Fore Play - Keith Mitchell on Match Play Week

Episode Date: March 26, 2019

Honda Classic winner Keith Mitchell joins the show for the first time (~41:17). Keith relives beating Rickie and Brooks down the stretch, his fishing habits (ie: drinking near water), and how he's prepping for his Masters debut. Before Keith joins, we react to being spot on about Justine Reed, Kiz keeping his incredible T2-something streak alive, and the Match Play groupings (Tiger must win).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. We are back. It's Match Play Week. What's going on? What's up, boys? How are we feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm wearing my new barstle hat. Yeah, no, I know. I see it. It looks amazing. It is the best. So I wear a hat every single day. I don't have the worst head of hair either. I just think I have a delicate forehead. That's why you wear a hat? Do you think you have a delicate forehead?

I just think it shows off more of my soft feature, so I always wore a hat. Interesting. It is always strange when I see without a hat. You just look different because you do wear a hat every day. Yes. I think you could pull off the no hat, but you're wearing your Barstall hat right now. It's a brand new foreplay barstle hat, and I can't tell you a word over this weekend. And this sounds like an ad and it sounds like we're trying to sell these things.

This is just me just talking to a couple guys in a room while I'm sitting on a pink chair. Okay. I got so many compliments with this hat. I had someone stop. When we were at dinner, they stopped what they were doing. They're like, I can't pay attention to dinner anymore because of the hat you're wearing. They're that good. A lot of people ask them they're going to be available Thursday.

Thursday. Thursday. Wait until people see what these things look like. Thursday. These things are available. They're going to love them. They're available. I feel great.

To answer your question, I feel great because I'm wearing the hat. Good. You're going to Vegas this weekend. I am going to Vegas. Yeah, I don't feel as good. My Vegas trip got ripped out from under me. Ripped out. I thought we were going to have a nice, like, I thought we're going to have Trent Daddy.

I thought we're going to have Clem. It's going to be a nice big crew. That would have been great. I mean, for Iowa. A lot of hugs. Think about how many hugs you would have had in. So many drunken hugs. Like, like,

like, like, club hugs. Like, you're at the black cat table and, like, Clem, like, just the whole table, like the,

like the dealer bus, and we all go crazy. Imagine a dealer bus. Clem wins a big hand. Everybody's giving a club big hugs. He's fucking 10 drinks, dude. Instead,

we have KB no swag. And I know that the way I just said that sounds bad and sounds anti-Cabbing. Like, you weren't nearly as excited. I've never seen. I've never said one word to KB, no swag. Not one word.

Not one word. Not even a noise. Yeah, a lot of people rose to me because, like, three weeks ago or so I said on the radio, I have no idea who he is. I didn't know which one. Well, if I didn't like, I knew who he was, but I just, nope, not a word. So hopefully, I heard he's a good guy when he gets like, when he's out and about. Yeah. Some people here have gotten drinks with them.

They said he can really let loose. So you guys are going to Vegas. Congratulations. Thank you. Have fun. It's matchplay week. Like I said, we are, we're going to. break down with Bracketology in a few.

We got to run through a couple other topics first. This was, we were getting tagged left and right and this one, Patrick Reed. This was amazing. Patrick Reed, the news breaks. Patrick Reed's wife, Justine Reed, who we have discussed at length from this very show, called David Ledbetter, the golf swing coach to look at his swing attached with like this photo of them on the driving range or whole crew. They broke it.

I guess I heard too. couple guys messaged me today saying they listened to pGA tour radio and hang heaney was like chirping the shit out of them for this whole move saying how weird that move is for the wife to call up we have held for many many months on this very show probably since the end of the rider cup last year that we have held the belief that Patrick reed i think if you got him out underneath the justine dictatorship that he's living in he's a puppet that he could be a good nice normal dude yeah however he is a puppet to Justine Reed. She was his caddy for a while.

She's running his show behind the scenes. She's tweeting for him. She's tweeting for him. I mean, if you think she's not calling in swing coaches yet, she's also not out there tweeting about, remember when they tweeted at the PJ tour about their Red Sox tickets? Unbelievable. With a picture of her and, oh, my God,

I can't remember that exact quote. The phrasing from that thing. It has been very clear for several months now, like I said, that Justine Reed runs that show. She just runs a show. Yeah, it doesn't make logical sense for people to see this story and then be like, oh, that's the only part of his life that she controls. She controls all of it. You remember last week when we were talking about John Rom?

We thought we were the ones who were kind of like at the forefront of the temper tantrum of John Rom. Maybe we were, maybe we weren't. We were at the beginning of Justine Reed running Patrick Reed's life. We were like, all right, Patrick Reed's starting to really get on our nerves. He always has been, but there's got to be something to this guy because we hear these other stories about how he's not that bad of a guy. But there's got to be something. And we're like, I think we've finally uncovered it. She is running the show.

This quote, I just got a call from his wife. Hey, listen, would you be prepared to just have a little look at Patrick? He's struggling at the moment. He sort of lost a little bit. Could you do that for us? Are you kidding me? In what world is this okay? Do you think he knew?

No. No. Or she approached him and was like, you need to fix your swing. He's like, I don't need to fix my fucking swing. I'm Patrick Reed. I'm a golfer. I can do this. Like, I'm fine.

No, you need to fix your swing. No, I don't need to. And she calls anyway in like another room. She closes the door. Yep. Locks him out of the house and calls Ledbetter. And he's like, you need to fix this shit. He's just on the driving range at the Valispar championship.

Warming up. All of a sudden, David Ledbetter comes and she comes with him and is like, oh, you're going to listen. Oh, yeah. It's time to practice, Patrick. There's no doubt in my mind. That's what happened. Like, Patrick. That doesn't go any other way.

Patrick Reed hears some footsteps behind him. He's like, no way. And he looks up and she's like, it's time, Patrick. It's time to fix your swing. I'm a winner. I'm a winner. I'm a winner, baby. She's literally from Talladega night.

We say it all the time. I know we say it all the time. But if you watch that dinner scene in that movie, that's three hours. That is the perfect example of Patrick and Justine's relationship. If he doesn't start winning, she's going to leave him for somebody else. Yes. thousand percent which would probably be better for for for Patrick because then he could live his own life shout out to her for for for trying to fix him because she knows that he's on a decline yeah

so you're on her side oh you're justine guy now no i'm just saying shout out to her to keep like she wants to have a winner she's going to make him a winner okay you know what i mean yeah as opposed to just leaving i watched the dick cheney movie do you see that i did see that it's uh it's similar to that relationship oh yeah where she's like i picked you for a reason yeah that's right picked you out. I could have picked anybody. Yeah, you're not going to go

be some VP. Right. That's a puppet. Even though he did then become VP. Because he's like, definitely he was. That's all he became was. But the idea at the time

was that VP is like, you want to be president, not VP, but then he took the race. He's like, no, you don't understand. Like when I'm the VP,

I'm basically the president. She was, she's like, that's right. George W. was Patrick Reed to Dick Cheney's just in. Oh,

yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I haven't seen it. It's got, It's actually kind of crazy. It's a very good movie. It's a very good movie.

Who made the movie, by the way? Adam McKay. But like from what side? Was it like the Dick Cheney propaganda piece? Because I watched it and I didn't know like, you know when you watch Fire Fest and you find out that like fuck Jerry ended up making the Netflix one? Yeah. Kind of changes your position on that.

The guy who made it, I believe, is left leaning. I don't know if that helps. Quite interesting. I would also, I would like to get on the record and say that I think one of our great exaggerations of credit ever is that we led the charge on John Rob being like a crazy lunatic. We're just going to, I think we're running with that. I think literally everybody on earth watched one tournament was like, yeah, that guy's a psycho bad. Yep, that's ours.

Four play. It's a four play original. Never in my life did I ever see it like I did this week, ever. Yeah, but like golf Twitter for like a year has been all over that. Sorry, four play original. It's ours. I mean, that's one of our great exaggerations. I mean, I'm, you know, fine.

