Fore Play - Credentialed Report from Bellerive featuring Bryson DeChambeau and Kevin Kisner

Episode Date: August 10, 2018

We are live from the PGA Championship recapping our entire first day at Bellerive. We grabbed Bryson DeChambeau (discussed the Carnoustie driving range video) and Kevin Kisner after their rounds! It's a major championship and we've got a major show. Riggs also breaks down the most passionate war on the internet, “Riggs vs American Airlines.” 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 Podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Ladies and gentlemen, we have an unbelievably interesting show today. We are throwing a lot of different things at you. We're coming to you live from Belle Reeve, the PGA Championship. I have a very special guest on with me. We have Logan. Logan, say hello.

How are we doing, people? Logan is mostly the KFC radio guy. He has done a ton of phenomenal producer. sure work with them, podcasts work, anything that they've been doing and working on, which is awesome stuff for the last couple months. He's been on it.

Logan is also a St. Louis guy. Yep, originally from St. Louis, born and raised. By the way, it feels great to be home. That's what's great about it is that both of us are from St. Louis. So whenever we've been talking to people in the media center, they've been like, oh, yeah, like, how's Belrieve? All this stuff. It's like, yeah, we're like home.

No, we know what it's like we're from here. Yeah, exactly. A couple St. Louis guys. So I feel like I don't know if everybody on the podcast knows that. Maybe they do. Maybe I say it every fucking podcast that I'm from St. Louis. And people just are like stop telling us you're from fucking St. Louis Riggs. But anyways, two St. Louis guys were here.

It worked out beautifully that obviously you do a bunch of phenomenal production work and all of that. So you were like, hey, I was going to go home for the PGA anyways. We got credential. I was already going to be here. And it was like, yeah, let's do something together. So here we are. By the way, this is the most professional looking podcast that's ever been fucking shot. This is incredible.

I mean, we were in the media center. we had a radio room reserved. Like, it's in this little corner we're going to be next to, like, some random Spanish channel. Right. And both of us were like, should we just go out and film at the course? And we walked out and nobody was here. And now we're staring, looking down one, like we're live from on Golf Channel. We legitimately have a better set than the live from the Golf Channel guys who are over there.

We're looking at Brandel, David Duvall, Frank Nobalo, the whole gang, Rich Lerner. We're looking at them right now. You can probably maybe even see him in our camera. We just went over and said hi to him, by the way. Yeah, we just strolled on it. I feel like that kind of stunned you. You were like, oh, shit. Yeah, you just walked right up, like, no big deal.

You're like, yeah, I just texted Brandel. We're just going to, he said, come on up. We just walked in, and they were just chilling, waiting to start. You got to learn that I at golf tournaments ever since the U.S. Open. I have just developed this attitude where I walk around like I own the place. It really happened. It's the U.S. Open and U.S.O.S.O. My close personal friend, USGA's fault, because they gave me inside the ropes access.

So now they gave you a taste, and now you've, just gone. I tell people, it's like I became a drone and I can just go anywhere I want to. Like that's how I feel at golf tournaments. So we walked riding in the golf channel. Nobody stopped us today. Nobody stopped us once. Not once. We've had a hell of a day. We're going to walk everybody through it. We also are adding on this show.

We got our boys, Frankie Burley, the pizza maker and Slim Daddy Trent are back in the office. They watch the whole thing on TV. So they're going to talk about that perspective. We're going to talk about this perspective of being here at the PGA in St. Louis. Now, there's something I have to talk about. This is something that's very important

to me. A lot of people ask me about this all the time, all the time. And it's what app I use when I play golf. Now, I know that a lot of people out there, people are probably upset at me that I haven't been tweeting about this more because people ask me all the time what app I use when I play golf. The answer is golf logics, Logics, L-O-G-I-X golf logics. Now, look, there's a reason that I use golf logics because there's a ton of other apps that everybody's played around with. There's other apps, I feel like, that tried to do what golf logics is doing and just haven't been able to do it nearly as good or effectively or they just like started before people actually figured out how to build apps.

Yeah, when you, you've tweeted about it and when I finally saw it in person today and we were in the media center and you were just showing me what the greens looked like, it was incredible. It's unbelievable. They've got this technology. It's like their putt preview, their green reading technology that they call it, where they have mapped out the greens that are literally, they have the same detail that all of the pros use and all of their little books and all of that stuff and all of their notes. it is that type of detail that you can just zoom in on the green

and just look at the green on the app. It's insane. But my favorite part about it is that when you're hitting a pro shot, especially when you're playing a course that you haven't really played before, you're hitting a pro shot and you see like a certain pin, but you don't know what the green does. You can literally just look at the green really quickly and see exactly what it does, and then I can lay my ball 20 feet right and it'll funnel towards the hole.

We had better information than everybody else in the media center. Legitimately better information. Legitimately did. So if you go through everything that you want in a golf app, Okay, they have the most complete game improvement GPS app out there, right? So you can just, they've mapped nearly every golf course on the planet. So while using it, you can just easily move the target, determine the yarders to any point, whether it's a fairway, the green, a layup, a hazard, whatever distance you need,

you can just look at it from the bird's eye view, which is the best thing in the world. That's the way you want to look at every golf hole that you've ever played. It also helps you analyze your scores and stats after every single round. The app's latest feature, like we said, it's called putt breaks. I put it on the Instagram, I put it on my Twitter. If you haven't looked at it, you need to go look at it. You need to go download the app right now and look at it because you can just study the greens. You can be sitting on your couch watching them play Bell Reve and just study the greens and know everything about the greens from your couch.

Yeah. You can be like Johnny Miller just up there just like, oh yeah, they should do this. So download it now. You search for golf logics. That's L-O-G-I-X. You should know how to spell golf. This is a golf podcast. Logics, L-O-G-I-X in the Apple app store or by hitting the golf logics.

link in our podcast description. That's right. We're going to have links everywhere in the podcast description. You're going to see it. The coolest part is, like we said, you're sitting at home, you're watching the PGA Championship. You can use Golf Logics to analyze all the Greens at Bel Reeve. And here's, I knew they were going to put this in the copy and they thought that I was going to read this. I know that they thought I was going to read this. I'm not going to read it. But it says, and you can really understand why Tiger missed that six-footer. That's them. I see golf logics. You guys are trying to be cheeky. I knew they were trying to get me to read that. not going to read that.

You can watch why Tiger made that six-footer. Or you can understand how difficult that 50-footer that Tiger made for Bernie. Oh, my God, Tiger, how did you do that? You're going to go look and be like, wow, that was even tougher than I thought. So go to the app store, download Golf Logics, L-O-G-I-X. They are the best. Okay. So we're credentialed media.

Big time. It was not easy getting here. I have to be honest. You add a hell of a night, day, and morning. Now, I'm very hesitant to complain because I've got a great life. I play golf all the time. I'm standing. We're standing on the first tee.

I said it feels like we're about to tee off on the first tee in the Ryder Cup right now because of this view. They have like this giant grandstand right behind the first tee. It's like a little stadium-type feel. And we're just podcasting from it. So I do. I have a good life. Many, many worse things have happened to people than what happened to me. However, having said that, what happened to me was fucking terrible and sucked.

And American Airlines is to blame for that. So what happened was I woke up yesterday, which is Wednesday, okay? I wake up Wednesday. And I get an email slash text message, both, actually, both things from American Airlines. And it just says, your flight is canceled to St. Louis. That's all it says. Usually they delay it. You get to the airport.

