Swing It & Ding It: Episode 195

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Speaker 2 (00:24):
You just got to get out there and swing and
ding it.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, you know, just guess it's gonna go out there
and try to swing it and ding it. All right, Hello,
and welcome to Swing It and Ding It and iHeartMedia podcasts.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
This is Moose along with Maze and Matthews.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
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we see the line. Because there is some golf to
talk about this week with the Windom Championship and also
All Access speaking about travels.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Speaking about golf travels.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
This ties right into our next guest, who we welcome
back to the program. It's always good when a guest
comes back on. It means we didn't do anything, you know,
too stupid, which is good. The Great Brat Brad faxon
NBC Sports analyst. Oh also a time winner on the
PGA Tour, Paine Stewart Award recipient, you know, three time
leader in putting average on tour. Just just some of

(01:20):
the some of the accolades. Welcome back to swing and
thing it Brad. How's it going, man, It's going great.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
I get that Monday night from three weeks abroad.

Speaker 6 (01:29):
Flew back from Paris on Monday and had I just
I had such a spectacular time at the Olympics of
my first time being there in person and being able
to see what all these different athletes go through and
the pressure that they all have, you know, when it's
it comes down to do whatever sport they're doing. I
just can't imagine what goes through their mind when they

(01:50):
might have thirty seconds or a minute and a half
to go for the qualifying or for the medals.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
It was terrific.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, obviously we're going to get into a lot of
the Olympic golf. We're going to talk about Scotty, but
just curious, what was the coolest thing that you saw
outside of the game of golf in the Olympics, Like,
what's that one memory that sticks with you from Paris
that that doesn't have to do with the game of golf.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Well, you know, I've been doing those work the last
few years with NBC and Dan Hicks, who is I
think a legend behind the microphone. And you know, if
you follow sports enough to know that he's been doing
swimming at the Olympics for a long long time now,
I think since nineteen ninety six. Maybe it worked the
rowdy gains and did all the Michael Phelps calls and

(02:36):
he he was doing the swimming again this year. And
I got to go to the stadium where they it was.
Actually it's a concert venue that holds fifteen thousand people,
and a month and a half ago Taylor Swift played
a couple of shows there and then right after she left,
they engineered it into a swimming venue and they built
two fifty meters swimming pools inside with stands for thirty

(03:01):
thirteen thousand people, And we got to go to a
few of the races, and this guy Leon Marshaun, the
Frenchman who kind of captivated the Olympics for the French
and won four golds. We got to see his fourth
gold medal swim and a couple other races. It was
so cool to see that President Matt mccron. I don't

(03:24):
even know how to say his name with the actual
He showed up and they did the He did the
two hundred meter medley and every time, you know, when
they go down and swim fifty meters and then they switched.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
When he switched to breaststroke and his head bobbed out
of the water. There was a huge roar every time
his head came out. And then you know, he finished off.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
With free style and as he got the lead and
then started gaining on the lead that the crowd was
up it was.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
It was giant. I think they were probably yelling louder
than they were for Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's pretty loud. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Wow, that was something I experienced in person that I
didn't think i'd see. Michael Phelps came up into our
tower and one of the funny stories is we were
on top of the grand stands behind the eighteenth Green,
and it was we were sixty five to seventy feet
above the level of the green, you know where that

(04:24):
ferocious finishing hole was. And Michael Phelps is afraid of height,
and he came up there and he was like he
was out of gas. He was like, this isn't something
I like. I'm sweating, I'm nervous. I had to hand
hold onto the handrail. I couldn't look down. But he
sat with us for about ten minutes. And he loves
the game of golf, and he knows the game of golf.

(04:48):
He singlely could have carried the broadcast for the rest
of the day.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
He knows the players. He's played with a lot of
the top players.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
But to have.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Phelps, who's won twenty eight medals and twenty three goals,
you know, it's it was pretty neat to see him
up there.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
Yeah, and he shared some really fun stories for you.
The main reason he came up was to wish you
a happy birthday. Oh yeah, that was a happy belated birthday.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
I thought.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
You know, when you watched Michael Phelps dominate back in
two thousand and four, eight, maybe twelve, he's only got
one world record left, you know that everybody keeps getting better.
Oh yeah, and the depth of talent, the depth of
the field, it's just it's just incredible.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
It's just like golf talking about athletes. You said, Michael
Phelps could have carried the broadcast. Paul Judah, also a
self proclaimed golf fanatic. You had some time with him.
He also came by the booth, right he did.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
He came up.

Speaker 6 (05:48):
He had won the bronze medal. No, I'm sorry, helped
the team won. Yeah, the bronze.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Medal all around.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Yeah, in the all around, and he was you call
it the pommel horse.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
That videos on Brad's social if you look at it,
I mean, if you didn't see on the Olympic insane
what an athlete?

Speaker 6 (06:06):
No, he's I bet, I bet he's five six or
five seven. I think it says in his bio he's
five to eight, no chance. And he's did Anne Harbor.
He's finishing his last year of school. He was so
well spoken, so thoughtful, and he still can't believe that
he won a medal. And he brought the bronze medal
up and a couple of things that you you wouldn't

(06:27):
know is how heavy they are. You know what it
feels like. And for the gold medals. What I didn't know.
In the very front, the small I don't know if
it's a building or whatever it was they showed in there.
It's from old pieces of the Eiffel Tower. Oh, they
took pieces from the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's so cool, like the Paris thing like that right there.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yeah, that's from Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
How cool is that?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
That's wild.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Well, it's nice to know I have two things in
common with Michael Phelps. We both loved the game of
golf and we're both scared of heights.

