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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.
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Moose along with Me's and a couple of Matthews.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
What a great entry.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I mean, how you guys don't get even more sponsors
is beyond me because the way you brought that in
was just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's very professional.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Greater. Yeah, he's good. Even Brad, he goes man, whoever
introed us, he goes He's good.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I mean, he if I had a company in the
Philly area, I'd give all my money to you.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
So yeah, I appreciate it because I'm a total hack.
Harry's actually the broadcast professional who should be doing all
these things. But yeah, that's it is what it is. Uh,
Brandon Matthews, thanks for coming back on, man. We have
a lot to talk about. First of all, I mean,
we want to talk about the NEPA Invitational. I think
we probably should start there, but then we just want
to hear about you, right, We want to hear about
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where you are in your process, what you have targeted,
how this process has been for you, lessons you've learned
from it, all of the things that you go through.
Because for professional athlete athlete like these things happen and
they probably happened more frequently than the people even know.
So to hear about that journey and you know, kind
of the mindset to get back will be interesting. But
let's bring it back to scrant We got to talk
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about we got to talk about scrant.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, first of all, thanks again, obviously love being on
with you guys, But yeah, I mean, fourth year, it's
pretty incredible that this kind of started with an idea
that I've had for a while and took about seven
weeks I think was the first year, Right, yeah, tournament,
(02:24):
I'm going to.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Plan a wedding, I said, just get You're gonna help
them plan a pro am.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So, you know, not like you know, it's any different
any year that we've done this, But the first year
was really drinking out of the fire hose.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
But since then we've done.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
What is a three hundred and fifty thousand for local
charities and our many metaficiary, the Janet Weiss Children's Hospital,
And this year we're hoping to exceed the two hundred
that we donated last year. Hopefully we can get this
up to six hundred or surpass it for four years,
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which for our area, I mean, you know, it's it's
a small town, blue collar Pennsylvania area, right, it's uh
so to be able to do something like that and
to have some kind of small platform that's able to
create something like that is so special. It just happens
to have a world class golf yeah, yeah, Scranton is
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so good. You know, to be able to have something
like that in our area, right, is pretty amazing, And
that's that's what draws the people there.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
It's it's funny. It's tough to get people up there initially. Right.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's Strand, Pennsylvania, Right, there's not many direct flights to Strand,
you know too. Once you get up there, right, everyone
wants to come back. They want to make that trip back,
no matter what.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
These guys caught up at like four in the morning.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh yeah, I circled on the calendar every year I
look forward to. It's like one of one of my
favorite rounds of the years, no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
It's just so amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And you know, everybody at the club, and especially in
my opinion, our superintendent Aaron Giardano, is just so world class.
And you know, I hope not too many people are
listening to this because I don't want him stolen from us,
because he is so good and he is one of
the hardest workers I've ever seen in my life. And
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that's one of the main reasons why Scranton is what
it is.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
We had Greg Boring before that that went to bald Stroll, and.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
We've just had superintendent after superintendent that has just been
world class.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
And the upkeep of that course of conditioning on a.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Daily basis is just second to none, especially considering the
budget for the area, right, the amount of workers that
they have, and every year that we come up for
the event, I mean, it is as good as it
possibly can be, you know, marring the conditions unfortunately that
we've had, you know, a couple of less.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
To be perfect. This year, it's going to be perfect.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
D it up a little bit, we are, Yeah, but
you know that's always like the key part of hurricane
season is these first couple of weeks of September. We
always seem to get hammered with, you know, one or
two big storms. So hopefully, hopefully this year you get
you get a reprieve.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, but the fact that the hurricane reached northeast Pennsylvania,
that doesn't happen, no, I know, you know, but uh,
you know again, no matter what, it's been such a.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Great four years. You know, my beautiful wife.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Here and now mom to uh to our yeah, has
done a hell of a job being our tournament director
this year.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
So one of the things I think part of me
that you're forgetting to highlight it's second year of being
a play yellow Jack and Barbara Nicholas play Yellow event.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Yeah, part of me which is really cool cool, sorry O, people.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Can people still get involved, whether from a sponsorship side
or for players, It is still still opportunity for folks
to get involved.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
No question.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And everything's on the website an EPA Invitational dot com.
You can find everything there. My wife again created the website,
has done a great job with that. But you know,
again just to go back to how thankful we are.
Right with all of the friends that I've gathered over
the years, the connections that I've made, everyone's been so generous, right,
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you know, including you guys.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
You guys come up every year and try to support
as much as you can.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
And if it wasn't for that and the relationships that
I have with some great people, this would not be possible.
So we're making a big difference up there in a
small area, and some of the kids that you see
at that Friday night dinner that we have, that when
you realize what impact we're making to what degree, and
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that's when it really kind of you know, brings a
tear to your eye and you understand.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
How important what we're doing is.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I think it's going to hit you a little bit
harder this year too. For some reason, after a beautiful
Vienna was born. And you see what how lucky we
are being in this area between Children's Hospital Philadelphia, between
you know, children Specialized in South Jersey, you know, uh
Janet Whites out that way, Like, we're so lucky to
have what we have here to help people when they
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need it the most. So kudos to you guys for
for going all in on something like this and and
and continuing to find ways to grow it and make
it more accessible to people. Love being a part of it.
So yeah, we're definitely excited to get out there now.
You know, we talked to some of the guys to
play it, and it's funny, Brandon, you just said it
like they're dying to get back out there once they
see it for the first time. And I know it's
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hard to fit something into especially when you're trying to
get professional players out there, like to find any time
on a calendar where the weather's going to be good
and there's not other tournaments. But how much goes into
that with getting getting guys to be out there.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Well, this is kind of an interesting, interesting thing, Right,
It's changed so much over the years, Right, professional golf
was so different sixty years ago, exhibitions.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And events like this were how pros really made money,
so they were happy to show up to whatever. Right,
But there's so much money in the game now, and
to have someone come up during their one of X
amount of weeks off during season, in the middle of playoffs,
whatever the case might be, right, that's a big ask.
