No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 1126: Akshay beats out Berger to win the API

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Akshay Bhatia wins in a playoff over Daniel Berger at Bay Hill, Dan Bradbury wins on the DP World Tour, Jon Rahm wins LIV Hong Kong and the 4 Aces claim the team title. We also had Mi Hyang Lee battling a shoulder injury to win the Blue Bay LPGA to wrap up the Spring Asian Swing on the LPGA Tour. We break down the results across the world of golf and discuss who is in form leading into The Players Champ. Down the leaderboard, news and notes, and a whole bunch more! Presented by Titleist. Support our sponsors: Titleist - the #1 ball in Golf! High Noon - Sun's Up! H&B - NLU10 at https://www.hbgolf.com SoFi - Get Your Money Right at https://www.sofi.com/nlu Looking to travel this year, check out East Sands Golf Co.: https://www.eastsandsgolf.co/nlu 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. That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up Live show presented by titleist.

Sali here. We have so much golf to talk about this week. Joined by my guy, Mr. DJ Pi. Hello, Pie, man. Hello, Sally. Good to be with you. That's it, man. That's a golf Sunday.

right there. I'm buzzing. That was great stuff. That was fun. T.C. is here. Hello, T.C. Greetings gentlemen. A lot of anchoring to discuss tonight. Oh, my God. You guys are bad, bad, bad, bad people. No, don't. I'm going to enjoy T.C. on a lot. Don't throw me out on that one quite yet. Let's have the discussion.

We can have that discussion. You guys are bad people. If we learn nothing from the rules pod, T.C., call it in. If you, if you really do believe it, I already have. And what have they determined? Huh? Huh? Uh-huh. Anyways, we'll get there. As a listener to that pod, I feel like we need to have Neil be the final arbiter of this.

We keep getting emails from people. They're like, hey, you guys, you get three options. If you do another rules pod, like you should have an expert on it. Like,

you guys are putting misinformation out into the world. Sure. We corrected it. Heard. We corrected the record on that. Guys, a lot of golf talk about from around the world. Here are your winners,

Akshay Batia, wins the Bay Hill Invitational. Ricky Castillo, wins the Puerto Rico. open. Dan Bradbury wins the Joeberg open. Doc Redmond wins the Astara Chile Classic. Han Rom wins Live Hong

Kong and the four aces claim the team title. Meehang Lee wins a Blue Bay LPGA. And Isabella Fierro wins the Atlantic Beach Classic. I don't know if there's a week that has that many tournaments going on all around the world all at one time. We never did say you let's go out. We never do

senior tour shoutouts in here. But yes, Zach Johnson also won in his Champions Tour debut. TZ called it a dark day for golf. It's closing in on a thousand likes on X, the Everything app. I think that's a bigger number than anything that Champs Tour has done in months, maybe years. Also, I'd be remiss if I,

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So if you line up your golf ball on the greens, you want to make sure that line is pointed right to where you're looking. Go to Tidlist.com to learn more about what golf ball you should be playing and explore new aim offer. brings across the entire tideless golf ball family. We're going to start at Bay Hill, of course, going live here shortly after the finish of this one. DJ, why don't you take us on an old summary if not everyone caught that one live? So I thought you'd never ask. Daniel Berger, it's been too long since we saw our guy, Daniel Berger. He took a one shot lead into the final round over Akshay Batia, trying to go wire to wire at Mr. Palmer's place.

He was leading by five at the halfway point today, which, is, man, I would have lost some money if I was putting on, putting any of it down on how that was going to go. At the halfway point of the tournament, at the half of 36 holes, he was leading by five. Sure, sure, sure. That's right. What was he? He was up by four, though, at the turn today, I think.

I think he had a three or four. Yeah, it was a big lead today. Insane ball striking numbers for, for Burger all week. But, you know, through those first two rounds for sure. Auxhay Birdie's 10 and 11 to get within three shots today, as was Ludwig. big Oberg TC, interested to talk about the great man's flash of a return there and an interesting shirt. We can talk about that.

Got interesting when DB buried one in the bunker on 13. Interesting play. Some good audio captured by NBC as he's trying to figure out how to how to extricate himself, how to play away from the hole, had to work, get one up and down just to save bogey as A Hacche rolled in his fourth birdie in a row to cut the lead to one there on 13. The TC five in a row was in play. that point. Stayed that way until Akshay bogeed the 15th hole

and Akshay proceeds to almost make a two on 16 hits it to three feet six inches to set up an eagle, kind of a half eagle on that little micro par five if I may. Burger three putt 17, great shot by Akshay into 17

almost makes a birdie there as well and they're tied going to 18 burger makes from over 13 feet for par to extend it to a playoff, a little bit of jawing going with maybe some people having some fun in the crowd. I heard a lot of no pressure chants. I heard a lot of just strange. I don't know.

Who's yelling at DB? Who's trying to get under Daniel Burger's skin? Kick those guys off. It's taken a while. I think that's what it was. Well, maybe that's true, too. But we get to a playoff between him and Akshay and Daniel Burger makes bogey is not able to two putt from, what, 600 feet there on the other side of the boomerang green. After some dissension with his caddy.

There was. There was a couple, yeah, a couple, very interesting catty discussions, certainly in those, you know, the last whole regulation and then in the playoff. And Akshay taps in for his third PGA tour victory. Solly, let's start with Akshay, obviously. What did you see from your beautiful boy out there today? The dude, he was electric. He was all over the place, a little bit shot two over on the front nine,

but a back 931 that had a bogey as well, made four. birdies and an eagle on the back nine. Was quite lucky that ball stayed up in regulation with that approach shot into 18. There was a strip of rough there. Very, very thick strip of rough there. I don't know if I, I think that shot's hard enough as it is. I don't think, not all strips of rough or equal here, T.C. For the risk reward, driveable 15th hole at Travelers, it's 280 yards.

I think that ball should not stop. 18 at Bay Hill is one of the hardest freaking holes I've ever seen. The rock should be higher. Yeah, TC and I had some proprietary. stuff. Don't you can't, we're going to copyright a lot of that stuff that was in Slack. Some of those ideas. Build that rock wall up higher. More rocks. Take away the rough.

We got some interesting, I think, design. Gumering Green is. It is sick. They should keep shaving it all the way back. Just bring it back another 30 or 40 yards. It was, of course, the hardest hole today. Also, the 16th hole was not even close to the hardest hole, or the easiest hole at Pea Hill today. So you can take that half eagle back. I have a 4.74 in scoring.

So not even. Only a quarter of a shot under par, okay. I mean, that wasn't even there's, the fourth hole was was, you know, that might have been the hardest part five out there today if I look, T.C. I think it was. So, anyway, you can take that back. Akshay is, I feel like

I've been writing for Akshay a lot, you know, privately, but amongst you guys, most definitely and publicly as much as possible of like a huge believer in this guy's talent. This is clearly the biggest win of his career. I was a big fan of the path he took to getting here, bypassed,

in college and basically just, you know, if you're if you're newish, newer to the game, newer fan of the game and don't remember what it was like falling Akshay through the early phases. I mean, the guy was just, he would grab his clubs and go play anywhere where there was a potential spot available. Monday qualifiers on Corn Ferry when he was 17, 18 years old all over the place. And I always respected the faith he has in himself and the belief he has in his game. And the lack of fear in his golf swing, I think makes him exciting to watch. And third win all in playoff fashion. I was a little, worried when he let loose a big fist pump

afterward after what happened at Valero last year. But biggest win of his career. I heard of the shoulder, of course, for that. I don't, yeah, I don't think I went as far as Randy saying he's going to be the next great master's champion. Next great master's lefty. But I be curious.

Let's ask this question. Does Akshay win a major? What do you guys, do you guys have an answer to this one? Man, I don't know. it looks it looks pretty tidy it looks pretty fearless right now it's if you're if you're putting me on the spot to say no or yes again it's mathematically i'll just say no because most people don't but it wouldn't shock me how's that for a fence it i'll say no i'll say no you can you can say you can say akshay's all over you next time if he does win one that's fine i'll be i'll happily

i'll happily sit on that uh you know that side of history you asked this last year i don't remember what answered but I asked this on the June 30th 2024 oh two years ago at the NLU record this was the first thing we ever put in the NLU record actually was our answers to this question so do you do you think he wins a major TC it depends on if they want to yes or no yes or no question yes or no question I'll say yes so you are officially changing your answer from 24 you and DJ were the loan holdouts to say that Akshay would not win a And two years later, we are changing that prognostication. Neil and Randy were in the yes category, as of course, I was as well.

And with Scotty looking vulnerable, Scotty's era might be over as well. I might open up some of these majors if we want to start giving some of these away. We got cautious there for a while, giving away majors. I think it's time we get reckless again. Yeah, I love it. I'm proud to see I had some consistency for ones on that. That's great. Now I'm going to triple down.

Solly, it was I quibbled with your word electric that you used on Slack. it was electric coming down the stretch shot into 16 the shot into 17 was awesome even though it doesn't look as sexy shot into 18 in regulation was I mean I don't know what other word you have for that one other than just it was it was half yo what are you doing and half like that was that took some stones that was electric that's what we're looking for

very happy for Joe Griner I'm buying into all of the the lefties of caddy they're seeing the same shots stuff I think that's great I love that that tidbit. Joe seems like he's having a blast out there with him, speaks very, very highly of him and who he is kind of on and off the course. So it's a guy. I

found myself weirdly gutted for Daniel Berger today. I don't know why I was so I got so into him. Different shot maker, different guy who plays a different style of golf. But Akshay's fits that bill too. I mean, he was hitting all kinds of shots. He's driving it all over the

map on the front nine. And then really like got the, you know, T-shots under control when it mattered. And what did he say? Played with some anger out there, Sully. That's exciting. So I don't know. It was, it was great, man.

That's just, I feel like Bay Hill kind of crept into, it started to approach like sloggy snoozer territory three, four years ago. And, you know, Scotty winning a couple times like that helps. Rory winning helps. But I don't know. This was, this was. This was a good one. This was kind of as good as I can remember.

You have a reason to be gutted for Daniel Berger, who was led the field in strokes gained ball striking and was 12th in putting. Like you win when that happens, especially when Akshay was negative 2.4 strokes gained ball striking this week, but first in putting first around the greens. I mean, he just, I don't know what that says about Bay Hill. I think we're going to have some nice things to say about Bay Hill eventually, but you just rarely see somebody win a golf tournament

without having their long game really in any former fashion. But Akshay was that good around the greens and that good on the greens. And I don't know if you guys want to take that lob to throw anything out there. First and anchoring, too. Yeah. No, I think Ackhie, like, it seems like having played with him, what, last year at the BMW. Yeah, did you confront about the anchoring when you play with him in the program? No, I was looking closely.

Or make himself part of the story. Yeah. But the, he, he works his ass off. That's for sure. And like, that's been the case ever since he was on AJGA. He, he was just a range rat. You know, so I think that's like I, it's, it's very much a LeBron thing. I respect the guy's career.

I don't have to like it though. Sure. Sure. So, no, I think the, I think the burger stuff, like, I think it is understandable that you're gutted for him, not winning. beach of like i don't know like live from's been really good all week and rolfing this was on friday i think friday or saturday ralphing was talking about how it was funny he said like i don't want to say that that daniel burger was cocky but he was very arrogant i think this for the same things ralph be worse yeah um but he was basically he was like the daniel burger that showed up on tour

this year is a completely different person as far as just owning his career owning his game being really humble and self-effacing and like you know kind of I don't know it just seems like he's he's been through a hell of a lot with his like he had that herniated disc I think he broke his finger like on the knuckle and just yeah just generally I just I love the way he plays golf he sees shots he like he's got to have better drives on 18 there both in regulation and on the playoff he fell in love with that flighted driver and it was working for the majority of this week, but it let him down twice there. Especially because not only was he not hitting the fairway with it, it was so far back.

