November 13, 2024 • 46 mins
We discuss the results from World Wide Technologies Championship where, friend of the show, Austin Eckroat, won his 2nd PGA Tour title of 2024 thanks to a brilliant 9 under par 63 in the final round. The machine, Bernhard Langer, wins again on PGA Tour Champions, earning his 47th Tour title and kept his win streak alive at 18 straight years. Danielle spilled lots of tea, including some on LIV Golf League. We look ahead to the Butterfield Bermuda Championship including “The Course, of Course” with a look at Port Royal and attempt to “See The Line” for the penultimate event in the FedEx Fall series. We also recap the Spring Haven Cup and First Tee Philly’s Auction For Game Changers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Penn Club on second, where we'll see the go to
the course of course a little bit later today, and
Draftking Sportsbook where we will see the line. But we
are down one today. I'm Harry May. She is Danielle Matthews, and.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Moose is in Babyland.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
He's in Babyland. Why don't you tell us about That's
what's happening with Moose here today, Danielle? Because this is
the day, right, it is the day.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, you never know what that type of thing. But
we think is what is the day? November thirteenth is
when Moose's fourth daughter will enter the world. So Rebecca
should be slated to have her baby today. So best
of wishes to the more family, adding another potential LPGA
player to the group.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, congratulations to team Moose. And I'm glad he got
all his golf in. He was on tour basically this year.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And American guests.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That comes to a halt today.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
For a week and then and then I was a
wonderful wives just say get back out there.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And yeah, I don't know about that. I think he's
gonna have to, you know, budget his time at the
Legacy Club because I don't think it's going to be
that extensive.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, Harry, I mean about planning. How good is Moose
like entering the fall season. I know you guys have
had exceptional weather up there, but having a baby November
just you know, it's like perfect timing for him.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, that exceptional weather is over. It's freezing today. And
I mean when I know, when you say it's freezing,
it's like sixty eight degrees. I'm serious, it's freezing here today.
It's cold, the wind is up, it's like twenty some
mile an hour gusts of winds. It's brutal. It's time
to get into the simulator. And we'll talk about the
Penn Club a little bit later. But we got to
(02:30):
catch up. We've been Oh my god, we miss the
Worldwide Technologies Championship at El Cardinal at Diamante in Mexico,
Tiger Woods's golf course. And one of the friends of
the show got his second PGA Tour win last week. Austin,
how about that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah? That was incredible watching it too. I know Moose
had texted our our little group text here just saying like,
Austin and we were watching and my guy, Justin Lower too,
and Max Grazer Man, he's been on the radar. I
know he's been on your radar, Harry. We got to
try to get him on here. But just watching him
and you just see Austin kind of run away with it.
What was eleven birdies?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, he had eleven birdies in the final round shot
n islander that day, a sixty three on Sunday, twenty
four under for the week, one shot clear of you
mentioned Justin Lower and Carson Young also with the great mustache,
Love mustache. Max Grazerman you mentioned, was two back at
twenty two under and got fourth by himself. But I
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don't know if you were aware of this, because I
wasn't until I read it, but Austin Ekrot made a
putter switch from the last time that he won, which
was the you know, over at Palm Beach Gardens right
down the street from you. He went switched his ping
Redwood D sixty six to a ping pld DZB say
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that three times fast.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'll leave that up to you. I did hear him though,
and the postgame interviewed Ough Harris saying, I think it
was the first time in thirteen years that he's won
a tournament on any type of level, obviously not PGA
Tour with a different potter. And then he just you know,
I believe was Kira interviewing him and kind of asked
a little, you know, to elaborate a little bit more
on his butter, and he goes, hey, it's still not safe.
(04:17):
Who knows? He goes, I'm a serial switcher. Is it'll
probably be switched out you know next week?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, isn't that crazy? I mean, these guys, you know,
they've got putters galore, right and they're always trying something.
They're always you know, tweaking something, try to get Yeah, tinkering,
I guess is the word, especially when you're talking about putters.
But you know, it's amazing how fickle it is, you know,
it really is with that instrument, more so, I guess
than any other club in the bag. But his opening
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nine he shot thirty one with a bogie on the
third hole, and the closing nine he started it with
birdies at ten, eleven, and twelve, really put his foot
on the gas and then made it birdie at fourteen
and also on seventeen, and then you know, had had
a three shot lead heading to the eighteenth where he
could even bogey the hole, which he did, and mister
(05:06):
Green tried to make a chip up and it rolled
right back almost to his feet and then got it
on and two putted from there for a six on
that par five. But that was, you know, still easy,
an easy win really, and he didn't really have to
sweat it. And you brought up justin lower. There was
an interesting development in the final round regarding Justin. The
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par four tenth hole was set up with the tea's
forward and it was drivable for a lot of the
players in the field, should they choose to. I mean,
these guys can all basically hit it far enough. Justin
Loward chose to lay up, and as it was happening,
you know, the the broadcasters, to their credit and you know,
made note of it, like this is a really interesting
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choice here. He ended up making par on that hole.
His his wedge shot in was you know, a good
thirty forty feet away from the from the pin. Made
a nice laugh put you know, trying to make it obviously,
but ended up being a really good lag where you
could tap in for par. But that was an interesting decision.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I agree here we're not playing basketball, right And yeah,
with Justin he's been you know, for lack of better words,
I guess, you know, a bubble boy is what they
were kind of dubbing him. I saw his wife Janise
put out, yeah right here. So twenty seventeen makes they
call him literally the bubble boy. So this isn't me
naming him that. Twenty seventeen makes a ten footer to
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advance through Q school earns guaranteed status on corn Ferry Tour.
Twenty eighteen missed a sixth footer at corn Fairy Tour
Finals that would have earned him his PGA Tour card.
Twenty twenty one gets up and down on the final
hole of the Corn Fairy Tour finals to earn his
PGA Tour card. Twenty twenty two entered the final event
of the regular season, number one twenty eight in FedEx
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Cup standings, once again the position for make or break,
and he ends the season number one thirty eight, doesn't
qualify for playoffs. And then starting before this tournament, he
was currently ninety fifth in the FedEx Fall standings and
a win would vaught him the fifty seven, which you know,
obviously we know what happens when you finish inside that
top fifty with those signature events, so that would have
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been huge. Just his career has been just so up
and down and literally flirting with the bubble the entire time.
He's such a good player, yeah, but it's just been like,
you know, flirting with heartbreak again and again year after year.
So yeah, he's such a good player and.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
A good guy too, great guy. But it just goes
to show you it, really, you know, highlights, how razor
thin the margins are out there. I mean, to stay
on the tour and you know, bouncing around from you know,
corn Ferry to status on the PGA and back and forth,
and comes down to you know, one shot he could
have been in a playoff.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh with that, this is who knows, Yeah he didn't
lay up, Yeah, this is this is job security for
these guys literally, and it's you know, Austin kind of
led onto that too. He said, Look like I woke
up this morning. I thought maybe i'd be a little nervous,
but he's like, hey, you won out here before. And
you know that's I think when you have one of
those under your belt, you're like, okay, I've done this,
you know. So I think Justin's getting there, he's closed,
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he's due. We're going to see him continue to be
up the top couple you know levels of the leaderboard.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And you know he's Justin's back in the field this
week too in Bermuda, so maybe he can pull that
one off. But how about what happened on a PGA
Tour champions We don't talk a lot about that tour,
I mean not, you know, it's it's really kind of
an afterthought, you know, in the world of golf, you know,
for a large extent. But Bernhard Langer, who is just
a machine.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He owned the tour champion, he really does.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
They should really rename it. They should rename the trophy
that they give, you know, to a Langer Trophy. Yeah,
it should be the Bernhard Langer Trophy. Really, because he
survived three bogies on the and he's inward nine but
made birdie on thirteen and one on eighteen the final
whole courtesy of a thirty foot pott that gave him
his forty seventh on PGA Tour champions which is more
(09:02):
than anybody, and kept his win streak alive at eighteen years.
He's won an event on every on that tour, every
year he's been on it. This guy's was sixty seven,
sixty eight years old, and he just keeps going. He
had the Achilles tear, which you know would devastate most people,
especially at that age. Oh yeah, and here he comes
(09:23):
back to win, you know, which really kind of pushed
Stephen Alker's win aside. He finished T two but won
the whole Cup. He won the Schwab Cup. And everybody's
talking about Bernhart and winning for the eighteenth straight year.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How about well, how impressive is that one win a year?
I mean, let's just grab one a year. It's it sounds,
you know to the non golf junkie, it's like, oh, okay,
once a year, but it's that's hard. Yeah, nobody does that.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, especially on that tour, because you know, the guys
that turn fifty are automatically the favorites basically to win
the because they hit the ball farther like the young
and this guy's been there for eighteen years and he's
still competing with these guys you know that are hitting
it farther than him, you know, like the Stuart Sinks
and the Padrick Harringtons of the world, you know, Steve Stricker.
(10:11):
Those those guys are younger, they're in their early fifties,
and to win at that advanced age with that level
of competition is just it's incredible. I can't get over
that guy. He's an inspiration, he really is to all
of us old people. Speaking for myself, so I thought
that was pretty cool. Now, we got a lot to
(10:32):
get to today, but I wanted to tee you up
for the tea segment year because yes, I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, there's so many different things going on, especially since
we took a little bit of break so we can
get into a bunch of these and then we can
kind of have some off conversations. If you want hair,
we keep it a little open conversation, but live. Let's
start with that, all right. We'll start a little light
and keep it funny.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
President elect Donald Trump says that he could get the
Live and Piff deal done. He said he thinks in
like fifteen minutes, he goes, give me fifteen minutes, maybe less,
I can get this done. So I don't know about that.
If he could, you know, let's see it. But he
said I think it'll come together. Yeah, I could certainly help,
but I'm not doing his voice correct right, But I
(11:21):
could probably get it done. I would say it would
take me the better vote of fifteen minutes to get
that deal done. So we'll see if Donald Trump has
any pool in the Live and Piff. Rory also or
live in PGA to her pardon me. Rory also said, hey,
I think you know, Donald Trump could get this done.
