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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on everybody? John Middlecoff gol Podcast.

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Speaker 1: How are we doing? Hopefully you're doing well. We have

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Speaker 1: the players. As Brandon would say, the fifth major of

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Speaker 1: the year. We can debate that, but it's no disputing

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Speaker 1: the biggest PGA Tour tournament of the year. Uh, probably

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Speaker 1: ahead of Waste Management riv Memorial doesn't get much bigger.

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Speaker 1: Rory the defending champ, bad back, Scottie the previous defending

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Speaker 1: champ back to back years not playing well. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of question marks coming into this year. Uh, that's

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Speaker 1: why it's fun to bet on. So I'll go over

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Speaker 1: some of the guys I'm betting on. O Jay one

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Speaker 1: at Bayhill, we got the new commissioner, Brian Rolapp, who

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Speaker 1: is gonna speak Wednesday, probably gonna shake some things up.

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Speaker 1: Gary Woodland went viral for a very very powerful video

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Speaker 1: about his brain surgery and battling PTSD. We will also

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Speaker 1: are plans on being some golf being played on camera

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Speaker 1: this year. We will put it on that page. Just

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Speaker 1: And obviously this this podcast has its own channel. Just

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Speaker 1: out because we tried to separate it in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: So let's just start this week with the players. Like

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Speaker 1: most people, this is an awesome tournament. It always feels big.

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Speaker 1: It looks fantastic on television, which some people get bad

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Speaker 1: because they overwater it. They overseed it so it looks

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Speaker 1: green like Augusta. Yet it doesn't play as hard because

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Speaker 1: it's soft. Rumors coming out and maybe this is a

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Speaker 1: role app influence that they've gotten less on that this

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Speaker 1: year they've grown out the rough. It is going to

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Speaker 1: be more difficult. This is a unique course, right, It's

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Speaker 1: there's a reason to last. I'll just read you off.

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Speaker 1: Since they moved this tournament to March from May nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Rory twenty didn't happen because of the RONA twenty one,

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Speaker 1: then Scotty Scotty Rory, so you know, and cam Smith

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Speaker 1: was given a hundred million dollars to go to live

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Speaker 1: I had money. I had one hundred dollars on him

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Speaker 1: that week. I think he was like twenty one or

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Speaker 1: twenty two to one. He played. I think he shot

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Speaker 1: It was remarkable. It was one of the great performances

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Speaker 1: a wrap. Rory routed him. But I think obviously the

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Speaker 1: And he's been on the PGA Tour a long time,

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Speaker 1: This is where blue chip guys thrive. But also when

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Speaker 1: And to me, part of it is like, how's his game? Well?

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Speaker 1: And Cam Young was right there T three. So to me,

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Speaker 1: me Koepka. I just think at his odds at fifty

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Speaker 1: And listen, I'm adamant they should keep cuts in every event.

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Speaker 1: tree and grind to make a bogie, or he can

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Speaker 1: hit a two feet and have a tap in birdie,

429
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Speaker 1: like you have no clue what's coming at any moment,

430
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Speaker 1: and he's a He's just a very entertaining player to

431
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Speaker 1: watch when he's on. I think the Gala falls under

432
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,639
Speaker 1: that a little bit too, is they are just wild carts.

433
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Speaker 1: I mean, anything can happen at any moment. That's what

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Speaker 1: kind of makes Scotty for being an all time great

435
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Speaker 1: player kind of boring. Like when he's on, he's just

436
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Speaker 1: Pepper's fair ways. He hits it relatively close to the uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, to the pin, and he makes a lot

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Speaker 1: of birdies. It's not part of what Tiger and Phil

439
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 1: that made them just all time great entertainers is crazy

440
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: shit could happen at any moment. I mean Tiger was

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00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 1: all over the place off the tee. Phil was notorious

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Speaker 1: for doing crazy stuff around the greens. Some of Tiger's

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Speaker 1: most iconic shots or round trees over trees, you know,

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Speaker 1: part of Scotty, like what are his iconic shots like

445
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Speaker 1: hitting five irons seven feet right from two hundred and

