Fore Play - David Feherty and the frustrations of golf

Episode Date: July 9, 2019

David Feherty joins the show (~50:17) and talks all things 2019 Open Championship, from Royal Portrush to what the tournament means for Northern Ireland (his home country). We also get Feherty's take on Matthew Wolff's swing, Tiger winning the Masters, and Koepka only caring about the majors. Before Feherty, we recap the 3M Open finish, touch on our 4th of July vacations, and deeply question the game of golf!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. We are back in a very special way. We have David Farity on this show. We recap all of the kind of last week in golf. We talked a little bit about what we did over vacation, over the 4th of July. We hope everybody had a lovely time. And then we get to David Farity.

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That's SupremeGoff.com slash barstool. We're back. Big show. Let's talk some golf. Everybody had a fantastic 4th of July week. We'll vacation. Everybody's kind of in different spots. We've got a lot, a lot, a lot to talk about. We have a very special show, too. Mr. David Faradie will be on this show. He's coming in here in about 14, five minutes from now. So, you know, we do got a whole idea of what we want to ask. And we talk some open championship. He's, of course, from Northern Ireland, Royal Port Rush, all that good stuff.

Where you're going to have a whole show. I think we're going to do Thursday's show or Tuesday show. But I think Thursday's show will be a complete recap of the Wisconsin trip where Lurch, myself, and one of our other buddies are going to sit down and kind of go through the entire thing. I want to structure that out. I want to collect some data from my friends that were on the trip and go through kind of rankings. and be able to go through step by step exactly what happened, how we did it, what we would do differently,

what we did perfectly and all that stuff, because we played a million different golf courses. We drove all of the state of Wisconsin. It was a thing. It was a hell of a thing. A lot of questions about that. We are going to do a full recap, but we played Aaron Hills.

We played Sand Valley, Mammoth Dunes, and Sandbox, Whistling Straits, and Black Wolf run the river course. It was a good stretch. There was a lot that went down. As we talked about last show, not a vacation, golf trip. It was not a vacation. Yeah, I mean, you guys are probably getting. Right.

Gassed. I woke up this morning. Just confused. We spent yesterday at the airport talking with each other about like, what could we possibly do differently next time to not feel like this is what we said at the airport yesterday. It's too much. It's just so much. There were times where I woke up and like stretched out my legs and my arms.

I had like bacon crinkling in the background. And I looked at my phone and Riggs had put up a picture three and a half hours ago about you guys getting in a car on your way to a two hour trip to a golf course. And I said to myself, well, God. God damn, is that a grind. And then I went back to sleep. Yeah. Yeah, it's not a vacation.

It's a golf trip. I cracked my back post round after whistling. We'll get into everything. But anyways, I literally just pushed off a chair and, like, bent my backpack. And there was like a thousand pops. And I was talking with my catty Dalton, great guy the whole round. I was like, dude, my body is dying right now. I'm just melting.

And literally, he looked at me and goes, was that your back? And I was like, yeah, we're just, you know, we're at the tail end of this thing. So it was a trip. It was a hell of a time. Yeah, yesterday's round was one of those. I mean, on the second T, everyone was like, get me the fuck off the golf course. We were playing Black Wolf Run River, an unreal track.

So, you know, that tells you a lot. We will go through that entire thing. And you are absolutely spot on. Frankie witnessed it firsthand in our Seattle trip. That is just, it's not a vacation, not even close. No. It's worse than work. Yeah.

In terms of just your overall body and physical and mental commitment. I think it does get to a point where I think I screamed out loud once on the Washington trip, I said, is this a punishment? Did I do something wrong to be put here? Did I? Yeah. Dude, I mean, we played 36. When we were in California, we played Spyglass, and then we played Pasta Tienpo.

And we did that one day. And by, like, the fifth hole of Pasta Tienpo, everyone was like, what is going on? And you guys did that for five straight days? Yeah. I mean, we didn't play 36 every day, but you could basically sub in, you know, a two and a half or three-hour drive with eight dudes in a van. Right. for like a round of golf and it all kind of adds up we did do 36 a couple days so you know it was it was a lot and there's a lot to unpack henceforth we're going to wait next show and do that and we'll kind of like I said we're going to structure it out we're going to go through it we're going to talk about a lot of experiences tell a lot of stories it was awesome it was an all-time trip and we will break that down how was your guys is the fourth of July my fourth of July was great I relaxed like a motherfucker I I really did I have a little dent in my bed for me how long I stayed in it.

The thing is with this, this kind of came out of nowhere, this vacation or this week off because at Barstool, usually it's the holiday season. It's December, it's Christmas. We get like seven, eight, nine days off. And that's really the only break we get. We get a couple days off here and there for holidays. This one came out of nowhere. We got a full week off.

And it just, because I thought we were going to come in that Monday, Tuesday that week. And they were like, don't come in. So then I just, I relaxed for a whole week straight. It was really the best thing I could have asked for. Yeah. we originally knew I think we were going to get maybe Thursday, Friday off. Yeah. And then it kind of was dropped upon us a few days before.

They're like, oh, no, the office is closed for the entire week. It's way too, like, not enough in advance to be able to, like, book something for me. Like, so I was supposed to go out to Minnesota. And this is like, I had a plan all the whole year. I'm like, this is what I'm doing, Fourth of July. I'm going to go out. There was a huge lake party. And then things changed where it was like, oh, now we have off Monday and Tuesday.

so I was trying to change it and make it even longer. And then like when I did that, like the place I was supposed to go, like didn't work out. And then like everything like blew up. Then guys from Minnesota were coming to New York because they had to do something for work and stuff. So like I ended up just laying in bed and golfing in Long Island, which actually was I haven't golfed and like been able to go back home and go in my pool and like eat like home cooked meals and forever. And it felt unbelievable. I played like really good golf courses around my house and it was a lot of fun. I saw Frankie once.

We were in the studio together. Yeah, we did a Pup Punk's song. Frankie's a rock star. Trent came with Robbie and he saw how grueling of the process it is to record a soundtrack. It's so funny watching Frankie in just different environments because he's the same guy. He's just like, there's just little complaints about certain things. I mean, the metronome and the headphones just weren't allowed. I'm like, I said to the guy, I'm like, you understand I'm playing drums here, right?

So every time I make a noise on the drums, it is now louder than the metronome in my headphones. So either you have to crank up the metronome to a, of, a volume in which you can't believe it's producing that volume, or then I'm just not going to play this song. It's great. They're like, you're not going to the beat. I'm like,

every time I make one contact with a drum, the beat is now disappeared. It's always something. It's great. So Frankie's in the other room with the drums. Anybody that makes you happy, it's very tough. He's in the other room with the drums. Then it's me,

Robbie, and this guy, Cajon. Awesome. What would you call him? He's a mixer engineer. A little spicy sauce. We're just laughing at Frankie. It was really, it was a good time.

It was good to see Frank. So I played two new golf course. on Long Island. I played this place called Mill River Country Club. Yeah, that looks sick. Unbelievable golf course. And the vibes are something in which I'm going to make it a point. If I'm going to live my life on Long Island to belong at Mill River. Nice call.

Wow. Because it is all my people. It is Italians walking around. I saw this guy. Shout to my guy, Joey, he brought me over there. A little Italian meatball kind of guy. Unbelievable dude. I walk around this green.

I see a guy walking out with a cigar. Tony, and he points at, like, the caddy. He's like, put my bag the other way. And, like, the caddy scrambles puts the bag other way. He, like, slips the caddy, like $100. I'm like, this guy is amazing. We see him on the green. He's screaming at people for hitting the balls at him.