Speaker 8 (07:01):
So that's good to know.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
But Brad, as a guy who has played in major championships,
Ryder Cups, you've covered those events as a broadcaster as well.
Give me a sense of, you know, where this compares
it being your first Olympics, but the golf in general.
I know the scene at the eighteenth was, you know,
that amphitheater was something to hold, especially when Victor Perez

(07:23):
gave him some things to cheer about. But give me
a sense of how this compares to you the other
big events that you've witnessed and played in in golf.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
It was amazing how this this week evolved for golf,
and I would say when the Olympic Committee ioc reintroduced
golf back to the Olympics in twenty sixteen in Rio,
I was luke warm, as were some of the players,
Rory for sure, like nobody was sure if this was

(07:51):
going to, you know, take on what it was going
to be like after the hundred year absence or so.
And when I think when just Rose won that down
there and Matt Kocher the American cat he got the bronze,
and how they carried these around on how they celebrated
with it, I think that kind of made a lot

(08:12):
of the.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Players that were unsure like, oh, this could be cool.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
And then as it went on and they went to
Japan COVID twenty twenty one, no spectators. I don't think
anybody was really sure is this the right thing to do?
And then Rory McElroy, who lost in that seven man
playoff for the bronze, said it was the hardest he
ever tried in anything in his life. And then fast

(08:36):
forward to twenty twenty four to the Gulf National which
was the Ryder Cup course from twenty eighteen, and the
Europeans had five members of that team playing in the Olympics.
The Americans had none, which was remarkable. But what was
eerie about it in a way was we were all
trying to figure out because it was a huge setup

(08:57):
with those Grand stands not quite as big as the
Ryder Cup, but is this really going to be something
people are going to come out to see? And there
were no spectators allowed on the grounds Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday,
and a number of players had come over early for
opening ceremonies, had done some practice and the gates open
Thursday and it was thirty thousand tickets sold and it

(09:19):
was mobbed. It was a mob scene like a Ryder Cup.
The first tea kind of an amphitheater. I think it
cut all the players by surprise. And you know, as
the week went on, it was interesting to see so
many of the top players talk about how nervous they were,
how excited they were with the crowds, and you know,

(09:40):
the Europeans were well represented with all the different countries
over there, you know, to see everyone show up with
the flags paint on their faces, and the players got
into it. And then how it unfolded on Sunday, it
was the greatest event I've ever been part of.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
And let's talk about that right on Sunday. First of all,
is there any lead that's safe from Scotty Scheffler? And
can you can you kind of talk about what we're
seeing right now with this guy. I mean a final
round sixty two, he starts four back. At one point
he's six back. What are we witnessing with the guy
like Scotty Scheffler right now?

Speaker 6 (10:16):
Honestly at the turn, you know, with Rom playing like
he did, and you know, thinking how much he has
to prove Rom, you know, leaving surprisingly leaving for liv golf.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
He's been disgruntled out there.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
He hasn't played particularly well until the last few weeks
where he actually had finished in the top ten three
times in a row before winning the week before the Olympics.
You were like, maybe Rom made a mistake, you know,
what can make up for the hundreds of millions of
dollars that he took to be miserable And now you
see him in the lead and you're like, this looks

(10:51):
like Rom when he wanted Torrey Pines or Rom when
he wanted the Masters. And you know, Scheffler started off
with three straight birdies, then he kind of calmed down,
made six pars in a row.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
But things other things were happening there that were kind
of cool.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
Victor Perez, you know, and Matthew Pavon, the two french
men that were in the Olympics. They were celebrated and
Perez with his birdie on the last hole on Saturday
and then his good start to the round on Sunday,
and we were looking at this leaderboard, going, this is
an unbelievable leader board. Shotley, who has looked unbeatable the

(11:28):
last couple of months and turned the corner with the
win at the PGA. You're thinking, if he wins the
gold there's a real conversation for whose player of the year.
We never thought that was going to be part of it.
Hadeki Matsuyama, who had just missed out and that playoff
mclroy did in Japan, had been playing some superb golf
and you're thinking, this is amazing.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Now McElroy starts to play good. He's made six birdies
and you're thinking.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
This is an unbelievable leader board and what's going to
happen down the stretch. And then I think that one
of the biggest crowd favorites and who played so well
at the at the Ryder Cup in twenty eighteen was
Tommy Fleetwood, and the Europeans were really well represented. It
was captivating and I would say that the worst part
about that. And this won't mean a lot to the

(12:17):
average golfing. But NBC who airs it golf? They own
a golf channel, of course, they don't produce it. You know,
it's produced by I don't know if you call it
a World feed or by the International Golf Federation. So
the broadcast was a little bit spotty.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
They weren't in.

Speaker 6 (12:35):
A hurry to show all the shots like we always do,
so I think we could have done it better and
maybe in LA they let NBC produce instead of the
International Golf Federation. But it was so captivating to see,
you know, the crashing burns of what happened, all of
a sudden, rom starting to hit all these shots to
the left, Xander all of a sudden making bogies and
double bogies, Rory hitting that shot in the water on fifteen,

(12:58):
and it seemed to be all happening once and in
the meantime, Scottie Scheffler started doing Scottie Schffler's things.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
And that shot he hit into fifteen over the water.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
You know, I have the women's golf on now, and
you know they're playing the same course, of course, and
it looks a little bit sort of like.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
With all the Pete die.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Looking you know, the bulkheads and everything. There's some real
captivating holes. And I think golf television looks better when
you see players that are either making you know, birdies
or double bogies.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
It works well.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
Yeah, well bred a nice you know change to the
professional landscape with these guys competing for their country and
not for a person. We saw a weeping Scottie Scheffler
when they're playing the national anthem, draping the flag over
his shoulders and you.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Know, hand on his chest.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
Talk about that emotion and what you saw and how
the fans are reacting.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
Yeah, I said it on the air that you know,
when I was growing up, I had grandpa father and
a father that served in the military, and always, you know,
you saluted the flag growing up, we said the Pledge
of allegiance in school, in elementary school, and the respect
or the pride you had for the country was always
really really the utmost. And you know, Scottie Scheffler's been

(14:17):
the best player in the world for now two close
to three years, and he doesn't give you much, right,
He's very nice, he's very organized, but he doesn't show
a lot of emotion.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
And to see him like break.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Down there you're finally like, oh, this makes me love
him more because you know, I get chills watching that
every time you see any of the athletes on the
podium and what they've worked for and what this means
to him. But this, you know, Rory said after this
that he's never been part of something quite like it.

(14:52):
So to think about the best players in the world
not playing for a nickel, right, they're not playing for
any but three spots. You have sixty players in there,
and you could argue that the field could be stronger,
but it's a good representation of the rest of the
world and how hard these players were playing to try
and meddle. It was sensational and to think about what

(15:15):
it could be like back in twenty twenty eight to America,
to Riviera. Of course, everybody knows how cool it will.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Be and how hard these players are going to.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Try to get in into the Olympics.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh yeah, he.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
Said Scotti's emotion. We also saw that, you know that
fist pump when.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
You hold that butt too.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
We're seeing a little more emotion, which is funny because,
like you said, playing for the pride of his country
instead instead of a purse.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, he birdied the seventeenth hole on Sunday, which had
only been burted twice all day long. It was such
a long part for tough pin placement. He had driven
in the rough and hit a remarkable shot to just
get it on the green. And then when he made
that it was incredible. I think an underrated second shot
he hit into eighteen. He had driven it into the rough.

