Fore Play - Bryson, Tommy, Scottie, Sam Burns, Fitz, Poston, Wilcox, Tim Tucker, Adrian Rietveld, Ian Finnis

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

Beautifully chaotic. We’re posted up on the range at the 2023 U.S. Open and all sorts of characters join the show: Bryson DeChambeau (46:02), Tommy Fleetwood (and his caddie Ian Finnis) (1:03:47), JT Poston, Scottie Scheffler, Tim Tucker, Sam Burns, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Willy Wilcox, Adrian Rietveld. Ian Finnis (Tommy’s caddie) confronts Dan. A big, big show for a big, big week at LACC.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

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Chevrolet go to Chevy.com. We're live from L.A. We're at the Los Angeles Country Club. It is the United States Open Championship. weeks, not a tournament's championship. I'm going to start the show and say that I fucking love the U.S. Open. U.S. Open is different.

The U.S. Open. As the kids say, it hits different. It does. It's a big ballpark, big venue, the middle of Los Angeles, California, a place that we really don't come too very often. We've got golf carts buzzing by us. So if you hear us, we're quite literally, I don't know, 20 yards off of the chipping green here at LACC.

We have positioned ourselves so that golfers have to walk by us. Yep. They have to go up this. way to go do media or go wherever they need to go. So the chipping green is right here. A little bit further down the road there is the driving range. There's the putting. There's putting right over there. So we're just really in the middle of it. If you're going to pick the main spot where you'd be like, you know, we really shouldn't post up there because we're in the way. This is the number one spot for that. John Rom had to walk by us. Keegan Bradley had

to walk by us. Tommy Fleetwood had to walk by us. So no, we're just in the mix right now. And throughout this episode, you're going to hear a couple parts maybe where we're just going to cut to when maybe we'll just make it one segment where everyone that walked by us prior to us recording we kind of just talked to them we threw a mic in their face uh we got sam burns talking about how he was playing um willie will cox sat down for the first time in seven years his reunion uh episode here on four play he was our second guest ever yeah so yeah that's just that might hit you like a ton of bricks where it's just a bunch of just randomness but that's just how we're going to do it uh u s open so we got a lot to get to Canadian open had an unbelievable

finish. We've obviously got the biggest news in the golf world, maybe ever. Everyone's still talking about it. Every person I talk to who's not into golf, ask me what I think about it, what's the latest, what have I heard, everybody here, what have you heard. So we're going to talk about the PIF and the PGA Tour and all that updates. Dan Rappapaport's on his way here. So he'll join the show as well. I think we're going to have a couple guests. We haven't done them yet, but I believe we're going to throw a couple interviews in with a few different guests. A PGA Tour player who was in the player meeting that might be able to weigh in, hopefully. And then somebody from the USGA is going to talk about course setup and LACC and all of that.

So it should be a very big show. It's a very big week. I started talking about the U.S. Open at the very beginning, just saying that I love this thing because obviously the carnage. We all go nuts about the carnage. It's great. They try to protect PAR, even though they say they don't, even though they'll never admit that they do. They do. Obviously, they want the score to be around PAR, even over PAR, I think that they love and we all love as viewers.

But also just the U.S. Open, man. It's USGA. It's Blue Blazer. It's history. that has the USGA label. It's the original, like, founding championship committee in the United States of America. But they do, they've been doing this for over 100 years. It's just got that prestige.

It's got that, like, if growing up forever, if we heard about a course that had a U.S. Open, a U.S. Open, you'd be like, holy shit, that is as legitimate as it gets. It's our national championship. We just saw a national championship in the Canadian Open and how cool that was and how much it meant to obviously all the fans up in Canada and to the Canadian players playing and to everybody. This is our national championship. It's a major championship.

It's coming to this venue, LACC, that none of us know really anything about. It's not like a classic U.S. Open traditional venue that's on the rotation. They're coming to L.A. Country Club. For you guys on the East Coast, there's going to be a primetime finish. If you guys remember, like when Tiger won at Tori,

when around, like, those things happened on the East Coast at like 9 o'clock at night. Which is cool. That's when, you know, NBA games finish up, playoff games finish up. NHL playoff games are finishing up or in the heat of the moment. And now we're going to get it with golf too, which we don't get very off. That's great.

I love primetime finishes for golf. It's huge for the sport. The sport's already fucking buzzing, as the people will say right now. There is a buzz about everything, all the drama, all the shit show that is going behind the scenes of the PGA tour and live and all that stuff. And now you just throw in just a major, major, major, major. And yeah, good for golf. hashtag is what this is.

It's interesting. A great venue, by the way, too. Just everything about it. We're in the middle of L.A. We walked the course a little bit today. It's crazy how different this is than what I anticipated. Quite literally. And like, we're looking at just like buildings.

We said it's kind of like if you build a golf course on PGA Tour 2K23 and then you like, you do it exactly how you want. And then you like want to make it look cool. So you throw a bunch of like tall buildings and be like, oh, I want to put it in the middle of a major city. It's like, all right, yeah, it looks cool, but it's unrealistic. This is quite literally a piece. BGA tour golf course.

We can hear the traffic right now. 2K23, yeah. No, that's bizarre. You can literally hear. Playboy Mansion is off 15, I think. Is that what it is? That's what I'm hearing. I heard there you can hear like animals over there.

13. Monkeys. Monkeys? I think is that place still up and running? Yeah, it's right off the T. There's a huge. Oh, of course, of course would know. There's a huge fence that you can't really see over it.

Do you know what a mansion fan? No, we were, Brent and I played this. Yeah, these guys behind the camera, a guy behind the ones and Tuesday. They played the golf course. If people don't remember that. It's wild that you guys played this golf course. Yeah, we hit a lot of bad shots. We're going to be putting out some stuff on social media about that, right?