But then he's laughing. I mean, I, everything that I would want in a country club, it was this place. It's like, 500 francis running around. Laid back, unbelievable practice. Nobody has his body type. We got to the eighth hole, and all of a sudden, Joey, the guy who brought us there was like, you guys want some transfusions? I'm like, yeah, I'd love a transfusion. All of a sudden, a lady comes walking down, like in the scene from Happy Gilmore, where, like, she's coming down with just a plate of drinks.

And she just, it's his house on the eighth fairway. She just brings us down a tray of just beautiful red transfusions. And we walked from the tebox to the green and we picked it up on the way. And she's like, have a great round, boys. I'm like, are we in heaven right now? In which place, when did we stop living on earth? It was the eight. It looked.

It looked spectacular. It was the eight thoughts. It looked spectacular. I never heard of it before. Yeah. But I wouldn't hate getting out there at some point and checking that place. I actually had to respond to one of your Instagram.

I was like, holy shit. Yeah, really good. Then I played Cherry Valley Country Club back-to-back days. Had my best round of the year, which is like not that good because I've been playing horrible golf. I don't know how to play golf anymore. That's another thing. My swing is just all over the place.

I just can't hit the ball anymore. But yeah, Cherry Valley Country Club, unbelievable, too. Played with my guy Brock Nelson from the Islanders. He's an absolute stick. But yeah, it was a fun week. I mean, what was that low round? Oh, I shot an 80. I mean, but I shot a 44-th, 44-36.

So, like, my back was really, yeah, like, I was firing on the back. I kidding every single fairway, every single green, knocking in birdie putts, eagle opportunities. Like, I just played good golf. Next day, same golf course, same swing, same everything, 89. Yep, that's called. Nine stroke different. That is golf.

I mean, it's a thing. I have to talk about it, but I played lights out one round out in Wisconsin. Out West go. What was the score? I mean, we said we were going to save it. Yeah, we don't talk about hockey. We don't talk about your Wisconsin trip on this. I don't know.

It's not to stop the show for it. Although I posted it on Instagram, so that's kind of public. Yeah, we really don't talk about hockey anymore. Nope. That's a different show. I haven't done it. Don't look to me like that. Just, yeah, we're not going to talk about hockey.

I'll just get ahead of this one. Things. We haven't seen each other a couple weeks and free agency happen. I don't know. Every July, every June 30th, I tweet out that the New York Islanders are going to sign a player. You got to stop doing that. And on July 1st, every single year, that player now goes to a rival team. Yeah, where did he go this year?

Went to the New York, That's right. I got a text message on June 30. Yeah, good player, too. I got a text message on June 30th the night before free agency started. We're not going to talk about it. And I got a couple of mojis sent to me of bread. And then I got another text message from very good sources saying like this is happening.

Artemian Panera was an islander. Yeah, maybe he took one look at the Long Island. And something happened in that span of 12 hours in which you just went to the Rangers. It was the worst thing that's ever happened to me. no it wasn't after a tape after tabaris to barris i wrote out a blog and it's like on my phone still i think i actually deleted it

yeah that's one of those texts that you're like dude the things i wrote in this fake blog that never got posted were like horrible to the rangers like i was like i was like lu lamrella looked in the eyes of gm of the rangers and he shoved them in a locker he spent more money than him for the first time in my life the islanders are big spenders they got the biggest name and then like it's all the opposite It happened. Yeah. No,

the standard happened. This is what happens year over year. We don't talk hockey. No, we don't talk about hockey. No, we don't talk about hockey. We're not going to talk about, you write and blogs that you didn't publish and start just reading them out loud.

So, tough, that's a tough break for you, Frankie, for your islanders. Meanwhile, blues are Stanley Cup champions. So, I mean, I'm seeing people were whipping up margaritas in their backyard. It's unbelievable. Putting little salt rings around the top of the Stanley Cup. It's a great. It just doesn't matter what your teams do anymore. No.

You want to Stanley Cup. I mean, the only thing my team does is just sell rated at Stanley Cup right now. And then they're going to raise the banner to kick off next year. It's really going to be something special. But we're not here to talk about how. New Amsterdam vodka launched in 2011. New Amsterdam vodka was the fastest spirit brand in history to sell one million cases.

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Which the reason that happened again was because we just got a surprise entire week off. I was already going to be out in Chicago two weekends ago for the Skokie Challenge, which I've talked a little bit about in the show. But it's a six-on-sixth little event at Skokie Country Club outside of Chicago, a little north of Chicago, 1922 U.S. Open held there, won by a little guy named Gene Zer. I'd heard of him. Bobby Jones. He wasn't.

Just like a little name is kind of what I meant. Okay. You know what I mean? Well, I just don't want a small name. I just don't want, you know, any slander on that guy's name. No, it was more of a sarcastic job. Right. Gotcha.

Such a big name. I'm just looking out for Gene. That's fair. Gene's fine. If they said, if they said a little guy named a little guy Riggs, it's like, oh, all right. Yeah, I guess if they were saying in a sense of like clearly, you know who this person is. Correct. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. And which I think that's how I was saying it. But who knows? You definitely were. I just don't think he's at the level of, like, making that joke as he could be a little guy, right? Like a little guy named Tiger Woods. All right.

We know he's the biggest of all time. I mean. I mean, we're talking about Gene Saras. In the context of this show, I think that's a joke. I think it makes sense. Yeah, it works. All right. All right.

Carry on. Yep. Thank you. We're going to carry on. You have permission. We're going to pick up. We're going to carry it. there's a few things that I just want to knock off real quick about this because, you know,

we get a lot of requests, a lot of can you talk about buddies trips or rider cups that you do with your buddies, these kinds of things because clearly that's like the biggest thing of my life and stuff that I try to do as much as possible. I create an entire golf turn at Barstow Classic, which next week leg two kicks off at Foxwoods, trying to kind of recreate that on a national scale. But the Skokie challenge, my inspiration for a lot of that. And one of the main things I'd like to say is if you just, if you create a, stuff within your group, your friend group, whatever. And you all treat it like it's the most important thing in the world.

It just will be the most important thing to you and to your friends. And that's pretty much what we've done. Now, my very, very good friend's father is phenomenal at this kind of stuff. He takes kind of recreational golf and little clubs and little club tournaments and stuff like that so seriously and has added so many different elements to the Skokie Challenge that make it the number one event, the number one major on my calendar every year, even though we don't play for money, none of that. It's all just pure pride.

And I'm like shaking on the first tee. And it's the most important thing I play in all year. He's done that with a couple different things. One, he's added a bunch of like little trophies. I'll give you an example. The cufflinks. The cufflinks can only be won on Saturday. And it's whoever hits the most decisive shot in Saturday's round of two on two four ball.

And you have to have earned at least a half point in order to be eligible. So you get hit the shot of the day and lose one down. And you're not even eligible for the cufflinks. he has everybody that night at stake night, which is obviously when he whips up stakes. They submit the different submissions for who could win that shot, and they do it by telling the whole story of the shot. And everybody goes crazy, and there's a bunch of theatrics, and then somebody's awarded the cufflinks they wear them.

They get to keep them for the next year. Another thing he does is the bronzeman, which is this unreal, like bronze trophy that's like a foot or too high, and it goes to whoever shoots low net on their own ball during Sunday singles. So, you know, if you're a 10 handicapped, you shoot a 78, which is what my brother did. That comes in as 68. If that's the lowest number, you win the bronzeman. Another thing, the eagle jug, which I'm going to mention because I joined it this year.