(08:30):
And I completely understand if people don't want to come
up and spend that week up there instead of spend
it with their family, that's completely reasonable.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But we have been very fortunate in the past and
even this year of having great support. And another big
part of this event, right is you know, I played
on Latin America Tour for three years, Right, I grew
through the ranks and understanding how much it takes or
year in order to survive. Really being able to give
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somebody a chance to win a significant amount of money
to change their lives is another big part of this event, right.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Talk about because it are your mission of the NEPA
Invitationals three vote and one being you know, our beneficiary,
the Generalist Children's Hospital, but the other two you were
just starting to get into, plus the Lawler Scholarship.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yeah, Billy Lawler was a good friend.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
He supported junior golf incredibly unfortunately passed away right before
the first event.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Is that twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Twenty nineteen, I I think so been four years, the
fourth years of twenty twenty maths matth.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Give me a break. I went to Temple.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Here.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, but you know it's it's it's amazing again.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
However they is transpire from the Lawlor scholarship to where
it is now. We have Jack Nicholas and play Yellow
on board right and where we are right now, I
would have never even imagined. And with Danielle again as
the tournament director, my agent Drew Carr has been I
mean just beyond belief how good he's been and things
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that he's been able to do for us throughout the
last few years. Is it's I mean, I'm so thankful
to have him in my life with this event and
beyond right, and our board has been fantastic. So I
could not do this, you know, without the help of
our entire board, and those guys and girls deserve every
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bit of credit.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Coming their way.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
And you know, again it's just I'm always speechless when
it comes to this because I never really thought that
we would get to this point where it's like we're
four years in, We're going to raise six hundred grand
four years.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
This is something that I never really imagined.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I thought, maybe, you know, we can make this an
event that donates you know, fifty to seventy five grand
a year and do this, do that, and you know,
we just get a couple more people on board that
have kind of the same vision that we do and
are willing to donate, and I'm just so thankful.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's awesome. Well, check out Nipainvitational dot com. All the
opportunities are there, reach out, still time to get involved.
You will not be disappointed with being included in something
like this, not just for the golf and the golf
course and the people involved, but where the money goes
in the region of northeast Pennsylvania. So yeah, excited to
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get out there and wishing you guys nothing but the
best success this year.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
As I always I do, have to add one more thing.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
We add an element this year for anybody who wants
to support and maybe isn't a true golf fan.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
We introduced a Friday night gallow.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
We moved it away from the country Covid scrant It's
going to be at the Scranton Cultural Center. We're having
a dueling pianos event the children Miracle Children coming out
so opportunity. Yep, it's called the Harmony for Hope, the
Dueling Pianos event. It's going to be really cool, so
open bar, dinner, cocktail hour, everything else. So if you're
not a big golf fan but you still want to support,
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you're in the Northeast area, come out. Tickets are on
sale until next week, the twenty first.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Very cool, Very cool. All right, well, let's talk about
Brandon Matthews, the golfer now. Yeah, Well, let's just give
it an update on where you are right now in
the process first and then we'll kind of dive back
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
You know, it's funny. The way everything worked was kind
of perfect, right. You know, I had the surgery. It
was a little worse than I thought it was going
to be. Took a little bit more time to come back.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
And when was the last November December.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Folloween?
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Was late October?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Okay, very stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But you know, once I got to the point that
I started feeling good, I started working with Jason Vale,
my swing coach.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I worked with him pretty consistently for about two.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Months, and that was right before I kind of took
some time off to help Danielle out with Vienna. And
that time off from about what a week before he
gave birth until probably three weeks after birth. He would
say about a month, right, I only played probably four times, right,
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And are you thinking more? No?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
But but you know what time I'm going to be quiet.
It's rare, But that time actually helped out a ton, right.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I was still going to the gym a little bit
and still having my body, so again to give my
body a little bit more time.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
My back has never felt better, I.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Will interject here.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
So he was talking to somebody on the phone the
other day, and I've heard him say this like twenty times.
He's like, I'm starting to feel so great, like finally,
like he's never you know, prior to that, he couldn't
even get out of bed half the time.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
The biggest thing, just a quick story, you know, for
eight years, I didn't realize how bad it was.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
He kind of just thought he accepted as normal at
that point, right, Right.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So I got up out of bed probably three weeks
after surgery, and I took a step forward with my
right leg, and I stopped. I kind of like stop myself,
and I'm like, why am I stopping myself? And I
realized that I've been shuffling out of bed for basically
eight years. So when I got kind of to that point,
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I'm like, Wow, this actually was that bad. Talked to
my surgeon, and you know, most guys that have the surgery,
even if it's just kind of routine, it's like, Okay,
you kind of need to have surgery, let's get this
over with.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
They still take a year, right, And mine was a
little worse than that.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I had a double level surgery as well, So taking
a year is not abnormal. And for me now I
feel good enough where within the next week or so,
I'm going to really start ramping.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Up getting everything ready, and you know, five months.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I feel like is plenty of time to get me
to where I need to be to, you know, be
back full time on the PGA Tour hopefully and start
winning some events.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
They just release the schedule today for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Now, do you anticipate getting back at some point to
the same you know, clubhead speed ball speed that you
were which was insane or you or is it the
whole idea is or sort of dial this back permanently.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, I mean that I don't even have like any
sights on, right, I'm just going to kind of listen
to my swing coach, Jason Bale, and whatever he has
for me, he has for me, and uh, listen, if
I'm if I'm hitting the ball good and I lose
a couple of mile.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
An hour club at speed, it's probably only.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Going to benefit me because of accuracy and and all
that good stuff, and uh, you know, he's very confident
that the way I was swinging was very inefficient to
the to the fact that when I get back to
where he wants me to, he thinks there's a potential
for me gaining a couple of mile an hour because
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I'm using the proper muscles and the ground properly and
everything like that, where I'm actually going to be faster
with less effort, with less stress on.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yeah, So when did you when did you decide or
or know that you had a chance to be a
professional golfer. When did you think it was? College? Before college? Like,
when do you think that was?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
So it's where I talked to Danielle about this all
the time.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
My memory, thankfully, is pretty good, and I have a
very like visual memory. And I remember there was driving
range up really close to the country cob Strant called Fawnwood, right,
And the one guy that gave me the first lessons
I've ever gotten was from a guy named John Bowden.
