Fore Play - Matthew Fitzpatrick in quarantine

Episode Date: March 31, 2020

Matthew Fitzpatrick (16:16) joins the show in quarantine. The 25th ranked player in the world tells all time stories about playing Augusta, buying a hitting net, beating kids online in fifa and weighs in on some of our classic debates!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. This thing's never going to end, so this is just what life is now. And we spoke to someone who is experiencing the exact same thing as everyone else, but happens to be the 25th ranked player in the world. That's our friend Matthew Fitzpatrick. He's over in England, in the homeland. And we caught up with him.

We did like a full hour. We talked to everything. Quarantine, hitting balls into a net, mimicking other people's swings, moments from tournaments, Augusta, all kinds of good stuff. So we just wrapped up with fits, a good hour.

I love that guy. That's it. He's got to be maybe our number two now. It's a kid's like our boy. Just so laid back, so just nonchalant, and he's an incredible golfer, top 25 in the world,

and just sitting down in front of one of his football jerseys inside his home house in England, just talking golf and talking. fucking quarantine life and just really cool guy to catch up with. He's like, he can tell he's a very big fan also that he like watches all the videos, sees things. It's just he's the man.

He's like he's what you would expect like guys, his age and like on the PJ tour to be like. But like you want them to be like that. But they're not always like that. He is the guy that you like would want to think that that's how you would be if you were a pro golfer. He's like the same person as if he was working at a restaurant or or whatever. doing like being an accountant he's just a regular dude he's also nothing nothing's changed him at

all he's also a guy where we can just do minimal minimal minimal prep and just turn the mics on and go like kittesner's the same way and now with mattie fitzpatrick we just come on and we talk and he's like one of the guys just catching up with a friend that's all right yeah and frankie frankie was right before he was like hey why don't we just like not even prepare an outline why don't we just let it rip because it's so natural you don't know like it's almost like he's just the fifth mic on the show yeah rather than be like like interviewed. So, so we just wrapped up with fits. That'll be in a couple minutes.

You're going to see. You're going to catch all that full hour. So we're trying to get as many people as we can shoot the shit. He, um, his Augusta stories were killing me. He's got like, just talking about playing the 18th hole. We had legitimately had discussions over the last couple weeks about the 18th hole at Augusta nonstop. So we finally just got to ask somebody who plays in the Masters over here and trying to hit it through the gap on the 18th and him, you know, being like, oh no, I've actually had many rounds.

where I hit those damn trees on 18. And then going through kind of what that's like and the approach and all that. So, yeah, Fitz is the man. He is our Euro golfer. And it's nice to catch up with someone else outside and just, you know, you clowns, I feel like. Totally.

Yeah, the relaxed banner with him is great. And then his story of actually waving people back because he had to go to like his one go-to mental shot. He's like, I can get this in play. But I see people inching in down there on the left-hand side. You actually need to get back to stay safe. because this is where my game is right now. It's so funny to hear a pro se and just talk about

because I can't imagine being in that moment and looking down that 18th and that shoot and be like, I don't know, I have the skill to get it to where it needs to go to make that like a paw attainable. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, his whole just, you know, he's wearing a T-shirt, he's hanging out, his brother's outside hitting balls.

Like he does, to Frankie's point, seeing just like, you know, one of the guys are like who you'd be. and then I love how Frankie was like, yeah, like if he worked in the restaurants or, you know, if he was like me, he'd be, you know, very natural. You just went right to the restaurant. Yeah, always. Right to reference. Well, shout up Borelli's restaurant.

Still thriving, still going. Well, that's, someone actually just messaged me they made. I guess they're like, a lot of people are picking up on hobbies, I guess, right now. Like, maybe, like, you have a little wood shop in your basement or something or, like, you're just doing things. Some guy just made me, like, an unreal piece of, like, wood that has a Borelli's logo on it. I'm like, where did this come from? just wanted to make for you.

I was like, are you kidding me? It's like a little like project I'm working on. It's like people are like, people are just working on shit. Everyone's like part of this quarantine, aside from the deaths obviously and people getting sick, like it's fucking horrible and I wish this never happened. But it is like bringing people like into a different like state of mind where like you're getting more cleanly,

you're getting more clean and you're like, I found myself like sitting around my family more. You know what I mean? Like I'm like back home like talking with people. Like you're just doing you're like doing things that you wouldn't have done otherwise. You know what I mean? That guy probably hasn't made a piece of wood burnt thing in 10 years. He's like, let me

crank out this little piece of wood here. Frank is like, what are he talking about? I agree. Like that being on like the back of the guy's brain of like a skill that he had at one time but hasn't used in a while and now is like, oh, I'm going to do that because there's almost like so much time I can look at a phone on my screen or do my work

and there's more hours in the day. So I'm going to be creative with the hours that I have And I'm sure that guy is doing that and much like everything. What do you mean? Monopoly last night. What do you mean getting more clean? Yeah, that's what it's just. You find in every crevice?

Like, what do you, that's what you said in terms of what people are doing? I think that cleanliness is on people's mind more than ever. Like, I think, like, everything you do, like, um, like, like, hygiene is just, like, number one priority now as opposed to, like, if you're just out with the boys golfing. Like, the other day I was golfing. And my buddy has a rangefinder and he's looking through it. and he wants to throw it to me. And I'm just like, I smack it out of the air when he throws it to me.

It's like, well, don't, I'm not, you just put it up to your eye and you touched it with your hand. I agree. I see what you're saying. Two weeks ago, three weeks ago, I'm taking that range finer. I'm throwing it in the, and it's in the cart. I'm grabbing it. I'm drinking stuff.

I'm, we're sharing beers, whatever. Oh, you know what I mean? Now it's like, don't even look at it. Dude, even in our interview fits at one point told a story about like, yeah, and then after he gave me, a big hug and I was like you can't give hugs like what are you that's very dangerous you can't do normal stuff it's also like it's going to give us and it already is a massive appreciation for just doing normal things like how awesome does just sitting at a bar and ordering like a buffalo chicken sandwich and having a um a very kind like waiter or waitress bringing you refills on beers while

you just watch like the NHL slate of games on a Wednesday night how amazing does that sound Sounds amazing. I'm not going to lie. I could use a hug. Trent, Daddy, what you're doing, I mean. Trent, you look like a fucking mess, man. Yeah, you do. Are you, are you, like, concern for your mental, for your mental health right now?

Are you, like, going insane? No, I think, you know what's making me go the most insane? And this isn't going to make anybody else feel only better. But it's not right now. It's looking to the future and being like, we're just in, like, week three of potentially, like, 10 weeks, 12 weeks of this. That's the most daunting part of the. whole thing I would say. Yeah.

That's what's bringing me down. You look like epicenter Trent, you know, you look pretty, it's like you're going through something. Yeah, the number, like, so funny to, it's just so funny to me that Trent from, uh, was it Des Moines, where did you, where did you grow up? Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, just like sitting at a security booth, like, blogging away. Now one, now, like, if you would have known, flashback, flash photo.

like six years would you know that you were going to be sitting in the epicenter of a global pandemic inside a three by three room just staring at a computer being like man like what what is happening right now i can't leave my house like you can't do anything can't pretend i tell you who's not pleased is my mother she's not happy to say no she's like if you know if you just would have stayed back home then none of this would have happened it's like well i don't know what to tell you i think that you had like a window like riggs did He jumped out. I got out.

