Fore Play - “Stealing good golf balls at the range is fine, right?”

Episode Date: April 17, 2018

It's Riggs, Frankie, and Trent breaking down headlines and taking From The Galleries this week. Is it okay to steal good balls from the driving range? What's the single golf shot we have the least confidence in hitting? What're our thoughts on Patrick Reed and the media breaking down his family situation? How was Bethpage Black on opening day? Is Riggs a jerk for rocking a giant golf umbrella on the New York sidewalks? It's this and MUCH more, including many stories from Mr. Gary Player himself during Masters Week.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. On this week's show, we have got myself, Trent and Frankie Burrow, the pizza maker in the house. We're breaking down all sorts of headlines. We got Patrick Reed to fallout about his family. After winning the Masters, we've got audio from many of the stories that we heard from Mr. Gary Player himself down in Augusta during Masters week. We also jump into a bunch of from the galleries. We talk about the golf shot that you have the least amount of confidence in hitting.

We talk about stealing ProV-1s when you find them at the driving range, all kinds of other good stuff. Stick with us here on this episode of Foreplay. Folks, have you ever been inside of a Bass Pro shops? How about a Cabela's? Now, look, I'm a St. Louis guy. I'm a Missouri guy. Trent and I are both big Midwestern guys.

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We welcome in from Barstool Sports. Riggs and Trent. Guys, welcome to the show. Four play presented by Bar Stools Sports. We've got the whole gang. It's myself. It's Frankie. It's Trent, Slim, Slim Daddy, Trent. Hello.

We're all here. We got an interesting show. Last time we were together, we were chatting about the Masters. It was Sunday night. It was right after things had concluded. We did just a knee-jerk podcast, get all our thoughts out there, kind of just firing from the hip. We've had over a week now to kind of, you know, let everything settle in, recoup, figure out where we're at in life with our golf games, with our golf thoughts, all that.

The weather sort of started to turn, but then it went back to shit today. We had two days in the 70s here in the New York area, which is nice. It's looking like it's going to be consistently now, like over 50 degrees, which is kind of like you're getting there. Turn in that corner a little bit. I got out this weekend, played Beth Page Black. Opening day. Went to Borrellys afterwards. Hung out with Frankie for a little bit.

Mr. Borrelli, the absolute goddamn legend of me. self just came bopping out of the kitchen with the biggest smile on his face. When he heard you guys are coming, it changed his day. I actually think he was leaving. I think he canceled dinner plans with my mom. Oh, yeah. He's got like abs for us coming out of his freaking fingers. It's got it.

It was great day. Beth Page Black, again, this is the second time I ever played it. We did a full breakdown here. One time Frankie's got the spot on the 11th, I believe, the famous spot that you got. Yeah, walking from the T-box to the fairway. Yeah, that little sliver. Yeah, it's when Derek Jeter hit the 3000th hit, and I lied for about, I'd say a good five or six years that I saw the hit. Turns out I didn't.

I was on the 11th in between the T-box and the fairway, and that is where it feels like all of the grass overcomes you, and it feels like you're getting overtaken by the Bethpage Black for me. Like Maximus and Gladiator. Correct. So I was out there, second time, played with a couple buddies on Saturday. It was awesome. It was like 70 degrees out. Just absolutely perfect.

Again, opening day, so they just kind of been getting it ready. It was in mint shape for this time of year. Everywhere else, like dog shit greens, tea boxes are all chewed up. This was just, they've been saving it. They've been waiting. Amazing way that I got the tea time, by the way. So Bethpage Black, for anybody that doesn't know, you know, they get all kinds of restrictions on, like, when you can book tea times and stuff,

especially for non-residents. I'm technically non-resident. I don't have, like, a New York State ID. They're pretty strict about that. But they have, like, a new online system now this year. So five days before you can start booking. It's like the forecast was legit for like 76 degrees in sunny on Saturday. It hasn't been above like 45 all year.

So I start looking on like Tuesday. I start looking for tea time, nothing until 3.30. Like, damn it. It's the worst feeling. Damn it. That's all we wanted to do is go play. Beth page. We're like so excited to do.

It's the only thing we can think about all these other options like Trump Ferry Point, which is the other like good public or like, you know, solid, whatever public one that we know about. They had just aerated their greens. We're like, we don't want to go there. Blah, blah, blah. So I'm like, boys, I'm going to do a refresh this. I'm just going to sit here for a couple days.

I'm going to refresh it every time I get the shed. For a couple days. Just going to bake this into my schedule. I'm going to shower. I'm going to brush my teeth. I'm going to press refresh. I'm going to get ready. I'm going to press refresh.

You guys are laughing. But I made it. As he's showering, you just see outside of the shower, just a little finger comes out and just hits refresh. And as he keeps doing it, just slowly keeps getting closer. I'm not kidding. I had a tab open on my whole operation when I'm blogging all day, and I would go to it like every couple minutes and just refresh the tea time. It doesn't have popped up.

I didn't know if this was actually a legitimate system, if this would even work, whatever. But I got a little bit of hope on like Tuesday night. I get, I look, and there's a 957 tea time pops up, but it's just for one person. We're a for some. So I was like, I mean, people are canceling. That's just proof that it works. It works. Otherwise you're driving yourself crazy.

So we're still sitting there. We're like, what are we going to do? Where should we go? Blah, blah, blah. I, I, I'm sitting there Wednesday night at the apartment. It's like 9.50 at night. We're watching a little hockey. Hit the refresh.

Bam. 1248 p.m. 4some pops up. That's un-thucking-believable. Just snap book it. Like Wednesday night, text the boys of like, we got a T-time, 1248. Go crazy. Couldn't have worked out better.

You can't answer a better time coming from the city, too. It takes you guys some time to get out to the Long Island, and you want to, like, hit the range, maybe. You want to go check out the pro shop. 1248, maybe the best T-tie-te-te-te-te-old. maybe the best tea time. It was such a nice day. All time. It was one of those days, too. We knew on Wednesday night that Saturday was going to be the best day of the year, and it was. We took like the 10-15 train, got out there around 11, like a short Uber from the, what is it, Farmingdale Station. Short Uber from there, like 8-minute Uber, we're there at like 1130. We don't tee off till 1248.

We hit some balls. We went to the bar, got a couple cocktails, teed off. It was just. You had a day before 12-30, and then you just go and. play the Bethpage Black. The day was awesome and we hadn't even play golf yet. And then we play golf. Then we go meet you at Borrellys. What's crazy about the Bethpage Black is me growing up playing in Bethpage Black. It was always this thing that surrounded this golf course. It's like, oh, you can't play the Bethpage Black. You just can't get tea times there. You got to like, there was all these stories. You got to go like full asleep outside. Everybody always says that. You got to live at the

course for like a month. You got to sleep. Oh, you're trying to play Wednesday. Good luck showing up Monday night and like staying in your car. It's like, so, so. So, so. people just like they don't like go to work for a week when you go play a golf course it doesn't make any sense and you hear these horror stories about it and every time i go there i always just seem to find like a tea time like i'll go up as a single and i'll get on there but but to hear that a foursome just pops up out of nowhere that has to be the first time that's ever happened on especially opening day i think the the online system i think is new i think you always had to call right you do have to call usually it's like a week before so like let's say you want to call for next

Tuesday you have to call the Tuesday before. That's when that Tuesday opens. It's always a week and the day. You might be letting out a little bit of a secret now that it's all online. I mean, these times go quickly anyways, so it's not like. But you don't have to wait in your car anymore. You can just keep a tab open and press refresh every time you... Apparently, that's the dilly.

So it worked out great. Got out there. I want to say I played well, but I was... Last time we were there, I played really well. And I was all jacked up, and I finished double par double. to shoot like 84 or something and I was like I really want to try to break 80 this time I'm standing I'm standing on the 17th T and I'm nine over it's par 71 so I'm like all right I go par on 17 and 18's kind of give myself a birdie pot on 18 and to shoot 70s not the

hardest hole either not the hardest hole in the world I bogey 17 top my three one on 18 T make double oh just came limping in like such a virgin into the clubhouse it's all about the t t-shin 18 I and I was like I'm so mindful fuck them that teach i don't know what to do last time i had my driver in the right bunkers made double this time i'm like i'm gonna put i'm gonna be crafty and pull a three wood and i like wasn't coming just cold topped it and do you know how the uh what is it the red course tea that's right next to that one yeah it's the first hole right or is it there's a teabox that's like right 18 t box got it got it got it and like right after we teed off a couple stewies rolled up

oh that's rigs what's up and then they see me like 10 feet later i pull out my hit my second shot from like five feet in front of the women's teabrocks devastating. Just completely devastating. Fun fact, I eagled from the bunker on 18. That's right. I mean, every time you talk about 18, I talk about that. It's good. Hold out. Hold out. Very lucky shot. Yep.

So we got a big show today. We're going to go through some headlines and stuff. But the beauty of this is that the tournament this past weekend, I don't think we could have possibly cared about it less. So we don't have to talk about that that much. We've got a ton of from the galleries to get to, which we haven't done in a long time. We got like six or seven really good ones. But I do want to hit a couple things on the RBC Heritage. First thing, classic golf coverage here.

So they bumped the tee times up yesterday for the final round, you know, like five hours up or something because the rain's coming in. Yep. And everybody, I mean, everybody's got push notifications on their phone. If you're like a golf guy that's following the tour, you know how your certain guys are doing, you know, you know how the leaderboard's shaking up. You can check your app, whatever. So they teed off at whatever. Leaders might have teed off at like 10 o'clock or something like that, 10.30. And then they start the live coverage started at like one, but they started at taped deluxe.

laid. So I'm looking on my phone and it's like these guys are on 13. I'm looking on the TV. It's like Ian Polder's T and off. That's impossible. What do you guys do? In the year 2018, it's impossible to do. It's so dumb.