And I got done with the first lesson with John
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and I walked away from it and he kind of
was walking and talking with me back down.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
To like where their little pro shop deal was, and
he said, what do you want to get out of this?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And I said, I want to play this game for
the rest of my life and I want to be
one of the best players in the world. He's like,
all right, we're going to We're going to continue with
this then, right. So that was kind of when I
stopped really caring to the point that I did about baseball,
which was a ton from when I was, you know,
age twelve years old. That's when I really put my
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focus in golf and that's the only thing I wanted
to do for a living. So you go from that
point to getting there, right, you get to the pinnacle,
you get your card, and then you have a setback, right,
which it.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Happens in life to a lot of people. Yeah, what
did you learn about yourself during that time? And what
lessons you taken a lot of lessons from golf coaches
and teachers, but I don't know if there's lessons that
can prepare you for how to handle the mindset of
something like this. What'd you learn about yourself over this time?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
The biggest thing I've learned is how little patience I've
had over the years.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I want things done now, and I think that I
can do things very quickly, and I've learned that it
sometimes takes time, and as you get older, it takes
a little bit more time. You know, just turn thirty,
which is wild. Obviously everything's relative, I get you know,
there's probably gonna be people listening that's gone, Oh, you're
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thirty years so you know, everything's relative, right, It's time
is flying right, and we just had a kid, and
it's gonna fly faster. So I'm just very thankful to
where I'm even at right now, all the people that
have been in my life to help me get here.
Thanks for my wife, my family, obviously my daughter now
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and you know, if this is it for me, right,
if somehow you know this injury kind of just gets
the best of me somehow.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
It's you know, I'm a kid.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
From Scranton, Pennsylvania, right, I mean, it's a PGA Tour.
I played on the PGA Tour for an entire season.
I won on the Corn Ferry. I was up at
the very top ranks of golf. That's you know, I
beat the odds there. But I don't quite think that's
going to be the end of it. But but I'm
pretty proud of what I've done and the people that
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have been behind me around me, and just so thankful
of all the opportunities that I've been able to have
throughout the years.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
And like I said, I don't think we're done. I think, uh.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, I think once we get to get going here
over the next few months, it's gonna be kind of
amazing what what I'm going to be able to do
with a body that isn't quite in as much pain.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Now. I don't know how similar the situations were, But
has watching will Zlatrus and his comeback and you know,
his climb back giving you any insight or optimism?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
My uh, my back doctor talked to me a little
bit about just different people surgeries. Right, He's he's done
a lot of guys, and he's consulted for a lot
of guys, and I'm very fortunate to have them. I mean,
Tom Roush is as good as you can get for
what I had and surgery that I had, So, you know,
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I think everybody's so different and the way they approached things.
For me, I think it was a little different with
the situation that I had in timeline. And you know,
obviously I had a daughter that was being born in
late June, and things kind of worked out pretty well
in that sense where I was able to give my
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body arrest, so it probably helped me out a little
bit more.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Right, It's very easy to.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Rush back in that situation, and I was almost forced
to not rush back, which I probably needed with the
way I am, I'm really looking forward to it. I
think I got a little burnt out last year. Toward
the end of the season. I was kind of just
ready to come home and just not do anything for weeks.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I was sick of golf. I wasn't playing good golf.
I was in a lot of pain. So to have
this kind of new light and new outlook on golf
right now where I'm actually excited to get back and
practice and excited to go spend ten hour days at
the golf course.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I haven't had that in a couple of years, and
it's kind of a fun feeling again to have because
that's kind of the feeling I had when I was
a kid and growing up, and that's when I play
my best golf.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Is there like a rehab kind of plan?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Because you know in other sports there's there's reps, but
golf is different because you're practicing and swinging the golf
club a ton and playing in tournaments. Is you know,
it's different, It's a different type of stress. How did
how did you guys lay out a plan of playing
golf practicing tournaments? Is there like is there a set
plan that you guys have to get to a certain point.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I wouldn't say it's like set and stone.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Right, once I get towards the new year, I'm going
to start playing some events locally and in Florida whatever
I can, right to get a couple of reps before
I actually go out there. But also the the way
the tour works is I get five or starts in
corn Ferry, Okay, my reps before I go back out
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on the PGA Tour. So that's kind of their situation
exactly like you were just talking about. So, but before
I do that, probably towards the end of the year,
I'll try to, you know, sign a scorecard.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Basically, it's the easiest way to right.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You sign a scorecard for a score and uh, and
then you kind of get a couple of those reps
in and you know, before you know, you're back to
where you want to be.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
So, as you saw, we always we talked Philly Golf here.
I don't know if you've heard, what did you think
about Philly Cricket. What do you think about Philly Cricket
getting a signature a signature event next year? I mean,
it sucks, it's a one off, but hey, it's still
great that's happening.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
I'll tell you what if there's any way that I
can qualify for that. God, I love that place so much.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Jim Smith is one of the greatest head professionals in
the country. Director of golf for honestly, I feel like
he does everything around there. I don't even know if
you can even give him a title just head of
Philly Cricket, but he's such a great guy and that
course what it's transitioned to over the last ten years.
(24:13):
I feel like it's one of the premier golf courses
and facilities in the entire Northeast. The conditioning day in,
day out is amazing, practice facility is amazing.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Right, Both courses are just so good. Yeah, that Whissick
and courses, it's a beast. So, you know, I kind
of bias towards that.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I won the Philly Open there, So I like tilling
ass golf courses in general. I've always played well on them, so,
and that's one of his gyms.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
So big fan of it. Looking forward to seeing it
and hopefully figure out a way to play in it.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I can't wait to see the crowds that'll draw there,
like just the Philly crowds.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Finally having a PGA Tour event. We've talked about it
on the show. You and I have talked about it
so much.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I really can't they deserve it, right?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Philly is is so enamored with golf. The fact that
they don't have one, or haven't had one since at
White Marsh Valley in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Right then the last one, I think, so the IV
b Classic.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah, yeah, IVV.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So you know the fact that it's coming back for
one year, I think is gonna give Philly a platform, right, and.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Then you got Arono twenty six. Yeah, get back to
back ears.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
So yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
That's the target right there, twenty twenty six to be
at a ronomic.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, exactly what. We'll take both too, right right right?
