Fore Play - No Is Hard featuring Collin Morikawa
Episode Date: December 1, 2022Collin Morikawa sits down 1-on-1 with DRap in the Bahamas (01:20:42) discussing his back-to-back 11th place finishes in the PIP, getting married, possibly opening a restaurant, learning about putting ...and more. Before Collin, the full crew breaks down the Barstool Classic Championship, saying no to golf invites, redeye flight disagreements, Tiger at the Hero, Cam Smith in Australia, putting stats changing depending on time of day, and much 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
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Oh, Rick!
What's up my brother?
I got a buddy who struggles with that shot.
A lot, his name's Frankie Burrilli.
So the guys actually gave him a nickname of Butter Nives because he's always nice to the cross the green.
Nice to be here, boys.
Congratulations on all that you're doing is as mediocre as a little bit of.
It is.
Bro your 100.
Now you got to break 90.
We appreciate what you guys do for golf.
It's really cool.
Thank you.
You're making it cool.
We appreciate it.
After watching you this year, I'm very much thinking about getting, so I have a fusion
surgery.
Skip that.
I was like, hey, Phil, you only fucking 2999.
And he grabs 100.
He's like, yeah, I won 90,000 beats yesterday.
Oh my God.
He goes, take 100 and to fuck yourself.
What?
What are you guys teaching with that?
It's a hobby.
Foreplay, brought to you by Barstool Sports.
by our very good friends at Chevrolet, who we got to meet and hang out with this week.
They're great, love them, great cars.
We got a lot to get to Dan's in the Bahamas.
Frankie and Trent are on Long Island.
I'm in Arizona.
We got a recap.
We got a lot of things happening.
I'm going to start the show by saying, oh, we have Colmore Kyle on the show.
So we're going to get to all that audio.
We'll talk about it.
I'm going to start by saying it's very difficult and uncomfortable to tell people that you just don't want to play golf with them.
and I just had an incident five minutes ago,
but a few minutes ago before we did this podcast.
I went up,
I'm hitting the range,
and we've all been there before.
We can talk a lot about it.
I'm sure we all have our own interactions.
When I'm on the range,
we're going to do a film in the day,
and I do my thing.
Then I'm hitting a couple puts in the putting green at Greyhawk,
waiting to get that text.
Everybody's home from the airport.
We're going to do the podcast,
the whole deal.
Guy comes over to me,
he's had a couple beers with his buddies,
gives me the whole,
Hey, you know, we were just over there.
I'm with my buddies.
They're about 15 handicaps.
They're hilarious group.
And we know you guys like to do matches against people.
So we got to do a match against, you know, us and you and your crew.
And I was just like, yeah, like, no, just like, no, we're not.
Never going to happen.
Yeah, no.
And then he's like, no, I think like, and I was like, yeah, like my whole crew kind of lives in New York.
He's like, well, sure enough, you could put a four ball together, right?
with the with the but i'm like yeah i just yeah i don't i just don't want to do that you know and i just
it's just so tough to not come off like an asshole but i just was like you know i just if i get
five hours of free time we're not playing on camera it's like i really just like to play with my
like my friends that i that i i hang out with and that i like to spend time with and he's like yeah
that's what i'm talking about like you get a four ball and we like mix and play against our four
And like, relentless.
Yeah.
No, I don't.
Yeah, we don't.
I don't, I don't want to do that.
No.
No.
You know, no.
I was not going to do that.
How'd you take it?
He just was kind of like, yeah, all right.
You know, and then he just kind of walked away.
And I felt like, on the way home, I felt terrible.
I was like, that guy probably is like, man, that guy's an asshole.
But I just was like, what, what are we going to do here?
I'm going to, if I say yes, then I'm going to, you're going to, like, give me your number.
And then we're going to.
text as strangers and you're going to be like, yeah, like, when are you getting all of your friends together
with all of my friends and we're going to all play golf again? It's an outrageous ask. It's an outrageous
I just said no. Luckily, it rarely, it rarely happens in person. I don't know how many I've gotten
in person. We certainly get a million DMs with that exact pitch. It's get the guys together.
I'll bring my buddies and we'll do that. We'll do the whole thing. And those are easier to avoid because
they're just DMs. And listen, in a perfect world,
we would love to do all of these things.
But there's just not enough time in anyone's life to play a match against everybody
who wants to play a match against us.
And I don't think this is exclusive to just us, podcasters that have a golf brand.
I think that's a pretty niche category of people in the world.
But I think a lot of people that belong to golf clubs, whether they're country clubs or
golf clubs that, like, you're signed up to a public golf course and you can play with a bunch
of people, there's always those groups of guys that are very, very much in your face,
wanting to play, wanting to have a good time.
And it's a really hard no because, like, you know you're going to make them upset.
You know that they're like the outgoing guy in the group.
Everybody has that guy that they see at the course at your local club.
That's like, oh, my God, I hope he doesn't come over to me in the locker room right now and ask me to play right now.
I just really hope this guy doesn't make eye contact with me.
It's like, it's just a common nightmare that you have to deal with.
The golf course is a weird place because you're stuck with them for four to five hours and you really can't get away.
So it's a commitment.
Totally.
And if this guy was like, hey, we just.
want to buy you beer, you know, and chat, like I can do a beer, drink a beer for 10 minutes and
like chat, but like you're saying, frankly, dude, I'm committing. Let's say now I've got on a
Saturday, I've got four and a half three hours to do whatever I want. And I'm now in this moment on
this putting green committing to you that sometime pretty soon, I'm going to take that three whole half
of a day that I basically have and be like, you know what, introduce me to your stranger friends.
and I'm not going to hang out with my friends.
I want to just,
what's just all hang out with your friends and like bring me into your world?
I just,
I just said no, right to his face.
I just was like, no.
On the other side of this story,
where I just said,
I think it's pretty common in golf.
The only thing that most people aren't listening to have to deal with
is the fact that a lot of the general public at a golf course knows who we are.
So we get the random parts where it's like,
they almost get mad that you're saying,
know to them when like the average person at a golf course would never get asked by that guy ever
in a million years to go golf with them he would just he'd just walk by him like he's on the range
but because this guy is listened to a bunch of the podcast and he knows the whole story he's like angry
almost that you're not doing it like and that's happened a bunch of times it's like what do you
like guys would be like oh like come to this pizza place and i'll be like no we're like on our
way to sushi he's like you're not going to come to this piece place tonight and like review this
pizza i think well no i got my whole like family behind me we're going to go get
sushi tonight. Is that all right? And he's like, well, I didn't know you were an ass. I didn't know Portnoy
employed assholes. It's like, what are talking about? Are you? Why aren't you saying this to like
80 other people that are walking by us right now? Why don't you have pizza with them? It's like, it's
crazy. So yeah, you got to kind of like take it with what we do put ourselves in the internet. We do
ask for people to watch us and stuff. So you get to go with the bad. It's kind of a totally.
Yeah. Totally. And it, you know, we've taken invites before, especially I've first moved to New York and
it was hard to get out. I didn't really know that many people yet. That's how we got to know Eric Jacobs.
Dave spoke, who's our guy and Dave.
And like, there's definitely times to play golf with new people when you meet people.
That's a part of business.
That's a part of life.
It's great.
But it's just in certain scenarios, I was like, no, I'm, and I really, I really thought
I was going to thwart him with the New York thing.
I was like, yeah, like my whole crew, they live across the country, like flyer me out here.
It's just probably, probably not going to happen.
He's like, well, no, you got, you can just put together like a group of four.
And I was like, yeah, he kind of got me there.
I'm just, I am not going to.
do that. Yeah, no, no. No. And it just, it does pay off. That's what like, like you were saying,
if you actually do it, sometimes it does pay off. Like you will meet cool people and things will happen.
But yeah, it's just a big. Absolutely. Absolutely. And it's, you know, if there's some connection,
I'm way more likely to be like, yeah, let's do that. If they played in the Barstow classic and I got to
hang out with them for 15 minutes and I like these guys, it's telling me funny story. Or,
or you go play golf with a group and you meet a new guy at that group and that that guy peels off and is like,
should play with my other pals there's a connection like definitely a but this just basically cold called me on the putting green i was
like no dude nope just not going to do that so um you also get it sometimes where they'll say um oh we can film
the whole thing too that'll be we'll do that and it's like no i don't boy i don't that's something else i don't want
no it's just a lot thought that's where he was going because we get a good amount of like and i totally
understand if you listen follow the show we play bob does sports and we play the country
Stars. We play the NHL teams. And you're probably out there thinking, me and my
force them, we could take you guys down. We're funny. Let's do it. And we get a billion of those
requests. And no, we don't say yes to really any of them because it's like if we're going to all
get together and we're going to bring our crew out, we're going to fill them. And we want views
on YouTube. We can pay the bills. We're probably going to do it against the Colorado
Atlanta country stars or whomever. So I thought it was going that direction. I was going to shut
him down with the New York thing.
Didn't really shut him down.
He came at me again.
And luckily I got through it.
But if that guy's out there listening, I apologize.
I'm not, I hope I didn't come off.
But boy, I just, yeah, I just wasn't going to do it.
I wasn't going to get this stranger's number and then text him about playing golf together.
It just wasn't going to happen.
Shout out to our presenting sponsor who's come on late in this year.
And they've come on huge in a huge way.
I was driving around a Chevy Tahoe this last week, a courtesy vehicle.
this thing is a tank, right?
It's a large vehicle.
You could put a family in there.
You could store all kinds of stuff.
You could put 15 sets of golf clubs in this thing.
Yet it was so easy to drive.
It was elegant.
It had the infotainment system that Frankie always talks about.
And it looked sleek, like this giant, amazing, spacious Chevy Tahoe had this sleek, almost agile.
fuel to it. And then we also had on the T, like we talk about in the show, on the 11th hole in the
talent course, a Chevy Bolt EUV. That was just a magnificent vehicle. I jumped inside of it.
Turned it on. My guy, Dan, I think, was the Chevy guy that was out there. Maybe Nick.
Maybe Dan or Nick. I can't remember exactly. Nick. Nick. Nick. Nick was on the 11th T. He was telling us all
about this bolt EUv turned it on, was showing us that that infotainment system in the middle and how
sophisticated that thing is.
And then there's just,
there's just no engine.
It's just a battery.
And we were just standing there thinking about that.
And it's just a giant battery.
It's like, yeah, the thing just doesn't have an engine.
I was like, I guess it wouldn't have an engine, would it?
Because it's just an electric vehicle.
So the thing was magical.
Chevy does it extremely well.
They've been doing it for so long.
1934.
Is that when they came out with the first SUV?
Well, I saw them the other day.
And I was like, yeah.
So we saw them at the class.
I'm like, great to meet you guys. Thanks for everything. We can't wait to have another year with you guys. I'm like, and then all because they were like, we love your reads. Like they've been amazing. And I said, yeah, it started out as like a history lesson, right? Like 1924 first SUV. And they're like, no, I think it was like 19. They like corrected me immediately. I was trying to go right off the top of that. I was trying to go right. But then I also committed in classic me fashion. I like committed to getting a Chevy. I'm like, you know, my lease is up. I think I'm just going to get a Chevy. And they're like, oh, yeah, you definitely should. I was like, okay. So now I'm just. I'm just.
getting a Chevrolet and I'm definitely going to get a Chevrolet now. So like that's happening.
They got all kinds of electric vehicles that you can check out from Bolt to Blazer,
Equinox to Silverado. Chevy EVs are for everyone everywhere. They're affordable so you don't
have to be rich to have an EV these days. Like I want to say they said like 260 miles or
something this puppy can go. So it's like you're on one charge. This bolt EUV. So,
they're fantastic.
And that one on the course was like around 40,000 or something like that.
Like these are actually affordable electric vehicles.
It's pretty like phenomenal how they're able to, you don't have to be rich to have an electric
vehicle anymore.
They're like they're the ones that are engineering these new wave of electric vehicles
to be for the common man.
Go check out Chevrolet's website.
Check out the different options that you have to order them to get one now.
EVs for everyone everywhere.
Moving on, we got Colin Morcawa on this show, Dan Rapaport.
This is the first ever solo Dan Rapabore interview with Colin Moracow.
