Fore Play - Steve Elkington On The PLAYERS Championship, Tiger, Reed & More

Episode Date: March 12, 2020

The hilarious 2-time PLAYERS champion Steve Elkington joins the show for the third time (25:13 - 57:27). Elk calls while strolling the range at Sawgrass, running into Pat Perez and commentating on Brooks Koepka chipping right in front of him. Elk weighs in on the course conditions, Patrick Reed’s situation, swing advice, Rory’s game and MUCH more. The crew also previews The PLAYERS and takes several From The Galleries, including if Tiger would have had more or less success if he were a left-handed golfer!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. Hey, folks, we've got a very special show for the Players Championship, one of the biggest weeks of the entire year. Steve Elkington, he's hilarious. He's been on the show a few times, but it's been a couple years. Elks live, he's walking around the range. He's talking to Pat Perez. He's talking about Brooks Kepka-chipping right in front of our faces.

He's got Breaking Tiger Woods News. It's about 25 minutes into the show, Elkington, starts. After that, we do a bunch of From the Gallery, some very funny stuff. And then also, I'd like to congratulate Tiger Woods on being inducted officially into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Congratulations. Well-deserved. Great show. Enjoy the players championship. Let's do this. We got a great show. A couple housekeeping items, Barstool Classic sold out in seven minutes. The only two stops that didn't fully sell out right away or the casino stops. We have one that's Lake Charles, which is Louisiana, which is like two hours away from Houston.

and then we have another in Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Hollywood Golf Coast. I think there's like two spots left at the Lake Charles one, the Hollywood Golf Coast, Mississippi one sold out. So by the time this airs, it's probably going to be fully sold out. But you can jump on the waiting list, barstoolclassic.com, jump on the wait list. And then go to our store. We have the hoodies. People are very excited about our Barstle Golf Hoodies.

It took us like three years of doing the show to create a hoodie. But we did it. Barstle Golf Hoodies. You go to store. com. You're wearing one right now. I've got one on. Incredibly comfortable.

Very comfortable. I don't know what it is. Do we usually do champion hoodies? You know, we've been throwing them in more of our different brands and franchises now. Someone tried to tell me that that color is more comfortable. I agree with that. Oh, definitely. That's true in close.

Whatever that is used to make that color, that fabric is more comfortable. And they might even try to tell you that the fabric's identical, but it's just not. It's not. No, the colors are different. I agree with that. Anything the color is different comfort. Someone's right to be with confidence. Yeah, I'm trying to combat that.

but like those usually do feel more comfortable than what you're wearing. What I wear right now is not as comfortable. I mean, I have a champion thing on. I bet it's like this is just different what Briggs is wearing. And it looks like you're wearing sandpaper right now, Frankie. Oh, do you have me just pop my growing? I did hear that. I might have been the uncomfortableness of that hoodie.

That thing just looks soft. It is. And it is. Store. Dot barstlesport.com. We also have Jones golf bags. We have kids clothing items. You know, we like kids, not in like a weird way.

And like, you know, I have a nephew and a niece now. You what? Kids are great. I like kids. So do I like kids. I like kids. It's weird that you can't say that anymore. And like it doesn't come off.

Like I can't say that I like kids. Like I like kids. You know what's different about it is that there's mics in front of our faces. Like I feel like in this atmosphere where we're kind of always looking for a little bit of a joke that we, I like kids comes across as like. No, I think that comes across weird anytime. Really? If you're like, yeah, I like kids and you don't have kids, I don't think you get to say it. I think you need to have kids in order to say it.

Here's an instance where you can say it. You'd be fine on a date for girls like, oh, do you like. Kids. Yeah, I like kids. It's a little forward. You can't lead with it though. She's got to ask, right? She can be like, tell me something about yourself.

And you're like, I like kids. It's like, okay. All right, well, then I'm going to leave. Yeah, I think this will be our last drink. Let's go ahead and wrap up. If you like kids, like we do, you can go to store. At barcelot Sports.com. We have kids clothing items on there.

The laptop's humming again. Why is your laptop? The thing sucks. That thing doubles as a helicopter. You're being so tired. I actually have a new laptop waiting for me. today. Brand new one. Brand new MacBook, but I'm afraid to switch over. I got so much stuff on here. Oh, yeah. That's, you know? That's like moving your, to a new apartment.

Nervracking, but I just have to mention it because I know people can hear it. Terrell Haddon, um, he's clearly a raw vocal guy and was very honest after his, um, win at bay hill a couple days ago about how he's probably not going to be ready to go until Wednesday at least in terms of recovery mode because he's going to party so hard. He, uh, followed up. You said, I'm still quite tired, to be honest. I was cuddling the toilet by five in the morning, so it was a good night. I said there's a lot of red wine. And then, unfortunately, I think the finisher was drinking the vodka and tequila out of the bottle,

which kind of never ends well. I fell victim to that, definitely. I think we can all relate to that, right? 100%. I don't know if I say it was a great night, though, when I hugged my toilet at 5 a.m. He's celebrating. It's like the parasite director when he was like, I'm going to go out and drink until the morning. I like people who back it up, you know?

Yes. It would have been one thing if he had like three glasses of wine and then it was like, I'm going to go to bed. I like that he went full tilt. I appreciate that he went full tilt. I'm just saying, I think things end better if you go full tilt and don't cuddle your toilet at five in the morning. How many times if you cuddle the toilet? Only a handful. Really?

I mean, I've thrown up a bunch, but like actually cuddling the toilet. Yeah, I fell asleep on the floor. Oof. The bathroom floor. I'd say twice. I've done it double-digit amount of times. Really? I'm not a puker.

So probably like never. I have a whole weird body system. I mean, sometimes I just puke in the morning. You wake up and just puke? One time in college. That's your body being like, why did you wake up? One time in college, I woke up. This is one of the weirdest stories of all time.

And actually, I like. Weird than the other story you told on this show where you were walking down the street and you woke up? Yes. Okay. Is this about your grandfather? No, this isn't about my grandfather. A follow up. Is that your brother about your grandfather flying sea planes?

Yeah. Throwing rocks outside the plane to see where they can land. Here's another question. I'll say that is a cool story. It's a very cool story. It's a very fast. I like that fact. It's not real, but it's a cool story.

It's a cool fact. Which I have another fact for you guys today, by the way, but I'll get to that later. People like your facts. You want me to tell you a fact right now? Yeah. Let me tell you something. I want to get to that story, though. I'll get to that story.

Give the story. So in college, we have a big night, huge night. I wake up the next morning. I'm feeling a little woozy. Jump out of bed. I've got like a sprain ankle. Jumped out of bed. I was like, oh, man, that thing is beat up.

grab my towel, shower, catty, get in the towel, get in the shower. And I'm in the shower and I'm like, I am feeling lightheaded, lightheaded. I thought you were going to say light. I was like, that can't be good. Feeling real weird. And the way our bathroom is set up in college is that basically it's like a horseshoe, pretty much. You walk in, sinks are on the left, toilets are on the right, and then you walk around and the shower's on the backside. I happen to be on the first shower, so as soon as you turn left, my shower is right there.

So I get in the shower and I'm feeling real woozy and I'm like, I got to get out of here because I'm like, it's almost spotty vision right now. Yeah. So I bend down to get my shower caddy. And when I do that, I like lose stability in myself and I go tumbling out of the shower, ass naked. And I get up. That's a lot of body. Oh, yeah. A surprising scene.

At this point, I can't really see. My vision is completely blurred. I'm ass naked and I stand up. And I see some kid to this day. I don't know who he is. He's just brushing his teeth and he looks at me. And at this point, I have just fallen out of the shower. I'm asking, I'm looking at him.

I don't know what. My vision continues to go blurry and blurry and bluerier. So I'm like, I got to figure it out. So I reach back. I get my shower caddy. I get my towel. I can't wrap it around myself. I've got like a test in like a half hour.

I just hold my towel in front of me bare ass. At this point, as soon as I look and push the door open to go to the main. hallway. Yeah. I can't see anything. Your blind. My vision is is blind. I'm blacked out. I can't see a thing. It was the most bizarre thing in the world. I get back. I like, so I don't even get back. I'm walking down the hallway. I'm feeling the hallway. Well, I still have the towel in front of me, but I'm bare ass behind me. And I'm feeling doors. You're just holding the towel. Yeah. I'm just holding a towel. I think you were blind at this point? I didn't know what was going on. I was terrified. Corona's going to kill you. This story end with the hospital visit? No. So we know you, we know you can see now.

So basically, I feel the door. And then it's like a keypad. So I know the numbers and I can feel the middle dial. It's like when you watch a prequel, like, I've been watching Better Call Saul. And I'm like, well, I know Mike doesn't die. He's a sick. Hermit Trout's going to be all right. It's everybody else.

