Fore Play - Valspar Championship Week 2017 w/ Smylie Kaufman

Episode Date: March 7, 2017

Live from Sawgrass, Riggs and Trent recap their round at the famous course, talk to Smylie Kaufman about rule changes, The Masters, and Spring Break, and build the perfect golfer. Plus, Riggs' anonymous source looks to bounce back with some hot picks!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

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I can't either. That is shocking. We're coming to you live remotely for the first time from Pana Vida Beach, Florida. That's probably shocking to some of you. It's true. We played TBC Sawgrass today. We're now chilling, went by the clubhouse,

recorded a little bit at the hotel a little bit. We're just kicking it in Pada Vida Beach, Florida. That's what golf guys do. We're now just kicking it in the hotel room. It's different. It's different, but I like it. It's very different. We got invited down by the PGA tour.

Huge thanks to the PGA tour for trusting guys like us. Skeptical but optimistic. We love it. It's nice, Trent. It's about 70 degrees out, I feel like. We got the windows open. Yep. So we left New York.

What was it? Sunday night. It was about 23 degrees when we left. Fly down to Florida. 70 degrees. Could not be more perfect. Got off the plane. took off our sweatshirts

gotten to our Jeep shout it to our Jeep our rental car Jeepin been jeeping all weekend couple guys jeeping and we got an olive green

Jeep and olive green Jeep and we were we had this discussion at the car rental place we don't like car rental places when they tell you all right

now we're going to go look at the options you have just tell us what car to take very weird we did like a walk up and down the aisle and she showcased this is the enterprise rental car

person showcased the different vehicles like it was an auction. It's like just give me something with four wheels that's going to get me to the hotel so I can sleep. It was straight out of the Seinfeld where it's, you know, we have the reservation. Just give us the car that we made the reservation for and we're going to get that out of here.

I even said I would rather have someone when I go to a restaurant pick the meal that I'm going to eat. Just tell me. I need direction. That's all I need. Don't tell them. Don't give me 50 cars that I'm going to be able to take. Just show me the one I'm going to take and let me be on my way.

So we ended up in an olive green Jeep today this whole week. We played sawgrass this morning. Phenomenal course. Unbelievable. Very, very cool to be serious for a minute to play an iconic course like that. That's that iconic with the holes 17, the finishing stretch, 16, 17, and 18. Even some of the other holes. We were starstruck coming up to a bunch of the T-boxes from playing the video game so many times.

That was the thing, which on the front night. Which seems like a weird reference point, and you can see the look on the face of the people. that you're like these guys are idiots when you're like I've seen this on the video game but when it's your only reference point and it's true like you've seen these on the video game so there's no other place to pull from it's incredible to see it in person

we had so much fun it was unbelievable from having played hundreds of rounds of Tiger Woods PG at Tor golf that I could look off the tea and it's kind of blind and Pete Dyes got all those bunkers out there and you can't really see beyond the bunkers but I know what's up there. Oh yeah even though I've never been there before I know exactly what's up there

I know when my ball's in the air, if it's going to be good, if it's going to be bad. Pretty wild feeling. Very, very cool to play a lot of those iconic courses. Huge thanks again to the PGA Tour for having us. We're kicking it right in their backyard right now. Right now, we drove right by their headquarters. The headquarters are right outside of TPC Sawgrass. And we kind of went into it today.

We wanted to be serious because we wanted to make a good impression. And we also just said, just have fun. Just go out there and have fun. And I think we did that. It's tough when you're in New York. It's 20 degrees out. And then you, you know, you don't play golf for months. Yep.

And then all of a sudden, oh, go play TBC Stargrass. They just had a bunch of renovations. So we were under the just have fun mentality. Both had some really good holes, actually. Yeah. We had some horrific holes. Oh, there were a couple bad ones. Many people are saying that my swing isn't great.

That's okay. It's a work in progress. The haters and losers of which there are many have been attacking your golf swing all day. On Twitter. I played better than I thought I was going to. Like we're being honest. People are sending me messages, not even tagging you, being like Trent fucking sucks. And it's like, actually, I agree with you.

You hit the ball significantly better than I thought. You hit it. Like your swing is your swing. Yeah. You hit it very consistently. Here's what's not getting through. And I agree. You look at my swing.

Some of the Snapchat's we did. Not great. But I can put it out there. I've been playing with that swing for years now. So I'm kind of used to it. And I play better than it looks. I would tell you that much. There were several times today, for those that know the course, I think the fifth hole,

which is one of the hardest par fours on the course. You made, you know, I look up, you're kind of putzing around on the green. All of a sudden, like two putts, you tap in. I'm like, oh, what was that, trench? Just a bogey. Like, nice two-putt bogey. Yeah. On a really, really hard hole.

I believe you did that on seven as well, if I'm getting my numbers right. And then several on the back nine where you just had pretty simple two-putt boge. And I'm like, well, somebody that I thought is, you know, people, you know, Many people would think that you're incapable of, like, getting out of bed in the morning. True. Based on their responses to some of the subject. I thought you played pretty well, Trent. Yeah, a couple pars, a couple of bogies.

A couple disaster holes. But if you don't have a disaster hole at TBC Sawgrass, then you, I mean, you should be playing on tour. My first tee shot went in the water. First of all, I don't even think that water is really in play. I get kind of a wipey, you know, loser. Swipe, swing on the first tea, into the drink on the right, made double. I do want to say on 17, very proud of myself, I went over the green. You did, which is a good way to go.

Yeah, pretty sick, actually. My brother, I told that my brother, I texted him. Yeah. He's like over? That's pretty sick. Because at a place like Sawgrass, we said it all day. Don't cheat yourself. Don't cheat yourself.

If you're going for the island green, you would much rather go way over and get your money's worth than short it like I did like three times. So it was back pin, for those that don't know. Back pin. It was probably four paces off from the back. And I hit, I pulled a nine iron. It's, you know, 140 or something like that, 135. Yeah. Is what it was, what the caddy said it was playing.

Tiller, Tillis. Tillis. Tillis. Our guy Tillis. Our caddy. Tillis was like, yeah. Yo, Rigsie, it's about a 140 shots. Like, all right. I'm kind of in between pitching wet, nine iron.

Roped a nine iron, which in hindsight was probably a mistake. Right at the flag. One hop. See you later. In the drink. Made double. Hit pulled pitching wedge second time. Anyway.

Great track. great track great to be down here we were saying i i backed off my shot and my first time it was like i don't think i've ever been like legitimately nervous with just a nine iron in my hand it's insane when we were walking up 16 i was walking up 16 with tillis and i kind of was just like playing whatever not really paying attention he's like oh there it is and i was like oh shit and i turned around and i was starstruck by just a piece of land and then you even said like you said on the you're nervous. That's the first time I've ever been nervous really on a golf course.

And you know that's the only thing anyone's going to ask you. How did you hit the green? I know. No, I did not. No, I did not. Moving on, greenskeeping. We have a winner, folks. It's now March.

