Fore Play - Pebble Beach Prevails, with Nancy Lopez and Dave Stockton

Episode Date: May 23, 2019

Live from Pebble Beach, we breakdown the 2019 mulligan challenge and the Fore Play crew taking a spin around Pebble Beach just weeks before the U.S. Open. Then golf legends Nancy Lopez and Dave Stockton join the show to tell stories, talk putting, 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

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Frankie Brelly, The Pizza Maker, and myself, we're running on like two hours sleep. We are live from Pebble Beach, California, the Monterey Peninsula. It's the first time these guys have been out here. We played Pebble Beach today. We did the Morgon Challenge with Dave today. We traveled, and there's a goddamn story to come from that.

There's all kinds of good stuff to get to. We're in a mansion. We're in a castle. We're in a palace that overlooks the ocean. It's a legit mansion. Well, we talked about this a couple weeks ago. Is this a compound? So there were rumblings last night about where people are going to sleep, what rooms, who is going to be where.

And there was talk of a guest house that I was going to sleep in because Frankie and I are staying in the same room. And I like Frankie a lot, but it would be nice to sleep in separate rooms. This happens all the time we go on these trips. We stay in these compounds and these mansions, and we get room together with all these people. It's like you'd think the bigger the house, the more rooms. But it seems as though it's the opposite. I got to say, gate plus guest house equals compound. But we couldn't find the guest house.

So we don't know if it actually exists. That's how big it is. No, there's a guest house. There's like tunnels and massive hallways in the basement shit here that I noticed. That just go for infinity, I think. Lights turn on as you walk through. that's another like big mansion They also turn on as you drive through very subtly

Like in the in the trees and shit I notice Because you go through the gate Then you drive up this little The driveway Which is just what it's called And little miniature lights in the trees and stuff Flicker on as you drive through Just to light up a little bit

Not like a You don't want to overstate your presence When you drive in But just kind of gives you a little bit of guidance Big money Whoever owns this house got big money Big money The view is in the way

insane. You can see the Pacific Ocean from the porch. They've got what we call fuck you money. Definitely. Fuck you and all sorts of places. Dude, we're sitting in this room. There's a massive flat screen TV in front of me. But then above if you press a button, a projection screen comes down in front of the flat screen. We're a really big house. It's a big ass house. Supreme Gough. They're also a really big tea time app. They got all the tea time so you could possibly need. They've got everybody else.

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So go get them. You don't have sleep apnea. Tren, I watched you sleep last night. Did I snore? You can tell me. No. Okay. You sleep on your stomach?

I thought I'd sleep on my back. I don't know. Did the exorcists come and perform a ritual? Come my eye on it. I wanted to make sure if that was happened. I want to see who the hell does it to you. Oh, I thought you were going to say you were going to step in and help me. No, no.

You just want to witness it. Because I think they hit me, too. Because my body's in shambles right now. So you got to that. Probably hear Frankie's voice that he has just been defeated by exhaustion and walking around Pebble Beach all day. We walk 36 holes. The first 18 were for the Muggan Challenge. The second 18 were for our own rounds at Pebble in U.S. open conditions.

The rough was ridiculous. the wind was ridiculous. Everything about it was ridiculous. We're going to get into all that. I guess we should probably start with the travel to get out here. I think this is a good story. Oh, also on this show, Nancy Lopez and Dave Stockton, putting guru. Trent Daddy and I, we are down in Houston.

We, you know, we racked up a few different interviews. This is one of them. We sat down with the two of them at the same time. Nancy's incredibly She's got an awesome personality She's one of the great legends of the women's game Hearing her talk through her story Talked through playing at such an unbelievably high level

She's funny And again she's got really cool stories She got a great You know chemistry relationship with Dave Stockton Who he went through and talked about putting in a way That I've never heard of my entire life Trent and I said afterwards we were basically He almost talked us right into like a putting trance

With the way that he was describing putting Yeah, he talked for eight to ten straight minutes about putting, and it felt like it was 30 seconds, but you were just like you snapped in and snapped out. And it's unlike any other putting information I've ever heard in my life. It's incredible. It was something. Frankie, you wait to you listen to this. It was something.