We can take credit. But I do think that it's a. We get Justine Reed, though, really? Oh, we've been all for Justin Reed. I'm not giving up John Rowe. I'm not either. Fuck them. I refuse.

This is a unilateral conversation. Someone's got to take it. Someone has to take it. Yeah. That's just golf Twitter. Well, I think it's just was like, just obvious. I mean, he just was playing golf, and then they would cut to him. He's like slamming clubs on the side, despite winning golf tournaments.

And people are like, oh, that guy's a crazy person. Someone's got to claim it. Yeah. I refuse to let the universe claim it. When that happens, I see the people being like, oh, four play was right. Yep. He is crazy. I like it.

I like that's you guys quite. We're just taking it. I will die with that. Now I'm actually so far into it, I'm going to die with that. Me too. Put it on my grave. Good. I'm glad.

Paul Casey back-to-back wins at the Vals Bar. Kind of out of nowhere. I think Paul Casey is, for the most part, just kind of a, you know, what do we call it? White. He's definitely white. White, vanilla pudding? Oh, vanilla pudding. I think he's pretty vanilla pudding for the most part.

Oh, yeah. Like he doesn't move the needle. No. It's impressive. It's a really tough golf course. Yeah. Really tough golf course. Nobody's really gone low there in a while.

This was, of course, the tournament where Tiger last year, only time, the first time he'd play there in a really long time. He finished second. He had a birdie put on the 72nd hole to get into a playoff with Paul Casey that kind of energized this event. DJ was there. He played like shit in the final round, but everybody kind of did. It was a tough day. And then Paul Casey just wins.

Well, I watched this pretty cool video of him walking around a golf course with a kid who is colorblind. and he was like walking around with the kid and he was making like the kid's day like basically he was like the kid would walk by him and then like Paul Casey was miced up and he hit a good shot and he'd be like you know like you better be around me because I feel he goes like I haven't hit a good shot like that all week and like the kid like giggled and stuff like he was actually really cool

that's nice. He got a real nice voice too see I like that's great to know yeah and he let the kid stepped up on like the first tee and like hit a drive and he was like making he made the whole crowd go crazy Paul Casey is a good dude I don't know if I know what Paul Casey sounds like I know what he sounds like if I heard his voice I could.

You do? A real nice English accent. I could tell that to him. It's like straight out of like a movie. He's like an English butler. Yeah. Oh. Okay.

I can hear that in my head now. I've told you guys his caddy chirp me once, right? No. No. Yeah, I was at the Boston tournament. What is it? The Dell, well, it's gone now tournament. RIP to the Boston tournament.

What was at the Boston tournament a couple years ago? I was wearing a USA jersey. And I was standing by the T and he and his caddy came walking by. I really weren't many people watching. And I was like, I don't know, I kind of yelled for ball. Casey, I was like, let's go, Paul, let's have a day kid. You know, I was a bunch of drinks deep, whatever, having a good time. And he's catty walk, it was like walking right with him too.

And he goes, oh, where are you from, mate? But I was like, I'm from St. Louis. And he just looked to me and shake this head. He was obviously chirping me because I had USA shit on all over the place. Oh. Yeah. Damn. Literally gave like, oh, I'm St. Louis.

You're fucking idiot. Unreal. It was tough. How quickly did you realize that you'd been chirped? Right after? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

I didn't know if you were, like, at your house, that night like oh fuck i would say within five seconds good yeah that's good he walked by but his back was to me and he was i mean they were for all intents of burbers was just gone forever i was just standing there like i'm the biggest pretty like what a track him now be like by the way i knew you're tripped i need to see him i need to be like remember that time on 13 it's a pretty good chirp actually it was great i mean he's the word chirp i've seen the word chirp a lot i was actually wondering i was coming in here i just saw granelli walk by i was thinking i think spit and chookas may have used the word chirp this this week because

Everything I wrote about the Islanders, every response was good chirp, bud. Sometimes when they do things, they're mini- Well, chirp is from hockey culture. I know, but like this week more than ever, something happened. I got to find out. I didn't realize that reminded me. Cherp is from hockey culture. That's where it came from.

Sick chirp, bud. Yeah, which is great. I feel, I learned something today. Oh, yeah. Cherp is real good. Cherb's been in for, what, a decade now? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Kiz, Kevin Kisner, tied for 24th. Unbelievable. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Unbelievable. I've got it pulled up here.

If you want to do it? Hit me. I got it. Here we go. Since the waste management, here are Kevin Kisner's finishes. T-26, T-28, T-27, T-23, T-222, T-24. It's the greatest streak in sports.

It's incredible. Let me ask you this. The T is so much more impressive than any other number that's after the T. You can't get a solo spot. I want to ask you this. You know him the best at us three. I had a tweet yesterday that I was going to send, be like, the greatest streak in sports continues and tag him in it.

Do you think he's not the type of guy who would get upset at something like that? But what do you think his actual feelings are on this current run? You know, I don't know. That's a good question. Like, I'd chirp him and I put him up on a forward play. I put him up on my own Twitter. And I always tag kids and chirp him and all that. I think probably a little part of him is like, this is really fucking annoying.

Yeah. Like I bet he would, you know, if he finishes 10 spots better, he makes like fucking five times as much money. So I really think he's probably a little annoyed, especially because of a lot of these tournaments, he's been like at the lead or near the lead. Yep. Val Spar again, he shot four under in the first round. I think the best score was like five under, maybe six. So he was only a stroke or two back.

Players championship. He was in the mix for a while. A bunch of tournaments. He's been in the mix and just finished in the T20s every single time. It is amazing. And a lot of times he, I would call it a, he front doors the top 20. Like he's usually in the mix and then he falls back on the weekend. This time he backdoor to top 20.

He was 50th. Yep, 50th. And he shot a couple under on Sunday and got himself into T20. So if you were just looking at the pure odds, like if this were Fandu, and they just had the changing odds throughout the week of him finishing in the T20s, it would fluctuate all over the place because of how, like, off from that he's been. And then he just settles in that spot every fucking time. It's incredible.

It's unbelievable. We might have to get, either have him on the show or maybe you get a statement from him on how he actually feels so I can know how to feel about this. Because I really wanted to tweet him yesterday, but I didn't want him to be like, yeah, man, if I just played a little better,

I know I'd have like millions of dollars. Check his phone and be like fuck Trent. Yeah. Right. I didn't want that. Because I like Kevin Kisner a lot. He's a big fan of the program. Well, kids is great.

It is very Kiz-like and very funny that he just continuously finishes in the T-20. It's unbelievable. Going forward, anybody who finishes T-20, that's a kid. That's a kiss. Yeah, you kizzed it. You kizzed it. This question came up.

How did you last week, kizzed it. Kizd it. This question came up the other day. Do you think that if Kevin Kisner won the Masters, you'd play Augusta with him? Me? Yeah. Yeah. So do I.

Yep. I fucking think so, man. It might take a couple years, but yeah. So here's the other question that I should know the answer to. But when you win the Masters, is there like a dedicated amount of times you can play? Is it only like a round Masters or you just become a member? You can go over there. in fucking December and play.

You know, I think they always say like you become an honorary member. Yeah. I don't know what that means. The term's very vague. I know you, I know for a fact that they get to play the Sunday before the Masters with their, I believe they always bring their fathers out. Yeah.

I don't know if they get a whole foursome or just their dad or what that whole thing is. And then the way I take it, I don't know if you're a Masters champ and you just show up March 2nd. Can you just play with whoever you want? That's what I mean. Do you have to go out with a member? I know. Like, what do you have to do?

I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know. I think I want to say I saw, I think I saw Kiz respond to a tweet actually and said, if you're in the master's field, like a couple months leading up to the tournament, I believe you can go play like unaccompanied as like a practice round. Got it. Because you're in the field.

But I think like the rest of the year most of the time you have to go with a member. Right, right, right. Something along those lines. It's kind of weird. So he's the ultimate guy that we're like Tiger Woods not going to win the masses if he's not. Kevin Kisner's number two. Has to be. Yeah.

