Bryson trending toward Augusta, Valspar as rollback antidote, & Slow play shaming

Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, so I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.

And here we go.

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Gentlemen, start your engine.

Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is March 23rd, Andy. How are we doing?

I'm doing great. It's a victory Monday. What a weekend for the big 10.

I'm impressed. I have to say I'm impressed. I fell asleep last night for UCLA, you know, historic traditional big 10 power was taking on Yukon, but I haven't expected to wake up to them.

It was like a four point game when I fell asleep to them advancing as sweet 16 as well.

Great weekend for the big 10. For most of my adult life, I'll let you jump in. I'm impartial. I don't really care about big 10 go to bad happy they're doing well.

Most of my adult life, the big 10 basketball has been like drudgery, like not particularly enjoyable to watch.

They haven't won a national championship in a while, but like they had like a couple top heavy teams, Ohio State, but like bad basketball just in my opinion, ACC was fun, big.

It's like there are a powerhouse and fun to watch. It's been incredible. And that's been the last few years, not just this year. So congrats to your comments, I guess.

Not about side big 10 roughs, but you know, you're missing the biggest big 10 win. Matt Fitt, Maddie fits Northwestern legend.

Outdual is another Northwestern legend to win the Valspar.

As fellow team or as fellow alumnus, David Lipski, who might I think be an actual alumnus? I could be wrong.

I believe Lipski graduated. Fittie obviously had his eight weeks of glory there.

Eight is eight. Is that confirmed? I think it's about eight. I feel good about eight.

Once I spoke to someone pretty high up in the athletic director department about it and kind of was poking fun at it.

They didn't take kindly too. Oh, really? They're sensitive. Well, that's because they claim that I've got my honorary doctorate here.

I've got mine over here. My frame cracked and luggage on the on the flight home from Chicago, but that doesn't mean I've got to.

It's not going in the bin. I just got to get a new piece of glass over the front of it. But yeah, we do have an honorary doctorate.

They claim they claim the hell out of Maddie fits. So I can say why they took offense to you suggesting it was only a cup of coffee.

We're seeing still ours. And he was described to me as we had a moment where we could embrace it or we can reject it.

We've decided to embrace it. And we're really happy with us embracing it.

I'll never forget like walking around the masters like seven eight years, like a long time ago.

There's like all these people in purple following Matt Fitz, like really just totally claiming him.

They really lead into that even though he was, you know, barely barely there, but congrats to Northwestern on that win.

Not the NCAA tournament, but they do have a win at the Valspar Championship.

Do you want to react to your teams advancing?

You and PJ going to the sweet 16. Is that going to require more than Nico Ischivaria discussion if we go into basketball?

I think it's a big deal. I think you're going to Houston. PJ's coming to DC.

St. John's wins at the buzzer. Try to give it away. Try to gag it up to a Kansas. Illinois kind of a wagon.

And they're.

I mean, we haven't played anybody. We played time, which is not a real basketball team.

And then we played ECU whose guard got their star freshman guard got hurt on like the second play of the game.

So I do think like we have had a cakewalk.

That being said, playing Houston in Houston's really, really tough draw.

I have to just say that that's kind of preposterous.

We're the margins between two and three are very slim, right?

I look at a re ranked article and they like re ranked the teams in the in the in the left.

And it's like, I think Houston was four. We were five. So four or five of the remaining 16 teams play in Houston.

And one of the teams is Houston that that doesn't seem right in a sweet 16 matchup to not like a regional final.

That's the way the cookie crumbles in this tournament. They don't they don't re receipt.

I'm excited because I don't have to hear anymore about the Darren Peterson saga at Kansas.

Thank you for taking that out of my life.

Let me tell you the Darren Peterson experience as an opposing team yesterday.

I was just like waiting, waiting, sitting on the couch, like yelling at the TV, like fine 22.

He's going to take this game over. He's going to take this game over and then he just did not at all.

It was kind of bizarre, not impressed Darren Peterson.

He's scary. North Ohio is up. Darren Peterson. I should mention.

Yeah, he it was I'm happy for you. Did you think you're going to win?

I mean, yeah, we were up by 15 with like five minutes left. Yeah, I thought we were going to win.

And then it I didn't think they were watching that.

Rick Rick stopped coaching for like the last seven minutes of the game, which was kind of bizarre.

But other than that, it was great.

First time in my life. Literally was two months from being born the last time.

It's been a while. This is great.

I don't want congrats to both you.

Who do you got? You got Arizona next?

No, we got Duke, baby.

Yeah, Duke and DC. It's going to be a fun. We got Duke.

Duke St. John's Connecticut and Michigan State and DC. Good.

Yeah. Thank you to the committee for setting this up, putting putting the two actually good big East teams in the same region because that makes sense.

But you know, you can say John's you can't in St. John's Twitter.

We got the corn bowl and the sweet 16 with the big 10. All right. Yeah.

We got two big 10 teams playing each other in the sweet 16.

Your conference isn't a real conference. All right.

All right. You know, he's got two teams.

We have we've got six in the sweet 16 and two of them are playing each other.

I think worse would have been Vandy Florida after they just played in this.

It just played one versus five, but you know, the corn bowl will suffice.

The corn bowl is going to be great.

DC, by the way, that regional will be loaded up with just hate.

One of my takeaways we went on Friday to Philly is I think like Yukon might be the new Duke for whatever these years on.

And like they obviously maybe they don't have a super hateable player and like a Christian lateener.

DJ Reddick.

Okay.

Who is it? Who is that?

Carabin.

Okay. All right.

I just want to get him from the big East.

What about their coach?

Well, that's what I'm saying.

All rolled up into this guy who never leaves doesn't grudge or leave after one year is Danny Hurley.

I made every single person that Philadelphia arena had a passionate point of view about Connecticut.

It was zero pro or it was virulently vehemently against.

And they might be the new Duke one winning a lot recently.

Super hateable coach.

I, you know, fan base that seems to be repellent to many people out there.

I was shocked at how my kids just became firm and super fans.

They got caught up in the wave of anti Yukon.

I mean, I know it's a villain of a market and all that stuff.

But it's interesting.

Yukon might be the new Duke with their coach being so hateable.

They might be more hateable than Duke right now.

Coach K's gone.

Feels like Duke hasn't had a ton of hateable players lately.

Maybe, maybe the one and done's, you know, they're not, you don't have more time to hate them.

Yeah, they're not, they're not, they're not there long enough.

But yeah, this is, I don't know.

It's going to be a scene on Friday night.

No matter what happens.

All right.

Either way.

Are you coming down?

Hey, I am.

We bought, bought tickets before Duke even won on Saturday.

