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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we are. It is live partially, I
guess from Meerfield Village Golf Club. For round one of
the memorial. Chuck Douglas is holding things down at the Fort,
Chuck d how are you man?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sky's Blue seventy five degrees? Schmitz brought back their buffet
all as well.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Did they really a? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
They did?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It? Is it is back?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Does it have the Bahama mom?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's gotta it's got it? I can you have anything
at Schmit's. I don't think you can have a door
on the building without a Bahama.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Mama, That's true. And then it's got that. They got
the legendary cream puffs there too, from what I remember.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
As crazy as it sounds, O, my probably my favorite
thing is the I love that hot German potato salad.
That is a thing for meat Schmid's.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
See now I haven't had that, but my gosh, I
know we have to fix you. What's wrong with me?
What is wrong with me? Well, thank you, my friend
for holding it down there. And then while I'm out here,
and you know, someone's got to do it. It is tough,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, Well, I mean I ain't exactly you know how
that turns out.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, exactly. We can't really take him into public anywhere.
I'll just be honest. Hey, Matt Skellen is with me,
owner of kitchen Tune Up. He is hanging out with
me out here at the Memorial, And uh, Matt, you
are an avid golf fan. There is no question you're
an avid golf fan. And you're an even better golfer.
So I thought, you know what, you'd be a perfect
person to help with, you know, the golf duties, if
(01:24):
you will, and so on.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, happy to be out here. It's beautiful, sonny, and
almost seventy degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And you just played this course a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It did, I did, and it beat me up.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I will be very honest.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It was the roof was long and wet and desk.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I understand that it is. It can. I never
understood what it meant to get back to the fairway
when you hit it in the rough until I played
this golf course. And then I said, holy cow, that's
what that means, because that, to me felt like I'd
played golf for years and years and years until I'd
played here. And then I said, have I ever really
(01:59):
even played a real golf course up till now. This
one is the big boy course right here.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It sure is.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I early on tried to hit a six hour and
another rough and I think it went about ten yards
and the next few times I got in there, just
took my medicine, wedged it out and got into the fairwey.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, I understand, man, I've unfortunately been there, and there
somebody else who may have unfortunately been there. Mister golf.
Ray Hustik is joining us right now as well, and
mister golf, welcome in happy memorial to you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, and to you as well. What a great week.
And you know you guys are lucky you found the
ball on the rough. This is sick, nasty stuff this
week with all this rain we've had. I mean, those
balls are diving to the bottom and you're going to
see some really wild recovery shots like like you were describing.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, that's the and that exactly with this course being
would you call this a second shot golf course?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean that's that's the thing about Mierfield Village.
The fairways are relatively generous, and you just put the
ball on the right spot in the fairway, you got
a shot at one of these greens, one of these
particular areas on the greens, there's places where you can
be on the green, you know, staring down a three
putt pretty easily. They're not huge greens, but they do
have multiple places where you don't want to be, you know,
(03:14):
as amateur players, we go, oh, hey, I'm on the green. Yeah,
but as they say, you know, I'm on the dance floor,
but I cannot see the band from here type of thing,
you know. So it's one of those deals where you're
you know, you can find some three putts out there
this week, although you know, they're not the lightning fat
greens that we all hope for and we want Jack
wants and the great players want when they come in here.
(03:35):
They're not quite that yet. Maybe it'll dry out enough
if there's not a bunch of raine Saturday, which I
saw this forecasting for rain Saturday. But you know, decent
low scores so far today, not as low as I
would have expected. I mean, we've only got nineteen or
twenty guys under par currently, and you know, still a
bunch of guys on the golf course. I mean a
lot of guys still on the front nine. But Ben
(03:56):
Griffin continuing his good play winner last week and sixty
five today, so he's obviously he's got it in gear.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Hey, and you know it's what you bring up. There
is an interesting question with the rain that we're having,
with it being as soft. I guess that's where your
surprise is at with regard to how many people are
not under par right now? Correct?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, you and I have talked about this before. They'll say,
always have a lot of slope to him. I mean
you look at holes like one and two and thirteen
and eighteen where you can run the ball off the
fairway with a pretty decent shot when they're firm and fast,
you have to curve the ball into the slopes. Well,
when it's wet, you don't. You can hit your stock shot.
