Fore Play - Trent Hills, Heaven on Earth

Episode Date: August 20, 2019

We're buzzing off a big weekend in Chicago and Wisconsin. We relive the weekend in golf including the Barstool Classic in Chicago and a spiritual Erin Hills experience. We also deliver FedEx Cup format takes and react to Justin Thomas' insane weekend at Medinah!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Foreplay presented by Barstool Sports. I bet you thought you were going to hear Riggs's voice, but you have Frankie Butternives here. And Trent Daddy. Riggs is in Boston for the Barso Classic. And so Lurch was here with us in studio. We broke down maybe the best golf trip a guys could have. in Aaron Hills. Yeah, we were in Aaron Hills all weekend. We talked about the place where we stayed,

the drumlin, which is the putting green. The travel getting there. Yep, everything. And then our round of golf, which we got into all of that on this episode of the show. Oh, I mean, it was unbelievable. I know people love when I say that, Trent. So I wanted to get that in in the intro. But you know what else is unbelievable, Trent? Supreme Golf. Supreme Golf is our presenting sponsor for the year. I can't tell you how much we love this company and this app. What Supreme Golf is doing right now, for you and all the listeners is that they are giving away $5 in credit to put toward all the Callaway golf gear that you would want in the world. They're doing a Callaway contest. So basically what you're going to do is you're going to go on Supreme Golf and you are going to hit this thing that says book instantly.

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I'm in Boston. 8 in the freaking morning because the Lurch has to go to work so we got to do the podcast really early Appreciate that, boys. Yeah, we're going to try to bring the energy. We're going to bring up a big weekend. A lot to break down from Chicago

to Aaron Hills. I'm in Boston, that's why I'm not in studio. We got a Barstall Classic here in about four hours, five hours, something like that. My old stopping grounds at Granite Link. So a lot going on. Boy, how are you guys? How are we recovering from our weekend?

I'm doing well. I had a very relaxing Sunday. We had a hellish day of travel coming back on Saturday. Frankie and I did. We flew out of Milwaukee. It was supposed to be get done with the round of golf at 2.30. Hoping in some sort of car, drive an hour to Milwaukee, hop on a plane, 545, be back in New York at 9. We didn't touch down in New York City until 12.15 a.m.

So that was a bit of a tough day, but I had a relaxing Sunday. I don't know how everybody else is doing. Yeah, it was like hellish is the way. word for that because we were sitting in the Milwaukee airport, which has zero people in it. Zero. When a plane came down the runway and was even coming towards our gate, we started like clapping. We're like, maybe this is ours. Even if it wasn't the same company that we were flying.

Didn't you sit down at a Chili's or something like that? And some guy was like, dude, that flight's not leaving for at least a couple hours. The waiter at Chili's in the Milwaukee airport, he kept saying, like, we're like, oh, we're supposed to be 545. Now we're supposed to go off at 710. and he just like gave us our chips and dip and he goes, you're not leaving until 9.30 at night.

And I said, I'm gonna fucking punch you in the mouth. That's what I said to him. Like, I'm gonna punch you right in the mouth. This guy, and he was smirking about it too. He goes,

you ain't leaving till 9.30 at the minimum. I'm like, I'm gonna fucking hit you right in your tooth. This guy was messing with Frankie and he didn't realize that Frankie really wanted to get back to New York. And I thought it was going to be a hold me back situation. I thought Frankie was going to jump over the bar.

Dude, he kept going to go. He's like, oh, you want another cook. You're going to need it because you guys have another six hours before you take off. We didn't drink... I could have sworn you guys

were just going to be waiting for your Uber at Aaron Hills until right now, Carole. Yeah, the Uber took a while. I mean, Aaron Hills is in the middle of absolutely nowhere. The Uber literally said 29 minutes until it gets there. That's tough. Yeah, so he's just sat at the Milwaukee airport.

We drank so much Coca-Cola. Oh, dude, I said that I felt like I put the wrong type of gas inside my body. Like, I went to the fucking gas station, I put in diesel by accident. I mean, I drank like four Coca-Cola's. My body was shaking. The best part is, we were going to the same place.

We're both going to Newark. I was going out to Jersey the next day. Originally, I was jealous. I was not on your flight because I had to go to Riggs all the way down in Chicago and then fly out of there. My flight wasn't leaving from there until 7.30. And I was originally going to get in later than you guys were. And then, lo and behold, I'm just, I beat you guys by a couple hours.

So it was a long day. But it's Sunday Recovery Day. Everything else is fine, I think. Yeah. Frankie had a good walk around the city, but it was a good week. Yeah, I mean, I spent my Sunday walking around New York City, had my girlfriend's family in. We went to the top of the World Trade Center.

I was doing, like, tourist things. It was insane. I mean, I couldn't have been higher up and walking around the city more if I tried. Good for you, Frankie. I'm happy for you. Let's start with Harborside, Chicago, Marshall Classic on Friday. A couple of things just to run through. Lurge caddying, I'd say, was maybe the big highlight in,

your jumpsuit that was probably 2xL but still just way too small for you. Way too small. People were telling me I looked as good as anybody's ever looked in a caddy jumpsuit. You do look naturally like a caddy. When you put that on, you had the four-play bucket hat on. You looked great. You looked like you've been looping for two decades, you know? I think so.

Although I was a horrible caddy, it turns out. They said C-minus, but looks a information I gave them F. You look great. There's really no doubt about it that you looked pretty good out there, Lurch. I will say you couldn't. So a lot of times when we play with caddy, you know, we grab the old celebrity shot. You hit them with, you know, your caddies chirping. You're all having a couple drinks late in the back nine and you find it part three and you grab, you know, one of the caddies.

You hit a shot. Well, it turns out you tried to hit a couple of celebrity shots and it's like impossible to swing in the jumper, I feel like. Those things are the least a breathable outfit you can possibly put on. So not only do you have to loosen up the leg area to get the midsection more free, but once you get that, you've got to roll up the shoulders so your shoulders can be free as well. And then if you take a split second, everything just falls again so you can't possibly swing. And I tried that a couple times. I topped a few T shots.

I topped a few iron. It was ugly. But yeah, nonetheless, it was a great time with those Aaron Hills boys. We had a blast out there. We unfortunately didn't make it. We didn't win it. But we had a great time walking around and getting excited for the next day up at Aaron. One thing I want to go through is the group picture.

So there's this picture. I put it on my Instagram. It got tweeted out. There's this group picture where just as many of us, you know, you're grabbing as many guys and girls as were around. Page Sparantic, Taylor Cusack were out there. The Barstville Chicago guys were out there. The four-play crews out there.

A few guys who were in the tournament jumped in the picture. And Lurch, I mean, look bigger than anyone's ever looked in the history of a photo and that you look like four people I don't I don't understand what it is about photos but I can look so big in photos I don't really understand it all the kid behind me I'll tell you why you're a big guy I'm a big guy but this makes me look to be like I'm seven three no problem well I'm looking at that picture right now and then you and I also took a picture after the round with our caddy at Aaron Hills and I'm a generally I'm a big guy yes I see my me myself next people

in pictures. And I'm a giant. Whenever I see promotions of me sitting next to Frankie in this studio, he looks like my son when I'm sitting here. But then I take this picture with Lurch after the rounded Aaron Hills, and he is an absolute house. He's just a big individual.

And you're saying like, oh, I don't know why I look so big in pictures. It's just because you're a big guy. And you wear it well, but you are just, like, how tall are you? I'm only like 6364. That's tall. That's tall. But it's not like, some of these pictures come out like, I'm the size of a house.

Dude, I have a buddy that's 6-5. I pop in pictures. And you're 10 feet taller than him. I'm also wide. Like, there's nothing, like, I'm not like a thin little pencil of a 6-4. You got it, you got to go on thick. You got to go on east and west and north and south. Yep.

Yeah. The picture is great, though. The one you're talking about rigs. Uh, yeah, Lurch looks huge. Lurch is kneeling down and is just as tall as every single person in the back room. The kid behind me. Literally looks like we're at eye level. White Sox Dave is probably my favorite in it.

Maybe office manager Brett, but White Sox, Dave just has a complete 10,000-yard stare going on. It's really an amazing picture. I wanted to mention White Sox Dave in the picture. You're right. There's nothing behind those eyes, nothing, not a thing. And he had just moments before he ate a cicada. And the cicada, a live cicada that was flickering around quicker than you've ever seen

something flapid. It's a little cicada wing. And he grabs the thing. there's been a lot of drinking going on. He grabbed this thing, and he's like, how much to eat it? And immediately, like, 20, 20, 20. I think he got up to 70 bucks to eat it. He tried to throw in his mouth the first time and missed

because the thing was wiggling so hard. Miss. And then he really took a couple more minutes. He had to build up the confidence. He had to build up the excitement. He threw that thing in his mouth and he swallowed it whole. He said he could feel it wiggling down his esophagus. He was swallowing it through his body.

and then he tried to wash it down, ended up, to my knowledge, not puking, but if you're wondering why he has such a, you know, a 10,000-yard stare, I think, as you called it, on his face, that may have been a contributing fact. People at the Barsox Classic got the full White Sox day of experience, because I've known him for a while now. I went to a few Barstle at the ballparks for White Sox games

when I first got hired, and he's a man who can't turn down a challenge. This is also the guy who always, always goes to the pitch machine and challenges every single person saying, like, I can throw away faster than you. So this is what White Sox Dave does. He goes, you know, he has a few drinks. And then if someone says, hey, I bet you won't eat the cicada, he's going to go, I'm going to eat that cicada.

And then he does. So people got, you know, he was part of the Barstle, Chicago crew. It was good to see all those guys seem to seem like they had a good time. I mean, Eddie with the national anthem, that was maybe the funniest part of the whole day. Oh, he, you know, we kind of have now built this tradition of making people sing the national anthem of the Rural Classic who don't sing. That's just not what they do. They just don't sing.

