September 27, 2025 • 10 mins
Originally aired on September 27th, 2025. Doug's insightful interview with Art Stricklin, for your listening pleasure.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, welcome back seven to seventeen on Sports Talk
seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thank you for listening. I want to get Art Strickland
on the phone pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I think I'm gonna go ahead and bump him up
to this hour if we can get him on. I'm
waiting to confirm when he's ready. Like I told Frankie,
he's he's a he's kind of all over the place
up there, I'm sure, and he might be just starting
his day now.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I doubt that though.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He's probably been on the golf course at the at
the facility there for at least an hour, hour and
a half, and I'm just trying to confirm.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That he's good to take a call.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Going back to kind of right here, what we've got
going on around here. Like I said, last day of
teal season is tomorrow. So if you're gonna get in
another lick on those birds, you either got to go.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
If you're yeah, you might be finished.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
If you've already if you've already finished your teal hunt
for this morning and you're headed back home or whatever,
give me a call, tell me how it's been. Art said, fine,
So go ahead and ring him up with you, Frankie.
I'm go ahead and talk to him and see what's
going on up there. See what happened yesterday? That's what
I want to know. Speaking of yesterday, Forrest fox Pro
calls yesterday around eleven to tell me that he wasn't
(01:12):
going to say, and well he finally did tell me
where he went. But I don't want to. I don't
want to jinx it and mess it up for him
and draw a crowd, which would actually before is that him? Okay,
let's see him up. You got to click him over
for me. Tick talk, tick talk. Oh he's yeah, click
(01:34):
him on, Come on, Frankie, cut him. Looks there we go.
I can't get him from there.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
There we go. Finally we got you RT. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Ohday morning at the writer cap fifty morning by glad
to hop on him for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, So what happened? What happened yesterday? What? What? Where?
Did the wheels all off?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Because none of those matches we lost even got to
the sixteenth t.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, I just your world number one player goes oh,
and two your ture fireplug.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Bryson goes, oh, and two, I mean you're just not
gonna win like that.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
No, I mean you're just not you know, And I
just think that you've got to you gotta play better.
But you know, for.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Scottie Scheffer, who is as hot as anybody on the
planet and only won two years ago, for him to
do zip on zip shocking, No one.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Way to put that?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Can you do?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You have to only blame him. Did he not get
any help or what? Did he just play that port?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, Russell Henley did not help him at all. Yeah,
which face that Russell Henry was an anchor dragged him down.
So you know, I just you picked guys on the
team you think are gonna be good putters, and.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Then they don't. And that's why everything.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Which long the team, That's why uh, Sam Burns on
the team before Russell Henley's on the team, because they're
renowned as good putters. But or it was ugly yesterday.
I gotta say I've seen that before. I mean, this
seems like most Ryder cups I've seen they make part
then even yesterday afternoon, Scottie Scheffer rolled into twenty footer
(03:26):
by far as long as part of the week. Yes
the afternoon and then John Brown uh slams in a
twenty foot right on top of them. So even we
make put on.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Top of us.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, you just can't ever, you can never let your
foot off the gas in this tournament, in this competition,
can you?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
No, you can. And you know this is a veteran team.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I really felt like they had the experience and uh
in you know, uh big game action, and certainly that's
been the case. I mean they just been uh nails.
I mean rom is quite great. Tell me Sweet would
obviously played great. Uh you know, uh, Rory plays great
(04:10):
all the time, which Rory is what I thought Scotty
would be.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Like, I felt like Scotty would rise to the occasion
and he is not. It's no other way to put it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, he's gonna have to turn himself around whatever it
takes to to be to be that guy for this
team and inspire them. And if he wasn't playing and
wasn't making punch yesterday, that's hardly inspirational. When you look
up on the leaderboard in your match is kind of
going to to the drain and Shuffler's even worse than you.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, and you know I thought it was very interesting.
