March 13, 2025 • 50 mins
We think people who aren’t into golf don’t necessarily understand the grueling nature of a Member-Guest tournament. To make the shoot out is one goal, but to win it all ties in luck and straight puke-driven guts. That’s what happened to Mr. Pepe and Mr. Katzeff in the recent Pelican Golf Club Member-Guest. We open up and give Pep a big congrats and hear the story from him.
We revisit the recent Pine Needles Invitational that took place a few weeks ago with none of us making the cut..again. To twist it up a bit, we phone a friend and request Brandon Katzeff join in to tell his side of the story since he won the Member-Guest after 6 months of joining the club. What does that look like from a club perspective?
We touch on the PGA Tour and the first ‘non’ major of the year kicking off this weekend: The Players. Who you got? We round out the episode with some more banter and fun talks. Tune in, share, listen, and chase spring (and golf) with us. It’s just about that time.
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>> Jonathan (00:07):
All right, we're back this week on another episode
of Chasing Birdies. And we should just call it today the Pep and
Bass show, because that's what we're about here on
today's episode. So thank y'all for tuning in
and my man J.P. what's up,
bud?
>> RB (00:22):
Winner, winner, winner, winner, chicken
dinner. I've been on both sides
of golf failures.
And then the, the, the top of
the. Just the pinnacle of golf.
Yeah, um, in the last two weeks, it was, it was
tough, you know.
>> Jonathan (00:39):
Um, well, I look forward to getting into it. I mean, I
wasn't like, trying to tell you, just start talking about it. I mean, I want to
hear about you. How you doing mentally, how you feeling?
>> RB (00:47):
I feel, I feel pretty good, man. I'm a little
sore, gotta be honest. I mean, a little sore.
I got pretty sunburned the last few
days. The legs, oh, man, the back of the
legs. The, um, elbows are
absolutely toasted.
Red Lobster Red.
Um, but we're hanging in there. The body's a little banged
(01:09):
up right now, boys.
>> Jonathan (01:11):
So that, that brings up a good point here. Uh,
on today's show, uh, a lot to cover, a lot to get
into. But, um, you
said red. So naturally we are right now
wearing the, uh, the nice Red Vanley hoodie. Well,
you aren't, but I am. So. So as
always, it is presented by Red Vanley. So
(01:31):
make sure you check them out online@redvanly.com
and you though, question.
>> RB (01:37):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (01:38):
You get to the clubhouse, you know, you pull into the golf
course, you go into this old nostalgic clubhouse and you see the
sunscreen, you know, and that shit has to be bad.
Nowadays they have sunscreen that is like, you know,
eco friendly, it saves water,
it's great for the skin. Would you
lather in the clubhouse suntan lotion? Because
(01:58):
Sunscreen lotion, because obviously, as you exhibited here
recently, uh, playing in Florida, you got a little burnt, bud.
>> RB (02:04):
I did, I did. Leading into the first
couple of matches, um, which we'll get into.
But I put it on the spots that I
thought I needed it. The nose, the cheeks,
uh, the ears, the neck.
>> Jonathan (02:18):
The neck.
>> RB (02:18):
You never really think about like your
elbows or the back of your legs.
Um, but I guess that's part of being
an adult, right? Like to think of those things.
>> Jonathan (02:31):
Yeah, I, I never ever thought
about putting sunscreen on.
>> RB (02:36):
Oh my God.
>> Jonathan (02:37):
And then recently I thought, you
know, and maybe not so much for
the safety component of it, but rather
the aspect of, hey, I'm getting older. I don't Want to have
wrinkles? I don't want to have any type of.
Maybe, yeah, maybe something pop its head up and be a little.
Not good for the skin.
>> RB (02:56):
Yeah.
>> Jonathan (02:57):
Um, and I've been really trying to put a little
more body lotion on. How weird's
that? It's not really that weird, but
you got to just keep care of yourself.
>> RB (03:07):
Take care of your skin. Right. And, and I didn't,
um, I really let it down this past week.
Um, but it's a, it's
a, a lesson I learned right now. I know. Back of
the legs, elbows.
>> Jonathan (03:21):
Yeah, right.
I mean, so listeners out there, what we're
talking about right now is my man, Mr. Jonathan Pepe. It
is, it is March. It is still the first
quarter of 2025. And not only has he been on
multiple golf trips, my man just won
the 2025 member guest at
Pelican Golf Club in Clearwater,
(03:42):
Florida with our third
amigo, Brandon Katsif. So
what's victories feeling like right now, bud? Because
it's been a while since you really had that type of feeling.
>> RB (03:53):
I feel it's been a while, man. Um, I
will say, I don't know if you've realized this, but,
um, kind of cool that I've won
Member guest with my best friends. Yeah,
um, you know, we done it. I, I have a
Nicolin Woodlands, um, member
guest championship under my belt with my father.
(04:14):
I have Pikewood, um, National
under my belt with you.
>> Jonathan (04:20):
Mhm.
>> RB (04:21):
And then I have the Pelican Golf Club with Brandon Katsuff.
And um, man, does it feel good to be back in the
winter circle.
>> Jonathan (04:28):
You know, and, and for the listeners out
there, that, that, that eat this golf
up. How hard is it to win a
member guest coming out of the first
flight? You guys were in the first flight, correct?
>> RB (04:41):
Um, we were number one seed in the first flight.
>> Jonathan (04:45):
So there. That's like.
Yeah, that's impressive. It's grueling.
>> RB (04:50):
It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
And um, I mean we, we
had great matches. We had five matches, uh, two
on Thursday, two on Friday, and then
one Saturday. Um, and it
was a blast, dude. I will say though, um,
so good.
>> Jonathan (05:09):
I know, I keep. Because I'm, I'm just talking while
you're bringing points up. But I will say, and we'll pivot back
to what you just said. I like the 1,
2, 2 format of the member guests. Thursday you
play a little like Thursday 1, Thursday
1 and 2 on Friday and 2 on
Saturday. But in this case
(05:30):
it worked. Out.
>> RB (05:30):
2, 2, 1.
>> Jonathan (05:31):
Yeah. And that worked out in your favor because, bud, you had. You had a flight
to catch.
>> RB (05:35):
Well, I had a flight to catch, and, um, my
legs were absolutely on fire.
So, um. But, I mean,
I. I'll tell you a story. Right out of the gate, we're walking first
hole, Pelican or playing
a team from. From Virginia.
And, um, we're in one fairway, and I look over
(05:56):
and I said, uh. He said, have you been playing golf this year much? I
said, actually, I just got back from the Pine Needles Invitational this past
Sunday. And he said, oh, my God, I did,
too. That's awesome. I
said, you played in it? I played in it. That's pretty cool. So we're
off to a good start. Then he proceeded to ask me if I
was in the senior division. Bud, are you
(06:16):
kidding me? Did you play in the senior division?
>> Jonathan (06:19):
I mean, so what's he trying to insinuate? That you look over 50.
>> RB (06:22):
I look like I'm, uh. Yeah. That I'm over 50.
And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I think
in this thing, it's. In this instance, it's probably a bad
thing. And I looked at him and I said,
how old do you think I am? And he had said, well,
that's why I thought you were in the senior division. And I said, well, I'm 38
years old, bud.
>> Jonathan (06:40):
I mean, he overshot you by 12, dude.
>> RB (06:43):
So. Well, I think he had me at 30 or, uh, 51 or
52. So, um. But we proceeded
to win that match. Brandon and I won that match. Six and a half, two and a
half. So I, um. When we shook hands, I
proceeded to tell him, not bad for a senior division player, huh?
>> Jonathan (06:58):
Did you really?
I mean, you know.
>> RB (07:05):
Wrong.
>> Jonathan (07:05):
He's not wrong. So that's great.
So the. You know, you get into the shootout and that's when the
blood starts going. I mean, I take it back to the Pete. Old Pete
Dye days. The old Pete Dye days.
And when Tango and BK got
into the shootout, Tango had his whoop going, and his heart rate
was up to like 145. And he was just standing there. He was
just nervous as Nelly.
>> RB (07:26):
Yeah.
>> Jonathan (07:27):
Um, so what was that?
>> RB (07:30):
But there's certain people that have it and don't have it, and people
like Tango like to think they have it, but,
um, when you get under the gun and something that you
can't necessarily control, it's
a whole different ball game. Like,
there was numerous times in this shootout that I told
Brandon. They're not making it. They're just not
making it, dude. Like the. I don't care who
(07:52):
you are, what professional sport you played in your whole
entire life, how many of these shootouts are
on. Your blood's going, dude, you're, you're, you want to
puke, um, the
keys to breathe a little bit. But
I mean for, for, you know,
65 year old guys that have never been in a shootout and they
(08:12):
have a four foot putt to advance.
120 people watching you,
that's not something that you're used to. So that's why I'm not
saying somebody has it more than others, but I'm
saying no matter who you are, that's why we're playing in this
event. You're nervous. I was nervous,
yeah. I mean, I would be lying to you if I said I wasn't
(08:32):
nervous. I will say
I was very calm, but
still nervous, if that makes sense.
>> Jonathan (08:43):
Um, no, it does. I mean, I
think, you know, but you also have the experience because you
played collegiate golf. But it doesn't matter. That was my point
a couple weeks ago. Like, even when you're teeing
it up in the tournament on the first tee, if you don't have
nerves, then you shouldn't be there.
>> RB (08:59):
But, um, well, you just mentioned like Tango at Pete
Dye, his heart rate, I mean, he played at the pinnacle of sports,
right?
>> Jonathan (09:05):
Right.
>> RB (09:05):
Professional hockey. And he's nervous. Well, it's
because you, you don't know how to control those nerves
in that situation. It's not that it's a bad thing,
it's a great thing. It's just how do you control
it? And I have
found doing that would be, you know,
breathing deeply, taking deep breaths. Make sure
you're breathing because I can't tell you how many times you're standing over a
(09:28):
putt and all of a sudden you stop breathing for a second because
you're going to hit the spot.
>> Jonathan (09:33):
I know, that's, that's the most nerve wracking part.
You know, you can feel it and you actually
feel it. And look, we're amateurs,
but we still feel
that. Especially me and my legs. Dude, your
legs almost go numb. They just feel like you can't even move them when
you're over the butt. It does that. It does
that.
>> RB (09:53):
Well, I'll tell you,
I mean, I think I smoked
five cigars Thursday. Five cigars on Friday.
>> Jonathan (10:03):
Five.
>> RB (10:04):
Yeah, each day. And then Saturday
I had one before we were teeing off, leading
into teeing off. And then I had one during the nine holes.
And so we got to the shootout and I lit one up
because I'm like, that's kind of my calming. I actually felt sick,
boys. I couldn't smoke the cigar
anymore. BK was like, why aren't you smoking a
(10:24):
cigar? I'm like, because I don't want to.
>> Jonathan (10:27):
Yeah.
>> RB (10:28):
But in reality, I wanted to puke.
So, um, it was,
uh, but again, the, the tequila helped a little
bit. And like I said, you know, um,
the shootout, the format and the shootout at
Pelican was, was awesome. So I, I really liked
it. They kind of did the same thing that pike would just started
doing, um, which I would say
(10:50):
that it favors
your better handicappers.
>> Jonathan (10:54):
Yeah.
>> RB (10:55):
In their format that they have.
>> Jonathan (10:56):
Yeah. Yeah. Because you got
high cappers hitting it from 130
over water to a tucked right pin.
>> RB (11:04):
Right.
>> Jonathan (11:05):
I mean, that's chunk city all day long.
>> RB (11:06):
Right. Or blocky, you know,
or thin. I mean, there's a lot that can go on in these
shootouts and, uh, you just got to hit solid shots. Well, I
gotta hit solid shots.
>> Jonathan (11:16):
Yeah.
Well, I look forward to continuing this discussion because here
in a little bit on the show, we're gonna bring in Brandon
Katsif and we're gonna get his perspective because there's a lot
of, you know, BK is a phenomenal
golfer, uh, even better friend. But, you
know, there's times where you just got a
feeling that the guy over the putt, you're nervous
(11:36):
for him, you know, and I understand there were some big putts that
he made. So I'm, I'm, um, I'm excited to get
him on here in a little bit and, um,
and, and, and yuck it up with him and hear his perspective
briefly on that. But, you know, so you, you kind of
went, you, you went right in a Pelican. You were a little warmed up because
you had coming off the Pine Needles Invitational, which was
(11:56):
another stellar event. So you're two for two
in a, in a two week period, which is phenomenal.
So hats off. Um,
but Pine Needles was great. I mean, it was a little
different this year in terms.
>> RB (12:09):
A little different. We were, you know, we were down one
soldier, but we had another soldier fill in, uh,
temporarily.
