Shane Lowry's Florida meltdown, PGA National setup issues, & the U.S. Open returns to the midwest

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.

All right, all right, all right.

Gentlemen, start your engine!

Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is March 2nd, Andy, how are you doing?

Brendan, I'm doing fantastic, I got to say, it's victory Monday, there's nothing quite, you know, this is, I guess the second sports team of mine that went from worst to first in the division.

Is the Bears the first one?

Yeah, we're the first, okay.

Bears, the Bears went into the division. Now, now the Boston Common, Frogs, going from worst to first.

Are they, they're in the playoffs, but they're not the confirmed number one seed. I'm not the number one seed.

Clutched the number one seed last night in a thriller with your team.

Jupes, thriller with Jupelinks, I mean, I was, you know what, I have zero criticism for TGL this morning.

I thought it was great Sunday, turned my brain off, Sunday night, my kids are putting my kids to bed, I had it on, kids couldn't fall asleep because they kept wanting to watch.

I mean, of course, there's some goofy elements, I don't want to go too deep into it, but I thought it was just great.

I thought it was a great Sunday night watch. I didn't have a lot of alternatives, I wouldn't say there was Sunday football or something else, like an NBA game I need to see.

It was good, good. Jupelinks still alive, though, via a overtime loss, I guess, they got some sort of point for that.

So still alive going up against New York, I think for last, for stay out of the cellar, get in the postseason.

You know what, what it's kind of like, what you had this, you had this thrilling finish.

I guess thrilling, I don't know if thrilling gut wrenching finish, maybe is the better word at the end.

And TGL can have swooped in like Reno does so often after the open, where it's just this late night golf that you didn't expect that you need it.

There was a little bit of that. But there it is. And you know, you get, you get things like Chez Revy, you know, getting the sea on the teal.

Yeah, yeah, Josh Teter mucking around the barbersol or something used to be there was all sorts of yeah post open come down.

It was the very opposite field late night, feel to the TGL last night, but it all worked.

What I mean, didn't this, this is not a week that popped off the page on the, on the calendar.

Yeah, as a awesome weekend of golf, but through and through, you get the, you know, you had the New Zealand open, where you get the open championship exemptions.

That was a pair of param down in New Zealand.

Yeah, you got the South African open. Obviously, you get Jarvis Winnie again.

Then you get the Lowry, the Lowry meltdown and Niko minute just happened and it's just kind of be there for the meltdown.

Argentina, Argentina open, Alistair Ocarity winning Argentina getting an a Berkville exemption via that, the Corn Ferry tour of that.

Pretty cool. It was like a good weekend. It was like, I so I volunteered to write the news letter yesterday.

I'm locked in every Sunday because of this podcast, but I had no basketball. I just, I was really like park all day, you know, few things here there.

But, but really locked in. It was a great Sunday of golf all the way around between TGL and as the cap and, and Honda delivering a little bit with shame.

I mean, not for all the most heartwarming reasons, right? I wrote this morning like it's never good when like the first story is someone who didn't win.

That probably means something like bad has happened or going to rye. And I think shame, Lowry is indisputably like the number one subject and topic coming out of this year's cognizant classic at the Palm beaches is what I would call it.

But it was made for certainly compelling drama there in the last hour and a half, two hours or kind of.

I don't say you were waiting for something like that to happen, but he had a multi shot lead and the only the only real intrigue on that golf course is somebody going to hit in the water is somebody going to spit the bit by hitting it in the water and like 12 holes.

Yeah. Yeah. A lot of frequent amount and several at the at the end.

And so it's not like you're waiting for it or hoping for it to happen, but I mean for NBC's sake, that provides a little bit of a of a television product that's compelling at least.

And now, you know, you feel terrible for Lowry. I did credit to him. He gets up there and talks about it. He lives locally had his four year old daughter there.

You know, he was all it was funny. He was doing the PGA tour press conference. He was walking up to the edge of saying like this event doesn't matter, but that was what I like the FedEx cup points.

I don't give a shit about those. This event doesn't really matter. I didn't really care about winning the event. I wanted to win in front of my daughter, the four year old running out on the green and he was torn up about it.

It was like we've done this six, seven, seven years now.

I don't want to be like crass and be first take like everybody's got to one up each other about like it was bad. It wasn't good. He was bad. He was really bad. I would call it a pretty textbook definition like choke or meltdown. I don't know.

It's an utter meltdown. Yeah. I don't want to be like pile on here.

The wild thing is how well he played right lead again to it. I mean, he just was on fire and seemingly had had done exactly what he needed to do.

Where he opens up this three shot lead and all he had to do was just literally play away from the water the entire rest of the stretch.

Like you just hit it into the stands. Yeah. I mean like 16. There's no excuse for hitting it in the water right.

No one has done it. It's certifiably horrific shot. One of the worst shots you'll see all year.

Three iron. Two hundred eleven yards right in the middle. You make a double there.

Which like the double was incredible because the bottom of the bunker was like insanely good. Good double by the end of it.

But then, you know, I mean, obviously, Nico makes the kind of honestly.

Lucky ass birdie on 17. Like hit a terrible iron. That was it was right of a right flag.

Yeah, it was it was steep. It was getting hit by the wind. It carries, you know, this beauty of the game. A golf though it gets on it carries just enough.

And then he has this like easy uphill really straight pot that he hits really hard.

Obviously with authority goes in, but like it completely changes the dynamic.

But like if you're allowing you play that stretch over.

Literally, you could have just hit it into the fans left on 16.

Hit it into the into the grandstands left on 17.

And you get out of there at at 17 under and all you have to do that is birdie 18 to win.

Yeah, he was he lost the ability though to like I guess like you could still not know where the balls going.

You can still not feel your hands or as he said, feel the face of the club and still just ship them into the stands like you're talking about.

But that's the thing that that for me, given the situation on 16 T, your line has to be the left half of the fairway.

And I just don't believe you could possibly hit the ball.

If you think about like where he was 25 yards from the right, where the ball went in 25 yards right of the right edge of the fairway.

Yeah, if you extend that to the left edge of the fairway, which is probably where he should have been aiming.

I mean, that's like 50 yards right with a three iron.

I just it was so such a bad, bad, bad swing. I don't.

I don't know if he I clearly didn't expect it. Obviously, but you so late. I mean, so late. It's just so.

His name was Orland Shank. Yeah.

And he was on the next one too, the drop, which was just a wedge. Like he kind of hung that out to the right.

Then overcomensates and tugs on like hard left into the bunker.

And then on 17, he lands almost on the other side of the hazard in the OB like the back yards of the condos.

Stay in our land. Stay in our area.

I clearly just could not.

Could not swing the golf club. What was shocking to me was like.

Like you said it, you know, Eagles 10. He's playing his house off yet that weird.

Hold on. We can we just talk about 10. Sure.

The fakest par five in the world.

Had a great approach shot and made the plot, whatever it was. It's a par four.

