No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 1041: Round 1 at The Open

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

We have a five-way tie (-4) at the top of the leaderboard after the opening round of the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Stories of the day, down the leaderboard, round 1 disappointments, check-in on winner predictions, Scottie, and more. Presented by High Noon. Support our sponsors: High Noon - Suns Up! Omni - Play the Possibilities. Club Glove - code NLU The Stack - code NOLAYINGUP Want $150 worth of NLU Pro Shop credit? Sign up for the newsletter, and next week we will randomly select two lucky subscribers for just that. Now through July 21st at: subscribe.nolayingup.com/giveaway Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Be the right club. Be the right club today. Yes! Johnny, that's better than most. How about the end? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the no laying up live

show presented as always by our friends at high noon day one open championship. Solly here joined by my guy, Mr Icarito. Hello, Neil. How are you? I'm doing fantastic, man. It's good to be back. Uh been keeping a low profile but fun day golf

watching, uh coffee, golf, morning golf, great stuff. Good to be with you guys. DJ Pies here, hello, Pi Man. Hello, Solly, great, great day at the Open Championship. Can't wait to talk about it. Good to be with you guys. Let's get into it, man. Yeah, most of my takeaways for the day are kind of centered around this astronomer CEO, chief people officer situation going on that seems to be dominating my timeline.

So I don't know if that is anywhere in your agenda that you have play in here. I'm just gonna go ahead and just kind of it's kind of it's consume me for most of the day. You know what else I'm consuming right now the all new high noon beach 12 pack is here. It is making waves. I went out and got some today. The vodka seltzer 12 pack brings kiwi and raspberry as permanent flavors. I am rocking raspberry here today. It's a raspberry kind of day. My second, I try to do my flavors based on the better the day I pick my absolute favorite flavors. The raspberry is my second favorite out of this pack. And this was a good

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so I'm gonna apologize in advance if you hear anyone buzzin' my power. Can't hear it at all. But I'll be quick on the mute and the cough button here. But guys, we got a lot to talk about today. Of course, we're gonna start a little story the day Neil get ready. I'm going to you first. You're gonna get first draft pick in the story of the day. We're gonna grade Royal

Port Rush. We're gonna talk about that. What did we see today? Let's let's hand out a couple of couple of grades. We're gonna talk a little JT JT has been on Neil's mind. I know so we're gonna we're gonna get to that. We're gonna do some winners and losers from today. Just a little JT. JT's been on Neil's mind, I know. So we're going to get to that. We're going to do some winners and losers from today. Just a little bit of classic podcast segment. Let's just isolate it to today. Winners and losers, who do we got? Neil's got a good one that I'm very much looking forward to.

We've got some somewhat unknown guys on the leaderboard. How do you get to know people? We're going to do a little Two Truths and a Lie. That's right, a little icebreaker game. Worked a little too hard on this one I hope it goes well That's a little bit of the like the who am I that from the happy hour? Yeah, that took me fucking six hours It was fantastic though. I listened to the happy hour yesterday was great

Let's do on the elliptical this morning and and I've got yeah, I've got some stuff I got some inspiration from that Dej, but I love here my mind a couple things I'm not out here to inspire the next generation, but if that happens, that's great. Me and Scotty, we're just out here doing our own thing, trying to figure out what it all means. Finally, I'm gonna ask you guys, I wanna ask you one wish for the rest of the week. So we'll get to that last.

We'll check on some odds, we'll update some picks, things of that nature. But Neil, I told you, I was going to you first. Story of the day today at the at the open championship. The British Open Championship. What do you got yourself in the back? Do it. Yeah, man. I mean, I would say selfishly, Matt Fitzpatrick, like victim to win and you guys clown me. Hold on. Can I bring it, Cody, real quick?

Cody, that's not exactly true. I heard chatter and I had to listen and see. I there was some chuckles. Listen, he showed form at the Scottish Open. I put some nuggies on it. So daddy's in a gambling state. We are riding for Fitzy. Okay. I wasn't laughing because of the pick because you're right. It all does make sense of who wouldn't have seen this is coming out in round one. I was laughing at the pick to be fair. I'll own that. I honestly think it's where it came in the order of like how off guard it caught everybody.

Sure. But that also was during your one and done. So you're out of a lot of names, buddy. So I- Well, that's true. I mean, it's one and done. So I do not see your game the right way. You didn't chase your Fitz until now. No, I'm trying to play the game the right way. Rory's out of Scotty. I picked, you know, a lot of my thoroughbreds are gone, but I did think when I was watching the Scottish open, like, man, Fitzie looks good and feels like similar to the country club, kind of a tricky,

like a hard golf course where he plays well, showing some form, and he just feels like he should be an open champion, you know? And sometimes it's not the eye test, it's the field test with the beluga. So getting the beluga back in the winter circle would be, I think the story of the week, uh, maybe not the story of the day. I think it's, it's Bez's mustache. That's why I have one. Uh, no, I'm just kidding. Uh, I mean, God, I'm going to steal it from you, Sal.

I think Rory, you know, finishing minus one staying in it. Full TC here. What was your story of the day? He's alpha. Look at his mustache, man. He's alpha. I was going to do fit. You want me to do fits? It's fits. He played just fantastic, but it was early in the day. It was kind of boring. I don't think that's really my story

of the day. I think my story of the day, this is final answer, is Rory's got the left miss in play, which is never good. His superpower, he doesn't have it, and he's still three shots off the lead. I'd be terrified if I was the rest of the field. I to me is the story. It's homecoming for him, all the pressure. He's been chippy the last three to four months. That's the needle right now, I think. So that's my story today, that he didn't pull an astronomer CEO and just kind of disappear from the, uh, from the frame today would be my story of the day. Is this astronomer thing? Like, uh, this might be an ad. I don't, I don't know. I don't know. I don't trust anything on the internet anymore. This feels like it could be an ad for astronomer.

It would be a bad one if it, if it is bad, I don't think he's an actual astronomer. I think it just works. Just name of the company, right? Yeah. Name of the company. Yeah. Allegedly, We probably should have slapped him allegedly on that. Sully, what did you see from Rory? I don't know. I'm kind of with you, Neil. Normally, I feel like I would say Rory didn't have his best stuff, only three back. Everyone should be worried.

I'm still more worried about the left miss and just kind of scratchy play on that back nine. There were a lot of questions asked of him coming in. I thought the day was going to go very poorly for him after the short miss and just kind of just kind of scratchy play on that back nine. There were a lot of questions asked of him coming in. I thought the day was going to go very poorly for him after the short miss putt on the opening hole and a really bad drive on to he got away with a fair amount I felt like and had a really good stretch there in the middle part of the round. But when the conditions got real there on the back nine, he was he was not very sharp. So if

you're talking about a story of the day of somebody who the rest of the field should be terrified of is like, Hey, the favorite of the tournament improved his chances of winning today by shooting 68 and it's Scottie Scheffler. And that looked very, very boring. Very, very Scotty like one of the best we've seen him play in an open championship. I think since he's reached this like God like level, I mean, he had a really good run at St. George's, I think, in 2021, that was. But this was like the best, most in control, most like boring Scotty round we've seen, opening round we've seen from him in a major. Like, to test my, my memory on this, it feels like when

Scotty gets off to a decent start, very rarely in these majors does he go backwards from there, right? It's usually just like the, hey, do you have it in round one if you don't, you're fighting it uphill the rest of the way. This is a pretty terrifying signal to the rest of the field. I would say that's true unless he gets arrested. Sure. Then he might go backwards. That's fair.

But otherwise, I think that's a very fair statement, Sully. I don't think he's giving anything back to the field the next three days. He's doing Aquaman stuff. Very boring, very just kind of metronomic round from the number one in the world. Worth mentioning just as effortless as you guys are making it sound, he also hit three fairways. He was 150th in the field in driving accuracy. I don't think he was missing in catastrophic

spots. He was still able to get to most of the greens and still able to, at a minimum, get it to a spot where he could get up and down easily. Chipped it really good. He putted really good. But it's just one of those weird rounds where it's like, I think he's going to figure out that driver, I feel like. And that's a weapon that shows up pretty much every week. He drives long and straight. And he had the irons today. And I'm with you, Soly, that, like, I don't see him going backwards. Man, I just, I don't know how I didn't see that Scotty thing coming. You know, I totally missed that. Just woke up, literally woke up this morning and was like, Dude, I, like, like, steadfastly picked Tommy Fleetwood to

beat Scotty Shuffler in this major championship, like, straight up, no handicap. dude, I like, like steadfastly picked Tommy Fleetwood to beat Scottie Shuffler in this major championship, like straight up no handicap. Like I did that. You know what I thought about doing for you know, we're putting agendas together for the happy hour, the preview and whatever. I knew everybody's gonna go like so hard on Tommy, it's easy to get swept up in. I almost wanted to do like, hey, why don't we think about this? Like it's a like it's a match play bracket. Okay, let's put these guys all head to head

Just because I want to make you say Tommy Fleetwood is going to beat John Rahm And he's going to be Rory McIlroy and he's going to be Scotty Scheffler and he's going to beat all these other guys because that's that's where I'm at to stall is like It's very easy to get swept up in but I'm like, dude. He's got to beat all these guys on the same week still man It's it's really, he's so good at what he does. TC's truly so good at what he does. Just winning hearts and minds with with all the picks, but can I say Dej, I'm going through it like shot by shot right now.

