Speaker 1: Now, the shotguns Starting golf is full of mathematics. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of setup work that we
Speaker 1: have to do in order to make a tournament work.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how
Speaker 1: we do a shotgun start here And.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, alright, did no man dart, your.
Speaker 3: Grudings are welcome to a Wednesday edition at the Shotgun Start.
Speaker 3: It is July first, Indy.
Speaker 2: How we do it?
Speaker 4: Bred Dan, I'm doing fantastic. I gotta say, what a
Speaker 4: what a great surprise. I didn't even realize that it
Speaker 4: was the first of the month recording. I mean that
Speaker 4: means July is going to be rate why because it
Speaker 4: started off with the first of the month recording. I
Speaker 4: think June was the first of the month recording, if
Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Pretty much great month, great month for Windy Clark. It
Speaker 2: was a good month for Windy Clark, that for Greape.
Speaker 2: Since we bad month to be a bottle of grape
Speaker 2: looking to see it's next day. I suppose.
Speaker 3: Since we last talked, we had a resolution of the
Speaker 3: Travelers Championship, of an event you maligned I think a
Speaker 3: little too.
Speaker 2: I did you align it? I said, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed watching it.
Speaker 4: You you rather a cut to just send me out
Speaker 4: to the wolves on social media.
Speaker 3: I made you put it out there, and it was
Speaker 3: a rough cut. It wasn't a good luck for you.
Speaker 3: It was chopped in a way that made you look
Speaker 3: like you ranted and raved and raved about it and
Speaker 3: gave it no credit at all.
Speaker 4: You took away all the good things I said about
Speaker 4: it and just put me out for this is a
Speaker 4: sacrificial lamb for social media engagement. There's just absolutely disrespectful.
Speaker 4: And I love that, you know, I get, I get,
Speaker 4: you know, notifications of like you know, shotgun start has
Speaker 4: invited you to be a collaborator. Shotgun starts inviting you
Speaker 4: to post this to your story. No, no, no, you're
Speaker 4: just asking me to amplify your social media bait.
Speaker 5: There was no collaborate quest unlike you know, us sending
Speaker 5: a design disaster to Lost Marsh kind of a similar
Speaker 5: thing maybe to this. They didn't accept I did not
Speaker 5: collaborate with you on this, you said, clip and cut.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed watching the Travelers. I did say that part
Speaker 2: it happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think you pulled up I think
Speaker 3: you wanted to go harder, and I think you were
Speaker 3: ready to. And then I threw out a lot of
Speaker 3: positive comments. You had a Scottie Victor playoff, and you
Speaker 3: caught I couldn't go full bore the way you wanted to,
Speaker 3: judging from text earlier.
Speaker 4: In the day, actually was the opposite, because I watched
Speaker 4: the eclip and I was like, you know, maybe I
Speaker 4: went a little too hard, and I was thinking about
Speaker 4: before how you know, I wanted to go a little
Speaker 4: bit softer, but then the moment swept me away and I.
Speaker 2: Ended up going harder than I would have liked. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's fine. If this is not be apologizing. And if
Speaker 2: you want such a.
Speaker 3: You know, if you want such shine of rainbows blown
Speaker 3: up your butt often paid for by sponsors or whatever
Speaker 3: else or conflicts of interest with various rights, this that
Speaker 3: or the.
Speaker 2: Other, go somewhere else. Go somewhere else.
Speaker 4: You could you could go go patronize an account that
Speaker 4: says they're not not affiliated with the tour even though
Speaker 4: they are.
Speaker 3: I uh, speaking of I got in the car yesterday
Speaker 3: and I put on some PGA tour video and.
Speaker 4: I drove your car while we were at Shitnacock, and
Speaker 4: I loved that. It was just like, yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: favorite in his radio. I'm clearly regularly listening to that
Speaker 4: in a car.
Speaker 3: I can't say prior to like the last six weeks,
Speaker 3: I've given it more than five minutes of my entire
Speaker 3: life this station, and now I will occasionally flip it on.
Speaker 3: They had two individuals on there saying GPC. I was
Speaker 3: just I almost wanted to record it. TPC River Highlands
Speaker 3: might be the best golf course on tour.
Speaker 2: I think it was.
Speaker 3: Dnnis was one, So I assume that it's Dennis Paulsen,
Speaker 3: and how technically great it is because everybody should be
Speaker 3: shooting fifty eight given how short it is, and it's
Speaker 3: so technically good that they're not that they're not shooting
Speaker 3: fifty eight because it's so short. It's essentially all wedges, wedges, wedges,
Speaker 3: wedges on the back nine, and these guys.
Speaker 2: Got a struggle.
Speaker 3: They're shooting sixty eight and sixty sevens and so it's
Speaker 3: such a technically incredible golf course. And I was I
Speaker 3: was hollering, laughing, but it seemed like a direct rebuke
Speaker 3: to your take on Sunday Night Monday morning.
Speaker 2: But we did.
Speaker 3: There are people feel strongly about the event. It's a
Speaker 3: good event. It's a good event. I don't think they're
Speaker 3: going to build a new golf course in Connecticut where
Speaker 3: land is not cheap right now and just to I
Speaker 3: don't know, not fix something that's not really broken. I
Speaker 3: would say that the event is not broken. Of all
Speaker 3: the events on the tour, it's not broken at all.
Speaker 3: It's rather successful. Scotty Scheffler was not successful in getting
Speaker 3: across the line, hits it in closer than Victor was
Speaker 3: behind him in the fairway, hits first, stuffs it. Victor
Speaker 3: hits a very nice nine iron probably what three feet
Speaker 3: four feet farther away, similar line and drains it first.
Speaker 3: And Scotty miss his second and he does not, you know,
Speaker 3: leaves it high side, does not.
Speaker 2: Get the one.
Speaker 3: Another tough, tough loss close, but no cigar situation for Scotty.
Speaker 3: Is this permanently, irreparably damaging him And no, no, I
Speaker 3: was listening. I was watching Golf channel right after. You know,
Speaker 3: it was like one of those it was like talk.
Speaker 2: About a boom for like a.
Speaker 4: Morning golf Monday morning Golf channel coverage, Like I watched
Speaker 4: coming out of it. You know, it was kind of
Speaker 4: it was like an electric fifteen minutes of golf.
Speaker 2: Golf showed up ticket.
Speaker 4: You know, I loved Hovelin when he made the Potts reaction.
Speaker 4: I mean, he was just so like he knew how
Speaker 4: big that was. I thought he he kind of like
Speaker 4: this is one of the great aspects of match play.
Speaker 2: And I why I'm excited about.
Speaker 4: The tour probably going to match play for the playoffs
Speaker 4: is this psychology of like if I make the eight footer,
Speaker 4: it makes your putt. Because like psychologically, Scotty, I think,
Speaker 4: thought he was going to win and Victor, you know,
Speaker 4: he's standing in the fairway and he's he has to
Speaker 4: hit it close, and he hits it close.
Speaker 2: But like he had a hard putt.
Speaker 4: He had to make like an eight nine footer and
Speaker 4: he makes it. And at that point Scotty's putt, you
Speaker 4: had some stats person will tell me, I'm you know,
Speaker 4: it's actually the same length put and he had the
Speaker 4: same probability to make it. But that putt got two
Speaker 4: feet longer after Victor made his, and then he he
Speaker 4: just missed it. On the high side. He seemed to
Speaker 4: infer that he hit a good putt and then he
Speaker 4: he just had too much pace on it. But that
Speaker 4: wouldn't be a good putt because you had too much
Speaker 4: base on it.
Speaker 3: So the face is part of the putting. No, I
Speaker 3: like the notion. I think this was from uh, he
Speaker 3: took a run at you. I'm scrolling. He's took a
Speaker 3: run at your little our social cutout says bad take.
Speaker 3: Rick Golf's who may or may not be a real
Speaker 3: person on Twitter said, in my opinion, he just says
Speaker 3: Andy Johnson Friday with a bad take about TPC being
Speaker 3: a just graze in a bad court.
Speaker 2: Do you quote the video? Do you tweet the video?
Speaker 2: Tweeted the video. I love that we're giving him too much.
Speaker 5: Not too intrude here. I was just looking at the
Speaker 5: Instagram comments. You know who got involved in the Instagram comments?
Speaker 5: Who Trey Wingo said that you're stupid?
