Go Low - US Open Top 5 Storylines, Best Bets, Mailbag

John dives into the US Open by giving his top 5 storylines as we head into the weekend. Who does John think has a chance this weekend, who does he think will have a rough time at Oakmont, and what are some of the surprises we may see. Later, John gives you a few of his best bets for the weekend.

Finally, John dives into the Middlekauff Mailbag to answer your questions.

4:54 - Top 5 storylines at the US Open

45:09 - Mailbag

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The volume. What is going on everybody? How are you doing?
It is Monday afternoon, June ninth. We've had a busy day.

(00:23):
It started this morning with John Schneider, the general manager
of the Seahawks. We recorded an interview. We'll probably play
that next week. I went on with Colin for about
an hour and I was like, you know what, it's
the US Open. It is a sport I love to
gamble on and talk about. So I was like, you know,
let's do a Golo podcast here on Monday. We got

(00:45):
some football stuff coming up the next couple of days.
Last week for most teams, mini camps mandatory mini camps,
no voluntary mandatory now. So we'll talk some football over
the next upcoming days. But today I picked the top
five things heading into this week oakma US Open, toughest
test in golf. Some consider this the hardest course in
America when they do it up like this that I'm

(01:07):
fired up about. And we'll do a little mail bag
session as well. At Golo Pod is the instagram. You know,
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We will answer your questions here on the podcast, and

(01:30):
that will be the plan. So Golf today, Football over
the next couple of days, and we'll just keep swinging
our pick. Very very excited. I love the US Open
the Carnage, Scottie Bryson, It's I'm fired up Oakmont. Just
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Those details. We'll start with the five biggest stories let's start.
Let's just dive into my five biggest stories for the
US Open in twenty twenty five, and we'll just start
at one to work our way down. I don't even
think it's close. The biggest story heading into this weekend
is Scottie Shuffler. He won the last Major a month ago.

(03:34):
He is easily the best player in the world. Every
event he plays recently, he doesn't just win, he destroys everybody.
And last year he was anointed rightfully. So you win
all those tournaments, you win a Major, you win sixty
five million dollars. Your caddie makes six seven million dollars.

(03:54):
Who I think he would have ranked. I forget the
exact numbers, like fortieth or forty fifth on the money
in a day and age when they are just giving
out a ton of cash. It was an incredible accomplishment.
And obviously people over the course of the last decade
plus have had Tiger like seasons. People get uncomfortable and
I find myself as well. When you compare someone to

(04:17):
Michael Jordan, Tom Brady Tiger Woods. Part of their greatness
is doing it over a long period of time. Right,
It's not like a musician, a one hit wonder. There
have been a lot of people that have had a
hit song. It's like, well, can you have multiple hit albums?
Can you have twenty number ones? Right? Like? Can you

(04:38):
start multiple businesses that work? And I just think Scotti
Scheffler is proving that, like he's in it to win it,
and that's cool. Like part of what's cool about watching
a great player is watch them through their journey and
sometimes in team sports, like over the last couple of years,
anyone that's watched nikolea Jokic play basketball is like I've

(04:59):
been watching in the NBA for thirty plus years. He's
got to be one of the ten twelve best players
I've ever seen. Is he gonna win a second NBA
championship in his career? I don't know. They've kind of
bungled some moves. Who knows who is you know they
hire Rick adelman Son, I have no clue. A lot
of stuff's out of your control. As you know, in

(05:19):
team sports, you see those with quarterbacks all the time.
You know, Patrick Mahomes gets the benefit of being drafted
by Andy Reid and playing with the Chiefs who already
had Travis Kelcey and Tyreek Hill, and they signed Spagnola
to be the defensive coordinator. You know, Joe Burrow goes
Cincinnati Bengals right as an individual star. I don't know
much about the two guys that played in the Roland

(05:41):
Garros Final Center and Alcatraz, but clearly they're pretty elite players.
And as a tennis player, if you're a great player Agasy,
Pete Sampras, Djokovic, Nadal, whatever, you control a lot of
your own destiny. Golf's a little bit like that, Like
you definitely control a lot, but there's some randomness, right,
Like for whatever reason when Tiger woods, like is he

(06:03):
a great clutch putter, of course, but that ball went
in a lot more than it lipped out. You know,
we have seen over the course of as a golf fan,
how many guys. I mean, was it two years ago
Wyndham Clark had a chance to tie at the Players
Championship against Scotty and lips out. I mean, it was
just that never really happened to Tiger, and it hasn't
really happened to Scotty much lately either, And the bounces

(06:25):
have all gone is way, which you need. And listen,
he's a bright lights complete ass kicker and Ted Scott's
been banging this drum. And I respect the shit out
of anyone with this mindset because hopefully one day I'll,
like many of you, were all in the position to
have the opportunity to go. This is how I handled
millions upon millions of dollars. What was unfazed or maybe like, yeah,

(06:46):
I got a little lazy. You know, it's a good
position to be in financially, but some guys like, yeah,
I kind of mail it in. They don't work as hard.
We'll get to Rory here in a second. And some
guys are like, I want more. I can't get enough.
I'm addicted to this, And clearly Scotty from a competition standpoint,
is addicted to winning golf tournaments. And that's cool because

(07:07):
after you win sixty six million dollars, if you would
have told me he got a mailed in this year,
would have been kind of relatable. But he hasn't. He's
the heavy favorite I saw before I press record. It's
hard because gambling, you know, up until the last five
or six years, with the with the regulations by a
state basis changing and it becoming much easier for us,

(07:30):
you know, lifetime gamblers to obviously dabble that it's hard
for me to be like I remember in two thousand
and seven when Tiger Woods, Like I wasn't gambling on
golf twenty years ago, but I saw a headline and
it might have been by DraftKings that Scotti Scheffler is
the lowest favorite, you know, meaning his odds are the
lowest at basically plus two eighty so under three to

(07:51):
one to win a major, which is insane. And it's
the lowest number since Tiger Woods in two thousand and nine.
So that's the type category in and listen, he's kind
of been hovering when he started kicking ass last year.
It went from like seven eight to one down to
five to one. Over this year, it's creeped, you know,
from three to four to one down under that number.