So got, got in before, before the shoot up.

So ready to go.

BP, your kids are joining the facts as a firm and super fans.

Doddy Pepper facts.

I was just running them through alums of different, different schools as we watched them.

Vitaly Potapenko for right state.

We're watching them push UVA to the limit early.

Pull Vitaly Potapenko.

Pull lottery pick.

Yeah.

He and Big Z.

We're the same draft, like five picks apart.

New era.

I was just asking Paul.

So yeah, it was good, good Friday and Philly.

I also had a thought that in the modern era.

It's kind of crazy to watch these good players for like a firm in our right state.

And then you just assume they'll be gone the next year.

Like would Steph Curry finish at Davidson?

Would that run as like a senior at Davidson have happened?

He probably would have been at Carolina Duke within like an hour.

Maybe I don't want to like.

But like this guard for Furman was good.

He's a freshman.

He's like, well, he's going to be playing for, you know, NC state or something next year.

It's kind of interesting how that happened.

Like just watching anybody with what go toe to toe with these power five schools.

I was sexed with somebody about the Illinois game and, you know, somebody of influence.

And I was like, I was like, you know, that guard on BCU is really good.

The freshman, you should go get them in the portal.

Yeah.

Like, yeah.

Yeah.

They're scouting the game.

It's like, just go.

Hey, we like your game.

Come on over.

Right.

It's like somebody, somebody did a picture of Bill Self in the handshake line against Cal Baptist

with their center who's like seven, two and he was talking to him.

And he's like, hey, do you have eligibility left?

Like, can you count?

Very good.

You see that game, the Arkansas game against a high point like that point guard.

That guy is getting paid.

Right.

It's.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

I don't know.

In one way, you will never have Steph Curry at Davidson again.

Probably Wally's Arbiac at night.

Like these famous instances of it happening.

But then you also end up with a sweet 16 regional that's you kind of Michigan state.

You know, St. John's and Duke.

I don't know.

I think everybody loves like the.

Right.

Cinderella.

Yeah.

Until it gets to the second weekend.

Yes.

And they're like, wait a second.

Why do I have to watch George Mason?

St. Peter's versus, you know, yeah, get.

Wop walloped by you know, why is N.C. state in the final four?

Yeah.

My favorite guy was the, my favorite guy was the St. Louis center.

Avila.

Yeah.

Robbie Avila.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that guy.

That guy's a legend.

That guy.

I love that.

Leaning into his brand.

Leaning into his brand.

I thought they would give Michigan a little more games than they did.

All right.

That does it.

NCAA minute.

Yeah.

NCAA minute.

Yeah.

A big.

I know we talked about it a lot last week.

I just want to say big win for Keegan Bradley gets off the schneide.

That's been it.

Just hit after hit after hit.

I'm just happy for Keith.

I'd be worried about you.

I, I'm worried for you that he's going to show up.

I, I too am worried because I know what happened last year.

It's cooler.

It's cooler.

It's cooler.

So, I think say, Todd's fans need to unite and just put something out there.

That's like a go fund me.

That's that gets a level that that Keegan will sell his ticket because you're offering

him so much money to not come.

Yeah.

Can we, can we, can we like, is he in the field for Houston?

I'm going to look that up right now.

I'm going to cross.

I expect so.

I mean, the frogs we know are done, done and dusted.

So he doesn't have to worry about any conflicts this week.

Maybe.

How about TGL?

Big night.

Do you feel like it's being overshadowed at all?

Did it get the, the positive deserved leading into its championship starting here?

I don't know how to answer that question.

What did it deserve?

I, I don't know.

I mean, you have Kalmork.

How is injured in Akshay Batiyah on a flight to India.

So you got those two are missing from your finals, which just happens.

You've got Kizner.

Kizner.

Homa.

And who's the third team of my team?

Tom Sim.

Tom Sim.

Tom Sim.

Tom Sim.

Tom Sim.

Tom Sim.

Well, the goal of Rose's, and God at my brain is on who's the third guy for wypagala rose and fleawood.

We got that tonight.

I guess, you know, I'm locked in as usual.

I don't think it's being overshadowed.

I will say it is hilarious.

Then one of the best players on one of the championship teams is not there for the championship,

but rather out of flight to India.

get, I get wanting to go play the India, the India tournament at DLF. I understand. Just

he, not a good time to do it before the masters. I guess it's probably enough time to re-acclimate.

Yeah, it's not ideal. Not ideally how you draw it up, right? He's a, he's a hero brand

ambassador as the thing. And they're the sponsor, title sponsor, obviously. I interviewed

him last year at Caves Valley with the hero, Dr. Mungal. I didn't use it for anything. There

wasn't much in it, but is a hero and doctor in the air quotes as PJ reminds us. Yeah, so

it's not ideal. I don't know if it was overshadowed, but TGL is being overshadowed, but that will

segue us to, I think, a valve spark that's overshadowed. One thing I was thinking completely

overshadowed. I was thinking about like the schedule and all this. Probably don't need a golf

tournament the week after the players opposite the NCAA tournament. It's not to say the

valve spark wasn't good. Copperhead is not, you know, decent. It's not to say it was

a garbage tournament. I have no interest in or any of that. I just think people are not

attuned to golf. The ratings may say otherwise, which is fine. I don't, that's not necessarily

that's, you know, separate apart from the point. I just don't know you need golf the

week after the player's championship going against the NCAA tournament. It's just sort

of not good counter programming or worthwhile counter programming. Could be one we drop. Would

you agree with that? Yeah, I think the issue going against the NTA tournament in particular,

and you can find reasons to skip every week. But with the tournament, there's nowhere to

slide it in. Like, okay, we slide it in here. Maybe we get a start and and people keep

watching because the tournament's so good. It is, hey, the tournament starts at 11 a.m.

