Fore Play - Lefty Returns To The Winners Circle w/ Paige Spiranac

Episode Date: March 6, 2018

The ForePlay boys are back. Riggs joins Trent and Frankie from the airport to talk Phil vs JT, why they root against certain players and Fusion Tiger committing back to back weeks for the second time. Paige Spiranac then sits down to talk about becoming a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and more! 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. On this week's show, we have Paige Branick, who has recently became a swimsuit model, and we are also joined by Riggs Barstool, who is at an airport in California. We'll hear from him. Frankie Borelli was in the podcast studio with me. But like I said, we got an interview with Paige, Riggs from the airport. All right, let's go.

This is Fordplay. Welcome to Fordplay. So I'm doing great. I'm at the airport. I'm very excited to get home. How was your guys weekend? The weekend was very good. Probably not as good as your weekend, but, you know, didn't do much.

Just kind of hung out. How was your weekend? You know, it was lovely. I played seven rounds of golf in five days. I disappeared from the world, and I'm back. But, well, not back. Let's hold our horses there. I'm battling the airport.

I just did the old, the old, I tried to get away with, my golf bag being 56 pounds by doing the lean that we talked about a couple months ago on the scale. Yep. And they busted me big time. Damn. So I had to do the swap, you know, like bag to bag. So I was doing that trying to mix and match. And I was sweating.

And I knew we had to get the show in because my plane's going to take off in like 30 minutes. So, you know, it's a bit of a grind returning to the real world. But I'm very excited to hear from you guys. How are we feeling about the golf this weekend? I mean, it was one of the more exciting tournaments we've had, definitely probably the most exciting tournament we've had so far this year. We got ourselves another playoff. And it involved.

We got some announcements going on in back on. There's some announcements. There's a quite, sounds like flight 15s moved to a different gate. But you know what's even more important is Justin Thomas fucking lost, Riggs? And he's a fucking loser. That's what he's always been. It's what he always will be.

He lost this week. He had a chance to shove his theoretical dick in my butt, but he didn't. I don't know why I just said that. But he didn't because, you know what? This was the first tournament that I watched that I audibly gasped out loud at moments. And I think that's what makes golf better. I think that's what makes golf fun to watch. Well, so, yeah, let's back up a little bit here.

So Justin Thomas finishes on 18 with an eagle. He dunks it, takes the clubhouse lead to 16 under. It's one of those moments where you scream. It's one of those moments where you scream. Oh, my God. When that went in, I thought, like, what have we done? We have signed ourselves up for two decades of being on the wrong side of everything. God damn it, this guy just canned it for an eagle on the 18th.

He's fist pumping. He's doing his weird shit. I thought for us, we were in trouble. I was like, we are in so much trouble. When he's saying that from 142 yards away, I thought he did that because of me. I literally thought he was thinking about me when he hit that shot. That's how bad it was. I thought he was going to look into the camera and say, fuck you, Frank.

That's what I thought. He had a chance to just destroy me. What would I have said? This is like if the Rangers were to win and stand the cup, like, what would I say? If he does that on 18, takes the lead and just, like, just destroys the entire world. Those announcements, man, they're really good. I should be able to overpower over that announcement, but I just can't. Well, let me ask you this.

How clear to be announced on. The announcements are so loud. Riggs, I mean, people are going to know what flight you're on, probably, if they're listening, because they can hear that announcement so clear. I should be able to overpower over it, but every time I hear that in the background, I just can't do it. Riggs, I felt the same way he did as soon as that shot dropped, I was like, everything we said last week, he just took that, he internalized it and turned it into one of the greater shots of the year. And it was like, I was very worried. There was a part of me, you guys are saying, oh, he's going to turn to the camera and say fuck Frankie Borelli. When they ran the shot back and he's celebrating with Caddy, I was convinced he was going to be like fucking Dave Portnoy in your face.

Like, I thought that's what was going to happen. Luckily, it did not. Man, I felt the same way. It was tough just to set the scene for you. guys, I'm playing, I'm walking down the eighth fairway. I was playing Pebble Beach, Twilight Round, and we're streaming the action on my phone. And just, Frankie was just saying he gasped out loud like five times watching the tournament, glued to the tournament. This is like the first time since the Masters that I've actually like streamed the tournament where I couldn't miss

a second. And the whole like back nine, we're streaming it, we're walking down the fairway. Every guy is huddling around a phone. When he hold that shot, I, like, I got my one buddy in my group, who's the guy that I have the bet against. His bet is that J.T. wins more majors than speed this year. Whichever one wins more. The loser has to wear an outfit of the winner's choice on Saturday during one of our biggest golf tournaments of the year. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

So anyways, he's a massive JT guy. He was like fist pumping. I was devastated. I was like J.T. just shoved this metaphorical whatever of Frankie's, whatever if you were talking about earlier. So I didn't know what the hell was going on. Then we play like a next hole. Turns out Phil, all of a sudden starts making fucking birdies.

When he dropped that bomb, and then you're thinking he's got a couple holes he's going to make another birdie and win. It doesn't. They go to the playoff. And then, I mean, it couldn't have ended any better for guys like us. It really couldn't have ended any better. It was amazing. I mean, even that, go back to that bomb that Phil hit in that putt.

It was just such a classic. He puts the putter up. He basically calls his shot. He makes contact. The putter goes in the air. He points it at the ball. He basically shoots the ball into the hole. And then he just raises up his arm.