You guys flew the drone. Brendan flew the drone on some of the more iconic holes. So make sure you look on our social media for a different in-depth look, right? Is that what it is? Yeah, Dady's going to do some cool voiceover stuff. And we'll take some of the cooler holes. They got some like really, really, really cool holes here. So the closing stretch I'm here in 15 is going to be this really cool short par three

that can play is the longest it can play. I think somebody told me Fleener maybe told us like 140 yards, but there's a lot of chatter that one day there's a small front section, a tiny front section and a front tee, and they're going to have that whole play like 75 yards. That's crazy. There's going to be a part three in the U.S. Open. That's going to be Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

whenever the hell it is. That's going to be the fourth to last hole of your round. That is a 75-ish yard shot, maybe 85 yards, whatever it is. But from all accounts And looking at that green It's a treacherous tiny target If the wind's whipping Which the wind's been moving

A little bit It's not crazy here But it's windy If we're playing golf in this We definitely look at the wind And be like that's a factor That's going to mess with us And if you're out there

Playing a 75-yard shot And you got to know Right? You got to know knowing the USGA Knowing the US Open history If they set up a hole That's 75-ish yards If you miss that target

It's going to be horrific You're in trouble Yeah It's going to be horrific And it makes me think of Seven at Pevel Makes me think a seven at Pebble, which plays less than 100 yards, even if it's 105, 110-yard shot, unless it's into the wind. It can play very, very short.

And it reminds me a lot of 2013 at Marion, that like 13th hole or so around there at what's going on? How we doing more? Is that it was like 120-yard shot. Phil hit it over the green with that wedge, ended up making bogey on a hole where a lot of people had birdie looks. So you don't get in a ton in the U.S. Open where you're going to have a very short par three. But the fact that we're going to have one here, I think it's going to make a lot of ways people are going to be talking about it.

And I think that it's going to be universally praised as people's favorite, you know, part three out here. And they're mixing it in with a bunch of outrageously long holes. We were talking a couple of the guys out there today. We walked with a pretty high power group today. It was Justin Thomas, Max Homa, Ricky Fowler, and Jordan Spee. And then we got the chance to see Smiley for the first time in a long time.

Great guy. Smiley Kaufman is just, we hadn't seen him in a long time. And I actually said, it's great to see you. And he goes, it's good to be seen, man. It's really good to be seen, which was one of the funniest things anyone's ever said to me in my entire life. He's in good spirits. It's like, it just made you think of like a guy just like exiting like a cave. You know, like it's really good that people are getting their eyes on me again.

And I said he's been so good at his new role. It's almost like he was just made for that. Like he was made to be a good golfer that made it to the tour, had a bunch of chances, like was in the mix. was in the mix at major championships, has this fucking insane group of friends that are all the best players in the world. And then his path in life was to be able to like commentate on that and give that perspective without like being one of the guys that also wins.

You know what I mean? Like there's there's lanes for everyone and that was always going to be his. It seemed like. Yeah, it's interesting because he was in the final group with speed when he collapsed, I believe, at the 2016 Masters. So it's like he was right. there almost won the Masters tournament and then for years after that

I actually when I would blog my previews of PGA tour events I had a prediction list and I would do a I called it Smiley Kaufman DFL pick of the week because he finished dead last every week on the PGA tour and he kind of fell off and that

he would be made fun of he was unfortunately the subject being made fun of a lot of here's Ricky Fowler who in like 2015 Ricky finished top five in all four majors he obviously won the players championship like he's ricky fucking pauler there's spieth winning a bunch of majors there's uh jt who's obviously jt and then there was like smile like coffinage didn't pan out and you're right now everybody's got their own lane he's the man he's the nicest guy and from the fact that he's

tight with all those guys in like a colt nose kind of way gives him all kinds of credibility it gives them all kinds of access who walks around with a big smile on his face seems like he's taking everything in stride it's got to be a little weird for him to be like not that long ago i was out here kind of i'm sure his whole life thought he was going to have this career that's B's having that JT's having and he's kind of on a different side of it I'm sure that's a little bit weird for him but he handles it with phenomenal grace I would say it's kind of like any other it's kind of like any friend group there's a bunch of guys like if you got a friend group back home you think like who's going to do what who's going to be successful who's not

going to be successful not that that's the way to judge it but like you got four guys and like are they all going to have world class major winning careers hard it is to be those four guys it's just like you you see all this fucking new was about baby grunk and all that shit that's been going on it's like you know how hard it is to become a professional athlete and one at the highest level like like not just a professional athlete but his four buddies are the top of the top right the cream of the crap the guys so it's like he just gets he gets a bad rap and i'm sure that we fed into that a lot where it's like why are you not winning definitely seven majors yet like your fucking friends and shit so i mean smile is the best so

um and my whole point for bringing that up was We did walk with them. We got some good insight into what the golf course is going to look like. And they are, you know, there's a lot of shots out there that's like, like 18s playing like 520 or something like that into the wind. These guys are ripping driver. And they've got like, they've got like 220 coming into a tightly of green 18. Huh? It's Joe Scoverin.

Oh, yeah. He was our boy, Ricky's caddy. That's right. For ever. Forever. Who's he on now? The President's Cup absolute stud, who we had on this show, who did. never been to a party before in his entire life.

Tom Kim, ladies and gentlemen. He went from Ricky Fowler. He jumped over and became Tom Kim's guy. And our first event that he caddied for him was at the President's Cup in in 2022 last year. It went pretty well. And it went pretty damn well. My never ending points basically that there's going to be a 75-yard hole, but there's

also going to be really long par fours that it would be really, really hard out there. It looks like it I think there's like a 540 par four There's like a 520 Those holes are within a couple holes in the back I haven't been out there I haven't seen a single hole from the golf course yet I see the whole skyline from some parts

It's fucking crazy I heard there's a couple T-boxes back there That are just stunning where you can see the skyline And all that I was looking for the Hollywood sign I couldn't find it I don't know if it's visible from this golf course No but every time I'm in L.A.