I remember walking. I went to the Honda Classic in 2010.

2010. It was a par four.

This is soft ass PGA tour.

You had that the only, you know, he was hooping. He was making pots to save part.

Like he was all over the place on the front nine and no bogies.

Get that very, very weird drive situation on six.

Like very weird. That was the only sign of like.

What's going on here? It wasn't the top.

It somehow went 230 yards.

I mean, barely kept off the ground hard left.

But in that, he looked great. And then for him to get through like the T shot of 15.

Fine. Like great shot. Right. We're like flight it to the way from the trouble.

Took extra club. Hit low and that's the one.

Nobody hit in the water on 16 the entire day.

That wasn't like the part of the bear trip. It's like a child.

It can be a challenging par four, but not because of water like.

Iron shot. Yeah.

The T shots, the easy part of that hole.

Right.

And so he gets through 15.

You're like, all right. That was where it was going to implode this three shot lead.

It was going to be gone. That like it would start there.

I.

And you know, we made a double to finish.

He was leading Dubai goes to 72nd hole with the leading Dubai makes a double.

And he was like, paintballing around the green and loses that event.

And then this happens.

I don't know. He's like, I was talking to my caddy in the middle of the round.

I don't know how I got through Beth page. And then I feel the way I feel now.

It's clearly like he's going to have another lead or being contentioned again.

He's a good player.

PJ was taking taking issue with him being characterized as world class yesterday.

I guess PJ.

He's a very, very good player. He's a bona fide top 3050 guy.

And we'll be in the contention again. I don't know.

Like it's just it's just a February on the classic.

But I don't know how that's not in your head the next time.

And this is the thing about golf.

Doubt compiles.

And no matter what, if he's.

If he's playing well on Friday and getting into contention.

This is going to be lingering in the back of his thoughts.

You know, you don't know about what's going to happen.

How people are going to react to things.

But.

If you said it's to Shane Lauer, he's never going to win a PGA tour event again.

I wouldn't be surprised.

If you said, you know, golf is just a funny thing.

This is something that is extremely hard to overcome.

This feeling it's going to take time.

As he said, though, you know, the beauty of the PGA tour.

He's going to tee it up.

He's teed it up this morning with.

At the seminal pro member.

And then he's teed it up on on Thursday at Bay Hill.

But.

This stuff is hard to to overcome.

You know, the thing that's alarming in it.

You know, we heard Jacob Richmond talk about like how he couldn't feel his hands.

Last week when he was trying to close this out.

I think that the scary thing with this is how it's infiltrated his full swing.

Like the inability to hit a three iron on the planet is actually alarming.

And that to me gives me, you know, great pause.

And you know, it's funny with Shane.

He's obviously, you know, it was a major champion.

And he did it and and pretty he was able to kind of skate to the finish.

And he should have skated to the finish last yesterday.

With how good his short game is.

That's the thing is he could have just played away from the water.

And his short game is so freaking good.

He's probably getting up and down one out of two times on 16 and 17.

But the thing with Shane is there is something about his game.

And I don't know what it is, but I never feel good.

And even though he got it done at the Ryder Cup, I had this feeling of like, of all the guy.

Like there's something about him that I trust less than a lot of other players of his ilk of like his reputation.

Obviously, we saw the putter go for a number of years.

And he really or not a number of years, a couple of a year and a half,

whereas the putter was just bad.

But there's something about Shane that doesn't inspire the same confidence as other people.

And I don't know how to describe it other than just like watching.

And you just don't feel the same way you feel with other players.

I'm with you, I'm with you.

It's like, I'm trying to think of like what things you would characterize as like meltdowns or like you lost it more than the other guy wanted kind of situations we've encountered.

I mean, typically on a, like typically this happens like you were saying up around like on the green, you know,

I missed a four or five footer and he missed a couple of them.

And you know, you never know with that.

Like maybe it was a bad read, maybe it was a bump like this was clear cut indisputably.

Like the guy lost his ability to play the full shots, the full iron shots.

And it's not like, you know, we saw this all week.

Like Bryson's not in his iron as well.

And it's going to come home to roost when it matters more most.

The guy was, he was leading this field and strokes gained ball striking all the stats he played well.

Like he's tailor made for this golf course as we've seen over the years.

You know, makes every cut always in contention.

There was no sign of that three iron all week.

It wasn't like he had been scraping it at all and escaping with that short game.

But I can't think of a more clear cut example of a guy simply.

Like gagging at the end, losing the ability that was there for the first 69 holes.

And I feel like you said he hasn't won his individual event.

Since the BMW PGA went worth I think 22.

Yeah, obviously one Zurich with Rory.

I would say it's a little different.

Just a different deal.

Different circumstance, different feel.

Winning a football event is a partner event is completely different than the feeling of out on your own.

Hasn't won the PGA Tour since 19 of the open.

You know, you count that as, you know, you know, all these other guys who won the open in 1918 56 count as PGA Tour winners too.

Yeah, it prompts some questions.

Obviously about will this ever happen again?

That sounds dramatic, but some real, real scar tissue coming out of this one on a skill you have to have.

Like I don't.

Can you hide from being unable to hit iron at the end of a tournament?

You can't hide from having debilitating doubt that creeps in.

That's the thing is he asked you.

And I think the thing that is probably true about this is this isn't something that creeps in my guess is this isn't something that creeps in when he's playing a money game with the boys.

The only way to simulate this is to be in the arena at the end trying to close out an individual tour or tournament on the PGA tour, which is hard to do.

It's just hard to get there.

You know, this is not Scotty Sheffler.

This is Shane Lowry.

He's going to get, you know, one to one to three chances a year.

And that's the tricky thing is that no matter what, you know, he's going to do, he probably talks to somebody.

He probably has a psychologist.

Yeah, but they're going to talk about this.

But they're going to talk about this.

But the hard thing about this is he's not going to know if it's going to happen again until he gets in there.

And you don't know when that's going to happen.

It might be 18 months until he's in a situation similar to that.

Yeah.

Because there's a lot different when you're chasing.

You don't, like, if you're in Niko Achivarius place, yeah, you feel like you feel pressure.

But it's more of like an X, I think it's in just this is just how.

I process it in tournaments that don't matter at all.

But if you're in Niko Achivarius position, it's almost like an exciting pressure where you're trying to chase down.

Sure.

I was actually, you know, I bought, I bought a couple magazines for my flight yesterday.

I had a six and a half hour flight.

And I bought, I bought golf magazine and golf digest.

Do you know how much they cost?

Like $9.

$10 each.

Yeah.

They're like pamphlets now.

Yeah, yeah.

But they had, excuse me for getting, but they had in, I think it was in digest.

They had a interview with a psychologist.

And he was talking about how why you struggle is actually the fear of embarrassment in the moment.

Yeah.

So when you're three shots up, the pressure you feel is like actually embarrassment.

It's the best thing.

It's like the fear of like you know, okay, I am here.