Is I've been on a lot of shows late week.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm sure Scotty's.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Been on incredible run. They said, what does this seem
like Tiger like to you? Well, if anybody cares to
look at Tiger's right cup record, it's really bad.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So, yes, seemed tiger like to me because Tiger didn't
do anything of the Ryder Cup and so far Rory
hadn't done anything of the Ryder Cup either.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I can't remember who it was, but somebody about a
week ago was talking about.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That on.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The PGA Tour Network about how the Ryder Cup guys
from Europe grow up playing match play and if you ask,
if you asked Tiger or anybody on our side, how
was your how was your play in the Ryder Cup?
He this guy said, all they would say something like,
oh it was about fifty something like that. But if
(05:37):
you ask one of the guys from the European side,
they can tell you exactly what their scores were, exactly
what their record was in every Ryder Cup they participated.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
In no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And if you want to your second guess, which is
what we do, is media of course.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
If you want a second gas.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Uh, maybe starting out in for some what we would
call an alternate shot, Yeah, wasn't the best idea. I mean,
you've got to play alternate shot, that's part of the
format here, right, But to start out early in the morning,
entered ten in two and four some two, So to
start that very first match of the day probably wasn't
(06:19):
a great idea. But let's be honest, when's the last
time you played alternate shot?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I can tell you when it Well, I can't tell
you when, but I can tell you it was a
heck of a long time ago one time with my
brother in law in an actual tournament that we had
to play alternate shots for nine holes and that was
it and I hated it.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, I agree, No, I totally agree. So that's been
ugly and you know, not starting out great this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
To be honest with you, it's kind of you.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Know, they're just a buzzsaw out there, and they just
played so well as the team and it is so
much more important.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I thought Keikan would really inspire the guys.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Obviously, President Trump was here yesterday day, and I thought
that would be an inspiration.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Either one of those work out you know you got
one of Keegan.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't know if you got to see you of
the coverage yesterday, but he's kneeling on like the fifteenth
green and just kind of steering in the space. Is
he's thinking maybe I should have put myself on.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
The team, should.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Get out there, and kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Fixed line's going on is could he do it? And
you know obviously it hadn't work out. But you know,
the all day today there are but we cannot be
more than four points behind going into today. We can't
be more than four points behind. Absolutely, Uh, you know,
(07:49):
I just cannot and going into singles and the fact.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But if it's a.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Time Europe retains the Cup because they won't it last time, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Dire straits for the America and to see what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But let me ask you one more question.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What do you think about the way the fans up
there in New York treated Roy McElroy because I heard
they were in men like huge choruses of voices shouting
some pretty nasty things at him.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, I kind of think what you expect.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, you know, no one to thinks you're coming
to Long Island and you're going to a garden party.
I mean, that's just not the way people are up here,
you know, how tell you what they think and then
tell you why they thought it, you know. So yeah,
I mean the fact that rained dollars here, maybe that's
welled on a little bet. I don't know, but you know,
(08:45):
I got to be honest with the fans have been
pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I mean, well that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, we're losing badly, so that Roy McElroy has nothing
to feel bad about. He's just walking around taking care
of business.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I one, I was walking yesterday with Scottie and one
of European.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Fans said, hey, at least give us a game out here.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I bought tickets for all three days.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Use Oh my word.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh that's that's truth and poetry, you know there it
is right there.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, oh my god, that hurts.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I don't know, it's just you know. And so next year,
you know, we're going to our.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Two Oh you're breaking up.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Dude, uh, you know in two years in Irewan.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
We'll see, Hey, always good talking to you, and maybe
tomorrow we'll do another recap or something.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
There's something to talk about, hope. Yeah, I'll keep an
eye on them. Mark, Thank you so much, man, I
appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Hey, glad to do it, sir audios.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, yeah, that's art strictly. He and I I
go way back. We play a lot of golf, well
as many rounds as we can get in together every year,
usually on media days here, there and everywhere. He somehow
manages to be he manages to be the guy who's
making the invitations.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He gets with some of these clubs.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Or they get with him, and then a week later
I'm getting an email saying, hey, man, we got golf
on the whatever of the whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I got one coming up in early October.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
As a matter of fact, and it's on a Monday,
so I don't even have to worry about taking a
day off or running a best of fifty plus over
there on KPRC.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's my day off, and I use it for golf
pretty heavily. Actually.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's the way I keep my head on straight is
going out there and realizing that there's far more difficult
things to do than come in here and enjoy talking
to all of you.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I really do
All right, welcome back seven to seventeen on Sports Talk
seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thank you for listening. I want to get Art Strickland
on the phone pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I think I'm gonna go ahead and bump him up
to this hour if we can get him on. I'm
waiting to confirm when he's ready. Like I told Frankie,
he's he's a he's kind of all over the place
up there, I'm sure, and he might be just starting
his day now.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I doubt that though.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He's probably been on the golf course at the at
the facility there for at least an hour, hour and
a half, and I'm just trying to confirm.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That he's good to take a call.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Going back to kind of right here, what we've got
going on around here. Like I said, last day of
teal season is tomorrow. So if you're gonna get in
another lick on those birds, you either got to go.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
If you're yeah, you might be finished.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
If you've already if you've already finished your teal hunt
for this morning and you're headed back home or whatever,
give me a call, tell me how it's been. Art said, fine,
So go ahead and ring him up with you, Frankie.