All the other fringe characters. I get to my room. And at this time, I punch in the keys and I'm like, my roommate's Dungle, Dungle, Dunkle, like, do you got to get help. I can't see anything. And he's like, what? And so he puts out one of those. You know, like baseball chairs that just kind of unfold. He puts one of those in the middle room.

He's like, dude, sit down. Like, what the hell's going on? He's your bare ass down. So I'm like, dude, you got to get help. And he's like, I can't get help right now. I was like, why can't you get help? And, you know, he's doing some extracurriculars in the dorm room, blowing, you know, some certain smoke out the window.

So he's like, I can't help you. Sit in this chair. I sit. As soon as I fall in this chair, the thing snaps. All the parts go. So now I'm just lying on the floor. And his instance to help me was just to give me time. and about a 20 minutes later, my vision came back.

And then I just went and took the test and acted as nothing happened. And then I went down to the trainer later that day. And I was like, he was a good guy. I was like, you want to help me out with this? And then I just, I pretty much. Never talked about it. Back in my memory and never even thought about it again.

I sleep in the same apartment with this man. Yeah. Oh, no. It's. You got real issues. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I'm saying.

People with preexisting conditions, Corona takes them out. Well, that's what, you think that's why I'm not covering my body in Pruel? I'm a mental head case, but you have like real physical ailments. When I grew up, dude, I had a heart. I told you this. I had heartish. Yeah, your heart hates you. And I had a VCR pretty much a task.

Oh, I had that too. I remember. We talked about that. When you press the button, the sound goes off. Yeah. I have the batteries you need to run to pump that fucking thing. Dude, so one time, I was never good in like reading writing. He's got a car battery attached.

It was like eighth grade. It was kind of a fancy school. We had to wear like polos and stuff like that. And so I was just bombing this test. And so I was just, I just hit the button. When you hit the button, it's like a parachute. It mimics your heartbeat.

So it starts to go, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And the teachers knew that I had this, like, preexisting condition or whatever. So they're like, would you need help? And I was like, I gotta get out of year. I can't take this test any longer. Go right down the nurse. They give you some time and all. You feel better.

Amazing. I got all sorts of bodies. You're sneaky frail person. Frank, you have a fact? So this is called, this fact is called the rule of thumb. So we all use this term, right? You're loving these body part rules. The rule of thumb is.

a term that we all use. A rule of thumb may be that you don't wear white after Labor Day. That's just a rule of thumb, right? And it's something that's used in everyday, you know, communications. The fact behind this term is that back in the day, and I don't know the timing of this, it could have been real long time ago, the rule of thumb was actually used when someone committed an injustice and the way that these people would discipline, would discipline the person was they would beat them with a stick, no thicker. than their thumb. So it was the rule of thumb. So, like, you would get beaten for your injustice. Maybe you stole something from the local place or whatever. Yeah. And you'd get beaten by the local government or whoever's running, you know, the police in that area by a stick no thicker than their thumb.

Rule of thumb. That's darker than I thought it was going to be. Like I didn't. And it's amazing that your other facts are little, you know, they're fun. They're playful. And even worse, like, it's amazing that we use a fact like this because in this fact that I read, often like, you know, women would be, it would happen to, you know, people like that. And that's, it's crazy that we use this term.

And we don't use it. And we don't use it that way anymore, right? Like, it's not a punishment thing. Now it's a rule of the good thing. It's a rule of a rule. It's a real thumb. It's like a real thumb. It's like a real thing.

It's like a right. Like if you wear white. You'll say it on the golf course, right? Like, oh, is that? Can you hit it from there? Well, it's like, oh, we're real thumb. No. Is that correct?

I don't think. I don't think so. I got to say that didn't. Well, somebody, somebody poked a hole in your riddle the other day. What does that mean? About the ship going down to the bottom of the ocean. Well, they said what happens to the night? Yeah.

Well, see, we had a good discussion about that. We said that there's no evidence. There's no evidence that the knight died. Right. There's just, we're telling. So it is a riddle, right? We're not just explaining what happened. Now I'm using Trent's logic to it and Riggs's logic.

It's just a riddle. So I'm just telling you what I know. And I know that the king and the queen drowned in the boat. But did you say that? I say that. I say one night a king and a queen go out into a boat, and the boat capsizes and the king and the queen die who survives. So I thought you finished it with just the boat sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

No, the king and the queen die. So if you state that, then perfect. Right. And those are, that's Frankie's facts. Well, that's your lesson for the day, kids. That's good. Next time you think of rule of thumb, think of someone getting beaten with a stick, no thicker than the thumb.

I don't want to. There you go. You don't want to? No. You sure? That's the rule of them for the day. Unfortunately for you, now forever, every time you say that or use it or hear it, you're going to think about that. I hope not.

There's a ton of words like that where it has other meanings and like, like another word for a tank tap, which you're not supposed to use. No? Oh. I think that's falling out of favor. Yeah. Knife eater. It rhymes with. Yes.

Yep. Right? Yep. Whether you're writing a professional report or personal email, it can be hard to get the words right. We're talking about words right now. Your writing software may give you a few suggestions, but that only goes so far besides. There's so much more to be to writing well than catching mistakes. That's where Grammarly comes in to help you write confidently.

If there's anyone on earth who needs it, it's Lurch. I've been using them forever. Grammarly is fantastic. I will say it doesn't really show. Maybe you're not using them properly. I think I just use it in my professional email. Okay. So you're not using it.

Personal emails, personal text. How does it work? I don't know. How does it work, Lurch? So basically it just scans what you write and then says where you screwed up. And then it highlights it. Like Microsoft Word tells you where a spelling error is. This is what it does for punctuation.

Wow. It's terrific. Because you're an awful writer. Terrible. Yeah. Well documented. No, it's fair. I'm not hiding that.

No, being self-aware is very important. And the way I type, I try to keep it as almost like, when I type emails, I try to keep it like almost like business language. Yeah. You're using like hyphins and you can skip over. Hifens. Holy-hens, holy house. That's tough because you don't know how to use it. Right.

But I'll tell you what this does is it's great for me. Business emails must be a nightmare. to write out. Well, identifying you have a problem is the first step to improving it. Exactly. Fixing a problem. Grammarly is the next step. Everyone trying to send a business email is trying to appear smarter than they actually are.

It's like every, well, I feel like especially people like my age or kids that are like just out of college that really don't remember the exact ways. Like I feel like right now everything's a blur. Maybe it'll come back to me at some point. The more right out or Trent's shaking his head known. It gets worse. It gets worse. I'm going to say something very quickly. Get 20% off Grammarly premium when you sign up at grammarly.

dot com slash four that's grammarly.com slash four 20% off g r a m m a ral y dot com slash four but something that i was going to say is that um professionalism is just another word for like the fakes version of yourself right yeah like i was going to say masking yourself right it's it's a facade that's what professionalism is correct to mallet like there's no what other what other If you go home, you take your tie off, you take your jacket off, and you just lay down and be the gross human being you are. Professional in the front, party in the back. Mollett.

Professionalism. What do you think about that? Wait. Well, no, then you're just, no, that's not. No, the mullet is quite literally not the profession. You're hiding it. You're hiding. But that's not.

You're putting a facade on. Well, when we're talking about professionalism, you said the word mullet. But then by your definition, the mullet is quite literally the opposite of professional. What a bad analogy. That's awful. No one, no one who has a mullet hides their mullet. Well, when you look at them straight on, they're kind of hiding.

Who just walks around looking at people straight on? I feel like people say that. Maybe I don't really know. Maybe, but the way you explain it was wrong. I feel like people say that. Business in the front party in the back for sure. No, they definitely say that. The business in the front is what you should have said.

Yes, I just forgot the phrase, which totally blew my cover. That's fair. Yes. That's what I was going for. When he said the word professionalism, you should have said the front. Instead, you said mullet. You said the back, which is where the party is. Professionalism?

That's not. Professional is it the mullet? No. No. No. Yeah, you're right. You're right. The person is the margin.

The person is the bullet. Now we're on it. Now we're on it. It's getting me a comfy sweatshirt. The player's championship odds. I want to talk to these very quickly. Winners odds. Roy McElroy is the favorite plus $750.

