April 17, 2024 • 25 mins
Kelley Bydlon and Wes Reynolds preview the Corales Puntacana Championship from the Dominican Republic. This is an alternate event as the DP World Tour and LIV are off this week. Wes gives his course breakdown, stats, matter, and best bets for the Corales Puntacana Championship. Also, Rory responds to rumors that he's joining LIV.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is long Shots. Here's Wes Reynolds. Welcome in it's
long Shots Around the World edition. Kelly Bidlin West Reynolds. Wes,
how you doing, Buddy? I guess this would be our
first time for a quick Master's debrief. I don't want
to steal away. I would say, I don't want to
steal away from around the World, but since around the
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World staying with the PGA Tour this week, it feels applicable.
How was your Masters, Buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, small loser. You know, I wish I could have
done better, but that's what happens when you don't take
the four to one favorite and he ends up running away.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And it looked easier than it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was because obviously Scotti Scheffler certainly had his challenges both
on Saturday and Sunday, but you know, just eventually pulled
away once they made the turn on Sunday and all
the other get contenders around him, Morikawa Home, Ludwigobert, all
these guys started making little mistakes, and Scotty Schffler didn't
make many mistakes on Sunday on the back nine, so
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you know, you get a four shot win, and sometimes
you know, it's like in horse racing, you know, sometimes
you get one of those like two to five or
three to five favorites that you want to bet against,
and then sometimes the favorite runs like a two to
five or three to five favorite in a horse race.
And that's what happened I think here with Scotty Scheffler.
It really what kind of surprised me was there were
guys that shot well on approach, that were in the
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top ten and finished high. But this was not as
important of an approach tournament as I thought it was
going to be. This was about off the tee and
about short game, and Scotty Scheffler even said that in
the post round press conference on Sunday that that's what
this was about, and he was one of the better
ones in both those categories. So Scotty Scheffler, now with
this second green jacket, we'll see this week when we
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get to the RBC Heritage for the regular long Shots episode,
if he's going to be a withdrawal this week, because
everybody was kind of saying, oh, he might withdraw him like, well,
I don't think his wife Meredith is due for like
another week or week and a half. Well, now it's
the week and week and a half, so it might
be this week in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah they Uh, well, I'm glad you brought that all up,
so blood bathroom me. As far as the tournament went,
I would say, you know, for a lot of things
that we talked through in the long Shots podcast if
you listen, I want to say I'm proud of myself
for identifying the the the wit equity and the threat
at the top of the board in Scottie Scheffler and
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dialing back what I did with the outright market because
I don't know about us, but the Masters is usually
that is usually the tournament I will have the most
outright bets in of all year long, just because I'm
usually racking up one, two or three in the months
leading into it and then adding on my normal you know, three, four, five,
I don't think I had. I only added five outrights
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I think in this tournament total, which a little less
for me. I didn't bet them too heavily because of Scheffler.
So I decided to sink my money a lot into
you know, top ten, top twenty in a lot of
tournament matchups. And the whole point did I get my
face kicked in man? The ones really worth calling out
Shaye Lowry. He did absolutely no favors for me. And
then man, I like, you know, Colin Mori, Calum Max
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holmean good on you out there if you had those
guys having a good week at the Masters, because I
think you, you, Matt and I all talked about those
guys at least in different bits last week and it
was you can't really it was hard to make a
case with the recent forms of those guys had been.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
They showed nothing, They showed nothing, nothing coming in and
uh you know, uh yeah, I had a couple of
hard luck matchups as well. Patrick Reid Bogie's eighteen loses
to Terrell Hatton, Sergio Garcia melts down on Friday. I
had him against I think I think it might have
been Tom Kim and then he misses the cut. So
full matchups, tournament matchups weren't good for me. Individual like
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the round by rounds were pretty good and the placements
were pretty good, and then the futures are obviously a loser,
So small loser for me this week.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, Now, I will say real quick, you and I
did do a podcast Wednesday before the Masters. I ran
through a few questions and I said, what's your favorite
bet of the week. My answer was to take you
Mazia over Jordan Smith and a bat So and that
actually wanted no matter how bad it issi Ama Plate.
So hopefully, if hopefully, that's the only bet people tailed
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me on out there and that actually got home for you.
But we'll talk much more with Matt Brown when we
do our normal long shots episode about the Maasters going
ford RBC Heritage. No no rest for the weary, including ourselves.
As you do go to a signature signature event. Is
that we're calling him now? Yes, we've changed names so
many times, elevated signature, all this stuff. We do have
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another signature event in the RBC Heritage. We will get
to that though. This is for around the world now.
We don't have anything going on in Live ORDP World
Tour this week, so we will be going to the
Corrals punt Cana where we are in the alternate Alternate
Tour alternate field what do they call it, the alternate
field events?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, alternate event. It's it is a full it
is a full field down here in the Dominican Republic,
so you know, still say, at least in the same hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
This week right exactly, And I was joking with you
off the air before we started recording. It was masters
was so bad for me. Yeah, yeah, I'm betting the
RBC heritage, but it's pretty light as well. But man,
maybe this is the tournament I should be betting, because
I sure see a lot of my lovable losers on
the odds board here. Alex Norton maybe number one at
the top. I know you, You, you, Matt, myself have
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all attacked him this year, and maybe I mean a
FEELI it's one of the few guys that's actually made
me money. Him and Nikolai Hoygard right now with DraftKings
twelve to one. Your favorites for this tournament, Philly Horsel
twenty to one. I didn't catch his name before he
was this May lastly twenty five to one, Kevin You
twenty five to one, Doug gim Aaron Rye twenty five
to one. Those dumped enough money on those two losers before. Yeah,
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Davis Thompson twenty eight to one. Everybody else thirty to
one or longer. Another guy. I'm just gonna say it now,
I'm gonna put a bed in on him just for
the Foamo and for the love is my boy Daniel
Berger forty to one and still struggling to get back
from that back injury. I know you were brave enough
to beat him a little bit early on. I think
you want to do a hit him while the odds
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were still long, and if he did get back into form,
you knew those were going to be shortened up quick.