If you hit a draw as a stock shot on one,
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you can hit it out there and it hits and
it kind of, you know, takes a soft landing and
it doesn't go running off into the rough or on
the eighteen running off into the water there. So it
makes it a lot easier off the tea to hit
your normal the shot you're most comfortable with, and going
into the greens, you don't get the big first bounce
that may end you up in the back rouff or
some trouble behind the green on some of So it's
(05:01):
a lot more forgiving golf course, and that means you're
going to see a lot more guys. In contention, I'm
expecting lower scores as we go through the through the tournament,
and you may see some names that you don't recognize,
you know, bessing around with the leaderboards Sunday afternoon, mister.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Golf, Ray Hustik joining us right now, and so, uh,
let's turn the attention to last year's winner, defender Scotty Scheffler,
of course, who just picked up. He just won the
PGA a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure you were
watching that, but I'm telling you to witness the way
that he played that tournament. And you were even saying
(05:40):
you were like, look, Rory may be the guy because
what he had won there four times? I believe correct, Yeah,
that's right. Yeah. So with Scotty doing what he did,
kind of holding off who who charged him there at
the end? I can't? Oh, but why is it? It
escapes me?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Who? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was wrong? John Rohm started looking like he was right.
I mean, i think that's.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What I'm thinking of, Well we had Yeah, I'm blanking
on it too, actually, because I was watching the last
week's tournament to see what Griffin was going to be
able to do on Sunday, whether he could hold it together.
The thing it's interesting about the PGA Championship and what
happened there. All the big names except for Scottie and
(06:21):
John Rohm, who ultimately kind of faded late Sunday, they
all had trouble and it was really interesting when that
golf course, which is you know, not a lot different
than Mirfield Village in terms of the design style. The
golf course was big, wet golf course, which is what
we have this week, and uh, you know, to see
(06:43):
Kopka and to see Bryce then who ended up fading
on Sunday, and to see Dustin Johnson and you know
the guys that we were all looking at. Rory placed
so poorly. It's it's so interesting when when the courses
are first him in fast to see the cream rise
to the top. I mean, look at the leader board
(07:03):
on Sunday at the Masters every year. But when it's wet,
he you just get this bizarre circumstance where you see
all sorts of things happening to really good players. That's
kind of surprising. I look at Scotty at one under
right now through seven. You know, he's just going to
play his game and work his way right through till
Sunday afternoon, probably be standing there alone at the end.
(07:26):
I noticed that Straight is also one under. Sep was
one of the guys I thought would play well this week,
and he was fifth, I think the fourth last year here,
and he's having a good year this year as well.
But Scheffler has that magic right now. No weakness is
in his game, no weaknesses mentally, and that makes it
hard to be so.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So let's go back to Rory here, as clearly he's
not here this week. But I mean, do you happen
to know any inside information as to what exactly could
have transpired, because you look on social media they want
to turn it into a fight, or they want to
turn it into he's disrespectful to Jack, and you know,
mister Nicholas, you know what I mean, It's like they
always want to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But any thoughts on that, I don't think it has
anything to do with mister Nicholas knows anything to do
with the Memorial Tournament. I think it has to do
with Rory's schedule this part of the season, because they
jammed the PGA into an earlier spot than normal member
a few years back. We have PJ in two weeks
we got them you know, US and we got two
weeks from now, we got the US Open. And guys
(08:30):
are playing tournaments that they were they were the defending champion,
Rory going to Canada. You got Scottie down in Dallas,
and and people are trying to work that into their schedule.
They don't play five or six weeks in a row,
and we got five, six, seven, eight weeks a really
good golf in here, and so they have to pick
and choose. Rory's got to make his own decisions. If
(08:53):
I were playing the tour, but having grown up in Columbus, Ohio,
I'm comfortable saying this. I never miss the Memorial, right right.
Rory doesn't have that background here. He doesn't have you know,
he doesn't have generally, generationally, he's not the age of
a guy who you know, he looks at Tiger as
the greatest player ever, not Jack like I do. It's
(09:14):
just a different in age and experience and perspective. I
don't think there's anything going on between Jack and Rory.
I certainly can't imagine either one of them would would
want to pick a fight with the other, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, exactly. And the other thing too, is you hear
the the golfers, which clearly you know Rory's been here
and clearly you know has been on the tour a while.
