No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 1039: The Open Championship Preview

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

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Be the right club today. Better than most. Better than most. Better than most. Expect anything different. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the NoLayingUp Podcast, presented live, our open championship preview here on the NoLayingUp Podcast YouTube channel. Solly here, best week of the year, T1 for best week of the year. I think this is a tie with Augusta.

Here with DJ Pi, hello Pi man. Greetings guys, great to be with you. You know, I was just thinking about that as we come on. I was like, it's either the best week of the year, it's my favorite week of the year, or sometimes it alternates, sometimes it's both. I don't know, but either way, I think that's a great position we find ourselves in. Can't wait for the open. Can't wait to talk about it. Good to be with you. Mr. TC is here. Hello, TC. Hello. Hello. I would say it's favorite, not best. I think the best week of the year is probably the Masters. I think favorite week of

the year is the Open Championship. It's my favorite major, but it's not the best major of the four. You know what, I see what you've been going with that. I'm back and forth. That makes way I know it's the best golf like is the best style of golf. It's the merging of so many things. I'm absolutely stoked. We are going to do our famous storyline draft to kick off that we've that we've used to kick off preview episodes here in recent years, followed by a little bit of stuff you should know need to know about Royal Port Rush DJ is going to give you a little

history lesson as well on the club. I'm going to take you on a mini dive, not a deep dive, but a look back into 2019 in case you forgot what happened that week. I think everyone did almost everyone I've talked to has been like, what, what happened in 2019? Why? I don't remember. We'll talk about some of that as well. Take some Twitter questions, check in on some odds and everything else you need to know ahead of this week's major.

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Really good question. I don't know, you know, and I know that doesn't necessarily make for good podcasting, but I'm gonna suss it out here with you guys. I feel like the open kind of snuck up on me a little bit. And, Sali, I feel very grateful to have seen Royal Port Rush. We've got a video coming out tonight. We had a podcast that went up last week talking about our experience and just being able to draw on a little bit of a sense of place, I think ratchets up the excitement for me. But I think that blind spot from 2019 and just a busy year, I think, has kind of helped this one sneak up on me a little bit. I think it's really hard to expect we're going

to surpass what we saw at the Masters and the Career Grand Slam. That just kind of feels like what 2025 is going to be known for, and the rest of the year, I think is going to be in for kind of an unfair comparison in relation to that. But at the same time, we're going to a wonderful golf course, a scenic golf course, a unique golf course. We've got a great field, we've got a lot of great storylines and it's the open. So for that reason, I'm much more pumped than I was for say the PGA or something like that.

But it's like, man, I was pretty pumped about Oakmont too. So it's been a really good major year, I guess, maybe is the quick way of saying why I think this one snuck up on me a little bit. TC, what about you? I mean, it's certainly better than the PGA. Sure. That's for sure.

Similar both though, Deidj. I forgot, I have to remind myself where the PGA was this year. Similar thing. I've never been to Port Rush, never been to Northern Ireland. Don't have all that strong of memories from the previous time I was here and when Lowry won. Yeah. It's kind of just, I was like, all right.

It's kind of how I feel like when St. George's has has won and, and I'm, you know, am I, Hey, is this a better golf course than it is championship venue, possibly, but I'm going in with an open mind of no, you know what, it's a me problem. I was wrong about, about, about Port Rush. Let's, let's, let's give this a fresh set of eyes. So I'm stoked. And then there's just all sorts of storylines. This week honestly might be kind of a post-hype sleeper a little

bit. Yeah. Yeah. You know, where I think everybody kind of tuckered themselves out, getting all pumped up for 2019. And it's weird weather and kind of a week that was a little strange that I think it's sneaking up on people, but it could be an absolute banger. Who knows? Soly, where are you at? Well, it's so weird. I guess in all of our golf history fandom, have we, I'm struggling to think if, if we welcomed a new course to the Rota.

I mean, I know some courses kind of come in and out, uh, you know, over the years, but this is a new thing. I mean, us open, you know, we welcomed chambers Bay. We welcome welcome Aaron Hills. Don't think we were going to be going back there for you as well. Roderick, though, well, they failed the test to get me the road. I guess. Yeah,

they made appearances. But so there's so many of these venues that we have way more depth of memories at that is part of what goes hand in hand with this championship, I think. And I think about this a lot too. Like, I don't think open championship golf courses are all that separating and unique from each other aside from the old course. I mean, there's different things to love

and there's some to not like. But I think that like the stretch of that scale is a lot different than it is say the US Open. I mean, there's some US Open venues I don't even, I just don't like straight up. There's not one open championship venue that I don't like. I don't like straight up. There's not one open championship venue that I don't like. I think St. George's gets the gets the kind of the snippy snidey comments, I guess. But I think that's still a great

golf course. And it's not, you know, Jack Nicklaus's quote of the the open road, of course, is the get worse, they get worse, the further south you get probably rings true. But at the same time, like, all this is a really long winded say way of saying, I don't think Port Rush, if you're expecting this golf course to blow you away this week, it's not going to, it didn't in 2019. But is it a very solid, excellent championship golf

course that should promote a, I mean, part of the reason it goes here is because of the ticket sales they can do and the records they set in 2019 and the records they're going to set this year. I mean, it's going to be wildly well attended. And I just I hope that comes through on television. That's probably something that gets on the the you know, it's on the action a little bit but on the on the broadcast partners as well to capture the atmosphere

of why they're going to this place. And I think they can do that. I really do think they can do that. And I think with a little bit weather better weather this year, some of that atmosphere might shine through. Is the weather going to be better? I mean, it was bad over the course of that weekend. And, and I honestly not like the fun bad. I mean, I know people kind of root for rain at the open. I root for wind. I think that's

way more entertaining than the rain. And some a little bit of moisture in the air, but like enough to just add a variable not to make the guys Completely miserable, right? I think that's right. I think there's also something a little bit to the golf course specifically just thinking about it more since we were there and and reading more about it and watching more about it and I think One of the hallmarks of the Open Championship and why it's so fun to watch, particularly as the conditions get worse, is just the ball on the ground and how much fun it is to watch the ball bounce around. At Port Rush, you do have a lot more... The greens are... It's so cool when you're there, but they are kind

of more protected by hills and humps and bumps and taller grass than they are, you know, just like really deathly bunkers and there's less running shots up and it's a little bit smaller greens. And in a way, I don't I mean, I've only played the golf course once, who knows, but it's like, it almost feels a little bit more like an aerial sort of test than a lot of the other Lynx golf courses. And I was just trying to think of ways to square why it didn't translate on TV quite as much. And I think maybe that's part of it. Sal, you think there's anything there?

I have 100%. I think that's really well said and was going to be one of my things to look out for for this golf course in particular, especially rewatching 2019, just like the iron. There was a couple moments, Shane Lowry had some, you know, got into some trouble off the tee and use some bumpers around the greens. I think back to the 10th hole, I believe that was on Saturday. He had this really awesome punch seven iron out of the, you know, used, used a

couple bumpers and flipped it up there and made birdie. Like that was a really special shot. The rest was just like target practice, just firing at flags and it played, you know, the scores got pretty low there at a certain point, just because it got soft. But yeah, you didn't see a ton of like, that also goes hand in hand with wind. I mean, a lot of times you're going to see running shots when it's downwind and you got to play it short and you got to bounce it up.

But yeah, the golf course has a lot more elevated greens, a lot more crowns, a little bit more runoffs that I think do promote that more aerial style game. It's still like a classic links course. It's not a new links course. It's been there for a long, long, long time aside from seventh and eighth holes. But it is it's what it's what makes it's another thing that makes it different. Like this is it's an Irish golf course. Like it is not a classic Scottish or English links. It's it's very very different style and it's a different muscle

that they can flex. And I'm excited to see it the second time around because I think this one's gonna be more memorable. I think the, you know, it doesn't look like we're gonna get the fun conditions either. Like if we're not getting conditions, I just want it to be like kind of sunny and crisp and that sort of thing.

And I don't know, I kind of take some issue with Nicklaus's The Farther South You Go, the worst they get. I think, like, Birkdale's sick. I love Birkdale. Or I'm a little bit worried that with the McKenzie and Ebert stuff and just generally speaking the RNA, some of these courses getting like Lhythm, getting squeezed out of the rota or Muirfield getting squeezed out of the rota, they're getting a little homogenized in the presentation. Am I wrong in saying that? I think it really is just, it's a ticket selling thing, man. That's where I get more nervous. Yeah. That's where I get nervous. Yeah.

Yeah. Or like, hey, what does this look like if they do go to, if and when they do go to Port Marnock? Does this get taken down to once every 10, 12 years in Port Marnock being right near Dublin? You want to talk about ticket sales and big corporate spend there. That supersedes this then. Yeah. Yeah. I'd be surprised if they continue to go back every six years to... I mean, this is an endorsement, man. Not a lot of courses get this kind of level of treatment, but let's get into some storylines from the actual golf tournament. We're going to go around the horn twice take any

anything that you're most keen most excited to find out or looking forward to the what are you going to go check on your phone come Thursday? You know what what results are you really really sweating out right now? A pie man? What's what's I'm gonna be first draft pick. Top story. I know tops. I don't want I don't think this is a draft class where you want the first pick. It's more about depth. Yeah, it's more about depth.

I'm like, it'll be draft class. Exactly. You're going under slot then to come back bigger later? This is crazy. And I don't think that I even saw myself going here first. I mean, I had a lot of directions you could go. You could talk about Rory's haircut. You could talk about- Don't pull a TC here. a lot of directions you could go. You could talk about Rory's haircut. You could talk about, you know, all kinds of things. This is crazy. This is my first pick, but I'm going with John Rahm.

