Fore Play - British Open History Time with The Boys

Episode Date: July 13, 2021

British Open week! We begin with Riggs delivering some British Open history for the squad. There was a Challenge Belt? And someone won so much they got to just… keep it? Plus our picks for Royal St. George’s, the Bryson caddie story, the Trent bunker incident, and our upcoming Michigan golf trip.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

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Foreplay, I'm sorry, Barstool Sports. That is a huge week. It is British Open Championship week, and we also will be in Michigan playing golf. So we got a lot of golf going on. I'm very excited for this week for a main reason, which is that usually when we're watching a ton of golf, you're not really playing golf. We're either at the gambling house for the masters, and you get that itch, you get that urge.

This week we get the British Open at like 4 a.m. till 2 p.m. And then we're going to be playing golf in Michigan. Filming. So there's just going to be a golf, golf, golf kind of week in the middle of the summer, up in Michigan. The British Open is back for the first time in two years. Links golf, the whole shebang. Gentlemen, welcome to the show. Welcome to British Open Week. How are we feeling? I feel good.

I first want to say congratulations to Lucas Glover on winning the John Deere Classic. I unfortunately was not able to watch much of the final round. Actually, I didn't watch any of it because we had a wedding that we had to go to for a coworker of ours. Congratulations to Marina and Rob on their marriage. So I didn't get to see it, but I saw that Lucas Glover, who I think this podcast is just a real big fan of Lucas Glover because of past incidents. We're always rooting for him just because you never know what he's going to go home to. So I just want to say congratulations to him, took home a big paycheck. And that's just a big tournament to win.

And I want to say congratulations. Just a poster boy for a tournament like that, like Lucas Glover, a guy who, just takes it at home and like just gets bossed around and we don't know like he everyone controls his life and they scream at him and they just go no Lucas no as he eats his pasta he just sits there and stares across the kitchen table that guy wins a john dear classic for sure so congratulations to Lucas congratulations to his whole team there at the dinner table and um yeah no it's just the perfect match for your tournament thank you did you see what he said too Lucas was like i saw tiger win the masters and like he got to prove to his kids that he was a champion so that stuck with Lucas

to be a champion so he goes out wins of a major so getting yelled well let's you know stop Lucas when he's wrong I'm not going to stop him that sounds right to me it's going to be a nice week it's going to be a nice week in the glover household there's just so funny that he had to he has to prove to his kids that he's a good golfer because so many of the opposite things are being said in that house to those kids probably when he's not there your father fucking sucks at this game just like I had to go out there and just prove them, like, prove him. Also, if he wasn't, if his kids weren't on site, like the Scottish Open was just pretty much

overlapping coverage of the John Deere. So, honestly, barely on until the afternoon. So it was a perfect fitting for all Lucas. Listen, listen, you guys mock this tournament relentlessly. But he took home a $1.1 million check. Like, if you are a PGA tour player and all the talk is about how it's always a weak field, there's not a lot of top 50 players in it, If you want to go try and make an easy, quote unquote, $1.1 million, you should go to the John Deere Classic.

That should be the number one selling point. I get that it doesn't have the strongest deal because it's the week before the open and there's the Scottish Open going on all the time. But you can go play against that field and potentially win a million dollars. It's a pretty good deal. Look, I'm happy for Lucas. I think it's a great thing. I think we've preserved a little bit of safety for the next several weeks, maybe several months, which is a very good thing. John Deere Classic, I'm from Missouri.

We love John Deere. My dad's biggest John Deere fan of the world. Don't, don't. We did. What you're doing right now? Don't. I'm telling you that overall, I like the John Deer. But facts are facts.

The fucking Scottish Open had a bigger field than... How often does the European tour have a bigger field than the PJ tour? It doesn't happen particularly often. Those are the facts. You get a guy like Lucas Glover who hasn't been able to win, you know, an arm wrestling contest in his house in over 10 years. and all of a sudden he wins the John Deere Classic. So, I mean, like these guys are saying, it's very fitting for the tournament.

It's lovely that he got the win. They were not even showing it on Golf Channel. They were showing the Scottish Open. They had a playoff between Dietree, Matthew Fitzpatrick, and all of a sudden, you're trying to be like, oh, they're not even having commercials. They're doing like a playthrough with two different things going on. They even have volume and the leaders are teeing off.

There's like a shank. The guy that's leading the tournament at the John Deer Classic is shanking balls. And all of a sudden, like the tournament just kind of ended. So it was the John Deer Classic. It occurred. It happened. I'm happy for Lucas Glover. It was a great storyline.

If you're going to get a storyline out of it. Min Wu Lee won in a playoff. Defeated our guy Matthew Fitzpatrick, which was a real shame. But he buried the hole. So there was just some cool golf this weekend. And we're all happy for Lucas Glover, I think. Is that correct? yes very happy

congratulations didn't watch a second of it because I was also at the wedding so didn't see a second ever American Century Championship or John Deere Now we're getting crazy Now we're getting crazy I mean it got ample TV coverage I mean both was about the same

I'm not going to respond I watched a little bit of the year the senior The senior open was on there too Right I mean it was just a tough weekend for the John Deer There was just more going on But again it's 1.1 million dollars. Like we, the way you guys talk about the John Deere,

you would think the guys take home $400,000 and it's just absolutely no reason to go there, but you can take home seven figures just like most of the other weeks on tour. But you're like pitching us to play in it. Like we're talking about his fans that just observe it. Yeah, Trent,

it's the big leagues. I get it. It's still the big leagues. It's like, are you going to go watch the Yankees versus the Red Sox? Or you're going to go watch like the Marlins play the fucking Tampa Bay Rays at like the Tropicana. Like it's just, there's two different versions of the sport here.

There's one that's just completely boring and knowing there's a fuck about and there's another one that everyone likes. I'm not trying to pick you guys on the tournament I'm saying, I'm saying that your guys' tone makes it seem like it's a lesser tournament when it's just not.

And if you are pitching the players and I'm going to repeat it again, if you want an easier way to make a million bucks, go to the John Deere. No, I think that's right, but I think the angle we're coming out from is like, yes, you get paid, but nobody's watching. No, like, it's just a really hard weekend to have a competing golf tournament. I mean, this weekend, the Barbisol is on, right? But the Open is on.

So it's just like, that's a tough one for them. So this one, there's, and also the senior Open was on, it was just like nobody is watching the John Deere. It was honestly tough to find what, where you're on. Yeah, but my point is like when the memorial's on, we don't struggle between should we watch the fucking senior openers? You just watch the memorial. It's Jack's plays. It's great.

When the John Deer Classic's on, it's like, all right. I mean, I'm sure we're going to get into it, but at this rate, the John Deer Classic is going to have a stronger field than the Open Championship. Just because everybody's pulling out. Why? Is that because Z.J. left? A lot of guys left.

There's been like 16 WVs or something. But yeah. I saw ZJ. Who else? Bada. Hodeki Matsuyama? Bada. Bada.

I mean, I see everybody Googling, so it's like. Just like some of the biggest names in the sport. Ever heard of them? Ever heard of them? Well, the reigning Masters champion is not playing. That's probably pretty big. Yep. Bubba Watson, who's two-time Masters champions, not playing.

That's pretty big one. My guy's like Jam. There's like 15 more or something like that. of people who aren't playing. Zach Johnson, who obviously won the last open that there was at St. Andrews, I believe. So, you know, he's,

you got to give him credit where credits do. But it is an outrageous withdrawal list that we've seen thus far. Pretty surprising, I would say, that people are not, you know. I mean, guys rave about how it's, it's the best. They argue that it's the best,

especially the European guys, and then people aren't in the play. But coming off the heels of what Ricky Fowler said about the Open Championship and how many hoops they have to jump through, it's not surprising. I agree with you that it's surprising that we're having a major championship and big names are pulling out,

but it's not for no reason. Like we know they're not just going over there because they're like, oh, I don't want to get on. That's a long flight. It's like there's still COVID stuff going on. ZJ test positive for it. Bubba, I believe he came into contact with somebody too close to getting on a charter flight.

So it's surprising, but it's also kind of not. Yeah. Yeah, fair. I mean, it's, I guess it's not surprised. It's not like guys, it's not like everybody's saying, hey, I'm just not going to play in the British Open. I don't care about it. It's, the whole thing has been surprising from pretty much when they announced

there's going to be 32,000 fans per day because you're thinking, all right, that's full bore. That's three times with the head at the U.S. Open. That's, you're basically just allowing anyone and everyone. It's, it's over if you're doing it, except, you know, their protocols aren't that way. And I guess you wouldn't really expect, though, that it would affect as many people as it is because like we said like at this point the list of people that are not coming and some of them being big names I don't know it just sort of it's taken over one of the main storylines which is usually not a good sign no it's not it's unfortunate that we're not getting the open again like the real open again like

just because of this it's just COVID is is really affecting this championship as it has with a lot of things but like every other major has been able to get, you know, their feedback, you know, on the ground and get people and fans there and players, and they've been able to hand out the trophy to, like, a really good field at each turn at each championship. And it just sucks that this one is not going to be as, as big of a field and as good of a field just because of all the restrictions and everything that's happening. Did I see Matt Wolf's not playing too? Yeah, he withdrew, yeah.

Yeah, it's just tough. It's tough. I will say, I don't think I'm taking it as a huge, like, there's certainly some names, some notable names that aren't coming, a deki being the top since he just won the last masters. But, I mean, I don't think it's a crazy list. I mean, it's Sung-JM, Kevin Na, Mathwell, Bubba Watson, Sioux Kim, Z-J, you know, but it's not like,

I think that's everybody in the top 100 that I see, mine is Z-J being at 123. But I think if in a normally-year-old, year if you if that name of list of names came out and said they're pulling out the open championship you'd be like that's crazy right you'd be stunned i mean look like wolf is ranked 35 in the world you've got um him is ranked like 16 he's ranked 27th and then you got see who cam is ranked 50th obviously hadeky's ranked very high bubba's a one of the top players like that's become a storyline i think i'm not saying it i don't think there's like an asterisk if somebody

wins no it's not not But it's a little bit of a storyline. It's like, all right, you're missing a good, I would say, handful of players that could, that couldn't, that it wouldn't be surprising if they won the British Open. Right. The only reason I compare to the other championships is because the other championships have just been able to like unleash just the regular world on us, right? Like we just watched that Kiowa. It's just the world was back. The U.S. Open, the world is back.