They always put an asterisk next to this one because
Jack is so good. It's over the top. I mean,
think about all the different boxes he checks because it's
(09:48):
his tournament and because he played at that level, and
I mean all these different reasons, but they usually you're right,
they do not miss this one. They love the treatment,
they love the way this is set up. The golf
course is on the believable. It's immaculate every year. I mean,
it's top notch. There's there's just no other way to
describe this. Just from top to bottom, this is an
(10:08):
unbelievable event. And uh, you know, deservedly so. So that's
one of the things that little bit shocking to see that,
you know, some some of the top players in the
world are not here. But yeah, just just was kind
of curious on what your thoughts were with that. As
far as the rest of the week, Man, It's hard
to say right now, but I would imagine you have
some sort of a thought on who is inform who
(10:30):
you're going to be looking for on Sunday, maybe a
few of the top things in your mind golfers that
that may be around on Sunday based on kind of
what they're doing right now.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, I mentioned I mentioned step you know, Straika. Obviously
we can't. I mean, Scott, he's going to be there.
Let's let's be honest. Let's be honest, right right, and
and uh, you know one of the things that you
look at the leaderboard right now, number two is Colin
mar Kawa shot a nice little sixty seven to start.
He's one multiple major championships. Shane Lowry's won a major championship.
(11:03):
He's sitting there in third. Tommy Fleetwood's the world class
elite player who's playing Ryder Cups and everything else and
is due for a major. He's a lower ball flight hitter,
so Mierfield doesn't really fit him that well. You mentioned
earlier the second shot in golf course. Yeah, and those
second shots better be coming into the greens most years,
and pretty vertically. You're not going to hit a lot
(11:23):
of low balls into these greens and hold them typically.
But this week maybe Tommy's got a shot because they're
a little softer and holding a little better for him.
But again, you know a world class player. Obviously, King
and Bradley's won, you know, major championship. Harris English right
there in tenth place, so it's not you know, the
leaderboard is kind of shaping up. It's fun to see
(11:43):
Ricky Fowler got out to a good start early today,
shot even Parr obviously still in it. Jordan Steth, even
par are still in it. So all those guys are
still in contention here. The question is is Ben Griffin
able mentally to keep it together for four days starting
off with the lead. He played so well last week,
but he'd bogue each four of his last twelve or
(12:06):
thirteen holes. I mean, it was getting to him on
Sunday afternoon. Now he learned a lot from that. Rarely
does somebody go on and win after having led the
first round. I don't remember the exact number. I know
I should from how many have ever done that here?
But it's not many, and it's not an easy thing
to do. Because there's a lot of time to work
on your mind, you know, between now and tomorrow morning
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and then tomorrow afternoon because he'll play later tomorrow, and
then if he keeps puts a good number up tomorrow,
he'll play late Saturday, late Sunday. What do you do
early morning, Saturday and Sunday to keep your mind off
where you stand and all that. So it's a marathon. Obviously,
golf tournament is just not a sprint. It's four days,
you know, seventy two holes in golf, and a lot
of things can happen. But it's nice to see the
(12:51):
names that were you know, we're used to seeing kind
of moving to the top of the leader board. I
didn't see any huge surprises as I went down the list.
Justin Thomas is one of the guys that I thought
would played great. I guess he was. You know, he's
a couple over after eight, so he's still got a
lot of golf wood. The Geherberg Oberg three over seventy
five today, that guy. Can that guy ever shoot over par?
(13:13):
When you look at his game, he's playing a par
like sixty nine or seventy golf course with the length
and the height that he hits it. This par five
is you know, you got two or three par fives
and every course is playing, they're reachable, So for him
to shoot seventy five, it is a shock for sure,
but it's going to be fun tomorrow. We got a
whole another day. And you know how we've seen in
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many past years and at every seventy two whole event,
things flip flop and they look a lot different Friday
night than they did early Thursday.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, no question about that. Plus, if we get the
rain that they're predicting, especially maybe on Saturday, and if
the wind whips up some you look for some European
tour players who you know, flight it down and they're
more used to something not that you know, look at
this level, everybody has the ability to do that, but
it's the ones who are most comfortable in that. They go, yeah,
bring on the moisture, you know, or whatever. Some of
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those guys you know, so yeah, what are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, and the win too, I mean Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry.