Bobby McElroy. He's got a very weird issue going on this year where he just can't close. John Rom, who is the headcase who blew it last year. I believe it was the 11th hole at par five where he hit it into the drink from the bunker. Not even close. Caddy with a strong disagree. It got called off. basically got told like go fuck yourself and then was immediately vindicated when

Rom tried to hit a massive hook from like 230 or whatever it was around the trees over the water went right in the water lost in the golf tournament JT is a plus 1,400 Patrick Reed is a bet that I like a lot plus 3,300 Patrick Reed this is the type of tournament where he just steps up and wins right like everyone's roasting him chirping him you know that he cannot stay out of the media the media keeps that story alive people are yelling at him. There's going to be chirping at the 17th hole this year, which he responded to if he was worried about it. And he said, no, not really. But then he did go on and say, I cannot hit it in the water the next four days because if I do, if I hit it in the water once, I won't hear the end of it until next year. So a little bit of awareness there from Patrick

Green knowing, you know, that there are going to be hecklers for every little thing that he does wrong. This will get more highlight than most things because it's 17th of sawgrass. Kiz is a 125 to 1 to win. Kiz lost in a playoff here to when Ricky Fowler won and should have won that year. Right. He had some great chances to win. He ended up, I think was Sergio the other man in that playoff? I want to say it was Sergio in that playoff, but whoever, I think it was Sergio.

And the third person got eliminated. Like, Kiz played so well, the other guy got eliminated. Kiz actually hit pretty tight on 17 on the hole that Ricky Birdie 2, just not as tight and missed the put. So Kiz very, very realistically at 125 to 1,000. one, I think, is a pretty good bet. I also looked at our euro, our favorite Euro, which is Matthew Fitzpatrick. He's 60 to 1. And then if you're looking for a little value play, too, I saw Mark Leashman, I think, is 50 to 1.

Leishman, I feel like, could win. He's coming off second place finish. I think he was second at Bay Hill. And he's just steady eddy, and you've got to hit the ball well here. He does, so I could see Leishman winning. You're going to talk about value. We got Brooks Keppka at 39, some books at 41. He sucks right now.

I know. I understand that he has recent struggles, but how do you not put a little bit of cash on Brooks Kepka right now at 40 to 1 eyes? I'll make a bet with you right now. What? I bet you $20 he doesn't finish in the top 20. Top 20. Fine. Fine.

Fine. I like that bet. Witness. That's a good bet. Top 20? Top 20. I mean, Brooks Kepka is still a top 10 player in the world. Easily.

He just sucks right now. That's fine. He'll get it back. I think come like even the master's. your boy, Bryson's going to have a good run this week. Wow. Fuck them. Okay.

Yeah? Yeah. Okay. I think Bryson's got a good chance this week. My money's on Bryson and Rom. It's funny you bring that name up. I bet you $20. He doesn't win it.

That's... That's an outrage. Good try. I just wanted to win. I'll do the top 20 bet with Bryson. Nah, because he's... I agree with that, though. I don't stumped that.

We were talking about Patrick Reed, and I brought up Use Golf Fax. Just look at the Twitter account. like to look at it sometimes. Sure. There's a new like on there. What is it? So the first, like, there was only one the whole time, and it was a Guardian article in defense of Patrick Reed. This time around, it is a Sir Nick Faldo tweet, holy club speed, this man is great entertainment. It's a video of Bryson D. Chambot hitting a golf ball. If you'll remember, Bryson D. Chambot, remember he said that we're like coworkers. Me and me and Patrick Reed.

Wow. I'm just saying. Connecting the dots. By the way, that video is insane. It is. Yeah. Bryson's swinging the club. 201 miles an hour. Is that the driver? Yes. Yeah. He's a big. Nick Faldo's in the background being like, what is going on?

It's crazy. Dude, he is a freak. It's crazy. It's working out so far. Like, he set out on this mission and said, you won't understand how jacked I'm going to get. Then he got crazy jacked. And then it's just, he's playing great golf.

When he was making those puts last weekend, he was making Hulk like uppercut. Which I love that kind of fire. He's a fun to watch. I love that fire as well. You think he's going to like rip a hole in the earth. He's going to rip something. Something's, going to explode the way he's moving his body. Is he swinging

195 to 200 miles an hour during tournament play? No. Okay. What kind of ball do you need that? I feel like your balls say like 105 to 115. He goes that it's so hard here. He goes at it's so hard. How hard do we swing? Us? 92. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no. If you're, uh, um, 225. 300. 120 miles an hour? It's pro. I think you're in the top, uh, you're in the top, uh, you're in the top, uh, 10 and clubbed speed on the tour with really, 125. I would say we're around, um, I'm probably like 105. I bet you're like 110.

Somewhere around there. That'd be my guess. He put, he pulling up 201. Double. How's that possible? I'm just guessing on that. He put,

no, that's, the 201 would have to be, mile for hour. The 201 would be ball speed. Oh, there's a difference. Ball speed and club speed.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, yeah. What's our ball speed? I don't know ball speed as well as I know the others. Ameter, let's type like 10 handicap ball speed.

Googling that in real time. Yeah. The average male amateur swing speed is 93.4 miles out. We're better than the average. According to research by Trackman for an average distance, 214 yards. So, like, we obviously hit it farther than that. We're strong.

Tramman's optimal distance is the average golfer potential is 255 yards at the same swing speed. Okay. Driver ball speed. I can't find the exact ball speed right now, and it doesn't make for great podcasting. We probably found out when we got fitted, right? Definitely. Here we go.

I got a whole little PDF. Wow. Trackman combined averages, male. amateur driver, scratch or better, 161 miles an hour. Five handicap, 147 miles an hour. 10 handicap, 138 miles per hour. Average golfer, 133 miles per hour. Boki golfer, 131 miles per hour.

Okay. I want to say when Tiger came back in 2018, remember everybody's raving about his ball speed and club speed? I think it was like in the 180s, was his ball speed, like 181 or something. The highest recorded ball speed ever, 225 miles per hour by former long drive champion, Ryan low. Woo. Fast.

Tech, the definition of ball speed, the speed of the guffal, center of gravity immediately after separation from the club phase. How the hell do they fucking... How do you... How do you get that? No idea. We could barely get the radar gum when we were doing it in the office for the baseball.

How the hell do they see what the speed is exactly after contact? Smart people. Science is crazy, man. Okay, we've got Steve Elkington, elk, who's hilarious. He's great. He's funny. He's raw.

He's a two-time play. player's champion. He's a PGA champion. He's up next. We're going to talk a little bit more sawgrass and then we'll be back. We've got some from the galleries to get to as well. Top performers in business and sports often attribute their success to their morning routine, whether it's waking up early, setting their goals for the day, exercise or meditation, but not everyone has the time to do it all. With hydrant, you can jumpstart your mornings. Did you know that 75% of us are walking around every day life chronically dehydrated? That's not good. We are suffering needlessly.

from frequent headaches, energy slumps, poor focus. It does not have to be this way. You want to kick the coffee habit, but you're worried about your energy levels. To avoid the morning sluggishness and that midday slump, you need to make sure you are hydrated with hydrant. Hydrint creates flavored electrolyte packets you mix directly into your water to make hydrating your body easy and delicious.

Each rabbit hydration mix has the four essential electrolytes your body needs. Sodium, potassium, magnesium, and zinc. Help you hydrate quickly and stay. hydrated all day. For 25% that's 25% off your first order, you go to drinkhydrant.com. Enter promo code 4 at checkout. Drinkhydrant.com code 4. We're going to get you 25% off your first order.

Hydrant starts at just a buck, a packet for a 30-day supply. You can save even more with a monthly prescription. That's drinkhydrant.com, 25% off with promo code 4. My man, Riggs. Hey, Elk, what's up? What's up, buddy? I'm doing great I'm on the range with Pee Pee's there

Yeah Pepper is I feel like he's mad at me Is he No it's just Whenever he's with kids He tells kids That I'm supposed to

Call him You mad at Riggs He said he won't He said you fucking dishing him That's not true That's a lie Did you hear him what he said that What he said?

Did you hear him rig? He said he? said he told Kizma, get him on the show, get him on the show twice. Fuck, you haven't got him on the show. Yeah, we're going to get him on the show right now. What, you want to put P.P. on instead of yourself? Yeah, fuck, he's playing. Yeah, I'll get his insight, too.

I don't want to bother guys that are playing on the Wednesday of a tournament. That's pretty standard protocol, I feel like. No, I don't blame you for that. Thank you. How's he looking on the range? He looks good. He's fucking, he's got it in there. Nice.

Okay, he's got it in there. Like, he's slotting it, like, stuff that I don't know. know how to do. Exactly. Slot. He didn't slot. I've seen your action. You're like a fucking dog's breakfast.

You're all over the show. Look, what I wanted to ask you about, because my game is in shambles. I just came back from Pebble. I mean, you wouldn't believe how many shots at Spanish Bay I hit that just weren't in play. I didn't get to hit a second shot for like five holes in a row. I know. Spanish Bay is fucking narrow to. Clostrophobic.

Trouble everywhere. Trouble everywhere. You want me to do official intro or you want to just? You want to roll it. You want to put this whole thing in? Yeah, let's roll it. Let's keep going. You want to.