It's like the classic Phil. When you see that putter just start to slowly raise, it's like this ball's going in. I don't even have to see. Just give me a camera angle just on Phil Mickelson and just show me the way that he moves his club after he hits a putt, and I know either if it's in or it's out. Dude, he's like Harry fucking Potter with that thing. Like when he waves the putter up in the air with his left hand, the ball just like takes her right. That's what I mean.

It literally looks like he's pointing it and just moving it into the hole. I mean, because that thing turned a lot, that putt. Oh, that was so exciting. Then they go on to the playoffs when JT, first of all, Phil, I thought Phil made that punt to win. And then J.P. You know, when you think he's standing over that, that's again one of those moments where you're like, man,

if he buries this and then goes on to defeat Phil, like, what can we say going forward about JT? Instead, he misses, hats come off. I was audibly fist-pumping. I was so excited. It was a great scene. So where do you guys think the golf, the fan base at large, like people who watch golf, where do they stand on JT now?

I feel like going into that playoff where it's Phil versus JT, it's like this is what you've got to decide right now, who's side you're going to be on. Are you going to be on JT side or are you going to be on the side of everyone who goes against JT from here on now? I think with Phil winning, it really swings in our direction. I think people are going to start to hate JT even more. Well, I mean, what I love is right is we've been touting this whole,

you should root for certain people, you should root against other people type thing. We've been saying like golf meets villains, golf needs rivalries way too often. We get to the end of the tournament, the leaderboard, the top five guys in the leaderboard. You're all kind of rooting for all of them. They all have cool storylines and this and that. Now it really feels like we're getting to a point

where like people have to pick sides. Like you honestly have to pick side. You were either a Phil guy or you were a JT guy yesterday. You couldn't just be sitting there going like, ooh-hoo I'm rude for everybody. Like, fuck no. It was either JT or Phil and watching Phil with his goofy thumbs up and all of his goofy little fizzpums

And like Frankie said, he's waving, putter around like a wand, and the balls was dropping right in the middle of the cup. If you were a team Phil guy yesterday, it was a fantastic day. But I honestly believe we're starting to, it's starting to kind of shift into something where people got to pick sides, which is, that's kind of the world we want to live in in the golf world. Yeah, I think a certain type of person was rooting for Justin Thomas. I think that's what we're, like, getting to. It's either, like, you were saying, you're the one person or you're not. I'm starting to see the type of people that are rooting for Justin Thomas. Even on Twitter, they're like, it's the golf purists.

It's the guys who want to root for everyone. It's like how can you not root against, how can you root against a guy that's sinking eagle shots from 142 yards away on 18? Like you can't just do it. But it's who he is. It's everything that we hate about him. And it just makes golf so much better to be able to watch that event knowing that. I mean, Phil was behind.

So everyone was rooting for this guy with four holes to go. It's like, please make this run. We cannot have Justin Thomas take this and just shove it up everything. I mean, everything metaphorically. So many holes. any holes because it just would have been the worst way to cap off everything that we've said the last two weeks of him if he sinks that shot and wins it as a walkoff. I mean, I just wouldn't have been able to talk for months.

Yeah, I mean, you know, when he, when J.T. sung that, it started to feel like, okay, J.T. is honestly not going to be affected at all by any of the negativity. And we started to get a ton of the, on Twitter, everybody's like, like, oh, look at you haters now. Oh, like chirping us directly because he made a shot, which, to be honest with you, makes the entire experience infinitely better. So much better.

I love it. I love mixing it up. I love mixing it up with people. This has been the longest thing. And Briggs you and I have talked about on the show where it's, we like, when, like, we've used the example before where when Polter lost his card, we were a little discouraged because we want guys who get a reaction out of us. That's why I like Bubba and I like to hate Bubba.

Justin Thomas is putting himself in that. It's kind of playing imperfectly. Yeah, we're kind of pitting ourselves up against the best player in the world right now, but it makes it more fun because you just get to root against somebody, and there's nothing better in sports than rooting against somebody. I couldn't agree more. And the fact that this guy, J.T., obviously, is such a massive stud. The fact that he's going to be at the top of leaderboards all the time,

that the fact that we're going to have, and, you know, you guys are especially Frankie, Frankie is very strong about this I'm still it's hard for me because I really have said many times how much I want to root for JT but I am now actively on the weekends I just it's not that I hate the guy

I just genuinely don't want him to win and when you're watching that leaderboard and he starts climbing up it becomes much watch TV because I'm like I got to watch and find out this guy's going to rip my fucking heart out or something amazing is going to happen he's going to miss a put to force another playoff

off. Phil's going to do his goofy thumbs up. Fist pump thing. It just makes it so much more must watch. And again, even when it turns out not in our favor, even though the fact that maybe we don't love J.T., but he's always at the top winning these tournaments, it just makes it so much better. It's so much more fun to watch. Yeah, I totally

agree. I mean, and we can hate on him all we want, but you know what? In the last couple weeks, golf's been pretty mainstream and going pretty viral just because of Justin Thomas. One for things that he's saying and doing wrong and the other for just being an incredible golfer. So I am happy to have him around. because like you're saying, he is making it a lot easier to watch and better to watch.

But, like, there's still things that he does. He, right after the tournament, Riggs, I was just telling Trent this, he put up an Instagram posts with him and Phil Mickelson hugging, and he closed the comments. So he's clearly rattled by the people, because you know how many people would have commented, get in the fucking bunker, like, you lose or like, you should have shot in the bunker, shit like that. He closed the comments. He made him, only 22 people were allowed to comment on it.

