1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: The volume What is going on Everybuddy, John Middlecops Golo 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: Podcast reacting to the PGA Championship, Kepka wins number five, 3 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: Michael Block the Teaching Pro finishes top fifteen hol on 4 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: one on Sunday. What a weekend for Rochester, New York. 5 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: Josh Allen von Miller heavily involved, and uh just an 6 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: awesome four days of golf. So I watched it all, 7 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: Gonna react to obviously the two biggest stories, Block of Koepka, 8 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: and then hit on a couple other things. Nice week 9 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: for Live some of their guys obviously Kepka one, Cam 10 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: Smith Bryson pretty good week for sure, and Rory McElroy 11 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: will dive into it all. So here's the plan. I'm 12 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: gonna go golf podcast. We will go football podcast come Tuesday, 13 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: probably another go low on Wednesday and then probably take 14 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: some time off from World Day weekend and come back 15 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: next week. So that's the plan earlier this week. 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Then we'll 51 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: get into Koepka, and then we'll hit on a couple 52 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 1: other things that you know, I thought really happened this week. 53 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: But I think the unique part about the sport of golf, 54 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: and I tell this to anyone that I talked to, 55 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: I try to talk about this to those of you 56 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: that listen is listen. Football is the biggest sport in 57 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: this country by a wide margin. I love the sport 58 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: of football just like many of you do. It literally 59 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: pays my bills. I've dedicated a large percentage of my 60 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: life to it. But like most people probably listening, I 61 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: have not played the game pass high school, and there 62 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: is a small percentage of people that do, and then 63 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: there is less a small percentage of people past college 64 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: that are able to play the game professional. But that 65 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: is not the with golf, and unlike basketball. I used 66 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: to love playing pickup hoops in my twenties. I'm thirty 67 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: seven years old. I can't afford to Tarran Achilles to 68 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: tarrannee Hell. I don't even ski anymore because I don't 69 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: want to get injured. I don't even have children yet. 70 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: The one thing about the sport of golf is it's 71 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: probably the one sport slash activity you literally can do 72 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: until you die. It's why any of you guys that 73 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: play golf regularly, and whether you are a member at 74 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: a country club or a member at a local muni, 75 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: and you go out there during the week or the weekend, 76 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: you will see everyone from a five year old to 77 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: someone that's seventy five eighty years old. It's the special 78 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: part about the sport. I remember being a kid, my 79 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: dad loved tennis, but by the time I was like 80 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: ten years old, you know, it was fifty, he didn't 81 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: play anymore. Like most activities sports beside the main ones, basketball, football, 82 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: and baseball that most of us stopped playing really at 83 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: the longest in our twenties. You can't do as you 84 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: get older. And that's the one special part about this sport. 85 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: And I've loved it from a very young age because 86 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: I started playing it young, and I'm you know, quote 87 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: unquote addicted to the game. I have a passion for 88 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,679 Speaker 1: the game, and not even just me playing it, talking 89 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: about it, watching it, discussing it with other people, because 90 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: I think it's so unique to all the other sports. 91 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: And if you're a member at a club or you 92 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: play consistently at a course, you know a guy there 93 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: that's probably really good. I have played with players that 94 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: have played in the US Open or played in PGA 95 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: Tour events, and I can play them straight up. Obviously 96 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: they got to give me strokes, but like you literally 97 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: can play against them. I ran into Larry Fitzgerald. They 98 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: didn't talk to him or anything, but I was having 99 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: breakfast last week and Larry Fitzgerald was there. He's a 100 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: big dude, and I was thinking, like I was thinking 101 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: about today watching Michael Block and Kopka, you know, separated 102 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: by a couple holes, right, and getting similar celebrates down 103 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: the stretch is. I couldn't have gone up to Larry 104 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: Fitzgerald and be like, hey, let's take a little billy 105 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: over there in the corner booth. Give him a football. 106 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: I'll play linebacker or dB. You just play your position 107 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: and let me see if I can cover you. But 108 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: you got to give me a couple You gotta give 109 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: me a couple steps, right, you can't do that. I 110 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: can't play JJ Watt one on one. I can. There's 111 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: no point in playing an NBA player one on one basketball. 