And then, I don't know, like, I loved him talking, talking his caddy off of it. Like, they're up the left side on that second one. I think the one in regulation was, was a little bit concerning too of like, awesome put, like great putt to, to take it to a playoff. But the layup just felt a little bit safe. Like, it felt like they could have gotten a lot more out of that layup and, you know, gone farther and farther up the left. And it was just, but I guess angles don't matter, right?

Well, I don't, I don't know why, because when they're talking about it in the playoff, they said, basically, Berger said, like, this is either going to get on the, near the front of the green or short of it, or in the bunker, as in like, all right, we're, maybe we're trying to hit this in the bunker. And that, that's a hard bunker shot. But in, you know, in theory, it is. But, like, you just got to get it kind of rolling on that line. It's going to roll downhill to that cup.

But, but why in regulation, would. you not be trying to get that in the bunker then if you were if you were fine to do that from the left side there wasn't that much added risk it didn't look like from the lie being as good as it was i get not taking seven iron and going right at the flag because you go long of that pin into the back bunker you're toast like that's not the play but i guess i don't it didn't matter because he ended making the par put but we would be sitting here kind of questioning that that layup but burger basically does call them off of like not laying back too far again because i don't think you wanted to try that again after going through that the first time.

Yeah, it was a great first party hit. But yeah, it just didn't make any sense to me. His caddy's saying, like, you know, basically, hey, I like you laying up here. And he's like, man, like, it's a playoff. Like, what do you want me to do? Like, not go for it here. And Akshay's sitting in the middle of the fairway, 170 yards out. And he's going to absolutely go for broke and go at the pin.

You know, you've got to play to win. I think, I don't know, I'd like to see Burger with someone more aggressive there. Bad time for a rogue tracer from NBC. I don't know. It's probably not their fault with the tracer. I don't know they got the divot or what, but it looked like actually shanked that ball. And then it shows up in the middle of the green, easy two putt.

Burger, I mean, Burger, like, too, like that was one of the better ball striking performances I've ever seen Thursday, Friday. Like the Thursday round and the Friday round, like he was, all of his putts that he made when he, when he shot that low score Thursday were inside of like 10 or 12 feet. he was just flagging it. Meanwhile,

like he was 12 or 13 under. Meanwhile, everybody's complaining about the greens being dead and the golf course being too hard and everything. Like that was, he was kind of like eight.

I don't know, man. Well, I think those two things are kind of related because I think the golf course being the way it was was what made Daniel Berger so fun to watch this week, especially with how in control of his irons was,

especially yesterday. Like I had a blast watching yesterday's round, even on, you know, when the greeners, Greens get that firm and that fast and that, you know, the line gets that thin between a great shot and a just okay shot. It just makes you lock in so much more on every single shot and being able to see Daniel Burger executing over and over and over and made it so fun to watch golf. And it made it, it made it fun to watch, like I said, kind of every shot.

Somebody hits it in the rough and you're immediately like, oh, can they hold it on the green or not? you know, a shot that otherwise would be like, I'm just going to check my phone or I'm not really paying attention here. It just heightened every single one of those shots. And so it's, you know, I think players like by and large, there were some complaining, Salli,

I don't know how much you want to take this after, after me, but I read like Morikawa's quotes and Burger, and a lot of the guys that were up there were just like, no, man, like it's a hard test. It's supposed to separate who's playing good from who's not. And that's exactly how it felt watching it. It's hard.

It's uncomfortable because it's a golf course condition that you can't simulate really anywhere. You can't really practice for it. And probably too much of golf in general is like you can simulate so much stuff on the range. You can practice your chalk lines and do all, master all your putting technique. Chalk lines. We'll get there, Sally. Get your speeds down, you know, exactly. Whereas like to JT's comments, which I know are going to come up was like,

he misses the cut by a mile and says like, you know, yeah, I would like to spend the weekend practicing. I'm not going to come out here and practice because there's no greens anywhere in the world like this. They're already dead. It's like,

I would view that as a totally fair comment. I don't think he's complaining. I don't think he's like, they were, every single person that has talked about said they're dead. Berger said they were dead. They're not dead. What was Berger's comment?

He said, yeah, Scotty said they were dead. He said when you put it down, the putter, just wants to slide. It feels like there's a U.S. Open. There's no friction. Morikawa said there's, or J.T. said there's zero chance

they're going to be alive on Sunday. Morikawa said they're getting brown and they're going to be very, very brown, if not purple by Sunday. It has some rain hit Saturday. But they push those, they push those greens about as far as they could, which good on them. Like, that's a good thing. They're like healthy and alive.

Yeah, but like that's just storming from Utah, man. I don't know. I just, like, I just have such a problem with these guys, like the tour can only challenge you on like three or four courses a year as it is. That's like you know that going into this event. And I don't blame somebody like Rory for for WDing and basically saying like, hey, you know what? I'm going to go into the players next week fresh.

Like speed had some comments after the fact of like, yeah, like I like the like TPC sawgrass used to be able to do this in May when it was, you know, not overseeded or whatever. but there's really not that many opportunities to do this with the Greens. And there's really not that many opportunities for the tour to actually challenge these guys. And I think I think these guys need to make a decision whether they are okay being challenged. A few times a year, this is what the tour has to do and get it up to that line. Or they need to be okay with golf ball rollback or equipment rollback, right? But who who said it was on, nobody said it was unfair.

Like the guys are commenting. We want guys to talk about conditions. commenting on the greens being especially difficult and they were that's where oh there was some itching on thursday and friday like if you if you listened to live from brandle and ralph and learner like those guys were like oh yeah they're grumbling all over the place and i mean scottie's attitude was just atrocious on these greens did he was frustrated he was frustrated i don't know if like i'm a little more towards where sally is where it's like i don't know if he was walking off saying like, this is unfair, this is Mickey Mouse.

I think everybody was like, no, it's, it's hard. Because I think it's like worth pointing out if you're just, you know, not following it super closely. Like, what makes the challenge is not, they're not just like firm and they're not just fast. It is when you get that little, that weird combo of dormant Bermuda at those firmnesses is where you get that like lack of friction where your putter's not, you're bending down to all of this is sick. Everything I'm about to say is sick, by the way.

You're bending down to Rita putt and your putter kicks out from under you. Like, it's great. Speed had some great stuff, too, about how you can't, like, your eye sees what the break should be, but you can't hit it hard enough in order to make that break happen. So you just kind of fade away jump shot out of these putts. You can't hit it high enough because if you do, it's just going to, you're going to gas it through the line. It just is like such a mind fuck.

I have to imagine for these guys where to even, like, keep the ball on line. because that's the other thing is when there's so much less friction like that, it just kind of wobbles and sort of just like drifts rather than taking like an actual line, which as I'm saying that out loud, I'm like, well, is that like the greatest test of skill? I don't know. It's interesting. I had a good time watching it. It seemed like the best putters still putted the best. But it was, yeah, it's just a totally different test than what they see week to week. Well, it was truly an approach play test. Yeah. As far as like like Paul, Paul had had a great point in his signature scroll newsletter.

Shout out to that, like, you know, basically about how most tournaments are driving and putting, seemingly. And this one is like very much a, this is an approach play fiesta. And that's what makes Akshay's performance that much more impressive, you know, putting wise. Because it's like, well, you know, all the anchoring, notwithstanding is because like, that's, yeah, it's hard to put on these greens, you know. It normally Bay Hill is like about 37% of the variance comes from approach play compared to like 34% on tour. But this week it was down to 23. Like this week was putting separated more than it than it usually does. And around the green play, separated scores out.

It's got a great course insights tool that you can live look at. It's funny to like watch how this golf course changed day by day in terms of favoring bombers versus favoring accuracy off the tee. But it this like back to what I was saying about after Pebble of like this show. shots around the green were like easier than like the gasparilla. This is more of what I'm talking about of like, no, that's just freaking hard. And every time this has happened to me at the Gasparilla, I've walked off being like, fuck, I wish I was just better at golf, man. Like I wish I was better at control in the ball.

I think this is an awesome test of who's in control of the golf ball. And it's, uh, I think the comments about it, like being really difficult were fair. I, I read them with a little bit more optimism maybe than you do TC of like, I didn't view them as complaining. I think you'd go to Bay Hill, you know what you're going to get. Scottie said he'd seen the conditions like this before. Scottie's won on this golf course when the conditions have been like this before and been glassy and totally ridiculous.

And I prefer to watch the putting like this versus just fill it up from 20 feet and in with easy hole locations and easy putts that we see too often on tour. So, hey, put me in the camp as supporting this. And I guess I actually just felt like guys were relatively, relatively cool with it. And if you're not, you're playing for $4 million. And on the PJ tour, like just fucking hit the ball guys. That's, I'm with you. If it gets to that level, I just didn't feel like it did.

I thought, I thought JT's stuff got taken out of context. Like, I'll stick up for JT. and, like, he was just saying, hey, I'm not going to stick around and practice here because it's not a representative thing for me for the next couple of weeks after this. But yeah, I don't know. I just, I felt like, yeah, some of these guys, like, when they're actually challenged and punched in the face a little bit, they get pretty defeated pretty quickly or some of their actions are kind of speaking louder than whatever they're saying after the round.

And I thought, like, even from an approach play perspective, the margins were so thin. Like, just how to, you know, I mean, you saw it on some of the par threes, guys being fooled by the wind. It was also an interesting thing where yesterday when it rained, it dumped on the back nine, like quarter of an inch. Didn't rain at all in the front. Yeah, that's insane. Totally stray shower. But, like, basically, I don't know, it was just, like, shots had. consequences. And, like, you had to, and you know what, some good shots even still had consequences,

right? But you had, I don't know, there was, there was just, there was that sense of fear and danger in the air. And like, that's what makes it fun to watch when it's these big events. These, I wish they could do this more often. Totally. When you get the guys looking, you know, some of the lag puts, like it starts to look like curling or something, right? Where it's just, I mean, they're barely, barely touching it. And you're just like, it looks like it's gliding and drifting for, the last 15 feet and it just keeps going. Some of those chips like behind eight, Moracala had one back there where he's just,

you know, they're chipping straight downhill. And one hop, you know, from five feet off the green, they're one hopping it onto the green and just like, oh my God, sits,

it, sits, it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's so fun. And then you get the extra, you know, you get it all compounds, right? Because you get the,

like the approach shots are harder. Then you get like the harder chips. And then it rolls out an extra, have five feet. And so now you have seven feet coming back and you get down on some of those worm cams. And again, like the ball doesn't roll. It just kind of glides on top of that like weird surface. And it just is really hard to make pars and birdies. Really was it. I still think Bay Hills an atrocious golf course. But when it's set up like this, it's entertaining and it's good golf. Like it's good to watch. Like imagine if they get Shinnecock like this this summer, I, I'm going to

lose my mind. Like Shinnecock's a great golf course. And if they, I need the USGA to be able to push a golf course as much as the PGA Tour is willing to push this one. I think that's a fair ask. I'll be Team Randy on that money. And also it makes like Akshay's performance around the Greens this week that much more special. I mean, Justin Ray had the stat out there that the most strokes gained short game around the Greenman putting in a PJTor win. Shotlink era is Akshay's best of all time. And then Patrick Reed 2020 WGC Mexico.