(16:00):
Kind of a tough decision do I go with this flag?
How do I play this next shot? And he hoisted
it way up in the air it had just left
of the flag and almost almost made a birdie. But
he made about a five footer for his second putt,
which didn't clench him the gold at the minute, but
put him on out It almost assured it. And you

(16:20):
know Tommy Fleetwood, who had a chance on the last
hole if he had made a birdie after Bogians seventeen
he and you know another shot by inches that if
this shot second chip in seventeen had landed a little
bit shorter than where it did instead of on the green,
he might have had.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
A chance to win gold.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
But he's hitting his second shot into the green, And
I said, this is a situation a golfer's never been
in before where if it's playing for a first place check.
To win a typical tournament, you go right at this flag.
You have to stick it in there to tie. Now
this situation is, if he goes at the flag and misses,
he could double bogian not win him at all. If

(17:01):
he makes a par or even a bogie, he's most
likely going to win a silver or a bronze.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
And what a tough thing to think about. And you
have to do.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
And he hit a six iron where he probably in
any other tournament might have hit a seven iron, hit
it over the back edge of the green to be safe,
and made a fantastic up and down and a pot.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
That he'll never forget.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
And he could express disappointment because he didn't win the
gold unlikely birdie on eighteen, But you know, you think
about that emotion to say number one, Hey, look I'm
an Olympian.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
I made it to the Olympics.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
If you're in the top, if you're in the sixty
in the field, to say you medal, these guys will
be able to capitalize on that for the rest of
their lives.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
What about medaling and not having to be drafted that
type of emotion. We saw that I'm.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
Kim and how how much you know, energy they consume
during the week to try and win. And his story
being the youngest player in the Olympics, being a Korean
where there's that mandatory service that the Koreans have to
serve unless unless they medal, unless major championship.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
So everybody loves Tom Kim.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
I think Full Swing brought him out in the second
season for sure, and he's so likable. You know, he's
almost an underdog because he doesn't hit it that far.
He expresses his motion. The President's Cup really exposed him
as being one of those guys you want to watch
and to see him with his caddy, Paul Tasori, you know,

(18:37):
break down in the press room. It's on camera and
it's funny. Full Swing wasn't allowed at the Olympics this year.
They weren't allowed to get access. That would have been
a great story for season three.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well, when John Rahm made Birdie at ten, he got
the twenty under par At that point he was four
up on Hitdeci and six up on Fleetwood and Chef.
I sent a text to these two because I was
about ready to go out and play golf. I said
something like no drama and I spelled drama.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
D r A h m.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Was John, Ron, you didn't care about our drama. And
then I got to give you credit to your partner
in crime, Steve Sands, because shortly after Fleetwood made the
put on eleven to get to within what five, he said,
we just need Ron to cool off a.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
Touch, but he's not cooperating, and that's.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
When it all went bad for John Rahm and I thought, man,
he gave us drama.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Steve Sands, Yeah, he was so good to work next to.
I really love being with Steve. He's actually on the
call now for the women as well. And we couldn't
ask for a better situation to have that lead of
app rate, have the number one player in the world
in the number two and three, you know, if you

(19:53):
count right Rory All in the heat of it, the
great stories with Perez. You mentioned Tom Kim of co
We forgot that in Fleetwood. Think about that. I can't
wait to see what these ratings were because I told Steve,
I said, you know, if I judge how many people
are watching event, you know your friends text you, other

(20:15):
people that are random text you during the broadcast. My
phone was off the hook with how great that was.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
It was a joy to be a part.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well now, so Brad, oh go ahead, go ahead, Jeff, Yeah,
I dropped off for a second, but I just just
came back in.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
So I looked the last time you were on It
was July.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Twenty twenty two, right, it was before you really jumped
in time.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
Well, yeah, into the booth. And we love what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Everyone we talked to loves what you're doing in there,
so great work with that.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
And we know you as being a.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Very prepared person right in everything you do, whether it's practicing,
whether it's playing. I always wonder, because you've made some
great calls, how much preparation. I know you did preparation
like crazy going into a tournament. But do you ever
think about what you're going to say before something happens
or do you kind of just let it happen in
the moment.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Always let it happen in the moment.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
You know, you think about some of these great calls,
Dan Hicks, when Tiger made the putt at Torrey Pines
to Tyrock Omediate in the seventy second hole, and you
expect anything different is Jim Nance when Tiger won his
first Masters one for the ages, do you I don't see.
I don't have that because I'm not the host, right

(21:28):
And my job has changed a little bit over the
last couple of years because I was a whole announcer
for NBC along with Kurt Byron, where we covered five holes,
you know, I followed Gary Cooch and we would have
to cover our holes and we would have the time
to introduce the shot the player, throw it down to
the person on the ground, and comment on it afterwards,

(21:49):
where Paul Aisinger or Johnny Miller would have had the
trump card to be able to talk whenever they want.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
So now that we've kind of changed.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
Up the booth a little bit and we have two
different analysts, and I've worked with nine different players this
year analysts and you know Kissener, Luke, Donald Brando, Shambly Bones, Mackay,
Noo Baguay, Peter Jacobson. So now we're supposed to do
the whys of golf. You know, as a golfer, why

(22:17):
is this a tough shot? Why is this intimidating? Why
did he do that? Where our hosts, like Steve Sands,
they set it up. So I have the ability to
be the whole announcer still and set it up. But
my job really is almost in a way less notes
and more reaction to So I've got to kind of

(22:38):
balance that line between how much I say because sometimes
dead air is better. And when Victor Perez was walking
up to the eighteenth hole, I was about to say
something and Sans slapped me on the arm.

Speaker 8 (22:52):
Just let it play out, let it breathe.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, and you.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Don't have to say anything for thirty seconds. Watch up there,
we will show the crowd. We showed all the French flags.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
And there's thirty seconds. Sometimes you feel like four minutes
when you're just like, watch it go. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
And I've asked both Mike Tarico, I've been lucky to
work with the last couple of years at some of
these events.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
And Dan Hicks, what were there too?

