Fore Play - Point Camp Koepka

Episode Date: July 30, 2019

Brooks Koepka wins a non-major in Memphis. Yes, we get Frankie's thoughts fresh off his week of Koepka takes, then we breakdown Rory's woes and Sergio's lunacy. We've also all got recent events to discuss: Riggs at Bandon, Frankie, and Trent at Pup Punk, Lurch at Morris County and more!!!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Oh, it's been a long, long couple days, five or six days, Barstool Classic today. Brooks Kebkeke, right in Frankie's face. We got a lot to talk about. Frankie's a fucking rock star again. We've got to talk about that. There's a lot to get to.

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I want to start with Frankie. Frankie. Hello. Man, you pop punk thing. That was something. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's the best night of the year every single time we do it. The best night of the year, multiple times a year.

It's so much fun. It's a morale booster for the company. Any friends and family that come, it's the best night of their year. I mean, I'm not even just saying that. Like my family and like friends and stuff. Oh, I mean, I've just never seen everyone so happy together in my life. Like it's very hard to get like, for me, I had 35, I had like 40 people that all came for that show. And everyone was just hugging, taking pictures.

Like, I can't think of one other event that, I mean, a wedding, I guess. You are literally a rock star returning home and playing in your home town. It's that is. When we got there early in and like setting up the drum set and stuff, I was talking to the guy who like runs well Kay He's. and he's like, man, like, he's like, you probably been coming here forever. I was like, I have been. He's like, you never been up on the stage? I was like, no.

I've been up there. I've been there like 20 times, like to go see other, like other bands and just going there, like my 21st birthday. It's just a place to be. So, I mean, we rock the house, like not to pump our own tires, but we, we had a really good show. No, I was in attendance and I agree. And I agree with, it's sort of like a coming together, everybody having a good time because a lot of people from the company were there.

You guys specifically do songs that people can sing along to. And everybody knows the words. to them. You're just all kind of in this mosh pit of the crowd. It was a great turnout for the guys. And yeah, you sing these songs at the top of your lungs. And then you look up there and you're like, that's Frankie Borelli, that's Bob Fox, that's PFT,

and that's Rone. I work with these guys and now they're rock stars. It's very cool. Like you guys, this all started out as a joke. You guys are just smirking over there. It's so happy. It did start off as a joke. And it kind of still is. Like you guys are like a satirical pop punk band. But you guys are also really good musicians.

and it's fun to go listen to you guys and it's actually a good concert it's i hope you never got i hope you guys never stopped doing them the best night of your year yeah it was wow dude it's fun dude they are so fun you drink a shit ton you get blackout drunk and you sing 90s rock in early 2000 rock with all your friends and co-workers and everyone's having a good time ks he said like in all these years of playing uh working at barceles this is like the only event that gets him to like walk up to people and be like bob fox I'm so proud of you and, like, Bob Foxes, he's like, I love your blogs and everyone's, like, laughing and like, oh, your podcast last week was so funny. Look, like, everyone's just happy.

Like, that doesn't happen anywhere else. All because you guys are playing old music. Everybody loves cover stuff, man. Yeah. I got to tell you that 90s cover is awesome. There's that, what's that 90s cover bar in LPR? LPR is, if you're ever in the city, you're looking for one of the best nights. You go to LPR.

Everybody just kind of forgets who they are and just starts jamming. and out, belting full top of your lungs. The band that plays there on the 90s nights is a fantastic, like professional band. They have like 15 people in their band. But that's like what you guys do. And you have a couple originals. And it's just, when you do it,

you do in that drum solo, I think that was, it had to be like an auto body experience. Who were you there? I don't know. They put my fucking drum set 35 feet in the air. I'm on this huge pedestal. And then like,

as I'm doing the drum solo, they started flashing all the lights. It doesn't have a goddamn seizure. I was wondering if that was going to mess you up. The vertigo was fucking with me. I thought it was going to mess you up just not even the vertigo, just like when people flashlights in your face, it's hard to like see your hands. And just to put a little bow on this, you know, and we can move on. But I was saying this on the rundown.

Like the more and more stuff that I do on the internet, the more people and like and groups of people in the world I start to see. Like working at Borrellys and like an Italian restaurant, I didn't even know these like like these movement of people existed. But the golf hardos, like where we're my first like, you know, like the people that really will come after you for any take you have or any. thing. That was like my first like realization. And then now drumming hardos, I mean, guys, you don't want to mess with these guys that have been playing the drums their whole life. They, they play the drums and they're in bands for 30 years. And my tempo's off. Like, they'll tell you that your tempo's off. Like that's the big hit. Like they always come at our golf swings. Oh my God. The tempo rigs, the tempo. Like, oh, that, I mean, there's a drum solo and that's just a solo.

like it's not that good it's it i i could do that i one guy said uh sent me a message a very hateful message saying that i don't deserve to be on the stage because he taught uh his four year old who has a disorder how to hit drums like a maniac as well that's what this guy wrote i'm like you called you four year old maniac and then i just like you sound yeah they they seem you sound they don't they seem to think that you stay the line in some way well yeah so bad you shouldn't be up there but it's like so golf is one thing i am up there yeah all the golf haters think they have the best golf swing but for some reason with bands they all like a failing band thinks that they missed like they didn't get their chance right like they're in their basement they're in the garage they're

rocking out they think that they're the fucking top of the rock world and they don't get like signed by a label or something like that just because like listen man we're a fucking punk rock band this is what we do at barcel we have regular people go up and do crazy fucking shit and this is going to make them feel worse but you guys up there that's like your guys is fourth and fifth jobs like you guys all do podcast, pizza reviews, blogs. You guys do all these things, and then on the weekends you get to be rock stars. It's amazing. Lert, you've got to come to the next one.

I will. I will. I've been to two, and they are two of the more fun nights I've ever had. We're hoping Philly so that Roan can get a homecoming, because he's unbelievable on the stage. He's a joke how good he is. Him in Philly would be a scene. It's a joke how good of a frontman he is. He's like a legitimate frontman.

That's incredible. It's just insane that this is a real thing. Good for you guys. A little housekeeping. We're going to touch on some housekeeping. voting vote for kids kids uh look he's informed me that he's he's got some sources and he was leading uh when we were pushing and now we're not so confident so that the kind of the emo from kids is do whatever we were doing the first couple days you got to vote 20 times for kids in this

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We have a big guest. You nervous? Well, there was a little play on the words. No, I know. No, I'm not. It was a little play. that words. Yeah, we have a big guess, quote unquote.

No, I'm not. Prior interactions. I just wonder if you're nervous. I'm not nervous. No. No. I'm very excited. We don't typically tease guests until we have them.

That's a showbiz thing because things just happen. Things fall through. They cancel. They miss flights. So we're not going to go into more detail on that. But we do have someone coming in Wednesday who we've interacted with here and there and we've had some funny moments. And, you know, it's not. I'm not.

We're not here to talk about that. We're not here to talk about that. Brooks Kevka. We are going to talk about that. Brooks Kevka wins the WGC Memphis. He has only, well, he's now won seven PGA tour events. He's got four majors and then three, you know, regular PGA tour events. I'm calling them in air quotes because this is WGC.

Yep. Where there's only whatever 60-some-odd people and you have to be, you know, top in the world to get in and there's no cut and all that stuff. So it's definitely a little bit different, you know, it's WGC, but it's kind of bigger, you know, it's definitely bigger than a lot of your average, like John Deer Classic. All right. Cool. I mean, you're picking between the WGC and the John Deer and you, like, the John what? Yeah, it's not, you know, it's not the Barbisol or the 3M.

The John Deer is good, but it's coming back. What is it? TPC Deer Run. Is that what it is? TBC Deer Run. Yeah. Classic, classic, of course. The TBC Deer run at John, the Dondreux Classic.

Yeah, it's no. it's not that it's WGC event uh brooks kefka look frankie it was really dying on this hill all week last week about you know how he's upset with the the brooks kevka narrative and the media and and a lot of the fans saying basically that he doesn't you know he's he's not trying at normal events therefore he doesn't win and how does he get this free pass at what point does he not just get some free pass where he's not trying but then he just can't like do it and then he goes out and wins the wgc and plays in the final group with rory mackleroy who's probably the best you know maybe he's up there with like with DJ and with Brooks Kepka in this conversation of like the best players of this generation and he just kind of trounce them.