They've done this before though, and they don't know how to rectify it because they just keep doing it. I can't even imagine what the ratings were like for Sunday's round. Like the TV ratings, nobody watched that tournament. Nobody's going to probably watch the RBC Heritage New Way. But if somebody looked at their phone was like, oh, the leaders are on 13 and I'm watching Pultor T off on 1. I'm not watching this. dumb brain movies. It's insane. And to happen the week after the

Masters, when you know that you have something to live up to, everyone's like, oh, the RBC Heritage is coming up. Like, oh, we're going to go watch Harbor Town. It's like, come on, dude. The Masters just ended. We talked about this last week. I know. I wish this tournament were a different week, because I like this golf course. Harbor Town's awesome. That that

sick finishing stretch with the lighthouse. The Lighthouse, yeah. It's awesome. It's a really cool course. Pete Dye Track. The guys rave about it. It's a lot more like Target golfy, and there's like, there's lot of water and it's just it's a really interesting track i mean you can't go from i'm watching you tell me i'm watching patrick rickie fowler jordan speed rip each other's like throats out down the stretch of the back nine at augusta playing for the masters and then i'm watching

fucking siwu kim on tape delay 10 a m on tape delay sorry see woo but i am not fucking around with that shit and hilton head like what are you talking about i'm not watching well so the idea is that they've what they've sold all this advertising for the for the coverage so they have to show like live tournaments. Probably. What they should do is they should show the coverage live and then show like tin cup for the last like couple hours. That's going to rate higher than, you know, tape delayed RBC heritage ship.

Totally. So there was like a live playoff going on. These guys ended up going to like the third playoff hole. There was like a playoff going on that they just weren't showing. You just like couldn't get it. So it was weird. I don't know if they ended up switching over to it at some point or like fast forward it to it. I don't really know how they dealt with that.

I checked out at like noon. I was like, fuck these people. I'm not doing this. So it's kind of a weird thing. Again, we had Satoshi Kadira who defeated Siwu Kim. Again, I don't think those two names are drawn any eyeballs. So not too crazy about that. Again, it's a big step down from what we had last week.

I think everybody's aware of that. About as big of a step down as you can get. All the factors played into where it's like, oh, that's about as low as it can get when you come from Augusta. Yeah. Guys like Gus, we're not going to sit here and pretend like that was like the most riveting thing we've seen on TV on here. Well, and part of it was that Polter was in contention. And people were tweeting me like, oh, and are we going to watch Polter? It's like, no, we don't get to because any shit the bat.

Once he fell off a little bit, I was like, I'm out of here. Check you later. So, yeah, that was going on with the tour. We've got the Valero, Texas open this week, and then the Zurich Classic. Next week, the team event, they implemented walk-up songs this year. We haven't talked about this. And I would actually like to hear your opinion first on how you think that's going to go. The walk-up songs?

Do you think adding walk-up music to golf goes? fine, you know, whatever. I think it's going to be, like, awkward. I don't think it's... I think they've... We always talk about on this podcast, how we want golf to grow and kind of embrace the younger demographic. I think this is them trying to do that, but not doing it in the right way.

I think walk-up music is going to be very awkward. Very awkward. Yeah, I mean, you know, in theory, it would create this really kind of electric, like, first-te environment where the crowd's into it. But, I mean, you're going to get this, like, like, kind of like, the bougie golf crowd, like, knowing all the different tunes and, like, dance. and singing to it. What are you talking about?

Are people going to like swag walk onto the T-box? Like if you find a beat that you like, are you going to like kind of shimmy onto the T-box? How awkward is that going to be? Which, imagine like Justin Thomas out there in his polo gear like shimmy and up to the T and stuff to be like, what is going on? I can see him coming out to like fucking some instrumental from like the 1700s. And so no one can get in. No one gets rowdy.

It's like everyone calm down. This is just another day of work. Justin Thomas plays a white noise machine. Everybody just everybody. What is that noise? It's like, oh, this is the noise to the Pacific Ocean that Justin Thomas goes to sleep to. He plays like Niagara Falls. You just hear just waterfalls?

What the fuck is that? Like I said, I think it's going to be weird. Zer Classic did cool. The team event is awesome. But the walk-up music is just. You're going to get those guys that are going to try and act way too cool. All of a sudden, you're going to hear like Fettywap. It's going to be like, what's going to be like an old white guy coming up like, hey, it's Fetty Wopper.

Like, I'm just here to hit my golf club. Like, come on, bro. You know, guys are going to do like choreographed entrances and stuff. Oh, my God. That makes me want to crawl out of my skin. Right. I mean. We want them to implement cool things and they're trying.

This is just one that I think is going to fall really flat. I didn't even blog this when I saw it. I didn't even. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's, again, I think it'll be fine. It'll be awkward and weird. But like some people get a rouse out of it.

But it's kind of cool. We're going to see so much about it because it's the type of thing where it's so not golf that like other outlets are going to be like, look at this fucking thing. This is so awesome. That was like, what is it like the PGA now that lets you wear like shorts and a practice round? We didn't stop hearing about that for like a month straight. People are still writing articles about that. I'm pretty sure.

They're like that's so dynamic. Wow, what a play. So you do even the slightest bit new thing and we're going to get so much coverage. There's going to be. If Ian Polter walked up to the tea with like the Darth Vader music, we'd go nuts. The Imperial March? The Imperial March. That would be awesome.

See, that I like. That would be fucking. I'm getting the chills to singing about. If they can. If you hear that music. and you look around and you see Ian Poulter walk up to the T-box and put his ball into the ground and just smoke a ball down the middle. It's like, oh, fuck, the bad boy.

If they can tailor it to themselves in, like, a cool, like, self-aware way, that would be cool. But it's what you're saying. We're going to get, like, they're going to play Drake and think it's, like, the coolest thing ever. And that is going to lead to some pretty crazy moments. Someone's going to hit one back. I'm on one. And I'm going to fucking throw up.

I'm going to throw up. I almost made me leave the room thinking of it. If he turns to the camera, I'm on one. All right. My goodness. This is what we're going to get is the problem. Hey, I guess it's working, right? I mean, we're talking about it.

We're going to get this for literally for four days straight. So that's coming up on the horizon. We've got on this very show, we're going to have our Gary Player. So the videos went up. People loved him. Obviously, all the stories that he's telling. Unbelievable. The inside look at Mr. Gary Player and all of that.

If you haven't checked him out, go to barstrelsports.com. Must watch. Look at them. They're awesome. There's a 17-minute video and like a 20-minute video. We are also, including in this show, towards the end, we kind of compiled a bunch of the good stories he told. So it would almost be, you know, we're like having Gary on the podcast.

Just let his voice serenade you. His voice is amazing. His voice is so much better every time you listen to it. His accent is just perfect. You put out something. His laugh is, it's magic. His laugh is just. making him laugh is the best feeling in the world.

That's like the most successful I've ever felt is when Gary Player laughed. I made a joke about you potentially dying and he lost. Almost killed him. There was a split second. I don't know if we'd ever talk about it on air when I made him laugh. And I said Riggs is died. It's going to kill him the next day. I thought I killed Gary Player.

There were a lot of folks you picked up on that on Twitter. People were like, Trent almost killed Mr. If you could see my internal monologue as he has his hand on my shoulder laughing, I was like, this is it. This is going to be my legacy. I killed Gary Player with a joke about Riggs. Like what just loud cough after laughing? Yes.

He even coughed a little bit and I was like, oh no, no, no. We were like Gary. Don't, not right now. That would be devastating. The videos are great, though. Definitely check goes out. He's the absolute man. This whole family's awesome.

They're very cool. They get it. They very much get it, which is awesome. You don't see that all the time in golf. Another thing related to the Masters, we haven't talked about a lot of the fallout, I guess you could call it from Patrick Reed winning. A lot of the coverage of his family, all these different stories that either got recycled or sort of highlighted or whatever you want to call it. Um, you know, I don't know if it really changes anything for me. I already knew a decent amount.

I'm not like, I don't know. It's, it's, it's like this guy and his relationship with his family. It's all, um, it's he said, she said, which side's crazy? Maybe they're both crazy. I don't fucking know. It's also what's like, so he's got, right, the kind of the backstory is that, uh, he's got the, um, the wife and her family are kind of like, almost have, like, adopted him now and they've cut off all contact with his original. family including like his kid's sister his parents his parents showed up to an event like several

years ago and the wife now had them like escorted off the property because they were trying to watch him um and my response to that is kind of like yeah it's pretty fucked up and all that but then again like they have a pretty good argument the wife of them because like they made him a master's champ so it's like he's doing pretty well it's not like he's doing worse than he was doing it just won the fucking masters and he's a rider cup stud so it's like it's again it's a lot of he said she said it's also like the fact that he if he's just this loner um kind of loner guy who likes to play practice rounds alone hits balls alone doesn't seem to really like bother other people too much just kind of does his own thing and wins rider cups and wins masters while doing it it's like all right like go do

your thing dude he's not the most likable fucking golfer ever watch i'm not rooting for him down the stretch but i also don't look at that and be like well i hate the guy now it's just it's a it's Interesting. Yeah, my couple takeaways from it have been the coverage afterwards kind of justifies or whatever. Because we talk about it on this podcast a lot. We don't know how we feel about Patrick Reed. And we watch that play out in the media because nobody could really get a gauge on how they wanted to feel about him. Because he's not like everybody feels good for Sergio.

