March 19, 2020 • 47 mins
The first big tournament of the year...The Players was cancelled due to coronavirus. The next 10 events have been cancelled or postponed as well! We cover all of that and talk to PGA Tour pro Billy Horschel. We get some inside talk from Billy and hear what his plans are for the next 9 weeks...and what he thinks will happen to the remainder of this season. Also...wanna get better at putting while "social distancing" and staying inside? The Perfect Practice Putting Mat can help with that! We have a discount code for you to order!! Thanks for listening!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't mind us Where Playing Through there's Froggy and Whacker
Corona Virus addition of the Playing Crew podcast. Here we
are crazy times right now in sports, crazy times really
all over the United States. It's Froggy from Albus Ran.
It's really crazy times all over the world. It's Froggy
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from almost to Rand in the morning show at Froggy
Radio on Instagram and Twitter at Playing Through podcast on Instagram,
joined by my co host Brian Whacker from Golf Digest
at Brian Wacker one on Twitter and Instagram. And it
has really been a wild ride the last uh ten days.
So much has changed really in just a week. I
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remember the last podcast we did, we were getting ready
for the players and we were all excited about what
we were gonna see and and who was playing and
who wasn't playing. And then we get to day one
of the players and the NBA cancels the night before,
and then we get Round one and no fans. Then
all of a sudden, the cancelation of the plays. And
in the last seven days now we have really seen
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a huge change in just the way we're living our
lives every single day socially. So Whacker, um, I know
you've got some new information on cancelations. I know we're
gonna talk to Billy Horschel on this podcast, who is
uh a player there at the Players Championship and has
taken UH an action and taking the bull by the
horns and done some charitable events to benefit charities that
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lost out from the Players Championship cancelation. But what exactly
where do we go from here? And what is going on?
I mean, there are no no sports being played for
the first time I can ever remember in my lifetime.
You turn on ESPN, all they're talking about is is
NFL free agency, uh and guys that are being diagnosed
with coronavirus. But there's no sports being played. Well, I'll
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leave it to the NFL to march on. Of course,
I guess a lot of the free agency stuff, um
can be done remotely and so forth. It's still not
probably not a great look for that league. But to
your point this, these are weird, unprecedented times. Really, um,
you know, really nine eleven comes to mind, obviously for
a much different reason and certainly a much shorter time
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in terms of sports not being played. But really, yeah,
you go back to that Players Championship, Um, you know
the Chain Smoker's concert that you were out on Tuesday
night at TPC saw Grass last week. Was that that
seems forever ago? Um, and forty eight hours later, Um,
it really things really drastically changed, probably for the better. Uh.
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The PGA Tour albeit a little bit slow, um, and
golf and it's governing bodies a little bit slow to
make decisions. Granted it's a complicated process and there's a
lot involved, but finally making the right decisions. And you
mentioned the new news, um for anyone you hadn't heard
as of yet. Of course, golf is canceled on the
PGA Tour uh through deep Byron Nelson, which is in
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mid May. The PGA Championship the following week, uh May
fourteen through seventeen at Harding Park in Sanford, Cisco has
been postponed. It looks like that event will be played
later in the summer, potentially in August. UM, no surprise there.
I mean you look at San Francisco. That's that's a
hot zone, right, I mean residents and they're on complete lockdown. Yeah,
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residents of six counties in the Bay Area ordered to
shelter in place. Uh, you're talking more than seven million
people in that instance. So these are strange times, and
really for you, I think this is only the beginning. Um.
I think we're going to see more closings. I know
here in Miami, uh, schools are closed. They've they've ordered
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the closing of bars and restaurants statewide, only allowing for
takeout or delivery. Uh no in the service restaurants service,
and UM, you know, I think we're only I've heard
some golf courses closing as well, So I think we're
only going to see more of this now real quick,
before we get to Bully Horse, I want to ask you.
I know they said they're going to postpone and reschedule
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the Masters in it looks like maybe October is when
they could do that. But Jack Nicholas not a video
saying he can't see a way that they get this
done if they have to read. Also, they postpone number.
There's a big difference in canceling and postponed. Canceling is
what they're doing with tournaments, which means that tournament will
not be made up, it will just happen again next year,
where postponing is means they're going to attempt to make
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it up. So does that mean we're still going to
get all four majors this year? I don't know. I
think that's UM. I don't think anybody really knows. As
you mentioned, UM, they're there multiple sources that seem to
indicate the Masters could be played in that second week
of October, the week of October five through twelve. I
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believe at the dates, UM, that is not confirmed. I
mean we're talking about running majors back to back to back. Well,
I don't. I don't know at this point. I mean
you look at UM. You know, of course the US
Open and the Open Championship. UM. The US Open schedules
for wingfoot in suburban U or UH, June eighty one,
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I mean that's in the hot zone. UM, that could
that event certainly doesn't seem like it would be played
on time, may even have to change locations. UM. The
British Open July six, UM at Royal St. George's in England. UH,
that doesn't seem likely. I think we can expect, for example,
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Wimbledon will probably postpone or cancel at some point, UM,
and that will drive the decision UH for the British Open,
which follows Wimbledon's so I think there's still a lot
to be determined. Getting all four majors, you know, back
to the original question, getting all four majors in in
the same year in UH seems difficult though, because uh,
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there's only so many places you can put those, particularly
as we get later in the year on the calendar.
As I mentioned, it looks like the PGA Championship, presuming
all is uh, you know, golf is back to normal
by then, it looks like the PGA Championship could slot
into August. We mentioned the Masters could slot into October.
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There was a report also yesterday that the Ryder Cup,
which is scheduled Forceptember later this year, UM, would get
pushed to one. However, the pg of America has said
that is not the case. UM, that is incorrect. Of course,
we also saw reports recently that the PGA Championship would
get moved from Harding Park to TPC saw Grass. That
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report was also shot down by the PGA of America. UM,
and now it's looking like that will be the case
in terms of PGA Championship being able to be played
at least or now in August in San Francisco. But
then you're talking, I mean look, they're there are only
so many weeks the you know, the tour could open
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up a week um somewhere along along the line. But um,
you know this is a domino effect. Really, when you
start canceling events, um, you know, postponing events, there are
only so many places they can they can put I mean,
the PGA Tour schedule is pretty full. So if the
PGA Tour gets back to playing um in May or June,
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then there are only so many openings where majors could
be um slotted in for the year. But uh, you know,
these are all ongoing discussions, the Five Families of Golf,
the PGA Tour, the PGA of America, the RNA, the
U S, G A UM and so forth. Yeah, Gusta,
they're all in conversation as we speak, ongoing conversations to
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try to figure out how to proceed and what to
do well while we are quote self, what's it social
distancing and quarantining? I do have? Um, I'm not knowing
if you've seen this thing online. I saw Billy actually
want to touch base with Billy on this when we
talked to him or afterwards. Uh, there's this thing called
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the perfect practice putting Matt. I've seen them all over
there's a ton of tour pros that have them. And
since we can't get out of the house and do whatever,
and I know I'm driving my wife crazy, I would
love to have one of these and try it out.
You should get one too, and we'll have like a
little putting, a little social distancing, quarantining putting contest. Yeah,
I mean, you know, I love to play golf together.
It's it's now harder, of course, now that you've decided
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to move to to Jacksonville and uh pont of Edra area.
So and I'm still down here in Miami. But um,
in the meantime, Yes, to your point, we can. I
love the idea of lining them, lining up the map,
us having a put off. We can have maybe a
game of horse with it. With the putting. I think
we can have some fun here, because, let's face it,
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we're just at the beginning of this crisis and it's
only going to get worse. I think we're you know
has mentioned we're seeing things shut down all over the place,
particularly here in Florida. So I don't think either one
of us is going to be leaving the house anytime soon.
So for some sanity. Yeah, I think we're going to
have to practice uh and look, it'll keep our short
games sharp from when we are able to get back
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to the golf course. Yes, I'll give you the website
where you can get one, and I've actually got a
discount code, so we'll talk about that in a minute.
But also I want to touch base after we talked
to Billy, I want to talk to you about the
Tom Brady playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's not
something I ever ever thought in the world was gonna happen.
I mean it. You know, as we mentioned, everything else
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is shut down in sports except the NFL free agency period,
which frog you're a long time Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan,
which is not many people can actually say that and
none have it be true. But but this has to
be the biggest news other than them having won a
Super Bowl. Obviously, this this has to be the the
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biggest UH story Enfranchise history. It really truly is my
first all these cancelations, everything going on, nobody better to
talk to than asking an actual tour player. So tell
me from walk us through last week. You start off
on Thursday, you played the first round of the players,
and then all of a sudden and went from we're
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gonna have fans too, We're not gonna have fans too,
then canceled on Thursday evening. Yeah, it was crazy. UM.
You know when NBA came out Wednesday night and said
they were canceling for postponing their season, UM, everyone was
sort of curious what, uh we were gonna do. UM
tour sent out a response. UM sent out response to
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that night, UH saying, hey, we're continuing to play the
p g A for the Players Championship and and we
will you know, keep you guys updated. You know, Thursday
went out like a normal day, knowing I guess the
only thing that I had on my mind was that
this was the only day fans are gonna be able
to come out and watch. So that was that was
a little sad knowing the next three days we may
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not have any fans out there. UM. And then we
get done. We Uh, we have a couple of play
relations guys that work for a tour UM in the
scoring area. They just want to talk to us about
the plane going further and then playing. At that point,
we're still to go ahead with the tournament and UM
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and and play without no fans. But they did tell
us that this was a every evolving situation and and
planes could change and depending on depending on what happened,
you know, you know, decision could be made in a
different way. So um, and then you know, I'm I'm
getting I'm in bed, I'm ready to go to sleep.