112 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: It's not the way it works. Butt In golf, I 113 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: could run into Tony Finow or John Rahm or anyone 114 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: that lives in Scottsdale, and I can play them. They 115 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: have to give me whatever said strokes are in my handicap, 116 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: and I can play them at the courses in which 117 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: they play. Now, some of them clearly private courses I 118 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: or you would not have access to. But we can 119 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: go to TPC Scottsdale. I can pay five hundred and 120 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: fifty dollars in play pebble Beach. I can't go play 121 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: a pickup football game at lambeau Field right or Sofi Stadium. 122 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: That's not possible. And on top of that, no one 123 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: does it. It's really what makes the game of golf 124 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: so cool. So when you see Michael Block, a PGA 125 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: teaching professional, having the success he had, he destroyed our 126 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: entire Ryder Cup team, Morikawa, fenale Xander JT. Spieth, he 127 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: fucking drubbed them. Now, this is a guy who is 128 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: not some random golfer. He's not me or you. He's 129 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: not some three handicaps, some seven handicaps, some ten handicaps. 130 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: He has played in majors consistently, several majors, He's been 131 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: on a couple PGAs, he's played in US Opens. He's 132 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: a high end golfer. He still teaches golf to help 133 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: pay the bills. He's just kind of a working man, right. 134 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: His profession happens to be golf. And I saw someone 135 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: tweet it out during the weekend that his average score 136 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: his senior year in college, which was you know, in 137 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: the late mid nineties, was seventy seven. Now, that's the 138 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: other thing about golf. You can't improve as you age. 139 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: In most sports, like we listened before, you get worse 140 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: as you get older. It's what to me makes the 141 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: game so special. It's not like anything else so do 142 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: way more people watch football. Of course, it's football more 143 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: important to me financially and just in terms of being 144 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: able to reach people one hundred percent, one hundred percent. 145 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: But my relationship with golf is because of guys like 146 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: Michael Block that just doesn't I was glued, so we're 147 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: probably you and to go seventy seventy seventy seventy one. 148 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: And it's one thing to just have a remarkable week. 149 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: It's another thing over the weekend to play with Justin Rose, 150 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 1: who is easily one of the best players over the 151 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: last fifteen years, and Rory McElroy, you know, is probably 152 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: a top two or three player over that period of time, 153 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: and you to combined one over par just just an 154 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: incredible accomplishment. To watch the guy having so much fun. 155 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: It felt like you knew him, even though none of 156 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: us probably do know him, but we all know ay 157 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Michael Block and maybe not even a Michael Block who's 158 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: that good, But it felt like, yeah, that's our neighbor. 159 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: That's a guy that I've played golf with several times. 160 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: Because the other thing in the sport of golf, whether 161 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: you're playing with Tony Fenw, Michael Block, or your buddy, 162 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: you play for ten twenty bucks, you go after the round, 163 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: go to the bar, get some appetizers, and slam a 164 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: couple of beers and bullshit, usually about sports. And that's 165 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: what it felt like he represented today. It felt like 166 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,719 Speaker 1: he represented all of us that love golf, that love 167 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: watching golf, that know we're never gonna sniff any meaningful tournament, 168 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: let alone a major championship. And it felt like he 169 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: knew it. And that's what I thought was so cool 170 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: about it. It's another thing to know it and having 171 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: this responsibility in this pressure, it's another thing to kick 172 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: ass and take names. The dude had a hole in 173 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: one when he said, I have a pet peeve. I 174 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: have several pet peeves, well one of them. I hate 175 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: living the dream because I think most people that say 176 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 1: it like they're kind of miserable inside. It's such a 177 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: bullshit saying it's your classic saying that, like now you're 178 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: not living the dream, you would rather be doing something else. 179 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: But he said it several times. I'm like, yeah, I 180 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: kind of believe him, because he even acknowledged yesterday on 181 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: Saturday that it's probably never going to get any better 182 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: in this this there's a decent chance in the golf 183 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: in my golfing life. This is the best weekend of 184 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: my life, and he's probably right. And then to get 185 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: up and down on eighteen to qualify for next year's 186 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: PGA Championship. As Jim nance said, I mean a whole 187 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: won the day he's exchanging scorecards with Rory McElroy and 188 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: Jim Nantz is on the mic like, you can't make 189 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: that up on a Sunday in a major where the major, 190 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: the winning score is going to be single digits under par. 191 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: So it wasn't some just like you know, some run 192 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: of the mill major. I mean this was a very 193 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,599 Speaker 1: very difficult test and he kicked the crap out of 194 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: the majority of the guys are going to be in 195 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,679 Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup on our squad besides Scotty and and 196 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: Brooks Koepka. I mean he drubbed them all. So, Michael 197 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: Block one of the coolest stories. I'm not even trying 198 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: to overreact that I can remember. No, I'm like superstar player. 