Like, it's, and now you go to this and there's all these storylines still about the restrictions that the players have to go. through and all the contact that they're getting into. Like you didn't hear about any of this with any of the other championships. And I get it. Like these guys are going across the world, but it is what it is. It sucks. And I hate that it's going to take away from it a little bit. But whoa, by Sunday, it'll be fine.

We'll just have moved on. And it's as if those guys just missed the cut and like a champion will be awarded. Yeah. And I would say just like on a logical level, looking at like the Euro World Cup or Euro Cup final. Like there's what, 65. 5,000 people in that stadium and thousands and thousands trying to get in outside in London. And then you go a little bit south to this tournament. And it's like, guys, because they flew over on an airplane, like, can't stay in a house with another guy in the PJ tour.

And they got to withdraw into their vaccinated and test negative. It's just the whole thing is very illogical when you look at it that way. It seems a little bit ridiculous. And then when you factor in a hand or 15 or so withdrawals, it just starts to be something that's like, it feels a little bit different. Now, the chorus and all that, it's going to be a British show, but it's going to be the first time in two years.

There's more history with this tournament than any other tournament in the world by far. You get the champion golfer of the year. You get the claret jug. You get the whole shebang. So you're right. Once it comes to Sunday, we're just going to forget about all of what we're talking about right now. And that's probably what we should get to,

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com find out where they have it locally so you can just go to the store and pick it up easy owens mixers making awesome cocktails very easy so big thanks to owens mixers for existing um gentlemen i'm going to go through very quickly um some facts about the british open uh because the barstool classic got rained out today in st louis and i was bored and i was just googling stuff throughout the day um the first british album was played in 1860 it was played between eight people That's, by the way, about the same exact time that the Civil War started. Started in 1860. It was started at Preswick Golf Club, which held the British Open Championship, if you will, for several years.

It was played, like I said, between eight people. It was three different clubs, sent a bunch of folks. We had Alan Robertson was the most famous of all of these pros at the time, and so they got together. I'm like, oh, we should do a tournament. Did the tournament. It was won that year. again by Alan Robertson, who was the best player. And then it gets very, very dicey when we get to the Open Championship getting into the

young Tom Morris era, where they basically played for this awesome belt. And it was like a belt with like medieval pageantry and all kinds of cool stuff that replaced a, you know, a trophy and that's what they played for. But the rules they had stated were that if anyone ever wins the damn thing three years in a row, that person just gets to keep the belt. So young Tom Morris, from 1868, 1869 and 1870, young Tom Morris won three consecutive times. And the next year, there just wasn't a belt. So in 1871, there wasn't a tournament. No way. I got to tell you, that's just poor planning, being like, throwing out an arbitrary

number where it's like, if you win three of these in a row, you get to keep the belt. And after the third, Tom Morris must just been like, this belt is now mine and I get to keep it. Like, of the belt, like, the belt would have been a cool thing if it were still around now. Oh, it'd be the biggest thing on social media is you got to, you were like you were a WWE star when you won the most old prestigious tournament in golf. You got a belt. It says the first rule of the new golf competition was the party winning the belt shall always leave the belt with the treasurer of the club until he produces a guarantee to the

satisfaction of the above committee that the belt shall be safely kept and laid on the table at the next meeting to compete for it until it becomes the property of the winner by being won three times in succession. And then about 10 years into it, young Tom Morris just won the belt three times in a row. 1871, no tournament. So then in September of 1872, an agreement was reached between Presswick, between the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, which obviously the R&A now, they decided that each of the three clubs

would contribute 10 euros towards the cost of a new trophy, which was to be a silver claret jug known officially now as the golf champion trophy and hosting of the Open would be rotated between the three clubs. These decisions were taken too late for the trophy to be presented

to the 1872 Open Champion, who was once again young Tom Morris. Instead, he was awarded a medal described the golf champion trophy, although he is the first to be engraved on the claret jug after it was made, medals have been given to and kept by the winner ever since. No way. Also, when you were speaking and when you were given this little history lesson, which I will say it was lovely, I Wikipedia at Old Tom Morris, and in his Wikipedia podium, he is

wearing the challenge belt, which is one of the largest preposterous belts of all time. And then it says, like, if you click into the challenge belt, there was no, like, championship trophy the next year. And then they came out with a Clare of Chuck. So, well done to old Tom Morris. I mean, that is absolutely fantastic. It's a great photo for your Wikipedia page. So when they didn't have a belt anymore, they no longer held the tournament as well.

They literally, they were like, dude, this guy just won, he just won. And now we don't have a belt, so the tournament's over. It's like they went to war. I mean, like, no, no. Like, we can't. We're done. We want it off. I think you keep...

All right. So you give old Tommy the first belt. That's fine. But you bring in a new belt. And then, like, think about now. No one's getting that belt ever, for the most part. Like, that's just a belt that keeps going. Yeah, if you win it...

It's bigger than an eight-man field. Eight-man field makes it attainable. It makes it much easier. But if you, like, you still have the belt rule where if you win three of them in a row, you get to keep the belt. But how often does that happen? Never. I got to tell you, Trent, though, if they had the three win rule now, again, still,

where somebody just, the trophy was theirs forever. Dude, I'm like, it would change the whole game. Like, if that tournament just ended, like, if you could end the U.S. Open forever, if you just won it three times in a row, and then they just, I don't know, the U.S.GA has to, like, figure it out and come up with something new. That would be phenomenal. They blew it. They blew it.

I like that they do the belt. I like that they give it away. And I like that there has, yeah, there has to be a gap year if a guy wins three in a row, then you just have to regroup for a year and you don't have it. Because like, imagine a guy, imagine if a guy these days, like in the next couple of years had won two British opens in a row. The hype around that tournament being like, he might be able to keep the belt at the end of this weekend. That would be a story all in its own, probably the number one story going into that week. Dude, yeah.

Like there'd be nothing like it. Imagine the Masters if that was the rule. And you just, like, dude, if he wins three green jackets in a row, it's just over. Riggs, he's frozen. But yeah, I mean, essentially, why he's frozen and coming back, like, you could potentially kill the golf tournament. I mean, if you, the U.S. Open would set it up that if you're like a cut player, they would just make it impossible to have a cut and actually have any success.

They would just, golf would destroy you if you had two wins. And the rigs, it looks like you're back. So you went just completely frozen mid. kind of the climax of your point. So it was actually a perfect time to freeze up. No, I'm back. I just love this. I think this is very interesting.

I get it sounds like they were idiots. They didn't know what they were doing, but they actually might have been geniuses. And I think they're just like, yeah, nobody will ever win it three times in a row. And then he did, and they didn't know what to do. Another interesting fact when I was going down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia with young Tom Morris,

young Tom Morris literally died of like a broken heart. I was just, you know, I was waiting for you guys to do your thing, and I was going to say, you know, what else ended abruptly, like the championship was Young Tom Morris's life. And it's kind of a sad, horrific story to the point where I just kept reading because, like, I was like, why is this guy's name Youngtown Morris? I think it's just because he fucking died young and he was, like, sick when he was a young player. I mean, like, it says on Wikipedia his dad's old Tom Morris. I don't even know if that's true, but it has to be, right? Oh, his dad, Old Tom Morris, like, invented St. Andrews. So these guys just dominated forever.

So he was born in, so, okay, so as it says, he was born St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland. He's like, a young Tom Morris is like Ken Griffey Jr. And he died at 24 of a, it was a pulmonary, what did it say? He literally died, his lungs, his lungs legitimately just, like, bled out. and he died because his wife and baby, like, passed away when they were giving, when she was giving birth to the child. And he got there and, like, couldn't handle it. And like years later, on Christmas just died. On Christmas?

On Christmas. Oh. He legit died of like a broken heart. I mean, it was pretty terrible. He actually, I was getting deep in this too. Played a match at, like, North Barrack with his dad, Old Tom Morris, who by the way, Old Tom Morris won the 1861, 1862, 186. 1864, 1867 British Open and was like the head pro and like head architect at the old course at St. Andrews. And then his son, young Tom Morris, ended the British Open by just winning

it too many times in a row. But then they, the two of them had like an intense match across like the sound or whatever it is down in, down in North Barrack. And then he got like a telegram with two holes left it said that I was reading deep on this that his wife and you know um coming baby were in bad shape finished the match won the match jumped on like a boat across but didn't really know when he got back found out that they had both died and then I think it was like a few months later but you're right it was like Christmas day he died and obviously you don't have like all the medical stuff now but basically when you read into it it's like he just he was so sad that he couldn't go on so even though this is kind of an interesting little history.

It gets pretty sad. It's really fucking dark. Jesus. Dying on Christmas. Nobody should die on Christmas. That's like, that's the worst thing. And if anybody has like a negative experience towards like Christmas or something that like

ruins that day for them, I feel badly for them. Like they deserve a hug or something like that because Christmas is one of the all time holiday. We could just be Jewish. You could, but like, yeah, if you're not Jewish, you know, or any other religion that doesn't. celebrate Christmas, but you can give them all hugs. No, I'm just, you get what I mean, no, Frankie.

It's like, I mean, because my, what my, I just wanted to trip you up there a little bit. Huh? Just wanted to trip you up there a little bit. No, I mean, but you get my point. I mean, yes, you can find a crappy point with that. I've got a lot of people that don't like Christmas. Yeah, I guess we're right. So, anyway.

Billions of people. Billions of hugs. They fucking hate Christmas. They fucking hate Christmas. Is it the majority? Yeah, but it's not because something bad happens. I'd say the majority of people on the world don't like Christmas. But not because something bad happened to them.

No, not because Young Tom Morris died of a leaky valve. Right, that's the point I was making. Yeah, Leaky valve is right. Yeah, that's fair. Fucking Young Tom Morris, man. Also, all these stats are like, this is like when the Rangers won three cups before the fucking expansion. Like, they had six teams in the league.

