Fore Play - 2017 Tour Championship Week w/Toby Keith

Episode Date: September 19, 2017

Country music star Toby Keith joins the guys this week to talk about his new jam " Golfer." He also chats about playing in the Pebble Beach Pro Am, what a round with the boys at his local club is like, and what the scene's like on the tour bus (the genesis of his new album "The Bus Songs"). Riggs and Trent also explain what to do if your buddies cancel on a tee time, breakdown the FedEx Cup playoffs, and detail their trip playing golf and tailgating in Louisville this weekend.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

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Golf is definitely a sport. It's a sport. Absolutely a sport. This is barstool sports. Presenting Foreplay, as always. We got a big week. We got drum roll. Country music star Toby Keith. Unreal guest on this week's show. When we started this thing, you and I, we did a Skype interview, not interview. You and I together. I was in Iowa. You were still in Boston at the time. When we were like, you know, we should start a golf podcast. We think we could fill this niche market with an entertaining podcast. at any point did you think, hey, this is going to turn into us interviewing country star Toby Keith? No. I actually, I went to a Toby Keith concert like three or four years ago with a bunch of my buddies in Boston.

Yep. And on the way there, we did like a party bus deal, like 20 people, you know, whatever. And there's no seatbelt. So those things are just madness. Yep. And our bus stopped short. And a couple people got kind of hurt. Yeah.

One person had to go to the ER. Oh, it really hurt. It was a scene. Okay. But we carried on and went to the concert. Drop them off of the hospital. just keep moving. That's basically, well, we had, like, ambulances and shit came by.

It was a fucking scene. The reason our bus stopped short is because somebody else got in an actual accident. Okay. So our bus driver avoided the accident, but in order to do so, had to stop short. Gotcha. It was a fucking scene. We ended up going to the concert. It was a great time.

A couple years later. Boom. You're talking to Toby Keith on the phone. I'm talking to Toby Keith on the phone. It was a fun interview. It was very fun. Gigantic star. I mean, he's a fucking huge star.

You forget. Like, and I got to be totally honest. I'm not the biggest country music star or country music fan in the world. But you know Toby Keith. He's just a star. You're not a country music star? I'm not a country music star. From Iowa.

Breaking news. Breaking news. I'm not a country music star. And I'm also not a country music fan. But I know about music and I know that Toby Keith is a monster. It was funny watching his stardom. Kind of like materializing your brain as you realized that you could tell you started to get more and more up for the interview. Yeah, you do.

You were like, wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh. It's just not an arena that I play in. Like, 50 cent was outside this building a week or two ago. that made my brain melt because I'm like the biggest fan of the world. I didn't know that much about Toby Keith, but then you start realizing he's got this song, he's got this song, he's got hit after hit. He's selling out arenas.

He is a massive, massive star. He's a huge star. He's got a new song out called Shitty Golfer, boom, right up our alley. You can probably see the connection, how he ended up on this here at golf podcast from from his album, bus songs. We talked to him about what it's like just cranking out bus songs, where those come from. We talked about playing at the Pebble Beach Pro Am. We talked to him about his drinking habits when he plays at his home club.

with his boys, which he mentions that he owns. Yeah, you'll get to that. That was probably my favorite part of the interview. He was like, yeah, we go play this course. I own it, actually. It's kind of Steve Elkington-esque. It was. Or he just kind of dropped that.

We're going to talk about golf trip recommendations. We have a little teaser, a little spoiler as to how our travel episode went. It went really well, so we want to do more of them. We're talking with a BMW. We're talking about East Lake coming up. We're talking about the boys. We're in Louisville. Louisville.

Louisville. Louisville. We got yelled at all weekend for a couple of Midwestern guys saying, Louisville and I still think it's Louisville but they get very up to I thought we were going to get killed They did that annoying fucking thing where they look at you like they Pretend like they don't even know what you're trying to say Yeah like Louisville is so much different than

Lowville I told you that I tweeted We've got an early flight to Louisville I'm excited to go I had people tweet at me being like it's not Louisville because you spelled it because I spelled it Fucking City's call it's like you don't even know how I said Even though I was apparently saying it wrong Just because I tweet something that doesn't mean it's wrong I'm gonna say it Louisville now

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First time in Kentucky for either of us, I believe. Yeah, I was trying to think if I had been there before, and I definitely hadn't ever gone there for a purpose, and it's not a part of the country that I would have ever driven through. So, yeah, first time in Louisville, definitely first time in Kentucky as well. It was interesting. Louisville was interesting. We got there Friday afternoon.

We played a little golf. We did this. We had a little stooly competition. So people email this why they love Natty Life. We got hundreds of responses. Yeah. We posted some of them on the Foreplay Twitter account. Some of them are very funny.

Natty Light, I mean, I don't think I've ever not had fun drinking Natty Light. True. So we decided to take a winner from our email competition. Yeah, because there were three of us. We wanted to force them. It was me, you, and Smitty playing around a golf. And we thought, hey, instead of having. Because, like, Brett was down there, Frank, he was down there, but they were busy.

So we thought, hey, let's hang out with a stool for the day. Look, we're a golf podcast. All golfers know playing with three stinks, playing with four is a lot better. So we got this guy, Joe. Congrats to our friend Joe, who won the contest. He wrote, I don't know, maybe an elementary level poem. I have the poem if you want me to read it. Yes, read the timestamp, too.

This was, I believe, won something in the morning. You are correct. It was 1.44 a.m. This is from our buddy Joe, who we eventually picked to come play golf with us at Seneca. It goes like this. I love golf and beer. I probably have drank more natties than any other beer. The funny thing is, is that I live quite near.

