No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 1189: Saturday at The Open

Episode Date: July 18, 2026

Sam Burns (-10) leads the 2026 Open Championship by two going into Sunday. Ryan Fox (-8) and Si Woo Kim (-8) sit two back. Join us as we break down all the action: Down the Leaderboard, Lingering/Loitering, Rory's comments on Bryson, news and notes, and much more. Presented by Titleist. Support our sponsors: Titleist - and the entire GTS Metalwoods line! High Noon - Sun's Up! Rhoback - code NLU for 20% off at https://www.rhoback.com 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 54 holes in the book at the Open Championship.

I am Sully, joined by Mr. Neil Schuster. Hello, Icarito. How are you? Greetings, Sally. I'm thrilled to be here. Yeah, let's get it going. Thought about you today when I saw, you know, a big, strong, burly athletic golfer out there,

airmailing greens and having rules incidents at Royal Burkdale. I was like, hey, I know that guy. I've seen that guy before. I didn't see that. I saw an actor in his prime. That's what I saw. A true Thespean. I saw Fez, Dej.

Yeah, it was Fezfest out there, man. It was good to, uh, good day. Good day at the open. Solly, good to be with you. How are you? That is the voice of DJ Payhouse. I am excellent. These first couple segments here are going to be presented read free, ad free by our friends

at Titleist and the new GTS drivers. Hard for me to mention the GTS drivers and not get into my sales pitch about how amazing that golf clip is. But it's not even written in the script tonight, so I'm not going to do it. Dege, how we feel and how we look in 54 holes and after quite an eventful Friday, maybe not quite as eventful of a Saturday morning and afternoon here. Yeah, one of those where you're chomping at the bit as soon as you wake up. I couldn't get enough of it yesterday.

Today is going to be just as good. I think we were due for a little bit of a hangover, right? And that's to take nothing away from Sam Burns, who played awesome golf, excited to talk about it. Takes nothing away from the great man, Foxy, who played great golf this morning, injected a little bit of course discourse and excitement into the morning coffee this morning. But yeah, it got a little, you know, a little flat. I feel like Scotty couldn't get it going. Tommy kind of sputtered Johnny Rombo was nowhere to be found.

Like the big names. and then Bryson was kind of sputtering on that front nine. So it was a little bit of a little bit of a hangover day, which I think is to be expected. But I think we're set up for a nice final round. Neil, what say you? Yeah, I mean, PC called out. He was probably somewhere over Virginia or something.

Who knows? We don't know where he is. Where is TC? We do not know. You know, we can't really get a confirmation there. But there was some looting going on this morning. It felt like it. It was like, oh, my God, Foxy races out.

And all credit to me. played awesome. And I was concerned that, you know, the guys were starting to be freed up out there. I said yesterday, it didn't feel like those 62s, like those guys were pinning their ears back. Early on the day, I was like, man, the ears are pinned. And then the score, and then the course got harder. It held up. I thought both par fives on the back played, played hard. I'd call out Sam Burns. He'd birdied both 14 and 17. I thought that was kind of, I'd have to look at the numbers, but it felt like eye test-test-wise gaining on the field. Everybody was struggling with that bunker on 14.

So the course held up, but that led to a little bit of, the, you know, maybe some of this is the telecasts as well, feeling like you're stuck in neutral. Like, does somebody do something? You know what I mean? It was a lot of like, and shout out to Bryce. He made a ton of big par putts. But felt it had a little bit more of a, I don't know, a grindy U.S. open feel to

it today on that back nine. Which I think is such a funny contrast with a lot of the commentary. and I hate launching immediately into just like commentary and reaction to commentary and reaction to reaction to reaction to comment. Go on, Dej. But I just, I feel, I feel a little crazy at times this week where I'm just like, it's easy in the morning and it's not easy in the afternoon. And I'm like, I think that's like pretty pretty cut and dry. You know, the 62 was, it was the best round of the day by three or four shots.

I guess it was, what, three shots because Sam Bern's shot 65. But it's like nobody else was. even close to that. Foxy made a gazillion putts. It's not, it's I get it. It's, it's a little softer than people would like. And I think I tend to be in that camp as well. But it's not a, it's not

TPC Burkdale, man. It's, it's, it's not. There was consequence out there this afternoon. Uh, there, it was an interesting still like, display of different strategies out there. You saw how Scotty and Tommy played today versus how Bryson certainly, but also even like

Jackson, Suber and Herbert were playing more aggressive and you've seen people's aggression kind of changed throughout the week. I just think there's still a lot more that meets the eye to this place that I've still really enjoyed watching. And I don't think it's some sort of free crack giveaway. And I think people see 62 and they freak the fuck out, which I guess is understandable to some extent. Set set and set in records. But I just don't think I don't think all 62s are like created equal, I guess. Well, yeah, there's, I think there's a big difference in like, hey, one or two in this you know on a daily basis one or two guys out of like a wave of like 78 or

you know 44 in the morning way whatever it is this morning one or two of them put an excellent excellent round and for me personally i don't care what that number actually ends up being where the problem comes in is like hey the dude that had like the 18th best round was like 65 today like that's where like dude we the the the median level of play here is too low and it's really hard to separate and we're just probably not headed towards interest in golf like compared this leaderboard right now, and I know it's par 72 versus par 70, blah, blah, blah. But there's one player better than eight under par.

