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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on everybody? John Middlecock, the

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Speaker 1: Golo Pod is back. We were talking golf football is over, well,

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Speaker 1: at least the season is over. Transition into golf, Tigers,

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Speaker 1: tournament majors ahead. A lot going on. My guy Jason

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Speaker 1: Sobel will join me every single week. You know, I

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Speaker 1: like gambling on golf more than any other sport. A

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I hit Maxihoma at twenty two

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Speaker 1: We will talk with Sobel every week about the bets

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Speaker 1: for that upcoming tournament. Obviously the big ones. We have

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Speaker 1: for those of you new, just with some things that

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Speaker 1: that'll be a fluid situation. But we'll be reacting every

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Speaker 1: single week to the world in golf. Last year, obviously

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Speaker 1: Tour and uh and yeah, So this is a pretty straightforward.

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Speaker 1: Before we dive into so Bol, let's hit on a

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Speaker 1: play this week. First and foremost, that's awesome. Tiger doesn't

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Speaker 1: when Tiger like sometimes I don't want to say a

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Speaker 1: The p g A season has actually been going for

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Speaker 1: to the waste management very much, though that's very unbranded.

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Speaker 1: I would have guessed I would have first guest Bruce

426
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Speaker 1: Arians obviously Arizona. I think he was there, but Rabel,

427
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Speaker 1: I know he's not necessarily coaching anymore. We'll Rabel to

428
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Speaker 1: be high on the list of guys shot gunning beers

429
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Speaker 1: an whole fifteen with the people. Yeah, no shotgunning, but

430
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Speaker 1: he was definitely having himself a good time and we're

431
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Speaker 1: hanging out. He was with a few friends that I

432
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Speaker 1: knew and mutual friends and we started hanging out talking

433
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Speaker 1: golf for a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon. But

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, that was fun. Again, we're so far inside

435
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Speaker 1: of sixteen that were over overlooking fifteen. It's so funny.

436
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Speaker 1: You get like, hey, let's go here, then there, then there,

437
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Speaker 1: and now we're we're like eight hundred yards behind the

438
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Speaker 1: sixteenth old now that we're just watching fifteen. Um, he

439
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Speaker 1: was cool. Random Michael Phelps, who is a golf nut

440
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Speaker 1: and he is firing and so he loves a little action.

441
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Speaker 1: So me and him, we're gonna talk action pretty soon

442
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna hopefully get together all these people and

443
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Speaker 1: now have my number and I'm like, yeah, we'll get together.

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Speaker 1: We'll do all the all the famous celebs that like

445
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Speaker 1: on Saturday at the WM. We're like, dude, let's hang

446
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Speaker 1: we're best friends. Woke up on Monday morning and they're like,

447
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Speaker 1: whose number is? I'm not calling this guy? So I

448
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Speaker 1: made friends. I mean, you know, five tequila shots by

449
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Speaker 1: noon on a Friday or Saturday gets a lot of

450
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Speaker 1: people talking to about Do you think it was extra?

451
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Speaker 1: Did you feel the a lot of NFL people out there?

452
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Speaker 1: Because who boy saw Adam Schefter roaming around and hung

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Speaker 1: out with Chefty and uh and bug Uh around the

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Speaker 1: golf course a little bit. Yeah, there were a lot

455
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Speaker 1: more people. The The pro am list was awesome. I

456
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Speaker 1: mean we had guys everywhere. We had Collins and I

457
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Speaker 1: do our show, as you know, two to four Eastern time,

458
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Speaker 1: which was noon to two out there seventeen tea box,

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Speaker 1: which is actually better for the show than sixteen because seventeen.

