Fore Play - Rahm Rendezvous & An Oak Hill Day

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

Jon Rahm welcomed the crew in for the Monday practice round; it’s PGA Championship week and we’re live from Oak Hill. Much to discuss: Phil deleted a tweet; Jason Day reemerges victorious; Jon Rahm and caddie Adam Hayes are awesome; what are the criteria to get into the PGA; Tiger and Scottie appear in an iconically hilarious divot video; should we get Frankie high; and a lot 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 Podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Oh, Rick! What's up my brother? I got a buddy who struggles with that shot. A lot. His name's Frankie Burrilli. So the guys actually gave him a nickname of Butternives because he's always nice to the cross the green.

Brod 100. Now you've got to break 90. We appreciate what you guys do for golf. It's been really cool. Thank you. You're making it cool. I was like, hey, Phil, you only fucking $29.99. And he grabs 100.

He's like, yeah, I won $90,000 a lease yesterday. He goes, take 100 and go fuck yourself. What? What are you that different? It's ain't a hobby. Poor Blames. I'm right, Barstool Sports. Brought to you by our very, our great,

our phenomenal American close friends at Chevy. What's up, bitches? Just want to give a quick heads up. We are outside. We are at the mercy of the elements. It's a little windy, so you might hear a few gusts throughout the podcast. I just want to warn people. It's PGA Championship Week.

We're in Rochester. We're upstate and Rochester, New York. It's as north as you can possibly, northwest as you could possibly go in New York. I had some asshole on Twitter yesterday. I was promoting our merchandise, which I saw a bunch of the courts today. Lovely to see. I said, you know, upstate New York. And the guy goes, it's not upstate New York.

It's western New York. That's bullshit. It's as much as you can go. What is Bush thing? Is that Mike hooked up? Yeah, it is. I mean, you can go. more north than New York. You know that right?

Yeah, but like, it's Western New York. Compared to who is. Upstate? Unless you're on the border. Once you're an hour, once you go an hour like in the state of New York away from New York City, you're upstate New York, basically. In my mind. Six hours away from Long Island, like north. I mean, I consider everything north of the city upstate, but then I consider Rochester, Buffalo, all that area of Western. So you're both. Right. Like, here's what I would say. If I told my friends in Arizona, they're like,

hey, we're going to hang out the golf, they're going to pay. I said, no, I'm in New York. That's misleading. Yeah, I'm not in New York. This is why no New Yorkers take their team seriously. They don't like, when we talk about New York sports, we don't talk about the Buffalo bills. Yeah, but the Jets and Giants are from Jersey. Which is even more disrespect.

They're just not in New York State team. They do. I would count the Jersey teams more than. If I were a Buffalo fan, I would love being, you're your own thing. Did you know I heard a, did you know I heard a couple interesting facts about New York sports this week? Please. The New York Islanders are blue and orange.

because of the county colors. They were supposed to be black and green because the original guys that were starting the team that was just his favorite colors and the politicians denied those colors because they thought that they should be the county colors?

The county, like Nassau County is blue and orange. And then the state colors of New York or New York City are blue and orange, hence why the Knicks are blue and orange. Oh, that's too, right? The Mets are blue and orange because they are the combination of the Brooklyn Dodgers

and the New York Giants. One team was orange, one team was blue, They combined them and they did that. And then the jets are green because the original owner loves St. Patrick's Day because his birthday was on it. And he's like, I'm going to make my team Emerald Green. Wow. Do you read like a book on the year?

No, we were just watching sports yesterday, lots of sports. And we were just like, how come these teams are these colors? You ever think about that? I'm thinking about it now. There's just all these stories. Well, I remember when the Charlotte Bobcats became an NBA team. They were the Bobcats because I think the owner's name was Bob. Bob's cats.

these are my cats. I'll be honest. I might have made that up, but I think it's true. Do you know why they call it Oak Hill? What? Do you know why they call it Oak Hill? No.

I don't either, but I have a guess. Oh. O'Crees and hills. And there's much of hills, right? Was it hilly? Yeah. Oh, yeah. My cats are screaming hilly out there today.

I mean, the walk from like the first T to the range, the range at Oak Hill is outrageous. It's just not built for a major championship. So they've got 20 golfers on the base of, I guess, the east course or is the west course where are they playing west course east course they're playing it on the west of course the east course okay so on the west course one of the holes is just a driving range now so at the base of one of the holes is like where they're teeing off they're hitting out into the old fairway of the west and then there's like a solo driving range by one is it

yeah closer to one which we were there was just on a solo driving range say it's just a box that fits one golfer and then they have like six or seven golfers on the top of the fairway was he I think that was a joke. She was joking. We were like, Kevin, why are you by yourself? And then Dewey's like, we booked it a week ago. We wanted to be away from the players. Dude, it's legit.

A private driving range. And then there's nine guys on the top of the hill. So when you're looking at the driver, you got balls coming in from all different areas. It's bizarre. Danny Rap, you just drove up here. Just drove here. How was that?

It was good. It was like six hours. But, you know, the drives always take like an hour longer. That's basically double to Boston. Yeah, it was long from New York's like three and a half. New York is done it in about 310. That was my record. sneaky very very large state i'm here with my dog and my fiance so that's why we we kind of did

like a little family trip we're at a different hotel because i think i'm here all week we didn't realize that until just before the podcast oh um yeah i'm staying at a different hotel that's why that's why it took me so long to get here because i was at the other hotel that's all right but uh we're here we're excited another major week it's a major week they come fast it is we're standing behind the driving race today and we had been here for a few hours and frankie just goes i just realized it's a major You know what really like got it going in the brain was I saw Bryson D. Chambot. I saw Cam Smith signing autographs. I saw all these guys.

We saw Abraham Answer. I'm like, I forgot these guys existed really like at tournaments. I haven't seen their faces in a long time. And now I'm like, holy shit, it's a major. We weren't at the master so we didn't see him. We talked about this like when they decided not to ban guys is these weeks are going to feel like a reunion of sorts. It felt like that a little bit. It's like the Champions League in soccer where it's like all the stars are here.

I kind of like it. Yeah, it's great. aspect. I like that like the guys roll in and they're almost like the bad guys. You look, you look at them and they have a different aura to them. Yeah, they do. All wearing the live gears, I would assume, right? Yeah. Yeah. We had, I think A. Banser was wearing a live gear. He was wearing a bunch of his stuff, but then his shirt was the yeah. No, it's cool. Yeah, all these guys, everybody comes together for the major. We also made the comment about how probably six months ago show on the podcast, we were basically laughing at each other with the thought of the live guys wearing their team uniforms

at the Masters tournament. And they all wore them and it was just normal. Nobody really here. They're still wearing. There's no way. There's going to be fistfights. Yeah, that'd be outrageous. The whole thing is kind of like that where we were like, what is it going to be like? What is it going to be like? And now it's just exists. It's like, yeah, they played somewhere else last week and now everyone's here

and Phil are going to be here this week? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's one guy I didn't see today. Phil won here less than two years ago. I know. He won this tournament. Yeah, it's insane. That's, that's outrageous. You finished second in the last major. Yeah, he did. It's like the most, it gets so overshadowed by Kiwa that he finished second in a major

at 52 years old last one. Yeah. Yeah, after, again, not going through as much public, you know, humiliation to the point where he didn't play a couple majors when he was, by all accounts, a healthy human being. And was so, like, disgraced or dealing with change or whatever fuck it was that he didn't even play in two majors and then finished. Was he solo second or did he tie? I think he tied with T2 with Brooks. Yeah. Right.

What you're saying is, like, if he hadn't won, that would, that was, his T2 at the Masters would have been like the most impressive thing. Right. The 52-year-old, yeah. Phil McClenn had done. Like, you'd be like, holy shit, Phil did this. But you can't even say that because he just won. Like it's like it's expected for him to finish in the top five now. It's that long swing, man.

The long swing guys are have long. Never injured. He's never hurt. Sometimes he'll have to miss some tournaments for some other things. But he's never injured. Yeah. For, you know, well, we, you know, everybody knows that. Yeah.

We hung out with a short swing guy today. We did two short swing guys, but one one day today. Those guys are boys, huh? Yeah, they play a ton of golf together. Almost every round. I even said around there, I was like, you play a lot of golf with this. You play a lot of golf with this. lot of golf back in Scottsdale with this guy, right? And he goes, yeah, and a lot of tournaments,

too. Yeah. And then he, like, gave me another look almost like, yeah, practice trials, but also like we're both really good. So we're together a lot. I think they played all four rounds together because they were the two stars. Yeah, yeah. And then they were just like leading after two rounds. We've been talking about the all electric family. This is a big week. It's a major week. It's an electric week. And we're talking Chevy, EV, the family, the Silverado. We saw this thing in person. and we drove this thing through a garage and a cool commercial. I don't know if it gets any cooler than this thing. It's a fantastic vehicle.

