2026 Players Championship Recap: Cam Young Wins FOR USA, Morikawa WD, Aberg Implosion, Masters Odds

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Jeff, we did the live show on Sunday night

going through the bracket,

making all the picks that was right after Cam Young,

won you all the monies.

I had a pretty busy weekend,

but you were all over the weekend.

You had everyone on that leader board.

I did.

I did.

When was the last time that happened for you?

Like that, not a while,

but for a while I thought I was scared.

You know,

Kastraka can just like go eight in a row

and Bobby Max got a dog in him.

So I was like way too paranoid for the situation.

And I thought like fits in Cam Young

would be my like bodyguards,

but in the end they were sort of the saviors

of the situation.

But yes, it was great to see the cat in Pat.

We've buried the lead here.

Congratulations to you.

We had no cut sweat.

We almost had a cut sweat.

We almost had a cut sweat.

Were you were you talking,

did you have a separate conversation with Kast

about us doing it or us not doing it

in the mix signals that I was sending?

Yeah, I wasn't sure.

I was like,

are we doing it?

Are we doing it?

I sort of like saw two things in the messaging.

I'm like, that'd be crazy.

If you really like wants to roll this out for the players,

it's not even a major.

Yes, so congrats to you.

When we started,

I had no kids,

you had one,

and now you have four,

and I have three.

No, that is incorrect.

I had none.

You had none.

I have three,

and you have three.

Oh, shit.

You don't count Kast?

No, I don't count Kast, unfortunately.

Okay, well like you and your friends

make his reservations

and seem to like do everything for him.

Sometimes it feels like he's more dependent on you

than your children,

but okay.

Yes, so congrats to you.

Congrats to your wife.

Congrats to the whole family.

You didn't get any baby swag from it,

but maybe fresh.

I gave it to you.

I gave it to you.

I gave you my baby swag

with Ludwig, Cam Young,

and Matt Fitzpatrick.

I was,

I'm not sad.

Listen,

if Matt Fitzpatrick had won,

I would have been happy,

but it was the first time

all year I haven't been in a course.

I mean, if boiled down to exactly

what he wasn't,

I mean, at the bad drive on 18, whatever.

But if he had just made a few of his pots

earlier in the day,

he wins that by like four by four.

And I don't,

I didn't look at it exactly

because it would have been

like just hard to look at.

But as someone who Bet Fitzpatrick

and he seemed like he held his line

every day played quite well,

18 destroyed him this week.

Well, they both made the double

on Saturday on 18.

Oh, that was horror.

Oh, my God.

That sucked so much.

Yes. Yes.

We'll talk to about it, Pat.

But I would just want to say you had the kid

in like to maybe some

of your most hardcore fans.

The timing of your child was unfortunate

because it allowed you to be here today.

And whether you would have been here,

or not,

I would have been here.

I would have been here.

I had some great workshop ideas

for what we would have done,

not like an actual show

because I knew you would have been there.

But I'm just going to pull out this note

that I had made just as a reminder.

Should we save it?

And maybe get cussed to host

one of these episodes anyway.

He's not going to watch this.

Okay.

But it was essentially we were going

to get cussed to host like regardless.

It was going to start.

We would give people maybe an incredible

because you know cussed would have like prepared.

So like like anyone,

he would have thought he prepared a lot.

But after like six minutes,

he would have been like drowning.

I believe.

So we would have wanted to like see that.

And then

Jared or something would have created a situation

where cuss thinks like the whole shit goes fake.

It like turns black.

He gets blamed.

You're going to be upset.

And then like next thing you know,

like you,

you come in like your Vince McMahon

like rating Nitro or something on the screen

from your home studio.

But there that was all.

That's amazing.

We can we can still make that happen with cussed.

Because cussed would have like given.

He would have,

he would have ran a marathon.

But he would have ran it like a sprint.

Like you would have come out.

And then like a few minutes in.

We'd still have time to go.

And he would have nothing.

I mean it.

He had burned everything he had.

So yeah,

there was the chance for something great.

I think I joked about this with Adam in their golf cart.

You know,

who took us to play Hunter's run that

lovely afternoon in Palm Beach.

I joked about this plan like with him.

I ran it by him.

He's like, yeah, like.

The people need like cussed hosting.

Or at least thinking he's actually hosting,

but not hosting.

Well, have you been in the room when there's been a technical

difficulty with him?

And he absolutely like just panics and starts.

He gets very ordinary like very upset.

Okay.

I have.

And he's yes,

he's very uneasy and very panicked.

Only a slight relief when it's like when he.

Because you can like trick him into thinking he's responsible.

So like there's always that like great relief.

He feels when he realizes it's got nothing to do with him.

But at the same time,

when you lost like.

Even how he reacted when you,

when your Twitter account was like hack for like half a day.

He,

you would have thought like.

It's not a good thing,

but like he was acting like in terms of like our personal

correspondence,

like something like way, way like worse had happened.

Like horrible.

It happened to like a close personal friend.

Yes.

He didn't know if we were doing the show that night.

He felt like the amount.

He felt violated regarding your Twitter account.

Anyways,

where do you want to,

where do you want to start with the players?

Do you want to talk about that weird stuff that was going on

with fits after the fact or do we just start with Cam Young?

Cause I, I have my Cam Young hot take.

We could go anywhere.

There's so much to talk about.

Ludwig Moore,

Kawa,

what's a long week.

Pat.

Cam Young.

After winning.

Didn't have a full range of emotions.

It felt like very stoic individual.

It didn't seem like he was overly pumped that he had won

the players championship.

And it got me thinking,

who does this remind me of?

Is he just our,

I mean, not even our generations.

Cause we had our generation.

Is he the new generation,

Dustin Johnson?

He's not happy.

He's not sad.

He just plays golf and goes home.

It seems like.

Maybe that was just like a,

a full relief.

Because we have seen him.

We have seen him show a moat.

I feel like we have seen him show more emotion than we sort of

ever got out of DJ.

No, like obviously something about like him being a rookie.

I mean,

you know,

you know,

you know,

you know,

you know,

you know,

he's obviously something about like him being a rookie.

And a rider cup.

And I'm sure of like there's a rider cup rookie DJ footage.

You might see like more emotion in that instance than

we probably ever saw out of him.

I'm not going to totally dismiss it.

Because anyone who has like a CamYong story

for the most part,

like he is.

And I don't know,

talking about like his close personal friends.

But like,

you know,

that we're having, you know, are in locker rooms.

So to say, like he is, for the most part,

like a pretty stoic guy,

but maybe it's just a full throttle relief.

I don't know, man, I'm not gonna go to the DJ part

because the DJ is like so layered.

It's so layered because DJ would be off on the golf course.

Well, you'd get like TikTok didn't even exist then.

But you'd get these like videos of him smiling,

having the most fun in like the world.

And Cam goes home, he's got three kids already.

But yes, maybe in terms of the on course demeanor, yeah.

But the juxtaposition, justice of position with DJ

was that it was like two totally different people

between like that other DJ.

I was just thinking similar, similar vibe on the course,

similar skill set too, because if I'm thinking

if one guy's gonna ratchet up a drive,

380 yards on the final hole of the tournament,

it would be those two.

Okay. And on that note,

that drive reminded me of DJ for speed

and a playoff at the Northern Trust,

where it was, these were just two different planets.

Like when those guys like that go full throttle

and execute the ceiling on the like unbelievable,

unbelievable.

And 18 was more dramatic than 17 this week by a country mile.

It always, people forget that it always is,

because 18's actually hard.

17's not hard, you can make a big number on it,

but generally it's not that big of a deal guy.

Because I thought that fits point it correctly.

He ended up losing, so that sucks for him.

