Halford & Brough in the Morning - Scottie Scheffler Put On A Clinic

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

In hour one, Mike Halford & guest host Jamie Dodd look back at a busy weekend in sports, including a Whitecaps draw, a BC Lions loss, and a big Blue Jays win streak (3:00), plus they wrap up The Open, as Sportsnet golf analyst Adam Stanley (27:07) joins the show. This podcast is produced by Andy Cole and Greg Balloch. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

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We are coming live from the Kintec studios in beautiful Fairview slopes in Vancouver Jamie. Good morning. Good morning Hey dog. Good morning to you. Good morning. Hey basketball Ben. Good morning to you as well Good morning Halford and bra for the morning is brought to you by sands and associates BC's first and trusted choice for dead help with over 3,000 five-star reviews visit them online at sands dash trust. And we are coming to you live from the Kintec studio. Kintec, Canada's favorite orthotics provider, powered by thousands of five star Google reviews, sore feet, what are you waiting for? Got a lot to get into on the program today.

It was a relatively busy weekend in the world of sports. Guest list today begins at 6.30. We talked to him on Thursday, the start of the Open Championship. We're going to talk to him again. Adam Stanley, Sportsnet Golf Analyst, is going to join us on the program. Scotty Scheffler, as you heard in the intro, glided, eased to a four shot victory in his fourth career major at Royal Port Rush in Northern Ireland on Sunday.

He now joins a Pantheon of Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player. The only guys who have won the open, the Masters and the PGA before the age of 30. So we'll talk to Adam about all that. The dominance of Scottie Scheffler and how someone is dominant as Tiger came through so soon after Tiger. Adam Stanley at 6.30 for some golf talk. Seven o'clock Rob Longley, baseball writer for the Toronto Sun is going to join us covering the Jays. You also heard that in the intro the red hot Jays swept the Giants, the Gigantes out over the weekend. Tenth consecutive home win for the Jays leading us into tonight. Four o'clock our time. Big series for the Jays as they take on the New York

Yankees in a three-game home set. Sean and Delta texting in at 555 this morning. That's how excited he is about this series coming up. Couldn't wait, texted in early. He's directing the wife out of the house. It's like, it's not even until four o'clock. Well, he also said like, stay out as late as you want. It's like, the game starts at four. It's not gonna last that long.

Sean is very dialed into this series. That begins tonight, but we'll talk to Rob Longley at seven o'clock, all things Jays. 7.30 JC Abbott is going to join the program. He's our BC Lions beat reporter for three down nation. Another tough loss for the Leos on Saturday, 33 27, a score that was perhaps closer than what the actual game was against Saskatchewan. Nearly 30,000 fans in attendance to smash watermelons at BC place.

We'll talk to JC about this Lions team who is now lost the season series against Saskatchewan has also lost twice to Winnipeg and they haven't even played the five and one stampeters yet. So we'll talk to JC about exactly what this lions team is or isn't moving forward. Eight o'clock. We're going to go down to Seattle. Dave softy, mall or one of our favorites is going to join the program. KJR sports Radio in Seattle. We'll talk Mariners in the summer of Cal Raleigh,

where things are at with regards to NBA expansion in Seattle, talk about the Seahawks, training camp starts this week, and then befitting of the crack, and maybe at the end, if there's time, we'll squeeze in some crack and tuck. Very crack and appropriate here. So working in reverse on the guest list.

Eight o'clock, it's Softy Mahler. 730 JC Abbott, seven o'clock it's Softy Mahler. 7.30 J.C. Abbott. Seven o'clock Rob Longley. 6.30 Adam Stanley. That's what's happening on the program today. Ben, tell everybody what happened. Hey, did you guys see the game last night? No.

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Making safety simpler by giving construction companies the best in tools, resources, and safety training. Visit them online at bccsa.ca. We have four things to get through in what happened today. And we will begin with the local teams. Now it's always difficult here on the Haliford and Bruff show when you want to start local

and your options for what to start with are a disappointing home loss and a road draw. Congratulations, Whitecaps though you win. We'll start with you. A very tense battle at Snapdragon Stadium over the weekend on Saturday night. Two of the best teams in the West, Vancouver Whitecaps and San Diego FC, the expansion outfit draw one,

one in San Diego. First match ever for the Whitecaps in San Diego. Moral of the story, two of the best teams in the West who played just less than a month ago at BC place. And the match exploded for eight goals that time. Both teams decided let's not do that again. And they played a much more dour affair, one-one draw. Nice for the Whitecaps in the sense that they finish off

a five game swing away from BC place in okay fashion. Two wins, two losses, and then the draw in San Diego. They did suffer another potentially crucial injury in San Diego. Ranko Veselnovich left early in the first half with no one's really sure exactly what the injury is. We didn't get an update. It was a non-contact injury and it was while he was trying to dribble up the pitch. He left, tried to come back and could not return. If another massive injury hits this team they are going to

be in a world of trouble because they're already without you know Tristan Blackman, their other center back who's having a very good year and he's off to the MLS All-Star game this week, Ali Ahmed, Ryan Gould, Sam Adekube all out. Uh, so that was kind of the story from the white caps is that it was a, a decent home draw or decent road draw on the weekend, but the injury kind of overshadowed a lot of things. Well, and it's a matchup between the top two teams or it was a matchup between the top two teams in the Western conference. I think just by virtue of the caps being on the road. They have to be a lot happier with the results then San Diego, it's also interesting if you they've played one fewer games