Speaker 6: Oh god, I love this what you guys are doing
Speaker 6: to me. Look at this, This is stephen A. We
Speaker 6: create like fake drama and now everybody's humming. Everybody's going
Speaker 6: for the bait. Wasn't bait? I have I have?
Speaker 3: I have know Andy thinks the golf course as a joke,
Speaker 3: I think that's not that's a well well held opinion.
Speaker 5: All Trey Wingo asked us to go talk to the
Speaker 5: players and see why they loved it so much. Oh
Speaker 5: my god, didn't tune in Lunch with the Boys where
Speaker 5: we asked both Shane Lowry and Russell Henley about the travelers.
Speaker 5: Get on that, Trey Wingo and then come.
Speaker 2: At us love.
Speaker 4: Hey, we're raising awareness like the player should be the
Speaker 4: source and the armiter of like the professional golfers, the
Speaker 4: ones who said it's a vacation and a week off tray.
Speaker 3: Where go go make some more thumbnails looking like your
Speaker 3: flabbergasted coming into golf. Look at this, we're just starting
Speaker 3: media beefs here. The Rick Golf's had an interesting take.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you've subscribed to this. Scheffler misses a
Speaker 3: five footer to lose the tournament. In my opinion, he
Speaker 3: lost it when he hit the better, better iron shot
Speaker 3: and approach all the pressure, so we should have hit
Speaker 3: him fifty feet away?
Speaker 2: What is he what's the suggestion here? You know, I
Speaker 2: don't want to.
Speaker 3: You lost And when he hit the better iron shot approach,
Speaker 3: should he aimed away from the flash? He aimed to
Speaker 3: the bunker, where should what is the suggestion here? Now
Speaker 3: I get it. The dynamic when Victor makes it on him,
Speaker 3: that putt changes, Yeah, but you still want to be
Speaker 3: closer to the whole than farther. It's it's like the
Speaker 3: penalty kick issue, right, I mean honestly, the pressure of
Speaker 3: a penalty kick, if it's do or die, right, that's
Speaker 3: that changes it. Then when you're the first kicker or
Speaker 3: the second kicker PK or whatever the terminology is. Like
Speaker 3: watching these last yesterday was electric. The late night in
Speaker 3: the game, the Morocco game, and then uh Germany really interesting.
Speaker 3: I know, probably the purest hate that the game has
Speaker 3: resolved that way. But you know, Morocco had to make
Speaker 3: one of two you know what great spots? What's that guy?
Speaker 3: Fourth was like the best? The guy kicking forth like
Speaker 3: if he misses, oh we still now we just got
Speaker 3: to make the fifth and final one. If I make,
Speaker 3: it's over. Essentially it's over the best spot. So it's
Speaker 3: of like Scheffler is sitting there pretty like I'm in
Speaker 3: tight A lot of pressure on Vicar. But as soon
Speaker 3: as Vicker changes, the dynamic, and that's what you're talking
Speaker 3: about with match play the pressure shifts immediately.
Speaker 5: You know, I think.
Speaker 2: This is a preposterous take. Should have hit it far,
Speaker 2: they should have hit it further away.
Speaker 4: That's like saying, hey, you know, they lost it when
Speaker 4: they got the wide open layup. They should have settled
Speaker 4: for a contested, mid range jump shot over that. But
Speaker 4: because the revisionist history of this is so preposterous, because
Speaker 4: you can only play a shot by shot in golf, he.
Speaker 2: Was in the fairway hitting first, and he hit it
Speaker 2: to three feet. At no point was anybody watching like, oh,
Speaker 2: you should have hit it further away.
Speaker 4: Victor Hobbwood hit a great shot to eight or nine feet,
Speaker 4: and still while they're walking to the green, I'm like, uh,
Speaker 4: Scotty's gonna win. Scotty's gonna win. Victor has a putt
Speaker 4: that's less than fifty percent make rate. Scotty has a
Speaker 4: putt that I would say circumstantially was probably like an
Speaker 4: eighty percent make rate, you know, I know that analytically
Speaker 4: it's like a ninety seven percent make rate inside three
Speaker 4: feet or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I think it was measured two feet eight inches.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what exactly the number is on that,
Speaker 4: but anyways, I would say that he had it under
Speaker 4: no circumstances. Did he lose this by hitting it too
Speaker 4: close to the hole. I can't believe we're even talking
Speaker 4: about this. You're just you're trying to wind me up here.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I thought it was effing hilarious, the whole notion,
Speaker 3: and then I wanted to giggle about it. It's hilarious.
Speaker 3: He lost him when he hit it closer. Boom over. Anyways,
Speaker 3: Scotty loses.
Speaker 2: God, I wish I would have hit that to forty
Speaker 2: five feet. I wouldn't have lost Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 4: You know, you know what Scotty probably was wishing what
Speaker 4: he had hit it closer. Do you know what you
Speaker 4: do when when you hit a shot close and you're
Speaker 4: like five feet away, is like you're I've always like
Speaker 4: in my head, I'm like, God, I wish I would
Speaker 4: have hit it like two feet closer, feet closer.
Speaker 2: When I'm ten feet away. Do you know what I
Speaker 2: think about?
Speaker 4: Would have been nice to you a little bit closer
Speaker 4: when I'm twenty feet away?
Speaker 2: Do you know what I think? Never once in my
Speaker 2: life have I been like I wish I was further away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if all things being equal, if you're on the
Speaker 3: same line. Of course, if it's up pill versus break,
Speaker 3: last break, we're talking about on the same line. Obviously.
Speaker 4: I hate it when I hit a pro chests from
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty yards to three feet.
Speaker 3: Do we make anything of this with Scotty, Like he's
Speaker 3: not winning this year like he used to. He's playing
Speaker 3: really well or very high level golf. Close could very
Speaker 3: well go on to win the Scottish in the Open
Speaker 3: in every playoffs event forever in August. You know, I
Speaker 3: don't want to say they start to compound or build
Speaker 3: on each other, but that can't happen. We just watched
Speaker 3: Roy McElroy go through ten years without a major when
Speaker 3: it felt like he should be winning, you know, one
Speaker 3: out of every six it felt like, or he was
Speaker 3: in one out of every four. It just you never know,
Speaker 3: even with the supreme talents. And I think he would
Speaker 3: have rather like he was happy you hit it closer.
Speaker 3: I think he would have rather won than lost. But
Speaker 3: I don't know that it's going to leave irreparable scar tissue.
Speaker 3: It's just it's it's been like probably a frustrating three
Speaker 3: months or so, right with a lot of clothes but
Speaker 3: no cigars for Scotti.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I you know, this is the funny stuff about golf.
Speaker 4: I think he looked better this week than he's looked
Speaker 4: in a long time. You know, I think Sunday was scratchy,
Speaker 4: but you know, the sixty obviously was kind of the
Speaker 4: tour de force that we're used to seeing, and we
Speaker 4: you know, in the sixty four was a great, great.
Speaker 2: Round, great opening round.
Speaker 4: I think the thing that I would be a little
Speaker 4: worried about is just the final round bugaboos. You know,
Speaker 4: He's had a lot of shots to get it across
Speaker 4: the line and just hasn't hasn't capitalized, And this is
Speaker 4: just somebody that we've grown accustomed to doing that he's
Speaker 4: I think, like the discourse last year and the year
Speaker 4: before was like what he's doing and making look so
Speaker 4: easy is so incredibly hard. And now he looks a
Speaker 4: little bit more human. And this is all under the
Speaker 4: veil of he is still by far the best player
Speaker 4: in the world. His consistency has been outstanding, but the
Speaker 4: dominance isn't there this year. It's like one of those
Speaker 4: things like PJ probably can attest to this, the the
Speaker 4: baseball statistics of like your score, your your record in
Speaker 4: one round one run games. Like when it when it's
Speaker 4: a close golf tournament, it kind of can go either way,
Speaker 4: and the bounces go one way or the other, and
Speaker 4: you might lose a bunch of times even though you
Speaker 4: put yourself in position to win. And that's why, like
Speaker 4: I think, in general, we're too hard on people that
Speaker 4: are in position to win and don't get it done,
Speaker 4: like I think golf is in general, and they're so
Speaker 4: quick to be like they choked.
Speaker 2: That's like the the Moniker. Choking is a lot.
