March 15, 2022 • 18 mins
A special Tuesday edition of Stick & Hack Reacts! Keith and Adam react to Cam Smith winning one of the largest 72-hole payouts at the Player's Championship, Keegan Bradley's loss of nearly $900k, Nanna Koerstz-Madsen winning the LPGA Tour, and a bonus reacts you'll have to listen to find out!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Everybody, Good afternoon, and welcome into Sticking Hack Reacts a
special edition A Tuesday edition of sticket Hack Reacts. Why
we had to wait full twenty four hours to react
to this thing, Keith, Keith Stewart, I'm Adam grub was
taking act. That's key Stewart, ESPN Radio, our weekly looking
at the p G and the LPGA starts now and
this weekend is still going on. Keith, Uh in one
of the longest tournaments. You think four days is a
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long time. You think trying to fit in, uh, eighteen
holes a day for four straight days, tried a week
and a half. The TPC at Sawgrass was just this
past weekend. I believe it finished just mere minutes ago.
Keith Stewart. Your reaction to Cam Smith winning, Your reaction
to the biggest purse in golf history, your reaction to
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meltdowns galore, weird ball placement, react to it all? First, though,
Let's start with Camp Smith. Your reaction to the mullet Man. Well,
I'll tell you I was there last week for most
of the week, and uh, at one point I just
like took my toys and went home because there was
no golf being played. But so I can tell you
from experience in the media center that it was. It
was brutal, it was unbelievable. Um, what we had to
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go through on Thursday and Friday into Saturday and then
Saturday's theater was amazing. Camp Smith, big thumbs up for him,
second win of the year. I think it's a sixth win.
You know, he's now number six in the official World
Golf rankings. You know, I'm not sure the last time
in Australian has been that high. Maybe Adam Scott, you
know for him, Greg Norman, if we're allowed to say
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Greg Norman's name, uh Players Championship week. Um, but it's
it was a really entertaining week. I mean, there's so
many things to unpack that I just don't even really
know where to start. Let's we'll we'll get to him
because I've got I've got a list of things I
want you to react to, and might have a list
of things, but let's start with camp Smith. Um and
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and his play the last couple. First of all, he
had a d one one putts or something some ridiculous
stat um. He he hit everything that was inside of him.
He uh birdied thirty of the first thirty three holes
of yesterday. I mean there was stat None of those
are accurate, by the way, but they're close enough. He
was a putting machine and and that is really what
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propelled him. But cam Smith might become the stick and
hack mascot because he is everything that stick and hacking bodies.
His look, his swagger, his play. Uh, the way that
he even even his putting style is unique in and
of itself. His ability to get up and down is
where he and I differ. Um. However, camp Smith had
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it going on, and there was a lot of competition.
There were some really weird things happening. I had to leave.
I watched my customary four holes yesterday afternoon, and I
had to leave to go pick up the Texas Roadhouse
Keith in When I left, he had just uh hit
it into the water on eighteen threw the on his
punch shot and at that point I thought, oh my god,
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because I thought it was over. I thought it was
over at the Birdie on seventeen, it all of a sudden,
wasn't over? Your reaction? Well, you know, Kim Smith, he
was last in the field in driving accuracy, right off
the tee of everyone that made the cut, so he
was like seventy feet of seventy one guys yet around
the green and putting like you know, you so succinctly put.
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He did have a hundred one puts for the week.
He had twenty four pots in the final round. I mean,
the guy was he was a stud. But here here's
the funny thing. He only had one par. I mean,
this is like one of year rounds. He only had
one par in the first thirteen holes. Yesterday in the
final round, the guy had ten birdies. Um, you know,
he had superstones. When it counted on seventeen, he hits
it right in the flag. I just you know, I careful, now,
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careful on that one because the buzz is happening. The
it is starting to squeak out that that wasn't exactly
his plan to stick it to four on that that
tight right side pin on seventeen. He was trying to
hit middle of the green and he pushed it. It
didn't come off the wind and it worked out for him.