Everybody feels good for this guy. There's way more sides to it. And secondly, I don't think Patrick Reed cares. So it's like at the end of the day, he's just going to let this roll off his back. He's going to keep doing his thing. And if the guy himself doesn't really care, then it doesn't matter to me. He doesn't seem to care. He doesn't care at all.

So I think that's part of it for me. And that's definitely the takeaway I've had. It's very strange. Stranger story I've seen in a long time coming from a professional athlete where we're like we're knowing about. And we know a lot about athletes, but for some reason, this story is just so like, I don't know. Why do we even know this much stuff about like his parents and coming to watch him? It's a very strange thing. I don't know who's to blame for it.

Like you were saying, Riggs, it's like he said, she said. But, I mean, for me, it doesn't change anything with viewing him. I still think he's a very unlikable guy for some reason. And I guess in the back of my head when I'm watching him, this all just is jumbling in my head when I'm watching him play golf. I'm like, this guy's just such a fucking weird story. He looks weird.

He swings weird. He's just not a likable guy. Right. I mean, that's just what it is. I know. You watch, I don't know a single person that was rooting for Patrick Green.

But he should be because he does like cool things. The moment that I thought about it after we recorded that podcast, I'm like, this guy does that helicopter swing. And he's like, the guy hits awesome fucking shots and he's nails on the green. He's cocky like a shooter McGabbie. He did that awesome. some finger wag at Rory, it's like, but he just, he's got to get a whole new look. Do you think real life shooter McGavin would be your favorite golfer?

Yes. Yes. Although. Or do you think you'd like hate him? I don't know if that's contradicting what, like, I kind of think about the regular guys because we hate like Ian Poulter and we hate. I know. I think, I was just think, I don't know.

I just kind of thought about that. I was like, what I put me in a pretz look. What I want to say yes. What I love shooter McGavin, my heart says like absolutely. But I don't know. I might be like, yeah, I don't know. guy's not really like. Yeah, he's not as like dumb looking as Patrick Reed, so I would

like him. I would hate him. I think you think so? I think he's Polter. Yeah, but if he hit a shot and he went, shoot her. Yeah, with the double, we'd be going. Yeah, the double guns. We'd be selling. He made a putty, and he went, shoot her, and then does the blow, the blows like the smokeaway thing. Yeah.

Are you kidding me? That would be so awesome. Damn it, yeah. My instinct was to say hate him, but he's an American guy and he would be so cocky that that's right. It should be Patrick Greeter. That's why he brought it up, but there's just other elements to Patrick Reed that are much more unlikely. I try so hard to love him. Patrick Greer's just too doy.

He needs to start, like, smoking cigarettes. He needs to start just getting a little more grizzled. He's like, he should go the full John Daly, but he's just like halfway there. Right. He's like a really shitty John Daly. He's in this really weird, like, I don't know. He looks like, what's the Robin Williams movie with the green thing? Flubber?

He looks like Flubber. It's not what you want to be, I don't think. It's a pretty good comparison. Yeah, his clothes don't fit. But the bottom line at the end of the day, he doesn't care, and that makes me kind of like it. I don't give a fuck. I know. I think it was Daniel Berger who came out with some comments.

There was, I think it was the Alan Shipnick article that kind of went re-viral. He kind of like whatever. He was recycling a lot of stuff that he had pulled up before or something like that. And there were some quotes in there from Daniel Berger being like, yeah, he kind of just likes to do his own thing. And for whatever reason, he was like, he's always been really nice to me. For whatever reason, people see him alone and just like view that as a massive negative. When in reality, the guy just wants to be left alone and do his own thing. And he's a master's champion.

No, so we can do whatever he wants. He's got the green jacket everywhere. Chick-fil-A drive-thru. He's at the basketball game. He's everywhere with the green jacket. Awesome play. I tweeted and blogged the fact that it's so American, it's so obvious that the green jacket is back on American shoulders

because it went from Wimbledon with Sir Jersia last year to the chick-foy. Which is great. You guys would wear the jacket everywhere, right? I'd never take it off. You respect this move? Yeah, so do I do. You have to. You have to show that sucker around.

I'd wear it everywhere. Especially, and I don't know if Patrick Green thinks about these things, but what we just talked about how everybody hates him, that would make me want to wear it that much more. Everywhere. Yep. Do the other players, so now does he look kind of amateurish for wearing it too much? Do you think that's-gill...

Sergio wore it at his wedding. He wore it at Wimbledon. You know, Phil was famously spotted at the Krispy Cream Drive-thru with it. So, I mean... So, no, I think he's probably doing it a little bit more. Some guys don't wear it out at all, that he's doing it more than most guys, but also, like, it's not, that's not correct. It's really weird if we get to a point where, and it's, it's reflective of how people feel about Patrick Reed,

where we're splitting hairs and being like, this guy might be wearing his master's green jacket too much. And there are a couple articles. For people to critique him on, right, for people to critique him on that, there are just sour grapes that Patrick won, not that he's wearing it everywhere. And there are a couple articles pointing that out that were, like, how, like, ridiculous, how, like, blatantly negative is the bias towards Patrick Reed that people are writing articles being like he's wearing it too much. Right. Yeah, that's great.

wherever you want, dude. I wish you fucking get naked where it just walked down the street in that thing. The other comment I want to make about the Masters that I forgot was forgot to comment on Tiger Woods's joke of the week, which, his is at the Masters. If you guys recall, he kept saying, well, the last several years I've only come here to eat. That was his big joke, referencing the Champions dinner, how he hasn't been able to play golf. He must have said it every fucking interview. Tiger, how did you feel about your putting today? Well, you know, I get to play golf again.

I'm out of here playing at the Masters. great because I've only been able to come here and eat the last couple of years. So every time. What happens here and what must happen is that he says that joke at the beginning of the week to somebody. It doesn't matter who it is. And they laugh a little bit and he just locks onto it. And he's using it for the rest of the week. He knows it works.

He knows it's funny because it is funny. Like if he just said that once, that's like really funny. But it's that he said it over and over again. I just know he saw one person laugh at it. And he's a robotic nature of Tiger Woods. He is a robot in some sense. Yeah, he's given five or six talking points every week by his crew. Right.

And, like, maybe one joke, and this was his big joke. Tiger's been in massive damage control for, like, the last 10 years. So he's, I think he knows what to do now when it comes to the media. Like, he finds something that works and he just runs with it. And even before that, all the stuff blew up about him, he was, like, in kind of damage control mode all the time anyway. His boat was named, like, privacy before he had that. And, like, Tiger's a real big weirdo. Totally.

It's what I love about. And we've talked about that. He's a real fucking weirdo. Go back and read that right Thompson piece on. him. That's the weird you, that's the weirdest human being that's ever been profiled in a piece. I'm pretty sure. It's great. Isn't Tiger so strange that we, we

idolize him though? Like, any other person, if he's... I should. There's so many things about him that I should hate. Right. And I love him. That's one of Dave's actually, like, good points. I know. He's like, how do you guys like the guy? He's like, this guy's a guber. I don't know. I just love him. Winning. I mean, winning makes you do crazy things. Make us love a guy who's weird.

I'm just winning being the best. Like, that's what helped. If he wasn't the best, he'd be a fucking weirdo. Just a regular guy that we wouldn't like, but he was the best. Oh, and the way he did fistpup. He was so cocky, too. Like, I was watching the 97 Masters, like, final around the other day. And he, like, even afterwards in his interviews and stuff, the shit that he says, he's so

cocky. Somehow, he somehow emerged being an unbelievable, iconic sports athlete and being a nerd, which is, yep, is impressive in itself, honestly. Giant nerd who then, like, clearly had a little bit of, like, a nerd complex and tried to get, like, jacked. look like a like normal professional athlete there's part of the right thompson piece where um he talked to charles he was talking to charles barclay and they were out and about on the town and tiger asked charles barkley how do i how do i talk to women and barclay was just like your tiger

fucking woods go say whatever you want tell him your tiger so for tiger to have not even know that he has that sort of standing is he's so weird he's the weirdest dude in the world they figured it out after that he did figure that out eventually he figured it out yeah he learned how to you know Women. Women. The other little tidbit here before we get into from the gallery is I, shout out to me for rocking my giant Carnusti golf umbrella today. Ridiculous. I was a real threat on the sidewalks in New York City.

Biggest fucking umbrella you've ever seen. I will say that like when you buy a sick umbrella, this thing is from Carnusti. It's green with like their badass tree logo. It's where the British Open is. this year. When you buy a sick umbrella like that, you're just begging for reasons to use it anytime. Right?

You don't get to use an umbrella very often. No. Especially a golf umbrella. Especially a golf umbrella. And if there's one place in the world that you like really shouldn't use a golf umbrella, it's New York City. Yeah. But like I wake up and it's pouring rain outside.

I get a flash fucking flood warning. I'm like, I think I got a bust. I mean, I have to bust the umbrella. There's another word for what was going on. It wasn't just raining. That was a big part for me. Like, yeah, using a golf umbrella is crazy, but the rain today, I've honestly never seen it rain this hard anywhere in the country. I cannot tell you how dry I was with this umbrella.

I mean, I'm looking at people around me are soaking wet, even with their little dinky fucking umbrellas. And it was one of those storms where people were like their umbrellas are getting blown upside down and shit in the wind. My umbrella was a rock. I mean, I was in like a dome, like arena walking around New York today with my massive umbrella. just dominating the sidewalks. People were, like, coming at me and, like, with, like, deer in the headlights look, like, trying to figure out how to go around me because I was such a force to be reckoned with. Did anybody verbally chirp you, or was it just straight-lox?