I actually went to a Chevrolet dealership and I looked at some of the EVs. I looked at Silveradoes. I'm like legitimately in the market for a car and I went and sat in Chevroletes and like I had meetings and like sat down with people trying to win me over and get leases. Tell me about this one. Yeah. We were talking about infotainment systems and we're talking about colors and trims. And I'm deep in the weeds right now when it comes to Chevrolet.

They've got a great little lineup of cars. Let me tell you. We talk about it from like, you know, the equinox. And then they also have like, the suburban is just a classic. It's an institution. When you see those on a lot, you're like, I forgot about that car. Like that's just, that's a boat. And it's just, it's a suburban, man.

Class. And they have some of these like blacked out ones or black rims and everything. It's just like, that's a car. And you got to take us all around town if you're going to get this. Silveradoes are legit, man. You turn out of Silverado and like the whole screen goes from. like the driver's side all the way across the front. It's like Chevy gets written on it.

It's crazy. That's cool. Yeah, the technology of those things are like spaceships. They got a large 17-inch diagonal display screen over 10 feet of length in the bed with the multi-flex tailgate combined with the multi-flex midgate. Available 400-mile range, GM estimated it on a full charge. It could tow up to 10,000 pounds of max towing. It's a lot of pounds. Zero to 60 and under 4.5 seconds with Wow.

head over to Chevy.com to learn more, just like Frankie did. Go to Chevy.com, learn more, all-electric family at Chevy. Today was a crazy day. Today was a crazy day. So we spent probably two hours with John Rom today, maybe an hour and a half of John Rom today. John Rom is the guy in golf right now. We're again talking amongst ourselves earlier about how outside of,

because last year on Monday we had our Tiger Woods Day, Yeah, which was an all-timer. PGA championship. All-time. We just deliver on Monday. PJ championship. First time we met Tiger at Pebble was on a Monday. That's right.

And then we were like, oh my God, we got this stuff with John Robb. We got some funny pictures that came out. Trent asked him a dozen questions about Big Bang theory that he ended up getting right. So we were having a lot of fun with it, whatever. But then we were talking about like outside of Tiger Woods, who transcends everything. Now, who is like the guy? And obviously, we've debated that a lot in this show. Who's a bigger star?

who's got a bigger Q rating and there's Rory. Scotty. Scottie is up there as one of these guys that's been shuffled in the top two or three for last year. Right. There's Jordan Spieth. Obviously, he's making a star. John Rom right now,

I think, is clearly the guy. He's number one in the world. He won the Masters. He's got two majors now. And in the last couple months, he has earned the favor of American golf fans dramatically differently than he,

had previously. And he's just the guy. I think the way he carries himself, he's kind of the guy. The way people look at it, the way people say his name. Like John Rom is the guy in golf right now. There's just no negative. With Scotty, people will say, oh, he's kind of boring. You can't say that John Rom is boring.

With Rory, you've got all these live trolls online who are tired of hearing from him and they say he's a hypocrite, all this stuff. Everyone on both sides of the aisle likes John Rob. There's like no negative aspect. So I would say, yeah, this side of Tiger, he's probably the most popular, like, diversely liked guy out there and then being number one in the world and winning the master when winning the masters is winning the masters that's a tournament that everybody watches yeah if you're going to win one you win the masters so he is the guy and he you know he loves you guys the galleries were insane today for him i mean just everyone watching them we when trent and i were kind of late getting to him because um we were stuck kind of by the driving range we were talking to some guys rigs was we didn't know what their setup was with john so we're like finding them on the whole on the third hole and we see this fucking massive crowd like a sunday type crowd around a guy. I'm like, that has to be John Rom. And I feel like that wasn't always the case. It wasn't even close to being the case. Um, maybe 12 months ago. That's crazy

to think that like John Rom brings that type of juice now. And when you win multiple majors, you win the masters and the number one in the world, that's what's going to come with it. And he just, he thrives off that stuff. You can just tell he loves it. He, he's like mucking it up. When he hits a bad shy, he's laughing. Like he doesn't, it's like he's getting nervous. He's like, he's thriving in it. I also remember watching it happen with Brooks a couple years ago after he won a couple of majors. He got much more comfortable, uh, speaking his mind and having an opinion and being outward and talking about those things. And I mean, we did an hour interview with him. His comments after when in the U.S. Open were great. His comments after the COVID thing at Memorial. Like,

he's just become more forward facing. And before it was all about like, oh, he's the guy who gets mad and has temper tantrums. And that's all we see. Now he is completely flipped. And I do think there's a comfort level that he has with so much success that he's had recently, he feels more comfortable saying things. It does remind me of the Brooks Kepka. Yeah. When Brooks went from pretty much dead silent after he won his first U.S.

O'clock, but I remember he declined to do the media tour. He went to Vegas, I think. Which is very different. And just stuck to himself and stayed quiet for a year or so. And then there was that moment when he started doing interviews. He started making pretty aggressive comments. He started chirping guys for slow play. And he

became kind of the Brooks Kepka that we that we know now. And John Rahm is going through, I think, at the beginning of this year, especially, what's he won, four times this year already? Four times, three designated or two designated and a Masters. So he's got that already. We're not even, we haven't even kicked off our second major of four yet. And he's number one in the world, I would say kind of convincingly right now.

He's got two major championships. He's the first European player in history to win a U.S. Open and a Masters tournament. he's got a couple of young kids. He's got a wife that's been like his college sweetheart, basically, that he's been with for a while. He's got his crew in Arizona. And he just seems comfortable, likable, a family guy. And what we love on this show about him is that opposite of Brooks Capco,

which would have been one of our big complaints about Brooks, is that Ron leans into that he is obsessed with golf. Yeah. That's he talks about the history. He makes comments all the time about he on YouTube for hours and hours when he's tending to the kids or when he's killing time or whatever he's doing around the house, he will put on old, you know, he loves the old highlight tapes of

historic rounds of golf. He loves Sevy. He loves Sevy. Obviously, he loves the Spanish lore. He loves the fact that, you know, the Spanish guys have won at Augusta National and he got to become one and be the next guy and that it was on Seve's, you know, the, what was it, the 40th?

It was like, it was his birthday? I think it was his birthday. I thought it was his birthday. And then there was another that was like on the anniversary of like his second win of the master. So all kinds of stuff that he's aware of. He's not out there like, well, I wish I was like a football game. No, he's like, I'm a fucking golf guy and this is great. And I love carrying the torch for Spanish golf and the European golf team and doing it in America where I went to college and it's great. And so the fact that he leans into that yet is as opinionated as he is, he's just the guy right now. I fucking love that guy. I ran into him in Scottsdale

on Friday evening. And he was like, oh, yeah, we're doing Mother's Day tomorrow because Friday I'm, or Sunday I'm going to travel up to Rochester for the PJ I was like oh I'm traveling Sunday too we'll be out there Monday and he was like oh this is a time I'm T and off you know me and Adam come hang if you want I was like great so I did that me and Bush walked up and right away

dapped it up hung he chirped Alex Bush and I having sunscreen on said you better put some sunscreen on and then we hung out with him on the third hole and Riggs was leading John Rom up to the T-Box and I looked at oh this you guys are friends now and I looked at Trent and I said now what the fuck is that like when we did

When we did Tiger Woods, when we walked to Tiger Woods, that was the craziest moment of all time. Like Tiger, Joey La Cava brought us out there. Tiger said, what's up my brother to Riggs? Dapped us all up. We were all fucking nervous. We're walking with him for basically an hour. That was like once in a lifetime. Now of a sudden the next PGA comes around.

It's a major week. It's Monday. We had just done this with Tiger Woods last time. And now I'm looking at Riggs and I'm trying to find them. I'm like, oh, they must be like by the, no, he's just. walking with him up to the T-box and like it was like they were two old friends this is a major that we're talking about

and the number one player in the world it helps to his caddy Adam's a beauty who we had on the show is a legend yeah he's great so personable he likes us so he welcomes us in John welcomes us in equally and so you're kind of riffing with the three of them they've got their own inside jokes they actually like anybody does like they like when you're in now

on it and they hear you guys busting each other's balls and then they're you know the first thing when me and bush standing the fair way with them on the second hall and he's like all right it's 131 it's adjusted here and then rom looks at me and goes meters remember it's meters and so i'm sitting there standing and he goes come on harvard it's like 150 and i like so he knows man he loves that stuff like he likes being in on that and then as we're up on the green you know you're tiptoin at that point you're like am i in the way am i in the way and adam's throwing the different pin locations down he's like all right now look at this back left one like this one with the redo this wasn't even close and then rom comes

over and is like well give this a few more years then we'll be able to use this pin location because the green's going to change because people be in bunker shots and like they're just love talking about it he's a golf genius and you're right there they're obsessed with it and like I'm loving this and then there's a you know there's like a back swale chipping area and I'm like are you going to put from down there what are we going to do from down there and rob throws a couple of balls down there it goes down to put them up and they're pretty tight he's like looks like we're putting it and like they're just they were just in it they're enjoying it they've I think he very much enjoys that people are getting to know the real ROM.

