1122: Jacob Bridgeman wins the Genesis & Jeeno Thitikul's big win at home

>> The right club, right behind the right club today.

[MUSIC] >> I think that's better than most. How about him, and it's better than most, better than most. [MUSIC] >> Expect anything different.

[MUSIC] >> Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No-Lang Up Live Show, presented by our friends at Titleis Solihir, joined by my guy, Mr. DJ, Pi, Happy Sunday, Pi, man. >> Happy Sunday to you, Solihir, and a great Sunday it was.

A lot of sports, got to watch a little hockey this morning. That was great for the U.S. of A, and some great golf. >> To talk about from Riviera, so good to be with you.

“>> I think my eyes are still not fully back to the white that they're”

supposed to be from the waterworks that were flowing this morning. T.C. is here, even a guy like T.C. had to be caught up in that, in the emotion of that moment this morning. >> Oh, absolutely, I'd loved every minute of it, and I think the Canadian tears, I know I can just keep you left for that.

>> So, you know, I guess they outplayed us, they dominated us, but the scoreboard says otherwise, guys. >> No. >> It is super fun to just helicopter it. >> I've had that, but yeah, it's a winner. >> Yeah. >> That's, if I actually followed hockey really closely,

I would totally be that guy, but it's really fun to just be on the other side. I didn't make the big shots, guys. >> You got it, I didn't want it enough. Eric has just made more goals. >> I don't know, I just made more goals.

>> Big third down here, guys, we got a big show tonight.

We're going to react to Jacob Bridgeman's win at the Genesis. We got a lot of stuff from Riviera. We got some new T's, Scotty's week, Rory's week, his start to the years, well, TJ's going to take us through some birdies and boggies.

We got all kinds of news and notes. We got an LPGA tour over in Thailand.

“We got the magical Kenya open, of course.”

Jacob Bridgeman, of course, wins the Genesis. Casey Jarvis won the magical Kenya open. And you know, Tidakum wins again at the Honda LPGA Thailand. I feel like AI just kind of like broke that into the agenda here. That was, yeah, it was pretty, pretty easy one.

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Dage, take us out to with the golf that we just watched the river here. Absolutely the bridge man, Jacob Bridgeman took a six shot lead into the final round after going 66, 64, 64. In the opening 54 holes, believe that tide, walking, nemen's tournament record.

Worth mentioning, I think I'm Saturday. Jeff Shackleford in the quadrilateral had a lot of good stats.

Basically calling it yesterday that like Bridgeman's golf on 10 through 12,

like that's it. It won't have the tournament. And with what ended up being a one shot cushion, it's kind of hard to argue. That fact that Shackleford had yesterday.

He went three, three, three, on 10, 11 and 12. Roy Macaroi, on the other hand, went five, four, four. Four shot difference. Bridgeman wins by one spoiler alert. Bridgeman was the only player to eagle 11 on Saturday.

As well, nearly made an all-betross. Don't know if you guys saw that one. A little low D7 would in there that like truly unlucky. It didn't go in. It felt like it had birdie eagle looks T.C.

Love this one 12 times inside 12 feet on Saturday. That is a hell of a stat. Yeah, the CBS stats team was cooking.

“I think they fed that one to Trevor and I was like 12.”

I mean, I was getting more birdie looks inside of 12 feet than any hit fairways that you did not drive it well. We can talk about that. But that put Bridgeman in position he had a chance to break the Lanny Ward can scoring record

at this tournament, which is 20 under par. I say that because I love this stat.

Right now dates back to 1985.

Love stats like that.

“The oldest scoring record on tour did not fall”

another spoiler alert. But not easy for our guy Bridgeman on Sunday. He's lead got his big as seven, got his smallest one. As we mentioned, he was only up by one as he teed off on 17 after making bogey on 16, a good bogey to be honest on 16.

Another long par saver on what was that 13, where he gasped that one past couple nerve nervy puts. None more nervy than the one on 18. That he, I don't know if he choked the putter. Or what, he had some great, great comments with Amanda.

After the round about how nervous he was, couldn't feel his hands barely got the putter about halfway there after a great approach shot, a great t-shirt, an a great approach shot into 18. And makes probably what a four and a half footer to three feet,

five inches, exactly. He looked, he looked longer. And we've seen shorter plus than that. Max Homes, if you remember, missed it to go into a playoff. We've seen that before on that green.

So he did close it out, he did make that put. And he ended up winning by one over Rory Makaroi and Kurt Kitty Yamma. T-C, I got a lot to say on Bridgeman.

“I think there's a very pro Bridgeman trio.”

We've got today, but you correct me if I'm wrong. - Oh, yeah, nothing to correct there. I've been calling him John Robling all day. You know, I noted, noted, noted Bridgeman. Selling, I had the opportunity to play with him

in November at the RSM program up at C. Island. And we both walked away from that thinking, like that guy doesn't have any weaknesses. Like he's just, he's gonna be a 20-year pro out on tour. And he does everything well.

He's got a great head on his shoulders. GW is Catty's the man. He's cattyed for some dudes in the past. Steve Marino, Matt, every Chris Kirk. But yeah, it was cool to see him come back

after the beach Fiasco last week at Public Beach. Like literally on a pebble's beach. But I think just like, watch his entire round Saturday in Sunday and watching him even Saturday on 18. He hid it to, I don't know, eight to 10 feet.

Like really, really great approach shot in there, missed the putt, but even the putts that he wasn't dripping in it still looked good. All those warm cam angles that they had on the greens this week were, they were horrifying me. Like I'm not gonna sleep for three or four nights

after seeing the Poana just wiggling those things back and forth, like with no discernible rhyme or reason to how putts should have been breaking in spots. And for him to putt as well as he did, the last few holes, not probably not was standing.

It was just absolutely remarkable. He was so steady the whole time. I don't know, he just seems like doddy or doddy or somebody on the broadcast had a really good comp. They said that he reminded them of Lucas Glover. Yeah. And I think that's a great comp.

Just kind of steady confident but not cocky. Get the work done, accomplish something without hell in everybody that you're accomplishing it. And that was, that was, you took two, I bring it back to November. Like that was kind of the story of the day.

Like it's just incremental improvement. Like you won three state championships in high school. And then didn't really play all that well. It clumps in his first, his first year or two. He said, he kind of had like relearned how to play golf

and kind of built his swing. And so just, yeah, just an impressive, impressive young man. He's not exciting, like he's not gonna, you know,

this isn't a game changer from a talent perspective.

He's not a game changer from an excitement standpoint. But he's just a really, really solid golfer and a really, really, really solid kid. And I'm really thankful we got to play with him.

“I think it did help our perspective on this.”

I think he can, you know, a guy like Bridgman can be almost kind of replacement level for a lot of fans. But it is that, you know, we've been fortunate to see to play it with the fair amount of pros over the years. And there is like, yeah, I go back to the last week's pod.

Talking about playing with Mav and Russell Henley of like, you just, you notice the top 50 player versus top 100 player really quickly, really easily. And that was definitely a takeaway we had at that time. And, and so yeah, I think also just like him,

him talking through his wedges like he seemed wise beyond his years. I think for him, I was just gonna say that. I asked him a question about like, all right,

it was the second hole in the C-side course and he hit

some kind of a lot of wedges from like 65 yards. And I wish I could commit his answer to memory better. But I was like, how do you, how do you hit a ball 65 yards? Just expecting it to be like, well, I don't know, I just feel it out.

I'm, you know, I'm top 50 player in the world, man. It's not that hard. And he had like a really descriptive answer of a system he uses about creating miles an hour and where he chokes it on the club. And I can't even summarize it, but it was just like a, again,

these guys are doing that you can't, you won't ever see or we won't ever

really understand as viewers is really, really mind-boggling. And to just, you know, get that answer of like, one of the only detailed questions I asked him out of, he could probably give me a detailed answer on his driver and why he shapes it the way he does and all that stuff.

But just, just really, really, really talented. And I'm really happy for him. That six, six shot league went in the final rounds of nothing. Like, I don't really care who you are. I ain't rooting for anybody to blow that lead.

I was rooting for some excitement. We got that, but I definitely wanted him to win this one. - Well, it's just impressive too from the fact that like he made the, made the torch championships a rookie. Like that, without winning, that is so wildly impressive.

This day at age with the, you know, all the signature events and, and what everybody says is a closed system.

Like he, it seemed to go fine for Jacob Richmond.

- Well, that's the narrative going around now. He, you know, he qualified out of like the spot 113, which wouldn't be qualifying now and all that's, like now. He just played, he just shot those scores. Even if he wouldn't have qualified right then,

he has the game to continue to shoot those scores and you get opportunities and you get to go be the best players in the world. - Yeah, that's how it went. - It may not be the exact same time one,

but like he just, like he played, but corn fairy tour. He played Latino mayor. Like he just, he just, he just played well at every level and succeeded and earned his way on. - That's what I was going to say.

He's a stud in college. They talked about that a lot on the broadcast,

winning a lot of Clemson made it right through the corn fairy tour.

“After PJ tour you, I think it was number two.”

And in PJ tour you made it right through the corn fairy tour, which I almost think is, in a way, makes today even more impressive when you think about it because what they say this was like his 67th start or 66th start or something like that on the PJ tour.

And when you couple that few PJ tour starts with that few corn fairy tour starts, I'm like, man, that's not a lot of opportunity to go win a bunch, you know? And then I said this last week,

but I think it bears repeating 'cause he played great last week too. Guys like this, we were just like, man, this guy's not exciting, this guy's boring, this guy, they kind of don't have the chance to be that guy under the current system.

They don't really have the chance to be that guy unless they do what he did this week at Riviera because he's not playing a lot of three M's John Dears, you know, whatever anymore. It's, it's solid, it's the, the, the more big Tony's

“playing too many good events, that's why he's not winning.”

Take, which, which makes sense for this one, doesn't make sense for big tone. I, for reasons, we don't have time to explain. But that, that was my, my big takeaway for him is like, listen, man, what about what we just watched this week

and last week and the week before that, like, look at this guy over the last year, what's telling you that he's not going to be on American rider cup and president's cup team? Well, the team, what's telling you that he's not going to

contend at majors, what's, I like, I'm not doing the project how high the ceiling is stuff, but like, the floor looks pretty freaking high and that is, like, that is exciting. In a weird way, I'm almost like the Lucas Glover comp is great, but I, like, the headroom ceiling, I don't even mean this

literally as far as like his game, but it's like Sanders pretty boring until he started winning a bunch, you know, he was kind of a, he wasn't Jordan Spieth coming out of school. He wasn't, you know, the current comps of like blades brown, miles, Russell, Okshay, some of

they like, he wasn't the super sexy exciting guy, but, you know, eventually you, you get enough opportunities and you keep like, man, now he's won twice, now he's won three times. Now he, oh, now he's contended in this and eventually you become the interesting guy and I just, I don't know, I've really

enjoyed my little mini Jacob Bridgeman arc, really since you guys played with him in that program and you're like, watch this guy. I was like, all right, great. And once I have been and I had a reason to kind of pay attention, I'd be like, man, this guy is really freaking good. And it just paid off way faster than I thought it

“would. Well, and if I remember this right, he said, I hope, I hope this”

was him that says this, it almost certainly makes sense of a timeline perspective. They, they reference, he got married 65 days ago, like, he got married some time around, like, mid-December late December. He said that, he scheduled it that week because he wasn't sure if he was going back to cue school or not. Right. Like that, that was,

that was where he was, you know, when setting his wedding date, obviously playing those things pretty far out in advance. And, you know, he makes the tour championship. It makes that that part pretty easy. But that was the reason why they had the wedding date that it was. I know a lot of pro golfers get married a week after cue school. But just that was,

I remember thinking back on that, like, man, I don't, I don't think you got to worry about that for quite some time. You went to signature event early in the year. You're exempt for a long, long, long, long time. So here's another, I just did a little bit of research here. He lost his singles match at the junior president's cup in 2017. He's out. But he won. He

actually teamed up in afternoon foursums and won. They beat Lamprecht and Luca Philippi won up and then in morning four ball. He also won as well. So, and just the, I think, I think he needs to be on your radar screen.

if I can. Data golf coming into this week. He's obviously going to rise now.

