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Speaker 1: the screen. Uh, without further ado, here's the three of

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Speaker 1: now think what I'm thinking about. Hello, this is Alan

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Speaker 1: schip Knuck back for another Fire Drill podcast, joined as

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Speaker 1: always by Michael Bamberger and Philly and Ryan French. In

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Speaker 1: the heartlands of America, um So the Phoenix Open. There's

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Speaker 1: It was another rousing week in the desert. Um Ryan,

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Speaker 1: Matt not even in popularity. That's uprisings of the people.

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Speaker 1: That's Michael. Michael will learn he's been canceled in the

426
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia enquire in three days. Yeah, he'll be the last

427
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Speaker 1: to know. Yeah, Yeah, that's funny. So it looks like

428
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Speaker 1: sky Shuffler is now in going to win this tournament.

429
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Speaker 1: He's going to go back to number one, and quite

430
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: a performance because he sets a down earth, happy, go

431
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 1: lucky guy, clearly great at golf, but never clear to

432
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Speaker 1: me how hot the fire is burning inside. But I

433
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 1: love that he came out. And you know, obviously John

434
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: Rahm and Roy Mcarroe even playing insane golf for the

435
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Speaker 1: last six months or longer, and there's been a debate

436
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Speaker 1: are they number which is the real number one? There's

437
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Speaker 1: camp Smith loyalist who put him in that conversation. No

438
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Speaker 1: one has mentioned Scotty Scheffler a long time like he

439
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 1: He started two thousand and twenty two on fire and

440
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: he cooled off a little bit. But him saying I

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Speaker 1: want to be number one and and then going out

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Speaker 1: and doing it, that's pretty ballsy. I'm I'm count me

443
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Speaker 1: in on Scotty Shuffler, Kay. Can I just in a

444
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Speaker 1: quick comment on Scotty Shuffler where I really didn't know

445
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Speaker 1: anything about him until the Master's Uh what really what

446
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: won me over was when he talked about that Sunday

447
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: morning crying in his wife's arms. I don't know if

448
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: I'm ready to do this, and I mean it was

449
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 1: one of the most honest to God one of the

450
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: most revealing personal quotes I've ever heard from professional athlete anywhere.

451
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 1: It was so unexpected from such a young guy. Um

452
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Speaker 1: So I think I think things. He's he's young, an

453
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Speaker 1: age only Michael. He's like an eighty year old twenty

454
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Speaker 1: year old. Amazing is if you look at like college pictures,

455
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Speaker 1: he looks like he was eighty back then. I mean,

456
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Speaker 1: it's just he's he's timeless in a certain way. He's

457
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Speaker 1: he's like he was born old and he's always gonna

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Speaker 1: be old. But this is this is a random Monday

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Speaker 1: que fact. Okay, you're on this podcast, Ryan, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: and fair enough. Uh. The Utah Open in uh In,

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Speaker 1: Utah is a corn ferry event and the Monday qualifiers

462
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Speaker 1: played on a very wide open not short, but because

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Speaker 1: it's at elevation short uh three five par fives and

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Speaker 1: uh they take twelve players and it's often sixty three

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Speaker 1: and better. There's usually like a sixty all the way

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Speaker 1: down to sixty three. Two players tied in the two

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Speaker 1: thousand eighteen Monday qualifier for T eighteen, missing by two

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Speaker 1: strokes after shooting both bogey free. Sixty six is one

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Speaker 1: Wills Alatorus too. Scotty Scheffler t eighteen corn Ferry Monday

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Speaker 1: shot sixty six didn't get through. Now both top five

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Speaker 1: players in the world. I mean, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Will is, but he would be if he wasn't injured. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah. I really became a Scheffler

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Speaker 1: fan at the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he just played incredible and if you remember, John Rahm

476
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Speaker 1: was just a machine like he was, he was stealing

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Speaker 1: souls out there. Nobody wanted to play him on Sunday

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Speaker 1: and Scheffler beat him and beat him soundly, and that

479
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Speaker 1: that was. That was a big time moment. And all

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Speaker 1: week long he was hitting great shots and just seemed

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Speaker 1: to thrive in that environment. And there's a long history

482
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Speaker 1: of players having that that bounced from the Ryder Cup

483
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Speaker 1: going all the way back to Fred Couple's you know whomever.