So that interview for the second half of the show is coming up. We're, of course, still reeling from the entire PGA championship week, Bethpage, all that. We really don't have much time to kind of rest. basically no time to rest. We haven't rested. We haven't slept none of that because it's U.S. Open week. It's U.S. Open time in a couple weeks.

Basically, what, two and a half, three weeks? It's going to be U.S. Open Week out of Pebble Beach. That's why we're here. U.S. Open Media Day. We had the Molligan Challenge. We missed our flight yesterday because Dale Arnard, Jr.

was late for a pizza review. That is really where it starts. Like, there's a lot of dominoes that end up falling in this story, but the number one domino that fell is there is a 20-minute window where Dale Earnhardt Jr. was late for a pizza review with Dave and Frankie, and it fucked our entire day.

A lot of things happened for us to do that, but that was one of them. It set in motion a string of events that really fucked over Riggs. Yeah, true. I said fucked us over like it was all of us. And we got me and Frankie and Dave got here a little bit later. Riggs got here a lot later because of Dale Earnhardt Jr. And the things that happened after that.

So I guess what we'll start is American Airlines, those sons of bitches that have been screwing over ever since they tried to keep me from watching Tiger Woods play at the PJ Championship at Belrieve, Belarieve last year in St. Louis, when they completely fucked me and canceled my flight and then said, oh, since that flight was canceled, we're going to send you to D.C. and you can get a connector there tonight to St. Louis. And then when I landed in D.C., they canceled my flight from D.C. to St. Louis and then stranded me in D.C. And then I went to the help desk, and the guy just said, step aside. Sir, you've been helped. And I said, no, I haven't. I don't have a flight. And I don't have a car. I don't have anything.

I'm just in D.C. And he just said, step aside. And then I had to go off on American Airlines. So I think they had me blacklisted. But anyways, we were trying to fly American Airlines yesterday. We arrived like 50 minutes before. There's traffic. We had JFK, the worst airport on the planet.

that airport stinks. Anybody who thinks any of the other airports in New York are as bad as that one is an idiot. But we're flying out of JFK, Dale O'Hart Jr. We didn't get to leave the time we thought we were going to leave. So we get there 50 minutes before our flight takes off, 4 o'clock flight. We go to the outside curb check-in thing, and we get this guy who was the most aloof guy. Aloof in the fucking world. I hadn't heard that word.

I don't think since I learned how to write script I think in third grade I learned how to write script I think aloof was one of the words Maybe not That seems like a way too hard of a word A loof? Why are you looking at me like that?

Frankie's about to fall asleep What do you wait? Why'd you say aloof like that? I said aloof. What are you thinking right now, Trent? I don't know. I'm confused on why you stop talking Because the way you're like aloof

And then you made me think it wasn't a word No, I was saying that you learn that word When you learn cursive or something? Just shut up. Honestly. It's been a wild. It's been just a crazy, crazy 24 hours, 48 hours, where the hell it's been. So Mr. Aloof at the airport.

He just couldn't handle, this is what this guy did, he couldn't handle that people were rushing and trying to get on the plane. That was above his capacity. Something is, his software is computed to only do certain things. And when we all showed up and we're like, we need to get on this flight in the next 15 minutes. You need to check our bags and we need to go. He short-circuited. And his brain just shut off.

He didn't know how to go to the next step. He kept asking me the names. And we're here with like 10 people. So there's a bunch of people booked on the same reservation. Half of them already on the flight. Half of them already there. And he's like, okay, are you Mr. Sam? And I'm like, yeah.