“But data golf top 50. I think he was like 43 or something coming into this week.”

In the data golf top 50, how many players are younger than Jacob Bridgeman? Oh, I'm sorry. Let me, let me refer to that. How many Americans are younger than Jacob Bridgeman? And then we can do how many players if you want. I'm like, in the entire top 50, in the top 50, data golf top 50. Rockshare, I know. Um, probably four.

I'd say it might be like two if you're asking. It's two. Rockshare and Pearson Kudi by a month. Other than that, it's like, man, he's younger than

got her up. He's younger than Ludwig. He's, you know, he's younger than Ludwig.

Hardies younger than Ryan Gerard. It's just, my, my point is like we might be in a gap also. So we need to talk about this at some point. Like, like, yes, or or and this was going to be my

“thesis that I wanted to bring up. How, here's why I think I'm going so much in on Jacob Bridgeman.”

Because I don't want to be old man yells at cloud, just like my generation was the only generate. I'm like, those guys are getting pretty old man. This, this speaks in Ricky's and JT. Like once Ricky came on the pod at Pebble and said, this is my 17th year. I'm like, all right, dude, I need to like, saving private Ryan just get a little bit of like, yeah, we got it. We got it. What else is coming here? And it's just a like, what I'm getting at is like, I know that

this crop of guys is not as exciting. But in a way, I'm like, there's not much we could do about that, right? They're, they're still going to be here and they're going to play really good golf. And I, I almost, I'm like, trying to be more eyes wide open about who and what is kind of coming next and, and who to pay attention to because I don't want to, I don't want to be the old guy being like,

there's, Jacob Bridgeman never fucking heard of that guy. He knows this wind doesn't count. It's like,

“no, that's a you problem. He's really good. He's really good. What's the gap you were talking about?”

Is there, like, a three year window plumbers? No, just like, American golf, just the, the opening. I mean, it's, it's not a lot of dudes right now on the American side. There's that one guy in endangerment of dudes right now. Right, dudes if I be a danger. Scott, he's looking to do it. How old Jake Napas, Jake Napas, 31. I know. There's a whole, a whole young buck. Yeah. Is he one of the best 10 Americans? Like golf right now, he of course is what I do

with the door of five. We're not doing it for door five this week. It's not going to be an update every week. But like, there's, you know, more cow is a bad example because he just wanted and I play well this week. But like, his speech, I'm speaking out one of the dudes right now. JT's been hurt. Like, can't let he's not one of the dudes right now. It's just a weird, you know, to DJ's point, I think we just need to recognize that it's open SCN right now. Like, we might have some more dudes.

It's got her up one of them. Maybe we'll, it will explore this in a thousand percent of dude. It's clean up the, it's clean up the meal events, T.C. He hasn't missed the cut of the signature event this week. It was nowhere to be found at Pebble. Like, I can't trust him. I can't trust him. I can't trust him. I can't trust him. I can't trust him at this point. Yeah. So, you know, watch this space. Yeah, there's, it's, I don't know, it's an interesting, interesting time.

Cody kind of throwing, throwing some anonymous digs in our, our private chat here that all the, all the youngs have a driver yet, so I think maybe that's a reference to the, the Gordon Sergeant's and Nick Dunlap's of the world who should be filling this vacuum, who I think we thought we're going to be filling this vacuum and are, are not quite there. Dude, you know, dude's, dude's missing an action. DMIA. Right, speaking of missing an action, bro, I'm not sure. How

did you shoot 67 today? It seemed like you shot about 76. He did shoot 32 in the back nine, birdie the last two rolled in a bomb. They're on the last sold to make it interesting. Thought he might get into a playoff there as Bridgman had the, obviously the three and half footer to win it. Are we, early part of the year with Rory? What, are you liking what you see and does it, what does it foretell for the remainder of this season? It, it didn't look sharp today. It didn't look

great, but I obviously are runner up finish here at the Genesis. Like, I got it, I've, I've come a long way in the last three weeks. I didn't like what he did to start the year over at the hero and Dubai. I thought he looked rusty. Thought he looked a little lost and now like usually Rory's game, you see, you see it there. Like, if he shows signs of it, it usually, the good stuff really comes lately, or really, really soon after that. I mean, I think we saw some signs. I don't know what

they were signs of necessarily like, it's T.C. kind of smirking about this as well. It's like, we saw a lot of stuff, you know, this one's spring training. He's working on new pitches. Yeah, which was a electric. He's got a different sweeper. The Stinger driver was awesome.

the steamer was great. Yeah, when it was windy in the early part of the week, I was like, oh my god, Rory's got all the shots that he had a 25 apex driver on on 13 today. I'm like, brother, it's 3 miles an hour of wind right now. Like, why do we need to do this? I'm sure there's

“next location. And it's off. Yeah. I'm soggy. Yeah. Um, no, I mean, I think, I don't know. He, like,”

he played all right at Pebble. Um, it was kind of a useless round today from him, you know, birdie three of them, parfies, but otherwise pretty quiet. Um, but also, I don't know, it's tough to put too much stock into this tournament this year. Just because I think it was so toothless. Like, it's gotta be, like, weirdly, I think Bridgeman might have had an advantage this year of not having seen the golf course because there's no scar tissue there. And there's so many

shots out there that, like, you're not aiming at that flag or you're not trying to hit it, the exact number that the pin is. You're taking so much off of it and running it in or, you know, using a slope here there. And everything this week was just pin your ears back and try to dunk it really. And so, you know, I think, like, I, looking at Rory, it seems like his spin control has gotten so much better than it was two, three years ago. And, and I, like, you know, even on weeks like this

where he's not at his A game, it's, you still see the progress, even versus last year. Like, like, like, he just seems like such a more complete golfer. Now, whether it's the JT curse

“and he knows how to hit the right shots at the right moments, which I think JT, like, you know,”

it's like JT, like, that's a blessing and a curse, right? He's got all these shots, but he doesn't win to really deploy them. I think Rory, it seems like he's, he's becoming a more complete golfer year after year after year. Now, and, like, I don't know, I think it portends well for the next six months. Yeah, I think, I mean, the headline, if we're just looking at the concrete stuff, is like, he just played against the, what, 771 top players on tour and he lost one of them. Sure.

That's good. He made three bogies this week. That's good. I think if we're looking at Pebble, like, I, I think, you see, I think he played better than, okay, I pebble. Yeah, I think he played really better, a lot better than his score looked, making a triple loss. And then there's he made a, you made a triple on four that was pretty inexplicable. And then a couple doubles and just some, some really big numbers like nasty golf in, in a small amount of holes. And so I,

“I kind of think he's right where he should be. I think it's, it's kind of fun for the narrative”

of, you know, I saw a couple of people talking about this this week of, you know, Jack never

won at Riviera, Tiger Never won at Riviera. Scottie hasn't won here. Rory hasn't won here. I think that's kind of a fun, a little tiny element of this, but it's like, Rory's played twice over here. And I would say shown up. And, and, you know, got some juice going at the very least on Sunday. And I think he's trying new shots. He's keeping himself engaged. He's like, I think he's trending in a very good way as we come up to. I'm saying, I'm saying at any more teeth and Riv,

this week and, and Rory bolts is to victory. Honestly. I mean, that's, that's a, you know, that's maybe an unfair shot at Bridgeman who obviously played excellent all week. But that's the, the harder Riv get the more it becomes a, you know, the, the cream's going to rise over 72 holes. And we saw a version of Riv that that's not, that's not what we're about.

Okay. I'm so upset today. It's not. It was up there on the, on the second page of the leaderboard.

And we'll leave. Hot. Kiddy. Yeah. It's not what we're about. I think Rory, if we're going to diagnose this week, he just didn't put well in the weekend. Yeah. But while Saturday didn't put well Sunday and, you know, it's, yeah, that's just, it is what it is. It's Queens, I think. Kiddy, I don't want to pay. He might be a proper player. Who knows? Kiddy, I was a, I don't, we were all, I hope, you know, by me sharing. We're all like an iron player. Man, I, I'm,

I have no reason to root. No, or against Kiddy, I'm of a little glad he didn't win, because I don't know what to say. It's kind of how I feel about him. Just, I know like a larger said something. I got it just, he's really good, but not good enough to be like one of the dudes. He's, he's one, he's not a choker. He's not a close. He's just kind of, just kind of one of the, the lower case D dudes. You know, he's not a dude. He's just, the dude really put it. Yeah. He's just, he's just there.

Yeah, I, I don't know anything about him. I never heard a good or bad thing about him. I don't know anything

about him. Just don't like watching. Like, oh, it's just impressive. He day it folks, no feeling out of me, but can we talk about the news of the week, guys? I'm, I, can we do that in a second? Sure. Because I want to give a shout out to our friends at high noon. No matter the forecast, live like the sun's always out with high noon. High noon is made with real vodka and real tequila. I am going strawberry tequila tonight. Unlike the other popular

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the week? Does it go so many different directions? The streak is over, guys. The streak is I was weirdly invested today in the Scotty Sheffler Top 10 streak, which now, I believe we can put to a close at

“18 Top 10s in a row. I think 19 if you want to count the hero world challenge to each other,”

your big hero world challenge guy. Just put it up on the screen there. Just maybe just take

a glance at that. Since the players championship of last year, so almost a year he has finished in the top 10 every fucking time he's teated up. We talked about it every week. We talked about all the time and we still don't talk about it enough. It is insane that he's been doing that. I know we're going to talk about Thursday and then we're going to talk about the the case of the curious case of what's going on with Scotty, but guys he he almost did it again. He was a dead last

of Thursday. He almost visioned the top 10. It's almost missed the cut. Nobody missed the cut. I didn't even know there was a cut this week. It's just crazy. He beat Bridgman. The final 54 holes. Yeah, like one shot. So he said, you know, opening around 74, the crazy part about that

“that streak, dude, is I think there's like one T8 in there for us. I don't know. There's T2s, T3s, T4s,”

they're not bad. What? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine in a row or top five, including four wins. I mean, it's just like it's a joke, man. So just a pure celebration of life disaster of a week as he finished T12 way outside the top 10. So what's tender and tender and can young, clipped him coming in? Yeah. Jumped out of that top 10. Exactly. He's seven. He had a puddle in 18 as well that he left short. I will say he lost strokes approach this week, which

he has not done. And again, I don't know what the true strokes game adjustments going to be within data golf. I have, you guys might need to give me a second to find the last event. He lost strokes in approach. It was the BMW in 2024, because the last event where he was not positive with the iron plate. How much of that was on Thursday if you still haven't pulled up? That was the BMW 2024 was at Castle Pines. It was at like 6,500 feet elevation. He was a half shot over

in the positive for Friday through Sunday. So he lost 1.2 on Thursday. So it is a Thursday thing.