I would even say. I mean, I think I would root for Kiz over Tiger. Yeah. It'd be great for us. It'd be so cool. Dude, like in the circle of our, like our circle. I mean, you talk to him like every day. Oh, yeah.

In our circle would be a master's champion. I mean, like a guy who belongs to Augusta that can just play. Like we don't know, but he's an honorary. Remember at Augusta National? That would be off the charts. He also lives 25 minutes away from Augusta. That's where his house is. So, yeah, if he wins the Masters, you know that within the next 10 years, 15 years,

there's going to be an opportunity for him to be like, all right, Riggs, it's time. Like, you can get that time. I would bet back. I would bet back. I would be like that fucking go. I mean, when I was out of the waste management, I was out there Sunday with a pass, like, for all day. And I was out, like, foul on Ricky and JT. And then kids finished up.

And I got a text from him. He's like, you want to go get in and out? Yeah. And I was like, yeah. Yeah, he's like, where the fuck are you? I was like, well, I'm out on like 10 with like follow the week. He's like, well, let's fucking go. And like, he gave you his club at Chinnickok.

Yeah, people forget that. The Wednesday before you asked my close personal friend, USGA was not happening. No, they weren't. But when I walked inside the ropes with kids in the Wednesday practice, I was over, he just gave me his pitching. It was like in a couple golf balls. Like, yeah, just do whatever you want.

So I was just chipping around. They were like, they were afterwards, the USDA guys were like, I think you're the only like non-participant. open to ever like ever shots on the golf course the day before they turn but that's kids he's just a good dude he's a very normal good dude who finishes in the t20s all the time but that's a really good question yeah it was one of those things it was like mentioned at the bar and i took like five minutes of silence they're like do you think if kisner won the master this year riggs would play and i looked at like my drink for like a like a full minute and i just looked at them in the eyes

and said yes i think the other thing about that is that my first round if that were the case It's like my round at Augusta that I finally get, like the round of a lifetime, wouldn't just be with like some like weird corporate round type of kid. It'd be with a champion and it'd be with like a beauty. Like playing around to gobbled kids out there would be all time. We'd probably like crushing drinks, like having transfusions. Oh yeah. Walking around playing Augusta.

So here's the, I know you kind of alluded to it, but here's the final question on that. Tiger Woods, Kevin Kisner, Sunday this year. Well, Tiger has a two-stroke lead like like who are you? pulling for like a hole 11 honestly i think in that moment that's a very rare case and we always try to shit on people for this but where i'm just enjoying it no matter what yeah like i don't even know in that situation and we kind of had this at the british open when tiger took the lead and whatnot and like kis made double on the second hole i believe and when kiz made that double we were all at the bar watching and like that was devastating yeah because i really wanted him to be in the mix

Now, I would say, like, I think it's actually more, it's more logical and makes more sense. And it's like, it's, it's just makes more sense to say, and you can justify saying, like, I will root for Kisner over Tiger. Yeah. But it's also, it's like, I don't know what's all in the situation. We really, we had no idea when he won the torch, when he won last year that we were just going to, like, start crying. Like, remember you said you had no idea what was going to happen? That was crazy. So that's exactly right.

So I'm also credit to us having. like enough awareness to say I don't know how I'll actually react in the moment. God, I'm rooting for this. Oh, it would be great. Kids have been playing great. He has been. Especially like Thursdays or Fridays and getting himself in the mix.

It's not one of those things where it's not one of those hypotheticals or it's like, well, that's never going to fucking happen. Like, there is a very solid chance that within the next, you know, however long Tiger's going to play that Kevin Kisner and Tiger Woods are both pursuing a victory at Augusta National. There's very, very good chance. For sure. That's incredibly realistic.

Dude, Kiz win in a major. Kids win in Augusta would be all time. I'm trying to look. Where's he at right now in the world rankings, our boy kids? He's made $658,000 this year. Pretty good. I was just looking at that too. A big deal.

He's played 10 events. He's made nine cuts. Four top 25s, one top 10. He's playing solid golf. Yeah. He's playing really, really solid. He's playing really good golf. There's just no doubt about it.

You can't find his name on there? So I have kids right now as number 50 in the world. Is that right? No, you're looking at it. Yep. I believe that kids is at 50. I think last year for a while he was in, like, the high teens. I actually, I thought he was higher.

I don't know if I was looking at something like that. But regardless, you're right. It's not outside the realm of possibility. He's one of the better players on the planet. He's 35 years old. Really consistent. So, yeah, he is. He's not that old.

Man, I thought he was older than that. It's only 35 years old. He's going to be playing competitive golf for the next 10 years. Like, really, like, playing like this. It would be something watching that guy win the Masters. Unbelievable. Oh, my God. I think I could.

Kisner watch is on now. Like, I think, like, that's a long to be thinking about. Do you think, like, what do you think is, like, reactions would be, like, on the back night when he makes putts and stuff? Just nothing. I think he has that type of personality

where it doesn't matter, like, he doesn't get flustered. I think it's the same always. Yeah, I do and I don't. Like, he does have a history of, like, blowing tournaments. Do you think because of, like, nerves and stuff, though?

Like, I think he looks a lot better than he feels. Right. And not that he feels bad, but, like, everybody, every golfer on the planet gets nerves when you have a chance to win a golf tournament. Right.

real gutsy performance at the players when Ricky beat him in a playoff. Yeah. In 2015, that was insane. I watched that a couple weeks ago right before the players. And he, I mean, he had a put on 18. He gave himself a birdie look on 18,

72nd hole that I don't know how the ball didn't go in the hall. And then even he had a great shot in there in the playoff hole on 17. He buried it and Ricky buried it. And Sergio didn't, I believe. And Sergio got eliminated. And then they went to 17 again. Cause hit another one right at the flag. So did Ricky.

and Ricky made birdie and kids barely missed birdie like kids like step up to the plate there and could have won the player's championship so you know I'm a little bit I think he's just not he just hasn't quite been there enough right but I don't know he would he wouldn't look like he's nervous right I know that but he might be nervous yeah there's also a man there's a man outside just like drilling into the bathroom putting on a new door it's the only podcast in the world where there's a there's a door there's a door handle being drilled on outside there's always something going on when we do this show It's fucking insane. It's really annoying.

It's quite a buzzsaw out. I wish they didn't. It's 3.44 on a Monday. Who orders a buzzsaw guy to come at 3.44 on Monday in an office? I feel like that's like the type of like. That feels like the type of like. A bussaw guy, three would be perfect. Like 3 o'clock.

Or just like after work hours, right? That feels like one of those jobs. It's like, oh, I'm a bus cell guy so I don't really get to work 9 to 5. I have to show up after everyone else is working. Yeah. Because I'm very loud and I'm buzz sawing into a, into a bathroom door. Remember when they built the advisors set in the middle of the day? That was great.

It's laugh out of money. I hope people can hear that buzz saw in the background. Jake's saying no. Jake's saying they can't. That's kind of a bummer. Because it is insane. The fact of that's happening in the middle of the day. And we're like on the business floor.

We're moving out of this office in the color. What are they fixing? They're setting this place up to sell and just burn it. Probably. That's probably what they're doing. Burn this place to the ground with all business peed in it's a nightmare. They're like, holy shit. Look at this place.

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I mean, they hit drives like 500 yards of this place. It's crazy. Moonballs. Moon balls. Especially that hole with the bridge in the background and they're teeing off way up high elevation. They hit it down there. It feels like it bounces over like five car pass and goes like $4.80 every time. So we get a little bit of that.

I actually ask Keith Mitchell how far he's going to hit a drive. We got a little bet going. You have to listen to the interview and catch that one. But the groups are out. We stayed late tonight, credit to us on a Monday night, to check out the group. That's like 6 o'clock. It's not that late. You didn't have to say that.

You could have said, oh, it's midnight. We stay much later than this. I think people can, like, just tell what time the bracket came out. It's midnight right now. That's giving them a little too much credit. I agree with that. So it's almost coming up on midnight. We've been here all day.