It was all, like, scoffs, of anything. People were, like, people were upset. I bet. I mean, it was very obvious that this umbrella was no business. Well, there's certain, like, city guidelines that you just, like, go by, right? You always, if you're on an escalator, you always go on the right side, if you're going to stand, the left side's going to walk. Yep.

And when you're in, when you're on the street, you always walk on, you don't walk on the other side because everyone just, like, gives you that look. And you don't take big umbrellas on rainy days in New York City. It's just what you don't do. Big umbrell is an understatement, too. That thing is a massive. It's the biggest umbrella I've ever seen. It's huge.

You were, you were covering all four of you that were talking. You had it over everybody. It's huge. And, I mean, look, I was in violation of the unwritten code. Like, there's no doubt about it. I knew it. I couldn't even go. You know, they fucking more of New York has scaffolding than doesn't have scaffolding.

Right. I couldn't even go underneath the scaffolding. because the beams are too close together. You're just walking in the middle of the street. I legit had to go like around the scaffold. Fucking Mary Poppins is walking down the streets of Manhattan just with the big. People probably thought you were just going to start like lifting off the ground

and just fly away. It couldn't fit underneath the scaffolding. It was too big. You probably were in the range where the homeless people who are sleeping on, I don't know if you've seen this on the subway where they lay across all of it. And they're so crazy that nobody knows they know not to mess with them. The guy with the big umbrella falls in the same category. You just don't mess with.

It's interesting you say the umbrella is a tough thing because you want to use it. And there's not really many opportunities to use it. So for my restaurant's golf outing that's coming up that we have every year, my dad and the person he partners with, they choose what the gift is going to be. And this year, the guy chose, not even my dad, the guy chose it was going to be his umbrella. And this morning we talked about, he's like, oh, yeah, the gift this year is going to be an umbrella. And I was like, how many times are people going to take that thing out and see, like, the logo and, like, really use it? I'd rather something you can wear if you're going to get a gift.

Totally. So it's funny that you brought this in today because I'm like, oh, shit, there's a logo. There's a crazy person walking down the street right there with the umbrella. We need everyone to be crazy rigs for them to use the golf umbrella. Giant green umbrella down the streets of New York City. Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things, though. It's when you need it, you need it. Right.

You know, but you're right. It doesn't get a ton of exposure. Will you do it again? Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's my umbrella. I don't know.

Now, did you buy that umbrella because you were at Carnusie and it was raining? Yeah. Got it. Exactly. So it's got a good story. An umbrella is not something you go into the pro shop and just buy on a sunny day. No, no. It was pouring.

Got it. It was raining like sideways when I teed off and I was like, perfect. I want to buy a sick car noose thing. But like, just to clarify what I meant, obviously you're not going to buy something on Sunday day. But you're not like bringing home something from a golf course. You're not bringing home anything with a logo on it. You're never bringing it. home an umbrella, right?

Right. You're never going in and being like, I'm not going to Bayonne. I'm like, oh, I need something with the Bayonne logo and I'm like, I pick the umbrella. Never. Nobody has a stash of golf umbrellas in their apartment.

Right. Never. So I'm probably going to change that gift. I'm going to step in and I'm going to change it. I don't like the golf umbrella. You might have to get in there, Frank. Yeah. Give it to rigs.

He'll fucking use that. True. I will say, it's just such a sick umbrella that it's like, okay, it's pouring rain out. I have a sick umbrella. What am I just going to not use it? Because it's too big for, like, me being people like, sorry my umbrella is bigger than your umbrella.

Get the fuck out of here. Get off the sidewalk. Alpha. It was, you know, I don't like to flex like that all the time, but this was, it was just, it was one of those days. I mean, if it was a light drizzle out, I still probably would have brought the same umbrella out. It just helped me that it was fucking absolutely pouring. From the gallery is brought to you by.

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All right. Let's get into some from the gallery. We haven't done these in a long time. We've got a lot of good ones on here. A lot of good ones. Let's start with Tyler. For anybody doesn't remember, you email us for Play at barstoolsports.com. We comb through these.

We pick out the best ones and we talk about them. questions, concerns, statements, stories, whatever you got, sent them to us. Tyler, a very simple question. He says, what golf shot do you have zero confidence you can hit? Frankie? I mean, for me, you guys have played with me before. I often say that I have a butter knife in my hands when I have a sandwich in my hand. So when I don't play for a decent amount of time, I lose all touch.

I lose the touch game. I feel like every time I'm going to take a swing, this ball could go left, right, down, up. I don't know where it's going to go. So for me, I have zero confidence when I'm like 35 yards away with a sandwich in my hand. And I have to take somewhat of a decent swing, right? Okay. And like I can't just make a putter move.

You know, sometimes when you're like 10 yards, 15 yards, you can at least lock your arms. You can go back and forward and you can get the ball on. When I'm 35 yards away, I know I got to make somewhat of a swing and I always feel like I have a fucking butter knife in my hands. That's my least. I have no confidence on making a touch shot. If I have to go over a bunker, if I have to run the ball up, I'm constantly dribbling the ball over the green. I'm constantly doing the wrong thing. So that's my worst shot is the touch, like 35 to 40 yard sandwich shot.

I would say that's probably a pretty common one. I think you're getting a lot of people that are with you on that one. I will say that my bunker game around the greens right now, I just have one distance on all my bunker shots around the green. I just have one distance. It's like one shot from a green side bunker is the only shot that I have. It's like you just got to get lucky on if the bunker stops before the ball. And it's like a, you know, it's probably a 10-yard shot. Like my ball comes out.

It goes decently high. It gets like, it lands probably 30 feet in front of where I'm hitting. And it rolls out another 10 or 15 feet. That's my bunker shot. That's just what I have. I don't have anything else. So like, if I've got like a 30-yard bunker shot or something, like, I'm just fucked. Right.

There's nothing I can do. There's literally not, I don't have a shop. Like, there's all these crafty things. Well, because if you try and change it, do you just miss it? Do you just have a complete, like, it's just like, if you're 40 yards out, do you try and swing harder? I swing harder, but then I end up just hitting further behind the ball and it goes the exact same. And then, like, you know, there's different tricks and shit that I'll try that have worked like maybe 3% of the time. You know, there's this like, there's this, if you have like an 80-yard bunker shot theory, you pull out like a nine iron and it open up the face just like it's a green side or just like it's a, um,

60 degree shot. I'm well aware of that. I get that like the theory it should work and all that. And I've tried it. And it's worked like once or twice ever. But most of the time I just like skull and I are like 170 yards when I'm hitting an 80 yard shot or I like chunk it and it doesn't go anywhere. So that's like my Greenside bunker game. I used to be pretty good for whatever reason. I just now I just have one shot. That's it. I just have one golf shot in the free three. I mean, listen, the short game, I feel like most of the answers with this would be something to with the short game. Because like I said, it is a feel.

Like, you're, you, you, the, you, you, you, you, you, you shouldn't not have confidence in a, in a swing that you're going to be taking a full swing on. Because if that's the case, then you're just not golfing at all. Like, you know what I mean? Like, if I have zero confidence in my drive, if I have zero confidence in my iron shot, then I'm just not playing well at all. But the other thing I would say is that, like, if I'm in the fairway with a four iron on my hand, I, there's zero chance I hit the grade.

Zero. Like, I don't think I've ever hit a greener really. That's very true. That's true. Although some of the best shots I've ever hit came with like a four-iron, I just got lucky. Like sometimes you're like 220 yards away, 2.30. You just fucking rip a four-iron and somehow ends on the game. Like, holy fucking shit.

And it's not like a short game shot where like I'm going to massively miss hit this. Like I can make pretty good contact my four-hour time. But like I'll draw it or hook it or hit like a push slice into a green side bunker or something. I like, I don't know if I've ever hit a green regulation with a four-rider. Like, ever. I can't do it. And I know it. Like when I'm like, it's like, it's 204.

And I'm like, four. And I'm like, all right. There's no chance since it's the green. Oh, now that you're saying like the long distance, and I'm probably just going back on exactly what I just said five seconds ago. But I have not confidently hit a three wood off the fairway since I was like 12. Really? The only reason I didn't think of it right away is because I just don't use it anymore.

You will never see me use a three wood on the fairway ever. Because it's just not worth it. You can't hit it. No, I've totally just, I've totally just, it's out of my head. If I'm 250 yards away on a fairway, I'm just going to just advance the ball. That's one of the few shots that I have actual confidence in. The three wood. I love the three wood in the fairway.

It's my favorite shot probably. It's because it's the one I can actually hit. I hit it pure every single time. Wow. That's a really... I always hit behind the wall every single time. It's amazing. You can hit that.

No offense, true. No, I know you... Of all the shots that you can hit. No offense. Second. The fact that I was going to say that I feel most nervous about is every single time I sit up to a par three. That's it.

I'm in my head about par three is no. matter what. Doesn't matter the distance. Really? Yeah, because I think I'm so bad from that distance. I'm bad from a lot of distances, but those specific distances, and there's a lot of pressure because everyone's watching you. If I have that distance in the fairway, it's fairly straightforward and not everyone, everyone's kind of looking for their own balls.

But when I have that distance at a par three, it's a disaster way. That's a good point that everybody's watching your approach shot together on a par three, which is just different. That's the thing that fucks me up. Isn't it amazing when you're 150 yards out, and like you're saying, guys are looking for the balls on the other side of the fairway, and like maybe a guy. just a little bit to the right, not paying attention to you, and you're in like the first cut.