It is a not amazing trend on the approach play. It's obviously what he was doing was unsustainable

and like, like, I don't know what the actual percentage is better. This is probably the wrong application of mathematics and statistics. Like 60% better than more Kawa at his peak. In iron plate there for a while and it's kind of coming back down to a somewhat regulated level, but he's still he's gained in pudding every single week since the Scottish open last year, which I mean 90% of his pot in 2023 was just just in all of how bad he was at pudding. And

“that having flipped completely. I'm not, I'm like 0.05% worried about Scotty. I think I'm,”

this is not nothing. This is not a complete blip on the radar. He looks a little more irritable. He looks not as in control of the golf ball. And again, we're comparing him to the best version of himself, which is completely insane. He's still quite clearly the best player in the world. But I don't think it's like a complete slam dunk as we're standing here right now that he's going to win the masters. And I felt 3000% committed to that as of like three weeks ago.

I'll talk myself back into it. I'm still going to pick him to win, but I'm not like convinced you just like go ahead and bet the mortgage on it. Now the Thursday thing, I mean, it is mostly, it has weirdly mostly been Thursdays, both, you know, here, pebble and Phoenix. I went back and watched that whole Thursday round again today. And it's really bad, man. It's really like nothing was objectively and subjective. Yeah, just not. It wasn't close. And not, yeah, that's not just like

for him. That was for, that's kind of for anybody. You know, he made a couple of puts to kind of hang around and turn that into whatever was 74 or something. But I mean, it was like missing his spots

usually see from him. And the only thing I can compare to is the weird putting short putting stuff.

You know, where it's just like that feels like it took out a life of its own. It could make a reto boil. Yeah. It was, it was electric to go back and watch it. But it was, yeah, some weird one was chipped into the bunker on 10. You know, it was kind of grandity was under those left trees.

“And I think trying again. And that whole thing worked. That's true. That's true. But yeah,”

it's, uh, it is a fascinating one. And I think it's, I don't know, we kind of say this every time, but it's the, the more adversity Scotty faces. I think the more interesting he, he gets for sure. So I am signed me up. I, he's, I want to see him like he's the top draw in my mind every week

of what's going on and what did they shoot today? But, uh, yeah, I think this just makes it,

just makes it even better. I don't know where we're going to go from here. Like my, yeah, my brave take. I'll go out on the limits. I think he figures it out. But I'm very fascinated to see how and what happens. He has since switching to the mallet. Uh, he has the, been the 12th best putter in the world. What's up? Of course, being the best approach player, fourth in, in driving sixth in shipping and 13th in putting. All right, question from a, from an emailer. Uh, we'll just

call him M. I didn't listen or M. Listener M. Hi, Jen. It's long time. Listener first time

“caller. Scotty might be the player of his generation, even one of the all-time grades, but I think”

we need to talk about how hard it is to watch him moaning like a little bitch when he's not playing well. It's painful. Imagine when it's like for the pros paired with him. Here's a guy who wins practically everything. He looks that as one bad round and then sucks like Varuca salt because she didn't get a pony. So the question is Scotty a little bee. Love your work. And I just don't know what this really spoke to me today. I thought, all right, like tiger,

tiger could get cranky out there, but it was always inward focused, right? It was always tiger,

not like, like, tiger or, you know, just like, tiger. Yeah. Yeah. And, and, you know, nothing, like, not not blaming others. And every time with Scotty, it seems like he had their under reads a part or over reads a part. And he, he just faints this genuine surprise of, I cannot believe that didn't go in or like, it's like he's owed every break out there. And it's just, like, I can't stand watching it. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, I'll be coming on the world number one, disgusting. Uh, a couple

things. One, he might be so good that he is owed every break. I'm not willing to totally discount that theory. Uh, two, I think like, what I always think about is like, a famous jack quotes about, like, how do you become the men, you know, the men's most mentally tough player in the world is you just don't think anything's your fault. You know, and I think if, if that is the case, I mean, Scotty seems like a pretty well-adjusted, dude, you know, like, big picture wise. If this is his way to play

superpower golf, then I think that's kind of just the world that we're going to have to live in, because it seems like it's, uh, it seems like it's going pretty well for him. I don't, I don't know how you can, I don't know. It, it, both things can be true, I guess. Maybe is what I'm, what I'm saying or that's not my read on it. It is a little too long. Sure. And you, you reserve the right to not like him, and to be like, that's not my, I don't just like him. I just invented the guy. Come on. Yeah, exactly.

Thank you. Same relate. I have been in the cabinet. I got to fix him. I've had it up and down relationship with Capca over the course of, of the years, based on the decision he's made in the way he's acted. So it, um, I mean, with TC will you, will you answer listener M's question directly? Is he a little B? I don't think he's a little B, I think he might be a big B. Oh, wow. Oh, I just, I don't know. It's, it's, it's, it's just not, yeah, it's just not cool. You know, I think

everybody can act like that every once in a while, but whenever everything doesn't go his way, it's, he just goes straight to that. I don't like that. It's not for me. Cody, what do you got?

“The only thing I was going to say, TC, is he did a great job of comparing it to Tiger, but also”

long went through a little bit of this as well. And it's continuing to work on it. You know, you're kind of silent outside of when Rom really started getting a little tune up and maybe affecting his playing partners and things like that. But how do you compare it, Rom to Scotty? I mean, I, I don't have any really real feelings towards Rom and Rom. Like, I don't know. I just, I don't, I don't think, I don't put Rom in the same category as Scotty, as far as,

like, hey, this guy is the generational, you know, number one player of his, of his era. Yeah, like, you know, I think, Rom, I mean, speed can act like that at times, right? Like, I don't,

or words are at times, not every time, everything, you know, just like, like Thursday was, Thursday was really, really tough to watch. It was. I totally agree. Can we, can we agree to monitor the situation? Yeah. Because I do feel like some of this has to be, I think I said this last week too, but a pebble after he shot 64 on Sunday, you know, where there were a couple media asking him like, what, you know, dude, what happened on Thursday? Why'd you play bad on Thursday?

What, and he's just like, dude, I don't know. I don't, I don't know what's going on. And so I think for him, there almost has to be a little bit of like, why is it not working anymore, guys? Like, it's worked for four straight years where I have gotten all of these breaks, and I haven't put myself in these positions, and I have hit my spots. And like, like, there has to be a little

“bit of just, well, you know, I think that's what it is, is that he's hitting all of his spots,”

and he's so used to PJ tour courses and PJ tour setups, reacting the way that he's expecting them to react. And we saw it really a waste management when the overseed was a little bit higher. It wasn't cut as tight and he was chunked chips all over the place, and it completely threw him off. Let's get that guy. I was a guy that grew up, you know, and plays and practices primarily on Bermuda or very good overseed here in Dallas throughout the winter, goes and starts putting on

Polanna and trying to chip on it, and it's not reacting the way that he's expecting, and he's just really struggling with those variables. I mean, he's putting it well this way. I think it's ball striking. It's not going to be eligible for the photographer. Oh, this continues. This is a probationary period. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't realize it was, that's interesting. Okay. I don't want to ask you. I didn't realize that those are the types of things that we're taking to do

effect. Well, I do think it is the why I was like so stunned by the MX win was like Scotty's at best when the golf is hard. The questions are like, this is challenging. Can you do this?

“And that's why the best page set up was such a disgrace. And the last two weeks on tour”

have not been difficult. They've not been challenging. And that does not work in Scotty's favor. It's not excuse facting. And for his numbers to fall off this hard. But yeah. And again, it's just

the third thing. Like he was a great. He was like the winner of the tournament. I think mathematically

from Friday on. So it's not like he's that far off. The the other thing I'll say is, and this is not an excuse of Scotty, but just a in general comment. Thursday was so hard. That was such a weird combo of win soft greens that are super fast and wet. And it was just a bunch of like a cold, like just a bunch of super interesting variables, which I think just makes it even more impressive. The guys did play well. Can we talk about ribs? That'd be impossible. I want to see these guys

so far. Without getting to see ribs last year. Getting to see it in a very, very bad weather week. You know, in the early part of the week setting up an unrecoverable. It was basically an unrecoverable amount of rain this week was it sucked so much of what I love about this course right out of it.

Specifically, I always a hold it always stands out for me's the third hole. Where it is just the

quintessential hole where if you miss the fairway here, you know, the rough isn't too thick. At review, you're going to have a shot. But I don't care what club you have. You are going to struggle to hold the green out of the rough, you know, onto this, onto this green. Like this is where that the firmness of the greens work backwards and like punishes bad t shots and it restores balance to a test of golf that is really fun to watch over a four day period. You can flip on the

golf on Sunday afternoon and be entertained by the close competition and the excitement of a final

“round. But if you want to watch it Thursday through Sunday, the courses have teeth or else”

it becomes a putting contest. And we saw again, recorded data golf this week, how the the putting it drove so much of the variance this week, which we see when courses get soft way more than normal PGA tour week and way more than what we normally see out of Riviera. And it it affected my viewing enjoyment this week. This is the week I look forward to probably the most of any of them. And I hate to be a downer about that part. And there's something that they can do about it.

Like it's weather related. Some of the best, you know, course maintenance and management of the turf there, anywhere in the world, it's just you got bit by having an event there in February.

It doesn't always happen. But they got bit this year and it affected effect of the golf tournament

greatly. I think it's fair to say. Yeah, I think that's right. Can I, okay, are we saying something? Is this a totally, totally safe place? It's trust tree. I feel a little bit like the guy from Royal Time of Mom. So he's like everybody knows General Custer died a little

PGA tour. Everybody knows that, right? Are we, are we a hundred point zero percent sure? Hundred point zero percent sure that that's the case. And it's not just a tick overrated vis-a-vis professional golf in 2026 because I feel like every year I walk into this tournament of just like, man, this is about to be, this is the best week of the year. This is going to be electric. I can't miss a single shot. And I get to Saturday and this year's different because it rains so much,

but I'm, I'm always just like, that was 78 percent of what I thought it was going to be.

You're, your response to to any of that. That'd be where?

“Whatever, whatever. Oh yeah. No, I'm saying that's what, that's that's my response. It's like,”

you can play the best courses in the world of them at, at, you know, in opportune times. And I think yeah, it's probably, it's actually better in February though. That's, that's an important disclaimer. Yeah, but I, yeah, but I go back a lot better. You know, watching Doc Redmond and Doug Gimm at, you know, just play the USAM there and I was like, holy shit, that was just otherworldly. And I think that, you know, it's based on, we'll get to some of Tiger's quotes in the

booth, he hung out for like an hour. It was crazy. But I think that sounds like it's on the table to move it to later in the year, later in the summer. These guys, I think it's just all relative. Right. I think it, I think it, I think it absolutely is the best course on tour, non-major division. But I think that's more of a reflection on the other courses on tour, more so than it is

“riffs. And I think that, like, there's other stuff that riffs could be improved with. Like, I thought”

the change is the four stock that needs the new T-box. Right. Anybody who didn't see that? What was it? It's like 280 yard part three now. You can't really play it at this week. But well, they massively changed the angle, too. Right. Like, it used to be up to the right. So the whole idea was you could use that big slope. And, you know, try to feed the ball down in there. It was like, how it was originally designed. But granted this year, it was like, and really the last couple

years, it's been soft and super sticky. Kakuya. So the ball doesn't always come down anyways.