Yes, or matches as they say in soccer events San Diego classic soccer guy talk. That's right So they have more points per game. I don't know if there's a Thomas Drantz of MLS So they have more points per game. I don't know if there's a Thomas Drantz of MLS furiously pointing out to anyone that will listen. They're like, actually, they should be in first in the Western Conference. There you go. Please go to the percent. That's a real, that's a career lane that I think is waiting to be filled by somebody up there. Yeah, no, it is a good point to bring up because I think for those that have been paying close attention to this or even from a distance,

everyone knows that the Whitecaps have been off to a fantastic start to the season. Now you're kind of reaching that, you know, sluggish midway point of the MLS campaign. We've talked about it a lot on the show where injuries have hit, the international break has hit. The form that the Whitecaps had earlier in the year where they were clear atop the Western Conference standings has kind of whittled away, but that they've been able to withstand this murky point of the season and still, as you mentioned, stay within a striking distance of top spot and really with the game in hand, they're in fantastic position. This run that they have coming up, as a matter of fact, really good chance to make, hey, maybe get back atop the standings because they don't play a lot of games over the next three weeks.

They've got a nice 10 day break in there. They also play like St. Louis, Houston, and Kansas City, three of the worst teams in the West. They should be able to collect points. Three of their next four are at home at BC Place. And again, if this team can get healthy, the real wild card of this entire season is when Ryan Gold comes back. No one seems to have any idea when that's going to happen.

I know he returned a very light training on the pitch with his teammates last week. But if they can stay in one of these top three spots in the West and then get gold back, that's going to be the old classic cliche. It's like it's our trade deadline. That's right. It's our transfer. Yeah. What they say. Right. Like our transfer and the transfer window opens Thursday. But that will be a huge shot in the arm for a team. That's I hate saying it this way, but a personnel wise, they've only had losses this year. It's only been injuries or got a little Pedro Vita with the sale.

Yeah. And the wild thing is the MLS season is so long. It really, it creates room to have all of these different distinct phases of your season. Right. And the white cabs had the dream start phase right where they were just absolutely on fire winning everything and then I think it's fair to say they had the let down phase of the season. I think the question now is have they put that behind them and now what I would say are they more into the kind of okay. Let's stabilize things. Let's consolidate get healthy and then try to crest again for the second time this season going into the playoffs going into the MLS Cup playoffs right. It Get healthy and then try to crest again for the second time this season Going into the playoffs going into the MLS Cup playoffs, right? It feels like what the goal is going to be for them now to good point because we had yes for sorenson on the show A couple times and you know, he's new to North America and MLS and he's kind of said like when I looked at this from afar

Everyone understood this was gonna be their tough part of the season No matter what was going on with health because they were missing so many players for international duty. And they did get through it. And now, the two big things are the health of the team, and if they're going to do anything on the transfer market, which I believe opens Thursday, the summer transfer market, maybe the Whitecaps can get someone in the door to replace the likes of Vite, for example, who's now gone. Okay, we'll now turn our attention to the local Canadian football league team, the BC Lions and another disappointing performance from

the Lions. 33-27 loss to Saskatchewan. As I mentioned in the intro in front of nearly 30,000 people at BC place on Saturday, the score at the end, the six point loss probably indicates it was a closer game than what played out. The Lions fell behind early. They were down 17 to one classic football score 17 to one right at the end of the first quarter before they finally managed to put a first quarter touchdown on the board. First time this year, by the way, now drops them to three and four on the season. And I don't really have a firm grasp on what this team is.

I know it's a football team. Thank you. Yeah, okay. But I'm not sure how good they're going to be or how average they might already be. Because in a small season where they still haven't played a lot of the teams in the CFL, they've had multiple opportunities

against two of the better teams in the West in Winnipeg and Saskatchewan. And those haven't gone well. No. They've now lost the season series against Saskatchewan, which is not a good thing given it is July and the season goes a lot longer than this. And it just seems that all the issues that you think they might have corrected,

slow starts, the defense getting gouged every time that you think they've turned a page like they did against Edmonton the week prior, everything came back and kind of reared its ugly head on Saturday. Yeah. And we talked to the Moj about this on Friday going into the game, right? And he kind of said, you know, you get that kind of crazy last second win in Montreal. That's great. You're not going to turn up your nose at it, but it was a bit of an odd one. And then you go and you take, you know, you make short work of a poor team in Edmonton. And I think there was

a question and certainly it was Moja's question. How will that translate to one of the better teams in the league? And obviously the answer is it did not. And as you say, they've already lost the season series. Now they're well back of both Calgary and Saskatchewan in the West division. Those teams both only have one game game in the loss column. The Lions now four in the loss column. So that's really tough to overcome. And as you said, look, there's still teams they haven't played in everything, but also, if you're not measuring up to the teams in your division in the CFL, you're kind of cooked.

Yeah. Right, like that's the road in the playoffs is through those teams. Right. You were gonna jump in there, Ben? I was at the game on Saturday. Did you smash a watermelon? I did not.

Oh, wow. Well, that's probably why they lost. Let's table that for a second. Go ahead. It was very interesting to watch because it seems like this team. And as you kind of guys kind of like, I'm a big CFL guy. Yeah, I love the CFL. So the Lions seem like the team that they're going to beat the teams

are supposed to. Right. When they play Ottawa, when they play Edmonton, they're going to win. Yeah. I think the crossover, actually, if they can get into the crossover. It feels like it feels I know it's July 21st But everyone's already kind of like it's like a crossover team right now And that's a dangerous thing for the rest of the league because the West seems so much better right now that the path In the Eastern Division might actually be easier for the Lions to do but as it pertains to the defense you guys are mentioning Like Trevor Harris had a great game. He threw for 375 yards

Did he get touched? But it's also because the running game for Saskatchewan was so effective. Every time they touched the ball, it was, Ouellette got four or five yards automatically. And that just opened up so many options. I don't know how many times Kishon Johnson got a 10 yard slant pass for a first down.

