June 7, 2025 • 10 mins
Scheffler joins the Scottish Open, with only Rory McIlroy in his rearview.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
All right, it's the Golf Show on the ticket.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Thank you for spending your morning with us as we
talk golf, and next week we're gonna be talking about
the US Open. I kind of tease this going into
the break. When Scotty Scheffler plays, it's starting to be
similar to what Tiger did about twenty years ago. It's
Scotty versus the field. This guy doesn't tend to lose
very much.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
He's on a I think he's passed his injury from
Christmas time or thanks to that, and I think he's Uh,
we were talking the other day about how many wins
he might have by the time he's thirty five.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You know, if you get to forty five wins.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What if he gets I mean, I don't see anything
stopping him unless he gets hurt. Yeah, because he's in
a good place with his family. He talks about being
able to compartmentalize things. When I practice, I practice, when
I go home, I don't think about golf.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
He's got a he's got it. He's told you many times. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know I made seventy million last year, but I
care more about the tournaments. Yeah, the money spends great,
but I got people that are spending it for me anyway,
I don't have to worry about that. He's got a
very charmed life that he's worked really hard for. But
I don't think he's the ancillary. Things don't bother him.
You really don't see him doing that many ads. He's
not doing a lot of endorsement stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, he doesn't do a lot of that stuff away
from golf.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
He really doesn't.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
And that's why he That's why his family life's great
and his golf life is great because, like he said.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Things don't seem to focused bother him. He's such a
level headed person. He doesn't get He doesn't care about cars.
He doesn't care about you know, going and doing things
and spending the large sums m. I. He didn't care
about going to Vegas and spending one hundred thousand dollars
that trap.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, it doesn't go. He doesn't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
He's twenty six years old, and most people that are
twenty six years all we living life.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Going diving with the Navy seals like Tiger did. I mean,
he gets cared about you know, he didn't care about
picking his kid up that had a blowout, you know,
on on his little outfit last weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, you know, I don't care he goes. I don't care.
It's part of being apparent. Apparent. Yeah, you know, I
was thinking about on the way over here.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
You know, who's everyone who's gonna be the next Tiger
because everyone that you know, whether it was Brooks, Koepka,
you know, he's winning majors. He looks like he's unbeatable. Uh,
there's been all these guys. Jordan, Uh, even Xander last
year looked like he had finally figured it out, and
then look at him this year. You know, injuries, you
name it, and everyone. Rory, I mean, he just he
(02:42):
completed a slam. None of these guys can seem to
sustain it for long periods of time. And Scotty just
I mean he just when he plays bad, he still
finishes top ten.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Tiger and Ry Tiger and Jordan Speed both had this
comment I saw in a video that they don't think
there's anybody in the history of golf that has better
face angle at contact that the control of the golf
club and the degree because every time you make a swing,
you're going to be off by millimeters.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Even of the best players in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You can't necessarily duplicate a swing like a robot can.
But they were comparing Scheffler's swing to all these great
golfers from the past. Even Tiger in his prime didn't
have face control of the golf club, which relates to
distance control as well as Scott he does, right.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, that it all starts with his obsession with the grip,
and that's why his face control is so incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
He gets on the ranger with a club that he's
not even going to put in play. It's got a
molded grip on.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It, right, right.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
But then I mean, and then when he gets under,
when the pressure is the highest, that's when he focuses more,
and that's when he hits it the best. Yes, look
at the last nine holes at the PGA and the Memorial.
I mean, everybody else was falling apart. He gets better
and he wins by five. Interesting, I mean he did
(04:05):
it both tournaments.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Interesting is really was Nicholas's comments about well, Ben Griffin
is a nice player, you know, step Struco, He's a
really nice player, but he really is not in Scotty's category.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I thought that was who said that, Jack Nicholas. Nicholas
in the interview with Scotty. I mean it's like, yeah,
kind of threw.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Those guys under the bus. Players were here to put
pressure on Scotty. I mean, and they weren't, you know,
but like I mean, Nicholas told the truth. But you know,
and then those players did they folded. Yeah, I mean,
you know, Speeth had a he was four hundred for
(04:50):
a while and he him and his finger sticking out
of his golf club.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right, here's the thing I've always noticed about the greats
of the game. When it's Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tim
Duncan and basketball, Tom Brady and football, pick whoever you want,
whatever sports, And I've seen this with athletes. Their ability
to focus in the moment is at a level that
most of us can never get to. They can be
talking about last night's football game when they're walking down
(05:18):
the fairway with their caddy and they get to the club,
and as soon as they pull out of the ball,
and as soon as they can pull that yardage book
out of their out of their back pocket to get
into their routine for the shot, everything else in the
world has gone.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
They don't see people in.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The gallery, they don't see the caddy all there is
one seventy eight right the left, left or right, bucker
off the left, let's go. And they are so incredibly focused.