There's this jug that he got that is, I don't even know what material it's made out of, but it is the most fabulous little, like, antique-feeling jug, and it has two golf clubs, like, crossed and just says eagle on it. And if you ever make an eagle in competition in Skokie Challenge, you join the Eagle Club, and you're the only people that are allowed to drink out of the club for life. And whoever got the most recent Eagle determines what goes in the jug. I will say that Eagle Jug looks amazing. I like that. It looks like a blend of like old leather and hollowed out wood.

Right. I don't know what material it is, but it looks insane. It's so cool. I think that's right. I think that's pretty much what it is. But my point in listing all of this is that you all out there and your buddies, create little shit like this at your tournament, your club tournament, on your email list with your pals, on your group text,

and it will grow, and you will take it incredibly seriously, and you throw these kind of little different niche things in there that make it special, and that's how you build something that's awesome. So that's just kind of a really quick outline of the Skokie Challenge. It's an incredible golf course. If you ever run in the Chicago land area, you get a chance to get divided out there, which is not that easy, but if you do take it,

because it's Donald Ross track, Crazy Greens. One of those kind of reminds me a little bit of wing foot And that it's a very unspectacular piece of property With a spectacular golf course on it Where it's like course architecture And the way that he does the bunkers, messes with your head And all that good stuff So that's kind of my little spiel on the Skokie Challenge

You played 15 rounds, he said? I think it was 15 rounds in 11th. And this is how fucked up golf is like Are you like unbelievable now or no? I would say at the end I was the worst golf out of course. I think he got worse And in the middle, I know I got worse In the middle

I mean that's probably a function of like overthinking your body's exhausted you're hungover and all that but also like in the middle I was playing lights out yeah like we went to Medina I played lights out at Medina that round you were terrific I was terrific I mean I potted like shit at Medina and shot 79 yeah right course is hard and we played

we had a great time of a great group the group that we played with there they were they were phenomenal played as a fives them we did uh we played uh scotch which is this crazy game with all kinds of like greenies and closest to and wolf mix and it was just golf like on steroids and phenomenal shape.

They have the B&W there next month. They've had a couple major championships, obviously, Ryder Cup, all that stuff. We filmed a great little video there. But then I went and I think the next round, I shot like 91. Yeah. And that's legit. That's just the game of golf. And everyone's like, oh, one of the excuses that most amateur golfers are people that,

like, weekend players that just get to play once or twice a month, they'll say, like, well, I can't be good because I don't play every day. These pros, they play every single day. And then when you are presented with the opportunity to play every single day, It's actually harder to maintain. Where's on you mentally? Just like some days you flush it and you're like focused on it, but you play 36, 27 holes. And by the end of that like 27, you're just like...

Like playing full rounds of golf deteriorates you. And I will say that like these pros or anyone that like belongs to a country club or people that have access to like practice facilities, when you're able to like go and hit a couple of balls or hit a couple of chips or throw balls into a bunker and like just do that all night and not actually play around. That is when you start to get like significantly. better at the game of golf as opposed to like for me the only time i ever hit a wedge is like when i'm on hold number two and like that's the only chance i'm and i'm keeping score it's like the only chance i get to do it yeah big time and people will say all the time and chirp all the time like you better be unreal now you've been playing so much and it's like you said like i might go

if i play 36 holes in a day i mean i might go seven hours between hitting like four irons yeah and then it's like i just have to hit a four iron it's like oh wow how come you suck of that shot so much like you've been playing so much like i don't just hit four irons all day whereas like you're saying you go to the range so much of it is muscle memory and kind of just just stepping up and not thinking about what you're doing and just knowing that you can do it in the same way that like you throw it you know they always use the example use the example of like throwing a baseball to somebody right like if you just throw a baseball to somebody who's 30 yards away you're not thinking about like mechanically how to throw it 30 yards and and and land it like exactly in like

their left left of their ear so it's easy for the kid you just fucking throw it to them yeah and it's same way in golf like if you're actually when you're playing well and i let you step up or with a put you just think like I'm just going to hit this pot up hill at that hole and then golf so different because you start getting in your fucking head so much like how did I do that well I was able to do that earlier not now what did I change the next thing you know it's 91 so it's the mental it's it's it's it's so mental man strokes up out of fast too when they're going the wrong oh my god but girl you sit here when I I played at cherry valley I played with two absolute they made the game of golf look so easy yeah I mean this kid we call them calves right and

That's just like, that's just his name. Do it? Was that a chirp to you or was that just his name? Bro, he has these calves. Like, he's on his way to being Dewey level. And this kid's unbelievable. But you sit there and I'm like, I feel like I'm playing great, right? I'm going to shoot at 36 on the back.

And we're looking over at calves. And he's six under. Like, he's like five under. He's like, he's bogeying 18 to shoot a 67. Like, what is, what are you playing over there? How'd you just beat me by 13 strokes? And it's because they get to go out there and you have to see these divvits these guys take. Like to be able to make contact like that with these practice facilities,

I mean, if you showed me a grass driving range and I just got to do that for a month, I really do think I'd just get better. Yeah, I agree. I don't think it's about. And not playing full rounds just to drive it. Exactly. And that's, I mean, I've, I've, I've, me, like when I really got into golf, it was in college and then shortly afterwards.

I was able to get like the junior membership and I would go up there and I would honestly practice more than I played because I hate being bad at things. You guys know that. Like when I suck at something, I'm like, I can be miserable to be around for 15 minutes. So because it sucks. And I hated that. And when I first started, like, getting into golf, I was probably like a 20 handicap for a year or so. I just never got any better because we would go play all the time.

And then when I got this junior membership, they had a practice facility up at Granite Links. I would just go there because they would keep lights on until 10 p.m. in the summer. So even when you got off work at like seven, you get up there by 738 and hit the range for two hours. And I would just work. And like, it wasn't that I was doing things like necessarily correct or mechanically correct. You just learn like, okay, if I've got a seven in my hand, seven iron in my hand, I have stood on that range and figured out how to hit a seven iron within like a 30 yard wide gap on command. Yeah.

And if I can just do that, hit a driver in play, hit that. Like, I could probably shoot around mid high 70s if I play badly, like low 80s. And then you're a pretty decent golfer at that point. Like I'm not lights out. I don't take perfect dividends every time, but I can kind of just slap it pretty straight. And if you can do that, you can play golf at a decent level. When you fucking can't practice, what's living in New York, it's impossible to practice. Man, you go out there, it's just whatever you've got, you've got.

And, like, sometimes it ain't good. Totally bad. And sometimes I think. So bad. I'm so bad. It's like, what am I supposed to do out here? It's impossible. Yeah, like, the second day of playing, I'm like, standing on the T-box, I hit a drive two holes to the left.

And I said to myself, how is that possible to do that? And it's because I have no muscle memory of the correct swing right now. Every single swing I take is different than the one before. My dad played with us, actually, a charity. Valley who's I mean bringing that guy to a country club element I mean he's walking around he's knocking the ball down oh man there way he's like hitting taking practice swings in the bunkers I'm like he's like oh what am I going to make the tour I'm like all right dad do whatever the fuck you like it's insane but uh but he like he hit one right down the middle and he walked up he picked

up the pick up the tea he goes I'm like a snowflake there's no two swings alike we're like oh we're going out like it's just crazy but it's so true yeah I put with my buddy's dad He was like the same vein. We were in this like charity tournament. Nothing mattered. He couldn't reach the green seven. So it didn't matter. But he was pissing off one of his brothers that was kind of like a golf, like, you know,

try to keep himself to a higher standard. So his dad would literally tee one up, hit it out there. Wherever the ball was, he'd re-tee it from exactly. That's a Mr. Borrell. Oh, yeah. That's unbelievable. He was like, why should I care?