All right. Steve Elkington. I got my, no, no, I'm going to, you, you're a very accomplished man. I believe you deserve a nice introduction. So, you are the 1991 and 1997 players champion. You won by seven shots in 97. Is that right? That's correct.

1995. Good week. PGA champion. Ten total PGA tour wins. Secret golf, which you guys have some great talent out there. digital, all kinds of good digital media on the game. You've got the app, but you were telling me earlier with a lot of the GPS now. You can show people, I believe, on site.

The GPS says how far away you are from each other and this and that. So Elk, welcome back to the show. I think it's your third time on. Is that right? I think so. I mean, my son, Sam, who's here right now with me, he was the one that introduced me to your cool, you know, cool, cool, cool guys platform. So I've enjoyed watching Bastille's getting bigger, bigger, bigger. Cool guys platform.

And kind of nudging out all the antiques over here in the golf business. Yeah, do you see some of our little back and forth we had with the antiques? Oh, sure. You guys can't lose. Don't worry. I can't win. You guys got the momentum. I appreciate that.

So Sawgrass, TPC, the players championship. It's moved now, obviously, back to March. You think that's better or worse? Well, I think it brings. in more elements into this type of course. You know, this is a better time of the year, I think, for the players. It's windier down here, and, you know, the weather's a little bit, maybe more mild. There could be some trade-offs with course conditioning, though the course is great.

They have maybe water the course too much. The players are not happy at the moment with the mud balls, you know, that they're getting stuck to the ball when it's landed in the fairway. Considering that, as we all looked, saw Bay Hill last week, was so dry and so perfect, here we are like a fat sandwich from Bay Hill and it's soaking over here. So players aren't happy right now, but of course looks really good. As we here we are on the eve of this 2.7 mil for the winner this week, mate. Can you believe that out?

You know, I was telling some guys today, I said, I got nothing complaining about it. I thought we were playing for tons of money, you know, when I was playing. I thought it was tons of money when I was playing. So this is great for them. Isn't it kind of bullshit that? They do all the overseeding, the overwatering, and they get the soft. I mean, you're an Aussie. You're an Australian guy.

You get the firm fast conditions. Isn't that make golf way better? It does. It does. It makes more unpredictable. You know, it's all about, you know, the product, the TV. And, you know, and actually, you're going to be honest with it, a couple greens here. They're really dodgy this week.

Mate, 17 has been resotted in the front. I don't even know if they can have a front pin, the back pin. I was just on it a minute ago. And it's got a big sod spot, short right, where they play on the front. Sunday. It's gnarly over there. I mean, they've only had a year to get ready, mate. And so they've had a few little blemishes around the golf course, but nonetheless, mate, it's going off tomorrow. It's going to happen. And there's a lot of guys, you know, the cat's not here. But I know how big you are on the cat. And I talk to Steinberg today. He says, he's okay. We're all being worried

about the cat. But it's probably coming back for the match play. He's got a grumpy back. Grumpy. Okay. the board I got today. That's better terminology than I've been hearing. That's where we got your boots on the ground, man. Yes, right. Looks like you'll be at the match players, what Steinberg told me. Okay.

That's a little breaking news right there. I like that. You bring an info to the show. That's good for me. Good for you. That's good for all of us. What was it like for you? I mean, we just talked, 97.

You obviously won the players. That's when Tiger won the Masters by 12. You were right there in the thick of things when Tiger became a real thing. I mean, now here he is over 20 years later. He's going to be the defending Masters champ. That's kind of your whole perspective on the whole thing, witnessing kind of everything that's gone down over the last 20-plus year. Well, I smoked him that week here in 97, a couple weeks before the Masters.

So there's that. Actually, funny about the 97, I'll get to Tiger in just a second, but I won the Durow in 97. Then I came over here and won here, so almost back to back. Like the leading money, we're going to go into the master that year when Tiger won his first. And, you know, going now talking about him, you know, we've all seen this book called the Tiger Woods book. We've all witnessed this life, this great, you know, skills and ups and downs he's had. Hey, you guys go, we'll walk it back because I'm on with Riggs.

Yeah, hang on, Riggs. Hey, PeeP. Hey, Pee Pee. Hey. What's up, brother? How are you doing Pee Pee? How's the game? I'm doing it.

It runs nice. I don't know if I finally started to put some shit together here. All right. You're going to play well this week? Yeah, I hope so. Me too. Me too. He's a big week.

Hey, yeah, I've asked kids twice to, you know, come on a deal, and I haven't heard anybody. Look, we had you on before. I don't know if you forget that. And we're going to have y' on. I don't want to bother you guys on a Wednesday of Players' Championship Week. Yeah. No, no, no, but, you know, he told me, like, two months ago. We'll get you on the show.

All right. I look forward to it. Love your stuff. I appreciate that. Love your stuff. That's one of our go-to lines. That's it, baby. All right.

I'll talk you soon. Play well this week. Thanks, though. Anyway, there you go. So that was good. There you go. You're networking for us. Yeah.

So what I was saying was we've all witnessed this book, right, which was all this greatness. And we all sorts tied at the 97. And we've seen a couple of dodgy chapters, mate. there's been a couple of, you know, mysteries in the middle of the book, but we all are going to get to witness the end of this, right? Which is Sam, my son said to me on the way driving to the course today, he said, Dad, you really think that, like, this is it?

Like, he's done, he's going to be done soon. I'm like, well, someone told me a stat yesterday, he's only played 109 events in the last 10 years. So that's not very many. That's like 10 a year. So that stat has, in fact, been confirmed. So when we start to start to think about him, playing eight or seven or six or whatever, well, I think that's a reality.

I think that's something that we all have to think about, you know? Big time. So, you know, you were talking about your own game, how well you played and did play at different stretches, dominating certain tournaments. Incredible ball striker. I just told you a few minutes ago that I couldn't hit a golf ball and play the last round I played to save my life. So give me some driving tips.

Give me some keys to driving it long and straight. Well, you know, without seeing you swing, I've seen it on Twitter, you know, following Bastille's and following you guys playing. Mate, you've got to be like a wrecking ball when you swing a driver, right? You've got to be like a big ball on a chain that swings and hits a building, right? You can't be jerking it down. You can't. It's got to be taught and it's got to have some hammer on the bottom of, right? So you've got to manage that speed of that weight, right?

Does that help? Definitely helps. I mean, I'm taking out buildings now. I just went from slapping it like a little bitch to I'm knocking down buildings. I'm a wrecking ball. So, you know, you're coming to Houston, right?

You guys are doing the thing at Wildcat? Yeah. Where do you want to come out? You're going to be around? I might have to come down and see you guys that day. Oh, let's do it. We are May 29th. We're going to be at Wildcat.

Yeah, I know it well. It's not too far from maybe I come down. We'll do a little. Bar still stand-up, something. I love that. I think we're on to something. You know, was it, do you guys still do, last time I had John, I think you had like a truck right next to the players or something?

That's big, big, yeah, the biggest bus in the world, big double-decker. Don't have it, not using it right now because I don't have any way to do it with, but still still right there. Yeah, you still got the bus? Bring the bus. Oh, yeah. We could. It's a big effort, but we'll see.

It's the biggest bus in the last. a world? Yeah, double-decker, my big, double-decker. Big show. Holy shit. Big show. I got to ask you about Patrick Reed. You know, he's, uh, he's drawn some, a lot of criticism. He's incredibly controversial. You've drawn a little bit of criticism in your life, some controversy in your life and your career. What do you, does any part of you, um, relate, sympathize? Do you think

he's the worst? You know, some of yourself? Big time, big time. And we've said that on the show that like, hey, there's a little part I mean that thinks like this guy's stirring it up is, you know, even though you might, you think he's a cheater or the family thing, it's questionable, like, party of thinks, like, I kind of respect that he stirs it up. So where do you sit with Patrick Green? Well, you know, he's definitely cheated when he was in that tournament in Bahamas. You know, he got fine for it. You know, he just didn't have a very good explanation of what happened that day, and that hasn't sat well. And, you know, me, I'm a huge Astros fan. And their explanation didn't sit very well with everyone either. So unfortunately, for baseball there's been decades of no to cheating it's almost part of the game and golf we don't have that so very shocking right with uh with golf and you know read you know he's such a good player he's got such a good swing puck so good shame that uh you know he wasn't able to maybe say

you know what that was stupid that what was i thinking and just take the penalty and move on and then things would have been different. However, took a different path, and he's paying the prize for it now, and he may not ever get out from underneath that, you know. Yeah, he... I don't think he's going to be doing any more of that, put it that way. No, he is, you're right, he is not taking a path that seems to be making it go away anytime soon, to the point where he just said, I think today or yesterday, that if he hits a ball in the water on 17, that they're going to talk about it for a year.

