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Why are they calling him Castileo on the broadcast?

His name is not spelled that way and makes no sense.

That maybe that is how he says it, but they, you know how sometimes in words,

there's like the silent E or the silent I, and you just don't say it,

they're adding letters to his name and then pronouncing it.

It's the exact opposite of a silent one.

It's an extra letter that doesn't actually exist.

His last name is spelled Castileo, like every other person in the world

that you've seen Castileo, but they're calling him Castileo

and then adding an extra eye after the two elves.

I would imagine that he's probably, oh my god, my hair's so like pump a door in my

jeez. Get this thing down. The hell's going on here.

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Jeff Feinberg, I posted out the clip from last week when me and you were trying to

decide right after the WDs, and the decision was, do you bet Shane Lowry,

or do we bet Davis Thompson and Nico Etcher-Varia?

And thankfully, we picked Nico.

Yeah, I mean, Nico out of the gate just seemed like a good number against that field.

He's probably probably watching the show last week would have been on any

any card construction, but I joked with you Pat.

Like, it seemed like you got a decades worth of bad Honda classic beats back in one week.

I was, even though Nico had the two shot lead on the 18th hole, and he knew it too,

because if he thought he had to make a birdie, he does not hit that wedge shot

on 18 to 40 feet. He was just like, let me get it on the green and two putt.

That's good enough for me, because I think that he knew that Lowry would have had to make

ego to catch him at that point. He's like, I will bet against that rather than me making

some sort of stupid error on this whole, but I'm just trying to think, but back.

Like Keith Mitchell, you know, actually making a putt.

Guys were making putts from below that hole on that pin on 18.

Even today, they were there yesterday, they were doing it, but he made that to sink both

of my second place guys that year. Chris Kirk putting it in the water, then hitting his wedge

to a foot, knocking it in, getting to the playoff, then beating Eric Cole, having Luke List,

all by himself as the clubhouse leader. JT does exactly the same thing. It's a terrible drive,

has to lay up on 18, and almost jars his wedge shot puts to like an inch,

taps it in, beats List and a playoff. So good vibes for us. God bless Shane Lowry. I think

Shane Lowry is my favorite call for now. Yeah, I don't even got some of the craziest.

I don't even know how that was possible. And like, he got away with stuff all day.

Oh, yeah. Hey, I mean, you're not a big Lowry better, and I usually am.

Whenever I bet Shane Lowry, and he's two strokes within the lead on a Sunday,

he shoots 78. And this is every two foot pot of the high end, like the players that I just never

bet. I'm telling you, like if you'd someone had it, would probably be Russell Henley and Shane

Lowry, the analytics mavens who just listen, I'm spending time betting my own losers. Like,

we'll go through it. I'm going to give recycled names today. That's for God damn short.

Oh, yeah, but we got some fun ones for Puerto Rico though. But, but yeah, they're just guys,

and I felt up until last year, this week, like I hadn't really gotten burned in what felt like

a decade by either of them. I don't know. Shane, like you know, like this is his fifth major,

like not the players. He's almost like the way he treats this tournament. It's become his fifth

major. I like Shane Lowry. I really like Shane Lowry, like the character. Not to like the

Patrick Reed level, but how do I put this? You know, because I'll do the jokes like the Shane

Lowry bingo. And we'll go to major weeks and he'll yell it like everyone's spectators,

marshals, volunteers, T boxes, you know, camera people that are too close, like he will check

even the story about him being rude to like an a lady from like before Paris, the Olympics,

needed a urine sample like anyhow. I can I always acknowledge that I felt like he got a free pass

while being self being aware that he'd want an open championship. And I say this as like the

Tommy Fleetwood fanboy. No, do you know what what do parents hate the most when like one kid is

doing something. And the other kid like compares to like a punishment for the other kid. No, no, no,

you're your own entity. But as like the deranged fleetwood fan, I'd be like look what that guy does.

He's like a big he's jokes everything. Stop yelling at my guy. Oh, oh my god, who's such a sweet

heart. But that's all. I felt Lowry gets a free pass being Rory McElroy's chubby friend

who never wins. That was bad though. And he handled it with all class too. He did. He pulled the

it was good notes for call for your boy. Call him or a cow of what you do in that circumstance

to get actually people to like you despite the fact that you choked away at tournament.

And Tommy's been an expert at that. I think that's like Tommy. Despite the gag jobs, he'd always be

you know such class. He tried me try my hottest. You know, I wasn't trying to hit into the water twice.

You know me try my hottest. Yeah, you know, and that's what made the morocow a thing like so

bothersome was that he didn't hit it in the water. Like he just got stuck in neutral on a hard

golf course and got beat. That's and then like tripled down on being any haven't I don't need

a like right like Lowry like you, you know, he, I don't even understand. I don't even understand

how it's possible to do what he did. But I guess once it happens on 16, 17 became that much

much harder. And I don't know that Nico was trying to put that shot down on 17. He got away with it.

And you need and you need those if you're going to win and hit a winner, it's just been so long since

stuff has broken my way that I kind of all regressed at once for me. But like I saw the Nico

shot. I was like, Oh no, that's tracking right for the water. Well, you just saw it was like a

bad slice. Like he tried to play a cut and he over cut it and it looked like like one of my iron

shots, but it just cleared and then stuck somehow. And the best part about that Nico put on 17 was

the commentators even talked to us like he's like barely lining this up. He seems to know where he

is. He just jared it back in the cup with force. Listen, we can talk about, I mean, I got a lot

to say about Nico. But what was pretty clear is that mishit by Nico on 17 was probably a fact that

he probably felt a little nervous because I've been there before and anyone that knows the

grounds there 16 green 17 T 18 T they are on top of each other. It is a party. You know,

I'm enjoying the party when I've been there. That's for sure. But there's no way he did not know

what had happened on 16 standing on 17 T forever because Stanger was in a mess. Oh, okay. So

Stanger shot on 17. So he's playing in the group ahead. He's with, okay, this is another thing

that I want to address. Why are they calling him Castileo on the broadcast? His name is not spelled

that way and makes no sense that maybe that is how he says it. But they, you know how sometimes

in words, there's like the silent E or the silent I and you just don't say it. They're adding

letters to his name and then pronouncing it. It's the exact opposite of a silent. It's an extra

letter that doesn't actually exist. His last name is spelled Castile like every other person in

the world that you've seen Castileo, but they're calling him Castileo and then adding an extra

eye after the two else. I would imagine that he's probably, oh my god, my hair's so like pump

a door and cheese. Get this thing down. The hell's going on here. You didn't ever. I'd imagine he's

made a request because I've watched enough golf and heard him called Castileo and it was here

and everyone called him Castileo. First time you think someone, you know, made a slip of the

tongue and then, no, it was a regular thing. But yeah, Stanger's mess on 17. So Niko standing

there forever. But didn't know exactly what's happening. And then someone got in a mess on 18.