I'm supposed to win.

It's the, because we're fear like where that pressure sets in usually is like on three or four five foot.

Puts.

You're expected to make that.

Yeah.

So Shane got himself into position where he was expected to win.

Yeah.

And they, you know, this is just one man.

Obviously, you know, expert opinion, but it's the fear of embarrassment.

Nico Achavario had no fear of embarrassment.

He had gotten outplayed and, you know, he was, he was just trying to track him down.

Shane Lowry, I wonder if he hits it in there.

If he's, if he's tied.

I would, I would guess they doesn't hit it in there if he was tied.

But the issue that happened probably after he hit the shot on 15 is his expectation.

I'm winning this tournament happened.

And that's when, that's when the whole, it's why people talk about staying in the present.

What makes golf so challenging is you tend to regret.

And you think about, oh, I'm such an idiot for doing this.

You look forward of, oh, it's going to be so cool.

When I win this thing, he said it.

I mean, I think I wanted to see my four year old run out of the screen.

That is the killer.

The killer.

And what people talk about staying in the present, if you really stayed in the present,

you wouldn't have even thought about you were leading the tournament.

It's just impossible to do.

It's what makes the game endlessly frustrating.

It is.

Is an incredible case study, quite honestly.

You feel for, you know, Shane Laura is the guinea pig here or the, you know,

the lab mouse that's being, you know, experimented with it or on display.

Like, but this is as clear cut an example of something just turning off.

And, you know, I think Laura is one of like a great character to have in professional golf.

He's a credit to the game.

Credit to the tour professional golf.

I think to have him.

I feel bad for him.

I'm glad he spoke to the media right away.

He talked to like through it and clearly was befuddled.

I'm not sure like that page is like a one-to-one comparison that mean out there solo by yourself.

Obviously, the pressure of Ryder cups much more intense than Honda Classic.

But, you know, also there, you're like one of 12 just trying to get a half point or a point, you know,

with a big lead.

Oddly, yeah, less pressure actually.

You know, you think about, he didn't know.

He had the, the safety of knowing that the people behind him.

Could win a hole and get it done.

Yeah, different situation.

Yeah, I mean, you don't want to sound insane like Ryder Cup pressure.

There isn't like, we know that's the most suffocating pressure in golf.

But, but I think the specifics of that aren't quite one-to-one.

But I've never played.

So who the hell am I to talk about that?

I just, it is a little different scenario though.

That's all from the outside.

Feel bad for him.

You know, also completely jammed our gambling pot.

I know I feel bad for you.

Feel bad for you.

You're going through a row.

I was, I was in it out yesterday.

Yeah, you know, I got back from a long trip.

But I was, I was just thinking about if somebody was just riding our picks,

how much they'd be up this year.

Yeah.

And I, I lost, I lost the president as well.

Me and, me and Shane.

You lost.

I was counting my chickens.

I was like, we did, we did it.

We got a win.

It'd been a while since I picked a winner.

I thought I got off the slide.

You're like, you're like one of those, you know, wounded bettors on Twitter.

That's like, oh, this hurt me as much as I hurt you.

The guy who actually lost.

You counted your chickens.

You got ahead of yourself.

Honestly, I think you'd rather just be a Brendan Todd backer at that point.

Just, just flame out, not have to deal with the agony Saturday and Sunday and all the way to the line.

Do you think we should cancel Todd watch?

Yeah, cancel it.

I'm over.

We went back to the well one more time for old times sake.

I think we're done.

Take down the little sightseeing binoculars.

Yeah.

We're dismantling of this morning on Todd Island.

It's over, but I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that agony.

Just real quick, a tip of the cap to Etchivari.

We mentioned it.

He got a minute.

He shot 66 Saturday and Sunday.

Had three bogeys.

I think the entire week of clean Sunday, you know,

Saturday, bogey free Saturday and Sunday gets three birdies early in front nine and gets that one at 17.

He did say at 17, like, I hit it well.

I hit it well.

I knew it was like, I will like about the fall of my knees, but obviously it was not the right line, not the right direction.

See?

My only loading to me.

Yeah, that's fine.

I've just given his quote.

My only thing was I thought I hit it well.

So maybe there was a chance to get through the wind push.

Not a good shot.

He got the easiest put on the grain and birdie that and Larry standing there watching it.

Now they're tied.

So shot to Etchivari.

There's so few.

He's won three wins in three years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, the Puerto Rico open a Bay Current Classic and in the Honda.

No.

But we just, we just talked about for 30 minutes.

How hard it is to win.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

It's a good, it's a, he's a bona fide, bona fide PGA tour pro.

So the salt king, salt bet.

Morton man.

You'd love to see it on the right sleeve.

Honda, like, where would you give that?

I'll, like, you know, it's just a good innings eater.

Right?

It's fine.

It's good for what it is.

It has its identity.

Shit.

If you were exhausted by the bear trap stuff after this year, you're only going to get it.

At times 100 after what Lowry just gave the NBC execs in the tour on a platter.

Oh, they were showing people taking pictures of the statue.

Like, they saw that as much as golf shots there for a little while.

All right.

I'm just going to go down a list here.

Yeah.

Tournament's worse than the Honda Classic.

Oh, come on.

Ready.

It was a good, good weekend.

I, well, this is why I'm saying tournaments.

Without a doubt, worse than the Honda Classic.

I'll put Valsper on the same level.

Are we including fall?

We're just going to say everything in the fall is worse.

No.

Okay.

Sorry, Joseph Lamania.

The Valero Texas opens worse.

Okay.

The Zirk Classic is worse.

Yeah.

The, you know, obviously, Myrtle Beach.

We're not going to even get in the opposite.

All the opposite.

Yeah.

I think Greg Ranch.

Worse.

I think Colonial's same level that pains me to say this.

I'm with you.

There's not a lot of, you know, there's not a ton of interest.

Like, I think it's a really cool member's golf course.

Yeah.

And it had, but I don't think there's a ton of interest.

Like, the, the, let's be real.

If, if Lowry's in the same position at almost every PGA tour event,

he wins the preponderance of water.

The bear traps can have, it's going to be nauseating.

How much they talk about the bear trap.

But the bear trap in the design of the golf holes absolutely did this to him.

Well, so can I put it to you then?

Like, it shouldn't be the case.

But is that what makes good professional golf television product now at this point?

Television meaning every Tom Dick and Harry on his couch can like understand what's going on.

And it's exciting for them.

I think it's the key is variety.

You wouldn't want to see this every single week.

But I think tests like this should absolutely be a regular part of the PGA tour.

And the big thing of why it works there, though, and like what people.

It's not just all the water everywhere.

It's the water and the wind.

The wind is the thing that is, it's so frickin hard to play golf down there.

It is just, you know, Saturday was calm.

But just in general, you have to be so dialed in.

And you see it with why the bear trap works is like you just slightly miss hit a shot on 17.

And you're just also in your dropping and making a double.