But there was no incentive for him to take on that hole,

like being up by one of that spot,

make Cam go make the hero shot.

He did make the hero shot.

Then he made the hero putt to pay it off,

but you have to put him in that position,

where he can go in the water.

The only thing that fits,

fits his only goal on 17 is just like,

give me 20 feet and maybe I make a putt.

Give you 20 feet, maybe you make a putt.

And he almost did.

Yeah.

I don't have, I mean,

it's a whole, I even like before the day.

And the history, recent history shows,

it's not a fun place to be the leader at,

as like a better, you know,

you almost, you're like one every stroke you can get

with chasing is the money shot.

And it's different,

because Lowry's was its own monster.

But again, like Florida, guys with the lead,

you have to make someone take it from you in Florida

when you're in the final few holes with the lead.

Great.

And if you just don't screw up your shot

and fits screwed up his,

well, he screwed up his drive on 16 and 18.

And he was, he would hit the ball

and it would be like three feet away from him on a drive.

And he'd be bending down to pick up the team 90% of the day.

He was just hitting these like low flight

and through the wind straight shots.

It was a pretty incredible to watch, honestly.

And then he's a masterclass.

And Cam Young, like truly spectacular.

And that wasn't even his best.

It was full Cam Young

because like the part five performance on a Sunday

was insane.

He couldn't hit a fairway on the part five.

Was the issue.

Yeah, yeah.

And he finally did.

And then he towed it and hooked it over into the trees.

And that's the third shot he had on 16 from the fried egg lie

from that bunker is actually a really good shot.

After watching everyone screw up 16.

Yeah, got that to like 40 feet.

We saw Rose and Bobby Mac right both hit it in the water

from over there.

And that's the great thing.

I watched a lot like like a lot of people.

And yeah, they showed Rose do that earlier.

And then Bobby Mac.

They didn't like, oh man.

It was a great week.

Like.

It was a great week.

I don't know what to say.

I mean, I hit a winner.

But like beyond the wind beyond like the bedding.

I could name like seven great takeaways.

From the week or things that I remember.

Like a simple as.

It seemed like that seawoo smoke in video when he was the two

some with a bird.

Got like pulled.

Right.

That was a slow day.

That was that was Joe's video.

Wasn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's the fine line.

I love Joe.

But Joe is like in the game now.

You know.

It's true.

He's like.

He's mingling with.

He's mingling with the people.

That was a good viral video to get.

Just see.

No, I would take it to.

But like that sucks.

Like that is.

And I've been there.

I say this is someone that like, you know, work leaves training camp.

And was in the locker rooms and stuff.

This is a life before.

And the Twitter wasn't nearly like the thing that it was now.

And like, you know, Twitter was more used to be like.

I'm going to the mall.

Like Larry Fitzgerald be like, I'm at cheesecake factory at the mall.

Like, that's what Twitter was.

But, you know, Joe is.

He's like got a lot of he's he's in the media hot a lot now.

Regularly.

So some of those things.

You know, like it sucks.

It's just part of I think the game that is life.

And yeah, keeping your press pass, which is probably more important than the viral video.

Brooks, like I'm going like beyond here, but like there are so many things.

That, you know, we could do 12 minutes on.

Well, you need us because I'll go everywhere.

We're going to get to Brooks in the Valspar part of the show.

Fair.

Yeah, I think that he's going to be a very popular wager this week.

Myself included.

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I didn't get to watch a ton on Saturday.

Weirdly, I got to watch a ton on Friday because we were in the hospital room.

I had nothing to do because my wife and the baby were asleep,

so I was just streaming the players all day long.

But my main takeaway, because I ended up betting on Fleetwood for the week.

Fleetwood was there all week and he couldn't hit a draw,

which is really strange for Tommy Fleetwood.

Every time he needed to cook up a drive or off the tee or on an approach shot,

he just pushed it right every single time.

It cost him so many strokes.

I still think he came like T10 in the tournament.

He was a lot for a guy who was never in the tournament.

He was a lot closer to being there than not.

But if you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't have noticed it.

Sounds like Fleetwood's floor is so freaking high, right?

It is.

And Xander making the run at the end.

Were you sweating Xander at all before the leaders got to 17 knowing he had made that putt to post at 11?

Okay, so yes, I was sweating it.

But once Fitz found the middle of the green on 17,

then I was like, okay, now he has to make double on 18 for me to lose.

And like, there's an easy way to avoid making double.

You just plot up the right.

But then when Cam makes the pot,

then I'm worried that like both hit it in the water on 18.

Because now like everyone sort of got to be in this full go.

This full go moment.

So yeah, I didn't like seeing Xander do that.

Xander.

I don't know.

I saw he's taking a lot of criticism this week from like a corner of the internet that sometimes I'm on.

And a lot of it I want to agree with.

His outputs are revolting.

And his pace of play on Saturday.

Was just abhorrent abhorrent.

Because you know Ludwig's fast.

Too fast.

Maybe maybe a bit too fast on Ludwig.

And the gap between them like they were they played the final three holes with like a one hole gap.

On Saturday.

But yeah, Xander.

He missed some short pots like it's all.

I didn't think we were going to get the warning with him.

I think he would just like pop and win.

But it seemed like he's thrown out like a bat signal a bit.

Is that Friday driving performance was just outstanding.

And if he flirts with something like that this week.

Remember what he did on Sunday last year.

I'm sure we'll talk about it.

Yeah.

I don't know.

He's Xander.

He's consistent.

He's going to clip something off.

It'll probably be bigger than it is smaller in terms of like prestige.

Well, this week would make actually a lot of sense.

Honestly, because this is a full tea to green type course where you need to be good at basically everything.

I brought this up on the research show, which I did do.

That is out right now.

If you want to go watch it's a bit shorter.

It's only like 48 minutes or something rather than the usual hour and a half.

But you know, I got down to the nuts and bolts of it.

Didn't like what the model spit me out.

So I just proclaimed it very, very poor and went my own way on a lot of things.

Either way.

Having bet co-crack at this tournament in the past and Corey Connors in this in the past.

Just you need to be able to chip at some point in this tournament, although Victor did end up winning last year.

So maybe you don't need to be able to chip.

But it's funny because the like my two bigger fades last week were Ludwig and Victor and both ended up playing really well.

Because it was my contention that you're just not going to hit that many greens and regulation.

In order to carry the day, you're going to need to get it up and down eventually.

Both those guys are awful around the greens.

And Victor through two days was like the best chipper and putter in the field somehow and wasn't striking it well.

And then he stopped striking it well and then the chipping reverted back to what it normally is.

And then I didn't expect Ludwig's driver to be the end of him on Sunday.

Honestly, I thought what ended up happening when he started leaving his chips like 18 feet short.

And he wasn't able to convert the pot.

That's what ended up costing him in the end like a water ball or two.

He had a big lead.

He could have survived the two water balls.

It was the decisions that he made after both of those like just nuking balls.

You could tell that the pressure got to him about midway through the round yesterday.

And just everything was just even on the 13th on that par three.

He ended up almost chipping it in and making the birdie on it tapping in for par.

But no one was over that green all day except for him.

Yeah, I mean, again, he just sort of felt like he got caught in neutral early.

Nothing went so he couldn't get any momentum and was actually in my opinion doing like a really good job just like holding the line.

And in terms of the pressure, I'm not doubting it.

But I'll tell you the mistake is like really worse when you break it down in the sense that in that moment when it first went to shit,

in my opinion, if you take a deep breath, there really wasn't the pressure.

I want to say both Cam and Fitz fucked up 11.

They fucked it up.

Fitz missed a seven footer.

Cam probably scrambles for fucking par because that's what he's got to do on a par five.

God forbid he fucking made it easy.