I'm so hungry. Brutal day. We're starving. Haven't eaten because we had a podcast. We've got to talk about a couple groups here. The match play is really, really cool. It goes Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Everybody plays around Robin within their little group,

and then you advance to the quarters, which are Saturday, and then, you know, obviously goes through Saturday, Sunday. Eventually, there's one winner. I've had some awesome matches. I remember, I think it was like DJ and John Rom played in the final. Was that last year? A couple years ago? A couple years ago, because our boy Kiz made it to the final last year.

Yep. He absolutely dusted Ian Poulter. That guy tweeted out of this weekend National Kevin Kisner Day, and I'd forgotten all about it. He said when Kevin Kisner absolutely beat the wheels off at Ian Polder for America. That was awesome. Well, we get to run out back. We've got, so we're going to go through a couple groups.

I highlighted four groups that are cool. The rest of them, you know, they all, there's a lot of cool, interesting groups, but we're not going to go through every single one of them because that would just, I don't know, it's not really what we do, to be honestly. It's not what we do. Group three. That seems like went through all. Group 13 is Tiger Woods, Patrick Cantley, Brantznetter, Aaron Wise.

Tiger Woods and a bunch of, like, T's. A bag of T's. I'm trying to think like a bag of pucks. A bag of T. What would you call like the golf term to that? A bag of golf balls. What's the term you're referring to in hockey? Like a bag of pucks.

Like you got traded for like a... Oh, like baby with a bag of balls? Yeah, bag of balls. Like stuff like that. Yeah, I think a bag of teas works. That hits sharp. You think you really came up with something special there, right? That hits sharp to those people, man.

Like Brantznetter just got dusted. Well, now you're setting ourselves up for like a bolton board moment or these guys win. Those fucking losers on four point called me a bag of tees. Tiger guys. Tiger lost to a bag of tees. Totally. Bag of tees is what we're going with.

That's fantastic. I got to say, now that you put it like that, that's pretty good. Like people chirping us being like, hey, how about your boy Tiger? Got dusted by a bag of teased?

That's good. That's really good. Pretty good. So he's got Patrick Cantley, slowest golfer on the PGA door. He's got Brandt Snetiker, who's one of the faster golfers on the PGA tour. And then Aaron Wise,

you know, look, it's one of those, I'm actually kind of annoyed looking at it because it's so obvious Tiger should win that I'm, I'm a little bit concerned.

He has to. You don't want the bar. Yeah, that's the expectation. It's a must win for Tiger. It kind of makes it a must win. It's like, wait, Tiger didn't advance. He's not playing past Friday. Why?

Oh, he must have been up against a group of death. No, actually, it was, you know, a couple bags of teas. A couple bags of teas. So look. You pick up at the pro shop on your way out. I got to say, if Tiger loses to Aaron Wise. Yeah. That'd be a problem.

All right. So explain this to me. How does this work now? I remember, I remember, One guy advances from each group. The most points at the end of Friday. Best record. Okay.

Yeah. You play round robin all three of them. They changed this like maybe two or three years ago. They kind of changed it and they do this. You know, they try to do a little ceremonial thing. We were on live radio so we couldn't watch it, but they picked the groups and all that. So it's fun. I do like this.

Group 14. Tony Fienow, Ian Poulter, Kevin Kisner and Keith Mitchell, who we just had on the show. What a great group that is. That is a cool group. Fienow, of course, our guy Colby is a fienow. He's addicted to Betty on Fienau, who always finished his second. Ian Poulter, of course, public enemy number one, going up against Kiz. Kizz, dusted him last year.

And then our guy Keith Mitchell, who we literally have on the show, this show, he comes off very much like a Kevin Kisner type figure. He's kind of a Southern boy. He's a beauty. He's just had a beer and a sandwiches, hang out talking to us. So that's kind of a, it's an interesting group. That's the anybody but Poulter group. Correct. You know?

If Poulter comes out of that, that sucks. Anybody else? We got connections with all. That's a loss for us. If Polter comes out of that, it's a huge loss for us. Yeah, everybody else, we love phenow, we love kids, and we love Mitchell now. Group 15, Bubba Watson, Jordan Spee, Billy Horschel and Kevin Nah. That's a, I'll say, for me, that's kind of an anybody but Horshaw group.

It's not as strong, obviously, is Polter. Bubba, I do think, I still think, like, obviously, you know, we had him on the show. He gained a lot of points and all that. It matter how you feel about Bubba, I still think on this type of golf course, too, He's one of those interesting players to watch in the world, watching him shape the ball, hit these crazy shots on Austin's course, which is a really cool, unique, interesting golf course is very fun.

Speed has been all over the map. I mean, some people think he doesn't even deserve to play in the Masters because of how bad he's playing golf. Some people think he should just be an insurance salesman. They want him out of golf. And then I'm on the boat that I'm thinking I might bet Jordan Speed to win the Masters. I mean, it's just he's always there. He's always in contention.

I could see him coming out of the clouds and winning the master's. Mr. Billy Horschell, who I don't like, fuck Billy Horshaw. And then Kevin Nau, we had on the show about a month ago as well, who was, you know, he was a great guy on the show. He's a very interesting guy. I've been a Kevin Nau fan for a long time. I have felt really bad for him ever since he got chirped for having the swing yips at the player's championship. Everybody thought he was like, they're all mad at him for being super slow, which he was, but he was super slow because he couldn't pull the club back. He kind of got a little upset at us when we asked about that.

He wanted to move on from that so quickly. Yeah, he said, we're still doing this. It's like seven years ago or something. I was like, well, I mean, it's kind of what you're known for. It's like the origin story of a lot of your fans. Right. I mean, that's literally what you're known for is being that guy. But he was a good sport.

He was a cool guy. You know, so that's an interesting group. And then this last one is all time. I mean, we've got Jason Day, Phil Mickelson, Henrik Stenson, Jim Furrick. Unbelievable group. All major champions. A lot of different style of golf. I mean, Henrik Stenson doesn't even carry a driver.

He just hits three wood everywhere. You got Phil hits driver everywhere. You got Jason Day. who kills the golf ball, but might withdraw on every match because he gets hurt all the time. And then you've got Jim Fierich who play, you know, he's the Tor Dad, who plays Jim Furek golf. That's a great group. A lot of firepower in there. Couldn't be more opposite than Group 10.

Group 10 of me is vanilla pudding. Paul Casey, Cameron Smith, Charles Howell III, and Abraham Answer. Charles Howard. If they put that on any form of viewing, any broadcasting, if I'm seeing Group 10 up there, I may boycott the whole goddamn thing. I will say I'm very interested to see what our viewing options are for this thing. How awesome would it be if they filmed everything and got to pick what group you want to like that's what they should do. It would be so cool. With gambling, that's where they're going.

Oh, that's so awesome. They're going where you should be able to, and they will. I mean, gambling's so big, you will be able to watch any shot at any moment. Like the TV should be interactive where like on the left, and for this specifically, it should say groups, but like in the future it should show just matchups or holes and stuff or groups or whatever times. And you should be able to go on the TV as if you're like on Netflix and just go through and then click on it. and then bam, it's playing. We'll get there.

There's no way we don't get there. There's so much money in gambling, they'll be like, we're going to do it. I think mainstream TV has to be more like, almost like copy subscription-based services where you can go within. Like, Channel 7 should also have options within it. Especially this event.

Yeah, I think you might have fixed TV. This event, too. I mean, there are matches that are must watch and other matches where if they try to get me to watch it, I might throw a rock at my computer screen. If I have to watch Group 10, I'm never watching golf again. I was looking for any all-for-play. groups, but there aren't you.

We got a lot of twos. A lot of twos. A couple of the ones we brought up are twos. We've got, we had the Kisner, Keith Mitchell. They both went on the show. Group five is Justin Thomas Keegan Bradley. Both been on the show. Group six is... We had Bubba and Kevin now both put on the show.

So, yeah, there's a lot of them out there. But I'm excited. Match plays very cool. Go Tiger. That's kind of the main takeaway. John Rom versus Cocher is going to be funny. I mean, it's just two polar opposite personalities. Like, I could see John Raab beating the bag off of Cooch. He's, like, six up, and Cooch just with a big smile on his face, walking down in a fair way.