(08:12):
It's crazy, and let's face it, it doesn't feel that nuts
taking it. Here's the other thing I looked before we're
getting ready for this podcast, in the last since twenty
twenty two, so I guess in twenty one, so twenty one,
twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, sixteen majors and then
the two majors this year. That is eighteen majors, he

(08:35):
has finished in the top ten in eleven of those,
and in three others he won. So in fourteen of
the eighteen majors he's either finished in the top ten
in basically eighty five percent of them and won three others.
Pretty nuts, And in five of those eleven top ten

(08:56):
since twenty one, he's finished in the top five. So
this guy, when you get it, it's crazy to me.
With tennis, and I listen, I dabbled a little as
a young kid, played a little in college just to
like get a sweat. I don't follow it anywhere even
closely like I do golf and definitely not football, But
having just been a sports fan for a long time,

(09:18):
it's to me it's always crazy that, like you get
to one of these Grand Slams, and whatever era you're in,
it's basically a lock that two or three of the
best players are going to be in the final four,
and usually the best two players or two of the
best three players are just going to be in the finals.
It's like a lock in golf, like Tiger had some
majors where he just didn't play well. To happen to Phil,

(09:40):
happened to any great player where it feels like right
now Scotty is much more like a tennis player where
it's like he's gonna be in the top five and
his odds reflect that. For example, Bryson d. Chambeau is
the defending champion. He's won two US Opens this decade.
Like he is an ass kicker in this tournament. It's

(10:02):
made for him because you can grow up the rough
ten feet. Well, he's the strongest motherfucker out there, so
you can put him in the rough and he's hitting
at the farthest it's going to be advantage Bryson. Yet
Scotty to finish to top five is minus one seventy
five and to put this into perspective, Bryson is plus
one sixty and he's second on the odds board. Just

(10:24):
shows you, like what a lock. And if there was
plus odds, everyone and their mother would gamble on it
that Scotty is to finish in the top five. Now,
he's not guaranteed to win. It's hard to win these majors,
but it feels like comes Sunday, he is going to
be in the last two or three groups with a
very very good chance to win. And that's that's pretty

(10:44):
crazy in this sport. I would say number two in
terms of stories would be Bryson and just what he's
become and when it comes to majors, you know he's
going to be a factor. I mean, hell, the two
Majors this year he's finished both in the top five. Now,
he didn't really have a chance to win either. On
Sunday the Masters after the first couple holes, he just

(11:06):
did not play well being paired with Rory and in
the tournament with Scotty on where they just play at
Quail Hollow. Clearly he just didn't have it. But like
he is constantly putting himself in the mix, and he's
been doing it for the last couple of years. He
like this tournament is just Taylor made for him. He

(11:28):
did a YouTube video shot by shot of one of
his practice rounds. He played in this tournament In twenty sixteen,
the year that Dustin Johnson won. He had another good
week at Live in DC. I think he finished top four.
Joaque Niven shot fifteen hunderd he shot thirteen under. So
he continues to play well coming into these tournaments. It
would not shock me at all if he won. Now,

(11:49):
one thing he said after Quayle Hollow was like, my
irons are off and I got something coming. Now are
we going to get the answer to what is coming?
Did he get new sticks? Did he get them worked on?
I'm not even sure what the three d irons actually means.
Clearly he's a little quirky with his technology, but you know,

(12:11):
if he like from a driving standpoint, he's elite and
around the green, and these greens are supposed to roll
like concrete speeds, They're going to have the fastest greens
of any tournament you know during professional golf in twenty
twenty five. Well, Bryson's one of the best putters, So
around the greens, he's elite. Driving the ball, he's elite.

(12:32):
To me, the question is like, when you just give
him one hundred and eight yard shot a two hundred
yard shot, is he pulling those? Like his draws turned
into hooks pretty quick in the last couple of majors.
If he has that ironed out, he's going to be
in pretty good shape. And I couldn't blame anyone for
taking him. I think I saw today he's eight eight
plus eight fifty or eight to one. His odds are

(12:53):
actually dropping. I think he's a he's an absolute lock
to take as a top five. Though the first two guys,
we know we're getting like these guys are gonna be
in the mix. They're proving that every major. Now, winning
majors are hard. You gotta have some shit go right
for you. You obviously got to make some big putts
over the weekend. But I think when we get to

(13:14):
the third biggest story is Roy McElroy's pretty fascinating because
we've been talking about this the last couple of weeks.
Is like it looked like he was about to have
a historic season. He wins a pebble, then he wins
the players, and then he finally takes down the Masters,
and you're like, listen, take a couple of weeks off,
go get drunk with your family, hang out with your

(13:35):
you know, your kid, your buddies. Just enjoy life. But like, listen,
he's gonna be a little rusty, but he'll come back
like he's gonna have a massive season. He's gonna win
five or six times, and he definitely could win one
of these other majors. And then the driver incident happens
last week in Canada. He didn't just miss the cut.
He beat four guys in a field of one hundred

(13:56):
and fifty five and of course that was pretty easy.
And driving the ball is a major problem, and he
alluded to that, like, I haven't since they took away
my driver. The new equipment of Taylor made just isn't
working for me. I started with a forty five inch driver.
I've worked down to a forty four inch driver. Listen,
we've all been there. You have a club that's not working.
It's actually a relatable thing to me. I'm not as

(14:19):
bothered by that, like people have weird struggles when they
change a club. Like some of you might have the
same sand wedge you've had in the bag for a decade.
You just like it. I'm like that with my wedges.
I've had the same lob wedge, gap wedge, and sand
wedge in my bag for five years. You know, pros
would be like, you've lost the grooves, Like, I don't care.
I'm just comfortable with these wedges. I'm not a good
enough wedge player, and I don't want to just start

(14:41):
buying wedges like I'm good with them. It's why these
guys keep clubs in their back for a long period
of time when they're working and like, I'm not like
it happened to him. I do understand why he was pissed.
It felt like people start telling that they leaked that
his name and not Scotty's name. Like, honestly, I kind
of under stand where he was coming from when it

(15:02):
came to that situation. Now, I do think like the
way he pits the media like as the enemy is
kind of a little weird. But like all these players
live in La La Land. It's kind of the country
club nature of the sport that it's like, God, you
guys have it too good. You're too rich. You don't
even fucking realize how easy you have it relative to

(15:22):
some of these other athletes. But what I don't I
can't quite relate to is like I've grown up anyone
my age on starting with you know, from Tom Brady
to Peyton Manning to Tiger Woods to Kobe Bryant to
Michael Jordan to even like Lebron and Steph now to

(15:44):
In terms of work ethic and drive to try to
win and practice, I mean, these guys are addicted. And
Rory had some comments that essentially said like it is
more difficult to be on the range for three or
four hours after winning the Masters, Like what am I
grinding to? I've worked for a decade plus to try