It's like Young Tom Morris went in four championships that fucking before he's 21 he played against fucking the guy who walked the sheep down the block because he knew how to swing a golf club his dad invented the fucking thing it's like come on man this is what we always say we want to we want to audit sam sneed's wind total it's crazy like come on young tom morris being a four-time open champion i mean i will say that is the morris family like the most famous family in golf yeah i would say because old thomas old tom morris trained Donald Ross about course design. So you just, you have this like,

massive, like, golfing tree of the Morris family. I'll be honest, when we started talking about Youngtown Morris, it tripped me up. I didn't know that it was this family. Because you hear the name Morris. And you hear it same. When he started saying Youngtown Morris, I almost thought it was one in the same.

Like, that's why I actually went into the death because I'm like, oh, this guy must have just became old and like, fair. And the whole thing's tricky because, I mean, they do the same thing with the old court. Like the new course at San Andreas is like a, 130 years old. So it's like they do this old news. Like when did they start calling young Tom Morris young like were they calling him to his face young Tom or was he like is that something that came 80 years later when they're like how are we going to distinguish between the two Tom Morris's? We have to go over there because I like you guys have both been there and like I just feel like you are in the mix of like the history when you're there. It's almost like going to fucking like England and like doing all the tours of the castles and stuff like you just know more. You just know more. about the history when you're there.

I want to go there and see it. Like, I want to go to St. Andrews. I want to go there really bad, honestly. It's a different, it's a different experience. It's unlike anything in the world. I think he could just fucking, his baby cuts all over the place and never get in trouble off the tea

and just be fucking awesome at golf. Yeah, but those bunkers, man, those bunkers are there. Oh, true, true, true. And they're real. Woo! Just keep digging down and just took this fucking sand over him. Just fucking kill him in one of those things. That's so true.

one of the all-time moves from you was when you chipped in and you gave him the Michael Jordan little like you did that as well as any human being could mimic another action it was incredible I also felt bad because like I knew he wasn't going to get the hundred and I'm celebrating a fucking chip in it's just like I was sorry dude I don't know I didn't it's gotten significant people now speaking of that people now think that like my yips and the Butter and I's are gone. Boy, are they wrong. Dude, they weren't gone last week and we played. You chipped it pretty good. Yeah, today was bad. But I think I'm just run down.

I got back from a bachelor party. Went straight to fucking, right, straight to a wedding. It was straight to the golf. It was just, I think today was a bad day all around. But it is what it is.

You get some sleep tonight. I didn't get some sleep. Yeah, we're going to Michigan. But hey, I like this history lesson, Regs. That was good.

That was. What should add that to your little thing. You should add that to your little buffet that we're going to do. You just give us. Secrets? It was history on like either a golf course or a player, someone that died young. I'll give you history.

I love history. You guys know I'm obsessed with history. It's probably my favorite subject outside of golf. Call it Professor Riggs, all right? It would actually be pretty funny if you put together a little history lesson that you thought somebody would like. So like round one, you do it for Trent. Then you go to me. Then you go to Frankie so you find something real dark and just share it with her.

and rotate it around and try to pick literally history blurbs for each person on the show, I think would be great. Seems like a lot of work, but yeah, you know, these might be able to fix that in there. We'll see. On the 18 flights you take a month, you can just do it on the flights. I'm always looking for shit to do on the flights. I usually do podcasts because you guys know me. I like to sleep. I just sleep on planes.

Podcasts a great way to. to just like kind of like zone out and pass out. I just started Joe Rogan talking to, um, uh, oh my God. Oh boy. Oh my God. Oh, Quintan, no. Which I'm really into. I heard that one's good.

I haven't listened to that one. I, uh, I listened to part of that, but then it did send me down a rabbit hole watching Tarantino movies. So I've been doing that a lot. Which is fun to do. It's so fun. Really cool that like he paved, like, I mean,

the fact that he was just like, I'm going to make these movies. he's like, I want them, and if you don't want to buy them, like, you don't have, like, I'm just going to make them as gory and as fucked up as possible. And there's no one that's going to tell me no. Like, I'm not taking shit out. It just worked. It's crazy. They're very good.

It's been really fun to go back through them. My favorite lies when some, he goes, and I'm only like a half an hour, but they say, uh, Rogan goes, oh, like, what about, like, wasn't there any pushback? Like, didn't they tell you to, like, not do that? And he's like, who the fuck is they? Like, I just made the movie. They didn't stop me from doing anything, which I think you can apply to a lot of things in your life. Like, oh, like, are they going to be mad at that?

Like, who? No, I'm just going to do something. I don't know. That's not going to stop me from legitimately doing something that I want to do that I think is the right way. You know what I mean? I thought that was really cool. Super unique guy. Definitely.

I mean, I would say that's kind of how we approach it. Right. No, like, who's they? We're just going to do the golf coverage how we want to do the golf coverage. Oh, won't they be mad that you guys fist-bumped Tiger Woods and, like, tweet it out like your fanboys at the President's Cup in Australia? Yeah, they would be mad and it fucking worked. It's also like you can't, they isn't a real thing.

Like, whenever you think about a critique, there's a source to it, but it also, it's never the same the next time. So like when you do something the next time that you think is going to piss day off, it's not the they from the four, it's a fucking new they. And they, like, so for them to, so for you to, but what I'm saying is for you to adjust the way that you do things, based. on that is basing it off of an inconsistent source. That's a never-ending cycle.

They is always going to be there and it's always going to hate stuff and it's always going to, they're always going to want you to not do anything. Like, I mean, it's just like the microcosm of they on Twitter is hilarious. Like no matter what you say on either side, Dave Portnoy is the perfect example. He's like, they will hate me no matter what I do. If I go on this channel or that channel I do this interview, that interview, they will be mad. There's going to be, it's like being the president. Like half the country hates you, half the country likes you.

They will always be mad, no matter what you do. So it's like you can't adjust your life based off of the day. I don't know how that we got into this, but I fucking, oh, kind of Tarantino. I somehow compared our podcast to Quentin Tarantino. So that's how we got her. Yeah, no, I didn't, I didn't mean to do that, but, but I did. McEnato, all right? I'm telling him macanudo is kind of changed.

It can change your day, man. It could take it from like a pretty cool, casual round to an ultimately, memorable, super enjoyable next level round. I have added the macanudo. We got the cool cigar cases, which we whipped up with the green, the macanudo ones. They're easy to slide in the golf bag now.

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I'm just kind of a cigar on the golf course guy now. Dude, I went to this bachelor party. My first one, congratulations to Nick. A lot of fun. We went to Hilton Head, by the way. Maybe we can get a little bit. Congrats, Nick. Yeah, because it was just like, Hilton Head's a pretty cool place.

We didn't do much golf, but do much golf. People are going to hate that. But I love it. Fuck them. Fuck them. Yeah, fuck they. Who is they? Oh, my God.

Oh, I thought I said they were going to hate that. I thought I fucking just subconscious. It's the same idea though. Right. People are going to hate that. Fuck them. I didn't do much golf. And I showed up to the house and I had this.

I got a box from macanudos and it was the red, you know, the inspirato's that we like, the maconudos. And I opened this thing up and it's got 20 cigars in there, all perfectly wrapped. And it's got all the information on the inside, right? Like the hints that are going to be coming in and what you're going to taste and your experience. There's like a whole like experience when you open. up the box. There's like this fake wood looking thing in there. It almost looks like it's been presented to you from like the people that legitimately like made the cigar with their hands. Like it's just, it is such a cool experience to be able to hand someone a cigar because I feel

like when you're with a big group of guys, to be the cigar guy is just such a good guy to be. And it's like I have brought you a cool experience. I'm about to make you look really awesome. You're going to smoke this thing. You're going to enjoy it. It's going to be fun for everyone. We're going to have a great conversation around it. and I'm the one that brought that to you. So be that guy. Bring the cigars to the party. Get the macanudos.

Get the case, too, that comes with it. That case, every time I pull that case out, it's on the Barstall's store. I think you can sign up to get the next order of them because they sold out in like a blip. But you have to sign up to let us know if you want the next one. When you pull that case out of your bag, the whole foursomes like going crazy. I mean, they don't know what's happening. And you open it up and you got cigars in there. Are you kidding me?

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most British opens. I was going to say the old course. Yeah, I mean, that seems... It feels like the obvious answer, so that can't be the right answer. You know what I mean? It's the old course with 29. Wow, I like the way he did that. Guess which one second?

Partners. No. Good delivery on here. You won't get it. I don't think you'll get it. You don't think we'll get it? No, Presswick. Presswick, which doesn't even...

He doesn't even host him. He did, you nailed it. Good job. It's hosted 24. So 29 for the old course, 24 for Presswick. Third is Meirfield with 16. Fourth is Royal St. George's with 14, which is where we're at this week. Kind of sneaky up there, as you can tell, like the Rhoda evolves a little bit.

But Royal St. George's in Sandwich, England. I don't know a ton about it. It's been since Darren Clark won there in 2011. last time they hosted the British Open there. And then before that it was like 2003 or something along those lines. So, you know, you kind of get into a few of the courses on the, well, you know, obviously the old course. It feels like Karnusti, a couple other ones I don't know that you kind of get to know the holes, especially the old course you know the holes. This one, it almost feels like I'm going in completely blind.

I've actually followed the Open on Instagram for the past couple of years for some reason. and they post pretty damn consistently to the point where it's like I've just known about this tournament coming up because they have constantly been like, all right, it's next year, it's next year, it's coming up. And like, I've seen so much of the golf course and they've put up such phenomenal photos, like the best sunset photos of all time. If you go and just take a gander at the Open's Instagram page, you're going to get so jacked up for this championship because they do a great job.

They put a lot of content out. They do like the road to the open. They're doing quotes from all the players about like how cool. it is. They have these sick pictures of of players and raining winners with like how many days are left. It's just you kind of get just jacked up for it. They almost do like as good of a job as the

masters and like promoting like on social media like promoting like that it's coming up. Like guys walking down like an old cobble road and like getting ready to go. It's really fucking cool. They're very, very good. One of my favorite things is the like the ticker countdown post like where it said it just, you just showed us three days to open. Like I know that from.

hockey season or the NFL, they'll put like, you know, they'll do Patrick Kane, like 88 days or something like that. You're like, whoa, it's only 88 days until this thing kicks off. Those are some of my favorite kind of like sneaky posts of people put out for whatever reason. But Frankie, I agree with you. That open account is just a good account. They like post good pictures, good content. Like this one post six hours ago, I think is really unique. Like, would you, like, it's basically something like we would talk about.

