Fore Play - It’s Showtime

Episode Date: July 27, 2023

Our first ever golf live broadcast is upon us. We’re live from Chicago for the NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank and we’re joined by KFT players (Adrien Dumont De Chassart, Ben Kohles, Rafael Campos, and Tim Widing). We discuss the tension on tour as we enter the home stretch, playing for one’s livelihood, and hear about the best shots from the year. Before the players join, the crew talks Oppenheimer, Blackberries, Golden Eye the video game, and The Word Of The Day.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. Oh, Rick! What's up my brother? I got a buddy who struggles with that shot. A lot. His name's Frankie Burrilli. So the guys actually gave him a nickname of Butterknives because he was always nice to the cross the green.

Brod 100. Now you've got to break 90. We appreciate what you guys do for golf. It's been really cool. Thank you. You're making it cool. we bring you know. I was like,

hey, Phil, you only fucking 2999. And he grabs 100. He's like, yeah, I won 90,000 these yesterday. He goes, take 100 and go fuck yourself. What? What are you that different?

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It's a huge week when this podcast comes out. It will be go time. It will be the day of our first ever golf broadcast. We're at the NV5 Invitational, presented by Old National Bank, Corn Ferry Tour, three hours, 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. Central time. That's 3.30 to 6.30. Eastern time. You can do the rest of the times on your own. But we're going to do it a live feed Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

And then on this show, we've actually got four different corn fairy tour players on the show. We've got our guy, Adrian Dumont de Chesson. Pretty good. who is a Belgian fellow. Dan's really tight with the Belgians. I like the Belgians. I think they have a nice balance. He's played five events, I believe, on the Corner Ferry Tour,

and he's seventh in points. He won his first start out there. Right after he turned professional, he went to Illinois, turned professional, won his first event in a playoff. The next week, he lost in a playoff, and he's had phenomenal finishes all throughout. We'll talk about him a lot on the broadcast.

We interviewed him for about a half hour. He's great. He's very professional fellow. Super polished. That was my takeaway. way was you're, that's a guy you talked to and you're like, yeah, he's just going to play on tour for 20 years. And, you know, a lot of those guys think he's one of, if not the best player out here already. That's the sense I'm getting on the range is like, they're like, oh, you guys talk to the right

guy. So yeah. So Adrian was great. And then, uh, we did a, uh, like a roundtable last night, kind of, um, panel, maybe you would call it a panel. It was a panel. It was kind of a panel at the pairings party that had a lot of the sponsors and the folks that are playing in the pro on Wednesday. So for that, we had Ben Coles, who's the number one player in Corn Fair Tour points right now. He was telling me, he's already locked up his card. There's three guys that numerically have locked up their PGA tour card. So Ben will be on the PGA tour.

He was telling me last night beforehand, which I didn't realize, that the number one guy, there's a big difference between number one and number two. Number one guy gets into the U.S. Open. Players too, right? And gets into the players. Wow. He's most likely going to be a Panovidra Beach guy. and he grew up like less than an hour away from Piner.

So he loves Piner. So even though he's already locked up his card, even though he's number one of the points, I believe he's ahead by one point in all the points. I think out of like 1,600 points they have or whatever that is, he's head by like a point. And he was telling me how big it is that he finishes first

and not second or third or fourth or whatever. And then we have Rafa Campos, who's 14th in the points. And then we have Tim Whiting. Rafa was great. He was having a couple cocktails. He was a great storyteller. Yeah.

He was very into it. Awesome personality. And then we have Tim Whiting, who's a Swedish guy, 32nd in points. You need to finish in the top 30, locks it in your PGA tour card. If you don't finish inside the top 30, then 31st, I guess, through 150th is it? Yeah, I think it's 70, like keep their card and get into basically every event next year. And I think all the way to like one something gets conditional status or some sort of status. But top 70 is a big number, but obviously top 30 is the number.

You get your PGA tour card. And when we had Kyle Westmoreland, was that the guy? We had him on like a year or so ago on the podcast, maybe a little less. He was entering, you know, the beginning of getting your PGA tour card. We've talked with Calum Tarrant about this,

of like going through registration and like you're on the PGA tour. That is, if these guys finish in tied to top 30, what they get in the fall, they get kind of that dream, they achieve that dream, they're on the PGA tour, they have their card,

they get to play throughout the whole year. So that's kind of what they're playing for. So anyways, those three guys in my kids, and myself did like a panel, we'll call it a panel, and then me and a DRAP here sat down with Adrian for about 30 minutes. You're going to get all that in the second half of the show. But we're doing a fucking broadcast this week.

One question. Do you get a physical card? Yes. Yeah, you do. Really? They have a card now that they wear around that gives you all access, but it says Corn Ferry Tour. You get one that says PG,

a tour player and that's your credential. Wow. I was going to say, I would want something I could keep in my wallet. They do also give those like metal ones. And then when a guy loses it, I want them to track him down and take it away from it. Like a cop who gives up his badge after some bad behavior. At the final, yeah, when he gets suspended, he has to turn in his badge. In his gun, PJ Tour card.

Give it to me. So at the final event, I believe they actually have 30 and they do them in like, they make them. It's like a trophy almost. They make them heavy, right? Heavy cards and they give you a card and these guys all post pictures with their PJ tour card. I love that. It's pretty cool. I was hoping that would be the answer.

I thought maybe it was just like an ethereal metaphorical card. I think it initially referred to the actual credential that says like PGA tour player, but now they've made it because it's like a thing to get your tour card. They've made those like commemorative like big ones. I would be putting that in my wallet and just showing it off everywhere. It'd be weird if there wasn't a card. Yeah. The word is quite literally PGA tour card.

It's not like you get status. You just say he got his card. But you just hear it so much that it's like I thought for sure there was going to be no card. I was going to be disappointed. Why would they call it card? They could have just call it like PGA tour status. I know. I'm glad that there is a physical car.

But it is also, it is kind of ridiculous premise that like, oh, you show up at the event and you're trying to play and you just like swipe your card and like, oh yeah, you can play. You have your card. Yeah. It's like going into like a business though. Like those like New York City like really high tech offices where you have to like walk through the thing and you have your badge. Yeah.

Can't get in unless you work for them. They've been telling me since I joined Barstool that I'm going to get my badge and it's been 11 months. You haven't got your Barstall sports card yet? But I've never been. I've never been stopped once at security. Do you think you've qualified for a Barstall? for a Barstle sports card yet?

I think I'm led into the office. Security is a loose term. It was like, there was one time, remember when there was the heckler, the guy who came in to heckle about, I don't know, some political thing.

And then for like the three days after they were like checking your cards. And then I came back two weeks later and I just like walk right in. I was worried because I've been there so few times in the last three and a half years that mine wouldn't work. I walk right through that puppy.

You wouldn't believe. No, no problem. We do have security now, which is good. Yeah, it's tighter. I think they probably know.

And I try to wear barstall stuff to the, to the office. Yeah. So I don't look super threatening. Well, the guys at our door know us. Yes. Like that's, they know everyone. They have to. Yeah.

I was more saying in the building itself. Oh, yeah. Well, and yeah. And you have to have a card to get in the doors. Mm-hmm. It used to not be that way. Yeah. Now it definitely.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I was actually talking with Pete overmire. All business Pete, people that know barstool, no Pete. But he's our, he's our main technical behind the scenes guy. He builds out the offices.

He's like responsible for all the tech behind our live streams that we're doing, including this one. And he, uh, he was telling me the, the, the, so the New York office, I guess, if the New York office, all floors combined is like 60,000 square feet or something, I guess the Chicago one's like 47,000 square feet, the new one. Really? Yeah. But the New York one's a very inefficient use of space for this company. Yeah, it wraps around and it wraps around. There's like different stairs and there's different like corners and a ton of conference rooms. I feel like the new one, the new one's going to be like more open and it'll probably feel bigger it's got basketball court yeah you kind of get what

you get in new york yeah it's like here's your space unless you're going to send a jillion dollars right chicago i feel like it's probably more you don't have to spend as much and you can get like a space that you want imagine being someone who picks office space and then has a vision and then makes it into like a good office it's a business especially in our case like i would have no idea like i mean chicago is like nail it's like a fun house yeah they have like big wheels and basketball courts and a full swing simulator. Yeah, it's going to be like a whole thing. Must be nice.

Yeah. They get a simulator right when we leave offices. We're just not office people simulator. Yeah. Golf simulator. Chevrolet. Chevrolet. Chevy, we love Chevy.

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and they said, like, create a light bulb. You say there's like, could you actually come up with like electricity and like a light bulb? No. Yeah, I don't think so. It's like the Nate Bargazzi joke where he's like. The iPhone joke, right? Yeah.

Yeah. No way. And that's how I feel about an office. Like if you gave me this task of like find an office and then turn it into like an awesome office, I don't know that I could do that. The first Barstall office in New York was weirdly the best one in terms of interaction. Yeah, it was. Like I remember it's funny.

in the second New York office, I don't know if it's there anymore, but if you go to the content side that is now couches and it looks like a hotel lobby, if you go to that side of it, there used to be a sign up wall, like a sign wall when celebrities would come in. And in the old, in the first, you know, I remember that. In the first New York office, that was right in the mix because everything was right in the mix. And guys would have to walk by it to go into the studio so they would obviously sign it. The one in the new New York office on the other side never got signed because guests never go over there because the studios are on the other side.

So it was just a blank celebrity wall. And it's like, that's the planning that I wouldn't think of. I would put that sign in that same place and be like, oh, shit, there's going to be no celebrities over there. So the old office was so much fun, man. Yeah, it was. It was crazy. We had celebrities in there all the time doing crazy shit.

I remember we used to do that this is bar stool. Yep. And that George Brett clip is fucking all time. That was a Francis Ellis production. Francis Ellis production. He made George, have ever seen this? No. So George Brett, obviously, famous for getting the pine tar and went nuts, right?

So we had him do a skit where. He was typing, you have to watch this thing. He's typing on a spin on the, this is Fort Center. Yeah, yeah. So he's typing on a keyboard and he's got a bunch of barbecue sauce on him. He's like licking his fingers and his keyboard's fucking shredded with just barbecue sauce. And someone comes over to, okay, Marco, the editor-in-chief comes over to him. He goes, George, like, you're out.

Like, you can't do, like you can't blog like this. You're out. And he goes fucking nuclear. That's awesome. Screaming. We had to hold him back. I want to fucking kill you. And he just does the freak out.

And like that stuff just we didn't do that anymore in this new office. Well, the great thing about that old office was the elevators opened into the floor where it was you opened and you were in the content area. Soldier boy in the building. Soldier boy in the building. He said that. The day he got off the elevator and just go, soldier boy in the building. That's so tough.

I remember taking my headphones off. I took my head full off. I said no fuck away. Dude, the day he went to the breakfast club and did all the Drake. He stole my whole flow. Yeah, yeah. He's wearing the gold Gucci stuff. He was in there that day.