You know, I think I think next year is just
going to give.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
A platform for Philadelphia golf, right that the PGA Tour
is going to look at this and look at the
fans and and see how much enthusiasm is behind it
there where they're going to want to come back.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
They're going to find a situation and.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I think I don't want to kind of overstep and
kind of look in the future too much, but I
think with this Cops pre project, I think that would
kind of be a perfect situation.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah. Yeah, we got to get those guys back on
and get a little update. But Brandon, thank you for
coming on. Good luck in The NIPA Invitational will be
out there with you. Anyone else listening head TONPA Invitational
dot com. Check it out, see if you can still
get involved.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Harry, Well, I know he's got his Phillies cap on
which they're in the duldrums right now. But I wanted
to get your take on what your optimism is for
the Eagles season, which is about to start here in
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Dan Lawski did not rank Joen Hurts in the top
ten in any categories a quarterback to say, you guys know,
is that right?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Yeah, it's kind of brutal. I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
But I'll tell you what I think Simon Saquan is
one of the biggest moves right getting him on board.
I think that just fills a void for us right
at running back, and it gives us so many more
options right for us. In the past, we've had a
great running game, but I don't think it's been to
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the point where teams are necessarily that worried about it.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
And now they're going to be heavily worried about it,
so that opens up the past game.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I think the offense is just going to be absolutely incredible,
and I think I think we're gonna be looking pretty
damn good over the.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Next few years.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
I have one final question before we let you go.
It's a new thing we're doing. Who should be the
next guest on our podcast.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Teddy.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Actually, I got to tell you guys this. I got
a phone call last week. He is a die hard
swinging ding it listener.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I was saying to appreciate that I've got some merch
coming for him.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
He's wearing the hats, he's wearing the polos. He is
our number one fan. I pick up the phone the
other day, I'm like.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Hey, what's going on? He goes, did you call me
out on your podcast for slow play?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
And I go.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
He goes and throw me under the bus and I
got He goes, stop calling me, miss Matthew.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
So is there anybody from these famous Wednesday Friday games
that you have that we could bring on that would
be interesting?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I don't know if I want to introduce you any
of them, but I can definitely, uh wrap my brain
and find someone for you for sure.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
All Right, all right, man, we'll have to get mister Matthews,
Teddy Matthews on here.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I'll tell you what it might. It might be your
highest views. I mean, there is gonna be nothing like it, uh,
you know, with him and Dinda, that would.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Be oh my god.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
They should have their own podcast.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That would be that was awesome. Well, thank you for
coming on. We will see you, uh September sixth before
the neat invitation for the next time, go Birt. There
is good luck and continued rehab and we'll talk. So
let's take a break. All right, back all, Hi, welcome
back to Swing and Ding. It always great to talk
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to my friend Brandon Matthews, well two of us. One
of us talks to him pretty regularly. Yeah, but yeah,
he's on his way back, Danielle, He's gonna be backing
better than ever. Yeah, let's do it. Uh. The Windham Championship,
what a interesting wild between Debbie, the delays, the weather, Maccher,
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oh my god, yeah, everything about it. I mean, I
have to be honest, I did not get to see
a ton of this. I mean I was watching it
here and there, watching on social media. But Harry, let's
start with you just to kind of give us your
recap on this tournament and all that happen, because it
was pretty wild with leads changing hands and a guy
we've been talking about for weeks and weeks and months,
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and Aaron Raye actually you know, getting overshadowed but gets
his win.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, there's so much to to sort of peel back here.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I mean you had golf played on the.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Second, third, and fourth rounds. Scores were posted on the
same day. I don't know that that's ever happened before.
I mean, that was so bizarre, where a couple of
guys are finishing up their second round make to make
the cut, and it all happened on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
I mean it was like the longest day in golf.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They call that that day where everybody's trying to qualify
for the US Open.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
I don't think so. I think it was this past Sunday.
It was amazing, and what a tremendous job.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know, the people that never really get talked about,
you know, the grounds crew and everybody that worked that
property and got that place you know, playable number one.
And then also you know, to take on so much
play on one day was just amazing. But yeah, you
mentioned it. I mean a ten weight, you know, Coocher,
the couture things stole all the thunder from what really
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should have been talked about, and that was you know
Max Grazerman, you know, with the big lead and blowing
the lead down the stretch.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
I mean he went from the.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Thirteenth hole making eagle posted a two on a card
to the next hole, hitting the cart path and going
oh b making a dumb mistake, got out of the rough,
puts himself in a bunker, ends up carting an eight,
which was a quad on that hole. Then the next
hole is the par five, he makes a birdie, and
the next tolls of par three he makes a double.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
How's that?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That looks like one of my scorecards two, eight, four
or five. I mean, it was just insane, and in hindsight,
they probably should have called the golf tournament probably, you know,
with a couple of holes to play, because it was
really dark, and I think it really affected Grazerman on
those short putts. It's tough to see, and you know,
he missed three from three feet. I mean he four putted.
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But the first putt was a sixteen right on sixteen,
and that's where Coocher apparently took umbradge, which you know, apparently,
Sandy man, this golf tournament should be completed tomorrow. And
so he jumps to the eighteenth tee after they finished
seventeen and hits a t shot without even being told
that they're still in the fairway up there. I mean,
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here's Aaron Rye looking to hit the biggest golf shot
of his life right in the middle of the eighteenth
fairway in the dark, and here comes a ball behind
it the left end of the trees.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
It was it was just mayhem.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I don't know, I don't even where to where to begin,
but like we'll get the couture because I it's just
he keeps on saying or he said, no, want to
be that guy, but he always ends up being that guy.
Like he always does this dumb stuff where you're like,
do you have any clue how this.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Is going to be perceived?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Like, I don't know, he's not on social media, doesn't
know he's not.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
And I guess that's right.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
I think it's probably a smart play.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
It probably is.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Yeah, years ago when like stiff that caddy who paid
him like five grand, that right, it's better to not
have social maybe in that situation.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
But how you mentioned, uh you know, uh how a
grazer man like saying like would have been beneficial for
him to stop playing at that point. But that was
kind of one of Cooch's examples that he said, like
I wanted to give myself the best chance of collecting
a bigger check, and he told Todd Lewis from Golf Channel,
He's like, I was trying to set an example for
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for Mexico that you didn't have to finish, so but
I thought Nance was the go He came in with
saying after after Cooch said, hey, you know I'm coming
back hit that t shot, and Nance goes, I don't
expect we'll be bringing you that coverage tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
That was a great shot by Nance.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, and so got He finishes in a ten way
time for twelve for one hundred and forty five thousand dollars.
