No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 1013: U.S. Women's Open & The Memorial Happy Hour

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

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Be the right club. Be the right club today. Johnny, that's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different ladies and gentlemen welcome to happy hour on the no laying up podcast slash live show. Solly here coming to you live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I rhymed Wisconsin and mansion earlier and it was a highlight of my it was one of the highlights of my life DJ Pies garage. Hello, pie man.

Welcome guys. Great. Great. Great to have you in the cream city here. Randy I know you're a big creamy boy. Great to have you guys welcome to my garage. It's it know you're a big creamy boy. Great to have you guys. Welcome to my garage. It looks like a garage. So hopefully that's okay. Cody, thank you for patching us in from a remote here. Great to see you. And big guy, how you doing? Any better? They'd haul me off to jail. Being in your garage, hanging out with you guys, being here with Cody, US Women's Open

Week. It's a great time. Being in your garage hanging out with you guys being here with Cody US Women's Open week It's it's a great time truly a great Golf week it is memorial and US Women's Open is like that's really hard to beat man. I cannot wait on top of that We are here in Milwaukee doing a little film project Coincidentally, we're also the US Women's Open is being played this week. You're gonna be out there late this week I believe definitely this weekend Yep And this show is of course brought to you by Fandl, whether it's a signature

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Now you said a video or a picture over earlier buddy and there's something there's a little color missing behind your eyes so I think it's been a long week already but I'm excited. You guys. On the floor of the Charlotte Airport two nights ago. It's gonna take me a month to earn this back. You know we've talked about this a lot of times like when we go to certain golf courses right like we were you know Randy went from Hogan Park in Midland and then his next round of golf was at Royal County down. Similar, you know, we're like, I don't think anybody in history has ever done that. Solly slept on the floor of the airport and ran the famous sausage race at the Brewers game last night. Nobody's ever done that in the same day. I'm very positive of that. Guys, you obviously put it out there on social media. What's going on? You got

to fill us in here. What is the sausage race for people who do not know? How did you guys get involved? Come on. So we're doing a little bit, we've talked about this on a couple pods, but trying to, you know, trying to create some videos that are a little in between a tourist sauce, right?

You guys did it in Argentina. It's like, maybe we're not taking the whole crew down to Argentina for doing, you know, for two and a half weeks and doing a whole tourist season. That doesn't mean we should do nothing, right? Like let's try to do some standalone videos. So since then we've done, we shot one in Las Vegas, had a little teaser of that out there. This same crew actually, we were in Belfast in Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago shooting another episode and we're doing one in Wisconsin this week. So a little bit of, you know, bringing the city to life.

Similar to what you and, you know, Tron and Neil did last year in Denver and in Brooklyn and trying to do some city tours. So as part of that, one of the big, big parts of my life here in Milwaukee is like, guys, we gotta go, the team's home, we gotta go to a ball game. I started just pushing in every chip I had. The seamsters were itching to get to a game. Exactly, it's kind of started as like maybe we can go to the game.

Maybe we can film at the game. Maybe we can get Lauren to throw out the first pitch. Maybe we can do the sausage race and everything came to fruition. So you know to your question, Cody, it's like the between at the bottom of the sixth inning or in between the middle of the sixth inning They have a famous racing sausage

Sausage race everybody puts these gigantic costumes on Randy got dubbed the tallest chorizo in the history of the sausage race yesterday. Honestly people were floored I was running the lights underneath the stadium like truly they'd never seen a chorizo that big It was it was unbelievable and everybody comes and you basically race from like the opposing dugout to the home team's dugout. It's not a short run. No. And some people in our group made it look a lot shorter than others.

No spoilers on the results, it'll come out in the video. Yeah, of course. Some of us did really well, some of us didn't do really well and I'm excited for the video to come out. It was true bucket list stuff. Anybody who's like, I've tried to connect with certain people, I'm excited for the video to come out. It was true bucket list stuff. Anybody who's like, I've tried to connect with certain people and I'm like, yeah, it's like a golf company, it's a podcast and you know, we do some travel stuff. They're like, yeah, okay, that's cool. I'm like, yeah, and we're doing the sausage race. They're like,

holy shit, I didn't even know you could do that. That's crazy. I thought it was only like royalty, the kings and queens that got to do the sausage. How did you even get into it? People were very pumped and they should be because I think the footage is is gonna be really good. Oh, it was so much fun. We ran out of a Major League Baseball field during in between an inning and like it all happened so fast and like you're so disguised. I was out there like pumping the crowd up like you can only move your arms a little bit but nobody could see your face so it's not embarrassing at all. It was so fun. You're running by the brewers dugout, the whole crowd just

swelling your got this giant foam Polish sausage on. Oh my God, Christian yellow. Holy shit. It's just, yeah, crazy, crazy fun night and Lauren transition this into golf. They were very gracious to host Lauren Coughlin, our good friend and young hitter and ninth ranked player in the world, who's here this week for of course the US Women's Open, to go out and throw a first pitch. I thought she did great.

She did. Yeah. She didn't bounce it. She threw it from the top of the rubber. She did as good or better than Jordan Love, who was there the night before, concerning reports about Jordan Love's first pitch. Exactly.

And it was just an awesome night at the ballpark, an awesome night to celebrate being in Milwaukee and having the the world's best female golfers here this week as well. So I can't wait to see it. You mentioned Vegas that's going to be coming out next week. So stay tuned for that episode. This will probably be coming out later in the summer. Who knows? We're not going to put a date out there to hold anybody to it. But guys, I want to go to the big chorizo himself, Randy. It's U.S. Women's Open Week. Big, come on, man. You got to throw some spice to me. It sounds like Aaron Hills is shaping up to be exactly what we want it to be. I think so. Yeah. Well, Dej got quite a report from

Lauren and her husband, John. I won't ruin all that, but I think from everything that we've heard and seen, we were a little worried. They've gotten some rainfall out here. It's been a wet spring. It's actually raining as we're looking outside of DJ's garage. But all the report is Aaron Hills is holding up wonderfully. It's going to be a proper, difficult, challenging test for the women this week. Exactly the type of tournament I love to watch. So we're quite excited. Cody, I don't know if you want me, I have five storylines.