So I'll shock on a nattie and yell, stay clear, but play with me four-play boys. and we will chug a beer. I will say the I live quite near line, for whatever reason, made me laugh out loud. It's funny. It's such a basic thing to say and rhyme. It was just... It's funny because the point of the thing was, like, we need somebody who's near us so they can come play,

and he worked it right in there. We asked Joe the next day, like, how did you come up with all this stuff? He doesn't remember doing it. It was 1.44 in the morning, and he was drunk as shit. He also, so we teed off at like 2.30 in the afternoon. I emailed him back at, like, 1 or something. then that was his first day off in a long time. And so he had been crushing beers and grilling when he got the email being like,

can you play golf with us, took an Uber to the course, showed up. We had a great time. Nice guy in the world. I wrote in a card with him the whole time. Well, and this is the thing behind the scenes. You, me and Smitty are, we have a text chain just because we do. And we're trying to pick a guy. There was a guy who wrote a haiku that we were thinking about having come out.

A lot of literary guys coming out to try and play golf with us. And we were worried that we were going to pick like a serial killer. We don't know these people. Stooleys, the ones that I've met are nice people, but you never know what you're going to get when you're just putting out the word. Just the numbers game. There's going to be some psychos in every crew, every group of people. Yes. Platron's no different.

Joe came out, really nice guy. We had a blast. He was pumped. We did a little three-man scramble. Joe, Smitty, Trent, against Riggs. It seemed fair. It did. I'm actually, so I got off to, you guys got off to a roaring start.

You were like two up through two. I ended up coming back, winning. I think I won on the 17th green. Yeah. And the losers had to crab walk a stunningly far distance. Yeah. You don't realize how hard crab walking is until you start trying to crab walk. And it's weird when you try to create what is like an appropriate crab walk course.

Yeah. Out of thin air because we don't fucking crab walk very often. And it was way too far. I mean, you guys were dead people. Well, not only was it far. Well, for the record, I quit after about 10 feet and like pretend that I was hurt. Joe and Smitty went the whole way and it was so long

that at a certain point you cross a pretty busy street. Like a legitimate road. Yeah, where it has like a cross thing but no cross walk where it says walk don't walk and so these guys just went and they're crab walking across the street holding up traffic the whole deal. It was a it was a scene. We played at Seneca

golf club, golf course. I'm proud of you for finally getting that right. What was I saying Seneca? I was like churching it up. We tried to tell you No, we tried to tell you like Seneca Wallace, the quarterback from Iowa State, and you still were just like, Sinaka, Sanaka, but you finally got it right on the podcast, and I'm proud of you. I think Seneca sounds more churched up than Seneca.

Well, I don't think the place that we played was looking to be churched up all that much. It felt really good to be out on a common man's golf course in the middle of Louisville, fucking mucking it up, it's great. Well, I told you this this morning. Since we've been out in New York, and again, another one of the perks of starting a golf podcast, aside from interviewing country music stars, is we get to play these pretty nice courses, Bayonne, Glen Oaks, Wingfoot, blah, blah, blah. It's been nice to, it was nice on Friday to get out to some of the courses maybe we played back home a little bit more.

Felt where we belonged. You know, sometimes you're kind of, you're like walking on eggshells out of these nice courses. You don't want to do the wrong thing. You don't want to wear the wrong shit. You don't want to say the wrong thing. Whatever. Yeah. Out at Seneca.

Nailed it. Did I get it right? Yep. Fuck, yeah. It just felt good to be, to be at home. We're crushing Natty Lights. We were gambling. We're out there.

A couple holes. We were chugging some beers. We were sipping some beers. We were, you know, it just felt good. We were bringing beers out on the green, setting them near the hole. My, my, my favorite part was when we made the turn, we went in to grab a few more Natty Lights. And it's the clubhouse. What you're picturing in your head for a course like this, the clubhouse, you're nailing it.

You're picturing it perfectly. And then there's a bunch of old guys in there drinking big old tall boys, just shooting the shit. It was like, it was like 2 p.m. on a Friday. They don't give a shit. They're retired. Nope. It was great. They've been doing that every day, paying like the 11-hour.

our green fee for fucking 25 years. It felt nice to be at a place like that. It felt like home and we had a good time with Joe. It was great. We had a nice tailgate on Saturday for the Louisville Clemson game. We went into the game for the first half. Home team was getting absolutely demolished. Yeah, you forget that game atmosphere really depends on how the home team is playing.

Yep. And Louisville was not playing well. So it was kind of dead in there. We had a good time. Our seats were we could see the whole field. So it was That's a nice feature When you can see the whole thing

How about? Not just some of it We haven't talked about this yet But how about Smitty on the way to the game? I was like, do we have good seats? blah blah blah Oh, this was preposterousal.

I was like, I was like, we're walking a far away I'm hoping we have good seats And Smitty was like yeah I looked at the tickets I think we got good seats We get there We are very, very high up

Not great seats And I say that to Smitty I'm like I guess I mean You weren't really right out These nice tickets He says no no no These are the good seats because you can see the whole field.

I'd rather be up here than on the front row. He's trying to, like, justify where we were. I was like, Smitty, you could just say that we have shitty seats. I know, nobody cares. It's totally cool. He's like, no, you can. No, you guys don't understand how the stadium works. You know what he said to me?

He goes, no, up here, you can see the play develop. Okay, Smitty. All right, Smitty. Like, if you're too close, you can't appreciate it. That's right. So you can see the play develop. That's, if you have shitty seats and someone's like, your seats, I can be like, well, at least I can see the play develop up here.

We were so high up. I had to watch most of the game on the video screen. Yeah. That's how fucking high. And we had the very nice fans in front of us, although they were the fans who don't sit down at all. Not once. Which would be fine except that we're kind of old and lazy now. We had just stood all day tailgating and we wanted to sit down.

Well, and it wasn't like everyone was standing up and we were the ones who were like, come on, we just want to sit here. Everyone was sitting down and they were standing up, which is always like, you don't want to say anything, but you're like, come on, you got to know the beats of the game. You don't want to be the guy who's always like, I'm just going to stand the whole time because I'm a real fan. Yeah, so, you know, it was fun. Louisville's great. We had a good time. Shout out to Natty Light. Go buy a million people out there running up to us with cases of Natty Light 30s and

90 light. We could barely get, we couldn't get cold 30s at the Kruger. Kroger? The whole fucking Kroger. At the Kroger because. Sold the whole place out. Sold the whole goddamn place out. Yeah, we saw the, like the barback, if you will, of the grocery store who was like

sweating profusely being like, I've been restocking Natty all day. So shout out to the platrons, the Stoolies, crushing that Natty Light. BMW Championship, third leg of the FedEx Cup. Mark Leishman, five-shot, kind of runaway, snooze fest. Yeah, what he had, a five-shot lead, head into Sunday, I believe? Yeah, five-shot lead. I mean, he was relentless. What did he get to?