And I'm counting like, two bad tee shots from Scotty today, one in a fairway bunker, and one pretty darn far left that, or one pretty darn far right on 11 that he struggled to recover from, had to pitch out to the middle of the fairway. The rest, he was able to advance the ball cleanly and easily towards the green, towards the pin, or he had gotten it down far enough. So I saw that three fairways out of 14, whatever it was. I think it was four though, if I'm looking at it, but I was a little worried about it.

His strokes came off the tee was not good today But it doesn't concern me as much as like what I saw out of Rory I think as far as hitting it offline and not being able to recover from a couple quick foul balls out in front of the Changeup from for Rory, you know, those were like left and going left, you know where's that I feel like some of those Scotty ones were like you said they're they're kind of on the edges where They're not really gonna put you in a lot of trouble But we get into this when we get into the Port Rush stuff. But one of the things that does make Port Rush very interesting, particularly,

you know, in comparison to a lot of the other Lynx venues that they visit is there are some spots that are quick boned off the left or off the fairway. You know what I mean? Like, I really love how that rough played. And there were a couple like was was it Rory on 11? Is 11 the par five? 12. Or 12, when it was just like, you can hear the announcer's like,

oh, that didn't bounce. That's not, that's not gonna be good. You know, it's a step off the fair, or like a step into the thick stuff, but it's just so random on like where those really thick spots are and where the, you know, thinner playable spots are, which I think is great.

And that's kind of what you're looking for in a test like this. Eleven's where I think that happened. Twelve is a par five where he drove in the fairway bunker. That's the left side of eleven. Yes. Yeah. Well, I mean, this is not nearly as exciting, but I think it's worth worth shouting out is my story of the day. H.E. flushing it, certifiably flushing it.

He is tied for the lead. We have not said this yet, but we do have a five-way tie for the lead. Jacob Skavolosin. I don't know. We're going to learn more about him in a little bit. I like it. Houtong Li. Matt Fitzpatrick, a four-mention. Christian Bezadenhote, a four-mention.

And Harris English, tied at four under. A shot ahead of Matthew. Don't call me Montell. Jordan. mentioned, Bezadenhote aforementioned and Harris English tied at four under a shot ahead of Matthew, don't call me Montel, Jordan, Scotty Scheffler, Saddam doing stuff, Tyrell Hatton all at three. I will go with Harris English making it look concerningly easy there on those first kind of like 12 holes. What did he make? Seven birdies today? Something like that. Six in the first 11. I know that. Yeah. Playing without his normal caddy who was having the visa issues. That was pretty well documented early in the week. But a guy that, you know,

he's, he's, there's a lot of players like this. I know, but when they get going, when they get, you know, kind of on song, it's, it just looks so easy. And he's kind of one of those guys. It's like, man, how have you, how have you not won 20 times? Which is fun to watch. And I love when Harris gets going like this. He's a player that I really, really enjoy watching and I hope he sticks around. But anything else on the Harris English front from you guys? Can I derail us really quickly on a quick question?

Don't need a full essay answer. Just a quick answer. If you had to decide for 12th man right now for September between Keegan and Harris English to be on the team, all factors considered, what would you choose? All factors considered, including what it would be like to talk about on the podcast with you. Ah, yeah. And that's a big factor.

That's a massive factor, the content. You know, I would rather- The content that we can harvest. What we could, you know, reap from that, from that Keegan pick. I might change my answer based off that. You know what I mean? So it's like if, but if you're putting me as the captain, that would be an important ball on the fire.

I mean, Harris is probably going to give you a better chance to win. Okay. That's interesting. Neil, what do you think? Um, Keegan for sure. 100%. Easy answer. That's all that's your answer. I'll hold it to the fire. All things considered, captaincy, of course, I would pick Harris English based off my well-documented

position on this at this point. I know. Who's going to order the Jersey Mikes for the team room? For sure, dude. Keegan can't do it. You know what? To our trap, to our friends, I got Jersey Mikes today. Really, really good.

Good. Bread was solid. I just, I got Jersey Mike's today. Really, really good. You know, bread was solid. I just, I know we've been tracking that for. Yeah, we're just worried about the ghouls and when they're gonna show up. To report, so. Okay, good. Any other kind of, anything else?

I'll just say, I'd like, I'd almost like to find community with solid here on the, our stories of the day. It's like the top two players in the world. If they, if one of them figures it out off the tee, you know, and like you said, Scottie's sometimes the fairways hit stack can be a little deceiving, but I mean, it's just great to have like those two guys, you know, it's kind of been Bryson and Rory a little bit, but like Rory and Scotty, I like

having a little duel in the top three in the world up on the first page of the leaderboard. I like her first or second page just in the hunt. So that makes me feel good about where we're at for the drama on the weekend. And Rob, but there, Rob, but there one on the bar, like it felt like that could have been a better round for him. He was also I have a male cult. I said that the PM AM draw was going to be harder. Great and unison drink from the two of you guys, by the way.

But I still, to my eye, it looked a lot harder this afternoon than it did this morning, but scores were higher this morning. I don't know if that had to do with the talent on either side of that wave, but I was surprised that the scores did not go. Or I guess I was surprised the scores were as high as they were in the morning. I know there was a little bit of rain out there, but it seemed like most of the top scores on the leaderboard did go out in the morning, and it looked like Rom was going to gas pedal it from the front, from the jump. And it just seemed like he just has had this weird reverse gear in majors the last couple of years. When he has gotten there, it just doesn't really seem to be sustained. But he's still well positioned one under par T20 is As a good spot to be after round one, but this was this was not the gas pedal John Rom round We wait for but he's still right there. So one two three, like clearly the top three best players in the world

Are are there in the top 20? Yeah, and he didn't he didn't Slam it in reverse as he has no other majors, you know, I mean he still has a really good major record They flashed the you know, theed the cumulative major score for the year. I think Rom was second to Scotty. He was a fairly distant second, but second to Scotty, and yet was also not really a threat to win most of those because he had a clunker on Thursday or Friday, most of those.

And then just kind of, a lot of people call him the buoy. And he just kind of remained afloat and just hung out for forever at those majors but today it was like he didn't he didn't shoot himself out of it which is you know all you gotta do in day one yeah I don't know if you've heard that one before but I have it on this day I did hear that I did hear I heard that would you so you would put Rom maybe I haven't checked the standings recently but ahead of Xander as third in the world right now? Definitely for at this point Xander injury and fault I mean yeah yeah a year ago I was a legitimate question I

know it's a good question I think it's very clear the top I mean Scottie's clearly number one I think you can make the case Bryson could be three but that was gonna be my next point you know like I think. You can make the case Bryson could be three, but. That was gonna be my next point. I think those guys are the kind of clear top five though. Last six months, just pure strokes gained, Scotty, Rory, Bryson, Rom. Last 12 months, Scotty, Rom, Rory, Bryson. And that's what the data golf order goes right now.

Scotty, Rom, Rory, Bryce, and then Tommy is actually fifth. Xander's actually eighth. You wanna just, let's just talk Tommy now. I feel like this fits into stories of the day here. Everyone got whipped up in it. Everybody got, you know, there were predictions made, there were graphics made. TC just banished himself to Orlando tonight.

So he didn't have to talk about it. Turned off his phone. What did he shoot, Two over? And it never looked easy. Never looked easy. All the way from the first hole I feel like over that green and just having to hit that like really drippy one through the rough and it just it looked like a stressful round of golf. I would say kept it on the rails. I don't think he's necessarily out of it by any stretch, but it did not look did not look easy today. So what was your what was your Tommy takeaway? He just like looked sad out there almost it just looked like a a just a despondent day for him just look like he had no

mojo no nothing. It felt worse than two over honestly, but it just never felt like he was about to go on a run. It just was not what we're looking for out of our guy. It's hard. It's one of those situations where like, he doesn't like consistently consistently contend in majors, it kind of feels like he does, but he does also doesn't get the pre tournament treatment from many people other than TC of like, let's watch and follow every shot from the jump. He's one of

those guys that like if he has a bad major week, you kind of don't think about it and you move on. And when you really come in expecting him to have a fantastic week, we were not alone in thinking that. It just all of a sudden is like, Oh, man, all right, there's, there's still a different tier above this guy, clearly. And I feel a little, a little, a little silly having taken him as of right now. We do have an official statement from TC. I applaud him for answering the press pool with one answer, quote, proud of Tommy, big time effort, go post a good one in the AM, end quote. And I think TC peeled out of the parking lot after that to go get down to the Tommy, big time effort, go post a good one in the AM."

And I think he TC peeled out of the parking lot after that to go get down to the Dude Perfect show. TC should have been in politics, man. I honestly should have been a politician. He's so good at it. He can make any situation seem believable. It's remarkable. What's your, I mean, is this like a abandon all hope? It's totally over? Are you still hanging out? Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. Yeah, it's an uphill climb for somebody that hasn't

done it. Doesn't look good. A lot of force. You know, and I will say I agree with you from an eye test standpoint, you know, in honor of TC, I'm going to employ the eye test here. Other than every time I looked up, I'm sitting here doing a little work in my office, got it on TV, I either looked up and saw commercials or it was bad body language from Tommy. The club coming down on his shoulder, it felt like a lot of quick left misses with irons, but missing left with his irons. I think one on three was a good example of that where he hit it over the green and gay just kind of putting himself in like weird spots. Basically.