I'm go ahead and talk to him and see what's
going on up there. See what happened yesterday? That's what
I want to know. Speaking of yesterday, Forrest fox Pro
calls yesterday around eleven to tell me that he wasn't
(01:12):
going to say, and well he finally did tell me
where he went. But I don't want to. I don't
want to jinx it and mess it up for him
and draw a crowd, which would actually before is that him? Okay,
let's see him up. You got to click him over
for me. Tick talk, tick talk. Oh he's yeah, click
(01:34):
him on, Come on, Frankie, cut him. Looks there we go.
I can't get him from there.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
There we go. Finally we got you RT. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Ohday morning at the writer cap fifty morning by glad
to hop on him for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, So what happened? What happened yesterday? What? What? Where?
Did the wheels all off?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Because none of those matches we lost even got to
the sixteenth t.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, I just your world number one player goes oh,
and two your ture fireplug.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Bryson goes, oh, and two, I mean you're just not
gonna win like that.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
No, I mean you're just not you know, And I
just think that you've got to you gotta play better.
But you know, for.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Scottie Scheffer, who is as hot as anybody on the
planet and only won two years ago, for him to
do zip on zip shocking, No one.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Way to put that?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Can you do?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You have to only blame him. Did he not get
any help or what? Did he just play that port?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, Russell Henley did not help him at all. Yeah,
which face that Russell Henry was an anchor dragged him down.
So you know, I just you picked guys on the
team you think are gonna be good putters, and.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Then they don't. And that's why everything.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Which long the team, That's why uh, Sam Burns on
the team before Russell Henley's on the team, because they're
renowned as good putters. But or it was ugly yesterday.
I gotta say I've seen that before. I mean, this
seems like most Ryder cups I've seen they make part
then even yesterday afternoon, Scottie Scheffer rolled into twenty footer
(03:26):
by far as long as part of the week. Yes
the afternoon and then John Brown uh slams in a
twenty foot right on top of them. So even we
make put on.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Top of us.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, you just can't ever, you can never let your
foot off the gas in this tournament, in this competition,
can you?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
No, you can. And you know this is a veteran team.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I really felt like they had the experience and uh
in you know, uh big game action, and certainly that's
been the case. I mean they just been uh nails.
I mean rom is quite great. Tell me Sweet would
obviously played great. Uh you know, uh, Rory plays great
(04:10):
all the time, which Rory is what I thought Scotty
would be.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Like, I felt like Scotty would rise to the occasion
and he is not. It's no other way to put it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, he's gonna have to turn himself around whatever it
takes to to be to be that guy for this
team and inspire them. And if he wasn't playing and
wasn't making punch yesterday, that's hardly inspirational. When you look
up on the leaderboard in your match is kind of
going to to the drain and Shuffler's even worse than you.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, and you know I thought it was very interesting.
Is I've been on a lot of shows late week.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm sure Scotty's.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Been on incredible run. They said, what does this seem
like Tiger like to you? Well, if anybody cares to
look at Tiger's right cup record, it's really bad.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So, yes, seemed tiger like to me because Tiger didn't
do anything of the Ryder Cup and so far Rory
hadn't done anything of the Ryder Cup either.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I can't remember who it was, but somebody about a
week ago was talking about.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That on.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The PGA Tour Network about how the Ryder Cup guys
from Europe grow up playing match play and if you ask,
if you asked Tiger or anybody on our side, how
was your how was your play in the Ryder Cup?