Okay. I think John Rahm is deeply under the radar. I think his odds I saw were something like plus 1200 or something. He's got maybe the best open championship record of anybody that's never won the tournament over the last five, six years. He's got a little tiny bit of history here. I know he played in the in the amateur when it was here in 2014. He plays links golf really, really well

and he obviously has that kind of perennial chip on his shoulder as the has this guy's game fallen apart as he's going to live. He's been totally irrelevant. He hasn't finished worse than like, what, 12th or 14th or something at the majors this year. I think it was like T 14 at the Masters and then like T 78 at the other two. I mean, he's been he's kind of shot himself out of it in a couple early rounds. But man, he's been he's been there. He's hung on. I know some of them feel a little backdoor, but he's

still playing really, really, really good golf. And I feel like, you know, kind of everything I was saying about the golf course, I feel like it suits him really well. You know, I feel like he's, it's a good mix of a place where you have to drive it long and straight. I think he's, his driving's almost become like underrated over the last couple years as we've, we've seen him less and less. But it's a place where you got to drive it long and. Cause that off the fairway is going to be really tough. It's a place where you gotta strike your irons really well. There's enough creativity there that I think it can, it can shine and he can separate himself. Uh, and I don't know, just feels like a great fit for John Rom to kind of reestablish himself as one

of the best players in the world, which he quietly still, still is. That's well said. I mean, is that a, is that how That's well said. I don't know. But I don't think he's going to be there in round two. I think he's probably a two and a half, three pick or something. I got to take him now. He's coming off a solo second. He's coming off of, he's probably pissed that he had to go play Valderrama. I know that's made them mad in the past that they're not. I think they've gone away from that for next year where they don't have a tournament the week before a major. Yeah, I think Rom is just like, this is a post hype sleeper. Rom feels a little bit

like a post hype sleeper. And that's kind of as like a third favorite on the board sort of thing. It's like, I don't know. I think there's a little bit of value there. He finished T11. I was like, I thought he top 10 here in 2019. T11 back here in 2019 for the record. And if I may, since then T11 in 2019, T3 in 21, T34 in 22, T2 in 23 and T7 in 24. Had you mentioned that 2021 T3 that Sunday 64 cost me like tens of thousands of dollars

in a daily fantasy pool. So unlucky. Who's next? TC? TC. Wow. I mean, it's a hard draft, man. Tough class. Yeah. Do you want me to go because... Wow, trade. We've never had a trade in the Storyline draft. I think you're going to be thrilled with where I'm going.

Or horrified by it. Go ahead, Solly. I'm getting Mike Mike Tice here. I do not have my envelope ready TC I'm in I'm in on the whole thing, dude. It makes a lot of sense. I make so much sense About it for 18 months. I'm ready to ride it out. I'm ready to I'm ready to experience it from a Thursday on. I'm not, like, I think this is a time for our boy, our beautiful boy. Runner up here in 2019. Yes, we love him. We just, some of us view him more objectively than some of the rest of us.

That's all it is. We still love the guy. We still root for the guy. Want to see him win. Should we say who you're talking about for those that don't know? I want to build up the drama just a little bit longer. He hit rock bottom, we've seen so many guys hit rock bottom and have that just uncontrollably bad loss and look like they cannot recover from it. And they rise like a phoenix

from the ashes Roy McElroy at the US Open in 2024 turns around, wins the Masters this year. Kyle Stanley who could forget back in 2011 or 2012, course when he lost the farmers and came back to win Phoenix. I think Tommy Ladd is gonna is gonna absolutely bring it this course fit couldn't be better for him honestly. He's such an accurate driver accuracy is gonna matter here. He's not long but he's long enough his iron play should play really really. I just

need the guy to make some putts. And if he would have putted in 2019, he would have won the damn thing. And I just cannot wait to see what happens this week because I'm buying everything you're selling. We're going to go on this road together this week, TC. Let me ask a couple of clarifying questions because I think he's going to play really well. Is that, does that matter? Is that what we're talking about? Or are we only talking about like, like if he finishes solo second, do you feel good about that?

Or are we talking like win or nothing? I mean, I'd feel very good if he finished solo second. Like that'd be a very, very good tournament. Terrible, terrible. I know you would, of course you would, but I- Yeah, that's where, yeah, you're not actually in this to win this. You're just you're just doing a psychological safe bag jitsu on

me like this. This feels like you're trying to it's Monday, I'm not submitting a winning pick. Now. Let's just monitor the situation for Wednesday. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying at this moment because trying to load more pressure onto him early week. Absolutely not. Nobody wants this more than me and you TC. I promise you. Okay. After all you guys have been there together. TC, second clarifying question. Hold on. The third clarifying thing really quick is you got to understand there's two things that play here.

We had a trade on that when he traded up to the third one. We both love Tommy Fleetwood but competing with that is how much we love needling you. Okay that's that's that's what that is. That is a conflict with this all right. Well that brings me back to clarify question number two. TC you said a couple weeks ago that you were going to pick him was it you were going to pick him for Port Rush and if he didn't win you were never going to pick him again. Is that is that still the case? Yes. That was the deal. So you guys are saying, we're buying what you're selling TC. Hey, I'm not selling anything. The store's not even open yet. Yeah. The line is forming outside the door. I'm taking this thing back private and we're not selling shares. Everybody wants back in now. And it's it's it's a, you know, it's a private, you know,

like, it's a I don't know what you call that, you know, private stock, right? So it's somewhat illiquid. But I think. Yeah, I mean, no, because next year, Iran, a mink Shinnokok. No, you, we made a deal. Arana. We made a deal. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We made a deal. We made a deal.

Cody's coming in here. We made a deal. Okay. We can, we can, we're not going to need to do that because he's going to, because he's going to win this week, but I'm not selling anybody on that. Like, that's just how I feel. And he's the number 10 player in the world right now. And you said it all yourself, this

place fits him to a tee, you know, world class iron player and putter just needs to get a little bit hot. So he's he's number five in the data golf rankings as well. He's not just number 10, the OWGR is five in the real the real stuff. Number one in my heart. So okay. I've got a trip planned next week. I do have a flight on hold if need be. That vaunted Jax to Belfast direct. It's tough. A lot of logistics. There are many different directions we can go. We can take a ferry. We could take four different airports. It's crazy. So you know what, maybe I just want to sit at home and watch it in the comfort of my own home as well. And and Sally, have you

come over? We can break doing that again, because that that almost broke me watching watching the travelers whatever at your house. That was not not my favorite Sunday. But anyway, anyway, I think we're belaboring the point we do we do not need to talk about Tommy a lot this week. You know, okay. We all see it. We all see it. Okay, we all see where what's your top storyline then? Well, considering what's off the

board. My top storylines Rory, just, you know, seemingly going with Sweden, like I'm gonna go and try to just experience the week and open my eyes and interact with the fans as much as possible, but also I think I can win. It seems very different from him basically last time trying to just come in and almost be unprepared for it or not think about it at all. It seems like he's eyes wide open with it. I don't know. I'm just fascinated because he's had such a weird last three months since the Masters.

And do you find yourself rooting for him this week? I don't know. It's weird. Right. I feel conflicted too. Weirdly, I think if he did win, it would make all the other shit over the last two or three months just wash away. Or really over the last, similar to the Masters of like, I found myself rooting for him for the first time at the Masters on Sunday. I was rooting for Team Rose really, but I found myself not rooting against him and just happy that he won. And it made me forget about, oh yeah, the stuff at Pinehurst or some of the media stuff.

So I just think it's going to be a very interesting week. We'll see how he plays. And if it's not super windy, it seems like it should suit him. If it's not super windy, it seems like it should suit him. Yeah. I think it'd be pretty tough if he gets in contention Saturday, Sunday to not get swept up. Yeah. I think it'd be awesome. That would be the most interesting thing would be just the groundswell of support and cheering and all of that. It would be wild to watch as a spectator. It would be highly entertaining. Yeah.

All right. One more round of storylines, Dej. Back to you. A lot of directions we could go. I'll go with Scottie Scheffler. And to put it more precisely, I'll just say I'm just interested no matter what happens this week with Scottie. I feel like we've seen him play unbelievable generational golf on pretty much everywhere in the United States. And I think that we haven't still seen him really rise to it when we get some nasty conditions and some weird bounces and some of the variables. I know his record at the Open is very solid. It's just kind of a victim of his success everywhere else.

I think that it stands out as kind of a down record compared to everything else. But I just, the whole math equation doesn't make a lot of sense to me in that he seems like the most mentally tough player on the planet. He seems like a guy that has all the shots. He seems like a guy that drives the ball in the fairway. He hits irons to the, like he's the best at hitting the right trajectory, the right shape, the right pitch number, the right all of these things. And I don't know why, just like extreme success at the open hasn't, hasn't taken shape yet. You know? And I think it's a, it's a weird hole that, that is very interesting to see what happens, whether he plays well or not.

I mean, is it, I'm rooting for him to play well because I think it's, it doesn't make sense that this hole is kind of on his resume, so to speak. And he hasn't, I mean, he's only played it, what, four times or something. It's not like the, the records, all that, that deep. It's just like that. That seems like the next thing that's going to, going to catch up here. It's, it's, it's just like, uh, I don't want to pull on one moment and, and let

that bleed into this week when Scottish open is a PGA tour event and not nearly this, but like him yelling at the greens at on 13 at Renaissance didn't make me feel good about like handling the variables of all this, you know, it's yeah, man, when you play links golf, I mean, and you're playing the good link screens. Let me tell you, when you play links golf, like the ball doesn't always roll perfectly true. That's kind of part of the deal here. And it just seems like too often, uh, whatever the deal is at some of these

bigger tournaments, like, Hey, yeah. When you drive it offline at Pinehurst, you're going to get some squirrely stuff here and like the ball is going to get rejected on some of these greens and yeah, the Oakmont greens are really hard. It seems to bother him. I got times, you know, and I hope that's not the case at the same time. If he goes up and shows, he shows up with B plus game It's night night for everybody. Yeah, I mean it really just has to

Stay out of his own way and play decent golf and there's nothing about this golf course that can stop him But I don't think he's gonna be my pick at the same time. I'm still it and kind of maybe somewhat foolishly just like wait and see with him in this championship in this playing style, because there is just so many variables in a tournament like this. And it just feels less, less inevitable than than if you played literally anywhere else. So Scotty should start taking the steamship over should take the Queen Mary or whatever over just get get right, you know, take

some time to sim on that thing. And yeah, take some time to really think it over. Yeah. We called this out last night as well, but I'm just going to go ahead and just mention again, the quiet defending champion is Zander Schroff-Lehm. How did you steal it? He's... Well, I was going to ask, did you guys even trade for the second round or was that still TC? Was that TC?