199 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: Before we dive into what's next, do you know that 200 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: Angie's list is now Angie your home for everything home 201 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: And as someone who is currently house shopping and who 202 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: has bought property. 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There are just some names at the 223 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: top of the betting card, and I was off the 224 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: scent this week. I'm like, I don't know, man, But 225 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: when brooks Kepka is healthy, besides Scottie Scheffler, there is 226 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: no American who's in his breath when all the chips 227 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: are on the table. And it's the reason we watch sports, right, 228 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: It's the reason why so many of us, with our 229 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: buddies or while we're watching games, make fun of guys 230 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: like Kirk Cousins and Dak Prescott or James Harden, or 231 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: that watch golf that don't like Patrick can't lay. I 232 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: don't care how much money those guys make. James Harden's 233 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: gonna make four hundred and four hundred and fifty million 234 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: dollars playing basketball. He's never gonna win a game that 235 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 1: means anything to any of us. Cousins and Dak are 236 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: gonna combine make hundreds of millions of dollars and they're 237 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: gonna get beat every single year in the playoffs. And listen, 238 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: there's nothing that they're remarkable careers. They're super rich. But 239 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: like we watch sports, what do you do in the playoffs? Right, 240 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: It's why we hold the Michael Jordan's just watch that 241 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: movie fantastic Tom Brady's, Patrick Mahomes, you know what Jokic 242 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: is doing right now, the Currys, the Lebron's, all the 243 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: great players of my lifetime, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson to 244 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: such high regards. Lewis Hamilton. You name the sport because 245 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: we judge you when the lights are the brightest, when 246 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: all the chips are in the middle of the table, 247 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: how do you react? And the one cool part about 248 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: sports is there are clear lines of delineation. Certain games, 249 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: certain tournaments, certain whatever the sport is matter more than others. 250 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: Right in basketball, the NBA playoffs matter dramatically more than 251 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: a random game in January. I say it all the time. 252 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: In baseball, there is not one game that happened Sunday, 253 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: May twenty first that matters at all. It doesn't yet 254 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: in the middle of October, in Game five on the 255 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: road for a pitcher like that game could help define 256 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: his career. Madison Bumgardner just got paid thirty five million 257 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: dollars within the last month to leave the Diamondbacks. They 258 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: defate him. Yet where I come from in Northern California, 259 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: that guy will be a lifetime legend because he came 260 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: out of the bullpen in Game seven of the World 261 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: Series on the road. He's a starting pitcher and shoved 262 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: like six innings and carried the Giants to their third 263 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: championship in five years. So I don't care how crappy 264 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: and how derailed his career got after that moment. I 265 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: will judge him on what he did when everyone was watching. 266 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: It mattered the most, and in golf, four times a 267 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: year matter dramatically more. That there is a gap. I 268 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: don't know how wide it is. It feels like it's 269 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: never been wide that the four majors compared. You can 270 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: give me the elevated events and listen. They're cool. I 271 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: like watching them, and they're playing for a lot of 272 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: money and it's fun to consume and gamble on and 273 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: I watch them. But in terms of the importance of 274 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: winning one of those tournaments and winning the other four 275 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: tournaments throughout the year, the Masters, this the US Open 276 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: and the British Open, as I call it. I know 277 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: the guys across the pond call it the Open Championship. 278 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: It's not even close. I don't care how much cash 279 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: they give it to win the FedEx Championship. What Kepka 280 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: does in these tournaments. Is absolutely incredible because we thought 281 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: like he was derailed because he was injured. Remember he 282 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: couldn't bend over, and then you watch full swing, he 283 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: was kind of being like, I don't know, my body 284 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: might be shot. I might not have it anymore. He 285 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: said that, not us, and then this year he's healthy 286 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: to come back and to be right in position to 287 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: win the Masters, and you know, kind of listen, he 288 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: had a rough day. He had a rough day, but 289 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: it's not like he finished thirtieth, when he finished top four, 290 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: and then to come into this tournament and go sixty six, 291 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: sixty six, sixty seven Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and you know 292 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: the leaderboard won't reflect it. He was in complete control. 