So literally he's gained 16.3. shots around the greens compared to the great man P who had 15. It's insane. And he missed a couple shorties too. It's really impressive. I thought Sam Saunders joined live from this morning, actually, and he had some really good stuff to say as far as the golf course. Like, Sally, I know you're going to talk about some of the shortgrass and spots

and bringing that back. And Sam was basically saying how, and like really eloquently about how, you know, hey, we want to challenge the best players. Shortgrass does that. makes them think, especially if they misogreen, and saying how during COVID, they just didn't have the manpower or the labor to keep some of these areas tightly moan. So it turned into rough. And he said they basically went back and outlined everything and said, all right, this is everything that was tightly moaned before. Let's get it back to that. And I thought it played great in that

regard. And then I think the only complaint that I would have is, which I think is sick. But if I was a player. I think there's probably some rightful complaining to go around with some of the bunkers as far as the sand. Like burger's shot getting plugged in the middle of that bunker was a wedge. That kind of fucking not totally fine with that. Like Keith Mitchell got stuck in one of the on the side of one on Thursday or Friday night like 17th hole. It was like in the thing that's supposed to obstruct you from getting the ball in the hole. Yeah. Yeah. But it was just kind of a weird. That should happen more. It was kind of like a Jack's Beach style bunker where like there wasn't a lot of slope next to the lips,

which I'm like, honestly, like, all right, more of that is... Can I give them... Can't believe we're at the part of the program giving massive shoutouts to Bay Hill, but putting the two trees in that bunker on 14. That's got a big hell, yeah, for me when I saw that. World Number One's ball getting stuck in a tree

in a bunker on a part three. It was like, yeah, man, sign me up for that. That's what I'm talking about. He... Hill is the like hate all of these golf courses where what I hate about the thick rough around the greens is when you get out of position and you can fly it through the green and it just stops close to closely behind the green in thick rough and a marginal miss and a in a bad miss end up in the same spot and I didn't watch a ton of golf like early part of the week but I don't feel like I saw any shots this week where I was like ah that got a way better outcome than it deserved and that is bothering me I just it just didn't seem like that so that. I don't know if it's, I know they're adding the short grass areas, but it just kind of felt like the shot value in a lot of the spots was there this week. Again, even if it, uh, and I, it helps.

I paste myself this week. Guys, I didn't watch golf Thursday Friday. Bay Hill's not a, I can't do a four day a week. Uh, that's where, that's where I'd be bitter, bitchy, sally on a night like tonight. And it was just the appropriate amount of Bay Hill for me. And I'm, I'm ready to turn the page. I mean, those, those old pictures of Bay Hill. Oh, man.

It got posted this week. I'd never seen those somehow. And I'm like, yeah, I can see. how Palmer thought this place ruled like Dick Wilson, Orange Groves. It was all, it looked, I've never seen those either.

I believe all credit to, I believe it's the golf balling Instagram account. Yeah, saw those come across my feet as well. It was all scruffy looking and all just like, a lot of the bunkers didn't look like they were, you know, out of golden tea.

It just was like, it looked like a golf course. It looked like a rugged, cool golf course. And now it looks, the way it looks. Yeah, that I think's a tough look for Arnie's legacy. Arnie's legacy.

His entire golf course architecture legacy is a disaster. It's really, really bad. Cody's shown some of these photos and like, there's some comp courses that spring to mind here that I don't know if I'm willing to say out loud, but you could draw in, you could draw the conclusions for yourself.

You know, there's some big, big names I'm thinking about throwing out here in comparison to some of these photos. Do it. Sick pool, too. I mean, some of them look like Pine Valley. Someone look like Augusta. Like, it's crazy.

Right? Like, you know, I see it. DJ Pi headline. Bay Hill equals Augusta. But yeah, it's, that really, really took me back. I hope what,

I hope that this, this week and the setup and the way it went and the golf being as good as it is and the positive feedback like precludes for a great week here We're not going to talk a lot of players. We'll have a preview out tomorrow. But the forecast looks good for players, and it should be really, really good.

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You guys tell me, I think I feel like I've been having it. Are we talking to the attitude? Are we talking just concerned about the game generally? All right, let's talk about the attitude because I want to head this off, DC. What's the second sentence of the attitude conversation?

Is this his attitude like bitchy and is he throwing golf balls and is he looked kind of like unpleasant? Yes. And then what? Is it like are you saying he's a danger to himself and others? Are you saying, is this? It's just unbecoming, man.

It is becoming. Yeah, I agree. It's not pleasant at all. And it's, it just looks so entitled. Anytime he misses a pot at all, it's like, just so demonstrative and over the top

you know looking over at Ted and all that it's just like loves that one hand over the mouth it's like dude you're not going to make them all like sometimes they don't go in sometimes you don't read it right

sometimes you don't hit a good one yeah he's just you might just be adjusting to being a normal human for a couple weeks like I'm just saying he's a generational talent he's unbelievable like he's one of the best golfers

of all time. And he's better than acting like that, in my opinion. That I agree. And people always say, you know, Tiger, Tiger acted, like, Tiger got pissed at himself or, you know, usually directed it inward. I feel like Scotty is blaming everything else beyond himself. And it looks like he's entitled to every bounce going his way and every putt dropping is kind of where I'm at. I feel like I saw more of that in previous weeks than this week. It just seemed like he's talking a lot of golf balls into the woods. He seemed like frustrated with himself this week more than more than anything else. I mean, the ball's clearly not going where it's supposed to be going right now.

And it's, I mean, you're concerned about the game? I'm concerned. I mean, again, he's up against the crazy, crazy, crazy high standard. I thought he would bust out of it this week. I thought he would win this week, to be honest. And I'm not going to back off. I still think he's going to win the Masters. But this is the first week where I've had doubt that he's going to win

masters. Like I was ready to say some outrage to Augusta, like willing to wager more than money that he was going to win the Masters by multiple shots. And I'm doubting that a little bit right now. I still would pick him over the, over anybody else, of course. But it, the approach play has fallen off greatly. And it's, it just doesn't seem like he's in great control of it. And it, it just, it's not going off the planet, but he just seems short on patience. And, And I don't, again, if I'm reaching to like diagnose this, but I know he has a second kid on the way here very soon, I would assume. And it just seems like a person that's a little on edge right now and not in control of their golf ball. And he's got some, something going on in his life.

I mean, the Ravioli period last year, something else is going on currently. Like, that's not nothing. And I don't know. I guess I would have thought he would have snapped out of this quickly. And I am, I'm just doing a little back of the napkin, you know, on the fly trivia stuff here. But Scotty lost strokes approach this week, which is jarring. That's two weeks in a row. Back to back starts.

No, he was plus.1.6 last week. But you're looking true strokes game data golf. I think the technical on PJ Tour, I think he was, I think he lost strokes last. week, but it adjust for field strength on data. Two weeks ago. Gotcha. Well, going off of what DataGolf has, because he's going to lose either way. He was like negative a lot this week, negative 2.7 approach this week.

He has only done that one other time since 2022. If my eye is correct here, that's insanity. So on one hand, I would say outlier comes to mind. He's probably going to figure it out. On the other hand, like, it's alarm bells for sure in that this never happens. Never happens. It's wild, especially on the week where, you know, you kind of need it more than ever. Putting has been, you know, the story, the quiet story.

46 out of 50 players, just by the way, an approach play this week. Like that's the made the cut. not a good putting week putting's been like a quiet superpower of his you can throw that out though these screens are like anything else that's true that's true

yeah man I don't know again it's a little bit like the attitude thing is like well what's the what are you saying by saying it's not good you know are you saying I don't think he's going to turn it around this is the end of the Scotty era like I don't think anyways saying that

but I am leaning forward a little bit on like well what happens next I'm curious you know Was he your master's pick preseason, Dej? Probably, I'm sure. Would he be your master's pick today? Isn't it fucked up that he might be? For sure.

Isn't it crazy that he? This is what I did last year. I talked myself out of him for the PGA, which was silly. Talked to myself out of him for the open. I picked him to win the other two majors that he didn't win. So I'm not going to not fall for it. I mean, we're skipping the first major. It's kind of the only thing.

Next week for players. It's true. This is a major. God, he probably is my pick still right now, which is plus 370 right now. Stockholm syndrome or something. I don't know if I can, it's going to take a lot to get off that, get off that stock, I feel like. He's plus 370 for the Masters. Rory's plus 850.

He's the next closest. Sheesh. So I'm going to go. I'm going to make it a point to go out and watch and play golf this week here in Jacks. I know that. I'm going to take note of any, any of the bitching. That sticks out. This is a really good.

I think this is a really interesting week for him at TPC where like he's really good at working the ball both directions. He's really good at hitting non-stock shots. Both of those things are very much required at TPC sawgrass. And I'm hoping like you said, Sally, the, the, we dodged the rain tonight for the most part. Like we had some storms rolling through town. It should be pretty dry and like pretty, you know, assuming they're not. They're soaking the golf course less than they have in the previous years, I think.

I think it should be one of the better tests we've seen since it's moved to March this week. It would be a great opportunity for Rolap's takeover of like, if you want to talk about product, like the players should not have ball. Like me, amateur player playing the night before the tournament starts hitting balls out of the rough that are back spinning. That should not happen at this event that you want to call a major. like the bar to clear here yeah like it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's got to be better than that we know that

and I don't know if they're going to get it it's really hard to get fully right in March I think and I don't know enough about agronomy you know to to to explain to you how you get overseed to play firm I just ask them to care less about it being green and and care more about how it actually plays we're just letting it's not if it's not firm or somewhat firm or they don't push the whole locations. It's going to be a turkey shoot this week.

Yes. Because it's sunny all week. There's no wind. It's going to be perfect condition. A little bit of wind it looks like. I mean, in the low teens, it looks like, which is enough to have enough to make it not, you know, 62s daily out there, I think.

But yeah. I can't believe we're just letting, we're letting so many good days go by, not adding the overseed though. The overseas though. Or two to the soundboard. I mean, this is the part of the season that we needed it most. and we're just letting, we're like so many days go by.

We need to, it feels like it could be a big week for that at the players. I had this thought today and I was, you know, I was starting to read up a little bit. I've kind of not, I've stopped following Formula One nearly as much, but I've been reading back up on it with the car disaster they're having now and everything. And I was catching up, I didn't watch last year. Looking at the standings, look at, you know, who won last year and how it went race by race. And I'm watching the golf and I'm like, man, this kind of stinks that this last, matters up to nothing in terms of now that they've gotten rid of the staggered start of the tour

championship and how it used to again have a points-based system you had me for a sec. No, but you can hate the staggered start as a whole and that's fine. Is it very silly? Sure. But at least it like made and I don't nobody I know nobody actually cares about who wins the FedEx Cup but like you need having 30 and one be the same when you get to the end. end of the year is so silly. It makes like the play for the for the championship whoever actually wins that playoff mean almost nothing. Because first and second are on, you know, in a signature event, you're probably both

likely to make the top 30. And then it's a free for all at the very end. It's just like Tommy one. It needs to ladder up to something. And I like maybe the only thing I can think of is they wanted to make the FedEx Cup like championship such a joke at the very end that they could scrap it and start from scratch to. really build back better.

Because... It's like they can do that anyway. But this is the worst version of all of it, I think, and that they just have a random free-for-all tournament at the end of the year to decide the championship. It's awful. The playoffs in general are stupid. It's bad, but it went from bad to worse with this format,

is my take here, is what I'm saying. Yeah. Well... I know you don't want to agree with me, but I know... No, I definitely don't want to agree with you. I know I'm right. Maybe. I think you're right in spots. I think you're right, if I'm taking it part of...

part by part. I think you're right that, and this is like maybe the biggest problem in pro golf, and this is what I think the roll apps and SSGs of the world are trying desperately to solve is the first point you made that it ladders up to nothing is tough. I mean, it ladders up to the majors and there are four of them. And obviously this is going to lead into the other conversation that we're going to hear a lot about next week, probably. But it is tough that there's not like a one, you did it, it was your season type of the type of winner. I don't think you can do

that with the staggered start. Like I still don't think you get there. Maybe you're right. Maybe you're not that it you know, it got us closer with the staggered start. It's got to be buys heading into matchplay. I think it's got to be hand-to-hand combat of course. Of course. This is still worse than what it was.