When I see the hills I'm just looking for it Have you seen it before? I got my eyes on it once Dave and I were in L.A It was like the first time he met Josh Richard and we went to this day party thing and the Patteron and like he got a whole setup

at like this like pool party that was on a roof and I remember just like going over and just like checking out like what was going on and I looked straight ahead and the whole Hollywood sign was right in my face it was like the best property

you could possibly be in LA it was nuts I'd like to see the Hollywood sign I'd like to see it I used to say Hollywood land yep and they got rid of the land and then for a time

it was like completely like broken to pieces like they never like fixed it there were there was like a whole decade of you guys would sign where like like the oh was broken you ever see those pictures i have seen those pictures it's the end of world like why weren't they up where was the upkeep on that thing yeah that's a great office this is it no better office than this we couldn't make it all the way up the hill i love l a man i love hollywood i i get swept up in like all that shit i want to see celebrities i want to know where the kardashians are eating trent and i last night went to a place called casa vega

Yep, which is in what town? Sherman Oaks of L.A. And you Google it, and it's been in once upon time in Hollywood where they're having the margaritas there. So, yeah, like Brad Pitt's been there. The Kardashians eat there all the time. They're always filming keeping up the Kardashians there. I love that shit.

I love peeking into places. Like, I tried to make a reservation tonight at this place, Craigs. Yeah. That they say, like, if you go there, you're going to see somebody. Yeah. So I'm into all that shit. And the fact that we have a golf tournament here, a golf championship. Wow.

Oh, is that Sun J. M. Fuck yeah Oh yeah Mr. Ice's guy This is Mr. Ice's guy You think he has any idea That Mr. Ice Elio

What's his last name? Mbroni? You don't think he has any idea that Elio just I think he has literally No clue Biggest giant of him of all time And bets him

In every single Major that he possibly plays in I think there's There's few things That he knows less about Than that in the world I don't think he He would be the most powerful

That's up Sanjay Sunjay Good luck this week Good luck this week Elio DM me Something really nice He has no idea. No, he's got no idea.

I was with him when Lurch jumped out and got a picture with him at the U.S. Open 2021 at Torrey Pines. Wow. We were pulling in. Remember how we would do that valet move to go into the course right there at the hotel? What is that like a Marriott that's right there or something? Oh, yeah. We would do that move.

And then obviously all the players were standing there. So when we would go get our car, the players would be coming in. That was when Lurch was doing his lurchy loose picks. One of the more engaging things that he contributed. And he were pulling in, getting in the car. Sung Jay was coming back from dinner and Lurch is like, that's my guy. I have to take a picture though. I was like, do it.

He jumped out and took a selfie with Sung Jiam. Yeah, it was great. It was great. We're in Los Angeles fellas. We got a couple rental cars. I will say we've got these massive Chevy Suburbanes that we've been driving around. We got a Suburban. We got a Tahoe.

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Go to Chevy.com to learn more. So, L.A., I haven't seen a ton of it. Got in last night, drove around basically straight to the golf course today. L.A., probably the most negative feedback from people I've ever seen about a city when I put out that I was coming to L.A. Yeah. People hate that. It's a bad rap. It gets a bad rap.

And in a couple ways. One is obviously the traffic, which it is what it is. People bitch about the traffic. Sure. Traffic's bad everywhere. Traffic's bad in a lot of places. I know a lot of people are listening to that being like, no, that's not true. But like we were just in Chicago and it took us to go, I don't know, 19 miles.

It was like an hour and 25 minutes in Chicago. Traffic bad at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. There's just a lot of people on planet. The traffic thing I had heard. But the people were saying that the people suck. I was getting that a time. I was telling Bush that. Like, I've never seen that in a, in like a general, what do you need to know about the city?

And literally everybody was going, how we doing? Everybody was a bunch of the responses, the DMs, the tweets. I put out a tweet in a DM, be like, where do I need to know about LA? People are like, the people are the worst. People suck. I was like, what? You can't. And this goes for every single place on planet Earth.

You cannot generalize about an entire population of people. That's impossible. Dude, when I moved to New York, I haven't met a mean person yet. The whole rep was like, oh, they're going to be so, they're going to be so mean. They're going to be so rude. They're going to eat you alive, Midwest boy. And they're just people. Yeah.

The stereotype of LA people is like it's everyone out here trying to make it in the entertainment industry. So you're going to get a bunch of fake people that are like everyone's got fucking liposuction and all the everyone's got fake lips and all that shit. And it's just like a fake universe of everyone trying to be like this model person. Do you get that vibe from people though? I've never even met one of them out here. I really haven't spent that much time out here.

But I'm assuming. like what what happens is people take the worst of the worst that they assume live in a certain place and give that to the whole population I think you can run into those people more often here than you would anywhere else. I think that's a fair assessment or generalization. People might seem like it's

everybody. No but I think that's a fair assessment of New York also like you're going to hit more abrasive mean like get out of my face move right now or else I'm going to fucking run you off the road type people than you would in Iowa. It's just like a fair judgment. I don't know. Really? I think there's those type of number game. I'm a little bit closer with Trent on that. It's like, I don't know, people's, the way

people describe it or talk about it or play it up, it's like you're going to walk into a bodega in New York. You're like, can I get like a breakfast? They're like, no, get the fuck out of here. You know, so you're like, what? Right. What? Like, what? No, that's not. No, you walk in. People are like, yeah, sure, no problem. You're like, thank you for that. They're like, yeah, no problem. Like, everybody's just a person. Right. Most part, everybody's just a person. So I think

I think people like to think it's crazy to think. Either they like. How do you think it got there in the first place? I think people, I think they take like these stereotypes and just make it everybody. And I think there's people who in New York people probably sort of like, like, they're like, oh yeah, we're tough, we're edgy, we've got this about ourselves. And they just want to run the whole way. That's Sam Bennett. Sam Bennett.

Texas A&M. Sam Bennett. Just house and a burger. That guy's got it, man. He was a little too much for me at the Masters. Yep, I remember that. He was just a little too much for me. He got a little too cocky.