This is the first time that we've recorded in the month of March. We have a green jacket. Winner. Winner, winner. Geiger, I believe is his name. Geiger wrote, his headline was, misleading podcast name, his review, which was five stars, by the way, his review, he wrote, signed up to get better at sex, but ended up being a four handicapped.

Boom. Boom. That's all it takes. That made me and Riggs laugh out loud for like five minutes when we first read it. We've talked about it every week. Like, oh, who do we think is in good shape here? And every time we've read it, I laugh out loud. Yeah, and that's all it takes.

We mean, give us good segment ideas, give us this, give us that. But if you just make Riggs and I laugh and it stands out, that's going to win you a green jacket every time. He's got a green jacket on the way. Quick reminder, go to 4Play on iTunes, subscribe, leave a review every single month. If you leave the best review, we are the ones that deem and determine what's the best review. You will win a green jacket. Such an exclusive club. Now there's four of them out now. Four. It's you, me, Rob's gigantic jacket. Rob didn't get one. Rob just got one. Yeah, they sent like one too many and one of them, it's got to be a triple. X-L and Rob is a bean pole.

He weighs like 90 pounds and he's 6'3 unbelievable. He is sneaky tall. He is sneaky tall. Rob is very sneaky tall. And we can talk shit about him because he's not here to defend himself right now. Yeah, make sure you bleep this part out, Rob. All right, moving on. WGC, Mexico Championship. What a tournament. What a tournament. This is the thing for people who say golf is boring, golf is boring. If you watched golf this weekend, especially Saturday,

and still thought that, you can go fuck yourself because this was so much fun. And everybody thought that. Club de Golf Chapultec thing in Mexico City was phenomenal. I loved it. The greens really firmed up the last two days. That round, that Saturday round with Phil, with Rory, not really running away with it, bringing a lot of people in the mix. DJ with the early charge, you came out, Eagle Birdie.

Yep. JT's whole one, the Saturday round was unbelievable. Yeah, and for the casual fan, like the leaderboard itself with Justin Thomas, Ray McElroy, Dustin Johnson, if you can look at that, it's just like, this is so much fun, and it was such a tight race. And like you said, the greens firmed up, some of the bounces from the greens were insane. Something like I've never seen before, and you could even see the players were a little bit flustered with it. Yeah.

But it was still fun. It's hard enough when you've got to use the altitude. That's all we heard about all week. Altitude altitude. We heard altitude and city center. I still, yeah, city center, every pot. They just talked about the city center. And the city center is on this side and the city center is on this side.

I guess everything breaks towards city center. That's all those people do. I still don't get the elevation altitude thing. I was under the impression that elevation is how far above you are sea level and altitude is how far above an object is from the ground. So you could be at 8,000 feet elevation. but you can only be at one foot altitude if you're one foot off the ground. Anyways, I don't know.

My brother texts me that again. He's kind of my source on a lot of these things. Altitude elevation, whatever the fuck you want to call it. The guys were absolutely piping the ball. Justin Thomas's hole in one was a 232 yard hole and he hold it. And it's hard enough when you've got to deal with the altitude elevation thing that then you've got the firming up green. So guys are trying to judge it.

It was wild. It's like you're throwing like a ball. as high as you can at cement floors. It was absolutely crazy. Phil's round on Saturday. He somehow shot a three under 68. He hit four fairways. He had multiple sprinkler ahead from the tree hedges drops.

Rory, who played with Phil, said afterwards, Phil wrote his luck out there. Geez, if I was hitting it off the tee like he did today, there's no way I would shoot 68. That's a great thing about Phil. He doesn't get disheartened about. something like that. I would be a mess if I was hitting it that way the way he was today.

I guess that's the difference between us. I like to see it going down the fairway and playing nice that way where he goes like this, rent the sea sideways and shoots two better than me. So there you go. I don't have the Phil quote, but after the round, Phil said he was embarrassed by how much he sprayed it around. I mean, he was, it was unbelievable where he was hitting the golf ball. And then he was 300 par.

300 par. Unbelievable. high as in it and he was getting some of the most insane reliefs I've ever seen. He was hitting it into the woods and he would somehow find the one sprinkler head that's probably 300 years old that nobody has hit in a thousand years and

the fool official would have no choice would be like yeah I guess that's a relief. And it was great too because they had the mic right there and you could hear Phil being like I know this looks bad. I know this looks bad. I'm telling you man this is what I'd be doing. This is coming right after a hole where Phil hits his ball off the reservation.

I mean, all of a different property goes over there. There's no ball, and they're just like, oh, yeah, Spectator picked it up. Gets a free drop on like a T-box. I have never seen anything like that, where it's just one, all it takes is one person to say, I saw someone pick it up. And it's like you're saying, it wasn't in the woods. Someone was just like, oh, I happen to find it on this perfectly manicured T-box. And there's, oh, wow, there's a window towards the hole.

Here you go, Phil. It was wild. The whole round was wild. Phil ended up, I believe, seven. inch T-7-ish. So another top 10. He's been playing well. With all that said, he still has it won since 2013,

which, as people like to point out, is longer than since the last time. Tigers won. Phil's due, though. Phil is playing so well this year that he's going to run it into one. It's just going to happen. We had a bunch of other stuff from the tournament. We obviously had JT,

whole-in-one, throwing clubs, his reaction to shots, which has been well documented across the internet at this point, golf Twitter. Yeah. His reactions are phenomenal. This is kind of Justin Thomas's coming out year. Yeah.

I mean, everybody knows about him because of the spring break thing, but he's already won three times. He's been in contention a bunch of times. Now he's making hole in ones off of ginormous bounces. He's animated. He's this, he's that. I like J.T. I got J.T. I love J.T.

I got him at an early price for the Masters. Thanks to our anonymous DM source. Speaking of our anonymous DM source, a tough week for old Rigsie in the gambling realm. You can't win them all. And here's the thing. Speeth at least made an interesting for him because it was Speeth and Woodland, right? Those were his picks.

Yep. And Speath shot a 63 on Saturday to pull within three shots of the leader. Obviously, Calfather didn't come through this week, but you can't win five in a row. There were a lot of, many people were pointing out, too, that Calfather did say, I always only take two golfers, but if I had to take four, between Dustin Johnson, Speath, J.T. Woodland. So he was right there A bunch of different people were like

I took all four and I made money Yep So I didn't I went I did the classic no-no And I tried to hedge Slash went a little bit of money by going Ham on Rory

After Friday's round I got emotional I got impulsive Rory shit the bed on the weekend Not a terrible play Despite Roy coming back for the first time In six weeks after a rib injury He played fucking well

He played well as flat stick, you know, let him down a little bit. I believe it was on Friday when he shot a 65 and he lost, I think, two and a half strokes. Yeah. In strokes gained with the flat stick. So that's classic gory. You know, he always hits the ball well. We had a couple interesting John Rom, obviously youngster right up there. He finished T3 along with Ross Fisher.