But I don't know if anybody is really paying attention.
(11:43):
But I don't think Ory can vote. Well, I don't
think Rory had a decision.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, right, but I did see that's where I saw it.
Rory was quoted as saying, like, you know, if a
deal can get done now that you know Trump won
the election, we could probably get it done. And see
that where Donald actually he commented on it, but he
did it is interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, And when I was researching that news a little
bit more is funny, I saw this video clip of
saying Donald Trump quite possibly the most athletic president ever.
And I'm like, this is hilarious because George Bush, I mean,
now watch me hit this drive, you know, right right,
but you and then they have Donald, they they have
President Alex shot tracer or a part of me like
(12:25):
his swing and then you see him bring it back,
do this ugly little hook up at the top and
then bring it through but it goes straight down the middle.
He does a little lass move. Was kind of funny.
So I don't know, I don't know that he's the
most athletic, but we will say he's.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Got more clubhead speed than Mark Cuban. Apparently that's something
that we do know. Yeah, for what it's worth. But
I did see though, since we last did an episode
two weeks ago, that Yeah, there was a British tabloid
that was quoted as saying a deal is basically done,
and you know, they credited Rory and Woods, and then
(13:01):
Rory was asked about it and he's like, that's news
to me. So you know, I don't know what's really
going on here. But when I saw that, I was like.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Man, yeah, texting you guys out, I was like hey.
But then it was like silent everywhere else, So I
was like, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So yeah, I was looking for other sources to like
quote it and corroborate it, and nobody ever did. Now
we know why.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And honestly, Harry, I think we've talked about it before.
In the beginning, we were like okay, and you know,
we're kind of like waited on, you know, we're like
baited breath, like what's going to come next? But I'm
over it until something is done. We have hard, firm news.
Stop the little clickbait like I don't want to hear.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, But with LIV a couple of things that I
kind of fell under the radar with. Obviously they just
dropped their new twenty twenty five schedule. We don't need
to really get into it. I mean, it's nothing exciting
in my opinion. But Korea and Indianapolis headline six more
events and they said more events are dropping soon. But
I thought that this was interesting, and I don't know
(13:59):
if you knew anything about it, Hair, but says we're
excited to announce Live Golf Promotions and the tournament will
be December twelfth through fourteenth at Ryota Golf Club with
four rounds played over three days.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Red.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, okay, part of me on that annunciation so at
read and I'm assuming this is kind of like live
Q School, but they're calling it Live Golf Promotion. So
the top finisher is guaranteed a spot in twenty twenty
five Live Golf League. The top ten finishers will earn
full exemption into the rest of the season. So interesting
(14:37):
to see how that plays out and what that is.
And it said registration for Live Golf Promotions or Q
School if you will close this in seven days. That
was two days ago, so I don't know, Hair, if
you want to go register see if you can get
yourself a spot.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Are they only taking one?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well win the winner, right, So it's just like Q School.
In Q School, if you finish top like on which
Q school you're you know, if it's for PGA Tour,
number one will get full status and then you get
like conditional Yeah. So it literally, like I said, I
Unfortunately I was trying to do some research, couldn't find
out more. But it's what that seems like is that
(15:15):
it is Live Q School and they're calling it the
Live I N T Series Golf YEP, Live Golf Promotions.
But and then I follow them to look at that,
and you know, they have like rankings and things of
that nature, but nothing too crazy. So that's uh that
with Live. One other thing actually with Live is they
they I wonder if this is kind of like the
(15:37):
Pen Club in a way, or if you could play
it at the Pen Club. It's called the new Golf Rival.
Live Golf tournament has dropped test your skills on unique
courses for your chance to win great rewards. I don't know.
You can download Golf Rival and start playing, So if
it's on your phone and you're, you know, playing golf
with your finger, I'm not for it. But if you
can play it at the Pen Club and check it
(15:58):
out and get some rankings or something, that might be cool.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well. The other thing I saw regarding Live was that
they apparently allegedly are Jason Day's agent reached out to
Live to pursue, you know, the possibilities of joining Live Golf,
and Live was not interested in Jason Day's services because
he's injured too often, was the was the reason. How
(16:22):
about that?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Really?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I mean it usually a former world number one player.
You know, he's got a major, he's got a Players Championship.
They weren't.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And now you're saying, because, yeah, that's wild, but again they're.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, he's always got a lot of you know, neck
and back issues and so forth. So you know, if
it's true. I don't know. I don't know if anything's
true anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
No babies unless you confirm it. No confirmation on my end.
I don't know. If I was in their position, I think,
you know, their whole kind of motive, from what it
seemed to me, was just getting these superstars, and I
think JD would pool, uh, you know, more fans, but
especially if they're you know, going to different locations, you know,
(17:06):
go to Australia or something like that. But you know,
we don't want him. He's hurt. Next Oh yeah, so
Bryce and d Shambo, he did you see this first
of all his Dallas mansion. I mean, it's talk about
living in a glass house. It's like this guy shouldn't
throw stones, but he's not throwing stones. He's hitting wood
shots over his mansion in Dallas. And oh yeah you can.
(17:31):
Well you can see it on his YouTube. You can
see it on his instagram, or you can go to
Nuclear Golf and see it as well. And at first
I saw it and I'm like no, because he almost
aces it hair. He he hits a shot over top
of his house and then it lands about a foot
or so. And when I see it, I'm like, Okay,
Like they clearly, you know, just took the first shot
and then threw the ball down and made it look
(17:52):
like it. But no, they actually somebody was standing up
on the roof and got the entire shot going over
and he literally stuck it to like a foot, So
it was kind of cool. He almost aised it. But
I was like, wow, if.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's my house got out that's on his YouTube, shay.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, but you can't and his instagram too, so you
can check that out. But if I'm living in that house,
i am most not, most certainly not trusting myself to
hit that shot. We get broken windows.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I think he can afford new windows if he breaks
one or two of them.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
He could afford a whole new house if he wanted to, exactly,
And even if he gets hurt, live and kick.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I can't get enough of Bryson. I got to go
check that out. I love watching him now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's funny how he his character, if you will, has
evolved PGA tour and you know, a young sensation to
live and now he's so enthralled in the content and
putting it out. It's like you just have to watch.
Like you said, you can't get enough. It's exciting, and
he's smart and or his team is smart, you know,
and they know what the people want to see.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, you know the people A lot of people are like,
you know us here because I've done a one eighty
on him in the in the past six eight months.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Oh yeah, I'm the same way because there's times where
and I've done that with a few players, but you're like, oh,
he's kind of annoying or like, you know, I don't
like this, But then you you know, you see his
personality and he humanizes himself and I think he's done
a great job of doing that and then he's entertaining.
So it's like, okay, yeah, you know what he did
after the Masters, that was I think he earned a
bunch of fans.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There, no doubt. And now he was never to the
bow Hostler level of annoying for me, but he was close.
And now I did a total one eighty where I
cannot get enough.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So that's for price. Yes, it's like, somebody get a
check Harry.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
His team should take over bo Hostler stuff and maybe,
you know, maybe they can you know, make him interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Oh man, we have to do a ranking of Harry
of his top annoying players. Oh yeah, got some controversy there.
We'll strow the bot a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I don't know if I have a legal pad long
enough to list the amount of players that annoy the
crap out of me.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, let's talk about Liz Harry. Golf dot com released
their golf top one hundred of courses. The list is complete.
Who knows did the experts get it right or wrong?
I do want to point out number one through twenty
on the front page alone. We always talk about what
an embarrassment of riches. Philadelphia is PV ranked number one,
(20:19):
Oakmont number five, Marion number eight, So we have three
Pennsylvania courses on the top twenty. Following that up we
have Fox Chapel number eighty two, around the Bank number yep,
around the Bank number eighty four. Philly Cricket was a
Hicken number ninety.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Just made it in, right, yeah, just under the wire.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
For I was kind of surprised at that, me too,
Yeah too, because.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I looked at some of the other ones on that list.
Now I've you know, I haven't played them, but I
you know, I'm looking at some of these names of
these I'm like, Philly Cricket's got to be more highly
regarded than that. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I'm going through the list and I'm like, humh, like
what's going on because I'm like, let's see where our
Philly courses are O. PV is you know, no brainer,
Oakmond like okay, and then Marry and you're like yeah.
But then the rest I was like, wow, I'm scrolling
to see these here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So that's why they do lists, so they get discussion
like this, you know, where you say, oh they're crazy,
you know, this course doesn't belong here, or this one
should be way higher. They're nothing. That's why you do lists.
You used to have to do those in sports radio.
Oh yeah, and then when the days are slow, you
do a list.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I remember when facts I was at his house and
he was creating the top Potters list and we posted
it and we put it out and we got such backlash.
Do you remember this or at all?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I mean you mean like players that are great putters.
Oh yeah, actual putters.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So oh part of me the top ten putters, people
like human player putters. Yeah. So he started making the
list and he made one glaring omission, and that was
he didn't include one female. So the Twitter universe or
ex universe went up and armed it wasn't but the
(22:00):
list save that for We don't want to open that
cantiworms with me.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
But who was Lauren Roberts on that list? By any chance?
They used to call him the Boss of the Moss
back I remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Actually there was like I remember I got Brandon probably
like seven or eight years ago a punt and Green
called the Big Moss or something like that, and then
he told me, he's like, you know that, you know
the Boss of the Moss And he told me all
about it, but no, it was but he said, I
thought it was a known that I meant PGA tour.
But the thing is, we gained so many followers from it,
(22:39):
and I told him, I'm like, even bad breass is
good for us. So we got a lot of people
chiming in. But like you said, the lists are made
to create controversy, stir the pot, and you know, get
some people who are really passionate about some thoughts to
talk despite if anybody else wants to hear it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Absolutely absolutely, Harry.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know, I'm still sad that you didn't go and
try out for Happy Gilmore Too. Ben Stiller. Hall has
been seen on the set of Happy Gilmore Too, so
that kind of made my day. I saw that. I
was like, this is great, and I saw like his
you know, the whole get up, the stash everything else.