It was unbelievable. And they just didn't seem like they had any grasp on how to stop them. Yeah, they didn't punt until the fourth quarter That's in the CFL that's tough Really tough it was actually quite remarkable It was one of the things Farham brought up when he was you know grilling Buck Pierce after the by the way I don't know how much Buck Pierce audio that you parse through or that you've ever parsed through but he's a big

I'm gonna have to see it on film guy like anytime you ask him about anything. He's like well We're gonna have to go to the tape. It's great. It's a great out. Yeah, it is It's like when you say when I when a coach gets asked about an injury. I talked to the train Yeah, this is and it's a good you can't use it every time and I do wonder at some point if he's gonna have to give An actual answer but for now buck is probably gonna be going to the tape I don't know if we're going to get him tomorrow. We're going to get a Lions guest on tomorrow to talk about all this.

But another question for you. What's up with Nathan Rourke? Because he's sailing. It was. Sailing throws. It was weird. Yeah. And I noticed this and I know we had him on

a couple of weeks ago. He talked about his new throwing style. Right. His throwing style is high and inaccurate. He threw some dots. And I think he was 28 for 31 against Edmonton. Like style is high and inaccurate. He threw some dots and I think he was twenty eight for thirty one against Edmonton. Like he's still very accurate.

The touchdown pass in the first quarter on the run on the money. Great throw. Like there's not a lot of players that can do that. He's obviously an exceptional talent, but it just seemed like there was certain moments where he air mailed a throw that completely then stalled the drive and that stalls your momentum. And it was just this domino effect. So I'm not sure I wanted to say like maybe just an off game for some

of the throws, but there was a couple of interceptions that should have been had too that they just dropped and there was obviously an interception that did happen as well. So it was not his best game as you know, we played in the intro of the clip. He knows that he can be better. So we'll table that for a bit. We're going gonna have JC Abbott on the show at 730 for more Alliance talk is they now fall to three and four on the season We got to get to the Toronto Blue Jays who really should have read the show based on form their 10th consecutive home victory Over the Giants 8-6 on Sunday, so they sweep the Giants They are now they have a better record

than the Los Angeles Dodgers. It's wild. It's July 21st and the Toronto Blue Jays a half game better than the Los Angeles Dodgers in the overall standings. I want to play the walk off interview that Arden Zwelling Sportsnet's very own did with Vladdy Guerrero Jr. after the game. Listen closely Vladdy goes there. He talks World Series and will bring one back to Toronto. Here's Vladdy after an 8-6 win over the Giants

on Sunday to complete the three-game sweep. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in two of Toronto's eight runs here this afternoon. And I feel very good to say for you guys this was a tenth straight win at home that ties a franchise record set in 1985. What gives you guys such an advantage playing here at Roger Center? I mean the fans you know you know feel the love they have you know the fans and we're playing for the fans you know to us we're working hard to bring the World Series back to Toronto. All right. Thanks, Vlad. Thank you. We're working hard to bring the World Series back to Toronto.

It is an impressive, impressive run there on, especially at home. I believe that after that, there was a sweep against the Padres in May. And since then, they've won 22 of 26 at home. They're 22 and four homes since cement. That's pretty good and When they are on a roll and when they are good that building for all of its faults And I know they've poured a lot of money and our employers have poured an awful lot of money into it Thank you anyways moving on But it does get loud it get there the fan into it. They get excited and certainly, you know,

going into August now and in September, if they're in a playoff race, a division race with the Yankees or the Red Sox, whichever team emerges there and the Jays are able to hold on, you're going to continue to see those crowds. I think the other big thing from yesterday also is Vladdy hitting the home run. You listen to almost all of the analysis of the Jays from the people on the ground covering it. What's the what are what are the storylines to watch coming out of the all-star break going into the second half of the season and of course it's the trade deadline and pitching death but really it's is Vladie gonna get red hot. He's been fine but is he gonna start consistently hitting home runs and being the type of bat that they

gave that contract to earlier this year and that can carry you for stretches of a season and didn't necessarily do it in the Giants series but yeah it's the home runs like he just needs to hit for more power if he starts to do that then all of a sudden this team that's already first place and as you say one of the best records in Major League Baseball gets that much scarier yeah like I mean you if you look at the team right now it's it's funny because we were just to talk about straight going yard like the home run. The idea of like who's leading the charge.

It's George Springer leads the team with 17. Then Addison Barger, second on the team with 14. If you had told me at the beginning of the year that the Jays first two leading home run hitters were going gonna be Springer and Barger. And that they would have the fourth best record in baseball, be like, well, something doesn't add up. Or the pitching must be lights out. And the pitching's been very good,

but we had Dan Schulman on the show last week early. And he brought it up that this team has a very uncanny ability to have different guys step up at all kinds of different moments. And the bottom of the lineup guys, I think because maybe they're younger and a little more unheralded, they're OK with doing the sort of like down and dirty sacrificial stuff to get the team over. I mean, I talked about the bunting with Shulman because like it's my favorite

thing on earth and Jay's do it better than anybody in baseball right now. They know how to bunt them along. Small balls back in a major way in Toronto. But there is a there's like an ethos and a mentality that goes into that. And it's like, you know, maybe I'll I'll put me aside at the plate to try and help the next guy out. And that stuff does become infectious. And it's obviously become infectious because they're on a run

that we haven't seen in Toronto in at least 10 years. Yeah, the depth has been huge, especially when you consider they've got basically nothing from Santander and Jimenez this year, who are supposed to be their two big offseason acquisitions. None of it makes any sense, if we're being honest. It doesn't make a lot of sense how they've got here. And even though it doesn't follow the script.