Like one of the, one of the majors we were the hardest on, setup-wise, scoring-wise, championship test-wise, was Valhalla in 24. And there were 16 guys at 10 under par or lower after three rounds in that tournament. Like that was the one where it was like, dude, if you're not shooting three or four under, you're losing massive amounts of ground. Like you shoot 67s out here in this tournament.

three of them, you're in second place right now. That's a good golf tournament, if you ask me. But it is interesting to me of like in the whole distance debate and discussion, which we have stayed away from almost entirely this week of like how upset people get when somebody is taking it low should be. The sales pitch we've gotten is like, yeah, everybody loves birdies. Everybody loves the low scoring. It's like people freak the fuck out.

People care about par. And like put that on the, like, we, that is not a selling point at this point of like watching guys just tear places apart. So and to put the blame on golf courses for that is my opinion is completely misguided. And just just like you said, you know, watching the difference of this golf course without much defense in the early part of the day, into just like a little bit of wind. Like that's not that much wind.

Like they've had wind, but it's not been dramatic. Frankly, we played in much stronger winds when we were in Northwest England two months ago. And at the same time, I'm like this, the golf course more than stood up this afternoon. And there was one really good round. That was Sam Burton's at the round of the day, if you ask me. I know Foxy shot lower, but like, do it in that spot, man.

That is, that was some of the most serious golf. I would, you know, hot take would be like this was a better round of golf than his 62 yesterday. One, we didn't see the 62, but like it is so different to do it in the back half post 3 p.m. or whatever post 2 p.m. T. time that he had today. And like Foxy's got to go do that tomorrow. Like he gets a, he does not have the morning tea time tomorrow. Burns did it today. Like hats off to him and I'm still to see him bounce back this quickly after Shinnock.

Can I, I will say this though, and this is part of Link's golf. You heard Fitzpatrick talk about it, but that you, I think the optics of the rough not being super penal is, is a, has a massive impact on this discourse that we're talking about. And Burns got some breaks today. He hit it way left on 10. Was it 10? No. Nine. I think he hit it way left on 9.

And then he played 17, like they were talking about on the broadcast, Smiley and Fax. It was good back and forth of like, I don't know what he's doing here. He took iron off of 17, missed it left. And he tried to like. He hit the first one on 17. He was up the left side. You're right. But then he tried to push, I think, a six iron like way up there.

And they couldn't figure out. I hit that way left. And that comes to rest. Like, you know, you get a few breaks in this rough and it can, it can. And then he hit a great shot from there made birdie. So I think the fact that guys are able to get out of jail when they blow it into the crowds. up on the dunes. It seems like more often than not, they're, you know,

unless you're Bryce is missing right on five, coming out with like a, you know, a pretty good chance to get the ball on the green. More often than not. Not all the time. So I think that's impacting the, maybe the course discourse, if you will. I'll say this.

The data golf had the missed fairway penalty at 0.4 shots, which is stronger than a normal PGA tour course, notably stronger than deep rough erroneic that we saw earlier this year. So that's just a, and I think that that's including missing in fairway bunkers, which is obviously a much stronger punishment than missing the fairway. But that is still part of, to your point, though, like the biggest flaw, I think. And we can understand the natural nature of how we got to this.

I'm not saying like, throw the rough pub. I'm just saying, I think if you're just flipping this on, you're like, oh, man, he should be punished for that, you know. It is hard to watch wide misses go. Yeah, he's fine there. Right. But I think what the wind has given us is when you do. get way out of position later in the day, even that little bit of wind, it has made those shots

from out of position that much harder. Like it is, you know, especially if you're downwind, like holding the ball on the greens gets a lot more challenging. Guys are having no problem holding these greens from the fairway. But if you get the wind going the wrong direction, just watching balls land into 14 today, second or third shots in there with the wind coming off the right. I know the greens haven't been as firm as some people would like, but you'd land at a ball with the wrong spin on that green. It was not holding. Like it would straight up was not holding. because that bunker was eating people alive in front of that pin. That was great.

And you know what I loved was downwind, 115 on 7. Yeah. It was a fun one. I was giving guys fits. They were all trying to like lay off like sand wedges. You know, it looked like a lot of guys making uncommitted swings there.

And Jackson, super looked like his like his, like his level of his head dropped like a full flip. He's like, he was wishing that one on the greed. It was great. It was great. Yeah.

We bring in our fourth, our fourth. Have we heard from him? He's he's here. He's in the room. He's in the room with us right now. Where is he is the question? Will he or won't he?

Come on to this British air where he's operate to 838 a crop for your flight. Keith, you guys hear me? We can hear you. Oh my gosh. Like an empty bird. Crazy. Yeah. I got this whole place to myself.