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Speaker 1: During the program, these guys have to wait for fifteen

461
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Speaker 1: minutes because it's a driveable par four, so they're sitting

462
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Speaker 1: there literally doing nothing. Hey come on over and talk

463
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Speaker 1: to us. In two days of two hour shows, we

464
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Speaker 1: had plenty seven guests on. And I mean I'm not

465
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Speaker 1: talking about like we've had on like some guy for

466
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Speaker 1: the tournament who does this. It was like Albert Pools

467
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Speaker 1: and Ryan Fitzpatrick and Larry Fitzgerald and like, I mean,

468
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Speaker 1: you knew everybody that was coming on our show. It

469
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was so much fun. We go back

470
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Speaker 1: to back weeks with two of the better part four's

471
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Speaker 1: and all of golf right the whole seventeen at TPC

472
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Speaker 1: and then whole ten at at riv I've never played

473
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Speaker 1: riv Um, gotta meet some more famous people to get

474
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Speaker 1: an invite, but I think seventeen at TPC is one

475
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Speaker 1: of the probably the coolest holes on the tour. Where

476
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Speaker 1: does that rank for you? So yeah, first of all,

477
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Speaker 1: seventeen last week is a really cool hall. Tenant Riviera

478
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Speaker 1: is awesome. I can tell you that a few years ago.

479
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Speaker 1: It's probably ten's hard. Ten's harder's much harder than you

480
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Speaker 1: send is much harder. Um, that's just the green complex,

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Speaker 1: the narrow green where you're you know, you really have

482
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Speaker 1: like no margin for error at ten. But it's a

483
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Speaker 1: great hole because you can make birdie there, you can

484
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Speaker 1: make double there, and there's not much difference between the two.

485
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Speaker 1: There's a razor thin margin between making birdie and making double.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you about four or five years ago, Uh,

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Speaker 1: it was the week I was covering the Farmers ensuring

488
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Speaker 1: it's open. On Monday, there was media day for the

489
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Speaker 1: Genesis Invitational and Tiger was gonna be there, and so

490
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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, why don't I just fly into l A,

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Speaker 1: talk to Tiger, have some lunch in the Riviera clubhouse,

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Speaker 1: and go out play eighteen at riv and then I'll

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Speaker 1: drive down to Tory Pines. Seems like a pretty nice

494
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Speaker 1: start of the week. Well what happened that day? Torrential

495
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Speaker 1: rain in Los Angeles. Sorry, guys, we've got to shut

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Speaker 1: it down. Can't go out on the course today. But hey,

497
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Speaker 1: enjoy the salad um, you know. So we sat there

498
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Speaker 1: and had lunch and then had had to leave. So

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Speaker 1: I am oh for one and trying to get onto Riviera.

500
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Speaker 1: So I'm right there with you. Never played it, but yeah,

501
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Speaker 1: the tenth hole is one of my absolute favorites. I've

502
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Speaker 1: spent where is it that Stolf tournament over the years,

503
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Speaker 1: just hanging out at number ten and just watching guys

504
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Speaker 1: play it because you can play it so many different ways,

505
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Speaker 1: and they have and they will keep trying to figure

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Speaker 1: it out this week. It's uh, it's one of the

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Speaker 1: best holes out there, really, But I had to pull

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Speaker 1: up the schedule. But I would imagine this is one

509
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Speaker 1: of the better fourteen day stretches on tour, right, you know,

510
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Speaker 1: starting Monday last week to Sunday going to riv Obviously

511
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Speaker 1: you're on the grounds when it gets announced. Guys are

512
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Speaker 1: on the you know, playing. Tiger Woods is playing. You know,

513
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Speaker 1: he's pretty secretive, so it's not like one of those

514
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Speaker 1: things that probably starts making the waves when the new

515
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Speaker 1: when he tweets it out. I'm playing. What was your reaction?

516
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Speaker 1: Talking to players? What was their reaction? Um? And does

517
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Speaker 1: the guy have a chance. I had heard some rumors

518
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Speaker 1: that it was coming. Um, didn't know anything definitive, but yeah,

519
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Speaker 1: Friday morning in Phoenix, we we got that news. I

520
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Speaker 1: was actually doing a podcast this morning with my buddy

521
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Speaker 1: Ben Everel that I do a Links and Locks podcast

522
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Speaker 1: with the Action Network and Ben works for the PGA tour.