I think forty to one in this field, I might
take a swing on my boy Burger. But before we
get to all the bets and everything, West kind of
break it, break it all down for us what we're
going to see.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, And this is the Corles Pottakana Championship in the
Dominican Republic called the Corrales Golf Club designed by Tom Fazzio,
who does a lot of different designs on the PGA Tour.
Par seventy two of seventy six, seventy second longest course
on the PGA Tour. But it is pretty easy and flat.
You've got some holes that play along the coast and
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some holes that are inland. Here. You know, we talk
about kind of the closing stretch of holes. What do
we have the bear trap and we have the snake pit,
The snake pit and all that. Well, this time sixteen
through eighteen is called the Devil's Elbow. That doesn't that
doesn't sound fun, But this course does usually have pretty
low scoring, so you know, it's almost like two separate
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courses in one with the inland holes and then the
coastal whrst coastal holes. It is paspalum, which is a
turf that you see a lot in the south, you know,
low maintenance, a lot you know in terms of irrigation
requirements as well. Fairway is a pretty wide six thousand
square foot on average eleven on the stamp. Doesn't really
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favor any type of players, so bombers of one here,
superior ball strikers of one here. It's all about, you know,
who gets really hot with the potter. So I guess
if you're looking at comp courses, El Camileone where they
used to play Maya Coba Grand Reserve, which is the
course for Puerto Rico Open, the Plantation Course at Capelua
Kiwa Island, Badonta Vayarta where they play the Mexico Open.
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So yeah, big boy golf course here at the Corralispoon
and Cana the winner last year.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
By the way, it was Matt Wallace at.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Twenty eight to one. Some previous winners Chad Raymid, Joel Damon, Hudson, Swafford,
Graham McDow, Bryce Garnett, Nate Lashley when it was a
web dot Com Tour event, Dominic Bozelli because this was
a web event on twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. So
you know, guys, you know you have a few European
Tour players or DP World Tour players I should say
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that are in this you don't get because it's the
alternate event. You don't get in terms of a master's invite,
but you do get the full FED you do to
get FedEx cut points, and you do get a two
year PGA Tour exemption if you win this thing. So
you know, still some valuable FedEx cut points at least
up for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Absolutely, And I think you could tell that by some
of the guys showing up right and in, you know,
real quick. Just no judgment on any coastal horrores out there.
Make your money however you need to make your money.
I had man no judgment on this podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, I did hear I did hear that slip good
I was about I was about to say, hey, can
we cut and edit that out?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No, it was way funnier that you did. I just
wanted to let you no judgment out there, hustle, make
your money out ever you need to. This is a
betting podcast for Christ's say, no judgment, your judgment freeze zone.
But yeah, you're talking about some names. I mean, I'm
laughing at it called him my lovable Losers. But these
are guys I mean Horseal, I mean Horseel nor gim
Wry like, I mean, these are guys we see regular
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mainstays on the PGA Tour, so clearly they're going down
there to play for something. Absolutely might not be a
Master's invite next year, but like you said, this is
a big time for the Point, the Point race and
everything so top of the board. Did you have any
interest in attacking Norn or Hoyguard. I wish I actually was.
As much as we've liked Norn. Was a little surprised
he was the favorite. I mean, now, yeah, they're co favorites,
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but I was a little surprised he opened up the
favorite over Hoyguard.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
To be honest, yeah, I went a little bit down.
I did not use either of these guys. Certainly Norn
by the way, he played very well. I had him
actually in the event near the end of the year,
the Bermuda Championship that Camillo Vijegas ended up beating him
when Norn was the overnight and I thought I was
going to cash a ticket. So he does play well
on these kind of like coastal courses there, certainly has
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in the past. You know, Nikolai Hoygard has played some
of these overseas as well. But yeah, I did take
a pass at least on the first few on the leaderboard.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay, so where did you where did you start your
card at?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Went with twenty eight to one. Nate Lashley, I mentioned
former winner here in twenty seventeen. He's been fourth, fifteenth
and twice just inside the top thirty other than his
win in twenty seventeen, So great form here, really good
for him in Puerto Rico too. I think his last
four finishes were eight, seven to three in a miscut
there before that, so six and strokes gain total in
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this field over the last thirty six So I thought
Nate Lashley made some sense. His buddy Stephan Yeager just
one down there in Houston where he's greenside to help
him celebrate. They are old friends and old teammates, I
believe in their junior golf days. So Nate Lashley could
go well this week. Victor Perez thirty three to one,
who actually just missed out by one spot because you
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know they have like that a on swing five and
that next ten because it's the top fifty in the
FedEx Cup points that make up the bulk of these
signature events, and then they go at that next ten
and that swing five. Well, Victor Perez was sixth in
the swing five, so he missed it by one spot.
Third last month in the alternate Puerto Rico Open event.
Last victory was on the DP World Tour twenty twenty
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three Abu Dhabi. That last win, it also came on
Paspalum Golf Course at Yaslinks, where that Abu Dhabi Championship
was played. So this is a guy I think could
go very well. And maybe it's a little narrative street
It's like, Okay, missed by one spot to get in
that field in ed Hiltonhead in South Carolina. Now maybe
he goes and wins this and this is the best
thing for him. So Victor Perez thirty three to one.
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Sam Stevens thirty five to one. He is fifty four
whole leader here last year eventually finished third, two top
twenties in his last five, including at Puerto Rico, which
is very similar to this course. Maddy Schmidd fifty five
to one, third in Bermuda last year, tenth at Puerto
Rico back in March. Since that finished in Puerto Rico
T twenty six, at the Players, T seventeen, at the
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fALS Bar T twenty one at Houston. Obviously, those three
fields much better than this one, so I think, you know,
he's a big hitter off the t too, so the
distance should help him a little bit, as it could.
Peter Quest at sixty six to one, one of the
longer hitters, one of the better putters in this field.
