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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff a little go lo podcast. We had to

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Speaker 1: I mean atrocious shit. It felt like Xander shot eighty

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Speaker 1: who part of what makes these majors big. I was

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Speaker 1: watching him before I went to bed last night. Bryson,

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Speaker 1: and you need your heavy hitters. Scotty was off obviously

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Speaker 1: Like this is star driven sport. There's a reason in tennis, Sampras, Agasy, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic,

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Speaker 1: Same thing with Justin Thomas, who has the back injury

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Speaker 1: and he's like, God, this could be a weird start

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Speaker 1: he finishes. He finishes the top ten, and he was

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Speaker 1: pretty good the last couple of days. He had a

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Speaker 1: triple yesterday where he pumped it into the water like

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Speaker 1: Ludwig all time. Bad shot that hole under the trees

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Speaker 1: on whole six, tried to hit driver. I think he

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Speaker 1: double crossed it. I mean he hit that thing deep

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Speaker 1: into the water. But those two guys important, Ryder Cup

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Speaker 1: guys important, just American golfers that should be competitive in

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Speaker 1: the majors, in all the big tournaments, and they just

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Speaker 1: kind of flex their muscles this week. Now to me,

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Speaker 1: Scotty who was way better on the weekend. They showed

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Speaker 1: him a lot on Thursday and Friday. Randall had this take.

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Speaker 1: I think on like Thursday night on the Golf Channel

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Speaker 1: that he's messing with his swing and his way shorter.

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Speaker 1: So why he's all off some other guys on instant

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Speaker 1: or Twitter, we're breaking it down. Listen. I can barely

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Speaker 1: you know, I just try to hit fairways here. I

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Speaker 1: to pretend to break down someone's golf swing, especially at

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Speaker 1: that level, No fucking clue. Here's what I do know.

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Speaker 1: If you watch him, he is hitting some especially Thursday

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Speaker 1: and Friday, some like crazy slices. I wouldn't even call

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Speaker 1: him fades or cuts. They are starting at the left

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Speaker 1: And clearly he is battling his driver, or was over

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Speaker 1: the course of the last couple rounds or the course

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Speaker 1: of the last couple of tournaments. And early in this

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Speaker 1: round he was all over the map and same thing

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Speaker 1: with just his longer woods. I remember watching him at

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Speaker 1: riv he was doing the same thing. So whatever's going

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Speaker 1: on there, if he can get that figured out, because

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Speaker 1: he was much better on the weekend. He finished sixty

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Speaker 1: seven seventy one, so he shot five shot six under

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now early on he just he was

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Speaker 1: seventy two seventy three. Just he was just off. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's just watching him like this is not the Scottie

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Speaker 1: shuffler I know. And if he can just get that

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Speaker 1: figured out, which I would imagine is gonna be the

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Speaker 1: number one thing he's gonna be working on going to Augusta.

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Speaker 1: But right now, the way he's playing, I couldn't be

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Speaker 1: confident picking him to win Augusta. Now maybe he shows

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Speaker 1: some more signs of life before he plays another tournament.

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Speaker 1: But something just a little off again. He's not shot,

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Speaker 1: he's not like not a factor. But you go from

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Speaker 1: consistently finishing the top ten winning all these tournaments. It

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Speaker 1: being weird when you finish like fourth, to all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden back to back tournaments where you don't crack

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Speaker 1: the top twenty. Like it just that's comes with the territory.

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Speaker 1: And it's also a unique pressure. And I was texting

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Speaker 1: with a buddy the other day, like everyone's gunning for you,

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Speaker 1: everyone's talking about you. I understand he's super humble guy,

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Speaker 1: baby coming. I know he's very grounded. Rory says how

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Speaker 1: get that, But you can't tell me when you come

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Speaker 1: to these golf tournaments and everyone's looking at you, everyone's

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Speaker 1: If you get compared to Tiger Woods, that is a

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Speaker 1: heavy burden to wear. And it's like, oh, he's already

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Speaker 1: won four majors, he can win ten more. I mean,

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Speaker 1: people are talking like, what's this over under run majors

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Speaker 1: ten to eleven. I mean the way they talk about him,

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Speaker 1: And I'm guilty too. It's it's got to just put

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Speaker 1: an immense amount of pressure when you just play and

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Speaker 1: then you're a little off and then you start forcing it.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of cool. Like part of what makes

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Speaker 1: Sea guys grind it out right. Golf's weird. You could

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Speaker 1: be really shitty one week and then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden finished top five. It's kind of like baseball. You

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Speaker 1: can not have a hit all week, and then the

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Speaker 1: next two games you get four home runs. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like all these guys that the margins are really thin,