Yeah, I had to... I always go last on this. Let me have my time. Just go in second here. Maybe you guys split up. Maybe what do you get Xander? What do you get gets his dad? He's quietly, you know, playing not quite full Xander golf, but you know, had a nice week last week and seems closer and

closer and has turned it on to major championships before. Obviously won two of these things last year and, um, his open record isn't amazing prior to, to winning. I mean, that was his first ever top 10, uh, in an open championship, but. I don't know. I feel like we can kind of say this about all these guys at this point, a certain point, but it does seem like golf course, it should fit them, uh, the playing profile, the shot shapes and all that stuff

seems like it would make sense for him. And I'm very keen to see what he comes out with because right now if you it'd be tough for me to choose like a winner. But if I had to choose from like Rom, Xander, Tommy is like where my where my head goes right now. And I don't know what order I put them in as of right now probably changed my mind five times before before Wednesday night. Yeah, we talked about this Wednesday, would you give me a And I don't know what order I put them in as of right now. Probably changed my mind five times before, before Wednesday night. Yeah.

Are you talking about this Wednesday? Would you give me a ROM? Would you say ROM, Xander, Tommy versus the field? Yeah. Be the big guns versus right. Well, I mean, that's no Rory, no Scotty. That's not the top five. The current big gun. Oh, there's, there's a bunch of big guns markets up. But yeah, the the let's see, there's a Scotty Rory, Rom Xander. Any of them to win is plus 122. Scotty Rory.

I want to have to show you're basically taking Fleetwood trade. Yeah, we got the separate Fleetwood ticket anyway. So might as well take the big guns there. It's an interesting one. TC, take us home here. Good question. I think it's time to see something out of Ludwig in one of these other majors. He's played well in the Masters twice. I think he had some bad habits creep into the golf swing when he was hurt last year,

I believe. And so I think it'll be interesting to see him again, second shot golf course, like he drives it straight. He's going to be in play, seems to be playing well, games coming around. It just seems like a couple mental errors last week at the Renaissance. So I think it's time to get it back up to Ludwig fever pitch on just the hype machine. So I'm ready for it. Couldn't be more more here for that. Yeah. I think you're in control of the of that TC the fever pitch. I

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Like these are these are so they're so good. Yeah shoutouts at foot joy So I know we talked a little bit of Royal Port Rush on on the front end here But let's go let's go a little deeper, you know, it's sometimes I think you're really good at this You did this with Oakmont Maybe maybe three four or five things that that people should really be paying attention to. What do you got? Sure, I'm gonna start you right off the bat with what you're hit with on that opening tee shot. And we remember Rory

McIlroy going out of bounds on that tee shot. But do you remember that it was very possible like it there is in course out of bounds on the opening tee shot, and it's not that far off the line of play. And there's in course out of bounds down the left of the 18th shot and it's not that far off the line of play and there's in course out of bounds down the left of the 18th hole, which is not that far from the line of play and it really only it was Roy was not the only one to hit it out of bounds. JB Holmes also did on Sunday many other players also did it's the one we remember the most but it is a

unique feature that is part of what makes this championship what it is I think it is like right off the bat. We're all Liverpool should be this way. They change, they mess with the routing and they play the third hole is the one with the in course out of bounds. Uh, and I'm just, it's a, it's a, it's one of those things like, man, I don't know if I can miss the opening tee shot for any of these guys, like, because anything can happen from the jump

and it forces you to really just not pound driver off that opening tee yet these guys are really nervous, especially the hometown happen from the jump and it forces you to really just not pound driver off that opening tee. Yet these guys are really nervous, especially the hometown guys, and they want to reach for a big clubhead. Darren Clark talked about that in 2019 of he hit the opening shot and he's like, it should be iron, but I'm just going to bond the driver because I can't possibly hit an iron in front of this many people right now. So that's number one. I think on that note real quick, I'm sure we'll talk about this as the week goes on, but I don't know if there's anything in golf that I've wavered my position on harder than in course OB. I think years and years and years ago, I was like, this is so gimmicky and so stupid and

OB should be property lines and that's all still part of the golf course and blah, blah, blah. And the older I get, the more tournament golf I watch, the more I'm just like, man, if these guys are going to have the drivers that they have and they're going to be able to wail away on things and they're going to have forgiving this and forgiving that and less spin this, it's just like, I don't have a lot of other ideas. And so the only thing that matters. Yeah, exactly. Let's not pretend that addresses the distance problem, but based on this being the case, I agree with you. Like this is a proper way to duct tape solution, but it's stopping the the case, I agree with you. Like this is a proper way.

It's a duct tape solution, but it's stopping the sink from leaking. You know, I still remember the first time we played Hoylake really actually the only time I played Hoylake and I was like that, that just hit different. That first hole. Oh, this is awesome. Standing on, I mean, when we played Port Rush a couple of months ago, standing on the, on the first team was like, Oh my God, like I don't say this out loud in front of everybody else, but you can make a nine here. You start like pumping a couple of these get a couple quick flippies OB with this four iron or something like shit,

man. And I kind of I caught a good balance. I think I bounced back in but I was definitely flirting with that left line. And plus they get the wind going off the right as well like the ball, especially on a links course, when that ball starts going the wrong direction, there's nothing that stops it from going that way. So anyways, number two is elevated greens. I don't have like a picture in my head of every green of every golf course on the open rota. But to me, Port Rush sticks out

for having a lot more elevated greens. We talked a little bit about that aerial approach, you're going to see. First green is straight up a big hill. Like it's a pretty large elevation change. And you just don't see that elevation change at Troon. You don't see that elevation change. You maybe do a little bit, I guess, at Birkdale, but you don't see it at the Old Course, obviously. Or you don't see that as much on Carnoustie. Like it's a it's a unique feature. The second green kind of has you know, the combination of I guess elevated greens and some mounds protecting the fronts of these greens. The fourth is kind of the same way. The third is very repelling sits kind of up on top of this little hill. Six is like that you can kind of keep going through and through the golf course and you're just gonna see a lot of somewhat elevated greens and some runoff areas around some of these greens you're gonna see a lot of balls funneled down into One thing on that note saw I was reading as everybody should Jeff Shackelford's excellent newsletter the quadrilateral and He was he was going to even a level deeper on that and talking about how the that kind of makes firmness change from hole to Hole, you know when you have like a lot of holes that are playing downhill almost into hollows And then the next hole might be uphill sitting on a plateau

He's like those play it like totally different firmnesses, you know holes that are playing downhill almost into hollows. And then the next hole might be uphill sitting on a plateau is like those play it like totally different firmnesses, you know, just with the way water moves. And it's not like there's subair systems out there to like unify all of those, all of those things. And I just thought that was a really interesting point that I hadn't really thought of. It's like not only are you hitting uphill, it's probably gonna be a lot firmer than the green you just played to get more exposed and more wind and

all of those things. So just more variables on those elevated greens. Number three is Irish flair. I mean, you get to the setting of that fifth green and you are up on a cliff. It looks like band and honestly, like you're just so high up on this cliff. And I, again, struggling to think of another road of venue that has anything like that or a cliff like that

or a setting like that. And then you go, it's not my favorite hole out there, but the seventh hole that par five that climbs right up the hill, the dune you play underneath, it's just massive. Like it's going to be heavily featured on the broadcast. You're going to have a ton of aerial footage, I'm sure, in that special part, but it is what makes golf and on the island of Ireland special, like it's just defined by the dunescapes and especially up on this northern coast like Port Stewart nearby has so many massive dunes and really really cool holes that play underneath them but he was tweeting some pictures yesterday I was just like wow that's

different yeah it's bold it's it's it's something it's something else man it really is and you'll see some of that on our film that that comes tonight. It's just a wild, wild setting. Well, and that fifth hole too. So I know you put together an Instagram reel. I don't know if it went out yet or not, but just how close that OB sneaks up on the back of that fifth green is like, dude, it's so easy to hit a wedge out of bounds on that hole, depending on if you lay up or where the wind is or it's easy to drive it. It's kind of a dream. It's like a major championship. I mean, it is like it is easy to hit it out of bounds there. It's

gonna be awesome. Justin Harding chipped it out of bounds. And back in 2019, probably wasn't the only one that did it. But number four, it is, I guess, unfortunate for those that are late risers or have to watch, you know, watching over from the US. they don't get to see the early parts around. It is such a banger of an opening set of holes. I mean, you know, one is, is, is like we mentioned an interesting opening tee shot and then two, the par five, three is such a cool par three, four is

one of my favorite holes on the golf course, just this great par four that runs up against the right OB boundary, but has these left bunkers to kind of force you to play that way, but it's not a straight hole, you kind of got to play it towards the OB. And then the green sits atop this dune with this big massive dune that protects the front left of it. And then you roll over to five and it's drivable downwind. Yet you know, if it's into the wind, you got to play it way

farther left than you might think. It's just as such a sweet opening salvo of holes. and it's what sticks out. I think of Port Rush, I think about those, that opening five holes. And then the final one here, this is the meeting of the 13th and 17th greens is such a cool setting. You play the 13th is a par three that plays downhill. I think we have some footage of that. we possibly may hear Cody for when you play this tee shot downhill towards 13 and then directly behind it is the 17th green. And we always get questions if I'm going, where should I go watch some golf?