446
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Speaker 1: ten yards. It's it's just a little different. So I'm

447
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Speaker 1: all for the entertainment value of some guys like Oxhay,

448
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: So give me more Aukha. One thing that went viral

449
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Speaker 1: yesterday in the golf world was Gary Woodland, who won

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Speaker 1: that actually on Friday at Pebble Beach, and obviously that

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Speaker 1: moment changed his life. And then it came out a

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Speaker 1: couple years later that he had a lesion on his

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Speaker 1: brain and he needed to have brain surgery, which was

455
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Speaker 1: obviously a very scary time anytime they have to open

456
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Speaker 1: up your cranium. Came out of brain surgery. By all accounts,

457
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Speaker 1: he was doing well. They were able to remove it,

458
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Speaker 1: and he sat down with the Golf Channel at the

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Speaker 1: Players and said he's not doing well. And when I

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Speaker 1: first saw he said I'm not doing well, I assumed

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Speaker 1: that he was going to say that the lesion has

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Speaker 1: grown back, I'm gonna need another surgery. I have to

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Speaker 1: go through this again. And that's not what he said,

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Speaker 1: He said that he has been diagnosed with PTSD and

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Speaker 1: part of it. Anyone that followed his story back when

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Speaker 1: was like really jumpy, really anxious, kind of scared, struggling

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Speaker 1: surgery is the area in your brain of anxiety. And

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Speaker 1: he would be crying on the golf course. He would

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Speaker 1: be terrified when guys were behind him. He had PTSD,

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Speaker 1: no different than a combat vet did, and it was

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Speaker 1: really difficult to watch. He told a story at the

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Speaker 1: group came up to him at the end and said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: can I talk to you? And it turned out the

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Speaker 1: cop had been in Afghanistan and said, you remind me

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Speaker 1: a lot of myself. And they just start talking it

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Speaker 1: out and it just it's your heart hurts. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy's a young family, he's already had the brain

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Speaker 1: surgery to have PTSD, and as he said, you kind

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Speaker 1: of I'm a golfer, how do I have PET? Like

483
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to these combat vets, these guys that have

484
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Speaker 1: been boots on the ground in the Middle East, and

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Speaker 1: we both have the same thing going on, and they

486
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Speaker 1: all say, and he reiterated, this is like, you cannot

487
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Speaker 1: do this by yourself. You need to have help. And

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Speaker 1: know last year you thought Live Golf had shown some growth.

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Speaker 1: Last episode you mentioned what you thought of the new

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Speaker 1: CEO role app for the PGA Tour would do moving

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Speaker 1: forward given his NFL background. Curious what you'd think Live

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00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: Golf should do given their new CEO is also from

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Speaker 1: outside golf. Should they look to stage primetime events on Fox?

539
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Speaker 1: Should they look to poach top ten players from the

540
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: tour as opposed to the Thomas Deetree types? In a nutshell,

541
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Speaker 1: what would you tell Scott O'Neill if you ask him

542
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: the best plan of attack? Well, there's a simple reality,

543
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: and this is what Live is never going to be

544
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: able to overcome. Their events have no history. So like

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00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: when Akshay wins Bayhill, there are twenty years where the

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Speaker 1: highlights of Tiger winning, of Scotti Scheffler winning, like winning

547
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: that event means something of Arnold Palmer greeting people coming

548
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: off the fairway. Right when you win at the Players,

549
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: there's this list from Phil to Tiger to Back to

550
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Speaker 1: Freddy Couples to Greg Norman, do you name it. There's

551
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: history behind the event. So when LIV plays in these events,

552
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: Hong Kong Rom just wins, which is his first win

553
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: on Live. He'd finished second like a million times. It's

554
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: cool that he wins, and clearly he's playing well and

555
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to be a guy that has a

556
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Speaker 1: bunch of momentum, but it doesn't mean anything. Like part

557
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: of Anthony Kim winning in Australia was not that he

558
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Speaker 1: won some historic event like the actual event. Whether Anthony

559
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: Kim would have won or Rom would have won, it

560
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But what made that moment so cool and

561
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: so organic and so genuine was this guy had overcome

