May 19, 2025 • 50 mins
John Middlekauff REACTS to world no.1 Scottie Scheffler dominant performance at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. John also discusses the controversy regarding Rory McIlroy's drivers failing the test and how it should be an obligation for golfers to speak with the media. Finally, JOhn dives into the Middlekauff Mailbag to answer your questions.
02:59 - Scottie Scheffler wins PGA Championship
17:49 - Rory McIlroy Driver Controversy
30:59 - The Cream of the Crop in Golfing has separated
33:08 - Mailbag
33:16 - Why doesn't PGA develop their own courses
35:07 - Jonathan Vegas MLB logo
36:11 - Ranking States in terms of golf
38:22 - How Players feel about being placed in Three-Man groups
39:46 - Top Golfers in LIV & their Contracts
42:09 - John's Bucket List Courses
44:06 - Best stretch a golfer has had recently
45:18 - Best Locations for a buddy golf trip
46:59 - Thoughts on Ping Golf in Arizona
48:10 - Does LIV diminish Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. What is going on everybody? How are we doing?
Hopefully everyone's having a great weekend. Just watched the PGA Championship,
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so I said, you know what, let's do a little
go lo. Scottie Scheffler wins the third major of his career,
knocks off the second leg of the career Grand Slam,
winning the PGA Championship a year after he was thrown
in jail on a Friday morning during this tournament. But
Scottie Scheffler kicks everyone's butt wins the PGA Championship. We
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will dive into that. Rory McElroy, who refused to speak
to the media, not today, the entire week after his
driver was found non compliant, we will dive into that.
A complete embarrassment for a sport that I love. I'm
not even just putting this just on Rory, the entire operation.
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Bryceon d Chambeau continues to flex his muscles, finishes second
in this tournament for the second straight year, just dominating
the last couple of years in majors, and solidifies himself
as a US Ryder Cup player, that's for sure. John Rahm,
my fellow Scottsdale resident, showed signs of life now he
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imploded at the end, but at one point in time
today it did feel like could John rom win this tournament?
And yeah, we'll hit on a couple other things as
well as some of your male bag questions at Golo Pod.
At Golo pod is the instagram, I think, because we'll
probably do some football podcast the rest of this week,
I might as well just do a a full on
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of your questions. But if you want to get involved
in that. Obviously, it's a Memorial Day weekend coming up
this weekend, so probably be a little shorter of a week.
Fire in those dms if you wan't got any football questions,
you guys know, just fireing my regular dms at John
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Scotty's little mishap over the winter break when he split
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open his hand and got glass yards in there, he
claims making raviolis, Listen, we've all had some misaps having
a few cocktails. Regardless how it happened, his season got
off to a slow start. He had a tiger like
season last year, winning what felt like every freaking tournament.
He won the Masters, he won the FedEx, he won
like sixty million dollars, and it was like, this guy's
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a monster. And then this year happens and he doesn't
win the Masters, and it's like, you know, Scotty, like
right now, at this point in time in his career,
the money, the wins, the I mean, he's just such
a heavy favorite in every tournament he plays in. Now,
you know, minus four or plus four hundred or plus
three hundred, he's like a four to three to one.
I mean good players typically as someone who's been gambling
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on golf now for I don't know half a day,
you know, high high end guys or like eleven to one,
twelve to one, fourteen to one, and Scotty is routinely
like four to one. And honestly, it doesn't feel that crazy.
Your boy might have threw a little on him, why,
just because he's a great player, and then all of
a sudden in the middle of these tournaments he'll be
like minus four fifty. Like this guy's a fucking monster.
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I don't know what it looked like in the Tiger era,
because you know, the draft Kings of the world did
not exist but I would imagine there were a lot
of similarities. When this guy gets on and he won
the tournament Saturday night or Saturday afternoon, that's when the
tournament was won. And I would say, listen, Scotty Scheffler
has won a lot, He's won multiple green jackets. That
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stretch that he had on Saturday afternoon, hold fourteen to
close it out till eighteen, you know, birdying four of
his last five holes and just knocking it stiff after stiff.
It's like she had to be one, especially relative to
the field, as the entire field has fallen apart, had
to be one of the greatest five six hole stretches
of his career. And today what feels good about validating
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this if you're Scotty Scheffler is like, there were some questions,
like he plays really well at the Masters, He's won
all these tournaments, Like are you gonna Sart knocking off
some of these other majors. He's like, yes, yes, I am.
We'll start with here at Quayle Hollow. You know that
course that everyone says that Rory wins over and over,
or that course that your boy thought that Bryson D.
Chambeau was going to demolish. I'm not just gonna win that.
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I'm gonna win that by five, and I'm also gonna
bogie eighteen, where I easily could have won by six.
No one was even close to me. Remember a couple
of weeks ago when I won by like ten and
I absolutely blew up the field, and you're like, well,
you're playing nobody's how about we go to a major
best field in golf. Mean, he said, the PGA Championship,
and I beat the living piss at everyone in sight.
And that's what he just did. And listen, I'm not
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going to compare anyone ever to Tiger Woods, but Scotty
is a monster. I mean he is. He is so
freaking good at golf it's stupid. And here's the thing.
Over the last five years at majors, this guy is
a bright lights player. Starting in twenty twenty one, he
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was T eighteen, thaight, T seven, T eight and all
the majors. Then he started winning. In twenty two, he
won the Masters, He missed the cut at the PGA,
but then he finished second at the US Open T
twenty one, and these last couple of years, it's like
it's not even a fair fight T ten, T two third,
T twenty three first, TA T forty one, T seven
fourth first, and he's gonna be the heavy, heavy favorite
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at Oakmont and his game like no one will ever
be Tiger Woods. I've said it all the time. His
name is unique, right, just his story, his dad Earl,
like the whole thing, I mean started from a young age,
the dominance. But what this guy's doing right now? And
I felt pretty confident about this, Like is he gonna
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win fifteen majors like Tiger? Of course not, I think
that would be crazy to even put out there. But
is this guy more likely to win eight or nine
than four or five? I would say yes, because the
only thing that could remotely slow him down was some
glass yards in a hand, because when you watch him
against Bryson, against Rohm, against whoever, there's a clear gap
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and Rory, who will get and do in a minute,
Like what the hell was that? Now? You could argue
that Rory winning the Masters playing with little house money,
not as much pressure on this tournament. I would tend
to agree. But when you're having one of the best
seasons of your career, you've already won three times, you
had the monkey off your back with the Masters. This
is a course in which you've won a multiple times.
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You would think that he would show up, but he's
nowhere to be found. Bryson is an incredible talent. I mean,
to me, the craziest part about Bryson is he is
blowing at thirty forty yards by Scottie Shuffler. His short
game is unreal. I mean, he had a couple flop
shots today around the green as someone that had him
to finish in the top five, like I was kind
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of on tilt, but he had a couple wedges around
the that were world class. And his putting is excellent.
But to me, like you watch Scotty Scheffler, I could
give him a seven iron and I go, Scotty hit
this two hundred yards. He could hit it two hundred yards.
I'd say, I could say Scotty hit like a buttercut
and hit it one hundred and fifty eight yards and
he could hit it about that vicinity. Meanwhile, Bryson's one
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hundred and ninety five yards. He's hitting nine iron. Like,
I'm not here to nitpick Bryson's operation. It clearly works
and he's an elite player. But like the gap between
Scotty and Bryson when it just comes to hitting irons.
Like I heard I was going to pick up dinner
last night and I was listening to the No Laying Up.
They do like a reaction show after every major day,
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and DJ Pie, one of their guys, was saying, like,
it can't be easy to play when you're hitting a
nine iron or one hundred and ninety five yards, Like
what are you hitting a six iron? One? Like what's
the point of some of these longer clubs. It's not
like you're hitting a five iron two hundred and ninety yards,
so your distances are all wacky, but like your wedges,
like what are you doing from like one for fifty
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one seventy and a couple times a day. You're watching Bryson,
he's not even close. And that's where Scotty will eat
you alive is like give him one sixty. That's where
he's very very comfortable with And you're watching Bryson, who
honestly should have been right there, but his iron play
is just kind of wacky. I mean, listen, I'm not
one to say like he shouldn't be playing the same
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length irons, but like whatever, Scotty is able to do
with like a seven iron a nine iron in his hand.
It feels like Bryson's playing like Kyle Berkshire on Instagram.
It's like, what are we doing here? And listen John Rahm,
who to me is like a legit high end player
when he's on like today, melted at the end, but
a lot like Scotty, like has a bunch of different
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shots in the back and at one point in time
today Scotty is just leaking oil, just your classic, playing
like shit. He's just playing really bad, not because the
moment's too big, not because he's overwhelmed, not because he's
never won a big tournament, not because there's he's just
not on. Something was just off. And then you look up,
he finishes the ninth toll or basically he's on ten,
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he's nine under. John Rom is also nine under with
a Birdie putt on twelve from like ten feet. John
Ram misses his Scotty, then Birdie's ten, and then it flips,
and then Scotty never looks back. And once Scotty got
that little buffer, then Rom got toward whatever they call it,
the Green Mile and just kind of imploded. And then
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it ended up like John Rom's not even on like
the leaderboard you see on TV, and Bryson's right there. Now,
Bryson technically wasn't that close, but there were a couple
of moments today and even yesterday it's like I don't
really know what's going on. Like I get it, he's
got these weird irons, but uh, you know, to me,
Scotty's a much more complete player for a guy that's
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not even hitting it. And I heard a couple people say,
like if you followed that group with Xander and Rory
and Scottie on Thursday and Friday, that those guys are
blown it by Scotty, like twenty yards twenty five yards,
And listen, if you play with another individual that's longer
than you, that's not that weird. It is kind of
weird when you look at Scotty. He's a big ass dude.
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Xander's much smaller and he hits it way farther than him.
But like when you're splitting fair ways, then you're knocking
it on greens and you're making putts like it doesn't
really matter. And that's the one thing with golf, obviously,
distance is very very important Bryson's kind of hacked the system,
but you still got to get the ball in the hole.