Unbelievable. And he had like a soldier boy like, 64 like gaming system that he had created. Remember that? Oh yeah. He was promoting it or something. And he just dropped it off on one of the desks. He's like,

I'm going to need that back when I leave. It's like one of one. It was incredible. It was like Soldier Boy instead of Game Boy. I love that. That beats the George Brett story for me. Dude, there were, I mean,

there's endless stories like that at the old office, but I do think it was a function of when the doors open, when the elevator door opened, you walk into the content area, as opposed to the second office, which it was way bigger, way more professional. You just kind of lost that part of it,

but I mean, we still had tons of guys. Dude, I had to direct A, This is Barstool with Jay Barrowow. You know, the, the actor, he's from, she's out of my league. He's the guy at the beginning of, this is the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's like, so he's actually in the new Blackberry movie, which is fucking. What's he like in person?

He's exactly the way he is in those movies. He's like, kind of like quiet and like, like nerdy. The new Blackberry movie, I think it's on Amazon, possibly. About the phones? Bro, he stars in it. And then he has a co. star that is like a comedic version of like his his partner they're creating the blackberry it is probably one of the best movies of the year if not like the last couple years out already

oh yeah it's on Netflix it's on one of the streaming services it's on i think amazon prime watch it black bear watch it's sort of an indie movie too right oh yeah you can tell that it wasn't like it didn't have a big budget but it's phenomenal the actors in it nail it and you're just like man you feel like you're in this little office, like creating like the next thing as long. Were you in the Blackberry face? I'm too young. I was, but I was like, it's a sore subject. I just like never got one.

I had one. I had the pearl, the small one. Dude, I had the shittiest phone. Yeah. Because that VM was the coolest thing ever. All my friends were on BBM. That was the first like red receipt.

That was like I message. Right. But you could see it had D and then it was like R when you had it. I had a fucking. I had a Verizon chocolate. That shit sucked. So did Al Gore. The chocolate sucked.

Then I had a razor. I had the razors were electric. Razors were cool. I was before in my time a little bit, right? Oh, yeah. I had the first throat with that thing. The first Android where you would push up the screen and there would be a whole keyboard under it. That's similar to the chocolate.

That's a chocolate. Is that what that was? Yeah. Is that they're going to flip both ways or no? No, it would slide it up and the keyboard would be down. Did it have like a little touch pad like circular like dial pad kind of? I don't think it had that to get to the menu. You're talking about like a sidekick, right?

No, no, no, that's a sidekick. Yeah, the sidekick. I'm talking about the chocolate. You know the chocolate. Yeah, you flipped it up. It was all black. My first ever cell phone was just a standard silver with a little bit of like an old school screen on the front. You flipped it up.

That's what I had to. And like the top of the, the top of the phone would light up different colors. You could like adjust like if someone called you, it would turn green. If someone called you, it would turn blue. I think it was LG. I think it was an LG phone. I think mine was too. But you want to, I had one.

Verizon. Yeah. Mine was Verizon. I think mine might have been an AT&T flip phone. This is how old I am. I had an old Nokia, which was just yellow brick. No flip,

right? No flip. Yeah. Screen. Keypad on the front. Bro, what was the yellow brick Nokia phone where you could, it was like a walkie talkie.

Oh. That was a Motorola. That was like those chirp commercials. Churp. No, dude, it was like all the cool. My cousins had them. My cousins in like Farmingdale had them.

It was like they were like fucking like cool. Like they were wearing baggy like And won shorts and shit. I remember Sidekick was like the really cool one. It had Bob, which was the game that no one. All the girls on sidekick like they, they were fucking thought you could hear their fucking nails clipping on. A lot of rappers hated that shit.

Yeah, it was cool. It was a bit of a status. Yeah, I just didn't get a Blackberry. My parents didn't like let me get one or something. It was weird. I don't know. I never used to be able to like play like war games. Me either.

No war games when I was a kid. No just fucking FIFA and MLB. You wouldn't believe. Dude, I just and I'd go to like your friend Chris's house and we play Halo and and fuck and call duty. I'd be like, I'd have. have like fun dip and sugar around my fucking lips. I'd be like,

yeah, I'm going crazy. Let's kill everyone. Our first, I want to go home and play like Tony Hawk and like hope that like the guy broke his leg. Those are great games. Dude, the first big like first person shooter game for us was Goldnye.

Yep. And like James Bond? You could play two on two. James Bond golden eye. And it was like Natalia was in it. And they did the whole storyline. And then you couldn't be odd job because odd job was like the little person. Yeah.

So if you were odd job, it was cheating because you just shoot right over. Right. is he would shoot right at your stomach and kill you. And then we would always play. It was the first time you could do two on two. And we would play on the map. I think it was like facility was what the map was called with the bathroom up top.

Yeah. And you would have to try to hold the bathroom because you'd play golden gun. Golden gun was one shot, one kill. And there's only one golden gun. Only one person could have it. So you would get it and then try to hold down the bathroom. If people throw grenades in there and try to get you. And then we would take a huge piece of poster board.

And then we would set it on top of like a coffee table to split the screen in half. So it was real. Wow. You guys actually did that? 100% did that. Because there was no way to play on different TV. I hated when people used to that. And it sucked if you screenwatched.

Screen peeking was a big deal in our community. And when I community was like my friend, shaking his head. Alex Bush is like, yo. Yeah, well, he's in fucking.

Bro, one of the great thing, one of the great things about Golden Eye, too, was the mind. Is it called screen? Oh, awesome. Screen peeking.

That's like the name. That's still a thing. Is it still a thing or they figured out with different screens? You play on your own screen. Got it. My one of my, my good friend Richard growing up, he would scream. You call him Dick? Mostly Richard.

But he would screen peek. What's his last name? I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. But he would be, we would, we would have, we would call him cock.

We would play, you're going to lose it when I tell his last name once we get done. No. I can't. I can't. He's still one of my good friends. But he would screen peek. So we would have ones where you could scream peek. We'd be like, screen peek.

Yeah. It's part of the strategy. Do it, bitch. Where he would run around, he would, on his screen, he would look at the ground and he would look at everyone else's and kill people that way. Yep. It was crazy. Yep. That's such a good move.

It was an insane skill. It's a villain move. It's a villain. We would get it so mad at him, but he was so good at it. So the mines were really cool in that you had proximity minds, which were like normal minds. And if you walk by it, you'd blow up. Then you had remote mines where you could throw mine certain spots. And then when somebody walked through there, you could just hit the trigger.

And it would just blow them up. That was really satisfying. I think you could do it in Call Duty. originally but you could do it in gold nine. That you... Yeah. Those fucking mines used to drive me crazy. Yeah.

Cluster munitions like the rush. If you throw them down when people walked behind. Once I got to a certain age, I was able to play them. But it was always that like 10 to 16, I feel like I was not allowed to play. Yeah. I was a sports game's only. Same thing. And then we would...

Crash Bandicoot. We would play too. There was a reason we got really into wrestling, pro wrestling for a while, was they came out with WCW versus NWO. Yep, I remember. On in 64. Oh yeah. You would do two on two matches where you tag the other guy in and all that.

And then they had, and then like with the new iteration of the game, they came out with the ladder match, dude. So you could literally, they'd hang the fucking belt in the middle and you get the ladder. You'd to climb the ladder. You'd get real close. The next guy would come and smoke the ladder. I would always be sting. I fucking love Sting. Yeah.

Sting was I used to not be able to do any of that shit. You're jumping up bad memories for Frankie. My dad would take me a butt. I couldn't do any of my. Every good memory turns dark when he goes. goes over to Frank. Yeah. I mean,

I have amazing memories. I just couldn't play the games I wanted to play. Fucking, my dad would take me the Blockbuster. Blockbuster was right down the road. And every time we walked into the blockbuster, the guy that was working there would say,

hey, how you doing? And he would say it the second you walked in. I always remember my dad tried to get a, Hey, how are you doing it before him? And he never got it, except for one time.

You really are your father. My dad stopped me. And he goes, hold on. I'm going to do it this time. Like we snuck up on the door, right? Like, he didn't see us coming,

whatever. And my dad slowly, because it would ding. It would be a little, there would be a little ding when you walk in. So my dad would slowly open the door. Hey, how are you doing? And the guy got nuts. Like, he had something wrong with him where he had to fucking do it. Like if he didn't say, hey, I'd do it in his whole entire day.

Like you started moving around little like, like, say the guy who worked at Blockbuster, he said, hey, are you doing the first minute? Maybe had like a little. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But so my dad used to take me a Blockbuster and I used to fucking sneak in like a wrestling

game. I used to like rent games and I remember going home and getting it and putting it into my PlayStation. And I'd like look around. around my room and play like a wrestling game and then I'd like smack someone over the head with like a chair and turn around and be like, was that right? And then like I'd look back at my screen. I was a fucking

I was like a feral cat like fucking jumping around my room fucking trying to put people into like a chokeholds and shit. Those rental places were bizarre places. I had Mr. Movies. There was a blockbuster but it was further away but it was a Mr. movies where you would go rent video games and we what we would do, this has nothing to do with video games

by the way, but we would rent horror movies. We would go to the horror movies section and all we would rent was horror movies be like let's get this one let's get this one and the only reason was was because they showed boobs those movies would show boobs you couldn't rent like a normal nudity movie your parents

would be like no but if you rent Chuckie of the bride and it's like they have no idea it's like we just get to see boobs there were no pornoes in those in those stores at all like there were there was a back room I get to show a carter's behind the Bs yeah you couldn't get in there it was like a cloth curtain I don't think Blockbuster had

arrayed like a I don't think so either. I don't think they had like a rated X. It was more of like a local. They were like, we'll put porn in the back. I always had to pee when I walked into those. Do you guys ever feel that?

No. Every time I walked into a blockbuster, I had to pee. How do you explain that? I think it was just like an excitement thing, but something about something about the carpet and the rows of technology. I had to pee. I had to pee the second I got it.

The second I used to be like, oh, we got to pick what I got to go pee. I had to. piece so bad that it was going to come out of me. And here you are judging the, hey, how you doing, guy? When you walk in. This guy's about to piss his fucking pants. What were you saying?

For us, we got our boob fix and all that, even to a higher degree on hockey road trips. Oh. We would, you know, we would pick a hotel room and say that we're going to watch a hockey game or something and like a whole click from the team, six guys from the team, 12 guys, the team, whatever would go into like a hotel room and then we'd be like somebody get the remote and you'd be able to because if you're in like somebody, like, somebody. parents hotel room or something you'd be able to like order and buy like getting bricked up with the boys on a hockey dude we when you're like 12 or something you're like anybody anybody ever have the scrambling off in a room everyone like starts to put pillows next to themselves anybody have the smell weird in here so fucked up to think about that we did that on like every trip the scrambled spice channel we had that it was channel 62 and it was just regular TV

but it would once you got to a certain channel if you didn't pay for it it would be it wouldn't be there would be scrambled and Every once in a while you'd be on Channel 62, you'd hear a lot of moaning. But then you like there'd be a boob every once in a while. I was like, man, you're just, we were looking for boobs. Yeah. I remember my parents had like HBO had like the movie package. So Cinemax was where I got my face.