He did say that this morning, um, that it was
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not exactly his plan. However, in the moment, you thought,
my god, this guy doesn't care even a little bit
about this thing. It was fun to watch. Hey, you
can look at it one of two ways. You could
look at it as like, you know, scared money, don't
make money, my friend, right, so he was willing to
throw it out towards the right. Or you can go
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the way that Paul Casey has for the last forty
four years, which is that thing when he hit his
it was going nowhere near the right and you knew that.
I mean, I would have bet my mortgage and like
all three of my kids and I only have two,
on the fact that Paul Casey would have never hit
that ball within fifty ft of that flag when the
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tournament was on the line. I mean, he's got one
of the great stories of the whole tournament with what
happened to him and his luck on the sixteen hole
in the fairway. That was an unbelievable story, you know.
I mean, I just there's so many things to unpack.
I mean, DJ shoot the course record. After finishing his
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third round, he shoots forty one for his final nine holes.
Everybody's like, DJ's done with this, you know, he's just
he's on his way to valspar. And then he goes
and shoots the course record by holding out for Eagle
on the last hole. I mean, there was so many
funny things, I mean, like just crazy golf stories that
took place over the course of five long days. All Right,
so we've got a thumbs up, I assume for for
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cam Smith obviously. Now let's move to the to the
the overall storylines and some and and the number one storyline,
which was weather. There's no doubt about it. The weather
forecast did not call specifically, and in Florida, it's hard
to imagine that they've got much going on there when
when they could look at the at the at the
rain and the potential for rain, it was very minimal,
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minimal at the beginning of the week, and then that
started to creep up all of a sudden. You had
major rain every day. You had even yesterday when there
was supposed to be rain, there's a forty minute shower.
You had winds, you had different courses, different tournament, different
things happening earlier in the week than later in the week.
Your reaction to weather playing a major role in this
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year's Players Championship, I mean, the weather was the whole story, Adam.
I mean, being there and watching what the different waves
went through, I mean, imagine that you finished year round.
Those a M guys on Thursday, they finished their round.
Some of them didn't tee up again until Sunday in
the second round, like a Keith Mitchell or an Alex Noran.
I mean think about that. I think there there was
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one two full days in between, and then on Saturday
they had that windstorm, you know, or like you know,
Dorothy was running around with like you know, lions and tigers,
and I mean it was crazy, man. I mean, there's
so many things that made this tournament memorable. And of
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course if you were in that pm AM wave, you know,
with Morikawa and Scheffler and Brooks and all those guys,
I mean, those guys really got the shaft, you know
it thumbs down, thumbs down for their experience. I mean,
less than of those guys made the cut, you know.
So you know that the cut was top sixty five
and ties. I think seventy one players made the cut
of that, you know, like two thirds of them came
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out of the a mp M wave. And you know
you could tell why because not only did they play
in the pouring rain all day Friday. I walked with
um Rory and JT and and Morikawa. I watched what
those guys played in but then when they showed up
on Saturday morning, they had like forty winds and they're
starting on the seventeenth hole. You know, I mean as
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a golfer you always say like, well, you know, especially
like for me as a PGA professional, I've never thought
that like golf was ever life or death. But watching
those first four guys play the seventeen pole. I mean,
Scheffler had never played the TPC sawgrass before the stadium course, right,
it was his first time in the players. He steps
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up in his first round on Saturday morning, is blowing
forty and he's got to play the seventeenth hole first
time ever in a tournament, right, and he hits it
long water, right. So then Xander gets up and he's
like he's kind of like a Paul Casey. He's like,
all right, what's the most conservative thing I could do here? Right? Okay,
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short in the water, then brooks water. That group's done
all three not I mean, you're talking about three guys
in the top twenty in the world, right, Scheffler just
won two of his last three tournaments. Come on, you
kidding me? Right? Then? Who comes up next Morikawa water.
I'm like, this is unbelievable, right it's and then the
argument starts, is this even playable? Or what's the story?
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I mean, it was just tremendous theater, you know. I
mean I think even gold Man hit it into water.
The the The next storyline is really the last three
or four holes there's is there? There's not a better
stretch of finishing holes in golf? Uh? And and it's
a Pete die masterpiece when you think of of that,
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not just the routing, but really what those last four
holes due to to you and your psyche. And and
he's he's known for for kind of testing. Uh, those
those golfers at the end. Um, is it a better
stretch than Amen Corner? Is it a better stretch than?