>> Jonathan (12:16):
Um, there's nothing better than going on
a golf trip and staying under one roof
together with the boys. I mean, because then,
then the camaraderie continues through the night and
you want to go to bed at 9:00, which is pretty much par for our
course. You can, you uh, get a nice
dinner, you come back, watch a little college hoops. I was on a heater there
(12:37):
rooting for Texas State with my boy ip,
uh, a couple weeks ago. And we play some
G. But I did not play.
I did not play that well. Uh, not that you asked me how
I just played, but I am just telling you frankly, I did not. It
was putting, dude. It was putting.
>> RB (12:54):
It was very difficult.
>> Jonathan (12:56):
Well, it was. But it's also not so
difficult to where you.
You miss gimmes
and not even sniff the hole.
>> RB (13:06):
But that's why you put back to. That's why you putt
these.
>> Jonathan (13:11):
Well, I understand that. But still, it's
like, you know, you got to make those
putts.
>> RB (13:17):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (13:17):
You got to make those putts.
>> RB (13:19):
Right.
>> Jonathan (13:20):
And I didn't. So that's
that. But, um,
but we had a good time.
>> RB (13:28):
Did you end up order? I know, um, one night
we were, um, indulging in beverages
and everything else.
Um, and you had mentioned that you were
ordering a putter. Did
you do that? Did it. The order finally go through or did you
kind of just. It didn't go through, so I'm gonna let it go.
>> Jonathan (13:46):
No, I. I pulled back on that. And
the reason why I pulled back on that was
because, um, you
know what you said, you said, buddy, you were putting good with that putter. Like.
Yeah.
>> RB (13:58):
Why would you just because you put three rounds bad, bud. Why you gotta give
up on it?
>> Jonathan (14:02):
But here's the deal. We went over to Pinehurst and we
played the. The 18 hole mini putt putt
course, which was, I mean, just ass kicking all
over. But one of the things that I
always did with my putting up m
until I got these new
bentonartis. One of the things that I've always done
(14:22):
when I putted extremely well, I was, I
was a forward presser. I would forward press.
That was kind of my. You know, everyone has
their little gimmick. They do before takeoff. And that was
my gimmick. Before pulling the
trigger, I just had that little forward press, take it back,
one motion, stroke it through, no wrists
(14:42):
involved. And I just felt very
confident with that stroke. Well, I got away from that. I did get away from
that. And what I started to do was in, instead of
forward pressing, I actually would lift
the putter up and then.
>> RB (14:54):
Take it back and then take it back.
>> Jonathan (14:56):
And the reason for that was A, that was
my brain filling the void of
no forward press. But also B, I was, I
was hitting the putts a little more
solid. So I started doing that well,
when I transitioned over to this new putter
that I have, I never forward pressed.
(15:16):
I still did the same. Same herky
jerky takeaway. And I think that really,
A, had an effect on my feel, um,
because my feel is not as good, and
B, also mess with the stroke in terms
of accuracy. So when
we were on that little dang putting green, I'm putting around there,
(15:37):
you know, and if you recall, you know, I.
I started with that putter. I was just so mad at how I
was putting. I said, you know what? I'm gonna just go back to this old
stroke. And I just started forward pressing,
boom. Forward press, boom. Forward press, boom.
So Sunday at Southern Pines, I put it
into motion, and
(15:58):
I made a couple nice putts. I made a couple great
putts. Specifically, um, on the back nine,
save par. And the bottom line
is this. The ball was starting
directly on my line with topspin.
And it felt so natural to me to do this.
So that's what I'm gonna start. Because I hear
(16:19):
it. It's like, oh, uh, you know, are you sure?
But no, that's. That's where I'm
at right now with this putter. So I did not order a new putter.
>> RB (16:28):
Good.
>> Jonathan (16:28):
I'm keeping a putter.
>> RB (16:29):
It deserves a chance. I mean, it's.
>> Jonathan (16:30):
It's.
>> RB (16:31):
It's been a good ride.
>> Jonathan (16:32):
It's a great putter. It's a great.
>> RB (16:35):
It's a betting already. It's a great putter, but
you can't just give up on it after a bad showing.
You ever think maybe it was you? Which clearly it might.
>> Jonathan (16:44):
It was 100. It was 100
me. And, you know, so
I'm happy.
>> RB (16:50):
Not the arrow, the Indian.
>> Jonathan (16:52):
Right, right, right.
But overall, the swing and this week, you know, the
weather here that we are having right now is
phenomenal. Specifically today. And. And, you know,
this whole past week, earlier in the week. And,
um, so I got out a little bit, played a little G
swing.
>> RB (17:11):
You did play a little bit?
>> Jonathan (17:13):
Well, yeah, yesterday I played it at the
Pines.
>> RB (17:17):
Really?
>> Jonathan (17:18):
Wednesday. Yeah. Wednesday. Yeah. Did you play with
a couple boys, Poke?
>> RB (17:23):
Oh, uh. Nice, bud.
>> Jonathan (17:24):
Yeah. So my, um,
swing's feeling. My swing's feeling good. I'm not worried about the ball striking.
Now, one thing I did do, this is for the
technical, um, golfers, is I had a really
hard transition to these SM10s, which I
told you about.
>> RB (17:41):
Hm.
>> Jonathan (17:42):
So I start. I built a new one. I, uh, started with my
46, and I put the KBS610
wedge shaft in instead of the
dynamic gold wedge flex, which isn't even wedge flex.
And I'm hitting balls in the sim.
And number one, the flight is a little lower for
sure. But number two, my distance is there
(18:03):
now, again in the control. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to take that same setup and I'm going to apply it to
my 50, uh, 8,
my 54, and my 50. So
now I'm gonna have 46, 50, 54, 58,
all with these 610 shafts and wedge shafts.
Because I couldn't get the ball. I couldn't like
(18:24):
my 54. My new SM 1054, it just was going
everywhere. Everywhere. And left, right,
short. I mean, we're talking like under 100 yards, and it's
like 110 carry club for me, you know?
So with that being said,
uh, I'm continuing our trend of member guests this
weekend with my pops on Sunday.
(18:45):
Yeah, Sunday starts the, uh, chessy
member guest in South Carolina. And my dad said,
hey, you want to be my guest? And I said, I will be
your guest. So this is the first time me and
pops have played in a member guest together, which is gonna
be great. And it's exciting. It is.
>> RB (19:02):
It's fun.
>> Jonathan (19:03):
And, you know, I just. I just look forward
to it.
>> RB (19:07):
Um, do you think that, like, you think you'll
ever get disappointed with him throughout the round, or you think you're gonna try
to, like, be supportive of the guy?
>> Jonathan (19:15):
Yeah, be supportive, because that's what he needs. You know,
he'll. He'll.
>> RB (19:19):
He doesn't need you to beat him up. Um, he'll beat himself up.
>> Jonathan (19:22):
Exactly. And I'll be there for support because,
you know, and. And the old man can putt.
He can. He can roll it. So he's gonna
be getting pops. He'll be playing up. I
don't even know what flight we're gonna be in. I mean, I'm thinking
maybe three, four.
>> RB (19:40):
Right.
>> Jonathan (19:40):
Um, and hopefully I'm catching one or two,
but you get one or two.
>> RB (19:45):
I don't know if you end up getting one being in the third or fourth flight, but
they're gonna be playing off your balloon.
>> Jonathan (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to be getting any, but,
um. But I'm looking forward to it and.
>> RB (19:55):
Well, that's great. I'm excited for you to be in the member gets chessies.
That'll be a nice one if you can get that under the belt.
Um, but I would agree with you
on, uh, back to your little wedge talk there conversation
um, you know, I've. I've.
As of my last three wedge sets, I've
gone, um, you know, my standard
(20:16):
6.5 in my 50.
And then a little softer, a little lighter,
uh, the 6.0 and the 54. And then in
my 60, I'm actually using the, um,
S400, which is really soft and light,
and did that 60. You should saw some of the
wedge shots I hit with that 60. And it's
(20:37):
a couple of these matches, bud, down there.
>> Jonathan (20:39):
Oh, I mean, you got that thing. You open that thing
wide open.
>> RB (20:43):
Wide open, dude. There was one. Brandon even told me, he said, I'm so proud
of you, because I got up and down, boys. It was dead.
And he told me he was so proud of me. Made me. Made my heart a little
warm.
>> Jonathan (20:54):
Well, you do. I mean, you know, and that's. That's one thing
you do well with that club, dude, is you. You get that little
thing up. It sits on a dime.
It sits on a dime.
How's it. How's it feeling with the, uh, with the new
Pro V?
>> RB (21:09):
I love it, dude. I love the new Pro V.
Um, on
Thursday, we literally, we had 30 mile an hour
winds. And I will tell you, I noticed,
um, that was the day at the Bay Hill where everybody. It was like
most cumulative score by PGA Tour players, like 180
over par. And it was 30 miles an hour where
we were. And I will tell you, that Pro V, one
(21:31):
downwind never,
like, went up on me, if that makes sense
for people that understand the golf ball, like,
can get too spinny and get caught up in the wind and just
sail. Um, never did that
on me. And into the wind. Now, if you hit it
solid or it's going to hold its line.
But even some of my mishits, it still held its lot.
(21:54):
Now, there were a couple that were really bad mishits
that really went. But, um, for the most part,
that ball so good.
>> Jonathan (22:02):
What, what. What do you. How you feeling about your driver?
>> RB (22:06):
Happy?
>> Jonathan (22:06):
Yeah.
>> RB (22:07):
Happy? Yeah.
>> Jonathan (22:07):
Yeah. I think it's really. Well,
so it's. It's.
It's noticeable. I mean, that ball is
noticeable. I think more like you just said in the
wind.
>> RB (22:19):
100 for into the wind. Indeed around the
greens. Yeah, those things here. I love
that. So thank you, Eric Childers. We appreciate it.
But you hooked it up. We appreciate you.
Um, I wonder if Titleists will
use my image for one of their ad. Whatever. Um,
you know, because when you win events, they put you up
(22:41):
on their.
>> Jonathan (22:42):
Yeah, I mean, you're forever ingrained in
the Pelican Golf Club. And the best part is, my man
BK just joined within the last six months, so this is like a
rookie initiation.
>> RB (22:51):
This is not. This is not a great
look for him. Um, so.
But hey, we played our tail off, I'll tell you
that. It wasn't. And that's the crazy thing. It's not like
we made a ton of birdies. We didn't make a ton of birdies.
Literally, we did not. I. I mean, I
made maybe
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in five matches, I made. I didn't have a birdie the
first day. Second day, I
think I had two
in. In 18 holes. And then the third
day and nine holes, I had two. So I. I had four
birdies and five match. It's not like we tore it up.
It's just we played really solid, and we did not
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make a bunch of mistakes that could have been made that were
made by other people, if that makes sense.
>> Jonathan (23:37):
Yeah.
>> RB (23:38):
Um, but our birdies were at, ah, timely
fashions, and we'll get into that.
>> Jonathan (23:43):
Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you gotta. You gotta
ham an egg it, man. In these events, you gotta ham and egg
it. And. And it sounds like that's what you guys did.
So I want to get beat cats on. On
here, um, and hear his. His
perspective. So we'll. We'll
allow him to enter the chat as soon as he
can, which is great.
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Which is great.
>> RB (24:07):
But the thing. It was exciting. It was. It was
fun. Um, the shootout was exciting. I mean, there was a lot that
happened.
Um, you
know, BK made a two and a half foot
putt, uh, to advance us,
and it came m down to a two and a half foot putt
to win. And so we'll get into
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that.
>> Jonathan (24:29):
Yeah, when he.
>> RB (24:30):
When he joins us out and chat about
it.
>> Jonathan (24:33):
Um, the. The PGA Tour event
was a great watch. I mean, seeing Russell Henley get that thing
done, I thought more cow was gonna do it. I really
did. Um,
but, man, it was. It was great. Oh, here
we are.
>> RB (24:48):
There he is. Look at him smiling.
>> Speaker C (24:51):
Why not, right? Nice hat, Pep.
>> RB (24:55):
I should have had the sport coat on, bud. That would have been a nice touch of
that hat.
>> Speaker C (24:59):
How come I can't see Bash?
>> Jonathan (25:01):
Well, uh, yeah, my, my.
>> RB (25:03):
I'm having technical. Thank you.
We.
>> Jonathan (25:07):
We wanted. We wanted to try this out. Bk,
congratulations. Uh, the man, the myth,
the legend is here on chasing birdies right now.
And, uh, dude, what? It's like, it's
like, you know, what's the feeling right now, bud? This is a big
deal, especially six months into your membership.
>> Speaker C (25:24):
Yeah, I hope that was the
joke. That was the joke around the club is that. I hope,
uh, that I enjoyed it because it would be my first and my last
since the, uh, newbie got in and, and, you
know, Pepe and I were able to be victorious.