They delay it for a couple hours. And then they cancel it. They just straight up canceled it on you. They canceled it like 10 hours before it was supposed to happen. They just canceled my flight. Like, what is that? So anyways. So they cancel it.

So I'm like, okay. So naturally, this is what happens when you get a large. Twitter following, if you're not going to wield that following to complain like a little bitch when things don't go your way, then there's no point in having the following. So I wielded my following to get them to respond and DM, which happens. And then I'm DMing them. They're like, okay, we've got one spot on this flight that goes from LaGuardia to D.C., D.C. to St. Louis, you'll be there tonight by 9 p.m. I'm like, done. Let's do that. And the only reason why you wanted to go last night is because Tiger teed off.

Early this morning. early this morning. So I needed to be here. And you had credentials. You could have, like, been in. You pretty much could have had full access to Tiger all day. And also, I'm just, like, giddy credentialed rigs, right? Like, I was going to get here at 5 a.m. this morning and just walk around and eat the ice cream.

Like, we talked about the fucking ice cream in the last one. By the way, Logan got introduced to the ice cream. I mean. I just, like, stumble upon it. And I just looked around and I was like, you're just telling me I can grab this for free? Because you had heard us on the podcast talk about the ice cream at Chinatcock. It's funny that you would get credentialed to something like Shinnecock. there's all these iconic things to talk about,

and we've spent most of our podcast since then talking about the ice cream. And people might laugh at that. You legitimately, you might have made four or five trips to the ice cream thing today. I had to hold myself back because I know it's a long weekend, and I know if I go big on day one, it's just going to be like downhill from there. Like if I start off with three, there's nowhere to go. Like, I need to work my way up. Like, I think Sunday I'm going to get maybe four and just tap it out there.

So I respect your restraint. I also respect the restraint. of Lauren, who was this lovely young lady that we met, who we were talking to her about the ice cream. That was the first thing she said too. She was like, oh my God, how about the ice cream in the media center? And she was like, I've walked to the ice cream thing four times when she hadn't had one yet,

which is incredible. I don't even know how one can have that kind of willpower. Shout to Lauren, that's unbelievable. But anyways, I was giddy rigs. So I was going to get here at like 5 a.m. this morning. I was just going to, like, soak the whole thing. I just couldn't wait to see the golf course. I was going to walk it in the morning. I was very excited to just see the whole golf course. So then I go to the whole golf course. So then I go

Guardia, my flight's delayed like an hour. And they're like, now you might not make your connection in D.C. And I'm like, well, what should I do? Should I stay here and fly out in the morning? Because they could get me out in a 5 a.m. flight in the morning, but I didn't get into like 10. Tiger T's off at 8.20. I was going to miss most of his round. What do I do?

What do I do? So they're like, look, we think the flight in D.C. To St. Louis is going to be delayed as well. We think you should risk it and get on and go to D. I was like, done. I love it. Let's go. Get to D.C. And they were cheeky in your DMs.

They said, We're going to cross our wings was one thing they said. Who the fuck says that? What company? Fuck you, American Airlines. You're going to cross your wings. And then they said, we have the magic touch. And they did two capital A's because it's American Airlines.

They thought they were hot shit. This was before I even got anywhere. Like, had I succeeded, they could show off. And I said to them on Twitter, I was like, I'm going to tweet really nice compliments about you if this all works out. If not, I'm going to complain like a little bitch on Twitter because that's the whole point having it. It didn't work out. What happened was I get to, so I get to D.C., and I'm actually, when I get there, they're like, your flight's delayed three hours. And I'm like, great.

Like, that's fine because now I'll make the flight. So I get a nice burger. I get a beer. I order two glasses of ice water, which is always my move at a restaurant. I always order two glasses of ice water. Wild no. So I have a theory. And the theory is that I, when I go to a sit-down restaurant, especially at a place like an airport where airports are notorious for terrible service.

service, just God-awful service. So if I usually look, and I usually judge the waiter or waitress right away, and I judge, like, is this person going to be quick and efficient or not? So you're getting ahead of this. You're getting ahead of it. If the answer is in any way, no, they're not going to be that efficient. I order two glasses of ice water. It's because I'm, that's like the only thing I drink is alcohol and water.

I don't drink, like, really anything else. Outside of I have one dunk in ice coffee every morning. I don't drink soda. I don't drink, like, fruity. I just don't. You got two speeds. That's it. I drink like water, alcohol, and a little bit of ice coffee.

That's all I drink. So when I sit down, if there's any chance that I'm going to crush my first water and then be sitting there for five minutes without any water to drink, I'm just not going to be happy about that. So I ordered two. Long story short, I ordered two ice waters. Is that going to be okay? People, I feel like we got an army who are driving by.

It's like we're in Moscow and they're doing like a procession right now. I can't really hear it. Okay, good, we're good. So I ordered two ice waters, get an ice burger. a beer. I'm in great shape. Finally walk over to my gate and that's supposed to board in like an hour. And then all of a sudden they just get a little out as bigger and they just go, the flight to St. Louis has been canceled.

You need to hurry up to the attendant at the front desk and see what you can do. And I was just like, oh shit. Run up to the front desk or to the attendant. I feel like what makes it even worse is you're surrounded by other people who are also just miserable and going through the same thing. So like anybody there is just in a terrible mood. You're just running into like and we're all fighting for the same spots now. Exactly.

So it's like not only is it terrible because we're all pissed off and want to fight each other and claw each other's eyes out and call American Airlines eyes out. But on top of that, like if you're not the first person in line, you can't get on another flight because there's already, other flights are fucking booked. And they don't just invent flights out of nowhere. They can't just create new planes. So cancel my flight. So I go and talk to American Airlines and they're like, yeah, technically it was an air traffic controller issue. So we can't actually get you a hotel. or refund you or if you're going to drive,

we can't actually just give you anything. And I was like, thank you. That's great. The only thing they can do for me, Logan, was they got me on a series of flights, what can only be described as like a chain of flights today, which would have gotten me in at 11.30 p.m. I would have left at 2 p.m. Eastern.

Fly to Cincinnati, delay. Cincinnati to Chicago layover. Chicago to St. Louis. I'm like, you guys couldn't get one flight in one day. I'm going to take three. What are you talking about? American Airlines. So then I'm like, I'm going to fucking drive. It was like 10 o'clock at night. Tiger T's off at 8.30 in the morning. It's supposed to be like a 12-hour drive. So I'm like, I can get there and I'm picking up an hour because I'm going with the sun. So I'm like, okay, technically I can get there by like maybe 10 a.m. something like that. 12, 13 hour drive overnight. I'm going to do it.

I'm all excited. And people were tweeting at me. Like, do it, do it. And then I will say a couple guys tweeted at me with a little bit of sense. One guy was like, yo, Riggs. One time I had a golf trip. All my flights got canceled. The only way I could make it was to drive overnight.

When I left, I was the most pumped up guy in the world. Like two hours into the drive. I was like, you would have been miserable today. I was like, my whole trip, I was the most miserable person in the world because I couldn't keep my eyes open. But good luck on your drive. I was like, well, fuck that. Yeah.

