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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Exploring the latest headlines and in depth conversations. It's the
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Ready to roll. This is the Tuesday edition, another Richmond
Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets. Right here on one
oh four nine Fox Sports Upstate. We are in full
force here today, mister Trey Falco behind the board and
behind the mic as always, and mister Darren Angel of
the Weisch Law Firm joining us here in studio. Yes,
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truth or Darren, and it is time to talk some sports,
but you can always join the conversation. Eight six four
two four zero five four eight zero. Again that numbers
eight six four two four zero five four eight zero.
As we are in the midst of the summer doldrums,
there's nothing going on, nothing whatsoever. But we we do
have an exciting show today because in a little bit
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we're going to be going inside the Ropes, our weekly
golf segment driven by the BMW charity program presented by
td Cinx, and having the guest Austin Smotherman, who's number
one on the Corn Ferry Tour list right now and
the leader board he has the most points. And he
also remember he won the BMW Charity Program presented by
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TDCX back in June, and he just came off another
victory at the Memorial Health Championship in Illinois, so he
is flying high right now. So I'm excited to be
able to talk to him, and we appreciate Michael McGovern,
tournament director there at the BMW Charity Proram presented by
td CINX, getting us connected and looking forward to that conversation.
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So stay tuned in the second segment, little Inside the
Ropes golf segment that we do each week. But as
we talked about, it's the summer doldrums. One thing I
do need to talk about though, because we were talking
about it off air. Summertime makes me think of watermelon
and how much I love watermelon. Both of you like
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looking at me like because I was eating some watermelon
and I could see it that there's not a whole
lot of interest. And then when I start talking about it,
both of you guys are not big fans of watermelon.
What's the story here? Come on, mister Falco, I don't really.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean, I guess it's not really like I didn't
get sick off a watermelon or anything to make me
off put it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I just I don't like it, Like I don't like
the taste.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I don't mind the texture, Like it's not a texture thing,
you know, it's it's anyways.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I know, but it's it's just I don't know.
It just tastes weird. Have you not had a good
sweet watermelon? I guess I haven't. Yeah, I don't know, Darren.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Here's the funny thing.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I love watermelon flavored like candy or treats and stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
My weird thing with it, and I don't like.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, this is weird.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I don't like dis dislike it. And man, it always
looks so refreshing. I don't like how it when you
when you chew on it, it kind of like in
a weird way to cinegrade.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, that's right, And I don't I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
That bothers me a little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Okay, that's like I can eat watermelon and I'm I'm
I'm hey, but like I'm much more cravy, like I'm
gonna seek out like cantlope.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh wow, Okay, see, I would seek out watermelon. I
would seek out honeydew. I don't really regularly seek out cantelope.
I'll eat it, but I'm I don't seek it out,
but I definitely will seek out watermelon. And my wife Julianne,
she doesn't like watermelon anymore, and this is after COVID.
She doesn't like the smell of watermelon now because she
did lose her smell for a period of time. So
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but I'm just blown away though. This is the first
time I've really hurt somebody, Like, I don't know, I
don't like watermelon.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm a berry guy, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, BlackBerry.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Like, yes, I'm big on that. The blackberries, though, I
don't like hads get stuck in your teeth and you know,
all the seeds, seeds, those type of things. So all right,
we digress. We'd work talking summer stuff though, because we
do know football is coming pretty fast. Next week, well,
I should say, right now, the Big twelve Football Media
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Days going on at a Star in Frisco, Texas, and
then on Monday we have the beginning of the SEC
Football Media Days, and I'll be there. Shane Biemer is
going to be there on Monday, starting at eleven forty five.
He'll take the podium and we'll go over the other
attendees from South Carolina that are going to be there,
including Leonora Sellers. Yeah, he will be in attendance, of course.
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I mean he's a quarterback, he's a star, he's got
the he's the face of South Carolina outside of Shane Beemer,
so he has to be an attendance there. But we
also have the NFL coming up July thirty, first, the
Hall of Fame Game, right, and I do have a
trivia question about the Hall of Fame Game, Okay, yes,
So get ready to be a to text in for
the trivia contest to be able to win a twenty
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five dollars gift card from Autobil car Wash here in
the Upstate. But we mentioned it yesterday, July thirty, first
Hall of Fame Game, and we've got the Chargers and
the Lions that are going to be matching up against
each other Thursday at eight pm. And I'm still torn
on this because I love all the hooplaw and it's
the first opportunity of teams playing in a true timed event.
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You know, all of that I mean, they will have
some of their you know whatever scripted practices and things
of that nature. But this is an opportunity to see
these two teams play in a game, right, And I
love technically, Yes, technically that's where I'm going because I
do love that. Yes, you're getting inductees into the Hall
of Fame, right, that is a special moment. But is
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this football? I mean, is this Can we get that
excited about this game? Because I would tell you I'm
not like glued to the TV to watch this game,
and there's been some years I didn't even turn it on. Yeah,
you know, I just went and read the recaps or
saw some of the highlights or you know, on Sports Center.
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But I don't know if I'm really buying into this
that this is a true beginning of football, because right
it's July, oh of course. And then also we do
know it's preseason, and it's how do we feel about preseason? NFL? Anyway?
You know, are we like, oh, I'm gung ho about
the preseason because I'm really not. It's all about the
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regular season. And that's why I still love that college
football there is no preseason, right, just just go yeah, yeah,
And now I still don't like Week zero. We can
talk about the market inside of that all day long, right,
but at least you know that first game, Yeah, it
means something. And so I don't know if I'm buying into,
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you know, all of this with the Hall of Fame game,
other than you've got Antonio Gates being in, Dude, You've
got Eric Allen, Jared Allen, and Sterling Sharp obviously played
at South Carolina. So that's very significant that now South Carolina,
you know, having a Hall of Famer from that class
here in twenty twenty five. But I don't know, Trey.
I just don't think I'm buying into this as a
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real football game.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I am bought into it enough to the point where
I'll probably have it on in the background. I might
watch a quarter or two. I look at it the
same way I look at all the signage. When I
get really close to Disney World, it means I'm almost there.
I get really excited about the signage. I see Mickey
Mouse on the on thelogy billboard.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yes, but I'm not quite there to Disney World, but
I'm close.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'm a lot closer than I was eight hours ago
when I started to drive that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, so the anticipation you're starting to see a little
bit light at the end of the time. Yeah, so
it's a is it another moment on the calendar that
signifies we're getting close.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I do think it is a moment on the calendar.
I mean I think in some respects that's almost how
maybe the NFL looks at it, is just being able
to kind of have another date on the calendar that
they can stamp their name on it says, hey, no
doubt there's football on tonight, because I'm kind of in
the mindset of similar to Trey, like I might have
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it on in the background because we haven't watched NFL
football for four or five months, and I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But I'll fully admit it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I mean, I have zero interest in watching the Chargers
play the Lions after.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Ten days of training camp.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Where if we're lucky, Jared Goff is going to take four.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Snaps, right like lucky Lucky might not even play there
is probably won't, probably won't.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, we're seeing more and more in preseason, and Sean
McVay was one of the first said I'm not playing
my guys in preseason. I mean my traditional starters. It's
it's different. And that's why I'm not solely into this
that oh, this is part of, you know, the NFL season,
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other than the fact that what you talked about, Darren,
is that this is the NFL and they're so smart
because this is their, yeah, their opportunity to say, we've
got live football on yep, and this is what we
know the audience wants, right, and we're going to deliver that.
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And it's not, oh, we haven't had NFL in over
a year. No, your point, we just had five months ago,
I mean the Super Bowl, you know, in February. So
it's not like we've had this long, you know year
without watching NFL. And that's why the NFL does such
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a really good job of making sure that we're staying
tuned into whatever content and then dripping, dripping, oh, then
here's your first game, right, and it gets you a
little bit excited, and to your point, Tray, it gives
you that little bit of like, oh, we're getting oh
so close, because if there's a preseason game that's on,
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then that means coming after that, there's going to be
a regular season game, right that follows that. So you
just have to be patient and understand what it is.
And that's why again I'm not the oh, yes we've
got football back now. I don't think we have football
back until a regular season. But it does give us
that moment in time that we can say, okay, yes,
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we're getting very close. All right, So before we hit
the breake, I do want to give the trivia question
because we've got Austin Smotherman Cornferry Tour Pro that's going
to be our guest on Inside the Ropes driven by
the BMW Charity Pro am presented by td SINX in
the next segment. So I to make sure to get
this trivia question out there. The text line eight six
four triple seven ninety five ninety three. Again, that text
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line is eight six four triple seven ninety five ninety three.
So you have to text in the correct answer and
be the first one to text in that correct answer
to this question to win the twenty five dollars gift
card to Autobil Car Wash here in the Upstate. Okay, So,
speaking of the NFL Hall of Fame Game, right, okay, okay,
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two teams have played the most times in the NFL
Hall of Fame Game. They've both played seven times in
this game started back in nineteen sixty two. This game
did the first team is the Dallas Cowboys. Oh yeah,
the Dallas Cowboys, of course, So who is the second team?
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They're tied for the most appearances in the NFL Hall
of Fame Game at seven. The Dallas Cowboys are sitting
there as one team. Who's the other team that has
played in the Hall of Fame game seven times? Texts
that answer to eight six four triple seven ninety five
ninety three. Again that text line, eight six four triple
seven ninety five ninety three, Which team outside of the
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Dallas Cowboys, that's the other team that has played in
the Hall of Fame Game seven times? Name the other
team as we'll continue this Tuesday edition of the Richmond
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it's a team effort each and every day. That's right,
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as we are getting ready to talk with Austin Smotherman
as we do each week, are inside the Ropes Golf
segment driven by the BMW Charity Program presented by td Cinx.