Or what hit me today and because the genesis of it was F1 is like, well why is it just like last event of the year, just a banger. And to your point, Tron, like, there is no, there's no playoffs. You just go wind them and then you have three, you know, two or three cool big events to end the year. And, you know, that's, you see where your points race is at. I know they're trying desperately to reverse engineer and manufacture, like, the last three holes are going to be the most exciting thing you've ever seen. But I don't know, man. I think we got like 20 years of data that that's

really hard to maybe impossible. But yeah, I don't know. I just keep thinking about like, what if Phebel was just the last event? And it was just like, I don't know, Scotty already locked it up. Just like, you know, the F1 champion may have locked it up or the Premier League champion may have locked it up or like any of that stuff. But that might just be a American fallacy that they can build a Super Bowl of golf because I don't.

I actually thought the F1 was decent last night. Like, I don't really like the whole battery thing. and I don't think that was a good track for the battery stuff and recharging and all of that anyway, but there was more racing and passing last night in the first few laps than we saw at all last year. So, you know, and listen, I am a Mercedes. I'm a Toto Wolf's Simp.

So, you know. The reviews are not good right now on, on F1. T, see, you ready to go down the board? I'd love to. I thought you would never ask. I'll give a shout to our friends at SoFi, the ultimate finance app for sponsoring today's down the leaderboard segment with Mr. TC. You can go to sophy.com slash

NLU to learn more about how you can get your money right with SoFi Plus. Let's start with Ludwig. I think Levig's back, guys. Bottom line, period point blank. A couple puts I wish we had back coming down the stretch there. I think he still would have finished one shot out of

playoff. But he's back. The approach play was great. Gained like five and a half shots approach play this week. He was sitting lasers off the tee. Like he was just pounding the ball. So I think he's back. You know, putting seems like it's improving for the most part. He left a couple of putts short down the stretch there,

which he was kind of gassing him by for most of the week this week. So more to come. I think Ludwig wins either players or Memorial. Like he wins one of the next. three or four big events in addition to the Masters as well. So, um, I think, I think,

anything else you want to throw in? No, I mean, you know, maybe, maybe the, the, uh,

BNW wentworth or something. Hero. Um, Cam Young, playing well, playing nice golf. Really nice golf. I'm interested to see if,

if Cam Young's going to make a, uh, an appearance in the Fedora 5. Are we getting a fedora five tonight? We are getting a fedora five tonight. Interesting. But Cam Young, maybe he should start anchoring as well. And I don't understand why we can't just do the chalk thing on the end of the...

Yeah, can you explain that? Just put a piece of chalk on the end of your long putter. If you have a chalk mark on your shirt, you're disqualified. For the record, your shirt can touch the putter. You got to change the rule. It's not against the rule. They got to change the rule there, for sure. It's a problem, man.

what else? Calamorakawa, good week. 66 to start 71, 70, 70, 70, the last three days. I think the guy that got his money right today was Sahith. And this goes back to Sahith got the Charlie Sifford exemption into the Genesis. Parlay is that. T-22 or something. Parlay is that into getting into this event and finishes T-EFERG. and has basically set himself up for the rest of the year.

It's $702,000 with this week's finish. That was, I tried. I went and dug to find a way to argue that one, and I couldn't get there with that one. That was tough. On the one hand, great to see him playing well. I love it. You know, great iron play, great, you know,

awesome, greasy stuff around the greens. but the process to getting his money right, maybe a little icky. So it's a little bit of the, I mean, the Charlie Sifford exemption of it all is different. But it's kind of the Adam Scott playbook from last year, right? The let's maybe give a sponsor exemption to this guy who's on the board. And then he, you know, finds some form and plays his way into all the signature events for the next year. Is, oh, look at that, T-11, Adam Scott. Adam Scott and Gordon Speeth.

I've got an exemption into this as well. Listen, if you're going to get an exemption, you might as well finish T11. Go beat him. Yeah, go beat the guy if he shouldn't be there. Hey, T.C. Are you going to join the Harry Hall respecters? We'll get, well, all right. So, let's just cover off on the T6 guys.

Russell Henley, T6, continue to just be in all the guy's career. Min Wu Lee, Sally, do you have anything to say there? He finished T6. He's on a really good run right now. Whiffs of some proper golf from Minwley and 72 holes of it. Like the, you know, we've had issues. with him, you know, he gets in contention, does a lot of good stuff. And then it, it blows up spectacularly.

Players' championship, I think we can all remember back to that one. On a test like this one, I see you player. You are earning my respect just a little by little. Still a bit of a ways to go, I think, but some more of this, and you're going to keep climbing my board. It's not just here, T2 at Pebble, T12 at Rive. He's playing really nice golf. I have, yeah, I've been as much of a, and it's, joy of the spectacle of the unstable compound as anybody.

But yeah, it seems like he's playing some proper golf. You love to see it. Those were soft. That's where I'm like, this one, doing this one was kind of like, all right,

I see you, I see you. Rick, medium dick Rick, minus eight, T9 this week. He's got a weird strategy going on. I think he might win the players.

Sure. Isn't Ludwig going to win that? He said, Levin was going to win? Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. Harry Hall.

beach. He hadn't done much up into this point, right? I mean, he's just been solid for a guy that has, you know, some weird, we always like to point out the weird sponsorships. I don't know if he's still with, was it like a Legion Air like Hard Rock

Cafe or something like that? That's all. That's all. The strange hat. Yeah, exactly. I don't know. It just is, it's an aesthetic you don't see out there a lot. A guy could absolutely roll his potato, you know? And he's just, he's just been playing solid golf T6 at Sony

and then T24 at AMX T24 at Pebble than the top what top 10 this week so get them on the team TC yeah yeah for mention Adam Scott and Blinksmaster George finishing T11 I didn't realize Jordan and Zander are the same age Jordan and D.B.

Strait vibe been in the same age. Speeces is his dog years though gives me hope he's lived like he's lived with more lifetimes than any of those guys. Which he should be wiser, right? You would think. You would think, but that it might be the Pogick Harrington,

you know, innocence versus experience thing. They cut to him at one point and one of the answers was like, yeah, I talked to Jordan. He said he's really close to playing good golf. Like, oh, that is nine straight years. We have heard this guy. Anyways, here's speed looking for his ball with 55 other people underneath the tree,

which was a shot that I saw this week. Listen, I've said this exact thing pretty much every week, okay? I'm just starting to, I'm starting to be suspicious as whether or not it's true. Yeah, well, listen, positive signs. I think you might win the players.

Yeah. No, I didn't go that far. I don't think he's going to win the players, but I think he's going to win soon. His record at the players, Bacon tweeted this today is so bad. He had a really good finish in 2014. The rest of it is a complete disaster. I don't think Pete die and Link's master, George, get along.

He's had some good finishes at Harbortown. Speaking of someone who I think might win the players, Billy Horshaw. Billy played well. Kind of a tough, tough Friday for him, but P-13 there. Seawu Kim, he's falling out of the Fedora 5. Another solid performance from him, but no rounds in the 60s. So, Mav, T-13, Vic, Rider Cup, Locke, Sepsraka, you know, so that sort of thing.

Foxy played well, T-24. for him. All right. T24 of a, of a 50 man cut. Yeah. I feel like Huck a couple more up at the buzzer. Wrap it up.

Wrap it up. The weekend, Rio, he's falling out of the Fodora 5 as well, but T303 for him. Spoilers. Taylor Pendrith, I wanted to shout him out.

He lost 10.66 shots to the field this week, just on the greens. Pudding. It was truly incredible. He was second in approach play, and he lost, you know,

over 10 shots to the field this week. So, and then yeah, Tommy, Tommy finished 49th, made the cut, didn't really play well. Overall, we're monitoring it. Okay. We're officially monitoring it. As far as missed cuts, Ryan Gerard, Halton Lee, he put it out of a bunker this week. That was sick. You guys saw that.

Shane Lowry missed the cut. I hope we got a fuk this place from him. Sam Burns missed the cut. Patrick the Hammer Cantlay Miss the cut. Team Rose 7080 this week. Don't like that. That's concerning.

And then the postman, 7581. So what did you guys make of Rory's WD? We'll get there. But from now, you can go to SOFi.com slash NLU to learn more about how you can get your money right with SOFI.

Plus, yeah, we can do that now if you'd like to. See Rory McElroy. He warmed up, said he was warming up in the gym, pulled something in his lower back, went straight to the range, hit some balls, said it's no good, and has withdrew after Friday. He touched 194 ball speed on Friday, which if you guys will remember, that's what Bryson hit. The famous drive over the pond, the lake on six, was 194 ball speed. That's what Roy's gotten up to in just five years. but yeah

next day pulls out with a little bit of a back entry what do you think the level of concern is here might be like one of those spacecrafts might be like one of those spacecrafts coming in the app is that you just start breaking down

you know like pieces are starting flying off when you hit that speed yeah I don't know hopefully nothing obviously I mean it sounded like facts had some some stuff on the broadcast drove back home

and you know got some treatment some anti and flams as as they said and And so hopefully it's, hopefully it's not much. I mean, TC, I liked your tinfoil hat theory that maybe was just like, this is not helping me win next week.

I need to get the fuck out of here. That's an interesting, you know, a theory that I, I'd love to hear more about. Business decision. Yeah, it could have been a business decision. But yeah, I don't know. Hopefully not too much. But it has been pretty injury resistant, man. Ever withdrawal ever in a PJ tournament. Do you remember what the other one was?

Oh, God, what a great question. Is that one year? Wisden, too. Is that the same year he threw his iron in the water in the lake? That was Bay Hill that he threw it in the water, the iron in the water. That was the 2013 year disaster year. And then he did get at Doral one year too. That was to Rale.

That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah. And then Trump had him fish it out so the Trump could give it back to him on the range. I'm getting word that he also withdrew from the 2009 Ned Bank with the flu and food poisoning, which that sounds like a tough. combination. But the 2013, that was the first year with Nike, that was the disaster

season, he totally just bitched out and went home from there. But that's a wild to go 13 years between having to withdraw from tournaments. I respect that. Of course. He did, what other, I know he had the ankle injury, but I had a

2015 open. Did he miss a lot of time with the rib? If I remember right? The rib was kind of off. season. Right? That was like a November, December, January kind of thing. Yeah. I think that's right. It's impressive. It is very, I know. Well, hopefully it's, yeah,

hopefully it's not the start of catching up. Have any of that catching up with him. Hopefully it's it's not much because. Total speculation. You think he plays the players this week? That seems like it. Defending champ. Yeah. Seems like it. I would think no matter, you know, you don't have to play

a pro-aam with this one either. Like, you know, even if you need to take the full three days off. I feel like he'll give it a shot come Thursday. Yeah. But you guys want to do a little birdies and bogeys from this past week at Bay Hill? Sure. Yeah. Dege, why don't you go first? Got any birdies for us?

Yeah, I had, you know what? There's a massive birdie. In the bogey section a couple weeks ago, TC, you mentioned the signature scroll. We had we took some shots at the sign-up flow. You know, they were making you, if you wanted to sign up for this great newsletter, all about the signature events, they were making you get a bunch of emails from partners just lumped in with it.

We rocked them, man. Yes, we can. We wrote our congressman. We made our voices heard. And I received word this week that the site up flow has been fixed. That's a birdie for the PGA tour. Congratulations. Can we chalk that up to a creator council dub?

