: was I couldn't make any crucial putts. It was very
Speaker 4: much out of character, and I don't know what came
Speaker 4: over me, but I was tired of missing putts. That's
Speaker 4: why I tossed it. And then he went on to
Speaker 4: say I might still be struggling if I had kept it,
Speaker 4: So I guess it's beneficial that I threw it in
Speaker 4: the water. This was Phil Micholson played in the event
Speaker 4: as an amateur. It was a ninety one, so this
Speaker 4: was you know, he was pretty young at that point.
Speaker 4: I didn't do the math on how old he was
Speaker 4: he finished forty seconds. So anyways, just like a couple
Speaker 4: of things on Jada on Blake. So after failing to
Speaker 4: get his tour card a number of times, he went
Speaker 4: back to Saint George Utah worked for several years as
Speaker 4: a club assistant pro and then also in a hardware store.
Speaker 2: Wo and he said, to keep my man family and
Speaker 2: the money got you do working two jobs.
Speaker 4: And then he went and he got his card, and
Speaker 4: then you know, he kept his card for fifteen straight
Speaker 4: years after you know, after six years of not getting it.
Speaker 4: He was just like he was like number one hundred
Speaker 4: every year.
Speaker 2: He doesn't His name doesn't appear short for anything. It's
Speaker 2: not Donald, it's just j Don Blake. There's no Donald.
Speaker 2: It's not shortened. And as far as I can tell.
Speaker 4: Pretty good syllable efficiency for a three yeah, three name.
Speaker 2: Guys, just the hop skipping a jump, jay Don Blake
Speaker 2: kind of amazing. He's a pillar of everybody's just you
Speaker 2: never shorten it. It's never just j or. It's always
Speaker 2: jay Don like you always it's very dogmatic. You gotta go,
Speaker 2: but okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Then I found this tribute article about him. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's just like anytime he can. The articles you find
Speaker 4: are just like him. In contention, that sounds miserable. Thursday
Speaker 4: night reading about jaydaen Blake and comment, I did not
Speaker 4: have a very deep time. I read like five articles. Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: this tribute Chicago Tribune article. He had a hobby. He
Speaker 4: would compete on the amateur drag racing circuit.
Speaker 2: Like cars. Yeah, not the attire.
Speaker 4: So he enjoys driving a seventy five thousand dollars drag
Speaker 4: racing car upwards of one hundred and seventy miles per
Speaker 4: hour over a quarter mile. He says, I know they
Speaker 4: seem like total opposites. Golf is quiet, any kind of
Speaker 4: noise in a distraction, and drag racing the more noise
Speaker 4: the better for me, though, drag racing is a lot
Speaker 4: like your preshot routine and golf. Drag racing you've got
Speaker 4: a conscients rate. It's a basic how precise you have
Speaker 4: to be to run a car to a number. Sometimes
Speaker 4: the thousandths of the second is the difference between winning
Speaker 4: and losing. You have lights, the starting line, the wind,
Speaker 4: all those things. If you don't get a good start
Speaker 4: for the get go, you don't lose.
Speaker 2: Automatically feels like he's reaching there.
Speaker 4: Drag racing enthusiasts.
Speaker 2: Oh god.
Speaker 4: So another funny thing that I found is in the
Speaker 4: desert Desert rat deserret news news. Yeah, utah. He became
Speaker 4: a regular on the PGA Tour, won five and a
Speaker 4: half million over two decades, including the win at the
Speaker 4: Sheerson Lehman Brothers Open which San Diego ninety one. Then
Speaker 4: after turning fifty, he won nearly as much money in
Speaker 4: less than a decade.
Speaker 2: I'm the champions hey out there where.
Speaker 4: He picks up three You know, this guy fifteenth straight
Speaker 4: or two decades on the PGA Tour goes up to
Speaker 4: the Champions Store, makes as much money in less than
Speaker 4: ten years. He had to retire for a while because
Speaker 4: he had a frozen shoulder. He couldn't lift his shoulder above.
Speaker 2: Is that what it's called.
Speaker 4: That's what he was saying to this article.
Speaker 2: Interesting, he's a dead rainer for the guy and top
Speaker 2: Gun the teacher, Yeah, top gun, top whatever viper, Yeah,
Speaker 2: jay Don, that's a good one. Good throwback double flashbacks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we're gonna don't.
Speaker 4: Everybody needed an hour on Friday, so you got your
Speaker 4: hour podcast here.
Speaker 2: Lower your expectations. These are not going to be two
Speaker 2: Scoops flashbacks going forward, but you get Joe Lewis and
Speaker 2: jay Don Blake, two peas in a pod there lived
Speaker 2: similar lives. All right, everyone, enjoy your Fridays. We'll be
Speaker 2: back with you on Monday. Enjoy the weeknight, golf, the football,
Speaker 2: whatever you got going on this weekend.
Speaker 4: Thank Instagram line maybe who knows.
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