Fore Play - "TIGER WOODS WINS" with Tiger's buddy and analyst Notah Begay

Episode Date: September 24, 2018

Tiger wins the Tour Championship. We react to Tiger's first win in five years and welcome Tiger's close friend and NBC/Golf Channel analyst Notah Begay to the show. Notah spoke with Tiger at his hotel before the final round and recounts the lows and highs over his road back to the winning circle. Did you cry? We cried, and we're here to talk about it. The next Tiger era is officially off and running!!!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. We took it well. We wore it like a badge of honor. We said, you do not know this guy. You are acting like he is not the greatest of all time. You are acting like he has not overcome doubt before. You're acting like idiots.

We said it all along. We were right. Tiger Woods has won his first golf tournament in over five years. Number 80, I just got chills saying. that out loud. Yes. Boys, how are we feeling? It is a great day to be alive, and I will say I've been walking around the office all morning, and people are congratulating us as if we won, and that's how it should be, because we, like you said, we stuck with him the whole time. We never gave up, and this victory is as much ours as it is his. We're all together. People are congratulating

us like we won a war. Like, they're not even congratulating us in necessarily like this super joyous. They're like dead serious. They're looking at us right in the eye, are like, hey, man, congratulations like I know what you've been through and you guys won and I'm like thank you that means a lot it is a big day it's uh it's also and I've said this many many times uh I came to work today dressed for success I came to work today dressed in my rider cup gear because it's rider cup week tiger woods winning is yesterday we're going to go through all of the details of the emotions I I legitimately could have never predicted how emotional it would be we're going to get to all of that. However, what I just said to young page views who does all of our behind-the-scenes

camera work and all of that is that today is not even a celebration. Today is the beginning. Today, we now have confirmation of everything that we've been saying for this entire season that we have said during many comebacks in the past when those did not pan out, but we said one day he will be back to a point where he is one of, if not the best player in the world, where he is at a with his game and with his health where he can and will beat this crop of players. They are not too good. You do not understand the skill, the tenacity, the willpower of Tiger Woods, and he will be back someday to that peak.

He is now there. This is confirmation that he can and will win golf tournaments. This is not the end. This is not a culmination. This is the beginning of the next era of Tiger Woods, which is that unbelievable era that many people are Buddy Brandel-Chambe. one of those people said could never happen based off the chipping yips,

based off the injuries, based off of all of the mental devastation that he's gone through, the emotional devastation. There's no way someone could come back from that. He said last year at the Masters to Nick Faldo that he was done, probably done with golf. Here we are a year and a half later.

He just won the Tor fucking championship. He was a stroke, a Justin Rose stroke away from winning the FedEx Cup, which he almost won the whole goddamn thing. We went through it on this podcast. We're like, this has to happen. test happened. It was a laundry list of things. We're like, there's no way it's going to happen. We'll take a win.

And then 95% through yesterday, it looked like it was going to happen. It looked like it was going to happen. And honestly, it doesn't even matter. Tiger Woods has a billion dollars. He doesn't need the $10 million bonus. Everybody knows that. It would have been a cherry on top. It would have been another thing that we could talk about, the fact that he won the year race, the year-long race for like the best player of the season that he somehow came storming up at the end and won it. Despite all the odds, we were so close to getting that,

It doesn't even matter. Again, the FedEx Cup. We like it because it gets all the star players to play, and they do care about it because there's so much money. But in reality, who gives a shit, Tiger Woods was the story. Justin Rose himself during his congratulatory ceremony was like, yeah, no, that's all great. Like, congratulations to Tigers. He legitimately just said that.

He's like, I think everybody just wants to congratulate Tiger. The guys came out. They're congratulating him on the green. We're going to go through it. We're going to go through it step by step. I just, I want to say, again, that this is not. a destination. This is not the ultimate celebration. It's really

not. The reason that I say that we came dressed for work today, we are here to now the work for us begins. We have major championships to win. We have Jack Nicholas to catch. We have Rider Cups to win. It's Rider Cup week. This is not. We don't spend the whole

next three, four, five days celebrating. We're to work. We got merchandise to sell. We got podcasts to create. People have to listen to us talk about Tiger Woods. They want to listen to us talk about Tiger Woods. We're going to deliver all of that in the next several years of golf with this crop of the Dustin Johnson's and the JT's and the Jordan Speeds and the Rory McRoy's and the Justin Roses against the greatest player that's ever played the game who everybody thought was down and out who went through the biggest

fall from grace in probably the history of sports who was publicly humiliated not just in his personal life with all the sex stuff shout out to sex love it but then again with all the DUI last year the cocktail of different drugs and pain medications and clearly he was in an unbelievably dark place. People have said that they were concerned about his life that Tiger Woods might not literally survive, let alone walk and come back from surgery, let alone win golf tournaments.

All of that is now in the past. We have recovered from that to the point where Tiger Woods just won the tour fucking championship. He beat, and I went through this again on the radio show this morning. On Friday, he got himself in a lead with an eagle on the 18th hole on Thursday. People were going crazy.

on Friday he played head-to-head with Ricky Fowler. He crushed him. On Saturday, he went head-to-head in the final group with Justin Rose. He crushed him. On Sunday, he went head-to-head in the final group with Rory Maca-Roy, the winningest major champion of this generation. He crushed him. Rory might have shot a hundred.

I can't add up the shots. I don't remember. I had to stop paying attention to one point because I felt so bad for Rory. I felt horrible for Rory McElroy. I was like, at some point, they were actually trying to cut him out of the shots when they were walking together because they just didn't even want to show him on the screen. On the fourth hole when Tiger Woods made his, he had an up and down. It was the first green of the day that he missed. He got up and down from that bunker.

He made like an eight or ten foot put for par. And they showed the replay from behind the green where you could see Rory and Rory put his hand up. He did like pinch the bridge of his nose. Like motherfucker. And if you guys feel sorry for Rory, then fuck you because Rory McElroy at the Open Championship had very pointed comments afterwards. When he said there was a point where Tiger Woods it looked like was going to win the tournament. tournament and he made he's made multiple comments over the years that this generation Tiger Woods is not the intimidation factor that he was in the mid and early 2000s

Roy McRoy said he wanted to spoil the party that's all he wanted to do with the Open Championship and he was not there to spoil the party. Rory MacGroy by the way I hate to say this with the writer cup coming up I hate to say it but Roy McRoy has a closing problem he was in the final group with Patrick Reed of the Masters the only major he hasn't won he played god awful match a shot a hundred there He's in the final group with Tiger Woods and the most watched tournament I would imagine of the entire year or at least up there because it wasn't a major championship.

Probably the most talked about golf tournament in the last several years. Folded. Folded like a chair, like a folding chair, just pathetic. I hate you don't want to see that going into the Ryder Cup. But regardless, we are at this point now, again, where we are going to get the greatest player of all time coming out in his Sunday red, his blood red that he was wearing yesterday, competing with the greatest players of this next generation

all of which he inspired. There's that clip going around of Rory in his bedroom with all the tiger posters as a kid, and now he's got to go up against tiger. And I think one of the narratives has always been like, oh, the younger guys want, they want to see what that tiger was like. They want to go up against that. They don't. No, they don't.

They don't. They don't want to taste that. They officially, I think they would go back on those comments if they could now. Because he is, he looks amazing, and now he's got a little taste of winning, and it could be a long couple of years for these guys. There's a David DeVall quote going around where he's, said, I think in March, where he quoted a couple different players that were saying, you know, we really would, we want the opportunity to go up against Tiger Woods in his prime.

And David Duvall said something to the effect of, no, you do not. And as someone that had been there many, many times, he absolutely knows better than anyone. So Tiger Woods is a winner again, number 80. It almost seems like it's just inevitable that he's going to pass Sam Sneed's record of 82, which would give him the most wins in the history of the P.E. G-G-A tour. The major championship record, although it still seems like a stretch, it now seems like there's a very good opportunity chance,

whatever you want to call it, that he's going to win another major or two. And if he does, if you think yesterday was a big scene, him winning at Augusta or him winning at Pebble Beach next year or him winning at Bethpage Black right up the street next year, those are three of the four major championship venues in 2019. Would be an unbelievable scene. Gentlemen, let's go through yesterday, okay? So look, first thing,

I want to say is this new thing that Tiger does where he rips one down the fairway on the first tee and then makes Bertie on the first hole is so fucking different from what we've become accustomed to over the last 10 years. I'm obsessed with it. I have the same nervous feeling that I had when he teed off at the Hero World Challenge last year. Do you remember how nervous we were? Oh yes. All the hype Ricky Foward played with him was like he's crushing the golf ball. Trump had played with him and was like, he looks great. We were like, okay, whatever. When he teed off the first tee in the Hero World Challenge. We were shaking. I was like, he's going to crumble down. His back's done. This is it. Who knows? It could go out of bounds. Whatever. He ripped one down the fairway there.