Yeah, you just barely miss hit a shot on 15.

Because of the wind and and the water and the way it's it's kind of situated.

It adds to it.

Let's keep going down this list.

Let's see if you see Toronto.

The Canadian open this pains me.

Yeah, he needs me to say this.

But the Honda classic, I'd rather in and I'm saying if we get the same field, I think the Honda classic is more compelling.

Travelers, if we get the same level field, the Honda classic is way better tournament on deer better.

Scottish.

Not better because you get some of the elements.

3M better rocket better, wind them better.

Memphis better.

Bell reef this year better.

That's crazy to me.

Tour championship.

Tour championship better.

More compelling.

It's a wild the golf course, the water plus the wind makes it one of the most fun places to watch golf.

But you just can't do it every week.

I thought it was great TV.

It was fabulous television.

And that doesn't mean they need to lean into this every week.

Right?

It doesn't mean but they will certainly continue on Florida.

It's honestly ashamed that you know it's in these guys' backyards and nobody shows up because of how they've kind of screwed up to get full.

I was used to.

Rory, Tiger, Phil, Philly Supply.

Everybody used to play it.

Interesting.

If you were down in Florida this time of year, it's getting a little toasty.

Getting a little toasty.

I was down in Florida.

Toasty, you were.

You want to know what I was wearing?

What were you wearing?

B-Dratty Sport.

B-Dratty Sport.

I was wearing the Zack Short, the light microwave fiber short.

And the B-Dratty Sport all week and long.

B-J on the button with the graphics here.

It was wild though.

It was early in the week.

It was chilly.

It was.

I had my layers.

I had my everyday vest.

I had my Andy hoodie.

I got to say they got a new piece that I got.

I played in a little member guest this week.

And.

And they had it was awesome.

They had an awesome Dratty set up.

Like they had the new camper.

They have a new camper van.

I saw that.

I saw that.

And they had this tent.

And like they set it up.

So you just went in and shopped.

You just got to pick out what you wanted.

For the member guest.

For the member guest.

And I got this new piece.

I got to find the name of it.

Henry or no.

What was it?

I'm looking here.

I got.

I'm on the jacket.

Is it not?

You're very happy.

No, it's not a jacket.

It's like the Andy hoodie.

But it's got these buttons.

Um.

It's not the Vaughn.

That's what I thought you got.

No.

This is.

Very exciting.

Good ad read.

Very exciting.

I got this thing.

I like it.

I can't remember the name.

Is it the Hurley?

The Hurley.

I'm just.

I'm just a little worried that it's named after Dan Hurley.

Well, I was.

I was going to say if it is.

It is.

It might be out.

I lost that out.

Throw it in the master and command it out.

You really early.

You never know.

It could be anyone.

I think it's got to be the master and commander.

Right.

The captain of the high seas.

But the Hurley is awesome.

It's good.

That's.

So that's a.

That's a button deal.

Pull over button deal.

It's just like a corner zip.

But instead of the quarter.

The zip.

It's buttons.

So it's a nice differentiator when everybody is wearing quarter zips.

Love it.

I do think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm with you on that.

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All right.

Anything else from Honda?

I guess the Billy Horseshoe quotes.

We should just quickly talk about how they don't have control.

The tour doesn't have control of setting up the course.

He insinuated.

The owner.

He didn't insinuated.

He stated.

I thought quite, you know, informatively and sightfully.

That PJ National wants people to come visit.

So they make it green.

And that's why they oversee it.

Because it looks good.

And people will come visit.

And that's why they do it.

And the tour can't have any control.

And that's why it's overseas.

Banana land.

As someone who is down there playing last week.

So this is the beautiful time of year down there.

Because the Burbuta is like a wake, but kind of semi dormant.

And it's like a great playing surface.

They've been in a drought until it rained on Saturday night.

And it flies.

I was playing a golf course where I was like terrified.

Because I was like, I have to hit the perfect line.

Or else this is just going to run into trouble.

Right or left.

If I miss it, right or left.

It's just going to run off the fairway.

It was the golf courses that weren't overseeded.

We're playing so well.

Yeah.

This is a Honda because they want to or PGA national.

They want to.

Well, they don't know ball.

Buildies.

Well, this is a problem for golf course.

You basically are admitting you don't know ball.

This is this is the problem for the tour.

This is kind of insane.

When you think about the highest professional golf organization

in the world, most prominent, most powerful.

Is dealing with.

Venues setting up their golf course for reasons

that have nothing to do with the actual event.

The instant event, the week event.

And the tour can't.

You know, they're set up guys are decent enough.

They know how to at least avoid disaster.

Maybe avoid this.

And.

Yeah.

That's crazy to think about.

It'd be like.

You know, whoever the title sponsor is on a.

Stadium in the NFL decided they want to have the field

a certain way.

And you know, they alter it.

Because it'll cause more interest in the stadium.

And now you get whatever.

Whatever the title sponsor is.

Geehaw or one of these.

You know, hunting in bank.

These random, you know, met life.

It's just bananas.

It's crazy.

So.

Didn't prevent him from playing ball in hand those Sunday.

That was.

That was gross.

I got half an inch of rain.

It's just not golf.

Play the freaking golf.

Golf.

No one plays golf.

Ball in hand.

No one does that.

We're not doing that at your club.

We're doing it at your member guest.

You're not doing that.

That's not golf.

They do it all the time.

But listen to that.

This is a PGA tour problem.

Yeah.

You can say you don't have control.

The PGA tour at the end of the day is okay with it.

They don't have a problem with it.

Ryegrass should be the.

The very, very, very last.

Choice.

And all times.

For grass.

It is.

If we exhaust all of our options and.

And then.

It is.

If we exhaust.

All of our options.

And this is the only option that we can get to grow.

At this time of year.

That is the way it should.

It should be.

I think like.

Bermuda.

It.

You know, oftentimes.

Ryegrass is like.

Overseated in Bermuda.

That the reason is like.

Bermuda goes to sleep in the winter and doesn't grow.

Is there.

Turns brown.

And people put.

Ryegrass.

I think in certain places it makes sense because like.

Bermuda doesn't do well.

Like when it's wet and you have like.

Dirt.

As the base.

If it's sand.

It does pretty well.

What Bermuda is not.

What dormant Bermuda is not fun to play off of.

But.

Down there.

It doesn't go dormant.

There's no.

No reason.

Not to mention.

Bermuda is actually like.

The rough is one of the best things to watch.

Pro golfers deal with.

You know, you deal with.

A lot of unpredictability.

Which I think is game good for the sport.

But the fact these guys were playing lift clean play test

Yesterday was just disgusting.

I mean, the.

That's where I would say that it is a.

Absolutely a PGA tour issue.

They.

Are so.

Fricking soft.

It's just not.

So you might get a mud ball.

Someone might get a.

No, that's just.

That's play the golf course.

That's what they call.

Everybody else does.

That's how you play golf.