It says, would you carry the Himalaya bunker on the. the fourth hole at Royal State Georgia's. Comment below. And it basically is a flyover of the hole. And it tells you all the information as it flies over. It's like it's a 270 carry. It's a 2.92 to the fairway bunker. Like, so like comment below.

Like, are you going to hit this fairway? Can you go over it? Or are you going to go below it? Like, that's something I was sending to my buddies. Like, are you taking this bunker on the right? Like, they do a good fucking job, man. Like, shout out to the open. I don't know why I'm pumping their tires so hard, but it is what it is.

Some of those Europeans and figuring out social media and how to do content that we just haven't figured out over here on the golf side. It's amazing. Yeah, the, the, the, the European tour again put out a video that went viral of like, guys basically doing impractical jokers and like, the fake pundit, even like a cool name. Like, I feel like if we tried to do that, be the most like embarrassing thing of all time, but it was like funny. I like chuckled the entire time. They crushed it. I mean, they got like a million views on Twitter with that thing. It is very funny. I'll say that those are probably, those are hard videos for me to watch. It's such

secondhand embarrassment. It's very difficult for me to watch those. Totally. I can't watch stuff like that sometimes. If we're giving shoutouts right now, I do have to give a shout out to, there's a YouTube group called Good Good on YouTube. They're a golf brand, right?

And these guys are fucking just good at golf. And this fucking kid had a hole in one, made a hole in one on a par four the other day. And you guys had, like, it was all over fucking social media. I just think that's one of the more impressive things I've ever seen. The kid absolutely fucking laced a drive. thought their reactions were hilarious.

They sprinted to the green, like they were in, like, the 40-yard dash. And it's like, I was watching my buddies. I was just like, this is, that's got to be the craziest thing that's ever happened on a golf course. Dude, they also, you'll never see anything better. The other kid called it. He, like, called it before. He was like.

He's like, clear it. Like, get over it. Got a feel. No, he's like, I got a, I got a feel in here, like something or see. He said something. Did he say it before the swing? Yeah, it was insane. And then he fucking drained it.

And then the kid hits it. And it's like on such a good. line and the kid they saw it bounce on the green and the one kid reacted like oh what a shot and then when it goes in they literally just fucking lose their minds like that is I think you're right

the chances of that actually happening that's infinitely infinitely higher than a hole in one on a normal part three when we watch these guys do the 500 swings challenge on the European tour which is great by the way like that was unbelievable that that guy did that and I just

I chuckled at the kids that were filming on the green because I could picture just like like the one kid just goes no fucking way like as it's rolling do and I can just picture like our guys like Jake or Brendan like witnessing like imagine like lurch just steps up and just drains a hole in one on a par four what they would do to be honest we probably fucking miss the footage or something like the barstool like difference would be like we'd fucking just not have a drone up there or something but in Australia remember I put that to like three inches on the par four do you remember that yeah yeah And that was just forgotten footage.

Like nobody, we kind of had it. That's what I was going to say, dude. I think, like, Jake would be up there filming and he'd just be like, good shot. He wouldn't even be like, all right. No, our fucking guys kill it. But, like, I just, I laughed at that reaction because I'm just like, I don't even know what I would say if I watched the ball go to the hole. So that was a good video. Do we?

Everywhere. Going back to the European tour and how good they are at social media, which they are very good at it, do we think there's one guy or one girl? Like, is there one brain behind all of these ideas? It sort of feels that way. I would assume they have, like, a team, no? Like, that they, like, actually try and crank out content. They got to have a head, like, director of content that crushes it.

They just, they have to because, I mean, I'm not. They have, like, a Dave Portnoy of golf content. Like, the European tour has, like, a mogul, like, behind their closed doors that we don't know about. that's just crushing golf content. That's what I mean because if it's, you know, not the shit on the PJ tour, but like if you're a golf media, or if you're a golf outlet like they are,

they kind of do what you expect a PJ tour to do as a content company. But then you've got something going on with the European tour where, again, it might not be one person or it might be a team, but it just feels like they've got somebody over there who has said, we are doing it this way, and this is the better way to do it,

and they are doing it the correct way. Do you think they get a free pass to try new things because number one that are the European tour so when guys go over there it's almost like all right it's not as like prestigious as a PGA tour and like all these championships over whatever and also they're just European so like everything

they do is just nicer funnier like it just comes off like a Morikawa doing that video the other day like I feel like it doesn't come off as easy if you just do it at like Belarieve and like saying you know what I mean like it's like the fact that it's the Scottish Open and all this stuff that's happening like the fact that they're Euros yeah like

I think it's clear that they get more of a pass and more leeway because they need to make fireworks because they're not as big as the PGA tour. Whereas the PGA tour, I think, is a little bit more complacent, which leads to just boring content. And yeah, I don't know that you could get away with that. It seems a little bit more serious. It seems a little bit more like rigid around the PGA tour events and like certain guys. Whereas over there, yeah, I don't know. They're bored.

But again, like, whenever we've just been in the mix with guys, like you're able to get good stuff. you just put like good interesting people with with them. I think you get good stuff. Right. Like I think the the rigidness and the boringness of it. I think the PJ Tour has set that bar. Oh yeah. No, we're talking about like entities, like organizations, like not like the meat.

Like there's a million people that can make golf interesting. We do it on a daily basis, I would assume, I would hope. But what I like, the fact that the European Tour is like able to take those risks as if they are. And I think we've talked about this. Like they basically act like a podcast. Like they go out. there and make like skits and videos and like they like push the like the line and like they they're always like on the edge of like almost going too far for like an actual organization right i mean like

that that skit of them like whatever it was the last year or maybe a couple months ago when they did the anger management yeah like you would never see another organization that like runs tournaments and like actually like hands out the money to these players do that like you never see the mlb do that like when the hl does stuff they bring like a card trick guy and like the guy like spooks the guys at the fucking all-star game he's like oh my guy did a trick like no these guys are like writing they were writing sketches they handed out a script do you think like um like uk people in general are just like funnier than american people ricky jerva like ricky jervais is just like one of the funniest people in

the fucking world and when you listen to that brian bomb garner um uh podcast about how the the um the office it's like the office It's an oral history of the office He has Ricky on And it's just like The way he talks about like Just being able to be funny And just start shows

And like how Americans have such a like More difficult time Because we are so fucking like different And like we like everyone else And walk in a straight line He's like we just fucking Like to live life And just like see it how it is

And usually it's a funny way That we see it And like we just happen to like Just crack jokes And we don't take things so seriously It is true It's like a way of life over there to just be a little bit more easygoing. Yeah.

They're just funny. Like when I meet, you know, like an Irish dude or something, but I feel like he's just more likely to be funnier than my average American dude that I meet. Amon Lynch can just say, like, let's go get coffee tomorrow and we would all laugh. I think I convinced him to come on the show, by the way. Really? It's impossible. Would you have him drugged?

Yeah, kind of. We were drinking a little bit of long. He was going to say, did you, like, tie him up in the back of the fucking car? I thought you'd have to throw him in a trunk to get him on the show. I think he's loosening up. I think he's loosening up, you know? I think he's looking to make a little bit of a maybe a podcast appearance. I told him.

I was like, the only, the one stipulation I have for him coming on this show is I need him to be who he is. Yes. That's what I told. Okay. Because he does great, he does great hits on golf channel and all those things.

But that's not the Aiman Lynch that I want on this podcast. You know, I said that to him and he goes, um, what fucking curse? Does that make me cool? or something. Right, right. Because the guy that we run into it,

every tournament that we go to, is just a very, very funny person. He's so funny, dude. And if he, we can get that guy in this show, I'm in. I'm so in. Like the office would, the office,

when they were casting, like, the English version of the office would have been doing laps and cartwheels in their writer's room if they would have been able to draw up a character, like the Aman Lynch that we find. Like the guy, guy that just wants to like just see the worst and everything around him and like absolutely just

eviscerate people in his presence, but then also be able to like turn it on when his like suit and ties like tied tight is a very funny character. Dude, he, so I got, uh, I got a drink with him when I was in New York, whatever. The last night I was there like Friday night. We went to our boy Eric's place, Jabe spoke, amazing spot. You want to go to a speak easy in New York, get a good cocktail. But we're sitting there. He called me like a driveling half-wit at one point.

It was the funniest shit I've ever. I go, you just call me a half-wit? He's like, yeah. I was like, dude, he's just funny. The shit that he says is very, very funny. So my promise to you guys, by the end of the year, we're going to get that little fucker on this podcast. Love it.

Yeah. But great job by the European tour. Very, very good job. We're going to be playing golf in Michigan. As we mentioned, you want to be playing golf too. We're playing golf in Michigan or in Missouri, New Jersey, Arizona, or wherever you're from, the Barstool Golf Time app. We teamed up with Supreme Golf.

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People say if you go to Michigan, you never going to go anywhere else. It's pure Michigan. It's under the radar. It's gorgeous up there in the summer. The courses are immaculate. You got great undulation and hills. You got lakes. It's supposed to be awesome.