Uh than? That's really my only reference. I'm gonna I
was gonna try to pull one out, but I couldn't
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get there. Um, So forgive me Keith, Okay, but I'm
playing the part here. Uh help me understand If this
is the best stretch of holes in all of professional golf.
Uh jeez, I mean the only one that's that's comparable
is Amen Corner. So I got that right. So I
was at least my reference made sense. Yeah, But like
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this week, coming in the vust Bar, they're gonna talk
about the snake pit, which is sixteen seventeen and eighteen.
You got the bear trap at the Honda. I mean,
all of those things are made up because of what
Pete Die has created and the scoring potential or what
Alistair mackenzie has created down there at Augusta National. In
the scoring potential on those three holes, you have a
very difficult part four, you have a crazy part three,
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and then you have a scoreable part five. And when
you clump those together and then you make them sixteen
seventeen and eighteen. I mean that might be the only
edge that it has over Augusta is that it's the
last three holes, and it seems to determine so much
of what goes on. I mean, the sixteenth hole played
a major role in the tournament. When you start to
talk about Paul Casey and you know, of course drives
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it in the trees and then he hits the green
from two forty and three and two putts makes par.
I mean that there's just so many storylines that took
place in those last three holes. Look at Kegan Bradley,
I mean, Keegan Bradley. You want two thumbs down on
something today, Buddy, you blew eight hundred and eighty thousand
dollars in two holes he finished bogey double bogie almost
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nine grand hind hundred thousand, eight hundred eighty thousan dollars.
That makes your it makes your little five dollar Nassau
look relatively cheap when it comes to the pressure. I
want to interview that guy afterwards. He was hot, well,
I can and he's he typically runs hot as it is.
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Uh so that that's yeah, Keigan, that's and that's let's
talk Paul Casey. We've said his name several times and
and that's not a name that is typically in that
top five or six, you know, vying for a top spot,
especially in a tournament like this with with the the
lineup that was there. Paul Casey is is one of
those all time players that he just is so solidy,
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so right down the middle, in always right personality and
on the on the course, um very vanilla. But when
he gets there, you're like, oh, Paul Casey, he's a
nice guy. I like to see him. When I wanted
to see Paul Paul Casey do something. However, he hit
two very bad golf breaks and in your weekender with
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your buddies, these aren't things that you're dealing with. You're
moving the ball. He didn't hit into a divot. He
had into some sort some sort of weird like like
alien formed, yeah, alien formed hole that you would never
not never normally see. Um. And he hit into this
thing and thus couldn't make contact. And this was on
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sixteen I believe, couldn't make contact, ended up having to
just punch it down the fairway, which everyone was surprised by.
You would think he would at least taken a whack
at it and rock and rolled. But back to Paul
Casey be and Paul Casey's like, I'll just bump this
down the with a little five five are and no worries,
you know, um, your reaction to Paul Casey. And and
then and then he had a drainage issue, which sounds
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weird out of context. He had a uh later on
in that hole to chip over you. He he thought
he was close enough for this drainage where he get
free relief. He didn't. He had to He had to
chip over it instead of put all bad things and
it cost him potentially a playoff in or chance at
the title. Agreed. I mean, when it comes down to it,
it was a week of breaks. If you caught the
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wrong weather, if you caught seventeen and eighteen at the
wrong time. Um, if if you rolled into a pitch mark.
I mean, that's the whole point of this thing was
that it's essentially it's a form of a divot. Right,
A drive had come in, it had hit the ground
and probably bounced back out of it, and it created
this like meteor, creator of all things to roll into
it was ball size. I mean, it's just really really
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bad luck at the end of the day. And you know,
I don't know that I ever feel bad for somebody
that just made like a you know, I think a
million three in order to come in third place at
the event. But um, Paul Casey, if there was ever
a time that things were lined up that vanilla was
the number one flavor, it might have been this week
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and it still ended up being you know, it just
didn't work out for him. Uh. You know, I think
at the end of the day, this particular event will
be remembered for good bad breaks. Um. And you know
that's no slight to camp Smith because he played great
when it mattered. He had ten birdies in the final round.