And it's a level that most people will never fathom.
And I've seen this. I got to play a high
school golf with some really good players, and we'd be
talking about the game, we'd be talking about school, we'd
be talking about somebody's girlfriend at this for the five
(05:53):
minute walk to the ball and boom, the light switch
would come on and he'd hit a perfect shot to
the green. Yeah, and they're innate ability to focus in
the moment. I think it's what Scotty's able to do,
much like Tiger did twenty five years ago.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I know he's much better at it than anybody else.
In fact, I think he reminds me more of the
way Jack Nicholas played Tiger, because he hit it all
over the place. Scotty hits the shot that's required every
time and hits it closer to the flag than anybody else.
(06:28):
Always Penn high typically, I mean his like you said,
and it's all about his face control with his irons
and how he knows exactly how far that ball's going.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Just liquid.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
When Tiger was playing, and he would be playing the
Memorial and he would get D eighteen. A lot of times.
He wasn't in the middle of the fairway on the
last hole. No, Scotty was in the middle of the
fairway on the last hole.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Tiger would hit the miraculous flop shot or the pitch
over the bucker or something from the tree.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He would win the tournament. To win the tournament, But
Scotty doesn't need to He's doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Need to perfect every shot on the back nine. He
never misses a shot well.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And at the PGA where he missed every fairway on
the front nine and then self corrected it on the
back nine and came home in grand style. That doesn't
happen very often me. No, he's all right, he's the
best player.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Next week, the US Open will be at Oakmont.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's in suburban Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'll give you a quick.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
History lesson on this because I love the history of
golf and I read this over forty years ago. The
founders of Oakmont were a guy named Henry Founds and
his son William, and they were sadistic people when it
came to golf. They wanted you to suffer every time
that you you took a swing, and so they grew
the rough up as much as you could possibly do
(07:42):
this back in the thirties and forties, and one of
the founds is decided, you know, these golfers are getting
too good out of bunkers. We need to penalize them.
So they designed these rakes that created FROs. So when
you would rate the bunker, you'd get these little firos
like you do like in farmland where you're planning the
crop between the firos, so that you would never have
a good lie in the bunker. It would always be
(08:02):
in a thuroo, which would be you couldn't get clean
contact to get it out. And then they would they
at one point Oakmont had two hundred and forty bunkers
on the golf course, so you know that's what twenty
a hole twenty more than almost twenty two a hole
or something like that. So that was that they just
wanted punishment, punishment, punishment.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And then they were showing a highlight of Bryson playing
a practice round at Oakmont. He was standing in the
in the rough and you could not see his ankles
on his shoes.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, and you could barely.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
See like the top of the white of the golf ball.
If that rough stays that way and they save the greens,
as long as the wind doesn't blow, are going to
run it fourteen and a half. Next week, the winning
score is going to be ten over if that, If that,
if they get any wind whatsoever, if they get a
breeze going through Pittsburgh they get, they better.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Hope it rains and that you don't hit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
If it does rain, you better not get in the
rough because it's gonna even be worse because now it'll
start growing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I love it. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I don't know if it'll be ten over, but I
agree with you. I think this will be the highest
winning scores in a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right it is?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And every Oakmont member says, yeah, we got to soften
our golf course for the pros. We play it harder
than they do, which I don't know why you'd want
to be a part of a golf club where you
can't break ninety anytime you go out and play.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If you're five andicapp or last.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Well, I was laughing going back to the Scotty thing
I saw someone had tweeted out on X It might
have just been you know, just a random person, but
they said, you know, they tagged Brandle, you know, hey,
what's the winning score going to be? And his response
whatever Scotty shoots.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, We're going to talk club fitting, but mostly
putter fitting. My seventy four at Mirrorfield could have been
way better, but I putt it very average to poor
in Scotland. We'll talk about what I need to do next.