And he's like, okay, Mr. Frankie Burrell. Yeah. And he's like, uh, Scabelli, Tom. I'm like, no, that guy's not with us. And then he goes. Okay. He waits 10 seconds. He goes,

Scabelli, Tom. Like, no, no, that guy's not, he's just not here. He's not, he's already on the plane. It was okay. He waits like 10 or 50 seconds. He goes, okay, Mr. Sam. Like, yeah, I'm here. Mr. Brella, okay.

He goes, Schabelli. And we did this. And people have to realize that at the 45 minute mark before the flight, the software, the actual software, not just Mr. Eluf's malfunctioning software, cancels, like it just doesn't allow you to check bags before. It has to be 45 minutes or longer before. Otherwise, you just can't check bags.

That's just how it's wired to work. And so we're there at 50 minutes. We're like, dude, it's his pressing. You got to go. You got to go. He's like, okay, you have time. And then at 45, after he did the whole fucking name thing, he goes, oh, it's too late. I go, no, we're not too late.

You're too late. Like, you are the one that's late right now. We were here early. You're doing the name thing, and now we're not there. So we missed our flight. We had to go wait in this goddamn customer. service line. We're there forever. There's a 545 flight.

So she's like, I'll put you guys all on standby. Like, great. Well, she just happened to take your guys IDs first. And she takes Frankies, then she takes Trent's, then she takes mine, and, like, logged him into the system that way. Dave got on, because he's first class. So we go. We finally make our way through security. It takes fucking forever because JFK stinks.

And then we get to the goddamn gate. And they called Borrelli, right out of the pretty much, pretty quickly. I think I boarded before first class people. I was standing by. I've never seen somebody stand by getting on a plane faster. And then they call me up. And now once they call Riggs up, and they'd already called Frankie up,

now I'm kind of wandering up too. I'm going up to the desk being like, I think if you're going to let my pals on, you're going to need to let me on too. That needs to happen. So then we're both standing there, and they printed out your ticket to get you on the plane. Printed out a ticket. gave it to me. Yes.

Now I have a ticket to board the plane. And then I, in what was probably a regrettable move, then kind of looked at Trent, and Trent's like, yeah, what are we going to do here? You should probably just go. And I was like, I think I have to just go. And he's like, yeah, no, you should get on. And I was like, I'm definitely, I mean, I'm going to get on the plane. And at that point, the lady says, what's your name?

She's looking at me. And I said, Trent Ryan. And I gave her my ID. And at that moment, she looks at Riggs. who already has his ticket printed out and is stepping towards the plane to get on, she says, give me that ticket back.

And Riggs looks at her and says, I don't think I want to. Because he sees two steps ahead of what is about to happen. And reluctantly, Riggs hands the ticket over to her. She sort of drops the ticket sort of drops her hands below the desk, rips it in half.

Like I could fucking see below the desk. I mean, we were both just standing there. And you had your eye on the table. ticket because you're like that's me getting out of here she kind of puts it below rips it and a half then rips it in fourths throws it away prints out my she did she like folded the ripped parts and then ripped him again she put it through a shredder she proceeds to print out my ticket give it to me i then have the conversation that riggs just had with me like should i go should i

stay i don't want to just leave you here and you were like just go so then i wander onto the plane and Riggs never gets a ticket So at that point I'm looking at the lady Like what are we doing here You ripped up my ticket All my friends are on the plane All my pals

And I'm just out here at the gate by myself Like an asshole She goes, don't worry There's still 20 people I haven't boarded yet That are not here And I was like great Traffic was terrible

It's JFK These people got no chance Well people start coming out of the fucking clouds People are like ducking behind Fucking counters All of a sudden They're on the goddamn flight So we get down to the last minute

And there's like there's legit She goes there's three minutes left Until we give away the final seats to standby And your first person at standby I'm like perfect She goes come up here and line up sir I'm like great She's like you need to stand at the gate

Because right when the time's up You're gonna just run right through the tunnel And get on the plane before they close the door I was incredible no problem You were right there One minutes left these fucking three assholes come running down the goddamn corridor luggage they're dropping shit earrings everywhere

can't find their ticket like they're at home alone pulling out of their goddamn purse give it to her on they go and the lady just looks at me and goes oh oh oh which is not good when you're on standby oh you never want to hear that that's not what you want to know and I was like well what do I do and she's like well there's you're just not on the plane there's no seat so then And Barstool booked me another flight four hours later at 9.30.