And I.

I don't know.

They had Orlando Pope on explaining it.

It's just what.

Well, we got half an inch.

Rain.

It might rain this afternoon.

And we're going.

Preferred lies.

That just keep doing it over and over again.

Brooks kept guys best finish since his return.

Top 10.

Said he sort of thought he.

He found some.

Figure something out with the potter.

I forget what he said that Thursday night or Friday night.

Figured something out.

You know, which, you know, is a common golfer line.

But certainly it improved week finishes with the 65 on Sunday.

T nine.

Do we have.

Big week for Brooksy in the in the race against the mules.

Yeah, how what's the accounting PJ of our.

The mules he let across the arc this week where they able to.

Post anything.

Approximately his T nine.

Oh, no, no, they were not.

Big week for Brooks.

This.

This could potentially mark the end of the race with how big.

The difference is now.

So because we had to go so far down the list.

Chan Kim and Ben Silverman ended up being the last one in the field.

Ben Silverman kind of fell apart.

He ended up playing with Brooks, basically the entire week because he was the sub for

Salator.

Mr. Florida, right?

He's the greatest athlete Florida's ever seen.

Didn't we do a spotlight on or like a little pen light on Ben Silverman once?

Well, a fan of Friday or junior or something like that.

I don't remember.

Oh, yeah.

I think you're right.

I don't know if it was Silverman.

Might have been.

He was wearing a Canadian open hat for these Canadian.

But just a random Canadian open hat all week, I think.

They were happy about that.

Okay.

So Silverman played well and then didn't tell the other person.

Yeah.

So Chan Kim, T56, $22,000, $22,176, Ben Silverman, T40, $31,776.

Brooks Kepp is T9 earned him $252,000.

So Brooks Kepp is currently up $2,872 on the Mule's third three events.

$200,000 is going to be hard to make up.

What's it?

What's an H.A.

You were at one point, the Mule.

He was in Phoenix, but then he got moved up due to a WD to many WDs.

Crazy amount of WDs.

It's the last one.

Sounds like just an ankle for Zalatoria.

So we recorded right before that happened, I think.

Hopefully fine.

You know, I was sitting it after one of our rounds this weekend.

And I was talking to this guy and this guy was like, so you talk about tour golf.

He's like, do you know like all these guys?

I'm like, well, it's my job to know a little bit about everybody.

And he goes, well, who's this URT guy?

I go, oh, let me tell you about H.A. URT.

Or better, his dad Brad.

I'll tell you a lot of guys just use on the leaderboard on Saturday.

That's funny.

Can barely tell you anything about AJ.

He's already come up on the podcast.

That's what we have three days a week.

You know, there's going to be AJ URT was going to come up at one point or another.

All right.

Let him going.

Oh, F off.

You said that.

The guy.

Yeah, you had it.

That's so good.

When you have something.

It's great.

So 200 grand.

Do you think the mules can make up 200 grand?

Yeah.

Well, the scary part is if Brooks is on this pat, like he might play him his way into A on like five.

And now we get a break from signatures, but till probably quail after players.

And that's the scary part for the mules.

You know what?

I'm happy about.

What's that?

I'm happy that we didn't get to see Jordan's speed this weekend battling to get in the A on swing five to get into Bay Hill.

That's I personally didn't want to watch that.

There was I was getting text from a from a person who's deep in the weeds on the membership and field construction.

He's like, there was a decent chance of things shook out shook out at Honda.

He he would be bumped into eligibility.

But it didn't by just virtue of watching from his couch.

Um, but no sponsors exemption is where landed.

He's sponsors.

Would have hated to watch that this week.

The downstream effects of, yeah, the sponsoring exemption impacts the week before.

Um, Honda, good event.

Good event.

Uh, innings eater.

You know what?

This is a total digression.

PJ, come back.

I was driving around yesterday.

I'm listening.

I started listening to radio again.

Just just radio like whatever you get what you get.

I like that.

And uh.

Jelly roll came on.

I was thinking to myself.

How does one because anyone like really like a jelly roll fan?

Like is that like I'm just like get really into jelly roll.

I'm going to go to his concerts.

I'm going to listen on purpose to jelly roll.

He's just an innings eater, right?

That's just on the radio talking about.

I'm broken and the man above and I'm okay.

Now I'm not.

I think he's an extra lot of fans.

Like a die hard jelly roll fan.

I'm not saying his music.

I mean, it doesn't do a lot for I don't get it.

But like how do you become like a die hard jelly roll fan?

He's just an innings eater on radio.

What are you talking about?

He's like one of the most recognizable artists today.

Visible does.

I understand.

That's what this is my point.

I can tell you available and present and recognizable and eating up innings on the radio

apparently.

But like that's what the Honda is just eating eating.

Getting a spiritual available because he's at like every big celebrity event.

He shows up everywhere.

Jelly Roll does a great job of putting himself out there.

So maybe the cog needs to.

There's a lot of social media content coming from the cog accounts on Instagram.

A lot of reals.

They were putting some shots up.

Maybe they're trying an interesting story.

But I just was wondering like who becomes like that's my thing.

I could tell you how I could have become a die hard jelly roll fan.

I was in the Austin airport four years ago and a gentleman said, hey, I'm a huge fan of the pot.

And we started talking.

And I was like, what are you doing in Austin?

He goes, I'm a band manager.

And I was like, oh, who do you manage?

He goes, well, I manage a guy named jelly roll.

You probably don't, you probably don't know him.

No, you're probably not a fake.

You probably don't, you probably don't listen to his music.

But he's, you know, he's about to be a big time star.

And so that could have propelled me a big time star.

I'm not.

It could have propelled me into jelly roll fandom right there.

There you go.

But you would have been early.

And jelly rolls representation.

I think listen to this podcast.

Really?

Yes.

Well.

So I wrote it that you bring up jelly roll.

I would love to know more.

I don't know.

Either of you this.

But jelly roll.

I think jelly rolls representation is a big fan of the pod.

And I hope that they reach out and jam.

Yeah.

I'm not.

Yes.

If you want to come, come jam.

Not down in the music.

Not for me.

But that's not saying it's offensive.

Uh, it sounds all the same.

Uh, same themes.

Um, and he's clearly very popular and very talented.

I just don't get like.

Like tracking.

Uh, I mean, he's just a guy.

He's there.

He's eating up in the same way the Honda classic.

Were you about to drop a just a guy on jelly roll or anything?

No.

No.

No.

He's a guy.

No.

I'm not.

He's not a government's health.

Yeah.

Well, well, we're doing some magazine shop.

He's lost a lot of weight.

I had noticed.

He's got less.

I don't know.

He's not jelly roll anymore.

He's jelly.

I don't know.

Um, all right.

Should he be like a egg white sandwich now?

I don't know.

There's fewer.

Egg white omelette.

Yeah.

Uh, congrats to him on his prominent place in the American culture.

Uh, all right, continuing on.