It's going to come in the second half of the show.
You're in the Bahamas, the Hero World Challenge, the whole deal.
Trying to record your own interview basically by yourself, it sounds like.
Yeah, it didn't go perfectly.
So just going to warn everybody out there.
We got a, we had a mishap.
We had a technological mishap.
It happens.
I'm not a, I feel like I'm just old enough to where it's,
not like completely ridiculous that I don't know how to like shoot and edit and do all that stuff
by myself. If I was like three years younger, I think it would be completely ridiculous. So I never
learned any of that stuff. I tried to do this. The good news is the clear audio is Collins. So you'll
hear, you'll hear Colin perfectly. We talked about his wedding and the player impact program and live
stuff and, you know, the possibility of him opening up a restaurant called Morikawa's just like
Borrellys. We talked about a lot of stuff. But you're not going to be able to hear me very well, which
some of you probably really like.
So to those people, you're welcome.
I'm going to say, best podcast ever.
The only person you get to hear is call him or a call him a co.
Maybe a faint voice of just Dan Rappaport.
So you get,
you get the context.
And then you're like, okay, I know where this is going.
Let's just hear one of the best golfers in the world talk.
We sort of floated the idea of transcribing what Dan said and then having lurch to a
voiceover and then just put a lurch or a Gala interview.
Just have lurch to the interview tomorrow.
Yeah.
I think we're just going to go with the GoPro audio from...
Part of my take did...
So did you see what part of my take did?
I don't know if they are.
Did they come up with that?
Did that interview come out yet?
I haven't watched it.
I just saw them tweet.
Yeah.
Yeah, with Kevin O'Connell is pretty funny.
That's so funny.
They had basically Big Cat.
He like, he like,
oh, whatever it is.
Yeah, they had Big Cat just text,
Jake all the questions to ask.
And I just can't wait to listen to that because that's so funny
because he's such a, like,
buttoned up, like, nice kid.
I can't imagine.
and some of the things they made him say, which is so good.
Drop two F-bombs in one podcast.
Oh, my God.
That's so good.
So anyways, Morcao's on the show.
He's, I mean, we love Carl.
Markow.
He's been great in all of our videos.
Had him on the show a bunch.
Frankie interviewed him solo.
We've interviewed him a few times as a crew.
Now Dan's interviewing him solo.
So stay tuned for that.
And obviously, the Hero World Challenge will be going on this weekend.
So I'm sure you're going to chat about that and all that good stuff.
Um, Myrtle Beach, episode one comes out, uh, tonight.
I think, are we doing 6 p.m. Eastern standard time. Is that our plan?
Yeah, six.
I hope six, yeah, 6 p.m. This is a big episode. It's the granddaddy golf course in
Myrtle Beach, the first one ever, right?
Yeah, we played a little wolf game too. It was the three of us. Dan was coming back from
his bachelor party. He wasn't quite there yet. So we did a little, uh, Frankie, Trent and myself.
We played a little wolf game. We mixed up the format at,
the first track at Myrtle Beach.
So here we're just back on YouTube.
And then we went to the local
Myrtle Beach minor league baseball team,
which I can't remember the other team.
We went to the Myrtle Beach.
Come on, guys.
It's never going to come on.
Come on, man.
The Myrtle Beach, they're the Cubs affiliates.
Don't look at all the pelicans.
You just ruined it.
Come on, Alex.
I said it right as you said.
The only time we ever actually cut in
when we wanted you to cut in,
don't kind of you text us when we have audio issues
you don't say it on the podcast the one time
I said no one's saying anything I want to try
and test my brain
you just scream pelicans
I mean come on dude
is that in this episode the home run derby that we did
yeah it was an amazing amazing night
it was it really was
Bush has such a shitty night ahead of him
too he just flew across the country
so bad he's going to listen to us
it was also a does
dumb asses talk on this show
and then he's going to just
stay up all night
editing this fucking podcast, putting it in a video format so you can put it on YouTube.
He's got to deal with Dan's GoPro and sync it up with more a cow.
It's just the worst night ever for Alex Bush.
Oh, it also started because I couldn't, I couldn't get the, I couldn't get the case off.
It was a real.
It's a, I feel bad, Alex.
I'm sorry.
Can I?
So we, Alex and I did just get done traveling.
We flew back from Arizona, Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona,
Barcelona, Barcelona, a classic championship.
We were there.
It was a great time.
We just flew back.
I flew back from Phoenix to JFK.
And I have one thing that I want to say to pilots.
I know we've had pilots on this show before.
I think we have some pilots that listen to the show.
I need them to know one thing.
Going forward, when you, when we land and you brag that we are early,
you got to check with the gate to see if it's occupied or not.
Because if you brag about being early,
like our guy did tonight, he said,
we just landed we're you know 20 minutes early welcome to jfk welcome to new york and then two minutes
later he said bad news the gate is occupied we're going to have to sit here for 20 minutes before we can
pull in and you can get off this airplane you do not you no longer get to brag about getting here
early when the gate isn't open yeah it's you know there it ain't over till the fat lady sings i would
say you're not you haven't arrived until you get off the airplane right i mean i agree
you you with even when they like right when the wheels touch down sometimes they go like ding and then they go welcome to phoenix and you're like well i'm not i'm on i'm just on an airplane still i'm not i'm not at the destination i'm still sitting i'm in identical situation to two hours ago we're up in the sky nothing's changed i'm in this tiny seat so
that drove me crazy about the guy tonight was he was cocky when we landed he was cocky about like we're early how about that that's pretty good we made good time and everybody's excited obviously because we got there early and then a couple minutes later he's like we're going to be sitting here for the next half hour so um buckle up nobody stand up nobody go to the bathroom just stay in your seats it's like was he like obnoxiously cocky to the point where if you actually did get to the gate right away would you still have not liked this guy or was it like okay until until it flipped it was it was it like okay until it was it
was okay until it flipped, but you, you run the risk of the gate being occupied. They just need
to know that. They got to know what the gate situation is before they start, you know,
firing off rifles and fireworks being like, we made it early. Dude, I saw this on Instagram Reels.
This guy, his name is Rowdy Lunchbox. I don't know how it popped up, but it said every pilot ever,
and he's wearing a headset. And he just goes, like, you hear the ding. And he goes,
he takes the deepest breath ever
and then he eats the mic he's like
they really do that
bro you have to
I laughed at it for like 25
straight minutes today it's that deep breath
and then it's like you put the mic inside
your fucking esophagus essentially
oh my god yeah I'm really at my most
capable of murder when I'm sitting
on the tarmac taxing back and forth they successfully
flew you through like an aluminum can like that 30,000 feet. So like I guess they're kind of being like,
hey, you fucking idiots, you morons that are sitting sleeping in your chair. I just flew you through the
sky and landed you here. So I'm going to be a little cocky right now. No, but that's not the brag.
That's not the brag isn't. The brag isn't, oh my God, I just flew this plane across the country.
It's coming out in whatever he's saying. I flew this plane faster than you thought I was going to.
And you are now going to be able to go to your destination. And I also kept you alive. I also kept you
live. I should have fucking slung
you guys around back there while you were
drinking your mimosis. What are you nuts?
Listen, these days,
airplane travel is not that impressive.
They pretty much fly themselves
at this point. A hundred percent. Dude, I don't
know, man. Keep it a little crash. I never heard about autopilot
dude? I mean, it's still
pretty crazy. Yeah, I got
kind of like the plane's scary. The statistics would say that
it's pretty normal and like cars are more.
Like, we should be congratulating our Uber
driver's for getting me from the airport. You get more
accidents? You don't do that?
I don't do that when you, right?
When he pulls up.
I got the,
uh,
thank you.
I got the scares again the other day in the plane.
This morning.
It was just like,
I just thought it was going to just fall out of the sky.
It was just those,
we had some like decently,
like pretty aggressive turbulence at one point.
And it's like,
man,
this thing's just going down.
There's,
I'm just picturing that guy in there being like,
fuck,
fuck,
fuck,
fuck.
And they're never going to tell you.
They'll never tell you.
You'll just see the oxygen tanks come down.
And you'll be like,
all right,
it's happening.
I probably sound ungrateful, but when I have a travel day like that, I, like right now, I just got back.
I'm going to be a little aggravated.
I'm sure if you asked me in 24 hours, I'll be like, they do a great job.
I'm glad they get me from place to place.
But just right now, the wound is still kind of open.
I like to do this after you have long days of travel.
Have you rethought the red eye situation because you're an anti-redi guy?
And I took the red eye.
You didn't.
And then so I always like to see the comparison.
you've now changed to being a red eye person.
No, no, no, no.
Absolutely not.
And I don't, I know, no.
I think a red eye ruins two days.
Well, that's like incorrect, though.
Like, Trent legitimately woke up at 8 o'clock this morning in fucking Arizona and got
home at like 9 o'clock at night in New York.
I was just in my bed at 5.30 in the morning and I woke up at 9.30 and I just had a full day.
I did a lot of things all day long.
So you go back to sleep.
Yeah.
You can even wake up at 12 and then you're just there all day.
I'd rather, even if I slept until 9 o'clock at.
night. I would still just be in a better situation than Trent was because he was on a plane all day.
On this particular topic, Frankie refuses to just let me do what I want and not bother me about it.
It's a debate and then I'm just giving you my side of it. But I've said that I don't want to debate it anymore.
And I hate red eyes. Debate. But you understand that my side of it, that like you could argue that is the more efficient better choice. I can't sleep on planes, bro. I didn't sleep on the plane.
You don't sleep the whole time on a red eye? No.
Oh, that's so I didn't, I mean, I can't really.
I can't sleep the whole time.
I just kind of watch a movie, slept for like an hour, woke up, listen to music, landed at five.
You just go to, you just effectively go to bed really late that night.
Yeah.
I'm, I side with Frankie's opinion here, but I'm not on a team.
I don't, if you just, it's so preferential that I don't think it really means.
I just think that like when you're, when you're like for work, right, when your duty or your task is done, let's say six o'clock.
the night before. The fact that you're signing up to then get to your home at like 8 o'clock the next day
to me is insane. That's my opinion in this debate. It's like I'd rather just be home as fast as possible
and then whatever happens that next day just happens. But I could also see Trent's argument be that
like his night, the night before, his 12 hour stretch was so infinitely better than yours. Like he
was at his hotel at like 7 o'clock at night and slept until like 7 o'clock in the morning and he
probably ate some candy.
He probably watched a couple
shows in his comfortable hotel room
bed while you were fucking in an Uber.
Then you were like waiting in line.
Then the pilot was bragging about God knows what.
And like that was year 12 hours versus hit.
I just think you're sleeping either way at some point in those next 24 hours and I'd rather
do it in my bed.
You know?
I agree with you.
I just am trying to.
Okay.
I actually agree with trying.
I don't take right eyes if I can.
Gosh.
Well,
well,
you better watch out because you're going to get in a lot of arguments going forward.
I know.
We're just going to keep talking about this.
We should say too to go back.
to the pilot thing.
I think like if a plane,
if one of these commercial airliners did go down,
I don't think the reaction would be like,
yeah, it's tough.
I mean,
it's tough to fly a plane.
So that's,
you know,
that's kind of,
I'm not,
how happened.
Yeah,
I think this,
I think the reaction would be like,
wow,
that was a huge fuck up by that guy,
like huge that he let that happen.
Like,
I think,
I don't think it would just be like the reaction wouldn't be.
Yeah,
it would have been an incredible feat if he got the plane there.
I just think people I agree with that
I'd be pretty devastated if he fucked up and it went down man they were on track to get there
early too damn I feel like there's going to be a plane accident soon I feel like we're just
putting really bad juju I think so actually it's a pretty good amount but I feel like
commercial planes in the United States of America at this point are a pretty good statistical
spot that's what that's what I was saying I can't remember the last the last like commercial
airliner yeah there's always the you know kooky guy who's trying to fly through a thunderstorm
You also, I feel like Malaysia had a bad stretch there.
Oh, Malaysia was really bad.
They had that bad stretch for the one that's still missing and then a couple others went down.
So I feel like that was a bad stretch.
I wouldn't feel great if I was flying through Malaysia over the last decade.