>> Jonathan (25:39):
Well, I gotta ask you, because all of our friends that. Listen, you
know, we. I
mentioned earlier on the show that you're a phenomenal golfer,
even better person. But I
heard. I heard some chit chatting that, uh, a lot
of people were a little nervy about you with this
two and a half footer you had to make. You had to
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make it. I mean, and you made it.
>> Speaker C (26:03):
I did. I did.
>> Jonathan (26:04):
What, uh, you know, what were you feeling? I mean, a
little nervy, of course.
>> Speaker C (26:09):
You know, obviously get the nerves going. Um,
we putted well all week. That's what Jonathan and I were talking about.
We, we had a flight home afterwards, so we got to.
To recap, uh, the weekend and
Southwest. Yeah, of course, Little
chick fil a for the champions dinner.
But it was. The greens were so good.
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I, um, mean, Bash, you were there in January, but
they were on another level from then. You know, you
just hit your line and made the stroke.
And honestly, we didn't miss any short putts all
week, so we had the confidence going in and we felt like the
format, you know, being in the first flight,
sometimes you don't even get to, uh, you know,
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with strokes and things like that, you don't even get a chance to putt. So
with the format, we were. We were really excited about it, so. And
I was excited that I did make the putt too.
>> RB (26:58):
So I think everyone was,
um. Yeah, I mean, the shootout
was. It favored us, I would
say, not us, but it favors the
better handicappers. Um, anybody that's hitting from
170, I think they said like 0 to 6 handicap, 1
to 170, and then 150 and then 130
where your handicap fell. And,
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um, it was all over water.
Uh, tucked right pin.
So I was first to hit. And seven iron. It
was like a cross downwind. Seven iron to like
20ft. And then BK almost
made the darn thing. Um, so I had a little
tap in and then we advanced.
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And, um,
BK said, you think seven iron? And I said, yeah, I think that's
what I just hit. And,
um, thank God he did not hit it
good, because he. That ball might still be
bouncing down the highway somewhere over the clubhouse.
>> Speaker C (27:56):
He out hit da on the back.
>> RB (27:57):
Porch and he hit it a little
Heavy. And we were all yelling, go, go.
Because it did. It looked like it was just gonna land
10ft short of the.
The. The, um, ledge of the water. We thought it was gonna
be in the water. A lot of people did. And, dude,
for whatever reason, this thing carried, and it hit right
on this knob, and it just
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bounced, and people
started going nuts. Well, here. It almost went in.
>> Speaker C (28:25):
Yeah.
>> RB (28:25):
No way.
>> Speaker C (28:28):
They thought it was in, which would have been sick.
>> RB (28:31):
It went over the lip.
>> Jonathan (28:33):
How far?
>> RB (28:34):
15Ft.
>> Jonathan (28:35):
Okay.
>> RB (28:37):
Rolled out 15ft because the wind was going that way, too.
So it was like. So
then I had a putt. It was a big snapper
right to left. And I just wanted
to mosey it down there because nobody was making a two. And I kept saying that.
Nobody's making a two. Nobody is. I mean,
four foot putt in that. You're
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not making it. You're just not.
And, um, I hit it, like, sure. I hit it two and a
half feet by. And I'm, like, so disappointed.
>> Jonathan (29:05):
Here we go.
>> RB (29:06):
And I could tell BK was thinking about it a little
bit, and I'm like, you know what? Our caddy was
great, dude. He was like, listen, you've made these all week. You're
good. Our caddy was great. He had two names, for
whatever reason.
John and Chase, I think, right?
>> Speaker C (29:21):
Jaz.
>> RB (29:21):
But yeah, Chaz.
>> Speaker C (29:23):
And he spent three days with the guy, Chaz.
>> RB (29:25):
Well, he had John on his bib, but he wanted us to call him Ch.
Chaz, like, so.
BK, go up there. I closed my eyes. I looked at the crowd,
close my eyes. Da closed his
eyes. We found out, and,
uh, hit the bottom of the cup,
bud. Ah.
>> Jonathan (29:43):
Uh, so you closed the eyes and Da was there. That's
phenomenal.
>> Speaker C (29:46):
Yeah. Da came to pick us up for the. To take us to the
airport. Little did he know he was. He was in for a
treat.
>> Jonathan (29:52):
He probably loved it. He probably lit up. Ah, a cigar.
>> Speaker C (29:55):
Did you see the, uh. Did you see the video when we were
walking out to the shootout? Um, I just did a
little, little video. It was on my story. And I turned
around and I look back, and Da is right behind me.
And he gives me the thumbs up. I said, dad, get up on the
porch with everyone else.
>> RB (30:11):
You're even supposed to be here at all.
>> Jonathan (30:14):
He's inside the ropes cheering the boys
on.
>> RB (30:17):
So then we went back for the three teams advance. First
team hit in the water, which is not a great
visual for me to go next. And I
was really amped up, so I'm like, with. Wait. With How?
BK just hit that last one and got over. I'm smoking eight
iron.
>> Speaker C (30:32):
No, he took seven and out. I said, Pep, hit this. Hit the eight iron,
man. Just swing it.
>> RB (30:37):
So I smoked eight iron.
>> Jonathan (30:38):
So you hit eight.
>> RB (30:39):
Um, and it went
to 20ft, left of the stick.
And another, uh, team hit it to,
like, right at the stick.
>> Speaker C (30:50):
Pretty good, right? Actually where you were almost putting from last time,
second round.
>> RB (30:53):
And I think
they went first, and they. They hit it by like four
feet. BK hit it by, like two and a
half feet. And I'm thinking to myself, this guy's not making
it. Like, there is zero chance he's making it. Not
because he's not good. He just made one. But they're.
It's two teams. The. The pressure is
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you can't make it. So he misses it
low side. And I'm sitting there thinking to myself, well, if I miss it, we go
back and hit another shot. So at least we got that in. For
us, it was a right to left
turn, center cut. Yep,
done. We win, boys.
>> Jonathan (31:30):
Oh, um, man.
>> RB (31:31):
So it felt good.
>> Jonathan (31:32):
What a feat. And the trophy looked great. What is it, a
picture of the clubhouse?
>> Speaker C (31:36):
Yeah. So it was in the, um, when we were
there, it was on display in the, um, men's
locker room. But, yeah, it's a replica of the clubhouse. But
it was. It was a little heavy. Pepe's making fun of me. Justin
came out, I took my one hand off of it, put my arm around
him. My hand was shaking a little bit, bud. I
didn't want to drop that thing.
>> Jonathan (31:55):
Yeah, you guys. So what do you
get? Like, what did you get? Is that what you get that trophy or they
make.
>> Speaker C (32:01):
That trophy stays, uh, there.
>> Jonathan (32:03):
And it's on your name on it?
>> Speaker C (32:04):
Yeah. In the history books. Pepe and,
and cats. If, um, but we get
replicas. Supposedly they're shipping us replicas.
We got 500 pro shop credit, which I
think Pepe and I bought a hat. And then we. We took care
of the kids and the wives since. Since they were back home.
>> Jonathan (32:22):
Yeah, get them more swag.
>> Speaker C (32:24):
A couple. Couple bottles of scotch. That, that,
um, yeah,
so.
>> Jonathan (32:31):
So winning the member guest poses the question
of, you got to bring the
guest back after you won. Right? I mean, you
got to.
>> Speaker C (32:40):
The best is. The best is. He says to me, and I don't know
what round it was, but we're walking and. And
honestly, the event was so good. Like,
phenomenal. Great flight. We had great
competition. Uh, we lost a match. We tied a
match. We tied two matches.
>> RB (32:55):
Right Two, uh, matches. Lost match and two
wins.
>> Speaker C (32:58):
Yeah, it was. The competition was great. First fight was just
great people, but we're walking. And Pepe says, well, but
you're, uh, out of luck next year. And I said, what? He said, it's summer's
40th birthday. I said, I'm not out of luck,
buddy. You're out of luck. I'll be here.
>> Jonathan (33:13):
Well, you might have to just take her to Florida.
>> RB (33:15):
Yeah, well, that's what we might be doing. I might
be. I might be out of the Pine Needles Invitational next year,
too. Oh, uh, maybe. Maybe that's the play.
I don't know.
>> Jonathan (33:25):
I mean, here we go.
>> Speaker C (33:26):
Did you hear about the Pine Needles Invitational bash?
>> Jonathan (33:28):
Did you hear about this?
>> RB (33:29):
Yep, I did.
>> Jonathan (33:31):
Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was not ideal,
but it got.
>> Speaker C (33:35):
It fired up a little bit. I was. It worked out in
my favor. He played really well that match, so.
>> Jonathan (33:40):
Yeah, he wanted redemption. That's right. He had a good,
good partner and. Yeah, didn't want to let him down.
And, uh, and he got warmed up, though,
in Piners. That's what I said.
>> RB (33:50):
Yeah, that was a warm up.
>> Jonathan (33:52):
That was the warm up in the.
>> RB (33:53):
Normal division in the under 50
division.
>> Speaker C (33:57):
I also think that was a, uh, fun part about it, is
coming in kind of cold with no expectations. Right. I mean, we always
want to win. We always want to play our best. But coming in from the
winter, they were joking. They kept saying, these northerners
come down here and fleeced us. Which I haven't really heard that
term, but.
>> Jonathan (34:12):
Well, that's true, though.
>> Speaker C (34:13):
Good side of it.
>> Jonathan (34:14):
Because I bet you when. When. When was the last time you played
before this.
>> Speaker C (34:18):
That event with you at Pelican in
January? Yeah, first of January.
>> Jonathan (34:24):
So you took two months off. Did you touch a club in between
there?
>> Speaker C (34:27):
A couple times. You know, just hitting into the
simulators at Nemacol with the kids when the kids had lessons,
so that was about it.
>> Jonathan (34:35):
That's impressive, man. Well, I tell
you what, it couldn't have happened to two better people, man.
>> Speaker C (34:41):
You know, had to get with you guys. You know, you
guys both have. Have one under your belt muscles. Um,
has a couple under his belt. J.R. you know, had to get off
the. The goose egg, so. Yeah, happy to join the
club.
>> Jonathan (34:54):
Yeah. You got it done. I love it. I saw the picture. I
was. I was. My phone was. I don't know where it was. And I pulled my
m. And I see you guys standing there with this trophy. I'm like, oh, my
God, they want it all. They Want it
all did.
>> Speaker C (35:06):
Uh, how about this? You know, we win our flight and
I go to buy cigars. I'm so excited. You know, I smoked
one cigar, um, because it was a long round, because it was a
shotgun on that day. I didn't smoke on the course the days
before. Um, so I go, I'm so excited to go in the locker
room, I buy two cigars. I come out to find Pepe.
I'm like, dude, I got you this cigar. Like, let's smoke it for the shootout.
He's like, no.
>> Jonathan (35:27):
Yeah.
>> Speaker C (35:28):
And I'm like, couldn't do it.
>> RB (35:30):
Couldn't do it. I couldn't, I couldn't do it. I
couldn't stomach it. I didn't want to stomach it. I smoked
enough and I felt like if I smoked that one, I would have
puked.
>> Speaker C (35:39):
So that. Then I got nervous Bash, because I'm like, wait a
second. Yeah, we gotta, we gotta keep it
status quo, right? Which Pepe. I mean, cigars in Pepe's mouth.
So, uh, that, that made me more nervous than the two footer.
>> Jonathan (35:50):
Yeah. Yeah. Like, what's going on with this guy? I mean, it
was seen yesterday.
>> RB (35:54):
Our, our, our match
on Saturday was a
blast. We played with his friend tj. I mean, we had
so much fun and we just drank and yucked it up.
But, dude, it was out of the
gate, number 10. We played. TJ's
partner makes this 30 footer. And I said to TJ, I said,
literally, nobody's made like, that kind of putt on us
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yet. So no surprise today, right?
BK has a 28 footer. He jars
it, so we have the hole. And I'm
like, all right, that's. That's nice, because that's kind of sets the
tone, right?
>> Jonathan (36:29):
Yeah.
>> RB (36:31):
We win 11 with a par 12. We tie
13. TJ's partner stuffs it to
like a foot and a half, and I hit it to
like 12ft.
>> Speaker C (36:40):
It was a gimmick, tight.
>> RB (36:42):
And so we give him his,
and I make that. So we have
it go to 14. Uh,
I hit it to, uh,
Brandon hit a bunker shot to What? Brandon, like
10ft, something?
>> Speaker C (36:58):
Yeah, probably.
>> RB (36:59):
And then I hit a little. I had a wedge shot out of the
fairway. I hit it to a foot. They gave it to me.
