February 28, 2022 • 20 mins
Adam and Keith react to Sep Straka in the US Open, Greg Norman's letter to the commissioner, and Phil Mickelson's brush with cancel culture.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Everybody, good afternoon, and welcome in. This is Sticking Hack Reacts.
I'm your host Adam Grub from Sticking Act. That's Key
Stewart from ESPN Radio and host the Pro Show and founder.
Read the line, Keith a massive weekend. I'm going to
react first off to to my weekend because I don't
like to make things about myself. You know that, Keith.
But let's let's make a let's make a sideways today.
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Uh my my school here locally, Noblesville High School girls
won the Estate Tournament. Uh for a Class four A
black basketball. Sorry my apologies. Yeah basketball, thank you very much.
What's Indiana? So that's that was basically an entire town
was there and it was like Hoosiers. It was fantastic.
So we'll move on from that. I thought that might
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have been a great topic for us to start with,
and obviously I was wrong. Uh. Let's move into golf
with Keith Stewart. Step Straka, Sepstraca. When's the Honda Classic?
Another first time winner at the p G. A Austrian.
He's a bulldog, he is a he's he's one of
those players that you've you've never heard of. This fight
his amazing name. Uh yet he he came in when
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it counted most and a great story. Daniel Burger. Uh
faltered towards the end. He had a five stroke lead
going into Sunday and watched that dissipate rather quickly. Uh
keith your reaction. Another great drama filled theater filled Sunday
in the p g A yeah, hey, two thumbs up
for steps Tracker. And here's why. Last June um I
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walked thirty six holes with Sep for final qualifying in
the US Open to get into Tory Pines. Player of
mine that I was coaching down We're down in Atlanta,
just outside of Atlanta place called the Piedmont Driving Club,
and Sep was in the group. Watched him for thirty
six holes, but more importantly got to know the guy
and what an awesome dude. I mean, first of all,
he obviously hits the He hits the ball unbelievably well.
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I mean, you look at his stats this week. He
gained like a hundred strokes on the field. He he was,
He gained five off the T three from a pro
six from putting. I mean, he did everything right, which
in a hard golf course like Honda is why he
was at the top of the leaderboard and he closed
with three birdies and five holes. But to get back
to my point, the guy is a good dude. I
mean he was like really down to earth. He's from Vienna.
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At fourteen, he moves to Baldosta. I mean, think about
that transition. I mean, what's your reaction to that. You
get from Vienna, Austria, over to Valdosta, Georgia. I mean,
I don't I don't understand. I guess the where he
came from to to to Georgia was it on golf?
Was a golf scholarship specifically? Is that how he got there?
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He's been playing golf the whole life. Has he been
a or is he one of these guys that found
golf a little bit later and has just kind of
made his way through the tour. No, he had golf,
but he moved over when he was fourteen years old,
so you know, and then from there he just kind
of took off. And he has a twin brother. They
both played for Georgia um as well as pretty much
everybody on the PGA tour right now. But you know
he's I mean, the guy's just he's just a really
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good guys yesterday when you know, the when the heavens
opened up. But he hit the green in two and
I was like, man, I was like, if my one
and done, Daniel Burger is not gonna win, which he's
not gonna win because he totally just fell apart. I
mean he was. It was not great, but I mean
it was quick though. I mean it was like it
was really quick. It was one of those things where
he should have like faked an injury, you know, off
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the off the ball cleaner or something, you know. I
mean it was rough. By six holes he had lost
his so he he had a six shot lead with
nineteen holes to go. Seven holes later he was tied.
So not pretty. Not good. So people like sep though,
those are those are not just great stories the people
to to keep her eye on. Or is do you
think sep is Is just won't give me a journey man.
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He's gonna have a couple of victories maybe in his
entire career. Or is he one of those golfers now
that all of a sudden has found his group. Well
he's only played in two majors, right, so now he's
gonna get to taste, you know, having one I think
he moved up to like eighty three and the official
World Golf Ranking, so he's not getting into all the
w gcs, but he's got a taste of a big win.
So I think he's definitely one of those guys that
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is going to be a top forty type guy with
that level of confidence. Um, is this gonna put him
into the stratosphere. Probably not. The stratosphere is pretty high
these days at him. But overall, a great guy and
and one of those people. I mean, he was a
hundred to one to win this week and he won.
So he's just a great story, you know, much like
Keith Mitchell was a couple of years ago when he
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wanted to Honda his his Georgia Bulldog teammate. Um, this
is what makes golf great. A hundred five to one
and in four days, you know, you put in ten,
you put down ten dollars and you win twelve hundred bucks.
