Fairway Rollin' - Recapping Cam Smith’s Victory, Rory’s Heartbreak, and Other Storylines from The Open

Episode Date: July 17, 2022

House and Hubbard recap Cam Smith’s incredible performance to come from behind and win the 150th Open at St. Andrews. They discuss Rory not being able to hang on, how the LIV guys performed, and much more. Hosts: Joe House and Nathan Hubbard Associate Producer: Isaiah Blakely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Friends and welcome to this golf podcast. unlike any other. We are ready to recap the Open Championship, the British Open, the Clarenchuk has been awarded. My friends, this is Fairway Rowland. A golf podcast in the record podcast network. I am your starter, Joe House,

my accomplice, my teammate for recapping this exciting moment in golf, our beloved friend, the incomparable, Nathan Hubbard, our PGA tour correspondent on the ground. Nate Dogg,

Cam Smith went and grabbed a golf tournament by the balls. I mean, how great can a tournament really be if Brian Harmon finishes T6? I mean, look, this is hard for you. I mean, I want you to let it all out.

you know you can say whatever you need to say to me about how this feels. This was hard. This one has to sting worst of all in the Rory Pantheon for you. This has to sing worse. Worst of all, it's not speith going to the bottom of the lake on 12 at the Masters. It's not Rory pulling it into the cabins at the Masters. He didn't really lose it. Cam grabbed this thing by the throat.

and we love to see it, but you just have to be heartbroken. It's heartbreaking. I am here to tell you, Nate Dog, I'm not heartbroken. This is the way that if I'm not, I'm sober, I'm drinking Laquois. What is this one?

Limoncello. It's middle of the day. It was not, you know, it could be ranch water time later, but it's too early. Too many exciting things. I was literally, yes. exactly. It'll be ranch water barracuda time shortly. There's some guys in contention there that I'm

interested in. The interesting thing truly about this Open Championship is when we're exchanging notes last night, me, you and the pod father, and we're forecasting who's really in it, how can this go down? And it felt like with the four-shot lead that Victor Hovland and Rory enjoyed over the rest of the field made it feel likely that one of those. two guys was going to go ahead and win the tournament and there was going to be kind of a hand-to-hand combat between the two of them. And I liked very much Rory's chances under those conditions. But, you know, we countenanced the possibility of somebody coming from somewhere and doing it. Now, I, after Cameron Smith's 73 on Saturday, and the way that his putter disappeared.

Which was not just a 73. It was a giant bed shit full of terrible decision-making. following a 64, where in which, by the way, he gained six over six shots putting in the 64 on Friday. He comes back and is taking baseball swings out of pot bunkers from waist high and he loses over a shot and a half putting. I mean, we thought he's done. It had that vibe, right? I mean, that was the end of the tournament kind of sensation that he delivered, right?

Oh, he fucks up. Right. Remember at the players when he kind of almost choked it away on 18 with that weird decision, the punch out across the fairway into the water. And you're thinking, yeah, he came back with the great wedge and made the putt. But you thought, okay, maybe this is what he does. He makes bad decisions when it gets tough. But now you step back after a 64 on Sunday and you go, God, what is this guy going to do when he stops having brain farts in the middle of his round? He's going to start killing. kicking everybody's ass. Well, and, you know, he immediately puts himself into, like, the most elite kind of company. Like, you know, we've seen a bunch of the stats that are out there. The, you know, the last time that somebody won the players and then won the Open Championship at St. Andrews was Jack Nicholas in 1978, you know, stuff like that, like the most elite kind of company.

But the manner in which he did it, that, you know, the word that you can, you know, the word that you keep hearing as Twitter and the media respond, that's the kind of resilience. That's championship level resilience. That that's what we want. And, and like what a classy group of champions across the four majors. I'm super thrilled about how international, right? Like Scottie Schaeffler, player of the year, Justin Thomas, reminding us of his greatness and how great he's been consistently. Matthew Fitzpatrick with, you know, the breakthrough, uh, experience and, and doing it at the place where, you know, he won the amateur. And then Camp Smith, who's been around the hoop all season long, just top notch talent. We talked about him with both

Jason Soblen and with Justin Ray in our, in our previews. And, um, you know, the, the thing that, that makes him competitive at all times at all times is the putter. And the fact that it, it, it, abandoned him on Saturday was so stark. And it just felt like there's no way that he's going to remain in this championship. And then something about how he slept last night, clearly worked out for him because he looked fantastic today. Six one putts on his way to a 30 on the back. I mean, six one putts, five birdies in a row to lead off the back nine. It was just a hellacious charge.