And that, to me is a skill that like, even
when Scotty started to unravel today, I never thought like
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this is implosion coming. It never crossed my mind he
was gonna shoot seventy six. Now I did think, like,
if John rom starts birdying three or four holes, maybe
they just both end up at like ten or eleven
under it and we have a playoff. But the one
thing that Scotty has in the back and I would
say this is the similarity with Tiger and what Rory
definitely does not have in common. It's hard to fathom
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him just if he has a shitty front nine him
backing that up with a bad back nine in a
tournament like this, where when we watched Rory at the Masters,
you're like, he could blow this, Like it didn't cross
my mind that Scotty was going to blow it. Now
he opened the door and let someone in. But you're like,
he's got a couple of par fives, Like, you know,
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if this was football, he'll make some place. And what
did he do? He made some place? And then obviously
the course is difficult. You know rom had to get
aggressive and he just kind of melted it down. And Bryson.
That's the thing with Bryson, It's like he's been off,
I thought in the Masters and definitely this week with
his iron play, with his approach game, but his wedges
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are I mean, he had a couple. He had a
flop shot today on fourteen, that drivable part four where
he hits it right of the bunker and it's way
above on the mound. I can't even imagine how difficult
that shot is and he knocked it like three or
four feet, And it's like, Bryson, you have incredible touch
around the greens. You're obviously an elite putter now, and
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I think most would consider you, especially if Rory is
going to drive the ball like he did this week.
You're the best driver in the world. What is going
on with this this iron situation? And listen, Scotty took
advantage of it and he wins his third major and
all signs point to him now. Oakmont, which many consider
like the hardest golf course in the world, especially when
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you factor in major conditions, and if I just tell
you out loud, they're going to play the hardest golf
course in the world. Who are you going to like,
you would immediately say Scottie Scheffler. Now, I don't know
if he's gonna win the US Open by five or
six shots, but I think at this point in time,
given the way he's played now in his last two
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events and what he did over the course of the
last two days, it would be stunning if he doesn't
win this US Open, and if he wins the US Open. Listen,
the British is weird. Whether you never know, it does
feel like he's so good that he will inevitably win one.
You just kind of with a guy who knows. I
do feel pretty confident at this point in time, Like
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you see some of these guys like you know, Spease
one four, Keepka's one five, Rory's won five, Like like
it feels like Scott he's gonna fly right by him
and the only thing that can slow him down is
an injury because he's got Ted Scott, who's Bubba Bubba
Watson's old caddie. Uh. Their cohesion like it's like the
equivalent like Belichick and Brady. It's like they were just
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made for each other. It's perfect. And what a fucking clinic,
and honestly, what he did on Saturday afternoon. If you
tell me, like, what's been Scotty Scheffler's coolest like hour
that you remember watching him play golf, it would be
Saturday afternoon at Kuile Hollow in the PGA Championship. Now
he has he's only twenty eight years old. He's got
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a lot of golf left. But like so far in
his career and he listen, he's won the Masters multiple times,
but it does feel like that stretch on Saturday afternoon
was the equivalent of like a drag race and he's
in like a legit drag racing car and you're in
like a Pinto and he flew by everybody. And it
gave him that buffer today where when he is just
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all over the map, but he starts with a bogie.
This week on one he's hitting the ball over the
place off the tea. You're like, God, what is going
on here? It gave him a little breathing room. And
to me, if he doesn't have that breathing room, if
he instead of shooting sixty five, he shoots sixty nine
and he only has a one shot leader, he's tied
and all of a sudden he's three back. I think
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that pressure. It just would have been a different situation, right,
given where he would have stood on the leaderboard. But
he couldn't have been playing any shittier. Rom had made
multiple birdies and we're tired and he's ahead of me.
So I still got the par fives. It was just
a different mindset. So I do believe no matter what
anyone says, that this tournament was one on Saturday. But
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that's what Scotty Scheffer does when everyone else was not
playing well because the course was playing outrageously hard. I mean,
this is the place that a lot of times you
watch Augusta, You're like, I understand, it's hard. I would
love to play there. You watch Pinehurst, you're like, listen,
I want to play that golf course. Even last week
you're watching Philly Cricket Club, You're like, I would love
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the tea it up there. Anytime they're playing overseas, you're like, this,
Saint Andrew's you name it right, I would love to
do this as long as it's not too cold and
too wet. This is one of those rare courses that
they play in a big event where you go, yeah,
I got no interest. Does not look fun, I mean,
does not look like an enjoyable round of golf. Too long,
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too much rough, the greens are way too hard. It
just looks like miserable golf. And when I tell you,
it's like miserably hard, difficult conditions, firm greens, not shocking
the scotty, just one by five.
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Speaking of the most embarrassing thing that happened this week,
we go back to Morikawa whatever a couple months ago
when he got in the spat with basically Rocko Brandle
a bunch of older guys that said, like listen man,
part of this sport were pros. This isn't the amateur hour,
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This isn't the minor leagues. This is the big leagues.
And when you lose a tournament and you're a big
time player and you melt down, part of it is
facing the music. No different than Lebron James or Steph
Curry or Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson or whoever. Cam
Newton didn't jump on guess what in twenty sixteen, what
did he do after the Super Bowl? He spoke It's
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part of the business and this whole thing, this is entertainment.
Where do you think the money comes from. We don't
just make it up out of the sky, right. People
are paying a ton of money, a lot of sponsors
that the fans like. This is all part of the
business model. And Roy McElroy like, I didn't know. Now
I'm not super into the weeds of like wait, we
every Tuesday of a major they test fifty guys for
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the uh whatever the exact terminology is of the driver
And at first you read it, you're like, is this
like a cork bat? And it's actually the opposite. The
more worn down that your face becomes sometimes I guess,
the more explosive it can become off the clubhead and
they just randomly test fifty drivers. So some guys like
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a TSA check right, Scotty Scheffler could show up, don't
test the thing or back to back weeks they could
test them, and they test Roy McElroy. As Xander said,
they also tested Scotty and according to Xandra, he failed
as well. Change the club Taylor made whoever. They're all
of these tournaments, so if you need to get access
to anything, they're right there. They know exactly your respects.
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They work with you like no different than your agent
or your manager. And you're watching Rory and here here's
my issue. And I give Brian Windhorst credit on this
because he's one of the only guys that covers the
NBA that consistently talks about this, because he compares the
model to the NFL, and he's like, if we're gonna
be all in on gambling, there has to be specific
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ways that we handle injuries. And it's become very nefarious
over the years that like wait till the last second
and say a guy's out with rest or whatever. Where
the NFL where they're still shady shit going on the
injury report. If you're gonna gamble on a team, like
you have a pretty good idea. This guy's missed Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday at practice. You're not shocked when he can't
play Sunday, or he's completely healthy and something pops up Friday,
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You're like, wait, this guy miss practice with Friday. He's like, yeah,
felt little something in his hamstring. So you just you
have so comprehension. It's for the gambling public and the
competition gets to know. Yet in golf, they're all independent contractors,
so they all can do whatever they want, which I
understand is fine. Yet they're all under the umbrella of
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this business model that is the PGA Tour, that is
professional golf. And Roy McElroy who gets in trouble for
not in trouble but has to change out as driver,
which I don't know is kind of a big story
because he's the greatest driver in the history of the
sport and he just won the fucking Masters and because
of the setup, he doesn't have to say a word
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for four days. For four days, and this gets back
to the Morikawa thing. I don't owe you anything. Yet
no one actually owes anyone anything except people. You're in
business with then we all have deals with other people,
and then no, you kind of do owe other people
other things. And now that you know the Arthur Blanks
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and the business people are trying to get involved with
the PGA, they're already with TGL. This Saudi Live thing
is eventually going to consolidate. There has to be some
sort of rules because I totally understand last year when
people were asking Rory McElroy about his divorce of like, guys,
I'm not talking about that. Totally understand, and I think
that is totally fair to him to like, he doesn't
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have to say shit about that, just like if you
ask Mahomes or an NFL player an NBA player about
something in their personal life, they don't have to say
a word. But when it came out that the footballs
were deflated, guess what we want to hear from Belichick
and Tom Brady. So when something happens with your driver,
which is on the course situation, especially his most potent
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club at a course which is really long, and then
for those of us that are gambling on a guy
like Rory, he's fucking all over the map on Thursday,
It's like something's up but doesn't cross my mind that
he has a new driver and then it comes out
on Friday afternoon. Yeah, he failed test and they had
to give him a new driver, and then he just
refuses to talk Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I don't know
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what else to say, besides like that's kind of a
minor league operation, and these guys want to act like
this is the big leagues. This is you know, we
should play for more money than ever, Like the money,
the money, the money, Like there's a reason the money,
the money, the money in the NFL, and there are rules.
The coach has to talk X number of times every week,
every single time after the game, same with the players
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or else. There are consequences like this is not okay.
This makes the sport look to me like low level.
You are the biggest start. Do you think Tiger Woods
in a million years over an equipment issue? When you
are the biggest star in the sport, which Rory currently is,
you are just won the Masters a month ago, and
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then you have a situation like this and you just
refuse to say a word for four days. I'm not
even acting like it is that big a deal. I
really don't care. But one this is also a problem
with the sport that wants to be taken legitimately and
as someone that gambles a lot of money on this
love my guys at DraftKings just won forty five hundred dollars. Now,
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actually I won forty five hundred, but I bet about
four so I won about five hundred. Sometimes it comes
out like, yeah, my wrist has been bothering me on
a Saturday or Sunday with a player. It's like what
this is the whole problem with the complex and the
setup of what's going on. They want to be the
big leagues. They want to play for all this money,
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but no one wants to have an injury report. No
one wants to have mandates of Like I don't know,
if you're a top twenty player and you're playing in
a tournament, you have to speak after every round. I
don't know, it's just part of the business. Can you
imagine if like, yeah, you know, Josh had a big
situation I don't know with a football or with a
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teammate and he just for the entire month he just
wouldn't talk after any games. That not only would never have happen,
and it can't happen because he would start getting fined
and it would not be tolerated. Why because that's an
unhealthy part of the business. You want that guy to speak.