A couple of people were pointing out some interesting notes. Ross Fisher, you could see him really grinding down the stretch. He was fist-pumping. I saw him Barry, his final holeout on 18 on Sunday, he's fist-pumping. Important to note, he's now up to number 55 in the official World Golf rankings, top 64, make it into World Golf Championship match play, and the top 50 on March 27th make it into the Masters. So just a little note that, hey, even if you're not winning the tournament, you know you're not winning the tournament, you're a couple strokes back, the shit matters. Yeah, and that's a Ross Fisher, that's the type of situation where it's fun to root for. Obviously, we talk about Rory, we talk about Dustin Johnson.

We talk about Justin Thomas. These guys are all, they've got it made in the shade. But a guy like Ross Fisher, he's kind of the underdog, and it's fun to see stories like that. Yeah, it was nice to see him out there in, like, mid-2000s Nike gear as well. Oh, oh, everybody should wear that. Why does not, why does everyone not wear that? It was good to see. It was really good to see.

I had an interesting night, Saturday night. This is sober Rigsie talking. This is sober Rigsy. I'm just hanging. I didn't go out. I tried it the weekend before where I went to the bar with a bunch of you guys. I'm not sure if you were there. I was with somebody.

No, we went out. There was the same night we were in separate spots. Two different groups. It didn't work for me. It seemed to work for you. You went out and had like 2,000 waters. Yeah, I went home. I stayed out and had 2,000 Jameson shots.

Decided I couldn't do that again this week. So I hung out in my apartment. I turned on the golf channel because it's just the first thing that comes on by default. And lady golf's on. LPGA tour. I think it was HSBC women's champions over in Singapore. Okay. It's like 11 p.m.

midnight on Saturday. All of a sudden I see my girl, Brooke Henderson, 19-year-old Canadian chick. Mm-hmm. Love Brooke. She won one of the majors last year. They have like 100 majors on the LPGA tour. She won one of them last year in heroic fashion.

And I think she took down World Number 1 Lydia Coe in doing it. Could be wrong on that. I don't know. I'm not, my lady golf history isn't that phenomenal. We didn't prep for that. But I do believe that's correct. We did not. Anyways, I turn it on.

The leaderboard was stacked for women's golf. Michelle Wee, Brooke Henderson, M.B. Park was up there. There's some other big names that are, I can't really pronounce him, but they're always up there. It was wild. So I started tweeting about it. Turns out Brooke Henderson's agent, big fan of the podcast. Shout out to him. Emails me.

Might have to have Brooke Henderson on here. That'd be great. I'm not opposed to having LPJ players on at all. No. And it could be a very interesting perspective, I think. definitely. Always like seeing Michelle, we in the mix. Yep. She's supposed to be the big star in the game. I saw something where Brando Shambly was going nuts about her being the

biggest star in the game, defending it, saying she is. Hard to really disagree with that. Oh, shout out to Brando Shambly. We also didn't prep for this. News came out that he said he blocked. He has 20,000 people blocked on Twitter. I'm always stunned at people that have a ton of people blocked on Twitter. How do you care that much? Here's, I don't, I think I go the other way with it. I don't care that he has people blocked, but I do care that he blocked them as opposed to muting them. Because when you block, when you mute people, they don't know it. But when you block people, we've all done it.

Brandel's the kind of guy that wants you to know that you're blocked. He thinks it's like, he thinks it's him like slapping you. That's true. You know, in reality for trolls, that's like, I got to him. He had to block me. I win. He doesn't get that. That's true.

I didn't think about it that way. Brandel is that tough. I just thought that number is staggering. We don't have to talk much about it. Just a staggering number from Brandel. Anyway, thank God that my sports book didn't have the LPGA tour golf up because I would have not been on NB Park. She ended up getting on Fuego with the putter, kind of one going away. It was a little disappointing.

But a little shout at the LBGA. Might have to have Brooke Henderson on. Might have to have Michelle We on. Who knows? We're not opposed to it. Did you ever think you'd find yourself at a point in your life where you're hanging out on a Saturday night just watching LPGA stuff completely sober? Oh, I've done it before. Okay.

Yeah. Not completely sober, probably. but I've come home before at, you know, some crazy hour. They play a ton of tournaments over there now because so many of their top players are Asian. Yeah. And so I've watched a couple, you know, a couple of degenerate LPGA tour. Any drama and golf, I'm into it. Me too.

Anything. I don't care who the fuck it is. But you were tweet up a storm. You were, this sober rigs is just on top of it at all times. You know, there's nothing else to do on Saturday or everybody else out drinking. There are a couple people going to the distance with me. They're invested, you know, we were. cursing the NB Park a little bit.

So it was a good time. Good time. Going from L-PGA tour, back to the PGA tour. Phenomenal interview here. Our boy, this is somebody we've been trying to get for several weeks now. Always knew we would. Always know that, you know, he's a friend of barstool, a friend of the type of stuff that we do. Yep.

Smiley Kaufman. Good 30 minutes with him. Phenomenal interview. Our longest interview yet, but it's worth it. So, yeah. Really, really good. Great dude. Everybody enjoyed this interview with Smiley.

Smiley Kaufman. All right. Now we are joined by one of our favorites, somebody we've been trying to get on, and we're very happy to have on. Smiley Coffman, Smiley, how's it going? Doing very well, guys. Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, absolutely. Like I said, Trent and I, you know, we've been big fans ever since about this time last year. You know, you kind of hopped onto the scene, and we're pumped to have you on. Yeah, it's a very cool podcast, obviously, for golfers. And obviously, you know, I love bar still.

and I love golf. So it's kind of, you know, it fits the bill pretty nicely. That's what we like to hear. Yeah, you were on, you and Ricky were on part of my take. What was that, like a month ago now? It was the beginning of the year. So either a month, a half ago, something like that. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, no, that was a good interview. We enjoyed that. And, yeah, like I said, we're pumped to have you. Where, first of all, where are you at right now? Where are you talking to us from? Birmingham, Alabama, Holmes. Home just chilling here for a couple more days and playing Tampa next week.

So just had some storms roll through. So today was kind of just a hangout, chill, get the body right day. Classic Alabama, because we talked to Willie Wilcox a couple weeks ago, and he was, like, dodging tornadoes. Yeah, definitely. We've been on a tornado watch here for one and I think we're good. That's interesting. I've never been down to Alabama.

I did not think you guys got that many tornadoes. Well, I don't think we'd get on him. It's just we're under the watch. I don't know. So we got to ask, since you're a Birmingham, Alabama guy, you went to LSU. What's up with that? It's pretty easy. Both my mom and my dad both played on the LSU golf team, and my granddad went to LSU.

So it was a pretty easy decision because I pretty much grew up a big-time LSU fan and just always lived in Birmingham. So it was, you know, just it's kind of odd. There's somebody from Alabama going down to LSU. But for me, it was a very easy decision. Makes sense. So we got to ask, we kind of touched on a little bit before we started recording, but the big news today in golf, the rule changes. You know, some people are for them, some people are against them.

I believe they're just kind of floating them right now to see, you know, what the feedback and all that's going to be. Some things are pretty drastic. Very curious to kind of see how you feel about them. Well, I haven't read all of them. You're going to have to kind of go over them or whatever. I remember seeing a couple that I was a little kind of whatever about. But I think they – I mean, how many proposed rules changes that they released?