And so he got a couple lessons from Big Cat who does the national anthem and Ruffin Rowdy. And he stood up there with his guy standing about four feet in front of his face with a gigantic note card that had the star starr stangle banner lyrics written out on it. And next thing, you know, that's just what he's doing. He's ripping through the national anthem, reading the damn thing. He had a false stop. where, you know, we try to sync up the guys singing the National Anthem with the ox cord of, like, the instrumentals behind it so that they could just bring along to the jingle.

And the instrument, you know, the instrumental start. And it gets like five, six seconds then before he starts. So then he was like racing through the first part of it to try to catch up. And then he just like, and then he just scrapped it. It was like, no, no, no, no. We got to start that. He goes, he goes, you know what, just cut it. I thought he did a phenomenal job.

Once the restart happened, he really found his stride. And, you know, sometimes when you hear people sing, you can't hear, like, if they're from the UK, you can't hear their accent for whatever reason. Boy is Eddie the opposite. No, he is very much. He is very much from Chicago. He spoke it, just loudly. Like, you know what I mean? Yes, I agree with that.

It was like a speaking singing. Star-spangled. The way he did it was just. The banner. Yes, yes. The banner was where the accent really came to the surface. It was magical. And Frank, he got a great video.

I know a lot of people were taking videos of it. But if you haven't seen that yet, you just got to check it out. We're talking it up, but we're underselling. But the way he's saying it when he asked for the restart, it's like when someone's giving like a public speech. And the first couple of words are like nervous. And they need that restart. He did that. Reset.

And he just crushed. A couple coughs in there. He went away from the mic mid-song Just threw out a quick cough And then came back You gotta know your lung capacity You could only take so much Yeah, he did

He hit the cough button in the middle of singing the national anthem So that was You know, that was something you never seen before I thought you only get that at the Barstow Classic We had a couple You know, we had Paige Frank And Taylor Cusack They're out there

The guy Dustin who bid to play with them And his partner advanced They played so well I got paid $10,000 to be out there didn't know really what he was doing. He said that he drunkenly in Vegas bid on the thing, got it, because the first place team that, or the first place bidder actually, you know, fluked or flaked out. So he gets a notification like, hey, you were the second highest bidder with 10 grand. Would you like to go? He was in Vegas and had been drinking him. It's like, oh,

yeah, absolutely. We woke up. It was like, oh, my God, it paid $10,000 to play a round of golf. turns out he and his partner they flew in from california and they qualified so not only did he pay ten grand to play one round but he's getting at least two because he's going to be out at liberty national in october 15th they played great she was hauling out from everywhere i think you guys witnessed her hauling out yeah frankie and i rolled up on i'm not sure which hole it was could have been like 14 yeah we were driving four or something i don't know what the fucking hole was but all i know is that we went up there we rolled up from a distance we're like oh here comes uh here's Taylor and Page's group.

And this girl who was playing with Dustin, was that his name? Yep. She was like 50 or 60 yards away on the right side of this hole. She had driven the ball there, so she's hitting two. And we're like another 50 yards away from her. So we have this perfect view on top of this hill of this shot. And she hits a perfect wedge shot to the front of the green,

and it just rolls and disappears right to the hole. Eagle. Place went nuts. It was all on camera. So it should be in the video that comes out. Place went crazy. And then Paige chirps Cherokee a little bit afterwards, but yeah.

And Paige goes out to you hit a wedge shot, Frankie. I was like, okay, well, is that? Are we supposed to be draining fucking wedges from 60 yards away every time, Paige? Like, come on now. But, yeah, no, she was funny about it. And I think that girl actually played on a mini tour with Paige. So, I mean, she knew how to play. Yeah, she was sick.

Yeah, she played to a zero in the thing, and they still qualified. So, you know, clearly she can play some golf. Paige also hold out in front of me. So she does think that wedges just go in because I watched her hole out for Eagle right in front of me. I'm like the 16th pole. So that's just what that group is doing. Good for them. These girls are so good to golf.

We talked about that. We talked about that when we were in Chicago. We're like, like, how good do you think Paige really is? And she's an outrageously good golfer. She's very awesome. It's insane how good she is. Every time I saw her take a swim, she never missed. She never missed a fairway.

never miss the green and essentially never miss a putt. Yeah, she played on G-Sick. Yeah, I mean, that would have been a, you know, she would have shot like 52 if that were the cake. It would have been a good round. She also made the putting contest. She made the truly putting contest. That was pretty cool.

Yeah, she made that putt. Yeah, I mean, Paige, you know, now she doesn't play professionally. She obviously does her thing, grows her brand, does incredibly well doing that. So I don't blame her. She said she's all set. with the stress and the criticism and all that that comes whenever she did play competitive golf.

But at one point, I mean, she's played in several professional tournaments. And she, like, I know she, like, made the cut over in Dubai with a field with, like, the best players in the world. So if you can do that, if you're even close to being able to do that, you can fucking play. So Paige is a golf. She can absolutely play. Two of them were out there with Dustin, his partner. They dominated. They're going to the tournament.

So it was a lot of fun for them. And then the gangland, we had a gangland, Chicago. police officer who qualified. That's going to be maybe the biggest feel-good story of the entire classic so far. That guy's going to be out at Liberty National with a chance to win 10 grand.

So I think everybody's root for him. He was kind of a fan favorite of the Barstville Chicago guys. They were pumping him big time. And then he ended up qualifying with his partner. So they'll be out at Liberty National. Love to see that. That's big time. I didn't know that was even a thing going on. That's the first time here to that. So that's very cool.

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was down there steve and hanky and all the boys mikey they were there uh and they came in hot in this erin hills sprinter van with just the logo on the side 2017 u s open site site of the 2017 U.S. Open, big green van with the Aaron's logo on it. I don't know that you can really have a cooler ride. We whipped that thing right up. We picked up Steve, who was our auction winner, who paid $8,000 to play with us, and him and three of his buddies. We picked them up.

We had a big crew, like 12 people, rolled up from there, two Aaron Hills. Obviously, Lurch and myself had been to Aaron Hills before, so we knew what to expect. But we roll right in at, you know, at sunset, that basically. And, you know, Aaron Hills is, as we mentioned earlier, in the middle of fucking nowhere. It is not that far from Chicago. It's only about, you know, two hours from North Chicago. I think it took us about three because it was traffic. Harborsides a little bit on kind of the southern edge over there of Chicago. So it took us around three. But, you know, those last

couple hours of that drive are just through pure nothing in northern Illinois, Wisconsin. And then you go through farm, farm, farm. You make a couple like random left turns that four-way stops with just stop signs like you see in movies where you're like, do these places really exist. And the next thing you know, you pull in to Aaron Hills. What were your guys' first impression pulling into Aaron Hills?

Well, my first impression is that they have so much land out there. Like that that was the main thing. He's like, all right, I'm going to show you one of the caddies was like, I'm going to show you where our land starts and you're not going to believe it. And as soon as we hit this tree line, he's like right here. And we're not even close to the entrance yet. So we keep driving, we keep driving, and then we finally turn in. I think they said

they've got about 800 acres out there. They said they used 270 of it for the golf course, something like that. So that was my first impression was, it's a huge plot of land. It's beautiful. I'm a Midwest guy. It was good to be back out there. But you drive into the entrance and you feel like you're driving, not Hogwarts, but you drive up. And it's just this beautiful, this beautiful spot with all these little houses and the clubhouse. And, you know, it was a little slice of heaven. That's how I would describe driving up for that first time. A little slice of heaven. A little slice of heaven.

Yeah, when we were going there and looking at the pictures and like hearing everyone talk about it on the ride up, I thought it was going to be a little too isolated. Like I don't know. I don't know yet. Like I haven't been to enough like golf resorts to know what like my like my like go zone for it is. Like I don't know like what I love yet like when it comes to golf resorts. Like what I'd have a bachelor party there. I'd like to base things off of like what I bring my buddies here. and the whole thing. And going into it, I'm like, man, we're driving in the middle of absolutely

fucking nowhere. This may, like, this may be a little too much for me, right? Like, I'm like, I don't like this. Can't leave Long Island for too long. No, I mean, like, there's just too much grass around and whatever. So we pull into this place and we passed a lot of time. You watch? Too much grass around? It's a golf resort. Maybe I was looking for the word. I was corn, but I don't know what the fuck we passed. It was like that high shit. I think it was corn. Maybe it was corn. Trees? It was pretty high. It was corn stalk. Cornstaw. Yeah, it was corn. But I Anyway, we pull into this entrance. It looks unreal.

I mean, the entrance way, we didn't get a guy there that greets you. I heard the guy that greets you like is usually just like an absolute beauty. We ride the little late. Yes, we ride a little late. But we pulled up to the front, you know, the clubhouse area and where all the little cottages are. And like Trent said, it literally looks like you stepped off into another world. Like somehow, some way, they make their entrance look just like, I don't know. It looked like another world's like another world's leader lives there.

That's how I, that's how I, that's, like, well, because you can see that clubhouse. The clubhouse is massive. So when you get to the bottom of hill, you see that. And you're like, oh, my God. And we pull up in this van and there's like six workers from Aaron Hills, like, waiting for us with their arms crossed, like, smiling. Like, like, as we get out and they take all your bags and they're like, all this stuff is just, I said this to you. I'm like, I've never been to a place where you just let go of all your things and just trust people to, like, put them in the rights places. Like, yeah, I gave them my golf bags.

It disappears. Then you just buy your things. My golf shoes were in like a weird place. Like they were like inside my golf bag in a zipper. And the next morning they were just like at the foot of my bed. Like I just don't know. You got out of bed. You just landed into the shoes.

Dude, my, my clothes were in my room. My bag was at the driver range the next morning. My putter was down by the fucking drumlin. The drumlin. I'm like, what? How do they know that that's all my stuff? I don't have a name that says this is Frank. It's outrageous.

And we had fucking how many people, eight people? Yeah. So yeah, that experience was just, I mean, I asked you if they had little, like, fake elves running around, just putting stuff places because it didn't look like there was that many workers. And then we pull up in the first thing, like, like, Frank said they take all our stuff and it just disappears, like magic. And then we walk into the clubhouse and I'm thinking, and Lurch is like, you guys got to see this. And the pro shops right off to the left. So I'm thinking, all right, let's go look at the pro shop. Maybe you're going to show us the golf course.