You know, these are European guys that grew up playing
with Justin Speth, Jordan Speeds, the guys that grew up
playing in Texas, they're going, you know, blow baby, blow right,
then let's get it, you know, so that these guys
do have to hit a lot of different kinds of shots.
And when you're playing, if the course firms up and
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it gets windy, that doubles the difficulty. So now you
look to the guys who have great short games to
get them through the Saturday and Sunday. Remember, Friday pin
placements are the toughest. Tomorrow, the scores typically would not
be as low as they were today given identical conditions
which we may or may not have Saturday, if they're
forecasting rain and moving day when the pins are a
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little easier, a little softer than they would be on
a Friday, to giving people a chance to go out
and make some birdies. But if it's raining, you know,
if and you play early it's not raining and you
get away with it, or you play late and it's
not raining. Obviously, all of this is going to be
heavily dependent on weather, and that's one of the things
that makes the memorial so much fun. You talk to
the two players and they pack extra bags because they
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really don't know what the weather's gonna be. Like I mean,
how many are in sweaters and rain suits and pants
and everything else, so I have to bring Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's funny from round one all the way to round four.
It it literally can be you know, all four seasons.
That's the experience because at the time of year here
and they know that, and it does make for interesting golf.
It's a little more boring if it's you know, four
beautiful days. Of course, I know the tournament people would
like it to be that way, but it's a little
more fun for us spectators to watch them, you know,
(15:46):
out there. And you know, I don't know what eight
underwins it or something or five underwins it. I don't
know if it's ever It's never been that low obviously,
but you know, something like that would take some horrific
conditions in order for that to play out that way.
But miss Golf Ray hustik Man, as always, it's so great.
We could keep going now for like six hours. For
the next six hours, we could keep going.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Okay, it is so great.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I know you got a lot of family stuff going.
I appreciate you taking time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Brother, Yeah, anytime, and we'll look forward to watching this
the next couple of days. It's going to be a
lot of fun. I wish I were sitting next to you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
All right, man, Appreciate you. Yeah, maybe we'll do it again.
We can get that going again at some point one
of these years. Thanks, man, Appreciate you so much.
All right, here we are. It is live partially, I
guess from Meerfield Village Golf Club. For round one of
the memorial. Chuck Douglas is holding things down at the Fort,
Chuck d how are you man?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sky's Blue seventy five degrees? Schmitz brought back their buffet
all as well.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Did they really a? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
They did?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It? Is it is back?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Does it have the Bahama mom?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's gotta it's got it? I can you have anything
at Schmit's. I don't think you can have a door
on the building without a Bahama.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Mama, That's true. And then it's got that. They got
the legendary cream puffs there too, from what I remember.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
As crazy as it sounds, O, my probably my favorite
thing is the I love that hot German potato salad.
That is a thing for meat Schmid's.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
See now I haven't had that, but my gosh, I
know we have to fix you. What's wrong with me?
What is wrong with me? Well, thank you, my friend
for holding it down there. And then while I'm out here,
and you know, someone's got to do it. It is tough,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, Well, I mean I ain't exactly you know how
that turns out.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, exactly. We can't really take him into public anywhere.
I'll just be honest. Hey, Matt Skellen is with me,
owner of kitchen Tune Up. He is hanging out with
me out here at the Memorial, And uh, Matt, you
are an avid golf fan. There is no question you're
an avid golf fan. And you're an even better golfer.
So I thought, you know what, you'd be a perfect
person to help with, you know, the golf duties, if
(01:24):
you will, and so on.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, happy to be out here. It's beautiful, sonny, and
almost seventy degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And you just played this course a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It did, I did, and it beat me up.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I will be very honest.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It was the roof was long and wet and desk.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I understand that it is. It can. I never
understood what it meant to get back to the fairway
when you hit it in the rough until I played
this golf course. And then I said, holy cow, that's
what that means, because that, to me felt like I'd
played golf for years and years and years until I'd
played here. And then I said, have I ever really
(01:59):
even played a real golf course up till now. This
one is the big boy course right here.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It sure is.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I early on tried to hit a six hour and
another rough and I think it went about ten yards
and the next few times I got in there, just
took my medicine, wedged it out and got into the fairwey.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, I understand, man, I've unfortunately been there, and there
somebody else who may have unfortunately been there. Mister golf.
