May 14, 2025 • 7 mins
"Mr. Golf" Ray Hustek looks at the field for the 2nd major of the year. Is Rory the favorite?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
Look who it is. It is mister golf Ray Hustik Gray.
Good morning. How are you my friend?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm doing great? How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Doing very good? Doing very good? Got the year's second
major on tap starting tomorrow. It is the PGA Championship
at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it is
currently raining. But I look at the forecast, I think
it's going to be decent weather. Talk about the course a.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Little bit, Well, it's a gigantic golf course, seventy six
hundred yards, it's a par seventy one. It's been monkeyed
around with seems like every year they're toying with it.
They play the truest championship here every year. And it's
a golf course that's got really with all the rain
and everything else, it's going to eliminate a lot of
(00:47):
the short hitters. So you've got you know, Brighton Desambo
and Rory McIlroy and the typical names. The guys that
vombit are gonna have a huge advantage with as wet
as the golf course is right now. And you talk
about Rory, he's won four times on this golf course.
So he's coming in after winning the Masters, you know,
and the Players Championship and at Pebble Beach earlier this year.
(01:09):
He's on a high, and certainly he's the guy got
to look at the beat.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
What is the green mile that they call the Green
Mile on the whole? I think it's sixteen through eighteen.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Everybody's got to have a stretch now, you know, after
Amen corner at the gut that somebody's got to have
something that's got a little name to it. The Green
Mile sixteen, seventeen and eighteen just you know, a miles
worth of difficulty and scariness and places that you can
hit it and make double boogie pretty easily. So it'll
be on Sunday afternoons. We'll be interested to see if
(01:41):
somebody's got a two or three shot lead and they're
trying to hang on to it and they managed to
navigate those last three holes, or maybe somebody makes it
charge and actually, you know, just gets into the clubhouse
and sits around and lets everybody else fall away and
they win the trophy while they're you know, sitting in
the locker room having a nice tea.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So you mentioned Rory you mentioned gott A Bryson, you know,
after that the top tier there. Who else are you
looking at? I think it was last the PGA Championship
was last held at Quail Hollow, I think in twenty seventeen,
justin Thomas. I mean this a guy like that in
your top five or six player.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Absolutely, I'm impressed you just pulled that right out. You know,
he won at Harbor Town here just three weeks ago
or so. He's got to have happy memories. He's playing
really good golf, maybe the best golf of his career,
and he is so good with his irons. He is
a guy that we definitely will look at. In fact,
you might look at him as one of three defending champions.
(02:38):
Right the last time the PGA was at coyle Hollow,
he was the winner, the winner of last year's PJA,
though it was not at coyle Hollows. Andrew Shopley is
a guy who's starting to come back and play really
well after an injury, and so he's got to be
considered a defending champion. And then of course Rory won
on this course last year on the regular tour event
at koyle Hollow, so he's kind of a defending champion
(03:00):
as well. Sure, so we got all three of those guys.
Scottie Scheffler, the number one play in the world, just
destroyed everybody in Dallas, shooting thirty one under par. I
am shocked that the Vegas line has him ahead of
Rory Frankly.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And Rory's won there. I mentioned he won last year too,
but he's I think he's won there three or four
times in the past. I mean it's not it's a
very comfortable course for McElroy.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, he loves it. I mean, you know a lot
of guys call it McElroy country Club. I mean it's
just it's big, it's it's long. He can blast it
past a lot of the trouble, a lot of these
bunkers that are put out there to try to catch
these guys. He's long enough to hit it past everything.
And when you've got it, of course, that fits your
eye so to speak, is stand on every tee and
you feel like you know exactly where you can hit it.
You've got so much confidence. And having won four times
(03:48):
here and oh by the way, having that Masters thing
off his back, this is going to set up to
be a great year for him. They go back to
Northern Ireland, his home soil for the British Open, So
who knows, maybe we could see somebody actually win the
Grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Ray overall, what kind of a course does this benefit
for golfer? I mean, you know, like a Bryson d Chambeau.
We talk about how he can just drill one over
the woods if it's a you know, forget about the
dog leg. He'll shoot it right over the dog leg.
But I mean, is this more of a tighter course
where it's all about you got to make those shots?
Those approach shots are what puts you in play.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's all about getting it in the fairway. It doesn't
matter what side of the fairway. It's not a real
strategic golf course. It's a bombers golf course. Now, if
you start hitting it in the rough, this gnarly, wet,
long rough is going to be a real problem for guys.