So Niko absolutely knew what happened standing on 17. I mean, 18. What just happened on 17?

The other, the part of the kid just to go back to Stanger for a second. He hit the same shot

that Lowry hit on 17, except he hit it. He basically hit Lowry shot with Niko's slice and ended

up on the other side of the way. It didn't get wet. It went to the other side of the water and

was just sitting there. And they're like, yeah, that's out of bounds. I think it was kissers like,

yeah, I've hit whatever there. It's out of bounds. I gotta go to the drop zone. Did you enjoy

Lowry trying to take the lift clean in place on his drop from the drop zone?

That I see that's the sort of shit like, oh my God. Yeah, that that had to,

you know, listen, you had to jar it. He's just asking the rules. The head is spinning. But I found

that like really, really funny. I don't know. Pro golf, they're the best. Not that we should ever

compare, but it's one of those things where you would just like lose your mind at your friend.

I gotta drop it over you want, man, but I get it. I get it. And I don't know. I got you can relate.

It doesn't matter what level of like golfer you are, even the most accomplished. It seems like

after they're like breakthrough win and their biggest win, the win that they'll want and remember

the most is the win where your kids like can run out to you without any parental assistance or

being like told to like, you know what I mean? That seems to be the win. They're all chasing.

And you felt bad for Fina was kid who just like got older and older and bigger and bigger. And by

the time he got to do it, the first time you should have done is like a monster. Like, I mean,

I don't mean that. I just mean, he's a brick shithouse complimentary way. So yeah, and Larry's gonna,

that one's gonna hurt. And what sucks the most Pat is like, you know, he gets to walk in that

bay hill locker room. And I don't know if it's like good guy culture now, but I mean, you got

to eat it. Like the boys are gonna raz you. Like if someone did that in Tigers day, the next time

Tiger saw them, like, oh my God, he might ask the locker room attendant for the locker beside

yours just so he can like needle you about it all week. Oh, that's got to hurt. That's got to

hurt. Maybe he'll bounce back. You know, people bet him again. His Florida under par numbers remain

strong. And he performed well at API over the course of his career as well. He wouldn't be

inconceivable that he goes back out and I don't know if he wins API, but puts up a pretty good,

maybe first round leader Shane Lowry's where we should be looking here. This would be one of the

greatest. Like can might know what better than me, but like how Stanley blew a seven stroke

leader something than the next. Yeah, he, well, what happened was that was at farmers and he ended

up spending the ball twice in the water on 18 and then Snetaker ends up with the win. Yeah,

I believe he had a three stroke lead on 18 and just completely melted on the last hole. Then

the next week he goes and plays in the desert and Phoenix. And that was the year that Spencer Levine

kept getting caught by the cactuses and smoked a pack of cigarettes on the like final nine. He blew

it and Stanley ended up beating him the next week. So maybe it's the bounce back. Yeah, this would

be one of, I mean, that's the bounce back that always comes to mind. I want to say Adam Scott

won the Masters after gagging the open. Like, I know there's were like when the open was last,

I know that's not like a week bounce back, but I thought that was like one of all time great

bounce backs. But like in regular season golf, this would be like one of the greatest bounce backs

ever. And it sets up for him. I got my own, as I would say it every week is you would bet Shane

Lowry. I got my own losers at like 40 to one to bet who never win. I'm going back to one of

one of my, my favorite losers to bet this week too. Don't worry about that.

Question for you, because this has happened to Lowry now so many times, like this happened in

Dubai like two months ago when he needed to get up and down from the bunker for parts,

skulled it into the water on the eight 70 second old. It lost.

Now the Rory pray thought he was fine without him. He was doing amazing.

Yeah. Oh, sorry. I just, I, I had conceded. Oh, well, we got a joke about it because I actually had

a Nico without ticket at 62 to one that you, you made that while we were on the show last week.

Yes. And I laughed at myself as with draws were coming, but you know, I'm not the dumbest guy.

Like I knew seeing what other markets were in the normal like seeing he was under 60 on some books

that like that number was going to be strong whatever. And it was a way to work around getting

limited on that one book. Only let me get a little, you know, not as much as I would have wanted

on the regular bet. But I was like, I thought my sweat was going to be Nico holding off like

smotherment and more for second place. And I'm like mentally convincing myself like, okay,

this is nice for Shane, jolly old lad, you get the win. You know, I can't believe it.

I can't believe it. And then part of my head would have been more calligates off the mat.

Lowry gets off the mat. Like what a lovely run of getting off the mat. If that had happened,

would you have bet can't lay this week? I mean, I would have just then I would have,

I would have lost more money like how is can't we still on the mat? It's unbelievable.