They're certainly not like the top storylines. I want their yours, but they're my storylines. So if I may, let's dive right into them. Yeah. You may need to stretch out your innings. Cause you just spat on like four of my, uh, my, all of my takes on Aaron Hill. My whole section, you just, uh, people are questioning Cody's bull fed management. You know, are we, are we, do we have any arms left in the cover?

Well, listen, these aren't all encompassing. They're obviously not covering all the best players, but these are the five storylines that I think are most prominent coming into this week. Are these in order? Of course not. Can't be in order, Big. No, but in no particular order.

So the audience can put these in their own order. That's right. That's right. Let's start with Nellie Korda, the world number one. Okay. I think there is something very interesting about Nellie in that the US Women's Open is historically her least successful major in 10 career starts. She only, and I say only, you know, only has two top 25 finishes, no top five finishes.

So as far as, you know, where she has had the most success, it's not the US Women's Open. Can she break that this week? Can she grind out a major championship? I think that's another thing that we just haven't seen from Nellie and I don't necessarily want to dock her, but you know when she won the KPMG down in Atlanta, her winning score was 19 under par. When she won at Chevron, it was 13 under par. I think there are some really interesting, persistent parallels between Nellie and like a Scottty Scheffler and that we just haven't seen either of them Win in just a real

Ugly grindy fashion and so Nellie I think has a chance this week. It'll depend a little bit I guess on how Aaron Hills plays She of course hasn't won this year yet. She came in the last year's US Women's Open on a historic run. And so I think there's a little bit of a, hey, we're all waiting for Nellie to really mark her presence here in 2025. So that's my number one storyline. Cody, do you have any, I don't know, sometimes these things are trends for a reason, sometimes they're just weird luck, but anything to that Nellie US Open record

that stands out to you? Well, there's a lot. I think it has to do with pressure. This is her 10th US Women's Open. It's crazy to think about here. She was asked about it in her press conference, Dej, and I actually think we learned a little bit about Nellie and where she currently kind of sits in her game.

Question was late last year, Justin Thomas said that one of the hardest things in golf is to play when everybody knows that you're going to be potentially in contention or win. Do you subscribe to that? Do you believe in that? Is that something that you'd think about? And she goes, not necessarily.

I don't try to think about it. Definitely when you're a higher ranked player or you're more popular, there is more pressure as you as you get from outside perspectives when it comes to media fans coming out of their way to watch you. If you want to feel it, you will feel it. But I think that's really important is to just stick to your game plan and really be focused on what you're doing in the present time. That's really helped me. But Nellie, I don't think it has really helped you. So where are we kind of at with that? They continued on.

The next question was something that you had to, was this something that you had developed over time? Was it a thought process that you started golf with or started professional golf with? Or is this something that you've just kind of worked on? She goes, I think the more you put into these under pressure moments, the more you put yourself into contention, you learn more about yourself and how to handle those situations. Every year something different has tested me and every year I learn a little bit more about myself and how to handle myself in these situations. So yeah, I think it's

all about putting yourself into those positions. So she likes being in those positions. She says she's learning from those positions, but we haven't really seen that in the results so far. So I don't know, big, obviously her game, not so much this year. She's clearly not as sharp as she was definitely last year. I think that's an anomaly. If we kind of look at it,

she was on a generational hot streak there, but her putting starting to come back around. She's had a couple weeks off. We know Nellie thrives when she has time off at home. She looked relatively sharp in Mizzouho. She just couldn't really get it done on Sunday, but it's not like she was putting herself completely out of it.

I think if there is somebody who has the game for Erin Hills, even if it's hard, firm and fast or a little bit wet, she has the game for Aaron Hills, even if it's hard, you know, firm and fast or a little bit wet, you know, she has the power for it. I feel like if, if I was, this is going to be a broad generalization, I think on Nellie, but where we've seen her, she's really good at gas pedal golf, right? When, right. And she's really good when she like her misses are ending up in okay

spots. This is honestly, I'm not going to do a big golf course ramp. Like why we picked on Quail more so than others is like, you could get away with marginal shots there and not pay a major punishment. At Lancaster last year, she had marginal shots that she were getting rejected and then she compounded those mistakes and she was done immediately.

And a lot of LPGA Tour golf does not have that effect on players. If you miss, maybe you're making bogey from a certain spot if you don't get up and down. At US Women's Open and at USGA Setups, that punishment is asking you a different question when you get behind that eight ball and it's a question she's not been able to answer in any cohesive fashion to this point in her career. We've seen at many different stopping points where we've critiqued her for this and it evolves and she goes out and does this. Crited her for this and it evolves and she goes out and does this

Critique her for this it evolves and goes out and does that especially on the putting front But it's time for this next step up. I don't know if this is the week it doesn't necessarily feel like the week coming in for me, but It's a it's like the maybe flaw if you will in her golf game is like can you can you play tough? Can you play dirty when it gets mucky? And so far the answer to that has been no, unfortunately. Well, she just, again, I feel like I say this all the time and it seems like a pretty easy comp or borderline lazy comp,

but it's like the driver, the way she hits her iron, the star power, I'm like, this is Rory. It's just, it's Rory's career, but just back shifted a couple of years and it just, hearing everything you just said, I'm like, yeah, Rory went through that at the US Open for a long time, where he was great at front running, He was great at that gas pedal golf. But he hadn't quite had the like, let me hit the

three quarter here. Let me not compound. Let me take my medicine here. Let me just try to get to Sunday. And that was like, looking at through that lens. I'm like, man, that he had to turn into a pretty different player. And now seeing him at LACC, seeing him at a Pinehurst, I assume seeing him at Oakmont, it's like that's a different guy. But that took a long time to get to that point. And it's just so interesting to me that they seem on very parallel tracks just with Nelly back shifted maybe five years or whatever. Yeah, it might be to her advantage to come in. She's not coming in under the radar, but with a little less expectation this year, uh, the, the relative weakness of her game, you know,

if you go into the KPMG insights is shots gained around the green. So solid to your point, you know, she's, she's slightly losing shots, um, when she's missing and she's going to have to be sharp at Aaron Hills. Cause the because these greens are are difficult and unlike what we saw at Quail that the ball can roll off and it can it can settle in some kind of awkward places

where I think chipping and you know, whether you choose to putter chip from around the Greens, they're going to be tested this week, so that can be two things. Your your number around the Greens can be a reflection of your short game. It can also be a reflection of where you're missing. Yeah,

right. It is not going to judge like a short sided miss is going to get judged the same as leaving it in the perfect spot and easy up and down. So it can be a sign of over aggression missing in the wrong spots. That's kind of more where I'm coming from in that it just seemed like she could play middle of the green golf. And it doesn't seem like her strength. She loves to fire at pins. She gets excited to fire at pins and I just want to see her hit like the Brooks Koepka shots. No, I didn't even,