23-under, I think. Is that what he got to? I think he got to 23-under. Snoose-fest at the top, for the most part. I mean, I think it got a little tight two or three shots down the stretch for a minute, but then I think Leishman birdied, what, 15 and 16, and it was pretty much over. But he did have some other drama. In terms of, you know, they cut it from 70 down to 30.

Phil missed it by one shot. He had an eagle chip on his 72nd hole. Came in hot, but hit the lip. Classic Phil. You know, that would have been everybody's going nuts. Oh, this is the biggest Phil moment of all time. Which, you know, it was close to me and it was fun to watch. We had Sergio who had like a fucking 30-minute ordeal on the 18, trying to get a ruling.

Yeah, people were like, this puts the Jordan Speed thing to shame. Obviously, the stage wasn't as bad. big as it was for speed but what he hit it into a crick and then he couldn't figure it out like where to drop and it's all this drama he's in a crick and he's yeah he's in there and he's not sure exactly which way he can play it his stance where he can play it to what's in his way what's not in his way ends up you know hacking out gets up and down from just over the green for par he ended up making the top 30 so he'll be in he's like uh i saw tony finow who's going to now he he he he Chipped in on 18, but ended up he had a pretty good cushion.

Anyways, one of those cool stories where he's never played the Masters, top 30 that get to East Lake, go to the Masters, so he'll be making his first appearance. Tony Fiena is just a guy that I like around. He's just, you know, in one of those names, you see him like, oh, that's Tony Finole. It makes it feel like it's important. He's a fun guy to root for it, for whatever reason. Certain guys just have kind of that charisma, that look, that vibe when you're watching him. Like, he's got it.

You're root for him. Remember we saw him at the Zurich Classic on the putting green? And he was, he's likeier than you think he's going to be. He's like wiry, but tall. He's definitely super tall. and he had a sweet crew with him, just like a couple of awesome dudes rolling with him. We're so jealous of his crew.

Like, I wanted to be friends not even with him with, like, his group. Like, everyone's crew out there is dressed kind of like, all right, we're on a golf course. We got to just chill and, like, watch our buddy speith or whatever put. Tony Fienow's crew did not care about any of that. Didn't care about the dress code. Just a couple old dudes wearing awesome outfits just following Tony Fiena. Yeah, they were complete beauties.

Nothing but respect for that squad. Rory is done. He did not. After winning the FedEx Cup last year, He did not make it to Eastlake. A couple, I don't want to call him Doomsday articles, but we're getting, you know, this is the 10-year mark of Rory's professional career. A lot of people, oh, my God, he didn't win this year.

He's at a crossroads, I think, is one of the headlines I saw. Which is great. You got to love those. Before we get to the Doomsday articles, the European Tour tweeted out his first 10 years as a pro, and I'll just run down the kind of stats that threw out. Hit me. This is your guy. I know.

You're going to have a big bowl. boner for this part? These fucking Dooms articles are hilarious. Let's look at these. 238 starts, 122 top tens, 22 wins, four majors, four Rider Cups, three race to Dubai titles, and 44.8 million, what is that, Euro? Euro earned.

So he's doing just fine. Almost all, like, more than half of your starts in the top 10, that's pretty fucking good. It's pretty good. Also, three of those four Rider Cups were Rider Cup wins. Right. He won the FedEx Cup last year, which is a nice fucking $10 million, plus whatever he got for a win in the tour championship, which, you know, it's always like a

11 and a half million dollars total. So that's, this is the thing with this era that we live in where, and I'm actually going to talk about errors, where if one guy gets to win, remember it was the Jason Day era, the Dustin Johnson era, the Steep era, the Rory era when he went back-to-back majors. It also goes the other way where a guy doesn't have the best year of his career. He didn't win. Now people think he's never going to win ever again.

So you got to, it's somewhere down the middle. Roy's going to be just fine. He's like one of the most talented players on the planet. Yeah, I love the, yeah. So he, what, he get injured like mid-January. He's been kind of nagged. He's fucked up his rib. He's kind of nagging him all year.

And he's equipment changes, ball changes. He got married. So all this shit going on. The guy's got a real life. He has said many times, you know, that he treasures a lot of the other things in his life. That he wouldn't trade his current career and situation for Tiger Woodses and stuff like that. Oh, we got into it with elk on Twitter. He's got into here.

He actually buried elk on Twitter. Buried a guy elk on Twitter. But look, it's really fucking Macquar. He actually just putted kind of like shit this year And his body was a lake at him He's fucking fine It's just easy McElroy is gonna be

He's gonna go down as one of the goats From this era not even close Well as we know it's we live in a world of page use We live in that world every single day So saying a guy like Rory McElroy Is he done? Is he what's going on with Roy? That's going to get people to click every single time

And they're wrong because Roy is the best He's my favorite No bias in that He's got a couple more starts coming up He announced committed that he's going to play in the British Masters. He's also going to play in the Dunhill Links, which I'm jacked up about because that is the little Scottish tour,

where they play the old course, they play Carnusti, and they play Kingsbarnes, all courses that I played a couple weeks ago when I was over in Scotland. You might have heard about it. Speaking of hearing about it, we would love recommendations on places that people would like to see us go and kind of review, talk about golf travel,

kind of golf resort or course destination. Turns out that our episode where all I did was talk about myself narcissistically being in Scotland did phenomenally well. People loved it. The reviews were great. The numbers are great. So we are now going to geniusly leverage that into doing more cool-ass golf shit.