(16:06):
to achieve something. I finally achieve it, and now it's hard.
I'm out there on the range, I'm like, what am
I doing this for? Which, in one respect, for most
human beings, like anyone listening to this that has a goal,
whether it's a goal to make amount of money, whether
it's a goal to get a job, whether it's a
goal to if you run a business to hit a

(16:27):
certain revenue goal, it's always healthy to have that and
you chase for it. Right. It's like, I have a
goal of trying to land five of these ten guys
on the podcast over the summer, and if you get
to like five of them, you feel accomplished, which is understandable,
and you can, I guess, exhale for a second. But
when it comes to pro athletes, when it comes to

(16:48):
the greats in business, it's like they're never satisfied. And
I think most people listening. If you've set up one
of those goals and you achieve it, you realize, like
I don't get that much satisfaction after achieving it, Like
you're just kind of onto the next task. I remember
Kevin Durant made a big deal about this when he
gets to the Warriors and he finally wins a championship
and he feels like everything's gonna be healed and fixed

(17:09):
and everyone's gonna leave him alone. And it was the opposite.
It only got worse yet Rory's comments of like why
do I grind as much? It's like, Rory, this is
why people are kind of hard on you. You know, this
is why I think a lot of people not fraud
is way too strong of a way to describe it,

(17:29):
but just like kind of full of shit. And we
finally get behind you and watch you win the Masters,
like this guy's about to become a legend. And then
it's like he just admits he's not even practicing. He can't,
he's not working as hard. And it's one thing, like
a week or two after, it's like we've been a
couple of months now, right, like what are we doing?
Do you think Tiger Woods would ever speak like that?
Do you think those words would ever come out of

(17:51):
Tom Brady's mouth? And you could argue it's unfair, like
you start using those guys, this is the highest level. Well,
Rory's one of the great talents of all time. This
is who I thought we were comparing him to. You know,
it's like Rory finally wins this, Like how many majors
could he win? Ten? It's like, I don't believe that anymore.
I actually think Scotty. If you said, hey, right now,
put five thousand dollars over the course of the next

(18:12):
decade or just at the end of their career, who
ends up with more majors? You'd have to bet on
Scotty because I have a hard time seeing Scotty. Ever, say,
you know won the PGA. Just went out to work
with my coach and you know, my team, and after
an hour, I was just like, what am I? Why
am I working so hard? Now you could argue Scotty

(18:34):
has less scar tissue and Rory had more baggage hanging
over him. I just thought those comments were like, yeah,
this is when someone tells you who they are, you
just have to believe them and listen. It's his prerogative.
He can do whatever he wants. But I think it's
hard to take him as seriously this week, and he

(18:54):
went from being the second, you know favorite for this
tournament to now Bryson's pasted him and you get Rory
ten to one to win this tournament. To me, I
know a lot of people that I'm getting a lot
of texts like should we take this guy to miss
the cut? I'm like, I don't know if I do that,
But it's not the craziest thing I've ever heard. If
he's not driving the ball well and he hasn't really
been practicing that hard, fuck, I don't know. Now, maybe

(19:15):
you get embarrassed in Canada. You come home for a
couple of days, and it's not like you know, you
fly in American airlines, you hop on the PGA, you
fly back, you grind for a couple of days. But
he just told us, like, this is the grind still
the same? Is that Saturday and Sunday looking the same.
That's what made Tiger so special is like his work ethic,
in his drive and his desire. I mean, part of

(19:36):
Rory's whole deal is like just about the majors. It's
just about the majors, and then the major came last
couple of majors and goes like you kind of mailed
it in. So I don't even know what to make
of him. You know, he's at the point now where
it's like you could tell me he's in the mix,
because I wouldn't just write him off. I mean, he's
obviously an all time great talent, but if you tell
me that he misses the cut, like kind of believable,

(19:57):
because I don't think this is a tournament. If you
show up and you're not dialed in this tournament, regardless
where it's at, will eat you alive. And you see
Scotty coming in a ton of momentum, you see Bryson
coming in a ton of momentum. You see John Rahm
coming in with momentum off the last last major. You
see all the you know, big names over the course

(20:17):
of their careers like DJ or Kopka or these guys
when they're playing really well come into the US Open
with a lot of positive momentum. It's kind of the
opposite with Wrory, which is crazy. Two months ago, whe
were like, could he win the Grand Slam? And now
it's like, yeah, I don't even give a fuck. It's like,
how did we do this? And I've defended him over
the course of the last couple of years when a
lot of people came at him. But that comment, man,

(20:41):
it's just that's not what we want out of our athletes.
Fair not. But I give them credit for being honest
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In general in a lot of different sports. Tennis clearly dead,
college sports, no chance, college basketball all four ones now
with nil. College football looks just Ohio State, Oregon, Notre Dame, Georgia.
Like the Boise States, these schools, it doesn't feel like
they have a chance to ever get out of the
first round anymore. And I think when you look at
golf over the last couple of years, it's like, and listen,

(24:10):
maybe I'm being nostalgic about it. Maybe it's technology, maybe
it's just a short sample size, but I do feel like,
you know, when I grew up in the nineties, even
through the Tiger and Phil era, that there would be
random guys that would win golf tournaments, major golf tournaments.
And if you look over the course of the last
couple of years, it's a lot of Scotti's. There's a

(24:30):
lot of ROMs, it's a lot of Roryes, it's a
lot of Bryson's, It's Xander. It's just like the top
three or four players. Now. It doesn't mean other guys
can't be in the mix and you can't gamble on
them to top ten and top twenties. But if you
tell me that like Bryson or Scottie win this tournament,
we are basically just look at the list of guys
that have won it. I mean Wyndham Clark a couple

(24:51):
of years ago feels like a gigantic outlier. Right, and
I would even call him like the little engine that could.
But I mean the day and a of just random
guys winning it, I think it would start to feel
like the separation of the PGA Tour. Now with these
signature events, some of these guys going to live. I
do wonder if the day and age is kind of

(25:13):
dead now. I think the British Open can always bring
them alive because of the weather, because of the elements,
because of the style of golf. But when it comes
to Augusta, when it comes to the PGA Championship, and
obviously the US Open, I think we're gonna be hard
pressed to see these guys like seventy eighty, one hundred

(25:33):
to one winning those three tournaments. And until otherwise, I
think it's an auto stayaway. I am not into betting
long shots at all in these majors anymore, and I'm
not gonna touch it. I mean as crazy as I'll get,
and we'll get into that here in a minute. But
I used to do a lot of that. Take guys