The greens are relatively firm because they're Newish, so they're
not going to be super soft like throwing darts. I
don't expect. But there's so much water on it it's
(04:48):
hard to tell whether they'll be receptive or not. They
certainly won't be receptive out of the deep rough, so
you do have to get in the fairway, but it's
not a strategic course. It's a bomber's course, and the
guys that are long are going to have the the
best shot. I mean, Bryce and certainly confident. You know,
he's playing really well. He's won an event recently, and
he's feeling like he should have wanted a guess that
(05:09):
played really poorly on Sunday and that really turned up
the heat in terms of his practice sessions and getting
ready for this one. But it's fun with all these
different storylines and lots of guys that are playing really
well coming in. That's always fun. And you know this
is the one that the PGA of America sets up.
These are the club pros that run this thing, the
guys that make our game fun at the driving ranges
(05:30):
and private clubs and resorts and everything. And we've even
got Bob Sawertz here from Kinsale. He's the darker instruction
up there. He managed to get in the field. Twenty
PG pros playing this week, so a lot of good storylines.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, and one of those, I guess would be Xander Shaffley.
I don't know if we've mentioned him, yet he is
the defending champion. I mean, that's got to be something
on his radar, is to win back to back PGA championships.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, and Xander's a guy who went for a long time.
He was one of those people, oh, the best player
to never have won the major. Well, finally now he's
got his major, right and so it's a lot easier
and it makes the you know, the press conferences before
the tournament a lot easier too because you don't have
to answer those questions anymore. But a lot of confidence
knowing you can do it and you've done it. You
(06:15):
love the PGA, you love how they set up the courses.
And Xender was second last year to Rory at this
course for the truest championship.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
How much pressure does Rory McElroy have on him after
winning the Masters to come back and win the next
major in the in the calendar. We know he got
his career Grand Slam, but he's trying to win the
natural Grand Slam. Is there a ton of pressure or
is the pressure off because you've got your green jacket.
Now you can go and have a little bit of
fun this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think it's zero. A lot of people feel like
he's got more pressure because now he's got to perform
at that high level. I don't think so. Rory's been
out there long enough to have felt all kinds of
pressure and answer those questions for so long. When are
you gonna win the Masters?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
When A.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Now that's on Jordan Speed. If Jordan Speath wins this week,
he's got a career going Grand Slam. Pressure not nearly
as high on him, expectations not as high. But I
think Rory is going to play free and loose. I
think he because he loves this place. I pick him
to win, and I think we're going to have an
exciting summer of golf.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And it's hard to believe. We are two weeks tomorrow
from the Memorial Tournament Ray.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And that's gonna be a blast too. I saw Scotti,
Scheffler has committed. I have seen Rory's name show up.
But they're gonna have, as always a great field on
one of the one of the absolute best golf courses
on the PGA Tour. I cannot wait
Over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
Look who it is. It is mister golf Ray Hustik Gray.
Good morning. How are you my friend?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm doing great? How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Doing very good? Doing very good? Got the year's second
major on tap starting tomorrow. It is the PGA Championship
at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it is
currently raining. But I look at the forecast, I think
it's going to be decent weather. Talk about the course a.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Little bit, Well, it's a gigantic golf course, seventy six
hundred yards, it's a par seventy one. It's been monkeyed
around with seems like every year they're toying with it.
They play the truest championship here every year. And it's
a golf course that's got really with all the rain
and everything else, it's going to eliminate a lot of
(00:47):
the short hitters. So you've got you know, Brighton Desambo
and Rory McIlroy and the typical names. The guys that
vombit are gonna have a huge advantage with as wet
as the golf course is right now. And you talk
about Rory, he's won four times on this golf course.
So he's coming in after winning the Masters, you know,
and the Players Championship and at Pebble Beach earlier this year.
(01:09):
He's on a high, and certainly he's the guy got
to look at the beat.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
What is the green mile that they call the Green
Mile on the whole? I think it's sixteen through eighteen.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Everybody's got to have a stretch now, you know, after
Amen corner at the gut that somebody's got to have
something that's got a little name to it. The Green
Mile sixteen, seventeen and eighteen just you know, a miles
worth of difficulty and scariness and places that you can
hit it and make double boogie pretty easily. So it'll
be on Sunday afternoons. We'll be interested to see if
(01:41):
somebody's got a two or three shot lead and they're
trying to hang on to it and they managed to
navigate those last three holes, or maybe somebody makes it
charge and actually, you know, just gets into the clubhouse
and sits around and lets everybody else fall away and
they win the trophy while they're you know, sitting in
the locker room having a nice tea.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So you mentioned Rory you mentioned gott A Bryson, you know,
after that the top tier there. Who else are you
looking at? I think it was last the PGA Championship
was last held at Quail Hollow, I think in twenty seventeen,
justin Thomas. I mean this a guy like that in
your top five or six player.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Absolutely, I'm impressed you just pulled that right out. You know,
he won at Harbor Town here just three weeks ago
or so. He's got to have happy memories. He's playing
really good golf, maybe the best golf of his career,
and he is so good with his irons. He is
a guy that we definitely will look at. In fact,
you might look at him as one of three defending champions.