Also, the Barstall Sportsbook app is live in Michigan. There's nothing this crew loves than whip it. up that app, getting involved, and placing some bets when you have a major championship going on like you have the Open Championship. So what we're going to be doing is we're going to be using the Barstool app, Barstool Sportsbook app. We're going to be literally betting. We're going to be live streaming, probably Sunday. We're going to live stream the rounds of the tournament and just getting after it because

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logo that like i that we've thrown on a polo and i really like it so i think everyone's got to get in on this we'll be also crazy to me that that's only minus 167. Like for those three guys to make the cut, I would think that that's minus 500. Maybe that's why. Yeah, I mean,

that's just gambling, which is great. You know, responsibly, you can do that with Barcelona sports book, 180 gambler if you have a problem. But John Rom is probably the best player in the world right now. I know DJ just went to number one,

but Rom is like unstoppable right now. Justin Thomas is Justin Thomas. He might be, I mean, I think I picked them maybe over the next five years to be the best player. And then Jordan Spieth has, I think, eight top tens in like 12 or 14 starts this year. So he's playing for Naddle. He won the British Open. What was that? 2017. So four years ago, only three opens ago that he won. So now these three guys, they're just kind of make the cut. That's it. Just

literally make the cut. J.T. If you're worried about his links golf history, J.T. played great this past weekend. He missed a few puts. Couldn't make any puts. And he still was double digits under par, I believe, for the week. So these, look, these guys, Rahm had a good chance to win. So it's kind of a no-brainer. Going through the odds, John Rom is a, I believe, a massive favorite to win the tournament. I think he was like, what, plus 750 I saw on the Barstville Sportsbook app to win it. And then you get Zanders plus 1,600. And then you get into Brooks and Roarier, both plus 1,800. And Spieth and JT are both 2,000 plus 2,000 to win, 21. So I don't know who we like out of that field.

And then another interesting bet that I saw was the group winner between Rom, Zander, Brooks, Rory, and Speath. They're all, like, pretty good plus money. Roms plus 175. Zanders plus 335. Brooks is plus 450. Rory's plus 450 and Speeth is plus 450. So I kind of like picking, for me, I might put Brooks Kepka out of that because these

stats are the best combined score to par in major since 2016. Brooks Kepka is 84 under par. and the next best are DJ and Zander who are 21 under bar. Wow. Isn't that nuts? That is crazy. That's mind-blowing. Dude, that's so much better.

You say 84 to 20, what did you say? What is it kept to again? 84 under par since 2016 and DJ and Zander both tied at 21 under. Jeez. It doesn't even make sense that they were playing the same tournament. So that seems so far off. He's been insane in major championships over the last four years. Insane.

Lurch, what do you like? You're a guy. You're a Lurchy-Lose Picks guy. Who do you like? Sure am. Dude, this past weekend, John Deere. Stevie Strick just screwed me. Makes a Bernie on the 18th to go T-40.

And then somebody drops from the T-40 spots to T-34, whatever it is, to bump our guys up to T-41. Another miss on the old Lurgy-Lose-Pix. but we're out there really grinding. The Kepka statistic is interesting. I actually like Rory this week for whatever reason. It's like not as many people seem to be talking the last time we were here because last year got canceled to two years ago.

Too much talk about him. Obviously blew up on day one. They just replayed that first T-shot. I saw that in live from earlier. They did like the whole thing where he was like kind of introduced. It was like watching McGregor's ankle. Dude, he stood over it and was like, he would re-grip the club like Sergio in like 2002 and then looked up and just knifed one out of bounds left.

And I was, I almost had to change the channels. It is. It's amazing that, and it is and it isn't, because we talk about nerves and pressure on this show a lot, just because that's part of golf. But the fact that there was so much build up with Rory, and then he actually got so nervous that he fucking did that is, is, I honestly can't believe that it happened. Anybody can do it.

Golf is incredibly difficult, but for Rory McElroy to do that and for it to be so clear the reason why it happened is really still one of the more surprising things ever. Yeah, I mean, really, really. It was, I said it was exactly like McGregor's ankle.

I thought Frankie was going to barf in that barrier. Oh my God. It was like, I don't know if you guys saw that, but I just turned the TV off. I was just like, I was actually getting a late flight home, what the fight was on Saturday. So I landed in JFK at like 1230 and I saw the fight is happening today or some like some like promo, some little notification slid down. So I'm just going to buy this and watch this on the drive the Uber home from JFK back to New Jersey. And then I found out it was

Saturday night. So I just bought the fight and it was like, I don't even really care about this. But now I guess I'll launch it. So I watched it on Saturday night. And it was one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen on TV. To the point I was like, I'm just never going to watch. MMA. Yeah, it was, I actually didn't get to see the fight live. I just saw it on Twitter. We were in Hilton Head.

Yeah. And that place, and I just want to get into this because I know a lot, I got a lot of messages about like, is that a good spot for a bachelor party? Like, a lot of people were going down there. And to be honest, like, you have to be really prepared to go down there. This was like our first one that we went on as like a core group of friends, like my one buddy getting married, like no one else, everyone else is like, following along his like he's he's set the past so this four this group of kids this we didn't really

know how to do it and we had we put all our trust in one dude um actually rob who his teeth fall out oh no no rob was in charge of no smile rob yeah and you know what he's a great he he's really good at this stuff because he does like excel stuff at work while he just doesn't smile um so he was able to like set up a lot of stuff it's hard to to get a group of 12 guys to all agree on stuff and go places impossible and plan it's impossible possible. But Hilton had was a little bit tough to like really keep the vibes going. Like you're constantly waiting on Uber's. You're constantly trying to get into places like restaurants and it's like older people and like and the golf is really good. But like it's all the same kind of courses. Like every course we passed was like the same thing. And there's some really phenomenal courses like Harbortown obviously like Atlantic was down there. It's really good. And our house like it's just like if you're going to go down there you have to just make sure you're prepared like go to the grocery. Because like you got to go into these communities and getting into the community to show your pass to get into the community. Like we were in C-Pines took an hour to get in because there's just one road to get in.

So if you left the community, go get like beer and liquor, you're just gone for an hour. And like you're on a bachelor party. You want to get going. You're like, where are these people? And they're like, we just can't get back in. When I went to Hilton Head, I went with just my family of five and we went like fishing one day. And that was, it was perfect for that. But I could see for a badger party, like you said, it is a little bit more family oriented.

and like the place probably slows down around 8 or 9 p.m. There's one place called the Bar Muda Triangle, which I thought was a cool name. And like all these three bars just meet in the middle, just meet in the middle and you just like mingle. Oh, you're at that bar? I'll go in that way I mean. Like it's just the catch is that they all are the same bar,

even though they have different names. Like that's the catch. You can go into all of them. Classic Barmuda Triangle. My point was like they didn't show the fight. And like it wasn't like, so like we were sitting there like, how are you not showing the fight at the Barmuda Triangle?

Can we see this thing? And then all of a sudden you look on Twitter and the guy's leg snapped in half. So it's like, all right, I guess it was worth not staying back at the house. But I'd recommend, like, if you're going to do it, just get like a driver,

get like a party bus, go to like Savannah, like do different shit. Don't just stay on the island because there's not much to do except for golf and like stay at the house. I will say that I, I'm surprised your guys

first one wasn't Vegas. Because a lot of people just, they just go automatic, no thought, first batcher party, Vegas. This was like a, canceled wedding that got reschedule, so it was a COVID thing.

So when we originally planned it, it was New Orleans. That was going to be our first one. And then New Orleans got shut down, like rats were running in the street. COVID was a fucking nightmare down there. So we were like, no thank you. We didn't know if it was ever going to come back at that point. Like, now it's back. So we had to book another thing pretty well in advance.

And the guy that, the guy whose bachelor was is not a Vegas guy. Like, I feel like you have to be a Vegas guy. He wanted to play his one round of golf and he wanted to go to the beach and play beach volleyball and stuff. So all that stuff was fun and great. But I'm like, I would love to go to like Scott Seller or Vegas. I need like, I want to see some dark shit. Like I want to get into some

fucking, you know, I want to walk into some rooms where you're like, I don't know if I'm coming out. Like, you know what I mean? Like, Frankie wants to come back missing a limb. If you find that in Hilton Ed, you really are never coming out. You're like, you're just going to get murdered. I would say not a raving review for something you wanted to get to. You wanted

to talk about Hilton had. Why? Just to be prepared? I, no. I just I got so many messages about like guys are going there like what do you recommend and instead of answering all of them I wanted to say like I would book like Uber's well in advance or like a driver if you guys are trying to go out like it's it's one of those places where like you're on the island man and I'm sure there's a lot of place like that like Nantucket and all these places like once you're there it's kind of hard to get from place to place. you know what was a sneaky good bachelor party destination that I did one time was Chicago actually we went like yeah we rented like an awesome Airbnb and then went to like the playpen or whatever they call it on Lake Michigan that's like right on ocean drive there in front of downtown Chicago and it was a sneaky great scene for a bachelor party but again you'd almost have to have it where like nobody's from Chicago said it's a destination otherwise I feel like

especially like you're you're younger than we are so like Hilton Head seems almost more for a bachelor party for like our age type people now that like are more chill but you just like I felt like we just played the hits over and over it was like Austin Scottsdale Nashville Vegas run it again also have you ever been to key west riggs you were a yeah we did we did key west one time that place is Vegas of the east that place is real no no rules shocked me I did not know that that was the case dude that place is looting to it Yes. Dude, we were in for a whirlwind of a trip.

I remember that weekend. It happened fast. Dude, every bar you'd go into, Frankie was literally, I don't know if I'm coming out alive. Like, either I'm dying or like the guy I'm looking at right now is dying.

Like that place is no rules whatsoever. Man, there's water everywhere. So, like, you could just like go off and drown. Like, it was, that was mind-blowing because I think of Key West

is like retirement, hanging out, like, going fish in, asleep by six, up at 4 a.m. fishing again. And it's, no, this place is. Key West two. Key West two, you rolled in like at, you know, 10, 15 hung over to get like a coffee and a breakfast sandwich.

And the locals are already like ripping shots at the bar. Just like that's what they do on a day to day basis. And it smells like that. And it's, I mean, it was, it was no holds barred that place. The pool at our hotel was a circus. I mean, you couldn't. You can't describe the things that are happening. What was that like two years ago, Lurch, we went there, 2019 maybe?

I took, I didn't really, I met a buddy in Miami. We rented a Ford Mustang convertible and we're like, dude, everybody talks about this drive from Miami to Key West. So we did it. It was like three hours or something like that. Not the dream drive I was looking for. Really not that spectacular. So if anybody does it, just fly in there.