Like this seems to be like the going to be the epicenter of the tournament here, you know, with just kind of the way these holes touch right back against each other, the noise is going to be loud in this little hollow as well. And when the tournament gets to this part, it's going to be really, really, really exciting. I just love this. Love this look. And I there's this the pole that's behind this green. It's for the blind 17th hole as well. But this is this is a highlight spot for me when these two holes convene here. And's something that's whole unique to Rolport Rush. So those are my things. Two very different holes, different shots you'd see there. It's just, yeah, that's such a cool piece.

Deidre, why don't you give us a little bit of a history lesson of Rolport Rush for those of us that are not well versed in its steep history. Sure. This is a very cursory overview. Certainly there are more vaunted club historians out there, I'm sure, but just a couple little things to impress your friends at the water cooler with. Guys, originally founded as a nine-hole course in 1888. It was originally called the County Club, which I did not realize. The next year it was expanded to 18 holes. A lot of people attribute that to old Tom Morris. The club, the way that they phrase it seems very intentional on their website with advice from old Tom Morris. I think it might've been one of those Donald Ross like, yeah, yeah, yeah, move that there, that there, that there. And I think you're, I think you're good to go.

Some stolen valor. I don't know. I don't know necessarily about that. I think he was he was there. He played an exhibition match there. He spent some time there. I don't know if he was necessarily shovels in the ground. Somebody else can can certainly clarify that for me. But Cody, if you if you go to the old Tom Morris routing, this is a screenshot pulled from the excellent fried egg video that they did about Royal Port Rush. Would strongly recommend everybody go to watch that. Some good history in there, some good routing topics and just good overview of the golf course there. But you can see that it plays, the original routing plays much, much closer into into town it was a much more traditional links back in 1889 when it was first kind of laid out and then it was not until about 1929 that they really started realizing man out to the east the northeast here we've got these killer unbelievable dunes and coastline

and like this seems like a lot better land for golf and so Cody the next slide is a an overview of what Harry Colt did instead where he came in moved much of the golf course farther outside the town this this brought in a lot of stuff you know they had to figure out what to do with the clubhouse I think the original clubhouse was like 1200 yards away from where the clubhouse is now they had to buy a hotel to use as a clubhouse that eventually ended up changing up. So some interesting stuff there. But even before all that happened, good rich history. It was given royal designation in 1892, four years after it opened. Usually courses

have to wait like 25 years in order to get those designations, but it got it right away just I think because of how spectacular the setting is, the great crazy dunes. It hosted the first Irish amateur that same year, which was the first national golf tournament anywhere on Irish soil. Also hosted the first professional golf tournament in Ireland in 1895. I mentioned Harry Colt came in, redid that routing there. We've touched on a lot of his signatures, smaller greens using the hills and hillocks rather than just bunkers. A lot of up and over type of stuff. Just a really handsome routing and not really like a traditional out and

back either. You know, like you see in a lot of traditional links. Cody, maybe pull up that Harry Colt routing one more time. You can kind of see that it's not like we just go straight out and straight back. I mean, this thing is kind of winding all over the place. And obviously some of these holes have now changed because of the Open Championship and trying to squeeze in the new seventh and eighth. But it's much more of just kind of a windy type of routing than just the straight out, straight back. So with that, you get a lot of different winds, you get a lot of different,

using the same dunes in a lot of different ways and just makes for a lot more interesting golf. Harry Colt rules. Harry Colt does rule. I think a deep dive on Harry Colt is possibly overdue for the boys. We might need to get that in the pipeline. 1951, guys, very important year in the history

of Royal Port Rush. That was when it hosted the Open Championship for the first time, and it became, and it still is, of course, the only golf course outside of England or Scotland, I don't wanna say this the wrong way, technically outside Great Britain, not the United Kingdom. You know, the first time it has ever been hosted outside of Great Britain.

And obviously, that is still the case today. Max Faulkner is your winner, the Englishman. I really loved this lead from the AP story of the day. I wish we would get back to this type of stuff. Quote, methodical Max Faulkner, a par-wrecking Englishman who spent one winter milking cows to strengthen his golfing hands, won the British Open Championship today

in a dramatic rain soaked fashion. That's good stuff. Plumbers, firemen, and milkmen. Yeah, I didn't quite have time to get deep into his cow milking days or what he learned specifically from there, but that will be at a future deep dive. The writer continues, apologies, this was an unbylined AP story.

There were some breathless moments after Max finished for handsome little Antonio Cerda of the Argentine was scoring the Royal Port Rush course and it appeared for a time as if the South American would get home with a tie and force a playoff tomorrow Just I need more You know some more milk and towels. I need more editorializing about players looks These are the these are the things that proper player. Yeah, exactly proper player Antonio Certa I also just love that. He was from the Argentine. I thought that was good. The winner's purse that year, the

winner's take home 300 pounds, which is equal to with inflation 12,000 pounds today. Not a huge purse for our guy, Max Faulkner. I loved I was talking to you guys about this in a meeting today. I love this is back in the days of 36 whole qualifiers. You know, nobody's exempt. You got to go out and you got to play 18 at Port Rush and 18 at Port Stewart on back to back days in order to qualify and they said they're only allowing a maximum of 100 golfers into the field. If you

tied for 100, you're out. We're not is not one tie all ties. There was only 98 guys in the field any playoffs I don't know. I don't think so. I think you just get lopped off. I think that's why there was 98 Peter Alice was one of the people who qualified back in 1951 I just any time you get any chance you get to work in Peter Alice, I think is is very exciting Only 50 made the cut again. No ties if you tie get the fuck out of here You're not you're not you're not playing on the weekend Waiting, only 50 made the cut, again, no ties. If you tie, get the fuck out of here. You're not playing on the weekend.

So guys, there were, whatever, I think it was, there was no ties, so I call it like 48 players that made the cut. Do you know how many Americans made the cut in 1951 at the Open Championship? Two. TC, that's exactly right. Really? Yes. There were two. I was just thinking in my head, I'm I'm like alright, there's probably a dozen guys that went over

Maybe so get check this shit out if you will Qualifying for the open was on July 2nd and July 3rd Why is that important because those also happen to be the final two days of the PGA championship? I'm Oakmont they were trying to play, like basically playing overlapping majors. And so 1000 just didn't. Yeah, I'm just including that just really glad we got that sorted. I don't think that's a good idea. Playing majors, you know, just you know, overlapping situations. I need the RNA should do that again. They should schedule it over like the three ever. No, I just think it's the PGA. You guys decide which one's the real major.

So Sam Snead was was not able to come over because he was busy winning the PGA championship at Oakmont. I was too busy winning. During qualifying. So the two Americans who did make the cut, one of them was Sergeant Charles Rotar, R-O-T-A-R, former Canton, Ohio pro who was at the time stationed in Germany with the US Army, somehow got a little break and snuck over, qualified for the open and made the cut. Pretty killer stuff. The other one was the low amateur finishing T12 Frank Stranahan.

Are you guys familiar with Frank Stranahan? The legend of Frank Stranahan. Totally unfamiliar. So any golf history people are gonna know this name quite well, one of the most decorated. Truly, we can take this offline. You could make a case, like the big three of amateur golf might be

Tiger Woods, Bobby Jones, and Frank Strandhan, like just an unbelievable career as as a both amateur and professional golfer. However, his Wikipedia page does not even list him as a golfer but quote, an American sportsman. That's like, a life goal. I'm hooked to like, tell, tell me more. Okay.

There we go. Thank you, Cody. This is our guy, Frank Stranahan, the American sportsman. Known as the Toledo Strongman because of his propensity for working out, bodybuilding. You can already guess who's coming into this story later as a contemporary of his. Stranahan's dad founded, I'm sure you guys are familiar, Champion Spark Plugs, most popular spark plug company in the world. And so they lived in Toledo, had all kinds of money, didn't have to worry about a thing. And so Frank's whole goal was, I'm just going to stay amateur.

I'm going to travel around. I'm going to be kind of a playboy and I'm just gonna try to be the best golfer in the world and that's exactly what he did he grew up at Inverness where right at the same time where the head pro happened to be a guy named Byron Nelson learned under him became like a truly world-class player played amateur golf from 1936 to 1954, took a little break to serve in World War II. TC won seven national opens. I wanted to include that for you. Which ones do you know?

Canadian. These national amateurs or national opens? These are kind of national like championships. I don't know how to really, you know, suss it out. But you know, he won two British Ams. He won a Canadian Am. What kind of British Am as a national. Yeah, it was I think I'm back then I'm when he won it. Yeah. So won the British AM twice. T two at the Masters T two at the open twice played on three winning Walker Cup teams won four times on the PJ tour as

an amateur. Just an absolute killer on the golf course and just stayed amateur this whole time as he was doing all of this because didn't need the money and was able to just bounce around. His whole thing was, I want to win the US amateur. That's the holy grail. But he ended up turning pro in 1954. I think maybe he had his spirit broken when he got bounced in 1954 at the USA by a guy named Arnold Palmer. And he realized, I think at that point that, you know, a lot of these, he desperately wanted the respect of these touring pros. And I think as long as they were like, this doesn't count, you're not actually playing for a paycheck, you know, I think he was like, all right, well, then I'm going to turn pro, and I'm going to play

for a paycheck and I'm going to, I'm going to do the whole thing. Turn pro ended up winning another couple of times on the PJ Tour, won the LA Open. This has nothing to do with Royal Port Rush, as you guys know. I just was like, I got to dive in on this guy. This is unbelievable. What year did he turn pro? 56? 54. 54. Okay. Because Ken Venturi was on the same kind of path too. Yes. He wanted to be the AM and all of that.