No, I think it was just us bitching on the podcast. And I think they were like, oh, yeah, we do need to fix that. I think that was it. Yeah. DC. I've got one. Did you guys see the alligator? Oh.

It's a in all the size of that thing. It looked like a lock nest monster mixed with a dinosaur. It was freaking awesome. It was huge. There's the picture for those watching on YouTube. Yeah, this is courtesy of Ricky Roach on X, the everything app. Yeah, just a big creature there. Just a big central Florida alligator.

I love that. It looks like Florida man, Ricky Files. stepping in there for closer look too. He had an interesting aesthetic with his Bay Hill Arnold Palmer themed kit. Saul, you have any birdies and bogees? You want me to keep going.

Yeah, I got one birdie. I feel like the coverage is a usually Bay Hill coverage is a complete disaster. I thought it was better. Not great, but an elevated portion was the drone stuff. Especially the moment on 13

and just like hovering over that, image and showing just like just how screwed he was and how uh you know the water behind it and just the color of that green in that moment uh then they used it for some putts too like that you know actually had a putt on that hole and uh just a drone cam view uh and seen how much the putt was breaking uh on that line that was added added elevate add a little layer to to bay hill which can be a little little flat little mundane and uh that was just continued to embrace the drone stuff in golf it was it was nice to see and then yes this this shot of 15 just makes me laugh every single year just like shout the rich harvest farms it's just a using a tea box from a completely different

hole hitting over a road because the golf ball has not been uh controlled it's just it makes me laugh every single year and they don't even comment on it ever it just like yeah this is the tee on 15 this is totally normal yeah uh yeah i had the drone stuff in my uh in my birdies as well it's all the uh They got a little kinetic with it at times, too. Even like sprinting out ahead of the leaders, kind of, you know, dipping down and shown where their lives were. And it was just, yeah, it was very additive.

And some good graphics and stuff, too. I like the graphic on six that they had for Burger. That was kind of like the through the fairway. You know, on the right, like here's, if he hits it 322, it's going to go through the fairway. Here he needs to hit at 322 just to cover. Like that kind of stuff was great. Can I, could I do one more birdie,

which I believe we have the asset for this to support as well as Liv Golf, which we're going to talk about here, also had some really innovative drone, drone usage this past week. I don't know if you guys saw this one in totality, but I'm dead serious. Crashing a drone into a tree, that's good to you. In there, baby. Yeah, you're not going to hear any glass houses comments here. I think, you know, we're not casting any stones on flying drones into the tree. I know what that's like.

If you're not doing that once or twice the season, exactly. You're not pushing it. You're not pushing yourself. 100%. I don't know how deep we're going to get into it. I'll throw a macro birdie, just blanket over the whole thing to the Puerto Rico open.

I didn't watch any of it, but the leaderboard was sick. You know, Ricky Castileo, Blades Brown, TC. I can't wait to talk about that. Lou Clanton in the mix, Gordon Sargent in the mix, Zach Blair in the mix. Just a John,

daily the second in the mix. I didn't even make. Streber was in the mix for a while. Trevor, just a, I don't want to let my mouth get ahead of my brain on this one in that like I would have watched if it was somehow available to, I'm obviously not going to watch it at the same time as Bay Hill. But

this is one of those like, man, if you could have got, if you could have given me this on like a Tuesday night or something, would have checked it out, but, you know, just I hope there was a tinge of me that was like, ooh, I kind of would have liked to watch more of that. Yeah. was talking to a friend who was caddian down there this week and he said that

they were sitting at the quote unquote old guys veterans table and there were quite a few guys who hadn't played golf yet this year who were in the field hey we need some more we need more starts for these guys dej we got to get you with a two tv setup man it'll change your life yeah it just makes me feel like so frat then i just don't watch anything then i just watch half of two things. I'm watching the replay to the James Hardy Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational right now. Papa's in the house.

Especially get baseball season going, man. You could put big inning up on one screen, Brewer's game on the other. You're probably right. I feel like, just on the Puerto Rico note real quick, like, congrats to Ricky Castillo. Blades Brown probably should have won this turn when he made a triple on 13 after he took the lead.

I feel like we are, we can, we still have a tendency to just, to just like blow past. Like he's not 19 yet. He's 18 years old and has threatened to win two different PGA tour events. And it's early March. It's pretty darn impressive what he's been able to do. And I'm following this, tracking this closely.

Like this is an Akshay route. And I just found that to be somewhat, you know, what's the word there? Sympatico maybe of Akshay's big triumph and Blades almost getting it done six years younger. on the other PJ tournament. I just thought the hype was a little bit outrageous end of last year in the beginning this year. Can we do a little bit of scenario planning, T.C.,

of what would you have said first thing off the show if Blades Brown was the winner of the Puerto Rico open tonight? I would have congratulated him, and I would have welcomed him to the Fedora 5, but he didn't. He made a triple on 13. We didn't get you write letters like Mr. Palmer used to do

to some of these guys. Any meaningful finish, she should write a handwritten letter. Blades, congratulations on your T3, the Puerto Rico open. I was watching closely on some of the YouTube replays, and I just was really impressed outside of the trip. Two shots ahead of Clinton.

You know, got to respect him for that. Yes, are you nervous about Clinton? No. Seems to be digging. Asking if I was nervous. Yeah. T.C.'s not nervous at all he's playing well in Puerto Rico. Yeah, yeah.

I'm super nervous that my claim that he's not one of the 10 best players to not want a major, isn't going to shake out well because he played really well down in Puerto Rico this week. That was tough blow for me. You know who else played really well down in Puerto Rico right before he went on an absolute heater. I'm sorry.

JC. Link's master. Just check the tape on that one. Chandler Blanche or Blanche, he should have won that event. He got 74 on Saturday. Can't have it. That I have to, I hate to say.

There's not many of them. That's a guy. I'm not familiar with this game. Just a quick question. Why would it be Blanche? Is there a real? Is it not just Blanchet? I think it's Blanche.

I think it's Blanche. I've been deep into some, some P.J. For bios. I was reading Dr. Redmond's bio. Oh, my gosh. That was crazy. You set that over.

There was all kinds of little wrinkles in there. Massive stock trader. Blanche. Blanche. You're right. Wow. I don't know why that would be. No, I'm at a little was asking, why would that be?

He's from Florida. Okay. Blanche. I had, I mean, we kind of mentioned this, but I had Zach Johnson in my birdies. Just because I think it's good for content. I think that's, I think it's a net positive. I think I, my day was better. You see?

You got to prove it by point. Looking at that photo. My day was better because Zach Johnson reminds me a David rough. because Zach Johnson won on the champions tour. T.C., you kind of alluded to this earlier, but this was in my birdie's section. Brandl on live from was trying to be clever and say

that, you know, the guys, I'm not going to say that they're using a word that starts with B, but he accidentally said, I'm not going to say they're using a word that starts with bitching. It was live on the air, and it was just great.

Everybody absolutely rolled with it, They gave him a bunch of shit afterwards. As always, this remains a massively pro-Brandall house, even when we violently disagree on things. That just, that tickles me. It's a breathtakingly bad rollback stuff this week. Sure. And you're going to, that's going to happen.

This is absolutely going to happen. No, I thought Rolf was awesome on LiveFrum all week. I thought Live From was great. They had a great, great thing going. Lerner was doing a good job. And I think, from a bogey perspective, I would say, like, yes, the drone shots are really good. They also, it seems like they're maybe overreliant on them

to pick up what's otherwise a completely rudderless broadcast. The, you know, the tracers, sometimes they have them, sometimes they don't. The probability tracer that shows whether it's going to hit the fairway or not continues to just be one of my least favorite things in golf. I think they went to a five-wide booth this week. Furik there. I mean, Furik was great.

Pull the goalie. Barstall Kevin. He should have been in the birdies. I thought Barstall Kevin was going to step aside. Yeah, that kind of caught me off guard. I don't know. Congrats to the Foreplay guys. But that was,

I was like, I didn't think you'd be like four play and the lead analyst for NBC. That's like, I thought it was going to be one or the other, but I guess not. Yeah. I saw the clip going around of him,

of him telling the story of, of, of, about the course set up at Bethpage and how as we're aiming in the rough. and it was kind of told like it's a funny story like oh my god and it was i was like yo like you were an assistant captain to this and let this happen i don't know if this is that funny somebody really should have done something yeah somebody really should

do something about that yeah why do we they just keep making more puds guys why do they keep beating us i don't understand it i think it all seriously though like more furek was great. Furek was, I was learning stuff from him. He was saying stuff that wasn't just like evident on the screen.

Whereas I think Kisner just tells you exactly what's happening there. Like, oh, you just hit that one six feet by. Like, yeah,

I know I'm watching. Yeah, Furek is going to be in the players mix this week, which should be awesome. Golf course he's probably played 2,000 times and knows all the players,

knows all the golf course. That should be a great fit. I'd be a big fan if this end up, ends up sticking. Yeah. for NBC. I mean, I'd be curious what he wants to still accomplish on the Champions Tour. And, you know, from a playing perspective, I know he's battled some health stuff in recent years.

But he is just an excellent, excellent commentator on golf. I've loved the time I've gotten to spend with him. And if you'd ask 25-year-old me, I would say that guy's the most boring guy in golf. And I feel very differently 15 years later. Champions Tour might be, I mean, the lion might be out of the cage. now. Now the ZJ's out there. It's like, well, what's the point of showing? I should pack up their care.

Guys, I think ZJ being, you know, like, ZJ shouldn't be allowed to be out there because he's got hair plugs. He's got the most egregious, like, mop of hair now. And like, if you're not cool with being bald, you shouldn't be able to be on the champ store. You should have to be bald to be on the champ store. I'd take it one step further. Yeah.

Also, do you guys see Tom Gillis on George McNeil's bag this week on the champ store? That's cool. I miss that. I like that. I didn't have too many bogeys. The Foodies and Fairways program, T.C. I don't know if that's a bogey necessarily. It's just a name that I'm like,

I don't think I'm, I think I'm pretty allergic to the word foodies in general. And I don't need foodies or fairways together. That was just one I had. The other one, I think maybe we save this probably for the preview, but is the players a major conversation is already a little tired, I think. And even seeing them like,

drum roll please i can't believe we get to release the featured groups for the players next week i was like oh that those are the featured groups like that's not that exciting uh that was just kind of a i don't know that wouldn't hit like a bit of a wet fart to me but i just can't get you out of my head

that commercial that's up there that's starting to get up there with the omega commercial um my a random bogey for me and this is not me piling on. This is just me just commenting on this. A guy that has fallen off

that we've not really taken note of that a lot of people wanted on the Ryder Cup team to also captain the Ryder Cup team last year. Keegan Bradley's 2026 season has been quite a struggle. It is MCT-43-T-49 cut cut. Those last two cuts. And last year. Totally.

Those last two cuts were in signature events that were kind of the fake cuts. And the two made cuts were also it was a signature event. He made the cut at the farmers and finished T-43 after missing the cut at Sony. It's been a very, very rough start to the season for Keegan and

pushed his chips in solid. Yeah. It is all to make the team. Almost got there. I probably should have gotten there. Worked out great for everybody. I honestly, can you argue that they wouldn't have been more successful if you would have been playing? They could have been more successful if he was playing

last year. Sure. Yeah. That sounds a little. That's very in line with a lot of the arguments I heard in 2025. I think I saw the yeah, it's been bad, but I would just maybe get into the record that none of those conversations were like, I bet Keegan Bradley is going to be in the top 10 in the FedEx Cup in 2026.