I remember I had one guy chirred me after that episode or when we were promoting it like, oh, who wants to hear about somebody else playing a bunch of golf? Hey, buddy, apparently all. Fucking shit ton of people want to hear that. So that episode did incredibly well. Riggs laid out his trip very well So yeah, we're gonna try and leverage that a little bit And have some more, maybe some more boondogers

I'd love to go to like Cabot Cliff, Span and Dunes These places are all supposed to be just unbelievable So send us recommendations if you are one of those places Send us a proposal Let's see what you got out there We're not afraid That sounds good to me Oh, another thing I like to say about Roy McRoy

Is that the pictures of the contrast of him From 10 years ago to now Or Laugh out loud funny Dave Portnoy-esque. Yes, if you are familiar with our boss slash now co-worker, Dave Portnoy, very similar to that transition, that evolution, if you will, kind of a reverse evolution of like a pudgy, sort of weird-looking kid to now he's absolutely jacked, fit, yoked.

We're talking about Roy here. We're talking about Rory. Dave's just kind of results. But it has the same effect. And I know Roy will tell you that he's eating better. He wants to play better, all this, all that. But it's appalling. It's an appalling look.

You've got to look at the before and after pictures. Go back and do it. It is. It's very fun. There is something to be said for when you do become more famous and you're in the spotlight more where you're like, I want to look not like I look in these before pictures. I want to look normal. I mean, you're going to be scoring chicks. It's going to be he's married now.

But you know what I mean. You want to look better when you start getting more spotlight. He's very impressive looking now compared to what he used to look like. So go check that out. FedEx Cup. We got the top five. who are guaranteed to win the FedEx Cup if they win this weekend.

Speed's still clinging to number one. I feel like that's kind of under the radar. J.T., DJ, Mark Leashman, and John Robb. Those are our top five. Just edged out, Ricky Fowler, who's coming in at number six, seven and eight. We got Hadecki and Justin Rose. So that kind of paints the picture for you.

A couple little stats here. I believe the last seven FedEx Cup winners have all been guys that won the Tour championship. ship. Okay. I think the last one not to was Tiger Woods in 2009, but that was kind of before they adjusted the points and all that shit. Right. So pretty much if you win this weekend, it's really, really, really looking good history is on your side that you will win the FedEx Cup. Obviously, this top five are guaranteed to if they win. So keep an eye on those guys. Another little drama that I want to bring up, my beloved lady golf. Before we get to that, my friend, please hit me.

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and just reset the scores. Now, a couple things here. One, I think I could live with, let's say, there was just torrential, brutal downpour that for whatever, they're over in a foreign country, they're in France, so whatever, things are just weird because you're over in Europe. Yep. So let's say that they just, they couldn't play all day, and they decided, for whatever reasons, we can't get the course ready.

It's going to be a much better, much more higher integrity of a competition. if we just cut it to three days. I could maybe live with that. The fact that they let people start and have X start, good start, bad start, whatever. And they just were like, oh, now it's rain, too much rain, weather's not good enough, we're going to just restart tomorrow. It's fucking insane.

You can't do that. And it wasn't that crazy weather, no? Like, I remember, I think I saw women golfers tweeting like, Lady golfers. The term you're looking for. The proper politically correct term, Trent, tweeting like, they're tweeting like it's driveters. sizzling out. It's not even like that bad.

And they're still just like, no. It's crazy to me that they would just wipe it clean and they're like, even if you had a bad round, even if you had a good round, just forget about whatever happened. On top of that, it's at this Evian tournament thing that is the fifth major of the year, which is which they like made, it is relatively, relatively recently that they transformed this thing from a normal tournament to a major. You can't have fucking five majors anyways. And if you're going to, you can't take one and then make it three rounds instead of four. and on top of that reset scores once you've already let some of the field go out and record X many holes. No, and I don't want to sound too woke to this, but remember what was it? The first major of the year for Lady Golf where they had the Lexi Thompson controversy, where somebody called in and they gave her a four-stroke penalty right the next day.

Like, maybe this is just the LPGA's thing during majors. They just drum a bunch of controversy. It doesn't really get that many more eyeballs, but they at least want to try and make it interesting. Oh, wow. Trent's. Again, I don't want to be too woke on. Lady golf woke trip? A little bit because it just seems insane to me that this is how they would handle a situation like this,

where they're just going to wipe everything clean and have it a three-round major. It's a very normal thing in golf to just suspend play, and then the following day, just have everyone play 18 plus however many you have to go. If they got to play 36, they've got to play 36. This happens all the time. Weather is not a new thing in golf. Golf is always outdoors. We're always dealing with the weather.

There are ways to do that other than it. I mean, I almost have to respect the ballziness. It's just being like, forget the Thursday around. It's just, you know, who's call is that? Who do you think was like, you know what? We're going to just fucking start over. Like, I had a buddy. We had like a NHL, like, 2009 season that we did in college with all my college buddies.

And my one buddy who was in charge of kind of running the whole league when he had a really shitty start and he just erased the league. Beautiful. And was like, oh, yeah, I don't know what happened. Yeah. This is what it feels like. We're like, no, you know what? Maybe we didn't have the right people that were kind of dominating from the start. We're just going to fucking start off.

Well, and it's certainly the easy thing to do, right? Like, having to suspend play and having maybe people play more than 18 holes on certain days, that sucks. And it, like, it sucks with people playing. So the easy thing to do is just be like, fuck it. Let's just play three rounds instead of four. But you don't ever want to go the easier route when you're trying to establish your sport, your league as something legitimate. You just don't do that. Weird move from the lady golf.

Like, you're talking about fantasy football. Right. Totally. And they're taking the LPGA professional sports. and they're doing the same thing. Yeah, I was very disappointed in this. This was sad. This was a, this was a little bit of a black eye for my beloved lady.

I think you need to be the chairman of the LPGA. It might need to bring me in. Maybe you just put me on the board, maybe? You could just be like an LPGA consultant. Yeah, I agree with that. That'd be great. Just kind of a general, like, public perception consultant. I mean, the PGA hates us.

It'd be awesome if you were just like one of the leaders of the LPG. I'd be honest. I'd probably be all four of these types of controversies. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, fucking cancel it. Cancel it. They're going to love it. People are going to go nuts.