Yeah, Lurch is like a crazy bar. And we start walking through the clubhouse. And I see on the sign it says, uh, gentle. Coleman's locker room. And we go in there and I'm like, why are we going in here first? And the bathroom was immaculate. It's the best bathroom I've ever seen. I've ever seen in a clubhouse and like Lurch didn't oversell it.

As soon as we walked in there, we're like, this place is happening. It's like they took one. It's like they took the biggest piece of marble in the world. Yeah. And like cut a big square into it and put a bathroom inside it. I agree. The whole thing's marble. It's so beautiful.

I've never seen anything like it. When I first walked in there, because when we first got there the last time, we went to the pro shop, we kind of like just wiggled around, and then eventually I went to the bathroom. And when I went up in there, my eyes like lit up. So when we first pulled in and all your stuff, as Frankie says, just disappears, which is so accurate. And it's all in the perfect places. I was like, you guys have to see the bathroom. Yep.

And it is, it didn't let you down. I mean, the place is perfect. No, it's, it's marble from floor to the top. I mean, everything is, it's just one continuous color of marble. I agree with that. It's like a marble square that they hollowed out the middle. And then they just put a bathroom in it. Yeah, I showered in there the next day after our own a golf.

And the shower, your individual shower is the biggest shower I've ever showered in. We've stayed in the best places in the world. When we're at Pebble Beach, we stayed at this huge mansion. The bathroom didn't even come close to the one. The locker room at Aaron Hills. That's what we're dealing with. You just know that this place is different and, like, has just state of the art and top of the, like, top-notch amenities when, like, I was sending out Snapchat. It's like my buddies who, I mean, everyone, like, travels around.

does things and like the reactions I was getting to our cottage and the bathroom and the clubhouse and the golf course was just like how the fuck are you at that place like that's where I that's what I got from multiple multiple people like how are you there I mean I face time my dad and my mom walking around lurch was doing towel time at the cottage where the sun was setting my mom saw lurch's nipples which is something I didn't think whatever happened. Me either now that you put it in that context I never thought that would happen correct and I mean they were just like my dad was like tearing up my mom like didn't know what world that was was in. She's like, how is that a golf course?

There was a lake on the outside. There's a little pond outside of our cottage with the sun just perfectly like pinkerizing. That's the word I used. It was pinkerizing. Okay. Okay. It's just, yeah, pinkerizing. I said that when I was face, I was like, when I was face it in there, I'm like, look at

the sun's doing in the sky right now. It's like pinkerizing it. Pinkerizing. Yeah. I got you. Yeah. It's beautiful. I mean.

I love it, Frank. Yeah. I love it. I was trying to get you guys in towel time, but you guys were doing. Toul time's a little. Yeah, so what towel time is apparently something in Lurch made up. We got to the cottages, which were beautiful. You wouldn't believe how nice they are.

And Lurch is like, all right, let's all shower before dinner, and we're going to go out to the drumlin and put around. And then he's like, but I do towel time. When what that is is you take a shower, you put a towel on, and then you just walk and hang outside on the deck, I guess. Yeah, and you put the natural air feels like on your balls. On everything. On everything.

It's the most, I think it's the most comfortable thing you can be in. You play Let the Good Times roll, I think, out on the deck. By the Dead, Alpine Valley. Oh, Jake did it as well. Producer Jake joined you. Jake joined me. I did say it's a little cold, which kind of upset me. Yeah.

But then he came back out and tough it out. So Lurch and Jake did that. You boys, you should have seen Lurch. I think at Cabot, he spent the whole trip in towel time. Just the whole trip. It's the best. If you're on vacation, you're like in nice showers and like amenities are amazing. Yeah.

Minds well just get in a towel and have a beer and just totally relax and just enjoy it. Oh, I like that part. It's just like, I don't know. I sometimes like to put on nice soft. cotton if I'm going to be soft clothes soft clothes. Shout out. That's how my parents. That's more comfortable to me than like my bare body because my bare body

sucks. Frankly, like you like to cover up your body. That's just the fact. We know that. That's correct. Yeah, I mean, Aaron Hills look, there's we've all been to golf resorts, golf courses, golf clubs, whatever where kind of

the whole amenities scene and like the infrastructure with the clubhouse and the caddy bar and the pro just isn't right. It doesn't fit perfectly the flow. It could be confusing. Where the fuck do I walk? It's distasteful.

Maybe they overdid it for more of an understated place, or they under did it for more of an overstated place, whatever. Or they pick something that's like just clearly artificial and it stands out but for the wrong reasons. Aaron Hill is like the clubhouse to the caddy barn, to the cottages. It's like when you kind of look at it, it is like when you look at a farm where you can't tell kind of necessarily like what's the main farmhouse what's the barn where does the is that kind of tied to that because they all blend together perfectly

yet when you're actually like from a visual standpoint when you're looking at them from the highest point on the opposite side of the course you're looking over there and it's kind of just this beautiful like cluster of buildings and it all just fits and then when you're on top of it they got all these tasteful little signs that tell you, like your cottage this way, pro shop that way. You walk in, you get the pro shops kind of wide open, and then the bathroom, you can't miss it, and then that awesome bar that's kind of the main bar before you walk out of the big deck of the back part of the clubhouse.

It all just flows so perfectly. You walk out, the first tee is below all of it, which is just past the drumlin, which is the putting course that lights up at night, and then the caddy barn is sort of over there, separate right by the driving range. So it just becomes very clear when you're on top of the stuff, where you're supposed to be and how it all fits together, the design of it. You know, they have like some of it's like the stone

and then some of it's like wooden and all kind of looks like it's been there in that part of the world forever. And it all looks like this is Wisconsin. This is how things are supposed to look the same way that like the buildings and the hotels in St. Andrews when you go to Scotland or when you look at the footage or like, like, oh, that's just fucking Scotland. That's just what Scotland looks like.

It's the same way with Aaron Hills, even though it's relatively new and it's state of the art, and you can't believe that there's like a giant marble block bathroom inside the fucking clubhouse. When you look at it, it's just like, it's like, oh yeah, that's just Wisconsin. That is, oh, you're telling me there's

an elite world-class golf resort in Wisconsin. Like, oh, yeah, that's just what the buildings are supposed to look like in Wisconsin. And it all just fits together perfectly. It's not too much. It's not too little. It's just that whole fucking area where your cottages and your clubhouses and all that

go together is just so tasteful. The pathways are like carved perfectly where like they're not straight. They kind of wind through, but in what feels like the way that they had to wind through the grass. And it's just like, oh, this is just gorgeous. And I'm in Wisconsin, which is what you want when you're in fucking Wisconsin. Totally great. I think the place is absolutely magnificent.

Like it's my favorite, it's one of my, if not, it's up there with Cabin. It's just a 1A, 1B of like, if I'm in that area, I have to go there. I just have to. It's so perfect. Waking up at Aaron Hills is it just, it's so peaceful and lovely. And like, so we've skipped over and talked about the drumming quite a bit. But it's, you know, that's like their new magnificent putting green that is pretty much an 18-hole course that has all this undulation. It's really fun to play with the cocktail post round.

But when we woke up, the lawnmower is going back and forth and cleaning off the dew and giving it like a little morning cut. It was just, it's absolutely magnificent there. The people are perfect. If you're doing that trip, Aaron Hills just has to be your first stop. I think it's like two hours from O'Hare. You go right there and you kick off your trip in the most perfect way. I told the people Aaron Hills that I would do anything they need to be to do if I could live there forever.

That was one of my favorite lines of the weekend. I would do all the work they needed if we got to kill a couple people. I'd do that. I'll do. The cottage we stayed in was so great, and it was like you guys were saying, there was a pond right behind it. The sunset was incredible. And that's the way I felt. As soon as I got there, I was like, I want to stay here forever.

I was so giddy getting up there that there was a couple things that I really wanted to show you and Frankie of just how magnificent this place is. And I was, I didn't want to say too much, but it's almost impossible to say too much. Yeah. So when I was talking about the cottages, I was like, dude, you just have to see. And then we were all tired because we flew in late to Harperside. to wake up super early to do that whole event. And I was like, dude, we'll have a great day. The food, everything will be perfect.

The people there are absolutely amazing. But then when it's time to rest your head on that just that cloud of air that they give you to sleep on, called a mattress. I mean, you're asleep forever. Like, your eyes just peacefully go to bed and then you just wake up fully refreshed. I actually complain to the head marketing guy there because I said everything here is just too perfect to the fact that. I don't want to play golf tomorrow.

I said the worst part of this place is the golf course. The golf course is one of the best courses I'll ever play. And that's 100% fat. So, yeah. Yeah, that was Lurch's line at dinner where your line won't the worst part about this whole place is the golf course. And we all laughed and we're like, what? And then we realized at that moment you had Lurch in front of you like this plate of like crispy fucking potato. You had cheese curds.

You had like a steak. You had a glass of wine. You had like a Fesky rescue in a custom fucking engraved glass that said like Lurch Aaron Hills on it. And at that moment, I just realized like what you were saying was giving everything else the biggest compliment of all time.

And then the next day when we did play golf, as awesome as that golf course is, which I love it and we'll go through it. I remember thinking halfway through like, Man, Lurch was right. In fact, we shouldn't even have played golf. There's no reason we should have come out here and played this golf course. Everything is just so perfect around here.

Golf is by far the worst part. And the golf course is one of my favorite courses I've ever played. Yeah, that course I, like, dream about. Like, starting hole, I wish I could have started better. But, like, it's just amazing. It's just, it greets you so well. It's like, I love those bunkers. I love everything.

