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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast, the number one show

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Speaker 1: for the invested sports fan.

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Speaker 2: Winn to trick your down. You got real telling me

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Speaker 2: go concentrate on golf.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and Welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Action Network Podcast, Golf Edition. I'm Jason Sobel, He's Peter Jennings.

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Speaker 1: We moved this week to the Travelers Championship. As always,

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Speaker 1: Peter will get to last week, but we want something

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Speaker 1: actionable right off the top.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you that I have an answer

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Speaker 2: this week. I'm just gonna throw it out there. I've

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Speaker 2: got an answer, how about you.

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Speaker 3: I am on John Ram again this week.

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Speaker 4: I bought him coming back and hasn't had great finishes,

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Speaker 4: missed the cut, and last week, you know, everyone was

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Speaker 4: kind of lighting up the course and he started hot

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Speaker 4: a couple of times, hit the ball amazing at the

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Speaker 4: tea like he always does, was great on his approach,

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Speaker 4: and missed.

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Speaker 3: A ton of short putts.

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna buy some regression in the putting department

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Speaker 4: for John Ram. I think this is a really important

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Speaker 4: course to drive it long and straight, and I'm buying

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Speaker 4: John Ram and every format.

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Speaker 1: All right, we will get to all that in just

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Speaker 1: a minute. I think the upper tier is very intriguing

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Speaker 1: this week. I hated everybody last week and I love

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Speaker 1: everybody this week. But first, let's get back to last

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Speaker 1: week and review just for a minute, Web Simpson's victory.

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Speaker 1: If you had asked me at that turn on Sunday

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Speaker 1: afternoon who I liked, I would have said that, you

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Speaker 1: know that answer again.

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Speaker 2: I would have given you an answer, a ram answer.

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Speaker 2: Because his ball striking was just terrific.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was going to almost make a few

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Speaker 1: putts by accident down the stretch and take that thing

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Speaker 1: for his first PGA Tour win.

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Speaker 2: But instead we get Web Simpson.

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Speaker 1: It feels to me like more people were on web

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Speaker 1: Simpson outright than I've seen been on an outright in

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Speaker 1: golf in an awful long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, a ton of people who were on Web.

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Speaker 4: You saw it all over Twitter, and congrats to anyone

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Speaker 4: who that Web outrights. A bunch of people at the

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Speaker 4: Action Network were on Web. Pat Mao is on Web.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: The community was clearly high on Web, and I think

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Speaker 3: people wanted to buy low on Web Simpson after a miscut.

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Speaker 3: I was shocked. I was pretty much all.

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Speaker 4: On on web and DFS forty nine point seven percent

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Speaker 4: owned in the two thousand dollars tournament on drafting, so good.

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Speaker 5: You're right, a lot of people just for on web

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Speaker 5: and shows up and wins.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he moves, like I said, into number

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Speaker 1: five in the world, and he's a guy that we

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Speaker 1: have to look at.

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Speaker 2: As part of that top tier now.

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Speaker 1: I think for a long time, even when he has

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Speaker 1: been playing really strong golf, we kind of go, well, oh,

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Speaker 1: there's Rory and JT and Kepka and Rom and you know,

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Speaker 1: then you know, maybe throw d Chambeau in there. Maybe

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Speaker 1: throw can't Lee in there. But web Web's kind of

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Speaker 1: that second tier. But I just don't think you can

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Speaker 1: put him in that second tier anymore based on the

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Speaker 1: world ranking and based on how he's played now, and

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Speaker 1: it is last thirteen events, he's got two wins, four

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Speaker 1: second place finishes, one third. That's more top threes than

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Speaker 1: outside of the top three during those thirteen events, which is.

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Speaker 2: Obviously really really strong.

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Speaker 1: That's Rory ram type of numbers that he's been putting

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Speaker 1: up over the last year year.

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Speaker 2: And a half. So I want to get to that

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Speaker 2: top tier.

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Speaker 1: The Travelers Championship at TBC River Highlands this week.

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Speaker 2: This week, I look at these.

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Speaker 1: Guys and I go, man, I like JT. Yeah, great

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Speaker 1: course for him. Rory at some point is just going

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Speaker 1: to figure it out and win one of these. By six,

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Speaker 1: You're on Ram again. And I can't find fault with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ram at any given moment, can turn it on,

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Speaker 2: And then there's my guy who I'm picking.

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Speaker 1: Outright to win this week, which is Bryson d Chambeau.

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Speaker 2: The fact that he's.

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Speaker 1: Finished third and eighth at a couple of courses which

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Speaker 1: really neutralize his strength, which is right now driving distance,

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Speaker 1: letting him go out there and unleash the Kraken, as

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Speaker 1: he says, by hitting that drive off the team. It's

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Speaker 1: not like TBC River Highlands is a huge ballpark, but

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Speaker 2: And he's just really good.

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Speaker 1: For everything we could say about him science and buking

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Speaker 1: up and slow playing whatever else, he's just really really

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think there's a really good chance.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I've been as you know as Highland Rory,

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Speaker 4: and I think he's playing best golf you know outside

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Speaker 4: of Tiger Woods from two thousand twenty ten that we've seen,

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Speaker 4: you know, the events going back since the layout not

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Speaker 4: quite as elite, you know, two courses that don't suit him.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, this is a good one for him.