Ray Hustik is joining us right now as well, and
mister golf, welcome in happy memorial to you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, and to you as well. What a great week.
And you know you guys are lucky you found the
ball on the rough. This is sick, nasty stuff this
week with all this rain we've had. I mean, those
balls are diving to the bottom and you're going to
see some really wild recovery shots like like you were describing.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, that's the and that exactly with this course being
would you call this a second shot golf course?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean that's that's the thing about Mierfield Village.
The fairways are relatively generous, and you just put the
ball on the right spot in the fairway, you got
a shot at one of these greens, one of these
particular areas on the greens, there's places where you can
be on the green, you know, staring down a three
putt pretty easily. They're not huge greens, but they do
have multiple places where you don't want to be, you know,
(03:14):
as amateur players, we go, oh, hey, I'm on the green. Yeah,
but as they say, you know, I'm on the dance floor,
but I cannot see the band from here type of thing,
you know. So it's one of those deals where you're
you know, you can find some three putts out there
this week, although you know, they're not the lightning fat
greens that we all hope for and we want Jack
wants and the great players want when they come in here.
(03:35):
They're not quite that yet. Maybe it'll dry out enough
if there's not a bunch of raine Saturday, which I
saw this forecasting for rain Saturday. But you know, decent
low scores so far today, not as low as I
would have expected. I mean, we've only got nineteen or
twenty guys under par currently, and you know, still a
bunch of guys on the golf course. I mean a
lot of guys still on the front nine. But Ben
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Griffin continuing his good play winner last week and sixty
five today, so he's obviously he's got it in gear.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Hey, and you know it's what you bring up. There
is an interesting question with the rain that we're having,
with it being as soft. I guess that's where your
surprise is at with regard to how many people are
not under par right now? Correct?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, you and I have talked about this before. They'll say,
always have a lot of slope to him. I mean
you look at holes like one and two and thirteen
and eighteen where you can run the ball off the
fairway with a pretty decent shot when they're firm and fast,
you have to curve the ball into the slopes. Well,
when it's wet, you don't. You can hit your stock shot.
If you hit a draw as a stock shot on one,
(04:39):
you can hit it out there and it hits and
it kind of, you know, takes a soft landing and
it doesn't go running off into the rough or on
the eighteen running off into the water there. So it
makes it a lot easier off the tea to hit
your normal the shot you're most comfortable with, and going
into the greens, you don't get the big first bounce
that may end you up in the back rouff or
some trouble behind the green on some of So it's
(05:01):
a lot more forgiving golf course, and that means you're
going to see a lot more guys. In contention, I'm
expecting lower scores as we go through the through the tournament,
and you may see some names that you don't recognize,
you know, bessing around with the leaderboards Sunday afternoon, mister.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Golf, Ray Hustik joining us right now, and so, uh,
let's turn the attention to last year's winner, defender Scotty Scheffler,
of course, who just picked up. He just won the
PGA a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure you were
watching that, but I'm telling you to witness the way
that he played that tournament. And you were even saying
(05:40):
you were like, look, Rory may be the guy because
what he had won there four times? I believe correct, Yeah,
that's right. Yeah. So with Scotty doing what he did,
kind of holding off who who charged him there at
the end? I can't? Oh, but why is it? It
escapes me?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Who? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was wrong? John Rohm started looking like he was right.
I mean, i think that's.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What I'm thinking of, Well we had Yeah, I'm blanking
on it too, actually, because I was watching the last
week's tournament to see what Griffin was going to be
able to do on Sunday, whether he could hold it together.
The thing it's interesting about the PGA Championship and what
happened there. All the big names except for Scottie and
(06:21):
John Rohm, who ultimately kind of faded late Sunday, they
all had trouble and it was really interesting when that
golf course, which is you know, not a lot different
than Mirfield Village in terms of the design style. The
golf course was big, wet golf course, which is what
we have this week, and uh, you know, to see
(06:43):
Kopka and to see Bryce then who ended up fading
on Sunday, and to see Dustin Johnson and you know
the guys that we were all looking at. Rory placed
so poorly. It's it's so interesting when when the courses
are first him in fast to see the cream rise
to the top. I mean, look at the leader board
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on Sunday at the Masters every year. But when it's wet,
he you just get this bizarre circumstance where you see
all sorts of things happening to really good players. That's
kind of surprising. I look at Scotty at one under
right now through seven. You know, he's just going to
play his game and work his way right through till
Sunday afternoon, probably be standing there alone at the end.