But generally in the United States of America, if you're flying commercial at this point,
I do feel pretty good.
I will say that there will be a point in the future where a commercial airliner in the United States will go down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know why I last at that, but yes.
right it's just like it was like when we talked about a million people dying with of COVID you
have to bet also I doubled down said that story on kSy radio so that's just been that's twice this
week that I did that and then yeah no it's uh I don't find that's funny promo about here
your Instagram algorithm is gosh it's tough my Instagram algorithm is just a bunch of breastfeeding
women um I don't know how I one time it got thrown into the mix and I kind of like stopped over
it looked at that I said is that what I think it is it was like a
nipple. I'm like, this is Instagram. What's happening? And then like a baby came into the
fucking fold and I'm like, this is insane. So then I scrolled, scrolled saw a bunch of backs getting
cracked and jiggling booties and boobs everywhere. And then again, like the next refresh or
maybe like a day later, it's just filled. It's like what? And it was leading right into the
interview and I had to bring it up. It was like a very, very new thing that I was dealing with.
I've luckily gotten away from it. I've like beaten the algorithm. I've clicked on like every other
thing that you can possibly click on.
Like, I think I watched, um, I watched like edging, uh, on like a grass on grass.
Like they were just like going down.
You watched edging?
Yeah.
Okay.
I watched like an hour's worth of that like on a plane.
And now that's just a bunch of it.
No, I sometimes because mine, I mean, my explore thing will just be tits and ass sometimes.
I mean, just pure tits and ass at some point.
And they'll mix in an occasional golf guy one.
And I'll get to the point where I'm like, I need to really refresh.
my algorithm.
So I'll just sit through golf stuff that I don't even want to watch and click on a bunch of them so that it'll it'll at least cleanse my
Explorer page or whatever whatever that page is called a little bit.
Mine is just all golf and has all golf swings.
Just all golf swings with like a soccer guy,
but all golf.
I've been really into English bulldogs recently.
So mine's a lot of English.
I wanted to get one for a really long time.
No, I'm not going to show mine either.
Dude, I think I've said this for sure on the podcast.
and it is insane that we don't talk about this every single day.
So you have your phone unlocked.
I just said this in the office of the day to Rudy.
You have your phone unlocked and you just say,
Hey, Siri.
And it pops up right on the bottom.
It's spinning.
So it has to be listening at all times.
It is.
I think that's like a document effect that it is.
We all say like, oh, our phones are listening to us.
You see that ad I got?
It's like we're all just kind of like saying it,
but you don't actually sit down and think about that they actually
are like a factual statement they have to be have logically for it to hear the word hey Siri it has to
be listening to the word before and the word after and the words during or else it wouldn't be able
to understand what the fuck you're saying you understand you got a curb you got a curby use of racial
slurs that's what it comes down it's you got to it's you got to just not do that as much it's
I don't know who you're talking to you're looking at Danny when you said that that was insane
but like he said Frankie this is a crazy um but no it's just a joke yeah I mean
obviously. No, it's just absolutely fucking
asinine that we just allow that to happen.
Have you ever tried, like, tested it where you just talk with your friends about
like guitars or something? Yeah, it happened to me. And then it will show up.
It will show up. I was like talking about something in the office, like a product.
I think it was like this thing that someone saw on Instagram saying like, oh, it's a back
scratcher that attaches to like your fucking wall. And it just kind of tickles your neck.
And like just those words. Dude, the next day,
got an ad for it.
I was like,
what the fuck?
Yeah,
do you?
I mean,
have you guys seen the Snowden
at Snowden documentary on Netflix?
No.
I mean,
bro,
they,
like,
I mean,
the government was literally just like,
they would watch girls strip and stuff
through their laptops.
Like they're,
I mean,
it was,
this is just what they were doing.
They,
there's a reason Zuckerberg,
like in all this pictures,
covers his fucking laptop thing with a little piece of tape and his
microphone.
Like they,
they absolutely are listening.
Now, there's been a bunch of backlash
in the last five or six years over that.
So they've changed some laws and shit.
But I mean, the government for a while there,
didn't I say and all that?
A, they kind of had a bit of a pass.
And then B, you get bad actors and everything.
We talk about it all the time.
You get bad actors on every side of everything.
So now you get some people that have the actual technological capabilities
to just plug into your laptop or plug into your phone
and just watch you right now.
Fuck, yeah, they do that.
So now that thing's listening.
in all the time. It's absolutely listening.
Yeah, I got a Danny wrap, fun fact for you guys. My mom's cousin was the only U.S.
senator. Yes, my mom's cousin was a senator who voted no on the Patriot Act.
The Patriot Act is what they passed on after 9-11 to allow everyone to allow the government
to basically spy on everyone to try and snuff out terrorists. Russ Feingold is his name.
He voted no on the Patriot Act. And he was a senator from Wisconsin.
At the Patriot acts sniff out terrorists?
Like, has it been successful?
I feel like it's one of those things where you don't really know, right?
It's like if it is working, they're probably not going to tell you.
It starts to get down to a little bit of a polarized discussion.
Well, yeah.
Yep.
For sure.
But I think that, so I guess I would say that I'm on the side of I want as much safety as possible.
Like at the airport, I always say, like, I'll get naked if I have to.
You know what I mean?
I just don't give a fuck.
And at the end of the day, if they want to hear me talk.
about like like talking to Siri like big boobs porn hub like I just what's the worst it's
going to happen out of that you know what I mean like if as long as I'm not searching for like how
to make a bomb like I mean I don't think I'm going to get in much trouble there no I agree I think
even too like if if if the government or somebody's like watching through my iPad one night when
I'm like jerked off and that gets out there I'd be like well if that got out there that's not ideal
but I'd also be like oh news flash rigs masturbates right the only shocker
I'm with you on that.
It's just, boy, the angle would be really tough for me.
Just, I know I look disgusting when that's happening.
Like, it's not, it's not a pretty picture.
It's not beautiful.
It's not art.
It's not, it's nothing.
It's horrible.
But you're right.
Like, yeah, I, we, I jerk off.
So be it.
Yeah.
I mean, again, it wouldn't be the most flattering things.
Like, oh.
What do you think?
I was like when I jerk off.
Probably not great, especially from where that fucking iPad sit.
Right.
Right.
flaps and shit.
Just not good.
Not good.
Oh, boy.
It's all listening.
Yeah,
I don't know.
Once you get to the bottom of it,
it's like,
what am I going to do?
Leave my phone at home?
Like,
I don't know,
that's just,
that's just kind of the way that it is.
It's also the scenario where it's like,
if you're really mad about them listening,
then there's something else going on.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Right.
If you're that concerned about it,
then you're probably,
I understand,
like,
I'm not saying that your mom's cousin is like on the side of like,
we need to protect everything.
Because there's obviously two sides
to every.
argument, it can get dicey where people can, like, they can legitimately fuck with people's lives
if they have access to all these things. They're like swaying. That's what they did. Yeah,
they did that. They're swaying, um, elections. They're doing all these things. It's insanity. But
at the end of the day, if you have only two choices, you have, I don't give a shit. Yeah. Right.
I don't give a shit. I just don't give a shit. I just like you said, there's nothing that I'm doing.
That's, that's crazy enough that if some government official found out that there'd be a problem.
Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy those angles, boys. Yeah. Exactly.
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Barcelona Classic Championship.
Fantastic two and a half days at Greyhawk about as good as it could have gone.
A man, a figure who's been on this podcast before,
who was a giant player in the entire Pebble Beach, Frankie and his dad,
broken door lock saga
Josh Isner and his partner
Brendan Mahoney won the fourth annual
Barstool Classic
pretty incredible
congratulations phenomenal
it is very funny that a guy that
he's a stick right
yeah it's very funny that a guy that that pays
for a you know a surreal
golf trip that we talk about on this podcast
frequently the Dead Bug Classic
who puts all of that together
who essentially covers most of it, which is preposterous,
who has taken us on fantastic golf trips,
who put Frankie and his dad up in a dream father-son trip
at his condo in Pebble Beach that he wins our golf tournament.
I get those optics.
Boy, is that a little bit of controversy, as some people say.
But he's a really good player.
So is his partner, Mahoney.
They're fantastic players.
Josh is about a scratch, I want to say, or maybe 0.5 or so right now, index.
And I think Mahoney is maybe even better.
And they just played lights out.
I followed them around the back nine yesterday during the final round for quite a bit.
And the first six holes or so of the back nine, they were unconscious.
They were throwing darts.
Josh made like a 15 footer on 10 for Bertie.
He actually missed like a four footer for birdie net eagle on 11.
They played lights out.
And then in the alternate shot, they played phenomenal as well.
They had a pretty easy par in the 10th hole.
I only made a good like two and a half footer.
And then they were on the green putting for Eagle on the final hole.
And still with how well they played, they only won by one shot after 38 holes.
So it was phenomenal.
Congratulations to Josh Brenner.
We're going to get them on the show.
At one point, that was like the first question he asked afterwards.
Like, do I get an appearance on the podcast now?
Yes, you do.
Josh has a barstool pirate dog tattoo.
He's a gigantic barstool fan and a great dude.
He's also like Lurch's boss.
So there's a lot of connections here for our guy that won the Barstool Classic Championship.
They did defer the cash and the prising because they'd like to retain their amateur status.
And Josh has like more money than God.
So I don't think he needs that.
And then they're going to, I think, give it to charity is what they're hoping to do and figure out what they're allowed to do and what they're not to in terms of dictating where it goes.
They don't ruin their amateur status.
But congrats to them.
You boys, Frankie and Trent, got there yesterday and saw this situation.
My gosh.
Pretty stunning what they were able to do with the entire buildout and signage and hosting from Greyhawk and the Barstool team.
I almost passed out.
I mean, we saw only six hours worth of the Barstool Classic.
It was a full weekend extravaganza started at the Barstool, Scottsdale Bar.
Everyone that I met had raved about the bar, even though like a couple of the nights of shoulder,
their shoulder upstairs, whatever, it was packed.
They said that it couldn't have been better.
Everyone was drinking and food was good, the whole deal.
Then you have the first round and then the party everyone was talking about after the first
round, the get together over there at Greyhawk.
It was right there by like the Kerr, VIP lounge overlooking the water, the little lake that
goes around the 18th hole.
Really, really cool spot at Greyhawk.
I can't even imagine picking a better venue for this championship.
When I walked in on Sunday, I'm sorry, when was that?
That was Tuesday.
Wow.
When I walked in on Tuesday.
Tuesday. Well, yesterday. We did Cyber Monday stuff. Also, thank you to everyone that purchased
and won all the contests. An amazing thank you.
Huge. Another year where it's just absurd that people want to rep the brand the way that they do.
It's an amazing world. We live in.
Frankie gave away his house. I gave away a lot of stuff. I got barely anything left.
That's a blue. That's a green screen behind them. I'm sending. So I have a, I have a high toe
wedge. I got a G.T. Putter. I got an $800 bar stool. One of one of one addition
Shipping staff bag and I got balls.
I got all these things I'm shipping out tomorrow.
It's going to cost me like $1,000 with the shipping.
It's insane.
But it was worth it because a lot of people are pushing the brand.
But so I get there on Tuesday with Trent, walk in.
I see the setup.
And people have already been used to this because you guys have been there for three or four days.
I almost passed away when I saw the fact that we had a legitimate like PGA tour level.
I thought I was at like the 3M.
I never in my life saw so much signage.
You pull in.
There's flags of all the average.
Advertisers, Chevrolet, Curve, I mean, tailor-made, full swing.
It was insane.
As you go down the entrance way, you're going to the main shop.
You see all, there's like barstool flags everywhere.
There's barstool written into the grass.
You go through the locker room.
When you walk into the clubhouse, there's a huge Christmas tree.
The biggest Christmas tree I've ever seen in my life inside a building.
And then like the trophies glistening off of like the angels that were put on the
Christmas tree.
It was insane.
I never see anything like it.
You go into the back on the patio, they have the USA game.
on top of the fire pit.
We're all like the family and friends are watching the USA game.
Then you turn the corner and there's like a water structure of a truly can.
That was the one.
Green like legit like the 3M.