You know, look, it's, it's, it's, it's, he's, there's an old expression that you know it well, you know, you, You made your own bed, right? Now you go to line it. Do you have student loans refinancing them with earnest could save your money or lower your monthly payment and it only takes two minutes to check your online rate? That's two minutes, ladies and gentlemen. A little financial relief goes a long way.

Student loan refinancing with earnest can help you pick a monthly payment that fits your budget so you can breathe easy today. Life can be unpredictable, but you don't want that to affect your bank account. Whether you want to lower your monthly expenses or pay off debt sooner, Ernest student loan refinancing has a solution for you.

Ernest is the easiest way to refinance your student loans, saving you time and money if you're still paying the same rate you were when you graduated. Odds are you can reduce your monthly payment and save big. If you qualify, Ernest offers customizable loan terms and no fees. Checking your new rate, it's fast, it's easy. To start, you complete a couple of questions online. Only takes two minutes. You'll get a personalized rate estimate.

Already if you refinanced a loan, no problem. you can still be eligible to lower your interest rate again with Ernest. Plus, the Internet loves earnest customer service. They've rated it 9.4 out of 10 on trust pilots, so you'll always get the support you need. Start saving today. Our listeners get a $100 cash bonus when you refinance a student loan at earnest.com slash four. $100 cash bonus.

You refinance a student loan at earnest.com slash four. Go to earnest.com slash four today. terms and conditions apply. So you're a huge Astros fan. I mean, you're an Australian guy. You couldn't have been into baseball until you came over here, right? That's correct, yeah. But I've been here more than half my life, you know.

So I'm a huge Astros fan. Jim Crane's a good friend of mine, the owner. You know, we live and die every pitch down there in Houston on the Astros for about the last four or five years. I've seen them when they weren't any good. and we've got a really good, really good bunch of guys on the team. It was pretty shocking, actually, to us as well as fans to say, well, you know, geez, was that really going on and how much of it, you know,

watch the video, heard the this, and that. And then, you know, you start to, you know, get the mob mentality where, you know, the apology's not enough and they want more and you've been through this, you know what it's like. And then all of a sudden, will the season start very soon? Will it go away? Or will they have to take the heat when they come through? your neck of the woods and everyone else is probably the pitches are thrown at them.

One of the things that's confusing to me is that the players union came in and said, look, we're not going to hold any of these players accountable. We're not going to find any of them. We're just going to find all the management and everything. But now other players aren't sort of standing with the union by sort of standing with the players. It's sort of odd, don't you think? Definitely. I'm just curious what you as a fan.

I mean, how are you guys going to, are you mad? Are you mad at the team? No, I'm not mad at the team. They cheated. You know, Al-Tuvie, I know. Al-Tuvie is my guy, and he's swinging at the first pitch in the boat. What's coming? And I don't understand, yeah, I don't understand what the degree and everything.

I know it. I know they cheated. They said they did. Or they're like Reed, right? They've been fine for it, and they said they did it, you know? So that's it for you. You're over. You're like, yeah, we said.

sorry, what do you want us to do? Well, like I said, I mean, I'm not a baseball guy, but I love it, but I've been told by real expert baseball guys that every era has had a major cheating scandal through decades of baseball all the way. Every decade has had a major cheating scandal, and every guy on second base is stealing base. Before technology, they used to have another technology I was told. It was called binoculars to steal bases.

So now it's a computer banging on a deal. So it's like not, it's not exactly new, is it? No. It's pissed that it's this technology. You're right about that. That was our take on our radio show, too, for the most part, or especially right when it all first broke, was like, people have been trying to steal signs for a hundred years. So just because they found, like, a little bit better or different or more sophisticated technological way to do it, how much more wrong does that make it? So it is, you know, I mean, I can't understand people to a certain degree defending it, but as long as you admit that they did.

I want to ask you about the premier golf league in the 90s, and he was Greg Norman, and it's not the first time something like this has popped up with some support. What's your take on the PGL? Well, I just don't see how it can make any momentum. We talked about it last night at length with a couple of two players, and, you know, without Tiger and Rory, it's not going anywhere anyway. And, you know, there's a few other sort of intangible things,

or there's miscellaneous things that have to be thrown in the table before you go down the big what do you think rule, which is there's no world ranking points applied to any tournament or tour that hasn't been in existence for three years. So right out of the gate, whoever goes

over there doesn't get any points for three years. Now, are they going to have contracts for three years? I don't know. I mean, do you really want to does Tiger really want to put his eggs in the basket that he was going to go for Jack's record? He's made, whatever he's made, half a billion dollars, and now he's going to go over

and take this money and turn his back on this deal while he's going for 18? I don't know. It doesn't sound very good. The money? Yeah, the money's big. But what do you get for it? Who's going to show it on TV? Is it guaranteed?

Is it, you know, where's the audience? Do you have a fan bag? You know, all these things. I mean, the tour players are quick to, and I'm for the tour players, the tour players are quick to turn their back on what was being built for decades, you know? Big time. I mean, part of me thinks. Is there some underlying feeling among tour players that they should be getting a bigger cut?

Like, is that why the Premier Golf League is even able to get any legs at all? I'm not saying that it has, like, any momentum or this, that. But unless there was some whispers or chatter or something that the PGA tour that the players weren't happy with, and there wouldn't be an emergence of anything, right? Yeah, and I think, you know, I don't, I'm, you know, I was in the middle of all that other thing with Greg Nolan back in the day. I was in the top 10 players in the world. So we looked at all that sort of stuff.

And, you know, the players say, well, you know, maybe it's going to make changes on the PGA tour. Maybe we can get some more elite events. And I'm like, what elite events. You get to pick whatever elite event you want to play in every week. Right. How many, which 20 do you want to play in? How much more elite do you want?

So, I mean, right now they can play in all the four majors, all the four world golf fund. This is be the guys we're talking about for this league. All the great events. the great courses. You're at 20 now. What do you want? It's true. What's more elite than those. It's very, look, it's very true. And I don't know how you can just, especially without Tiger and Roar, you simply can't make the events elite. I mean, they're the two biggest straws. The drop off between, the drop off between that and that is so astronomical. It's almost

comical between those two and the next 95% of the crowd is drawn by two guys right now. And, you know, I'm looking at Brooks Kefka, he's hitting chip shots right in front of me. And he's there, too. He's one of the, he'd be one of the big three right now. He pulls a crowd too, you know? So, yeah, yeah, he does, but he's not on the level of a Rory or Tiger in terms of, in terms of drawing a crowd, in terms of golf he is, but in terms of drawing a crowd, those two, whatever it is, just that star pie. I mean, the way that Rory walks, even, like he's got the biggest dick you've ever seen

your entire life, that draws people. People love that shit. Yeah, I like Brooks for our sport. He's, you know, he's different, you know, he's playing for the, majors, he's proved himself, he's won him. A lot of guys say, you know, well, there's only five guys in his tournament that can win. Well, that's Jack's line. That wasn't Brooks's line.

You know, Jack used to say the same damn thing back in the day. He's like, well, there's only major is the easiest because there's only a few guys can win. So, right, and I'm standing there watching him chip right now. How's he look chipping? He looks good. He's big. He's a big set of shoulders.

How's that knee looking? You look, knee look for? You know, I'm worried about that knee because He had Patella tear and my daughter just went through Patela's surgeries. And I know being with her, that Patela's big time. And he didn't do the surgery. He did injections and stem cell, I think. And so it's still partly torn. I mean, tears don't grow back with stem cell in short order as far as I've researched.

So I don't know, I'm not, I don't know, but I'm not convinced. I'm speaking a little harsh because I don't want him to hear me. but I don't think he's 100%. Yeah, you got a little David Farity going to you right now. You're like right next to the green trying not to interrupt the players, but your common thing on it?

Yeah, I don't want him. I don't want him talking about him. Right. What kind of chips is you hitting him high, hitting him low? What does he got? Yeah, no, he's hitting a little soft lob shot from off the green with a little check on it,

working with his coach. Okay. Doing something there. He looks like he, is he nipping him pretty nicely? Looks like is technique is good or what? Coach is holding his head still and they just hit a nice shot. Yeah, looks good. I got a question for you.

I put a video out today where I had a 63-yard bunker shot, bladed it over the green, made a bogey. How do you hit like a 60-yard bunker shot? Yeah, that's a hard shot, isn't it? I mean, yeah, you're telling me. Well, if I was going to tell you, like, on the spot, I would say set up to the 60-yard or like you're hitting it off the grass, right? so set up all your weight like you're everything like you're going to hit off the grass because you're not going to hit it fat off the grass probably right right so set it up everything for that shot from 60 and then maybe scoot your stance back a quarter of an inch so you're just going to if everything being equal you would hit it just a quarter of an inch fat that might work okay I'm sure you didn't think of any of that no no no I didn't but I'm going to I'm going to put that in my little tickler file next time I'm out there you tripping around I'm going to work on that yeah

Our defending champions, Rory, we just talked a little bit about Rory. What do you make of him not being able to close lately? I mean, you again, your top 10 player, you've won some huge tournaments in your career, so you've been there. What's that mental block like? What do he thinks is going on with Rory not being able to finish tournament? He's the best player out here by a mile right now. Why can't he win that?