And the thing that strikes me about Cam Smith, this, you just list. the four major winners. First time ever, you've had all four major winners under the age of 30. We talk all the time about the breadth of great young players. And these guys are going to be going at it. The list of guys you just talked about, I mean, just look at this leaderboard, Cam Young, a hoss who's here to stay. This is his fourth second or tie for second. I mean, come on. He is here to stay. He was unbelievable. So much game. yes, Victor finally showed us that he can do it in a major. You've been

asking for this for a long time. Awesome. And then we got a bunch of guys who, you know, we had a sense it wasn't going to be Willie Z's week, although boy, he sure acquitted himself nicely you know, in the end. Didn't have a great day today, but he finishes T28, three under, not bad.

But there's just this young crop of guys and you just get the sense that tournaments like this, it's going to be the guys who can make the putter happen when they need it. And the saddest part about Rory today was he hit every fucking green on Sunday at St. Andrews. And he'd two putt every fucking green. But Cam Smith, Cam Smith is showing us that he's got those stones and he has that specific skill set that in the clutch, these were not just seven, six, five footers.

he was rolling in 15 to 20 footers like they were nothing today down that stretch. This guy, from a clutch perspective, I think he's the best part of the world right now. Oh, there can't be any argument with that, that performance. And what you just described in terms of the length of those putts, like if you do the tour average thing under normal tour conditions of, you know, the length of those putts and the likelihood that they're going to go in, they were all, you know, like 10%, 12%, 15%. That's just like normal tour. Like if you're at the, I don't know, a TPC, you know, generic TPC venue, those are the percentages. And under the circumstances for him to really refine the stroke. I mean, everybody was was celebrating how brilliant and beautiful the stroke looked. And it deserved to be celebrated on Thursday and Friday. And it's just the mystery of how quick. it can disappear, which happened Saturday, and then it came back in a unparalleled manner.

I mean, he's immediately in the top, you know, three of all time lowest scores at the Open Championship in a final round. I mean, it's the most elite kind of company. And the right thing for us to do is exactly what we're doing, which is just keep trying to put into historic context this performance by Cam, as opposed to Swee. writing Rory. So I love Rory. We began the week. You know, the question I asked, our beloved pal, Justin Ray, is why is Rory Macquarie going to win this championship? And, you know, he was right there. His performance on the 17th was to me, it was just a stunning execution. The drive was perfect. And then he hit, you know,

the approach on 17 was magical. It was majestic. He just couldn't get that. Put to roll in. Exactly. He wanted it to come just a little bit, a little bit further to the hole, but you could see him bending it over. But then as soon as he walked up there, we had a text thread that said, what are the odds he's going to make this putt? And you just, at that point, Cam's, you know,

cams come up and made 16 footer. He's made it an 11 footer. He's made an 18 footer. And Rory's leaving every single one an inch or two outside the hole. And it's exactly what happened there. I think that one was a mystery. read he put a pretty good stroke on it i agree i mean i thought many of those puts on the back were we're good strokes um he just couldn't get any of the ones that were really going to

change the the course of his round to fall um and it ended up on balance looking like a conservative round i mean just ray has this here camp smith gained 3.1 strokes putting uh in the final round and Rory lost, he was minus 2.18 to the field. And that, you know, is in some respects, I think, a reflection of a deliberate strategy out of Rory. It's not that he didn't want to make birdies. It's just that, you know, he was content to kind of two putt his way around and then let the birdies come on the natural birdie holes where, you know, you drive the green or you're very close to the green. And then you can two put to get your birdie. The failure to Bertie 14 hurt.

That was a big deal. Yeah. He had to get that one in. And that's when you knew he was vulnerable. Yes. Because he didn't have a whole lot down the stretch. And you start to think ahead. What does it take to do on 17?

You're stuck in a weird spot. You want a good putter to get through that. On 18, if you got to get through the Valley of Sin, you want a good putter. And both times you got Azing or trying to set this. up is like, oh, he's, he's, you know, this is severe. This is going to be brutal. And it was nothing for Cam Smith. I mean, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to us 10 times, we're going to put it in the bunker, at least four. And the other six, we're going to blade it so far off to the right, that we're going to have a

45 footer coming back for him to sort of use that ramp that look like almost like a NASCAR turn two, uh, to, uh, to, to get that ball up right next to the whole. I mean, just, again, I know he's something like 12th right now in putting in the world, at least shots gained on tour. But I mean, Brian Gay, Lucas Herbert, Brendan Tut, come on. He's the best clutch putter in the world. What you just described about his performance on 17, to me, that's the stuff of legends. And that's the, the biggest difference between Saturday and and today and the criticism that we've fairly leveled against him in terms of decision making, they, the,

the, the, the, the, the, the, the, very sound game plan to just preserve the opportunity.