293 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: He was in complete control. And he had some moments 294 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: today where I thought, like Hovelin, could you know, at 295 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: least tie him, but he never did because that fucking 296 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: guy makes more clutch par putts. Listen, he makes birdies, 297 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: he makes you know, huge shots when it has to 298 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: happen swing times. But no guy in the modern era 299 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: makes more eight to twelve foot par putts on Saturday 300 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: and Sunday in major championships. And this guy has now 301 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: entered you know legendary status. He's passed Speech, He's passed 302 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: Rory with his fifth major. To me, it's not about 303 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: the five majors. I'm going when does he get six? 304 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: Because now at LAC, when we talk about the favorites, 305 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: John Rahm, Scotty Scheffler, Rory, those guys have been the 306 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: clear favorites the last several tournaments. This guy has to 307 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: be mentioned there. The odds have not reflected it, and 308 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: I don't even know if they will reflect it at LACC, 309 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: but they better because there is no way like his 310 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: odds should be better than Rory McElroy going into LACC. 311 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: His odds should be every bit as good as Scotty 312 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: Scheffler and John Rahm going into LACC. And if they're not, 313 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: we're all morons for not betting it, because you watch 314 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: them today and you watch them at the Masters for 315 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: eight rounds this year. And I don't know if Zach 316 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: Johnson's gonna pick him to go on the Ryder Cup team. Listen, 317 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: it's his prerogative. You know, the owgr points and the 318 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,239 Speaker 1: way they do it. He's not going to be an 319 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: automatic pick. But besides Scotty Scheffler, he's better than them all. 320 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: It's just a fact, you know, week in week out, 321 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: when it matters at these big tournaments, j T, Spieth, Morikawa, 322 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: zend Er, Tony, they're not brooks Kopka like he's got. 323 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: I looked it up before I hopped on thirteen top 324 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: tens in majors, five top fives and obviously the five wins. 325 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: This guy comes through when it matters the most, and 326 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: it's all we want out of our athletes. It literally 327 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: is to just get it done when the lights are 328 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: the brightest, because listen, this tournament might not pay out 329 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,400 Speaker 1: some as as well as some of these other elevated events, 330 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: but it creates your career at a higher level by 331 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: winning this thing. Like Wyndham Clark would easily hand in 332 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: his win of a couple of weeks ago for this championship, 333 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 1: so would every single player this year non John Rahm 334 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: at the Masters, including Scotti Scheffler at the Players. So 335 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: brooks Kepka feels like he's back. I mean this this 336 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: was a big loss for the PGA Tour. There's no 337 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 1: way around it. Because if he's going to be healthy, 338 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: you know, DJ was a little bit older, you know, 339 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: it'd been playing at a higher level for a lot longer. 340 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: Bryson was much more of a very fit product. This 341 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: guy was. Now you could argue he didn't care that 342 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: much about the random tournaments though he would, you know, 343 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: win the waste. He would win events. But just not 344 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: having this guy around kind of sucks, and honestly, not 345 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: having the top the high end of Live had a 346 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: good week, you know, having Bryson, which has gone through 347 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: more body changes than anyone I remember, like a three 348 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: year span, but it was fun watching him play well. 349 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: Cam Smith at one point, dime, you looked up the day, 350 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: it felt like, God, could he finish top five? What 351 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: did he end up finishing? He was awesome today. Cam 352 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: Smith shot five hundred today, finished top ten. So you 353 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: got Cam Smith, Bryson Brooks. You know, I think everyone 354 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: misses DJ. I mean, those were the guys, right, Phil's 355 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: just a name at this point who's gonna play well, 356 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: you know at Augusta. But that was the crew guys 357 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: that live lifted from the PGA tour that hurt that. 358 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: There's just there's just no way around it. All the 359 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 1: Sergios and the Ian Poulters and the Lee Westwoods, whatever, 360 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: but that group of players were just big time major 361 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: winning box office level talents, and Kepka when it comes 362 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: to the majors, even more than DJ. I mean, DJ 363 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: is more accomplished given that he's been winning longer. I 364 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: mean he's older, but Brooks's just the better player at 365 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: the major's not really disputable, and today was, you know, 366 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 1: an incredible accomplishment by him winning this fifth major. But 367 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 1: I also think it speaks to like, when's he gonna 368 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: join Phil Lee, Trevino and Nick Faldo at number six? 369 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: Because I'll be honest, if he stays healthy, Like that's 370 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: the only thing that can derail him, because if he's healthy, 371 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: how does he not win another major? Honestly, I think 372 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: like he's every bit the favorite. You know. I like 373 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: John Rahm a lot at LACC. I think Kepka's got 374 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: to be right there. If Kepka's not seven, eight to one, 375 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: if you can get him twelve thirteen, fourteen to one, 376 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: I think he hammer at LACC, because holy moly, can 377 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: this guy play when it matters. Another guy that can 378 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: really play is Scottie Scheffler. I mean, yesterday kind of imploded. 