He made them limited to people. to people that only he follows. So it's like, I know that things are getting to him. I know he's rattled. It's that. I didn't realize that. That is very interesting. I, you know, again, it's just, we've said it a million times over last week.

It's a very tricky spot to be in. J.T. is boys with all the big guys. Clearly, a lot of guys that we love and respects see a lot of cool things in JT. So we got to look at it and be like, are we really like the guys that root against JT? but then when you start to stack up the evidence and the shit, and I've said a million times you don't really choose, you don't really get to choose like what you like and what you don't like, whether you're talking about food preferences

or whether you're talking about PGA tort preferences. And bottom line is like, maybe we just don't like JT that much. And when he did the fucking kick the fan thing out, and it blew off and Dave took it and made it, you know, the massive story that he made it and all that, here we are. And the fact that he's turning off comments.

Yeah, it's like I went to go chirp him. wanted to chirp him on Instagram. And I couldn't. He stopped me. Like, when is he going to stop filtering what the reaction to his golf game is? I mean, now he's taking it to the hands of Instagram? I can't go on Instagram and chirp the guy. It's insane.

He only wants good things written about him on his Instagram. His last, I mean, it's such a stupid thing to, like, complain about. But, I mean, we live in this world where stuff like this is important. Two Instagrams ago, he had 1,600 comments. Half of them are all telling him they's a loser. And now after this tournament, he has 22 comments on his Instagram page. and everything's saying how great of a guy he is and what an amazing shot and you're the best

Justin at least he came in second fuck you let me rip you apart for a second you just lost I mean that's see I didn't realize that he had just closed them for the most recent one just this so a couple of Instagrams ago he got 1,600 comments and then he got 22 on the one from after one all good it's like guys that he's friends with that are like wow Justin way to go

and even like his comment underneath the picture what a week easy to be upset about losing that playoff but I still can't believe I even had a chance. Like, fuck you. I do. Oh, Riggs is going through security, or what do we got going on? Quick update.

We just, we're boarding the plane. We just walked right through boarding. We'll walk it into the tunnel right now. This is electric. If service gets a little sketchy, let me know. But that was me saying thank you to the lady who just scanned my ticket. I couldn't agree more with you on the JT. It's very rare that the three of us are always in agreement.

I actually don't like it too much. I feel like I'm taking all my anger out on JT, which I like, but I do like to get mixed up with you guys. I don't like that we all agree on this one. But you know what? That just shows how much of an asshole this guy is. No, I agree. I do want to say, too, since you said the Instagram comment, Frankie,

I remember that I looked last week at the PGA Tord posted something on Instagram about JT, and I just clicked on the comments really quickly. And, like, you know, you can only see like 10 at a time. And like 9 out of 10 just said, get in the bunker with an exclamation. Oh, I mean. And I was actually thinking this, you didn't see any event. on social media. If it did come out, I missed it. But you have to know that everyone in the gallery is just chirping him now. Yes. Especially, I mean, you get a bunch of bros that are just drinking all day.

Even if they like JT, you know that the one thing that they're going to scream now is just get in the bunker. So he's probably had enough of it. So when he finally went to Instagram, a place that he can control, he's like, I'm not reading these messages anymore. I just cannot see the word get in the bunker anymore. And it's sad because it's only been one week. He's going to have to live with this for a real long time. I'm way more offended that he's turning off his Instagram comments than when he, when he kicked a fan out of the... That's just a thing you don't do. Right. Like, let the internet do what the internet does.

Don't put the picture up then. Right. If you're going to be scared, then delete your Instagram, delete social media. I say that about everything on social media. If you're going to put up something and then you're afraid of the backlash, don't put it up. We say that all the time about Twitter. Oh, I didn't... We're weaponizing social media.

Like, if people that, like, say something mean to you on social media and you don't like it, then why are you using the social media? Why are you tweeting about something that you don't want people to respond to? And the fact that he is Justin Thomas, a young, cool, rich, very successful, very good golfer, is even thinking in his mind, I don't want us have to see these negative comments. Makes me think he's very, very mentally weak. You think Ricky Fowler cares about what's being commented on his Instagram? He's probably like sitting back eating grapes on a beach, like watching them. Like, look at these losers commented on on Instagram.

I'm going to go out and, like, smoke a couple of balls next week. And I'm going to like just bang like amazing women and go around the fucking world. I don't care about Instagram comments. But Justin Thomas clearly does. If anything, he should be. It seems like he thrives off of these negative comments. When he told somebody to get, when he kicked somebody out of the tournament, he won the tournament. When he almost won again this week, it was some miracle from Phil that he didn't win.

So now I think if he starts shutting these off, maybe he doesn't, he's not as good anymore. He likes the negativity. I don't know. Let me ask you guys a question. Have you ever done the walk down the tunnel thing to get on the plane and then turn around and walk back the other way? I don't think I ever have. I don't know why I ever would have to do that. Well, it's a very weird.

feeling because everybody, it feels like once you go through the boarding and they swipe your boarding pass, that it's like there's literally no, a point of no return, everybody goes in one direction. Yep. But I walked halfway down the tunnel and I had like no service. You guys got really choppy. So I turned around and like sprinted back. It was like battling people through the tunnel to get back through to the edge.

And so now I'm just standing here while everybody walks by me. I mean, I can't imagine people feel too comfortable watching you run away from the plane going through the tunnel as if something's going on, but I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure you're not going to have any problems. It was kind of a people looking at me like that's just, I don't know what that means is. I can see just like a nice woman with her family, like, walking. They're all holding hands. They just see Riggs sprinting up the tunnel away from the plate, and they all just like shit

their pants. It was like, oh, my God, what is this man? What is this man about to do? So, yeah, it's like, what is he running from? Like, what's wrong? What could you be running from that plane? So kind of getting overshadowed by all this is that the guy who beat Justin Thomas was Phil Mickelson, which is exciting to see him get back in the winner's circle.