I mean, you know, it's just awesome. It's an awesome story,
and congratulations to him and his family. Let's move on
number two, My my favorite topic. Greg Norman and Phil
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Mickelson continued to make waves, continue to make headlines. Here.
We thought this last week was gonna last week we
talked about the live entertainment thing. We thought it was dead.
It still appears to be dead, and can hinues to
to become debt or Keith. However, Greg Norman said, hey,
how how we doing with the live entertainment thing? And
they're like, God's not great over there. Man. He's like, oh,
all right, I'll write a letter and I'll send it
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to him. We'll see if that see that sparks some something.
So Greg Norman writes this this letter, okay, and and
sends it to the p g A tour. Keith, you
have a he sends it to Commissioner Monahan's awesome. So
you have a copy of the letter, if you if
you would do me a favor, uh, and do us
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a favor and read the first line of said letter
to Jay Monahan from Greg Norman. Dear Commissioner Monahan, surely
you jest, and surely your lawyers at the PGA tour
must be holding their breath. We're not holding our breath.
And don't call me Shirley, Keith. Tell me why in
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the world this and this letter is scathing? Now it
stands it's out like like a like a fun little
hey to your to your buddy about you know, trying
to make plans for the weekend, and it turns out
to be a scathing diet tribe and and really this
visceral reaction of of what Greg thinks here currently is
happening to p g A. I mean, this is like
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the Christmas card you sent me, you know, I mean,
it's brutal. It's just he says here. Yet, for decades
the tour has put its own financial ambitions ahead of
the players, and every player on the tour knows it.
It shouldn't be called the players Championship. It should be
called the administration's championship. I mean, it goes on and on.
The best part is is you get to the end,
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and he says, Commissioner, this is just the beginning. It
certainly is not the end, sincerely. I mean, what you know,
Bryce and d Sambo is not walking through that door.
DJ is not walking through that door. And it seems
pretty obvious that even if Phil is, nobody's walking through
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that door with so I mean, at the end of
the day, it goes back to last week at the
Honda Ut Players Mandatory meeting on Tuesday night, Jamonahan gets up,
starts with a soliloquy and says, I am done with
all these leagues. If you want to go play in
another league, there's the door. So he called everybody out.
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This is no longer a bluff. This doesn't have anything
to do with hey he said, she said, or whatever.
There's the door. You can leave. And I go back
to what Pat Perez said last week. If if thirty
guys leave, there's a hundred guys that want their spot,
so go be it. And heck, we just learned this
week at No. One we have great players out there
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like Sepstraka, so you know, I mean, I mean, and
the guy's a compelling story, and he gave us great theater.
So I don't know, I mean you and I kind
of thought this thing was dead. Obviously. Greg Norman didn't
get the memo sending his own it is not dead,
and he said it, he said, this is You might
think this is the and it is not, sir, it
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is not. Sincerely. That's my favorite part of the whole
letter is he booked in it with this this kind
of funny like, hey, surely you just ha ha ha,
we're just having some fun here. Then just just hammers
home the the atrocities that are inside the p g
A and then says, basically a threat. This is not over. Uh,
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well you will see I'll see you in court, sir,
and then you thanks sincerely, very cordial ending uh, because
that's what people are used to writing, is sincerely, No
matter what you write ahead of that, if you write sincerely, Okay,
well he's sincere. At least he's trying to be. No.
Greg Norman is is um, he's lost it. And the
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funny thing is the funny thing is here, Keith, and
funny is probably not the right word, is that he
really hasn't been the main topic of this story the
entire time. Nobody. I mean that he really has it.
He is not. He's not had a Prescott ofference. He
has not really talked about this. I mean he has,
but not in this way. He's been letting these other
guys kind of dig their own graves. And then he
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realized that, okay, that that strategy backfired. Whoop sees here.
I know, guys, relax, I got it. I'll write him
a letter and we should then at that point be
back in business. He's lost his mind. Hey, I mean
you know what, He's not the only one that's losing
things these days. You know, you want to talk about
a guy that's getting buried left and right, my man,
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Phil Mickelson. Now, um, you have kids, Adams, so I
think it's important that they read Phil's apology because this
is exactly how not to make an apology. I mean,
you could just go through the whole thing. First of all,
he starts with his logo at the top of it, right,
I mean, it's just awesome him jumping at the Master's wedding.
I'm sure the Masters loves the idea that there's a
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connection there, right. You know, he claims he's done everything
in the best interests of golf. He blames the journalist
for leaking what he said. Um, he really iterates that
there's problems with golf. Right. Somebody needs to tell me
what's wrong with golf right now? All right? You know,
I mean, we have a we have a twelve million
dollar purse for the Women's U S Open, you know,
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we we have these great Monday Q School stories. We
have a guy it's a hundred and twenty five to
one win on the p g A Tour. We have um,
the mechanic just went in two out of three events
on PGA Tour Champions. I mean, we have all these
compelling stories. We have the LPGA over in Singapore. I mean,
what more do you want? We have fifty million more
rounds in and this guy he he claims victims status.