So but I don't know, for me, it's always like
(23:18):
the second the sequel, if you will, is never as
good as a first, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, there's a lot of pressure on a sequel, you know,
you know, to live up to the initial when, especially
when the first movie is so good exactly like I
think of like caddy Shack. The sequel to Caddyshack is awful.
Oh yeah, and a lot of them, but then you
have one like the Godfather. Godfather Too was actually better
(23:44):
than Godfather won. I mean, so it does happen where
the sequel sometimes can be not only as good but
even better better, but not often.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And I think Happy Gilmore is, you know, a tough
cup to fill you to make that better. It's like
Space Jam when Barn came out. I'm like, you're not
Michael Jordan. You're not the modern day Michael Jordan. This
is dumb. Don't know, don't touch it. It's not so good.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Ben Stiller's in it now, he was in He's in
that At and T commercial with Jordan's speif that revolves.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, he's like hitting the ball and he's in the
middle of the desert and all over.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It is actually pretty funny, Yeah it is. And then
he yeah, he has like a couple of different characters.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And then he calls you know, Jordan at the end
and Jordan has to get him out of a jam.
Yeah that's the way it ends.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
So yeah, sometimes they get creative. Yeah, if you were
on x or you know, Instagram, any type of social
media today, you had to have seen that w NBA
player Caitlin Clark is playing in the Anika Pro Am today,
so it's all over and it's like, yeah, we've seen
Steph Curry do this, but again I'm going to talk
(24:53):
about the ladies. So yeah, she's out there, she's playing
in that. I think she's playing with Lee La Voue
and Nellie Cordo. So yeah, so Anaica's this week. The
twenty twenty four Race to Dubai comes to a close
at the DP World Championship this week, so your other
(25:14):
favorite Rory will look to Clinch's record tying six Harry
Varden Trophy. We shall see the.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Watch early in the morning. It does really really But yeah,
regarding the Caitlyn Clark thing, yeah, I saw something before
the show that you know, she's playing in that pro
am and hit like a bad shot or some must
have hit.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Did you see the shot.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I didn't see the shot. I saw that. She said
Caitlin Clark is human or something, and there is no
more a sport or an endeavor to humanize anybody than golf.
I mean, you know, you could be the greatest at whatever,
and you get up there and try to hit a
golf shot. You can look like a total fool.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, but I mean for me, I guess people, well,
you know you want to you want to see who's playing.
You're super excited about hair this. So she's on she's
on the tea box, and just like you know, PGA
to PGA tournament, both sides are completely you know, lined,
at least like i'd say, like twenty feet out. So
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she hits a t shot shanks it nearly takes out
a fan on the left. But it's like, look, this
is a pro am, she's not a pro player, Like,
you know, heads up, you know you might be losing
a couple of teeth if you don't watch.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I think those people are nuts to do that with
a professional golfer. Yeah, the way they how they get
so close.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Oh you should do when I'm getting content. I trusted
Brad the other day for some webshots. He's like, you sure,
I'm like laying on the ground with the camera and
I trust be with it too. But there's there's probably
only a handful of players that I would trust the
lang on the ground with the camera in front of
But if it's a pro am and it's you know,
a celebrity or another athlete, if you will. That's hitting
(26:56):
the t shot up. I don't need a front row seat.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I want to keep my teeth and Moose and I
are not on that list of people you trust with
a golf club either.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, I'll stay behind it. I'll get you down the
line behind exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, that's better. That's my better side anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh. Staying on the topic of LPGA, LPGA golfer Jennifer
Chang had her bag and numerous clubs destroyed by Delta,
but found some humor with it, saying, that's what they
call a delta grind her. You know, I don't even
know what club it is. It's maybe like a seven
(27:30):
iron or something like that. It's you know, can someone
just like drug it across the ground or whatever. But
her entire bag was like burnt and ripped open, and
then her clubs literally. But I thought it was funny.
I laughed a little bit that the Delta grind. Wow,
I found some humor in it, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, that's good. But that's why I use shipsticks whenever.
I like, when I'm going to Arizona, the wife and
I are going to Scottsdale in a couple of weeks. Huh,
I already have the shipsticks already stored, and I use
a hard case. Oh smart, I don't use the soft
because of stories like that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Did you get the Apple tag like I told you
the the air tag? Oh no, no, yeah, it's like
seventy bucks for three or four of them. I got
him for Brandon, and I said, you put them in
your clubs and then you put it in you know,
your luggage where it is. All you get notification if
it's traveling with you it's leaving. So actually I learned
(28:23):
this from Michael Collins. He told me. He's like, oh,
they were like, sir, sorry, your club's are missing. He's like, actually, no,
here they are. And they were like, okay, yep, we'll
have him for you in an hour or whatever. So
I was like, wow, I need to get that for me.
So I got them for him, and now he keeps one.
I said, put it in your carrying case and in
your golf bag, just like mix it in with the
tease and nobody sees it because somebody can take it out,
(28:45):
just throw it and be like hey, now it's going
down ninety five, right, you know. But so we put
two in his golf bag and then you know, one
in his luggage and then you can track where it's
at so you can see get it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How do you get them?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Oh you can, I got I think I got mine
from either Apple dot Com or best Buy, and then
you know, you can get a little case to put
them in from I got mine from Amazon, and then
you just throw it in there and then you can track.
So actually, Joe Clark too, Friend of the Show, I
got a notification on my phone like last year, and
I was like, it's like an air tag has been
(29:16):
traveling with you. I'm like, is somebody following me? And
I'm like, Joe, do you have an air tag? And
he's like, oh yeah, my wife got sick of me
losing by like four hundred dollars tailored jackets, like one
of a guy jackets or you know, a thousand dollar
jackets whatever it was. He goes, so, yep, there's one
in every because he said he'll get on a plane
or something, take his jacket off, leave without it, and
his wife was like, come on, so now she puts
it in the inside of his jacket. So yeah, we
(29:40):
don't have enough to worry about. We can just write
off another thing and say what technology figure it out exactly.
So yeah, check out those that might be good to
throw in your bag too when you're traveling, or use
that company in the stick ship Ship sticks say that,
say that five times.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We're supposed to say.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, right, because I think I actually might have just
said that. But uh, the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. So we
see a lot of players coming back defending champ Camilla,
Vi Jagas, Uh, Nico Kevin You, Jonathan Vegas, uh, Nick Taylor,
Peter Melnotty. They were all winners this season. So excited
(30:21):
to uh watch a little golf down there.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, well we'll talk about that. We're going to take
a short break and we'll be right back to discuss
the butterfield and more. We got a lot of other
stuff to get to on the other side. Uh, and
we'll be right back. All right, then, welcome back to
swing it and ding it. Harry May's Danielle Matthews. We
(30:44):
got to get into the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. And it's
funny when these guys go to these exotic places. It's
nice when it's cold where you are and you can
actually watch the television and see you know, this gorgeous
ocean creek. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm looking out my windows and the palm trees going.
But you know, Harriet's a little gray. It is clouds
really uncomfortable. Eighty one degrees and windy.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, right screen with your eighty one and uncomfortable. It's
like it feels like it's forty degrees here today, no lie,
and it's a great day. It would be a great
day to go hit balls in the simulator over at
the Penn Club on second, because it's always a great day,
climate controlled. I was in there the other night and
it's just you walk in, you're freezing, right, and then
(31:33):
you go in there and it's like seventy two degrees Jack,
it's perfect. Yes, you got perfect lies and you can
really work on stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
It's terrific.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
But we got to talk about the Butterfield and Port
Royal golf Course down in Bermuda. This was you had mentioned.
Camilla Vijegis is defending. He won this last year, was
a very emotional win because it was the first one
since the tragic loss of his daughter. Yeah, which was
really cool. And he actually is the co holder of
(32:03):
the course record for seventy two holes at twenty four
under par with Brendan Todd, who also won at twenty
four under a couple of years prior.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I haven't heard a lot about him lately.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
No, No, he's in the field this week, but yeah,
he hasn't. He kind of got on a little hot
streak a couple of years ago and this kind of
come back to earth. But it's a Robert Trent Jones
design back in nineteen seventy, so not an old golf
course and not a long golf course by PG eight
Tour standards, only sixty eight hundred and twenty eight yards.
(32:35):
But you know, obviously with these coastal courses, it all
depends on the wind. If the wind is up, and
it usually is, that's what that's what defends the golf course.
Three par fives, the second, the seventh, and the seventeenth,
and then four par threes three, eight, thirteen, and sixteen
and sixteen is part of what you can see behind
me here is one of the most picturesque golf holes
(32:59):
in all the world. It's you know, like Moose was
down at Teeth of the Dog or twice and they've
got a hole similar to this. But the par three
sixteenth hole is a two hundred and thirty five yard
breathtakingly beautiful scenic golf hole along the cliffs and the
Atlantic Ocean. The t shot across the cliff to a
green perched up on its own peninsula that is narrow
(33:22):
from front to back, bunkers short right and left, and
then a large trap from the middle of the green
on the left all the way around the back of
the green. A really cool hole. And then you go
to the par five seventeenth you start coming back the
other way, so a wind directional change, and it's got
two traps on the right side where the you know,
(33:44):
the landing areas, and then a large pond starts on
the left, so it's a very narrow landing area off
the tee. And then the approach is to a raised
green with three traps up the right hand side. And
you know they're talking about, you know, going this shot
in three holes. Not these guys. It's five hundred and
seven yards. Most of these guys will easily getting there
(34:05):
in two depending on the wind. But the closing holes,
the par four eighteenth, four hundred and ten yards turns
back around, so another wind direction will change. You're going
up and back and up and back.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
It's an uphill t shot to a tiered fairway with
a trap left and right, the approach to a three
tiered green front to back sloping slopes with a trap
short left and one to the right, and end on
the back.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And the winds are out of the north northwest, ranging
from anywhere from fourteen to twenty one miles per hour
for this tournament on Thursday and Friday, and then it
changes to the west north west northwest on Saturday and
Sunday twenty five miles per hour, so the wind will
be up and they'll get rain likely on Friday and Saturday.