This past week, watching, you know, Saturday and Sunday especially was when there's all the buildup because he's in the final group. He's teeing off late in the afternoon. It's the weekend. He's got, you know, he's in the leads. You're thinking like, well, now he like, instead of having to come back, he's right there. What's going to happen? First tee on Saturday, rips one down the middle, makes Bertie on the first hole. I think Rose made bogey. It was like a two-shot swing. And then yesterday,

the rip that he hit yesterday with the twirl, I mean, that twirl, that's, like, affecting climates in, like, Asia. I thought he was going to take off like a helicopter. He, the thing was just going, like, a million miles per hour. He loved that shot. Stepping up to that tee, we're all nervous. Everyone's like, how's he going to do this?

Is he going to be able to close? Does he have it? And to see that twirl, I looked at my friends when we were watching it, and I started just laughing out loud. I said, this thing's fucking over, guys. I've never, I don't think, I would love to know the velocity

on the club during that. It was unlike anything I've ever seen before. It spun like 20 times in his hand. And at that point, when that went up, you know, we're thinking, okay, and then Rory, to Roy's credit, Rory, you know, he outdrives Tiger about like 20 yards, at least rips one pass Tiger, Tiger. Tiger

hits it to like eight feet, cans it, and all of a sudden we're off. That is so much more fun, Tiger, than this other shit you used to do. Right. It's way more fun when he just slams the door on the first hole. Like, he's just like, I'm here. I'm here to play. Do you remember when the stats were, like, he hasn't, he hasn't made par better on the opening hole in, like, 10 tournaments in a row or something like that? That was what it was like in 2015, 2014, all of that, when he just couldn't get off the first tee.

It sucked. It was such a depressing way to start rounds, all this hype, all that. This is too much cooler than that. Watching him just make birdies is insane. He also, so, there's a couple things. One, he's so good on Fast Green that it's just, I don't know what it is, but he puts lights out on Fasts out on Fast Green. He always has. He does not like slow greens. They mess them up big time. These, excuse me, these greens were lightning. I mean, they were absolutely lightning.

Scotty's season was in full effect. The putter has never looked better. Even, I mean, on Saturday's round, when he birdied six of the first seven holes, I mean, a couple of the puts he made on one and three, I think, were like 22 footers. They were big ones, yeah. And the one on like the third hole, it broke. They showed, like, the original angle, it didn't look that crazy. Then they showed a little, like, behind angle. The thing broke like three feet, poured it right. the hole. So Scotty season's buzzing. His driver, he's got this new thing going where he doesn't hit it as far, but he just hits it in the fairway, which I love. What a great idea. We've been yelling

about that for 10 years. Right. Like take down the swing, like pull it back a little bit and just put that sucker in the middle and then like, let's go from there. Well, you're the best iron player that's ever lived. Yeah. You don't have to be 330 in the rough. You can just be like 300 in the middle of fairway. And he is. And boom. Now he's just unstoppable. He also, this is, and he knows it. He talks it and that's why he builds his schedule around these types of events he is the best player in the history of the game on difficult golf courses of all time he can play his game he doesn't it's not a shootout you don't have to go super low you have to play clinical golf you have to minimize the mistakes you have to play strategically he works the ball so impressively from the middle of the

green towards the pins that if it doesn't cut or it doesn't draw when he's playing to a right or a left pin he's just in the middle of the green he's a phenomenal lag putter he doesn't make many mistakes and yesterday was the most clinical round up until the end when it was already over but he does it he knows he doesn't have to win necessarily in this flashy form and he knew that yesterday he said afterwards he's like i thought if i posted anything under par it would be really really really unlikely that i would lose the golf tournament he buried the first hole which is a little bit of a bonus because nobody was burying that hole and then he made eight straight pars after that looks up at the leaderboard and he had like a five shot lead people were melting people are crumbling all around him exactly and at that point you know you would like to see a birdie like five holes coming in that'd be cool tagger woods is the best closer of all time i think he's like 43 for 45 now yep yep the tour average since 2013 is 42 percent oh my goodness he's at 95 now he's like that's just a different thing like you're just looking at that and like that's an outlier and you're like holy shit he's just like a different

human being than the rest of them. He's higher than double the tour average in terms of his closing rate with the outright 54 whole lead and he proved yesterday exactly why. I always think of Y.E. Yang with the 43 out of 45. Yeah, I mean, that was an outlier. I don't know why you'd bring that up right now. It's like a really, it's a really bad moment, but it's a really bad moment, but it's just always in the back of my brain.

Yeah, I just, I just wouldn't, I don't think we should talk about that at all. Like not even, I don't, never even close. All right. I'm sorry for bringing that up. Yeah. So he's legit over 95% that he closes when he has the 54 hole outright lead. He proved exactly why yesterday. Bertie on the first hole, eight pars after that.

And then on the back nine, once he got that five-stroke lead, things started to get a little bit intense. Pilly Horschel made a little bit of a run after looking like a complete douchebag that he is, like bitching in the bunker and slamming his club in the bunker on like the 16th hole or whatever that was. Tiger built himself a cushion. He built himself a very comfortable lead. Nobody closes better than him, as we just proved. And you saw that.

even on the 16th hole, which he struggled with all week, he hit one into the left rough. Instead of trying, he was only 174 out, I think, and instead of trying to rip it up on the green, he just chipped a little wedge out, hit one to 15 feet, two putt for bogey, gave himself a two-stroke lead going into the last two holes, one of them being a par five,

he just knows how to win golf tournaments. So it was clinical, it was absolutely clinical, it was the Tiger Woods of Old, and then gentlemen, that scene on the 18th. I did not. I fully was stunned at how I emotionally react. to the whole thing. I started to get emotional on 17 when he was walking up to the green.

And everyone was putting their hands out for him. And they had this view of him walking up the side of the green. And everyone's reaching their hands out. And I'm just screaming to the camera. Don't touch them. Don't touch them. Don't touch anyone. Because when he starts giving high five and stuff, I didn't want to see it.

Yeah. I wanted to see him just be laser focused. And like he knows what he's going after. And then like I saw him just, he's like, it was business. He wanted to get it done. He's going to do it. That's when I started to be like, this guy knows what he's about to do in the next couple holes. He knows where he's back.

And then on 18, for him not even to look around, he's just looking straightforward. And I think the entire world was behind him. I think there was like 15,000 people just running right there. It looked like a scene on World War Z. And it's like my brain had too much stimulation at that moment. I was watching all those people fall behind him. And I just started laughing. It was just maniacal laughing in my apartment by myself.

Because what a scene, you just, there's people running behind him. And it's like you're saying, Frankie, he just kept looking forward. He had a little bit of a grin on his face. But he just kept... He said he heard it. He said he didn't see anyone behind him. I don't know if that's possible. And his interview after, he's like, yeah, you know, I heard the noise.

It's like... He's like in the Lion King where he's just like, here's like the rumbling coming around. Yeah. And they're coming up the mountain. But it was like Jesus Christ was like walking to go give like a sermon on the top of like a hill. Like everyone was just rushing to see this like Messiah. It was unlike anything I've ever seen. I didn't expect it.

I honestly, I don't know if that was planned by like tour officials that they let people in. I don't know if people just swarmed and were like, we're following that guy off the fair. think that they were overthrown i like to think that they lost control of the golf i think that they lost control of the crowd i think that's 100% what it was because i bet they were probably like no no no don't let's like keep an order here and they were like tiger's about to win a tournament so we're not going to do that we're just going to bum rush you guys it was all it was only the second time in my lifetime that i've ever seen anything like that the first was tiger woods at san andrews were the same scene where they they followed him up the 18th which is kind of what they do do at the open

championship but there was nothing like when it was Tiger Woods in 2000 when he was the biggest star he was dominating fields i think he won by eight there that year that was like three weeks after he had won by 15 at pebble beach he was this unstoppable force and everyone just wanted to get close to him and see him this was more emotional and crazy than that it honestly was that crowd swarming in the blimp shots of the crowd it literally looked like um like when when cleveland like finally won their championship and they showed like the downtown streets of cleveland and how you could not believe how many people were there. That's what it looked like.

People were just everywhere. It was a sea of people following Tiger, jump and trying to get him, and then him just marching right ahead of the group here. Two big security guards behind him. Your close personal friend, Joe Likava, just got swarmed in the crowd. Did you notice that? He had to, like, pop out. When they first showed that shot of everyone swarming,

La Cava was just gone. Like, the bag was behind the people. Tiger was looking around, then he just pops out of the crowd. It was a scene that you couldn't even create that. in a movie because it would seem fake. Right. Well, all right. No one would ever do this at a tournament.

That's not a major or whatever. Like, this is golf. Like, what is happening? If someone mentions that at like a movie table reading, and then we're going to have every single person at the golf course just sprint onto the golf course. That's not Moses. That's just a golfer.