When you see the 3M in the middle of the water and when you're in when you're in Minnesota,
I've never seen an amateur tournament put on like this.
Shout to Lisa.
Shout to the whole entire crew.
All the guys that drive from place to place.
Riggs, I know you deal with them daily.
We got to see a lot of the classic this year.
I went to a bunch of them.
It is amazing what they're able to do.
There's a lot of golf events that go on in the world.
There's country clubs has events every single week.
Every Monday there's a freaking event at every single golf course
legitimately around the world.
I don't think I've ever seen anything like this put on for amateur golfers.
Obviously, you have to be good to win at the end.
But like the fact that we do something where I met people that made a weeks long trip out
of it.
They legitimately vacation around the Barstow Classic Championship.
It is a life event.
It's like a it's one of those.
like what's what's those memories that you call like a like a major memory in your life like it's
like a there's like a term for it like a bucket list memory no there's like like your wedding supposed
to be like there's like a memory right like a fuck i there's a word enduring memory no whatever i'll
think of it hopefully by the end of the show but is it memory or you're just thinking of the
no it's like that's what i was going to say too but i don't want to there's a word for it really
good memory word for it lasting memory no lasting memory um no i thought that was it for sure
That's not a lasting memory.
I think we've thrown three or four good Canada.
Last thing's pretty good.
Life benchmark.
You know,
someone's sitting home being like,
it's this memory.
Core memory.
A core memory.
You have,
it's one that like changes your life.
I think lasting memory is a term more than core.
A core memory,
I think is something that like builds your character and like your life,
isn't it?
I think I could be wrong,
but I think core memory is something that happens to when you're a child that you don't
remember,
but it ends up affecting your life in ways that you don't realize.
Is core memory?
Core memory too, like part of a computer that's like the key.
Either way, I saw people legitimately.
You were on a great run, by the way.
You were on a great run.
I saw people legitimately like changing, it was changing their lives out there.
Like I watched this family walk there and the father was in tears.
He said his son played college golf and that he's never seen him this into a tournament
before.
He said he's never seen this type of signage and all of like the vibe around it.
The driving rangers roped off for them.
It was insane.
This one guy came out to me, said he played Division I college golf,
and this was the most fun he's ever had in his entire life playing a golf event.
So I'm looking up right now.
Urban Dictionary says a reference from the Pixar film Inside Out.
Core memories are created when a person experiences a certain event that defines one of their behavioral traits.
They're stored inside the brain for lasting basically memory.
So I think that's, I think you got there.
I did watch that movie a lot.
And then that was a great movie.
I think that's where I saw Pixar.
I was like, you definitely got the same.
from a Pixar movie. But, uh, look, I knew kind of what to expect as very involved in what it
was going to look like. I was blown away like you when I walked there on Monday morning and saw
the build out and the signage and the whole deal. There was the island, uh, with the Shirley and the
hard seltzer. It was fucking stunning. Shout out to M.B and her entire team who do, uh, the marketing
branding partnerships at Barstool and the signage. And there's a bunch of people that work with her. Shout
to, uh, obviously.
Lisa and Trisha and Mancini and the entire events team that handle everything getting this thing smoothly.
We've got like you said, the guys on the truck, Ryan and Taylor Ray.
There's so many people that are heavily, heavily, heavily involved in making the Barstool Classic actually happened day in and day out.
And for them to build out the championship at Greyhawk like they did, it was a fucking tour of it.
It was roped off the practice areas so that the players were like literally inside the ropes practicing.
it felt like a true tour event.
It blew me away at how much the place just popped for the championship,
how real it felt.
Del Cochran is a good friend of mine,
who's one of the founding partners of Greyhawk and owners of Greyhawk,
who's up there all the time.
He sat around all day Monday and followed along all day Tuesday.
I had a little lunch and a bite to eat with him on Tuesday, I think, for a while.
And he just said, we've done so many events up here.
He was like, I can't remember one that blew me away as much as this one.
And I want to give a shout out to the actual participants because Greyhawk told me last night that they heard from multiple staff members who said of all the events that we've done.
They don't know that they've ever had a crowd that was more respectful and friendly and fun than the Barstool classic crowd, which is hard to pull off.
We had one guy, I think, fell into the creek on 10 yesterday during the playoff,
who was a little too intoxicated.
But outside of that, I really didn't hear of many issues.
And I think one out of like 250, 300 people over the course of two and a half days is you're pretty good, pretty good percentage you're rolling with.
So overall, it was a massive, massive success.
You know, we saw, we, when we started the whole thing, the whole thinking was like, golf.
is such a cool sport in that if you're a golf fan, you probably play golf and you think about
your golf swing and you work on your short game and you watch fucking swing videos and then
once a week or once every couple weeks or maybe five times a week, depending who you are in your
lifestyle, you get to go out and you get to play fucking golf course. You get to test your game against
your buddies, whatever. But you always are thinking, what would I shoot in that course? How would
I stack up against these folks? And different entities have tried, you know, amateur tours.
ours technically isn't an amateur tour but for all intents and purposes that's the best way to probably define it that people would understand it but golf channel did their am tour and there's a lot of different entities that have tried to put together and capture this whole environment of people playing golf and we said four or five years ago i don't know that there's a better company organization on earth better position to do this properly than us because we have all the fan base we have the stoys we have the resources we are we are hands on enough and
that we can control it, but big enough that we can get backing and all of that.
Huge shout to Truly, who that first year came on for seven fucking figures before a tournament
had ever even occurred.
A Barstville Classic never occurred.
They came on in 2018 or 19, I guess.
That was probably 2019.
And they've been the title sponsor ever since.
And they've been phenomenal.
Now they've got the truly vodka seltzers with real vodka in them that are just delicious.
But they came on.
Erica got behind it.
has got behind it. Now everybody on four plays gotten very much behind it from the production guys.
Frankie and Trent, Dan's been a few, but you guys have gone to a lot more now and gotten into it.
People fucking love it. Like a lot of people just to qualify themselves or itself, you know,
people come up to us towards the end of it. Be like, this was a top five day of the year for me.
I had so much fun. And the championship is that times a million. I mean, it was, it's a vacation,
but you get to compete for a title. There were some huge shots under pressure. You got hundreds of
thousands of people watching these videos.
We had like two, three hundred people in real time following along.
So it was pretty,
pretty surreal to see it all come to fruition.
And it made me jealous that people got to play because like that environment
and the whole scene at Greyhawk was just as good as it could be.
So it was fucking awesome.
It was great.
Yeah.
I think it kind of gets left under the rogue sometimes that the part,
the Barstow Classic is so big that it could be the only thing we did and we'd be like a
massive, massive brand.
It would be, we'd have four.
full-time jobs and like we'd be able to buy houses and stuff like we'd have legit salaries
based off of the the how big and how massive this thing is so when they see us on podcast and they
see us doing all these videos we're going to Scotland all the like the the classic is the juice it's
crazy how big it is you have to see the sponsors on this thing those flags when you drive down
that entrance way you feel like this is something big like really big dude there was a
fucking car on the T-box.
And if someone just made a whole one,
they literally were able to drive home
with it. I think someone hit the pin. They came
close to it. Yeah, they did. They hit the pin.
That was, yeah, it was, it's, it's
massive, massive.
It's been eye-opening for me.
Obviously, paying a lot more attention to it
now since I've joined. And between the
merch and the classic, it's
just unbelievable to me how many fans are
out there. And like, we've talked about this a lot.
You know, I've gotten a lot of
stick on social media and
you know, we all do and they said we all suck. But like there are so many people out there who
get it and who love the brand. And it's, it's, you know, humbling is a word that gets thrown out
a lot. But it is, it's very humbling. And I, I thank you guys, because I did not build this at all.
I did not build this. I know that. And I'm joining this, uh, incredible thing that you guys have
gotten off the ground. And I was watching the, uh, I was like kind of in the, in the Instagram
live tie yesterday with some of the people. And I was shooting the shit with the fans and they were being so
nice and welcoming to me. And it was, it was just very impressive. The whole thing.
thing is very impressive in Riggs. You know, you've been, you thanked everybody else, but like,
you deserve a shit ton of credit for having this idea, pushing it and executing it. Like, that is easily
could have failed. Like, it's crazy. I mean, that's just, that's just, I wouldn't even know where to
start. I wouldn't even know where to start. So good for you. No, I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
It is really like, we get to do the classic allows us to, and you're right, frankly, like the Barstow classic
is its own business. It is for sure. A very successful monster of a business. And,
And people, when they learn that the staff that works on the Barstool Classic, that that's not even their full-time job, people are blown away by that when they're like, what?
Because it is so phenomenally run.
It is like a tour event.
The tee backs on every hole, the T-markers, the scorecards, the signage.
We finally got the pace of playwright, which I was hammering people on because two years in a row, we kind of finished in the dark or close to in the dark.
for the championship, the last couple of groups, which was,
which was obviously didn't think it was going to happen.
This year, we had another hour, hour and a half of daylight when everybody finished
so the sun was setting against the mountains.
It just went extremely well.
But there are dozens of people that work really, really, really, really hard on the classic
to make it real.
And a big part of the reason that we're allowed, that we're able to make the classic as
on steroids as we are is because of the sponsors.
And what folks don't know is if you took.
the pure P&L of the cost per team of two versus the cost to put on the Barstool Classic start to finish.
We lose money.
Barstool has been harping on us for years to raise the price.
It's $400 per person, $500 at some of the more expensive courses.
I have fought that fight against them to keep the price as low as we can because we lose money.
We legitimately lose money.
The championship itself costs us.
us a strong six figures and we get no buy-in money for that because you're $400 that you pay
as a person, $800 as a team.
When you pay that in January, February, you get into the championship.
If you qualify, you don't have to re-ante.
You don't have to do anything.
So all of that comes out of our pocket.
It's because the sponsors that were able to make it a real business.
It's because of Trulie and Peter Millar and G4 and Curve and Dude Wipes was on last year.
I don't know if they're on this year again.
We've had so many good sponsors.
Chevy came on in a big way.
they had a fucking EUV on the goddamn T.
So, yeah.
I got even know if that car's available yet.
No, I don't know if it is either.
I don't know if it is either.
But yeah, it's because of the sponsors that we're able to make it as cool as it is.
We would still do the tournaments, but they just wouldn't be as sweet.
They wouldn't feel as professional.
We have a little bit of wiggle room to really go out there and chase all of our ideas
with a goddamn floaty island of a truly in the middle of the pond on 18.
because truly and all the sponsors come on.
So it's a giant full swing was a big part of it this year as well,
which was super fun having them.
So yeah, the classic is its own.
It's a monster.
It's an absolute monster on its own.
It wrapped up very successfully.
We did 27 stops.
We had 3,000 golfers this year, 19 different states.
We went to Canada.
That's two different fucking countries this year.
I think now we've done close to 80 actual days of Barstool Classic days,
maybe 85 in basically four years and a year and a half of it was a global pandemic where you
weren't even allowed to really get together.
So it's been pretty shocking how successful it's been.
We pretty much got the schedule.
We're going back up north next year.
We're going back up north next year.
Wow.
We'll be north of the wall next year.
That's like the number one DM I get every time I post a Barso classic piece of content.
is like because like I just I feel like we kind of surprised people last year because we did it kind of last minute
but we're like oh we're coming to Toronto and like I think if we have like a full year of letting people know that we're actually coming back that that place is insane I mean I got that fucking Brian Trache jersey and the guy made me cry at that golf course and got it so that's uh just saying two countries is just exciting to me like you're multi no I know international I agree international are we doing one in like Mexico city that'd be insane sure
Sure. I'm down.
Why not?
But congrats to Josh and Brennan on their Barstall Classic Championship.
We will have them on the show to break down the whole thing.
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comment this one real quick. The video of him from the Australian pub watching the replay of him
finishing the Aussie PGA and he was wearing the same polo. He hadn't even changed his polo afterwards.
I thought that was just an all-time clip and I know we should unlive and we have all of our takes
and all that and can't, whatever. I just love that. I thought that came off as so authentic and
salt to the earth that he was just crushing a beer at the pub hanging. And he just seemed like as one of
the boys as you could possibly be. So shout out to Cam Smith. I love that clip. He's a hero in Australia,
like a hero here. They could not give two shits about, about, and they're having an event in Adelaide.
