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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's the Golf show on the ticket. Thank you for
being part of our show this morning. Jordan Speth had
to withdraw from Hartford this week. Apparently after the US
opened last week. He had some kind of a tweak
in the back of his neck and maybe that upper
cross syndrome that we talk about all the time with
Jason Garrett when we have him on from a rosti,
and he just couldn't make a good golf swing. As
soon as he'd get to the down swing that would
(00:24):
spas him, he would flinch. He shanked a couple of
shots and hit some in the water, and finally after
twelve holes he called the rules official. He was on
the thirteenth hole, hit the ball in the bunker, shanked
it out of the bunker into the water or near
the water, and said, uncle, I quid, I gotta go.
If you look back at Jordan' Speach's career obviously had
the wrist injury last year and had to get that
(00:45):
surgically fixed and was out for several weeks. And look
the people playing decent golf this year early on, But
we were talking during the break about speace wins. He
has not won since the twenty twenty one Valero Texas Open,
and that's the only win he's had since the twenty
seventeen Open Championship at Birkdale when he had the thirty
(01:06):
minute hole on thirteen where he lost his ball and
had to take the unplayable over by the driving range
and then ended up going Bertie eagle birdie to beat
Matt Kocher. If you Andrew, if you listen to the
Golf Pros and we have Joe on every month, and
there's others that have had this same argument. Jordan Speace
(01:28):
golf swing has elevated from somebody that when he first
came on tour probably swung around one hundred and five
hundred and seven miles an hour to a player who's
now swing one hundred and fifteen one hundred and eighteen
miles an hour with the driver and the grip is
not compatible with the faster swing. And if you notice
sometimes he has his right index finger kind of sticking
out the top of the of the club. He has
(01:49):
a very weak left hand. And the pros that would
like to kind of kind of take him aside and say, hey,
you need to fix this. That's what they're saying is
the difference in whether or not he's going to hit
fairways and win golf tournaments, because we know he can
chip and putt. He's as good as anybody that's ever
done that. But for whatever reason, he seems to be
(02:11):
a little bit reluctant. Do we either change things with
Cameron McCormick or Cameron McCormick is suggested, and Jordan doesn't
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I think it's probably easy to diagnose maybe some
technical things that he could change. I think maybe it's
a little bit more simplistic in that maybe his desire
and his will has changed. He's kind of probably in
that messy middle part of his life. He's not playing
golf now, he's running a business, and his business is golf,
but he's also doing all the fun stuff in his life.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He's worth a hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He does whatever he gets wants to do, and so
I think maybe there's a combination of it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
But sure, I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I remember, and I've talked about this on all the
shows before. I remember a conversation in twenty twelve or
thirteen with Greg Norman when he was here to promote
out the design of the TPC Oaks Course, and they
came in like every year around the Texas Open to
talk about the tournament and the changes they were making
to the golf course. And I remember asking him once,
(03:13):
I said, what did you know it was time to retire?
And he said, I woke up one morning, I went
to the driving range where I would normally spend five hours,
and I spent five minutes and I wasn't hitting it well.
And instead of sitting there and working it out, I
got my car and went home and had a sandwich
and hung out with the family. And I knew right
then and there I didn't have the desire to spend
five hours on the driving range anymore. I played a
(03:35):
little bit longer, but I was done then.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Pretty great with him to be able to recognize that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But he also had the financial wherewithal in the backing,
and he was really involved with a lot of other
business ventures. And I guess that's the reason we never
saw him doing the parade on the Champions Tour, picking
up the easy money is it just wasn't burning in
his heart anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well. And I think that's the one thing that I
always talk about, whether Tiger will play Champions tour events
or a few are a lot. And I always talk
about guys that you see that like Phil and his
gambling issues, and players who kind of live on the
edge throughout their lives. I don't know what. I think
their addiction is the addiction to competition. They loved the
(04:15):
being in the heat of the moment. I remember a
Tiger story from years ago. He's playing with Marco Mira
and he was very very young, firs first or second
year on the tour, and he's right, they're both right
in the thick of things, and they're trading birdies back
and forth, and they're trying to beat each other, and
Tiger looks at Markomer and says, man, this is fun,
and Mark's like, I never thought this was fun. This
(04:36):
was agonizing, This was hard, This was you know, holding
your breath on every shot. And the reason he was
so successful is because the more pressure he got in
the event, the more fun he was having.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I knew an old touring professional and he said, there's
two types of two types of touring professionals. There's those
that play for coins and there's those that play for hardware.
And I think that you know, the guys are playing
for hardware, the Phills and the Tigers, the guys that
just want to win and the money doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
They just want to beat you and they want to
get their name on.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
A trophy and then they look in their bank account
and the money's there.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Sure that takes care of itself, right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, I'm told that it hits your bank account every
Tuesday morning at ten am, whatever you won from the
previous Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Lexi Thompson is playing in the in the LPGA version
of their PGA Championship. They're holding this up at TPC
PGA Frisco up in the Metroplex, and she apparently retired
last year, but now she just kind of shows up
for a cameo here and there, and she's playing quite well.