(25:54):
fifty sixty seventy to one, because you can just throw
like fifty bucks to win like three thousand. I honestly
believe that's just a waste of money. Now you're better
off putting a little more and taking those guys to
top ten, top twenty, and last but not least. I
think the coolest part about the US Open it was
the first I haven't been to that many pro golf
tournaments over the years, but it was the first golf
tournament I ever went to. Nineteen ninety eight at the

(26:17):
Olympic Club with my dad, his buddy Jerry, and my
buddy Travis, and I think we would have been ninety eight,
so we would have been like thirteen, fourteen years old,
no cell phones. We just get there, we go, Hey,
meet you back. You know. It's we get there at
maybe nine am. We'll meet you at four o'clock in
the afternoon at the exit. You know. I don't even

(26:37):
know how, but clearly we managed. We just meet him
when we head home. And I remember watching John daily.
I remember it was the year Lee Janssen won and
actually Payne Stewart had a good chance to win. I
think we went on a Saturday, maybe it was Friday.
In the way that Olympic Club, they've redone the club.
I don't know if it's exactly the same, but it
used to have this runoff on eighteen and these guys

(26:58):
would hit second shots and it would run all the
way down the hill and Payne Stewart would go on.
He lost that one, but he'd go on to win
it in ninety nine against Philip Pinehurst, and I just
remember thinking like, this is so hard. The roff was
so long, it was so difficult. And I remember going
to Pebble in twenty nineteen, the year Gary Woodland won it.

(27:20):
One thing with the US Open is it feels like
as a player, you're going up against like the eighty
five Bears, going up against the two thousand Ravens, You're
going up against the two thousand and one Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
You're just going up against the best defense. The rough's long,
the fairways are tight, the greens are like concrete. It

(27:41):
is just a mother and if your game is slightly off,
you are going to get wrecked. I mean, I saw
I think Ben Griffin say that if you told him
right now that he could sign up for Sunday to
be in all seventy two holes and B plus four,
he would one hundred percent take that. I think a
lot of people follow the sport that have been to Oakmont.

(28:03):
Some of the YouTubers that have played it, and not
like Bob like I'm talking like the Brian Brows. The
guys that know can relate it. Were like Obra par
could win this tournament, which I think sometimes gets thrown around.
I love it when it's this tournament. I root for
carnage in the US Open. Nothing can be crazy enough
in this tournament. I want guys snapping clubs like Phil

(28:26):
when he hit it by the whole was at Shinnacock.
I forget where they were playing, and before the ball
even stops rolling he hits it. He's just so mad.
You just you root for craziness in this tournament in
terms of the difficulty, like most tournaments, like part of
what makes the Masters fun is knowing you can watch
guys Birti ten, Bertie thirteen, Bertie fifteen, Bertie seventeen, Bertie

(28:51):
eighteen like fireworks down the stretch. Part of what makes
the US Open fun is like that was an incredible part.
Like this guy's got three straight pars coming down the stretch.
This could be the reason he wins the tournament. And
it's the only time, in my opinion, that that's cool
with watching on golf, Like a lot of these people

(29:11):
that cover and follow golf get really bothered by the
PGA Championship, Like I don't really care. It's it's the
fourth major, and honestly, if it's a birdy fan, it
doesn't bother me as much. Honestly, it doesn't. It's hard.
There are only so many venues you can go to.
Well when it comes to the US Open, and Oakmont
is I would say universally considered top two or three

(29:33):
hardest course in America, and most will consider the hardest
course in America. It is I mean watching some of
these videos, obviously the rough the speed of the greens,
this is the overall difficulty of the course, which I
never understand because, like I've watched some videos, it's a
private course, like beside this tournament at this venue once

(29:54):
every seven to nine years. It is just a course
that has a bunch of members, which I would imagine
pretty exclusive course. But like most of these members at
this course aren't like Ernie Els right, I would say
the average membership same thing I remember going to Olympic,
Like most members are double digit handicap. Why would you
want to play a course this difficult? But they all

(30:16):
like it and they enjoy it. Hell, at the Olympic Club,
the membership makes such a big deal it's too hard.
They had to redo the course because like, this is
not even fun to play. So for whatever reason, the
membership at this course, they just they eat up the
difficulty of it like it's hard for them, and obviously
they ramp it up for this week. It's been raining,

(30:38):
so that can chill out the course a little bit
because it softens it up. But the course is always
such an incredible story any US Open, but specifically this one,
which I mean it just doesn't get any more difficult,
which usually weeds up the field. But back to the
Cinderella thing, there can be a guy or two in

(30:58):
this type environment where it's like you're hitting fairways, your
two Putton Grangers making a lot of pars. All of
a sudden you're like tied for fourth. You're like, who's
this guy? This is because you've played boring golf and
there are gonna be some big ass names like Speeth
can't lay Justin Thomas, Like a bunch of dudes on

(31:19):
our Ryder Cup are one hundred percent not making the cut.
They are going to get fucking ejected, which is awesome.
You just hope you don't have any exposure to him.
It's why my gambling strategy this week is pretty simple.
I'm gonna take Scotty Scheffer to win because I think
at this point in time, if you just took Scotti
Scheffler to win over the last couple of months, you
would be up a lot of money. I do think

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Bryson d Chambeau in these majors he's an If you're
getting him at plus odds, which I think I looked
earlier he is. He's plus one sixty auto top five.
I think Bryson d Schambeau, you could argue take a
little dabble to win auto top five. I don't know
if he's gonna win just because he's been off on
the weekend these last couple of majors, but he's just

(32:00):
in the mix. And if you tell me he has
the lead after Friday, like I think it's very very believable,
I'm gonna ride. I don't know if this is smart
or not, but I'm gonna take Bryson to or excuse me,
John Rahm to top ten in this tournament. And maybe
I'm just getting a little too excited based on the
major last time. But this is a guy who's won

(32:21):
a US opened for like Bryson, likes Scotty, like Rory,
he's a bright lights guy. The harder the course advantage him.
I would expect John Rahm to be a factor, and
like I said, I'm not really messing around. The only
long shot I might do would be like Cameron Young
to top twenty, maybe to top ten, because he's like

(32:41):
nine to one. He's a guy that just played really
well last week, even though in Canada, has nothing in
common with Oakmont. To me, it's just the odds. This
is the guy that's in theory, a blue chipper who's
been playing bad, kind of getting his mojo back. And
Tommy Fleetwood to top ten. But my heavy, heavy exposure,
and I would say ninety percent of my bankroll, which

