Fore Play - Tiger Woods To Augusta

Episode Date: March 29, 2022

Tiger Woods Masters chatter has reached a fever pitch. Imagine if he plays. Scottie Scheffler won for the third time in five starts and ascends to no. 1 in the world. Kevin Kisner has another stellar match play performance and secures $1.3 milly. Frankie ate at a restaurant with a shocking wait time. Lurch ate a ton of food.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. For Play, by Barcelona Sports. I'm going to start this show off in a very direct and simple way. I'm going to make a statement, a declaration that I believe Eldrick Tiger Woods of Cyprus, California, will play in the 2022 Masters Tournament. I know that's a complete 180 from what we discussed. I believe just a week ago, there was no hype, there was no chatter,

there was no fever pitch about Tiger Woods preparing. And we said to ourselves, how the hell could this man be preparing for the Masters tournament? And nobody knows or nobody talks about it. All of a sudden, the last three or four days, chatter started to pick up dramatically this morning. I believe the fried egg. Andy over there tweeted out that he's hearing for a bunch of sources in South Florida. And Tiger Woods has been walking golf courses in preparation for the Masters tournament to see if his body can handle it.

it. There are reports that Joey Lacava was in town walking with him. I saw a video emerged today, which I did tweet out that while I do not condone, I do not endorse people sneaking videos of Tiger Woods without his consent behind trees and shit. I did get very excited because I saw it. I saw that man swing a driver. I saw him either with Robbie Mac or Joey La Cava with him. It's hard to tell. They both have the rigs haircut. But I'm going to tell you this. I'm going to make a declaration. I think Tiger Woods is playing the 2020 Masters. I think I was on that train the whole time, which feels good, because I firmly believe that. That video came out, got me more excited.

But Riggs, did that confirm anything more than you? Like, yes, he's playing golf, but we've kind of known that all along. Oh, it way, way confirmed things for me. The guy, I mean, seeing the visual of seeing that man swing a driver and then instantly go and pick up his tea, that gives me all the confidence in the world, that he's not just out there slapping around drivers, having a little hit and giggle fucking around with the fellas.

He's out there with his guy, either Robbie Mac or Joey, just the two of them. They're walking a golf course. That is a person on a mission. In less than one week from now, I believe he'll be in Augusta, Georgia, preparing to play in the Masters tournament. And that motherfucker would not tee it up in the Masters

unless he believes he can win the Masters. Yeah. And on top of all that evidence that you presented, I, there's just a sense. And as we've been Tiger guys for a long time now, and you just can feel it. I don't, you know, I don't want to say that we have superpowers or anything like that. But there is this feeling that like almost, I don't know, I mean, he hasn't said that he's not playing. And that's almost the biggest piece of evidence towards that he is playing.

Like, he would have probably said something by now, I would imagine. And then you just feel like, man, it's starting to feel like Tiger Woods is going to play in the Masters. and I have really no evidence to contradict that, you know, outside of a car crash a few months ago. But like everything else has been moving in that direction where we're going to see the big man tee it up at Augusta. And I'm with you, Riggs. I'm going to echo your sentiment. I think it would be at this point an upset if we didn't see Tiger Woods on those grounds. Very good echo, Trent.

Obviously, I'm coming in through some phone audio here. I want you all to know that I apologize. Sounds like you're underwater. I want to apologize to the listeners. This is an audio show that deserves a grade D-minus. And you'll hear a little bit more about why it's D-minus at the end of the show when we get to our interview. But I had a little technical difficulty. It pains me to say that because I'm usually the stickler on audio and Lurch and him not being able to figure out technology.

But today, I come to you from Innesbrook in Florida and Tampa, and I do not have my computer. I want to say that for me, just hearing the murmurs and just, you know, people just whispering about Tiger, that's all I needed. There was always like that thought that maybe he was coming back and like, I'm sure you guys got tagged in these tweets more than any tweet you've ever gotten tagged in. But the fact that the Masters has enlisted as a player in the field, I mean, come on. Every 30 seconds, people are tweeting that shit at us. I got a DM from a guy like three days after we got a thousand tweets about it and he goes dude

I just unlocked something because I happen to be stumbling upon this leaderboard and all the players he goes I saw Tiger Woods on there and it goes you need to put this out before they get rid of him like dude you're 10 days late you're 10 days late so he you know there's a lot of buzz

there's a lot of buzz about Tiger Woods playing in the 2022 master's I'm all for it I said that there's zero percent chance that he does playing it because I don't think that I originally thought that he would never play unless he's ready, and I'm guessing he's ready. And I think that should make us all really excited. He's not rushing into something for no reason. That's what we should all really think about.

Like, the guy's got somewhat time on his side. He's not fucking 80. He can still, like, just skip this one and play next year and be fine. Like, he must think he can win. Couldn't agree more. I think that it is not a sense of, oh, he physically can. get through it. So he's going to go out there and ceremoniously play the Masters. It is

a sense, and that video that I saw was a sense of two guys out there who almost didn't say a fucking word to each other outside of focusing on golf and distances and feels on his shots and how it's feeling throughout. I got a DM from a guy and no, we're not reporters, no, we're not journalists. So this could

be complete and utter bullshit. But I got a DM from a guy that said, close friend of mine works at Metalyst. Tigers walk the last five days in a row when he always usually rides he's been testing shoes. Please don't use my name with the info. I won't.

So all of these murmurs, all of this chatter that's going on is clearly, I think, leading to Tiger Woods is going to play the Masters tournament. And even if he doesn't, you're right, Frankie. This hype, this excitement, the fact that we're this close that we get to talk about it again,

the fact that golf has been in such a great place. We got Scotty Schaeffer and Kevin Kisner to discuss. We also have Scotty James on this show. It was one of the best snowboarders in the world with some terrible audio, which we're going to put a disclaimer out. That's why kind of there's this whole thing going on with bad audio this show.

And I think he actually sounded okay, Frankie, he was just jarring to people at first. But even if he doesn't play in the Masters tournament, the fact that he's there, that he's that close, that he is committed to coming back and playing professional golf

at the highest level that he made comments at the Genesis about how he wants to come back and kick guys asses. Golf is in such a good place and we just, the biggest piece of all of it hasn't even existed for 14 months. He almost got his fucking leg. amputated 14 months ago.

Now he's going to come back and they're going to potentially say, Ford, please, Tiger Woods now driving and he's going to stand on that fucking T-box with a driver in his hand, a Taylor-made stealth driver. Are you kidding me? This is a very selfish thing for me to say because he's gone through incredible trauma and horrible parts of his life have been exposed to the whole world and like we've had to go on this ride with him. How blessed are we as Tiger fans that we get another comeback?