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Speaker 1: He was actually following Max Hooma's group on Friday. He

524
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Speaker 1: was out there with him when he saw the news

525
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Speaker 1: that Tiger was playing this weekend. He pulled Max aside,

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Speaker 1: said hey, by the way, Tigers back next week, and

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Speaker 1: he said Max's eyes lit up. He was due. That's

528
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Speaker 1: so awesome. I'm so happy, said, I don't care. We're

529
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Speaker 1: all gonna get together and carry him up those steps

530
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Speaker 1: beyond the eighteenth grade. If we have to, we'll get

531
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Speaker 1: him up there. But it's just awesome to have them back.

532
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Speaker 1: So I thought that was really cool. As for Tiger's

533
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Speaker 1: chances this week, look, I look at this as this

534
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Speaker 1: is a preseason game. It's a spring training game for

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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. He talks so often about needing reps. He

536
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Speaker 1: hasn't played an official event since last Summer's Open Championship.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't played a non major since November one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's been a long time since Tiger has been able

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Speaker 1: to just go to an event. And essentially, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say not care about it, not care about

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Speaker 1: the results. He always cares about the result. He wants

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Speaker 1: to go out there and play well. He doesn't want

543
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Speaker 1: to embarrass himself. But look, you don't show up with

544
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Speaker 1: the Masters and say no, I'm just gonna show up,

545
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Speaker 1: get some reps and knocking around a little bit. You

546
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Speaker 1: show up going I want to win this thing. Well,

547
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Speaker 1: he wants to win this week, but it's more about

548
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Speaker 1: what this means for the future. And so I love

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's playing. Um, if anything, he's more

550
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Speaker 1: of a fade form me this week than anything else.

551
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not betting minus three hundred that he's gonna

552
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Speaker 1: miss the cut. By the way, that number win. I

553
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: was talking to Jeff Sherman, who's the VP of risk

554
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Speaker 1: for Super Book Sports. That number went from minus one

555
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 1: fifty to minus one to minus two fifty to minus

556
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Speaker 1: three hundred within five hours at their book on Friday afternoon.

557
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Speaker 1: That means there's a lot of big time money that

558
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Speaker 1: Tiger to miss the cut. I'm not jumping on it.

559
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Speaker 1: Minus three hundred minus one fifty. I might have been there.

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Speaker 1: The over under is seventy three and a half for

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Speaker 1: the opening rounds. I have a little inside knowledge, Uh,

562
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Speaker 1: someone may have dropped this on me that tea times

563
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Speaker 1: should be out by by the time this pot is posted,

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Speaker 1: the tea times will be out. So I mean, I'm

565
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Speaker 1: not really giving anything up. But I believe he's playing

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Speaker 1: with JT and Rory. And even more surprising is that

567
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Speaker 1: I believe he's playing Thursday afternoon and then Friday morning.

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Speaker 1: It's cool, chili tough out there in the mornings. I

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Speaker 1: would think that he'd want to go out Thursday morning

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Speaker 1: and then rest up and be able to have some

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Speaker 1: time in between the two rounds. I actually don't necessarily

572
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Speaker 1: hate the under Now that he's playing Thursday afternoon instead

573
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Speaker 1: of Thursday morning, I think it'll be a little bit

574
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Speaker 1: easier out there. But still, I mean, the first competitive

575
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Speaker 1: round in a long time, let's keep expectations at a minimum.

576
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: Quite honestly, at the juice up prices they have right now.

577
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Speaker 1: To fade Tiger, I'm not really fading him. I'm certainly

578
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Speaker 1: not betting him. I'm just gonna enjoy it this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think last time we saw him with Charlie,

580
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Speaker 1: you know, anyone, a lot of people to listen to this.

581
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: You know, follow the NFL pretty closely. The planet of

582
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: factitis is something that knocks guys out for a long time.

583
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Speaker 1: So to me, for him, I know it's his event,

584
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: but to play in this clearly his foot the pain

585
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: is doing a lot better, and like he said, the

586
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Speaker 1: only way to make it go away, and I saw

587
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Speaker 1: Eric Armstead had this with the Niners is just kind

588
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Speaker 1: of rest, you know, you just kind of gotta stay

589
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Speaker 1: off it, which is the opposite the way Tiger operates.