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Speaker 4: But man, I think there's a pretty good chance that

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Speaker 4: Bryson ends up being the number one ranked player in

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Speaker 4: the world. I mean, the advantage that he has with

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Speaker 4: that ball speed and swing speed that he's creating, and

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Speaker 4: of things really really well. And I you know, like

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Speaker 4: you said, the top tier is just so tricky. And

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Speaker 4: now you have web in there. Brooks Kepta came alive,

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Speaker 4: looks great again after the knee surgery. So you know,

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Speaker 4: where does Brooks rank when it's a major? He's been

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Speaker 4: the best player. Dustin Johnson showed life. I know, it's

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Speaker 4: a track that he's played exceptionally well at. I'm bullish

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Speaker 4: on Colin Morecowo for the long term. And after you know,

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Speaker 4: So it's amazing. Golf's in a great place.

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Speaker 3: And we didn't even mention Patrick Cantley, who you've been

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Speaker 3: high on, who's making his first appearance since the layoff,

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Speaker 3: who is right in that range where you know, maybe

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Speaker 3: it's the one be uh you know, the one B tier.

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Speaker 3: So the top is just so enticing and I'm so excited.

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Speaker 4: I think it makes for a really great week in DFS,

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Speaker 4: figuring out where you want to go. And yeah, from

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Speaker 4: a betting perspective, you look at some of these numbers

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Speaker 4: and you see long odds and really good players and

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Speaker 4: you think, oh, this is a great bet. But then

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're speaking right now on Monday night, and

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Speaker 1: you know, our opinions can change a little, and we

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Speaker 2: As of right now, I'm looking I'm looking at a card.

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Speaker 1: I say, you know, I'm gonna bet Bryson f Now,

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Speaker 1: I was on last week and he really didn't play

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Speaker 1: few this week, I'd feel really badly if.

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Speaker 2: He got back on there. So I'll probably have a

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Speaker 2: little female.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Reid on a golf course where you can hit

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Speaker 1: right to the left all day, He's if you ask me,

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Speaker 1: guys who draw the ball. This is the same as

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Speaker 1: Bubba Watson fading the ball as a lefty and speaks

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Speaker 1: to his success over the years at this golf tournament.

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Speaker 1: But Patrick Reid just ripping draws all day at TBC

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Speaker 1: So those are probably three of the guys. I'm betting

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Speaker 1: I'll have some Abraham answer, maybe some Joel Damon as

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Speaker 1: little Joaquin Neeman, any of those guys jump out at

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Speaker 1: you as guys that are must plays for you this week.

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Speaker 3: I mean Neighborham answer might be this super super jock,

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Speaker 3: which shot I get?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was gonna say DFS is Abraham answered

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Speaker 4: I mean he's gonna Bubba's might be chocked too. At

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Speaker 4: compelling guys. But yeah, I love answer. He looks like

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Speaker 3: It both ways like most pros.

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Speaker 4: But when push came to shot on a lot of shots,

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Speaker 4: he kind of hit that baby draw and I think

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Speaker 3: I mean, the ball striking was ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't just Sunday where he went eighteen of eighteen, uh,

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Speaker 4: in terms of greens hit, you know, leading up.

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Speaker 2: To he seve for the week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just insane. It's just so insane how

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, he was tied for first

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Speaker 2: He's coming off a heater and going to another place

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Speaker 1: Intersection, that's the intersecttion of of recent form and course

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Speaker 2: Isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Actually on answer last year before it was a big

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Speaker 4: name which was fantastic, So I totally agree with that.

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Speaker 3: Loved meiman. I mean, where's Burger ranked in terms of

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Speaker 3: the tier that he's enemy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he withdrew today.

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Speaker 3: So he withdrew today.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so he is out of the tournament, but I

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Speaker 1: mean he he almost We all remember Speeth holding out

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Speaker 1: that bunker shot back in seventeen. We tend to forget that.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Berger then had a long birdy butt and missed

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Speaker 1: it by like two inches. Uh, Daniel Berger has been

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Speaker 1: really good for a really long time and he's only

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Speaker 1: getting better. So not this week, but hold on to

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Speaker 1: those Daniel Berger tickets for down the road.

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Speaker 3: Yeah I missed that. Man. Hopefully his wrist is doing

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Speaker 3: all right. I know he was talking about it, but

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Speaker 3: man playing some exceptional golf.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, one guy who I'd say is maybe in

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Speaker 4: the not bottom tier, but the mid to low tier

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Speaker 4: would be Corey Connors, who played exceptional golf last week.

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Speaker 4: I've been on him, you know, since we've come back,

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Speaker 4: and his ball striking is absolutely elf just really struggles.

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Speaker 3: With that putter, so we'll see. I'm still pretty bullish.

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Speaker 3: I think the ball striking is much more indicative of

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Speaker 3: future performance. But the putter has been a problem.

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Speaker 4: I mean, last year he led in proximity to the whole,

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Speaker 4: and you know he had some good finishes, but the

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Speaker 1: Before we get to our very special guest, who I

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Speaker 1: didn't tease at the beginning of the show, but Nathan

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Speaker 1: It's rilled now to be joined by Travelers Championship longtime

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Speaker 2: We made it.

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Speaker 5: like they love this tournament, like they look forward to it.

440
00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,960
Speaker 5: They plan their summer vacations around it. Like you walk

441
00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,520
Speaker 5: around this tournament during Tournawak, and Jason, you felt it.