He's the number one player on the corn Ferry Tour
right now as far as the leader board right there
on the cusp of earning his PGA Tour card. So
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definitely looking forward to talking to him in just a minute.
And remember he won the BMW Charity Program presented by
td sin X and got to take home the steering
wheel was the trophy, Yes, BMW Steering Wheel. I love
that trophy and the caddy gets his big rim BMW rims. Yeah,
so it's great trophies from that side. All right. We
did have the trivia question though, Yes, all right, there's
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been two teams that have appeared in the NFL Hall
of Fame Game the most times, seven times. One of
them is the Dallas Cowboys, and the question was who
is the other team? And the first person to text
in the correct answer would win a twenty five dollars
gift card to autobil car Wash. And we do have
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a winner that was able to text in. Texter eight
four one four texted in with the correct answer first,
that is the Pittsburgh Steelers is the other team? Hey,
that's rivalries. Come on, I mean, you can't get any
better than that. So congratulations Texter eight four one four,
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As the Steelers were the other team that has appeared
in the Hall of Fame Game seven times, along with
the Dallas Cowboys. And remember July thirty, first NFL preseason
kicks off. All right, it is time. Now let's go
inside the ropes.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
From the fairways to the headlines. It's inside the Ropes
driven by the BMW Charity program presented by TD Sinnax.
You're all access passed to golf's biggest names and best moments.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And it is time that we continue our weekly golf
segment Inside the Ropes driven by the BMW Charity Proram
presented by tdcin X. And why not go in and
have the champion of this past year back in June,
mister Alston Smotherman, as he was the winner of the
twenty twenty five BMW Charity pro Am presented by TD Cinx.
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And so, Alson, I know you're busy. You've also coming
off another victory on the corn Ferry Tour, so you've
got to be flying high. But I need to know
where is that trophy from the BMW Charity Program presented
by TD Cinx. That steering wheel? Where do you keep
that thing? Right now? I love it? I love it.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Thanks for having me, Richmond. That steering wheel is still
on my dining room table right in the middle square
is a nice little centerpiece that I don't know if
my wife would approve for any much for too much longer,
but it's a worthy piece right there.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Oh, no question about it. And I saw some videos
with your daughters playing with it.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
So it's got to be it's gotta be on that table.
If not, it's probably gonna get too much play with
it and spend it, spin it off of its mount
or something. Who knows that my two girls to.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Play with it a good bit, yes, and walk us
through though. Just that putt that you had. I mean,
it's like fifty feet for that opportunity of winning a
second Corn Ferry Tour this season. But just the put itself.
And maybe I wouldn't necessarily say, you know, being aggressive,
but you had the one shot lead, so you didn't
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necessarily have to make that put But I guess maybe
you inspired JJ spawn goes a few weeks later, he
does that at the US Open. But just walk us
through that put and the feeling seeing that go in.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
He JJ made his on a pretty big stage, but
you know, the BMW charity program out there is a
big stage as well for us, and that week was
unforgettable to cap it off with that putt. I mean
my thought process going through it was really just, I mean,
good speed. Unfortunately, I had kind of a similar field
cut on seventeen right to left, kind of breaking down
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to just lag it up there close and just knew
my I could trust my feels as far as speed goes,
and there wasn't any kind of overthinking. I mean, my
process as far as reading the putt was very very
average time as far as spent to get comfortable over it,
and by that time just let it rip.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah. And I would have to say too that there's
something about having that type of confidence where you just
mentioned not overthinking things and not having that paralysis by analysis,
so to speak. But when did you know it was
going in how far back, as far as you know
as it's getting close to you, when did you say,
all right, that looks good.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I mean I pretty much blacked out, I think from
the whole whole moment. But as far as as far
as getting getting that ball online the last maybe four
feet you kind of I actually raised my putter up unconsciously,
and the replay of the video I started, I locked
it back. I was like, what was I thinking? The
putt could lip out? Putt could not even be close.
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It's still got ways to go, and you know, I
can barely see it from my angle down the hill,
and next thing you know, it goes and it disappears
and its tournaments over. Unconscious reaction fist palm yes, I
got my caddie and I still got a walk and
go get my ball. And then I'm like, gosh, this
is a long wait.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I really just did this exactly in front of the
big crowd also there on Sunday, And so there is
that moment of being able to showcase your talent and
the ability and obviously closing out of the big putt
right there to win the twenty twenty five BMW Charity
pro Am presented by td sen X. Austin Smotherman is
(18:43):
our guest here on Inside the Ropes on this edition
of the Richmond Weavers Show, presented by our good friends
at Ingles Markets, and so Austin, I know also the
video that is out there showing your mom being able
to watch it, and your wife and the family and
all of that so house special. Was that also that
they got to see it on TV?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Oh, it's so special. I mean to have those memories
as much as as they would have been if it
wasn't televised, to have had them live it live. I mean,
there's a huge thanks to the whole tournament and you know,
everybody there to want to televise and showcase you know,
thorn Blade that whole week and all the celebrities and
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professionals that don't get to be on TV too much
at this level, and you know that's what we all
kind of want to get comfortable with, you know, having
cameras around you. As far as going to the PGA Tour,
you know, you can't can avoid it out there.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's right. Yeah. And how different is it though in
a tournament like the BMW Charity Pro Am, because it's
very unique that you are paired up with amateurs and
they's celebrities that are also involved. So how is that
as a tour pro and just that this is a
little bit of a different tournament.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Yeah, current type of tournament for me, I think it's
it's a bonus that I had a member from my
home course one and to play with me, and so
I was able to bring along my own am and
I I talked up the tournament to him and he
knew that there was an opportunity to play in an
event like this, you know, similar to the AT and
T pro I am on the PGA Tour, and he
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wanted to. He wanted to jump in be my partner.
And I mean I played so much golf at home
with other members and whatnot that are still pretty good players.
It just felt like any other day out there playing
all week, and you know, I threw and threw in
a little bit of the wrinkle, which I'm sure we
were going to talk to, but I'll bring it up
sooner than later. Is is my my original caddy bowing
out for a couple of days as we started leaving
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the golf tournament, and I got Evan EVANSSA on my bag.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And talk about Evan say and just how he was
able to fill in local product obviously and a golfer
there at Belmont Abbey and a great story. But isn't
there something though about golfers. You want to have routine.
You don't want any interruptions regarding that routine, especially starting
in a tournament. So how how did that play out?
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And how did you get settled in with a new.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Kid all all of that week and kind of that
whole format. It was the back end of my fourth
week in a row, you know, playing playing good golf,
but the the monotonous and the mundane kind of things,
just you know, four weeks in a row doing the
same thing every single day. I mean, I could tell
you my schedule from you know, nine to seven pm,
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basically like a day I could tell you what I'm
doing no matter what city I'm in, and those kinds
of those kinds of things could maybe you know, trying
to keep them too perfect and maybe lead a little
bit that anxiety and so having this kind of wrinkle
as far as you know, my usual caddie drop in,
you know, I just their expectations dropped my my there
was there was what the pressure, any kind of pressure
to play well was maybe kind of dropped, and it
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was I'm just going to go enjoy my time with
this kid who I just met forty five minutes ago,
and I'm going to embrace it because there's no way
around it right now. I got I got at least
eighteen holes with them, and I was fortunate to not
have to play Carolina Country Club in the rain that
morning and have the after noon tea time. So definitely
the wave split kind of helped as well.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Again going back to that you didn't have to overthink
things and just allow it to play out, because there
is something about there's certain things you can't control, but
as a golfer, are there so many times though alsen
that you want to control because you're wanting to control
the shot, you're wanting to control your putt, you know, respond,
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But how again, at some point you just got to
let it go because you can't control everything.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, And that's that's what we're all out here
trying to trying to, you know, at every level, trying
to refine as far as what's your process and how
to how to do that more and more frequently? Or
are there weeks where you know, maybe you're not so
good at it, but still have a good week. Absolutely,
I mean, so we all work so hard to kind
of you know, eliminate that variance from week to week
if things are different, because invariably, you know, our bodies
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are different every single day, and we work to try
and keep them, keep them feeling the same. But inherently,
just you know, by nature, you could just sleep wrong
and your pillow, wake up with a kink neck, and
now you got to figure out how to rotate and
get the ball around, you know, for the next five hours.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That's right, all right, So you talked about you would
know you could recite your schedule from you know, nine
am to seven pm each and every day, all right,
So tomorrow we know you're going to be out in
the Denver area. Tel's what do you want to be
doing at ten am tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Ten am tomorrow? So this is this is a little
bit of a wrinkle, but I wasn't expecting my pro
am time to be at six thirty am tomorrow. But
it is, I guess the blessing, the blessing and the
curse of being high on the points list and going
down the list as far as tea times go is
I'm first off at six thirty here at TPC Colorado tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
By ten o'clock, I'll have already had my second breakfast
and I will definitely be wrapping up probably some practice
by eleven and shutting it down for at least, you know,
at least the next twenty four hours if I have
an afternoon tea time, which I'll get tea times here
in the next next thirty forty minutes or so.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yes, that's early, my friends.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
But tip typically any Wednesday pro am time, I mean,
I've been early most of this season, and I'll finish
up my nine holes, a little bit of light practice
as far as whatever we got to address, and then
always finish up my Wednesdays with some lag speed putting
before I go go shut it down before a first round.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
There you go. Austin Smotherman is our guest right here
inside the Ropes on the Richmond Weavers Show, presented by
Ingles Markets, on one of four nine Fox Sports Upstate.
