May 17, 2023 • 56 mins
John previews the The PGA Championship field and best bets with Action Network's Jason Sobel from Oak Hill CC in Rochester, NY. Also, listener mailbag questions!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume What is going on? Everybody? John Middlecop Go
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of the year, Oak Hill, Rochester, New York. Josh Allen
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and the Buffalo Bills in the house hosting what could
be a little chilly and very difficult major. Looking forward
to this one. Looking forward to this one, I will
talk off the top, you know, obviously Rom Rory are
always going to be stories, some thoughts on live, big
week for them, as always the guys I'm betting on
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a hint. They're all on the American Ryder Cup team.
And then we will also take your questions after we
talked to Jason Sobele, who when I talked to him
earlier today he had just walked the front nine. He's
been there for a couple of days. He wrote that
it's kind of like a hybrid PGA US Open. It's
gonna be hard, I mean it's gonna be easy. So
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housekeeping wise, I would really love to hit a bet.
I would really like I've spread a lot of money
out but heavy on some top guys. I'd really like
one of my guys to win the tournament. Jason Day.
I gamble on him all the time. I've probably put
five hundred dollars on Jason Day over the last calendar year.
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And the one week it's like, you know, I'm not
gonna take him in sixteen to one, the guy wins it. Cool,
I mean, awesome story, right. You know his mother passed
away last year. To win his tournament in five years
on Mother's Day. But I feel like I'm owed a
little bit. I do because I've supported that man through
thick and thin. But uh, let's dive into the majors.
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PGA Championship, It's here, baby. This couple weeks it really
for you know, since the Masters, it gets a little sleepy.
(03:03):
It does. Actually, it got good right after the Masters
in Harbortown with Matt Fitzpatrick winning. But this feels like
the stretch of this tournament. Then we have the US
Open here in a couple of weeks, it really gets going.
It's major season, the FedEx Playoffs, the Ryder Cup. This
is when it gets really fun. I mean, the Masters
is it's impossible to beat. It's the best tournament of
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the year. But this stretch of golf feels pretty damn good.
I'm really excited for the next month. It's actually less
than a month if you factor in the start of
this tournament to the start of the US Open week
and to me, the biggest story going into this week.
I just looked it up John rom Well last night
on Monday night, I was watching Golf Channel and I
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turned it down because I was talking to my girlfriend
and I look up and they have this graphic. It's
like Brandle's talking and it said Scottie Scheffler and John
Rahm have won five of the nine elevated events this season.
Rom's won three of them. I just looked it up
before I hopped on the podcast. He's made over fourteen
million dollars this season. It's obviously not even June still
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got three majors to go the FedEx Playoffs. I mean,
this guy's headed for a Steph Curry, Lebron James type earning,
Patrick Mahomes Type's earning type season. And listen, the Grand
Slam seems impossible, right because Tiger never could do it.
He did the Tiger Slam, but he never did the
Grand Slam. If he wins this week, and he's clearly
the favorite, obviously it would be in play because he
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won the two first majors, but I think it would
be like, is this guy going to have the greatest
season of all time? All four majors, The amount of money,
the depth of golf has never been better. I mean
that's just a fact, and I'm not trying to sound
like younger guy. Golf wasn't this deep in the fifties,
sixty seventies anytime Tiger was playing since recently. So if
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John Rohm were to pull this off, it would be obviously.
I mean, there's no amount of adjectives to describe how
remarkable would be. To me, the craziest thing, and this
speaks to his greatness. It kind of feels like it's
in play. I'm not going to bet on him this week.
I actually kind of like him more at LACC. I'm
not sure why he's played really well at US opens
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over his career, but like, I expect him to be
in the mix. I really do, especially when everyone we
talked to sobl it's you know, you gotta hit it long,
you gotta have power, you gotta have touch. I was
listening to the Frida Egg podcast. It's it's pretty good
that they have different guests on and someone on the
(05:40):
podcast was talking about Tim Michelson, Phil's brother who used
to be the Arizona State head golf coach and then
became he's now Jerom's agent, and then he became Phil's caddie.
That he told someone when Rom was in college that
John can do everything Phil does, yet he drives it straighter.
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I don't think any two people beside Tim and Phil Michelson.
I mean, Phil Nickleson was betting people huge money. This
guy was a lock who win a major by the
time he was like twenty five years old. The Mickelson
saw this guy as a golf rocket ship. And I
would say the last several years he's really delivered. I
mean he's really come into his own. Twenty six, twenty
seven to twenty eight years old, I mean he was
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damn good from the jump. I think he minished top
five as an amateur at the waste management. But these
last couple of years and what he's doing right now,
he's the best player in the world. He feels like
the best player in the world eye tess wise, obviously
statistically he's right there. I just think that cool part
about sports is like NIKOLEA. Jokic is trying to become
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an NBA legend multiple MVPs, win a championship. Lebron James
is trying to add to a legendary career. Right if
Aaron Judge leads the Yankees to a World Series as
the captain, like, that's rare air. I saw he had
two home runs the other night. It was when the
video got him kind of looking maybe cheating. He denied
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it did. The list of Yankees to have thirty plus
two home run games in their career was like Ruth Mantle,
Gerrig you know, Judge, it's like decent company, Reggie Jackson,
not bad group, I mean, decent group of guys. And
you know, I think Rom would enter. You know, this
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is what happened because Spieth and Rory won those majors
so early. It feels like Rom is somewhat the opposite.
It kind of like in the peak of his powers
came a little bit later in life. It's like, would
this guy beheaded, you know, toward eight majors and just
as an all time like Jack, Arnie, Tiger, Rom Trevino,
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Phil like kind of that group, you know, And that's
where I would bet on him going. But you got
to start racking up those majors, and I think he
was quoted as saying that he would choose way more
majors in the Grand Slam. I just, you know, if
he wins this week, I mean, I think he's the
heavy betting favorite the next two Majors. But it's going
to be fascinating to watch. And on the flip side, Rory,
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you know, and I don't you know, listen, it's weird.
Scotty is a great player. He's clearly the second best
player in the world. It just I don't know, you know,
once he's playing, I enjoy watching it. I don't know
really what you can say about him. To me, Rory
is much more interesting. Missed the cut at the Masters,
absolutely devastating. I mean just it was embarrassing, and he disappeared,
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and now he's back. He feels like he's flying under
the radar. His odds have dropped significantly. I mean, you
can get him thirteen fourteen to one. This guy just
several a month ago was right there with Robin Sheffler
being seven eight to one, and now they've basically almost
doubled in the wrong direction. So you know, every time
that you just stop paying attention to Rory he pops. Though,
when you look at Rory's history at the PGA Championship, which,
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in fairness to this major, even though it's clearly the
fourth best major, it usually plays pretty hard. Right, This
Major plays harder than the Open typically if there's no win,
and definitely plays in terms of relative to parr harder
than the Masters. So I'm fascinated to watch Rory this weekend.
I think there just is pressure on him, you know,
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to win more majors. I mean, they're just is now.
He's definitely taken a back seat from talking a bunch
of shit about liv I think it's a fascinating week
for live right because the Masters they played every single year.
Phil Mickelson is going to be able to shoot sixty
five at the Masters, you know, non Augusta week, probably
in his late sixties. Maybe not sixty five, but I
(09:34):
bet Phil in his late sixties can still easily break
par in Augusta, and he can be competitive at Augusta
probably throughout his fifties. Right, Brooks, DJ Campsmith, these guys
are going to get so many reps at that course. Definitely,
DJ and Brooks played there forever. It's a little harder
to judge. I think these next two tournaments, this one
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at oak Hill and then LACC, we'll see how so
equipped these guys are. To me, I'm more fascinated, Like
that was cool. I'm not trying to diminish what they
did at the Masters. I'm shorting to live guys a
little bit. Like I'm just not expecting that much from
DJ and Brooks. I'm not going to wager on them.
I just my my standard for them is just a
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little lower given that I see everyone reacting. A lot
of people are gonna bet on Brooks. A lot of
people think DJ's a good play here, and historically they
one hundred percent would be. But I'm just fascinated to
watch this all play out.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The Masters is a very very It's an outlier from
the other majors because it never rotates, and once you've
played it ten times ten times for all your practice rounds.
I mean that's a lot of reps at one individual place. Right,
We'll see, We'll see. I would again, like I said,
I'm not gambling on any of these guys. I hope
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that some of them are in the mix. I think
it makes it for much more interesting and fascinating television.
But I think it's going to be a little more difficult,
and I would be a little if you told me
that more than half for these guys missed the cut.
I think stuff like that's on the table just because
I think good players at tough courses US Open, PGA
just missed the cut. It is difficult. Listen. The guy
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that I'm betting on pretty heavily is Max Homa and
his odds. I got him it originally thirty two to one.
I saw his odds were closer thirty five thirty six
to one. Now to me, he's in the group of
the people I'm putting money on Xander and Tony Fenw,
who have had much more success over their career and
have been consistently on the PGA tour much longer than Max.
(11:32):
They just haven't won a major. To me, it feels inevitable.
And listen, this guys can go a whole career and
be great players and not win a major. But it
feels like Tony Fenw and Xander Shoffley are going to
win a major. Why I have wager done it. Max
Homa also feels inevitable, though he has clearly done way less.
But Max plays well on tough court golf courses. He
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won the Wells Fargo last year at TPC Potomic or
whatever in DC, it was like freezing in possible conditions.
He's won at Torrey Pines, He's won at riv Like
his game translates two tough golf courses. He just has
to prove it. And I think when you get the
odds of a guy in the mid thirties who's clearly
one of the best top seven to eight players in
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the world, I think it's pretty juicy. Like ultimately, like
I've been on Tony Feen, Alexanderschople a lot over the
last three or four years to win majors, and they
haven't done it. Like I said, I think it's going
to happen to why I'm gonna keep hammering it. There's
that group of like Speeth, we'll see if he ends
up playing with the injury, but like JT obviously Rory
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and above, like I don't like Colin more Cowell as
much like Cam Young, you have to win a tournament first,
though I really enjoy watching you play before I can
wager on you. But then there's the group of I
do think there's a fascinating group this week that has
a little bit longer odds that you probably safer to
play top tens. But I do think could win the tournament, right.
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I think Terrell Hatten, Tommy Fleetwood or guys that could
easily be in the mix Saturday and Sunday. Now, can
they get it done? Can they hammer at home? Especially
Tommy Fleetwood, he hasn't done it yet. Does he have
the game to win a major golf tournament? Of course
he does. Gary Woodland, you can get him like one
hundred to one. His top ten odds probably like twelve
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to one. He's a guy played well at the Masters
this year, has won a US Open, so he plays
well in tough conditions, has played well this season. Like
that's pretty interesting because this is a golf course where
you got to hit it long, you got to have power.
It's a second shot golf course. And Keegan Bradley is
another guy again longer odds ninety one hundred to one range.
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I think by the time you know Thursday comes around,
that number might be closer to eighty to one. But
these are guys Hatton, Fleetwood, Keegan and Woodland. I understand
not putting some juice down on, you know, to win,
just to win outright, But I think top fives and
top tens are awfully juicy. And then i'd like, and
I can't argue with you any of the group of
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the Hovelins, the sun Jams, even the cam Young Like
I said, he hasn't won yet, but he's gonna win.
That's inevitable. Like if Xala Taurus hadn't gotten hurt, like
he was gonna win several times. It's just like Max Homy.
You start playing that well, you just start winning. You know,
these guys, Sam Burns, you know it's hard. There's so
many guys in the thirty forty to one range that
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are tasty, and that's what makes these majors fun.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I mean, can you go rom wrong? Putting all your
money on Rom or Scheffler or Rory, Like I wouldn't
call you an idiot. Rory feels a little bit, you know,
more fickle. You know, if you just bet on Ram
every single major moving forward, that that might be the
right play. Hell, if he wins two of the four
and you put one thousand dollars on him, I know
you wouldn't put a thousand, but yeah, I don't think
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it's that crazy, right, you just would have won nine
g's at the Masters. You'd win seven g's in the
next couple if he wins another. So even if you
lost a thousand, you'd be up what fifteen thousand dollars,
So that actually might just be the smart play. And
if he wins this tournament, I'm for sure betting the
house on him to win at LACC. So I'm excited
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for this. I like watching guys play tough golf courses.