He made, he read Rory look like a scared little bitch out there for four hours straight. Actually three hours and 50 minutes they played in, which was incredible. Lightning. It was really hard to watch Rory play. I know we're going to get to Brooks. But just watching him putt, I got anxiety. And he would just blow it past. It is like watching Lurch Puttut.

It's just you just know, man. I put it terribly this past weekend. You know what? You know what? That's not a shot at you. And he just, it's the same. I'm a terrible putter. It's the same type of feeling where you're just over it.

It's like, it's like, it's roars over it. And you're like, you just know there's no chance this goes in. And he knows too. Because after he blows it by, he like, he has the look where he's like, I just knew I was going to do that. That's what we always say. If I could just bury a few putts, I would win this going home. The landslide. It's one of my great lurch quotes of all time when he hit a horrible put one time from like 10 feet.

And he goes, I just had no plan there. There's definitely sometimes I'm over the ball. I'm like, I just, I'll just give it a shot. It'd be a miracle. Yeah, absolutely. It would be a miracle if this thing went in. They kept flashing up that graph of being like, there's only two people in the field who are over par today,

and I forget who the first one was, and the other one was Rory McElroy. And it's like, if he would just play okay, if he had just played okay on Sunday, he would have won, but he just, he could not put again. No. Rigsy stats. I looked at it's only three people in the top 27 shot over par on Sunday.

That finished in the top 27. Roy was one of them in the final group with Brooks, So it is. It is a classic. It looks like after he hits a putt, he just gives the body language of, man, I had no plan there. I mean, what was like on the third hole? He had like four feet for Bertie after a Kevka made one. And he just like duck hooked the putt below the hole that I just was never even close to touching the hole.

I really think that's when it was over. I mean, that third hole when he missed that Bertie putt, it was just like, I got that point too. It's like he's starting to fade already this fast early into the round. And then lo and behold, yeah. He's out of it. Brooks beat him by six on Sunday. Yeah, he just had no chance out there. He got demolished by Brooks Kevka.

Also, I mean, this just kind of sums the whole thing up. Rory showed up about two hours before his tea time and got demolished. And Brooks Kebka showed up 45 minutes before his tea time and just went out there like it was a walk of the park and stomped on Roy McRoy. But that's do it. Do it. All right, Frankie, go. Just get it off your chest. But that is what proves my point.

I've never once you can go back and you can quote me, you can listen. I've never once rooted against the player, Brooke. I like him as a person. I think he's a great golfer. I'm rooting for him to be a good golfer. I want to witness a guy who's going to go on an amazing major run streak during like the prime time of my sports watching career. I missed it with Tiger.

I would love to watch Brooks Kebka like get fuck if he's at like 13 majors at one point. Like that'd be awesome to say we were there at the PJ Championship giving him fist bumps walking up to 18 on Saturday and shit. Like that would be awesome. But the thing that I hate is the narrative around him. I couldn't watch the fucking tournament without hearing about when he's going to show up to the fucking golf course. Oh my God, Brooks Kepka, this is what he does.

He's not even here. They're showing his fucking parking space. 35 minutes. He's still not here. Why does he going to show up? He left himself a chance. And I know he ended up saying that he was sick. But prior to that, he left himself the chance where if he shows up 45 minutes before

his tea time and he doesn't do well, well, that's just Brooks not given a fuck. He showed up 45 minutes. See, that is hating on the Brooks guy. You're not hating on the narrative there. You're saying he left himself a chance. You're saying he did it deliberately to like have a bailout. But this is what they were saying on the, this is what they were saying on the broadcast. Like it, like he's what you're saying about Brooks.

You're saying he left himself and out versus like, that's just his routine. He said all the time. He goes, yeah, and Sundays I usually, I always get there 45 minutes before. Like, I've been playing golf all week. Why would I need to get there longer? Okay. So then like that thing that he does sets himself up for either he did, he showed up and he didn't care and he lost and he was the one that went over par with war because he just didn't show up.

And that's just his routine during non-majors because he just doesn't show up early. that's just his routine. And then if he wins, he's the fucking hero that showed up 45 minutes early because that's just his routine. And everyone fucking goes nuts because he doesn't need to practice, but Rory does. It's just a whole entire talk about how much he cares, how much he doesn't. Why can't he just be a regular golf? Like, why can't he just be the person that just does what he does and he gets a result? Why do we have to talk about, we don't talk about anyone else's preparation.

Yeah, but it's when they get to the golf course. You are right in that the golf world just running. with the storyline of like his parking space and all that. I put it in my title, my blog. It drives clicks. It drives. And we know as guys that have been to golf tournament, it's like once the play actually starts, the term actually starts, like you're kind of scraping for content.

Oh, yeah. And you're at the WGC fucking FedEx in Memphis. Like they're scraping. And they credit to whoever went on like, I'm going to do the parking space thing because it worked. I mean, everybody golf Twitter was all over it. But you are right that it's stupid. The fact that that dominated the coverage, the fact that he gets asked in every single press conference about,

okay, how come, like, what is with this whole storyline of how you can dominate the major championships, but you just don't show up at regular tour events? That is all way, way, way overblown. But at the end of the day, I mean, the guy, I don't know what you can really say. Like he does feel like. Like him winning this actually now, this is what I said when we were talking about it last time. I want to see him when he wins a torch I said I want to see what happens to the world

When he wins a tour event And now the next time he goes to a major Are we going to be done talking about how much he cares And how much he doesn't now? Is that over? Because he just won the WGC So like he just showed that no matter what he cares No matter when he gets to the golf course

No matter what effort he puts in He can win a fucking big golf tournament So like at what point do we stop talking about When he cares when he doesn't Can we just talk about Brooks Keppka winning? I don't think it's going anywhere You don't think so? He just showed up 45

five minutes before is tea time and I think it's going somewhere you know I think it has to I think it's out like that was a cool fun thing to talk about and honestly outlets like us or whatever the fuck we're called like we blew it up big time because it was a very funny narrative it was similar it was like not similar but it was like with kids T20 something like that like that was just this cool totally random and not intentional storyline that we ran with and we thought was really funny interesting I think the same thing about Brooks Kempka I think it was really it's not intentional I don't think that he, like, it would seem crazy to me that he would actually fly to and go through all the renting a house and going through everything in a tournament and just

not care in any way about it. But also that's what drove me nuts. But there had to be, right? Like when you look at this anomaly, which is who the fuck wins four majors and only two PGA tour events over the last three years, like there's got to be something that you could attribute that to or try to and talk about. And that was kind of the theory was that he didn't care. And whether, again, I kind of got into.

to like what that deeper care means, which is like, does he need to practice at home for a week before to be good at a tournament? Did he do that for this one? And he doesn't do it for regular stops. And he does it for majors. Like, who the fuck really knows? But it was just a really interesting anomaly that was happening. He started to like eat it up to, man.

Like he like, his comments were like, I play when you see me on TV. He didn't need to say all that. But I think that Brooks is trying to, like, he didn't talk for, you know, the first year, year and a half when he was winning the majors. and we're like, why the fuck is Brooks Kepka so boring? And he's, like, found his lane. Like, this is his lane. He's the common man.

He's the guy that calls up Big Cat. And Big Cat becomes a fake fan and thinks he knows everything about golf because Brooks Kepka text him sometimes from here to there. And then, like, that's like, this is Brooks Kepka's, like, whole, like, story. He's a Blake now and he's awesome. But, like, yeah, but Brooks Kepka has probably been doing this, his whole entire fucking career. It's just now he's kind of, like, eating it up and talking. He said that to us. Like, I didn't think that I could start talking until, like, I had some wins under my belt and stuff.

like this is just who Brooks Kepka is. I don't think that he tries one way, it tries the other. I think he saw a storyline like we did. Everyone blows it up. He kind of ate at it. He's getting the questions. He has to answer them.

Right. It's the only questions he's getting. Same thing. He used to complain. The only question he would get is, do you eat horse meat? And he's like, yeah, like, I'm just going to say yes every single time because like, that's what I do.