I'm not making a difference. Like, I'm not going to chunk of six-old. I can see your dad listening to this right now, like making no to that going. Oh, yeah. That's change. Oh, good move. We can tee it up. Out of the bunker?

I'll end with this because he goes out. So I'm in the cart with the assistant pro who's unbelievable. This kid, Matt, such a good golfer, really good guy. And he would never, ever call anyone out for anything he's ever done. He's just like, just we'll have a good time. So we're driving in the car. And my dad keeps hitting this three wood and this fair wood no matter where he's at. He doesn't have a lot of distance.

He hit one in the really thick stuff. And Matt goes to me, he goes, oh, your dad's not going to be able to pull out that three wood. And then all of a sudden he looks back. He goes, never mind. He's in the fairway. And my dad just crushes one towards the green. He goes, great shot, Mr. Brown. My dad's like, that's right.

That's right. That's right. That's right. It's so good. Yeah. I mean, another thing, too, that I've, like, that I've really struggled with and the more people I talk to all do is bringing your range game to the golf course. Right.

It is because, you know, even because a lot of, like, the only ranges we ever get to hit are pretty much right before you tee off. You know, if you're lucky, you have, like, 30 minutes before you tee off. If you've really timed things well. Nothing got messed up. The breakfast sandwiches that you ordered on the way came on time. Like all that stuff has to go right. And then maybe you have 30 minutes before you around.

And you're staying there and you hit like 20 drivers in a row, you know? And by the last 10 or so, you're like, every one of these is in play. Like these are all like maybe they're not perfect, but all these are pretty damn good drives. If I could hit it in that, that spray pattern all day, we're playing golf now. Man, you get out there, you could do what feels like the exact same swing on that first tee. You look up. Two fair ways over. Where is that thing going?

Nothing feels the same on the first tee. The ground feels different. Everything just feels. Your aim feels different. Like, why can't I just aim there? Like, your body feels like it's turning left. Like, your club's turning right. You're standing over the ball.

Like, we're going to swing like this? There has to be some sort of mental or, like, there has to be some sort of study where, like, if you have a target, you just swing differently, right? Because, yes. For me, if I have to advance a five iron on a par five and just get it forward. Like, I'm 285 out and, like, they're like, you're not going to hit this green, Frank. Why don't you just get, knock something out. out there so you leave yourself whatever 80, 100 yards. And if I take like a six iron or a seven or five iron, and I just have to hit it forward,

I flush it every single time. But if I'm 168 or 170 yards out, I take a seven iron out and I have to hit over a bunker and onto a green, I'm hitting it sideways. It's crazy. What's the difference there? Just hit it straight. Don't think about the target. Yeah, my range session is always smack a bunch of balls randomly.

And then I always try to figure out what the first hole is, what the shot is off the tee and what iron I'm going to have to play in next. and then I'll just play that hole four times or something like that so I feel confident. So if it's like three wood pitching wedge, I'll just go three wood pitching wedge, three wood pitching wedge, three wood pitching wedge, until I feel really good about those confident strokes back to back,

and then I'm off, and then I'm going to the putting range of five time. Dude, that whistling, like Addie said to me, standing behind me, and, you know, the first part of my range sets for kind of chatting, I was a little bit all over the place, and then the second half was like, I'm going to focus in here. I hit like 10 drivers in a row, and he literally came with me, he goes, buddy, if you're driving like that, on this golf course you can just score he was like you'll be in play fine you post a good number like

we got this my first t-shod up one it missed the golf course i mean it went it was there's another course called the irish it was just in the fairway on the i like over these dunes it was insane quick double so it's just you just don't know you know and then you can just turn it around you flip a switch you feel like the worst part for me is like nine i'll fucking have on the ninth hole you know i'll be a disaster way left then way right then way left and make double triple whatever I'll get on 10T. I'll make what feels in my head like the exact same golf swing. Dead straight.

I'll play the next nine holes, lights out. And it's just what changed in my mind? Nothing. Literally nothing changed. And that's golf. That's it. I did that so many times. Started out hot.

Got to the back. Double. It's a disgusting sport. We're psychos for enjoying it. God, I love it. Can't wait to play again. I'm fucking hungry. I'm back.

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Headlines, we got some headlines to rip through, and then we will get to Mr. David Faradie. First of all, this Tiger Woods. How are you going to put Tiger Woods ahead of the John Deer Classic? That's incredibly disrespectful to the week that we're having. It's the John Deer Classic week, for those that don't know. Fifth Major, and you put Tiger Woods up there. I get that he's an important figure in the game of golf,

but this tournament that we've got this week, that's the most important thing going on. I shouldn't even have put it on a fucking sheet of John Deer Classic. It doesn't feel like many of the times. Top 50 players even know about it. Come on. Who's playing in the Georgia class? Yeah, I don't think.

I'm trying to. There's two people in the top 50, I think, are playing. All right. That is true, and I did see that tweet. Did somebody say that? Come on. I thought we were just joking. Kevin not with Drew.

Kevin not withdrew. So the highest ranked people are 55 and 56. What I will say to that is, get the fuck out of it. What I will say to that is it is sad, but it's sad for the players who aren't playing. The top tier guys, they're cowards for not going to Silvas, Illinois and trying to get themselves a W. Oh, it's the easiest tournament. It's so easy to play. Why don't you go there and try and get a W? They're not going because they're scared. They're scared. But they have a tractor trailer that's teeing up a ball. How intimidated are you by that? I'm not intimidated at all. It was

Bob the builder bullshit. I got to say I loved it. It's a great thing. That was one of the funniest things. It's so funny. It was the most preposterous. Does that thing move? Does it hit the ball? I don't think so, but it should. I had a couple people tweet to me and saying that thing should hit the ball in the arm. Right. If that thing was programmed like one of those golf robots and just ripped one down the middle. That's like the gunshot to start the tournament. It's just this big ball rolling down a fairway. That'd be amazing.

I think they should work that in next year. It's the John Deere Classic. It's an exciting time to be alive. Wolf's going to be there. Obviously, he just won at the 3M. That's huge. That's huge. What a get.

Buddy, that's on October to win. Their biggest get is only this massive because he just won like yesterday. But it is big. What if he pulls out? He better not. I got to tell you, too. He better. And our guy, our guy, Zach is going to be planning.

We interviewed a couple of years ago. Oh, I thought you were talking about. Zach Johnson. Sucker. He's great. Yeah. He's playing. I thought you were going to say Zach Johnson.

I was like, what do you mean, R guy? Guys, this is your guy. Oh, well, that's another Zach that's playing. That's our guy. Zach Johnson. John Deere, guys, get excited. I'm going to tell you this. My dad loves John Deer more than anything in the world.

That John Deer Green, he says it does something to you. So I don't like. Smart guy is a dentist. You know, he is. It's true. Doctor. Really? I don't like calling.

I don't like shitting on the John Deer because I love John Deer. Really? because I think there's a lot of evidence that supports the contract. I think everybody's dad is obsessed with the idea of a John Deere. Correct. I do. I actually, when I was at Medina, there was one driving, mowing in between trees. Lurch will tell you, I stopped.