But that would be something that, like, a Vince McMahon, you running it would do? I would totally take a Vince McMahon approach. My two-woke approach would you be to drum up controversy? Like, just, you know what? Let's not even have a Saturday round. Let's go Thursday, Friday, Sunday. Yeah. Like, fuck it.

I would do all kinds of weird shit. Everybody's got to play their opposite hand. Yeah, I'd be like you can do shotgun Mulligans. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah. I mean, too much rain. We're going to do shotgun Mulligan.

You have to drink. Yeah. So, I mean, it'd be weird. That's kind of a weird idea. I like it. Like the XFL of LPGA. I miss the XFL. Who doesn't?

What was that one guy? There's one guy. Oh, she hate me? Yeah, she hate me. Oh, it's he ate me. He hate me. He hate me. He was great.

Yep, he was. All right. Yeah. Next up, you got anything else trip? No, I was just going to say the XFL, it didn't last long, but it revolutionized a lot of things. The cameras that fly over the stadium, like you know those of you? Yep, that's the XFL. We need X-LPGA.

The X-rated LPGA? Just the X-L-PGA. Just kind of like no rules. Okay. So hit us up, L-L-PGA. I know you, I know we got listeners. I will say we are, we are friends of the LPJ. They email us, we email them back.

We're very, oh, also. We have an email. Actually, well, when I did my LPGA pro, I'm a couple of years ago with my girl, Kim Kaufman. Yeah, very good video, by way. Thank you. Kim Kaufman, she was great. I went out to Grand Rapids, Michigan and shot with her.

So we are very friendly with the LPGA. Yeah, we're a friend of the LPGA, friend of the LPGA, friend of lady golf. Danielle Kang, one of our most famous guests of all time, did finish top 20 this week. All right, good for her. She finished T18, which I put in my little notes here. Shout out to me for doing that. And researching. Shout out to D. Kang.

She's one of the most famous guests we ever had. No doubt about it. She was one of the best guests we ever had. Electric Factory. Yep. Speaking of guests, next up, our guy, Toby Keith. One of the biggest country stars there is. Big golfer, shitty golfer, new jam out.

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Toby, how you doing? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm doing really well. This is Riggs. We're joined by my friend Trent. Hey, Toby. Hey, guys.

We really appreciate you. joining us how is uh i guess they're putting you through the ringer today huh yeah anytime you put some product out new new something musically they uh they they like to load you up a little bit that's all right that's all right i love it yeah well we um you know we know we only got you for a few minutes so we're pretty much just going to hop right in um we do the four play golf podcast so um so obviously we'll get to the golf part but but yeah man the new album the bus songs uh came out just a couple days ago. Talk a little bit about, you know, the origins of this album a little bit. Well, back 15 years ago, I wrote a song called I Never Smoke Weed with Willie again.

And it was like, what are you going to do with that? Radio will never play that. I started playing it for my audiences everywhere. And it was like, where can we get that? So the next album I did, I put it on the very end of the album. And the next thing I know, it's everywhere even though it's not getting chart play it's registering because it's getting enough spins like the bob and tom show morning shows and the wackiness of it was great well then we ended up with a whole bunch of songs like that that you never do anything with and as one at a time i would release a little bit here and there and they would become popular and a red solo cup got really big and i had a new ones, wacky to backy.

And I don't know how far we can go on this show, but I will call it Crappy Gopher. Oh, no, we can go. You can say whatever the hell you want. No, we go shitty, okay. Oh, yeah. So I wrote shitty golfer. And I said, man, I got,

I'm going to do something with shitty golfer and I want to do something with, so I played it at a, I was at a PGA event. And they had Arnold Palmer and George Bush, Jim Nance was interviewing both of them. And then I had to come out and sing for it. songs and it was really stuffy. And so I did a couple of hits and I was getting that golf clap. And I just broke into shitty golf and brought the house down. So PG asked me if I would change it to Sorry Golfer because they wanted to use it.

And I said, nope. I said, it's shitty golfer. And when I show up at Pebble Beach and Men Stricker come walking through and somebody's crowd standing there and they got to get to it said everybody plays the song, comes through, that's what I sing for. Wow, that's awesome. I'm sure they love it. So I've got to ask you, I mean, are you really a shitty golf? I'm a 13 at my course. My course is probably rated a little heavier than most.

I just played Carlton Woods two days in a row and shot 77, 78. But I'm probably a 13 on my course because we're a lynx course. And if you happen to hook it, then it gets in the hay, you're just like in the water. So even the scratch guys will have one in there every day. So, yeah, you've played in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, you know, a guy, let's call you somewhere between, I don't know, an 8 and a 13. What's it like teeing it up out there a little bit, maybe outside your comfort zone? Well, for sure, I played it, and it was okay.

I played good there. And last year, they had us right in front of the pros, and it played really long for the amateurs. It was really, I mean, I hear. hit a lot of four and five irons and five woods into some of those part fours most those part fours and uh i find what stricter and i said man i'm having trouble scoring i said this thing's playing long he said it's playing long for us today and it was wet it rained two days so your ball would hit and not you would get no roll and it was it was really tough i mean i'm just not going to hit very many

greens with a four iron right and uh yeah i mean pebble beach everybody loves it because it's picturesque and all that but i mean that's a fucking u.s open golf course right there the craziest part about it is those shots you when you're just playing with your buddies those crazy dun dun dun dun dun a no shots you hit you know yep i'll in three days down there i'll have four of those things that i might not have twice a month at my course you know i mean right i hit i had a i had a flop shot on spyglass the first day that was so tough that everybody said just pitch it in the trap and then try to it was a par three and I'd missed it right. And they said, just bang it in the trap and then go down and try to hit it in the hole from the bunker.

And I said, I said, my partner's in the bunker. He's going to make a three. I said, I've got to try to make a two. And I had a tree behind me that's forked and I took that sucker back between the tree and hit a flop and landed that thing. I had to hit it about 10 feet and land it. and stop at about six feet, and I knocked it about eight inches. And it's just crazy when everybody's watching. Now, I'll still hit a bad shot once a while, but same as always. But it's just amazing how many crowd roars you can get when you're really that zoned in and concentrate. It's just, I just look over at my friends and my family and just throw my hands in there and go,

what the hell? Well, that was my next question. When you're around all those people, does that make you nervous? or does it make it, sounds like it might make you play a little bit better? You know, it's crazy? I can play the inauguration. I can play the Super Bowl. I can play award shows.