And then another guy was like, why don't you just. book with a different airline in the morning, which I hadn't thought about that. I don't know. I just hadn't thought about that. That just for whatever reason, that simple solution slipped my mind. So office manager Brett booked me a flight. I ended up doing, I had to do a connection situation, but I got here. So I arrived. I was in the air for most of Tigers round, but I did have like, I did have a layover, so then I landed, I checked Tigers round. They had to go back in the air again. So it was a little stressful. But regardless, I arrived. You made it? I am here. We are credentialed journalists.

this has been a different experience than Shinnecock, because at Shinnecock, we were focused on doing Barstool Radio. It was like the big thing, right? That was like the big focus. We're going to do Boston Radio. We're going to try to, you know, whatever. This, we kind of just hung around the gaggle, I'm calling it. Yeah, I think that I, like said that to somebody, though, and they looked at me really weird. So I don't know if it's an official term, but I think we just roll with it.

Like, it's our term. So I'm pretty sure the gaggle is actually when the White House press corps, informally hangs around the press secretary and like shoots the shit whatever this I can't remember they called it the queue or something like that yeah but this is like the little pop-up interview area people know we're talking about where tigers always standing it looks it looks way more official on TV than it is yeah correct because we were over there and it was just like just a backdrop just thrown like right next to a pool and it's just like a couple people standing around there's like a lot of the interviews just had like one guy.

We ended up meeting great guy, AP journalists. AP journalist. What was that guy's name? Rick. Something. Rick Haas or something like that. Rick Haas. He was awesome. He interviewed everybody. They called him the mayor of the golf press pool and they were correct. He interviewed everybody like almost by himself. So,

so we spent a lot of our day at what we're calling the gaggle, which like we said, everybody knows what it is. A little pop up. They put the backdrop, like the PGA backdrop, PJ Championship backdrop behind the guy. He stands. It's whenever the they interview Tiger. and he's standing. He's not sitting. He's standing. That's that thing.

And you have to like request for a player to come out there. So we were there for, uh, we did not know that we needed to request people because we were like, oh, maybe we could interview that guy. And then he'd just walk away. We didn't know what's going on. We had no idea. And I think we had a sign on our forehead that said we were fucking rookies. I had no idea what was going on.

Yeah. And we just walked around like dummies. Now this is only Thursday. We have two more days of this. So we're going to take over that gaggle area and completely dominate, which. we actually kind of did to a degree. We're going to plug a couple interviews into this podcast. We have Kisner, our boy Kiz, who we may go to the gaggle with just me and him.

There was nobody else there. Yeah, it's a very, it's, if you look at the clip, you're going to be like, oh, that looked really official. And then if you look around, like, I have a clip of what it looked like other than Riggs there, it looks kind of embarrassed. There's nobody there. There was just me and Kiz talking one-on-one, basically, but it looked like it was a fucking, like you had just one. the PGA Championship was doing a big press conference. So it was me and Kiz, and then we went over to the driving range. Now, the range, I would argue that the coolest thing about being credentialed at a golf tournament

is how close you can get on the driving range. You can just go stand right behind any player, and you can hear him interacting with the swing coach, his caddy, whoever's there, his dad, his wife, whoever's there. You can hear him, like, interacting, talking. They take a couple swings and they always go back and look at it on the cell phone so you can get right up in there. So we kind of meandered our way over to the driving range late in the afternoon. It's probably like 4 o'clock. Yeah, because we went earlier in the day, and there was a ton of people out there practicing,

and we ended up watching Hedekhi and Bryson Des Chambu practice because those two swings are beautiful to watch in person. And it's weird with the practice range, you get the opportunity to be able to, actually sit and watch several swings in a row where when you're watching on the golf courts you only get to see one here one there you never get to see him consistently hit the same shot and so it's unbelievable to watch dialed in there yeah it's unbelievable and just to see him flush a ball like that you're like yeah i'm never going to be that good and i've like never seen that left of a person i've never going to hit a shot that ever feels like that so an incredible part of this story is we rolled over that was probably at like noon yeah noon one maybe we rolled over and bryson

de chambot was kind of on the, he was arriving-ish on the range. And he was on the far left side of the range right next to Hedekie. And we were like, oh, okay, Bryson's getting ready to do his thing. He said, tinker, it could be interesting, whatever. And we hung out in the range for a few minutes. We went back, we walked the golf course, we followed kids, went to the media center. I wrote a couple blogs.

We did all kinds of good stuff. And then we came back at like maybe 435, whatever time that was. Bryson D. Chambot, we walk up. There's no one on the entire driving range except in that back left corner that we talked about. Bryce and Deschambeau is there with his swing coach and it's catty. Just the three of them on the range. And we're like, of course, Bryce and Deschambeau is here.

So naturally we had our camera with us and our microphone, which I would assume we're probably a pretty intimidating bunch because we've got the Barstool logos. Yeah, you talked about that of like how things have kind of flipped for you guys. I think so. I think there's probably a degree of like they know that we have this audience, this rabid audience. And that like if we don't like somebody,

this huge audience comes with that and won't like. like somebody. So I do kind of think that to a certain player, right? Like, Hadeke Matsuyama isn't like looking at bars. You ain't going to fuck about Barstall sports. And there's probably a lot of other guys, too. Like, I feel like DJ isn't going to be flying fuck about bars or sports. But clearly there's some other guys that have been sensitive to things that we have said

and that definitely no. I know Bryce DeShitmo has commented on like four play stuff. We've been hard on him at times. We said we like him at times. We've said like he's really we want to like him because he's interesting and different. And in golf, anybody who's not just like a country club douche, a cookie cutter country club guy

is like inherently more interesting and therefore we should like that person. So we've kind of gone back and forth on Bryson, but we've been hard on him lately. So we went and Trent of, I've said the story of when we saw him at, uh, at the Zyrrk classic last year and he walked by us for the first time.

We were like stunned at how big he was and also stunned at how like immediately passive we were. We're like, hi Bryson. Like, how are you? Hey, big fans. Correct.

So anyway, so we were like, we're walking around with our camera and our mic, I've got a stick mic. Barstle logos everywhere. No one else on the driving range. No media on the driving range. It's just us and Bryson.

So we walked all the way down there. We walked right up behind Bryson. We stood right behind him with our camera. He's hitting balls. And then he starts mingling with the crowd because the crowd's like elevated on these grandstands. So he starts mingling with the crowd. He starts throwing off balls over his head. He's having a great time.

He just messing around. He was actually, I was stunned because he wasn't. There's a video of him at Karnusti, which I asked him about. We end up interviewing. doing Bryson for a couple minutes. But there's a video of him at Karnusti, kind of losing his mind on the range, which is a laugh-out-loud, funny video.

And then, so anyways, he's mingling it up with the crowd. The crowd's laughing. They're, like, calling out certain shots. He's hitting certain shots. He's throwing golf balls up to the crowd. He's trying to throw him in the trash can over the back of his head, which is, like, kind of a nerdy Bryson, like, thing to do. But whatever, that's fine.

He's having fun. And then he starts chipping balls up at the kids in the grand. So he's chipping balls up to him laughing, like, when they can't catch. So we're like, okay, Like, that's very nice stuff. I like all that stuff. So then he comes walking by, and he can't miss us at this point. I mean, you just can't fucking miss us.

There's nobody on the range. We are the only other people there besides his caddy and him. Me, giant camera, microphone, barstool logos everywhere. He walks right by us and we're like, Bryce, we grab you in for a minute. And his caddy is like, just, it's got to be quick guys. And then Bryson's like, don't worry about him. What do you guys want? Which is a super cool move.

Incredibly cool move. And then we started interviewing which, do you just want to drop that? in here. So let's drop the interview in. Again, it was only a couple minutes. We talked to him very briefly. He was kind of on his way, but we did stop with Bryson Dichambe. Here's a couple of minutes with Bryce. Bryce, you got a minute by chance? Yeah, what's up? I love to chat with you for a second. What's up, man? I'm Riggs. Nice to meet you. It's all good. It's all good. He's a asshole. No, no worries. He's going to appreciate it.