Well, then he hits it and he hits it
to a foot and we give it to him. So it was a really good
match. Um, and then Brandon ended up having
a sick two putt on
16. Uh, he was on the back left part of the
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green pin. Was way front, right up on
top of the hill. It was really good.
Um, and we have 17, and we lost
18, four to three and a half. And we have
to match four and a half. Uh, four and a half. Won the flight by half a point. I don't know
if you knew that, Bash. Half a point.
>> Jonathan (37:36):
Half a point.
>> Speaker C (37:37):
Sc. It was crazy. It
was crazy, but a lot of fun.
>> Jonathan (37:42):
Well, man, congrats on the win, bk.
And I. I look forward to playing
golf with you again, man. I just want to. I just want to kind of like, you know,
feel that. Feel that energy.
>> Speaker C (37:52):
Well, I appreciate it. It feels good to be back on the pod, but
it's been, uh, it's been, what, three years?
>> RB (37:57):
Three years.
>> Jonathan (37:58):
Yeah. You know, and I said that today. I was
like, I want to try this. I want to bring my man on
and, and. And get him telling this perspective,
you know, and. And seeing you.
>> Speaker C (38:08):
Yeah, we appreciate it.
>> RB (38:11):
BK was buzzing, bud. It felt good. I mean, the guy was
back, um,
wasn't on his phone. I. I did
yell at him in the. In the shootout.
I mean, my man did.
>> Speaker C (38:25):
I wanted to capture the moment bash.
>> RB (38:26):
You know, he's taking videos and he's, you
know, texting, and I'm
like, will you get off your phone, dude? Like, yeah, we are
literally in the shootout right now. And he's like, what?
Just leave me alone. I wasn't even hitting.
>> Speaker C (38:39):
I wasn't even.
>> RB (38:42):
If this is how he had settled in, let him go.
>> Jonathan (38:45):
Yeah, just let him be.
>> RB (38:46):
And, uh, it was a blast,
dude. I mean, we. We.
I don't think we yelled at each other.
Not once. It was actually fun,
bk.
>> Speaker C (38:56):
Yeah, we had a great time. Seriously. It was it from top to
bottom. I mean, the.
>> RB (39:00):
The event was.
>> Speaker C (39:01):
Was so good. They took great care of us. The
food, amazing organization. I mean, everything was on time.
Every tea time was just
so. It just made things so much fun.
>> RB (39:12):
And, yeah, Justin and his team were absolutely out of this
world. I mean, from the. From the gifts check in
to, I mean, to the food, to.
To the timing of everything, to the caddies,
to the drinks set up, everything. And
Was incredible. And the best part about it, dude, is they make you feel
like you're a member, too, which is a cool feeling. As a
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guest, I go a lot of places a guest.
And, um, that was one of the best experiences
I've had. So it's really cool.
So thank you, bk.
>> Speaker C (39:42):
Yeah, you're welcome, bud.
>> RB (39:43):
Are you going to start? We're going to cry a little bit here.
>> Speaker C (39:46):
No, I'M not doing it like last time, huh?
>> Jonathan (39:49):
No. Well, like I said, man, congrats on the
dub. And uh, you
know, I guess I'll see on the golf course sometime soon.
>> Speaker C (39:57):
Can't wait to do it, boys. Thanks for, thanks for having me on. I appreciate you.
>> Jonathan (40:00):
Yeah, thanks for jumping on here, bk.
>> Speaker C (40:02):
All right, have a great day.
>> RB (40:03):
I'll see you next year, Pelican bud.
>> Jonathan (40:05):
Yeah, you got to. That's. That's the rule.
>> RB (40:10):
Summer's 40th birthday is at Pelican.
>> Speaker C (40:15):
All right, boys, have a good night.
>> Jonathan (40:16):
I have ocb. I see you.
That's great. What a great story.
So that's that in terms of that
perspective, um,
I want to ask you. This week kicks off today. The
Player. The players is a great, great
tournament.
>> RB (40:34):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (40:34):
Who you got?
>> RB (40:36):
Well, real quick, before we get into this, did you see,
did you even notice Jordan Spieth and
Ricky Fowler did not get into.
>> Jonathan (40:44):
I did.
>> RB (40:44):
Bay Hill, huh?
>> Jonathan (40:45):
Uh-huh.
>> RB (40:46):
So that was pretty interesting, dude. I mean, you know, that's
a, that's a big sponsor
invite, uh, event, so that was interesting to see.
Um, I wonder if this win for BK
and I gets us a little sponsored invites to certain places,
but whatever. Um, this week I
am actually gonna go with Wyndham, uh,
Clerk. You like
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Windham after last year? I think
it was last year when he, he lifted out on 18
to, to advance to a playoff.
I just like his game, dude. And I think I like him as a
person. I'm pulling for him. So. Wyndham Clark it
is.
>> Jonathan (41:25):
I like that. I like that pick.
Um, I think I'm gonna
roll with. I think Oberg is gonna be in a
mix. I just think he's.
Yeah, I think he's going to be in the mix. And then some of these
other, like Michael Kim, you know, he played good past
weekend. Corey Connors played well.
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Um, someone like that could really kind of chase it up too. But
I think I'm going to go with Oberg. I think this is going to be his year. He
got so close last year to winning some of these big
events. Um,
you know, the Masters specifically in the battle with, with
Scheffler. So I just think, uh, that's my
pick for this week.
>> RB (42:04):
I love it, dude. That's a great pick.
And um, and he'll win.
>> Jonathan (42:09):
And I'll text Scovy and I'll say, scov.
Great dub. And he'll say, thanks, Ryan.
And you know, and that'll be that.
>> RB (42:18):
Yeah, I love it, dude. I freaking love it.
>> Jonathan (42:20):
And, um, dude, how about Keegan
Bradley, though?
>> RB (42:24):
He's playing hot. Is he gonna make the team? Dude,
is he gonna have to make, is he gonna make the Ryder
cup team, is the question? What do you think?
>> Jonathan (42:34):
I mean, the way he's been
playing or the way. I guess it just remains to be seen
how he, how he kind of navigates,
um, through this, this season. But, I mean,
that'll be here before you know it. Um,
but he had a hell of a round on Sunday. I think he shot
64. Had, uh, a chance to shoot
63 climbing up that leaderboard. Yeah, dude,
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Bradley's a, he's a student.
>> RB (42:59):
Yeah.
>> Jonathan (43:00):
Um, and I think that, I think he brings an energy to
it.
>> RB (43:04):
Well, he's passionate. He loves America. Not to say
don't, but he's passionate about America. He loves it, dude.
He gets really into it, and he's kind of been doubted his
whole career, which is, I think, gives him that little bit
of one. Um, you know,
a lot of those guys haven't been doubted their whole career. They're just kind
of expected to do well, uh, type thing.
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So, um, question for you
is, um, I doubt you're, you're keeping track
of it, but I know that you got a skin
at the Pine Needles Invitational. What was it?
How much was it?
>> Jonathan (43:38):
Uh, I think it was 320. And
it was on number four,
uh, pine needles, which is, you know, kind of
one. Well, yeah, but it's kind of surprising because I hit,
like, wedge in there, so.
>> RB (43:51):
Yeah, but a lot of people hit that false front or air mail
it. So, um, that's a great, that's a great skinny there.
But so my question to you is, I know that this was
talked about in the first episode of the year, and
we're, you know, we're going to keep track of our birdies for the year.
So have you been doing that?
>> Jonathan (44:07):
I, I, I thought about this after Pine
Needles, and, um, I think
that I have to go through to
really give you an answer of where I'm at for the birdie count for the
year, uh, which I can do, um, because I
know that in the practice round, I
had, I believe, off the top of my head,
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four birdies, um,
in that round. Now, first day in the
Invitational, I made one
birdie number two,
and outside of that third day, mid
pines, I didn't make any
birdies. And day four
at Southern
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Pines, I made
one birdie, which doesn't really count because it was auctioned
shot. So I think the fair.
>> RB (45:00):
We need birdies of what you've done.
>> Jonathan (45:01):
So four. So ten. I'm. I'm at ten because I was at
six.
>> RB (45:05):
Okay, so I, I do have a few more rounds on
you.
>> Jonathan (45:09):
That's okay.
>> RB (45:10):
Um, but you're gonna have a few more on. You know, we might
be matched up after. You remember guest this week at
Chichesi. Um, I'm at 19
for the year, so I have 19 birdies for the year.
>> Jonathan (45:21):
Okay, so you're, you're tracking this. I like
it.
>> RB (45:25):
Um, well, I just keep in my phone and after
the round, I just add.
>> Jonathan (45:29):
Yeah, I think I'm.
>> RB (45:30):
If, if I, you know, if
I.
>> Jonathan (45:33):
Yeah, I think it's a good exercise. Everybody should do it.
>> RB (45:36):
I think I have zero eagles. Don't know if
you have any eagles.
>> Jonathan (45:41):
No, I don't have any eagles, so
I don't have a look.
>> RB (45:46):
But with that being said, guys, I mean, this weekend
is going to be beautiful. And I think that I might
be dabbling on Saturday with my son
Parker. Nine holes at the
wonderful Nemicolon Resort. Um,
so make sure you go to nemacolin.com, check them out. It's
starting to get nice here. And you know what
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that means. Good
golf, good drinks, nice
pools. Uh, they've got it all at Nemacolin. So
make sure you go to nemacolin.com, tell them we sent you over
there and make your reservation
for this spring or summer.
>> Jonathan (46:23):
Yeah, great spot. And I've been up there
hitting it up a little bit, man, with the
trackman. So,
um, definitely check it out.
And hopefully you guys
are going to be tuning in this weekend to the Players
Championship, which is just, uh,
a great event.
And outside of that, NFL free agency is officially
(46:46):
kicked off at this point, which a lot of big moves. I mean, the
Steelers doing this big deal with DK Metcalf that came out
of left field, but not really well, and I'm here for
it.
>> RB (46:55):
Uh, well, that's great, dude. It's a great
signing. Don't have a freaking quarterback to throw him the ball.
So fantastic, uh, signing. Um, but
who is getting him the ball? We don't know
that.
>> Jonathan (47:06):
Well, right now we don't know that, like this second. But.
But we might, by the time this.
>> RB (47:11):
Episode drops, a big signing. But here's my
point. That's a huge signing. Don't get me
wrong. Would be even better if he had somebody
to throw him the ball.
>> Jonathan (47:20):
Yeah.
>> RB (47:21):
As of right now, you don't
have Justin Fields, you don't have Russell Wilson,
and you don't have anybody else. So Is he
throwing the ball to himself? I don't know. Love, um,
the signing. I mean you're looking at. Look at those receivers
they have, man. If Pickens can get his head out
of his butt and pay attention and focus
(47:41):
and um, you know, be a normal human being
on the, on the field and not go nuts on people, I think
that this could be a stout receiver
group that they have with this Metcalf
edition. But again, none of this matters if you
don't have a quarterback that can get them the ball.
>> Jonathan (47:58):
Yeah.
>> RB (47:59):
So, um, you know, I, I
hope they, they sign somebody good at that QB
position of like under 30 would
be fantastic.
>> Jonathan (48:08):
Yeah, no, it's what it's here, it's.
>> RB (48:11):
Josh Allen, uh, 350 million dollar
contract, highest paid quarterback of all time.
>> Jonathan (48:17):
Well deserved.
>> RB (48:18):
I think 275 is guaranteed. Or
I mean 265. It's. It's something like that is
guaranteed. Which
someone. Yeah, yeah.
>> Jonathan (48:29):
I mean Miles Garrett with that contract. That's so
stupid. That is like 40 a
year. I mean Cleveland just loves burning
money. Look at their last couple big moves. Desean
Watson, what a bust that was.
>> RB (48:43):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (48:43):
Terrible.
>> RB (48:43):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (48:45):
But who am I to judge?
>> RB (48:48):
With that being said, dude, I want you
and your dad to have the best time, um,
at your chessy play.
Well, enjoy it.
Smile.
>> Jonathan (48:59):
That's right.
>> RB (49:00):
Um, because you're playing golf with your father,
which again, that is so cool. Think about that, dude. You're playing
a member guest with your dad. Yeah, there's no other
sports. I mean, what are you gonna do? Pickleball now we're. Hey, where's my
shoes? I mean you might play golf and
pickleball shoes, but
um, but please enjoy that. That's
(49:20):
gonna be a fun one for you and a memorable
one. So um, I wish you guys the best. I hope you make
tons of birds. I hope you make m. I hope our next report
you come back and say I have 20 birdies.
>> Jonathan (49:31):
Yeah, me too. I'm gonna be forward pressing.
>> RB (49:34):
So.
>> Jonathan (49:36):
Yes.