Don't you just go down that bridge the whole time? Really? Yeah. It's like you just take the bridge pretty much. And you just go from like up 20 feet like on a bridge to an island. Then you're on that for a mile and then you're up 20 feet to a bridge. And then it's just it's really not the most incredible drive. But Key West was a mind blow for me. I did not know what we're getting into. This one thing that threw me off and really my whole crew up because I relayed this information to them prior to us getting on the flight to Hilton Head was that I got this message from this guy, Mitch Geyer, Geyer, something. something, G-E-Y-E-R. And I, the first message was just someone in a hospital bed with their legs looking like they're about to be amputated, right? And then it took a little bit of time for him to send any information after that. And I'm invested in this thing. So he goes, what's up, Frankie?

We just listened to the pod and heard you guys are staying at Sea Pines. Watch out for the copperheads. We went on our yearly golf trip with my seven old high school friends and we stayed at a house exactly where you're staying. My buddy got out of his car in the driveway and just got bit by a copperhead poisonous snake. He's like, they're freaking everywhere. He didn't even play a single round of golf. He stayed in the hospital for three days. Didn't even have our bags unpacked yet. It's a nightmare. Anyway, have fun. Hit up the Bermuda Triangle. Let's see you later. I was just like, all right, Mitch.

So now we show up to fucking sea pines, and I'm like, guys, you got to watch out for these fucking copperheads. We're looking at the pictures of these things, and they just look like leaves. Have you seen what a copperhead snake looks like? It's a fucking... They blend right in, right? They just look like leaves. And we get to our house. There's leaves fucking everywhere because the Hurricane Elso just ripped through it. all these trees are down and shit. So it was like walking over like landmines and the fucking like like a war just ended. We were legitimately tiptoeing.

You're like Indiana Jones. We got into this Uber finally. It took us fucking four and a half hours to get Uber. We had this guy. His name was Courtney, a 90 year old guy driving fucking Uber. He had all these stories about all these places. He was handing out things to all the clubs. And he goes, uh, oh yeah.

Like he's like, oh, you'll see some out here. I'm like, Courtney, are you like fucking serious? He's like, they'll just fucking come out and get. you like it was just like what are we doing out here is like oh and the storm came through and that whips them up that takes them out of their homes oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so all of a sudden they're on like you're in they're in your shower you're like what's happening they're just fucking coming out of the toilet seats because hurricane elsa came through so yeah not the most glowing review for hilton then now that it's no but listen it's a fucking place to go go there's no fun you

can't get anywhere snakes coming out of the shower heads like golf courses are all the same was a good spot. Dolphin Head Golf Club is a good spot. It looked awesome. Yeah, it was good. Did you guys see the snake video of that snake, um, wiggling into a sand trap?

Yeah, I don't want to talk about that. No, I don't want to see it. Bro, it burrows himself into the sand. Dude, you just can't see the snake anymore.

Dude, then, then I, I tweeted about it because it was the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. And everyone's like, yeah, watch out for sand pretzels. That's what they called them.

They're like, when you're in a bunker, watch out, a sand pretzel. I was like, now what do you, there's footprints and shit? Like, what are you talking about a sand? Like, they can't they can't hide into the sand. That's illegal. Dude, this thing,

he doesn't even move. He's just, he's like curled up there a little bit. Then he just goes. Yeah, dude. And then he's just in the sand. Like, he's submerged in the sand. He uses his scales and it actually like lifts the sand over him. And he's able to go under, like someone underneath that tweet like responded like, yeah, this is how they do it. Like their little scales.

and their fucking ridiculous skin is able to bury themselves so that when you step over them they just grab you. What's that movie when they give sharks the giant brains and they become super smart and they like take over the world? That's,

I'm thinking it's like deep blue series. This, I feel like that's happened with snakes. Like they're in water cooler's now. They're in leaves. They're just hiding in zambungers waiting for people. Like, why are they attacking people all the time all of a sudden? I fucking hate snakes. I also hate spiders.

I saw a spider. wider walk across my bathroom and I almost fucking lit the place on fire down in Hilton. Hilton had sounds great, man. A glowing review. Holy fuck. Wow. Today's athletes deserve more than just your grandfather's tired, old, salty sports drink, which is full of artificial dyes.

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because there's just way too much sugar. Trent, tell me how much sugar's in Sour Patch kids. Do you know? I don't know off the top of my head, but it's a lot. He glances over it. He acknowledges it when he was eating it, but he doesn't retain the information. Or the sugar is killed off the brain cells that you can't remember it.

No, you just don't look at that negative. That's just the all part of the negative of Sour Patch. The good is inside, so you just rip off the cover and burn the cover. Right. And then shove those things down your mouth. Yeah, with like a sports drink, you're not thinking of it. about it. You're thinking like, oh, it's a sports drink. People drink this to refuel and do athletics. So when you turn it around and see how much sugar is in this other brand that's

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It's good for you. It's got a lot of really good stuff inside of it, and it tastes delicious. So get yourself some body armor. They got a lot of good flavors. Okay. Links golf. I'm excited. Overall, I'm extremely excited.

We haven't seen the Open Championship in two years. We got morning golf. I think coverage is at like 4 a.m. until 2 or 3 p.m. a lot of days, which is, you know, a little bit of a twist. And then in the summer months out here in the United States of America, you can get in a round of golf after the golf finishes up, after the British Open finishes up. Like I said, we're going to be in Michigan. We're going to be gambling on it. we're going to be playing a bunch of golf, which is going to be cool.

So people can, you know, brace themselves for that. People wondering what we're going to be playing. We're going to be playing Forest Dunes, which is supposed to be phenomenal. I got our guy, Scott, remember Scott who was the head greenskeeper at Cascada in Vegas? Oh, yeah. The guy that came out was like evilly laughing at us. Turn the greens up to a 14. Yeah, that was fun.

Yeah. he's doing he's doing a mission golf trip right now with his buddies played forest dunes today and text me and was like you guys forest dunes is going to steal the entire trip he said it's like band and trails out of band and dunes that it's just phenomenal and we're going to be playing three courses there and then you know to much the to the dismay of many people we're not going to be playing arcadia which is probably i think i've talked about probably the number one course that i get recommended to play all the time people tweeted at me pictures it's on um the lake, it's beautiful.

But I believe their ownership, it sounds like, just doesn't really care about press. They're just, they care a lot more about the experience, the guest experience. They don't want drones flying. They want people to just enjoy it. They don't want to have a whole camera crew out there. And if they do, they want it to be like a full production and they wanted us to do it like next year when we can stay in the hotel and we booked everything too late. So bottom line was if we were going to come in Saturday, play around that was going to be

kind of squeezed into the T-sheet, we weren't going to be able to film, which I actually kind of respect that they are just like, no, we're not going to ruin our other guest's experience. So if you guys want to come back and film, go for it, but we're not going to let you come in and film. So long story short, we're not going to Arcadia Bluffs. I got a couple other good options on the list. Sounds like there's just a ton of awesome public golf. So I think we're going to do the resort thing at Forest Dunes for a few days, which is supposed

to be off the charts. And then we're going to hit like a local hidden gym to give a little bit different flare instead of like this several hundred dollar, $150 whatever for its students cost per round course. We're going to hit you with another one too. That's a little bit more kind of for the common man locals and showcase a little bit of you know, Traverse City area golf in that regard too. So I'm quite excited. We got to figure out the format and all of that.

This will be the what we've done, Py-Hurz. We did Australia. We did Vegas. And this will be our fourth one, I believe. That's right. Could be interesting. I think that there's going to be, I think there's going to be some magic. I mean, we're just going to be in Michigan playing fucking golf.

Never played golf in Michigan. It's going to be exciting. And Trent's playing a lot better golf. And I think vibes are really high. And the fact that like, you know, I think we're all just, we're growing as a podcast and growing as golfers. And the fact that we have like just another trip coming up where we're going to do some sort of competition is exciting.

We had somewhat of a good competition in Vegas. We had some good matches. I mean, it wasn't the result that Lurch and I won. but it is like it's it's just fun to get back on the course and have people critique our games and make fun of our handicaps it's just really fun to be able to do that during the week I just really like turn the week I like yeah now that I'm I play a little bit better I'm playing a little bit better golf like these stretches because in New York City like you just go out for a full day and then like you maybe you have to wait a week now being able to play golf three or four times in a short span. I'm excited just to get that consistency going. And like you guys have all said, Michigan,

that's maybe the number one place we get recommended. So it's going to be a good time. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. I actually just made a swing change, which I'm very excited about. On my driver, I bring my feet much closer together. I used to have that crazy wide base. I think that makes me cut the ball more.

So, I mean, again, I've had one golf lesson in my life, but I think a wide base gives you a better chance to cut the ball because you can't really bring the golf club around you. So now I've tightened up my leg so I can more easily rotate the club around me to get more kind of like a draw on the golf ball. So again, teaching myself how to hit it, but it's made sense to me. So it's actually working. So I know, Rick, we played together last week, drove it terribly, did this little swing change, shot 77 the other. day. Wow. Wow. Are you sure you're trying to draw the golf ball off the tee? I just my miss, it's weird. Irons, I kind of have that like, you know, high sweeping hook that's my miss. But on my driver, it's kind of that like high, lazy slice right. And so I'm not trying to draw it.

I just want to get that miss out of the game, that ugly right ball out of there. And so I haven't seen, again, it's just like you correct it until now it just goes, the ball goes the other way. and try to straighten it out and try to hit a cut. But currently right now I'm hitting more, like, I would say fades than that kind of ugly slice. I think going in this will be the collective best golf that we've ever played on camera. Wow. I hope so because I sure hope so because we've, I filmed a little something today. And it was some bad.

Everyone just sat back. There's, I've got some bad vibes for my game going into this. So I hope to get those out of my head on the flight over there tomorrow. Hopefully I can find something on the flight. Maybe I read something. Maybe someone DMs me. I got the hooks right now off the T, which my game is the T shot. If I lose that, then I don't have really anything from T to green.

So I need something in my bag. And I've got the hooks. I'm ending up on my heels. I'm slow. I don't know if it's because I'm sore. I've been nonstop since Wednesday. We did Liberty on Wednesday, by the way. What a fucking day.