What are you guys talking about? You can't create that. At one point to see if people got out ahead of them and closed in front of them. And then there's video of it where Roy pops out of the crowd. It's the funniest thing. He just like goes under somebody and then here, comes Tiger and it is it is what a moment Tiger had to pop out too. At one point Tiger like the crowd submerged him to the point where there wasn't even

there was barely a little path in front of him and then they showed the view from the green and you saw Tiger like this little pathway on the side like emerged from this huge sea of people and it was just like what the fuck is happening? Then on 18 on the green he hits the bunker shot. You know, Rory finishes out for him, sets the stage for him, he lags it up tight and then when he took that extra moment to kind of like soak it in before he tapped that ball in he took a moment even when he reached down to pick up the ball and before he kind of looked up and when he popped up and his bottom lip was like quivering i lost it i just started crying i'm at yeah i legit like you could just see on his face the one of the first times i can ever remember you could see on his face just like pure admiration for all that it happened uh almost just like pure appreciation for all of the love of the he was getting triumph like this almost unexpected or just overly appreciative and and and

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He dominates. He just crushes people. But this was different. This was a redemption win that he had never experienced before. And you could see that it meant a lot to him. And when he raised his arms in the air, that was about as emotional as, you know, as a moment as you're going to get him. People were texting me left and right, that they were crying.

People were responding dozens, hundreds of people responding to my Instagram story where I was like, I cried. Everyone being like, dude, I did too. Everyone I was with was crying. My mom, they were like, we were crying. I didn't expect it. We just started crying when his, it was that bottom lip quivering was just like, I lost it. When you see someone like that, basically getting emotional and crying, you can't help it. And it's weird because it was the tour championship.

It wasn't the Masters. It wasn't the British Open. It was the tour championship. And yet that was the most emotional moment I've ever witnessed in sports. And again, it's the beginning. That is kind of, that's signaled in like this new era of the latest version, which will probably be the final version of Tiger Woods. That latest version is not the guy in the DUI stumbling around on police footage.

That final version of Tiger is triumphant. It's him standing there with his arms in the air on the 18th Green at East Lake. Like, I'm back, motherfuckers, and I'm going to win golf tournaments. Him talking about all that went into it really gives me the hope that he, he is driven, as driven as he needs to be, and committed. And hopefully, I'm hoping to God that what he got yesterday out of this, all that, all that, those feelings, the good feelings and all of that, that he now is addicted to that feeling once again.

And because when you get to 42, 43, and you've had four back surgeries, three back fusions, three back surgeries and fusion, and you've had a bunch of knee surgeries and you've had the success that he's already had, you get concerned that this guy's drive is not necessarily going to be there. It's going to be tough. That look yesterday and him, how much he enjoyed that, I think gives us a ton of hope that the next three to five years, this guy is going to be committed, savage on the golf course.

He's got the skill. He's got the golf game. He's got the drive to start winning more and more tournaments and to win major championships. Yeah, you said that people were congratulating us like it was a war. Yeah. And for me, it feels like a visual representation, like in a movie when they show you visually when a country is in a war

with someone and you see the map and the map's moving. And like flags start getting posted down and like you see them just moving in on the enemy. That's exactly what I feel. It has been a war. It's been a battle. There's been lost battles. There's been one battles. Every single time we've watched and T off, we've been so hyped up and then we've gotten crushed. He's been so close. We've all been together. We've all had our arms locked on and we've just been like, this is it. Like we are here and then he hasn't been there. It's been five years of just like every week group text and calling people. I call everyone I know. I'm like, Tiger's going to do it and then he doesn't. And now it's

like, boom, our flag is somewhere. And now we're looking ahead and like it's, there's red ahead. No, I'm sorry, we're going to be red. We're the red. There's like black plague everywhere. And now like a blood red is just coming through this like visualization of a country. And like I could just see like the smoke just like rummaging through like it's like Lord Voldemore walking into like a place and like the little snakes ahead of them. That's what I feel with Tiger right now. It's like, don't let us get hot. Don't you dare let us get hot. This is going to spread. This is a disease. This is going to spread. And boys, winning the Tour championship means we're hot.

We're hot. We're red hot, some would say. The worst thing in the world is that the Masters is next week. I know. I was thinking that yesterday. I was like, God, I wish we just plow right through to the Masters. Right now. Let's do it. However, Tiger is a master of patience. He's a master of understanding when to peak and how to peak at the right times. That's how you win 14 major championships by the age of what he was like 31, 32 when he had already won 14 major championships. He understands what to do. He's going to dominate at the Rider Cup, which is going to be the coolest thing of all time. He is going to dominate Phil Nicholson in their little match.

He's going to dominate at the Hero World Challenge. Then he's going to have a couple months off to get himself ready again. He's played a ton of golf, and he's played six of the last seven weeks. He's going to play six of seven weeks after the Ryder Cup. He's going to rest. He's going to have himself ready to rock. And we're going to be making an assault on the PGA tour next year. He's going to get to number one ranked player in the world.

He's going to win the FedEx Cup. is going to seriously contend in probably at least three of the four majors, and I think he'll win one. And watching all of this happen next year over the next couple years is going to be the coolest thing that we have witnessed, the redemption story, the fact that it's a comeback, how low he's been versus how high he can get to now, is just the coolest thing ever to witness.

Poor Phil Mickelson, he's about to run into a buzzsaw in November. Buzzsaw. When they showed him for that quick second yesterday in the coverage and he was like plus 15, I said to myself, holy shit, Phil. Like, how the hell can he go into that match knowing that Tiger is just... And going into the rider company. I'm nervous going into the right.

Is he just not, like, they're not going to play Phil until the Sunday singles? He's just an assistant captain now. Just Phil is just not going to play. He is, Phil. He's got a phenomenal short game. He's a phenomenal putter. So I think that, you know, they'll put him in a couple times. He'll probably play, he'll probably one session each day and then play.

So he'll play three total. I think Tiger at this point, I mean, if his health holds up, I think he'll probably play all five sessions. I mean, he's coming off a win. Yeah. He almost won the FedEx Cup. He's Tiger Woods. He's the most electric.

He's Tiger. Like, that's all it needs to be said. I don't care about anything. He's Tiger Woods. He just played. And the beauty of it now is he's not like Tiger Woods. Now he's Tiger Woods. Yeah, it's not like, there's emphasis on just the name.

People are like, when we talk about Yoda Tiger, we're always like, oh, he gives good advice. Right. I bet it's like the guys like having him around this and that. But now it's like, it's just Tiger Woods. It's not Yoda Tiger. It's not Sage advice Tiger. this is Tiger who's like ready to slit throat. So we got to talk about afterwards.

First of all, a bunch of his chatter. I'm going kind of like frantically through a couple of my notes from yesterday. The chatter with him and Joe La Cava, who's my buddy now. The chatter with him and Joe La Cava of Joey telling him exactly like, I like this number, this is where you aim it. And Tiger being like, you got it, brother. Do you hear him saying that a couple times? You got it.

Hit it here exactly to this yardage and like inch. And he just goes, you got it. He said, brother. He goes, you got it, brother. And he, at one point, like, I have this image in my head of him. Tiger was even talking to Joey. And as he finished, like, a little rehearsal practice swing, he's, like, finishing the follow-through of the rehearsal and was like,

you got it, brother. As he, like, finished the rehearsal. And I just was quivering in my job. I was like, oh, every time I see that interaction, regardless, I guess, even if it's not Tiger, if it's any professional golf, just the balls it takes. And especially Tiger Woods, to tell Tiger. And to have the confidence to be like, hey, man, this is what you're going to do on this shot and, like, know that Tiger's just going to listen to you and be like, you got it, brother.

That's insane. Shout out to fucking Joe. I don't know how he does it. I don't know how you look at that man. That man is a God in front of you. I don't know how you look at him and be like, hey, I know what shot to hit here. Do it. It's like, in that moment, he's like, I know more about this than you do.

And you're talking to Tiger Woods. Imagine telling Tiger Woods what club to hit? No. It makes me want to throw up. Like Tiger Wood stands next to you and just looks at you and you. hand him a seven iron and you're like aim there like could you imagine having that that's your job tangle was looking at me being like now what oh i don't know dude you tell me you tell me oh it's just it's so unbelievable cool it's fun talking about this up okay i got to bring this up okay

you're gonna bring up y yang well no that was a mistake okay will you guys please uh i forgive okay i forgive all right thanks it's a day this is if any you know what it got brought up yesterday when i was watching with my buddies we were at beryllies we're watching it i feel like all big events I go to Borrelli. So watch, you know, my dad's there. I got cousins there. All my friends come to the bar. That's a very cool thing. We get to drink for free. It's huge. I also like, you want to watch big events like this in your comfort zone. Yes. Like Trent and I, we watch, I watch alone in my apartment. I want to hear every word of the commentary of the coverage, of the coverage, everything. I want to understand like when they

fuck up the coverage. I want to be able to comment on that. I want to witness it. When Tiger's talking to Joey, I want to be able to hear it. Like, I don't want any distractions. It's Fidelberg. Our coworker Fidelberg says the same thing about watching big Patriots games. Yeah. He doesn't go to bars. He doesn't go to friends. house he sits alone in his room and watches the Patriots. Oh, it's the best. That's what I do. Going to like a bar where there's like other games going on, it's impossible.