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Speaker 1: But uh, Scheffler went to a different level that week,

485
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Speaker 1: and he's just never stopped getting better. Here's my serious

486
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Speaker 1: take on this. As we talked often about how Live

487
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Speaker 1: has taken all of the villains and where I don't

488
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if we miss them,

489
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Speaker 1: but how great would it be right now if it

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Speaker 1: was instead of Nick Taylor, No offense, Nick Taylor. Good

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Speaker 1: for him, he's having an amazing tournament. How great would

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Speaker 1: it be for the golf world if it was Patrick

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Speaker 1: Reid and Scottie Scheffler going, you know, shot first shot

494
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Speaker 1: right now, one of the most or probably the most

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Speaker 1: hated professional golfer in the world against a guy who's

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Speaker 1: you know, super nice and well liked and all of

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Speaker 1: those things. Like that is where live has too many villains,

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Speaker 1: so it doesn't work because they don't have any good guys. Uh,

499
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Speaker 1: and the and the PGA Tour has lost all their villains,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know where you might

501
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Speaker 1: have you know where you might have that rynd during

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Speaker 1: the dessert course Tuesday night and Augusta. But seriously, it

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Speaker 1: would be great if it was like we miss the villains,

504
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Speaker 1: like we might not miss him, but like right here,

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Speaker 1: would be so awesome if it was Scottie and Patrick

506
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: going head for head. You know, I guarantee you that

507
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: before Keith Pelly closes his eyes every night, he's saying

508
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: a little prayer to the golf gods, begging for the

509
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Speaker 1: European Tour to lose the court case that was just

510
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: heard in the UK um that would and that if

511
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Speaker 1: if the European Tour loses, the live guys will get

512
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: to play in Europe pretty much as much as they want.

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Speaker 1: And that would be a tremendous turn of events for

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Speaker 1: the European Tour, which has just been bleeding stars for

515
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Speaker 1: two decades and can't keep its homegrown talent, and all

516
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: of a sudden that would become a regular currents because um,

517
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,959
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's, there's there will just be more mixing.

518
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Speaker 1: Otherwise it's just gonna be the majors, which will add

519
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Speaker 1: of course, as we've discussed a lot of fristion to

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Speaker 1: the majors. But you know, Augusta, you have to be

521
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: sort of on your best behavior and you get to

522
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Speaker 1: the PGA and and the and the US Open, and

523
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: that it's the stakes are so high, the courses are

524
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Speaker 1: so challenging. Like that stuff is can take a back

525
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Speaker 1: to see a little bit. No one's gonna no one's

526
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Speaker 1: gonna want to get sucked into that stuff. When when

527
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Speaker 1: there's a major championship on the line, but a week

528
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: a weekly tour event either in Europe on the p

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Speaker 1: that would be epic, So I agree with your Almans.

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Speaker 1: Others have suggestion, how about instead of a President's Cup,

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Speaker 1: a live versus PGA Tour Cup. I asked a couple

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00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: of guys about that um actually earlier this week and

533
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: on the PGA Tour players, and they basically dismissed it,

534
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: saying that the live guys would have all the motivation.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like it's like Golden State Warriors versus

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Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies. Like the Warriors don't consider the rivalry

537
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: because the other teams not in their league, and you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're irritated that people even consider that to be

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Speaker 1: a thing, and I think I think the tour guys

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Speaker 1: feel that way as well, like they have everything to

541
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Speaker 1: lose and nothing to gain. The live dudes would be,

542
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, fighting for their life out there and um,

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00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: which of course is why we should have it, because

544
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: that it would the energy would be spectacular. But even

545
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Speaker 1: if you go all the way up to the Pondo

546
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: Vetra Beach level, I don't think the tour wants to

547
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: associate in any way, shape or formm but it is

548
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: fun to talk about and it's fun to It would

549
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: require such a massive sense of humor on the PGA

550
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Speaker 1: tourist part to even entertain the idea. We know that

551
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: funny is not really there. What's the level of shock

552
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: about Tiger Eldrick Woods playing next week at the Revere

553
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: Revera Tournament. Shock? True? Shock? Yeah? I mean, you know

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00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: it's his tournament. He's the host. Um, it's it's he's

555
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: doing a solid to the sponsors, you know, he's It's

556
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Speaker 1: where he played his first event and he was sixteen.