I'm sure he's asking himself the same question because, you know, he's parts a lot better, quite honestly, than he's ever did. you know, he used to miss putts quite often, as we recall. But now he's pretty solid with the putter. So you would think that would be the cork that fixed that leak. And he drives it the best of anyone. And so then you have to ask yourself, well, what is it? Why isn't he doing it?

Certainly last week it wasn't from someone else going low. He went high, right? So you'll have to talk to him. But I would say that I think he's what he said, seven top fives in a row. He just tied Tiger's record and somebody said that he's exactly like Tiger. Bullshit, he's nothing like Tiger.

Tiger had seven, he would need to lead seven times. He would have won seven times, maybe six. Right? He's nothing like him. I mean, that's what makes him the cat. That's what separates him, obviously. But it is. You know, you wonder people say he doesn't have that killer instinct

or whatever the difference is. It's just weird. I mean, he won huge tournaments before. So why all of a sudden would you have some block when it comes to Sunday? He posts 76 this last Sunday. He's had the, you know, Riviera. He's had a bunch of times you could list off where it's like, man,

this guy's clearly the best. He should be winning. He does look a lot more natural when he's putting now. That's, you know, that's huge. Yeah, he does. So, you know, for him, you know, I'm sure the season's all around the masses, right, finishing the Grand Slam and he's got, you know, he has a tendency to sort of disappear in the biggest moments, right?

Like he said last year at the Irish Open, which St. Larry won, which was the greatest story in his own right, where he wasn't ready for that crowd on Thursday to be so supportive. I'm like, how can you not be ready? You're from Ireland, and you're like the best player in the world. I mean, how can you not be ready? So it was odd, right? It's odd that he wasn't ready.

So that's maybe an oversight, right? Or I wouldn't think, why aren't you thinking about not being ready? You know what I mean? That would be my first initial thinking, but he should have been ready, don't you think? Yeah, he's doing a lot of reading now, too. You ever do any, you ever go any phases where you're doing a lot of reading, elk just grinding over books? Yeah, I've been through.

stages where I've read on the tour, you know, novels and stuff. I'm not reading any self-help and stuff like that, you know, but I'll leave that for Jack Daniels for this self-help, you know, whatever. Self-help books. Really hard salsa. I figure it's, you know, you have a 20, 30-year career out there. You go through a lot of different phases, right? It's different than other sports, golf, so mental.

So, yeah, it's got to be interesting going through all these different mental and physical phases of your career. Well, I'm looking at Pat Perez now. You know, he's sort of 45. You know, he's got a kid now, and now he's on the backside of his career. And it's like Tiger. He's on the backside of it. So he's got to take what he gets.

He's got to limit where he plays. He's got to be ready when he gets there. There's no messing around. Not going out there fishing or, you know, drinking on Tuesday night. He's here to do business. So, yeah, you're right. I was out on the course today with Colin Morikara. Morikawa looks the best young player I've ever seen.

I mean, he hasn't missed a cut since. He's come on tour. or Pat told me. That's been a year. That's a rookie. I don't know if anyone's ever done that. So there's some, there's another stat for you.

And he's won. So Morikawa looks so good to me. He fades the ball. And I just haven't seen that kind of fade. There's variations of fades that only, you know, us guys look at and say, oh, okay. It's like a slider. I hadn't seen before.

This one's a really good one. So I'm going to be picking him in my gambling game this week, which, you know, I'm all about. What's your gambling game? Tell me about a gambling game. Well, I own a, you know, I own my app SG 2, which is a great app. It's all supported by 33 tour players. And I'm up in a new game this week called Money Grabber, where you can go in, right now you can go in the app store and get SG Tour app.

And I don't like Fantasy Golf. Fantasy Golf's crazy. We don't have, you know, we don't have a salary cap and six things. You get penalized for this, that, and the other stupidest games I've ever seen. So my games are original. So the money grab a game is we take four players, ABC and a D from the world rankings, and we just take the prize money that they win for the week and squish them together. And whoever wins the most won, he wins the game.

And then we do a projection on the school board, so it's going to be fun. There's plenty of public games in the forum. You should go in there and join. Play Elks game, a $10 game with me this week. Rick, spruce it out a little bit, mate. Sprinkle a little back into the community. I'm sprinkling. We're big sprinklers over here.

You know that. So we got that going. Okay. I like more car. I think he's a C player, if you can imagine that. And then we've got some really nice added bonuses in this week. We've got a GPS feature, which you mentioned in the opening, which means that we have flyover.

So if you're out here, you're following Brooks, for example, you're on number two. You'll have the app open and you'll have a GPS following you, so you'll know if he's 142 to the front, and you'll see what the middle in the back is. So that's cool for the fan. And we have PUT predictor, of course, which is the exact replica of the green in a 2D, 2D, two dimensions. So we set the pin in the app.

So you'll see the exact pin that's on you're looking at. And then when the ball goes up on the green, you just move the ball with your finger, and then you click predict, and it shows you what the brake's going to be. So that's cool for the fans. So we've got all that going on, and it's very popular, and we're having a lot of fun with it. I will say that the GPS, the distance thing is very cool, because golf is one of those sports. We're watching it in person is typically way more difficult than watching it on TV.

And if you're sitting near the green or whatever, you want to know what the guy's got in. If you can't tell if he's got like 195 or 145, that's a massive difference. You know, if the guy hits it on the 40 feet from 190, you're like, pretty good shot. But if he hits it to 40 feet from like 125, you know, what would you be hitting there, right? What would you be hitting? Right. And, you know, we do games.

We don't do 10,000 people in the game. 144 in our game same as the tour and we have a cut so you're going to make the cut in the game where you're not and everyone's everyone who makes the cut splits all the money so that's we play golf games so that's that's what we work on over here is you golf I love golf games are you still uh you still near Brooks Kepka yeah I am you want to ask him if he's if he's going to tell him Rigg says hi or is he grinding too hard right now I don't know do you know him we've had him on the show before but it has been like a year Sam, take a picture of Brooks right there and send it to Reg.

You get his number? He's talking to his coach. He's giving him a lesson right now. We don't interrupt the lesson, that's fair. Yeah, he's really grinding with Pete Cowan. You know, Pete Cowan from England, they're grinding. Yeah, what do you think of these guys with their whole entourage and their coaches these days? Well, you know, I tell Sam all the time, you know, I'm like, you know, 2.7 mill, as I said to you,

I think I said it earlier on the show that we thought, I thought we played for a lot of money, but they're playing for so much money, you know, 2.7 million this week, and I don't know, what do they give these guys? I don't know what they give a guy like that. Does he give him a thousand bucks or something by the hour? I don't know.

But if it gets him up and down five more times, I was playing Jason Coak, one of our guys. I said, how did you play last week? Because I knew he played, and he made the cut. He said, I think he's 18. I said, what did you get for that? 30 grand? He goes, no, I got 117.

I said, what d'ar? That's amazing. You got 117 grand? He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 76 out for taxes. He said, what are you, kid? I mean, come on. That's amazing.

Yeah, that makes you want to, you know, if you're born 20 or 30 years later, elk, what could have been? Well, you know, I always tell everyone that Jack Nicholas won, you know, what do you win, 79 and 18 majors, he won five million official. So I won 15 million official and, you know, won a, 15th of what Jack won. So there you go. I just got this video.

Sam just sent me, just messaged me this video. Oh, you guys got a great view. You guys are right next to them. Yeah. Oh, you sent him a little video? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're right there.

Yeah, you even see the clubhouse in the background. This is beautiful. Great work. Yeah. It's a content. You guys are a content company. Good. With content company.

Media. All right, Elk. Well, look, I don't want to take up your whole day. We very much appreciate you calling in, as always. Yeah, no worries. Have a good, uh, Who you got for the week? Morcawa.

You know, so we were talking a little bit of odds earlier in the show. We were kind of going through this. I like to take folks who are not crazy favorites. Patrick Reed's 33 to 1, I saw. Yeah. Which it feels like this is one of those tournaments that he pops up and plays really well. So I like Patrick Reed a good amount. He can draw the ball.

He can draw the ball. So I'm big on Patrick Reed, and then we got to go with our guy kids because they've got him out of $125 to 1. lost in a playoff here not that long ago. You might be able to get both of them in our game. You need to go in there and have a look around, see where they're at. Okay, I'll put both of them in the game. What are they got to be B or C players?