So now would be sitting in the fairway on 11 up to in like a just don't fuck it.

Like you have more than a 50 50 chance with the drivey hit on 11 that you are now going to get a not stress free,

but you're going to make like an eight footer for birdie or the putt that Fitz just missed.

And you're up three with six holes to go.

So like if he just in that moment and I'm not saying you know exactly what happened in front of you.

But it might not have been easy to see hard to see was so far down.

But but is he not going to take out his wooden go for the green like he has on every other par.

Yeah, you just can't hit it in the while.

I mean, he completely duct hit the fuck it.

I think it was a seven wood.

And it had no I mean, it was embarrassing.

The only other player bridgeman at a similar miss that grotesque on on the day.

And sure, yeah, you got to hit a big shot.

I'm not saying that's he should have laid up there, but I'm saying that wasn't like a nails moment.

I was just like, he could have still held the line there and been perfectly fine.

But he did what you absolutely just, I mean, he hit the worst shot of the week and then followed it up with other bad decisions.

Because yes, he could have gotten out of that just making bogey.

And then he's going to 12, which is another opportunity if you're in the fairway.

It's not even that it was 12 played more difficult on Sunday than it had all week.

Now, I'm of two minds of this one.

It felt like he pressed because he made bogey at a par five and felt he needed to get it back immediately at 12 thus going for the green.

But of all of the guys in the field, he's probably the most equipped double.

No, he made you made bogey on 11.

He ended up making double on 12.

But in order to get that shot back that he had just like it felt like a double because he's expected to birdie that whole that basically is the entire tournament for him.

He doesn't get it. He presses on 12 and just hooks the driver.

But you just don't expect him to hook a driver ever.

So what do you do like that that's his shot like that's his bread and butter is putting the driver in his hands and he's going to execute the drive that lands on the green or just short easy up and down for birdie.

You got your shot back everyone else made par you actually come out even with all these guys through that hole and there's no harm done.

And then he just compounded everything and the drive is one thing because you can get away on that hole with driving it into the water.

It's a lot like 17 at Phoenix where if you put it in the water, it's like, okay, just get it up and down and make par.

No big deal.

It was the second or I guess technically his third shot on 12 that was like, what are you doing man?

Well, we'll stop the clock for a second.

When you hit it in the water on 17 of Phoenix, you can get an opportunity to like drop it near the green.

He dropped it. He had to drop it like at the entry point of the pond.

He did so bad.

He did because he hit it so bad, but most guys are probably are going to go over land somewhere near the green and you can drop up there.

Yes, he hooked it so badly.

Because when you're thinking through your mind like, hey, what's worst case scenario here?

It's like, oh, I miss it by a bit.

It hits off the side and goes into the water.

I can drop right here.

I can get it up and down for par.

Bogey at worst and then he just screwed himself and then got far too aggressive with that's a third shot.

I don't know. I'm more like he hit the shots.

He screwed up. I think there's a lot of like thoughts though.

Is this where you about him?

No, no, no, no, no.

I mean, and I'm an apologist.

To me, still like a bit of a pop in that sense.

Yeah, I would say you got to learn from that, but like my outlook that this guy's going.

You know, to be to win multiple majors, I think before it's over like I'm not.

No, that hasn't changed.

I will say, and again, I'm not looking to blame other people, but when that happens, you just sort of look at everything.

And, you know, I've heard from people closer that.

You remember the Fowler days like, you know, the caddy.

There's sometimes you go like there's moments of like totally unserious.

I don't, I don't, I don't really have anything more to say, but it's like this guy couldn't get Ricky over the line.

And if he can't get Ludwig over the line, like, I don't know.

That'd be like a whole like which NFL coach would you, which, which pro coach would you like want to give those two teams to didn't get a championship?

Holy shit.

Yeah, like, but maybe it's the type of player that they are.

Even think about Ludwig's win at Tory Pines last year.

It was of the Sergio Ilk where he had to go post a number and come back and win when Fowler won the players.

He had to go nuclear over the final four holes in order to win that tournament.

And then he won it in the playoff.

I wouldn't be worried about Ludwig mainly because everything that the entire discourse surrounding him right now is exactly what everyone said about Cam Young for the past four years.

And Cam Young just wanted.

Yeah, I'm not, I have no actually no concerns. He hits it.

He's so good with the things that like we'll just have you in contention at so many of these big boy events.

Right, like that's it.

But I would say that his two highest profile spots in his career so far, this has happened to him.

The master's two years ago and then this.

I mean, he was like two or three back of Scott.

He was two back of Scotty when he went out of the water in 11.

Yeah, I don't I don't that doesn't even that's like his first trip at Augusta like that is a total free.

That doesn't even register.

It doesn't even like register for for me.

At all chasing Scotty Sheffler at the back nine.

Being immature on like a difficult on the on on a difficult hole.

This is like a totally different stratosphere.

Like that doesn't even exist and when I like you know look at it this one.

Yeah, this one is like really bad.

And not even like losing because you could get caught.

Someone could have gone nuclear.

This was a total.

This was like mini Lowry five holds earlier.

Except it was good for him in the sense that he got run down by guys that a people had been on.

People know and are good players and they played well in order to get there.

It's not like they were standing like with Nico.

I mean, Nico hit a great shot on 17 and made the birdie pot in order to clinch his win.

He ended up winning by two.

But it was sort of like he was standing there losing and then someone told him that he was winning and then he won the tournament.

Yeah, of course.

And I'm not kidding.

Like I would have been happy if if it's one.

It would have been a lovely payday as well.

But I in my head in the morning.

I'm like, it just better be live bigger.

So like one of them, we get a stop asking questions.

And I really hate that.

I really hate the questions for both of them.

Now, you know, Cam was a bit further back.

Maybe it would have been same old story.

Ludwig's the one that comes with like the serious questions.

You know, but no, Hill bounce.

Hill bounce back.

It's fresher because I've been like pounding them at these like 40, 45s.

It's like a lot thinking like these are ever like.

I'll take these as long as they give them.

He's been playing well, but he didn't pop and those will never happen.

And what's funny is the master's number like never moved.

It was always like in the master's thought of him.

Just the evergreen master's thought of him.

Which was funny because then like the players odds come up like two months ago and they're like double his master's odds.

That tracks mainly because you see the same thing with Zellatoris at Augusta.

Just every time that these guys have played that course, they've done well.

And people for casual betters.

The only thing they remember is the masters.

So they remember seeing his name on leaderboards.

And you get it from a sportsbooks perspective.

They're like the masters is in two months.

This guy is so good.

Like he's got he's got plenty of runway before we feel like that number should change.

I agree.

That being said, I mean, we'll get to it.

It seems like the Brooks masters hit the steamer.

I know that he's been competitive there before.

And I'm not saying that he can't win the masters.

It just in my mind, the masters and Augusta doesn't feel like a Brooks type course.

Okay.

In my any almost want it before.

So like that's a crazy thought to have.

But I want Brooks at a place with a ton of rough.

Like that you really like critically need to hit long straight drives.

Like when ROM ended up winning.

I think ROM is better than Brooks as an overall talent.

Although the results would indicate that Brooks is much better than ROM.

Because he has five majors.

But that's a very interesting way to compare golfers.

I think in the overall mode.

Would you agree that ROM is a bike?

ROMs peak is better than Brooks's peak, right?

In my opinion.

Yes.

But Brooks is just good.

Like such a high level where he can win at a course that doesn't necessarily suit his strengths.

He is.

But I.

There's a reason that he has the PGA championships in the US opens and not Augusta and the open championship.

There's a.

There's a level of creativity.

And the same thing goes.

And I think it applies to sawgrass as well that you need to be somewhat creative with what you do at those courses.