So I had to sit around the airport for over four hours now at this point. Well, all my pals flew to Pebble. So I got in at a late hour. In the end, just don't miss your flights. That's like the real moral of the story here. I shouldn't just laugh. I shouldn't have cared that you guys were with Taylor & Hart Jr. Everything that happens after that, we deserved because we missed a flight.

not you personally you didn't deserve to stay until nine but we missed we were late it's true but we weren't late because of our own no no no there's a lot of stuff that happened but we just fucking missed it anyways we got here late last night i got here at a good 345 i think is what time i got in we're 6 a.m wake up 6 a.m wake up so i was probably in bed and fell asleep around 4 4 15 uh 6 a m wake up most guys have tried different ways to last longer but But thinking about Pebble Beach kicking your ass does not always work. The folks at Roman and online men's health company are changing the game with Roman Swipes, the secret to longer lasting sex.

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7,500 yards at Shinnock. Pebble's not as long. It's like 7,100 yards. And since he clearly defeated the challenge last year, we wanted to make an interesting because if you just gave him unlimited mulligans, he already proved that he could do it. That wouldn't be that interesting. So,

we ran it back at Pebble. Big shout to our close personal friend, the USDA, bringing us out, giving us the access, giving us the course, all that, allowing us to bring cameramen. are guys who shagg balls, aka the big boys. Fat guys. The fat boys. They're two fat guys.

Glennian Big Ev. And we ran it where we kind of did a big negotiation on the radio between Dave and myself. He agreed to do 12 mulligans a whole. He took 360 last year, how many I believe he took. So he thought we do 12 mulligans a whole, no carryovers. He can take them wherever he wants to, that that would keep it interesting, that that would make it close. that would make it close, that would make it strategic, where he's got to, you know, makes it more like real golf,

where you've got to make decisions, do I keep that one, do I take this one, do I, would I rather chip, or would I rather have five chances at a 20-foot putt or whatever? So there's a lot of different decisions to be made. Frankie was on the bag, caddium for Dave, and it was very interesting. It got off to a hot start for Dave, anybody who doesn't know Pebble,

the opening stretch is, and especially today, significantly easier than the middle and back nine stretch. The reason I say especially today is because on the back nine, it was straight into a strong, solid, like 15 to 20 mile an hour wind the entire day. And the front nine was downwind. Dave came out hot. He birdied one after pretty much he hit a couple. We actually had a huge dispute on the first shot of the day.

First shot of the day, he flailed one out left a bit. and it was just in like thick rough and everyone's like well that's just let's just take that you know you want to save all your stuff and I didn't like no one even what was really the argument on his side because I remember him saying like he didn't know what he wanted to do

honestly that felt like it was seven years ago and I'm struggling to remember what the fuck happened yeah well I think that essentially what we found out right out of the gate was that everybody had a different game plan that was on his team because we had this catty Nick who's from Pabell who he became pretty aloof

well at one point. But he was, you know, he was doing his caddy part. Frankie's doing his catty part. Dave has his input, but ultimately he was listening to Frankie. And essentially he was like probably 200 yards out or so in the left thick rough and it's U.S. Open rough. So it's like, do you take that? Do you not take that?