That's it guys. And it is
officially spring season here. Turn the
clocks ahead and we are right
staring down golfers alley. So
as always, we appreciate you
listening to this week's episode of Chasing Birdies.
And thank you to Allie Emily Evo over at Simpler
(49:56):
Media for putting this thing together. Jacqueline DiPaterio, Ray
London, for all your social media help. You
guys have a blessed weekend. Play some G, watch some
G. And we will catch y'all in two.
All right, we're back this week on another episode
of Chasing Birdies. And we should just call it today the Pep and
Bass show, because that's what we're about here on
today's episode. So thank y'all for tuning in
and my man J.P. what's up,
bud?
>> RB (00:22):
Winner, winner, winner, winner, chicken
dinner. I've been on both sides
of golf failures.
And then the, the, the top of
the. Just the pinnacle of golf.
Yeah, um, in the last two weeks, it was, it was
tough, you know.
>> Jonathan (00:39):
Um, well, I look forward to getting into it. I mean, I
wasn't like, trying to tell you, just start talking about it. I mean, I want to
hear about you. How you doing mentally, how you feeling?
>> RB (00:47):
I feel, I feel pretty good, man. I'm a little
sore, gotta be honest. I mean, a little sore.
I got pretty sunburned the last few
days. The legs, oh, man, the back of the
legs. The, um, elbows are
absolutely toasted.
Red Lobster Red.
Um, but we're hanging in there. The body's a little banged
(01:09):
up right now, boys.
>> Jonathan (01:11):
So that, that brings up a good point here. Uh,
on today's show, uh, a lot to cover, a lot to get
into. But, um, you
said red. So naturally we are right now
wearing the, uh, the nice Red Vanley hoodie. Well,
you aren't, but I am. So. So as
always, it is presented by Red Vanley. So
(01:31):
make sure you check them out online@redvanly.com
and you though, question.
>> RB (01:37):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (01:38):
You get to the clubhouse, you know, you pull into the golf
course, you go into this old nostalgic clubhouse and you see the
sunscreen, you know, and that shit has to be bad.
Nowadays they have sunscreen that is like, you know,
eco friendly, it saves water,
it's great for the skin. Would you
lather in the clubhouse suntan lotion? Because
(01:58):
Sunscreen lotion, because obviously, as you exhibited here
recently, uh, playing in Florida, you got a little burnt, bud.
>> RB (02:04):
I did, I did. Leading into the first
couple of matches, um, which we'll get into.
But I put it on the spots that I
thought I needed it. The nose, the cheeks,
uh, the ears, the neck.
>> Jonathan (02:18):
The neck.
>> RB (02:18):
You never really think about like your
elbows or the back of your legs.
Um, but I guess that's part of being
an adult, right? Like to think of those things.
>> Jonathan (02:31):
Yeah, I, I never ever thought
about putting sunscreen on.
>> RB (02:36):
Oh my God.
>> Jonathan (02:37):
And then recently I thought, you
know, and maybe not so much for
the safety component of it, but rather
the aspect of, hey, I'm getting older. I don't Want to have
wrinkles? I don't want to have any type of.
Maybe, yeah, maybe something pop its head up and be a little.
Not good for the skin.
>> RB (02:56):
Yeah.
>> Jonathan (02:57):
Um, and I've been really trying to put a little
more body lotion on. How weird's
that? It's not really that weird, but
you got to just keep care of yourself.
>> RB (03:07):
Take care of your skin. Right. And, and I didn't,
um, I really let it down this past week.
Um, but it's a, it's
a, a lesson I learned right now. I know. Back of
the legs, elbows.
>> Jonathan (03:21):
Yeah, right.
I mean, so listeners out there, what we're
talking about right now is my man, Mr. Jonathan Pepe. It
is, it is March. It is still the first
quarter of 2025. And not only has he been on
multiple golf trips, my man just won
the 2025 member guest at
Pelican Golf Club in Clearwater,
(03:42):
Florida with our third
amigo, Brandon Katsif. So
what's victories feeling like right now, bud? Because
it's been a while since you really had that type of feeling.
>> RB (03:53):
I feel it's been a while, man. Um, I
will say, I don't know if you've realized this, but,
um, kind of cool that I've won
Member guest with my best friends. Yeah,
um, you know, we done it. I, I have a
Nicolin Woodlands, um, member
guest championship under my belt with my father.
(04:14):
I have Pikewood, um, National
under my belt with you.
>> Jonathan (04:20):
Mhm.
>> RB (04:21):
And then I have the Pelican Golf Club with Brandon Katsuff.
And um, man, does it feel good to be back in the
winter circle.
>> Jonathan (04:28):
You know, and, and for the listeners out
there, that, that, that eat this golf
up. How hard is it to win a
member guest coming out of the first
flight? You guys were in the first flight, correct?
>> RB (04:41):
Um, we were number one seed in the first flight.
>> Jonathan (04:45):
So there. That's like.
Yeah, that's impressive. It's grueling.
>> RB (04:50):
It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
And um, I mean we, we
had great matches. We had five matches, uh, two
on Thursday, two on Friday, and then
one Saturday. Um, and it
was a blast, dude. I will say though, um,
so good.
>> Jonathan (05:09):
I know, I keep. Because I'm, I'm just talking while
you're bringing points up. But I will say, and we'll pivot back
to what you just said. I like the 1,
2, 2 format of the member guests. Thursday you
play a little like Thursday 1, Thursday
1 and 2 on Friday and 2 on
Saturday. But in this case
(05:30):
it worked. Out.
>> RB (05:30):
2, 2, 1.
>> Jonathan (05:31):
Yeah. And that worked out in your favor because, bud, you had. You had a flight
to catch.
>> RB (05:35):
Well, I had a flight to catch, and, um, my
legs were absolutely on fire.
So, um. But, I mean,
I. I'll tell you a story. Right out of the gate, we're walking first
hole, Pelican or playing
a team from. From Virginia.
And, um, we're in one fairway, and I look over
(05:56):
and I said, uh. He said, have you been playing golf this year much? I
said, actually, I just got back from the Pine Needles Invitational this past
Sunday. And he said, oh, my God, I did,
too. That's awesome. I
said, you played in it? I played in it. That's pretty cool. So we're
off to a good start. Then he proceeded to ask me if I
was in the senior division. Bud, are you
(06:16):
kidding me? Did you play in the senior division?
>> Jonathan (06:19):
I mean, so what's he trying to insinuate? That you look over 50.
>> RB (06:22):
I look like I'm, uh. Yeah. That I'm over 50.
And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I think
in this thing, it's. In this instance, it's probably a bad
thing. And I looked at him and I said,
how old do you think I am? And he had said, well,
that's why I thought you were in the senior division. And I said, well, I'm 38
years old, bud.
>> Jonathan (06:40):
I mean, he overshot you by 12, dude.
>> RB (06:43):
So. Well, I think he had me at 30 or, uh, 51 or
52. So, um. But we proceeded
to win that match. Brandon and I won that match. Six and a half, two and a
half. So I, um. When we shook hands, I
proceeded to tell him, not bad for a senior division player, huh?
>> Jonathan (06:58):
Did you really?
I mean, you know.
>> RB (07:05):
Wrong.
>> Jonathan (07:05):
He's not wrong. So that's great.
So the. You know, you get into the shootout and that's when the
blood starts going. I mean, I take it back to the Pete. Old Pete
Dye days. The old Pete Dye days.
And when Tango and BK got
into the shootout, Tango had his whoop going, and his heart rate
was up to like 145. And he was just standing there. He was
just nervous as Nelly.
>> RB (07:26):
Yeah.
>> Jonathan (07:27):
Um, so what was that?
>> RB (07:30):
But there's certain people that have it and don't have it, and people
like Tango like to think they have it, but,
um, when you get under the gun and something that you
can't necessarily control, it's
a whole different ball game. Like,
there was numerous times in this shootout that I told
Brandon. They're not making it. They're just not
making it, dude. Like the. I don't care who
(07:52):
you are, what professional sport you played in your whole
entire life, how many of these shootouts are
on. Your blood's going, dude, you're, you're, you want to
puke, um, the
keys to breathe a little bit. But
I mean for, for, you know,
65 year old guys that have never been in a shootout and they
(08:12):
have a four foot putt to advance.
120 people watching you,
that's not something that you're used to. So that's why I'm not
saying somebody has it more than others, but I'm
saying no matter who you are, that's why we're playing in this
event. You're nervous. I was nervous,
yeah. I mean, I would be lying to you if I said I wasn't
(08:32):
nervous. I will say
I was very calm, but
still nervous, if that makes sense.
>> Jonathan (08:43):
Um, no, it does. I mean, I
think, you know, but you also have the experience because you
played collegiate golf. But it doesn't matter. That was my point
a couple weeks ago. Like, even when you're teeing
it up in the tournament on the first tee, if you don't have
nerves, then you shouldn't be there.
>> RB (08:59):
But, um, well, you just mentioned like Tango at Pete
Dye, his heart rate, I mean, he played at the pinnacle of sports,
right?
>> Jonathan (09:05):
Right.
>> RB (09:05):
Professional hockey. And he's nervous. Well, it's
because you, you don't know how to control those nerves
in that situation. It's not that it's a bad thing,
it's a great thing. It's just how do you control
it? And I have
found doing that would be, you know,
breathing deeply, taking deep breaths. Make sure
you're breathing because I can't tell you how many times you're standing over a
(09:28):
putt and all of a sudden you stop breathing for a second because
you're going to hit the spot.
>> Jonathan (09:33):
I know, that's, that's the most nerve wracking part.
You know, you can feel it and you actually
feel it. And look, we're amateurs,
but we still feel
that. Especially me and my legs. Dude, your
legs almost go numb. They just feel like you can't even move them when
you're over the butt. It does that. It does
that.
>> RB (09:53):
Well, I'll tell you,
I mean, I think I smoked
five cigars Thursday. Five cigars on Friday.
>> Jonathan (10:03):
Five.
>> RB (10:04):
Yeah, each day. And then Saturday
I had one before we were teeing off, leading
into teeing off. And then I had one during the nine holes.
And so we got to the shootout and I lit one up
because I'm like, that's kind of my calming. I actually felt sick,
boys. I couldn't smoke the cigar
anymore. BK was like, why aren't you smoking a
(10:24):
cigar? I'm like, because I don't want to.
>> Jonathan (10:27):
Yeah.
>> RB (10:28):
But in reality, I wanted to puke.
So, um, it was,
uh, but again, the, the tequila helped a little
bit. And like I said, you know, um,
the shootout, the format and the shootout at
Pelican was, was awesome. So I, I really liked
it. They kind of did the same thing that pike would just started
doing, um, which I would say
(10:50):
that it favors
your better handicappers.
>> Jonathan (10:54):
Yeah.
>> RB (10:55):
In their format that they have.
>> Jonathan (10:56):
Yeah. Yeah. Because you got
high cappers hitting it from 130
over water to a tucked right pin.
>> RB (11:04):
Right.
>> Jonathan (11:05):
I mean, that's chunk city all day long.
>> RB (11:06):
Right. Or blocky, you know,
or thin. I mean, there's a lot that can go on in these
shootouts and, uh, you just got to hit solid shots. Well, I
gotta hit solid shots.
>> Jonathan (11:16):
Yeah.
Well, I look forward to continuing this discussion because here
in a little bit on the show, we're gonna bring in Brandon
Katsif and we're gonna get his perspective because there's a lot
of, you know, BK is a phenomenal
golfer, uh, even better friend. But, you
know, there's times where you just got a
feeling that the guy over the putt, you're nervous
(11:36):
for him, you know, and I understand there were some big putts that
he made. So I'm, I'm, um, I'm excited to get
him on here in a little bit and, um,
and, and, and yuck it up with him and hear his perspective
briefly on that. But, you know, so you, you kind of
went, you, you went right in a Pelican. You were a little warmed up because
you had coming off the Pine Needles Invitational, which was
(11:56):
another stellar event. So you're two for two
in a, in a two week period, which is phenomenal.
So hats off. Um,
but Pine Needles was great. I mean, it was a little
different this year in terms.
>> RB (12:09):
A little different. We were, you know, we were down one
soldier, but we had another soldier fill in, uh,
temporarily.
>> Jonathan (12:16):
Um, there's nothing better than going on
a golf trip and staying under one roof
together with the boys. I mean, because then,
then the camaraderie continues through the night and
you want to go to bed at 9:00, which is pretty much par for our
course. You can, you uh, get a nice
dinner, you come back, watch a little college hoops. I was on a heater there
(12:37):
rooting for Texas State with my boy ip,
uh, a couple weeks ago. And we play some
G. But I did not play.
I did not play that well. Uh, not that you asked me how
I just played, but I am just telling you frankly, I did not. It
was putting, dude. It was putting.