I took a video, sent it to my dad. Quickest ever got a text back in my whole life. I'm driving the golf cart. He's like, you got to stop. You got to stop. And then he films the tractor, sends it to his dad. Dad's right back to him. It was the most dad video, too, of all time.

It was just a green tractor. I just zoomed in on it and then just zoomed back out. Your dad's like, that's the stuff. It was like a grainy, shitty video of like a John New York. He loved it. It's like I watched it 10 times. It's a big week. And I got a lot of people tweeting at me because I tweeted to you guys that hilarious picture of the ball.

People would be like, oh, hashtag not in Iowa. Again, I've never claimed that it was in Iowa. You can go back through all the tapes. Quad Cities. It's Quad Cities. Silvas, Illinois. A beautiful tournament. Jordan Speeth first win there.

Bryson DiChambo, first win there. Steve Stricker won a couple times in a row, although he opted for a senior tour event this week, which is unfortunate. But that was a real stab in the back When I saw that Strickett was like You know I love the John Deer classic and all that But I got to play the senior event It's like all right Steve That's tough

And I will say it's tough Obviously for the John Deer It's tucked right before the British Open So you kind of get fucked that way And I know in the past they've taken guys It's a bridge tournament From the John Deer To the British Open

But it's like you know It's a big week boys Just gets us there John Deer Fifth Major Get excited It's just an event that happens It just gets us to the British

It's like a shitty hole And, of course, you know. It's like 13 and 15 are awesome. And then, like, 14, they had to just put in because you just have to get from 13 to 15. The fact of the matter is the big boys are scared of TPC deer run. Okay. Brooks Kefka. Deer run.

I said to you in person that it was the fifth major, you laughed at me. And now you're still not playing. It's, you know, maybe if some guys will nut up next year, some of the big boys, they'll get, they'll, if they want to get a W, if you want to get a fucking win, maybe you can try and go play TPC a deer run. I got to tell you, I'm glad you. mentioned Brooks Kepka. My new favorite storyline now that the Kisner T20 something streak is well over. Yeah. Is Brooks Kepka so clearly just not caring about anything outside of major championships?

Look at this fucking stretch that he's been on, okay? Including the Masters tournament, he went T2 at the Masters. And then he went T22 at the Zert Classic, fourth of the buyer Nelson. Not bad. First at the PGA, T50 at the Canadian Open, second in the U.S. Open, T57 of the Travelers, 65th at the 3M. That's terrific. Dude, he cares so little about these events that media outlets are now just picking up on it, too, where they're like, oh, he shot, you know, terrible today, but it's not a major, so he's not trying his best.

It's like, he has now trained the media to be like, oh, well, Brooks Keppigua just doesn't care about non-majors. When in the past, if he did say that on the show, basically, if you had said that, you would have gotten killed. People would be like, you're not taking it seriously enough. Brooks is just like, well, I'm going to win majors and I don't have to worry about these and you guys got to deal with it. It's amazing. It's insane. Right. If he keeps winning a major, no thing you can say anything.

One of the coolest storylines in all golf, man. done this hypothetical before. How many majors did we say you'd have to win? Was it like one major? No, I think it was like five. No, I think we might have said like, would you rather win the Masters once or win like 20 PG-Tor events? Right.

And we had a pretty good spirited debate about it. I don't remember. I think I said 20 BJ tour events, but then I changed it because I think you guys convinced me if the Masters was better. If you go back, we were just explaining what was about to happen to Brooks Kefka. We didn't know about.

Brooks is more just prestigious than like a guy who just wins the John Deer Classic. he just it makes so much having met and talked to the guy it makes so much sense that he doesn't give a fuck about the 3M open he just doesn't he just couldn't care less and it's great it's one of my favorite storylines it's not a shot at the 3M

it's not a shot at things like the john dear class it's where he works it's just that's just how he rolls and it's hilarious you want to know how unimportant that the john dear classic is did you watch tiger woods's video which we're going to get to right now yeah you think tiger woods even knows the john deer classic i mean tiger's a different story

he's waking up at one o'clock in the morning preparing for a golf tournament that's in two weeks. You know, based on that time schedule, he's sleeping while the John Deer's going on. Exactly. Listen, I never expected. Literally asleep. Literally at rest while guys are trying to win the John Deer Classic. You know what?

Tiger's not invited to the John Deer Classic. That's what I'll say. He's not invited, so he couldn't show up even if he wanted to. You know that's true. Nope, it's not open. The invite has been rescinded it. How dare you die on the John Deer Classic this hard to ever talk? Insanity.

talking down upon the boss man right now. If Tiger wants to go there and just putt and leave, he can do it. Correct. He could drive that tractor trailer right over your fucking house. He just drives a huge John Deere over the night. My guy, Zach Johnson always has a tournament, a charity golf tournament in Cedar Rapids, which is happening today. And I saw that our guy, Bryson D. Chambot is there, but he's just not going to make the trip

to the John Deer. He's not going to go from C.R. He's so close. He's so close. Just do it, man. Just go. So Tiger posted this video. The boss man, 1 a.m.

he said it's 6 a.m. at Royal Port Ross, which is, of course, where the Open Championship is in two weeks. He said, so it's 1 a.m. here. I'm up. I'm getting ready. Interesting video. Hilarious video. It's very funny. A little, like, weird. Oh, yeah. Wake up. But that's kind of here. He's a little weird, but it's just perfect. And weird's fine.

And it was like cut up. Everybody's old weird. It was like cut up as if it was edited. So like all the space in between words were taken away. Did you notice that? So, like, he'll finish him back. Wake up. And then he's starting his next sentence.

Oh, yeah. I mean, weird is what gets you 15 major championships. Totally. It'd be weird if he was doing these things and he didn't have the pedigree that he does. But he does. He's Tiger Woods. So waking up at one is that that's what's going to get him ready for the British Open, do it. My biggest fear as a sports fan in the world is that Tiger Woods becomes normal.

I don't want him to be normal. I want him to be this psycho machine weirdo. Which was part of it, I think we got an email about it why it was weird when we met it. Correct. You idiots should not be meeting him. Correct. You meeting him and humanizing him is not what they want. But we just wanted to meet him.

A few fans. A few fans were upset about that. Like that's not the tiger. I want Tiger to look you guys off and go storm to his practice facility and not think about you all week. Only thinking about like perfect putting, perfect ball striking, perfect victories. And there he is talking to you. Don't blame those people at all. I'd probably be upset too.

However, selfishly. Yeah, we got to be Tucker Woods. It was great. But one a.m. video, he's getting ready. I kind of made me one and one through a brick wall. also kind of made me laugh and shake my head, so I was a little confused, but I liked that. The boss man, his eyes were bugging out.

Oh, my God. The wake up was crazy. Oh, yeah, right. Like the movie on the screen. It was so surprising, too, but they posted it out like, that it was crazy. I mean, it was something. I'm looking at our little banner picture right now on our,

on four play Twitter. If you go on your desktop, if you're at work listening to this, and you go to desktop Twitter, not on your phone, I think it's on the phone as well, but if you pull up the four play Twitter and that picture that's on top,

It's just a nice zoomed-in banner picture of us laughing with Tiger Woods. The bar stool logo in it. I've never been happier than in that moment, staring at Tiger Woods' face. It really, it came out so great. What a thing that happened there. You really are beaming there. It's nuts. I will say it's a bummer that my back's turned in that picture.