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Well, you know, if you had to think about your
greatest moments in this uh in sport, what were the one?
What was the one called it's most memorable to you?
And Turco amazingly said when he was doing football and
they were in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the
city and they came back to play, and he said

(23:41):
he had who did he have with him, Tony Kornheiser
and maybe Joe thisman. And they won the game late
and there was an explosion after the touchdown and Turiko
told the other guys, don't say for a minute half.
All they did was show the replay, the crowd, the sound.

(24:03):
And he said that was after the destruction of the city.
He said, this was the greatest moment of his career.
And I get chills thinking about it right now. And
then Dan Hick said, well, having done all these events
with Mike Tarico, and I don't know if you remember
a great call, and I think it was two thousand
and eight when Jason Lasak was the last leg of

(24:25):
the medley and he was coming back in the freestyle
and they were all there at the at the finish
line and he came back and won by like five
to one hundredths of a second, and he called that
and then you saw the reactions from Michael Phelps. He
said that was the greatest moment of his career, you know,
one single moment. But going back to your question, I
don't ever think of one thing I'm going to say

(24:47):
in advance.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
No, No, we like what you're doing. Well, Brad.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
We could keep talking about all types of things, but
you know, man, I'm always going to throw some Philly
into the mix. Did you hear the news at APG
a major PGA Tour event is coming to the Philly region.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
No, but it's not surprising that three of you would
tell me that if.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
You had one guess what course would you think?

Speaker 6 (25:12):
Well, first of all, I would say being a golf
nerd and golf course kind of a I don't know.
I love great golf course architecture, and there's an argument
that Philadelphia has the best courses in the country. Now,
everybody in the Hamptons will jump up and down, say
wait a minute.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
The New York.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
But you know, when you go into the gap and
look at all the great courses there of the history,
you could do it at so many places.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
So is this a PGA Tour event?

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (25:44):
Oh yeah, And it's going to be a major. So
it's replacing the Wells Fargo. It's now going to be
the truth.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah, because they're having a major, a major.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
I know Truest was a new title sponsor, taken over
from Wells. Does that mean Kuail hollows out there.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, they're hosting the PGA for that year, so that
then it goes to.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
One year, just a one year thing.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Oh so it's only in Philly for a year. Okay, yes,
next year, what course?

Speaker 5 (26:12):
I would think it has to be around.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Nope, we'll give you one other guest before.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
We tell you, because Ironomic has the PGA Championship in
twenty six I believe.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
So, yes, okay, there's there's my bad.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
We're putting you on the spot here.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
You've seen this course on television before.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Mm hmmm. Yeah, well then it's Marion Philly Cricket cricket.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
They've had a senior event there and some US amateur stuff.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah, that great, great course and that renovation. Keith Foster
the architect at a renovation there. I thought it was sensational.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, love Philly cricket.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
So hopefully you get your you're covering that event for us.
I'm sure the three of us will. We'll hopefully be there.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
But Brad Pine Valley, we like to say it's a
Philly course, even though it's in Jersey. We know that's
your second home, you live there. We always talk about
Philly courses, talk a little bit about you know, like
you said that it's arguably one of the best areas
for golf. Talk about the courses in Philly and what
you think about them. Highlight maybe one or two of
your favorites.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
Well, you could start at Marion, the history there at
Hugh Wilson, the founder and he kind of partnered with
the founder George Crump at Pine Valley about the same
time they were built, and two guys that had really
never done golf courses that captained all this and how

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they did it. I played in the US Open at
Marion in nineteen eighty one when I was an amateur.
I was nineteen years old. Maybe the most memorable thing
of my life getting to qualify. I was in college
at Furmham. I had just come back from the I
don't know even.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
How I qualified.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
I think I did in New Jersey at Canoe Brook,
which is another great course. But to stand on that
first team my nine ish am T time I was
I was sandwiched between we were a filler group between
Dat Nicholas, who was in the group in front with
Hal Sutton defending US Amateur champion, and behind us was
Arnold Palmer and the crowds. You know how small Marion

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is and to see that. And I had a Philly
native named Charlie Bowling who had grown up at Gulf Mills.
He was caddying for me, and after I hit my
three wood off the first te he goes, I've never
seen this before.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
I go what?

Speaker 6 (28:31):
And I piped it down the middle. He said, I
saw your heart beating through your shirt, and I'll take
a minute it because I birdied the first two holes
on Thursday morning, and they had, you know, like they
still do now, the hand held hand signed leaderboards, no computers,
of course, and it said Fax and Miller, Nicholas and Palmer.

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And I never got a picture of that leaderboard.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
You have the mental picture, though, which is right bar superior.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
Under after to leading the US Open, the greatest day
of my life.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Really wow to play there at that age.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
You know, I knew the history of the playoff the
last time it was played between Trevino and Nicholas Rubber
Snake m and I had played in the Hugh Wilson
Invitation at Marion with another Rhode Island guy that we
won that Tournament's all on the burgundy in the locker room,
on the paint rather on the on the wall. I

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have such good feelings for all those courses there and
have been a member at Pine Valley since two thousand
and five. I'm excited for Philly. Philly Cricket might have
one of the best logos in the.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
Game of golf. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
And then I've played the little nine hole course and
I can't even pronounce it.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
I wish Kahashian, how do how do I do well?

Speaker 8 (29:50):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (29:52):
I walked around there with Michael Bamberg.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Militia Hill is the is the Yeah.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
We have to do something like that in the pod
one day. Hold it up and have them, you know,
our guests try to pronounce.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Martin, Yes, yes, St Martin's Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
You know Michael Bamberger one of his first books, maybe
his first book, The Green Roade Home, was Mike Caddie
when he started writing that that book at the Honda
Classic back in nineteen eighty five, and we became friendly then,
and I was a big sports illustrated.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Guy where he ended up working for a long time.
But good ties. Back to Philly.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
I need to call the little drama Brad. You have
to settle the debate ken Philly claim PV.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Yes, no question about it done.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
You heard it from Brad faxon Pine Valley, Philly Course.