He had already been eliminated, you know, from from continuing,
which ends a streak since seven for seventeen years.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
In a row.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
I think, yeah, it was, but he moves up ten
spots to one oh three, and you gotta be in
one twenty five for status. So it's like, I don't know,
like if there were his group didn't finish, to be
the only one that that didn't. You know, Aaron Rye
hits that shot in darkness two hundred yard iron shots
makes Birdie eat and makes Birdie.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Yeah, what if Cooch would have birdied and made x
amount more this would have been more understandable.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
He almost chipped it in, I know, Birdie, I mean know,
he basically had a tap in for par which made
he saved him fifty eight grand.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Because he would have made bogie there.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
He's in a seven way tie for twenty first and
that would have been fifty eight thousand dollars less in
his pocket.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
And we all know he loves money.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
So would you rather hang out with Zach Johnson?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Oh? Coach coocher?
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Who Zach Johnson?
Speaker 8 (34:23):
Oh cooch?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, I'm going coach that.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (34:28):
But yeah, Aaron Ry, we've been talking about him.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
He's been playing really great golf basically all summer long,
has had a great year. And I took him back
in Detroit and he finished second. You knew that at
some point he was gonna knock one of these down.
But how about the shoes that he wears. Hopefully with
all this money that he made a million four, he
can go out and buy himself a new pair of
golf shoes. Those things look like he either mowed the
lawn with them, you know, for for a year or
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they or he went back to his parents' place and
went up in the attic and found a box with
his old.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Stuff in it and just pulled him out and said, boy,
these still fit.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
These are comfortable.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
A dingy if I'm sending him a case of squares
like they would have been at his place.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
The next day, I got to talk to my buddy
Brian Eber from Under Armour. Yes, get him some of
those get him some of those speaks on tour, what's
going on over there?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
The same thing I was watching him, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Is he good like.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
You?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Maybe there? And now he's probably gonna keep He's going
to have to continue to wear them.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Oh man. But we can say all the great things
about Aaron right, you know, finally securing that first win.
He's been so close so many times. But the slow play.
Even Ian Baker Finch like commented on it.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
He's like, he's like, wow, Max Graser man could have
played this route in like two and a half hours.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
It wasn't you know.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
He goes and looking Aaron Rye and it was just man,
that was that was even tough to watch at some
points with how slow it Waseah.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yeah, so for a tournament that was like you know,
and then not too much. Not many people can move spots.
It turned into a pretty pretty interesting one. I mean
the weather delays and to your point, Harry, that the
condensed play was just wild. I mean they showed a
couple behind the scenes things where guys were like, all right,
you have I think you have twenty minutes. What do
you want to do? Like you want to hit balls?
They're like, no, I need to eat.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
I need to right, Yeah, that was my life.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
I'm like, the baby went out, I have ten minutes.
Do I eat?
Speaker 7 (36:18):
So I showered broken, I really quick. Oh it's too fun.
But yeah, like it was like longest day in golf.
I remember, like you know, it was much like you Mousse.
I wasn't watching the entire time, but I'd be looking
or I'd get like the PGA Tour event or alerts
where it's like Ben Griffin is on fire Birdie four
in a row and I'm like, wow, Ben's like in
first this is awesome and I go, oh, he's playing
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round two.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Yeah, Like there was so much going on. I was like,
this is just you know, longest staying off.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah, and I don't know who was happier, Aaron Rye
or Billy Horsell.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Billy Horswell looked.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Like you wanted to kiss Aaron Rye in that scoring
tent after he won, he kept hugging him and smacking
his back.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
It was did you not see this?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
He was elated that Aaron Rye won this tournament.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Man, I don't know what the commit.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Maybe maybe he had him on draft game, maybe he
bet him. He might have listened to see the line.
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
And how about that Luke Clanton kid another tough guy.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, oh really likeaboy.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
It's his fifth He finished fifth for his third top
ten on the tour this summer.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
So that's what I'm talking about, ionis he's like, yeah,
you know, probably catch a flight tonight, you know, get
there tomorrow, talking about like playing the USA. It's just
it's wild, kids, that kid's career so far as and
he's just so nonchalant about everything he is.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And Victor Perez made the top seventy by a couple
of points over Davis Riley. Coming off the great week
at the Olympics. You never knew, you know, is he
going to have anything left after all that emotion in
France and everything and then taking the you know, the
trip back to the States. He played well and how
about all the big names that missed the cut. I
mean Spief Lowry, d Tree, Lover who won it last year,
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Min Wu Lee Seewoo, Kim Hoyguard Zala, Taurus and Bobby
McIntyre all in seed.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Wow. Yeah, there wild weekend, the windom unbelievable. Well, you know, listen,
at least we got that closing event with some fireworks
as we go into the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
So yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
That's good. So let's Daniel, let's let's have some tea,
let's have something. What do we got? Tell us what's
going on in the world.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Well, as we alluded to, I guess like two or
three weeks ago when we were like, why is Ricky
not playing in these events when you know he has
he has to contend here. Yeah, him and his wife
Allis and welcome their second baby, girl, Nelly. And the
caption Harry I made sure that I've pulled this up
for you because his caption said my family right where
I'm supposed to be. Because a lot of us had
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question so like why is he not playing? He let
us know why he was there for the birth of
his second baby girl. So I don't know if you
guys saw that news up there, So we were right.
You guys heard it here on Swing and Ding at first,
while Ricky wasn't.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Going to be good job, Danielle.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
There we go. This is another thing. This is aimed
at Harry and the rest of our listeners.
Speaker 7 (39:10):
Open casting call anyone looking to make their acting debut
and Happy Gilmour two Today the twentieth, from one to
eight pm at the Higatt and Morristown, New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
You can be casting extra in the Netflix feature film.
Speaker 7 (39:25):
Filming will take place in New Jersey September and through
November twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
But Harry, can you please go down an audition? I
want to see you.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yes, send me the info. I'll definitely do.