Speaker 4: Of things, Choking shooting forty one on your opening nine
Speaker 4: because you just can't handle the moment. Choking is you know,
Speaker 4: the yeah, like what you do the first three holes
Speaker 4: of a final round. Choking is not like hey, he
Speaker 4: had a bunch of twelve foot looks and none of
Speaker 4: them went in. They were really close, but none of
Speaker 4: the went in, and it's like, hey, that guy didn't
Speaker 4: get across the line. Days like that happened, And I
Speaker 4: think what we're seeing with Scotty is an accumulation of
Speaker 4: a lot of days like that, and that can be
Speaker 4: really frustrating and where everything went his way. But most
Speaker 4: most importantly, he put himself into positions to blow out
Speaker 4: fields where there was no opportunity for a bad bounce here,
Speaker 4: a bad bounce there to derail his win or a mistake,
Speaker 4: a mental mistake. Right now, his game's not in the
Speaker 4: same space to where he is blowing out fields, and
Speaker 4: its Sunday becomes a ford On Conlon conclusion that he's
Speaker 4: going to win. That's the difference. Is he still the
Speaker 4: best player in the world? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Is he the same player that we've seen the last
Speaker 2: couple of years. Absolutely not, definitely not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that you start to think about I didn't mean
Speaker 3: to make this a big Scotti segment, but I think
Speaker 3: back of like how many under the Guns sundays did
Speaker 3: he have? Right that first Masters started, that was a
Speaker 3: big challenge with cam Smith, right, they were like kind
Speaker 3: of going at but then he could four put the
Speaker 3: final green and still win by his cound by the
Speaker 3: end of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this scoundrel didn't hang and hang in there at
Speaker 4: that time.
Speaker 3: You know that Quail he had some issues. He was
Speaker 3: driving it left and fixed it, but it wasn't like,
Speaker 3: you know, close at the end.
Speaker 2: So interesting dynamic.
Speaker 3: Maybe it needs to make a change this summer, and
Speaker 3: perhaps he needs to go to cotton, embrace the summer
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Speaker 4: Fabric might keep him cooler under pressure. You and I
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Speaker 4: I got a lot of work to do around the house,
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Speaker 2: It's really warm. I'm gonna roll with cotton because that's
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Speaker 3: I saw somebody send us a photo and they're Andy
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Speaker 3: from people out there in their cotton. All right, Where
Speaker 3: should we go next? Should we do Open qualifying? This
Speaker 3: is happening right now across the UK at four sites,
Speaker 3: five spots at each site. Matthew Jordan, our guy is
Speaker 3: through again, undoubtedly relentless. He's like BLOCKI with the camera.
Speaker 3: You can't be stopped when it comes to qualifying for
Speaker 3: the Open championship.
Speaker 2: You know what. The event of the week is qualifying,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: I was gonna throw a bone to the Senior Open
Speaker 4: at Sciota, but that finish his second place.
Speaker 2: Sorry pj Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: He Matthew Jordan gets out of the qualifier at West Lanx.
Speaker 3: I think they had a four for three playoff, three
Speaker 3: man playoff, three for one there, Sam Bearstow, Kazumi Kabori,
Speaker 3: Jose Luis Biastaire, Tiger, Christiansen. Tiger is going to play
Speaker 3: that he was in the British Open.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: So they got in from West Lanks. Matthew Jordan beats
Speaker 3: Joe Dean and Sam Easterbrook in the playoff at West Lanx.
Speaker 3: At Dundonald, we have jab.
Speaker 2: I feel like we.
Speaker 4: Gotta get Matthew Jordan on lunch with the boys. I
Speaker 4: think he'd be a good lunch with the boys.
Speaker 2: He might be good. That might be good.
Speaker 5: More more than welcome, I mean we'd be we'd be honored.
Speaker 5: It was the most level level, you know, even par
Speaker 5: episode possible. We'd keep it very straight and narrow, too high,
Speaker 5: not too.
Speaker 2: Down, toy like.
Speaker 3: Remember, I don't know if you'll recall that storyline. He's
Speaker 3: a member of Liverpool, so going back to that general
Speaker 3: region of the world for this open at Birkdale. We'll
Speaker 3: try to get him on lunch.
Speaker 4: Do you uh? That was a big week last week
Speaker 4: for the lunch with the boys. I don't know if
Speaker 4: everybody saw it, but they're on YouTube Shane Lowry and
Speaker 4: and the Rust Bus.
Speaker 2: Do you have any do you want to recap that?
Speaker 4: We should have We should have given some some air
Speaker 4: to this on Sunday.
Speaker 5: It's it's all good, We're good. Russell Henley stayed for
Speaker 5: the Monday playoff. I don't know if you guys caught that.
Speaker 5: He was like the Tigers big.
Speaker 2: Why is he a sky friend?
Speaker 5: Yes, he was scot.
Speaker 2: Together and peak ups and things.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, very famous to at the Ryder Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Joseph jose have tried to pop him on rollback Russ.
Speaker 5: Russ was dodging, dip, dodge and dodge in the punches.
Speaker 5: Didn't want to make any definitive statements. Got some gambling
Speaker 5: tips from Shane Lowry on the on the World Cup
Speaker 5: Messy leading's goalscorer. He's up by two right now. I
Speaker 5: think Big Big Pig from Shane, it's great, great week.
Speaker 4: Hey, you kind of distracted me with summer cotton. I
Speaker 4: wanted to tell I just wanted to reiterate how cool
Speaker 4: the Victor hovelind win was in the sense of the
Speaker 4: way you framed it on Sunday.
Speaker 2: On Monday show about this guy was just beating.
Speaker 4: Balls at the US Open after he missed the cut,
Speaker 4: and it's just the perfect representation of golf where you
Speaker 4: missed the cut one week, your game, you know, doesn't
Speaker 4: feel great. He goes to work and then you know,
Speaker 4: a new day comes, the travelers comes, you know, a
Speaker 4: vacation for some and he goes he when's when's the event?
Speaker 4: Like it's freaking awesome. What a cool Well, just kind
Speaker 4: of kind of arc there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean maybe you would say, and in a
Speaker 3: negative tone, it's just exposed as a golf course more
Speaker 3: as a place that permits fraud, allows fraud. A guy
Speaker 3: who's hitting balls for eight hours the week before can
Speaker 3: then just show up and just go boom boom boom
Speaker 3: and win. No, it was a great source is upset
Speaker 3: of my take, Trey Wingo, I love it.
Speaker 2: This is great. I feel like if you're insulted, maybe
Speaker 2: you're on the right side of it.
Speaker 3: You're making enemies of the right people. I think that's
Speaker 3: just I think that's a good intigation affirmation.
Speaker 4: Love Wingo too, from his ESPN days. I mean, like
Speaker 4: og Sports Center guy, I mean watching trade Wingo. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he was so good on the Sports Center commercials.
Speaker 3: All over the place Wingo, Shane Lowry and Lunch with
Speaker 3: the Boys.
Speaker 2: Love it well.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to give some due to Victor Hoblin
Speaker 4: because you just we were just talking about Scotty.
Speaker 2: Everything's free. He's great. I'm a big Hoblin guy.
Speaker 3: He seems like a super thoughtful dude and really like
Speaker 3: a credit to the PGA tour.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a great win, which I was
Speaker 3: calling out whether he won or loss. I thought it
Speaker 3: was great that he was at the line there, whether
Speaker 3: he he clinched it on Monday or not. That was
Speaker 3: kind of my point on Sunday and Scotty quite frankly
Speaker 3: to his credit class act.
Speaker 2: Scotty said, look.
Speaker 3: Victor's the kind of person that when they gets success,
Speaker 3: it's you're like happy to see that because you know
Speaker 3: it's hard one and harder. And I thought that was
Speaker 3: a good sentiment from Scotty it's hard to be mad
Speaker 3: about a guy who works that hard getting a victory.
Speaker 3: So we're at back to Dundonald a couple of detours there.
Speaker 3: Back to Dundonald links Matt Baldwin, Jack McDonald wins at
Speaker 3: dun Donald, David.
Speaker 2: Howard, I thought you'd like that.
Speaker 3: Neville Ryder, and Marcus Plunkett, who Brentley was tweeted about.