Easter or whatever. It starts at 9 a.m. here. It starts then and it's rolling through

the rest of the day. And you're just like the way the tournament stacked is particularly

on the weekend is like you just like switch from second half to second half. I watched

the finish of this. I mean, the thing was the tournament was good. It always is good. Like,

I think the bell's far. Yeah, always has a pretty good finish. To me, it's like a better

version of the travelers finish. Tougher golf course, a little bit more skills required

to like, you can't just fake your way around. But the finish always delivers. Like they're

always seemingly is like a bunch of guys with a chance in the mix. So I enjoyed that and

like big numbers can happen coming down the stretch. I enjoyed Branson Attaker in the

mix, you know, and you know, tough Sunday for Stads. But I was really hoping he was going

to get the win. So we got Keegan captain gate, heart to with Staticer. I was going to say

like the quickest way to get your game back is just to be named a captain and one of the

team events to get back on tour. Staticer, do you know what he finished at placewise where

he finished? I mean, he was high for the lead with like an hour and a half to go. Yeah,

he was tied fully. 18th. Yes, precisely. T18. Tough. Just got real got real sideways there

on the middle of the night. He talked about how he like gave it all away on the back

nine. It wasn't pretty on the front nine. He just was making everything. He got up

it down over and over and over again. It's not like he turned the back nine and was like just

like couldn't hit the ball anymore. He could hit the ball day. He was five over like six

holes on the back one from time for the lead to T18. I there was someone I'm sorry. I someone

tweeted in the middle of it like he had sort of like it just sucks to finish that when you're so

close. Someone to be like, did he actually think he was going to win this tournament? Was he under

the impression? I was like, yeah, he probably did. He's a golf pro. He's done a lot in his career

and decent amount. But yeah, he didn't. I don't think have a realistic chance based on the way he was

hitting it on Sunday. Fitz did. Fitz did. Fitz is dialed. Fitz is dialed in with the first major

of the year quickly approaching. He was first in strokes game T to green, second in approach,

shot 68, 69 like a hard ass setup, hard golf course. He was kind of 68, 69 all four rounds,

368s that is including one on Sunday with the birdie at the last to hold off Lipsky. First time

he's ever birdied that hole in the snake pit rolls in about a 15 footer. I think it was in very

emotive fist pump for the generally stoic unless we're talking about pace of play,

Northwestern product. So he is rolling after the heartbreak last week at a player's championship,

gets back on the horse and wins at Val's bar. Pretty awesome for the PGA tour in terms of

story standpoint. The guy that finishes just falls just short at players at the players has a putt

to make it to get the playoff done and just misses to get it into the playoff.

And then the next week he's on the 18th hole with a putt to win and cashes it. That is as good

as a set up as you can get. I had a question for you BP. I think we got to give Mark Blackburn

a lot of credit. Like number one in the world teacher. Number one to coach in the world.

Yeah. I mean, this 50 turn around, 50 talked about it post a post round how like he's never had

so much confidence with his iron play. Interesting. And I think like you start to look down maybe

guys that are he might not be undervalued now, but like if he's hitting irons at a elite level,

masters, potential masters guy that maybe there's not a ton to send on because his finishes aren't

spectacular there. But if he's hitting if he's hitting his irons at such an elite level,

maybe worth worth some shekels. The other thing I wanted to pull up here. Yeah.

Or annual top 10. Six goes to six now. We've already had got her up jump right. Go ahead.

Throw it. We've got four jumpers in the top 10. Okay. Cameron Young's up to three. Did you see

this PJ? Number three player in the world. Cameron Young. What a 10-day stretch for PJ. It's really,

it's it's alarming. You know, sometimes you just get way too hot. Can't wait to see how it all

comes crashing down at some point soon here. But it's been a good run. Number three. How about it?

Okay. So he from 19th to third. Yep. You got um, 50 jump into six from 22nd.

Mark Howe's eighth TVD with the back. There's been so much turnover in spots for through 10.

There's a got her up fifth, right? Wasn't he? He's now 10th. Oh, wow. I thought he was like

fifth at one point this year, right? Am I crazy? It's wild. How much shuffling there's been

interesting there. So um, more comma, eighth and then got her up into the 10th spot. 20. Okay.

So there's already been four players moving around. It's like everybody's moving,

except for Rory and Scotty. Yeah. And they're so far out ahead of everybody else.

They got a choke hold. Um, you mentioned it fits pretty middling at the masters. Like,

makes every cut, which, you know, that's, I don't want to say it's easy to make the cut at the

masters, but not the hardest cut to get over the line. He makes every cut. That's an achievement.

And, but, but not a ton of contention. Almost none. He has two top tens there.

But obviously that is the major storyline coming out of the last two weeks for him as you

talked about. He's going to be, I hate the term. Like everybody uses the term dark horse or

lawn shot to like, that's not Scotty or Rory. And, and he should be among the top six seven

favorites. There's a six seven. I didn't mean to do that. So, uh, some favorites, you know,

realistically, I don't know what he's at. I'm checking it now. He's 25 to one right now,

which sounds about right that there's maybe four guys ahead of them. Uh, Scotty, Rory,

Ludwig, Bryson and Xander are ahead of them as far as I can tell. And maybe Ron as well. So, yeah,

about six best thoughts. I think like the, the big thing is you got to look at the iron play.

If he's, yeah, he's really turned himself into a top 15 top 20 iron player. It's a whole new

world for Fitsy there. You look, go back to 2021, 2022 season. Use 48th. Obviously had a really

good year that year. Second strokes game total that year. Um, you know, he, the, from there he had,

he had, you know, kind of didn't have great years. He was 116th of 2022, 2023. You know,

if this guy has, has turned himself into an elite iron player, um, with his work, uh, with the

number one coach in the world, then, uh, he could be a problem. This guy, I don't know, you just

said this guy just thought I just jumped in the concert voice like this guy. Oh, yeah, it could be

a problem. Yeah, it could be a problem. I'll tell you what, this guy with Chicago, it feels

with the heartbreak last week. He gets himself right in there. Um, yeah, I mean, God, he was lost.

He had to play for a spot. Look, Donald made him play extra fall events on the DP World Tour

to get a spot. He wins the DP World Tour championship, not the race, but the last event of the year.

And now he's, you know, kind of started slow-ish this year and cooking in the last month or so.

Some fits should be a, should be a likely pick to win the Masters. I mean, you think about,

I don't know where he is with like Stroke's gain points earned. Basically, I think it's the turn

around really started at Wells Fargo, like the bottoming out was at Wells Fargo last year.

Okay. Remember correctly. He was something like 80th in the world. Um, okay. Yeah. Um, and you think

about like where he's gotten to. So yeah, after, here, after Wells Fargo is 85th in the world.

And he had to T8 at the PGA. Think about the, the 10 month run he's been on. Good run. He's, he's

excited at him. And you think about, okay, if I had told you that last year's Masters or last year's

PGA that Maddie Fitz might be the third or fourth best, you know, pick. I mean, I guess,

you, Bryson and, and Ram, you throw in there, obviously, those would be maybe these like the six

or seventh pick of best player in the world. Yeah. Very good. There's a world where you could probably

pick them before that. If you were saying like most reliable player in the world. Yeah.

Gonna get you make a cut and get in contention. He's, he's way, way, way up there for the gambling.

The thing I'm disappointed in my, all my models said, pick Matt Fitzpatrick, but my stupid little one

and done league has these dumb rules where I have to pick Brooks Capka.