(33:02):
will probably be four figures spread around, will be on Scotti, Scheffler, Bryson,
d Chambeau and John Rohm. I'd been the last several
majors on Rory. To me, he's just a stay away
because I won't hate if you want to take him
to miss the cut. I'm also not really in the
business of taking top players to miss the cut. I

(33:23):
think you get burned more often than not. But I
do think one thing when you look back last week
at the Live tournament, there was a tweet from Phil.
They got a big rain delay on Sunday, and Phil
tweeted out that he had I think like a ten
foot putt to Tye for the lead. And he also
mentioned in his press conference at the beginning of the
week that more than likely this is going to be

(33:45):
his last US Open of his career. And when you
think of Phil, obviously I would say, first thing you
think about Phil is just Tiger's rival, fair or not,
Like he was just synonymous with Tiger Woods. Throughout his career,
won a bunch of majors, won the Masters three times,
won a major at what fifty years old at Kiowa,

(34:06):
but like this tournament eluded him. And I went on
with Colin and we talked about where Phil ranks, and like,
I think he's definitely a top six or seven golfer
of all time. And I compared him to Peyton Manning,
Like if Tom Brady doesn't exist, Peyton Manning probably has
four Super Bowls. And we talk about Peyton Manning probably

(34:29):
synonymously with Joe Montana or definitely up in that ill,
but instead Peyton probably hovers closer to like four to
six range instead of like top two or three range.
And I think Phil could have if Tiger Woods is
never born. Are we looking at a guy instead of
six majors? Phil has ten and career Grand Slam in

(34:51):
his career just goes a little different way. I think
potentially we do. And listen, I don't know, one week
to another, when you're an older player, it doesn't necessarily
carry over. I liked him a lot a month ago
when they were at Kuaile Hollow and he was terrible.
So older guy, you just you know, playing back to

(35:13):
back weeks is intense on your body. There's a lot
huge advantage, you know. Scotty Scheffer's twenty eight years old,
Bryson d. Chambo is thirty one years old, and Phil
is fifty five years old. Like it's it's a different
wear and tear in his body. He's been playing in
these tournaments for three plus decades. But I do think
the Phil story of like, I mean, he's one of
the most definitely important golfers of my lifetime. But I

(35:34):
would say he's one of the biggest athletes of my lifetime.
So if this is last US Open, a tournament that
he just could never win, it wasn't like he wasn't
in the mix. I mean he finished second six times.
I mean I would say two of them are more
of the historic moments in the last thirty years, non Tiger.
I mean losing the pain Stewart in nineteen ninety nine

(35:55):
when he's about to have his baby and Payne grabs
his head and kind of just says, like you're gonna
be a great champion. Go enjoy your daughter, and that
moment is just is entrenched. Last year at Pinehurst we
talked a lot about it and then obviously pumping it
out of bounds at Wingfoot. I think in two thousand
and six or seven or eight, I forget the exact year,

(36:16):
but where it felt like he was finally gonna win
the tournament. And I think one thing with Phil, you know,
and Tiger had this a little bit too. That's why
Tiger would hit the stinger, you know, and back then
the courses weren't as long now, so you get away
with hitting it two hundred and forty five yards off
the tee with a two iron is Phil's ripping driver,
and he wasn't the straightest guy, and he would hit

(36:38):
it all over the map and then the US opened
like you hit it in the deep rough. Now, I
did see someone forwarded me and I saw a bunch
of the tournament. They just played in DC like they
grew at the rough pretty good. And you can't convince
me that they weren't trying to help their guys. I mean,
they got a lot of guys playing in this tournament,
and two of the biggest favorites, you know, in Bryson

(36:59):
and ram to get ready coming from Live with just
the longer rough that they're gonna see. Now, I don't
know exactly, you'd have to talk to like a you know,
a golf savant. You know, one thing they've done is
they've grown the rough into the tea box. So I think,
like anyone that's ever hit out of rough, when the
rough's going away from you, you're going to get these

(37:21):
flyer balls, and the ball flies a little farther. When
the ball's coming into you, it catches your you know,
whatever club you have, and especially if you're two hundred yards.
But you ideally don't want to hit like a pitching
wedge or a sand wedge, but some of these guys
are gonna be forced to do that. And I think
I saw some clips on Instagram of like, sometimes you
just gotta take your medicine. That's a huge part of
the US Open. And ultimately that kind of I think

(37:42):
did fill in over the years is he's never been
a huge take his medicine guy because part of it
he like lives on the edge, like Jordan speak, like,
he's an aggressive player, and it's probably cost him a
lot of tournaments over his career. I mean, this is
a guy who's won six majors and forty five tournaments.
If he played a little more conservative, you could argue
maybe he'd have like fifty five wins, but I think

(38:03):
he'd argue, like, why probably would have had I would
have won less tournaments as well because I wouldn't hit
some of the shots that ultimately led me to the
winner circle. So part of what defines him as a
player is he was aggressive, He let it rip, he
wasn't afraid. And if this is Phil's last US Open,
we still get to watch him on liv but this
will be a pretty cool moment for golf blending.

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Speaker 1 (39:00):
Kay, let's do a little mail bag at go low
Pod at golopod. Little us Open mail Bag at golopod
is the golf mail bag. Fire in those dms and
get your questions answered on the show. Big Fan, Scotty
looks incredible heading into the Open. I'd love to see
him get another w Where do you stand on the
level of competition that Tiger faced in his prime compared

(39:23):
to what Scotty is up against every week? Tiger was
obviously in a league of his own, but I feel
like there is a pretty big difference in competition today.
First twenty years ago, just the availability of launch monitors
and swing optimization software alone had a major impact, not
to mention sports medicine, etc. You know, I I think

(39:44):
we over I don't know if this topic's overblown, but
I don't think like the context of like, is Patrick
Cantley or some random guy that's somewhere in the top
twenty five more talented than maybe the dude in two
thousand that was nineteenth. You could argue that for sure,

(40:05):
And I think it's fair that if you put those
two guys together, you would take the guy from ten
to twenty five in twenty twenty five over the guy
in two thousand. But I think at the top and golf,
like tennis, has always been star driven and heavily weighted
toward the elite seven eight guys. Tiger had to battle

(40:28):
Phil who's one of the greatest players of all time,
Ernie Els, who's probably a top I don't know, fifteen
player of all time. He had runs of different guys like,
you know, Patrick Harrington who's won three majors, Jim Furick
was a really really good player, Ratief Goosen, VJ Singh All.