Patrick Reed might be an A player. No, he's A. I'd say kids would probably be. You might get them both. Okay. I like it. And see more cow is laying in there. I'm giving you a winning combination here.

You might want to steal my team. You can see my team tomorrow when the clock goes off. There's a bomb clock in there. Once the bomb clock goes zero, it's locked. but get in there get in there Hey keep sending me videos I like it

you're our boots on the ground thanks reeks all right elk have a good one mate a big thank you to elk as always good stuff enjoy watch

pay attention to the telecast we'll be tweeting up a storm we'll be covering it it's the players championship it's one of the biggest weeks of the year I think the sixth biggest week of the year we've got from the gallery coming up we got a handful of very good ones

quick question is your lawn looking a little crappy lately does it have weak thin grass. Does it always feel like you're doing too much work? Some people may say when it comes to your lawn. Week and thin.

Yeah. Yeah, a little weak and thin. You know, I would love... I wouldn't say you're that thin. You're just like... I'm thin in the wrong place. I'm thin on my arms and my legs. Yeah.

But then you have this like... Gut to my neck is becoming such a problem. But get on. Talk to us about the lawn. You want to turn grass from your arms into your body. I just need... I need to make some changes in my life. Give your lawn the carrot needs with no extra work for you. Putting down

Scott's turf builder triple action will give you thicker, healthier, and greener grass, which is what we would love to give Frankie Borelli, just inject into him as a person. Putting down Scott's turf, builder, triple action prevents crab grass for up to four months and kills dandelions,

clover, and other weeds. I got to tell you, we live in Manhattan here, I would love to have a nice, healthy green lawn. Yeah, we don't have much lawn in Long Island. It's usually house, house, house, house, house but we have a lot we've got a long we got a backyard I got a pool it's a nice little house you know I like my I like my hometown house but like it is funny how much my point

being even though it's smaller it's amazing how much work has to go and just to keep that little pet of grass green dude and having people that have acres and having it nice is like your house like towers above it glows oh there's nothing that like dad's like my dad isn't much of like a housekeeper guy like he doesn't he's not handy with his hands I'm not handy at all either. But there is nothing better than the guy. Like the guy across the street. The guy fuck across the street from our house loves his

lawn. The guy's watering in it. The guy's watering this thing all day long. He goes out there and he puts his arms out like he's strong and he has a little tanked up on and he just waters it. And he always powered, he always power washes his driveway to the point where he actually breaks his driveway, I think. They have to

repaid the driveway. The guy power drives the driveway every single day. Here is the beauty, okay? The beauty of Scott. That's turf builder triple action gives you thicker, healthier, greener grass, and it gives you all the lawn care you need with no extra work for you. People spend way too much time out there. You're trying to get your lawn perfect, green, look great, healthy, thicker. Scott's turf builder triple action.

That's how you get it done. Scott's turf builder triple action. You got this. Okay, we're going to talk a little from the gallery. First one, if Tiger had the same skill level, mental strength, ability to close, etc. This is from Calan? C-A-L-A-N. Callan?

I would have said Calan. Callan? Yeah. If Tiger had the exact same skill-level, mental strength, ability, all of that stuff, but was born left-handed, does he have the same amount of wins and majors less or more? What the fuck does that suppose to mean? I mean, I'm just saying it. I would say more. I would say more, too.

I thought this was supposed to be like a derogatory thing towards lefties. No. It's because courses like Augustine National, it's set up to hit the ball. right to left. Tiger hits a cut significantly easier and better than he hits a draw. Draw gets you in a lot more trouble. It's a lot tougher to control. It's like Jack Nicholas hit a cut forever. Tiger Woods hits a cut

off the T. So a lot of people... But that's one course. He's done really well there. Right, but they play that course in the majors every single year. Yeah, but he's done really well at that course. Like you'd think, like a course that he's struggled at, this would help him more and really benefit. Is it a wise sale that a lot of people say

that golf courses are built more for right handers like right righties because definitely not a wives tale because until like not that long ago nobody was left hand even now think about how many players I don't tour left hand so there's a ton of dog like less yeah just the most dog like left seals like when you see like right you like what is going on yeah a lot of jack nicholas courses are built um for like the cut it benefits hitting a high fade for a righty um and people have talked forever about the fact that like Phil michelson bubble watson in Mike Weir, there's like an overwhelming number of lefties that have won the Masters versus like any other majors.

Like how many lefties have won like other major? Because Augustine National sets up very, very, very much benefits hitting a left to right to right-to-left ball flight, which is tougher for a right-handed to control. Also, I don't know how this would be possible, but I think his swing would even be just prettier to look at, even though it's already Tiger Woods. It's something about, I mean, I know I'm a lefty swinger, but there's just something about seeing it come from that way. It's smooth.

Griffey, it's just smooth. It's just very smooth. Like when Phil's, like, on his game and he's hitting some of those wed shots into greens, it just looks like the ball jumps off his club. It's just, it looks smooth. Yeah, it does. Like, Phil's swing, even though a lot of people hate he's a little bit, like, over the top coming down, I guess, is like, it does look like he's just fucking,

like, athletic and, like, his hands fired through. It just looks sweet. Bubba's like the same. It's like almost when you're lefty, it just looks fucking different. You would mess you up is when you play as one of the lefties on Tiger Woods when you play is like Bubba on Tiger Woods game.

Those are impossible. Oh, I never did that. Oh, I couldn't play as Alrighty. See, that makes sense. Unless it was Tiger. I got to always play with a lefty. I never, I never even thought about doing it.

It's weird. Really? No, yeah. When I create a player in Tiger or one of the other games, I make it a lefty. Makes a ton of sense for you. Right.

Isn't that weird though? Not really. No? It's just like what, like, I guess so. It was a video game. He was an analog.

Yeah. What did you? Why would you... You're a lefty and everything you do. Why all of a sudden would you just change it on the screen? So now you're looking at the opposite direction. I guess so. When did lefties start popping up?

Because you said for a long time there were no lefties. Yeah, it was... Well, here's why. Because golf equipment for a long time... They were beaten with a stick. Oh, I know you meant just general society. No, I'm saying golfers. Okay, that makes way more sense.

I'm sorry. The rule of thumb would be to start golf as a righty. Correct. Start your kid as a right. Right. Even if they're more real, because you couldn't have access to clubs. And if the kid was like, Papa, I'm a lefty. He actually beat him with a stick.

No thicker than a thumb. Rule of thumb. Is Rapha Nidal a righty or a lefty? Ambitechristrous. Righty. I don't know. Are we talking in golf? No.

Or just like. In life. Yeah, he's like coach, his uncle put the racket in his opposite hand. Now he's got a dominant backhand. Yeah, we would talk about that in hockey all the time. It's the opposite in hockey. If you're left-hand hockey, that means your right-hand dominant. Right.

When you hit a slapper, as they say, how do you do it? Do you go clapper? Like you're a clapper. That's what I was looking for. You go like your swing at a golf club or the other way? What? Like when you bring it back like that, how do you bring it back? I think you said it was opposite.

I'm just saying in terms of what you're considered handedness. So if you're a right-handed human being, you're right-handed, you should be a left-handed hockey player because your dominant hand should be on top. top of the stick because it does all of the stick handling work. Right. Your left hand is more of a place holder. That took Trent Daddy's head for a loop there. That did. That blew my mind.

You're not a hockey guy. I'm not. And this isn't a hockey podcast. Nope. I wish I knew the name of a highway in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I would have said that's where your brain was trekking around. Is Highway 70 go through there? No.

I-3-80. I-3-80. That's the big one. Okay. Rob says, what do you guys think about a rider cup at Augusta National? It'd be awesome. Yeah. I wonder if they would ever do that.

It would never. No. I don't think either because I think they over. overseed around that time in like September and whatnot. So, well, is there a party that just wants to adjust the masters to be there? No. Yes.

There's a part of me that does. Look, I don't want to be playing. Augusta's that place that, like, all my fun rules of golf, clown golf, all the stuff that I want to have. Goes out the window. Goes out the window at Augusta. The cool part, though, is it'd be a great match play course, the back night at Augusta.

True. With all those risk rewards in the water and, like, it'd be phenomenal for that. I don't know. I think it's just too sacred. I don't think it'll ever happen. happen but no really really cool if it did yeah I think your point rigs is just it's more fun to watch more golf at augusta I mean I do think matchplay would be terrific but like I do like that it's just that one that one short time in April that you get augusta and that's it yes like something

about less is more is so special it's like the Olympics every four years exactly right it's like yeah yeah there's something to that definitely the Olympics think though what I don't like the Olympics. No, no, no. Don't you watch the Olympic channel? I do, yeah. What the fuck are you? I do, yeah.