Oh yeah. So it would be like a lot of soft core after all soft core, but it was still core. You know what I mean? For sure. Core memories. I just I knew what was happening. Soft core memories. It was like, I remember after they would go to sleep at like 11 o'clock, I'd go to

Cinemax and it would be like, you know, these soft core porn movies of like, oh, yeah. two sisters gone bad and I was just waiting for them to go to sleep. I was just waiting. We, when I was young, this is not a golf podcast anymore. It's a boob podcast. It's, um, we got HBO when I was a kid. Like that was big. We got HBO and sex in the city was on there.

And like that one blonde chick was fucking everybody. Right. And like you, some, but sometimes you watch an episode because you think the title as a young man and you're just full of hormones. Like every single episode is going to be basically a porno. Yeah. And sometimes there would be no boobs. Sometimes there would be a lot.

But you would watch them and be like, This is awesome. HBO is awesome. And then Cat House, if people know what that is, like, oh, boy. Girls gone wild. Yeah. You remember that? I used to make an appearance on my TV.

Cat House was insane. Yeah. It's like a brothel in Las Vegas. Yeah. I didn't know, I didn't know Cat House. Air Force Amy. They'd be like lined up like in the hallway. It was a legal brothel of Las Vegas ran by this guy Dennis.

Wow. He was like red face. Red face, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I actually, and this could be. He had a heart attack. Right. This could also be fake news, but I think that Cat House, this could be wrong.

Is that where Lamar Odom went? That's where I think Lamar Odom went and had like a seizure and like almost died. It wasn't good there. No, but that was cat house, sex in the city, all that shit was. NV5 invitation, presented by old national. They're going to love this lead in. They're going to love this lead in. This might be what they get, you know, this weekend. Right. The exclusive ticketing partner of Barstool Sports. We're talking about game time, which is created by fans, four fans. go download game time right now. It is the ticketing app that makes it easier than ever before

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and weekend. So barstool. Dot TV is like our home for live streaming. This is where we did the Barstool Bowl in Arizona. This is where we do the Barstall Invitational for the basketball. This is where we have been streaming all of our real sports as opposed to just the shit that we do on YouTube and stuff. So make sure you go there, barstool. com.

I will say I was way less nervous than I was. Okay. I feel like we're pretty prepared. Yeah. I feel like we got a great team. This guy, Brandt Packer, supposed to be the best in the business. who's our kind of executive producer. He produces for Golf Channel and does a bunch of live golf.

In him in Texas, like we've got the best in the biz. Yeah. And Colt knows said the same thing to me. He's like, oh, I can't believe you got him. You have no idea how big that is. He makes me way more comfortable. He's the guy in our ear being like, you're on. This is what you have to say and don't make it.

He's running the show. Yeah. And I think we got a lot of talent. Like, I think we got a lot of talent to people that can just talk and be interesting. We got Kirk, Francis. We got everybody in this room. Jersey Jerry's going to make a great.

Jerry's going to show up. Francis is going to be up in that boot. Big cats here, I think, for a day. Yeah, France is one of the more well-spoken, like, funny people I've ever met. He loves golf. So I think we're going to be in good hands. We've been doing a lot of, like, research on the contextual stuff, I guess I would call it. We've got Justin Ray, who we talk about on this podcast all the time.

Stats guy, golf Twitter people know him. He's got 80,000 followers on Twitter, just basically tweeting out interesting golf stats and facts all the time. We hired him for the week. So, he's been sending us info sheets. So, like, I mean, we're going to do our thing. we're not going to, you know, as like the analyst, I'm not going to act like I'm Trevor Eulman and I won the Masters. We're going to speak about it, how we speak about it.

But knowing like the difficulty of a whole, traditionally, how difficult this whole plays if you miss the fairway left like this guy did and being able to contextualize that like actually it plays a half a stroke over par if you're in the left rough like he is here. So he really needs to hit a good shot. And then with our usual banter, I think we'll be able to do a pretty good job.

I'm just excited. I mean, I'm going to be a little bit more, I think, kind of siloed in a good way, like into what I do best, which is obviously like the X's and O is kind of more nerdy golf stuff. Yep. Setting the scene, being out on the golf course. I walked it back nine yesterday with a bunch of different groups and got a bunch of,

I have a ton of notes in my yardage book. Like I'm really, I've been wanting to do this kind of shit for a long time. Let's go. I'm really excited for it. I do. We've been talking a lot about like, obviously it's a Barstall production and there's certain things that come along with that. But what we really want is like a baseline of a good golf broadcast.

Totally. Like that's, this is a cornfrey tour. This means a lot to these guys. We understand that. And there's going to be a little. elements of barstool like me and frank you're going to be out there jersey jerry's going to be out there riggs in the booth jake marshon booth so it's going to feel very barstool and there's going to be funny barstool parts but i think something that we're focusing on is like we want to make it a real

golf broadcast because it's a bit of a proof of concept thing for us 100% where like if it's a total shit show and we're not we don't even know what hole that is we don't know where the pins are like we don't want it to be like that we wanted to have the bones of a great golf broadcast with barstool elements involved yep i think that's right and i think that we're we've put a lot of the pieces in place to do that. And we want, the corn fairy tour doesn't get any exposure whatsoever for the most part, right? There are a few times a year. We talked a lot about how in the fall at the Q school finals,

it was infuriating that it wasn't on anywhere. The Q school finals might be the most interesting tournament in golf of the year. It's like guys that literally have one week to make or break their career. They have somewhere to play for the next year or they don't. And if they don't, then they're caddian or they're getting a server job. but they're trying to raise money through their local network back home so that they can in a year try it again and have money to play golf. And like we couldn't watch it anywhere. It was just online.

It was literally not even streamed online. It was like shot trace, uh, shot link from like volunteers. And you're hoping. And when our guy Alster was like trying to make par in the last hole to get in on the number, we didn't know. We had no idea. You can't watch anywhere. And so now the fact that, you know, they're pretty deep into this season. The points race is starting to shape up.

They've said it's getting way more tense out there than it has been. It's a lot of fun at the beginning of the year. They're in these exotic places. Everybody's pretty happy to be there. Now it's like they're literally fighting for these spots and it's tightened up. It's tense. There's only seven weeks left, I believe, total if you include the playoffs and all that. So they don't have that much time left to make their mark.

And we get to cover that. So I think it's, you know, if we show a lot of golf, obviously we've got kind of our featured groups and people that'll be in the coverage Thursday and Friday. We're going to bring guys on that finish in the morning, right? So if Ben Coles or, you know, finishes up in the morning, he might jump on our broadcast for 10 or 20 minutes and talk through a bunch of the shots in the afternoon while those guys are playing. And then as the weekend comes, I mean, we're pretty much three hours. We're going to pretty much be covering the back nine of the leaders on Saturday and Sunday. And that'll kind of narrow the focus, right?

Of like, we all know how a golf tournament starts to funnel towards a couple people at the end that are in contention. We've all watched a million golf broadcast. So being able to show and showing all of that combined with. what we do, which is talk about what we've been talking about, boobs and iPhones and shit. I think that's going to be a pretty good broadcast. Yeah, I've been really intrigued by kind of the different categories of players who play on the Corn Furry Tour. So I've been obviously getting to know a lot of these guys.

And there seems to me to be kind of three different buckets that they fit in. Okay. There's the young guys. So you got the guys like Tim who's in our group or like Adrian who are, you know, 23, 24, who are, they're green, right? They haven't been jaded by the brutality of professional golf. They turn pro. They're on the corn furry tour, which for a 23-year-old kid, you're doing really well, especially the PGA Tour, you kids, a lot of them sign, you know,

they got a couple hundred grand from Taylor Made or from whatever it is. And I think there's like a little bit of jealousy, not in the, not like mean way, but, you know, there's guys. And then there's the guys who played on the PGA tour and either are not playing well or are older. There's a couple guys. Chad Campbell's in the field. He's played in three rider cups.

He's 49. If you're 49, they give you a year on the corn fairy tour to get ready for the champions tour. So he's doing that. There's someone else in the field who's doing that who I can't remember. So there's those guys who are either an injury or not playing well. And then there's just like the life grinders. Yep. The guys who are like between sort of 28 and 35 who have just been doing this forever.

And probably at the end of every year, they're sweating about how much money they have. So it's not one size fits all. And I've been surprised that I thought it was going to be, I thought it's going to younger than it is. There are definitely young kids out there. But there's a lot of not young guys, especially in the top. 30. I thought the top 30 was going to be like 25, 26. No, it's like, this guy's 37. This guy played on tour last year. This guy's having the best year of his life. This guy's 23. It's all over the place. These guys are in some, in some aspects, one week away from the PGA tour. One good putting it all

together week away from playing their dream. And like that's throughout the entire list of all these players that are playing in this tournament. And that's a way different vibe and just pressure that we're not used to. We show up to a PGA tour event and just every guy is just either cash in a check or winning a ton of money. This is not that case. It's actually two rider cupers in the field. We got Chad Campbell and we have Jeff Overton.

Jeff Overton. From Boom, baby. He's got that famous clip. He's in the field too. It was an injury. They gave him a medical exemption on to the corn freight tour. So there's names out there that you're like, oh, I didn't expect to see Sam Saunders. I saw at breakfast today, Arnold Palmer's grandson.

I didn't realize he was in the Scott Brown. Scott Brown. Scott Brown. Sean O'Hare, who Tiger beat at Bay Hill. I mean, there's some guys, some names. Brandon Harkins, he played with Tiger at Kuea. We had amazing stories with him. We heard amazing stories from him at the bar the other night, Barstool, River North.

We were going to try and grab him for the broadcast for sure. I mean, the guys played on tour for like three years. He's just out here just getting his game back together, just trying to get back. He's like best friends with Joel Damon. He's like talking to him every single night. And like they're like the same type of player. But one guy has just figured it out to be more consistent than the other. They're probably the same skill when they play at Mason.

It's not like Joel's giving him before rigs. Oh yeah. Like he's just like, yeah, I'm like good enough to be up there. I was up there. I was playing with Tiger on Sunday and a fucking professional golf tournament.

I'm there. It's just I'm here this week. And for context, Scotty Schaeffer won this event in 2019 at this golf course. In 2021, Cam Young won this event at this golf course.

So like, I was thinking about that Scotty. I mean, like a couple months after we did our whole Bethpage Black showing, like Scotty Chef were won here on the corn fair. tour. And like 2021, like a year after over a year after COVID started, like Cam Young won this event

on the corner fairy tour. So it's like not that long ago that these guys are some of the best players on earth. Scott Schaeffler is the best player on earth. We're right here in the same position that a bunch of these guys are in trying to win it. So it's wild that they're that close, that these guys are that good. And yet the exposure level and the fact that people don't really know who these guys are is such a stark difference between here and the top guys on tour. And so we're going to try to showcase that. We're going to try to highlight some of these stories and put on a good golf golf. We were talking to Kevin Price, who works for the PJ tour. He's a hell of a character. I think he's now been to every corn fairy tour event, which is crazy to say for the corn fairy

tour. And he was talking about, he's like, yeah, I remember when Cam Smith got his card, he was like really quiet. And the vast majority of great players played at least a little bit on this tour. It's very rare to get your card without it. So Zaltoris and Tony Fienow and can't let, I mean, these guys they were out here i saw i think willy z in like 2020 maybe willy z lost in a playoff in this event okay so like that's isn't that fucking crazy hearing those names is wild yeah it'll be cool for our viewers to be able to watch us see who wins and then keep track of that person is it the next guy chefler you know they look back and say that we were here for that moment that's going to be pretty well that's what's cool that we're streaming it and we're showcasing

these people because like those guys can come out of here and they don't get a ton of all the players that we've talked to are very appreciative that we're here, which is very cool. Because they know, like, exposure is a big deal. And the Scotty Shephlers and the Will's Altaurses, they can come out of here. So getting in on that story early will be very cool for the viewers. And the vibe is totally different where if you're at a tour event, granted, we have never broadcast a tour event. Maybe the vibe would be different.