All right, so, Austin, I do need to just jump
back in a little bit of history with you. I
love history, and I love kind of hearing the genesis
and the beginnings, and especially in sports, because there's so
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many things that we can learn from sports, life lessons,
et cetera. I can go through the list of cliches
and I know you've heard them all. When did you
first fall in love with golf?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I would say really fell in love with it when
I was twelve thirteen, as far as seeing myself grow
as a player, playing and playing and more tournaments, and
also having a really kind of a heart to heart
conversation with my mom, dad, both sides, both grandparents, you know,
everybody just kind of making sure that it was by
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my own doing, how much I was doing it, and
I didn't feel that outside pressure to keep doing it
because I played I played every sport under the sun
growing up and then played basketball and golf in high
school my freshman year. So a little bit after that
kind of phase where I knew I had loved, I
fell in love with the game and wanted to keep
doing it, but still you know, wanted to have that
team sport, you know, one of the biggest my buddies
playing golf or playing basketball. I mean and uh, but
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we were pretty realistic about it and knew, you know,
I had had a good opportunity to continue to play
and you know, do this thing called college golf, which
nobody in my area, small town northern California called Loomis,
had sent any golfers from there, out of my high
school to to go play college golf anywhere any any division.
And so it was just that unknown territory that I
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kind of paved the way. But you know, as far
as expectations go, again, it was very low. I mean,
I didn't know what to expect and started qualifying for
some US Junior Amateurs, which I was fortunate enough to
get paired up with Jordan's Speth in my very first
one at Trump Bedminster in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, Yeah, that's an interesting pairing. Right out of the gates.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
And right out of the gates my biggest first national tournament,
which my dad had always communicated me too. You know,
if I was going to pursue this, you know, we
we were going to I had to play, play and
win tournaments and prove I was so good player and
one of the better players locally before I start traveling
around California, and before I start traveling around the West Coast,
and then especially before I had any consideration of going
(26:37):
to play national tournaments. I mean, if I was going
to show up just to play, it wasn't going to
be the case. It was you know, feeling like I
was ready and prepared and kind of having that mentality
still amongst my professional career.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, how much did that help you though? From your
dad having that type of push And again, I know
you mentioned that, hey, everybody was checking in to make
sure that you wanted it. It wasn't just your dad
or your parents or other family members pushing you. But
you still had to have those you know, checkpoints, And yeah,
I had to have that you know, intentionalism to go
(27:12):
out there and try to accomplish these.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Goals, especially when you know, was a lot of time,
time spent and still having to focus on my studies
to even be able to get into colleges and you know,
have a this decent sat act and then you know,
graduating college feeling prepared enough to pursue it professionally, which
was something that our coaches in college were We're very
(27:37):
adamant about. You know, hey, you know we're going to
take care of our studies. But when you guys graduate SMU,
you know you're going to be ready to play professional golf.
And that was kind of the expectation and we all
have that same kind of joint mindset.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah. Austin Smotherman is our guest here on the Richmond
Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets. Two times Corn Ferry
Tour winner this season in twenty twenty five, so absolutely
fantastic season so far, sitting number one in the points
list on the corn Ferry Tour and that quest for
getting the PGA Tour card for next year. All right,
(28:09):
So I do have to go back though to that
US junior though, But Georgiana Speed please, yes, do you
give me the scoop the first tea box. What do
you remember about that?
Speaker 6 (28:18):
I remember seeing Jordan hit two back to back drives
and fairway bunkers off the first two holes, and he
was two under through two and I was like, my mom,
who was who took me to the tournament? We traveled
across country and whatnot, and you know, unbelievable lead up
to the tournament. Here we are playing and I get
paired with him. I learned all about it, you know,
(28:39):
obviously had followed him in his high you know, good
enough frank junior golfer that I knew who the number
one junior in the country was being himself, and proceeded that.
My mom had you know, conversations with his dad on
the cart path and she helped the lists, you know,
some questions here or there, and he was basically just
introducing her to college coaches and understanding what this journey
(29:00):
of playing college golf was even going to look like.
So we kind of are very very thankful to them.
And then also that week I ended up I end
up being an eight for one playoff for the sixty
fourth seed to play the number one seed, who is
Jordan Speed.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
And I made it to the second hole with three
guys still after there was a couple bogies on the
first one, and proceeded to have a twelve footer to
play him to force another hole and missed it. Another
guy had made Birdie. He goes on to lose to speak,
probably seven and six or something like that. And nowadays
I'm actually, you know, work with the same coach as Jordan,
(29:35):
play out of the same course in Dallas, see him
all the time, and I still kind of joke every
now and again, you know, telling him, hey, I could
I could have changed your whole career.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I could.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I could have changed your whole career managed if I
won that playoffs? Take you out in the first round,
you don't win two US juniors. Who knows what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Exactly, that's right, Or you might have given him the
motivation because he's at hell, I got to beat this
guy because he's coming after me right now, right after.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Having played the previous two days together. But yeah, that
was that was an experience for sure, and definitely kind
of opened my eyes to just wanting to even you know,
continue to improve and get better. I mean that was
when I was sixteen, I think fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So did they give you the confidence that, okay, I
can compete at this level?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yeah, definitely having college coaches be interested in and see
my score stuck up on a course of you know
USGA caliber that I had never really seen before. Just
that kind of setup, that kind of competition left and right,
you look up and down the range and it's it's
just a stripe show. And we're all we're all junior golfers.
I mean, I had, you know, some other good players
(30:40):
in my area. You know, I grew up with Cameron Champ,
John Katlan, a couple others in the Sacramento area that
have gone on. And you know, Norcow produces a number
of number of golfers every year. There's kind of a
good contingency out here on the corn ferry right now
with some guys maybe in their first three years as
a pro. So here I am at thirty one years old,
and I'm the old.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Guy, that's right, exactly, the real old guy. And I
would have to say that, you know, doing my research
or aka stalking as we got ready for this conversation,
I did see that your birthday is May nineteenth, so
I'm a May nineteenth celebratory birthday person as well. So
let's go Taurus.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Incredible right there, thank you?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Great, great birthday.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, Austin Smotherman is our guest inside the Ropes right
here on the Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets.
All right, So the other question that I do have
in reference to your journey, y SMU though.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Yeah, you know, I got recruited by some other UC schools,
University California schools out you know, not too far from me,
UC Davis sackround state. I wanted to go to u C.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
L A.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
I wanted to go to USC, I wanted to go
to Stanford. Kind of all these big name schools, law
schools that I grew up always watching. They just they
recruited a little bit internationally and I really wasn't on
their radar somehow, you know, had these conversations. But also
just the way college golf works, you know, only four
and a half scholarships, and you know, I kind of
(32:17):
our family family needs, you know, we needed something substantial
to be able to go do it at the level
we wanted to and end up playing another junior tournament
in California. The week after Bryson had committed to play
college golf at SMU, our head coach Josh Gregory comes
out to watch him. We get paired together at the
cal State Junior am and I proceeded to win win
(32:39):
that week over Bryson, who was who was trying to
go back to back and Bryceon and I had grown
up playing junior golf together since we were about twelve,
and here we are now seventeen, you know, trading off
tournament wins and kind of elevating our games. And he
the whole time had told me all about SMU for
that whole time, being on the cart path, you know,
one of my dad's friends who took me to that
(33:01):
tournament and Josh, we're chatting. And by a month later
or so, I was there on an official visit and
had this incredible opportunity in front of me to go
play college golf at SMU. Kind of with the California contingency.
Bryson was a part of my freshman class as well
as another my roommate in college, Ryan Burgess, who's from
(33:21):
Tory Pines High School down in San Diego. So we
kind of had this trio of Californians coming into SMU
because SMU had recruited California pretty lightly in the past
and kind of folk tried to get Texas and had
a little bit of international and some East Coast kids,
and yeah, Josh came in, taken over the program that
he had played college golf at and kind of just
(33:41):
took it to another level.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, and I would have to say, just what a
great feeling to be able to see not only what
you've been able to do so far with your career,
but the other individuals that you just mentioned, and obviously Bryson,
and the impact that these golfers are having both on
the PGA Tour and even live golf.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Yeah live. I mean, look at you know, there's a
there's a photo out there of our sophomore here winning
my sophomore year winning a conference championship at the time
Conference USA at Innisbrook Down in Tampa where they play
the Balls Bar tournament, and it's me, Harry and Bryce
in the middle holding the trophy. And all three of
us were on tour together at the same time. That
(34:19):
that insight because all of us got there at different times,
and you know, all kind of holding each other's hands
just enough, because you know, that little bit, that little
bit of that edge, little something that they might be
able to share can be the make or break difference,
you know, no question.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
As we're wrapping up with Austin Somemotherman Corn Ferry Tour
Pro and also two wins this season in twenty twenty
five the BMW Charity Pro Am presented by TD sin
X as you know back in June, and then also
just coming off of a victory at the Memorial Health
Championship presented by l RS there in Illinois, and so
(34:54):
as I do have to ask you though with you
talking about SMU, and of course we I would still
golf season. We get that. Right around the corner is
college football season. And knowing that they made.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Me talk about Clemson right now, they'll make me talk
about Clemson right now.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
That's right. You don't want to hear that. I'm a
Clemson grad. I get it, I understand, and that ACC championship.