590
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Speaker 1: We've been at this Navy Seal mindset. He always wants

591
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Speaker 1: to train and work out and play golf. But you know,

592
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Speaker 1: I would imagine that has changed over the year. Okay,

593
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Speaker 1: let's dive in. For those of you new listening to

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Speaker 1: the pod Action network dot com. Fall him on Twitter

595
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Speaker 1: at Jason Sobel I t a n and he puts

596
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Speaker 1: out a weekly gambling um just a full on breakdown

597
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Speaker 1: of picks for all different levels, not just outright winners,

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Speaker 1: which can be tord in golf, but top ten's, top twenties,

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Speaker 1: top fifties, top thirties, uh dfs plays your picked this

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Speaker 1: week I thought, you know was was followed with data,

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Speaker 1: and you know it's what many say has been the

602
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Speaker 1: best player over the last you know, year and a half.

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Speaker 1: You could argue there's two other guys, Rum and Scheffler,

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Speaker 1: but make your case for Rory McIlroy. Yeah, so, John,

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Speaker 1: I started doing this research last week where I was

606
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Speaker 1: looking for something to separate Scheffler, Rom and Rory. Basically,

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Speaker 1: you look at the three of them, the three best

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Speaker 1: players at least on the PGA Tour, if not the

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Speaker 1: three best in the world. You know where I'm going

610
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Speaker 1: with that camp Smith is pretty good too, but I'm

611
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Speaker 1: gonna keep him out of the equation as far as

612
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Speaker 1: playing this week is concerned. But I'm trying. I'm looking

613
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Speaker 1: for some sort of different hill something to separate these

614
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Speaker 1: three guys. And so I went back. Since the beginning

615
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Speaker 1: of last year, Scotty Scheffler has now won five times. Now,

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Speaker 1: there's a correlation between those five that I think a

617
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Speaker 1: lot of people wouldn't realize. Quite honestly, I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: it myself until I started doing the research. But all

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Speaker 1: five of those wins came when Scotty had the previous

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Speaker 1: week off. He has not one when he's played the

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Speaker 1: previous week, So, okay, that's pretty interesting. Other than that

622
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Speaker 1: top ten percentage average finished, they're about the same. But

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Speaker 1: those wins all five. On one side of it, that's interesting.

624
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Speaker 1: I went and looked at John rob John Ram has

625
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Speaker 1: won five times around the world since the beginning of

626
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Speaker 1: last year as well. All five of John Rom's wins

627
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Speaker 1: came when he was off the previous week. Doesn't mean

628
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Speaker 1: he's terrible when he plays the previous week, but only

629
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Speaker 1: three top tens in seven starts when he's played the

630
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Speaker 1: previous week and his average finish goes from eleven and

631
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Speaker 1: change to twenty in change. That's a pretty big difference. Now,

632
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Speaker 1: I went and looked at Rory, and from the first

633
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: two guys, you might think, oh, well, all these top players,

634
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: they played better when they're rested and when they can

635
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Speaker 1: prep and when they haven't played the week before, and

636
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: not so fast. Rory's numbers were pretty different. In fact,

637
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: he's played fifteen times coming off a bye week we'll

638
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: call it, and he's won twice, played nine times, haven't

639
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: played the week before, he also won twice, So the

640
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: win percentage is much higher when he's played the week before,

641
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: top ten percentage way higher. He's finished top ten seven

642
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: of those nine times, and his average finish is twice

643
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: as good when he's played the previous week. What does

644
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: that tell us? Maybe Scheffler and Rom maybe they're prepping

645
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: a little bit better than Rory, Maybe they're getting their

646
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: mindset right. Maybe they just like having that time off.

647
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: Rory seems to need that time inside the ropes the

648
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: previous week. Whatever the case is, that's a specific trend

649
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at this week as one of the

650
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: reasons that coming off all three of those guys playing

651
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: last week in Phoenix. I really like Rory is instead

652
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: of the other two guys at this one at the

653
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: general safe to say last year, last week obviously for

654
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: Scheffler and rom Rom. I mean this is a home

655
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: track for him at Waste Management Arizona. He bawled there

656
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: since he was in college. Scheffler, you could put him

657
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: on the moon. His game would not change. Rory a

658
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: little more of an elitist crowd, you know. L A

659
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: probably fits his vibe a little more than the than

660
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: the drunken crazy, that is fair to say. I will

661
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: say that I didn't spend a whole lot of time

662
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: with Rory last week, but the little time that I

663
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: did spend with him, I just got an underlying sense

664
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: that it wasn't really his thing. Now, I give Rory credit.