First win since 2013, if I'm not mistaken. I mean, Riggs, you tweeted yesterday. I thought this was interesting. I'm now rooting for Phil because we are, it's basically like rooting for Tiger as he starts to get older. I thought that was an interesting observation. Totally. I mean, the fact that Phil's 47, Tigers 42, Phil just won. He's had an unbelievable year.

I don't have all the stats in front of me because I'm standing in line here. He's been finishing top five in every single tournament. He's been great. He's up there nonstop. And the fact that if still at 47 can do that, can win, and he didn't win some chump dog shit classic here. I mean, he won the WGC, Mexico. There's all kinds of top dogs in the field from DJ to speed.

He's beating Justin Thomas down the stretch. It still can do it. That means our boy, Tiger can obviously do it. The Fusion Boy. Not only is he looking, feeling healthy, and are we feeling good about the fact that Phil won, meaning that Tiger can also win because he's five years younger. But Tiger announced, of course, last week. He's doing back-to-back weeks at the Valspar and then the Honda, and then it'll take a couple weeks off leading up to Augusta. This is going to be his second time doing back-to-back weeks after the fusion.

I mean, I don't know how many times I need to sit here and preach about the fusion and how he's more machine than man and the injuries are gone, blah, blah, blah. off. But the fact that he's doing back-to-back weeks, back-to-back times, basically, is the greatest sign that I've ever heard. Riggie, I have even more evidence. I have even more evidence that this guy's back more than ever. Bridgestone golf just put up this video, basically promoting that he's using the new Bridgestone ball, right? So it just came out about two hours ago, so you probably haven't seen it. It's Tiger Woods walking down a fairway, and they go, and someone from behind the camera goes, hey, Tiger, is that your ball? And he's looking down a ball. and he points at the camera, he points all the way back in the ferry goes,

yours is back there, right? And it's like the most intense, like, video ever. And then all of a sudden, at a nowhere, the screen comes up, it says, Bridgestone, 6.9 yards longer than the ProV1 series. And then the fucking commercial end. Who put 6.9 yards? I mean, this guy's getting back to sex jokes. He's getting, I mean, he's subliminally writing 6.9 now in commercials.

This guy is so back. I mean, you can't even script that this fucking commercial would say 6.9 yards longer than the ProVue 1. What? Who's like, how do you get to 6.9? How do you not just keep doing the test and then just get the 7 yards? That's what I'm saying. They definitely did like a bunch and we're like, oh, we got 6.9. We're sticking with that.

Right. At some point, they stopped that test and we're like, perfect. That is just the greatest news I've ever heard in my entire life. Please link me to that video. Also, I'm walking down the tunnel right now. So if you guys lose me, you know what happened. I got on the plane. Yeah, and just to cap that up,

it's a 6.9 yards longer than the ProVee 1, and then there's a little asterisk on the bottom says with ball fitting. So they, like, went through hoops, and they went over hurdles to try and get to that 6.9 mark. It's not, they did everything they can to put that graphic on that screen with Tiger Woods, and I couldn't feel better about it. Oh, I absolutely love it. Riggs, do we lose you completely?

All right, so it sounds like we just lost Riggs, but I think we got to mostly everything we wanted to talk about, right? We got Phil, we talked JT, how much we hate him. Tiger playing back-to-back weeks. Did you get all your JT hate out or did you got any more? I did. I mean, I'll always have JT hate, hate, but for this week I think I got it off my chest.

Tigers dropping 69 jokes. That felt good to get out there. Yeah, I mean, I think we covered it. All right, well, so the rest of the episode, we got Paige Branick back on the show. But before we get to that, did you see this post on Instagram this weekend of the guy with no hands making a hole in one?

Trent, I don't even know what to say about this guy. I mean, for those that don't know, on Barstall Sports Instagram, and I'm assuming foreplay, right? We put it up on four play. Yep. This man, his account is called Hole High, right? Hole underscore High.

He has no hands. His name is Brandon Canesey. Yep. Okay. And he's a golfer. And he has, I guess, a golf club that is made specifically for him where he attaches it at the nubs of his arms. That's what it's looking like here.

Yep. Okay. And both of his hands are basically conjoined at the top of a shaft. And he has figured out a way. to have enough whiplash in the shaft to bring this club speed around and hit golf ball so purely and so perfectly, like something I've never seen before. And when I stumbled upon this shot, he's at about, I'd say, I don't know, 185 yard par three overlooking water. It looks like TPC sawgrass.

I'm watching it right now. He's a lefty, too. He's a lefty. This guy puts this ball perfectly in the air. He's got an awesome follow-through. He's watching this thing go. It's in slow motion. this ball is going from left to right.

Yeah, a nice draw. It hits the ground, and you're like, no fucking way. Is this video still going? Are they actually going to show where this ball goes? And then he just drops the club. He hit a hole in one with no hands. I can't even hit the grain with two hands. This is the thing.

I'm very happy that this happened. That's a very cool shot. It's a very cool moment. I still can't believe it happened. But all I could think about when it was happening was there's no way that this guy has a hole in one and I don't. Like, that really doesn't make me feel all that good about anything. I'll be honest. I got mad at him.