Do those fucking glasses have our names on them? I don't know. He just said. that if they do i'm going home and checking it out no because i gave i gave a glass to my girlfriend's dad yesterday i said i fucking bought it for him is that scumback dude you have no i said i got it from i'm like i got this for you and erred no i hope so does this fucking glass have my name on it i don't know if it does that it's so good i hope so hold on frankie it sounds like riggs is checking right now let me check i have mine in my hotel oh my god i didn't say i

I want to say, I didn't say, I didn't say part of him. I said, got this for you. Grum. Why? I mean, that's a nice thing to do. Piece of shit. That's a nice thing to do. I would have started out like, yeah, I guess you can't say they gave this to me and here it goes, but like,

no. I thought, I thought you really like these glasses. Check these out. You told the master's story on this podcast, right? You got him something from Augusta? And he said that, yeah, he said that, uh, he doesn't like to wear things to places he didn't say it to you. You overheard him.

Yeah, I overheard him say that about. someone else was going to a golf course and they were like going to get him merch from like the PJ championship he goes oh don't get me anything I don't like to wear the merch from a place I haven't been and like the year prior I had brought him like all this bastards gear that's awesome

so then they went to stop in the face a year later so then they went to band and I never been there and then he brought me back merch like almost was like a you're not going to go here what's the what are the glass looks like I don't think they have I had a beer in it last night it's like that glass is perfect I said, he's an incredible bartender.

I put a pacific over there with a lime. There you go. And I was like, this is just, this is a great way to end there. Frankie. Yeah. I have good news. Yes. They do not have our names on him.

That's huge. Because he's a big, he's a big, like, make a drink. Like, like, whenever there's anyone over the house, like, what can I get you for drink? He's like the bartender of the family. So, like, I was like, I'm going to get you. I'm going to give you. Yeah. The Fescue rescue.

A little bit bold. But, you know, technically I got it for him. I mean, I went there. They gave it to me and I gave it to him. That's a huge win for me. That whole little spiel I was doing where you're just sitting there like, oh my God. Dude, I texted her and I said, you need, when you first said that, when you said they have these glasses that say, Lurch Aaron Hills on them, I wrote, you need to check those glasses I gave your dad.

I think they have my name on it. That's amazing. Oh, my God, I just picture your girlfriend, like, rummaging through it, trying to be, like, quiet about it. And then they're in this, like, nice paper. so you got to wrap it back up in the bedroom. And he hears it from the bedroom? Oh, what are you doing? You open up the fescue rescue.

Let's go see that. It's a nightmare. Jesus, Frank. You get the bottom of a cup. Dodge the bullet there, Frank. A huge bullet. Dodge the ball. Trent Daddy.

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So we do, you know, we do the dinner, big dinner, big shout out to Quentin, who set the whole thing up. And they do basically family style for us. We talked about this last time, but, you know, they kind of ask you. Like, do you all want to pick out this? They're like, no, no, no, just family style. They roll things out. I think, I mean, I don't want to overstate it. I think I might have been the greatest meal I've ever consumed in my entire life.

Everything that came out was just perfect. Like, potatoes are fucking potatoes, right? Like, how good could they be? Potatoes, I could have eaten like two plates of just potatoes, and it would have been one of the best fucking meals that were had. The food was fantastic. I've had a lot of great meals at Borrell. Don't get me wrong.

But this meal, in that room, which just, it feels like you're almost in like an attic in this epic, historic golf place. That bar and that room that you eat dinner in right there with the huge bar right before you go out onto the deck. And we just sat in there the eight of us or ten of us because we had Steve marketing Steve, who's our boys. A couple other folks joined us. We had like 10 or 12 people just sitting there ripping through. Jake had his fucking bucket hat on, is Aaron Nail's bucket hat. That's kind of one of my great memories is Lurch helping Trent eat something.

I can't remember what. And then looking to my left and just Jake sitting at the head of the table with his Aaron Hill's bucket hat on. It was just that dinner, man. I get like tears of my eyes thinking about how good that dinner was. Yeah, Lurch and I were having a discussion about, I believe, about the salad. The salad, but no, then the steak, because you were trying to pick it off. And everybody seemed to be picking it off with a fork, and they were like poking it and prodding it.

And then literally it just passed to me, and I just grabbed a big steak knife and just slid off like 10 pieces on to my plate. And Trent was like, oh, I watched the wheel getting vended right in front of me when he did that. Yep.

And then we passed it to the next guy and he just went right back to the fork. He was poking. It just doesn't work as well. So Lurch Tommy Ellison, yeah, it was one of the best meals I ever had. They had the, one of the first things they brought out

were these fried cheese curds. And when you're in Wisconsin, you got to eat cheese curds and when they fry them up, I probably had 15 of those things. One half of the table didn't get any because I ate too milk. Trent and I sat right next to each other

and a good plate would come by and we would just devour them. Well, here's what I thought. I thought that there was cheese curds were the multiple plates. So I just ate as many cheese curds as I could. And then the right side, on my right side, people were like, so we're just not going to get any cheese cards. I was like, sorry, man, those were so good. So sorry about that, but the cheese cords were phenomenal.

Yeah, that dinner the night before. Because you get to play, like, you're playing Aaron Hill the next morning. So you're just so fired up to play Aaron Hills. And you're just getting excited about it. You're meeting these guys. You're having a good old time. Yeah, I mean, that dinner was perfect. And the food was so good.

I must have six points of salad. Yeah. It was good. It was great. Then we did the night putting, the drummond, brand new putting course. You know, it's kind of a lot of places are starting to add something like this. The punch bowl, what they have at Bannon. Same deal.

We got 18 holes. And it's sort of a circus. It's sort of like put-putt, mini golf, but a real, you know, a real green with teas, a pin. And they have most, almost all the teas or a bunch of the teas have little, you know, drink holders on them so you set your drink in there they've got lights they've got like these crazy LED whatever the fuck lighting that is very subtle but works and light things up and I will say the putting course was very hard it was just really really hard to get your first put anywhere near the hole and the greens I mean they roll lightning anywhere we go they always like double and

triple fucking roll them to make sure that we get the quote full experience which I wish we could get like a tenth of the experience sometimes that'd be awesome but the greens were just lightning fast and we ripped around the the uh the drum one a couple of times and it was awesome that wasn't open the last time lurchin i were there that was the first time we got to experience it but kind of like what frankie was saying earlier where you know is it too isolated is it worth it to go all the way out there if it's just like a golf course and a farm and this is one of their answers where they're trying to you know add more trying to get you to stay and play trying to hope that you know the golf course is enough, but adding things like a night putting course where, you know, you can rip around

for an hour or two with a couple of drinks and it adds the experience. It gives you a little bit of a different look. So it was awesome. It was a blast. We did that for a while, hit the sack, and then, you know, popped up the next morning and off to play Aaron Hills. It was. And Trent Daddy, I mean, we're going to, we'll go through it a little bit. We have a whole video. Jake was out there running around filming both groups. You know, we all took some iPhone footage. It'll be an awesome video. kind of going through the entire thing, but first T, Trent, continues to be an absolute menace out there. I mean, he's a weapon.

Yeah, you know, first T's are just my thing. Usually it falls apart after that, but for some reason it was different out of Aaron Hills. We had talked a little bit the night before about over-unders. I think we put mine at 120. Yeah. So, you know, it's a, I've been playing better than my 144 at Bethpage Black, but like not soup, not way, way better, not to the point where it's like, I'm going to

to Aaron Hills and maybe have like a ridiculously good day. But yeah, I hit a good one off the, hit a good one off the first. And then I made a seven on number one, I think is what I made. Yeah, I think so. You had a tougher time, lurched. I made it 10. Made a seven. So that was pretty.

Oh, yeah. That's pretty standard for me. I was like, all right, this is, you made 11? We started out cold. I mean, yeah. I pulled my first one left. OB, re-teed, had to take a drop. He was unplayable eventually made it down.

Can't tell you how pumped that was for the first tee. I'd stripe the ball in the range Same. I mean, I didn't miss hit one three wood shot. I'm like, I am going to shoot the course record I did it today. I got out to my first C. I hit the first ball,

OB left, and then topped the second one straight into, like, barely got it off the T-box. And I was just like, I was like shaking. I was like, how is this happening to me right now? I couldn't hit the ball. I couldn't hit the golf ball. It was like,

I actually asked Riggs if a demon had entered our body. Because I mean, Riggs hit his OBB. Like, what just happened to us? We don't know how to play golf. Frankie and I, we were, we got taken over. by evil demons for the first five or six holes.

And I mean, we were, so we were playing with Colin, Steve, Stoley's, who, you know, won the auction. And Colin was playing great. Steve kind of rips the ball. I mean, he doesn't kind of rip the ball. He kills the golf. I mean, he just, he was hitting his hybrid, like, further than we were hitting our drives. And we were six down through six, me and Frankie, we were doing a match. Just a quick six down through six.

And it wasn't even close. So it was, it was just, we got absolutely. torched and we're, I will say, we were staying positive because the course was so cool. But Aaron Hills, I mean, that place, that golf course kicked us in the teeth, ripped our teeth out of our fucking mouths and like to send us it up our asses over and over and over again. For Frankie and myself. Yeah. Yeah, I thought, like I said, I made a seven. What were you going to say?

I was just going to say you hit the golf ball as well as I've ever seen you. That anything with a big head on it, driver or three would, was like you were just kissing it to the location. that you wanted. That's what I was going to say. So I made a seven on the first one. I was like, this is just going to be a normal day. I'm going to shoot 125. I'm going to have a fucking blast.

Our group was great. Shout to Sprah and Cutter and Hanky Panky was our caddy and Timmy. Spra. Yeah. This is a nickname. Yeah, Spra. Nothing. I thought it was going to be a pretty normal day for me on the golf course.

But then on number three, I had a good drive. I hit every fairway except for one. I missed on 14. That's insane. It was insane, dude. But then. Baby cut off the left hand side. They would just drip right into the middle of the fairway.

But then I'm in the middle of the fairway. I'm in the middle of the fairway on three. I got 185 to the pin. I've got the three wood. Yes. I hit this thing to eight feet. Yes, he did. It's the purest three wood I've ever hit my life.