Just didn't feel like he had his game today. So you said, uh, you said something earlier that hit me, which is like, we don't usually spend all day watching every shot and kind of living and dying with every shot on Tommy. It's like when he plays well, we check in. And when he doesn't, he's kind of easy to check out on. I cannot, we said this very vociferously during the Oakmont US Open as well, but I can't recommend to the featured groups enough,

just because, at least for me, like I can't do the quad box, feels like I'm on crystal meth when you got like all those shots coming in. I don't retain anything. I feel jittery, I feel anxious, I get vertigo. By the end of the day, I appreciate what they're doing. I cannot do that.

The broadcast ends up feeling like a worst version of that sometimes, where it's like they're trying to show as many shots as they can, but they're all in between commercials, and it's just awful. Featured groups today, Rory, JT, and Tommy. When you can really settle in, watch every shot, watch them try to build around, watch what it Tommy, when you can really settle in, watch every shot, watch them try to build around,

watch what it looks like when you make a double in real time versus Rory's waiting there to putt, birdie putt forever, you get such a better feel. And I wanna shout that out, kinda at every major, I feel like, going forward, especially on Thursday, Friday. It's a really good way to watch and get a feel for the tournament.

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Yeah. All right. Let's talk a little Royal Port Rush. So I want to start with you. Let's go with some. Let's do some grades. What kind of grade? It's only one day. I know, but don't be scared of the grade inflation. Don't be scared to give your honest thoughts. What did you, what did you think of Royal Port Rush, at least versus your expectations? I am going to give Port Rush a very unsexy B+. Like, I'm just thinking about, as you were talking through the Tommy round stuff, it just felt like, all right, Port Rush is asking him some specific questions, and he just wasn't

quite answering the questions properly. It wasn't like it jumped off the page of like, this is an incredible viewing experience. The holes are all incredibly sick. The carnage is sick, all that it was just really good, proper golf test. There was a really good shot that you know, I was looking for that feeling of like, if I see a ball going offline, can I process in my head quickly what that means? And it's like, oh, if you pull it left of 10, there's no way to get at that pin because that mound is protecting and that

rough is really thick over there and boom, you're done. Like there's just so much emphasis on every shot that needs to be played. And I really greatly enjoyed that there was not a lot of shots hit that were just like, ah, bail it out over there and you'll, you'll totally get it up and down. It just felt like there was really good consequence to all the shots that makes for really good tee to green viewing throughout the course of an entire day. Again, is that like the sexiest thing

for mass appeal? No, but does it pass the test for being like a premium, major championship venue? I think most certainly does. I think I might even go just a little north of that. Again, maybe this is great inflation. Maybe I just had a delightful time watching today, but I'm going to go A-. You could even talk me into an upper A-, one of those like, you know, 93, 94 type of type of grades. But it was, I just, I enjoyed watching every

shot. I enjoyed where the pins were today. I enjoyed that there was, it felt like there was consequence on every shot, especially off the tee. Like I was mentioning earlier, there was a lot of like, it was a little bit playing roulette. If you're going to miss the fairway, you don't know if it's going to be okay, or if it's going to be total hack out. It was good variety. Bunkers, shout out to Jamie Kennedy, had a great, a great thread on on Twitter X, the everything app.

Just talking about how basically the perfect cross-section, I feel like this is almost the goal of building a golf course, which is everybody talking about how well bunkered it is and the fact that it has fewer bunkers than any other course on the rota. It's just like all those bunkers are in the right spot. They force a decision off of pretty much every tee. Part 3s were great. There's Consequential OB that's always kind of in play. It's just a ton of variety. It feels like the round

ebbs and flows. You got, you got a couple like really standout moments, number, like 4 and 5, obviously, on that front side. Then you get to 10 with that crazy green. You get to 13. The par 3 is really cool. 17 is a fun one where there's always kind of these these checkpoints where you're looking up and you know, it's almost like watching a movie with like a really rewatchable scene or something, you know, where it's like they're they're evenly spaced, where you're always kind of in it. There's always something coming up that you're going to want to stick around and see. I just I really enjoyed it. Really, really enjoyed it. But Neil, did we miss anything? What were your real Port Rush thoughts? I would say you guys have more experience with it than me since you played it. So you kind of have the sense of place a little bit better. I would say I'd give it a B. I'm still kind of getting familiar. I really enjoyed watching,

you know, the Belfast video we put together and that's given me a little bit of a sense of place. the Belfast video we put together and that's given me a little bit of a sense of place. Similar to Oakmont, I'm like hearing how hard it is, but I actually feel like for two reasons, I'm always going to struggle to get my bearings when I watch the Lynx Golf. I think I said this during the US Open. It's just like, but that's okay because it looks exotic on my TV and it's on in the morning and everything about it feels exotic. It's just like a really good, puts me in a good headspace. To that point, it helps having short grass where balls are rolling into pond waters. It helps having the ocean. It helps having a lot of things like Pittsburgh, just not its fault. Pittsburgh doesn't have that. Yeah, and some orienting things like the, I think it's between,

is it 11 green and 17 green? Like the site that they're told. 13 and 17. 13 and 17, I'm like, oh, okay. You see it's little things like that that orient you where you're like, okay, I know where I am on the course now. Totally. So I'm already picking up a few shots that I'm gonna look out for.

It looks like the tee shot on nine today was brutal. Crosswind left to right, everybody fading the ball, nobody could hit the fairway. And so it's like, if I can start to get a sense on Thursday at a course that I don't have a ton of familiarity with of like, Oh, I better keep an eye on number nine, uh, the tee shot there. Or like, you know, I feel like the tee shot on 18, I already have a good sense of what you want to do there.

There's some good vistas. Um, but just the fact that links golf is going to put it up, you know, it's, it gives it a little bit of a get out of jail free card. But I think what you're saying about the bunkering or what Jamie Kennedy was saying, now I'm seeing that and I appreciate it because a lot of times there are too many bunkers on some of these Lynx courses and you don't know where the mines are basically. Here you kind of do.

It's like a number one, you know, like, okay, driver and three wood are gonna be a problem for these guys. Or do they want to lay way back and have a 200 plus yard shot in? That's a real decision on one with OB both ways. You start to pick up a little piece of a few holes a day. And so I feel like I'll give it a BB plus today. I think that's well said.

You need the little checkpoints to grab onto, you know, to orient yourself and just build context throughout the week. Well, it's funny too how well the bunkers played today with that wind. Like thinking of 12, the par 5, the bunkers down the right, it's asking, like these guys all play a fade and it's like, hey, can you draw it up against this left to right win and avoid running into these bunkers and a lot of guys couldn't do it A lot of those swallowed up a lot of balls there today Well another shot that sticks out to me that you know kind of gave me a sense of the course was Rory's Approach on 15. I think where he got kind of you know tried to bite off a little bit too much at the stick

They're saying hey, he's got to aim out left here He you the, he got a kind of a bad bounce and it was just on the, the edge for about three seconds, you know, bad bounce, but oh, it's going right at the stick. And then at the last minute, it, it took a, you know, a right turn and went about 25 yards down a hill. So there's some good short grass runoffs that give you some excitement. And then, yeah, they kind of picked and choose well. It's not all really, really thick rough and it's not all short grass. And it's like, God, in America, we could do that too, guys. Oakmont could do that. It doesn't all have to be thick stuff for the US Open. That shot under 15, it was 89 yards, I think it was, that was one of the best

legs golf shots of the day, of dead down wind. They were like, yeah, he's out of the rough, you cannot land this on the surface. Do you want to even hit a lob wedge and land it short, or do you want to hit something with less loft to make sure it climbs that ridge? He had to aim that towards a bunker that you also don't want to run into. I actually, when I watched back to 2019, the opening round that he played, he hit it in that bunker, trying to get at a front left pin. Maybe that was actually on the Friday, sorry. And I was like, I remember Rory like going into that bunker and

not having a good time in that bunker. So do you really want to aim it at that bunker and hope it stays short of it or veers right in time? Or do you take off more and go at the pin? Like that's the kind of stuff that keeps stacking on top of each other over 18 holes that I think makes port rush really interesting. It's on the broadcast, like bring a lot of that to life. They did a good job with that spot specifically on 15, especially with the

balls that had gone over the green prior to that with with JT and Fleetwood. But I just need more of that, especially as the weekend goes on of like really setting up these shots of what makes them unique or else it's just not going to hit the same way for a lot of people watching. And I'll say one, no bunkers on that hole, long par three, kind of boring on TV. But if you're willing to put the work in, that's a really interesting shot to watch. And yeah, sometimes I thought Ram actually had some good thoughts on long par threes.