You know, good for him. But there are a lot
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of guys that were completely removed from the competition based
upon weather and the other you know, different elements that
played a factor. It just it was just one of
the one of the most crazy golf events, you know.
I mean, there was so many funny stories that took place.
Like Harold Varner the third played great and he was
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out there. He had no winter gears, so we had
to go to the fan shop and he's wearing a
player's logo like pull over, right, you know, Hobblin makes
an ace on Monday and he's picking up Kevin Strielman
and he's like jumping up and down. Lowry can't high
five Ian Poulter. He makes ace on Sunday, which was
the third round of all things, I mean, just where
the rounds where nobody knew what the time was and
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when the cut was and all these different things. I mean,
it's just, I mean, what a crazy, crazy golf tournament.
And at the end of the day, you know, I mean,
I think, just once again, golf isn't a really good place, Adam.
It's just pretty, it's pretty amazing. Uh And and just
a little factor. You typically give the stats and the
facts here on us taking out reacts. However, I'm gonna
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give you one. Shane Lowry's second in play in tournament
play hole in one, the first coming Augusta. Yeah, Augusta, Oh,
you already knew that. Cool, Good for you. All right,
let's move on the LPGA. Hey, we move on to
reaction number three. And the LPGA was this weekend as well.
And Nana Kurtz Madison, your winner of the LPGA this weekend.
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Give us a lowdown, Keith in your reaction to Uh,
to my girl Nana her first tour win, right, first
Dane to win on the LPG eight tour. Very cool.
And I think there's a theme that's developing this year, Adam,
which is kind of cool. You know, last year the
theme kind of seemed to be redemption. You know, Tony
fene now wins after a long time. Jordan's speech kind
of came back in one and became more relevant. Well,
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this year, that's the second woman for a first time
win on the LPG eight tour, Onna McGuire being the
other one. But we've already had seven on the p
g A tour, so we've got a lot of first
time winners this year, which is I think is pretty cool.
She wanted a playoff right over July in Um I
was touting her. I thought that she would she would
do very well. She ended up in a playoff and uh,
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two playoff holes they do the eighteenth hole. There, you're
a woman, Nana. She came through with an eagle on
the second playoff hole for first win. Congratulations to her,
Congratulations for the lpg A, for them pulling off their
first you know Southeast Asia swing those two weeks, uh,
in the last two years. And now they come back,
they take a week off and then they're heading to
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California and they're they're prepping for their first major of
the year. So LPGA is hot right now. Things are
going good, and you know, nobody's hotter than Danna Kurtz Matson.
If that's okay to say, I don't know we're gonna
end it at that anyway, Keith, I don't know if
it's okay that's there or not, but it's already out
there in the world. Keith Stewart from ESPN Radio and
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hosted the pro show as well as read the line
and I'm Adam grub with stick Nak. It is great
to see you. I'm glad that you're driving. Glad you're back, Keith.
And this is a Tuesday edition of stick Nack Reacts.
Let's not make this a habit, Okay, because I got
crap to do on Tuesday. Monday, I block out for you.
But Tuesday lunch is already already packed enough, so let's
be back next Monday was Stickinghac reacts. Yes you have
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more I need I need one bonus react. All right,
go ahead? What did you I was winding up to
a big finish, But go ahead, all right, Well you'll
get to your christendo in a second. What did you
think of gold Man? In in what way? You're You're
you're funny clever lion about Goldman? Or are we looking
for a compliment or gold Man in general? Gold Man
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in general? I mean hitting shots like Tiger? Who doesn't
love that? Why isn't that it bumbs up across the world?
What are we talking about? All right? I just I
needed to know I needed a Hacks perspective on that.
I think it's pretty clear I think it's pretty damn
clear he's Keith Stewart. I'm Adam Grub. Everybody, enjoy the
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rest of your two Tuesday here. This is sticking a
sticking a Reacts. Will see you next Monday. Everybody, Bye bye,
best of luck to you.