I wake up and I eat horse meat. Like what else who wants to say? So if they keep saying, do you care? He's just going to be like, uh, no, you know, I like the majors. but like I don't know when the TV's on me then I'll care like little stuff like that just fucking drove me nuts but now that he wins don't you like the cockiness it's great yeah crazy cockiness it's crazy cockiness

but I just didn't think it was genuine because I was just waiting for a moment like this at the WGC where he does the same thing and just wins like he did the thing that everyone's saying like oh he loses because he shows up 45 minutes you said that at the travelers you're like didn't you say that he that one they said he showed up like 15 or 10 minutes right but like who knows like he could have fucking won that week had he just played better like he did the same thing here like essentially he just played

fucking lights out. I just didn't like the excuse like that excuse of the travelers is like Brooks didn't show up until 15 minutes before. Was he using that excuse? No. No, it's just like surrounding him but there's nothing. But he buys into it. He buys into it. He buys it. He's nothing he's doing to stop it. But he definitely yeah. He never

once said guys I fucking want to win this week. Never once. Yeah, he did he kind of made little he's always made the little side comments and this and that and kind of plays into it feeds it. Because I think he does enjoy it. I think you, you know, you found the way that he kind of, even, you know, I was always amazed even when he, when he won the U.S. Open for the second time and they were, you know, they, they interview about

him, motivation and this and that. And he had a lot of examples of, like, people that, like, wouldn't talk about him or wouldn't pick him or wouldn't, you know, he wouldn't get the media love after that he thought he deserved. So he is clearly more plugged in than he likes to lead on, which means all this narrative stuff, all this Brooks only tries in majors. and like what's the deal with him outside of majors. He was obviously aware of those things

and he's a sharp enough guy, I think, that we found out and how much he's learned to kind of express his voice and his opinion and jump into the conversation when he wants to that he knows how to do that and be effective at it. And he's done that. He definitely, he could have easily extinguished that whole thing. Easily. And been like, I want to win every tournament.

That's what Tiger always says. Tigers always said, I will never, I won't show up and play event if I don't think I can win it. That's the cockiness I like. That is the cockiness. I like that Brooks Kepka's cocky, but he doesn't quite have it. Like he doesn't have that, like, I'm going to show up and dominate you. The cockiness that people love right now about Brooks is like, yeah, and once every

couple weeks I'm going to turn on when I want. Once every couple weeks, you better watch out because I'm going to fucking dust you guys. It's like, all right, dude. Like, I don't know. Like you're losing like three out of the four weeks then. Like, I mean, whatever. Why are you being so cocky about it? But it is because it's major.

So the anomaly breaks my brain because I don't know how he's fucking won four out of four majors already. But I don't know. It's just it rubbed me the wrong way. I'm glad to see him win the WGC and maybe put an end to all this like Brooks Kepka-carrying meter. And everyone's going to fucking, you know, break down how much he cares when he steps up on the tee. I think he just wants to win. Let's just talk about like he just wants to win. It was interesting how he did it on Sunday too because he was at the open.

You know, he was horrible with his putter. Couldn't make anything. especially the last couple days it felt like. And then this last round, I mean, he really, it wasn't like he played lights out. He just made everything. He got a bit down from a ton of spots. Yeah, his putting.

I mean, during the open, he said he's like, nobody's hitting the ball better than me this week. I just can't putt. Can't putt. Yeah. And he said nobody's putting worse than me. Right. And then he putted lights out.

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That's kind of the Brooks Kepka situation. He said he was really sick too. He's like, people go to work sick all the time. That's a very Brooks Kepka line to say. It's like people go to work sick all the time. That's a camp call line. That is.

That is. I kind of like that line. It's like kind of funny. Yeah, he didn't bring it up at all until after in his presser, somebody asked him about it. Brooks, you kind of heard rumors you feel alone in the weather. And he's like, oh, yeah, I've been really sick all week. Like, why didn't you, you didn't talk about it?

put that at all. He's like, I don't need to talk about it. People go to work sick all time. Which is a great line. Yeah, great line. Although I don't, I don't think that's, you know, I don't want people going to work sick. I thought that too. No, you don't. You know, I don't want to be. It's a cool lot. Right. Stay at home. It's a cool line. But it's like, if you got a runny nose and you're, you know, he sneezing all over the place, stay home. I trust you. So it's catch 22, right? Because you, you know, you don't want to skip out because then you're like, why the fuck do you kind of work? Then you're like, well, in our world, if you show up sick here, Dave, like, wants to fire you.

He'll send you home. Yeah. So the, which he's, he hates being around sick people. Yeah. You know what the move is you show up, appear really, really sick for five minutes and then you get sent home. Oh, yeah. People do that.

I mean, I've, like, done it once where, like, I really was, I think I had the fucking, like, the flu, like, majorly. And I show him like, hi, Dave. Like, I just couldn't even speak. He's like, what's wrong with you? I'm like, I don't know, man. I got to go to a doctor. You at least got to make, you at least got to make the trek here and to prove to prove to

him. In front of him that you are actually safe. The elevator opens, you start crawling in. Like, Dave. And then you're like, at his office. Let me get a thermometer. You're at his office. Your snot is running onto the floor.

And he's like, all right, get out of here. You're like, all right. Now I'm going to go home. But then he gets mad. He's like, why did you even show up? For this moment. I came in for this moment. Right here.

So you believe that I'm sick. And I'm out of here. Look at my bloodshot eyes. Look inside my bloodshot eyes. But I think even when he says, why did you even show up? He's probably like, all right, he's actually sick. That's worth it enough and then you go home.

I agree with that. But Brooks Kepka, a warrior out there. Sergio Garcia slamming his club into the ground into the T-box after. Hitting kind of a snap hook. There's something in the water over there in Spain because we got a couple. I mean, these guys are just crazy. They're just pure crazy town. Insane.

There is. They have a temper problem. You know, Sergio Garcia has a temper problem. He's now proving it with his outlet. I mean, something's going on with him in the last. Saudi Arabia was the bunker. When I put it in the blog the other. Saudi Arabia was the bunker, and then at the open, he threw his driver at his caddy.

And then this latest one in Memphis, he just takes a huge chunk out of the T-box. Was it Saudi Arabia when he was dragging his feet around the greens? Yes, yes. He would ruin that green. He damaged, like, seven greens. Yeah. They like, they kicked him out of the tournament. You're like, you, sir, got to go.

That's the behavior of a drunk person. You're ruining seven green. Worst. The slamming onto the T-box, first of all, it was filmed with, like, a rock. I don't know what kind of camera film this thing. If you see the clip, I mean, it was the first camera ever invented they put on the back of his tea. But man, was that a clean chunk at the ground. He's done that before.

Like, that was a divot. I mean, that was a perfectly slammed club. He also swung it like six times. Yeah. And then there was the, from Saudi Arabia, the only clip that we had was him in the bunker doing the, like, five back and forth like he was fucking. He was doing a snow angel, basically. He was doing it. I think the form that they say is like a really good form of, like, uh, um, like, uh,

brooming like he's like a broom sweeping he was doing a sweeping effect but but this way yeah you're yeah and sweeping the sand yeah a little bitch it's crazy he's like you won your major dude like calm down i know and the last year has been his like worst year of acting out yeah he got he won the masters and then he got married it's like things are great they should be good on paper they're good yeah he does too in his interviews and all that he seems like he's happy like golf course he's like he's going through some horrible stuff wearing the green Jacket to Wimbledon. Remember that?

Yeah. And the guy's like living on top of my idea. You did it. Like he's made a ton of money. He finally won his major and that major was the Masters. What's wrong, dude? It's pretty crazy. Why not, man?

Everything's fine. Something's wrong. Something's wrong. I don't know what it is, but something's wrong. Something in there is wrong, man. Sergio Garcia, he's got an interesting thing going on too. I noticed this right away and then I'm going to read this quote. But he, after the whole Saudi Arabia,

incident. I thought it was really interesting that he didn't do very many, like, media, and then he just started ramping up his social media presence. And all of it was, like, his Instagram stories were always him shaking hands with, like, the military folks at all the tournaments. And then the next one would be, like, a professional photographer, picture of him, like, holding a sick kid. And then the next would be, like, given an autograph to, like, a young girl. And that was, like, the only pictures in social media stuff he ever put up. So, So a bad uncreative PR agency got a hold of him and signed a big contract. Well, so Alan Shipnuck, who's a golf.com writer who was on my band a trip this past weekend.