What's up, man? How are you doing? I'm tired. So we're going to talk about your behind-the-back throws over there? Oh, close. Yeah, man. I was just not a... I don't play basketball. Let's just say that. You're getting a... You're getting to talk. You're Getting closer, closer. I feel like you didn't want to heard about it. No, yeah, I need to stick to golf, though. That's for sure. So 71 and anyone over?

How we feel? You know, for the way I play, it's 71. It's not bad, actually. I freaking hated it out there. I was in it everywhere and was able to scramble and get it up and down. What does that mean you hated it out there? I just felt like I had no control out there again. But luckily, out here working, grinding my butt off,

and got a little something for tomorrow. So we were here for like five minutes. It looks like you were flushing it. Yeah, yeah, no. obviously, yeah, you saw the good part of this practice session, which is nice. Is there some bad stuff before we got it? Oh, it's just like, you know, not hitting it straight and then a little right and a little left. So just trying to figure out the biomechanics to figure that stuff out.

Because we obviously had the Carnoustie video on the range. This was way smoother than that. Yeah, I mean, look, people, I didn't know anybody was there. It was unfortunate that somebody caught that. And look, that's a man working hard to try and figure out his craft. Well, look, sometimes we get a lot of boring guys. You're out here. You're interesting.

You're tweaking, you're tinkering. You're doing your thing. Take your stuff out, man. It's always a grind. I'm always trying to get better and try and be the best. That's what it takes. How are we feeling going in tomorrow? A lot better.

A lot better. Looking forward to a good day, dude. All right, man. Thanks, you take the time. We appreciate it. Absolutely. Play well, pal. Thanks, guys.

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You want to get this offer soon in time for the summers. You go to Omaha Steaks.com type four into the search bar. bar grab your friends and family and fire up the grill today bryson de chambos very good dude i gotta be honest awesome guy pretty much a huge brycing him in person completely switched me to like full-time fan of him he also just had like a genuine spy on his face yeah right i mean when he was playing around with like the guys who were like with the balls all that kind of stuff like tossing him to him he was just happy like he just was just like a genuinely happy person and it's hard to like hate somebody who's just genuinely happy from what we

saw up in close and in person it was impossible to not like bryson de shambo he just came off as like a very genuine cool dude we even as you heard that interview we were like what's up with the carnoosey video where you looked like a psychopath and he's like well look that's a guy who like cares about his craft and like i didn't know cameras were on me but he's like i also that's just i really care about what i'm doing and if it's really going terribly i'm going to have an emotional reaction to it which i love so i am officially a bryson de shamboambeau guy which that's kind of my people probably going to rag on me because they don't people a lot of people don't have the brain capacity to change their opinions on people like i do i like bubanao i have said that and i like bryson de chabot

that's got to blow people's minds well people again i don't think a lot of people have the brain capacity to understand that people can change their big brain it's well i don't want to you know but it is a big move from me to be able to do that uh also in the gaggle situation like we mentioned uh our good buddy kevin kisner now kis has been on this podcast two or three times kis almost won the fucking British Open. Oh, he was right there. He's tied for the lead going into the final round. He was kind of leading the whole damn tournament ever since he opened up with a 66.

And he opened up with a 50066 to take the outright lead. He stayed there the whole week. He struggled early on on Sunday and then got it back and was in the mix coming down the stretch. I think he ended up finishing like tied for a second, something like that at the British Open. Haven't really talked to him much since. I left him alone. I told that story in the podcast, too. I left him alone during the British because once he started playing great,

I didn't want to then text him. And then if he doesn't play great, it's like, well, after you text him, he rings, I started playing like shit. So the last thing you want. You don't want that. So I hadn't talked to Kiz in a while. But we ran into him after his round. He shot a 300 today.

Played great. He's right in the mix. Six hundred is. Yeah, we got to follow. Actually, the only time we were able to get out on the course was following Kisner for a couple holes. We followed Kis for a couple holes. We saw him. I got to say this, too, Kiz.

If you're listening, buddy. So we arrived. Kiz is one over par. Yep. We followed him for like four or five holes. He was two under par when we left him and he finished three under bar. I mean, it's a rigsy bump.

Yeah. Direct correlation. It's a four-blade bomb because that's the team. Direct correlation. So, you know, Kiz, you're welcome. But we did. We caught up with Kiz. Now to set this scene here, we talked about it a little bit,

but to set it a little bit more vividly in your brains out there, this is, there's a whole bunch of like media. There's like Amanda Ballionis. And it's right by the scoring area. So it's where every single player, when they finish the round, goes right there. And then they just kind of hang out there. And it's like, are they available for media? Are they not available?

That's where we kind of looked like rookies. We were just staring. Correct. We were total rookies. Yeah. This is where like Amanda Ballionis is doing the interviews for CBS and all that. Golf Channel. We had Todd Lewis is grabbing people and doing interviews.

And then there's just bar stool. We're just there, too. So Kiz sees us, he comes over, and there's nobody at the gaggle thing, which the gaggle thing, there's like 15 cameras are trained on it. And it's pretty official, like we said, and Kiz just walks up there and he's like, is it really just U-Riggs? So that's the whole setting is it's pretty much a very official scene. And before he even got up there, like he saw you and immediately started fucking with you. Yeah, he did. He did.

He told me, he goes, man, I must have had 25 guys who asked me where they were. and I said to them, I don't know, look for his eye or something like that. So he was chirping me right out of the gate. Kis was tripped me right at the gate. But to set the whole scene, this is technically the gaggle. This is on camera. This is like in front of the whole official PGA thing. And this is just me and Kiz kind of talking.

How are you? I've most been 15 times where he's one. I bet you did say that. I see you right? You're just me and you talking? No. You're the only one they're requesting me? We can have done that over there. What are you going up to tonight?

I'm going to bed. This is the whole deal. This is your whole thing? Yeah, you like it? I can't believe the PGA. It's way smaller. It's a way smaller. It's a way smaller than the one that they gave me at the USA one.

I feel like once you get one, they just hand them out. It's pretty legitimate. Bed the Masters won't. So Kevin Kisner, how were the fans out there today? They were all looking for you. Where were you? Up here being a credentialed. media member? I thought you were going to make an eye joke right there. No, I didn't. Only in private.

Okay. I mean, that's just not true. That's just a lie. Now kids is lying in front of the media. It's rude. Just so everybody knows, you're the only person that has me out here in this heat. I just, I don't even have any questions. I just want to keep you out here, kids. I'm trying to drain you for a while. You want me to ask you some real questions? Yeah, let's go. So three under, course is supposed to be playing relatively easy. It wasn't that kid, or well, how'd you feel about it today, kids? Well, the fairways are generous, but the rails are brutal, so you've got to hit it in the fairway. The greens are tough because they're slow, and it's not what we're accustomed to, so I had a hard time getting the ball in the hole. Would you say it benefits you that you draw the golf ball?