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That was good. I thought that was I thought that
was classy. The Saudis are visionaries, his partners, their visionaries.
I mean it just goes on and on, and then
he says, I'm having a tough time with life, so
I'll see you later, right, I mean, honestly, sincerely, Phil,
I'm just waiting. I mean it's like thirty eight days
till the Masters. And he says like, oh, I'm gonna
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go to the Champions dinner. And Fred Ridley's like, hey, Phil,
just why don't you ease back into this. We're thinking
more like four has in two thousand, So, I mean,
what do you think about him losing all these sponsors? Well,
that was the thing. So the end of this is
so he writes his apology. Um, and use that term loosely,
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and it should have been like, hey, I said a
lot there. That was boy. I lost my mind a
little bit. Their apologies. Uh, PGA is great, tours great,
I love you. I'm Phil. I won the PGA last year.
Let's have a good good day everybody. Here's some coffee
for you. Here's free coffee for everybody. Right, that's an apology.
That's how we go, not what he did, which was
which is the equivalent of a I'm sorry that you're pissed.
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I'm not sorry about why you're pissed, and that is
not that's not an apology. So his top sponsors and
the people that he's been associated with four years, including
Callaway who it's anonymous with, Phil said, WHOA, We're gonna
pause this. This is getting out of a troll. You've
lost your mind. Um, we're gonna pause now. He left
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and right other sponsors, small and big have run for
the hills from Phil. And it is yet another chapter
in this quick story of putting something out there that
you think is going to be looked at as as
neat and that I'm I'm Phil, so come on follow
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me into the fire has backfired dramatically. Uh. Now the
other side of that is is this cancel culture at
its finest. The guy said some wrong things. He was
taken out of context or in context. Will never know. Uh,
it was leaked or it wasn't leaked. He was on
the record, he was off the record. None of that matters.
It's out there. He said these things, and now people
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are saying, hey, we need to disassociate ourselves from him. Everyone.
It's some people claiming cancel culture. Enough with the cancel culture.
It's not canceled culture. If there is. If you're brand,
so you have a brand, I have a brand. If
we are if we have something that that is associated
with somebody who goes out and gets eviscerated in the
press and in the public because of idiocy and and denseness,
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I'm gonna say I'm gonna pull back. I don't want
you just said it's a second to Augusta. The Masters
doesn't even want their their association with the logo that
most people probably still don't don't even immediately say, oh,
that's that's the Masters. When he jumped up an inch
and a half off the ground, that's that's not what
it is. It's not cancel culture. It is. It's business.
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And when you give somebody a bunch of money and
you say go represent our products, and then they represent
themselves poorly. You have to pull back. What are we
what are we talking about? I mean, um, that's my
reaction the guys. Of course, of course that happened. Of
course it did. Surprise didn't happen sooner? Correct? You know?
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I mean how the NFL coaches get fired the day
after the season is over. I mean the fact that
it took Callaway to get on a break with Phil
like a week. It just surprises me, you know. Um,
it's it's a dumpster fire, you know. And I feel
bad for the guy because it sounds to me of
the whole thing in the apology is that I don't
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really feel bad for him because he's made some poor choices.
But it sounds like he's got some personal issues beyond coffee,
you know what I mean, Like he's got some serious
personal issues, that something's going on there, and he's acting
like a desperate man. And I don't think so, I
don't think so, and this, and what do I know?
I live. I live in a basement Noblesville, Okay, But
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I don't think there's personal that's what you say, that's
part of your apology. Hey, I've got a lot. I mean,
that's when you when you miss miss a deadline on
a report. You say, I guess personal things going on. Sorry,
people aren't gonna they're not gonna challenge that. They're gonna go,
oh man, he must be really going through some stuff,
you know. He I don't think he is. And how
do you take the actions of a lunatic? I mean,
the things that he's doing just don't make any sense.
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You know, something's got to explain what's going on. And
the only thing I can attribute that to is maybe
that there's something going on his personal life. Um, you know,
and I don't. I don't know any of this. I'm
just saying, you know, I'm just saying it doesn't make
any sense. I mean, the Greg Norman letter is an
attack on the p g A tour, right which we've
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known for thirty years. Greg Norman and the PGA tour
haven't gotten along, so there's no surprise there, you know.