I'm sure that's fun for him. Like, I can tell it's fun for him. He's leaning into us, obviously, but other media too. He's just doing a little bit more stuff. And he's really good at it.

Like, he's genuinely really good at it. He's incredibly likable. It must be a little bit nerve-wracking that, like, he's not even doing this in his first language. He's like over here, speaking English,

doing it in America. He's a Spanish guy. I, you know, and yet he's phenomenal at it. So he's just, he's just kind of, blowing us away. I thought too today.

I noticed he had a very almost a carefree confidence about him. Like today's day I think he called it like a Touch Em All day. Like they played 18 holes and he was just out there to see the holes. You know and he was hitting shots. He hit like a 265. Probably had never been here before right? He had never been here

before. 653 would like cut into the green off the deck and he just like looked at us. I was like, that was so sick. Yeah, it was a best helper in the world. Yeah, right. Fucking crazy. Him and Tony, Tony Fienow played with him. Just two short swing. guys that are absolutely launching golf balls.

There are some guys that you play with and you're like, it doesn't look all that different. You know, I can maybe do those two. It's like... So we found the two guys where you're like, how are these two guys even like... How do they real? Yeah, totally. All I can think about now is, imagine if he wins this week.

He'll have won the first two majors of the year. He'll be three quarters of the way to the career grand slam. He'll have five wins already this year. He's a betting favorite. I think it's him and Scotty are like one too. Yep. And he's number one in the world. His last start, I think you finished solo second in Mexico.

he comes in off three weeks of rest. He's got a very, very good shot to take even another step this week. Another win this week would be. Yeah. Can we talk about how low Tony Fee now tease up the golf ball? I know it's been like a topic of discussion throughout his whole career, but seeing it up close like that was actually like alarming. It's low.

I brought up to John around. Can you believe this guy? He's like, it's just his swing. I was like, I don't even know what that means. Bro, the ball is when I was looking at the ball teed up, I was trying to think of how I tee up like a four iron on like a 210 par three. It's like right there. Yeah.

Like it's just above the grass. You're seeing a millimeter of white. And he just comes around that thing. Bro, you can't even see the ball. Yeah. Look at that. It's crazy. Rigs at the picture of it.

That's his driver. That would be so spinny if we tried to hit it. Oh. Yeah. So we talked to Rahm about it. And Ram said like when he wants to like let it go, I guess they were in. Mexico and they were hitting off, or maybe they were in Arizona, but they were hitting

at a range. And Rahm and Adam were like, just let it go a little bit. Let's see that. Because I guess, I guess this guy's like swing speak. He gets up to like two 10. Way more in the tank. For ball speed. He can take it up behind his bed.

I remember during the brison phase, he posted a video doing that. Oh, he would get the ball speed full length. So, so Rom goes, when people ask me who the longest hitter is out here, I always say it's Tony Fiena if he wants it. Yeah. He said he's got like two 10. I believe it. He's got 210 ball speed just in his back pocket if he wants it.

He said if you flicks it out there, it's like a half shit. He says it means nothing to him. He doesn't look like he cracks a sweat. Rom was like, give him four more inches on his driver and he could compete in long drive. That's John Rom saying that who pounds the golf ball. So those guys are best buddies, you know, out there. He got his way a little bit today. Tony Fee now.

I know. We were like taking videos of us and Rom and Tony's like, at one point, we all just were walking down the fairway and Tony was hitting behind us. He had to actually tell us. He was like, heads up. And like we all, I did a little shimmy where I went to go right and then I went left and I'm staring at him. You scrambled. I scrambled. I was scrambled days. My titties were

bouncing all over the place. I literally tried to go right and then I'm like, wait, that's the whole other side of the fairway. And then I went left and he's like, who is this clown? We're not great at those things. Sometimes we're not great. Hard interactions. But on practice days, these guys don't care. Like, they're so dialed in with their shots that they're not going to like kill anybody out there.

Rom was on the green. Yeah. And Tony Feena was what, 120 out? He hit a full wedge out. And he hit a full wedge right over Ram's head and just dropped right next to the hole. And Ron never even flinched. He just kept, like, walking around dropping balls. They're so good at golf. It's funny because there's certain shots like Justin Thomas was hitting one in front of us before we saw Rob today.

He was hitting a pitch shot. And we were like five feet in front of them and a couple feet to the right. And I'm like, that's a miss spot for all of our friends. A miss spot that would harm you dramatically. You couldn't stay in there. And I actually, at a second, like I took a little bit of a step back. And he kind of laughed. It's like, I got this.

me the windows are so much smaller the windows are so much smaller it's not breaking news to say that these guys are really good they're obviously the best in the world but if you've ever been on the fence about going to a golf tournament or a championship or major just go for the sheer fact that you're not going to believe what these guys do in the sport that you play all the time when you go out with your buddies and you're just playing golf and you're watching good shots and you're hitting balls onto the green you're not going to believe how different it is you would think that it's like similar like oh people are like i love golf because i get to do what the pros do once in a while my dad always has that line.

I can hit a drive, I can make a Pugam. You're not doing it. You're not doing it. Mr. Raleigh, we love you. You're not doing it the same way. Like, you can make a par. Yes. You can make a four.

You can make a three. The way these guys hit the golf ball is like, it's a different sport. The way I describe it is like when people are saying, oh, I don't understand how they'll go play a course that's rated 75 and it's 150 slope and, you know, the winning score is like 25 under par. And I'm like, how is this possible? I'm like, imagine someone hitting a perfect shot 60 times in a row. Yeah. Because that's what it is.

Perfect. Right, right. A perfectly flush shot and they do it every single time. Well, dude, think about how excited you get as a golf group. You hit a really good drive on a pretty tough par four or something. It's way out there. You've got like 105 to the flag and you're like, oh, I get to hit a pretty good attack, like attacking wedge shot here. And I should have a pretty good look for Bernie.

Now, imagine they just do that for 72 old. And you mix in the par five. It's, of course, they're 20-under-par. And the way they roll the ball on the green is just everything's scary. And then I think, like, okay, so now they're. they've done it. They've hit the ball of 330 yards down the middle. Now he's got 105. Let's say it's a little uphill adjusted 107 shot.

Well, he's hit that 107 wedge. I don't know, 25,000 times. So he's going to hit it pretty close. And then once you get up there, he knows the greens perfectly. He's done practice rounds. And he's got a perfect putting stroke. So like if it misses, that would be shocking. Totally.

So of course they're going to make perfect. I mean, it's like they also have been spending the whole week calibrating exactly how far the wedges go at this golf course in these conditions, in this wind. And now imagine being that good and not having making the cut because the competition is so much better. True.

Think about everything you just said was like a guy that can finish like 80 second in the same. Someone's going to, some like top 20 player, top 15 players that missed the cut. So, Rob actually said that today because I asked him on the second shot on number two we were talking and he was doing all the different adjuster to the meters

and I said, do you have to adjust pretty dramatically from Scottsdale to here? And he said, yeah, but what I like about this place that we realized early on is that this place is pretty similar to Tori and the West Coast swings that we play in terms of elevation and how the ball is going to be effect in terms of conditions. He was like the weather, the temperature, what we're going to experience this week, it's pretty similar percentage-wise to what we deal with in Tori and all that, which is very similar to where I grew up in Spain. And he's like, so I feel very comfortable in this. We don't have to make a ton of adjustments.

This is sort of like childhood growing up yardage is kind of how it feels like out here. All right, I'm a bet on John. That was like you just gave, you're like, basically it's like his home and Tori. That seems pretty good for John Rums. That seems pretty good. But yeah, that guy, he is, I'll say around town in Scottsdale, he's a beloved guy. People love him. They've said nothing but good things about him.

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All right. Dan, I saw you got into it a little bit with the superintendent turf crew Twitter. Oh, that guy is not the superintendent. That guy works for live golf. I didn't see if there were more responses. I've been doing pretty good, not reading them. Smart. But one of, yeah.

I just saw one reading. I'm kind of doing that thing. The whole internet was against you. I saw one person. The Cedar. It was my friend. I think it's Sean Rayburn, who I think might be, he's a superintendent. Sean Rehorn. Rehorn. I know that guy from Aldera. From, from Lardra. Me and Frankie were up there.

Yeah, he's friends with Joel. All I said was that the course looked like he was in bad shape. I didn't say that it was like the superintendent suck. All I said was, I was watching the, I watched a lot of live this weekend. Not really on purpose, but I kind of watched a lot of it. I love Sean. He's a good dude. He's a good follow. I like Sean. You got into it with him. And you weren't wrong. The course did. The course looked like shit. Of course looked like shit. Regardless of how like, like, you know, like. heroic it was uncontrollable.