(40:48):
These guys aren't just major champions like that, they're really
really high end guys. But specifically Ernie Phil you know,
Duval had a short run before his injuries and got direct.
But ultimately, point here is like, yeah, did Tiger take
down some rocos over the years, of course, But like
when Scotty beats let's say, Jordan Speith, He's not beating

(41:12):
twenty sixteen Jordan Speth, He's beating the guy now, mus Solid,
who's a really good pro but isn't like some world beater, right,
So yeah, beating Bryson and Rom and Rory is really impressive,
just like when Tiger would take down Phil Ernie and VJ.
Sinh or John Daly or you know whoever the name is,

(41:32):
Greg Norman toward the tail end, but like really really
high end guys, right, Yeah, the seventeenth best player now
is probably better than the seventeenth best player then, totally agree,
And you definitely could argue like the fortieth best player
is better now than then, So like on a weekend
week out basis, but like, do you trust most of

(41:53):
those guys to get it done over the weekend? No?
And here's the thing, I would say, Scott is trending
toward being an all time great, right, He's already having
an all time great couple of years, but like over
the course of his career, you would bet on it
being awesome. You put Tiger at twenty seven in twenty
twenty five, He's the best player in the world easily.

(42:17):
Where would you rank last year's showdown between Rory and
Bryson in terms of greatest US Opens? Oakmont seems determined
to have a winning score over Par. I'm excited to
see the carnage. But where would you rank it in
terms of US Open venues? I would say my favorite
US Open venue is Pebble Beach. I just think Pebble

(42:38):
Beach in June hard to beat. Something about the water
or something about the West Coast primetime. But listen the Olympics,
the Oakmont's wing foot. I think most people would say
it's a little type of boring golf, though there was
only one guy under par Bryson the last time they played.

(43:01):
As long as you tell me it's really really difficult,
I'm in you know. I enjoyed Chambers Bay, I enjoyed Lacc.
I would say the best US Open I've ever seen
was Rockover's Tiger. I mean, Tiger won a US Open
on a broken leg in a torn acl and they
played eighteen extra roles on Monday at Torrey Pines, Which

(43:26):
I mean, He's had a lot of historic moments, but
it's it's one of the defining Tiger Woods career moments, right,
I mean it's Rocko, who I would love to get
on this podcast. It's the biggest moment of his career.
And sometimes, like when you lose to a Tiger Woods,
to Tom Brady, to you know, to the Yankees, to

(43:47):
the Lakers, like in a big moment, like you get
remembered forever. Like the biggest moment in the history of
the Sacramento Kings is losing in seven to Kobe and Chack, Right,
But like being part of the l is part of
your story, right, So I would say the Tiger Rory
is the biggest one of my life, or excuse me,
Tiger Rocko biggest one of my life. I would say

(44:11):
Bryson and Rory would be on the short list. Pinehurst
historic venue. I was young, I didn't watch sports probably
the same way as I do now. You know, the
Phil versus Payne Stewart pretty historic. One part of that
is like paint dies. I forget how long after, but
I don't think he ever plays another US Open, so

(44:34):
I would say that one would be up there. I
think Tiger won a pebble Beach US Opened by like
twenty shots or something. I forget the exact thing. It
was a fifteen shots, I mean, beat the shit out
of everybody. I mean, I don't even think he had
a bogie that week, but that wasn't a duel. So yeah,
I think it's on the short list of most interesting

(44:58):
Sundays we've ever watched. The question about letting YouTubers into
the tourneys got me thinking, how about let them play
a few. Let a few play in the Wednesday practice
round of a major. I know these courses are crazy hard,
but having a more regular guy measuring stick would be
very entertaining. Since there's no main TV coverage on Wednesday.

(45:21):
Let them do a full vlog on their channel. Well
they do that now, it's just a month before. I
don't think you could get these venues. The amount the
USGA like this is a really big deal, and to
allow even a couple guys to do that one the

(45:43):
practice rounds are going on with the players. I just
don't think they're going to allow that in a major
on a Wednesday, the day before the tournament. Now, you
could argue the week before the tournament, because right now
it's pretty like when Bob and all those guys, the
Brian Bros. When they shot that's like a month ago,
and they have different stuff roped off. I think it's

(46:05):
difficult to get these courses to allow them to do that.
And I think the majors, you know, I think you
could make the argument for like the Players Championship maybe
should do something like that, or maybe some of these
PGA Championships. I mean, these majors, especially Augusta, would never
needs to do that. But the other three, but specifically

(46:25):
the ones in America, the PGA and the US Open,
like they're gonna be the highest viewed tournaments of the year,
so like they don't necessarily need to do that. I
don't hate your idea. I just they're never allowing that
to happen. Mail back question. With baseball and tennis going
to shot clocks in a faster game, I wonder if
using cards for a tournament to see the game speed

(46:48):
up would help. I was in the car today and
I was listening to Drew Stoltz and Colt knows. I
don't think Colt was I think he might have been traveling.
He was in camp. I had to do with CBS
this week, so it was cold. I don't know who,
or it was Drew, I don't know who. He was
on the on the radio with some other filling guy

(47:09):
and they were discussing fast play and they said, well,
you know, when you get these really difficult courses as
the US opened, play is actually going to be much
slower because it's harder to find balls. You have to
take more thought into account when you're hitting crazy shots
out of the rough where to lay up and then
around the greens is going to be like molasses. And

(47:32):
I'm not even talking the Can't Lace and the Brysons.
I'm talking even the fast players. Watching Ryan Fox, I
didn't watch much of the Canadian Open, but I did
turn it on with like a couple holes to play,
and then Maria kicked me out of the living room
and I had to go to watch the final four
holes in the bedroom. She's like, I'm not watching this.
I'm like, I don't totally blame you, but I'm going

(47:53):
to and Ryan Fox. Every time Jim Nantz would be talking,
they would pan to him if he was hitting second
after burns it and he's already swinging. I'm like, this
guy's pace to play is in fucking credible. He is,
He's like shot out of a cannon. And I think
it's easier. I mean, the Canadian Open was like ready
aim fire, it was easy. The US Open and the

(48:15):
Memorial and the players like it does take a little
more thought, So I do understand. I don't think cart
golf will be ever something that these guys want to do.
I wouldn't hate the idea, but I have a hard
time seeing that and I don't know if it would
speed it up as much as you think, but could

(48:37):
be wrong. I actually think walking Yeah, I just I
don't know, But who knows. You never know? Question for
the Golo pod do holand ones count on simulators? I
just got my first one ever. Happened to be on
a simulator during a golf lesson while hitting at Mierfield
Village Jack's Place Whole sixteen, which is a two hundred

(49:00):
part three sending the video below, which I was able
to do replay on the screen. If you go to
Vegas or you could be anywhere, but let's just use
Vegas and you're a single guy and you're at like
a nice hotel bar and you take a girl home

(49:21):
and it turns out she's an escort and you sleep
with her. Does that count? I would argue no, right
that if you just went to a bar this week,
you're a single guy, you met a girl, you go
home with her, and you start hanging out there and
you start sleeping with her, I would say those two
situations are one's organic and the other one is a transaction.