562
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Speaker 1: a drug addiction, had been not playing golf for like

563
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: over a decade and a half. It just beat Rom

564
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: and Bryson on the golf course where he was down

565
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Speaker 1: entering Sunday, not because you know, he woned Memorial where

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Speaker 1: all the greats have won. So I just think you

567
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Speaker 1: don't overcome that. And the other thing is at this

568
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: point in time, they're not poaching any top guys, like

569
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Speaker 1: people have kind of put their flag in, like their cruise,

570
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: their crew. If anything, they're losing guys. Patrick Reed's out,

571
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Speaker 1: Kep goes out. You know, I think Bryson is clearly

572
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Speaker 1: on the fence. You know, Rom financially doesn't have a choice.

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Speaker 1: If all things were equal, would he come back? I

574
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: think what if your live what you attempt to do

575
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: is try to do some sort of merger, right, But

576
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Speaker 1: does the PGA Tour want to do that? Do they

577
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: need to do that? When I was at the event

578
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: with Colin being there was cool, a lot of people,

579
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: good vibe, But like the actual golf tournament doesn't matter

580
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: who wins and loses. It doesn't. And one thing I

581
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: would just disagree is no one gives a shit about

582
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: team golf. I know the players hype it up, but

583
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Speaker 1: as a consumer, I do not care about team golf

584
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Speaker 1: and random tournaments. I just don't, right, it's an individual sport.

585
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: Now we have team events, the Ryder Cup, the President's Cup,

586
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Speaker 1: the Zurich when you play with a partner, But like,

587
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: this is an individual sport. No different tennis. There's a

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00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,719
Speaker 1: reason more people are watching Agasy play Sampras or you know,

589
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: Nadal play Federer than you are watching doubles. Right, It's

590
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: an individual sport and that's what separates it. So I

591
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: don't really have any recommendation. They've already spent billions of

592
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Speaker 1: dollars now, billions of dollars in them means nothing. I

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Speaker 1: just I don't think there's much they could do, you know,

594
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Speaker 1: and even if they stole let's say they stole tomorrow

595
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: Rory rom and Colin Morikawa, more people would probably pay attention.

596
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: But like, at the end of the day, their events

597
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: don't have any history, and I just don't think, like,

598
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: is this thing going to be around in twenty years

599
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: to create that history. I don't think so. So I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't really have any advice. Scott O'Neil is a high

601
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: level guy, impressive. I admire that he took the gig.

602
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason he took the gig

603
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: is he's not a golf guy. You know. Part of

604
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: roll app taking the gig is twofold. One, the PGA

605
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: Tours is well established and going nowhere, and they're already

606
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: balls deep with all the money in this country right

607
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,479
Speaker 1: all the sponsors, they have standing relationships. And two, if

608
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Speaker 1: he proves that he can take to the next level,

609
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna be, you know, a potential Roger Goodell replacement.

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Speaker 1: Scott O'Neil's like, yeah, I'll take this challenge. I'm with

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Speaker 1: these people that worth trillions of dollars. We already have

612
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Speaker 1: people under contract. Let's roll. But it was that's a really,

613
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Speaker 1: really hard job. As you know someone that does. You know,

614
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Speaker 1: he's a basketball guy. He's worked in pro sports, American

615
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: pro sports. If you don't really know golf, maybe he

616
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: could go in there a little more bullish than me,

617
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: or you would be knowing some of the deficiencies of

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Speaker 1: like how are we gonna get over the hump? The

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Speaker 1: other thing, Fox on primetime, Fox isn't just giving that

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Speaker 1: real estate away right primetime. I'm during the right now

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Speaker 1: they're playing March Madness, then they're playing baseball. They already

622
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: have contracts with other people that have proven the rate

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Speaker 1: on television, so that's another issue. The other thing is

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Speaker 1: when you go international, which I understand they want to

625
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: be kind of the international tour, you play when none

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Speaker 1: of us can watch. It's one big advantage the PGA

627
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: Tour has. They play in America, so when you want

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Speaker 1: to watch Bayhill, it's just on in the afternoon on

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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday. Do you have any course recommendations areas