The barger thing, right? You said he's second on the team in home runs. He didn't even become a regular until a good chunk into the season. He's played like 20 fewer games than most of their regulars. And he has been, honestly, I I think maybe the key player for the team this year because if he hadn't emerged as a legitimate middle of the order bat while also playing excellent defense at third base, I don't think any of this is

happening like they were so desperate for another not like, Oh, that's a nice story. This guy who's, you know, 28 and coming up from triple A and he's got a couple home runs for us or whatever, you know it's not gonna last but like this guy's a former first-round pick he's a he was a legitimate prospect he always hit in the minors and the question was could it translate to the majors and all of a sudden it does and it just makes such a difference when you can insert that into the line no it's a good point it's like that unexpected shot in the arm of energy like and again, I know we covered barger a little bit

Early in the season when it kind of became apparent. He was gonna be a factor I don't think I mean no one anticipated no this level of impact where you know And then when you've got Springer going and you've got Vlad E going all of a sudden that lineup becomes a lot more dangerous to to Make a you know a cliched Canucks comparison here. Imagine if like Ahtu Ratu scores 25 goals next year. That's what it is. You know what I mean? I want to do a Canucks comp. Yeah. Please. OK. Yeah. Well, it's like you're a player.

You're like, oh, that's an interesting player. Maybe he can help out. And then you're like, oh, no, no, no. He's doing way more than helping out. He's like a legitimate contributor, needle moving player. Well, since we now we've gone to the Canucks version, Bref and I talked about this a lot where two years ago, when they had a fantastic season, you had nearly 40, I think you had 40 plus goals of offense from Dakota Joshua

and Nils Hoaglander. And if you want to talk about guys that are giving you, not just like nice, timely scoring or chip-in scoring, but you know, scoring 20 goals in the NHL isn't an easy thing. It makes you so much more of a difficult out and a dynamic team because now teams have to account for,

if you wanna use the parallel further down the line up, either on your batting card or on your forward lines. And we'll see how this goes. This set against the Yankees is huge. I think it goes without saying, right? And there's a lot of eagerness and anticipation. We're gonna have Rob Longley on today to talk Jays and then Adog, I believe on Wednesday

we're going to have Dan Schulman on the show as well. Is that right? Yes. Yeah. So we'll kind of bookend this series here. And it's a big one for the Jays, right? They could really put their foot on the throat of the AL East if they're able to get some results here.

And again, it's at home, right? They've been so good at home and so deadly at home. Okay. As we go to break and we move along from the opening segment to Adam Stanley, who's going to join us on the other side, we're going to finish with the golf and on Sunday, a Royal Port Rush in Northern Ireland, Scotty Scheffler won the open by four shots to capture his fourth major overall and second of the year. I mentioned some of the stats that have already been thrown out there. He joins that group that includes Tiger, Jack,

and Gary Player, who won the Open, the Masters, and the PGA before the age of 30. And there's a lot of different talking points, and interestingly enough, not a lot of it has to do with what actually happened golf-wise on the weekend. In a very strange way, the tournament win became a footnote or an afterthought for Shuffler's legacy as

it is currently being written. The way that he approaches the game and I know there's been a lot of ink spilled over the last 72 hours about how golf doesn't fulfill him and make him what he is even though he is the most dominant player that we've seen on the tour since Tiger which is a wild thing because the coverage is entirely different. The approaches from the two individuals is wildly different. And we turn our attention now to basketball Ben, not just a basketball guy, not just

the CFL guy. Does it all. Also a golf guy. And I don't want to do the talk about Scotty Shuffler question, but what were you, what were you left thinking after he won his second major of the year? I think that Xander Shroff, we put it

fantastic when he said he is inevitable. He's just, when he's on his game, no the year. I think that Xander Schauffele put it fantastic when he said, he is inevitable. He's just, when he's on his game, no one can touch him. Well, yeah, I read the same Schauffele quote, not to cut you off, but he said, like, you know, this is now in that pantheon of golfers where you look and you're chasing that guy and it's like, it's over. Yeah, you see him on the Lille Leder board, like he said, it's just like, wow, like, this is tough.

You don't, in his words, you don't want to see him there. Yeah. And it's because he, a couple of years ago in Scheffler, was such a great ball striker, but his putting was pretty brutal. And everyone was like, if he could just putt average, what would it look like? This week he putted very well.

And if he's putting well, he's going to lap the field. It's over. He has average putting, he's probably maybe going to win, but he was good this week with the flat stick and you can't beat him that way. He just doesn't make mistakes. Like I think there was 22 straight holes without a bogey. He made a double yesterday that he admits he got greedy on trying to get out of a bunker, but the tournament was over by then.