You hit a nice 150-yard shot. It may not go on the green perfectly, but at least it's a nice golf shot. I feel like that happens every single time I hit 150-yard shot. But like you're saying, when you're on the tee, now you start getting the shanks, you start hitting behind the ball, you start dribbling the ball,

you start hooking the ball. It is crazy. And you're teeing up the ball. It's actually should be an easier shot. Definitely should be. I'm very in my head about parthries. I've always said this. I've said this on this podcast.

I fucking hate partheries. You can't say that they're the best, like they're the hardest holes because you can't make you can't make a mistake they are the hardest holes but but I like part three

I get excited every time I think I'm gonna get a whole one every time it is it's presenting you with a very that's out of my head I'm never hitting one I'm the worst iron player in the world I think I'm gonna get a hole in one every time I'll never hit a hole in one in my life

ever it's a fact uh all right uh all right next one we got Nick Nick tells a tale that's going to I think relate to every single person in um That's listening.

Maybe every person's ever played golf in their life. He says, so I get to the range and pour out a bucket of balls. To my delight, I find three shiny ProV-1s mixed in with all the other crap range balls. Balls are too good to be hanging out with the rejects of the golf community. So I did what anybody would do and scoop them up, put them in my bag. My boys are giving me a hard time for doing this, but I think it's completely fine. What are the boys' thoughts on basically stealing nice balls? I mean, Frankie's chomping at the bit over there.

This is something. Frankie probably said, hey, my name's Nick. I'm going to send an email to 4Py. We look at just, it's just freaky at bars. I love, I love stealing golf balls from driving ranges. I mean, it's like an addiction I've had. I've probably done it four or five times in my life. It feels real good every time I do it.

I have an adrenaline rush. It's my dirty little secret that I now tell on the number one golf podcast in America. It's like, it's like, it's no longer a secret. People are now looking for me to do this stuff. I think the place I used to do my dirty deed at, now people are like, like looking. I feel like there's camera. Oh, yeah. I have a camera. Oh, yeah. Frankie Cam. Now it's all, it's all in my head. But I will continue to do it this year. Just so look out. So this move, you can't disagree with because those, those ProV1 are not there from the driving.

100%. Someone took that out of their bag. Like, they hit an entire 90 balls at the driving range. Their last shot they fucking hated. So they went into their bag. All they had was a ProV1. They smack that one out. They felt good. They got in their car and they left. You get that in your rotation. You're putting it right back in your pocket. I agree. It's like finding a message in a bottle. It just happens to come back to you. The driving range can put it there.

The driver range gets shipballs sent to them from these, I don't even know. Who sends them those golf balls? They're like the worst golf balls ever. With the train tracks on the side of the practice and the train tracks? Who makes those golf balls? Yeah, I mean. Is it like the driving range company? And if you don't take these balls, you're a schmuck because the next guy who sees those three pro vs, he's taking them.

Totally. You're a sucker. You're a sucker. If you don't take these, you're a sucker. sucker. Although don't tell me that when you're at a driving range, a public drive range, and you see one of those come up, you don't hit it immediately because you're like, oh, this feels nice. Do you always steal them?

I've done that. I've done that. I hit him because I'm like, oh, this is what hitting a real golf bowl feels like. Yeah, it depends. I mean, nah, I'm pretty much going to steal them. You're going to steal them every time. It's just, it's, you got to steal. Because you don't, but then you're kind of thinking like, oh, is this thing I have water damage? Is it like, because it's almost too good to be true. It's always in the back of your head a little

bit, but I mean, you got to take them. Yeah. And you're going to get all kinds of different ones. You're going to get like a nice tailor-made sometimes. You're a nice ProVee other times. It's just like you don't know what you're going to get. But you know the second that it's not a dog-shit practice range ball, you're like, oh, oh, yeah, this one's going right. The bag. Speaking of golf, you know what I think I might get into this year?

I may get into the used golf ball game. Oh, yeah? I don't know why. Like refurbished golf balls? Yeah, my buddies have, like, been talking about it in our group chat. Like, hey, man, I just bought like 85 balls for 15 bucks. They're all pro-vie ones. They look fucking perfect.

and I'm like, well, I've been losing a lot of golf balls last couple times I've been playing. I think I may take that up. That's not a bad call. I think my brother does refurbish balls. It depends on what type of golfer you are. Obviously, if I'm going to go out with you and, like, we're going to play a nice match, I'm going to go get some good balls. But if I'm playing with my buddies at a public golf course and I don't really want to waste a lot of good balls,

and I can buy literally 80 golf referbivis pro v1s for 15 bucks, I think I'm going to do it. Have I ever told the story on the podcast about all my brother and I, would Google Earth like the certain spots on the side of fairways and go park in neighborhoods and then walk over with like backpacks? No, but that's an amazing fucking move. Oh, man.

We would do this when we were home for the summers in high school and college. We would go to like the public tracks that we played and we knew the holes well enough from playing them that we would look on the right side of fairways where everybody that slices them because that's what the golfer's miss is to the right side of fairways

where there's like trees and weeds and stuff. And then we would Google earth look for a neighborhood nearby. We would park and then walk through the woods with a backpack and like a bucket. And we legitimately would come out of there with like 300 balls each. We'd spend like two hours in there. So worth it.

Probably 60 or 70 pro vs each. Right. And like those balls are hit once or twice. 300 balls total. And we'd be set for like two years. Awesome. That's quite a move. We did it all time. I fucking love that movie. Oh, we did it all time. I think about that. Every time you're buying like $60 worth of golf balls for like a couple sleeves, it's like,

Let me go back to that when I had a plethora of golf balls. Dude, buying golf balls is the worst feeling in the world. It sucks. When I went to that place, Windwatch, and I bought a nice, nice brand new sleeve of bridgestones, and I felt real good. I had the B, and they were $4.50 a ball. I stepped up to the first tee. I hooked one right into the trees.

I said, that's one. I put the next one on. I said, boom, that's two. And the third one, I just fucking, I put in my pocket, and I saved for the rest of the round and I took it out on 18 and I put it right in the water and it didn't last I took three swings three balls three swings twelve dollars twelve dollars gone gone oh that's tough if anybody out there's playing in um in the st louis missouri area you'll know crystal springs golf course and it's the and now it might be the they switched the nines but it's like

used to be the second hole out there is this par four like off a cliff And it was actually the left trees because the cliff was so high as either water right or left trees. And we would go park in this neighborhood near there. We'd run down to the trees on the left of the second fairway at Crystal Springs. And we would just find a bazillion golf. I think that's a pro tip for anyone out there in any state or wherever you live. Go like do if you, if you're a runner or if you work out, go run along a golf course or something. Go to a public golf course.

Run along a golf course and bring like a bag with you. A little baggy is if you're picking up like dog shit. and just pick up a million balls. Do you think about how much room there is in a normal backpack for golf balls? We would fill them up and have to bring a bucket as well. I think you can do that at any public golf course. Oh, it was awesome. It was awesome.

I love that you Google Earth that you guys are like tacticians with it. We were, well, we're trying to be very, you guys know, I'm very efficient. You are. You sit down a table and you just like lay out the blueprint. We legit, we're like, this is our day. This is what we're doing. And we would, we would legit, like, pack. We wear like sweats, too, so that we wouldn't get poison ivy.

and that you could just power right through all the branches and stuff. Well, think about it. You got 300 golf balls. That's like a thousand dollars a day. Big time. You're saving two years worth of golf balls. And like I said, the whole thing all in would be like a three or four hour endeavor.

You search for two or three hours. It takes you a half hour. To even go to your local golf store and sell those back. So then we started thinking about running like this golf ball operation. There you go. Pay a course 20 bucks to go like search their ponds one day or something, which I'm sure other people do. But anyway,

it's long story short. Love it. Big refurbish golf ball. Great idea. Next one. we got Daniel this is kind of a classic situation here but a little bit a little bit unique

bottom line is he's going for a par five and two he's never had an eagle in his entire life he says right at the start of his down swing his buddy in the cart throws his head cover at him hits him in the side right before he makes contact obviously he hits a shitty shot dribbles one into the water at the time

they all laughed at all for having a good time he throws his buddy throws him in another ball and says obviously hit again that doesn't count sorry about that we ends up sticking it to two feet makes eagle for his first eagle ever. Question is like, does this count as your first eagle ever? It's a tough one. See, I want to say obviously yes,

because everyone in the group kind of just said, all right, that wasn't even a swing. We're not even, that's just erased that from our memory. It has nothing to do with it. But, like, personally, you always think about, I mean, literally, he always, he'll always remember that that's what happened on his first eagle. He's emailing us about it.

He remembers everything that happened. He remembers that he hit a ball into the water and they had to throw him into the ball. It's like, story to it. He can't sleep at night about it because that's why he's emailing us about it. That's why it's a note for me because he had to send that email. Other than that, no, I'm a hard no on it. It's interesting, too, because we get all these about, like, is it a whole and one or not?

The first eagle is a big deal. When you get your first eagle, it's sick. It's like, I don't think it's as big of a deal when it's a tap-in. If it was, like, if it was a par four and he sank it from the fairway, then it's like, all right. Now it's fucked up to me. But if it's like, you hit a great shot, what if it was a short par five? I guess the question would just be like if someone asks you like two, you know, two or three weeks later, like, oh, have you ever made an eagle before? We'd be like, yeah, but like, the butt is why it's a dog.