Speaker 3: Guy he went to army, played college golf at army,
Speaker 3: then he served in South Korea, and then he was
Speaker 3: in Colorado. Springs went to Afghanistan for six months. He
Speaker 3: started playing golf again after this, this deployment at Fort
Speaker 3: Carson in Colorado, and he decided to chase pro golf
Speaker 3: in May twenty twenty one. This is the guy who
Speaker 3: played college golf and army twenty sixteen, a decade ago,
Speaker 3: and then it goes all over the world on service
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, decides maybe I'll try pro golf, gets
Speaker 3: to the Dakota's Money Tour list, wins the money list
Speaker 3: of Dakota's Tour in twenty four gets KFT status and
Speaker 3: now he finishes top five and he's going to his
Speaker 3: first major ever kind of a wild story got out
Speaker 3: of Army ten years ago.
Speaker 4: Amazing story, crazy stuff, Brentley too good sort honestly fantastic story.
Speaker 4: You know what it feels like, what this one's gonna
Speaker 4: be the Ryan Peak of of of this year's open
Speaker 4: where you know, the ball knowers hear this today the
Speaker 4: week of this thing is there's gonna be a thirty
Speaker 4: minute documentary on Golf Channel from Live from seven.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: This is, but I this is such a neat story.
Speaker 4: It is h I mean what a what a uh
Speaker 4: huh just completely obscure path to.
Speaker 2: A major championship. Yeah, in the modern era.
Speaker 4: This is And just think about, like I just like
Speaker 4: maybe my favorite part of of this story. Just think
Speaker 4: about his mentality inside the ropes versus you know, one
Speaker 4: of the players that has been flying private since age
Speaker 4: two twenty two went.
Speaker 3: To some SEC school, not Army or you know, it
Speaker 3: feels like you singled it out to Justin Thomas Base. No,
Speaker 3: I didn't what there could be any SEC graduate get
Speaker 3: out of here.
Speaker 2: You you just mentioned JT. I could have been.
Speaker 4: Caleb two SEC graduate.
Speaker 2: It's not big list a CC whatever.
Speaker 3: I was just saying anything that's not Army right anyways,
Speaker 3: Uh grants the Marcus Plunkett. I don't know if he's
Speaker 3: related to Jim Plunkett or not. Then Royal Sports.
Speaker 2: Who's your favorite Plunket? How many are there? I'd probably
Speaker 2: say it. I'd probably say Jim Punkin.
Speaker 3: Jim plunk It, He's probably the man, right. I may
Speaker 3: be on Marcus now though it at Sickport's at Bayard
Speaker 3: Scogan Ludwig's Ludwig's college teammate. Good week for Norway between
Speaker 3: qualifying there, beating Ivory Coast today and Victor winning on Monday.
Speaker 2: What a week for Norway.
Speaker 3: MJFE known to reputed a grumpy, grumpy boy Matthew Southgate
Speaker 3: who just gets through every year. Englishman gets through every year.
Speaker 3: He's like a Matthew Jordan's type. Peter Uline and big
Speaker 3: twan Antoine Rosner. I believe are you're five from.
Speaker 4: Defeat is totally When we're watching the World feed at
Speaker 4: three in the morning, there's gonna be like a ridiculous
Speaker 4: sum of MJ Defea cot Ridge just just wait, I'm
Speaker 4: four gag out ahead of this. He and Marcel seem
Speaker 4: just seemed to the cameras just go to them.
Speaker 2: The same feed. Yeah, it does feel like this year Peage.
Speaker 2: Can he look that up? I don't think he is.
Speaker 2: I don't think he is. Burnham and Barrow, last but
Speaker 2: least James Nicholas just continues on his heater after qualifying
Speaker 2: at sectionals for the US Open. He continues.
Speaker 3: Caleb Sarrat, speaking of SEC players, also gets in Tom Slowman,
Speaker 3: who I hope is a fast player. Would be great,
Speaker 3: Tom Slowman and then Aston Truslow and Alejandro de Castro
Speaker 3: Pierra are your five from Burnham and Barrow. This is
Speaker 3: happening live as we as we record Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 3: They had his feet going on RNA YouTube channel where
Speaker 3: people were losing their minds about the Brian brothers not
Speaker 3: being shown enough, which I find the comments were just
Speaker 3: lighting up the RNA. Where are the Brian brothers? Where
Speaker 3: are the Brian brothers? Then they finally showed him and
Speaker 3: they put the caption up Wesley Bryant and it wasn't him,
Speaker 3: it was somebody.
Speaker 2: Else, and they finally put him up.
Speaker 3: People lost their minds, but you know, good on that
Speaker 3: with the YouTube feet So that's qualifying for the Open Championship.
Speaker 2: Twenty spots today. Then they have that last chance qualifier
Speaker 2: that's on Monday, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Monday of that week at a little spice to
Speaker 3: a major championship weeks which can be long.
Speaker 2: Real quick.
Speaker 4: Here, James Nickliss, I think he's around like fourteenth or
Speaker 4: fifteenth on the corn Ferry Tour points less. Qualified for
Speaker 4: the US Open, made the cut, no points awarded. Now
Speaker 4: has qualified for the Open Championship, no points awarded for
Speaker 4: that either. This is continues to just be such a
Speaker 4: blind spot of the tour. You should want these players
Speaker 4: to play in major championships. It's an opportunity for players
Speaker 4: that like James Nickliss has made the CU of the
Speaker 4: last two US Opens and has you know, he obviously
Speaker 4: he's a content creator as well. He's but his his
Speaker 4: like the number of people that know who James Nicholas
Speaker 4: is is greater because of these majors. You know, they
Speaker 4: provide a platform for players to be become better known
Speaker 4: and overall the golf ecosystem benefits when people like when
Speaker 4: you have these stories of qualifiers making runs like I
Speaker 4: still remember when Bo Hostler made the run at Olympic
Speaker 4: Club and that was like this huge splash pad. Now
Speaker 4: Bo Hostler's career hasn't turned out the way a lot
Speaker 4: of people thought he it would, but he was such
Speaker 4: a known commodity in the golf world. And it's just
Speaker 4: such an ideological miss by the tour in the sense
Speaker 4: that they don't award points for this, Like you you
Speaker 4: should clear the schedule and and really reward, not reward,
Speaker 4: but like encourage players to sign up and play these
Speaker 4: events because it gives you, Like everybody's always like, how
Speaker 4: do we build more marketable players? How do we build
Speaker 4: more marketable players? These events and good performances in the
Speaker 4: stories of them qualifying and who they are are awesome
Speaker 4: opportunities to build awareness to players. I think it's amazing
Speaker 4: that Caleb Sarat has qualified for the US.
Speaker 2: Open and the Open Championship.
Speaker 4: I like have way you know, he was obviously a
Speaker 4: great young talent, Like I have way more respect for
Speaker 4: his game now than I did six months ago. Obviously
Speaker 4: he's a live player, and like that's not doing the
Speaker 4: tour any good, but it's done Calebs Sarat really well.
Speaker 4: And if Calebs saratt plays on the PGA Tour, I'm
Speaker 4: always going to think back to this. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: think about like, you know what, he went down to
Speaker 4: Panther Creek and he finished T ten.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. That was a gritty performance down
Speaker 2: there the KFT event.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, just to be clear, it'll be interesting because
Speaker 3: now we're gonna have multiple points systems. Right, We're gonna
Speaker 3: have challengers points, We're gonna have champions points. And now
Speaker 3: you're gonna have challengers and champions in the US Open,
Speaker 3: I would imagine, or the British Open or what all
Speaker 3: these majors? Uh does a T five from a challenger
Speaker 3: at the US Open count for a certain amount of
Speaker 3: challenger points? Is a T five for a champion count
Speaker 3: for a certain amount of champion points? What's the currency
Speaker 3: exchange there? But right now it's nothing.
Speaker 4: I don't understand how they haven't been able to figure
Speaker 4: this out.
Speaker 2: There's FedEx points, to be clear, there has to be
Speaker 2: okay way to make these points relate pretty easily. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so something to work on.
Speaker 4: We're gonna saw all the qualifiers. Yeah, I thought Dick
Speaker 4: Tetor was on on the on the on the border.
Speaker 2: He didn't make it. Huh, Dick Teeter, No, didn't get through.
Speaker 2: Richard Teeter. Too bad. He'll guy. He's good. He's a
Speaker 2: good kid. Good kid.
Speaker 3: He needs to come on lunch with the boys. Let's
Speaker 3: get to our Let's get to our schedule for the week.