But what Phil is saying and it's just two totally
different um ways that that these guys are coming at it,
and it's you can see why Phil has been totally canceled,
because he should be. He's out of control right now. Again,
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he's the actions of a lunatic. I don't who knows
what he'll say next. You know, I think you're talking
about Shane there for a second, producer Shane, but it
turns out you're still talking about Phil Hill. I heard
some keywords there and I just associated with Shane. Uh,
all right, let's go do number three here. Um. I
know that's a terrible, terrible waited in that. I don't
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know what else to say other then I'm sure we'll
talk about it next week. Something will happen this week.
We'll talk about again next week. Miguel and now as
a man as Jesus. I can't even say his name, Keith.
I'm so worked up over this Phil Mickelson situation. Uh,
Miguel and then as wins again. But he does something
bigger and better than winning. He just kept hitting hold ones.
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He just said, hey, you know what, guys, honestly, this
whole putting and chipping and all that stuff is annoying me,
so I'll just continually hit it into the hole. He
had two hole and ones in one round, no one tournament.
It's to me, it's one round, okay, any in any
in any day, three three days stretch. What are we
talking about? Okay, that's a twelve and twelve and a
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half twelve tho to one that you hit a hole
on one and the guy hits it twice within three days.
So I started thinking about this because when he made
his hole on one on Friday, the coverage they said, oh,
this is his twelve, and I'm like, man, twelve, that
seems like a lot, right, So I started doing a
deep dive on this. So I gotta give my man.
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I gotta give him my man the mechanic a big
thumbs up. Here the world's most interesting golfer. He has
the all time record on the DP World Tour, you know,
formerly the European Tour. He has ten career hole in once.
He had another one on the PGA Tour, and then
he's had two more this weekend on the Champions Tour.
He's got thirteen professional in tournament hole at once. Two
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thumbs up, big time. I mean, come on. And so
he's alleged and he gets cooler by the second because
even his reaction was like, yeah, oh yeah, okay, So
I guess I'll just go to the next hole, then
I'll meet you the next t it. He is his
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his everything, everything about him, from his hair to his
stash to a cigar, to a swagger, to his his
aerobics pre pre uh pre tournament, pre round UM. And
I was lucky enough to see him up close and
personal at Firestone last year, and he is just as
impressive from five feet away, and in his coolness, it
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did not let me down. He did not let me down.
He and and I've been calling the Cowboy for a
year and a half trying to get that going and
get away from the mechanic and go to the Cowboy.
So far, well, Keith, let's just let time tell, Okay,
But right now there's two people calling in the Cowboy
and and they're both a social one is contractually obligated
too because he works for this company. And then the
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second is me. The Cowboy has that swagger and and
hitting two old ones within a three day tournament, but
winning again and his coolness uh thumbs up reaction all
day long for for Miguel, no matter what he does.
So here's here's a quick one for you. Right big
news this morning. I mean it got leaked like two
weeks ago, so it's not the world's most brand new
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UM announcement, but Ac Johnson is now the US Ryder
Cup captain over in Italy, right, but they have a
lot of problems on the European side because of the
whole Greg Norman Live entertainment thing, you know, Westwood, Poulter,
all these guys, Stenson, they have all been kind of
attached to what's going on over there. Just get the
cowboy in Italy. Come on, I mean, the wine, the cigars,
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the cars, everything. He's gotta be the Ryder Cup captain.
Come on, men, we're not the smartest ones in the room.
That's Phil right, So like someone's gotta be someone's gotta
see this. The guy makes all at once, that's his job.
And Keith watching thinking about him as a captain of
that Ryder Cup and his just come. I mean he's
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just sitting on the on the cart, you know, just
just sprawled down on the cart. Doesn't even keep track
of what's happening. He just says, let me know how
we did at the end of the day, let me
know where. He can't even sit on the cart and
rub his belly because he's got like a cavern at
one end, and he's got a huge stogy in the
other and he's just looking around like down his down
his nose through like the five dollar version of Phil Sunglasses.
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It's unbelievable and I don't see how any want is
they don't see this. No, no, maybe maybe maybe this
show will will move that in that direction and we
can start a campaign. Maybe. Hey, let's write a letter.
It seems to work. Sincerely, Adam gun Uh It's Keith Stewart.
I'm out of this has been sticking. Hack Reacts one
of our one of our finest shows to date. Thanks
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for listening, Thanks for tuning in. We'll look at you
next week with more reactions. Hopefully nothing happens within the
week of the live entertainment. We can have something just
about golf and not the idiocy and theater that is
off the course. Keith, enjoy your day, sir, your gentlemina scholar.
Proud to be with you, proud to know you. Alright,
thirty eight days to the Master's my friend. Let's go
Everybody, good afternoon, and welcome in. This is Sticking Hack Reacts.