Jimmy hit me with the head guy. And then the person they're like, no, that's not an eagle. They'd be like, oh, fuck. Yeah, but you kind of deserve, you know, it's tough. You hit a great shot, but it's, you just don't know what would have happened with the first one. So Dick moved by your friend might also just be having fun, you know. I don't know. It's kind of a tough one.

Danny asks, Is it okay to wear merch from courses you've never played or been to? I want to say yes, but then I also know that if you wear merch from a course you haven't been to, you're going to be asked questions. Like, oh, so if I'm wearing a TPC sawgrass outfit, and I've never been to TBC Sawgrass, and someone says, oh, like, when did you go there?

It's like, well, actually someone just brought it home from me. It's like, it kind of sounds very immature, and it sounds like you're a nobody. But I feel like you always have to have a story behind golf merch. I don't know why. You do. But is Augusta the one outlier on this? Definitely.

Okay. I just wanted to make sure. I think Augusta's the outlier. Yeah. I do know people that say they refuse to get Augusta merch unless they go there. I don't hate that. I'll tell you what. I don't buy my dad golf stuff when we go to Augusta the two times have been there because I think

that's how he feels. I think if I gave him a shirt from the Masters, he would be happy that I got it for him, but he would be like, I want to go that. Funny story. My girlfriend's dad, I brought him back like a fucking $120 shirt than when we went last year, right? And he was like very happy. He's a huge golf fan, like obsessed.

Yep. He was so happy, right? And I know they've always wanted to go to Gus. They actually almost went the year that we went. They went down. They were supposed to go down for a practice round on Thursday, and it just foiled. And I brought him down something.

And then this year when we're watching, he saw someone with like the merch on. He's like, yeah, that's why I would never. He like, it slipped. He goes, yeah, I wouldn't. He goes, I would never wear unless I go. That's amazing. I remember like, this is this year, I'm sitting down and texting a text to that girlfriend.

I'm like, well, your dad just said he's never going to wear that shirt. It's okay. It's like, it's too big of a shirt to take back. Well, if you think about it, you boil down to this. This is what, well, this is why I, he's been trying to avoid that forever. This is why I haven't gotten my dad something. It's because when I'm handing it to him, it's basically saying I got to do something cool that you, You didn't, and here is a token that I brought back from it.

Well, so I don't love that. It hurt. My dad would do the same thing. He'd be like, this is very nice. Thank you for giving this for me. But then behind closed doors, you would probably be like, I'm not wearing this. Like, I want to go there. I want to experience going to the pro shop, and I want to experience buying the shirt.

I would look at it, like, I feel like from the people that were talking about your dad or your girlfriend's dad would be like the story is close enough that it's the same thing almost. Like, oh, where did you get the Augustus? Well, actually, like, my daughter's boyfriend, who we love to death, was there for the first time ever. You know, that's like, that story is close enough. I hold Augusta to your heart. Like, he's always wanted to go to Gusta. So I should have known that it's kind of like a backhanded slap. Like, hey, I got to go here.

Here's the murder. I actually don't agree with that. I would think when someone sees you wearing the Augusta, whatever you're wearing, they're expecting the stories that we tell everyone on this podcast. Where it's like, oh, it's the most magical place in the world. We saw Tiger and Phil play this practice around that. But then they get the letdown of, no, somebody else went in my place. Yeah. It also, like I said, it depends on where you hold Augusta to your heart.

He specifically has always wanted to go there. And I kind of knew that when I gave it to him, but he was so excited when I gave it to him. That's why I was kind of like, ah, shit. He's a good actor. He's a good actor. Like, when I gave him like that nice, like lime green, quarter-zip vest. I mean, he was like crying when I gave it to him. Like, he was so happy.

So it's like there's a difference in, because my dad. is a huge golf fan but he's i mean to to get something from his son that he went there was like a huge deal totally the fact that you're but for her but for her for her for her girlfriend's dad i guess it was a little bit different the fact that he let it slip in front of you means that he has completely blacked out the thing that you gave yeah like he forgot that he's so confident he's like look at all these he's like look at all these people wear all this merch i'm like yeah it's awesome i'm like uh i think i even said oh uh riggs and trenner bringing home like a nice shirt from me he's like yeah I just wouldn't.

It's just not the same for me. Trent's right. He totally blocked that out of his brain. He probably burned that quarter. What do you think that thing is? It wasn't even, of course, it was a nice collared shirt with the, it was like a different type of color. It was like a different shades of green.

Where do you think it is right now? I don't know. He probably has it like under his bed or something. I don't know. If we're being fully honest here, I have bought my dad a shirt from Augusta and I just haven't gotten up the nerve to give it to him. Because I'm afraid he's going to be like, what? What?

I'm afraid he's got to at least. Give it to him. I don't know, because I feel like I was going to regret it in the moment when I bought it. From which year? It was the last time. Holy fuck. It's been over 13 months. But I thought in my head.

But in my head, I was thinking at the pro shop, I'm like, I'm crazy for thinking this. But I'm so I'm going to buy it just in case. And then I got out of there. And I still felt the way that I feel now about if I give it to him, it's going to be a token of something that I did. But you got to give him the right to refusal. He'll never refuse it, though. That's what I, he's a very nice man. He's a great man.

but he will accept it like your girlfriend's dad did, but then he might behind closed doors be like, well, hopefully he never slips in front of you. That is so funny it slipped. It was a disturbing moment. That is tough. Jake asks, is it weird to wear a golf outfit to something that's not a round of golf. Examples are like a simulator to the driving range,

and he also listed to just watch golf on TV. That's where I draw the watch. Okay. If I'm having a, if I'm having a watch party at my house and like my buddy Robbie shows up in a college shirt and like nice slacks and golf shoes and like a visor, I'm like, get the fuck out of my house. No, disagree. Go nuts. You like that. Go nuts.

I think it's great. We all have our different hobbies and passion. Come on. That's so ridiculous. I think it's great. Go nuts. I mean, obviously we're going to call that dude an asshole and make fun of him if he shows the party. Well, it depends on how he's doing it.

Is he trying to be funny or is he trying to be serious? That's a very good question. I think it, like, it's kind of serious, like, in a fun way. But, like, if I said, like, hey, Trent, Frankie, we've got the RBC Heritage this Sunday. We got, like, fun leaderboard. You guys want to come over and watch. Yeah, and you guys showed up with your golf slacks on and your golf polo, like your Augusta polo tucked in with, like, your cool golf belt and a hat. And we're like, yeah, let's watch some golf.

I'd be like, we'd be like, we'd be sitting there just, like, with our hands in our labs. We're wearing golf outfits. I'd feel ridiculous. That's like saying, oh, bring your jersey. People wear jerseys all the time. And your baseball pants to watch this Yankee game. Come over and bring your baseball pants and make sure you have the high socks on too. No, I think it's more analogalus, whatever, to being like wearing a jersey.

Wearing golf shirt and pants, I think, is the jersey. So I think if you wear... No, no, it's a whole outfit, Trent. Yeah, but like a golf outfit too is more like my brother almost wears a golf outfit to work every day. He wears like a nice, like a nice golf polo, but tucked into, like, actual slacks, like, you know, so it's not that far off from a real outfit. All right. Like, a lot of, like, people out there, a lot of, like, boogey, like, they wear, like, a golf outfit, like, every day. Yeah, like, it's a traditional, like, salesman outfit.

Yeah. But, like, again, like, we don't, the three of us don't really. Yeah. So if we did wear it, it, it would very clearly be like, hey, I'm in golf mode. Or, like, if we showed up, we showed up to Rigg's department wearing Tiger Red and black pants. That would be fun. That also would be a little ridiculous. It'd be awesome.

It'd be awesome for sure. We would walk through the door. We would be doing that because we're taking videos of ourselves. Riggs might kiss us on the cheeks. He'd be so excited if we were wearing Tiger Red on something. I would be, like, pictures going to come out of it. I would be ecstatic. Well, because there's something to be said for just, like, getting so into something

that you just, like, form into it. Like, you are so excited about something that's going to happen. Doesn't matter if it's sports or whatever. The Tiger thing's now making me feel a little. I know. I mean, because I would love to wear red and black and watch Tiger Amass on it. But that's a whole different universe. It is just, don't you think it's a great.

great like yeah i'm in golf mode today boys like this is what we're doing no i don't agree with you guys to watch tv i think it's insane what do you guys think about the simulator because you've gone to a simulator did you wear a golf outfit no i just wore like jeans did you wear t-shirt did you did you wear golf shoes no there's sneakers that's the right move that's the type of situation where it works in the reverse where it's like every time you play golf normally you're wearing all this like clothing if you just get to go like roll off the couch and go to a simulator that's part of the fun i even feel weird i've been like i've been like i've been like I was telling you, I've been testing irons.

I'm in the market for irons, and I just want to go hit irons all the time now. And I, like, brought my glove to the PGA Super So I know you're, you and gloves. I know where this is going. No, I'm just going to say, I brought my glove to the simulator. Okay, yeah. See, I knew that. Yeah, everybody did. That's expected.

This was yesterday. What are you going to? You're going to throw the clubs all over the place? Right. They didn't get out of your hand. Right. My buddy had 30th birthday party yesterday, and we did, like, a simulator for like three hours. And everyone brought the glove?

And, like, you know, like over half the guys that were there brought Is it the type of deal where you got to wait for another guy to pull out the glove? Or is it like everyone's kind of nervous to bring out the glove? It took like a half hour in for someone to first admit like, I brought my glove. My whole thing is I always felt weird doing it. The only reason I brought that up because I felt like it was kind of like bringing the golf outfit into like a store. I thought that was very strange. But then I realized I'm a lefty, so I have the glove on my right hand.