I wasn't even thinking Aaron Hills when I said that of like hit that towards the fat part of the green on repeat and you're, you should cruise. You should honestly cruise to the top five and a good putting week, you're going to win. And that's the golf that she played. She does the first, I don't know what her first round scoring average is in this event, but it can't be good. It's not good. It's that's the key on round one when she's out of it in a major. Yeah. Randy started talking. You know what the key to success for Nelly Cord is, is tomorrow. Who does that sound like? Yeah. Right. And that's her guy. It's like, man, I wonder that God that reminds me of somebody

Little bit quail Well, very good big Nellie quarter tees off tomorrow afternoon 125 she's group with Charlie Hall Recent NLU podcast guest and the newly retired Lexi Thompson. So good positive vibes going for them. That's fine That's a good one for the fans to go get out and watch. Absolutely big who's next? Yeah, I I've labeled this Curious Case of Yuka Saso. She is our defending champion, the 23-year-old playing under the Japanese flag. She's won two US Women's Open. She won in 2021 at Olympic Club, which was a test. She won last year at Lancaster, which was a test.

Aaron Hills could be a test. Now, why is it the curious case of Yuka Sasso? These are her only two LPGA career victories. It's unbelievable. Lee Jansen. She comes in this year with a negative 1.56 shots gained approach this year, which is just, you look at her stats, they're just bad. In fact, Yuka has only made one cut in a stroke play event this year, and it was back in early February. And having said all of that, it's not like she was rolling off the tip of the tongue either of the two years she won it. Cody, I'm not sure we can count her out, but I just don't understand how she can find US open game seemingly on command like once a year. And it just doesn't translate week to week out there on tour. It's the most it's the damnedest thing.

Can I can I make another comp here to lead to the men's game and Aaron Hills and a guy that we've already mentioned Brooks Koepka. Of course. Come on. She is the female version of Brooks Koepka. She loves difficult courses. She likes hard, tough layouts where it doesn't take a lot of like, you know, she's even said in the past, like the LPGA course setups are a little bit too routine, mundane for her. She likes creative shots and figuring out how to plot her way around a difficult

test. She loves getting up and down from all over the place. I'm going to need you Dej to check in on this because in her press conference, she said that she arrived early Friday morning. She's played 18 holes literally at Aaron Hills the last six days. So she is just playing her way around this golf course getting as much prep as she possibly can and you're thinking that too much. I don't think so. She played 18 every day. Yes, because that's how what she does. She literally just plays golf. It's crazy and she's like, no, I

don't have a walk out there too. I mean, that's a big, big ballpark. As you guys know, I mean, not a sausage race competitor, but yeah, for sure. I sure as hell could do that. After you watched my performance last night, but I think that's, I think it's good. I think there's enough, you know, what's going to be really tricky and we can get into this

when we talk more about the golf course is just the sight lines. There's enough blind, blind and just uncomfortable tee shots out there. And I think the thing you'll hear from a lot of players is that there's just no aiming lines. Like there's no trees. So many of these golf courses, people are like started off this bunker, started off this tree, started off this tower, started off this house. And there's just none of that out there. It's just such a big field that when you're,

you're hitting some of these blind and semi-blind tee shots into, kinda just like these hope and pray, I think if I started on this line, I'm gonna be in a good spot shots. It just, it takes a couple rounds to get really comfortable with sending those on those lines. So I like it, get a bunch of prep out there. If she gets a feel with her irons,

the one thing Yuka sass her does really well, she puts the absolute shit out of the ball. So, you know, if, if she's hitting greens and starts to roll some putts in, I just can't wait to see how she plays this week coming in with no form, but you know, it's a U S open, so you simply, we can't, we can't count her out. She was like plus 15,000 to win without Nelly, without Jean. Like there's a Fandel bet. If you like eliminate, but I think it was around the top five players in the world.

Odds of course are subject to change. Uh, but she could be winner without all of those at a hundred over 150 to one. Uh, that was one of my plays for this week. I know it was like drive across state lines. Oh my God. I mean, come on. She could do something. She's like top five with a few of those others doing something crazy.

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you through a few things here since you cause when last year at the U S women's open, okay, we saw Ayaka foodway win the Evian later in the year. We saw Mao Saigo win Chevron this year. Okay. That's three Japanese women in the last, what five majors, the current top four in the LPGA rookie of the year race this year, all Japanese women, Rio Takeda, uh, the, the twins, Chisato Iwai and Aki Iwai and then Miyu Yamashita. Last year, Yuka Sasso, who finished runner up to her at the U.S. Women's Open, it was

Hanako Shibuno. Nasa Hataoka finished runner up to Yuka in 2021 at Olympic Club. Japanese women are absolutely playing phenomenal golf. It would not surprise me if a Japanese woman won this week. So just want to, that that country is producing exceptional, exceptional golfers. And we're starting to see that bear fruit all throughout the LPGA tour. Just thought of coming off a six shot win. Is that right? Yeah. Worth. That's notable one by six down in Mexico on a difficult course.