Last year on the PGA Tour the few starts he made,
he was top four at the Rocket Mortgage at three
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other top twenties.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
This year on the corn Ferry.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You know, he hadn't really gotten off to a good start,
but was top ten at the Balero a couple of
weeks ago, so maybe this is a good spot for him.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And then one I kind of did a little.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Shot in the dark here because he's obviously never played
this course and doesn't play really much overseas. Here is
Alex Fitzpatrick at eighty to one, who I think people
know the story that the Fitzpatrick family frequently vacationed at
hilton Head when they were young kids, including obviously the
older brother Matt Fitzpatrick, who is actually defending year in
hilton Head at the RBC Heritage. So maybe a little
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narrative street here where Alex, you know, wishes he could
be there with his brother and once to get on
that PGA tour so bad and then wins this alternate
event one on the Challenge Tour last year. Essentially this
is his rookie season on the DP World Tour. He's
been top twenty or better in five of his last
nine worldwide starts, dating back to last December. So took
a shot with Alex Fitzpatrick at eighty to one.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Are they are they still gonna be playing in the
match play together?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I wonder if they are going to play in New
Orleans together. Yeah, I gotta look at that field because
that is coming up. That's a good call by you,
that Zurich Classic of New Orleans where one day it's
a four ball, one day it's a foursome, and then
they alternate basically back to back. So you do have
that team event coming up in New Orleans here. So yeah,
because I was kind of looking at the schedule, I
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was like, okay, you know where is Scottie Scheffler maybe
gonna take off? You know when when when the when
the little one comes due? And I don't see him
commit it as of yet for that Zurich Classic. But
the Fitzpatrick brothers are I believe already it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay, all right, I like it. I like all right,
So run through the bets one more time.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
West, Okay, let's go at the top was Nate Lashley
twenty eight to one, Victor Perez thirty three to one,
Sam Stevens thirty five to one, Matty Schmid fifty five
to one, Peter Quest sixty six to one, and Alex
Fitzpatrick eighty to one. So we got six here for
the Corrals Punticana.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I think I'm gonna tail you on Stevens and then
throw a burger bet in. Yeah, if you're telling me
this is we got to go long off the t
Sam Stevens feels like a good bet there the Yeah,
you're right about Peter Quest. Man, I feel like me
or you, me or you or Matt, but probably me
or you because it was me and you basically doing
this all through the fall. We had a better two.
I feel like we had a better two on him
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in the fall. But you're right, man, that's a that
is kind of a that's a rough story.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's tough.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, because he's had to do some Monday qualifying to
get into a couple PGA Tour events this year. Because
he doesn't have false stat us.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, no point. It's always that is the part of
golf that you know, we we don't talk about enough.
And I say we as just the media in general.
I mean, it is such a grind for those guys
to even make it up to the PGA Tour. Oh yeah,
it's it's incredible. And then and then I mean I
love the stories. I mean, it's always better runyan bets
on it. But I love the stories on the tour
of the guys that you know, who was Harris English
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last year or two two years ago, right when in
Hawaii and almost breaking down crying because he hadn't won
and so long. It's like, you know, those are those
are the things we don't think about when we're watching
Scottie sheffer whin you know, win three events a month, right,
you know on tour and talk right like that. A
couple of other things I want to hit with you
real quick before we let everybody go.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Any reaction to the uh the Master of the Poor
Master's TV ratings. I'm sure you sell those.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, yeah, I was, Uh, I was a little bit surprised,
I guess, because you know, everybody's like, well, you know,
once you get uh, you know, all all everybody together
and and whatnot. You know, on all the tours, all
the ratings are going to go back up, and they haven't.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Uh. And part of it, I.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Think, you know, Scottie Scheffler is still very new on
the scene and you know obviously doesn't move the needle
like a like like a tiger or or somebody like that.
So you know, I don't want to say it's much
ado about nothing, because there's clearly something here. I think
probably a little bit of his is fatigue. It's like, okay,
we now know that we have this other tour. Even
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though there's not a lot of viewers and droves actually
watching this tour. Uh, you know. But but I think
that that that kind of registers a little bit with people,
you know, where it's like, okay, you know, we're kind
of tired of it. You know, who's going to be here,
who's playing this week, who's not playing? So yeah, I
was a little bit surprised they were at least that
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much down the previous year.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I was too. I mean, I don't know. The note
I thought I saw was what worst ratings outside of
the outside of the pandemic one since like the fifties, right,
since since the November twenty twenty, right, and then twenty
twenty one. Yeah, that was pretty shocking to me. But
the one question I was asking a couple of people
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over the weekend, including Carry McCord, who we did get
into an interesting conversation with about this kind of live
PGA tour stuff going on because he was, you know,
he was one of the guys that they live targeted
to be an announcer and he just didn't want to
do all the travel.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And his buddy David Faridy, of course, is right exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah. So and honestly, Wes Waite, I feel like reading
in between the lines, and one of the questions I
asked him, he was like, don't be holding your breath
on this PGA Tour live deal of just there's so
many things that they have to still go through. I
guess even though we were promised a deal a deal
in the last summer, right, and then they extended it
to the new year or no, no, sorry. They made
the deal that they were going to make a deal
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last summer, and they said what was going to happened
by the end of twenty twenty three. That didn't happen.
They extended it to the beginning of the Masters. I
don't know about you, but I haven't heard Jack Diddley
about what the hell that what the status is of
that when they had to set a deadline for themselves
of the Masters. I think that is definitely a huge
part of it. I absolutely do. And you hit on
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another thing I kept asking people when you saw it
was kind of Scheffler Homa Mori kala Oberg. I was like,
who moves the needle to the book right now? Right? Like?
Do I always talk about individual sports, whether it's UFC,
whether it's tennis, whether it's boxing, whether it's golf. Star
power especially these days, is so needed to grab the
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attention of the masses, right, Like you have to have
that Connor McGregor who's not only gonna kick everybody's ass,
you know, at least for a short period of time,
kick everybody's ass, but then has a personality, right, And
you're talking about like that's where I was like, I
think Max Homa is about the best the PGA Tour
could do right now because at least the guy's got
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a personality. It would be his first major win, and
I think it can connect with the younger generation that
never hurts with golf right now. And I just don't know.
I don't know if sheffer winning. Like we talk about
the winning side of it being a huge factor, but
there's another part of it that I think he's lacking.