Great dude. Golf magazine, he's a very, very accomplice writer, and he does a lot of these profiles. And, you know, he's as golf journalist as it gets. And he tweeted out yesterday about somebody responding kind of talking about what we're talking about. Alan Shipnuck said, I spent much of this spring pitching Sergio, his wife and his handlers on a big golf mag feature, but they declined. and they prefer to tell their story through social media posts, but I think fans are clever enough to see through that artifice. So he essentially is exactly what we're saying,

which is like he went in with this whole choice of like, I'm going to do this cool PR campaign and everybody's going to buy it. It's like, no, dude, if you keep putting out a video once a month of you being a fucking lunatic on the golf course, no one's buying your, you're kissing baby. You're still photos. You're kissing baby still photos. It looks like there's a green screen behind it.

It does. It's the only... Legitimately does. The only people who works for, and there's zero of these people out there who only follow Sergio, and that's the only social media they follow. If they follow one person in the Sergio,

they're like, this is the greatest guy in the world. That guy. This guy... Although it's a rare person that's following him on Instagram and not actually paying attention to golf. There's not many of those out there. You just can't miss the actual stuff that's happening with him. There's got to be...

I'm sure they're just huge Sergio fans. Like, if you went and looked on his Instagram comments, I bet they're all... Vamos. We love you. I guarantee. They just love that guy. So that's Sergio.

He's kind of crazy. Colin Moracala. One. Yeah. Do you like that? Sixth career start for the youngster. He graduated two months ago from college, just a couple months ago. A lot of people talking about he and Matthew Wolf now in the last month, getting wins, breaking through the young guys.

You kind of throw them into the mix with what is somehow not like the young crew anymore, which is like Speed, a JT, and those guys. Span. Jordan Spann, who are young as shit. But Moro Cala played lights out. He could have won a couple weeks ago when Matthew Wolf did win. He was right there. Wolf made that putt. So he was right in the mix.

And he's been up there a couple times. Only a sixth career start breaks through and gets the W. It was in kind of the non-WGC type of tournament where you had to really kind of grind to find out what was happening. but there's a lot of drama down the stretch and he came through. So he clearly's proven that he's clutch. Good for him. Congratulations.

I want to talk about the Barstow Classic today. Nice. How'd it go? I thought you were going to start clapping. You brought your hands up without we were just going to... Oh. No, no, no, I wasn't going to clap. Okay.

No, I wasn't. Okay. I was just going to talk about it. All right. Let's do that. Talk. So first of all, Zah was out there and he was electric. Yeah.

For anyone that does the videos... Zah, Zah, Zars, Zimb. Bob weighing midget. Yep. With a good voice. Yeah. He's got pipes. He's got hefty little body on him.

Yeah, he does. He does. Yeah, we're going to hear about him at the classic in a second, but he was also at pop punk. He was the hype man for pop punk. My mom sent me a picture of her dancing with Zah, and it was a blurry picture, and they must have been moving their hips pretty quick because he was one of those pictures. It looked like they were going 100 miles an hour, and I just didn't even ask any questions. The bottom line is that Zah brings it. Yep.

It sounds like he brought it today. Man, Zah brings it. He just, that guy's got a passion. It's really excited about stuff. And so we, you know, we always at the Barstall Classic, the golf events, we try to make each one of them unique and different and fun. And so we try to get national anthem singers. And at the first one, we had Todd Angeli, who was the Boston Bruins guy, who is also a bartender at the garden. Right?

Yeah, he's a bartender at the garden. Really? Yeah. And the way he got his gig was they, when, you know, he was. they when Renee Rancourt who did it

and Boston Garden forever when he retired like last year you know they had a couple new different people come in this year

whatever and I guess at one point they had some emergency where whoever was supposed to be in there couldn't do it so they knew that they had this guy

who had done a couple things here and there whatever and they went up and grabbed him and we're like hey we need you to see the national

he's like oh okay win they're like like fucking right now and he went down that being dominated it and then continued to sing the national anthem here and there throughout the year and then somebody told me that when they played the uh the leifs in the first round that he is like their um canadian national anthem guy like he can just he's like their guy

that can do both and so they're like oh we got to go with todd we're going to lead with todd to kick off the year or to kick off the postseason yeah and then they won so they're like what are we going to not go with todd down so then they stuck with him for the whole postseason so he was their guy nice to go to the year now he's not he was their guy nicest fucking guy. The planet lives in Rhode Island, drives up. So we reached out to him, got him to come sing the national anthem

at the first Barstall classic up at Wallston, up in the Boston area. That was during the Stanley Cup final, which is St. Louis Blues won. No one. Did that? Congratulations. Did that one?

We were not talking about hockey. We were doing pop punk. And, you know, at one point, like I think they were like tuning the instruments in between songs. So there was a little low from maybe like five seconds. A huge crowd erupted to the right. Play Gloria.

Gloria. Gloria. What? Gloria. It kept happening. It kept happening. It happened like three or four times. I think YP was behind it.

I haven't talked about that. He was sort of in that area. I just screamed, no. And then Roans like, you're an islander's country. I said, yeah, you can get the fuck out of here. Wow. There was like 20 guys screaming Gloria. They had to be like, we were supposed to break out in glory.

Like, how were we supposed to play Gloria? Just play the song. With the instruments? Just play the damn song, Frank. Jesus. How do you play any other song? Yeah, but I feel like Gloria has like, uh, Doesn't it have like tech, like, like, sin, since in the background?

That's like, that's a keyboard, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's a keyboard. I don't know that you guys got that one. We don't have the keyboard. We don't have the keyboard. We got fired. It's tough.

Damn, dude. Tough. Fucking. No, he did. That's a fact. That's true. That's just what you. You just listed a fact.

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Medtera CBD. It'll help you out. Anyways. Second bars to a classic event we did. We just played a recording of Big Cat and it stopped in the middle of it. And so we had to have Kate and she just off the top, you know, right on the spot,

just finished it. Finish the Anthem, National Anthem. We had a bunch of people singing it. He had a little trouble there with that word. Yeah, it's been a long. Nath and Anthem. Natham. It's not what it's called.

It reminds me of Chris DeLea, you know, the comedian. You ever see his Eminem impression? Oh, yeah. He's like. His impression is so funny and so good. They put him in Eminem music video. Yeah. He said, National Anthem.

Come in natural. That's actually exactly what it's like. Yeah, it's like, all right, go on. What do you guys think about Eminem? I love him. I love him. I love him too. Unbelievable.

Oh, I love you. For all, like, high school games and whatnot, Eminem through and through. What I will say. Two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside. His later music isn't great. That's pretty good. His later music isn't great, and his early music is aging a little tough.

I've created a monster. Nobody wants to see Monster tomorrow. They want Shady. I'm chopped liver. If you want Shady. I could listen Eminem. Yeah. I can go on.

Just fantastic music. Yeah. I'm white. I'm white. I'm whiter than Eminem, though. So when I do it, it's like real bad. No. Like, look at this guy trying to.

to be M&M. I mean, you're whiter than everyone. I'm wider than everyone. Man, I went to a fucking barbecue yesterday and it was embarrassing man. I had to put on shorts. Like, we were on the pool, we were playing some fucking cornhole and I was like, I am glowing. I'm glowing. Do you family and friends make comments? Like, oh my God, your legs are out. They're like, you're

fucking, you're so white, man. You are so white. Is your mom really white? No, she's, no, they're both tan. Both, both my sister's tan. You just said tan like five times. Yeah. You're tan, tan. You're tan. You know who's fucking tan? And we'll go from this Dave Portnoy's tan man

I'm editing a pizza view just spent a month at the beach dude he looks like he was in the movie Castaway like like it's crazy it's crazy how tan he gets man I can't believe he just said that we watched castaway the other day yeah what a weird how that happened what a sad ending of that movie

you ever watch how they made it watch a YouTube video on how they made it it's crazy what you mean how they made it just like he was literally like like in the water like I mean Tom Hanks like really went into that role he was really stranded well no like they actually like Like, there's parts where he was fucking like, so they just put him on this makeshift vote. So it was like a little castaway, a little Truman show. They kind of just threw him out there.

And they actually made him do it. You cock. Just told Frankie to shut up. Oh, really? He was stranded out there. No, it's just like you see some of these unbelievably moving scenes where he's like losing his mind. And it's all like shot in one shot. Like he's genuinely like he's really, I mean, he's the best actor ever.