Speaker 8 (30:43):
That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
You've had in the gap some of the greatest amateur
golfers that have ever played the game.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
My captain and the walker Cup, Jay Siegel, Buddy.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
Marucci of course, who's still so close to so many
of the players multi captain there, great player. I mean,
I can't even start to think of all the other
great amateur golfers from there.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
But Brad to honorary Philly golfer, There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 7 (31:09):
He's an honorary Birds fan too. He likes the flag
hanging across from his neighbor's house.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
God, every time Daniel Daniel comes into the house and
I see that Philly Eagles under bumper, and then now
my neighbor across the house is flying the flag.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
I didn't have to do that here.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yeah, He's like it, this has got to be an
HLA violation or something.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I was like, you love it. This is the Eagles
have become bradsby team.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, okay, well, one last one from me. When while
we're on architecture, the PGA Tour wraps up their regular
season at Sedgefield, which is a Donald Ross Classic, and
I'm just curious, do you have any experience playing Sedgefield
and if so, what are the guys looking for this week?

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (31:54):
I do have experience there. I was still playing when
the tour moved from.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
For Forest Oaks horst.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
Oaks to there, and they had just done a nice
renovation on a classic course.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
And you know, it's a tough time of year to play.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
In Greensboro with the heat, and you know, you don't
really see it firm and fast and too difficult.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Seventeen Olympians are playing.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
This week and they're very nervous right now because this
storm's heading their way. I think on Thursday Friday the
could be a big impact as they expected. I've heard
sometimes like five to seven inches of rain an important event,
right This is the last qualifying event for the FedEx
Cup to get into the top seventy. There's a lot

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of players there that need to play well. And it's
a tournament that I like because it doesn't favor just
a bomber. You know that they have thick rough there
that Bermuda grass. If you miss the ferry, the bag
goes down. They've got some short, very verdiable holes, and
then they got some really really difficult holes, which always
lends best for television. Uh.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
And I went to school in South Carolina.

Speaker 6 (33:03):
I played a little bit, you know, in North and
South Carolina throughout my college career, so I have a
good appreciation for what's there.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Awesome.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Well, listen, we appreciate the time. Thanks for coming back on.
Happy belated birthday to you. Is is there anything like
the Amalfi Coast By the way, I should let.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
My wife come over here there really isn't.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
It's unbelievable place.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
And to be able to go there and have somebody
that speaks fluently.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
And and I don't know I could have that, no doubt.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
Is fluent in Italian, so she can just communicate for everybody.

Speaker 8 (33:42):
And that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Four more April spreads.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yes, that's right, that's right. Well, thank you for coming
back on.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Love what you're doing, continued success, and we will talk
again soon.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Brad, thanks a lot.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
Thank you, But just let's not make it two more
years before I jump on again with you.

Speaker 7 (33:57):
Wait, Brad, one more question if we can have some
but like some guests that should be on here?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Who should we have on next?

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Michael Phelps Michael Phelps, you got a number, can you
text some for us?

Speaker 7 (34:15):
I'll slide into his DMS right from Brad's account.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
You guys do a great job. Fantastic, Thank thank you, Brad.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Talk soon.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
All right, Let's take a quick break and we will
be right back. All right, Welcome back to Swing It
and Ding. It always great to have the great Brad
faxon on. I mean, he's doing such a good job
on the on the broadcast. He's so just relatable. He's
you know, you could tell he's a student of of
not only the golf game, but of the broadcasting game.
He's listening to other people, knowing when to let it breathe,

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you know, and just a wealth of knowledge. And from
what he said, just an incredible experience at the Olympics,
which which was which was great. I mean, Sunday was wild,
right from when you sent that text to to what
happened with so many guys that had a chance, and
to see how much those guys really.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Wanted it was awesome to watch.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
But when Scotti Scheffler is coming up behind you and
playing well, it has to be the most uncomfortable feeling
in the game of golf. Shoots a final round sixty two.
He started four back, as I mentioned, he was six
back at one point. He burdies five of the six matches,
the course.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Record and just just takes it.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Just took it from everybody. There's nothing else you could
say about it. He just took it from everyone else.

Speaker 8 (35:28):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
I mean, you know, talk about how badly these guys
wanted it.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
It was evident.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
I mean, where else are you going to see a
guy like John Rahm, you know, go from twenty under
par to shooting five over over the final seven holes,
you know, and finish out of the off the podium altogether.
He saw Xander Shaffley, who is in the last couple
of weeks months might be the best player in the
world right now, missing fair ways all over the place.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
He trailed rom by three shots with seven holes to
play and then makes bogey twelve, bogie at thirteen, only
pars the par five fourteenth hole and makes a bogie
on fifteen shot seventy three.

Speaker 8 (36:07):
He barely made the top.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Ten, and we talked about Rory McElroy. I restrained myself
from asking Brad about what happened from one hundred and
thirty one yards away in the fair way after eating
birdy five straight holes. He was right there at seventeen
under par, which is what Matsiyama ended up finishing for
the bronze medal. He could have easily meddled and he
put it in the water.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
From one hundred and thirty yards.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
That's pressure and it just goes to show that, like
how badly those players wanted to win a medal, No doubt.

Speaker 7 (36:40):
We heard Brad recap Scotty's you know, seventeenth shot, that
shot from the rough and then showing that emotion putting
that in.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
But like you said, seeing that, you know, Scotty's name coming.

Speaker 7 (36:50):
On that leaderboard, not knowing that's happening, you just really,
you know, you can't control those nerves or anything.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
But one of the things I wanted to highlight was
the Victor Perez and just that low support.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
It was kind of hard to tell from TV, but
when you were watching the clips, Brad was sending some
behind the scene things, the flags of people, there are
the roars, the sound Like he sent this one video
you couldn't even hear anything but people screaming for them.
So that's wild that we didn't see him place but.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
A lot of local supporter is pretty cool to watch.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
I'm glad he mentioned too, the production because it did
seem often I couldn't part Like, you know, it was
a little bit delayed with the applause right that you
could tell that it just wasn't a typical you know
NBC or CBS broadcast. Those guys did a great job,
but you could tell something was off. But it was
interesting to know that they didn't actually produce the event.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Yeah, it was a great thing that he highlighted because
you get so many people sitting at home and saying, like.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
What are you doing?