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Speaker 1: you've lived that would you'd always recommend, like tracks that

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Speaker 1: are not expensive but are just always in great condition

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Speaker 1: and you swear by. My recommendation for you is Wine

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Speaker 1: Valley Golf Club in Walla Walla, Washington, the other Wine

634
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Speaker 1: country Lol. Excellent course and Little Notch and Till Notch

635
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: wineries all around. Drew Bletsoe's Winery is there if you

636
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Speaker 1: ever go. Obviously, book your tastings in advances and you

637
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Speaker 1: can't go wrong with any place. But pro tip for

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00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: when you golf at Wine Valley, say you're a local,

639
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: they don't check your idea. The problem is, I would say,

640
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: like Wenty this place in Livermore, California. It's basically between

641
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: kind of like Oakland and San Jose. I would say

642
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: it's kind of a gem. I was texting a buddy

643
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: about it the other day. I was probably being too negative.

644
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: It costs two hundred and forty dollars to play, so

645
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: it's not one of those. Most of these gems at

646
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: this point in time are not like the day's inn

647
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: age of playing some gem for sixty seventy bucks is

648
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: going to be difficult. Like you said, there are advantages

649
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: when you're a local. I would say Yochidishi, which is

650
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,720
Speaker 1: up in northern California, kind of where I grew up, Davis.

651
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: It's probably forty five minutes away. It's close to this

652
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: little town called Esparto, which is a farming town. It's

653
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: an Indian casino and they built a golf course I

654
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: don't know ten fifteen years ago. Again, it's way more

655
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: expensive than it used to be, but it's top notch.

656
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: Couldn't recommend it enough. I mean, it's fantastic. I don't

657
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: really have any gems where I live now in Arizona

658
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: because that one they're all like so publicly discussed, and

659
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: two they're all just expensive. So anyone that knows about

660
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: a gem, I'm always interested. I remember when I lived

661
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: in Walnut Creek in the Bay Area, I used to

662
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: play at this golf course that was probably like thirty

663
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: or forty dollars. This is probably twenty sixteen, seventeen eighteen.

664
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: I could just go out there on like a Wednesday

665
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon, get a golf cart. I'd have the course

666
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: to myself. I'd replay holes. I would just go out

667
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: there sometimes for like two or three hours and play

668
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: just countless holes. I would just I'd play one through nine,

669
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: I'd go back and play holes. I'd jump around. I

670
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 1: don't even I'd have some days where I probably played

671
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: twenty seven holes. And I remember post twenty twenty going

672
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: out there one time. One it was like I earned

673
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars to play. It wasn't that nice of

674
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: a course, and Tuo was packed. So I just think

675
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: we live in a different world when it comes to

676
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: the costs of random public golf courses that used to

677
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: be cheap. My son is also named Jack. Congrats on

678
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: the kid. My question is why does TGL of cities

679
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: tied to the teams All the matches are played at

680
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: the same location. There is no home field advantage. Are

681
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: we supposed to care about the teams because of the

682
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: city they were tied to. I think that was the idea.

683
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: This is the back to the teams thing. This is

684
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: like to live the four aces, whether you're you know,

685
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: La Golf or Jupiter Links. I just think they're trying

686
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: to put a name on it. Hopefully then you sell

687
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: merch like it's all tied to money. I think that's

688
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, when you're watching Jupier Links,

689
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: you're really just there to watch, like Tiger and Max Elma, right.

690
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: I know Tiger plays sparingly, you know what I mean.

691
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: So I think it's just part of branding. It's just

692
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: probably business, one on one branding, and then you can

693
00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: sell more than I think it's because, I mean, some

694
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 1: of these guys that play for you name the team

695
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: don't even live in the area, like Keegan is the

696
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: captain or maybe Rory is of the Boston team, Like

697
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: all those guys live in Florida. Shit, they all live

698
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: in Jupiter. So I just think it's a it's a branding,

699
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: financial sales tactic. You should do instant reactions to golf tournaments,

700
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: similar to how you and Colin go live after the

701
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: three point thirty window on football. We have discussed that

702
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: and sitting here on Tuesday, maybe we will do it

703
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: for the players on Sunday. One thing, you know, to

704
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: keep my marriage and having a young child. She's more

705
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: into golf now than definitely she was a couple of

706
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: years ago, just because it's on year round in my home.