I just happened to check my Twitter one last time
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before I went to bed. My wife was still up,
so if I did fall asleep, she would have woke
me up and told me. But you know, they get
the text or that, Um, the player's championship is canceled,
and then the proceeding events after until the Masters were
canceled as well. So it was a very sad. I
got very sad at that point. Um. I'm a really
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optimistic guy and positive guy, but let's see what had
happened in the sports world and all these cancelations and
and just the good sorry, just to know what was
gonna take place. Um, with so many tournaments being canceled,
with so many charities organizations that weren't gonna be able
to you know, get the donation dollar from the tournaments,
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and looking forward to knowing the other sports and their
contribution to Tom Cherites organization. There's just a really sad
moment at that point. UH. And then you know, we
wake up Friday morning and Jay has a press conference
and and then more you know, then often to UH
no supports for for for quite a while, Yeah, Billy.
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And then of course the news comes on UH on
Tuesday that everything now canceled UM through the Byron Nelson
the PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco, UH
announcing that they have postponed the event. And still no
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word on the US Open or British Open or the
Olympics for that matter. What goes through your head as
a player when you hear all these cancelations just continuing
to pile up. Obviously this is a developing situation and
in a in a crisis, really a pandemic and um,
but what what goes through your head as you see
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more newds of cancelations unfold yesterday? Yeah, you know, I
can see the writing on the wall. UM. A couple
of days ago when CDC came out with a new
guidelines for the next fifteen days. UM, I just see
the writing on the wall and how things are gonna
go the the UM but people don't understand sometimes is
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that we could have you know, waited, you know, and
see how these next four weeks played out, and and
then you know, maybe there's a change in and the
spread or or the CDCs recommendations because obviously they change
every fifteen days. Um. But the problem is is that
you keep putting those tournaments out there on a limb
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out there on the island. They may not. Um, if
we canceled the last minute, then it's gonna be a
lot of money lost to them, a lot of hard
work done for for nothing. So we have to think,
you know, uh, down the road, how this is gonna work.
And so we just it was just smart for us
to cancel through min May, based off the recommendations of CDC,
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based off the recommendations of the medical people to work
with through the White House World Health Organization. So I
was just you know, the writing was on the wall there,
that's what we need to do. Instead of trying, you know,
just wait and wait and wait. We had to put
every everything a little bit, um, just give it a
little bit more time. And I've I've done a lot
of I mean I I've done a lot of reading
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on this for the last month, maybe six weeks since,
you know, and before we even started affecting the United States.
I've read a lot about this coronavirus, probably hundred plus
articles of based on you know, just by other doctors read,
you know, listen to a lot of news, and so
I have a very um, I feel like I'm very informed.
I have a lot of information on it. Does that
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make me knowledgeable? Does that make me know everything? No,
not at all. But I'm pretty optimistic and in the
sense that if if the country as a whole can
do the right things these next two to three weeks,
it really helps stop the spread of this virus and
we can sort of flatten out that curve a lot
sooner than some of the other countries have done. So
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I and I honestly think, I mean, I'm maybe it's
just me and the way I'm thinking about. I'm sure
everyone else is along saying a lot same lines. We
want to get back to our normal life as much
as possible. We don't want to be restricted, and and
where we can go, how we can go, what we
can do, how many people we can be around, you know,
we want to get back to normal life as much
as possible. So the sooner. So I'm just thinking that
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people around around America, you know, they're like, Okay, hey,
if they if they say we have to do this
for two to three weeks, and at that point, you
know we do. It's a really good job. We can
really flying out the curve and and returned to a
sense the normalcy a lot sooner. I think a lot
of people want to do that, And so I'm pretty optimistic.
I'm always optimistic. I'm always a positive guy. So I
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think we're gonna play golf sometime around that Colonial Rocket
Mortgage Memorial. Those three tournaments could be one of the
first events back. Just and that's just me. That's not
based on anything else. That's just me being positive and
optimistic and since how people have taken this serious and
want to do do the right thing and get back
to normal life. Right, Billy, Going back to Thursday when
you were playing at TPC, I saw you out there. Uh,
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were you worried at all? Were you concerned at all playing?
Were you concerned about getting the virus from a former
player or excuse me from it from another player, from
mccady or from a fan, Where you at all worried
playing on Thursday, and were you willing to continue playing?
I was willing to continue to play. Um, Like I said,
I have done it. I've done a lot of reading
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and a lot of pay intention to news and and
looking at the statistics and everything and seeing that yeah,
I could contract the virus. But it wasn't good. I
was no, I was not an ill, grave danger or anything.
I wasn't worried about my life. Um. I I felt like, hey,
if I get this, then then it's not uh, you know,
I'll have a some sentoms for a few days, something
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along the lines of like the flu um. But you know,
very few people around my age bracket had passed away
from this, So I wasn't too worried at all. When
when I when I look at numbers, I'll be more
worried about the flu because the flu is killing more
people of a wider age range than this. But the
more the one thing that in my early reading that's
been talked about now in the last i'd say five
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seven days, is that, um, it's just how it can spread,
and that I could have it, and it can spread
to someone of an older age. And and I think
that if I had and I could I gave it
to my parents in the upper six season, my wife's
grandparents in the low eighties. So I mean, you know,
it's it's um you know, if they would do a
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contracted their age bracket, there's a little bit more of
a mortality rate for them. So that's uh. I think
when when that all came out, that became a clearer message.
That's when I think the tours said, hey, you know what,
we need to just postpone, cancel these events, get their
players out of here, get the fans volunteers where they're
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you know, the best chance of them not contracting it
is from a large group of people. Now, Billy, I mean,
this is, as you mentioned, unprecedented. Obviously, there's their bigger
concerns on a bigger scale, you know than certainly playing
a golf tournament and so forth. But as a player,
I'm curious, you know most of the time. I mean, look,
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you've you've dealt with an injury before early in your career,
but you had a time frame in terms of when
you come back here. As you mentioned, it's possible that
maybe we'll be able to get back to playing golf
and made you know, mid to late May or maybe
shortly thereafter, I think, you know, allowed still to be determined.
But along those lines, how do you deal with um practicing?
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What do you spend your time doing? Uh? You know,
what do you what do you do with yourself for
these next two months two plus months where there's no
golf and and you're uncertain of when they will play again?
How do you kind of treat that? You know, it's
it's been tough to say because I'm so much of uh,
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you know, a focus, routine oriented guy, and being in season,
I know what needs to I need to do to
prepare and make myself ready to play week in a
week out, and I know what I'm gonna play again.
So I'm a plane. I've always been a planner, and
so this is when there's no clearer direction or clear
path when we're gonna go back to play. It's a
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little it was tough for me the first few days.
And I'm not I'm when I say tough, it's it's
it's it's really aative. It's not like I'm struggling, you know,
to make ends meet or anything like that. It's just
I just want to play golf. I love golf. I
love playing golf. I love competing, and that's what's tough.
It's not I know, I know right now I'm not
gonna be able to compete for a while. And so
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I was I've been trying to figure out what am
I gonna do, you know, try and get back into
to the home life, which my wife and I we've
talked about. I struggle with early on in our relationship
and um to to get away from golf, to distinguish
when I'm home and and when I'm at the golf
course and not letting stuff at the golf course affect
when I when I walked through the door. So it's
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always been a challenge for me, and I've done a
really good job over the last couple of years. But uh,
I saw you yesterday. I saw Brittany had you cleaning
windows yesterday? So you're definitely back into the home life. Well,
yesterday were the first day, like the first couple of days,
I literally just sat around the house like most people
and and it was like, man, I feel sad. I
don't want to do anything, you know, my energy level.
I did a workout the other day, but you know,
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the energy level wasn't there to do some other you know,
home home chores, and so yesterday was the first day.
Yah um, I was, I was, Okay, I need to
start doing stuff. And you know, I mean stills trying
to figure out how I'm gonna fad my time and
U and so I've been thinking about do I get
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a PlayStation and play some games and maybe getting the
call of duty. But I know my addictive personality in
the sense that I will I'll be up until three
or four or five am in the morning playing video
games and I've got to wake up next day helped
take care of the kids. Like, that's not gonna be
great for me. So you and Bryson, you guys can
tell you against each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll go
on Twitch. I can talk about how I have a
(21:41):
better stick pack to him, you know, yeah, exactly. You
know you're working out. I've got a Peloton bike and
obviously follow you on peloton. Um. I feel really good
sometimes about my peloton workouts and then you are rory,
and I'm like, you know what, I need a lot
of work. There we go more peloton. Yeah, you know,
the pellet FN it it's great. It's I mean, I'm
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gonna I'm actually gonna hop on it here later later
this afternoon and do a workout, and you know, I
think it's it's one thing that I've found out that
I'm gonna do a little bit and try and socialize
with with the people on social media and send out
my reports so people can you know, they want to
see them, and they want to compete against me very
high numbers. Yeah, it's just something that I think, I'm okay, well,
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I can find that. I know, that's one way I
can feel, you know, thirty forty five minutes of my
day uh doing that, and it'll be a great way
to still interact with the fans out there, because at
this point in time, people in this world were such
a big sports fans. I don't care who you are,
a majority of this country love sports and we don't
have that right now. So anyway, these these fans that
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support us every year, at every tournament, at every stop
we go to, anyway we can sort of interact with
them and and keep them engaged and and just uh
wanted to know what we're doing. I think that's gonna
be a great thing to do. And that's something that
you know, I'm looking forward to doing a little more
of Bill. Ye, I'm curious. Obviously, it sounds like you're
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going to stay fit, certainly fitter than myself, who among
the three of us, is the only person who doesn't
have to put on what we call the quarantine fifteen before. Well,
it sounds like I should order a peloton so to
keep up with you guys. But um, I'm curious if
you've heard anything about TPC saw Grouse and whether they
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will close down. Um, we've seen some golf courses around
the country start to close down. Obviously that's a place
where you're able to practice. I know there's some other
clubs in the area where you practice as well. Uh
have you heard anything along those lines whether uh you'll
still be able to practice uh in the near future. Yeah. So, um,
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that's still um, the tour still looking at that and
still trying to forge out what they want to do
with all the tPCS around the country. Uh. You know,
they want to make sure that the following the guidelines
and and that uh you know, administration and CDC has
set uh. But at the same time they understand that,
you know, being outside is actually a great spot to
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be if you have this virus. You know, it's especially
if you're not in big gathering, so so trying to
figure that out. And I think, um, you know what,
they maybe look at what most clubs are doing, especially
the club I live out here and in pont of Ezra,
the plantation. Uh, we've shut down our food and beverage
operation or inside, so no one's allowed to go inside
the clubhouse. We can still order food and it will
be delivered to our to our houses if we wanted
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or what. We can pick it up at the clubhouse,
but no one's allowed inside. And so I think the
club's looking at doing or CPC maybe look at doing
stufthing like that, but still keeping the golf aspect going
so people can play golf. I mean, you know, I mean, shoot,
if we if we cancel everything in this world, um,
which I mean we go on a complete lockdown like
some of these some of these countries, I mean, we'll
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will be uh. I mean there's gonna be a rebellion,
not that I think there will be or I hope
there won't be, but people were rebelt. I mean it
just the way society is. You see what's happening in
France and and uh, that situation. But I think by
like I said, being outdoors is one of the safest
places you can be based off CDC and and the
guidelines that's been set out. So the tours looking at
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that and trying to you know, do things right and
still give people a sense of a way to get
to get you know, just relief for two or three
or four hours, you know during the day, seeing that
a lot of a lot of us are gonna be
cooped up inside and and so anything that we can
do to get out and burn some energy, um is
gonna be a positive. Billy, I want to get into
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real fast. Also, I want to talk about all that
the good that you did after the Players Championship was canceled.