557
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Speaker 1: If there's any regular tour event he was going to

558
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: try and soldier through, it's definitely gonna be that one.

559
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: So is he going to take a sled down the

560
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: first hole? Like? I mean, how is he going to

561
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: manage that hill? That place? I caddied so last year

562
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: Mark Ballin played, got paid to play in the the

563
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Speaker 1: pro am. I caddy. That place sucks. I mean that

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00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: walk up eighteen will kill you. Well, yeah, that's a

565
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: big hill, but once you get to the first ferry,

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Speaker 1: from the first fairway to the eighteenth ferry, it's not

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00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: that bad. It's a relatively flat piece of land. I

568
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Speaker 1: mean it's very flat, honestly, but yeah, that finishes. No,

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Speaker 1: that is true. That's a really good point out. Once

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Speaker 1: you get down there, it's really a valley until until

571
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Speaker 1: about You know, when you talk about the great flat

572
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Speaker 1: golf courses in the world, reveres in that conversation that's

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Speaker 1: really I never thought in my mind at the Old's hilly,

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Speaker 1: but it really isn't august National's hilly that that place

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Speaker 1: that places. But also it's gonna be dry. I think

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Speaker 1: had it been wet, I don't think you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're coming on of course, coming off the course is

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Speaker 1: you often are Riviera Los Angeles wonder weather being so unpredictable,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you would have played. But when the

580
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: weather showed, you know, it was straight week of sunshine,

581
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Speaker 1: and you know, you know if you're gonna cheat up,

582
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Speaker 1: you're gonna finish the round. I think that made it

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Speaker 1: much more palatable. I'm totally guessing, but just knowing. Does

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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods make the cut Allenship they have a cut? Um,

585
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, but excuse me. I mean, like

586
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: like everyone in this time of year, every professional golfer

587
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: of a certain stature is is gearing towards Augusta like

588
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: you hit Florida, which is the week after l A

589
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: and it's all about the run up to the Masters.

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Speaker 1: And so I think for Tiger, you know, the end

591
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: of his of his of his season last summer was

592
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: such a dud. Um. He's trying to figure out where

593
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Speaker 1: he is and the hero world challenge, you know, is

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Speaker 1: not it like he's gotta he's got to be forced

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Speaker 1: to walk tough conditions, really challenging golf course. And oh

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Speaker 1: my god, oh my god, Michael watched this lipout. Watch

597
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: this lipout. I'm ahead of the things. That's what, uh,

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Speaker 1: what makes the cut there? One forty ish? Yeah, let's

599
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: look last year totally the way. When I say lip out,

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Speaker 1: Nick Taylor, I mean did a full three sixty even

601
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Speaker 1: par one forty two aid the cut last year at Revere,

602
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: but nineteen under one. It incredible. If there was a

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00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: way to, uh to make a proper bet on whether

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00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: Dagger whis was gonna make that, I'm gonna be mix

605
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: the cut because, for for one thing, he grinds out

606
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: the last four holes on Friday better than probably anybody

607
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: who's ever played. If the cuts on the line, he's

608
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: done it numerous numerous times. Well, that's the that's the

609
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: old Tiger. I mean, no one's ever gonna question his grit,

610
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: But what will his body let him do with a

611
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: few spine and one leg? Like it's not a question

612
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: of his desire, but can he actually make his body

613
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: move the way he wants to when it really matters,

614
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: Like that's an open question. And um, you know, if

615
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: if he gets if he has like a late early

616
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: draw and he's got to get up at two in

617
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: the morning to get ready for his second round and

618
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: the winds whip in like it's just I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a big gask. It's fun to even talk

620
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: about because it's Tiger Woods. But um, you know, Alan,

621
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Speaker 1: he's going to get a late late draw. He's gonna

622
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: be the one guy with the late late draw. Just

623
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: a quick side on watching this, Uh this, this is

624
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: the live effect in a very weird way. Ricky Fowler

625
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,479
Speaker 1: showed up in a Cobra ad and Tiger Woods his

626
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: own self showed up in Taylor made ad and and

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00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: that's the liver of echoes. There's nobody around who can

628
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: sell golf clubs except for those two. The uh side

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Speaker 1: note to Scotty Scheffler, who's gonna win? Now, who's a

630
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: head by he's had by three heading to the team.