But how are you in terms of following SMU and
their re emergence right now in college football? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Super fun? You know, the fall of the fall, we
get to as many games as we can schedule permitting,
which this year we're actually done a little bit sooner
than than we haven't been in the past, and so
I'm hoping to make it to a few more games
the atmosphere has changed, you know, the boulevard and the
SMU's kind of tailgate before games. When I was in school,
(35:47):
you know, wasn't necessarily I mean it was the tailgate
was the pain, but the game maybe was a bit
on the back burner. And nowadays. I mean, I was
fortunate enough to be on the field for the Pittsburgh
game this year when they was a ranked match up, Yes,
and that was awesome. And we had Bryce and Bryson
there too on the side, and he had the US
Open Trophy with them. They presented, they did a little
(36:07):
thing in the middle of the field and then Bryson
took the trophy up into the student section and there's
a video of him running through it just with all
we know. It was just wild. It was so fun.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
And that's the beauty of sports, just how it brings
people together and all of those things that can happen.
And obviously, as we talked about, college football is so
big here in the state of South Carolina, and we
won't mention Clemson, we won't say anything about Clemson.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Well my well, my my Caddie, Zach Williamson lived there
in Simpsonville and he's he's been there for thirteen fourteen
years now. But he's originally from Soccermento area and previously
caddy for Doc Edmondsrat So there's there's no avoiding it
for me. I'm going to hear it. I'm going to
hear it the rest of my career back on the bag,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That's right, well, Alston, hopefully we can get you to
the Clemson SMU game this year. It's here in Death Valley,
so you need to come participate in attendance there.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
That's that's a buck bucket list spot. That's a that's
a stadium that I don't know if I I might
be needing to roll a few few other golfers deep
to be able to make sure we don't get we
get ran out of there.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I don't know about that. I think smut Lashley's doing
some positive things there on the football side.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
When when when I when I was in when I
was in school, quick story for you. I remember we
were hitting wedges on the football field one time, just
off of a mat. We were had you know, baseball
gloves out there and we were catching them on twenty
thirty forty fifty yard lines and Courtland Sutton was in
school and I had a couple of couple classes with
them in the nice sports marketing degree, and he he
(37:39):
wanted to hit some shots one time, but I was
only fair because if we got as if we got
to throw touchdown passes to him. So so there's there.
We had a fun afternoon one time. We were all
hitting wedges and trying to teach him how to play
a little bit, and then we were throwing fade routes
to him in the end zones, trying to you know,
trying to score touchdowns is pretty oftome.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I love it. So how many touchdown passes did you
throw to him? Come and give us the numbers.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
I mean, he caught every single one of them. It
wasn't on the back end of my good throws. But
you know, well we were all rotating one to throw
a couple to them, you know, maybe three or four each,
just to not throw out our shoulders trying to do
too much considering touch a pass from any NFL QB.
You know, I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Austin Smotherman is our guest, and Austin can't thank you
enough for taking the time out of your busy schedule
on the corn Ferry tour and obviously i'd love to say, hey,
we got to get you back in the Upstate next
year for the BMW charity program presented by TD sin X.
But my goodness, my friend, you're number one on the
points list, so you're on that quest to get your
(38:38):
PGA Tour card.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
This morning with the try the so to solidify my
spot and the two on being tour bound and earning
my PGA Tour card for next year. So they told
me this morning that it's locked up no matter what
I do. So I thought it was a pretty good feeling.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
So we just had some breaking news right here. Yeah,
on the show one Live first, it's official. Let's go,
my friend.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Short tour bounds.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I love it. Congratulations Austin, well deserved and can't thank
you enough for spending some time here on the show
today and definitely looking forward to watching the rest of
your career. And again it's okay. You can come back
here to the Upstate and you can come see some
games at Clemson and we'll we'll be okay because hey,
(39:26):
we're both we both have May nineteenth birthdays, so we
have to stay in touch.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
We we have to have to well, we'll follow up
each season and do a nice little recaptain. Hopefully the
smu went totals keep going up there.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
We go compete for those ACC championships and you go
get some wins on corn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour.
I appreciate it, Thanks so much, Austin.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Thanks man.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
All right, that is Austin Smotherman Corn Fairy Tour pro
on his way to the PGA Tour next season. As
you heard it right here, and we'll can you the
Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this,
continuing the Tuesday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show presented
by Ingles Markets right here on one O four nine
(40:11):
Fox Sports Upstate and a really good conversation there with
Austin Smotherman and Yes, born on the same day, May nineteenth.
Let's go, yes exactly. I do love that. Yes, as
we are here with a full studio, Trey Falco behind
the board and behind the mic as always, a mister
Darren Angel from the Weisch Law Firm joining us for
(40:32):
Truth or Darren as he does each week. And so
I know we took a little bit of time away
from truth or Darren today, but you can listen to
a lot of what we talked about from the podcast hour.
Just download the iHeartRadio app, make sure you do that
and just search one O four nine Fox Sports or
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the first hour because we really dove into a lot
(40:53):
of the stuff with the House Settlement and all of
these ongoing lawsuits right now, the appeal of the House
Settlement approval and other states that are putting forward legislation
that just makes no sense. So I'm sure you go
check out that additional exclusive hour on the podcast version
of The Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets. But
(41:15):
again we also think Michael McGovern, tournament director of the
BMW Charity Proram presented by TD sin X, doing a
fantastic job getting us connected to Austin Smotherman, the winner
of the twenty twenty five BMW Charity Proram presented by
td Cinx and the number one player on the corn
Ferry Tour right now, the leaderboard and the breaking news
(41:35):
that we had. How about that that he found out
officially that he set he has earned his PGA Tour card.
And fantastic job, mister Austin Smotherman there again. Thanks Michael
McGovern for helping arrange that. All right, let's take a
look at some of the latest headlines.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
It's only one game plan that's to take care of
men hitting the latest headlines.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
It's the rundown, okay for SEC Football Media Day on
Monday down in Atlanta. We know Shane Biemer is going
to be taking the podium at eleven forty five in
anticipation of this upcoming season here in twenty twenty five.
And also he will be joined by Nick Barrett, senior
defensive tackle for the game Cox and also d Q Smith,
(42:22):
a senior safety for the game Cox. Also, so going
heavy on the defensive side, yes, we know in defense
is important. But yeah, then there's also Lenora. He's going
to be there, yes, the red shirt sophomore and a
Heisman Trophy candidate. That's how it's labeled. So here we
go entering twenty twenty five season. Let it begin, let
(42:43):
it begin, the expectations. We love it and we will
be down there in Atlanta on Monday, so definitely looking
forward to that. All right, how about this in w NBA,
And I know you're thinking what WNBA. Yes, again, remember
there's basketball going on right now, and we've talked about
the impact of Caitlin Clark. But also don't forget about
Page Beckers, the number one overall pick this past year
(43:05):
with the Dallas Wings. So the August first Fever versus
Wings game is moving from the seven thousand seat College
Park Center to the American Airlines Center there in Dallas,
a twenty thousand seat NBA arena, because they're busting at
the seams and it's Page Beckers versus Caitlin Clark. Now,
(43:27):
Caitlyn Clark has missed the past what five games of
some growing injury, and so we'll see how that plays
out and getting ready for the WNBA All Star Game
coming up. But here again we're just seeing that, Hey,
when you have superstars, and I know Caitlyn Clark is
definitely the need. We've talked about it. Don't forget about
Page Beckers, man, she is a hell of a talent.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
Absolutely, wmva's in a good spot by rising stars, a
very good spot. Speaking of somebody who's very frustrated.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
This is in the NBA, and it was confirmed from
the Indiana pay Sirs. President Kevin Pritchard did confirm that
Tyrese Haliburton will miss the entire twenty twenty five twenty
six season. Dude's injury, My gosh, what IFFs What would
have happened there in Game seven? We'll never know. All Right,
(44:16):
that's some of the latest headlines, and we'll wrap up
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today as you always do. And again I love that
we have the additional hour on the podcast. Make sure
(45:00):
you get that through the iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcast, because we were able to dive into
a lot there with the house settlement and the ever
changing landscape of college athletics. But it is July the eighth,
so let's walk back in a little bit of history.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
What happened on this day. Let's go back in history
to the moments you might have forgotten and the ones
you'll never forget. It's OTD on this day.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Eighteen eighty nine. Oh yeah, going way back, John L.
Sullivan would beat Jake Kilrain in the seventy fifth round
for the US Heavyweight Championship, and it was the last
bare knuckle boxing match that we saw. That's a lot around. Yes,
(45:48):
now the rounds are only a minute long, but still
still I don't care. I've seventy it. Yes, that's bare knuckles.
Are you kidding me? Yeah, that's that's absolutely insane. How
about this? In two thousand Venus Williams would win her
first Wimbledon singles final there and then would obviously go
on to be one of the best, but her sister
would outdo her, and in twenty ten, Lebron James would
(46:11):
make the decision and take his talents to South Beach.
On this day, in that infamous interview with Jim Gray,
oh yeah, we all remember that. That is OTD. And
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Ready to roll. This is the Tuesday edition, another Richmond
Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets. Right here on one
oh four nine Fox Sports Upstate. We are in full
force here today, mister Trey Falco behind the board and
behind the mic as always, and mister Darren Angel of
the Weisch Law Firm joining us here in studio. Yes,
(00:40):
truth or Darren, and it is time to talk some sports,
but you can always join the conversation. Eight six four
two four zero five four eight zero. Again that numbers
eight six four two four zero five four eight zero.