I mean, there were not a lot of low scores out there, and she ran away and hid. Her sister won earlier this year. It's, yeah, we're going to be hearing a lot. Can I ask you guys a question? I don't know if you've noticed this or if this is something you've followed or not, but is the Japanese media as just like radical about following

the women as they are the men? I mean that was the thing for so long with Ishikawa and Matsuyama and all these guys just like they're absolute rock stars and everywhere they go it's just an absolute circus. I don't know if it's the same. The reason I'm asking is like I can hear you like listing off all those names. I'm like it would be hard for them to almost

treat any of them as a super rock star if they're kind off all those names. I'm like, it would be hard for them to almost treat any of them as a super rock star if they're kind of all spread out. There's too many. There's too many. There's too many. I would say, I mean, Cody, I feel like we see between the US Women's Open, I mean, some of the majors we go to, there's definitely a strong Asian media presence,

certainly Japanese media. I don't know if it's as rapid, I just don't know that, but there certainly is a lot of media coverage. Yeah, absolutely. They have their own media that's out there. If you listen to any of the press conferences for them, I mean, over half of them is gonna be in their native language.

They're speaking Japanese and they don't even like take a moment to translate it for the rest of us. We just kind of sit there, which, hey, I dig it because that's usually how it goes the other way around. But it's not as, as crazy as it gets on the men's side, just because they always try to like pump up the one rock star that they have. There's simply just too many that the depth of them right now when we're, you know, Randy Jordan and myself, we did an awesome

US Women's Open preview that was more of a deep dive, but I encourage everybody to go listen to that. I was going just how the leaderboard finished last year. And a lot a big part of the the deep dive was what happened post 1998 in Wisconsin and kind of the growth in Asia and specifically Korean. Last year, the final leaderboard of the US women's open, there was not a single Korean player in the top 10. There was Japanese, there was Thai, basically every other Asian country, not a Korean. The Japanese wave is absolutely here. And I think as good as Mao is, and as Yuka and the rest of them, like, the young ones that they have, the twins are absolute killers who don't care about anything else. They're not afraid of competing on these big stages. And they're like so hungry, just to go out there and like make a name for themselves.

I misspoke. Aki Iwai did not win earlier. She finished runner up at that. Yep. That was the LA championship. Sorry about that. Let's move on to the fourth one. I think this is, this is Geno Titicum. And I listen, we talk about her a lot, but I think it's for good reason. I think the question that's going to be hanging over her and women's golf is, is not a matter of if, but when she will win that first major championship. I feel like every major we get to feels like, Oh God, this could be Gina's week. This could be the start of many majors for her. She, she just is, she's really, really, really good. Uh, her numbers, her top 10s, her floor,

the floor of her golf game is exceptionally high. This year on the LPGA, she's got six top 10s and eight starts. She won her last start at Mizzouho at Liberty National in a very, very impressive fashion. Kind of ran away from Nellie in the fourth round. Ended up winning by three shots. She leads the tour and shots gained per round. What else do we need to know about her? She won the Saudi earlier this year. She won the tour championship to end 2024. She's 22 years

old and it just it's not a matter of if but when she wins a major and it could be this week. I, you know, I think every major we get to that and she hasn't won. I think this will be one of the big storylines going into the week. I'm going to, I'm going to put the, uh, you sound like me a lot talking about one of the top men's players that hasn't won a big one. And then you on the other side would say, she stinks. She has, she can't win the big one. Can't do it.

It's fair. I'm going to be, I'm be you here and say, no, prove it to me. Prove it to me and we'll talk about you in that way. Not if, but when. No, that's not a guarantee in golf. This window could close tomorrow for her if she doesn't get this figured out soon. I mean, I want to see it from Gino. I want to see it. Youino. I want to see it.

You guys keep praise on her 24 seven. And obviously she has a ton of top tens. You slayed Fina for that. You absolutely killed him for it. So yes, I'm going to be here for the other side of that one. How did that feel? Of course, of course it's a straight. It's really fun.

Cody, that's both fair. Way more fun. And I understand it, but also it's like, man, I'm not back and down for like Geno's j a father of six or seven, years old with a 22 year o the LPGA for like three y

talking about me father o there that's a comp that I can see people making, but that's not where it's at at all. She is so good. For the record, I'm not comparing her to me now. I'm comparing the way they treated my friends that talked to me. I would absolutely be like that, but you got to have somebody being the contrarian. I think her comp is wrong. Like for so long, he was putting up just unbelievable

strokes game season after season and it was kind of like you thought he's stung. Yeah. Yeah. And we're talking about Tony right now. Wrong. Now we're under Rom. Oh, gee. Okay, guys, I think the one thing that I like about Gino is that she's asked about this at every single major. And she completely like water off a duck's back. She's like, oh yeah, you know, every tournament's really hard to win. I would love and hopefully one day I will win a major championship, but am I putting additional pressure on myself?

No. Next question. And it's just like the complete opposite of how Nellie or Lydia or any of these other women go about their press conferences. It's almost a feeling of her like, we know for a fact that this is eventually gonna happen, why would I stress myself about it now? I'm only 22. And it's so refreshing to hear. Yeah, I think something interesting about Gino and it's not like her fault,

it's mainly a product of the setup. I think in in women's golf, but she also you look at the events that she has one. She's deep under par, so the question is, you know, can she win an event where it's, you know, three four under is the winning score?

I don't know. Hopefully we get that this week at Aaron Hills will get there. The fifth storyline. I think it's Lydia Ko's quest for all five majors. And listen, she went into the Hall of Fame last year. I think her win at St. Andrews was a career defining win for her. Just the venue, the magnitude that was in shot, signature shot, signature shot. Yeah. Everything felt just like, Oh, this is a moment. And she hasn't had that at a U S women's open a lot like Nellie. The U S women's open has

been Lydia's least successful major. She's only made, she's made 12 cuts and 13 starts, but only two top 10 finishes. A player of that caliber, you feel like she would be around the top 10, you know, competing more. It's the only major where she either hasn't won or finished runner up. I think none of us know how much Lydia wants to keep going playing golf, but I do think, you know, from what we've heard, winning last year a British Open, right, meant a lot for her career. I think if she could add a U.S. Open to her career, I mean it's already a Hall of Fame career, she's got the Olympic gold, it just would be another feather in her cap

for, you know, one of, if not the best player of kind of her generation. So I think, you know, she probably doesn't have a ton of starts left at US Women's Opens. You never know, but this could be maybe one of her last best shots to do it if she is going to do it. Well said. Yeah, that one I can't really, I feel like I can dial up. I could talk myself into a reason why Nellie has not had success in this event. I can't really do that with Lydia feels like it should

be so upper alley and it's harder way harder to complete the career Grand Slam on the women's side with allegedly five majors. It would feel like a career Grand Slam if she won this. She's already won the fake ones. She just has the US Women's Open and she also has not won the KPMG Women's PGA. So those are the two that she's seeking. So does she only have one major? Is that what you're telling me? Well, that was what was so important about the win at St. Andrews, quite honestly, was like, yes, this is proper. Congratulations on your first major. This is capital P proper.