It doesn't matter. But like they're saying like you should have seen what it would have been if these guys weren't so good. It's like sure, but like you just got belt dealt a bad hand.

Like the course just, you lost the course. The course was lost. I saw the guy looked horrific. Bunky Perkins or something, some Tulsa guy on Twitter said that it's the eighth best golf course in Tulsa. So he was like,

yeah, I don't know what you were. And that's not a shot at, just the course visually was insane. If you go on Twitter right now and you type in Tulsa Live golf course, you're going to see pictures. That one screenshot that you put up, Dan,

If they had just moved the camera up like three feet, it would have been totally fine. It was really bad framing on that guy's. Really bad. Mike McAllister. Yeah, I watched a lot of living this weekend. What did you think? So, actually, just made a video about this that just went up. Like, they have really good golfers.

That's for sure. For sure. Like, for sure, they have great golfers. But it's, man, the broadcast is just, it's just tough to get through for me because they try so hard to push this team thing because they need the team thing to succeed. And it's just. You are very out on the team thing, I notice. I think it's, I think no one cares. I, look.

It's hard to try to get people to care about the thing at all. Now it's hard to get them to care about one aspect of it. Now you're trying to get them to care about two aspects of it. Do you think that there is a way that they could do the team thing that would make it more appealing? Yes. They're just doing it wrong. They're doing it way wrong. It's like going on at the same time.

If you're going to do team golf, do team golf, do two guys on one team against two guys on another team, have them play alternate shot or best ball. The guys are high-fiving. One team is in white. One team is in black. It's very easy to watch. Now it's like the leader. board never stops moving. Some guy on 13 might make a bogey and then it goes down and you don't know if they're what holes they're on. It's just, it's a bit of a mess. And I also, yeah, I think

the way they did the team competition last year, the like season finale when it was like singles matches and you had like cam it. That was like kind of cool. That was good. That was the Miami one. That was the Miami one. If they want the team thing to work, they've got to figure out the team thing because right now it's messy and it's a distraction. The bar of Doral is where I was where I was when I found out Kobe Bryant died. Is that right? It was the Monday of Super Bowl week, like before Super Bowl week start i'm sorry the sunday before sorry troy pines i remember and tiger was out there playing so i went in

i got in a day early because we were there for super bowl week i went to hit balls at dera and then went in to have a beer and watch tiger finishes round uh and that's when the news broke so i said at that bar i was doing that i was living with robby fox at the time and we would just sit on the couch and watch tv all day and he told me and i didn't believe him for that that was a that was a no that's a tm z thing like that was a one

you reacted you like no has tried to kill little wayne like 15 times Eminem, I think, too. They get a couple of ones just really wrong. And you're like, no way. No way. I was in my New York City apartment still with my buddies. And I walked out and they were sitting in the living room. I said, Kobe Bryant just died.

And they all just stared at me. And it was a very weird feeling for me breaking that news. They're like, what? Yeah, because people like to be the news guy, but not that one. No. Like, I remember it clearly. Like Big Rob was laying down, just watching whatever. I'm like, Kobe Bryant just died.

And he sat up. And he was like, what? It's just like, what? I don't think there will... That name, you just said is impossible. There won't be a more stunning celebrity death in our lifetime, I would imagine. I don't know that there will be either. That was, that was stunning.

Yeah. He had retired that long ago. He was so beloved too. He was starting to do really cool shit. Remember he made that, like, Academy Award winning short film. Yes. Deer basketball. Yeah.

He had softened a lot because he was also kind of guy that was a bit of a dick when he was, you know, he had some problems. Oh, yeah. But people had really come around on him. He had some problems for sure. Yeah. No, he was a dictator for sure. on some of those Laker teams. Yeah.

I don't know how we got on this, but yeah. Oh, Dural. Yeah, Doreau. But, yeah, anyways, that's what I think of them. That event was great. You're right. Watching the Live one last year, that day, there was, like, one Saturday or something where I watched a lot of that, and I was like, oh, this is pretty good.

And, like, when you watch the tournament, you know, they had DJ and Cam Smith, and they're watching the broadcast, and I'm like, I just want to watch DJ and Cam Smith play a golf tournament. I don't need to know about the Stingers or the four aces making a birdie or a bogey. And then the announcement was like, the drama. about the team competition. It's like, no, your asset is these golfers. Let them play golf. I just think trying to make golf into a team sport, tennis tries tried to do it a lot with

like World Team Tennis and it just doesn't work. And they fumbled the end of the broadcast or something? Yeah, well, they had a rain delay. But it was a little bit jarring. I was watching on my TV. So what happened? Because everybody, I saw all kinds of people tweeting that like it just, they just ended it, but it was a rain delay. Yeah. So they were delayed for like two hours.

Kind of a banger show, by that. They were delayed for two hours in the final round. So when I went to the end of the broadcast window, some rerun of like a pen and teller show came on my TV. It was just like, what are, what are we doing here? Yeah, you can't do that. It happens. It happens in tour events.

Sometimes you got to go online and finish on CBS.com or, you know, it's not unique to live, but it was definitely didn't do great things for the credit. I was with you on the, on the, uh, the course conditions thing. And this is in one of the more pro course condition superintendent turf crew. I mean, Frankie's, he's done videos with these crews. I love superintendent in the world. Yeah, one of the super. Actually, you got to give him a shout.

I got my guy, Luke from Rockville. He's dialing in my grass. in my backyard. That's how fucking nice these guys are. So they're the best. He's been like, he's been hitting me with like pre-emergence. And he's like, we goes, he goes, we're going to juice. What kind of grass are you?

I don't even know anymore. It's just that he goes, he goes, when the guys come to do your backyard and like, and mow it, they're not going to believe how many bags they need because of how high this grass is going to be growing. It's going to break their blades. He said it's going to look like Tim Allen and the Santa Claus. Every time he shays, just pops right back up. If you need a grass guy.

Superintendents are good one to get. He's the best. Yes. He's the best. Having said all that, the course looked like shit on TV. Throughout the weekend. So, you know, I'm sure that superintendent might have, like you said, when dealt, the hand he was dealt, there's nothing to have done about it. Hunter Rain is what they were saying.

That's not up to us. We see, we see screenshot. We comment on screenshot. Course looked like shit. Yeah. That's just, that's the number 10 golf course in Tulsa. If you don't say it looks like shit, you're just like being nice and you're lying. Like you can't look at that and be like, that looks awesome.

It's right. It's everything that all of the arguments are ever about. It's not about the thing you're talking about. Yeah. With that where you're like, if you critique live in a way that's obvious. 100% when it's like, look, that golf course, I'm yelling. Sorry, Alex Bush. That golf course looks like shit.

And it objectively looks like shit. Yeah. They're like, no, no, no. It's like a PGA tour, shill. And that's why you're saying this. If O'Kill looks like that this weekend, I will take to Twitter and I will say, this golf course looks like shit. It's not a, it's not a live specific thing. Right.

Right. Phil Mickelson, deleted tweet from last week, I think this was. Yeah, he's been on it. I missed this. So he tweeted out, I believe this was. Was it that A. Amen? It was a general tweet.

I saw him and Aeman going out. He did some funny stuff to be fair. All right. PGA uses OWGR official world golf rankings to get in. Number 103, Tringale, number 111. Munoz. Munoz. Munoz.

It was like a little play. Yeah, that's what I thought. Number 110, Cokrack out. Number 1, 218. a hostler in colluding with Tor and against Live. So he was going on

about Taylor Gooch. And his thing with Taylor Gooch was he said he finished up with that where he said three years from now who is most likely to still be here Monaghan or Live. We won't forget you too Juan. Who's Mike Wan?

He said he tweeted that? Oh yeah and then deleted it. And then he followed this up in another tweet He said, hey, Mike, which is at Mike Juan, what about changing a rule? This was in response relatively recently. I think it was like May 5th to a tweet about the USJ being like when we make changes to our criteria. If it affects, you know, any individuals were devastated. We're trying not to let that happen, but sometimes it happens. And Phil responded to that, hey, Mike, what about changing a rule and making it retroactive to exclude someone who has already qualified?

How could Taylor Gooch not take that personal? It's a direct attack on him and his career. How does it benefit the USGA or US Open? It doesn't. Just a dick move. I don't think he's wrong with the Taylor Gouch one. The Taylor Gouch thing, because also what Mike Juan said was, because I think Golf Channel was something asked him about it,

he's like, you know, we're not going to change our criteria for one person. It's like, well, that's quite literally what you did. Yeah. So, and also, I think you deleted that tweet because Paul Casey got into the field this week. He's like number 153 and he's a live guy. The PGA of America got up to some funny stuff this week for sure with the field. they they like just invited some people I asked Joel Damon I was like how'd you get in he's like I have no idea

so I think there might be like a Netflix exemption dude because we're Joel's one of those guys I feel like like every tournament every major that we go to feels like he's potentially the first or second alternate or something so when I see him and today we saw him and he showed up at like four o'clock or something it wasn't dressed and hadn't seen the course and didn't know where he's going he didn't know how to register he's like asking drunk people how to register and part of me wanted to be like

are you in the tournament? It doesn't appear that you're in the tournament. Are you like, did you show up for a practice round and you're like the seventh alternate? I wasn't sure if he was in, but he's in? He's in. He might be a Netflix exemption. It's not quite clear what happened.