Lurch got out. Like you had to hit that window trip. You had to get out of there because there's no difference in what you're doing right now than if you were doing it in the nice comfort of a nice bigger home with a backyard, a porch. Your dad's probably watching the weather come in. Yep. You know what you are? Do you regret not leaving?

Yeah, I do. Yeah. This is doing great. Because I feel like a week ago, you weren't on the full regret side, not leaving. No, and legitimately though, now, and I probably should have seen this coming. I don't know if I should have or not, but like the numbers are legitimately terrified. Very fine.

Yes. Like the deaths every day. It's very scary. And I know the numbers go up with the testing, but it's still like I think the numbers we're seeing now weren't numbers that we thought we were going to see. And that's the scary part. Yeah.

Yeah, it's scary. I almost picture like the coronavirus in the movie I am legend, like in cringing on your apartment. Yeah. You are, you need to lock it down airtight because it could get in. Yeah, I feel like we're going to get to a point. Like, I could go on walks right now.

I can go out and stretch my legs. And as long as you social distance from people, it's not a big deal. I don't know how much longer they're going to allow that if the numbers keep going the way they are. I saw some something on Twitter or whatever watching the news and there was some like little dashboard of a beach. Who posted it? It was a beach in Florida. It was like 6,000 people on a beach.

And then no joke, like three weeks later, those. 6,000 people interacted with 870,000. Like that spider web makes me spin inside. Probably even more, dude. It's probably even more. Bobby, I just, what? Well, just because that one guy that did that thing, the English dude that we talked about last week, he said, it could be less. It could be more. One person can actually, you can, their, their web is 50,000 people. Right. So that math. It's going to be, everything, it's going to be fine.

I'm sure of it. Yeah, everything's fine. Everything's totally fine. So, you know, somebody mentioned cleaning every crevice just a few moments ago. And I would really like to thank our sponsors. Obviously, business right now, economy, everything is very, very difficult for pretty much every person on this earth. And our sponsors supporting us and allowing us to continue to do this show so that we can continue to provide hopefully some sort of escape, some sort of, you know, humor, some sort of entertainment to all of you listening. So a big thanks to all of our sponsors

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match. Phil's responding to people on Twitter. Really the only thing golf related that we can talk about in terms of golf. It's kind of the only thing sports related to talk about. I'll just go through the tweets here and then we can kind of talk about what they mean. Last night at 7.17 p.m. somebody tweeted at Phil and Tiger. So do you think there's a chance you two go play around, miced up with one camera guy and just put it out there on a stream for people to watch.

We need live sports. Phil Mickelson then said working on it in response to that guy's tweet. And then somebody said, you better not be teasing. And he said, you know, I don't tease. I'm kind of a sure thing. basically the reaction to that is everybody wants it to happen clearly because we haven't had live sports in what feels like months although it's only been a couple of weeks so if they could do this if tiger and phil could work out some way to make this happen to make sure everybody's safe

make sure nobody passes the coronavirus to anybody else i mean this would be the most viewed live sporting event potentially of all time if there's nothing else if you're going to do something like this, this is the home run of all home runs, time to do it. It's what we've been talking about with like the Whitney, you know, Riggs match was like, if we could have done that now, would be, it'd be what every person in the country who's quarantined would be watching because there's fucking nothing else to watch. Right. I mean, I don't know how if they can actually do it, but if they could, there's just, there's no reason not to do it. Live sports, people want it. And I remember when the first one happened, like afterwards, people were a little disappointed with

the overall product for whatever reason. I can guarantee that would not happen this time around. People would just be happy that something's happening. Only way they have to do it is if, like, the TV network or wherever they do it on the internet or whatever has to, like, donate all the money or something to the cause is like, because you're not going to be able to be that one entity that, like, is a money grab right now. Like you just can't, you can't go out there and be like, oh, we're going to put on this thing, me like selfishly because no one else is going to go out and do it like we're going to be the one thing everyone can watch we're going to make a ton of money they're going to have to do

something like to rally around and then it'll be like the most must watch like pick me up the country needs like oh we're going to raise a ton of money for whatever like first first responders whatever but i think that's their only way of doing it i'm sure they're going through all the loopholes right now figure out how to do it because you can't just put it on ESPN you can't just like you can't just put on uspn just everyone watch it and then be like oh like ESPN won the bidding war to get the only thing on sports. You just can't do that. Right. Yeah, as long as there's some donation aspect to it, I think they'd be okay. But like, you know,

companies are making, you know, some companies are making money. They are, yeah, for sure. But yeah, that would be, it'd be like that relief concert in like the 80s, you know, and it's like, that was like my whole world came together to like support that. Live aid. That'd be like something, you know, that'd be like live aid for doing it, you know, kind of a little bit more around sports. So I hope to get that happens that would be awesome if all of a sudden we got tiger versus phil in the middle of all this maybe with peyton and tom brady involved are you kidding me amazing all right uh if i got

anything else before we jump to mr matthew fitzpatrick twenty fifth frank player in the world no sir nope all right everybody here's matthew fitzpatrick riggs frankie what's up fits Hi, Hey, buddy How's it going? We're good. Frankie just said he's been reading up on plagues. I'm plagues.

Just trying to do some, you know, just doing some research, just trying to do everything I can for the people. Like, I just think it's my duty to the people to at least know a little bit. I mean, this isn't our first rodeo with this shit. They used to ride the backs of rats. I mean, in your side of the country over there, it used to be a nightmare. Yeah.

It's not confidence boosting, is it, reading about Blakes? I'm not going to lie. No, no. That's why we come here and talk about golf. Maybe lift up the space a little bit. Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. I like that idea. Fitz, we're kind of just recording and we're just winging it and catching up with everybody

and seeing what the hell's going on in the world. All right, I like it. So where are you right now? I'm at home in Sheffield. So, yeah, I was with, after the players, obviously got cancelled. We I drove home, my parents were with me.

I drove home back to Jupiter. And then from there, my parents were supposed to leave Tuesday. And me and my brother booked a flight for them too. But then Sunday, I think, Sunday or Saturday, Trump decided to ban flies entering the US from the UK. I was like, well, this is, this might go the other way that he's just going to ban flights leaving.

So on Sunday, we just decided to, just to get out of there. So booked a flight last minute and, yeah, and flew back here. What was the players like? I mean, was it crazy playing on Thursday when the whole world, everybody was shut down? Yeah, I was like almost, you had to prepare yourself to play, obviously. but with everything that else was going on in the world, it was, yeah,

it was just very, very weird, and then I finished the round, my round in basically pitch black, and I didn't finish my round. And then, yeah, Friday night,

there was a lot of talk and, and store for my good friend, Danny Rappaport from Golf Digest. He sort of, he was there covering it and I was texting him, went to see him. And then literally, as I was about to go to his room, I got a text from the tour saying it was canceled.

So, yeah, pretty crazy. What's up with, you got like a net? You ordered like a little hitting net I saw? Yeah, yeah, my brother's actually out there at the minute hitting. So, yeah, this is the range right now. He's walking five yards into the back garden and hitting into a net from a mat. So that's all I've got right now. You've been like talking to any other than guys.