I know you did a lot of stuff with feeding
North Florida, but I wanted to ask you as well,
have you been tested for the coronavirus or do you
know of any other caddies or players that have been
tested or a possible presumptive positive going around? So, uh Saturday,
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I mean Friday, when when the announcement came down, I
was at the club up or TPC star Graphs and
and people were asking me if I was gonna get
tested in and I said, you know, I'm gonna get tested.
I want to get my family tested. But the more
I've the more I've read on it, uh and and
been it's been in the information has been clear me
taking a test right now is is not beneficial to anyone. Um,
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it's taking a test of someone who needs it. Um.
You know I have I have five people in my households.
That's five five extra tests that could be used on
someone more important. UM, I've got kids under three, kids
on the age of ten, and and from what I've read,
you know it's it's the kids on the ten they're
not really contracting this virus, so it's very hard for
them to to contract it. So I said, another thing
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that doesn't need to to be tested. And then at
the same time, UM, if my wife and I worried
to have the virus um every when he has some symptoms,
they're very mild. Um. Like I said, the only reason
I would want to get tested was to make sure
I'm not spreading to my my parents or her grandparents
or or someone of order ordered bracket. But like I said,
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if the symptoms are there, then I'll just quarantine myself.
But I have not been tested in right now, I
don't plan on being tested good, So Billy on Thursday afternoon,
we have the players obviously a ton of food purchased
for the weekend and planned on three more rounds and
many more fans. I was there on Thursday, not a
lot of people on Thursday, like a normal Thursday. So
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there's a lot of food that they had planned and
purchased for the weekend to have this big event. But
you were able to do something really good. Can you
let us sit on exactly what you were able to
do and how many meals you were able to move?
So one of the things, uh, when I knew the
event was canceled UM Thursday night, one of the first
thing that came to my head was Speeding Northeast Florida,
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a local food bank that my wife and I have
supported since And knowing that all this food that was
supposed to be used the next three days is gonna
be used. UM, I was like, Okay, well, you know
I need to UM just talk to some of the
guys that players who run the Players in the PGA tour.
It's what's the plan for for this UM. They have
supported the Players Championship has supported feed Northeast Florida for
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several years now UM through UM financial donations. So I
knew already in my back of my mind, I knew
they were, you know, looking at UM, you know, donating
food the feed Northeast Florida. I just want to see
how they were gonna do it, when they were gonna
do it, And so before I could even ask the questions,
Jay Jay mentioned it in the press conference uh Friday morning,
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and so then I had a few more conversations with
the people at the tour and my team coordinated with him.
They told me that Friday afternoon they were gonna all
the food that was supposed to be used at tPCS clubhouse. UM,
all the people who could get inside of the clubhouse
and eat, they were gonna donate, which was two tons
of food, which came out to be about sixty dollars.
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And UM, that goes a long way, because one dollar
equals six meals before feeding Northeast Florida, So sixty dollars
is three and sixty meals, So that goes a long
long way. And then UM several of the uh UM
food providers out in the golf course, we're gonna donate.
So UM at the end of the day, it came
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to twenty two tons of food worth roughly two million
dollars donated to feed Northeast Florida. So that was, uh,
you know, you gotta look at the positive. You gotta
look at how how you know, Nowada, we can't play golf,
what can we do to make a positive impact on
our community, because there's gonna be so many people affected
by this, not just the virus, but by not having work,
by not being able to get food to them. You know,
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a lot more people are gonna be affected than than
just people getting sick. So it was a great thing.
What the Player's Championship did, the PGA Tour did. Um.
I stayed in some interviews earlier that Friday morning to
that I was gonna donate my player's check to to
feed Northeast Florida and a few other charities, and UH
went on social media and talked about or uh just
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ask my fellow players who played in the Players Championship
if they could um possibly donate a portion, maybe their
entire portion of their players check to the charities and
foundations that we're gonna be affected from the players being
canceled in and UH proceeding events being canceled Ballast Bar,
WC match Play, Valero and Dominican tournaments. Uh. You know,
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these charities that live off the money UM donated from
these events and usually survive on it for a year
aren't gonna get the money that they're normally used to getting,
and so now they're going to struggle to keep the
doors open and maintain their mission that they want to
do so. Uh. I saw Matt Wallace donated to Blessings
in a backpack here in town, which was unbelievable. UM.
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I know of a few other guys um through the
grape fine um, but it's just really awesome that some
of these players have uh are and we do a
really good job in the PGA Tour of seeing the
bigger picture and and I know many other guys are
gonna have seen the big picture and understand that we
need to help out people who aren't nearly as fortunate
as us. A deal. Well, Billy, you've you've done a
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lot for the you know, for this community. I've only
lived here for a year and I've seen all the
stuff that you've done here in North Florida. I know
that you're always donating and given your time and always
out in the community. And so this is just another
example of you taking care of where you live and
and and setting a great example both for your your
children and your wife in the community. Thanks guys, So
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I will hold on real quick. I want to bring
up another area that we're gonna miss out this year,
and I know Billy is really going to be upset
about this, is it's being overlooked. The Florida Gator baseball
team was in fact undefeated and probably going to win
the College World Series and now we no, no, no, no,
there's no well no, no, Whacker, I listen, is it
(31:44):
we we beat your Canes? Uh? The Florida Gator baseball
team was very, very good, and so I think there's
gonna be there will be no college yeah. Um uh.
I still, I still don't agree with with n c
double a's decision to cancel Um. I understand winter sports
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because Winter Sports Championships are going on right now. I
don't understand the backing of of canceling the Spring Sports
championships because the College Roles Series played in and is
the played in June. Um so they could make something work.
But I understand there's allow of logistics that go into
it and and as much as I want to see
sports on TV and when we get back all these
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sports back to competing, I understand the decision that made
and how tough it is, and and it is the
right decision going forward. I just feel bad for all
these players, and um, just not my Florida Gators, but
every every athlete out there in college that aren't able
to compete right now, because this is what we love do.
We go to college wanting to to compete and and
play in front of fans and and compete for championships
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and and then take that away from from these kids
this year. It's it's it's a tough thing. Um. And
I know, I just it's tough. I I mean, I
I feel for them. So uh hopefully hopefully all these kids.
And I think the n C double A came out
and said anyone who's a senior gets extra year of eligibility. Um.
I think there's some other stuff that needs to be
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figured out because with that being said, the roster sizes
now need to be expanded, um, because you're gonna have
kids who apposed to graduate and incoming freshman class. Now
you're gonna have more kids on your roster than than
you're allowed. So there's a lot of other things that
need to be figured out. But yeah, it's just tough.
I mean, I said, any sports being canceled right now. Um,
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it's just it's especially at the college level and amateur level.
These kids aren't competing for money. These kids are competing
for the love of the game and for their school
and for their own pride, and now you know, it's
just tough to see they're not able to do that. Yea,
Hopefully we'll getting figured out for the fall, because our
gators looks like this year, Billy, we might we might
get the college. Yeah, like I said, I mean, I
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would think we had this figured out by the fall. Um,
I said mystic. Um, I'm positive. I'm looking at what
China you know that they flattened out. Um, they seem
to be sort of got this under under control. South
Korea seemed to have under control. It seems like we've
got some vaccines um in the works that that may
be able to uh be able to defeat this virus
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if someone gets it. So I mean, I'm thinking here
next you know, by in the summer, by August, we're
gonna look back and be like, hey, you know what,
we did, the right thing. Everything's good and and now
now everyone, now we can get back to the watching
college football and kicking the Miami Hurricanes. But here we go,
Here we go, there we go. That's my boy, Billy.
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I can't even say anything, but you're right. You're right.
Look all you all, you all your Hurricanes fan, all
you guys, because you use back. It's back. I mean
every time. I I mean, listen, I love I love
the fans on the golf course, and I love especially
all year around, but especially college football season. They love
the shout you know, go Canes and go dogs, the
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ghost seminoles. And as I've always said, I said, you
know what, if you're gonna say that to me, you
better hope your team's doing really well because I will
come back with a response. And well, look, it was
like this a couple of years ago at Oakma that
someone said kept yelling at me, go valls, go balls,
and I'm fine, said, dude, you guys are lemon and
one against us in the last twelve games. I mean,
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come on, just shut up over there. Your team sucks.