There were some guys who were ahead of him who ended up getting in, but didn't get in in the first wave. And yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess like these tournaments, they put up the purse. They can sort of invite who they want. There's been a lot of talk about meritocracy recently.

And like Webb Simpson's in the field. It's not really clear how some of the, you know, the Ryder Cup captains got in. Paul. Has it always been like, And there's just a way more... I saw Luke Donald and we meet Frankie. Oh, yeah.

We were like, Luke Donald. Do you play on the PGA tour? Yeah, not in like the big events, but... How did Luke Donald get in? They gave the Rider Cup captain's invite. So, yeah. Has it always been like this? Or is there just a microscope on this because of the whole live versus BGA?

Because there always been just like weird exemption. There's been like maybe one or two, but I think the OWGR is like fast losing credibility. And that's not a comment on whether they should, whatever. But it's like the OWGR is just not. what it used to be. It was it's not it's not like this fail safe option because you've got guys who are like Charles Howell who's like 400 in OWGR who's like been playing pretty good on live so I think they're they're starting to deviate a little bit from it not so much in the like one to 50 range but when they get to like the 70s and the 80s they're like okay this guy is better than this guy we want him in that seems

to be what's happening which would make sense yeah yeah yeah the events for the u.s. open and for the PGA and for them British Open like just let in who you think should be that really it's an eye test and what you get to one thing he wanted to go to that just the eye test like who's just better than the other guys yeah and guess what where it like where it might start to get gray at a hundred and

30th who cares right nobody care like fine let in these 20 guys over these four nobody gets that's what it was with Joel it's like we could let in Joel Damon or we could let in the guy who's a couple of spots ahead of him who isn't hugely popular and a Netflix star and so Joel Damon that's a no-brainer yeah the problem is then you know

they talk all about meritocracy and this that's a bit of a meritocracy in and of itself it's like capitalism yeah well in like general you know appeal to the event right like gravitas at the event like names there Joel Damon's a name

if you let in whoever's like maybe one spot ahead if you went by pure meritocracy of like golf then that person is not actually going to drive more value to the actual event And they're so close anyways that wipe that part out. And obviously, Joel should be here. So I think that if that's what they're doing, that's great.

The devil's advocate is like, you know, the majors should exist as this beacon of meritocracy. And it should be, you know, agnostic to your public profile. And we want these four events. Yes, there's tournaments that have sponsor exemptions and they can invite big names if they want to. But the majors should be different. Where do you stand on that one, T? I'm a headline guy. Yeah.

I really am. So I'll take Joel Damon over whoever. Yeah. I think that is a meritocracy of its own. I'm a headline guy too, but I'm thinking about the guy that's like 121 that or whatever, the guy who may have been just a little bit ahead of Joel Damon, that like doesn't get the opportunity to become Joel Damon just by like having the week of his life. So I'll tell you who it was. It was this guy. Alex Smalley was the guy.

Alex Smalley could have been the next guy. He ended up getting in because Davis Love pulled out, but Alex Smalley was ahead of Joel Damon on like basically both lists. I want to be clear that I have nothing against Alex Smaller. And you are right. That does somebody gets fucked in the process. And if it's a guy like Alex Smalley, I feel bad for that, but I for that person. but it's it only feels weird at the bottom. It's only feels weird when it's at the bottom,

but like the big names, like at the top regardless of how they're playing, like Luke Donald, however the hell that guy got in. It's weird, but he's such a big name that I just think about. But when you tell me like this guy is like one step ahead of the other guy in the rankings,

I just feel weird about like how the guy behind him got in. You know what I mean? Totally. Like something about that like final guy in. Just a weird judgment call. And then it's like, if you go by the numbers, at least there's like a.

cut and dry answer. Yeah. Whereas this way it leaves a lot more up to interpretation. But I mean, I understand what they're running a business. You got to just have the big names in. Yeah. Which they are. Yeah. You know, and one thing that, you know, we've learned, right, is that the US Open, for example, the USGA does over 90% of their annual revenue that week. Right. So they need that week to be fucking huge. Yeah. All this other stuff. All the clinics, all the grow the game stuff, all the rule books, all of the whatever. The, even the women's open, all the other events that they do, the four ball.

Shout to Ryan Whitney, the four ball. Like, all the stuff that they do, they make over 90% of their revenue as an entire organization in one week. So they need that U.S. is open to be fucking huge. They need every name there. They need the biggest ratings they can get. They need crowds. They need to sell tickets. They need that week to be massive.

And PGA of America, I believe, is very similar in that. It's like, yeah, a year when they're rider cups in the USA, obviously that helps. But otherwise, it's like the PGA championship is their thing. And that is an operation. It's an organization that they need to drive as much revenue as possible. And so if you get to this point where I'm sure they still do top 50, right? Top 50 in the world rankings get in. It went pretty far down.

But if you start getting down there and it starts to become, well, I think you can argue this guy is more, you know, deserving based on meritocracy and golf than this guy. Then like, pick the fucking guy with a bigger profile. Why wouldn't you? Yeah. The Masters tournament has like 90 people total and half of them are 90. Yeah. So it's like, I mean, we, nobody's a bunch of clubs about that. If you suffer from the symptoms of ADHD, lack of focus, no productivity, your brain is constantly wandering.

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That's properwild.com slash barstool for 30% off. You guys see a bunch of club pros out there today? Those guys are always like really trying to stay out of the way. No, we didn't see many because we were with like John Rom. Yeah, they were not playing with John Rom. No. There's 20 in the field. It's crazy.

Is that right? What's the 20? PGA a pro has ever done. I don't know. I mean, I'm sure, like, way back in the day, before there were, like, touring professionals, like, you know, Harmon, I think it was the original Claude Harmon, or maybe he was, one of the guys was the head pro at Wingfoot, and he won the U.S. Open and the Masters.

But that was, like, before there were touring professionals. Right. There's, I don't think any of them made the cut last year. There's, like, usually one or two that makes the cut. Yeah. It used to be 25. Now there's 20. Think about all, like, the members at that guy's club how crazy they go when he's, like,

starting out hot. So sick. Yeah. Like, imagine, like, our guy. Colonial, like Dan, just like in the PGA. Oh my God. I go crazy. Birdy, birdie start. People go crazy. That stuff is so cool.

But a lot of times, none of them make the cut, right? Yeah, a lot of times. Most of the time, none of them make the cut. But I agree. Those storylines are incredibly cool. And that's what, you know, like at the Masters, and they have way more amateurs than the other majors. And when those guys make the cut and make a charge, that's incredibly cool. At the U.S. Open, when you get people that qualified on their own, like Matt Cochers kid is like trying to qualify on his own and it's close.

And then they make a little bit of a run. That's extremely cool. And this is the PGA championship's version of that, obviously. It's like giving back PGA professionals teaching, growing the game of golf, literally on the, you know, the grassroots being there, boots on the ground, digging it out in the dirt. Like they're the heroes of the game. So I have no issue with that either.

It just like it gets to a point where it's like at some point, they're just going to make decisions based on who they want to be in the tournament. What are you laughing at? Well, I'm not judging or stereotyping, but there's something that makes me laugh about that guy just walk behind us. He's wearing, he's just like strolling around this, Holiday Inn Express and Suites Hotel. We're on a back patio, and he's got his camouflage shirt eyes. He has a dart in his hand.

Yeah. And he looks over at us, and we're just like, we're in front of four cameras. We've got microphones in our hands. We're sitting around this. He's got a bunch of boxes over there. What do you think that guys? Do you think that, do you think he can even, like, come up with a, like, like an idea of what this is? You know what I mean?

I think in his mind, he thinks, Pussies. Hollywood. Hollywood. Or he's just like, the TVs are here. You know what I mean? Like the TV people are here. Oh, you got to spend more time in Iowa.

I'm just like, you would see a million of those. Yeah. I know. And I know that. And I'm not saying that he's in like, he's probably living a better life than I am. He's just fucking happy,

smoking a cigarette, walking around with his wife, the whole deal. I just, I'm trying to think about what he's thinking that this is. He can't even piece together what it could possibly be. He definitely would never be able to get close to what this is. You know what I mean?

What are we doing? We're Hollywood, but we're like not. Right. Right. Express. Right, right. Right.