But the guys on the ranger, they're doing their own thing. They've got their coaches around. They've got their agents. They're sort of guarded. The guys here, they see us. And they turn around. They're like, what's up? What can I do for you this week?

Yeah. So it's been really, really nice to work with willing participants. Alastres in the field, obviously. He's our guy. We've had him on the show a few different times. Good friend of mine out in Arizona. Good friend to everybody at this point. So we're going to focus on him a ton.

He wears our stuff. We love him. I got Logan McAllister. His caddy is Joe La Cava Jr. Joe Jr., if people remember, we first met him during that Beth Page, PGA, when we were all over that place. Joey La Cava, great friend of the program. Charlie Wood's catty?

He was Charlie. He's been Charlie Woods' his catty. a few different times. He pulled the part of my take head cover off that driver. That's right. That's right. Logan McAllister, absolute badass Oklahoma's runner-up team. I think he's,

I think he might have been the guy that had a couple different holes in one at Greyhawk during that final a couple years ago. We've got this guy Chan Kim, who you and I were talking about, who's by all accounts of beauty, some great stories of him who likes to get after it, show up the next day, and then shoot like 63 and win golf tournaments. He's got a hell of a story. where he basically has just been Mr. Japan tour. He's been like the best player in the Japan tour.

He's played in, I think we said, 11, 11 major championships. He's played in 11 or 12 majors playing almost exclusively the Japan tour for years, made over $5 million over there playing on the Japan tour, and then gets a ton of official like world ranking points because of the way things are weighted. And he was like, rather than go grind against guys in the Cornwallay Tour, I'm going to dominate this Japan tour, which he has now that there's such an influx of cash over here in everything.

And the ranking points too have changed. And the ranking points have changed. Corn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour. He's back over here trying to make it. I think we said he's 40th or somewhere around there. So it's like, I think, you know, these guys come and they're like, oh, I'm going to play a year on the corn frayorries. And it's not so easy.

Right. Like you got to put the pedal to the metal. Other guys we've got in the field, Chris Goderup, who Lurch was never able to get on the podcast for us, despite the fact they played golf together every week. And he is like a Rumson guy. He's in the field. I think he was the number one ranked. Amateur in the country.

He won all the awards. A college guy, maybe. He won, like, Nicholas Award, all that. He's playing with Alistair. Yep. Cole Hammer, everybody knows that name. He was a Texas guy. He's got a lot of love when he was in Amber, when he was at Texas.

He's got the pretty face. Rob Oppenheim. He's a New England guy. I feel like I've seen him. He played in a couple different U.S. opens. And when he has, I mean, I think the first time maybe we saw him was at like Pebble. And he was one of those guys that came up to us and was like, Hey, I'm a huge barstool guy because I can't remember exactly where in New England he's from.

It might be Massachusetts, but I saw him yesterday on the range and he again, him and his caddy went out of their way to say hi. Like a bunch of guys have here, but be like, we're so pumped that you guys are doing this, anything you need. So I love Rob. He's awesome. Also very topical name, Rob Oppenheim. That's right. I still haven't seen it yet. I know you saw it.

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100 out of 100. Yep. You gave it 100 out of 100. It's pretty good. It was excellent. That's really good. It's an experience. Did you see it in like a souped up theater?

I didn't see it in like an IMAX or anything crazy like that or 3D, but I saw it in one of those theaters that's got like the recliner. A recline is non-negotiable for me at this point. Yeah. If it doesn't recline, I'm not going to go. Yeah. And it was an experience. I've got to tell you.

I took a couple chocolates before. So I was in a great headspace And I just enjoyed the hell out of it You should try it I think you should try some gummies For the first time for Oppenheimer No no no I gotta be No I think you should

I've been I'm like you're like The big movie moment guy I can't be on PEDs for the first time My life watching something like that It'll be even better I think you'll empathize With people at a different level I think it'll be really touch

I was just sit there like I get into the movie I like melt into the chair already No you don't You don't know what melting is We'll show you melting into the chair my brain the way it operates i'm almost closer to how like people that are more reserved feel when they take something like i think that's right probably i don't need like like i already

i cry when i like watch i get emotional i get into it like i'm fucking i don't know how much more i could be well like what would i be i'd be on the floor maybe maybe i'd be fun on the floor yeah i like it another guy i know tom whitney who monday queue is uh yeah yeah for so anybody again in the golf twitter world monday queue is awesome he just been following these stuff for years and years. He highlights it better than anybody on Earth. We're going to get him probably on the broadcast a little bit, chat with him. But he's caddying for Tom Whitney, who I believe is inside the top 30.

He's good having a hell of a year. So quite a few names. We're going to highlight more and more names as we kind of go through it as we get out there as we, you know, present the broadcast, see how the leaderboard shapes up throughout the weekend. But yeah, we're going to be putting on a live golf broadcast for the first time. It's pretty much us. We brought in some more barstool personalities.

Obviously, we brought in Jay ready to do the stats and stuff. But we're pretty much leaning on ourselves. I think there's a rumor that if Joel Damon misses the cut up at 3M, be a real shame people who are in foreign to miss the cut up there. But if Joel misses the cut, he said you might come down and join the broadcast for the weekend. We FaceTimed him with Brandon Harkins at the bar on Tuesday night or Monday night. And I said, Joel, I love you and I hope you miss the cut. And he kind of laughed.

And I don't know if he sat under breath, but I think he may have said me too. I think he's like, I hope so too. He had a good week last week. finished like eighth or 10, so he's up to 80th and points. Yeah. I mean, we're rooting for him to do well, the three am. It's a huge for him to make it to the playoffs and all that. We'd love to see Joel Damon here in Chicago.

No, no, no, no. Quick flight. Yeah. Super easy. And he's got his buddy here. I mean, him and Brandon are like best friends. Their wives are best friends. They live right next to each other in Arizona.

So it'd be an easy crash with your buddy type of deal. He also took shits in my house like two months ago. Yes, he did. He did. Well, your guest house. Yeah. Which is bigger than most house. Which is like 300 yards away from property.

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in Rome that day that'd be incredible 100% like you a DRAP Coliseum or something I don't know it'd be insane You would get into the center of the Coliseum You should just do it in Zuckerberg Can you etch your name into the Coliseum? Is that a thing? I can't wait to tweet out I think you might be able to. I can't wait to tweet out a picture of it and be like

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Yeah, he's committing a lot now. I'm going to be at the Wyndham. I'm going to be there for two or three days. I'll be there Tuesday, Wednesday, there's a playing in the pro-am on Wednesday and now the fact that JT's going to be there I'm quite excited.

I'll probably be at the tournament. Probably not the way JT saw his schedule going this year, but he's just doing what he's got to do. He's made the tour champion I didn't realize it's seven years in a row. So he's got to, that streak is very much.

Make it hard for Zach to say no. That's what he's going to do. I don't think you. You cannot add your name to the Coliseum, by the way. Comes with 15,000. no fine in five years. Well, so you can. So you can.

So you're saying there's a chance. Right, you could, but there's some fact that they have a specific punishment for it means you can do it. Well, the reason is because the first headline is tourist who etched his part, his, and his partner's names on Coliseum says he didn't know it was illegal. So it's definitely, so you probably just saw

a video and you're like, oh, I can do that. I'm going to need you to delete that clip. Because that's going to be my defense. Listen to the way they described the Rider Cup. The Rider Cup, the most unique golf tournament in the world. brings camaraderie, rambunctiousness, singing, and world-class banter to a sport normally played in hushed tones. Love that. Rambunctiousness is a great word to describe.

That's good. I would have thought it would be rambunction. It brings rambunction. Yeah, I guess it's not. Is that correct phrasing? No, I know, they're right. I just didn't, I never, rambunctious. I've never heard that as like a noun.

I've never heard of rambunction. No, it's not, I had made it up. I, you hear rambunctious. I just thought the noun form would be rambunction and not rambunctiousness. I see. Yeah. rambunctiousness rambunctiousness right right um no it's a big exciting week for us for the with the broadcast we got the broadcast barstool dot tv 330 to 630 eastern each afternoon uh Thursday through

sunday and uh it's going to be fun it's you know we're going to have a winner we're going to present a trophy to a winner yep a whole fucking deal we're doing it so uh tune in for that i think that's everything that i've got frankie drew he doodled a uh a per face She's a pretty good drawing. Yeah. Oh, I want to say Alex Bush was an excellent caddy. Alex Bush was an awesome caddy in the Monday qualifier. He was awesome.

You broke 80? I broke 80. Big put. I suck at golf. He wrote it down. Notes, I suck at golf. This is why when I tell people, like, I suck and they're like, no, you're great. I'm like, no, no, you don't get it.

Like, I, compared to these guys, suck. And that was made abundantly clear. But it was super fun. Bush had a great attitude. And we made that put, which made everything taste a lot better after. Did Bush read anything? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Bush was in there reading it. He also was telling me, so the first three holes, I just air mailed the green basically all three times. I was like crazy amped up. And Bush was like, we got to take 10 yards off. No, he's like, we have to. So he started giving me 10 yards less. I don't think we hit it over the green all day after that.

So it was good job. What did that? Devy William. His hand-drawn yardage book was laugh out loud funny. Yeah, I enjoyed that. He had, he drew, he drew trees. And I said, Alex, I can see the fucking tree. Was the background to that that he had played the course and you hadn't?

No, I guess there's like a flyover or something. I just watch flyover. He watched fly over and drew them. That's nice. It was amazing. It was amazing. Like military planes flying over the Buffalo Bills games or what? What?

Would it be illegal to wrong flyover? If you were a caddy and you could you take the clips from the flyover and look at them while you're out there? Caddy. I think they have a rule against like electronic devices. Okay. But you could have, I mean, the books that they have, you guys seen this week with the yardage books are insanely detailed. Yeah, they really are. A little confusing, but I kind of look at them and I'm like, yeah, I know what this is.

Well, we don't know what we're looking at it. Yeah. We have no idea. Yeah, I have one too. I got to really, I have to learn to learn to learn. Yeah. Right. To learn what the book's doing to learn.

Miriam Webster word of the day. Okay. Stoic. Do you know the definition? It's like not. Go ahead. I don't, I'm bad at definitions. I just know like the, what the spirit of the word is.

What it means? What does stoic mean? I would say it's, stand up guy. I would say stoic is like emotionless. Yeah, it's like not showing emotion. Yeah. It's like not showing emotion. Yeah.