Absolutely. All the holes look good to me, so it must mean they go right and left. Do you hit a draw? I hit more of my hook. Who are we in? Who's interviewing who are here, kids? You're doing so well that none of us want to really get a ball. kids a lot of chatter about the greens putting you self-proclaimed best part of your game what are your thoughts on the greens is for such an expert on the greens they weren't wasn't my best part of my game today I have a hard time when I have to try to get the ball to the

hole and that's what I felt like I was telling myself over every put and then I started missing my lines hitting it too hard so this is something I got to deal with personally serious question how do you like people Tiger was saying he adds some lead tape how do you change your speech I have a heavy-ass putter already, so I've got to just hit a lot of practice putts and try to hit it above the hole, which is unusual. Is caddies named Huey or Dewey, because I messed that up on Twitter last time? Dewey. Dewey. Doey's Kaz.

Does Dewey have the best calves in the BGA toad? 100%. Anybody have any other questions? I'll fire away. If I just want to know how you feel about it, 300. Yeah, I played solid, hit the ball great. I only missed one fairway. gave myself a ton of looks from 15, 20 feet just didn't make hardly any of them.

I had one really solid putting day, and I'll shoot a low one if I hit it like that. Was it the greens? I mean, they just are bumpy and slow. It's a hard combo to get used to. But I saw Gary make plenty of putts, so I don't think it's an issue. If you get it to the hole and hit it online, they should go in. Thanks, Riggs. Thank you, KISS.

Thank you. Great answers, buddy. Really solid. that's Kevin Kisner obviously Kiz is always an awesome guest really pulling for him this week he again was in the mix he was in the mix last year at the PGA championship

he didn't play great on Sunday he's in the mix at the British Open didn't quite get it done on Sunday he's in the mix after Thursday couldn't be rooting harder for Kiz so go Kiz go root your dick off for him out there I don't care if you're at home on your couch I don't care if you're out here at Bel Reaver the PGA which you should be

speaking of which the fans incredible I mean, for a Thursday. Never seen a Thursday like this. Nope. There were so many fucking people out there. It was crazy. Now, don't get me wrong at Shinnock on Saturday was chaos. There were so many people, it was nuts.

But on Thursday, I don't remember there being that many people. Like, Shinnecock is a bigger, more expansive property. So maybe it just didn't feel like it. I'm not sure. But the fans out here, the masses of fans, were insane. And when we first got here, it was right as Tiger, we're finishing his round on nine, which was right next to the media center. And we had to try to go through that massive crowd.

And I saw, like, 50-year-old moms, like, throwing bows out there. I saw, like, kids. Which for the Midwest. You know, we're a couple of St. Louis guys. That just doesn't happen. That doesn't happen. But it was so crowded that people were clamoring in that. You get the heat going out.

You get the heat going, and you get people that tight together and bad things are going to happen. We saw a tiger. That was another thing. Our first experience at the gaggle was we rolled up. It was like a half hour after we finished. We didn't think we were really going to get to see him. We roll up and we don't even really know where the gaggle tarp thing is yet. And all of a sudden we just look to it right and there's just,

Tiger's just talking. We're like, holy fuck. We're in, we're here. We're just here. So we walked up. I got right in there. I was pumping myself up, Logan, to ask a question. I had a great question about the fusion and the heat.

I had the camera trained on you. I was ready for it. I was so great. Now, people got to realize, too, that the gaggle situation in tigers there is a completely different animal. It's like 50 journalists crammed into like a 10 foot space. So it's not easy to get questions in with Tiger, but I think I could have done it. And then right when I started to build up this confidence, I had a great question, and then it was over. The PGA people came and grabbed him. We've still got a couple more days at it, but I was right there with Tiger. He made me

nervous. I was nervous as fuck seeing him, especially I've been reading that book, the book by Army Contain, the Tiger Woods book. I've read it like five times now. So I feel like my whole brain, I just read about Tiger all the time and then there he was. Yeah, it's incredible to see him in person because he just has that aura about him. It really is hard to explain until you see him in person where it just grasps you and you're like, that guy's

that guy's a big deal. His aura is no joke. No joke at all. I said him in times, but he, I think if Darth Vader were real and Darth Vader walked into a PGA tour event with the same status in the galaxy that he has in Star Wars,

the aura would be similar. People will just look and be like, holy fuck, look at that guy. Like, he's here. And just the fans, I mean, anybody who's ever been to a golf tournament with Tiger can attest to it. The fans around Tiger are absolutely insane, and it was no different here today. The fans were awesome. They're St. Louis has been getting pumped up. I will say that.

We had Jim Nance who said, like, he was warned by the PGA that this is going to be the loudest PGA championship in the history of the world, which I don't know, like, warned. What do you mean warned? Like, you have to wear headphones? Like, what does that mean? Who knows, Jim Nams? Watch out, Jim. Be careful, Jim. But the hype has been there that this is going to be an outrageously, you know, amped up PGA,

which makes sense because St. Louis, we talked about this. St. Louis, we don't have a football team anymore. They fucking left. Fuck, Stan Cranky, that piece of shit. They left. The Blues just never make it past the first round, even though we have great fans. The Blues fans are awesome. The Cardinals only win the World Series every 10 years or so.

Yep. And Mizzou is just very average across the board. Across the board. So St. Louis fans, there's awesome sports fans here. I know Big Cat, that son of a bitch, that troll. Troll cat. He likes to troll the St. Louis fans and all that. But there are awesome sports fans in St. Louis.

They just don't get to cheer that much for stuff. Yeah, and I think it's evident today. And I can only imagine, wait, as the week goes on, once it gets to, I mean, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, when people are off work and they can fully, like, get into it, I think we're going to have an awesome weekend ahead of us. The leaderboard is fantastic. We got Ricky Fowler right up at the top. He got in at 5 under. Gary Woodland is at 6 under, so of course one ahead of him.

ZJ. We lost the golf course. Zach Johnson is at 4 under. Stewart Sink, we had on the podcast a couple months ago. Is at 3 under. Austin Cook also on this podcast is at 3 under. Jason Day, who's on this podcast, but he doesn't know it because he talked about basketball sports in his press conference.

He is also at 3 under. Kiz is at 3 under. Polter, who we saw on the driving range, is at 3 under. There's an awesome leaderboard. Justin Rose, he's at 3 under. There's a ton of guys right in there. Tiger got in at even par, so we have an awesome leaderboard shaping up, which is very, very exciting.

Do you want to talk about the golf course after singing it in person? You've played Bel Reeve. Yes. I am very impressed with the golf course because a lot of people, for whatever reason, usually they hype up the golf course, right? Like Karnoosti, they hype it up. Shinnecock, it was all hyped up. This is one of the great American classics. Belreve, it was like, yeah, the Green News.

kind of stink. Yeah. And also, too, there's not a ton of history here. You talked about it earlier in the week. There's not a ton of history here. There's not those iconic moments that you can go back. I mean, we had the Tiger tweet that, what was it, Sports Illustrated with 9-11? 9-11?

Yeah. That's like the only history that Bel Reef has. They had the BMW championship a couple of years ago, but that- Which I did come to. Yep. And I actually, I think, was in like 09 or something? Is it that long? 11?

Yeah, no, it was 09, I think. I actually worked the event as a spotter, just looking for balls on drives. How did it feel to come back as a credentialed journalist? You cannot have a bigger 180 than that. I'm like, you're just sitting there for five days, just like, oh, cool. That guy hit his ball over there. I'm going to put a pink flag next to it, too, sitting in the media center now on like whole number one looking down on the stands recording a podcast. There's no bigger 180.