I like it when it's hard to make birdies. I
know these guys all complain about long par three's, like
I'm sorry, it's fun to watch, Like I know that
you can hit one hundred and sixty yard nine iron
three feet, like I like watching you hit a three
wood into the wind. Like it's it's difficult. I know
it sucks. It sucks for you you're a great player,
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or suck for all of us. Sometimes it's decent TV
to watch just just a one off, and it really
just happens a couple times a year, maybe the PGA
and definitely the US Open, because LACC is going to
be a lot like that, So a lot of guys
will complain, I will celebrate it. Okay, coming to you
from Oakhill with Marv Levy. I mean, Jason Soble, what
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is going on? Second major of the year. You can
hear him every single day on Series XM. He's all over.
It'll be over all over this week. You find him
on the internet. Right in his betting preview which I
just read, he called Oak Hill a hybrid PGAUS Open.
I saw some John Rohm quotes. This course is not easy.
(16:15):
I know. You Just walk the front nine. Give me
some early buzz on the course.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, just walk the front nine. Just for this, by
the way, just because I wanted to be prepared when
I came on with you, John, it is I can
confirm a golf course. There's a lot of grass. They've
got some holes in the ground with flagsticks put in
the holes that it is a golf course. Look. The
two things I will say about this one is it
looks just like a PGA Championship golf course. And what
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I mean by that is other than okay, different weather,
different grass types. You could take most of these golf
holes and put them on Southern hills, put them on Valhalla,
put them on Hazeltine and you'd go, yeah, it kind
of fits they all. There's a lot of similaries to
all of them. You don't walk this golf course, go man,
what a fun golf course. This looks like a blast.
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You wouldn't turn it down if you got invited to play.
And you look at it and you say, yeah, that's
a championship golf course. It's every blade of grass is
exactly measured to the height that they want it to be.
It's you know, maintained meticulously. But it's not a fun
golf course. It's not a ton different from what we'll
see on a usual basis for PGA Championships. But like
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you mentioned, and you stole my thunder there, but this
is I think it's not quite as difficult as a
usual US Open golf course, but a little more difficult
than a usual PGA championship course. I think it's gonna
be tough this week and the wind's gonna blow a
little bit. I was just speaking with the meteorologist here
on site. Stuart Williams told me, you know, it's it's
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gonna be cold, probably gonna thrust alay on Thursday morning.
It's gonna push everything back. I think we're gonna have
one of those weeks where you know, it's a little
bit of a not a start stop kind of week.
But if they don't finish on Thursday playing catch up Friday,
more guys out Saturday morning means maybe the leaders don't
finish Saturday afternoon, they have to go out in the
cold Sunday morning. A lot of things are gonna shift
throughout the week.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well obviously from a gambling perspective. By the time people
are listening to this, the tea times will be out.
The morning shifts then Thursday, Friday, and potentially Saturday. Not
quite as intense as Augusta was, but it's you know,
you're there right now. You're wearing a jacket. I see
you know this isn't you know Los Angeles or Arizona.
I mean, this is cold. Do you think that impacts
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the draw? This week is a big deal, dependent on
how windy and cold it is on a specific morning Thursday,
Friday or Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, I've planned very well. By the way, I wore
a pullover over a hoodie and then walk the golf course.
Now I'm sweating, So I don't know what any of
that means. Other than I over dressed for this. But
I will say that John, I'm having a hard time
figuring out exactly who this might favor, because, like I said,
first thing in the morning, you get out here, even
if there is a frost delay. Once the frost alay
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is over, you've got colder conditions. The ball's not going
to be flying as far. I think it's gonna be
really tough in the morning. Later in the day, though,
the wind picks up, and so okay, it might warm
up fifteen degrees from eight am to three pm, but
the wind might be blowing fifteen miles an hour more
later in the afternoon, and so I'm not sure there's
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a specific advantage either way from what I hear Thursday
afternoon and Friday morning. So the late early wave may
be a little bit better this week than the early
late wave. I don't know that i'd base all my
bets on it. I don't think that i'd sit there
and exclude anybody who is in the early wait late draw,
but maybe a little bit easier for those guys in
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the late.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Early Before we get into specific players theme on this course,
just seeing from a lot of you guys that are
there carry distance off the tee is a pretty big
deal obviously, you know, second shot golf course at any
you know, major championship is big. And this isn't just
driver wedge, right, You're talking for some guys driver four iron,
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driver five iron even you know you can say driver
six iron for some of these guys. But some of
these guys hit their six iron two hundred and ten yards.
So you have long second shots correct into these holes.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You will have some. Yeah, there's a whole lot of
four hundred and eighty four hundred and ninety yard par four,
so yeah, you're gonna have some long second shots in
there's elevation as well. I will get back to it. Look,
I say this before every major championship, but I don't
mean to make some mockery out of our own self
analysis and what we're trying to accomplish in the days
leading up to a major championship, because I'm in the
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prognostication business and I'm trying to help people figure out
exactly the type of player that could and should play
well on a specific course. But it goes back to
what we say before every single major championship, or at
least almost every major, which is well, you gotta hit
along off the team because you know this is not
a shorten off course by any means. But you don't
want to hit the roughs. You gotta be long straight
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off to tea and then boy, you gotta be dialed
in with your irons, approach shots. You got it. You
can't miss these greens. But if you do miss these greens,
you've got to be able to get up and down
from around the greens. And boy, even if you don't
hit it tight with your wedges, you've got to make
some putts if you don't, but well, you're not gonna
win this thing. And so there you go. That's golf.
You've got to hit it long and straight, hit your
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irons well, get up and down with your wedges and
roll in lots of putts. That's the type of player
that's going to win here this week.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Does it have a feel? You know, you've been to
these last two majors over the last month that Scotty
and John Rahm combined have separated themselves as just going
in they feel even more than Rory obviously, you know
the top twenty twenty five guys, I mean, Golf's probably
never been deeper separate even from the odds, But just
being out there, does it feel like those I mean,
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I know from the ranking standpoint, but just talking to players,
talking to coaches, I mean, are they in their own
tier right now? To you?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I don't know that other players would necessarily admit it,
or maybe they at least push that narrative so that
it takes the heat off of them and puts it
on those guys a little bit more. But yeah, I
think there's no doubt that those guys have separated themselves
as the two favorites, whether they're officially co favorites in
some books, I've seen books with ram As a half
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point favorite, some with Scheffler's a half point favorite. One
book I saw the other day had Ram's a half
point favorite in the morning and Scheffler is a half
point favorite in the afternoon. So they keep flipping back
and forth a little bit. If I was making the
odds this week, John and I was asking this question yesterday,
I would have ram As again a very very slight
favorite in the outright marketplace, But when it came to props,
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top five, top tens, I would have Scheffler a little
bit shorter. And again it's just it's fractional marginal. But
I would have Scheffler, who I think has a higher
floor than Rom, but I think Rom's ceiling is a
little bit higher. I'd have Scheffler as the favorite in
the prop marketplace, if you will, and maybe in some matchups.
All of that said, yes, they've separated themselves. I feel
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like Rory's sort of have been thrown in at least
by the odds makers and the book says the third
guy in the big three, but he hasn't played that way.
He hasn't won yet this year. He's coming off two
straight miss cuts, certainly not playing his best golf right now,
and so I don't know that Rory necessarily deserves the
number that he's been given this week, which is right
around twelve to one. And so he is, to me,
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the biggest X factor. I've got two questions and I
want to ask you, and I want to answer this.
Would it completely surprises you if Rory won by five
this week?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, I think it would.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Okay, Well, so much for that hypothetical at Would it
completely surprise you if Rory missed the cut by five
this week?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, that would not okay?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You were supposed to answer a note in each of
those questions, because the point I'm trying to make here
is that the range for Rory, we talked about ceilings
and floors. Rory's a skyscraper right now, and Rory can
be forty floors up or he could be in the
basement this week, and I have absolutely no idea where
he's going to be close to start the range of outcomes.
But at that number, he's a stay away. He's a
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faith for me.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
The only reason I say not by five, I think, now,
if you can win a major by five in this
current climate, there's an incredible accomplishment, you know, and just
based on the way he was playing last year. But
then I open up Twitter this morning and see that
he said that Tiger noticed something. McQuail hollow getting a
little inside. He goes over to Tiger's pad. They spend
(24:27):
a couple hours just geeking out, talking golf swing. It'd
be like, you know, you're some defensive coordinator in college.
Belichick calls you up, Hey, I see a couple of
things you could tweak. I mean, that's that type stuff
in a weird way where it gets away, gets his
mind right, and you get the guy who's you know,
I'd put right up with Phil Is one of the
great golf nerds, player, non player, whoever of all time
(24:49):
in Tiger Woods like that, he's giving you legit advice.
You know, Tiger knows the golf swing. So I'm a
little more bullish on Rory just because, like you said,
he gets a fly under the now and just maybe
a subtle tweak because Rory, I mean, his tweak would
be like a tweak by Steph Curry. I mean it's
just so minuscule, and if he gets it right, you're right,
he can play with anybody.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, I just see. I see the other side of
that though, and I look at it from the other perspective,
which is essentially to further your analogy. It's like a
you know, an Aaron Rodgers or a Jalen Hurts or
a Patrick Mahomes or whoever we want to talk about,
throws three interceptions two straight games, and all of a sudden,
everybody's calling him from everywhere like, hey, you got this
little thing with your wrists when you're throwing, or you're
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not looking off this guy. And yes they're trying to help,
but all of a sudden, now you're like, hey, it's
not just physical and technical now, it's mental and physiological
and emotional. And I'm thinking about everything. I'm not just doing.
I'm thinking. And I wonder if getting all this little advice,
even if it's just little tweaks, little things here and there.
Rory is a very analytical guy. And I wonder if
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at some point when he's playing the golf course and
he's on the set about dat his drive and he's like, oh, yeah,
that's right, Tiger told me I gotta do that thing.
And he's trying to do the thing that Tiger said
or avoid doing the thing that he said don't do.
And I just it's a little harder than that just
going hey, Rory, you're really good at golf. Let me
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just go hit the ball and go make some bernies,
which I think works out a lot better for him.
He plays better when he's carefree, when he's got a
smile on his face. They're good angry golfers out there.
John Ram is a great angry golfer. I believe Justin
Thomas is a great angry golfer. Brooks Koepka is a
great angry golfer. He's got a chip on his shoulder.
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When Worry's frustrated, you can read it on his face.
I mean, I've said before that when Rory's not playing
his best golf, you don't need to look at the scorecard,
you don't need to look at the leaderboard. You can
just look at his face and you know that he's
not playing well. And by the same token vice versa,
you can look at him. He's bouncing down the fairway,
he's got a smile on his face, and when he's
playing well, you know he's playing well, and you know
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he's kind of got it. I just wonder if getting
all these little tweaks and all this little advice, even
though it's coming from a good spot and it's coming
from people that are trying to help him, I wonder
if at some point Rory looks at himself and is like,
I can't there's too much noise inside, and I can't
succeed with all the noise.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Before we get into your picks and some of the guys.
I like, one big picture thing on John Rahm is
I would say the most historic thing of my lifetime
in golf is obviously the Tiger Slam. You know, Jordan,
Rory they had their moments of winning the majors, which
was sweet. Kept go obviously that two year run of
winning all the majors. But if John Rahm pulls this off,
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he would then be the heavy favorite at lac See.