So where should we go from here? Yeah, like I said, a lot of good players that I didn't mention in those storylines, but I think as far as I'm concerned, those are five of the top storylines. That's fantastic, Megan. Thank you for that. I wanna turn it over to our resident,

Milwaukee resident here who has spent a lot of time at Aaron Hills, obviously. Hopefully hopefully got I believe Lydia Ko mentioned that she'd been watching some YouTube golf of Aaron Hills. I'm not going to assume that was us. But if you type in Aaron Hills golf, I think our club championship comes up very close to the top. We did a crash course video out there as well. So I don't know if that's a take that for whatever it's worth. And as far as her stock, I don't know if watching us play that course, hopefully she saw mostly of Ben's round and how to play that place. But we spent a little time out there last year,

experienced it under somewhat championship conditions. But I call you our resident, Aaron Hills, expert on this. I'm a golf fan that I remember the 2017 US Open being a disgrace. Everybody was way under par. It was terrible. It was not worthy of hosting a major championship. Why are the women back there this this week? I don't understand it. DJ like

it. We saw this. We tried this. It was a failure. We have to move on from Aaron Hill. Of course. I would say a couple things in response to your to your very earnest questions there. Number one, I would say the golf course got pretty unlucky. We talked about this a lot. Like Finau. Like Finau. The golf. We talk about this a lot like now, like now. The golf, we talked about this a lot on the men's side that the lines, the margins are really thin. In hosting men's professional golf, you not only

need a big place that has a lot of infrastructure, and a lot of just you need a lot of things to break right operationally to be able to host a major, you also need like the weather to cooperate, you also need the right firmness, you also need all of these things to line up perfectly to test the men in a really good way without pushing it over the line. Enough wind so that they are challenged but not too much that balls blow off the super fast greens that you also have to have because they can hit the ball a mile. Exactly. And they did not get a lot of wind at Aaron Hills. They kind of got a little scared of the Heather,

as you remember. That was the Kevin Na year, Kevin Yaw's dropping balls, which by the way, now that you guys have been there, that was on the 15th hole, which is a drive, a very short drivable par four. He was like 40 yards less of that. That would be like, you would hit a seven iron off that tee. If you missed the fairway by like 60 yards with a seven iron,

that's where he was dropping balls. He's like, this is outrageous. This is, we're supposed to play a professional golf tournament. We need to put up a crew together, the top players and we will set up the event. And then they cut a bunch of the rough down. So that was one thing which was tough. Two, they didn't get a lot of wind,

which is just kind of unlucky. That place is built for the wind. It's a big wide open expanse of a golf course. And it is a big time, like second shot golf course, small targets, especially when those greens get firm. Just to say on the wind, it's the kind of place where a medium amount of wind plays heavier because it has nowhere to hide. Exactly.

And when you don't have that, it's not that, I don't wanna say it's not that tough of a golf course, but it loses a lot of its teeth. For these people, it's not tough. The fairways are massive, especially, and which I'll get to this in a second, but the fairways are massive out there, and then the greens are massive as well. And so when you get a little bit of rain,

you get a little bit of softness, and you don't get a lot of wind, it is a place where the best in the world are gonna make it a bit of a turkey shoot. so that's what kind of remains to be seen is like you Ranny mentioned it very briefly, but can't be underestimated how or overestimated how shitty the spring was especially this past week before you guys got here Was like it was pissing rain for 48 straight hours and then after that it was like 45 48 degrees Just kind of like tough grass growing weather. It's been a really hard spring but even despite all

that by all reports like Lauren's walking off yesterday and like the golf course looks really good. There's a little bit of bounce in it and I think it's only gonna get better. We touched 70 yesterday. Hopefully a little bit of that Sun is drying it out. We got a little rain today, but not like crazy crazy dumping out here and then the rest of the week looks really good. So all of that's a long roundabout way to say. Er like I think it was a little unlucky in 2017, but I also think that personally speaking, it's not Shinnecock and it's

not Oakmont and it's it is just a very different type of course and I think 17 under there 14 under there, whatever Brooks shot is. I still found it very, very entertaining. And I really enjoyed watching him move his chest piece around there and hit to the fat parts of greens and just not fall into the same traps. And now having been out there, you know, a dozen times since then, like I have even more appreciation for it. I have appreciation for the shot JT hit into 18 with the three wood.

There's a little plaque there that's like 302 yards or something and hanging off that little shelf on 18 like you guys saw how fucking hard 18 is. It's just a really, really, really special piece of property, and I think it's going to be so good for the women's game. I was out at Media Day this year and hearing the USGA people just talk about, going back to the operational stuff. Maybe they're just saying what everybody wants to hear, but they're like, man, this is like, they could not make it easier to host a big ass event here.

The place is stacked up to host USGA championships. It's got four more after this between four balls. I think a US juniors coming. I forget what else, maybe a senior women's or something like that. But it's got it's got a lot more championships coming. A lot of that is just because of the setup. It's easy to get to it's easy to park on site, there's space for days. And it's a great variety of golf holes, man. It's like, it's a lot of the things

you know, as you guys are talking about, like, you know, some of the big stars not playing well in US Women's Opens, I'm kind of thinking about how different this is and what they're gonna see week to week, and I'm not necessarily making the connection that the people who feast on those setups aren't necessarily going to be built for this, but I'm like, I could see how somebody would make that case.

And the place is just very different. A lot of blind shots, like I said, big greens that don't really play big or can play small. A lot of the runoffs that are really tight and really, you know, shaved down and firm that promote, not like they promote an option of different short game shots, which I don't think you see a lot on the LPGA. You see a lot of heavy rough around greens

and a lot of kind of laying a 58 degree underneath it and chipping it back on. I think here you're gonna see a lot of bumps. You're gonna see a lot of putting from off the green. You're gonna see a lot of prying to take it up and laying the sod over it and watching it won't roll back to their feet. It's just it's it's a great mix of golf shots and variety and I just I love it and I love watching really good players play it. So I can't wait for this week.