He was just, remember he said the. course he plays at home is way harder than Augustine National. I like it because he's just a young guy who's out there just firing from the hip. Yeah. When you're young and you're good and your, you're like world class, you can be a little cocky. It's hard for people that are just listening to this show because we're like looking at everything that's happening. But Sam Bennett just walked by. He was eating a fucking sandwich.

So we just start talking about him without like visually talking about it. It kind of prompts us to go in a direction on top. I think we have to be more descriptive as we start talking. Sam Bennett's walking right by and he's eating a sandwich. Now we're going to talk about it. With a youth. You know, this is about to get crazy. These guys are about to start unloading off of this driving range,

and they're just going to all be walking by. So the last thing I'll say about the people is that I do think, too, people, what happens is they tend to take their most severe interaction with someone and then generalize that to the whole people. Like, if they met 100 people when they were in L.A. for a week, and one or two people were kind of like fake dickheads to them, like the people suck there. Well, guess what?

98 people you met were normal, nice people. One thing I will say is that I do hear a lot from people that go visit the Midwest. St. Louis where I'm from, but the Midwest in general, they're always say like, oh, the people there were so nice. And like, I get that. I've never seen such a negative, like, guess, get ready for all kinds of other people. The only other time was when I went to France, when I went to Paris for the Ryder Cup. And even then my takeaway that I said to the pot was like, everybody was pretty nice. It really wasn't, it wasn't that crazy. Yeah, the generalization is that like they just hate Americans, right?

Yeah, and that they're dickheads if you're not French. Yeah. They're just super mean, like, standoffish. We went into every little, I was there with Logan, YouTube Logan. Every, like, spot we went into to grab a sandwich or whatever. Like, people were just nice. They were very nice. I'd say overall, people are pretty nice.

Yeah, I think that's right. People are pretty normal. Boston gets that rap, too, a little bit of, like, mass holes. But, like, it's, to that, it's, like, endearing and charming a little bit in Boston. I've just never seen that kind of, like, I said, just, like, every fifth comment I saw, it was like, the people suck. I was like, that's crazy. It seems unlikely.

The other one. was that people said street if you see a street taco place stop okay they're supposed to be phenomenal it's like the same street taco in new york city no just like a street taco place oh just like a like a cart i would imagine oh a street taco cart people are like stop they'll be really really good it might be the best food you have the whole trip the street taco new york is really good i used to get that all the time when i lived in manhattan we had a fantastic mexican meal last night casa vega i want to hear about casa vegas sa vegasasas just it was a happening place you could tell that people go there because they know famous people might be walking you

in. That's why we went. Super small. That's why we went. Super small. If you've seen once upon a time, you can just watch where we ate, which is pretty fucking cool. Yeah. That's something that you can do, or you can just Google it. And we had, you know, the whole, we had the digs. We had the queso chiroizo. We had chicken tequitos. We had really good sauce. So the chips to fucking blow you away. I had fajitas, steak and shrimp fajitas because I just went with the fastball. Trent fucking got a oven baked burrito. Really good with covered an enchilada sauce. It's just, it's a home run. I'd go back tonight. Like, it's that good. Mexican food always to learn. We can't get in there tonight. We can't get in there tonight. But it's a chance. It is, uh, yeah,

it's just so it's money. Is that in there? Scotty Sheffler just tossing golf balls. Did I hear you guys had to lie about how many people were in your party? Yeah, we did. Which is a, it's like, it's like, you know, my family owns a restaurant. It's just like, you have to respect a restaurant industry, but like, reservations, first of all, it's called resi.com and Trent's like, oh, we're going to make a resume. I'm like, yeah, I was on Resi and I thought you thought I was like shorting that which I felt like a loser. No, I picked it out. I picked up that it was like, yeah, I got a Rezzi.

Went on Resi.com. You can say Resi or Rez-O if you were going to show? I just say reservation. I think I say reservation. I said if you were going to short it. Probably Resi, unfortunately. Okay. Anyway, this place had zero reservations for two people until 9 p.m.

It was 5.30. We were fucking starving. Long day. Danny Rapp's wedding, flying all over the place, coming back, we're in L.A., got in late, the whole deal. Got early, sorry. And so there was no reservations for two people until 9 p.m. All of a sudden, I hit three people. Six-thirty popped up. So now I'm thinking to myself, all right, well, Brendan's not going to make it in time. You're flying in late. Alex is flying in late. It's just us, too. Do I make it for three people? And then they get there and then you make up a lie about that third person. So that's exactly what we did. We went there, got a reservation, line off the door.

We cut the line. We say, yeah, reservation for three. And they say, okay, is your party here? We said, no, not yet. She has to do it. They sit us down. The third, the third menus put to our left. We have the best seat in the house.

It's a corner booth out overlooking the whole entire restaurant. And he goes, did you guys want to order anything? You want to wait for the third person. I said, we might as well just start ordering appetizers. I think he's having some car trouble is what I said. That is what you said. I said he's having some rental car issues. And I was like, I don't even know.

So now I was saying to Frankie, as like the lie's going to progress this third person of ours is going to be dead by the time we're done eating dinner. Oh yeah, you know, he got in a head-on collision. Now he's at the, he's at the hospital so he couldn't make it. That's how I am, and I'll always just explain things that don't have to explain. So you answer

questions I won't ask. I'll show up to a CVS and I'll get like a cream and I'll like, maybe it's like a rash or something and I explain to the problem. I'm like, I'm getting this because I got something on my asshole. Like I'm literally they don't care. No, that guy, our waiter, didn't care about that third person. We're already sitting down. We're already getting

chips we already ordered an appetizer i don't have to make up some elaborate white lie just to try and make myself feel better about why i did the only thing i would say is that we ordered a shit ton of food oh yeah it was basically for three people yeah we didn't jip them at all ordered it tipped well and we got out of there it's a great restaurant though sounds like a delightful experience it was sounds absolutely delightful i like l a i like california majors in california to me feel bigger i know that should probably be true about New York too, but I don't know, every time, I mean, we came out here for the LAC at the LACC, I don't know, something about majors on the West Coast in California. California is also like showbiz, baby. Yeah. California, you know, it's just got that, that

entertainment that like you're doing, you're doing big things, you're trying to make it. And if you win in L.A, whoever wins here is going to win in L.A. They're going to win with this backdrop with the Los Angeles skyline. Like, that's, you know, that's going to be pretty grandiose, if you will. I think so. Yeah. Watch what Scottie Sheffield or Chip right now over here. Torrey Pines with Rob one. And I know there's a lot of talk about grass at US opens and stuff.