We know how well he plays in the Open. Obviously,
just just based on the number he would the Grand
Slam would be on the table. But it would feel like,
oh my god, we'd be looking at truly one of
the great golf seasons of all time, and financially, he'd
be looking at like, you know, a forty to fifty
million dollar golf season just on the course.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
All of that is true, and you know, not that
we shouldn't go too far ahead and think about that stuff,
or the antithesis, which is Ron finishes in twenty third
place this week, we start talking about a Master's hangover
because he hasn't played his best golf since then, We're like,
it can go in either direction. But you're absolutely right
about that. No player has won the Masters and the
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PGA in the same year since Jack Nicholas back in
seventy five. Only two players have won the first two
legs of the Grand Slam in the same year. In
the last fifty years. That was Tiger and O two
and Jordan in fifteen, and so he can certainly reach
some rarefied air and joined some pretty elite company if
he's able to win this week, and you're right that
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all of a sudden puts him on track for well
next month on icc US Open. Fits his game. I've
always thought that he should be a really good Open
Championship player. I mean, this guy's cred a lot of
links golf in his career too, So it's it's very
easy for us to sit here and connect the dots
and try to give him three more majors this year
and go out. John Rams had the greatest year in
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golf history. He won all the majors. That's very possible.
It's also very possible that things go wrong and he can't.
He can't follow his master's success. The same thing that
happened to Scotty at this point last year looks skutt.
He didn't have a bad rest of the year by
any means, but at some point golf is cyclical and
you hit these ebbs and flows. Rom actually talked about
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in his press conference today that you know, you just
try to try to make sure the lows aren't that
low and don't last very long and then get back
to the highs of it. And he understands that very well.
He's very well spoken about success and what it means
and trying to overcome failures, and he's very astute in
those observations. And look, you're not wrong about any of it.
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We certainly could see that from Rom, but it's probably
too early for the Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Doc.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'll throw that much out. Okay, you're picking why I
was sunjaym I'm going based on a trend, not at
Oakill itself, even though he kind of fits the ball
striker mentality of a Jason Duffner from ten years ago.
Just plotted around and don't do anything too special, but
don't get yourself in trouble either. The trend I'm looking
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at is over the last three weeks, the winners we've
seen Tony Fenaw, that Mexico Open, Wyndham Clark and the
Wells Fargo Championship, Jason Day at the at and t
Byron Nelson. What did they all have in common? They
were all playing really, really good golf. This was not
a one off. It was not an outlier performance by
any of those three, it was I'm playing great golf
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and trending in the right direction, and all of a
sudden I had a little bit of a spike week
where things went my way. A couple of putts drop
in the hole, and you're gonna win after playing that
type of golf. Sunjay is one of these guys. And
I've got Xanderschoffley second on my list, and I'll have
outrights on him this week as well. But guys who
were playing really, really well, good enough to win that
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just essentially need a couple more little things to go
their way and they're going to be at the top
of the leader board. And so I've told you before,
I look at him as a guy that might not
be in the conversation with Rom and Scheffler, and might
not be even in the next conversation with say Rory
and Cantle and Xander. But I don't think him gets
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enough credit for being as talented as he is and
being in the same tier as a Morikawa and a
Speeth and a who else is there, Victor Hovland. I
think he's just as good as those guys, maybe not
as accomplished, maybe not hasn't won as much as those
other players, but I do think it's coming for Sunday
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pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, I'm with young Zay. I got tickets on Xander
and Tony as well. You know, two guys I think
in that thirty to forty de range Hatton and Homa.
If this was you know, the Facebook Open or the whatever,
yet he opened, there was an elevated we'd love though
that number, you'd be all. But it's a major and
you're like, huh, you know, Homa hasn't really showed it yet. Hadden,
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you know, plays really well on all these big tournaments.
I've heard some comparisons to bay It's a different obviously
with the Lakes, but bay Hill when it plays really
hard to this course, you see any similarities there with
Haddon's had success.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, not as fiery as bay Hill, and obviously the
weather patterns are completely different, but yeah, I can see.
I mean, just in the difficult nature of it. Hatten
is a guy that I have a hard time backing,
at least pre tournament, because I don't know what his
mindset's going to be. He is so volatile on and
off the golf course that look, they might overcook his
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burger and player dining to today and all of a
sudden he's in a bad mood for the rest of
the week and he doesn't play well, or I don't know,
he might just take to the city of Rochester and go, Wow,
this place is pretty cool. I got, you know, I
got a good dinner the other night, and being a
good mood all week and play really good golf. I
have a hard time backing a player who just has
a personality and a game that's that volatile. So he
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is playing well though, and I could certainly say home's
a guy that I really liked this week. And this
is gonna be a very strange comparison, But I see
some similarities between Oakhill and TBC Potomac at Avenel Farms
where they played last year, as well as Fargo Championship,
because Kuail Hollow is being prepped for the President's Cup
and Max went and won that golf tournament in Chili
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conditions with would wind. It was wet in the morning,
it was a big golf course, lots of rough. That's
essentially what we have this week. And I know Homa
hasn't played his best golf in major It's only one
finish better than fortieth in fourteen career starts, but it
did come at last year's PGA Championship. He finished thirteenth
at Southern Hills. So I do think that there's some
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thought that he could play some good golf, and he's
just quite frankly, for him, it might be more mental
than anything else. He is trying to talk himself into
the fact that he's one of the world's best players.
I think he knows it and understands it. He's just
got to play like it. I think I think it's
a good chance we see him do it this week.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You know two guys that you know, you would have
said a year ago as the Live thing was unfolding,
they would have had live written all over him would
have been Jason Day and Ricky Fowler and I have
so much. Obviously they were super rich, so they didn't
have to make a decision just strictly based on money,
but the way their games were and they stuck it
out and they battled. Obviously, Jason just won, Ricky's you know,
resurrected his career. I don't know either of those, especially
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Jason Day went back to Back's pretty difficult to kind
of like him at LACC, but both those guys top ten.
I know you liked Ricky as a top ten or
maybe it was top twenty, but those guys to compete
or Jason Day, that's asking a lot to go back
to back weeks playing it a really high after that
high last week.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, I ranked the top twenty five this week. I
think it just got posted, and I think I've got
Ricky tenth and Jason eleventh. So yes, you know, sort
of borderline top ten players for me, but I really
liked both of those guys. And look, I think he
didn't make a case for Day this week. Twice previously
in his career, and granted he was playing better back then,
but not massively better. I mean, I know he was
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number one in the world, but that was a culmination
of a few years of good golf. He's been playing
really well obviously right now, but twice twenty fifteen and
twenty sixteen he won in back to back start, So
there's a little precedence here for Jason Day to go
out and play well again. Plus he's got that monkey
off his back and taken him just over five years
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to win again on the PGA Tour. Now that he's
done it, sort of a free role this week, and
I kind of like that about him, that he doesn't
have to play with the pressure, the internal pressure of
trying to chase something that he once was. He can
just go out there and play golf this week. And
I would not be surprised if Jason Day won this
golf tournament. I think there are a ton of parallels
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right now between Day and his career and Ricky in
his career. Now, Day has sort of gotten to the
peak of that mountain as world number one, as a
major champion that Ricky was always searching for never quite
got to. But Ricky is playing as a top fifteen
type player on the PGA Tour so far this year.
He's another one of those guys And I mentioned this
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with Sun Jay, I mentioned it with Xander, But he's
another one of those guys where the performance has sort
of outclassed the results so far this year due for
what we call the in the industry, and I hate
this term positive regression, which sort of sounds oxymoronic, but
I haven't found a better term yet. What it means,
essentially is that he's due for an upturn in the
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results because the performance levels there. He's played some really
good golf without necessarily seeing a win or even anything
real close over the last couple of months, and so
I think it's gonna be a good week for Ricky
as well.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I'm gonna get you out here on this. I've always
wondered this, you know, especially over the last like five
six years. These guys got so rich, the money so big,
and you know, the hierarchy of the majors, this has
always been the fourth one, and that they've moved it
around a little bit. When you're out there because you're
a Master's champ, you're a US Open champ. We saw
the power of the Open last year. Does this still
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feel I understand like they all know it's a major,
but is there a clear drop off from when you
walk through the gates at the other three majors and
this feels much closer to like the players or something,
or does this still feel as big as you've been
going to these for decades?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
It's big. Look, there's there's nothing that really compares to
driving down Magdulia Lane and showing up to Augusta National.
So you know, I can't say that it's on the
same level as that, And I don't think any player
would insist that it's on the same level as the
Masters either, But yeah, it still feels like a major.
And I'll throw in one more part of this, one
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more piece of the puzzles that now that live players
are sort of separated from the PGA Tour players and
they're only meeting up four times a year, that these
things feel a little bit more important now because all
of a sudden, the guys who are going against each
other and designated events on the PGA Tour week in,
week out, well, now you throw in Cameron Smith and
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Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka and all these live guys
that they've got to deal with. It makes it feel
a little bit more important, a little bit more momentous
that they're all here this week. So yeah, it does
feel a little bit different. It feels like a major.
You're right about the fact that most of these guys,
if given an opportunity, the Masters is first on most guys' list.
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I think winning Clara jug is probably second, and the
US Open just because of the way the USGA is
gone about things. I will put it this way, over
the last handful of years, and I think things has
gotten better since Mike Wan has been there. But you know,
despite what Phil thinks, I think the USJA has gotten
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better in recent years. But I would say that the
US Open is probably a third and this is the fourth.
But look, no one's going to turn it down. And
I do think there's a little more extra motivation for
a guy like Thomas and defending champion who comes from
a line of PGA club professionals. And I through Cameron
Young near the top of my list this week because
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I do think there's some narratives in his favor, not
only being a quote unquote home game. He lives five
hours away, grew up five hours away, so it's not
really home, but this feels like a lot of those
New York area style golf courses that he grew up playing.
And then he's the son of a PGA club professional,
so this is going to mean a little bit more
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for a guy like Cam Young, so I like him
as well. But yeah, look it's a clear I would
think fourth out of four for most of the players
if given their choice and put on the truth serum
to tell us which one they'd really like to win,
But that doesn't mean they wouldn't really like to win it.
And they're all going out there playing this thing as
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a major.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Feels like Phil's kind of got a swag back after
that Master's performance, just tweeting away and just the way
he's carrying himself. He feels like he's getting he's getting
back to his roots.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I don't know how to explain Phil these days. I
don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Have you have you seen him since you've been there.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I've not seen him this week yet. Now, I will
say that I've been nosed down a lot of work
and walk the golf course and things like that, where
just having been on the range a whole lot to
go see any guys, But boy fills in a weird place.
I heard a story secondhand from somebody not too long
ago that someone that Phil knew very very well for
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twenty years, someone involved in the game, but who's not
a professional golfer that yeah, considered Phill a very very
close friend and they have no relationship anymore. It's just
it's just there's there's a lot of weird stuff like that,
and I I don't know how to describe it right now.
I'm not sure Phil even knows Phills, a guy that
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I was maintained he always had an agenda. He was
always he was trying to play chess whenever he thought
everyone else was playing, and he was trying to stay
two or three steps ahead of everybody else. He always
had an agenda. I don't know what the agenda is
right now, and I think he's kind of lost the
plot a little bit, and I think he's he's lost fans.
This guy who was so image conscious for twenty five
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years of his career and now is it's basically burning
down the whole house, and I just don't quite understand
it from his perspective.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's gonna be a little harder for Phil to make
cut this week.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Uh look if Phil goes out and finished his second
again this week like he did Augusta, I don't know.
It's I brought up the fact that we might have
talked about in the pod last week. I was talking
about on the radio show that I look at the
US Ryder Cup team as having I think there are
ten spots that quarring injury, illness, massive slump that are
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probably the names are penciled in if not in ink
right now, and then two spots that are like wide open.