More so that I'm cool with having long par threes, but his point was like, the more interesting ones for, for everybody, for us and for fans are the short ones that are really scary. And, and I think that's true, right? We think of Amen corner, we think of the postage stamp, whereas like this is like, you know, they're kind of building up this 16th hole is like, you know, something to see and it's like, ah, well, it's kind of just like a hit a really, really good long iron, like away from the pin and make par. The big thing with that one to your point, you know, your earlier point about having these like hand holds and these, these kind of like

context points is at least just knowing what the problem is on 16, at least just knowing that it could happen if a ball starts to go short, right? Even just makes it like, nobody's probably going to hit it down there. Yeah. The fact that they they could it just makes that ball in the air just a little more fun. It certainly looks scary. There were a couple scary but I don't think these guys are gonna fail that test that often. And last Johnson Wagner too who went down there and skull the ball into the bleachers. It's just there's no way he's not doing it intentionally at this point but I just I love every I love every second. If he is doing intentionally he's good doing it intentionally at this point, but I just, I love every second. If he is doing intentionally, he's good at faking it.

Amazing. Yeah. I'm joking. I don't think he actually is doing it intentionally. I think he does have the yips, but it never ceases to make me laugh. Last time I'm going to say this, I'm not going to be a broken record, but he was also on the feature group stuff and he's really good at long form thoughts and exactly what you're talking about, Solly, like they need to set up why this shot is about to be so

difficult is so hard when you're flying around trying to get into commercials and trying to show as many shots as possible, and they're able to do that on the featured group stuff. That's why I liked it so much. Number nine was a perfect example of that. JT drove it in the rough. He wedged out. I don't know if they showed number nine on the broadcast at

all what JT did did but he had probably a 5060 yard pitch shot and just hit it in the worst possible spot He tried to get got hit caught with his hand in the cookie jar Tried to go at the pin missed it a step right of where he where the pin was and it goes down And not only does it go down to a flat spot It's so steep that it rolls back to the upslope of next hill. And then he's got a tough one. He can't get it closer than 15 feet. I mean, it's just like, to be able to watch all that in slow motion to have those guys take

their time and say, like, here's why that was compounded. Here's why that was the problem. Here's why Rory's gonna now play over here. Like, it's just, it adds so much. And it's it's a little bit of an unrealistic expectation, I think, for them to, to do that on the NBC broadcast, because they're Like it's just it adds so much and it's it's a little bit of an unrealistic expectation. I think for them to to do that on the NBC broadcast because they're trying to do so much but Speaking of JT Neil take it away. What did you see from him today? What were your kind of? overarching thoughts on on JT and his one over 72 today, I don't

know I'm not gonna start because I do want to do this. I do want to do some psychoanalysis and Because I was thinking about it all day for a couple reasons So first reason McGinley I love McGinley first off and I hate I hate the way that Brando treats him on live from I just think McGinley's got a lot of good things to say and I usually vibe with him But he made some comments this morning early in JT's round I think it was I want to say around the second or third hole, I was kind of, but it made me kind of stop what I was doing and listened. And it's really stuck with me. He said, basically on paper, JT should, should be the true links master. I know we say the speech is, but it's

JT. Like he's got all the shots, all the shots we've all we, and the three of us have seen it up close several times of like whether it was in Hawaii or one of these photo shoots, like he's just got so much creativity with his short game. You kind of saw it on display early in the round. I think he had seven one putts seven one putted seven of the first eight holes, which we'll get to that being a problem in just a second. But he's got all the shots like throughout the bag. Like he can work it both ways. He can play it up. He can flight it down. And it's just like, like, and McGinley was kind of saying like, what's the, you know, what, what's the deal kind of, but he was summing it up in, you know, McGinley way that kind of got me jacked up and he's putting it better than ever. So it's like, okay. And then I'm on the elliptical and I'm listening to your, who am I thing Dej? And you just rocked my world with the strokes gained majors versus non-majors. And what was it like?

He's like second in strokes gained the last 12 months and non-majors and like 170th in majors or something like that. Yeah, I think it was like 75th or something. Or 75th. Sorry. I don't want to speak, you know, but it was a massive. Yeah. So over his whole career, he's plus 1.64 and non majors plus 1.28 majors.

So I'm like, all right. So then now, personal stuff, I had a meeting with my my sports psychologist this morning, my guy john Trump, you know, talking, we're talking shop, and we're talking about this concept of letting it happen versus making it happen. And like the rat, like don't let the rational brain get in the way. And like, you know, you gotta like shut that off pre shot. We talked about that with Pia and Lynn Deege. And I'm starting to watch JT and he strikes me as a guy, especially in these majors. That's really trying to make it happen. And like at his best, I watch him and I admire his game.

It's almost arrogant because he can hit all the shots. Sometimes I feel like he's trying always because he can hit all the shots. Sometimes I feel like he's trying always like, watch me hit this hard shot instead of just letting it come to him, especially in a link setting where, where, you know, at his best, his swing is really elegant, but it also looks very technical and it looks hard, you know, to execute. It feels like JT has to have full commitment on his golf swing. That's, this is me just kind of pontificating a little bit. It looks like he's got to really commit 100% on a lot of his tee shots specifically to me.

And I feel like he could probably get away in certain settings with like playing to the wind more or not. It's almost like he's trying to hit the hard shot too often. And so I, I, I don't know. It's like, he's trying to make it happen. That it was kind of bringing to life my conversation with this guy this morning. And I'm, and so my question to you is what are you seeing that when, when you watch him play? Like, does that, does that feel fair? Because it does feel mental with when you look at those strokes gained majors versus non-majors. And it feels like when you ramp up, he does play well

on difficult golf courses. But I would think, Sala, you brought it up on the happy hour. The he gets the bad side of the draw. Fair enough. But I almost think like JT's good enough to play through that, you know, like sometimes when he won the PGA, he was on the bad, the horrible side. I mean, it's like that should almost suit him a little bit of like, Hey, bad weather, like he's a mutter. And so I'm just wanting it to me. It's like, God, this must just be kind of mental where he's gripping the bat bad weather, like he's a mutter. And so I'm just wanting it to me, it's like, God, this must just be kind of mental where he's gripping the bat too tight. And he's trying to make it happen in these majors. I mean, say no more, I forget which episode the way I asked

about this directly on the podcast about like, seeing too many shots and not just having a standard go to shot and a consistent shot and trying like too hard. And this is the DJ pie conundrum, you keep getting bad side of the draw too or else 25 years bad side of the draw solid solo. I think it's absolutely a thing. You know, I think it I think it has been a thing for years to the point where like he also knows this and recognizes it and is showing up at a major reaction to reactions to react like why can't I play very well in these majors? I 100% see it but it's it's kind of one of those things. So it's it's it's what makes golf the best and what makes golf the absolute worst.

You know, it doesn't make any sense that both him and Bryson really struggle with the open. You know, it's like those two players could not be more different and they don't they struggle for wildly different reasons But it's like yeah, no golf's gonna swallow them swallow both up You know what it reminds me of as you were talking about it There's a guy that famously had one top ten at the open in his first 17 starts, you know Yeah, right and like imagine showing up every time just be like man You should be the you should be like you should win ten of these things. You got to be the links master. What are

you doing? Why don't you just win one? You know, I don't think people were saying that about Phil when he was hitting flops. He'll hit the ball too high. I thought that was he did like he shared like that was the problem. Did but he also like, yeah, he did. I don't know. I think he's a decent comp as far as somebody who has like also had all of their shots and all the creativity and probably got a little paralyzed by it.

Sully, a couple of times today with JT's round watching some of the feature groups, you know, he had, I think it was middle of the round, he had two wedges out, you know, and he just, it's like, yeah, he's got two clubs out of the bag, like on every approach shot. And it's like, yeah, it's almost like, do I want to bring this one low or high? It's like, just trying to be too much of an artist, maybe. I don't know. But then some of the stuff around the green, some of his chips early in the round, I was like, God, dude, that's it, man. Like he's low scooters, high ones, like he's got them

all. It's crazy. He seemed like he was chipping all day. Like every time I looked up at my TV is like, here's JT with a chance to show off that short game. And and well, that's what I'm saying about specifically the T ball. It's like god stop trying to hit the you know the the track man Michelangelo ball. Like it doesn't have to be a work of art on the T. I'd love to see him hit a sloppy cut for a while you know if the wind's coming off the right. It's also like when he's on like he has a I like he has a gear or a speed that he cruises out that I'm like, oh, dude, don't change a thing. Just go do that.

Yeah, I know. I know. So it's hard to tap into. Well, but it feels like that ability to be on plays really well in controlled environments, like the PGA Tour stops a little bit. I'm glad you flagged it. It's a fascinating thing to follow. It just kind of, McGinley got me thinking, and then it was almost like serendipitous of your segment last night talking about JT. It was like, well, God, the Strokes Gain stuff,

just I never really, you know, I always knew he struggled in majors, but I didn't know it was that bad. Yeah, and I think he, I mean, he held it together today, right, like today could have been a lot worse than won over and he kind of grinded it out. So I don't know, one of these days it click just it's just the way that it's gonna click for Scotty probably this week. It's hard it's just hard to like

To like say that these majors are a different category of like a proper test like this is You know anyway, he continues to fail the proper test is just like what gets kind of frustrating and kind of at a certain point, but he's also won two of them. So it's also like, yeah, you kind of, how long does that pass last and you've won a players? Like it's, it's a weird, it's a weird profile on it, but it is like, yeah, we've got to call it like I see it for this week. It is open championship week. It's one of the games, games greatest tests.