As we are in the midst of the summer doldrums,
there's nothing going on, nothing whatsoever. But we we do
have an exciting show today because in a little bit
(01:03):
we're going to be going inside the Ropes, our weekly
golf segment driven by the BMW charity program presented by
td Cinx, and having the guest Austin Smotherman, who's number
one on the Corn Ferry Tour list right now and
the leader board he has the most points. And he
also remember he won the BMW Charity Program presented by
(01:24):
TDCX back in June, and he just came off another
victory at the Memorial Health Championship in Illinois, so he
is flying high right now. So I'm excited to be
able to talk to him, and we appreciate Michael McGovern,
tournament director there at the BMW Charity Proram presented by
td CINX, getting us connected and looking forward to that conversation.
(01:45):
So stay tuned in the second segment, little Inside the
Ropes golf segment that we do each week. But as
we talked about, it's the summer doldrums. One thing I
do need to talk about though, because we were talking
about it off air. Summertime makes me think of watermelon
and how much I love watermelon. Both of you like
(02:09):
looking at me like because I was eating some watermelon
and I could see it that there's not a whole
lot of interest. And then when I start talking about it,
both of you guys are not big fans of watermelon.
What's the story here? Come on, mister Falco, I don't really.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean, I guess it's not really like I didn't
get sick off a watermelon or anything to make me
off put it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I just I don't like it, Like I don't like
the taste.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I don't mind the texture, Like it's not a texture thing,
you know, it's it's anyways.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I know, but it's it's just I don't know.
It just tastes weird. Have you not had a good
sweet watermelon? I guess I haven't. Yeah, I don't know, Darren.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Here's the funny thing.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I love watermelon flavored like candy or treats and stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
My weird thing with it, and I don't like.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, this is weird.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I don't like dis dislike it. And man, it always
looks so refreshing. I don't like how it when you
when you chew on it, it kind of like in
a weird way to cinegrade.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, that's right, And I don't I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
That bothers me a little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Okay, that's like I can eat watermelon and I'm I'm
I'm hey, but like I'm much more cravy, like I'm
gonna seek out like cantlope.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh wow, Okay, see, I would seek out watermelon. I
would seek out honeydew. I don't really regularly seek out cantelope.
I'll eat it, but I'm I don't seek it out,
but I definitely will seek out watermelon. And my wife Julianne,
she doesn't like watermelon anymore, and this is after COVID.
She doesn't like the smell of watermelon now because she
did lose her smell for a period of time. So
(03:49):
but I'm just blown away though. This is the first
time I've really hurt somebody, Like, I don't know, I
don't like watermelon.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm a berry guy, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, BlackBerry.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Like, yes, I'm big on that. The blackberries, though, I
don't like hads get stuck in your teeth and you know,
all the seeds, seeds, those type of things. So all right,
we digress. We'd work talking summer stuff though, because we
do know football is coming pretty fast. Next week, well,
I should say, right now, the Big twelve Football Media
(04:18):
Days going on at a Star in Frisco, Texas, and
then on Monday we have the beginning of the SEC
Football Media Days, and I'll be there. Shane Biemer is
going to be there on Monday, starting at eleven forty five.
He'll take the podium and we'll go over the other
attendees from South Carolina that are going to be there,
including Leonora Sellers. Yeah, he will be in attendance, of course.
(04:41):
I mean he's a quarterback, he's a star, he's got
the he's the face of South Carolina outside of Shane Beemer,
so he has to be an attendance there. But we
also have the NFL coming up July thirty, first, the
Hall of Fame Game, right, and I do have a
trivia question about the Hall of Fame Game, Okay, yes,
So get ready to be a to text in for
the trivia contest to be able to win a twenty
(05:04):
five dollars gift card from Autobil car Wash here in
the Upstate. But we mentioned it yesterday, July thirty, first
Hall of Fame Game, and we've got the Chargers and
the Lions that are going to be matching up against
each other Thursday at eight pm. And I'm still torn
on this because I love all the hooplaw and it's
the first opportunity of teams playing in a true timed event.
(05:29):
You know, all of that I mean, they will have
some of their you know whatever scripted practices and things
of that nature. But this is an opportunity to see
these two teams play in a game, right, And I
love technically, Yes, technically that's where I'm going because I
do love that. Yes, you're getting inductees into the Hall
of Fame, right, that is a special moment. But is
(05:52):
this football? I mean, is this Can we get that
excited about this game? Because I would tell you I'm
not like glued to the TV to watch this game,
and there's been some years I didn't even turn it on. Yeah,
you know, I just went and read the recaps or
saw some of the highlights or you know, on Sports Center.
(06:13):
But I don't know if I'm really buying into this
that this is a true beginning of football, because right
it's July, oh of course. And then also we do
know it's preseason, and it's how do we feel about preseason? NFL? Anyway?
You know, are we like, oh, I'm gung ho about
the preseason because I'm really not. It's all about the
(06:34):
regular season. And that's why I still love that college
football there is no preseason, right, just just go yeah, yeah,
And now I still don't like Week zero. We can
talk about the market inside of that all day long, right,
but at least you know that first game, Yeah, it
means something. And so I don't know if I'm buying into,
(06:54):
you know, all of this with the Hall of Fame game,
other than you've got Antonio Gates being in, Dude, You've
got Eric Allen, Jared Allen, and Sterling Sharp obviously played
at South Carolina. So that's very significant that now South Carolina,
you know, having a Hall of Famer from that class
here in twenty twenty five. But I don't know, Trey.
I just don't think I'm buying into this as a
(07:16):
real football game.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I am bought into it enough to the point where
I'll probably have it on in the background. I might
watch a quarter or two. I look at it the
same way I look at all the signage. When I
get really close to Disney World, it means I'm almost there.
I get really excited about the signage. I see Mickey
Mouse on the on thelogy billboard.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yes, but I'm not quite there to Disney World, but
I'm close.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'm a lot closer than I was eight hours ago
when I started to drive that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, so the anticipation you're starting to see a little
bit light at the end of the time. Yeah, so
it's a is it another moment on the calendar that
signifies we're getting close.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I do think it is a moment on the calendar.
I mean I think in some respects that's almost how
maybe the NFL looks at it, is just being able
to kind of have another date on the calendar that
they can stamp their name on it says, hey, no
doubt there's football on tonight, because I'm kind of in
the mindset of similar to Trey, like I might have
(08:12):
it on in the background because we haven't watched NFL
football for four or five months, and I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But I'll fully admit it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I mean, I have zero interest in watching the Chargers
play the Lions after.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Ten days of training camp.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Where if we're lucky, Jared Goff is going to take four.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Snaps, right like lucky Lucky might not even play there
is probably won't, probably won't.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, we're seeing more and more in preseason, and Sean
McVay was one of the first said I'm not playing
my guys in preseason. I mean my traditional starters. It's
it's different. And that's why I'm not solely into this
that oh, this is part of, you know, the NFL season,
(09:03):
other than the fact that what you talked about, Darren,
is that this is the NFL and they're so smart
because this is their, yeah, their opportunity to say, we've
got live football on yep, and this is what we
know the audience wants, right, and we're going to deliver that.
(09:24):
And it's not, oh, we haven't had NFL in over
a year. No, your point, we just had five months ago,
I mean the Super Bowl, you know, in February. So
it's not like we've had this long, you know year
without watching NFL. And that's why the NFL does such
(09:46):
a really good job of making sure that we're staying
tuned into whatever content and then dripping, dripping, oh, then
here's your first game, right, and it gets you a
little bit excited, and to your point, Tray, it gives
you that little bit of like, oh, we're getting oh
so close, because if there's a preseason game that's on,
(10:07):
then that means coming after that, there's going to be
a regular season game, right that follows that. So you
just have to be patient and understand what it is.
And that's why again I'm not the oh, yes we've
got football back now. I don't think we have football
back until a regular season. But it does give us
that moment in time that we can say, okay, yes,
(10:29):
we're getting very close. All right, So before we hit
the breake, I do want to give the trivia question
because we've got Austin Smotherman Cornferry Tour Pro that's going
to be our guest on Inside the Ropes driven by
the BMW Charity Pro am presented by td SINX in
the next segment. So I to make sure to get
this trivia question out there. The text line eight six
four triple seven ninety five ninety three. Again, that text
(10:52):
line is eight six four triple seven ninety five ninety three.
So you have to text in the correct answer and
be the first one to text in that correct answer
to this question to win the twenty five dollars gift
card to Autobil Car Wash here in the Upstate. Okay, So,
speaking of the NFL Hall of Fame Game, right, okay, okay,
(11:14):
two teams have played the most times in the NFL
Hall of Fame Game. They've both played seven times in
this game started back in nineteen sixty two. This game
did the first team is the Dallas Cowboys. Oh yeah,
the Dallas Cowboys, of course, So who is the second team?
(11:34):
They're tied for the most appearances in the NFL Hall
of Fame Game at seven. The Dallas Cowboys are sitting
there as one team. Who's the other team that has
played in the Hall of Fame game seven times? Texts
that answer to eight six four triple seven ninety five
ninety three. Again that text line, eight six four triple
seven ninety five ninety three, Which team outside of the
(11:59):
Dallas Cowboys, that's the other team that has played in
the Hall of Fame Game seven times? Name the other
team as we'll continue this Tuesday edition of the Richmond
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(12:21):
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it's a team effort each and every day. That's right,
(13:04):
as we are getting ready to talk with Austin Smotherman
as we do each week, are inside the Ropes Golf
segment driven by the BMW Charity Program presented by td Cinx.