Are you surprised at the course played pretty tough today? because, I mean, I have, I wrote down the stat credential journalist, only 31 guys are two under or better, which is not that many for a course that everybody keeps saying was playing incredibly soft, the greens are slow, people are saying that the 18 under is going to win, they're going to light it up. Our guy Brandel said that, he's like, they're going to light this course up. Really didn't light it up that much. No, and that's what I was worried about. When they announced it about a couple years ago, I was really worried because the BMW championship went very low,

and I was worried that we're going to get one of those championships where it was like, you know, 19 under or something like that, where you feel almost bad for the golf course. Like the tour pro, yeah, nobody wants that. The tour pros just ran train on it and you don't want that. And I'm really happy that the golf course has held up. It's a tight tournament. I think we got great guys at the top. I'm a huge Ricky fan. You are a huge Ricky fan.

You were like, I've never seen somebody happier. Oh, my God. You and like every 12-year-old of this tournament is unbelievable happy. I don't wear like the orange flat bill hats, but I might as well be. Like on the inside. If Ricky is in condension on Sunday, I might just go buy one and wear. No joke. Like I'm expecting when I see you, when you arrive at the course on Saturday,

I think you're going to be dressed head to toe in Ricky. If he's in the final pairing, I'm going to be head to toe in like his highlight or orange. It's a very good leaderboard. The course has held up nicely. The greens or I think. A lot of talk about the greens coming into this. We're rolling better than I think that they look. A lot of the guys even in the gaggle because we know,

because we were there, conventional journalists, were saying that they were like, yeah, they're a little bumpy late in the day, but like every golf course on planet Earth gets bumpy late today. And they were talking about it. It's a little bit slow. But at the same time, there was a lot of talk about this golf course maybe even move,

or the PJ maybe even moving this tournament. When they lost the Greens last year. And to see them actually holding up and, you know, players are not going too low, I think it's a successful day one, and I'm excited for the weekend. I'm the same way. They have an awesome leaderboard.

We were talking to some of the PGA of America guys back in the media center, and they were like, you could see that their eyes were beaming. Their faces were beaming. Their eyes were what, glittery, what do you say? Glowing. Yeah, their eyes. Gleeming? Gleaming?

I don't know. Gleaming? Anyways, they looked excited because they were looking at the leaderboard. The leaderboard is, everybody's bunched together, but there's a lot of big names up there. So people were pumped. The course held up. The course is tough.

You have to drive the ball well. You just have to. There's really no other way to say it. If you miss it, the rough is very, very penal. And the course is playing so soft that it's playing long. So you can't just hit like a three iron out there and have a mid iron in. You have to rip the ball. You have to hit it far and land it in the fairway in order to have a chance.

So that's why we saw some overpower numbers today. If you didn't drive it well, you didn't have a chance. Now, we, of course, we're going to be out here all day. Look at us on 4Play pod. We're going to be out here all weekend. We get all kinds of good stuff coming. And we also have our good friends Frankie Borelli and Trent Daddy, Slim Daddy Trent, who they want to weigh in.

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Hello, Trent. How's it going? It's going well. It's a major Thursday. Yes. And I feel good. I feel a little weird without having our pal Riggs running the ship here. Yeah, I do as well.

I feel weird in the hosting role, which is not something I usually do. But now that we've got it started. I feel weird having so much space. between us while we speak, because usually we're, you know, shoulder by shoulder. Usually our legs are hitting each other under the table while we're recorded. I'm sorry about that, by the way. I do have very loose legs when we're talking on this podcast. I seem to, you know, flail them as if I'm Zah sitting on a regular chair.

I really don't mind all that much. I like to think of it as a safe space where we can kind of move throughout the room as much as we want. Well, I appreciate that, and we don't have to worry about that today because we have some space. But let's talk some PGA. Yes. So it kicked off today, Belle Reeve. Um, Bella Reeve. Well, sorry.

You cannot tell me right now, with all the coverage that we've been watching today, that you don't think about Bella Reeve every single time you either read it or you hear someone talk about it. I am shocked that I said it correctly in quotation marks there the first time because I've been saying Bella Reeve all week. It is Bella Reeve. I can't explain how many times I've been tweeted about like it's just Bella Reeve. And I'm sure and I hope, actually I'm not sure, but I hope our Pellarigs is on premises, making it known that they need to change their name. Spreading the Belar Reeve gospel.

Because not only is Riggs on premises, he's in the fucking mix. Dude, he, the first video he put out, he was five feet from Tiger Woods. Unreal. It was very cool. He said he got too nervous and couldn't ask a question, which is understandable.

Well, you know, this is, we're new to this game. Riggs is very new to that game. You know, we're very, we're born. I'm trying to think born again. Like, we're born. So we haven't been credentialed for that many events. This is our second major. So we're not used to being in the scrum with the media.

I was trying to make a, you know, a comparison to, like, a newborn lamb, like, coming out and, like, a deer that's, like, on ice, like, you know. It's like Bambi. Bambi. Bambi. That. A lamb, deer. I just couldn't think of the goddamn, you were dancing right around it. And then I was bambying. You were bambing to get the word bambi out.

Listen, Riggs is going to get his feet wet under him. He knows what to do. I have a lot of confidence in him for the next three days. But, you know, I have to give him some slack because of his travel. trouble troubles, which I'm sure he's talking about on this podcast. I don't know if we're talking before him or after him on this. But by God, did Riggs have a fucking way to get to that tournament? I felt bad for him.

He got to go into D.C. on your way to St. Louis from New York doesn't seem like the correct thing to do. And we know Riggs. We know how, I mean, I've golfed at them. I've talked about it on this podcast. Riggs, you know, doesn't like when things don't go to plan. And he's probably the first one to admit it. Correct. And him getting sent to D.C. on the way to the PGA championship in his hometown when he's

meeting his buddies, he's credentialed. Tiger Woods is teeing off in 12 hours. And them sending, American Airlines, sending him to D.C. just to get canceled? Honestly, I'm surprised there was no fatality. I'm truly surprised. And Riggs, you're a bigger man than I am because I thought that you would have, you know, killed someone. It looked like he channeled his aggression into the video that he made because he was upset in the video. He was pacing around the room. I felt bad for him. He went all the way to D.C. just to spend the night when he probably could have gotten a flight out of Newark or something. if he had just stuck around. So I felt bad for him. But he is at Bel Rieve.

Belarive is where the PGA championship is. Interesting course. Do you have any initial thoughts on what you saw today while we were watching at the office? Well, you know, going into it, I really was nervous to see these damaged greens we talked about on the last podcast. I was like, I'm going to watch this, and I'm going to see brown, and I'm going to see holes in the greens, and I'm going to look like, you know, your average dog shit public track. That's like what I was thinking going in. And I didn't see really.

any of it. No, and it's strange going like, let's see, we were just at Carniusti where it's burned out and that's what you want. You're sort of used to seeing that. And how they hyped up the PJ Championship of Bel-Reeve, like you're saying, it was going to be horrible and the pictures didn't look that good. I thought it looked great on TV. Yeah, and I'm sure from, you know, the camera's perspective and, you know, being up in like these booths and not being able to see from the camera angle, you really can't see, you know, the imperfections on the green. I'm sure there are some because, I mean, the pictures only came out a couple days ago. But, you know, from my first, view of the golf course. It's a pretty cool golf course. It's got a lot of dog legs, which we talked

about the other day. A lot of dog leg left. Only a couple par fives, I think three par fives, so not all that long. I also saw that people were concerned that the players were going to beat the course up. I saw that our pal Brandl-chamblis said, quote, the golf course, I don't know what is going to test the players, to be honest with you. 18 under is going to win. That's his prediction. Something ridiculous. It's not going to beat up these players, that's for sure. So not exactly the highest of hopes from our guy Brandel. But, I mean, what, the leader at five under right now? Yeah, I was actually pretty surprised that the leaders only at five under when we were

watching Tiger and he was out, I mean, we'll get to that, but he was struggling all day. When I realized, and I even saw Riggs tweet about this when he finally landed, it's like, wait a minute, Tiger's plus one. He's like four back from the lead. Yeah. You know, you usually think of a golf course like this where people are saying it's a little, not as long as most golf courses, especially in real soft. Real soft.