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Or show more Golfer, show this, and they think that
it's Brad or Steve's fault or something. It's like, we're
you know, given the play by play and what we're seeing,
and they have so much to worry about.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
They're not producing it.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
There's an entire team, so you know, it just shows
what's going on behind the scenes and the lack of control.
But he did highlight that hopefully NBC will be able
to produce it, and.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
I thought Ki was going to do it. Man, he
is such a gamer.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
He is a big time player, and you know, think
about that and I texted to you guys, like, imagine
if he had won a gold jacket and a gold medal,
I mean Japan, they had parades for him.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
And statues erected on everything.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yeah, would do man, I mean he was.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
He was to watch. I was enjoying it, Like, yeah,
I do too.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
I just and just watching, like I think they said,
like Scotty's dad was like, Scotty.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Go to the range and warm up. You might have
a playoff. So watching that, like you know, like you said,
like the drama another range, He's like he's on his phone.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
He's like hitting the shot or two, but like just
waiting to see if you have to go into a
playoff for gold, Like me watching that and then watching
like Tommy and then going back to the shot, you
know of Scotty on the range.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I was like, this is it was just fun.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
It was a really enjoyable to watch a nice switch
up the general golf that we've been seeing.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
There was a lot of discussion, including on this program,
whether Wyndham Clark was really deserving of being on the team. Well,
he ended up vindicating himself on the weekend. He shot
sixty five sixty five on Saturday and Sunday to finish fourteen,
ahead of Colin Morikawa by a good stretch too, who
had a disappointing week. So I thought that was kind
of interesting. And some of the other names. Victor Hoblin,

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was he even there? Yeah, you know, where was he?
He didn't see him. I didn't see one shot of
his and I watched a lot of it. Ludvig Oberg,
you know, final round seventy two. This is a guy
who you know, who's young, super talent, is gonna win
a lot of big tournaments and majors most likely, but
on Sundays he has yet to really show that he
can really close it out and have a that sixty five,

(39:47):
sixty four, you know kind of round that you need
to put yourself in the conversation on Sundays.

Speaker 8 (39:52):
And he had a seventy two on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, yeah, going to be I can't wait to see
the Los Angeles Olympics, right and we got the.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Women's Olympics going on right now.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, And that's a really tight property too, Riviera. It's
not like Le Golf Nationale, which was, you know, this
huge thing in the French countryside. It's gonna be interesting
to see how they how they sort of you know,
set that up because you're not going to be able
to have a lot of large grand stands.

Speaker 8 (40:21):
I don't think at Riviera. There's just no room for it.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Yeah, So Danielle, the clubs came out. Did you did
you get a did you get it round the post?

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Baby?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
I did?

Speaker 7 (40:31):
I did, although it wasn't on a big boy course
if we if that's what we want to call it.
We celebrated Brandon's birthday party and I threw him a
surprise birthday at the park in West Palm Beach. You
guys might recall that match, but we didn't play on
that course either. We played on the Path three. It's
called the Litton nine, which is really cool. So we

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had a big crew out there, and you know, I
brought the baby in the stroller and I played.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
You know, I actually packed all.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
The clubs in the back, you know, because I couldn't
tell Bee because I'm surprising him. So I had everything
in the trunk and like locked the trunk, was like
just get in the front seat and be quiet. But
then I tasked him to grabbing all the clubs and
my putter, you know, and bringing it to the first
tea and he just brought his stuff, so I didn't
have my potter, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Have my wedges.

Speaker 7 (41:16):
But you know, it was fun. Nice to swing clubs again,
you know, roll a couple of putts. And I was
telling you guys, you know, before we started recording, it's
pretty cool. It's underneath the lights. But the ninth, the
closing hole of the ninth, they say no ironed, no drivers,
anything like that, to one hundred and fifty, one hundred
and fifty yard putt, And I think, like you can.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
There's a camera.

Speaker 7 (41:36):
I think you like scan the thing and if you
put in like five or ten bucks or something, you
can win like fifty grand. But just as I think
Brandon or our friend Jeremy is getting up to the tee,
the lights turn out, and we.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Can blame that on mystery. We turned the light out
on us. On nine.

Speaker 7 (41:51):
We had a couple groups in front of us that finished,
but we went out in like a group of like
seven or eight, so we were a little bit slower. Thankfully,
we were the last ones out and nobody's playing behind us.
We are the type of group you don't want to
get stuck behind.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
But we had a good.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Time, nice haws the game going.

Speaker 8 (42:07):
Man.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, you know, it's been what two weeks since we
since we were together. A lot has happened since then.
I told you I was getting ready to play in
that Sadie Hawkins event with one female, three guys in
the foursome. I made seven pars and a birdie for
the team, had a pretty good day. Then I had
a bunker lesson the next day and got fixed up

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in the bunker in twenty minutes by Michael Loper, the
head pro over at the nineteen twelve Club, And the
next day made an eagle from ninety one yards on
one of.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
Our par fives.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
It was so cool to hit their two hit the
fifty four degree wedge and see it hit and spin
to the right and go right. It was pretty cool
and I reacted like a twelve year old kid.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
As you should.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
And then that following Wednesday, we had a big money
match with sixteen players forty bucks a guy, and I've
won two skins and me and my partner finished T
three and that was in the money. So but then
the next week I returned back to my normal self
of playing like total and.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
That's why it's a four word right, yes.

Speaker 8 (43:11):
Yes, exactly, So.

Speaker 7 (43:15):
That'll wrap this show. Nobody else has played golf. It's
just Harry and I and.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
I haven't really played too much.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, talk to us, take us through.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
You've been following my mic off.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
I've been on a I've been on a heater, as
they say in the golf world, of being fortunate enough
to play some incredible golf courses. Started out with Galloway National,
which was the first time I had played that course.
What a golf course that is as minute. I mean,
you have to play the right time of year because
the green heads will kill you.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
But they weren't bad, and we played. There was a
lot of win played.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
With Josh and and Bruce lev from Level and Advertising
are always great sponsors of our of our outing and
Alex Epstein, who's the guy who makes our merch our
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Speaker 4 (43:58):
Had a blast and then.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
I headed out and I will say I had the
probably the best experience I've ever had on a golf
course playing Pebble Beach on that Monday. It was sixty
four degrees, partly sunny, just a light, little nice breeze,
no wind to speak of.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
I mean it was it was hard to pay attention.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
You know, you have your phone in your pocket, which
I usually don't do what I'm playing golf.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
And it just was incredible.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
I mean it it lived up to you know, when
something is built up that's so high, it's it. You know,
you don't expect it to hit those expectations. It blew
them out of the water. Like my next best experience
playing golf is far behind that that.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
I'll just say that it just was incredible.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Was that R three fifth that you made a birdie
on that you shared a video?