He ended up being like, fuck it. I'm not going to take it. He hit another one that was worse. Then hit a third shot. That was perfect. That was the struggle. day is like, all right, yes, that's not the right choice, right? It's not the perfect choice. Not that it's not the right choice. It's not the perfect choice to hit something out of the

rough or something out of the first cut or whatever. But is it, are you going to be able to replicate something similar or better on the next shot? Because if you do not, and you now have a couple of shots with the yips, and you just start shanking and start pulling and you end up never recreating it, you're just fucked. So it's like, when do you now take that time to just be like, that's the best one we're going to get and let's just roll and it was really tricky and Dave was doing it. I thought actually we did a pretty fucking good job of it. I thought so too and Dave

even he had like three or four huge moments where he basically went against the grain. He went against Aloof Nick and Frankie on some chips and some kind of wed shots and hit phenomenal shots. Yeah. And then they ended up making the pots and saving pars

but right out of the gate we had a little bit of a dissension among team Portnoy. ultimately worked out because his third drive went down the right side ended up kind of taking a bad balance and being like a foot into the rough

but it was embedded I guess so it must have just landed right there but it looked like it was right down the right center of the fairway kind of a goofy first hole where it dogwigs right ended up embedded took a drop

hit a couple swings from there and had like what 15 feet or so 10 feet maybe it a great approach to that for Bertie on one and got down to one or two Mulligans left and drained it.

So he's 100 through one. Second hole is a par five for normal resort guests and a par four for the U.S. Open, which hurt Dave because it's like 526 and he had to play it as a par four. Again, ended up having,

I mean, I think he had eight, nine maybe puts at it from just off the fringe from maybe 15, feet for par and didn't make one of those so he gets back to even birdie three so now you're like god he's one under with a bogey it's looking freaking good four was one of the most interesting moments the entire day and everybody there's going to be a huge recap video that covers all this you're going to want to watch it's fascinating to watch to see the visuals on pebble beach on the

cliffs of pebble beach with dave with the whole crew with the fat guys the mogen challenge the USGA signs. It's just all of the juxtapositions are awesome as you go on to watch it, but we also are going to talk about it. Fourth hole is a short part four. He hits a tee shot out to the left and the left rough decides to take it.

Not a great spot. He was kind of short-sighted on his he had a bad angle on his approach. He was only like what 120 yards out or something? Something similar to that. Yeah, I remember it not being a perfect shot like we just said off the tea, but it was something in which we for some reason, just the

way the whole looked, we're like, we'd rather just bank all these Mulligans up there. Like you may not have a perfect shot going in, but let's just get it up. Ended up being a good strategy because he took, he might have taken three or four shots from that roughover, maybe five. But he ended up getting one that got a great

balance, a good shot, and ended up like 10 feet. Right, with a ton of putts to spare. With like seven or eight puts. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that to put for birdie. Right. Barely lips out several times and then gets to another point where he had, and this was kind of a tough decision every single time with

the putt was if you don't, it's not like a scramble, right? It's you don't get to pick like your best of your eight putts. It's like your last putt or your last shot eliminates all the previous ones and you have to stay with it. So if he decides to use his last mulligan on that 10 or 15 foot putt and he hits it five or six feet by, he has to put out with no mulligan's left. Um, he ended up deciding to take his last putt on four because he was rolling these things right by the edge like we knew the read we knew the speed he had been lipping out he was just high just slow it's like all right like we were saying him like two more and then like he got the third one he got he did the two more he missed and then that final one he's like I'm just doing it I know I can make this and if

I don't make it I'll just tap it in whatever it's the same thing as taking the mulligan just knocking it in. And he left this one short and walks up to it. We're all like, all right, we'll take the par. No big deal. Like, you had your chance of the bird. Let's just roll. We were one under at the point

at that point. Like, let's just roll. No big deal. We're walking away. And he just walks up to this one footer and just misses it. He just misses the tap and he rushed it. Stop me in my tracks. I'm this caddy. I literally my jaw drop. In that moment, I had

never felt a moment in which my heart like stopped and sank like that i couldn't believe it and it was a two-stroke swing if you think about it he was putting for birdie running out edging out literally missing by centimeters and then we walked away with a bogey he did he had he had at least three or four puts that looked like they were definitely going in for birdie ends up missing that one for par and making bogey again aloof nick the caddy tried to give a oh no we gave that to him than I said out loud, excuse me? And then Dave. Even Dave, a man of honor.