I think there were about 12 of them. Yeah, and there were the main ones – I kind of went through a couple of different articles, and they're all highlighting the same ones. A couple of the main ones were on the greens where, you know, you can kind of fix any spike marks. You can leave the flag. That's terrible. I think, I mean, that's a part of the game. Because, I mean, you can have a guy.

If you got a four-footer to win, you can just tap all of your whole line all the way down. I mean, it's just so, there's so much that you can kind of, it's just, it's kind of an open-ended, you know, rule there. You can kind of do whatever you want is basically the way I read that. Yeah, I mean, I agree. But the game of golf, I don't, I disagree with. It sounded wild, and they did, they were saying, I guess, in hazards now, you can just ground your club. That's terrible, too. If you hit in a hazard, you should be penalized.

Don't hit it there. And it's a hazard. You know what I mean? It's just doesn't make any sense. I mean, you shouldn't be able to move things. Like, let's say you're up against a rock and like a big rock in a hazard. You shouldn't be able to move that. I mean, that's.

I totally agree. It's a hazard. You know, I think rocks and bunkers and stuff like that, I think that's something. and you should be able to move stuff in bunkers. You know, I agree with that. I don't know if, do they have anything changes to, like, the red yellow hazards? Because everything should be red hazard.

I don't know if they changed that. It sounded like they were going more towards that. I did see that the drop rule now is you can basically drop it if there's, like, any error between you dropping it and the ground. Yeah, the way they made it sound was you could just like, you, the way they made it sound was instead of having to just drop it from a, a high distance, you could get as close to the ground basically as you can and just drop it right there. As long as there's a little air in between. Oh, that's so stupid.

No. I mean, it makes it so much easier. I think that's the, like, I dropped into a divot this year. I think it's like, I mean, it's a challenge. It's like a, it's hard to, you know, it's a very strategic thing you got to do to get the right drop. I spend more time trying to figure out where to drop it than. that I do to play most of my other shots

because you're trying to get the right spot. You know, it's important to end up getting the right number and the right typically you're dropping in the rough. So for me, it's always like, all right, make sure we get in a good spot here. Yeah, I agree. I mean, because guys like us, and we take a million fucking drops every time we play golf.

And that's a big part of the drop. It's like knowing, oh, there's a couple divvets there. If I drop it from here on this side slope, it should miss those. Like, that's a big part of my game. Yeah. Well, honestly, it should be pro rules on, like, and then, like, an amateur rule book or something. Because, you know, there's just a lot of it.

But does Amherers really need, like, a rule book? Like, if you're going out and playing on the weekend, like, you're just going out to hang out, play golf, you have a good time, drink some beer or something. And, like, all you should care about is, like, how far a game he is and, like, what's max score? Exactly. And that was, like, that was their motivation behind it was they want to make it easier for the Amher amateur golfer, just let the amateurs do whatever they want. Like you, I mean, unless they're playing completely,

uh, if you don't bring up like amateur golf, like in general, because that's obviously people can misinterpret what I'm saying, but just amateurs that are just playing just for fun. Right. I think amateur golf obviously should play under the same guidelines as professional golf or any junior golf or any competitive part of golf should play under the same as the top pros do. I think that's the state exactly the same.

But who cares? Like, if you're just going to have fun, like, I mean, what does there need to be changed besides just, like, simple things? Like, what one of your buddies is going to say, oh, you didn't drop it? It's showing me like high, you know? Yeah, I was going to say if you're playing with a group, if, like, those rules affect you when you play on the weekends, you're playing with the wrong guys. You were absolutely playing with the wrong dude.

you're in the wrong fourth of them. You need to go join a new group or just change clubs because that's not a cool club. Yeah, we were kind of laughing from when you guys are on PMT too, and they asked you about like, you know, rule Nazis and guys like that. And you were like, man, when we play with each other, we take the most generous jobs in the world. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what Dick had or PFT know about golf, but I don't think it's a whole lot. No, I don't think it is either.

I mean, I think they're hockey guys, and I don't think golf is even on their radar, but they're obviously winning as hell, so you just never know what they're going to say. Oh, yeah, those guys are great. So let's get a little bit into your history. Let's go back to the Shriders Hospital Open 2015. You're kind of October 2015. You're new on tour, your young guy coming off web.com. All of a sudden, here you are in Vegas.

take us through a little bit of that kind of getting your first win and all that yeah it was cool love that it seems like forever it seems like forever ago you know it was it was one of the days that you know i think i was one under through seven and and birdie's nine out of my last 11 holes or 12 holes however whatever that adds up and uh just got on a heater man and i can't really explain it and just kind of everything everything lined up I was able to hold the punt in a goal and get all the right shots. And I got lucky that nobody got to the same number I was at and avoided a playoff off and, you know, got in Augusta and it's kind of all from there.

And, you know, it was pretty surreal. I, you know, being in Vegas, it's such a cool place to win. Yeah, we're definitely going to ask about that. Here you are. In Vegas, you win like $1.1 million. That sounds like a good time. And I didn't do it. I didn't do it hard on anything because I was.

just like in shock I had my girlfriend there and they gave us like this sweet pad at uh I think it was like the Palms Hotel like this like unbelievable sweet top four like the jacuzzi outside overlooking the strip

you know obviously it would probably been different if she would have been there because it would have been like all right let's go like let's go drink as much you can yeah buddy there we go but like it was

you know her there. It was just nice, just kind of unwind and just kind of figure out what just happened. Yeah, I've had a couple nights at the palms. It's not, it's, I haven't been in the top suite, but I've been at the palms. It's, you know, it's nice. It's real nice. Yeah, you know, I think it would, it all, if I had to do it over again, I'm done exactly the same. It was such a, just, you know, when you win your first PJ tour venue, you just kind of want to soak it in, and I was able to kind of take a deep breath and figure out what, what happened. So it was, it was nice having her there. It was fun kind of just it was pretty cool it was pretty cool night so like you said you know that gets

you into the master's um so master's week just to kind of start it off you know what's uh what's your whole arrangement like there you're getting like a house you with some buddies you with family yeah typically i got two houses i got a house uh rented a house for myself my swing teacher my caddy and then I got another house for they're pretty small houses I said house I mean they were pretty small It's all right let people's imaginations run wild

Yeah you're staying in a couple of castles in Augusta Yeah So I got the other house for my parents And my girlfriend's parents So we were just kind of separating it too And just trying to keep it as You know Normal as simple as possible

You know we go to the course And then they cook dinner We go eat at their house and go home go do it all over again. It was a fun week. Yeah, I mean, you've got to be jacked up. You know, you're finally there. You made it.

You're playing at the Masters. What's like, what's the early part of the week, you know, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday? What are those days like? Are you like nervous or shit? Are you kind of like, are you in awe of like what you, I mean, you've been watching the tournament forever. Now you're there. Well, I did a bunch of preparation for that, for that event. So I probably went four or five different trips to play and learn the golf course.

felt pretty acclimated to the piece of property that, you know, you kind of know where you're going, what's expect and all that. So I was, that didn't overwhelm me at all. I was probably more just overwhelmed at how many people were out there during the practice rounds. Because typically that's like, I mean, you don't catch many guys that are just like, you know, in Sunday form on a Monday. So, like, that was a little tougher, like when you, you know, like, you don't want to embarrass your And I remember I was like on 15 on Monday.