He's the number one player on the corn Ferry Tour
right now as far as the leader board right there
on the cusp of earning his PGA Tour card. So
(13:24):
definitely looking forward to talking to him in just a minute.
And remember he won the BMW Charity Program presented by
td sin X and got to take home the steering
wheel was the trophy, Yes, BMW Steering Wheel. I love
that trophy and the caddy gets his big rim BMW rims. Yeah,
so it's great trophies from that side. All right. We
did have the trivia question though, Yes, all right, there's
(13:45):
been two teams that have appeared in the NFL Hall
of Fame Game the most times, seven times. One of
them is the Dallas Cowboys, and the question was who
is the other team? And the first person to text
in the correct answer would win a twenty five dollars
gift card to autobil car Wash. And we do have
(14:06):
a winner that was able to text in. Texter eight
four one four texted in with the correct answer first,
that is the Pittsburgh Steelers is the other team? Hey,
that's rivalries. Come on, I mean, you can't get any
better than that. So congratulations Texter eight four one four,
(14:27):
As the Steelers were the other team that has appeared
in the Hall of Fame Game seven times, along with
the Dallas Cowboys. And remember July thirty, first NFL preseason
kicks off. All right, it is time. Now let's go
inside the ropes.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
From the fairways to the headlines. It's inside the Ropes
driven by the BMW Charity program presented by TD Sinnax.
You're all access passed to golf's biggest names and best moments.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And it is time that we continue our weekly golf
segment Inside the Ropes driven by the BMW Charity Proram
presented by tdcin X. And why not go in and
have the champion of this past year back in June,
mister Alston Smotherman, as he was the winner of the
twenty twenty five BMW Charity pro Am presented by TD Cinx.
(15:22):
And so, Alson, I know you're busy. You've also coming
off another victory on the corn Ferry Tour, so you've
got to be flying high. But I need to know
where is that trophy from the BMW Charity Program presented
by TD Cinx. That steering wheel? Where do you keep
that thing? Right now? I love it? I love it.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Thanks for having me, Richmond. That steering wheel is still
on my dining room table right in the middle square
is a nice little centerpiece that I don't know if
my wife would approve for any much for too much longer,
but it's a worthy piece right there.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Oh, no question about it. And I saw some videos
with your daughters playing with it.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
So it's got to be it's gotta be on that table.
If not, it's probably gonna get too much play with
it and spend it, spin it off of its mount
or something. Who knows that my two girls to.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Play with it a good bit, yes, and walk us
through though. Just that putt that you had. I mean,
it's like fifty feet for that opportunity of winning a
second Corn Ferry Tour this season. But just the put itself.
And maybe I wouldn't necessarily say, you know, being aggressive,
but you had the one shot lead, so you didn't
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necessarily have to make that put But I guess maybe
you inspired JJ spawn goes a few weeks later, he
does that at the US Open. But just walk us
through that put and the feeling seeing that go in.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
He JJ made his on a pretty big stage, but
you know, the BMW charity program out there is a
big stage as well for us, and that week was
unforgettable to cap it off with that putt. I mean
my thought process going through it was really just, I mean,
good speed. Unfortunately, I had kind of a similar field
cut on seventeen right to left, kind of breaking down
(17:05):
to just lag it up there close and just knew
my I could trust my feels as far as speed goes,
and there wasn't any kind of overthinking. I mean, my
process as far as reading the putt was very very
average time as far as spent to get comfortable over it,
and by that time just let it rip.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah. And I would have to say too that there's
something about having that type of confidence where you just
mentioned not overthinking things and not having that paralysis by analysis,
so to speak. But when did you know it was
going in how far back, as far as you know
as it's getting close to you, when did you say,
all right, that looks good.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I mean I pretty much blacked out, I think from
the whole whole moment. But as far as as far
as getting getting that ball online the last maybe four
feet you kind of I actually raised my putter up unconsciously,
and the replay of the video I started, I locked
it back. I was like, what was I thinking? The
putt could lip out? Putt could not even be close.
(18:05):
It's still got ways to go, and you know, I
can barely see it from my angle down the hill,
and next thing you know, it goes and it disappears
and its tournaments over. Unconscious reaction fist palm yes, I
got my caddie and I still got a walk and
go get my ball. And then I'm like, gosh, this
is a long wait.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I really just did this exactly in front of the
big crowd also there on Sunday, And so there is
that moment of being able to showcase your talent and
the ability and obviously closing out of the big putt
right there to win the twenty twenty five BMW Charity
pro Am presented by td sen X. Austin Smotherman is
(18:43):
our guest here on Inside the Ropes on this edition
of the Richmond Weavers Show, presented by our good friends
at Ingles Markets, and so Austin, I know also the
video that is out there showing your mom being able
to watch it, and your wife and the family and
all of that so house special. Was that also that
they got to see it on TV?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Oh, it's so special. I mean to have those memories
as much as as they would have been if it
wasn't televised, to have had them live it live. I mean,
there's a huge thanks to the whole tournament and you know,
everybody there to want to televise and showcase you know,
thorn Blade that whole week and all the celebrities and
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professionals that don't get to be on TV too much
at this level, and you know that's what we all
kind of want to get comfortable with, you know, having
cameras around you. As far as going to the PGA Tour,
you know, you can't can avoid it out there.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's right. Yeah. And how different is it though in
a tournament like the BMW Charity Pro Am, because it's
very unique that you are paired up with amateurs and
they's celebrities that are also involved. So how is that
as a tour pro and just that this is a
little bit of a different tournament.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Yeah, current type of tournament for me, I think it's
it's a bonus that I had a member from my
home course one and to play with me, and so
I was able to bring along my own am and
I I talked up the tournament to him and he
knew that there was an opportunity to play in an
event like this, you know, similar to the AT and
T pro I am on the PGA Tour, and he
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wanted to. He wanted to jump in be my partner.
And I mean I played so much golf at home
with other members and whatnot that are still pretty good players.
It just felt like any other day out there playing
all week, and you know, I threw and threw in
a little bit of the wrinkle, which I'm sure we
were going to talk to, but I'll bring it up
sooner than later. Is is my my original caddy bowing
out for a couple of days as we started leaving
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the golf tournament, and I got Evan EVANSSA on my bag.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And talk about Evan say and just how he was
able to fill in local product obviously and a golfer
there at Belmont Abbey and a great story. But isn't
there something though about golfers. You want to have routine.
You don't want any interruptions regarding that routine, especially starting
in a tournament. So how how did that play out?
(20:59):
And how did you get settled in with a new.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Kid all all of that week and kind of that
whole format. It was the back end of my fourth
week in a row, you know, playing playing good golf,
but the the monotonous and the mundane kind of things,
just you know, four weeks in a row doing the
same thing every single day. I mean, I could tell
you my schedule from you know, nine to seven pm,
(21:22):
basically like a day I could tell you what I'm
doing no matter what city I'm in, and those kinds
of those kinds of things could maybe you know, trying
to keep them too perfect and maybe lead a little
bit that anxiety and so having this kind of wrinkle
as far as you know, my usual caddie drop in,
you know, I just their expectations dropped my my there
was there was what the pressure, any kind of pressure
to play well was maybe kind of dropped, and it
(21:43):
was I'm just going to go enjoy my time with
this kid who I just met forty five minutes ago,
and I'm going to embrace it because there's no way
around it right now. I got I got at least
eighteen holes with them, and I was fortunate to not
have to play Carolina Country Club in the rain that
morning and have the after noon tea time. So definitely
the wave split kind of helped as well.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Again going back to that you didn't have to overthink
things and just allow it to play out, because there
is something about there's certain things you can't control, but
as a golfer, are there so many times though alsen
that you want to control because you're wanting to control
the shot, you're wanting to control your putt, you know, respond,
(22:25):
But how again, at some point you just got to
let it go because you can't control everything.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, And that's that's what we're all out here
trying to trying to, you know, at every level, trying
to refine as far as what's your process and how
to how to do that more and more frequently? Or
are there weeks where you know, maybe you're not so
good at it, but still have a good week. Absolutely,
I mean, so we all work so hard to kind
of you know, eliminate that variance from week to week
if things are different, because invariably, you know, our bodies
(22:52):
are different every single day, and we work to try
and keep them, keep them feeling the same. But inherently,
just you know, by nature, you could just sleep wrong
and your pillow, wake up with a kink neck, and
now you got to figure out how to rotate and
get the ball around, you know, for the next five hours.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That's right, all right, So you talked about you would
know you could recite your schedule from you know, nine
am to seven pm each and every day, all right,
So tomorrow we know you're going to be out in
the Denver area. Tel's what do you want to be
doing at ten am tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Ten am tomorrow? So this is this is a little
bit of a wrinkle, but I wasn't expecting my pro
am time to be at six thirty am tomorrow. But
it is, I guess the blessing, the blessing and the
curse of being high on the points list and going
down the list as far as tea times go is
I'm first off at six thirty here at TPC Colorado tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
By ten o'clock, I'll have already had my second breakfast
and I will definitely be wrapping up probably some practice
by eleven and shutting it down for at least, you know,
at least the next twenty four hours if I have
an afternoon tea time, which I'll get tea times here
in the next next thirty forty minutes or so.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yes, that's early, my friends.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
But tip typically any Wednesday pro am time, I mean,
I've been early most of this season, and I'll finish
up my nine holes, a little bit of light practice
as far as whatever we got to address, and then
always finish up my Wednesdays with some lag speed putting
before I go go shut it down before a first round.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
There you go. Austin Smotherman is our guest right here
inside the Ropes on the Richmond Weavers Show, presented by
Ingles Markets, on one of four nine Fox Sports Upstate.