And they never had a glove from me. But they always offered the glove to you. Like, hey, do you need a glove? I always say to myself, if they're going to, if they're okay offering a glove to me, Why am I going to wear someone else's like sweaty glove? I'm going to bring my own. So I guess we agree on the simulator. I thought you were going to say that you were constantly getting geared up for golf gear to go test clubs.

No. Like I wanted to see how the irons work when I like have a college shirt on and stuff. I need to be like in my golf. No, I always thought that I was so self-conscious about wearing golf outfits outside of golf. Maybe it's because of my sensitive legs. I always have to wear pants around. I can't just wear. Because like you said, if you just wear regular like slack shorts, like nice golf short.

It's like nice golf shorts and you wear a polo. Like you can be going anywhere. You can be going to the grocery store. Totally. But for me, I'd have to wear like a nice, like Nike, like dress pan. Yeah. So I can't just like, I stick out like a sword thumb when I wear golf outfits. All right. Last one, we got Mike who asks, we've got a couple more that we're going to run in late.

So we've got to push those the next week. We got a lot of good stuff to get to next week. A lot of these good ones. I think we go right down to Carl here and talk about Smiley Kaufman hanging with if he's still a hang with the boys. You want to talk Smiley? I do because it's over the weekend, Smiley got married. And it was, it's been a couple years now since SBK, SB2K 16 boys. And Ricky was there, Spita was there, Justin Thomas was all there. And it is getting to the point now where these guys are so much better than Smiley. I get that it's his wedding, so it's a special thing. But what did,

where does this foursome go, you know, going forward? So yeah, the question essentially becomes like, is like, can Smiley, can these guys be seen hanging out with Smiley Kaufman now because Smiley Kaufman isn't just worse than them at golf. I mean, he stinks. His, and we love Smiley. We had him on the show. We do. We hung out with him in the Masters all year last year.

He hung out with him at the Masters. Great guys. Friends are awesome. I love Smiley Coffin. We're talking about this as objective folks that cover golf. Look at these finishes, folks. These are since, since November, he has gone cut, cut, cut, cut, T-69, nice, cut, cut, cut, Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.

Holy shit. And in those, he's got, at the Honda Classic, he shot 8380 for a 23 over par. In 83? The next week at the Valspar, or I'm sorry, two weeks later, the Valspar. 73, 82 for a 13 over. The next week at Bay Hill, 7781 for a 14 over. I mean, I do the Stephen Bodege Memorial DFL Award every week in my previews that I write for every golf. tournament. He's borderline going to take over the name of the trophy. I mean, he finishes

dead last every week now. And it's, he could be the worst golfer on tour. Just this right before, right, right, right, the week before he got married. In Houston, he shot 75, 78 for a nine over par miss cut. He stinks. And to, and to just make things worse, all his pals are playing the best golf. He's hanging with Speeth and Fowler and Thomas. They're playing the best golf on tour. I mean, speed is the reigning British Open champion. J.T. is maybe the best player in the world right now. Ricky Fowler is like Mr. Maybe the most popular player. Just made a crazy run at the Masters.

Almost just one of the Masters. And everybody's brain is sheer locked. We have a major in the next like two or three years. You can only hope that when they're together, behind closed doors talking, Smiley, he's self-deprecating, I hope. That he's like, I can't believe you guys are still hanging out with me. Just to calm the mood because they have to know that guys like us and people in the media and everyone in the world are talking about them like this.

I just hope that Smiley is aware of that And when they're in that company is like Hey, I can't believe this is still happening You know what I mean? I think when he was getting ready for his wedding And they're all in that little room They're all putting on their tuxes As he like went down to tire's shoe

And as he was like kind of bending over He just weeped Like that's my visual of what happened at his wedding I think he just started weeping Like oh my God Like you guys, thanks for coming Like I feel like he's like in a depression I feel like Smiley coughing

Thank you for God Yeah, that's my whole vision of it Like I envision that little room that all the groomsmen go in, and I envision him getting ready and just breaking down. They all have their hand on his back. It's okay, man.

He probably thinks they're there at a pity. Exactly. That's like, you can't get that out of your head, bro. They're all... Like, they have a side text group that's like, hey, we got it. Maybe if you guys are, like,

when are you flying into the wedding? Like, when are you flying out? Dude, he's in kind of a bad state. Every single one of his friends are the best. You can't ask for a worst group of friends to have when you are getting cut like this. You can't. He's by far the worst.

Maybe if he was, like, still in content. tension and he was making cuts. Like, all right, like, you guys are just playing better than me. But he doesn't even deserve to be in the same stratosphere as these other guys. Like, could he even afford to go on a spring break if they went on another spring break? And that way he could pay and go to. I mean, Justin Thomas has been getting paid this year.

Right. So they got to do like a three guy Venmo or something. It'd be like, you know, we're going to like cover Smiley. That's the worst, right? Because at one point he was their peer, right? Smiley Coffin was a very. He was a very promising young golfer. and now it's like

oh Smiley we'll take you on vacation like we got it like one year or two years have done that I feel bad we love Smiley we do I do love Smiley too and you gotta imagine like Ricky and Speed kind of want to talk about the master

the Sunday at the Masters and they kind of wait until Smiley goes and gets a drink do you think it's almost like when someone's like parent passes away and then you can't let's say someone's mom pass away you can't say the word mom around them do you think they say that around like you can't talk about golf around, Smiley.

I think that's honestly. Talk about golf in general. I think that's honestly exactly what it's like. Yo, Jordan, how about that chicken thing at Augusta? Oh, hey, hey, smile. I mean, I meant to ask him how he was. How about the college football? The college.

How about them longhorns? I'm telling you, I think that's the same feeling right now. It's a really nice weather here lately, you know? It has to be awkward when they bring up golf because they, the three of them are as good as it gets. And he is as bad as it gets. Well, they can't go up to be like, hey, man, like, how's the game feeling? You know, like, he's shooting 82.

It's like Jordan's got to, like, I got to go to this, like, champions dinner. And I guess it's like, smile, I was like, oh, I'm so fucking sorry, Jordan. I'm so fucking sorry. I would love if it was that catty. I would love that. Oh, I'm so busy to champion. I was like, I can't even get out of bed in the morning. He's just pouring alcohol.

That's like, I'm so sorry, Jordan. I've just had to just, man, it must be so hard to be such a good guy. and have so many people love you. I love how that's all predicated to the fact that Speed is complaining about going to the championship. I got to go to this champion's dinner in Augustus, Georgia.

Brigg is like, I got to go to this commercial shoot. I can't believe it. I got all these sponsorships. I got to go to my wedding rehearsal with my wife. I can't afford it to get out alone. You guys are paying for this wedding. I really appreciate it. God bless, Smiley. Keep doing your thing. I mean, he's not living a bad life.

The guy still made money golfing, right? Nope. And congrats on the nuptials. Congrats. Congrats. Looks like fun. Yeah, it was.

I tweeted out. Post marriage sex. Post marriage sex. I did see the thing that I tweeted out with where it's like their spring break picture and then them all in suits at the wedding. That's a little bit of a downer. Yeah. It's just so different.

They're growing up. They're growing up. They all take you type of picture. Definitely. And they'll have girl. Well, now they might really hate smiling because they're like, do we, how about he booked his wedding? We're supposed to go on our spring break trip.

Right. So we had to cancel. And also he's the first of the crew to get married. So now he's, like, pressuring all the other girlfriends and them. He's just really... We see Smiley hanging out with these guys next April. I'll be shocked. He's out.

He's really on a bad, bad role. He's out. Who's going to be the fourth horseman? Who's the new recruit? Imagine there's throw Patrick Reed in there, like, a fucking crazy person. He's just, like, getting sunburnt and shit and, like, just looks horrible with the shirt off. Imagine he's just in red and black, like, every time they play golf. in topful tiger outfit.

It's in like a sun suit, fist pumping and stuff every time he makes. Just trying to crush him. Patrick Reed is the type of guy who just never turns it off. You're right. He wouldn't be shirtless at Baker's Bay, although I would... They would never invite Rory. They did invite Rory, actually. Really?

There was that text exchange. I forget who screenshoted it, whether it was Rory or Spieth. They were texting back and forth. Hey, you should come to the Bahamas with us or whatever. But Rory, I think... Rory's too... He's on another level. He's like too competitive, too, like...

I don't know. He's not one of the boys, I feel like, with them. He's also always been a homebody. He's always been like he was with Wozniaki, and then he got really serious with the Erigo Stahl. He's married. He's a little Frankie, to be honest with him. Yeah, I guess so.

Oh, wow. We'll see after that comment by the dad. That's true. That's true. Things are a little dicey. I hope he's not a foreplay listener. Probably is. All right.

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Now, it's amazing. I was seven shots back from Tom Watson and came back in 30. Oh, man. At Augusta. And actually, it was almost 27. That far, that far, total,

that far total from 27. I'm pleased I didn't shoot 27. If I did, I would have never been invited back here. That's for sure. Nobody shoots 27 in Augusta. So, a very special. When you're coming from seven back, I mean, at what point do you realize, hey, I'm in the tournament? I can win the tournament here.

Now, I was always, I've got a lot of golf tournaments, five, six, seven behind. It's just something, I don't take the credit. It's a divine gift. It's a thing called It. You know, you've had about 12 superstars in golf, what I call superstars in the history of golf. And they had something very different and nobody can define it. People like to think they can define it. Right.