Like you would think a guy would go out. and shoot a fucking 62. I thought for sure the way they were talking about it, just like you just said, 62 was the number of my head that somebody was going to get out in front of it, and our guy, Tiger was going to be way, way behind. Because there's actually only two par fives in the entire golf course. And, like, you would think that with these guys, the way they hit the ball, like those are the only holes that, you know, you're really going to go after.

When I'm watching Tiger Woods play in a major tournament, I'm circling the par five's being like, you know, the way he's hitting the ball recently. We need him to just par out, you know, play his holes the way he needs to play. him and then when he gets those par fives take out the stinger and fucking hit a 280 yard fucking shot right down the middle the next one go pin high and let's make an eagle that's what i think every single time he says to a par five so when i saw this scorecard and only saw two of them out there i'm like god damn we're gonna have to play some golf and the way he started this week he was not playing some golf yeah let's get to tiger woods right now so he starts the day i started on the back nine uh bogey at the first hole which could have been way worse he made a big time bogey save on the first hole yeah and then he double bogeed uh the second second hole that he played. So he's three over through two holes. And we at the office, we are now, we were losing our shit. Well, yeah, because he wasn't just playing the holes poorly. He was playing them like he forgot how to play the game of golf. Put him in the drink. He was putting them in the water. He was in the woods. He was trying to hook the ball. And he was

hooking the ball even further. I don't know what he was doing. It's like he just didn't know how to swing. And then he changes his shirt. Yes. So after the bogey, double bogey start, it becomes apparent that he is very sweaty, and which we've talked about on this podcast, I think we talked about last week, the Midwest in the summer. It gets very humid. It gets very hot.

It's like, unlike probably a lot of these players have seen weather in terms of weather. And, you know, his shirt got really sweaty, and he decided to take it off. He said he usually does this before the round starts, but he just didn't, couldn't find a place to do it. So he ended up doing it after the second hole. I don't know, but it worked because he birdied the third hole. He was definitely, something was wrong with the shirt.

Because in the first couple holes, he was like looking, when he was on the green, he was asking for towels. He was rubbing his face. He was like lifting up the shoulder part of his shirt. And he's like, what the fuck is going on on my shirt? I'm like, someone's like, I even said to myself, something's got to go on with this shirt. Honestly, rip it off. Just go shirtless. I mean, he's the type of guy that would just like shock the world and do it.

Because I, something was wrong with the shirt. Do you think it's strange that he carries around an exact replica of the shirt that he's wearing? No, absolutely not. He's tiger fucking woods. I don't know why that was so strange to me. No, I think he has a, he's been sweating. a lot. I think he has everything. I think he had another pair of pants if he needed him. You think he had

just like multiple versions of that outfit ready to go in case he got like really bad swamp ass? If there's anything I've learned about caddying, it's that you're never, you never have too much when you're a caddy. If you don't think that Tiger Woods of all people, he has

basically, you know, a mobile apartment, I think in that golf bag. Anything he needs is going to be at his disposal. Yeah, sometimes he's pulling snacks out of there. You cannot go out there during the PGA championship with Tiger Woods and you're on his bag and you cannot, if he asks you for something, you have it. Right. Hey, I need a razor blade.

Bang. Yeah, imagine Tiger Woods asking you for something. And Joe Lakov is just like, oh, I don't have that. Yeah, Joe's got to just be prepared. So obviously, you know, he's got the shirts. He's probably got a couple extra pants of underwear, like you were saying. He's got all the towels. Something was just up with Tiger with that shirt.

He was sweating his dick off. I know you said it's hot, but it's hot everywhere. He's been sweating a lot lately. I don't know if it's because of his age. I mean, every time he see him, he's dripping. Well, true, because when we talked about how we talked about how we, we want the exclusive tiger cam it feels like most of that footage between shots would he be like wiping sweat off of his forehead because he just he said after the round he said i just sweat a lot

but i didn't that feels like a relatively new thing yeah i don't i don't think i've always thought about tiger woods is a huge sweater and now every time i i look at him he's just fucking you know he's dripping but uh so he righted the ship uh after the early on struggles it looks like that's what he bogeyed 16 and then he had three birdies the rest of the way in so it's you know he grinding it out. This was like vintage tiger, you know, struggled at the beginning, but then really kind of righted the ship. And I was exhausted when the round was over. Just watching him grinded out, got to an even part, which was very, very impressive. Yeah, so one takeaway I had from the round was just, you know, he grinded his way. He got back into contention. You know, we're right back at even now.

It was just, you know, he had to just get into a rhythm. Obviously, it's a tough course because he's had his struggles with driving. He's had his struggles with hitting greens. I mean, not in fairways. And in the back nine, his front nine, he just was not hitting fairways. No. He was in the rough. He was in the fucking forest. He was in the water. He was hitting it from the forest and then he hit it even further into the forest.

Right. So he righted the ship on the front nine. He got back to the way he needed to play. And, I mean, he gave us some hope for going into this weekend, going into Friday. Well, because after those first two holes, you're thinking he's definitely going to miss the cut. And we don't even have to maybe watch him for the rest of the day because he is so far out of it. I'm thinking the worst when he's on that second hole and he's putting for double boge. I'm thinking the worst.

I'm like, I don't even want to watch golf this weekend. No. That's what I was thinking immediately. Really? Well, yeah, because you think he's going to fucking finish this day plus eight. True, yeah. And then we got the people in this office here that are just waiting for him for the wheels to completely fall off. Luckily, he kind of turned it around.

We talk a little bit. The leaders are at five under. It's Ricky Fowler up top, which is, you know, maybe he could finally, is this his time to maybe get a major? Could be a lot of people, a lot of guys win their first major. You know, the PJ Championship seems to be the one that opens the floodgates for some guys. Yeah, I don't like to jump on the guy who, you know, I don't think Ricky Fallow is the type of guy that's going to go out and win wire to wire. I really think that he, you know, he's got to be the type of guy.

For him to win his first major, I feel like he's going to have to grind one out. I don't think Ricky Fallow is going to win one wire to wire. I just don't think he's at that level. I mean, I could be completely wrong, but he's never really done it before. No. I think I like this leaderboard right now. I mean, I know we're fucking Tiger. We're going to suck Tiger off every single chance we get.

But Tiger Woods being five back of Ricky Fall, it does not scare me at all right now going into Friday. and the rest of the leaderboard is pretty good. We got Jason Day up there at minus three. Dustin Johnson, I was just watching right before we went on here. And he kind of fell apart. He was putting. He was actually minus five at one point.

And then ended up bogeying two of the next three holes, I believe. So he kind of fell off. And he's at minus three right now. Listen, it's early. It's Thursday. Guys are getting a feel for the course. No one's really, I mean, we have some good names like we're saying. Justin Thomas, he was right there in Tiger's group today.