All right, so, Austin, I do need to just jump
back in a little bit of history with you. I
love history, and I love kind of hearing the genesis
and the beginnings, and especially in sports, because there's so
(24:40):
many things that we can learn from sports, life lessons,
et cetera. I can go through the list of cliches
and I know you've heard them all. When did you
first fall in love with golf?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I would say really fell in love with it when
I was twelve thirteen, as far as seeing myself grow
as a player, playing and playing and more tournaments, and
also having a really kind of a heart to heart
conversation with my mom, dad, both sides, both grandparents, you know,
everybody just kind of making sure that it was by
(25:10):
my own doing, how much I was doing it, and
I didn't feel that outside pressure to keep doing it
because I played I played every sport under the sun
growing up and then played basketball and golf in high
school my freshman year. So a little bit after that
kind of phase where I knew I had loved, I
fell in love with the game and wanted to keep
doing it, but still you know, wanted to have that
team sport, you know, one of the biggest my buddies
playing golf or playing basketball. I mean and uh, but
(25:34):
we were pretty realistic about it and knew, you know,
I had had a good opportunity to continue to play
and you know, do this thing called college golf, which
nobody in my area, small town northern California called Loomis,
had sent any golfers from there, out of my high
school to to go play college golf anywhere any any division.
And so it was just that unknown territory that I
(25:56):
kind of paved the way. But you know, as far
as expectations go, again, it was very low. I mean,
I didn't know what to expect and started qualifying for
some US Junior Amateurs, which I was fortunate enough to
get paired up with Jordan's Speth in my very first
one at Trump Bedminster in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, Yeah, that's an interesting pairing. Right out of the gates.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
And right out of the gates my biggest first national tournament,
which my dad had always communicated me too. You know,
if I was going to pursue this, you know, we
we were going to I had to play, play and
win tournaments and prove I was so good player and
one of the better players locally before I start traveling
around California, and before I start traveling around the West Coast,
and then especially before I had any consideration of going
(26:37):
to play national tournaments. I mean, if I was going
to show up just to play, it wasn't going to
be the case. It was you know, feeling like I
was ready and prepared and kind of having that mentality
still amongst my professional career.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, how much did that help you though? From your
dad having that type of push And again, I know
you mentioned that, hey, everybody was checking in to make
sure that you wanted it. It wasn't just your dad
or your parents or other family members pushing you. But
you still had to have those you know, checkpoints, And yeah,
I had to have that you know, intentionalism to go
(27:12):
out there and try to accomplish these.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Goals, especially when you know, was a lot of time,
time spent and still having to focus on my studies
to even be able to get into colleges and you know,
have a this decent sat act and then you know,
graduating college feeling prepared enough to pursue it professionally, which
was something that our coaches in college were We're very
(27:37):
adamant about. You know, hey, you know we're going to
take care of our studies. But when you guys graduate SMU,
you know you're going to be ready to play professional golf.
And that was kind of the expectation and we all
have that same kind of joint mindset.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah. Austin Smotherman is our guest here on the Richmond
Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets. Two times Corn Ferry
Tour winner this season in twenty twenty five, so absolutely
fantastic season so far, sitting number one in the points
list on the corn Ferry Tour and that quest for
getting the PGA Tour card for next year. All right,
(28:09):
So I do have to go back though to that
US junior though, But Georgiana Speed please, yes, do you
give me the scoop the first tea box. What do
you remember about that?
Speaker 6 (28:18):
I remember seeing Jordan hit two back to back drives
and fairway bunkers off the first two holes, and he
was two under through two and I was like, my mom,
who was who took me to the tournament? We traveled
across country and whatnot, and you know, unbelievable lead up
to the tournament. Here we are playing and I get
paired with him. I learned all about it, you know,
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obviously had followed him in his high you know, good
enough frank junior golfer that I knew who the number
one junior in the country was being himself, and proceeded that.
My mom had you know, conversations with his dad on
the cart path and she helped the lists, you know,
some questions here or there, and he was basically just
introducing her to college coaches and understanding what this journey
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of playing college golf was even going to look like.
So we kind of are very very thankful to them.
And then also that week I ended up I end
up being an eight for one playoff for the sixty
fourth seed to play the number one seed, who is
Jordan Speed.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
And I made it to the second hole with three
guys still after there was a couple bogies on the
first one, and proceeded to have a twelve footer to
play him to force another hole and missed it. Another
guy had made Birdie. He goes on to lose to speak,
probably seven and six or something like that. And nowadays
I'm actually, you know, work with the same coach as Jordan,
(29:35):
play out of the same course in Dallas, see him
all the time, and I still kind of joke every
now and again, you know, telling him, hey, I could
I could have changed your whole career.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I could.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I could have changed your whole career managed if I
won that playoffs? Take you out in the first round,
you don't win two US juniors. Who knows what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Exactly, that's right, Or you might have given him the
motivation because he's at hell, I got to beat this
guy because he's coming after me right now, right after.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Having played the previous two days together. But yeah, that
was that was an experience for sure, and definitely kind
of opened my eyes to just wanting to even you know,
continue to improve and get better. I mean that was
when I was sixteen, I think fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So did they give you the confidence that, okay, I
can compete at this level?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yeah, definitely having college coaches be interested in and see
my score stuck up on a course of you know
USGA caliber that I had never really seen before. Just
that kind of setup, that kind of competition left and right,
you look up and down the range and it's it's
just a stripe show. And we're all we're all junior golfers.
I mean, I had, you know, some other good players
(30:40):
in my area. You know, I grew up with Cameron Champ,
John Katlan, a couple others in the Sacramento area that
have gone on. And you know, Norcow produces a number
of number of golfers every year. There's kind of a
good contingency out here on the corn ferry right now
with some guys maybe in their first three years as
a pro. So here I am at thirty one years old,
and I'm the old.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Guy, that's right, exactly, the real old guy. And I
would have to say that, you know, doing my research
or aka stalking as we got ready for this conversation,
I did see that your birthday is May nineteenth, so
I'm a May nineteenth celebratory birthday person as well. So
let's go Taurus.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Incredible right there, thank you?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Great, great birthday.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, Austin Smotherman is our guest inside the Ropes right
here on the Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets.
All right, So the other question that I do have
in reference to your journey, y SMU though.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Yeah, you know, I got recruited by some other UC schools,
University California schools out you know, not too far from me,
UC Davis sackround state. I wanted to go to u C.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
L A.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
I wanted to go to USC, I wanted to go
to Stanford. Kind of all these big name schools, law
schools that I grew up always watching. They just they
recruited a little bit internationally and I really wasn't on
their radar somehow, you know, had these conversations. But also
just the way college golf works, you know, only four
and a half scholarships, and you know, I kind of
(32:17):
our family family needs, you know, we needed something substantial
to be able to go do it at the level
we wanted to and end up playing another junior tournament
in California. The week after Bryson had committed to play
college golf at SMU, our head coach Josh Gregory comes
out to watch him. We get paired together at the
cal State Junior am and I proceeded to win win
(32:39):
that week over Bryson, who was who was trying to
go back to back and Bryceon and I had grown
up playing junior golf together since we were about twelve,
and here we are now seventeen, you know, trading off
tournament wins and kind of elevating our games. And he
the whole time had told me all about SMU for
that whole time, being on the cart path, you know,
one of my dad's friends who took me to that
(33:01):
tournament and Josh, we're chatting. And by a month later
or so, I was there on an official visit and
had this incredible opportunity in front of me to go
play college golf at SMU. Kind of with the California contingency.
Bryson was a part of my freshman class as well
as another my roommate in college, Ryan Burgess, who's from
(33:21):
Tory Pines High School down in San Diego. So we
kind of had this trio of Californians coming into SMU
because SMU had recruited California pretty lightly in the past
and kind of folk tried to get Texas and had
a little bit of international and some East Coast kids,
and yeah, Josh came in, taken over the program that
he had played college golf at and kind of just
(33:41):
took it to another level.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, and I would have to say, just what a
great feeling to be able to see not only what
you've been able to do so far with your career,
but the other individuals that you just mentioned, and obviously Bryson,
and the impact that these golfers are having both on
the PGA Tour and even live golf.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Yeah live. I mean, look at you know, there's a
there's a photo out there of our sophomore here winning
my sophomore year winning a conference championship at the time
Conference USA at Innisbrook Down in Tampa where they play
the Balls Bar tournament, and it's me, Harry and Bryce
in the middle holding the trophy. And all three of
us were on tour together at the same time. That
(34:19):
that insight because all of us got there at different times,
and you know, all kind of holding each other's hands
just enough, because you know, that little bit, that little
bit of that edge, little something that they might be
able to share can be the make or break difference,
you know, no question.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
As we're wrapping up with Austin Somemotherman Corn Ferry Tour
Pro and also two wins this season in twenty twenty
five the BMW Charity Pro Am presented by TD sin
X as you know back in June, and then also
just coming off of a victory at the Memorial Health
Championship presented by l RS there in Illinois, and so
(34:54):
as I do have to ask you though with you
talking about SMU, and of course we I would still
golf season. We get that. Right around the corner is
college football season. And knowing that they made.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Me talk about Clemson right now, they'll make me talk
about Clemson right now.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
That's right. You don't want to hear that. I'm a
Clemson grad. I get it, I understand, and that ACC championship.