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Speaker 1: even for the elite guys like Scotti. Scheffer's gonna go

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Speaker 1: down one of the all time greats. But you know,

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Speaker 1: to me, it's why I give Rory a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a pass this week because a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago at Bay Hill, he was trending. He's had four

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Speaker 1: hundred Friday, he looks pretty good, and who knows, I

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Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be a factor that weekend. You know,

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Speaker 1: at the Arnold Palmer and then the back thing happens.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't show up here till Wednesday. I watched him

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. He was just had no clue where it

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Speaker 1: a pass. Just probably didn't touch a club from having

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Speaker 1: But it's definitely something to keep an eye on. I

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Speaker 1: to the Majors, which is really not that far away.

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Speaker 1: We're about a month away from the Masters, which is

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. The other thing is Brian Rollapp, the new CEO,

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Speaker 1: My overall take, I think he's really impressive. He had

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Speaker 1: tells them what to do. It's it's just a unique gig.

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Speaker 1: Golf's a lot different. I mean, this is a niche

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Speaker 1: I saw a stat on Instagram that and this is

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty now charges five hundred, and you complain

638
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: about it. And then you go and they're just packed.

639
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: You have young people, old people, women. The growth of women,

640
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: it's seen a enormous boom, and the access to these

641
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: golf courses, these public courses, they're all especially if you

642
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: live in a big city, and he clearly wants to

643
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: inject the PGA tour in the big city. The more

644
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: people that play golf, the more people that will casually

645
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: watch the pros. Part of the reason football, basketball, and

646
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: baseball have always been so big, you go back fifty

647
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: years because if I just take a random care in

648
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: high school, more than likely he has played one of

649
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: those three sports. In a decent percentage of those guys

650
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: play one of those sports at least through junior high

651
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 1: or high school. And if you play those sports, you're

652
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: just more invested to the guys who are best at

653
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: those sports. Like why did I fall in love with

654
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: college football in the NFL? He started playing football, right?

655
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: I just it's like, if you're just how does it

656
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 1: guy do that? And that's why I love pro golf

657
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: because I started playing golf when I was young. Why

658
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: do a lot of people that watch back or played

659
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,479
Speaker 1: basketball when they were in high school or college love

660
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: college basketball? Or the NBA because they played it in

661
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: basketball is unique because even if you didn't play, you know,

662
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: in high school, you still could play pick up basketball.

663
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: I'm a good example. I didn't play high school basketball,

664
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: but I played pick up basketball throughout my twenties. So

665
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: there is a direct correlation of people that will just

666
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 1: casually pay attention. And YouTube golf has exploded. Bob Grant, good, good,

667
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: the barstool guys, there was just an avenue. If they

668
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: could figure this out, they can gain new people. And

669
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 1: there's just gonna be a lot of pressure on roll

670
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: app to get this right. And I don't have all

671
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 1: the answers. I'm glad they said they're gonna do events

672
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: with cuts, make them bigger, not like fifty seventy guys

673
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: make it one hundred plus one hundred and twenty guys

674
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: have a cut. I think that. I think Tiger is

675
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: really big on that, Like that is at the soul

676
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: of the game. You play in an event, If you

677
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: play shitty, you do not make the weekend. Right, this

678
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: is not football or basketball. Yeah, he's had a bad game,

679
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: had a bad week, Like he's on contract. If you

680
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: have an awful year in professional golf, you might miss

681
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: the majority of cuts and make no money. To make

682
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: money on the course, you have to play well. That

683
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: is not true in any other sport. All these guys

684
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: have just signed free agent contracts. In football, they could

685
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: all play like shit this upcoming year. Now, they might

686
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: not get their entire contract, but all that guaranteed money

687
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: they're guaranteed to make. There is no such thing in golf.

688
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: Their kind is now because they give you five hundred

689
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: thousand dollars retainer. They've added some stuff since live, but

690
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: it's nothing like these other sports, which I think makes

691
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: it like so cool. I mean we had like I'll

692
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Speaker 1: just list some names, Sun jaym Jake Knapp, Gary Woodland,

693
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: Harry Hall, Joel Damon, Cam Davis, Mark Cubbard. I mean,

694
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 1: these guys play like crap. They missed the cut. Colin

695
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: Morkowell Withdrew doesn't get any money right in football or basketball.