Where I do find that especially now with the PGA championship changing its strategy and turning itself into a more of an US open style test.

That those are more mechanical than anything else.

It's almost the same reason that I've never really loved Bryson at Augusta or an open championship.

I think St. Andrews is kind of an outlier in all of those because that you can just kind of bomb and gouge your way around that.

And you can do that at Augusta too.

But eventually you get asked to make a shot that you really need to have some feel for hence speech.

Like someone like the gala would be another one who could potentially do that.

Fitzpatrick is one who just sees it a little bit differently.

Justin Rose.

I think the Europeans honestly can think about it that way because a lot of their style of courses go that way.

And I know that Brooks came up on the challenge shores comfortable in some of those situations.

But I just see him as here's the course in front of me.

I need to hit it to this spot because if I hit it to this spot, it's going to go here.

I just need to be able to hit that spot.

He's like the best at doing that if that makes any sense like a US open.

When he's in the rough, he's like, I don't need to put it to three feet.

And two putt.

And here's where I need to hit it.

And I have the shots that I can do that where other guys don't wear at Augusta like,

Oh, I need to be cam Smith and hit a spinner out of eight trees around this.

They'd hook it around this way.

That is not Brooks's game at all.

I agree.

I don't think.

I think that's just.

Like kind of obvious in the sense, but at the same time.

He's still Brooks and, you know, in his like in people's mind, there's like 15 guys that can win the Masters.

And if he is playing, he's feeling good.

Then, you know, he can mix.

I, I'm not going to be betting him to win the Masters, but.

You know, he never, he acknowledged like pre week at his press conference at the players.

How he is always sucked there like it's never worked for him ever.

He's never had a good feel.

And this week he played as best as he's ever played there.

So like, if you're a guy, he came second one here.

Get an Elbatross on Sunday, I think it was him or Zander around the Elbatross.

I always get these, those ones mixed up.

But you can come to cam.

What year was that?

Well, JT.

I don't remember.

No, it was before that.

I can effort this for us.

Let's see.

Players championship.

No, I guess he didn't know.

Zander who came in second.

Never mind.

You're right.

This was 2018 was his previous best.

He was T11 there.

That was the year that Rory won over like Vegas and Furek.

But sure.

Like to your point, I would be more likely Pat to enjoy this Brooks Masters team.

Hopefully plays well and then get to Augusta.

And if there's like head to heads, I can pick on him with maybe because he's 33 to one.

I wouldn't.

I'm more likely to pick on him than, you know, ride him Masters week.

Maybe a win before you there, but for everyone.

Yeah, you wouldn't win for everyone this week.

But Web Simpson won in 2018.

I misspoke.

What?

More Kawa Roll lap.

Anything else you want to do is a busy, busy week.

Man, feels like you had a baby.

It feels like it's been a month.

It does.

There was a lot going on.

I want to talk more about Fitzpatrick, though.

We didn't really touch that much on Fitz.

I finally put it a little bit together on the greens.

Had retained the great ball striking.

Didn't quite make enough pots.

I'm happy I have all these futures on him for the Masters PGA championship.

And I think those are the two that I have.

I don't have US open and I don't have the open championship for him.

I also have a ton of Bobby Mac futures at all these majors.

So I was happy to see him.

But he just keeps popping up in these big tournaments, man.

He's like, he's never truly, and he was in contention at the US Open last year.

But you just see his name at the top of these leaderboards kind of come out of nowhere.

He's, he's to be taken very seriously.

He scared the shit out of me.

You got some lovely, you got some lovely futures.

Well, you were on our future show.

I got the, I got a nice FitzPGA championship.

I didn't play the Masters, which is like half of what you shouted it out as.

So credit to you.

You were very like methodical and made some great shouts on the Masters show on our preview show.

And I was just me and said, Cam Young everywhere.

You have that.

And you got good numbers.

But they all work with both work for us so far.

Yeah.

So we can, we can relish in our CLV by the time that those guys lose in Scotty.

Sheffler finds his game and wins all these events.

But with Fitz, did you like, did you have any particular take on?

They asked him about it after the fact when people were just like,

big Channing, USA, Adam coming off the 17th green.

I find this really weird and non rider cup play, honestly.

But I saw Pat was powers just doing like the ultimate try and do engagement farm over the weekend.

Was that as entitled?

Yes.

Yes.

He was just engagement farming for the New York sun.

His like favorite golfer.

Powers can hit frozen ropes and hit frozen ropes in the gap.

I don't know.

Yeah.

It's a bit weird.

It was a bit weird.

I feel like.

And you'll, I feel like it's always sort of like this to different levels.

Like I've been at the Honda in, you know, non.

It's like way less tense times culturally.

And I have always like the USA chance battling a non USA guy late.

It's just always there.

But that felt ratcheted, ratched up.

I don't.

It's fits seem like he was.

I don't know.

It's Sunday.

I don't think it mattered to Fitz.

I think he was just kind of like confused by the entire thing.

Kenny actually pointed this out.

Kenny Kim, shadow, Kenny Kim.

He has thoughts later on tonight that it probably helped.

Cam Young, more than it hurt Fitzpatrick.

It really pumped up.

Cam Young.

I would agree with that.

It unlocked.

Although.

Yeah.

Sure.

I mean, he said his thoughts.

Hitting that ball was give it everything hit the greatest drive your life.

He didn't.

Looks like.

I don't know.

I don't.

I don't like love it.

But I don't think it says like bad is like some people.

I don't think it's making out to be.

But I agree like.

It's weird.

You would get this at the US open though.

Not at a Gustav.

Well, the US open makes a lot of sense.

Cause I saw people making the false comparison that, you know, if this was the Canadian open

and a Canadian was there, people would be doing the same thing.

Yeah.

It's the Canadian open.

It's just like when it's the Scottish open or when it's a national championship in that

country, I feel like that's a little bit different.

I mean, it's people.

It's always that though.

But there's four tournaments a year in the US.

Everything.

I know.

It's weird.

But when you're on the grounds and you're like drunk, everything matter.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Everything matter.

I don't know.

I.

I.

I'm not.

I wasn't surprised by it at all though.

And it seems like some people were surprised by that.

Wait.

It was just a lot.

It was during to hear coming down from there.

Like, the also with the other part of it too is that all of the other countries that were

compared to this, like, be it, let's say, a Canadian, the Canadian open, like a Canadian

hadn't won in one like 60 years until Nick Taylor won.

A Canadian went in the Canadian open.

It's still like a huge underdog moment where, I mean, as much as the US wants to position

itself as like underdog, they're not underdogs at anything.

They're not underdogs at anything and let's not to like go backwards.

But that is what made like the hockey because they were.

Yes.

That made a lot of sense.

So much like leveled up for them because they never get to be underdog.

And the underdog role is such like an American story.

But like in a sporting context or really anything, they're no longer that.

And it is so rare where they get to be that even if it's like minus 120 plus 100 or something.

I don't know what the hockey game was, maybe it's minus 140, whatever.

But like, yeah, I they're never the underdog, but they like, you know, like an athlete,

you've got to convince yourself to something sometimes and good for them.

Maybe I guess now in Ryder Cup, they're underdogs.

Well, yes, that that would act just by being, well, they'll be plus money out.

You know what, they will be favored by the time the Ryder Cup have, they're always favored

in the Ryder Cup.

Always.

Yeah, that claim might have ended.

But you are right.

They were big favorites in Italy, in Italy, in France, or maybe should have been even

though it was a good, like you could have capped it otherwise.

Yeah, no, that line is probably over, although you could probably bet it now, not that I

had looked, which I haven't, but I would imagine Europe's the favorite.