Like what are, you know, is there like a group text with any of the boys, the Ryder Cup crew? Like, what's everybody doing? What are people saying? No, I spoke to a couple of guys over text, you know, but I don't think anyone's doing anything. The only place in America that I know the facilities are open, I've heard and seen is Lake Nona. So I know there's a few guys that are over there, Polter, Tyrol, Danny Willits, Arworth, but I'm sure it's the same deal. but like where I rent a place in Jupiter to the Bears Club I got an email the other day that's that's closed golf course is closed so

you know it's only a matter time before everyone gets a nice net like myself this would be the longest that you'll go without like playing a round of golf right like who knows how long you won't be able to go on the golf course comfortably yeah comfortably I mean it's very very weird very weird do you that will affect like a lot of golfers that they're not able to go through their daily routines like whenever you guys come back are you going to see some like poor golfing you think or like I depend I mean we're not going to get it's it's literally like once the lockdown's over and people say there's a tournament like that's it you're straight in the deep end you know there's no

oh we'll give you two weeks to warm up yeah literally straight in the deep end so you just got to do as best as you can right now and see how it goes, but I definitely think we could see some interesting stuff. Yeah, because if you're like the Travelers Championship or something, you're not going to be like, oh, no, we'll cancel our tournament so people have a couple weeks to warm up. Have it? No way. No way. You are straight

into it. So, yeah, that's going to be interesting. I mean, literally I see three, four yards of ball flight. That's it. Do you know? Like, do you know, like, all that was a tight draw. No. I have no idea.

That's what made it 10 times worse is because when I, like, hit a shot and I'll have the trackman numbers and everything. And I'm like, is that any good? And then the trackman says, oh, no, that was 30 hours right. I'm like, wait, is this right? Or did I have a bad shot? I have no idea. I have no idea.

Yeah, because, like, that's, you know, that's the oldest school version of feedback and trackman is just like you're both like where the ball goes how it's going you can obviously a hundred percent a hundred percent do any of that he's very strange first tournament's going to be great winning scores like four over just guys that would be the best that'd be the best i know uh i know colin montgomery once um won in switzerland and he never went to the range all week he just warmed up in a net and went and played and won that's that's what i've heard anyway so that's phenomenal So what, I mean, what are we doing to kill time? Do you like a Netflix binge guy?

Anything and everything. Fortunately, I have like a bit of, I ordered a bit of like gym kit so that I can do a bit of that. I do Netflix, Xbox, like all, all that sort of stuff. But I mean, it's just becoming very, very monotonous. Xbox, what are you, big FIFA guy? You guys, I feel like a big. Yeah, big FIFA.

Yeah, big FIFA. Don't play anything else. because I can't play anything else. You just steak at everything else? Yeah, I'm awful. I'm awful. Or Fortnite, or neither. That's one of those games, though, like, Call of Duty and Fortnite,

like when you miss that curve or you miss that initial jump, you can't then join in because everyone is so elite. 100%. Yeah, absolutely. Like, FIFA, you may be able to, like, find a way to, like, compete in the game. But in Call of Duty and Fortnite, if you don't know what you're doing,

it is the most frustrating thing to ever be a part of. Because you just go out there, you get killed. You're like, why am I? Why do I spend money? bothering yeah yeah I couldn't agree more couldn't agree more you on like the news junk are you becoming like a news junkie I think a lot of people are just quarantining and just cranking the news and yeah that's a good point literally I the only channel I've watched on the equivalent to cable in the UK is called sky the only channel I've had on is sky news I've not changed channel it's either sky news

or Netflix or Apple TV like that's it like nothing else. Probably not a good thing. It's crazy times. It's like, is it, so obviously over here, I mean, we're starting like New York is the epicenter where Trent is right now and he looks super stressed. I'm stressed out about it. New York is, New York is the epicenter.

And then we're just, I feel like it's closing in on me. I'm sitting in my box size department and new cases every day. It's horrible. I hate that people are going through it. But it really feels like that New York is the epicenter. know when it's going to roll out. Yeah, you look like you're in the epicenter. Like that's your setting.

Something about like your... With a black drape, it looks like it's closing in on you. Your crew neck is like closer to your neck than usual. It's like tighter. And like you look like you're going to like a funeral right now. You look like you're like, you look like death. You look like death in podcast. Half of your body's dead.

The left half of the screen is dead. That's pretty accurate. You look like you're going through a pandemic or you're going to, like speak at an Apple keynote like you're about to release a new iPad. You guys were all smart. These guys, if you don't know, Fitz, these guys all got out of town. They all went to a different state or a different city. And I was the idiot. And I just stuck around New York City because I didn't think it was going to be too crazy. And I was wrong. Yeah. I feel like it's past the point of leaving now too, Trent.

Oh, big time. So my roommate was thinking about leaving, but he lives, he's got family in New Jersey. But I don't know. Yeah, if you go somewhere and you're like, oh, yeah, I was just in New York, I think they just throw you in a room and they're like, you can't talk to anybody. Yeah. In Rhode Island, they were pulling people over. If you have New York plates, they're like pulling you over at the border and saying, like they're like checking you at that point.

Oh, God. It's crazy. They throw you overboard. They throw you in the ocean. They just drag you out, chain you out there and drag you right in the middle of the ocean. So we've never met. This is, I go by the name of Lurch on the show. pleasure to meet you i've got a brother myself i you know you and your brother are quarantine you

get into any crazy games because my brother and i will just like throw a ball at one another and first got to drop it's a loser you doing anything just off the beginning not not yeah i think we will i i live in my own place so like my brother's at home which is only two minutes away um but like one thing i have uh i bought was a chipping net so you know the chipping net is like a staple Christmas item for about five years when you're 10 years old and I never thought it would ever come in handy and here you are I've actually had to buy one myself so rather than one that my grand gave me 10 years ago um but this this chipping net's quite good it's like got like different targets and stuff so I have a feeling that over the next few weeks we'll end up uh yeah

having a little competition on that properly I guess Santa Claus didn't drop off the chipping net to my house I guess he just skipped over my house. I never learned how to chip. I assume that that one was not on my list. Are you right? The back garden's fenced in, Frankie. You'd be fine. How about left and right?

Is it fully? You're just getting, you know, those plastic balls that people are in? You just go out of bubble. Just chipping, exactly. That's the only way. All the hedges will just have like dead squirrels and all these just animals just living amongst. The garden.

She's just like, who, what kind of nightmare took place at? Fitz, are you like, is a big part of you bummed because you were like playing really good golf? Yeah, a little bit, yeah. More so, for me, it's more like the majors that I'm, you know, that I'm missing and the WGCs, particularly the majors. I mean, obviously Augusta was, is next week on, you know. Um, so that sucks big time because that's probably my favorite week of the year. All being well, we're going to, they're going to reschedule it. But yeah, missing the majors, which looks like the US Open is going to go to, I would guess.