It just expands the popularity and the attention that is
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on your sport. So I really think the Rory thing
that there's no way around it, which again it's up
to him, like there is no one above him. There's
no one above any of these guys like Mara Calison.
I can do whatever I want. I don't owe anyone anything,
even though there are people in business that are paying
for all this shit, like you owe certain people certain things.
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I don't know the people putting on this tournament, the
people that will put on this tournament next year. This
money doesn't just come from the sky, comes from your partners,
comes from the operation. And when a guy like Rory
has a situation like this and makes a mockery over it,
it kind of pisses me off because there's someone that
loves this sport and I understand, like it's a niche deal,
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like you know, on good days, three or four million
people watch on a Saturday or Sunday, but like it's
the only sport where guy's fifty sixty seventy eighty years old,
are playing all over America. It's never seen a greater
run of growth over the last three or four years.
And you have more eyeballs on this operation than ever.
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And then your biggest name has an issue, which honestly
can be good. It just creates a conversation and refused
to comment on it. You didn't just get caught fucking
doing steroids, Rory. You didn't just get caught with a
bag of drugs. Your driver didn't pass some test. Most people,
including myself, don't even quite understand what that even means.
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We don't even care. I just want to hear your
opinion on it. Are you mad? Do you think it's bs?
What's your thoughts on the situation? That adds to the conversation.
And Scottie Schaeffler last year got arrested, let me repeat,
got arrested on Friday morning, somehow pulled off because of
a rain delay. Still was able to play after that round.
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It would have been easy for him to, like, listen
a lot going on. I don't want to speak. I'm leaving.
I know I'm the number one player in the world.
Today was fucking crazy. I just want to get home,
have a sandwich and put my feet up and take
a deep breath with my family. He spoke, and then
he spoke the next day and the next day. Why
because it's called being a pro. And I think Rory
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for a guy that gets a lot of credit of
like everyone likes him, he's super nice and he seems
like a good guy. Like this is now like last
year Bryson d Chambeau just fire out of there, like
Josh Allen Lamar Jackson aren't able to just leave after
Patrick Mahomes's name, he re beat him again. Guess what
they have to talk? I mean, I'd say the NFL.
Whatever the NFL is doing when it comes to media stuff,
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this sport should follow. And Rory McElroy, who is basically
like an NFL quarterback relative to golf, like just avoiding
it all week in the middle of like a controversial
situation is just a joke. I mean that there's really
no other way to like dance around this topic of like,
and I'm someone who likes the guy. I enjoy watching
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him play, but I think this is a pretty low
level moment for the guy. And of course during that moment,
you got Bryson D Chambeau who's waiting after to hug
Scotty And you could go, oh, he's just doing that
for the cameras whatever. He's done that now multiple times.
So it's like you can think Bryce's douchey, you can
think he was a weirdo a couple of years ago.
At least he'll answered the music, like, at least he
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won't run away from whatever's going on. I mean, this
is a guy that had issues with Brooks. I mean,
you got Brooks, you got a heckler screaming at Kopka
that guaranteed money will basically ruin your game, and then
Kepka turned around screaming at him, and then Kepka getting
seen most relatable picture in recent memory. It looked like
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at like a seven to eleven. I guess where are they?
They're in Charlotte, so not sure. I've never been to
that area. What their go to? Like? Gas station kind
of mini marts are something like that. Uh, you just
get in the case of Miller Lite and just gonna
go drink his face off after a pretty embarrassing couple
of days and listen, he's the guy that probably could
not talk. It doesn't feel like talking but I would
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say this oftentimes he might give shitty answers at least
at least still sit there in front of the cameras.
So I just think, like, you can't be this big
of a player right there with Rom obviously Scotty and
and bryceon and just go M I A from the cameras.
Like I just don't understand where he thinks his money.
I never understand these like like, it's not about like
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I don't owe somescribe anything. It's no one's reading these newspapers.
No one beside other media members are reading most of
these articles. It's not about that, honestly, It's about these
quotes being distributed on social media so people that follow
the sport can see them or the clips of you talking. Why,
because that's how what generates attention. We're in the we're
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all in the attention business, and he's not the most
interesting guy, but he draws your attention by being elite
at golf. Bryson has a lot of different elements, right
His YouTube brings the attention, his game brings the attention.
Rory is an attention bringer. Does a lot of you know,
things that kind of moved the needle, whether it's his play,
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whether it's some of his comments. But now we have
a history now multiple times when the fucking flame gets
turned up and it gets a little hotter. Tiger's been
in a million of these situations. What does every old
person say about Tiger? He never didn't face the music,
he never didn't talk win, loser, draw it. Now, he
won a lot more than he lost, but he had
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a lot of crazy shit going on in his career.
And if he's around, if you didn't play in the tournament, whatever,
but if you're there and you are the star player,
I'm sorry you have to speak over Like what happened
to your best club? Why was it taken out of
your back? Did you use it in the Masters? Did
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you know anything was off? Was this something like? Was
this a surprise to you? And if you want to
storm off after like I don't know what's going on
and just leave, okay, But to just avoid it for
four straight days just a low level moment for the guy.
It really is someone that just had the greatest moment
of his life, just had a moment where ten plus
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million people watched him win the Masters and everyone was
just was thrilled. I mean, it was an exhilarating athletic
performance and then this happens. It's just god damn. Last,
but not least, before we dive into some of your questions,
one thing that we have seen is you would have
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to be on drugs to bet against anyone that isn't
a big dog in these majors like the Day and Age.
Not that it won't ever happen again, but I think
it clearly feels maybe it's the pressure some of these
signature events, the separation would live. You know, money's all relative,
but clearly there's never been more money on the line.
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I could never put any money on a random guy
winning any of these tournaments. Honestly, even like a thirty
forty fifty to one I consider a long shot. When
you look at the last six majors, Scotty, Xander Bryson,
Xander Rory, Scotty, Who do you think is gonna win
the US Open? Scotty or Bryson? Maybe if Rory can
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get his driver out of his ass, Rory like the
days of just like some random Brian harmon now it
could still happen at the British that's a bad example.
But some of these guys, the US open, I mean distance. Now,
these guys are hitting it so far. Scotty's not missing
fairways for the most part, and then he's so much
better at irons than you, Like, you don't have a shot.
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I do think the cream is really separated. And now
if you want to take some guys to top ten,
top twenty. But my gambling philosophy, I sprinkled on all
three top guys, Bryson, Rory, and Scotty. Now I was
much more bullish coming into this weekend on Rory and Bryson,
but it was clear after Friday It's like, well, Scotty's
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gonna be a major factor here, and he was the
betting favorite going into the weekend. But I just think
you bet the big dogs, you know, I mean shit,
you look at Bryson, you know he won Pinehurst. Though
I think the Pinehurst Oakmont aren't really gonna parallel each other.
You can spray it a little bit at Pinehurst, I
don't know if you're gonna be able to do that
at Oakmont watching some of these YouTube golfers that played
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there like a couple of weeks ago. But moving forward,
I mean, it does feel like it's just just the
big dogs. And everyone else. Let's dive into some of
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your questions really quick before we get out of here.
Why doesn't the PGA Tour develop or buy their own courses.
I know it's a lot more work for them short term,
but I feel like it would pay off down the line.
They could develop a number of courses more fit for
major events. Well, there's only so much land in America
that hasn't already been bought or you know, used, right,
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So there's a lot of premium land in certain areas
probably have like housing developments, and then the golf course
that already exists that are cool, that are quote unquote
private clubs or established golf courses are not going to
sell to the PGA Tour. Now, the PGA Tour does
own golf courses. I play at one TBC Scottsdale. They
have an event TBC Sawgrass, they have the Players TPC.
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There's one in Vegas, I think Summerland. I've heard it's
really nice. They have one in Texas where they have
I think the Valero they're having is a TBC frisk
go in a year like So, they do own a
lot of golf courses that they profit off of. Now,
major venues. There are only so many courses in America
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that you feel comfortable hosting a major at right Masters
has that taken. But when you look at the PGA
and you look at the US Open, you know there
are some courses that are always going to be on
the rotation. The PGA tour can never buy Pebble Beach
or Olympic Club. Right, Quail Hollow isn't for sale. I'm
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trying to think of some other courses. Oakmont, I mean,
that's a that's a private course in Pittsburgh. Like they're
not selling that thing. Wingfoot it's a public course owned
by I would imagine the city in New York. It's
not available for purchase. So I hear what you're saying.
I think it's probably a little more complicated than the
execution to pull that off. Question for the bag, can
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you share any insight in the Vegas Giant MLB logo
across his chest? I can imagine another major sport that
allows sponsorship logos on jerseys being okay with the promotion
of another sport. I know, I mean, I don't even
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know what to say. I've never really thought about it
that way. I don't think if your golf, you really
care if guy is an NFL or Major League logo
on you, I'm not quite sure. I think he's Venezuelan,
so maybe there is some carryover of an international guy.
Someone said that Payne Stewart used to have something similar,
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maybe like the NFL. He was a big I think
Steeler fan. But I don't think golf cares at all.
Like I don't think they viewed Major League Baseball as
like competition. I don't think Baseball views it that way either.
I think it's more where he comes from. Promoting to
that region for baseball would be my guess. I'm sure
there are articles out there. Maybe I'll google that tonight.
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How would you rank the states? The states in terms
of golf? Have you ever heard of Crosswater Golf Course
in Bend, Oregon or Circling Raven in Northern Idaho? No,
I haven't. I haven't played golf in that many states.
