July 19, 2025 • 9 mins
Scottie Scheffler’s success isn’t as big a deal to him at this point.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, it's the golf show on the ticket. Earlier
this week, Scotty Scheffler held his pre open press conference,
where he revealed that he loves golf, he loves competition,
he loves winning, but it's not that big a deal
because it doesn't last very long. And he said, yeah,
I'm gonna come out of here and I'm going to
play this tournament and I might win, I might not,
(00:25):
but at the end of the day, I get to
celebrate for two three minutes. I get to hug the wife,
we get on the plane, and in three weeks I'm
gonna be a Memphis and there everybody's going to be
asking me what am I supposed to do here? So, yeah,
it's great to have all these wins, and I'm glad
I get to play golf for a living and all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But it's it's not what you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Think it is because the the euphoria doesn't last long.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Kind of interesting, Yeah, man, that guy's humility is something
something the wild, right, And maybe maybe these comments are
really easy to say when you're the world's best. And
I don't know, maybe it was Brandal Shamblee was comparing
Scotty and Rory, and he said that Scotty is is
way ahead of Rory's ability. And I thought that was
(01:06):
really kind of a hot take because I'm a I'm
a big fan of Rory.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I really like him. I really like the way he
plays the game.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But to suggest that Scotty is leagues better than him
is is really a statement.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, I think where it is his mental I don't.
I don't think Scotty lets things bother him. When Rory
missus putts or missus shots, you can see there's tension.
When Scotty makes a bogie ninety percent of the time,
it seems like he bounces back with a birdie.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, I think this is certainly evidenced by the fact
that he spent a little time in the Crowbar Hotel
in front of the PGA Championship a couple of years ago.
And I think he got out of Jaileen, came back
and played quite well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I mean well, even even getting arrested, he didn't
feel like it was a big deal. And and he
didn't make he didn't win, but you know he went
out and shot three.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Or four under after resting. Heart rate is forty or something. Yeah,
how do you keep he.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Goes, well, I really struggled in jail to keep my
heart rate down. I didn't want to get over excited.
What do you get excited about? Yeah, there's never any
of that. So anyway, but here he goes again, and
he shot a sixty four yesterday, and it just every
shot was in the fairway, it seemed like, and if
it wasn't, he got a good break. And the next
shot was on the greens. And just another robotic He
(02:21):
he's a.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Cyborg, right.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think he just keeps coming at you, and he
keeps making putts and keeps hitting good quality shots.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He's hard not to root for.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But like we were saying off here, there's nothing that's
salacious about him. He's a real stand up guy. He's
got strong a Christian belief. He's a good family man.
There doesn't doesn't appear that he's got any chinks in
his armor.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Todd Tiger used to talk about being able to compartmentalize things,
and Scotty seems to be able to go to practice
at eight thirty in the morning, do his workout, do
his ball, hit balls, play nine holes, eat lunch, play
another nine and put all that in there. Not let
anything in the world, bother him, and then go home
and be a husband and a dad and then go
whatever you're going to do that evening, and then get
(03:03):
on a plane and go to a golf tournament. And
whatever he's doing at the time, that's what he's doing,
and the other stuff I'll deal with when I have
time to do that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, it must really show that his life is in
great balance to be able to have that type of
cadence to your life.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And maybe we don't see Scotty doing.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
All the commercials and all the ads, so he can
have better balance to where he can get his golf
work in and get his family time in and really,
you know, make all that work together.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
He made sixty two million dollars last year. I don't
think he needs any endorsements unless he wants some.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, right, he's not out trying to hawk commercials, and
other guys weren't making as much.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So he's in the lead, and you've got Matt Fitzpatrick
who played well. Robert McIntyre is somebody I picked before
the tournament began. He's five back. You and I were
talking right now. This seems to be Scheffler Patrick. Maybe
the eight enders. Unless the Hatton's and the mcelroys and
the Harris Englishes go out and shoot somewhere around, you know,
sixty four to sixty four this weekend, they may get
(04:02):
out because the golf course is gettable today with not
a lot of wind, and I would imagine Scotty's got
in mind another sixty five or so.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think all we can hope for is that there's
a great finish on Sunday, regardless.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Of who that is.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Obviously we'd like to see a Scheffler or somebody like
that win, but let's just hope for a competitive weekend,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
They also talked about some future sites for the tournament,
because we know next year they're going to go to
Royal Bergdale and then in twenty seven at Saint Andrews,
and probably within the next six to eight months they'll
tell us about twenty eight and maybe twenty nine, and
Mirfield and Royal Litham are both on the potential list.