He came out yesterday. He birdied three of the first five holes after having a four shot lead. And at that point, everybody's just playing for second place Like you're so demoralized and he's just And it feels like as you said the performance almost a footnote the way I was thinking this weekend feels like the golf World as a whole players media fans processing What does it look like now that Scottie Shuffler is officially the face of the sport, right? And I think that that's where the whole conversation about his

approach and his mentality and all of that. I think it's a fascinating one. I'm sure we'll get into later on in the show, but this was in a way a very fitting coronation because it wasn't dramatic at all. No, right. Like it's just like I'm a machine. I'm the best. I'm not going to be that worked up about it. I'm not going to be expressive about it or anything like that. I hope you like it because I'm going to be the best for the foreseeable future and a good tidbit actually from Adam Stanley's piece. So the last one he needs for the career Grand Slam is the US Open. He said he hasn't turned 30 yet. His 30th birthday is Sunday of the US Open next year. So he's got a chance to do it on his 30th

birthday complete the career Grand Slam. You he's got a chance to do it on his 30th birthday, complete the career grand slam. You'd be hard pressed to bet against him at this point. Okay, we gotta go to break. We will talk as Jamie mentioned to Adam Stanley coming up next. Before we do that though, I need to tell you about Jan Pro. From waiting rooms to exam rooms and everything in between,

Jan Pro keeps workplaces tidy, clean and disinfected for a free quote. Visit them online at janpro.ca. More Golf Talk with Adam Stanley. That's coming up next on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. With a score of 267, the winner of the gold medal and the champion golfer of the year, Scottie Scheffler. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's Jamie Dodd in the chair for the vacation. everybody. Halperd, Bruv, Sportsnet650. It's Jamie Dodd in the chair for the vacation. That's right. Jason Bruv. I was unaware that the winner of the open got a gold medal. Did not know that. I knew about the Claret Jug and I knew about the ceremony, but I did not know that they get a gold medal. I've been doing that since 1872. There was a belt involved at some point as well. I couldn't go that far down the Wikipedia page. They should bring back the belt. That would be sick.

That's way better than a gold medal. Give him a gold belt? Wow, this is really heavy. The UK's version of Jim Ross. The WWE Championship belt. How can we Americanize this? Just a little bit. You are listening to the Haliford and Brev show on Sportsnet 650. Haliford and Brev of the Morning is brought to you You're gonna give me your championship belt? Yeah. How can we Americanize this? Just a little bit.

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the Power West Industries hotline, Sportsnet Golf Analyst, Adam Stanley here on the Haliford and brush show on sports net six 50 morning. Adam, how are you? Morning. I'm doing a, I'm doing good. I was up at a more regular time this morning after the last couple of days of trying to watch the open championship. So it's a, it's, I'm feeling fresh here on this Monday. Well, that's good. We were just going through your piece. It's up now,

by the way, everyone can read it at sportsnet.ca about Scottie Shuffler's not just tournament over the weekend but his reign of terror over the PGA Tour. You did ask a couple questions here. Are we seeing an epic run or are we on the doorstep of all-time greatness? Were you able to come to an answer for either of those? I mean it kind of we're staring down the face of like we're staring in the face I believe of all-time greatness I'm certainly leaning towards that if only because Scotty is like he's so young right he's 29 years old and I put it in the piece as well but Doc Nicholas won 10 of the 18 majors that he ended up winning after he turned 30. And of course, in a nice little spin of irony,

Scottie turns 30 on the Sunday of next year's US Open, which is of course the only major championship that he hasn't won yet, and yet probably with a capital Y. Because what is there that's holding him back, right? He's so much mentally strong. He's so much more mentally strong than almost everybody else out there. He certainly has all of his priorities in a row. And he also just so happens to be so much better at, you know, hitting the golf ball than everybody else, which is a big key. And oh, by the way, he's turned probably his biggest weakness, the putter, into a strength. He was second in putting last week at the Open, gained I think almost like nine shots on the field with the putter alone.

You just kind of look at all of this as like a body of work perspective and you think like where like where's the ceiling and the crazy thing is for as good as Scotty Scheffler has been, despite the injuries, despite the arrest, despite, you know, becoming a first time dad and all of these things, you know, kind of leaning the words we're, we're thinking that we're on Scotty Scheffler's floor right now versus Scotty Scheffler's ceiling. And now I think all eyes will turn to the career Grand Slam pursuit for Scotty Scheffler now that he has three out of four. And you know, it's interesting.

We just saw one career grand slam story arc kind of wrap up at the masters with Rory McElroy. And of course the story there was very similar to Scotty Schaeffler. He got three really quick and I think it was, he won four total majors in three years, very similar to Scotty Schaeffler. And then we know how long the last one took for Rory and it really turned into this incredible psycho drama watching it play out. It just feels like we're not going to see that from Scotty Scheffler. And part of that is the dominance he's showing on the course.

But I think a huge part of that is what we heard from him off the course this weekend as well, where his mentality, not that it's not important to him, not that he's not driven, but it just feels like he's not going to allow it to become that same sort of roller coaster drama that it did end up becoming for Rory. Big time. And I think that that's kind of like a reflection of how each of these guys play as well. Like Rory, when he won, you know, those majors, I think he won them by, by so many shots.

And he was just like the second coming of tiger, the way that he bopped around and how far he hit it and kind of wearing his emotions on his sleeve. And that's why people care so much about him and this chase is because he was so kind of ultra humanized. And Scottie Scheffler is very much kind of robotic in his on the golf course methodology and obviously off the course as well. But it's hard to think about a guy in a negative light. He's just fully admitted, you know, I am not thinking about golf when I'm at home.