Everybody, Good afternoon, and welcome into Sticking Hack Reacts a
special edition A Tuesday edition of sticket Hack Reacts. Why
we had to wait full twenty four hours to react
to this thing, Keith, Keith Stewart, I'm Adam grub was
taking act. That's key Stewart, ESPN Radio, our weekly looking
at the p G and the LPGA starts now and
this weekend is still going on. Keith, Uh in one
of the longest tournaments. You think four days is a
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long time. You think trying to fit in, uh, eighteen
holes a day for four straight days, tried a week
and a half. The TPC at Sawgrass was just this
past weekend. I believe it finished just mere minutes ago.
Keith Stewart. Your reaction to Cam Smith winning, Your reaction
to the biggest purse in golf history, your reaction to
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meltdowns galore, weird ball placement, react to it all? First, though,
Let's start with Camp Smith. Your reaction to the mullet Man. Well,
I'll tell you I was there last week for most
of the week, and uh, at one point I just
like took my toys and went home because there was
no golf being played. But so I can tell you
from experience in the media center that it was. It
was brutal, it was unbelievable. Um, what we had to
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go through on Thursday and Friday into Saturday and then
Saturday's theater was amazing. Camp Smith, big thumbs up for him,
second win of the year. I think it's a sixth win.
You know, he's now number six in the official World
Golf rankings. You know, I'm not sure the last time
in Australian has been that high. Maybe Adam Scott, you
know for him, Greg Norman, if we're allowed to say
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Greg Norman's name, uh Players Championship week. Um, but it's
it was a really entertaining week. I mean, there's so
many things to unpack that I just don't even really
know where to start. Let's we'll we'll get to him
because I've got I've got a list of things I
want you to react to, and might have a list
of things, but let's start with camp Smith. Um and
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and his play the last couple. First of all, he
had a d one one putts or something some ridiculous
stat um. He he hit everything that was inside of him.
He uh birdied thirty of the first thirty three holes
of yesterday. I mean there was stat None of those
are accurate, by the way, but they're close enough. He
was a putting machine and and that is really what
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propelled him. But cam Smith might become the stick and
hack mascot because he is everything that stick and hacking bodies.
His look, his swagger, his play. Uh, the way that
he even even his putting style is unique in and
of itself. His ability to get up and down is
where he and I differ. Um. However, camp Smith had
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it going on, and there was a lot of competition.
There were some really weird things happening. I had to leave.
I watched my customary four holes yesterday afternoon, and I
had to leave to go pick up the Texas Roadhouse
Keith in When I left, he had just uh hit
it into the water on eighteen threw the on his
punch shot and at that point I thought, oh my god,
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because I thought it was over. I thought it was
over at the Birdie on seventeen, it all of a sudden,
wasn't over? Your reaction? Well, you know, Kim Smith, he
was last in the field in driving accuracy, right off
the tee of everyone that made the cut, so he
was like seventy feet of seventy one guys yet around
the green and putting like you know, you so succinctly put.
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He did have a hundred one puts for the week.
He had twenty four pots in the final round. I mean,
the guy was he was a stud. But here here's
the funny thing. He only had one par. I mean,
this is like one of year rounds. He only had
one par in the first thirteen holes. Yesterday in the
final round, the guy had ten birdies. Um, you know,
he had superstones. When it counted on seventeen, he hits
it right in the flag. I just you know, I careful, now,
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careful on that one because the buzz is happening. The
it is starting to squeak out that that wasn't exactly
his plan to stick it to four on that that
tight right side pin on seventeen. He was trying to
hit middle of the green and he pushed it. It
didn't come off the wind and it worked out for him.
He did say that this morning, um, that it was
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not exactly his plan. However, in the moment, you thought,
my god, this guy doesn't care even a little bit
about this thing. It was fun to watch. Hey, you
can look at it one of two ways. You could
look at it as like, you know, scared money, don't
make money, my friend, right, so he was willing to
throw it out towards the right. Or you can go
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the way that Paul Casey has for the last forty
four years, which is that thing when he hit his
it was going nowhere near the right and you knew that.