We turn it on all three TVs and we have the surround sound and this is just blasting. We had it on volume 85. There was a full dining room of people watching it in the other room and we just didn't give a fuck. Were people going crazy? Yeah, we were going crazy. But it's just like, all right. So no, this is why I have to bring this up. Last week we talked about the Ryder Cup.

And we talked about, I think there was a question from the gallery. Would you take a Tiger Woods victory this week if it guaranteed a rider cup loss for the team USA? Now, you two both said at the time, absolutely taking the rider cup. It's electric, it's America. We've been waiting for this. We haven't beaten Europe on their soil in, like, I don't even know how long. It's been years. Yep.

1993, I think it was last time. Which is insane. So everyone's gearing up for it. Tigers playing well at the time when we were talking about this. And you're like, it's going to be fucking awesome. Tigers at the rider cup. And I said, I want to win right now, boys. I don't want to take my money and run.

I don't want to wait. I don't want to assume I want to have that feeling right now. I want to cap off this incredible comeback of this year. I want to walk away from this year with a victory. So now, after it happened, the emotions, you're crying. I have changed my mind. Have you changed your mind, right? It's what you said, Riggs.

You didn't realize how emotional was going to get for you. This whole time I've been wanting Tiger to win. We've been going through everything with him, the DUI, all the second. stuff, blah, blah, blah, you don't realize what it's going to feel like once it happens. You just sort of might know, but you don't. And then when it happens, it's way better than anything I could have even imagined. But here's where I stick by what I said, is that Tiger Woods, my answer was based off the fact that I believe Tiger Woods is going to win again, no matter what, whether it's

at the East Lake or whether it's at Torrey Pines or whether it's at Bay Hill next year, it doesn't matter. So if it was, if he didn't win this past week, but the U.S. still won the Rider Cup, I'm still of the belief that we would get that moment. It just, we would get it at Torrey Pines in January or we would get it at Bay Hill in March or something like that. So, yes, yesterday stunned me. Like, how awesome it was, actually stunned me. Because, like, you know, you prepare for it. You have all of these, you have all of these memories even of how cool it was.

Like when I watched him win the 2008, U.S. Open, it was that Monday playoff was during like summer break. So I just got to sit there on a Monday and watch every shot. And like I remember how cool that was watching it. This yesterday was better than that because of all of the doubters and like how much we've had to stick out, how much shit we've got. Like when he's hit T-balls out of bounds this year when he was in contention, when he made the double at the open. And Dave just shit on us and shit on us. And it was like, he'll never win. You guys are such losers.

he's 42, he's done, he's the most done athlete of all time, what a loser. The fact that we've had to endure all of that, and the fact that our guy has gone through such public humiliation and been so down in the dumps to the point where he almost freaking killed himself unintentionally with all the DUI and all of that. And now he's triumphant, he got to raise his hands in the air with people literally running onto the golf course like he was Jesus Christ reinvented. It was way cooler than I would have imagined ever. Like that, I cannot believe that I cried.

I wrote that I didn't think he would cry And not only did he cry Like everybody cried Everybody The whole world was just crying The whole world was just tears rolling down their face Because everybody's been there Everybody's had

Unbelievably humiliating and embarrassing moments Everybody's flawed Everybody's a fucked up Like shitty person sometimes To some degree And you want that redemption Because we all does feel like we deserve redemption Like we all feel like we're good people at heart

And therefore like we should have success If we work hard towards it So seeing a guy like that Go through all that negative stuff And then get to a point of everyone admiring him and loving him again and winning is like you all can like live vicariously through that to some degree. So that was unbelievable.

Like that was an unbelievable experience and knowing that everyone was crying with us across the country. People tweeting at us, people DMing us on Instagram, people texting us like, I'm crying too. We're all fucking crying. Yeah. Was unbelievably cool. However, my answer was based on the fact that I think he will win no matter what, whether it was yesterday or whether it's in a couple months.

So I don't change my answer. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I respect that. That was a very good answer. I didn't think I would get that detailed of it, and now you're making me see your point. I think also, too, for me,

the viewing experience is going to be a little bit better. I think that's why I brought up the Borrellas at first because I was able to sit there with my boys and watch it and my dad and everything. Like the Ryder Cup this year specifically is going to be at 2 a.m. It's just like we're not going to be having that same, you know, that same just like feeling of watching it.

I think like a lot of it's going to be on delay for me and I'm going to be looking at it, you know, half one eye open and sometimes I'm just going to have to be drinking coffee and fucking red bullets going on me and feel gross. for me the viewing experience is huge That was perfect Yesterday was perfect Perfect

The way that it I played golf in the morning I played great with my new titleist clubs It was one of the best You did look like you were just ripped That chip you hit Where did that come from? It was beautiful

That's the best chip I've ever seen We interrupt this Tiger Woods coverage To talk about My fucking wedge game yesterday I I may have had the best wedge Like the round with my wedges That I've ever had in my entire life

Not just the past couple years My entire life I was spinning ball I was hitting the back of, I was hitting banks and they were coming back. I was laughing when I was hitting them. These new titles, these vocies with the bounce, I have bounced on these things now. I'm just able to crush the ball. You looked like in your face, like somebody had injected light and like color and positivity

into your face yesterday, like into your whole body as you were swinging as you're chipping. Yeah. And this isn't even, we're not even supposed to promote tireless until Thursday this week. They're just, their stuff. Your wedges made you look like, it's like changed your whole. It's like when you grabbed the tidalus vocies that it replenished all of the nerves in your arms and hands, and you have like new nerves in your hands. Yeah, we'll talk about it more on Thursday, but my God, was amazing.

But, yeah, I mean, I played golf. I played great. I got back to my restaurant. I had food in front of me. I had beers. I had my friends. I had my family. We had it on surround sound.

I'm looking at the screens. It was great. It was still light out. It was just a good feeling. It ended. It was only like 6.30. I went home. It was incredible.

When it ended, I thought it was 11 o'clock. Me too. I was crazy. That was crazy. It got done and I looked at the clock and it said 705. I was like, what is going on right now? So I was in Alabama this weekend. We did a big thing with Bud Light.

And on Saturday, I was in Tuscaloosa. I was about a five-minute walk away from the game. This guy's TV. And I legitimately... Oh, yeah. You guys, everybody's shaming you like, that's my TV in my part. That's just, that was the Ramada in TV. There was one guy because I scroll the mentions

because I wanted to see if people were roasting me for the TV. And there was one guy's like, whoa, it's before 4 p.m. And you're under the covers. What are you doing? That was like really funny. You were under the covers. You weren't just like sitting on your bed. You were all tucked in and there.

So people got to realize, first of all, we had a big night, Friday night out in Tuscaloosa. A big night. That place is a fantasy land. You can't even imagine what that place is like. I saw the videos. It's insane. Oh, my God. And I'm 31.

So it's like, what is happening here? Big night out Friday night And then Saturday I had a ticket to the Bama Texas A&M game But Tiger teed off Tied off tied for the lead At 2.30

With Justin Rose So I was like Well not I'm I have to watch Tiger Obviously So I also When I go into a hotel room Or any room

Even in my apartment I turn the AC On to like 64 degrees Basically So my room was freezing So it wasn't that I like Hadn't gotten up yet I just

My room was freezing So I was under the covers I wasn't even picturing that you hadn't gotten up yet. I thought you were just like, I'm going to get in this hotel bed. I'm going to give this hotel bed and watch Tiger Woods, which I don't blame you, but it was funny. Your TV was hilariously small.

It was a bummer. And it was tough because I couldn't go to a bar. Because if I go to a bar, it's just going to be the Bama game on every TV. Right. So I knew that it was not a fight I wanted to have to fight. I just, I didn't want to have to battle crowds. I didn't want to be like, can you turn the sound on on Tiger Woods golf while Bama's playing five minutes away? It's not going to happen.

I almost would have made a good video. You're just going around, like, trying to fucking get Tiger on during the Bama game? Yeah. So my only option, I just sat in my hotel room in Tuscaloosa at the Ramada with my tiny fucking TV like I was Michael Scott and watched Tiger on Saturday. And then I made our whole crew. We took a 7.30 flight home Sunday morning about that. I told them like three weeks ago and we booked it. They originally had us on like an 11 or 12 a.m.

That got in at like two and all that. I was like, no, we cannot do that. Because if Tiger Woods is in contention, I cannot be in the air. That is just not an option. I have to be there. And I need to build in plenty of time for air in case there's a delay. Like, I cannot be in the air while Tiger Woods is potentially winning a golf tournament. Thank God I did that.

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We talked about last week. We were debated like, does Tiger get shit-faced and party if he wins? I said no. We did talk about that. And then it turns out that, yes, he in fact does because that's the press conference. We can probably put the audio in where he doesn't explicitly say, he answers it in a very Tiger Woods way. They ask, like, are you going to have some drinks on the plane? And the smile he gives is a billion-dollar smile.