I do, yeah. Because I like the, I like, I like, I like, I like watching the trials, I guess. No, well, I just don't, I don't get up for the Olympics like other people do it. You literally watch. You watch everything up until the Olympics, except for the Olympics? I'm more of a trials guy. It'd be like, you go watch all the U.S. Open. I'm more of an Olympic trials.

You go watch all the U.S. Open sectional qualifiers, then you just don't watch the other. Yeah, you guys are, yeah. Yeah, I don't get that. I don't get up for it like everybody else is. But you like the Olympics trials. It's a joke. You don't like the openings?

You don't like the whole the opening ceremony? They're okay. They're okay? Just the openings, I don't know. All from each year. They got the torch and ceremony each year. I meant like the openings at the... I get it.

I mean, I know what you're married, but I don't know. It didn't warrant a comment. Fair. I agree with that. Yeah, just let him talk. Yeah, I shouldn't have said anything. Because I don't, I just don't get up for the Olympics like everybody else does. The swimming, the.

How else if you get out? You like You're such an asshole I say I don't like I say I don't like the Olympics In your first event You tell me is swimming Get the fuck out of it.

What? How about beach volleyball? Oh, electric. So good. They're all good. May and what's her name? They can't all be good. Misty Mae and trainer

And trainer And then Dalhouser on the men's side? You kidding me? Going up with the blocks? Just straight up. Some of the most athletic people in the world. The women. gymnastics.

What do you mean you're not going that far? Beach volleyball, Olympic, gold medalists aren't some of the best athletes. I think that. Have you ever seen what these fucking people do? Hand-eye coordination, hitting the ball 110 miles an hour? I don't know if that's the right mile. No, those spikes, they rip it. I'm going to go under on 110.

Definitely one. Yeah, I think it's like 70. So it's not even close. Yeah, because I'm thinking of like a tennis serve. Yeah. It's like 40% off, right. I should have brought it. up. I shouldn't have brought up the Olympics, but I just...

What do you have against swimming? Swimming's fantastic. Like when Michael Phelps won those eight gold medals? That's like two miles and a... But it's like one and like... Oh, once every four years? Yeah, that's the Olympics. No, no, no. I'm saying like, when's the next Michael Phelps gonna be? Like, that was fun. It was only fun because there was the most dominant person in history

doing it. Now it's like, it's just swimmers. No, there's a storyline every year. Guy that was like, you know, Simone Biles. Who? Simone Biles. That was good. I'm not a huge... I guess I'm a storyline guy, but just like the filler in where there's a, not like a huge record-breaking performance happening.

I'm like, I don't care. Nancy Carrigan, Tony Harding, like that. That happened in the winter. Yeah, but that's still the Olympics. What was it? I was talking about the Olympics. What year was that? It was in the 90s?

I don't remember the 90s. I didn't say you have to remember. I'm saying that like the Olympics deliver amazing storylines. Yeah, and I'm with that. Global storylines. But I don't think I just like if there's nothing record breaking going on, I'm not that who is the last record. They break records every time.

Just the terrible guy. Who it? The swimmer in the last Olympics. It's a terrible guy. Lockty? Yes. Your storyline guy. That's a huge storyline.

I love the stuff that happened off the, out of the pool. Was he a terrible guy or just kind of an idiot? I think just an idiot. He did something at a gas station. Yeah, he had like a whole thing. He faked like he got robbed, right? Yeah, he faked that he got robbed. He fell on some hard times.

Boy, does the Olympics deliver. Boy, does the Olympics deliver. I love watching like curling, like, curling, loosing, all that stuff. Speed skating. I used to try and skate. When I'd go skating. Palo Uno? I used to try and skate.

I almost said Apollo Cread. I almost said it. You know how smooth? I wish I didn't say it. I just wanted people to know that I was about to say it, and I was like, that's not correct. You know what it is? We should race.

We should all speed race. Dude, it's fun to go there and actually do it. On the ice? I'd kill you guys. No. I think with those speed skates on, I'd have a chance. I'd kill you. You have a bad stride.

I would kill you. I don't know if that's true. Okay. Can we race for some? I'll bet you a thousand dollars. I'm interested on that. You're horrible. to wear the speed skating skates.

Yeah. Those crazy blades. We did like a hockey video for a Barstool sponsored video. And they were ice skates, but like you and Fidelberg just laughed all of us because you're fast on skates. Hockey was, yeah, I mean, I played hockey. Yeah, that's what I'm with the old skate. I'm with you. I think you'd kill you.

I played hockey too. You were goalie. You're goalie. Yeah, my skates were flat, much like the ones that the speed skaters have. And they're longer. So you, when you skate, you actually don't sink your butt. You stand tall? I would love to see if you did take a fall.

And that's what you have to do. For a thousand bucks. If you fell. Who's more likely to fall? This big clumsy moron or me? No, he's just having a blind in a shower. I think those skates are probably, I don't know much about those skates, but they're definitely different. Fun hockey story about Lurch.

He played defensemen on our men's league hockey team when I first met him, and we made a bet with him in the locker and that he legitimately could not raise a slap shot off of the ice. He couldn't get a slap shot off of the ice. That's actually correct. Not only did he not get it off the ice, he fell off trying to execute that. That's true. You're going to beat me in a race. Yes. Played Division 1 College Ice socket at Harvard.

It was a sick. It's true. I was a sick cold. I don't just use some gold hunting right now. No, here's another thing. I shouldn't know this is. I knew the Olympics were somehow going to get us to the NHL.

You know what the Olympics? The Olympics are satisfying. You ever look up satisfying videos on the internet? Yes. See that Twitter account? Satisfy daily? Oh, Lurch is a huge fan of these. Bro, there's one where they made the...

When they were moving the apples, the good ones, the bad ones? The one where they make the luggage? No. There's like these molds. Oh, I see. I see that. It's just a bubble. and then all of a sudden, boom, it shuts down on the mold,

and then it's just, it's luggage. It's got all the lines in it. But the Olympics are very satisfying, right? You watch all these speed skaters, and they're all moving at the same time. You watch like curling, and it just goes into the circle. Everything, the luge, they're perfectly going down. It's very satisfying to watch.

You sit back, you watch it, you eat your Sour Patch kids. You just fucking enjoy it. Here's what it is. Here's the appeal for me with the Olympic channel. I like it as a second screen. I'm not going to sit there and be like, all right, here we go, they're about to swim a bunch. Like, I'm not going to watch that.

But if it's on the other swimming for the United States. Oh, she's awesome. Who did he mean who? She's the niece of the Islander's owner, John Ladeke. How the fuck did I know who that guy was? She's an American hero. She is an American hero. She was awesome during the last five.

Katie Ladecki, right? Katie Ladecki. She was awesome. You don't get up for like when they're hyping these races. When the backstroke they're coming down, you're like, let's go, Katie. No. Oh, Trent. I mean, when you announce it like that, you're never going to be interested.

I'm not interested when they're about to go swim a bunch. That's a snap face. Yeah, that is what that's. I knew you were going to say. That's exactly what that was. Yeah, it was snap face. That was your Bill Belichick snap face. Yeah.

All right. The Olympics are all right. You like the Olympics. I think I do. I don't know. I don't know what I like. You know what happens you ended up on that hill and you were like, I'm not getting off. Yeah, I like, how about like where Iones compete?

like the javelin toss or maybe that stone throw. Oh, Sean Johnson. Yeah, see, there you go. A little corn eating contest. Yeah, yeah. Stuff like that. You got to care about that. Okay.

You know, you get the thick, thick Iowan, throwing that stone by their ear. Circle, circle, circle. Why do they got to be. My dad had the high school record of the shot putt. That's what I'm talking about. Did he really? Yeah, man.

Can we get some footage of that? Let me ask you. I don't think that. You should have been a shot putter. You have a body of a shot putter. I did it for a while. I did it for a shot foot? Yeah.

Does everyone. in Iowa wrestle. Lots to do. Yeah, in St. Louis, everybody wrestles. Iowa is like, it might be the wrestling capital of the world. Yeah, just wrestling. Fucking wrestles.

Just wrestling. I never did it, but like my uncles did, yeah. Yeah. Okay, folks, big thank you to Steve Elkington. A big thank you to everyone listening. Enjoy the players championship. TBC Sawgrass. It'll be a great finish. It always is. 17th hole drama. Carnage.

That's where we root four balls in the water. I think it's 42 and a half is the over under. We should all just take the over. We're going to take the over. We're going to have it up. It's going to be very fun. I also saw highest score on 17 over and under for the week in seven and a half. You got to take the over on that.

Brooks Capka top 20, 20 bucks? 20 bucks. Wow. All right. Everybody have a great week. Great weekend. We'll be back on Tuesday. Hit it hard.

Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Hit it hard.