The intractor. The infractor. Yeah. But look, this is the first thing I see here, he says, player, a supremely self-confident athlete, was the only man who thought he had a chance at the start of the day's play to win. I knew a 19-up. I have many times from seven shots back, won. And so my one son was with me.

He said, Dad, if you put well today, you're playing well. If you put well, you'll shoot 65 and win. 65 and winder one. It wouldn't have won. I had to shoot 64. And you buried 18. I remember that. But the thing is my African- was there. I was there. Where you did? My African-American caddy said, hey Gary, man, I need a roof on my house, man. He says, I've got six children. I need a roof on my house. I said, we're going to get that roof for you.

So when I hold a punt, he took off, I mean he was there. He took over at an angle. That's great. So that was really, and the thing is that I bogied the whole one year, I needed a part to tie and I had a six-iron in my hand. Jeez, I mean, I was that close to winning six, seven masters, you know, that close. Which year was this? The year that Billy Castle won, I stood there with a six-iron in my hand, and I had to put it on the green, and I was greedy, and I went for the flag, and buried in the face.

And in the year, in 1962, I had a chance to be the first player to ever win it twice in a row. And I was two shots ahead of Arnold Palmer. three olds to go. So the odds were 9.99 that I was going to win. And I hit first at 16 and I put at about 12, 14 foot from help. He missed the greed to the right. Nobody ever has ever got down a champion. And he hit it 20 foot to the right and he went down and a gather speed hit the flag away dead. That's it. God is American. Then he hold it 25 foot in the next hole after hitting the tree and coming down. Oh. man it was just you meant to win yeah so a lot of close but you know ifs don't count no

ifs and you've got no excuses and it's it's what goes in the record book they can't right and if people would only judge golfers not say well he's charismatic he's good looking he's a long getter he's this or that just look at the record book say who's got the best record that's the way to judge so you got the part some of your family was telling us last night you're still out there tinkering your game constantly. I got no surround with my game too much anymore because I really, in spite of the fact that I won 18 majors, regular and senior tour and 165 tournaments, I only really learned, really learned how to play golf when I was 70. I've found things out that if I've known that when I was younger, you know, I was second in seven majors,

I would have won at least four of those majors. So, but you can't look back in golf, as I said, but I make excuses. I have to ask you what you've figured out. No, that you have to read about it on my new book. That's a businessman, too. That's a businessman, too. What about the opening T-Shah, however we feel in this year for this year? That's really amazing.

We got out-draft Jack. Yeah, well, you know, when I play with Jack, I generally, usually, I out-trive him. I think I can, if we play day-old and day-old, I can out-drive Jack at the moment. In fact, I definitely can. But tomorrow you get on the first tee, and you only get one shot. So you have to catch it. If you don't catch it, if he doesn't catch it, I definitely drive him. If I catch it.

If I don't catch it, then he'll out drive me. So you don't have a mulligan. I wish they give us a mulligan, but they don't. With a lot of pressure on one shot. No, it is, and there's probably over a billion people that see it around the world. Oh, yeah. So you better have a good-looking practice. That's true, that's key.

I'm so proud of you that you've lost that 40 pounds. Thank you. And this should be people's, you know, people live on medicine. And that's not the answer. Right. The answer is to eat properly and exercise. And I said to this old cowboy, once he was over 90, I said, how come you're so fit?

He says, I keep moving. And he says, until they throw the dirt over me. Wow. That's inspirational. Isn't it? Yes. Yeah, that's very inspiration. And you know, you see people, they work on the second floor in a building, and they take the elevator.

Right. I mean, if you work within ten floors, you should first a couple of weeks walk two, then the next week walk three, and the next week walk four until you get up to ten. Right. And if you find yourself getting tired, stop in the next days, just gradually increase. But walk up that ten, eventually that ten seems like nothing. So we're on the third floor. We've been trying to take the stairs more. Well done. Well done. And you should take two at a time not one You're going up you always take two really. Yeah, you see it look at my age here. Look I mean I get my foot above my height

I know this is early in the morning You see you've got to be able to move right now most 82 year olds Yeah, that's all they got and the other's a dead All my friends are playing golf with the dead. I'm having to get new four-ball They're not doing shoulder-high leg kicks. No, they're not a chance all the thousands of sit-ups. I mean this is like a Sounds strong. You've got it. Well, I don't know how strong it is. It's tight for my age, but it's you lose strength. You cannot, it's hard to beat and maintain the strength you have. Very hard. I mean, I notice it, I notice every year. Well, right now, I'm getting an eight iron, 140 yards where I used to have in 150 years. Right. So that's an incentive for me to become stronger here. So I've increased my steps.

Right. But everything shall pass. So you mentioned that you spoke with Tiger a little bit about strength and all that last day. How about his game this week? I think Tiger is playing very well. He's swinging so much better. He went through a period that he was not swinging well.

He was taking his hands and sucking him in here like this. And golf is staying on the line. The best player I ever saw was in Hogan. Okay. And he, you can see from that and he hit the ball and his hands went along the line, along the line extension. And he had good extension on his back seat. And he had great body movement. So the big thing, the best tip I can give all these players, who will watch your show is to learn to, you know, finish the shot rotation of the body. The body corns stayed. Still, everything's got to do and hold your finish. If you look at draw, if you look at all, you'll finish. If you look at draw, you. If you look at draw, you're going to. You know, Maca Roy. Such a great thing. You know, whewh! And you hold it like that. You have to have body strength to do that.

And that's where the exercise comes in, that you can hold it because you need the strength. And Tiger was last night and we were talking because a lot of these networks are telling the public that the weight training is not good. And Tiger said, Gary, and he says, it upset, it really upsets me to hear these people saying. hear these people saying this. Because when I played my very best, I was lifting very heavy.

He says, I'm still lifting heavy. And that's the reason that I'm able to play. Right. I mean, that comes from the horse's mouth. And I know the reason I'm able to beat my age by so many shots is because of my weight training. Right. If I never did it, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be, I'd tell you, I'd be lucky to break my age in 802. Yeah. So it's living proof. There's Rory telling him. He's lifting. You know, he stands in like this and he did this like that to strengthen. his back, almost 300 pounds as far as I understand.

So, every athlete in the world today, or 99% of athletes today, you look at the football players, you look at the baseball players, you look at every sport, athletes, athletes are lifting, guys who are running the 100 meters are lifting weights. You've got to

exercise, you cannot get away without it. And if you take your arm like this and you do this 20 times and you take a weight and you've got a 10-pound weight in your hand and you do that five times, it's more beneficial than doing that. Right. 20 times.

So why would you? So sometimes I'll vary it and I take lighter weights, more repetitions to get a bit of speed, but then when I'm going to get strength, I'll take a little heavier weight and do that. So you've got to know what you're doing. Right. And the thing is you've got to eat properly. And you've got to be able to sleep well. If you sleep well, you build up a good immune system.

And a good immune system is what keeps you going. Yeah. It's a divine gift, man. And I come over here and I believed I was gonna beat him. Why? Why did I do that? Why? It shouldn't be, but I did. I believe man, I'm gonna beat these guys. It's the same when I you know Doing my fitness routine in today still I mean I thousands of sit-ups a week I mean I pushed 380 pounds five days ago with my legs

380 pounds at 80 nearly 80 in my 80 third year running the treadmill at max No Ronald and Jack And I never stood on the tea with him And never believed that they were stronger than me Isn't that interesting? Yeah

Because I knew I was fitter than they were That there was no question But I related that to strength Of course you're an idiot But I didn't But you see the mind is so fascinating And we're still in our infancy in the mind We're in our infancy in the mind

We're in our infancy in the body And we're now infancy on eating And now these guys are walking around with a book on the green, seeing where the grain goes. I can't stand that. And you know, if you take me to a golf course, okay, that I've never played in my life, put me on it. I'll read those greens like a hawk.

I broke many exhibitions, course records that have been held for years. I went to play the first time I broke the course record. And so did Arnold and so did Jack. Because if you're a pro golfer, surely you know how to read a green. Right. And there are many secrets to learn how to read a green.

Many. and instead of finding a lot of those things out, they now come in the GPS and they do the greens and all this crap, and then they bring out a book. I mean, you know, it's just taking too much time. And I'll tell you what, they're going to stop that. If you are listening to me right now, you already know about this podcast, but do you know where to give us feedback on each episode?

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Join right now. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's it for us on another week of the Four Play Golf podcast, starting to hit our groove. We've got a massive year of golf ahead. The Masters is behind us. It's very sad. It's such a great event, and we were down there for a little bit. You come back, and you get the first one out of the year, but that just means there's so much more golf to come. There's a ton of golf to come.

We already talked about the Zurich Classic, the team event. Obviously, next month, we're going to have the players championship, and then boom, we start rattling. off more major championships. U.S. Open at Shinnock, British Open at Karnusti, site of my umbrella, where I purchased my umbrella that we talked about earlier. And then the PGA championship in my hometown of St. Louis at Belle Reeve. Rider Cup year, all kinds of good stuff. So Masters has gone. A lot of good stuff on the horizon. Love it, love it, love it. And it's golf season in the Northeast. Yep, but you finally had opening day, and it's time to get it rolling. The temperatures are starting to look up. Get the clubs out. You start cleaning the clubs. You start scraping dirt out of the

the grooves when you're watching TV at night, maybe watching the playoff hockey, just thinking about golf. It's a great time to be alive. It's golf season. I'm pumped. You're pumped. Another good show. We'll be back next week, next Tuesday, as we always are.

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