And I brought up on radio that one of the
live plays, you know, DJ Brooks somebody like that. How
about Phil? That would I don't know. I mean, we
talked about burning the house down. We'd be burning down
the whole street if Phil was somehow able to qualify
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and make the Ryder Cup team, because I don't think
there's gonna put him on if he's not qualified, I
don't think he's getting that that wild card selection. But
if he somehow makes the Ryder Cup team by playing
really well at majors, I don't even know anymore. I mean,
I don't even know how to describe this, but it's
it's wild. I can't wait to watch him. I don't
know that whole Remember that whole marketing campaign, What will
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phill do next? They had no idea what was coming
twenty years later?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Well will so will enjoy the week and see who
the next major champion is.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Thanks, Buddy, Wallet, says Sunjay. Hart says maybe some other guys,
But Walt says Sunjay.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Yeah, Min says home. Well, let's go, baby, Okay, let's
bang out some questions at Golo Pod. At Golo Pod,
fire in those dms on Instagram. Lucas fellow Bald brother
loved the football podcast. Recently was shown this pod by
my buddy who loves golf. I don't even follow or
(43:12):
like golf. Still a great listen, appreciate it. Double question
do you think that Phil Mickelson will win another major
in his career? Also? Do you think the PJ events
would would be high paying without Live? No, they would
not not. This year Live definitely forced their hand. I
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think Phil Michleson could win the Masters maybe the right
course if he was on It would have to be
probably the next three or four years at the Open.
You know Phil in a weird way, He's never been injured.
He honestly could play well at the Masters, in the
Open Championship for the next foreseeable future. I think like
this week in US Opens, well one, he's he hasn't
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had much success in the US Opens in a while,
and I think the PGA Championship has some similar But
I know he wanted a couple of years ago, little
freaky deal, unique kind of outlier course for the type
courses they play. So I would say, yeah, it would
be if you told me he's tied for the league,
you know, middle of Saturday at the Masters or in
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the mix at the Open, you know, kind of like
a Tom Watson several years ago. I know Tom was older.
Maybe it was Tom fifty eight at the time. Was
that a decade ago? So yeah, he's ever been injured
and his swing has kind of been the same for
twenty years, you know, So no faith that he can
compete though at the middle two majors zero, not the
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US Open anymore, and not at the PGA. Feels good Man.
Do you watch any gone golf content on YouTube like
good Good or Bob does Sports? I feel like you
would enjoy Bob does sports with a sense of humor.
Bob just did a video Johnny Manzel and it was gold.
I had to buy a jersey after that. I love
Bob does Sports. Ring the Super Bowl, we were going
(45:02):
to dinner, Me and my girlfriend were meeting some people downtown.
It was actually, I think was that Doug Gottlieb. Yeah,
I think we went to dinner with Doug Gottlieb and
his girlfriend. And then after they went home and I
was like, yeah, let's go get a cocktail. Walked across
the street to the Barstool Bar and those guys Bob
(45:23):
cold Cuts. Cold Cuts was not in there.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
It was.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
It was Bob and and FP were in there, and
I told Maria, I'm like, I don't think you realize
how famous these guys are. And I loosely said hi
to Baperezi walked by, but I didn't go up to
him and start bullshitting with him. And Marie's like, those guys,
I'm like, yeah, I'm telling you. I played golf probably
a month ago. I love their shit. I find Bob hilarious.
(45:47):
FPS A stick cold cuts is, you know, a pretty
special character. I watched some of the good good stuff.
I respect, you know, their game. It doesn't do much
for me. Literally, they've built an incredible business. A lot
of respect for what they've done ahead of the curve.
Bob does sports probably more my style. I like that.
(46:08):
I saw that Rapaport Dan Rapport, who works for Barstool Now,
did a pretty cool thing where he caddied night holes
for Thagala. I like that. I watch golf content for sure.
I watch all the Bob does sports stuff. Those guys.
Bob's fucking funny, man, I mean those guys are those
guys are gold so big fans. Yeah, Oklahoma Native Here
(46:35):
Live Golf just hosted their tournament this weekend. The atmosphere
was electric, there was a lot of action, skydivers, live
golf flags, an overall great experience. My question, do you
think the PGA adopts any live golf entertainment tactics to
appeal to the golf audience? Good question. You know, even
(46:55):
at the waste management there is I don't think we're
ever going to get on the PGA, especially these le events.
The music though, Like when I play golf, whether I'm
playing one hundred dollars a hole or just by myself,
I play music. You know, I don't think the music
is that crazy now blaring it on every hole. I
could see where some guys don't like it. Uh, what
(47:18):
would live? Do you know? The concerts after the shotgun
start is never gonna happen because they're always going to
have more guys playing than are on the course at
one time. Yeah, I think there are elements of live.
I've never been to one, and I'll be completely honest,
I haven't really watched it at all this year though
I do kind of follow the leaderboard, but I have
not watched, and I'm a golf junkie, a NECW. I
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think the PGA tour should always be willing to steal
ideas to make their product more fan friendly. Isn't that
what all these sports their job is, So whatever specific
ideas that would work and carry over that they should
one hundred percent steal. Is Jason Day capable of repeating
his performance in fifteen? You called it a few weeks ago.
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He's had great finishes lately and you know it just
hasn't worked out. Might have gotten his swaggerback. The only
reason I wouldn't bet Jason Day this week is because
he just won. How often do people win back to back? Now,
if you told me Jason Day wins again this year,
whether it's at LACC, whether it's one of the elevated events,
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whether it's at the playoff event, whether it's at the Open,
I think it's on on the table. He has an
elite short game. I remember talking to Hunter Mayhan, who
played him in the match Play final I think you know,
Dell match Play whatever a decade ago, and I was like,
what made Jason Day so sweet? And at the time
he was long. He's like, bro, his short game and
(48:44):
his putting was elite. His short game is really really good.
So clearly he's a high level ball striker. If he's
hitting fairways, I don't know, quote unquote swaggerback, Like is
the guy ever going to be the number one player
in the world, But like could the game, I'd be
a factor for the next several years. Hell yeah, I
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don't see why not. His swing feels much more repeatable, mentally,
feels in a really good place. I would bet probably
five hundred dollars right now, at pretty good odds that
Jason Day wins a big tournament. I would say last
week was not a big tournament, right, he was sixteen
to one to win the tournament. It's why he didn't bet.
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The field was kind of shitty. But I think he
wins either an elevated event, a playoff event, a major
in the next assuming he says healthy right the back
goes then we got problems if he stays healthy in
the next two years and he's going to rack up
a lot of cash. Question for the pod, what would
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your confidence level be in twenty four Matt Fitzpatrick putting
on the green jacket. Love the pod. Think of all
the guys we talk about, and I'm guilty of this,
the Fenales, the Xanders, Jordan j T. You know, Max
cam Young just kind of that group. Sam Burns probably
(50:07):
on the outside of that group, but I mean we
saw when Sam gets hot, he can beat anybody. Rory
mat Fitzpatrick literally fucking won the US Open last year.
I mean took ale Xalatoris and Scotty Scheffler. Matt Fitzpatrick
just went toe to toe with Jordan Speed beat him.
Jordan missed a couple of short putts right, but still
beat him head to head elevated event right after the Masters.
(50:28):
Matt Fitzpatrick is really really freaking good like stud So yeah,
I would say, if you tell me, Matt Fitzpatrick wins
the US Open, very believable. If you tell me, we
look up at Matt Fitzpatrick's career ends and he's got
two or three. If he's every bit as good a
player I think is Colin Morrikowa. So if Colin Morikawa
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can win two majors, Matt Fitzpatrick can as well. Twenty
twenty four next year, I mean i'd say the next
five years. I mean he could easily win one. Heading
to the PGA Championship on Friday. Any general tips for
going to your first PGA event major, I haven't been
to a major yet, let alone a tour event in general.
(51:10):
Just was wondering your thoughts. Course looks sweet compared to
the last time they hosted it. Well, you can do
a couple things. Last time I went to the US Open,
I didn't. You couldn't really gamble on golf then, you know,
in nineteen at Pebble Beach. So I just set up
shop at a couple different holes and drank and hung out.
If you're gambling on a guy, let's say you're betting
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on Mat Fitzpatrick or Tony Feenaw or whatever, I think
it'd be pretty cool to watch their group for a
while fall them for nine holes. I mean, I think
that'd be pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Now, if you're not doing that, set up shop on
a green on a tea box and just watch guys
come through. That never gets old. I don't think you
can go wrong now if you follow a rory a
ram I honestly, as recording this, I haven't even looked
at the groups. Clearly they put top players together can
be difficult. You know, New York, a lot of people there.
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Some the easiest thing I've found going to events in
my life. From the first event I ever went to
US Open ninety eight Olympic Club to just you know,
when's the last time I've been to a golf event.
Might have been nineteen of the US Open. I tend
to just go to a hole and go to a
hole where you get a good view, whether it be
a green or whether it be a tea box, get it,
(52:28):
you know, a couple of beers, a couple hot dogs,
and just kind of hang just wondering your thoughts on
live right now. Masters put to rest any questions on
level of competition, But as someone living in Canada, I
literally can't access the Attorney unless I subscribe to their app.
Leaderboard look good on Sunday, but it feels very difficult
to access. I feel like they jumped the gun on
the TV thing and should have stayed on YouTube. I
(52:51):
said it to begin with. YouTube is the easiest thing
to access in the world right now. If you got
to Internet, you just fucking type in the website, you
can watch whatever you want. It was they were so
obsessed and this is what happens when you know. I'm
sure there might have been some big picture elements of this.
Maybe they thought it would help them get official golf
World rankings. I don't know why that would factor in.
(53:12):
But like YouTube, this isn't twenty fifteen. It was fine,
stay on YouTube. I'm with you. I don't get it.
I didn't like that decision. I hated that decision. Actually
despised it. It made no sense to me. Just stay
on YouTube so we can all watch it. But Greg Norman,
you know, he wanted the CW. And think about this.
(53:33):
They go to the playoff, DJ and Cam Smith in
a playoff and there's was it Brandon Grace and CW
changed to I forget the show. But it was some
stupid ass show because they got contractual obligations. You think
if the PGA Tours go into a playoff, they keep
showing it sixty minutes, got to wait. Same thing with
the NFL. But LIV signed the stupidest television ever CW,
(53:58):
and I hate it. I'm with you, Okay. Last question
I heard someone asked that was going to the Masters,
what the play should be regarding following a golfer or
posting up any thoughts on the weekend. I'm going to
the PGA. Yeah, same thing. You're gambling on a guy
and his group is accessible cause, like you know, I've
been to tournaments with Tiger. It's not you got no
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shot if you're gonna follow Tiger, right, if you're gonna
follow Rory or rom or just some of the headliners,
if Speeth plays J T. Tony, it's gonna be difficult.
But you might be able to find a group with
some guys you're betting on that might have like a
Jason Dave, Matt Fitzpatrick. If you got a little juice
on them, follow them. It's still gonna be packed, but
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it's cool to follow some holes, or you could just
do the natural, just walk the course. Just who's ever
playing is playing. I never understand unless you're walking, why
you would ever stand on you know, like two hundred
and fifty to three hundred yards in a hole like
that's when people get hit. I always either go to
the tee or the green. If I'm going to go
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to a hole and just sit there, tee or green
or follow. It makes no sense to sit in the
middle of the hole, right if it's a five hundred
yard hole. These people that are standing on a three hundred
yard mark and just watching you don't have these No
one can see the ball in the air till it
hits you in the face. So I would go te
your green at a specific hole. I don't know the
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course really beside what I've seen on TV. Just pick
cool hole. Part three's are always fun. Part five greens
if they can drive it long. Part four approaches you
know by the green are cool. So or just walk
the course, get some steps in, have some beers. You
feel like you're not even gaining calories because you're walking
so much. Appreciate everyone listening. Let's have a week.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
Homer wouldn't mind Keegan winning either, got a little kid,
he's got long odds. Gary Woodland also, I would celebrate,
but Tony Xander have no issue with either, Big Dick, Rick,
Terrell Hatton. Let's have a week, enjoy the tournament, and
uh we got a new major champ potentially come Sunday,
The volume What is going on? Everybody? John Middlecop Go
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be a little chilly and very difficult major. Looking forward
to this one. Looking forward to this one, I will
talk off the top, you know, obviously Rom Rory are
always going to be stories, some thoughts on live, big
week for them, as always the guys I'm betting on
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a hint. They're all on the American Ryder Cup team.