707
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: She's cool. She's a big football person, so she's final

708
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: with football, but she just never understands, like, how's there's

709
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: more golf on this week. I'm like, well, there's golf

710
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: on every week, there's golf on next week, there's golf

711
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: on the following week, and then the Masters, and then

712
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: we got Harbortown. You know, it's a rotation. So you

713
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: got a there's a balance to my life. But I

714
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: definitely think the majors and the players I think would

715
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: fall under that and potentially something else. So keep an

716
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: eye on that. That's a good idea that we have

717
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: definitely discussed. So happy the podcast is back. Most golf

718
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: media just blows smoke up everyone's ass. You mentioned Charlie Woods,

719
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: and ironically Cover three's last podcast also mentioned it in

720
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: the last few seconds of their show. I think that's

721
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 1: like Danny Canell and the guys I've watched your stuff.

722
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: Apparently two of the biggest selling points from what they

723
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: said were one, Florida State is not the easiest place

724
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 1: for media to get unless you're a local. In Two,

725
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: the course is private, so we can actually practice in peace. Honestly,

726
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,240
Speaker 1: two things I'd never thought of to factor into recruiting,

727
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: but also makes total sense. At UVA, you could be

728
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: on the range or course right next to all the

729
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: actual players. Yeah, where I grew up. I mean, UC

730
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: Davis is not on Florida State's level, but they just

731
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: practice it like the local country club in Davis. You know,

732
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: when I was a president of state, same thing, right,

733
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: some of these Alabama, Auburn, Vanderbilt. When I got married,

734
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,479
Speaker 1: we played at Vanderbilt's course. They have We saw Peyton

735
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: Manning and Vanderbilt's area. I guess like a he's a

736
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,959
Speaker 1: member at the course called Legends. They have their own

737
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: area in the practice facility that the average member just

738
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: couldn't walk to. So I do think that's a big

739
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: selling point. Obviously, Charlie's at a fame level, right John Day.

740
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: I would imagine Arkansas has a course, Oklahoma State has

741
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: a course I think part of it is if you're

742
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: gonna practice, you just want your own space. Arizona State,

743
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: at Papago there is a fence and their areas on

744
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: the other side of the fence, and Papago is just

745
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: a public course, though these guys have access probably every

746
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: course in the area, but they just have their own

747
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: area that no one can bother them. That if you

748
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: want to eat lunch, if you want to get treatment,

749
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: if you want to just hit balls, if you want

750
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: to putt, you're not around. You know, some twenty seven

751
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: handicap seventeen course lights in trying to pick your brain

752
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: about his putting stroke, and I can't imagine if you're

753
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: Charlie that way. And let's face it, Florida State's just

754
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: a really good golf program. Like I was. We were

755
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: watching it Bayhill on my couch with the baby, and Maria.

756
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: I'm like, She's like, Daniel, here's Daniel Berger. I'm like, oh,

757
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: he's kept his teammate at Florida State. Like Florida State,

758
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: big time golf program, now getting Miles Russell, Charlie Woods. Listen,

759
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: I John Daly, who was in the mix for a

760
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: minute at the Puerto Rico Open if you are playing

761
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: in the SEC or the ACC, so North Carolina, Clemson,

762
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, Miami, all those I don't know if Miami's

763
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: good at golf, but obviously Florida State. If you're on

764
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: the top five, like you are a big time player.

765
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: So when John Daly was in the mix, if you're

766
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: like if you're the one or two on an SEC program,

767
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: like you're really good, right. So like when John Daly

768
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: was playing well and I watched him on Saturday, John

769
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: Daily is second, like he's he's a high end guy.

770
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 1: Now is he gonna make it the PGA Tour? I

771
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: don't know, but like he's become a really really good player,

772
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: because how could you not if you're playing at these

773
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,720
Speaker 1: SEC programs against all these other pros, Like it's gonna

774
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: be kind of inevitable when you look at the lists.