(49:46):
It's not apples to apples here. But my point is
I would not count the simulator hole in one. I
don't think that can count. Now. I haven't spent much
time on simulators. I don't know how often they happen,
but I think that I think there could be an element.

(50:06):
If I was giving lessons on simulators, I would try
to manipulate it where people that come to me for
lessons get hold on once. It would make them feel
a lot better about each other. I'm not trying to
diminice your shot. I took a screenshot of this so
I can't click on your video. Good for you, it
seems like your head in the right direction. I would

(50:27):
not count it, though. I don't think that counts on
the docket debate I'm having with some buddies. It took
prime Tiger and I put him in the PGA today,
would he still dominate? We also discussed if he took
Scotty and brought him back to the late nineties, how
good he would be. One side says how strong the
fields are now compared to back then. Would still win,

(50:49):
but nowhere near as much. And if you flip side
says that he was the greatest athlete ever. Plus he
would get today's equipment training, so he would be even better.
We pretty much agreed Scotty would destroy everyone back in
the day love the pod. Scotty's game would translate to
any era, he would be one of the best players.
Right But like, is Scotty right now like that much

(51:12):
better than prime Phil? Mentally? Is he a little more?
I would say balance, so you know he wouldn't ride
the roller coasters of Phil. But if you put Tiger
in any era, he's the best player, definitely. You know,
Tiger's era on it's hard for me to equate, like
the Jack and Arnold era, but like any era I've

(51:33):
lived through, the twenty tens, the twenty twenties, never forget
Tiger once he kind of got his back fixed and
got over the chipping yips in twenty eighteen. In twenty nineteen,
Tiger was playing at an elite level. He almost won
the PGA. The one Brooks one played with him in
the final group. He had a chance to win the

(51:53):
British Open against Francisco Molinari until he had like a
shitty drive on a whole eleven. So he was in
the mix and two Majors. Then in twenty nineteen he
wins the Masters. So we saw Tiger in his forties
before he messed up his ankle, not only competing with
these guys in the Majors, winning the Masters. So to me,

(52:15):
if Tiger doesn't flip the car and shatter his ankle,
he wins more Majors. And this is in his forties,
not even the prime of his This is after reconstructed
knee and back. So one hundred prime Tiger today is
the is better than this s guy is the best
player in the world. You have to remember Tiger at

(52:37):
Scotty gets out driven by any guy that hits it far.
He plays with Xander Rory Bryson. These guys are flying
it way by him. If you put Tiger at twenty
seven years old with this equipment, he's hitting it three
hundred and thirty three hundred and forty yards straight. He
was the best iron player of all time. He had
a fill like short game, and he was the greatest

(52:58):
clutch putter we've ever seen. So he'd easily be the
best player he's basically he'd be hitting the like fucking
Rory off the t in his iron game is like
Fleetwood meet Scottie yet with a putter, or he's like
Russell Henley, Danny McCarthy. I mean, he's he's the best
all around player of all time. So I think Scotty

(53:19):
would be really good, but he might just be like
Ernie Els or VJ.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Singh.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
He's not as good as Tiger. And I say that
with all due respect, Like I respect the shit out
of Scottie, but comparing him Tigers, like comparing them Michael
or Tom doesn't get any better. And a huge part
of Scotty and all these guys is them growing up
watching Tiger. I think Justin Thomas would be a guy

(53:47):
that you could put like in the eighties with their equipment.
He'd be sweet. You mentioned recently played up in Tahoe.
Where do you like to play up there? Some of
the most beautiful golf in the States, in my opinion,
ball flies. Have you ever been to the American Century Championship.
I have not, and I've never played Edgewood. My brother has.
He played it on a really windy day. He said

(54:08):
it was tough, looks like a fun course, but I've played.
I played Old Greenwood where they have the Barracuda. I
actually played it right after the Barracuda, and it was
insanely hard. The greens were lightning, the rough was long.
It was difficult. I played Grace Crossing both those courses.
Public courses are elite, I mean elite, but now it's

(54:30):
not cheap. I paid two hundred bucks the day after
it opened, after the winner, so I think in the
summer maybe three fifty. It gets. I mean it's expensive
for public golf, but they're both high end tracks. And
then my guy Glenn last year invited me to play
Martis Camp, which is an exclusive public or private course,

(54:50):
which was just badass. I mean, it was just just
an elite track, special special day for your boy. One
of the cooler days of playing golf I've had years,
so those are the three courses I played. Uh, why
the sudden love for to live on the last podcast?
Is it because they are on Fox or someone is
paying you to do it? Just curious because you never
really talked about it. They bought ad space on our

(55:12):
show and me and Colin and I said, yeah, I'll
do it. We just need to get some of their
players on the pot or I have to play in
a pro am or something. So we're working on that.
At first, I was like, I don't know, and then
I realized, like, what are we even doing, Like they
got wrong, they got Bryson, they got Phil. If I
can get involved have them on the podcast, I'll do it.
So they bought advertising space and I said, let's get

(55:36):
some of their guys involved on the show. So in
twenty twenty five, like, what are we even talking about?
And I've never been it never bothered me like the
brandles of the world, and I've been open. It's not
like I watch much of it. I definitely have paid
more attention as as I started gambling on golf with
with Bryson and Rom and they got two of the
best four or five players in the world. So I said, yeah,

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they want to advertise on the pot. Let's do it.
I would like to play in a pro am and
I would like to have some of their guys. I
mean John Rahm, I would say, I don't know. I
don't know where his house is, but I know in
the Vicinity is ten minutes away from me. I'm like,
I fuck, you want to come on the show. Well,
I'll meet him somewhere. Let's do an in person interview.
So it's it's business, you know, And I uh, anyway

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that we can, you know, football, you know, it is
much easier for me to just know a bunch of
people in the league and to have access to gms
and be able to text people. And I did a
podcast today that I think we'll play next week with
John Schneider. I mean, I just have access to these
people through my background or in golf. It's just it's

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more difficult. So I was like, yeah, let's expand our horizons.
And uh, that's why need to hear thoughts on Rory
giving up the Canadian Open. I can't imagine Scotty ever
going to a tournament and shooting nine over and missing
a cut. Maybe a bad couple of days and he
misses the cut. By a couple of strokes, but nine
seems a little ridiculous, especially a week before the Majors. Yeah,

(57:05):
I would say it's pretty alarming. I do think once
you get to the back nine, you're like gonna miss
the cut. Like we've all played golf, whether you're Tiger Woods,
Roy McK or, once you get to a certain point
you have no shot. What are you gonna do? You know,
it's like Tom Brady, Payton Manning. You could find a
game in their career where they lose by thirty forty points.
It happens like you just kind of waved the white flag.