442
00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,080
Speaker 5: It's like you people have so much pride in what

443
00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,800
Speaker 5: this community does to rally around this event and have

444
00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,000
Speaker 5: the crowds that we have, and so like it's just

445
00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,119
Speaker 5: not like, hey, I'm not going to be able to

446
00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,000
Speaker 5: see Game six of the finals, or I'm not going

447
00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,520
Speaker 5: to you know, I don't get my tickets to Game

448
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,159
Speaker 5: seven at family or whatever, Like that's not what this is.

449
00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,639
Speaker 5: People are like this is where I met my wife

450
00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,920
Speaker 5: thirty two years ago, and I'm not wait to walk

451
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,000
Speaker 5: down memory lane every year here, or my kids have

452
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,960
Speaker 5: been volunteering here for you know, fifteen years, or I

453
00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 5: used to scalp tickets when I was nine years old

454
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,760
Speaker 5: at the front gate or whatever it is. People have

455
00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,800
Speaker 5: such like memories and passionate about this tournament that there

456
00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,640
Speaker 5: is just this this sense of like, no, we can't go,

457
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,480
Speaker 5: you know, like I've gotten so many emails and so

458
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:12,760
Speaker 5: many calls about that where people are just like, look,

459
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 5: we get it, we totally understand it, but man, we're

460
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,360
Speaker 5: going to miss it, you know, so like we can't

461
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 5: wait to watch on TV and good luck, but like

462
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,639
Speaker 5: you just feel this, you know, this this absence. And

463
00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 5: so there's like that piece of it. And then there's

464
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,239
Speaker 5: the piece of the financial piece. And I mean, if

465
00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:29,800
Speaker 5: we didn't have, like I mentioned earlier, we didn't have

466
00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,600
Speaker 5: our sponsors stepping up, travelers stepping up, the tournament wouldn't

467
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,520
Speaker 5: work financially, Like it just wouldn't, you know, I mean

468
00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,920
Speaker 5: cause you but if you didn't have if we didn't

469
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 5: have our sponsors saying you're giving us nothing, but we're

470
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,119
Speaker 5: still giving you everything. Here you go, which sounds like insane, right, Like,

471
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 5: I mean, but they know what we're about. They know

472
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,960
Speaker 5: that this tournament's about the community. And so we basically

473
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,720
Speaker 5: presented these financial models to our board, We talk to

474
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 5: our sponsors about them, like hey, we want to support

475
00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,720
Speaker 5: and basically in no, I mean, they be saying Okay,

476
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 5: we're going to subsidize ticket revenue. Here you go, We're

477
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,199
Speaker 5: going to subsidize X here you go. And if you

478
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 5: didn't have sponsor do do that, we wouldn't have been

479
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,399
Speaker 5: able to do it. And you have obviously tournaments that

480
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 5: looked at it saying that can't happen for us, like,

481
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,439
Speaker 5: we can't make that work. Our community said, we want

482
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 5: to figure out how to make this work. Traveler said,

483
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,360
Speaker 5: we are going to do everything we can to make

484
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Speaker 5: this tournament happen, and here we are. So I don't

485
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 5: know if that answered your question, but I mean, if

486
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 5: you didn't have your sponsors saying taking that hit, let's

487
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 5: say saying, look, we're going to make these donations regardless

488
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 5: of getting these assets, it wouldn't have worked.

489
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Speaker 1: Speaking of financials, another question that I hear from people

490
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 1: a lot is how are.

491
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 2: They getting these guys? They must be doing something.

492
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,880
Speaker 1: And Nathan's got, like, you know, this unlimited check book

493
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,439
Speaker 1: and he's just handing money under the table to you know,

494
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 1: these top ten players in the world. They must be

495
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 1: paying there. They can't take appearance fees, but they've got.

496
00:21:58,119 --> 00:21:58,679
Speaker 2: To be paying that.

497
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,359
Speaker 1: How do you get worry Maple Roy and Justin Thomas

498
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: and books keepka to come up to Cromwell, Connecticut at

499
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: the beginning of the summer.

500
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Speaker 2: How do you do?

501
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 1: And and I know the answer to that, but why

502
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,919
Speaker 1: don't you tell those who still don't necessarily believe, why

503
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 1: don't you kind of set them straight?

504
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 3: Here?

505
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 5: So here's here's how that happens. You you have a

506
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 5: title who is committed to figuring out what your event

507
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 5: needs to look like for the players to want to

508
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 5: come here. And you have a title who's willing to

509
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 5: come out with you on the road and talk to players,

510
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 5: talk to caddies, talk to wives, talk to trainers, talk

511
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 5: to the sports psychologists, talk to.

512
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 2: The whole team.

513
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 5: And Andy, beset with travelers, made a commitment back in

514
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 5: oh seven to come out with me, get to know

515
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 5: the players, get to know what makes him tick, get

516
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 5: to know how we can make our tournament different. And

517
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 5: I will never forget him talking to Bubba Watson, and

518
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 5: like it was probably oh seven, eight o seven, and

519
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 5: we talked and and Andy said to Bubba. He goes, Bubba,

520
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 5: I would love for you to tell us how we

521
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 5: can make our tournament better. And Bubma stopped and he went,

522
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,120
Speaker 5: you're not asking me to come and play. He goes,

523
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 5: that's what everybody does. They walk them down the range

524
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 5: say hey, bubb we'd love to have you come play.