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Guys, let's do some winners and losers, okay? This is very ill-defined. You can take this in whatever direction you like. Neil, just go, man. What do you got? Winner, loser, both. Where do you wanna go? Do you wanna go one by? What do you got? Winner, winner, loser, both. What, where you want to go? Do you want to go one by one or do you want to everybody dump all their around the horn? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'll start. DG said

it earlier, but I want to want to join you on this block admitting defeat with the quad box would use similar synonyms of so you're a winner or a loser in this. No, I'm a winner because I'm not doing quad blocks. Yeah. Quad box. It's just not for me. No, it's not a loser. It's just, I've, I've, you know, I've explored it. It's just not, it's not something I need to do. Uh, it's bad for my, my mental state. It's bad for my analysis of the tournament and, um, it's, it's,

I choose not to do it, but I'm glad it exists. And, and I'm happy for the people that like it. So that's a win for me. I love it. That's segment already off to a roaring start. So where do you got? I had a win with the quad box on YouTube TV. I think it's great. And that's fine. And that's fine. I kind of have driven from a firehose on major championship Thursday anyways. But you know, I'll also just add

GMAC in the booth this morning was such a delightful wake thing to wake up to I mean He was just great commentary not trying to be not trying to be an announcer Just like added a little nugget about some kind of consideration around every single shot had a great demeanor in the booth Just it was it was it was a splendid surprise in the morning just kind of getting anybody outside the NBC orbit that just seems to kind of want to fill every possible dead air spot with just words and having some really additive words in the morning somebody that's from the area, obviously from Northern Ireland, just was a very, very big dub

to start the day. Totally agree. Winner we haven't really talked about this yet. The old guys, the old guys balled out today. We got my guy, team Rose T10, along with Lee Westwood, seemingly out of nowhere goes out and qualifies for the tournament comes up. He got it to four under, I think, at one point this morning. Gave a couple back, but hell of a round of golf. Team Rose, Cody, I think we got his scatter plot, or his strokes game plot for the day was just like, I mean, that's good stuff for my guy, Justin Rose. And then you go down to one under,

and you got the seriously old guys. Mickelson finding some magic out at Royal Port Rush. He's 55 years old and shot under par today. I feel like you know we always look at like the the Tom Watson year and I think I have a like tendency to think of him as you know like he was like 78 years old when he we did that he was 59. He's four years older than Phil you know. Phil's like Phil shooting one under today was awesome and Justin Leonard shooting one under,

he was 143rd, Justin Leonard was 143rd off the tee today and shot under par. That's baller stuff, man. It's just getting your pill around. That's awesome. We could do a whole segment on guys that Justin Leonard beat at golf today on a proper ask call, of course. Most of them. So I mean, I'm sick of this Stu sink erasure. Like he got, he had a cook and Stu was at plus one and he finished, I think double and bogey. So he's plus four. I hate that for Stu. He's got some unfinished business tomorrow. If you guys think that like, this is unfair that Stu sinks gets more run for, or gets less run for Oh nine than Tom Watson., if you guys think that like this is unfair that Stu

Sinks gets more run for or gets less run for Oh, not in town. Watson. I just don't think that's the loser champion golfer of the year. Yeah, I'm sure that history is going to flip around on that one, guys. You want to hear about erasure? I went up to Augusta early to do like an interview for the untouchable or the what's it called? Underdogs film that they did. Yeah, I saw that last night.

I got cut from it. I didn't even make it in. Hell, yeah. So you want to talk about Erasure? I did all these interviews, me, Brandon, Nobelo, Rich Lerner, and I just didn't make it in at all. They're like, yeah, you're doing great. Like, these are really great.

I didn't make the final film. I was heartbroken. It's the full because I was wondering who produced that because you know, they did set up all those interviews and I was like, Oh, this feels pretty professional. What open was awesome. Let's we're gonna bounce back and forth. Neil, let's do some loot. Let's do a loser round. What do you got? All right,

switching to losers. We can come back. Obviously near and dear to my heart covering sponsor related things. But Rory lending his name, image and I don't know if Comcast brought in the homies from HBO Max debacle for this Versant operation spin off whatever I believe it's versions first I don't even know who cares but like we got that on the back I know because they took the time to zoom in on the first one I don't know if they're going to be able to do that I don't know if they're going to be able to do that I don't know if they're going to be able to do. I don't even know who cares.

But like we got that on the back. I know because they took the time to zoom in on it and give it a shout out. I know, which is scummy. Awful. And then kind of getting water boarded with FM commercial insurance commercial. It looks like somebody filmed that on their iPhone.

I'm like, god, Rory, have some freaking respect for your brand, dude. Like a little bit of the Tiger Woods golf balls. That's what I was gonna I had that in my notes. It's almost as bad as Tiger on the golf balls.com personal, you know, customization commercial. Not good. So what do you got on your, on your losers? I mean, just early coverage was tough as it always is. I mean, huge commercial loads. They completely abandoned the best holes on the course. Like, you know, it's hard. Like

my little favorite stretch of holes on this course is probably three, four, five, and they were just like picking guys up on six all morning long. And not until they did we get to the Rory. Five is a drivable par four. Like it is a really, really, really fun hole. I should be stationed on that one. And Josh Carpenter was tweeting out a bunch of the stats with it. I didn't follow it as the day went along, but 15 minutes commercial per hour. It was just the typical punch in the face for everybody that got up early and wanted to, wanted to watch the G. Not good.

Uh, I will go a lot of directions we can go. Uh, I'll go Colin Morikawa's approach play today. Big loser that let me down. I just was so convinced it was going to click for Colin this week. He's emulating the great man Seve with Billy Foster on the bag. He's trending. He's been playing better. I think I thought this one summed up zero birdie putts inside 10 feet today for Morikawa. Not on the par fives. Didn't stick any irons in there. I think I thought this one summed up zero birdie putts inside 10 feet today for Morikawa.

Not on the par fives, didn't stick any irons in there. It was just like no chance. Lost 2.6 strokes with his irons today. That's just not going to do it. You had a bet of calling Morikawa to go bogey free, which he bogeyed the opening hole. Which is good. That's way better. Exactly. You'd rather not sweat it. Darcy Rossiter asked the question, can we analyze how proper Yorkshireman Billy Foster came to be the caddy for the owner of a doodle that wears shoes? Calling Morikawa doomed to failure? No. I mean, after this, he might be, DG might have to look closer to home to his brother Garrett, I believe. Had you ever heard of Garrett? No, but Garrett might be on the bag pretty soon. That blew my mind.

We're running out of caddies. Brother Dave Garrett. I'm so pissed we didn't get to that clue that would have thrown you guys off so hard. Uh, where, where are we at? You want to go back to winners? You guys got more winners on your list? Yeah, I got, I got a couple more winners. All right.

What do you got? I want to give a shout out to, uh, Richard Tedder, the amateur. Oh, so good. Shout out to Estonia first golfer to make the open from Estonia. I just from Estonia watching this video, give us some give us some thumbs up. For sure. And like I'm a sucker for an amateur golf podcast in Estonia.

A hatless amateur always catches my attention. And this guy's aesthetic. What's not to like? He's almost kind of like an angsty metal version of McLovin, you know, from Estonia. Like it's kind of like swaggy, but also like, what are we doing? I mean, it's great stuff, man. So I'm hoping, I think he was plus three today. I'm hoping Richard sticks around for the weekend.

I was so happy they showed the thing from Wes Lanks of him qualifying, holding that 50 yard wedge shot was fantastic. The stuff with him and Bryson, you know, he's asked like, what would be the dream this week? He's like, I'll have a long drive contest with Bryson and he did it. You know, Bryson Bryson dusted him, even though he hit it like whatever it was, 345 or something like 198 ball speed. I think I'm the range with doing that. He also said he'd never been to a DP World Tour or PJ Tour event before he'd never been like attended one, he'd never even

been to one, much less played in one. It's so sick. So cool. Uh, sorry, what do you got? I will say, I mean, this is a boring one, but just another just proper golf. I mean, there were some condities that ramped up there, I felt like they could have done a little bit more for emphasizing on how strong some of the crosswinds on some of those holes were and just a wind

graphic up there and showing more flags waving and all that stuff, because it was just like, man, it looks really freaking hard out there. And it just again, it wasn't like enough to be total carnage, but I thought it was that absolute dub that we just saw some proper golf today. You know, I'll add to that that I really weirdly enjoyed watching was when we got the rain in the morning, the greens were just wet enough that you started getting the skidding on the chip shots.

And just seeing those guys really frustrated in how to control the spin, is it going to skid, is it not going to skid? That was just another element that I really like. And I think it leads into my next winner for the day, which was the pins. I thought the pins were awesome today. There's enough little rumbles and humps and bumps and kind of like these mini, almost like mini shelves or, or these plateaus that have like really big runoffs. Next time I think you saw it on number one with, with kind of that tough spot behind the green. You saw it on number five, uh, where Rory, Rory, like when they showed that side kind of that tough spot behind the green. You saw number five where Rory Rory like when they showed that

side view of that putt that Rory made on number five. I mean, it looks like he's putting it like six feet up the hill. It's really, really cool that they put a lot of those pins right on those edges. So you constantly were seeing balls like, is it going to stop? Is it going to keep tumbling and roll down? It was really, really cool. Ten probably the best example

you know that green gets really really skinny back there. That back left pin on 10 was really cool. 7 was really cool. Just like I really enjoyed watching all the different pins today. 13-2 back right with the wind kind of down off the right like you had to hit just the proper shot again. It wasn't like amazing but how do you prevent the ball from going long left was like the question being asked. It's proper golf. So I hope they have more of those spots. They didn't kind of use them all today. That was really, really enjoyable to watch. But a couple other winners, I had Bez's stash. Neil, you mentioned it off the front. That was a clear cut winner. Bez was looking great. I had Harry Hall's putting. Did you guys see

how many putts Harry Hall had today? We talked about this and I tried to warn you guys in the Who Am I segment. He had 23 putts in 18 holes today. You know how bad you got to hit it to shoot over par with 23 putts? That's incredible. He lost about, what was it? Four and a half shots, I believe, off on the, with the Iron Play. So that's a winner and a loser. It's a winner and a loser. That's exactly right. Dej, I got a loser for you. Bryson Shoes. Oh, bad.