It's the Golf Show on the ticket
All right, it's the Golf Show on the ticket.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Thank you for spending your morning with us as we
talk golf, and next week we're gonna be talking about
the US Open. I kind of tease this going into
the break. When Scotty Scheffler plays, it's starting to be
similar to what Tiger did about twenty years ago. It's
Scotty versus the field. This guy doesn't tend to lose
very much.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
He's on a I think he's passed his injury from
Christmas time or thanks to that, and I think he's Uh,
we were talking the other day about how many wins
he might have by the time he's thirty five.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You know, if you get to forty five wins.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What if he gets I mean, I don't see anything
stopping him unless he gets hurt. Yeah, because he's in
a good place with his family. He talks about being
able to compartmentalize things. When I practice, I practice, when
I go home, I don't think about golf.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
He's got a he's got it. He's told you many times. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know I made seventy million last year, but I
care more about the tournaments. Yeah, the money spends great,
but I got people that are spending it for me anyway,
I don't have to worry about that. He's got a
very charmed life that he's worked really hard for. But
I don't think he's the ancillary. Things don't bother him.
You really don't see him doing that many ads. He's
not doing a lot of endorsement stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, he doesn't do a lot of that stuff away
from golf.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
He really doesn't.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
And that's why he That's why his family life's great
and his golf life is great because, like he said.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Things don't seem to focused bother him. He's such a
level headed person. He doesn't get He doesn't care about cars.
He doesn't care about you know, going and doing things
and spending the large sums m. I. He didn't care
about going to Vegas and spending one hundred thousand dollars
that trap.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, it doesn't go. He doesn't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
He's twenty six years old, and most people that are
twenty six years all we living life.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Going diving with the Navy seals like Tiger did. I mean,
he gets cared about you know, he didn't care about
picking his kid up that had a blowout, you know,
on on his little outfit last weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, you know, I don't care he goes. I don't care.
It's part of being apparent. Apparent. Yeah, you know, I
was thinking about on the way over here.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
You know, who's everyone who's gonna be the next Tiger
because everyone that you know, whether it was Brooks, Koepka,
you know, he's winning majors. He looks like he's unbeatable. Uh,
there's been all these guys. Jordan, Uh, even Xander last
year looked like he had finally figured it out, and
then look at him this year. You know, injuries, you
name it, and everyone. Rory, I mean, he just he
(02:42):
completed a slam. None of these guys can seem to
sustain it for long periods of time. And Scotty just
I mean he just when he plays bad, he still
finishes top ten.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Tiger and Ry Tiger and Jordan Speed both had this
comment I saw in a video that they don't think
there's anybody in the history of golf that has better
face angle at contact that the control of the golf
club and the degree because every time you make a swing,
you're going to be off by millimeters.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Even of the best players in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You can't necessarily duplicate a swing like a robot can.
But they were comparing Scheffler's swing to all these great
golfers from the past. Even Tiger in his prime didn't
have face control of the golf club, which relates to
distance control as well as Scott he does, right.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, that it all starts with his obsession with the grip,
and that's why his face control is so incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
He gets on the ranger with a club that he's
not even going to put in play. It's got a
molded grip on.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It, right, right.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
But then I mean, and then when he gets under,
when the pressure is the highest, that's when he focuses more,
and that's when he hits it the best. Yes, look
at the last nine holes at the PGA and the Memorial.
I mean, everybody else was falling apart. He gets better
and he wins by five. Interesting, I mean he did
(04:05):
it both tournaments.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Interesting is really was Nicholas's comments about well, Ben Griffin
is a nice player, you know, step Struco, He's a
really nice player, but he really is not in Scotty's category.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I thought that was who said that, Jack Nicholas. Nicholas
in the interview with Scotty. I mean it's like, yeah,
kind of threw.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Those guys under the bus. Players were here to put
pressure on Scotty. I mean, and they weren't, you know,
but like I mean, Nicholas told the truth. But you know,
and then those players did they folded. Yeah, I mean,
you know, Speeth had a he was four hundred for
(04:50):
a while and he him and his finger sticking out
of his golf club.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right, here's the thing I've always noticed about the greats
of the game. When it's Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tim
Duncan and basketball, Tom Brady and football, pick whoever you want,
whatever sports, And I've seen this with athletes. Their ability
to focus in the moment is at a level that
most of us can never get to. They can be
talking about last night's football game when they're walking down
(05:18):
the fairway with their caddy and they get to the club,
and as soon as they pull out of the ball,
and as soon as they can pull that yardage book
out of their out of their back pocket to get
into their routine for the shot, everything else in the
world has gone.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
They don't see people in.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The gallery, they don't see the caddy all there is
one seventy eight right the left, left or right, bucker
off the left, let's go. And they are so incredibly focused.