525
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 5: He goes, you're not asking me to come play. He goes, no,

526
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 5: I want you to tell me how to make our

527
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 5: tournament better. And he went huh okay, and it had

528
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 5: just caught him off guard. And that has been our mentality,

529
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 5: going what do we need to do to get better?

530
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 5: So here's what's happened. We asked the question of the players,

531
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 5: and you better be ready to listen and actually do

532
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 5: something about it if you're willing to ask the question.

533
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,400
Speaker 5: Our practice facility was horrible, one of the worst on tour.

534
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 5: They jokingly said. When the practice facility was built, John

535
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 5: Daly was the only guy that could hit it out

536
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 5: of the range. Right. By the time our practice facility

537
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 5: had outgrown at Corey Payton was the only guy who

538
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 5: couldn't hit it out of our range. Right, we're dealing

539
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 5: with this thing that had no practice facilities. So we

540
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 5: work with a tour, We look with the community, We

541
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 5: work with a big partner with some land. We built

542
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 5: a brand new, huge practice facility. Here was as the

543
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 5: big thing. The golf course needed a little bit of

544
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 5: I would say freshening up. The bunker system wasn't the best.

545
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 5: I mean the golf course itself was good, but there

546
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 5: was just it was getting tired. We partnered with the

547
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 5: tour to make some investments in the golf course. The

548
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 5: clubhouse was let's just say not okay, all right. It

549
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 5: was a a historical landmark, like that's the nice thing

550
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 5: you put on a clubhouse that could fit like nine

551
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 5: people during a raindola. But I mean so, I mean

552
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 5: it needed to be addressed. We tore down the clubhouse,

553
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 5: built it up. We try really really hard to make

554
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 5: them feel like it's their event, not our event, and

555
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 5: do all the little things.

556
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Speaker 4: You have your guests coming in this week, and it's

557
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 4: obviously this new world that we're living in. And Nick

558
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 4: Watney tested positive last week.

559
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: What are some of.

560
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 4: The things that you're thinking about what's different this week?

561
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 5: As our mentality always has been how do we go

562
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 5: above and beyond? How do we go crazy with hospitality?

563
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 5: But this time we said, okay, how do we go

564
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 5: above and beyond and go crazy with safety? You know

565
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 5: how we left the courtesy cars at all the different airports,

566
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 5: staging in there four days in advance so that they

567
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 5: can be sterilized and there can be you know, nobody's

568
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 5: touched them for four days, and putting all the bat

569
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 5: the keys and ziploc bags and when the players sign

570
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 5: they keep the pen that they signed with so that

571
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 5: there's no interaction of stuff. And how all of our

572
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 5: staff has bought into you know, the gear and the

573
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 5: PPE gear and everything, and I mean we're wearing this

574
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 5: stuff everywhere and it's ninety two degrees out here. We

575
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 5: took a hard look at the whole the whole group too, right.

576
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 5: I mean there's there's different groups of people around. You

577
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 5: have players, you have caddies, you know, and we're testing,

578
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 5: and you have media. And we made a decision back

579
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 5: in April. We said, you know what, if we're gonna

580
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 5: do this in June, we want to test everybody and

581
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 5: what would that mean? What would that look like? How

582
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 5: do we test all of our volunteers. How do we

583
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 5: test all of our vendors, the equipment, reps, the trainers

584
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 5: like that, like everybody. We want everybody on property to

585
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 5: feel like they're in the safest environment possible. So we

586
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 5: started down this road of trying to figure that out,

587
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 5: and logistically it was I mean, it was a challenge

588
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 5: to try to figure out people's schedules and things like that.

589
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 5: But here we are on Monday and we've tested, you know,

590
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 5: on our side. You know, we have a little more

591
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 5: test seem to do tomorrow almost every person on property.

592
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 5: And that was a step that was important to us

593
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,199
Speaker 5: to take to to really make sure everybody felt like,

594
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 5: you know what, we're going to do this responsibly, and

595
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 5: so that was that was one of the big steps

596
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 5: we took.

597
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 4: That's great to hear and it's so important and you know,

598
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 4: as an avid fan of the tour, just hoping that you.

599
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 3: Know, people continue to stay safe. We had a little

600
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 3: scare last week and you.

601
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 4: Know, the players, you know, obviously it's imperative that it

602
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 4: continues to happen. Speaking of the golf, the first two weeks,

603
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 4: you know, we have these courses that historically have played

604
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 4: a little tougher, but we've had these benign conditions and

605
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 4: we've seen incredible scoring. Well, it looks like it's going

606
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 4: to be pretty decent again, maybe a little bit more win,

607
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 4: not quite as hot, maybe some thunderstorms on Sunday, hopefully not,

608
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,199
Speaker 4: But what are your expectations for the play and how

609
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 4: are you thinking about the course and kind of what

610
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 4: you want to see happen at the Travelers this year.