775
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: Sometimes with these college tournaments, it's like a poor man's

776
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 1: version of the Corn Ferry Tour. Do you know anyone

777
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: that hits their irons and wedges as far as PJA

778
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,959
Speaker 1: pros but hits the driver like an am? Of course

779
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: I'm not as dialed as a pro, but I hit

780
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: my five iron consistently two hundred and twenty yards, Yet

781
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: if I get all of my drive, it's about two

782
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five yards. I'm typically two hundred and

783
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: fifty two hundred and seventy yard driver. Why do you

784
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 1: think that is? I tend to use my more accurate

785
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: five iron off the tee on a lot of holes

786
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: because it's safer and can still get me out there

787
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: two hundred plus yards. But it's annoying because in theory,

788
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: I should be able to hit them ball three hundred yards.

789
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: I would imagine I'm gonna look at this picture. It

790
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: look like a good you know, maybe former athletic guy.

791
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: Most of these guys like remove like Bryson. If you

792
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: just got like Colin Moore Cowa or Brian Harmon or

793
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: just a lot of guys Tommy Fleetwood, it's not like

794
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: they hit their eight iron two hundred yards. So most people,

795
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: if you're just if you're a single digit handicap or

796
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: decent player, and you know you have some power and

797
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: then some ball speed and some clubhead speed, like most

798
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: of our shots go relatively close. Right If I hit

799
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: an eight iron and Scotty hits an eight iron, right,

800
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: and I'm technically on paper right now, at three. I

801
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: probably I've played one time and since the baby, and

802
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: I shot ninety So I'm probably like a fifteen handicap.

803
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: But in terms of distance, it's never been my problem.

804
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, Like I hit an eight iron,

805
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: My stock eight iron's like one sixty five. Maybe Scotty's

806
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: stock eight irons one seventy two. Like, there's not that

807
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: big of a difference. Now, the driver's definitely a difference,

808
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: right I fly my driver, I'm probably with you two

809
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five the two hundred and seventy five

810
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: yards if it's if it's hard fareways, I'm hitting the

811
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: ball three hundred yards. If it's soft fairways, I'm hitting

812
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: it two hundred eight yards. But I don't hit it

813
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: pure every time, Honestly, I hit it peer once every

814
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: three times. So that's part of it. They consistently strike

815
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: the ball at the center of the club base where

816
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, if you I don't know what your handicap is,

817
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: but we just do not. But in terms of if

818
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: you just get a pretty good player who swings it hard,

819
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: who's an athletic guy, his five iron, it's not like

820
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: his five iron is gonna go that much different than

821
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: Xander Schaffle. Now, the one main difference they can control it.

822
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: They can work the ball both ways. They can hit

823
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: it high, they can hit it low. But it's not

824
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: like they hit a five iron two hundred and seventy

825
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: five yards, right, It's not like they hit a sand

826
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: wedge one hundred and sixty yards. So you get to

827
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,919
Speaker 1: the point where most now the driver and I would

828
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: say a three wood are clubs that kind of go

829
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: different distances. But most of these guys are hitting similar

830
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: clubs to most just random good players that are just

831
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: amateurs out there swinging around with like irons and wedges.

832
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: They just control it better. They have much better feel,

833
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: they have the ability to work the ball. So there

834
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: are just levels to this. But in terms of distance,

835
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,959
Speaker 1: most guys, for a decent player or maybe a club more.

836
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: Do you use a golf app to track your scores?

837
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: I just use like the you know, my gin handicap,

838
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: which is USGA GEN that I get through TPC that

839
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: they set up, which is I mean, it's the most

840
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: preposterous thing going right now. It says I'm a says

841
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: I'm a two point six. The sad part is before

842
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: Little Jack, I was I was playing great golf. I

843
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: really was. I right round Thanksgiving seventy nine, seventy nine,

844
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: seventy six, seventy nine, seventy six. I was striking it well.