Speaker 8 (39:35):
Oh my god, I think I've got the time.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
That would be so amazing Harry being in Happy Gilmore too,
Like can you be.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
In the background, you know?
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Oh yeah, just be an extra.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Just wear a swinging it hat, you know.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
Philly golf hat, Like, yes, I need to be my guy.
Speaker 7 (39:53):
Anybody else local? Actually, don't go give Harry as much opportunity.
In other news, we we know Scotty Scheffler, the tear
he's been on. He now joins Tiger Rory, Greg Norman
and DJ is the fifth player to spend one hundred
weeks at world number one.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
Wow, so he has one hundred weeks. Tiger holds a
record at how many weeks? Do you guys know this?
How many?
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I don't know who? It is?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
A million?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
It's like what cuts now? Number one? Number one?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
We sat number one?
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Just take a whild guess it was?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
It was?
Speaker 4 (40:27):
It was like years, right, it was like four years
in a row or.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Something, six in eighty three weeks, six eighty three, eighty
three and.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
The second to Tiger would be Greg Norman with three
hundred and thirty one, followed by DJ one thirty five,
Rory one twenty two, and then as I said, Chef
checking in at one hundred but six.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Anyone ever touched that?
Speaker 4 (40:50):
No, it's funny to you. We thought, like a couple
of years ago that Rom was going to stay there
for a while. Isn't it crazy? He was He was
the only guy I could really think of that I
thought would be up there for for a stretch, right,
and then you know, but yeah, Scottie unbelievable, really, six.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
And eighty three at number one, and then the what
one hundred and forty two straight cuts and then what.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
Eighty three PGA Tour winds or something like that, like
eighty three most guys are.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Like one two.
Speaker 8 (41:20):
I think he's got eighty two.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I think he's tied any ties eighty two with Sneid,
I think there, I think he's tied.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (41:30):
Still, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I don't think anybody's topping eighty to eighty two. I
don't think anybody's reaching the cut streak, and definitely not.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
The world number one.
Speaker 8 (41:36):
It's too competitive now too.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I mean these guys, you know, there's so many guys
that can get you know, can knock another guy off
and be up there for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:47):
And then the last thing I can just mention I
already briefly mentioned it when b was on earlier, is
the twenty twenty five PGA Tour schedule has been released
and as we as we said, there's eight signature events
they will remain, including the highlight in my opinion, you know,
the truest championship in at Cricket in May.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's gonna be great. First first full
week of May, the eighth through the eleventh.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
Yep, Yeah, we got to have a crew out there.
How do we ask let's ask somebody if we can
have a table there, and.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Yeah, trying to get a hold of because it probably
has to go through the.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Tech has to go through the tour, I believe.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to get a media credential,
a couple of media credentials.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
And yeah, I want to well, I want to try
to do some hospitality and stuff out there.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
That's right, that's right, you know, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
We can come up with all right.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Really, the schedule's pretty much the same out there as
the venue change for that tournament, it's pretty much the same.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Yeah, nothing else really, you know, jumps out at you.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
And the BMW now which moves around, is going to
be back in Caves Valley in the Baltimore area where
it was a few years ago when Patrick Cantley and
Deshambo went at it into extra holes in that thrilling.
I think they played like six or seven holes an
extra time. So it's going to return to Caves Valley.
But other than that, it's the same.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
What do you think about the major venues this year?
Speaker 5 (43:06):
The three that move anyway, which three are?
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Well, the p g A, the US Open, and the
Open Championship.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Open Championship is at Royal Back at Royal Port Rush,
that's right. The US is at Oakmont.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yeah, Oakmont's the US Open, that's.
Speaker 6 (43:24):
Right, randomly Port Rush as an amateur.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
Oh really yeah, where.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
There you go on?
Speaker 4 (43:35):
I just oh, it's why have my blanket on this.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Because we'll have the truest at cricket and the US
Open at Oakmont, So two big Pennsylvania quelhalla.
Speaker 8 (43:49):
Oh that's right, because that's why it's going to true cricket.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Oh yeah, that's true. That's terrific.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Yeah. Has some good venues, Yeah, good venues. Where's the
where's the master that this year?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
I had tickets to the what was it the nine
US Open which was at Oakmont that Anghel Cabrera ended
up winning, and I sold them.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
I want to get out there. I want to just
see that place.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be awesome. So Harry, I see you
have the Penn Club had we saw you are working
on working on your game. Uh, talks about the game now.
I'm excited, Danielle when I play this round. The Country
Club was Scranton to play with the new positive attitude Harry.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Oh yeah, I am the positive attitude Harry that withdrew
from the Senior Club Championship last Saturday.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Yeah, I just I just had.
Speaker 8 (44:40):
Yeah it was short lived.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Well, I tell you it's amazing that they were even
able to play it because obviously the weather from Storm Debbie,
you know, affected us severely, took on a lot of water,
and you know, the golf it's not good for me
to play a wet golf course that doesn't have a
little bounce to it. And you know, they weren't able
to cut the fairways for a couple of days, and
they weren't able to really work on the greens all
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that much. So it wasn't suitable for my poor game.
I need a little bounce, I need a little roll
up on the green, those kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
I wasn't solid footing, Yeah, solid.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Foot and the bunkers were really, you know, wet, and
you know, so, uh, I had a bad couple of
bad scores early and it was stroke play wasn't net,
So I knew I didn't. You know, then I'm thinking,
like I just don't want to finish last, and I
just in the fun I'm like, do I really want
to come back here tomorrow early morning and do this again.
Speaker 8 (45:34):
I'm like, nah, I'm going to withdraw.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
So I told that, like the anti Gloper on fourteen,
I said, you know, I think I'm going to w D.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
He goes okay, And.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
It was so liberating.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
It felt great.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
If I completed the round with the with the guys
I was with, because you know I was, I would like,
you know, take putts and so you know, I'd play
the whole out, but I would withdraw, you know, just
to keep them from having to catch the group, because
then if you're playing only three guys playing, they might
catch the people in front.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
We didn't want any that.
Speaker 6 (46:07):
So so we'll see the new the new optimistic Harry
back you know this upcoming weekend.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Oh yeah, that's just putting, you know, that's quick.
Speaker 7 (46:16):
Was actually before the poduct I was talking about your hair.