Hanky, Panky, my caddy. He was up on the hill helping you. You're a little on the fescue up there. I hit this thing, and I have never hit a ball like that. Lands to eight feet, and it was just a magnificent job. The noise it made was outrageous. It was like, psh, and I was like, what the hell was that? That was the first sign that it might be,

a good day. I, of course, miss my birdie putt. Yes, but the greens were tough. After nine, I shot a 51 on the front. So I just,

and Lurchin had an interesting conversation coming off the back where it was he's talking about fives. And you basically, if you shoot fives all the way across on 18 holes, you're going to shoot a 90. Yep.

Which is a very, I never thought of it that way. I've never had the mindset of that. I'm always like, I want to make par. I want to make par. There's a lot of pressure involved with that. So then when he's like,

if you just make fives on the rest of the back nine, you're going to shoot a 45, and that's going to be a 96. You're going to break 100 at Aaron Hills. So that was in my mind the rest of the time. I started off really strong, really, really strong. I got some criticism for, quote, unquote, jinxing you. There's a video out there that doesn't.

Well, you did. I mean, the only footage I saw was like you just kept going on and on about how there's no way he's not going to break 100. I mean, what? Let me say, I appreciate the confidence. I really did because we were having a great time. Our group was awesome. We were having such a good time where.

Spraw and Blue Shoes Cutter were just. terrific people to play with. They really were. And we're sort of like, I'm having a good round and everybody's kind of feeding off that energy. And, you know, Lurch, we did do the video where I was like, please don't jinx me. But truth be told, you gave me the fives lesson and you were like, you were being positive.

So I was totally on your side. I mean, absolutely. And then on, I think after 15, you were like, you were like kind of nervous about it. And I was like, dude, you'd have to go like triple, triple, triple, triple, to not break like 100. So I don't know how much. I mean, there is going to be a video, but through 16, I went back. through 16, I'm at an 85. I'm at an 85 through 16.

You have 15 strokes to give? I got 15 strokes to give. 14. I'm going to hit 99. 15 strokes to give on the next two holes. Two holes. Yes. He's just got to get into six.

No. No. They're not that. No. No. No. So on 17. So on 17, 17, I start realizing that I'm potentially going to break 100.

And I'm getting nervous. This is the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course. I'm telling you. You're like, normally I'm just out there and I'm having a good time. I'm shooting one third. I'm just like, all right, this is, I'm going to be the positive guy out here. It's fun. And it always is.

But now I'm sort of dialed in and I'm nervous. Yeah. And I start topping shots on 17. 17. I'm all over the place on 17. I hit a decent drive. I top my next one into the Fescue. I don't get out of the fescue on my next one.

I finally get on to the green. And I'm on my, I'm laying five. Yep. And I three jack. Yep. So I make an eight. Eight. So now I'm looking at I got to make a six or better on 18 to break 100.

Yep. And 18 is... 60020 yard par 5. Dude, I walked up to that hole. I walked up to that hole and I wanted to be the most positive person in the world. But in my mind, I was like, that is the furthest away I've ever seen a hole in my entire life. No, it looks forever. It looks forever.

There's everything. There's also shit all the way up the left-hand side that makes it look miles away. Everywhere. So my, at this point, my heart's thumping. It really is. I've never been this nervous. You have to make a bogey to shoot 99. A good bogey.

So I had a fantastic drive. I'm driving like I'm unconscious. Hit a great drive. Hit a great three wood. Then I've got a hybrid for the approach shot. It's a blind shot because there's this big mound in front of me and Hanky-panky. By the way, shout out to Hanky. He was my brain all day.

I was just swinging, making good contact like I couldn't believe. He was my brain. He was my brain and I was just like the arms and the legs that were hitting the golf ball. But if I didn't have him, he probably saved me 15, 20, 30 strokes. Just being like hit it here, hit this, hit there. He was great. I can't say enough about how great he was. But I hit this blind hybrid shot up to my third shot.

And I hit it really well. I get good contact on it. And I get the worst news in my life. Hanky goes, it's in the front bunker. And how many bunkers you've been in all day? Zero. Yeah. It was the first bunker.

And how much do you like bunkers? I hate them. They are my kryptonite. Every time I'm in one, I should just get a sleeping bag and sleep in there because that's how it long it's going to take me to get out of there. So I hit it my first bunker of the day. And Hanky tells me, he's like, oh, it's in the front side bunker. Not realizing because we haven't been in a bunker all day, but they're my absolute kryptonite.

So I'm like, you don't realize how bad news that is, Hanky. But we're going to do our best. So that'll be my fourth shot up there. And I'm in the bunker. And I'm just as nervous as can be because the dream of breaking 100 is slowly, but also quickly slipping away from me. And I'm in the bunker. It's the shot of my life, most likely. But also, if I look at this way, looking back, because I couldn't sleep.

basically last night I was thinking about this shot. I'm not even kidding. I really was. I was just staring up on my ceiling last night thinking about this bunker shot. But if I want to break 100, I'm going to have to face down my demons. And I'm going to have to beat this bunker thing. You have to. So it's almost, it was almost godlike and that you have to put it in there, put it in the bunker, get out of there.

I try to get out the first time. Goes nowhere. Yeah, nowhere. I will say the worst desal I've ever seen in a car. That's what I do. That's just what I do. back okay and then it pretty much just fell from the top you didn't even swing it it just fell into it doesn't go anywhere try it again it advances a little bit but there is a bunker right in front of me

it goes in there damn it all i get i finally get out on the third try at this point obviously the breaking 100 is over dream has disappeared my first put onto the green goes all the way over and down the hill on the other side a put up there i finally drill the putt it's a 102 it's i i can't I can't believe I played that well. A 102 is not something I ever thought I was going to shoot at Aaron Hills. But in that situation, I got 15 strokes to play with when I come up to the T-box on 17. 14 to break 100. 14 to break 100.

And it's just, you got to call it what it is. And it was a collapse. It was a full on collapse. I got nervous. My heart was pounding. It's a collapse. It's a collapse. Yeah.

There's no way around that. But it was. It's fun. He played so well. Yeah. He played so well. And then there was a couple times with this game of five, like he'd be like stress it on a par. like, dude, that's fine.

Like a par three, you still make a four. That's $100. You shoot $44.44. 44, that's $88. You shot out of 144, Bethpage. Playing bogey golf at Aaron Hills on that day was like really difficult for me. Like, there was a stretch on the back where I started to play boge golf and I felt like I was playing lights out.

The head greenskeeper or like assistant was like, yeah, we double rolled them, double everything, double everything, double every. They're going to roll for miles if you touch it. For me, I tried to hit my trusty three wood and it just abandoned me. I started slapping it in the. face. I was like, what did you do to me today? I was like grabbing it by its neck. Like you fucking three wood. I started hitting my drives. I was just crushing dries right down the middle. I don't know why I didn't do that on the first two holes. But on the back, like I was saying, like if you

hit good dries, which I was, your approach shots were still impossible because if you hit the green or if you hit the left or right, they rolled off. They never held. They were so fast. They were so there's not that many, there's not that much undulation to the greens at Aaron Hills. I actually think for how difficult of a golf course it is. I was actually talking to hanky-panky about it afterwards. The greens aren't like left and right. Like when you're putting, there's not extreme turns to the putts.

But there's still the most difficult things. On the 15th hole, I had a putt for birdie. And it's not that easy of a hole. I had a good drive, great second shot. I had a putt for birdie. And I walked away with a seven. I put the ball into a bunker. I put the ball past the hole into the bunker.

Then I hit one in the bunker, came right back at me, hit one over the bunker, onto the green. I had two putt from there. I was putting for three, and I left that green with a seven. That's all. I mean, I did something similar on, too. I mean, we were doing this pretty much everything down, kind of stroke play. We had some bets going on. So the first hole you've heard, we made some tens, some 11 for Frankie.

And actually Trent made a heroic seven. But then we get to the second hole. I rip a drive out there. I have a short little wedge in. Hit it to 20 feet. I'm like, all right, let's have a bounce back here. Like, worst thing we're going to do is make par. Put it off the front, make a six.

And I'm like, 10-6 to start, but they're 16 strokes through two holes. Could be a tough day. The greens were, if the greens weren't as fast as they were, I think I would have had a way, way better shot because putting I was all over the place. I'd go blow up by or I'd get scared and I wouldn't go far enough. And the biggest difference in my game

that made me play better was irons. I hit a few good irons. That was really. Good. If I can hit a couple. We'll watch the ball. Head down. They'll watch the ball.

That was what we kept saying. If I can hit good irons, I think I can play well. Dude, that is crazy that you're hitting, like, good shots with three woods onto greens and stuff. Like, that's not easy. That makes the game infinitely more difficult. His shot on three was amazing. It, like, a little baby cut to literally eight feet. And that pin was all the way in the back.

With a three wood. That's essentially impossible. It felt like I had done the impossible. Yeah. It was a great day. 102. We're getting there. Yep.

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He goes, Trent's having the round of his life. And like, hearing that was like, holy shit. I mean, Riggs and I, we shot the same. You and I, we shot the same. So there was a huge moment on the 18th Green where I get up there. And I had been, I can't tell you how much. I mean, I had Fescue growing out of my legs by the time we get to be. It was insane.

I played with Riggs. It was like on the back nine where we were all starting to kind of pick it up. He found himself. And he was hitting good shots. He found himself in Fescue that he couldn't get out of. Like three, four, five swings. Like I'm standing there with my caddy and Tim. and I'm like, man, he's just never going to get out of there.

Like, like, crazy stances. Like, no wonder his scores are adding up because, I mean, you can't, you can't get out of the fescue. And at one point I looked at rigs. I'm like, that stuff like is an inch off the fairway. An inch. You hit it, you flared it out, right? Like 10 feet to the right. And you're just in death.

Dude, I was in some fucking horrific spot. So I, Trent Addie, I posted 102 as well. and I had so many huge scores that because the ESC gin system, I had to post eight strokes lower than I actually shot because my handicap, I'm only allowed to post double bogeys as a sick handicap and my highest scores on Holtz. So I had to post a 94 because there were eight different strokes. You're put on 18.