And I think that shows up in the ratings of
bit Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You need Rory to win more too, because I think
he's one of the big names. By the way, that
was a big story overnight that it was reported that
he got that big live offer and he goes, I
don't know where this came from. You know, I've already
made it clear because I think it was Todd Lewis,
a golf channel that was there at the RBC Heritage
where Rory of course is playing this week, and he's like, no,
I'm gonna be on the PGA Tour. Because there was
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a part of me when I reacted and I saw
people react to this, It's like, if he would go
there after all of this, and I know he's probably
ticked off at the PGA Tour because they maybe let
him hang out to dry and maybe didn't inform him
enough of these negotiations that are happening. Meanwhile, he's out there,
you know, defending the honor of the PGA Tour both
publicly and privately. And I was like, man, if this
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is how this story ends with him going here, that
would be you know, that would be certainly a hell
of a twist and turn. But I think Rory knows
that would probably go bad for him term in terms
of his legacy if that's what happened, Wes.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
My reaction when I first saw it was if there
was okay, besides some of the dudes who are just
straight up stealing money being on the live tour that
like nobody really cared about that much on the PGA
Tour much less with the care about right now on
the Live tour. Besides those guys who are just stealing
a healthy paycheck, I don't think, I don't know that
there's a single person on this planet that has more
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of a reason to take the to take the take
the payday from Live and jump over than Rory mcoy.
That guy, I'll take it a step for that guy
died defending the shield of the PGA Tour, and the
PGA Tour commissioner and everybody making money off of it
turned their back on him as soon as they possibly
could and threw him under the bus. For a guy
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that's been the media face of the PGA tour, for
you to stab him in the back like he did,
I would have had absolutely no problem if Rory Backroy
came out and said, you know what everybody else is
doing it give me a bag of money and I'm
going over there until they figure out how to bring
these two tools.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You know, honestly, Kelly and and and you know, I
know what he said in the met and you know
to Todd Lewis today, but there was probably some of
him if this offer was in fact made. Now he
said this offer wasn't made, and he said he's actually
had conversations with the guy Yesier, who is the head
of the PIF over there in Saudi Arabia, the Public
Investment Fund. Uh. But if there was an offer made,
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I feel like maybe the one of the only reasons
he is staying is because they're they're launching this like
that virtual thing that PGL him and Tiger Woods, and
plus plus the fact that Tiger Woods is now a
player director on the PGA Tour Board of Directors, so
he's part of these negotiations and all of this stuff
and has some power within the game, which he's always
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kind of had but never really officially in terms of
this role. Well, you know, if Tiger wasn't involved in
trying to you know, kind of you know, help out
the PGA Tour and get more money invested in the
tour and obviously have a negotiation and perhaps a little
piece of chords between these two tours, maybe Rory would
have considered it a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'll tell you the one part I don't believe if
you listen to what he says at the beginning of
the beginning of this answer.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I honestly don't know how these things get started. I've
never been offered a number from Live and I've never
contemplated going to Live. Yeah, I you know it's again.
I think I've made a clear over the past two
years that I don't think it's something for me. Doesn't
mean that I judge people that have went and played
over there. I think one of the things that I've
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realized over the past two years is, you know, people
can make their own decisions for you know, whatever they
think is best for themselves, and you know, who are
we to judge them for that? But personally, for me,
you know, my future is here on the PGA Tour,
and it's it's never been any different.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Says if you caught it there that he's never been
offered a deal by Live. Now he moved He quickly
moved on from that statement. West, I don't believe that
for a second. If you were living, wouldn't you want Sure,
it's fun. It's easy to throw a bunch of money
at some guys that want to take the money. But
when you when you have Rory coming out Bash, you know,
(23:23):
Bash and Lived protecting the PGA tour, and then the
PGA Tour turns on him like that. You're telling me
Live didn't give him offer that that night, that very night,
I would have if you live, I wouldn't have cared
what you said about us before. If I can turn
Rory McElroy, that is the ultimate plant the flag moment
of Live Golf, to say we turned this guy. That's
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how much the PGA tour's falling apart right now.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well, here's the thing even before that, you know, other
than and obviously like half uh, I don't know how
to phrase it, half crippled or disabled Tiger At this standpoint, physically,
who else would I want that than Rory McClory can
be the first guy i'd won.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I'd want him over even Brooks Or we know and
we know Tiger Wood's gotten offer. That's been reported. We
know that what so so Rory, Hey, we're PGA tour
guys here, thank you. We we love how even if
Jay Monahan doesn't care, we care about you protecting the
PGA trying to But uh, man, I don't think you
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gotta lie about any of this stuff anymore. Man, You
know you don't. You don't got anybody else that you
gotta worry about anymore. I I hear you on the
Tiger part. I think that's a big factor. All these
guys respect Tiger so much that yes, I don't think
Rordy wants to be that guy, but also don't think
Rory wanted to be the guy in the first place.
That I mean, he was the guy who took a
step forward and said, fine, I'll speak on behalf of
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the PGA tour. What Scotty Scheffler doing, He's not he's
not talking ever, He's not talking anything about PGA Tour.
Let me ducks those questions whenever he can. I don't know,
random tangent there, this was, this was around the world
figure phil Uh. We'd fill it in with a little
bit of live conversation. I wanted to hit on that
with you wanted to hit on the Master's ratings. Those
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were a bit of surprise for me. And this is
you know, I don't want to speak for everybody. It's
been a tougher season for me betting golf right now.
A lot of it is because of this live PGA
Tour split, or I don't want to say a lot
of it, but at least some of it is because
of that, and it's shaking up odds Board. It's shaking
up win equity within the game, and it's uh some
of it. It's been tough for me to figure out
right now. And I know that just the casual viewer
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is not having a good time with the with the separation.
You want to see all the best playing together. Need
to get that done as soon as possible. It is, Yes,
it is really driving me nuts. All right, Wes, good
luck this weekend. I'll be joining you on a couple
of those bets. We will have RBC Heritage Preview coming
up on long Shots. Until then, good luck on all
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your bets. We'll talk to you soon.