Merefield that they're going to have to do something with
the Scotti Chopin because the residents of north Berry and
(04:45):
Gullin don't want back to back weeks of tournaments. They
don't want the Scottish and the Open back to back.
They want you out of there because they got green
fees to sell and they got a good tourists coming
in that want to be there, and so they only
want to have one tournament at the time, so they're
looking for other venues for the Scottie chopin so that
Miri Fiela could get in there. Lithum apparently has an
(05:06):
infrastructure problem. There's no place to put things. They have
not played at Litham I believe since twenty eleven, maybe
twenty thirteen, twenty twelve. I think twenty twelve was last
time they were lith them and they don't have enough
room and that's kind of sad because that's a special
golf course.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You know those places firsthand, Andy, so you can speak
to that better than anyone.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I suppose. But there's always a will to away.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I think the golf courses say that tongue in cheek
where maybe they want to sell green fees, and of
course that's true, but they also want the exposure so
they can continue to sell green fees into the future
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
The RNA also commented on the future of potentially going
to Turnbury, which they have not been since two thousand
and nine, And the main thing that's changed since two
thousand and nine is that Donald Trump and his team
bought the property in twenty sixteen, and the controversy around
that has kind of kept them from getting another event. Now,
they have said that there's issues with roads getting to
(06:03):
and from Turnberry. I've driven the road. I don't see
where there's any issue now. There is a pretty good
stretch of road where you could have several hundred thousand
protesters if they were wanting to show up with their
picket signs. But other than that, I don't see what
the issue is with the course there. But again, the
RNA has made it very clear that we want this
(06:25):
to be about a golf tournament. We don't want to
be about who owns the golf course or who doesn't
own it, or why we should be here or not here.
The golf course itself is awesome, it's amazing golf course.
But there's other factors that we have to put into
consideration and to determine whether or not we want to
stage a championship there.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, maybe if Trump's listening to your show, Andy, I
don't know if he tunes in or not everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Maybe my own is so he'll get the message.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Maybe you get him to divest to.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
The golf courses, to the ten so that so then
go back, all right. They also announced yesterday that the
Ryder Cup is headed to Spain at the Cameron Golf
and Wellness Resort in Malavea, and that's going to be
in twenty thirty one. So this year it's at it's
at Bethpage, then they go to a dear Manor in
twenty seven, they go to hazelteen in twenty nine, and
(07:13):
when it goes back to Europe, they're going to go
to Spain by the lbe the Olympic Club in San
Francisco in twenty twenty three. And I'm I think that
from just looking at the pictures of this and the setting,
it's going to be an amazing place to host a
Rider Cup. But this is my biggest criticism about how
we pick events sites for the for the Ryder Cup.
(07:36):
And nobody has played Bethpage since the last major was there,
nobody's played Hazelteene since the last major was there, and
nobody's played the Olympic Club since the last major was there.
So everybody that could potentially qualify for those events on
both sides. Is going to a golf course that they
really don't know. The resort called s Malavea is one
(07:59):
of the host one of the courses that the Spanish
Open rotates on. So if you play on the DP
World Tour and you played on the Spanish Open, you
played the golf course before. And I would imagine that
there's some European players that will make the Ryder Cup
that will know a little bit about the golf course,
and the Americans will not. We pick great historical venues.
(08:20):
They pick historical venues, but with a home field advantage
a little bit more. Do you think that even matters
that much that it's a golf course that the Europeans
have some familiarity with.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I don't. I didn't know where this is. I didn't
know where the place in Spain was. I looked it up.