I'm not saying you want to kick your captain when he's down. I'm just saying he's falling off and nobody's talking about it. It's just I'm just noting this for the record. You get him some sponsor exemptions. I do want to give a shout out to our friends at Holderness and Born. The 2026

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Yeah. Love that. Well, gosh, is that like a, is that the Fedora 5's music right there? I mean, is that where we got to get through all the golf. We got to get through, you know, before we get there. Good point. But any other PG, you have some, looks like give some PJ tour notes in here ahead of the week to become. Yeah, we got the rollout presser on Wednesday, push that from Tuesday to Wednesday. They're doing that inside the moat this year.

kind of a VIP. What do you make of that? I think they're just trying to make it feel elevated, right? It's like a whole hand. It's distinct from the, from the Jay just, you know, hunched over in front of the microphone there in the press center and kind of looking disheveled. Like it's, I think it's going to be a whole, a whole new, whole new era there.

So I don't know what he's going to announce. You're going to get a lot less road on these players, these players live shows next week. week is Jay's Taylor. Always used to get a lot of negative bird from T.C. In the past. Speaking of Taylor's, there's some awful merch sightings already from the fan shop at Sawgrass. There's some cool stuff too.

Some of the local LaFarve stuff is awesome. There's some really good stuff, but man, there's some pretty reprehensible pieces as well. So we'll be sure to check those. Early part in the week and give you a little bit of budget to bring what you can to the Wednesday show. It's save those receipts though just in case. Anything that's interesting I think we need to get eyes on.

Hopefully they have a fedora. Yeah, that'd be killer. Do you want to take us to Hong Kong, T.C. Oh, I thought you wouldn't ask, Sally. We had dudes flying in from Dubai. How about that? Is it ROM? I guess the person reporting

from golf.com, Alan Bastable. you know, dudes flying in from, I think they went over to Oman and flew out from there. The original reports that they walked across the border and walked like a mile with all their stuff that got changed. They got in a bus to cross the border and then flew out of, I think, Oman to get there. John, wrong question. Why did Rom have to send the PJ? Like, why couldn't live have done this?

Like, that does not seem like ROMs. I get they're not paying the fines anymore, but you got to get your players there to play. I don't know why they had like maybe some staged PR for ROM possibly to to take some heat off. I think there was some staged PR for Colin at Bay Hill. Anyone who's watching Live From, it could be something like that. For anyone who's not in our Slack, DC, you might need to elaborate on that. I don't think he does. I don't think he does.

Live from went out of their way to show Colin going over to a couple little kids over on the side. It was like 11 o'clock in the morning. nothing else is going out at the turn of it college shaking hands with two two kids TC's like this is bullshit this is staged I can feel it it was kind of a masterclass Oh like Todd Lewis would just

heat it right up TC we're worried about you man It's just it's just You know what we didn't say I really enjoyed Some of Collins quotes this week I thought he had some good stuff to say about like basically being okay with making

bogeys and trusting that he's going to get him back and just not getting his rattle. It was just, it was some grown-up shit that he had to say. And I appreciated some of his folks this week. How far he's evolved over the last year? You know, you got to call him both ways, T.C. Back to, back to Hong Kong.

Rom wins. Says it's a huge, you know, huge weight off his shoulders. He wins in the, in the face of, of all these haters and, you know,

internet trolls like Sally going after him, uh, for, for not paying the fines. and I did get a kick out of him saying that if it was just teeing it up in four D.P. World Tour events instead of six, that he would absolutely, he would, he would sign tonight. But the fact that it's six is that's, that's where he draws the line. That doesn't make any sense to me. He, uh, he didn't like that the, the rules changed, uh, which all of a sudden he's concerned about the rules despite habitual being habitual line stepper on the rules and regulations for the DP World Tour. So it was, uh, we can talk a little bit about that. But Rahm's first win in 539 days shot a final round 64 to win it by three.

Which is a bummer because there was something a little bit funny, a lot bit funny about the simmering just like this guy keeps finishing like T2 every week. It just can't finish worse than like fourth that he can't finish better than second. And he did breakthrough. You got you do have to hand it to him. You do. You do. I think this is a fun golf course, too. I watched a little bit of it the other night.

And it's not a national open kind of thing. But they do have the Hong Kong open there as well. And it's an interesting spot. Big week for the Aces. The Aces won. This is after P's departure from the Aces. Thomas Dietree finished second. Thomas Peters finished third.

Barner finished fourth and Matt Wolfe. Harold Varnett the fourth. Yeah, there you go. DJ couldn't name who else was on the team in 2023 when they won. I saw that. I love that. That was great. Not me.

I also don't know if I could have named it, but it was the captain also could not, could not name the team. I mean, you know, there's so many, there's so many guys in and out of that locker room, T-C. It's hard to, hard to keep track. We had AK, T-31. He was in that locker room. He's, he's an ace. Blandy finished T-14. as his custom.

That was going to be in a birdie section, but I left out. I could not have taken that one. It's so ridiculous. How does he always do it? Last of Sunday for the Cleeks, they went ham on Sunday. They were like 19 under on Sunday.

Kimer cannot put four rounds together, and he's officially on notice. But I think the cliques are on the verge of some pretty good golf. I think they're going to rise up in the midfield. They're 11th, man. They're 11th out of 13 teams. Well, they finished 10th this week. I know, but they had a really,

they had the low round of the tournament on Sunday. So anyway, Luke Elvie turned up his replies. I know. I know. Do you know anything when that was Phil WD? He didn't make it. He didn't make it out, make it that way. Gotcha.

Yeah, Phil. But he didn't make it that way, but, but, Sable offshore was up like seven. 70%. Yeah, we don't know exactly what's going on with the Phil situation, but it is just something to keep an eye on there. I thought you were going a different direction with that. It's not good.

But, yeah. Was I going to need the ROM stuff? Yeah. It's a while ago now. I made a little video and put it out on social, kind of reacting to at least a part of this of, I did take to social media. I did take to social media.

I kind of like doing those stuff like that. He said a lot of things, and I'm not going to play the entire clip. But amongst his quotes, they're asking me to play a minimum of six events and they dictate where two of those have to be, amongst other things that I don't agree with. So if you've not followed this story, the DP World Tour has made a proposal to the live golfers

and said amongst other things, and I'm going to paraphrasing and summarizing, you can pay up your fines. There'll be no fines going forward if you play the required four events that you need to play, plus two that we stipulate what they would be. be basically saying if you're going to very consistently break the rules and regulations every time you tee it up in a live event, you do that and you are subject to find. But it's a reach across the aisle to say, here you go. If you just do this for us, we'll no longer find you,

and we can move forward with this. It was proposed to nine players. Eight of them said yes. John Rom is the only holdout. He said, I did tell them to lower that to four events like the minimum says, and I'll sign tonight. They haven't agreed to it. I just refuse to play six events. I don't want to, and that's not what the rules say. I don't know what game they're trying to play right now, but it just seems they're using our impact in tournaments, finding us, and trying to benefit both ways from what we have to offer. In a way, they're extorting players like myself and young players that have nothing to do with the politics of the game, so I don't like the situation, and I'm not going to agree to that. Again, this would very easily set the scene for Rom to be a part of the 2027

Ryder Cup if he retains his membership in good standing. It's already gone to an arbitration court in 2023, which ruled that the DP World Tour has the right to uphold their rules and regulations to not, you know, when you're playing in a conflicting event that does not, that you do not get a release for, which of course, the live players do not get releases for playing those events. Rom had a pretty bad non sequitur in this podcast or in this interview as well, saying, I've never needed a release to go play on the PGA tour. Never, never asked for one ever. you don't need one.

If you are with the Strategic Alliance between the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, at least it's a, at minimum, it is not something that has ever been required or requested from players in terms of, it's unenforced, I should say. Basically, you have free run to go play as long as you meet your minimum for events.

It is a completely different arrangement if you go and play and live golf, and he just had to throw that in there to just to try confuse people as to why this was happening. Despite it being incredibly clear from the absolute jump, exactly how this would was going to play out. And the fact that the DP World Tour is reaching across the aisle and saying all you got to do is give two bonus events, two bonus events.

And you get to play in your 14 live events, collect your $300 million. It's all you got to do is playing two more of these. And not pay the fines. I think you got to pay. I think you have to pay the fines, but then no more fines after that. To settle your fines that are open and then you will not be fine going forward. And he just will not add the two events. It doesn't like that.

Why should I have to play at a tour? that I'm like, yeah, why should I have to play on this tour just to be a member? It's kind of the kind of what I think it boils down to a little bit. Which, I don't know, man. This is where, like, if you're ROM and you've, you've taken this much heat to begin with, why fight one more battle? Like, why don't you just go play two more events? And I don't know.

I don't have to do this every week, I know, but I just found that the comments were super disingenuous of, you know, he asked to reply to Rory's comments about it. And he's like, well, that's easy for him to say, we're the two that have to play. And the other, the two that have to pay him in Manhattan referring to it. And the other 10 guys don't have to pay. And it's like, why is that, John? Why would that? Do you have a reason why that might be?

Like, we're just, I just think he's getting some really bad advice, like really, really, really bad advice. And you could make part of this go well. Like, you look at the way Kepka did things in general from the jump. and I'm not even talking about him leaving live. Like he left live in a classy way, didn't throw them under the bus. He left the PGA tour in a relatively classy way

and he went to live. And yeah, Pia's not said anything bad. Like there's just a way of doing this that is going to lend, like all of us here want to root for ROM in some way and it just becomes harder and harder every single week that he pulls another one of these things. And it was just a very, very, very tough press conference, I thought.

Solly, watch out. You're going to have my guy, Dean Bermister tracker. That boy can golf 69 coming at you on X. A lot of people came after me. None were debating any of the merits of the case that I laid out of why this release thing is very, very, very, very different. When talking about PJ tour events and DP World Tour events, it's just, they're just, they can, this group of people cannot stop saying things that are just so remarkably wrong that is, like are we supposed to just let them go is the battle I fight every single week

of like do I just let this obviously untrue statement live out there and like people to believe it or do we have to acknowledge this every week? It's just a very strange way to go about life if you ask me. You do have to admit that Rom did win this week. He did. I

this has nothing to do with his play. This has nothing to do with his play or him as a player. This is nothing to do with it. Like I think I'm past rooting for Rom. this point. I feel like I still want him to be involved in majors. And now I'm kind of like, dude, I don't know why I'm rooting for that at this point. If you're going to be, like, if he's, if he's actually going to miss the Ryder Cup over this, I like, I don't know how any

European player could support him ever again, or a European fan, I should say, couldn't support him ever again. He's like the great man, Sevi. Sevi did this. He sat out a rider cup. Mr. Rider Cup. That's right. Sevi sat out a Ryder Cup. That was, I believe, more based on a appearance fees and or regulations though. Yeah, at the end of the day. Isn't that what we're just kind of talking about anyways? Yeah.

It's, I don't know. It's interesting. So I'm still dying for Rory to move to Wentworth next year and then get Guy Kiddings and in, uh,

H.E. in the same room. Uh, and basically say, you know what? Like, let's do a world tour around, world, around national opens. and, you know, just kind of do his own thing and say, hey, yeah, like, this is sanctioned. It's sanctioned by the DP World Tour.

You know, I'm going to do it. I feel like Roy's equity is very tied up in the future of PGA Tour Enterprises. In golf pass. Of course. Anyways, we're on to Singapore. Anything else from the live event? No, can we talk Joe Berg, please? Joe Berg was kind of lit, guys.

That was kind of, that was a fun morning. Are you coming around? on the DP World Tour? What does that mean? What does it mean me coming around? That's my question. It can be fun. It's fun stuff to watch in the mornings.