And then he says everyone on that plane, he's going with some team USA guys, is going to sleep well. So he definitely got, he had a few soda pops on the plane. And right as we are recording this show, a photograph has emerged. Oh, if you've got it. go on to the golf digest or really any golf publication, but that's where I'm seeing it, of the crew. This is like them getting off the plane. So a lot of funny comments here.

First of all, everybody's got sunglasses on because they're all just hung over his balls, except for Patrick Reed, who just doesn't drink. Patrick Reed just like literally, clearly doesn't drink. He said many times that when they won the last Ryder Cup, he, like, will never drink ever again because he woke up the day afterwards and was so hungover that he doesn't ever want to feel that feeling again. So there's this picture. Everybody's hungover as balls.

You can tell, even like a couple of the guys that don't have shades on, like David Duvall right here. He's hurting. He's hurting. I mean, in this picture, these guys just took the red eye to Paris. Tiger looks mangled. Tiger is so hungover that he's wearing sunglasses, and you can still tell he's not looking at the camera.

That's how hungover tiger is in that picture. He's looking like way up in the sky. He can barely form a smart. Barely. These guys got after last night. Bubba looks fresh. He doesn't really drink either. Webb Simpson looks great.

Look at Webb Simpson's hair. I don't even know what's going on here. So he doesn't really drink either. J.T. looks hungover as shit. Ricky looks hungover. What's going on with Ricky's hair? He looks like the most hungover person I've ever seen him. Ricky's having a bad hair day.

That's a tough picture for him. He looks like he's in Slytherin with that hairdo. If you look at Dustin Johnson, I mean, he looks hungover. Brooks Kevka looks unbelievably hungover. No, Dustin Johnson is in bonus land. He looks so happy. He's still drunk from the night before. I think you're right.

He is in bonus land. So there's that asshole Bryson. Just like he looks like he just flew the plane. He looks. He looks like he flew the plane. He might have flown the plane. He might have flown the plane. If he didn't fly the plane, he was definitely in the cockpit,

annoying the people who were flying the plane. Oh, what's that button do? Ooh, how do we? What's that button do? You know how a plane flies, right? I want to hate this conversation, but you're absolutely right. Do we have time to talk about just how unbearably annoying he was yesterday on the golf course, just watching him every single time, like every single time they put the camera on him.

You don't like him. I get that. No, you don't like him. I don't think we need to. I'm with you. All right. I don't think we need that. We don't need that energy.

This isn't the show for that. No. Frank. Okay. All right. Just real quick, when he left his putter on the ground for his caddy, that was. That's a bad look. It was just a douchebag.

That was a bad look. That was a bad look. I mean, you don't have to get your cheap shots in. is a positive podcast. I'm sorry. There's a whole other show. Why are Yang and Bryson now? What's wrong with you?

I don't know. It's just who I am. I have a lot of hate in me. That's fine. This picture's fantastic. Go check it out. We'll have it all up on our social media and whatnot. Even Jim Furrick.

I mean, Jim Furrick looks hung over for Christ's sake. The PGA Thor's father, Jim Furrick, the most dad-looking person of all time. So awesome stuff. You have to have to have to love it. Tiger coming off his first win. All the boys were congratulating. And Bryson had a beat your up shirt on right next to the green. Got it like that.

comment on that, Frank? I didn't. He got left hanging by Tiger, too, though. I don't know if you saw that video. I did see that. Okay. Yeah, well, I mean, they're going to be partner, so Bryson's not too worried about it. Got it was Tiger.

I don't know if you guys saw either, but everybody was tagging the quote that Bryson wears, the half that he wears, to pay homage to Payne Stewart, who's one of his favorite players. So do you guys hate on that, too? I knew that was the thing, but I, I just... It's such a Bryson move to, like, now say that that's what that represents. No, I honestly think he has said that for a long time, but the fact he just looks, like let Payne Stewart have to have to have my...

person that's ever. Why can't we just let Payne Stewart have that for himself? Everything he does, he's figured it out. He figured out golf more than everyone else. He's the only one that will pay homage to Payne Stewart more than anyone else. Like he's just the best. Bryson has figured it all out, except for when he doesn't. We're not doing this. Not on this show. Not on this show, Frank. We're going to keep it positive. This is a Tiger Woods podcast. We are very excited about the show. We have a victorious. We are doing a victory lap. I'm going to be really obnoxious all day. I think all of us are. Yep, totally.

If you're a Tiger fan out there, feel free to be as obnoxious as you want to be. You earned this. We all are in this. Peacocking is a good word for it. We're peacocking, but again, it's important to reemphasize and stay on message. And the message is that this is not the ultimate triumph. This is the beginning of the next era. We have proven that we can win big events with the best players in the world in the field.

And all that means is that now Tiger is officially unequivocally, undoubtedly back. He is very capable of winning the biggest tournaments. including major championships. He almost won two of them this year. He has now won the Tour Championship. He was a stroke away from winning the FedEx Cup. 2019 is on the horizon. Ryder Cup is on the horizon.

He's going to be probably our number one player at the Ryder Cup. I mean... Which is an unbelievable thing to say. Yeah, I think he's good. Yeah, he has to be. He's putting it the best. He's driving it straight. He's the best iron player in the world.

His short game is better than it's ever been. On Saturday, when he, when that chip came, back down at him and then he just had the confidence to just like shoot it right into the hill and like oh my god tap in range for a huge save we were all texting during that and we were stunned we couldn't believe it the fact

that he hit that like you said after the fucking chip that he had was unbelievable even yesterday he had that little butter knife where he hit it five inches yep yeah but that one was impossible if that goes another six inches it's to the hole right you see I'm saying he's trying to hit that shot yeah but he you're right that little pitch he bumped into the hill to save bogey there

Justin Rose even gave him a fist pound there. Druson Rose was like, that was sick. Yeah. That was an unbelievable golf shot. That thing just dribbled out there. So his short games there, he is in after, especially after our boy Bryson, didn't play great this past week. Well, watch the tone there. Our boy.

Tiger is probably the number one guy. Like, you know, if this was like a tennis team and you rank and put your guys out in ranking, Tigers probably are number one. It's 100% Tiger, yeah. Which is just the coolest thing in the world. So he's going into Paris. into foreign territory, into France, the Rider Cup. We haven't won on foreign soil since 1993.

It's an exciting time to be alive, gentlemen. We are going to have a second show this week. We will probably put it up Friday morning. We have to figure that out because I'm going to be in Paris. We usually do Thursday mornings, but it would be nice to get a couple or at least a full day there before we do it for me. I think that's a smart movie. Yeah, because it's going to be really, really tricky

because me and Logan are taking a red eye Tuesday night. We get there like Wednesday morning and then we'd have to record a podcast at some point that day without really like having much time there. So we'll probably put the second podcast from this week up on Friday where we can kind of do a full Rider Cup breakdown. I'll be able to talk about being in Paris, being at LeGolf National. Ooh, I got a lot of tweets saying that people all across the media are now saying it that way, which just means that's just the way you say.

Or it's the Frankie effect. Oh, maybe. Yeah. Lake off and National out. I think you got people saying Belariv, too. I think you're... Well, yeah, well, that's going to change. Yeah.

Next time there's a major at Belariv. If they don't just brand it as Bel-I-W... They should put a little ex-ante-gu on top of the E. A little what? Ex-ante-Goo. That's Harvard, baby. That's Harvard, baby. Ex-on-de-Goo?

Yeah, that's the... Is that the arrow on top? The little thing. So there's one that points to the left and one that points to the right. One's called ex-ante-a-go. And the other one, I don't know. Ex-S-D-Goo. But they should put one of those on top of the E.

So, Bel-Reed. How do you know which one goes to the left and which goes to the right? I don't remember. That's a good question. It does kind of change. It changes like how much you church it up. That's like which direction it faces. I should know this stuff.

I don't, again, I don't remember. You're in a band. What? Oh, sorry. I was, nope. No, no. Sorry, I stopped paying attention. I forgot what we were talking about.

What the fuck? That was my fault. That was my fault. I was looking at Twitter and people are making fun of me for my clapping during the celebration of Tiger. They're saying I'm clapping on one in three instead of two and four, so I got music in my head as opposed to literature. Oh, and then you said you're in a band.

Yeah. And you just spaced us out. You weren't listening to us? I saw that because people talking about like, what is it called? Yeah, you're talking about Exxon de Gu, and your response was, that's right, you're in a band. Yeah, because I'm looking at this tweet here.

People are making fun of me for clapping offbeat. So I got it in a space cadet move. It did. I got it into my head. Yeah. That's my fault. All right. Next up, we have,

Noda Begay, who is, of course, one of Tiger's closest friends. Shout out to Noda yesterday. So this is, we haven't recorded the interview yet, so we don't exactly know what's going to be said. We jumped into the office this morning. We're trying to record as fast as we can so we can get up an emergency podcast for everyone because this is probably the biggest show we've ever done, which is crazy because we had a gigantic show after the U.S. Open because we were credentialed to the U.S. Open for the whole thing. Then we had a giant show after the PGA because credentialed of the PGA for the whole thing.