He said, no, I think we got to count that one. He's like, I rushed it. So now he's back to even. He made a great par on five. Then six was a heroic effort where he hits a driveway left. He lays up into the middle of that gigantic hill on six, which is this incredible par five along the cliffs. Take several swings from there that are going way right, not even close.

The wind is howling at this. this point ends up after like three or four or five attempts from there gets one on the green to like 15 20 feet and then gets up and that was a moment too where we're like this is these this is this is going to be the hole where we make a 20 because he can't get this thing to stop going right he's just putting every single one in the cliff every single shot there are certain shots too that dave for a guy who's you know he's probably a 25 handicap last time he took a swing with a golf club was at chin a was the mulligan challenge last year so how do you expect this guy got to go to Pebble Beach, which literally killed me today at the point where we'll

talk about, but I can barely put words together. I can barely slap these lips together because. Slap them smackers together. I can barely smack these little. I'm looking at you right now and you look, you look like you're stoned. Dude, it's crazy. My eyes are starting to bug out, man. You look pathetic.

And this golf course that we're talking about that he played, he played two of the hardest golf courses in the world, his last two times he played golf. So pebble today was very, very difficult. And this shot that he had, there's certain shots and stances that Dave has because he just doesn't plague off where he just can't do it. Like if he stay in the middle of the fairway, flat lie with a seven iron, he can get it in the air and hit and make pretty solid contact. And within a couple, he's going to get one on the green and have a chance.

When you put him in these like side hill, uphill lies out of the rough with 30 mile an hour wind, 20 mile an hour wind blowing left to right, you know, he just couldn't get anywhere near the green. ends up after like five attempts, gets one to 20 feet or something like that, gets up there and like his second attempt, he buries it. So after that much drama in that hole, there are a lot of decision making because his first attempt on that shot that we're talking about on the hill, like went just over the green and the rough. And again, a couple people, we started to accumulate a crowd, right?

There's like guys that work at the USGA or that work at Pebble kind of catch wind of it. Next thing, you know, we've got like 12 people walking with us. And a couple people start chiving and like, oh, that one's not bad off the back of the Green. Dave's like, what are you talking about? But almost took that one. Ended up not. Somehow walks away from 6 with a birdie. So now he gets to a point where he's

one under again. We go to 7, the iconic 7th hole, playing 112 yards when you move the T-box all the way back. Usually it plays even a little shorter than that. It was downwind today. A little crosswind, a little downwind. And we decided to go live

on Periscope at the time after getting a little bit of chilly. And Dave just cannot find. Just the random chili throw in. Chili was delicious. They had chili back there. They had prime rib chili. They had prime rib chili stand that they were whipping up, freshly made, hot, right in

your face on the 17th. And jalapeno cheddar cornbread. You can pick some onions. You could put some cheese on there. It was customizable chili on the whole. Boy, was it good. Dave has customizable chili on the 7th tee. We go live.

And then he just can't find the club face. I mean, he must have taken four swings on that T and wasn't even close to getting one in the air. He was just dribbling it right into this stuff in front of him. It was tough. Again, it became one of those moments where, like, at some point with this structure, he might get to a point on a hole where, like, he can't get one in play, and then he has to play the entire hole of a U.S. Open hole with no Mulligan.

Like, what's he going to do? It might make a million. Well, then, like, his fifth swing, He hits this gorgeous shot that actually spun back like five feet on the green to maybe 10, 12 feet, something like that, steps up. And after a couple attempts, buries that one. So now he's two under through seven. And we're thinking, here we go. Like, everybody doubted him.