Never nothing. No butterflies or anything. When they announce your name and your hometown and that crowd claps and then 60,000 people go quiet, I can't hardly take it back. Isn't that the craziest thing about golf, man? It's nuts. Well, that's not what I make my living at. I know I know I'm going to hit it down the middle when I sing my song.

But I'm sitting there, the worst thing, think about whiffing. What would you do if you whiffed? I would pretend like I was meaning to do it. Yeah, good luck with that. So, you know, we're talking about these rounds out at Pat Bow and all that. We love to hear what's a round like, you know, a Toby Keith round like with the boys kind of at your home course. You guys cranking some beers or what's that vibe like? Oh, yeah.

Well, it depends on the day. We all, we have a, we play a big wolf game, and I own the country club, so I'll let us play if it's not crowded. I'll let us play six. Wolf sucks if you're playing four guys. Yeah, it's terrible. If you're, you're playing Wolf, it's a sucky game. It's a three-person game.

Yeah. You need five or six. You need five or six to get the money on the table. And when you got four and somebody picks a partner, he's always going to pick a good one. and then one of the other two is going to be in trouble. So there's no competition. And I'm like, I want to play five or six.

And so we show up at noon. We've got a big men's group goes off, and we count heads, and we divide by five or six, and we say, here we go. And it's a blast. Now, about Monday, or we'll close Monday, but Tuesday, Wednesday, noon to four, there's not much drinking goes on until we get back up. But Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

drinking starts before we start playing. So do you, does your game get better or worse with a couple drinks? It stays about the same. Just shitty. That's right where you want to be. So, yeah, so the, you know, the album's obviously called the bus songs. People like us that, you know, don't get to experience that very often. We look at a tour bus type vibe as one of the coolest things in the world.

Is it, you know, what's the vibe like? Because it is as much fun as it sounds like being on that tour bus hanging out. Man, you know, you're in these towns that you've been in for 20 years, so you've developed these friendships. You've got all these people. We've got your old radio buddies. You've got guys like military cats that I met overseas and that I did the U.S. O tours for 11 years.

You've got your military buddies. You've got upper brass that retired. You've got generals. you've got just knuckleheads you know. And they're all sitting around and you've got a couple of guitars and instead of singing what we just played on stage, we bust these kind of bus songs.

I tell everybody I've got about 40 bus songs, but I could really only record about 10 or 12 because they're just so far politically incorrect. Outrageous that, I mean, it just, you just can't record those. songs. They're just, they're strictly bus songs, but people love them. And, uh, it's just about making people laugh, you know. You guys, when you're out on tour, you're able to play much golf? Yeah. Yeah, we play, uh, not every single day. If I'm home and I'm off, I'm playing golf.

But if I'm on the road and, uh, we had a short run last night because I was like my buddy Sammy Hagar, he gets tired of being on the road, but he, he takes a jet to every single show. That means you've got to pack a bag at the end of the show. You've got to fly to that city. You've got to be picked up, taken to a hotel, check in, unpack, sleep, get up, pack, drive out the venue that night, do the same thing. I'm like, I don't do that. I fly my jet to A, and then I ride my bus to B&C

and have them come get me after C to where I can sleep and relax. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, absolutely. And then when I wake up, I'm parked behind the next venue. And if it's noon and our show's at nine, yeah, I'm going to look for a golf course. That's a smart man right there. So I've got to ask you, you know, you've played for, entertained over 250,000 troops, military families. It's obviously a big part of your life.

What did it mean for you to play at inauguration this year? Well, I've got to play for the last three presidents. And I just had just come out when Clinton was in office. So there was really no need, no call for there. But I got to play for President Bush and President Obama and then invited to play for President Trump. It was any time you get play, anytime the White House calls, I go. Oh, yeah.

I think it's cool as hell. Yeah, and we've talked about it, whether you get, you know, Rory and those guys playing golf with the president. We always say the same thing. I mean, the White House calls you answer. Well, I mean, I don't. don't get tied up and all that right-left stuff. I know the difference in right and wrong, and that's all I care about. That's perfect. We love it. Well, you know, we really appreciate

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It's from our guy, Caleb, and I think it's a situation that many people have found themselves in in one way or one form or another. He says essentially he paid up front for a foursome, him and three of his buddies. The day of, two of his buddies canceled, Caleb ate the greens fee, and he says, should I stop being friends with these guys,

or should I chalk it up till they just owe me money and everything's fine? Here's my answer. And it's actually in the form of a question. Who are these people who would be allowed to just, like, are able to just throw friends away? Like, in my answer is that you just chuck it up and they owe you money. That's what that's what friends do. You're going to stop being friends with them completely.

Just like, I'm never talking to these people. You might answer it where you're like, fuck these people. But I'm just saying, I'm not in the position, again, I'm not lonely. But I'm not in the position where I can just be like, I'm not going to be friends with these people ever again. That's a very good point. Maybe I don't. Maybe I took it too literally.

Once you get to a certain point in your life, you're not just like throwing away friends. I, you can't just throw your friends in the track. I think I said this on drive time once, and I made Clem mad because I told them, I have not made a new friend since I was like 24. Once you turn a certain age, you're just, you're not getting those real friends. You're not getting any new ones of those. You're getting work friends. You're getting couple friends.