We're there, but we're like not. Which is kind of perfect for us. It's perfect. It's exactly right. You nailed us. I'd love to go talk to him. Like, you know what this is? Brennan, didn't some guy ask you was, was that guy asking you what the deal was?

Brennan, some guy moved a grill about 20 minutes ago. He just goes, I'm going to grill out here. I'm like, okay. Sure. Is he grilling us? He didn't ask what's going on over here anyway? No, he explained you guys professionals. I said absolutely not.

No. No, no. Absolutely not. No PGA tour player is going to be podcasting on this back patio. I don't even staying at the Express. It's possible. Nice rooms, though, actually. Yeah, pretty good.

Yeah, actually. You were right, Riggs, about the AC, the AC pumps. That's really all I need in a hotel room. Pumped AC. All I need. I also feel like I've been on a string of bad luck with hotels where the person above me is always just a rock band or just somebody who, somebody who rented the room just so they could knock into the walls and stomp their feet.

It's, I've just been, it's not even. Even like, it's not the... You're hearing any moments and grown? No, it's not that. It's just loud at weird hours. Who knows? That sounds like, you know... No.

It sounds like... Trust me, I would be telling you guys if I had a string of those. I just feel like I've been on a bad string of just the people above me are loud. So hopefully I break that streak now. Maybe I'm prude and they're just up there going to town. God bless them. God bless them.

If they are. Speaking of loud, it's golf but louder for DJ. He won on the lift tour. right? Yes. Four million dollars. Wow. I think the joke around town on the course today was that he's taking a pay cut to come play in the PJ Championship.

Yeah. Did we ever learn if, like there was rumors when the contracts came out, is it earned against their... It's an addition for sure. Okay. Yeah. Which I'm happy. That's good for them, man. Four million bucks for...

The team competition, though, is for way less money. And that money now goes back to the team fund. So it doesn't exactly go to the players. They got a slush fund? They have like a, they have, well, they have these guys. They have like GMs now, and they're trying to really make these into like teams. Because they're starting to have sponsorships and stuff. They're starting to operate like teams.

But yeah, it's also the team competition's like for like a million between four guys or I don't know what it is. Maybe it's more than that. But the solo competition is four million. So you're emphasizing the solo competition. But the team comp, it's, I think I think it's terrible, dude. I think it's really hard. It's really hard to be color versus color. It totally made sense with me.

like Thursday they need to change the whole format Thursday and Friday should be like all four guys from each team play in the same group and it's like they're rooting each other on they're trying to get as low as possible and then on the weekend it switches to like team red now mixes them with team blue and like now it's like two on two

and then right match play and maybe even like just Saturdays two on two match play and then like Sunday singles you know what I mean like this is what I'm talking about now we got to start moving the colors the colors made sense to me and that's what it was that's what it was a drill it was like One day was a best ball, team shot. The other thing was singles.

That's cool. That's easy to follow. Dude, it's a little bit what we learned for our own videos at Big Cedar where we would do on travel series. And there were great videos, but we would all play our own ball. And it's like, all right, this is good. But then we started doing alternate shot videos and it's way better. Yeah.

It's like, all right, now we're invested. Now I'm rooting on Lurch. And now, you know, people are high five and it's going. It could be a lot more like that. Right now it's, yeah, it's too focused on the singular. And just the team thing is in the background. Couldn't have said it better myself. I completely agree.

How do you feel about the colors, Dan? I like when they wear white and black. That's all they wear for you, right? Oh, right. I forget. I've actually, we've come along so much that I forgot that you were colorblind. Yeah, you know, I make too. I forget a lot, too, and then you'll make comments assuming that I remembered,

and I'll realize later that it was a funny comment. In the moment, I'm like, what's wrong with that guy? Because right now you're wearing a very colorful outfit. That hat, that Barstlese sports hat is colorful, though, isn't it? Yeah. Just black. And your shoes are, they're colorful. Yeah.

You look great. But you could argue that he wears, like, if he's wearing a ridiculously colorful outfit, he doesn't know that it's colorful. No, yeah, right. But you guys overestimate how colorblind I am. I think we do too. I don't know, dude. I don't see black and white.

I've shown you why. You're living in Pleasantville, pal. That belt was a tough scene. Remember when you asked me for a blue belt and my hand it to you, you're like, this is brown? No, I did just ask for any belt. You're like, I just got this blue one. And I looked at Bush and I was like, it was not blue. Uh, is he, did he give me the right one?

Right. To us you're living in Charlie Chaplin's world. Yeah, exactly. That guy doesn't know what from what. I have to give a big shot to Jason Day. Oh yeah. Yeah. Funny history we have with Jason Day.

Uh, might have been 2017, 18. I was going to be older, actually. He was asked in a, it used to be like the intro, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. He was asked at a press conference at the, I believe it was the Pable AT&T, Pebble Beach Pro Am. He was asked at a press conference, something along the lines of like, hey, Jason, what, you know, there's been a lot of talk lately about golf kind of moving forward, becoming more popular. What do you think golf could kind of do? And he out of the clouds was like, you know, I think what media outlets like Barstool Sports are doing is the future.

And he went on for like a minute and a half. He might even talk about like he's got the app on his phone. Yes. Like, it was pretty wild. And like, and we've never talked to him. We had no previous relationship with him. We've never had any relationship with him. Coins. Any communication with them?

Why do you have coins in your pocket? I bought a butterfinger and a water at the front and there was a little miscommunication with the credit card and the company paying for it. And I already had the butterfinger in the water. And she was like, since we're figuring out this mixup, I actually can't charge it to the room. She started to slowly take the butterfinger away. And I said, I got cash. This butterfinger's coming to my room. So I paid $4.50 or whatever. You got dimes and nickels You stabbed the knife Did you eat it already? I think it was gone It barely got to the room Said don't touch that butter finger

That butter finger barely got to the room What's the butter finger saying? Oh, what is the butterfinger saying? Come on Oh wow I'm getting old man Damn that's gonna bother me But yeah no Jason Day

We've had no interaction with him Before that comment Or since But congrats to him man I love Jason day It's good to see him back On the top of the mountain Jason Day. I like Jason Day. I like Jason Day. We talked about how Jason Day clearly has

some darkness in him. He's spoken a lot about that, the way he grew up. Yeah. All that. We said, I like an alcoholic guy. He was like an alcoholic guy, like age 12 or 13. Was it? Was he was or his dad was? No, he had some issues. Okay. Yeah. He was like a golf prodig. And there were some issues. And obviously, like his mom passed away. And obviously, like his mom So yeah, then in the last few years, his mom got sick. He got injured while this was all going on. His mom passed away who was like his, I mean, Yeah, took him everywhere, sacrificed everything to get him to golf tournaments and helped the rise of careers. So they're incredibly close. So we've been through all kinds of stuff. It's been over five years. Comes back.

Wins yesterday. That stuff's all great. The best part about all that is I had them at plus 700 yesterday morning on the Barclos Sportsbook app. I woke up. I looked at that leaderboard. I saw three names that aren't the biggest household names in the world of golf. And then two strokes behind them was Scotty Schaeffler and Jason Day, who were just two shots back. Jason Day was plus 700.

Put, I think, $350 on it, which I've got some cash in the old bank account because of Mr. Rice, who's been just propelling me through the playoffs and in itch hockey. So I put $350 on him to win like $2,800. So Jason Day coming down the stretch as good as a kid. So he's been trending. He has been trending. Just been like what Kirk had him at the waste management. Yeah, Kirk was going around before we even did the gambling show that he and I do.

Kirk was going around whispering to people Jason Day this week. So I put money on them top five. Remember a bunch of people missed putts down the stretch So we didn't end up getting dead heat. Right. Which was nice. So one with them on top five there and then won a good amount with him. So I'm Jason Day.

Congratulations to him. Very emotional. Dash Day when they cut to Dash Day. Unit. And Dash Day wasn't a fucking three-year-old. No. I was blown away. He's like a teenager.

He really has grown up. I was stunned. I saw people tweeting a little bit about it and I hadn't seen the clip. And then I saw it and I was like, they're right. That he's an adult now. He was going nuts for his dad, which was so cool to see that's like Charlie and Tiger. That reminded me so much of that. That gives me a little tears when that happens.

Definitely. The kid wasn't just like, oh, yeah, daddy, he's at work and playing golf. Das was going nuts when he made the put on the 72nd hole. So I thought that was really cool. So, yeah, great finish. I looked up at Google Jason Day alcohol, and the answer is both. One of the headlines is Jason Day was beaten by his alcoholic dad and got his first club from the dump. And then the second one is Jason began abusing alcohol age 12 and getting into fights in school.

His mother, fearful of losing him to the streets, sold their home and borrowed money from relatives to send him to Coralbin International School, eight hours south of Rockhampton where they lived. Holy so much. Yeah, he's just got a little, little edge to him. Yeah. And he seems like the nicest guy in the world. And I'm sure that he. And I love watching him put. They get those worm cams where they're right behind and he's just as peers.