But also, I'm kind of flaunting the barstool logo, so I'm kind of doing my part. It's huge. The barstool logo needed to be in there. Right. Somebody had to do it. I'm happy to be that guy. Just happens to me, me, and Trent, just perfectly. smiling.

You and I... I'm 3,000 miles away at my desk. I think you can see me. I'm just 3,000 miles away back in New York. You're also... In that moment, you don't know that it's happening. So you're just watching TV, like, what a great day. It's so good to be alive.

And in about four minutes, you're going to find out that your pals and the tiger was. Just leave a conference call. And then all you guys are like, dude, we just met Tiger. Here's all these sick videos. Everything we're doing. Oh, cool. You just came off mute on a conference call. It would be like, that was great, everybody.

Yeah, really nice stuff. All right. The inaugural three, I'm open TBC Twin Cities up in Minnesota. Matthew Wolfe, that's a big story. Eagle's 72nd Hold to win his first tournament, just his third ever professional start. Made like a 26-footer for Eagle. Absolute Stones.

Insane. Stones. He's a savage. He had an incredible last year, year and a half at Oklahoma State. In college golf, amateur golf. He's been on a run. He's got the crazy swing. That's what sort of made him really famous.

You combine that with having the stones and winning tournaments and playing really good golf. He's got George Gancis, who is the pretty famous, like, Instagram swing coach, who's, you know, kind of a cool, hip California guy who's always out there teaching a bunch of really, really good players. And Matthew Wolfe's kind of his top prodigy. He actually said, Yankis said last fall, I know for a fact that he's going to change the world of golf. People are going to lose their minds. And then in his third PJ Tour's start, he comes out, Eagles the 72nd hole with 26 footer to beat Bryson by one and win his first B.J. tournament.

Thunder guy, Bryson. That clip of him was great. He's kind of walking around, about to prepare probably for a playoff, and then he hears the roars. He's like, did he make it? And then it was just like, yeah, he's like, oh, well, darn. Oh, shoot. It was such a very.

He made it. Oh, shoot. Yeah, that was there. When he did the hand on the hips and just looked, it was, that's, he became a meme right there. Well, because Bryson had an up and down week. I mean, he was firing, what? Did he fire a 61 at one point during the week? 62.

I mean, he was playing lights out. Eagle 18 with an unbelievable approach out. He wrote that thing in there to that left pin. Eight feet or something. I'm going to tell you. As a guy who plays the ball right to left, that was relatable. It was unbelievable. That's the only pin I can ever get at.

I was like, oh, yeah, Bryce. That looks good, man. Oh, it was so nice. Fire those hands through. He was jacked up about that eagle put too. He was jacked up about the shot to hit the green and then jacked up to hit the eagle putt. He took the lead and then Wolf just to capitated him from behind. You don't see the fairway Selly on an approach shot at the 3M open.

No. I mean, the inaugural 3M open. So that kind of stuff. I would love to match that energy next week. That'd be great. Yeah, the classic. The JDC. It was a difference between like $600,000 first place and second place.

I mean, that's, that's legit. That's legit. Yeah, he was fired up, which I think even a bunch of mainstream golf outlets picked up. It was refreshing to see how into it and intense Bryson was the entire time down the back nine and especially on the 72nd hole. I did put in some of these payouts because I always find it interesting. Matt Wolf takes on $1.15 million. Bryson and then Morikawa

Kaama Morakao was only 22 years old as well And played lights out Both won 5663,000 Hadwin and fourth 307,000 and tied for fifth All those guys got 240s They don't win 500 They don't win the same amount of money

Because they split it up, right? Second place They take all of the times, right? So no, you'd rather get it alone Right And divided by two Right So second and third place was taken up

So they just add up that total prize money and split it between all the people that got it. Right. So, I mean, finishing solo second is more profitable than finishing a long time. Gotcha. Matt Wolf is 20 years old. He's now he's just got like one point, well, however much you get from that after taxes. And now he's just got the rest of his life ahead of him.

I mean, think about what a 20 year old is thinking on the fairway of that course with all that water ahead of him. And it's no joke of an approach. Like, you have to fucking hit a perfect shot to get this thing on the green into. Like after roasting a drug. drive. They were hit them like 3.30 to 350. You have 10 left. I think they had five iron out.

And they're hitting like baby cuts and draws over this water in front of all those people in the gallery of 18 knowing that they have to make an eagle to win and definitely a birdie to tie. That is absolute balls hanging down to the ground. 20 years old. I was like if I'm ever in a situation without even without the tournament aspect at all, if you just tell me you have to hit that green, I'm putting it in the, water nine times out of ten just because I'm nervous at being that aggressive over that much water.

That's an unbelievably aggressive shot. Bryson had like no room to land that ball and he did it perfectly. It was great. It was cool to see. It was a very, very fun ending in the tournament. We were about to have David Faradie in here, so we got to go. The only other couple things I would like to say. John Robb, that psychopath who we'd love to have on the show.

One is second Irish Open in three years at La Hinch in Western Ireland. At La Hinch and Western Ireland. If you get out there, Go on YouTube and look at some of the highlights from that just because the course is awesome. That course is sick. I think it's public, too. It will give you a lot of excitement going into Royal Port Rush and the British Open. So go watch those highlights.

And then the Scottish Open this week at the Renaissance Club. I saw JT and Kiz just played a practice round out at North Barrett, which is a very historic track that I'd love to play someday. But Scottish Open this week, too. So again, a couple little primers there if you want to get ready for Winks Golf, Open Championship Golf. We're going to talk about some of that with David Farity coming up next. You know that feeling you roll out to the first tea. Maybe you had a late, late, late night. You didn't get the warm-up session in that you needed.

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I am. And you say, you know, congratulations on all that you guys are doing as mediocre as it is. Which is a great way to describe us. That's from a few years ago. So we appreciate it. We're, you know, we're aware that you're very busy. So we appreciate you taking the time. We've, of course, got the Open Championship coming up in next week, pretty much.

Royal Port Rush. You're, you know, from Northern Ireland. originally, you know a lot more about it than we do. What can people expect next week? Well, I think they're going to expect really a spectacular event. I'd be very surprised if one of the Northern Irish guys doesn't get into contention. You know, specifically Rory McElroy. He's the one that has been in form.

And it's his home golf course. So, I mean, the tournament sold out in a matter of days. It's the first time that's ever happened. and the local support will be just overwhelmingly colossal for Rory, a great deal of pressure on him. It's a golf course that he knows well. It's an exquisite golf course. I was there three weeks ago to shoot some promos for NBC,

and the visitors and members have been playing off on mats for the best part of the last year. There isn't a divot in sight. It's like velvet. Matt's on the whole course. Matt's. Yeah, well, not on the T's because you can hit it off a Tee, but yeah, Matt. That's incredible. So how, you know, how big of a favorite would you say Rory McRoy is? Well, you know, I'm not sure that, you know, he would be a bookmaker's favorite. He's certainly a crowd favorite. There's no question about that.

But, you know, John Rom is just one of the Irish, you know, which is terrific preparation. I think he's playing in the Scottish as well, which I go to tonight. It's also an NBC event. And then you get Brooks Kepka, of course, and your big guys, the big guns. But having said that, it's not really a golf course that favors the long hitters. It's someone who can mold themselves to a slope. It's a golf course where there's barely a flat lie out there, and I think it'll suit someone who's used to Lynx golf, maybe a veteran. Even somebody like Ricky Fowler, who, you know, is actually a veteran as young as he is, You know, I don't know.