Exactly. Nowadays, it would just be like, hey, go do a Wall Street internship and act like you're working really hard. Yes. Well, I think there might have been a little bit of that going on too. We can get to in a second. But he became a workout just freak. He was like the first guy to start traveling with his own weights.

He would travel with like his own deadlift kit and squat rack and all these different things. Obviously became good buddies with Gary Player through all of this. I didn't have any hyper specific stories, just I think they were spending a lot of time together. He had a lot of run-ins with Clifford Roberts. And because I think he was maybe a little, I think he just kind of marched to the beat of his own drum a lot of run-ins with Clifford Roberts. I think he just marched to the beat of his own drum

a lot. He actually was banned from the Masters the year after he finished T2. He was banned from the Masters. He did not be in Race Creek. He committed a much more unholy sin of playing two golf balls during a practice round. You just don't do that. Did you guys see the picture of Big Tone today? No. He had a whole bucket out there on one of the holes. Shackelford posted it and he said, yeah, Big Tone with a small bucket. That's just uncouth. That's not the practice policy. Better hope Clifford Roberts wasn't out there to see that. But anyways, they got into it and sounds like there was a lot more going on behind the scenes that Strangahan refused to get into. Why am I still including all of this? We're talking about Royal Port Rush. I don't really have a good justification other than to say that the story just keeps

getting better. Okay. So he retires in the 1960s. He retires, he's had enough golf. He goes on to run 102 marathons. 102, did not misspeak there. Runs 102 marathons and he goes on to win multiple bodybuilding and weightlifting competitions well into his 70s. He had a little bit of Bryson. I think this was from his obit.

Mr. Stranahan was described as living a Spartan existence in his later years as he followed a strict vegetarian diet, often fasting for long periods and chased longevity with a stated desire to live to the age of 120. The more things change, the more they stay the same. He unfortunately was not able to do that. He died at the age of 90 in 2013. I'm gonna try to flip it back here

and justify why I just took that lengthy detour. I think what struck me the most diving through this was that period where a lot of Americans, especially after World War II, were not coming over and playing the open. And Stranahan was one of the guys who was beating the drums saying, this is very, very important.

I know the purses aren't that big, but we got to come, come do this. And he played it every year from 47 to 53 and was kind of like trying to bring people kept the spark alive. That led to Arnold Palmer going over. He wins twice in the early 60s and now all of a sudden gasoline gets poured on the open and it kind of becomes like a return to its heyday and the tournament that it is today. So getting back to Royal Port Rush right about that same time, it hosts the amateur in 1960 legendary Irish golfer Joe Carr, you've probably heard of him, wins his third amateur at Royal Port Rush. And then, again, not a topic that you need to necessarily, we need to spend a lot of time on the No Laying Up Golf podcast filling you in on but some civil unrest going on in Northern Ireland as you may have heard about.

We're not hosting a lot of tournaments at Royal Port Rush in the next 30 plus years. Not until 1993 that the amateur championship comes back after some pretty rough decades. In Northern Ireland, 2012, the Irish Open comes back. First time since 1953 that the Irish Open has been played in Northern Ireland. TC's guy Jamie Donaldson

wins that week. Over a hundred thousand people come out to watch. Watch from over the side of the dune. Sounds like there's a, it sounds like, you know, I don't know if that was kind of a trial balloon, just like let's slowly kind of dip our toe back in here. Because in 2014, they bring the British amateur back. They use that as kind of a like let's see how the golf course is held up over all of these years and in 2014 they also announced that the Open is going to come back in 2019. I had a fun little nugget there on 2014. I think our guy Dan Brown was the medalist in

Stratford. It is Dan Brown's season right now. Exactly. So I saw a good question from somebody who's this year's Tristan Lawrence. I was like, A, it might be Tristan Lawrence again. And B, my money's on Dan Brown, practically a home game with that history. They also hosted the Boys Amateur in 2018, another final kind of dress rehearsal. How far are these guys hitting it? How are the new holes playing? We mentioned this earlier that Mackenzie Niebert came in and took a few holes from the other golf course to basically kind of redo what I think was

the 17th and the old 17th and 18th. They now put in a new par five, seventh and a par four, eighth, it comes back the opposite direction. And that kind of, I think takes us to 2019. So I know that's a, that's a big digression there, I apologize, but our guy Frank Strangahan was just too good to leave out. A long part of the legacy of Real Port Rush. No, I mean, it's interesting, because I actually played the golf course in April of 2017, and then again in July of 2017,

and the two, the new holes went in in that time period. I actually saw the old, the for those tools open and I saw it again right after those two holes open and it like seven is just a brute is long. It is straight up this hill like it is just it is bombers delight just power power power power. And back then I didn't have that you know why I didn't use the stack system and you can go to the stack system.com slash nlu and you can share the laying up. That's training and what would like to stack 10% off of your

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An efficient way to practice. Yes. Yeah. And it just Yeah, it's just not that time consuming. But anyways, all right, I'm going to give a little mini dive into 2019. Okay, a lot of you have said you don't remember what happened there. I didn't really remember what happened there. Went back and watched I think I filled in as to why I mean, Lowry's play took a lot of the drama out of it. And I think we just don't have any memory of the back nine of the of exciting shots because it

was just that good Saturday and just eviscerated the field. In your revisit, did it feel a little like the Brian Harmon year? A little bit. I was trying to think of that even more maybe comp. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was just it was it was I mean, you but then you are reminded of the scene of what it was like for him winning afterward and I would highly recommend the the open championship film the Chronicles of a Champion film

that they do. They're all amazing. And this one's so good. And it makes you feel the emotion of this event. Again, this is the first open held at Port Rush since 1951. We mentioned the changing of the holes. All right, trivia question. We're gonna do this out on the show live. This is harder than you think it's gonna be. I guarantee you don't get more than seven. They don't guarantee it. I'd be surprised if you got more than seven names.

Oh, WGR top 10 going into the 2019 open championship. Who's the number one player in the world? A little bit of thinking and you can get this one. Dustin Johnson. Close. He's second. Rory. He's third. This is so perfect. Now you'll get it. It's not tiger, right? He's definitely taking this personal. Oh, God. God, that sucks. I hate to do that. So much. Amazing. We all do it. We all do it. I don't. We all do it. I mean, it just went back to back. US Open. He didn't win

2019. He finished second in 2019, but had won this. So inexcusable. I wish that was a bit that would be a really good bit. And it isn't. All right, can you can if you get four through 10, I'd be I'll be I'll be impressed here because a lot of my Wow, already that guy and then Wow, still that guy wouldn't guess that. Justin Rose, Justin Rose is number four. Well done.

Rose. Do we got said DJ already? DJ was two. Yeah. Okay. Who was three? Rory. Okay. JT. Justin Thomas was number nine. Spieth. Spieth is not in the top 10. This was this was like when the bad stuff. 2018 was not great. It was not great for our beautiful boy. I thought 17 would linger enough. Webb Simpson. No, not a bad guess, but no. Tommy Fleetwood. Tommy Fleetwood is not in the top 10.

Jason Day. Not in the top 10. Really? Jimmy Walker. Not in the top 10. Mark Leishman. Not On the top 10. Mark Leishman. Not in the top 10. One more guess each and they were they will.

Frank Stranahan. No Bubba. No Frank Stranahan. Number five. You've probably heard of this guy one. Heard a lot of these guys. He won three amateur US amateurs. He won three US juniors as well also won three. Yeah, Johnny Miller. Tiger Woods was number five in the world Bryson number six. Sure. Francesco Molinari number seven. John number eight. JT

was nine. You mentioned Patrick Cantlay 10th Shane Lowe. See, we should have we should have maybe done better. No, Hidaki, no big tone. No. Shane Lowry was 33rd in the world. Rory was the favorite at plus 800. Koepke was at plus 1000. He had won four majors in nine starts. DJ was plus 1200. Rom 1400, Tiger 1800, Rose plus 2000 and Francesco Molinari, Patrick Cantlay, Tommy and JT were all plus 2500. Shane Lowry was 80 to 1 going into this week. Pre-tournament, the RNA did some testing of 30 drivers. Four of them

were deemed non-conforming, including that of? Shane Lowry. Xander Schauffle was the big name. Oh, that was that year. That was that year. I thought that was more recent than that. It is crazy how quick they've come back. Right? You know, like it both feels like it was like 15 years ago that we're hearing that. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways. Shane, or Darren Clark hits the opening shot. The grandstands are completely full. Clark is overwhelmed with emotion. Honestly, it's like a pretty fricking epic scene. Port Rushed is own. It's Port Rushed is own.

It's been almost 70 years since the tournament have been there. Just imagine growing up in that country, seeing it return to your home, a place that had been through so much. You're doing it as a champion of this event. He is semi, he like his own seat at the Harbor Bar down there in Port Rush. Like I just can't imagine a more like rewarding moment like

later in your career than this one. But of course Roy McElroy entering as the favorite, favorite hits his opening tee shot out of bounds. As you see his grimace here, some tough blues. These were the color rush days. Yeah. Or the Rorsach test. Right? Yeah. This is a city connect S E N for, for Nike and some of these guys. Um, so after he hits it out of bounds, he pulls another iron, uh, into a bad lie.