Thank you Riggs for having us out there. I mean, just the best day of all time. We did have a, we had a legendary, absolutely legendary day. But Frankie, you and I, we were an unstoppable force. I actually played well that day. Like, there was a couple holes here and there. But, yeah, no, like, you have one good swing on the range and all of a sudden you're, you're going to go to Frankie and Frankie's back.

I got really good vibes going to this trip. So I feel like we can turn you around quickly. I can be turned around quick. And I can also be turned around quick the other way. Like, I played well in Liberty. and then I went to this bachelor party and we woke up at 8 a.m. for a tea time after having the first night out the Thursday night

and it was like, boy, do I not want to golf right now? And then had a couple really bad swings on the driving range because I was so sore. And I just played so poorly and then took that into today. And so I need something to just revitalize me. Is that the word I want to look for? Yeah, you're out of gas a little bit too. I think you need like tonight, you're in a good night's sleep tomorrow.

We'll travel and then you get a good night's sleep tomorrow. You're going to be fine on Wednesday. All right, boys. Let's go. Let's play some golf. Let's go to Michigan. You know? I'm excited.

I've been to Michigan a couple times. I've gone to Michigan football games and stuff, so I'm looking forward to it. I like that state. Me too. I love Michigan. Pure Michigan. Great line from Kevin Kisner,

who just tweeted this morning. I just woke up. My man, Dwayne Bach up at 9.40 a.m. With a FaceTime call, the open is off to a hot start. That's what kids do. really good tweet that's just our squad man those are our guys that's the till gang wearing his 1776 hat it was just one of the hottest starts from kids of all time

well that hats from two years ago but it is a great oh it is okay i thought that was today totally missed that that was just a throwback i think a bunch of people were tweeting that as like yeah he he showed up but kiz did three years ago um which is only two opens ago he was t2 at Carnusti. Yeah. Cotonusti. He could have won that when Molyneari ended up taking down Tiger, but he was right there. I think he doubled one of the holes in the front nine, but then he kind of rallied and had

it going and finished T2. So he can play some open championship golf. It gets windy. I think that helps Kiz. So, yeah, I think he on the Barstall sports book was like 80 to 1 I saw or something, so I'm probably going to sprinkle a little bit of coin on Kevin Kisner to win. All right. Biggest news outside of things being, you know,

pertaining to the British Open is clearly, I think Bryson DeShambeau and his caddy situation. I don't think he's really another way to say it, but very weird little handling of the whole thing where they did like a golf.com exclusive, where Bryson weighed in, and then his caddy Tim Tucker weighed in. And to be honest,

Bryson Deschambo DM'd me, which I think everybody at Barstool handles the DMs differently in terms of like whether you talk about them or not or you think that's like kind of sacred ground. Like Dave, I think we'll just, he'll just read anybody's DMs that he goes back and forth with. He says he doesn't believe in DMs, which I think is hilarious. It's like the funniest wording because DMs are a thing,

but he says I don't believe in DMs. Like he doesn't believe in the fact that you can take it offline. He's never an offline guy. Like can we talk online? He says no. And he lets you know that. What's the owner of the Mets? Oh, Wilpon.

No, no, no, no, the new guy. Oh, God, Cohen. Yeah, and they were going back and forth on Twitter, and Cohen said recently, like, oh, let's take it offline, and Dave was like, we don't, I don't do that. I don't do offline. Like, offline, Dave says, like, offline is where the shady shit happens, and he likes to do everything online. He's made his living online, and that's what we do also. We make a living online. Like, we don't want to do it offline.

Yeah, he is right, but I do, I would say, though, I think everybody has a different line. Definitely. There's certain things you don't want. want to, whatever. So I'm not going to, like, read the whole thing, but the gist of it was just like, you know, not happy with our coverage. And he said he was very much of the belief that, like, we didn't have the whole story, which is before the gulf.com thing came out.

And then the whole gulf.com thing came out. And it's just exactly what everybody said, which is, I mean, the quotes from Tim are like, yeah, like, Bryson's, you know, like, I was really tired. I wasn't like particularly happy. I've got this other business thing. I wish the timing would have been different. That's like my one regret because I've kind of been, we've been grooming another guy to take over eventually,

but like the timing wasn't the right time. I think Bryson wasn't fully focused on golf that week because of the timing. And I'm going through all this stuff and being like, look, man, like I understand that you don't want people spreading rumors that like some horrific war went down between the two of them. but nobody was saying that. I think everyone was literally saying exactly what happened is probably what happened, which is just like he did his time.

He won a bunch of tournaments with Bryce said. He was on those late night range sessions. He was reading numbers with fucking protractors, and he's doing the whole thing on the green for four or five years. They won a bunch of tournaments. And eventually he was just like, nope, I'm done. This is not like my happiness. This is not for me.

I like you. You're great. Congratulations. and that was pretty much what they just announced and they did it in a fucking weird way where Bryson and his new guy jumped into a pool together and the whole... So it was just like, it was just so

Bryson that it wasn't like the story came out where Bryson like fired him. It was exactly what we said happened. I agree. Nothing came out that would be like, oh, fuck, we fucked up. Like, damn, guys, like we shouldn't have jumped the gun. Like, it's just the guy kept saying I was like exhausted. And I think you can take it.

that multiple ways, like exhausting relationship, exhausting, like, process, exhausting, exhausting, exhausting job in general, like being with that guy. So, and we've said that time and time again, imagine how exhausting it is. I think we use the exact word, like, dude, this guy's got to be just done. Like, that process sucks to try and win tournaments with that guy. So, yeah, I don't think we fucking... This was his little quote. He goes, we were really tired. He says, he goes, the season, the season, the tour schedule was grinding on us, grinding on me. I knew I was working on this business on the side. We've had a very intense relationship where he works a lot of hours. It was a little bit of me

not being 100% healthy and happy. We made the best decision for both of us. I mean, that is just precisely what everyone thought. And to be honest with you, none of that is like an indictment on Bryson or anything. It's just like, yeah, your whole world in life is golf. You're a golf machine. you're swinging like an animal in Como's living room and then you're hitting balls well into the night at every tournament in the world and your guy who's there with you for every minute of it just doesn't get a break and you finally

like he just can't keep up with you and he's had enough and he left in the middle of a fucking tournament that's what happened and everybody that's fine there's nothing wrong with that totally fine but I will say the only slight on Bryce is nobody looks at a relationship and says it was exhausting.

I'm tired and thinks of it as a posthum. Like when you think of an ex, like, you're just like, dude, I'm done. Whatever. Like, I'm done. Like, I think that would be the only slide is like at that point, if you're saying I'm tired, I'm exhausted, it's just, I know more. Like, I don't want to pick up a phone. I just, I don't want to talk to this person.

Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah. No one's, no one's like, wow. he loved spending so much time with Bryson, but like this other business on the side just was too much and he had to go. It clearly was just like he had had enough. And, you know, I, yeah, I don't, I just don't think it's,

I guess I'm comparing it to like the, the level of upsetness that Bryson seemed to be sharing in the direct messages. The DMs, you believe him. that was like, oh man, we must be way off on this. And we just weren't. Like, it was just pretty spot on to what everybody thought. And then the other thing is like, dude, you don't do some big exclusive and get everybody's side unless like you're trying to protect something.

Right. Right. That's the weirdest part to me that they like set this up. Like, let's just be human being real people on the internet. Just be like, yo, I got like going to miss my boy on the bag. Like, that sucks. Like, love you, man. It's like, they had to set up.

like a fucking Oprah Winfrey style release where like everyone was like, what is this about? I am endlessly amazed by what Bryson D. Shambot thinks is funny. That's always the main takeaway when these things happen.

Whatever, because the way I think about it, if you believe in like, what is it, the multiverse where like there's infinite amount of things happening all the time, every scenario gets played out. In one of those multiverses. You've been watching a lot of Loki, man.

I have been watching a lot of Loki. It's a very good show. But in one of those, Bryson D. Shambot is the funniest guy in the world. It's just not this one.

Because his tone is always way, way off. And the idea that, like, he's a great golfer. He's obviously got a mind, a brilliant mind for that. It's just the,

it doesn't connect in a comedic way. He has no idea what he's doing. And in a weird way makes it the funniest shit in the world. Hold on.

I actually, I think I saw maybe some of you guys rag on his Rocky episode going into the helicopter before the match. I thought that was maybe the funniest bit of content he's ever put out. That made me laugh out laugh. But did it make you laugh for the reason he wanted you to laugh at? Yeah, that might be true, but I will say it was funny. Because he does make me laugh. But it's unfortunately, and you know, he might be in your DMs about this, Riggs.

but I'm laughing at him, not with him. Yeah. I mean, at this point, yeah, like, what are we going to? I'm not protecting some, like, relationship. No, I know. I think we've been very fair. I think we've been super fair. Like, we, whatever, but it's, I mean, one of his quotes was Bryson.

He said, but that's life. Like, no one ever says, but that's life about something that was positive. I don't, like, you don't, you don't say, man, the St. Louis won the cup, but that's life. Like, no, you say, you would say, like, damn, the island. like came up short like that's life like we'll get them next year like it's always a fucking you're you're trying to get over something that clearly didn't go down perfectly or the way you wanted like that's i hit the pen and went in the bunker that's life like that's golf you get up and

keep going it's like that so clearly there is something of a negative variety that you are justifying with this whole Oprah winfrey type thing and it's just it's weird man like the whole it was weird. I think Frankie's spot on. You put up one quick picture. Be like, thanks, bro, for all the hard work. We had an unreal four years. Good luck up at Band of Dunes with your business venture. You're the man. You ever need anything on there. And that's it. It's over. But like to go the extra mile and then call up golf.com and be like, you get this exclusive. Like, DM Riggs. Like, clearly he's upset about something.

Yeah, he's mad. Yeah. Well, honestly, very well put, Frankie. You just mad. The whole thing was weird. All right. Woop. Woop is the world's most powerful fitness wearable that provides 24-7 personalized sleep, training,

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You know your latest attempt to Play a round of golf in less than 100 strokes And you're hitting it well You weren't quite dialed in with the short game And then I think it was the maybe the fifth hole out there That kind of took over the internet there Yeah the Yeah the fifth hole at Rockville links

Yeah just you know boy, did it get the best to me. And I've had bunker problems for a long time. That was one of the things that I talked to JT about. But when it rains, it pours with bunkers for me. Like if I can't get out of the first try, and especially the second try, then I'm in there for a year. And it's just really unfortunate.