Well, I'm appreciative of like even before like you would win played it before you moved up here. I think like in 2020 or something like that. 2019. Yeah. And you came back like guys, Aaron Hills is sick and I was like, no dude, we saw it. It's not a failure.

We saw that. Thank you. We saw it all up close and personal to it was like one of the most interesting tests I've played. I don't even know what a fair comp is to Aaron Hills. Like it feels different, doesn't feel contrived. It's hard to describe, but I kept fighting this feeling this whole time of like, I could hit driver here, but that's a weird fit. Like that was always the thing that kept coming into mind was like, it's not just hit it right

here and go find it. It's, oh, if I don't do that, I got to draw it. And then an interesting thing I've, from from talking to a couple people was to find out the rough that's just off the fairways. And when the top women golfers in the world miss fairways, it's not by a mile. But if you miss these fairways, which are wide, but play pretty canted and are not hard to miss, I don't think is the worst places to miss. Like it is the it's an interesting dynamic of like, if you want to miss, I don't think, is the worst places to miss. It's an interesting dynamic of like, if you want to miss, you'd rather miss big, you'd rather miss way

into the fescue where it's been pretty bare in there. Especially the spurt with like a really bad spurt. The fescue is not super thick. It's going to be later in the summer. Probably where more spectators are just trampling down. And that's where I was in a blender of these misses I was having in the green grass just off the fairway were so hard to get out and into decent places. But if you miss big, that honestly like you can say so she hits it hard and

lashes and like, I think would tend to miss bigger. I don't know if that necessarily like I'm not saying this is going to reward in accuracy. But it's just an interesting nugget there because it's it's going to stop a lot of balls and it's going to be thick and it's just an interesting nugget there because it's going to stop a lot of balls and it's going to be thick and it's usually where a lot of these top women will miss. It's just an interesting aspect to this. But I think to your point where it can compound at a place like this is there's some really

bad spots around the greens and it is not just like bang it up there close to the green and all 20 yard chip shots are created equal. There's some really, really gnarly spots that you don't wanna be. Right of 15 is a good instance, left of two, anything behind 18, there's just some death spots. And I think 18's the other one, we can go through a couple of the specific holes,

but 18's one that, we talk about this all the time, I hit it roughly, I'm sure that this week they're gonna be playing a similar yardage to what, you know, at least like you and I would play out there. So I obviously hit the club. It's gonna be about 6800 yards. Yeah, I mean, it's it's similar to kind of how we would play. And every time I've played 18, I'm just like, this is 900 yards, man. Like, this is the

longest golf I've ever made. history of mankind. I haven't made better than double I don't think. It's so hard. And it is like, I don't know if they'll move the tees around. I'm sure they will to make it a little more interesting. Because so funny, I was talking to Lauren about 18 yesterday that I was like, man, I had the hole so hard. She's like, that's a wedge into the green. Like the way they think about it is so different than we do, but it was just like,

man, how hard is 18? She's like, I mean, it's a wedge. Okay. It's a daunting, daunting wedge. But it's a lot of just uncomfortable wedges like that, where it's if you're there, the fairways are so canted, like you said, and if you're if you catch the wrong slope, you're hitting up like even a wedge uphill with you're just staring right into a bunker, you know, it's dead behind. That's the whole thing. And the wind's blowing and it's a little above your feet. It's

just a lot of variables on every single shot. Well, I think that's, you know, what we're all saying too is if, if your only idea of Aaron Hills is going back to the U S open that, that Brooks one, I think you're just going to see the course in a radically different light by nature of that was a soft U S open where guys could kind of just hit it high. And it was a little bit of target practice. Whereas the, the, the, the nature of the women's they just don't play like that really. And so you're gonna have to use more of the contouring, you're gonna have to think about, okay, this shot's

gonna hit and roll out to where on the, you know, it's gonna be a lot more strategic, I think. And I just really hope the full experience of Aaron Hills will be much more on display this week, which it sounds like it will be. I think so, and to like a specific example of that to watch if you're watching the broadcast is like the par three sixth is a par three that it kind of, it technically plays a little uphill.

There's like a valley that you hit over, but a player like Xander, you know, can step on that tee and launch a seven iron 200 feet in the air, and it's going to come straight down and it's going to pretty much stop where he hits it. The LPGA players that don't hit it as high that hit a little lower with a little less spin. That's how the golf hole is supposed to be played is like this is a really hard part three, it's got a big false front and then it kind of low key trickles off the back and runs away from you. a big false front and then it kind of slow key trickles off the back and runs away from you. How are you going to handle that? Where are you going to land it? Are you going to hit a runner in there?

Are you going to try to hit a high floater? Like there's just a lot of different options. And I just, I think as much as I watch the LPGA, which is not as much as you guys, it just doesn't seem like there's a ton of those types of golf courses. It's a lot of just hit it to spot a and then hit it to spot B. And if you can hit all of right. I mean, it's, it's a lot of that type of golf that they don't know how we was on six last year during the Club champion so hard man talk about seven iron. I'm like, I think I hit a three wood guy for sure

Yeah, I still came off the false front. Hey, you guys mentioned a couple really really good points there. Nellie had a great mentioned a couple really, really good points there. Nellie had a great quote. It's like Aaron Hills is much more about where the ball finishes and where it starts weekend and week out on the LPGA tour. You hit a good shot. You can bend down, pick up your tee and just start walking after it. That's not the case here because she was talking specifically about the ninth hole. And if you do not land your ball in the correct portion of that, it's going to go off on the, on the right hand side of that green no matter where you're at and it's like throwing them into fits right now during practice rounds it's awesome to see if anybody can't picture that hole it's it's a short par three picture like the seventh

at Pebble Beach but add another 60 70 yards to it it's kind of feels like a little drop shot par three but you still got to hit eight iron seven iron something you know maybe as short as nine iron or wedge, depending on the pin or the wind, but it gives you so many fits because it's per, it's really well shaped because it's surrounded by bunkers and exactly what Nellie was saying is like, you can hit them.