And then he hits another left ball towards the green. He had to take an unplayable. That's how he actually ended up making an eight. I mean, he makes a double on the second ball in route to a 79. He also missed this putt on 16. Like he went to go just like tap this one in and miss this one and made a double and it just looked like he truly didn't give shit. That putt would loom large come Friday afternoon. Is there, let me ask you this, is there a more unfun round of

golf that you can ever remember watching than that one? Maybe Tiger, Tiger Chambers. Maybe. Speed in 2016 at the Masters that back nine. I mean, that was the most not fun. Fun. Yeah. But then I mean, this was just like from the jump 18 holes of just like, I don't want to be around anymore. This is tough. holes of just like, I don't want to be around anymore. This is tough. Yeah. Norman in 96 maybe anyways, weather rolls in on this Thursday, a lot of brawlies out JB Holmes opened with a 66 to take the lead James just one shot behind Foxy shot a 29 on

the background on Thursday. Tommy wore this shirt, of course, cookies and cream. David Duvall got off to a hot start. But it was derailed when he went 8 415. Yeah, on five, six and seven. What a shitty hole. It was a tough, tough stretch. He was too under. was a tough, tough stretch. He was too under, uh, how did he make a 15? Do you have any details on this? Uh, I don't know. Podcast about that. I had to look into that. So let's do this group of players that are at minus

three, uh, to after day one, Keurig, Deck, Appie, Bonret, Tony, Finau, Tommy Fleetwood, Ryan Fox, Dylan Fratelli, Sergio Garcia, Tyrell, Hatton, Brooks, Koepke, Robert McIntyre, Alex Noren, John Rom, Webb Simpson, Lee Westwood, all two shots back after day one. All those guys were at minus three, just an absolutely epic group. Next is the sweepstakes. And that one round two, Shane Lauer and JB Holmes share the lead after that Friday at eight under par Tommy and Westwood, which is a little two on the nose. Tommy fluid. No, let's do it are one back at

minus seven. Justin Harding, Justin Rose and Cameron Smith, Young Cam Smith are at six under par Dylan Fratelli, Keppke, Andrew Putnam and Jordan Spieth are at minus five Rory comes storming back on of course misses the cut by one shot gives a great interview afterwards the emotion and his voice very raw like saying he underestimated how it would feel to play around that kind of support and probably a feeling that still rings you know probably stored that away for like yeah in 2025 when this comes back here this is going to

go a little differently for me so any met with the media after a missed cut. He did. He did. Tiger right. God, that Friday round was that wasn't a journey emotional journey watching that one. Yeah, missed the cut by one. And again, but I mean, can point to a lot of things but missing that tap in on 16 did not help. Tiger and Phil missed the cut. Both missed the cut for the first time in 83 majors, which was a bit of a while. So round three on Saturday, Shane Lowry plays one of the great rounds of

Open Championship Golf, Major Championship Golf in history. I mean, he breaks the course record, shoots 63, sets the 54 hole scoring record at the open. He led by four going into the final round over the Tommy Ladd. I mean, it was it was majestic. He was just stuffing the pinata on every hole, making all of the mid range birdie putts, he would call it the most incredible day he's ever had on a golf course. Tommy played a fucking awesome round. He shot 66 and called it flawless. He was in the group ahead of Shane.

And it's like walked off like just blown out to pasture by what Shane had done in the in the group behind him. I did not understand. 66 how that is possible. Like it was it was not like a easy condition day, but I need to go back and listen. Did we have was Randy decrying this is he complaining about the setup and things being too

easy. I have to look there live from the Killhouse did exist back in he complaining about the setup and things being too easy? I have to look there live from the Kill House did exist back in the day. I did find some old some old stuff that we might need to scrub off the internet. But Lowry takes a four shot lead in the final. He also held a four shot lead at going to the final round at Oakmont in 2016. That did not go well. Didn't go good.

And he you know, was kind of having to answer questions. Before he goes and signs his card, he asks his caddie, like, how long do you think before they ask him about Oakmont? It was like the third question and blah, blah, blah. JB Holmes is at 10 under and six shots back going into that final round. Koepke and Rose are at nine under. Ricky and Westwood at eight. Finau, Rahm, Spieth, Willett at seven.

T-Times get bumped up on Sunday with weather coming in, which is a good thing for Shane Lowry. He said he couldn't get any food down was just a box of butterflies, I believe was the phrase or something like that. And, and yeah, he was really dealing with the nerves. And on the opening hole, Tommy's got eight feet for birdie. And Lowry has seven feet for bogey. Again, four shot lead. It could be one here shortly. We know what happens. Tommy, Tommy misses the birdie.

Shane makes it stays a three shot lead when it could have been one. Tommy missed another clean look for birdie on two, missed another six footer for par on three. Lowry birdied the fourth, the lead was five and it was over. Rain just dumped the rest of the way. Tommy made a double on 14 and now it was like really, really over at that

point. Lowry shoots one over 72. Only Big Tone shot a lower score of anyone in the top 10. Lowry wins by six over Tommy, who shot 74. Big Tone was third and eight back. Koepke and Westwood at six under and eight back kept in Westwood at six under and nine back hat and Fowler Robert McIntyre was in the top 10. I didn't remember that Danny Willett and Patrick Reid Tommy never got closer than three shots. And if you'll remember JB Holmes started the day in third. What place did JB

Holmes finish in Do you think T 2833. He finished in a tie for 67th. did JB Holmes finish in do you think? T28. 33rd. He finished in a tie for 67th. He shot 87 in that final round after hitting the opening tee shot out of play. He was jammed up the course the whole time. Kepka got visibly frustrated at one point. Again, go watch the official show from the RNA. Like it, it was just I cried like at the end, it just was a really, really epic chronicle of this event. And this moment for Shane and just he's out there with his dad, his

bow Martin is his caddy, which I assumed was his dad for like 10 years, I was heartbroken to find out that it's not his dad. And they just, they just captured all the emotion of it and what it was like for him to win it. And you know, in Ireland or in the country, in the island of Ireland, not to complicate matters, but it was just obviously a hometown kind of feeling of all that. And it was really, I don't know why I don't remember it better. But that's the deep dive in

2019. That's what life in the kill house looked like in 2019. I don't remember this is in between couple of the rounds. I think it was I think I was I think I was so stopped up for me and jerky. A lot of Yeah, boys are moving a lot of cake made jerky back in those days. We're still doing numbies back then 36,000 watched it on Twitter.

The what weren't there some quotes, sorry, about, I hope I'm not making this up, about like, Lowry being unsure of whether or not the fans up there, you know, kind of across the Northern Ireland border would even root for him or whether they would get behind him or not. Like, I mean, that's how, I got to dig into that. I don't know if any of that came across in your research, but I thought I remember hearing that. This was a shallow dive, not a deep dive. I didn't come across any of that. I just remember there being some pretty visceral quotes about just what it's like for the Open to go back and just all the complexities and for that to be an Irishman that wins just

makes it even doubly so. But as evidenced by your shallow dive there, I think he was wildly embraced by the whole crowd and just a very cool moment for a lot of people who were there. Yeah. All the Guinness and all the... Yeah. It was just an excellent... It's weird how we view some of these major performances that aren't exciting at the end. You just dominate and it's like, yeah, that was a forgettable one. It's like, well, the greatest major championship performances we've seen

in our careers covering golf, like it was majestic. It was just awesome. Uh, and I don't know whether you like Lowry or not. I tend to root for Shane Lowry. I think he's an easy guy to root for. He has, uh, you know, I know he rubbed some people the wrong way and has done so recently, but, um but I don't know. It's hard to watch that and be like, yeah, fuck this guy.

Like it's kind of like, ah, okay, good for you. Good for you. I just think he gets a free pass for being Irish on certain stuff. But yeah, maybe it's deserved. Oh, you guys want to do some questions or you want to get into some odds? What do you want to do next? Let's get into some odds. Okay.

Chomping at the bit. I'm trying to you know, this is when it starts. I got Seth Strachow. I'm like, man, he would be a really good course fit here. I got Tyrell Hatton, Cam Smith, Curtis Luck. I'm deep in the mind. How deep you guys want to go into your, I heard your JB Holmes Chris Goddard comp, you know, maybe there's something there. Now that Gotarup is a winner on Lynx Golf Course, following JB Holmes' footsteps maybe. Well, let's not get carried away here. Let's get to this this

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Hmm, well, of course, a lot of words. Sure. Do we have the rights to that phrase? I love it. I'm going to go with. I'm gonna go with. I'll go back to my first draft pick. I'm gonna go ROM litmus test. What are we gonna see? Everything feels like it should be should be stacking up. Are we are we there or not? Are we the dude or are we not the dude right now? So what what what do you have? I am going with remembered this

time. Uh you know for all the all the all the stuff that we forgot about 2019. I think it's gonna be a memorable one. I think it's gonna be some drama involved. I think it's going to be some drama involved. I think it's going to be, um, yeah, we're going to remember this one. That's my, that's my, that's my three words. I don't know what the hell is going to happen. I feel totally blind about what's going to happen, but I think it's going to be good. Mine is, uh, if you guys are going to hold me to it, it's got to be Tommy's last stand. And also TZ last day.

Maybe just tease last stand. And also to see last day. Maybe just tease last day. It could be taking either take it either direction. So anyways, drop your comments in there for your your three words. Cody's gonna pick out the highlights. This is how it's gonna go to I'm gonna this first one here gvt ball strikers paradise. Okay to I'm gonna this first one here gvt ball strikers paradise okay I'm gonna write down whatever your handle is please email me cody at no laying up.com and we will get you sorted their gvt first one out of the gate. Got it you got to email him to claim your prize and you must be 21 older and president select states fangirls offering online sports wagering in Kansas Center agreement with Kansas Star casino LLC gambling problem call 1-800-GAMBLER visit Kansas Star Casino LLC gambling problem call 1-800-GAMBLER visit Fandle.com slash RG call 1-888-789-7777 visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in

Maryland hope is here visit gambling helpline ma.org or call 800-327-5050 for 24 seven support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8 hope and why-NY or text HOPE-NY in New York. So I kind of birdied the first two and then made a 15 there. Did I miss some lines in there? I think the moment got a little too big. You started off, you were birdie birdie. I was killing it. I went 8-4-15 in the middle of that.