It's it's unbelievable. I don't know. Can't we can't we never played here before it became

elevated, right? The API, I don't believe so it was him or zander who would never played it

before. Yeah, and sometimes they do things in unison. So I've always kind of been turned off

them because you know, it almost feels like not for like it create a gear obviously here now. But

um, and another thing about API is I probably would have lost a bet if you'd have told me how many

consecutive Americans have wanted API. So like, I don't know, two, three, five years. Yeah,

I'm gonna say let's say it's last year. It was Henley, then Scotty, then Kitty,

I'ma then Scotty. Who went the year before that? All right, Bryson, one of your Bryson. And then

before that, it was like five years of in of Europeans. Yeah, Rory, Mollonari,

not Europeans in the nationals. Yeah, leashman ended up winning day ended up winning. Yeah,

that's interesting. But it wasn't all of the best players weren't there every single year. A lot

of the best players were there, but not all of the best players, but most of the best international

players are we weirdly what that is kind of morphed into is what the Canadian open is now where none

of the top American guys play, but all of the top international guys play. Yeah, and the Canadian

open gets the bump from this modern player. A lot of them like to play right before majors.

Well, in the Tiger era, they all just copy Tiger. Yes, it works for Tiger. It's like, I guess

that's how you do it because he knows everything. I have a question to pose to you. Ready for this?

It's a Shane Lowry S question. Would you concede that winning an individual tournament has far

more pressure and stakes on the line, regardless of how elevated, how significant that tournament is

versus the team aspect of the Ryder Cup, because Lowry's nails in the Ryder Cup.

I mean, we saw this with Polter for years too, that in the Ryder Cup, it was different than him

being out there by himself. I guess the ultimate question is, should Shane Lowry have gone to live

where he could play as a team? Listen, I don't, I mean, that pie in that like cauldron of everything

going against Europe that Sunday, and what would have been on that stake had he missed it,

although it would have been a total team collapse, like he wouldn't have worn the loss.

No, but he still may, he may, he played well and he made the putt that mattered. I do want to

give a special shout out to Lowry for saving himself and the tournament before putting it in the

water on 17 with one of the most incredible bunker shots I've ever seen. He had to get it to land

in the rough, but close enough to the fringe that it would still trickle through the rough and

then hit the slope to stop next to the hole, because that had triple written all over it and

saved himself that shot, which at the time was massive. Yeah, and it would have been in fear,

it was infuriating because you let like of all the the lucky breaks he got all day and then he hits.

Well, yeah, I guess what it felt like maybe the biggest shot of the day.

Yeah, that's too bad. That's a great shot that just gets lost in what happened.

I don't really have an answer for that. I mean, you can point to Fleetwood as well who just

write like the writer cups just dominant performance and even him, he had to he nut it up like Lowry

to pretty much lock the other one as momentum was turning. That like short par four, I don't know,

it was incredible shot. Then that bloke jumped in the lake in France or Paris, Paris, France.

I remember where yeah, I don't know like a joke. Lowry, I don't know. I don't know. He is the full bag.

Shane Lowry, the character I greatly appreciate because as we've lost a lot of characters,

he's truly one of the great PJ tour characters. I feel bad for anyone who's got to carry the label

now that he's carrying. I don't know. The open championship, you'll never take it away at home.

It's one of the greatest golf wins. Like if you'd like, I don't mean like just yeah,

it's just in terms of like one of the greatest golf wins since we've been doing the podcast.

The guy wins his home open and we all remember like that was supposed to be Rory's week. It was

Shane's week. It was an incredible, what an incredible situation there. But I don't know, man,

like they put up that three PGA tour wins thing on the sheet because they were comparing him to

smother men sort of as they teed off and they out. I mean, you do the math in your head.

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Drew is always big on this. So shout out, Drew. He made something that I've done before. I think

we've all done it before at one point or another, but this one's like a real kick in the nuts.

He went because I hit smotherman first round leader and I had the bet on smotherman to win.

He went to go make the same play, but instead of betting him first round leader, he just bet

him to win twice by accident. So he didn't hit first round leader and smotherman comes in second.

That is a brutal beat. We've all been there. I've done, I have done it. I, I, I beat completely

all. There's so many things that I do. Hey, like a guy's playing well, like, did I, like,

just make sure I bet him because, you know, Monday, think I bet a guy, my brain thinks I bet a guy

Monday morning. Maybe I said I was going to bet him. Then I'm like, oh, I have that heart attack.

And, you know, anytime I got like Nikolai or Rasmus and one's doing well, I always like worried

that I bet the wrong one. They both did pretty well. Last week, Cust was bragging to me. He's like,

I see, I know how to pick one and done. Nikolai came T9 or T6 or whatever the hell we came. I was like,

yeah, Jeff and I had one and two in the one and done. So you lost ground, pal. Oh, yeah.

I have never, I have never been happier to see my one and done pick lose. Jeff,

to your one and done pick never before my life. That was pretty funny. And you kind of bullied

me into it because I was going to take Nikolai Hoigard because I just said Nikolai aren't.

But I was like, you know, I'll get crazy. Like, you're not going to, I don't care. You could write

at your barrier down for me. That doesn't threaten me. Let's go. There you go. You're

you. I flowery in the other like the bigger one and done because I took your advice when you had

broken down as someone that's not like the true lorry believer. Like, I'm not going to pick

them at an elevated event or the open. So this was the best place. I wasn't going to pick them

in heritage. I wasn't going to use them at Berkdale. This was the place to use them.

And I went the other way. I thought that he be I thought between him and Gerard that they

would just and Nikolai that they would just simply be too popular. So I use like the next guys

on the list. So and since none of them won, that was kind of the point. Like, you actually need

these guys to win to make it significant because I was 20th in the big in the race for the Mayo

Cup going into the week. And I used a Rasmus Huy guard as my pick there. I was like,

if everyone's using Nikolai, I'll just use Rasmus. He was fine. But at one point when lorry was

in first, I had dropped down from 20th to like 65th. But when he ended up coming in a tie for

second, I think I dropped from like 20th to 25th or something. It was basically insignificant. And

I was like, that that's sort of the strategy. It sucks when the super popular guy ends up winning.

But he didn't end up winning. So it all worked out.

And what Nikolai could have got to like 16 under or something.

Yeah, but then they then they asked him to make a three foot putt. And that's not doable for him.

He you give him a 40 foot pot. He's like 50 50 on those. You give him a three foot pot. He's also

50 50 on those numbers love him. Shout out to Brooks.