But they basically like lengthened it and moved the T to the left. Right. So there's far less up to the right. I'm sorry. So there's, I guess, a more angle. But yeah, I don't know. The new T is to the left, you're right. Yeah, I didn't use it in the tournament. The new 270 T-box. That's a US open T as I understand it. But got it. Yeah. I just think overall, like, there's, you know, the course doesn't, I think Rive has a ton of flaws in its current presentation. It needs like a very real and

serious touch up and in some, some actual like restoration work. But that said, like, I just don't think we can, we can come down on these courses on tour and be negative on them because, like, nothing's going to defend itself against the onslaught of technology and scoring it. Plus, that's whether like not ideal conditions, like soggy conditions, like pebble last week. Like, I'm being overly hard on pebble because it's not giving us what we want because I don't think

anything at this point can give us what we want because everything is so out of balance. The other, the other illustration I would say is 18, they added another new T over there, which like was supposed to be, that's the one that they kind of took even less of the angle or took more of the angle away, I guess, because that one's supposed to be, you're supposed to hit a big cut there. It's supposed to be if you don't cut it enough, you catch that hill and you end up losing

a ton of distance and you end up having like a very long iron, even like a five wood into the green. Instead, in the name of distance, they added a T way back and kind of open up that angle,

so basically you don't have to cut it, so it's just kind of like walk farther back,

don't have to shape the ball and hit a dead straight and farther and it just becomes it seems like without seeing it in person, like just the manifestation of just kind of a dumber, right? And but like necessary, but dumber, basically. And again, Jeff Shack offered it had a great post, again, in the quadrilateral earlier this week about this and for, but yeah, just to, it just stinks, man, that it's both like, I see why you're doing it and why you kind of

have to, but also it just doesn't, I think through those two changes out for this conversation,

“and I think it, it is so unbelievably important. And this is the, the course I feel it's the most”

on tour of how well-contorted it is and how great so many of the whole locations are, specifically 11 and 17 are parfives that are like, when you miss those greens, you better miss in the right spot when the greens are fast and not receptive or you cannot get it close. And that's like the whole math of the entire day, from day one, like the first hole. If you hit it in that bunker

like the slopes that run away out of so many of the bunkers, I watch guys, what was it on Thursday,

like more Kawa and Rory missed left of 14 in a bunker that like should have been dead, like, absolutely should have been dead, and like they couldn't even get their shots from those bunkers to the hole because of how soft it was. Like they just took, that takes all the bite out of riff and all of what I think makes it a fun watch for again from Thursday all the way to Sunday is like,

“you have to position your ball in the right spots or you're going to pay a price and like you could”

be in the wrong spot this week and not pay a price. Like shots out of the rough were not punished. You can miss in bunkers and not be punished. Rory hold a bunker on 12 today. That's maybe not the best example to pull, but I really do think when they have it playing normal, not even like rarely firm, like playing normal, it is clear that the best course on tour. We just caught it in a bad, bad week, and we didn't see it last year. It's like those we haven't seen it since those memories are a

little far away of how amazing like the max home of year was home of her's feet now and so many

great back nines that we've seen. And the leads don't feel safe either because you just have to hit shots in the proper spots and I'm so overs. Do these are hitting five irons that are backing up this week? That's just not that's not it. So I think it's got to be the five wood that backed up on the four on that first day. If this is the last version of pebble in in Rive in February, I should say if they want to make the change, if they want to move these two golf courses

“to later in the year, make them play off events, which I think would be absolutely sick,”

what an awesome case for doing that in what we got it the last two weeks of like this is not the best representation of these golf courses and best test. And like let's just transition this into the technology question, Matt Fitzpatrick's quotes about the 10th hole he said, he said, a bogey on 10, the world's most impossible golf hole. I'll leave it there. I mean, I really don't want to talk about it too much. I'll just get wound up, but hit it and hope,

let's leave it at that. And I'm like, dude, I think we have to start doing unfair golf holes for these guys. Like you get to swing a solid hand and isn't unfair to be clear. It's it's not unfair. It's on the silly side, which I am a fan of at this point. Like it's weird, the slip size of the green doesn't really actually make sense. They've kind of stripped all the strategy of that whole out, which I'm not a fan of, but I'm kind of like dude,

for like go back to 275. I agreed with all Roy's comments of like, if you don't have the apron fixed and with the kukuya, it is silly. I agree with that, but dude, play it in possible 275, par 3.

And this was done on me. Well, sorry, the first hole too. Like, all right, like, what's the

difference between a long three and a short four if the first hole is a is basically a par four that says par five on the scorecard, you know, it's a par. I'm also a full shot on your part today.

“Like, it was a complete job. Call those two holes a par eight and be talking to it, you know?”

But I honestly am thinking about like, what I like about the fourth hole, like it is kind of silly and dumb, but it's like, hit it up near the green and figure it out. I'm like, dude, I'd rather do that than just like your trackman calculation of my five wood is going to cut into the middle of this green and sit right there and easy to put. Like, I'd rather see you figure it out. I was thinking about this today. The Saturday of the 2004 US Open at Chinatown, when like the seventh hole

would feel like just aimed it into the bunker on the redan hole there, because the green was so baked out and out of control. And I'm like, you guys are the best players in the world. Like, why wouldn't why wouldn't we take the challenge and make it more about your ability to chart seemingly impossible situations? We're going to play it with this technology. We're going to butt up against ways we can actually make this hard for you guys. We've seen that over the last

decade, five years, whatever you want to say. Let's get unfair. I'm closer to Big Randy's thesis in general than I've ever been of like, dude, I don't want to hear you guys complain about things being unfair because you didn't like the rollback. You might not even adapt the golf ball rollback that has been agreed on by the USGA and RNA. You're not giving up your 460cc drivers. I'm done here and you guys on course set up. Like it might be time to start making this get a little bit silly.

Amen. I think the the other thing is just the like Fitzpatrick can't complain about that whole being unfair when he blows its 30 yards right, which is like you just can't hit it right if the can't hold. That's the whole fucking that's the entire hole you can't do that. Like it's asking you that like like you used to ask more questions. Now it just asks one question and you keep it left of the hole and he couldn't do that so you can't you can't complain about it, you know?

And I felt this way for several years though, I am done pretending tends a great golf hole, like in terms of great strategy. Like what is really hard? How is the short force on tour?

shake the bank. Twelve. Sevens of grass. Seventeen and CPC saw grass of course is number one. That might be one two a three. Yeah.

“Honestly, it might be the only good driveable for on the PGA tour. What is it? 12 of it?”

Copa Lua. Even though we don't go to Copa Lua anymore. It took that away like that one away. What else? Not really anything at Bay Hill? Is that really many? There's not that many? No. I mean, it's horrible for paint supply. Yeah, you know, on tour. Yeah, with solar 360 yard drives and power 5s. Like the East Lake one is pretty non-descript. Yeah, it's a harder question than it seems on its face.

And it should be. And it should be, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you, saw it. Make it unfair. That's like that's a great sermon you just gave. Right. Where did me? Yeah. What else we're going to what an unfair. I guess thick rough is not like is the other alternative and a lot of people's minds. And I'm we're well documented as to why that's not going to be fun to watch. But like making a slope unfair or making the green comically small like this and do figure out a way like 10 is still

must see stuff like worry over by the trees on 10 and like how are you going to find the green from there? Like is a fair question for a diabolical like a very short par four? Like

your second shot into this should still be challenging if you did not hit a perfect t-shirt.

I forgot about nine at nine at Harvard town. Oh yeah. That's it. Yeah, that is technically

“dreadful. I don't put that on list. But like I think that and then also like seeing how fast the”

greens were this week with it being that soft. What an awkward weird combo for sure as well of like all right like why can't we just say all right this week it rained like crazy. We're not going to mold the greens as low. They're going to roll an eight or a nine. Let's see who can ball strike their way around this place. It'd be awesome. Again, back to variables. Let's add more variables to the mix. Yeah. Yeah. He's just three to the board. Sorry, just three out of gusty count.

No, that's not it's not that. Okay. Yeah. I'm just asking questions. No, first question. Yes. Then you get seen Andrews in there and you get. Well, no, I got a gust every year. So, I feel it's fair. Yeah, but it gusts it doesn't. That's its own thing. That's not. Three's a good short for. I don't I wouldn't quite say it's drivable. Sure. I want you to shout to our friends. So fight the ultimate finance app for sponsoring

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Well, final round 63. How much did he pocket for a little solo fourth.

“One point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero million dollars. One mill on the spot. I think you”

probably would have made about 250 if he to shot even today. So that was a a very it's just blowing up 190 ball speeds at age 45 or 46. Whatever it is on his way to a million bucks. Not granted. So I think he made 250 in California after tax. Oh, that was a very good round. All your pocketer. We'll get to him here in a little bit. But, you know, solo fifth for him. I think the guys that they kind of so I watched like every bit of coverage this weekend,

which shout out to college basketball for for running over. We just we still can't fix that problem. Down the leaderboard segment, but we get our money right there. But him young 66 66 on the weekend to not win and to help knock Scott out of the top 10. Solid how much did he make six hundred three thousand dollars to be exact. I love seeing that. He's T seven with Morikawa, Fleetwood, Foxy, Zander. Like Zander's putter cost him a lot of money.

A lot this weekend. Uh, he he yeah. Uh, T say we worried Tommy's not getting his money right because he's buying all this pro shop gear that he's wearing. You know, like where's that? Is that coming out of the budget every week? I feel like it's I feel like it's it's just adding to his aura. It's turned it though. But it was gone. It's my point. Yeah. He's playing the long game. So I think he's he's, you know, he's getting his money right. Uh, Marco Penge watched a lot of him on

Saturday. He was in one of the final groups. He finished T 16. Uh, I did not play well on. He did not, but he gave a great interview Friday. Um, I don't have the summary of that one other than just like he was a super pressure of being the moment looking forward to being the final group on Saturday. And he's talking about, you know, seeing Roy in the locker room and on the range of like, you know, still kind of can't believe he's in this spot. Like I'm Marco Penge fan very easily. Just

hearing him out down to earth and humble. He was the interview he gave Friday. He's going to have to

there. I think with their second child. So, uh, Pearson Kooti continues to get his money right. T 16

“from him. He's just poking around every single week. All his twin brother. I think is in the field”

for the Argentina open next week. And then, uh, otherwise, trying to see, see here, team rose and got her up. Need to, that bad, like, a whimper of a finish for the West Coast swing. Both of them missed the cut, the mini cut this week. Can't have that. They were both in the mix for our West Coast swing MVP's. And, uh, obviously, I think they, they played themselves out of the mix and, and played themselves out of a paycheck this week, too. So, it's all right. There's your, there's your sofa.