I just got a feeling about Ricky next week. How crazy is that to think that Ricky's like a veteran out there now? I know, yeah. Been out there for a long time. Yeah. So 68 years it's been since the Open's been in Northern Ireland. You know, how much does it mean? Let's pretend like we're ignorant Americans who don't know anything.

That's not difficult. What is it? You just put that right on a platter of room. Are we really pretending, right? That was the whole point, you think. Anyways. Also, we're being ignorant. Yeah.

Well, yeah, we just don't know. Ignorant. We just don't know. I know anything about it. We're looking to gain information. Correct. We're looking for information. How much does this mean to the people, to the locals, to the local community to have the tournament come back?

It's huge. You know, the province has been through a lot. I was born in 1958 and grew up in what we call the troubles. There, you know, riots on the street roadblocks, soldiers everywhere, bombs, sectarian murders. And I worked at Balmoral Golf Club, which was in the United States. the center really of the war zone in Belfast for a couple of years. The clubhouse was blown up as were

many clubhouses in the province because it was just protection money. Many of these people that were involved in this strife there were just common criminals and you find that anywhere

where there's political fighting you'll find that there's people that take advantage of the situation. There was a great deal of that in Northern Ireland. But we've come a long way in the last 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, where there was kind of a truce. Having said that there is still an undercurrent there, you know, having been there recently and visited the Peace Wall, we have a wall in Belfast. It's about 11 kilometers long and about 80 feet high. And ironically, it works. And it's still necessary. You know, so, you know, security is a concern. But having said that, I think I can't think of a sporting event these days anywhere in the world where security isn't a concern. Yep.

Absolutely. So who would be the best hurler? Hurler? From professional golfers. Wow. You know, I'm not sure if Podrick Harrington wasn't a hurler. there's a lot of the guys you know especially from the south

that that would have been into hurling at an earlier age I was into hurling but it was usually before I teed off yes I understand you know you've done and you're going to be doing a few different pieces that will come out on you know different parts of the North Irish culture

and hurling was part of that so explain a little bit more about the game because I witnessed it one time and I think it came to Fenway Park in the Boston area and I witnessed it and it was wild wild yeah it's basically um if you put a a number of neanderthals on a on a grass field with uh clubs you know that they might have used to beat a dinosaur to death with and um you know you throw a ball into the middle of them and watch it turn into a riot and just kind of see what happens yes that's what it looks like it's incredibly skillful though and very fast wow i mean that's

spot on because i spent an entire day one time I think it may have been last year, like, whenever the last big tournament was, that was, maybe it was just last year's open. And I just remember looking up videos about, like, Europe and all these, and like in different types of sports that I really don't know about. And Hurling came up. And I watched, like, an hour-long video of highlights. And I could not believe that guys don't, that they're able to walk off that field with their legs and their hands. I mean, they're taking full swings with the heaviest clubs you've ever seen and with no regard to, like, human life at all. No, no, and that stick, it'll slide.

done your opponent stick and hit you in the knuckles. It's insane. You know, they don't wear padding. They don't wear gloves. No. You know, and most of them have teeth. Which is remarkable to me. What is the goal?

What's the goal of the sport? Yeah, because I've watched it before and I've watched an hour and I couldn't tell you anything that I watched, but I enjoyed it. It's basically if you, you know, a rugby post. Okay. It would be American football posts if they came all the way to the ground. You know, it's got that. And if you hit it underneath the bar and,

the end of the goal it's three points and if hit it over the bar, you know, like a field goal, that's one point. Okay. Yeah. To me it's like field hockey and rugby combined. Yes. Yeah, it is. I think that's pretty accurate.

Yeah, it's very similar with a, with a ball that's a little bigger than a baseball and pretty much just as hard. Yeah. Yeah, I remember when it did come to the States and it was in order to kind of capture, obviously, because we're several hours behind that it was pretty early in the morning or maybe it was, you know, late morning, but it was in the morning. I remember we were hung over as hell, woke up, turned it on. We just were like, holy shit, what has happened to our brains right now.

Well, the All-Ireland Final used to be played at a place called Croke Park, and they would put 110,000 people in there. Yeah, and I mean, just wild, absolutely wild. No drinking, of course. No, no, no, no. Obviously not. So last year at the Open, it was incredibly baked out. It was firm and dry, having been there relatively recently.

are the conditions, what do they like kind of seasonally this year? Well, that's the one thing about the open is that, you know, there's nothing artificial about it. The RNA will allow the golf course to play the way it's playing, you know, given the weather that spring and summer. They've had, I would say, a pretty normal spring and summer. And, you know, it's a very northeast of the island. And they call it the Irish Sea. It's essentially the Arctic Ocean. Right.

And there isn't a divot on the place. You know, it's beautifully smooth, the fairways. And I suspect, you know, if it's a sort of golf course where if it plays longer, it'll be easier because, you know, the fairways are easier to hit. They play wider. If it gets windy and dries out, any good luck, boys, you know, wear a helmet. We can plug a little bit of the NBC coverage

because looking at some of the pictures, I imagine, the imagery will be off the charts from this place. Yeah, it is. I mean, Dunluse Castle is there, been there since, I think, the 12th century, you know, and the legend is that part of the dining room and kitchen fell into the sea during a party. And I think a lot of the guests were in the kitchen at the time, which is, of course, the best place to be at any party. And then, of course, you get the Giants Causeway.

The story of the Giants Causeway, there were two Giants, an Irish giant called Finn McCool. And there's a Scottish giant whose name I can't remember, but he was a little pissed off that Finn McCool was supposed to be bigger than him. And he came across on the giant's causeway from Scotland because the water wasn't deep enough to,

you know, he could walk all the way across. And Finn McCool, his wife, saw the size of this guy and decided that Finn should hide in the stroller, the baby's crib. And, you know, he hid. And when the Scottish giant took a look at him and thought, well, if that's his baby,

I don't need to be here and he went back to Scotland. What a story. Oh, what a tale. So Matthew Wolfe, just his third professional start on the tour, wins this past weekend. How would you describe his golf swing? It looks like he's been tased by a state trooper, basically. Yeah, and what a talent. George Jenkins, I think, is his coach, a very unusual character as well.

It goes very well with Matthew. He's a force to be reckoned with, I think, in the coming years. He really is. He's very confident. He's got a great attitude. And he's just comfortable in his own space, you know, which is very fortunate because it looks pretty damn uncomfortable to me. What is?

Is there anything that the average kind of weaking golfer can take from his swing? Yeah, I think they can. You know, if you make a swing that's comfortable to you. and see where the ball goes. That's really the trick in golf because very few people will actually ever make a comfortable swing. There's always 17 minor adjustments on the down swing because you know, well, that doesn't feel right.

So people will never really pay any attention to what it does feel like. You know, and you make a lovely comfortable practice swing and then, you know, you get over the ball and everything moves except your bowels. You know, so, you know, make that nice comfortable practice swing, let the ball get in the way and see where you're going. it goes, you know, I mean, I think you'd be very surprised. I like that because, you know, the more and more people that we meet, I'm getting tips from all these different people.

And all I think about when I'm over the ball is what I'm supposed to do and, like, where my hands are supposed to be. And I'm a mental nightmare now. Yeah. So it's like, why not just when I am, I mean, they're all not in their heads because they know if I played a Royal Port Rush, it still wouldn't have any divvits because I just scoop the ball like you wouldn't believe. I can play that entire 18 holes and you wouldn't ever see remnants of me ever playing once.

except for maybe glass houses around that all be shattered. But yeah, I think that I'm going to start going to the range, and I'm just going to swing comfortably, and wherever that ball goes, I can make adjustments off of that. I actually thought about that last night, like, just thinking about my swing. I'm just going to start swinging freely. Yeah, it's not the players who know where the club should be that make money. It's the players who know where the club head is.