I, I, you know, it was his best chance to save parr was to take that, that approach to make, you know, he didn't put a wedge in his hands. And one of the things that I,

I, I wondered about, strategically, we regard him as as one of the very top around the green guys in the world with good reason because I think he's easily top five strokes gained around the green. And that's why we felt pretty strongly about him performing well this week. But what he did was putt. And he putted because that took so many other possibilities out of the mix. And, you know, the, the fun thing would be, you know, how many times if you give him 10 tries,

could he get that up and down in, in that manner? And yet he did it under the most, you know, pressure situation. He just was up to the moment. It was that, that to me is, was the, was the tournament decider. When that put on 17 fell. And I was thrilled, speaking of decisions. that he pulled out Driver on 18. Because for some weird reason,

he only hit Driver on 18 twice. He hit it on Thursday and on today. Friday, he had a heater going and he laid up. He hit like an iron or something on Friday. He could have shot a 63 if he had birdied 18 on Friday. And I, you know, I was ready to. counts on that decision as one of the things that if he didn't, if he had come up short this week, if Rory had held on and win, I would do one of the criticisms of Camp Smith that was prepared to make was that decision.

But he executed decision-wise down the stretch in an unparalleled way. And congrats to Cameron Smith. That's all we're going to say. Yeah. House, let me ask you, you watched a lot of this today and over the weekend. you know, there's, there was a lot of lore about the course. Did it live up to what you expected from, you know, a course like this with all the hype? I mean, because there is that wing that says, ah, St. Andrews, it's kind of a joke.

It sure felt like the players loved it this week, thought it was a fair test. We saw a lot of creativity. Was there any validity to the criticism of the course that was sort of percolating through the week or not? Well, it's funny. Everybody except for Matthew Fitzpatrick, who was the most pronounced in his criticism of, you know, some of the pins and also he, you know, complained a little bit Fitzpatrick did about hitting good shots and not being rewarded, hitting good shots and catching bad bounces out of those shots. And look, we haven't, we haven't mentioned his name yet. Tiger Woods had one of those. He had it on the very first swing of of the golf tournament.

Yeah. Where he hit on the very first tee into a divot. And, you know, it was a divot that he tried to explode out of. And it went into the burn. And that was the end of Tiger Woods. Well, let's talk about that moment. Let's talk about that moment, though. Tell me what you were feeling as you watched Max and Fitzpatrick sort of step back and

let Tiger take the bridge from the, from the not breaking. stride on the bridge to the tears that float immediately after, what is your takeaway on Tiger Woods from this week? He's going to try his hardest to continue to compete in major tournaments. I firmly believe that. I don't think that anything that happened this week. I know it was an enormous disappointment for him. Why are you so convinced? No, I'm saying that I'm going to try hard to play in major tournaments. but that fucking doesn't mean anything. You don't have any status, bro. You're like these live guys.

You don't got no status. You can't play in the majors because you don't got status. A couple of these are open. These things are open. The point is, Tiger don't need to qualify. I think he's got some exemptions.

Trying is not enough. This man is in pain. Why is he doing this to himself? I mean, I love that he's embraced the sort of gentleman, great scholar of the game, sort of, you know, he's sort of that all those pictures of him and Jack this week told you everything that you needed to know, the elder statesman. But House, is he going to do this for a lot longer? I mean, I know he wasn't going to retire.

It's such a funny question. You said, why is he going to do this to himself? Nate, that we're describing himself. Yes, it's what he does. Who is he if not? That is him himself. His is his person. The tears and the acknowledgement that he may not be able to do this when it's back here in just five years. Just five years. I mean, Tom Watson almost won a fucking British Open at 58. So like, well, there's no, we can't make any broad, you can't reach any conclusions or make any broad generalizations around what the next five years are going to contain for Tiger Woods. Think about the previous five years and what they contained for Tiger Woods. He won the Masters, by the way, in the last five years.