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if that, you know, but the conversation we had last year, I just kind of feel like for as much as you

guys were hype in that guy up, it deserves a mention that he missed the mini cut and his plans thinking golf. Just name. Uh, I think you cannot deny that he was in the conversation to make the

“team. I think that was our point all along. Which, again, was a stupid thing. We're not talking”

about that anymore. Now, he's exhausted. Yeah. Yeah. It's all in real. It was like that of me. It doesn't matter. He's not afraid anymore. Yeah. Also, TC didn't mention how I'm scared was a sponsored exemption this week as well. So, shout out to him on, I'm playing well on a spot. And Adam Scott is now in the, he's in the top 10, the, the A on or the next 10 or whatever we're calling it, the, the, the two pay 10, which is, uh, yeah, which is kind of the, the case for and against, uh, the sponsor

exemptions to into these fields as well. That's right. Like, yeah, if you get your chance, you got to take advantage of it. Uh, and if you don't, then, you know, whatever. But yeah, interesting, interesting case. Yeah. It's all, yeah. I enjoyed watching pennies this week. He, like, I'm with you. Like, he had a case that'll laugh a little bit on on Saturday. It just wasn't really a flow state. But great golf swing, tons of speed. He just smile. Like, I like the way he carries

himself too. Um, and yeah, the more I watch Park Eater, it's, it's at least interesting. Totally great. It isn't. Totally great. I don't know if he's good, but I've totally down to watch it. It's 21. Yeah. He was, he was getting interviewed after the round on Saturday and Amanda was like, you know, you changed, you changed stuff. Your, your trainer, your swing coach, your equipment, uh, you know, pretty much everything. Uh, your agent, you know, all of it.

And then she was like, am I forgetting anything? He said, my physio. And I think I think she was like, yeah, your trainer, your trainer and physio and the same thing. But, uh, definitely throwing a lot of variables at the wall. Kind of the maximum playbook. Yeah. You know, it was like 30 some pounds or something. Yeah. Yeah. Kim, again, but if I, if I was just, if I was to pull up his data golf, like skill profile, T.C. Will you swear this off? Like it is he, the king. He said it was interesting.

Yeah. You can see the king of the BSIs though. I'm just like, absolutely maxing out driver distance and below average, uh, from, from every other skill is, is where I'm like, this is not the rift that I love, uh, see it at see it. So this is minimally pretty good. I didn't think I was a good

quarter. Start looking like the Star Trek logo is always pretty bad. So it's a pretty bad side.

Uh, the data golf scatterplot there, but he's 21. Yeah. Like, you know what? He's, you know, American plumbers and firemen's, the, the sergeants and the, the done laps that, that have the drivery hips, they would, they would kill for this. And then round on the rest of his game. Can you, do, I, I feel like just don't, I don't hate the player. I hate the game. This is what I'm, is what I'm, is what I'm getting at. You see this kid, too. Yeah. Do, uh,

does winning the British AM get your exemption from being able to ball speed and posture. I think it gives you at least like a five year exemption. Where did he win the British AM?

“Oh, it's an important question. I don't remember. I think it was naren. Is that right?”

It's a good golf course. Did I have a British AM? Let's see. Um, 2022 Royal Lidham and St. Anne's, the, that's the, the antithesis of the exercise. You can't, you can't, yes. I'm a proper player, open. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not blinded. Just say, it's a, it's a conclusive, it's a inclusive. We are, it's like there's Scotty being a, a, a little

B as listener M said, we're, we're monitoring the situation. It's continue to monitor it. Did you have some, uh, some birdies and bogies from this past week you want to take us through? I did. Uh, I just kind of had a, a, I had a lot of interaction with the PJ tour itself as a consumer, uh, this week and so I just wanted to, to round that up into some things I liked and some

If you can follow my naming convention here. Uh, first one, I don't know that a lot of people watches. I thought, I saw it had like 25,000 or 30,000 views on YouTube or something, but the PJ tour into video with Ricky Fowler, uh, where he talked through every shot that he hit on the front nine during his pro him practice round. Sign me the fuck up for more of these videos. This was awesome. This is exactly what I, I've pitched this exact idea either in reality or just in Slack

complaining about stuff to you guys. This is exactly what I want to see. It is just him vlog style,

like here's every shot that I hit. Here's what the yardage was. Here's what club I hit. Here's what I was

trying to do. Here's what I ended up doing. I learned so much about Riviera just by watching him, hit different shots, talk about what he was looking for, how the cold was affecting things.

“It was awesome. And I think this seems like something that is so repeatable. Going forward,”

I would love to see more of of these videos. So shout out to Ricky for doing it and shout out to the PJ tour for for doing it. You guys, I think, watch this as well and felt similarly. Amen. Amen. That and helping this to tournament rounds, too, would be even better. It like, yeah, that was always my thought. It's like, I don't, you have, you know, easier said than done, I understand. But you have every shot from the guys who are in featured

groups on Thursdays and Fridays on PJ tour live. Like, can't, you can't, you get one of those guys for 15 minutes afterwards. Just be like, hey man, here's the, you know, an iPad that has a cut down of all your shots. Granted, I guess it have to kind of quick turn that or talk to those guys later that day. They have that. Yeah. But it's like, can you get zander to be like, hey, man, you just shot 67. Can you talk us through every shot you just hit on River Highlands, what you were

trying to do, whatever. He probably would. And I know all of the reasons why I can't work, but like, man, we're not trying to put a fucking man on the moon here. Guys, this doesn't seem that hard. And it's just equity and now. So as a, as a, as a golf fan, man. If you were been Griffin this week or Sammy about Sammy's Valle Machie, did you get, did you watch him in play golf this week? He finished teeth there. He made 92,000 dollars this week. A lot of minds getting put up with these golf

tournaments. Just do stuff. Guys, just 12 minutes of your time. Just do it. Yeah, just help us out, man. And that's not a last place, 51,000 dollars of the Cupmakers. The other, I guess, circle and back, maybe this is a me of me problem here. But I think the poster on interview with Amanda,

as much as I was glowing about my Jacob Bridgeman fandom, that might be the first time I've ever

heard him talk straight up. And I'm like, that's another one where, like, you got all these anonymous guys, like, start giving, you know, put a microphone in front of him for 15 minutes. Get him talking about golf. I think that's like the golf media, uh, he didn't walk and talk this week too. Like he, he did that on Friday. Like he was, but then he could play around interviews. Like he bred

“them down. Like he was even. That's what I mean. And he seems like a totally delightful, self-facing,”

interesting guy. And it's like, when you have all these guys that seem anonymous, it's like, don't try to get him to do like TikTok dances for people to be like, man, that guy's sick. Try to get him just talking about golf. These guys are all geniuses at talking about golf. That's all I want to hear them talk about. So anyways, shout out to that video, go watch it if you have it. Uh, and you'd, PJ, to every listening, would watch one of these every single week.

Uh, number two, I'm going to shout out. This is my birdie section. Uh, is a new newsletter that they started by our, all of our, our mutual friend Paul, uh, a hoda wannick. I believe is his last name. So hey, pronounced that T.C. I think I got a hoda. Kind of a hockey, uh, Minnesota hockey name. Uh, started newsletter, the signature scroll Paul's on site at all of these, uh, events, uh, all the signature events, all the big events.

And delivered right to your inbox every, every day is just like, here's what I saw.

It's very first person original reporting. Uh, he's a great subject matter expert on a lot of stuff. I learned a bunch of stuff every day from reading his newsletter. So shout out to PJ, to work for starting that because like, again, this is exactly what I'm looking for. This was great. Uh, which I think brings us to the bogeys section and T.C. I, you were very fired up about this. Cause I was like, oh, Paul started this newsletter. You got to go check it out.

I think for it, T.C. He's like, how the fuck do I sign up for this, man? I can't figure it out. But we got to fix the sign up flow. Listen, we're, you know, glass houses over here. We got our outside of flow issues. I know that. Uh, but they, they make and you sign up for the fan, connect and partner offers section in order to get a debrief from them from the golf tournament every day. That's, that's not what we're looking for. Not worry about. This is very old school,

PGA tour, all the, all the things that used to be wrong with PJ tour. This is emblematic of those things.

“So please, please fix this and get some shot. I want your products to my inbox. That's what I want”

all of the products in my inbox. Just this product. I, I think I, that was the first time I've ever signed up for a PGA tour account. Right. And that's where it's like, let's just, what if we

ads for your PJ tour partners. I think I'm doing it more than my part on that one. Okay.

That Genesis commercial. Yeah. Great timing. The middle. I don't think that I don't think I need your partners emailing me personally. Either fix the commercials or fix the email sign up flow.

“I think the sign up flow is a lot easier. God, your A1 C's not to get out of fucking cool.”

Awesome. That's a grizzly mouse. It's a risk I'm willing to take. The other buggy that I had at T.C. I know this would piss you off, too. Is T. MuSA wins the gold medal in hockey. One of the more patriotic, like, tear-filled moments I can remember. Not a lot to root for over the last couple years. I don't know if you guys have been watching the news. But a really nice, nice moment. And the

PJ tour just bludges people with a Scotty gold medal tweet. Just cool aid man coming through

the wall. We don't, we don't need it. We don't want it. Nobody's asking for this. Just let me just get in there with the old tour. Get in there and make this about you. Just be confident who you are. You have nothing to do with this moment. Honestly, would have been better to say congratulations. T. MuSA or just don't say fucking anything. You're not a USA tour. You're supposed to be

“the PGA tour. Just don't say anything. And so that was my second buggy. I think that makes for an”

even part of week. A lot of good, a lot of bad. We're on to the college, is it? But anything else you guys had in this spirit? We already went over the Tommy continuing to wear stuff in the local pro shop. I'm all in on that. That's a birdie. He looks great. I think Nike was holding him back. I think the tour's signature event commercials are good. Not including the players when we'll get there. The signature event commercials, they're good. They're leaning into the venues and the

history and what makes the tour the tour, which I think is good. And it shows there's a sense of, okay, we're starting to understand what our product is. And then lastly, Don Ray getting kicked off the PGA tour board. This is a PGA tour thing. This is not the birdies of the bogies,

it's on the birdies. Oh, this is incredible. shoe pack got this one of course,

or actually shack got it. Just by looking at the tours, the tour's board composition.

“Nathan Sharns was like the, I think he's taken over. He's the next president of PGA of America.”

PGA of America put up this gobble you statement. It was just insane corporate speak. But yeah, Don Ray, like man, happy trails dude. Like you like fire that guy into the sun. And you know what, like we should just go ambush him sometime with some cameras out. It was a gust of ranch or whatever. It's just just popping. See what's on your mouth. What will be your lead question? I just don't think you left anything on the answer. I don't have any questions. That's true.

But just the fact that they just pushed him aside with no, like they didn't impeach him. They didn't spot swaps him. Just like Acon's brother just tried to replace without talent anybody. And then for bogeys, I've got Finno wearing a big letter. Rive hat, stuff, kind of part and parcel with, you know, I hope Tommy didn't pick that up for him when he went into the pro shop. You know what, I think now that I'm thinking about it, I think Finno had another big letter had on

it pebble when I was following him. I think it was TFA. It might have been Tommy Fleetwood Academy. Well, I've seen that one before. I think he's got a fine pat in me. It's growing again. Yeah. That's transform. Maybe I'll set each other. Yeah. And then, yeah, that's, you know, I've only got one bogey this week. Shut up wonder. It's good to go. It's all anything from you. Where did, where did, saw have getting the Charlie Siffered exemption? How did that not fall into a bogey category here?