And I think it's great when you have a star
(05:42):
player like her play well. And maybe retirement or at
least semi retirement is suiting her pretty pretty well as too.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, I think you best call that semi retirement. I
read an article about her retirement from the game, and
she's playing almost as much as she had the previous
couple of years. So and I think maybe once you
acknowledge that, Hey, I want to move on from this
is my only vocation and hang out with my new husband,
do other fun things. It kind of let's let's let's
(06:11):
you go loose a little bit makes you more comfortable.
It's kind of like the wide fairways versus the narrow
skinny fairway that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
PGA Tour Frisco or a PGA for Frisco PG of America.
The headquarters moved from Florida to the DFW area a
few years ago. They've got two golf courses there. The
East Course is where they're going to play the PGA Championship.
It's I think they're playing there in twenty seven, and
I think there's a Ryder Cup there probably in the
thirty sometime. I'm not i'n't gotten to see a lot
(06:40):
of the golf course, so I can't tell from TV
whether what I think of the golf course. Gil Hans
is the one that designed it. I know you, I
ask you the other day. You haven't been there yet.
But people also have to understand that while it's the
PGA's golf course to a certain extent, Omni Hotels is
deciding who plays and when they play, and how much
they're going to have to play pay two and and
(07:01):
for the most part, they're kind of kind of running
the show there.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Uh yeah, Unfortunately, I've been on property before. I the
annual PGA meeting was there, and I'm a proud PGA professional.
I'm coming on twenty five years of membership, so it's
it's kind of ingrained in my blood and I'm happy
to have the home of the PGA in Texas now.
But the resort is not really owned by the PGA
of America. It's owned by the city of Frisco and
(07:26):
the Omni Resorts, So the ability for pg professionals to entertain, play,
bring guests not really such a cohesive thing. I think
it's awesome that that we're going to have some future
events in Texas. I think the ladies being there is fantastic.
But we'll see what the golf course looks like over time.
Because it's right right in the middle of the city.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, and and because it's going to be a May
event for the PGA Championship, I would assume they're going
to have to still overseed, even though because even that
far north May is a cool month usually, and then
in October when you have our September October, whenever they
decide to have the Ryder Cup. You could get some
windy weather for sure that time of the year. It'll
(08:08):
be interesting to see how that golf course changes from
the a May event to a September event.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, the PGA of America does things right, so I'm
sure they're going to make all the professional events there,
including the Ladies Championship, a first class.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Event, so I'm going to support it all the way.
All Right, we got some golf tips to get to.
Colin Marakawa did something he'd never done before, and we're
going to talk about mini drivers coming up. It's the
Golf Show on the Ticket.
It's the Golf show on the ticket. Thank you for
being part of our show this morning. Jordan Speth had
to withdraw from Hartford this week. Apparently after the US
opened last week. He had some kind of a tweak
in the back of his neck and maybe that upper
cross syndrome that we talk about all the time with
Jason Garrett when we have him on from a rosti,
and he just couldn't make a good golf swing. As
soon as he'd get to the down swing that would
(00:24):
spas him, he would flinch. He shanked a couple of
shots and hit some in the water, and finally after
twelve holes he called the rules official. He was on
the thirteenth hole, hit the ball in the bunker, shanked
it out of the bunker into the water or near
the water, and said, uncle, I quid, I gotta go.
If you look back at Jordan' Speach's career obviously had
the wrist injury last year and had to get that
(00:45):
surgically fixed and was out for several weeks. And look
the people playing decent golf this year early on, But
we were talking during the break about speace wins. He
has not won since the twenty twenty one Valero Texas Open,
and that's the only win he's had since the twenty
seventeen Open Championship at Birkdale when he had the thirty
(01:06):
minute hole on thirteen where he lost his ball and
had to take the unplayable over by the driving range
and then ended up going Bertie eagle birdie to beat
Matt Kocher. If you Andrew, if you listen to the
Golf Pros and we have Joe on every month, and
there's others that have had this same argument. Jordan Speace
(01:28):
golf swing has elevated from somebody that when he first
came on tour probably swung around one hundred and five
hundred and seven miles an hour to a player who's
now swing one hundred and fifteen one hundred and eighteen
miles an hour with the driver and the grip is
not compatible with the faster swing. And if you notice
sometimes he has his right index finger kind of sticking
out the top of the of the club. He has
(01:49):
a very weak left hand. And the pros that would
like to kind of kind of take him aside and say, hey,
you need to fix this. That's what they're saying is
the difference in whether or not he's going to hit
fairways and win golf tournaments, because we know he can
chip and putt. He's as good as anybody that's ever
done that. But for whatever reason, he seems to be
(02:11):
a little bit reluctant. Do we either change things with
Cameron McCormick or Cameron McCormick is suggested, and Jordan doesn't
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I think it's probably easy to diagnose maybe some
technical things that he could change. I think maybe it's
a little bit more simplistic in that maybe his desire
and his will has changed. He's kind of probably in
that messy middle part of his life. He's not playing
golf now, he's running a business, and his business is golf,
but he's also doing all the fun stuff in his life.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He's worth a hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He does whatever he gets wants to do, and so
I think maybe there's a combination of it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
But sure, I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I remember, and I've talked about this on all the
shows before. I remember a conversation in twenty twelve or
thirteen with Greg Norman when he was here to promote
out the design of the TPC Oaks Course, and they
came in like every year around the Texas Open to
talk about the tournament and the changes they were making
to the golf course. And I remember asking him once,
(03:13):
I said, what did you know it was time to retire?