I mean, I would have bet my mortgage and like
all three of my kids and I only have two,
on the fact that Paul Casey would have never hit
that ball within fifty ft of that flag when the
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tournament was on the line. I mean, he's got one
of the great stories of the whole tournament with what
happened to him and his luck on the sixteen hole
in the fairway. That was an unbelievable story, you know.
I mean, I just there's so many things to unpack.
I mean, DJ shoot the course record. After finishing his
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third round, he shoots forty one for his final nine holes.
Everybody's like, DJ's done with this, you know, he's just
he's on his way to valspar. And then he goes
and shoots the course record by holding out for Eagle
on the last hole. I mean, there was so many
funny things, I mean, like just crazy golf stories that
took place over the course of five long days. All Right,
so we've got a thumbs up, I assume for for
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cam Smith obviously. Now let's move to the to the
the overall storylines and some and and the number one storyline,
which was weather. There's no doubt about it. The weather
forecast did not call specifically, and in Florida, it's hard
to imagine that they've got much going on there when
when they could look at the at the at the
rain and the potential for rain, it was very minimal,
(05:57):
minimal at the beginning of the week, and then that
started to creep up all of a sudden. You had
major rain every day. You had even yesterday when there
was supposed to be rain, there's a forty minute shower.
You had winds, you had different courses, different tournament, different
things happening earlier in the week than later in the week.
Your reaction to weather playing a major role in this
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year's Players Championship, I mean, the weather was the whole story, Adam.
I mean, being there and watching what the different waves
went through, I mean, imagine that you finished year round.
Those a M guys on Thursday, they finished their round.
Some of them didn't tee up again until Sunday in
the second round, like a Keith Mitchell or an Alex Noran.
I mean think about that. I think there there was
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one two full days in between, and then on Saturday
they had that windstorm, you know, or like you know,
Dorothy was running around with like you know, lions and tigers,
and I mean it was crazy, man. I mean, there's
so many things that made this tournament memorable. And of
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course if you were in that pm AM wave, you know,
with Morikawa and Scheffler and Brooks and all those guys,
I mean, those guys really got the shaft, you know
it thumbs down, thumbs down for their experience. I mean,
less than of those guys made the cut, you know.
So you know that the cut was top sixty five
and ties. I think seventy one players made the cut
of that, you know, like two thirds of them came
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out of the a mp M wave. And you know
you could tell why because not only did they play
in the pouring rain all day Friday. I walked with
um Rory and JT and and Morikawa. I watched what
those guys played in but then when they showed up
on Saturday morning, they had like forty winds and they're
starting on the seventeenth hole. You know, I mean as
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a golfer you always say like, well, you know, especially
like for me as a PGA professional, I've never thought
that like golf was ever life or death. But watching
those first four guys play the seventeen pole. I mean,
Scheffler had never played the TPC sawgrass before the stadium course, right,
it was his first time in the players. He steps
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up in his first round on Saturday morning, is blowing
forty and he's got to play the seventeenth hole first
time ever in a tournament, right, and he hits it
long water, right. So then Xander gets up and he's
like he's kind of like a Paul Casey. He's like,
all right, what's the most conservative thing I could do here? Right? Okay,
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short in the water, then brooks water. That group's done
all three not I mean, you're talking about three guys
in the top twenty in the world, right, Scheffler just
won two of his last three tournaments. Come on, you
kidding me? Right? Then? Who comes up next Morikawa water.
I'm like, this is unbelievable, right it's and then the
argument starts, is this even playable? Or what's the story?
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I mean, it was just tremendous theater, you know. I
mean I think even gold Man hit it into water.
The the The next storyline is really the last three
or four holes there's is there? There's not a better
stretch of finishing holes in golf? Uh? And and it's
a Pete die masterpiece when you think of of that,
(09:09):
not just the routing, but really what those last four
holes due to to you and your psyche. And and
he's he's known for for kind of testing. Uh, those
those golfers at the end. Um, is it a better
stretch than Amen Corner? Is it a better stretch than?
Uh than? That's really my only reference. I'm gonna I
was gonna try to pull one out, but I couldn't
(09:29):
get there. Um, So forgive me Keith, Okay, but I'm
playing the part here. Uh help me understand If this
is the best stretch of holes in all of professional golf.