This was as conciliatory as he has been towards, like, the inevitability of what lies ahead of him. And I thought those tears were as much, I'm sure he had thoughts of his father. I'm sure he had thoughts of the suffering that he's gone through to get there. But there just was something about him not fully being resigned, but acknowledging that this maybe it that there just is this downturn. Everyone's like, well, okay, but if he just gets a little more time and he finally gets himself back to being healthy, maybe, but he's going to be 50 plus years old. And I just think we're there right now.

And Tiger knows it. And Tiger, in the best way possible, is letting everybody down easy right now. I mean, he's basically DFL this week. I first want to commend. You refuse to. You refuse to accept this. I just don't, I don't know. I mean, I'm not, it's not that I refuse to.

accept. I'm just not prepared to draw any conclusions yet. I want to commend, I can't remember who the journalist was, but one of the stories that popped up this morning that I read indicated that the tears for Tiger came at the moment. It was just one of these miraculous moments and part of why it felt like Rory's destiny this week was to win this championship. He gave a hat tip because he was standing on the T as Tiger came up 18 at that particular time. I'm like, it didn't have to go down that way. There's nothing about, you know, the timing of Tigers round that was going to have the perfect moment for Rory to be standing there in a position to give him a hat tip. And the indication is that Tiger's tears came from observing his lifelong friend, one of his, you know, but blood brothers in the golf community, Rory McElroy, giving him that that hat tip.

And that, that's, that was one of the things that that, that, that caused, you know, Tiger to, to, to have a. emotional moment and then all of us to have an emotional moment because it's, you know, a confrontation with our own mortality and it's tigers, you know, recognizing his own golf mortality and all of that is, is fine. He keeps trying to tell us, Nate, how hard it has been for him physically. And just, you know, he's saying in the press conferences, you have no idea what I have to go through just to be able to walk these these 18 holes yes and faldo's little story on Friday about how talking to tiger when he said how was this compared to the u.s. open when he had the broken leg and tiger was like not even close this is way worse yeah so he's

in worse pain than he's ever been in his life and you're right he's trying to tell us but then you and i are creating fucking prop bets for him to make the cut because he's going to make the cut for sure. We just, we keep breathing this air of hope into what is now a shell of the hero that we all love and admire. And I just hope we can let him ride off gracefully into the sun set the way that we did, Jack, because it just looks like this is so, we just can't expect this on an old man and he's getting to be an old man. It hurts too much. Well, and he'll tell us, he'll let us know. He was pretty resolute that this was not, you know, a retirement moment for him. But, you know, I, the thing that would cause him to stop playing is the inability to physically do it. I don't

think that we made a miscalculation being bullish about the likelihood of him making the cut. You know, he has demonstrated a spiritual relationship, both with the Open Championship writ large, but also particularly with St. Andrews, the performance that the performance is plural that he's had there. So I don't regret. And he himself had circled this as a goal of his to perform well at this golf tournament. Since when are we ever, you know, going to start like doubting Tiger when Tiger says I had this, you know, circled that this was going to be an important moment. Then I take him at his word. And all we have is, you know, 25, 30 years worth of performances to confirm, to validate the idea that if he's, you know, committed, he's got his mind in the right place that he'll be able to execute.

So this was an aberration from, you know, the, the legend that he's wrought. And that's fine. That's fine. You know, we, we don't win every bet. We lost in spectacular fashion. The curious thing, honestly, with Tiger was not his team. to green game. It was his putting. He was extraordinarily awful at putting.

And I mean, I don't know if you have the right down to 18. Yeah, exactly. He had a, you know, the most makeable birdie put on 18, the correct way to kind of end the championship. And, and, you know, it hit the hole and, and didn't go down. It bounced out. Um, and that was the experience. Yeah.

He lost, he lost 1.7 strokes on putting. it was it was not it was not great his his approach game was equally bad and he just it just wasn't there and that's fine because you know what he's still carrying himself with the grace and the stature that you want a leader of the game to do in other news did phil mickleson play this event did brooks kepp play this event i mean so there was what happened today nothing happened Because, you know, I can't recall, Phil Mickelson doesn't play competitive professional golf any longer. I don't know what more evidence we need.

We will forever have in the in the annals of golf history what he accomplished at Kiowa. And since then, what he has done has been nothing that resembles a competitive, a professional golfer with an intention of competing in a meaningful way. And speaking of, you know, that's fine. He can make his choices and go live his life and, and all of that is fine. He's just out of our golf consciousness. There's no reason to talk about him.