(07:26):
I noticed that Straight is also one under. Sep was
one of the guys I thought would play well this week,
and he was fifth, I think the fourth last year here,
and he's having a good year this year as well.
But Scheffler has that magic right now. No weakness is
in his game, no weaknesses mentally, and that makes it
hard to be so.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So let's go back to Rory here, as clearly he's
not here this week. But I mean, do you happen
to know any inside information as to what exactly could
have transpired, because you look on social media they want
to turn it into a fight, or they want to
turn it into he's disrespectful to Jack, and you know,
mister Nicholas, you know what I mean, It's like they
always want to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But any thoughts on that, I don't think it has
anything to do with mister Nicholas knows anything to do
with the Memorial Tournament. I think it has to do
with Rory's schedule this part of the season, because they
jammed the PGA into an earlier spot than normal member
a few years back. We have PJ in two weeks
we got them you know, US and we got two
weeks from now, we got the US Open. And guys
(08:30):
are playing tournaments that they were they were the defending champion,
Rory going to Canada. You got Scottie down in Dallas,
and and people are trying to work that into their schedule.
They don't play five or six weeks in a row,
and we got five, six, seven, eight weeks a really
good golf in here, and so they have to pick
and choose. Rory's got to make his own decisions. If
(08:53):
I were playing the tour, but having grown up in Columbus, Ohio,
I'm comfortable saying this. I never miss the Memorial, right right.
Rory doesn't have that background here. He doesn't have you know,
he doesn't have generally, generationally, he's not the age of
a guy who you know, he looks at Tiger as
the greatest player ever, not Jack like I do. It's
(09:14):
just a different in age and experience and perspective. I
don't think there's anything going on between Jack and Rory.
I certainly can't imagine either one of them would would
want to pick a fight with the other, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, exactly. And the other thing too, is you hear
the the golfers, which clearly you know Rory's been here
and clearly you know has been on the tour a while.
They always put an asterisk next to this one because
Jack is so good. It's over the top. I mean,
think about all the different boxes he checks because it's
(09:48):
his tournament and because he played at that level, and
I mean all these different reasons, but they usually you're right,
they do not miss this one. They love the treatment,
they love the way this is set up. The golf
course is on the believable. It's immaculate every year. I mean,
it's top notch. There's there's just no other way to
describe this. Just from top to bottom, this is an
(10:08):
unbelievable event. And uh, you know, deservedly so. So that's
one of the things that little bit shocking to see that,
you know, some some of the top players in the
world are not here. But yeah, just just was kind
of curious on what your thoughts were with that. As
far as the rest of the week, Man, It's hard
to say right now, but I would imagine you have
some sort of a thought on who is inform who
(10:30):
you're going to be looking for on Sunday, maybe a
few of the top things in your mind golfers that
that may be around on Sunday based on kind of
what they're doing right now.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, I mentioned I mentioned step you know, Straika. Obviously
we can't. I mean, Scott, he's going to be there.
Let's let's be honest. Let's be honest, right right, and
and uh, you know one of the things that you
look at the leaderboard right now, number two is Colin
mar Kawa shot a nice little sixty seven to start.
He's one multiple major championships. Shane Lowry's won a major championship.
(11:03):
He's sitting there in third. Tommy Fleetwood's the world class
elite player who's playing Ryder Cups and everything else and
is due for a major. He's a lower ball flight hitter,
so Mierfield doesn't really fit him that well. You mentioned
earlier the second shot in golf course. Yeah, and those
second shots better be coming into the greens most years,
and pretty vertically. You're not going to hit a lot
(11:23):
of low balls into these greens and hold them typically.
But this week maybe Tommy's got a shot because they're
a little softer and holding a little better for him.
But again, you know a world class player. Obviously, King
and Bradley's won, you know, major championship. Harris English right
there in tenth place, so it's not you know, the
leaderboard is kind of shaping up. It's fun to see
(11:43):
Ricky Fowler got out to a good start early today,
shot even Parr obviously still in it. Jordan Steth, even
par are still in it. So all those guys are
still in contention here. The question is is Ben Griffin
able mentally to keep it together for four days starting
off with the lead. He played so well last week,
but he'd bogue each four of his last twelve or
(12:06):
thirteen holes. I mean, it was getting to him on
Sunday afternoon. Now he learned a lot from that. Rarely
does somebody go on and win after having led the
first round. I don't remember the exact number. I know
I should from how many have ever done that here?
