Fairway Rollin' - Instant Reactions to the Tour Championship and Looking Ahead to the Ryder Cup

Episode Date: September 6, 2021

House and Hubbard start by discussing Patrick Cantlay’s victory at the Tour Championship. Then they briefly look ahead to the Ryder Cup and talk about who will be on the U.S. team. Hosts: Joe House and Nathan Hubbard Production assistant: Isaiah Blakely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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How's that, Rye? I reckon I'll do. Yeah, man. Hello, friends, and welcome to this playoff edition. of Faraway Role! The Golf Podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network. I am your starter, Joe House. It's Sunday night, and there's exciting golf happening.

I'm here to tell you it's happening in Toledo, Ohio. There was also a golf tournament down in Atlanta, Georgia. That golf tournament should be going to a playoff right now between Kevin Nah and John Rom, both of whom shot 14 under. in this hot competition down in the ATL, but that's not what's happening. Our PGA tour correspondent on the ground, Nate Hubbard, as always,

is sitting right here on the zoomer, blessing me with his beautiful locks. Nate Dogg! How you doing, buddy? Is it weird that I spent more time watching the Solheim Cup and the Corn Ferry Tour finals than this until the last couple of holes? It was fun to see Justin Thomas have to make a $600,000 put.

And 18 had a little bit of drama, thanks to Patty Ice, taking a patty dump on 17. But otherwise, I don't know how, is this the right format? You know what? It's the right format for the Who Gives a Shit Championship, which we have. For the money grab. Yeah, right. Like, of course it's not the right format. There are a million ways to skin this cat.

we will only spend 60 seconds here on Fairway Rowland because there's lots of podcasts out there in the golf world where people have made these very same complaints. And they're all viable, legitimate complaints because the format stinks. But, you know, we're not here to try and solve the PGA Tours, you know, $60 million problem. They can figure out themselves. If their primary sponsors are happy with this goofball format, then who are we to do? challenge. I mean, God forbid, this is the one thing I'll say, and it's a point the shotgun start guys have made 10 billion times, which is right. You can simultaneously have an award for somebody that wins this season and also conduct an event called the Tour Championship, and you can

have two people win and show up on the stage. Congratulations for winning this four-round tournament. Congratulations for winning the season. Sometimes it'll be the same. person. Sometimes it won't be. But like we are all... That's what happened when Tiger won. Right. We're all grown adults. We're all capable of having simultaneously, you know, happy thoughts for two outcomes and rewarding two champions at once.

So that's the only comment I'll make. The problem is they awarded the FedEx Cup branding to FedEx, but they're so deeply invested in Eastlake with all of the charitable work. down on the ground and the relationship with Coca-Cola and Southern Company. I don't think they can sort those two things out. And so we just have this sort of hodgepodge of, wait, who, you know, who's winning, who is, who cares is, as you said, that we did, however, this week learn some things. We learned some things about the Ryder Cup in particular. And we also learned some things about maybe who should be player of the year. We also learned some things about who might have lied about their health status.

Yeah. Well, there's a lot of it. We, you know, the, the happiest potential announcement of the entire week was the idea that Netflix might be getting involved with, well, it's not, might be, they are getting involved. They, the, the PGA tour and Netflix have, uh, combined forces. and there is, at least notionally, a behind-the-scenes kind of show that could be like the outrageously interesting Formula One focused series drive to survive. The thing I wonder about, Nate, is the candor that is so important.

Now, a lot of it we've come to understand from the Drive to Survive folks, is kind of, you know, manufactured drama. We can live with that. But will the tour be able to permit that out of its own players? Will we get any drama out of that show? Who knows? Who knows? Let's hope so because there is a lot of drama behind the scenes.