Yeah, he's great. What are the chances you think you could survive a castaway situation? Me personally, zero. You think you can put that raft together where you know to like release it to get over the fucking wave? No, when he did that in real deal, I was like, what is he doing? That seems unnecessary. I would never think to do that. I would never think to do that.

And is that true? Like you got to go over that one wave and then it's just like, it's just still water for it from then on now. Okay, but I'm asking you a question, lurch. Well, I'm sure if the waves are going that way, you'd probably go on the backside of the island will probably be a little quieter going out. But you do got to. I know, I think the way it's, no, no, that seems wrong. It's the waves obviously.

Especially there's a nice cove. They get way worse closer because of all the surf and the coral and all that. So if you get beyond that, what you had to do, then you're pretty much in the clear. I think that's exactly how it works. And Tom nailed it. Yeah, he did. It's sad. Dude, it's sad ending just because, like, when she gets caught in between worlds.

We only caught the last like 30 or 45 minutes, and it's really sad. Which is really the shittiest 45 minutes. For sure. We came back into the world. No. No. All these have made five. Yeah.

And he gets so excited. He's got some self-confidence and he gets home. His wife's married like his best friend or something. It's like we put your cask in the ground, bro. That's brutal. It's over. Yeah. Yeah, the guy goes, there's a good.

There was a casket and everything. And he's like walking around in the hotel room. There's like crab claws around. He's just got nobody. It's going to drop the line. He goes, what was in it. Yeah. That was, I remember when they were marketing the movie, that was the big part of the trailer.

When they were like, we buried a casket, you and the casket, and they cut to me. Where that movie comes out? 2001. I don't know. Now I forget the ending. What is the true ending when he delivers that package, that last lady? Yeah. So there's some hope there that maybe she's the new gal.

Yeah, I think there's an extended alternate version where he opens it up, I think. You've done some castaway homework. Dude, I watched it. I was like, dude, I've been following this Instagram account where it's like movie FX or something like. Like that's all just like... Fox movies? No, it's all like behind the scenes, like graphics. And like they'll literally show you your favorite movie.

Like they have all Avengers stuff and like it'll be a scene and then you swipe right and it's the green screen version of it and how they actually filmed it and stuff. So like I saw one of Castaway and then I watched Castaway. Well, that's kind of neat. And it was pretty cool. Let me ask this. Why does he say at the end I never should have got on that plane? Because I don't, like that wouldn't be a realistic decision, right? Was there like an, was there like a reason that he almost wasn't going to get on the plane?

Because otherwise you can't You can't just look back and be like, oh, I would have never got on that plane. Didn't want to leave it for Christmas. Yeah, he didn't want to leave it for Christmas. That was from Will. Will. Yep. You can get you a mic for that.

Swing that thing around for you. He didn't want to leave it for Christmas. That's the Barstow Classic. So the Barstall Classic. How did we get there? We were talking about the second one. I have no idea. The third one, which was today at Forest Hill Field Club out in New Jersey.

We had Zah because we had the Barstow Breakfast Crew, Willie Colon, the Willa Cologne Foundation was the charity that this one that, you know, we were raising money for with this Barstow class. We do a big skins thing. We do a silent auction. We do all kinds of good stuff. Raise some money for eight different charities, one at each stop. This one was the Willie Cologne Foundation.

We decided to have him and large and Zah. It was a great crew out there, but we were trying to figure out, okay, what can we do for nationality? So we, you know, we reach out to different arenas and be like, who's this team's guy and that. We couldn't really find anything in the New York area that. was, or the New Jersey area that was kind of like sticking out. So we talked to Zah, and I was like, Zah, could you sing the national anthem? He's like, hell yeah, I can sing the national anthem? And then we were like, can you sing the Zimbabwe national anthem again?

He's like, absolutely. So we had the, we had the Zimbabwe flag out there, which Spider was holding upside down for the first half of the song. Yep. Which I didn't notice in real time, but people, I will say, a lot of observant folks started screaming. It's upside down, and then Spider flipped it around. Would you have known that it was upside? Oh, you didn't notice? no clue.

I had no idea. And then, yeah, it's just colors and shapes. I don't know. And then he did the Star Spangled Banner, and I was dying because he had his little notebook out. And he was just, like, reading it. Like he'd say it. What do you mean little notebook?

Was it a... I would have said that about any... Was it a regular side of notebook? Was it a regular size of him? Hashtad caught. You know, I don't know. Was it a normal notebook? Well, now I think a normal notebook would have looked huge.

You know what I'm saying? You're right. Like a regular, what's... College ruled? College rule. A regular college ruled marble notebook would look massive. That's what I think. So now I think maybe it was little.

Do we have a video? I took a video of it, but I don't... Fuck, I can't recall. Hmm. Man, hold on. All right. Riggs is scrolling through his phone, it looks like. Yeah, you do a little narration.

We'll play by play here. He's holding. That's a small notebook. That's a mini notebook. All right. Yeah, that's a small notebook. You're right. Yep, you're right.

That's a good question. It was a small notebook. I had to clear it out. So he was, and he was just, he was piping it out, but I was dying at him legit, just being like, you know, I'm sure to have the lyrics in front of me. Yeah. And it was something. I think when Big Cat does it for Rough and Routy, he sometimes has the lyrics up there. He writes it out, yeah.

Because it's not something you want to screw up. No. Like, I think everyone knows it, but like, you don't, you want to know it. Especially where we do Rough and Routty? You don't want to fuck up the anthem. You don't want to mess up the national anthem in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Or in, where do you guys go? in West Virginia?

Oh, Welch, West Virginia. Welch, West Virginia. You'll just die if you say one word. The place where when we're driving to the venue, there's a huge sign that says days since last coal mining accident, three. There's a huge sign that says like

they keep track of the day. Did you ask what the high point is? Is it like 30 days? No, I think they're usually like, yeah, three's about the number. Jesus. Remember we used to do days since the last C&D?

Oh, yeah. For Barstle? And they always just said zero. Yeah. Yeah, it was tough. So anyways. We're an edgy company. That was tough.

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We had, like I said, Large and Willie and them, the crew. They all rolled up to the 16th team, and they did their gentlemen's Friday thing. So anybody who doesn't know, they do our morning show here at Barstool Sports on Sirius XM, Channel 85, from 7 to 9 a.m. Every Monday through Friday. And on Fridays, they just go crazy. get nice fine cheese, meats, wine, cocktails, all at 7 a.m. right all the way through 9. They call it gentlemen's Friday. And it's a whole thing. Then afterwards they come, they mingle with the rest of the office, and they're obviously a little banged up because they've been drinking

and they're kind of, that's just what they do every Friday. And so I was like, can you guys come do that at the barstool classic? They're like, absolutely. So they had this great T-box on 16 where they were just hanging. Large got up there and hit a couple shots, he said. It was like a par three. And it was a ton of fun so big thanks to those guys coming out then at the end we had a five team playoff five team playoff for the last spot massive going to liberty national is the reward if you win this thing or if you finish in the top six you get to go play at liberty national october 15th you get to continue to play for 10,000 dollars cash um you get to put continue to play for the like six thousand dollar trophy that we bought which is really heavy heavier than you would think it is

now i got to say you know we went through a bunch of different stuff uh it was actually top six qualify but this was actually these teams were all tied for seventh because it turns out the team that finished in first place was a sponsored team a truly team right so truly with coming on as a title sponsor they get a couple pairings in each thing yeah and so they were

already going to go to Liberty National so we had to obviously send like six more teams so we had five teams tie and it seemed like an awesome idea at the time we're going to do this five whole you know five fucking teams for one thing the 18th hole is perfect it's a par three and it's like 150 160 and there's

amphitheater and the clubhouse all behind it. So we were just like, perfect. Let's go do it. Man, it took forever. It was like an hour and a half or something. Yeah. They just kept tying, man. We started with five teams.

Then we were down to four teams. Then we were still down to three teams. And then that would three for a couple holes. Then down to two. We changed the format. We did alternate shot at one point. We did aggregate. No, we didn't do alternate shot.

We did aggregate score. So then both you and your partner were still in it. It was a war, man. I mean, the one at Foxwoods lasted 11 minutes. It was awesome. It was so perfect. We got, we, we create all this cool content. It took fucking 15 minutes.