(34:53):
So weather it's going to have an influence on this
golf tournament. And it's really kind of a cool layout.
I really like I really like this guy, of course. Yeah,
I'd love to go play. And you actually if you
go to Bermuda you can play it. I think there's
only it's one of only two public golf courses on
the island of Bermuda.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, I know it's not easy to get to. I
was going to go like last year and then I
actually didn't realize it was I thought it was further
south than what it is. But yeah, like you said,
the design of this course eighteen, Like, I think it's
such a cool hole going upward. Like imagine, you know,
teeing off on eighteen, knowing you one going up with
all those crowds around, with the big clubhouse behind. I
(35:32):
think it's I was following a long on the It
really is. Yeah, it was probably have people lower watching
and then the clubhouse has just stacked. But one thing,
as you were saying, I was like, all right, there's
palm trees. Harry always says Akhta plays well when there's
palm trees. I didn't see him in the.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Field, not in the field. Now he's not in the field.
The highest ranked players in the field are Shamous Power
and Mackenzie Hughes. You got of course dug Ga, Ben Griffin,
who's playing, you know, playing well, Lucas Glover's in there, Oh.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Philly guys Sean o'has playing, Yeah he is, that's right,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah. But I just like the golf course, so I
will tune in, and I like looking at beautiful water
and like you mentioned, like Bermuda is not it's really
off the coast of the Carolinas. Yeah, it's hard to
like think.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
About it like that, but it is because I was like, oh,
like I just assumed it was kind of off by
not the sound, you know, like my geography is that
off because it's pretty good. But I was like, wow,
it's just you know, a little slightly north of the Bahamas.
And I was like, well, wow, it's up there. Uh
huh yeah, wait, we got we got the uh. The
two brothers I think are playing to the Wesley Bryan's Yeah,
(36:42):
they're I think they're paired together this week. That's cool,
George and Wesley.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
So. Christo Lamprect is in the field too, from the
corn Ferry Tour, the big South African that played at
Georgia Tech. He won the amateur over in Britain a
few years ago. He's six foot eight. I don't know
if you saw on social but my TPI, the Titleist
Performance Institute that did a whole thing with him now
analyzing his swing because he's so he's so athletic and
(37:11):
it generates so much clubhead speed. But it's kind of
rare to see somebody that tall with such a great
golf swing.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yes smooth, because it's not you know yeah, yeah, I mean,
it's all those hormones everything else. Putting in the chicken.
I think I feel like every sixteen year old is
like six or five or taller. I'm like, what is
going on? Yeah, that hormone injected chicken. Harry.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Oh but yeah. This is the penultimate event too on
the FedEx Fall. So the only one more to go
after this, and that's the r s M down in
Sea Island, and they actually do have that on the
simulator at the Penn Club. Perhaps I'll go over there
and play a couple of shots on one of the holes.
You have to put it up on social media. That
(37:56):
would be We.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Talked about this before. It's the new segment. Harry's going
the Pen Club. He's going to preview it. We're going
to get some content. We're going to show you some
of you know, maybe pick like the most challenging hole
in the most picturesque hole.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, maybe I'll pick a hole where I think I
can make a par on. How about that?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, give yourself more Now.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I did win one hundred and forty dollars worth of
skins at the nineteen twelve Club last Saturday.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Birdie Eagle.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
It was an actual par net Birdie on the second
handicap hole, which was the par four seventeenth hole, made
a nice like ten foot or up the hill for
the putt for a four for three, figuring it might
be a net skin, but it also ended up being
a gross skin. So I want both of them. That's,
(38:43):
you know, pretty crazy. So the money, yeah, exactly one
hundred and forty bucks. My wife was glad about that.
She's like, how much did you win? But yeah, so
I got We got a lot of other stuff here
to get to before we see the line on this tournament.
Because one of our listeners and one of my buddies,
Brandon Rail and brock Kovak got a big win last
(39:08):
week at the spring Haven Cup down at spring Haven
Country Club not too far from not too far from
my house, right down the Blue Route. It's a big
tournament with a really great field, and they ended up
winning it by three strokes. Brock Kovac plays out a
ledge Rock up in Burke's County and Brandon plays on
one of the many gap teams from the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
(39:32):
So big week for Brandon. Congratulations to both of those guys.
And if I looked over that field, I mean there's
a lot of sticks Yeah, a lot of sticks in
that field. Yes, So congrats to them. That was pretty cool.
And the other thing I really want to get to
before we see the line is right now, it is live.
The auction is live through December the fifth, at seven
(39:53):
thirty pm is when it closes. And the auction I'm
talking about is the auction for Game Changers four for
the first t Philadelphia. There's a tremendous fundraiser for them,
and and they've got unbelievable items. First of all, they
got the Pebble Beach Raffle, which is always huge. But
they've got golf experiences galore. I'm just gonna go through
(40:14):
some of these with you, Danielle. Yeah, Like we got
obviously the Pebble Beach. They got Marion on here, Oakmont
ARONI MI inc. Just going through some of these Baltus
rawl Let's see what else we got. Golf with Brent
Selik at the Cricket Club Philadelphia. Cricket Club Sleepy Hollow
(40:37):
is on here. Caves Valley Congressional down in the in
the DC area, Harding Park out in California, the Ridge
at Backbrook, which is a tremendous golf course in New
Jersey not too far from here, Galloway down by the shore,
Canoe Brook, Bidterman, black Wolf run out in Wisconsin. I mean,
(40:58):
you name it, they've got it on here. So just
just go to the First Tee Philadelphia's website, which is
First Tea Philadelphia dot org and you can get a
link from there and just bid on it. Man, you
gotti December fifth and it raises a tremendous amount of money.
It's one of their biggest fundraisers that they that they
(41:19):
do each year. And you know, I've actually gotten on
some great golf courses as a result a result of this.
I remember, well, Lancaster's on there, and I also got
onto Riverton, which is a really cool below the radar
Donald Ross course over in Cinnamonson, and I got that
through winning an auction here on the first t So.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, and Harry put that up on our ax too,
So if you guys go there and you're following us,
you can grab the link there as well.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Absolutely all right, now is it time to see the
line for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. And Butterfield, by the way,
I think is a bank in Bermuda. I think that's
what it's I think that's what it's for, where they
grow butter. No, I don't think it has anything to
do with butter. Well, some people refer to cash as butter, so.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
You know, I mean, if you're winning, get a little bit,
not as much as the main, big event, but.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
No, but it's still cup points and little cheese. A win,
I mean, a win can change any of these guys' lives,
like you know, justin lower for instance, but the favorite
is shown. Seamous Power and Maverick McNeilly are the favorites
at plus sixteen hundred. Seamus actually won this event back
in twenty twenty two, Mackenzie Hughes making an appearance least
(42:37):
I think was the last time we saw him in
the President's Cup. Or did he play one of the
other fall events. I'm not sure, but he was definitely
on that President's Cup team out of Canada. He's plus
eighteen hundred and might have moved back down to plus
two thousand now because I think Doug gimm and a
couple of these other guys Ben Griffin are also plus
two thousand. Lucas Glover plus twenty five hundred, so some
(43:01):
good good value there with Lucas. Yeah, but I'm going
to go with a little Johnny Vegas. I'm gonna I'm
taking Johnny Vegas, who won at the three Am a
couple of months ago in Minnesota plus three hundred in
a top ten, and I'm also going to take him
in a matchup at minus one fifteen over Rico Joey.
And I'm also going to take our pal Ben Griffin,
(43:22):
who were still efforting to get on this show, in
a top ten at plus one ninety.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I like, those are my plays for the par Do
you know how how Johnny Vegas spells Jonathan It's j
h O and at T A N give it to
him lady about that, I was.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Not looking either.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
He has it this big on his computer.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah right, right right, Yeah, but you know he got
to win a couple months ago playing well, and I'll
take Johnny Vegas out of the University of Texas well.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
We were talking about butter and cash and cheese. When
I was just looking to see Mackenzie hugheson the last
time he played. I saw this pop up. US players
may soon be paid for competing in the Ryder Cup.
Nothing official yet, but rumored to mount per players four
hundred thousand and a way to approval at the board
level to believe there are no plans for European players
(44:19):
to be to be paid, just the Americans. So what
do you think, Harry, you think you should be paid
to represent your country?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I don't think you should be. But you know I
would never say no to four hundred k if I
was one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Same.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
I think most of what an honor to think most
of them are Yeah, it is, most of them are
fine playing for free.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I think there's just a company with Patrick Cantlin.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Patrick Cantley, to name of one who seems to want
to be paid for it.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
But you know, hey, I mean they're giving you dinners,
are giving you like Gallas. The wives are getting outfitted.
The guys get this fool. You know they got all
the beat Drratty whatever it was, stuff like right, you
know we want more?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah, exactly, they always need more. But I don't know,
do you have anything else? I think I'm about out
of content. I think we're good unless you just want
to talk about our own games, because one thing I'm
working on right now is especially and I hit. I
think I hit every fairway on Saturday in that round.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
At the nineteen twelve Oh yeah, yeah, where you got.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
The pronating my right foot at a dress with the
driver especially, it's most notably needed in the longer clubs.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Did that come from a lesson or you discovered this yourself?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Well, I looked. I've been doing a lot of research.
I haven't had a lesson. My next lesson will be
in January. But I've been doing a lot of research myself,
and it prevents a power loss number one, and it
also gets me off my right side in the gospeling,
which is something that I struggle with. I got to
(45:57):
get forward and off my right side.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Harry, let's do this. Let's see your swing. Put it
on social and have people roast you like Max does yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Really?