My team's kicking your ass on a yearly basis. You
know you shouldn't probably saying go balls to me now,
Like if it was the Georgia Bulldogs, I can't say
deadly squad to them right now. They beat our asked
the last couple of years, and I mean I got
nothing to my I just take it on the chin
and then let it go. But we beat the Canes
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last time we played, to make sure remember it just
does well, you know, look at the upside to all
of this, and I'm glad we can at least have
some some levity and amid amid this crisis. Is that
because of this quarantine now um, you know, and and
the cancelation of every tour events, I at least on
see Billy to pay off the dinner bet we made
(36:03):
on last last Falls game, and so it'll be a
while before he's able to collect on that, at least
exactly what you do. I think a nice roots Chris
Steakhouse visit is definitely uh on on your dime, whacker.
Yeah you know it's I'll tell you what. I I
know we all are. This is still fresh for only
(36:23):
three or four or five days in this uh this
um social distancing um. People trying to be responsive and
helped us, you know, stop the spread of this this virus.
So it'll be nice when we can get back to,
you know, making jokes about our how one team sucks
more than the other, or just talking about sports and
not having to worry about a virus and the spread
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of it. So I'm really looking forward, just like everyone
else in this world, getting back to some semblance of
that good deal. Billy Horschell, thank you so much for
your time. I appreciate you coming on and being so
candid and and uh, thanks for all you doing for
the North Florida community, Northeast Florida community. Thanks guys. Thanks
so whackerft forgot to ask Billy actually about the perfect
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practice putting that And the only reason I was gonna
ask him is I know he has one because I
saw him using it on social media last night with
his daughters, these tour pros. I'll have him. You and
I both have to get one, because while we're quarantined
here and we can't go out and play golf with
they're not. They haven't said yet you can't, but I'm
guessing that's coming. Um. I would definitely like to get one.
(37:26):
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And there's a ton of tour pros that have these
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And as you mentioned, I mean a number of players
have them. Billy Horshel, Mark Leishman, Jimmy Walker, I know,
I saw him earlier this week at home practice putting.
Because look, let's face it, these tour for is, like
the rest of us, don't really know what to do
their home now. All of a sudden, They're used to
being on the road, particularly this time of the year,
(38:09):
so they don't really know what to do with themselves. Um,
they're able to still practice and so forth, but they,
as Billy discussed, you know, they don't know when they're
going to be back playing, and they're sort of trying
to figure out. Um. You know, look again, if you
have an injury, you have a window of of when
you're going to be back playing. These guys really have
no idea. I mean, there's such creatures of habit that
(38:31):
all of a sudden that's completely uprooted. And look in
the grand scheme of things. This is this is obviously,
um so secondary to everything that's happening, but um, you know,
don't know, Yeah, we all need something to do. So
I love the idea of you and I having a
having a putting contest. This is as close as we're
gonna be able to be able to play golf against
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each other. So yeah, I love this idea. So it's
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of here. I do want to talk about my favorite
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NFL team is usually the butt of most jokes, Like
if you don't use the Cleveland Browns as the butt
of the joke, you usually use the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But you know what, lo and behold the heavens opened
and Tom Brady has fallen into our laps. And who
would have ever thought that the greatest of all time?
Another goat, Like you know, we always talk about Tiger
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be in the goat, but another goat has fallen into
the lapse of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and it is
Tom Brady appears to be the starting quarterback for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the next two seasons. Game this
Uh yeah, I wonder what Gaselle thinks of Tampa. I
wonder if he's even been there. Nothing against Tampa, but
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that's my hometown. Be carefully, yeah, of course, but it's
certainly different than what she's been used to in Boston.
The last much nicer winners, yes, much nicer winner A
lot of golf, a lot of golf year round for
Tom to play. Um, so he's got that some terrific
golf courses instantly makes And did you see last night,
um Las Vegas sports book up them to the third
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our fourth best odds to go to the Super Bowl.
That that has sucker bit and sucker be written all over.
Hold on to listen. The defense last year was top
ten in the last eight games of the season. The
defense really came on strong with Shaq Barrett and Jason
Pierre paul Um linebackers are really good. We've got some
good secondary players that are young, a lot of young guys.
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The defense came on strong. The problem is is that,
like Stephen A. Smith said, we are our best defensive
player on offense. Unfortunately was playing offense and it was
Jamis Winston. He gave them all away thirty times. So
you gotta think between Evans, Mike Evans one of the
best receivers in the league, Chris Godwin, O. J. Howard
(41:04):
a tight end, Cameron Brady tight end, You've got a
decent line, and then you got uh Brashad Perriman came
on very strong at the end of the years of receivers.
The third receiver, Scotty Miller's that fast guy that kind
of like an Edelman style receiver. And then we go
get a running back. We do not have a running
game now, but you had a running back, and then
you add Tom Brady. It instantly Listen, we haven't been
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to the playoffs since two thousand seven. It instantly makes
them a playoff team. If we could go seven and
nine with Jamis Winston turning the ball over thirty times,
if you had Tom Brady with that other talent, it
instantly makes us a playoff team. And who knows how
dB could go and it could be history. This this year,
the Super Bowl is being played in Tampa. Well, and
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you've got Bruce Arians, it's head coach and certainly one
of the more innovative minds in the game, and it's
had success elsewhere. UM and probably I would imagine would
provide some revitalization to Brady at this point in his creator.
But it's willing to get Let's be honest, Belichick never
really gave Brady the credit. It was always he was
just part of the system. I think Arians, on the
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other hand, will be one that will be somebody that
would champion Brady, make him feel like he is special.
And I do think it's a huge change for that
Buck's locker room and having Tom Brady doing doing things
the Brady way. I don't you can call it the
Patriot way or whatever you want. I think his work
ethic will up the game of everybody around him because
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that's what kind of player he is. Look, if the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers get to the Super Bowl, Froggy, I
will eat the most disgusting sandwich you can come up with. Okay,
I will, because that's just it's just not gonna happen. Look,
Tom Brady's is the all time greatest quarterback. UM. But look,
we saw this before, we saw this with Joe Montana,
going back all those years in the Kansas City Chiefs,
(42:49):
they got he did, They got to the a f
C Championship. Very good team. I just don't see the
Buccaneers being able to get over that hurdle, Um and
get to to a super Bowl with an aging Tom Brady. Um. Look,
this is you know, to bring it back to golf.
I mean, I think there was a period where people
would question whether Tiger Woods would ever win again, much
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less a major. He's done that, Um, and that immediately
sparked talk of eighteen majors being in play. And maybe
it is. But look at look at what we saw
from Tiger Um last year being injured. Look at what
we've seen from him this year. He's forty four years old,
will be forty five years old at the history. No,
(43:31):
certainly not. But the point being aging athletes just uh,
you know, it's hard to find that success is undefeated
for sure. Yeah, you don't see guys have success other
than if they've got some some help, if you know
what I mean, Barry Bonds. Um, they don't improve as
they get older. So look at a different sport when
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you're talking about a team sports such as football versus
obviously an individual game in golf. But I just don't
see Uh. Look, Tampa Bay fans should be excited. I'd
be excited if I was a Bucks fan, yeah, going
from Jameis Winston Tom Brady at any age. But um,
I just don't see them being able to get to
a Super Bowl. So I am willing to quite literally
(44:15):
a awful sandwich, um if if they should get there,
and Froggy, I'll let you pick the sandwich when you
get to that point. Sounds good when it happens, and
we'll we'll we'll do a lot on the podcast and
and go from there. But I just don't see that. Hope.
I'll just be happy if they're playing in September in
the NFL. Yeah, exactly right. And that's rotting that too,
(44:36):
like where will we be with all this going on
when we have a season, h a non shortened season,
and where will we be? But you know, injuries do
play a lot of things. But I'm telling you as
a Buccaneers fan, it really truly is the first time
that we've been able to land the big fish like
we were second when Brett Farvee was making that first
(44:56):
move and he went to the Jets. Um, we were
second in that time, we finished second and did not
get Brett Farve, and so for us to finally finish first, UH,
it is a good feeling and we'll see where it
goes from here. Having Tom Brady on your team is
never a bad thing. And Tampa Bay is actually changing
their uniforms next year. So what better way to launch
a new uniform in Jersey sales then with Tom Brady
(45:20):
coming in and that number twelve, Jersey will probably be
one of the best selling jerseys in the NFL. Is
my guest this year? Yeah, no, no doubt about it. Uh.
And some positive news uh and an otherwise dark time
here in Florida. UM. As mentioned earlier, things starting to
shut down. UM. It's as we try to contain a
(45:41):
very serious situation with this coronavirus and the spread of
it and more deaths UM and more sickness is popping up.
So obviously wishing the best for everyone and hoping that
everyone stays healthy. UH, stays home UM and we can
get back to some semblance of normalcy and in our
lives sometime uh soon here. Absolutely follow the rules of
(46:05):
your local authorities. Stay home, UM, quarantine if if you
are sick or somebody in your family is sick. Remember
of people who will get this disease will show no symptoms. However,
you can infect someone. So going to a restaurant or
being around somebody who does not have the best immune system,
or somebody who is elderly, you are risking them. So
(46:27):
stay home. Let's let's the flatten the curve, as they say,
let's get this over with and let's get our life
back to normal. We will be back on the podcast
as there are developments in the golf world. Will be back.
Obviously it's gonna be a couple of weeks um, but
we'll see what happens. Hopefully we'll start getting some clarity
and see when we can get back on the golf
course and see when we as fans will be able
(46:50):
to get guys playing golf again. And we have a
putty contest to conduct, so we look forward to sharing
that with you guys, and who and who wins that.
I don't want to make any predictions. Might I'm gonna
win out with my putting has been pretty good lately,
but we'll see, We'll see what happens. Well, got it.