It's wild. What was it? 7C. Is that your seat? 7A? Usually, well, that's that's on. that's on domestic flights if i don't get upgraded normally i'm uh i am uh mr five five l i'm in my house okay yeah for the for the folks listening on the audio tc is uh do you have do you have a

statement you'd like the issue uh yeah i i was watching it with my son freddie today and like he was like rooting tommy on and he's like man like this is all and i was like i don't want to leave like i just didn't want to like even when i don't know scottie or uh Tommy was was playing really well early in the back nine there and um you know just hitting the shots and i just thought you know what like like and freddie asked me he's like dad can we watch the golf and like i i really want to see Tommy how's Tommy doing and i was like man that's sick like he's he plays golf but he's not really into watching pro golf at least until sunday afternoon at like 4 30 or 5 and uh he's Yeah, and then I figured, man, it was just like there were thunderstorms up the East Coast today.

I was going to miss my connection to Munich. And then I was going to have to drive down to Orlando. And I was just like, you know what? Like, I just want to. And I think if you don't see, you know, I mean, fantastic father, but maybe, you're not fan at. At what cost? What cost? You're going to have to cover those slings and arrows.

I can honestly say, if not for the international feed. for the world feed and the feature groups, I probably would be on an airplane right now. Because it's been a delight to watch the sky feed and all of that versus what NBC is subjecting us to. So we can get there later though. You're not going to you're not going to skate on that diminishment of Foxy 62 either. Yeah, what did you think of the great man Foxy today, T.C.?

but it was inspired stuff. I don't know. I mean, it's, listen, we've been over it. The greens aren't quite as, like they've been putting more water on them than I think they probably should be. But otherwise, I like the setup. And, Sally, I think you were spot on.

Like, you got to go get it. The best guy, you know, minus 10 is leading. Two guys at minus 8, 65, 66, 67. Those are very good scores. But if you want to pin your ears back and get the momentum going, you can. There's just some booby traps there. I wish there was a little bit more penalty, like you said, Neil, for wide misses.

But the wind's not blowing and the rough's down. So it is what it is. It's forged by nature, except for the greens. I thought Foxy was brilliant today. It was absolutely brilliant. And he's played his way into this thing with a 62, a meaningful 62. Yeah, we had, he was even par. We had no one, we said minus.

We said even par was too far back last. night. We didn't he was plus I think he was seven 50 to one to win the championship starting today. I believe as right now he's plus he's seven and a half to one. So he's cut his odds by whatever that math is a hundred times just in in 18 holes of golf. So it was it was incredible round of golf. And we did say last night was like there there is the conditions are going to be easier in the morning. Somebody might be doing it. We talked ourselves into it being Rory. It most certainly was not. But I was I was 99. percent sure that's where you were going to start deflection-wise tc instead of addressing the

tommy situation oh the tommy wise it was exactly what we've witnessed over the last like that that was the tommy experience like dj i'll put it to you i don't like you're watching that i don't like it tc uh yeah i joined you at the beginning of the week on like you know what i'm i'm i'm a romantic as well i'm i'm picking tommy but what a story it would be and every i don't think he's like it doesn't until i mean the shot on 14 to day, the shot on 18 today. It's just long, long stretches where it's like, this guy

is, it's not capable of missing a shot. It's, it's really fun to watch. Everything's sought off. All those kind of like half midirons that he's hitting to just perfect distances. He's scaring a lot of the puts. He's not making all the ones he should make, but he's scaring a lot of those long ones.

And it's just, it's invigorating. The whole crowd is, you know, they're singing Ryder Cup chance to him as he's walking up. It is absolute scenes. TC and I got fully, fully, fully wrapped up in it the last two days. And to see him missed the one on 16 yesterday was just like, I hate this. Why do I, why am I doing this to myself? And then seeing him do it on 14 today, granted, he got it up and down for par.

But it was like, it's just, I even called out to you guys because I felt like Charlie Brown, like about to go run up to the football. But like, look, I know that this is how it works. I know we're about to get rug pulled here. I know I've done all the reading. I've watched all the history. I understand. But like, man, this guy looks comfortable right now.

Having said all that, this guy looks really comfortable. And he immediately dumps through that bunker with a wedge on 14. Like, it's, I don't know, shifts of he who must not be named, who we eulogize yesterday, I think. It's just the heart wants it. The eyes want it. The brain knows probably what's about to happen. But, man, it's been a really fun ride. And we're not, we're not out of it.

We're not out of it yet. We're not dead, but we got six. minus 60s. Yeah, we got one more put the heart back in and then rip it back out. We got one more run. He makes about seven runs per tournament if we've been on this roller coaster before.