665
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: He is part of this committee with the PGA tour

666
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: that pushed for the w M Phoenix Open to be

667
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: a designated event. So once you do that, you sort

668
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: of have to show up. And I like the fact

669
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: that he's thinking about the greater good and not just himself.

670
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: That said, you just got a sense like just not

671
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: really his thing, and he's kind of looking ahead to

672
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: other events you'd only play once before. That was two

673
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: years ago. It was still during COVID when they had

674
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: limited attendance for those events. And so I just don't

675
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: think if this was not a designated event this past week,

676
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: you would not have seen Rory at TVC Scottsdale. This

677
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 1: one at Riviera much more a Rory McIlroy type of place.

678
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: One guy who started vibing over the weekend. And you

679
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: know he's been a little off, but you know this

680
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: is gonna mean a lot to him. Tigers, this guy

681
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: short game type course. Obviously you gotta hit it long,

682
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: like you we were talking before. Everyone hits it long. Now,

683
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: what about j T at fifteen to one? You know,

684
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: I know this history here is a little hit or miss,

685
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: but it feels like, you know, be find a little form,

686
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: starts getting dialed in, feels like, you know, he's a

687
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: guy that's getting lost in the shuffle. Did those three

688
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: guys in his mind he's every bit as good as

689
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: those guys, whether that's true or not, Like he believes that, right,

690
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: love JTS game. Look, there are a lot of guys

691
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: that you could ask me, Hey, what about j T?

692
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: What about Fina? What about Homer? What about Awfully, what

693
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: about Morikawa? What about cant Ley? I can quite honestly

694
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: ride the fence and say, yeah, I like all those guys.

695
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: I like all those guys every week. I like all

696
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: those guys at Riviera. I can envision any of those

697
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: guys winning this week. At some point, you gotta take

698
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: a stance and just go, I don't know, I like

699
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: this guy a little bit more than that guy, and

700
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna take him. But you know, it's very

701
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: hard to separate all these guys for me. Justin Thomas,

702
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: I think is I don't know if he's not number

703
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: four in the world on the PGA Tour again thrown

704
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: in that camp Smith wrench, which you know kind of

705
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: makes things a little more difficult. But JT, to me

706
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: is a top five talent in the world, even if

707
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: the official World Golf ranking number doesn't show it. And

708
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: for me, those top players can win any place anytime.

709
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: Certainly wouldn't surprise me to see JT win this week,

710
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: just because it wouldn't surprise me to see JT win

711
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: any week. He's that kind of talent. At some point

712
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: he's going to assert himself and a few more of

713
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: these and instead of saying el Scheffler rom Rory are

714
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: the cream of the crop and they've separated themselves. We go,

715
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: how do you leave Justin Thomas out of that mix?

716
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: Because he does have that kind of talent, he just

717
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: hasn't cut quite one as much as the other guys

718
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: over the last year and a half. Speaking of one

719
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: of the guys you mentioned, odds are a little high

720
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: for me, but to me, if you can get I've

721
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: wasted a lot of money over the years on fee now,

722
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: but to me, at some of these bigger tournaments, if

723
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: he's covering more like the twenty five range, he's kind

724
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: of proved, you know, he he's more confident now to

725
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: win the tournaments over the last year that he's proven

726
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: that he can shut the door that before, like at

727
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: six seventeen to one, I don't know about that, but

728
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: if I can get him to one and some of

729
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: these like, that's pretty good value for a guy now

730
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: that I think you can use the words win equity

731
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: right because he has one. I like finale. Look again,

732
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: I mean I'm gonna sound like a broken record here.

733
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: I like him. I like him every single week. You know,

734
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: if you told me, like, hey, you can have Tony

735
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: fen now every week this year, you want to take it? Yeah, sure,

736
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean gonna. If I do that, I'm gonna win

737
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: two events at least, and I'm gonna hit him on outrights.