This is long Shots. Here's Wes Reynolds. Welcome in it's
long Shots Around the World edition. Kelly Bidlin West Reynolds. Wes,
how you doing, Buddy? I guess this would be our
first time for a quick Master's debrief. I don't want
to steal away. I would say, I don't want to
steal away from around the World, but since around the
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World staying with the PGA Tour this week, it feels applicable.
How was your Masters, Buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, small loser. You know, I wish I could have
done better, but that's what happens when you don't take
the four to one favorite and he ends up running away.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And it looked easier than it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was because obviously Scotti Scheffler certainly had his challenges both
on Saturday and Sunday, but you know, just eventually pulled
away once they made the turn on Sunday and all
the other get contenders around him, Morikawa Home, Ludwigobert, all
these guys started making little mistakes, and Scotty Schffler didn't
make many mistakes on Sunday on the back nine, so
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you know, you get a four shot win, and sometimes
you know, it's like in horse racing, you know, sometimes
you get one of those like two to five or
three to five favorites that you want to bet against,
and then sometimes the favorite runs like a two to
five or three to five favorite in a horse race.
And that's what happened I think here with Scotty Scheffler.
It really what kind of surprised me was there were
guys that shot well on approach, that were in the
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top ten and finished high. But this was not as
important of an approach tournament as I thought it was
going to be. This was about off the tee and
about short game, and Scotty Scheffler even said that in
the post round press conference on Sunday that that's what
this was about, and he was one of the better
ones in both those categories. So Scotty Scheffler, now with
this second green jacket, we'll see this week when we
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get to the RBC Heritage for the regular long Shots episode,
if he's going to be a withdrawal this week, because
everybody was kind of saying, oh, he might withdraw him like, well,
I don't think his wife Meredith is due for like
another week or week and a half. Well, now it's
the week and week and a half, so it might
be this week in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah they Uh, well, I'm glad you brought that all up,
so blood bathroom me. As far as the tournament went,
I would say, you know, for a lot of things
that we talked through in the long Shots podcast if
you listen, I want to say I'm proud of myself
for identifying the the the wit equity and the threat
at the top of the board in Scottie Scheffler and
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dialing back what I did with the outright market because
I don't know about us, but the Masters is usually
that is usually the tournament I will have the most
outright bets in of all year long, just because I'm
usually racking up one, two or three in the months
leading into it and then adding on my normal you know, three, four, five,
I don't think I had. I only added five outrights
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I think in this tournament total, which a little less
for me. I didn't bet them too heavily because of Scheffler.
So I decided to sink my money a lot into
you know, top ten, top twenty in a lot of
tournament matchups. And the whole point did I get my
face kicked in man? The ones really worth calling out
Shaye Lowry. He did absolutely no favors for me. And
then man, I like, you know, Colin Mori, Calum Max
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holmean good on you out there if you had those
guys having a good week at the Masters, because I
think you, you, Matt and I all talked about those
guys at least in different bits last week and it
was you can't really it was hard to make a
case with the recent forms of those guys had been.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
They showed nothing, They showed nothing, nothing coming in and
uh you know, uh yeah, I had a couple of
hard luck matchups as well. Patrick Reid Bogie's eighteen loses
to Terrell Hatton, Sergio Garcia melts down on Friday. I
had him against I think I think it might have
been Tom Kim and then he misses the cut. So
full matchups, tournament matchups weren't good for me. Individual like
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the round by rounds were pretty good and the placements
were pretty good, and then the futures are obviously a loser,
So small loser for me this week.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, Now, I will say real quick, you and I
did do a podcast Wednesday before the Masters. I ran
through a few questions and I said, what's your favorite
bet of the week. My answer was to take you
Mazia over Jordan Smith and a bat So and that
actually wanted no matter how bad it issi Ama Plate.
So hopefully, if hopefully, that's the only bet people tailed
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me on out there and that actually got home for you.
But we'll talk much more with Matt Brown when we
do our normal long shots episode about the Maasters going
ford RBC Heritage. No no rest for the weary, including ourselves.
As you do go to a signature signature event. Is
that we're calling him now? Yes, we've changed names so
many times, elevated signature, all this stuff. We do have
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another signature event in the RBC Heritage. We will get
to that though. This is for around the world now.
We don't have anything going on in Live ORDP World
Tour this week, so we will be going to the
Corrals punt Cana where we are in the alternate Alternate
Tour alternate field what do they call it, the alternate
field events?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, alternate event. It's it is a full it
is a full field down here in the Dominican Republic,
so you know, still say, at least in the same hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
This week right exactly, And I was joking with you
off the air before we started recording. It was masters
was so bad for me. Yeah, yeah, I'm betting the
RBC heritage, but it's pretty light as well. But man,
maybe this is the tournament I should be betting, because
I sure see a lot of my lovable losers on
the odds board here. Alex Norton maybe number one at
the top. I know you, You, you, Matt, myself have
(05:25):
all attacked him this year, and maybe I mean a
FEELI it's one of the few guys that's actually made
me money. Him and Nikolai Hoygard right now with DraftKings
twelve to one. Your favorites for this tournament, Philly Horsel
twenty to one. I didn't catch his name before he
was this May lastly twenty five to one, Kevin You
twenty five to one, Doug gim Aaron Rye twenty five
to one. Those dumped enough money on those two losers before. Yeah,
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Davis Thompson twenty eight to one. Everybody else thirty to
one or longer. Another guy. I'm just gonna say it now,
I'm gonna put a bed in on him just for
the Foamo and for the love is my boy Daniel
Berger forty to one and still struggling to get back
from that back injury. I know you were brave enough
to beat him a little bit early on. I think
you want to do a hit him while the odds
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were still long, and if he did get back into form,
you knew those were going to be shortened up quick.
I think forty to one in this field, I might
take a swing on my boy Burger. But before we
get to all the bets and everything, West kind of
break it, break it all down for us what we're
going to see.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, And this is the Corles Pottakana Championship in the
Dominican Republic called the Corrales Golf Club designed by Tom Fazzio,
who does a lot of different designs on the PGA Tour.