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (46:08):
But give him that's now he wouldn't be feedback. It
would be roasting, That's what it would be.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
But does people send him oh yeahs constantly and ask him.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
To I would send him a swing.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Maybe we do that.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, I would do that because then maybe we can
get him on the show. I'm all about the show.
That's it all right? Well, we'll be back next week
and Moose will be back and us his new addition
to the family hopefully today, and we'll talk about it
next week and we'll also preview the R s M
and uh go back and look and see who won
(46:44):
the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Until then, get out there and
swinging it, but listen, swing it and ding it.
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
Moose is in Babyland.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
He's in Babyland. Why don't you tell us about That's
what's happening with Moose here today, Danielle? Because this is
the day, right, it is the day.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, you never know what that type of thing. But
we think is what is the day? November thirteenth is
when Moose's fourth daughter will enter the world. So Rebecca
should be slated to have her baby today. So best
of wishes to the more family, adding another potential LPGA
player to the group.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, congratulations to team Moose. And I'm glad he got
all his golf in. He was on tour basically this year.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And American guests.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That comes to a halt today.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
For a week and then and then I was a
wonderful wives just say get back out there.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And yeah, I don't know about that. I think he's
gonna have to, you know, budget his time at the
Legacy Club because I don't think it's going to be
that extensive.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, Harry, I mean about planning. How good is Moose
like entering the fall season. I know you guys have
had exceptional weather up there, but having a baby November
just you know, it's like perfect timing for him.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, that exceptional weather is over. It's freezing today. And
I mean when I know, when you say it's freezing,
it's like sixty eight degrees. I'm serious, it's freezing here today.
It's cold, the wind is up, it's like twenty some
mile an hour gusts of winds. It's brutal. It's time
to get into the simulator. And we'll talk about the
Penn Club a little bit later. But we got to
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catch up. We've been Oh my god, we miss the
Worldwide Technologies Championship at El Cardinal at Diamante in Mexico,
Tiger Woods's golf course. And one of the friends of
the show got his second PGA Tour win last week. Austin,
how about that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah? That was incredible watching it too. I know Moose
had texted our our little group text here just saying like,
Austin and we were watching and my guy, Justin Lower too,
and Max Grazer Man, he's been on the radar. I
know he's been on your radar, Harry. We got to
try to get him on here. But just watching him
and you just see Austin kind of run away with it.
What was eleven birdies?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, he had eleven birdies in the final round shot
n islander that day, a sixty three on Sunday, twenty
four under for the week, one shot clear of you
mentioned Justin Lower and Carson Young also with the great mustache,
Love mustache. Max Grazerman you mentioned, was two back at
twenty two under and got fourth by himself. But I
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don't know if you were aware of this, because I
wasn't until I read it, but Austin Ekrot made a
putter switch from the last time that he won, which
was the you know, over at Palm Beach Gardens right
down the street from you. He went switched his ping
Redwood D sixty six to a ping pld DZB say
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that three times fast.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'll leave that up to you. I did hear him though,
and the postgame interviewed Ough Harris saying, I think it
was the first time in thirteen years that he's won
a tournament on any type of level, obviously not PGA
Tour with a different potter. And then he just you know,
I believe was Kira interviewing him and kind of asked
a little, you know, to elaborate a little bit more
on his butter, and he goes, hey, it's still not safe.
(04:17):
Who knows? He goes, I'm a serial switcher. Is it'll
probably be switched out you know next week?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, isn't that crazy? I mean, these guys, you know,
they've got putters galore, right and they're always trying something.
They're always you know, tweaking something, try to get Yeah, tinkering,
I guess is the word, especially when you're talking about putters.
But you know, it's amazing how fickle it is, you know,
it really is with that instrument, more so, I guess
than any other club in the bag. But his opening
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nine he shot thirty one with a bogie on the
third hole, and the closing nine he started it with
birdies at ten, eleven, and twelve, really put his foot
on the gas and then made it birdie at fourteen
and also on seventeen, and then you know, had had
a three shot lead heading to the eighteenth where he
could even bogey the hole, which he did, and mister
(05:06):
Green tried to make a chip up and it rolled
right back almost to his feet and then got it
on and two putted from there for a six on
that par five. But that was, you know, still easy,
an easy win really, and he didn't really have to
sweat it. And you brought up justin lower. There was
an interesting development in the final round regarding Justin. The
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par four tenth hole was set up with the tea's
forward and it was drivable for a lot of the
players in the field, should they choose to. I mean,
these guys can all basically hit it far enough. Justin
Loward chose to lay up, and as it was happening,
you know, the the broadcasters, to their credit and you know,
made note of it, like this is a really interesting
(05:49):
choice here. He ended up making par on that hole.
His his wedge shot in was you know, a good
thirty forty feet away from the from the pin. Made
a nice laugh put you know, trying to make it obviously,
but ended up being a really good lag where you
could tap in for par. But that was an interesting decision.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I agree here we're not playing basketball, right And yeah,
with Justin he's been you know, for lack of better words,
I guess, you know, a bubble boy is what they
were kind of dubbing him. I saw his wife Janise
put out, yeah right here. So twenty seventeen makes they
call him literally the bubble boy. So this isn't me
naming him that. Twenty seventeen makes a ten footer to
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advance through Q school earns guaranteed status on corn Ferry Tour.
Twenty eighteen missed a sixth footer at corn Fairy Tour
Finals that would have earned him his PGA Tour card.
Twenty twenty one gets up and down on the final
hole of the Corn Fairy Tour finals to earn his
PGA Tour card. Twenty twenty two entered the final event
of the regular season, number one twenty eight in FedEx
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Cup standings, once again the position for make or break,
and he ends the season number one thirty eight, doesn't
qualify for playoffs. And then starting before this tournament, he
was currently ninety fifth in the FedEx Fall standings and
a win would vaught him the fifty seven, which you know,
obviously we know what happens when you finish inside that
top fifty with those signature events, so that would have
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been huge. Just his career has been just so up
and down and literally flirting with the bubble the entire time.
He's such a good player, yeah, but it's just been like,
you know, flirting with heartbreak again and again year after year.
So yeah, he's such a good player and.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
A good guy too, great guy. But it just goes
to show you it, really, you know, highlights, how razor
thin the margins are out there. I mean, to stay
on the tour and you know, bouncing around from you know,
corn Ferry to status on the PGA and back and forth,
and comes down to you know, one shot he could
have been in a playoff.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh with that, this is who knows, Yeah he didn't
lay up, Yeah, this is this is job security for
these guys literally, and it's you know, Austin kind of
led onto that too. He said, Look like I woke
up this morning. I thought maybe i'd be a little nervous,
but he's like, hey, you won out here before. And
you know that's I think when you have one of
those under your belt, you're like, okay, I've done this,
you know. So I think Justin's getting there, he's closed,
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he's due. We're going to see him continue to be
up the top couple you know levels of the leaderboard.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And you know he's Justin's back in the field this
week too in Bermuda, so maybe he can pull that
one off. But how about what happened on a PGA
Tour champions We don't talk a lot about that tour,
I mean not, you know, it's it's really kind of
an afterthought, you know, in the world of golf, you know,
for a large extent. But Bernhard Langer, who is just
a machine.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He owned the tour champion, he really does.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
They should really rename it. They should rename the trophy
that they give, you know, to a Langer Trophy. Yeah,
it should be the Bernhard Langer Trophy. Really, because he
survived three bogies on the and he's inward nine but
made birdie on thirteen and one on eighteen the final
whole courtesy of a thirty foot pott that gave him
his forty seventh on PGA Tour champions which is more
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than anybody, and kept his win streak alive at eighteen years.
He's won an event on every on that tour, every
year he's been on it. This guy's was sixty seven,
sixty eight years old, and he just keeps going. He
had the Achilles tear, which you know would devastate most people,
especially at that age. Oh yeah, and here he comes
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back to win, you know, which really kind of pushed
Stephen Alker's win aside. He finished T two but won
the whole Cup. He won the Schwab Cup. And everybody's
talking about Bernhart and winning for the eighteenth straight year.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How about well, how impressive is that one win a year?
I mean, let's just grab one a year. It's it sounds,
you know to the non golf junkie, it's like, oh, okay,
once a year, but it's that's hard. Yeah, nobody does that.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, especially on that tour, because you know, the guys
that turn fifty are automatically the favorites basically to win
the because they hit the ball farther like the young
and this guy's been there for eighteen years and he's
still competing with these guys you know that are hitting
it farther than him, you know, like the Stuart Sinks
and the Padrick Harringtons of the world, you know, Steve Stricker.
(10:11):
Those those guys are younger, they're in their early fifties,
and to win at that advanced age with that level
of competition is just it's incredible. I can't get over
that guy. He's an inspiration, he really is to all
of us old people. Speaking for myself, so I thought
that was pretty cool. Now, we got a lot to
(10:32):
get to today, but I wanted to tee you up
for the tea segment year because yes, I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, there's so many different things going on, especially since
we took a little bit of break so we can
get into a bunch of these and then we can
kind of have some off conversations. If you want hair,
we keep it a little open conversation, but live. Let's
start with that, all right. We'll start a little light
and keep it funny.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
President elect Donald Trump says that he could get the
Live and Piff deal done. He said he thinks in
like fifteen minutes, he goes, give me fifteen minutes, maybe less,
I can get this done. So I don't know about that.
If he could, you know, let's see it. But he
said I think it'll come together. Yeah, I could certainly help,
but I'm not doing his voice correct right, But I
(11:21):
could probably get it done. I would say it would
take me the better vote of fifteen minutes to get
that deal done. So we'll see if Donald Trump has
any pool in the Live and Piff. Rory also or
live in PGA to her pardon me. Rory also said, hey,
I think you know, Donald Trump could get this done.
But I don't know if anybody is really paying attention.
(11:43):
But I don't think Ory can vote. Well, I don't
think Rory had a decision.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, right, but I did see that's where I saw it.