And that's the point. Yes, sir. I mean, interestingly, this week, there was no drama from the one guy who came in bringing all the dramas. And that was Bryson. He was relatively anonymous this week. I think that's how he wanted it. not that he played any differently,

but I think him not being in the throes of competing maybe was a good thing for him. And we forecasted when we did the show last week with KVV, that this was a kind of a perfect opportunity for all the Bryson Furer to hit pause, that there was likely to be kind of a quiet week for Bryson. We didn't know how he was going to perform, but it just felt like even if he was in the,

spotlight, Eastlake, this venue, this setup, the, who gives a shit element of it, was not going to produce, you know, a lot of Brooksie action out there. Yeah. And there was a little bit, of course, he birdied like three holes right down the stretch to make his performance this week look better than it was. He was pretty middling out there, but nothing on earth. I mean, look, this course, do we like this course house? Have you played it?

No. I played it a bunch. I have a good, good pal, that. in the ATL. Shout out Gump. And it's fine. You know, it has, what's cool is that the,

there are no members. It's a corporate membership into the thing in the Atlanta area. And it has all the Bobby Jones history. And, you know, it's been touched by some, you know, it's been touched by Donald Raw. There's some real vintage architecture there. It's fine.

It's a fine menu. The history stuff is very cool inside it's not even a clubhouse. I don't know what you call it. It's more like a museum. I mean, I'm perplexed by the results. I mean, you said Rahm and Nah should be in a playoff right now. Ram was fifth off the T and 22nd in approach.

He lost two strokes. He was first around the Greens fourth in putting. Nah made only one bogey. He was 24th off the T and lost two shots off the T but was second in approach. So these guys did it totally differently. I'm not even sure what it takes. to do well on this course. When we came in, it seemed to be pretty clear that shots gained off the

T was the way that you win this tournament. You know, nah, obviously threw that to the wind and just was so great with his short game. Other than that, you know, I mean, Jock O'Neiman playing this course in a minute, 50, or an hour 53, kind of made a joke of the whole damn thing. I mean, he could have played harder and potentially made, you know, another $50,000. but he sort of seemed to concede that he was going to finish DFL, which he almost didn't because fucking Colin Moracawa is lost. Well, no, no. He's lost.

Yeah. So he's not lost, Nate. He's hurt. I'm absolutely convinced, having watched the entire playoffs, these performances, and this really does dovetail nicely with what I think is the most interesting thing to talk about, because we can really rev up. in earnest, the intrigue around the, the Rider Cup, Colomor Cow is hurt. Whatever's going on with his back has,

has affected him, is affecting him. The last three, all of the play, he skipped the first playoff event and, you know, the, the caves event, he was near DFL, but, you know, it just didn't matter. He was DFL today if Jock O'Neiman had played in, you know, an hour 54 instead of an hour 53. Instead, they shot the same score. come on. He wanted the East Lake all-time...

The all-time... Which is nothing because West Brian has the all-time record and it's way cooler than what they did. He worked harder. I know.

But I like Jacko, at least like taking it for what it is, right? Thank you for making it fun and making a mockery of the fact that you can do that and still walk away with not $395,000 because that's what Brooks got

for withdrawing with a bad wrist, but instead he's going to make $405,000. So look, there's a ton of money that comes out, but let's get to the meat of this because, I mean, Morikau was hurt. Yep. Brooks is now definitely hurt. And sorry to the barstool, guys, they're not going to get their lefty thing.

I mean, this is an injury he's had before. And of course, he assured everybody coming off the course, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. How many times have we heard that about the knee and the hip and whatever else? And then you're on the ground and his caddy and trainer are stretching him out on the 6th T at, you know, at the PGA at Harding Park last year and you're like, everything is not fine. So we got that, we got those guys hurt.

We got Jordan dropping a plus four today. Did not feel great about him this week. You know, there's, the question is, who is the captain's picks? What are we going to do? Sheffler was plus one on Sunday. Not great this week. He didn't really, you know, separate himself. If you were picking momentum picks, you'd go, Cochrak was sitting there.