696
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: If I start the game Markowall Withdrew on a second hole,

697
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: if Josh Allen breaks his ankle on the second play

698
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: of the game, he still gets paid. Colin Morkoweed gets

699
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 1: no money for this tournament. So I'm fascinated to watch

700
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: what roll app does. I think there's a ton of

701
00:36:46,880 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: pressure on him, and I'm really excited to watch. Before

702
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: we get out of here, I'm just gonna bang out

703
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: a couple at Golo Pod. At Golo Pod, we got

704
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: an Instagram. We're gonna do these Instagram questions like we

705
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: do on the football podcast. Fire in my DMS. Get

706
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: your questions I answered here. This is a question that

707
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Speaker 1: just pertains this week. Can you explain your strategy for

708
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: betting on golf? For example? Do you like to bet

709
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: more top fives, top tens tournament winners? Can you share

710
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: experience about betting on players that are not household names,

711
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: whether they are hot in a tournament or fizzled out.

712
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: My strategy has been as changed when I first started

713
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: doing it. I would bet on guys to win. Obviously,

714
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: I hit Cam one hundred dollars bet for thirty one dollars.

715
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: That's very difficult to do, Like, you're not gonna make

716
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: a living off betting guys to win a golf tournament.

717
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: Cam Young took on what one hundred and fifty guys

718
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Speaker 1: this week. This is not football or basketball, where if

719
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: you bet on one of the teams to win, you

720
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: only have to beat one opponent. In golf, you have

721
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: to beat the entire field. It is it is very

722
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: difficult to do. The smart way to gamble in golf

723
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: is to bet top tens in top twenties. The bet

724
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: on Cam Young, the smart bet would have been to

725
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: hammer him top ten. You know Colin Moore Cowa, I

726
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: know he withdrew hammer him top ten and then like

727
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: part of why I like Cam Young, I think he's

728
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: an elite talent. He had top ten in his last

729
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: couple events. So part of my strategy is I take

730
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 1: bigger names who are playing well besides Scotty and Rory,

731
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Speaker 1: unless you want to take one of those guys to

732
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Speaker 1: win in the majors, which is not crazy, but top

733
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Speaker 1: tens when you can get plus one fifty plus two hundred,

734
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 1: like when you can get guys like Justin Thomas, Xander Schoffley,

735
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: guys like that at plus one eighty plus two hundred

736
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Speaker 1: to top ten and they are playing well, like you

737
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about those. I have stopped betting random guys.

738
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Speaker 1: I don't do that very often. A couple of year

739
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: years ago, I Jake Knapp was I bet him at

740
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: the Mexico Open. But for the most part, my strategy

741
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: has really turned into take the big boys, take the

742
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 1: top twenty ish players, the Hadekis Fitzpatrick, when we get

743
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: to the majors, Rom Bryson, Scottie, Rory Xander, and just

744
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: to hammer those guys. Now, if you want to take

745
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: some flyers on, like a couple guys top twenty parlays,

746
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: you can put twenty bucks to win five hundred or

747
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: one thousand. You can figure out some of those. But like,

748
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get aggressive to me, bet good players

749
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: to top ten with positive odds, and if you want to,

750
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: like it's fun to bet winners. But for every guy

751
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: that I've hit winning, and I've hit four or five

752
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: over the course of you know, maybe seven or eight

753
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: over the course of my career, I've lost a lot.

754
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: And you have to like, I had Kopka this week,

755
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: I had speed this week. I had some other guys

756
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: to went Fleetwood. It's not like Cam Young was the

757
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: only guy I bet. I've been fitted for new set

758
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 1: of irons. Old Club Pro recommended regular stiff, while another

759
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: said I'm pushing extra stiff, which seems like a big difference.

760
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: I'm a tall guy six three sixty four with a

761
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: six iron. My swing speed is around eighty five to

762
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: eighty seven miles an hour, and my average carry is

763
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: eight one hundred and eighty yards. I'm no fitter. I

764
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 1: would imagine with your swing speed, your distance, a stiff

765
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: shaft is fine. MY guess would be extra stiff is

766
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: not necessary. I would go stiff over regular would be

767
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: my recommendation. Again, not what I do for a living.

768
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: Don't really know. I have stiff shafts. I swing relatively hard.

769
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Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Can you give us a

770
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: walkthrough of your equipment in your bag? I'm a mid

771
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: handicap exploring new irons. Well. A couple of years ago,

772
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Speaker 1: it's probably like six or seven, one of the Tailor

773
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Speaker 1: Made guys followed me, I think on Twitter Instagram. He

774
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Speaker 1: was one of their big reps. And this is probably

775
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: like two thousand, eighteen or nineteen, and I remember talking

776
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: to him. He was a big Raider fan, and he

777
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: gave me like a forty percent off basically promo code

778
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: for Tailor Made. So I just got a set of

779
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: I think they're seven ninety cavity back irons. You know

780
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: they were like at the time. I think they're way

781
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: more expensive now. Someone told me they spent like three

782
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: grand on a set of irons. Like Jesus, you know,

783
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: they were like fourteen hundred dollars. I got for six

784
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: hundred or whatever. I got really cheap. I've had the

785
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: same irons forever. I've had the same Vokey titleist wedges forever.