And then we will also take your questions after we
talked to Jason Sobele, who when I talked to him
earlier today he had just walked the front nine. He's
been there for a couple of days. He wrote that
it's kind of like a hybrid PGA US Open. It's
gonna be hard, I mean it's gonna be easy. So
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housekeeping wise, I would really love to hit a bet.
I would really like I've spread a lot of money
out but heavy on some top guys. I'd really like
one of my guys to win the tournament. Jason Day.
I gamble on him all the time. I've probably put
five hundred dollars on Jason Day over the last calendar year.
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And the one week it's like, you know, I'm not
gonna take him in sixteen to one, the guy wins it. Cool,
I mean, awesome story, right. You know his mother passed
away last year. To win his tournament in five years
on Mother's Day. But I feel like I'm owed a
little bit. I do because I've supported that man through
thick and thin. But uh, let's dive into the majors.
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PGA Championship, It's here, baby. This couple weeks it really
for you know, since the Masters, it gets a little sleepy.
(03:03):
It does. Actually, it got good right after the Masters
in Harbortown with Matt Fitzpatrick winning. But this feels like
the stretch of this tournament. Then we have the US
Open here in a couple of weeks, it really gets going.
It's major season, the FedEx Playoffs, the Ryder Cup. This
is when it gets really fun. I mean, the Masters
is it's impossible to beat. It's the best tournament of
(03:26):
the year. But this stretch of golf feels pretty damn good.
I'm really excited for the next month. It's actually less
than a month if you factor in the start of
this tournament to the start of the US Open week
and to me, the biggest story going into this week.
I just looked it up John rom Well last night
on Monday night, I was watching Golf Channel and I
(03:48):
turned it down because I was talking to my girlfriend
and I look up and they have this graphic. It's
like Brandle's talking and it said Scottie Scheffler and John
Rahm have won five of the nine elevated events this season.
Rom's won three of them. I just looked it up
before I hopped on the podcast. He's made over fourteen
million dollars this season. It's obviously not even June still
(04:10):
got three majors to go the FedEx Playoffs. I mean,
this guy's headed for a Steph Curry, Lebron James type earning,
Patrick Mahomes Type's earning type season. And listen, the Grand
Slam seems impossible, right because Tiger never could do it.
He did the Tiger Slam, but he never did the
Grand Slam. If he wins this week, and he's clearly
the favorite, obviously it would be in play because he
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won the two first majors, but I think it would
be like, is this guy going to have the greatest
season of all time? All four majors, The amount of money,
the depth of golf has never been better. I mean
that's just a fact, and I'm not trying to sound
like younger guy. Golf wasn't this deep in the fifties,
sixty seventies anytime Tiger was playing since recently. So if
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John Rohm were to pull this off, it would be obviously.
I mean, there's no amount of adjectives to describe how
remarkable would be. To me, the craziest thing, and this
speaks to his greatness. It kind of feels like it's
in play. I'm not going to bet on him this week.
I actually kind of like him more at LACC. I'm
not sure why he's played really well at US opens
(05:18):
over his career, but like, I expect him to be
in the mix. I really do, especially when everyone we
talked to sobl it's you know, you gotta hit it long,
you gotta have power, you gotta have touch. I was
listening to the Frida Egg podcast. It's it's pretty good
that they have different guests on and someone on the
(05:40):
podcast was talking about Tim Michelson, Phil's brother who used
to be the Arizona State head golf coach and then
became he's now Jerom's agent, and then he became Phil's caddie.
That he told someone when Rom was in college that
John can do everything Phil does, yet he drives it straighter.
(06:02):
I don't think any two people beside Tim and Phil Michelson.
I mean, Phil Nickleson was betting people huge money. This
guy was a lock who win a major by the
time he was like twenty five years old. The Mickelson
saw this guy as a golf rocket ship. And I
would say the last several years he's really delivered. I
mean he's really come into his own. Twenty six, twenty
seven to twenty eight years old, I mean he was
(06:23):
damn good from the jump. I think he minished top
five as an amateur at the waste management. But these
last couple of years and what he's doing right now,
he's the best player in the world. He feels like
the best player in the world eye tess wise, obviously
statistically he's right there. I just think that cool part
about sports is like NIKOLEA. Jokic is trying to become
(06:44):
an NBA legend multiple MVPs, win a championship. Lebron James
is trying to add to a legendary career. Right if
Aaron Judge leads the Yankees to a World Series as
the captain, like, that's rare air. I saw he had
two home runs the other night. It was when the
video got him kind of looking maybe cheating. He denied
(07:04):
it did. The list of Yankees to have thirty plus
two home run games in their career was like Ruth Mantle,
Gerrig you know, Judge, it's like decent company, Reggie Jackson,
not bad group, I mean, decent group of guys. And
you know, I think Rom would enter. You know, this
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is what happened because Spieth and Rory won those majors
so early. It feels like Rom is somewhat the opposite.
It kind of like in the peak of his powers
came a little bit later in life. It's like, would
this guy beheaded, you know, toward eight majors and just
as an all time like Jack, Arnie, Tiger, Rom Trevino,
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Phil like kind of that group, you know, And that's
where I would bet on him going. But you got
to start racking up those majors, and I think he
was quoted as saying that he would choose way more
majors in the Grand Slam. I just, you know, if
he wins this week, I mean, I think he's the
heavy betting favorite the next two Majors. But it's going
to be fascinating to watch. And on the flip side, Rory,
(08:07):
you know, and I don't you know, listen, it's weird.
Scotty is a great player. He's clearly the second best
player in the world. It just I don't know, you know,
once he's playing, I enjoy watching it. I don't know
really what you can say about him. To me, Rory
is much more interesting. Missed the cut at the Masters,
absolutely devastating. I mean just it was embarrassing, and he disappeared,
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and now he's back. He feels like he's flying under
the radar. His odds have dropped significantly. I mean, you
can get him thirteen fourteen to one. This guy just
several a month ago was right there with Robin Sheffler
being seven eight to one, and now they've basically almost
doubled in the wrong direction. So you know, every time
that you just stop paying attention to Rory he pops. Though,
when you look at Rory's history at the PGA Championship, which,
(08:51):
in fairness to this major, even though it's clearly the
fourth best major, it usually plays pretty hard. Right, This
Major plays harder than the Open typically if there's no win,
and definitely plays in terms of relative to parr harder
than the Masters. So I'm fascinated to watch Rory this weekend.
I think there just is pressure on him, you know,
(09:13):
to win more majors. I mean, they're just is now.
He's definitely taken a back seat from talking a bunch
of shit about liv I think it's a fascinating week
for live right because the Masters they played every single year.
Phil Mickelson is going to be able to shoot sixty
five at the Masters, you know, non Augusta week, probably
in his late sixties. Maybe not sixty five, but I
(09:34):
bet Phil in his late sixties can still easily break
par in Augusta, and he can be competitive at Augusta
probably throughout his fifties. Right, Brooks, DJ Campsmith, these guys
are going to get so many reps at that course. Definitely,
DJ and Brooks played there forever. It's a little harder
to judge. I think these next two tournaments, this one
(09:56):
at oak Hill and then LACC, we'll see how so
equipped these guys are. To me, I'm more fascinated, Like
that was cool. I'm not trying to diminish what they
did at the Masters. I'm shorting to live guys a
little bit. Like I'm just not expecting that much from
DJ and Brooks. I'm not going to wager on them.
I just my my standard for them is just a
(10:17):
little lower given that I see everyone reacting. A lot
of people are gonna bet on Brooks. A lot of
people think DJ's a good play here, and historically they
one hundred percent would be. But I'm just fascinated to
watch this all play out.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The Masters is a very very It's an outlier from
the other majors because it never rotates, and once you've
played it ten times ten times for all your practice rounds.
I mean that's a lot of reps at one individual place. Right,
We'll see, We'll see. I would again, like I said,
I'm not gambling on any of these guys. I hope
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that some of them are in the mix. I think
it makes it for much more interesting and fascinating television.
But I think it's going to be a little more difficult,
and I would be a little if you told me
that more than half for these guys missed the cut.
I think stuff like that's on the table just because
I think good players at tough courses US Open, PGA
just missed the cut. It is difficult. Listen. The guy
(11:10):
that I'm betting on pretty heavily is Max Homa and
his odds. I got him it originally thirty two to one.
I saw his odds were closer thirty five thirty six
to one. Now to me, he's in the group of
the people I'm putting money on Xander and Tony Fenw,
who have had much more success over their career and
have been consistently on the PGA tour much longer than Max.
(11:32):
They just haven't won a major. To me, it feels inevitable.
And listen, this guys can go a whole career and
be great players and not win a major. But it
feels like Tony Fenw and Xander Shoffley are going to
win a major. Why I have wager done it. Max
Homa also feels inevitable, though he has clearly done way less.
But Max plays well on tough court golf courses. He
(11:54):
won the Wells Fargo last year at TPC Potomic or
whatever in DC, it was like freezing in possible conditions.
He's won at Torrey Pines, He's won at riv Like
his game translates two tough golf courses. He just has
to prove it. And I think when you get the
odds of a guy in the mid thirties who's clearly
one of the best top seven to eight players in
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the world, I think it's pretty juicy. Like ultimately, like
I've been on Tony Feen, Alexanderschople a lot over the
last three or four years to win majors, and they
haven't done it. Like I said, I think it's going
to happen to why I'm gonna keep hammering it. There's
that group of like Speeth, we'll see if he ends
up playing with the injury, but like JT obviously Rory
(12:35):
and above, like I don't like Colin more Cowell as
much like Cam Young, you have to win a tournament first,
though I really enjoy watching you play before I can
wager on you. But then there's the group of I
do think there's a fascinating group this week that has
a little bit longer odds that you probably safer to
play top tens. But I do think could win the tournament, right.
(12:59):
I think Terrell Hatten, Tommy Fleetwood or guys that could
easily be in the mix Saturday and Sunday. Now, can
they get it done? Can they hammer at home? Especially
Tommy Fleetwood, he hasn't done it yet. Does he have
the game to win a major golf tournament? Of course
he does. Gary Woodland, you can get him like one
hundred to one. His top ten odds probably like twelve
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to one. He's a guy played well at the Masters
this year, has won a US Open, so he plays
well in tough conditions, has played well this season. Like
that's pretty interesting because this is a golf course where
you got to hit it long, you got to have power.
It's a second shot golf course. And Keegan Bradley is
another guy again longer odds ninety one hundred to one range.
(13:41):
I think by the time you know Thursday comes around,
that number might be closer to eighty to one. But
these are guys Hatton, Fleetwood, Keegan and Woodland. I understand
not putting some juice down on, you know, to win,
just to win outright, But I think top fives and
top tens are awfully juicy. And then i'd like, and
I can't argue with you any of the group of
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the Hovelins, the sun Jams, even the cam Young Like
I said, he hasn't won yet, but he's gonna win.
That's inevitable. Like if Xala Taurus hadn't gotten hurt, like
he was gonna win several times. It's just like Max Homy.
You start playing that well, you just start winning. You know,
these guys, Sam Burns, you know it's hard. There's so
many guys in the thirty forty to one range that
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are tasty, and that's what makes these majors fun.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I mean, can you go rom wrong? Putting all your
money on Rom or Scheffler or Rory, Like I wouldn't
call you an idiot. Rory feels a little bit, you know,
more fickle. You know, if you just bet on Ram
every single major moving forward, that that might be the
right play. Hell, if he wins two of the four
and you put one thousand dollars on him, I know
you wouldn't put a thousand, but yeah, I don't think
(14:48):
it's that crazy, right, you just would have won nine
g's at the Masters. You'd win seven g's in the
next couple if he wins another. So even if you
lost a thousand, you'd be up what fifteen thousand dollars,
So that actually might just be the smart play. And
if he wins this tournament, I'm for sure betting the
house on him to win at LACC. So I'm excited
(15:09):
for this. I like watching guys play tough golf courses.