It's a really tough little chippy, like a tough little wedge shot from like I was like just in front of the pond like 70 yards kind of like front pin. And you know, you got to hit like a pretty good little shot to get some spin on it to get it to stop near the hole. And I completely laid the side like middle of the water and I was just like so embarrassed. I was like, oh my God, get me out of here. That's great. But I got more comfortable as I went. Like Wednesday, part of three was awesome just for kind of relaxing and plays with Jack Johnson.

And we had a good time. We both made a whole one one. And it was pretty cool day. That's fantastic. So Saturday, you know, you shoot 69. Obviously, like we said, you know, you haven't. So PFT, so PFT asked the same question just to give me to answer what I shot on Saturday. Of course.

Oh, she shot 69. And I didn't get it to laughter. And after the first round of the Sony this year, he tweets me, he says, Nice round, and I shot 69. P.F.T. is very subtle in that way. You'll get his jokes like an hour later, two hours later. I know. I'm just like, oh, my God. I get it.

I get it now. Yeah, he sits a couple of tests down for me, and he'll say something to me. I'll be like, ha, yeah, it's cool. And, like, on my way home, I'm like, oh, shit. I get it now. He's very witty. Yeah, so you shoot a 69 on Saturday. You're in the final group on Sunday.

What's that Saturday night like? What's your nerves? What's your nerves at? All my boys were kind of in town because obviously they all made the venture once. Pretty much they all were there anyways, but they all came back. So I went and one of my boys dated a girl in Augusta, and we went to their house and chilled and hung out. You know, if I would have done anything different, I'll probably just sort of throw them. my phone, like, in a toilet and just, like, just bought a new one the next week.

I was looking at my phone probably too much that night, and I wish I just kept a little more simple. But, I mean, it didn't make that much a difference. You just kind of, you don't really, you just kind of want to get away and just try to be your own, or just kind of start preparing mentally for the next day. I just don't think it is a great job. But anyways, I got, I won't grow up at 7 o'clock, so that was huge, getting that much sleep when you're in the final group.

the next day. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah, so we, so obviously you're out there. I'm really curious because, you know, obviously they didn't go how you wanted it to. Conditions were tough and all that, but at what point, I mean, what's the, what's kind of the feeling like the whole round? Because it wasn't like you came out and you like start making triples. I mean, you're, you're in it for the first, you know, eight, nine, ten holes. Yeah, I was, you know, at this point, I had a, like, a four-foot or a a lot of time you need to be pretty and I lifted out and made part. That was a, that was in a good opportunity to kind of set the tempo for the day. I made about a 10-footer on the next hole for Brady though.

So, you know, making that putt was huge. I felt like just to, you know, kind of tell myself that I was able to kind of make those putts that day. It was nice to make that one. And I was surprised I had such a bad putting day after seeing rolling a 10-footer in early in the round, even though I missed that four-footer. I probably put too much pressure on myself to make that first put because I knew how important it was. It kind of carried over the rest of the round just because you knew you had to make that pot

to kind of feel like you could, you know, you're right there in and send it a message. I'd say Jordan always had a putt before me on that front nine, and he pretty much made every single one. And I had to deal with, you know, having to make it right on top and deal with the crowds right after a big bank like that. that was a person like that little bastard that well i mean he's doing you got to do and uh and it's huge when you're able to make that pot and and get the get that kind of crowd noise and it kind of it's not rattle you per se but you're just not accustomed to you know having to regroup refocus yourself and get your mind right for your for what you got to do i don't think i did a great job that day of uh kind of recommitting to what you know just running my routine and my process

process and I kind of got a little out of my routine which is which caused me to hit too many timid pots on Sunday. So when things start to go kind of the way that you don't want them, what's the relationship between you and your caddy when things are going that way? You know, caddy's important when situations like that are happening. You know, it's very huge. You obviously, it's important to start to make some pars and it gets them easy to. pots because it's going to continue to get worse and worse the more and more you try to make

birdies and go after tough pins and kind of get away from the game plan, which is easy to do when you kind of start to make some bogeys. And I actually did a pretty good job. I felt like it doing that sick in my game plan. I hit a lot of really good shots on Sunday, and I just scored probably like that. like a 14 handicapped and that was that was the difference at all today just kind of just not doing the little things very well so we got to ask 12th hole you know you're out there you got a front row seat you make birdie Jordan yeah Jordan did not make birdie what's uh like what's the what's the

vibe kind of like there because you know we would all find out obviously a week or so after you guys are really good buddies and all that what's the vibe kind of like after you know you watch that whole go down. You know, you watch hit, I thought I was going to witness history of him winning that day and after 1-12 and then to witness kind of what happened. It was, it was tough to watch and I was, you know, obviously I was rooting for him and I really wanted to pull it off there at the end. And it was tough to watch, but, you know, we got up to the next T and I'm 13 and he asked me me and said it was a mirror you and it was like that's great

that's great yeah but like he had had the tea the whole day I was like yeah for like a split technique convinced me that it was his tea that's awesome sorry sorry there bud

yeah so then you know shortly after that obviously you got to bring it up all this aligns with our brand a lot everything that goes on spring break you know you guys are out having a good time I'm letting loose. You got some time off. You know, were you guys, I guess, are you guys just to kind of start off?

You guys, like, aware of the fact that the golf media people and all that are going to, like, freak out about it? In a good way or bad way? In a good way. I mean, I feel like it was just everywhere. It was, like, the only thing that was being covered in golf. Yeah. I can't remember what event was that week, but, like, there was a lot of traction coming from the Bahamas about in the golf world, for sure. Yeah, and it's just kind of, like I said, like we're not, are you guys out there?

You're just like, oh, we're just having fun, like taking some snaps with our phones, and next thing you know, it's everywhere? Yeah, pretty much. You know, Ricky, at that time, had a, you know, a bunch of probably followers on Snapchat and Justin had a good bit too. And then Ricky was, I think, kind of getting Justin dialed in with some more followers that week on Snap. And at that time, I wasn't public on Snapchat.

So it was basically all the snapschats are coming from from Ricky and Johnson during spring break. So it was, yeah, you know, it was fun. I enjoy it. It's kind of, kind of fits, you know, kind of my personality. I'm able to kind of be myself and have some fun. Yeah, I thought you were the MVP of that weekend. Oh, yeah, unanimous. It's not to my surprise.

at all. Yeah, it was unanimous. We were like, we need to go fucking party with Smiley immediately. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was fun. We need to get done. So what's, I mean, we got any crazy plans for 2017? Like, when do you guys start planning that shit, are you guys like trying to fly lower on the radar this year? What's the deal? I don't know, man. Let's find out. Oh, see? Playing real coy. I like it. I like that style. Yeah, that's, you know, we'll see, we might go, we might not go. Let's find out, huh?