631
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Speaker 1: But Ted Scott has done well for himself. Wow, I

632
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: mean did very well with Bubba and uh you know,

633
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: and they separated and he picked up a pretty decent bagh.

634
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Speaker 1: He he has done very well for himself, starting by

635
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: the fact he survived well. Said he went from one

636
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: of the he I mean, I never thought about that

637
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: side of it. He went from like one of the

638
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: probably the hardest on caddies to like Scottie Scheffler, who

639
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: would like probably doesn't say a sideways were to him

640
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: the whole time. Yeah, I mean it in this era

641
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: of inflated purses. H I know for a fact that

642
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: some players are no longer paying ten for a win.

643
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: But even if you're making seven percent of two point seven,

644
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: that's three point six two point six. Yeah, that's an it.

645
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: I think. I think on't the winner get two points seven?

646
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: I think it's three point six. Might could be wrong,

647
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 1: but yeah, you're right right and three point six million

648
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: to the winner. That's um, that's a good day. That's

649
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: a good day for Ted Scott. That's a good day

650
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: for Scottie. Oh and John just hit it right in

651
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: the middle of the drink. I think no, in the bunker,

652
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: only skips it out, skips it out of the bunker

653
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: into the fairway. Oh man, that's gonna go in the water. No. Uh,

654
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: I thought you said it was in the drink. Good.

655
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: I thought it just something. I don't rely on Ryan

656
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: for your play by play. The Uh. John Rom standing

657
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: more upright to the ball than he used to be. Um,

658
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: possibly a fraction, but okay, I mean he's Kenny standing up.

659
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: He's a short fellow. He's thick though, man with two scenes.

660
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: John Rom speaks English better than certainly anybody on this podcast,

661
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: but really probably in the top point zero one percent

662
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: of anybody in golf. He's a great interview. I just

663
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: love listening to the guy. He's just he must be

664
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: very bright. Yeah, he's so thoughtful, so precise. And do

665
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: you know how he learned English? Michael, You may not

666
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: know that listening to No, I don't. When he came

667
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: to Arizona State from Spain to speakin English, he just

668
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: listened to hip hop lyrics. That was how he learned.

669
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: Like he can freestyle Kendrick three days. It's impressive. Um,

670
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: but that's neat. He should have come with it. He

671
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: should have come with us to the movies that night.

672
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: Still done that story? Uh? Just one to the movies

673
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: ran when you finally hear the story, there's some story

674
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 1: we went to the movies. You've done that a lot.

675
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,439
Speaker 1: We'd go bowling if we could find a bowling alley.

676
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: I mean whatever, Uh well, what else do we need

677
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: to discuss before at least the listeners. This could be

678
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: one of the rare fire drills. This could be a

679
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: record uh short fire drill. Andy ogle Tree, we can

680
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: discuss any of the Andy Ogletree. I tweeted about him today,

681
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: like I mean, like lost as loss can be. I

682
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: think I tried to I meant to look back. But

683
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: I think that first live event he finished last bye,

684
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: I think at least seven strokes. I mean, I think

685
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: he fired eighty four and I don't think there was

686
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: anything he was hurt. In his defense, he was he

687
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: went over there. I agree, I know, but exactly I

688
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,919
Speaker 1: totally agree. But that event probably saved his career because

689
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: I gave him some money and wins on Asian Tour

690
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: last year and then has played great another top ten

691
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: this this week, to back to backtop tens and the

692
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: PGA Tour can't do anything about it. He's coming to

693
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: the PGA tour, he's gonna get through Q school, and

694
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna hate everything about it. Uh unless well, you know,

695
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: they try to hold up some band for anybody that

696
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: played over there. Right. Well, in his case, he wasn't

697
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: a tour member when he went over there. That's where

698
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: he's different from Um, you know a lot of these

699
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: other guys, and the tour is on a little bit

700
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: of shaky footing and they know it. So they're just

701
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: gonna They're gonna stand aside and let him resume his

702
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: career because they have no chance of winning that lawsuit.

703
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: So but yeah, and Andy, it's funny the players who

704
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: have emerged as focal points in this in this new

705
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: world order. The Andy Ogletree is the Taylor Gooch is

706
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: um players who we didn't give a lot of thought too.