He played the tournament. and six under. Kevin now looks pretty good. What are we going to do about Patrick Reed? Just tell me. We said we'd save it for the pod. So just tell me. I mean, listen, 72 Thursday, 69 Friday, 66 Saturday, 71 today. It appears that he lied about his COVID status. But if you read between the lines, what the press is telling you is what we were talking around on the pod, which is he had COVID and he developed double pneumonia out of that. And hey, that's a bummer. And we're that he's okay. Is he in good enough health to play the Ryder Cup? And is he in good enough game form to be on the team? House, what are we doing? Nate Dogg, when it comes to the topic of Patrick

Reed, I have some news for you that I'm not sure you're going to like. Patrick Reed is going to be on the Ryder Cup team. There is now no doubt about it whatsoever. What he just proved to Captain Stricker is that he is healthy enough to play four rounds of competitive golf. He walked all four rounds. He all the mission and we talked about this again. We don't need weekend at Bernies at Whistling Straits. Well, here's the thing. And I don't have the strokes gained data in front of me right this second.

But I bet his short game stuff was pretty good because his short game looked pretty good to me. And honestly, that's the only, that's the key attribute, I think. that they'll want out of Patrick Reed for the purposes of the Ryder Cup competition. Plus, you have to remember this is a guy. He has to hit drives. Yes, he does have to hit drives. But Nate Dogg, the way this is lining up,

we have a minimum of five rookies on this Ryder Cup team. Morikawa, a rookie, Cantlay, a rookie, Xander, which is weird. We had to confirm this. We had to do a data check, confirm that with. with some data rookie uh harris english would be a rookie daniel berger's played the president's cup and not the rider cup so five potential rookies and in this situation where we have potential injuries to brooksy uh and morcawa now whoever replaced morcawa if he's really truly

hurt um would also be a rookie if we get a replacement for brooksy maybe maybe not right like so then maybe that brings in web simpson um you know maybe maybe Maybe because we still have an open question around this alternates idea. We talked about it last week's pod. There needs to be alternates, both for the purposes of the COVID and for this injury dilemma that we're encountering. I just look, you asked about his shots gain numbers. Here they are. He was 20th off the T out of 29 guys.

This is Patrick Reed's stroke. Yes. Yes. Okay. He's 27th in approach. he lost over five strokes this week. And you're right. He was sixth around the green and eighth in putting.

That's again out of 30 guys. I know, but they're not chumps, right? But on the alternate shot. And he was in a hospital bed two weeks ago, right? I know he's got to be on the first team in three weeks. Those are soft hands. They might be what Paul Ezinger would call Spanish hands. Why are you talking to Sinda Patrick Reed?

I'm just telling you, I'm not talking us in anything. He's going to be on the team, buddy. God. He's there. He's earned it by way of the point system. He's in the top 12 by points. And he just demonstrated that he's healthy enough to compete. And, you know, we expect there won't be any setbacks between now and the actual thing.

Patrick Reed's playing in the Ryder Cup. I just want you to get in touch with that reality, bro. And Schephler basically played his way out of any chance this week because he didn't do anything interesting. You have to take Harris English because of his season, but he was not particularly impressive this week. and what's interesting is this is only going to be the second time that Thomas and Bryson and Fienau are in this event. So your argument is it's toxic. It appears that he was untruthful about his health stuff, but we're going to let the piss into the punch bowl because it's a little too sweet right now and we need some bitterness. Well, I just, you know, if the point is to win, if the point of this and it seems like, you know, the way. The Ryder Cup started off like, you know, poor Samuel Ryder.

He created this event for the purposes of some of the themes of golf that some people would argue have been lost. And we would like to see the collegiality, the camaraderie, the, you know, a spirited competition across the pond. And now it's a little bit of, you know, fuck your mama, which we're going to, you know, hear a lot of at Whistling Straits, I expect. even with the request for improved behavior across the golf world. I mean, I expect some FYMs out there. And especially because the Euros are lined up. Sergio Garcia is on the Euro tour. And I think Ian Polter's done enough to get himself on the team.

Yes, onto the Euro team. Both of those guys are going to make the Euro team, which is awesome. We have our villains, right? And Victor looks good. And Rom looked, I mean, the intensity of Rom this whole week was worth the channel flip away from the more interesting golf events in the Cornberry Tour and the Solheim just to see him methodically trying to track down Cantlay. And I don't blame him for thinking it's a stupid format. I'm not sure it is a stupid format because I don't have a better idea. But I do think watching Rom just try to reel him in and just relentlessly chasing him was awesome.