I like it when it's hard to make birdies. I
know these guys all complain about long par three's, like
I'm sorry, it's fun to watch, Like I know that
you can hit one hundred and sixty yard nine iron
three feet, like I like watching you hit a three
wood into the wind. Like it's it's difficult. I know
it sucks. It sucks for you you're a great player,
(15:29):
or suck for all of us. Sometimes it's decent TV
to watch just just a one off, and it really
just happens a couple times a year, maybe the PGA
and definitely the US Open, because LACC is going to
be a lot like that, So a lot of guys
will complain, I will celebrate it. Okay, coming to you
from Oakhill with Marv Levy. I mean, Jason Soble, what
(15:54):
is going on? Second major of the year. You can
hear him every single day on Series XM. He's all over.
It'll be over all over this week. You find him
on the internet. Right in his betting preview which I
just read, he called Oak Hill a hybrid PGAUS Open.
I saw some John Rohm quotes. This course is not easy.
(16:15):
I know. You Just walk the front nine. Give me
some early buzz on the course.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, just walk the front nine. Just for this, by
the way, just because I wanted to be prepared when
I came on with you, John, it is I can
confirm a golf course. There's a lot of grass. They've
got some holes in the ground with flagsticks put in
the holes that it is a golf course. Look. The
two things I will say about this one is it
looks just like a PGA Championship golf course. And what
(16:43):
I mean by that is other than okay, different weather,
different grass types. You could take most of these golf
holes and put them on Southern hills, put them on Valhalla,
put them on Hazeltine and you'd go, yeah, it kind
of fits they all. There's a lot of similaries to
all of them. You don't walk this golf course, go man,
what a fun golf course. This looks like a blast.
(17:05):
You wouldn't turn it down if you got invited to play.
And you look at it and you say, yeah, that's
a championship golf course. It's every blade of grass is
exactly measured to the height that they want it to be.
It's you know, maintained meticulously. But it's not a fun
golf course. It's not a ton different from what we'll
see on a usual basis for PGA Championships. But like
(17:26):
you mentioned, and you stole my thunder there, but this
is I think it's not quite as difficult as a
usual US Open golf course, but a little more difficult
than a usual PGA championship course. I think it's gonna
be tough this week and the wind's gonna blow a
little bit. I was just speaking with the meteorologist here
on site. Stuart Williams told me, you know, it's it's
(17:47):
gonna be cold, probably gonna thrust alay on Thursday morning.
It's gonna push everything back. I think we're gonna have
one of those weeks where you know, it's a little
bit of a not a start stop kind of week.
But if they don't finish on Thursday playing catch up Friday,
more guys out Saturday morning means maybe the leaders don't
finish Saturday afternoon, they have to go out in the
cold Sunday morning. A lot of things are gonna shift
throughout the week.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well obviously from a gambling perspective. By the time people
are listening to this, the tea times will be out.
The morning shifts then Thursday, Friday, and potentially Saturday. Not
quite as intense as Augusta was, but it's you know,
you're there right now. You're wearing a jacket. I see
you know this isn't you know Los Angeles or Arizona.
I mean, this is cold. Do you think that impacts
(18:31):
the draw? This week is a big deal, dependent on
how windy and cold it is on a specific morning Thursday,
Friday or Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, I've planned very well. By the way, I wore
a pullover over a hoodie and then walk the golf course.
Now I'm sweating, So I don't know what any of
that means. Other than I over dressed for this. But
I will say that John, I'm having a hard time
figuring out exactly who this might favor, because, like I said,
first thing in the morning, you get out here, even
if there is a frost delay. Once the frost alay
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is over, you've got colder conditions. The ball's not going
to be flying as far. I think it's gonna be
really tough in the morning. Later in the day, though,
the wind picks up, and so okay, it might warm
up fifteen degrees from eight am to three pm, but
the wind might be blowing fifteen miles an hour more
later in the afternoon, and so I'm not sure there's
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a specific advantage either way from what I hear Thursday
afternoon and Friday morning. So the late early wave may
be a little bit better this week than the early
late wave. I don't know that i'd base all my
bets on it. I don't think that i'd sit there
and exclude anybody who is in the early wait late draw,
but maybe a little bit easier for those guys in
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the late.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Early Before we get into specific players theme on this course,
just seeing from a lot of you guys that are
there carry distance off the tee is a pretty big
deal obviously, you know, second shot golf course at any
you know, major championship is big. And this isn't just
driver wedge, right, You're talking for some guys driver four iron,
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driver five iron even you know you can say driver
six iron for some of these guys. But some of
these guys hit their six iron two hundred and ten yards.
So you have long second shots correct into these holes.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You will have some. Yeah, there's a whole lot of
four hundred and eighty four hundred and ninety yard par four,
so yeah, you're gonna have some long second shots in
there's elevation as well. I will get back to it. Look,
I say this before every major championship, but I don't
mean to make some mockery out of our own self
analysis and what we're trying to accomplish in the days
leading up to a major championship, because I'm in the
(20:34):
prognostication business and I'm trying to help people figure out
exactly the type of player that could and should play
well on a specific course. But it goes back to
what we say before every single major championship, or at
least almost every major, which is well, you gotta hit
along off the team because you know this is not
a shorten off course by any means. But you don't
want to hit the roughs. You gotta be long straight
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off to tea and then boy, you gotta be dialed
in with your irons, approach shots. You got it. You
can't miss these greens. But if you do miss these greens,
you've got to be able to get up and down
from around the greens. And boy, even if you don't
hit it tight with your wedges, you've got to make
some putts if you don't, but well, you're not gonna
win this thing. And so there you go. That's golf.
You've got to hit it long and straight, hit your
(21:15):
irons well, get up and down with your wedges and
roll in lots of putts. That's the type of player
that's going to win here this week.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Does it have a feel? You know, you've been to
these last two majors over the last month that Scotty
and John Rahm combined have separated themselves as just going
in they feel even more than Rory obviously, you know
the top twenty twenty five guys, I mean, Golf's probably
never been deeper separate even from the odds, But just
being out there, does it feel like those I mean,
(21:46):
I know from the ranking standpoint, but just talking to players,
talking to coaches, I mean, are they in their own
tier right now? To you?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I don't know that other players would necessarily admit it,
or maybe they at least push that narrative so that
it takes the heat off of them and puts it
on those guys a little bit more. But yeah, I
think there's no doubt that those guys have separated themselves
as the two favorites, whether they're officially co favorites in
some books, I've seen books with ram As a half
(22:14):
point favorite, some with Scheffler's a half point favorite. One
book I saw the other day had Ram's a half
point favorite in the morning and Scheffler is a half
point favorite in the afternoon. So they keep flipping back
and forth a little bit. If I was making the
odds this week, John and I was asking this question yesterday,
I would have ram As again a very very slight
favorite in the outright marketplace, But when it came to props,
(22:37):
top five, top tens, I would have Scheffler a little
bit shorter. And again it's just it's fractional marginal. But
I would have Scheffler, who I think has a higher
floor than Rom, but I think Rom's ceiling is a
little bit higher. I'd have Scheffler as the favorite in
the prop marketplace, if you will, and maybe in some matchups.
All of that said, yes, they've separated themselves. I feel
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like Rory's sort of have been thrown in at least
by the odds makers and the book says the third
guy in the big three, but he hasn't played that way.
He hasn't won yet this year. He's coming off two
straight miss cuts, certainly not playing his best golf right now,
and so I don't know that Rory necessarily deserves the
number that he's been given this week, which is right
around twelve to one. And so he is, to me,
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the biggest X factor. I've got two questions and I
want to ask you, and I want to answer this.
Would it completely surprises you if Rory won by five
this week?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, I think it would.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Okay, Well, so much for that hypothetical at Would it
completely surprise you if Rory missed the cut by five
this week?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, that would not okay?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You were supposed to answer a note in each of
those questions, because the point I'm trying to make here
is that the range for Rory, we talked about ceilings
and floors. Rory's a skyscraper right now, and Rory can
be forty floors up or he could be in the
basement this week, and I have absolutely no idea where
he's going to be close to start the range of outcomes.
But at that number, he's a stay away. He's a
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faith for me.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
The only reason I say not by five, I think, now,
if you can win a major by five in this
current climate, there's an incredible accomplishment, you know, and just
based on the way he was playing last year. But
then I open up Twitter this morning and see that
he said that Tiger noticed something. McQuail hollow getting a
little inside. He goes over to Tiger's pad. They spend
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a couple hours just geeking out, talking golf swing. It'd
be like, you know, you're some defensive coordinator in college.
Belichick calls you up, Hey, I see a couple of
things you could tweak. I mean, that's that type stuff
in a weird way where it gets away, gets his
mind right, and you get the guy who's you know,
I'd put right up with Phil Is one of the
great golf nerds, player, non player, whoever of all time
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in Tiger Woods like that, he's giving you legit advice.
You know, Tiger knows the golf swing. So I'm a
little more bullish on Rory just because, like you said,
he gets a fly under the now and just maybe
a subtle tweak because Rory, I mean, his tweak would
be like a tweak by Steph Curry. I mean it's
just so minuscule, and if he gets it right, you're right,
he can play with anybody.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, I just see. I see the other side of
that though, and I look at it from the other perspective,
which is essentially to further your analogy. It's like a
you know, an Aaron Rodgers or a Jalen Hurts or
a Patrick Mahomes or whoever we want to talk about,
throws three interceptions two straight games, and all of a sudden,
everybody's calling him from everywhere like, hey, you got this
little thing with your wrists when you're throwing, or you're
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not looking off this guy. And yes they're trying to help,
but all of a sudden, now you're like, hey, it's
not just physical and technical now, it's mental and physiological
and emotional. And I'm thinking about everything. I'm not just doing.
I'm thinking. And I wonder if getting all this little advice,
even if it's just little tweaks, little things here and there.
Rory is a very analytical guy. And I wonder if
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at some point when he's playing the golf course and
he's on the set about dat his drive and he's like, oh, yeah,
that's right, Tiger told me I gotta do that thing.
And he's trying to do the thing that Tiger said
or avoid doing the thing that he said don't do.
And I just it's a little harder than that just
going hey, Rory, you're really good at golf. Let me
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just go hit the ball and go make some bernies,
which I think works out a lot better for him.
He plays better when he's carefree, when he's got a
smile on his face. They're good angry golfers out there.
John Ram is a great angry golfer. I believe Justin
Thomas is a great angry golfer. Brooks Koepka is a
great angry golfer. He's got a chip on his shoulder.
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When Worry's frustrated, you can read it on his face.
I mean, I've said before that when Rory's not playing
his best golf, you don't need to look at the scorecard,
you don't need to look at the leaderboard. You can
just look at his face and you know that he's
not playing well. And by the same token vice versa,
you can look at him. He's bouncing down the fairway,
he's got a smile on his face, and when he's
playing well, you know he's playing well, and you know
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he's kind of got it. I just wonder if getting
all these little tweaks and all this little advice, even
though it's coming from a good spot and it's coming
from people that are trying to help him, I wonder
if at some point Rory looks at himself and is like,
I can't there's too much noise inside, and I can't
succeed with all the noise.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Before we get into your picks and some of the guys.
I like, one big picture thing on John Rahm is
I would say the most historic thing of my lifetime
in golf is obviously the Tiger Slam. You know, Jordan,
Rory they had their moments of winning the majors, which
was sweet. Kept go obviously that two year run of
winning all the majors. But if John Rahm pulls this off,
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he would then be the heavy favorite at lac See.