Rory was quoted as saying, like, you know, if a
deal can get done now that you know Trump won
the election, we could probably get it done. And see
that where Donald actually he commented on it, but he
did it is interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, And when I was researching that news a little
bit more is funny, I saw this video clip of
saying Donald Trump quite possibly the most athletic president ever.
And I'm like, this is hilarious because George Bush, I mean,
now watch me hit this drive, you know, right right,
but you and then they have Donald, they they have
President Alex shot tracer or a part of me like
(12:25):
his swing and then you see him bring it back,
do this ugly little hook up at the top and
then bring it through but it goes straight down the middle.
He does a little lass move. Was kind of funny.
So I don't know, I don't know that he's the
most athletic, but we will say he's.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Got more clubhead speed than Mark Cuban. Apparently that's something
that we do know. Yeah, for what it's worth. But
I did see though, since we last did an episode
two weeks ago, that Yeah, there was a British tabloid
that was quoted as saying a deal is basically done,
and you know, they credited Rory and Woods, and then
(13:01):
Rory was asked about it and he's like, that's news
to me. So you know, I don't know what's really
going on here. But when I saw that, I was like.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Man, yeah, texting you guys out, I was like hey.
But then it was like silent everywhere else, So I
was like, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So yeah, I was looking for other sources to like
quote it and corroborate it, and nobody ever did. Now
we know why.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And honestly, Harry, I think we've talked about it before.
In the beginning, we were like okay, and you know,
we're kind of like waited on, you know, we're like
baited breath, like what's going to come next? But I'm
over it until something is done. We have hard, firm news.
Stop the little clickbait like I don't want to hear.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, But with LIV a couple of things that I
kind of fell under the radar with. Obviously they just
dropped their new twenty twenty five schedule. We don't need
to really get into it. I mean, it's nothing exciting
in my opinion. But Korea and Indianapolis headline six more
events and they said more events are dropping soon. But
I thought that this was interesting, and I don't know
(13:59):
if you knew anything about it, Hair, but says we're
excited to announce Live Golf Promotions and the tournament will
be December twelfth through fourteenth at Ryota Golf Club with
four rounds played over three days.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Red.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, okay, part of me on that annunciation so at
read and I'm assuming this is kind of like live
Q School, but they're calling it Live Golf Promotion. So
the top finisher is guaranteed a spot in twenty twenty
five Live Golf League. The top ten finishers will earn
full exemption into the rest of the season. So interesting
(14:37):
to see how that plays out and what that is.
And it said registration for Live Golf Promotions or Q
School if you will close this in seven days. That
was two days ago, so I don't know, Hair, if
you want to go register see if you can get
yourself a spot.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Are they only taking one?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well win the winner, right, So it's just like Q School.
In Q School, if you finish top like on which
Q school you're you know, if it's for PGA Tour,
number one will get full status and then you get
like conditional Yeah. So it literally, like I said, I
Unfortunately I was trying to do some research, couldn't find
out more. But it's what that seems like is that
(15:15):
it is Live Q School and they're calling it the
Live I N T Series Golf YEP, Live Golf Promotions.
But and then I follow them to look at that,
and you know, they have like rankings and things of
that nature, but nothing too crazy. So that's uh that
with Live. One other thing actually with Live is they
they I wonder if this is kind of like the
(15:37):
Pen Club in a way, or if you could play
it at the Pen Club. It's called the new Golf Rival.
Live Golf tournament has dropped test your skills on unique
courses for your chance to win great rewards. I don't know.
You can download Golf Rival and start playing, So if
it's on your phone and you're, you know, playing golf
with your finger, I'm not for it. But if you
can play it at the Pen Club and check it
(15:58):
out and get some rankings or something, that might be cool.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well. The other thing I saw regarding Live was that
they apparently allegedly are Jason Day's agent reached out to
Live to pursue, you know, the possibilities of joining Live Golf,
and Live was not interested in Jason Day's services because
he's injured too often, was the was the reason. How
(16:22):
about that?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Really?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I mean it usually a former world number one player.
You know, he's got a major, he's got a Players Championship.
They weren't.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And now you're saying, because, yeah, that's wild, but again they're.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, he's always got a lot of you know, neck
and back issues and so forth. So you know, if
it's true. I don't know. I don't know if anything's
true anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
No babies unless you confirm it. No confirmation on my end.
I don't know. If I was in their position, I think,
you know, their whole kind of motive, from what it
seemed to me, was just getting these superstars, and I
think JD would pool, uh, you know, more fans, but
especially if they're you know, going to different locations, you know,
(17:06):
go to Australia or something like that. But you know,
we don't want him. He's hurt. Next Oh yeah, so
Bryce and d Shambo, he did you see this first
of all his Dallas mansion. I mean, it's talk about
living in a glass house. It's like this guy shouldn't
throw stones, but he's not throwing stones. He's hitting wood
shots over his mansion in Dallas. And oh yeah you can.
(17:31):
Well you can see it on his YouTube. You can
see it on his instagram, or you can go to
Nuclear Golf and see it as well. And at first
I saw it and I'm like no, because he almost
aces it hair. He he hits a shot over top
of his house and then it lands about a foot
or so. And when I see it, I'm like, Okay,
Like they clearly, you know, just took the first shot
and then threw the ball down and made it look
(17:52):
like it. But no, they actually somebody was standing up
on the roof and got the entire shot going over
and he literally stuck it to like a foot, So
it was kind of cool. He almost aised it. But
I was like, wow, if.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's my house got out that's on his YouTube, shay.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, but you can't and his instagram too, so you
can check that out. But if I'm living in that house,
i am most not, most certainly not trusting myself to
hit that shot. We get broken windows.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I think he can afford new windows if he breaks
one or two of them.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
He could afford a whole new house if he wanted to, exactly,
And even if he gets hurt, live and kick.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I can't get enough of Bryson. I got to go
check that out. I love watching him now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's funny how he his character, if you will, has
evolved PGA tour and you know, a young sensation to
live and now he's so enthralled in the content and
putting it out. It's like you just have to watch.
Like you said, you can't get enough. It's exciting, and
he's smart and or his team is smart, you know,
and they know what the people want to see.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, you know the people A lot of people are like,
you know us here because I've done a one eighty
on him in the in the past six eight months.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Oh yeah, I'm the same way because there's times where
and I've done that with a few players, but you're like, oh,
he's kind of annoying or like, you know, I don't
like this, But then you you know, you see his
personality and he humanizes himself and I think he's done
a great job of doing that and then he's entertaining.
So it's like, okay, yeah, you know what he did
after the Masters, that was I think he earned a
bunch of fans.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There, no doubt. And now he was never to the
bow Hostler level of annoying for me, but he was close.
And now I did a total one eighty where I
cannot get enough.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So that's for price. Yes, it's like, somebody get a
check Harry.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
His team should take over bo Hostler stuff and maybe,
you know, maybe they can you know, make him interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Oh man, we have to do a ranking of Harry
of his top annoying players. Oh yeah, got some controversy there.
We'll strow the bot a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I don't know if I have a legal pad long
enough to list the amount of players that annoy the
crap out of me.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, let's talk about Liz Harry. Golf dot com released
their golf top one hundred of courses. The list is complete.
Who knows did the experts get it right or wrong?
I do want to point out number one through twenty
on the front page alone. We always talk about what
an embarrassment of riches. Philadelphia is PV ranked number one,
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Oakmont number five, Marion number eight, So we have three
Pennsylvania courses on the top twenty. Following that up we
have Fox Chapel number eighty two, around the Bank number yep,
around the Bank number eighty four. Philly Cricket was a
Hicken number ninety.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Just made it in, right, yeah, just under the wire.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
For I was kind of surprised at that, me too,
Yeah too, because.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I looked at some of the other ones on that list.
Now I've you know, I haven't played them, but I
you know, I'm looking at some of these names of
these I'm like, Philly Cricket's got to be more highly
regarded than that. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I'm going through the list and I'm like, humh, like
what's going on because I'm like, let's see where our
Philly courses are O. PV is you know, no brainer,
Oakmond like okay, and then Marry and you're like yeah.
But then the rest I was like, wow, I'm scrolling
to see these here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So that's why they do lists, so they get discussion
like this, you know, where you say, oh they're crazy,
you know, this course doesn't belong here, or this one
should be way higher. They're nothing. That's why you do lists.
You used to have to do those in sports radio.
Oh yeah, and then when the days are slow, you
do a list.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I remember when facts I was at his house and
he was creating the top Potters list and we posted
it and we put it out and we got such backlash.
Do you remember this or at all?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I mean you mean like players that are great putters.
Oh yeah, actual putters.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So oh part of me the top ten putters, people
like human player putters. Yeah. So he started making the
list and he made one glaring omission, and that was
he didn't include one female. So the Twitter universe or
ex universe went up and armed it wasn't but the
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list save that for We don't want to open that
cantiworms with me.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
But who was Lauren Roberts on that list? By any chance?
They used to call him the Boss of the Moss
back I remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Actually there was like I remember I got Brandon probably
like seven or eight years ago a punt and Green
called the Big Moss or something like that, and then
he told me, he's like, you know that, you know
the Boss of the Moss And he told me all
about it, but no, it was but he said, I
thought it was a known that I meant PGA tour.
But the thing is, we gained so many followers from it,
(22:39):
and I told him, I'm like, even bad breass is
good for us. So we got a lot of people
chiming in. But like you said, the lists are made
to create controversy, stir the pot, and you know, get
some people who are really passionate about some thoughts to
talk despite if anybody else wants to hear it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Absolutely absolutely, Harry.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know, I'm still sad that you didn't go and
try out for Happy Gilmore Too. Ben Stiller. Hall has
been seen on the set of Happy Gilmore Too, so
that kind of made my day. I saw that. I
was like, this is great, and I saw like his
you know, the whole get up, the stash everything else.
So but I don't know, for me, it's always like
(23:18):
the second the sequel, if you will, is never as
good as a first, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, there's a lot of pressure on a sequel, you know,
you know, to live up to the initial when, especially
when the first movie is so good exactly like I
think of like caddy Shack. The sequel to Caddyshack is awful.