I thought the memes and everything that came out of it were very, very funny. I'm glad that we got all that. But boy, it's just tough. I can't even really go back and watch it. It's, it's, I just fucking couldn't get out of that fucker, man. It's so funny to be there with you because we're riding this high and we're trying to achieve this goal. And we are, we are, we have all these aspirations and we're like really on this team to get you under 100. And then something like that happens.

And the air gets sucked out of like what feels like the universe. Like everyone around is looking. You're like, oh no, it's over already. And you're just like, what, and you can't stop it. It's like someone, it's like, uh, it's like that ad read we did for not trying to cross the train tracks. Like when your car, like you just can't get the car off the tracks and that thing's coming, man. Like you don't want to fuck around with that. You want to stop.

You want to settle down. You want to relax. You don't want to go on those tracks when that thing's coming. Like Trent just jumps on those things and we can't get them off, man. And it's just like, fuck, we got to get him out of this bunker. And you feel so helpless. Like when I'm on that green watching him go from green to green. bunker to bunker to bunker to bunker

And it's just shot at the shot You feel like you're gonna puke I felt like I was gonna fucking throw up on that green Because you're watching this guy Just piss it away in one bunker On 105 yard 3 hole Like that he actually hit the green on from the tee And it scurried off into this ridiculously mowed down

Part of the green somehow some way it didn't check And went slightly into the bunker Where you were just too close to the lip That started the fuck up I can't tell you how small that green looks when you're standing in that bunker. You're just like, I just got to lift this ball out of the sand with this club, get it on there, and then we're putting, which obviously is a whole other thing. But just get it on there.

But it looks like it's this big when you're standing in that bunker, and I could not get that ball to land on the green. And then you overcompensate, and you're like, all right, I'm going to, I'm going to really go at it. And then you get too much of the ball, and it goes into the other bunker. It's just tough, you know. Golf is really fucking hard. When it went in the other bunker, I couldn't believe it. It went in the other bunker, and then I'm standing that bunker, and I get out of that bunker,

and it goes in the other bunker, and then I chunk it in the original bunker. Like, just shoot me in the head. And the putts didn't fall. Oh. To think the putts were going to fall is insane. I mean, once you were on the green, we weren't right. The hole wasn't done. Like, we still had more work to do.

So, fuck, man, the bunker incident. That will go down in four places. Hall of Fame. You have such great highs and lows. I mean, we all do, I think, because when every shot is filmed, it's, you're going to get moments. But like, the putt in Australia to that is so funny. Like, you've had such great fucking athletic achievements on the golf course. And then you have that, it's just so brutal. The way that it came about was a guy named Dan, I think it was, tweeted at me after he had watched the video. And he said, my girlfriend shrieked when you had the bunker incident. And I just thought the bunker incident was such a funny way to put it. And so

just tweeted that with the quote tweet and then people just started sending in like just the memes were funny but it was just I was dead the bunker incident killed me that right it had so much it had so much like hype that I just tweeted out the bunker incident like hours later with no picture no quote tweet or anything people had to know what I was talking about it got like thousands of like it's just like everyone was invested in the bunker incident yeah so that's what happens with the journey the journey lives on we move on to the next course We keep going. Yep.

Thursday night, right? Are we going to release that, I believe? Yep, yep. We got one coming out Thursday night. All right. Well, does history happen, Trent? I don't know. Tune in to find out.

Pine Hollow? Yes, sir. Long Island track. We do it again. And I've got to tell you, you should watch it. Agreed. Thursday night, Trent's going to try to break 100 yet again. There'll be plenty of golf to witness over these next several days.

We'll be talking about it. We'll be putting up some stuff on social, I'm sure. And then we'll obviously be in several. weeks turning around our very own travel series from the great state of Michigan as well people have like restaurant recommendations around the Traverse city area um gay lord area those are kind of the two places we're going to be staying hit us um i even said if you got like some cool uh god i don't i don't know that it's um i don't know if it's like a canoe fucking ride or whitewater rafting or something but we love like um a zip line i'd go zip lining like something cool in michigan

again that people do. I'll take my shirt off. Like that, yeah. Water skiing. Let's do some water skiing. I tried to, I tried to wake surf in Georgia on that one. Oh, on the lake.

Oh, yeah, water skiing. Oh, water skiing is when you actually stand on the things. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that would be. That'd be pretty funny. Like, give us, give the four play, the boys a challenge that you think we'd struggle in,

to see what we do in, like, a non-optimal. Maybe a ski ball bar, something, you know, something a little quick. Yeah, ski ball. bar. What about axe throwing? Like an axe throwing bar? What is like the most stereotypical, cool Michigan thing that we can do in Senate our way?

Yeah. Go find a bear or something? I don't know. How about that guy that took those clubs out of Rory's bag on the tea? Tread had such a great tweet. Well, everyone was so, there was no awareness to anyone. And I really don't, I don't quite understand it. When I first saw that video, I thought it was fake.

I don't know how you would fake a video like that, but Rory and Romm and Roy's caddy have such zero reactions to it that I just couldn't believe that it was happening. Obviously, they start reacting when they're like, oh, that guy just took the clubs. But in that first part where the guy is going through Rory's bag and Rory clearly sees him, what is Rory thinking? Do you think Rory does see it?

Because I don't think you can get a good sense of depth. Like Patrick Reed's bunker incident when he had his own thing down there, down under. Like his argument was depth of the club behind the ball. Like when you watch that video, I feel like they're a couple feet removed from the bag. Because I watched that a couple times and I agree. Like there was a point where like one,

maybe the caddy did like a double take. But I do think that they weren't standing as close to the bag as it looks in the actual video. That's interesting because the way that I, the way it looks, it looks like Roy's the bag is directly in front of him. But that might not be the case. I thought,

I thought you could see the whole bag. I agreed with you. I thought it was, I thought it was stunning that they weren't reacting to the point where, like, it just looked like it took them 10 seconds to process that they were in reality and something like was happening. And then,

you know, I know there were a lot of people, like everybody was joking about Harry Dime and his caddy, not doing anything and like, he should be fired, which is the obvious joke. I made that joke. Everybody should.

But then people were pointing out that like, Clearly the guy's mentally ill or this, which may not have been the case. But regardless, you would be, like, you'd be stunned that people didn't react on the T-box to that. Like, those are Rory McElroy's clubs. Like, Steve Williams would have had that guy. Yeah, but, like, if you're the caddy, you're really going to go, unless you're Steve Williams, that guy's a psychopath. But, like, you're going to go, like, punch the guy, like, grab it out of his hand. Like, that guy looked at him to fucking, really has the caddy.

Like, yeah, there's fucking security everywhere. Where is this? Where is the security? Yeah, but I think as the caddy, though, you would, like, at least get over there and, like, grab the club in defense and, like, I don't know, stand in front of the bag or something. You wouldn't just stand there with your arms cross. Like, that's a shame. It took a couple of your clubs, Roar. The only thing that I could think of was, like, I feel like guys like Roy, when you're at the top and you just, like, you're that famous, that, like, people just go through their bags.

Like, when we go to those tailor-made shoots, and that's very different. But, like, guys just go up to Roy's bag because they want to take pictures. like they're trying to get the angle of the clubs. That was the only thing I could think of, like, Rory thought that it was some member that he didn't know of, like, the Taylor Made team, and they were trying to just see his clubs and do something with him. But outside of that, he, I'm with Riggs. He just had, he didn't know that he was in reality.

You know, what's crazy is I originally saw the video where it was, like, the Instagram version where it was kind of zoomed in on just Rory in his bag, and then the guy walks off, and you, like, can't believe that that much time is elapsing. You don't know what he's doing over there at first. when you don't see the full wide shot. And you're like, what the hell is going on over there? So I remember showing one of my buddies. I'm like, oh, this guy just stole Roy's club

and he probably got, like, tackled off the side or something. Like, I think it was fine. And then you see the full video. And he, like, puts his bag down, like, takes a couple practice swings. And then, like, this guy and, like, a suit walks over. He's like, what you doing? Like, and then he just, like, complies and walks back and, like, gives them the club back.

It was very, very bizarre. There was no urgency to get this guy on the ground at all. It was weird. The whole thing was weird. Yeah, I thought he was going to be like a streaker And they were going to spear them into the ground Everybody go crazy And just nothing like that happened

It was super weird The whole thing was weird So yeah, hopefully that doesn't happen again Also the more we keep talking about how like The public just like Stitt like is in line of tournaments Like the last two to three weeks There's just been streakers

And guys grabbing clubs Like you know, the world is showing us That we are incorrect. I still think they've done it respectfully though. Like these people are doing it when they're not hitting shots. Like that streak or like imagine right in Bryson's back swing if they ran out. We're like waiting until it's in between shots.

It's crazy. We are getting blamed for this behavior. Are we? Yes. People are tweeting it as being like ever since you guys said that it's amazing that people behave at golf courses. People have not been behaving at golf courses. Oh, come on.

We've awoken the beast. they're joking but it's like it is interesting that after a couple weeks after we said those things there's been two incidents two or three incidents where it's like well maybe golf fans aren't as well behaved as we thought oh man that's good uh they're joking and they're not because it's same thing like if we ever tweet about kisner playing well and he makes a bogey like we it's our fault for sure oh i put on christmas slacer in the islander game and they lost and that was the reasons like not because these guys just didn't get a fucking goal you're definitely over that yeah you feel better about exactly

It's time to end it when that happens. I feel okay. Hey, that's life, right? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's right. Well, that's life, you know, yeah. Big positive thing there. Okay, it's a great week.

Golf, golf, golf, golf, all over the place. Michigan, British Open, England, sandwich England. Enjoy it. We'll be, like I said, putting out our picks. We're going to be all over that Barstville Sportsbook app because we're going to be in Michigan where we can use it, which is very cool. So follow along.

Have yourselves a lovely week. We'll be back on Thursday. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Hit it hard.