You're getting people that you like, I don't know, you see on the, I don't know, not on the subway. That's not what I was going to say. But like. You make friends on the subway trip? No, that's why I didn't want to say it that way. But you're never going to get actual friends. And these guys are probably actual friends. You can't throw those away.

because you're not gaining any more of those. They're like brain cells. He seems a little loose with just discarding his friends. It's crazy. But a couple things. One, they definitely owe you the money. I mean, there's no imaginable situation on the world where it's cool for them to cancel

and then you pay for it. Yeah, that would be crazy. So they owe you the money. Two, what I would do is these people fall way down the queue of invited to golf. Well, this is your Captain Kahn's hungover story. Yeah, so if you don't remember Captain Kahn's, Captain Kahn's of Zero Blog 30 fame The first time I ever invited him to golf

We had a stool He invited us out to a place in New Jersey He had two spots Myself and Captain Kahn's We went out the night before we got shit-faced I took an Uber to Kahn's place To pick him up in the morning He didn't answer his phone

Didn't show up I had to then Uber by myself All the way to the course which cost me Like 100 something bucks Showed up empty handed Was like yeah hey I'm alone My buddy just didn't make it It was very embarrassing

He ended up showing up on like the eighth hole. Captain Kahn's to this day is very sad about the fact that I haven't invited him to play golf since. This was like a year ago. Yeah. This is what happens. Okay. If you bail on a tea time, especially day of, you just fall way down the queue. You're fucked.

You're not getting an invite for me for a while. That is a more logical reaction. Being like we're just not friends anymore is crazy. Yeah, because the golf tea time invite is not something that's like, hey, do you guys want to go to bar after work? Like a tea time, it's very, it needs to work the right way. You have to be there at the right time, and you need four people. Yeah. You can't.

That's why sometimes I ask people like, hey, you want to play golf tomorrow, and they're like, I'm a maybe. Like, no, you can't be a fucking maybe. Right. You're either in or you're out. Because we got to fill the tea time, blah, blah, blah. So, yes, you got to get the money back. No, you shouldn't just discard your friends because that seems like you don't have very strong relationships with your friends. But three or C or whatever, the fuck them on, they fall way down the queue.

It is, but it is also a type of situation where the early tea time you get too drunk the night before, hangover, miss a tea time, comes. for everybody. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Like, it happens to everybody. The thing that Captain Konst did, he didn't mean to do it, he didn't want to do it.

And if you become the guy who blows up over that and then it happens to you, it's a glass houses type situation. Happened to me in college one time and I just, I never lived it down. Right. I still feel awful about it. Yeah, but it just happens to everybody. People drink too much and then you got early tea times. That's just how it works. Next one.

Shout out to Dylan. This is a good little story. I think he's being truthful. Dylan says, so he's playing at a, he's playing at a, he, he's, you know, he's playing. goes to Ohio State, the Ohio State. I guess they have their own golf course. Sounds nice. Must be great.

Talking with his buddy on the T, who's a fellow play trin and a big stool, they're talking actually about how one time we talked on the podcast about how every time we step up to a part three, we look at the hole and we think a little part of your brain thinks, oh, this is it. Absolutely. This is going to be the time I finally get my hole in one. No doubt about it. So they're talking about this out loud.

Dylan goes ahead, hits his T shot, and cans it. for a hole in one. Do we get credit for this? Yeah, I think so. I think we get like a tenth of a hole. I was hoping that's where this was going, where he just like, if they get a plaque or something, if he gets his name on a wall,

he should be like courtesy of four play. Yeah, presented by four players. Yeah, this whole one was inspired by Trent and Riggs. And then he asked what I think is a dumb question. Yes, there's definitely such a thing as a dumb question. This is probably one. He said, what's the right player, what's cool? Do you go nuts, club throw, all that,

or do you do a really calm, cool, cool, club twirl. Well, to me, and those take places at different times. Like, you can call them club twirl while it's in the air. But if you're not going nuts and you're throwing your club and chest bumping your buddies like Jordan Speeth of the Travelers when he hold that bunker shot, then you're just like, maybe a lunatic. Yeah, if you don't go nuts, club throw the whole thing, maybe start kissing people, dive into ponds, whatever the fuck there is.

I mean, you're like, you're a lunatic. He gets made fun of it, but our guy Willie Wilcox, he did it right when he at CBC Sawgrass. That's the reaction. Everyone should have. One of the greatest, maybe one of the greatest, like, didn't win the tournament or really contend at all. Performances, celebrations of all time. Willie Wilcox, last year, 2016? I think it was 2016 Players' Championship, Ace on, like, Saturday on the 17th hole, and goes bananas.

Well, I mean, he throws his club, he's high five, and he's jumping on people, he's hugging everybody. He's, like, four over for the tournament. It was awesome. And he gets made fun of for that. But especially in a position where a guy like this who may or may not, he sounds like he plays a lot of golf, he might not get one, he might never get another one again.

So you just got to go nuts. You just got to really pull out all the stops. You kind of look like an asshole if you just like, yeah, I knew I was going to make it. Yeah, it needs to be like your 17th hole in one. And you need to be like a professional golfer. If you're doing a club twirl and then when it goes in,

you calmly are like thanking the imaginary gallery. Yeah. Okay, buddy. Yeah. No, you got to be hugging people, kissing people, maybe just take your pants off, run around a little bit. Yeah, show your dick, pull your dick out, whatever we've got to do. You go nuts.

Everything's, like that, like 30-second window after you get a whole-in-one one, you can get away with anything. It's socially acceptable to do just about anything. It's like international waters at that point. You could do anything. Yeah, strip butt naked and just like, I don't know, slide on the grass. Yeah, you could start shotgun and beers. You might be able to pull out a gun and actually shoot somebody.

You could do anything at that point. That last one was something. That might be it. That's probably illegal. But I'm just saying, there's a lot you can get away with it. International waters. Evan, final. one.

This guy, so this is kind of a weird one. Not a weird one, I guess. It's actually not that weird one. I just reread it. Evan says, he's playing with himself, three guys, foursome, classic. They're all bogey golfers, so they decided to do a deal where the loser pays for dinner for everybody.

Kind of an aggressive bet, to be honest with you. Especially if you go to an expensive place or if your buddies are aggressive eaters or drinkers. Or if they're assholes and they know you're going to have to pay and they do it big time. Yeah, you get like a filet. When NFL players take rookies out, They make them pay and they buy like 10 bottles of crystal and they pay everything.

Yeah, that's always tough. So hopefully you don't have those buddies. If you do, this is going to get a lot tougher because there's a three-way tie on the 17th T. One of the guys who's tied for the last play spot, his clubhead breaks and flies off when he hits his tea shot. He ends up losing. He says, is it a dick move to make the guys still have to pay? No. That's all within the bounds of that just happened.