611
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 5: So I think it is such a good track because

612
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 5: I think it's very fair, and the players like it

613
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 5: because it will punish you for a bad shot, but

614
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 5: it will reward you for a good shot. And I

615
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 5: think the weather like right now, I mean it's hot

616
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 5: right now, right like mid to high eighties. There hasn't

617
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 5: been a ton of rain, so they're having to water

618
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 5: the greens and there's a chance if that continues, you

619
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 5: might see like seventeen eighteen under potentially when if they

620
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 5: have to spray the greens. But I tell you what,

621
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 5: when this dries out and this course plays fast and firm,

622
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 5: I mean it's not the long course. But you see

623
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 5: twelve thirteen, fourteen under win this tournament and people think, oh,

624
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 5: it should be more than that. It's like no, no, no,

625
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 5: it will absolutely defend itself in the perfect condition. So

626
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 5: it'll be very interesting to see if they have to

627
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 5: water the greens a little bit too much because of

628
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 5: the heat. Like I said, you might get past fourteen fifteen,

629
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 5: sixteen to where they'll be able to fire right at

630
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 5: the pins. But if it stays riding that nice balance

631
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 5: and the greens are twelve rolling twelve thirteen or so,

632
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 5: I mean I could see we usually have that thirteen

633
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 5: fourteen under is kind of that winning window.

634
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 2: Nathan.

635
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: I've teased you for years, you and Andy because usually

636
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: every year, at some point it might just be Friday morning,

637
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: it might be during the weekend at some point it rains,

638
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 1: and any other tournaments like, oh man, it's raining for

639
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: you guys when your logo is literally a red umbrella.

640
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 2: Hey, it's raining.

641
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: We gave umbrellas to everybody in the crowd, and it's

642
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: just like, you know, more marketing for us or around

643
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: the gallery, so you know, you guys kind of look

644
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: out there as well. Another thing that get you and

645
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: I have talked about. I don't know if you remember this.

646
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: I remember telling you this probably ten twelve years ago,

647
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: but I always had this idea of everybody walks through

648
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: the front gate and.

649
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 2: They get like a crackerjack prize.

650
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: They basically rip open something and they get the name

651
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: of a player in the field, and if that player

652
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: has low score of the day, they win something.

653
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 2: It might be a traveler's umbrella, whatever it is.

654
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: But instead of hey, I want to just go watch Rory,

655
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: I want to watch speed, I want to watch Koepka,

656
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: it's hey, I ripped this open. I got Zach Blair

657
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: and he's three under the turn. Let me go watch

658
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: Zach Blair. And you become personally invested and engaged.

659
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 2: Well, now we're.

660
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: Into sports gaming, we're into bedding and dfs and fantasy,

661
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: and everyone's got some sort of piece of the action,

662
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: some personal investment. Have you seen any kind of changes

663
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: in the way people look at your tournament, how that

664
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Speaker 1: affects how you run the tournament? Is there anything different yet?

665
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Speaker 1: And can you foresee anything different on the horizon in

666
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Speaker 1: the future.

667
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 5: I would have said I anticipated to see that. We

668
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 5: would have seen a lot more this year in twenty twenty.

669
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 5: I mean just people talking about it. More of an

670
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 5: engagement from a oh my gosh, to your point, I'm

671
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 5: gonna follow this guy and I'm gonna learn about this

672
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 5: guy because I might be able to, you know, to

673
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 5: do something fun there or how's he gonna play? So

674
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 5: you can kind of see the fan engagement piece coming

675
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 5: in this space. But literally this year it's like Okay,

676
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 5: screeching halt, you know, for us anyway, I mean, I'm

677
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 5: sure it's gonna you know, it's gonna produce the great

678
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 5: golf and there's gonna be some great stuff to engage in.

679
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 5: But for us, I think that'll be more in twenty one,

680
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 5: to be honest, because it was just starting to roll

681
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 5: into that and like, how what are we going to

682
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 5: do on site and who are these new partners we

683
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 5: can engage and what new ideas can we have so

684
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 5: you can feel it? But and then I would have said,

685
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 5: we probably gonna feel a lot more in twenty but

686
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be more in twenty one with

687
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 5: the fans and what's happening on side two.

688
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 3: Did you catch Bubba on Sunday some of the audio

689
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: that he had.

690
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 4: I thought it was incredible and you know, Ricky getting

691
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 4: mikeed up, like I would love to see more of

692
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 4: that stuff.

693
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 5: So what do you expect this week? So it's funny.

694
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 5: I was literally just talking to Bubba this morning about that.

695
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 5: He had a blast, you know, I mean like it's

696
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 5: he had some ideas on some things. I Mean, my

697
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 5: opinion is I think you're going to see more and

698
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 5: more of that in golf, the athletes being able to

699
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 5: express themselves. I think it might be slow to get

700
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 5: to that point, but I think you're going to see

701
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 5: more of that. But as far as the broadcast, I mean,

702
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 5: we've talked to CBS Golf Channel two point two s

703
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 5: goal like what's happening, and I think they're learning right

704
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 5: with each week going Okay, there's this audience, there's this

705
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 5: fan base, like we can engage them, we can stretch

706
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 5: out this engagement. They have some good ideas, but I

707
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 5: don't know. I think it has has a room to

708
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 5: evolve too, right. I mean, I think combining you know,

709
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 5: people having a vested interest in what's happening financially, and

710
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 5: then I think building that into the broad cast. I

711
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 5: think the future is bright for the golf broadcast and

712
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 5: getting the players involved and talk about stuff. So I

713
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 5: think I think it could be an evolution with the

714
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 5: game coming yep through.

715
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 4: One thing I really want to see on Friday, The

716
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 4: biggest sweat of the whole event is the guys making

717
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 4: the cut, so we can ever.

718
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 3: See like who's met Like Billy Horschell.

719
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 4: Missed the cup by one stroke this week. I was

720
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 4: really hoping he'd make it on eighteen. Like seeing those

721
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 4: putts in those moments for the guys in the cut

722
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 4: line is very good.