Now this isn't even bigger show. I imagine like next week's show after a credentialed the writer. up all week is going to be even bigger than this show. So we should keep having big shows. We have Noda Begay, who he dropped yesterday an unbelievable line when he decided to tell this story about Jason Day because they started talking about the putter. And they always comment how Scotty season, Tigers, Scotty Cameron Putter, how Tigers won 13 majors with that putter.

And Noda, shout out to Noda, just out of nowhere, he starts telling this story. And he goes, yeah, there was actually a point over the last year. where Tiger was at his house and Jason Day came over and I just happened to be there and he was like and Jason Day was like I want to go to the simulator and hit some balls and Jason Day is ripping these three woods and he turns back to Tiger and says I know you can't hit the three wood that far because Jason Day was hitting it 280 or 290 and notice like well there was a point where the putter the Scotty putter was just like laying in the corner like up against the wall in the corner is where he keeps this legendary putter like the most of the most of the most of the

most winning his putter of all time. And he points over to the putter and just goes, Jason, you see that putter over there? That putter has won 13 major championships. And the way that Noda just told this story about how he was literally a fly on the wall at this whole thing was one of my favorite Noda moments of all time. So he just, the way that we understand it, Noda just arrived in Paris. He went over because they did pull him onto the coverage yesterday.

So he was clearly in America yesterday when Tiger was winning and now he's in Paris. So we're able to get Noda Begay. He, of course, played at Stanford with Tiger. He's been one of Tiger's closest buddies ever since. He's one of his best friends in the world. He's a golf channel analyst. He's going to be all over there, Ryder Cup coverage. He's an on-course guy for Golf Channel and for NBC,

which he's done a great job at, I got to say, because we used to talk when he first got involved. It was kind of like, oh, Noda came out of nowhere. He's on course. Now he's very sharp at it and very good at it. So we get to talk to Noda again. perfect timing with he was very involved in the 2016 Rider Cup team. That was actually the main reason we were originally going to get him,

was like we're going to do a bunch of pre-Rider Cup stuff. Noda was very, very involved in like the locker room and with all the decisions and stuff on the 2016 team. And he's an analyst. And so he knows a lot about what goes into the Rider Cup. Let's have him on for our pre-Rider Cup. Oh, and then he's like best buddies with Tiger and Tiger just won his first tournament in five years yesterday. There's great timing for us. Great timing.

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He'll be all over their coverage for the Ryder Cup with NBC Sports and Golf Channel. He'll be walking inside the ropes as an on-course reporter. He'll be an analyst on Golf Central's live from the Ryder Cup coverage. Day one, Friday on Golf Channel, day two and three, which is Saturday and Sunday on NBC. Notabaget, I know you just traveled from the States over to Paris for the Ryder Cup. So we really appreciate you taking the time, my friend. Oh, absolutely. to be on the show. Thank you. So we're pumped to have you. It is funny. We were just saying,

you know, when we were talking before about, you know, we got excited to have you on and talk all about the Ryder Cup, which we're going to get to. But you are, of course, a good friend of Tiger Woods. You've known him for a couple decades now. The biggest story in sports over the last 24 hours has been his win at East Lake. You know, how are you feeling about the whole thing? Well, it's just a culmination of a lot of different things. I mean, I mean, if you just, if I go back in my own mind in terms of, I went to visit him after his first surgery, which turned out being the first of four surgeries, it was a long road to yesterday in terms of the uncertainty around what his back was going to be. be like more pending surgeries after that and then whether or not he was actually going to be able to piece, put his game back together. I mean, I think what a lot of people don't really

understand is that when you're starting back at square one, you can't even think about mechanics. You can't think about equipment. You can't think about winning. You have to really start with what is my body able to do? And those were the initial question. I mean, how much stress can my lower body take, his spine, and his hips. One of the things that he was really challenged with early on was just kind of getting a general sense of how much a load he could put into his right hip on the back swing. And that was part of the whole process in sort of rebuilding the mechanical elements of his golf swing because he was doing it for the first time in his golf swing. because he was doing it for the first time in his career without an instructor. I mean, initially it was his father Earl, then he had Mr. Duran, then he went to Butch,

and then so on, so forth, Hank Cain, Sean Foley, Chris Como, and now he's sort of flying at solo, which I thought was a great decision because he initially had to establish the preliminary thresholds for what his physical limitations would be. Yeah, what do you make of his approach this year? You know, how has he taken that on in terms of what kind of game he wants to go with, what kind of golf swing he wants to go with because he's always had an instructor. He's changes swing many, many times. Where did he even start with deciding, okay, this is what I'm going to go with?

Well, I think it was a work in progress and it developed pretty organically. I think the most interesting part about it was he had a real open mind in the sense of maybe, you know, maybe an open mind might be a little bit of a mischaracterization of that, but maybe it was just like he was unsure of what he was working with, I guess, for the first time in his life, he wasn't sure if he was going to have the power, he wasn't sure if he was going to have range of motion. and he wasn't sure if his body was going to be able to sustain the level of practice required to play at the top level, would his body be able to sustain a 15 to 20 week schedule? Like there were so many things that were just question marks. And as he progressed through the year from the first time he teed up and his first event at Torrey Pines through what we saw last week, there was just a series of check marks being sort of ticked off as he went through little episodes

where, you know, one week he's fighting his irons, the next week he's fighting his fairway woods, the next week it was his putting. And so you just saw all these little challenges coming up, and along the way he's sort of assessing and reassessing his body, what does he have to do to recover within the 24-hour time span between run around to the next? So it was just constant vigilance around rebuilding his swing and his game, his endurance, his mental endurance. Those are things that I think the general golf fan really overlooks is that he hadn't concentrated for, you know, four to six hours, which is what's what's required every day on the PJ tour. You've got to go out, you've got to clock in for four to six hours.

you've got to be thinking about lies and wind conditions. This is my swing on today. What kind of shot do I want to hit? Where do I need to put the ball? How is this going to affect the ball when it hits the green? And there's just this ongoing thought process that is very taxing on the mind. And early in the year, he was getting really fatigued mentally just because he hadn't been through it for quite some time. So yesterday, you saw it, I should say this.

past week you saw it all come together he he got hot in one round he got off to a good start you know if you even look from the start of the bmw championship to the start of the tour championship he was tied for the lead in both events through round one but in round two of the tour championship he was able to stay near the lead whereas in round after round two of the bmw championship he he fell back by a couple shots and then after round two of the bmw championship and then after round three fell back by a few more. So those are all small progressions that if you're not sort of in the know on what he's dealing with are real accomplishments that he was, I guess, absorbing as he moved through the season.

So, you know, you're, of course, a reporter for NBC for golf channel, all that. You're also a really good buddy of tigers. Like you said, you were there after some of the surgeries. as you've seen him, you know, at some of his lowest points. How nervous were you yesterday watching him try to close that thing out? I wasn't nervous. I know this guy too well. I know the cues.

I know the facial expressions. I know the body language. I know the shock patterns. I talked to him at the hotel before he went out to the golf course. And there wasn't any nervousness. There was just a real sense of understanding of what he had to do. He knew that the field wasn't just going to roll over and let him win. He had to go out there and he had to earn it.

And I think that's sort of why you just constantly saw him throughout the round, continually pressing, continually just pushing forward and fighting for every single shot. and when it got, I think it got to five shots through 13 holes, five shot lead through 13. And then that's kind of my, the mental marker in my head was if he could get through the T shot at 15 without hitting him in the water. It was close. And he came pretty close. Way too close.

Then I knew that he would protect the lead coming home. So we're about as big a tiger fans as there are in the world where we shamelessly talk about that all the time. So hearing you know to say that you talked to him at the hotel before he went out and that you weren't nervous at all makes me want to run through a brick wall. Yeah. So. Well, I think he could have run through a brick wall after that win yesterday. I love it. So have you talked to him since?

No, everybody. Gosh, it was so crowded. and, you know, it was his moment. I was happy for him. I was proud. I was proud of what he's done and all the things that he's accomplished and endured throughout these last few years. There's been just a constant barrage of criticism and critique

and off-course challenges. And, you know, he just seems to continue to persevere and become better for it. And he's just developed a wonderful sense of stability in his life. And he's got great relationships now with some of the younger players. And he's just, he's really matured through all this. And so, you know, I wasn't in a rush to get out there and, you know, get in the middle of all those people. But I sent him a text last night and we're staying in the, you know, I'll probably see him this week.

So there's this kind of this narrative going around that Tiger's just more appreciative this year. And you can kind of see it on his face and you can sense it as somebody that knows him well. You know, is he more appreciative of kind of the reception and the support and all that he's got and done in golf this time around? Well, I think we'd have to, you know, maybe go a step. I guess before that in the progression. I think, yes, there's a deep sense of appreciation for the reception and the support that he's getting from golf fans and just people in general around the world.