Yeah. You did our, I would have, I would have been touting 15 all from the, from the towers.

Oh, I went, I had to take Capka who had a respectful finish. It would have been a lot better if he

hadn't doubled the 16 Saturday and Sunday. But I went with the, the smother boy who's definitely

still a boy also on sideways with that pick, missed cut for the smother boy who's expecting his child.

But yeah, Capka, decent finish for Capka. One more thing on Fitz though, I just want to add,

not only playing well, but also winning over the populist vote by just excoriating,

putting people on blast for pace of play, including your fellow. I and I alum. I was going to

apologize about, okay. This was, this wasn't a line I behavior. I mean, he's out there. He's,

you know, pulling like Ben Crane Sabah boy from Bratislava type maneuver is apparently hitting

ahead of ADDC when he's the way, trying to push him away and then has a soliloquy on it in the

post round champion's press conference. Like, you gotta be ready to hit. You're, you're just not

ready to play when it's your turn. And yeah, tough look for ADDC, which, you know, this is the

problem that we talk about slow play. Generally, it's too slow. Guys are too slow. It takes too

on to play, but names are never named really, except on, you know, a reverent podcast like this one

occasionally. This is a player putting a play partner out there. And that's what like public shaming

unfortunately is what needs to occur to change course correct behavior. I think that's what's

required. I don't know if it's going to happen with Tom Kim. He appears somewhat shameless,

but, you know, we need, you know, people like Matt Fitz, who is at this point, you know,

sort of a statesman of the game. He might have, he winds a little bit about too many other things,

but he's, you know, a leader in the game. And yeah, certainly on pace of play, I thought it was

admirable. He went out there and put it on blast. Yeah, I love, I think one of the things that I

like about Fitz at this point is he is one of the people on tour that gives you the most,

in terms of quotes. He doesn't necessarily hold back that much on a tour of people that hold

back so much. Now, we give a carrot to modern coaching. I'm going to, I'm going to take one away.

I think that a lot of pace of plays issue are the modern coaches. And they're gung ho,

you have to have a process to hit the ball. I mean, listen, if you were, if I were coaching

my kid, I would teach them a routine. Like, there is like very a lot of data and you probably could

you know, put together, you know, a good about of like, if you can go through your routine in

the same exact process in time, you know, you are a, you're going to hit better shots.

But these routines have gotten completely out of hand. They take so freaking long. And the fact is

why they won't start, they won't start their routine before the player in the shot and the crowd

has is settled down is so that they can execute their routine in an exact number of seconds.

But the caddy conversation cannot be part of the overarching routine. Talking through yardage

and club, the routine, all these players, the pampered apps, need to understand that you're

going to have your club in your hand, ready to hit the ball. Like, so when the ball lands,

the crowd claps, you're standing behind the ball, start timing your routine, time out your

team from there. I've got my club. I know how far I'm hitting it. And I'm going to execute my

routine from behind the ball there. I'm ready to hit like the, it's, it's preposterous. How slow

the modern golfer is. And this is in large part. If not wholly, the coaches issue. This is all

coach driven. Oh, you're taking the agency out of your line. I product. It's all the coaches fault.

That's what I feel like hearing. I, I'm not going to stand here. I, I'm not going to stand here

and blindly support my fellow. It was just despicable, despicable behavior from ADDC. As the line I fan,

you know, I don't want to side swipe too many of line I fans. You know, our fan base can be

pretty tough. I love that. Some self-reflection, self-emotagement. They're online. They can be online.

Yeah. I don't like, I don't, I don't like reading. I don't think, I don't think our fan base has

very good takes just in general. So I think they're delusional. Also completely delusional. They,

all these guys, all these people complain about our basketball coach. And it's like, what,

what do you want? He's, he's got more wins in the big 10 in the 2020s than any other program.

Like, what are we looking for? If he's not it, what is it? You know, top five. And then if it's,

if it's a markedly better than as soon as a Duke or Kansas or, you know, a big time job opens,

he's gone. Like North Carolina is going to have a vacancy. Maybe your, your coach is gone.

Yeah. No, he seems, seems like what you want. Stability and consistency and, and performance.

But anyways, 80 DC needs to be like, you should have to go into the principal's office after

you're on national television doing what he was doing. Like, he should be in Brian Rolab's office

on Monday morning. The, the tour should send Jay's jet that he's, you know, probably flying

to steamboat on. It should detour, pick up 80 DC in, in Tampa. And he should be down in Brian

Rolab's office. And he should be up there with like a clicker. Maybe you bring in John,

Gruden too. You pay John Gruden. Yeah. Yeah. Yellow and Adam. What would you, the, the players should

have to review the tape. Shouldn't this be delegated not to somebody, somebody else in competitions?

Like Dennis, Tyler Dennis, Jason Gore, people like that would be like, well, we got to watch out

for the players. We have to, you know, you don't understand how hard it was when I used to paint

the line there. Like I felt the performance anxiety of painting lines. That's what got me to number

two at the tour. Dennis, the menace cannot be involved. Jason Gore, I'm starring. He made a career

of just like, oh, come on, holding PGA tours, plan, the players hands on his way up the corporate

ladder. Like that's been the qualification of like, I can, I can communicate with players.

Sounding board. Yeah. They need, they need a John Gruden type that tears into them. They should,

when players get put on the clock, they should have to sit in the principal's office and review the

tape with somebody who just yells at him. This is like in hockey when they have Brendan Chattahan

who is now like the, the, the, the arbiter of all the suspensions who goes in there and just hard

noses everybody. You got it. You got to get like a former player who won't stick up for anybody

and we'll just go at people. We're like, I wouldn't get him a, I wouldn't get him a private jet.

I would just get him Southwest C class. Maybe get him to the cattle call at his C group. You

know, everybody through the gates into your seat. Maybe get him a Southwest ticket. Private flight,

the private jet seems too fancy. The kids won't know, but Brendan Chattahan, he was probable.

That's a real problem. But the red wigs. He was like, yeah, one of my favorite

Brendan's. I looked up to, I was like, oh, there is a Brendan. He's an ass kicker. He was a fellow

Brendan I looked up to. You know what? If, if Brendan Chattahan was on that Canadian hockey team

in the Olympics, they might have won. We got down differently. All right. That's for ADDC

excursion. Valsbar real quick on that. I also want them hearing from you. It's like less

caddy combos, but we want it for the content. Right? Are we having the caddy combos getting

in the way of the broadcast? This is good content. I heard some pushback on chasing Sunday that

there were a few agents that got in the paint and really sanitized that thing for a few of the

individuals. They were our old fellow bud buddy. Got in the paint. Really sanitized. We know all

about buddy ball. But still, anyways, caddy combos holding a pace of play, but maybe good content.