738
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: But I am saving Tony. If if I can only

739
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 1: bet Tony fine now at one Los Angeles based event

740
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: this year, hint hint, I am taking him at the

741
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: other one that we'll see in about four months from now.

742
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: If you get what I'm saying, If we can get

743
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: him at like to one range, and you know, hopefully

744
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: you have to play kind of poorly leading up to that,

745
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: I'm with you there, John, let me tell I just

746
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: want to break that. By the way, And and for

747
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: those who don't know, I'm I'm speaking about l A

748
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: c C, which will play host to the US Open

749
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: in June this year. And I know a lot of

750
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: people still think, ah, U s Open, you gotta keep

751
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: in the fairway, you gotta hit greens. Uh. Tony's kind

752
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: of a big look at the guys who have won

753
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: the US Open in recent years, Bryson the Shambo, Dustin Johnson, Brooks,

754
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: kept Gary Woodland, all big strong dudes. Essentially, what happens

755
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: in the US Open. No one keeps it in in the fairway.

756
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: Everyone's hitting from the rough. You've got to be big

757
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: and strong. They hit it out of the the rough. Tony

758
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: has played well in l A before. I think it's

759
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: a great Tony fine out type of track. If indeed

760
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: he's playing, his best golf comes June. So again, doesn't

761
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: mean I don't like him this week. I still like

762
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: him this week as well, but I'm gonna wait on

763
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: Tony until we get to the U s Open. Well,

764
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: even if Fitzpatrick last year added a link to his games, right, yeah,

765
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: exactly a guy that I brought up just because he's

766
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: been it's cool to see. I mean him and Ricky,

767
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: but Jason Days a guy with more win equity than

768
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: Ricky historically his game, you know, the last three tournaments,

769
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: T A, ten, T seven, five. I know he hasn't

770
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: played well here and you're trying to shoot me down

771
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 1: on this, but he's a guy short games unreal, feels

772
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: like he's much more just in the ballpark now off

773
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: the tea, playing that butter fade feels like from a

774
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: mental space, a lot of positive vibes coming from Jason Day.

775
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: I know you don't like him here. I'm gonna dabble,

776
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: but just big picture, I mean, is this a guy

777
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: that you see winning this season, because he's a guy

778
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: that you know with win equity from thirty five to

779
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: fifty to one, he's gonna hover in that range. Yes,

780
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: former number one player in the world who at times

781
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: looked invincible. As a number one player. You go back

782
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: and look at Jason Day's record in the summer off

783
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god, that's they were like

784
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: tiger like numbers. Granted only lasted about three or four

785
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: or five months, but he was unbelievable for a time.

786
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: And so yes, uh, you know, whether it's family stuff,

787
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: whether it's just sort of losing your swaying, changing coaches,

788
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that have happened too and

789
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: for Jason Day over the years, but he's certainly back

790
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: right now. I am not going to be on Jason

791
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: this week. As I mentioned you before we started recording here,

792
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: He's played the Genesis Invitational five times in his career.

793
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: He's only made the cut twice, nothing better than a

794
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 1: sixties second place finish. He's only broken par in three

795
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 1: of fourteen rounds. No thank you on Jason Day. This week.

796
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: No thank you at forty one. Once he gets up

797
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: to it's called maybe fifty five to one, where I

798
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: can get him at maybe bay Hill or the Players Championship.

799
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: Now that's where I'm jumping back on j D. So

800
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: I do like him long term. I do think he

801
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: wins something this year, but I'm gonna be off him

802
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: this week. I love a good long shot. I know

803
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: you do too. Hit me with a couple, all right.

804
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: Let me start you off with a guy that's I know.

805
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: Taylor Montgomery has gotten all the pub as being the

806
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: best rookie so far, and he deserves it, although he's

807
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 1: kind of lost his game over the last few starts.

808
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: Thomas Petrie came over from the DP World Tour and

809
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people don't know much about him,

810
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: but he's made eight starts. He's a veteran, I mean,

811
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: he's been playing the DP World Tour for a while.

812
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: He's never won there, but he's got nine top three finishes.