He doesn't do anything on the golf course that's worth discussing or that's of any interest. Brooks Kepka is more compelling because we had a pod. Who is who do we have on recently where we ran through, you know, Bryson and Brooks and I can't remember who else We did this with Sobel As we talked about like Who did we think we're going to be the live players

To do to do the best I mean I think we did that maybe with Sobel Maybe Justin Ray but Well even pre preceding that We've had an opportunity to sort of reflect largely on Maybe it was with Kyle Porter Who he ran went through a list of names and said

Who was going to get to five majors first And I, my view, I don't think Bryson D. Shambo or Brooks Kepka win another major. I mean, I'll just repeat myself. Even after what you saw from Bryson, Bryson's T8, buddy. That was awesome. And we talked about why it would be, you know, why it made sense. Yes. And, you know, in some respects, if this translates into a breakthrough for him in terms of being able to take on these golf courses that require artistry,

that require, you know, strategic thinking, not computations, not algorithms, but instead, you know, some fields. That would be, that would be interesting and fascinating. He remains to me and a very interesting guy. But, you know, the setting created for him the ability to hit the ball as far down. And everybody had this, like, how far do you want to hit the ball? And then what are you comfortable with as you, you know, approach the Greens? And he, he succeeded.

So good for him. But I continue to, you know, feel reasonably confident that there are not a ton of additional majors in his future. And I don't have any issue at all riding off Kepka. No issue whatsoever. There's just, no, nothing left. Like, is he going to be a new person in terms of his physical stature in terms of his own ability to get around the golf course? He hasn't been serious for, you know, since last year. since he got an Instagram account.

There's, and there's nothing about the live format that seems like it's going to push these guys to really work hard and get better. I want to make one correction because the data golf event stat data is screwed up. Tiger Lust over three, almost four shots putting just in the first round alone. So he was, he was that bad. The other thing we do need to point to, and there was a weird thing happening on the telecast today. where people were getting pretty hot about DJ being excluded from the telecast for a while. Dustin Johnson looked pretty good out there this entire week. And certainly rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated at this point.

Well, he has top 10 finishes in both the Masters and this championship. He wasn't particularly, you know, excellent at either the PGA championship or the U.S. Open. But top tens in majors is good. He certainly has a track record that suggests an ability to stick around. So we know with him just as the kind of athlete that he is, that he can stay competitive as long as he sort of has his head in it. And the funny thing is, you know, of the live guys, he beat Bryson by a stroke, but he finished tied for six.

And Bryson finished tied for eighth. And, you know, those are. good performances. Those are the two best players on that tour, right? I mean, it's not really a stretch. No, answer was T-11, and I'm not sure anybody else mattered. But yes, look, DJ, I don't think he was going to win this tournament. There was a moment on Friday where you thought, well, maybe he got himself to nine, and it looked like maybe it could go that way. And then Cam Smith and Rory just played too well. So it sort of felt like he was a false chaser for most of the tournament. But listen, a great week for them.

I got to just come back on Cam Young because I think, not that anybody gives a shit about rookie of the year, but this is the rookie of the year. I mean, this is his fourth second. He's now got six top tens. We just didn't see it coming because he missed the cut at the U.S. Open. He missed the cut at the Genesis Scottish Open. and he was T-60 at the Memorial.

We just sort of forgot that in the three tournaments before that, he finished T-3 at the PGA, T-2 at the Wells Fargo, and T-3 at the RBC Heritage. I mean, I don't know what he did in June, but he certainly came out of the Scottish last week and played just incredible golf. And that drive and putt on 18, I just think we're going to see,

he's that guy, and we're going to be seeing this kid for a long time to come. He is now, I think, I mean, he's got to go out and grab a tournament, but he sure feels like another one of those guys in his mid-20s who's going to be competing for the top of the rankings for years to come. I mean, Wake Forest, just throwing these guys off. You basically could have said everything you just said and just replaced Cam Young with Will Zalotaurus, and it would have all made sense. It's still all fine. The only thing that happened was Al-Toris is it seems to me, and I have no, you know, reason to, he just doesn't. seem like he has a ton of experience links-wise.

It looks like he's kind of, but still, you know, tied for 28th and managed to get himself around perfectly fine. Once again, it's just the putter that's in his way. Even though I think you're right, he didn't seem like he was super comfortable in the format.