Who knows? Can we follow? The caddy conversation can happen while somebody else is going through

their excursiating routine excruciating. Yeah. I know. I know. I know. Speaking of excruciating, last

bit on Valsbar. I have a few more bits. Is this like pro golf. You know, pro golfers, they kind

of have been silenced. They don't have enough authority and weight and influence in the game of

golf these days. You know, they've been silenced and stamped out pro golfers. I want to give

you can't do anything. I want to give them their space here. Their perspective, I seems like,

is that this is what's needed and not a rollback. This is how you can guard against the distance

creep or distance explosion. Is Valsbar is a copperhead in this brook. I saw Justin Thomas tweet

Sunday night, 73 to 74 hundred yards. I think it was set up at 72, I think, most of the week.

Part 71, four part fives over part cut and minus 11 going to be the winning score. In this brook

always holds its own. I'm not suggesting he's saying this instead of rollback. It just seems

reading between the lines. You know, you have tight-ish plane lanes, obviously with trees framing

both sides. You had a small, very small greens. It was firm-ish. It was, you know, they had the

drone out there. It looked quite brown and stuff. Similar to last week at Sawgrass. You have the

hoppy jumpy bermuda rough where that can be an obstacle to distance control.

The pro golf perspective seems to be that this is how you get there. Over part cut, minus 11.

So it's 72 hundred yards. I don't know that that should be applicable across the board,

but this is their counter argument is how you get there. And you see it year after year with

with copperhead. They kind of hold it up. But it's a very unique setup, I would say, a unique

set of challenges. I don't disagree that this is like a great, unique stop on tour that's

different. It's a different style of golf than most of the Florida swing while still being in Florida.

I think the greater overarching point, and I think this is one thing that pro golfers and

anti-rollback people struggle with, is there shouldn't be just one style of pro golf.

This is the singular setup is not a good situation. You should want a wide range of setups

in order to challenge pro golfers. And the fact that we've gotten to a place where only one

type of setup is deemed challenge worthy is the issue. I love your tweet about the overinflated basketball.

Yeah, overinflated basketballs in the tournament. Don't deflate them to regular levels,

just add mushy records and softer backboards, bigger baskets to account for the ball that's

bouncing too far now. Yeah, it's like, obviously, if you had 48 setups, like Valspar,

guys would lose their minds. I can't hit my driver. My weapon, they of course would be losing

their minds about that. You have to have multiple different varied setups. And so that's the issue.

It's obsoleteing a certain percentage of that variety. How are you guys as speed fans? How are you

how are you? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. T23 off the tee and 7th or 23rd and 7th off the tee and 7th

in approach. He had a good approach week the week before. This is a good week. It's T11 total finishes T11

trending for a master's top 10. Probably who knows. Yeah, that's a good week for speed. I wouldn't

say I'm like a giant speed fan, but yeah, you are. You're always defending them.

Solid couple of weeks of approach play for him. His driver still seems to be an issue,

or it was at least that saw grass. Same on the iron play for Bruxy. Again, you mentioned

you had to pick him, but I think he was top 10 at saw grass. And yeah, three at Valspar. So

certainly is one to keep an eye on for the masters as well. He's rounding into form. What's the

mule count, Peach? I assume that we don't need to get to specifics, but he sort of

I thought the fall to 18th, he only made a hundred grand. But it's put the players, I think,

is going to be the end of it. I mean, the players can't can't make up 400,000. This might be

the a nail in the mule coffin for any debates is that you got two two players for every one

you didn't make a paper. You can't even come close. We'll see. I mean, maybe one goes low at one of

the Zurich or so. I don't know. You never know. And now you got you're you're racking up seven

figure totals. That's actually interesting to do two additional Zurich teams get in four guys.

To four guys get it. Yeah, I probably probably maybe. I don't know. We'll see. So another

you see where other rookies in the FedEx cup. Where is he? 60. He's on his way to

on his way to a top 50 territory. So, but doesn't get him in six. He's still for this year. You

still got to do the a on deals, right? Yeah. It would be top 30 O W G R. Similar thing that's

interesting with Brooks. Where pro golf's gone? Is he's kind of lost his his off the tee advantage?

I mean, he has a kind of he has lost. Like he does not he still has some pop in the bat.

But it's just normal pop in the bat. Everybody has the same pop in the bat. It's just normal. And

that used to be his big thing. So I would just I think like he's never going to be a first page

favorite at at a major. I don't think. But he can absolutely clip one with the way his his

iron play is has been kind of trending. It's just it's going to require him to be tidier

in every other facet of the game. I don't want to say this is, you know, admirable. But

interestingly enough, he doesn't seem to give a what give a f about it either. Like he is a.

Oh, am I losing my advantage here? Like, no, I'm still going to do what I do. You know, we

obviously know he has a quirky equipment set up right with with some antiquated almost clubs at

this point. Big revelation of that chasing Sunday was a not big, but a revelation was I think

was Akshay and Griner's sort of incredible and credulity about him not carrying a yardage book

of any kind. Just you know, it doesn't dial it like he just he's not necessarily worried about

keeping up with all of that stuff. Whether it's off the tee is just speed training to to have

the advantage. He maybe once had in 2017, 18, 19. He's just a different kind of cat. It's probably

it's a little there's a romanticism about it now this day and age, but he seems disinterested

in changing anything about his approach, whether it's equipment, yardages, speed, or whatever.

And who knows, he's once majors might win some more probably the way to do it. Do it. He feels

comfortable. Other notes doesn't do stuff that changes is his golf or DNA. Yeah.

Zander. Another solid finish. Zander back. Maybe had another good week. Was in contention there

for a little bit on Sunday, but that's two straight weeks for him. Pause. I thought it was a big

week for the rookie combine, Peach. Guys are all over the place. I was just I was just going to say

on the top of the Brooksfields. AJ Eward is rounding into for me. All right. All right.

Well, I really enjoyed George Smith from our from your guys' chat. Jordan Smith was great.

I he was in it right until the end. I mean, at the clubhouse lead. It was it was big. We're getting

getting out there. Michael Brennan live this week at Houston can just bat it around wherever he wants.

Just send it. Speed swing 195 ball speed. Doesn't matter where it goes. He used to talk about that

on Wednesday. Jordan Smith. Jordan Smith. Bearland down on Jordan's speed in FedEx.

I love the end. This is a great game within the game for the rest of the year. 41 to 32. Love it.