I mean, in some sick, demented form of this life that he's lived, how blessed are us four idiots in this little screen here that I'm talking to you as I have my phone on top of a coffee maker with a napkin holding it up? How blessed are we to watch Tiger Woods make another comeback? Like, he already came back. He won the Masters. It was it. And then, like, he was destined to just try and break all the records.

and if he didn't, he just exists as Tiger Woods, who made that comeback in 2019. It is what it is. We now have another story to get jacked up about. Like, it's another page in the book. You know what I mean? How fucking insane is that? Yes.

It is. It is, it is, it almost feels like we've spoken about Tiger so many times in the past tense that the looming possibility of him in the present tense again is more exciting, than it's ever bit. It's like more exciting than any of the other comebacks. We're going to get to watch him in real time,

potentially win. Like he's going to tee off tied for the lead. He's going to be tied for the lead when he like tees off. And if he just plays golf a little better than the rest of the guys, he could, we could have a moment way bigger than the 2019 Masters because he's the best player ever plays. He won the Masters tournament five fucking times.

He's won that thing. And he's going to tee off believing in his heart of hearts that he can win the golf tournament. And he's going to be able to win at that golf course when he's 70. But guess what? He's not 70. He's 45. He's 44, 46.

He's going to have, like, as real of a chance as you can have. I mean, I don't know exactly how well the leg is performing at this moment in time. But as you guys have said, if he is teeing it up at a golf tournament at the Masters, he in his head thinks that he is ready to win and win now. So that's all you need as a Tiger fan. It's amazing. you know, amazing slash unfortunate, kind of how Frankie said that we have another comeback to root for. But now that's the set of circumstances that we've been given.

And I'm going to root on this comeback just as hard as the last comeback. And I really cannot wait. Does everybody think he's going to tee up? Yes. Frank? I'm at 85% now. Okay. All right.

Because you were the only wishy-washy. So that's what I wanted to get to. Like you're talking, we're rooting for this comeback. It's happening. But then you also said that I don't know. if he's actually going to tee it up. I think he will, but you're still, what holds you back? What?

What's that 15%? Yeah, what's that made up? The only 15% is that, like, he continues to walk medalist and something, something just, like, irks him. Or, like, there's just too many days between now and whatever that is April 8th or whatever, whatever the first round is. Like, too many things could happen right now. It's too fragile to me.

I think it's on a great path, but, like, I'm not ready to go 100%. on it. I'm very excited. And I think when I said, like, we're so blessed to have his comeback, it has nothing to do with actually playing golf. We're so blessed to be in a position where we just get to get excited to have him in the conversation again. You know what I mean? That's kind of like

my point in this whole thing where like, it doesn't even matter about him hitting a golf shot. Which, like, if this never happened to him, we care just about the golf and his results. Now we as Tiger fans get to get excited about non-golf things. Just him possibly showing up is a huge win.

for us now, which is awesome. Do you think, right now? You need him to hit a golf ball. Yeah, we do. We get to get excited about non-off. I have to have it now. We get excited about him walking metal. Like, if he just didn't drive off that clip,

we're like, oh, Tiger's walking medals, yeah, he's been playing for the last two years. Like, that's just nothing. We're, like, going crazy that he's walking a golf court. Yeah, it's almost like if, if you have a really grueling week, like, at work, it makes that weekend round that much better because like you were down and doing shitty stuff and feeling shitty about it and you got through it.

And the contrast to like this awesome fun experience to the really shitty part makes it that much better. It is like that. Like if Tiger had just not had the car accident and we're like, oh yeah, he's, of course he's going to play in the master's like he's like he's like he's a professional golfer. Obviously he's playing the bat. But now we're like, dude, he almost fucking died. Like his car was upside down. We're going to get like, we're going to get a rich learner essay on like live from where they flash pictures of the crash and of the comeback

and they might put something about a quote from an amputation and we thought that we're and then it's like he emerges from the fucking Azaleas looking like a bazillion dollars and he's the badass Terminator Darth Vader of golf and he's here to continue his assault

on Jack Nicholas's legacy. That's like that's just going to happen we're just going to have that. It's amazing. I think it's going to happen. I think it's going to happen. If he teased it up it makes a par on one, it's the most exciting thing in the history of the world.

Dude, just hits a fair way on one. If he just, if he makes par on one at the Masters, it literally, my heart rate is going to jump and it is going to be the most exciting time in my life. Because that,

in my mind, means that we're set up for the next 72 holes, next four days, of just highlight reels where the only thing you can do in that life is ensure that you're watching every second of Masters coverage. And then also,

the master's app is going to be back alive and whatever updates they make to the most amazing app of all time. I'm also excited to see. Right. If he hits the fairway on one, the anticipation for that approach shot is like, I'm getting, my palms are starting to sweat just thinking about it. Like depending on where that ball drops onto the green, like, holy shit, man. Yeah.

And this is just, this is what he does. Dude, then at a, at August, I mean, the second hole is like, part five he can get there the bird holes are short bar foot it's like tiger we're just in it he's just like putting for birdie and we're like what it what like what year is it oh my god he's doing the thing we're two under we're two under through four and we're fucking we're hugging eddie and and chief at farce of chicago we're going absolutely fucking bananas beers are getting thrown all over like that could happen in two weeks yeah yeah like a week and a half that that could just be what's occurring before us on a

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God, they do a great job. So a big thanks to Peter Mala. Talking about wearing the same outfit all the time, I got exposed big time today because Hanna Cook, she comes to all the bars of classics. She's been involved in all the golf content, you know, a lot of the golf content this year. And so she's seen a lot of us.

And I guess on her vlog that she was making today, like before she came to dinner, like basically what looked into the camera and was like I guarantee Frankie's wearing blue Peter Milar shoes, whitewashed jeans with one rip on his knee and a blue Barstool Golf hoodie. And when she saw me at dinner, she started laughing at me, like really mean. And I was like, what's going on? She's like, I just guaranteed that you were wearing this exact outfit and you just are. That's pathetic. I was just like, dude, the one rip in the gene knee

was real, real exposing because that's like, I wear the same jeans all the time. And that begs, now that brings me to the new question. Like, how often are you guys rotating different pairs of pants in,

or do you wear the same pants as long as they're relatively clean? I got like, you know, probably three pair of pants, maybe. I mean, maybe.

You're certainly doing it. Two wears. Yeah. Two wears? Yeah. Two wears. 15 wears? Maybe 15 wears between washes.

I could buy seven to 10 wears of jeans if I want. No problem. Yeah. How dirty are these things? I don't think I've ever washed my jeans. I bet I've almost never washed it. I mean, they're fucking jeans. I mean, come on.

It just got me thinking. That's all I'm saying. It just got me thinking of being like I might have to start wearing different shit. Like if that's happening, how, how, how many people are like, oh, guarantee it's blue shoes, a little rip on the kneecap. Fuck, man. Damn.