But how are you in terms of following SMU and
their re emergence right now in college football? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Super fun? You know, the fall of the fall, we
get to as many games as we can schedule permitting,
which this year we're actually done a little bit sooner
than than we haven't been in the past, and so
I'm hoping to make it to a few more games
the atmosphere has changed, you know, the boulevard and the
SMU's kind of tailgate before games. When I was in school,
(35:47):
you know, wasn't necessarily I mean it was the tailgate
was the pain, but the game maybe was a bit
on the back burner. And nowadays. I mean, I was
fortunate enough to be on the field for the Pittsburgh
game this year when they was a ranked match up, Yes,
and that was awesome. And we had Bryce and Bryson
there too on the side, and he had the US
Open Trophy with them. They presented, they did a little
(36:07):
thing in the middle of the field and then Bryson
took the trophy up into the student section and there's
a video of him running through it just with all
we know. It was just wild. It was so fun.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
And that's the beauty of sports, just how it brings
people together and all of those things that can happen.
And obviously, as we talked about, college football is so
big here in the state of South Carolina, and we
won't mention Clemson, we won't say anything about Clemson.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Well my well, my my Caddie, Zach Williamson lived there
in Simpsonville and he's he's been there for thirteen fourteen
years now. But he's originally from Soccermento area and previously
caddy for Doc Edmondsrat So there's there's no avoiding it
for me. I'm going to hear it. I'm going to
hear it the rest of my career back on the bag,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That's right, well, Alston, hopefully we can get you to
the Clemson SMU game this year. It's here in Death Valley,
so you need to come participate in attendance there.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
That's that's a buck bucket list spot. That's a that's
a stadium that I don't know if I I might
be needing to roll a few few other golfers deep
to be able to make sure we don't get we
get ran out of there.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I don't know about that. I think smut Lashley's doing
some positive things there on the football side.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
When when when I when I was in when I
was in school, quick story for you. I remember we
were hitting wedges on the football field one time, just
off of a mat. We were had you know, baseball
gloves out there and we were catching them on twenty
thirty forty fifty yard lines and Courtland Sutton was in
school and I had a couple of couple classes with
them in the nice sports marketing degree, and he he
(37:39):
wanted to hit some shots one time, but I was
only fair because if we got as if we got
to throw touchdown passes to him. So so there's there.
We had a fun afternoon one time. We were all
hitting wedges and trying to teach him how to play
a little bit, and then we were throwing fade routes
to him in the end zones, trying to you know,
trying to score touchdowns is pretty oftome.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I love it. So how many touchdown passes did you
throw to him? Come and give us the numbers.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
I mean, he caught every single one of them. It
wasn't on the back end of my good throws. But
you know, well we were all rotating one to throw
a couple to them, you know, maybe three or four each,
just to not throw out our shoulders trying to do
too much considering touch a pass from any NFL QB.
You know, I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Austin Smotherman is our guest, and Austin can't thank you
enough for taking the time out of your busy schedule
on the corn Ferry tour and obviously i'd love to say, hey,
we got to get you back in the Upstate next
year for the BMW charity program presented by TD sin X.
But my goodness, my friend, you're number one on the
points list, so you're on that quest to get your
(38:38):
PGA Tour card.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
This morning with the try the so to solidify my
spot and the two on being tour bound and earning
my PGA Tour card for next year. So they told
me this morning that it's locked up no matter what
I do. So I thought it was a pretty good feeling.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
So we just had some breaking news right here. Yeah,
on the show one Live first, it's official. Let's go,
my friend.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Short tour bounds.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I love it. Congratulations Austin, well deserved and can't thank
you enough for spending some time here on the show
today and definitely looking forward to watching the rest of
your career. And again it's okay. You can come back
here to the Upstate and you can come see some
games at Clemson and we'll we'll be okay because hey,
(39:26):
we're both we both have May nineteenth birthdays, so we
have to stay in touch.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
We we have to have to well, we'll follow up
each season and do a nice little recaptain. Hopefully the
smu went totals keep going up there.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
We go compete for those ACC championships and you go
get some wins on corn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour.
I appreciate it, Thanks so much, Austin.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Thanks man.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
All right, that is Austin Smotherman Corn Fairy Tour pro
on his way to the PGA Tour next season. As
you heard it right here, and we'll can you the
Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this,
continuing the Tuesday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show presented
by Ingles Markets right here on one O four nine
(40:11):
Fox Sports Upstate and a really good conversation there with
Austin Smotherman and Yes, born on the same day, May nineteenth.
Let's go, yes exactly. I do love that. Yes, as
we are here with a full studio, Trey Falco behind
the board and behind the mic as always, a mister
Darren Angel from the Weisch Law Firm joining us for
(40:32):
Truth or Darren as he does each week. And so
I know we took a little bit of time away
from truth or Darren today, but you can listen to
a lot of what we talked about from the podcast hour.
Just download the iHeartRadio app, make sure you do that
and just search one O four nine Fox Sports or
the Richmond Weaver Show and you'll be able to find
the first hour because we really dove into a lot
(40:53):
of the stuff with the House Settlement and all of
these ongoing lawsuits right now, the appeal of the House
Settlement approval and other states that are putting forward legislation
that just makes no sense. So I'm sure you go
check out that additional exclusive hour on the podcast version
of The Richmond Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets. But
(41:15):
again we also think Michael McGovern, tournament director of the
BMW Charity Proram presented by TD sin X, doing a
fantastic job getting us connected to Austin Smotherman, the winner
of the twenty twenty five BMW Charity Proram presented by
td Cinx and the number one player on the corn
Ferry Tour right now, the leaderboard and the breaking news
(41:35):
that we had. How about that that he found out
officially that he set he has earned his PGA Tour card.
And fantastic job, mister Austin Smotherman there again. Thanks Michael
McGovern for helping arrange that. All right, let's take a
look at some of the latest headlines.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
It's only one game plan that's to take care of
men hitting the latest headlines.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
It's the rundown, okay for SEC Football Media Day on
Monday down in Atlanta. We know Shane Biemer is going
to be taking the podium at eleven forty five in
anticipation of this upcoming season here in twenty twenty five.
And also he will be joined by Nick Barrett, senior
defensive tackle for the game Cox and also d Q Smith,
(42:22):
a senior safety for the game Cox. Also, so going
heavy on the defensive side, yes, we know in defense
is important. But yeah, then there's also Lenora. He's going
to be there, yes, the red shirt sophomore and a
Heisman Trophy candidate. That's how it's labeled. So here we
go entering twenty twenty five season. Let it begin, let
(42:43):
it begin, the expectations. We love it and we will
be down there in Atlanta on Monday, so definitely looking
forward to that. All right, how about this in w NBA,
And I know you're thinking what WNBA. Yes, again, remember
there's basketball going on right now, and we've talked about
the impact of Caitlin Clark. But also don't forget about
Page Beckers, the number one overall pick this past year
(43:05):
with the Dallas Wings. So the August first Fever versus
Wings game is moving from the seven thousand seat College
Park Center to the American Airlines Center there in Dallas,
a twenty thousand seat NBA arena, because they're busting at
the seams and it's Page Beckers versus Caitlin Clark. Now,
(43:27):
Caitlyn Clark has missed the past what five games of
some growing injury, and so we'll see how that plays
out and getting ready for the WNBA All Star Game
coming up. But here again we're just seeing that, Hey,
when you have superstars, and I know Caitlyn Clark is
definitely the need. We've talked about it. Don't forget about
Page Beckers, man, she is a hell of a talent.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
Absolutely, wmva's in a good spot by rising stars, a
very good spot. Speaking of somebody who's very frustrated.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
This is in the NBA, and it was confirmed from
the Indiana pay Sirs. President Kevin Pritchard did confirm that
Tyrese Haliburton will miss the entire twenty twenty five twenty
six season. Dude's injury, My gosh, what IFFs What would
have happened there in Game seven? We'll never know. All Right,
(44:16):
that's some of the latest headlines, and we'll wrap up
this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show presented by
Ingles Markets. Right after this live from the Ingles Studios
downtown Greenville, right here on North Main Street. This is
the Tuesday edition another Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets.
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Love the savings. Mister Darren Angel from the Light from
the Wish Law Firm, thank you for joining us here
today as you always do. And again I love that
we have the additional hour on the podcast. Make sure
(45:00):
you get that through the iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcast, because we were able to dive into
a lot there with the house settlement and the ever
changing landscape of college athletics. But it is July the eighth,
so let's walk back in a little bit of history.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
What happened on this day. Let's go back in history
to the moments you might have forgotten and the ones
you'll never forget. It's OTD on this day.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Eighteen eighty nine. Oh yeah, going way back, John L.
Sullivan would beat Jake Kilrain in the seventy fifth round
for the US Heavyweight Championship, and it was the last
bare knuckle boxing match that we saw. That's a lot around. Yes,
(45:48):
now the rounds are only a minute long, but still
still I don't care. I've seventy it. Yes, that's bare knuckles.
Are you kidding me? Yeah, that's that's absolutely insane. How
about this? In two thousand Venus Williams would win her
first Wimbledon singles final there and then would obviously go
on to be one of the best, but her sister
would outdo her, and in twenty ten, Lebron James would
(46:11):
make the decision and take his talents to South Beach.
On this day, in that infamous interview with Jim Gray,
oh yeah, we all remember that. That is OTD. And
that is this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show,
presented by Ingles Markets. We'll talk to you tomorrow
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