I'm your host Adam Grub from Sticking Act. That's Key
Stewart from ESPN Radio and host the Pro Show and founder.
Read the line, Keith a massive weekend. I'm going to
react first off to to my weekend because I don't
like to make things about myself. You know that, Keith.
But let's let's make a let's make a sideways today.
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Uh my my school here locally, Noblesville High School girls
won the Estate Tournament. Uh for a Class four A
black basketball. Sorry my apologies. Yeah basketball, thank you very much.
What's Indiana? So that's that was basically an entire town
was there and it was like Hoosiers. It was fantastic.
So we'll move on from that. I thought that might
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have been a great topic for us to start with,
and obviously I was wrong. Uh. Let's move into golf
with Keith Stewart. Step Straka, Sepstraca. When's the Honda Classic?
Another first time winner at the p G. A Austrian.
He's a bulldog, he is a he's he's one of
those players that you've you've never heard of. This fight
his amazing name. Uh yet he he came in when
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it counted most and a great story. Daniel Burger. Uh
faltered towards the end. He had a five stroke lead
going into Sunday and watched that dissipate rather quickly. Uh
keith your reaction. Another great drama filled theater filled Sunday
in the p g A yeah, hey, two thumbs up
for steps Tracker. And here's why. Last June um I
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walked thirty six holes with Sep for final qualifying in
the US Open to get into Tory Pines. Player of
mine that I was coaching down We're down in Atlanta,
just outside of Atlanta place called the Piedmont Driving Club,
and Sep was in the group. Watched him for thirty
six holes, but more importantly got to know the guy
and what an awesome dude. I mean, first of all,
he obviously hits the He hits the ball unbelievably well.
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I mean, you look at his stats this week. He
gained like a hundred strokes on the field. He he was,
He gained five off the T three from a pro
six from putting. I mean, he did everything right, which
in a hard golf course like Honda is why he
was at the top of the leaderboard and he closed
with three birdies and five holes. But to get back
to my point, the guy is a good dude. I
mean he was like really down to earth. He's from Vienna.
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At fourteen, he moves to Baldosta. I mean, think about
that transition. I mean, what's your reaction to that. You
get from Vienna, Austria, over to Valdosta, Georgia. I mean,
I don't I don't understand. I guess the where he
came from to to to Georgia was it on golf?
Was a golf scholarship specifically? Is that how he got there?
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He's been playing golf the whole life. Has he been
a or is he one of these guys that found
golf a little bit later and has just kind of
made his way through the tour. No, he had golf,
but he moved over when he was fourteen years old,
so you know, and then from there he just kind
of took off. And he has a twin brother. They
both played for Georgia um as well as pretty much
everybody on the PGA tour right now. But you know
he's I mean, the guy's just he's just a really
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good guys yesterday when you know, the when the heavens
opened up. But he hit the green in two and
I was like, man, I was like, if my one
and done, Daniel Burger is not gonna win, which he's
not gonna win because he totally just fell apart. I
mean he was. It was not great, but I mean
it was quick though. I mean it was like it
was really quick. It was one of those things where
he should have like faked an injury, you know, off
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the off the ball cleaner or something, you know. I
mean it was rough. By six holes he had lost
his so he he had a six shot lead with
nineteen holes to go. Seven holes later he was tied.
So not pretty. Not good. So people like sep though,
those are those are not just great stories the people
to to keep her eye on. Or is do you
think sep is Is just won't give me a journey man.
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He's gonna have a couple of victories maybe in his
entire career. Or is he one of those golfers now
that all of a sudden has found his group. Well
he's only played in two majors, right, so now he's
gonna get to taste, you know, having one I think
he moved up to like eighty three and the official
World Golf Ranking, so he's not getting into all the
w gcs, but he's got a taste of a big win.
So I think he's definitely one of those guys that
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is going to be a top forty type guy with
that level of confidence. Um, is this gonna put him
into the stratosphere. Probably not. The stratosphere is pretty high
these days at him. But overall, a great guy and
and one of those people. I mean, he was a
hundred to one to win this week and he won.
So he's just a great story, you know, much like
Keith Mitchell was a couple of years ago when he
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wanted to Honda his his Georgia Bulldog teammate. Um, this
is what makes golf great. A hundred five to one
and in four days, you know, you put in ten,
you put down ten dollars and you win twelve hundred bucks.
I mean, you know, it's just awesome. It's an awesome story,
and congratulations to him and his family. Let's move on
number two, My my favorite topic. Greg Norman and Phil
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Mickelson continued to make waves, continue to make headlines. Here.
We thought this last week was gonna last week we
talked about the live entertainment thing. We thought it was dead.