Close. Love it. That's a game. That's a real game we got. Last but not least, I don't

everybody loves them. And he's gregarious. And he's got the you know, he's the punch. Everybody's

into Sun J. I don't know. I think we've outpaced the height versus reality of results of Sun J. I

know he had good three rounds was awful on Sunday. So one tight twice in his career. I love Sun J.

But just I don't know if the hype justifies and all the hoopla justifies like the performance at

this point. Disappointed in his Sunday, certainly. The thing with Sun J is 25 years from now.

Somebody's going to be going through his PGA tour thing and it'll look at like the finishes,

the top 10s. And they're going to be like what a player this guy was. Yeah.

I mean, into a certain extent, he's just been from like 20 to 40.

For so many years because he came out tour so young. Yeah. It does take a great amount of skill

to be extremely above average. It's like my painter or something. Yeah.

He's extremely above average. Yeah. But very much. Very good. Golf has like this. They were

talking about Marco Penji and about how he's he's like just like on its way to start him. And he might

he might be, but we can't. Golf throws around star so Willie nilly. It's like insane. How Willie

nilly they are about start like they everybody would describe Sun J as a star. And I'd be like

what has he done that's made him a star. There are five stars in golf.

Maybe six. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. It sounds disrespectful to people who are

better at like 99.99% of the world that they're craft, but it's just a different

it's a it's a different threshold that's come into view certainly in the last five, six years

will live. I don't want to I don't want to offend our producer here, but Cam Young's not a star.

He's not yet. Yeah. Like the star for Bryson. Rory Scotty.

Rob. I don't know. I don't know what else. Tiger, but I got a real a dog golfer anymore.

I don't think Cam Young wants to be a star. I think I think he's probably good. I think

there's a list of guys who want to be stars. And that's where we should be pulling from.

Jordan's feet is a star, by the way. Well, what is adjacent ish getting there is very very pop

art. Yes. Yes. Yes. Ricky. Ricky. It's just different. It's a different deal. It's very it's

an odd way to define like you can be a top three player in the world, maybe three. And you're just

like not bringing home. It's a weird thing that's been laid bare last five, six years for sure.

That's it for for the Valsbar Championship. Went longer than I ever could have imagined

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compelling crowds. I don't know that like that means live is going to the moon now. But this was

certainly a one week instance of it looking highly entertaining, highly successful.

Bryson DeChambo beats John Rom in a playoff with an incredible three wood from the mud.

Left he got mud relief, but then you know placed it just past the mud and ripped the three wood.

I think it was 285 to 12 feet. Only needed a two putt to beat John Rom in the playoff. So he wins

back to back in Singapore and then wins at live South Africa beating Rom in a playoff. The

crushers I believe on the team event over the southern guards, the host the host team of South

Africans there in Steins City. A really interesting event. Bryson in tears,

Paul Casey in tears, but you know, if you're live, this is what you'd want.

Great crowd dream of event for live. Yeah. Huge crowd. Bryson and Rom playoff,

crushers and South African locals. The southern guard. Go Duke in it out in front of their home crowd.

This was a great event for them. Now, what does it mean? I want to give them their flowers.

It's great. And you know what? The tour has this problem too quite frankly, but the tour already

has like 60 years of infrastructure of like where they can have some duds. I've read a long

lengthy money in sport analysis of their financials of making a signature model and how the money

doesn't work except like the phoenix open is this behemoth. So they have a similar,

not problem, but similar dynamic for them that they obviously have much more institutional

control and financial guardrails. The issue is one great event in South Africa does not

a league make. And how do you replicate this? It's obviously, you know, their emphasis would be on

we're not going for the American market necessarily. We're going global and we've done a

demonstrated success in South Africa, Australia credit to them. Saturday tickets for 2027

are already sold out in South Africa, just like tons of momentum. A good idea, a good event.

How do you, can you, I don't want to say replicate this 12 times, but

just getting a one good finish and great crowd pop to make a a viable league going forward. I'm not

sure. That's the harder next challenge, I suppose, but but a great event this week.

To me, it feels like where they've hit is undervalued

um golf countries or underserved. And there's two of them. South Africa and Australia, like

the issue is you just, there's not, you can't keep going back to this barrel. It's not like we

can just build the whole tour around this because the second that you, you know, like

the second you try and do more than the market's not underserved.

Right. I do probably think Australia is big enough that they can do two events there, but

then you're cutting across like, are you, are you doing this for television?

Are you doing this for on-site experience?

And I wouldn't say that they're completely mutually exclusive, but they are a little bit mutually

exclusive. Like this was an incredible finish and event. It will, the ratings for an American

audience where we know like they will push back and you need to be global, but like that drives

the bus financially. We'll be poultry compared to a valve spar, which you might think is absolutely

not nearly as interesting and what they got in South Africa. It just won't.

It doesn't mean yeah, that's that's the piece here is like,

yeah, this could be a great event, but did it move them closer to not just being a financial

subsidy of the Saudi Arabian government? No. Like nothing they've done all year has moved them

closer to not being just a find out a subsidy of Saudi Arabia trying to improve his global image.

Yeah, I mean, it speaks to our prior discussion about stars, like, like, how might like,

you get them all the money in the world, you get them all the success in the world, you have to have

this sort of at this point institutional build up that we see with like certainly with the masters.

And the PGA tour just has that advantage. Like you could put Joe Shmo on CBS on Sunday afternoon

at 6 p.m. and it's going to do it like right now, that's that's the nature of the product.

Maybe the live is winning a younger audience that will slip in, you know, 20 years from now,

30 years to the have the appetite to continue live at what it is for that amount of time for

another 10 years. Maybe I don't know, it's a harder challenge, but I can't do anything but applaud

the effort in South Africa, you know, and go ahead. Can we point out going to 72 holes to be

seems like it's helping their big names win more in 10 more. Yeah, yeah, it's impacting Waco

maybe to Neiman, maybe a little bit, but yes, fewer Neiman hits and now he's a star, he's one

of their stars. But yeah, you're seeing a lot of ROM, a lot of Bryson here recently as they go global,

AK. I think that like a real serious golf conversation, this is going to be the best form that we've

ever seen Bryson coming into Augusta National. And it's hard to square how you value these win,

live wins, whatever. But in the last three or four years, I don't think he's finished in the top three

of any event in the lead up to the Masters like from their start to the Masters on a quick scan.