Stoic describes someone who shows very little emotion, especially in response to a painful or distressing situation. You guys nailed that. He remains Stoic, even as his manager, reprimanded him in front of his colleagues. Like I would say famously, people criticized President George W. Bush for being Stoic when he was told by Andy Carr that 9-11 it occurred. So Marcus Aurelius, I believe, was Stoicism. He wrote his meditations, and I think it's called like Stoicism or something.

Stoic. Yeah, we've talked about meditation. We have. Marcus Aurelius, one of the greats. One of the greats. Hated violence, but if there was going to be a war, he was going to win it. It was a last resort, but when he did it, it was like they went in and they killed everybody so that they wouldn't do it anymore. That was his, like, very logical.

It's a little bit, you know, a lot of, a little bit of Oppaheimer with, you know, not, not to, no spoilers. No spoilers. They kind of kill everyone. What person of people you think going to that movie not knowing? Thinking it's a fiction? Like, or just not knowing, like, that there's, that, that, what's going to happen. Wow. Dude, I will say, like, one of the main.

We did what? Oh, my God. I can't believe they actually did it. Oh, one of the main takeaways. And I guess, you okay? No. I actually don't want to talk about the movie too much. Because if there is some, like, historical thing that I didn't know or, like, forgot about.

I'd rather be reminded by the amazing work that by Christopher Nolan. All right. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. Yeah, yeah. It was fun while it lasted. Yeah.

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Nobody has anything else. We got interviews. I got one more. Okay. So on Stoic, it says, test your vocabulary. Can you name a six-letter synonym of Stoic, also beginning with S? that means showing little or no emotion serious no six letter i mean serene serene no that's not really a good one

i'm not going to be able to do is it a word that we know i don't know uh statue ask i was that's i know it's tough no um starts with s six letters A word I know. I would have never known. We're going to increase our vocabulary. Okay. I'm going to actually, I was going to look up a bunch of synonyms to words that I usually use to talk about golf.

Yeah. Yeah. So I don't just say the same. I've been looking at word of the day and then I forget it the next day. Yeah. Did you know stoic? I did know stoic, but I wouldn't have known the exact definition. I would have been able to say someone is a stoic person.

Yeah, you could use it in a sentence, but you couldn't necessarily. I'm that way with most words too. I figure I could use it in a sentence, but I don't know that I could like tell you how to. I completely agree with that. Yeah, like a pitcher stood stoic in like with bases loaded and two outs and like a World Series game. Like he was like unaffected by how much stress was around. Yeah. I would say like Mariano Rivera was stoic.

Patrick Cantley is stoic all the time. For sure. We wish he would be less stoic. That's actually a perfect word to describe Patrick Cantley. He's just stoic. Emotionless. All right. Barstle.

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tour players you got someone adrian who i can't say the rest of your name so you have to say it real quick dumont des chassehart jimonde de chasseur there you're pretty good at it dan that was less douchey than the other attempts yeah when before you got over here i was saying your name with a lot of flare and uh riggs was like you sound like an assholes trying to say his name so i sound like i think we're just going to go with adrian that sounded good that was clean there the last one you got you're practicing i know belgium is like a bunch of different languages Yep, yep. You're from the French-speaking part?

You're like, what's your first language? So basically the south of Belgium speak French, the north speak Dutch, and a very tiny part speak German all the way on the east side. You speak to get rid of the German? No, I speak French. I had Dutch in school, but then I knew I was going to go to the States for college. So I worked on my English a little more than my Dutch, so my Dutch is pretty shit. Was that because of golf that you knew that?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you want to work in Belgium, like you got to speak both. Okay. but I never planned on working in Belgium, so I focused on my English a little more. Dan, I feel you got a nice little network, the Belgian network. Yeah, Thomas Peters is a good pal. Yeah, yeah.

Obviously, Thomas Dietrich is playing well out on the PJ tour this year. Was that those guys both went to Illinois? You went to Illinois. Was that a connection? Was that one of the reasons why you went to Illinois? Yeah, I mean, growing up, I knew Thomas D. D.T.ry pretty well. Not really Peters.

I got closer to in the last few years. But, I mean, I remember when I was 14, I played around in Belgium. with Dietrich and I think he was a sophomore junior at Illinois back then and he just talked to me about Coach Mall the program and how good it was to him and I mean since then I was like yeah I just want to go there and I think most kids back home

just see Illinois as this call to go if you have a chance to go and that's incredible so yeah I think Coach Mal has done a great job with the Belgian players so far definitely he's like iconic so I can see that how'd your accent play it at Illinois I mean it was very thick my first my first year Okay. You know, it had a lot of advantageous and disadvantages.

But, uh, good words. Yeah, I mean, it got way better over the years. I mean, one thing that was very hard for me was, uh, you know, like in those all those business classes when I was a freshman was like kind of hard because, I mean, I basically got in because I was on the golf team. And I mean, I'm not going to say I'm dumb, you know, but like I work hard. But for sure there's some guys in the business school that were way smarter than I was. But yeah, there's just some instances like that where it was a little hard, but then you just,

the more you talk English, the better it gets. And it for sure got better over the years. I'm always interested, you know, coming from, I've never been to Belgium. That's like just such a not only a foreign world, like another planet. How, you know, how, like from what age was it desirable to kind of come over to the United States, go to school here, live here, try to pursue a career here. How young were you when that kind of popped in your head? Probably I want to say like around 12, 13 when I started playing better at golf.

And I think those guys like Peters probably barely got to college. And it was more of a thing. I mean, not many players from Belgium went to college like 20 years ago. Right. They would just turn pro at 18. Turn pro at 18. Or you just went to school in Belgium. And it's kind of hard to do both when you do that.

Yeah. So yeah, I think once those guys just went to college and we saw how they performed. at the amateur level and then when the turn pro, I think that's when a lot of kids was like, okay, maybe the state it's a good option. And I think over the years we've seen so many good college players play good at the highest level. So it just kind of shows that college is a good path if you want to be successful. Yeah, so you got your status through PJ Toar You, which is a new program. I think it's been around two or two years now, maybe. Yeah, two years and a half two years. So stunning to me that it took them this long to make a direct pipeline for the best

college players to play in PGA Tour events, PGA Tour sanctioned tours. So you finished, were you second or third in the standing? Third. So the top guy, Ludwig Aberg, got PGA Tour status. Yep. He went to Texas Tech. He's been great. He's playing really well on the tour. He's already got a couple top tens. And then I think two through five, you got like full status for the rest of this year. Yeah, exactly. So how massive was that program for you? Because it's one thing to go to college, you feel like, okay, this is a great way to prepare, I'm going to get better here. It's another one that has, like, sort of a direct path to doing what you want to do.

Yeah, I mean, it was huge. I think one thing is hard when you turn pro, just not knowing, you know, what status you have, and it just kind of puts a lot of pressure on you. And just knowing that I was going to have status for the whole year, kind of made a little easier. And then obviously, I had a great first term and made it way easier on knowing that I was going to status for next year. And then, you know, then, you know, then, My goal is kind of changed.

You know, I was like, my goal for this year was, too. I just finished in the top 75, keep my card for next year. And then that kind of changed after the first term. And I was like, okay, now I can compete at this level. I think I just barely got into top 30 in the points list after my win. You played five events, right? Yeah. And then just my goal switched.

I was like, okay, now let's try to get a PG tour cart, you know? And that just kind of give me a lot of confidence. And then I nearly won my second term and less in a playoff. So it's been really good so far to me. So do you feel like people are looking to look at you out here like screw this guy who just showed up like I'm watching these guys grinding There's a lot of guys who've been played on tour they've come around like that's 30 man they've been you win your first tournament you lose in a playoff in the second one You're not going to apologize for that but it's got to be an interesting dynamic you know for sure I mean You know I'm pretty new to this tour but like most guys are real chill really cool yeah

I feel like it was like easy to come here and just like everyone just so friendly you know and I knew a couple of guys from college and then from even from my team So it's just been it's just been very nice. I feel like it's a little different atmosphere than PGA tour where it's like way more serious. You know people are more individuals over there. Got their teams around them. Yeah. So like here's just more, way more friendly and that probably made it a little easier. So that was a probably a good transition from college to go to Corn Ferry, then going straight to the PGA tour. But I mean, yeah, PGA tour has been really nice. And I think just having guys like Colin Morikawa, Victor Vland, just playing so good right after college, that for sure helped the program as well, just showing them that the best college players can compete at this level.

When you jumped to pro, which was only, what, a month ago, a month and a half ago? Yeah, second week of June, so. So, yeah, it was about a month ago. Was there, did you feel like you had to make any changes or were you pretty much already in kind of what felt like a professional golf type regimen? Yeah, I mean, I knew my game was in a good place. And it's something I learned from Coach Moore and then my coach back home and just people around me is Like, if you've made it there, you don't really want to change anything, you know.

That's a mistake that a lot of people do. Just kind of start looking around, looking at other players, comparing yourself to others. And I just feel like that's a big mistake. You just kind of got to focus on yourself. Just play as hard as you can. And that's what I brought on my first five term. I'm just kind of focusing on myself, do the little things right. And it's been, I mean, it's been working well for me so far.

So I'm just going to keep doing that. Any level of surprise with just how quickly the success is, come. I mean, you know, you're obviously one of the best players in college and college golf is more advanced than ever, but doing it professionally is a bit of a different level. Like you said, you had a legitimate chance to win your first two tournaments. So what was your reaction when you found yourself kind of in contention that first week? Yeah, I mean, it was a surprise. I mean, the last five, six years, I've only played against, you know, other college players and amateur golfers. I did play the years open last year, but it was a surprise. I mean, my goal for that

week was just to kind of just play my game, see where I was going to be in the first. I did play in field if I was going to be in contention, if I was going to be barely making the cut and kind of like, you know, evaluate after the tournament and just seeing that I was in contention after three rounds, kind of give me a confidence boost, knowing that if I just play solid, like, you don't have to play like that good, you know, you just got to play solid golf over four rounds. And if you can do that, you'll be, you'll be in contentional, you'll be up there at the end of the weekend. That's just something that has been helping me a lot, just knowing that I can do that. And what's hard probably with the corn fairy, like the courses that I've played so far are not very hard.

And you know that every day. Harder in college, the courses you think? Yeah, I mean, it's the summer. They've been a little easier than what I've played in college. But you know that every day someone here is going to shoot at like nine or ten under. Yeah. And that's sometimes that kind of put pressure because you're on the course. And I'm one under after 14.