Uh, at the South African open, Casey Jarvis, 22 years old, wins back to back in Africa.

When's the magical Kenya open the week before?

When's the South African open this week?

He's 22.

He's racking up wins.

He's now in the Masters.

He's in the open championship at Berkdale joining him at the open championship of Berkdale.

The old Frank Laporta, Francesco Laporta and Freddie LaCroix, who did not fizzle amongst

the pressure at South Africa open.

Uh, I saw a plea on, on Twitter to, it's Freddie LaCroix.

LaCroix.

I, I, I know, I know.

I just, I just wanted to say it, it's been heard.

But I agree that we should just keep calling them LaCroix.

LaCroix, Laporta.

Uh, someone told me Laporta is for sure going to do well.

Like, I got a tip from the, from South Africa that book Frank Laporta for Berkdale right now.

And it turned out to be true.

I should have acted upon it.

Um, Casey Jarvis, his caddy, I guess, is 18 years old.

Jarvis is 22, just barnstorming the world and now they're into the big leagues.

Very cool story.

I don't have a whole lot else.

Proud, proud national open winner.

South African originally and wins his national open.

Cool story for them.

They're coming to America.

Coming to America.

Locked up their PGA tour card.

As one of the world's most, uh, vigorous, any dupluses fans.

I know you are heartbroken to see him, uh, to, to see him double bogey, the final approach,

uh, the final soul and fall out of, he would have been at Berkdale.

Well, I was, I was happy that we didn't put him in the game within the game because we

do, you know, I wanted to put him in there, but he's playing too good.

He's too good to be a game.

He's too good for a game within the game.

Um, dupluses, I saw one, some, some little cash bonus though.

He might not won the tournament.

He won a cash bonus for shooting 63 on the weekend.

I think it was the lowest round on the weekend.

He got some.

So there's some.

They had a game within the game there.

I love that.

But more, more side games.

That'd be great.

At tournament events.

I will just add that, uh, Dick's journey won the game within a game by, by two shots

over her and he else.

Uh, they were both cut.

But all that all bets were off.

Yeah.

Boyed.

What's the whole market?

Yeah.

Let's consider it tired.

All bets were off.

Sorry, PJ.

No, that's, that's brutal.

I mean, I didn't even pick him.

So I wasn't that happy about it.

I just got left with it.

I just wanted to note.

And we didn't have a winner.

Now you have someone to get behind the president's cup, Richard Sterney, follow him in September.

Um, all right.

And Alistair Dockery wins Argentito open.

We mentioned that.

Jockey club.

Zero limited.

No coverage.

Uh, those were all rounds in the mid 60s as we talked about, but it looked, it looked the

pictures made it look spicy and nice.

Uh, uh, uh, uh, gorgeous to watch play, but you couldn't really watch it.

He went 63, 66, 64, 65 to win.

Great story.

Obviously, Ryan French is chronicle that he's been in with bars to old boys a little bit.

So, so we know his story a bit was out of cash, horrible act car accident.

Uh, kind of playing all over the place, Ben sort of on off this year.

He's been in a few fields.

He's like, DFL now he, then he, you know, top 10's it.

Now he wins.

Uh, an incredible story.

And he's going to Berkdale.

Great for you.

That exemption.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, like, talk about resilience.

Just being like with the guy, the last guy out a couple of times.

And, uh, I mean, it seems like now it's, it is really hard.

He's not locked up.

But what a great start.

To getting the, getting the deal done and getting up to the PGA tour.

PGA tour card.

Argentine Open did yield my one of my favorite quotes of the week.

I came from the gas man, Shad Tutan.

This was on PGA tour.

So our KFT socials.

He had a good week, finished top five.

And he just said he need to get back.

He needs to play Shad Tutan golf in the third person.

I don't know what Shad Tutan golf is, but I'm happy for the gas man.

He's back doing Shad Tutan things.

It seems like that should be his handle.

His, uh, Instagram handle.

He could start an academy.

Shad Tutan golf.

I just need to get back to play Shad Tutan golf.

Um, can I go ahead?

All I'm here.

Uh, uh, just interesting name, name in the, in the world.

Uh, camera champ T25 this week.

Uh, on the corn fairy tour, the guy that, you know, if we, if we look back to 2019,

was the guy that was going to ruin golf.

We're just going to completely change golf.

Um, he's playing on the corn fairy tour.

Other note on the field.

Um, I think we have the best country, uh, artist name on the, on the corn fairy tour.

Have you seen this, this name?

I mean, it could be a dozen.

Who is it?

I'm excited.

Travis trace.

Ha, ha, ha.

There, I, that would not shy me if there is an actual country musician up there by the name of Travis trace as well.

Travis trace.

So does a couple of field notes there?

What if that guy's from like, you know, like Portland, Maine, Travis trace.

Let's see where he's from like the most, like, you know, a Claire, Wisconsin, Travis.

He's birthplace is, um, you, you won't be disappointed.

Jacksonville, Florida.

Sure.

He attended the University of North Florida.

Okay.

He could be on, he's, he's been on the Florida, Georgia line, his whole career.

He's gonna be the ospreies or whatever.

What's North Florida?

Something like that.

Um, interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's skin.

Here you go.

This is a good personal fact from his PJ tour bio.

He has never seen snow.

That sounds.

The man named Travis trace.

That's, I was.

Skins.

Skins.

Oh, congrats to the Argentine open for having Travis down there.

Uh, on the LPGA, Hannah Green wins the HSBC Women's World Championship.

Congrats to her overnight golf had three bogies coming in.

Uh, but I had built enough cushion to win in Asia.

She's, uh, had a great career.

Hannah Green.

Aussie.

At the New Zealand Open, you mentioned it.

Daniel Hillier wins.

I think it was the first time in New Zealander.

A Kiwi had won.

Does Nashville open in like a decade or so?

Um, I believe Lucas Herbert got the Burkdale spot.

Because Hillier is already exempt.

He's.

He's.

He pops.

You know, he played well at true in a couple of years ago.

He's kind of, he gets his way into the open with pretty consistent, you know, with some consistency.

So he was already in Lucas Herbert.

The Ripper gets in via his high finish, uh, to Burkdale.

So four, five total spots in the Burkdale this weekend from the three various national opens.

All right.

It's your favorite, favorite exemption.

Exemption time.

You know, you're going to bring these all up in Burkdale.

You're going to celebrate these exemptions today.

And then you're going to turn around and use them.

Use them as, uh, as great.

You're going to go nuts too.

You're going to be like the 48th ranked player in the world is not in the field.

But we've got the Freddie Lecroy.

What?

Camp Davis won't be there.

Exactly.

But Freddie Lecroy will.

He will.

Or Frankl Porta.

They'll all be there.

Um.

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USJ.

Let's just do a whole USJ round up.

They're annual meetings.

They're all in New York.

So there was just kind of a drip of USJ news coming.

Saturday news stump.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Most.