Yeah, it's just one of those things that's pretty disappointing because that's what I've say everyone has their eyes on. But to not play them, yeah, it is pretty shitty. Yeah, it sucks to like, we hear from you guys all year long about. trying to peak for the majors and like how hyped up and really like yeah all these other tournaments are key and they're important and you get jacked up if you're in contention to win them and there's a lot of money to be had but like the major championships are what it's all about a hundred percent a hundred percent yeah it's what everyone's bothered about you know and

you realize when you're off and you're doing you're doing nothing you realize like actually yeah it's a big deal that you're actually good to be missing them are you are you going to be like jacked like bryson now afterwards you should be like workout that's the plan yeah i mean if if people are i've seen it all over social media people are either coming out this one way another either ripped out the mind or just a giant circle dude i i ran stairs the other day and it was the worst experience of my life i saw that sweet that was too that was great yeah i had to i was like because i was i was the same way fits. I was like, I'm either going to be shredded 190 or 450 pounds at the end of this.

I wanted to. So I was like, I found like a set of stairs in my apartment building that nobody used. I didn't want to run in anybody. I ran up at like 15 times and I don't think I'll ever do that again. I'm going to be huge when this is over because that was terrible. Yeah. Poor God. It's brutal. Don't do any stairs. Do you cook bits? Do you do any cooking? Yes, that is one thing actually I have done. It's, I mean, obviously, I tried to limit my trips to the the supermarket to get food um but you sort of kind of end up hoarding stuff and um and just figuring out what you're going to make for breakfast lunch and dinner every day and you've got to try and be inventive otherwise it becomes very dull um but i enjoy i enjoy cooking

personally so it's like it's not it's not too bad for me i don't mind it at all it's very weird how this whole thing is like leveled everybody off like you're like a 25th ranked player in the world in golf and like got this incredible career he made great money and you're just stuck doing exactly what the rest of us are doing. Locked your damn house, trying to cook with like some rice and some shit meals that you can whip up. It's like it's an equalizer. The coronavirus is equalized everybody. That's true.

I have to admit for the first for the first week when I was here, I was like, this is quite a nice. like this could be going on for a while I could have some time off you know just relax play Xbox, play FIFA and you know do whatever really and then it sort of slowly dawned on me that actually if I keep eating like this and not moving and doing nothing then I'm going to become very

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I don't know. But I know we get an email regularly from Keith Pelley that's like sort of pretty private telling us about what announcements might be made or what plans are going to be made. so yeah that's all i that's all i've had i mean we have it's been announced now but i had one today about the irish open that's going to be postponed um and you know that's it's pretty pretty crappy really because that's one of the great events of the whole year so um yeah we'll see i feel like you guys could i could see you guys playing some tournaments before anyone else any other sports with like no fans because it's not like soccer or hockey or football or basketball or basketball where there's a lot of like personal contact

yeah like sweating and bleeding on each other it's like you guys can pretty much stay away from each other and as long as we're at a point where you can test and like make sure nobody in the field has the coronavirus then like why wouldn't you be able to just play on a golf course yeah i i agree i definitely agree i mean it'd be very weird at like not having marshals and stuff as well you'd have to make sure you hit it straight um and then like yeah It is, but I definitely agree. I think we definitely could be the first sport to sort of get back to playing tournaments. I mean, just reading the email that I received today,

sort of, again, it kind of hit me how big an impact this whole thing is, particularly on the economy and in the golf economy. Everything is losing money, obviously. And it's pretty scary, really, because you don't know what's going to happen at the end of it, what tournaments will still be around if they, you know, it's pretty scary. Has any like heroic Marshall ever saved you like a big shot? You think like he did like,

yeah, I've had a couple. I've definitely, I've definitely had a couple where they've been found. I know the only one, it's not mine, but I know Matt Wallace a few years ago in Denmark, like he hit one in the rough and they were looking for it for ages

and he found, and I think he was like challenging for the lead. This Marshall found it and he just like gave him the biggest hug. club because he knew how much it meant to find the ball so that was pretty funny yeah because we talk all time like having even like the grandstands as bumpers sometimes and having like marshall search your ball or you know just put a flag down whenever you hit one ladder right like that's kind of how we justify like oh yeah they're like they're getting shot safe because they have all these perfect conditions

No, no, it's true. Like, I mean, particularly Marshall, I mean, I wouldn't say I've had it recently for the courses that we've played because there's not been too many trees or anything like that. But certainly other golf courses throughout the year, you'll find places where Marshalls will just manage to keep an eye on it. Or, you know, even fans and stuff that you wouldn't, if you were playing on your own at your local golf course, you would never see the ball again. you ever you ever go play like um since you've been like a legitimate professional golfer you ever gone and played like your local muni that you grew up playing uh yeah so i i've been member of a

club for a long time but like around the neon about 10 minutes from where i lived there's like a little pitch and put so it's like small parthrees i mean the furthest one must be about 90 yards and i mean the green is the length of normal fairway and it's quite, it's good fun, it's good fun. So a couple years ago, I went to, when did you go play that, a load of times in the summer?

But like, it's a good bit of land, and I actually thought about maybe seeing, if I could do anything with it and turning it into something, but it's just, there's too many, there's too many people

that would just mess around on it and ruin it. So, yeah, because we always, like, everybody grows up, you know,

unless you grow up, like a country club, but most people that don't just grow up playing their local public tracks or whatever, you always think, like, what would a top, you know, 50 player in the world shoot or how much would they dominate my local... Around your own course, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's funny, because my golf course growing up, it felt always quite long, and now, obviously, I go back and it's just try for wedge everywhere it feels like, and it's, like, it's amazing how different it actually is, and you used to think it was so tall,

from so long and now it's just sort of whip driver everywhere and just wedge it on. So we had a debate like a week ago on the show about we were to play Augusta, which teaser we'd play? Like the member teas I think are like 6,300 and obviously the master's teas are like 7,500 or something like that. Do you think we'd be psychotic for playing the master's tease and trying to like be able to compare how you guys play the whole versus us? you wouldn't enjoy it i don't think

yeah exactly my point but i mean like by all means i would say some holes going back i mean i'm just trying to think of holes 11 is great to go to the back tea because it the view down the hole is is awesome uh i'm just trying to think what else the holes where the teas are quite different 18 maybe 18's got to shoot uh 18 yeah 18 definitely

seven Seven as well. Seven's way forward, but way in the back is really cool. Five. That's not a nice tea, but it's a slog. That's different. And then four, the par three, too. That's just a joke, because that's like three wood.

And members teas like seven iron. But yeah, I mean, it's, yeah. Augusta off the back teas, it's pretty tough. What, like, have you ever, What kind of rounds have you had at Augusta outside of tournament rounds or practice rounds? You ever been able to go there with like a buddy or like, you know, a family member or anything like that? Yeah, I've been lucky. A family friend is a member, so I've been with him a couple times.

But that's normally when I've been to go for practice. I just let him know that I'm going and I'll practice. I'll go play with him, basically. But he actually took my dad. So my dad stayed and played like. three rounds and said it was awesome. But I mean, yeah, it's such a good golf course and such a fun golf course to play with all the history that there is and all the shots that have been hit there.

And, yeah, it's awesome. So we were also debating. We were talking about the 18th, Hull of Augusta a lot in the last, like, a couple shows. And so a couple questions. One, you know, we look at that shoot on 18 and we think, like, there's a 0.0% chance we could hit OT shot through that shoot. Like for you guys, is that even a consideration or would you have to hit all four of my job?