I'm gonna be a dad. I'm gonna hang out with my wife, who's my best friend, who's my high school sweetheart. And he's like, I'm gonna go to Chipotle. And I'm gonna have a very normal and simple sort of life. Jordan's beef was like, you know, he doesn't do all the corporate things that we do. And you're right. Like when was the last time that you saw Scottie Scheffler in a commercial?

Yeah, yes. He's going to be in happy Gilmore too, which is coming out this week. But you know, how much of a time commitment was that two hours, probably at a golf course near where he lives. And, and then that's it. So, um so he's just got his head screwed on so right he as I mentioned before he was just playing better than anybody else and again kind of the runway is so long for him to kind of enter this stratosphere right like if he if Scotty goes ahead and wins any you know two of the next whatever it is 40

majors right in the next six or is, 40 majors, right? In the next six or seven years, 40 majors, including the US Open, then he's had a better career than Rory McIlroy already. And Rory, when you zoom out, is for sure one of the top 15 golfers of all time, if not, you know, kind of borderline on the top 10. So, Scotty's got a lot of runway to go as I mentioned. He's also just playing better than everybody else. And the way that he's approaching both golf and life, it's hard to knock him for sure. We're speaking to Adam Stanley, Sportsnet Golf Analyst here on the Halford and Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. I'm glad you mentioned the Chipotle thing, Adam, because chemistry off the charts this morning on the show. We had the clip at the ready and I wanted to

play it and I'm'm gonna do it now. So this is Scottie Scheffler talking about fame and his level of fame and how he deals with it. This is after, you know, hoisting the Claret jug and in his media availability after the Open Championship. That's about a minute and a half in length. So for you and the listeners, here it is. Scottie Scheffler after winning on Sunday.

I've said it for a long time. Golf is not how I identify myself. I don't identify myself by winning tournaments, chasing trophies, you know, being famous or whatever it is. Like, when I go home, if I go to a, there's two Chipoles that I eat at home. There's one, well actually not really one anymore. There's one right where I grew up, it's kind of near SMU's campus. If I was to go to that Chipotle and try to eat nowadays,

it would be very difficult for me. There's another one in a different part of town that I'm not gonna tell you where it is. But if I go there, nobody recognizes me ever. And so, famous is just one of those things. It's like, in some circles, like, right now I'm the best player in the world. right now I'm the best player in the world.

This week I was the best player in the world. You know, I'm sitting here with the trophy. We're gonna start all over in Memphis, you know, back to even par. Show goes on. And, um, it's hard to describe what it feels like, because yeah, I don't feel any different

because I've won a golf tournament. You know, this is not, this is not the be all end all for me, but I'm extremely grateful for it. I mean, I have, kid you not, I have worked since I was two or three years old to have a chance to play professional golf for a living, and now I've been able to win tournaments that I just dreamed of playing in, and it's an amazing feeling, and I'm so grateful

to be able to live out my dreams. But like I said, my faith in my family is what's most important to me. And I try to live as normal a life as possible because I feel like a normal guy. I have the same friends I had growing up. I don't think that I'm anything special just because some weeks I'm better at shooting

a lower score than other guys are. Okay, so it's an amazing uninterrupted minute and a half soliloquy and everything that obviously just kind of reacting in the moment. But I think the really interesting thing from a coverage standpoint is that people and punnets are maybe still a little sort of flummox because when you're approached by greatness, you expect it to be the backstory or digging in depth. It's going to be really unique and really fascinating, really different. It's not meant to be the backstory or digging in depth. It's going to be really unique and really fascinating,

really different. It's not meant to be normal. And then there's this guy that comes along who has that juxtaposition of being the most dominant golfer we've seen since Tiger, which is a level of greatness only few can achieve while also being maybe the most normal guy on the planet. And I think a lot of people have a hard time trying to reconcile that, but that's what's happening in a nutshell. And especially because golf is such an individual game, right? And I think a lot of people have a hard time trying to reconcile that. But that's what's happening in a nutshell.

And especially because like golf is such an individual game, right? Like we can only kind of identify this singular human being and his or her successes and failures. And from the standpoint of. Athletes as personalities, athletes as brands. The Scottie Scheffler brand is a pretty basic one and you're kind of just trying to find the catnip to see like, oh man, where's the Jukes?

What else is there behind this guy? And he let us in a little bit. He's like, I wore pants when I was six or seven playing golf because I saw these guys on TV and around Dallas and that's what they did and I wanted to play professional golf and I realized, you know, that's what they did so I was going to do that too and it's like, oh, ha ha, that's kind of a cute story. And then you kind of go on, right? But again, you know, the perspective, the introspective kind of look at, you know, himself

and golf and life and faith and family and all these other things that he said. You know, can you just imagine, you know, somebody in another sport, especially a team sport kind of doing this or saying these things or, you know, somebody pots an overtime goal and they're, you know, the team's the best in the NHL and they're up, you know, three games to one in the Stanley Cup finals or whatever it is. The next thing, you know, you know, an athlete comes out and they say like, you know, uh, doesn't, it doesn't really matter if we win the Stanley cup or if we don't, you know, I'm not defined by winning the Stanley cup. You'd be like, man,

this guy doesn't care at all. Like what's he doing? He'd be, he'd be ripped up. But Scotty, he comes out, he says this, he's very honest about it. Um, and it's just, it's part of the deal. And he just so happens to be better than everybody else at this particular sport as well. Yeah. And I think it almost throws some of us in the media for a loop because we're used to, I mean, you think about like Tiger and how just kind of maniacally driven he was, right.