Did I visit MD Gambling? Yeah. Okay. I got it. You're in my head there, but all right. Looking at some of the odds here. Uh, Scotty, this is as of this morning when I pulled this and we know, I don't have to tell you guys this odds of course, subject to change Scotty, the favorite

at plus four 50 Rory plus 700 Rom plus 1200 Bryson plus 2000 Xander plus 2,500 Ludwig and Fleetwood plus 2,800. And finally, they got Neiman, you know, properly accounted for in these and we're not carried away in that 30. Wait, I saw, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw Rory had some, I saw plus 5,000. Finally, they got Neiman, you know, properly accounted for in these and we're not carried away in that 30. Wait, I saw, I saw Rory had some, some travel difficulties. Is that just like the jet just

maintenance or something or like, Field guy couldn't get out there TC. Yeah. Because Bob said that he was taking the ferry yesterday. He's like, yeah, I'm going to take the ferry across. Which, you know, I'm, I'm curious as to how guys got there, who flew versus who took the ferry. Cause you got to drive all the way West to take the ferry as well. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. Bob probably stopped in, you know, stopped in Oban or something like that and then, and took the ferry. Roy was the first one, the first ones on the course out there this morning. But where I leave off their fits, Spieth and Koepka plus 5500 Russell Henley plus 6500. Corey Connors and Justin Rose plus 7500. Patrick Reed, Adam Scott, Cameron Young, Hideki and Sam Burns plus 8000. Ben Griffin, Ryan Fox, Jason Day, Chris Goddard plus 9000 Keegan plus 10,000. Or guy guaranteed to be on the

team. That's pretty good on there. Harry Hall, cam Smith, Min Woo and see who can plus 11,000 and some other notables. JJ spawn the US Open Champion plus 12,000. And the Hickl the Hoygard twins are both plus 17,000. Oh, so spawns now down to plus 9000. Okay. So subject to change. They are. Perfect example there. I think the team rose at plus 8000. It's disrespectful. disrespectful to everything he's about, especially after that AI image.

I don't know. I saw him on AI just crushing Guinnesses. Maybe he's, you know, maybe it'd'd be like the Philly cheesesteak situation. It just goes too hard and has the WG. Did you see the picture of Colin? We can maybe break that out into a separate segment about the TGL teams creating AI images of their own players. Maybe that's a Wednesday. That's a perfect happy hour thing. I'll tell you what sticks out, Solly, of this list

that you put in here is maybe I just have an irrational connection to this guy. I can't quit him. I love him every tournament he turns up at, especially at a golf course like this. Russ Henley plus 6,500 is tasty, tasty, tasty. Didn't he finish? He had a good finish last year.

Didn't he finish fifth last year at the Open Championship? Coming off of T2 at the Travelers, T10 at the US Open. I don't know, man. There's a lot to like there for my guy, Russ Henley, I feel like on this golf course. Sully Akshay? Talk me into Akshay plus 20,000? Geez.

Yeah, there's maybe one. Aldridge Potgeater plus 20,000 as well. I mean, that's, I mean, I're the one. Aldridge pot-geater plus 20,000 as well. I mean, that's, I mean, I don't know. Plus 20,000? I mean, again, maybe not to win, but there's top it, you know, top 10, top 20, all kinds of great odds out there. But I just don't think this is like the normal-ish links

where it's like blow it 100 yards right at the center line and you're still gonna have a shot. You know, there's like, there's a lot of bad stuff that can happen out on this, this golf golf. Can I say unfortunately who I really like it plus 15,000 Tom Kim, Tom Kim. It just news broke today's in Paul to sorry, our, our, our split skis and he's no longer working with the swing coach as well. I saw that from, uh, I believe our our friend Paul the PGA tour had that scoop as

well. Big tone all we done there plus 12,000 I don't know I'm gonna get steep on this we're gonna have our happy hour show or we're gonna make all our picks but I love doing the Monday check in on this and you get some you get some talented players at more than 101 out there clean Foxy. I'm gonna get deep in the fantasy stuff this week too. I love doing the fantasy. I know I've been doing like eight lineups this week.

It's one of my favorite weeks to do that. I feel like little baby Collins not getting enough run. We're down with Billy Foster on the bag. Plus 3000. You know, asking him questions about the great man Seve. Feels like a good golf course fit for him as well. Yeah. Anyways, we're going to golf a little bit with not a lot of wind. Who knows?

We will get you can tune into our Wednesday happy hour show presented by our friends at Fandool and we will get steep steep steep on all of our picks and plays. To some Twitter questions we got several good ones. You know the first, the everything. Everything. Excuse me. You know who the who's got the first question. Our guy TGL incel. I don't even care if they're good questions anymore. TGL incel goes straight to the top of the list every time. Will we finally get to see the post Grand Slam quote freed up at majors Rory this week or will the home game open keep the weight on his shoulders? I don't know how to answer this one. My gut is I do think he's going to be freed up, but I think that's in comparison to being so ungodly not freed up that does that make sense?

Like I don't think it's necessarily just like a complete walk in the park but I think it will be markedly better than it has been at some majors in the past. It's particularly this last time at Royal Port Rush. Yeah I don't think he's ever gonna be freed up at majors. Like I think that was a borderline foolish thing to say or think that it was just going to like. Living in the moment, Solly. Come on. Exactly. I get it. But I mean, dude, there's no better time to reflect on how freaking hard it is to

win majors than going the 40 in a row that you failed at. But anyways, I don't think it's going to help him play great, going with the attitude that I'm freed up. I think he's got to be as mentally and physically prepared as possible. And you got to know that it's going to feel different when you go tee it up. Like you've done enough of these to know all of that to say it's still, I don't think quite adding up for me for Rory for this week. I think the playing at home thing is not nothing. And it was a huge demon. He vanquished this year at Augusta, but this is a different variety of that. And just the Open is just a harder test. Like it's just deeper field, more variable.

Yeah, it's just a harder thing to do than go and win a limited field event that's at the same golf course every year that you can somewhat learn how to play over the years. So I would be very surprised if Roy won. I don't know if he's gonna be in my picks not to win. But I think the home game thing is not going to be a great thing for him this week. Overall, picks not to win are gonna be really interesting this week. For real, he's played out so well for us to

CJ Hen 0208, which player would change your mind the most about their career with a win? So many directions we need to go with this. I feel like we gotta reserve it to top players. Right, yeah, I mean you guys answer it and then. I mean it's definitely Tommy, definitely Tommy, right? And I think it's like, that would change everything. Like we just, we gotta see the ball go through the hoop. And I think there's so many people pre-approved to just say like, man, this is this guy's

he's, you know, one of the all time English greats, just a like a guy that you know, needs to be united. You know, he needs to be just missing one thing DC is just missing some doves, man. And I think that's like, everybody's just waiting for it. So I think it's him. I think if it's, if you're taking him out, I think like, I don't know, I'm heavy on Ram. I know I keep talking about Ram, but I think seeing him come back and get a another like post live victory, I think brings him back to the forefront of every

conversation. You know, I think it's just been kind of Scotty Rory forever. And I think Rom is desperate to be the third person in that conversation and probably should be but hasn't quite had the results to stay top of mind. So those would be my two. Do you guys have anybody else? My mind immediately with this question went somewhere that I wasn't expecting it to go, but I'm just going to go right where I went. It's Brooks.

If you got a third different kind of major and a sixth major, pulled back ahead of Rory for this generation's major champion. I know it doesn't sound that realistic. He's plus 5,500 or whatever he is has moved to as at this point and made a brief showing at Oakmont before kind of kind of Peter in a way. But like, it wouldn't shock me if he got involved again. I think I saw enough at Oakmont to be like, okay, this guy's not dead. And he has this tendency to show up at majors somewhat out of nowhere and perform really well. If he wanted it, it would, it would just take things to a level that I think

like I'm, I'm, Rory, obviously, when the career Grand Slam and what he's done outside of the majors kind of blows Brooks away in terms of like career rankings. But if Rory falls behind again in majors, it's again, we just got to reset and level set like what this Brooks Kepka career thing is. And something we usually do on Sunday nights of majors and not the the Monday of the week of because we usually forget about this guy but I don't know that's my mind went with that question. I'm a hey, I'll tell you guys faith is belief in something without proof. Okay, let's wonder what you're doing over there.

It's not gonna know. Far out DC. I was wondering what you're doing over there. It's not gonna... No, I was looking at odds. Far out, TC. I was looking at odds, but you guys are just... You're talking about the Tommy... You're talking out of both sides of your mouth with the Tommy stuff.

So I'm just gonna call that out right now. What does that mean? I couldn't... I almost don't even want to get dragged into this because that's so silly. TC, I'm aligned with you, okay? I almost don't even want to get dragged into this, because that's so silly. TC, I'm aligned with you, OK? I move the screen for this reason. Firmly in your vertical here, OK?

If you reach down, I'll shake your hand on this. These guys are doing a bit over here. I don't understand what you're saying. I like, he's the guy. He's pre-op. He's checked every box. Everybody wants to be one of the great men. He's going to change your mind. He's going to he's pre up. He's checked every box. He's everybody wants to be one of the great man. He's gonna change your mind.

He's gonna change your mind. Oh, your mind is made up already. I'm already there. Well then I have no argument on that. I feel pretty confident in my position on that one. Where are you? Where are you historically Dijon? Does Tommy win a major?

I said yes. Okay, yes. Cody, where are you? Of course he does. Okay. What would be I don't know. For sure. Tommy's so damn good. Yeah, but it's what he made is is hard. No, how many majors we hand out though to people who have like no. I mean, Tommy's world class. He's only 34, 35. Okay.

He's got four years of his prime ahead of him. Anyway, back to who it would change my mind on. Patrick Cantlay would change my mind on him a lot. Justin Thomas, he finished. This is one of his best open, this is his best open championship finish in his T11. It's his only top 30 finish in the open championship. Which that doesn't make sense either, man. Going back to you.