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So I his driver wasn't working. To me, the comments
around it were more alarming, And it's just right before major.
Do I think he went into the tournament trying to
miss the cut and just getting a warm up. I don't,
So I think it's more alarming that his game is
just in a bad place. You know, Scotty right now
is just never even close to missing cuts. But like

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I think it happens, it doesn't bother me as much
that you just kind of quote unquote mail it in
with nine holes left. You have no shot now if
you like intentionally missed a putt like tanked a tournament,
I would say, yeah, it'd be a little weird, but
I think he didn't have it and then it just snowballed.
I saw someone one of the golf guys, I think

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it's Run Rick Run, who's a data guy, posted that
based on the data, it's the second worst round of
his career on Friday, in the history of all of
his rounds in professional golf. So to me, it's more
alarming that, like, what the hell's going on? I mean,
the US opens this week. Is it just he can't

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of Like you know, sometimes in the NBA, it's like,
well they're tanking. They're literally trying to lose. You know,
we've seen it in football a couple of times, the
Dolphins tank for Tua, the Colts the year, you know
with Andrew Luck. You know, in golf, it's like you
shoot eighty, like you didn't start that day trying to
shoot eighty. Like it's happened to Justin Thomas a couple
of times. You know, DJ's had some rough rounds last

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couple of years. It's like you just like that's for
those guys. Their eighty would be like my one hundred
and ten It's like it's gotta be an alarming feeling. Okay,
last question, what do you make of big name players
like Max and Ricky missing out on the major in
these thirty six hole qualifiers the day after playing in

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the Memorial? Uh? I think that day the longest day
in golf when guys that aren't in the US Open
try to open qualify for it. It's part of, you know,
the cool aspect of the PGA is all the PGA
professionals who can qualify into the PGA Championship in the
US Open, of anyone of a certain handicap can attempt
to qualify into the tournament. And if you play well

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enough on the qualifier to get into that Monday of
the thirty six holes and then obviously the thirty six holes,
you got to be dialed in. You got to be
pretty lights out on thirty six holes in these scenarios.
And usually if you look at some of these scores,
it's like sick seven under gets you into a playoff.
I mean, the one kid was like eighteen years old.

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He shot like sixty three sixty three. I think he's
a senior in high school. Can you imagine that guy
on his high school golfing circuit. He has to just
destroy people. He's gotta be. I don't know anything about him.
I would imagine the best high school player in the country.
But like Max Homer, for example, who clearly is having
issues this season, fires his caddy after him and Joe breakup.

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He's had the caddy for like two months, doesn't have
a caddy, carries his own bag, almost like a punishment
to himself. Gets to the thirty six hole, two putt,
He's in the US Open, three putts, goes to the playoff.
I mean it's hard. I mean, look at the final
I was watching. I guess it would have been last Monday,
so we go today. I mean the playoff in that

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tournament in Ohio was like Cam Young who just finished
second or third in the Canadian Open, Ricky Fowler, Max Homa,
Eric Cole. I mean, all these dudes are They were
playing for one spot, and I just think I respect
it because I think when you get to a certain point.
This was a knock on some of the live guys

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is they were complaining early on that they were complaining
about not getting access to majors, and it's like, well,
you can try to open qualify for the US Open
and guys were not doing it. They've done it the
last couple of years, but like it's part of golf.
I mean, if you're just not in whatever the threshold is,
unlike the Masters, like you can't there is no qualifying
beside winning a tournament or getting to a certain top

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fifty or whatever the number is in the US Open, Like,
these guys all have the opportunity. It's why typically when
you look at that day, most of the guys that
qualify are like Eric Van Royan, Cam Young, Max Homa, Right,
I mean it's like pros Zach Bleer. All these guys
are like playing on the PGA Tour and it's a
cool day. It's what makes golf kind of unique. It's

(01:01:58):
almost like, in a weird way, it would be like
if like the Philadelphia Eagles had Open tryouts and they're
gonna keep one guy to take the training camp, like
back in the day with Vince Papali. That's kind of
like what the US Open Now. Most of the Open
tryout guys in this scenario would be like NFL players
or guys on practice squads. So it's like not even
that weird, but every once in a while, one or

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two guys like who's this guy? Never even heard of him?
And then he like makes the team and it's what
makes golf kind of special, is like that day, that moment.
But I didn't see every guy that qualified, but I
bet if we look through, the majority of them are pros.
I think the one hard part like typically based on

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your strength to field, you get more guys in, and
based on that strength of field. At that I think
it was Springfield, Ohio, maybe Columbus, Ohio, one of those
two they got five or six guys in. But you will,
I mean, look at the top of that leaderboard. It
was just pro after pro after pro after pro. I'man one.
They turned to one tournament. It was like Mark Leishman

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and Munho's and a bunch of dudes that like are
either on the liver or the PG tour, you know,
me or you going in it. Even if we're a
scratch golfer, more than likely, you know you're gonna have
to shoot depending on the course minimum six under and more.
You know some some courses that are easier eight to
nine under, like you don't. That's the thing with Max

(01:03:24):
carrying his own bag, which I respect you do wonder
if at the end, like was he a little tired.
I mean he's been playing a PGA Tours season. I
know he walks a lot, but carrying your own bag
it would have been pretty legendary, would have been pretty legendary.
So appreciate everyone listening. Make sure you fire in those

(01:03:46):
those dms at go lopod and very very I kind
of I love major weeks. We got seventy two so
what's that one hundred and forty four holes left of
Major Championship golf at Oakmont and then uh Point Rush,
the home of Roy McElroy and where Shane Lowry won
years ago. So very very excited for these last couple

(01:04:07):
of majors, especially to gamble on. So we will talk soon.
We'll have some football podcasts coming out the rest of
the week. Audios the volume