I mean, that'll keep me up tonight for sure. I mean, who's really got the time to be standing there deciding on your outfit? You pretty much go with the same combination of like two things. Trent literally just wears the same outfit every day. Right. How much time do I take rigs? If that's the question you're asking, zero. I take zero amount of time because I already know what it's going to be.

Everybody knows what it's going to be. And even if it's not, black top with the cackies. It's always the cackies, which I have four to five pairs up. And then it's just a different hoodie. Like, how many times have you seen me wear this hoodie? A million times. The other hoodies I have are Barstle golf hoodies. Like, I, if someone wanted to, it's always the cackies, and it's, you know, I like wearing the same thing. It's, how many variations am I supposed to have? How many variations is Frankie supposed to have? It's, it seems like it's going to be a small number.

Craig goes, if it's not always the black top, it's always the cackies. I don't even own jeans. I really don't own a single pair of jeans. Did you used to wear jeans? I did used to wear jeans. Like before I, the khaki switch didn't happen until after I moved to New York. You know what it was? I think the first time I wore khakis in New York,

I was going over to PFT commenter's house for Thanksgiving. He had graciously invited me over to have Thanksgiving. because I wasn't going back to Iowa that year for Thanksgiving. And he was like, if you want to come over to my place, you're more than welcome. And I went over there. And I didn't want to go over there and wear like jeans and a hoodie. That just didn't feel like something I wanted to wear to the Thanksgiving. And I bought khakis in a flannel.

And I wore that over there. And then I just fully committed to the khakis because, you know, they seemed, I like them a lot. So I wore them all the time. And then I threw out all my jeans. And now I've been a khakis guy for, you know, five or six years. Steady khaki guy too. Steady. We do, I think we all wear those gray Peter Millar, Dadbod classic pants.

I think they're the EB-66. We were all caught dead red-handed. We all had them on just together. It's just the best pant in the world. And we all showed up with the damn same outfit and those pants on. They're great pants, though. They just go with everything, too. They're like universal, man.

You could put any fucking outfit with those, any shoes, any shirt, any pull over. And those poppers just deliver. Yeah. You're talking about rewheres. a gray pant, you can get those things a little dirty. They're okay. Can't really tell. It's not like, you know, an off white or whatever.

It's like, yeah, they're gray. I don't know. It's tough to see any color on those things. So you get a good five plus wears out of the grays before it's time to send it back to the machine. This isn't a fashionable for some. Nobody's coming to this podcast being like, you know who I want the fashion device from the Foreplay podcast?

We're pretty right down the line with everything we wear. We're looking for company. Today, like this hoodie I'm wearing, this pink hoodie is phenomenal. I just wear it all time. And the other day, I just got a bunch of pasta sauce all up here, like just a blotch of fucking, you know, red like pasta stuff. And never once did it cross my mind to like put this in the washer dry. I just got like a rag and just got it soaked and just rubbed it until it came off so I can just

keep wearing this hoodie. Like it wasn't even an option that I was going to put this thing in the wash. I mean, what was we going to do a three hour price? process here so I can just wear this thing and not look like an idiot. Speaking of pasta sauce, I have to get this off my chest. I went to this place in Albany, I'm sorry, Syracuse, New York. This place was called Pasta abilities. Great name, you know.

Yeah. Working off the name Pasta. You got to think that their main course there's pasta. Got to go fast. We get this place. And luckily the group that we were with made a reservation. Get there. heard the place opens at 5 o'clock.

We get there at 5.30. When I tell you, boys, there's a line that's probably the size of four blocks in New York City to get into postabilities. Now, this is just a pasta joint. So for me, it's like, we're just putting rigatones

and some fucking tomato sauce on this thing. What could possibly be happening in there? Boys, when I got in there, we waited for our table, so luckily I was placed right next to the host stand. And the host that was there had to tell every single person that walked in, that it would be a four and a half hour wait for a table.

No. That's just, you got to come back tomorrow. There's no table available that day. So we're at five. I watched four families except this fate and say, nine 30, yeah, put us down. 930? Yeah, put us down. Five o'clock in the afternoon.

Yeah, put us down for 9.30. I'm looking around like, what the fuck am I about to get into right here, possibility? How good could it be? right off the bat I'll say it was fantastic so to all those people that got turned away it was fantastic they had this hot oil tomato sauce amazing but have you guys ever in your life ever in your life heard of a four and a half hour wait absolutely not and I've certainly never accepted that I mean four and a half we're just going elsewhere you're just well we'll try that place maybe tomorrow or the next day my pizza's here speaking away possible ever dude I would have looked at hostess and said I'm going to be a in bed by the time you're sitting. When you, when the faces of some of these dads that were like in there to bring

their families in for a nice pasta meal and be like, yeah, we're going to have six here for possibilities tonight. And they're like, sir, you got to come back tomorrow. We're like, the guy's like, no, absolutely not. Like, what's happening in here right now?

So is this place like world renowned? Is it, have you dug into what this place is all about. Guy Fietti went there twice. So, like, right when you go in, he was in there. I think it was like he made like a dish there. And he also like did the story behind possibility.

So they're seeing it on TV. When you go to Syracuse, you go there. Listen, great place. Fantastic. I was just talking more about never. Maybe for like the greatest state council of all time where like you can't believe the way they cook this steak. Like pasta?

Fuck, man. If you accept the four and a half hour wait, you don't have to actually wait around, do you? You can run as many errands as possible in four and a half hours and then come back. Actually, you weren't allowed to leave the premises. That's what I was thinking. But like, if you want to go to pasta abilities and you really want it, you're like, all right, we got to go there at five, put our name in. And then we're going to go watch, you know, the Titanic twice. And then we're going to come back.

Like, then we're going to have some pasta. Was it that good, Frank? Give us a little bit on the pot. Like, was, yeah, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, what would be your, okay, what would be your okay wait time? For the meal that you had, if they said, like, an hour, if they said 30 minutes? Hour 15, I'd be like, all right, like, all right, I'll grab a peroni at the bar. Maybe it's earlier, maybe it's 45, but like, if they go over an hour 15, I'm like, uh, go get McDonald's. Like, you know what I mean?

It's like, Yeah. At some point it's a meal. Any meal on the planet that I would wait for an hour and a half before. Be a good rating system, honestly, of just like how you think about food. Because, yeah, I think any meal for me, yeah, I wouldn't say it's an hour. Or else like, you're just going to have something else and just be like. If there's an hour and then they have other words to say that pertain to the time, I think you're out.

I don't. So it's going to be an hour and I think you're out. Yeah. And also, Lurch, knowing you, if you get a four and a half hour wait and you accept it, you're going to eat two to three meals before you get back and eat that meal at postabilities. You know, you're like, we got to go, we got to stop by a fast food joint just to like order of fries or something. Yeah, just to make it to the four and a half hour time slot.