I know you call, what did you call them earlier? Super, they're very orthotic shoes. I'd actually, I would say they're very much, they struck me as the trail running shoes that like crunchy venture capitalists would wear up in Marin County. You know, just like- Those look a little less chunky in that angle

than what I saw. When I saw they look very chunky. Not a fan of, I'm dropping these, not copying these. I think that's right. I had P just in general, shooting 77. I was a loser today, 146th off the tee. Cody, I'm pretty sure. P lost me to half shots.

I thought we fixed the driver with P, man. That's what, I was told that this was not a problem anymore. I don't know what happened, man. 146th off the tee, 139th in putting. That's a tough that's a tough combo. That's not going to get it done. No inclusions for P this week. He's got the inclusion on the loser list. I don't think I've ever seen a chart like this. It's crazy. Struck the shit out of it today but just. Yeah not not a lot of good. I'm not putting him on the for the hoagie shout and he's like, you gotta look at the totality of the plays and I went and looked at the stand up

plays. Everyone is gonna miss. Oh god. Hogecoin. Stand up by the dip. So you gotta buy the dip. That that miss does not look as bad until you look at the whole scope of all of the misses. Oh, I had one more loser. This is not not as much of a violent loser, but I keep holding all this Corey Connors stock thinking that one of these times it's just going to pop, he's going to be relevant. And every time it's just like, I mean, it's just irrelevant. It's kind of the word. Every time I think he's going to be right there, think he's going to, I don't know, make it a weekend.

He's in that ilk of SungJM for me. Yeah, that's a really good comp. I'm done with this. Yeah. It's a good comp. And I got one on the flip side of that. A loser for me is Hatten. He's just, he's really good. And he continues to play good in big spots.

And every time I'm trying to make picks, I'm like, ah, I should pick Hatten this week. I'm like, nah, I won't. It's not, not that, not this time. It's, it's over. He plays good on hard golf courses in big spots. I always think about picking him. I don't, you know, what he reminds me of is like Draymond green, where you're like, man,

I just hate this guy's antics. I hate it. I hate it, but it's like, he's really good. He's really, really talented. And he's pretty eloquent off the course, you know, like in his interviews, you're like, God man, like, you know, I bet, you know, if he was on your rider cup team, he'd probably ride for him. Sorry. It's a very good player. Extremely good player. you know, I bet you know, if he was on your Ryder Cup team, he'd probably ride for him. Sorry, it's very good player, extremely good player. It's never about the talent or the ability or the results in any of these things.

Just cannot do it with his whole doesn't play the game the right way. He's even made a comment in the post game about like, Yeah, I'll probably find something to complain about and Kara Banks is like, and we love you for that. Tiro's like, Do we like do we love you for that? Because I'm very, very, very over it. I mean, she was like a foot taller than him. That was hilarious setting there. Again, not why I don't like him being a short king is not why I don't like it. No, of course not. It's just the

whole package though, you know, like the little boxer like, you know, it just, and I'm always like, nah, I'm not gonna pick him. And I'm always like, God, there he is again. Like, it's just, you're just like, just, I'm not gonna pick him. And I'm always like, God, there he is again. Like, it's just you're just like, just take the easy money. He's just really good. He straight up said fuck you to a fan today. And maybe the fan deserved it for all I know. Poor to tweet out the video. But it's like, yeah, now the open is officially started. It's like,

yeah, it's it's every, every, every week. I got some losers if if you're ready, please. Sebastian Cave, his caddy, I believe. I don't know if I'm saying it right. Is this in a legend or you feel real strong? I put in some work on this. I looked at every group, the shot trails on the fifth hole for every group that preceded Tommy's group. Tommy got to the fifth hole, drove it into a bunker.

Bones pointed out that he was in somebody's footprint. I couldn't tell from the camera angle that they showed, but that he was in an un-rake part of the bunker. Big controversy this week. The Open does not have the designated bunker rakers following the groups around. The caddies have to do this themselves. Sebastian's an amateur. Stocks, by the way. That was a cool thing. Yeah. And his caddy allegedly did not rake this bunker. And it also didn't go, go note like there were a couple other people I need to put on blast as well like Hovland was over here. Couple other groups were over here and caddies could or should have seen that this

raker was un raked and did not get corrected. But anyways, Tommy ends up in the in the show. You better watch it next time you go to an event you'll snitch. I'll send it somebody for not break the fucking bunkers guys. Come on. You didn't do my pick dirty. That was completely unfair. Also big, big loss today pace of play was absolutely brutal. I know you're looking up and it's like, God, how long is this thing gonna take? What hole are we on?

I'm a big proponent of like a open championship. Everybody goes off the first tee like pace of play is better. I don't know. I didn't look at the tee sheet. I don't know if they put in any 10 minute gaps anywhere throughout the course of the day. Usually that does help stagger the pace of play or helps prevent if there's one backup, one one delay, it doesn't back up the whole course. I mean, it's not like they weren't doing their jobs. I mean, Tirol Hat, I'm sorry,

John Rahm and JJ Spahn's group got put on the clock near the end of their round. JJ spawn got a bad time, which carries into tomorrow. They were saying, yeah, like he could get penalized if he gets another bad time. And I guess Adam is all night on the clock at dinner on the clock. Go to the start on the clock. But he does if they get on the clock again and gets another bad time on the clock on the toilet. Let's go.

I guess Adam Hayes roms caddy got into it with the official over that even though it wasn't wrong that got affected by that. But yeah, pace of play was was pretty brutal for a one t start with conditions and look at stuff out there. But I'm guessing it has to do with par five like you have a reachable par five, second hole, a reachable par five second hole, a drivable fifth hole, reachable par five seventh hole, reachable par five 12th hole as well is just,

with some tough par fours in between, I imagine that contributes to just log jams and you know, potential for waiting and all that, but not great pace of play to start this tournament. Anything else or is that close the book on winners and losers? Last loser I had, I just want to shout out that I felt bad for the crane cameraman on nine. Just with everybody missing left, I just felt like he couldn't pick up the ball. You know, he's like,

off ask, it's because he's like, kind of like thinking people are gonna hit the fairway. It's just like the camera kept going this, you know, left, I don't know. But just shout out to that guy. Like I know he's doing his job and that's a hard job. Neil, why don't we do a, well actually I wanna do a little two truths and a lie,

but solid, we got anyone else we need to hear from before we do that? I mean, yeah, we gotta get through, we got a couple stacked up segments here of the show here which reminds me we should give a shout out to our friends at the stack the stack system comm slash nlu code no laying up we'll get you 10% off the stack I have been dedicated I have been committed on this I've been doing it I've been kind of plateaued a little bit DJ I'm happy to report I touched 117 stack speed yesterday. Funny story, like the to my neighbors

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We decided we're gonna shed some light on who some of these guys, uh, towards the top of the leaderboard. I don't know if you kept it there. I don't know how deep you took this, uh, any direction you want to go here. I've got one, two, three, four, five names. And then a bonus one. If, if this goes well, we'll get to the bonus one. Um, you know, kind of classic icebreaker game. Uh, just trying to get some, to know some, some new guys on the leaderboard. Uh,

I went basically in the top 20. So, um, we're going to start with how Tong Li because I believe the broadcast was, was almost referring to him as, as a new guy, you know, 27 year old how Tong Li as somebody who says dumb things on a mic, I feel, I feel bad bringing this up with Dan Hicks this morning was a 29 year old named Hao Tong Li. I was like, I think I finished top five at a British Open before it was on a President's Cup team.

I don't know if we need to pretend like it's his first time on the scene, but yeah. Subject to one of Tron's best tweets of all time. Yeah. You know, when he starts bugging his head, you cancel the year of the rooster. So, God, I should have gotten that in there. Okay, we've got, as you know, three facts

here. Two of them will be true. One will be a lie. So first, his father owned a car dealership and when his son was old enough to beat him on the golf course, he left his job and began traveling the world with his son. Okay. It's pretty specific. He was penalized two strokes at the 2018 Dubai desert Classic for playing the wrong ball The last fact as a child He was so obsessed with golf that he would sleep with his golf clubs next to his bed and practice his swing in his bedroom mirror every morning before school I Have a guest like it should be the second one should be the lie

But I don't know what kind of mischievous nature you're up to right now So I'm gonna say the third one's a lie I feel like I've heard the third one on the broadcast sleeping with the golf clubs. And I feel like I remember the penalty. So I'm going to say his dad was not a car dealer. He did something else. His dad was a car dealer and he did sleep with his clubs. Uh, he was penalized in the 2018, uh, desert or Dubai desert classic, but it was not for playing the wrong ball. It was for his chat

This is good. He was penalized two strokes for his caddy standing behind him while I lined up a cusp Which was legal under something that it was legal under the old rules, but had just been banned So he he he he he missed when the new rules came into effect. That's a good one. You got me on that one weren't the new rules in 2019 Apparently not. Because this is okay. This is what I'm going on. But you know, I could be wrong. But I believe I'm questioning my guy. Okay. All right. Next up. JSO Jakobskove Oleson. First fact, he won the Texas intercollegiate tournament in his collegiate debut at ranger college in 2019, 2020 season, and finished the

season with a scoring average of 69.53 as the top ranked junior college player, according to golf stat. It's a lot of details there. That better not be like he was actually 69.2 or something like that. I mean, it could be. I don't know. I got to keep you guys on your toes, right? I do also have to say it was 2019 that he was penalized, not 2018. So, okay.