Par seventy two of seventy six, seventy second longest course
on the PGA Tour. But it is pretty easy and flat.
You've got some holes that play along the coast and
(06:45):
some holes that are inland. Here. You know, we talk
about kind of the closing stretch of holes. What do
we have the bear trap and we have the snake pit,
The snake pit and all that. Well, this time sixteen
through eighteen is called the Devil's Elbow. That doesn't that
doesn't sound fun, But this course does usually have pretty
low scoring, so you know, it's almost like two separate
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courses in one with the inland holes and then the
coastal whrst coastal holes. It is paspalum, which is a
turf that you see a lot in the south, you know,
low maintenance, a lot you know in terms of irrigation
requirements as well. Fairway is a pretty wide six thousand
square foot on average eleven on the stamp. Doesn't really
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favor any type of players, so bombers of one here,
superior ball strikers of one here. It's all about, you know,
who gets really hot with the potter. So I guess
if you're looking at comp courses, El Camileone where they
used to play Maya Coba Grand Reserve, which is the
course for Puerto Rico Open, the Plantation Course at Capelua
Kiwa Island, Badonta Vayarta where they play the Mexico Open.
(07:52):
So yeah, big boy golf course here at the Corralispoon
and Cana the winner last year.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
By the way, it was Matt Wallace at.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Twenty eight to one. Some previous winners Chad Raymid, Joel Damon, Hudson, Swafford,
Graham McDow, Bryce Garnett, Nate Lashley when it was a
web dot Com Tour event, Dominic Bozelli because this was
a web event on twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. So
you know, guys, you know you have a few European
Tour players or DP World Tour players I should say
(08:19):
that are in this you don't get because it's the
alternate event. You don't get in terms of a master's invite,
but you do get the full FED you do to
get FedEx cut points, and you do get a two
year PGA Tour exemption if you win this thing. So
you know, still some valuable FedEx cut points at least
up for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Absolutely, And I think you could tell that by some
of the guys showing up right and in, you know,
real quick. Just no judgment on any coastal horrores out there.
Make your money however you need to make your money.
I had man no judgment on this podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, I did hear I did hear that slip good
I was about I was about to say, hey, can
we cut and edit that out?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No, it was way funnier that you did. I just
wanted to let you no judgment out there, hustle, make
your money out ever you need to. This is a
betting podcast for Christ's say, no judgment, your judgment freeze zone.
But yeah, you're talking about some names. I mean, I'm
laughing at it called him my lovable Losers. But these
are guys I mean Horseal, I mean Horseel nor gim
Wry like, I mean, these are guys we see regular
(09:19):
mainstays on the PGA Tour, so clearly they're going down
there to play for something. Absolutely might not be a
Master's invite next year, but like you said, this is
a big time for the Point, the Point race and
everything so top of the board. Did you have any
interest in attacking Norn or Hoyguard. I wish I actually was.
As much as we've liked Norn. Was a little surprised
he was the favorite. I mean, now, yeah, they're co favorites,
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but I was a little surprised he opened up the
favorite over Hoyguard.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
To be honest, yeah, I went a little bit down.
I did not use either of these guys. Certainly Norn
by the way, he played very well. I had him
actually in the event near the end of the year,
the Bermuda Championship that Camillo Vijegas ended up beating him
when Norn was the overnight and I thought I was
going to cash a ticket. So he does play well
on these kind of like coastal courses there, certainly has
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in the past. You know, Nikolai Hoygard has played some
of these overseas as well. But yeah, I did take
a pass at least on the first few on the leaderboard.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay, so where did you where did you start your
card at?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Went with twenty eight to one. Nate Lashley, I mentioned
former winner here in twenty seventeen. He's been fourth, fifteenth
and twice just inside the top thirty other than his
win in twenty seventeen, So great form here, really good
for him in Puerto Rico too. I think his last
four finishes were eight, seven to three in a miscut
there before that, so six and strokes gain total in
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this field over the last thirty six So I thought
Nate Lashley made some sense. His buddy Stephan Yeager just
one down there in Houston where he's greenside to help
him celebrate. They are old friends and old teammates, I
believe in their junior golf days. So Nate Lashley could
go well this week. Victor Perez thirty three to one,
who actually just missed out by one spot because you
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know they have like that a on swing five and
that next ten because it's the top fifty in the
FedEx Cup points that make up the bulk of these
signature events, and then they go at that next ten
and that swing five. Well, Victor Perez was sixth in
the swing five, so he missed it by one spot.
Third last month in the alternate Puerto Rico Open event.
Last victory was on the DP World Tour twenty twenty
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three Abu Dhabi. That last win, it also came on
Paspalum Golf Course at Yaslinks, where that Abu Dhabi Championship
was played. So this is a guy I think could
go very well. And maybe it's a little narrative street
It's like, Okay, missed by one spot to get in
that field in ed Hiltonhead in South Carolina. Now maybe
he goes and wins this and this is the best
thing for him. So Victor Perez thirty three to one.
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Sam Stevens thirty five to one. He is fifty four
whole leader here last year eventually finished third, two top
twenties in his last five, including at Puerto Rico, which
is very similar to this course. Maddy Schmidd fifty five
to one, third in Bermuda last year, tenth at Puerto
Rico back in March. Since that finished in Puerto Rico
T twenty six, at the Players, T seventeen, at the
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fALS Bar T twenty one at Houston. Obviously, those three
fields much better than this one, so I think, you know,
he's a big hitter off the t too, so the
distance should help him a little bit, as it could.
Peter Quest at sixty six to one, one of the
longer hitters, one of the better putters in this field.