Uh jeez, I mean the only one that's that's comparable
is Amen Corner. So I got that right. So I
was at least my reference made sense. Yeah, But like
(09:50):
this week, coming in the vust Bar, they're gonna talk
about the snake pit, which is sixteen seventeen and eighteen.
You got the bear trap at the Honda. I mean,
all of those things are made up because of what
Pete Die has created and the scoring potential or what
Alistair mackenzie has created down there at Augusta National. In
the scoring potential on those three holes, you have a
very difficult part four, you have a crazy part three,
(10:13):
and then you have a scoreable part five. And when
you clump those together and then you make them sixteen
seventeen and eighteen. I mean that might be the only
edge that it has over Augusta is that it's the
last three holes, and it seems to determine so much
of what goes on. I mean, the sixteenth hole played
a major role in the tournament. When you start to
talk about Paul Casey and you know, of course drives
(10:37):
it in the trees and then he hits the green
from two forty and three and two putts makes par.
I mean that there's just so many storylines that took
place in those last three holes. Look at Kegan Bradley,
I mean, Keegan Bradley. You want two thumbs down on
something today, Buddy, you blew eight hundred and eighty thousand
dollars in two holes he finished bogey double bogie almost
(10:58):
nine grand hind hundred thousand, eight hundred eighty thousan dollars.
That makes your it makes your little five dollar Nassau
look relatively cheap when it comes to the pressure. I
want to interview that guy afterwards. He was hot, well,
I can and he's he typically runs hot as it is.
(11:18):
Uh so that that's yeah, Keigan, that's and that's let's
talk Paul Casey. We've said his name several times and
and that's not a name that is typically in that
top five or six, you know, vying for a top spot,
especially in a tournament like this with with the the
lineup that was there. Paul Casey is is one of
those all time players that he just is so solidy,
(11:41):
so right down the middle, in always right personality and
on the on the course, um very vanilla. But when
he gets there, you're like, oh, Paul Casey, he's a
nice guy. I like to see him. When I wanted
to see Paul Paul Casey do something. However, he hit
two very bad golf breaks and in your weekender with
(12:02):
your buddies, these aren't things that you're dealing with. You're
moving the ball. He didn't hit into a divot. He
had into some sort some sort of weird like like
alien formed, yeah, alien formed hole that you would never
not never normally see. Um. And he hit into this
thing and thus couldn't make contact. And this was on
(12:24):
sixteen I believe, couldn't make contact, ended up having to
just punch it down the fairway, which everyone was surprised by.
You would think he would at least taken a whack
at it and rock and rolled. But back to Paul
Casey be and Paul Casey's like, I'll just bump this
down the with a little five five are and no worries,
you know, um, your reaction to Paul Casey. And and
then and then he had a drainage issue, which sounds
(12:45):
weird out of context. He had a uh later on
in that hole to chip over you. He he thought
he was close enough for this drainage where he get
free relief. He didn't. He had to He had to
chip over it instead of put all bad things and
it cost him potentially a playoff in or chance at
the title. Agreed. I mean, when it comes down to it,
it was a week of breaks. If you caught the
(13:06):
wrong weather, if you caught seventeen and eighteen at the
wrong time. Um, if if you rolled into a pitch mark.
I mean, that's the whole point of this thing was
that it's essentially it's a form of a divot. Right,
A drive had come in, it had hit the ground
and probably bounced back out of it, and it created
this like meteor, creator of all things to roll into
it was ball size. I mean, it's just really really
(13:28):
bad luck at the end of the day. And you know,
I don't know that I ever feel bad for somebody
that just made like a you know, I think a
million three in order to come in third place at
the event. But um, Paul Casey, if there was ever
a time that things were lined up that vanilla was
the number one flavor, it might have been this week
(13:48):
and it still ended up being you know, it just
didn't work out for him. Uh. You know, I think
at the end of the day, this particular event will
be remembered for good bad breaks. Um. And you know
that's no slight to camp Smith because he played great
when it mattered. He had ten birdies in the final round.