And specifically, like, the difference between West Coast and East Coast grass, it is so different, man. I know that sounds just so, like, obvious, but it's tangling. You're talking on a golf, like, on a golf course level and, like, having to approach these little, like, weird, short, short-sided wedge shots that, like, you just saw Tommy Fleetwood yesterday. Like one guy got a little hot on him in Canada, right? Like it popped out during that playoff hole, which we'll talk about. Like here it's like so, it's like, it's almost like a spider web. Like if you like really dig deep and like you try and find the root of this grass, it's so much different than finding the roots.

Like you feel how fucking grabby that is? Yeah. Like the grass isn't coming out no matter how hard I pull on it. No. It's thick weird shit. Yeah. I mean we're watching Scotty chip out of it right now. He's trying to figure it out.

It's very strange, man. And you got to give a lot of credit to these top of the top of the world golfers that are able to just go from coast to coast, country to country, and still compete at the highest level. Like, I got Tommy Fleetwood literally just played Canadian grass yesterday, which probably couldn't be more different than this grass he's playing on today, and he's probably going to fucking play lights out. Good old Canadian grass. I wonder what they got up there.

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You're carrying a bag. You are working right now. This is our guy, Adrian, all-time club failure from Taylor-Made. Hi, Adrian. Do you have any, do you have any, like, explanation for the difference in this type of grass? Like, we're kind of just talking about it,

and I'm pulling at it. And it's so, like, it's like, it's like, it's like, hard to get out. They're little trees.

We don't want to, like, make you have to do this for a little bit. Adrian, you can say something real quick. He's got a bag on his back, so you don't have to stay long. Yeah, you're grinding. Yeah,

that's, that's, you know. Columarcautter. Ooh. And, and, uh, Adam Scott's got a bag. Oh,

oh. Oh, look at that big. That's nice. Is Adam Scott using our stuff now? He's using driver three wood, seven wood. Okay. We look after his whole bag, really, to be honest. I appreciate that.

Adrian, talk to me about this mini driver that's making waves, the burner. That thing is the hottest driver on the market right now. I mean, all free agents are using it. It's crazy. Mate, it's, it was like a gimmicky thing years ago. Right. And now it's like game on. And I think it's

I think it's because of the way PGA tour golf courses are starting to like evolve starting to become like you know the roughs thick every week you know I think last week in Toronto

I mean these guys could have normally set up golf course these guys would have shot 30 under par around there but it's you know what I mean it's premium on fairways premium on you know getting as far down as you can within reasons and that's it's yeah it's good man it's good with it they're flying off the truck which is great Tommy's using it or Tommy's loving it man Tommy's loving a three-wood out

Are they using a three-wood shaft or is it a driver shaft? No I'm making them like I'm making them like an inch longer than a three-wood okay 40-44 is a nice number 43-75 really you try and speck it out like a think of it like a two-wood yeah yeah what degree are like what degree is Tommy hitting that thing at A 13 and a half head. Oh, man. It's like two clicks lower. So he's probably at about, I reckon it's like 12 degrees.

Exact. Because his usual three woods about 15? 14 and a half, 15, yeah. Some got, like Adam's got a four wood in, yeah. That's like 16, 16 and a half. And a lot of those guys' drivers are around the nine and a half or so? Nine. Nine is a decent number.

Yeah. Laurie would be eight. Scotty Sheffler would be eight. Tommy would be nine to five loft. Okay. Like when we started learning more about golf course equipment, like as we started doing more deals with like Taylor Maiden going in there, I realized that the better players were going way lower numbers that I ever expected. And now you're hearing like a Tommy Fleetwood is going with like a 13 degree out of the tee. That's so crazy to me.

Is that sweet? That's so awesome. You just fit launch conditions. And if you've got someone who's like pretty, you know, pretty consistent in terms of the way they deliver the club, if they got a, it's like eight degree driver, it's going to be a. 12 degree money driver it's going to be a 15 degree three wood it's going to be 18 degree 5 wood a 21 degree 7 wood that's the consistency right and then you kind of tweak from there wow well as always super interesting and it's the burner is that right the burner burner the original the original burn it was like I

legitimately thought it was like I thought it was a gimmick I'm like this is cool it's like a retro golf yeah the the driver head covers retro so you're like all right Taylor May just sent it to to get like a pop on instant Instagram stores and then as you're watching the coverage you're like these guys are using this thing? Yeah yeah yeah it was stunning and hitting it off or hidden it off T's hitting it off the deck into greens it off the deck's nuts to me yeah it's all too big of a head for me it's got those two weights underneath right so you so normally you probably got about 22 grams of weights over there so you can split them up the more weight you put forward the lower the spin rate is the more weight you put back the higher the

spin rate is so you can dial it in a little more which is pretty good so Rory's obviously a U.S. Open winner, uh, 2011, I believe. Yeah. Uh, you're, you know, Adrian Reedeld, the, the, the equipment whisperer for these guys. They call him player support, but really he's so much more than that. He's the club whisperer. Rory's had some close calls, a lot of them this year, especially lately. Any unique tweaks for him this week going and do it with his bag? He'll use a fresh wedge for sure. That's, that's, that's his normal kind of ammo. Um, all of them are just his 60 or 60 or? 60 pretty much I love that he's gonna I mean he's got he's actually the wedge that so he he's