723
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 5: That's like the old Q school. So like you're watching

724
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 5: these guys like grind it out to get their card,

725
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 5: like you know, are they gonna make it? Are they

726
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 5: gonna make it? I totally agree with you. I think

727
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 5: that's guys who know they're on the line, and it's

728
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 5: a very different feel for sure.

729
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: Travelers Championship week Thursday and Friday coverage on Golf Channel,

730
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: of course, and Peter mentioned NBC Gold online streaming and

731
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: during the weekend on CBS nine of the top ten

732
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: in the world ranking fifteen of the top twenty. A

733
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: lot of that is due in part to Nathan grub,

734
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: tournament director and his team with the Travelers Championship. Thank

735
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: you so much much, Nathan, and again, congratulations on getting here.

736
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: I know it wasn't an easy journey.

737
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: No, I appreciate that.

738
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 5: Thanks for the time, thanks for all the support, and

739
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a good.

740
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: Week, Peter, I can tell you that on a personal note,

741
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: and you'd probably tell they're in the interview, but I've

742
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: got to know Nathan pretty well and it's exactly what

743
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: they say. I can remember a year when my daughter

744
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: was about two years old and we're still living in Connecticut.

745
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,479
Speaker 1: I brought her to the golf tournament and we were

746
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: out on a course and it started raining. Well, they

747
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: knew they had seen me out with my daughter, and

748
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: they knew we were out there, and pretty soon a

749
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: volunteer with a big umbrella and a couple of jackets

750
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: comes out, including this little baby jacket, little toddler jacket

751
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: for my daughter and says, here, you guys need this,

752
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: hop on a cart.

753
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 2: Will keep you dry. I mean, they just they take

754
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: care of people. They understand it. It's not to say

755
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: that no other tournament does. They all do a great job,

756
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: but man.

757
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: The Travelers Championship has been near and dear to my

758
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: heart for a long time.

759
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 2: So I'm happy to see that, even though they.

760
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: Don't have fans there this week, that they are having

761
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: a it should be a really, really good.

762
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 3: Tournament this week. Total pro.

763
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 4: I'm sure he's anxious, like you mentioned, just to get

764
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 4: things going, and it's amazing that we're here.

765
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: We didn't put him on the spot and ask him

766
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 2: for his pick. I told him I was.

767
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: One he might have if we pressed him, if we said,

768
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: you have to answer this question. I guess he might

769
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: go Bubba Bubba a three time champion.

770
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: There, I'm not going Bubba.

771
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 1: I might fade Bubba just a little bits. I think

772
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: people are gonna be on him a little too much

773
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: this week.

774
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 2: But uh, you ready for this DraftKings lineup that we

775
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 2: always do.

776
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think last week went pretty well, not great,

777
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 3: but not bad.

778
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, better than the first week.

779
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: We keep getting better. By the Tour Championship, we're gonna

780
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: be knocking this thing down.

781
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 3: So let's let's let's try to Let's try to have

782
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 3: a great week this week.

783
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: To take a little strategy here, right, I think you

784
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: had the first pick. I think I gave you the

785
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: first pick last week. I'm gonna take the first pick,

786
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: which might block your pick.

787
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 3: That's fine.

788
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 2: Well, let's let's see what happens. Because I told you,

789
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 2: I know you like Rom.

790
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: Bryson's at the top of my list is eight hundred

791
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: dollars more than wrong eleven thousand this week on DraftKings.

792
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: I just think Bryson's right now. He's not missing. It

793
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 2: doesn't mean he's not missing a shot. He's just not

794
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 2: missing an event.

795
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: He's five straight eighth or better. He's playing well on

796
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: courses that don't suit his game. This one does suit

797
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: his game. Top ten here the last two years. I

798
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: just don't see a scenario in which Bryson D. Chambeau

799
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: doesn't play well this week and isn't somewhere in the

800
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: mix come Sunday.

801
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 3: All right, I like that pick a lot.

802
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 4: I know it's a part seventy, but a lot of

803
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 4: long par fours, which I think is important. So I'm

804
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 4: gonna I kind of like this angle of taking some bombers.

805
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 4: So I'll continue the bombers stretch here and I'll go

806
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 4: with co crack down at seventy four hundred. I think

807
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 4: he's just playing great golf. I love the weight loss.

808
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 4: I know we missed the cut last week with a

809
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 4: bad round two, but I am going to continue to

810
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 4: buy Jason Cocrack and I think you'll get him a

811
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 4: little lower on just because there's a lot of compelling

812
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 4: guys in the mid tier and he's kind of at

813
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 4: the bottom of that tier. So let's let's stick with

814
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 4: some guys who committed a long way.

815
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

816
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: I like that Corak is a guy much like Abraham

817
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: Answer much like Joel Damon, who's kind of knocking on

818
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: the door for that first tour win. And I don't

819
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 1: think any of us would be surprised if it happens

820
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: anytime soon.

821
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 2: Now.

822
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: Speaking of Answer, and we kind of alluded to it

823
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: the first segment on the pod, but I just at

824
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: nine thousand DraftKings this week, coming off a week when

825
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: he just had a tremendous I mean, Justin Ray of

826
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: the fifteenth Club posted some stats on Twitter on Sunday

827
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 1: night and basically it was like one of the best

828
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: ball striking displays by a guy who led or shared

829
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: the lead going into the final round, who and maybe

830
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: the best in the last thirty years who didn't win

831
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: the golf tournament despite that ball striking.