707
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: But because they were in the right or the wrong

708
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: place at the right or the wrong time, they take

709
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: on this this deeper meaning. It's um. You know, they're

710
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: both gonna they're both gonna factor in this live book

711
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: I'm writing because their stories are very interesting. Well, we

712
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: have to watch Scotty hit a second shot, so we

713
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: have to come up with something because if he does

714
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: something crazy like put it in the stands and we're

715
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: not here, we we've done this show to like as

716
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: a like, uh, we're gonna kind of do it live

717
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: have reactions and what if like Scotty shanks it into

718
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: the water or something and we're not here to Is

719
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: there any uh who do we know from who's on site,

720
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: player Caddy or otherwise at this uh Phoenix Open that's

721
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: actually going to the super Bowl joint? Has that been

722
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: discussed this week question? I don't know. I would assume

723
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, A lot of guys are going

724
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 1: from what I heard. I don't I don't have a list.

725
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: But the last time the super Bowl was was in

726
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: Phoenix during the week of the tournament. I did both

727
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,439
Speaker 1: myself and it actually wasn't that bad. I mean, guys

728
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: were trying to organize helicopters and stuff. It was a

729
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: pretty easy drive because I think people get to Super

730
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: Bowl so early to tailgate and soak it all in.

731
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: Like I just roared up and um Keikan Bradley and

732
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: a couple other guys I think web sites and they

733
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: told me where they're sitting. I was trying to find

734
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: them in the crowd, but it was it was a challenge,

735
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's definitely a thing. I'll be curious if,

736
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, if the cameras find them at all, that'll

737
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: be interesting. It wasn't I can't remember what it was.

738
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: I was like, I think it was Monday night football.

739
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: Weren't Tiger and Jordan's speech in um like a luxury

740
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: suite in the camera panned and they didn't recognize Speed.

741
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: He was just sitting there with that a hat on

742
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: and completely unremarked upon. Am I remembering that correctly? It

743
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: was like early Speed but it was so funny. Wow,

744
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: I just looked it up. I was wondering, when was

745
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: the last time I went to Phoenix? Who? Who would

746
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: make a guess what was Johnny? Johnny Miller's last broadcast

747
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: was Phoenix. He played a lot of good golf in Phoenix,

748
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: and uh, would anyone care to guess what was Johnny?

749
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: What was the year that Johnny Miller did his last

750
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: TV broadcast? Two thousand seventeen. I was gonna say sixty.

751
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: It was only it feels like he's been taking a

752
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: shout out, a shout out to uh. I just got

753
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: a d M from one of the families that got

754
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: to go. Tom Hogi and UH and Hayden Buckley both

755
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: um gave tickets to me to give away to the

756
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club, And I mean I found the

757
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club, and I found another family that

758
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 1: wanted to go, and Uh we paid the foundation paid

759
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: for parking and everything. And just get a nice long

760
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: message from the young girl and her family that went

761
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: and how much it meant to them. Those two guys.

762
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: UH didn't know Tom was a follower or whatever. But

763
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: I had put out something about Hayden giving me tickets,

764
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: and he sent me a message and said, hey, I

765
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: have ten tickets left. You want to give him away?

766
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: So super nice dude. They yeah, made made somebody's week

767
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: or month or whatever. Cheffer placed this shot. That's terrific.

768
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: Run Ryan, What is your insight into Aaron Rodgers situation

769
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: at at Pebble You've you know his game. The darkness

770
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: is actually Ryan's basement. He's going into Ryan's basement. Yeah,

771
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: that's the darkness. He's coming out to Hubbard Lake, Michigan

772
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: to to get away. I refused to disparage. I'm glad

773
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: that they won at the Pebble beach program. Uh seemed

774
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: to be as he had a good good week, shot

775
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: a little less than his handicap, and good friend a

776
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: lot less at less stuff. Now, in fairness, they signed

777
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: the handicaps. You don't choose your own handicap. I've never

778
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: known anyone anywhere who ever said upon getting too many shots, Yeah,

779
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: you've given me too many shots. That's a factual statement.

780
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: And I actually thought that on the U t I.

781
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: At the U T I on the third day, I

782
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: had a we had a seven stroke lead, and my

783
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: because of the chipping hips, my handicap is legitimate. But

784
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: also in a in a best ball situation ideal if

785
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: you can ham an egg it and that I was

786
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: going to say something that, no, this is this is right,

787
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: it's accurate, And luckily I didn't say anything because we

788
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: blew a seven shot lad in the foul day. Uh. Yeah, Well,

789
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: a place like Bandon you can put from off the

790
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: green so easily that it sort of negates your your weakness,

791
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: right because you hit the like like a scratch golfer.