One guy goes out, makes a bomb done over. Yep. We, everybody went, man, we felt like everyone was out baking in the sun. It was 9,000 degrees outside. We were just baking out there, sweating. People started to yell towards the end of it. Richie, end this day. I'm like, I don't know how, man.

I don't know how to end it. What do I do? Were you happy with your decision looking back? Absolutely. I mean, people had to play the play. What else can you do? I guess you're right. It's a playoff.

But the only thing that we would have done differently was with five teams, I would have done like an aggregate score or an alternate shot format right out of the gate. Yeah. That's how you learned. So next one, that's just what we'll do because you had 10, you had legit. Yeah, you had 10 people hitting on the T and then 10 people going hitting their second shots. How long did the first whole take? Then 10 people lining up their putts.

And a couple people hitting multiple chips, right? And then it was for the first five people that teed off, the crowd was all going crazy. And then even the last five people that teed off, even if they hit good shots, the crowd was just dead silent. And we did that for another hour or hour. Oh, my God. It was crazy. But you got to the bottom of it. We got to the bottom of it.

We got our winners. So we've got the, you know, the field is set. We're next up. We got a lot of these fucking things coming. We are next up at Whiskey Creek outside of D.C. on Friday, this Friday. Then we're at Philmont in Philly. Philly area on Tuesday, August 6th. Then we got like 10 days. Then we've got on August 16th,

what I'm calling what is going to be a biblical event. We've got the Chicago Barstow Classic at Harborside. And at this thing, so the whole four-play crew, we're all going. The entire Barstool Chicago crew is going. Those guys are animals, absolute animals. Big Cat will be there. We'll be singing the national anthem. That is currently the plan. He's obviously an incredibly busy guys so things could change with big cats playing and I'll be in there. Number one Brooks, Cap Cat fan on the planet. Chicago guy. Frankie's taking a lot of shots at Big Cat the show.

The laziest comment ever for Frank. A lot of chirping. I like it. Dog Day, you know, dog days is summer. We're kind of doing some chirping. He's getting into it about Bush. Well, I just got a tweet from this guy, Scott Smith. Because he responded to my tweet like, oh, did Brooks try this week?

Because fucking Big Cat Tick tweet at me, hey, Frankie, you okay with Brooks winning this tour? He makes no sense. He has no idea he was talking about. Scott Smith goes, he tries in majors and tries for major. money. This isn't hard math. Like that's what, that's, these are the people I hate.

That is the Brooks Kepka fandom that I despise. This is what your whole Twitter world looks like right now. Scott Smith right now. He tries in majors and tries for major money. This isn't hard mad. He tries all the time, guys. He tries to win. Just trying to get the best out of himself. He tries to win.

He tries to win. He doesn't want to practice this much. Yeah, but he still tries to win because he did. He won. He won, guys. I agree. We've also got the pairing of Paige Sparantic and Taylor Cusack are going to be there. They auctioned that up.

a lot of money that they were able to raise for Cyber Smile, which is the charity that we're doing for the Chicago event. So it's going to be something. It's a summer Friday, right? So all these other ones have been on like Mondays or Tuesdays. This is on a summer Friday in Chicago. It's going to be something. And then we start to wrap it up.

We've got Granite Links on August 19th, which is my old, my former home course up in the Boston area. And then we've got Pound Ridge on August 26th. And that'll wrap out the, tour, except for, of course, the finale, which will be on October 15th. So, Barstool Classic stuff, you know, pay attention, watch that stuff. Very exciting, very cool. And then the last thing is I just, I was just at Banda Dunes for the last five days.

So I would just like to say and reiterate that that is the single greatest golf destination on planet Earth, and it's not even really close. It's just golf heaven. So what about Cabot? Because you came back saying that. So Cabot, I think, is my favorite golf course I've ever played. Golf course I've ever played. It's hard to keep up with me now at this point.

Cabot Cliffs. Cabot Cliffs is the best golf course. Yes. Band and Dunes is the best golf experience? Experience. Destination. They have five golf courses. Right.

But wouldn't the golf course mean that it's the best golf course too? No. Or no. Like best golf experience mean that they have the best golf course there too? Well, no, because I wouldn't just, like, I think there's a lot more reasons to go to band. Because you can play five different golf courses and all of them are ranked. You know, you guys, four golf courses are ranked inside the top 100 in the United States of America.

Gotcha. And the fifth one is the preserve, which is their 13-hole par three course that is right in the water. And it's kind of everything. It looks unbelievable. So it's different. Cabot, I think, you know, the hospitality and all that and the experience that we had was definitely up there. And the core Crenshaw course, Cabot Cliffs, I'm just obsessed with. I do think it's my favorite, like, single golf course I've ever played.

But at Bandon, man, you have got four. courses like I just said in the top 100 that are three of them are on the water the other one abandoned trails you know goes back in through the trees and is a core Crenshaw course so you get a lot of different variety and they're all literally a like one minute shuttle ride from each other and they're building a fifth 18 hole golf course now core Crenshaw are called the sheep ranch which we got a tour of wow and it's nine greens are on the water Jesus how far along are they like like was it cool seeing like a golf course being built like so it's a good question it's the first time i've ever seen that i don't know how but that's the first time i've ever seen that and it was wild man like

they were saying you know in in in this fall is the time frame they're giving they're going to open it up for preview play and we're walking around being like how are they going to be able play golf on this it was just dirt and sand and like some of the greens that we were just walking across the greens and i was like wait a second i'm making footprints here in the sand that like how is this going just be a perfect green i don't i'm changing like the break yeah what are we doing here yeah and and and some of them like half of them had already been seated and stuff and they were you know it was it was something it the property there is it is so exposed and on top of these cliffs that there will be days where they can't play because it's so it'll be so windy that they literally they won't be

allowed to open it up for play it's going to be i don't know i don't know if it's like the only course or whatever the first course in a long time built it's not going to have a single bunker on it because the wind is going to be so bad up there that the sand would blow out of the bunkers come on jesus isn't that outrageous that's insane yeah man it's going to be nine greens on the water it's going to i believe double the number of greens that are on the water on the property and they already have like five golf courses so it's just the sheep ranch the fact that band and you can play it before it's over that's crazy well some people can right yeah so preview play which I don't even know exactly what that means.

Lindsay from Chambers Bay. I remember her mom that was like Aldera home course. Oh, yes. How could I forget? Or Gold Mountain. She was like ranting or raving that night that she was doing that that whole thing that she played Chambers Bay when it was just dirt and like before they even had like pins in before they had holes in the ground. I was like what does they have a mean.

But I guess what you're explaining is like is what happens. I guess it's just a layout. Yeah, it's a layout. You know, they start to move a lot of dirt and sand and, and all that, and then they, you know, eventually they dig out the bunkers and then they'll seed. So they were, they were seeding all of, you know, they were kind of going through the process of seeding the different greens and fairways and all of that, which was clearly not even close to done. But I think the main kind of grunt work of all of it is moving all of the land.

And I believe that they've essentially moved all the lands. Like, we could, you know, we could walk to pretty much every T-box and every green and you could see it. You could visually, like, see that the terrain had been put in. place. It just didn't have the grass or the fescue or the gorse bushes or whatever around it to kind of like give it the definition and the different coloring and all that and the actual turf. But it was shaped and all that. You could just stand. Like the first hole is this par five man that goes out straight towards the water the whole way. You tee off right by the clubhouse. You go out. The second shot is like downhill straight towards the ocean and the cliffs are just way higher

there than they are in other places. And you get out and you just kind of, you can visualize it right away from the T and then you get closer and closer. You're just like, this is, they've already got the courses that I've told you guys about and that we've talked about and that people tweet about and all that. And they're adding this. Amazing. What? So it's, it's going to be special.

I was there with Matt Janella, who we had on the golf. We had on this show about a year ago, I want to say. I think we had Matt Janella on and he is, you know, he does all the golf travel stuff for golf channel. He's on TV a lot when Trent Daddy and myself. I was going to say he was our guy. when we were on morning drive last year, McChinello was the guy that interviewed us for like five minutes

and kind of teed us up. I mean, man, did he tee us the fuck up? He was a great at TSA. Couldn't have been better. He was phenomenal. I wish I hadn't looked at the floor so much. You looked at the floor a ton. People thought there were bugs on the floor.