Speaker 3: Talk about a track two event. We're going to the
Speaker 3: Quad Cities the John Deere. Kind of a great field, honestly,
Speaker 3: really nice field at the John Deere Classic. A mix
Speaker 3: a mishmash of young players. Obviously Jackson Coyven making his
Speaker 3: pro debut. He's played pro events. This is debut as
Speaker 3: a pro.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: This is a TPC Deer run in Sylvis, Illinois. Great
Speaker 3: place to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
Speaker 3: the country. July second through fifth, TPCD run on Golf
Speaker 3: Channel four to seven and then CBS finished at six pm.
Speaker 3: The purse is eight point eight million. The defending champ
Speaker 3: is Brian Campbell, Big Brian Campbell. Notables are Keygan, Bradley, Blades, Brown, Campbell,
Speaker 3: Ricky Fowler is playing, Chris Goddrup, Jackson Coyven, Jordan Speed
Speaker 3: has shown up to play, and Davis Thompson. A couple
Speaker 3: of former winners there and Speed and Thompson.
Speaker 2: Also playing.
Speaker 3: Zach Johnson taking a pass on the US Senior Open
Speaker 3: to play the Deer Run TPC Deer Run for I
Speaker 3: believe a twenty fourth straight time I was here. Has
Speaker 3: his press conference already said he asked for a cart,
Speaker 3: said now all that to say, and it fell on
Speaker 3: Dave Fears. I wanted a golf cart, but they said, no,
Speaker 3: that's okay, my legs operate. It was a very just
Speaker 3: short discussion, I'll just say that. So that would have
Speaker 3: been glorious if he was zipping around Deer Run in
Speaker 3: a cart. This could be the end, you know, Zach
Speaker 3: talked about. Zach talked a lot about the Challenger Champions
Speaker 3: Track one track too. I mean, this year is not
Speaker 3: the end, this specific one. They'll be on twenty seven,
Speaker 3: but you know it's rumored as potentially on the chopping block.
Speaker 3: It's really it's a really strong event. Looking through the
Speaker 3: field distinction.
Speaker 4: Well, you know this is where of the best golf
Speaker 4: fans in the world reside, the Midwest.
Speaker 2: What do you expect?
Speaker 3: Jordan Speed took a run at pj's people. Indirectly, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say take a run, but by by association. They
Speaker 3: asked him, you know, about the crowds, and he went
Speaker 3: into a soliloquy about gambling. He's a FanDuel I believe
Speaker 3: he's a FanDuel ambassador of some sort, which is you know,
Speaker 3: like a you know, we're all trying to find the
Speaker 3: people who did this situation. He said, gambling, you know,
Speaker 3: you can actually affect golf and you can't do that
Speaker 3: in other sports, and he's you know, hypothesized. Maybe that
Speaker 3: was part of the issue at Long Island. But he
Speaker 3: also said, you can always tell when you're in the
Speaker 3: Midwest by the crowds, and I think that's sort of
Speaker 3: a shot at Long Island people.
Speaker 5: Well, you can tell when you're on Long Island with
Speaker 5: the crowds too clearly, just maybe maybe in a different way.
Speaker 5: But don't worry.
Speaker 4: You you can go to a top scene for Long
Speaker 4: Islanders like you, PJ.
Speaker 5: You could go to the FanDuel sportsbook and place your
Speaker 5: Jordan Speed twenty five percent profit boost this weekend if
Speaker 5: you're really interested in betting on him to win John
Speaker 5: Dear Classic.
Speaker 3: So what did he say? He just said, Look, they
Speaker 3: got to do something about this because gambling is making
Speaker 3: the crowds more hostile.
Speaker 5: The headline is betting a golf is something that's going
Speaker 5: to have to be tackled here soon and alludes that
Speaker 5: New York is a legal state and said even said,
Speaker 5: you know, people in the Hamptons could have up to
Speaker 5: ten thousand dollars on non windhom Clerk betters. Non windhom
Speaker 5: Clark players bet ten thousand dollars on them to win,
Speaker 5: so they are rooting against Wyndham. I just I don't
Speaker 5: think anything he said was necessarily wrong. I think it
Speaker 5: is horrifically the wrong messenger to send that when you
Speaker 5: are hawking your name, image and likeness to the number
Speaker 5: one sportsbook in America on a weekly basis and has
Speaker 5: like this little casino game on the app that has
Speaker 5: like a horrible vig that's like this video game that
Speaker 5: you can look basically a slot machine that is Jordan
Speaker 5: Speith branded on the app of FanDuel, And he's in
Speaker 5: all their advertising about profit boosts every weekend. So you
Speaker 5: know what, man, good on you for saying it. I'm
Speaker 5: sure FanDuel isn't going to be happy. I think you
Speaker 5: don't have the right to say that personally, But whatever
Speaker 5: whatever he wants to do.
Speaker 3: Not that we'd ever say. It'd be like I was saying,
Speaker 3: Cotton might be in that bad shirt to wear in
Speaker 3: the summer. Yeah, but we actually believe the summer of cotton, right,
Speaker 3: and it's the summer of cotton.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: So this is like Smith saying gambling while his face
Speaker 3: is on the cover of gambling. That's kind of interesting dynamic.
Speaker 3: It was a great sentiment, though, it was. I agree,
Speaker 3: you appreciate a player speaking up about it.
Speaker 5: Agree with basically everything he said. I can't imagine Fandel
Speaker 5: is going to be happy. I just I take this
Speaker 5: with the largest grain of salt possible.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well what's that?
Speaker 4: Do you guys want to get to the transitions?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Go ahead, because who's number one?
Speaker 5: Andy?
Speaker 2: Tell them who is number one?
Speaker 5: That guy?
Speaker 4: All right, trying to recapture the Quad Cities magic. You know, now,
Speaker 4: thirteen thirteen years ago he burst on the scene, captured
Speaker 4: the hearts and minds of Americans everywhere with his you know,
Speaker 4: his boyish enthusiasm and uh and you know, really charisma.
Speaker 2: He comes back.
Speaker 4: He's a little beaten down by the game of golf
Speaker 4: at this point, but he's it looks like he's going
Speaker 4: to be just he's just testing wands all summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, I mean the magic in the Quad Cities
Speaker 3: came via the wedges right, the whole out from the bunker.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it does seem like he's that's where he'll
Speaker 3: find it. Maybe Tested wants.
Speaker 4: Honestly, this is great that he's back there. I'm sure
Speaker 4: the crowds are gonna be super big. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 4: smaller than the University of Illinois products that litter the field,
Speaker 4: but you know they will be they will be substantial.
Speaker 2: There following him. Okay, I like that he's back.
Speaker 4: Some some people are saying, this guy is, you know,
Speaker 4: the best American prospects since Jackson Coy or since Jordan Speith.
Speaker 2: And that's Jackson coy.
Speaker 4: Pro debut, comfortable, spot drives the crap out of the ball,
Speaker 4: puts it well, good eire play.
Speaker 2: I don't know what more there is to say about this.
Speaker 2: I I expect I think he's.
Speaker 4: Going to be you know, I think we've had you know,
Speaker 4: one of the interesting subplots of this field is that
Speaker 4: you have so many of these like young players in it.
Speaker 4: Besides Covid, you also have Preston Stout, who who sponsors
Speaker 4: exemption sponsor exemption, and then you have you know, Luke Clanton,
Speaker 4: you have David Ford, you have Crystal lamprackt like all
Speaker 4: these players that have like these lofty expectations. Obviously, this
Speaker 4: is going to be Coyven's first professional start.
Speaker 2: Last year he finished t. Eleven at this event.
Speaker 4: Really comfy spot for the pro start, and he'll be,
Speaker 4: you know, on the PGA Tour next year. And I
Speaker 4: think like at this point, it's just building towards getting
Speaker 4: into that that championship series, the champions Tour for twenty
Speaker 4: twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a champions Tour. Deer Run's a great spot, just
Speaker 2: you do kind of have to hit.
Speaker 3: It relatively accurately, Like it's not just ship it all
Speaker 3: over the place, but it is. It has been reduced
Speaker 3: with the way the ball goes birty fust.
Speaker 2: It's wild. The eighteenth hole there.