Thank you so much for listening. To the Playing Through
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Corona Virus addition of the Playing Crew podcast. Here we
are crazy times right now in sports, crazy times really
all over the United States. It's Froggy from Albus Ran.
It's really crazy times all over the world. It's Froggy
(00:21):
from almost to Rand in the morning show at Froggy
Radio on Instagram and Twitter at Playing Through podcast on Instagram,
joined by my co host Brian Whacker from Golf Digest
at Brian Wacker one on Twitter and Instagram. And it
has really been a wild ride the last uh ten days.
So much has changed really in just a week. I
(00:42):
remember the last podcast we did, we were getting ready
for the players and we were all excited about what
we were gonna see and and who was playing and
who wasn't playing. And then we get to day one
of the players and the NBA cancels the night before,
and then we get Round one and no fans. Then
all of a sudden, the cancelation of the plays. And
in the last seven days now we have really seen
(01:03):
a huge change in just the way we're living our
lives every single day socially. So Whacker, um, I know
you've got some new information on cancelations. I know we're
gonna talk to Billy Horschel on this podcast, who is
uh a player there at the Players Championship and has
taken UH an action and taking the bull by the
horns and done some charitable events to benefit charities that
(01:25):
lost out from the Players Championship cancelation. But what exactly
where do we go from here? And what is going on?
I mean, there are no no sports being played for
the first time I can ever remember in my lifetime.
You turn on ESPN, all they're talking about is is
NFL free agency, uh and guys that are being diagnosed
with coronavirus. But there's no sports being played. Well, I'll
(01:45):
leave it to the NFL to march on. Of course,
I guess a lot of the free agency stuff, um
can be done remotely and so forth. It's still not
probably not a great look for that league. But to
your point this, these are weird, unprecedented times. Really, um,
you know, really nine eleven comes to mind, obviously for
a much different reason and certainly a much shorter time
(02:05):
in terms of sports not being played. But really, yeah,
you go back to that Players Championship, Um, you know
the Chain Smoker's concert that you were out on Tuesday
night at TPC saw Grass last week. Was that that
seems forever ago? Um, and forty eight hours later, Um,
it really things really drastically changed, probably for the better. Uh.
(02:29):
The PGA Tour albeit a little bit slow, um, and
golf and it's governing bodies a little bit slow to
make decisions. Granted it's a complicated process and there's a
lot involved, but finally making the right decisions. And you
mentioned the new news, um for anyone you hadn't heard
as of yet. Of course, golf is canceled on the
PGA Tour uh through deep Byron Nelson, which is in
(02:53):
mid May. The PGA Championship the following week, uh May
fourteen through seventeen at Harding Park in Sanford, Cisco has
been postponed. It looks like that event will be played
later in the summer, potentially in August. UM, no surprise there.
I mean you look at San Francisco. That's that's a
hot zone, right, I mean residents and they're on complete lockdown. Yeah,
(03:14):
residents of six counties in the Bay Area ordered to
shelter in place. Uh, you're talking more than seven million
people in that instance. So these are strange times, and
really for you, I think this is only the beginning. Um.
I think we're going to see more closings. I know
here in Miami, uh, schools are closed. They've they've ordered
(03:35):
the closing of bars and restaurants statewide, only allowing for
takeout or delivery. Uh no in the service restaurants service,
and UM, you know, I think we're only I've heard
some golf courses closing as well, So I think we're
only going to see more of this now real quick,
before we get to Bully Horse, I want to ask you.
I know they said they're going to postpone and reschedule
(03:59):
the Masters in it looks like maybe October is when
they could do that. But Jack Nicholas not a video
saying he can't see a way that they get this
done if they have to read. Also, they postpone number.
There's a big difference in canceling and postponed. Canceling is
what they're doing with tournaments, which means that tournament will
not be made up, it will just happen again next year,
where postponing is means they're going to attempt to make
(04:20):
it up. So does that mean we're still going to
get all four majors this year? I don't know. I
think that's UM. I don't think anybody really knows. As
you mentioned, UM, they're there multiple sources that seem to
indicate the Masters could be played in that second week
of October, the week of October five through twelve. I
(04:40):
believe at the dates, UM, that is not confirmed. I
mean we're talking about running majors back to back to back. Well,
I don't. I don't know at this point. I mean
you look at UM. You know, of course the US
Open and the Open Championship. UM. The US Open schedules
for wingfoot in suburban U or UH, June eighty one,
(05:02):
I mean that's in the hot zone. UM, that could
that event certainly doesn't seem like it would be played
on time, may even have to change locations. UM. The
British Open July six, UM at Royal St. George's in England. UH,
that doesn't seem likely. I think we can expect, for example,
(05:24):
Wimbledon will probably postpone or cancel at some point, UM,
and that will drive the decision UH for the British Open,
which follows Wimbledon's so I think there's still a lot
to be determined. Getting all four majors, you know, back
to the original question, getting all four majors in in
the same year in UH seems difficult though, because uh,
(05:48):
there's only so many places you can put those, particularly
as we get later in the year on the calendar.
As I mentioned, it looks like the PGA Championship, presuming
all is uh, you know, golf is back to normal
by then, it looks like the PGA Championship could slot
into August. We mentioned the Masters could slot into October.
(06:09):
There was a report also yesterday that the Ryder Cup,
which is scheduled Forceptember later this year, UM, would get
pushed to one. However, the pg of America has said
that is not the case. UM, that is incorrect. Of course,
we also saw reports recently that the PGA Championship would
get moved from Harding Park to TPC saw Grass. That
(06:31):
report was also shot down by the PGA of America. UM,
and now it's looking like that will be the case
in terms of PGA Championship being able to be played
at least or now in August in San Francisco. But
then you're talking, I mean look, they're there are only
so many weeks the you know, the tour could open
(06:51):
up a week um somewhere along along the line. But um,
you know this is a domino effect. Really, when you
start canceling events, um, you know, postponing events, there are
only so many places they can they can put I mean,
the PGA Tour schedule is pretty full. So if the
PGA Tour gets back to playing um in May or June,
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then there are only so many openings where majors could
be um slotted in for the year. But uh, you know,
these are all ongoing discussions, the Five Families of Golf,
the PGA Tour, the PGA of America, the RNA, the
U S, G A UM and so forth. Yeah, Gusta,
they're all in conversation as we speak, ongoing conversations to
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try to figure out how to proceed and what to
do well while we are quote self, what's it social
distancing and quarantining? I do have? Um, I'm not knowing
if you've seen this thing online. I saw Billy actually
want to touch base with Billy on this when we
talked to him or afterwards. Uh, there's this thing called
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the perfect practice putting Matt. I've seen them all over
there's a ton of tour pros that have them. And
since we can't get out of the house and do whatever,
and I know I'm driving my wife crazy, I would
love to have one of these and try it out.
You should get one too, and we'll have like a
little putting, a little social distancing, quarantining putting contest. Yeah,
I mean, you know, I love to play golf together.
It's it's now harder, of course, now that you've decided
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to move to to Jacksonville and uh pont of Edra area.
So and I'm still down here in Miami. But um,
in the meantime, Yes, to your point, we can. I
love the idea of lining them, lining up the map,
us having a put off. We can have maybe a
game of horse with it. With the putting. I think
we can have some fun here, because, let's face it,
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we're just at the beginning of this crisis and it's
only going to get worse. I think we're you know
has mentioned we're seeing things shut down all over the place,
particularly here in Florida. So I don't think either one
of us is going to be leaving the house anytime soon.
So for some sanity. Yeah, I think we're going to
have to practice uh and look, it'll keep our short
games sharp from when we are able to get back
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to the golf course. Yes, I'll give you the website
where you can get one, and I've actually got a
discount code, so we'll talk about that in a minute.
But also I want to touch base after we talked
to Billy, I want to talk to you about the
Tom Brady playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's not
something I ever ever thought in the world was gonna happen.
I mean it. You know, as we mentioned, everything else
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is shut down in sports except the NFL free agency period,
which frog you're a long time Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan,
which is not many people can actually say that and
none have it be true. But but this has to
be the biggest news other than them having won a
Super Bowl. Obviously, this this has to be the the
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biggest UH story Enfranchise history. It really truly is my
first all these cancelations, everything going on, nobody better to
talk to than asking an actual tour player. So tell
me from walk us through last week. You start off
on Thursday, you played the first round of the players,
and then all of a sudden and went from we're
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gonna have fans too, We're not gonna have fans too,
then canceled on Thursday evening. Yeah, it was crazy. UM.
You know when NBA came out Wednesday night and said
they were canceling for postponing their season, UM, everyone was
sort of curious what, uh we were gonna do. UM
tour sent out a response. UM sent out response to
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that night, UH saying, hey, we're continuing to play the
p g A for the Players Championship and and we
will you know, keep you guys updated. You know, Thursday
went out like a normal day, knowing I guess the
only thing that I had on my mind was that
this was the only day fans are gonna be able
to come out and watch. So that was that was
a little sad knowing the next three days we may
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not have any fans out there. UM. And then we
get done. We Uh, we have a couple of play
relations guys that work for a tour UM in the
scoring area. They just want to talk to us about
the plane going further and then playing. At that point,
we're still to go ahead with the tournament and UM
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and and play without no fans. But they did tell
us that this was a every evolving situation and and
planes could change and depending on depending on what happened,
you know, you know, decision could be made in a
different way. So um, and then you know, I'm I'm
getting I'm in bed, I'm ready to go to sleep.
I just happened to check my Twitter one last time
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before I went to bed. My wife was still up,
so if I did fall asleep, she would have woke
me up and told me. But you know, they get
the text or that, Um, the player's championship is canceled,
and then the proceeding events after until the Masters were
canceled as well. So it was a very sad. I
got very sad at that point. Um. I'm a really
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optimistic guy and positive guy, but let's see what had
happened in the sports world and all these cancelations and
and just the good sorry, just to know what was
gonna take place. Um, with so many tournaments being canceled,
with so many charities organizations that weren't gonna be able
to you know, get the donation dollar from the tournaments,
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and looking forward to knowing the other sports and their
contribution to Tom Cherites organization. There's just a really sad
moment at that point. UH. And then you know, we
wake up Friday morning and Jay has a press conference
and and then more you know, then often to UH
no supports for for for quite a while, Yeah, Billy.