379 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: You just thought, like, oh, maybe not his week. You know, 380 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: he finished like twelfth or tenth or seventh or you know, fifteenth. 381 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: What did you do today? Shot sixty five. He ties 382 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: for the low round of really the weekend and was 383 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: just awesome. Like I said, there are two Americans right 384 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: now in these big tournaments that have separated themselves from 385 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: the pack of awesome players. I mean multi millionaire winners, 386 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: guys that have won majors. But Scotty Scheffler and Brooks 387 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: Kepker at a different level. And he saw it today. 388 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: I mean they shot combined five eight under part Now 389 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: it was a little different. Scotty got to come from 390 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: behind and just let it fly, but sort of to Rory. 391 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: And I got to give Rory credit because early on 392 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: in this tournament it felt like he could get derailed. 393 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: It felt like he could get derailed. I thought he 394 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: battled like I know Kopka can battle, I know Scheffler 395 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: can battle, hell, I know Hovel can battle. Sometimes with 396 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: Rory it feels like when he's rolling, it's like a 397 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: football team. When I got like a fourteen point lead, 398 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna win the game every time. But some of 399 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: those teams you know that are like can come from behind. 400 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: All those Patriot Brady teams that they could be down 401 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: seven going into the fourth court, and he felt pretty 402 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: good about him. The Chiefs are a lot like that now. 403 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: They have a lot of mental toughness, a lot of 404 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 1: mental fortitude. You know, a little adversity does not derail him. 405 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: Felt for a long time adversity can just derail Rory, 406 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: and I do think these last two years, at no 407 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 1: point this week could he have won this tournament. But 408 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: he definitely could have mailed it in. And as a 409 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: guy that mailed it in after the Masters, felt like 410 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,479 Speaker 1: he showed a lot of signs of life. I mean, 411 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: he finished T seven, but after kind of a really 412 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: rough Thursday, sixty nine, sixty nine, sixty nine, especially in 413 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: the weather. Like when I think Rory McElroy, I don't 414 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: think a guy grinding away in the wind in the cold, 415 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: and he did so. I thought today was a pretty 416 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: positive looking forward for Rory the rest of the season, 417 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: you know, something to build on, and it would be 418 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: awesome to see him right there with a rom Scotti 419 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: or Koepka, like seriously, not not like playing three or 420 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: four groups ahead on Saturday and Sunday, but like in 421 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: the final group with one of those guys at LACC 422 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: at the Open, and I hope we get that because 423 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 1: I thought this weekend was awesome. I really did the course, 424 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: the course shine. And people often ask, like, what is 425 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: the PGA Championship, right, I thought this week was the 426 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: PGA Championship kind of has a US Open feel to it. 427 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: You can say, like, why don't they mix it up 428 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: and play courses we've never seen before, or why don't 429 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: they just play really freaking hard courses. It was very 430 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: enjoyable to watch them play a course where at any moment, 431 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: even kept got a two shot lead, he could make 432 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: a bogie like sometimes when they play some of these courses, 433 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: especially in the majors. I mean, it doesn't really happen 434 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: at the Masters, right, If you got a two shot 435 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: lead on the back nine, it's gonna be hard for 436 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: you to make a couple of bogies because there are 437 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: several birdies, you know, coming down the pike, And today 438 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, you could make a birdie coming down 439 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: the stretch if you hit the fairway. But if I 440 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: missed the fairway, I've hit it in a bunker. I mean, 441 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: look at Victor Houghlin on sixteen. He did the same 442 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: thing Corey Connors did on Saturday, and it was hard 443 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: to watch and you felt like Victor Hovlin's entire body 444 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 1: fall out, you know, his heart fall into his stomach. 445 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: He felt for him. But it's like that, that's playing 446 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: in a major championship. That the line of you know, 447 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: being there, forcing Brooks to go to extra holes and 448 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: being tied for second with Scottie Scheffer is that is 449 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 1: the difference of five yards being in the fairway or 450 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,479 Speaker 1: being in a shitty spot in a bunker that has 451 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: a high lip. And I thought the course was awesome. 