832
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 2: So I have a feeling I don't even.

833
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: Sixty percent own this week. Do you like Answer enough

834
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: to go with the crowd and hope that you are

835
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: differentiating enough swear or do you want to fade Answer

836
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: and just hope that everyone else.

837
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: Misses on him?

838
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, in tournaments, I think it's pretty easy you fade

839
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 4: him and just hope that it's wrong, especially when you

840
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 4: can get Morikawa or you know, Bubba Watson might leave

841
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 4: his ownership and in nine thousand he might not be

842
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 4: at that chocky.

843
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 5: I do expect him to be shockey.

844
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 6: But the way the probably the best way to do

845
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 6: it is if you think he's high equity, you play

846
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 6: him in cash games and some other formats, hope that

847
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 6: other people don't take him in that format, and then

848
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 6: you know, contests like the Millionaire Maker, you completely fade him.

849
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 4: And maybe if you're playing a high stakes one tournament

850
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 4: or something like that, you put them on there. So

851
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 4: if you know, if you know guys going to be

852
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 4: fifty percent owned, you almost always want to face them

853
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 4: in tournaments. I mean, okay, like your web Sison, I

854
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 4: think was a bad pick knowing he's even not just

855
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 4: because of the result. I mean, the results great, but

856
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 4: forty nine percent owned. I was immediately saying, okay, that's

857
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 4: a bad pick. I mean, and it worked out, but

858
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 4: at that ownership, you're just getting so much equity that

859
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 4: they missed the cutter.

860
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: Don't don't finish hy Now, since we're talking strategy, I

861
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: want to talk in general, but I'll use some examples

862
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: here if I.

863
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 2: Like answer this week.

864
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: But I know that I'm gonna have a couple guys

865
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: by line. We talked about Jamie Lovemark earlier. I bet

866
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: Jamie Lovemark coming off a miscut a couple of weeks

867
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: ago on the corn Ferry in a while.

868
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: One percent owned.

869
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: Can I get away with having Answer at forty five

870
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: percent if I have love Mark at one percent?

871
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 2: Balancing that out in a million Maker?

872
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

873
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 4: I think the critical thing in the millionaire Maker. You know,

874
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 4: being unique is important, but you can really have a

875
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 4: differentiated lineup with just a couple of guys who are

876
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 4: low on.

877
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 3: And if you have a lineup that's unique, that's really

878
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 3: the most critical thing.

879
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 4: So if you go Answer, you get someone like love Mark,

880
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 4: and then you have another guy who you think is

881
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 4: pretty likely to be contrarion.

882
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 3: You're in a fine place from an ownership perspective.

883
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, for for our all intents and purposes here,

884
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: let's consider this a GPP A tournament play where we're

885
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: going to fade answer and I'll go and stead down

886
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: the list to seventy nine hundred and Joaqui Neeman, who again.

887
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 2: Is in form, played really well on and has a

888
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: nice little course history. He played well here last year

889
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: as well.

890
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 4: Perfect let's go with another young gun right in that

891
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 4: same range, and we'll have kind of the mid tier left.

892
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 4: We didn't talk about Victor Hoblind at all on this pot.

893
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 4: My goodness, he is hitting the ball good. He has

894
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 4: some similar issues. Chipping is more of his bugaboo and

895
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 4: sometimes doesn't make putts. But in terms of ball striking

896
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 4: and driving the golf ball well, Victor Hoblin, which again

897
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 4: I talk about a lot, but especially at this course,

898
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 4: driving the golf ball well is really important.

899
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 3: So I like Victor Hoblind's a lot.

900
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 2: I am so in on that pick with you.

901
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: I didn't mention his name at any other point in

902
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: the pod, but I have him written up in.

903
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 2: My preview this week. Really like the way Victor Hoblin plays.

904
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 1: The best thing about taking Victor Hoblind is like, especially

905
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: in dfs, if he's twenty third place going into the weekend,

906
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: he plays better on the weekend than he does in

907
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: the first two rounds, and especially on Sundays, he tends

908
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: to go really low. So you know you've got a

909
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: shot if you've got Victor Hoblin sitting there in your lineup.

910
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 2: So we've got two spots left fifteen.

911
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 3: Hundred with your boy, the guy that you talk to

912
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 3: me about. You texted me he had a great Sunday round.

913
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 3: He's cheap. I think that's a good pick. Which one

914
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: was that for Telly? I'll pick him for you and

915
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 3: then I'll leave you.

916
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,919
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, I'm taking you like that. Okay, yes,

917
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 7: I do like that. We might leave a lot on

918
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 7: the board here, Fade Bubba. I really like Patrick Reid

919
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 7: this week. I was gonna go lower.

920
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 2: I was gonna leave a lot of money on the table.

921
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 2: I could go to Fie. Now who I really like?

922
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: I love Joel Damon this week. You know, Brandon Steel.

923
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 1: Brendan Steele's gonna listen to this pod, friend of the Pot.

924
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: He's gonna steal it over in Connecticut, and he's gonna

925
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: go I can't believe you didn't take.

926
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: Me in the spot. And you know what, I'm just

927
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 2: not gonna take it.