792
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: It's over. Uh. This is the shortest fire pit fire

793
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: drill ever forty two minutes. What are you talking about?

794
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: This is well we could talk about Bryson de Shambo

795
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: leaving UM, leaving UM Cobra, which is and then Cobra

796
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: just ripping him apart. Like that was years of pent

797
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: up from That's what what did like like, you're a

798
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: monster and don't you on the way out? I'm paraphrasing,

799
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: but that was pretty much it. Yeah, it I think

800
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: the exact quote, and I could be wrong, So this

801
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: is I think it was something like the guy doesn't

802
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: live in a reality of like where you know, he

803
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: wants distance and control when he doesn't hit it on

804
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: the center of the face basically, you know, and they're

805
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: like and the article went on to say, it's like,

806
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Cobra went all in. They had a whole

807
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 1: research team just for Bryson, and I mean, the guy

808
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: is he's he's not, he's not He's tough human to

809
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: deal with from all I've heard, So, uh, what you're

810
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: gonna do? What? What kind of clubs is he gonna

811
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: play in the meantime? I mean I was gonna tweet

812
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: this out, but I just didn't want to deal with

813
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 1: it all. Like Bryson de Shambo, I mean, it wasn't

814
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: long ago. He was one of the best players in

815
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: the world. He has gone like gone gone, like he

816
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: missed the cup by seven at the Asian Tour event.

817
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,439
Speaker 1: And we're not talking like a real deep field there,

818
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: you know, like this guy is he can't and do

819
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: it like he's It's it's astonishing. Yeah, I mean it

820
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: happens when when players have physical injuries and they compensate

821
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: in their swing and then they kind of they lose

822
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: their swing. I mean, whether it's David Duval or whoever.

823
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not unheard of, but um throwing the

824
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 1: change in his body and changing from the tour to live.

825
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of tumble in the guy's life,

826
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: most of it of course self induced. But um, it's fascinating.

827
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a young guy and he's he was

828
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: he was on very much of a Hall of Fame trajectory.

829
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: You win the nt L A Championship, the US Amateur,

830
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: the US Open at wingfoot. I'm you're two thirds of

831
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: the way there at that point, and um, we'll see

832
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 1: what happens. He had the respect to Tiger Woods. Tiger.

833
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I almost can't believe that I'm saying, but

834
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 1: I saw it with my own eyes. Tiger actually standing.

835
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: They were listening to Bryce and I saw it a memorial.

836
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: I saw it at Rivera and they played together. Yeah,

837
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: all right, I want to watch the super Bowl, all right, Johns,

838
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: I have to do this. Michael, can you quickly tell

839
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: us about the piece of art hanging above your head?

840
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: You're nice to notice the artist ism named HeLa may Jose.

841
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: Christine and I went to Haiti on our honeymoon. We

842
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: fell in love with Haitian art and we probably have

843
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: twenty or more pieces. Did you get married? Well? Here

844
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: do we go there? We went there after Papa Doc

845
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: was out of office. Well I should know this because

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Speaker 1: I know what. You already got married to cover the phillies?

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Speaker 1: Did you come with the phillies? And that's how you

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Speaker 1: we don't want to we wanna do. Let's make that

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Speaker 1: the social Yeah what Beattie was on with? How you

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Speaker 1: didn't think that? Michael? You can't say that out loud.

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Speaker 1: That's that's dangerous. Okay, I love it. That's a great way.

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Speaker 1: And everything I love about this I'll praise to Christine Barberger.

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Speaker 1: She's just unflammable, that's true. Yeah, that's true. All right,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys. All right, well, um go Eagles, and

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Speaker 1: um thanks for listeners out there for sticking with us.

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Speaker 1: This has been another fire Drill podcast. That was Ryan France.

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Speaker 1: I'm Alan Schipnik. Michael Bamber is now in detention at home.

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Speaker 1: But um, we'll do this again next Sunday, as we

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Speaker 1: do every Sunday. For now, let's go watch some football.

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Speaker 1: I could fall. Then the winter hit me like a

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Speaker 1: cannon the ball and now can shake this losing the street.

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Speaker 1: got thoughts in my head. Can't get him out, trying

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