We know how well he plays in the Open. Obviously,
just just based on the number he would the Grand
Slam would be on the table. But it would feel like,
oh my god, we'd be looking at truly one of
the great golf seasons of all time, and financially, he'd
be looking at like, you know, a forty to fifty
million dollar golf season just on the course.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
All of that is true, and you know, not that
we shouldn't go too far ahead and think about that stuff,
or the antithesis, which is Ron finishes in twenty third
place this week, we start talking about a Master's hangover
because he hasn't played his best golf since then, We're like,
it can go in either direction. But you're absolutely right
about that. No player has won the Masters and the
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PGA in the same year since Jack Nicholas back in
seventy five. Only two players have won the first two
legs of the Grand Slam in the same year. In
the last fifty years. That was Tiger and O two
and Jordan in fifteen, and so he can certainly reach
some rarefied air and joined some pretty elite company if
he's able to win this week, and you're right that
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all of a sudden puts him on track for well
next month on icc US Open. Fits his game. I've
always thought that he should be a really good Open
Championship player. I mean, this guy's cred a lot of
links golf in his career too, So it's it's very
easy for us to sit here and connect the dots
and try to give him three more majors this year
and go out. John Rams had the greatest year in
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golf history. He won all the majors. That's very possible.
It's also very possible that things go wrong and he can't.
He can't follow his master's success. The same thing that
happened to Scotty at this point last year looks skutt.
He didn't have a bad rest of the year by
any means, but at some point golf is cyclical and
you hit these ebbs and flows. Rom actually talked about
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in his press conference today that you know, you just
try to try to make sure the lows aren't that
low and don't last very long and then get back
to the highs of it. And he understands that very well.
He's very well spoken about success and what it means
and trying to overcome failures, and he's very astute in
those observations. And look, you're not wrong about any of it.
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We certainly could see that from Rom, but it's probably
too early for the Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Doc.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'll throw that much out. Okay, you're picking why I
was sunjaym I'm going based on a trend, not at
Oakill itself, even though he kind of fits the ball
striker mentality of a Jason Duffner from ten years ago.
Just plotted around and don't do anything too special, but
don't get yourself in trouble either. The trend I'm looking
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at is over the last three weeks, the winners we've
seen Tony Fenaw, that Mexico Open, Wyndham Clark and the
Wells Fargo Championship, Jason Day at the at and t
Byron Nelson. What did they all have in common? They
were all playing really, really good golf. This was not
a one off. It was not an outlier performance by
any of those three, it was I'm playing great golf
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and trending in the right direction, and all of a
sudden I had a little bit of a spike week
where things went my way. A couple of putts drop
in the hole, and you're gonna win after playing that
type of golf. Sunjay is one of these guys. And
I've got Xanderschoffley second on my list, and I'll have
outrights on him this week as well. But guys who
were playing really, really well, good enough to win that
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just essentially need a couple more little things to go
their way and they're going to be at the top
of the leader board. And so I've told you before,
I look at him as a guy that might not
be in the conversation with Rom and Scheffler, and might
not be even in the next conversation with say Rory
and Cantle and Xander. But I don't think him gets
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enough credit for being as talented as he is and
being in the same tier as a Morikawa and a
Speeth and a who else is there, Victor Hovland. I
think he's just as good as those guys, maybe not
as accomplished, maybe not hasn't won as much as those
other players, but I do think it's coming for Sunday
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pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, I'm with young Zay. I got tickets on Xander
and Tony as well. You know, two guys I think
in that thirty to forty de range Hatton and Homa.
If this was you know, the Facebook Open or the whatever,
yet he opened, there was an elevated we'd love though
that number, you'd be all. But it's a major and
you're like, huh, you know, Homa hasn't really showed it yet. Hadden,
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you know, plays really well on all these big tournaments.
I've heard some comparisons to bay It's a different obviously
with the Lakes, but bay Hill when it plays really
hard to this course, you see any similarities there with
Haddon's had success.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, not as fiery as bay Hill, and obviously the
weather patterns are completely different, but yeah, I can see.
I mean, just in the difficult nature of it. Hatten
is a guy that I have a hard time backing,
at least pre tournament, because I don't know what his
mindset's going to be. He is so volatile on and
off the golf course that look, they might overcook his
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burger and player dining to today and all of a
sudden he's in a bad mood for the rest of
the week and he doesn't play well, or I don't know,
he might just take to the city of Rochester and go, Wow,
this place is pretty cool. I got, you know, I
got a good dinner the other night, and being a
good mood all week and play really good golf. I
have a hard time backing a player who just has
a personality and a game that's that volatile. So he
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is playing well though, and I could certainly say home's
a guy that I really liked this week. And this
is gonna be a very strange comparison, But I see
some similarities between Oakhill and TBC Potomac at Avenel Farms
where they played last year, as well as Fargo Championship,
because Kuail Hollow is being prepped for the President's Cup
and Max went and won that golf tournament in Chili
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conditions with would wind. It was wet in the morning,
it was a big golf course, lots of rough. That's
essentially what we have this week. And I know Homa
hasn't played his best golf in major It's only one
finish better than fortieth in fourteen career starts, but it
did come at last year's PGA Championship. He finished thirteenth
at Southern Hills. So I do think that there's some
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thought that he could play some good golf, and he's
just quite frankly, for him, it might be more mental
than anything else. He is trying to talk himself into
the fact that he's one of the world's best players.
I think he knows it and understands it. He's just
got to play like it. I think I think it's
a good chance we see him do it this week.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You know two guys that you know, you would have
said a year ago as the Live thing was unfolding,
they would have had live written all over him would
have been Jason Day and Ricky Fowler and I have
so much. Obviously they were super rich, so they didn't
have to make a decision just strictly based on money,
but the way their games were and they stuck it
out and they battled. Obviously, Jason just won, Ricky's you know,
resurrected his career. I don't know either of those, especially
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Jason Day went back to Back's pretty difficult to kind
of like him at LACC, but both those guys top ten.
I know you liked Ricky as a top ten or
maybe it was top twenty, but those guys to compete
or Jason Day, that's asking a lot to go back
to back weeks playing it a really high after that
high last week.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, I ranked the top twenty five this week. I
think it just got posted, and I think I've got
Ricky tenth and Jason eleventh. So yes, you know, sort
of borderline top ten players for me, but I really
liked both of those guys. And look, I think he
didn't make a case for Day this week. Twice previously
in his career, and granted he was playing better back then,
but not massively better. I mean, I know he was
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number one in the world, but that was a culmination
of a few years of good golf. He's been playing
really well obviously right now, but twice twenty fifteen and
twenty sixteen he won in back to back start, So
there's a little precedence here for Jason Day to go
out and play well again. Plus he's got that monkey
off his back and taken him just over five years
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to win again on the PGA Tour. Now that he's
done it, sort of a free role this week, and
I kind of like that about him, that he doesn't
have to play with the pressure, the internal pressure of
trying to chase something that he once was. He can
just go out there and play golf this week. And
I would not be surprised if Jason Day won this
golf tournament. I think there are a ton of parallels
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right now between Day and his career and Ricky in
his career. Now, Day has sort of gotten to the
peak of that mountain as world number one, as a
major champion that Ricky was always searching for never quite
got to. But Ricky is playing as a top fifteen
type player on the PGA Tour so far this year.
He's another one of those guys And I mentioned this
(36:09):
with Sun Jay, I mentioned it with Xander, But he's
another one of those guys where the performance has sort
of outclassed the results so far this year due for
what we call the in the industry, and I hate
this term positive regression, which sort of sounds oxymoronic, but
I haven't found a better term yet. What it means,
essentially is that he's due for an upturn in the
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results because the performance levels there. He's played some really
good golf without necessarily seeing a win or even anything
real close over the last couple of months, and so
I think it's gonna be a good week for Ricky
as well.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I'm gonna get you out here on this. I've always
wondered this, you know, especially over the last like five
six years. These guys got so rich, the money so big,
and you know, the hierarchy of the majors, this has
always been the fourth one, and that they've moved it
around a little bit. When you're out there because you're
a Master's champ, you're a US Open champ. We saw
the power of the Open last year. Does this still
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feel I understand like they all know it's a major,
but is there a clear drop off from when you
walk through the gates at the other three majors and
this feels much closer to like the players or something,
or does this still feel as big as you've been
going to these for decades?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
It's big. Look, there's there's nothing that really compares to
driving down Magdulia Lane and showing up to Augusta National.
So you know, I can't say that it's on the
same level as that, And I don't think any player
would insist that it's on the same level as the
Masters either, But yeah, it still feels like a major.
And I'll throw in one more part of this, one
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more piece of the puzzles that now that live players
are sort of separated from the PGA Tour players and
they're only meeting up four times a year, that these
things feel a little bit more important now because all
of a sudden, the guys who are going against each
other and designated events on the PGA Tour week in,
week out, well, now you throw in Cameron Smith and
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Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka and all these live guys
that they've got to deal with. It makes it feel
a little bit more important, a little bit more momentous
that they're all here this week. So yeah, it does
feel a little bit different. It feels like a major.
You're right about the fact that most of these guys,
if given an opportunity, the Masters is first on most guys' list.
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I think winning Clara jug is probably second, and the
US Open just because of the way the USGA is
gone about things. I will put it this way, over
the last handful of years, and I think things has
gotten better since Mike Wan has been there. But you know,
despite what Phil thinks, I think the USJA has gotten
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better in recent years. But I would say that the
US Open is probably a third and this is the fourth.
But look, no one's going to turn it down. And
I do think there's a little more extra motivation for
a guy like Thomas and defending champion who comes from
a line of PGA club professionals. And I through Cameron
Young near the top of my list this week because
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I do think there's some narratives in his favor, not
only being a quote unquote home game. He lives five
hours away, grew up five hours away, so it's not
really home, but this feels like a lot of those
New York area style golf courses that he grew up playing.
And then he's the son of a PGA club professional,
so this is going to mean a little bit more
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for a guy like Cam Young, so I like him
as well. But yeah, look it's a clear I would
think fourth out of four for most of the players
if given their choice and put on the truth serum
to tell us which one they'd really like to win,
But that doesn't mean they wouldn't really like to win it.
And they're all going out there playing this thing as
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a major.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Feels like Phil's kind of got a swag back after
that Master's performance, just tweeting away and just the way
he's carrying himself. He feels like he's getting he's getting
back to his roots.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I don't know how to explain Phil these days. I
don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Have you have you seen him since you've been there.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I've not seen him this week yet. Now, I will
say that I've been nosed down a lot of work
and walk the golf course and things like that, where
just having been on the range a whole lot to
go see any guys, But boy fills in a weird place.
I heard a story secondhand from somebody not too long
ago that someone that Phil knew very very well for
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twenty years, someone involved in the game, but who's not
a professional golfer that yeah, considered Phill a very very
close friend and they have no relationship anymore. It's just
it's just there's there's a lot of weird stuff like that,
and I I don't know how to describe it right now.
I'm not sure Phil even knows Phills, a guy that
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I was maintained he always had an agenda. He was
always he was trying to play chess whenever he thought
everyone else was playing, and he was trying to stay
two or three steps ahead of everybody else. He always
had an agenda. I don't know what the agenda is
right now, and I think he's kind of lost the
plot a little bit, and I think he's he's lost fans.
This guy who was so image conscious for twenty five
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years of his career and now is it's basically burning
down the whole house, and I just don't quite understand
it from his perspective.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's gonna be a little harder for Phil to make
cut this week.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Uh look if Phil goes out and finished his second
again this week like he did Augusta, I don't know.
It's I brought up the fact that we might have
talked about in the pod last week. I was talking
about on the radio show that I look at the
US Ryder Cup team as having I think there are
ten spots that quarring injury, illness, massive slump that are
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probably the names are penciled in if not in ink
right now, and then two spots that are like wide open.