I've never played golf in Florida. I've never played golf
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in any you know, Charlotte area, which I think is
fewed really highly. The majority of my golf is California,
now Arizona. I've played Bandon Dunes in Oregon and then
I've played in the Philadelphia, Jersey area, so in my experience,
I mean California is pretty special. It has some of
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the best and most important courses in the sport, right
I would say Pebble Beach, while not the best course,
is got to be on the short list. Like if
you go what's the most iconic golf courses in the world,
I think Augusta and Saint Andrews in some order are
one and two. And I think every single human casual
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or not casual. Pebble's getting listed pretty quickly. You know,
Olympic Clubs a legendary US Open course. Torrey Pines is
a unique public course that has hosted just tournaments for
a long long time. I mean, riv has one of
the best tournaments on the PGA Tour. Countless other courses
in LA, especially private ones, from LACC to Beverly Hills
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Country Club to you know, the Monterey area. Beside Pebble,
you got Monterey Peninsula Country Club, you got Cyprus. You
just got awesome courses in the Bay Area, San Francisco
Country Club, Cow Club. So I would say it'd be
hard to beat California. I think most people would say
that either Jersey or Pennsylvania. It's a pretty beautiful area
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for golf. I've always wanted to get down to Florida.
I mean just they're just obviously you got from Sawgrass
to I think they played Seminal a couple of years ago,
to the you know, Jordan's Club, to the Bear. I
mean a lot of these are country clubs. But how
do you think players feel about threesomes they are put
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into on Thursday and Friday. Didn't know where you're going
with that at first. They always seem to load up
groups with big stars, which is obviously good for viewership.
Take Rory, Xander and Scotti at the PGA this week.
Do you think they want to be with top contending
guys to motivate them or would they rather not be distracted?
I would guess if you could ask like a guy
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like Xander or Scottie or Rory, it doesn't necessary like
because like Rory and Scotti and Bryson are such big draws.
They could be playing with me and you and the
crowd is going to be massive. I think the key
is for people playing well. If you are playing with
other guys on Thursday and Friday that are playing well,
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like anyone that's ever played golf. If you're having a
good day and you're playing with other guys that are
playing well, it's easier to keep that momentum going. Just
like if you're playing shitty and everyone around you playing shitty,
it just kind of goes that way. I I wonder too,
at this point in time, a lot of these guys
are numb, Like do they really see the fans? I
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bet most of them barely even notice. You know, where
me and you if we were teen off for one
hundred people, we'd be nervous. I just don't think these
guys really like that anymore. So my guess would be
when you're a big name, you're used to just playing
with big name people, so you just kind of it's
just part of the deal. On the chance you record
a go low. Where do you think the top guys
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and live stand with their contracts. For guys like Bryson,
Nieman and others who still have their competitive career in
front of them, do you think they go back to
the tour. For someone like Bryson, do you think he'd
be willing to skip PGA Tour events for sake of
having a time to YouTube in the future. It's clear
no one cares about Live, and I can't imagine a
merger happening with Li draining so much money, which is
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now a public story. Bad look. Does the PJ Tour
sit back, relax and let all roads lead back to them?
That kind of feels like what's happening currently is that
we are just in a game of waiting them out.
And I think it's clear if you had a draft pick,
if you could have one guy off Live, it wouldn't
PJ Tour, wouldn't even hesitate. You would take Bryson d Chambeau.
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It's a no brainer pick, I think with John Rahm
showing signs of life again, John Rahm is not that old.
So the thing is, though he just signed last year,
so this is his second year. He's thirty years old.
But he's a guy who's already won a couple of majors,
Like I think you would like him and Bryson back.
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I mean, those are huge talents. You know, DJ's done,
I feel like, and I don't even blame DJ doesn't
feel like he cares. I'm not gonna write this guy
off completely because he's proven us wrong before. But I
would say the best golf of Kepka's career is behind him,
though I think he's a good example. I do think
he'd get his mojo back just coming back to the
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PGA Tour and playing with those guys. I bet it's
really really difficult for him. I mean, he's always been
a bright light guy, and now he's playing in tournaments
that truly don't matter at all. It's just completely irrelevant,
you know. I think Nieman, I think all these guys
are gonna end up playing with each other again. I
don't know how. I have no clue how this whole
thing is gonna work, but I do think liv is
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coming down the home stretch. And I do think the
PGA Tour with Tiger, he was just the White House,
you know. Now he's banging Trump's Donald Junior's ex wife,
Like this is Live's done. I think Live is in.
I don't know exactly the details, but I know he's
been over there with the Sadi's. It wouldn't shock me
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at all if you just get like Live is just dead,
you know, and everyone from the on the list go
back to the PGA Tour just curious on some bucket
lick list courses you would love to play can be
private or public, but don't include the cliche Cypress, Pine Valley, Augusta.
I would love to play golf in the South. Any
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of the courses in Florida, you know Tpczawgrass Obviously that's
probably a little cliche, but any cool courses in Florida.
I'm down the Myrtle beat Stretch, like where they play
where JT just won at Harbortown, Like, I would love
to play golf there. I would love to just play
golf in the South. I've never played down there. I
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never have a bad time if you invite me, or
I have the opportunity to play a nice country club,
whether it's famous or not. I that's a bucket list
moment to say I played club X. I always think
that's really really cool. So like I've been invited to
play you know, different courses around here, like Mesa Country Club,
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the Phoenix Country Club, Arizona Country Club, and I like
really generally have a great time whether I shoot seventy
seven or eighty eight, just like this is cool, Like
it's a big deal to me. I really enjoy playing
different courses. So yeah, I mean my bucket list is
to play anywhere cool. You know, I do not discriminate
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when it comes to golf. If you tell me it's
the sun's out, it's good weather, and it's ideally, you know,
like a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, so I don't have as
much on my plate, not football season, so I can
just enjoy life. We're having a few transfusions. I'm game.
I'm not a I'm not a golf snob in the
sense of like, obviously I wouldn't turn down Augusta. But
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if like you have like my brothers at like a
working class country club that costs five thousand dollars to join,
and whenever I play there with him and his buddies,
my buddies like, it's I have a fucking blast. What
is the best stretch a golfer has had in recent memory?
Has anyone ever won all four majors in one year?
Scotty's twenty four has to be up there. I think
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it would probably be Jordan's like fifteen and sixteen. You know,
I think Jordan Speith. Uh. I think Speth won multiple
majors in a year and then won the Masters, so Speeth,
it would probably be this little stretch in twenty fifteen,
Speith won the Masters, he won the US Open, he
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finished fourth at the Open, and he finished second at
the PGA. And then the next year he probably should
have won the Masters, and he imploded and he finished second.
Then he won the Open a couple and then a
year later. So I would say like that fifteen, the
fifteen to the Masters in twenty sixteen stretch for Jordan.
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It's probably the best start to finish when you win
multiple majors. I do feel like Scott he's gonna win
one more major this year and then Rory could win.
You know. I think the British Opens in his hometown,
so he's going to be a heavy favorite for that.
A big fan. My buddies and I are looking into
a golf trip. We have done Tahoe, Scottsdale, and this
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other course in Florida. We are talking about Pinehurst or
Bandon Dunes. What would you what would be some of
the top places you would recommend for a golf trip.
I've been to Bandon Dunes. This was in twenty eighteen,
so Sheep Ranch didn't exist, and we played Bandon Trails,
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we played Bandon Dunes and we played Old McDonald, so
we missed on one of them. I thought it was incredible.
I just haven't been backed for whatever reason. But I
would go back in a heartbeat. At the member guest
I was at two weeks ago. Actually, Guy Zekkis that
we had played with probably a month before that, who
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was a swimmer at Notre Dame, who was a good guy.
We were bullshitting over a beer and he was saying
that he had just played. I was in the line
to get a beer and he was walking by and
he was saying how he just got back from Pinehurst
and he was there for like a week and they
played every course. They played like six of the Pinehurst
courses and Tobacco Road, and he just said it was awesome.
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So like, I had never talked to any human being
that's been to Bandon Dunes and didn't rave about it. Now,
the wind can get pretty outrageous. The afternoon when we
played was was a little much. But I would say
I think one of those two would be a no brainer.
The one thing I heard about Pinehurst is you got
to be like a year ahead. You can't just do
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it like a month out, So it can be difficult
to get times. But I would highly recommend Bannon Dunes
as a Ping collector. I'm curious with living in Scottsdale,
relatively close to Phoenix, is Ping a more popular brand
there than other manufacturers? Also, how highly do you regard Ping?
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Uh Ah, It's tough to say, because you just kind
of based on who you're playing with. PXG is also here,
and I play with some guys that are all fully
said it in PXG, So I feel like PXG has
a pretty big presence here more than Ping. Now, I
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don't really pay it. I feel like most people have
like Taylor Maids or titleists, So it doesn't feel like
Ping's any bigger here than it would be when I
lived in northern California, or if you live in Texas
you go to a golf course, I think they're going
to be the minority of people with clubs, And my
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guess would be that the Callaway and Taylor made are
gonna have a pretty big stranglehold with most people. Will
be my guess. But I guess to answer your question,
I don't notice Ping more than more than I have
other places, just because they're here. Okay, first off, how
about the Thunder got a nice little win today beat
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the shit out of the nuggets. If there's one thing
I took away from the PGA Championship, it's how much
it sucks that we don't get Bryson, Scotty, Rom, Rory, etc.
Battle it out more than four times a year. In
an alternate universe. I wonder how many less wins Scotty
would have had last year. I'm a big Scotty guy,
and he's winning as I typed this, But for that
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sake of discussion, yeah, maybe one or two. I think
clearly when he's been on he dominates now as you see,
like if they're playing an easier course, could Rom or
Bryson win for sure? But I don't think live really
diminishes him as much as it would if these guys,
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like if it it wasn't for Bryson. You know, Scotty's
beaten Xander, he's won two of the last four Majors,
and he's beaten Rory, who won the Masters. So it's
and honestly, besides Bryson, how many these live guys you
know Rom coming to play today. It's not like these
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live guys there's like three of them every week in
these or I mean in the majors that you gotta
worry about. It's really just been Bryson, and for the
first time in a while, rom So like, thank God
for Bryson in terms of Live's credibility with these big tournaments,
because he's fucking carrying them. I mean, Koepka's drinking, Miller lights,
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DJ's fishing run around Paulina. Phil's just old and not
good anymore. And you know, Joakee Neeman, cute little story,
solid little player. I mean, has no chance. Hatton's screaming
f bombs at his club. I mean, it's really just Bryson.