I've seen people literally hit what they think is a perfect shot, the middle of the green and 35 seconds later, they're like, wait, somebody pick up my ball. I'm like, no, it's in my ball? Like where'd it be? Like, no, it's in that bunker, man. Like you didn't watch it roll off there? It's now, sorry. No, you know, most modern courses too,

like when you talk about crazy runoffs and things and rolling into bunkers, bunkers are kind of like the safe spot. You know, you hear a lot of people being like, get in there, get in there. Not the bunkers at Aaron Hills because they're all such weirdly shaped, either deep or super high edges. And the ball will stop on the downslopes upslopes and just like

we're going to see some incredible swings from very difficult spots where most people would encourage or want their balls to be in the bunkers. Guys, we're talking about Aaron Hills, obviously the host of this year next, we're going to RIV. Is that any good? 2027 Inverness, 2028 Oakmont. We're going to see that in a couple of weeks for the men. 2029, of course, we're back to back to back at Pinehurst number two, and then 2030 at Interlochen. But a really good stretch of golf here coming up on the women's side. The purse for this year's women's open up to $12 million, Mike Wan pointed that out. That's pretty damn cool. It's crazy to see just the overall growth of this event,

specifically looking at it. In the last five years, it's doubled itself, but really part of the deep dive going back, like we didn't cross the million dollar mark to like 2006, 2007 or something like that. Every single player who makes a cut gets 10k. It doesn't matter where you're coming from. Of course, I'm pretty sure unless you're an amateur, I don't think Astric would get that money. But the other thing that Mike wanted to shout out was

there's 32 women on the turf team this week. That's part of the women in golf or women in turf initiative. So it's kind of cool. Like we talk about elevating it and what the USGA is actually trying to do. And both on the turf program as well as like high level, ultra competitive, the best in the world players, like they're putting their money where their mouth is at both ends of the game. It's really cool to see. Oh, shout out Aaron Hills too. I was always had kind of a history of female caddies as well. So it's kind of a place where the women's game, I feel like has always been very, very welcomed

and it's kind of cool for a relatively young course now. I mean, I think what is the number 16 courses now have hosted both the men's and women's US Open and for a course that was opened in what, 07 or 08 or something like that. And it's pretty young golf course to be able to do both is pretty awesome. We've got to get to our picks as well. But last few things I had on the golf course were they have been throwing some

water on the course on top of it, potentially raining today. I believe that I might drive out there tonight and just shut it all down. I don't think they're doing it anymore. I think they're a little worried about Thursday, Friday, 156 players getting through the field. Don't think it's gonna be fast out there. Put them on the clock. But yeah, I think that they can step they heard they could step on it for the weekend. So it does not look like they're gonna get a lot of

wind for Thursday. This course is pretty wind dependent. Reports were that this is this report is coming from an unknown player that may have thrown out the first pitch. She hit driver driver into 17 yesterday in the practice round hit five wood into 16. Now the wind I believe she said is supposed to flip for those but that's rare. It can it can give you some there's some moments where I can play long it can play really long out there and we will we'll see that some wind on Friday so not a ton Thursday but looks like there's going to be some wind in the TV afternoon Friday. Light

to medium winds on the weekend but again like we said that can play heavy in the right spots and it can have an effect on the championship. And I'll just add 15 which is the wonderful short part four. It might not be, I think it's gonna be fully realized come the weekend is the report that we're getting. I think some for pace of play concerns, but I would look for it Saturday and or Sunday to be about 235, 240 and really kind of test, a lot of women can't get a three wood there, it's a little awkward for a driver distance.

I think we're gonna see a lot of fun experiences on 15 this weekend. A fun thing about that hole, again, just for your viewing, put this in your mental yardage book. That's the hole, not only have they hosted the US Open and now US Women's Open, they also hosted the US Amateur out there and that was when Patrick Cantlay, they moved the tee on 15 way way way way up

And they made it like I forget maybe 250 or something like really really short and it just threw Cantlay into a blender He tried to lay up with an 8 iron off the T and accidentally hit it an 8 iron in it right in one of those Pop-onkers made bogey that so easily lost the match I believe you Tron's got JJ watt also made a 22 on that whole so simply so sick. Let's get to our picks for the week. And we'll talk a brief amount on Memorial. But as you can imagine, a lot of our focus

on the US Women's Open this week, our one and done picks this week, we're doubling up our one and dones with a pick for the US Women's Open and a pick for the Memorial for the guys that are not here. TC had Sepp Straka to win Memorial plus $4,500 and LC plus $3,300. KVV had Xander plus $1,600 and Gino plus $800. Neil had Xander plus $1,600 and Lydia Ko plus $2,000 to win. Dej, do you want me to read your picture? I'm going to take Jordan Spieth.

He's driving a great, and you know, hopefully the iron play kind of comes to play this week at a place. Just because you like him. That's just one of your boys. At a place that he knows quite well and you know, maybe breaks through and he silences the doubters. He wins and gets that automatic Ryder Cup pick hopefully. And then on the women's side, I'm going to refer to everybody to the first half of this podcast I believe bullet point number two or four possibly or Gino to the Kuma. I think you know, it's gonna it's gonna all click I'm sorry. I'm somebody who just I got patience, you know, I don't need to win now

I'm just looking at high-level traits and you know, if you're close, that's good enough for me I do want to know I don't think anybody's hit a one and done yet. Have they? I think someone had Roy, I think someone had Roy at the masters for sure. Neil, maybe. Okay. Uh, we don't like, we're still looking for some. Yeah. Who do you got mine? Uh, I'm taking Pat the hat in Columbus. I'm taking Cantlay. I believe he is plus 2200. That was as of yesterday. Odds, of course, subject to change. And then I had taken Gino Chevron Week, so she wasn't available to me. I'm taking Minji Lee. Somebody that's won a US Open at Pine Needles. Pretty

good form this year. I believe she was plus 1600 if I'm not mistaken. Soly? Soly. I don't love my memorial pick, but he has history on this golf course and some freaky weeks. I got Victor Hovland plus 2800. It's getting late early on some of my picks. Not a lot of guys available for me. I went, typed in more. I know that's how it was getting bleak.