Love it. Wow. That was deep. That's a mic trough. Everybody had to think about that for a second. All right, let me play that out my head. Bonga, gonga, bunga. Speaking of players, you know where the club face is and should be, Tiger Woods, one of the masters,

where does that rank in terms of major golf moments for you? Well, I think along with Hogan, you know, was it 49, you know, when he came back from the car accident? You know, it has to rank, I mean, it might be the greatest comeback in the history of sports. It's certainly, you know, it ranks up there. When you consider what he's been through, some of it's self-inflicted, some of it not, some of which, you know, we did to him. It's wearing him down. And, you know, with the surgeries and the physical and emotional, you know, mental, you know, injuries, you know, the whole lot, you know, for him to come back and be able to do that is just an indication of the strength of will that he has.

And the only mistakes I've ever made about Tiger Woods are the times when I've underestimated him. Right. So it wouldn't surprise me at all to see him in the shakeup. Yeah. Do you think he like his game at Royal Port Rush? I like his game everywhere, everywhere. Although he's typically not a great bad weather player, but that's me underestimating him again.

What do you think about Brooks Kepka, sort of this narrative coming up that he really only seems to care about the major championships? He's got, he has unbelievable finishes for the last two years in all the major championships, and then a lot of the, you know, the regular PGA tour events, the last couple that he's played in the Travelers and the 3M Open, and it's pretty nonchalant, somewhere around 50th. Any thought to kind of him put an extra? It happened all of a sudden with him too.

You know, something clicked and, you know, it's one of those things where he just got a little bit of confidence, and it's in his character, you know, where he got it into his head, you know, that, hey, I'm really good at this. And, you know, he's stayed in that mindset. He's a tremendously strong young man. and, you know, both physically and mentally. And although it's a golf course, Royal Port Rush,

is that won't particularly suit someone that hits it a very long way. You really will need to hit fairways. The rough there is mind-bending in places. There are stinging nettles. There are thorns, blackberries, you know, things that you just don't normally see on a golf course where, I mean, you could tear your sack,

you know, if you get in there deep. What was that first one? Stinging nettles. There's some of those in Rhode Island, actually. I found myself in those things. You don't want to brush up against them. Have you heard the expression to grasp the nettle? No.

No. Well, if you grab it like that, it won't sting you. But if you brush up against it, it will because it's got these tiny little barbs that you can crush. And it's fine. Yeah. But if you hit them gently, it'll, and it's not pleasant. That all sounds horrifying. Oh, it is.

Every bit of that. If you're in stinging nettles, you're fucked. Yeah. I found myself in that exact situation. What else over there is some crazy stuff that we like five? You know, they've got some big jack rabbits out there, but most of them will have left the premises because of the crowd. You know, the infrastructure, the build-out to the tournament is unlike anything.

I've seen the canyon that they walk into at the last, even though the clubhouse isn't behind as it usually is at an open. It's a huge semi-circular... series of bleachers that I don't know how many people it holds you know I mean I'm sure it's at least 15,000 but it'll be you know the atmosphere will be crackling and they're just so starved over there of world class golf I mean this is the biggest sporting event that's ever been held on the island you know so I mean it's difficult for me to describe just how you know excited people are I'm you know I I've got the hair standing up in the back of a minute.

Just thinking about it, you know, I can't wait for it. I'm very proud of it. You get me jacked out talking about it. The way you talk about it, your voice, is super cool, because you can tell how proud you are of it coming back. Yeah. Just what it's going to be over the next couple weeks for you, you know, I'm sure your family and friends that are back there and how it meet everybody.

Very special. Yeah, very cool. So Tiger just posts a video that he's going to be, he's waking up at 1 a.m. to prepare, what kind of preparation does David Farity do to get ready? Well, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, take a piss about six times a night, you know, two of them in the toilet. And, yeah, so getting up early doesn't bother me. I don't sleep particularly well.

And I go to Scotland tonight, so I'll be there for a week, and I'll be well used to the time changed by that anyway. Yeah, what is your, and then what does your week start to look like, you know, how early are you getting up? Are you walking the course at certain times? What does your preparation look like once the week starts? Yeah, we'll be staying at Greywalls. The NBC crew is staying at Greywall, which is the hotel right behind Muirfield Golf Club. It's about 20 minutes away from the golf course that we're playing. You know, so we'll have parts or members of the crew trying to sneak out there, and no doubt we'll get kicked off.

It's one of the snootiest golf clubs in the world, Muirfield. But my preparation is essentially, you know, coming. to see you guys. Yikes. Because, you know, my strength, if I have one, is just describing what I see in front of me. I don't really, to be honest, with you, prepare much. You know, my job is in real time. And, you know, it's a little nap, you know, followed out.

Hopefully. Perfect. You said he can't sleep very well. What does, like, David Faradie do when he's, like, lying up in bed? Do you, like, scroll your phone, you watch movies? What do you do to pass the time along? I watch live PD. Oh, that's an incredible show.

It is. It's incredible. It's astonishing the amount of douchebags our cops have to deal with. Unbelievable. It really is. Amazing. Amazing what they have to put up with. And it gives you a tremendous sense, I think, of, you know, how lucky we are to have them.

Yeah. Isn't it insane that that's not scripted? It's just they turn a camera on. And they just jump from place to place? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're talking about cops or is this? Yeah.

Yeah. Where have you been? I'm just thinking of the show I know is. The show I know is. called cops. No, it's like, there's like a

better live version of it. There's like a headquarters and they'll like, they'll kick it out to people live. Yeah, they're 30 feeds. Yes. You know,

going on out, you know, police departments all around the country. I don't think we'll have this on Sling TV, but we'll get a shot. Nobody has a driver's license. If they do,

it's been suspended. Everybody is smoking. Yeah. And they're always on the cell phone. Yeah. So that relaxes you when you're resting in bed to go to,

go to sleep or is? There are women on that show that have no, business wearing spandex. No business. It's so good. That's so good. That's great.

Awesome. Well, David Faradie, we appreciate you coming in once again. NBC will be all over the coverage, NBC Golf Channel, for the Open Championship, Royal Port Russian. And like we said earlier, I mean, you can tell in your voice and just talking about how excited you are, which gets everybody else excited about it. Well, thanks, guys. It's nice to be back with you.

Well, speaking of his voice, before he ends here, we got to ask him to say the line that we heard Rory McElroy say because he has kind of, I mean, the Northern Irish accent, we were at the PGA championship and we were walking around. We're being idiots like, you know, we're, we're hearing everything we can hear. And we heard Rory say to his state trooper that was walking with him. We heard him say, no coat today, eh? Or no coat today. No coat today. And we tried to explain to our friends what Rory had said and we couldn't do it in your accent. We just couldn't do it. No coat today, eh? That's, I mean, we've been looking for that. That's exactly what, I mean, that's exactly how it's up.

I can't tell you how stupid we sounded walking around Beth Page Black saying, no coat today. Yeah, it's a different A from your Canadian A. Okay. Yeah, that might be what it is. Yeah, it's quite different. All right. Well, thanks. Your Canadian has more, but, eh.

I can go to sleep now and I don't have to watch life you do. Yeah. David Berry, thanks for coming. We appreciate it. Thanks, God. Thank you.