Well, wow. This, this, your word, saw, you know, saw this one of my favorite golfers, as I've said. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I feel, I don't know what. I don't know how I feel about this one. It is I understand it's a signature event. It's top 70 players. You're trying to make the most competitive. You're trying to make these the best fields in golf. It seems like if I'm doing my reading properly, the Charlie Siffered exemption was supposed to be, you know, giving a

person from a minority background who wouldn't otherwise be getting in, like a spot in a field to allow them to try to test their metal against the best in the world, which I think they've done a great job with over the years at this event. Saw, this seems like he's getting plenty of starts. This, this one is, this one falls a little on the, I'm not quite sure how to feel on this one. There's a great article that Cody has up on the screen. Five, some mirror, Pandia. I'm saying

that right. Just detailing the history of the exemption and, you know, that, again,

blacks were not allowed on the PGA Tour until 1961, which is, again, shocking to read.

But there's a great line in there. It talks all about, you know, Saw had to be in the child of immigrants. And this is not like Saw has fault in this, but the line here that got me

“was, in giving to go the exception, or the exemption, I think it was meant to say, in giving to”

go the exemption, the tournament is signaling that his journey into professional golf is roughly in the same vicinity as Siffered's or any of the other past recipients. And I was like, oh, yeah, that's pretty tough. I mean, we've seen Willie Mack get this exemption in the past, Aaron Beverly, I think, got this exemption in the past. And I get it. It's pretty random, you know, with this kind of promotion to signature event with this field, and it being 80 players and being

big money, it's kind of random to have players that are not PGA Tour members play in this, and what is supposed to be a PGA Tour, like icon, you know, very serious. This is what we're all about event, but giving it to Saw Heath was certainly just kind of that magnifying glass emoji of, I think they probably wanted to find a way to get him an exemption, and maybe the entire point of this is like, we should go searching past the normal names to find somebody that this

exemption would mean the world to, or else it's like it to exist. And that's, that's my read on it, and who knows, it's their exemption to give out, and maybe they feel differently about it, because yeah, but it's just a, there's a strange one that probably needs a little clarification, maybe. Yeah. All right, I want to give a shout to our friends at Arcos, the official game tracker of the

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really cool product, and we're stoked to be partnered with them this year. It just runs in the background. It's a big hindrance was like the thought of having to be on your phone doing all this and you do not have to do it. Guys, who's your west coast MVP? I've been, I've been, I don't know what I'm doing over this. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean, it's Bridgman, if I think. Really? Yeah. He wants it. He's a teated pebble,

T-18 at Phoenix, T-13 at the American Express T-4 at Sony. Like are we counting the opening drive as west coast swing? I thought we had a pre-production question about that. I thought that was

I also would, would throw out a nominee. He did not get a win, and so I don't think you can be MVP.

“T-16, I think you skipped over Jake Nap in the down the leaderboard,”

segment. He finished sixth at Riviera to go along with T-8 at pebble, A-th at Phoenix, T-5 at Farmer's T-11 at Sony. Yeah, that feels a little bit like maybe the guy from Canada getting the MVP award today? Well, for sure. I guess if we're throwing Sony, it's like, got to obviously be got her up. But, but it's interesting, is one signature event worth more than two non-signature wins? I think it's got her up for me, man. I mean, because it might be for me too.

Like not only did he win, he was just like, he's a dude. He established him. He, he, he used to establish himself as a dude.

Could it be Patrick Reed? You know, he wasn't in the, you know, I was thinking about that.

Played the West Coast. No, I know, but the West Coast of certain West Coast could be a construct of sorts, right? Yeah, he's not playing our West Coast. It's a pretty, you know. I think it's got her up if we're going to value wins as much as we do. And I think the Phoenix win is not a normal mu win. Like the Phoenix wins a lot bigger win than winning Sony. But I am, I'm monitoring that his wins have, have come in, you know, the lesser, the lower tier

events, lower middles. No, it's not winning. He's not winning like lower tier events. He's winning major events. Yeah. All right, Murdoch, I'll give you that one. But Sony's kind of Phoenix is,

“Phoenix is real. That's why I just said, I mean, his him, like, yeah, I don't know if I can get”

down with this is, is him like, like, he fucking won though, like his him winning the, like, is that worse than him not winning? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to say that. I think if he finishes T7 this week, it's a slam dunk. If he finishes T19 this week, I think it's a slam dunk that he's the MVP. Miss the cut this week, it rift like on a soft set up, it should be a good, like, heard at the open, like it is last meet. That's not on the West Coast. Again, some years, it is. There's

a hurdle or, I mean, the Scottish open was on the East Coast of Scotland. I just say we're monitoring his win resume. That's all I'm saying wins a lot. But, you know, are we going to, are we going to do it in the big tier? Are you going to, if you're a dude, you got to do it in the big tier stuff, TC. That's all I'm saying. Like big town. Big town won the northern trust. The top 70 players in the world. Four years after we, after we've been riding in. It was, it's all you should do a deep dive podcast

about that. It's one of the greatest events in the history of golf, first of all, as you bring that,

it was a pretty professional. Yeah. It was over TC's boy, Camp Smith, too. That's what makes it so hard for him. What was? Do you want to shout out last year's West Coast MVP? It was Sepsh Troco for me. That was, I think, Ryder Cup lock. Yeah, that was the big of you. That was one of the biggest, I think, one of the greatest gestures of sportsmanship, I think you've ever, you've ever had. Yeah, I really appreciate that. In the last PGA tour news and notes this week, Lucas Glover

named Pack Chairman. TC trends like this for us. What does this mean? Well, again, this was reported by Adam Schupeck. The meal whisper. I saw Adam and dinner last night, actually. Yeah.

“Yeah, I was like, man, I'm not watching the golf. I think you should be watching the golf play.”

Yeah, what does this mean? I think it's interesting, because Glover had said quote that he had quick going to play tour player meetings and called the pack a waste of time and useless, because he intended the tour was quote going to do what they're going to do. Hiding behind pace of play, I think challenges are intelligence. They think we're stupid. He said about reduction in field sizes and the number of fully exempt cards.

So this feels like, you know, this feels like kind of an about face from him that he said, which I love Lucas. He's like one of the smarter, more thoughtful, conversationalist on tour and just to, you know, genuinely good guy. It seems like, but he said, I can add value from inside the room instead of outside. And at this point in my career, it's not like I can stand on the range all day and hit balls. So I've got time and there's enough guys that want my voice and

there to be heard. So I should probably do it. So good on him, it feels like a good thing for you know, for, it seems like he views his constituencies, the guys in that probably 40 to 120 range on the tour that feel like they've gotten a short shift here over the last 12, 18, 24 months with all the changes. And I don't know, like, we joke a lot about the meal stuff.

like, was it five or six years ago? He was bitching about them, making him walk down the hill at Riviera

“and stuff. Or up the hill. Yeah. And I think there's plenty to make fun of, but there's also plenty”

of guys out there that like, they, they, they earn their way out there and then they feel like the rules are getting changed right out from under them and, all right, you know, I made it to the tour. All right, I did what you told me to do and now, you know, you're pulling the rug out from under me. I see that too, but at the end of the day, I don't think that changes the fact that I think the

pour was probably bloated in the first place. So it's, it's a tricky, a tricky line to, to walk.

And I think Lucas is a thoughtful guy that it'll take into consideration. He's, he's been in both camps. He's a major champion, but he's also been through the wilderness with his pudding and he's had lean years and he's had a late career Renaissance and, you know, he's got three or four years left until he's on the, on the champion store, which I bet he absolutely cleansed up out there. So, you know, good on him for, for, you know, put in, put in time and energy into this.

“I think that's very well said. I totally agree that that was the first thing that jumped out to”

me as like this guy that has truly seen everything in pro golf. Highs, lows, different levels of play, like, all the stuff he just said T.C. and it's, I think it's a valuable perspective, because I think that the, I think we've gotten over, I'm going to be careful. Like, I'm not even necessarily over indexed on the superstar voices because I do think those have to carry a lot of the conversation and I get all of the, it is an entertainment product stuff, but it, this kind of

feels like the first thing to, to balance the scales a little bit in a, in a, in a very healthy way,

you know, kind of getting much more of the two sides of the house to have a voice in this conversation. I think it's great. Luke is going to figure out a good Clyde's Dale instead of a mule. Like, he's a Clyde's Dale, he's not Ryan Armour chucking the most inane bullshit we've ever heard from the cheap seats. Yeah, they've got to figure out what the next level of the tour looks like still, right? If they're going to do this scarcity model, if they're going to, you know, have it, you know,

this championship series or whatever this higher level of the PGA tour is like what the next level looks like still has to be figured out and it has to work. So everything ladders up to the championship series or the highest level or however that ends up working, but that's, that seems to be secondary on, on, they feel like the, I, I feel like they feel they need to get the top level right, the signature event series, the championship series, whatever this is, whatever, if it becomes a 21,

22 event season, they got to get that part right and they'll be the trickle down effect to, to the remainder of the, of the tour, which I know will be the subject of a lot of debates, but they do, they got to, they got to nail what that next part is. And because a massive media deals, you can't just like take, like the reason why CBS NMBC buy up all these spots is that they, the golf is on every Saturday Sunday on network TV, on, on, throughout the year from January through August and it's

somewhat easy to find sometimes. And like just taking it away on a lot of these weekends is not really an option. I don't think it, at least the map doesn't map nearly as well if you just take away a ton of events. So, it's interesting that Lucas will be on the policy board for 20, 20, 27, to 20, 30 as well following this appointment. So now does, does the policy board actually have any power anymore? Because we heard Tiger talk about future competitions committee this week, the FCC,

is he kept calling it? You know, it was even, even better out that TC was the, so the tour has this, this tool where they, it's like the speed rounds tool that they send to players and they send

“to media as well, but you can kind of just see like, if you want to watch every shot of Scotty's round,”

that was on TV, they'll just like auto chop it up and you can click on it and watch. And so I was watching, uh, Bridgman's around from yesterday again today, just to prepare and, uh, when he was in the booth, that was over a lot of Bridgman shots. So I was just hearing like snippets of time here's close. Like, oh yeah, the FCC, they're just, we're all hot. Yeah, we're burning the, we're burning the midnight oil every night. The emails, the emails are flying, you know, and it's just catching

little snippets and satellites of it. Maybe it was even better than watching it the first time, in full context. Yeah, Tiger, Tiger was, it was kind of rough for, it was on the rails and first, and then it got a little rough and then he settled in and he went back around and he went to back around. But he was in there for an hour. And I think Trevor and Jim were pretty

cock that he was in there for that long. Like he spent an hour, that's you've never done that before,

Tiger. Uh, and he also didn't rule out playing, playing Augusta. Yeah. I don't know what I think about that. We'll see. Kind of interesting to see what happens. Yes, he keeps referencing, you know, he said, yeah, and I can go out and write a buggy. How don't you call them a champ? You know, I was an option before, but, you know, it's a different deal

Do you think he plays the masters? No. Probably not. I kind of hope he doesn't.