Like someone's beating me by nine. Yeah. But like it's very hard to win the day. But if you can just put four good rounds in a row, you're going to be out there. You know, I mean, it's hard to like shouldn't 10 under. every round. Otherwise, you know, people would be winning at 30 under every week. But you're just trying to put four good rounds in a row. That's really the key here. Yeah, I'm always amazed when I look at the Corn Ferry Tour leaderboards because it is, I mean, guys are 25 under. I mean, last

week I looked and it was like, to be in the top 10, you had to be like 21 under. You were like outside the top 10. Why is that? It's just because the courses are pretty easy, you think? Yeah, I mean, the course have been, obviously it's warm, both flying far. Yeah. You have a lot of wedges in. Most courses don't have very take her off. I mean they used to call this tour when it was back the wet.com tour like the wet that cup tour because it rains all the time when there's storm so like that makes the course softer which makes it easier. So I mean yeah just the condition hasn't been that hard and hasn't been very windy. I mean they had I think the week before last week in Colorado the guys that played in the morning wave on Friday had like wind blowing up to 2530 so that

was playing very hard. I mean, those guys get shafted. I think only like 10 guys made the cut from that wave. I wasn't a good wave. Still, shot three over that day, so it wasn't good. But, uh, but yeah, I mean, you just kind of get lucky sometimes with the wave you're in. But so far, the weather's been really good and it's been playing soft. So it's amazing how, how big a difference the golf course makes, because we saw the leaderboard last week was 25 under on the, on the corner of a tour. We saw the open championship. There was one guy and doubled it just under par. Do you think if we had a full field of the best players. And if you took like a PGA tour field,

an elevated event field where you have all the top 20 guys and you put them on the course last week, do you think that there would be like a bunch of guys who were like even more, would it be like everyone's at 27 under? Or do you think that it's kind of a different style of goal? I mean, it would be a little, the club probably would be like seven or eight under

instead of six, maybe. Not that big of a difference. And then, I mean, I wouldn't see that much of a difference. Probably some people with, I mean, maybe it would be like a 30 under way instead of a 25. Because I think those guys are just so precise with the numbers. And they're so used to play tough courses to where when they play an easy one, it just feels like way easier. Yeah. But the only thing when you play easy course is like it's, you get to like be good with like managing frustration.

Because you know that there's so many barriers opportunities out there. And when you start missing them, you can get frustrated. And I feel like everyone had the had the game to shoot 20. I ran there last week. But sometimes you're like, man, I'm missing pots. People are making pots and you're like, can't get mad yourself, then you make bad decision. And that can kind of cause you like a shot at two every round. So I don't know if it would be that much lower, but it'd be a little better probably. I mean, you see those guys in Hawaii, right? First week of January shooting 3300. Yeah. I call the course it doesn't even seem that easy. No, it doesn't.

So I don't know what day we should up here, but I don't think the difference would be that much because the course is playing easy for everyone. Yeah. But still, yeah. It's funny to hear you talk about Colorado, because that TBC Colorado, I played there a few years ago, and it was a couple weeks after the Corp Ferry Tour and stopped there, and the rough was brutal still.

And I thought it was really, really hard. Yeah, I mean, it's probably one of the toughest I've played so far. Okay. And if you hit it, like, yeah, I needed that. Like, my driving distance was good enough to where, like, I carried most of those, like, pop bonkers. And I was not getting to the ones that were like 345, 350. Yeah.

So that made it like a little easier. But like if you're hitting the rough, I mean, you can't hit more than nine iron. That's how it was. And it was crazy. And it was just in, like I don't hit it far. Don't hit it straight. So we're in this rough. Yeah.

Then you're struggling. Yeah. Far back. And you're like, I feel like this is pretty hard. These guys are saying a court very tour courses are really easy. But so out here, have you been out on the course yet? No. I always usually play nine holes on Tuesday, nine holes on Wednesday and then just eat up.

Really? So you're not, you're not Monday's. Did you do anything or are you just traveling? No, I just travel, relax. I mean, when you play a lot of terms in a row, I mean, I've only played max three in a row because I've only been here for two months, but it's just kind of important to, like, save energy out there.

And I usually don't practice that much either. I mean, my game's been feeling good, so I kind of rather rest than, like, over practice. But, yeah, I just like to play the back nine on Tuesday. Usually play the front nine. I'll do my programs on Wednesday, and then just tee it up. I mean, usually, like, 18 holes enough for practice round.

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You know, you turn pro and the guy like you, you're obviously a very desirable bag. so it's kind of like a hiring process. Like how did that go for you? I mean, it's weird because like you kind of jump in in the middle of the season. You know, most guys are already cutting. So like I had a couple of fun calls with some guys and then couldn't really find anyone. And then my agent gave me that guy's number, Brad Orriff. And I called him and he was like ready to go for the next week.

So I was like, all right, great, let's just do it, you know. And it's been working very well. You guys won, so. So, yeah. Awesome. Playout the next week. Are you a good interviewer? How did you, like, what kind of questions you asking these guys?

Yeah, but like with him was like, he's, I was like kind of tired of it. I was like, hey, you're ready to go next week? I heard good stuff about him. He was like, yeah, I am. So, like, all right, let's do it. Who's he worked for in the past? So he worked for Samu Bay, who's been playing on the PGA tour back and forth. Yeah, he had to go do his military service.

He's brutal. Is he done now? Yeah, no, he's playing again. Yeah, he's playing again. Yeah, yeah. So he got it for him on the cornfairie, I think, last year or two years ago. I think got his car back. but he's one on the PGH tour before so I know that like every year he gets a couple of starts on PGH

no matter what if he doesn't have status and he's been cutting for some other guys you're on cornfairy for a couple of starts and then kind of bouncing back but yeah you got to be a guy that's thinking in the future that you know a couple of years down the road you probably want to make this European Rider Cup team yeah I mean that's I think a dream for most European you know it's just since you're a kid you're just watching it's probably one of the coolest uh golfie in that you can play in. So yeah, that'd probably be one of my goal in the next few years for sure. I know there's the European guys like to kind of hang out with each other, play practice rounds. Have you any of the kind of bigger PJ tour guys reached out to you, anybody that you've

been talking to, just about how to navigate everything? I don't know if it was in college or whatever it might be. I mean, here since I got here, one of my college teammate Michael Fiegel's been here for a couple of years. So he'll have been helping me out, at least my first determines and then I mean I know Peters and Dietrich pretty well so like if I if I want to shoot them attacks they'll text me back and they always open to help and then there's like other players like Nick Hardy and all those guys I've been into Illinois who's you know have been successful over the last few years and I've been playing on the PGA tour they're always open to like help you so it's nice to know all those people and that if you have any question you can reach out to them and

make sure like it makes a process a little easier Illinois must have an unbelievable facility. Yeah, we do. Because the weather is not very good. Yeah, it's not. There's a ton of PG tour players. Yeah, it's not, it's not great in the winter. I mean, I never even mind it because it's nice to kind of take some weeks off in the winter, just focus on school, just relax a little bit. And then we'll still get the chance to travel to some good places, like early, early January, February to go practice in Florida, we'll play some tournaments there. So it wasn't never that big of an issue, but yeah, having some really good indoor facilities helped. I mean, we would chip and put up there. all the time. And that's probably why we're probably one of the best team when he comes to short game. Coach Moore has probably one of the best short game out there. He's great at it and he's just good to have a coach that you know that tell you to do stuff, but that also does it. And we can see that it's been working, you know. So it's been really good to have it. Yeah, you're not going to listen as much to like a 15 handicap was telling you how to chip. Yeah, exactly. So it's been good to him. Are you fully Americanized? Are you holding on any

European things? You eating like croissants or something. Like, what do you, how, what do you hold on? I mean, it's hard when I'm here. Like, I'm more Americanized when I'm in the States. I mean, I love to go back home and have some, like, French breakfast and, you know, eat some, like, homemade food. But, you know, I mean, like, anyone here, like, I like, I like to go to Duncan. That's Americanized. I like to go to Chipotle. American runs on Dunk up.

Exactly. So, I mean, yeah. It's just so easy here when it comes to, like, fast food. They're just grabbing something quick. Yeah. So I really like that. but I also miss the food back home, but I do go. I get the chance to go back home a couple times a year.

If you curse it yourself, what language do you curse it yourself in? I think I'm very mad in French. Yeah, that's a good one. I feel like that's a good. You ever say allé on the golf course? Yeah, but that's more French French, like people from France. Okay. I wouldn't really say that, but like my coach never liked us to swear anything in French

or just talking in French because he never knew what we're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He could talk shit about someone else. Yeah. So he always wanted to say. wanted us to like speak in English even if one of my teammate was also from Belgium. So what's your living situation? Are you on the Sung J.M diet of just hotel to hotel or did you get a place here in the States? Because I know you said you go back home to Belgium. But is there a home base in between tournaments?

So right now I'm still like based in Champaign, Illinois. And I'll probably move to Jacksonville at the end of the year. Sounds like more than probably. You're moving Jacksonville? Yeah, probably. Yeah. So I don't know where yet, but my girlfriend's been looking at places over there. Jack's Beach is awesome. That's what I heard. Yeah, really cool. I'm as a non-Florida guy. I'm pretty anti-Florida in general. Jack's Beach in that whole area, I dig that. It's very good to know.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's cool. It's chill. It's a good spot. Why Jacksonville? A couple of reasons. Not too far from Europe. TPC sawgrass.

I mean, I heard they have great facilities. They do. You get to play there for free. That's a pretty big deal. They have a lot of good pros out there. So if you want to go play, it's always nice to people that you can play with. And then, I was taxes too.

I guess that's a good state to be in. Definitely. Smart. Yeah. Yeah, Billy Ho, one of our friends of the program down there. I'm sure they'll be playing quite a bit with him. Yeah, that's a great guy. He's a good time down there.

I like down there. That, yeah, TBC Sawgrass, that whole area. I saw Brandel was on a big rant and it should be a major championship. Yeah, just trying to make a major. I did see that couple days ago. Let's just make it a major. I kind of was digging it. I was kind of, yeah.

I was kind of picking up what he was putting down. I mean, for us, majors are good for business. I was going to say. It would be 10 majors. like that. Well, he did make the point where he was like, look, there used to be like, they used to be like six and then they were like two and then they were like four. Yeah. So why can't you just have there be five? I was like, that makes sense. And it's pretty outrageous that the BGA Tour has all that they have and they don't have a major championship. Well, it's been

a big problem for them throughout this whole thing. You're not having a major championship to huge problem. They can't keep people out. So one mate, you played in just the US Open. Is that right? Yeah, last year. What was that week like? That was pretty awesome. I mean, that course, the country club was in amazing shape. I thought it was a pretty fair course. That's awesome. That's a good spot. Because I know I've heard over the years they play some U.S. Open where it's not always fair. Yep.

I mean, I had a great first round. But then, you know, didn't go the way I wanted to, but it was really good experience. I mean, seeing all those guys play, kind of seeing the type of course that they play in majors. Who did you play practice rounds with? I play with Peters, Nick Hardy, Russell & Lee. I didn't play with some big, big names out there, like Top 10 in the world. But I also got to play with some really good players. So that was pretty cool.

Yeah. What's your course prep like? I know you said you only play nine holes, nine of each, but do you look at it on line? Do you look at history here? Do you just go out and feel it out? Just kind of go out and feel it out. I mean, I just, you know, when I look at my urge book, kind of where I want to be, what distance, because like that could change with when, like, what club you're going to hit, right? Driver one day could be a three with the other day. But just kind of where I want to be, and then if the course are soft, I mean, you can be very aggressive. And if you know your short game is good, you can try to aim at a lot of pins. Something that I learned in college was, you know, being on the right side of the hole, which is very important, especially when you play hard golf courses because you don't want to be short side because that can cost a lot. But like here, sometimes short side is not even that bad. If the greens are soft, you know, you only have like a 9 to 10 yard little chips.