You know, good for him. But there are a lot
(14:09):
of guys that were completely removed from the competition based
upon weather and the other you know, different elements that
played a factor. It just it was just one of
the one of the most crazy golf events, you know.
I mean, there was so many funny stories that took place.
Like Harold Varner the third played great and he was
(14:29):
out there. He had no winter gears, so we had
to go to the fan shop and he's wearing a
player's logo like pull over, right, you know, Hobblin makes
an ace on Monday and he's picking up Kevin Strielman
and he's like jumping up and down. Lowry can't high
five Ian Poulter. He makes ace on Sunday, which was
the third round of all things, I mean, just where
the rounds where nobody knew what the time was and
(14:50):
when the cut was and all these different things. I mean,
it's just, I mean, what a crazy, crazy golf tournament.
And at the end of the day, you know, I mean,
I think, just once again, golf isn't a really good place, Adam.
It's just pretty, it's pretty amazing. Uh And and just
a little factor. You typically give the stats and the
facts here on us taking out reacts. However, I'm gonna
(15:12):
give you one. Shane Lowry's second in play in tournament
play hole in one, the first coming Augusta. Yeah, Augusta, Oh,
you already knew that. Cool, Good for you. All right,
let's move on the LPGA. Hey, we move on to
reaction number three. And the LPGA was this weekend as well.
And Nana Kurtz Madison, your winner of the LPGA this weekend.
(15:33):
Give us a lowdown, Keith in your reaction to Uh,
to my girl Nana her first tour win, right, first
Dane to win on the LPG eight tour. Very cool.
And I think there's a theme that's developing this year, Adam,
which is kind of cool. You know, last year the
theme kind of seemed to be redemption. You know, Tony
fene now wins after a long time. Jordan's speech kind
of came back in one and became more relevant. Well,
(15:56):
this year, that's the second woman for a first time
win on the LPG eight tour, Onna McGuire being the
other one. But we've already had seven on the p
g A tour, so we've got a lot of first
time winners this year, which is I think is pretty cool.
She wanted a playoff right over July in Um I
was touting her. I thought that she would she would
do very well. She ended up in a playoff and uh,
(16:17):
two playoff holes they do the eighteenth hole. There, you're
a woman, Nana. She came through with an eagle on
the second playoff hole for first win. Congratulations to her,
Congratulations for the lpg A, for them pulling off their
first you know Southeast Asia swing those two weeks, uh,
in the last two years. And now they come back,
they take a week off and then they're heading to
(16:37):
California and they're they're prepping for their first major of
the year. So LPGA is hot right now. Things are
going good, and you know, nobody's hotter than Danna Kurtz Matson.
If that's okay to say, I don't know we're gonna
end it at that anyway, Keith, I don't know if
it's okay that's there or not, but it's already out
there in the world. Keith Stewart from ESPN Radio and
(16:57):
hosted the pro show as well as read the line
and I'm Adam grub with stick Nak. It is great
to see you. I'm glad that you're driving. Glad you're back, Keith.
And this is a Tuesday edition of stick Nack Reacts.
Let's not make this a habit, Okay, because I got
crap to do on Tuesday. Monday, I block out for you.
But Tuesday lunch is already already packed enough, so let's
be back next Monday was Stickinghac reacts. Yes you have
(17:18):
more I need I need one bonus react. All right,
go ahead? What did you I was winding up to
a big finish, But go ahead, all right, Well you'll
get to your christendo in a second. What did you
think of gold Man? In in what way? You're You're
you're funny clever lion about Goldman? Or are we looking
for a compliment or gold Man in general? Gold Man
(17:38):
in general? I mean hitting shots like Tiger? Who doesn't
love that? Why isn't that it bumbs up across the world?
What are we talking about? All right? I just I
needed to know I needed a Hacks perspective on that.
I think it's pretty clear I think it's pretty damn
clear he's Keith Stewart. I'm Adam Grub. Everybody, enjoy the
(17:59):
rest of your two Tuesday here. This is sticking a
sticking a Reacts. Will see you next Monday. Everybody, Bye bye,
best of luck to you.
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