John Rom's about to absolutely explode, and Coochers gives him a look like, Jonathan. There'd be a great, like, if it comes down to 18 and John Rom like flubs a chip on 18, and he's kind of, there's a chance for an awesome picture of Rahm, like, breaking his entire bag of clubs in half, and Cooch just standing there with a big goofy smile on his face. It'd be awesome. Yeah. All right, enjoy the match play. Highline Wellness.

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Go to www. www.helinewellness.com today and see what you have been missing. Robert Garrigas has spent three months for smoking weed. Why? Just why? Let me ask you this. This is a policy in like every league, right? Like in the NFL, you can't, you can fail a weed test, right?

Yes. Yeah, but I was talking to someone, I think it was like Coley or someone that knew like the NFL stuff. you know when it's happening. Like they get one in the year and it's always in the beginning of the year. So like they, during like, as they're getting ready for like preseason and stuff,

that's why when Josh Gordon always used to get suspended, like they said he had to be incredibly, incredibly dumb to fail the weed test that many times because you know when it's happening. And it's either, they can only do it once. They can only do like, I guess recreational or street drugs,

I guess is what it is. Yeah. They can only test you once. So you're either in the beginning of the season or in the middle of the season. Yeah, I think I'm not sure which one it is. I believe maybe it's the NBA where they do two tests and they can happen at any point during the year. So guys like when the two tests happen early in the year.

Because then they can just, they know that they're not going to eat another one and they can just smoke as much weed as they won't. Right. I think that's how it works in the NHL too. Like whenever your test gets done, you're done for the year. Yeah. You know you're not going to be, no one's knocking on your door. I mean, now they do this for, I think they do random drug testing for like PEBs and stuff. Right.

Where guys will come in, they'll come into the locker and make sure you're not, nothing's in your locker or stuff like that. but I mean come on dude especially for golf like three how long was it three months three months how crazy is that three months it doesn't make it to release this crazy statement about he's going to change his life and like I was talking about like we're talking about smoking wheat we're talking about that's we're talking about we're talking about a plant that's legal in a bunch of states you know what hit me the other day we were so we were at the sports book in new jersey yeah fucking it's legal to bet on gambling

in new jersey then you go across The river in a tunnel, you go through a tunnel for four minutes and you can't bet on the other side. Yep. I was trying to put in bets like on my fan do okay. I'm like, I fucking forgot. You can't do it here. Are you kidding? What is the difference between the world we're living in on this side of the water that's here?

There's like a little bit of water here. And on the other side, those people can do something that's illegal over here. How is that possible? States, Frankie, fought a big war over that. I know. It's insane. There's that great scene in the movie Blow. Have you seen Blow?

With Johnny Depp? where he gets popped with a bunch of weed, like 200 pounds or something. He's in front of the judge, and he's like, I took these plants across imaginary lines, and you guys are trying to send me to jail. Yeah. And the judge is then like, well, they are real lines and they're real laws, and he goes to jail. But it's sort of what you're saying. You cross a certain line, and it's like you can't do that anymore.

Now, with golf, I'm assuming that there's a league-wide, like, the PGA probably has rules aside from, like, Because even if guys live in, like, Vegas or California where it's legal, I'm assuming you still can't smoke weed even if you're on the PGA Tour. Right. Yeah, that's the case. Just like in the NFL, like, oh, I live in Colorado. It doesn't matter. The NFL has a rule. Yeah, so a lot of people are saying, like, oh, why do you have to release a statement for getting suspenders smoking weed?

I think he released a statement so that he could say, I got suspended for smoking wheat, not for, like, performance and answer. Yeah. To clear the record. Which is a huge move because now we're all on his side. Exactly. And the PGA tour doesn't release suspensions, right? The PGA Tour, I believe they do confidential fines and suspension. Because that was the big DJ thing years ago.

Yeah. Where it never really came out. He was just like, I'm going away. Certain things league, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I know every league has like old, crusty white guys running it, right? You think of like these bankers and guys in suits and stuff. But like the PJ Tour to me just seems even more of that.

Like they bring him in and like they're sitting down and like, you're smoking the reefer. You should be out there with the children and you should be hitting putts with the children. and you shouldn't be smoking the grass, son. The devil's lettuce. Like, are you fucking me right now? I imagine a meeting similar to like, I'm smoking fat doyngst out here. When red in Shawshank has to go sit in front of the rehabilitation guys.

It's like a meeting like that or it's just like the most like white collar. Exactly. Buttoned up blue blazers sitting there like, all right, son. You're smoking weed. Yeah. You were caught with the marijuana. Three months. Yeah.

Three months. Get out of our eyes. And we know you like Mary Jane. But that can't happen in this establishment, son. Ridiculous. Three months, all right. Robert Gargis, we'll see him three months. And in a year, it's going to be, like, legal everywhere.

Like, it's all going to change. It's so stupid a handout suspension. Next up, we got Keith Mitchell. He won about three weeks ago on the PGA tour. Very cool interview. A lot of good stories. A lot of good chatter. Enjoy this one.

All right, folks. We are now joined by a very special guest, a recent, winner for the first time on the PGA tour. That's got to feel really fucking good. Keith Mitchell, welcome to this show, my friend. Somebody, thanks for having me on. Look, you're a busy guy. You've had a big couple weeks.

We've been kind of going back and forth trying to get you on. Like you said, we were just kind of chatting before the show. You gave me a little look. If I'm going to do the show, I want to do it when I got some free time. So you got the week off. Let's start with the obvious. You won Honda Classic a couple weeks ago. How much has your life changed in the last two or three weeks?

I come home. It's completely different. More interviews, you know, more fans yelling your name, more people. The golf world's completely changed, but my world is. Is it kind of funny when you go home to your boys or to the local bar and like nobody really gives a shit that you're still just Keith Mitchell? It's so cool. But at the same time, when you're in Sea Island, there's 12 other guys down here. Down here, I'm still just Keith.

Like the rookie, the guy that just got on tour, the young guy that came from Georgia. I mean, it's crazy. It's so, I mean, you got guys like Davis-Love and Zaggers and PGAs and stuff, so it's still down here. It's a great place to be if you're a golfer because you're pretty much always going to be a nobody as long as Davis is here. I was going to say, I could see Davis or even Zach Johnson giving you the, like, oh, you won the Honda Classic, and that's cute.

That's good. I like that. So, look, we got a lot of different types of guys we've had on the show. There's a million different types of guys on tour in terms of their home life. We got married guys, committed to the family, this, that. You mentioned you got roommates. So what's the kind of what's the vibe like on a week off like this when you're just hanging? What's the look like back home?

You know, what's kind of that scene like? At mellow mushroom, really a chain restaurant. I might go out to the golf course today at Frederick because I'm not, you know, studies kind of like doing it as a hobby for fun and maybe get on a boat and have a beer. I mean, it's awesome down here. My weeks off are pretty simple. I usually don't touch a club until Thursday afternoon, practicing, and then Friday, I'll take Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, completely to myself.

Are you one of these guys, like, you, whenever you play golf, you're sort of playing it pretty, you know, competitively or seriously, you're working on something, you're practicing, or you're one of these guys who you'll go around and just fuck around sometimes and play golf. I feel like with you guys, there's very few in between. Some guys can do it and kind of wing it and just have fun and have fun and have to separate the two where other guys, it's like, no, no, if I'm on the golf course, I've got a golf club in my hand, I usually take it pretty seriously because it's my job.

That's a great question, and there is a lot of different. In terms of me, very rarely, like, inclusive in terms of, but I love to play music, I love to mess around, but when I'm down here, I mean, I can only probably think of two or three and did it for fun and not really care. go tee it up and how I play, if that's most importantly. I don't really care what I'm sure. I feel like it's counterintuitive.