He was playing great golf. He kind of fell off towards the end of the round. Ian Poulter's up there. Our guy is Zach Johnson. I don't think we're going to get any complaints from Zach Johnson this week about losing control of the course. No, I mean, the one thing he may say is like we're losing control of the climate. Like he just doesn't like the sun this week. No, he's my guy.

He grew up in that weather. He knows what that humidity is like, so he's not going to struggle. So what are your thoughts? I mean, going into the weekend, obviously, we have Friday tomorrow, but do you think Tiger makes it to the weekend? I think he definitely makes it to the weekend. I mean, if the round had gotten any worse early on, I think we're, very much talking about a tiger-less weekend, but he got it back to even. You got to imagine, I don't know where the cut line's going to be, but he's going to be,

if he plays just halfway decent tomorrow and doesn't let the wheels come off, yeah, I think he's going to be just fine. He's five strokes off the lead. That's nothing. Like you said about Ricky, I don't feel all that confident in him holding on to a lead for the entire tournament, but you do have guys like Dustin Johnson up there who are seasoned guys and know how to win a major so they could be some issues. But I think all in all, and our guy Kevin Kisner, he's at the third.

three under, so, you know, keep a lookout for him as well. And apparently, going by Riggs's Twitter, once Riggs met up with Kiz and his group, Kiz went minus two, first two holds. Really? So, you know, I mean, Riggs may bring that juice. Hopefully he brings it to Tiger tomorrow. I know that we talked about it right in the beginning of this, that he was a little too afraid when he was around Tiger. I'm scrolling through Riggs's Twitter right now, and I can't believe he didn't say anything,

but I'm not going to get on him. I'm not going to get on him because I know that I may be the same way if I'm in Tiger's presence. Let me ask you this. what would be your first question of Tiger if you were in that possession? Oh, man, I don't know. I don't know. I think it would be something fusion-related for me because you can't be like, you can't ask, like, I feel like the look that you have right now,

I feel like you'd want to ask him something from the Armand-Catian book. You'd be like, hey, when you were 12 years old, what was it like winning all 33 of those tournaments? Hey, why did you bang your neighbor's niece, or what was it? Was it the daughter? Yeah. Yeah. Get real deep.

Right, because he's answering all these questions like, hey, how's the back feel? Why'd you change shirts? Frankie Borelli walks up and is like... We would have to pre-write something where we use the word fusion and back, like, throughout the whole sentence. Yes. And you're like kind of like infusing it in his brain. See what I did there with the fuse? You almost have to do the meow from Super Troopers.

Correct. See how many times you can say fusion. I have experience with this. When we were at Shinnecock for the U.S. Open, I went to a Rory McElroy press conference. And I, you know... I did. I did. I got all jazzed up about potentially asking him some very stupid question, like a pop culture question. And you get in the room and you get very, very scared because you see it's Roy McElroy or it's Tiger Woods and you don't want to fuck with them like right before a tournament.

So I can totally understand why Riggs backed out of asking a question today. Although I will expect him to ask something on Friday. Oh, Riggs doesn't give this up twice. Okay. He has his hand up. You know, he wrote the blog about it. He got nervous. He knows what his mistakes. Riggs is the type of person. He's not going to make that mistake twice. I bet he, I feel like he wrote that blog to force himself to do it. Because in the blog, he says, I'm going to ask a question tomorrow.

That puts his ass in the jackpot. It's a good question, though. Like, I mean, even to the listeners, what would your first, if you, you've been waiting, especially as a, you know, we're Big J. Journalists now. We have we're credentialed golf guys. What are you, what's the first thing you're supposed to say to Targo Woods? We're the biggest Tiger Woods fans out there. What are you supposed to say?

It may be your last time you ever get a chance to talk to him. It probably will be your last chance to talk to him. You got all the pressure's on. You've been following this guy's whole career. You know, they point to you. He's staring right at you. And he's just waiting for you to speak. What do you fucking say?

You are in the eye, in the vision between he's targeting, looking at you, and you've got to ask a question. That same eyes that like just hones down fucking puts and reads the hardest greens in the world is now looking right directly into your soul. So Riggs, listen, I understand. I understand, man. I'm nervous just thinking about it. I'm looking out into the abyss right now.

and I can see Tiger Woods's eyes just staring at me, and I can't imagine what it would feel like. Well, like I had that opportunity with Roy. Like I said, and then Tiger Woods, who is head and shoulders, obviously way better, way more important, way all the things in the world than Roy McElroy. It's tough. So hopefully Riggs musters up the courage and ask him,

I would guess Riggs is going to ask him a fusion question. Yeah. And, I mean, on the Fusion talk, we have these new shirts now that we just released Team Transfusion. Oh, we do. How unreal are those things. They're fire. Riggs showed me that logo last week.

And I just started clapping in the office because I was so happy with them. I mean, for those listening, if you don't go to barstolesports.com, go to the store. And I guess you just type in Team Transfusion or Transfusion. I'm sure it'll be on the front of the fucking store. I'm probably going to sell a million of these. It's a bar stool with the stars, the stool in the stars. And it's red. And it looks like it has some ice.

It has some ice inside the stool. It's got a straw and a lime. It's a fucking transfusion stool. it's so it looks so good and here's the thing people if you've sent us if you've ever sent us a picture of transfusion if we're the ones that turned you on a transfusion and you'd never heard of them before even if you have heard them but if you'd never heard of them and we helped you discover them you have to buy a shirt it's up it's your duty to buy a shirt your team transfusion because of us how about our CEO erika nardini chirping the shit out of rake saying you put a lime in your transfusion weird I guess you really don't

actually on the on the on the picture it's on the um it's on the uh the lip of the cup, just to make it look better. Yeah. I think when I've had transfusions, they've put them inside the drink. I don't think I, I don't know if I've ever had one with my transfusion. Hmm. Maybe they put it inside. It definitely makes the drink look better.

It definitely makes it look better. And for the shirt, it just makes it look like a drink. Oh, 1,000 percent. Great job on that. I mean, my God, it's just the most refreshing t-shirt I've ever seen in my entire life. It just makes me think I'm on the 17th hole walking up, like, post-round, just, like, about to get off the golf course and you're drinking that last one of the day and you're fucking buzz.

You're about to call your mom because you're, You're at Glen Oaks and you've had 15 of them. That shirt just brings me back. I can see it right now. I'm looking at the logo. I can taste it. So buy a shirt. Yeah, buy a shirt.

I think that's all we got for this right now. Frank, you got any other thoughts on the first day of the PJ Championship? No, it's going to be exciting to watch this for the next couple days. Like I said from the beginning, I'm fucking pumped that Tiger is actually going to make it watchable. I feel like I'm an asshole for only watching Tiger and caring about Tiger, but that's just how I am. I'll get juiced up about the rest of the leaderboard as the weekend goes.

on, but right now it's like, it's Team Tiger from me. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get juiced up about John Daly. He's plus two right now. He's been, he's playing this week. He's wearing St. Louis Cardinals' pants and suit jackets to the champions dinner. So I'm always, I always like to see John Daly just at a tournament. John Daly dominated that picture. He always does.

He shows up to those champions dinners and it's just like, I'm going to wear the most ridiculous thing. Everybody else takes it very seriously. And they're like, I'm going to wear my most, you know, my best looking suit. And John Daly is like, I'm going to wear the team of whatever city that the championship is in. And I'm going to become an even bigger fan favorite. My God, John Daly just does not give a fuck. But, yeah, I think that's about it for me.

Let's go Tiger. Yeah, all right. So we'll see you next week. And then hopefully, when we come back, we're talking about Tiger with Victory.