I don't think I've ever debated that. The course was delightful. There was some big slopes in the greens. It was a little bit slower greens, but with big slopes and some really interesting pins coming down the stretch. Like really like dividing line wedges. Our guy Casey Jarvis almost went full Tommy Manske

back to back to back. and ended up finishing second missed out by a shot. Part of it was a bogey that he made on the 17th hole with a short iron, but it was such a cool little pin position. And then our guy Brandon Robinson Thompson hit just the filthiest flop shot from long of that green. Look like he was in a way worse spot than Jarvis was. But then playing the group behind him, our guy Dan Bradbury, took care of business, great up and down on the 18th hole.

Jarvis had an unbelievable five iron into 18 as well using the slope. and unfortunately missed the putt that would have eventually put him in the playoff but it was it was it was electric viewing that would have been uh the the clean africa sweep for casey jarvis instead he just goes first for a second but god i was the clean africa sweep would be the african you have to win the ned bank later on in the year as well that's true okay so makes it even harder uh the african grand slam uh i was a big fan of Brandon Robinson Thompson's aesthetic.

Got the beard with the earring. He had kind of a Bryson look to him, which made me think Bryson needs to get an earring. I feel like that's kind of the only thing I think he's missing. So I'd like to see that in the universe. Yeah, I really, really dug his vibe. Yeah, I was glad you guys were,

you guys were just glowing about this tournament. I was glad I flipped it on this morning. It was great. It's been banger after banger. We had the magical Kenya open. We had this. They go to, They take the week off this week and then I think they go to the What About China Open at Mission Hills and then they go to DLF after that, which it's like we're right.

We're right in it right now. Kenny Dupless has totally bottled this thing. He's making the habit of this, unfortunately. And it is the same guys every single way. It's really funny. I've looked at like Casey Jarvis again. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?

P finished what, T10? 10 as well. I'm going to need to see a little bit more out of pee. I'm going to see a little bit more. These fields are not very strong. I saw Bacon pick him to win the Masters. I'm just not so sure about that. I need to see a little bit.

Well, he's already won one Masters this year. Exactly. You already won the Cotter Masters. They should get a trophy for that. Whoever wins the most Masters in a year. That should be like its own little sprint. Well, there's the Portugal. Is there still the Portugal Masters? Is the European Masters?

Let's see. Yeah, the Omega. Deepi world. There's four masters. Cotter Masters, the Masters, the British Masters, and the Omega European Masters. The Masters Grand Slam, of course. Yeah. I think that brings us to the end of men's golf for the week, which I think means it's time.

Do we have the signal? Do we have the flare? Is it time for the Fedora 5? Wow. Fine. Gentlemen. Can we hear who was in last week's? Well, we didn't do it last week.

All right. Who was in the last one, I should say? So the first one was February 8th. We had P. Goderup, C. Wu, Team Rose. I'm going to tie for fifth with Callum Hill, Ryan Gerard. Yeah, where was Callum Hill this week? I don't think he.

He was not in the field. I don't think he played well. Next. after that we had a P the weekend Ripper G.C. A tie for fourth between Jackson

Coybin and Scotty Shephler and A.K. and 5th. Right. Okay. This week, do you want me to go fifth to you're right? You know what? First, I'm going to do I can just do random order if you want, just throw them out. The practice squad.

Oh, God. Goder up. The AC. TC. You know I'm late. Oiven. Hold on. This is against the spirit.

This is against the spirit. These guys are getting invited to the practice session. They're on the list. This is against the spirit. I need you to give me five. Dr. Redmond. Is it your five? Dan Bradbury, Minwoo Lee, and Daniel Berger.

Those are on the practice squad. Burgers, Caddy is keeping him from being on the squad at this point. Next, Akshay is ineligible for the Fedora five. due to a variety of factors. His pace of play, they should have gotten in place on the clock today. They didn't play any faster coming down the stretch.

The anchoring, his actions in San Antonio. Alleged. For the Alamo, you know, in that playoff against any McCarthy, and then declining all media for like a year plus and getting crowned by that strip of rough today too.

So, tied for fifth. We have Ludwig and Morikawa. This is a future. looking index. I think Ludwig is absolutely Ludwig's common guys. He's in routes.

Famatism unlike anything we've ever seen before. Orakawa, he's tied for fifth as well. Results speak for themselves. We've seen some evolution there. Fourth, Penny Duplessis. Like you said, Zali, it's the same guys every week. It's unbelievable.

But this is forward-looking. This is going to, he's going to keep doing it? I mean, I bet he does it in China. a couple weeks. What about China? Next, we have Ricky Castillo. He finished solo fifth at the cognizant last week and then won in Puerto Rico this week.

He's been playing very, very good golf. Can't argue that. And, you know, he finished T-43 at the Farmers, T-44 at the American Express, T-31 at the Sony. So he's made all of his cuts. He finished solo third at the RSM last year. He's explosive. He's got some, he's like the mini version of Scotty, too, as far as data golf.

You know, you call Scotty like the Pentagon because all five traits are just above average. Castillo's got a little bit of that going on too. Not a, not a bomber, not a, you know, it's not just like a crazy putting thing. He just is, he's just a very solid, good golfer. Department of War. Yeah. He also seems like he might be the kind of guy who would wear a fedora. Possibly.

Yeah. He's got that pukeshell necklace. Casey Jarvis, number two. I was hoping he'd be there. Yeah. You know, I had to put him on. He busted down the door. He's, what, 22?

He's doing it, man. And then number one, do you guys think? Well, I was going to say, we've got a couple of, a lot of directions we could go here. Sahith's playing good golf. Cam Young's playing good golf. I bet it's Cam Young. Min Wally's playing good golf. I just, I don't know if you can put any of those non-winners.

Yeah, I don't know. You tell us. P. P. Oh, of course. Oh, God. Of course. Yeah.

Tied for 10th this week. He just keeps, like, that's a bad week for him tying for 10th. And I think P, he should be, he should be the players this week. You know, I think Casey Jarvis and P at this point, like, if either of them wins, they get a battlefield promotion to the PGA tour. We need to in season. We need to institute that. Yeah. Immediately.

That's great. That's great. You can't quibble with anything there. I'm going to ask you to have some pride, TC, and no more practice squad. This is, this is, you got, you got to distill your list down. We cannot have a running honorable mention on this. I can't, I can't have it. You already have six in the Fedora 5 every week. That's, that's pushing it.

See, that's what's pushing it. Yeah. I didn't put the aces on there this week. I mean, technically, I had like eight on the Fedora 5 last week. That's true. That's a riper. That's true. That's a good point.

We probably get one after the players. Love it. Probably, but not promising. Thank you. The conditions are right. Exactly. On the LPGA tour, Meehien Li wins the Blue Bay LPGA.

She went out in 40, a 40 with two birdies on the front nine overnight as well. Then shot three under on the back nine to beat out a charging. Wei Wei Zhang, which the three under on that back nine with the conditions that they go watch the highlights from this one if you haven't watched this one. That's awesome. Wind was absolutely whipping, calm down near the very end. But that back nine, there was some like legitimately, extremely, like nearly impossible hole locations. Like that down, I forget about a downwind hole that was.

It's like a back pin over a ridge downwind. And everything was just running directly off the back of the green. She, the wedge she hit into the par five, 18th. She's tied for the lead with Wei Wei Zang. It actually jams between the hole and the lip of the cup and popped out. She went over to tap in for the one-shot victory. This was, I didn't watch any of this live, but the highlights were excellent, excellent to catch. I stayed up watching it last.

I had this and the F-1 on at the same time. And Hygin Choi had two eagles. She eagles five and ten, both par fours. They hit outrageous whole locations. for this. Like it was, there was so many Norfolk Island pines out there too. They're at this coastal resort in China and the foliage was unbelievable. They had these crazy kind of bulkhead sleeper bunkers as well and conditions were kind of proper. Yeah. It was, it was good. Way-Way Zhang should have,

should have run away with that thing. She, she bottled it down the stretch. So, but just a bleak field, bleak, bleak field. Like this is by far the worst field. of the year for the LPGA. And at some point, it's like, all right, like, they need to fix the schedule. I know they're working on it. They need to fix the schedule. Yeah. That one's a commute for a lot of those players.

Even, like, some of the ladies that played the other Asian swing events didn't stick around for this one. She's bounced. I don't know if I could nail this one on MapTap DJ. Have you played this game yet, T. I have. It's good stuff. It's a bit of a disaster today.

It's a morning ritual, but I don't know. I don't know exactly where in China where they're going for this one. And hey, more on the schedule coming. We had an interview coming, not this coming week, but the week after players will have a little bit more insight into some of that stuff. We got a week off and then back to California, I think. That's exactly right. They will be back stateside for the founders.

We had Austin Kim and Adi-Dashok and Rio, we're T3. Rio T-5 with Heijin-Choi. Alam Kim and you, Lou as well. Cody. One thing, yeah, just one thing to shout out. So first win in like seven years for me weighing. She's playing completely injured, like has a horrible shoulder right now, which is part of the issues that she had on her starting nine today going into it.

Earth, she ended up with that 40, but incredible for her to battle back. Major, you guys talked about the field. Not only has it been like four weeks on the road for all of them, they are have LPJ tour has a week off next week though on the ladies European tour it is the Australian open uh so that's where the the vast majority of people who had who had been playing everything on the Asian swing they took this week off to get down to Australia uh hoping to have a pretty strong field there um and again we we press the interview coming out in a couple weeks pressed on that more national opens more unity on the LPGA LET side so I'm excited

I think the God Adelaide must just be buzzing right now. You got all sorts of sport going on down in Adelaide. They love the sport down there. Hey, we got almost 2,000 people in the chat right now. I never do this. Can you hit the subscribe button on the No Laying Up podcast if you're watching this one live? We would love to kind of keep building our subscriber base on the tubes. And I greatly appreciate everyone that's participating in the live chats here as well.

Guys, you guys, you guys watching TGL this week? Yeah, Sally, I want to preface that by Cody. Can you put up Sally's message from Tuesday leading into TGL? This is lifelong Jupyter. Did I subscribe to this? Did I subscribe to this? He said, Juplinks is subbing his back in for a winner go home match tonight. I am done with this franchise.

every time I think I'm out TC they pulled me back in Kiz was actually okay he did not he did not do a vintage kids performance for our franchise I'm so back and forth on TGL man I really am I do I still do not think it's appointment television almost ever but when it's good it's good and it was legitimately good on Tuesday night you can throw all the conspiracy theories out there that you want

but Jupiter links down to their last breath. Those might be a feature, not a bug. The conspiracy. True. That's very true. Two holes to play. They throw the hammer prior to the short part 3, 14th. Tom Kim throws it past the hole and spins it back into the hole for a hole in one. Like,

it was, it was electric. It was extremely electric. And they went on the win to get into the playoffs. And I think it's kind of a joke that I'm rooting for it, but I found myself invested in it and like kind of getting upset when they would miss putts. And

I had so much fun watching it on Tuesday night. I'm not embarrassed to say it at all. It was like... Salli, there's no part of my being that believes that that ball spinning back in. Of course not. Of course you don't believe that. That's written into the code.

Matt Barry, like, as soon as the ball lands beyond the flag, they know it's happened twice now on that hole. I think you've been watching that hole for so many years that you start to know. It's like 16 at Augusta. You just, you know what's going to be good. You're just mad your team didn't make it. Tom Kim's postgame quotes were outrageous. I don't know who my team is.

I was trying to be a Bay fan. I think I'm actually an L.A. golf fan, unfortunately. Oh, hell yeah. You and me both. I don't know how we're doing this year. I just want one thing. Just as a T.C. representative here, he's talking about the TGL team, not the L.A. golf company who is having financial hardships.