It still appears to be dead, and can hinues to
to become debt or Keith. However, Greg Norman said, hey,
how how we doing with the live entertainment thing? And
they're like, God's not great over there. Man. He's like, oh,
all right, I'll write a letter and I'll send it
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to him. We'll see if that see that sparks some something.
So Greg Norman writes this this letter, okay, and and
sends it to the p g A tour. Keith, you
have a he sends it to Commissioner Monahan's awesome. So
you have a copy of the letter, if you if
you would do me a favor, uh, and do us
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a favor and read the first line of said letter
to Jay Monahan from Greg Norman. Dear Commissioner Monahan, surely
you jest, and surely your lawyers at the PGA tour
must be holding their breath. We're not holding our breath.
And don't call me Shirley, Keith. Tell me why in
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the world this and this letter is scathing? Now it
stands it's out like like a like a fun little
hey to your to your buddy about you know, trying
to make plans for the weekend, and it turns out
to be a scathing diet tribe and and really this
visceral reaction of of what Greg thinks here currently is
happening to p g A. I mean, this is like
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the Christmas card you sent me, you know, I mean,
it's brutal. It's just he says here. Yet, for decades
the tour has put its own financial ambitions ahead of
the players, and every player on the tour knows it.
It shouldn't be called the players Championship. It should be
called the administration's championship. I mean, it goes on and on.
The best part is is you get to the end,
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and he says, Commissioner, this is just the beginning. It
certainly is not the end, sincerely. I mean, what you know,
Bryce and d Sambo is not walking through that door.
DJ is not walking through that door. And it seems
pretty obvious that even if Phil is, nobody's walking through
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that door with so I mean, at the end of
the day, it goes back to last week at the
Honda Ut Players Mandatory meeting on Tuesday night, Jamonahan gets up,
starts with a soliloquy and says, I am done with
all these leagues. If you want to go play in
another league, there's the door. So he called everybody out.
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This is no longer a bluff. This doesn't have anything
to do with hey he said, she said, or whatever.
There's the door. You can leave. And I go back
to what Pat Perez said last week. If if thirty
guys leave, there's a hundred guys that want their spot,
so go be it. And heck, we just learned this
week at No. One we have great players out there
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like Sepstraka, so you know, I mean, I mean, and
the guy's a compelling story, and he gave us great theater.
So I don't know, I mean you and I kind
of thought this thing was dead. Obviously. Greg Norman didn't
get the memo sending his own it is not dead,
and he said it, he said, this is You might
think this is the and it is not, sir, it
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is not. Sincerely. That's my favorite part of the whole
letter is he booked in it with this this kind
of funny like, hey, surely you just ha ha ha,
we're just having some fun here. Then just just hammers
home the the atrocities that are inside the p g
A and then says, basically a threat. This is not over. Uh,
(08:23):
well you will see I'll see you in court, sir,
and then you thanks sincerely, very cordial ending uh, because
that's what people are used to writing, is sincerely, No
matter what you write ahead of that, if you write sincerely, Okay,
well he's sincere. At least he's trying to be. No.
Greg Norman is is um, he's lost it. And the
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funny thing is the funny thing is here, Keith, and
funny is probably not the right word, is that he
really hasn't been the main topic of this story the
entire time. Nobody. I mean that he really has it.
He is not. He's not had a Prescott ofference. He
has not really talked about this. I mean he has,
but not in this way. He's been letting these other
guys kind of dig their own graves. And then he
(09:07):
realized that, okay, that that strategy backfired. Whoop sees here.
I know, guys, relax, I got it. I'll write him
a letter and we should then at that point be
back in business. He's lost his mind. Hey, I mean
you know what, He's not the only one that's losing
things these days. You know, you want to talk about
a guy that's getting buried left and right, my man,
(09:29):
Phil Mickelson. Now, um, you have kids, Adams, so I
think it's important that they read Phil's apology because this
is exactly how not to make an apology. I mean,
you could just go through the whole thing. First of all,
he starts with his logo at the top of it, right,
I mean, it's just awesome him jumping at the Master's wedding.
I'm sure the Masters loves the idea that there's a
(09:50):
connection there, right. You know, he claims he's done everything
in the best interests of golf. He blames the journalist
for leaking what he said. Um, he really iterates that
there's problems with golf. Right. Somebody needs to tell me
what's wrong with golf right now? All right? You know,
I mean, we have a we have a twelve million
dollar purse for the Women's U S Open, you know,
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we we have these great Monday Q School stories. We
have a guy it's a hundred and twenty five to
one win on the p g A Tour. We have um,
the mechanic just went in two out of three events
on PGA Tour Champions. I mean, we have all these
compelling stories. We have the LPGA over in Singapore. I mean,
what more do you want? We have fifty million more
rounds in and this guy he he claims victims status.