That's interesting. So you'll change a strategy. Like, you were playing way more conservative at the country club than you will on a normal corner. For sure. For sure. I mean, especially like here, you have so many wedges. Like, you're not going to start aiming like 20 feet right if you have a wedge in your hand. make some birdies. So you got to be aggressive. Yeah, exactly. And if you know your short game is good, and you can't at war season, you misogreen, then you're like,

I'll get up and down. I love to the next hole. I love that. I haven't really heard it put that way, but it's like, if your short game's good, just fire at every flag. I mean, that's where a coach would say. Like, he understood the value of being on the strong side.

He was like, man, if you, if he would trust someone that had a really good short game on the team to be more aggressive because he knew he could make up and down. And if you know, your short game is not good, and she's got to be more conservative. That's the way it is. Yeah. It's funny. Like I learned that like watching so much golf and Torgoff that we watch with certain guys when they fired a pin or something and they miss. And the reaction, the broadcast reaction is like, ooh, it's impossible. And you're like, hey, I've never seen him knocking up in now. He's who cares? So he's not going to make birdie. Like it's not a big deal. And then they sure enough, out of a green side bunker or whatever, they nip it in there to like two or three feet. They should make par. Like, all right. It wasn't that big of a deal. So I like that. How are you adjusting to just being a professional?

I mean, I know that these college programs are very buttoned up now. You guys practice a lot, but you obviously have more time now to focus exclusively on your golf. Has it been learning time management? Is it been – what's the adjustment been like? It's been way different because in college, like, every – I mean, the coaches, like all those guys do everything for you. I mean, you just like – booking stuff. Booking stuff.

I mean, they drive you everywhere. Like when you fly – like, you don't have to worry about anything. It's kind of easy. You just show up and play. Here and now when I turn pro, I was like – I mean, I do have – someone that take care of all my trips and stuff so that that's been nice but i'm still like you know trying by myself i mean i have i've been having my girlfriend with me and most of tournaments so that's been nice and it'd be like that lonely but i think here guys are so like friendly that you know you can always

find someone if you want to get dinner or you know play with someone so it's been it's been easy but american girlfriend is she an illinois girl uh yeah yeah she was born in linois she's kind of been everywhere but uh she's american yeah nice so you're americanized yeah just American girlfriend, Duncan Donuts. I mean, year by year, he's going to be more American. Yeah, I play for the U.S. Rider Cup team. Yeah, no chance, no chance. No chance, he said.

Yeah, absolutely. Are you a foodie? Are you guys, like, always trying to find nice restaurants? Not really. I mean, I enjoy food. I really like a good Italian. Yeah. I like pasta pizza.

I've been really liking cheesy garlic bread so lately. Oh. That thing hits the spot when you're starving after around. So, but yeah, I mean, I'm not very. difficult when it comes to food, but I like to eat good food if possible. Would you, in an ideal world, you know, there's been a lot of talk about the DP World Tour and how it used to be an option really for guys. If they, you know, some of the guys in the 90s never came over. Sevi really never played on the PGA tour. Nick Faldo, never really playing the PGA tour now. The power is shifted.

Would you be a guy who likes to kind of do both? Would you like to play the DP World Tour also and play those events at home? I don't know. I mean, something that I really haven't thought about it yet. I know I'll be playing the DP role tour probably next year in Belgium because they have one in Belgium. So that's always cool to go back and play in front of your crowd. But, I mean, sometimes I feel like it's not easy to do both. You better of just focusing on one, especially if you live here in the States. I mean, if you got to go back and forth, it's kind of a long trip. And then with time change, it's not always easy.

But if I do feel like I can do both, then I might do it. But we'll see. I feel like we're talking to the winter this week. This guy's a professional. Yeah, that's kind of the vibe. I mean, he's finished top ten in all of his events, so it's a pretty good bet. That's kind of the vibe. They don't have odds, which I was a little bit stunned about.

You can't bet on this tournament? No, and we're doing the broadcasts. We're not allowed to bet on it. Yeah, we're gambling company. No betting. But I feel like he might be the favorite. Yeah, I'm getting a good vibe out of Adrian here. It just feels cool, confident, you know, like he's kind of got everything under control.

Barely going to play any practice holes. I like that. All right. Well, look, you know, impressive start. Very impressive. start. Seems like you got everything together. I'm excited. I'm excited for the broadcast. We're going to be calling some of your shots.

Anything I need to know in particular? Any like... What's your shot shape? Usually I like to always aim on my target and feel a pull fade. Sorry, left, let it come back. Sometimes when I'm not swinging as well, I hit draws. I don't already mean to, but if they start a little right, come back on my target, it doesn't really matter. That's why I like to aim, usually like center in case I do have those like push draw

that comes back, but I always try to hit a fade. It was like you in that video. I saw the 14th hole at Wicapaw. There was with the split fairway, you said, I'm aiming it down the middle and, you know, whichever shot shape comes. Yeah, that is, that's like a little Victor Hovlin action, the pole cut there. Yeah.

It's like, I love when he, I love his action. Yeah. I just feel like under pressure, like it's always easier to swing left. Yeah. You know, I'm like, I'm just going to swing left, hit a big cut. And I feel like that's been working for me a lot under pressure. So that's the new shot, right? I feel like everybody's kind of at the top level, too.

That's what those guys. That's what Rob's doing. And that's what it just feels like that's what everybody. everybody's doing. Yeah. I mean, just easier. I mean, swing chore or swing lift? Where were we talking to? Sep a couple weeks ago? He's like one of the only guys that draw. He said the few, the proud, and we're still here a couple of us, but yeah. He's been playing good. I love his move. I love swing. Yeah, he's got good action. He's got a really good, smooth, cool guy. We like Seb. He's playing

great. He's going to make the team for sure. He's going to make the major winner. Yeah, it's true. He wanted John your classic, which in some circles is the fifth major. Is right. Were you guys there this year? Nope, but our co-host, Trent from Iowa. Okay. So for him, it's a huge turn. Tri-Cities, they love that tournament. It's like their whole livelihood down there. They love it. All right, Adrian, we appreciate it.

Thank you guys. Thanks for being here. We're excited, dude. This is big for us. This is big for us. It's going to be different. We're going to have you guys streaming all of the internet, and hopefully you get the win. Hopefully we're giving you a trophy on Sunday right here.

I love it. I just got to keep playing my game, though. That's right. All right, man, thank you. Thank you. Good luck this week. Thanks. The official fitness wearable of the PGA and LPGA Tour's official sponsor this week

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i'm going to bring up a couple guys here we've got ben coles who's number one in points I'm going to talk to you about that and see why you're so much better than everybody else it sounds like. Dallas, Texas, University of Virginia guys. So come on up here, Ben. We got 14th in the points. Obviously, you need to be inside the top 30, as folks know, from Puerto Rico. We got Rafa Campos. And 32nd in points all the way from Sweden.

University of San Francisco. We've got Tim Whiting. All right, fellas, we're pretty deep into the season here. Obviously, beginning of the year, you guys start out in the Bahamas. Everybody's pretty happy to be here, it feels like. kind of at the home stretch now, is it feel like it's a little bit more tense out there? Absolutely. You know, yeah, I think we have, what, seven weeks ago?

Some of us, I think these two guys, might have their job secured for the following tour. But for me personally, yes, I'm starting to feel the nerves a little bit, pressure. I kind of know I have to perform a little bit more consistent coming into the final stretch. something that happens a lot. You know, when you know that you're very close, you don't need to do much to actually go to next tour, but that's when you start kind of faulting and making mistakes and putting too much pressure and trying to force things out there.

But yeah, it's a little, I'm feeling it. Yeah. Is it, yeah, he's, I don't think he's feeling it at all. Is it, is it hard not to focus on, other players and to look at the points and how they shake out after every week because it's so interesting and that when we watch golf we're pretty much watching for a winner right and tiger always said winning takes care of everything but in this case it's like well actually we finished 29th or you know 20 that's really the goal is to finish inside that top 30 is hard to focus not is it hard to keep focus just on yourself

I'd say yeah very hard yeah um you know I think uh I've done this in the past it's so easy to get on your phone and just check out the points list, you know, see what you think maybe 30 is going to be or something like that. But I think, honestly, the best thing to do is never to look at it. I mean, it's hard not to notice the boards out there, but I think you're just really putting more pressure on yourself to try to come up with an imaginary number that you have no idea what it's going to be. And, you know, if you can really try to just focus on yourself and do the best you can that week without worrying about that, which is obviously hard to do. but, you know, I think that's going to put yourself in the best position to just play well and have a good week and worry about, you know, this week. You know, we're playing one tournament this week. It's not worried about the six other tournaments coming up, you know.

It's like, all right, let's go out there and have a good round today and, you know, stack four of those on top of each other and then see where that puts us at the end of the week. And, you know, you just want to try to keep doing that, you know, for the rest of the events. I got to get paired with Benny more often. I try to get that mentality. It doesn't help when you have family and friends telling you after every tournament. I remember like, oh, you moved up three spots. I'm like, dude, I told you last week, the only thing I don't want to know, it's like where I'm standing, you know, but it happens, you know. That's nice, though, that they're all following.

I feel like that's key out there because you guys are, you know, you talk about a lot, but you guys are on the road nonstop. Some spots, I'm sure, more glamorous than others, and there's moments in the rental cars or you're staying in this hotel. It's not percy. It's got to be nice at least to have a, at least to know you've got that support system, right? That crew behind you? Yeah, definitely. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Like you said, like I live in California and I live in the baseball country club and it's, you know, every day when I come home, I hear

all the time, you know, oh, you're 28th now. Oh, you move up to 25. Oh, now you're down to 30, you know, got to play better. So it's, yeah, it's, like Ben said, it's hard to not focus while you're at all the time, but it's really tough because you keep hearing it from other people and especially me because I've been bouncing up, you know, 25 and then 30 and now 32. So I'm kind of on the line. So you just got to focus on yourself and just, I keep telling myself that one good week is all I need, you know. So, yeah, just hang in there and play well. So we're a couple days into practice here at Glenn Club.

What's it going to take this week? What are we focusing on this week? Whomever comes out on the top this week. What are they going to do better than everybody else? Putting. Pudding, I want to say, for me. Course is in phenomenal shape. I've played here, I believe, three times already.

And it's by far the best shape it's ever been. It's the first time we're playing it dry. So the balls are bouncing off the fairway. It used to be a very long course. All of a sudden, that has changed a little bit, you know, especially since it's dried up. But I believe this week the best putter will probably be close to be able to win the tournament at the end of the week. I think the ruffs are not extremely. Difficult or long basically right now this year

But that could change just a little bit of water all of a sudden and they start growing a little thicker and all that But what do you I don't even know score wise what might be I've tried to guess some scores before and you guys do that every week? You always try to guess No, no not the winner but I think like for me personally I try to As I see the chorus I'm like okay, you know what? Let me put a goal For me try to get to 16 under you know and that wins fine if that finishes 30 line if I can get to that goal. Kind of test myself a little bit more.