So this, winning two in a row, leading in the Masters, what a dream start to the year for somebody that

like, I think it was pretty clearly, clearly trying, you know, trying to win majors and you know,

he's been in the mix of the Masters obviously was in the final group last year and was squarely in

the mix the year before. Interesting results for him coming in and obviously John Rom has had a

really nice run here leading into the Masters as well. I think they need to perform at some of

these majors this year. They're big guns or even their second tier guys. So they're off until

the second tier guys going to be in the major. I mean, like, hadn't I don't know if that's disrespectful

to call them second tier, but I ramen Bryson, I think are sort of in their own class. Yeah, they're

off until Mexico City the week after the major, the Masters. So Bryson playing well also has some sort of

personal difficulty or struggle or emotional issue going on. He was very emotional after the round

both on the green in press conference, but we'll not allude to what it was. We'll not talk about it,

but it must be acknowledged. I hope everything's okay there. He was emotional. Paul Casey also in

tiers crying on the 18th green about how great South Africa was in the southern guards. Charles

and Gracie as he called them and Burmese said it's the best live event they've ever had put the

gauntlet down for Australia. I don't know, you know, we saw him emotional whistling straight since

everybody was getting emotional sort of jump on that bandwagon there, but clearly moved by the

scenes in South Africa. The crushers were hope everything's all right with Bryson. I don't know

what's going on there. He doesn't want to talk about it, but hopefully everything all right,

but he isn't good for him. The golf is in a good form going to the Masters. John Rahm all around live

is dropping his appeal of DP world tours fines that he's been contesting, but will not pay the fines.

So seems like he's still not eligible for the DP world tour and the rider cup is in serious doubt.

He said just lower to four events. This was Sean Zach, I believe, who was on the ground in South

Africa reporting. Lower to four events, like the minimum says, and I'll sign tonight, they haven't

agreed to that. I just refuse to play in six events. I don't want you and that's not the rules.

Say, so not appealing anymore, but also not paying his fines, which sort of leaves the

stare down still in the fold. So this is a stare down of the year. I guess. I mean, or next year,

when really push comes to shove, hon, is he going to be in a dare manner? I assume the fines

continue to crew or they halt it. I think they do a crew. I think they like he wants. Yeah,

he's going to play the Spanish open. He wants to play. So all the others have agreed. No more fines.

So, you know, they're not getting fine for playing live events. So it's interesting. You know,

I saw James Corrigan, like he's not in the rider cup. It's not playing. They're getting pretty

declarative here. What's still, you know, 18 months to go until the rider cup, but

feels like more time passes, the more dug in, they are getting.

Well, that's the way these things work. Everybody starts to feel more and more wronged.

And this is how lawsuits get contentious. Yeah. Or Michael Parsons ends up on the Packers,

things like that. You know, as you dig in, sometimes it just doesn't resolve itself.

And the way you'd like, on the LPJ, Hucho Kim wins at Sharon Heights, the founders cup.

A lot of positive reaction to this, great broadcast, great course, bells and whistles,

Nelly Corda in the mix. A lot of shaky putting coming down the stretch between Kim and Corda,

even herself. Kim thought, you know, looked like she would cruise easily at Sharon Heights,

but needed to kind of eat it out there over the last two holes. Nelly did not put extremely

well over the last four or five holes for her. Hucho Kim's second LPJ win, Ben Antwerp for like 12

years, Ben a while, but gets her second win. This was a good event. It was a primetime viewing.

They had the drone out. It was pretty firm and fast. Let the women's sort of skills show, show,

on approach shots, particularly. I don't know that it will translate into any real ratings,

like the Valspar going against the NCAA tournament or others, but I don't know if this was the

week to do it is what I would say, but certainly a dramatic improvement over prior recent weeks,

certainly in Asia, but prior iterations of the founders. I think the reality of women's golf

is like, there's no right or wrong weeks. What they have to do is build consistency of high level

tournaments and broadcasts. And this is week one, you know, and go from there and it's like,

can you stack? Can we go from five great tournaments and broadcasts a year this year or whatever

you deem the number two to eight to 12. And that's the way you're going to incrementally grow the

bucket. Yeah. And nobody wants to hear that there's no silver bullet. It's just consistently

providing good product, which they have not done. I can't believe I'm unironically quoting Paul

Azinger now in my old age, but control the controllables, right? Like you can control where you play,

you can control how you how the course is set up, you can control when you play. And they have

pushed the broadcast to be better. And they're a big driver of that instead of letting the broadcast

decide for itself, like, hey, we don't we want this, we demand this, we'll pay for this, that or the

other. Like control what you can control. And they haven't always done that. And they're certainly

they're sharing heights. The founders was it was an instance of really pushing all those

I don't recall peripheral, but, but, you know, issues that they can, you know, immediately affect.

And it was nice, it was dry and firm. One amusement I did have, they always put the founders,

they bring them out historically for this event. Founders like green side or around the course.

I was a little worried they were going to take out a founder. They had a left pin. They had the

founder stage essentially on the green. I know there's a runoff area there. It's like a little

worried, a wild left, a wild overcooked shot could go right into the founders. It was precarious

in my opinion. It was, it was, I don't know what the insurance policy was on that, but they're

sitting there in their Adirondack chairs or whatever they are, essentially on the green at a left

pin. That amused me there on the 18th of the founders cup. So a positive event on the LPGA.

They're now back in America. Yeah. One of them could get stage steel there.

Don't, please no, no stage steel at the champs tour.

PJ, you want to come in? Who won the champs tour? Steven Alker. Steven Alker owns the Colleglar,

just absolutely dominant. Second year in a row, wins it in a playoff, takes down Patrick Harrington,

goes out, had dinner after the first round with his wife, his wife tells him to shoot a 62

on Saturday. What does he do? Shoot to 62, gets himself back in. What a nugget. Chase is down,

podring, wins a playoff for the second straight year. Oh, it's the Collegard. I will say, though,

all due respect to Steven Alker, not the story of the champs. Oh, no. Yeah,

being stored this week is one for the books, I think. It's the Collegard embassies are really

more than an ambassador. It feels like sort of, it feels like the comms department of Collegard

itself, the PR marketing agency, Jerry Kelly, who was out there marching around with people in

blue shirts and waving to the crowds. I mean, he says prominent as the box itself out there.

He's got hockey brain. Well, the hockey brain couldn't quite get across the line this week.

He is having spasms, it seems to think. Was it spasms? Yeah, that's bad. He's been out

of her, tried to play this week for his home event. Couldn't do it. And the champions for post

this video of Jerry Kelly. Honestly, he looks kind of dead. He's out of pillow. I don't know if

he's holding the camera or someone came in and just like put the camera in his face.

On a pillow, like struggling to talk, staring at the ceiling, like he's on the operating table.

I mean, if you're like SSG and you look at this, it's like, well, we can't cut this tour. We're

getting this kind of goal of like a band of certain age, just laid up, talking to the camera.