How Tony Fee now got the reputation amongst you guys for throwing it in reverse after a hot run, I don't know. But he does it every time. There's zero percent chance he's not three under through five tomorrow. Like he will 100%. If he goes and does his Shinnickok-Six 63, tomorrow if he shoots 63 tomorrow Sam Burns has got to shoot 67 to beat him

you know it's not guaranteed Sam Burns gone what 62 65 hard to back up two low ones you know he's in sexy be hard to back up to 62 but apparently not Primo spot for that top 10 though just sitting at T9

oh top five yeah it's comfy I think the most frustrating part was like I was totally at ease or you know at peace with like he's gonna win this thing and I'm not gonna be there and I'm gonna be watching with with my family in the back porch on the couch and it's going to be great and then even when he hit that shot on 15 that chip on 15 uh and of course like he missed the put but i'm like man that

that chip was awesome all right we're back we're back that's momentum and then you know stuff sit on like like oh damn near tries to hold it a couple times coming in uh 17 yeah and then you know that was when you know he damn near holds it NBC's and in playing through the chance are loud. He's coming up to the green, all of that. He's a great team. Made a big put to keep it in it. But I don't know.

I was, I was pretty, I was pretty jazzed up after the birdie on seven. Because Neil, Neil, to your point, I thought that was one of the most interesting holes of the day with how short it was, downwind. You know, it's just a gnarly little one.

And, yeah, so anyway, we're, we're T9 and we're, how many back? Four back, five back. Five back. I think if you want to, if you want to be critical, like, I don't think he's played. This hasn't been like losers. He hasn't driven it well. He's been, he's been okay.

He's taken a lot of, 603rd off the team. So yeah, it could be a lot of, he's not pushing it up there too. That's exactly what I was going to say. I think if you wanted to be critical, it's like, it didn't get nine or 10. He's laying it back a lot. It's a lot of like, man, if they were playing at Shinnecock, I think you'd be winning by five. You're technically playing the golf course as it's, you know, as it's laid. out. But I'm like, some other guys are just taking more risk, man, and able to push it up there

farther. And it just puts a lot of pressure on continuing to hit those irons as good as he has. And it's, he's, he's so accurate with driver that it's, that's the kind of frustrating part that he's not, I don't know. That that that's the part I do, I don't like questioning strategy just because like these, like Finno and Tommy and like, yeah, questioning Tommy's strategy like on legist golf seems silly. But having watched all the other players hit as many drivers, as they have and seeing the lack of rough penalty like we've talked about. Maybe that's it. Like he's so accurate that his inaccurate shots are likely to more,

more likely to end up in the bunkers, in the bunkers instead of in the rough that, you know, he's got to think about it a little bit differently. We're starting to sim. Well, I do want to say one highlight for me is the like kind of deep-throated cheers for Tommy. It's not Tommy. It's like, it's like thommy. it almost gets to be like homie come on homie come on wait come on like no tea anymore you know

get in there it's in now i know i've been watching too much golf because i'm analyzing the pronunciation of his name but it's just like you know from all angles you just hear it uh from the english it's great i think i mean overall he's answered the bell it's been a i can't imagine how draining this week is and it seems like he's used the crowd the correct way to you know like he's leaned into it stuff too and it seems like he's enjoying the week, which I love. He said, no, I don't feel pressure. I felt nerves this week in excitement and adrenaline, but that's my own expectations. The crowd have been incredible. They've made a massive difference to me. I said over there, whatever happens tomorrow, like yesterday evening, the first

tea, everything, today when I was in contention, that stuff I'll have for life. To be honest, how many people in the golfing world get to experience that with the crowd that much on your side? It's been a very special week for me no matter what. If I can get it tomorrow, I could make it even more special. We'll see. T.C. I don't know how we found ourselves in this Sam Burns versus Tommy heads up bet every week, but that's proved to be very prescient. I don't know if we need to do a little say something nice about Sam Burns challenge, but I feel like he's, I feel like he's winning you over. Yeah, he's definitely one of my respect of he's, like he just hasn't gone away. He's stuck his nose right in it. I'm, like, all joking

aside with the Foxy stuff, I thought Burns is 65 today was the round of the day, considering the circumstances and everything. It's much different teen off at 9 a.m. versus 2 p.m. and, you know. He wants the ball, man. Like, that's the thing with, he just looks like he wants it. He looks, the higher the pressure gets, the harder it looks like he swings in terms of like this will not be a,

if I'm going down, I'm going down hard, all right? And he doesn't really go down. Like, he's been close without really like melting down on top of himself. And I don't know. I think he's, I think he's. Well, tomorrow's a, Sam Burns and the final group at a major is becoming good theater. You know, it's becoming, it's a thing now. And I'm very, very excited to see how he reacts to that.

He's because, and I know where to say something nice, but he's not an exciting golfer for me. If that, you know, I don't mean that as a, and I don't mean that as a dis. He's just so above average at like everything. It almost blends. You know, it's not, there's not, it's not super loud. It's just really, really good. So I yeah, it's an interesting spot for him again tomorrow. I think I've been yeah, like he never grabbed me and I never really.

I think he always just struck me as kind of a like this sounds bad to say, but kind of a dumb redneck when he came out of LSU. And how could that sound bad? I don't understand how that could say. I think there's a lot more like it seems like there's a lot more to him. And he's got some he's got some substance to him. He's a thoughtful interview. He's a dog.