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of cool. Yeah, and I played.
I was like pretty happy with the way I was playing.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Did you react like a twelve year old to that birdie?

Speaker 4 (44:52):
The camera was out, so I had it just be cool.
It happens all the time.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Was more and another one.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Another, another brady but great caddies. And then it's funny.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
We played spy Glass and you know everyone was like, oh,
spy Glass, it's so hard.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
It's so hard.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Like after the first couple of holes, it wasn't very
windy and listen, but like we're used to those tight
tree line courses here, right, Like I can get out
of any set of woods, you know, like I've been
doing it as long as I've been playing golf. A
lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
The first four or five holes are the ones that
have You could hear the seals, you know, out in
the distance. We couldn't see them because that marine layer
was sitting out there. It stayed kind of cloudy all day,
but the weather was great, and honestly, the hay Tiger
Short Course was about as much fun as I've had
playing golf. Played with a bunch of a bunch of
the guys from d C. There was like nine of us,
a ninesome. We all put up some money.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
I want to get stuck behind that gropy there.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
We were late too, there was not really many and
we were letting people go around this. But I mean
it's this small little you know that. I think the
longest hole was one oh seven, but the most impeccable
like bunkers and green and just like this perfect little
golf course. I actually went out. I played it the
morning before I flew out. I went out by myself.

(46:06):
It was like a drizzling I went out at seven
am just to play it again, because that's how much
fun I had take it all in.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yeah, did you do not loop that drive around like Pebbles? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yeah, well, I mean like the shuttle that would take
us from because we stayed at the end of Spanish Bay.
Next time, I want to play Spanish Bay because it's
it's right on the water. It's a true links golf course.
I mean the accommodations. You know, it was an iHeart
client trip and they did it right. It was a
blest it really was.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
And then yeah, hold on for first Yeah, how much
how much did you drop in the pro shop at
Pebble Beach?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Rebecca stopped listening.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Total pro shop? I think around fifteen hundred total at
Pebble or the whole two hole. There's a lot of
there's a lot of merchants like Pebble. There's like six
shops total total total.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Tell the truth. I know most and his shopping and
his well, I.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
Mean it was really anything crazy.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
I mean the most expensive thing I brought was probably
three wood cover. Everything else was you know, hoodies, hats, hats.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
Yeah, got the girls, no cashmere sweaters.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
I've got young daughters. I had to get some crop tops,
you know what I mean. I had had to do
all that stuff. But uh, yeah, but it wasn't bad.
I mean, I listen, I took a full suitcase that
was only three quarters of the way full just for
that reason.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
It was.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
It was pretty stuffed. But yeah, bought some definitely loaded
up on some hats. Yeah, definitely loaded up on some hats.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Speaking of hats, that Philly golf hat.

Speaker 7 (47:40):
I posted it on my story when you guys so
kindly sent us an amazing swing and ding It blanket
for Vienna and I got the new fresh Philly hats.
I had no less than fifteen people like where can
I get that hat?

Speaker 2 (47:52):
And I'm like, where's.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
It'll be up soon? Well, the merch the merch stores coming.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
We're building it out, uh, and you'll be able to
you'll be able to get this release.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
But were like losing it.

Speaker 7 (48:01):
They're like, hey, that's a sweet hot and I'm like,
everybody wants to be affiliated.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
And if that wasn't enough, then you went to some
hoity toyer spots in Jersey, right yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Trump Trump colts Neck for the Clean Bro outing, which
was wild. It was like our outing, like crazy, Uh,
they have.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
A really cool eat Clean bro Bro. It's a food
package food company. It's all they're outing.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Yeah, but they had they have They have a nineteenth
hole there that's awesome. It's like a little island green
that sits right in front of the clubhouse. It's about
one hundred yards that we played as part of it,
as part of the outing. Just a lot of fun,
great you know, true Donald Trump, you know links golf course,
uh and then the favorite round of that I play

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usually once a year, sometimes not exactly once year, but
due process, due process is. You can't even describe the place,
I mean, is the greatest clubhouse, the greatest I mean,
the golf course is. There's nothing us like it that
I that I play. It is spectacular. The membership there,
everything about it. My buddy Andrew Girardi, who's a member,
got you know, got me out. We took some clients

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out there. But you can't even describe it to people
with that place is. It's just such a special, special place.
And the and the golf course is just immaculate. The
holes are so interesting, challenging for sure, a lot of water,
a lot of sand, but just in the most perfect

(49:30):
shape and just the greatest clubhouse scene you'll you'll ever
see in the game of Yeah, now it's tired.

Speaker 8 (49:38):
I'm tired.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
That's gonna say.

Speaker 7 (49:39):
You're gonna give Jimmy James a run for You're gonna
write a book soon.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Anything lined up for this weekend?

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Uh no, no, ye, nope, nope.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Having done a c we have a we have a concert.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
We have shined down at Ocean so it's going to
stay down there on Saturday for one of four five
and Q one O two combination concert.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
That Ocean Casino.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
So that's a throwback.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
I guess some new They got some new hits right now.
So yeah, but that's it. That's it for now. But
I will I wish I was playing today.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
That's the crazy part. I think you'd be like, like,
I wish.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
I'm sad I'm not playing today.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
But we talked about Philly cricket. It's May, right, that's awesome.
Through the eleventh Yeah, early early weeks before the GA Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
I cannot wait. The Tryst Championship.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
I think it's called yes for formerly the Wells Fargo.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
I butchered that.

Speaker 7 (50:37):
I was trying to say it's a major PJA tor
event and I'm like, poor choice of this is major.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
But I was like, wait, it's not. I wonder how
like major.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I wonder if they, like how long they knew, Like
that's something that usually care for for a couple of years.
I mean, you're not just like popped up. Yeah, they
knew it and they just announced it.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
I mean, ever since the PGA was announced that Quile Hollow,
they had to be imediately going into where are we
take in the tournament? So, I mean this was kept
under wraps for quite some time. But pretty cool that
we're going to get a big time event with the
you know, the top seventy players you know will be there,
so you get to see Scotty, Rory Scheffler or shawflet

(51:16):
and all of them.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
So, yeah, it's going to be awesome. We'll have to
be out there do some stuff that week for sure.