Boy, it didn't have more, like you didn't think it was going to have any meaning, but it had so much meaning. So we get up there, and there's a whole crew. We got marketing, Steve, all the caddies. Your guy's group was in front of ours. So there's like 20 people, I feel, like on the green on 18. I get up there. And we're all like, Trent, what did you shoot?

What did you shoot? Because we knew you were playing really well. Did you break 100? You're like, no, told the whole story that we just got to. Like, what's your number? 102. And then me and Frankie, who were playing horrible and we're like, wait a second. Oh, no.

Are we like in that same territory? Yeah, we start adding them up. Frankie's okay. He's like, he should be fine. And I'm like, oh man, what am I at? So I go, I stand there. I have like a 20 footer for fucking triple or something like that because I had been in some wild pescue again.

And I added up and I'm like, this putt is to beat Trette. I'm like, oh, no. So I get Mikey, my catty who's a fucking man. I'm like, Mikey, come over here. Like, this is a huge fucking putt, man. I know that you're looking at me like, hey, buddy, you haven't had a putt that means anything in fucking five straight hours. There's no way this put can mean something.

I was like, you don't understand. This is a huge put. We get up there. I blow it like five, six feet by. So right now everyone knows that I've got this put to tie Trent. I step off it because I was so goddamn nervous. Luckily, I made it. Not that it really matters because my boy, Trent.

I mean, you had an awesome round. That was by far the biggest thing. But everybody knows that I just, there's no way I wanted to lose to tread death. I mean, I was. I just didn't want it. You guys don't know this, but I was preparing to make shirts. I was preparing to. Oh, yeah.

I was probably like Trent beat Riggs at Aaron Hills. We were going to have the Aaron Hill. Logan's going to say Trent Hills on it. We're going to do the whole thing. I mean, because Frankie was in the same spot as you with the same amount of strokes in that bunker. You just did a better job of getting out of it. Correct. Yeah, you're better out of the bunkers, which is everyone on the planet.

Yeah, I beat you by three strokes because of the bunker game. Yeah. So I was. Two strokes. Two strokes. Two strokes. Two strokes. You shot a five hundred.

Yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. So rigs has got that. He's got that. He makes it. But boy, if you had missed that. We'd have our guy Welker making up some shirts and doing all this thing.

But, you know, 102. It's funny that 102 is like the best round of my life. And 102 for you guys, like, you guys are slugging in. That's just, you know, that's just the different. Like shooting at the front nine is just not how I like, when I was eating the steak and cheese curd. You know. Well, nobody started thought like, oh, I'm going to make a 10 on the first hole. It's just so hard.

It's a very difficult golf course. It is. But you just can't pull it up. When you're looking out of it, there's perfectly green fairway. And you're like, man. Man, how am I going to keep this ball in the middle of this vescue? Like, when you're on the T-box, you're like, how the fuck am I going to get this ball to that green? Middle of the fair way.

I mean, I'm sorry, fair-air. Well, I must have been saying that's how mentally cocked you. Yeah. How am I going to get this ball in that hole without hitting any danger? Because there's danger everywhere. Yep. Everywhere. I'd much rather water, I think, mentally.

Around. Because, like, at least the ball's gone. I don't have to go in there and start hacking shit around. Just give, like, I just want to lose that ball. I never want to see it again. Yeah. Yeah, we got beat up. The boys got beat up.

Lurch, I mean, Lurch broke 90, which is considering how horrific the start was, how horrific everybody played on the front nine, him breaking 90, was pretty damn heroic. We had on the drive up, Lurch was chirping. We were both chirping, so we decided to put $200 on a little stroke play back and forth. We have pretty similar handicaps. We've had some epic matches at Cabot over the years where we do different buddies golf trips together. We've had some epic matches. We were in different groups.

So there was like some, you know, okay, it's going to be, we're going to get a lot of information. It's going to be a knockdown, drag-out battle. And then we both started 10-6 unknowingly to each other. And I think both of us probably thought like, oh, man, I'm in trouble. Yeah, I thought the match was over. And then on seven, I think, or maybe six or something like that, Jay came up to us. And I was like, how are they doing back there? He was like, not that well.

And I was like, we got a golf match. So, yeah, so Lurch ended up taking that down. he's got me, I got some work to do. He beat me the last couple. Regardless, Aaron Hills was awesome. Trent Daddy, with the round of his life. So congrats from Trent Daddy bringing it out there. You've been driving it great, really, for the last several months.

So I'm not bad surprised, I guess. Yeah, you guys are talking about the Fescue. I was in it very, very rarely. And that's obviously the key out there, which is, you know, we shot the same score, but I just couldn't putt sometimes. I really would, I had trouble on the greens. But I kept out of Fescue all day. Like he said, if it's got a big head on the club, I'll just hit it really well.

So, you know, just got to iron a few things out, and we're going to be really cooking. Addo, friend daddy. Let's go through, you know, FedEx Cup playoffs, PJ Tour, Justin Thomas, our friends. We had him on the show, first show of the entire year. 2019, we kicked off the year with a full hour with JT. You should go back and listen to that if you haven't. We went through a bunch of stuff. You know, we have a history with J.T. with getting the bunker stuff last year,

when he had the guy kicked out for yell on that. after he hit the shot. We were very hard on JT. We thought he came off like kind of a douche. We thought he didn't handle any of that stuff well. We thought you must be a soft little bitch. If you're going to kick a guy out, we're chirping you after you hit a shot.

That's crazy town. We ended up, you know, form a relationship with him, had him on the show. We stayed in touch with him ever since. Great, dude. We were just pretty much wrong about it. But at the same time, I mean, we only were able to, you know, make opinions and deliver takes based on what we see.

And we told them before what we've seen on TV. that point. He kind of came off like a little bit of a douche. He was like, yeah, no, I know that I'd come up like that before, had him on the show for an hour. And like I said, we've been in touch with them ever since. I tweeted out just a couple things about them yesterday and that, you know, JT is, and I was going through trying to think, I mean, JT is by far, by far, no offense to kids. Like, the guy that I have contact with who is by far the highest ranked and best golfer on the planet. And he, I mean, he was texting me and updating us the whole group about he's fucking

sending us like screenshots and his text with his titleless rep about getting dialed in for his lefty set of clubs for when he plays Frank. So like he was literally doing that throughout this week while shooting 65, 69, 61, 68 for a what, 25 under total and winning $1.6 million of the BMW at Medina. You know, when we first saw him, which was the first time we had seen him after kind of having him on the show and starting to, you know, chirp with him and have a good relationship with him, it came right up to us on the range of the U.S. Open at Pebble, shot the shit with us. He obviously roasted, you know, Frankie last week on Twitter and then goes out and does that. So easy, easy guy to root for JT has become one of our guys, and it's really, really nice to see him. He had the wrist injury and missed the PJ at Beth page.

So you never know how people are going to bounce back from that kind of stuff. If it's going to be a lingering situation, blah, blah, blah. I think he's up to number five-ranked player in the world now and won, like I said, $1.6 million yesterday and is in first place going into East Lake, which we'll get into, where he could win $15 million. So awesome stuff from JT. He hit that eight iron that he hold out for Eagle on 16 on Saturday.

They just keep showing that replay. I mean, I don't know that you can, like, physically, accomplish and execute something better than he that just looked like this most perfect effortless swing the way that that little orange pro tracer they use starts like five feet left of the hole and then just baby cuts right at it lands like six feet before has a little spin and just rolls in perfectly like a putt I mean that was fucking insane what he's doing him and died out there it was awesome we're big jt guys now that was very cool to see Frankie, what's your one takeaway from Justin play this weekend?

So he had a lefty swing with a righty club. He was up against a little bush, and he topped it like a little baby bitch right into the rough. And I tweeted out, this is my competition with a little laughing emoji. That is my takeaway for it. It's tough that I shot a 100, and he shot a 61 on the same day. So I was keeping people updated on my round at Aaron Hills. said like I just I'm on your boy frankie's on pace for a 125 at Aaron Hills today just like not how you drew it up then it was like I just I just made a seven when I was putting for

birdie on 15 and then the next one was I just shot 100 Aaron Hills and then the next one of that was Justin Thomas just 61 of a diet it was just it couldn't have been more different I'm happy for Justin Thomas bring up the the wrist injury thing I kind of forgot about that and like and where you know there was uncertain on his season this year when like oh how can you come back from that like rig said i mean that's that's a nerve-wracking injury i feel like to have as a golfer i mean when your wrist is fucked up like that especially when you have to miss a major it's got to be pretty serious and for him to just come back and light it up shoot a 61 the whole golf world was just like what the fuck

is this guy doing out there um and then to follow it up again with a great round uh to finish it out um justin thomas is he's just a premier golfer in the world and the fact that we are going to probably do this fucking match where he watches me play golf. I mean, if it's anything like I played... He's going to beat you. If it's anything like I played at Aaron Hills, I have no chance. Well, obviously. Well, that's also saying that he's just going to break 100.

I think he definitely will. Yeah, I don't know. I think we get to the point where he will, yeah, at that point. I mean, he's out of 61. He's going to be 69 strokes worse with a left-handed swing just to tie me. 39. 61 is insane. I just think he's going to be so good at getting the ball in the ball and hole.

Like you were seeing like page like chip in like and chirping you for not making it like 60 yards or whatever. Like these guys, his short game is going to be phenomenal. Really good. Phenomenal. So if he can hit those T shots like we saw like the PGA tour post that one like little baby cut that it hits maybe 240, 240. You're toast. Yeah. Well, if this gets back to Justin, I want this thing to be at Baker's Bay.

And that's my demand. I will say. You're in a nice spot. Nice. So the four point boys with Sam, matches coming up, the Kisner 5-iron match and the Frankie JT. Lefty match, it was not a good-looking weekend for the Portplay Boys. It's like we're pretty much on a B-line for some huge losses if things don't change dramatically.

And they will. I feel confident. I've seen Frankie hit the ball way, way better than he did at Eric Hills. He's seen me hit the ball way, way better. So we'll be fine. But if you were a betting man and you looked at the odds after this last weekend, I would imagine they're not in our favor. I think that's right. Yeah, I know that's right.