And everyone, you know, there's a lot of hype on the ground for it. And I think he basically, like,
he locked up all his money so that he can go now to Australia and play for negligible amounts.
And it's actually, like, now it's, that event's like very pure for him, right? Because he's got all the
money in the world. But he comes back to play these events in Australia because,
he likes to play in Australia and it's not about the money.
So it's kind of an interesting dynamic with Cam Smith.
But yeah, I think outside the U.S., just the outrage to live, I think is just almost not
much, much smaller.
And I think Australia, because of obviously Greg Norman and Cam Smith, that's their country.
That's going to be their tour.
I mean, they love living in Australia.
We're very pro-Australia podcast.
We had a great time in Australia.
We met a lot of stuff.
We've been there.
Yeah.
Big soccer win for them today.
That was.
We met a lot of fans.
down there. We threw a watch party
at a bar in Australia
in Melbourne and
it was packed with
4 plate fans. So we fucking love Australia.
I think it's very cool that Cam Smith is that
big down there. I forget about that all the time.
Much like I forget, like Brooke
Henderson is just enormous in Canada.
You forget how big, like,
Hideki is in Japan. You just
forget. And so
seeing that, seeing how much that means to him,
I mean, that's got to be up there for one of the
biggest tournaments. He can win all year long when he wins
in Australia. So awesome clip.
I like Cam Smith. He seems like a great dude.
When we did that watch party in Australia,
I like left that party
and just walked down the streets with like
seven Aussies.
And we went and got pizza at this like really
cool modern pizzeria. And we sat around for like
two hours and we talked about things
that are said in America that are said differently
in Australia. Like like
instead of like a soda pop, it was a fizzy or whatever the
you know what I mean? I don't even remember half the shit they said.
That's how great. It was just mine.
It was spinning.
The whole world was spinning everything they said.
And I remember that being like the coolest.
Like, wow, I'm in another fucking,
I'm on another continent right now.
Just joshing it up with these fucking random people, these locals.
Ozies are the best.
They are so cool.
Did you see Taylor from Bustin with the boys
throughout a hypothetical the other day that,
no.
Some people think that Australia is not a real place,
that like the pilots just kind of go around in circles.
And then they just drop you off somewhere
that's like relatively close to where you start.
started from but like no one that does feel very American it feels like I'm walking around
Melbourne and it felt like it was because like when you go to England it feels different right you're
on the other side of the road the signage is a little weird Australia it could be San Diego for
the same price right yeah just think about it they love the NBA there I remember that that was just
very American I mean we went to Australia there was golf courses that looked like they got like
there's a regular place they had like a city they had a McDonald's and then we went to the bar and
they were watching the Phoenix Suns game so I mean that literally could have
just been like Arizona.
They just speak perfect English.
It's just,
it's,
yeah,
it's just the same.
They just have kangaroos and like all kinds of wild,
deadly creatures.
But other than that,
same shit.
Yeah.
Did you guys,
see the tiger presser?
Yeah.
Let's go through the tiger presser.
I,
that was not,
um,
it didn't make me happy.
He,
I,
I,
I don't even know.
I just think that he,
like,
it might be a defeated man of,
like,
He's not because he's Tiger Woods, obviously, but he was like, he's basically, I don't have much in this leg, dude.
Like, I, I, I just can't walk.
I'm with you.
It's been 22 months, guys, it's been 22 months since the, since the accident.
And he has the best rehab team in the world.
And he works harder than anybody.
And he still just, like, can't really walk.
I don't know if he's ever going to be able to.
He was definitely down in the dumps and Mopee.
But seeing him today, he was celebrating with the other guys, that made me feel better.
Like, I was worried.
he was going to be down in the dumps the whole time.
And talking about him playing is a different thing, I guess.
But his attitude is important going into this whole thing.
And I think he's going to be all right.
If I had just watched the press conference and I didn't watch the competition he did with all the guys today,
I would have been in the same boat.
But I think he's just going to have good days and bad days.
And certainly he's going to be fucking upset right after he just announced that he's not playing in this tournament.
So I don't think it's DefCon one right now.
I don't think so.
Yeah.
I got to tell you a really cool thing I saw today.
So I was walking in the proam on the fourth hole and just see these dogs start running past turn around.
And our friend of the chair, friend of the program, he goes, oh, there's Tiger.
And so Tiger's gunning it in this souped up golf cart.
That's like Albany Golf Cart that he runs around.
And the dogs are kind of hanging around.
They don't know really where to go.
And Tiger goes, go.
And they sprint over the green, right through the green, right to.
the next tea and then they wait for tiger woods right there and then dylan goes
guess that's how you walk your dogs if you're tiger woods and so that's what he was doing he was
telling his dogs where to sprint to on the golf course and then he was driving his car as fast as he
could like a jockey being like go go over there over there it was sick wow that's pretty unbelievable
he was doing this during the pro am during the pro am dude he was gunning the car and the dogs were
just zooming how good is that dude i'm telling you this tournament you're the best you
guys got to come it's the greatest tournament in the world it's the best dude did you like say hi to him
at that point no no dude he was gunning it he was gunning it like the he him and the dog it was an exercise
mission you know what i mean it was not like a let's chat it was i'm giving the dogs exercise have you
made any contact with tiger woods outside of the press room no i have not i have not so you got some
questions and i understand during the presser yeah i got some questions in you know i asked him about
the cart stuff because it just feel and he's just
he just won't budge on that one.
It's just never going to happen.
I think it's pretty savage move that he told everyone that he voted no on Casey Martin getting a cart.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was funny.
You could answer that question just saying, no, you know, I think it's principal and I think it's part of the game.
He's like Casey Martin, right?
My college teammate, I voted no.
I've actually seen the questions that you asked.
I feel like the quotes that he gave were coming from your questions, which I thought.
Definitely the cart one.
And then there was another one that I just saw.
You might have led the field in quotes.
quotable, you know, quotes from questions asked.
Oh, you got the max, you got the Max Homo one too.
Yeah.
Yeah, they've been quoting it was a good, it was a good press conference for me, you know, a year after the worst press conference I've ever had in my life.
So it was, it was a nice redemption story.
When you froze on the, on the, on the plate when I froze, my brain went blank.
Now, now other people in the tent, like when they want to use that quote, they don't have to say like, Dan Rappaport asked this question.
No, it's, it's the transcript.
Fair game. That's why I try to not use quotes from transcripts because they're fair game.
Anyone can use them. So, yeah, if you get stuff on your own like a greet on it.
Is there like a, what's the, what's the journalism hierarchy of people that like like, like they sit around a boardroom and they're like, this is allowed and this is not.
Yeah, I don't. That's a good question. I mean, I think the AP kind of like wrote the book on reporting the Associated Press.
But yeah, I don't know. I was just always told to me that like if something is a used.
use on a transcript. There does get a little bit of controversy because after a guy will leave
the podium, some journalists will then come up to him and ask more questions after he leaves
because they want to get something that's not on the transcript. And then you'll see like a guy
creeping behind with his phone trying to kind of get that guy's quotes. Yeah, no, I can get nasty
out there. There's one guy I won't name him who's known as kind of a kind of a lingerer.
He kind of, you're having a one-in-one with a guy. You're showing around and there's that guy.
So there's definitely a little politics. So just to be clear, during like an open forum press conference,
you don't have to attribute to anybody
who asks the question.
Correct. Interesting.
I did not know.
Only if you got it on your own.
The press conference,
like the purpose of it is for quotes to go out.
It used to be that only the guys in the room could use it,
but now they put the transcripts online and basically anything.
Has there ever been...
If you're not there,
you're supposed to say told reporters.
Has ever been like a face-to-face,
like shoving in the tent
about like someone using someone else's quote
or like a real life, like almost fight?
Has ever been fist thrown?
I don't know.
Probably.
I mean,
not that I've seen.
I haven't seen fist thrown.
But yeah,
some guys will,
you know,
it's,
I take it really seriously.
We should,
most of it is more like some guys,
mad that some guys being loud or cheering or something.
Like,
you can't do that.
Frankie,
you should do it behind the greens of golf media press conferences.
So,
it's such an interesting world.
Dude.
And then you did the confessional videos on the side of people being like,
dude,
that was my fucking question.
Well,
honestly,
if that grew,
in media in general, but
sticking with golf, if they knew
it was good from, they would make them contentious.
It's like when you see footage
from other governments and they're
just, they're brawling, they're just
going after each other. Like you watch
you watch Congress in the U.S. and it's
just, it's very like, I speak, and then that person
speaks, and that person speaks, and we all respect
each other's opinions. And then they flash
to Thailand and they're just throwing shoes
and punching each other in the head.
Like if golf, media knew it was good for them,
they would make it that interesting where they would make it
attention filled that. If I was in charge, I would enact the fact that every question asked
inside the reporting room is to that person. No one else can use that quote. You know what I mean?
Just 50 one-on-one interviews? Yeah. I mean, exactly. And with for each question, you get a thousand
dollars. Make it a competition somehow. Like you have to get, you have to have the best question that
gets chosen. I think. Most drama stuff is when the guys raise their hands and they don't get called on and
And then they're like, oh.
He did that.
And he plays favorites.
He always favorites to the Americans.
Oh, dude, that footage would win.
That would win the day.
Like if you got, you shouldn't even focus on what they're saying.
You can just use those quotes anyways.
Just you got to capture like the, the English journal who's just, he knows that the guy
had charged with the microphone hates him.
He hates him.
He hates him.
He like, talks shit to him at a bar or something.
And he just won't let him ask Tiger.
What's a question?
You got to focus.
There was a guy today who.
was so mad because the the proam was stop and start like there was it was raining all day so they were
like they would stop it bringing the guys in and then go back out the bar so class so one of the so one of the
Ireland well kind of just blew it but some some journalist came over to me and was like they start
they start play again I was like yeah he's like do they make an announcement he's like no I mean the guy
Jack who's the PJ tour media he just kind of came over here and he's like why don't they make an
announcement I don't know you weren't here he's like let me guess they told this how
of the room and not this half of the room and one half of the room was the European journalist and one half of the room was the American journalist. And at this point, I knew like what, what, what he wanted out of this interaction. So I was like, yeah, that's kind of what happened. He's like, this unbelievable. This is unbelievable. I was the president of this association and we never let this happen. It's, it's like the pettiest thing in the world because it's so doesn't matter. Like it doesn't matter. To no reasonable person doesn't matter. But in our little sphere, it's the it's really, really important. That's like everything. If you.
True.
If you zero in, focus in on a group of people more, let's say more than four people
and you just start talking to everybody involved, it's the most drama-filled thing in the
world.
So, of course, golf journalists are going to be no different.
I find that fascinating.
Yeah.
It's crazy that at Northwestern, they didn't teach you to turn a mic on.
They actually didn't teach us anything technology.
They revamped the program right after I left.
My classes were like, man on the street interview because they used to shit out newspaper
writers.
That was what it was.
They were teaching us to be a newspaper writer.
I actually talked about that with Alex Bush over the weekend at the Barstville Classic Championship
because I learned that Alex Bush, that idiot, he has a master's degree.
He does how to turn on a microphone?
That guy is a moron.
I was asking him because I am interested in that.
Because I had, I once upon a time had dreams of going to journalism school.
I did not end up doing that.
I was an English major and then I didn't graduate even with that degree.
But I was asking him about like the curriculum at journalism schools.
Like, are they making an effort to put in digital media and how the landscape is shifting?
Like, I find that stuff fascinating.
So for you, Dan, clearly the turn on the microphone wasn't part of the curriculum yet.
Yeah, I must have missed that class.
The turn on the microphone class.
I don't think I've entered.
So we haven't really said.
So when you listen to this interview that's coming up with Kalamorakawa and Dan Rappaport,
there's going to be two different audio.