This is from the official league account. I want to be clear. This was not posted to Jerry Kelly,

Instagram tour. No, the champions tour is propagating this guy struggling through as I can't

breathe. Tough spasms just on his on his back. Incredible content from the champions tour official

handle. I saw this. Obviously, I have to read notifications on. What viral story count? Yeah, of

course. So I saw this immediately and I actually I couldn't react in real time because I didn't

have the words. I actually, I still can't believe this happened, but I'm so glad it did.

It's kind of incredible. I got a serious question for you, Peach. Okay, please.

You know, using a potty's quote of, you know, experiences and it's all cracked up to be

with experience you lose innocence. Did CJ, did CJ running into Alker? Did he just learn what all

these champions tour guys know is that it's going to be hard to win out here now. I think you

probably did. I mean, he was in it. He was in it, ladies. He was in it on the back nine. He had

chances, CJ. I was admittedly flipping back and forth on every media time out of the St. John's

game back, back and forth to the cold. I was, I swear to God, I was, I was trying to be as

locked in as possible. The timing wasn't, wasn't great for me. Thank you for CBS overlords for

scheduling, scheduling the game at the same time as the finish, but was able to catch the finish.

I do think ZJ probably knows what he's up against now. And I will say that Ben Crane,

it's getting laterally on the Ben Crane experience. All right. All right. He's adjusting his new

life, a new tour. Hey, I'll tell you in person, this TV timeouts are just killer. Just just know

you lose all the momentum to want to watch basketball game. You'll have to watch all this action

and then all of a sudden you're just sitting there for five minutes as CBS does a TV timeout

for the tournament. I get it. It's brutal, brutal, but congrats to Alker. I would say story three,

much more Jerry Kelly laid up like Hugh Freeze in the hospital bed.

Was John daily tumbling into the desert scruff? Someone sent it to the jackass. I mean,

this was, I feel bad for the guy. So he was hitting off like a side hill. Like, how do you go in

down? Yeah. And then he got like, yeah, he's making the desert. So he missed, he's off the course.

He's in the desert on a pretty steep embankment hits his swing and then just goes belly first.

Yeah, he just glides down the hill puts his hands up doesn't even try to fight it just goes.

The caddy goes like tumbling down the hill and then volunteers playing partner. He just

disappears on his belly sliding into the cactus and whatever else an incredible seed from the

champions tour. Don't let anybody tell you these guys aren't athletes. It was like speed that

whistling straights when he was on that, you know, embankment and then he stayed on his feet,

right? That kind of thing. Congrats to John Dilly for another viral moment.

On the European tour, the Hanan classic over in Mission Hills, Jordan Gumpert, the American

wins beats Jorge Campio in a back and forth battle wins. Of course, Gumpert, you'll recall,

he was 127 to get his card jumps from 127 to 100 in Korea last year to get his card with a

whole-out eagle from the fairway. Like one of the all-time get across the line, save your card

moments with a whole-out eagle on his last hole and gets his card. Then we have him here a matter

of months later, winning in China, the Hanan classic, Jordan Gumpert, the American

congrats to him for getting across the line there. Did you get a report on round two in carts with

the amateurs? Five hours, 40 minutes in round two with the amateurs in carts driving amidst

the volcanic rock. Apparently, this was a group that was off early, among the earliest groups,

and it took five hours and 40 minutes with the amateurs. A lot of apparently discrepancies and

scoring among the amateurs when they were trying to tally him up, you know, wealthy Chinese business

men this and that. They're like, oh, I had a bird, I had a bogey, I had a bird, a lot of discrepancies

going down on the amside of the non-classic. Now they're off to DLF, where they won't be in carts,

but it might be five hours and 40 minutes there. But then we'll talk about that on Wednesday,

DLF. Well, apparently, a ton of visa issues getting for people from China to DLF, caddies,

players and all that. But we'll get on to that on Wednesday. Congrats to Gumpert there,

often running. On news, I want to talk about this money in sport article, but I think we'll do that

Wednesday. A good deep dive analysis on some of the financials from tournaments. They're

conclusions. The math doesn't work. The tour is subsidizing too much of the purses.

There's too many, you know, tournaments that aren't making revenue, they're going to need a

substantial sponsor commitment or growth to make a bunch of signature events that roll

up. We can talk about it. I would push back on some of that. What would you push back with?

This is their analysis. I would push back if you view that the tour tournament golf,

that PGA tour enterprises, that tour golf is the only business function of PGA tour enterprises.

And I would push back and say in a way that the PGA tour is your marketing platform for everything

else you can do as a business. And thus, it's a little bit of a loss leader.

So they're okay with just event. I think that they're viewing this strictly in way too narrow

of a scope of financial understanding the financial success and how you view the overarching

organization. I think the overarching opportunity of the PGA tour. And I think that is to me,

the biggest issue with this article is that they don't actually understand like having a big

vision for the business. And what a big vision could deliver by subsidizing a really great

television product. So that, to me, would be my pushback on that article. Cliff knows push.

I think the analysis was confined to, it was too narrow, was confined to do these events work as

on their own as financial entities, but the conclusion which you're pushing back on is the

math doesn't work. That's what you're quibbling with. Well, yeah, the conclusion the math doesn't

work is like if you think that the PGA tour's business is combined strictly to PGA tour golf,

which you could say that. But then I would say that you have a really small vision and you should

be in an accounting department. Their suggestion is strategic sports group won't have an appetite

for losing, you know, or subsidizing, you know, 50% of purse funds or losing money on this event

and that event, whether it's a signature event that doesn't give a, maybe a corporate sponsor that's

you know, covering most of the bill than they have to. That was their conclusion. All right,

we'll talk more in depth. There were some good nuggets in there about RBC and some of these other

alternatives sort of, and hold not the cup will change as you know, like prior to and USDA news,

pushback, rollback, pushback to 2030. I think we all kind of knew this was coming sadly.

The gobbledook that signaled it was quote proposed change to a single data implementation of the

updated test conditions for the overall distance standard to January 30, 2030. So we sort of got

to signal this was coming, but cool. Just another two years. Become a political football. So

what's with the far reaching impacts. It's time to retire courses. Yeah, just pebble in that

financial analysis. Pebble doing quite well. Maybe just get it out. Get it off the tour.

No majors, no US opens at Pebble. All right, that does it for this Monday live edition of the

shotgun start. We'll be back with you on Wednesday. It's DLF week. We got Houston open

down on the PGA tour. We'll talk about that money and sport analysis and we will get back

with you on Wednesday. Talk to you then.