He wants the ball. and yeah he's like i think he knows how to hit the right shots he knows how to hit the proper shots so um sam burns you know i i would have no no issue with him winning tomorrow and in fact i feel like that's one of the i think that's one of the better outcomes for tomorrow i think it frames it up in a in a historical way better than almost anybody else i think if that happens tomorrow you'll find us you know around a campfire cheers and with each other grabbing a vodka seltzer a vodka iced tea maybe a tequila seltzer no matter the occasion uh high noon has something for you i reached for the peach today today was a peach day you know it was it's it's a very solid flavor not my favorite

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no matter where you plan to throw it. Find the high noon tequila, seltzer fiesta pack nearest you at high noon spirits.com. High noon, sun's up. Guys, one more thing on Sam Burns. I'm really curious to see if the British press gets a hold of. The hunting photo. I mean, they, you know, with Harmon

They might have punched themselves out on that one. I mean, talk about, you know, there's a lot of like, you know, we have to apply the rules fairly. Everybody's stopping their lives down. Well, like, I think this is in that same category. Okay. You know, with, will it, uh, what they call Harmon? The butcher, butcher.

Yeah. Brian the butcher. Yeah, which of course is John Robb, who didn't, who actually, I think John Rom and Sam Burr's, you can tie these together. I think what I like about Sam Burns and what I like about Foxy's around, I think putting these greens is an immense skill. And some of these guys look absolutely flummoxed by the greens. I mean, Scotty is the most obvious example, but it's Scotty, it's ROM,

it's Cam Young today. There's a couple of these guys that like, I mean, they just look lost out there. And I think, yeah, I know Sam Burns is hitting the ball amazing as well, but I don't know. I think he feels like a not overly technical, let me just figure out how to get the ball in the hole on the greens type of guy, and I don't think it's coincidence that he's now gone 62, 65 on these greens.

And not even supposed to be there. Like, unexpected, this was right around the due date of his daughter. The daughter comes two weeks early and kind of a little bit of a surprise gets, you know, is able to play across the pond. Like this is the probably seemed like a very low odds to himself that he was going to be able to pull this one off. And that's when you play the best, Sally, low expectations, man. You know, that's,

That's it. I thought I was going to say, newborn phase is not when I played my best. Sure. You guys want to get to the Thespian as a, I should ask you to, I should ask you to pronounce that one again. Hell yeah,

let's get to him. Bryson did indeed play, despite, you know, the very, very real threat to not play last night. Showed up on site, you know, came to the first tee that was in playing three.

of course played a I mean he shot 100 part of day so fucked up man that's like straight up it's so fucked up I hate I'm sorry for the language I hate to be crass I hate to be maybe there's something I don't get about this but I'm like man for 12 hours as a gold fan I'm just like is he going to play is he not going to play at what's the crowd going to do what's he going to look like is he going to wave what's it going to be and it's in a fucking playing through on NBC and I'm just like that was the moment or I was just like yo I'm I'm not doing this. Like I had to fire up peacock. I had to go to a different TV where I had peacock installed and like go to the sky feed. It's just a, it's a nightmare. That's like, I know a lot of times we're just

like, oh, I can't believe they misspelled this name on the graphics. Like, what a disaster. Like, this is like storytelling stuff. And usually what I would give NBC a lot of credit for, I thought they were awesome yesterday on like when news is breaking. I think NBC's really good, you know? And I think CBS is that way too. But when when it's like, a we're locked in on the story follow us for updates as they develop i think mc's really good and they're really good about that yesterday and so for them to to completely miss that today is just like dude are we what are we doing where we we're stuck in the middle again here and it's just anyways it was very emblematic of just kind of a rudderless sort of experience we know i got kisner clapping at

at sally from the booth during the broadcast. Listen, in defense of kids, I'm going to throw him a bone here. They got like 11 guys in there. He's got some serious breaks to fill. You know what I mean? Like, come on.

It's like we're going to kick it over to Terry and Brad for 15. And kids is just scroly. Just yeah, clapping back at me. Yeah. Like, hold on guys. Yeah, go over the other side of the booth. I'm going to,

I got some stuff they handle here. Yeah. So they opened the broadcast. you know, with Mike or was it Tarrico? No, it was Dan Hicks with him, you know, opened the NBC or when that team came in, I guess, because Tariko was originally

on, but that team came on, they did a reset, kind of introducing this whole thing. Hicks T's Kisner up. He says, obviously from the Bryson standpoint, nobody likes to see him walking in there like he's a WBE wrestler going into his first match, high stepping through the grass,

through the high grass, no other players doing that. Then he says, I wish the walking official was over there during this every group has a walking official why is he not part of this it was obviously an awkward situation we have officials in every group he should be over there so we're not having to do all this post round if the walking official is there he could explain to everyone and had eyes on it so we didn't have to use video cameras i think that was a big miss uh and then he would go on later say every time you're back home and you call an official in i know bryson didn't call an official in but lots of guys were over there the official could have easily walked over there they remind you