switched to a competitor wedge early in the year and then we've worked this whole kind of process with him in terms of designing him like the perfect wedge for him and this 60 that he's playing right now is I mean you'll you'll start to see surprise surprise you'll start to see probably from next week a few more players out there starting to test and give it. Yeah. You know, special Rory Wedge. Oh, yeah. We come, I think we're coming, we're coming to market with some, you know, some tour inspired products. So, and from next week, they'll be ready to kind of go with

the rest of our guys. So, yeah. Yeah. Well, sneak peek there. Yeah, there you go. And, uh, you heard it first. Yeah. But also, like, this guy has so much influence on professional golf you think about it, right? You work with Rory on something that he likes. And all of a sudden, people start to see what Rory is using. And then they, like, like those specs and now of a sudden it's just like populating around PJ tour and that's because of conversations and like legitimate like minute details that you're going over with these guys that's pretty freaking cool it obviously happens with the general public but does it happen on the roster like when a guy like rory switches to something

do with the other guys be like oh i'm going to try that especially if they're playing well yeah i mean it's it's kind of like sheep mentality would be like a wrong way to put it right because that's like got a negative context but they just want to yeah guys playing well i want to play well i I want to play a while. Yeah, what is he using? You know, you look at, you know, Justin Rose is using stealth two now. Why? Because Adam Scott is literally one of the five best drivers of the golf ball in the world at the moment.

Right. He's using it. And he's never been, you know, he's always been, it's always been a weak part of Adam Scott's game. And it's almost like this guy's like, honestly, he's like 15 longer. He's long and straight. And he's up there with the, but the top five drivers. of the golf ball in the world right now, you know, that and that's your kind of, okay, why? What's he using?

Right. What's he changed? Who's he working with? What's, so that's, yeah. That's very interesting. Am I, uh, I'm right to that Rory, like Tiger only uses three wedges? Is that right? Three wedges, yeah.

So they've got a bigger gap. So a lot of guys use four, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't say a lot of guys. I'd say it's a nice balance. Okay. You know, it depends on, on how you gap in your bag and what you need.

But I'd say for the most part, you know the longer the longer the guy is off you know in terms of off the tea and how far he hits it the more gaps he has in his bag so the more space he's got to fill so if someone's you know likes to hit full wedge shots he would play more wedges because he gives him more of an opportunity of hitting that full shot you know where somebody like tommy who plays you know 52 60 he's he's probably got three or four yardages with each wedge and he's dialed man I mean, that guy can, you know, he hits it inside eight feet or, you know, it's an average shot. You know, he's really, really, really dialed with those two wedges. How stressful is it watching a guy like Tommy, who you're so close with in a playoff like we saw in Canadian Open yesterday? Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah.

It's like he'll win a lot and he's his young. He's in his early 30s. He's learning how to be up there. He definitely has the work ethic and the skill level, like I think to be the number one in the world. Literally. I don't think there's, I think he can. And man, he's learning to hold putts in right situations. It's only positive.

It's all positive. But, you know, I would have loved him to win, but, you know, to lose to a spider putter hitting a 72 foot putt in Canada for, I mean, geez, you can't write this shit, can you? He was using a stealth also, right? Taylor? Taylor was using his tailor-made three wood. Taylor-made three-wood and then, yeah, and the putter was, was tailor-made. Yeah, he had that Jason Day. All the clubs he used in the playoffs.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Every time he went to his bag, he was pouring out a tail-made club. That's right. That's right. That's like the Jason Day red spider. Yeah, the original, man. That is, again, like a unicorn product, isn't it? Yeah.

So good. Yeah, that year when Jason Day, 2015, when he just, when he won that PGA, whistling straights and felt like he just putter like the guy drove it like all over the place and just putted it in the hole every time the camera cuts him and he had that red spider yeah yeah yeah yeah it's going in there's no way what's the pot of the time he uses he uses the blade is it is it a is it a he uses an odyssey putter he uses an odyssey he uses um it's a very unique like neck you know i mean it's just it's a nice putter that he's used his whole you know since for a long long time you know i don't even think odyssey can replicate it

and yeah he likes it it it's all in the head there right putting is so much in the head and these greens that change every week and from the firmness to the speed to the grain to it's a interesting place to putting a pudding green like when he signs a new contract like putter's got to be the hardest thing for a guy to change like even tiger used the same

putter for his like whole entire career yeah it's um you just you just need players to buy in and work with you and you work with them and eventually you'll get there. I think eventually, you know, a lot of these guys eventually, they end of working with the people as opposed to the product. You know, the product's all very good.

Yeah. But yeah, yeah, that is a tough one, man. For sure. Golf ball. Golf ball. Because that affects everything. Golf ball, too. Pada is so many variables involved there.

But yeah. I remember when Tiger at the Karnusti, when he almost won, he was using that black like TP that hardmore putter yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that was wild that was sweet man that was that was good i remember the i remember us uh i remember him getting going into that man he was i think they sent it to him he he i mean brand new brand new putter custom made right he turned up like a week or seven days later with the putter the putter the putter looked like he had had it for six years. And he had hit so many putts for this thing.

I mean, there was a wear mark in the middle on the face. I'm like, standing there going, geez, like, how many puts does this guy hit for this thing to give it a go? So many. That's exactly what I would expect, man. That's amazing. Straight, man. That was, I still, I remember it like it was yesterday.

You're like, you could give this putter to an amateur for 10 years. It wouldn't look right. Yeah, exactly. Wear pattern right in the needle. grinded the I like it and I'm gonna make sure that this thing I'm gonna make sure that I like it that's great all right Adrian we we know you're busy we always appreciate your job quick question about the grass and now we got like the awesome oh you know you know I love I love a little conversation

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Danny Rap. Congratulations. Thanks boys for coming. That was really great. It was really nice. Nice to be in Chicago. For you guys, for you guys to fly out there.