Last year on the PGA Tour the few starts he made,
he was top four at the Rocket Mortgage at three
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other top twenties.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
This year on the corn Ferry.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You know, he hadn't really gotten off to a good start,
but was top ten at the Balero a couple of
weeks ago, so maybe this is a good spot for him.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And then one I kind of did a little.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Shot in the dark here because he's obviously never played
this course and doesn't play really much overseas. Here is
Alex Fitzpatrick at eighty to one, who I think people
know the story that the Fitzpatrick family frequently vacationed at
hilton Head when they were young kids, including obviously the
older brother Matt Fitzpatrick, who is actually defending year in
hilton Head at the RBC Heritage. So maybe a little
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narrative street here where Alex, you know, wishes he could
be there with his brother and once to get on
that PGA tour so bad and then wins this alternate
event one on the Challenge Tour last year. Essentially this
is his rookie season on the DP World Tour. He's
been top twenty or better in five of his last
nine worldwide starts, dating back to last December. So took
a shot with Alex Fitzpatrick at eighty to one.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Are they are they still gonna be playing in the
match play together?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I wonder if they are going to play in New
Orleans together. Yeah, I gotta look at that field because
that is coming up. That's a good call by you,
that Zurich Classic of New Orleans where one day it's
a four ball, one day it's a foursome, and then
they alternate basically back to back. So you do have
that team event coming up in New Orleans here. So yeah,
because I was kind of looking at the schedule, I
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was like, okay, you know where is Scottie Scheffler maybe
gonna take off? You know when when when the when
the little one comes due? And I don't see him
commit it as of yet for that Zurich Classic. But
the Fitzpatrick brothers are I believe already it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay, all right, I like it. I like all right,
So run through the bets one more time.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
West, Okay, let's go at the top was Nate Lashley
twenty eight to one, Victor Perez thirty three to one,
Sam Stevens thirty five to one, Matty Schmid fifty five
to one, Peter Quest sixty six to one, and Alex
Fitzpatrick eighty to one. So we got six here for
the Corrals Punticana.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I think I'm gonna tail you on Stevens and then
throw a burger bet in. Yeah, if you're telling me
this is we got to go long off the t
Sam Stevens feels like a good bet there the Yeah,
you're right about Peter Quest. Man, I feel like me
or you, me or you or Matt, but probably me
or you because it was me and you basically doing
this all through the fall. We had a better two.
I feel like we had a better two on him
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in the fall. But you're right, man, that's a that
is kind of a that's a rough story.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's tough.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, because he's had to do some Monday qualifying to
get into a couple PGA Tour events this year. Because
he doesn't have false stat us.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, no point. It's always that is the part of
golf that you know, we we don't talk about enough.
And I say we as just the media in general.
I mean, it is such a grind for those guys
to even make it up to the PGA Tour. Oh yeah,
it's it's incredible. And then and then I mean I
love the stories. I mean, it's always better runyan bets
on it. But I love the stories on the tour
of the guys that you know, who was Harris English
(15:23):
last year or two two years ago, right when in
Hawaii and almost breaking down crying because he hadn't won
and so long. It's like, you know, those are those
are the things we don't think about when we're watching
Scottie sheffer whin you know, win three events a month, right,
you know on tour and talk right like that. A
couple of other things I want to hit with you
real quick before we let everybody go.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Any reaction to the uh the Master of the Poor
Master's TV ratings. I'm sure you sell those.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, yeah, I was, Uh, I was a little bit surprised,
I guess, because you know, everybody's like, well, you know,
once you get uh, you know, all all everybody together
and and whatnot. You know, on all the tours, all
the ratings are going to go back up, and they haven't.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Uh. And part of it, I.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Think, you know, Scottie Scheffler is still very new on
the scene and you know obviously doesn't move the needle
like a like like a tiger or or somebody like that.
So you know, I don't want to say it's much
ado about nothing, because there's clearly something here. I think
probably a little bit of his is fatigue. It's like, okay,
we now know that we have this other tour. Even
(16:26):
though there's not a lot of viewers and droves actually
watching this tour. Uh, you know. But but I think
that that that kind of registers a little bit with people,
you know, where it's like, okay, you know, we're kind
of tired of it. You know, who's going to be here,
who's playing this week, who's not playing? So yeah, I
was a little bit surprised they were at least that
(16:47):
much down the previous year.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I was too. I mean, I don't know. The note
I thought I saw was what worst ratings outside of
the outside of the pandemic one since like the fifties, right,
since since the November twenty twenty, right, and then twenty
twenty one. Yeah, that was pretty shocking to me. But
the one question I was asking a couple of people
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over the weekend, including Carry McCord, who we did get
into an interesting conversation with about this kind of live
PGA tour stuff going on because he was, you know,
he was one of the guys that they live targeted
to be an announcer and he just didn't want to
do all the travel.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And his buddy David Faridy, of course, is right exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah. So and honestly, Wes Waite, I feel like reading
in between the lines, and one of the questions I
asked him, he was like, don't be holding your breath
on this PGA Tour live deal of just there's so
many things that they have to still go through. I
guess even though we were promised a deal a deal
in the last summer, right, and then they extended it
to the new year or no, no, sorry. They made
the deal that they were going to make a deal
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last summer, and they said what was going to happened
by the end of twenty twenty three. That didn't happen.
They extended it to the beginning of the Masters. I
don't know about you, but I haven't heard Jack Diddley
about what the hell that what the status is of
that when they had to set a deadline for themselves
of the Masters. I think that is definitely a huge
part of it. I absolutely do. And you hit on
(18:10):
another thing I kept asking people when you saw it
was kind of Scheffler Homa Mori kala Oberg. I was like,
who moves the needle to the book right now? Right? Like?
Do I always talk about individual sports, whether it's UFC,
whether it's tennis, whether it's boxing, whether it's golf. Star
power especially these days, is so needed to grab the
(18:33):
attention of the masses, right, Like you have to have
that Connor McGregor who's not only gonna kick everybody's ass,
you know, at least for a short period of time,
kick everybody's ass, but then has a personality, right, And
you're talking about like that's where I was like, I
think Max Homa is about the best the PGA Tour
could do right now because at least the guy's got
(18:54):
a personality. It would be his first major win, and
I think it can connect with the younger generation that
never hurts with golf right now. And I just don't know.
I don't know if sheffer winning. Like we talk about
the winning side of it being a huge factor, but
there's another part of it that I think he's lacking.