(02:38):
Right the last time the PGA was at coyle Hollow,
he was the winner, the winner of last year's PJA,
though it was not at coyle Hollows. Andrew Shopley is
a guy who's starting to come back and play really
well after an injury, and so he's got to be
considered a defending champion. And then of course Rory won
on this course last year on the regular tour event
at koyle Hollow, so he's kind of a defending champion
(03:00):
as well. Sure, so we got all three of those guys.
Scottie Scheffler, the number one play in the world, just
destroyed everybody in Dallas, shooting thirty one under par. I
am shocked that the Vegas line has him ahead of
Rory Frankly.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And Rory's won there. I mentioned he won last year too,
but he's I think he's won there three or four
times in the past. I mean it's not it's a
very comfortable course for McElroy.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, he loves it. I mean, you know a lot
of guys call it McElroy country Club. I mean it's
just it's big, it's it's long. He can blast it
past a lot of the trouble, a lot of these
bunkers that are put out there to try to catch
these guys. He's long enough to hit it past everything.
And when you've got it, of course, that fits your
eye so to speak, is stand on every tee and
you feel like you know exactly where you can hit it.
You've got so much confidence. And having won four times
(03:48):
here and oh by the way, having that Masters thing
off his back, this is going to set up to
be a great year for him. They go back to
Northern Ireland, his home soil for the British Open, So
who knows, maybe we could see somebody actually win the
Grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Ray overall, what kind of a course does this benefit
for golfer? I mean, you know, like a Bryson d Chambeau.
We talk about how he can just drill one over
the woods if it's a you know, forget about the
dog leg. He'll shoot it right over the dog leg.
But I mean, is this more of a tighter course
where it's all about you got to make those shots?
Those approach shots are what puts you in play.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's all about getting it in the fairway. It doesn't
matter what side of the fairway. It's not a real
strategic golf course. It's a bombers golf course. Now, if
you start hitting it in the rough, this gnarly, wet,
long rough is going to be a real problem for guys.
The greens are relatively firm because they're Newish, so they're
not going to be super soft like throwing darts. I
don't expect. But there's so much water on it it's
(04:48):
hard to tell whether they'll be receptive or not. They
certainly won't be receptive out of the deep rough, so
you do have to get in the fairway, but it's
not a strategic course. It's a bomber's course, and the
guys that are long are going to have the the
best shot. I mean, Bryce and certainly confident. You know,
he's playing really well. He's won an event recently, and
he's feeling like he should have wanted a guess that
(05:09):
played really poorly on Sunday and that really turned up
the heat in terms of his practice sessions and getting
ready for this one. But it's fun with all these
different storylines and lots of guys that are playing really
well coming in. That's always fun. And you know this
is the one that the PGA of America sets up.
These are the club pros that run this thing, the
guys that make our game fun at the driving ranges
(05:30):
and private clubs and resorts and everything. And we've even
got Bob Sawertz here from Kinsale. He's the darker instruction
up there. He managed to get in the field. Twenty
PG pros playing this week, so a lot of good storylines.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, and one of those, I guess would be Xander Shaffley.
I don't know if we've mentioned him, yet he is
the defending champion. I mean, that's got to be something
on his radar, is to win back to back PGA championships.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, and Xander's a guy who went for a long time.
He was one of those people, oh, the best player
to never have won the major. Well, finally now he's
got his major, right and so it's a lot easier
and it makes the you know, the press conferences before
the tournament a lot easier too because you don't have
to answer those questions anymore. But a lot of confidence
knowing you can do it and you've done it. You
(06:15):
love the PGA, you love how they set up the courses.
And Xender was second last year to Rory at this
course for the truest championship.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
How much pressure does Rory McElroy have on him after
winning the Masters to come back and win the next
major in the in the calendar. We know he got
his career Grand Slam, but he's trying to win the
natural Grand Slam. Is there a ton of pressure or
is the pressure off because you've got your green jacket.
Now you can go and have a little bit of
fun this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think it's zero. A lot of people feel like
he's got more pressure because now he's got to perform
at that high level. I don't think so. Rory's been
out there long enough to have felt all kinds of
pressure and answer those questions for so long. When are
you gonna win the Masters?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
When A.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Now that's on Jordan Speed. If Jordan Speath wins this week,
he's got a career going Grand Slam. Pressure not nearly
as high on him, expectations not as high. But I
think Rory is going to play free and loose. I
think he because he loves this place. I pick him
to win, and I think we're going to have an
exciting summer of golf.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And it's hard to believe. We are two weeks tomorrow
from the Memorial Tournament Ray.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And that's gonna be a blast too. I saw Scotti,
Scheffler has committed. I have seen Rory's name show up.
But they're gonna have, as always a great field on
one of the one of the absolute best golf courses
on the PGA Tour. I cannot wait
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