Yeah. You came like almost a thousand miles. Yep. Just for the day. Yep. How to go to, how to go to the L.A. for the U.S.

Open day after. Yep. I just, I really appreciated it. I noticed it. I thought it was great. How's your trip? How's your trip?

How's your trip? It was delightful. Yeah. It was a great time. Yeah, I went two and O. We won. Yeah.

It was great. Thanks for coming to the podcast, of course of course I landed like two hours ago I knew it was going to be a cluster fuck getting here the whole logistics thing is it's as bad as I thought it would be really bad we just ubered to it's better to just Uber here

Is that the move? Because we did what you did Oh me and Frankie and Brendan The parking situation's a joke It was like first of all that building's like a Batman villain movie And there was a sign to get in But then there was no sign once you were actually in the garage Nope so it was like

We had the exact same experience like five hours ago when you finally figure out like an escalator go up, you don't know if you should make a left or right. It's just, it's a shit show. There's no signs at all. But you're here now. I mean,

this is a home game for you. Yeah. This is an LA, US Open. You must be fucking pumped. I'm really excited to see with the golf course, how they, how they set it up because it's definitely hard when,

like, in normal times, but it's not, it's not like a course you go play, like, you know, you go play Bethpage Black, for example, and you're like, holy shit,

like this place is insane. LACC doesn't typically have that effect on people. So I'm sure they, have it like on steroids this week because I have some of the videos the rough looks crazy the fairways apparently it hasn't really rained here at all recently so they tightened it up a little bit right compared to what I'm sure they've tightened it up for members but it's got a little bit of the augusta situation where it's it's not super tight but it's functionally tight because one half of the fairway will just completely run off yeah and even if it stays in the fairway you can't see anything

you've got to work it around trees so the fairways themselves might appear to be pretty wide hi brison looking for the locker room you guys know it is no way brousson How are you doing? What's up, man? We're all friends now. Everyone's friends now. Oh, apparently. Yeah, everyone's all good now.

Hi, Bryson. That's great. You guys good? We're great. We're doing fantastic. I like that logo. I like that logo. I like that.

Sometimes, you know, we're bantering about our opinions. You know what I mean? Everybody's opinion. Everybody could do that. Everybody could do that. This is a U.S. Open chant last time we talked to you. You just won the U.S. Open a wingfoot.

That's right. Oh, boy. No, just for a second. A second. Yeah. I told you. We're all. What's up.

Everyone's friends now. We're all happy. I got to say, we saw you on the range hitting driver, I felt like, for like four hours. Oh, yeah. I'm trying to figure some stuff out. What are you going to golf balls do you think you hit today? It's a good question. Probably like 400, 450?

How different is your first swing from your last out there? When you're out there for that long? I hope it's not different, but like it's been different quite a bit. And usually I don't like hitting golf balls for that long, but I'm trying to figure stuff out. Dude, it's just been like five years of trying to figure it out what I had in 28. So trying to work to get it back. I thought you always say 2018, which is interesting because you won your major in 2020. But it feels like that's the year you point to.

I know you won four times. Yeah. I know you, you know, you made the Radica. It was a great year for you. But that's not, it wasn't like the peak of Bryson. But for you, it feels like that was your peak, Bryson. And so early 2018, late 2017 is when I was ball striking at my best. And I had something that was just gold.

And it started just deteriorate over the course of the year. And I still won. My putting was unbelievable. And that's just really my five star golden. golden ticket for me that i'm trying to get back to it's getting close it's actually really close that's why i'm working so hard because i'm like oh it's right there it's like a balloon float okay everybody's to make fun of this this is great though it's like a balloon float in the air i catch it with one hand and just it just slips out and i'm just trying to catch the balloon the whole time it's in my

it's in my grasp you were also a lot uh you were a lot thicker last time we saw i was fat you can use that as slick but you're still put hitting the ball far yeah yeah it's still not a different no difference it's all neurological really yeah i was gonna say no no I gave you a lot of shit back in the day for being like the scientific analytical nerd. Still am. Yeah, I know, but I feel like it's more mainstream now. Because that kind of been like, like a Matt Fitzpatrick is almost like, like people love that he writes down every single fucking shot he takes and like no one gives him shit for it. But when you did it, I was like, this guy's a nerd.

We got to get him off the tour. He's like so boring. Look, I mean, Matt Fitzpatrick got him off the door. Yeah, you did. He got him off the tour. Success! No. Now he's back.

Dang it. But you know what I mean, though? It's like a mainstream now. I think people are realizing how beneficial it can be up to a certain point. You know, you got foresight, flight scope, track man, people, you know, writing down numbers and trying to figure out stuff in their books, like how far it's going, how much the wind is hurting it, when it's wet, what's going on. All that stuff, you know, I was just trying to find a distinct advantage.

And I think everybody's realizing that, you know, every single shot matters. And if you can have that one shot around that it saves you, it's big, man. And I think all the math and stuff has a big deal to do with it. I want to ask you about the shot I saw on social media. You hit a chip off the back of the club. Oh, yeah. Are you going to bring that out this week? Oh, yeah, absolutely.

If you slow it down, you'll see what I actually do. So you don't actually do that? I'm not telling you I do it or don't do it. You've got to figure it out. The ball's sitting, it's invisible. And then he turns the club around and hits it and it comes out with spin. I'm not really sure. Yeah, it nips out and spins.

It's perfect right next to the hole. I almost made it. There's some sorcery going on there. All right, Brian. A bit of magic. We appreciate you. Thanks, guys. Good luck this week.

I just had to come in and, of course. And bust your balls. We love that. Great to talk to you. See you, Bryson. Hey, Bryson to Shambau. The most unlikely reunion. Yeah.

Just if you would have told me who was walking, because I saw Alex Bush's face of who was walking behind us and I'm like, I mean, you got, Alex and Brendan were so bright-eyed being like, what is about to happen right now? If you were told me, he kind of kicked me. If you would have given me a million dollars for a million guests, I mean, I would have I would have been like, I never would have said price into champ. Our relationship with him has been by far the strangest with any singular player, and it just took another turn. I mean, he literally kicked me in the back a little bit.