But I mean, you know, he lost two and a half strokes today, putting, and he still shot three under. A couple guys. I want to ask. ask you about you do so this is by far Victor

Hovlin's single best performance in a major yes he's finally got that major top five do you is the glass half full or got glass half empty for you with as it relates to Victor it's half full because he needed reps in the stretch like this I think we should have been more thoughtful about the the nuance of short game requirements around this course which is to say he actually didn't need the wedge as much. And he was able to play a lot of shots with the flat stick that we normally

see him using a wedge and frankly fucking up, although he had a nice wedge down the stretch that I thought was emblematic of some of the work that he's done. I still think for Victor, this course hid his weakness. And he didn't really have to bring it out. All credit to Sobel for calling out that this could be the opportunity. for him. I didn't mean to talk over you, but you're absolutely right. No, you're right. So I think it's half full because he needed the reps. There was no chance he was going to go head to head with Rory with the crowd like that and play great. You know, he was mediocre today. He'll think about it. And next time he's going to be stronger in that situation. The only thing that's in the way of this

guy winning a major is his wedge game. And if he solves that in what is now going to be a fairly sparsely played fall from here after we get through the FedEx. If this guy can figure out that club and he really will be able to put some work in on it, the sky's the limit. As you know, you just got to get the reps. And it's why this was such a big day for Cam Young. It's why it's such a big day for Vic Hoblein.

One other guy I want to ask you about very quiet top 10 for Patrick Cantley. Oh, for Patrick Cantley. class half full glass half empty uh i think it's still half empty because it was quiet okay there just there just wasn't a time in this championship where you felt like can't lay was going to come take it and as you know i was a lot higher on patrick coming out of the fedex cup last year because i felt like he really went head to head with bryson and in a in a fairly raucous environment and and and won those duels but you have been saying to me all the time you got to show it to me you got to show it to me you tell me was this showing it to you? Not really. We never saw him in serious contention. It is his second

best performance in a major. He was tied for third in the 2019 PGA championship, but otherwise, not very many top tens in majors. He's not Victor Hovlin. He doesn't need the reps. He's been in this enough. He's got to be the chaser coming down the stretch, shooting the eight under, or seven under, which he's fully capable of to go take it. And he wasn't really in position. He started the day at eight under. So he wasn't going to be able to do that. So I just, you know, Speed shot four under today too. I don't think much of that round either because they, they just, neither of them were really in it, nor was Bryson with a six under. They kind of could just play freely, have a nice walk at the old course and hope that they worked their way in to get a nice check and, you know, be able to say they

finished top 10. This was a race between Rory, between Cam Young, between Cam Smith, and very Victor, Cam Smith is the one who stepped up and grabbed it. Camp Smith is the one that stepped up and grabbed it. Well, Nate, speaking of stepping up and grabbing it, we're going to go ahead here on Fairway, Rolling. There's no reason not to keep rolling along. There's enough exciting stuff going on in the world of golf. We're going to have a show this week, kind of a bonus episode.

We usually take a week off in between, you know, after majors. But we're lucky enough. celebration of the Ben Affleck, Jennifer Affleck wedding that's apparently just happened house. The what? What are you talking about? Ben Affleck and Jen Affleck. They're married.

Her name's Jennifer Affleck. Did they, did Ludacris sing at that one too? Like with Brooks and is Ben Affleck joining the LivTor? Is that I mean? Probably. I'm sure. I'm sure. Well, we saw the Charles Barkley stuff this week.

but we'll say that for another episode. We are, however, going to have another episode this week. We have a very special guest coming on who we're going to connect. He's physically in the UK and was there for the entirety of the Open Championship. I'm not going to name names. I'm just going to let it, you know, come out when the episode drops. And I think we're going to connect with our beloved Long Loss Powell, Megan Schuster. She and the team had an article up for this week's Open Championship.

It's been too long since we talked to us. to Shusty. So why don't we reconnect the tour moves to Minnesota, the TPC, Minneapolis, whatever it is, you know, tri-city, you know, by city. I'm going to miss it. Yes, that's where we are. Lots of exciting things to look forward to with that. But another episode of Fairway Rowland coming this week for all the birdie buddies out there. Nate Dogg, thank you very much. Appreciate it. It was a great open championship, one for the age. It was a great major season. Unbelievable.

Can't wait for the President's Cup coming up. We have FedEx Cup playoffs staring us in the face. I know you really are beside yourself with excitement for that. But look, everybody out there, thank you for coming along. Lots of golf still to be played this summer. It's still light out very late into the evening. Check out Fairway, Roland, this week coming up, a little afterglow of the Open Championship,

plus a little preview of the 3M. In the meantime, Please, let's hit them straight out there.