Brooks was interesting. He finally started to make some pots. But

it will they weren't the puts that you would expect him to make. It's not like he was just

stepping up and draining 12 footers. He was making like 40 foot bombs, 35 foot bombs. And every

time he got closer to the hole, then it started to leak. I've seen a lot of people after the round

yesterday. And even early this morning, betting Brooks at the players. He was a hundred to one.

He's already dropped to 60 to one because there's been so much movement on that market. I'm not

there with Brooks yet to win the players. No, listen, as he even said, like just he wants to be

peaking for like the majors, obviously. I guess the players is huge too.

Well, the players is weirdly. The players is weirdly big for him this time around because if he wins

it, then he's in all, you know, he's back in the tournaments with all the people he knows,

not the people he doesn't know. 100%. I'm not over reading the final result, but it is great

to see like it's just a nice step forward up the ladder for him.

You know what they didn't make too much mention of on the Sunday broadcast?

I don't know that Nico and Taylor Moore who played together were college teammates.

Really, they love that stuff. Yeah, there's a reason for that. They both got arrested when they

were in college and suspended from the golf team for voyeurism. And Nico's charges got dropped

in Taylor Moore had to plead guilty to it for a lesser charge. So they didn't really want to bring

that one up when they ran Arkansas. Arkansas, pick Sui. We got Nico, Nico bought a house on Friday.

He promised a dog to his wife if he won. So they're going to almost the dogs. And he goes out

eight hours. She got to make the final sign off. Good for them. And now they're supposed to move

around the masters. So, oh, perfect. Lovely for Nico. I'm trying to think there were any other

takeaways. I thought, listen, I got in smotherman late. It's funny how much things can evolve

throughout the course of the week because I did the research show and that this is the epitome of

golf bubble and just reflecting on it. Like, of course, like I ended up on smother my ended up

on the right play with this. But when I was doing the research show, like smotherman just kept popping

up. Like, he was almost on like every single one of the things that I looked at, which is usually

like go time to bet someone's like, it's better than kind of socks. Everyone likes smotherman. If his

name was Austin Smith, no one would care about him. He's the smotherman. So people like get,

you know, pretty high and mighty with them. They like to bet him. And then guy, yeah, just,

but just any one three times on corn fairy. And he spikes like he has these awesome rounds out

of nowhere. And he's been doing that for three years. That's how he ended up, you know, that's how

he came on the radar in the first place. That's also how he lost his PGA tour card at the same time.

There's no consistency in his game. But he had been playing a bit more consistent. You saw some

spike iron rounds when I did the show with Blickel. He popped in the DFS optimizer for his price.

He was the best guy on the board points per dollar. The best value on the board. Even in the

rabbit hole simulator, I think he was like, out 9th or 11th and overall win odds. I was like,

what am I doing here? Just because people who cover this like me full time like this guy

that's a reason for me not to like this guy. That's really stupid. And just to shit, I put,

you know, when you put the wins in with your buddies after the fact in the group tax, one of my one

friends like, I've never heard of either of these guys. Oh, yeah, no one knows who these guys are.

This is why we still get value on them. But I talked myself into it by the end of the week.

Well said. And these are the sort of events where there's, well, there might, I mean,

even Nico was on, but he's like most tip chart. So yeah, I think he was the, I think the numbers.

I think he was the most this blessed, blessed we go. You've been a lot closer to sniffing one

this year. I haven't been nearly as close as you. But thank God, because like to get one before

Sheffler goes on fire, it seemed like there'd been an opportunity post at max. I don't know.

So finally get one feels great. And I'm just on the wins count. I'm counting it as February,

not March, because you know, it's like the five one each month. So find one for February.

Very good week for people on draft Kings as well from, because I ended up coming third in the

six dollar because there was somehow two better six of six Lowry smotherman Nico lineups out there

the one that I had. And they were like way better than the ones that I had. That was even after

my guy Marty Doe made five birdies on the back nine to like get himself back up after a horrendous

start on Sunday. But we have the, where is it? I had it pulled up. Joe, Joe Burman,

single bullet in the $25.25 bucks, Jeff, into a hundred K. That's a win right there.

God damn it. Single bullet. Sorry for the snap, but what a,

and it was the lineup basically that we made on the show. And I just, I didn't play. It was

Lowry Gerard and Nikolai Hoigard. So the three guys at the top. And he did the strategy that

Blicco and I talked about was like go down low. Like if you're going to take the three chalk guys

at the top, make sure you're different below. He went Nico Ford and smotherman. 20.

$25.25 into a hundred thousand dollars. And the guy. Yo legacy. Also a viewer shout out to him.

He came third. He won 50 grand of that tournament. Oh, shout out everybody. Yes. Let's go.

Not gonna lie. Like when those games first left this province, I tried to stay like pretty

connected to them. But it's been so long, Pat. Like they almost don't even like exist now. Like I

just, I wish I miss. Although it will be, it will be somewhere I can get in in Florida maybe.

That's right. We're going to TGL tomorrow. I'll see you in Florida.

See you in Florida. Yeah. I got a bit of an excursion. You know, me a level little Palm Beach,

yeah. Yeah. Go to CTGL and now play a little golf.

We're worried about my elbow. We'll have a longest drive competition.

Me versus you on the TGL simulator. No, no, not a chance. You guys going to

come on. I was like, you know, I might need a round. I was like, you know, I might even like,

would it be embarrassing? That's like a regular shaft.

I'm just worried about my elbow. But yeah, don't worry. I'll triple the first two holes and then

it'll be, uh, then it'll be fine. Loosen up a bit. I listen up and then I will be, uh, I'm going

to be bad when we hit the course. Yeah. That permute like, I don't know. I haven't played since

like October and I love playing in Florida, but that permute a grass. Like it is a trip for us.

Like Kentucky bluegrassers. Um, yeah, I can't wait. I just play on Northeast poets.