I'm going to be dead if I don't eat before that. We got to get to kids, this guy, Schaeffler, but I want to know now that we're on the topic, we'll finish this off. What's the meal that you'd wait for the longest? Is there a specific restaurant? Is there a specific meal? or maybe we just talk about cuisine. Is there a place you're thinking of that you're like, all right, this place, I want to eat this place tonight.

They tell me two hours I'm fucking waiting it out. Yeah, mine would be Fertelli's pizza in St. Charles, Missouri. It's my, you know, everybody grows up with like you think that your pizza spot is the best spot. That's my favorite pizza on planet Earth. So I would wait, I would wait five hours for that. I would just go get a different meal. And then five hours later, I would have that as my second meal. Yeah, it's similar to me

I've talked about on this podcast The Chinese food place back home Well, I'm there now, but it's Pays Chinese And I have you had it, yeah, I had it No, like you've had it on this recent stay at home Yes Fuck, is it just as good as it used to be? Yes

Fuck, you, man And I would order on Chinese food I like Spicy Mongolian chicken Yeah, yeah I do. I do. I'm going to smash dumplings every time. Just as two orders of dumplings, lock and load those things, dip them in the sauce, cut them in half, turn them into like a small bowl with meat.

You know what I mean? You get the steam. You get the, then you can dump the sauce in the half dumpling to eat that thing. So good. Got to be horrible. The thing that's great about, the thing that's great about being home is that Pays is my number one for sure. but there's three to four other Chinese food places that I get just as regularly because they're all good. This is a hotbed of Chinese food?

For your boy it is. Yeah. For your boy it is. And it's, you know, I'm just, I'm living. I mean, I'm gaining, you know, five pounds a day, but who cares? Yeah. I want to get to Lurch's food intake this weekend because I know he had a big weekend and I want him to be able to discuss that. A couple logistical things first.

We do have Scotty James, Australian snowboarder, good dude, loves golf, fan of the show. He was, I don't know where he was, but it was just the internet connection that we were having with him. It was just bad enough that like we could actually have a conversation, but it just, there's no way it sounded great. So we're prefacing that. I think Jake Bass, you know, he's kind of a ninja with the editing and hopefully could take out a lot of the BS and make it sound pretty good. But we're going to preface that. And he was just the man. He's cool.

He's got the hair. He's fucking snowboards. He's Australian. He's got the accent. So that interview's coming up. We have Jake Bass. Who is our video? Which video are we dropping on Tuesday night?

Doc Redmond. Trent, do you remember what happened at the Talemade Media Day when you launched it all in the air? Yes. I certainly remember. I don't want to give it away. But I remember. I'm certain you remember. I'm certain you'll remember that for the rest of your life.

So, yeah, Doc Redmond, not only is it. a good video because Doc is awesome and we just tried to make a hole in one. But something happens during the video that, you know, I again, I don't want to give it away, but you'll have to stay tuned and see it. So it's a good video. Yeah, it's, it's a fantastic video, uh, fantastic video with, uh, Doc Redmond, us trying to get a hole in one and some things that occur. I think we had like an hour, hour and a half that we had with them. And we all five of us just continuously ripped golf balls at 160 or so, 100.000. Or so. and 50 yard hole trying to get an ace.

Jake Bass was up on the green. We have the Kisner. Ain't No Hobby. Merch is out. We're doing a percentage of the proceeds from that portion of those proceeds are going to the Kisner Foundation, which obviously him and Brittany, which is his wife and his family, do great work with the youth all around kind of Aiken in South Carolina. So merch is really cool.

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He's currently at plus 6600 right now. to win the Masters, where I think based on news, what's going on, those odds could drastically change before the first T. So go check out the sports book, maybe I'll have a couple bucks on Tiger Woods and ride this next two-week journey together because that could be just fantastically interesting. And yeah, so Chicken Wire Challenge is a paddle tournament that really my brother runs. He does an amazing job planning this thing. It is one of the best, if not the best tournaments, I think, in the world.

I mean, a slice of pizza while you talk about this. We were up to 10 vendors this year. So, paddle tournament, funky game. People make fun of me for it. Certainly Frankie loves to make fun of the stupid sports I play. I like paddle. I like paddle tennis. No, I know, but you, I mean, you shit on some of the racket games and whatnot.

And we should. It's more the culture. It's the culture. I like, yeah, no, I don't shit on racket games. I just like the fact that you're so good at them and you don't look like you would be good at any of the rest. of games that you play. Appreciate that.

Actually, you're speaking of the Chicken Wire Challenge winner. So 1-8 flight this year, which is very exciting. My part of Bob Post is just an absolute stud. So he really carried the squad.

But, yeah, big wins. So Chicken Wire Challenge, paddle tournament, we had live band. We had people in stilts. We had buglers to welcome people. Welcome everybody to give that, like, horse racing welcome as soon as they

jumped on to scene. Rawbar, somebody cutting haircuts and you could do a single blade razor shave in case you've had the time between matches. I saw you get in a haircut. I saw you get in a haircut. You got a trim there, which was great.

A little trim. Huh? A little trim. It's a good haircut. Yeah, it's not bad. He took a lot of TLC into this thing. I think his name's called like Evil Scissor too. So kind of an interesting haircutting name,

but I think that's his last name. I think it's Adam Evil Scissor. Speaking of Lurch's hair, did you guys see the clip? You know out and about our podcast with Gay Pat and Joey? There was a clip on there that they were talking about someone and then Gay Pat says to Joey,

oh, is it the one on the golf podcast with the hair that you love to Joey? So now it's like, well, Riggs and trying to out. This is a lot to throw on somebody right now, so I'm just... We're out. So for me, it's like, I'm out.

Maybe it's you, Frank. You've got a decent hat of hair. No, no, no. You're the guy with the hair, though. Like, if we're, I wear a hat every day. Like, if you're, like that, like... And Frankie, Joey knows you. Right.

Yeah, that's a good point. I think work might be that guy that Joey's got his eye on, like, who's that fella that has the hair on the golf podcast. So I don't want to put any, like, things out of it. But if you guys saw the clip that you would kind of agree it, like, that. who I think they were talking about. But I apologize to Joey and Pat if that's not who they were talking about.

But I'm, I think you're the guy. I might be the guy. So that's kind of interesting news. That's a big compliment. Like I feel like you thought. Whatever a compliment as you can get. Those guys are, first of all, I don't know if there's a bigger fan of Joey. I love Gay Pat, too, but I don't know if there's a bigger fan of Joey.