813
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Guy keeps coming close year after year. He's played eight

814
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: events so far this season he's made the cut and

815
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: all of them he's at four top twenty five finishes.

816
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's ready, especially not having everyone

817
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 1: on the DP World Tour to go win a PGA

818
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: Tour event, especially a PGA Tour event of this magnitude,

819
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: with this many good players. But he's a hundred and

820
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,720
Speaker 1: eighty one, just the top ten top when he value

821
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: that you have there on DET I think he's a

822
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: really smart place six on the PJ Tour and scrambling.

823
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,919
Speaker 1: He also mashes it off the tea. I really like that.

824
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: A couple other guys, Wyndham Clark, who's been playing fantastic.

825
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 1: There's one uh, one book that's got player market bets

826
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: essentially over under for their finishing position. Windham Clark's finishing

827
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: position over under is fifty second over at BETE. I

828
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: look at it and I go fifty seconds finished better

829
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: than sewond in each of his last seven starts. He's

830
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: much better than that. Seven, seven to one, seven to

831
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: one to top ten. Give me that all this week. Yeah,

832
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: I do like that. He was tenth last week is

833
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: his second top ten in his last four starts. And

834
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 1: then uh, Christian, Christian McCaffrey's good buddy Windham Clark. Okay,

835
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: I saw Christian together. I saw him walking through the

836
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: sweets at sixteen the other day. By the way, like

837
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: with twenty five thousand people around sixteen, Like Christian McCaffrey

838
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: walks past you, you do not point him. Go that's

839
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: the best running back in football right there. He's like,

840
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's some dude that walked past me.

841
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: So yeah, just doesn't sneaky. Doesn't look like sneaky. I

842
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: have one more name, Mary, how about Alex Norn, who's

843
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: playing some good golfing reviewer over the past year. I

844
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: went and looked the less sixteen tournaments that he's played

845
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: in where they've measured strokes gain stats. Fourteen of them

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Speaker 1: he's gain strokes strokes putting, and in a lot of

847
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: circumstances like it's getting like he's getting a lot of

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00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: strokes putting for a guy who's been known as a

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Speaker 1: ball striker. We've seen his hands all callous stuff all

850
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 1: the time. Like this guy is a really good ball striker,

851
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's putting it really well at

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Speaker 1: some point that's gonna equate to some really good stuff

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Speaker 1: for Alex. Dormon, Bryce and d Sham both thoughts. I

854
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: don't like him this week. What is he? I mean,

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00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: come on, it's just I don't know obviously, so I

856
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: miss him. I miss him. I just miss him around

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00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: the craziness. Uh, the weirdos, the crazies are missed. There's

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Speaker 1: no debating that, right we're talking about this off air

859
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: before we started. The one thing that Lived Golf has

860
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: done to the p g A Tour is it's taken

861
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: away all of the polarizing players. Bryson, Patrick Read, Phil Mickelson,

862
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: Bubba Watson, Ian Poulter Brooks kept anybody that Sergio I

863
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: forgot surgery Geez, that was polarizing player of last way

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00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: five year. I mean, anybody who's like people watch and

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00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: they see on the TV they got mad. I hate

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00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: that guy or man, I love that everyone hates that guy,

867
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: because I'm going to root for him. Just Dolph is

868
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: better with players who inspire passion amongst the masses. And

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00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: I think the PGA Tour. For all the good things

870
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: that are going on with the PGA Tour right now,

871
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 1: it's really hard to watch on a Sunday afternoon and go,

872
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: screw Nick Taylor. I want that guy to lose. Stupid Canadian.

873
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: You just there's no passion on a player like that.

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00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: You might like, you might be from Canada. You might

875
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: have gone to Washington rooted for him there. He might

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00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: like them, but nobody hates them, and so we are

877
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: left with a full tour of guys that nobody really

878
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: hates and that doesn't inspire passion. There's no polarization, and

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00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 1: I think that's a thing that makes the PGA tour works.

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00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: I think it's better when you've got some villains, got

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Speaker 1: some heels. Well, So well, let's enjoy the tournament. I'll

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00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Thanks, buddy. Great to be back

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00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: with you. So glad football is over.