One's going to be coming from a GoPro on Dan.
side and the other one's going to be coming from a crystal clear beautiful microphone on
Kalamorakawa side. The reasoning is because I guess Dan's just cut out and then we had a backup plan
for the obviously of the video. So it'll be the same level hopefully that Alex with the
master's degree over there can figure out how to get it all to be the same level, but they will be
two different audio sources. You will hear a difference. It could be jarring at first, but it's better
than just not hearing what Colin says. We're not going to not put it out. So just deal with that fact
or just drain out Danny every time he talks and then just listen to the crispness.
that is Colin.
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I do.
Great on Danny for getting this interview.
What a fucking interview.
Huge.
Perfect timing for Colin.
Perfect.
He hasn't been in the news a lot.
A couple more things.
He's the man.
A couple more things we'll go through.
I saw this
putting stats that Justin Thomas
commented on today from our guy
Lou Stagner tweeted out.
Pretty fascinating if you look at
the difference in
percentage of putts
made from early in the morning until or through the afternoon, a very noticeable stark difference.
And I looked at like the seven foot range, it goes, there's like a legitimate 5% difference
from from seven foot to seven foot five inches.
is it goes from 58.9% at 759 a.m. or earlier to 53.6% 5 p.m. or later.
So a legitimate 5% difference on like a 7, 7.5 foot putt versus putting in the morning,
being the first people out or putting later in the day.
And obviously, they attribute that to growth.
The grass grows throughout the day.
So it's not going to be, you know, as pure and smooth spike marks, people walking around, whatever.
but pretty crazy to see it in real raw in front of your face statistics.
Sounds like an argument for a shotgun start.
It was the graph was so jarring that, and it came from a place, which is Justin Thomas, where I don't know if they can do anything about this.
This is just kind of the way that it is, but it made you feel like they should probably do something about that.
Yeah, like roll the greens or something at some point.
But if there's a decisive.
did advantage for the people who go out early.
Decided. I guess that's why they do late early, though.
Like you get one of each when you play.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's kind of how they try to do it.
You know, on the weekend, right, if you're a leader, you're in theory going out at the
worst time. So it's kind of like bringing the field together a little bit.
You know, over, over however many rounds and the numbers aren't that staggering, but they're,
they're noticeably real, which I thought, I wouldn't have guessed that. I just wouldn't
guess that it was that real. I think players will, but like you can tell it JT was looking and
this quote was like, I'm shocked or this is fascinating. I think players will be a little kinder
to themselves now on the afternoon knowing that this isn't just me. It's actually harder to make
puts. I think that's the takeaway. Yeah. I'm going to use this all the time. Yeah, I'm going to talk
about that's what I'm saying. Yeah, you're going to miss a put at 5 p.m.
Never feels a daily night in the morning. They're always in the fucking afternoon. So obviously it's going to be
really difficult. Uh, all right. Anybody got anything else? We are an hour and five minutes into this
puppy already and we got 35 minutes of
Kalamor Kawa sounding great and Dan Rappaport sounding like shit.
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So if anybody doesn't have anything else, it's going to be, it's December, by the way,
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As soon as we're done with this, I'm putting up my Christmas tree, which I'm really pumped
about.
I need to get a tree.
Yeah, I was going to ask you that, Trent, if you're getting a tree.
I don't have one.
I was going to get one on Amazon and I just have a perfect spot in my apartment for it,
but I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet, but I love a Christmas tree.
I'm getting, so I'm slowly starting to get my Hogwarts Christmas Village in and I took out
Hogwarts yesterday and one of the tops of the building just snapped off because I was being too
aggressive with it. So this is, so all day today I spent dealing with super glue, but let me tell
you guys something. This super glue is not for the faint of heart. It's a fucking nightmare. It gets all
over the place. It gets on your fingers. It's a liability. And you just came and get it. You can't get it off.
Like you watch these YouTube videos on how to get it off and they'll like you got to soak that hand for like an
hour and then you got to use nail posture mover. I'm like, I'm just going to let my skin kind of
just like fall off. And then like you can just, there's like residue all my head. You can't really
see this camera sucks. But my hands, I, um, I think I missed the Hogwarts thing. Oh, was I not here for
that. Yeah, you did. Yeah, I got a hot. What are you doing? I got a, well, I was, um, I was obviously
targeted. I was, I was, he said it so like, oh, I got my Hogwarts Christmas going up. Like,
what are you talking about? I was ad. I was ed. I was ed. Podcast.
I was targeted on advertising clearly to buy a brand new Christmas village.
I think it's like a new one, a new version, and it's Hogwarts.
So I went online, I get it.
It says, and they totally swindle you.
So it's like Hogwarts, it shows all of them.
Hogwarts, the Express, you can get Hogsmead little places.
You can get the Hogwarts Express like train station.
You get all these guys.
And it shows you in this picture.
It says, 6999.
You're like, fucking nice, dude.
Like, that's awesome.
So now you go in?
No, no, no.
Each piece is $70 plus tax plus shipping.
So now they're like, you need at least 10 pieces.
I'm like, that's fucking $500.
This is getting crazy.
So what did I do?
I bought all the piece.
I bought at least six pieces and they're slowly starting to come.
And yeah, we're starting to build out the little village.
How big is this build out going to be?
It'll be quite, it'll be quite serious.
It's going to be expensive.
It's going to be in your front yard?
No, no, no, no.
This is on a table top of a mantel.
It's a nativity scene.
It'll be like on top of a mantel, like on top of the fireplace, like right below that picture.
Oh, okay.
It'll be right there.
It's actually a life size.
He had to rent a farm.
I really thought I was going to drive by her house and I was going to see Hogwarts out on your front yard.
I wish.
I wish.
I actually wish.
No, no, no.
But, yeah, I did that today.
Shout to this company called Amazon.
I ordered batteries today.
It came in an hour.
They're getting to that point now.
I didn't even know.
It was the same day.
deliverer. I'm like, oh, I'll get them next week.
And then someone knocked on the door like 55 minutes later.
I was like, what is that?
Obviously, I probably ordered something. Someone sent something.
I looked at it and it was fucking batteries.
I legit looked around my neighborhood.
Like, what the fuck?
Where'd that come from?
That's what I always wonder about Amazon.
And we can wrap this up because we got to get the column work out.
But the Amazon shipping process, I do not understand whatsoever.
He just hits the button and then you just hear batteries hit your front door.
Where did they pick up that bad?
There must be like an Amazon warehouse somewhere where they just have a bunch of shit.
They have giant warehouse.
Probably too.
Yeah.
But who organizes those?
Could you imagine what it would look like in there?
It's probably super like structured actually if you think about it.
Very.
Oh, it has to be.
But I'm saying like that's what I mean.
Like how what it would look like, I guess, if we ran that warehouse versus what actually goes on.
And like some engineer designed to the warehouse of like where the things are going to be to optimize it.
It's a whole.
Batteries just fucking land on Frankie's doorstep.
And the batteries are a Frankie's house in 45 minutes.
All right.
We're done here in terms of us four morons.
You're now going to hear one of the best players on planet Earth and Dan Rapaport live
from the Bahamas.
Everybody have a great weekend.
Be safe.
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We are joined here by world number, what do you 10?
10.
I feel you got to drop to 11 for the brand.
Fuck off.
The brand?
No.
Your brand is 11.
I don't want to keep dropping down.
I want to go up.
No, I'm just saying you were 11.
from the pit last year.
You're 11th in the pit this year, despite all the live guys leaving.
Thank you.
How are you feeling about being 11th in the fifth again?
You know, it is what it is.
It kind of, yeah, I can't dispute the facts.
It sucks, you know, but you know what, at least we're getting paid one through 20.
Like, I'm not complaining.
I mean, you know, it is what it is.
I know a lot of it had to have been golf-based,
and that was like a big category that I kind of slacked on.
This entire 20-22.
were super important. Because I was just saying
finish in eight was very surprising to me.
Yeah. No, look,
I was surprised when I heard I was 11th again.
But it is what it is. Like I said, it's,
you know, I can't do anything about it.
I'm still getting paid, which is great.
And hopefully we'll make 23 and somehow not finish
11th again. Right. So you knew you were going to finish 11th?
You had like an idea? Were they giving you guys like updates throughout the year?
I knew I was close throughout the year. I didn't really pay attention until kind of the late,
maybe after the season ended.
I knew I was kind of around that 9, 10, 11 bubble,
but you just don't know where it's going to net out.
Fate was bound to give me 11 again.
And I never liked the number 11.
It's not like I hated it,
but I've always liked the number 5.
And here we are really loving the number 11.
So whoever loves 11 out there, I mean, that's, I'm your new best friend.
You like the 11 guy?
I'm the 11 guy, yeah.
Life's not too bad.
We are on the balcony.
in the Bahamas.
You guys are comfortable.
I don't know if you can see this view on YouTube,
but I'm looking at a lot of yachts,
none of which I can afford.
You're getting closer to be able to afford them.
I can afford that little tender boat down there.
That's a dinghy, I think.
That's just to bring the guy,
the people from the yacht onto the...
I mean, I can afford that.
We're at the Hero World Challenge,
which is one of my favorite events
to come to the year because of this,
because everyone's chill.
If you've made it here,
it's been a good year.
Albany is not a place
that I can really describe to anyone.
It's kind of like fantasy land.
It's like a billionaire bubble.
And I've been in the news a lot recently because of the F-TX.
I was hoping to see him.
Where you are, SBF?
I mean, no, it's been rumored that he's here, right?
I think he's here.
I don't know if he's still here.
I don't think he's allowed to move.
I would probably look only at the top.
I mean, we're pretty high up in this building right now.
We got lucky enough to share room.
But, yeah, we just start looking at the penthouses.
I think that's our only awesome.
If I could get the exclusive on that.
That would make my entire degree.
You'd make a lot of money.
Portnoy would be absolutely ecstatic with me.
You just got married.
Yeah, look at this.
Like literally just got married.
Look at your wedding.
It looks little tight.
Crazy.
Is that the right?
No, that's perfect.
How was it?
It was everything I could ask for, seriously and more.
There's so much buildup to it.
I mean, you know, you talk to anyone and that's all they're going to ask you about your marriage.
Finally, I don't have to answer anything about my wedding day.
And hopefully they asked me about other things, but it was, I was, I was,
way more emotional than I ever thought I would be.
Couldn't stop crying, but it was everything, and it's going to be the most special day of my life
for what I can remember.
Are you a crier normally?
No, I'm not a crier.
I'm like never a crier.
I just, I don't really show a lot of emotion.
But I started crying as I was walking down the aisle with my mom.
And that was like, I never even experienced it.
If there's a time to cry in your life, walking down the aisle with your mom, probably.
It's all happy tears, though, you know, it's all good.
Are you going to cry?
I think I'm going to cry. I'm a bit of a cry, though. Like, I got to cry. So my dad's a crier. Yeah, I'm getting married in like six months, calling that kind of in comparing notes. His wedding, a lot smaller than mine. I'm a little jealous about that. Sorry, Emma. But yeah, it sounds like it was just, it just went off without a hitch. Like, you... Yeah, we had, look, we had one of the best wedding planners in the world and to have her on our side and just to make things less stressful, even though, you know, you don't realize how stressful it is, even when you have everything planned.
Like, how involved were you?
things. I still had to answer, make decisions yes or no. She's still wanted my input. I wasn't the
final decision maker, but I still, you know, I still had to say. But it's just more of like,
you don't know what's going to happen. And you just want everything to be perfect. You want
everything, you want everyone to have fun. You want everyone to have a good time. And you just don't
know how it's going to go. And it's not like I throw parties like every weekend. Like there are
people out there that love to throw parties. And that's just not who I am. But everything went.
amazing throughout the entire day and we were so happy about it.
Is she Catherine Morikawa?
Not yet, but I think will be.
Will be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Emma and I have been like, at the beginning, I was really, really involved with everything.
And then I just sort of came to a point where I was like, I just don't think it's worth
to fight.
Like unless it's something that I really, really care about, it's not worth the fight.
Just go all out on the food.
That's all I recommend.
We had some awesome food.
I mean, we had everything.