What do you love about it? Chris Como, right? Yeah, Chris Como. Yeah. He went to Chris Como who used to coach Bryce and basically said like, the swing that I have right now is really fucking up my back. Remember, he couldn't play more than like a couple of events. Yeah.

And now I think him in Como, I've worked on a swing that is way less harmful on his back. He's got his vertigo under control. He's got that too. Yeah. He passed out on the 17th hole of the US Open. Yeah, he was like going crazy. That wasn't a collapse. Yeah, that wasn't great for the whole like golfer athlete thing.

But he's been eating better. He said he's got under control. Yeah, I just, I love how low we keep. We need somebody's got some baggage, man. Yeah. He's got baggage. People who go through things, they're easier to root for me. Totally.

He's got a softish in his eyes. You know something I've never been to that I really, really, really, really want to go to at some point. Look, we're at an event this week. We're talking about it. This entire show, we're all hyped up about it. Going to events is amazing. I want to go to a NASCAR race. NASCAR races are a time, man.

You've been to one? Yeah, I've been to Talladega. We've been to Daytona. Talladega. Yeah. Wow. I had a, I had a, my car, my name was on a car. Oh, right.

I remember that. You guys, right. It was crazy. You guys had an advertising. Yeah, that's cool. All right, Frankie. crash. They crashed and they had to take it off with the toe. It's one of the funniest clips of all time. After like 30, after 30 laps, it was just completely crunched.

And it was just, it was on the back of a flatbed truck. See ya. Just being fucking shipped off into wherever they were going to dump that thing off in a dump. But you took one of the great pictures of Dave Portno at a NASCAR race, right? Is that that that truck with the American flag? That picture is insane. It's insane picture. We took Uber Debbie to a NASCAR event. That's right. her getting into a car.

My life's been pretty crazy leading up to this whole golf thing that we've been doing. Yeah. This car was part of it. Daytona and Talladega was one of the craziest weekends of my life. You go there, you stay there. It's like a bachelor party scene. Yeah. It felt like the night of the living dead.

It was like fires going on and it was nuts. But the actual race is so much fun. Once you're there, obviously when you're watching on TV, once you're there, though, you can't keep your eyes off it. Yeah. The guys are going fast, and that's like all that matters. They're going fast. And you're like watching them come in.

You're like really paying attention. NASCAR is really, really fun. Upcoming race, NASCAR All-Star Race, North Wilkesboro Speedway, May 21st at 8 p.m. Eastern live on Fox Sports 1. NASCAR returns to one of its original tracks. This is the 75th anniversary of NASCAR. Didn't know that. Chicago Street Race July 2nd at 5.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So again, reminder, the next race, May 21st,

8 p.m. Eastern on FS1, the All-Star Race from NASCAR. Nobody better lay a finger on my butterfinger. I was picturing Bart Simpson. Because I think he used to be part of the spokes. He was like a spokesman for Butterfinger. What was it? Nobody better let her lay a finger on my Butterfinger. Okay.

It's mouthy. It's the tagline for Butterfinger. Really good candy bar. Get stuck in your teeth. Not in my top five. Get stuck in your teeth, but like you save. little bit for later. Not in my top five.

Not anywhere close. No, we heard you. I'm huge Kit Kat guy. What's your top? All right. Let's hear the top five. Off the top of the dome. Speaking of before we get to that,

the Kit Kat, you ran the Zurich, classic out of Kit Katz. They had little jars laying around. And he was just rifling through, getting the Kit Katz. What was that, what was that fine lady's name

that was behind the counter who stashed a few away and would hand me one each day? We walked in there. I'm not going to remember to remember. I can't remember her name. What an angel she was. I ran them out of Kit Katz.

They had a bull. bowl, right? It was like a Halloween ball. It was like, had a bunch of different assortments. Bight size. And I picked out a handful of Kit Katz like the first day. They were just the bite size. Yeah, the two bars. And then the next day I went in there, they're all gone. And she pulled one out from behind the thing. She goes, we were waiting for you. Here you go. And he gave me a little Kit Kat. Mr. Kitt. We don't have to do your top five. What's your number one? What's your number one? I'm a Heathbar guy. you guys like Nestle Crunch yeah I like bunch of crunch bunch of crunch is great in popcorn see I don't like

put them in the popcorn that's chaos just don't fuck around my popcorn I love popcorn I actually when I'm in the mood for popcorn I go to the movies that's not the other way around

yeah yeah but like when I want popcorn I'm like that's going to movies tonight I should buy a fucking ticket Jeffty Lowe used to do that I did I live across the street AMC's now delivering popcorn I lived across the street

in the East Village from a movie theater and my buddy's and I would, who I lived with, if we were wanting popcorn, we would just go and grab the popcorn. I did that for the Game of Thrones finale. And I was so nervous.

It was raining. New York City, went to the place in Midtown, went to AMC, and I faked a phone call. So I got the popcorn. And I go, hold on. I think my friends,

like, outside, they can't find the movie theater. So I actually got, I brought the popcorn. They can't see the illuminated AMC sign out front. I said, they can't find the movie theater. So I walked outside,

and then I sprinted. And it was raining. And I, put the umbrella over the popcorn and walked and you steal the popcorn? No, no, no, I paid for it. I'm like holding on to it. I was like, hold, I think. You ever had

Butterfinger BBs? Nope. That is like, no, go ahead. There's something about chocolate and popcorn when you have you have one bite of a bunch of crunch or cookie dough bites. Cookie dough bites is number one. When you put cookie dough bites in your mouth, you take a couple bites and then you grab

a handful of popcorn, something about that salty and sweet combo. It's like It's like your, it's like your body was built. It's like, it's like drugs. You know what I mean? Like, you know, like some people say like cocaine, like your brain like like was built to like accept this. Right. Like I think that was in succession last night.

Well, it was in succession. But, um, great show. It's like something about your body's like, yeah. I think like when you do that combo, it's like, holy shit, we just did something. This combo is like real. The most stunning thing about you is that you're not a weed guy. Yeah, no. You talk about space.

the time and you just yelled in the Alex Bush's ear about how when you eat popcorn and then chocolate, it just explodes your brain. Not a weed guy. It just fucking happens, man, where it's like, we've been waiting for this. All right. Yeah, that sounds good. It's so good. But I figure BBs are good. A bunch of crunch.

Okay. And cookie dough bites. All right. You've have cookie no bites? Yeah. Three musketeers after it's been in the freezer? I like three musketeers. Three musketeers is a really good one.

Milky Way is in my top five. Yeah, those two are by both in my top five. It's very nugety. Milky weather's nothing. It's too airy for me. I love it. I'm not getting enough. I love it.

Here's a super airy. It's just like. Yeah, those two, I'm not, I'm not a huge fan of it. I like the airiness, I think. Butterfinger, Heathbar. And I'm a baby Ruth. I'm a baby Ruth guy. A lot of peanuts.

I'm just not a peanut guy. Well, you are or aren't? I am. You are. Right, right, right. It's dry. It's a dry candy bar. You feel like you're coughing up sand.

Oh, you know what? throw down a bunch of is just Hershey bars with almonds. Oh, oh, baby, can I buck that up? That's like a fast ball. Not a lot of frill, just 100 miles per hour.

Really good. Hershey kiss during a Christmas time. Really good. Also, if you're eating popcorn at home and you have those little mini Hershey bars wrapped individually and you pop one in your mouth and you go a whole bag of fucking popcorn. It's like cocaine.

Oh, your body's like, do everything Frankie says after six ball rips. And you're going to be living. You're saying some drugs make you feel like your brain has always needed it. Like that feeling I have when I have chocolate. When I have chocolate and popcorn, there's a feeling that I get that unlock something where it's like, whoa. I mean, a couple of us can't. My experience with weed, food is, it changes.

It's like if you told me that I couldn't eat, I don't think I would get high. I agree. You know what I mean? I totally agree. It's like that's the main event. It's like you and you're in the mood for popcorn. I'm in the mood to eat. I get high.

You can't. You can't believe how great it is. You're like, you've been eating food for 29 years. And you're like, I kind of get it. Yeah. I know what's going on. No, you know. You got no idea. You got no clue.

You actually don't. It's worth it just for that. You've never spoke to me before. Yeah. If you like dabble at parties, you have like, you take a couple of hits. Some of these pens that are walking around these kids. But it's when you become an adult. I'm not like sitting there getting high.

I don't think I've ever gotten high. Yeah, as an adult, when it's less at the party, you're just kind of at home on a Friday night. You're just like, I'm just going to relax. I don't think I've ever gotten high. And you just, and you do it. And you, the food, yeah, the food is a game changer. Talk about the video that would do numbies.