It's really funny that you asked that because about two, three years ago I had that exact problem. I think of the four days I played, I pulled it left twice, but I was really struggling with driver because I was aiming miles right with my feet and miles left with my shoulders, so I was swiping across everything. and I had to obviously on the first I'm 18 people like

line the the tea and obviously further down they go they kind of like stick the neck out more and you know you can see them I actually had to I actually I actually had to wave them back because I was like you are not safe and that is that is the absolute truth

like my dad will tell you the same Ted my manager will tell you the exact same because I had this go-to shot, which was like a low, low bullet. And I felt that was the only way that if I knew I could hit it, if I knew I had to hit it straight, it was the only one I could feel like I could get in play. So I was hitting that on that hole and, yeah, I hit the trees twice. But on the last day, on the last day, I hit the trees.

I think this was 2017. I hit the trees on the left and I had three wood in, right? and I sliced it with a flyer and it went to 15 feet and there was just silence no one knew where this ball had come from

and it was like it was mine from all the way down there and I couldn't believe I'd hit it there hello that was me walking up the fairway is anyone going to cheer that was me

and my playing partners are thinking like what fuck is this kid doing it's so bad and then I actually We actually talked about last week, like, if you took the data on, like, that type of hole and you just minimize and you take away the trees, like, there's no way you guys are hitting it where that tree line is. It has to be completely mental, right? Like, if you saw, like, your ball flight from the time that that ball gets through that shoot, you probably get through that shoot, what, like 90% of the time on all your drive? Oh, yeah, 100%. A hundred percent. You know, it's just like, all of a sudden, you get on the tea, and particularly, let's see you got a good score going, whatever, you're up there. all of a sudden this shoot, it just goes like this. And you're just like, why? I've played millions of practice rounds here.

I just hit it straight all day, no issues. And then all of a sudden it just becomes really tight. We other, our other question kind of, we were trying to figure out what number would be our over, under, where, like, on 18, you just play off, you tee off from the tips on the 18th pole in Augusta. and if you if you go under that number you get a billion dollars you go over they just execute you on the green new year so we are thinking what number would we be comfortable with taking that deal on the ATT and i think we settled it like

80 off the back tip of the back team like like yeah of quadruple boat like otherwise because a triple i mean I hit that, if I hit a tree in the shoot, like you did, I can't hit a three wood to fucking 15 feet. And then I like chunk one from there. Then I finally get up near the green, blade a chip over and like, I don't get up and down. Now I'm dead. But that's not. We can't take that.

Yeah, that's. I think eight is safe. Eight is safe. Yeah. I mean, you say that now. I got out. I got out yesterday and played with a buddy. We went to Beth Page was actually open.

They had the PVC piping. first time I hadn't played without the race cups. Also a nightmare because, Fitz, I played with race cups the other day, and it was the best thing I've ever done. I was drilling balls. I want to do it, yeah. Just drilling these cups from all over the greens. Like, guys were like, this is not golf.

I was 25, 30 feet away with these sliders, and I was taking, like, basically, like, full hacks at these cups, drilling them and then bouncing back, and I'm just like, four, baby. It's on the fair way. But yesterday I played and had the PVC piping inside, so the ball's able to drop. I was in front of the green in two, and I actually had this talk with someone recently about that 18th hole.

And we were on this fairway, and I hit a drive, hit a nice shot that just was short of the green. So now I should be able to just either putt it up, chip it up, and make a four. I made an eight. Like I went over the green, went into a bunker,

chunked it in the bunker, came back out, put it on the green, two putt. And I'm like, I'm dead. At Augusta National, I'm executed on the spot.

That could happen in a blink of an hour. It goes from a three or four, like no problem, to an eight in a blink of an eye. Blink of an eye for an amateur golfer. When the tires fall off, it's over. We need to teach you how to chip with like a rescue or a seven one. I think that's like that's the next stage. I know. And then you've become like a 90-year-old man.

Overnight, just like that. I start walking up to the hole like this. Yeah, but let me tell you, you don't make eight from short of the green. True. I want to do that, that, what's that call? What's the club I got my dad? The square strike. The square strike.

The square strike. That's a classic. So my dad has all these gimmicky clubs. He has the, have you ever seen the spin doctor? No. It's like a 58 degree wedge that has these rubber, it has a rubber face with these grooves on them that come out. So when you make contact with the ball,

the ball hits the green and spins back like 15 feet. It's a complete trick club. You can get spin out of anywhere. You can get spin out of anywhere. You can get spin off concrete. It's like the craziest thing you've ever seen. But it just ruins the ball, I would have much. Oh, 100%.

And it comes with all these new souls so that if it starts to, if it starts to like get like worn out, you just pop them back on. So he'll be out there and be like, oh, no, this isn't enough spin. Let me get a new one in there. That's hilarious. Yeah. It doesn't be illegal. Yeah.

Incredibly illegal. He like hides it from his playing partners, too, so people don't know where it uses. No way. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Face always down. home security ladies and gentlemen it's very very important there's a couple different ways you can

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or one masters. One masters, easy. Easy. Yeah, easy. Even if it was any of the majors, you know, US Open, British Open, USPJ, whatever, it's, yeah, definitely a major, definitely a major.

I love that. I love that you guys know the majors as much as we do. Yeah, I mean, like, the thing is, at the end of the day, you go down in history. like in, I don't know, 70 years time, no one's going to remember that I won the British Masters in 2015. You should have said the John Deer Classic.

You had to say the John Deer Classic there. That's the one place you're supposed to do it. You would have been a legend. I think we talk about Off-Arab, you better watch out because the way the calendar is going, the John Near Classing is going to be the first tournament back and it's going to be the center of the goddamn universe. It's going to have the highest strength of field ever for a tournament.

go from no top 50s to all the top 50s. Now, Fitz, do you think because you've had success now in such a young age and young career, do you think, like, if you asked that question when you were just coming up, like, would you rather right now take one major or like you're going to get 20 PGA tour events, you're going to solidify yourself as a big moneymaker on the tour?

And like, you may not get that major, but like which one are you signing up for right there? Yeah, that's a good point. I still think, I still think like young people go off. you know, young guys who'd turn pro, I'd still think they'd go for a major, just because of, you know, it's what you grow up doing on the putting green. It's like this put for the open or this put for the masters. And I think that's, it just means that little bit more.

Particularly having experienced it, all the majors now, where, you know, the whole scene around the 18th green on a Sunday and what it means to be competing and up there is, yeah, it's a big deal, really. Is it your top choice to win? Yes, yeah. Against a lot of probably British people would say you should want the Open. But no, there's something about Augusta and from my first time there and my experience there that just, I don't know,

I think it just gives me, to sound pretty cheesy, it just gives me happier memories about my experience, really. up until last year I'd played the open like five times maybe six times and my best finish was when I was an amateur in 2013 so it's like not really had the same experience I don't think and that's the only reason why I probably wouldn't was it last year you were sprinting off the golf course yeah that's so good yeah yeah yeah yeah get me the fuck out of here that doesn't happen in Augusta and it was wet no Yeah, that's not allowed at Augusta.