But I think first and foremost, he has a sincere and deep appreciation for the opportunity that he had. I mean, there was plenty of, moments where he wasn't sure if this was, if competitive golf was ever going to be part of his life again. And you're talking about a guy who's been winning tournaments since he could walk. And all of a sudden, 40 years later, you're considering that part of your life being gone. And so that's, I think that's the initial appreciation and just, you know,

five years, 2013, but a lot of this time, he's just really gotten a lot of quality time with his children, a lot of quality time with people in his life that he cares about. And that has a lot of value in who he is as well. And so taking that gratitude and that appreciation out to the golf course every day, I think is what you're seeing in his engagement with the spectators, the fans, and his fellow competitors. I want to talk about his golf game just really quickly. What is he doing differently the last few weeks off the T with his driver that has sort of improved his driving so dramatically?

Well, I think it was an understanding that the benefits of getting 10 to 15 extra yards off the T wasn't outweighing the number of the number of fairways he was able to hit. And so he geared back. He's just, he's geared back the last, you know, these last four events. And if you look at his statistics in the last four events, he's about 10 to 12 percentage points higher in his driving accuracy percentage over his, over his a year-long average.

So he's right at about 55% for the year, but if you look a little deeper, he's closer to 70% these last four weeks. And so you look at a golf course like East Lake.

Is that anybody that was missing fairways was making bogeys. I mean, that golf course embarrassed some really, really world-class players. But with Tiger in the Fairway and him understanding the importance of being in Fairway, he was able to take

away, I mean, take advantage of his historically exceptional iron play. So, you know, that was the, I think that's what opened up the week for him. And then his putter, his putter, his putter fell into place. And, you know, he was second for the week in strokes game putting. He led most of the week. in that statistical category. So, you know, that really, that's what I think was the tipping point for him was when he felt, well, he found a groove at the Northern Trust. And then over the next couple weeks, he sort of, okay, he was able to build upon what he had changed in terms of his tempo, his transition,

and being just a little bit more balanced and really. through the golf swing to hit more fairways. And then you saw that sort of roll into the Dell Technology Championship. You also saw that roll into the BMW Championship. And then the one thing that was lacking those few weeks was the putter. So putter falls in place and all of a sudden he's got a five-shot lead with five holes to play. I mean, it's just kind of – that's how progression should work. I mean, that's what everybody out here, every guy on the tour is looking for is you identify little holes in your game and you try and fix them.

Sometimes what you think is going to fix them doesn't fix them, so you sort of got to go back to the drawing board. It's just constant trial and error. Is the Ryder Cup more important nowadays to Tiger Woods than it was maybe 10, 15 years ago? I think that being on the task force to sort of identify or try and develop at least a comprehensive strategy on the part of the U.S. team to create some consistency and synergy from one team to the next, brought him and Phil closer together, brought him in closer relationships with a lot of the other players. And then being a assistant captain at the 16 Ryder Cup and the 17 Presidents Cup were huge for him. So those things, I think, really elevated the stature of the team events in his mind. And I think that you're going to see a tiger this week at the Ryder Cup that's really focused and wants to go out there and get as many points as he can. So you were very close with the Ryder Cup team and a lot of process in 2016 at Hazeltine.

Now you just arrived, like we mentioned in Paris. What are these next couple days like for the teams as they kind of get ready for, you know, an event in golf that's unlike anything else that they really do every year, but is kind of grown into this monstrous, unbelievably intense and highlighted event? Well, the next few days, I mean, especially for the visiting team, which is the U.S. this year here in Paris, is trying to balance out, getting to know the golf course, sort of getting acclimated to the team environment. There's team dinners. There's the team room. There's just a lot of time with the team and wives and girlfriends spending time together,

They're just kind of really enjoying each other's company. It's a really fun time because with the exception of maybe a couple players, everybody's games intact. I mean, on both sides. There's, you know, each team has maybe one or two players that might be searching for something. But, you know, you've got 10, 9, 12 guys, I mean, 9 or 10 guys on each team that are playing pretty well. I mean, so there's nobody that's going out there and beating balls for four hours over. the next couple of days. It's get a look at the golf course, get a feel for the golf course, start talking about

potential pairings, and you're going to see over the next couple of days certain players playing together. And I think the one thing on the golf course that the guys will be focusing on is if you are going to be paired with somebody that plays a different golf ball than you, then number one, they got to decide which ball they're going to play in competition. and then whoever's making the concession. So, you know, say Tigers

is going to be paired with, you know, Brooks Kepka for, you know, they play different golf balls. So if they, if Brooks decides to play Tigers golf ball, then over the next couple days, Brooks will definitely go out with Tiger's golf ball and start hitting shots and trying to figure out

how far do the wedges go, how far to the irons go, how far does it do the T-shots go because what needs to be understood by the golf fan is these guys have their equipment so dialed in that

a guy like Webb Simpson wants yardages to the half yard so he knows exactly how far he needs to fly. Now you put a new golf ball in the mix and all of a sudden you could be two to three yards off based upon the spin rate and the launch and

how it reacts with your equipment because your equipment's designed for your golf ball. Now you're throwing it entirely ball into the mix. So that's going to be sort of one of the pending issues over the next couple days. What do you think is going to be the most important facet of the game for the U.S. to win the Rider Cup? I believe we haven't won on European soil since 1993, so we've got a tall task. A lot of people talking about this is maybe the best Rider Cup team. ever assembled a lot of hype around it a lot of hype around the fact that I think we got to the point where the top 10 ranked players in the world are all in this rider cup what's going to be

the most important facet of the game I guess for either team to to take down the rider cup well I think it's going to be it's going to be the play of the rookies I honestly feel that that I mean we've got fiena we've got Nishambeau and so we're We only have two rookies that we've got to worry about. The European side has five, and they had six in 2016 in Hazleton. So if you look back at how the rookies performed, okay, so they had six rookies, and Thomas Peters had the best performance of any European rookie in the history of the Ryder Cup. He went four in one.

But if you take out Thomas Peters, you just evaluate the performance of the other five rookies. they only won three-half points and it lost eight. So they were basically at a 29% conversion on creating points for their team. Whereas we only had two rookies last year, I mean, the last Ryder Cup in 16, Brooks Kepka and Ryan Moore. And they want five points out of a possible seven, which is over 70%. So our rookies played much better. Granted, they have more. So the more rookies you have, the more exposure you have

because there's nothing that will prepare a rookie for what they're going to face in the Ryder Cup. I mean, I've played in every major championship in golf. I've played in huge tournaments. I won tournaments. When I went to the Ryder Cup, even in working with the team like I did in 2016, I'd never seen anything like that in my life. And it really puts these guys on their heels.

and it's going to be interesting to see how the five rookies on the European side handle that because they're going to have to put a rookie at least one or two rookies out in that first session. Whereas in Hazeltine in the first session for the U.S., we didn't put any rookies out. We put guys out in that first session that had Ryder Cup experience and were playing good golf. And consequently, they went out and got a four-point lead. that's a huge lead to overcome. Yeah, we've had a bunch of different guys that have played in Rider Cups on the show, and every single one of them that we've asked has said they've never in their life

experienced anything like the nerves that they felt on the first T at the Ryder Cup. And pictures have come out in the last week or so of the stands, the stadium-like atmosphere that they've built for the first T at LaGolf National. And I've got to say no to this is going to be, it almost feels like it's going to be bigger and louder than we've ever seen before. Yeah, yeah. And there's a lot of lightning rods on our team. I mean, Tiger's always a lightning rod for attention.

And I don't know if you recall when Bubba Watson played here in the French Open, he was a little critical of some of the things, the attractions here in Paris and got roasted by the media because of it. And I know Bob, I think he was trying to be funny. didn't come off as that. It kind of came off as sort of, you know, being the ugly American, so to speak. But I think he's going to have a little bit of a target on his back with regard to the European fans, which they're always creative. It's usually, it's hostile, but it's doesn't, usually doesn't cross the line, which I think is great. What's your prediction for

the Ryder Cup? I just think that having, having five rookies on your team, team is is tough to overcome. And so I really feel like that gives the edge to the United States. And I think the United States, because of the caliber of players that we've put together that have all had phenomenal years. I mean, virtually every player on the team has won a tournament this year on the PGA tour. So it's hard to argue that, it's hard to argue. that it's hard to argue how they can't pull it off.

They've got experience, they've got talent. But so I mean, your question, I think the U.S. is going to win. What the Europeans have to do is they have to get some production. If their rookies can go 500 for the week, and then they get McElroy and Rewan, to really pull them along, I think that's their recipe for a successful Rider Cup for Europe. There's a ton of talent on both sides, and I believe when we had Brandel on a couple weeks ago, he said that it's historically a three-point advantage to be the home team.