hey you're a penalty area hey don't knock any limbs off the trees things like that it's very often that happens which this was a lot a lot of stuff to pre-crime a lot of stuff there and this was my opinion that i stated on this was like well that was like a little bit on like bryson breaking a rule here and like we had a whole massive performative will he or won't he withdraw they went back out under the like the scene yesterday was the ruling going back out there and I thought that was a pretty massive story and like that was kind of their chance to weigh in on that. I thought like NBC did an incredible job last night like you said,

golf live from last night did an incredible job. Amon was great. Brando was great. McGinley was great. Rich, an absolute pro. And I thought this was like a really big moment for like the lead analyst in the open championship to like weigh in on this. And he spent the majority of the time talking about a walking official there

and how that could have prevented some of this. And I don't, I honestly don't even know if I understand what he's talking about was it that it could have been that the walking official could have penalized him right there had he seen it which to that i would say i don't think it's the walking official's job to like all three players in the group on a friday watching every single one of their moves uh and determining whether or not they broke a rule and also that you know official didn't have like the dead on face on look that we saw on the television camera one or two like it almost like sounded like he was saying that the rules official should have been there to warn him like if you

step on the grass back there and i don't want to put words in his mouth, but that's kind of what it felt like in there. You know, like, hey, if you step on the grass here, that's going to be a penalty. It was like, hey, like the rules of golf are on Bryson here. This was not about a walking official in any way. The rules of golf applied to all of us that play this game. Like, if I go break this rule, it's not going to be a rules official's fault for not calling it out in the moment or something like that, which was my opinion.

Kisner clapped back with, yeah, you guys have, you know, with all of your experience and your tour starts was like the typical. athlete thing of like, we're not going to debate the actual topic here. It's you're disqualified. I know what I'm talking about. You don't. We play a different game up here. Super disrespectful.

Like, we have already set of rules that they usually don't enforce even. Yeah. You don't understand the rules don't apply to us here. Because, you know, somebody else. Like, if I was a tour player, I'd hit people with that a lot, too. I got to say. If it was about like strategy or like how to hit a high cut, how to hit a technique or, you know,

what it's like to be under. I can't. comment on any of those things. I can comment on your role as a media person and your opinion that you gave out on this matter. Like this was not, I was not the only one that had this opinion as well. Sports Illustrator wrote this up of like how bizarre this was of like, what was that about? Like I don't understand. I really didn't understand it. So, Sally, I thought like I was actually impressed with Kisner that he came out and said, hey, like basically Bryson was in the wrong. He clearly broke the rule here. That was,

he started there. Like that was where he started. I was like, oh, hell yeah. Like, all right. I was expecting Kisner to, you know, like I'm fascinated to see what Scottie says about all this. Like he, you know, he rightfully deferred everything until after the tournament. But like, I was pretty disappointed in some of this stuff, Henley and Max were saying after their rounds today. We're like, and, you know, maybe we do the Rory stuff now. Maybe we do it a little bit. But like, I think everybody's got an opinion on this.

And I would say 80, 80% of the tour guys I've talked to, both PGA tour, DP World Tour, or corn fairy whatever or you know veterans who who are now retired like eight out of 10 of them have been like oh yeah like that's so fucking out of bounds there like well just to close a loop on this i want to clarify like i i'm i give i think this is a shame like i hate x for a lot of reasons but this being one of them is like i'm a fan of kevin kisner i think he's a great personality i think like i think he has a role in television and i've said this before and i'll say again like I think the lead, part of the reason why I'm critical of this is like, I think it is contrasting at times for him to be the lead analyst of NBC and major championships when like for this reason exactly, I think this probably the lead analyst here should have taken this in a different direction is like my critique there. So I think it's a really big spot for him.

And I don't think that analysis and commentary met the moment here. When you're introducing and bringing this topic to the network television audience that might be like taking it in for the first time, I didn't feel like that met the moment. That's my opinion. I'm sure he's going to have an opinion on this. I would agree with you, Sally. And what I would say is I've never really heard of the walking referee or rules guy is not a soccer referee. They're not out there handing a yellow card.

They're not referees. They're there to like, like, yo, if you need me call for me, that's how it's like. So for a pro golfer to like relate it like that, it's just that didn't make any sense to me. So yeah. He's not a consultant or he's not a, yeah, it's, it's, I think, Solie, The other thing too is like, Kisner saying that he slept in, or he went to bed early last night and missed all this. Yeah. And that's like, yeah, I'm putting that aside even of all that just like try to meet in the middle here of like I, I, I again, I think this is like the example of like why we're critical of him at times, why we're critical of NBC at times like this this felt feels fails to have met the moment in my opinion. But again, I think he has a role in television. Like I think he's got a great personality. I think NBC does not put him in a good position. He don't think to put it. anybody in a good position to succeed with how many people they have in the booth we've covered that

on repeat but that just felt like um i don't know i i i if you can't tell i i don't like me like that that that constant attitude like hey i'm trying to talk about a topic here and the i played on tour you didn't you're not qualified to ever have an opinion on anything is uh is pretty disrespectful so to be fair he also takes his analysis in that direction like often as well like some of the stuff that he says and taking the player's side and stuff. DJ, I thought you said a great thing earlier today when it was Tariko and Kurt Byrum early on. And it was like, wait, like, how fucked up is this that we're going from

Toriko and Byron does a great job into like, we're taking them off screen so that we can bring in the quote unquote A team. I don't know how the A team doesn't include the guy who has done this for so long, but also does the Olympics and also does Sunday night. ball. Gannon, too. Like, there's Gannon and Hicks there. Yeah.