(10:34):
That was good. I thought that was I thought that
was classy. The Saudis are visionaries, his partners, their visionaries.
I mean it just goes on and on, and then
he says, I'm having a tough time with life, so
I'll see you later, right, I mean, honestly, sincerely, Phil,
I'm just waiting. I mean it's like thirty eight days
till the Masters. And he says like, oh, I'm gonna
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go to the Champions dinner. And Fred Ridley's like, hey, Phil,
just why don't you ease back into this. We're thinking
more like four has in two thousand, So, I mean,
what do you think about him losing all these sponsors? Well,
that was the thing. So the end of this is
so he writes his apology. Um, and use that term loosely,
(11:16):
and it should have been like, hey, I said a
lot there. That was boy. I lost my mind a
little bit. Their apologies. Uh, PGA is great, tours great,
I love you. I'm Phil. I won the PGA last year.
Let's have a good good day everybody. Here's some coffee
for you. Here's free coffee for everybody. Right, that's an apology.
That's how we go, not what he did, which was
which is the equivalent of a I'm sorry that you're pissed.
(11:40):
I'm not sorry about why you're pissed, and that is
not that's not an apology. So his top sponsors and
the people that he's been associated with four years, including
Callaway who it's anonymous with, Phil said, WHOA, We're gonna
pause this. This is getting out of a troll. You've
lost your mind. Um, we're gonna pause now. He left
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and right other sponsors, small and big have run for
the hills from Phil. And it is yet another chapter
in this quick story of putting something out there that
you think is going to be looked at as as
neat and that I'm I'm Phil, so come on follow
(12:26):
me into the fire has backfired dramatically. Uh. Now the
other side of that is is this cancel culture at
its finest. The guy said some wrong things. He was
taken out of context or in context. Will never know. Uh,
it was leaked or it wasn't leaked. He was on
the record, he was off the record. None of that matters.
It's out there. He said these things, and now people
(12:50):
are saying, hey, we need to disassociate ourselves from him. Everyone.
It's some people claiming cancel culture. Enough with the cancel culture.
It's not canceled culture. If there is. If you're brand,
so you have a brand, I have a brand. If
we are if we have something that that is associated
with somebody who goes out and gets eviscerated in the
press and in the public because of idiocy and and denseness,
(13:15):
I'm gonna say I'm gonna pull back. I don't want
you just said it's a second to Augusta. The Masters
doesn't even want their their association with the logo that
most people probably still don't don't even immediately say, oh,
that's that's the Masters. When he jumped up an inch
and a half off the ground, that's that's not what
it is. It's not cancel culture. It is. It's business.
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And when you give somebody a bunch of money and
you say go represent our products, and then they represent
themselves poorly. You have to pull back. What are we
what are we talking about? I mean, um, that's my
reaction the guys. Of course, of course that happened. Of
course it did. Surprise didn't happen sooner? Correct? You know?
(13:59):
I mean how the NFL coaches get fired the day
after the season is over. I mean the fact that
it took Callaway to get on a break with Phil
like a week. It just surprises me, you know. Um,
it's it's a dumpster fire, you know. And I feel
bad for the guy because it sounds to me of
the whole thing in the apology is that I don't
(14:20):
really feel bad for him because he's made some poor choices.
But it sounds like he's got some personal issues beyond coffee,
you know what I mean, Like he's got some serious
personal issues, that something's going on there, and he's acting
like a desperate man. And I don't think so, I
don't think so, and this, and what do I know?
I live. I live in a basement Noblesville, Okay, But
(14:42):
I don't think there's personal that's what you say, that's
part of your apology. Hey, I've got a lot. I mean,
that's when you when you miss miss a deadline on
a report. You say, I guess personal things going on. Sorry,
people aren't gonna they're not gonna challenge that. They're gonna go,
oh man, he must be really going through some stuff,
you know. He I don't think he is. And how
do you take the actions of a lunatic? I mean,
the things that he's doing just don't make any sense.
(15:04):
You know, something's got to explain what's going on. And
the only thing I can attribute that to is maybe
that there's something going on his personal life. Um, you know,
and I don't. I don't know any of this. I'm
just saying, you know, I'm just saying it doesn't make
any sense. I mean, the Greg Norman letter is an
attack on the p g A tour, right which we've
(15:24):
known for thirty years. Greg Norman and the PGA tour
haven't gotten along, so there's no surprise there, you know.