You don't want to compete against anybody because the truth is you there's, yeah, you can't really play against the other people. You don't, you have no control, but you can control whatever you're trying to do. And so yeah, that's my mentality most of the time. We were chatting with Adrian earlier and he was saying it can be infuriating out here because you can come out and you can be two or three under and you know someone's nine under somewhere for the day out here and that can be infuriating. Well, you were talking to a guy that has finished five top tens in five tournaments.

So then I said, I was like, when you walk around here, does it feel like people hate you because you showed up and started winning? I don't know. Not, no, not really. Yeah, right. I mean, obviously not. But, but yeah, you know, so are we just going to send driver everywhere here? Is that kind of the plan? I think I only played here once in 2019.

And like Raffa said, it was a lot softer. So I remember it being really long. And I only played the back night a day and played relatively short. I mean, there wasn't much win. but the ball was bouncing off the T. So I feel like there was a couple holes that were less than driver. I feel like the front maybe is more drivers than the back, from what I kind of remember.

But yeah, I mean, the rough's pretty healthy around the greens. The greens are pretty big. So, you know, you can get pretty aggressive with your approach shot, but if you kind of miss, you're going to be scrambling, you can have some tough shots out of the rough. So I don't know a score per se to kind of put on it. But I try to focus for me personally, focus on like I set kind of some results that I want to have for the day.

So whether it be, I don't know, five birdies or seven birdies and then how many greens am I going to hit today or, uh, and just kind of go through a checklist of what I want to do today and, you know, see if I can handle that. What's that number of greens, 18? I need a notepad to start writing. It's usually like 15, usually 15 is, is what I kind of trash. 15 would be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 15 would be really nice.

Uh, so we heard from Riegan. We heard how important, obviously, the. The seven scholar program is caddies providing funding and housing two caddies for college. You guys have caddies. They're pretty much the only person that's on your team out there. What's the, Ben, I'll ask you, what's the, what's the worst call your caddies ever made? Oh, man. I've only had, no, he's not here.

I hope he's here. So, worst call, I mean, obviously he's done pretty well this year. It's his first. He's a good buddy of mine. He's actually, he was a pro golfer for about nine years. And, you know, he made it out here one year, but didn't have status this year. And, you know, I was looking to try to make some extra money. And, you know, fortunately for him, I've played pretty well.

Yeah, there probably haven't been a ton of bad ones. No, yeah, it's been pretty good. But no, I'm pretty calm and cool and collected out there for the most part. But I'll have, you know, I'll have your little spurt where you kind of get a bad club. You wish you would have talked to you into maybe something or at least mentioned something. Yeah. The worst part is usually when they say nothing. That's usually when it goes back.

Yeah, it's just like a relationship. Yeah, exactly. What's wrong? Nothing? Oh, really? You haven't talked in an hour and a half? That's weird. Rafa, what about you?

How did you get synced up with your caddy? I've actually known him since college. I went to VCU, Virginia Commonwealth University. No, I've known him since I was 13 years old. But we lived together. We lived close by in Miami after I graduated college. And good player. We used to compete as a junior.

in the Caribbean Championships and all that. And when I lived in Miami, turned pro, started playing PGA Latin American, PGA Canada. I was broke, so I needed a friend to caddy, not somebody I had to pay, you know? So he pretty much said he would caddy for me for a very, very, very cheap price. And he kind of stuck with it.

And he caddy for me, I don't know, six years. He was the one that kind of got me all the way to the PGA tour and we kind of separated four years ago, four or five years ago. It's pretty impressive because it was his call. And you don't see that often. No, he fired you? He basically fired me. Yeah.

We were having like a bad, like, on a stretch. And he was like, hey, you know what, man? You know, I think it's time for you to try something different. I'm like, dude, it's not your fault. You know, I'm the one playing bad. He's like, you never know. So he made the, he stepped forward and that he, that took balls to tell the truth. And so we, we didn't work together for two years and came back.

And honestly, since he came back, it's been pretty cool. I think I've had two or three top tens in the last five events or something like that. So I think it was him, you know, for sure. But yeah, it's just like Benny said, I think the worst moments are like the most moments are like the mistakes that that can happen are when they don't say anything. Like when you hit a shot and you kind of did not know whether it would have been better to either lay up or it wasn't a seven, it could have been a six. But there was nothing spoken in that moment. And it's like, man, why did it did happen to me two weeks ago where exactly that.

You know, we were in Denver, Colorado. I was playing good. I was 4 under after first 13, 14 holes, and got up to a part 5, pushed it into big hay stuff. The ball was there. It looked fine. And I don't know why.

I thought I was like Superman or something like that. I'm like, I'm going for the screen, you know, like, for sure. And I got hay going sideways. I'm making practice swings. And as soon as I touch the grass, the club's kind of coming into my body. And, uh,

Obviously, I tried to hit it. I finished, I went bazooka after that. I went boge, bogey, bogey, bogey, and didn't say a single word to my caddy since that. But after, on the next T-shot, obviously I was fuming, but on the next T-shot, I basically told him like, dude, you know what?

I just cannot believe we did not even mention the word of laying up. you know like cannot believe I just had it in my mind for the next like how did that not come out of six hours exactly but I think that's what it happens you know like when when you just

when you're in a situation or a shot and kind of not completely trusting it where we're like okay we're a team you know and if nothing said I think that's when the bad things happen but if we would have spoken about it

and we would have both agreed to go for it and I do the mess that we did, it would have been fine. There's no problem. I'm like, hey, we committed to it and it didn't work out. So that's on you. It's like, yeah, exactly, exactly. We talked about it. I love my caddy.

Where is he? I love my catty. We're going to, we'll just send him that clip. Yeah, I love my catty. Do you guys ever debrief from something like that? Like at dinner that or are you like, all right, are you ready to talk about that moment? Yes. Okay.

Sorry, guys. I might be a little different than you guys, right? yes unfortunately i have a lot of those talks with my caddy every day pretty much every other day no no um we do even good things you know like uh like we would sit down and say like hey you know what

that that call that we made on 12 was great call yeah um and even the bad things you're trying to improve as a team you know it's truly not an individual sport even though one of our names is on the leaderboard you know but it's truly a team team tournament. And so we try to make the best out of every situation. And yeah, I do sit down with my caddy. I do talk to him. I think he's tired of me. I'm pretty sure he can't wait for me to go back home,

have a couple of weeks off. But we do talk about everything pretty much every other day. Well, it's cool too, right? I'm sure you guys need to remind yourself sometimes that that person's betting on you more than anyone, right? They're saying, like, I would like to be on a PGA tour caddy, right? I would like to be cat. adding in major championships. Like that's where I want to be and this is my guy. This is who I trust. So I'm sure it's tough to remind yourself of that sometimes, but you have to. Ben, best shot you've hit this year? Best shot. I mean, I made a hole in one in Knoxville.

That's pretty good. Yeah, thank you. Okay. Second one this year, which another one was just in practice. But yeah, so. This one counts. That's good. Yeah. Talk us through the shot. To be on the heater. Yeah, it was kind of a short hole. It was number four at Holston Hills in Knoxville. I want to say it was 154 or something like that and it was just a nine iron landed a little short. It's pretty cool. The guys in my group, I ended up missing a cut that week.

What a game. What a game. But it was cool. The guys in my group were playing really well. So a camera crew literally was like coming out to video them and they literally got it on video. Otherwise they wouldn't have it. No, yeah, for sure. We'll capture it.

We'll have that this week. Yeah, great. Get a whole on one this week. So yeah, I guess that's probably be my best shot. Yeah. Tim, best shot this year? I think for me under the circumstance, it was probably in Oklahoma a couple weeks ago. I was in the final group on Saturday

and was really nervous. Snap took the driver into the trees. Hell yeah. Ended up finding it somehow and chipped it out in the fair wind. I still had another 200 yards in. And the pin is back left, tucked. You should not go for that pin.

It's into the wind. In the middle of the green, and of course I pull it. And it's going right at the pin. like, go over the bunker and it pitched and it went in the hole. So I ended up all I was, yeah. That's good. So all I was thinking and if I were just, how do I get away with a five here? Make a bogey and, you know, move on here and ended up birding it. I shot five under that round and still had to lead heading into Sunday. So that's under the circumstances that was, you know,

lucky, but I'll take it. Do you still in situations like that, you think you'll always get nervous? Yeah, I mean, nerves for me, I think, is a good thing because that means you're obviously playing well. It's just a matter of how you handle it. And then, you know, the next day on Sunday, I, you know, I shots five under being nervous on Saturday. So that kind of calmed me down and feel like, okay, I can do this. Just go out, focus on the breathing and take one shot at a time. It sounds boring, but that's really what you got to do. Just one shot at a time.

Don't get ahead of yourself. And yeah, so nerves are a good thing. I'm able to handle it. Yeah, and it's something everybody can relate to, right? Even if we're weekend hackers, it's like you stand in that first tee. You just hit 10 drivers in a row, no problem on the range. You go stand in that first tee, and you're like, I can't feel my limbs. There's one person watching me from the shack and I can't feel anything.

Ralph, the best shot you hit this year. So Benny made a hole in one. Tim made it from the fair way. I made a six-foot put, okay? Please applaud. My man. Actually, it was a six-foot putt. I think four weeks ago, I finished second, played phenomenal golf for four years.

days and I think last day I had a six-foot put on a tough part three left to right and I was nervous because I knew the position I was in at that moment I was one behind the leader and with five holes to go and I told myself I'm like man I really want this one you know it's so hard because every every round there's always that one shot that you kind of put a lot of not pressure but like kind of you put everything into it and it's like okay this will decide whether I play really good from now on or whether it's going to really go bad, you know, and

I'm going to yell at my caddy after this. Caddy was not even close. But it was a six-foot putt, man. I read it, and I was nervous. I told my caddy, I'm like, hey, I really want this one, you know, I really want, because I really feel I'm going to win this week. And

it's just one of those puds when you're on top of it. You stroke it, you kind of keep your head down, and you know, you hit it exactly how you wanted to. It's funny because if it would have missed, I would not have cared a single bit, you know, just because I did everything I knew I did everything I could under my, you know, whatever I could control.

But it just felt way too good. And when I saw the ball go in, that was big moment for me because this year it's been a little bit inconsistent. And I put myself in positions to be able to win tournaments or finish top tens. but I've kind of kind of slowly gone back instead of forward and since that was a huge moment for me for this year kind of gave me the confidence to really know I'm like okay we're we're at this in these spots in these positions and trust it you've done it before you can do it again so yeah whole in one hole out for me it's a putt so uh I'm really happy with that you made it

It's funny to hear you say that because I remember when Tiger made the putt in 08 to force the playoff And he stalks that putt and he's got the 12 15 footer for birdie And I ask him going into that put you know what were you thinking? He's like the only thing I said to myself is just make a good stroke He's like you've done everything else you can do if it bounces out bounces in it doesn't matter Have you ever heard a single person say I'm going to draw the put on purpose I mean tiger I'm like wow they're that good really I want you to work on that out there this week I was trying to draw it earlier today just to see

I'm going to draw this put in there. All right, fellas. We appreciate you doing this. Obviously, everybody comes out here. They're excited for the event this week. You guys have all played well, incredibly well this year. So good luck this weekend. We appreciate you taking the time, and we'll be there to broadcast it.

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