It'll get better. Oh, yeah, we can improve. Eastlake, so the Tour Championship, we talked about this like a fucking year ago and they announced this, and then it's crazy town that this is actually just happening, that they're doing the scoring this way. Justin Thomas will tee off on Thursday.

I mean, if you look at the leaderboard right now, Justin Thomas is just 10 under five. That's just what he's at. He's at 10 under. He's leading the golf tournament. He is eight shots ahead of Kevin Kisner, which I tried to chirp Kiz about that yesterday, and he roasted me and responded. I said, you know, how are you feeling about Tienov eight shots back next week?

And he said, I'll still make more money than you make all year with a little weaky face. And then I was looking at the payouts. I mean, if he finished his last place in the entire FedEx Cup, he wins $395,000. Oh, my God. As long as you just tease it up on Thursday, kids will make about $400,000. The payouts then, you know, they're kind of in the 400s all the way up to about $800,000 when you get to 10th place. And then 9th is 950. Eighth and better you get a million dollars.

Second place is $4 million. I'm sorry. Third place is $4 million. Second place is $5 million. First place is $15 million. And Justin Thomas Tees off Just ahead of everyone

I'm doing that He's 10 under Patrick Cantley's 8 under Capca 7 Patrick Reed 6 Rory 5 John Rom 4 Coocher 4

Shoffley 4 Webb Simpson 4 Answer 4 And then you know You got a bunch of guys In 3 2 1 Even Park So it's interesting

You know I don't know I can't tell If I hate it or not I can't tell if I hated or not I really don't know I don't love it, but at the same time, you know, a couple people we were talking to about it at, I think

Harborside that were like, or even maybe last night it was a couple of Boston folks like Fidelberg of them, and they were like, as a non-golf fan, that makes me interested. I think that's fucking hilarious, but they're doing that. So I don't know if that's exactly the side that you want, but it's a weird, it's a weird thing. Right. I don't think people pointing and laughing being like, wow, that's really something is the drawing of interest that they were looking for. But, I mean, I'm looking at this.

It is just, it's going to be so funny. You're right. JT is just going to be 10 under on Thursday. It's just going to be the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. And then on their website, it says like a PGA tour announces New FedEx Cup playoff format, and they're basically explaining why they did this. And under it says this is where I don't agree with them. The main benefits, it says, fans will immediately understand what's going on, no matter if they followed the tour all season or just tuning into the final event.

I think that that couldn't be more opposite to the truth. Fans will have absolutely no idea what's going on if they hadn't watched one tour event. What are you talking about? The scores are the scores. But they're not going to know like, they're going to make why the fuck is Justin Thomas 10 under? That's the most like what's going on thing of all time. If you haven't watched one thing yet? If he gets once he gets to like the fifth hole on Thursday and he's 10 under, some people are going to look at that and be like,

what is happening on my TV screen right? Correct. You know what I mean? It's the exact opposite of what they're trying to do. But then the other part of it is this change also eliminates the possibility of the possibility of the Tour Championship winner not emerging as the FedEx Cup winner, which has happened three times in the first 11 years

of the FedEx Cup playoffs. That's what they're going for. So they're saying, if any of the 30 players at East Lake wins this tour championship, they absolutely will now win the FedEx Cup, which makes it easier for the viewer to understand that. True.

So, like Tiger Woods won the fucking Tour championship and doesn't win the Fed. Right. Yeah, I think by the time they get to the weekend, there's going to be no confusion, right? because it's just going to be whatever the scores are, those are the scores, and you're going to win everything. I guess for me, like, who gives a shit if there were two different winners?

Like, nobody really cares. It's not like the ratings and the interest are going to skyrocket now that there's only one winner versus two. Like, who gives the fuck? I don't. So to me, that's just crazy. Like, if they did this last year, Tiger Woods just wouldn't have won the tournament, and they would have been robbed of one of the great moments in PGA tour history.

The Tiger was walking up Eastlake, like fucking Forge's Gump running across the country with an army behind him. Like, that was insane. So it's kind of crazy, and they had decided to do it before that. But it's, to me, it just didn't, I don't think it was that big of an issue. And now it's going to create weird stuff. Like, what if J.T. goes out and shoots like now from here at this point on, like, 22 under and he's at 32 under?

Is he going to be like the lowest score in the history of BJ Torb for a week? Even though they gave him 10 shots at the beginning of the tournament, it's like, it's just, it's bizarre. It's kind of like these guys always talk about. Tigers always said, win. takes care of everything so i'm just going to show up this is the format you tee off everybody tees off you know at the same point on thursday you have 72 holes lowest score wins that's just not the case like one guy's just teeing off 10 shots ahead of them much for other guys and that's just wildly different so it's it's it's bizarre and it's different it's going to be weird as shit

when chate see like he said is i like the third hole on Thursday and he might be 11 under fire at that point yeah what is happening what world am i living in so it's it's weird thing. It's a very bizarre thing. I don't really know what to make of it. It'll be weird to look at your TV on Thursday, but, you know, I just didn't think it was the end of the world or that huge of an issue. And I do think Frankie's kind of right, that it is solving it. And then also it just isn't because it's just not how golf tournaments work.

And I guess because of the $15 million payout at the end, I could see why a guy who's been, like a guy like Kisner who is like playing. good golf and like finishing in spots that'll leave him like closer to to to to the leader and like wanting to be closer to that 15 million than someone that hasn't been playing as well in the playoffs you know what I mean does that make any sense yeah like yeah yeah yeah you're trying to win 15 million dollars and you finish in like 18th and then 12 like you should have now a better chance of winning that 15 million dollars at the end then the person that finished in 30th 30th like I don't know that part I do agree with like it's 15 fucking million dollars it's an outrageous amount of money to payout fucking all of of Kevin Kisner's fucking winnings, you know what I mean? His whole career. Imagine if you're Justin Thomas right now. How great does that feel? You're just like, I got 10, I'm 10 under already.

I haven't even got to Eastlake yet. I'm not there yet. Things are good. And I just have 10 shots. It's going to be a different kind of pressure because it's like, yo, JT, you didn't win this week, you teed off fucking 10 under part. True. That's true.

So that'll be kind of like from the minute he tees off. There's going to be a lot of pressure. a fight, you don't want to be the guy that was handed a 10 shot, not handed, but like you earn this like 10 shot lead, you tee up at Eastlake, tough golf course with a, not a 10 shot leave, but like you're 10 under, you're two better than the next closest guy and like four or five better than a lot of the guys that are right in the middle. And there's like different pressure. Like, well, you better close, dude.

I know it's Thursday and you're on the first team, but you're in like a closing position, which is wildly different. So, you know, I don't know. It's kind of interesting. It's kind of stupid. Well, and at this point, there's nothing we can do about it, so we just get to watch and see what Yep. You know, yeah. You know what you can do about it? You can actually bet on it, and you can do that at Fandle.

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I mean, the fact that the next closest guy is, you know, a plus 4-50 to win J-T. I mean, that does add a lot of that pressure. Our boy, Kevin Kisner, 90-1 to win. So good luck to kids. If you want to take a real long shot, hope kids just lights up with that putter, you know, hitting his pupsy little drives down the middle of the fairway and then lighted it up with his putter. Go for it 90-to-1.

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Actually, you can bet on it Bet on JT to go out there and win You might win yourself some money Yeah, you can even bet on Bryce and Deschambeau At 20,000 to 1 And like maybe he goes 8 under, 8 under, 5 under And just finds himself in the mix

That's the thing that makes it crazy After Thursday if people go crazy low Like those odds are going to get a crazy chance Let's say just the time it starts 10 under, you know, Cantley's 8 under, Kepka's 7 under or 6 under, whatever it's going to be. And like a guy like Bryson goes 8 under on Thursday. He's immediately in the mix. Even if JT goes 4 under, he's 14. Like DeCambeau now can go 4 under the next day, be at 12.

And like you can chip away at it. You can chip away. But you have to have a whoever's 10 back has to have a ridiculous Thursday. I mean, it's two and a half strokes a day. It's like, you know, in our world. it's nothing. It's one bad hole. Right.

Right. That feels like legitimately nothing. Like, you might as well be tied right now. Like, here's my question. What would you need to start at to win this thing? I mean, dude, you shot a hundred.

That's fucking... I asked you, fucking idiot. I would need to start to win it, to like, guarantee myself to win. If you were in Justin Thomas's spot, what would you,

and the next guy's finishing, the next guy starting at minus eight, what would you need to start at to, win the tour championship. I would probably need to start at, so, 20 a day kind of thing or more to give myself a little wiggle room. I would say minus 120 to give myself a chance.

Come on, dude. Four days of golf. So if I shoot 88 every day or 89 or 90, so 90, that's 20 strokes a day, call it. Yep. So that's minus 80 right there just brings me an even par. I got to be well over par. Like to guarantee, I need like, you know, probably, like, minus 1-10 is like the bottom. Yeah.

That really puts it into perspective how good these guys are. Oh, they're insane. That really does. I mean, dude. Yeah. You shoot 100. It's over. You have a bad day golf from the length these guys are playing at.

Dude, the worst is you're not. If I start at minus 120, there's no way I'm getting a minus 121. You know, so you're just coming back. Minus 119. Bad hole. Like, minus 1. 15 you're like oh boy did you finish Thursday at minus like 81 yeah you're like oh fuck yeah and they're just they're just coming up and you're just going down next day you're at minus 50 you're like what is

happening oh dude it's a night there you're at minus 22 you're like what is actually happening like a Sunday you've got like a if you don't have more than a 20 stroke league you're host yeah host host host host host so i mean i would if i'd cheat off at a hundred under par I would I would there's no way I could win no no no No. No. No, you need to be $110 at the minimum. At the minimum.

Holy shit. Watching your lead shrink like that would be the most excruciating. Excruciating. Trying to go to bed on Saturday night for Sunday's round. He's coming back. He's coming back. He just keeps coming back. Every fucking hole.