452 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: I really did. I really enjoyed it. A lot of 453 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: people said, like, don't get your hopes up, it's kind 454 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: of bland. I really enjoyed that type golf. We don't 455 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: get it that much anymore. We get so many birdy fests, 456 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: we get so many places where you can spray it everywhere. 457 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: And the rough isn't that penal. I enjoy long rough. 458 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: I enjoy watching like if you miss the fairway you 459 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: have to chip it out, and there's some luck involved 460 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,719 Speaker 1: with how it falls. Well, so be it. It's golf. 461 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: I mean a huge element of golf is luck and 462 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: things out of your control just because you hit a 463 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,959 Speaker 1: beautiful shot, sometimes you might miss it by five year 464 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: and bounces the wrong way and you're in the bunker. 465 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: You know. I never like were these guys when they 466 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: bitch and moan about saying I don't get rewarded for 467 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 1: a good shot, Like who says you have to get rewarded? 468 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: Where's that in the rule book? Especially at the highest level. 469 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: I mean us random mid week hacks. They're just trying 470 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: to break eighty or trying to break ninety, Like, we 471 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,679 Speaker 1: don't get rewarded. White watch you this is You're an 472 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: entertainment product. And I thought this weekend was very, very entertaining. 473 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: And last but not least, I the guy feels and 474 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: it's this guy now feels more inevitable given the way 475 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: he's playing than even like my guy Xander and Tony, 476 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: which I'm not going to gamble on moving forward for 477 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,199 Speaker 1: a while. Victor Hovelin is just a better player than 478 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,719 Speaker 1: basically a lot of our top American guys. Now, this 479 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: is three straight majors with him, final group at the Open, 480 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: T four at the Masters, and T two today at 481 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: the at the PGA. I think you gotta hammer him 482 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: for these last two majors. He showed a lot of 483 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: metal today. I love his demeanor. He doesn't ever look 484 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: like he's freaked out. I mean, really, the difference of 485 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 1: him today was double bogie on sixteen. It's not like, well, 486 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: you know, he ended up losing this tournament. Now he 487 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: shot sixty eight. If you shoot sixty eight on a 488 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 1: Sunday in the final group at a major that is 489 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: playing this difficult, he got a pretty good chance. Just 490 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: happens at Brooks shot sixty six. Obviously, Hovelin was one 491 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: down coming in today, but I thought he was awesome. 492 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: I mean, he's a bass striking Jesse. His chipping is 493 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 1: vastly improved. I mean that was a thing that me 494 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: and Sobil have talked about for years. It's hard to 495 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: bet on guys to win these big tournaments when chipping 496 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 1: is such a major question mark. That's a thing with 497 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: Mari Kawa. Putting is such a major question mark. I 498 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: watched Hovelin basically every shot the last two days. I 499 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: thought I was very confident, especially coming Sunday, that he 500 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: was going to get up and down on all these shots, 501 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: and he consistently did. I mean, he was putting himself. 502 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: Everything was seven six feet and in I mean talking 503 00:26:55,240 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: about tough chips, buried lies, short sighted. He was excellent. 504 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: I mean this guy, this guy's a young star. He's 505 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: gonna win a ton of tournaments. He already has, you know, 506 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: an incredible amount of scar tissue in a short period 507 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: of time. Yet where it's not there's difference in scar tissue, right, 508 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: there's one. Hey, I'm in the final group. I shoot 509 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 1: seventy seven. I finished t eighteen. It's like, well, I 510 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: played really good for three days and then I shit 511 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: the bed on Sunday. That's not what's happening here. That 512 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: is not what's happening here at all. I'm twenty five 513 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: years old, I'm in the final group with a guy 514 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: with four majors. I ended up not winning, But shit, 515 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: I shot sixty eight, right, Briston shot seventy Roy shot 516 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: sixty nine, Road shot seventy one. Fuck, I'm right there. 517 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: So I'm buying a lot more Victor Hovlinstock. I love 518 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: watching him play that buttercut, watching him strike those irons 519 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 1: makes a lot of putts, makes a ton of birdies. 520 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: And if he's gonna chip like that, he already was 521 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: an ATM machine, Like to me. He's not all like 522 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: Patrick Cantlay like every single week, bringing it, bringing it, 523 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: bringing it. Now he's figured out the Major. He's nothing 524 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: like Patrick Can'tley like. He is way better. So uh, 525 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: a lot of respect for Victor Hoblin. Just awesome PJA 526 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: championship led by Michael Block and Brooks Koepka. Okay, we'll 527 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 1: see everybody back on Tuesday with a football pod. Thanks 528 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,719 Speaker 1: to my guy Holst on the audio, my guy James 529 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: on the video, and uh and yeah, let's have a 530 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: good week. Maybe get out there, play a little golf, 531 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: enjoy your family, work hard, gotta pay the bills. Talk 532 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: to everyone soon. Audios