B came home and he said, you know, he was
one of his guys that he was playing.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
With the other day.
Speaker 6 (46:26):
He was like, hey, look, just you know why you
be happy today? Like can we can we just have like.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
A positive version of you out here today? And he
said the guy shot his best round of his career.
He matched his previous best record, you know, and I said,
par and I talk about all the time, you know,
I said, Harry's been doing.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Great with that. I still need to improve. But it's like,
you know, it's just easy to get disgruntled.
Speaker 4 (46:47):
And he.
Speaker 6 (46:50):
Always says that I've shared on here before. He always goes,
you have no right to be mad.
Speaker 7 (46:54):
He goes, the moment you start practicing and putting in
the work, then you can be frustrated and be mad.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
But he when you don't practice and you come out
and you play, you can't just be like might not amazing, right, right?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
But I did add something to the bag. I saw
it was coming six iron for a six hybrid.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
So I'm full LPGA tour right now. There's more head
covers in my bags than irons, okay, And I don't.
Speaker 6 (47:21):
Care near flex scheft regular shots.
Speaker 8 (47:24):
These are regular shafts, they're regular chefts.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
But we've got the six hybrid specifically for two shots
on the golf course, and they're on the first two holes,
which are the reason why I've never broken eighty or
the first two holes because it gets me a higher
score and it gets me in a bad mood. The
second shot on one and the t shot on number
two the par three, those are the two shots. And
if I use it for five or you know, six
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other shots, great, but I specifically got it for those
two shots.
Speaker 6 (47:53):
Okay, how long is that part three?
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Well it it runs from anywhere one seventy to one eighty.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Great game.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
It can be short too, but when it's in the
one seventy to one eighty range, that's the range with
the out of bounds left that I need the hybrid
for because I can't hit the six irons solid enough,
consistently enough.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
You know, I'll put it out of bounce.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (48:14):
I'm like opposite of you, like Be always tries to
get and he's like, hit your hybrids. I hate hitting
my hybrids. I love them, like the irons like I
love so occasionally when he's like this, you know, Griber
hybrid and I'm like, I'm just gonna have five iron Wow?
Speaker 8 (48:30):
Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 4 (48:32):
I haven't been playing too much. I played around on Sunday, no,
not a home round, and at Medford Village with my
neighbor Brian. It was awesome too, because it was just
like we were playing a late Sunday afternoon quick nine.
But we were all just kind of like having fun
as three of us playing. And on the ninth hole,
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I said, you guys want to go twenty twenty A
guy and it's so funny, like the one guy just
like fell apart the tea.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Money on the line.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Yeah, and uh, I usually play well when I have
something to care about. So I don't know if I
part or bogie, but whatever is, I won. I won
the hole on on nine easily. And my buddy Brian Dowell,
who sponsored our outing real estate agent in South Jersey,
he's like double or nothing. On ten, it's like, play
one more hole. I'm like, okay. He hits his drive
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deep right into the water. I hit this three wood
off the tee butter butter draw right down the middle
of the par five lay up shot, put it like
right off of the green. He was so many he
just lost forty bucks in like ten minutes. Wow, it
was awesome. I can't wait to send him this clip.
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But then we but then we went to see the
Private Show with Shane Gillis, so I made I made
him happy again. I took I took him to see
Shane at Helium what a show.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (49:51):
Oh I saw that story. I was like, wow, that's
probably so good.
Speaker 8 (49:56):
He was and he jump on stage with Zach Bryan
too at the link.
Speaker 4 (49:59):
Oh yeah was there. Yeah, there for that night.
Speaker 6 (50:01):
So it was awesome doing a tour of Philly, like
popping all around.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yeah, we got lucky last week with a couple of
a couple of the best shows around.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
So uh.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
And then next week is my Lake George week, so
it'll be Greeni's annual episode. Greene's gonna see the line.
You know, he's got some he hangs out with some
heavy hitters in the golf gambling space, so we'll have
some good information for us for sure. But we're having
a change up there. Like we usually play Sagamore, which
is cool. And then we found this place called Taekwonderoga,
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which is closer to where we're staying in Hague, and
it's this awesome like built into the side of a mountain,
more laid back course. It's a third of the price,
and it's like, so we're actually just gonna play there
like a couple of times instead of driving a little
bit further to Yeah, we did, and we were blown
away by the place. It was the most fun place.
We're like, you know, up and down. Uh, not really long,
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but a blast.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Now would you be able to play Sullivan County on
your way to or from tom Coins place?
Speaker 4 (51:02):
Uh, with a full Yukon excel of children and supplies.
I don't know if that would I don't know if
that would fly. No funny exactly unfortunately, but yeah, looking
forward to that and uh yeah, well we'll talk about it.
I think we'll have I think we will have played
probably one round uh when we record next week, So
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we'll figure out when we're going to record. But playoffs,
the FedEx Cut playoffs are here the FedEx Saint Jude Classic,
the top seventy all right, then next week it goes
down to the top fifty. And also if you if
you're in that top fifty, you're in all the signature events.
Yeah there, which is huge, right as the BMW and
then obviously the Tour Championship with the top twenty twenty
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million dollars on the line. This year we go to Memphis,
we go to TPC Southman Harry Mays the course, of course,
tell us about this place.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Yeah, I've been down there.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
I was down there a few years ago for this event,
and it is going to be jungle hot at least
for the first two days. And we were talking about
ninety seven ninety four and then it's going to get
back down to ninety two and ninety for the weekend.
But man, does it get humid and hot in Memphis
this time of year. Par seventy seventy two hundred and
forty three yards. Ron Pritchard is the architect and he's
(52:14):
a local guy. He's a Lansdale guy, Pa guy. He
designed this place along with Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zella
as player consultants. It only has two par fives, number
three and number sixteen, four par threes number four, eight, eleven,
and fourteen. The average green size forty three hundred square feet,
so these small greens for what these guys on the
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tour are typically used to seventy five bunkers water and
play on eleven of the eighteen holes. He got Zoysia Fairway,
so the ball sit up there night. It's almost like
it's on a tee if you're in the fairway, but
if you miss the farewell, you're in two and a
half inch Bermuda rough. And they got Bermuda greens and
the fairways kind of tight, only average about twenty five
(52:57):
yards wide. Start off on fourteen. It's a par three
two hundred and thirty nine yards elevated tea with a
full carryover water, a severely undulated green with a large
bunker set in the middle back and water all down
the right side of the green. The fifteenth hole, as
you start sort of making the turn to come back
par fourth, it's a short one three hundred ninety five
(53:18):
yards tree lined fairways. It's slight dog leg left and
the approach is over a creek with an offset green
a lah Jack Nicholas. It reminds you a little bit
of the number fourteen at Merefield Village and even a
little bit of the number eleven, the par five at
TPC Sawgrass with the placement of the green and the
water hazard. The sixteenth hole is a par five, the
last easy hole on the golf course for these guys.