He's giving away two, three shots. Every old. Yeah, waking up on Sunday with a 32-stroke lead on Justin Thomas. And you're in the final parent. So he makes Bernie, you make double. There goes fucking three strokes. Here we go. That's the first hole.

Great. That's really fun. Imagine they, like, they panned to you on the range. Like, all right. Lurch has arrived, and it just says, like, minus 32. And they're like, he's actually an underdog today. No, I know. Betty Nides, I'm fucking, like, plus a thousand.

JT's minus 100. Oh, God. That'd be great. Yeah, so we're going to find him. I wish I was on there. Yeah, me too. Lurch to win at plus or minus 125, I think would be even mine. Tony.

Tiger Wood did not make it, the defending champ. I got to tell you, part of me is excited about that. Tiger, just go home, man. Go home, chill out. The only tournament we care about is really the master. That's pretty much it. And he kind of made that comment. He said an all-time quote, they asked him after he finished up and his years over and all that.

He says the rest of the tournaments, I didn't play as well as I wanted to. But at the end of the day, I'm the one with the green jacket. It's funny because ever since he won the Masters, that's what we've been saying. Not as a joke, but every time he misses a cut or withdraws, we're like, well, he's still won the Masters and people are like, oh, okay, but he's still not playing well. But now we come to find out, he pretty much had the same attitude, the whole season. He's like, all right, yeah, I didn't play as well as I wanted to in these other tournaments. That's unfortunate. But I have the Green Jacket.

I won the Masters, and that makes the entire year worth it, regardless of what else happened. It feels good to be on the same page as the boss man there. 100%. I love everything about that. It's nice to have been right this whole time and just understand that Tiger is on the same page we're on. That's why he's the boss man. But he understands certain weeks like, oh, no, I've got literally a fucking fuse back where they took all my, you know, all my spinal cord, the muscles, the bones, the vertebrae. They fucking fused it all up together. And when that happens, some weeks you're just not going to have it. And when I do have it, oh, by the way, I can just win the masters. Yeah. Perfect. That's what we want. You don't need to be a tour championship. Who gives a fuck about the tour championship? He already won that thing. I already won that thing.

Did the whole deal last year walking up the fairway. Go home, Tiger. Rest up. Get yourself healthy. We got President's Cup thing coming up in December. That's like the next thing that that guy really has to worry about. I do think, I knew that he's going over and playing in Japan. That'll be cool or whatnot.

But go get yourself healthy. Hang out with the kids. Do your thing. He also, he had a couple comments just about the current state of the PGA tour and golf and what it takes to win out there. And now you just pull out driver, bomb it down there, and you're looking for three to four good weeks a year. That's how you play. It's not the consistency.

It's not about making a bunch of cuts. It's about having three or four good weeks a year. That's the difference. And guys understand that. And a lot of people are talking about that. Where golf, it's not the artistry that it used to be. It's not shaping the ball. You don't have to kind of like get it back to these pins because with the technology and with how good and big and strong these guys are now,

they just ripped the ball down there a million miles. fucking Medina was like 7,700 yards. Lurch and I played there about a month and a half ago. We played from maybe 67 or 68 or 6,900 yards, something like that. At least 1,000 yards are close to 1,000 yards shorter. I played lights out, didn't miss a shot all day and barely broke 80, shot 79. These guys, I mean, they just lit the whole fucking place up in one of the most preposterous things I've ever seen. Adam Scott, these guys are making comments like, no, no, if you just have short, or if you

have soft green and perfect greens and soft airways, I don't care if the course is 10,000 yards, we're going to light it up. There's just nothing that's long enough to be able to contain us. And that's what Tiger's saying. No, they're just going to rip driver. And if you have three or four good weeks a year where you're just ripping driver 330 yards straight and you're putting well, you're going to light it up because everything's going to be a wedge or a short enough club that, like, I mean, they can hit their fucking seven irons like 210 yards now. So how long can you make it where they can't just drop the ball right next to the hole, stop it on a dime, go make a bunch of pots and shoot $2500 and win the tournament.

So that was Tiger's point, and he's right, and that's kind of what professional golf has become. Yeah, that's what I mean, he's right. The guy knows what he's talking about. He's right. But like you said before, go home, get some rest, and let's worry about, let's worry about the Masters in 2020. That's all that matters. That's all that matters.

Yeah, that's all we got. And then the last thing I'm going to say, U.S. Amateur Pinehurst, Andy Ogletree won. He was kind of getting blown out. the 36-hole finale. U.S. Amateur is, you know, one of the coolest tournaments. Jack Nicholas, I think, still considers, like, his couple of U.S. Amateur titles, major championships.

So just to kind of show you how, you know, what high of a level the best players ever regard the U.S. Amateur. Tiger Woods won three of them in a row, no big deal. Andy Ogletree, danger getting blown out of U.S. Amateur, came back, beat John Augustine, two and one. They played the number four course and the number two course. The number four courses, the new one down of players, not new, but Gil Hats came in recently and renovated the whole thing.

First time they've done two different courses for the U.S. Amateur. So that one's obviously a little bit more fun, a little bit more playable. That kind of deal. And the number two was the U.S. open course that they finished up there. They'll look at some of those highlights and some of that footage with Pinehurst. We keep saying it. It's my number one resort that I want to get through now in America that I've never been to. It looked fantastic on TV.

A lot of cool drama with those guys playing for such a big deal. And, yeah, that's pretty much all I got for the show. Boys, anybody got anything else? No, I think that's going to do it. Paul Hosler got his card back, a little FYI. Shout out to Bill. Really? Lurch's body doppelganger.

That's good. And then the other thing I saw was Matthew Fitzpatrick's brother made the Walker Cup. Oh, yeah. So congrats to him. He doesn't look anything like Matthew Fitzpatrick. Nothing. No. Not even remotely like you.

It just looks nothing like him. It just looks like you. Okay. That's all I got, though. No, I feel like I look like Matthew Fitzpatrick when I look like the brother, but people have to look that up. Yeah, well. Rick's best luck today. I actually wanted to bring up a story.

Okay. Not to bring it back to my birthday. But, you know, it was my birthday. Shut the fuck up. Let me tell a story. It was my birthday last week, August 13th, Tuesday. Thank you to everyone that said, happy birthday to me. I did all these things.

Want to see Harry Potter. You got to go see the play. It's unreal. I didn't realize that thing's a two-day thing. Well, it was an all day. thing. So you go at 2 o'clock. Well, you could do Saturday and Sunday, but we did the all-day Sunday. You go at 2 o'clock. It ends at 5. You go and get dinner. You come back at 7.30 and it ends at 10. It's an insane. It's an experience.

All right. Keep going. And you know, you're getting text messages and stuff for your birthday. And, you know, sometimes like, sometimes messages come through and like you don't have the number saving your phone and shit. So you like to say thanks or whatever. But this one message came through from a guy that I knew. and the name was TJ. It goes, happy birthday, man. And to my knowledge, TJ was my girlfriend's friend from home.

Like, like a guy that I've known for a long time, six years, seven years. I've known this guy. TJ, he just wished me. He goes, happy birthday, man. And he wrote, Can't wait to see you at Stephen's wedding. Now I said,

now what the fuck? I have a cousin, Stephen, that's getting married. And I said, how the fuck does TJ know about Stephen's wedding? Yep. And why is he going? because like there's absolutely no there's no relation there at all so i'm actually with adam i'm like what now i'm like now now why is t j telling me he can't wait to see me at stephen's wedding she goes what so i wrote back uh thanks man appreciate that and who's stephen because maybe he thinks it's like

a friend or something yeah and he goes um your cousin so i said so i go now what the fuck does that mean right so i said to him uh so i go to adam i'm like can you look up this number i said can you see if this is t j make sure it's t j make sure it's t j so she's typing in the number and like she it's all matching up until like the last three numbers it just disappears like t j's number now disappears so i said who the fuck have i been talking to for the last three years dude i look back at our messages we had conversations for years you think it's somebody else i thought it's t j for years i mean i'm talking messages forever I mean, I look back and I said, dude, there was a...

So you've never met up with this person. Dude, so I'm talking. So I said, so if I said, holy shit, I think I've had the wrong number in here for the last couple of years. Who is this? And he goes, are you kidding me? He goes, I'm your cousin Steven's like friend Joey. And I'm like, and I met Joey a couple times. I mean, no, me and Joey are like, we know each other to the point where he was wishing

a happy birthday. But like, some of the things I've said to TJ, I would never. say to Joey at one point at 1230 at night on a September last year. TJ's family was over Hannah's house and I wrote to now Joe. I wrote, get your ass over to the Rowans right now. So, and he wrote back, boy, that sounds fun, but I'm going to have to miss this one. Now thinking back, like he got a random ass text list from me. Like, who the fuck of the row?

Number one, who are the fuck of the Rowans? And why is Frankie saying I got to get my ass there? Dude, like, I remember seeing him, TJ one time. The actual TJ shows up. You're like, so glad you could make it. He said, what the fuck you're talking about? Dude, TJ and I were, like, together once, and we were talking about, like, a porn star, I think.

And I was like, and I messaged him, like, you got to check out Janice. This girl that I went to high school with is Janice Griffith. I went to high school with this chick. Janice Griffith, super famous porn star. Yeah. Very famous. And I'm like, yeah. And he's like, uh, and he wrote like, can't, like, I'm like, uh, and he wrote like,

Can't like I'll check it because I can't wait You're giving a random guy Ports on a movie show like Can't wait like can't wait to check that shit out Holy shit and it's just It was just a wrong dude the whole time Years That can only happen to you Frankie

Yep It can only happen to you And just to finish it off me and Trent had a hell of an experience on the plane I know we talked about our Things I can't talk about it I can't talk about it Dude the fuck I can't

We gotta go We gotta go We'll save it for next time I can't Anyway no we don't have to get into it the guy you're going to leave it like that we'll get into it next time the flight attendant at one point goes go to sleep close your eyes and on the plane that's what we dealt with so that's just a little taste of what we had to deal with on the way home from uh from the trip all right that's a teaser we'll get the

whole story next time yep all right that's gonna do it all right boy hit it hard hit it hard hit it hard