It's just a, it's a very weird. We're going to replace them in the aggregate, Sallie. Yeah, I guess. With numbers. I don't know.

Can we, I do want to talk a little bit before we get to the Rory stuff and some of the commentary. I thought Bryce had a really gritty round. He's, he spotted early, but man, he made so many big parputs, except for 18.

You know, his getting out of jail on 14 was really impressive from that bunker. Um, so, you know, just credit to him because he shot on 15 was incredible. Yeah. I, and he is hitting. It's so funny because he's like really mechanical. And I think, you know, I said like his driver's setup looks like a hydraulic arm on a trash truck. Like, you know, he's like lifting up, you know, and, but then he hits like some really artistic stuff too.

Like he's hitting some cuts. He's shaping the ball. You know, but then, yeah, like, so it's, it's like, God, he's all, it's, it's, uh, it's, it is magnetic to watch and I was really impressed with he got off to a bad start and I I kind of felt like he was going to fold a little bit and he didn't he he he showed a ton of grit on the back nine he totally agree until 18 really he like he hasn't had that big left ball going that we've seen from him when he gets into contention to majors lately of like that ball he can't keep off the left whatever adjustments he's made equipment wise which we know he the crank driver and the cranks back so whatever like it's been a good adjustment for him just and he can't stay there's him driver out there. Solly, I would actually say, I think on 18, he lost his focus. He started playing to the crowd, started, you know, kind of, I don't say mocking the rules official, but a little bit of theater there on 18 on the approach.

And then he's, you know, he's walking up 18. He's waving to the crowd. And then he just, yeah, he kind of just hit a bad chip. Like that was, it seemed like he just got a little lost in the, in the performance there. This image it's on the screen right now. Keep in mind, Sam Burns is two shots clear of the field. It's a Saturday. CGI.

walk up the bryson's three back of him bryson goes first and like the applause that they save for like the the guy leading the open and this isn't the Sunday walk but like the guy you get your 54 whole walk you're going to take a lead into the final round of the open chip brison goes first takes the hat off waves at the crowd flashes the thumbs up at him as if it's all for him that would floored me that absolutely rocked me like just content king him doing the tiptoe through the Fescue, doing this. It's very bigger. He's working on his thumbnails optimization here.

You know, we're trying some stuff. He's like Bill Murray and Kingpin is very much what it's starting to, starting to feel like. God, this is finally above the law. Yeah, I'm finally above the law. Let's get to the, let's get to the Rory video. Let's get to Rory. Yeah, let's go for that. So I was watching it live.

I was up in the players line watching. with a few other players and as soon as he made the step into the ball we all sort of looked each up each other and were like that didn't seem right and then when I heard that he was you know he was called in by the rules officials I think we all it was pretty obvious for why yeah I mean I think you know I think there's no doubt that he improved the line of his back swing so you know and again it's like whether it was careless or whether it was intentional it I don't think it matters hopefully it was careless but I think the two-shot penalty was justified for sure what did you think the scenes after obviously you guys were delayed getting your tea

times as well because of it all going on late night for everyone yeah yeah I look I you know I won't pretend to be up here and defend Bryson I'm not particularly fond of him I think a lot of it's performative I think a lot of it's for attention and yeah you know to to to hold the tournament hostage like that and have all of us, volunteers, players, everyone winning on him to depart. I didn't feel like it was a great look. Do you think he would do? Look, he's going to say, like, again, I don't, I'm not in his mind.

I'm not in his, but it didn't look good. A lot in that. Sure of you winning me back. It hits a lot harder when you see the video of it. I don't know it's refreshing to hear someone speak directly like this I'll say that I think you could have your

your issues with Rory and has he been performative sure but like I don't think anything he's saying there is wrong and like if we, Deja, I think you said it earlier if we can't agree that Bryson's not performative then like what I don't know if there's is there any truth left in this world? Yeah, I don't think words mean anything

because we can't all be like And that's, I'm not even saying that's a bad thing. Like, he's, he's tiptoeing through the, like, through the fescue. He's literally performing. He's, yeah, like, he's the guy who makes YouTube videos. He's the guy who did the bacon frying video. He's the guy who wears the stupid hats. He's the guy who he does, like, if we can't agree.