Like, you know, there's no real difference between the rough and going out to your front lawn

and hitting the ball around. If it's not mode, that that's the grass up here. But once I

triple the first couple of holes, uh, I'll be manicuring, uh, my lies and that permute a

rough. I tell you. Yeah. Just, just, just who was more infuriating? Because I had smotherman and

Nico and I do want to get like a smotherman had just made a few putts on Sunday. He probably wins

because he actually played pretty well. He just didn't make anything and Nico was making.

Fucking Taylor. You, all I wanted to do was strap Taylor more to an eject seat and get him out

of there. He was, his game, the entire week was horrible driving like, okay, irons and then

just chipping everything next to the hole or chipping in and then making 40 foot putts. It was

infuriating to see him on six six. Man, six is a great hole. The way that it played on Sunday,

it was so hard to see him chip it into the water and he could have played his ball. Weird.

On that and I think was smiley even said on the broadcast and smiley asked Nico. He's like,

that was your ball. Would you have played? He's like, yeah, I would have. Yeah, I didn't understand

that. Um, and then they even showed it. They showed the two. I don't know. That was so

strange. And let me say this about Nico because there were a lot of people on them post Thursday,

which seemed like it was all gravy. I wasn't paying attention, but fun to scroll. Congrats to

the first round leader of people. It seemed like people were getting like Nico, what they felt

like Nico wasn't hitting enough putts. The broadcast, since I tuned in on Friday, all they talked

about was how beautiful Nico was putting is you could honestly see that on the misses. It was

a speed like when he missed, he missed by two inches. Yeah, there was I'll get to a miss on Friday

in a second because I have a funny follow up to it. But I got to tell you Pat, people who thought

he did not make enough like 11 or 12 footers on Saturday, he made like two or three insane up at

par saves on Saturday, like out of this world, when he wins this tournament, do not forget about

the up and downs. And like they weren't like 30 footers, 20 footers for par. Like nine feet,

hitting incredible chips that to like eight feet that no one thought he'd even get to eight feet

and hitting like all of those putts. They were so clutch, incredible, incredible.

Like when I went into the day with smotherman and Nico, the only thing that I really wanted from

them was like, just don't miss any putts inside six feet. Make all of those and don't have a three putt

and you're probably going to win. And smotherman couldn't do that because it was a six or seven,

wherever it was. He just he rolled it from like 80 feet. He put it like five feet by a miss

the comeback. Or like that's the end of Austin smotherman. It seemed like he could have made a

bit of a run, but he made because I had the top three each way on him, which he ended up in the

two thirds split with, which was still, you know, 40 to one. So that was great on smotherman. But

he made the putt on 17 from just off from just off, which was huge, a huge par save. And then

the up and down that he had on 18 made like two really clutch putts on 16 and seven, maybe

in 15, 16 or 16 and 17, getting mixed up in my mind now. But they were like 11 footers that if

he doesn't make them, he's cooked. And he made them. So that was good. Yeah. I got one more thing.

Well, it is it. I mean, can we just talk about Lowry how he was just making everything for 40

feet for a second? Or when he top to drive that somehow didn't go at a bounds and then he ended

up making par on the whole anyway. I mean, the box even Pat, he even like skirted a bunker that

he could have been in the face of and then he hits that to five feet. Yeah, yeah, pops out of the

bunker. He basically, it's funny because I had put it out earlier on in the day and then it

actually coming to think about it. It actually did come full circle. And then after seven holes,

like he's basically playing like speed right now. Like this, this is a speed route. And he ended

up going full speed by double rinsing it. Yeah, I was proud that I liked my tweet of a

speed giving Will at the green jacket and saying it's Lowry and Nico.

So we have the players show next week. I mean, I have a ton of players championship

content. Obviously, Cust is going to join us. But for the first time ever on the golf show,

we will be doing a Cust corner mini because I don't want to spoil it. But Cust has a new idea

for golf equipment that people really need to hear. Is it something that's like already been

invented? No, no, no. Okay. Sometimes he'll tell you something like, you know, a feature for a

car. You'd be like, that's been in cars for like 15 years, man. Okay. Well, last last thing on

the cognizant. Can we get rid of the 1950s UFO graphics for the wind? It's really embarrassing.

And the the commentators have to be like, look, look at these amazing graphics. Like this looks

like plan nine from outer space. Yeah, I know what was going on. And it's, you know, it's

coinciding with, you know, you know, jets in the air and just look like a bunch of stealth bombers

flying at me. Like, what's channeling my on? Yeah. Lowry should have let the paper airplanes go

on by before he hit that ball on 17. Maybe that would help them. Yes. And then they're trying to show

you the speed of the graphics represents the speed of the wind and how it's different at different

levels. Call me a skis bought. They were all moving the same to me. Yeah. Call me, I could not,

you know, whatever. If you just put it wasn't been losing his mind about that. I don't know if

he was watching it. He said he was at a craft brewery yesterday. And then we found out that an

article came out afterwards or after he told us where he was that in Nova Scotia, where we're at,

that they just closed like 33% of craft breweries in the past two months because we're all going

out of business. Yeah, craft brewery. Yeah, but that's not just a Nova Scotia thing. I think that

seems to be all over North America. They've, yeah. They outlive their usefulness. Another very

significant moment that maybe, listen, not a lot of people are paying attention to the A on swing

five like I am, although they don't, they do talk about it, but I don't feel like they do a good

enough job of explaining it because there's real like implications for it that were huge on the last

whole yesterday and they didn't really bring it up. Maybe they just didn't know what was going to

end up happening, but like that's how you, like that's the actual like elevation system on the PGA

tour right now. Like guys play themselves into that. They get a shot to play in the signature

events. You play well in the signature events. You get your tour card. Then you get to play in all

the signature events. Like that's the ladder that you have to move up and they don't make a big enough

deal out of it. Whenever they talk about it, it's always almost like a really generic sponsors

read and they don't actually tell you what it's all about, but Keith Mitchell double bogeyred

16. He too put it in the water on 16. He just happened to do it on a second shot and he was in

and then he fell out. He had to make birdie on 18 in order to get himself back in the swing

tent. It bumped out Joel Damon by one FedEx cut point because Mitchell made birdie and now he's

playing in the API. I feel bad for Joel Damon. Damon had a good week. Do you want to talk about

if you were concerned about people making putts? He made he made fewer putts and Ryan Gerard did

all week and Ryan Gerard hit a bird off the tee like Randy Johnson. Oh yeah, that was wild.