And I think that shows up in the ratings of
bit Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You need Rory to win more too, because I think
he's one of the big names. By the way, that
was a big story overnight that it was reported that
he got that big live offer and he goes, I
don't know where this came from. You know, I've already
made it clear because I think it was Todd Lewis,
a golf channel that was there at the RBC Heritage
where Rory of course is playing this week, and he's like, no,
I'm gonna be on the PGA Tour. Because there was
(19:36):
a part of me when I reacted and I saw
people react to this, It's like, if he would go
there after all of this, and I know he's probably
ticked off at the PGA Tour because they maybe let
him hang out to dry and maybe didn't inform him
enough of these negotiations that are happening. Meanwhile, he's out there,
you know, defending the honor of the PGA Tour both
publicly and privately. And I was like, man, if this
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is how this story ends with him going here, that
would be you know, that would be certainly a hell
of a twist and turn. But I think Rory knows
that would probably go bad for him term in terms
of his legacy if that's what happened, Wes.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
My reaction when I first saw it was if there
was okay, besides some of the dudes who are just
straight up stealing money being on the live tour that
like nobody really cared about that much on the PGA
Tour much less with the care about right now on
the Live tour. Besides those guys who are just stealing
a healthy paycheck, I don't think, I don't know that
there's a single person on this planet that has more
(20:35):
of a reason to take the to take the take
the payday from Live and jump over than Rory mcoy.
That guy, I'll take it a step for that guy
died defending the shield of the PGA Tour, and the
PGA Tour commissioner and everybody making money off of it
turned their back on him as soon as they possibly
could and threw him under the bus. For a guy
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that's been the media face of the PGA tour, for
you to stab him in the back like he did,
I would have had absolutely no problem if Rory Backroy
came out and said, you know what everybody else is
doing it give me a bag of money and I'm
going over there until they figure out how to bring
these two tools.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You know, honestly, Kelly and and and you know, I
know what he said in the met and you know
to Todd Lewis today, but there was probably some of
him if this offer was in fact made. Now he
said this offer wasn't made, and he said he's actually
had conversations with the guy Yesier, who is the head
of the PIF over there in Saudi Arabia, the Public
Investment Fund. Uh. But if there was an offer made,
(21:34):
I feel like maybe the one of the only reasons
he is staying is because they're they're launching this like
that virtual thing that PGL him and Tiger Woods, and
plus plus the fact that Tiger Woods is now a
player director on the PGA Tour Board of Directors, so
he's part of these negotiations and all of this stuff
and has some power within the game, which he's always
(21:56):
kind of had but never really officially in terms of
this role. Well, you know, if Tiger wasn't involved in
trying to you know, kind of you know, help out
the PGA Tour and get more money invested in the
tour and obviously have a negotiation and perhaps a little
piece of chords between these two tours, maybe Rory would
have considered it a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'll tell you the one part I don't believe if
you listen to what he says at the beginning of
the beginning of this answer.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I honestly don't know how these things get started. I've
never been offered a number from Live and I've never
contemplated going to Live. Yeah, I you know it's again.
I think I've made a clear over the past two
years that I don't think it's something for me. Doesn't
mean that I judge people that have went and played
over there. I think one of the things that I've
(22:42):
realized over the past two years is, you know, people
can make their own decisions for you know, whatever they
think is best for themselves, and you know, who are
we to judge them for that? But personally, for me,
you know, my future is here on the PGA Tour,
and it's it's never been any different.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Says if you caught it there that he's never been
offered a deal by Live. Now he moved He quickly
moved on from that statement. West, I don't believe that
for a second. If you were living, wouldn't you want Sure,
it's fun. It's easy to throw a bunch of money
at some guys that want to take the money. But
when you when you have Rory coming out Bash, you know,
(23:23):
Bash and Lived protecting the PGA tour, and then the
PGA Tour turns on him like that. You're telling me
Live didn't give him offer that that night, that very night,
I would have if you live, I wouldn't have cared
what you said about us before. If I can turn
Rory McElroy, that is the ultimate plant the flag moment
of Live Golf, to say we turned this guy. That's
(23:45):
how much the PGA tour's falling apart right now.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well, here's the thing even before that, you know, other
than and obviously like half uh, I don't know how
to phrase it, half crippled or disabled Tiger At this standpoint, physically,
who else would I want that than Rory McClory can
be the first guy i'd won.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I'd want him over even Brooks Or we know and
we know Tiger Wood's gotten offer. That's been reported. We
know that what so so Rory, Hey, we're PGA tour
guys here, thank you. We we love how even if
Jay Monahan doesn't care, we care about you protecting the
PGA trying to But uh, man, I don't think you
(24:23):
gotta lie about any of this stuff anymore. Man, You
know you don't. You don't got anybody else that you
gotta worry about anymore. I I hear you on the
Tiger part. I think that's a big factor. All these
guys respect Tiger so much that yes, I don't think
Rordy wants to be that guy, but also don't think
Rory wanted to be the guy in the first place.
That I mean, he was the guy who took a
step forward and said, fine, I'll speak on behalf of
(24:45):
the PGA tour. What Scotty Scheffler doing, He's not he's
not talking ever, He's not talking anything about PGA Tour.
Let me ducks those questions whenever he can. I don't know,
random tangent there, this was, this was around the world
figure phil Uh. We'd fill it in with a little
bit of live conversation. I wanted to hit on that
with you wanted to hit on the Master's ratings. Those
(25:05):
were a bit of surprise for me. And this is
you know, I don't want to speak for everybody. It's
been a tougher season for me betting golf right now.
A lot of it is because of this live PGA
Tour split, or I don't want to say a lot
of it, but at least some of it is because
of that, and it's shaking up odds Board. It's shaking
up win equity within the game, and it's uh some
of it. It's been tough for me to figure out
right now. And I know that just the casual viewer
(25:27):
is not having a good time with the with the separation.
You want to see all the best playing together. Need
to get that done as soon as possible. It is, Yes,
it is really driving me nuts. All right, Wes, good
luck this weekend. I'll be joining you on a couple
of those bets. We will have RBC Heritage Preview coming
up on long Shots. Until then, good luck on all
(25:48):
your bets. We'll talk to you soon.
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