Yeah, okay. If we're going to be real about it, we could step into that circle of trust because fuck this guy for being able to overcome all these adversities and hit hole in ones. I have been lucky enough

to not have this same adversity and I can't even come close. Trent, when I step up to this golf hole with this much water and this type of looming disaster that's about to come to me, I feel like I'm holding a goddamn butter knife.

I feel like I have a knife in my hand. And this guy looks like he's hitting a beach ball. That's how nice he's hitting this golf club. I mean, to flip that around, he doesn't have hands to feel like he's holding anything. So he doesn't have a butter knife in his hand. He's just nothing. True, but it's such pure contact and the follow-through. How does he follow-through with no

hands? Because the follow-through, you've got to like bend the wrist. Yes. So he puts all that weight through his hip and he just comes right through the ball. I mean, is it crazy to say that say that you got to look in your eye? Is it crazy to say that I think I'd be a better golf without my hands if you're watching this? It's possible. You don't have that mental block of the butter knife anything anymore. There's a big weekend for people with no hands. Like that There was that football player who benched press like 25 times and then ran like a 4-340 and then you got a guy with no hands hitting a hole in one. Do you think after he hit that shot he said look by no hands? Maybe.

I don't know. Could be. I mean, it's not like. No, that's fine. If there is ever time to drop that goddamn line. Well, and you would hope. It's when you hit that fucking hole in one. I would imagine.

I would imagine this guy has a pretty good sense of humor about not having hands. I bet he's got a gang of those jokes. there was a what was the other Instagram that you were telling me about the old guy with a cigar so Barso Swartz just posted this about an hour ago on this Monday

there's an old man it looks like he's in Boka he is stepping up to this fucking ball he's got a cigar in his mouth he's got a nice little hat on he's got one of those fishermen hats on he's wearing a yellow college shirt white pants this guy looks like he's just

retired 20 years ago he's he's been hitting the golf course every single day from his retirement home in Florida and he has the smoothest, I mean, everyone has to go check this video out. The smoothest swing, and he grooves a drive right down the middle, probably 260 yards. It's like, this guy is living life. I like to think his name is Sal, and they call him Old Sal. It's definitely Old Sal.

I don't want to pump Mike Portnoy's tires too much, but he's got a very similar-looking swing to Mike Portnoy, and we played golf them down in Del Boca Vista, but Mike didn't have the cigar, and the cigar and the fisherman really cap off the entire look. This guy has the nicest smoothest swing of a man his age of. I've ever seen in my entire life. That is a fact. Show me a better one and then I'll be stumped. But right now he has the smoothest swing I've ever seen.

And just to cap off Instagrams and golf on Barstool, three hours ago. I mean, we're posting so much golf content because golf is a fun thing to watch people fail at or do successfully. Well, the thing about golf on social media is it gives people an opportunity to become golf swing coaches. Correct. And that's what they love to do. Even you'll post anything, it'll get high engagement because it's guys being like,

that's a terrible swing. That's a terrible swing. Probably not as much with old guy Sal here. People love his swing. but people love critiquing other people's swings on social media. Absolutely. And then there's this one where this guy is putting. And it's a total, I could just totally see my dad doing this.

It's like he putts the ball. And after making contact, he already knows he completely mishit it, right? Have you seen this yet? Yeah. And he's taking three steps to the ball before it even comes to the hole. And he's basically playing hockey with it before it hits the hole. I mean, I've done that a million times. Everyone has done this.

And you're like, in your head you think no one's going to see it. It's like, oh, I'm going to hit this put. And it's going to lip out. I already know it's going to do it. But I'm going to tap this ball. and act like I, like, it went in. Yeah, it's like, all right, no big deal. Like, you almost think that everyone just stops and freezes,

and you're just the only one that's, like, alive, and you're just going to tap this ball in, and everyone's going to, like, reset, and oh, you got the shot? It's like, yeah. Meanwhile, it took you four little taps, and you're playing freaking hockey around the hole, so. And that guy, unfortunately, got caught on video, and now it's blackout to...

And he runs away, too. He does, like, a little, like, jog after he picks up the ball. He just wants to run away from his, like... I mean, he should run straight into that pond. He should run straight into that pond. Yeah, so all the listeners will have to go check these out. Yeah, if you want to see more stuff like that. We're at 4PlayPod on Instagram.

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Yeah, we're getting her fresh off the The Britt McHenry beef, so it's going to be a little more relaxed here Just take a deep breath for me, take a deep breath for it. It is pretty insane that the one day you come in There's like this massive Twitter beef, Then you're on radio for like an hour It's just kind of the barstool magic Yeah

This is what we deal with every day This is like I don't know how you do it I would probably die of a heart attack Come in being like, all right, I'm going to sit at my desk I should sit at my desk real quiet and do my job. And the next, you know, you're on radio, you're on this, you're on that. But this should be a little bit more fun.

Last time we talked, you had just defeated me in a very intense golf match. What was that? I'm not going to repeat that. You had crushed Trent's ass. Yep, that's true. Literally. Yep. Trent, how was your ass?

It's great. Fully healed at this point. Now things have changed for you. You are a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. First, what we've had on the show. Yeah. Hopefully that doesn't surprise you too much. What's it been like?

I know you had this crazy, almost like a year that you had to hold the secret and all that. Just give us kind of the deal what it's like to be like, oh, now I'm just a sports illustrator's a model. Yeah, so I found out in July, June or July, I was freaking out, so excited. Shot in November and Aruba, and now it's in magazines tomorrow for everyone to pick up. So what does I found out mean? and they just call you like, hey, you're Sports Illustrated. Yeah, so I've done some stuff with Golf.com, which is with Sports Illustrated, and, you know, they've always been like, hey, maybe you should, like, put her in the magazine.