Joey's hysterical. Why? Joey's amazing. I mean, I followed him on, like, Instagram and Snapchat for like 10 years. I've, I mean, I've, I've, been saying mama for like 20 years it's crazy i fucking love that guy but go on with them there's a clip that went with them that went viral the other day that he had me like laughing out loud or whatever he said i can't think of the exact thing so obviously i'm butchering it now but give that give that

go give that a listen go check it out because they're great podcast yeah he's funny as hell and pat's awesome too um so chicken wire kind of you know stressful a little bit stressful but also fun because my brother does a lot of setup he does all the setup but i'm there to you know support and different things. We've got 100 people coming in for the tournament. So I'm obviously not a dairy guy, but when we're getting everybody together, it's- Only non-dairy guy that eats dairy all the time. Well, so like, you know, we love going to vows, which is a local bar in town. You know, that's their pizza. So what do you do with your friends? You get kind of the lazy food that everybody can eat. You get as many pizzas as you possibly can have. Friday night, I probably had,

yeah, there you go, Riggs. I probably had seven slices. maybe five garlic knots and then I finished with a plate of Caesar salad so you know hammered yeah exactly got a couple greens in to close it and then woke up the next morning I had to like start going actually

shout at me I have a girlfriend so I picked her up at the airport early morning and then wow yeah congratulations so then I I had like a banana on the road I was like I'm going to be healthy today I couldn't breathe from all

the dairy last night. So I poured a hot coffee down my throat. And then I was like, dude, I am starving. And the one thing that we get for the chicken wire is we ever, we get a ton of pork roll, Taylor ham, pork roll, whatever, ton of those sandwiches. So I started, I was supposed to have our first match at maybe 930 or 10. We ended up because matches went long. I didn't play to like 1130. I think I probably had five halves of pork roll before I started on top of that. You know, banana was a nice start, but I probably had five halves of pork roll. They're delicious. Nice, thick pork roll. Just, oh, it's delicious. Also, the lazy thing about the wires, there's so many of these sandwiches. This is the disgusting part. People will take them, like, when they're cold in the

afternoon, throw them on the grill, warm them up a little bit, pop it down the hatch. Real nice treat. So anyways, probably had five halves, then played a match of tennis, paddle tennis, snuck out of that in the third set tie break, so I was a little tired, started to have a couple beers. Then we had a buy in the first rounds. Anyways, we went over to another club where, because we were hosting around three clubs for more paddle tournaments. So went over to the main spot. Then I had a burger, which was delicious. I had probably 10 oysters,

then played another match, then came off the court, and then I would say... What time is it by now? This is probably, we, the championship was at 5 or 6 p.m. Jesus Christ. Played that match, and then finished up, went to vows, closed out, and probably had another 6 to 7 slices and closed down vows at like 1.30.

And woke up this morning, could barely breathe. And what did I have to add? Two bagels. And then I had an assy eyeball. And then a lunch. What is it? An assy eyeball?

Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Whatever. The letters are all there. The letters are all there. A Kai? What is that damn word? A's a...

That's right, too. There it is. And then for lunch, I had... like some tuna pokey thing and then a buffalo chicken salad and now I'm here and actually I just stuffed down a bunch of Thai food and now I'm sitting with all you guys closing up a weekend probably gained 14 pounds now I'm not going to think of it. You can't just gloss over at the end and I'd scuffed a bunch of Thai food down just everything else was itemized on how much you ate and then you're just like then I just

closed it out with a bunch of Thai food. I had four big bowls of Thai food. Okay. I have a question. When you introduce a new person into your life, like you just said, you got, you have a girlfriend now. What is that acclamation period like in terms of your eating? Because I remember when I met you, you know, I met you a few years ago and I had no

idea the type of volume that you could put down. Now I'm used to it. But I remember when I first met you, I was like, holy fuck. Like we, I remember we went to the airport in the LaGuardia or JFK. I remember this. And there's that little food court area. And you ordered a burger and you're like, the burger's taken too long. So you got two slices of pizza.

And you went back up to try to get the burger. The burger's taken to the one. You went and got another slice of pizza. And then finally the burger was ready. You ate the burger. And I'm like, I think we're going to board soon. You're like, I don't you got any bagels over there. And I was like, holy fuck, what's going on?

So I just wonder what is that like when it's your, a new person is in your life. Are they like, holy shit, man, because I remember my experience. Yeah, I would say, I don't know. I haven't really asked her because I'm, it's not like I'm not eating, you know, I eat everything that I ate with you that day. I haven't asked her. I was eating so much.

I couldn't even get, I couldn't even, couldn't even word out. I couldn't get the question out. Does part of you actively conceal at any moment, try to conceal what you're consuming? No, I would say, and Regina, never. My, I would say my dating girl, like. is very much like, this is what you get. I don't think I pull any punches. So it's just, you know what I mean?

It's like you'll know pretty quickly if you're a fan or not a fan. You know, I think like I'm not. Same kind of scratch. I mean, I was at the bar with her and I was just shoveling pizza down. And she knows that I don't do well with dairy. So it's like. You can't be living a lot. You're just out there.

No, it's out there. So you might be the first guy who has cheese induced sleep apnea. I'm looking at my stats too. My whoop stats, man. Those are body battery, just zero, just really ugly stuff. So that was the weekend. We won. Congratulations on the victory.

Thank you. First chicken wire victory? First chicken wire victory. What year was this the annual? This was the ninth year. So we missed one due to COVID. And shout out actually the guys that Taylor made, They hooked us up with a couple balls, got some custom balls,

worked with their guys over there to get a bunch of balls for people, which was really fun. Balls and picked up a couple bags and bought those actually from Place Golf Warehouse up in Connecticut. So thanks for the tailor-made gear. Yeah, it was first win there. Usually kind of a semi-final knockout guy. So this was a big one.

Taylor-May golf, baby. Scotty Sheffordered Taylor-Made athlete. He just won the Dell match play. and we got to talk about that. I mean, look, Scotty Shefford has won three of his last five tournaments. He went from never winning on the PGA tour, having zero wins on the PGA tour, to the number one ranked player in the world. He defeated Kevin Kisner.

And really, I mean, Kiz is obviously a bulldog, and he's dominant in this event. This is his third time making it to the finals. He's won the thing before. He's got another $1.3 million payday coming in. But Scottie Shephyler, like he just, kids was just chasing him around the golf course. It felt like the entire match. And that event is tough.

I mean, you play three matches, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And then if you continue in advance, you play 36, you know, Saturday, 36 Sunday. So it's an absolute grind. You can tell people were dragging. There were a lot of jokes about DJ playing in the consolation match. That guy couldn't have cared less about that.

I'm surprised he didn't just withdraw after he got beat by Scottie Shepleur. but Scottie Shefford now officially Terramate athlete using the stealth out there playing the best golf on planet earth and got rewarded for it by being the number one ranked golfer in the world. A very emotional moment at the end with his family was all there and his dad hugged him and said

I'm more proud of you for the person that you are than for any of the golf. So is his dad a fucking poet or something? I mean him dropping that line in that moment was incredible that he pulled that off. So the whole thing was just fantastic. Scottie Shephy's one of the nicest guys in the world. and he's a fan of the show.