845
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: I was just I was feeling good. I was hitting

846
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: the ball far, short game was good. And then a

847
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: month and a half later I shot eighty nine. And

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Speaker 1: that was basically almost twenty twenty plus days ago. So

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Speaker 1: I've played one time since basically January first, and shot

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Speaker 1: eighty nine. So I listen recommendation anyone that loves playing

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Speaker 1: golf single enjoy it. As everyone told me, enjoy it

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Speaker 1: while you can. I'm like, I'll play it. You just

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Speaker 1: aren't able to play as much. God I miss it.

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Speaker 1: I really I miss playing well. I'm shooting eighty nine

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Speaker 1: kind of sucked. Mail back question, who are middle coops

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Speaker 1: picks at this point to win all four majors? Let's

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Speaker 1: end on this. I would have said a Locke. To

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Speaker 1: start the season. I would said Scotty's gonna win a major,

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Speaker 1: maybe two. And I think Rory, once you get that

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Speaker 1: monkey off your back winning the Masters, he easily could

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Speaker 1: have won multiple majors over the last cup. Rory's gonna

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Speaker 1: win a major. I would say those guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: win majors, and then you flip a coin house fleet

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Speaker 1: would look in John Rahm, Bryson. At this point in time,

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Speaker 1: I still, I guess, would pick Scotty to win a major,

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Speaker 1: but it does feel a little off right. And even

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Speaker 1: less than six days ago, I would have said Rory's

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Speaker 1: gonna win a major. But now he's injured. So I'm

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Speaker 1: not pivoting off those guys, but I don't feel as

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Speaker 1: confident I would say John Rahm. I would be stunned

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Speaker 1: if there is not a major, if not multiple majors,

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Speaker 1: where John Rahm is not a major factor on the

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Speaker 1: weekend this year, I would expect him to be a

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Speaker 1: factor at Augusta. I would expect him to be a

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Speaker 1: factor at the US Open. I would expect him. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know where's the PGA champion is ironomic this

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Speaker 1: year in Philly. I think Colin more Cow is a

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Speaker 1: guy who's definitely trending. He has played, I mean a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. He's right in the mix of Augusta.

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Speaker 1: Ludwig's played the Master twice in top ten. He looked

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Speaker 1: fantastic last week at API. So one thing the Majors

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Speaker 1: has really kind of turned into I know JJ spawn

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Speaker 1: was somewhat of an outlier last year, but it's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of scott He's been a lot of Rory's,

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Speaker 1: It's been you know, Bryson's Xanders, Like it's a big

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Speaker 1: swinging dick contest. I'd say cam Young would be a

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Speaker 1: guy that I definitely think could win a Major this year.

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Speaker 1: Like I said Marikawa, I would have said Fleetwood for

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Speaker 1: sure at the end of twenty twenty five. Definitely looks

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Speaker 1: a little off right now, but I don't think you

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Speaker 1: could go wrong with the top group of four or

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Speaker 1: five guys. I mean, if if Scotty is healthy and

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Speaker 1: just can kind of figure out whatever's going on, and

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Speaker 1: obviously if Rory's back's fine, I don't see how they

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Speaker 1: don't win a major. I would have said one of those.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't shocked me at off. Rory would have defended

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Speaker 1: at the Masters. I think he's gonna have a ton

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Speaker 1: of momentum. He's a huge, like crowd favored now in

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Speaker 1: terms of like everyone is gonna be rooting for him

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Speaker 1: to like chase history. Yeah, he would definitely be a

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Speaker 1: guy I would love to see speed, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't have much faith there. I listen, if Kopka

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Speaker 1: can just put a little bit, I wouldn't stun me

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Speaker 1: at all. If he's a factor in these things, I

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Speaker 1: hope he Is' is more entertaining when he is kind

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Speaker 1: of really little, his scowl, I mean, he's a fucking

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Speaker 1: bright lights guy. I'm I'm. I've always rooted for athletes

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Speaker 1: that are bright lights guys. Right. I'm not rooting for

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Speaker 1: James Harden. I'm rooting for Steph Curry. So Cam Young

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Speaker 1: that would probably be my sleeper this year. Cam Young

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Speaker 1: would be I think Cam Young can win a major

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Speaker 1: for sure. The volume m