The point stands. But the point stands. Well, there you go. That makes it not true. Yeah, it was fake. You were accidentally right twice. Yeah. So there it is. It was already the fake one.

Rory McRoy is said to be Oleson's hero and the Dane first met him, met the three-time major winner in the Champions locker room at Royal Trun in 2024. Last fact, he made 18 consecutive pars during his second round at the 152nd Open Championship. Wow. Okay. I know he went to Ranger College. I know that. I know that's true. I don't know if any of those other details are true The Rory thing I know he did play the open because he won the amateur in 2024 And I think that got him into the open so that is very conceivable that he would have met Rory But he could have had a different hero and the last one 18 consecutive pars that feels far-fetched to me I'm gonna go with the last one is a lie So yeah, yeah, the last one is true

Damn, you were on the right track his hero is the links master Jordan Spieth really at him in the locker room at Trin Oh, man. All right. That's good. You know, I Listen, I just thought that was a fun fact that I wanted to share with the world that his Hero is Jordan Spieth. I love that absolute kind of stud though between the Danes are coming guys like this guy was a baller at TC the TC nailed. So look at the whole body of work man. And we're gonna go to another Dane here. John Axelson. I believe he's t 20 right now. This might be tough. I don't know a lot about John Axelson. His first name is John Paul Poults Pinnerup Axelson.

And he was born in Holbeck, Denmark in January 23, 1998. Second fact, he attended Florida State University from 2017 to May, 2020, leaving before his senior year to turn professional. And he achieved the second best scoring average in Florida State program history. Okay, you can't list these as individual facts. These are five facts in one. All right. Okay. TC would consider him a ball speed imposter.

That is really tough because he just moves that final. And he didn't say proper player. Proper player would have been much tougher too. No, I said ball speed imposter, which should give you an indicator of like, you know, his profile would look a little unbalanced, I think. It's kind of a one or zero on ball speed imposter. I'm going to say, gosh, this is a hard one. I'll say that as well, because I lost track of how many facts there were in the first part. I kind of messed this up. He didn't attend Florida State.

He attended Florida. So, Solly, I thought you'd get that one. And all the other stats about his college career are true. But he went to Florida. So he has the second best scoring average in University of Florida history, which I thought was pretty interesting. That's not nothing.

I mean, I think he's a great player. I think he's a great player. I think he's a great player. I think he's a great player. All the other stats about his college career are true, but he went to Florida. So he has the second best scoring average in Florida, University of Florida history, which I thought was pretty interesting. That's not nothing. Total standout and left early. TC would not consider him a ball speed imposter. Cody, I think I got the graphic of his, what do you call it? Data golf profile, if you want to pull that up, but it's, it's, he,

he's not hitting the ball a long way, but he was a stud. He played on, uh, um, he teamed up with the Hoygard twins and they won the, um, what was the, what's the team tournament like for the Danes, like the first time they ever won it, but like went back as a junior golfer, total stud, never heard anything about this guy. So hand up, learn something about Mr. Axelson. And also hand up, there were two, there was one truth and two lies. All right, well I guess I got that one right then. I'm counting that as a victory.

Yeah, fair enough. All right, last one. They won the World Amateur Team Championship. World Amateur Team Champion, thank you Cody. All right, last one, Rasmus Hoygard. I'm gonna try to throw you guys out. Listen, he's got identical twins, so we're gonna see how uh, Rasmus boy guard. I'm going to try to throw you guys out. You know, listen, he's got identical twins. So we're going to, we're going to see, see how well you know the Hoy guards.

Uh, he's the younger of the two twins. He's a huge fan of the band Oasis and plans to attend the Oasis reunion concert at Wembley stadium this summer with his father, uh, and former world number one, Adam Scott has likened Rasmus's game to Dustin Johnson after playing alongside the Dane at the 2022 Abu Dhabi HSBC championship. I'm going to say the first one is the lie. Yeah.

I'm going to say Nikolai is younger. No, Nikolai is older. The last one's the lie. Nikolai is who, who is really on threat and Adam Scott likened him to Dustin Johnson. Are there profiles that different? They must be I feel like Nikolai's always been the bomber I thought you guys would would pick up on that one Maybe not maybe you know a tough one. They're identical twins and they have a lot of similar. They they both have dogs They both play tennis. They both like Italian food. They both were competitive handball players in Denmark growing

up. So anyway, the Hoy guards are coming according to TC. So that's what I got. I had some stuff on Saddam, Al-Kinjanwa, Al-Kinjana. You know what? I've been dreading that one all day. I don't know. Thank you for following that sword. Yeah. That's, I believe I actually wrote out the phonetic sounding, I played it on Google. How about him?

I mean, I know this was all over the broadcast. I was not aware that he had left, lived golf, left the Iron Heads and became a ordained monk. Did not have that on my radar. Did not have that in my notebook. So I was looking that up, Dej, and I kind of knew I was going to throw in, you know, everybody knew the ordained monk story. So I knew you guys would get, this one just would have been easy. Uh, I was going to say that he was a competitive movie tie fighter in his youth.

He wasn't, uh, they sponsored by Chang beer. He's not solid. We know that Singa beer is a big supporter of tie golfers, of course. Uh, and they support the national program in a big way But I was looking up the the monk stuff and there's a long tradition of like temporary Like getting like temporarily ordained as a monk So if you like if you want to go like the full full boat monk like I don't think they're just handing those out No, it's like a 22 rules, like a code of conduct you got to follow for life. But this is a big thing.

You have to be 20 and you're allowed, basically like a spiritual retreat. And it's kind of big with like honoring your parents and, you know, it seems like it's helped them play better golf. I mean, that's kind of what he's saying in some of these interviews today. Unbelievable. But yeah, it's like a total detox, you know, two weeks, two weeks off, no phone zone, the whole deal. It sounds like it's right up my alley.

Uh, and then I had one in here, Sally, uh, it was going to be a false. I was going to say he won $653,000 as a member of the iron heads in 2022. He'd probably want a lot more than that. He won $1.3 million and he was 46 on the money. It's like, so he felt so dirty about it. He had to go become an ordained monk. Got a lot of people have come through the Ironheads. I like the roster is long and not super distinguished. They're not putting the franchise tag on anybody. But he parlayed a T11 at the open in 2022. I almost feel like he parlayed that maybe into a,

into a live deal. He shot 65 in 2022 in the final round and T11, which is really good. He's got 10 professional wins. I think seven on the Asian tour, three on the Thai golf tour. Or maybe, maybe I flipped that. Maybe it's three on the Asian tour, seven on the Thai tour.

Anyway, played some good golf today. There you have it. No, that was delightful. Thank you for that. I feel like I, uh, I got a couple more nuggies to score the web specifically the, the, uh, Hoygards going to Wembley for Oasis. I wonder if they'll both brothers will go. Or I looked up if I could, I was like, well, is Rasmus the only Oasis fan, but Nikola is a big fan too. So they're both going with their dad. So I was trying to well, is Rasmus the only Oasis fan? But Nikolai's a big fan too, so they're both going with their dad. So I was trying to find a lie in there somewhere.

Good place for brothers to bond, you know? Yeah, but again, the Danes, man, the Danes. Like, doing big things. Well, guys, we're kind of landing the plane here. A couple more things. I asked you guys this question. One wish you have kind of for the rest of the week. If you could be somebody you want to see play well, could be something conditions broadcast. Soly, where did your where'd your head go on this one?

I mean, an obvious one is can did he's wish that but I still I think like one of the most underrated like rivalries of our time that was budding was Scotty versus Rom. They played each other twice in Sunday singles, the Ryder Cup, like they were kind of trading off like somewhat serious Grand Slam threats and back to back years Rom leaving for Liv made that a rivalry received very a lot less often on the golf course and kind of gave us a little tease of it there at the PGA and I'd like for the year to close out with

a duel between those two. I think there's like no losing situation if we get that. So that'd be my wish. Yeah, I think that one's pretty hard to pretty hard. Yeah, you could throw Rory in there, but a heavyweight matchup. I feel like, and you know, we've been a little spoiled with that. I don't know if US Open with JJ Spahn I know tons of fireworks at the end, fun tournament to watch, but God, before that, it's just like heavyweights only for the previous four majors and it's a lot of fun. I guess, Saliha, the only thing I'd edit on that or update would be just in the final group, kind of the dual, the stencil and it may be not even those guys, but two guys going at it in the final group.