I rather actually mess around on the golf course. But if I'm with the right group and right guys. I think you and I are the same exact type of fisherman, by the way. My brother ties his own flies and he's, you know, he's super-ended all that. I'm like, dude, give me a spinner rod, the easiest thing I can possibly handle. I'll sit in a boat. Give me like maybe 12 beers, maybe 18 if we're fishing early. and I really don't care what happens.

If I, like, see a fish, I'll be pretty jacked up. But outside of that, I just want to be outside and drink a couple beers. I am not. I don't have any skills whatsoever. If you get it and put a new line in it, because it will be. My favorite thing to do is be on a boat, listening to me. If you happen to catch a fish, I'll give you a big high-five, and I'll love every second of it. Dude, I have the exact same way.

And my brother, he's so trade now. He knows, like, he can't go more than 50 yards away from me because I got to scream and be like, dude, I'm caught on a line. I'm in the fucking tree. He's like, Jesus, dude. Exactly. I like it. All right, so let's get to the Honda a little bit. I was doing a little Rigsie research.

You had a cut, a 73rd, cut, cut, and then you win at the Honda Classic. So how does that happen? So you're not a Poena Green guy? I mean, I could elaborate. Now, I grew up on Bermuda. I grew up on Bent. I had never played Toyana Green until I went to the West Coast. coast, which was probably twice in college and then look at the grass and figure out.

And then it grows funky because, like, where nowadays you can fix spikes, but it's a foot imprint. It doesn't actually bring the grass up, so patting it down does no good. So I'll look at a punt. If I'm not sure if it's like left center and left edge, you have nothing, like if you're on Bermuda or a bit, you can look at a grain, you know, which way is it growing? And you're like, oh, perfect. It's growing to the left or right.

You just play left edge. Polander greens, they got nothing. And what's so funny is guys that grew up on the West Coast put great that way, and they put terrible on Bermuda and Bent. I'll guess up north, too. There's a lot of planning up north. And guys in the south are opposite. So it's kind of funny how that works.

And then if you're a guy that can put well on both, and then you're just a badass. So you're telling me you don't have one of those backyards like Tiger, where you have all kinds of different greens and whatever grasses you need, and Augusta superintendent to take care of it? I mean, if I had a billion dollars, I probably would. So that week, going into that week, I mean, outside of getting on some grassy you're more comfortable on, anything different?

Any feeling kind of earlier in the week? Like, I got it this week? Or kind of what was the vibe, I guess, going into the Honda Classic and kind of the beginning of the tournament? A couple things, and I got a cool story about it, is first off, I knew I was playing good in the West Coast. I was getting a little anxious. I was getting pissed. I just wasn't. It's my week. It was very cliche, but very... When I came home, I had nine holes for...

I was more concerned about getting my mental game right, or my... Just kind of getting back and being relaxed. And so I did that, and then a Tuesday afternoon, which is late. I mean, usually you get there Sunday nights and smoking cigars. I mean, this is crazy. And they keep asking me... I finally said, I'll have one, but I'm not having... until 15T because if I can't smoke a cigar for five hours, you know, I'm not going to do this five hours. I'll have one cigar toward the account on one hand how many cigars I've had a year. But these guys are so cool.

We were out there for five. So I was like, let's just have some fun. They give me two cigars on 15. We took a picture of a car in the bear's claw. This is Wednesday afternoon. And so that picture's out there somewhere. And so I have a cigar and I've had it in the last four holes. And they gave me two.

And they're like, what are you going to do? with the other one. I was like, I'll keep it in my bag and I'll light it up if I went on Sunday. And then after Sunday, the first thing I did was I walked into the locker room, pulled out the scar of my bag, put it in my mouth and sent a picture of the guys because I'd had it in my bag all four days waiting for that moment. So it was kind of like a, I mean, I don't want to call it foreshadowing, but I mean, every time I reached in my bag in my pocket where I keep like all my phone and my wallet and my T's and stuff, like, I saw it. every day is this reminder that I'm going to wait and smoke this one until I win.

Wow, that is awesome. I bet those guys are so jacked out. They're probably taking credit for your win. I mean, I'll give them credit for giving me that little extra busy confidence, but damn, it was cool. That's awesome. Yeah, I mean, it feels like kind of just freeing yourself up almost. Yeah, like you're kind of, you're relaxed going in, especially through the bear trap,

even playing at the pro. I guess maybe you just need to get yourself a little more relaxed out there. It's easier said than done because we're trying so hard. We're trying our ass off. The thing about golf is it's one versus 140 or 150. It's not one verse one. So if you, you know, every time you hit a bad shot, somebody else around you is hitting a good shot, and you just can't compare yourself like that, or you're just going to dig yourself a hole.

And you don't have anybody to lean on. It's not team sport. A team sport is one-on-one, but you've got 11 other guys to help you if you mess up. Golf is one on 150, and if you mess up, you've got nobody to blame except your caddy, and your poor guys only trying to help you. Class pass is an all-access membership to over 15,000 of the best gyms and fitness studios all over the world. Spring, ladies and gentlemen, it's creeping up on us. It's actually here at canceled winter.

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Do you just go to the bar and, like, think about it? Do you stare at the fucking clouds? Like, what do you do to improve your mental game? Well, I think part of it had to do is being on the West Coast. I was on the road for seven weeks. I flew out to Hawaii and then for the Sony, and then you're on the West Coast the whole time because it's just too much, takes too much out of you

to fly all the way back to the East Coast and then back out four days later for a turn. I think it was just getting back to normal, man. It's just hitting the reset button. I kind of just hung out all week. I didn't really do much. I just kind of went to my normal spots, my normal restaurants.

big foodie. I love eating too much. And I just went to all those places. My dad actually came up that weekend. We went and had a cool dinner. And we're like, look, long season, you know, you have this long of a season. It's going to make more of a difference. It's really easy to look at it in a one-week stretch.

It's like when you're gone for seven weeks and you practice every day, what's two or three days in the long run? I mean, if that adds up, but at the same time, we practice and put our body. So let's fast forward then to the final round. There's a lot of big names up there. the back nine on that golf course very famous very infamous whatever you want to call it the bear trap how difficult it is even i mean you very rarely see a winner at single digits under par

on the pj a door even in a lot of major championships now so it kind of speaks to how difficult the golf course is he got ricky you got brooks kevka just these kind of mega stars in the game and here you are what was like what do you remember kind of going into that back nine was it one of these things where you're like i kind of blacked out i was just in the zone do you remember it very vividly, what your feelings were. It kind of walk us through what that back nine was like. It was pretty normal 17. And when I mean normal, I mean, and then I'm standing on T on 17,

and Brooks had just birdied 18 probably when I was, I mean, I just had seen that he had birdied 18 on 17 T. So I knew I was tied with him then. And then I'm standing on the T and Ricky's in the group in front of me and he makes whatever that 40-footer and he's got a par five neck so he could either you know I know he's going to birdie it and he might be able to eagle it because you can get there that day and I look in my caddy and I was just like no fucking way man this this is these I'm not letting these guys run away with this like I I mean I've got all week you know people have been

saying you know the two guys that are leading on Friday aren't going to be in contention and no names leading the tournament, and then Ricky and Brooks are doing this, and I just remember standing on 17, and look at my caddy. I'm not letting this happen. Like, I refuse not, you know, show up here. Now, if I win or not, that's one thing,

but I'm not about to make a scared or afraid golf lane because I'm looking at Ricky, and he's just draining 45 footers with two holes ago, and Brooks is doing the same thing. Like, if you're going to beat these guys, you've got to do what they're doing. You can't just limp to the finish line now. And, I mean, I backed up and hit a good shot on 17, and then 18 is just history.

Yeah, 18, you know, you played it interestingly. You laid up. What was your thought process there? I believe it was playing downwind. Everybody, not everybody, anybody who hit a good drive was able to get there and all that. What's that yardage like for you? Are you like, okay, I really like, I think you laid up to like 130 or something like that? Is that kind of your go-to yardage?