Well, great event. You know, I do think they should maybe play less.

They they they need to keep this great one. They need to keep this course.

Yeah, they're not. I don't know. It seems like there might be like some bad blood there now.

How come? I don't know ever since because they like a whole operation. I don't know. They

would they they had like a lot of offices there too that I think they've abandoned.

Yeah, they move the they move most of it either to Frisco or up to Connecticut.

Like Golf Channel moved to Connecticut. I think the PGA moved to Frisco, Texas.

Yeah, but it's a great course. Even even as they you know, I don't know whether it's derogatory

but it's like some in the media like to refer to them as like the mule class of the PGA tour. It

is such an incredible. You put anyone on that course. It's just it's always pretty good theater.

Well, it's it's a good example for courses that they pick for the PGA tour that you have

three holes. I mean, 15's a bit innocuous, but 16 and 17 in particular on the bear trap when

the wind gets up. There are legitimate four stroke swings on those holes. And no tournament is

over. Like you can think about the Green Mile at Quail Hollow like 16, 17, 18, three of the hardest

holes on tour. But you're not seeing anyone make quads on those holes to completely swing a

tournament like someone might go double bogey bogey or bogey bogey bogey. It's sort of like death

by a thousand paper cuts on those holes that they're just they're hard to birdie. They're hard to

make power. But at the same time, it's to make triple. You'd really have to be bad on these holes

like one bad shot. You're cooked 15 man. I stood at that T box. If it's windy like that thing is

it might not be as hard as 17, but that is a big bitch from behind when they stretch that one out.

That's a big club. And what was I just going to say? It's sort of about the new world order

that it seems like of golf. And while I think they should, you know, how do I put this? You know,

there's a fine line between like playing less and like destroying the mule tier of the tour pat.

But I think the PGA tour would actually potentially really hurt itself

if they wind back how much they play because maybe I'm I'm not speaking for us and who watches

the show, but I feel like a lot of people who just watch golf on the weekend don't even know

when they turn it on, they'll see. Oh, it's that event. Oh, Scotty and Rory are playing awesome.

They don't know that like this weekend's bay hill. They're just putting on golf on the

weekend the same way I put on a blue jays game all summer long because I know it's just there.

And then they try. Oh, it's bay hill. This one's great. Like so when you stop playing

and you like take weeks off, people won't even sometimes know when your big ones are.

And I'm not talking about the majors, but like this one as an example.

That's any sense of making any sense. You are, but I from what I can glean,

is that they're not getting rid of tournaments like this per se. But people seem to be up in arms

that they are going to be the lower tier events like newsflash. You just watched a lower tier

event. Yeah, Lowry showed up. Everyone who was good WD from the tournament. This is the this is

the type of field that we're going to see at these non upper class tournaments. I'm fine with

that. Just keep running them out. I'm good. Okay. So you just hit on a great point because forever,

forever. What I do like about what this guy, the new guy is going to do is we grew up in an era

where like there were truths that no one spoke about. Like they were just like every, every event

was sort of we wouldn't talk about that. This is an inferior event. Like you can know it. It's

like some secret that everyone knows that no one talks about because they didn't want to embarrass

local markets. They didn't want to embarrass sponsors. They didn't want to even they didn't

want to even reduce the chance of good players going by like giving it reduced FedEx cup points

because they just wanted to give every event its best chance to succeed. This new guy,

it seems like the tour is going to be like a lot more overtly transparent with what the event is.

Now we always knew what the events were, but as they sold them all almost identical,

I'm not saying they were worth the same to sponsor, but from like the outside they were portrayed

as equal up until we got signatures, which changed it. And don't you forget Pat, when we first got

signatures, they said they were going to rotate. Now I'm not, I'm not giving them a hard time,

by the way. You want them where you want them. And like there's certain ones that were never

going to be a signature, but I think there have been one wrote, I think only travelers rotated

once. Might be the only thing Phoenix was one time there's been one rotation of these things.

And they said they would rotate them. And Kustle believes that they are rotating that they

don't want you told us. It's like, yeah, they know Pat any day. The John, he's like, I can't

wait for the Canadian open to be a signature event. Yeah, I got some tough news for you.

Well, that one we've talked about many how it's it's national open and they have the image that

one would never be its own thing, but any of them, yeah, um, to think to think you were an event

that like ever thought it is kind of funny. Um, okay, I got one more thing. Yeah, let's keep

fighting. Listen, I didn't, I did not go through the like, I think it ended up the, the total,

I didn't, I stopped counting after a while. Once we got over a hundred of the people who shared

their Nico tickets or Smotherman top 10, top five, whatever it might be. A lot of people won

money this week. I forgot how fun this is to do. We want to people of Lowry too, Pat, because like

you said, we're on the other side of our decision. The moment those withdrawals came in, they're like,

I'm betting Shane Lowry 19 to one. He might be not have a dog, but like, I don't want to say,

CLV, this is just going to be like, that's my decision. And that was that, I mean, it's a decision

that we talked about on this show last week, that exact decision, because once they started withdrawing

and the Lowry number was still hanging, it's like, well, it's a pretty good number for Shane Lowry

at this point, but I can empathize with anyone who had their outright winner come in second

after losing in devastating fashion. This is the most devastating loss of the year, however,

but it's not like we haven't been through this before, Jeff.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I always think it wasn't as bad. Fleetwoods to Keegan's last year was

just so bad, especially when you saw the ball hit the rock and then go to the right on the winning

putt. Like, oh, no. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. So we're old school, Pat. And this goes out to the

originals, but this is for the hardcore is you'll feel me right now. Back in the day, you could

like get on PGA tour radio commercials. We could we could sing songs, put out a CD, pay a couple

hundred bucks. We'd have a commercial on PGA tour radio. Awesome. Obviously, that's changed.