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So I don't know. I don't think it would impact
that much. But ultimately, hopefully his conversation can just die
sooner or later we can get everyone back together and
we can just play some real golf. But we'll end
on that. Congrats to Scottie. Win's his third major and
it's just on the top of the world. As I
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saw on Twitter from Jail to Quail, that would have
been an incredible call by Jim Nantz from Jail to
Quail Scotti Scheffler is the PGA champion of twenty twenty five.
Have a good day, talk to you soon see it.
The volume
The volume. What is going on everybody? How are we doing?
Hopefully everyone's having a great weekend. Just watched the PGA Championship,
(00:24):
so I said, you know what, let's do a little
go lo. Scottie Scheffler wins the third major of his career,
knocks off the second leg of the career Grand Slam,
winning the PGA Championship a year after he was thrown
in jail on a Friday morning during this tournament. But
Scottie Scheffler kicks everyone's butt wins the PGA Championship. We
(00:46):
will dive into that. Rory McElroy, who refused to speak
to the media, not today, the entire week after his
driver was found non compliant, we will dive into that.
A complete embarrassment for a sport that I love. I'm
not even just putting this just on Rory, the entire operation.
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Bryceon d Chambeau continues to flex his muscles, finishes second
in this tournament for the second straight year, just dominating
the last couple of years in majors, and solidifies himself
as a US Ryder Cup player, that's for sure. John Rahm,
my fellow Scottsdale resident, showed signs of life now he
(01:27):
imploded at the end, but at one point in time
today it did feel like could John rom win this tournament?
And yeah, we'll hit on a couple other things as
well as some of your male bag questions at Golo Pod.
At Golo pod is the instagram, I think, because we'll
probably do some football podcast the rest of this week,
I might as well just do a a full on
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Scotty's little mishap over the winter break when he split
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open his hand and got glass yards in there, he
claims making raviolis, Listen, we've all had some misaps having
a few cocktails. Regardless how it happened, his season got
off to a slow start. He had a tiger like
season last year, winning what felt like every freaking tournament.
He won the Masters, he won the FedEx, he won
like sixty million dollars, and it was like, this guy's
(03:35):
a monster. And then this year happens and he doesn't
win the Masters, and it's like, you know, Scotty, like
right now, at this point in time in his career,
the money, the wins, the I mean, he's just such
a heavy favorite in every tournament he plays in. Now,
you know, minus four or plus four hundred or plus
three hundred, he's like a four to three to one.
I mean good players typically as someone who's been gambling
(03:57):
on golf now for I don't know half a day,
you know, high high end guys or like eleven to one,
twelve to one, fourteen to one, and Scotty is routinely
like four to one. And honestly, it doesn't feel that crazy.
Your boy might have threw a little on him, why,
just because he's a great player, and then all of
a sudden in the middle of these tournaments he'll be
like minus four fifty. Like this guy's a fucking monster.
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I don't know what it looked like in the Tiger era,
because you know, the draft Kings of the world did
not exist but I would imagine there were a lot
of similarities. When this guy gets on and he won
the tournament Saturday night or Saturday afternoon, that's when the
tournament was won. And I would say, listen, Scotty Scheffler
has won a lot, He's won multiple green jackets. That
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stretch that he had on Saturday afternoon, hold fourteen to
close it out till eighteen, you know, birdying four of
his last five holes and just knocking it stiff after stiff.
It's like she had to be one, especially relative to
the field, as the entire field has fallen apart, had
to be one of the greatest five six hole stretches
of his career. And today what feels good about validating
(05:02):
this if you're Scotty Scheffler is like, there were some questions,
like he plays really well at the Masters, He's won
all these tournaments, Like are you gonna Sart knocking off
some of these other majors. He's like, yes, yes, I am.
We'll start with here at Quayle Hollow. You know that
course that everyone says that Rory wins over and over,
or that course that your boy thought that Bryson D.
Chambeau was going to demolish. I'm not just gonna win that.
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I'm gonna win that by five, and I'm also gonna
bogie eighteen, where I easily could have won by six.
No one was even close to me. Remember a couple
of weeks ago when I won by like ten and
I absolutely blew up the field, and you're like, well,
you're playing nobody's how about we go to a major
best field in golf. Mean, he said, the PGA Championship,
and I beat the living piss at everyone in sight.
And that's what he just did. And listen, I'm not
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going to compare anyone ever to Tiger Woods, but Scotty
is a monster. I mean he is. He is so
freaking good at golf it's stupid. And here's the thing.
Over the last five years at majors, this guy is
a bright lights player. Starting in twenty twenty one, he
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was T eighteen, thaight, T seven, T eight and all
the majors. Then he started winning. In twenty two, he
won the Masters, He missed the cut at the PGA,
but then he finished second at the US Open T
twenty one, and these last couple of years, it's like
it's not even a fair fight T ten, T two third,
T twenty three first, TA T forty one, T seven
fourth first, and he's gonna be the heavy, heavy favorite
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at Oakmont and his game like no one will ever
be Tiger Woods. I've said it all the time. His
name is unique, right, just his story, his dad Earl,
like the whole thing, I mean started from a young age,
the dominance. But what this guy's doing right now? And
I felt pretty confident about this, Like is he gonna
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win fifteen majors like Tiger? Of course not, I think
that would be crazy to even put out there. But
is this guy more likely to win eight or nine
than four or five? I would say yes, because the
only thing that could remotely slow him down was some
glass yards in a hand, because when you watch him
against Bryson, against Rohm, against whoever, there's a clear gap
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and Rory, who will get and do in a minute,
Like what the hell was that? Now? You could argue
that Rory winning the Masters playing with little house money,
not as much pressure on this tournament. I would tend
to agree. But when you're having one of the best
seasons of your career, you've already won three times, you
had the monkey off your back with the Masters. This
is a course in which you've won a multiple times.
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You would think that he would show up, but he's
nowhere to be found. Bryson is an incredible talent. I mean,
to me, the craziest part about Bryson is he is
blowing at thirty forty yards by Scottie Shuffler. His short
game is unreal. I mean, he had a couple flop
shots today around the green as someone that had him
to finish in the top five, like I was kind
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of on tilt, but he had a couple wedges around
the that were world class. And his putting is excellent.
But to me, like you watch Scotty Scheffler, I could
give him a seven iron and I go, Scotty hit
this two hundred yards. He could hit it two hundred yards.
I'd say, I could say Scotty hit like a buttercut
and hit it one hundred and fifty eight yards and
he could hit it about that vicinity. Meanwhile, Bryson's one
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hundred and ninety five yards. He's hitting nine iron. Like,
I'm not here to nitpick Bryson's operation. It clearly works
and he's an elite player. But like the gap between
Scotty and Bryson when it just comes to hitting irons.
Like I heard I was going to pick up dinner
last night and I was listening to the No Laying Up.
They do like a reaction show after every major day,
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and DJ Pie, one of their guys, was saying, like,
it can't be easy to play when you're hitting a
nine iron or one hundred and ninety five yards, Like
what are you hitting a six iron? One? Like what's
the point of some of these longer clubs. It's not
like you're hitting a five iron two hundred and ninety yards,
so your distances are all wacky, but like your wedges,
like what are you doing from like one for fifty
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one seventy and a couple times a day. You're watching Bryson,
he's not even close. And that's where Scotty will eat
you alive is like give him one sixty. That's where
he's very very comfortable with And you're watching Bryson, who
honestly should have been right there, but his iron play
is just kind of wacky. I mean, listen, I'm not
one to say like he shouldn't be playing the same
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length irons, but like whatever, Scotty is able to do
with like a seven iron a nine iron in his hand.
It feels like Bryson's playing like Kyle Berkshire on Instagram.
It's like, what are we doing here? And listen John Rahm,
who to me is like a legit high end player
when he's on like today, melted at the end, but
a lot like Scotty, like has a bunch of different
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shots in the back and at one point in time
today Scotty is just leaking oil, just your classic, playing
like shit. He's just playing really bad, not because the
moment's too big, not because he's overwhelmed, not because he's
never won a big tournament, not because there's he's just
not on. Something was just off. And then you look up,
he finishes the ninth toll or basically he's on ten,
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he's nine under. John Rom is also nine under with
a Birdie putt on twelve from like ten feet. John
Ram misses his Scotty, then Birdie's ten, and then it flips,
and then Scotty never looks back. And once Scotty got
that little buffer, then Rom got toward whatever they call it,
the Green Mile and just kind of imploded. And then
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it ended up like John Rom's not even on like
the leaderboard you see on TV, and Bryson's right there. Now,
Bryson technically wasn't that close, but there were a couple
of moments today and even yesterday it's like I don't
really know what's going on. Like I get it, he's
got these weird irons, but uh, you know, to me,
Scotty's a much more complete player for a guy that's
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not even hitting it. And I heard a couple people say,
like if you followed that group with Xander and Rory
and Scottie on Thursday and Friday, that those guys are
blown it by Scotty, like twenty yards twenty five yards,
And listen, if you play with another individual that's longer
than you, that's not that weird. It is kind of
weird when you look at Scotty. He's a big ass dude.
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Xander's much smaller and he hits it way farther than him.
But like when you're splitting fair ways, then you're knocking
it on greens and you're making putts like it doesn't
really matter. And that's the one thing with golf, obviously,
distance is very very important Bryson's kind of hacked the system,
but you still got to get the ball in the hole.
And that, to me is a skill that like, even
when Scotty started to unravel today, I never thought like
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this is implosion coming. It never crossed my mind he
was gonna shoot seventy six. Now I did think, like,
if John rom starts birdying three or four holes, maybe
they just both end up at like ten or eleven
under it and we have a playoff. But the one
thing that Scotty has in the back and I would
say this is the similarity with Tiger and what Rory
definitely does not have in common. It's hard to fathom
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him just if he has a shitty front nine him
backing that up with a bad back nine in a
tournament like this, where when we watched Rory at the Masters,
you're like, he could blow this, Like it didn't cross
my mind that Scotty was going to blow it. Now
he opened the door and let someone in. But you're like,
he's got a couple of par fives, Like, you know,
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if this was football, he'll make some place. And what
did he do? He made some place? And then obviously
the course is difficult. You know rom had to get
aggressive and he just kind of melted it down. And Bryson.