>> RB (12:54):
It was very difficult.
>> Jonathan (12:56):
Well, it was. But it's also not so
difficult to where you.
You miss gimmes
and not even sniff the hole.
>> RB (13:06):
But that's why you put back to. That's why you putt
these.
>> Jonathan (13:11):
Well, I understand that. But still, it's
like, you know, you got to make those
putts.
>> RB (13:17):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (13:17):
You got to make those putts.
>> RB (13:19):
Right.
>> Jonathan (13:20):
And I didn't. So that's
that. But, um,
but we had a good time.
>> RB (13:28):
Did you end up order? I know, um, one night
we were, um, indulging in beverages
and everything else.
Um, and you had mentioned that you were
ordering a putter. Did
you do that? Did it. The order finally go through or did you
kind of just. It didn't go through, so I'm gonna let it go.
>> Jonathan (13:46):
No, I. I pulled back on that. And
the reason why I pulled back on that was
because, um, you
know what you said, you said, buddy, you were putting good with that putter. Like.
Yeah.
>> RB (13:58):
Why would you just because you put three rounds bad, bud. Why you gotta give
up on it?
>> Jonathan (14:02):
But here's the deal. We went over to Pinehurst and we
played the. The 18 hole mini putt putt
course, which was, I mean, just ass kicking all
over. But one of the things that I
always did with my putting up m
until I got these new
bentonartis. One of the things that I've always done
(14:22):
when I putted extremely well, I was, I
was a forward presser. I would forward press.
That was kind of my. You know, everyone has
their little gimmick. They do before takeoff. And that was
my gimmick. Before pulling the
trigger, I just had that little forward press, take it back,
one motion, stroke it through, no wrists
(14:42):
involved. And I just felt very
confident with that stroke. Well, I got away from that. I did get away from
that. And what I started to do was in, instead of
forward pressing, I actually would lift
the putter up and then.
>> RB (14:54):
Take it back and then take it back.
>> Jonathan (14:56):
And the reason for that was A, that was
my brain filling the void of
no forward press. But also B, I was, I
was hitting the putts a little more
solid. So I started doing that well,
when I transitioned over to this new putter
that I have, I never forward pressed.
(15:16):
I still did the same. Same herky
jerky takeaway. And I think that really,
A, had an effect on my feel, um,
because my feel is not as good, and
B, also mess with the stroke in terms
of accuracy. So when
we were on that little dang putting green, I'm putting around there,
(15:37):
you know, and if you recall, you know, I.
I started with that putter. I was just so mad at how I
was putting. I said, you know what? I'm gonna just go back to this old
stroke. And I just started forward pressing,
boom. Forward press, boom. Forward press, boom.
So Sunday at Southern Pines, I put it
into motion, and
(15:58):
I made a couple nice putts. I made a couple great
putts. Specifically, um, on the back nine,
save par. And the bottom line
is this. The ball was starting
directly on my line with topspin.
And it felt so natural to me to do this.
So that's what I'm gonna start. Because I hear
(16:19):
it. It's like, oh, uh, you know, are you sure?
But no, that's. That's where I'm
at right now with this putter. So I did not order a new putter.
>> RB (16:28):
Good.
>> Jonathan (16:28):
I'm keeping a putter.
>> RB (16:29):
It deserves a chance. I mean, it's.
>> Jonathan (16:30):
It's.
>> RB (16:31):
It's been a good ride.
>> Jonathan (16:32):
It's a great putter. It's a great.
>> RB (16:35):
It's a betting already. It's a great putter, but
you can't just give up on it after a bad showing.
You ever think maybe it was you? Which clearly it might.
>> Jonathan (16:44):
It was 100. It was 100
me. And, you know, so
I'm happy.
>> RB (16:50):
Not the arrow, the Indian.
>> Jonathan (16:52):
Right, right, right.
But overall, the swing and this week, you know, the
weather here that we are having right now is
phenomenal. Specifically today. And. And, you know,
this whole past week, earlier in the week. And,
um, so I got out a little bit, played a little G
swing.
>> RB (17:11):
You did play a little bit?
>> Jonathan (17:13):
Well, yeah, yesterday I played it at the
Pines.
>> RB (17:17):
Really?
>> Jonathan (17:18):
Wednesday. Yeah. Wednesday. Yeah. Did you play with
a couple boys, Poke?
>> RB (17:23):
Oh, uh. Nice, bud.
>> Jonathan (17:24):
Yeah. So my, um,
swing's feeling. My swing's feeling good. I'm not worried about the ball striking.
Now, one thing I did do, this is for the
technical, um, golfers, is I had a really
hard transition to these SM10s, which I
told you about.
>> RB (17:41):
Hm.
>> Jonathan (17:42):
So I start. I built a new one. I, uh, started with my
46, and I put the KBS610
wedge shaft in instead of the
dynamic gold wedge flex, which isn't even wedge flex.
And I'm hitting balls in the sim.
And number one, the flight is a little lower for
sure. But number two, my distance is there
(18:03):
now, again in the control. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to take that same setup and I'm going to apply it to
my 50, uh, 8,
my 54, and my 50. So
now I'm gonna have 46, 50, 54, 58,
all with these 610 shafts and wedge shafts.
Because I couldn't get the ball. I couldn't like
(18:24):
my 54. My new SM 1054, it just was going
everywhere. Everywhere. And left, right,
short. I mean, we're talking like under 100 yards, and it's
like 110 carry club for me, you know?
So with that being said,
uh, I'm continuing our trend of member guests this
weekend with my pops on Sunday.
(18:45):
Yeah, Sunday starts the, uh, chessy
member guest in South Carolina. And my dad said,
hey, you want to be my guest? And I said, I will be
your guest. So this is the first time me and
pops have played in a member guest together, which is gonna
be great. And it's exciting. It is.
>> RB (19:02):
It's fun.
>> Jonathan (19:03):
And, you know, I just. I just look forward
to it.
>> RB (19:07):
Um, do you think that, like, you think you'll
ever get disappointed with him throughout the round, or you think you're gonna try
to, like, be supportive of the guy?
>> Jonathan (19:15):
Yeah, be supportive, because that's what he needs. You know,
he'll. He'll.
>> RB (19:19):
He doesn't need you to beat him up. Um, he'll beat himself up.
>> Jonathan (19:22):
Exactly. And I'll be there for support because,
you know, and. And the old man can putt.
He can. He can roll it. So he's gonna
be getting pops. He'll be playing up. I
don't even know what flight we're gonna be in. I mean, I'm thinking
maybe three, four.
>> RB (19:40):
Right.
>> Jonathan (19:40):
Um, and hopefully I'm catching one or two,
but you get one or two.
>> RB (19:45):
I don't know if you end up getting one being in the third or fourth flight, but
they're gonna be playing off your balloon.
>> Jonathan (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to be getting any, but,
um. But I'm looking forward to it and.
>> RB (19:55):
Well, that's great. I'm excited for you to be in the member gets chessies.
That'll be a nice one if you can get that under the belt.
Um, but I would agree with you
on, uh, back to your little wedge talk there conversation
um, you know, I've. I've.
As of my last three wedge sets, I've
gone, um, you know, my standard
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6.5 in my 50.
And then a little softer, a little lighter,
uh, the 6.0 and the 54. And then in
my 60, I'm actually using the, um,
S400, which is really soft and light,
and did that 60. You should saw some of the
wedge shots I hit with that 60. And it's
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a couple of these matches, bud, down there.
>> Jonathan (20:39):
Oh, I mean, you got that thing. You open that thing
wide open.
>> RB (20:43):
Wide open, dude. There was one. Brandon even told me, he said, I'm so proud
of you, because I got up and down, boys. It was dead.
And he told me he was so proud of me. Made me. Made my heart a little
warm.
>> Jonathan (20:54):
Well, you do. I mean, you know, and that's. That's one thing
you do well with that club, dude, is you. You get that little
thing up. It sits on a dime.
It sits on a dime.
How's it. How's it feeling with the, uh, with the new
Pro V?
>> RB (21:09):
I love it, dude. I love the new Pro V.
Um, on
Thursday, we literally, we had 30 mile an hour
winds. And I will tell you, I noticed,
um, that was the day at the Bay Hill where everybody. It was like
most cumulative score by PGA Tour players, like 180
over par. And it was 30 miles an hour where
we were. And I will tell you, that Pro V, one
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downwind never,
like, went up on me, if that makes sense
for people that understand the golf ball, like,
can get too spinny and get caught up in the wind and just
sail. Um, never did that
on me. And into the wind. Now, if you hit it
solid or it's going to hold its line.
But even some of my mishits, it still held its lot.
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Now, there were a couple that were really bad mishits
that really went. But, um, for the most part,
that ball so good.
>> Jonathan (22:02):
What, what. What do you. How you feeling about your driver?
>> RB (22:06):
Happy?
>> Jonathan (22:06):
Yeah.
>> RB (22:07):
Happy? Yeah.
>> Jonathan (22:07):
Yeah. I think it's really. Well,
so it's. It's.
It's noticeable. I mean, that ball is
noticeable. I think more like you just said in the
wind.
>> RB (22:19):
100 for into the wind. Indeed around the
greens. Yeah, those things here. I love
that. So thank you, Eric Childers. We appreciate it.
But you hooked it up. We appreciate you.
Um, I wonder if Titleists will
use my image for one of their ad. Whatever. Um,
you know, because when you win events, they put you up
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on their.
>> Jonathan (22:42):
Yeah, I mean, you're forever ingrained in
the Pelican Golf Club. And the best part is, my man
BK just joined within the last six months, so this is like a
rookie initiation.
>> RB (22:51):
This is not. This is not a great
look for him. Um, so.
But hey, we played our tail off, I'll tell you
that. It wasn't. And that's the crazy thing. It's not like
we made a ton of birdies. We didn't make a ton of birdies.
Literally, we did not. I. I mean, I
made maybe
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in five matches, I made. I didn't have a birdie the
first day. Second day, I
think I had two
in. In 18 holes. And then the third
day and nine holes, I had two. So I. I had four
birdies and five match. It's not like we tore it up.
It's just we played really solid, and we did not
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make a bunch of mistakes that could have been made that were
made by other people, if that makes sense.
>> Jonathan (23:37):
Yeah.
>> RB (23:38):
Um, but our birdies were at, ah, timely
fashions, and we'll get into that.
>> Jonathan (23:43):
Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you gotta. You gotta
ham an egg it, man. In these events, you gotta ham and egg
it. And. And it sounds like that's what you guys did.
So I want to get beat cats on. On
here, um, and hear his. His
perspective. So we'll. We'll
allow him to enter the chat as soon as he
can, which is great.
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Which is great.
>> RB (24:07):
But the thing. It was exciting. It was. It was
fun. Um, the shootout was exciting. I mean, there was a lot that
happened.
Um, you
know, BK made a two and a half foot
putt, uh, to advance us,
and it came m down to a two and a half foot putt
to win. And so we'll get into
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that.
>> Jonathan (24:29):
Yeah, when he.
>> RB (24:30):
When he joins us out and chat about
it.
>> Jonathan (24:33):
Um, the. The PGA Tour event
was a great watch. I mean, seeing Russell Henley get that thing
done, I thought more cow was gonna do it. I really
did. Um,
but, man, it was. It was great. Oh, here
we are.
>> RB (24:48):
There he is. Look at him smiling.
>> Speaker C (24:51):
Why not, right? Nice hat, Pep.
>> RB (24:55):
I should have had the sport coat on, bud. That would have been a nice touch of
that hat.
>> Speaker C (24:59):
How come I can't see Bash?
>> Jonathan (25:01):
Well, uh, yeah, my, my.
>> RB (25:03):
I'm having technical. Thank you.
We.
>> Jonathan (25:07):
We wanted. We wanted to try this out. Bk,
congratulations. Uh, the man, the myth,
the legend is here on chasing birdies right now.
And, uh, dude, what? It's like, it's
like, you know, what's the feeling right now, bud? This is a big
deal, especially six months into your membership.
>> Speaker C (25:24):
Yeah, I hope that was the
joke. That was the joke around the club is that. I hope,
uh, that I enjoyed it because it would be my first and my last
since the, uh, newbie got in and, and, you
know, Pepe and I were able to be victorious.
>> Jonathan (25:39):
Well, I gotta ask you, because all of our friends that. Listen, you
know, we. I
mentioned earlier on the show that you're a phenomenal golfer,
even better person. But I
heard. I heard some chit chatting that, uh, a lot
of people were a little nervy about you with this
two and a half footer you had to make. You had to
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make it. I mean, and you made it.
>> Speaker C (26:03):
I did. I did.