It's like big corporate. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not true. No, there's a lot more

big corporate because hear me out, Pat, that being said, you know, I say like sometimes a Miss

5 footer can tilt me. So it's like Friday, Nico misses a Saturday, Nico Bogey 17 or whatever,

I'm frustrated. The first commercial they pull out of the gate. It's life insurance. Some

woman's husband just died. She's now alone with her two kids, okay? And I'm upset that a dude

missed an eight footer. What a reality check. Oh, man, did that thing like snap you right back into

orbit. I'm like, okay, okay, that thank you needed that because I was tilting a pie. So yeah,

they got these new, I think it's ethos insurance. Oh, but here's the thing. I think these are all like

C minus grade life insurance companies because the one that I've noticed the most is what if you

wake up tomorrow and society has completely collapsed. What will you do? They're selling like

that shit that cuss was eating on the show at the rations. Really? That's like from the rumble

commercial inventory. Well, here's the thing. The PJ tour radio has a awful lot of rumbly type ads

now. Okay. Anyway, usually I don't even like hear them anymore because they're all repetitive,

but I did catch myself instantly like mislapot commercial first commercial. This woman lets me know

it's tragic. Like, you know, her husband just passed. She's got like two young kids. I don't need a,

okay, you know, whatever. It's a good, it's a good like, okay, your putt didn't matter, pal. You'll get

over it. The only thing I'm also upset about is I coulda hit Nico to win twice if I was paying

attention to that website on Monday because I had bets in. What do you mean? They were given

the payouts. Oh, yeah. So that happened last week. The people were cashing out 20k. Someone had

five bucks on Justin Hicks to win it like five thousand one. Okay. So because one of those guys

and my question that I asked Rob was like, this is what I just don't understand. Like, I've got like,

you know, me, I got to make like, you know, four, $17 like Nico tickets, whatever.

My point being is like, that guy bet Justin Hicks.

That wasn't like, I know DraftKings has an error. I'm going to take advantage of it. That was,

I'm betting Justin Hicks for a five chip out of the gate on Monday morning. That is insane.

Well, there's probably people that look at the guy who is the longest odds in the field and

bet him $5 every week. That's probably a thing or or someone knows that, I mean, I set the

over under on two and a half hours after Bridgeman's win that he would withdraw and he waited till

the next morning. People probably looked at him like, a lot of these guys are probably going to pull

out. Let me see what happens here. And DraftKings made the fatal error that instead of taking down

the market, they did it first. Yeah, because on the show, they did it first, but then they

reopened everyone at minus 10,000 to avoid anyone making any other bets. And I'm driving, yeah,

I'm driving downtown to record with Pizzola. And I know the withdrawals are coming and you know,

me, I'm sometimes get off and I just look and I see their minus. I saw the DraftKings odds

when they were minus 10,000, but this P brain did not connect to going to his open bets and what

that could mean. I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I saw I was out of red light minus 10,000

everyone. That's like a strange, I guess that's how you get no one to bet. Clearly, I did not

realize the derivative of that, which was a fat fun away. So yeah, that's if I what I joked

with Pizzola, if I wasn't in the car, I would have caught that. I would have because I eventually

would have been back and forth in that time, especially with draws coming, but now I can joke

with Zola and I hit the winner. You don't need to look too far because I know a lot of people

who are watching this show had that exact same thing happened. I even spoke with a few of

them that cashed out their money and got their money out. I do believe that some of the bigger ones

that when the people tried to withdraw the money, a trucker was like, nah, sorry, pal.

Yeah, that goes, I mean, listen, because they are, they pride themselves. They're in this contest,

this pissing contest, these sportsbooks that will withdraw the fastest. So that's some people

got that money out. I don't mean once you hit withdraw, can hit your bank account the fastest.

And to my understanding, I don't even think they, did they put people in negative balances?

No, but I think they just accepted that they screwed up, I think.

They did, but I think on some of the larger ones, when people tried to withdraw $12,000,

because once you get up to a certain limit of withdrawing money, it's like a manual review

of people are like, I think at this $12,000, I was like, oh, that was an error. So if you did it

for like $2,500, $4,000, and just like, quick out, you got your money and your accounts probably

nuke, but what do you care at that point? The way that they make me dance around getting my bets in,

I would nuke the DK account that I have for, yeah, for a golf winner.

Yeah, for $5,000, you nuke your DK one. There's some people that like, what sort, you know,

I would too, in fairness. But like the one that I, you know, I'm not talking like, you know,

sure, if you got like some super VIP account and you are able to get like pro bettors to hook you bets,

sure, maybe you don't, but yeah, oh my god. So I just know that those guys that bet Justin

Hicks, they were just, that was a bet on Justin Hicks. That wasn't like, the system is screwed up,

I'm going to bet the worst guy and then get paid for it. They just wanted the worst guy.

At the same time, we were discussing near guard Pederson.

Cr incredible, incredible. And then not good for that, their own AI or their own back end bites them,

like, I don't know, good for you. I no wonder their stock is in my pocket.

Hey, that's costing me a lot of money. Oh, yeah, yeah, I guess a few people sorry about that rebound.

It'll always rebound. Yeah, we always, you wait till March madness is coming.

Stock up seven bucks. That'll be good. Then I'll go down a little bit and then we'll get to

week one NFL and then it'll go up like 30 bucks because that's what happens every year.

Those two events coincide that the stock magically goes up, shocking when people are just pumping

money into gambling sites for like two of the biggest bigger betting events of the season.

The other PGA ad, I came up with this was radio or TV. It's like brain medication. I was like,

man, I'm really dreading the day when I like age into needing to know what these ads are.

They're all really like you mentioned life insurance. They're all all golf ads are super depressing.

Yeah, and less like you. Yeah, the only non, well, I guess, because, you know, nice cars and like

Rolex will like advertise to engulf, but that's surrounded by like dick pills, heart medication,

life insurance. I don't know refinancing your home. Reverse mortgage. Get one. Tom

Sellik will tell you. And then you write you one, Nick Faldon selling you a golf trip.