You'll be off the property within seconds. No chance. What do you think that is? Why do you think you've had your best finish there was as an amateur? Is it mental? Do you think you're like in your head? I think my game has changed a lot as well since I turned pro. I think back then, just by chance, I think back then I was probably a little bit more,

even more disciplined in. away in the I had a professional cabby at the time and he basically said just hit it there and hit it there and that's exactly what I did because I believe he knew best

and also back then I actually hit a drawer and I hit the ball a lot lower and now just because I think I've just got a bit stronger and my shot shape has changed to a fade I think it's a little harder in my opinion to control it in the wind

so I think sometimes when it's been a little tougher. It's been that way. But I mean, last year at Port Rush, I played really solid. And I've definitely played better. But, yeah, it's just, I just think it's just my game since I've become pro has changed a little bit. And that's probably the only reason why, really.

Do you have, like, a favorite open venue? Or do you, I mean, does it just like that? One that I've never played, unfortunately. I really want to play Turnberry. and I've heard like the new changes since Trump sort of changed it has made it even better

so I'd love for it to go back there whether it will you never know but and then obviously my first open at Muirfield was amazing as well but I have a feeling that it's going to go back to Port Rush again sometime soon which is rightly so

the golf course was amazing and the atmosphere was fantastic so yeah What, do you ever, do you ever watch other guys, like, on tour specifically and, like, try to snag something they do? Like, do you watch, like, is there some quality characteristic in the game that you ever, you know, Rory's lag or, or, you know, Steve Sprucker's, like, deadhanded wed shots? Like, is there anything that you're trying to, like, snag from other guys? Yeah, I wouldn't say less necessarily, like, steal from them. I mean, maybe a type of shot that they play.

in terms of, you know, a Pum Pum Bru and how they play it. But it's more, I watch sort of just to admire in a way, you know, Shane Lowry is unbelievable with a wedge. He's a great chipper. And I played with him in Mexico. And I struggled with chipping in Mexico. And he was unbelievable.

So that was, like, interesting for me to watch. Only sort of played with him, you know, once when he was sort of playing well. It was a few weeks before he was. he won the Masters was Tiger last year of the players his iron player was just unbelievable I mean and everyone everyone knows that

for what it is but the way that he swung it that day and played some of the iron shots was so impressive and it was more more out of admiration than trying to copy his move and stuff just because that's not doesn't work for me really so it's just trying to do it my own way

I guess yeah have you ever have you ever tried to like copy anything to just go horribly wrong. So I do actually have a couple of like swing feelings in my own game for certain things. So sometimes if my arms go away from me through impact, like I have a feeling of doing an impression of Henrik Stenson's swing. And he has like a little forward press at the start.

And then to me it feels like I lock my arms down on the down swing. that probably sounds pretty complicated, but basically it's my impression of Henrik Stemton's swing, which makes me hit it a little better. And then the other one is actually Alex Noren as well, which sometimes I really sort of spin off my left leg. And when I watch Alex, he very much, he sort of gets onto his left leg pretty well. So it's something that I kind of feel like I copy his move a little bit as well. So that's my only things that I steal really.

Interesting. Yeah, I mean, like, no joke. Like, we try to do that too. And it is just, man, there was folks are amazing. I went through a phase. I tried to think I was doing the Sergio of, like, really dropping the club and and I just, like, I literally, you can't even make contact with the golf ball. Like, I'm trying to do stuff like that.

I mean, it is a circus. But it's, yeah, I mean, like, do you have. Do you typically have, like, a number of swing? Do you have one swing thought? Do you have, like, when you go, or are you just, like, more, I want to hit it there, so I'm going to hit it there? I mean, I do have, like, some intent, like some swing intentions,

for sure, or swing thoughts, should I say. I try to keep it to a minimum, to be honest, because I don't want to obviously become too complicated, and you start thinking about it too much. I think when I realized that I play, my best is when I just have probably one or two. One that I go to is like stay on my left side or keep it short or feel like the club goes past me. So those are the three. I mean, it's quite funny actually because at Bay Hill, for example, my mental game was really bad for the first

three days and I felt my game was struggling and I wasn't playing great. and I just needed to find something anyway. Saturday afternoon I found something on what I thought. I'd found something on the range. And then I took it onto Sunday. And the night before, I'd sort of figured I need to sort of sort myself out, really. And basically, I ended up, for the first seven holes, I was on fire and didn't miss a shot. And I could have easily been five under through seven.

And rightfully so, because I'd look. literally the longest potter hole was like 12 feet, I think. And then after that, like, my swing just completely went to shit. And I was like, I can't hit a shot. Like, genuinely, I could drive. My driving was great. But after that, I was like, I've just got to get it around. Now, like, I've literally just got to get it around.

But when I look back after, I was like, every shot that I had, I was just completely in the moment of that shot. Like, I was just completely, all I was thinking about, was that shot. I wasn't thinking about, okay, I need to make four pars an hour, or I need to throw in a birdie, or I'm three behind, or whatever it was. It's just like that shot, and that's what everyone talked, all the psychologists talk about, you know, staying in the moment and everything. And I think that's, that was the probably first time ever that just, like, prove to me that it's actually very, very important

and it works, you know, so that was actually quite interesting for me. I remember during the Florida Swing, I think it was either, Honda or Bay Hill, like when there was very tough scoring, very tough conditions that you had come out and said, like, this is what I like, this is what it should be. Or I don't know that you said this where it should be, but you're like, this is the kind of golf that I like, I like, this is what I love to see out here. Like, why in the really tougher conditions do you feel like you thrive and that you kind of like that more than the, you know, 25 under winning? I think because there's a couple of things for me. I like it being tough because I feel like I know everyone's finding it tough. You know, some days I can, the players championship is a good example this year.

The scoring was so low, but I didn't, I couldn't see it. I couldn't see why everyone was going low. And I didn't feel like I was actually playing that bad at that time. And I just couldn't see it for whatever reason. But I think when it's tough, I just know that it's just a grind and you just got to, you just got to grind it out. and I think that people do other people in the field. The way I look at it is like the other people in the field will give up.

So that's why I've got to keep pushing and whatever it is and just keep myself in it. You know, pars when it's tough, pars are a good score and fairways and greens and that old sort of the old saint really. But I also grew up in very windy, tough conditions where I live. So that's also why I'm pretty used to it. that stuff so it's quite nice when it when it sort of goes back to that yeah are you like do you focus then

on trying to build your schedule out around that kind of golf a little bit yeah a little bit we will look at golf courses that tend to suit suit my game more and tend to be tend to be tougher um I mean I wouldn't say there's any that massively stand out Bay Hill always does seem to be pretty solid. I mean, this year, obviously, with that Sunday weather, made it even more so than normal. But Bay Hill, and then after this year as well, my team thought maybe we should look at Honda next year too,

just because that scoring again was so tough. And I was there that whole week, and I was practicing that whole week, and I was like, you know, it really doesn't seem that bad. It was very windy, but I didn't feel like it was. was that bad. But then obviously, I've played that golf course before. I know that when you're in the thick of it and you're out there,

it's a completely different story. So there's definitely some golf courses I think, okay, yeah, I'm going to play there because of the scoring or because of whether it suits my game. But then there's others there. I think I'm just going to give that a miss. That's just not for me at all. I love that, like, when you're on the course, in the heat of it, you're like, I don't know how these guys are going so low.