And it's a level that most people will never fathom.
And I've seen this. I got to play a high
school golf with some really good players, and we'd be
talking about the game, we'd be talking about school, we'd
be talking about somebody's girlfriend at this for the five
(05:53):
minute walk to the ball and boom, the light switch
would come on and he'd hit a perfect shot to
the green. Yeah, and they're innate ability to focus in
the moment. I think it's what Scotty's able to do,
much like Tiger did twenty five years ago.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I know he's much better at it than anybody else.
In fact, I think he reminds me more of the
way Jack Nicholas played Tiger, because he hit it all
over the place. Scotty hits the shot that's required every
time and hits it closer to the flag than anybody else.
(06:28):
Always Penn high typically, I mean his like you said,
and it's all about his face control with his irons
and how he knows exactly how far that ball's going.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Just liquid.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
When Tiger was playing, and he would be playing the
Memorial and he would get D eighteen. A lot of times.
He wasn't in the middle of the fairway on the
last hole. No, Scotty was in the middle of the
fairway on the last hole.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Tiger would hit the miraculous flop shot or the pitch
over the bucker or something from the tree.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He would win the tournament. To win the tournament, But
Scotty doesn't need to He's doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Need to perfect every shot on the back nine. He
never misses a shot well.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And at the PGA where he missed every fairway on
the front nine and then self corrected it on the
back nine and came home in grand style. That doesn't
happen very often me. No, he's all right, he's the
best player.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Next week, the US Open will be at Oakmont.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's in suburban Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'll give you a quick.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
History lesson on this because I love the history of
golf and I read this over forty years ago. The
founders of Oakmont were a guy named Henry Founds and
his son William, and they were sadistic people when it
came to golf. They wanted you to suffer every time
that you you took a swing, and so they grew
the rough up as much as you could possibly do
(07:42):
this back in the thirties and forties, and one of
the founds is decided, you know, these golfers are getting
too good out of bunkers. We need to penalize them.
So they designed these rakes that created FROs. So when
you would rate the bunker, you'd get these little firos
like you do like in farmland where you're planning the
crop between the firos, so that you would never have
a good lie in the bunker. It would always be
(08:02):
in a thuroo, which would be you couldn't get clean
contact to get it out. And then they would they
at one point Oakmont had two hundred and forty bunkers
on the golf course, so you know that's what twenty
a hole twenty more than almost twenty two a hole
or something like that. So that was that they just
wanted punishment, punishment, punishment.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And then they were showing a highlight of Bryson playing
a practice round at Oakmont. He was standing in the
in the rough and you could not see his ankles
on his shoes.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, and you could barely.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
See like the top of the white of the golf ball.
If that rough stays that way and they save the greens,
as long as the wind doesn't blow, are going to
run it fourteen and a half. Next week, the winning
score is going to be ten over if that, If that,
if they get any wind whatsoever, if they get a
breeze going through Pittsburgh they get, they better.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Hope it rains and that you don't hit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
If it does rain, you better not get in the
rough because it's gonna even be worse because now it'll
start growing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I love it. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I don't know if it'll be ten over, but I
agree with you. I think this will be the highest
winning scores in a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right it is?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And every Oakmont member says, yeah, we got to soften
our golf course for the pros. We play it harder
than they do, which I don't know why you'd want
to be a part of a golf club where you
can't break ninety anytime you go out and play.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If you're five andicapp or last.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Well, I was laughing going back to the Scotty thing
I saw someone had tweeted out on X It might
have just been you know, just a random person, but
they said, you know, they tagged Brandle, you know, hey,
what's the winning score going to be? And his response
whatever Scotty shoots.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, We're going to talk club fitting, but mostly
putter fitting. My seventy four at Mirrorfield could have been
way better, but I putt it very average to poor
in Scotland. We'll talk about what I need to do next.
It's the Golf Show on the ticket
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