I doubted him. I said there's no fucking chance with this format that this guy can do it. I watched him. He stinks. He hasn't played golf in a year. There's no chance. Well, he's 200 through seven. Now we get to eight.

eight is of course the par four blind t shot up over the hill very tight fairway up there you have to lay back a little bit because you have to hit your second shot over the giant ravine giant little inlet ravine where the ocean cuts in to this epic like kind of like sunken in green surrounded by bunkers and i knew at this point the whole point since i knew we were playing pebble i was like this is an opportunity with limited mulligans where dave could in theory make a million because like there's he might not be able to get over the the second chase might not be able to get over that thing. And if he can't get over it forever, he runs out of Mulligan's every shot's going to be like, in, out, that's a penalty stroke. In, out, that's a penalty stroke. And he might make 20.

Well, it's a good drive on, like, his third attempt or something like that. Yeah. But even a good drive on that hole left him, 205 out with a hybrid in his hand, wins howl, and he's got to hit it over the fucking ocean. And he again starts blading shots. He's like blading him left and right into the ravine, can't get over finally wax one solid but a good 30 yard left of the green ends up chipping that one up on like his second or third attempt to six feet yeah only has a couple mulligans left somehow didn't make that so we make bogey uh so now he's one under and then on nine things kind of got away from him yeah uh i thought i thought that the putting on eight kind of brought us down a bit because i think you

you're downplaying how amazing of a shot he somehow hit over that ravine. It wasn't just 30 yards left. Like he put this thing, I think he had like five Mulligans left. And he put this thing after blading balls just into the abyss. He put this thing in a landing spot of 10 yards right in between two bunkers. And like, we all were like, holy shit. Dude, no joke. Like it started getting people talking like that was because at that point he was 200 and we're like, this fucking guy's going to go like low. He's going to go four or five. five under at this point because he's hitting the ball and when he when we bogey that that's when i was like all right like this is going to be a fucking battle and going and that and that feeling going

into nine is what i think kind of turned the tides yeah because if he didn't bogey that if he would have gotten away with par there i in my head was thinking like okay if we're not going to get a bogey on eight right right that's exactly what i was like what are we going to do yep uh and somehow he did he missed that put he had like three attempts at it it was very makeable didn't make them uh and then on nine and nine ten and then you know a couple more par fours in the back nine is when the length really started to catch up to him because none of the holes that we're talking about thus far have been that they're not that long but nine uh is from the back to you back there it's like five five something just an absolute beast and he you know he did as best he could

he got down there to a hundred yards out or so for his third shot uh hits one up there below the hole and has a good like six or seven mulligan's left. Yep. And this was again where he had a, he decided to use his last mulligan. He's like, I can make this putt from probably 15 feet below the hole. He's like, I can make this mulligan, leaves it like two feet short. And I remember looking at someone right when he said, I can do this. I was like, I don't know, man, it slides off right after that hole.

Like, he just, we had the problem before. four and I was like I'm going to step in this time and I said to him before he took that last mulligan I said now stop I said stop I said let's just take this little fucking put that we have right now and we have a mulligan even if you just miss a two-footer we still have a mulligan let's just do it and he's like I think I can make this or get close and I said okay so he called me off and he backed me off in hindsight what do I wish I tackled him and like said no listen to me yes but he's like I can do it but because he's he was getting close and he just left it way too short and it just caught this ridge and went to like

five or six feet and I just my head was just like pounding at that point so he misses that now that's a double double bow he goes from one he goes from two under to one over in two holes brutal now he's got to play the 10th hole because of putting yeah on that type of golf course because of putting like the greens aren't even that tough at pebble beach and his putting's pretty good It was pretty spot on. We told him where to go. And you know what was really impressive with him today is that when you told him like that's the right pace,

he kind of understood that and like would replicate the pace most of the time. Like there was a couple times where he would like bomb it and short it. But he would, he was pretty spot on with like listening to the caddy. Yeah, putting was good for the most of the day. That's why I was surprised he missed a couple of those because like he made a couple bombs. He scared the hole from like long distances. When we don't play golf for a while,

you that little stuff just like sometimes is weird like those little two or three footers yeah you just don't know what it feels like to put it in the hole yeah it's just like whether you