And then when you're on the range, practicing. you're like, I don't get what's so hard about this. Yeah, it's so true. It's so true, you know, it's like, I mean, I've had that a lot in the past where maybe I'm off in the afternoon and the scoring is really low and stuff and I'm like, wow, how am I going to, I can't see myself going as low as that. And then I'll come in and I'm third or something. I've shot five, six under or something.

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So my, yeah, so my manager's head. he books that. So he, normally he sort of give me a list of, of where, where's good, or he'll say, I've found this place,

you know, what do you think? He'll give me, he'll give me the options and run flight times by me and let me know. And, yeah, I mean, he's great.

He does a great job. It makes my life a hell of a lot easier for, for a lot of reasons. So, um, it's very, very handy to, to have that.

Yeah, because we were like, We were talking this weekend. I was talking with a friend, and we were just, I'm obviously at Pinehurst. And we were like, I wonder when they have the U.S. open here, like, who do the guys stay at the hotel? Who books it? How do they determine that? And then we were trying to go all the way up for, like, Tiger.

And I was like, Tiger. There's no way Tiger has any say or like it ever gets to Tiger. He just like, he just arrives and everything's like perfect. So then we were like, well, what team takes like, do they ever fuck it up? And some Tiger gets somewhere. And he's like, what the fuck? I can't personally I can't see tiger on booking.com myself. I really can't.

But I know there's a couple of companies that do houses, the house companies that follow the majors or the tour around and you can go to them. I don't know what, I forget what some of the names are, but normally, I mean you can find them anywhere nowadays, Airbnb or just trip advisor. There's loads of different ways to do it. But I always prefer to have a house for majors

because normally I have a few more people there. And talking of Pine Nurse, I actually stayed in one of the best houses I've ever stayed in in Pine Nurse. It had like a tennis court and a swimming pool and it was obscene. What's the address on that spot? Yeah.

It had its own lake as well, actually. It's a bit of it. There's only so many lakes around piner. Lake is huge. That's a big clue. I can find a lake. No problem. But yeah, I mean, the guys, I'm sure the guys,

most of the guys will have probably a final say, unless they really just don't want to deal with anything. I mean, I wouldn't want to have at least an idea of where I'm going to be staying. Yeah. Otherwise, it's going to be, if you get there, if you get there and then you're mad, it's like, well, it's your own fault. You literally, you didn't have any, you didn't say anything. What's usually like your traveling crew for majors? Like, who all is there?

Majors normally, I mean, the staying in the house that I'm in, it would be me, my mom, dad, manager Ted, trainer. and that's it. Oh, and then sometimes my lawyer who sort of does a bit of management as well for me, if he's got meetings to come to and stuff. But normally, like, my coaches, they'll share with other coaches or caddies and stuff like that. My caddy will find his own place too. Brother doesn't get the look? No, no, no, no.

Keep the brother in the shed up back. To be honest, he never wants to come watch me anyway. He'd much rather be playing, so, yeah, he hates coming to watch me, I think. Your dad's a big golfer, right? He is a big golfer, yeah. He gets you into the game? Is that pretty much, you know, you're a cop playing? Yeah, yeah, 100.

He used to go to hit balls at his old club, and I'd go over there with him and hit with him. And I have to admit, I don't know if I've ever told him this, but I hated it. I hated it. When he'd be like, come on, we'll go, we'll go hit some balls. And I'm like, that's the last thing I want to do. I do not want to be on play golf, you know. I'd want to play football instead or something else

or just PlayStation, whatever it was. But then, like, now it's like, yeah, I'd love to go hit balls. That's a pretty good choice, Dad. Yeah, yeah, well done, Dad. during like during mat i can't get in this chair man this is a fucking joke what's going on frankie this is crazy man i sit and do this podcast

i do this podcast and we sit here now for two hours a day mondays and wednesdays and i sit in this chair fits this is my old hockey my arena the islanders this is my seat by the way i'm wearing shorts oh man let's look at those legs oh man let's cut that out Let's cut that out, everyone.

We're going to be there. Jake, can we please put some sensors over those, please? Because we don't want anyone seeing skin. But it's like they're not like concrete, like they're not like drilled to the ground like they would be in an arena. So they kind of sway and I'm constantly putting pressure around my stomach. I'm doing like an ab workout to keep these things and my back hurts. I'm listening to you guys talking. It's a great story about your dad.

And all I'm thinking about is back pain. That's all I'm thinking about. We told you last show. Get a new chair, man. I mean, it creaks. It's crazy. Dude, I don't want to interrupt either, but look at this chair that I'm sitting in. My roommate is a big WrestleMania fan.

That is so serious. That thing is awesome. I was sick of sitting in my bed because it like hurts my back. So I'm in the same way. I'm sitting in a WrestleMania chair. Trent was wearing khakis in his bed the other day, like an absolute psychopath. So like he wears khakis every day. and he was just doing the pocket, laying in bed, wearing khakis.

Were you wearing sneakers or no? No, no, not in bed. Okay. Well, Fitz, let me ask you this. I try to make my day as normal as possible in these strange times. So I get up, I shower, I put on my normal clothes, just to sort of, because it's so strange, I want to feel like the day is at least a little bit normal.

Do you relate to that at all, or what are you wearing around the house? I get that. I get that. But, I mean, yeah, I only ever wear, like, like sweatpants or shorts and inside. Like I don't, I don't wait, I can't wear golf day. Even going on my map, I'm like, I can't bring myself to put on golf gear. I really can't.

Like, that is golf per one or one right there. Do you find that you, sorry, do you find that you golf different in different clothes? Like, if you go out and just play in like mesh shorts and a t-shirt, do you feel like you're, like, do you feel different? Does your swing feel different? Do you know, that's a good point. I've never, like, short, I much prefer playing in shorts. I couldn't tell you if I feel like I play better.

But, like, I actually don't like playing in gym shorts or in sweatpants or something like outside in my net. Like, even though I'm hitting, it's fine in the net. But if I was to go and just play locally or whatever, I would feel awful. I'd feel so uncomfortable. It's very strange. It's very strange. I always used to, like, whenever I'd, like, go and maybe. be like hop the fence you know i i abused this golf course by my house this place i's an hour i'll

they're going to come to arrest you here soon i know it's crazy of just years of not paying hop the fence behind the school and uh and just play the part three there but um i always used to feel just like i don't know just like free being like man i don't know if it's like the mesh shorts you know things are dangling you're swinging things are loose like as opposed to like everything's so everything so tight like i don't know it's just like sometimes it's so much it's so different how like different how like different outfits make you feel you like having your you like having your dick swing and you think it makes feel more free yeah if it happens once in my life that'd feel good like if you finally just

like doing something but like uh and then when you play in like cold like the other day i played and i had on like three layers i'm like i can't physically make a swing right now it's like i hate I like I have to when it's cold I have to because I just freeze but I hate it like if I get a t-shirt all the time I'd rather be too hot than too cold 100% yeah but it's amazing off like the swing actually can change based off of like what you're wearing or like how comfortable you are maybe like and kids wears like the long sleeve uh what is he like the underarm underneath under arm yeah yeah yeah yeah looks like a child sometimes that's funny though because i like when i was younger if i was having a good score and i was wearing a jumper and i was too

hot in the jumper i wouldn't take it off because i feel like i had my swing in the slot you know it's like i've got it there i'm not changing What's your, like rain gear? I feel like rain gear. They still haven't fully figured out rain gear, I think. No one has. No one has. I genuinely really love Undram's stuff.