He's a creative player. Yeah, it's like the Scotty thing. I'm like, man, how does this not match up with you? I think we need to like study JT's major career. Like it's one of the weirdest. Yeah. Like he's very fortunate to have two majors. That would be, those would be two that really pop up for me. I

think otherwise. You know, I think Patton, it would, I think it would change the conversation a lot around Hatton. Yeah, if he knocked off a major. And then lastly, I think team rose, team rose got a second major. That's automatic knighthood that would change not only our minds, but also the king's mind. Johnny bank holidays, they'd get over there just because Rosie finally won the open. All right. Next question from either PC Lawson or peak Lawson

2712. Who will be this year's Tristan Lawrence? Well, how do we define Tristan Lawrence? I mean, I think whatever direction. Plus 200 or more, or plus 20,000 or more, 200 to one or more, somebody that's gonna have a have themselves a golf tournament and be around on the back nine on Sunday. I already shouted out my guy downtown Dan Brown. I don't know if he's necessarily got odds that long or not. I know he's been actually playing some pretty good golf on that other tour. I was going to say Lucas Herbert. I got a couple of rippers. Lucas Herbert or, or leash.

I think leash is like 230 or 270 to one. You want to talk about a second shot golfer. It's almost won the open. How did he get in the fields? Like international qualified. He, he turned up. He, he, he washed himself up. He pulled him off the roof. How about, how about McKibben TC? Yeah, I can't get down with McKibben. You got Takumi Kaniya in the field. It could be a great course fit. It could be an absolute fit. Um I've always felt like Tom Hoagy's open championship record should be

better. I agree with that. Our guy Curtis Lawson. 40,000 to one Tom Hoagy is. Kerto got in via the Australian Open and he's just absolutely been taken by Lynx Golf over the last couple of weeks. Smitten. I've seen KJ Choi in the field. Really?

That's true. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, we've kind of reached the that's interesting part of the show where we're just kind of reading spreadsheets. So I don't know if that's that's signed to wrap or not. Give me give me give me Ben on is going to be my trust. I like that. What's the odds there? He's plus. What's the odds there? He's plus. Where what is he at? He's plus 22,000. Okay. So, um, Darcy Rossiter, what's the been the most egregious content as we can brandel moaning about delayed

clubs or LA Jesus AI generated? I think both of those have been awesome. Brando I mean, Brando, big bars, big Kac got tagged in on it. He was going to bat for Randall. I mean, Randall's clubs haven't moved. I don't know if there's been an update today, but they can't even tell them when they're going to arrive. It's crazy. You guys saw the AI, We Are LAGC stuff, right? The T team rose one that you know, shared on my Instagram, the more a cow one, I don't know if you can't see it. I'll pull it up.

I thought that was good. That one was pretty good. I hadn't credit to them. I hadn't thought about TGL in like three months until they did this. I was like, I totally forgot this is a thing. And so I guess that's kind of the goal of it to keep it top of mind. But yeah, there were so many people that replied to my story like this looks like AI. Yeah, I'll have to keep my so wildly dystopian. And I love it. Keep my antenna up on that one. No, no, I think these are real. I think these are real. Was it that was it the side that just says books in the background that gave it away?

I don't know. Yeah. That one stinks. Yeah, that was that was that was not good. I think that was that was killer. I like that one a lot. Man. Yeah, those are pretty funny. Those are pretty good. Last question at the casual water, who would be the most interesting open winner in terms of influencing Ryder Cup hype? I feel like this is much like the Fleetwood one. There's one answer that I feel like we shouldn't even be allowed to

pick. I thought you guys already put them on the team. Well, that's I wouldn't make anything any more interesting. Yeah, good point. Yeah. Is Andrew Novak in the field? He is in the field. He is plus 17,000. Like Ryder Cup wise, it would be kind of fascinating if I'm trying to think who from live P. Oh, this like this should be this. This could be P might be the what's his odds right now. Patrick reads on he is plus 8000. Yeah. So I mean, yeah, I

think a P a P win would be but like, you know, there could be a yeah, it's like, he can't even if he wins, he's not gonna qualify. Maybe that would even off the team if he wins. I'm sorry, they can't. They truly can. I promise you they can. I promise you they can. I would love to see like Brian Harmon. And again, you just lose your mind.

It was like a man after after some sobering few weeks since the US Open like JG Spikes. We're taking JG Spahn to Bethpage. We really are doing this. Is kids in the field? Maybe Brian. Oh, you know, no, it's Brian Campbell TC. For a third time, you actually went three times for a third time, but he's still not. He's 28th in the point standings with two wins. That's wild. I mean, Sergio would be Sergio would be interesting. That would be like the P the equivalent of P. So our guy Manassaro maybe

make a late run. If Thomas D. true that at Wallace, Jordan Smith, Aaron Rye. I think that's a late run. If Thomas Detrick, Matt Wallace, Jordan Smith, Aaron Rye, um, Marco Pinch. Like if one of those guys, uh, one that automatic qualify. How can you keep, keep as if Mickelson wins. You're not taking, you're not putting them on the team. Does Phil make the cut this week? I'm going to say no.

Okay. I think Phil does make the cut this week. I'm riding hard for it. I would love nothing more of it. I'm going to bet no. I think Phil does make the cut this week. Make-Miss-Cut bets are, there's a few that are up. They're not available in all states though, Sal. That's true. They're all like parlays. It's like you gotta get like Rory Zander, Fleetwood,

and Ludwig all to make the cut like plus one or two. So, all right. That's pretty. There's gonna be a lot more mean spirited. Anything else you guys wanna cover? We gotta save some juice for. We're going through Barracuda odds too, right? No.

That's gonna be on Cody's channel. Yeah. Of course. We got Kurt, Kiteyama, Vince Whaley, the bro, you don't scam champ. Yeah, it sucks. And Max's. Yeah, it's great that he's playing. I seriously respect it. Go get it. For sure. Dig it out with your family. It'll be great. Go do it, dude. If as mentioned tonight, 8pm

Eastern Time, I did realize this is going up against the home run derby, you can DVR the home run derby, there's gonna be a lot of That'd be great. Go do it, dude. As mentioned tonight, 8pm Eastern time, I did realize this is going up against the home run derby, you can DVR the home run derby, there's gonna be a lot of commercials there. Anyways, you can go to our YouTube channel, no laying up YouTube channel and watch our film on Northern Ireland. DJ Randy and I went over there in May, had truly one of the best weeks, best travel weeks we've ever had. If you can't tell from the images on the screen, the weather we got for Royal County down out of this world. You can get another look at Royal Port Rush. It will not be how the pros will be playing it, but it is a look at Port Rush in a little bit more detail than you see from tower cams and whatnot. So what's your guys strategy?

So looking at that photo, is there any part of you that feels like the RNA should wrap the gorse, kind of like Augusta does? Delay bloom? I know it's forged by nature, but be sick. I'll have my haters over there look into it. Yeah, I support it. Maybe some of your trap draw agronomists can can talk about whether that's feasible or not. Maybe get a feasibility study on that What's your guys strategy gonna be for for getting up to watch the golf? We're gonna be on USA Network for on Thursday Friday from like

Four o'clock to like 330. I think it is it's basically all day. Can I? You know what's all on this topic? I hope this doesn't suck too much juice out of it, but it used to be a lot more fun when Twitter was a lot more fun. And when you get bad Twitter and you get like bad broadcast usually with a ton of commercials, it kind of hit me a couple years ago where it's like, man, you might as well just get some sleep and DVR it and skip the commercials. That, that sucks. But unfortunately, I think that might be the world we, we live in. So I usually still get up at early ish, you know, get up at like six, but not necessarily have to get up at three anymore. We're spoiled. YouTube TV tells us, hey, key, key moments here. Yeah. It's all about how

weird it gets early too. And like who's teeing off and all of that stuff. I'm taking my kids Whole family were going on to Orlando for the dude perfect show on Thursday night going to see the dudes So I don't think I'll be getting up early on Friday Just doing a little challenge. So if you just stay up sugar rush Sorry long drive to you. I can be able to sleep. Maybe just stay up sugar rush. It's hard long drive to be able to sleep. Maybe just stay up. Tyler wrote a bowl. It's all I was here anyway. I think that decisions out of my hand these days TC I've gotten my oldest is waking up. I was asking is is waking up pre 5am

right now. I don't really know why. And so I think that's probably what's gonna happen. He's always being a menace. And so yeah, it's, but you're right, Deidre. There what they're that there used to be a major buzz around like, oh, I don't know, still during major weeks, Twitter has a has some moments. There's sure there's some moments, but something needs to happen for it to be super fun. But yeah, you just get decked by commercials and all that stuff. And it's not

the most fun morning. So anyways, it's gonna be 4am to 330pm Eastern on USA Network. If you're up earlier than that, 1 30am to 4am on Peacock, Saturday, five to seven on USA Network, then 7am to 3pm on NBC and Peacock, Sunday, four to 7am on USA and then 7 to 2pm on NBC and LeCoc. We got a big week. Sorry, I might be getting up early on Sunday if you know what I mean. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I know what you mean.

All right, what was where does Tommy have to be for you to go? We're not even going to open that door. Yeah, we're not going to talk about it on Wednesday. Okay, we'll get there Wednesday. All right. Thank you everyone for tuning in. Hold on. Hold on real quick before we get out of here. I understand you're trying even going to open that door. Yeah, we're not going to talk about it on Wednesday. Okay, we'll get there Wednesday. All right. Thank you everyone for tuning in. Hold on. Hold on real quick before we get out of here. I understand you're trying to run to the door. That's fine. I'm very excited for the Northern Ireland film tonight on our YouTube. Not where we're at right now over on the main YouTube channel.

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I think in my head, I've been watching all this port rush stuff. And I'm like, let's put some sweaters on and now it's gonna be friggin hot. But you know, we're gonna get out and be sweating through the tweet on those shoes. Thank you everyone for tuning in live. Thank you for listening wherever you listen. Look forward to a great week. We're gonna have a lot of fun bringing it to you. Crack on Cheers. Shout out to Tito on 2000 wins.