It's about an hour north of Barcelona, and I thought,
I want to go there.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm going to be there for that turning area. The
Ryder Cup is a fantastic event. I've been fortunate to
be there. I'm going to go again this year. My
parents live five minutes from hazel Team, so knock on
Wood will be there in twenty twenty nine. I think
that the players have so much insight they can go
out to the facility a year in advance and start
getting practice rounds in. They set up the golf of course,
(09:00):
exactly the way that they want to set up, with
with rough height, rough with fairly with green speeds, those
types of things. They move tees, they make new te'es,
you know, just to suit the players and what their
skill set is. So no, I don't, like we were
talking about with Scheffler, couldn't adjust to the speed of
the greens.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's hogwash. I mean, these guys are so good and
so amazing that they're going to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So if some people think that's an advantage, yeah, maybe
maybe one percent.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
All right, We've got some golf tips to get to
and a couple other things to finish up the show,
and we'll do that next on the ticket
All right, it's the golf show on the ticket. Earlier
this week, Scotty Scheffler held his pre open press conference,
where he revealed that he loves golf, he loves competition,
he loves winning, but it's not that big a deal
because it doesn't last very long. And he said, yeah,
I'm gonna come out of here and I'm going to
play this tournament and I might win, I might not,
(00:25):
but at the end of the day, I get to
celebrate for two three minutes. I get to hug the wife,
we get on the plane, and in three weeks I'm
gonna be a Memphis and there everybody's going to be
asking me what am I supposed to do here? So, yeah,
it's great to have all these wins, and I'm glad
I get to play golf for a living and all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But it's it's not what you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Think it is because the the euphoria doesn't last long.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Kind of interesting, Yeah, man, that guy's humility is something
something the wild, right, And maybe maybe these comments are
really easy to say when you're the world's best. And
I don't know, maybe it was Brandal Shamblee was comparing
Scotty and Rory, and he said that Scotty is is
way ahead of Rory's ability. And I thought that was
(01:06):
really kind of a hot take because I'm a I'm
a big fan of Rory.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I really like him. I really like the way he
plays the game.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But to suggest that Scotty is leagues better than him
is is really a statement.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, I think where it is his mental I don't.
I don't think Scotty lets things bother him. When Rory
missus putts or missus shots, you can see there's tension.
When Scotty makes a bogie ninety percent of the time,
it seems like he bounces back with a birdie.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, I think this is certainly evidenced by the fact
that he spent a little time in the Crowbar Hotel
in front of the PGA Championship a couple of years ago.
And I think he got out of Jaileen, came back
and played quite well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I mean well, even even getting arrested, he didn't
feel like it was a big deal. And and he
didn't make he didn't win, but you know he went
out and shot three.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Or four under after resting. Heart rate is forty or something. Yeah,
how do you keep he.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Goes, well, I really struggled in jail to keep my
heart rate down. I didn't want to get over excited.
What do you get excited about? Yeah, there's never any
of that. So anyway, but here he goes again, and
he shot a sixty four yesterday, and it just every
shot was in the fairway, it seemed like, and if
it wasn't, he got a good break. And the next
shot was on the greens. And just another robotic He
(02:21):
he's a.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Cyborg, right.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think he just keeps coming at you, and he
keeps making putts and keeps hitting good quality shots.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He's hard not to root for.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But like we were saying off here, there's nothing that's
salacious about him. He's a real stand up guy. He's
got strong a Christian belief. He's a good family man.
There doesn't doesn't appear that he's got any chinks in
his armor.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Todd Tiger used to talk about being able to compartmentalize things,
and Scotty seems to be able to go to practice
at eight thirty in the morning, do his workout, do
his ball, hit balls, play nine holes, eat lunch, play
another nine and put all that in there. Not let
anything in the world, bother him, and then go home
and be a husband and a dad and then go
whatever you're going to do that evening, and then get
(03:03):
on a plane and go to a golf tournament. And
whatever he's doing at the time, that's what he's doing,
and the other stuff I'll deal with when I have
time to do that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, it must really show that his life is in
great balance to be able to have that type of
cadence to your life.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And maybe we don't see Scotty doing.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
All the commercials and all the ads, so he can
have better balance to where he can get his golf
work in and get his family time in and really,
you know, make all that work together.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
He made sixty two million dollars last year. I don't
think he needs any endorsements unless he wants some.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, right, he's not out trying to hawk commercials, and
other guys weren't making as much.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So he's in the lead, and you've got Matt Fitzpatrick
who played well. Robert McIntyre is somebody I picked before
the tournament began. He's five back. You and I were
talking right now. This seems to be Scheffler Patrick. Maybe
the eight enders. Unless the Hatton's and the mcelroys and
the Harris Englishes go out and shoot somewhere around, you know,
sixty four to sixty four this weekend, they may get
(04:02):
out because the golf course is gettable today with not
a lot of wind, and I would imagine Scotty's got
in mind another sixty five or so.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think all we can hope for is that there's
a great finish on Sunday, regardless.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Of who that is.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Obviously we'd like to see a Scheffler or somebody like
that win, but let's just hope for a competitive weekend,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
They also talked about some future sites for the tournament,
because we know next year they're going to go to
Royal Bergdale and then in twenty seven at Saint Andrews,
and probably within the next six to eight months they'll
tell us about twenty eight and maybe twenty nine, and
Mirfield and Royal Litham are both on the potential list.