Oh yeah, and a lot of them, but then you
have one like the Godfather. Godfather Too was actually better
(23:44):
than Godfather won. I mean, so it does happen where
the sequel sometimes can be not only as good but
even better better, but not often.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And I think Happy Gilmore is, you know, a tough
cup to fill you to make that better. It's like
Space Jam when Barn came out. I'm like, you're not
Michael Jordan. You're not the modern day Michael Jordan. This
is dumb. Don't know, don't touch it. It's not so good.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Ben Stiller's in it now, he was in He's in
that At and T commercial with Jordan's speif that revolves.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, he's like hitting the ball and he's in the
middle of the desert and all over.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It is actually pretty funny, Yeah it is. And then
he yeah, he has like a couple of different characters.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And then he calls you know, Jordan at the end
and Jordan has to get him out of a jam.
Yeah that's the way it ends.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
So yeah, sometimes they get creative. Yeah, if you were
on x or you know, Instagram, any type of social
media today, you had to have seen that w NBA
player Caitlin Clark is playing in the Anika Pro Am today,
so it's all over and it's like, yeah, we've seen
Steph Curry do this, but again I'm going to talk
(24:53):
about the ladies. So yeah, she's out there, she's playing
in that. I think she's playing with Lee La Voue
and Nellie Cordo. So yeah, so Anaica's this week. The
twenty twenty four Race to Dubai comes to a close
at the DP World Championship this week, so your other
(25:14):
favorite Rory will look to Clinch's record tying six Harry
Varden Trophy. We shall see the.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Watch early in the morning. It does really really But yeah,
regarding the Caitlyn Clark thing, yeah, I saw something before
the show that you know, she's playing in that pro
am and hit like a bad shot or some must
have hit.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Did you see the shot.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I didn't see the shot. I saw that. She said
Caitlin Clark is human or something, and there is no
more a sport or an endeavor to humanize anybody than golf.
I mean, you know, you could be the greatest at whatever,
and you get up there and try to hit a
golf shot. You can look like a total fool.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, but I mean for me, I guess people, well,
you know you want to you want to see who's playing.
You're super excited about hair this. So she's on she's
on the tea box, and just like you know, PGA
to PGA tournament, both sides are completely you know, lined,
at least like i'd say, like twenty feet out. So
(26:17):
she hits a t shot shanks it nearly takes out
a fan on the left. But it's like, look, this
is a pro am, she's not a pro player, Like,
you know, heads up, you know you might be losing
a couple of teeth if you don't watch.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I think those people are nuts to do that with
a professional golfer. Yeah, the way they how they get
so close.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Oh you should do when I'm getting content. I trusted
Brad the other day for some webshots. He's like, you sure,
I'm like laying on the ground with the camera and
I trust be with it too. But there's there's probably
only a handful of players that I would trust the
lang on the ground with the camera in front of
But if it's a pro am and it's you know,
a celebrity or another athlete, if you will. That's hitting
(26:56):
the t shot up. I don't need a front row seat.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I want to keep my teeth and Moose and I
are not on that list of people you trust with
a golf club either.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, I'll stay behind it. I'll get you down the
line behind exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, that's better. That's my better side anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh. Staying on the topic of LPGA, LPGA golfer Jennifer
Chang had her bag and numerous clubs destroyed by Delta,
but found some humor with it, saying, that's what they
call a delta grind her. You know, I don't even
know what club it is. It's maybe like a seven
(27:30):
iron or something like that. It's you know, can someone
just like drug it across the ground or whatever. But
her entire bag was like burnt and ripped open, and
then her clubs literally. But I thought it was funny.
I laughed a little bit that the Delta grind. Wow,
I found some humor in it, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, that's good. But that's why I use shipsticks whenever.
I like, when I'm going to Arizona, the wife and
I are going to Scottsdale in a couple of weeks. Huh,
I already have the shipsticks already stored, and I use
a hard case. Oh smart, I don't use the soft
because of stories like that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Did you get the Apple tag like I told you
the the air tag? Oh no, no, yeah, it's like
seventy bucks for three or four of them. I got
him for Brandon, and I said, you put them in
your clubs and then you put it in you know,
your luggage where it is. All you get notification if
it's traveling with you it's leaving. So actually I learned
(28:23):
this from Michael Collins. He told me. He's like, oh,
they were like, sir, sorry, your club's are missing. He's like, actually, no,
here they are. And they were like, okay, yep, we'll
have him for you in an hour or whatever. So
I was like, wow, I need to get that for me.
So I got them for him, and now he keeps one.
I said, put it in your carrying case and in
your golf bag, just like mix it in with the
tease and nobody sees it because somebody can take it out,
(28:45):
just throw it and be like hey, now it's going
down ninety five, right, you know. But so we put
two in his golf bag and then you know, one
in his luggage and then you can track where it's
at so you can see get it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How do you get them?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Oh you can, I got I think I got mine
from either Apple dot Com or best Buy, and then
you know, you can get a little case to put
them in from I got mine from Amazon, and then
you just throw it in there and then you can track.
So actually, Joe Clark too, Friend of the Show, I
got a notification on my phone like last year, and
I was like, it's like an air tag has been
(29:16):
traveling with you. I'm like, is somebody following me? And
I'm like, Joe, do you have an air tag? And
he's like, oh yeah, my wife got sick of me
losing by like four hundred dollars tailored jackets, like one
of a guy jackets or you know, a thousand dollar
jackets whatever it was. He goes, so, yep, there's one
in every because he said he'll get on a plane
or something, take his jacket off, leave without it, and
his wife was like, come on, so now she puts
it in the inside of his jacket. So yeah, we
(29:40):
don't have enough to worry about. We can just write
off another thing and say what technology figure it out exactly.
So yeah, check out those that might be good to
throw in your bag too when you're traveling, or use
that company in the stick ship Ship sticks say that,
say that five times.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We're supposed to say.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, right, because I think I actually might have just
said that. But uh, the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. So we
see a lot of players coming back defending champ Camilla,
Vi Jagas, Uh, Nico Kevin You, Jonathan Vegas, uh, Nick Taylor,
Peter Melnotty. They were all winners this season. So excited
(30:21):
to uh watch a little golf down there.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, well we'll talk about that. We're going to take
a short break and we'll be right back to discuss
the butterfield and more. We got a lot of other
stuff to get to on the other side. Uh, and
we'll be right back. All right, then, welcome back to
swing it and ding it. Harry May's Danielle Matthews. We
(30:44):
got to get into the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. And it's
funny when these guys go to these exotic places. It's
nice when it's cold where you are and you can
actually watch the television and see you know, this gorgeous
ocean creek. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm looking out my windows and the palm trees going.
But you know, Harriet's a little gray. It is clouds
really uncomfortable. Eighty one degrees and windy.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, right screen with your eighty one and uncomfortable. It's
like it feels like it's forty degrees here today, no lie,
and it's a great day. It would be a great
day to go hit balls in the simulator over at
the Penn Club on second, because it's always a great day,
climate controlled. I was in there the other night and
it's just you walk in, you're freezing, right, and then
(31:33):
you go in there and it's like seventy two degrees Jack,
it's perfect. Yes, you got perfect lies and you can
really work on stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
It's terrific.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
But we got to talk about the Butterfield and Port
Royal golf Course down in Bermuda. This was you had mentioned.
Camilla Vijegis is defending. He won this last year, was
a very emotional win because it was the first one
since the tragic loss of his daughter. Yeah, which was
really cool. And he actually is the co holder of
(32:03):
the course record for seventy two holes at twenty four
under par with Brendan Todd, who also won at twenty
four under a couple of years prior.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I haven't heard a lot about him lately.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
No, No, he's in the field this week, but yeah,
he hasn't. He kind of got on a little hot
streak a couple of years ago and this kind of
come back to earth. But it's a Robert Trent Jones
design back in nineteen seventy, so not an old golf
course and not a long golf course by PG eight
Tour standards, only sixty eight hundred and twenty eight yards.
(32:35):
But you know, obviously with these coastal courses, it all
depends on the wind. If the wind is up, and
it usually is, that's what that's what defends the golf course.
Three par fives, the second, the seventh, and the seventeenth,
and then four par threes three, eight, thirteen, and sixteen
and sixteen is part of what you can see behind
me here is one of the most picturesque golf holes
(32:59):
in all the world. It's you know, like Moose was
down at Teeth of the Dog or twice and they've
got a hole similar to this. But the par three
sixteenth hole is a two hundred and thirty five yard
breathtakingly beautiful scenic golf hole along the cliffs and the
Atlantic Ocean. The t shot across the cliff to a
green perched up on its own peninsula that is narrow
(33:22):
from front to back, bunkers short right and left, and
then a large trap from the middle of the green
on the left all the way around the back of
the green. A really cool hole. And then you go
to the par five seventeenth you start coming back the
other way, so a wind directional change, and it's got
two traps on the right side where the you know,
(33:44):
the landing areas, and then a large pond starts on
the left, so it's a very narrow landing area off
the tee. And then the approach is to a raised
green with three traps up the right hand side. And
you know they're talking about, you know, going this shot
in three holes. Not these guys. It's five hundred and
seven yards. Most of these guys will easily getting there
(34:05):
in two depending on the wind. But the closing holes,
the par four eighteenth, four hundred and ten yards turns
back around, so another wind direction will change. You're going
up and back and up and back.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
It's an uphill t shot to a tiered fairway with
a trap left and right, the approach to a three
tiered green front to back sloping slopes with a trap
short left and one to the right, and end on
the back.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And the winds are out of the north northwest, ranging
from anywhere from fourteen to twenty one miles per hour
for this tournament on Thursday and Friday, and then it
changes to the west north west northwest on Saturday and
Sunday twenty five miles per hour, so the wind will
be up and they'll get rain likely on Friday and Saturday.
(34:53):
So weather it's going to have an influence on this
golf tournament. And it's really kind of a cool layout.