Most newsworthy are prominent for the purposes of this podcast and the golf watcher consumers that the US open.

And you'll probably be dead.

Is going to Inverness in 2045.

Uh, return to the heartland of America.

Now.

Yes.

Return to the heartland of America.

They of course have a handful of USJ events out of that US girls junior.

29 US Amateur.

US Women's Open in 27.

The, but the big one, the men's major US Open will be there in 2045.

A return to Inverness.

I would say.

I ask you a question.

Sure.

Uh, do you think this podcast will exist in 24?

No.

No.

There's a chance.

But I'm putting it at.

Did you like the probability of being thrown out yesterday?

Jay and Laurie had a 99.9 percent.

Like as if the golfers don't exist.

The bear trap doesn't exist.

Look, I know how probably we got it though.

We should just not, we should just allow the data simulations.

That's.

We should just allow that to be the why we watch everything.

I will say there's a 95 percent chance this shotgun start is not around for the 2045.

You know, so what do you think?

It's depressing.

You think we're still going to be going.

I mean, I'll be in my 60s.

I think I'm done.

Hopefully.

At least podcast.

You think it'll just be it'll just be AI podcast.

No, I do.

Where people can get hosts to say exactly what they want them to say.

And everybody just reinforces their own echo chamber all the time.

Feels like that's happening in other mediums and other arenas.

I don't think I can replace podcasting, but maybe it can.

My wife seems to think it can.

She goes, you're pretty basic individual.

You plug your little personality into a AI.

That thing is going to replicate you within like less than to five episodes.

I said, I don't think so.

They won't have that relationship with the audience.

I don't think that.

They never.

AI is never going to know when we, when we, when we swerve.

Right.

That's right.

AI is not talking about jelly roll in the middle of the Honda classic.

They're not doing that.

So they're getting to us open.

Any immediate reaction is that worth reacting this because it's 20 years from now.

No.

I mean, the reality of this, which is insane, is that they did a renovation.

And we'll call it eight years ago.

I think now.

Yeah.

So the by the time it gets there is the renovation can be 28 years old, which is like effectively the

lifespan of a irrigation system.

So are they going to have to do a renovation before the US open?

Who knows?

Probably have to do something.

Who knows how long guys are going to be hitting it?

Right.

Who knows about that?

It's insanity.

This whole, the whole situation with these things.

I, I now know if I get my daughter into golf, I do the one nice thing was like I can,

I can book some hotels for when she's playing the, the Curtis cup.

Because I think she'll be, she'll be, she'll be looking at like that, that 2038 band and Curtis cup.

So I think I'm going to call up a band and see if I can, if I can get a room for that week preemptively now.

I mean, none of this may exist.

Who knows?

Not to be dying, not to be dark.

But 2042 Cypress.

I mean, I, I hope she stays in school long enough to, to play that one.

Just hang on.

22 then do an extra here of an IL golf, you know, so she could stay amateur.

2042 Curtis cup and, and 48 Walker Cup are at Cypress.

National golf links is going to host the 2040 Walker Cup.

And Seminole will host the 46 Curtis in 52 Walker Cup.

What is, why do we need to know this stuff?

What is gained by doing this?

Like, I, that's a legit question.

I'm sure they have an answer to it.

It's not infrastructure.

They're not like, they don't need to know how to plan like selling vendors and all this and how they set up like that.

The event, eventization of the Walker Cup and Curtis Cup 30 years from now.

I just wonder like what is gained by this other than the immediate like press release news.

Like it is a topic of conversation, I guess.

I don't know.

I also keep going back to this is always my kind of point here with how stupid this is.

The greatest golf course in the world can be built tomorrow.

And you effectively have nowhere for it to go.

Yeah.

Or you might have a president who comes into power in the 30s that says, no, I want, let's change all the plan and put it at the place that I want.

I want, let's move it.

Let's move this event to something.

You can never know in a reading events.

You never know.

I don't get why they have to announce it.

I don't, I don't get why we need to know where the, where the Walker Cup is in 2052.

I do not, do not understand that.

I love Seminole.

I love, I love Pine Valley.

I love Cypress Point.

I love National Golf Links of America.

I love all that.

It's a killer line.

I also don't understand what the strategy of releasing them all at once is when you could get like a slow drip of exposure announcing them slowly.

I just, I don't know who knows Kevin Hammer's inaugurated as the president of the U.S.C.A.

to congrats to him.

He's a big time golf guy excited to see what he does.

He said, you know, obviously they have a rollback on their plate and there's a lot of pushback on that.

The one quote he said, the game is strongest.

This was, I guess, his speech as he became new president.

The game is strongest when it is unified.

The community is a choice that we make every day.

But the game is bigger than all our organizations.

I would say that's going to be a challenge.

That unification, right?

It is, I would agree with them.

It seems like that could be an issue.

The tour gets start to rumble and then the paint.

Who knows?

I'm interested, the thing I'm interested in is how, you know, the, how the, the relationship between, you know, obviously everybody is in the zoom in on the tour.

And, um, and the USGA, assuming the tour goes strong anti-rollback.

But then also the tour and, and I guess the national subplot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, well, I think the Masters has done a good job of establishing itself as a more, I don't want to say like real golf.

But, you know, whether it's green, green books or what have you no lift clean in place.

That's for sure.

Um, yeah, where is that going to happen with what I don't think they're, they're shy to step out and be like, no, we're not going to fall in line with whatever the tour likes to do.

So we'd be an interesting one.

Um, and last but not least on the USGA roundup, they are, they are starting this year.

The US amateur medal, US junior amateur trophy are going to carry Tiger Woods' name, which seems appropriate.

You know, you have Bobby Jones, you have a lot of some of these trophies have been, you know, have a Meyer are antiquities almost at this point.

But Tiger's name given his prominence at USGA championship should be on something.

So that's a good move.

I mean, amazing is getting to.

Yeah.

You should probably get to given his success at the end of junior.

Um, I was hoping that they were going to name the US, uh, am, uh, am trophy after dodo.

Mole and Ari.

Maybe Frank Storfachi.

Um, Dickerson.

Dickerson award.

Storfachi family medal.

Um, Jeff Quinney.

God, the right after Tigers, uh, an awesome run of names, you know, of guys.

Yeah.

So you get, you know, if we throw a Couture in 97, it goes Hank Keeney legend.

David Gossett, who obviously shot 59 in Q school, you know, got the Gossett had, you know, legend in his own for golf sickos.

Like guy that just didn't get it done that.

And you know, Hank Keeney, similar boat, like guy that everybody's like, oh, he's going to change golf because of his power.

Never could get it all together.

Gossett 99, the poof baller, throw, throw knuckle balls in her Jamie Moyer, Jamie Moyer of 2000s golf Jeff, Jeff Quinney.

Then he got Bubba Dickerson, who obviously we've done a flashback on Bubba Dickerson.

Yeah.