And they finally were like, yeah, let's do it. It's been, like, a dream for me. Like, I've been such a fan of Sports Illustrated forever. And I would always look at the pictures, and I never thought it was going to happen. Like, it is just so surreal. And I can't believe that. I have a pain with them? Do you have to, like, interview? Like, what is it, how does it work?

I think for if you want to be, like, a rookie or do, like, they do, like, a really long, like, interview process. Because the thing that sets Sports Illustrated Swim-Soo apart from, like, other magazines or with the models, is that they really want, like, a personality. Someone who can represent the brand really well. And so this year is really special, too, because every girl has, like, a story to tell and things they've been through. And they really want to be about, like, female empowerment. And, you know, they kind of just own it, own who they are, own their, own their stuff. sex appeal and own their body and it's it's pretty cool it's a big yeah it's a big year for them with the me too movement all of that i mean i feel like the spotlight's on it even more do you think

you know you've come out with uh you know the cyber bullying you're giving speeches all that did that play in pretty heavily to the whole thing or how does that work yeah i mean that's you know my story and i've been through it and i think that all the other issues that the girls have you know gone through or that they deal with all tie back to cyber bowling in some way or bowling some way or another. And so it's cool to talk about it. And you meet the girls and they're like, I've been through that too. Like I get it.

And I was just talking to Camille and we're like, it's so cool. You meet all these girls. And it's like your best friends instantly. Like they all have like the same mentality and they've all kind of been through the same stuff. And you just like you meet them. You're like, oh my gosh, I love you. Because MJ, she does such a great job of like getting girls who have that same mentality.

So you come in and you're like a really honestly like a. part of the family and you see a lot of the girls come back year after year and she always wants to get someone who can be there for you know like a long time right so where is golf going to fit into all of this yeah so i um i've decided to not play competitively uh for the time being i don't know if i'll ever come back or what that may be uh but i'm i'm enjoying doing you know creating content and uh we have a lot of cool stuff with like different golf companies and creating really cool media to get more people involved and to just kind of make off cool and fun and yeah you were in Dubai yeah you were I don't know what's called it like a part host of the event I believe it's called a starter yeah so I was the

first female starter so I was basically the person who tease everyone off okay what was that like um super nerve-wracking really what are your responsibilities well so um basically you give them the Pinsheet, the scorecard, whatever changes there might be, or, you know, like, there's O-B on number 10, the player notices. And then you tell them order of play, and then you have to watch the time, you have to give them, like, you know, like a minute warning, 30-second warning, and then you go, like, right on time. And if you're not on time, then you have to, like, radio back into people.

And, like, it's, like, I was making it probably into a bigger deal than it really needed to me. And I was like, I cannot mess this up. Because if I mess it, you know, it's going to be, like, crazy. crazy, but I was fine until I got the list of the names, and it was for a European tour event. So it was like, I'm like Spain and like the accents. And there was one, he was from Scotland, and it was Stephen Gallagher. But he was like, no, it's Galcker.

I'm like, I'm like, I can't say that. Like, and he like sounded really good. Obviously, I sound like I'm sneezing. But he was like, Gallagher. And it was like, so slight, but he was like, you're saying it wrong. Did you just go with Gallagher? That's what I would have done. I said Gallagher.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Come on, like, kind of a hard-up move to be, like, just say, like, well, that's name's Bezoian, and it's like, no one's ever said it right, ever. I'm never, I don't care. Like, how do you care? He's been going through that his whole life, people are like, all right, just relax, pal. You don't need to settle down with the guy like her.

Yeah. I mean, I mean, I don't, I don't. I asked a couple of the guys, and I was like, how do you say? And he's like, how do you want to say it? And I was like, I'll say it this way. And then he ended up being, like, one of the final groups. And I said his name, and the announcers on TV were like, I've never heard it said that way before.

And I was like, oh, you should have told me. It was Alexander Levy or Levy or he's French. So it was like Leveille or Levy. Like there's so many different ways and I was like, Levy. When I went to Scotland too, everything, I said everything wrong, literally everything. Like Edinburgh is spelled basically Edenberg. And I'm saying it like that. People were looking at me like I was an alien.

They're like, what are you? You're not even fucking close, pal. And then what was another one I went to? I played a course called Leavein' Links, but it's just L-E-V-E-N. Yeah. I was like, oh, we're going to play Levin. Levin. People are like, you dumbass, it's leaving.

I mean, but we do the same thing here. I went to breakfast. It's one of the girls, and she's from Australia, and she said, can I have a tomato? And he was like, what? A tomato? Oh, a tomato? That's pretty close. Yeah, it's like not that far off.

It's not that far off. People only actually say tomato when they're, doing the tomato tomato thing. That's a good point. Yeah, it's like the company. Yeah. Who actually says tomato? What?

Yeah. Seriously? That's kind of psychos. Imagine you roll up to the first T. Trent and page is your starter? I mean, that'd be great. Like, hey, there's O.B. right. I have a pretty funny story. I'm going to hit it out of bounds anyway.

You can't bring your own beer. So one of the players, Eddie Papparel, he was, like, tweeting kind of funny stuff the night before and was basically like, like, uh, I don't know, just talking about, like, my appearance. And he's like, oh, like, I'll bring her cakes and muffins and I'll do it, all the stuff for her. And, like, kind of being, like, I don't know, backhand compliments in a way. But, like, they were still funny. And I, like, joked about it.