I really like I really like this guy, of course. Yeah,
I'd love to go play. And you actually if you
go to Bermuda you can play it. I think there's
only it's one of only two public golf courses on
the island of Bermuda.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, I know it's not easy to get to. I
was going to go like last year and then I
actually didn't realize it was I thought it was further
south than what it is. But yeah, like you said,
the design of this course eighteen, Like, I think it's
such a cool hole going upward. Like imagine, you know,
teeing off on eighteen, knowing you one going up with
all those crowds around, with the big clubhouse behind. I
(35:32):
think it's I was following a long on the It
really is. Yeah, it was probably have people lower watching
and then the clubhouse has just stacked. But one thing,
as you were saying, I was like, all right, there's
palm trees. Harry always says Akhta plays well when there's
palm trees. I didn't see him in the.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Field, not in the field. Now he's not in the field.
The highest ranked players in the field are Shamous Power
and Mackenzie Hughes. You got of course dug Ga, Ben Griffin,
who's playing, you know, playing well, Lucas Glover's in there, Oh.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Philly guys Sean o'has playing, Yeah he is, that's right,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah. But I just like the golf course, so I
will tune in, and I like looking at beautiful water
and like you mentioned, like Bermuda is not it's really
off the coast of the Carolinas. Yeah, it's hard to
like think.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
About it like that, but it is because I was like, oh,
like I just assumed it was kind of off by
not the sound, you know, like my geography is that
off because it's pretty good. But I was like, wow,
it's just you know, a little slightly north of the Bahamas.
And I was like, well, wow, it's up there. Uh
huh yeah, wait, we got we got the uh. The
two brothers I think are playing to the Wesley Bryan's Yeah,
(36:42):
they're I think they're paired together this week. That's cool,
George and Wesley.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
So. Christo Lamprect is in the field too, from the
corn Ferry Tour, the big South African that played at
Georgia Tech. He won the amateur over in Britain a
few years ago. He's six foot eight. I don't know
if you saw on social but my TPI, the Titleist
Performance Institute that did a whole thing with him now
analyzing his swing because he's so he's so athletic and
(37:11):
it generates so much clubhead speed. But it's kind of
rare to see somebody that tall with such a great
golf swing.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yes smooth, because it's not you know yeah, yeah, I mean,
it's all those hormones everything else. Putting in the chicken.
I think I feel like every sixteen year old is
like six or five or taller. I'm like, what is
going on? Yeah, that hormone injected chicken. Harry.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Oh but yeah. This is the penultimate event too on
the FedEx Fall. So the only one more to go
after this, and that's the r s M down in
Sea Island, and they actually do have that on the
simulator at the Penn Club. Perhaps I'll go over there
and play a couple of shots on one of the holes.
You have to put it up on social media. That
(37:56):
would be We.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Talked about this before. It's the new segment. Harry's going
the Pen Club. He's going to preview it. We're going
to get some content. We're going to show you some
of you know, maybe pick like the most challenging hole
in the most picturesque hole.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, maybe I'll pick a hole where I think I
can make a par on. How about that?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, give yourself more Now.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I did win one hundred and forty dollars worth of
skins at the nineteen twelve Club last Saturday.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Birdie Eagle.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
It was an actual par net Birdie on the second
handicap hole, which was the par four seventeenth hole, made
a nice like ten foot or up the hill for
the putt for a four for three, figuring it might
be a net skin, but it also ended up being
a gross skin. So I want both of them. That's,
(38:43):
you know, pretty crazy. So the money, yeah, exactly one
hundred and forty bucks. My wife was glad about that.
She's like, how much did you win? But yeah, so
I got We got a lot of other stuff here
to get to before we see the line on this tournament.
Because one of our listeners and one of my buddies,
Brandon Rail and brock Kovak got a big win last
(39:08):
week at the spring Haven Cup down at spring Haven
Country Club not too far from not too far from
my house, right down the Blue Route. It's a big
tournament with a really great field, and they ended up
winning it by three strokes. Brock Kovac plays out a
ledge Rock up in Burke's County and Brandon plays on
one of the many gap teams from the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
(39:32):
So big week for Brandon. Congratulations to both of those guys.
And if I looked over that field, I mean there's
a lot of sticks Yeah, a lot of sticks in
that field. Yes, So congrats to them. That was pretty cool.
And the other thing I really want to get to
before we see the line is right now, it is live.
The auction is live through December the fifth, at seven
(39:53):
thirty pm is when it closes. And the auction I'm
talking about is the auction for Game Changers four for
the first t Philadelphia. There's a tremendous fundraiser for them,
and and they've got unbelievable items. First of all, they
got the Pebble Beach Raffle, which is always huge. But
they've got golf experiences galore. I'm just gonna go through
(40:14):
some of these with you, Danielle. Yeah, Like we got
obviously the Pebble Beach. They got Marion on here, Oakmont
ARONI MI inc. Just going through some of these Baltus
rawl Let's see what else we got. Golf with Brent
Selik at the Cricket Club Philadelphia. Cricket Club Sleepy Hollow
(40:37):
is on here. Caves Valley Congressional down in the in
the DC area, Harding Park out in California, the Ridge
at Backbrook, which is a tremendous golf course in New
Jersey not too far from here, Galloway down by the shore,
Canoe Brook, Bidterman, black Wolf run out in Wisconsin. I mean,
(40:58):
you name it, they've got it on here. So just
just go to the First Tee Philadelphia's website, which is
First Tea Philadelphia dot org and you can get a
link from there and just bid on it. Man, you
gotti December fifth and it raises a tremendous amount of money.
It's one of their biggest fundraisers that they that they
(41:19):
do each year. And you know, I've actually gotten on
some great golf courses as a result a result of this.
I remember, well, Lancaster's on there, and I also got
onto Riverton, which is a really cool below the radar
Donald Ross course over in Cinnamonson, and I got that
through winning an auction here on the first t So.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, and Harry put that up on our ax too,
So if you guys go there and you're following us,
you can grab the link there as well.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Absolutely all right, now is it time to see the
line for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. And Butterfield, by the way,
I think is a bank in Bermuda. I think that's
what it's I think that's what it's for, where they
grow butter. No, I don't think it has anything to
do with butter. Well, some people refer to cash as butter, so.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
You know, I mean, if you're winning, get a little bit,
not as much as the main, big event, but.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
No, but it's still cup points and little cheese. A win,
I mean, a win can change any of these guys' lives,
like you know, justin lower for instance, but the favorite
is shown. Seamous Power and Maverick McNeilly are the favorites
at plus sixteen hundred. Seamus actually won this event back
in twenty twenty two, Mackenzie Hughes making an appearance least
(42:37):
I think was the last time we saw him in
the President's Cup. Or did he play one of the
other fall events. I'm not sure, but he was definitely
on that President's Cup team out of Canada. He's plus
eighteen hundred and might have moved back down to plus
two thousand now because I think Doug gimm and a
couple of these other guys Ben Griffin are also plus
two thousand. Lucas Glover plus twenty five hundred, so some
(43:01):
good good value there with Lucas. Yeah, but I'm going
to go with a little Johnny Vegas. I'm gonna I'm
taking Johnny Vegas, who won at the three Am a
couple of months ago in Minnesota plus three hundred in
a top ten, and I'm also going to take him
in a matchup at minus one fifteen over Rico Joey.
And I'm also going to take our pal Ben Griffin,
(43:22):
who were still efforting to get on this show, in
a top ten at plus one ninety.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I like, those are my plays for the par Do
you know how how Johnny Vegas spells Jonathan It's j
h O and at T A N give it to
him lady about that, I was.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Not looking either.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
He has it this big on his computer.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah right, right right, Yeah, but you know he got
to win a couple months ago playing well, and I'll
take Johnny Vegas out of the University of Texas well.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
We were talking about butter and cash and cheese. When
I was just looking to see Mackenzie hugheson the last
time he played. I saw this pop up. US players
may soon be paid for competing in the Ryder Cup.
Nothing official yet, but rumored to mount per players four
hundred thousand and a way to approval at the board
level to believe there are no plans for European players
(44:19):
to be to be paid, just the Americans. So what
do you think, Harry, you think you should be paid
to represent your country?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I don't think you should be. But you know I
would never say no to four hundred k if I
was one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Same.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
I think most of what an honor to think most
of them are Yeah, it is, most of them are
fine playing for free.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I think there's just a company with Patrick Cantlin.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Patrick Cantley, to name of one who seems to want
to be paid for it.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
But you know, hey, I mean they're giving you dinners,
are giving you like Gallas. The wives are getting outfitted.
The guys get this fool. You know they got all
the beat Drratty whatever it was, stuff like right, you
know we want more?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah, exactly, they always need more. But I don't know,
do you have anything else? I think I'm about out
of content. I think we're good unless you just want
to talk about our own games, because one thing I'm
working on right now is especially and I hit. I
think I hit every fairway on Saturday in that round.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
At the nineteen twelve Oh yeah, yeah, where you got.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
The pronating my right foot at a dress with the
driver especially, it's most notably needed in the longer clubs.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Did that come from a lesson or you discovered this yourself?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Well, I looked. I've been doing a lot of research.
I haven't had a lesson. My next lesson will be
in January. But I've been doing a lot of research myself,
and it prevents a power loss number one, and it
also gets me off my right side in the gospeling,
which is something that I struggle with. I got to
(45:57):
get forward and off my right side.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Harry, let's do this. Let's see your swing. Put it
on social and have people roast you like Max does yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Really?
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (46:08):
But give him that's now he wouldn't be feedback. It
would be roasting, That's what it would be.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
But does people send him oh yeahs constantly and ask him.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
To I would send him a swing.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Maybe we do that.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, I would do that because then maybe we can
get him on the show. I'm all about the show.
That's it all right? Well, we'll be back next week
and Moose will be back and us his new addition
to the family hopefully today, and we'll talk about it
next week and we'll also preview the R s M
and uh go back and look and see who won
(46:44):
the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Until then, get out there and
swinging it, but listen, swing it and ding it.
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