That's the thing with Bryson, It's like he's been off,
I thought in the Masters and definitely this week with
his iron play, with his approach game, but his wedges
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are I mean, he had a couple. He had a
flop shot today on fourteen, that drivable part four where
he hits it right of the bunker and it's way
above on the mound. I can't even imagine how difficult
that shot is and he knocked it like three or
four feet, And it's like, Bryson, you have incredible touch
around the greens. You're obviously an elite putter now, and
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I think most would consider you, especially if Rory is
going to drive the ball like he did this week.
You're the best driver in the world. What is going
on with this this iron situation? And listen, Scotty took
advantage of it and he wins his third major and
all signs point to him now. Oakmont, which many consider
like the hardest golf course in the world, especially when
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you factor in major conditions, and if I just tell
you out loud, they're going to play the hardest golf
course in the world. Who are you going to like,
you would immediately say Scottie Scheffler. Now, I don't know
if he's gonna win the US Open by five or
six shots, but I think at this point in time,
given the way he's played now in his last two
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events and what he did over the course of the
last two days, it would be stunning if he doesn't
win this US Open, and if he wins the US Open. Listen,
the British is weird. Whether you never know, it does
feel like he's so good that he will inevitably win one.
You just kind of with a guy who knows. I
do feel pretty confident at this point in time, Like
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you see some of these guys like you know, Spease
one four, Keepka's one five, Rory's won five, Like like
it feels like Scott he's gonna fly right by him
and the only thing that can slow him down is
an injury because he's got Ted Scott, who's Bubba Bubba
Watson's old caddie. Uh. Their cohesion like it's like the
equivalent like Belichick and Brady. It's like they were just
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made for each other. It's perfect. And what a fucking clinic,
and honestly, what he did on Saturday afternoon. If you
tell me, like, what's been Scotty Scheffler's coolest like hour
that you remember watching him play golf, it would be
Saturday afternoon at Kuile Hollow in the PGA Championship. Now
he has he's only twenty eight years old. He's got
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a lot of golf left. But like so far in
his career and he listen, he's won the Masters multiple times,
but it does feel like that stretch on Saturday afternoon
was the equivalent of like a drag race and he's
in like a legit drag racing car and you're in
like a Pinto and he flew by everybody. And it
gave him that buffer today where when he is just
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all over the map, but he starts with a bogie.
This week on one he's hitting the ball over the
place off the tea. You're like, God, what is going
on here? It gave him a little breathing room. And
to me, if he doesn't have that breathing room, if
he instead of shooting sixty five, he shoots sixty nine
and he only has a one shot leader, he's tied
and all of a sudden he's three back. I think
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that pressure. It just would have been a different situation, right,
given where he would have stood on the leaderboard. But
he couldn't have been playing any shittier. Rom had made
multiple birdies and we're tired and he's ahead of me.
So I still got the par fives. It was just
a different mindset. So I do believe no matter what
anyone says, that this tournament was one on Saturday. But
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that's what Scotty Scheffer does when everyone else was not
playing well because the course was playing outrageously hard. I mean,
this is the place that a lot of times you
watch Augusta, You're like, I understand, it's hard. I would
love to play there. You watch Pinehurst, you're like, listen,
I want to play that golf course. Even last week
you're watching Philly Cricket Club, You're like, I would love
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the tea it up there. Anytime they're playing overseas, you're like, this,
Saint Andrew's you name it right, I would love to
do this as long as it's not too cold and
too wet. This is one of those rare courses that
they play in a big event where you go, yeah,
I got no interest. Does not look fun, I mean,
does not look like an enjoyable round of golf. Too long,
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too much rough, the greens are way too hard. It
just looks like miserable golf. And when I tell you,
it's like miserably hard, difficult conditions, firm greens, not shocking
the scotty, just one by five.
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Speaking of the most embarrassing thing that happened this week,
we go back to Morikawa whatever a couple months ago
when he got in the spat with basically Rocko Brandle
a bunch of older guys that said, like listen man,
part of this sport were pros. This isn't the amateur hour,
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This isn't the minor leagues. This is the big leagues.
And when you lose a tournament and you're a big
time player and you melt down, part of it is
facing the music. No different than Lebron James or Steph
Curry or Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson or whoever. Cam
Newton didn't jump on guess what in twenty sixteen, what
did he do after the Super Bowl? He spoke It's
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part of the business and this whole thing, this is entertainment.
Where do you think the money comes from. We don't
just make it up out of the sky, right. People
are paying a ton of money, a lot of sponsors
that the fans like. This is all part of the
business model. And Roy McElroy like, I didn't know. Now
I'm not super into the weeds of like wait, we
every Tuesday of a major they test fifty guys for
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the uh whatever the exact terminology is of the driver
And at first you read it, you're like, is this
like a cork bat? And it's actually the opposite. The
more worn down that your face becomes sometimes I guess,
the more explosive it can become off the clubhead and
they just randomly test fifty drivers. So some guys like
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a TSA check right, Scotty Scheffler could show up, don't
test the thing or back to back weeks they could
test them, and they test Roy McElroy. As Xander said,
they also tested Scotty and according to Xandra, he failed
as well. Change the club Taylor made whoever. They're all
of these tournaments, so if you need to get access
to anything, they're right there. They know exactly your respects.
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They work with you like no different than your agent
or your manager. And you're watching Rory and here here's
my issue. And I give Brian Windhorst credit on this
because he's one of the only guys that covers the
NBA that consistently talks about this, because he compares the
model to the NFL, and he's like, if we're gonna
be all in on gambling, there has to be specific
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ways that we handle injuries. And it's become very nefarious
over the years that like wait till the last second
and say a guy's out with rest or whatever. Where
the NFL where they're still shady shit going on the
injury report. If you're gonna gamble on a team, like
you have a pretty good idea. This guy's missed Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday at practice. You're not shocked when he can't
play Sunday, or he's completely healthy and something pops up Friday,
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You're like, wait, this guy miss practice with Friday. He's like, yeah,
felt little something in his hamstring. So you just you
have so comprehension. It's for the gambling public and the
competition gets to know. Yet in golf, they're all independent contractors,
so they all can do whatever they want, which I
understand is fine. Yet they're all under the umbrella of
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this business model that is the PGA Tour, that is
professional golf. And Roy McElroy who gets in trouble for
not in trouble but has to change out as driver,
which I don't know is kind of a big story
because he's the greatest driver in the history of the
sport and he just won the fucking Masters and because
of the setup, he doesn't have to say a word
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for four days. For four days, and this gets back
to the Morikawa thing. I don't owe you anything. Yet
no one actually owes anyone anything except people. You're in
business with then we all have deals with other people,
and then no, you kind of do owe other people
other things. And now that you know the Arthur Blanks
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and the business people are trying to get involved with
the PGA, they're already with TGL. This Saudi Live thing
is eventually going to consolidate. There has to be some
sort of rules because I totally understand last year when
people were asking Rory McElroy about his divorce of like, guys,
I'm not talking about that. Totally understand, and I think
that is totally fair to him to like, he doesn't
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have to say shit about that, just like if you
ask Mahomes or an NFL player an NBA player about
something in their personal life, they don't have to say
a word. But when it came out that the footballs
were deflated, guess what we want to hear from Belichick
and Tom Brady. So when something happens with your driver,
which is on the course situation, especially his most potent
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club at a course which is really long, and then
for those of us that are gambling on a guy
like Rory, he's fucking all over the map on Thursday,
It's like something's up but doesn't cross my mind that
he has a new driver and then it comes out
on Friday afternoon. Yeah, he failed test and they had
to give him a new driver, and then he just
refuses to talk Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I don't know
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what else to say, besides like that's kind of a
minor league operation, and these guys want to act like
this is the big leagues. This is you know, we
should play for more money than ever, Like the money,
the money, the money, Like there's a reason the money,
the money, the money in the NFL, and there are rules.
The coach has to talk X number of times every week,
every single time after the game, same with the players
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or else. There are consequences like this is not okay.
This makes the sport look to me like low level.
You are the biggest start. Do you think Tiger Woods
in a million years over an equipment issue? When you
are the biggest star in the sport, which Rory currently is,
you are just won the Masters a month ago, and
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then you have a situation like this and you just
refuse to say a word for four days. I'm not
even acting like it is that big a deal. I
really don't care. But one this is also a problem
with the sport that wants to be taken legitimately and
as someone that gambles a lot of money on this
love my guys at DraftKings just won forty five hundred dollars. Now,
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actually I won forty five hundred, but I bet about
four so I won about five hundred. Sometimes it comes
out like, yeah, my wrist has been bothering me on
a Saturday or Sunday with a player. It's like what
this is the whole problem with the complex and the
setup of what's going on. They want to be the
big leagues. They want to play for all this money,
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but no one wants to have an injury report. No
one wants to have mandates of Like I don't know,
if you're a top twenty player and you're playing in
a tournament, you have to speak after every round. I
don't know, it's just part of the business. Can you
imagine if like, yeah, you know, Josh had a big
situation I don't know with a football or with a
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teammate and he just for the entire month he just
wouldn't talk after any games. That not only would never have happen,
and it can't happen because he would start getting fined
and it would not be tolerated. Why because that's an
unhealthy part of the business. You want that guy to speak.
It just expands the popularity and the attention that is
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on your sport. So I really think the Rory thing
that there's no way around it, which again it's up
to him, like there is no one above him. There's
no one above any of these guys like Mara Calison.
I can do whatever I want. I don't owe anyone anything,
even though there are people in business that are paying
for all this shit, like you owe certain people certain things.
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I don't know the people putting on this tournament, the
people that will put on this tournament next year. This
money doesn't just come from the sky, comes from your partners,
comes from the operation. And when a guy like Rory
has a situation like this and makes a mockery over it,
it kind of pisses me off because there's someone that
loves this sport and I understand, like it's a niche deal,
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like you know, on good days, three or four million
people watch on a Saturday or Sunday, but like it's
the only sport where guy's fifty sixty seventy eighty years old,
are playing all over America. It's never seen a greater
run of growth over the last three or four years.