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And then of course the news comes on UH on
Tuesday that everything now canceled UM through the Byron Nelson
the PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco, UH
announcing that they have postponed the event. And still no
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word on the US Open or British Open or the
Olympics for that matter. What goes through your head as
a player when you hear all these cancelations just continuing
to pile up. Obviously this is a developing situation and
in a in a crisis, really a pandemic and um,
but what what goes through your head as you see
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more newds of cancelations unfold yesterday? Yeah, you know, I
can see the writing on the wall. UM. A couple
of days ago when CDC came out with a new
guidelines for the next fifteen days. UM, I just see
the writing on the wall and how things are gonna
go the the UM but people don't understand sometimes is
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that we could have you know, waited, you know, and
see how these next four weeks played out, and and
then you know, maybe there's a change in and the
spread or or the CDCs recommendations because obviously they change
every fifteen days. Um. But the problem is is that
you keep putting those tournaments out there on a limb
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out there on the island. They may not. Um, if
we canceled the last minute, then it's gonna be a
lot of money lost to them, a lot of hard
work done for for nothing. So we have to think,
you know, uh, down the road, how this is gonna work.
And so we just it was just smart for us
to cancel through min May, based off the recommendations of CDC,
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based off the recommendations of the medical people to work
with through the White House World Health Organization. So I
was just you know, the writing was on the wall there,
that's what we need to do. Instead of trying, you know,
just wait and wait and wait. We had to put
every everything a little bit, um, just give it a
little bit more time. And I've I've done a lot
of I mean I I've done a lot of reading
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on this for the last month, maybe six weeks since,
you know, and before we even started affecting the United States.
I've read a lot about this coronavirus, probably hundred plus
articles of based on you know, just by other doctors read,
you know, listen to a lot of news, and so
I have a very um, I feel like I'm very informed.
I have a lot of information on it. Does that
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make me knowledgeable? Does that make me know everything? No,
not at all. But I'm pretty optimistic and in the
sense that if if the country as a whole can
do the right things these next two to three weeks,
it really helps stop the spread of this virus and
we can sort of flatten out that curve a lot
sooner than some of the other countries have done. So
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I and I honestly think, I mean, I'm maybe it's
just me and the way I'm thinking about. I'm sure
everyone else is along saying a lot same lines. We
want to get back to our normal life as much
as possible. We don't want to be restricted, and and
where we can go, how we can go, what we
can do, how many people we can be around, you know,
we want to get back to normal life as much
as possible. So the sooner. So I'm just thinking that
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people around around America, you know, they're like, Okay, hey,
if they if they say we have to do this
for two to three weeks, and at that point, you
know we do. It's a really good job. We can
really flying out the curve and and returned to a
sense the normalcy a lot sooner. I think a lot
of people want to do that, And so I'm pretty optimistic.
I'm always optimistic. I'm always a positive guy. So I
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think we're gonna play golf sometime around that Colonial Rocket
Mortgage Memorial. Those three tournaments could be one of the
first events back. Just and that's just me. That's not
based on anything else. That's just me being positive and
optimistic and since how people have taken this serious and
want to do do the right thing and get back
to normal life. Right, Billy, Going back to Thursday when
you were playing at TPC, I saw you out there. Uh,
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were you worried at all? Were you concerned at all playing?
Were you concerned about getting the virus from a former
player or excuse me from it from another player, from
mccady or from a fan, Where you at all worried
playing on Thursday, and were you willing to continue playing?
I was willing to continue to play. Um, Like I said,
I have done it. I've done a lot of reading
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and a lot of pay intention to news and and
looking at the statistics and everything and seeing that yeah,
I could contract the virus. But it wasn't good. I
was no, I was not an ill, grave danger or anything.
I wasn't worried about my life. Um. I I felt like, hey,
if I get this, then then it's not uh, you know,
I'll have a some sentoms for a few days, something
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along the lines of like the flu um. But you know,
very few people around my age bracket had passed away
from this, So I wasn't too worried at all. When
when I when I look at numbers, I'll be more
worried about the flu because the flu is killing more
people of a wider age range than this. But the
more the one thing that in my early reading that's
been talked about now in the last i'd say five
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seven days, is that, um, it's just how it can spread,
and that I could have it, and it can spread
to someone of an older age. And and I think
that if I had and I could I gave it
to my parents in the upper six season, my wife's
grandparents in the low eighties. So I mean, you know,
it's it's um you know, if they would do a
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contracted their age bracket, there's a little bit more of
a mortality rate for them. So that's uh. I think
when when that all came out, that became a clearer message.
That's when I think the tours said, hey, you know what,
we need to just postpone, cancel these events, get their
players out of here, get the fans volunteers where they're
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you know, the best chance of them not contracting it
is from a large group of people. Now, Billy, I mean,
this is, as you mentioned, unprecedented. Obviously, there's their bigger
concerns on a bigger scale, you know than certainly playing
a golf tournament and so forth. But as a player,
I'm curious, you know most of the time. I mean, look,
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you've you've dealt with an injury before early in your career,
but you had a time frame in terms of when
you come back here. As you mentioned, it's possible that
maybe we'll be able to get back to playing golf
and made you know, mid to late May or maybe
shortly thereafter, I think, you know, allowed still to be determined.
But along those lines, how do you deal with um practicing?
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What do you spend your time doing? Uh? You know,
what do you what do you do with yourself for
these next two months two plus months where there's no
golf and and you're uncertain of when they will play again?
How do you kind of treat that? You know, it's
it's been tough to say because I'm so much of uh,
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you know, a focus, routine oriented guy, and being in season,
I know what needs to I need to do to
prepare and make myself ready to play week in a
week out, and I know what I'm gonna play again.
So I'm a plane. I've always been a planner, and
so this is when there's no clearer direction or clear
path when we're gonna go back to play. It's a
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little it was tough for me the first few days.
And I'm not I'm when I say tough, it's it's
it's it's really aative. It's not like I'm struggling, you know,
to make ends meet or anything like that. It's just
I just want to play golf. I love golf. I
love playing golf. I love competing, and that's what's tough.
It's not I know, I know right now I'm not
gonna be able to compete for a while. And so
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I was I've been trying to figure out what am
I gonna do, you know, try and get back into
to the home life, which my wife and I we've
talked about. I struggle with early on in our relationship
and um to to get away from golf, to distinguish
when I'm home and and when I'm at the golf
course and not letting stuff at the golf course affect
when I when I walked through the door. So it's
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always been a challenge for me, and I've done a
really good job over the last couple of years. But uh,
I saw you yesterday. I saw Brittany had you cleaning
windows yesterday? So you're definitely back into the home life. Well,
yesterday were the first day, like the first couple of days,
I literally just sat around the house like most people
and and it was like, man, I feel sad. I
don't want to do anything, you know, my energy level.
I did a workout the other day, but you know,
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the energy level wasn't there to do some other you know,
home home chores, and so yesterday was the first day.
Yah um, I was, I was, Okay, I need to
start doing stuff. And you know, I mean stills trying
to figure out how I'm gonna fad my time and
U and so I've been thinking about do I get
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a PlayStation and play some games and maybe getting the
call of duty. But I know my addictive personality in
the sense that I will I'll be up until three
or four or five am in the morning playing video
games and I've got to wake up next day helped
take care of the kids. Like, that's not gonna be
great for me. So you and Bryson, you guys can
tell you against each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll go
on Twitch. I can talk about how I have a
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better stick pack to him, you know, yeah, exactly. You
know you're working out. I've got a Peloton bike and
obviously follow you on peloton. Um. I feel really good
sometimes about my peloton workouts and then you are rory,
and I'm like, you know what, I need a lot
of work. There we go more peloton. Yeah, you know,
the pellet FN it it's great. It's I mean, I'm
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gonna I'm actually gonna hop on it here later later
this afternoon and do a workout, and you know, I
think it's it's one thing that I've found out that
I'm gonna do a little bit and try and socialize
with with the people on social media and send out
my reports so people can you know, they want to
see them, and they want to compete against me very
high numbers. Yeah, it's just something that I think, I'm okay, well,
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I can find that. I know, that's one way I
can feel, you know, thirty forty five minutes of my
day uh doing that, and it'll be a great way
to still interact with the fans out there, because at
this point in time, people in this world were such
a big sports fans. I don't care who you are,
a majority of this country love sports and we don't
have that right now. So anyway, these these fans that
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support us every year, at every tournament, at every stop
we go to, anyway we can sort of interact with
them and and keep them engaged and and just uh
wanted to know what we're doing. I think that's gonna
be a great thing to do. And that's something that
you know, I'm looking forward to doing a little more
of Bill. Ye, I'm curious. Obviously, it sounds like you're
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going to stay fit, certainly fitter than myself, who among
the three of us, is the only person who doesn't
have to put on what we call the quarantine fifteen before. Well,
it sounds like I should order a peloton so to
keep up with you guys. But um, I'm curious if
you've heard anything about TPC saw Grouse and whether they
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will close down. Um, we've seen some golf courses around
the country start to close down. Obviously that's a place
where you're able to practice. I know there's some other
clubs in the area where you practice as well. Uh
have you heard anything along those lines whether uh you'll
still be able to practice uh in the near future. Yeah. So, um,
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that's still um, the tour still looking at that and
still trying to forge out what they want to do
with all the tPCS around the country. Uh. You know,
they want to make sure that the following the guidelines
and and that uh you know, administration and CDC has
set uh. But at the same time they understand that,
you know, being outside is actually a great spot to
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be if you have this virus. You know, it's especially
if you're not in big gathering, so so trying to
figure that out. And I think, um, you know what,
they maybe look at what most clubs are doing, especially
the club I live out here and in pont of Ezra,
the plantation. Uh, we've shut down our food and beverage
operation or inside, so no one's allowed to go inside
the clubhouse. We can still order food and it will
be delivered to our to our houses if we wanted
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or what. We can pick it up at the clubhouse,
but no one's allowed inside. And so I think the
club's looking at doing or CPC maybe look at doing
stufthing like that, but still keeping the golf aspect going
so people can play golf. I mean, you know, I mean, shoot,
if we if we cancel everything in this world, um,
which I mean we go on a complete lockdown like
some of these some of these countries, I mean, we'll
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will be uh. I mean there's gonna be a rebellion,
not that I think there will be or I hope
there won't be, but people were rebelt. I mean it
just the way society is. You see what's happening in
France and and uh, that situation. But I think by
like I said, being outdoors is one of the safest
places you can be based off CDC and and the
guidelines that's been set out. So the tours looking at
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that and trying to you know, do things right and
still give people a sense of a way to get
to get you know, just relief for two or three
or four hours, you know during the day, seeing that
a lot of a lot of us are gonna be
cooped up inside and and so anything that we can
do to get out and burn some energy, um is
gonna be a positive. Billy, I want to get into
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real fast. Also, I want to talk about all that
the good that you did after the Players Championship was canceled.