Speaker 4: I used to play a lot of tournaments as a
Speaker 4: kid there and through college just because it's it's in Illinois,
Speaker 4: and you know, it was a big course, Like the
Speaker 4: eighteenth hole is four hundred and eighty yards yep. And
Speaker 4: it used to be so hard because you have to
Speaker 4: like play the edge of the dog leg and then
Speaker 4: like you'd have a long iron into that green. Now
Speaker 4: it's just like driver wedge just wild to me, do
Speaker 4: you remember the fourth hole at all? Apparently I've made
Speaker 4: a big change there with a tree that got rid
Speaker 4: of the tree, right, yeah, yeah, Zach called it to
Speaker 4: Kenby Matamba to Kenby Matumbo today and that was the
Speaker 4: character of the hole, you know. But he's going out
Speaker 4: to see number four. A lot of talk about number
Speaker 4: four maybe, yeah, sawgrass the Heartland's heartlands situation, A tree
Speaker 4: tree laments out there.
Speaker 2: That's sad, that's sad.
Speaker 3: He also said it's not going to change the integrity
Speaker 3: of the golf course. God reading it, Zach transcript takes
Speaker 3: me back to Marcus Simona.
Speaker 2: It is just.
Speaker 3: One like non sequitor, self contradict and gobbled cook after another.
Speaker 2: It was a nice little throw back. I think they simple,
Speaker 2: simple minded.
Speaker 3: Well, he was asked at the last question have you
Speaker 3: spoken to Jim or Stu or are they gonna be
Speaker 3: brought on as a source of, you know, a sounding board,
Speaker 3: until I was like, no, I haven't talked to him yet,
Speaker 3: but we'll have those discussions when.
Speaker 2: It gets I feel like he might have been banished. PJ.
Speaker 3: What do you make of him choosing deer run over
Speaker 3: the US Senior Open. He said, I'm pretty simple minded.
Speaker 3: He said, he called himself simple minded twice. They asked
Speaker 3: me to play j DC. I'm in on my number,
Speaker 3: he's on his number. I'm gonna play JDC.
Speaker 5: I just, you know, you look at the Cathedrals of
Speaker 5: Golf for Zach his major record as possibly the two
Speaker 5: best wins ever possible, and h he could add Pebble
Speaker 5: Beach with a win this week. He could get into
Speaker 5: Pebble Beach next year. And I just I think this
Speaker 5: is short sighted by a guy who would have been
Speaker 5: the betting favorite at the US Senior Open, could have
Speaker 5: been a Pebble Beach next year, could have added it
Speaker 5: to Saint Andrews and Augusta. But nope, we're gotta we
Speaker 5: gotta play the JDC for the twenty.
Speaker 4: I think I was looking through the Senior Open field,
Speaker 4: not to divert to you know, take away from five
Speaker 4: guys to monter here. Yeah, do you know who caught
Speaker 4: my eye in the in the Senior Open field?
Speaker 5: I mean, I have some ideas. It's it's a it's
Speaker 5: a it's a wide field blockie.
Speaker 2: Who who would you guess? PJ?
Speaker 5: Are you on the Stenson bandwagon.
Speaker 2: I I saw Hank Keeney.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, he's playing talk about a capital p
Speaker 4: problem back in the day. I mean, this guy was
Speaker 4: hitting at three hundred and twenty with wound balls.
Speaker 2: He was like a legend. I mean god, just a
Speaker 2: total urban legend. She probably don't even know who Hank
Speaker 2: Keenny is.
Speaker 5: I've heard the name, but I have no recollection of
Speaker 5: anything for you.
Speaker 4: He led the PGA to her driving distance for like
Speaker 4: four or five years during the Tiger early Tiger era,
Speaker 4: and he was hitting it like twenty yards further than
Speaker 4: the next closest guy.
Speaker 3: He got on well with Tiger. Aren't they buddies? I
Speaker 3: think they them out? I think yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean the whole Keeney family is just incredible. Kelly
Speaker 4: trip Hank one of the great golf families of all
Speaker 4: time to produce, produce this, uh this kind of offspring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know he was in the Senior Open.
Speaker 3: I think he just turned fifty.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, I need you to make a Hank Keeney mixtape.
Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, a Blockie one. Everybody liked the Blockie One,
Speaker 5: so we'll go back to the well, we'll do it.
Speaker 2: All right, what's your next guy to monitor? This is
Speaker 2: your all over place be Todd Medical major medical resumption.
Speaker 4: We got a typo in there, Peach, you missed the
Speaker 4: e Todd Watch.
Speaker 5: Resumes on hand out. I hate that's on me making
Speaker 5: him too quick?
Speaker 2: Uh BP, How are you feeling about Todd watch?
Speaker 3: I mean not great. It's been a while. I'm just
Speaker 3: happy to see him. I doubt he has many how
Speaker 3: many more bites of the apple he has here on
Speaker 3: the medical Uh?
Speaker 2: But you know, I wish him well he could.
Speaker 3: This is a place where you know, he could get
Speaker 3: in the paint, rumble round, get some buckets and I'm
Speaker 3: hoping maybe he makes a cut and get some points
Speaker 3: to go towards his medical.
Speaker 2: H this is a little bit more serious one. I
Speaker 2: saw his name in the in the field Aaron.
Speaker 4: Wise at a medical on a medical obviously has dealt
Speaker 4: with some personal issues and it's kind of sad. I
Speaker 4: I think he was one of the more promising players
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago on the PGA tour.
Speaker 2: I you know, I've seen his name a couple of times.
Speaker 4: I just looked at his owgr and I just you
Speaker 4: know it's you know, he hasn't made a cut since
Speaker 4: last year's rocket mortgage. I think like if you were
Speaker 4: going to try and kind of will someone to playing well,
Speaker 4: Aaron Wise would be one name that I would put.
Speaker 3: On there would be amazing to see him. We'd love
Speaker 3: to hear more from him about like what he's battled
Speaker 3: and everything, and obviously a top prospect one on the
Speaker 3: PGA Tour. Like a very interesting modern story and you
Speaker 3: wish them. I wish him the best this weekend. Beyond
Speaker 3: who else do you have?
Speaker 4: Last, but last, but not least, another player, young player
Speaker 4: that's been super impressive, plays Brown. I think he's nineteen.
Speaker 4: He has a special temporary member on the PGA Tour.
Speaker 4: He said, he's still just going to keep playing the
Speaker 4: corn Ferry Tour as much as he can to lock in,
Speaker 4: you know, the priority position. That being said, you know
Speaker 4: starts like this, this kind of place, this type of field.
Speaker 2: We saw him almost win earlier this year. PAULP.
Speaker 4: Springs, Uh, this this could become like a huge story,
Speaker 4: like when you look through the JDC field. This is
Speaker 4: one of the names that pops out, is that this
Speaker 4: would be a home.
Speaker 2: Run story if you were able to win.
Speaker 3: KFT is off this week therefore, use that STP not
Speaker 3: gonna crew points anyways, use this temporary member STM, I
Speaker 3: should say, and then go play the KFT next week,
Speaker 3: the Blue Championship, So that makes sense. An interesting field,
Speaker 3: I like your five guys to monor mix of young,
Speaker 3: mix of old. I guess you'd put Jordan Speed. You know,
Speaker 3: I was deep in the cross the diversion. I was
Speaker 3: deep in the cross tabs today looking through the field,
Speaker 3: and I know this is just like red meat for
Speaker 3: you or meatball over the middle. It's never been more clear.
Speaker 3: They just have to get away from the two year
Speaker 3: exemption window, like the guys that are in like almost
Speaker 3: like the major medical feels like a much more useful,
Speaker 3: like justified use case. Then now, winning on the PGA Tour,
Speaker 3: like we've said, is heart there should trigger a bunch
Speaker 3: of perks for winning. But like you look through that list,
Speaker 3: it's like Peppi, Peter Malnadi, he won in March of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. You know, Paton Kazaire one in Sanderson
Speaker 3: or won the pro Corp the bro Corp in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, like Nick Dunlap. Obviously, like Kazaire hasn't made
Speaker 3: a cut since the cognizant in Palm Beaches.
Speaker 2: You know, Peppi Peter's kind of hanging on by a threat.
Speaker 3: I just think like things we're talking about that happened
Speaker 3: in February or March of twenty twenty four, and now
Speaker 3: we're in almost July of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 4: That's where a lot of the fat in some of
Speaker 4: these fields is not a lot, but a portion of
Speaker 4: the fat. And these are guy Kevin you who's decent,
Speaker 4: pro done well, but he's in because he won the
Speaker 4: Sanderson probably be in another way Sanderson in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: A lot of these fall events bro cors Sanderson. I.