And that heightens the stakes of the chase and all of that. But, but having said that, I mean, look, Scotty's driven too, just in a different way. And we're all kind of waiting to see what's next for him. We talked about the career grand slam. What are those other kind of boxes he's trying to check goals that are next up for Scheffler as he kind of chases greatness here? And again, part of that's the career grand slam, but what else is kind of next up on his target list in the world of golf?

I mean, the crazy thing is he's kind of got this golden flame, right? Because he's also won the gold medal at the Olympics. And that will probably become something that a lot more of the next and the next generations are thinking as something extremely, extremely important and valuable and something that they're going to kind of stamp and put on their list as well.

Just didn't exist as something for a lot of people kind of now to achieve. So he's won a Ryder Cup, he's won a gold medal. From an individual sport perspective, there's really, I mean, there's not that much to be honest. There's not that much to do, except if he wants to continue to stack up the tournaments that he's already won. Is he going to get to six green jackets? Is he going to get to whatever it is, five PGA championships?

I think that's the most. Is he going to get to four US Open titles or six Open championships when it's all said and done? Maybe, but if you ask him what his next goal is, he's just going to say like, you know, I just want to be the best father I can be. And that's probably going to be the end of it. To some of the other stories non-Scotty Shephler division from the weekend, your thoughts on the Canadian contingent at Royal Port Rush including Corey Connors who finished tied for 10th. First Canadian male to notch at least two top 10s at majors in a single season. Nice little feather in the cap for Corey Connors.

Yeah, it was a really nice and solid major championship body work for Corey Connors this year obviously. really nice and solid major championship body work for Corey Connors this year. Obviously the top 10 tie for eighth at the Masters, top 20 at the PGA probably would have been trending towards at least a top 20 if not a top 15 at the US Open as well if he didn't injure his wrist and have to withdraw. Kind of a backdoor in top 10 this week at the at the Open. Made the cut on the number and then shot 10 under par over the weekend to jump into that tie for 10 spot. But you know, it really kind of speaks to how steady Corey is. It also kind of

speaks to how just awesome Mike Weir's run in kind of the early 2000s was as well. But you kind of look at Corey and you think, yeah, here's a guy with a game that's really built to compete and potentially contend in major championships, excuse me. But he, um, you know, he kind of, he hasn't been able to string 72 really good holes together at a major. He's kind of always had maybe one round or one stretch of nine holes that has kind of done him in. So I'm really keen to see, you know, how he manages to stay even more steady in the next year's major championship, uh, run. And, um, you know, to me, I kind of called

it I thought early on in the week there was going to be way more questions than answers about Corey because of the injury, but he proved me, he really proved me wrong on that one. Managed to work his way around, obviously feels 100% again. And now there's kind of a big opportunity for the Canadian contingent to continue the major championship success in the FedEx Cup playoffs. We've only ever had in the FedEx Cup era, there's only happened one time where we've had more than one Canadian actually make it all the way to or excuse me. It's never happened. We've never had more than one Canadian play in the tour championship. So the season finale, the top 30. So, you know, know, we're, we're trending towards something like that, uh, for this year for sure. And, uh,

it'll be a fun opportunity to just kind of bear witness to this golden generation continuing to do their thing on the PGA tour. As you said, with the majors complete for the year, now we turn our attention to the FedEx cup playoffs and eventually the tour championship other than Scheffler and Corey Connors, the Canadian contingent. Did anyone kind of change your perception of their season either positively or negatively or what they could accomplish going into this final section coming out of the open? Yeah, it's a great question with the majors now in the rear view. You know, a lot of Colin

Moorakawa is probably like the biggest name for me that I've kind of just been like, man, what is happening, right? Like he's still a, I think he might still be a top 10 player in the world, certainly a top 15 player in the world, but you know, early on in the season, really, really solid run a couple of runner up finishes there in Hawaii and in Florida, and then just totally, you know, it's kind of laid an egg at the majors and he's kind of had that media backlash throughout the year. So, um, you know, definitely some questions about Colin Morkawa over the summer months and heading into the FedExCup playoffs. Patrick

Cantlay as well as another name, it's like, are you going to make the Ryder Cup team? Are you not? Like, what's the three missed cuts at majors this year really kind of fallen down on the rankings as well kind of been a weird run for him. And then on the positive side for me, Harris English, two runner-up finishes at majors this year now a top-10 golfer in the world absolutely flushes it. He'll be you know a big-time asset for America at the Ryder Cup and then Keegan Bradley as well. I think that's probably going to be something to keep an eye on over the next couple of weeks. The winter, obviously on the tour this year, some very solid results at the majors. Uh, and now I think I saw this morning as well, he's another top 10 golfer in the world, man, you're not going to find 12 better Americans than Keegan Bradley

right now to round out that American squad for the Ryder Cup either. So it'll be really fascinating to see if he becomes a playing captain, if he kind of gives up the captaincy and just decides to play. Not really too sure, but Harris English and Keegan Bradley playing super good over the summertime, what they're going to do with the Ryder Cup. And then Colin Moore Cowell, Patrick Cantley, a couple of big question marks for me as the major championship season wraps up. Adam, this was great, man. Thanks for taking the time to do this again. We got you to book in the open championship,

which was perfect. We'll give you some well-deserved time off. I bet we'll be calling you closer as we get to the Ryder Cup at the end of September. But thanks again for doing this, man. This was great. Sounds good. Always happy to.