I like a nice little nudge. You walked up and gave me a little. I kept him on the, I was getting a little too. I like tapped him on the knee a little too much if we're being honest. He, um, he leaned down, it came down to our level. We got a good PJ tour live joke in there. Like that was, that was pretty seamless. I do feel like it.

Just keep going. Just keep going. Just go right through. There's nobody here. Don't even look up. There's absolutely nobody here. Just go right through me. We're going to use you guys a guest now.

Yep. We're legally allowed to say you are a guest. Ted Scott on the four play podcast. Ted Scott is on the four play podcast. Huge interview. Plaster it all over YouTube. Look at those golf bags. I made my first pretty big ass to Taylor Made.

I try not to ask for things because I'm going to go. I was like, listen, I'm moving to LA. Like, I think that would just be an incredible piece for my office. They were like, yeah, I don't. We don't really have those. Like I don't think it's going to happen for me. You got you got shut down. They pretty much said no, yeah.

Incredible. We did hear that they like hired like an LA designer to design. I'm sure it was like a very expensive ask for one of those bags. You know what I mean? It's like a famous like LA designer. What are you looking at? Hey, Scottie. Hello, Mr.

Sheffler. Scotty. Scotty, I tell you this all the time on social media, but I'm so proud of you, man. I really am. You're welcome. Good luck, Scotty. You're just,

one of my favorite people on the planet. It's crazy. We're probably you too. Yeah. Come say hi. You got to go. He said no. Dude, Bryson said hi. Can you just come say hi? I just, I like that he said no. Yeah, he's trying to win, dude. All right. Bye guys. See you, Scottie. Ted.

Scotty Schaeffler on the podcast. Sorry, chef, we're on the four-plice. He said guest-appeared. Put it in the title. Put it in the title. Guys, we're in the best spot of all time. And it's just, I got, I got something I want to say. What do you want to say?

Okay, Tray. I'm back in on Bryce. Oh. It's a 10 seconds. That's why he came. That's why he knows. And it's, I wish, we almost need like, he's in some bad shit right now at the 9-11 quotes and all that stuff. It's just like, I mean, a lot of those guys are in a bad spot just because it's an impossible question to answer because everybody's done.

Why are you talking about 9-11? Ready to be like, so, uh, you want to clarify when you said we should kind of just go over 9-huh? He's also the victim of a lot of bad headlines, right? right now too like you'll see like bryson de shambo says we should forgive for 9-11 it's like well you actually read the article it's also not that he she's just not clearly not that he believes that it's that he articulates it in that way a lot and then people run with it which i'm sure we've run with it we yeah i just had to bring it because i know even a lot of my friends are like out on him for what he said and like i mean i did not like what he said like i'm always gonna have like a soft spot

i think we all do a soft spot in our heart for what happened there it's fucking crazy but i think like new Yorkers are very, very, like, don't even fucking bring it up. I think if you were there and you guys live, you lived it. But it's also, it's just like, with all the history with live and like the Saudis and all that stuff, like, don't even fucking bring it up. Like, we already know that you're doing bad shit. We know that those guys are bad guys. Like, why are you going on fucking the news?

And like, why are you answering those questions? So I'm going to tell you something that we consider. Should I not be backing on Bryson? We've been. I'm, all right. For years, we could sit. We could sit ready to take stances for years. And it takes you come over here.

You kneel down for about 30 seconds. back in on him. We're back in. I'm rooting for you to win every tournament in history. You know what it was? It was the kneel down. He came down to our level. It was over. It wasn't just standing over us being like, you guys. He didn't look down on us. I touched his knee just too many times. If you go back to that fucking tape, dude.

I also wanted to tell him, if I touched his knee like three or four times. I could tell he did do the thing where he stood up then, like, clearly like, I want to go. He started to move, so that's why. But I really wanted to tell him that I wanted to say when we were talking about him not being on tour anymore, that we have said on the show many times. They're like, we miss Bryson at tournaments. Like, he just brings the storylines.

He brings the controversy. He brings all kinds of conversation. Like, remember that stretch like three or four years ago? Every week, Bryson was the news driver. Well, Brooks and Bryson was the big storyline for a year and a half, it felt like. But I do want a knee counter. I want a knee counter on Frankie and Bryson. That'd be great.

He's just always, put that out as a club. He's always making waves, that guy, man. He just never know. We've always said this. He just can't get out of his own way sometimes. But then he'll do something like this, and he's just like a regular guy. I'm with you. If you had given me a million guesses to,

guess what Alex and Brendan were looking at. I think I would have said Tiger before Bryce. Oh, dude, I would have said Tiger 13 times before. Well, this is his initial joke too. He goes, where's the locker room?

And my brain, dude, my brain was racing. Like, what's the joke that I don't get? What's the joke that I don't get? I just couldn't like figure it out. He was just bullshit.

He was just busting ball. I will say, though, all joking aside, like, does kind of feel like everyone's, everyone's kind of friends down. Like,

we can make those jokes. You know what I mean? It's like a, it's a little, there's a little bit more happiness. a little bit more light. It was starting to already get there. You think so? Yeah, I mean, like, even last year, like right when Liv came up, like, that

first U.S.O... at at the country club, in Boston. Trent and I were on the driving range, and we saw Bryson up there, and we're like, he's just, like, talking to people. It's just like, it's not that weird to these guys. It's always been like that. Every player has always told the media

amongst us, guys, it's really just not that bad. There's like a couple bad guys. And Rory would see each other on the range at the medalist or Bears Club or wherever they're at like they just were like yeah we play golf like it's always just been way worse in the media than it has been in the locker room totally now sure now don't get me wrong there's been some bad blood i mean on netflix you saw fucking roar just be like fuck you phil like that's not that's no joke phil's still mad about that too he's tweeted about it