I think you did text me, though, that him missing the putt on 17 makes you feel better about the Ryder Cup. Well, I mean, you know, he could not make a putt today. And he still shot, what did he shoot? He shot 60. Yeah, okay. 68. He burned so many edges.

He had the opportunity to take the golf tournament from Patrick Cantley. By the way, Patty, Patty Ice, kind of funny. 17th hole last week smacked it into the water. 17th hole this week got the great good fortune of bouncing, one off a tree. Then he got a Burmuda launcher that went over the green. He left it into Bermuda as we all are inclined to do with the

third trying to chip it on. I recognize that shot a lot. Tiny bit. Oh, I'm so familiar. And but then, you know, he, uh, there's a reason he's number one on tour this entire season in scrambling. Yeah. He scrambled his way into a bogey and ROM's opportunity to

go grab the golf tournament and really turn up the pressure was the put on 17. And it, touched an edge and went away. Yeah. I liked his, I liked his 218 yard six iron into 18. Tiny bit of,

just the tiniest bit of bad luck, both on the fact that it didn't land one foot shorter, so it didn't stay on the green. And also his chip for Eagle really could have gone in. It was an awesome chip. Yeah. I do think that Patty bounced back with a 361-yard drive on the last hole. And then putting that,

he hit a six iron to 11 feet, which was the closest shot into 18 all day. So he did stand up, but he does have that moment where he wobbles a bit coming down the stretch before writing himself. So do 30 seconds of this with me.

We're going to do superlatives at the end of this calendar year because I just refuse to honor this ridiculous fiscal year. Nonsense, the stupid tour does. But let's do this. Your player of the year right this second,

having watched the conclusion of the tour, championship. Go. John Rom. He was in everything. He won one more event than he was given credit for and he performed well in basically all the events that mattered. So here's my, if I wanted to take a contrary instance, and I'll try and muster it. I don't really feel this. But I think Patrick Cantlay has a legitimate argument for player of the year now. And the thing that makes, the whole thing a tiny bit delicious is John Rom's COVID at the memorial created the difference between the two of them entering this tour championship event. If John Rom had gone on to win the memorial, whatever points he would have had would have put

him undeniably irrefutably in first place coming into this tour championship event and he would have won the $15 million. They would have swapped positions, right? John Ron did win the memorial, but for a stupid rapid test, false positive. Life. Oh, false positive. Wow.

That's where the date dog goes. But it is those two guys from that event. Now, I was just trying to come up with an argument for Cantley. I don't believe it. I don't believe it in my bones. But two weeks ago, you were arguing for Morikawa. I'm not. I'm out.

He's hurt. He's out. He can't win. Rom finishes the season first. First T to Green shots gain. First total. First in scoring average. He wins the U.S. Open.

I just don't know how you don't give it to him. And there just was he was always hanging around the events that mattered. Even when he didn't win, he was there through the FedEx Cup playoffs, through the majors. But look, there's a whole lot of crown on a patty ice right now. I would like to see him do this in a major, not just a tournament. in which he, who happens to be a good frontrunner, by the way, he got to sleep on a lead and got an advantage. He is a good front runner.

I'm excited to see him on that Rider Cup stage. He really did show us something. I like Patty Ice. It's a good nickname. I'm glad we got some time with him. In the press conference today? Somebody coached him up. We got some time with him the whole week and he was pretty candid.

Like he's got a head on his shoulders that's attractive. We like some of the stuff that we heard him on the Bryson thing. I thought he was very judicious. He's like, look, if we're in this world where you're going to go on to social media and try and make yourself a prominent public figure, then you've got to take some of the heat that goes along with it. On the other hand, it's out of order with how we do our world and golf. I thought that was pretty thoughtful. I mean, you know, it covered the bases.