We had sushi, pizza, skewers.
octopus for like ap I mean this was just our hors d'oeuvres and then we had yeah we had everything
you're not one to really like blow out to like spend crazy no we was this but this one you let it go a
little bit food yeah food like I will spend anything on food I won't look at a and then I'm very
fortunate to not have to look at you know the price tag of food and I'll still I'll still like
yeah I'll still price compare it to like where we are I mean we're in the Bahamas right now and
like a piece of toast is like $20 dude I stayed here last
Last year, I stayed with Matt last year with Fidtsey, and I remember the fruit salad, I think, it's like $17.000.
Yeah.
So, like, at that point, like, I'm almost willing to starve myself.
But for good food, I'm willing to spend.
And we had really good food at our wedding.
Your food go.
When are you going to, like, take that to the next level?
I feel like you should have to be open in, like, a restaurant or something like, I think done the collaborations.
You've done a little bit like, yeah, yeah.
Like, when is Morikawa's opening?
We doubt, we dabble here and there.
Mori cowas, wow, that's kind of.
That's sick.
Yeah.
Like, Borreli.
Yeah
I don't know
I'm not there yet
I have no idea how to cook
You just enjoy food
I just love eating it
And I feel like I can kind of taste
What's great and what's good
And what's not good
But I don't think we're there yet
That might be down the road
That's like a future
You know 10 year 12 15 years
Yeah
I feel like that's a thing
And that's not something I need right now
Like I don't
look, this entire professional career has just been a whirlwind of, you know,
jumping out of the gates pretty fast, getting engaged, married.
I'm ready to just go out and just get back in the routine of playing golf and kind of enjoying that.
What's the most press conferences I've ever heard?
I'm serious.
Like, it's not like, I want to just get back into a routine.
Like, you have your routine of like going to certain tournaments, doing your media stuff.
Like, that's what I want to do.
just wait till you know
trade jobs
you want to go to me
no no I don't
you said
this year
wasn't was not your
was not your best
you weren't happy with this
yeah what
I mean I know that golf is such a weird
game and things
go up and then they go down
and it's hard to really understand why
when you look back at this year
what's your
what's your guess
as to why things didn't go be the way you want to
I just didn't pay attention enough to myself and really listened and watch, you know, my body and take time into really figuring out, you know, what's right and what's wrong.
What do you mean if you're just eating like shit? No, I wasn't eating like shit. Like I still eat a lot of good food and like, you know, I watch what I eat. Like I enjoy and I indulge in a lot of food, but I'm not just like sitting on the couch eating chips. I think it's more about like making sure my body works. And like, you know, I said this.
jokingly, I forget, like, I think it was in my
coba, my last event this year where, like, I'm getting old,
but like, and I know people are, like, took that
completely the wrong way.
No, I know. And seriously, like, our mind, like, I feel very young.
Like, I still feel like I could go to college tomorrow and, like,
no one to recognize me. I just have a great time.
But, like, every day your body does change, right?
And when I keep doing this and now I've played professional golf for three
and a half years and, like, you do it every day and you don't realize that
I've probably traveled more in my life these three and a half years, even though I've played golf my entire life than I ever have.
That it just takes a toll on your body.
And that's what I think about traveling because it shouldn't be as tiring as it is.
Yeah.
Like I've said this before.
You get off a flight, like if I fly from New York to L.A. or something, all you're really doing is sitting for six hours.
But there's just something about it that just, I don't know, maybe it's that you're not in your own bed or you're not.
But there's something about traveling that is tiring when it shouldn't be that physically tired.
Yeah.
And then like here we are like, you know, at the biggest possible stage in the world, like trying to compete and be the best in the world, right?
So I'm not trying to just come out and have your weekend, force them and just shoot even par.
Like, I'm trying to win tournaments.
And I just didn't pay attention enough to my body on how much like stress and everything is put.
Wow, it's getting cold right when the sun goes down.
That's amazing.
So I just didn't do enough body work to really maintain that, right?
You come out of college, you feeling great.
Adrenaline's pushing you through everything.
I lost like 10 pounds that first summer.
But now I know what to do to not do that.
But it's also like just making sure I'm like my body's moving in the right way.
And I just wasn't doing that enough.
So it's simple just body work and body maintenance to get myself back in a position.
And I started to see that as playoffs progress, as this kind of fall kind of has come through.
And it's just putting the pieces together and getting back up there.
I feel like you do a good job of having your tour life and then your life separate from your tour.
And we were talking about this the other week in Florida,
that most of your best friends aren't BJ tour players.
You know, you kind of have your crew in Vegas guys that you grew up playing golf with.
Is that by design?
No, it's not by design.
I mean, like, do you try to keep work and, you know,
because it's something that, you know, I think about is like trying to keep work
and friendships separate to not let them all sort of lead together.
You have your crew that's not tour guys that you think about.
It just turned out to be like that.
I mean, it's not like I don't want to become best friends with these guys out here.
You know, it's just other guys I've spent more time with.
I've hung out, you know, more years of my life to say and know that like they're going to be there no matter what.
And I'm not saying these guys won't be here no matter what, but it's just like those are my guys and those are my circle right now.
You know, I'm sure at some point when we, you know, if you have kids and like your kids start hanging out with other guys.
I think like there's like got to be like 15 to 20 PJ tour players like having kids in the next
from from now in the next six months like they just are naturally going to start hanging around
Yeah and and living in Vegas there's a lot of young guys and that's kind of where I've
You know made my home for the past since I've turned pro and a lot of those guys hadn't had their PGA tour cards a lot of younger guys like justin sah
You know kirt kiddiyama taylor montgomery they're getting their cards now but when i was
out there two years ago, they didn't have their cards.
So these are guys that
have become friends. Those are your peers. Those are the guys that you
have. Exactly. I've known them forever.
And like, just because they don't have a PGA
tour card, like, it doesn't matter to me.
Yeah. I want to ask you about the golf media in general
because you had a couple moments this year where you're kind of
like a little sticky and like you seemed a little
annoyed. Yeah.
How, what's your take on how you've been covered
and specifically through like the live lens, all the
rigorous up.
Are you talking about how we've been covered like this year or just like in general?
I just noticed like at the U.S.
Open you were like pretty annoyed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because look when I at the U.S.
Open I think someone like I mentioned Brooks's comment.
And at that point I think it was the week after is when he committed to live.
And like because I had said something that Brooks said similarly or like I quote
him on it that then I was hence going to live and look I think the media is great I think what you guys
do like you guys help promote us you guys promote you guys promote you know players mostly in a positive
way right but your guys's job is to just put out news right and then what's going to grab eyes
and what's going to grab attention and um I think you know when this when live and the PGA tour and all
this stuff. It was like, okay, how do we find this? How do we find this in for who's next going to live?
Well, I'm tasting. That's what people want to eat. It's a nasty cycle, right? No, and I get it.
I get it. I get it. But they were like literally taking anything I said and making it like, oh, you have a
connection. Like, you're going. And to be honest, I don't even know who's going. I don't know who was
going. I don't know who is going. Like I knew nothing. And it's like, it's like you're, like, I was so
far out of it from actually knowing anything
that it was just
like it was annoying and it was funny
because they thought I knew
like you guys thought I knew more when
in reality like I didn't like I'm not lying
to you guys and hiding anything. It's just truly like
I didn't know and it was just like
continuous cycle of
okay you don't know all right come on
you're going
like come on
no one knew like no one knew
like no one knew you know and that's like
the whole thing of this is no one knows
it is what it is starting to feel a bit normal though isn't it like it's just like a thing now
like there's a tour going on yeah it was funny i feel like when when things were being talked about it
was like a dune state scenario what's going to happen it's like well yeah i mean our focus has gone to
the pj tour and that's like that's what we're excited about is like how do we change what 24 is
going to be like and how do we improve the pj tour system and everything and um hopefully we can all
get on terms and the tour make some great decisions on what's
next. I mean, once again, I don't really know what's going to happen. You're probably using more
of like your Berkeley business degree now than you expect it to. Like, are you speaking up in these meetings?
No, you know, like I'm a little bit of both. Like I'm not someone. I mean, I'm sure everyone can guess
who's like speaking the most here and there. There's a group of people that are speaking the most.
I'm kind of like right in the middle. Like I, but I, but look, I, I view myself as someone who can
understand a lot of this stuff, like just take it all in. Like it's, it's never too much information
so I can sit there and be like, okay, you know, like, I understand what, what they're trying to put
out, what we're trying to do and, um, and just kind of think about it. But it's crazy because like we,
who knows what's right and who's, what's wrong. I mean, we could be freaking rolling the dice right now.
And that's what everyone's doing. But, um, I think in the end, it's, it's all going to be good
for everyone, not for the top players, which, you know, some people think, like, it's, like,
it's going to be good for everyone.
I just,
I don't know,
I hope so,
I hope so.
I just don't know if there's any,
people are talking about,
you know,
they need to come together.
There needs to be some peace,
but like Coke doesn't work with Pepsi.
You know what I mean?
Yeah,
I mean,
I wasn't even talking about that,
like between Liv and the tour.
I was just talking about the tour,
but like if you talk about the whole merge,
like I've heard,
you know,
Rory says like it needs to happen.
I think JT said this week that,
you know,
he doesn't know if it's close.
Once again,
I'm on the very,
very outs of this stuff to where I don't know.
Yeah, I don't really know.
I can't conceive in my head what it would look like for them to coexist, really, in the same world.
I think both tours or whatever you want to call them want to be the alpha, right?
So like I...
$4 billion to be the full soon.
Right.
So I don't know what Liv wants to do in that regards.
And I don't know what kind of terms you can come up with.
I haven't thought about that, to be honest.
It doesn't seem like it's not happening anytime soon.
Yeah, it's just going to keep going on and on.
What are your thoughts on the new schedule?
Like next year and, you know, playing all the elevated events and all that stuff.
You guys are going to be getting together a lot more.
It almost feels like there's going to be like 12 World Golf Championships,
which I think is good.
Yeah, I mean, I remember when I was vying to get in my first WGC,
which was in Mexico in 2020,
I went from like birding the first five or six holes at Riviera.
Just the week before.
The week before.
I was right on the cusp of getting into the top 50.
Oh, okay.
And then I five putted.
It's a lot of pusses.
Yeah, I'm a really good putty.
Watch out, watch out, 23.
No, I'm coming. I'm coming.
I'm working until you are in a lot.
No.
I'm working on a lot of good things.
Yeah, you're in the lab?
Yeah, these people.
watch out watch out um but like the wc's to me were awesome because like yeah you know it was
it was a very small few people top 50 in the world plus a few handful of others but like they're the
best fields so yeah you know i'm excited to see what 23 is going to be like with these elevated events
um because i mean that's what you want to do you want to compete against these guys you want to see
them playing at their best and you want to see how your game stacks up at that time and hopefully it's
on top. So I fully feel, and I know that I can beat these guys when I'm playing well,
I just got to put four good days and rounds and just, you know, play like normal golf.
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I read something that one of the,
that's a good way to start a sentence.
I read something once.
One of the main mistakes that amateurs make is practicing what we're good at in golf.
And I totally, totally balk with that.
I never practice long at a night because I'm just not good at them.
And then I have a tournament, you know, once every month.
then I have a five hundred degrees and I'm like shitting my pants and I'm like oh yeah maybe you should
be five minutes you've putting has been something that is stuck out as like you're so elite at
everything else in the putting is healthy bad what percentage of your practice is putting um yeah well look
i started working with a putting coach i started working with this guy named stephen sueney um since
mexico and it is now changed to where a good percentage is a lot of putting because no because now i
what I'm supposed to do.
I was no joke, just spinning the wheel,
rolling the dice out there,
you know, the past three and a half years,
and just kind of taking guesses for why I putted well one week
and why I didn't the others.
And that's hard to do.
Like, oh, my weight was on my left foot or, oh, you know,
I did this with my routine.
Right, I did it.
And, like, it worked for one week or it worked for a handful of weeks,
but it wasn't consistent.
I didn't actually know what I was doing.
But putting is a big honeymoon phase situation.
Like, you change something?
No, that's what you think.
But yes, yes.
But it, but, but you, but yeah, exactly.
When you don't understand and now I'm like actually understanding and when I go back and I'm learning these things, I'm like, that's why this worked or that's why this didn't work.
You know, I can go back and look back at Harding Park, for example, where I think I might have like, I don't think they had like strokes gained stats, but like I think I led the field in putting somehow.