Merefield that they're going to have to do something with
the Scotti Chopin because the residents of north Berry and
(04:45):
Gullin don't want back to back weeks of tournaments. They
don't want the Scottish and the Open back to back.
They want you out of there because they got green
fees to sell and they got a good tourists coming
in that want to be there, and so they only
want to have one tournament at the time, so they're
looking for other venues for the Scottie chopin so that
Miri Fiela could get in there. Lithum apparently has an
(05:06):
infrastructure problem. There's no place to put things. They have
not played at Litham I believe since twenty eleven, maybe
twenty thirteen, twenty twelve. I think twenty twelve was last
time they were lith them and they don't have enough
room and that's kind of sad because that's a special
golf course.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You know those places firsthand, Andy, so you can speak
to that better than anyone.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I suppose. But there's always a will to away.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I think the golf courses say that tongue in cheek
where maybe they want to sell green fees, and of
course that's true, but they also want the exposure so
they can continue to sell green fees into the future
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
The RNA also commented on the future of potentially going
to Turnbury, which they have not been since two thousand
and nine, And the main thing that's changed since two
thousand and nine is that Donald Trump and his team
bought the property in twenty sixteen, and the controversy around
that has kind of kept them from getting another event. Now,
they have said that there's issues with roads getting to
(06:03):
and from Turnberry. I've driven the road. I don't see
where there's any issue now. There is a pretty good
stretch of road where you could have several hundred thousand
protesters if they were wanting to show up with their
picket signs. But other than that, I don't see what
the issue is with the course there. But again, the
RNA has made it very clear that we want this
(06:25):
to be about a golf tournament. We don't want to
be about who owns the golf course or who doesn't
own it, or why we should be here or not here.
The golf course itself is awesome, it's amazing golf course.
But there's other factors that we have to put into
consideration and to determine whether or not we want to
stage a championship there.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, maybe if Trump's listening to your show, Andy, I
don't know if he tunes in or not everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Maybe my own is so he'll get the message.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Maybe you get him to divest to.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
The golf courses, to the ten so that so then
go back, all right. They also announced yesterday that the
Ryder Cup is headed to Spain at the Cameron Golf
and Wellness Resort in Malavea, and that's going to be
in twenty thirty one. So this year it's at it's
at Bethpage, then they go to a dear Manor in
twenty seven, they go to hazelteen in twenty nine, and
(07:13):
when it goes back to Europe, they're going to go
to Spain by the lbe the Olympic Club in San
Francisco in twenty twenty three. And I'm I think that
from just looking at the pictures of this and the setting,
it's going to be an amazing place to host a
Rider Cup. But this is my biggest criticism about how
we pick events sites for the for the Ryder Cup.
(07:36):
And nobody has played Bethpage since the last major was there,
nobody's played Hazelteene since the last major was there, and
nobody's played the Olympic Club since the last major was there.
So everybody that could potentially qualify for those events on
both sides. Is going to a golf course that they
really don't know. The resort called s Malavea is one
(07:59):
of the host one of the courses that the Spanish
Open rotates on. So if you play on the DP
World Tour and you played on the Spanish Open, you
played the golf course before. And I would imagine that
there's some European players that will make the Ryder Cup
that will know a little bit about the golf course,
and the Americans will not. We pick great historical venues.
(08:20):
They pick historical venues, but with a home field advantage
a little bit more. Do you think that even matters
that much that it's a golf course that the Europeans
have some familiarity with.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I don't. I didn't know where this is. I didn't
know where the place in Spain was. I looked it up.
It's about an hour north of Barcelona, and I thought,
I want to go there.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm going to be there for that turning area. The
Ryder Cup is a fantastic event. I've been fortunate to
be there. I'm going to go again this year. My
parents live five minutes from hazel Team, so knock on
Wood will be there in twenty twenty nine. I think
that the players have so much insight they can go
out to the facility a year in advance and start
getting practice rounds in. They set up the golf of course,
(09:00):
exactly the way that they want to set up, with
with rough height, rough with fairly with green speeds, those
types of things. They move tees, they make new te'es,
you know, just to suit the players and what their
skill set is. So no, I don't, like we were
talking about with Scheffler, couldn't adjust to the speed of
the greens.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's hogwash. I mean, these guys are so good and
so amazing that they're going to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So if some people think that's an advantage, yeah, maybe
maybe one percent.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
All right, We've got some golf tips to get to
and a couple other things to finish up the show,
and we'll do that next on the ticket
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