And you have more eyeballs on this operation than ever.
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And then your biggest name has an issue, which honestly
can be good. It just creates a conversation and refused
to comment on it. You didn't just get caught fucking
doing steroids, Rory. You didn't just get caught with a
bag of drugs. Your driver didn't pass some test. Most people,
including myself, don't even quite understand what that even means.
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We don't even care. I just want to hear your
opinion on it. Are you mad? Do you think it's bs?
What's your thoughts on the situation? That adds to the conversation.
And Scottie Schaeffler last year got arrested, let me repeat,
got arrested on Friday morning, somehow pulled off because of
a rain delay. Still was able to play after that round.
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It would have been easy for him to, like, listen
a lot going on. I don't want to speak. I'm leaving.
I know I'm the number one player in the world.
Today was fucking crazy. I just want to get home,
have a sandwich and put my feet up and take
a deep breath with my family. He spoke, and then
he spoke the next day and the next day. Why
because it's called being a pro. And I think Rory
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for a guy that gets a lot of credit of
like everyone likes him, he's super nice and he seems
like a good guy. Like this is now like last
year Bryson d Chambeau just fire out of there, like
Josh Allen Lamar Jackson aren't able to just leave after
Patrick Mahomes's name, he re beat him again. Guess what
they have to talk? I mean, I'd say the NFL.
Whatever the NFL is doing when it comes to media stuff,
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this sport should follow. And Rory McElroy, who is basically
like an NFL quarterback relative to golf, like just avoiding
it all week in the middle of like a controversial
situation is just a joke. I mean that there's really
no other way to like dance around this topic of like,
and I'm someone who likes the guy. I enjoy watching
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him play, but I think this is a pretty low
level moment for the guy. And of course during that moment,
you got Bryson D Chambeau who's waiting after to hug
Scotty And you could go, oh, he's just doing that
for the cameras whatever. He's done that now multiple times.
So it's like you can think Bryce's douchey, you can
think he was a weirdo a couple of years ago.
At least he'll answered the music, like, at least he
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won't run away from whatever's going on. I mean, this
is a guy that had issues with Brooks. I mean,
you got Brooks, you got a heckler screaming at Kopka
that guaranteed money will basically ruin your game, and then
Kepka turned around screaming at him, and then Kepka getting
seen most relatable picture in recent memory. It looked like
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at like a seven to eleven. I guess where are they?
They're in Charlotte, so not sure. I've never been to
that area. What their go to? Like? Gas station kind
of mini marts are something like that. Uh, you just
get in the case of Miller Lite and just gonna
go drink his face off after a pretty embarrassing couple
of days and listen, he's the guy that probably could
not talk. It doesn't feel like talking but I would
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say this oftentimes he might give shitty answers at least
at least still sit there in front of the cameras.
So I just think, like, you can't be this big
of a player right there with Rom obviously Scotty and
and bryceon and just go M I A from the cameras.
Like I just don't understand where he thinks his money.
I never understand these like like, it's not about like
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I don't owe somescribe anything. It's no one's reading these newspapers.
No one beside other media members are reading most of
these articles. It's not about that, honestly, It's about these
quotes being distributed on social media so people that follow
the sport can see them or the clips of you talking. Why,
because that's how what generates attention. We're in the we're
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all in the attention business, and he's not the most
interesting guy, but he draws your attention by being elite
at golf. Bryson has a lot of different elements, right
His YouTube brings the attention, his game brings the attention.
Rory is an attention bringer. Does a lot of you know,
things that kind of moved the needle, whether it's his play,
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whether it's some of his comments. But now we have
a history now multiple times when the fucking flame gets
turned up and it gets a little hotter. Tiger's been
in a million of these situations. What does every old
person say about Tiger? He never didn't face the music,
he never didn't talk win, loser, draw it. Now, he
won a lot more than he lost, but he had
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a lot of crazy shit going on in his career.
And if he's around, if you didn't play in the tournament, whatever,
but if you're there and you are the star player,
I'm sorry you have to speak over Like what happened
to your best club? Why was it taken out of
your back? Did you use it in the Masters? Did
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you know anything was off? Was this something like? Was
this a surprise to you? And if you want to
storm off after like I don't know what's going on
and just leave, okay, But to just avoid it for
four straight days just a low level moment for the guy.
It really is someone that just had the greatest moment
of his life, just had a moment where ten plus
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million people watched him win the Masters and everyone was
just was thrilled. I mean, it was an exhilarating athletic
performance and then this happens. It's just god damn. Last,
but not least, before we dive into some of your questions,
one thing that we have seen is you would have
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to be on drugs to bet against anyone that isn't
a big dog in these majors like the Day and Age.
Not that it won't ever happen again, but I think
it clearly feels maybe it's the pressure some of these
signature events, the separation would live. You know, money's all relative,
but clearly there's never been more money on the line.
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I could never put any money on a random guy
winning any of these tournaments. Honestly, even like a thirty
forty fifty to one I consider a long shot. When
you look at the last six majors, Scotty, Xander Bryson,
Xander Rory, Scotty, Who do you think is gonna win
the US Open? Scotty or Bryson? Maybe if Rory can
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get his driver out of his ass, Rory like the
days of just like some random Brian harmon now it
could still happen at the British that's a bad example.
But some of these guys, the US open, I mean distance. Now,
these guys are hitting it so far. Scotty's not missing
fairways for the most part, and then he's so much
better at irons than you, Like, you don't have a shot.
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I do think the cream is really separated. And now
if you want to take some guys to top ten,
top twenty. But my gambling philosophy, I sprinkled on all
three top guys, Bryson, Rory, and Scotty. Now I was
much more bullish coming into this weekend on Rory and Bryson,
but it was clear after Friday It's like, well, Scotty's
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gonna be a major factor here, and he was the
betting favorite going into the weekend. But I just think
you bet the big dogs, you know, I mean shit,
you look at Bryson, you know he won Pinehurst. Though
I think the Pinehurst Oakmont aren't really gonna parallel each other.
You can spray it a little bit at Pinehurst, I
don't know if you're gonna be able to do that
at Oakmont watching some of these YouTube golfers that played
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there like a couple of weeks ago. But moving forward,
I mean, it does feel like it's just just the
big dogs. And everyone else. Let's dive into some of
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your questions really quick before we get out of here.
Why doesn't the PGA Tour develop or buy their own courses.
I know it's a lot more work for them short term,
but I feel like it would pay off down the line.
They could develop a number of courses more fit for
major events. Well, there's only so much land in America
that hasn't already been bought or you know, used, right,
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So there's a lot of premium land in certain areas
probably have like housing developments, and then the golf course
that already exists that are cool, that are quote unquote
private clubs or established golf courses are not going to
sell to the PGA Tour. Now, the PGA Tour does
own golf courses. I play at one TBC Scottsdale. They
have an event TBC Sawgrass, they have the Players TPC.
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There's one in Vegas, I think Summerland. I've heard it's
really nice. They have one in Texas where they have
I think the Valero they're having is a TBC frisk
go in a year like So, they do own a
lot of golf courses that they profit off of. Now,
major venues. There are only so many courses in America
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that you feel comfortable hosting a major at right Masters
has that taken. But when you look at the PGA
and you look at the US Open, you know there
are some courses that are always going to be on
the rotation. The PGA tour can never buy Pebble Beach
or Olympic Club. Right, Quail Hollow isn't for sale. I'm
(34:31):
trying to think of some other courses. Oakmont, I mean,
that's a that's a private course in Pittsburgh. Like they're
not selling that thing. Wingfoot it's a public course owned
by I would imagine the city in New York. It's
not available for purchase. So I hear what you're saying.
I think it's probably a little more complicated than the
execution to pull that off. Question for the bag, can
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you share any insight in the Vegas Giant MLB logo
across his chest? I can imagine another major sport that
allows sponsorship logos on jerseys being okay with the promotion
of another sport. I know, I mean, I don't even
(35:15):
know what to say. I've never really thought about it
that way. I don't think if your golf, you really
care if guy is an NFL or Major League logo
on you, I'm not quite sure. I think he's Venezuelan,
so maybe there is some carryover of an international guy.
Someone said that Payne Stewart used to have something similar,
(35:35):
maybe like the NFL. He was a big I think
Steeler fan. But I don't think golf cares at all.
Like I don't think they viewed Major League Baseball as
like competition. I don't think Baseball views it that way either.
I think it's more where he comes from. Promoting to
that region for baseball would be my guess. I'm sure
there are articles out there. Maybe I'll google that tonight.
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How would you rank the states? The states in terms
of golf? Have you ever heard of Crosswater Golf Course
in Bend, Oregon or Circling Raven in Northern Idaho? No,
I haven't. I haven't played golf in that many states.
I've never played golf in Florida. I've never played golf
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in any you know, Charlotte area, which I think is
fewed really highly. The majority of my golf is California,
now Arizona. I've played Bandon Dunes in Oregon and then
I've played in the Philadelphia, Jersey area, so in my experience,
I mean California is pretty special. It has some of
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the best and most important courses in the sport, right
I would say Pebble Beach, while not the best course,
is got to be on the short list. Like if
you go what's the most iconic golf courses in the world,
I think Augusta and Saint Andrews in some order are
one and two. And I think every single human casual
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or not casual. Pebble's getting listed pretty quickly. You know,
Olympic Clubs a legendary US Open course. Torrey Pines is
a unique public course that has hosted just tournaments for
a long long time. I mean, riv has one of
the best tournaments on the PGA Tour. Countless other courses
in LA, especially private ones, from LACC to Beverly Hills
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Country Club to you know, the Monterey area. Beside Pebble,
you got Monterey Peninsula Country Club, you got Cyprus. You
just got awesome courses in the Bay Area, San Francisco
Country Club, Cow Club. So I would say it'd be
hard to beat California. I think most people would say
that either Jersey or Pennsylvania. It's a pretty beautiful area
(37:52):
for golf. I've always wanted to get down to Florida.