And we're talking about this tension and we're going to keep talking about it. And especially I think of the context of the Ryder Cup, like there is a course. that has now encroached into the American sporting public's behavior. Encroach, I don't know. It's landed there already. Yeah, I mean, look, we talked about it. The anonymity of sitting in your basement for 18 months yelling at people on Twitter is carrying over the golf course right now. And I do think for all the criticism of the commissioner coming up and talking about Bryson,

it felt like it threw a little bit of cold water on that by the time this tournament ended this week. Well, I'm interested in seeing the behavior at the Rider Cup because we have a reputation now. We have plenty of evidence, too, of, you know, pushing the envelope in terms of the behavior and the fan involvement in that event, right? Yeah. So I want to bring it back on the Rider Cup just to be totally clear about what we think is going to happen here with Patrick Reed in. He's in. So who is getting the shaft here, assuming Brooks Kepka, stays in and heals up? The guy who gets screwed off the team is whoever was going to get the nod between Webb Simpson, Scott Schaeffler, Cochreck, Burns, Horshawr. And by the way, you could come out of this week and make an compelling argument for Nah, Horshawrack, for sure.

Burger's 12. Burger's going to get it. That's the answer. The only way that Webb or Sheffler get in is, If they create alternates. Right. Or we have pullouts. So you think it's going to be the top 12 in points. He's not going to pull anybody from further down the list. He doesn't need it. Why?

Why buy the headache? What's the point of taking on the headache at this stage of the game? What would the principal basis be for rolling out Daniel Burger and rolling in Webb Simpson? I'll tell you, you wouldn't roll out Daniel Burger. Burger's in. Okay. You would get a phone call from Spieth and Thomas, who are on a challenger jet back to Jupiter, Florida right now. And they call over the Wi-Fi network to Stricker.

And they go, I don't want them on the fucking team. We don't want them on the team. We got through this dinner with Bryson and Brooks this week. You know, it's going to be bad enough. We can't have him in the locker room if we're going to win. that's the case i mean i love the intrigue of it i love the drama of it but what's the incentive for those guys jordan keeping isaiah off the olympic team which one is which one of jordan of jordan or jordan spith is is michael jordan i think i think you have to mash them together together

it's just it's just it's justin spieth okay all right do they do that to my man read that's the question, would they do him like that? Would they do Patrick Reed like that? He just survived. I mean, he literally was on death door if we believe the story. I don't mean to make light of it, by the way. I mean, no, no, no. I was definitely, I was definitely, fucking serious. It was serious enough for him to have to drive 15 hours because his doctor told him, don't get in an airplane with your lungs in this condition. Well, and we talked about that. Like, something's not totally right because he's road tripping. I think he got, at best, he got confused about whether he was tested for COVID coming in the hospital or not at worst, you know, he didn't want to talk about

what actually happened there. I just, I think, I think it's still an open question. I think you're right, Patrick Reed's going to be on the team, but I just don't, don't put out of your mind the possibility of some last second drama here. Look, Phil is now a vice captain. Phil's very close to Bryson DeShambo post match. He's a big advocate for Bryson. So there's going to be some, you know, some behind the scenes machinations that we aren't totally clear exactly how this thing's

going to wind up. Although I think you're probably right, the top 12 guys and the points are going to get it. If you ask me, write the second one to make a guess as to how this is going to play out,

my guess is that Brooks is going to pull out because he's hurt. Really? And Webb is going to slide in. I mean, that injury sucks. Really?

That would be my guess. Just my gut instinct because of all of the health stuff we've seen with Brooks Kefka. over the last, you know, it's really two years, going on two years. My instinct, I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm dead wrong. I want Brooks Kepka in the Ryder Cup.

I'm just nervous. I'm worried. I think he'll be out. I think Webb will be in. And I think Webb two alternates and the alternates will be Scotty Sheffler and Kevin Nah. That would be my guess. I think Kevin Nah earned today.

I think he did too. And over the course of the whole season. And we, I love his veteran. kind of presence. He's a veteran on tour, is what I'm talking about. I think I would pay $10 a day to just get to see him walking in puts on whistling straight. He's got, he's got some swag. Yes. America can get behind Kevin. The golf public is already there.