I could get off track and, you know, apparently, Tigers got to make a decision before the

Ryder Cup, but before the Masters, sorry, before the Masters and just quickly on the Masters

Pat, they're still time.

Would you have argued, would you argue, no, this is a dumb thing, and I got none of it.

Anything I have for the Masters has been like a big number.

But if Scotty and Rory feel vulnerable, is there a potential where some of those futures

that would have felt like just way too short, don't feel as short if you're of the headspace

that those guys could be wobbly, and then you're like, bro, this thing's in like a month

there.

It's the smallest range session that fixes both of them.

And Rory's not even broke, and he just needs to rest his back.

I didn't think he needs to rest his back, dude, couldn't put all week.

I think he was like third and driving for the week.

Okay, so yeah, then it was a weird week, weird week for him.

And then, you know, it was funny, the TGL, like back injury, and then the whole leaderboard

was TGL, guys.

Well, they're the ones without the back injuries.

You either have a back injury or you're winning tournaments.

That's it.

That's the TGL.

The god of it off.

Yeah.

Listen, if you wanted to sign people up for it, where are they going to get Shooter shot

on TGL?

Okay.

Just quickly, though, because we're going to probably not going to talk about Rory for a

bit.

This is probably dumb question.

Is Rory going to play TGL?

I don't know.

Big semi-finals this week.

Sure.

Probably.

I can tell you who's playing who.

Probably, yes.

I would guess that he's going to play.

Okay.

Good.

Shooter shot.

Wait.

What a, what a little rocket ship we got here.

Man.

It's funny because we've been talking about him for weeks.

I only because he was Canadian.

You'd be like, who is this Canadian guy who's posting some decent results?

I actually already bet him for the Valsper, too.

Just his total driving is number one in the field.

Dude just looks down and rips it.

That's it.

That's all he does.

It's awesome.

Dude, his story is crazy.

Like crazy.

One of those born in India, dad lived by a work beside a golf course, but didn't like

anything to do at golf in like an industrial area and just observed it and got his kid

into it.

Never had a lesson.

The guy learned to swing from like watching golf.

And then I saw this video of him.

He talked him and his dad talk about discovering you to and that track was like he's watch golf.

They could rewind and watch on demand and then he would just try to do what people were

doing.

And it's fucking now he's PJ toward player.

I mean, this is quite a lot more.

There are more stories than that than like country club kids granted.

I think Cam Young is a country club kid.

He looks like a country club kid.

I would put money on country club kid, but yes, he is a country club kid.

There are more story.

I mean, I would say that's probably the biggest influence that YouTube golf has had.

Because I mean, not even just YouTube golf as we envision it right now.

I saw that I saw that the Burstal classic is like nine events.

I saw that this morning.

I thought it was one event.

No, no, no.

You're talking about the invitational.

This is like a mini local tour thing they do.

That's cool.

Yeah, no, they've done that for years.

That is two totally different things unless that's not the bar stool invitational.

That's just like a running little muni circuit.

So it's like the old like the old school hooters tour that I don't even think that our

junior used to win maybe, but shout out like Pat, I used my instructional YouTube was

like how to tie a tie.

Yeah.

But I mean, that's an, but he is before what we think about YouTube golf now.

He is like, he was like watching like old master's videos and watching tiger swings and

like slow.

He was basically doing Khan, I'm a Khan, I'm an alpha vision at his house.

Yes.

Yes.

Because like hearing him and his dad him speak about finding YouTube and then like it was

the greatest thing because he didn't have to, you know, I used my spank bank to like

remember the pretty girls that I saw because this is before you could like watch porn on

the internet and stuff, right?

He used his bank.

He didn't have to do that.

He used the spank bank to remember like golf swing and positioning.

And then he finally got YouTube and could rewind it and didn't have to use a memory.

Well, like obviously use the memory, but then could like just on demand magic.

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Jared doesn't know.

Jared never had to live through these times.

I had to live through those times in Florida.

I was by myself for a few days away from...

You could have downloaded something up on it.

I don't know.

Florida, they have those things where like porn's not allowed.

Yeah, I was like, yeah, they're like, yeah, I need your license.

I was like, the fuck is this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, good thing, yeah, good thing my wife came down.

Yeah, Florida's not allowed.

It's actually pretty fun.

Something's in there.

Look at the hell is this?

Thought this was America.

Where's my porn?

Yeah, I don't know.

How could those USA bros be supporting that?

I don't know.

I was not chanting USA.

What? You were in USA?

I thought USA chants.

Listen.

Okay, I want to put a different spin on this.

I kind of like it.

I like that there's some animosity to this.

I like that that this is now a talking point

if this starts happening.

Because then it will position

some of like the Matt Fitzpatrick's of the world,

anyone who is taking on the American guy as a non-American,

you know, it makes me root for that guy even more.

I think this is a good galvanizing thing

from either side of who you are rooting for.

And the issue I guess is that this isn't a team event.

It's an individual event.

And people like all sorts of players

from everywhere on the PGA tour.

I've never really thought,

and maybe it's not just,

maybe it's not me thinking about it in the right sense.

But like if it came down to,

let's say like Rory versus Brian Harman

or people like USA, Brian Harmer, people like, yeah, go Rory.

I think you hit it on the head.

I don't know if it's Rory versus Cam Young,

I think we're still getting it.

But if it's Brian Harman, you're right.

They probably still want to see Rory hit a fucking perfect drive

and be like sealing Rory.

And people like Cam Young.

I mean, I think that's part of it.

But is that because I know it was a Monday morning,

but like you think like it was USA chance for JJ spawn?

Against Rory? No, people are rooting for Rory.

Yeah, JJ.

Yeah, so.

So you need to be a certain level of like,

but also like, you're like, you look at Matthew Fitzpatrick

and you're like, nicest guy in the world.

No, it's like unhatedable person ever.

Now granted, I don't think this is anything to do with anything.

But he did come out like before the ride or cup last year

and maybe in hindsight he might have made a right decision.

Like his parents did not go

because of like being harassed at like a previous thing.

Yeah, not shocking.

Right? Yeah, like they didn't want you to stop.

I guess they figured like, if I'm not going to go to be able

to like walk around or I don't feel like fun walking around,

I don't need to go to like sit inside to watch it on the lounge

or as we'll stay home.

Like exactly.

What's up? I mean, that that does suck though.

Like people's parents don't want to go

to watch their kids play in a rider cup

because they might get harassed in the crowd.

That's insane.

It is pretty insane.

And listen, some people were tying what happened yesterday

to Beth Page.

I see I didn't see that.

I agree. That's not how I took it at least.

And they were like, I know, you know,

I think it's been like, you've been a lot of props always.

He's always insightful with his golf picks and his opinions.

And even when I disagree, I appreciate his different perspective on it.

I think he had mentioned like, had they done a much more aggressive job

of shutting down the nonsense at Beth Page?

That doesn't happen today.

I don't see those connected at all.

I don't see, I don't see the connection to like USA chance

to like vulgarity at Beth Page.

I agree. Now, I don't know what happened on the grounds exactly yesterday.

If it was just the chanting and like they,

it sounded positive from what I could tell.

There was no negativity to it.

Now, it felt directed at like ProCam anti-fits,

but it's also a sporting event.

This is going to happen.

Like, that's fine.

It's not people like, die, mat, die.

It's not like a wrestling event like it was at Beth Page.

It didn't seem that way.

No, it wasn't like, you fucking look like a test-to-baby shit

that he was hearing at the Ryder Cup, didn't hear that.

No, like, oh, listen, everyone got it, you know?

You, you, you know, John Rom's being called like fat fuck for four days.

So whatever they can like think of, you know, they were calling them.

Were they like cheering as Fitzpatrick's ball like went through the pine straw?