928
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fade steal just for the pod purposes, because

929
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: I want to hear back from him and see if

930
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: he's actually listening right now. So fade Steel just for

931
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 1: the purposes of this dame. And I can't believe we

932
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: didn't work into this lineup. I did a video today

933
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 1: for all PGA Tour platforms when we've got our deal

934
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: with golf Bet and the Action Network with.

935
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 2: PGA Tour and I do a whole thing with them.

936
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 2: I wore a Bryson hat.

937
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: I wore a Joel Damon hat in this video, so

938
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:16,479
Speaker 1: you can.

939
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 2: Guess where my allegiances are this week.

940
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna jump up to Patrick Reid at eighty

941
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: seven hundred and leave one hundred on the table. Let's

942
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: say a lineup of Bryson, d Chambeau, Dylan for Telly,

943
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 1: Victor Hovland, Jason Kokrach, Joaque Neeman, and Patrick Reid.

944
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 2: How do you like that, Peter?

945
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 4: Oh looks so good. I mean, I feel like that's

946
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 4: gonna be the whole week making lineups. Just oh, there's

947
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 4: the millionaire maker whin right there. You build a team

948
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 4: and you're just like, oh that, how does that not win?

949
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 4: You know only one person's gonna win. But it's a

950
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 4: lot of fun building DraftKings teams this week.

951
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 2: You and I texted about that last week after we had.

952
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: Done the pod, I think it was on Wednesday, and

953
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, I go, Pete, I got bad news

954
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 1: because I've got some lineups I just made that are

955
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: like they're gonna win.

956
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 2: I mean, this is gonna win a million dollars for

957
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 2: I guarantee it.

958
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: And could I have been more off on Hideki Matsuyama

959
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: last week?

960
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 2: I apologize to everybody.

961
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: I owe you guys like you know, I owe you

962
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: all a dollar towards uh towards your DraftKings lineups because

963
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: I touted Adeki last week as, hey, great ball striker

964
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,439
Speaker 1: and this should be a great course for man.

965
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 2: Was that a bad pick? Is that terrible?

966
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 4: I fitted Adeki and Tyrol Hatton for the not we

967
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 4: haven't seen him since the layoff, and one of those

968
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 4: picks was worked out really well because Matsiamo's chock. But

969
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 4: Hatton coming out and just lining it up was very,

970
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 4: very bad news for me.

971
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 3: So I lost quite a bit of money last week.

972
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 3: So onto the travelers.

973
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: Let's say, for however many lineups you were putting in.

974
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: If you're putting in X number of lineups, are you

975
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: culling your guys from Hey, there's four in the top

976
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: tier and four in the mid tier and six in

977
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: the lower tier of guys that I like, And so

978
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna kind of mix and match amongst that group,

979
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: or do you want sort of more of a I

980
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: look at more guys just to give yourself more of

981
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: a chance with different players.

982
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 2: How do you play that when you put in a

983
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: lot of lineups.

984
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 4: For most weeks, I play a more narrow range of guys,

985
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 4: and it depends. Sometimes I'll be really heavy on like

986
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 4: three or four guys, and then I'll be sprinkling in

987
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 4: a bunch of cheap guys or whatever. But in general,

988
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 4: I think the better strategy is to have a little

989
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 4: more narrow player pool. The first week, we had that

990
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 4: incentive with like the low round, so the Millionaire Maker,

991
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 4: I threw it a couple extra guys and you never know.

992
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 4: But I think it is dynamic to the week where

993
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 4: sometimes you know, I love these studs, and I love

994
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 4: a certain type of roster bill, and it's gonna leave

995
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 4: me with a scrub and all these lineups. So instead

996
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 4: of just going all in on like one, you know,

997
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 4: really cheap guy, you kind of diverse by there. But

998
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 4: this week is tricky because there's so many compelling guys

999
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 4: at the top, So I might diversify a little bit

1000
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 4: more than normal at the top. But yeah, great question.

1001
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 4: I think it's dynamic to the week. The worst thing

1002
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 4: that you can do, though, for sure, is trying to

1003
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 4: cover all the combinations. Can't do that, so you've got

1004
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 4: to make stands somewhere. I never want to go into

1005
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 4: a week where I just am, you know, just scattering everything.

1006
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 4: You want to have some positions regardless.

1007
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: So it's dynamic to the week. But hopefully that helped

1008
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 3: with your question.

1009
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and that's what I usually do. It's usually

1010
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 2: a narrow range.

1011
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: Except Adecki on a lot of lineups last week absolutely

1012
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: killed me, web Simpson the week before absolutely killed me.

1013
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 3: Well this week, yeah, I mean.

1014
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: It's just and you've got to kind of noel, especially

1015
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: in those those big ones. If you're getting five out

1016
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: of six and those five are all playing well, that

1017
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: one other guy is, you know, slamming the trunk Friday

1018
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: afternoon and taking the weekend off it, it's just not

1019
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: going to go as far as you need that lineup

1020
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: to go. So anyway, great talking Travelers Championship stuff with you,

1021
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: a great talking strategy with you, Peter. Good luck this week,

1022
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: and special thanks to Nathan Grub who's tremendous and good

1023
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: luck and congratulations again to all of the good people

1024
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:05,479
Speaker 1: in the eight six oh my old hometown right there

1025
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: in central Connecticut.

1026
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: Love those guys. Hope they have a great week. Hope

1027
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: you guys have a great week, and here's hoping you

1028
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 2: hit the green.

1029
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 3: We're finished talking