Speaker 7 (51:22):
Well. Speaking of top seventy players that we'll see, Jordan
Speed Current ranked sixty third. He needs to be in
the top fifty this week to guarantee a spot and
signature events.

Speaker 8 (51:31):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
There's a lot on the line this week.

Speaker 7 (51:34):
Coocher Same Thing, ranked one hundred and thirteenth. He's made
the playoffs every year since their inception in two thousand
and seven. He's on the line of probably not making
it this year. Lucas Glover, Jason Bales guys seventy six
right now after finishing eighteenth last season. He's outside the
playoffs right like as of now. So we'll really have

(51:55):
to see what's going on this week.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
With that weather. I didn't even know there was impeding
weather until Brad said that.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
But oh yeah, yeah, the remnants for sure. You have
the windhom Championship, last regular season event. Next week, you
have the Saint Jude's FedEx Playoffs. You have Sunjay Lowry
speak some you know, some big name Sundays.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Is way off top favorite. He's the favorite, but it's
still a decent number at twelve hundred, but then it
jumps to twenty two hundred for Sea Wou.

Speaker 8 (52:20):
He's won there before.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Yeah, yeah, so loves that place.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
But we have to talk about you know, we talked.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
About every time wo I just say that it lives
rent free in my head.

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Speaker 8 (53:14):
Yeah you know talk yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Donald Ross nineteen twenty six Sedgefield Country Club and underwent
a restoration by Chris Spence in two thousand and seven
to bring it back to you know, more like the
original Donald Ross layout. You have the Tutor style clubhouse
and the big water tower that are you know, you're
going to see that a lot. This is very iconic clubhouse,
and the green complexes are just vintage Donald Ross. Bermuda

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grass everywhere on the fairways, the greens and the rough
the fifth you know, the closing holes is what we
talk about because that's where the drama is and that's
what we're about.

Speaker 8 (53:47):
Fifteen poles.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
The final par five five hundred and forty five yards,
a downhill t shot with the creek down the left
and large bunker to the right. Fest you further right.
You got to keep it in the fairway. Then you
can easily get to it in two. But there's a
pond all the way down the right side of the
second fairway and the green, but a very burdiable hole
for these guys.

Speaker 8 (54:08):
Some will make eagles as well.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Sixteenth hole you start to see the little beach there
along that they set up the Windham Beach par three
one hundred and seventy five yards with two deep pot
bunkers protecting the front of a horseshoe shaped green. Very
very burdiable hole though as far as these holes coming in,
because then it gets tougher as you finish.

Speaker 8 (54:28):
The seventeenth toll.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Is par four four to oh six with a deep
saddled fairway.

Speaker 8 (54:32):
A really cool.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Looking hole and one that I'd really like to play
because it runs it through like an old creek bed
that Donald Ross filled in and the approach is to
the smallest green on the course. You generally hit from
an uneven lie so I'm used to that and play
to the left center of the green and the slope.

Speaker 8 (54:50):
We'll take it right down to a Sunday pin position.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
The eighteenth hole is a brute It's a par five
for the members, but they make it a par four.
Five hundred and seven yards downhill t shot pretty forgiving
wide fairway, but then you got the uphill approach to
a severely sloped and undulated green. Very difficult finishing par
for tough to birdie, but really cool spot. I used

(55:13):
to live in North Carolina and I went to the
what was called the Greater Greensboro Open back in the day,
but that was when it was at Forest Oaks. You
heard Brad mention, since they've moved it here, I'd love
to get down there and just see this place up close.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
A very cool spot to finish out the season.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
It is cool. Was there last year that beach you
talked about, Harry? I was like, wait, how can I
get over there? Right? But I guess they only sell
certain amount of tickets.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
But some of the locals were telling me, like, some
girls go there looking for husbands, wearing.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Bikinis, doing everything else. It's funny.

Speaker 7 (55:45):
They actually they actually have like sandport out lounge, chairs,
the bar like it's cool.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Yeah, very cool, very cool.

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the last twelve winners here, according to our buddy Jeff Ulrich,
have had a T twelve or better at this at
this event. So you have to you have to kind
of be in the in the top at this place

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to get the win.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Brad talked about it.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
Driving accuracy is super important, not necessarily the distance, but
a couple guys that jump out to me, Websibson, he's
gonna win a million years ago here, but he also
has a T five last year, and it's a big night,
nice juicy number at nine thousand for a guy like
him to get the win.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
He loves that place, loves it obviously.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Sun Jay right, he's playing really good golf right now,
has a T two in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
It's I mean for a leader at twelve hundred in
the world to take it. But what's jumping about to you?

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Hair Well?

Speaker 8 (58:17):
Sung Jay?

Speaker 1 (58:18):
You talk about him, he has eight top twelves in
his last ten starts, and the other two that he
didn't go in the top twelve were missed cuts. But
he's playing as well as anybody not named Scotti Scheffler
or Xander Schaufley.

Speaker 8 (58:30):
You talk about Seawou plus.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Twenty two hundred, he's made six straight cuts coming into here,
nothing spectacular, but he has got four top fives, including
a win at Sedgefield back in twenty sixteen, So it's
no wonder they're the top two favorites. I'm torn between
Sea Wu and Cam Davis from my one and done.
Cam Davis, of course wanted the Rocket mortgage, which is

(58:54):
another Donald Ross course, just a couple of weeks ago
and finished seventh in this event last year. Plus four
thousand to win, that's kind of a nice number. Plus
one eighty five in a top twenty. Aaron Rye, who
has been playing some really good golf and consistently good
golf over the last couple of months plus one thirty
out of T twenty and Davis Thompson who won a

(59:16):
couple of weeks ago plus one forty for a top
twenty are some of the things.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
That I like. Beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
We got to congratulate Brant Snedeker, recipient winner of the
Payne Stewart Award, which is high honor talking of you know,
to Brad faxon again, but Brent Snedeker is the latest winner.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
Beautiful, beautiful man.

Speaker 8 (59:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
Well, we'll see what happens this weekend with the weather.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Hopefully they get some golf in in North Carolina. But
this is a big one and we will be back
next week to preview the playoffs. Thanks again for Brad
faxon for hopping on with us and everyone else. Try
to get out there and swing it and ding it

Speaker 5 (59:58):
But listen, swing it and dang it.