Yeah, but I don't think there was like a post shot insult if that makes any sense.

Yeah, and I don't know if that was the case or if it wasn't the case,

but it didn't seem like, and he seemed to handle it pretty good

after the fact.

Oh, yeah, well, I think he actually made a lot of fans yesterday in the loss.

More so than, although you can tell who's like new to golf and who's not.

It's like, oh, Matt Fitzpatrick will be back.

He'll win a big one someday.

It's like, dude, what the fucking US open three years ago?

Yeah, he was so nails for the most part.

Like you said, all through the week, there were putts.

Like if you bet Fitzpatrick, there's probably like five, six putts that you can,

you can recall through, throughout, throughout it.

I don't doubt that it got him fans.

Aren't they New York teammates?

They are.

They're both on the New York Golf Club on TGL.

So they'll be playing together, I think, are they still on the playoffs?

Are they?

No.

No, I think New York was like horrible.

Yeah.

Well, they saved all their good golf for the real course, rather than the screen.

Yeah.

New York and like the thing when New York is like they, is that true?

He's also New York.

So one, two, three on the players leader board was New York Golf Club.

I believe Zander's also New York Golf.

Interesting.

Well, here's then losing to LA.

Yeah, there's Cam Young Fitz and I don't know who that is standing next to him.

Oh, that's, is that Ricky Feller?

No, that has to be someone else.

Yeah, Zander Cam Young in Fitz.

New York, New York Golf saw grass corollary.

I'm trying to, I'm trying to think other things like, hold on.

Do you think it's not that the reason that they're not good at TGL and the reason

that they're up at the players because they're not good enough because they're

not hurting their backs on TGL.

Therefore, they can still be good on the course.

No, I think like the knock on New York, which is like fair is like they're the

most like hit and giggle.

Like Zander doesn't give it.

Zander's there.

Oh, no, don't, don't say that.

Don't say that they're not taking it seriously.

No, I don't mean like they want to execute the shots in front of them.

But like in a way where like Billy Horschl and like Patrick Cantley, like know the

hammer permutations to the aunt degree, Zander doesn't even like have it with them

when it's time to throw it and they're very like laissez faire.

I'm not saying they don't care, but they're, you know, they're, they're happy to

be part of the spectacle.

The winning are losing it.

I think they haven't grown to that yet.

And that's been the knock on the New York team, but look at the players.

And I'm not saying like who cares?

I don't think it matters whether they're laissez faire.

I'm just saying that is from the people who are deep in TGL.

That is the, the takeaway.

Corey Conner's Pat, oh my god, the only player for which I

invested in in props.

And I don't know tracking him Sunday, like hoping to hold some placings.

No, I've never seen him do that.

I've never, I've never seen him catch trains like that before at a Bogeyville.

Like every single hole, it was 14 feet for par.

I couldn't believe it.

He can't get up 44 footer on Saturday for par, which I'm sorry.

I'm so happy about that.

Well, I, my personal investment of the week, most of my guys were dead except for

Strakka.

And I was like, yeah, I had the same feeling that you did.

Like Strakka's either going to make a run or he's going to completely implode.

And he kind of did both at the same time, which was really strange on the back.

90 birdied nine, 10 and 11, got to two back.

Then he made the double Bogey on 14 because he missed a two foot putt.

And then he had his placement, his top five placement.

I was pretty fired up.

And I don't know what the hell we tried to do from the Pine Strawberry hit the duck.

And then almost back and bounce back into play.

Crazy.

Two doubles when I, he scared the shit out of me.

As someone who had all the guys at the top and I get maybe paranoid.

The chargers are up 21.

I think they're going to lose.

It's just how my brain works.

I'm like always when he hits like two in a row, I'm like blank.

It's going to be six in a row because he's got that like unconscious in them.

Very impressive, very, uh, yeah, I, I loved the leader board.

I guess this guy's I bet but a lot of likeable guys, even, even Victor and the ones that, that fell off.

And I guess the, the leader board worked out perfectly, Pat, because once, you know, Rory as his back,

Scotty wasn't all there, more a cow with Drew, like that next tier, like had a door to walk through.

And they were all so many of them were right there, even Tommy who he said didn't execute like his game,

you know, didn't, I think he's still top 10, like everyone sort of part of that next crew.

See who bottomed, but it wasn't going to get past them.

And I'm happy one of mine grabbed it.

I was happy to put my baby swag onto you.

So you could have everyone on the leader board and win.

I was talking to Scott Lomstein who had us out in Vegas for the round, you know, former,

he's won the World Series, a poker main event.

So he's probably doing okay, but he texted me, he's first in the millionaire maker, like midway through,

like midway through the front nine, because he had, he had, he had, he had cam.

He had fits and he had Ludwig and he had Victor and Victor just fucked up his entire thing.

Yeah, there were a lot of big numbers there still on Sunday.

Well, I appreciated guys pressed at the end, like no one was, no one was, except for,

I mean, maybe a yellow Maraju did where he was like, you know what?

A fifth place finished for me here is pretty good.

Oh, win a million bucks.

This is a career changing moment for me with the amount of money and security that I'm going to get.

But even guys like Brian Harman, they're like, well, I can't make this shot, but I can't win unless I make this shot.

So I'm going for it.

Everyone did that coming down the stretch.

Yeah, although the broadcast gave Zander a hard time for his shot on 17.

He just had a bad shot.

Like you guys still hit bad shots.

He had a bad shot on 17.

I agree.

But you think it was hard sometimes to decipher whether it's a bad shot.

I agree.

I assume it was a bad shot.

Zander, when you, when you, when you clear the, the wooding by a foot, it was a bad shot.

He emits your shot and Zander doesn't care about fourth, third place to eighth place.

He doesn't give a shit.

No, his entire career was that until he stopped caring about that.

Sure, although he does, you know, it was a tough week for, you know, the blue owl stocks.

And I saw that's on his sleeve.

So, you know, he must have got that from his friend Pat.

Let's talk more a caliper a second, because I saw a lot of crybabies out there.

That it sucks when you're playing WDs, even like I was getting things like, can we get a reset on someone

asked me who I don't run the fucking thing in the one and done.

Like I don't make the rules.

And you can't change the rules mid season.

Can we get a reset on more account?

It's like, no, you can't get a reset on more account.

This fucking shit happens.

Asking you for a reset on the one and done would be like asking Ron old if I couldn't get fresh fries.

I know it's like I'm the wrong person for that.

But even so, okay, I could be a bit more like if you had Ryan Fox in the one and done for reasons unknown.

He never had like more account ahead of shot.

Once you had a shot, you're playing like I'm sorry.

It's like if your quarterback gets hurt on the first play of the game, well, that sucks.

Better luck next week.

Yeah, it sucks.

I do, you know, good to see some of the made for TV books, you know, treated it like a, you know, an opening drive injury.

And that's fine.

That's a decision.

People just reinvested anyway, but, but there is a big difference between both daily fantasy fantasy games

where you're competing against other people versus an outright bet where you're competing versus the book.

Like people don't seem to be able to distinguish those two things.

There are rules in place.

You can't change the rules of a fantasy tournament after it starts.

That doesn't make any sense.

You cannot, uh, I listen.

It's, um, and I get that it sucks, you know, it's, it's a game of skill, but at its core, it remains gambling.

And part of the gamble is, you know, the guy's staying healthy.

The guy's getting hurt.

I would also say to the like, there's so many people that like when these things happen, they clam or even when it's a lower to your

player for the PGA tour injury reporting nonsense people.

Like, I don't know what you want.

I, I feel like it would cause you way more grief than you, than you, than you would expect.

You'd overthink everything by like some random report.

Guys might even forget to update it.