Yeah, I've used more. Cowl already. And I'm just gonna go with Ronnie Yen to win this week. Plus, I've used more cow already. Uh, and I'm just going to go with Ronnie Yen, uh, to win this week. Plus, I like that shortlist as well. I think just a classic sleeper player that doesn't usually eat up a lot of the airwave talk going into it, but just remarkably talented and just prime to win a lot more of these. And like best friends with Gino that those two get along quite well. We got a fun NLU parlay. You can go to FanDuel Sportsbook. Of course,

they have a no laying up specials NLU parlay. You can go to FanDuel Sportsbook, of course. They have a no-lang up specials tab. Our parlay this week, you can follow, is Lauren Coughlin, A-Lim Kim, and Angel Yin, all to top 20 plus 950. I love that. It's a lot of fun. That's good. Where can we go down to?

Illinois? Do we have to get down to Illinois? Maybe go down to Grey's Lake, swing by Six Flags. Randy's fun play this week, Max Holma and Gabby Ruffles to top 20. That's plus 1400. DJ's. Oh, you hate this. Oh, I hate it. You're so much simply can't comprehend this play. I hate it so much. Andrew Novak and Lauren Coughlin to top 20 plus 850. Actually love that. That's pretty sick.

I would ride that with you. Top 20. Yeah. Can I float a little thing on Lauren here? I don't know if you. Top 20. Yeah. Can I float a little thing on Lauren here? I don't know if this was in your notes for later, but good vibes in Milwaukee. Last time she was here, she won an event at Brown Deer Park. A victory. A victory. We've been watching the Curtis Strange Brown Deer Park videos

so much. Go look it up. You'll learn. If you don't know it or you haven't seen it. Sometimes that's not that bad. So second sucks, third's worse. I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a state with a victory. So she's by be this we know, you'll learn. Is there another one?

You have a tap in my tap in to win the memorial any of Scotty Xander Colin or JT to win Memorial at plus 120 I believe the last I saw Scottie's odds like just a Scotty like my? Like, plus 80? Is that just a Scotty play? My literal only memorial take was like, how far are we away from Scotty versus Field? Because I actually think... Especially when Roy's not there. Like Scotty kind of either beats himself, but just by math, like your average game isn't going to win a lot of weeks. Like, I line them up, I'm like, is Hovland going to go beat Scotty? No. Like, Scotty might have a decently bad week and somebody else might win, but nobody's gonna like go and beat him. But I know that as part of me. So I'm like,

can you give me Scotty? Plus I get to throw in a few other guys, Xander, Colin, or JT. Colin and JT have a good course history there. How many tap-ins did I miss yesterday?. I missed so many puts inside three. I don't want you call it anything. I know. Well, that's why I was like, Oh, that's a tap it. I was like, I can't use that phrase. Anyways, basically, Scotty plus some friends at plus 120 to win Memorial. I thought that was a lot of fun. That's really good. Well, this is a great, great to screen week. If you got it, the

US women's open is at 12 to 6 PM Eastern on USA Network and six to eight on Peacock. Welcome. So if you're looking for it, come Thursday, Friday. It is on USA Network. Then one to three Eastern on Peacock on Saturday, three to seven on NBC, then two to seven on NBC on Sunday. I got that from the preview pod.

I hope you got all that. Yeah, yeah. No, that's right. There is a couple additions too. So, Peacock on US Women's Open website and on the USG app. There are feature groups in the morning. Oh, nice. That's what I was curious about. Okay. There are morning coverage that's not on there. So, starting tomorrow morning, we're going to have the 740 and 751 groups of Yucca Sasso, Renee Malikse and Lydia Ko and then Gino, Lilia Vu, Rose Ang all tomorrow morning, feature group

coverage. So there is early golf if people are searching it out. Sweet. No, I was just going to say, if you don't watch a lot of women's golf or if you've watched just some odd weeks, this is the week that NBC particularly like puts their best foot forward. It feels like a major. They do it justice. So this you know if you're going to watch any week watch this week. This is this is as good as it gets. I think for the LPGA

and women's golf. I would even maybe go a step further and you know micro targeting here, but if you're in Wisconsin, if you're in Illinois, if you're in Chicago, if you're if you're within driving distance, man, I think this would be a really good tournament to go attend in person. I think it's you're not going to be parking off site and riding a bunch

of shuttles you're parking right there. It's just beautiful property. The weather looks like it's going to be great, like 6570 degrees. You're going to get to see a variety of different golf shots. You're going to go get to see up close. You're probably not going to have to battle huge massive crowds.

It's just if if you have a kid who's trying to get into golf, if you have a significant other is trying to get in or if you just want to go by yourself and just watch the world's best players at a really, really cool place, that's really fun to go walk around. I ran you some of my most fun I had at the club championship was not playing golf. Truly just like what a fun place to just walk around and just kind of Look up and out and enjoy yourself want other people just to play the shots Yes, you don't need to play the shots to enjoy if you're around that get some tickets

Tickets available go get a fesky rescue in a giant ass chocolate chip cookie And go walk around that place because I guess it's gonna be a great weekend out there We are gonna save our talk for the tour, announcing that the starting stroke is going away for the tour championship a few months in advance of it. We're going to save that for Sunday. We're going to talk all about that and react to the week of golf.

We're going to have a live show Saturday night, teeing up the final round of the US Women's Open. And then we will be live on Sunday as well, recapping both US Women's Open and Memorial. One of the best weeks of the year. I'm very excited to get back and watch some golf. But we got some golf to play, both this afternoon and tomorrow, and we will have all that out on film later this summer.

But we managed to get both done this week. This is a massive, massive week for all of us. So thank you to our friends at FanDuel. Thank you to our friends at Roebuck. Cody running the ones and twos. Matt behind the scenes as well. My friend DJ Pai in his garage and his great wifi out here. This was this was wonderful.

And Randy for his five wonderful times, just five. And we got some hopefully this rain passes in a little bit of golf. Oh, it's lightening out. You can see it. It's breaking up. Pray for us. We're going to be fine. Thank you for tuning in. We'll see you back here live Saturday night. Crack on. Cheers.

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