I mean, I feel like I'm at a very healthy, very healthy spot with this. I think anybody who's who's revving up the siren in the height machine is, that's going to happen. That can't do that. Yeah, but that's their problem. I feel very emotionally distanced from like, if he goes out and shoots 78 and withdraws a buggy, I'll be in, well, that's a bummer. What else is going on? Or if he shoots 71, I'll be like, wow, what a great story. Or if he doesn't play, I'll be like,

oh, that's fine, too. Like, I just feel, I'm very just good. I'm taking it as it comes. Yeah. That's great. I hope he does. I hope he plays every moment. You know, I would love to see him play the

“play the open championship next year at St Andrews. That'd be awesome. That's what I'd like to see.”

Ian, Ian, I'd like to see him play Boston Common on Sunday, March 1st. At this place. We can certainly got too many double headers coming up on the TGL for TC. I just, I don't know if anybody would ask me that. Monday and Tuesday. Tomorrow and Tuesday. Yeah, they will be playing off real turf though, Sally. The eighth straight-hours at TGL off real turf. No, they've got a two-hour break in the middle. It's five to seven and then nine dual button.

There's nothing going on from from seven to seven to nine. Someone say they might need to figure out the TV windows. But, um, bleak field next week at Cognizant. It does not chance for a guy Michael breaded to do some work next week. See. That's what jumped out to be for the meal list. Need it. This got her up in the field. You know, Sally, Sally's and it don't think so. He's not. He's trying to

“art his field. ADDC in the field could be a, you know, I think he's going to pick one of these”

off at some point. Yeah. A meal ship Lee could see him win at some point. Let's text him with Harry Higgs earlier. He's one of the alternates. I was like, all right, are you going to, are you going to Palm Beach? Are you going to Boinas RS for the, for the Argentine open? He's like, I don't know. They're going to let me know on Monday if I can't get in. Otherwise, I'm half on the plane. She. But I was like, I was like,

I hope, I hope you don't get in because I, you get to go play an Alistair McKensey course and eat a bunch of delicious steak down in Buenos Aires. Like, I would be chill. Worst. Worst fates in that. Deepest Ray vibe in his end. Michael came with through. TC, well, I'm surprised you let me get an hour and a half into the show before mentioning one of

your favorite events in the world. I just found this out. It's at Karen Country Club. It's incredible.

In Nairobi, the, the magical Kenya open Casey Jarvis is your winner. Can't say I know a whole lot about Casey Jarvis. But he's former lack winner. He made two Eagles on the back nine, shot a final round 62 to claim the title there. Well, that's a different guy. So I, Casey, you know, I didn't want to play. I wasn't 100% sure about like, I don't still think that's true. Aaron Jarvis was the guy from the, from the Cayman Islands. So that's a different thing. I don't

think that they should eat in the Latin American and back to you, though. One more thing about you. I don't know. I mean, I just let it go, too. Like, I did all that, dude. I'm sorry. There was a great moment on Friday. I retweeted this with a D.B. World Tour. Jarogi Kabudju, Kabugu. Made Eagle on the final hole on Friday. A Ken Nade of Kenyan to make the cut and just the ton of Kenyan's around the final green as he, as he made that pie and just absolutely going nuts.

So I went to go do some research on him. He's got a great, uh, I own a Steven as a great video with him on her YouTube channel on the road with Iona, uh, just, you know, then play in and kind of playing off in Kenya and it was just a great exploration piece. But that was a nice touch of local flair, uh, for that event this past week. And it was, uh, it was well documented. He ended up finishing

“T-61. But, uh, his second, I think second time making the cut at the magical Kenyan. It was magical.”

T-C. T-C. Are we, are we tracking this here? Are we tracking this guy Davis Bryant, who finished second? It was a lucky one to Colorado state. Yeah, American who's playing the D.B. World Tour,

just always a fun, that's always a fun thing. Always loves seeing that. Uh, Simon Mr. Cutty could

add the guitar masters. It's kind of like in really, really tell you, uh, but maybe add that to your monitoring list. Open a couple of holes on him. We know new cookies. I've ever won the the guitar masters, though, since since Fuzzy Zeller. Uh, we've also, we had a couple. Well, so we had two national, or we, sorry, we didn't have a national. It was a, it was the New Zealand PGA Championship this week, uh, which was down at Harapura, Umu, uh, down in, down near Wellington. Sounds like they have

some teeth in their PGA championship. 6, these 600 yards baked out, firm, fast, only two guys under

guy that finished even, um, but yeah, and then Cooper Moore from New Zealand, finished second. But

more of that Chase Keppka, uh, seems to be bouncing back after his relegation a couple of years ago from Smash GC, uh, he finished that T5 as well. So, uh, our friend Curtis Lock T16 was 5 and this week, we guys, we have three, count them three national opens this week. We have the South African open, down in wine country, down in Stellenbosh, uh, on the DP World Tour. And then we've got the New

“Zealand open down in Queen's Town, believe it was at Arrow Town, golf club, or, um, uh, I think it's”

Arrow Town. Probably gonna get a makeup on that one. And then, uh, what was the last one? We have a third one. Oh, we have the largest open. Yeah. Yeah. At the Jockey Club, which is, that's going to be fantastic. I've got reports that it's going to be much drier. Of course, it's going to be in much better shape than it was last year. And that there will be a live stream this year as well. I think there was a live stream last year that I'm watching. And it was, it was delightful. All the commentary

was in Spanish, of course. And I had more fun watching at that. And I did whatever it was against last year on, on the tour side. So I think it'll be on the corn, very tour, uh, YouTube channel. Just sick, props to them for doing that. On, uh, continue DP World Tour news, a statement came out earlier, uh, this week from the DP World Tour. So they have, uh, granted conditional releases to eight members to play and conflicting tournaments on live golf during the 2026 season. Each member has accepted

the condition specified by the DP World Tour for their release, which include payment, info of all outstanding fines for breaches of the DP World Tour's regulations, participation in additional stipulated DP World Tour tournaments, as well as associated media activity and promotion, as well as withdrawal of all pending appeals. Uh, the eight members that agreed to this Lori Canter, Thomas D.T. Tyrell Hatton, Tom McKibbin, Adrian Moronk, Victor Perez, David Pooch,

and Elvis Smiley. Any names missing from that list of interest to either of you. Yeah, I'm going to say John Rom, not on that list. Uh, just very interesting. I, uh, I know we

“talked about it. I think we've maybe even played the quotes, but a couple of weeks ago, but the”

Lori, Lori just straight up saying, you know, hey, we all said we all gave the Americans a lot of shit saying that, you know, we would pay to play in the Ryder Cup, and now there's a couple guys that have the opportunity to do it by by paying their fines, uh, and and showing that they want to, you know, want this to be a smooth situation, and Rom continues to take the opposite tack on that. So, uh, sorry. What do you think of this? Rom also the richest man in golf,

not named Tiger Woods, like, and has made the most money off of golf in the last five years of anyone, and he's the one that won't pay the fines, just to do this. Um, principle. I honestly, this one, I, I thought about this a little bit today. I'm like, what? Why, I still find myself kind of rooting for Rom. I overall like John Rom, and I find him interesting, and I'm when he's in contention and majors. I, I, I don't know, I want him involved in the mix. I'm like, why,

I feel like I'm bending over backwards to like Rom at this point. Like, what, what reason is he giving me to actually like him at this point? He said all the pledges feel to the PGA to our

400 million dollars wouldn't change my life. Like, that's not real golf over there. Leaves and

does that, and it's one thing to like, to do that, and like, I just, I cannot understand how he can, I don't know what's three or four million bucks that he owes the D.P. World Tour to want to continue to play over there. Why, why, why he can't afford to do that, why he refuses to do that. He's the one of all these people that can't afford to do it refuses to do it, and we're supposed to act like that he's justified in all of this. It's the D.P. World Tour has very clear rules and regulations

for conflicting events. Liv golf has very clear rules and regulations for conflicting events. Like, you can't play the, you know, I should be able to go anywhere. Your tour doesn't let you go anywhere.

“You have to play Liv golf events. Like, you do not get the luxury that D.P. World Tour players get,”

which is they can get releases to go play other tour events. And I do not know if he's going to play the Ryder Cup in Ireland. Like, I, I don't know what he's trying to win. I don't know what a win

here looks like for him, but he doesn't have to pay the 3 million bucks out of the 300 he's made

from Liv golf if not more. It, it just, it's, it's unredeeming. It is, it is like, Roy said it out loud, the, better than I possibly could. Like, you, you had a chance to do this. You had a chance to put your money where your mouth is, and you're just not doing it.

that one of those accounts, but I can't find it because they got, I think the guy blocked me, and I couldn't book market, but it was kind of like playing devil's advocate of, all right, here's, and I think it was something along the lines of, why should he have to get releases for

tournaments that he's not planning on playing in any way on the D.P. World Tour, because it's basically

a feeder tour for the U.S. Tour, which was, I don't know, made, maybe a little bit of sense to me, but also, like, yeah, like you, you signed the membership regulations, you knew what you're getting into when you, when you signed, and like, you know, maybe that's a separate membership

“issue if you want to bring that up otherwise. But the question of why, why can you go play P.J.”

Tour events, if you're a D.P. World Tour member, like the strategic alliance there, like you couldn't, you get, yeah, or even before that I suppose, right? I don't know. I'm just, I'm just trying to play devil's advocate here, because like, yeah, I think, I think Rome just seems like he's totally lost, it's awesome, and just in transit and doesn't want to, he's truly turning into the modern-day savvy. It's solid? Isn't this a rider cup? He did. Yeah, he did. That was more

over the minimum number of events required. It was different back then. It was really, really different. Yeah, a little bit. It's somewhat similar, but I guess I just, I don't know, for someone that I was like, I feel like was one of the dudes that was the most intrigued by legacy. If you were listening to like, I talk about golf, you know, so much about history, and he was so easy to root for

“in all of this. Like his, his true desire to be great and his golf knowledge and his lead leads,”

he listens to podcasts, he notes all these little details. It was like, dude, this guy is great. I really am enjoying this, and he's thrown all this away for, again, just to save 0.5% of money he's made off of live golf to this point. It just is, I don't know, it's stunning. For the rider cup, I also think the, I don't know, like this strategic alliance is kind of bullshit, because the tour is just gutted the D.P. World Tour, too. Right? I mean, that's, that's,

I mean, gutted slash, they're funding it. They're like funding it. It's both ways. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's tiger kind of gutted the D.P. World Tour. If you really want to pull on that string of all the corporate money that flew into the P.J. Tour and all those guys left to go play, you know, more golf in the P.J. Tour, it's a big more money there. That's, that's kind of what killed it. Just the American economy to do. Yeah, exactly. So it gets, man, I, I feel pretty uninterested by

the super nitty gritty courts and appeals and finds and all of that stuff, but man, it does get interesting when you start, like wake me up for the, the Ryder Cup Round Table John Ram might not

“be on the team episode, like we'll, we'll listen to that one, because I think for all of the,”

this is a brotherhood, this is family, this is, everything like it gets, I think the rubber is going to be the road on some of that stuff. If one of them is kind of putting himself outside of the system, I also don't think they need them to beat the US. That's true. It's a terrible, as we're

standing right right now. So, on the LPGA tour, this week, Gino Tittacoon became the third

tie winner for home event joining area Jutanigarne and Patty Tavattanicate. I believe this is our first win with her mother present in the, she had rounds of 67, 63, 66, 68. She beat Shizzy Iwa EY by one shot, one of the cut wins. Cody's laughing at me behind the scenes here, what, what did I mess up your Cody? I'll help you with some pronunciation. You know, that's the, the fastest police to get out there on your, uh, solid, but it was electric, uh, Gino winning in front of plenty of family and friends

and you're right. It was the first time that her mom has been present for her to win a professional event, uh, awesome, that great quotes after it, uh, said it was an A plus plus plus plus win comparing it to what potentially winning a major would feel like, um, exactly. She did not say that. She said what a major would feel like. I was like, I got to add potential in there because it would be tough.