I mean just they're just obviously you got from Sawgrass
to I think they played Seminal a couple of years ago,
to the you know, Jordan's Club, to the Bear. I
mean a lot of these are country clubs. But how
do you think players feel about threesomes they are put
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into on Thursday and Friday. Didn't know where you're going
with that at first. They always seem to load up
groups with big stars, which is obviously good for viewership.
Take Rory, Xander and Scotti at the PGA this week.
Do you think they want to be with top contending
guys to motivate them or would they rather not be distracted?
I would guess if you could ask like a guy
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like Xander or Scottie or Rory, it doesn't necessary like
because like Rory and Scotti and Bryson are such big draws.
They could be playing with me and you and the
crowd is going to be massive. I think the key
is for people playing well. If you are playing with
other guys on Thursday and Friday that are playing well,
(38:55):
like anyone that's ever played golf. If you're having a
good day and you're playing with other guys that are
playing well, it's easier to keep that momentum going. Just
like if you're playing shitty and everyone around you playing shitty,
it just kind of goes that way. I I wonder too,
at this point in time, a lot of these guys
are numb, Like do they really see the fans? I
(39:17):
bet most of them barely even notice. You know, where
me and you if we were teen off for one
hundred people, we'd be nervous. I just don't think these
guys really like that anymore. So my guess would be
when you're a big name, you're used to just playing
with big name people, so you just kind of it's
just part of the deal. On the chance you record
a go low. Where do you think the top guys
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and live stand with their contracts. For guys like Bryson,
Nieman and others who still have their competitive career in
front of them, do you think they go back to
the tour. For someone like Bryson, do you think he'd
be willing to skip PGA Tour events for sake of
having a time to YouTube in the future. It's clear
no one cares about Live, and I can't imagine a
merger happening with Li draining so much money, which is
(40:02):
now a public story. Bad look. Does the PJ Tour
sit back, relax and let all roads lead back to them?
That kind of feels like what's happening currently is that
we are just in a game of waiting them out.
And I think it's clear if you had a draft pick,
if you could have one guy off Live, it wouldn't
PJ Tour, wouldn't even hesitate. You would take Bryson d Chambeau.
(40:27):
It's a no brainer pick, I think with John Rahm
showing signs of life again, John Rahm is not that old.
So the thing is, though he just signed last year,
so this is his second year. He's thirty years old.
But he's a guy who's already won a couple of majors,
Like I think you would like him and Bryson back.
(40:47):
I mean, those are huge talents. You know, DJ's done,
I feel like, and I don't even blame DJ doesn't
feel like he cares. I'm not gonna write this guy
off completely because he's proven us wrong before. But I
would say the best golf of Kepka's career is behind him,
though I think he's a good example. I do think
he'd get his mojo back just coming back to the
(41:08):
PGA Tour and playing with those guys. I bet it's
really really difficult for him. I mean, he's always been
a bright light guy, and now he's playing in tournaments
that truly don't matter at all. It's just completely irrelevant,
you know. I think Nieman, I think all these guys
are gonna end up playing with each other again. I
don't know how. I have no clue how this whole
thing is gonna work, but I do think liv is
(41:32):
coming down the home stretch. And I do think the
PGA Tour with Tiger, he was just the White House,
you know. Now he's banging Trump's Donald Junior's ex wife,
Like this is Live's done. I think Live is in.
I don't know exactly the details, but I know he's
been over there with the Sadi's. It wouldn't shock me
(41:55):
at all if you just get like Live is just dead,
you know, and everyone from the on the list go
back to the PGA Tour just curious on some bucket
lick list courses you would love to play can be
private or public, but don't include the cliche Cypress, Pine Valley, Augusta.
I would love to play golf in the South. Any
(42:18):
of the courses in Florida, you know Tpczawgrass Obviously that's
probably a little cliche, but any cool courses in Florida.
I'm down the Myrtle beat Stretch, like where they play
where JT just won at Harbortown, Like, I would love
to play golf there. I would love to just play
golf in the South. I've never played down there. I
(42:42):
never have a bad time if you invite me, or
I have the opportunity to play a nice country club,
whether it's famous or not. I that's a bucket list
moment to say I played club X. I always think
that's really really cool. So like I've been invited to
play you know, different courses around here, like Mesa Country Club,
(43:03):
the Phoenix Country Club, Arizona Country Club, and I like
really generally have a great time whether I shoot seventy
seven or eighty eight, just like this is cool, Like
it's a big deal to me. I really enjoy playing
different courses. So yeah, I mean my bucket list is
to play anywhere cool. You know, I do not discriminate
(43:27):
when it comes to golf. If you tell me it's
the sun's out, it's good weather, and it's ideally, you know,
like a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, so I don't have as
much on my plate, not football season, so I can
just enjoy life. We're having a few transfusions. I'm game.
I'm not a I'm not a golf snob in the
sense of like, obviously I wouldn't turn down Augusta. But
(43:50):
if like you have like my brothers at like a
working class country club that costs five thousand dollars to join,
and whenever I play there with him and his buddies,
my buddies like, it's I have a fucking blast. What
is the best stretch a golfer has had in recent memory?
Has anyone ever won all four majors in one year?
Scotty's twenty four has to be up there. I think
(44:13):
it would probably be Jordan's like fifteen and sixteen. You know,
I think Jordan Speith. Uh. I think Speth won multiple
majors in a year and then won the Masters, so Speeth,
it would probably be this little stretch in twenty fifteen,
Speith won the Masters, he won the US Open, he
(44:34):
finished fourth at the Open, and he finished second at
the PGA. And then the next year he probably should
have won the Masters, and he imploded and he finished second.
Then he won the Open a couple and then a
year later. So I would say like that fifteen, the
fifteen to the Masters in twenty sixteen stretch for Jordan.
(44:55):
It's probably the best start to finish when you win
multiple majors. I do feel like Scott he's gonna win
one more major this year and then Rory could win.
You know. I think the British Opens in his hometown,
so he's going to be a heavy favorite for that.
A big fan. My buddies and I are looking into
a golf trip. We have done Tahoe, Scottsdale, and this
(45:19):
other course in Florida. We are talking about Pinehurst or
Bandon Dunes. What would you what would be some of
the top places you would recommend for a golf trip.
I've been to Bandon Dunes. This was in twenty eighteen,
so Sheep Ranch didn't exist, and we played Bandon Trails,
(45:41):
we played Bandon Dunes and we played Old McDonald, so
we missed on one of them. I thought it was incredible.
I just haven't been backed for whatever reason. But I
would go back in a heartbeat. At the member guest
I was at two weeks ago. Actually, Guy Zekkis that
we had played with probably a month before that, who
(46:04):
was a swimmer at Notre Dame, who was a good guy.
We were bullshitting over a beer and he was saying
that he had just played. I was in the line
to get a beer and he was walking by and
he was saying how he just got back from Pinehurst
and he was there for like a week and they
played every course. They played like six of the Pinehurst
courses and Tobacco Road, and he just said it was awesome.
(46:26):
So like, I had never talked to any human being
that's been to Bandon Dunes and didn't rave about it. Now,
the wind can get pretty outrageous. The afternoon when we
played was was a little much. But I would say
I think one of those two would be a no brainer.
The one thing I heard about Pinehurst is you got
to be like a year ahead. You can't just do
(46:48):
it like a month out, So it can be difficult
to get times. But I would highly recommend Bannon Dunes
as a Ping collector. I'm curious with living in Scottsdale,
relatively close to Phoenix, is Ping a more popular brand
there than other manufacturers? Also, how highly do you regard Ping?
(47:10):
Uh Ah, It's tough to say, because you just kind
of based on who you're playing with. PXG is also here,
and I play with some guys that are all fully
said it in PXG, So I feel like PXG has
a pretty big presence here more than Ping. Now, I
(47:32):
don't really pay it. I feel like most people have
like Taylor Maids or titleists, So it doesn't feel like
Ping's any bigger here than it would be when I
lived in northern California, or if you live in Texas
you go to a golf course, I think they're going
to be the minority of people with clubs, And my
(47:53):
guess would be that the Callaway and Taylor made are
gonna have a pretty big stranglehold with most people. Will
be my guess. But I guess to answer your question,
I don't notice Ping more than more than I have
other places, just because they're here. Okay, first off, how
about the Thunder got a nice little win today beat
(48:14):
the shit out of the nuggets. If there's one thing
I took away from the PGA Championship, it's how much
it sucks that we don't get Bryson, Scotty, Rom, Rory, etc.
Battle it out more than four times a year. In
an alternate universe. I wonder how many less wins Scotty
would have had last year. I'm a big Scotty guy,
and he's winning as I typed this, But for that
(48:35):
sake of discussion, yeah, maybe one or two. I think
clearly when he's been on he dominates now as you see,
like if they're playing an easier course, could Rom or
Bryson win for sure? But I don't think live really
diminishes him as much as it would if these guys,
(48:58):
like if it it wasn't for Bryson. You know, Scotty's
beaten Xander, he's won two of the last four Majors,
and he's beaten Rory, who won the Masters. So it's
and honestly, besides Bryson, how many these live guys you
know Rom coming to play today. It's not like these
(49:21):
live guys there's like three of them every week in
these or I mean in the majors that you gotta
worry about. It's really just been Bryson, and for the
first time in a while, rom So like, thank God
for Bryson in terms of Live's credibility with these big tournaments,
because he's fucking carrying them. I mean, Koepka's drinking, Miller lights,
(49:43):
DJ's fishing run around Paulina. Phil's just old and not
good anymore. And you know, Joakee Neeman, cute little story,
solid little player. I mean, has no chance. Hatton's screaming
f bombs at his club. I mean, it's really just Bryson.
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So I don't know. I don't think it would impact
that much. But ultimately, hopefully his conversation can just die
sooner or later we can get everyone back together and
we can just play some real golf. But we'll end
on that. Congrats to Scottie. Win's his third major and
it's just on the top of the world. As I
(50:26):
saw on Twitter from Jail to Quail, that would have
been an incredible call by Jim Nantz from Jail to
Quail Scotti Scheffler is the PGA champion of twenty twenty five.
Have a good day, talk to you soon see it.
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