Yeah, or a jet, a jet experience with them soon. But that's the thing, like golf channel is still

like a specialty cable channel. So you're really just going to see the same six commercials,

like on all the specialty cable channels, right? I always thank you. I want to look into this.

I wonder how much it is to buy ad time. That feels like it would be a good marketing move for

the Pat Mayo experience. Should I buy ad time? I'll start with PGA tour radio and maybe move up

to golf channel. It can't be that much. I would start. Yeah, the rate. I don't. Yeah. I mean,

the radios are the true secos. Yeah, but even if you're listening to golf on the radio,

you are the prime demo to watch this show. Even my like nine year old who knows,

daddy watches sports, you know, daddy will listen to the ball game on the radio.

She said she was in the car as listening on the weekend. It's like, I don't understand like

anything these people are saying. And of course, like, why would she? It makes no sense. Who the hell

is listening? Obviously, like sure, like Rory, the end of a master's or something. Like,

whoever cares about golf enough to listen to it on the radio. We do. And people don't know that if

you just open the PGA tour app, go to watch. There's a free serious stream in real time.

On some people just, they just never looked underneath that tab. If you're ever in need of

just like streaming some golf. And they have some like, I like Will Haske. Will Haske. It's been

on the show before, you know, Canada's own Mark Zakino who had his sneeze. Well, he was doing a

call on the sixth of yesterday, which is pretty funny. Jeff Eisenpland was on two weeks ago.

Good smooth baritones. I like it. It's enjoyable. Jeff and Jeff did a really good job. I haven't

heard him on all that often. He usually does the ESPN, like, plus, like, PGA, you know, those

streams. He usually does those. But he was on the radio at Riv and he was really good. It was

nice to have someone who was more, we're not young. But if we were on a golf broadcast, we would

be like children. So it was nice to hear someone who was our age beyond there rather than a bunch

of like 60-year-olds. I've always said the radio does such a great job. I know that

they've sort of handcuffed them a bit and they still, you know, do a great job.

Well, especially when you have people on the course, I find they're far more realistic in what

they're telling you, like, like, especially some of these shots from the rough yesterday,

at PGA National. Dan Hicks is like, man, this is like, I don't know how he can even sniff the green

from here. And then he lofts it to 25 feet. On the radio, they're like, yeah, he might be a bit

of a flyer live. Like, this isn't all that bad at all. He can make this. So like, they're realistic

about the, like, the actual, it's sort of like the reverse Johnny Miller. Where Johnny Miller

said that every lie was the easiest lie because he could do it. Therefore, everyone should be able

to hit it to an inch. It's the opposite now on the TV broadcast where everything that's in the

rough is the most impossible lie in the world. On the radio, they do a better job of giving you

more insight to that, I feel like. Like, yeah, he could catch a flyer. He might be, he might hook

this because it's a little bit above his feet. But overall, like, it's a pretty, he drew a pretty

good lie here for the circumstances. The radio, what the radio does pat is, you know, they've got,

they are looking at the, they'll tell you, like, how many guys have been there today?

Like, this spot of bother off the fairway. Oh, we've seen, like, like, like you said, you shouldn't

have any problem getting it on the green from here. Four guys have been here. Like, most of them

have gotten it to like just outside 35 feet. Like, they refer when guys are in the bunk, they tell

you like, how many guys have like gotten up the up and down numbers from like these identical spots.

I don't think they do that on the television. They don't. And they actually have, I've been

tweeting it out more and more because I got access to the back end of shot length. Finally,

after years and years of asking for it. So they'll probably take it away from me now. But like,

all that information is there for everyone who has access to it. And I guarantee you the TV

broadcasters do. It's like one click of a tab and you can get everything instantly in front of you.

Yeah. So I always, and I always sort of appreciate that. I think that's the best way to tell me

what are the chances of my guy like getting out of here with a par. I mean, obviously, the things

are like lie can be very different from a, you know, five inches beside each other. But I think

it's as good of a reference. Radio guys always crush it. Well,

well, it's great. Well, it's a keynote has that what I would consider for us to be the iconic

Nick Taylor call that they always play. They don't show the, I think it was Nance who was doing it.

It was. They don't show the TV when they reference the call and they play the audio. They don't

use the Nance call. They use the Zakino call at the whole from Oakdale of him calling it for

Nick Taylor because he got fired the fuck up when he made the pot. Yeah. Zakino. Yeah. I mean,

when you're listening to Zakino, though, every pot you think is going in from five feet away.

Yeah, that's true. Oh, it's like, oh, I miss two feet to the right thing. But again,

I think they do. And as like a junkie, I love, I love it. And it's the one thing that the PGA

tour does to give you access to the like everything else is so hard to find. It's all fragmented.

You need 8,000 subscriptions. They're like, you know what? You don't even need a series subscription.

You can stream it off our app for free. Yeah. Even when, you know, there's the downtime

between the networks. I know we're lucky here, but just shoot on the radio. Oh, did you see someone

tweeted at me? I don't know if you saw it. That the target and ad, I think it was Mike Tyrell who

ended up putting it out. That on the app, you know, they always have like five guys. Then there's

an ad than the rest of the guys. And it was for Sheffler and someone and they made Sheffler.

Look like he weighed 300 pounds in his picture. It was fucked. I saw you tweet that I laughed

or I you retweeted it. I thought you were going to talk about the ad that we're getting now.

The problem gambling ads. Now March is problem gambling awareness month. So you're going to,

you know, we got big events, Bay Hill, like problem gambling awareness month. Maybe don't,

there's three tournaments. I'm going to bet on this week. Well, we're going to get to those

three tournaments. We got API. We got what else to get Puerto Rico open. We got live Hong Kong. If

you want the Joe Berg open, the sky and Tom will have the DP World Tour picks out later on Monday

on Mayo Media Network. If you're listening to the audio feed, this is the end of part one. So please

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