Yeah, he doesn't do so well with noise in his back swing and movement. That's the only thing I worry about. He's one of the guys who just gets rattled by that shit. But he also loves the crowd and he loves the walking. I don't. know. I think if any, like you said, he, he advanced his status. He was not in the conversation, even last week for as well as he played, but he definitely is in the conversation for me now. Yeah. I mean, he, he's, he's in the playoff right now with John Rom. They're going to figure out who's going to win the tour championship. They're on the, they're on the ninth playoff. They just keep playing 18 over and over and over again. Yeah. House, are we going to win the Ryder Cup?

Well, did I confess this out loud on this podcast yet? I don't know, but you might as well because we're going to spill the beans in some other format. So you might as well just tell them what I've known for a month. I bet against them. I mean, I just think, you know, I do think that the European formula of, you know, some chemistry, making sure that there are vets who can provide some protection for the young guys. Just the overall approach that the euros take. It's a winning formula.

And, you know, I respect the attempt by the U.S. team to create pods and come up with this, you know, approach where guys who get along can sort of, you know, spend time together and not have to necessarily try and get along with the entirety. Although it's not that many guys. But, you know, we tried the U.S. did after the debacle at Glenn Eagles with Tom Watson. and Phil Mickelson to create a kind of of, you know, collegiality, camaraderie

amongst our team where the guys can rally and root for each other. It's just not in the U.S. players' mentality. We've touched on it before. These guys are all the independent operators.

A lot of them are pals. A lot of the young guys are pals. We like to see it, but they're not, there just isn't that kind of camaraderie. And so I, and the Euro team is, is stack. Like Rom, Rory,

uh, uh, uh, hovlin, like they're, they're good. It's a good team. They're forwardable. Ty Hatton is, you know, has been good sometimes. He's a bum in the majors. So I don't know what I'm, I don't know what to do about that. There are some names out there on that Euro team. That's like, those are formidable guys. Sergio and Poulter both, you know, heavy weights, rider cop heavy weights. There's no doubt about that. The thing that made me nervous. And you will attest the fact that on this pod, we have been talking about our concerns

about the Ryder Cup from a U.S. perspective for a year. Literally last September, we talked about it, and then we said, all right, it's too early, but I'm a little worried about it. The thing for me that put me over the edge this week was Stricker coming out and dropping the bomb that Eldrick Tiger Woods is not going to be there and that he's just not in good enough physical shape to be there. And so why did that feel like a bomb to you? Because I really thought that with Tiger on site, he could sort of alpha these guys into, like, Phil's almost becoming like the happy clown in a good way, you know, but I don't know that he's, maybe he's going to walk in the room and give people beat down the way he did, you know, on the Watson side. And behind the scenes, he's going to be tough. But it's going to take a lot of buy-in for that. Like, if Tiger Woods is there, he could just radiate. the shit that's going to be in that locker room out of the room, I feel like.

And with him not there, it feels a little loose. This is a great point. I really agree with you. I strongly agree with you. There is a palpable, measurable difference between what Tiger physically would be able to convey in that room against what he's going to convey on Zoom calls.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I mean, look, it's going to be a Tiger Woods podcast to these poor guys. They played hard for him at the President's Cup. There was no drama in that locker room. And here, you know, look, I think there's a lot of respect for stricker. There's no doubt.

But I just, I think it actually matters that Tiger's not going to be there because, to your point, you know, when you bet on the, when we'll talk about this, but when you bet on the Ryder Cup, the first decision you have to make is, does team chemistry matter or not? And if you really believe it doesn't, then you're going to bet on the U.S. because we got more golfers who are at the top of the world rankings. But if you don't, and if you look at the history of this event, it suggests that. that team chemistry matters, you're going to have a lot of concerns for all the reasons we just listed. Patrick Reed's probably going to be in the room. Bryson and Brooks are probably going to be in the room. And, you know, Spieth and Thomas will be in there sort of sneering at all of them. Who knows? It's not going to be a great bunch of hang time that happens with that team. Well, there is an interesting thing here. If Brooks genuinely is injured, right? I know. Doesn't that

change. Maybe I need to go hedge my bet. I need to figure out how I'm going to hedge this. If you really think Brooks is pulling out. If Webb is Bryson's handler. Now, Webb and Bryson did not have a great outcome in France, but like none of our guys had really great.