Appreciate it. Thank you. That's Adam Stanley, Sportsnet Golf Analyst here on the Halford and Bruff Show, featuring Jamie Dodd on Sportsnet 650. I wasn't here on Friday, nor was Bruff, the Halford and brush featuring Jamie Dodd on sportsnet 650 I wasn't here on Friday nor was brough the Halford and brough both racing But you and Izzy got the manna from heaven that was the only Josh did we ever? How much time did you guys spend talking about Dakota Joshua on Friday? Well, definitely the whole first segment

Yeah talking about the trade. We probably dipped back into it. I'm trying to think now at other talking about the trade. We probably dipped back into it. I'm trying to think now at other portions of the show. It was so we had this happen. You and me on after the schedule release. I had been working the afternoon show for three hours and then turning around and coming on the morning show and you're like let's talk with the schedule. It's like I did that for three hours yesterday. Happy to do it again. The this is he was in the same position. He was working three hours of

batch on the afternoon show. The Dakota Joshua trade broke like 20 minutes before they went on air So batch had to throw out all of his man Manchester United takes and they did like two hours on the Dakota Joshua trade tough and then we turned around and did it again So we did like half an hour on Dakota Joshua And then we did like a solid half hour of Ring of Honor talk as well So it was really a banner show in your absence. What were some of the key takeaways from the Joshua deal? I mean, I've got my own obviously, but I'm curious about what the the temperature the climate of the I think there's still just a level of unrest and frustration in the fan base such that any player that the fans have an emotional connection to or fond memories of going out the door is going to draw the ire of a certain amount of fans.

I also think it's tough to fully judge this one because we all understand what the deal is here. We're waiting to see what the next move is. And the next move might not come till November. It might not come till January or something, right? I'd be a little surprised if it's that long. But we understand this wasn't it's not like they brought a player in to replace him already. They're clearing the cap space and then they're going to try to do something else. So I think we all understand it from that perspective obviously with Dakota Joshua and his story there is that emotional side of it and I think there were some frustrated fans like the end the other part of it also is Mikhail signed injured traded out right?

signed struggles with non hockey stuff traded out there's this pattern of behavior that Some fans I think are worried about and some are a little frustrated about as well Yeah, and you know it was funny. I think it was two weeks ago We had Dolly wall on the show and he intimately. And I'd heard this from other people as well, that from the moment that they signed Joshua to that four year, 13 million dollar deal back in, was it July, June? It was it was late, it was off season twenty, twenty four.

But they even felt at that time that there was there was an overpayment going on in part because Joshua played it brilliantly. Like in a contract year, the ability to emerge not just as like a bona fide goal scorer, but in the power forward mold, which was very difficult and still is very difficult for a lot of teams to obtain. They were gonna have to overpay. And right from the moment before the cancer diagnosis

in a very difficult 24, 25 season for Joshua, the club kind of felt like we have overpaid for this player. So there was always that lingering sentiment that, you know, and the Canucks are not the only team that have ever done this, but you pay a guy based on what he's done, as opposed to what you think he's gonna do

for you moving forward. You reward him for the season that he gave you. That was always lingering. And I do wonder if they will always had an eye on, we might need to clean this up later. There was no way they could have lost them after his breakout year. No, they was, you know, it was too much of a unicorn of a player. It wasn't a, it was like, what an 18 goal year, right? But he missed like 20 games. And it wasn't just on 18 goal year it was oh you might be scratching the surface of something really tantalizing here and then there was a it was a setback year in a myriad of ways last year the course correction part with this group I'm of two minds one it's not

great that you keep making messes that you have to clean up like you don't really get a pat on the back for you know cleaning up the milk after you're the one that spilled. You know, it's like you did what you were supposed to do. At the same time, I do have a level of appreciation for even though you don't say it out loud, hand up being like, hey, we didn't get this one right, we're gonna do our best to try and correct the problem. And I'm not saying that Joshua was a problem,

but there was an issue there, like I said, from the moment that they signed him, weren't a hundred percent convinced that this was the right amount of money And the right amount of term for the player but they gave it to him and It has become one of the calling cards of this executive and management group is okay. We tried something Yep, or moving or right Dan Heinen Vinny day hard. Hey, you mentioned McKay Curtis Lazar they signed to like a three year deal and then traded at the first deadline.

People forgot about it. As soon as they could get out from under that Lazar deal, we're like, we're moving on, okay? We don't, we know, we tried, and it didn't work. And again, I think both sides of the argument are totally legitimate. You can give them a nod of appreciation for acknowledging when they've gotten it wrong

and move on from that mistake instead of letting it linger or fester. But at the same time, when you're pointing out errors, it does seem as though a lot of their pro-scouting decisions as it relates to, you know, signing guys in for agency or extending guys, they're not batting anywhere close to a thousand. No executive does, but there's that list of oopsies is growing and that's not a great thing

given it's like what you're three or four on the job now for the executive. The one thing I'll say is now with the rising cap, you're going to be able to get out of these a lot easier. Right. And this one compared to McKay have, right? McKay have, they had to pay to get out of now. They got a fourth round pick back and you say, well, it's just a fourth round pick. Sure.

But you're not sending assets out the door you're getting assets back with this management group I think that's a positive because they are willing to cut bait pretty quickly coming up on the Halford and Bref show on Sportsnet 650 you're going to talk some Jays Rob Longley baseball and Jays writer columnist at the Toronto Sun is going to join us the Jays are on fire one of the best teams in. One of the best teams in baseball, one of the hottest teams in baseball, and one of the most tantalizing upcoming series in baseball starts tonight. They take on the Yankees three game set in Toronto. We'll talk to Rob about all that and more coming up next

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