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Five hundred and thirty yards uphill par five, trees left
and right, dog leg left, the approach to a small
green that's well guarded by bunkers, but birdie there is
a must because the seventeenth hole is probably the toughest
hole on the back side par four four to ninety
long downhill t shot trees on both sides. The approach
is up all over a creek to a long, narrow
(54:02):
green with three bunkers left and three bunkers right. There's
a bailout over the bunkers on the right side. It's
the most difficult hole on the inward nine. And then
you get to eighteen, which is the sort of the iconic,
you know, picturesque hole, a great finishing hole, four hundred
and fifty three yard dog leg left with water all
down the left side goes curves the whole dog leg
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all the way up to the green, and then there's
three fairway bunkers on the right that guard the dog legs.
So it's a very tight spot for the for the
long hitters, they're going to pinch that fairway in and
the approach, you know, you got left water all the
way up and I said, there's a bailout over the
long right bunker. So great finishing hole. It's a great
(54:44):
golf course. These guys rave about this place, you know,
as far as it's a shot makers. You know, you
can't overpower the place. You got to position yourself off
the tee and you know great iron game into the
greens is is paramount?
Speaker 4 (54:58):
Oh yeah, how about play last three years there's been
a playoff in this playoff in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Interesting And I think Victor Hoblin missed out on that
because you put it in the water. I think on
eighteen the eighteenth, if you had a problem with that
whole all that week or he would have been in
in that.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
Too, I believe.
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Speaker 1 (57:03):
What are you thinking, Well, I'm looking at a couple
of these guys that you talked about that top fifty,
which guarantees you the signature events for next season and
a whole lot of money. You look at some of
these names that are on the outside looking in Nick Dunlap,
who actually should be in the top fifty because he
should have gotten the points for that win way back
in the AMEX, but he's at sixty seven. Jordan Speith
(57:25):
is at sixty third. Minwu Lee sixty second, needs a
good week. Victor Hovelins is at fifty seventh. I think
he needs to finish in the top twenty seven in
order to guarantee himself the next week to defend at
the BMW in the top end, get the top fifty.
Justin Rose, who we've seen play a lot of good golf,
he's still on the outside of the top fifty. He's
(57:47):
at fifty fifth. And Eric Cole, who we know of
course pay attention to He's at fifty fourth. So a
couple of a lot of those guys they really need
a good week this week to guarantee, you know, set
their schedule for next year and guarantee himselves some money.
Speaker 4 (58:01):
Danielle, who's your player of the year right now? Scotti
Scheffler or Xander Shaffler.
Speaker 6 (58:05):
Oh, Scotty all day? You guys know that?
Speaker 1 (58:08):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (58:09):
Yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
I wonder if I mean, if Xander, if Xander won
the Cup, he won the FedEx Cup, then you know, yeah,
I guess you have a conversation again.
Speaker 2 (58:18):
But yeah, I agree with Danielle, and.
Speaker 6 (58:20):
Dan was just you know, getting hot towards the end.
Speaker 7 (58:22):
Now, Scotty has just been so consistent and just like,
I mean, one hundred weeks at world number one.
Speaker 4 (58:29):
Like just imagine winning two majors and not being the
player of the year.
Speaker 6 (58:32):
I know, I know, I mean, it's some have store,
but it's I mean, and it's got Olympics.
Speaker 4 (58:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I a couple couple of plays
I like here, I like I like Justin Thomas. He
has a top ten the Travelers. He's a big number
at thirty five, a decent number, thirty five under he
has a win here. Four years ago it was it
was a World Golf Classic. Buddy, he has a win here.
I could see him sneaky going out and winning this
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this weekend. I like Russell Henley in a top five
at five point fifty. It's aid number at so Hea
Gala for a little bit more of a long shot,
and Son Jay and Sunday's at thirty five hundred, and
then I'm taking Corey Connor's minus one twenty five over Hoblin.
I just think Hoblin is is just not back.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
Well I listened to his press conference yesterday and maybe
I bought in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (59:24):
He's had a couple of weeks here with his coach
Joe Mayo.
Speaker 4 (59:27):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (59:28):
So I took him in one and done because I
typically would go think he stinks and I was gonna
take Oberg but and then I'm like, you know what,
my gut again, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
Against what my initial thought is. I'm gonna take Hoveland.
So who cares? I took Hovlin?
Speaker 4 (59:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (59:44):
Yeah, well there's no way I can win anyway. I'm
out of it.
Speaker 4 (59:47):
I took ahead Decie. Yeah, he was the top I
had life I like Adeki and yeah in clutch moments,
he he can definitely play. Yeah. Uh So I heard
it again at a club this weekend. I heard someone
saying about trip to Ireland and they were like, oh,
who's helping you? And they're like, oh yeah, Ralph, Ralph Yeah,
a couple of barstools down, and I'm like, did we
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Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Absolutely all right.
Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Excited to continue to our planning for the NIPA Invitational.
That's it be a blast to play that round. And
uh yeah, I'll.
Speaker 6 (01:00:54):
Together too, all of a sudden, you know, together in person.
Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Yep, that's right now. Is Vienna's making the trip?
Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
Yeah, yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 7 (01:01:05):
My mom's gonna come up and help babysit. So maybe
I'll be able to play more than like two and
a half holes with you. With the being tournament director
this year, though, I may have my hands a little
bit full, but all right.
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
We'll big make the trip too.
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, all right. Well we'll be
back next week to recap the Saint Jude Classic and
take a look ahead to see who made it in
the top fifty for the BMW. See you.
Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
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