But it's not many, and it's not an easy thing
to do. Because there's a lot of time to work
on your mind, you know, between now and tomorrow morning
(12:28):
and then tomorrow afternoon because he'll play later tomorrow, and
then if he keeps puts a good number up tomorrow,
he'll play late Saturday, late Sunday. What do you do
early morning, Saturday and Sunday to keep your mind off
where you stand and all that. So it's a marathon. Obviously,
golf tournament is just not a sprint. It's four days,
you know, seventy two holes in golf, and a lot
of things can happen. But it's nice to see the
(12:51):
names that were you know, we're used to seeing kind
of moving to the top of the leader board. I
didn't see any huge surprises as I went down the list.
Justin Thomas is one of the guys that I thought
would played great. I guess he was. You know, he's
a couple over after eight, so he's still got a
lot of golf wood. The Geherberg Oberg three over seventy
five today, that guy. Can that guy ever shoot over par?
(13:13):
When you look at his game, he's playing a par
like sixty nine or seventy golf course with the length
and the height that he hits it. This par five
is you know, you got two or three par fives
and every course is playing, they're reachable, So for him
to shoot seventy five, it is a shock for sure,
but it's going to be fun tomorrow. We got a
whole another day. And you know how we've seen in
(13:36):
many past years and at every seventy two whole event,
things flip flop and they look a lot different Friday
night than they did early Thursday.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, no question about that. Plus, if we get the
rain that they're predicting, especially maybe on Saturday, and if
the wind whips up some you look for some European
tour players who you know, flight it down and they're
more used to something not that you know, look at
this level, everybody has the ability to do that, but
it's the ones who are most comfortable in that. They go, yeah,
bring on the moisture, you know, or whatever. Some of
(14:06):
those guys you know, so yeah, what are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, and the win too, I mean Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry.
You know, these are European guys that grew up playing
with Justin Speth, Jordan Speeds, the guys that grew up
playing in Texas, they're going, you know, blow baby, blow right,
then let's get it, you know, so that these guys
do have to hit a lot of different kinds of shots.
And when you're playing, if the course firms up and
(14:31):
it gets windy, that doubles the difficulty. So now you
look to the guys who have great short games to
get them through the Saturday and Sunday. Remember, Friday pin
placements are the toughest. Tomorrow, the scores typically would not
be as low as they were today given identical conditions
which we may or may not have Saturday, if they're
forecasting rain and moving day when the pins are a
(14:53):
little easier, a little softer than they would be on
a Friday, to giving people a chance to go out
and make some birdies. But if it's raining, you know,
if and you play early it's not raining and you
get away with it, or you play late and it's
not raining. Obviously, all of this is going to be
heavily dependent on weather, and that's one of the things
that makes the memorial so much fun. You talk to
the two players and they pack extra bags because they
(15:16):
really don't know what the weather's gonna be. Like I mean,
how many are in sweaters and rain suits and pants
and everything else, so I have to bring Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's funny from round one all the way to round four.
It it literally can be you know, all four seasons.
That's the experience because at the time of year here
and they know that, and it does make for interesting golf.
It's a little more boring if it's you know, four
beautiful days. Of course, I know the tournament people would
like it to be that way, but it's a little
more fun for us spectators to watch them, you know,
(15:46):
out there. And you know, I don't know what eight
underwins it or something or five underwins it. I don't
know if it's ever It's never been that low obviously,
but you know, something like that would take some horrific
conditions in order for that to play out that way.
But miss Golf Ray hustik Man, as always, it's so great.
We could keep going now for like six hours. For
the next six hours, we could keep going.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Okay, it is so great.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I know you got a lot of family stuff going.
I appreciate you taking time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Brother, Yeah, anytime, and we'll look forward to watching this
the next couple of days. It's going to be a
lot of fun. I wish I were sitting next to you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
All right, man, Appreciate you. Yeah, maybe we'll do it again.
We can get that going again at some point one
of these years. Thanks, man, Appreciate you so much.
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