And knowing what I did that week and like, okay, this makes sense.
What do you mean?
I'm not going to give away my secret.
I'm still, no, it is a secret.
I'm not trying to improve you guys as this putting.
I got to beat you guys in a four-man scramble.
I would love to do that.
No, like, it's just understanding putting.
And it sounds like, it sounds stupid because putting sounds so simple because it's a short stroke, right?
But if you, you know, if you showed me someone's golf swing, I can dissect it and tell you what's wrong and what you need to fix.
If you showed me someone's putting stroke and then a good putter and anyone's a good putter out here, it's like, all right,
It looks fine to me.
All right?
They're all going to look good.
I might tell you something, but like, in reality, it's like, why does it do that?
Or why does it do this?
I'm just trying to learn more.
And that's why putting has now become actually fun.
Like, I'm excited.
Well, because now it's like a problem to solve.
Yeah.
Like, I understand.
Yeah, it's like you're trying to build like an IKEA coffee table book and you don't have
a manual.
I mean, I can just do the same drills again and again for no reason.
That's what I was doing.
I was just doing them.
And like that's, it's pretty sure.
shocking to see where I've gotten with my putting, like, just in the past, like, month.
You know, and I'm not, you know, just fully betting that it's going to happen in a day or one tournament.
But it's like, it's really cool to see just kind of what it's turning into.
Yeah.
You had some like aha moments with this.
Yeah.
Oh, it's been amazing.
Or was it like, what was the puzzle?
No, we started really simple.
Look, it's, you never want to start a tournament, but that was kind of our only option.
And it was, uh, it's just,
basic things.
And I'm going to dive into it more because, like, I'm a guy that likes to know a lot of
information.
I want to understand everything.
But just, like, very basic things that anyone could have told you that you just
sometimes look over.
Yeah.
So I've been, I don't want to say awkward, but, you know, you've worked with one guy your whole
life with Rick and stuff.
He's, like, the furthest guy from having to go.
Whatever is better for you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What he's going to want.
Has I been like, you know, kind of bringing someone else into the two a little bit?
No, because I know this is like the path I needed to go.
And like at the end of the day, like I'm the one making these decisions on what I need to do
and who I need to hire to be a better golfer.
And like it's a business at the end of the day, right?
So I'm the CEO and I'm making my decisions.
And if other people's feelings get hurt, it sucks.
But like I need to do what's best for me when I'm out on the golf course.
and I'm playing in a tournament.
That's something we talked about a little bit is like just having to say no sometimes
and having to like be that guy.
Yeah.
Like, you know.
Learn how to say no.
I mean,
that's like some of the best advice you can give to anyone, literally anyone.
But especially someone in your position.
Because people that are going to come out of the woodwork that, you know, you didn't really
know that well.
Everyone wants peace.
Everyone wants to hang out.
Everyone wants to come to the tournament.
Everyone wants to.
And you just can't please everybody.
Yeah.
And I almost feel like the bigger you get, the, just tighter your circle.
sort of has to be yeah for sure and you got to watch out and like you know I'm sure like guy like
tiger has to freaking watch his back at all costs and he's got other people that are close enough
to watch his back for him um but it's like I'm at a point where I think like I you can judge
who's who and what you really want and if you don't want it then you find someone else like that's
what I've learned through this process is it doesn't work and go on you know it's it's not a waste of
my time. It's all knowledge
and it's all learning about how people
kind of work and maneuver
around you and sometimes it just doesn't
work. It's not a fit.
What was your favorite moment for this year? I got one in mind
that I think you're going to say, but what was your, I know
it wasn't your best year, but what was your favorite
moment? Not that horn that's
freaking going on on us.
Guy needs to come down. Maybe they're wheeled away Sv.
Bruehl.
Favorite moment?
On the golf course, I assume.
I mean, I would guess walk. I mean, I guess, yeah. I guess, yeah.
The marriage is number one.
Okay.
I'm gonna, I'll stick to the golf course.
Um, I would say the bunker shot with Rory on Int.
That's where my head, Warren.
Do you have like a picture of that blown up in your house or something?
No.
You know, the two of you doing like, I'm pretty sure my replica, Claire Jugg and Wanamaker are just, like, sitting in a clone.
Really?
You don't have like a mantle or anything?
No.
We went to J.T's house and he's got both of his Wanamaker's.
like flanking his main air like they're very very
I think mine might be in a case like
why you don't want people to see
I just I don't know
um
no I mean I do I just haven't found the right
spot for them
but going back to like the masters
like no I don't have it blown up
I think that would be sick
you did a really cool celebration
he did a little like weird twinkle hand thing
oh he did a little like
yeah
he did a little like a dance
yeah
twinkle twinkle
twenders
you had the Masters, which we talked about at that event specifically, you realizing I don't need to hit hooks just because some guys said you need to.
Yeah, I mean, that was a huge kind of eye-opening year at the Masters for me, knowing that I can compete there.
The U.S. Open early on in my career.
Oh, yeah.
I think people forget.
Yeah.
You should get 71 that day.
You win the U.S.
Yeah.
If I don't shoot, whatever, 90 on 77.
Yeah.
I think we win the U.S. Open finished fifth.
You know, I've had back-to-back top fives in the U.S. Open.
So what's cool is that every major that I've played now,
obviously, you know, I have confidence at the Open.
And even though the Open was one of the worst weeks in my, you know, year,
just kind of everything leading up to that and being at St. Andrews,
PGA, you know, I've won.
Every major I feel the – I have the confidence that I feel like I can go on and win.
and the U.S. Open was one that, like, you know, I played Pavell, didn't play that great when I first turned pro, finished whatever.
Wingfoot, I missed the cut, and I'm like, man, like, U.S. Opens are tough.
And then I play Tori, and then I play this year where, like, my game was just unknown.
You were playing the draw.
I was playing, I was literally playing the draw.
I was playing a beautiful five-year-out draw for three days and the other day, just, I don't know what was going on.
But that confidence in those majors is like,
Man, like, I want the Grand Slam.
And I know it's so hard, right?
Yeah, but I have, like, I feel like I've had good enough weeks now at those events where, you know, I didn't feel like I'd killed, you know, played my best.
And we've been right there.
So it's exciting.
You like the changes to 13, I guess?
I guess.
I'm happy I got my eagle out of there and I got my little crystal glasses or mugs or cups or whatever one called.
Oh, those are just plastered up everywhere.
No, you know what?
I do like it because now I don't have to like rope, hook a three wood.
I just hit a driver.
I don't really think that many guys are going to go for it.
Really?
I mean, you might have 2.30 in, ball way above your feet.
What are you going to do?
So you think guys will lay up?
I think guys are going to be in similar spots because guys are going to hit driver instead of three wood.
So it's still going to be.
No, because like when you're up there in the front, a lot of guys still hit driver.
And they just, they send it.
I mean, it's like you just go at the.
kind of pine straw straight ahead and
if you tug it a little bit or it's got a nice
little draw, I mean, you're way up there.
I think you're far enough back now to where
you're not going to get the kind of slingshot where it's
going to roll. I mean, I could be completely wrong.
I probably am. But you're not going to get that
full slingshot effect and actually
like the short left water might come
into play more because we're so used to like,
hey man, you got to turn this over.
Like now it's probably just a slight
soft draw to the right and
if you have 230, you have 230.
surprised. I didn't think that I never thought that like guys would play out. You think guys would lay up in 2.30 on that line. It's not secure. I mean, your ball's like up to your waist.
Yeah, that's the thing about Augusta that people just don't realize that you're not. It's not like, hey, I've got like, I've got to play five yards above my feet. Like, you got to cut the ball a lot and the ball's still going to move right to left.
Is that your impression of Augusta when you got there too? Like, this place way hillyarder. Yeah, but people told me about it and I just assumed like it was going to be the hillyest thing.
thing in the world. I think what people don't realize is the greens, how much slope there are on the
greens. The greens are perfect, but that's what makes them so fast is that you're putting on like
a six-degree slope, you know, and it's just impossible. You have to just drip, speed everything in.
We'll wrap up here a bit. Are you going to have a child soon? Is that any cards?
I mean, what kind of podcast is this? We're asking about my kids.
You don't have kids. I've got a dog. That's not a kid.
It's a child does.
I'm just saying you said there's a lot of people who are having children.
I share.
No, I think we're going to wait a few years.
We're not, we're not.
I want to be able to go and play 23 and just like get back in the routine of just going out,
not coming back and asking about, you know, who's going to sit at this table.
What are we going to have for the appetizers?
What are we going to, who's going to sit, you know, row three, you know, seat F.
This wedding really took a lot of you.
Yeah, the past two weeks.
was way to you get married.
It's a long week.
And we had Thanksgiving,
so it's like,
I'm excited.
I'm excited about 23.
You are.
I really am.
I feel like big things are coming in 23.
The putting's got to get you stuck.
Well, I just think like,
yeah,
you know,
not that it was stressing me out.
Like, I was still focused on the golf course.
But, you know,
I feel like I'm,
I'm putting more effort into
just being ready
and like into my body.
I'm doing more stuff.
Pudding, I'm really excited.
You know, going back to the swing,
just dialing things up,
learning new shots,
getting better in that asset.
I really am.
And hopefully we can put together
a really strong,
strong year.
But, you know,
that's on me.
You were so close
in the world in the war.
Yeah.
This tournament.
Here you were talking about.
This place is like pretty significant.
You got married here.
I mean, you got married.
You got engaged here.
You got married last week.
Yeah.
And you were this close to end world number one.
Is being that close if you want it more?
Yeah.
What I've realized is that I just want to keep winning.
You really get deep satisfaction from it.
It feels so good.
I would have no.
Like, it feels so damn good.
I actually don't think I've won anything.
That's unfortunate.
I'm sure you want something, Dan.
I don't know.
There's participation trophies, I'm sure.
Well, that's not winning.
So, yeah.
Well, you didn't know when you're 10.
That's your drug.
It just feels that good, you know.
And, yeah, I do absolutely want to get to number one in the world.
And, you know, that's that end goal.
But, yeah, holding that trophy on a Sunday is, like, it's special.
You know, it doesn't matter what tournament it is.
I don't care what people say about this and that and the field.
Like, I still go back to this day and, you know,
holding that trophy at Barracuda, opposite field event, whatever.
Like, it gets you to places.
When you win, it just...
Give me fire enough that I was thinking about it.
It does.
It does.
It really does.
What do you do you just, like, sit back and watch highlights?
Do you, like, drink and celebrate?
What's your post?
Are you tired?
You want to chill?
Um, it varies.
I, you know, I don't know.
It's been a while since I've won, so it's hard to think back that far.
Uh, no, it's, uh, it's, uh,
depends what you have. I mean, you might have a tournament the week after. You might do that. You might
do this. I mean, I don't go that hard. I live in Vegas, though, so I have the, I have the opportunity to.
Yeah. I'm thinking because you could be out of excess. It's going crazy. That was me and my
bachelor's right. Hey, people, people love Vegas. I love Vegas too. I really do.
You think that's not someone for long term? I think so for now. I've enjoyed it. I've got a good
set up. I've got a good crew. I've got a lot of good friends out there. And it's a lot of
a really good place. It's got a lot of good food.
And that's like, it's number one
on my list pretty much.
Just wait for you add Morikawa's to the rotation.
Ooh, right on the strip.
I need to make a deal.
I don't know what kind of food I do.
I'll be general manager.
I don't know what kind of food I'd do, to be honest.
No, no.
I don't think fusion places unless it's really something new
and stands out.
I don't think I'd want to do that.
Okay.
So we'll figure out we all the time.
Obviously, my last name's Japanese.
I know, but now I'm thinking about it.
So I'd be weird if I threw out like a, like a bomb Mexican spot.
Kind of sick.
But, you know what?
Maybe that's the trend now.
Maybe that's going to start a trend.
Instead of fusion, it's just going to be straight, just a completely different.
Yeah, at least we'll start serving Japanese food.
Yeah.
It'll be perfect.
Bingo.
You're welcome.
Well, thanks for joining us, Colin.
And I hope that you win this week and then you can remember what you're like to get.
I stand.
We're coming back.
I'm telling you.