And he said, I woke up one morning, I went
to the driving range where I would normally spend five hours,
and I spent five minutes and I wasn't hitting it well.
And instead of sitting there and working it out, I
got my car and went home and had a sandwich
and hung out with the family. And I knew right
then and there I didn't have the desire to spend
five hours on the driving range anymore. I played a
(03:35):
little bit longer, but I was done then.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Pretty great with him to be able to recognize that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But he also had the financial wherewithal in the backing,
and he was really involved with a lot of other
business ventures. And I guess that's the reason we never
saw him doing the parade on the Champions Tour, picking
up the easy money is it just wasn't burning in
his heart anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well. And I think that's the one thing that I
always talk about, whether Tiger will play Champions tour events
or a few are a lot. And I always talk
about guys that you see that like Phil and his
gambling issues, and players who kind of live on the
edge throughout their lives. I don't know what. I think
their addiction is the addiction to competition. They loved the
(04:15):
being in the heat of the moment. I remember a
Tiger story from years ago. He's playing with Marco Mira
and he was very very young, firs first or second
year on the tour, and he's right, they're both right
in the thick of things, and they're trading birdies back
and forth, and they're trying to beat each other, and
Tiger looks at Markomer and says, man, this is fun,
and Mark's like, I never thought this was fun. This
(04:36):
was agonizing, This was hard, This was you know, holding
your breath on every shot. And the reason he was
so successful is because the more pressure he got in
the event, the more fun he was having.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I knew an old touring professional and he said, there's
two types of two types of touring professionals. There's those
that play for coins and there's those that play for hardware.
And I think that you know, the guys are playing
for hardware, the Phills and the Tigers, the guys that
just want to win and the money doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
They just want to beat you and they want to
get their name on.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
A trophy and then they look in their bank account
and the money's there.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Sure that takes care of itself, right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, I'm told that it hits your bank account every
Tuesday morning at ten am, whatever you won from the
previous Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Lexi Thompson is playing in the in the LPGA version
of their PGA Championship. They're holding this up at TPC
PGA Frisco up in the Metroplex, and she apparently retired
last year, but now she just kind of shows up
for a cameo here and there, and she's playing quite well.
And I think it's great when you have a star
(05:42):
player like her play well. And maybe retirement or at
least semi retirement is suiting her pretty pretty well as too.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, I think you best call that semi retirement. I
read an article about her retirement from the game, and
she's playing almost as much as she had the previous
couple of years. So and I think maybe once you
acknowledge that, Hey, I want to move on from this
is my only vocation and hang out with my new husband,
do other fun things. It kind of let's let's let's
(06:11):
you go loose a little bit makes you more comfortable.
It's kind of like the wide fairways versus the narrow
skinny fairway that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
PGA Tour Frisco or a PGA for Frisco PG of America.
The headquarters moved from Florida to the DFW area a
few years ago. They've got two golf courses there. The
East Course is where they're going to play the PGA Championship.
It's I think they're playing there in twenty seven, and
I think there's a Ryder Cup there probably in the
thirty sometime. I'm not i'n't gotten to see a lot
(06:40):
of the golf course, so I can't tell from TV
whether what I think of the golf course. Gil Hans
is the one that designed it. I know you, I
ask you the other day. You haven't been there yet.
But people also have to understand that while it's the
PGA's golf course to a certain extent, Omni Hotels is
deciding who plays and when they play, and how much
they're going to have to play pay two and and
(07:01):
for the most part, they're kind of kind of running
the show there.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Uh yeah, Unfortunately, I've been on property before. I the
annual PGA meeting was there, and I'm a proud PGA professional.
I'm coming on twenty five years of membership, so it's
it's kind of ingrained in my blood and I'm happy
to have the home of the PGA in Texas now.
But the resort is not really owned by the PGA
of America. It's owned by the city of Frisco and
(07:26):
the Omni Resorts, So the ability for pg professionals to entertain, play,
bring guests not really such a cohesive thing. I think
it's awesome that that we're going to have some future
events in Texas. I think the ladies being there is fantastic.
But we'll see what the golf course looks like over time.
Because it's right right in the middle of the city.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, and and because it's going to be a May
event for the PGA Championship, I would assume they're going
to have to still overseed, even though because even that
far north May is a cool month usually, and then
in October when you have our September October, whenever they
decide to have the Ryder Cup. You could get some
windy weather for sure that time of the year. It'll
(08:08):
be interesting to see how that golf course changes from
the a May event to a September event.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, the PGA of America does things right, so I'm
sure they're going to make all the professional events there,
including the Ladies Championship, a first class.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Event, so I'm going to support it all the way.
All Right, we got some golf tips to get to.
Colin Marakawa did something he'd never done before, and we're
going to talk about mini drivers coming up. It's the
Golf Show on the Ticket.
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