He's a way bigger fan of Barstall than we ever thought. Frankie, you had that video that you tweeted out where he didn't even think that you knew his name. When you guys ran into him at Kiowa, the PGA last year. So good. We sat down with him at the Northern Trust at Liberty National shout to all those people setting that whole thing up and realize that Scott Schaeffler is just as tuned into what we do and what goes on at Barstall Sports probably is anybody on the PGA tour.

Yeah, and we've met Papa Sheffler at the Ryder Cup and his whole family. We met his aunt and his uncle. Maybe the biggest fans of anyone I've ever seen. They're a great family, tighten it. They travel. They like to root on Scotty. We've been a fan of Scotty for the past year where we really realized. And I mean, it's been a pretty recent, like, emergence of him being this kind of guy on tour.

I remember when we were at the PGA Championship of Kiowa, Trent and I were walking. Yeah, and that's that whole story of, like, I walked by him and I just said, Scotty, and just because he was Scotty Sheffler. Like, he was a name. He wasn't anything crazy. There's, like, murmurs that he's going to make the Ryder Cup team at that point. Like, nothing crazy. Like, just one of those just good American golfers that you just don't really think about from a week to week basis.

And he was stunned that I recognized him. And that's, like, how humble he is. He, like, he would be, like, why does that guy that I see on the air and I, like, know my name? Something like, that's how we feel when a guy recognizes us, like, where we're like, how the fuck do they know what we're doing? Like, that's insane. The fact that he thought that about us is nuts. It's completely reversed and psychotic.

But he's just a man, dude. The thing that I love about that video, starting to, but true to your own form, he's like, Scotty's like, yeah. And then Frankie starts, like, yelling at me. And it's like, that's spot on Frankie of just, like, turning out and no style. It's like, how would I not know your name? Like, you're Scotty fucking Sheffler. Like, I can almost picture.

Right. I mean, I'm screaming at him at Kiowa on the range. I'm like, what the fuck do you mean? I don't know who you are. Scotty fucking chef and he goes, all right, relax. He's like, he goes, relax.

I didn't know, he was like a mix of. I don't know why you're mad. So yeah, he, he's like, me, he's gone back and forth

a bunch of times now at this point, pizza and just everything. And every time I message him, he's just like, thank you so much, Frankie. Like he's so,

so thankful and just like, so appreciative, the most humble guy that I've met on tour. It can't be happier for him. Unfortunately, I got to Kisner had to lose to him, but he's just a force right now.

We just got done talking about, like, does anyone dominate the PGA tour anymore, or is it possible? And he's won three out of his last five with no sign stopping. Like, number one golfer on the planet right now, just crazy. Especially when John Rom hasn't really been present as much as he was last year, like fucking nuts that Scott is just taking that spot and running with it. The number one golfer in the world thing is jarring.

And he deserves it. He's obviously playing as well as anyone on the planet. I just didn't see that coming. And I don't know how the math works out. If you try to go down a rabbit hole of the world golf rankings math, you will end up in an insane asylum. But, you know, kudos to him. He's not doing anything except just playing and playing really well

and winning three weeks out of five. So number one player in the world, it was stunning to me. Like when the murmur started coming, like he's going to end up being the number one player in the world if he wins this match play event. I was like, holy shit, that feels fast. But Scotty Sheffler, number one player in the world,

he's our guy. I couldn't be happy for him. It's just what a label for a guy this early in his career. I've started this murmur train on that podcast. I know. Well, it came from Rob. I know. It came from Rob at the shoot. It came from branded content Rob,

said, you know, we're doing this truly leash commercial and all these side actors or whatever you want to call him that he hired were in the background. He goes, I'm going to need you guys all murmur back here. And then they murmured a little too. loud so he was like murmur a little less and it was more of a conversation so it was a whole thing the whole day where I would say

could you get a couple murmurs so I've never used the term murmur in my life and I want to apologize to the listeners for now introducing that to the podcast because we are creatures of habit we've now said it four times I think each one of us Trent's definitely said it twice I've said it twice I think Rakes might have said it once it's

it's a word we need to just latch off of right now latch off those are the first times I've ever used take the latching off unlatching off Oh, God. Unlatch. Those are the first time I've ever said the word murmur. Yeah, we got to get off the lager comment.

Yeah, we've got to get off murmur. We're just going to get rid of it. We could maybe add it to the kitty, which we did with the U word for a while. But I was looking, the Scotty Shepard thing, number one rank player in the world was very surprised to me, too. Somebody made the point that he's had good finishes. I think it was Danny Rappaport, who was to say he has had good finishes in majors. And that combined with all of a sudden winning. and I just went and looked in 2021, he was tied for 18th of the Masters,

tied for eighth at the PGA, tied for seventh of the U.S. Open, and tied for eighth at the British Open. So the big like world ranking point events, he racks them up. And then all of a sudden you get three wins. And it's like John Rom hasn't won, I don't think, since the U.S. Open last year.

And then you had Patrick Cantlay went on that run. But he's like, hasn't won. So it's kind of like it was ripe for the taking. points were sort of fizzling off a little bit, and then somebody gets really hot, like Scottie wins some big events, and all of a sudden he's the number one ranked player in the world. So it does feel like he needs like a major, you know,

like to be number one. I remember when it was like Lee Westwood and Luke Donald, like when those guys became number one in the world, it was always like, what? You got to kind of have like a bigger feather in your cap there to be number one ranked player in the world, it feels like. Question for you that I just looked up, Riggs. What do you think Sheffler's ranking was at the end of 2021?

And if you know it, don't shout it in. But it doesn't look like anybody knows it based on their faces. So I'm going to say, I'm going to say he was like 17th in the world or something. Okay. I was going to say six. Oh, I was going to say like 21. Okay, yeah. So he was 12th in the world, which like if you're going to go on the tear that he did, that makes more sense.

I thought he was closer to Trent's guess. I mean, if, you know, in terms of. like low 20s in the world, which would make that rise to the number one harder. But yeah, I mean, Frank, if you think he was six at the end of 2021, he's been on this dare, he should be like the best player in the world by a mile. Yeah, I didn't do that math, right? I just thought that I was trying to be kind of like figuring out, like you guys said 21, right said like 16, I tried to do something not around that.