I just want to clean my guy. point out yeah uh i mean tom kim's quotes afterwards were outrageous he said he was he was thinking about the tgl match all day when he was at the cognizant i mean yeah he was what like t 40 or whatever in that i don't blame it at all yeah i woke up at 4 30 so i've been up for almost 20-something hours but my last 18 holes today was preparation for night that's all i focused on serious i promise you it was a long day but gosh the round I was just thinking about the match tonight and how it's going to be and how I wanted to play and how the prep was going to go. That's that's marvelous. What more of an endorsement do you need for TGL? If you're going to do it, you might as well, you might as well be in. I got a bad kid like a

brandy chesting. I was got a big kick out of the the videos of cat celebrating the whole one or I mean, that's what you're looking for. That was that was great. Did I need to do I need to watch three hours of that just in case I happen to glimpse that live? I don't think so. But the clips after the fact were, we're lovely. Somebody said this, you know, replied to one of my tweets and said, like, and not every college basketball game is a banger either. I was like, it's a good point. Like, it's, it's an unrealistic expectation for the TGL to be a banger every single night.

But it's, it's really hard to argue against, like, their good nights being, you can't say they're bad. Like, it's, it's fun, interesting competition. Yeah, if I miss a match completely and it's not that close of a match, do I feel like I missed anything? No. And I don't know how you make an appointment television, but when it's good competition, it's, it's, it's really. It's matching.

Yeah, it's match. It's macion. It's, it's, uh, there's, there's some fun to be had. T.C., you want to take us, you had a great one to put you put this one. I assume you put this in the agenda. Yeah. There was a 42nd hourglass filled with stand from season one that where was this for sale? Was this for sale on, what was your site? from... I wasn't in case you found this one. Oh, that was a...

Oh, God, what was I called? The auction site. The real something. The realist? The realist? I don't know if that was on there or not. Let me see if I can track this down. But yeah, this is, you know,

basically an official license thing from TGL. It's 42nd hourglass for $50. $49.99. And like, this was basically like, yeah, like, we need a recession or we need to shrink the game. This is going on. Yeah. It's on it's on fanatics. There you go. Which salli, I know I know Michael Rubin's your boy.

I bought I bought fanatics on that. I bought a Jags shirt T.C. And I have unsubscribed to their email chain like 18 times and I cannot get rid of them in the inbox. There you go. Yeah. Maybe this will help. We got to that's what our platform is for. We got to we got to get these these inboxes protected, man. It's a it's a war zone out there. I hate it doing it box. as fun as the TGL match was, the Jason Kelsey thing from this past week

was, is too much. It was, it was, I think I'm good. It was Kelsey Brothers. Yeah, it just,

it was way, seemed like a last minute, Hail Mary Hive. What was the, what was the vibe? I didn't, I didn't see any of it. I mean,

it was just like, B. Zaney, Jason, he's wearing like a Hawaiian cutoff shirt and like going up, you know, going under the,

the putting green show and the actuators and going up in a crane. and it was just like Johnson Wagner on steroids kind of kind of vibe with it to be very clear Johnson's we're pro Johnson this is a pro Johnson correct and I have no reason to believe he's on steroids just to just to be extremely clear no he's working out in that one shaft commercial

yeah so yeah Kelsey seemed available they seem like they're they're down for whatever which is impressive speaking for down for whatever LD. Luke Tom

He's down. Could he go for like Kennedy? Everyone's assuming this is his last. Why would this be his last? Why would he keep going? Can you do five?

I mean, three. A great question. Do you want to send a rookie captain on the road to Heseltine? It's a great question. He has to do a fourth one, right? I mean, the system should work though, right?

If he's, if he's, all he's doing is implementing a system, then, you know, anybody should be able to take over. after three. Yeah.

It seems like, I don't know, I would assume either Francesco or Team Rose would be the next up. Yeah. Right. Or the great mandodo.

Sure. That matter. I don't know. L.D. sweet. I'm so, so in on it. Three is,

if he wins three, man, that's like, no, I just like, ROM should skip. Like, we don't need LD plus like a home game plus

ROM and Rory and Tom. Like, ROM should skip. I just make this. trying to mercy roll. Let's make this at least a little bit interesting. Right now it's like... Push involved.

Push? In what capacity? Playing. David Pooch. Oh. You're talking about Push, like from vibration. Playing what? Like music?

Yeah, happy birthday. But no, David Pooch. Yeah. It's on the team. I thought we were going to need the video I did at the very end of our final 2023 Rider Cup pod. where I looked into the camera and was like, this is for you,

Sally, in the future, four years from now, you're not allowed to pick Team USA. You're not allowed to do it. Like, you're going to want to do it in Ireland. Don't do it. And I have,

I don't think there's anything that could happen between now and, and this time next year that would make me pick, that would make me pick the U.S. to win in Ireland. Like, there's not one out to me that believes they will. I get to go into J.P. McMahon,

this is a little fun house. And there's already, Dare Manor's already got good toiletries. They've already got good. Yeah. linens. What's Luke gonna do? Exactly.

Great point. Who do you think the American captain is? Is it the cat? Seems like he's got his hands full with the future competitions committee. I don't know. I feel like I keep seeing Stewart's Sink pop up and stuff. I don't know if he's... All right.

If it's not the cat, it's got to be what, Stu Sink or Snetiker? I don't know, two guys. Yeah. I wonder. I wonder about. about Snedeker, just with him doing the, the President's Cup this year, but that's what I'd heard was the likely. But I think it is, like, if Tiger wants to do it, obviously, they're going to, they're going to do the Tiger thing. And it would be a very PJ of America thing to do the Tiger

thing. Like, I am not one of the people that is convinced all you got to do is make Tiger the captain and all this stuff's going to fall into place. Like, I think the U.S. team has a lot farther to go than just, I don't think that's a magic card you can play. they didn't pop into the the president's cup that Tiger captained until they were they are all jet lagged for the first day or two of the competition yeah that one was not going great also Tiger

can you get off the top of your head do you know how many winning rider cup teams Tiger was a part of not one like one or two 99 one he was on losing team in 97 he was on losing team in 2 0403 was not on the team in 08 when they won. Losing in 2010, losing team in 2012,

was not on the team in 14, but they did not win that one. It was not on the team, of course, in 16 that they won, was on the team in 18, did apologize to P for playing poorly, and hasn't been on one sense. All right, do you think P is on another Ryder Cup team? I'm open to it.

You're open to it? Hell yeah. They were closer with P. They're close. or with P than whatever they had going. P might need to be the captain. Can you imagine Lady J's the...

Yeah. You imagine the outfits? Yeah, incredible. It's like GALPA. PGA of America absolutely needs to do that. It's like P and Lady J and Don Ray. Seems unlikely.

Yeah. All right. Let's move towards wrapping, of course, Players Championship Week on the PGA Tour. This week, Liv is on to Singapore. LPGA Tour. is off. DP World Tour is off. Corn Ferry is off until March 26th. We had a great, I thought it was great, if I may say, a great video posted to our YouTube channel this past week

from our little trip to Jacksonville, which happens to be where T.C. and I live. DJ lived here for quite a few many years, but that's over on the no laying up YouTube channel. If you've not already peeped that one, please, please do. Got a lot of great feedback on that one. So really appreciate it. Yeah, turned out. Do you have anything to say as far as standing in front of Ponavidren Inn Club and saying we're here in South Jacksonville Beach. People are hot about that. People were upset about that?

Yeah, they were just vivid. It was like just TC. No, that's, it's fair. It's right on the edge. I always forget kind of where the line is. Granted, it is called Pontivir Inning Club. So probably that should make it pretty clear. But I always feel like the South Jacks Beach line is a little farther down than I

I always think. But yeah, I'll apologize for that. That's on me. I apologize. It's kind of an eye test thing. I apologize we didn't go harder at Delicom's coffee. I apologize that we didn't, we didn't go harder at, honestly, it was in there,

but we should have gone even harder at Southern Grounds, moving in right across the street from Bold Bean. That was, as I said in the video, pretty effed up. But no, I won't apologize for anything else other than that. I think if I noticed, right, the line that I said about, like, you know, I felt the urge, the instinct to take a picture of a bird the other day that started the whole bird craves from you guys. I don't think that made the final cut even. Like I literally just had one sentence

we're walking off one of the call out. I think we can go back and cut that and put that up on social. That's literally the thing. I was like, man, you know how I'm getting old? It's like I saw a bird the other day and I wanted to take a picture. The entire I still, every single, every single day I open up my Instagram feed. Somebody's sending me the same bird watching video. And I've just made it eight times worse. I realized that. I appreciate people. I think it was on the fourth hole at the valley course. We were talking about that.

No, it was in Hyde Park. Was it a Hyde Park? Maybe we brought it back up then. There was an Eastern Bluebird that kind of came into frame there. I would say listen to some birdwoods, good bird watching stuff on the, on the trap draw, just recently as well. The trap draw has been fucking big Randy's back from paternity leave, which was great.

Did a great trap draw, chop session with TC. this week. We got our Oscars pod coming out this week with myself and Randy and our guy Big T, Tim Simons. All kinds of content flown. Randy's going to be back on this here pod. I think, what, tomorrow? Probably. Players preview? I believe so. I believe so. There's somebody in the

in the chat that said fake run out of gas in the golf cart though. Unfortunately, that was very real. That was a very, very not fake. Since got new batteries put into the golf cart. Not only was it real. It was not even close. It was like, I mean, that was far away. We push that cart a long, freaking way, like a really long way. Also, like there were some people that were getting on us

for saying, hey, you guys didn't really, this was more Jacksonville Beach, Pontavidra Beach, in Hyde Park. And for that, I would say yes. Sure. I filmed this over two days. And there's 80% of Jacksonville that I've never even been to before. I'm never even stepped foot in. Yeah. And a lot of like, you know, we we didn't have, you know, not no Jack's Beach. And they're saying, we've done like four videos of Jacks Beach. You know, we're trying to spread it around. Yeah. We have the Jacks Beach content. It's there if you want to go check it out. We're going to go live, Cody, sorry. No, I'm just going to say if you guys want to clear something like the party doctor is pretty electric in it. And nobody really does like an introduction of like who he is. I don't know, T.C. if you want to give a quick.

like, oh, this isn't my friend. Yeah, he's a party doctor. Yeah, he's like one of my best friends. One of my fishing buddies, golf buddies, a member of the Blue Man group. Just a, yeah, just a generally jolly, jolly fellow. And, like, he's not a party animal or anything, but he's always, like, he's always got Gardonnay or sake out on the golf course.

That's what we call him the party doctor. Neil, Neil glossed him as that a few years ago. He's like, man, I just always feel like you're in a good mood. you're just like, just jolly, you're just ready to party. So he started calling the party doctor. And he is a doctor. I got text about that. I need to know more about this party doctor guy.

We are going to go live tomorrow for our players championship preview. 3.30 Eastern Time on this here channel right here, the No Langup podcast YouTube channel. We're also going to go live. I believe we are planning on 5 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday to kind of react to the news of the week, including Brian Relub's press conference on Wednesday, which we're expecting probably some news, almost always some news that comes from that one. So we're going to, of course, be live after every round of the Players Championship Thursday through

Sunday as well. So a massive week coming out. Make sure you're following knowing up on the social channels. We'll have our guys cooking up a lot of great stuff over the course of this week as well. Anything I missed, guys. Akshay anchoring. Congratulations. You're missing it.

It's a great. It was a great dub. Great stuff. Great Sunday golf. It was a great week. Thank you, everyone, for tuning in. Thanks to all those that watched it live and drop so many lovely comments in the chat. We greatly appreciate you spending your Sunday evenings with us. We'll see you back here for a huge week of content this week for the Players' Championship. Crack on. Cheers.