Walk us through that process because you've been. got the tournament on the line, you're tied with these two superstars. You've got a chance to birdie a pretty burtiable hole. Walk us through how you played that hole. I hit some pretty good drives every day on that hole, but the wind was a little bit down and off the right. So it actually made my fair a lot smaller, and I had the two left bunkers to keep it in order to keep it in the fairway, unless I wanted to hit three wood. And no way in hell I was going to pull three wood on a par five on 18 because I feel like I'm laying up or, you know, just this is ridiculous. So I was talking about caddy.

I'm like, look, we got to try to carry this bunker. It was 310 to cover the bunker slightly down off the right and 320 to cover the left bunker. So I just aimed up and tried to smash as hard as I could. Unfortunately, I pulled it to the left bunker, which is a 320 carry. And I probably, I probably threw it 315. I probably flew it 315, lands in the bunker and rolls up right to the lip. At that point, I normally can get to the green out of that bunker because it's only like 185 front, but I was so far up against the lip, I had to hit just a wedge out of there,

so I made sure I didn't catch the lip and keep in the bunker. So I wasn't actually laying up to a yardage. I was just trying to get it out over the lip. And if the ball was farther back in the bunker, I probably could have gone for the green. But I had to lay up with a lob wedge out of the bunker, and I was flicking my county. man, this is the most anti-Keefe Mitchell hole I've ever played, hitting driver and laying up with two wedges. I'm usually trying to, you know, go for the green and do something crazy.

So getting to the green, you know, you hit pretty good wedge. You got 15-foot little slider. We talked about it on the show afterwards that, you know, it's this setting, and you've got, like I mentioned, a couple of times, you got Ricky, you got Brooks. They're kind of waiting, and it almost seems like, all right, this guy, Keith Mitchell, has a one before against these two kind of heavyweight. It's like, there's just no way he makes this. We're going to go to playoff.

Playoff should be exciting. This, that. I don't think I've ever seen a putt go more dead center than that putt went. Was that like the best putt you've ever struck your entire life? Absolutely. I'd tell you what. I'd take it back at number 15, and I made that. The only put that really scared me was a put on 15,

not iron over the water to like five feet. And that put was so straight. It was straight up the hill, and it was only five feet. What I was reading is, like, the only five feet. It's like the only way you miss this is if you screw up. It's the only way. Straight, up the hill, five feet. You cannot miss this unless you legitimately yip the putt.

The worst thought you could ever have. Thank goodness, I hit a great putt, and you look at, it's funny. If you look back on the put on 15, I mean, that putt hit the back of the hole and popped back in. I hit it so hard because I was jacked up. And then 18. 18, it was kind of a good distance where nobody expects you to me. make it. So if you make it, it's awesome. I wish it was closer, obviously. Now it doesn't matter, but it was, I mean, 15 feet, I hate to say, but Shotlink, I think short changed me a little bit.

I mean, that shit had to be 17 feet. We'll call it 20. Let's call it 20. Yeah. I mean, that was a long, maybe I was just nervous and that was a long way 15 feet of my life, but it sure has hell felt longer. And I remember reading it, and I remember, like, reading it from behind. And, I mean, I knew exactly what the putt was doing. The only reason I was reading it so many times was just to keep my mind focused on what I was actually doing in terms of like letting it race to, oh my God, this is about to win. You know, you can be Ricky and Brooks. And if you have those nerves, they feel unreal. Like it feels like no way this is me about to beat those guys. And if you start thinking that way, there's no way you're

going to. In order for me not to think that way, I had to just focus on what my punt was doing. Was it uphill? Was it breaking left or right? What the grain was doing? How much speed it needed? Et cetera. And so I just stuck. I knew what the putt was doing when I was in the fairway.

But the only way to keep my mind from going berserk up there was to just keep going over and over and over what the putt was doing. So by the time I stood behind the putt in was my turn, I mean, I was so ready to hit it because I thought about it. I knew what the pole was going to do for five minutes. And so I got up there, I looked at the hole, put my putter down, and I, I honestly couldn't even feel my grip. I just had to assume my hands were on it the right way. When I hit it, and I knew once I hit it, I did everything I could do. That if it didn't go in or if it hit something or if it lifted out, whatever, I was okay with it.

Because I knew I hit the best, and then it starts going up, broke late. It broke so late. It was high for, if it was 15 feet, it was high for 13 feet. and then it curled in right there on the right. And I saw it break in. I started to step into it. And I just kind of gave it that walking fistpump, and it had to actually look back to make sure it was still in the hole

because the early stepped it so soon. Like, oh, that really went in, right? Yeah, and I mean, I couldn't tell you what I was saying to my head, but I was screaming louder than everyone in the fans combined in my head and clenching my fist so hard I thought my knuckles are going to. explode. Yeah, it was a good pump. It was a walking, you know, a little pump. I like those. I think that's always a good look. And then, like I said earlier, it was one of those pots. So I mean, the second, whatever it was, like the camera angle they were showing that thing at, the second you hit it,

I was like, I said my buddy's like, that's it. I mean, that's just one of those pups. I just can't miss. There's no way that misses. So that was awesome. How jacked up are you to play in the Masters? I'm so pumped. I was fortunate to go to Georgia and we got to play three times. I was three times when I was in school, and then one of my good buddies, Lee Knox, his dad's taking me out a couple times, and I get to go play actually this coming Sunday with them. So, I mean, Masters is huge. Being that far up in the FedEx, I mean, everybody on the here knows what that is. But to win the FedEx stoked about that, just be in position to actually do that. But then the Masters, I mean, I'm afraid that I'm just going to be in La La Land all that week.

No big deal. Just got a little practice route coming up on Sunday. That's pretty nice. nice. Yeah, that was kind of a little casual, but it's going to be sick. FedEx Cup, I mean, you keep, you've finished, are you followed up the Honda Classic? I believe T6 at Bay Hill. So, I mean, you're kind of getting used to this PGA tour thing, I think. Look back, I mean, I play on a Latin American tour, and you kind of just dream like the PGA tour or this thing you just hope to get to someday in your life.

And now to look back and say you've won on tour and, you know, and. is something that's still sinking in. I mean, this is the first couple days I've ever had to just sense the win just to just, I'll tell you what, it's pretty cool to let it soak in. I mean, I'm trying to let soak in, but I mean, I'm still worried about Augusta and the match play, just to have a couple days. What were your thoughts on the old Palm Beach Post hitting you with the no-name champion headline?

Great question, and I've gotten it a lot, but, I mean, I get it. In terms of, if you look at it in terms of what I'd said in my press conference, a couple guys that text me and like, look, dude, all these people are saying, you're a no name. They say you're not going to be in contention. Like, let's prove them wrong. And I use that. I mean, I honestly use that as motivation because nobody likes being demeaned and thinking that you're not good, whether you've proven yourself at some point.

And then knowing that I approve myself against two of the best players in the world, I understand it when it comes to my quote, but I don't understand it with a minute, as in Keith Mitchell is a no name. Now, again, I had never done anything prior to that really to gain recognition about no name and motivation. So I get where they're coming from. I just think the delivery was slightly off. I think that's fair. Let's talk about Crunchy Pete a little bit. You're catting there.

I can talk about crunchy feet all. day. I mean, I looked, I think I saw he's got like 16,000 plus followers on Twitter. Crunchy Pete is big of a beauty as he seems. More so. He is a greatest man alive. And you can ask anybody, I don't care who you ask out there on tour. I promise you they'll say the same thing just because he's so genuine. How beneficial is it having a guy like that with you in competition? Well, it helps that he's known me probably since I was 10 years old. He has a is the club I grew up at in Chattanooga, and we have gone through the same steps to get on tour.

Like, he wasn't on tour before me, and I grabbed him. I mean, we came from the same local club in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and went to the Latin American tour. When you think about it that way, it's so cool that we've shared all those experiences together. And at the same time, he is so, he loves traveling, he's a single guy, never been married, never had kids. I mean, you can read all the stories about him. He's just an outdoorsman. He loves it. And golf is just an alleyway for him to live the life that he wants to live.