And I brought up on radio that one of the
live plays, you know, DJ Brooks somebody like that. How
about Phil? That would I don't know. I mean, we
talked about burning the house down. We'd be burning down
the whole street if Phil was somehow able to qualify
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and make the Ryder Cup team, because I don't think
there's gonna put him on if he's not qualified, I
don't think he's getting that that wild card selection. But
if he somehow makes the Ryder Cup team by playing
really well at majors, I don't even know anymore. I mean,
I don't even know how to describe this, but it's
it's wild. I can't wait to watch him. I don't
know that whole Remember that whole marketing campaign, What will
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phill do next? They had no idea what was coming
twenty years later?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Well will so will enjoy the week and see who
the next major champion is.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Thanks, Buddy, Wallet, says Sunjay. Hart says maybe some other guys,
But Walt says Sunjay.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Yeah, Min says home. Well, let's go, baby, Okay, let's
bang out some questions at Golo Pod. At Golo Pod,
fire in those dms on Instagram. Lucas fellow Bald brother
loved the football podcast. Recently was shown this pod by
my buddy who loves golf. I don't even follow or
(43:12):
like golf. Still a great listen, appreciate it. Double question
do you think that Phil Mickelson will win another major
in his career? Also? Do you think the PJ events
would would be high paying without Live? No, they would
not not. This year Live definitely forced their hand. I
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think Phil Michleson could win the Masters maybe the right
course if he was on It would have to be
probably the next three or four years at the Open.
You know Phil in a weird way, He's never been injured.
He honestly could play well at the Masters, in the
Open Championship for the next foreseeable future. I think like
this week in US Opens, well one, he's he hasn't
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had much success in the US Opens in a while,
and I think the PGA Championship has some similar But
I know he wanted a couple of years ago, little
freaky deal, unique kind of outlier course for the type
courses they play. So I would say, yeah, it would
be if you told me he's tied for the league,
you know, middle of Saturday at the Masters or in
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the mix at the Open, you know, kind of like
a Tom Watson several years ago. I know Tom was older.
Maybe it was Tom fifty eight at the time. Was
that a decade ago? So yeah, he's ever been injured
and his swing has kind of been the same for
twenty years, you know, So no faith that he can
compete though at the middle two majors zero, not the
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US Open anymore, and not at the PGA. Feels good Man.
Do you watch any gone golf content on YouTube like
good Good or Bob does Sports? I feel like you
would enjoy Bob does sports with a sense of humor.
Bob just did a video Johnny Manzel and it was gold.
I had to buy a jersey after that. I love
Bob does Sports. Ring the Super Bowl, we were going
(45:02):
to dinner, Me and my girlfriend were meeting some people downtown.
It was actually, I think was that Doug Gottlieb. Yeah,
I think we went to dinner with Doug Gottlieb and
his girlfriend. And then after they went home and I
was like, yeah, let's go get a cocktail. Walked across
the street to the Barstool Bar and those guys Bob
(45:23):
cold Cuts. Cold Cuts was not in there.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
It was.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
It was Bob and and FP were in there, and
I told Maria, I'm like, I don't think you realize
how famous these guys are. And I loosely said hi
to Baperezi walked by, but I didn't go up to
him and start bullshitting with him. And Marie's like, those guys,
I'm like, yeah, I'm telling you. I played golf probably
a month ago. I love their shit. I find Bob hilarious.
(45:47):
FPS A stick cold cuts is, you know, a pretty
special character. I watched some of the good good stuff.
I respect, you know, their game. It doesn't do much
for me. Literally, they've built an incredible business. A lot
of respect for what they've done ahead of the curve.
Bob does sports probably more my style. I like that.
(46:08):
I saw that Rapaport Dan Rapport, who works for Barstool Now,
did a pretty cool thing where he caddied night holes
for Thagala. I like that. I watch golf content for sure.
I watch all the Bob does sports stuff. Those guys.
Bob's fucking funny, man, I mean those guys are those
guys are gold so big fans. Yeah, Oklahoma Native Here
(46:35):
Live Golf just hosted their tournament this weekend. The atmosphere
was electric, there was a lot of action, skydivers, live
golf flags, an overall great experience. My question, do you
think the PGA adopts any live golf entertainment tactics to
appeal to the golf audience? Good question. You know, even
(46:55):
at the waste management there is I don't think we're
ever going to get on the PGA, especially these le events.
The music though, Like when I play golf, whether I'm
playing one hundred dollars a hole or just by myself,
I play music. You know, I don't think the music
is that crazy now blaring it on every hole. I
could see where some guys don't like it. Uh, what
(47:18):
would live? Do you know? The concerts after the shotgun
start is never gonna happen because they're always going to
have more guys playing than are on the course at
one time. Yeah, I think there are elements of live.
I've never been to one, and I'll be completely honest,
I haven't really watched it at all this year though
I do kind of follow the leaderboard, but I have
not watched, and I'm a golf junkie, a NECW. I
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think the PGA tour should always be willing to steal
ideas to make their product more fan friendly. Isn't that
what all these sports their job is, So whatever specific
ideas that would work and carry over that they should
one hundred percent steal. Is Jason Day capable of repeating
his performance in fifteen? You called it a few weeks ago.
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He's had great finishes lately and you know it just
hasn't worked out. Might have gotten his swaggerback. The only
reason I wouldn't bet Jason Day this week is because
he just won. How often do people win back to back? Now,
if you told me Jason Day wins again this year,
whether it's at LACC, whether it's one of the elevated events,
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whether it's at the playoff event, whether it's at the Open,
I think it's on on the table. He has an
elite short game. I remember talking to Hunter Mayhan, who
played him in the match Play final I think you know,
Dell match Play whatever a decade ago, and I was like,
what made Jason Day so sweet? And at the time
he was long. He's like, bro, his short game and
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his putting was elite. His short game is really really good.
So clearly he's a high level ball striker. If he's
hitting fairways, I don't know, quote unquote swaggerback, Like is
the guy ever going to be the number one player
in the world, But like could the game, I'd be
a factor for the next several years. Hell yeah, I
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don't see why not. His swing feels much more repeatable, mentally,
feels in a really good place. I would bet probably
five hundred dollars right now, at pretty good odds that
Jason Day wins a big tournament. I would say last
week was not a big tournament, right, he was sixteen
to one to win the tournament. It's why he didn't bet.
(49:25):
The field was kind of shitty. But I think he
wins either an elevated event, a playoff event, a major
in the next assuming he says healthy right the back
goes then we got problems if he stays healthy in
the next two years and he's going to rack up
a lot of cash. Question for the pod, what would
(49:45):
your confidence level be in twenty four Matt Fitzpatrick putting
on the green jacket. Love the pod. Think of all
the guys we talk about, and I'm guilty of this,
the Fenales, the Xanders, Jordan j T. You know, Max
cam Young just kind of that group. Sam Burns probably
(50:07):
on the outside of that group, but I mean we
saw when Sam gets hot, he can beat anybody. Rory
mat Fitzpatrick literally fucking won the US Open last year.
I mean took ale Xalatoris and Scotty Scheffler. Matt Fitzpatrick
just went toe to toe with Jordan Speed beat him.
Jordan missed a couple of short putts right, but still
beat him head to head elevated event right after the Masters.
(50:28):
Matt Fitzpatrick is really really freaking good like stud So yeah,
I would say, if you tell me, Matt Fitzpatrick wins
the US Open, very believable. If you tell me, we
look up at Matt Fitzpatrick's career ends and he's got
two or three. If he's every bit as good a
player I think is Colin Morrikowa. So if Colin Morikawa
(50:49):
can win two majors, Matt Fitzpatrick can as well. Twenty
twenty four next year, I mean i'd say the next
five years. I mean he could easily win one. Heading
to the PGA Championship on Friday. Any general tips for
going to your first PGA event major, I haven't been
to a major yet, let alone a tour event in general.
(51:10):
Just was wondering your thoughts. Course looks sweet compared to
the last time they hosted it. Well, you can do
a couple things. Last time I went to the US Open,
I didn't. You couldn't really gamble on golf then, you know,
in nineteen at Pebble Beach. So I just set up
shop at a couple different holes and drank and hung out.
If you're gambling on a guy, let's say you're betting
(51:32):
on Mat Fitzpatrick or Tony Feenaw or whatever, I think
it'd be pretty cool to watch their group for a
while fall them for nine holes. I mean, I think
that'd be pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Now, if you're not doing that, set up shop on
a green on a tea box and just watch guys
come through. That never gets old. I don't think you
can go wrong now if you follow a rory a
ram I honestly, as recording this, I haven't even looked
at the groups. Clearly they put top players together can
be difficult. You know, New York, a lot of people there.
(52:05):
Some the easiest thing I've found going to events in
my life. From the first event I ever went to
US Open ninety eight Olympic Club to just you know,
when's the last time I've been to a golf event.
Might have been nineteen of the US Open. I tend
to just go to a hole and go to a
hole where you get a good view, whether it be
a green or whether it be a tea box, get it,
(52:28):
you know, a couple of beers, a couple hot dogs,
and just kind of hang just wondering your thoughts on
live right now. Masters put to rest any questions on
level of competition, But as someone living in Canada, I
literally can't access the Attorney unless I subscribe to their app.
Leaderboard look good on Sunday, but it feels very difficult
to access. I feel like they jumped the gun on
the TV thing and should have stayed on YouTube. I
(52:51):
said it to begin with. YouTube is the easiest thing
to access in the world right now. If you got
to Internet, you just fucking type in the website, you
can watch whatever you want. It was they were so
obsessed and this is what happens when you know. I'm
sure there might have been some big picture elements of this.
Maybe they thought it would help them get official golf
World rankings. I don't know why that would factor in.
(53:12):
But like YouTube, this isn't twenty fifteen. It was fine,
stay on YouTube. I'm with you. I don't get it.
I didn't like that decision. I hated that decision. Actually
despised it. It made no sense to me. Just stay
on YouTube so we can all watch it. But Greg Norman,
you know, he wanted the CW. And think about this.
(53:33):
They go to the playoff, DJ and Cam Smith in
a playoff and there's was it Brandon Grace and CW
changed to I forget the show. But it was some
stupid ass show because they got contractual obligations. You think
if the PGA Tours go into a playoff, they keep
showing it sixty minutes, got to wait. Same thing with
the NFL. But LIV signed the stupidest television ever CW,
(53:58):
and I hate it. I'm with you, Okay. Last question
I heard someone asked that was going to the Masters,
what the play should be regarding following a golfer or
posting up any thoughts on the weekend. I'm going to
the PGA. Yeah, same thing. You're gambling on a guy
and his group is accessible cause, like you know, I've
been to tournaments with Tiger. It's not you got no
(54:20):
shot if you're gonna follow Tiger, right, if you're gonna
follow Rory or rom or just some of the headliners,
if Speeth plays J T. Tony, it's gonna be difficult.
But you might be able to find a group with
some guys you're betting on that might have like a
Jason Dave, Matt Fitzpatrick. If you got a little juice
on them, follow them. It's still gonna be packed, but
(54:40):
it's cool to follow some holes, or you could just
do the natural, just walk the course. Just who's ever
playing is playing. I never understand unless you're walking, why
you would ever stand on you know, like two hundred
and fifty to three hundred yards in a hole like
that's when people get hit. I always either go to
the tee or the green. If I'm going to go
(55:00):
to a hole and just sit there, tee or green
or follow. It makes no sense to sit in the
middle of the hole, right if it's a five hundred
yard hole. These people that are standing on a three hundred
yard mark and just watching you don't have these No
one can see the ball in the air till it
hits you in the face. So I would go te
your green at a specific hole. I don't know the
(55:22):
course really beside what I've seen on TV. Just pick
cool hole. Part three's are always fun. Part five greens
if they can drive it long. Part four approaches you
know by the green are cool. So or just walk
the course, get some steps in, have some beers. You
feel like you're not even gaining calories because you're walking
so much. Appreciate everyone listening. Let's have a week.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
Homer wouldn't mind Keegan winning either, got a little kid,
he's got long odds. Gary Woodland also, I would celebrate,
but Tony Xander have no issue with either, Big Dick, Rick,
Terrell Hatton. Let's have a week, enjoy the tournament, and
uh we got a new major champ potentially come Sunday,
Host
John Middlekauff
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