Just me getting high. Frank, right. You're just getting absolutely blasting. The shit, the shit you would say. Oh, come on. You ever think about, you ever think about? You wouldn't, dude, he wouldn't be able to get anything out. It would be 45 minutes of, you guys don't understand what I'm trying to say.

It's, it can send you like, the paranoia's real. It's so there are like the next like get back album, but who knows what that happens to my brain. Right. Yeah, I mean, the Beatles, they went through their era. It was, you know, twist and shout and love me do. And then it was rubber soul. Yeah. That's some deep Beatles knowledge.

I didn't know about the different stages. There are. There's the, well, I'll be, no, it's. Well, they went to India. Right. They did the India trip and then, I mean, before it was all like, you know, Love Me Do. And then they got into, I don't know the full. hallucinogens, right? Yeah, they did LSD.

Fucking Sergeant Pepper. I think they talked about. Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan getting them into weed. And then they did LSD. And there's all these albums like Rubber Soul. What's the one I can't think of? Revolver. I guess Revolver is the LSD album.

Rubber Soul is the weed album. I don't know if this is accurate. it. There's Beatles fans furious at me right now. You can hear the difference. But I lived with Robbie Fox. I'll hear from her on this, but I bet you're probably pretty I think you're probably pretty dog. It's something that the music changed for sure. Yeah. And their beard's got way longer.

John Lennon looked like a homeless guy. It's great. The music is all great. And when it's, it's just different stages of it. But Frankie's weed phase, we might have to enter that at some point. That'd be great. That'd be great. Wow. I'm singing about popcorn and cookie dough bites.

I'm hungry. This was about the part of the show. going to order Uber Eats to meet me here. There's a Buffalo Wild Wings across the street, actually. I don't know if I happen in me to go over there. How across the street is it? I think it's like right across the street. Yeah, it's walking. Wow.

Are we doing for the cut this week? We hit last week. We did. We needed that. That's why I brought it up. We're on fire right now. We didn't talk much about it. Two is a winning streak, and that's happened before.

We didn't talk much about it, but I would say that that losing streak was three months long. It was really, well, we started off insanely hot, unsustainly. unsustainably hot. We hit like an 800. Yeah. And then we lost about 10 in a row. How do you drop your glasses? I don't know.

Should I put them on the table? Maybe seven times. Seven, seven at least. I'll put them on the table. After the third time, you're like, I'm not going to drop these glasses again. What are you listening to on a road trip when you're driving six hours? Dan Carlin, hardcore history. Oh, okay.

Yeah. That's good. I was really deep. I was into Supernova and East about the Japan-China War. I've done that one yet. Japanese culture is something else. In one way? Just.

they just are very committed to things. Discipline. Very disciplined. There's these stories, basically the series opens with a story about a guy who was discovered in 1975 still fighting the war. I've heard that story. He was on some island and he was told that you can only stop fighting when your commander

tells you to stop. So they knew that there were people out there and they would send like newspapers and stuff saying the war was over and he thought it was the enemy trying to play tricks on him. So they had to listen to this. They had to go get. a fucking guy, his commander who was a teacher who had been out of the military for like 50 years

and they said, hey, we need you. And they brought him over and he said, okay, you're done and then the guy stopped. That's serious discipline. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, he was like attacking people. Yeah, no, he like killed eight people in the village. Right. Oh my God. He was like, these are the enemy. Yes. And I'm not

leaving this post till somebody tells me I can leave his post. Until this guy tells me. I was like specifically this. Yes. Yes. I kind of get the newspaper thing. years. The newspaper thing it's like, that's propaganda. Oh, it's over.

Nice try. We all believe that that it's really over. So. That's interesting. Yeah, I'm not a huge music guy. I like a podcast a lot. You're not a big music guy? Not really.

That's interesting. Yeah. I've been driving recently and picturing either a meteor or like a nuclear bomb coming down in my, in my viewpoint. And like what that would do, like what that would feel like to do? What would you do? If you guys, you guys have never, ever, ever thought about that. That's why he doesn't.

Wait, wait, it's so specific. Just like... Thought about a meteorite? What do it look like if you saw something just peek out of the sky right now and you're like, holy shit? You know what I mean? There's all these talks about nuclear bombs now. And it's just like one of these days, it might just pop out. Yeah, I guess under...

My thought is that... The way that it plays out in my head is that we would know about it and would be like, oh my gosh, it's on Twitter. Do you get the countdown? No, I don't actually. Even more than the realistic version is probably no. You think you'd open Twitter? right away. You saw a meter come in your way? I don't. Is this real? Let me see if

this is. Oh, yeah. People are talking about it. Next time I'm retweeted. I need Twitter.com to confirm that the world's coming to an end. All right. I'm going to go. With a cut, baby. Let's do it. I'm going to go first. Bryson DeShambo. Wow. Okay. Why not? Okay.

So I'm out there today, slim down. Yeah, very slim down. Very slim. Played nice last week. He what? Yeah, he played good last week. There you go. So I'm going with Bryson. Mostly because that's a name that people did not expect to hear. So I'm going to go. I like it. I'm going to go.

I'm going to go with that one. I'm going Chris Kirk. Okay. That's my answer. Guys got to win this year? Guys have a win this year. Silky, silky tempo. Tommy Fleetwood.

Yay. Okay. I saw him. I played Hudson National this past weekend. He was staying up there. Oh, you saw him? Yeah, he was with his caddy and his manager slash wife's son. He was playing golf.

Chit chat with him? Yeah, definitely chit chit out with him. Seem in good spirits? He seemed in great spirits. At peace? At peace got here on Saturday. Come on. So, good pick.

I like that guy. You know who I'm going to go? can't do it that was an I'm gonna stall voice no I had the guy but he's he's not gonna make a cut now I want to know who that guy is it's that tiny little fella it's Brian Harmon

and I just don't know if I want to do it I just it's just a long golf course I don't like I don't like Brian Harmon this week I don't like him but it'll juice the odds it'll juice the odds I know and I keep picking him and he keeps 12,500 to one to win but I know

no I don't think so guys I don't think so I don't think so. I think we're going to try and keep this winning streak alive. And with that, I'm going to go with Adam Scott. Okay. Yeah. 16 cuts in a row. 16 cuts in a row.

You know, I was looking for it yesterday. Yeah. Great charge yesterday. I saw you tweeting a lot about him. Yep. Thursday I was all over it. So he's just been in my brain. I tried to put the screen up Brian Harmon.

Just one of these days I'll pick him and he'll win. Okay. All right. Bryson DeShambo. Chris Kirk. Adam Scott. Not the actor. Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy we have our event tomorrow at irondicooy

Rhonda Coit oh you say the tea at the end I think that's the way honestly I mean I've lived here half my no three-fourths of my life but yeah This guy's the mayor. So you're just telling us to Ryan Arandicoit. So is that name come from like Native Americans? Yes So do you think they you don't think you think they said the tea? I mean I didn't really know them first time I went to August that we stayed in and up a place called Martinez, Georgia.

So someone asked me, where are you staying? And I said, Martinez. I'm from California. Very familiar. They said, no, no, no, it's Martinus. I said, no, it's definitely Martinez. Right.

Here's the thing, Alex Bush. Up here, it might be Aranda Coit. But I don't know if that's the right. Yeah, but it's up here. So. Oh, what? I think. This guy is on something this week.

All right. Aranda Coit Country Club. Yeah. Not golf club, country club. Fantastic. Donald Ross track. We drove through it today. Who was the pro that drove us through?

Ben. Ben, Ben Wilson. Ben Wilson, nicest guy of all time. So nice. We met all of his people, all of his people, all the guys that work at around to Coit. Underlings. Underlings.

Couldn't have been a nicer crew of guys. It's right there, right there. They literally have a entrance. Did you guys use it today? Yeah. They let you bring your bags and stuff? Yeah, you can bring it. It's really cool.

We brought cameras. Somebody on the 14th hole in our tournament tomorrow. We'll hit one into the PGA championship. Definitely. Is that the 14? Right there. Yeah. Yeah.

If you just slice one a little bit right, it's not like there's a bit, a barrier or wooded it. There's no like road or anything in between. It's just a tree line and you're in a different fairway. That fairway is stunning. It's stunningly close. Yeah.

That's sick. Yeah. Right next door. So we're excited for that. It's a two man scramble that we're doing tomorrow. Two man scramble. That's going to be great. We saw the trophy.

It's really cool. Taylor. I got Taylor. Taylor. Hey. Did you see the trophy? Did you see the trophy? No.

Dude, it's cool. Really? It's like this wooden trophy that's a huge tea. Like a golf tea, but the way it's, it's really cool. So there's a wooden base that's long and lean, and then there's a tea that sits on top of it. It's cool. It's fucking cool, man. It looks like you're being presented a sword, but it's like a golf sword.

But it's like a golf sword because the tea. Yeah. Whoever wins is going to have a really cool thing to display. So I think we nailed that.