Like who would actually give a shit?

And here's the other thing about the more a cowboy one.

I'm not even up to believe after watching the clip.

Like that happened in game and even listening to him talk.

Like he didn't have any pre existing soreness or pain.

We've all been on a golf course.

You take one awkward swing and you could really like fuck something up.

And unlike us, it's not like our round for the week.

He's got more important things.

I'd pop a row back to set and hit a crown hit the crown royal and like be ripping again.

Like this.

It just seemed like guys get hurt in game.

This happened in game.

I don't think an injury report even saves you here, people.

I don't know what we're talking about.

And maybe it's maybe it's because we've been doing this for so long that there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding by even the viewing audience of this show.

People who bet on golf, people who play daily fantasy sports, there's no player union in golf.

They're all independent contractors.

They don't have to tell you shit.

In the other sports, there is a player union.

They if they don't do X at certain X time and report injuries, then they're going to be fine.

There are penalties to be incurred.

They can't enforce that on the players on the PGA tour.

It just doesn't work like that.

You cannot enforce anything.

All you can do is when they break, when they do something,

that you feel goes against the spirit of the sport, as you can shame them.

Like when, you know, there's no rule they have to speak to the media.

More Kawa got publicly shamed pretty extensively.

And now what have we seen, you know,

been a lot of guys have pretty gas can moments, winning tournaments.

They don't want to be shamed.

They'll all go speak to the media now.

I'm not saying you could shame a guy for not reporting the injury,

but there's just nothing you could, I don't even know what the solution is.

Like, and I'm so out of the DFS streets, as I've said,

when like at first left Ontario, I tried to be in it.

There'd even be moments where I would like just hit up people,

have a couple of lineups made for me.

I'm so doesn't exist for me anymore.

I do see TAMBO.

I love TAMBO.

I follow TAMBO.

Um, he is like a major proponent of the injury report.

What is his actual suggestion for it?

I don't know.

Hey, we just need more people to be like Michael Kim, who were like, Hey,

my back hurts.

I'm going to withdraw from this tournament on Tuesday.

Yeah, I mean, but most guys are there.

They want to give it a go, right?

It's the same reason that a lot like this field for the Valsper now has become

really good because this is what most of these top end guys be at Zander,

Victor, Thomas, Bridgman, Fitz, maybe not speed.

He'll probably play in Texas, can't lay Griffin Brooks.

Like this is their last event before the masters.

This, then you have the two Texas events.

Most of these bigger names, you're not going to see in Texas.

They're using this as a cuz they're already there.

If guys are already there, they're going to try to give it a go.

And it's no different.

Like being injured and being hurt are two different things, right?

If guys like you said, they're hurt, you're going to see how they're feeling.

Like the morning of the game.

Maybe I could stretch it, loosen it up, be ready to go.

Also, what happens when guys are hurt and they test it out, they're not ready to go.

So like having this demand that they've got to tell you something on Wednesday is is

ridiculous.

Like it's just I don't think it's, listen, I don't think it's ridiculous.

I just don't think it's enforceable thus making it ridiculous.

Well, yes.

And what are they and what are they going to say like Zander's like on the range?

He's like, yeah, my back was kind of stiff, whether that means anything or not,

then you're just going to get people saying they're always hurt.

And then what, what, what happens?

Like look at the NBA, it's an actual league, right?

And their teams and there is some level of injury reporting and they still can't really do anything.

Like you can punish the most egregious offenders.

And I don't know what that would mean.

Like a guy holding his back, not like hitting a ball all week and then trying to hit his first shot.

Like, okay, but that doesn't happen.

Yeah.

And the more a cowboy thing, like you said, it happened on the course.

He was, he was ripped the drive and then he hit his eye or like 10 feet or something like that.

He's like, man, I can't go anymore.

And what's unfortunate is this time of year when we're on like the cusp of master season,

major season, the sort of thing, like, you know, the sort of thing you might have gone out

and partied with your boys with like, I don't know, you got, you got a big trip in a couple of weeks.

You're not, I don't know.

Now I'm just going on a tangent.

I don't believe in it.

It doesn't feel realistic.

Hence ridiculous.

So on the Rory type thing right now, Rory gained five strokes off the tee at the players.

That was second in the field of all players.

He was only one on approach.

He had a very poor chipping week.

He had a, okay, chipping week.

He was like plus 1.3 minus 5.3 putting.

So if you think that like, this was because Rory was injured, it wasn't Rory just potted poorly.

And thank you for clarifying that sucked on the par.

You want to talk about Cammy, young being shit on the parrified, I think Rory played them even for the week.

Okay, so I appreciate getting that clarified.

When I also, when I forgot to mention, when I made the comment earlier, that maybe that next tier on the master's future board,

might not be as bad as we perceive it.

The knock on Rory that I meant to state wasn't the back pat.

Oh, it is going back to back returning as like the Grand Slam champion, all of like what his week is.

His old week was just him in his own head and could he overcome that?

This is going to be like, it's almost, I don't want to say it first time,

but for guy who's been in the master so much in his life, there's going to be a lot of things that are going to be like rookie experiences.

Now, I disagree because he's had this at the open champion, like the open championship to someone from the UK,

because he is from Northern Ireland, that there would be the pop and circumstance around that,

especially with him having won it twice already as a young guy.

I think it's more freeing for him.

He can just have fun of the masters now.

And maybe that makes him worse.

I don't know, but I don't think that he's going to be overwhelmed by everything that you need to do as master's champion.

And it's also just, it's also, it's just seen champions, it's just hard to repeat at Augusta.

Like, I think that's the clear thing about it.

I, that's the obvious thing that sometimes gets made as like a tertiary thing when people try to make like a dinner menu as like the reason.

No, it's just hard.

As I sit here now though, unrelated to the back, it's not like a bulltake.

I don't think I'm going to bet the guy who's going to be like eight to one, 10 to one, 12 to one.

I'm going to probably like be totally picking on and fading, fading Roy.

But I don't play DFS.

So I don't know like what the term is, but I'm like, no, I'm going to have anything Rory masters week.

Well, let's take a look at some master's futures right now.

Here's what the board is telling us.

Scotty is plus 350 Rory's plus 725 Ludwig's 11 Bryson's 11 and a half roms.

This is, they, what did they do?

They, they have now, this is crack season master's betting.

Yeah, like I get like when we did a show around Christmas, or you think a guy's playing well.

Now that we're within this zone post players, they've now cratered it.

Like you, the only people betting a master's guy now.

Like they just need their crack.

It's like a, it's like a drug addict who like needs an addiction failed.

They need a hit of a master's bet.

There's no way these odds, okay, sorry, you can get all the odds up at coolbet.com.

If you're in Canada, outside of Ontario, all of some boost for Valspar and the tournament

up there this week, Akron plus South Florida.

I played at Moneyline, Parley, but I was talking to playing the spreads as well, the very

boring part.

So the nontend to one, but I'll have that as a boosted Parley up there as well under

the PMI exclusive section.

Yeah, like Bryson, you got like Zander's 16, Tommy's 20, Mora Cal.

Mora Cal at 25 is actually probably a pretty good number right now.

Yeah, probably.

Let's see if he's not unfair.

Yeah, he's 22 in some places, 25, like Cam Young's still 35, Brooks is still 40, Bobby

Matt.

He's playing before the masters, the barstool mini tour.

I'm just curious how he's going to get his reps in.

I don't know.

I'm so pleased quickly, because we got to do, I'm so pleased with the new commissioner.

Oh, did you, I didn't really pay any attention to it.

Can you fill us in on what the commissioner said again as part of like a week that feels

like a year ago, he just, he didn't commit to anything, but he just listed like a lot

of like stated goals, per se.