2002 Dutch boy Ricky Barnes.

2003 Nick Flanagan.

I mean, Ricky Barnes is a problem.

Ricky Barnes is a problem.

Let's let's not talk about.

Come on.

He was so good at college.

He was like, what Arizona?

Like, come on.

He was a problem.

Never did it at the, at the level you expected.

Who was the next one after that?

Nick Flanagan.

You know, contender for all time for a golfer.

I think he has like five or six corn fairy tour winds.

Was bossy, right?

Yeah.

And then you get you get into ride more dodo.

Richie Ramsey.

The guys that legit careers into our country.

But that that period of 99 to 2003 is an awesome run of names.

I will just on the biggest news is as in earnest.

They're very, very, very happy in Toledo.

Did not think they were a major league venue or city anymore.

And they whipped the right people online to make a bid and got it.

I think like the national championship should go to the Midwest more often.

I think like it does park itself sometimes in California.

And and New York area rightfully so a lot of great courses.

We do need it in the Midwest.

I don't know if inverness is the answer, but it is for for 2045.

Somewhere in Chicago.

There's just it's just a challenge.

Obviously Oakland Hills is back.

So it's just need more us opens in the middle of the country as well.

All right.

Other news.

Phil is not playing live.

Hong Kong.

He said he missed the first two.

Riyadh Adelaide.

Now he's added.

Hong Kong.

I think Wade ormsby is flying high for him on the high flyers.

Kind of kind of just hope everything's okay with Phil with whatever's going on there.

Said it said it was a family health emergency at the outset.

This is now a third event.

That's it.

I don't need to get into it.

Oh TGL.

Do we need to talk about that much more?

I did enjoy Max home as note.

He goes, yeah.

They asked him about it at Honda.

Yeah.

It's going to be a bit much.

It's very late.

He was funny.

He was great on the microphone last night.

Very good.

Said he had fun.

Was a blast.

But go ahead, PJ.

What are you going to jump in with?

Just as we started recording, somebody posted the video of Tom Kim announcing that his entire

18 whole round was in preparation for TGL.

And he was completely dead serious about it.

And he was saying he's been up since 4.30 in the morning and he was doing media.

You know, midnight 11.30 ish.

But he was, he was ready to go.

Big showing for Tom Sim.

It was good.

It was good.

I mean, I love Castro's hilarious.

Just questioning the Jupiter hammer strategy over.

And I was like, so they, so they wouldn't accept it on any of your wedge.

But then they do accept it on 173 yard.

Part three T shot.

Like, what are they doing?

Very befuddling.

Worked out for them last time.

Rory's 30 yard hook at Stainer, the whole after he got pizza, got popped into the hazard.

Then somehow halves the hole with that crazy hook.

That was insane.

That was crazy.

It was good.

It was a good watch.

Hadecki making his pots.

I love that Tisner can't play because he was calling the golf.

But two guys who did play Helmut Kim.

Good.

Good play for Jupiter.

Well, the problem was he had to get out of the suit.

He couldn't get out of the suit.

And, you know, out of the production meetings in time.

Pretty good.

Probably good for Jupiter steaks.

We got to get a power rankings done here.

At one point, Homer was heard over the mic.

He goes, Tom, who's in the up on the great up on the fairway cut.

Because oh my god, he healed the shit out of it.

Homer said that on the mic.

It went into the hazard.

I think I'd store it.

Just a lot of good bits and mobs.

Jason Kelsey, a lot of Jason Kelsey.

Heights high.

Product to Cleveland Heights.

Like, like myself.

And, uh, love the Kelsey's.

But, uh, just, I don't know.

Probably trying to bring a different audience, right?

I think we have him bringing in different people.

Oh, there's two more days of Jason Kelsey.

I think we need a TGL wrap up.

I mean, regular season is almost over.

So we can, we can leave it for the end of the regular season.

It was, I have no big complaints about TGL.

I thought it was a good watch.

Not that on seminal member pro.

That was catnip carnival of the century.

That T-sheet is out.

Do you have any reaction?

I just love the, I love seeing two Canadians getting together.

I figured they were going to talk hockey, a ton, uh, Kevin Waw.

Uh, and, uh, and McKenzie Hughes are in the same pairing.

I think Kevin Waw is as American as apple pie.

But for purposes of this podcast, he's son of the great French Canadian gold tender, net binder, uh, Patrick.

So, uh, you'd love to see that anything else in the member pro.

No, that's a cool event.

We'll see the results.

We'll see the results trickle out.

We will.

We will.

Social.

Gary, Gary Scott is in.

He's, he's getting it.

He's getting it.

Gary Williams got the, got the, got the scoop on it.

Got it out there into the world.

Um, that's it.

I have nothing else.

We have, I have a Patrick Reed unsubstantiated room.

I need a punt to, need further clarification.

I was asked to hold off on him.

He'd be using harmless nonetheless.

And more notes about Eagle Trace.

Apparent Eagle Trace is terrorized as the MLGT.

We did our flashback on, uh, on that Friday.

Minorly golf tour still beats up those boys.

All right.

That does it for this Monday edition of Shotgun Start live edition.

Monday morning.

Thank you for your complaint.

Eagle Trace in a port at once for minor league.

No, it was an amateur.

I think it was the Dixie Am.

I played Eagle Trace.

Congrats to you on your little, uh, whatever.

It sounds like you had a successful member guest.

So big victory.

Victory on, you don't win very much in golf.

So it's nice.

Even if it was, you know, wasn't about it.

It's not like winning the, you know, but yeah, it's nice to get it done.

Head partner, partner that carried me, partner made seven birdies on Saturday.

Whoa.

It's just kids chunking birdies.

Oh, you know what?

What?

Speaking of this, I gotta say, I hold out for Eagle 115 yards.

Okay.

Couple guys head home once that day.

They got shout outs about the home one.

I think mine was more impressive.

I hit it to the perfect spot in the fairway, which opened up the angle into the flag.

And then I like one hopped it in.

I mean, that was, it was a way more impressive success than hitting one shot that just goes in.

I mean, I would need to know more details.

I mean, where the part three is 115 yards.

Also, it was like to win.

It was coming down the stretch to win the event.

All right.

All right.

This is the thing.

We need a total reform on home ones and whole, whole out of Eagles.

Whole out of Eagles need to be recognized.

All right.

I, if you're going to make it all this pompous circumstance about the home ones.

Whole out of Eagles are more, are more impressive.

It took way more satisfaction than if I would have had a home one.

God.

You know, Shipley is getting a lot of pub last night for the only hole in one and TGL history.

Just like this.

I don't know whatever he was there present.

Congrats to you on your Eagle and your win.

Very happy for you.

Victory Monday.

Victory Monday.

That does it.

We will be back.

The signature event week.

Then we're going to be together next week at the players' championship.

Golf seasons.

You know, the high times for golf season are here.

You know, March Bandness is here.

Very excited.

Masters, approaches.

Very, very excited.

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