I know you did a lot of stuff with feeding
North Florida, but I wanted to ask you as well,
have you been tested for the coronavirus or do you
know of any other caddies or players that have been
tested or a possible presumptive positive going around? So, uh Saturday,
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I mean Friday, when when the announcement came down, I
was at the club up or TPC star Graphs and
and people were asking me if I was gonna get
tested in and I said, you know, I'm gonna get tested.
I want to get my family tested. But the more
I've the more I've read on it, uh and and
been it's been in the information has been clear me
taking a test right now is is not beneficial to anyone. Um,
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it's taking a test of someone who needs it. Um.
You know I have I have five people in my households.
That's five five extra tests that could be used on
someone more important. UM, I've got kids under three, kids
on the age of ten, and and from what I've read,
you know it's it's the kids on the ten they're
not really contracting this virus, so it's very hard for
them to to contract it. So I said, another thing
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that doesn't need to to be tested. And then at
the same time, UM, if my wife and I worried
to have the virus um every when he has some symptoms,
they're very mild. Um. Like I said, the only reason
I would want to get tested was to make sure
I'm not spreading to my my parents or her grandparents
or or someone of order ordered bracket. But like I said,
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if the symptoms are there, then I'll just quarantine myself.
But I have not been tested in right now, I
don't plan on being tested good, So Billy on Thursday afternoon,
we have the players obviously a ton of food purchased
for the weekend and planned on three more rounds and
many more fans. I was there on Thursday, not a
lot of people on Thursday, like a normal Thursday. So
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there's a lot of food that they had planned and
purchased for the weekend to have this big event. But
you were able to do something really good. Can you
let us sit on exactly what you were able to
do and how many meals you were able to move?
So one of the things, uh, when I knew the
event was canceled UM Thursday night, one of the first
thing that came to my head was Speeding Northeast Florida,
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a local food bank that my wife and I have
supported since And knowing that all this food that was
supposed to be used the next three days is gonna
be used. UM, I was like, Okay, well, you know
I need to UM just talk to some of the
guys that players who run the Players in the PGA tour.
It's what's the plan for for this UM. They have
supported the Players Championship has supported feed Northeast Florida for
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several years now UM through UM financial donations. So I
knew already in my back of my mind, I knew
they were, you know, looking at UM, you know, donating
food the feed Northeast Florida. I just want to see
how they were gonna do it, when they were gonna
do it, And so before I could even ask the questions,
Jay Jay mentioned it in the press conference uh Friday morning,
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and so then I had a few more conversations with
the people at the tour and my team coordinated with him.
They told me that Friday afternoon they were gonna all
the food that was supposed to be used at tPCS clubhouse. UM,
all the people who could get inside of the clubhouse
and eat, they were gonna donate, which was two tons
of food, which came out to be about sixty dollars.
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And UM, that goes a long way, because one dollar
equals six meals before feeding Northeast Florida, So sixty dollars
is three and sixty meals, So that goes a long
long way. And then UM several of the uh UM
food providers out in the golf course, we're gonna donate.
So UM at the end of the day, it came
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to twenty two tons of food worth roughly two million
dollars donated to feed Northeast Florida. So that was, uh,
you know, you gotta look at the positive. You gotta
look at how how you know, Nowada, we can't play golf,
what can we do to make a positive impact on
our community, because there's gonna be so many people affected
by this, not just the virus, but by not having work,
by not being able to get food to them. You know,
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a lot more people are gonna be affected than than
just people getting sick. So it was a great thing.
What the Player's Championship did, the PGA Tour did. Um.
I stayed in some interviews earlier that Friday morning to
that I was gonna donate my player's check to to
feed Northeast Florida and a few other charities, and UH
went on social media and talked about or uh just
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ask my fellow players who played in the Players Championship
if they could um possibly donate a portion, maybe their
entire portion of their players check to the charities and
foundations that we're gonna be affected from the players being
canceled in and UH proceeding events being canceled Ballast Bar,
WC match Play, Valero and Dominican tournaments. Uh. You know,
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these charities that live off the money UM donated from
these events and usually survive on it for a year
aren't gonna get the money that they're normally used to getting,
and so now they're going to struggle to keep the
doors open and maintain their mission that they want to
do so. Uh. I saw Matt Wallace donated to Blessings
in a backpack here in town, which was unbelievable. UM.
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I know of a few other guys um through the
grape fine um, but it's just really awesome that some
of these players have uh are and we do a
really good job in the PGA Tour of seeing the
bigger picture and and I know many other guys are
gonna have seen the big picture and understand that we
need to help out people who aren't nearly as fortunate
as us. A deal. Well, Billy, you've you've done a
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lot for the you know, for this community. I've only
lived here for a year and I've seen all the
stuff that you've done here in North Florida. I know
that you're always donating and given your time and always
out in the community. And so this is just another
example of you taking care of where you live and
and and setting a great example both for your your
children and your wife in the community. Thanks guys, So
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I will hold on real quick. I want to bring
up another area that we're gonna miss out this year,
and I know Billy is really going to be upset
about this, is it's being overlooked. The Florida Gator baseball
team was in fact undefeated and probably going to win
the College World Series and now we no, no, no, no,
there's no well no, no, Whacker, I listen, is it
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we we beat your Canes? Uh? The Florida Gator baseball
team was very, very good, and so I think there's
gonna be there will be no college yeah. Um uh.
I still, I still don't agree with with n c
double a's decision to cancel Um. I understand winter sports
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because Winter Sports Championships are going on right now. I
don't understand the backing of of canceling the Spring Sports
championships because the College Roles Series played in and is
the played in June. Um so they could make something work.
But I understand there's allow of logistics that go into
it and and as much as I want to see
sports on TV and when we get back all these
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sports back to competing, I understand the decision that made
and how tough it is, and and it is the
right decision going forward. I just feel bad for all
these players, and um, just not my Florida Gators, but
every every athlete out there in college that aren't able
to compete right now, because this is what we love do.
We go to college wanting to to compete and and
play in front of fans and and compete for championships
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and and then take that away from from these kids
this year. It's it's it's a tough thing. Um. And
I know, I just it's tough. I I mean, I
I feel for them. So uh hopefully hopefully all these kids.
And I think the n C double A came out
and said anyone who's a senior gets extra year of eligibility. Um.
I think there's some other stuff that needs to be
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figured out because with that being said, the roster sizes
now need to be expanded, um, because you're gonna have
kids who apposed to graduate and incoming freshman class. Now
you're gonna have more kids on your roster than than
you're allowed. So there's a lot of other things that
need to be figured out. But yeah, it's just tough.
I mean, I said, any sports being canceled right now. Um,
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it's just it's especially at the college level and amateur level.
These kids aren't competing for money. These kids are competing
for the love of the game and for their school
and for their own pride, and now you know, it's
just tough to see they're not able to do that. Yea,
Hopefully we'll getting figured out for the fall, because our
gators looks like this year, Billy, we might we might
get the college. Yeah, like I said, I mean, I
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would think we had this figured out by the fall. Um,
I said mystic. Um, I'm positive. I'm looking at what
China you know that they flattened out. Um, they seem
to be sort of got this under under control. South
Korea seemed to have under control. It seems like we've
got some vaccines um in the works that that may
be able to uh be able to defeat this virus
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if someone gets it. So I mean, I'm thinking here
next you know, by in the summer, by August, we're
gonna look back and be like, hey, you know what,
we did, the right thing. Everything's good and and now
now everyone, now we can get back to the watching
college football and kicking the Miami Hurricanes. But here we go,
Here we go, there we go. That's my boy, Billy.
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I can't even say anything, but you're right. You're right.
Look all you all, you all your Hurricanes fan, all
you guys, because you use back. It's back. I mean
every time. I I mean, listen, I love I love
the fans on the golf course, and I love especially
all year around, but especially college football season. They love
the shout you know, go Canes and go dogs, the
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ghost seminoles. And as I've always said, I said, you
know what, if you're gonna say that to me, you
better hope your team's doing really well because I will
come back with a response. And well, look, it was
like this a couple of years ago at Oakma that
someone said kept yelling at me, go valls, go balls,
and I'm fine, said, dude, you guys are lemon and
one against us in the last twelve games. I mean,
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come on, just shut up over there. Your team sucks.