But what Phil is saying and it's just two totally
different um ways that that these guys are coming at it,
and it's you can see why Phil has been totally canceled,
because he should be. He's out of control right now. Again,
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he's the actions of a lunatic. I don't who knows
what he'll say next. You know, I think you're talking
about Shane there for a second, producer Shane, but it
turns out you're still talking about Phil Hill. I heard
some keywords there and I just associated with Shane. Uh,
all right, let's go do number three here. Um. I
know that's a terrible, terrible waited in that. I don't
(16:05):
know what else to say other then I'm sure we'll
talk about it next week. Something will happen this week.
We'll talk about again next week. Miguel and now as
a man as Jesus. I can't even say his name, Keith.
I'm so worked up over this Phil Mickelson situation. Uh,
Miguel and then as wins again. But he does something
bigger and better than winning. He just kept hitting hold ones.
(16:26):
He just said, hey, you know what, guys, honestly, this
whole putting and chipping and all that stuff is annoying me,
so I'll just continually hit it into the hole. He
had two hole and ones in one round, no one tournament.
It's to me, it's one round, okay, any in any
in any day, three three days stretch. What are we
talking about? Okay, that's a twelve and twelve and a
(16:47):
half twelve tho to one that you hit a hole
on one and the guy hits it twice within three days.
So I started thinking about this because when he made
his hole on one on Friday, the coverage they said, oh,
this is his twelve, and I'm like, man, twelve, that
seems like a lot, right, So I started doing a
deep dive on this. So I gotta give my man.
(17:08):
I gotta give him my man the mechanic a big
thumbs up. Here the world's most interesting golfer. He has
the all time record on the DP World Tour, you know,
formerly the European Tour. He has ten career hole in once.
He had another one on the PGA Tour, and then
he's had two more this weekend on the Champions Tour.
He's got thirteen professional in tournament hole at once. Two
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thumbs up, big time. I mean, come on. And so
he's alleged and he gets cooler by the second because
even his reaction was like, yeah, oh yeah, okay, So
I guess I'll just go to the next hole, then
I'll meet you the next t it. He is his
(17:53):
his everything, everything about him, from his hair to his
stash to a cigar, to a swagger, to his his
aerobics pre pre uh pre tournament, pre round UM. And
I was lucky enough to see him up close and
personal at Firestone last year, and he is just as
impressive from five feet away, and in his coolness, it
(18:16):
did not let me down. He did not let me down.
He and and I've been calling the Cowboy for a
year and a half trying to get that going and
get away from the mechanic and go to the Cowboy.
So far, well, Keith, let's just let time tell, Okay,
But right now there's two people calling in the Cowboy
and and they're both a social one is contractually obligated
too because he works for this company. And then the
(18:37):
second is me. The Cowboy has that swagger and and
hitting two old ones within a three day tournament, but
winning again and his coolness uh thumbs up reaction all
day long for for Miguel, no matter what he does.
So here's here's a quick one for you. Right big
news this morning. I mean it got leaked like two
weeks ago, so it's not the world's most brand new
(18:58):
UM announcement, but Ac Johnson is now the US Ryder
Cup captain over in Italy, right, but they have a
lot of problems on the European side because of the
whole Greg Norman Live entertainment thing, you know, Westwood, Poulter,
all these guys, Stenson, they have all been kind of
attached to what's going on over there. Just get the
cowboy in Italy. Come on, I mean, the wine, the cigars,
(19:22):
the cars, everything. He's gotta be the Ryder Cup captain.
Come on, men, we're not the smartest ones in the room.
That's Phil right, So like someone's gotta be someone's gotta
see this. The guy makes all at once, that's his job.
And Keith watching thinking about him as a captain of
that Ryder Cup and his just come. I mean he's
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just sitting on the on the cart, you know, just
just sprawled down on the cart. Doesn't even keep track
of what's happening. He just says, let me know how
we did at the end of the day, let me
know where. He can't even sit on the cart and
rub his belly because he's got like a cavern at
one end, and he's got a huge stogy in the
other and he's just looking around like down his down
his nose through like the five dollar version of Phil Sunglasses.
(20:06):
It's unbelievable and I don't see how any want is
they don't see this. No, no, maybe maybe maybe this
show will will move that in that direction and we
can start a campaign. Maybe. Hey, let's write a letter.
It seems to work. Sincerely, Adam gun Uh It's Keith Stewart.
I'm out of this has been sticking. Hack Reacts one
of our one of our finest shows to date. Thanks
(20:28):
for listening, Thanks for tuning in. We'll look at you
next week with more reactions. Hopefully nothing happens within the
week of the live entertainment. We can have something just
about golf and not the idiocy and theater that is
off the course. Keith, enjoy your day, sir, your gentlemina scholar.
Proud to be with you, proud to know you. Alright,
thirty eight days to the Master's my friend. Let's go
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