786
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: I have multiple putters, and I have Calloway Woods, which

787
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: I purchased at like the PGA Superstore, with some like

788
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: fitted shafts that I've had for a while. But I'm

789
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: I would love a club sponsor here. I would play anything.

790
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: My buddies and I are going to the PGA Championship

791
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: this year and spending five there but only going to

792
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: one round. We're gonna play a couple other days. I

793
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 1: know you spent time in Philly, Oh, the PGA Championships

794
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: at Aronomic didn't know if you had course recommendations that

795
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: are willing to pay one hundred to two hundred dollars

796
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,959
Speaker 1: any suggestions in these crowded areas, it is really hard

797
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 1: to find golf courses at one hundred bucks. Obviously, I

798
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: haven't played golf there since twenty ten, eleven, twelve range.

799
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: I remember west Chester, which I don't know how far

800
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: away that is from Ironomic. I don't know where you're staying.

801
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 1: Used to have some pretty good tracks. My brother came

802
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 1: to visit. We played out there. Beautiful country, hilly nice

803
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: west Chester I think that's the name of the town.

804
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: Had some really cool tracks. But again I don't know

805
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: the price. When I was with the Eagles, we had

806
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: a there was a course in Jersey. I mean it

807
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: wasn't a great it was just a solid country club

808
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: we had access to. I remember we used to play

809
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: in the offseason. Me and some of the guys. Do

810
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: you like betting golf matchups? I started doing that with

811
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: miss mixed success. I only bet. I've done it before

812
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 1: in the in the majors, where you take like a

813
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 1: group of five and you get odds on the guys.

814
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: I basically just bet. I do a lot of top

815
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: tens in top twenties and parlays type stuff with the

816
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: top tens and top twenties, and then sprinkle on winners.

817
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: That's kind of the that's what I focus on. I

818
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: don't day one leaders. That's a crap shoot, you know,

819
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: country of origin, low guy like, I don't really do that.

820
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: I've actually never bet a guy to miss the cut.

821
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: I feel like betting a guy to miss the cuts,

822
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: like betting an under like I don't really like betting

823
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: for you know people that bet that in basketball, like

824
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: people to miss or football people like go three and out,

825
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: Like that sucks. What do you think is harder to

826
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Speaker 1: accomplish shooting a fifty nine in golf or making a

827
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: sixty yard field goal in an actual game. Well, it's

828
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: not possible for any normal human being either, So I

829
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: think you're talking alluding to the pros. I would say

830
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: now that kicking, these guys are kicking like sixty five

831
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: yard field goals. So sixty yard field goal when I

832
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: in the nineties was a really big deal. If you kick,

833
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: they would punt if the field goal was anything more

834
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: than like fifty two yards. Now it's like sixty five yards.

835
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Speaker 1: Half the teams in the league roll out their guy.

836
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: So I would say, if you're just basically on pro

837
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Speaker 1: kickers and pro golfers, if we're just going to assume

838
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: par seventy two, it's harder to shoot a fifty nine

839
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Speaker 1: than it is to kick a sixty yard field goal.

840
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: My guess would be the majority of guys there's thirty

841
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: two teams. I would guess more than half teams would

842
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: be pretty comfortable, pretty comfortably be strong, but would roll

843
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: out their kicker. The Jags, the Cowboys, Seattle. I'd have

844
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: to think I'm out of the kicker mode, but maybe

845
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: less than sixteen, but there's definitely ten. Plus the teams

846
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: are trying from sixty yards, so I would say shooting

847
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: fifty nine would be harder. That'll do it. Congrats to

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Speaker 1: Cam Young, Congrats to me, and what an awesome tournament

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Speaker 1: on kind of a slow weekend as we head into

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Speaker 1: March madness. Who props to John Calipari who fired from

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Speaker 1: Kentucky forced out, went to Arkansas, now when's the SEC

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Speaker 1: tournament and has a baller. I think Arkansas is going

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Speaker 1: to be a team that I'm a roof for in

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Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament in Saint Mary's like always, but I

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Speaker 1: always root for Saint Mary's. I always get bounced in

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Speaker 1: the first round. So enjoy the night and we will

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Speaker 1: talk soon again. Subscribe audio version GOLO pod. I think

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Speaker 1: we'll link it to the three and out Pod two tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: so see you later. The volume