He this guy said, all they would say something like,
oh it was about fifty something like that. But if
(05:37):
you ask one of the guys from the European side,
they can tell you exactly what their scores were, exactly
what their record was in every Ryder Cup they participated.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
In no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And if you want to your second guess, which is
what we do, is media of course.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
If you want a second gas.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Uh, maybe starting out in for some what we would
call an alternate shot, Yeah, wasn't the best idea. I mean,
you've got to play alternate shot, that's part of the
format here, right, But to start out early in the morning,
entered ten in two and four some two, So to
start that very first match of the day probably wasn't
(06:19):
a great idea. But let's be honest, when's the last
time you played alternate shot?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I can tell you when it Well, I can't tell
you when, but I can tell you it was a
heck of a long time ago one time with my
brother in law in an actual tournament that we had
to play alternate shots for nine holes and that was
it and I hated it.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, I agree, No, I totally agree. So that's been
ugly and you know, not starting out great this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
To be honest with you, it's kind of you.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Know, they're just a buzzsaw out there, and they just
played so well as the team and it is so
much more important.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I thought Keikan would really inspire the guys.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Obviously, President Trump was here yesterday day, and I thought
that would be an inspiration.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Either one of those work out you know you got
one of Keegan.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't know if you got to see you of
the coverage yesterday, but he's kneeling on like the fifteenth
green and just kind of steering in the space. Is
he's thinking maybe I should have put myself on.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
The team, should.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Get out there, and kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Fixed line's going on is could he do it? And
you know obviously it hadn't work out. But you know,
the all day today there are but we cannot be
more than four points behind going into today. We can't
be more than four points behind. Absolutely, Uh, you know,
(07:49):
I just cannot and going into singles and the fact.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But if it's a.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Time Europe retains the Cup because they won't it last time, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Dire straits for the America and to see what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But let me ask you one more question.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What do you think about the way the fans up
there in New York treated Roy McElroy because I heard
they were in men like huge choruses of voices shouting
some pretty nasty things at him.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, I kind of think what you expect.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, you know, no one to thinks you're coming
to Long Island and you're going to a garden party.
I mean, that's just not the way people are up here,
you know, how tell you what they think and then
tell you why they thought it, you know. So yeah,
I mean the fact that rained dollars here, maybe that's
welled on a little bet. I don't know, but you know,
(08:45):
I got to be honest with the fans have been
pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I mean, well that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, we're losing badly, so that Roy McElroy has nothing
to feel bad about. He's just walking around taking care
of business.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I one, I was walking yesterday with Scottie and one
of European.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Fans said, hey, at least give us a game out here.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I bought tickets for all three days.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Use Oh my word.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh that's that's truth and poetry, you know there it
is right there.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, oh my god, that hurts.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I don't know, it's just you know. And so next year,
you know, we're going to our.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Two Oh you're breaking up.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Dude, uh, you know in two years in Irewan.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
We'll see, Hey, always good talking to you, and maybe
tomorrow we'll do another recap or something.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
There's something to talk about, hope. Yeah, I'll keep an
eye on them. Mark, Thank you so much, man, I
appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Hey, glad to do it, sir audios.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, yeah, that's art strictly. He and I I
go way back. We play a lot of golf, well
as many rounds as we can get in together every year,
usually on media days here, there and everywhere. He somehow
manages to be he manages to be the guy who's
making the invitations.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He gets with some of these clubs.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Or they get with him, and then a week later
I'm getting an email saying, hey, man, we got golf
on the whatever of the whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I got one coming up in early October.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
As a matter of fact, and it's on a Monday,
so I don't even have to worry about taking a
day off or running a best of fifty plus over
there on KPRC.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's my day off, and I use it for golf
pretty heavily. Actually.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's the way I keep my head on straight is
going out there and realizing that there's far more difficult
things to do than come in here and enjoy talking
to all of you.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I really do
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