Fair enough. I don't like that answer, but I understand it. If I told you anything, I mean, there's nothing for you guys to talk about. That's true. At least now, you can just, like, you can bullshit there for a little while, just talking about, oh, I wonder if they're going to go or not. Oh, you got us thinking, I like it. A little hype machine.

Yeah, so we'll see, I don't know. So speaking of like, very difficult schedule, so who knows we can. All right, now you're overdoing it. We get it. So speaking of kind of coverage, golf media, we're really curious. Just kind of in general, your thoughts on, you know, is there any way that, is there anything that golf media doesn't really cover that you guys wish they would cover more or something like that?

Because we've got all these resources. We're kind of like the younger guys jumping in with the podcast. It's doing well. We're kind of wondering, like, what are the golfers, what are the players kind of want to see the media focus on or cover better? It's a good question. When you asked them, nothing really stood out to me. I think some guys get frustrated when I think a lot of times we get frustrated with the media

trying to compare generations and compare players. But, I mean, there's really not LC not a whole lot of. as you can talk about, I guess. But that can be just kind of, you know, kind of annoying after a while listening to people talk about, you know, comparing Jordan to Tiger, Tiger to Nicholas. Like, I mean, it's like the same thing you're in the NBA with, like, LeBron and Michael.

It's just like you'll never know. Right. Well, and I think that's like what they depend on. They'll never know so they know they can talk about it forever. Which is fair. and you'll always have people listen. So I guess that's, I mean, that's completely awesome. No, nothing really came up.

I think for the most part they do, you know, a really good job covering, you know, our sport. And for the most part, most media members have been absolutely fantastic to me and nothing but nice. So I have really nothing that stands out for me. Do you guys, I'm curious when those guys like Farity on those types of guys or, you know, on course late in the tournament, especially on, like, Sunday. Are those on course guys, like, how much access to those guys have?

I feel like Farity's like, yeah, I've already, like, checked out the line and touched the golf ball, basically, every time. Well, you don't ever, well, you see them. Like, you'll see them, you see them more on Thursday, Fridays than you do. Like, with PJ Tour lives, they're always just kind of at the very end of the greens and stuff. And just, you almost, you see them after every hole, just, it seems like. You see them every hole, but you don't really notice because they check it out by the time you're not even up there. So when you get to your ball at the fairway, they're already at the green. So you don't ever really notice.

And if you're playing well, you definitely don't notice. Like, that's the last thing you're thinking about. That makes sense. Okay, so we do one of our segments we always do on the podcast, we call it from the gallery. We just take, like, random, you know, questions, submissions, issues. whatever the hell people have, like normal dudes that just go out and golf have with their buddies. One guy emailed in and was like, hey, we have a rule with our guys. If you kill an animal on the golf course during the course of play,

with a golf ball, you have to eat it. Have you ever killed an animal like during golf? I have not. That's an unbelievable rule. You see, that's you not hitting an animal on the course is normal, but we had this we talked about on the podcast. and like hundreds of people send in stories about how they kill animals on the golf course.

Well, I mean, I'm not going to be aiming at birds or anything like that. I'm not going to be aiming at anything because I don't want to, that would hate to just watch. If you accidentally hit something that's fine, like, but I'm not for like aiming at, except these like angry geese or whatever the thing for it's a high classic. Those things are the worst. Oh, yeah.

I love it. I love that. Smiley's like, do not kill animals except the fucking geese at the Honda Classic. Dude, those things are awful. I mean, they, they poop everywhere, number one, and then they don't, they, I mean, don't walk right at you. And if you don't get out of their way, they're going to come hiss at you and run at you. I mean, I watched one run after Luke Donald. He's in my group.

I was like, and so I took a club out of my bag. If he came on me, I was going to literally whack him. I was so tired of him. Oh, that's fantastic. Dude, you should have seen our Twitter mentions because we said the same thing. We were like, well, we've never really killed animals. I don't think that'll be a big deal. All of a sudden, people start sending us these, like, gruesome pictures of, like, dead pigeons and shit.

Every golf course. You don't want PETA after you. You don't want PETA. No, you don't. And that's the thing. These people are definitely not aiming at the birds. They just happened to hit them. But they still, they were a whole bunch of them.

Huh. That's wild. I haven't. I've been close to hitting, like, birds and stuff. But you actually never hit one. So that's it. We'll have to watch out for the angry geese. Kill them people if you got a chance. Don't tell. Peter. Definitely not.

Yeah. We'll finish up with what we always finish up with. Rapid Fire. We just got a couple questions that we ask real quick. Very simple. First one, what is your go-to curse word after a bad shot? I'm trying to play this in my mind. Just hitting a foul ball. Yeah. Yeah, what just comes out? You don't even think about it. It just happens. A low-key F-bomb would probably be it. Okay.

Yeah, I think it was Willie who said, you've got to be fist-fucking me. That's aggressive. When you got boom mics, you just got to know when you can get away with stuff. But, you know, you can get away with stuff under your breasts. If there's boom mics around, you can't even get away the whole lot. Yeah, are you, so are you aware when, like, the mics around you're like, all right, if I hit this bad, I can't say a bad word?

It's all about the situation. You typically know if you're going to be on. on TV or not. So you know when you got to act right or when you can kind of let one lose. All right. All right. Low-key f-bomb. I like that.

Next one. You don't want the kids either. It's all about the kids. That's smart. You're very classy. All right. What's your favorite beer? Natural white.

There we got, baby. We knew it. We tricked you. Well, we didn't trick it. We're going to say that. Ours, too. Ours, too. Yeah, I get some.

Natty. I love it. Oh, you gotta get. Thanks for the plug. Yeah. Oh, yeah. A little Natty. You're helping us. We're helping you. That's what it's all about. Yeah. It's people helping people. Yeah. All right. Last one. Who, if, hypothetical, if there's a spring break 2017, who will lose the most money? That's a good question. It just depends on who drinks us. Probably.

Is somebody in the group like a really good buzzed golfer? I feel like every group has one of those guys. Yeah, I agree with that. I'm okay. I'm not great. I'm not going to sit here and say I'm a world beater when I've had some drinks. But, you know, I've seen my brother. He's actually one of those guys.

He needs to drink to like to get his like for him not to get to get yips with the putter and he and he starts draining everything he's a he's a prime example of a very good drunk golfer yeah the props to luck uh so quick quick plug there with my row yeah we got a little natty light and we got your brother luck in there very nice yeah all right man well um dude we really appreciate it like i said Trent and I we're huge fans uh have been for a long time so we really appreciate you coming on yeah I appreciate it guys hopefully uh hope to come back and have some wins to talk about. So we'll come back on another time.

Yeah, we'll definitely, we'll stay in touch. We'll be rooting for you as we always have. And yeah, good luck out there. Keep it up. And hopefully we'll talk to you again soon. All right, boy, six time of me on. All right. That was Smiley Coffman.