I probably should want like 10 because that would have been more, made more sense. but I just think for me I'm not really as surprised by him doing this well he's like ever since we kind of got involved in the Scotty Sheppler's story in the past half a year he's just been like in the mix like he's just it's so common to see him

either contending for a win or winning a golf tournament so for me it feels like we kind of just like weren't paying attention to how good he actually was and he's proven that I mean, obviously the wins are more present and they're more in your face, but he's been really good for a long, long time. Well, and think back to when he was matched up with John Rom on Sunday at the Ryder Cup. Everyone was like, whoa, this guy is going to get fucking blasted into the sun by John Rom, which made sense because John Rom was and, you know, he was playing the best golf on the planet and he has been for a while. And that just goes to show the pedigree that Shephler didn't necessarily have.

now he did end up winning that singles match and then he's gone on he clearly loves match play he won waste management and then he won Arnold Palmer now he's got that pedigree but just what was that end of September he was the guy that was going to get absolutely walloped by John Rom at the Ryder Cup and now he's the number one player in the world so it's happened fast but he has been playing well for a while

yeah true true and it's you know I think a lot of it too is that he haven't won So it's like that really seems you know you get so much more attention when you win Right like think about good of a week gisner had and he finished second and like he's just these next three or four days not going to get any really attention And like Scottie Jeff where he'll be he's on all the graphics that the PGA tour tweets out and all the clips of him with the family and like there's such a difference between winning and not especially in the public eye So I feel like him just having not won until recently until a month and a half ago or so was probably big part of that reason but yeah him being that high you know, 12th and then rattling off three wins and five events, him having taken down John Rom and having a great rider cup.

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And I guess there's a world golf rankings Twitter that I don't ever want to see again. But there's like a group of people that like to argue about it. But I would equate it to like he's not the best golfer on the planet. Just like you wouldn't say like Chris Crider is the greatest goal scorer of all like in the NHL, even though he's like leading the NHL in goals like it drives me fucking. crazy that that guy's playing so well, but like, like it's very clearly, like Alex Ovetkin's a better goal score than, you know what I'm saying? Like it doesn't have to be in.

Not this year. I'm just saying it doesn't be an end-all-beil that he's the greatest compliment. Someone's number one ranking. It's the same thing as being the stat leader in another, oh, fucking Nelson Cruz leads the MLB in home runs one year. He's not the greatest home run hitter in fucking baseball at the time. It's like he just happens to be really hot. Like, I don't know why people get so crazy about that.

It's a snapshot is what it is. It's just a little look into what's going on right now. That's a leaderboard. But I guess what... No, I don't have any problem with it. I really don't. But I think what Riggs had said earlier is probably what's tripping people up is that, like, he doesn't have like the huge major win that you would associate with a number one ranking.

And clearly there's other ways to go about earning that ranking. He's just, you know, played well in majors and then he piled up a bunch of wins right in a row. That's another way to do it. It just seems like when you pull up. plant your flag as a number one player in the world, there's usually this moment. And it's usually a major championship. But it's like, that's the guy. Like when John Rom wins the U.S.

Open, that's the number one golf in the world. Scotty just did it in a very uncharacteristic way. Yeah. And it's also uncharacteristic because it's like this pre-master stuff, right? So a lot of people, the golf season has even really started yet, right? You get the little piano out and you get the azaleas and you get the green grass at Augusta, that's kind of like boom major season has begun that's real so him rattling off these three wins before that before a lot of like major golf has even woken up to a lot of people totally get that it's different

and frankie i know exactly what you're saying it's like you're not people aren't necessarily it's not unanimous that scotty sheffor is just the best player in the world of golf that's not like if you looked at the odds to win the masters like he probably won't even be the odds on favorite it'll probably be Rom or it'll probably be JT if he, you know, who knows who it'll be. It could be him, but it's not like a lock. It's not a guarantee. So those two things are a little bit conflating. And it was again, like when it was ROM, it was very clear that it was wrong.

When it was DJ, it was clear that it was DJ. He had won a bunch of tournaments, including the Masters by a million. But there were people that kind of remind me of the Scotty are like when fucking Luke Donald became number one in the world. People are like, that guy's the best player in the world. No, he's not. Like if he was just playing against Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson or. or even DJ back then when Luke Donald was number one in the world.

Like you would have probably taken those other guys in a match over him. So that stuff does get different or conflated to people and people kind of panic about it. In reality, the world ranking thing is just kind of an accumulation of consistency, right? And that's pretty much it. It's not it doesn't actually really mean anything. I mean, yeah, they use it to get into certain events and status and all that, which is cool and great for the players that earn it. But like in reality, it's not telling you anything.

It doesn't bind you as the follower of golf to anything. You don't have to walk around and be like, yeah, I'm now forced to say that Scotty Sheffler's the best player in the world. You know, it's like you can just kind of have whatever opinion you want. I just looked at the odds. ROM is still number one for the Masters and Sheffler's tied for eighth for like the best odds. So, you know, like Morikawa, DJ, Speeth are all in front of them, you know, and there's reasons for that. Yeah. But, and obviously, course, set up the whole bit.

Like you get to go down that robot hole. but yeah, Sheffler is, and I do agree, it's an accumulation of just like what you've done that puts you on that level. I will say if I'm Scotty Sheffler, that's what's cool about it, is if when he's closing his eyes, when he closes his eyes tonight,

he's looking at the ceiling just being like, I'm the number one golfer in the world. That's a very cool thing. That's something that no one can ever take away from you. Like they'll give you the list, like they've showed the list on Twitter today. It's like, here's all the, you know, number one players in the world since 2000.

Scottie Shephler's on that list for at least one week and no one can ever take that away from him. That's very cool. Kyle Porter, to speak to our point, Kyle Porter from CBS had a tweet. He said players with multiple majors who have never been number one in the world, Phil Mickelson, Colin Moracawa,

Bubba Watson, Reteef Gousin, Paddrich Harrington, Payne Stewart. Then Scotty Sheffler, who two months ago didn't have a single tour win, became number, becomes number one in the world with a win today. So it's like that clearly is very, that messes with people's brains. And I think it makes sense.

But usually a lot of names. Usually the best player is the best player. A lot of names on that list are obviously surprising. Padrigan, I could have, I would have swore that he had that run where it was just like Padrig, I feel like is winning everything. But, you know, that's just the world golf rankings are what they are. Yeah, he won three majors in like a year and a half. And like, how did he not get to number one?

You know, it's like, it doesn't make any sense. but yeah, I do know what you mean, Frankie. It gets kind of rattling when people are like, nope, this is what it is. Like, well, it can just be, you can just think whatever you want to think. And clearly the odds makers agree with that because he's like tied for eighth and stats. But anyways, graduates this Scotty Schaeffler. Awesome stuff out of him. He's clearly playing probably the best golf in the world right now.

And the Masters is starting in like a week and a half in terms of Masters week. So good time to be Scotty Schaeffler. Okay. Kevin Kisner. So Kiz, like I said, he has made the finals three times. He takes home $1.3 million. He had the fourth place finish at the Players' Championship. A few other very good finishes to kick off the year as well.