But he's also a lot better now than he was in France. This is a different golfer than he was in France. Yes. A different golf course, most importantly. Yes, and he's going to eat it the fuck up. He is going to eat it. This, nobody, this, well, this 5,000 times between this

when we published this podcast and the Thursday of the Ryder Cup. Just think about that Jason Day driving performance when he won the PGA championship and drove the mother effing ball. It felt like 300. It was, it got to the point where Jordan Speets is laughing.

Walking up, he's like, I can't believe how far you hit this, Jason. And he's playing with him in the final twosome at the PGA championship on Sunday. And Speets is like, I just can't believe how far. It's way to we see beefy Bryson out there. I know. Now I'm talking myself into the

USA. God, I know. Well, speaking of look, uh, this podcast will be up early enough either Sunday night. We're, we're taping this is Sunday night after the tour championship. Um, it'll be up either tonight or first thing tomorrow morning. The thing that you need to watch, the, the,

the truly important golf that's relevant and worth watching is happening in Toledo, Ohio. Yes, it is. At Irina, Inverness. Why has there have been any major championships. I know that Andrew Green's restoration was done

and finished in 2018. Inverness needs to be in the Rota. It was awesome. A golf course. Holy mother F. Yeah. It's, it looks terrific. And the drama is great. And the play's been pretty damn good. And I'm loving everything about it.

It was a lot more interesting than what was on NBC, unfortunately. Well, we have, you know, some great storylines among both sides. of the pond for the women. And, you know, there is genuine collegiality, camaraderie,

but some breakthrough performances already. Jennifer Cup Cho, some unbelievable stones. And we kind of had that, a premonition with that. She showed us the preview when she won the very first ever women's tournament at Augusta National, the junior,

the amateur event. Spectacular stones on Jennifer Cupchow's so to speak. But the U.S. battled back. They were down five and a half to two and a half or five and a half to one half, whatever it was after day one battled all the way back. It's nine to seven going into singles tomorrow.

Now they got to step up tomorrow. Turn on your television and watch this unbelievable golf course. And these, these women go out and kick ass. It's awesome. Yeah. Also worth giving a shout out to Justin Lauer, who made three birdies on the back nine in the corned fairy tour championship to get

himself into the very last spot making the PGA tour. They interviewed him yesterday and he broke down in tears. Yeah, that was cool. And it was just cool. I walked with him and his wife in Columbus last week and couldn't be a better guy and just a great gutsy performance down the stretch to get his card and finally get himself up to the tour. So there's been some great golf.

Justin Lauer, open invitation to come on Fairway, rolling anytime you want, brother. We would love to celebrate that story. It's great. Every year, you more than anybody in the golf world I hear really dive into the drama of the relegation that occurs. But, you know, when we have these success stories out of the corned ferry, a true playoffs where guys are truly playing for their effing careers. The drama is real and the grind is real. And the outcomes are real outcomes like with the homie breaking down because he accomplished something that's been his life dream. Nate Dogg, speaking of Life Dream, we're going to take a little bit of a break, but we are back as the Rider Cup comes into focus, we're going to have a couple previews. We're going to do some green rooming and we'll have a Rider Cup immediate reaction right after the cup has, you know, I think landed, I'm going to say, with the Euro. But look, I don't know, you know, we'll just see how it all plays out. I mean, you know, we don't have to predict any of that stuff right now.

You're the guy who plays Soviet Union and bubble hockey at the arcade. You read against us. Come on. I just like winners. I just like winning. I like money. Yeah. Birdie buddies, eagle enthusiasts, all of our par-saving pals out there.

Thanks for listening along. We got great feedback last week, Nate Dogg. I heard from a ton of people about the conversation with KV, enjoying the pod. Thank you to everybody. We're back in just a couple weeks with the whole Ryder Cup preview breakdown. analysis and maybe some wagering tips. I mean, you know, that's a very fun thing to have occurring right as the NFL season gets going. You know, fill up your dance card.

Why do I? Why not? Get some golf parlays. Some cross sport golf football parlays. It's all out there. My eagle enthusiast. Until then, let's all hit them straight out there.