Great dude. Really great dude. Phenomenal, phenomenal chat, good stories, as we expected. Really good to get that guy, maybe a little in into that crew. I don't know, smile. Maybe tell your boys. Yeah, let them know. So some interesting insight into how players feel about the new rule changes.

So that was a cool part of it. Yeah, that was nice. Yeah, we were kind of debating how to talk about those. Do we talk about it? Maybe we were going to make a video about it or whatever. The fact that those rules came out hours, a couple hours after we actually chatted with Smiley. Right. So we thought, we'll just throw it to him.

We weren't sure if he had read them all, which it kind of sounded like he hadn't dissected all of them. So we threw a couple at him, and he, you know, he reacted accordingly. Great chat with Smiley's in the field this week. week at the Valspar. Everybody go root them on. Hopefully gets that little four play bump. Now on to next segment from the gallery. The folks love this one.

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parts have been. The most interesting parts have been from the gallery. I'd say the funniest and the best parts because it's relatable. People like to talk about it. People like to hear about it. So yeah, send us all your stuff and we'll, like you said, we read it and we will, Maybe put it on the podcast. We got a couple this week. One guy posed what I think is a pretty interesting little hypothetical question. He says, if you could piece together the specific talents of individual golfers to create the ultimate golfer, whose talents would you put together? Let's say you pick the following four facets of the game, driving, irons, putting, and the clutch slash closing gene.

He says to keep it relevant, let's say any goals. golver in the last 10 years. Okay. Trent? How do we want to do this? I'll start with driving. I might shock some people with my pick here. Okay.

And it's not an olive branch. It's just how I felt when I started going through this. Driving, I would say Bubba. Wow. I would say Bubba. This is the thing about Bubba. And I don't want to harp on it every week. But Bubba, I should love Bubba because the way he plays golf is so much fun.

I love the way he drives the ball. He shapes it. whatever he wants to it. It's just I don't particularly like him outside the ropes for the way he treats gallery members, but him as a driver of the golf ball is almost unparalleled. You're feeling a little artsy right now, a little artistic. A little artistic, yeah. We have said that before when we did a little player feelings that on paper, Bobo should be very likable.

Yeah, he should be incredibly likable. And when he drives the golf ball, he doesn't only shape it and all that, he just hits it a mile. What about you? Interesting choice. I never saw that coming. You kind of blindsided me. To be honest with you, I'm a little distraught. Wow.

But I'm going to persevere. My driving guy, simple, very obvious. Dustin Johnson, I did a quick little search, averaging 316.2 yards off the T this year. That's second in driving distance on tour. Not only does it hit it far, I love that he hits it fucking straight. Yeah. Really straight. So hard for me not to go with DJ.

Yeah. he's the hot, you know, he's the hot player, whatever. I really don't care. I don't care about being cliche with that choice. If you give me one guy to stand on every T on any hole that requires a driver over the course of the year, I'm picking Dustin Johnson. Okay.

Irons, I go with Rory. Okay. My main reasoning is this. Yes, he's a great iron player. But I love his swing so much. I've said many times that if you just took aliens, And you drop them on the practice range of a PGA tour event. And you had them just walk up and down and say, point to what you like.

They would pick Roy McElroy and just go, that's what you do right there. That's fucking gorgeous. I think you're right. And since I didn't pick him in my driving, and I'm definitely not going to pick them for fucking punting. Shots fired. I had to put him somewhere. Irons Roy McElroy. So I think I might have screwed this one up.

I did short game wedges. I think I must have heard that wrong. Okay. But I picked for that, I picked Zach Johnson. Great choice. So, but if I had to go with the actual question, Iron, ball striking, I'd probably go Hendrik Stenson. Oh, he, I love the way he.

For whatever reason, he just hits the ball differently than everyone else, especially when he pulls out that three wood that he's got. Yeah. And I know we're not this, we're, now we're just talking about him as a ball striker. He just connects like nobody else connects. Yeah, he's that guy, too, that all the announcers, you know, Nick Fowl will be like, yeah, I was walking down. the range this morning and he just makes a different noise when he strikes the ball.

Yeah. Stenson's that guy. I played my three wood off the tee at TBC Sawgrass today a few times. No big deal. We played TPC Sawgrass. And it was because of Henrik Stenson the way he hits the ball. I looked over you on the range and you were just trying to pick three woods clean off the turf. Yeah. And I was like, you know, Trent, maybe I put that on a tee.

Get a little confidence going for the round. But I didn't know you had a little stinson in you. I got a little, I tried to have a little stenson in me. I really like him. Not a bad idea. also you're looking in those scoring distances. You're trying to add a little wedge category to this guy's hypothetical. Don't hate that.

Putting. Who do you got for putting? Speeith. Jordan. Had to be Jordan. I'm going to surprise people here. 15 to 20 feet Jordan Speeth is clutch as shit. They're not clutch.

He's just a good putter. In 2015, his from 15 to 25 feet or something like that, he just seemed, when he had one, it was in. It's unconscious with that, especially 2015. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable. He pours those. He poured those things in. And you can't have 2015.

You can't have a year like that every year in terms of putting. But he's, I mean, he's up there all the time in terms of putting. How about you? Putting for me, I'm going Ricky. Wow. Ricky Fowler. I love my brother and I, my buddies and I. We have a little running joke.

I'm sure many people do anytime you bury one in the back. You should call it doing a little Ricky puttting. Oh. He just buries the puck. Short Rangers. He just hammers right into the back of the hole. I love that. Turns out he's also 19th in strokes game putting right now.

He was actually third entering last week, so clearly didn't have a great week. But I love the way Ricky putts. He does have a little bit of Brantznetter-ish kind of pop to his putts, which again, you always like that. So I love the way Ricky Barry's in there. I might get this stat wrong, but when he, so when he won, he was like 57 for 57 from inside seven feet. That is the right stat. Insane. That's insane.

We were talking about that with my buddies in my apartment, and then we tried to emulate it, and none of us made more than like two butts from six feet or something like that. That sounds right. That sounds right. So that's 57 for 57 from 7 feet and in is pretty good. That's why he's my guy. Clutch gene.

Look, the obvious one is it going to be Tiger? If you, I pick Tiger, and I'm, Curious to find out because it sounds like you did not. I didn't, but I didn't on, you know, the agreement that Tiger's not really up for grabs. Okay. Because he's been dead. I was, see, I was afraid that we were both going to do that. And I didn't, I wanted to give Tiger his due because he deserves it.

I went Patrick Reed. Damn it, that's a great answer. And I just, when I think clutch right now, I think Patrick Reed. what he's done the last couple of rider cups it'll never get out of my brain it's stained in there Captain America Captain America I love it

I love how clutch he is my clutch gene guy Patrick Reed so my player is going to be DJ off the tee Rory with the iron in his hand Ricky with the flat stick and Patrick Reed's ice cold You got to in his vein No matter how you feel about Patrick Reed Because I've gone back and forth in him

With him for years I mean that kind of gets put to bed with the Rider Cup stuff but you have to love a guy who rises up in big moments. And that's Patrick Reed. So you went Tiger? I did go Tiger. Yeah. So mine was driving Bubba.