>> Jonathan (26:04):
What, uh, you know, what were you feeling? I mean, a
little nervy, of course.
>> Speaker C (26:09):
You know, obviously get the nerves going. Um,
we putted well all week. That's what Jonathan and I were talking about.
We, we had a flight home afterwards, so we got to.
To recap, uh, the weekend and
Southwest. Yeah, of course, Little
chick fil a for the champions dinner.
But it was. The greens were so good.
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I, um, mean, Bash, you were there in January, but
they were on another level from then. You know, you
just hit your line and made the stroke.
And honestly, we didn't miss any short putts all
week, so we had the confidence going in and we felt like the
format, you know, being in the first flight,
sometimes you don't even get to, uh, you know,
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with strokes and things like that, you don't even get a chance to putt. So
with the format, we were. We were really excited about it, so. And
I was excited that I did make the putt too.
>> RB (26:58):
So I think everyone was,
um. Yeah, I mean, the shootout
was. It favored us, I would
say, not us, but it favors the
better handicappers. Um, anybody that's hitting from
170, I think they said like 0 to 6 handicap, 1
to 170, and then 150 and then 130
where your handicap fell. And,
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um, it was all over water.
Uh, tucked right pin.
So I was first to hit. And seven iron. It
was like a cross downwind. Seven iron to like
20ft. And then BK almost
made the darn thing. Um, so I had a little
tap in and then we advanced.
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And, um,
BK said, you think seven iron? And I said, yeah, I think that's
what I just hit. And,
um, thank God he did not hit it
good, because he. That ball might still be
bouncing down the highway somewhere over the clubhouse.
>> Speaker C (27:56):
He out hit da on the back.
>> RB (27:57):
Porch and he hit it a little
Heavy. And we were all yelling, go, go.
Because it did. It looked like it was just gonna land
10ft short of the.
The. The, um, ledge of the water. We thought it was gonna
be in the water. A lot of people did. And, dude,
for whatever reason, this thing carried, and it hit right
on this knob, and it just
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bounced, and people
started going nuts. Well, here. It almost went in.
>> Speaker C (28:25):
Yeah.
>> RB (28:25):
No way.
>> Speaker C (28:28):
They thought it was in, which would have been sick.
>> RB (28:31):
It went over the lip.
>> Jonathan (28:33):
How far?
>> RB (28:34):
15Ft.
>> Jonathan (28:35):
Okay.
>> RB (28:37):
Rolled out 15ft because the wind was going that way, too.
So it was like. So
then I had a putt. It was a big snapper
right to left. And I just wanted
to mosey it down there because nobody was making a two. And I kept saying that.
Nobody's making a two. Nobody is. I mean,
four foot putt in that. You're
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not making it. You're just not.
And, um, I hit it, like, sure. I hit it two and a
half feet by. And I'm, like, so disappointed.
>> Jonathan (29:05):
Here we go.
>> RB (29:06):
And I could tell BK was thinking about it a little
bit, and I'm like, you know what? Our caddy was
great, dude. He was like, listen, you've made these all week. You're
good. Our caddy was great. He had two names, for
whatever reason.
John and Chase, I think, right?
>> Speaker C (29:21):
Jaz.
>> RB (29:21):
But yeah, Chaz.
>> Speaker C (29:23):
And he spent three days with the guy, Chaz.
>> RB (29:25):
Well, he had John on his bib, but he wanted us to call him Ch.
Chaz, like, so.
BK, go up there. I closed my eyes. I looked at the crowd,
close my eyes. Da closed his
eyes. We found out, and,
uh, hit the bottom of the cup,
bud. Ah.
>> Jonathan (29:43):
Uh, so you closed the eyes and Da was there. That's
phenomenal.
>> Speaker C (29:46):
Yeah. Da came to pick us up for the. To take us to the
airport. Little did he know he was. He was in for a
treat.
>> Jonathan (29:52):
He probably loved it. He probably lit up. Ah, a cigar.
>> Speaker C (29:55):
Did you see the, uh. Did you see the video when we were
walking out to the shootout? Um, I just did a
little, little video. It was on my story. And I turned
around and I look back, and Da is right behind me.
And he gives me the thumbs up. I said, dad, get up on the
porch with everyone else.
>> RB (30:11):
You're even supposed to be here at all.
>> Jonathan (30:14):
He's inside the ropes cheering the boys
on.
>> RB (30:17):
So then we went back for the three teams advance. First
team hit in the water, which is not a great
visual for me to go next. And I
was really amped up, so I'm like, with. Wait. With How?
BK just hit that last one and got over. I'm smoking eight
iron.
>> Speaker C (30:32):
No, he took seven and out. I said, Pep, hit this. Hit the eight iron,
man. Just swing it.
>> RB (30:37):
So I smoked eight iron.
>> Jonathan (30:38):
So you hit eight.
>> RB (30:39):
Um, and it went
to 20ft, left of the stick.
And another, uh, team hit it to,
like, right at the stick.
>> Speaker C (30:50):
Pretty good, right? Actually where you were almost putting from last time,
second round.
>> RB (30:53):
And I think
they went first, and they. They hit it by like four
feet. BK hit it by, like two and a
half feet. And I'm thinking to myself, this guy's not making
it. Like, there is zero chance he's making it. Not
because he's not good. He just made one. But they're.
It's two teams. The. The pressure is
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you can't make it. So he misses it
low side. And I'm sitting there thinking to myself, well, if I miss it, we go
back and hit another shot. So at least we got that in. For
us, it was a right to left
turn, center cut. Yep,
done. We win, boys.
>> Jonathan (31:30):
Oh, um, man.
>> RB (31:31):
So it felt good.
>> Jonathan (31:32):
What a feat. And the trophy looked great. What is it, a
picture of the clubhouse?
>> Speaker C (31:36):
Yeah. So it was in the, um, when we were
there, it was on display in the, um, men's
locker room. But, yeah, it's a replica of the clubhouse. But
it was. It was a little heavy. Pepe's making fun of me. Justin
came out, I took my one hand off of it, put my arm around
him. My hand was shaking a little bit, bud. I
didn't want to drop that thing.
>> Jonathan (31:55):
Yeah, you guys. So what do you
get? Like, what did you get? Is that what you get that trophy or they
make.
>> Speaker C (32:01):
That trophy stays, uh, there.
>> Jonathan (32:03):
And it's on your name on it?
>> Speaker C (32:04):
Yeah. In the history books. Pepe and,
and cats. If, um, but we get
replicas. Supposedly they're shipping us replicas.
We got 500 pro shop credit, which I
think Pepe and I bought a hat. And then we. We took care
of the kids and the wives since. Since they were back home.
>> Jonathan (32:22):
Yeah, get them more swag.
>> Speaker C (32:24):
A couple. Couple bottles of scotch. That, that,
um, yeah,
so.
>> Jonathan (32:31):
So winning the member guest poses the question
of, you got to bring the
guest back after you won. Right? I mean, you
got to.
>> Speaker C (32:40):
The best is. The best is. He says to me, and I don't know
what round it was, but we're walking and. And
honestly, the event was so good. Like,
phenomenal. Great flight. We had great
competition. Uh, we lost a match. We tied a
match. We tied two matches.
>> RB (32:55):
Right Two, uh, matches. Lost match and two
wins.
>> Speaker C (32:58):
Yeah, it was. The competition was great. First fight was just
great people, but we're walking. And Pepe says, well, but
you're, uh, out of luck next year. And I said, what? He said, it's summer's
40th birthday. I said, I'm not out of luck,
buddy. You're out of luck. I'll be here.
>> Jonathan (33:13):
Well, you might have to just take her to Florida.
>> RB (33:15):
Yeah, well, that's what we might be doing. I might
be. I might be out of the Pine Needles Invitational next year,
too. Oh, uh, maybe. Maybe that's the play.
I don't know.
>> Jonathan (33:25):
I mean, here we go.
>> Speaker C (33:26):
Did you hear about the Pine Needles Invitational bash?
>> Jonathan (33:28):
Did you hear about this?
>> RB (33:29):
Yep, I did.
>> Jonathan (33:31):
Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was not ideal,
but it got.
>> Speaker C (33:35):
It fired up a little bit. I was. It worked out in
my favor. He played really well that match, so.
>> Jonathan (33:40):
Yeah, he wanted redemption. That's right. He had a good,
good partner and. Yeah, didn't want to let him down.
And, uh, and he got warmed up, though,
in Piners. That's what I said.
>> RB (33:50):
Yeah, that was a warm up.
>> Jonathan (33:52):
That was the warm up in the.
>> RB (33:53):
Normal division in the under 50
division.
>> Speaker C (33:57):
I also think that was a, uh, fun part about it, is
coming in kind of cold with no expectations. Right. I mean, we always
want to win. We always want to play our best. But coming in from the
winter, they were joking. They kept saying, these northerners
come down here and fleeced us. Which I haven't really heard that
term, but.
>> Jonathan (34:12):
Well, that's true, though.
>> Speaker C (34:13):
Good side of it.
>> Jonathan (34:14):
Because I bet you when. When. When was the last time you played
before this.
>> Speaker C (34:18):
That event with you at Pelican in
January? Yeah, first of January.
>> Jonathan (34:24):
So you took two months off. Did you touch a club in between
there?
>> Speaker C (34:27):
A couple times. You know, just hitting into the
simulators at Nemacol with the kids when the kids had lessons,
so that was about it.
>> Jonathan (34:35):
That's impressive, man. Well, I tell
you what, it couldn't have happened to two better people, man.
>> Speaker C (34:41):
You know, had to get with you guys. You know, you
guys both have. Have one under your belt muscles. Um,
has a couple under his belt. J.R. you know, had to get off
the. The goose egg, so. Yeah, happy to join the
club.
>> Jonathan (34:54):
Yeah. You got it done. I love it. I saw the picture. I
was. I was. My phone was. I don't know where it was. And I pulled my
m. And I see you guys standing there with this trophy. I'm like, oh, my
God, they want it all. They Want it
all did.
>> Speaker C (35:06):
Uh, how about this? You know, we win our flight and
I go to buy cigars. I'm so excited. You know, I smoked
one cigar, um, because it was a long round, because it was a
shotgun on that day. I didn't smoke on the course the days
before. Um, so I go, I'm so excited to go in the locker
room, I buy two cigars. I come out to find Pepe.
I'm like, dude, I got you this cigar. Like, let's smoke it for the shootout.
He's like, no.
>> Jonathan (35:27):
Yeah.
>> Speaker C (35:28):
And I'm like, couldn't do it.
>> RB (35:30):
Couldn't do it. I couldn't, I couldn't do it. I
couldn't stomach it. I didn't want to stomach it. I smoked
enough and I felt like if I smoked that one, I would have
puked.
>> Speaker C (35:39):
So that. Then I got nervous Bash, because I'm like, wait a
second. Yeah, we gotta, we gotta keep it
status quo, right? Which Pepe. I mean, cigars in Pepe's mouth.
So, uh, that, that made me more nervous than the two footer.
>> Jonathan (35:50):
Yeah. Yeah. Like, what's going on with this guy? I mean, it
was seen yesterday.
>> RB (35:54):
Our, our, our match
on Saturday was a
blast. We played with his friend tj. I mean, we had
so much fun and we just drank and yucked it up.
But, dude, it was out of the
gate, number 10. We played. TJ's
partner makes this 30 footer. And I said to TJ, I said,
literally, nobody's made like, that kind of putt on us
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yet. So no surprise today, right?
BK has a 28 footer. He jars
it, so we have the hole. And I'm
like, all right, that's. That's nice, because that's kind of sets the
tone, right?
>> Jonathan (36:29):
Yeah.
>> RB (36:31):
We win 11 with a par 12. We tie
13. TJ's partner stuffs it to
like a foot and a half, and I hit it to
like 12ft.
>> Speaker C (36:40):
It was a gimmick, tight.
>> RB (36:42):
And so we give him his,
and I make that. So we have
it go to 14. Uh,
I hit it to, uh,
Brandon hit a bunker shot to What? Brandon, like
10ft, something?
>> Speaker C (36:58):
Yeah, probably.
>> RB (36:59):
And then I hit a little. I had a wedge shot out of the
fairway. I hit it to a foot. They gave it to me.
Well, then he hits it and he hits it
to a foot and we give it to him. So it was a really good
match. Um, and then Brandon ended up having
a sick two putt on
16. Uh, he was on the back left part of the
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green pin. Was way front, right up on
top of the hill. It was really good.
Um, and we have 17, and we lost
18, four to three and a half. And we have
to match four and a half. Uh, four and a half. Won the flight by half a point. I don't know
if you knew that, Bash. Half a point.
>> Jonathan (37:36):
Half a point.
>> Speaker C (37:37):
Sc. It was crazy. It
was crazy, but a lot of fun.