I feel like that would be awesome to see. I'll go just for the sake of zagging, even though that would be delightful. I would sign up for that right now. If I'm getting a Genie who's just gonna give me whatever wish I want, give me Mickelson in the mix. Like, I don't know what could be more electric than that, than Phil just out of nowhere at 55 years old,

like with trouble looming on every hole. Like, I mean, just give me Mickelson involved. That would be. Or Westwood, man. God, what if Westwood gets it done before Tommy Lee Westwood? Could be really poetic. That might change my wish. I think that's my wish.

Westwood wins. Westwood won. Gosh, that would be fantastic. Looking ahead, a couple of just a little odds check in. I think probably no shock that Neil, no disrespect, but your guy, Fitz is not the favorite., Fitz, is not the favorite. H.E., not the favorite. None of those guys tied for first are the favorite. The favorite, according to our friends at the Fandel Sportsbook, is of course, Scotty Scheffler, plus 210, followed by

Rory at plus 850, Matt Fitzpatrick, plus 1,100, John Rahm, plus 1,200. Maybe a little nibble on that. John Rom plus 1200 maybe a little nibble on that Terrell Hatton plus 1200 he plus 2000 and my guy Justin Rose plus 2800 anything anything stick out there The ROM one sticks out That's That feels like value Is that down from you? From the from the jump. I thought he was a round that to start the week, but I'm surprised he didn't move up. Probably. But you know,

you know, one few around to get through. I know, but like, that was a good, that was a good Brown. And your boy Rosie, man, I mean, 2,800, we know Rosie will do it. You're not scared. Just for fun here, Neil, you can get Mickelson at plus 27,000 right now. If you're looking at, if you're looking to sprinkle. What's Westwood? Westwood is.

Plus 17,000. 17,000. Little more respect for Westwood. I mean, that would be like the, you know, we were denied the Watson, but we could get the Westwood. You also can get Justin Leonard plus 100,000 right now. If you think his strong play is going to continue. That's about all I got, guys.

Anything else that is kind of sticking out? You know what, Soly, actually, we did have one. I sent you out a little goose chase. We didn't mention Matthew Jordan yet, possibly. I guess I mentioned him in the rundown of the leaderboard. But just like, guys forged by nature, man, he just can't, can't stop contending and opens. It's crazy. First of all, just what a what a world that that Bryson lives in

that he can go shoot plus seven in the opening round and barely garner a mention today, we can maybe revisit that but Matthew Jordan is apparently the open championship killer. All right. The little goose chase that was so he kind of famously popped up at the 2023 open at Royal Liverpool. He's a member there. He finished t 10 there. He gained 2.66 shots there on the field and that open championship on a per round basis. That's an excellent that's basically 2.66 every round you basically would be

Scotty Shuffler, you'd be the second best player in the world is what the math works out to there on that one. So in between that and the 2024 Open Championship, he dipped back down to negative 0.31 per round for all of those rounds in between that. He rebounded the 2024 Open with plus 2.81, which basically like is the current skill level of Scottie Scheffler in that tournament, another T10 finish. Since then, he has dipped back down to negative

0.18 back to a slightly below average touring pro. And the opening round of the 2025 open, he gained 5.19 strokes on the field. If he does that for four rounds, he is going to be the open champion, almost certainly here at Royal Port Rush. If he does that for four rounds, he is going to be the open champion, almost certainly here at Royal Port Rush. So he has three years in a row, just been an absolute killer in this event. And the numbers are kind of jumping off the page there. We might need to award the Lynx Master title.

That is interesting. That is. Yeah, that would be painful to transition away from speed. And you know, the Lynx Master title could be not so much the champion golfer of the year, but it kind of in TC's world, like the proper is golfer of the year, you know, the proper is the golfer, the proper is not, not necessarily the winner, but the proper is golfer. I think that's a good idea.

Uh, well guys, can we revisit the pricing thing? I mean, seven over top five player in the world just no You're not you're right. You're totally right. I don't know what they're like what there is to say I feel like you me Tron all had him as our pick not to win. It was kind of yeah This doesn't really add up. He's probably gonna drive it some stupid spots He's probably gonna have some of these dumb six iron length chips that don't Work out and like he just I don't know

It just seems like he it's just not a fit not a fit for the open at all and I don't know certainly not shocking I didn't think it was me that bad but it's what do you got I don't I don't know what I just got yeah I mean not just you guys but just the people in general just kind of like yeah yeah it's totally fine just completely ejected you know we only gets to be plays four serious tournaments a year and does this in one of them. You know, after the fucking bag, man, okay, he's changing the game solid. He's got other things going on.

Gotta get home and make some content. But yeah, I was Yeah, wild, wild round from from Bryson. Some more like duds of the day. I mean, Brooke shot four over. Looked pretty pretty rough in the process. speed had a tough day. He mean, Brooke shot 4-over, looked pretty, pretty rough in the process. Spieth had a tough day. He did rebound with some late birdies. He finished at plus 2. You know, he just, his wife just had a kid last week, of course, but he's kind of right there on that cut line. I'll be interested to see if he can make the cut. Victor's right there at plus 2 as well. Tommy at plus 2 as well. We mentioned P shot 6-over-par. Wyndham Clark on the heels of getting banned. He shot five over par today.

That was really tough one Ludwig, I believe two over part. Did he finish it? Two over par. He finished two over. Yeah. Love Ludwig. And I think I said it a couple of pods ago. I was going to give him to the end of the year, but this is stinky guys.

Stinky. It's not good. Yeah. Not good. It's not good. Uh, Russ Henley shot one over par today. I know we kind of flagged him as, um, you know, potential contender. Their can't lay that did not think about them one time until I just saw his name here on the list here at T 70, uh, as well, but any other stinkers out there that were just especially disappointing to you guys?

No, I mean, I feel like you kind of covered him or we covered him in our losers segment. I didn't have saw him plus four. He's really injury injury, but still it's tough pocket or we talked a little about him in the preview. He's plus six. That's unfortunate. How are you guys is off like Minwooli just well well over par tough. Potgieter, we talked a little about him in the preview. He's plus six. That's unfortunate. How are you guys off like Min Woo Lee? Just well over par on another proper test in another featured group, but that's neither here nor there. Did you guys get your takes in the envelope? We're going

to reveal these on Sunday. Wednesday night, write down all your takes. We're going to reveal them on Sunday. How are you guys feeling? Thumbs up, thumbs down. I'm kind of a, kind of here-ish. Yeah. I need some, I need some cuts to be made tomorrow. I need some things to go my way. I need you guys to stick around for the weekend. You need the good side of the draw for tomorrow.

Yeah. For some, for some, not even even just for finishes just for them to more opportunities for certain things to happen. Just extend extend life a little bit. Yeah. Well, guys, I think that's about it for today. Great first day at the open updated pick like if you would you toss your pick aside remind the listeners and of course, maybe me maybe not remember. I know you picked Neil. Would you toss your pick aside and re-choose right now if you could I?

picked John Rahm and while it's very tempting to Look at Scottie Scheffler who almost certainly will win I still feel good about John Rahm. I can't do it on Thursday. I'm not gonna panic yet. I'm not gonna panic yet I might change that by Saturday, but it's I'm still comfortable with John Rahm under par. I'm here to announce I would trade in my Tommy Pickford Scotty right as of right now with the with the five shots as well. No faith What did TC say?

In the absence of truth or something like that or Patrick we might be do it We might be kicking off a block party with an afternoon tea session on Earth. Mr. Fitz, you know, just, just a real chill. Sunday roast. Yeah. Exactly. Might, maybe a Sunday roast if things look good. Who's the leader by the end of the day tomorrow? I mean, it's so unfunded. Just keep saying this on pods, but like, Scott, probably, uh, Matthew Jordan, I don't know. I'm just receiving data that he's the best open JVG players. It's so unfunded. Just keep saying this on pods, but like, Scott, probably, uh, Matthew Jordan, I don't know. I'm just receiving data that he's the best open JVG players. It's Tom Watson. Um, I, yeah,

I would say fits is still maybe at man tomorrow. I'll say fits. Okay. Do you guys think it's another four under tomorrow? Do you think it's like, gets to eight? What do you think that or six? Like what's the forecast? I know TC's not here. I'm hesitant to even try again because I feel like six feels like feels like the lead tomorrow. It doesn't look like it's a little bit. I mean, it looks pretty nice in the afternoon with a little bit of rain in the morning. I'm sorry, a little bit of wind in the morning. God see that. I love fitzy. He's got the good side of the draw. wind in the morning. God see that. I love fitzy. He's got the good side of the draw. Got in early today and I would think so. Late.

I'll take fitzy as the as the 36 hole leader. I hope so. I hope I hope it sticks around. He's he's fun. Scotty was early today too though, right? He was Yeah. Yeah. Forgot about that. Damn it. Would be fun to follow. I think it's going to be Scotty at six. Would be my very giraffe play.

All right. I think that's going to do it. Excellent first round of the open. Thank you to you guys for hopping on. Thanks for all the prep for the segments. Thanks to high noon. Thanks to Omni. Thanks to the stack. Thanks to our friends at Club Glove. Thanks to Cody and Matt behind the scenes. Thanks to Royal Port Rush for a great day. And let's do it again tomorrow, shall we?