I kind of cheated and did wedges and did Zach Johnson, but I would say Henrik Stenson, if we're talking irons, putting speed, clutch tiger. A couple of good golfers. A couple of great golfers. Two really good golfers there going up against each other. Yeah, with all of that going on. Second from the gallery,

we had a little story that leads into a question. This guy writes, boys, I was playing around to golf with a few buddies. and our dads. There were a couple of dickheads right behind us on our heels the entire way. We were planning and letting them play through because they were right in our ass but had no chance

to yet. Long story short, they hit their balls right up to us and that's when shit hits the fan. My dad is a very cool guy, blah, blah, blah, has a little bit of a temper sometimes. Anyway, ever they hit us, he walks back to the balls, takes out a club and smokes their golf balls right back at them.

I mean, he really crushed them basically back at them. yelling match breaks out between us and the group behind us. Then I thought it was one of the funniest moments I had ever seen my dad do. I thought it was awesome, but there were some people in our group, clearly the other two people, those are the only people that were pissed that he did that. Is this a hilarious move or an absolute psycho move or both? It's both, but I almost lean towards more psycho because you can do that.

Theoretically, it seems like a funny idea and like, yeah, I'm going to show these guys written to me. You just kind of deal with these people for the rest of the day. That's the thing about golf is when you're golfing, like, normal, you're going to see these people all the time. So hitting the back of them seems awesome and funny, which it probably was. But it only makes things a billion times worse. True. I, my input on it is this.

There's no way his dad would have done this if his dad was playing really well. This is something you only do when you're playing like shit. Interesting. And you're pissed off and you're frustrated. And next thing you know, some assholes behind you. behind you are rolling balls up on your heels hitting India and you run back because we've all had that thought you touched on it like

oh we should hit their balls back out of them fuck those guys nobody actually does it if his dad's playing really well having a great time he doesn't care if people rolling balls about him so you're putting it on the dad I'm well he's the one that did it well you're saying he needs to play better I'm yes I'm saying

this wouldn't happen if he's playing better there's no way his dad was playing well playing well you're good playing bad you might do something fucking crazy we all do it on the course no matter how even Q you are, no matter how you get frustrated on the golf course. You get pissed off. Dad had to be frustrated. So my advice, take a lesson, play a little better.

Woo! This wouldn't happen. I will say, I'm surprised it was just a yelling match. I'm surprised I didn't break out into punches being thrown. Golfers aren't fine. That's true. That's true. It's good point.

Just play better this guy's dad. Yeah, play better DM guy's dad. Also, he finished with thanks, guys. Let me know what you think. Keep up the good work. Love the show. That's true. The show is great.

You should love it. It's a great show. Everybody go subscribe, download, blah, blah, blah. Leave a review. Win a Green Jacket. Valispar Championship. Yep. It's Valispar Championship Week.

This is the one at Innesbrook. Copperhead course. I've played there. A couple of years ago, this is the one with Snake Pit, 16, 17, 18. A couple of years ago, my buddies and I,

we do 24-man Rider Cup. We rotate around to different spots. We went to here one year. Can't really say I played the course. It was a big drinking heavy trip. Yeah. So it's not that I wasn't playing it in a very serious manner. Sure.

Whatever I was. But I've played it. It's a sweet course. The field headlines. We got Stenson. We got JT. We got Bubba. We got Patrick Reed.

We got our boy Smiley. Charles Schwarzel is the defending champ. What do you think about the Valspar? I feel good about it. You got me so hyped up on Patrick Reed with his clutch stuff that now I'm just going to ride him the whole weekend. He's been clutch at this event, too. It was a couple of years ago when Spieth won it. But he got in a playoff with Reed.

and they were both cannon puts. I think it was somebody weird, like Sean O'Hare, somebody that was in that playoff as well, but they were going nuts, fist pumping, hole in chips, hole in pups. It was crazy. That's all I can think about in this event. Yeah, I can't,

anytime I can root for Patrick Reed, even when it's not a Rider Cup, I'm going to go with him. So that's my expert analysis on the VALS part. I just think Patrick Reed, he's my guy now. Speaking of expert analysis, we have to get to what everybody waits for, every podcast, anonymous DM,

source guy at Capfather. I think it might be the Capfather, actually. I think it's the Capfather. Who is just a Twitter guy now? He's a Twitter star. I saw he's up to like 600 followers, something like that. Might even be higher now. So go Capfather, go.

For those that haven't been paying attention, he picked Spieth at Pabble. He picked DJ at Riviera. He picked, who am I missing? Ricky. Oh, I'm sorry. He picked Ricky.

who was 16 to 1 or something at the Honda. It's good value. And then we already talked about this last week. He kind of missed, but also kind of didn't. Yeah, I had forgotten about the, these, I'm picking these two, but if I were picking four, that kind of brings him back in my book in a big way. Picking a couple of winners in golf over the course of the year is amazing, but he's done it.

He did it three weeks in a row, was close last week slash maybe hit last week. He's come in with his picks. This is what he says. coming from those horrible greens in Mexico City, clearly Catfather didn't like the greens. To the Tiff Eagle Greens that are in Florida is going to be a blessing to the fans and the players who played at the WGC.

Having played Innesbrook, so Anonymous DM guys played it as well in a big deal. It's a tough course, but it is also a favorite to the younger guys. My first pick is the favorite, Justin Thomas, at 9 to 1. He does say, before anybody jumps down his throat, about picking favorites. Favorites have won seven of the last 10 events.

so it would be a mistake not to book the favorite if this trend continues, which he thinks it will. I'm glad he put that in there because a lot of people are going to jump down his throat there. I hate people that do that. Me too. A way to go on a limb. Gambling isn't about going out on a limb. It's about fucking winning. And it's like golf is you don't want to go out on a limb.

You can't go out on a limb. He says, he continues. Then there are two value plays on my radar as well. Matt Coocher at 25 to 1. He said Cooch played well last weekend. fell off with a two over round on Sunday, but played well. He's coming back to his home state of Florida. He should have a great weekend.

He also likes our boy Wesley Bryant coming in at 40 to 1. He says, you don't get odds like that with a guy who contends on back-to-back weekends. That's why it's a value play. Add in the fact that he took last weekend off, stayed in Florida to play some of those courses, and you have to like him. I love the Wesley Brian pick. he's one of our guys yes and because of that

when he was on the podcast he's got a little like moxie to it he does have a little he's got a little jam yeah he's just like when we were like what was the difference between the web dot com tour and playing the PJ tour he's like nothing I'm just here to win I'm here to win let's go like those picks a lot to recap JT 9 to 1

Cooch 25 to 1 and Trent and our anonymous DM guy at the Capfather on Twitter they love Wesley Bryan at 40 to 1 my money's going to be flying all over the fucking place this weekend. Can't wait to get back in the winter circle. Yep.

Valspar Championship Week. That's the podcast, live from Pontivir Beach, Florida. Live, our first on location one. Great episode. On location at a hotel. On location, but just sitting in a two-bedroom hotel room. Yep. Fantastic stuff.

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