I kept looking at the floor. The camera was down there. They told you, look at the screen. Don't look at the camera. I looked at the camera. No, you looked at the screen, not the camera. I looked at the wrong thing. You looked at yourself on the screen.

Correct. I couldn't stop looking at my screen. nerves. There was a red dot. They were like, this is the camera. Look at the camera. Don't look at the screen, which is showing yourself down to the right. And Trent Daddy, just the whole entire segment stared right at himself on the screen. Amazing.

I'm not a TV pro. I don't know what to do with my hands. That's fine. I don't know what to do up there. It's fine. People make mistakes. It would have been crazy if I was perfect at it. But Matt Janella.

So, you know, I'm going to have him back on the show and we'll kind of go through the whole trip because he's, you know, maybe the best in the world at planning a buddy's golf trip. And we've learned very quickly with the different shows that we've done. whether it was our, you know, Frankie and myself, when we did our Seattle trip, whether it was Lurch and our buddy Pete, when we did the Wisconsin trip breakdown, people love golf travel stuff. They just love it. They can't get enough of it. And it makes sense because if you, you know, if you're a golf fan, you play a lot of golf and you naturally want to have these kind of unforgettable moments and trips with your buddies. So I'm going to go through that in detail with Maddie G on the show because he's the man. It's 2019. Everyone needs a great pair of wireless earbuds. But before you go drive, dropping hundreds of dollars on a pair. You need to check out the wireless earbuds from Raycon like we do. There's just too many things to do these days. You can't be having wires all over the place.

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So this is like, you know, I'm not going to, I don't want to mess up all the details. And I'll kind of, the nuts and bolts of it was I was, it's 29 guys. I was invited to be another guy's partner. It's teams of two. One team has three because, you know, a couple of the ones. guys are older can't do the whole 36 holes a day so they have a team of three and they kind of like multi in which is awesome yeah but but the crux of it is it's it's teams of two i got invited to be my boy b r's partner and he was like hey this is like my number one major

of the year matt jenella runs the whole thing and uh it is match and it's called the uncle tony invitational you'll see jenella tweeting about it and instagram about it all time but his uncle tony who got him into golf total legend uh was part of this trip it's like the six or seven annual not exactly sure. He passed away a couple years ago, so they named it, like, in his honor. And so the first 10 minutes was kind of all of this footage from there, like six or seven years of doing this trip,

including a bunch of footage of Uncle Tony. And so they do this whole thing. The first night, he does, like, a Liar's Dice tournament. It's all kinds of crazy stuff. He does a whole putting competition called, like, the Uncle Bill on the Punch Bowl, which is their 18-hole putting course that has all these crazy amounts. That place looks bananas. I watch a YouTube video on it.

Crazy. It's a course. It's a mini golf course. It is a mini golf course at Band. But it's an all on one huge green. One gigantic green. They've got 18 teas, each one of the teas. How do you know where to go?

Each one of the teas has, you know, it's got a tea that has a tray for four drinks. So you're supposed to just set your drink right in there. Then you can see out there, you know, where the pin number is because it has a number. And so everybody there is like an actual course that you play. And we did. Yeah, stream song does the same thing. It's amazing. It's so cool.

So, so difficult? So difficult. So we did, our format was, you know, for the whole trip, you obviously have your partner for the whole trip. But at these other little kind of competitions, they do random draws and stuff to kind of mix it up and you all get to meet different guys. And me and my boy Spoon, you know, we get paired up and we're in like one of the last groups and he had won the thing last year. And I was like, hey, man, I don't hit the ball very well, but I can usually putts. Like, I think we've got a pretty fucking good chance.

And we're coming down the stretch and it was best ball. So it's putting best ball. Every hole's a part two. And we were on 16T. We were only like one over, which is amazing out there. On those greens. On those greens are crazy. And we find out like I think like two over is going to like win it.

So we end up bogey and 17. And we get to 18. And 18 was a hole that people literally couldn't keep within 20 feet. That's how hard it was. So I blow it 20 feet by. He hits a bad one. And everybody's, everybody's standing around the last hole. been drinking all day long. It's like sunset. We've been going crazy in the winter. You know,

you get some hardware and you get like four or five hundred bucks because we all throw money into the kitty and it's the whole deal. And I just made like a 25 foot box. Video was awesome. You were super sober there too. Oh man, was I drunk. And then we went in. We had dinner and then I apparently pulled the move where I was like, I'm going to go piss real quick boys. I went out to a bunch of one. They didn't see me for three hours. And then they were all back at the fucking condo, uh, drinking, having a good time and somebody was kind of like hey where the hell was rings i found it my boy spoon and janella and br and the boys got in a car we're like we're going to do search and rescue we're gonna find him the boy spoon was like i have a sense i think he went and slept on the punch bowl and sure

enough and lurch will know that this is kind of my move yeah this is your move it's starting to become really your move i was passed out full starfish with a drink still on my hand on the punch bowl how does that become your move why are you doing that i don't know man did that a cabot first fair way i don't remember it obviously lay down just lay down the fairway we had this big party back at our place and I'm like where the hell is this kid and it's like it's now people are starting to leave it's probably close to 2.2.30 and I don't really know what time it is. And I'm like closing up and but I hear this like faint like music playing and then I like walk out there and he's just starfish probably 50 feet from our little condo.

What is going on? Laying in the first fairway, listen to tunes, dad asleep. So I did little sternum rub and I was like Rick's you probably want to wake up. I had put Spotify on my phone. It was just like this is my spot, I guess. I mean, two hours later, people are going to be playing through that same spot. Totally. You know, like a 6 a.m. T-time. Totally.

It was just... See a guy dead on the fairway? What is up there? I think myself, my subconscious, like, drunk brain got in it, like, you know what? This is our spot tonight. Like, this is where the magic all happened. Hell yeah. We're not leaving here.

My back was in tough shape. The rest of the trip is real firm out there. I teed off. I had, my bag got completely soaked because it was the sprinklers were on outside. And I left my bag out there because, you know, I had brought it over for the putting contest. My catty must have been signed. I never bought it.

Yeah. My boy, Keir and my cat, he was like, what happened to the back? It's a long story. I didn't have a putter or my 54-degree wedge when I played the first four holes. They just weren't there. I mean, when we got to the first tee, he's like, where's your stuff? I was like, I don't know, man. I don't know.

I don't have an answer. I got no answer. I don't remember anything after my 30-foot putt that I made to win the whole thing. I got nothing, man. So it was a scene, but it was one of those where, you know, I knew three people going in. Did you end up finding the putter and the wedge? They delivered the putter to me on like the fourth hole. And then I never found the wedge.

The wedge just became a donation. The same one with Bandon. It's a sacrifice. It has become, in my opinion, it's just melted into like the sand and then it's become part of Bandon, which is great. The only three people I knew is my boy B.R., who's my partner going in. Matt Janelle and Alan Shepnuck were the only three people I knew going into the whole trip. And it's one of those where like now all 29 guys are like, I feel like my best friends in the world.

So it was a scene. We had Joe Horowitz, who. plays who's a musician. He's a New York guy, but he was, he was doing, these guys, he's doing the movie, like, he plays a song and he's unbelievably talented. He's done, like, the national anthem and a couple games or whatnot. He's incredibly talented, and he was doing that at the end of the trip. The last night of dinner, he was playing a song where he had just built in roasts of, like,

everyone on the trip. And so he'd start out playing the song, and then, like, the first verse, he would just, it'd be really slow, and you could tell he's delivering it. He would just roast it from people. And had everybody in tears the whole time. So it was a scene. And then I got, you know, traveled all day yesterday. I got in at 2 a.m.

and we were at the Barstville class like at 7 a.m. this morning. So it was a grind. Yeah. Pretty excited to quit doing the fucking show. So I can go home and go sleep. Yeah. That's kind of the point. But I will have a lot of people are asking.

I will have Janella on. We're going to talk about the trip, you know, break it down. Do a little bit more golf travel stuff because people like that stuff. I think that's all I got. You know what's coming out soon? Is our videos probably for them. I mean, not soon. but I know the guys are working on it from the Washington trip.

I know you mentioned it. And I wanted to just plug something real quick. So Devante is my friend, my close personal friend, Islander, not a big deal. Yeah, Devon. Devon, as Rick Zyxicall. His buddy Maddie, who played with us, he's running this spike ball autism charity tournament. His brother's a 17-year-old. Apparently he's like the biggest beauty kid of all time.