And he shows up on the team. And I was like, where are my muffins? And he was like, huh? Like, where are my muffins? He's like, um. Oh. And then he snapped hooked it. And I didn't know.

Yes. I was like, oh, my gosh. I'm never messing with someone. I felt so bad. No, you should feel great about it. I felt so bad. I was like, oh my God. He didn't bring the muffins.

I was like, I have one job and I already like probably got in his head and now he like snap hooked it. I was just sitting there. You rattled his cage. He brought that on himself. He brought that on himself. They were really funny tweets that. I should probably find them, but they were hilarious.

It's funny. You have, I mean, you have a massive social presence. I was looking in on Instagram and golf, there's really, there's speedy and Rory have 1.4 million followers. You have 1.3 million. Tigers got one million. So your top three or four accounts in all of golf on Instagram. Is that like, do you ever think that that's like kind of crazy?

Do you ever think like, I can't like, okay, I have a pretty big base here. I have a pretty massive platform. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty crazy. It gets frustrating at times, though, because it's like I do feel like I have that social media following, that presence. And then for people to like, no, bash on you guys, but be like, four plays, you know, growing the game.

And I'm like, I did something with that. I was like, do you see our video together? And it's like, they always just kind of like exclude me from that. And I think they just tie it back like, oh, you only have that following because of like what you look like. But they never talk about, you know, either the content I created or like the work that I've done. So sometimes it does get frustrated. So I'm like, I have this platform. I'm trying to do great stuff with it.

Like give me some kind of credit. Like, let's throw me like like a little boat. Right. Yeah. So is that the goal? I mean, is the goal to be. you know, involved in or grow or influence golf as much as you can? Or is the goal to be more, hey, I just like, okay, golf got me to here. Now I want to take it to Sports Illustrator or whatever.

I mean, kind of what is, where are you thinking I want to prioritize my efforts? Golf is, I love golf so much. It's a passion of mine. I want to stay in golf. I love it. But I also want to get new people into golf. So I think my goal right now is, I mean, I think the professional level, like the LPJ and the PGA, they're doing great. And obviously they, They have no need for me. But I want to grow it more on like an amateur level. Like I want to change the way people think about golf on like an amateur level. And so for more people to like come in and play and feel included,

and I think that's really important. I think it's right now it's like it's very exclusive and there's no diversity. And I don't see like too much of an effort to like change that. And I feel like the golf community at times can be like really vile and just not nice. You're talking to the right guys. Yeah. We're very against that. Yeah.

And like, it's really frustrating because golf is a game that anyone can play. And I feel like if we all have this love for golf, like, I don't see what, like, the huge problem is. Like, we all want the same thing. There's not only one right single way to grow the game, you know? And I feel like if you throw something out there, they're like, no, we don't want to grow it that way. Like, it can all help in one way or another. It can all be beneficial. And I just feel like if we want more millennials to start playing,

then, like, there's things that you need to do. And I'm not saying to, like, get into the game to, like, then become professionals, just to get into the game because it's a great game. And it's fun. Yeah, that's what I'm going to do on Saturday. I'm going to play. Exactly. Yeah, because, I mean, golf courses are closing.

Like, it's doing better now because I think, obviously, the PGA tour is doing awesome. And, like, they have so many great players. But it's, like, I still go to a golf course and I don't see one woman there. Right. Or kid. Totally. Like, that's weird. Right.

Like, that's, like, not normal. Right. Yeah, the only place you ever see them are country clubs, really. And even then it's like, it's sparse. Yeah, and they're still have like that. They'll like turn your nose to you. I'm like, you're five. Big time.

What are you doing? Yeah, right. Like, fuck you. Yeah. So waste management, we were out there last weekend for the first time. We got to experience what it's like to walk around and all that. What is it like for you to walk around the waste management? Is it like, can you even walk around there or do you just get hounded, like surrounded,

attacked? What does it like for you at the waste management? I also want to note that. that Riggs and Trent bailed on me multiple times during the waistman opened. That sounds like big news. That is not. That's not what happened. I'm just saying.

But, no, it's a really fun tournament, and I played the pro am, and it's insane. Like, there was, like, 80,000 people there for the pro am, and you just feel like, like, so. Like, when people cheer for you, you're like, yeah. Like, that's awesome. That's why they do it. Yeah, I made that, but, like, I get it now. Right. So you birdied 16.

Yeah, I birdied 16, and I was, like, shaking. Like, I made the turn, and I was probably, I would say maybe five under at the turn. Like, I was playing really well. And then I was, like, on 10, and I heard, like, cheer. I hit in the bunker. And then I, like, shanked it out of the bunker. And I was, like, I'm, like, nervous. Like, I'm shaking.

And then, like, I didn't play 11 that well. And, like, 12. I finally played well, and 13 was fine. Then, like, 14 and 15. I was just like freaking out and I was like talking to people I was like yeah like I'll meet you on 17 like I'm gonna skip it because you hear it like the entire way and it's just like it builds and like you hear the booze and the cheers and here's like oh gosh it's like they're all expecting me to hit a really crappy shot already right right so and I know they're gonna boo and like they're probably

waiting and I got there and I teed it up like five inches like high I was like I'm not chunking this I cannot miss the ball I am not gonna hit this fat and I made contact and it felt good and I looked up and it was straight and I threw my arms up and I turned around because I was like it's fine like it's all that matters that's all that matters like I didn't shank it like I didn't hook it like it's straight and I'm like it seems like the right distance like I'll be fine it's on the green and I look around because everyone's cheering and it's like four feet and I was like okay now I have to make the pie yeah right and I'm like you know if you make a 10 footer great if you miss it okay it's 10 footer but if you miss like a four footer

Oh, you're going to get booed. Oh, yeah, you're definitely going to get booed. And you're like, well, that sucks. So it was a downhill left. I remember this like it was yesterday. Of course. Yeah, no, I can't tell. Downhill, left a rider.