My team's kicking your ass on a yearly basis. You
know you shouldn't probably saying go balls to me now,
Like if it was the Georgia Bulldogs, I can't say
deadly squad to them right now. They beat our asked
the last couple of years, and I mean I got
nothing to my I just take it on the chin
and then let it go. But we beat the Canes
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last time we played, to make sure remember it just
does well, you know, look at the upside to all
of this, and I'm glad we can at least have
some some levity and amid amid this crisis. Is that
because of this quarantine now um, you know, and and
the cancelation of every tour events, I at least on
see Billy to pay off the dinner bet we made
(36:03):
on last last Falls game, and so it'll be a
while before he's able to collect on that, at least
exactly what you do. I think a nice roots Chris
Steakhouse visit is definitely uh on on your dime, whacker.
Yeah you know it's I'll tell you what. I I
know we all are. This is still fresh for only
(36:23):
three or four or five days in this uh this
um social distancing um. People trying to be responsive and
helped us, you know, stop the spread of this this virus.
So it'll be nice when we can get back to,
you know, making jokes about our how one team sucks
more than the other, or just talking about sports and
not having to worry about a virus and the spread
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of it. So I'm really looking forward, just like everyone
else in this world, getting back to some semblance of
that good deal. Billy Horschell, thank you so much for
your time. I appreciate you coming on and being so
candid and and uh, thanks for all you doing for
the North Florida community, Northeast Florida community. Thanks guys. Thanks
so whackerft forgot to ask Billy actually about the perfect
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practice putting that And the only reason I was gonna
ask him is I know he has one because I
saw him using it on social media last night with
his daughters, these tour pros. I'll have him. You and
I both have to get one, because while we're quarantined
here and we can't go out and play golf with
they're not. They haven't said yet you can't, but I'm
guessing that's coming. Um. I would definitely like to get one.
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You can get your own right now at golf sp
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And there's a ton of tour pros that have these
have these nets, and that's a great deal percent off.
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And as you mentioned, I mean a number of players
have them. Billy Horshel, Mark Leishman, Jimmy Walker, I know,
I saw him earlier this week at home practice putting.
Because look, let's face it, these tour for is, like
the rest of us, don't really know what to do
their home now. All of a sudden, They're used to
being on the road, particularly this time of the year,
(38:09):
so they don't really know what to do with themselves. Um,
they're able to still practice and so forth, but they,
as Billy discussed, you know, they don't know when they're
going to be back playing, and they're sort of trying
to figure out. Um. You know, look again, if you
have an injury, you have a window of of when
you're going to be back playing. These guys really have
no idea. I mean, there's such creatures of habit that
(38:31):
all of a sudden that's completely uprooted. And look in
the grand scheme of things. This is this is obviously,
um so secondary to everything that's happening, but um, you know,
don't know, Yeah, we all need something to do. So
I love the idea of you and I having a
having a putting contest. This is as close as we're
gonna be able to be able to play golf against
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each other. So yeah, I love this idea. So it's
golf and g O l F sp l Y golf
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It's off. So one last thing before we get out
of here. I do want to talk about my favorite
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NFL team is usually the butt of most jokes, Like
if you don't use the Cleveland Browns as the butt
of the joke, you usually use the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But you know what, lo and behold the heavens opened
and Tom Brady has fallen into our laps. And who
would have ever thought that the greatest of all time?
Another goat, Like you know, we always talk about Tiger
(39:35):
be in the goat, but another goat has fallen into
the lapse of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and it is
Tom Brady appears to be the starting quarterback for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the next two seasons. Game this
Uh yeah, I wonder what Gaselle thinks of Tampa. I
wonder if he's even been there. Nothing against Tampa, but
(39:57):
that's my hometown. Be carefully, yeah, of course, but it's
certainly different than what she's been used to in Boston.
The last much nicer winners, yes, much nicer winner A
lot of golf, a lot of golf year round for
Tom to play. Um, so he's got that some terrific
golf courses instantly makes And did you see last night,
um Las Vegas sports book up them to the third
(40:21):
our fourth best odds to go to the Super Bowl.
That that has sucker bit and sucker be written all over.
Hold on to listen. The defense last year was top
ten in the last eight games of the season. The
defense really came on strong with Shaq Barrett and Jason
Pierre paul Um linebackers are really good. We've got some
good secondary players that are young, a lot of young guys.
(40:43):
The defense came on strong. The problem is is that,
like Stephen A. Smith said, we are our best defensive
player on offense. Unfortunately was playing offense and it was
Jamis Winston. He gave them all away thirty times. So
you gotta think between Evans, Mike Evans one of the
best receivers in the league, Chris Godwin, O. J. Howard
(41:04):
a tight end, Cameron Brady tight end, You've got a
decent line, and then you got uh Brashad Perriman came
on very strong at the end of the years of receivers.
The third receiver, Scotty Miller's that fast guy that kind
of like an Edelman style receiver. And then we go
get a running back. We do not have a running
game now, but you had a running back, and then
you add Tom Brady. It instantly Listen, we haven't been
(41:24):
to the playoffs since two thousand seven. It instantly makes
them a playoff team. If we could go seven and
nine with Jamis Winston turning the ball over thirty times,
if you had Tom Brady with that other talent, it
instantly makes us a playoff team. And who knows how
dB could go and it could be history. This this year,
the Super Bowl is being played in Tampa. Well, and
(41:45):
you've got Bruce Arians, it's head coach and certainly one
of the more innovative minds in the game, and it's
had success elsewhere. UM and probably I would imagine would
provide some revitalization to Brady at this point in his creator.
But it's willing to get Let's be honest, Belichick never
really gave Brady the credit. It was always he was
just part of the system. I think Arians, on the
(42:06):
other hand, will be one that will be somebody that
would champion Brady, make him feel like he is special.
And I do think it's a huge change for that
Buck's locker room and having Tom Brady doing doing things
the Brady way. I don't you can call it the
Patriot way or whatever you want. I think his work
ethic will up the game of everybody around him because
(42:28):
that's what kind of player he is. Look, if the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers get to the Super Bowl, Froggy, I
will eat the most disgusting sandwich you can come up with. Okay,
I will, because that's just it's just not gonna happen. Look,
Tom Brady's is the all time greatest quarterback. UM. But look,
we saw this before, we saw this with Joe Montana,
going back all those years in the Kansas City Chiefs,
(42:49):
they got he did, They got to the a f
C Championship. Very good team. I just don't see the
Buccaneers being able to get over that hurdle, Um and
get to to a super Bowl with an aging Tom Brady. Um. Look,
this is you know, to bring it back to golf.
I mean, I think there was a period where people
would question whether Tiger Woods would ever win again, much
(43:10):
less a major. He's done that, Um, and that immediately
sparked talk of eighteen majors being in play. And maybe
it is. But look at look at what we saw
from Tiger Um last year being injured. Look at what
we've seen from him this year. He's forty four years old,
will be forty five years old at the history. No,
(43:31):
certainly not. But the point being aging athletes just uh,
you know, it's hard to find that success is undefeated
for sure. Yeah, you don't see guys have success other
than if they've got some some help, if you know
what I mean, Barry Bonds. Um, they don't improve as
they get older. So look at a different sport when
(43:52):
you're talking about a team sports such as football versus
obviously an individual game in golf. But I just don't
see Uh. Look, Tampa Bay fans should be excited. I'd
be excited if I was a Bucks fan, yeah, going
from Jameis Winston Tom Brady at any age. But um,
I just don't see them being able to get to
a Super Bowl. So I am willing to quite literally
(44:15):
a awful sandwich, um if if they should get there,
and Froggy, I'll let you pick the sandwich when you
get to that point. Sounds good when it happens, and
we'll we'll we'll do a lot on the podcast and
and go from there. But I just don't see that. Hope.
I'll just be happy if they're playing in September in
the NFL. Yeah, exactly right. And that's rotting that too,
(44:36):
like where will we be with all this going on
when we have a season, h a non shortened season,
and where will we be? But you know, injuries do
play a lot of things. But I'm telling you as
a Buccaneers fan, it really truly is the first time
that we've been able to land the big fish like
we were second when Brett Farvee was making that first
(44:56):
move and he went to the Jets. Um, we were
second in that time, we finished second and did not
get Brett Farve, and so for us to finally finish first, UH,
it is a good feeling and we'll see where it
goes from here. Having Tom Brady on your team is
never a bad thing. And Tampa Bay is actually changing
their uniforms next year. So what better way to launch
a new uniform in Jersey sales then with Tom Brady
(45:20):
coming in and that number twelve, Jersey will probably be
one of the best selling jerseys in the NFL. Is
my guest this year? Yeah, no, no doubt about it. Uh.
And some positive news uh and an otherwise dark time
here in Florida. UM. As mentioned earlier, things starting to
shut down. UM. It's as we try to contain a
(45:41):
very serious situation with this coronavirus and the spread of
it and more deaths UM and more sickness is popping up.
So obviously wishing the best for everyone and hoping that
everyone stays healthy. UH, stays home UM and we can
get back to some semblance of normalcy and in our
lives sometime uh soon here. Absolutely follow the rules of
(46:05):
your local authorities. Stay home, UM, quarantine if if you
are sick or somebody in your family is sick. Remember
of people who will get this disease will show no symptoms. However,
you can infect someone. So going to a restaurant or
being around somebody who does not have the best immune system,
or somebody who is elderly, you are risking them. So
(46:27):
stay home. Let's let's the flatten the curve, as they say,
let's get this over with and let's get our life
back to normal. We will be back on the podcast
as there are developments in the golf world. Will be back.
Obviously it's gonna be a couple of weeks um, but
we'll see what happens. Hopefully we'll start getting some clarity
and see when we can get back on the golf
course and see when we as fans will be able
(46:50):
to get guys playing golf again. And we have a
putty contest to conduct, so we look forward to sharing
that with you guys, and who and who wins that.
I don't want to make any predictions. Might I'm gonna
win out with my putting has been pretty good lately,
but we'll see, We'll see what happens. Well, got it.
Thank you so much for listening. To the Playing Through
podcast once again if you'd like to pick up that
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