17-year-old has autism. They're running this amazing spike ball charity tournament. So I would assume that we have some Canadian listeners that are like from Abbott's Oh, I know we do. I know we do. If you're from Abbottford, B.C. Or anywhere around there, I'm not going to act like I know what the fuck that is or where that is.

Nor should you. But Barry Park, August 17th. While we're going to be out in Chicago at that time, if you're out in Canada at that time, go play some spike ball. Spike ball is awesome. Great game. Yeah. Smash the stigma.

com. Is that a Canadian thing? They don't have com? They don't have calm. No. Everything. Come on. You know that.

I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Really? Everything there is C. So barstool. TSND. Barsal Sports. Well, you can still go on to, like, the U.S. domain, but you could go to tsn.

dot C. All right, so smash the stigma. dot CA. Sounds awesome. I didn't know that either. No. Dude, Spikeball, no joke, is perhaps the most fun game, yard game ever three. It's a great game.

I think Cornhole's better, though. Which they'll have it. Depends what you're going for. I'll have this as well. Because spike ball, you're getting a workout. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, in order to play competitive, you have to be like intense and like actually work and break a sweat correct that's the only reason why like and also you need like a very good athletic partner you can't just like when you say yard game like that's why i don't put it as the best yard game because i'm not going out there with my uncle and playing fucking like legitimate spike ball like i can go toss bags with like a cousin and uncle i need like my buddy who's like on the football team to play spike ball someone who has like endurance and is going to dive and like actually play the game like if you go to a charity tournament like this where people are trying to win and stuff like i'm sure there's going to be like an actual

a competitive thing. So that's when spike ball, spike ball becomes amazing when you have, like competitiveness to it. Yeah, that's sort of like, it's not a vacation,

it's a golf trip. That's like, yeah, when you're showing up to spike ball, you're like, I'm going to destroy these people. I'm going to show how athletic I am. Right.

It's a show of it. You know what a good place to play spikeball would be? It would be like a, your 10 year like high school, like, trying to get some hate that. Reunion.

No, just like showing everyone how fucking like, how great you're doing. Yep. Like, let's have our 10 year reunion on the beach. Pete, like, why? It's like, so we can play some spike ball.

Like, you see, like, you're, like, flubby friends, a bunch of lurches around, and I'm like, I would dominate you at spike ball. I'm sure you would. I would dominate you. I had an, I had an argument with someone over the weekend that they said they can't believe you're that good at paddle sports. I said, you have no fucking idea. You have no idea how good this guy is.

I've seen it once. Are you good at paddle ball? I would say I'm decent at those games, pretty good at those games. Yeah, I can handle it. Are you better at tennis or ping pong? Ping pong is without question my best racket sport. Dude, but he plays in tennis. He'll play against like D1 guys and lose like 6-4 and stuff, right?

I got killed this weekend. I mean, six-thru. It should be everyone's goal. The fact that you can lose 6-3 to a Division 1 tennis player. It should be everyone's goal to watch Lurtsch play one game of ping pong. I appreciate that. It is amazing. That's all I got so.

I've seen it so many times, man, we go into these bars and people just can't believe it. Can't believe it. He always leads with two. Like somebody would be like, yeah, I'm pretty good. Lertz cuts them off because I'll pay you 500 bucks right now. Right now, 500 bucks. I played a left tea. I had something, I played this weekend back at Morris Country Club.

The place that you said was, like, unbelievable. Yeah, he played that first tea experience. What? Yeah, it was awesome. So, like, I had no idea this was going to come full circle, but I scheduled this thing with a couple guys that I used to coach lacrosse. And they're like, you got to play, so I go out there. I can't wait because I'm all excited about what Frankie said.

But it was the day after the member guest. So it was pretty, like, dull, you know, like, everybody was dead. One of the kids that I used to coach was out to, like, 5 a.m. The member guests there must be unbelievable. It must have been incredible. This kid said he was playing dice to like three or four in the morning. If a Sunday afternoon has guys just roasting people on the first day, I can't imagine what an event there is. No, it's a spectacular track.

We had a great all time. So short but unbelievable. Yeah, it's a sweet little track. But anyways, I putted, like when you want to talk about like showing up a kid from a 10-year reunion, I actually hit the ball pretty well, I had some of the worst putting in all time because the greens are pretty like undulated and like pretty hilly. Yeah, they're tough. So there was like four times my back swing that I saw like a hit. hill in front of the hole and I was like I got to pound this thing and I literally just ripped it 30 or 40 feet there was one time I was 25 feet by and I was like yeah pretty good you need another Michael

Breed session yeah I do well then I was going between you know what breed told me I have a lot of angles in how I put so it was like you just got to straighten out your arms and I was really just trying to find anything in confidence because I was trying to like hey you know I'm like not a bad golfer but man I had a tough putting day how about I had a round my first round of my career this past week with no bogeys well Oh, damn. What? I had three doubles, a birdie, and the rest parts.

Holy shit. Holy shit. Isn't it insane? That is. It is insane. I was thinking about it like two days after, and I was like, wait a second. I don't think I made a whole fucking bogey the whole round. Holy shit.

I had like five feet for bogey on the 18th hole. Missed it. Wow. Good miss. Not to plug another islander. Huge. Not to plug another islander, but my other friend, Brock Nelson hit me up the other day. And he said that, he said on the front.

Go Ranger. He shot a front nine, 30. He shot a front nine, 39 with no pars. What? Yeah. 39 with no pars. So what do you have, like four birdies? Yep.

Was it? Yeah, so it was four birdies, yeah. Dude, we played a nine-hole stretch at Mammoth where Lurch had five birdies on the front nine. Yeah. Damn. Shout of 33. When birdie, birdie, birdie, bogey, boogie, boogie, birdie, birdie, par, par, finish. This is the most infuriating thing I've ever been able to do you.

It was so great. What a day on the links. Just having a bunch of cocktails and just pouring putts in. I actually didn't even, I didn't make anything. I made a 15, 12 to 15 footer on the first hole. And then I chipped in on two. But then after that, I just made like a bunch of four to six foot. Brock Nelson, front nine, 39 no pars.

He goes, riddle me that. Six bogeys, three birdies. Six bogies, three birdies. Wow. That's a hell of a round. It's an up and down roller coaster. How are you like hitting it that well to make three birdies to you? Two of his buries, three birdies.

Burdies were stuffed wedges from 80 yards. He's like he was on in certain shots and then other shots just like all over the place. Just not even close. Yeah, not even close. That's just the most roller coaster of a day ever. Bogie, birdie, bogey, birdie, boogie birdie, boogie birdie. Are you kidding me? What's going on today?

Fucking Lurch when he had five birdies on the front nine, we were playing Vegas. You guys ever played that game? Oh, dude, it was unbelievable. Oh, no, I never played Vegas. This fucking game. So you, you know, it's the score of your team. Like, right? So if I make a four, my partner makes a five, our score is,

45. Okay. Okay. Now, or I'll give you a better example. If I make a four, my partner makes a seven, our score is 47. Yeah. Now, if the team, the other team makes a birdie, your score is flip. So your team's in for 74. And you pay the difference on each hole. So if Lurch makes a birdie and his partner makes a five, they're in for 35, and we're in for 74. And he made five of them on the front. So you're down 40 dollars. We're down like 150 fucking, yes, on that one hole. We were playing every point is a buck. So by the time we made the turn, we're up like $150. Totally.

If you play a guy who's on fire, you could be down $1,000. Oh, dude, we were killing him. I was just laughing. Just absolutely laughing. I was like, yeah, another cocktail. Meanwhile, my partner's like, anything you need, I'll get. Because he was like ball in pocket, like wasn't playing that well. My partner Doug and I, you know, we'd have like a little powwow on the tea, right?

Lurch would make a fart burty on six or something. We'd have a little powwow on the tee. be like, hey, he can't do this forever with five. He'd hit it to like four inches on the next hole. Or he'd rip a driver down the middle and they'd hit a three wood. He'd have like 20 feet for eagle. It was insane. It's sad.

Fun round. I'd be happy to keep talking about it. God, I hope that never happens ever again. All right, folks, we will be back on Thursday. We should have a very cool guest coming into the office, so it should be a phenomenal show. We're very excited for that. Have a good week. We'll see you at Thursday.

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