Um, but overall great showing, this is an awesome event, uh, Thailand always shows out for it.

Has it, like, crazy week per still as everything else on the LPGA tour continues to get elevated for some reason. This purse hasn't really gone up yet, um, but really, you know, Gino wrapped it up firmly this morning coming into her back nine. Shizzy at two eagles on her day, second coming on the par five, 10th and then did make a single birdie in from there. Uh, Hoid you can finish

showings from Alice and Corpus, Andrea Lee and Laudy Wode, uh, Ronnie's back, uh, tied for 15th

there with Laudy, uh, great to see her having some good form again after a pretty lackluster, uh, season last year. But it is a great sighting that we're this early on into the professional calendar and the top three women in the world or the Rolex rankings at least, uh, Nelly Gino and Charlie have each one already. So now of Gino and Charlie back in action this year. The Asian made their HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore. Nelly, of course, don't travel for that. Get off my

back. Um, Lydia is there defending Gino. I just said it's going to be their mint G making her season debut. Um, the only player that's in the Rolex top 15 is that's not there is Nelly. And it's just, it's wild that you continue to look at this and you continue to have big money dumped into these events and she just doesn't show up. Uh, and that really feels like that legitimately makes

“me mad. Yes, doesn't want to buy in. It's crazy. I think she has to once every four years. I think”

it is. So we'll see. I think it would be coming up next year for a lot of these events. But, uh, excited for this week as well because on the LAT, they start their month long Australian swing um, so plumped about that they're going to be in Sydney for the, uh, Northwest Wales open. So, sort of code. Yeah. I need to see more better setups out there too. Like, where? On LPGA, especially with the Thailand event, like T32 was minus 10 this week. I mean, like, and that's, that's

my rub on on Gino. You could literally lay that across the entire LPGA for scheduled season. No, I know, but Gino fees on all these, all these birdie-fests, you know, and that's, I'd like to see. So I don't know. It will see what happens. They got, they got what they got, Singapore this week and then they got China next week and then their backstate side for founders. Yep, week off during players and then they're back up at founders.

Think the other just natural, natural tie into this week's conversation is U.S. Women's open going to Riviera and all the things we said about Riv playing in February and being able to see the firmness and the shot shapes and all, you know, the scale, probably in a little better place than to what we want to see is probably going to be a lot better in late May than it is, you know, in fact, late May for the women than February for the men. So

that was one of those things that came up into my mind more than once today was just like,

“I don't know if this is it, but I think the U.S. Women's open is going to be it in a big way.”

I mean, not only that, but just wait a couple more years too when the Olympics are there and late July early August, both men and women the first time that we're going to actually have a co-ed competition side of it as well. It's going to be awesome. So I think we're going to see, you know, the different versions that we crave of Riv coming up at least in the next couple of years that will enjoy. Well, also get the men's U.S. open. They're post ball rollback,

2031, U.S. open there. I might be, yeah, one second or three rollback of it.

BGT or any ways. Final few notes I had, the Saudi public investment fund approved $267 million

of fresh capital for live golf that comes from money in sport. The total investment in live golf has now reached $5.3 billion following a 266.6 million capital injection approved by Yossar Al-Ramayan on February 1st, 2026. At this current rate of spending, it will put the cumulative spending of live golf past $6 billion by the end of this year. Don't think this necessarily means much of anything. I was not expecting to live to all of a sudden stop pumping money into it,

but the numbers of course are staggering and worth monitoring. But could this be money moved around the Resign Bryson? Could it be, who knows? Probably just to keep it current rate. Yeah, just we just need to keep that one money at this, because not making a ton of money on the income side, Fox average 331,000 for the 11 PM to 1 AM window for live Adelaide, Pebble last week,

average 3.3 million for more cowas win, coverage peaked at nearly 5.2 million. Those are per

Josh Carpenter. We have, so remember last year, two years ago, they said Nielsen changed up their

“way they rate stuff. Rating's Twitter's turning a little bit into where did it cross Twitter?”

For me, I'm just like, man, now if we can't all agree how the numbers, this whole thing seems

flat to really tell you about big data. It's something like that. I couldn't fully explain it, but I will say, sorry, on that, those numbers for live don't look good, right? But it's slow.

No, it's one of the best ever. The incredible, but compared, right, compared to the PGA2,

which I do think is very unfair. But it blows my mind that we're still, we're over a week into this and the continued momentum of AK and the story and just getting picked up all over the place, it's a really cool thing to see. I mean, you can say a lot that you want about live, but for AK and the side and like every single sports to to all other things, just continuing this momentum. It's been not to watch. Yeah, it's cool. I was on vacation. I didn't like, I just kind

of watched it as a fan. It was the most part, and yeah, and then people argue, like, when folks he said that it was more impressive than hoogeth, all of that, and then people climb in and say, well, you know what, like, derogues have killed a lot more people than bosses, it's got to play. That's the controversy. I can't get down with the rating stuff. Those are the conversations I need to be having. T.C. Those are the debates I'd be. Yeah, those are the debates I need to be embracing.

“I think to your point, Cody, there's a big difference in the AK's success story and the live golf”

success story. I think it's it's very easy to celebrate the success of Anthony Kim in the bounce back,

and then I don't think it's necessarily like a game changer for live golf or any of the

hundreds of thousands of things whilst not working that we've documented over the years. Oh, you're just a hater. AK took to actually everything out. Looks like a Friday and said, I want to take a moment to think AK golf digest, AK golf.com and AK golf channel and many other excellent writers for taking a shit on my name while I'm giving them more motivation. I love you all. I do it. You know, I just don't think anybody's ever been more universally like we all love you,

please come back. All we want to do is watch you play golf, man. We all, all of us love you, dude. We're just we're so in-on-watch and you play golf and maybe at least maybe I missed

uh, maybe I missed some stuff. I know and they also, and not to not for nothing like you did play

“really bad for like two straight. Weirdly bad. And I think that's where it's like,”

do you want this to be a league that people talk seriously about or is it just about sticking it to the haters? Because if you want, if like, go ahead, man. How's that working out for you guys to take that to take that tack? I guess. Yeah, that was a disheartening. For as cool and as much as I enjoyed watching that, seeing posts like that after the fact of just like, see, I told you. It's like, cool man. I don't know. Godspeed. All right. I think my last thing takeaway was just how much,

like I know we say this every time there's an event in Australia, how much I love watching golf on short-ish firm and fast golf horses or anybody that's teeing up in the field can win it. And I think that that like, like AK is not going to go win at a lot of 7,500, like he's not going to quail hollow in fucking winning. He's just not, right? Because it's where like he was in total control of his golf ball out there with his iron and his wedges and that matters and man, I want to see

“that more often and golf. And I think that like, all right, if we're not going to do anything with”

the equipment, then you know what, man, like we got to go to more interesting places where the weather is good and where it can be firm and fast certain times of the year and put ourselves in that position a little bit more often. If if the equipment's not going to get taken care of, but either way, you're going to have to make a sacrifice here for the sake of the product and the entertainment and the sport at large. But yeah, I mean, I just got, I love watching golf on those Australian

courses. It doesn't even have to be sandal. Yeah, it's not even a great golf. The grain is not in that great of a golf course. It's just like, just give me Australian sandal. Like, I don't even care. But I mean, like, like the ladies are going to Kuyonga in a few weeks. I think lives going there next year for the live Australia event. You know, it's like, like, it doesn't, like, should you go to Perth? You get firm and fast out in Perth. You know, there's just just give me that more than once a year.

I mean, that, like, four times a year. I think this is maybe just, I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to be a pet. I hate to be a pacifist here. But like, TZ, we can't even get TGLs play in Perth with fast. Like, I'm just looking like wherever we're going next up the agenda. It's like, oh, this whole, it's cool. And it's like who? Yeah. And it's not, we can't even get those holes played like the way that we want to see all those play. Those are two sticky and soft. I just don't

like, all right, if we're, if we're not going to get firm and fast, let's go the opposite direction

and make it slow. Make it wildly slow on the greens. Give us that. Give us something different. On that note, there is a new hole on the TGL. We got it. This is bow welling. We got to celebrate it. We got to do it. We asked for, for less realistic golf holes. This is in a cave, in a cave, a cavern. There's some lag tights. Things that I've, I've remembered and learned from the,

“like, my, I think. No, tights. They're hanging on tight from the ceiling. That's how I”

remember the lag tights. Really? Wow. Lights. I'll stand down. You sound pretty good. I hope

that's right. I've committed that to memory. Well, I was like fifth grade, but the lag tights are

celestial shaped mineral deposits hanging from the ceiling. Well, then what are still like mates from the bottom? From the bottom. Oh, man. I'm sorry. Let's go both here. So you're, well, the tights I'm worried about here. That's, that's the design aspect. You're right, you're right, player. That's, obviously. And it's kind of an homage to, uh, you know, bow welling's curling. He's been in, he's been in Italy. Oh, he can't believe he, he was able to do this

and do all of his Olympics responsibilities. Like the, that's good. That was good. The curling.

“Maybe, yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah, I can't achieve all these stingers. Wow. I didn't think about that.”

Can't you all in sell had that on Twitter? I meant it's meant to have that one, but that was very good. TJL said, or Roy said, Stingers out there to get ready for, uh, get ready for TJL. Oh, all right, question. Are they going to turn the lights down on the sofa center when they play this hole? It's a great question. Oh, that would be sick. Yeah, you can't see the ball. Okay. Let's see. All right, my leads from bats. Yeah. All right. That's good about doing unless you guys have

anything else before we wrap here. Uh, I wanted to, um, say, RIP to Jeremy Turner, architect who designed, uh, Lufthan links. Uh, it did a lot for Norwegian golf and he used from from the UK originally, but, um, designed a lot of courses up in Scandinavia. And, uh, yeah, we were able to play it on our tourist's trip. It's all you're able to play on on a previous trip as well. So, just wanted to go out out of great man who did a lot of, a lot of cool stuff in a, in a

nascent golf part of the world. Amen. Thank you for that TC. Uh, thank you for everyone that is

tuned in live here on a Sunday night. These are always very, very fun to do. I want to give a shout

out, of course, to our friends at title list, high noon, arcos and so far for DJ Pi, TC and Cody running the ones and two is Matt running the social behind the scenes. Thank you for being with us

“on this Sunday night. We will see you back here. We got an episode coming out, uh, I believe when”

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of footage from behind the scenes at the AT&T Pelvich Pro M, uh, from actual golf shots and stuff played, uh, played during the Pelvich Pro M practice rounds. And just a big behind the scenes, uh, for the week as well. So check that out. You can go to no-layingup.com/join, uh, to learn more about, uh, we're doing a lot more nest exclusive content, uh, this coming year. We're doing a lot of expanding of the nest podcast this year. So, uh, be sure to check that out, uh, for nest members. If people

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