Kind of a hard pot and I was standing over it. And I just kind of like, I took it back and I was shaking. I just cut across and hit it on the toe, but it worked out well. And it just kind of like dribbled in. It was like the coolest thing ever. That's huge. I would put it like into the crowd. It would be nuts.

In college, I made like the final show. in beer pong and people were like lifting me up it was better than that like it was like this yeah i would assume it was better than it yeah it was like the first grade moment in my life wow that's very excited i thought you were going to say the beer pong shot was better i thought you're going to be like it was waste management's fine but beer pong is great moment in my life where actually felt like cool yeah and then it got replaced by waste management okay that's fair sounds a lot like when i birded the 18th of the old course at st. st. Andrews when there was one stool watching oh there's video of that he was taking a video do you ask him to take a

video or was he just taking no he was he's a big fan boy leon but he spells his name like lion like the creature that's classic scotland yeah big time so we got to go back then to your little waste management chirps yeah because we were in the crowd on 16 yeah and once you're in the crowd we're there at 7.05 a.m. once you're there once you're inside 16 you can't leave I'm pulling up text you can't leave that's true okay so on 16, I couldn't get in, and you guys couldn't get out. Correct. You couldn't get in? You're just like, I'd be like, I'm page spraying it.

Well, I had passes for the other side, so I can't just, like, walk in because there's already a line. That was the snooty side. Yeah, we were there on Friday. Yeah. With you snooty. Yeah. That's true.

Too snooty for us. She's scrolling through text messages, which is not like, never going to. All right, Paige, it's been good to see. I wish you another but the best swimsuit attention. Okay. Now it was all good. And, and. And I love this though.

I sent a text at like 120. And I was like, I don't think I can make it by all scene. And he's like, Riggs was, that was you saying I can't make it. I couldn't make it. I tried.

And he was like, hey-oh. Sorry, impossible to meet up out there. And then I, we were supposed to play nine holes. I'm going to the table again. We were supposed to play nine holes the next day. And he goes, so I just. I just talk to Trent and he's out flying out tomorrow now. So that means I'm out.

All right, that's not so bad. Thank you. It could have been worse. Also, I lost my voice. Now, I talked for a living. But then I heard from Trent that you were actually in town for another day. Yeah, I didn't leave until Monday at like 11 o' morning. So we could have played.

No, because I didn't have a voice. So I would have literally just been near you and not been able to talk to anybody. Because when you have a, no, when you have lost your voice, the only remedy is you have to rest it. You can't talk. Yep. So I had to try to be ready for Monday to do radio. I have a live radio show, Mike in the Murdoch, 9 a.m. And then I had to do a podcast, and so I had to rest my voice.

This is coming off really well. Let me tell you that. So you would have just had a voiceless rigs just around you, just near you. That would have been weird. But your game speaks loudly. True. A golf game. I did want to play.

I really wanted to play well. Like how you clarified golf game. Well, my game is questionable. It's just not like there. Not as great. Not as great. So we do have to get a rematch in the books at some point. We do.

Yeah. I don't like this 400 nonsense that I was hearing about though. You know, it's funny. I've actually been playing like the best that I've ever played in my entire life because I just like don't care. Wait off the shoulder. Yeah, like weights off the shoulder. Like I'll, like I still go out and play all the time, but I'm not like grinding, practicing. And I don't care.

I probably shot like over par. Like I've honestly just been playing so well. So we're not going to do a rematch. Everybody, that was a bad idea. I want to see. and a thong again, though. Oh. Yeah, that's a very sexy picture.

It was. I need to go on a Trent-like diet, though. Your cakes. For next time. Like, if you put you, a picture of you and a thong, next to my sports illustrated picture, you definitely have better cheeks than me. Hockey ass. It's, like, impressive.

Like, it just, like, poop. Yeah, I got a big time hockey ass. Now somebody's going to put that picture together, and it's going to be something for the world. Definitely. I might have to do that. I think I'm going to have to do that. You're going to have time. You're going to need.

to get that in before this goes up because someone's going to do that quickly. My screensaver was like my face against your butt with like the mark on it for a while. Oh, yeah. All right. Was the mark from that worse than the actual pain or no? Yes, and that's what I was telling her before when we were talking earlier. The bruise looked way worse than it actually fell. It got hit by like a meteorite.

Yeah, it really did. And it cleared up in like a week. It didn't hurt that bad. Although sitting when I was going to the bathroom was kind of difficult. Did you have to do a one cheek? I did have to do a one cheek. It's tough. It struggles.

But it did look worse than it fell. You're like leg falls asleep? I mean, no, it's not enough that long. I think it would. I'm telling you from first day experience that it did not. All right. We're going to end on that. One leg in the air.

Everyone picturing me on one cheek in the bathroom. That's what you think you're going to get. Definitely don't Photoshop my ass cheeks with Pages Sports Illustrated picture. Page Serenic, thank you very much for hopping on with us. Thanks for having me. All right. And that was Paige Brannick. She's one of our favorite people in the world.

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