Speaker 3: You know, you wonder what the future of that exemption is.
Speaker 3: And looking through this list, the list of two year
Speaker 3: exemption winners in this field, you're like, is this one
Speaker 3: we need to re examine and make it more current
Speaker 3: or make it more recent? And if we're you know,
Speaker 3: if you're winning now, you're getting a two year exemption
Speaker 3: that's still in place. But what happens when we go
Speaker 3: to challengers and champions what you get for those what's
Speaker 3: the future of that to your exemption? Because just looking
Speaker 3: at this field, you just I don't know that it's
Speaker 3: yielding the best product because you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Turn about guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know, there's no good analogy, but but this
Speaker 3: just wouldn't exist in other sports, right, guy who has
Speaker 3: a good NBA Finals in twenty twenty four means he's
Speaker 3: for sure in the rotation in twenty twenty six. Just
Speaker 3: not the way it works.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting.
Speaker 4: It's it is a you know, winning on the PGA
Speaker 4: Tour so hard. We talk about it every week like
Speaker 4: winning's hard. Yeah, I think that there's an over emphasis
Speaker 4: placed on it by players and executives because you already
Speaker 4: get rewarded for it. It's like a double reward in
Speaker 4: the sense of you point you should make do on
Speaker 4: like the amount of you get five hundred fed X
Speaker 4: Cup points.
Speaker 2: That's two hundred more than second place.
Speaker 4: I believe, right, three hundred goes the second place you're
Speaker 4: talking about like so many more, and that gives you
Speaker 4: such a leg up already. It's like this two year
Speaker 4: exemption to me is silly. I mean, you get two
Speaker 4: year exemption for winning a team event.
Speaker 5: You know that.
Speaker 4: I completely agree of what you're saying, because like when
Speaker 4: you start to do the bookkeeping on the ends of
Speaker 4: some of these two year exemptions, and.
Speaker 2: It depending on when you win.
Speaker 4: It's almost like a three year exemption a lot of
Speaker 4: times because you went at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 4: it's like, well, you're good this year, and then you
Speaker 4: get two years on top of that. So I completely
Speaker 4: concur and I'm very curious what it's going to look
Speaker 4: like down the stretch. I think there's just this belief
Speaker 4: among players like I'd almost rather give it like a
Speaker 4: long exemption to somebody that's finished in like the top
Speaker 4: five five times in a row, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, yeah, a couple of months or something. It's
Speaker 3: it's tricky how you break it, but certainly something that's
Speaker 3: going to be trickier if you get two tours like
Speaker 3: what it sounds like they're still sorting that out. That's
Speaker 3: in the details yet of TBD on the new tour
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty eight. What what is the future of
Speaker 3: that exception? But looking at this field list, it just
Speaker 3: jumped to my attention, all right, let's get on. Do
Speaker 3: we have one of dud picks? Who's your pick this week?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've taken I'm taking the Postman. He's he's red Hot.
Speaker 2: That was my guy.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna zag then I'm just gonna go con Yeah,
Speaker 3: posting is a great pick.
Speaker 2: That was my pick.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just a diversify so we can maintain our gamblings.
Speaker 3: Take a couple of bites of the apple and then
Speaker 3: call ourselves a gambling podcast, and one of them wins.
Speaker 3: I'll go with uh, I'll go with Coyven Peach.
Speaker 2: Do you have a.
Speaker 5: Pick going Jackson, Super Jackson? Most we're getting with Jacksonsville.
Speaker 5: Everybody's gonna be on one Jackson this week. I'm zagging
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're going to Suber, I'm going Coven, all right.
Speaker 3: Those are picks for the John dere Classic. Honestly a
Speaker 3: pretty great event on paper right now, very interesting feel
Speaker 3: Does that mean a lot of people will watch it?
Speaker 3: I recommend doing Fourth of July activities with your family,
Speaker 3: maybe watch the JDC Sunday afternoon. But you know, for
Speaker 3: an event fighting for its life and something that means
Speaker 3: a lot to the community, raises a bunch of money
Speaker 3: for the community, I feel like it's really good on
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Speaker 3: we already mentioned the USGA as the US Senior Open
Speaker 3: at Sayota Country Club in the Columbus area. The defending
Speaker 3: champus Padrick Harrington. Notables are on Hell, Cabera, Stewart, Saint Ernie,
Speaker 3: Els Harrington, Miguel on Hell, Colin Montgomery. Ian Poulter is
Speaker 3: making his debut and how he's bringing hell with them
Speaker 3: tweeting about it, Poulter Vjulter in the mix again and
Speaker 3: Henrik Stenson. This is all over the place. There's a
Speaker 3: Peacock window. Just check your listings eleven to two and
Speaker 3: Golf Channel than five to seven on Peacock. So it's
Speaker 3: a mix of Peacock with an NBC Network finish on Sunday.
Speaker 4: You know what's crazy what for Poulter, Stenson, Blandy players
Speaker 4: of this ilk that playing in the US Senior Open
Speaker 4: is like a step up in juice for them where
Speaker 4: they get significantly more play relevance that they have for
Speaker 4: like the last three years. Like Ian Poulter's most relevant
Speaker 4: moments the last few years.
Speaker 2: Have been have been attending his son's as Viper's point
Speaker 2: walker like Walker Cup us a M and then playing
Speaker 2: this event. These these are.
Speaker 4: The biggest moments of his relevance to the golf world,
Speaker 4: not playing on Live, which is it's just like a
Speaker 4: perfect example of how big of a failure Live was.
Speaker 3: I mean to be fair, though, Poltz has also been
Speaker 3: pretty bad on Live too, like he hasn't been a
Speaker 3: relevant player on a tour that's also a struggle for relevant,
Speaker 3: So it's like a double wham he's not been.
Speaker 4: But like the thing about being irrelevant on Live is
Speaker 4: like unless you won, you're.
Speaker 2: Pretty much irrelevant. Kind of yes, yes, I just find
Speaker 2: it amusing.
Speaker 4: It's like Ian Polter's re entered my life, and it's
Speaker 4: like he enters my life when Luke plays, and when
Speaker 4: he plays.
Speaker 3: Nice social video. Welcome Luke or are welcome poltse Ian?
Speaker 3: So that came across my desk? Uh, what else do
Speaker 3: we have? Us Senior Open? That's that's what's going to
Speaker 3: be your event of the week. But not quite Saiota,
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Who are your three guys to monitor? No graphics? Unprepared?
Speaker 4: I assume blocking.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I don't know that I'm necessarily unprepared.
Speaker 5: Joseph has been completely indoctrinated after watching the Blockie show.
Speaker 5: So we've been discussing the US Senior Open at length. Uh,
Speaker 5: we've been kicking kicking some ideas back and forth. Blockie
Speaker 5: obviously number one guy to monitor this week? How does
Speaker 5: he follow it up? Everybody in their and their mother
Speaker 5: is now hoping, praying that he can get in the field.
Speaker 5: We we I I might have some more clarity on
Speaker 5: the top ten rule. Uh. After some research on Monday,
Speaker 5: it looks like the top ten rule will get him
Speaker 5: in to the Boeing Classic, which is like a month
Speaker 5: and a half from now, because there are majors or
Speaker 5: invitationals in Portugal between now and then, so the full
Speaker 5: field event is not even close from now. It's like
Speaker 5: the end of July. But it looks like Blockie technically
Speaker 5: should be there.
Speaker 2: He'll be on a primetime in Washington.
Speaker 5: Primetime prime time blocking, so blocking number one guy to
Speaker 5: monitor for sure.
Speaker 3: We did have a certified fo TP front of the
Speaker 3: program reach out saying he or she might be in
Speaker 3: Blockie's press conference and if we had any questions, he
Speaker 3: or she would happily ask them. So if you want
Speaker 3: to form some questions, we can send across to Blockie.
Speaker 3: Let me know, PJ. All right, I feel like.
Speaker 2: I feel like we could have dozens real quick sidebar.
Speaker 4: Sciota is really cool, Donald Ross course, this should be
Speaker 4: really fun TV. Do you think they'll mention that that's
Speaker 4: where Jack Nicholas grew up and played on the Rock?
Speaker 4: I think they're going to go the entire broadcast window
Speaker 4: all four days without mentioning that, or the Ohio State University.
Speaker 2: Very very cool place as an Ohio problem.