So there's a lot to overcome, haven't won there forever. Notabigay, we know you just flew all the way over to Europe. That's not easy, so we appreciate you taking the time, my friend. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Thanks, guys. Absolutely. Thank you, Notta-Begay. all over the coverage this week on NBC and Golf Channel, so thanks again and we'll talk to you

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that was Noda Begay. Clearly, I mean, the guy, he just traveled all the way across the world. So I do feel bad about grabbing him after being jet lagged and all that. But big thanks to Noda for chatting with us for a few minutes. I mean, that story about, he's like, I saw Tiger talk to him before he left from the hotel. He was like, Tiger wasn't nervous. Like, okay, that's awesome. I was like, were you nervous?

He's like, no, I saw him at the hotel before I wasn't nervous at all. Yeah, that's what shocked me about that answer was, you asked him like, were you nervous watching your buddy out there? Like, after he's been through, he's like, well, absolutely not. Like, I was like having coffee with him in the hotel before and he was just ready to fucking murder someone. Basically, he's like, no, there's, like, in his eyes, in his facial expressions. Yeah. And in his body language, there was no chance. He wasn't winning the golf tours.

Oh, okay. My bad. Stupid question. It must have been, it must see, it must have been. A ridiculous feeling for Noda to be like, oh, wow, this is the same, like, feeling I've had when Tiger, like, 10 years ago, 15 years ago. Like, this is the same facial expression. And she's, like, nothing's changed. They just can snap back into that, like, warrior mode.

That's crazy. That's crazy. That's a great sign. That's what we need. Yeah. That is absolutely what we need. Rider Cup, it is, it is amazing that we're going now from all of this hype. All of that came with yesterday's wind.

Tigers win to all of a sudden we have the biggest event in golf starts on Friday morning 2 a.m. Eastern. It's almost unimaginable that we're going to have like, like, we could have like Tiger and Bryson DeShambot playing against like Rory and Justin Rose on like Friday afternoon. In an environment where like people are going nuts like every shot. They're hitting putts like Tiger may do like a finger wag like he may, like who knows the reactions that are going to come out of these players, and we're going to be seeing them in a different light.

We get to do each time the Ryder Cup comes around, but it's just different. It's just a different feeling. Tiger's going to be feeling himself. I don't even know what that's going to look like. I can't wait. We're going to get, in a couple days, we get guys, like, U.S. guys missing putts,

and the crowd cheering. That is, like, my favorite thing in the world. Like, even though it sucks because we're the foreign team this year, we're the road team, but, like, that dynamic in golf where a guy has, like, an eight-footer for par to have the hole and he misses and the crowd goes crazy is awesome. I don't care where the rider comes. is the rider cup could be on Mars when Tiger

Wood steps on that first Tee and he bless one. I don't even know what the first hole is. I'm assuming he's a driver. It is, I actually don't think it's a driver. Oh, all kinds of water and stuff. I think. I could be wrong. First T- twirl, that just like,

that first T, bomb drive, twirl, the whole crowd would actually get like pushed back into their seat. I know. I, um, there's so much water on this golf course. I believe like J.T. said when he played in the French Open that he hit like six drivers or something the whole week. Wow. There's just not.

There's just so much water. Oh, my God. These pictures are. I'm looking at this first hole right now. And I mean, there's water all down the left side. I think, and it's only like 420 total. So I think it's probably Tiger's going to rip like a two iron stinger. Okay.

Off the first tee is my guess. But his twirl, I mean, his twirl might elevate him into space. He literally might reach terminal velocity and end up like orbiting the earth. because he's going to twirl it so hard with that crowd. But it's going to be a scene. We got another show coming this week. Again, big thanks to Notabit Gay. Incredible that he's just, like, one of Tiger's buddies.

That's like, you want to talk Tiger Inner Circle. That's notice about as close as you can get. He's Mr. Inner Circle. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's there after Tiger. He was talking about Tiger's first back surgery in 2014. Going to, like, visit him. I just went to visit him in the hospital.

I've seen him down in the dumps. He was talking to him all about his game, the progression of his game. And I will say that Notabagia, Someone that's, he's as close, he's as inner circle as it gets with Tiger. He basically had the exact same mentality about Tiger's current status and with his game as we've had for the last like six months, which is that this is the progression. It's a process. This is the process. This isn't the process. This isn't, let's get lucky and hot one week and hope that we win a tournament.

This is the progression. He is figuring out the different aspects of the game. He's figuring out a brand new golf swing. He had to tweak at the beginning of the year even know what he could do. He literally didn't even know what his body could do. He didn't know if he could put pressure on his hip when he was doing his back swing. He had to have just a different swing to be able to relieve some pressure off parts of his back. Like, you understand what this guy's doing.

He's a machine. He's just, he's mixed. It's like a machine that's on one of those, what's, what's conveyor belt? A conveyor belt. And like it just may be off a little bit. Now all the guys need to go in. Maybe like the arm wasn't like picking up the product and it wasn't bringing it over. It was just a little bit off.

Now they got to decide on how it's going to work. That's what he's doing. swing. We have to figure out how to have it be one clean conveyor belt. And that's what Tiger has done this week. Everything came together. That's a really nice enough. That was great. That was incredible. Yeah. Conveyor belt. Thank you. Yeah. Like the putter was one machine. Yes. And that was a little off. Yes. And once you tweak that, it actually affects some of the other machines. So then you got affect them all. And now the conveyor belt. We're pushing out product. I mean, it's crushing. We're cranking product. Yeah. We're like Henry Ford in this bitch. We're the most profitable

fucking company of all the pie right now. It's incredible. We got a great couple of years. Yeah. I mean, just Think about at the end of that belt how many fucking tournaments and majors are in the end of jackets. There's trophies. There could be. We should create like a cartoon about this. Like I want to, I want to visually see this. There's like the twirl at the beginning of the conveyor belt. Then like at the end is like Scotty season.

Oh, man. And then that, well, that's towards the end. And then right after that spits out a trophy. It feels like one of those like New York Times cartoons. Yeah. At the end, just like a huge trophy comes out of like one of those. Like the thing that would shoot it out is too small, but the trophy squeezes out and just plops on the ground and tigers just there smiling, like, all like nerdy and stuff. All right.

I'm going to Paris tomorrow. Yeah, you are. On Tuesday. That's insane. I'm taking a red eye Tuesday night. They're six hours ahead, so I land like 7 a.m. You're just in another part of the world. Somewhere I've never been before.

I've never been to mainland Europe. I've been to London for a video, and I've been to Scotland, obviously, to play St. Andrews. I've never been to mainland Europe. So I'm going to be in Paris. Wednesday morning. We're going to do a full day, Wednesday and Thursday. One day we're going to do in Paris. We're going to recreate the Rigs in London video.

Nice. And then the other day, probably Wednesday, we're going to do the full day at the golf course at the Golf National. We're going to do credential reports. I saw our friends, our new friends at PGA of America already texted me a picture of our booth. Fantastic. Our credential booth. Unbelievable. I do like two that doesn't say barstool sports.

It just says barstle. Barstool. Right a cup barstool. That's our spot. So credentialed rigs will be out in Paris. We are probably going to have our next show. We'll probably be up Friday morning. I'm going to talk to the boys.

I'm going to call in from Paris and do a podcast with you boys back here. You can ask you a bunch of questions. Petty. Ex-Gaultsaint-Gue. Ex-on-Degu. I was in a band. I'm on DeGue. I screwed that up.

I still don't know what that meant. We haven't done a show since your live performance. No. How was it? It was incredible. Yeah, it was really good. You got some great pictures. Pictures are insane.

The pictures of me that came. matter, startling. You change your habit. I changed my avatar picture for the first time since I started working here. I mean, it looks like you guys sold out like Madison Square Garden in that picture. Well, the Boston crowd is just different, right? It's like more hardcore

stoolies. They're like, they're just so into seeing just our faces, just like us in real life, right? Like I think the New York one was more, all right, it's going to be a fun night. Like we know Barstool or whatever. Boston was like, people were waiting outside. They were going crazy. My mom and dad were taking pictures with people. My mom took pictures with like people.

They are hardcore. Our fans in Boston are, I mean, that's outright. Yeah, that's where, that's ground zero. That's great. Yeah, it was awesome. And we played really well. I just thought it was,

we played longer, we played more songs. And it was just like, it was just a better, I think because we did it once, the second time was just more like, it's amazing to me that one of the three mics on our four play golf podcast is the drummer in like a pretty popular band.

It is weird. And you and like a pizza filmographer. Yeah, We wear many hats here at Barcelona, right? No doubt. It is true. Yeah, I was like, weird company. Tuneing into, like, all the Instagram stories being like, that's our guy.

That's like our golf podcaster. Just playing the drums and fucking House of Blues in Boston. It is a weird feeling when I went from playing drums at the House of Blues in Boston to, like, then just golfing the next day. Like, I feel like that stuff usually doesn't, like, go inside. Right. And then, like, filming Dave eating pizza the next day. Just the crazy thing.

All right. We'll be back on Friday. It's Ryder Cup week. It's Tiger Week. Everybody rejoice, celebrate. But also realize that this is. just the beginning. It's the beginning of the next era of Tiger Woods dominance. I love it. We all love it.