The trousers and the top are really good, but waterproofs in general. I find them so hard to play in, so hard to play. And anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Yeah. Even like we're Peter Mallar guys, they said, me, this awesome rain gear looks great. it feels great and then when you're on the course I'm just like, it's just not, it's, I feel restricted.

I'm a restricted person. 100%. Yeah, yeah. Very weird. Very weird. All right, Fitz. You got anything else going on? Anything happening in that little life years over there? No, nothing really.

Nothing really. Just probably beating little kids on FIFA, really. That's right. What about you guys? Like what, what rigs? Like, how long are you going to? be in Pino's sport. It feels like you've been there forever. It's an amazing question. People have been asked me that? My answer is like indefinitely.

I mean, I don't, I'm not going back to the episode. I mean, look at Port Trent. Like, I'm going to go back to that situation. No, no, no, no. Yeah, we're about to lose him. So I don't know what I'm at you. I'm just going to lose him. Well, any, like, Rigg's like you said, they listed it as an essential. So it's not going to close. Like, all these other places are closing and it's never going to close. North Carolina. It's like state mandate. It's like, state mandate. It's like, Like, you can jog, hike, and golf. Those are like a special activity.

Yeah, you can't do that here. No. So, like, if they keep the courses open, I'm walking to and from, I don't really interact with anyone. You know, I take weird videos of myself playing golf, but people see you enjoy it. And Nick Fowler loves to get involved, don't he? That guy has been...

It's so funny. I'll say, now, like, I haven't stood over a put and felt like I'm going to make one in a week and a half because he just wrote. He just ruined you, ruined your game. He ruined everything about it. I feel like, you know, my putts, I'm putting spin on the golf ball and my putts that, like, our physics sayer is impossible. And there's no way it could ever fall into a hole.

And that's what Sir Nick convinced me I'm doing. So I got no chance. So. Yeah, it's, it's, this is weird times, man. Like, I'm just in my childhood room, just like, my doors are locked all the time. just sitting here playing video games like crazy i got a little bit of a phlegm like a cough but like not like a cough cough not a dry listen it's i know test you saved to be honest yeah i know but it's like but it's like i don't know it's just you know i just feel like i'm giving it to myself like i didn't

actually cough but i felt like i had a little tickle like uh just for a second and like that's what's like i'm mentally like try how many times have you convinced yourself that you may have had just from like waking up with maybe like um like an eye like your eye hurts for a second like the other day i woke up and my eyes were tired i'm like oh i'm run down it's like no you just woke up like 100 times a day 100 times a day like i literally the other day went to go get water and i went uh-uh and everyone looked at me like well no i'm like well no like i just have a little tickle on my throat like everyone it's almost like the the office clip where everyone's like holding the gun at each other And they're like, who's going to cough?

Who's going to cough? Fitz, I don't know if this is a HIPAA violation or not, but have you been tested? No, no, no, no. I, like, part of me actually, I mean, I said it, but I don't know how true it is. I feel like I may have had it because just before Pebble Beach, this is a while ago now, obviously,

but just before Pebble Beach, I actually did have, like, three-day fever, like cough that lasted a while that was dry. but the problem is you can't get a test like you can't get a test for it so it's right I won't know I guess I mean I'm hoping that I did have it obviously and then I'm sort of I'm dumb with it yeah you never know you never know but yeah the testing's getting so crazy now that even if you have like the slightest slightest like inkling that you may have like you don't want to go rush there and get it because the numbers are getting so high now that like people that legitimately need the testing like

need to go get it so they're even saying like even if you have like one or two two of the symptoms, like just self-quarantine yourself. Because that's what you have to do anyway, even when you get to see. Exactly. Just do it. Just everyone just stay home and that's fun. Like, I mean, I don't know how much longer I can survive just sitting here in my room playing. Like, I won't be the show.

Have you up to your step counter? Is it still a three seven to five? How much steps did you take this weekend? Let's live look at your steps. So Fitz, one day, Frankie in his New York City apartment, 375 steps of all day. How is that? That's my

Look how many cents I've taken today. 97. And that's like, you got to think like, look, one, two. Like, that's just me pulling up my phone. Just a couple incorrect. You've got to count out all the texts you've sent. Because if you sent 38 texts today, then you're just, you're literally at like 50 steps.

Yeah, you're going to just paid away, Frank. We're going to never see you again, buddy. Show those big time legs again. Those little pensions. That's never happening again. That was a little peep show for the people there, but that's never happened again. But I'll go from 97 steps in a day, and then I'll go and golf and I'll carry my bag and I'll play by myself. And I walk like 19,000 steps at Bethpage Yellow.

And then I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack. Like I literally am like, my body has no idea what just happened. Like, you were just laying in bed in your own filth. And now you're on the golf course trying to swing a golf club. Like, what is happening here? So Bethpage was the site of our first interaction with fits.

Yes, actually I played the yellow. Yes, I played the yellow yesterday. And that was where the driving range was. That's like the yellow is actually the first hole of the yellow there. So I was standing right there and I was like, oh, this is where a lot of things happened. I hit my wedges with Bryson and then I

almost got into a fight with Matthew Fitzpatrick. I, I, if I had a dollar for Every time someone said you can take Frankie, I would be very rich. I would be very rich right now. That's awesome. That's so good. We always talk about like, they could have went two ways.

Like you could have been like, oh, that kid's the dick. And why are you talking about me on the internet? Or you could have been like, oh, let's get it on this joke. Your catty was hilarious. Who, like, brought me over like he was going to bring me to the back of a bar and absolutely just like shank me in the neck. Yeah. Really good times.

All right, pets. Good. Good stuff, boys. Good catching up, my man. And you. Yeah, and you. All the best guys. Yeah, we appreciate the time and hopefully you guys are, you know, golfing again soon.

Absolutely. I'm very jealous of you, Riggs. I feel guilty. Like, what I'm doing. Like, everyone else is having this horrible experience and I'm like, this is great. I just, nobody bothers me. I don't have to talk to anybody. I just play golf and then, like, just go home and eat and order Domino.

Domino's, like, the only thing that you do. can really get delivered after 9 o'clock in this town. So I just eat that out of it. I was like every night and play golf. It's pretty cool. That's great. You're going to be a whale soon. Oh, well, no.

I walk like 20,000. That's true. That's true. That's good. That bounces out. Yeah, right. That'll work. All right.

He's also ordering pizza. Light cheese. Anyways, that's another topic is a little calorie. Yeah, light cheese is the way to go. You're a dairy freak. You can't be having a dairy anyway. All right. Yeah, great talk with you.

See it, that, guys. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Fitz. See it. Bye, love.