Speaker 3: That's best city in Ohio. It's definitely one of the
Speaker 3: best things about this city. Seota is a great course,
Speaker 3: great place. But how would you rank the cities of Ohio?
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I mean, where does Pittsburgh fall
Speaker 5: fall on?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: Iota was in Pittsburgh. Where would it compare it to
Speaker 5: Oakemon and maybe some other courses?
Speaker 2: Lebron's an acron? Do you see that playing Firestone?
Speaker 5: It did? Do you think Lebron's going to go to
Speaker 5: the colleague Company's Senior Players chance in its Firestone finale
Speaker 5: coming soon?
Speaker 2: Lebron not gonna be a Laker anymore? Is he? Coming
Speaker 2: back to the Cavs.
Speaker 3: Perhaps we'll see it would be a fitting, nice, nice
Speaker 3: narrative arc. But seems like the Warriors are a potential destination.
Speaker 2: So what a derailed end of career.
Speaker 4: Not everybody could go out like like the true great one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the Wizards. Yeah, the Wizards was totally.
Speaker 3: Actually happened, see that they pull in with the in
Speaker 3: like that era of Wizards Jersey. It actually didn't happen. See,
Speaker 3: I've erased it from my whole memory.
Speaker 5: I'm glad. I'm glad you've done that, because what if
Speaker 5: the bron ends up on the Wizards?
Speaker 2: What if hit the shot over Byron Russell?
Speaker 4: They didn't push off on Yeah, and he just rode
Speaker 4: off into the sunset.
Speaker 3: We could talk about the first first retirement, to which
Speaker 3: I'm sure was just done under the most clean and circumstances.
Speaker 2: Why mourning his father's death?
Speaker 5: Well did you see that? Derek Jeter said, Actually he
Speaker 5: wasn't that bad at baseball? How I pressed to go
Speaker 5: see go hit two hundred after not playing for thirty years.
Speaker 4: Derek Jeter sticking up probably the best athletes of all time.
Speaker 3: All right, last but not least one schedule for the
Speaker 3: week or did you do your three guys?
Speaker 2: We just got Blockie, But all right, who else Blocky?
Speaker 5: Throw Ben Crane obviously big big spot here.
Speaker 2: The podcast talked more about Ben Crane. You got to be.
Speaker 5: Able to use your length, use your power. I think
Speaker 5: this is a big opening for Ben Craiane if you're
Speaker 5: looking in the betting markets. Not to sound like Jordan
Speaker 5: Speef myself, I think Ben Crane might be undervalued. If
Speaker 5: anybody's out there just interested in in throwing some shekels.
Speaker 3: Down, you get champions start heckling because of gambling.
Speaker 5: I mean, that would be kind of crazy. I can't
Speaker 5: rule it out. I guess technically according to gambling authority
Speaker 5: Jordan Speith, but you could go do that and then
Speaker 5: looking at the field, I mean relatedly to your Poulter
Speaker 5: Stenson point. Obviously those are guys to watch. I'll just
Speaker 5: throw Pat Perez out there, who is expecting to play
Speaker 5: a full season next year. So this is this could
Speaker 5: be a big step towards securing permanent status on the
Speaker 5: Champions Store. I was going to say, he's been in
Speaker 5: the news a lot.
Speaker 2: I didn't know he was playing.
Speaker 3: All right, there we go last, but not least on
Speaker 3: the DP World we have the BMW International Open. I
Speaker 3: believe this is the one with the Ferris wheel in
Speaker 3: the background of the eighteenth Green.
Speaker 2: The purse is.
Speaker 3: Three million defending champ. I should note zash and his
Speaker 3: press conference. By the way, I'm quoting zach Alot here
Speaker 3: today purss three million. He claims, I'll just say, personally speaking,
Speaker 3: this is my twenty fourth start. I have no idea
Speaker 3: what the purse is. I have never looked at one
Speaker 3: in my entire tenure. He's never looked at the purse
Speaker 3: in twenty four years, says.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've had to look on the champions Tour now because
Speaker 3: they've asked me, But I honestly don't know, and I
Speaker 3: don't care. I've never looked at the purse. It's about
Speaker 3: winning championships. I can't believe he's never looked at the
Speaker 3: purse or know what the purse was. But on the
Speaker 3: DP World Tour, the purse is three million. Notables are
Speaker 3: Benny An who left for Live Answer, Chakara Garcia, Martin
Speaker 3: Kimer's essentially live event, Waki Nim, Carlos Ortiz and Patrick Reid.
Speaker 3: I think every single one of those players is on
Speaker 3: live or was on live if you count Chakara and
Speaker 3: Patrick Reid. Defending champ is the author Daniel Brown, who
Speaker 3: cracked the Da Vinci Code to win the BMW International
Speaker 3: Open last year. This is coffee golf. We have coffee
Speaker 3: golf merch in our pro shop as link season is
Speaker 3: right around the corner, six thirty to eleven each morning,
Speaker 3: with a noon finish on Saturday and Sunday, the International Open.
Speaker 3: P Reid over there, back on the DP World Tour,
Speaker 3: rustling around so.
Speaker 2: He get warmed up for the Open. That's your schedule.
Speaker 2: Still number one on the.
Speaker 3: DP World Tour rankings based on his work in January,
Speaker 3: essentially early February.
Speaker 4: Because p Reid, Rory who's played six qualifying tournaments, Chakara,
Speaker 4: Jayden Chaper, Aaron Raye, Casey Jarvis. You know who's number
Speaker 4: said it?
Speaker 2: Sterney bubble Bee. Okay, he's hanging in there. Where's Dick Sterney?
Speaker 2: Dick Sterney. Man, I can't believe he's this far down.
Speaker 2: It can't be right. Race to Dubai. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to find him. My control app's not working
Speaker 4: for me. Oh there, he's thirty three.
Speaker 2: Interesting. I don't I've never understood their points.
Speaker 3: They are a little challenging. They got so many swings.
Speaker 3: All right, you want to talk about remembering some guys.
Speaker 3: Coda Canako on there, he's number twelve in the points list.
Speaker 3: When you just are quickly scrolling through, it looks like Canerko,
Speaker 3: Paul Kanerko. I was going to say, I don't remember
Speaker 3: Coda Canaco. The first time I thought your sons, like,
Speaker 3: am I supposed to know a calling through it?
Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second, that Canerka is there?
Speaker 3: America guy killed the Guardian's tribe. Guy would just rake
Speaker 3: against us every time he was a stud. Yeah, problem, okay,
Speaker 3: I think that does it. I don't have any other
Speaker 3: There's a couple of odds and ends. We can just punt.
Speaker 3: Got a good hippo story from front of the program,
Speaker 3: hippo related to golf.
Speaker 2: We could talk to the hippo, you know. Was it
Speaker 2: a good hippo story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'll just still take a minute. There's a
Speaker 3: hippo in the Formby Golf Club, which is where nearby
Speaker 3: where a stuffed hippo at this point in the Formby
Speaker 3: Golf Club nearby the Birkdale and the golf coast there wherever.
Speaker 3: We're having the open in a couple of weeks. This
Speaker 3: this is from a friend of the program, Derek Garry.
Speaker 3: He said, this guy, Eustace Story, who was a walker cupper,
Speaker 3: his brothers went to Africa and shot a hippo back
Speaker 3: when this was probably accepted practice hunting and brought the
Speaker 3: hip back to him and he kept the stuffed hippo
Speaker 3: in his house for years and then he died and
Speaker 3: his wife was like, we got to get this thing
Speaker 3: out of here.
Speaker 2: He used to story.
Speaker 3: The walker cupp died and his wife's like, I got
Speaker 3: to get this out of my house. And he was
Speaker 3: a member at Formby, so she donated it to form
Speaker 3: B Golf Club and they have this stuffed hippo at
Speaker 3: the golf club. And apparently during World War Two it
Speaker 3: was like a space for the Navy or something and
Speaker 3: they took the stuffed hippo on a ship during the war.
Speaker 3: It traveled around in the middle of the World War Two,
Speaker 3: I got damaged and we eventually made it back to
Speaker 3: form B. So they have a hippo at FORMB Golf
Speaker 3: Club that's a hippo golf story late love that. Back
Speaker 3: when apparently that was a thing you go shoot. Hippos
Speaker 3: in Africa wouldn't recommend it now. All right, that does
Speaker 3: it for this Wednesday episode of The Shotgun Start. We
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