That's just a thing that happened on the course. He hit it in the water. If he, you know, hit it out of bounds, if his club head flies off, these are all all in the spirit of the game. And I think it all just counts. And he still has to pay, unfortunately. Yeah, that's just like a bad bounce, basically. Right.

You know, if the ball hits off a fucking sprinkler head and you get fucked, that's part of the game. Yeah, like, yeah. Like I said, you don't, you don't hit it on a little tighter. You don't hit it in the water and be like, oh, damn, I wish I hadn't happened. Oh, damn, I wish my clubhead hadn't flown off. These are all on the same thing. Well, that wasn't fair.

I put a bad swing on that one. Right. Why should I have to pay for dinner? He's basically saying I had faulty equipment, but it's your equipment, and it's your swing, it's your stroke, and you lose and you got to pay. Yeah, so that guy's definitely got to pay. That's not even fucking close, to be honest with you. That's from the gallery. Send us more stuff.

We love From the Galleries. I go through. One of my favorite hobbies actually is when I reach exit a bar and I go home early and I'm a little tipsy, I love to go through the From the Galleries. Really? Yeah. No way. I didn't know that about you. So if you ever see some weird ones creep in there, it might have been a little tipsy really.

picking them. What a reveal that was. When I, Irish Goodbye, which is like every weekend, I just, like, order seamless on the Uber and the way home. And you're just, like, ripping through platron emails. Well, I order seamless and then I rip through platron emails. Okay. I order seamless very quickly.

It doesn't occupy much of my Uber home. You know what you're getting? Sometimes I scroll when I'm drunk. I'm just like, I don't know. I go straight to the past orders part. Yeah. And I just pick one of those, which is usually the same thing. I get sushi.

I don't know. You drunk eat sushi? Yeah, because of my brain, it's healthier than other stuff. Oh, see, my brain doesn't work that way at all. It's just like, I'm drunk, I'm going to eat. I'm going to eat a fucking cheese burger. Yeah, that's fair. All right, this weekend, we got Eastlake.

Eastlake's a good stop. I like it a lot because it's got some fucking serious history. Founded in 1908, redone five years later when my guy, Donald Ross. I have talked many times at how I love Donald Ross tracks. That's true. A couple of my favorite courses I've ever played are not that talked about. Donald Ross courses, especially nowadays, Essex, up in the North Shore Mass. Also, Skokie Country Club in northern Chicago.

Bobby Jones learned to play the game here. He shot 80 as an 11-year-old, which is fucking insanity. Bobby J. Tour championship been here since 2004. They reversed the nines. I believe last year was the first year that they did it, which created a ton of drama. They used to have that like 230-yard par three was the final hole of the tour championship, which you would think would produce a lot of drama, but just didn't.

A lot of guys would just kind of hit a long iron in the middle of the green and two-pot and smell you later. Last year, we had all kinds of fucking drama. holdout for Eagle on the 16th went on to Birdie the 18th and then won in a four-hole playoff to kind of steal the FedEx Cup from DJ It feels like forever ago It does feel like forever ago

I guess we've done a lot of things In between that year If you really think about it But that does, that seems like a long, long time ago He also hit that heroic shot On the first hole to playoff And had like six feet for Eagle To win the whole damn thing

And miss that And go in a couple more playoff holes Again that feels like Fucking forever ago we said earlier, but the last seven FedEx Cup champs have done so by winning the Tour Championship. So it's a big weekend. Last one, and then we got the President's Cup, and then we're Dunzo.

Bittersweet. We're dunzo, and, you know, I mean, yeah, we got the Fall Series, but nobody really gives a shit about that. We probably will have, I imagine, relatively soon, some sort of Tiger plan? News? Yeah. I think he's going to do his classic ease his way in with, like, his little Chevron tournament. The Hero World Challenge.

There's like 18 people. Yep. So we can be like, oh, he finished the top 15. He'll look good at that. That's my favorite joke that nobody cares about. That is a really good one. And they do it every time to sell a top 15 finish. Oh, and the last year I think he finished 17 out of 18.

And it's like, hey, man. And everyone's like he looks good. He finished the top seven. Well, he shot, what did he shoot on the Saturday? 66 or something. 60, something maybe. So, yeah, I mean, there's got to be some news coming at some point. So fingers crossed it.

So that'll be the big thing. But we got the President's Cup. next week we got the Eastlake Tour Championship this weekend so a couple big weekends back to back for golf and then we're going to go dark for a little bit this podcast will not go dark we're going to be all kinds of cool shit hopefully trips that are paid for and sponsored and we get to just have fun and tell you guys because apparently you like that yep also we have a little promo we got a new podcast on the barstle network called failing upwards yeah new fashion podcast from a couple of guys I do want to say they came into the office today and I may have a lost a little credibility because one guy was wearing like extra large gym shorts. Well, and this is after they chirped our guy, Frankie Borelli, hard about...

Chirped him to the moon. The things that he wears and they seem like they're going the route where they're busting balls, which is good. That plays very well in the Barstall office. But if you're going to chirp and you're the fashion guys and you're going to make fun of another guy, a well-liked guy who is wearing, you know, something that they don't like. And then they come in

and they look like they're wearing gym shorts. Look like slubs. Yeah. You can't do that. But then, again, and somebody made this point out there, I forget who it was, they can just tell us because of the fashion guys, oh, this is in right now. That is such a dog shit cop out. I hate that. I can't stand when people do that. But it's true. But it might be true. Right. I expected to come in with like scarves on, fucking certain types of glasses, cuffed jeans and pants and weird

shoes and that's, the guys wearing extra large gym shorts. Well, that's, and that's what Fidelberg used to wear still sometimes does. They call it Homeless chic. Yep. That's like the Kanye stuff. That's what I thought they were going to be wearing. Homeless chicish. Homeless chicish. And that's what I thought they were going to be wearing, but they were wearing something you wear like, after the gym. I agree. If you're into men's fashion

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