>> Jonathan (37:42):
Well, man, congrats on the win, bk.
And I. I look forward to playing
golf with you again, man. I just want to. I just want to kind of like, you know,
feel that. Feel that energy.
>> Speaker C (37:52):
Well, I appreciate it. It feels good to be back on the pod, but
it's been, uh, it's been, what, three years?
>> RB (37:57):
Three years.
>> Jonathan (37:58):
Yeah. You know, and I said that today. I was
like, I want to try this. I want to bring my man on
and, and. And get him telling this perspective,
you know, and. And seeing you.
>> Speaker C (38:08):
Yeah, we appreciate it.
>> RB (38:11):
BK was buzzing, bud. It felt good. I mean, the guy was
back, um,
wasn't on his phone. I. I did
yell at him in the. In the shootout.
I mean, my man did.
>> Speaker C (38:25):
I wanted to capture the moment bash.
>> RB (38:26):
You know, he's taking videos and he's, you
know, texting, and I'm
like, will you get off your phone, dude? Like, yeah, we are
literally in the shootout right now. And he's like, what?
Just leave me alone. I wasn't even hitting.
>> Speaker C (38:39):
I wasn't even.
>> RB (38:42):
If this is how he had settled in, let him go.
>> Jonathan (38:45):
Yeah, just let him be.
>> RB (38:46):
And, uh, it was a blast,
dude. I mean, we. We.
I don't think we yelled at each other.
Not once. It was actually fun,
bk.
>> Speaker C (38:56):
Yeah, we had a great time. Seriously. It was it from top to
bottom. I mean, the.
>> RB (39:00):
The event was.
>> Speaker C (39:01):
Was so good. They took great care of us. The
food, amazing organization. I mean, everything was on time.
Every tea time was just
so. It just made things so much fun.
>> RB (39:12):
And, yeah, Justin and his team were absolutely out of this
world. I mean, from the. From the gifts check in
to, I mean, to the food, to.
To the timing of everything, to the caddies,
to the drinks set up, everything. And
Was incredible. And the best part about it, dude, is they make you feel
like you're a member, too, which is a cool feeling. As a
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guest, I go a lot of places a guest.
And, um, that was one of the best experiences
I've had. So it's really cool.
So thank you, bk.
>> Speaker C (39:42):
Yeah, you're welcome, bud.
>> RB (39:43):
Are you going to start? We're going to cry a little bit here.
>> Speaker C (39:46):
No, I'M not doing it like last time, huh?
>> Jonathan (39:49):
No. Well, like I said, man, congrats on the
dub. And uh, you
know, I guess I'll see on the golf course sometime soon.
>> Speaker C (39:57):
Can't wait to do it, boys. Thanks for, thanks for having me on. I appreciate you.
>> Jonathan (40:00):
Yeah, thanks for jumping on here, bk.
>> Speaker C (40:02):
All right, have a great day.
>> RB (40:03):
I'll see you next year, Pelican bud.
>> Jonathan (40:05):
Yeah, you got to. That's. That's the rule.
>> RB (40:10):
Summer's 40th birthday is at Pelican.
>> Speaker C (40:15):
All right, boys, have a good night.
>> Jonathan (40:16):
I have ocb. I see you.
That's great. What a great story.
So that's that in terms of that
perspective, um,
I want to ask you. This week kicks off today. The
Player. The players is a great, great
tournament.
>> RB (40:34):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (40:34):
Who you got?
>> RB (40:36):
Well, real quick, before we get into this, did you see,
did you even notice Jordan Spieth and
Ricky Fowler did not get into.
>> Jonathan (40:44):
I did.
>> RB (40:44):
Bay Hill, huh?
>> Jonathan (40:45):
Uh-huh.
>> RB (40:46):
So that was pretty interesting, dude. I mean, you know, that's
a, that's a big sponsor
invite, uh, event, so that was interesting to see.
Um, I wonder if this win for BK
and I gets us a little sponsored invites to certain places,
but whatever. Um, this week I
am actually gonna go with Wyndham, uh,
Clerk. You like
(41:09):
Windham after last year? I think
it was last year when he, he lifted out on 18
to, to advance to a playoff.
I just like his game, dude. And I think I like him as a
person. I'm pulling for him. So. Wyndham Clark it
is.
>> Jonathan (41:25):
I like that. I like that pick.
Um, I think I'm gonna
roll with. I think Oberg is gonna be in a
mix. I just think he's.
Yeah, I think he's going to be in the mix. And then some of these
other, like Michael Kim, you know, he played good past
weekend. Corey Connors played well.
(41:46):
Um, someone like that could really kind of chase it up too. But
I think I'm going to go with Oberg. I think this is going to be his year. He
got so close last year to winning some of these big
events. Um,
you know, the Masters specifically in the battle with, with
Scheffler. So I just think, uh, that's my
pick for this week.
>> RB (42:04):
I love it, dude. That's a great pick.
And um, and he'll win.
>> Jonathan (42:09):
And I'll text Scovy and I'll say, scov.
Great dub. And he'll say, thanks, Ryan.
And you know, and that'll be that.
>> RB (42:18):
Yeah, I love it, dude. I freaking love it.
>> Jonathan (42:20):
And, um, dude, how about Keegan
Bradley, though?
>> RB (42:24):
He's playing hot. Is he gonna make the team? Dude,
is he gonna have to make, is he gonna make the Ryder
cup team, is the question? What do you think?
>> Jonathan (42:34):
I mean, the way he's been
playing or the way. I guess it just remains to be seen
how he, how he kind of navigates,
um, through this, this season. But, I mean,
that'll be here before you know it. Um,
but he had a hell of a round on Sunday. I think he shot
64. Had, uh, a chance to shoot
63 climbing up that leaderboard. Yeah, dude,
(42:57):
Bradley's a, he's a student.
>> RB (42:59):
Yeah.
>> Jonathan (43:00):
Um, and I think that, I think he brings an energy to
it.
>> RB (43:04):
Well, he's passionate. He loves America. Not to say
don't, but he's passionate about America. He loves it, dude.
He gets really into it, and he's kind of been doubted his
whole career, which is, I think, gives him that little bit
of one. Um, you know,
a lot of those guys haven't been doubted their whole career. They're just kind
of expected to do well, uh, type thing.
(43:24):
So, um, question for you
is, um, I doubt you're, you're keeping track
of it, but I know that you got a skin
at the Pine Needles Invitational. What was it?
How much was it?
>> Jonathan (43:38):
Uh, I think it was 320. And
it was on number four,
uh, pine needles, which is, you know, kind of
one. Well, yeah, but it's kind of surprising because I hit,
like, wedge in there, so.
>> RB (43:51):
Yeah, but a lot of people hit that false front or air mail
it. So, um, that's a great, that's a great skinny there.
But so my question to you is, I know that this was
talked about in the first episode of the year, and
we're, you know, we're going to keep track of our birdies for the year.
So have you been doing that?
>> Jonathan (44:07):
I, I, I thought about this after Pine
Needles, and, um, I think
that I have to go through to
really give you an answer of where I'm at for the birdie count for the
year, uh, which I can do, um, because I
know that in the practice round, I
had, I believe, off the top of my head,
(44:29):
four birdies, um,
in that round. Now, first day in the
Invitational, I made one
birdie number two,
and outside of that third day, mid
pines, I didn't make any
birdies. And day four
at Southern
(44:51):
Pines, I made
one birdie, which doesn't really count because it was auctioned
shot. So I think the fair.
>> RB (45:00):
We need birdies of what you've done.
>> Jonathan (45:01):
So four. So ten. I'm. I'm at ten because I was at
six.
>> RB (45:05):
Okay, so I, I do have a few more rounds on
you.
>> Jonathan (45:09):
That's okay.
>> RB (45:10):
Um, but you're gonna have a few more on. You know, we might
be matched up after. You remember guest this week at
Chichesi. Um, I'm at 19
for the year, so I have 19 birdies for the year.
>> Jonathan (45:21):
Okay, so you're, you're tracking this. I like
it.
>> RB (45:25):
Um, well, I just keep in my phone and after
the round, I just add.
>> Jonathan (45:29):
Yeah, I think I'm.
>> RB (45:30):
If, if I, you know, if
I.
>> Jonathan (45:33):
Yeah, I think it's a good exercise. Everybody should do it.
>> RB (45:36):
I think I have zero eagles. Don't know if
you have any eagles.
>> Jonathan (45:41):
No, I don't have any eagles, so
I don't have a look.
>> RB (45:46):
But with that being said, guys, I mean, this weekend
is going to be beautiful. And I think that I might
be dabbling on Saturday with my son
Parker. Nine holes at the
wonderful Nemicolon Resort. Um,
so make sure you go to nemacolin.com, check them out. It's
starting to get nice here. And you know what
(46:06):
that means. Good
golf, good drinks, nice
pools. Uh, they've got it all at Nemacolin. So
make sure you go to nemacolin.com, tell them we sent you over
there and make your reservation
for this spring or summer.
>> Jonathan (46:23):
Yeah, great spot. And I've been up there
hitting it up a little bit, man, with the
trackman. So,
um, definitely check it out.
And hopefully you guys
are going to be tuning in this weekend to the Players
Championship, which is just, uh,
a great event.
And outside of that, NFL free agency is officially
(46:46):
kicked off at this point, which a lot of big moves. I mean, the
Steelers doing this big deal with DK Metcalf that came out
of left field, but not really well, and I'm here for
it.
>> RB (46:55):
Uh, well, that's great, dude. It's a great
signing. Don't have a freaking quarterback to throw him the ball.
So fantastic, uh, signing. Um, but
who is getting him the ball? We don't know
that.
>> Jonathan (47:06):
Well, right now we don't know that, like this second. But.
But we might, by the time this.
>> RB (47:11):
Episode drops, a big signing. But here's my
point. That's a huge signing. Don't get me
wrong. Would be even better if he had somebody
to throw him the ball.
>> Jonathan (47:20):
Yeah.
>> RB (47:21):
As of right now, you don't
have Justin Fields, you don't have Russell Wilson,
and you don't have anybody else. So Is he
throwing the ball to himself? I don't know. Love, um,
the signing. I mean you're looking at. Look at those receivers
they have, man. If Pickens can get his head out
of his butt and pay attention and focus
(47:41):
and um, you know, be a normal human being
on the, on the field and not go nuts on people, I think
that this could be a stout receiver
group that they have with this Metcalf
edition. But again, none of this matters if you
don't have a quarterback that can get them the ball.
>> Jonathan (47:58):
Yeah.
>> RB (47:59):
So, um, you know, I, I
hope they, they sign somebody good at that QB
position of like under 30 would
be fantastic.
>> Jonathan (48:08):
Yeah, no, it's what it's here, it's.
>> RB (48:11):
Josh Allen, uh, 350 million dollar
contract, highest paid quarterback of all time.
>> Jonathan (48:17):
Well deserved.
>> RB (48:18):
I think 275 is guaranteed. Or
I mean 265. It's. It's something like that is
guaranteed. Which
someone. Yeah, yeah.
>> Jonathan (48:29):
I mean Miles Garrett with that contract. That's so
stupid. That is like 40 a
year. I mean Cleveland just loves burning
money. Look at their last couple big moves. Desean
Watson, what a bust that was.
>> RB (48:43):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (48:43):
Terrible.
>> RB (48:43):
Mhm.
>> Jonathan (48:45):
But who am I to judge?
>> RB (48:48):
With that being said, dude, I want you
and your dad to have the best time, um,
at your chessy play.
Well, enjoy it.
Smile.
>> Jonathan (48:59):
That's right.
>> RB (49:00):
Um, because you're playing golf with your father,
which again, that is so cool. Think about that, dude. You're playing
a member guest with your dad. Yeah, there's no other
sports. I mean, what are you gonna do? Pickleball now we're. Hey, where's my
shoes? I mean you might play golf and
pickleball shoes, but
um, but please enjoy that. That's
(49:20):
gonna be a fun one for you and a memorable
one. So um, I wish you guys the best. I hope you make
tons of birds. I hope you make m. I hope our next report
you come back and say I have 20 birdies.
>> Jonathan (49:31):
Yeah, me too. I'm gonna be forward pressing.
>> RB (49:34):
So.
>> Jonathan (49:36):
Yes.
That's it guys. And it is
officially spring season here. Turn the
clocks ahead and we are right
staring down golfers alley. So
as always, we appreciate you
listening to this week's episode of Chasing Birdies.
And thank you to Allie Emily Evo over at Simpler
(49:56):
Media for putting this thing together. Jacqueline DiPaterio, Ray
London, for all your social media help. You
guys have a blessed weekend. Play some G, watch some
G. And we will catch y'all in two.
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