And again, it does seem like they're just getting rid of, like it does seem like they're

going to be like two tours, and they're just trying to figure out how the promotion

relegation should properly work.

I think if they can make a fun promotion relegation, I think that actually creates excitement

for both tours in a weird way, at least to me, the casual fan probably will not care and

not watch these lesser events, but as someone who was really enthralled by Yellow Maraju,

like making a run, knowing that he had no chance to win, but I mean, if he comes out

like the top 10, top five here, like this is career changing, and then that get, like

that finish gets him into the heritage.

I'm pretty sure because he's up so far on the a on next 10 now because of that finish.

He has so many FedEx cup points that, hey, this guy that I saw make a great run at this

tournament, he now gets a shot at the bigger guys because he had played so well.

Let's see if he can stay there.

If not, he has to go back down.

I like that up and down type nature of it.

If they can really come up with something that's easy to follow that they can explain easily

and it's pretty fluid.

Yes, so and I just think like there's going to be so much more transparency around it because

in the in the past, be like, everyone knew it was a lesser event, but like no one wanted

to say anything, even if the field strength was like so much lower.

That being said, we're too deep into it, but my question would be, is there are so many

people pat that like they're not hard cores, they just put the golf on on the weekend.

And sometimes it is the Valero Texas Open, the cognizant John Deere and they still watch.

Like the ratings are still strong.

They're not strong like elevated, but is like is not is is not being transparent advantageous

to this.

Maybe it is, but would these people actually turn it off like turn off NBC or CBS because

there is like, I don't know what they, they wouldn't call it tier two.

They'd have a name for it and they'd be like, Oh, it's not the top one, but I would

think in some ways, if you're a sports fan and a golf fan, you would see the sometimes

because the magic, the battle to win one of these like not tier elite events is arguably

more life changing than like Zander winning a tier A event.

I think you just call it all the PGA tour, you just allocate fewer FedEx cut points to

the other tournaments than like no one's the wiser.

Like everyone who knows knows and everyone who doesn't doesn't care.

So I think you probably nailed it, don't almost don't call it anything else.

But again, this like whole hidden thing of, you know, the FedEx cut points is, you know,

we have to keep them out of level because we want good players to go.

And if we make less FedEx cut points, that gives this lower end event, even less of a

chance to attract higher end talent.

You don't have to like broadcast that on the broadcast, like you, like, do you think that,

let's say C.J.

Cup played outside of Dallas.

Speed that's going to show up either way, whether it's elevated or not, he's going to

play in that event.

You're 100% right.

But what Rolep also talked about is like, just they're going to try to have more transparency

with their partners where I'm sure it costs less to sponsor the cognizant than something

else.

But like, they're going to have their partners are going to be like far more aware of like

what they're buying.

Like they're just going to be like much more transparency around all of it.

Which I think is needed, you know, he spoke about looking at match play for the tour championship

and is not a football guy, you know, this guy, this guy can know that when you have two

teams that aren't, you know, an Oklahoma and Indiana, make it to the finals, that's just

life.

And there's still drama in that and there's stories to be told.

No, no.

See, I completely disagree.

I don't think it's about who is playing in the finals of match play watching two people

play golf against each other with no other golf going on is inherently boring for four and

a half hours.

It doesn't matter who it is.

That's why those matches.

There were moments, there were moments watching that Pat where it felt like Rolep.

He spent a lot of time either talking to people who listened to a lot of golf podcasts

or was listening to golf podcasts himself.

But when he takes my great idea, I'll know he listened to ours.

I was just getting the master's future board.

There is one that seems out of place because no one believes this guy could win the masters,

but I think he could win the masters for a hot and who Jacob Bridgman is 90 to one to

win the masters.

I get that it's Jacob Bridgman, but dude is on a fucking heater, man.

He won Riviera.

Does he played the masters before?

I don't think so now.

What's happened before though?

Fuzzy Zeller did win in 1979, I guess.

It just seems like a really big number considering because everyone else has been crushed, right?

Even guys that, like for example, like the gal has been a fun story.

He's a bit of a rebound so far this year.

He's someone that I've been at the masters.

Why does he have better odds than Jacob Bridgman to win this?

Why does Max Homa?

I would rather Bridgman than them, but I'm not bidding anything.

Why does Marco Penge have better odds at the masters than Jacob Bridgman?

They never adjusted him up.

He just has been what I maybe he went from like 200 to 190, but if you gave Russell Henley

the profile that Jacob Bridgman has had in 2026, Russell Henley would be 13 to 1 to win

the masters.

It's kind of hard to disagree with that.

How was your experience betting, Henley, for the first time?

I think that's what people get when they bet Russell Henley, just a clean card.

A guy always sort of on the first or second page.

I was at a course like that, at 40 to 1, I'd consider doing it again.

Yeah, good number, right course from.

For whatever reason, it should be a course where he's awesome, he just never is.

It does feel like Straca is trending towards a player.

That dude is just in contention, it feels like every year.

He's trending towards a win at some point, isn't he?

He and Fitz, I feel like it'd been the two best players this year around leaderboards

playing well.

Maybe Nikolai would be the other one, where it's just like they got a win at some point,

or the moment's going to pass them by.

I mean, in terms of outright betting, he does seem like the fairest, safest bet every

week, because he brings win equity, and he can always trust him.

There's always a sense that an unconscious block out round is in there.

Yeah, I think every time we come it up, we do these big events, he's always 65, 70 to

1.

That's pretty fair every time.

Last thing on the players, Scotty's irons were terrible again.

Not like awful, awful, but just not good.

Is this a thing now, or is this, because it's a thing now, because people are actually

talking about it outside of like data people.

People are now like, okay, maybe there is something off with shampoo.

You couldn't drive them all in all this week.

And this is exactly what we talked about, like when I did my breakdown in the column

this last week for the players, and talking specifically about Sheffler, is that his irons

are down, they're not separating him from the field.

But the rest of his game is making up for it, like he's driving at grade, he's chipping

at grade, like well over any part of his career, his driving putting and chipping had been

so much better than any other year that it was masking how bad his irons were.

And now his driver failed him a bit, the putter failed him a bit, and all of a sudden he

just has terrible results of big tournaments.

And he's pretty sensitive about it, it seems.

Like when he's asked about, when he's asked like fair questions, you know, because even

after rounds, he's like spending a lot of time like working on something.

And I see, you know, did you find a fix?

Like just an instant, like I don't know, be a fair golf question, I would imply something

was broken.

The guys that don't feel like anything's broken aren't practicing in the pouring rain

after a Thursday hit the players.

But I did like his response earlier in the week when asked about, you know, I guess, I

guess the results that I haven't been there.

And he's like, you guys, you guys judge me on like week to week results.

I'm out here judging myself shot by shot.

Like iron by iron, like that's how I, I grade myself.

You're here at the end of the week, you want to know the, I'm shot by shot.

That's, I, I grade myself every shot.

So he's hard as fuck on himself.

Still plenty of time though, the mat like, I almost wish the masters was like this

week in a 10 days or something.

There's like, maybe it's still be vulnerable.

But I don't know by the time we get there, I fully expect them to have it.

I'll sort of out.

What are Mac and tires odds for the masters 40 to one?

We'll get a better, we'll get a better number when that comes around.

But yeah, now there's a lot of quit like a lot of guys we won't see again.

But we'll probably see everyone once before the masters because Rory and Scotty

have been playing Houston in the past few years.

Scotty plays it every year.

You got ran down by Steven Jagger there.

I'm trying to remember who was asked if they'll play again before the masters

and they were said undecided.

That was probably Rory.

I think you're right.

I think it was.

It was obviously someone really big.

I think you're right.