And I'm so thankful that I'm play golf, and I'm able to provide him that in such a greater fashion than he normally could have done. Because, I mean, Riggs, we were out in the West Coast for seven weeks, and he stayed out in Hawaii for an extra week just because he wanted to travel. He didn't fly home. He didn't have to fly home. He was like, man, I just think I'm going to keep my flight out here. maybe go surfing and hiking on the volcanoes.

I mean, that's the kind of guy he is. That's awesome. I'm jealous. I mean, it sounds like he's got an awesome life. And he does. And he could live on $5,000 the rest of his career, and everybody's asking what he's going to do with that big check I gave him. And he's like, I don't know.

I mean, I guess I'll just go put in the bank. I don't know what to do after that. Pay taxes. Right. Yeah, probably a good idea. He probably has to do that. He's never had to before until last year, probably. That's awesome. Good for him.

All right. A couple of miscellaneous questions that I'll let you go. How far is your stock seven iron go? One, I could probably pump into 190 if it's hot and in the summer. What? If you're looking, you're in the middle of fairway, you've got a clean lie, flat lie, par five. How far out could you be that you feel comfortable you could still get there? Riggs, come on. You got to do better. I like.

I like comparing because we had like Kevin Naa on, you know, and it's a little different number than some of you guys, so we like to compare. All right, well, I can go back to one shot ahead at the Houston Open. I had 285 front, 3 and it landed one pace on the green and rolled to like probably 15 feet. So in order, in terms of carry, if I have a perfect lie and it's hot, I can carry my three wood like 286. The flag's 307, the greens are firm.

There you go. See, it wasn't that hard of a question to answer. No, but I can't hit driver off the deck. If you're asking me if I can hit driver off the deck, I can't call me. I can't do it. That's something golf-wise that you and I have in comment, so that feels good. Not for lack of talent, though, right, and you're in. No, no, no. Of course not. What's your favorite golf course you've ever played?

Man, I get that a lot, too, and it's very different. probably course itself, I would, hmm, there's a course in Scotland that probably nobody's ever heard of that I played a long time ago with my dad called my. It sounds like a different language, but it was so cool. It is quirky. It had blind shots. It was on the ocean, deep bunkers, something like I've never played before. But in terms of atmosphere and best place that I want to go play over and over and over again, where you combine the club atmosphere, the golf course, the food, the people there, everything,

I'm going to honor's course. Interesting. Yeah, MicroHonish is one that I didn't know about until after I went over there. And I believe they have MicroHonish Dunes. Another one up there. There's a couple I think that are supposed to be pretty awesome. But I think hardcore golf kind of geeks will know that one. What's the worst hole on the PGA tour?

There's one that's just awful. I'm trying to think about it. damn i need to like text you that and you can put it back after because i got to think about it but there's one that i'm thinking about it's so bad well there's one it's bad it's on the web tour it's number uh number nine at this old golf course we played up in chicago and i don't think they have the term of there anymore but oh i mean i think number six it's a u-turn yeah your backs to the hole you see off yeah and it's 3.30 to cover the green I'm like, all I need is 10 yards and I can just make it two.

That's the old John Daly. But I'm trying to make it seven. John Daly made what, like a 17 there or something? He just kept trying to drive the green. That's what I feel like every time I'm staying on that hole. Like, come on, let me just try one. Yeah, that hole, you know, it's interesting. Do some guys love that hole or is everybody out there like that hole just sucks?

I think anybody really loves it. And in terms of hate, I only hate it because it can experience. expose you so much that if you pull it five yards you're legitimately reteeing and then if you pull your second shot five yards you're having to re-hit it again so my hate is more of of the risk reward on the whole because it is a par five and if you hit two really good shots you have a chance to make eagle but if you miss one by five yards you can make a nine yeah yeah i agree it is it is it is kind of stupid. And like when the ball,

like a lot of the drives, even if you take the right line, the ball comes in at such an angle to that fairway that it's not supposed to, really. You see a lot of them kind of roll through, and it's just, yeah, I kind of agree. I'm not, I'm not a huge fan of that hole, although it is kind of exciting when you see some guys

clearly pull up. Yeah, clearly pull up. Yeah, great television hole. If I was a fan, I'd sit on that T-box all day. I also like, like, I was watching PJ Tour Live, and they were doing Rory's group, And Rory steps up, hits one. It starts, the Pro Tracer starts on a stunning line.

And you're thinking, like, oh, no, that's no. I think, like, Shane Bacon, I actually said, like, oh, no. Starts way too far left. Rory does a quick T pick up and starts walking. I'm talking his ball must have cleared by a yard. And I'm like, does he just know that that's going to cover the whole time? Because that's an instant double if it doesn't cover. I mean, that's the worst part.

If it doesn't cover, you have to hit the same shot again. again. And it's the hardest shot. It's the hardest shot on night, one of the hardest shots on that golf course. Yeah, it's a little bit of a ridiculous hole. If you could have one shot back in your entire golf career, what would it be? I've never thought about that. I mean, it's easy to go back to the putt I had at Portland to get on the PGA tour that I missed on the 18th hole the last part of the season.

But I honestly think that made me a better player. So if I feel like if I made it, because it gave me some, you know, insane to say that one, but at the same time, I think that was the best. Yeah, that's kind of a... What's your biggest weakness? My biggest weakness is I have no weaknesses answer. Very deep of you to say, Rick. Did you read a book and learn that? I think that's from the office.

There's something like that. What's, do you have any, any superstitions, any superstitions around playing golf, a certain number of T's you put in your pocket, marker, something weird like that? You asked that because the week of the Honda, when I started playing, I wore this and I played good. And now it's to the point where once I'm feeling, like there's a superstition that's going on, that I'm putting undue influence on something that I can't control to make me play good.

And so I actually do the opposite. So you could say my superstition is if I use that marker the next day and my mind is like, oh, you should use that marker again. I'll purposely use a different one just to not let that be a, not let that be something, not let that be. Interesting. It is funny. We have, you know, we ask that, you know, the majority of guys that we have on.

And almost all of them say, like, no, no, I'm not. not superstitious at all. However, I do do, and then they just list a bunch of shit that they do. They're like, no, that's just kind of my routine. I'm actually not superstitious. So, you know, you guys can think whatever you want out there. It's fine. Last question.

Austin. There's always a shit ton of massive drives out there. I think it's the, what is it, like 12? That's that par five on the back nine where they've got the bridge in the background and guys super downhill. I've always placed firm. And guys hit drives like 400 plus, almost. all the big hitters like every time.

So what's your prediction on your longest drive in Austin? I'm going to go 417. 417. All right. I'm going to bet the under on that just so that you and I have a little thing going. If you put a little more oomph into something and get it over 417, you'll win a little wager. We'll come up with something to bet.

Does that work for you? I'm going to hope I hit a sprinkler head and a car path. He gets up and throws it, and then I might hit 418. It'll be in good shape. Buddy, I'm going to have an army of people out there just kicking that thing backwards the whole time. You should see guys with forwardplay gear on just chasing your ball around kicking it backwards. That's my crew. Yeah, and part of the reason I hit seven iron.

Yeah, right. Exactly. All right, Keith Mitchell, recent winner on the PGA tour. Very good, dude. We appreciate you taking the time. I know, well, actually, I know you don't have anything going on this week, but we appreciate you taking the time anyways. Man, this is the highlight of my Wednesday of the pizza and a beer. Look, get yourself another beer, get yourself another meal.

I know you're a big foodie, and then get yourself another win as well so we can have you back on again. That's what it's going to take to give me back on as a win? Well, I'm trying to motivate you. You said this is like this is the most fun thing you've done in a while. In order to come back on, I need you to win again. I like that. I can handle that. I got a win to come back on.

You heard it here first. Yeah, or you can just text me back, hey, I'm down to do a podcast. I'd probably have you on too. All right, man. Or if I had to drive 418. Yeah, oh yeah, that's true, too. If you beat me on that, we'll make sure we get you back. Basically, like, there's no fucking way you're not back on the show, but I'm trying to motivate you.

Perfect. All right, Keith, we appreciate the time, man. Keep up the good play. We'll be rooting for you out there. See you, pal.