So Kiz is probably playing some of the best golf or as good a golf. I've ever seen him play. I imagine he's going to be getting up there in the world rankings. But Matt's play Savant, Absolute Savage. He had the – so I was looking through his results. He dominated Mark Leashman. he barely beat Luke List one up then he dominated Justin Thomas where

I think the stat was JT was three under through eight holes and he was five down I think or four down to Kisd to start his track of golf so Kiz was just blitz and he had the insane comeback against Adam Scott

I don't know that someone that puts like Adam Scott puts like I don't know that he could beat Kevin Kisner because Kiz is just looking at him like he's got the broom fucking thing that he does You just can't defeat a Kevin Kisner when you put like that And he rolls the rock the way he does So Kiz holes out from the bunker and stages a hell of a comeback

Wins it with a birdie on 18 Then dominated Zalotoros who somehow magically improved his putting You should go talk to Will Zalotoros lurch Because his putting stroke went from hideous Like worse looking than my putting stroke and just like all like outside and the back in to then this week he was just a sick putter all the sudden. Yeah, he's had a, yeah, he's just inconsistent.

Like his putting is some weeks it looks amazing. In other weeks it looks like he's lost his way. I just don't have that upside ever. I've never had a week where I'm like, I'm just making every putt I look at. But yeah, he's interesting. I love Will Zaltoris. But yeah, some of his puts have been, I mean, world-class bad. But yeah, this week

He kind of was like a little bit more of a pop, I feel like. Like a little bit like Brantznetter. Yeah, exactly. A little Ricky, kind of Ricky-esque a little bit. Which that stroke actually makes me think about like, but then the touch on long puts when you're just trying to shorten it up really hard to me. Rom has a short like poppy one, I feel like. Lurch, have you tried to use those?

And I swear this is not an ad because we've already talked about them. Have you tried the tailor made? stripe response balls yet? I have. I just haven't played a lot of golf, but I've been, our buddy Josh Isner actually gave me one of these mirrors where you're like standing over

and looking up at you and you're basically to keep your putter on path. And I've been lining up those tour response balls with a green line on it. And it does, it helps me. I think visually it helps. I'm interested, you know, like I go on the perfect putty mat and I feel like I'm just making every four footer,

six footer that I look at and then I take that out to the golf course and I'm not even close. So yeah, I got to get some like actually real practice on course going before I start to gain a little confidence. I played my first round of golf with them like my first full round. I played Trump Ferry Point the other day. Fantastic golf course. What a place. We got it on a no, no wind day, like rain the night before.

So like all those crazy slopes from front of the green like everything was sticking. I like didn't miss a fair way. I was lighting it up off the T-box. I shot that went to golf at exactly. I went 42-30-9. Course is awesome. Maybe the best course I ever played really hard. I went 42-39-81, like won the match that we were playing with against fucking Dick and Murray.

Like fucking love every part of it. But dude, I'm telling you right now. I don't know if it's just because I was feeling the vibes and I was feeling good on the golf course. But something about the striped ball, it feels like you can't miss a put within four feet. you just line it up you kind of like stand behind the ball and watch that yellow line go in it's instant like reaction it's like you instantly know if you hit it perfect or not like right because the spin of the ball just to spin the ball and like you get so good at like realizing what you have to do to make that yellow line go straight like it's it's it's it's crazy it's like having a training

aid mid round and i i'm like not crazy about it on like the fair way kind of look like little weird. I had to get used to it, but like, just like I got through that. And once I was on the green, I, it's more just a sense of confidence. That's all you need with putt. It's like, all right, left edge, fucking jamming home. And like, I was just doing that. Like, I felt so confident with this ball. And I'm sure, like, next time we do a video, we do a scramble or whatever, I'm going to put, like, horrible. But, like, there's something about that day that, like, it just felt so much easier than trying to figure it out on your own with a pure white ball. You know what I mean?

Yeah, 100%. Higgs talked about, like, getting feedback on every shot. And that's something that I just don't do. It's like every time I hit a pitching wedge, like no matter where I play in the world, I think my pitching wedge is going to go like 150, but it just doesn't. In certain climates, it's just going to go way shorter or way further. But when you talk about hitting that put or hitting that ball on greens, like you're getting instant feedback where probably with every other ball you wouldn't be.

Like if you hit a pure put and you see it roll perfectly, you at least know, you put a good stroke on it, it was just a misread or whatever the case if it didn't go in, which would be really interesting to just look at and at least practice with if you're not going to use it or whatever, but it's something that I look to actually use.

And you are right about the, a little bit of confidence. It's like, almost it's like a caddy where you're like, that's the line, we chose that. Now you just have to hit it on that line and like you're almost playing like a team game with your golf ball a little bit.

No, but so when I play next, I don't know when that will be, but I'm going to give those things a shot. dude you're gonna love him you're gonna love him Frankie's on his high horse 42 comes in with a closing 39 to win the golf match

he thinks it's the best course he's ever played all things just roses for Frankie Barrella but dude yeah there were a couple moments where like I would say all right I think this is left edge and I hit a perfect roll

and it just sat on the left edge I'm like just misread like I knew immediately like just read it too like just didn't read it correctly and everyone in the group's like dude that was a fucking awesome punt. When if it's just a regular white ball, you don't even know where it's spinning, you don't know what's going on, you don't know if you just hit it. Dude, it's fucking awesome.

Right. Question for you. Do you line it up on the T, when you tee off? Do you line it up or you just go? Uh-uh. I was actually putting it just like diagonal or like messy. Like I was always trying to It's a non-factor. So it's a non-factor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was trying to just like not look at it. Like I would go like all white on this. Like I just wasn't, I would try and kind of move it around in my pocket and the door on the T. It would be funny if you had to align every shot throughout the whole round on wherever that line was pointing. Well, that would get a problem on the fairways because it could just be a line like sideways. You got to play.

We got to roll these over today. Right in the middle of the way. You're just, Frankie's hitting like a 50-yard cut into the green. People are like, what is he doing? It's like, well, do you imagine? You get matched up with a single. You get matched up with a single and they're putting the ball in the tee and lining it up, getting down like, you know, putter squat behind the ball and line it up and be like, We were in for a long one today, boys.

I actually watched, I actually watched a ranger. The course ranger actually came over, and the group ahead of us was a scramble. A bunch of dudes just trying to have a day out there. Never seen anything like that in my life, a really expensive golf course. Like four dudes, like fucking taking shots at the halfway house, having a time in their life. But dude, slow. And the ranger went up to them on like the 14th home and was like, you guys have to go to 18 now.

I've never seen that before. He made them skip. Just like, for real. Just like 50, 16, 17, 17, you're not going to. You're just like,

you guys are going to 18 and I'm going to take you there. Just follow me. And like, it's a four and a half hour wait for dinner. Yeah. It's like,

what the fuck? Bro, I've never seen anything like that. And then he comes up to us. He goes, those guys won't be a problem anymore. They're just going to 18. I was like,

you kicked them off the golf course. It's like, it's over. We didn't complain. Bro, the guy came from them to us. He goes, I know you guys were waiting all day and they're not an issue no more.

I was like, okay. Yeah. Wow. Crazy. Amazing. So much for the match that they had. It's like, you know, it's like, we're up one on the 15th,

now we're just up one on the 18th. You guys are dorming, I guess. I don't know. We said that true.