A Nickelodeon golfer. Yeah, if we can't agree. I'm not even saying it pejoratively, but it's like, if we can't agree that he's performative, then it's like, okay, then we can't say the sky is blue. We can't say that up is up, down is down. Like, nobody can agree. grant. Like that's the part that I'm like, you can have all the brainworms you want for like Rory's actually horrible. Uh, but man, he, you can't deny that he's the use of that word is

spot on. I think we need to, I think we need to start there probably. And it really is it, he makes a clear statement on this. And there's one part that's just not necessary of like, yeah, I'm not really fond of him. Like you could have made the point without saying that. I would argue that I love that he did. I think that that's like the, that's my favorite part of it not in some mean-spirited way. It's like, hey, like, he's providing context. He's getting it out there. Like, hey, this is, this is the angle that I'm coming at it from.

I'm not particularly fond of this guy, but, um, but yeah, like this is, this is how I feel. Like you ask me the question and this is, you know, and, and I don't know, he could have, he could have deflected it and said, hey, I'll talk about it on Sunday night, but, you know, he didn't feel like it. And I, I imagine he probably would have if he was T4. But good on him for speaking on it. Contrast that with Scotty, who just refused to speak on it publicly. Which I also didn't have a problem with that.

Yeah, I get it. Was thoughtful about how he said that. He was like, I do have a lot of thoughts. I just don't feel like doing it right now. Like there's, you know. And then actually at the very end of the Scotty clip, a reporter's like, so follow up in a week or two. And I think you're going to, yeah. And then the video cuts off.

Media studies class. but I think once you get to, I think once players see how Scottie handles stuff like that, I just think you're going to see a lot more of that where you see like, oh man, if I do it with grace, I don't really have to talk about anything.

Because I was listening to Scotty. I'm like, I'm fascinated what the number one player in the world has to say about the integrity of the competition and did one of the other players in contention, bend the rules, should they've been penalized, was it fair?

How do you feel about this as a player? I have a million questions about what Scottie feels and thinks about that. but I also have immense sympathy for him being like, hey, I'm trying to win the championship. I'm trying to go win a major. Unsaid here, but basically between the lines is like, if I say something,

it's going to turn into a huge shitstorm, and I just don't really need that distraction. And I'm going to try to focus on making some butts. I'm like, ah, I get that. I don't argue with, man. I get it. But I love that Rory's just like,

fucking bring it, dude. Bring it. I do not care. I do not care about your little egg avatars coming out. I do not care. You're just jealous because he's playing better than you. Which there's this thing going around about Rory hitting the sand on a back swing. Have you guys seen this thing going around?

I have not seen it. I don't think there's... I've seen the chatter. There's a ton of chatter on it. All I can tell is that somebody... This week? Well, so here's what I think happened. As far as I can tell. There's like an AI screenshot, AI summary screenshot going around of Rory hitting the ball,

hitting the sand on a back swing at some point at Birkdale. But if you like find the link, I went search of the video, couldn't find it anywhere. If you go searching in the links for it, it brings up the bunker shot he hit last week at the Scottish Open, where he spun it really hard. And it's like he accidentally hit the sand

and the club bounced off the sand and it nipped it perfectly. And it spun really hard. But like AI is taking that and blending it with like, yes, he accidentally hit the sand and making it about the back swing. And every, the bots are screenshot of the AI thing around saying that, you know, the RNA is burying the Rory thing and and penalizing Bryson, which look, if there is video, please send it my way. I just have not seen any evidence that he squirt the sand on the way back.

I didn't think the AI deepfakes were going to come for golf rules. Maybe they're not AI deepfakes. Maybe it's just Lady J. And she's leveraging her entire platform with AI. And to the point, it's like I saw, you know, so, well, if this was any, anybody other than Bryson. Like, honestly, I thought about that all last night. I'm like, if it was, I'd feel the same way.

Like, Lowry. Like, yes. Yeah, last year, Lowry. Yeah, it's like, dude, the ball move. Sorry, that sucks. But like, that's a stroke. Cam Young and Cadillac. Like, ball move, man, sorry.

I hit somebody up on next for that too. He's like, hey, he's like, if this was Rory, you'd be, you'd forgive it. It's like, hey, if Rory does this, does this, does this clearly threatens not to play, goes and hits balls performatively into the dark. for an hour after the round, threatening not to play, won't confirm. As of last night, holds up the entire field getting tea time because he won't confirm if he's going to continue the champion. When Rory does that, we will call him out.

Believe me. When he peeled out of the parking lot. Yeah. It's like, oh, you got him up for 18 months. Yeah. You guys, what's your problem? He just, because you lost your phone number. You guys don't like, yeah, you guys are so greats, man.

But it's fucking ass. Sorry, that's disgusting. I still don't understand how Wyndham. stepping directly behind his ball at the US Open was different. But we can't take that offline. No, you can't sprinkle that in there and take that offline. One is extremely conclusive evidence of down the line. We're watching the grass bend backwards from Bryson.

Yeah, for two different directions. Totally. Yeah. The wind of thing is if there's not multiple angles that show like that level of improving the backs. First of all, it's not like waist high for Wyndham like it is for Bryson. And it like, it was just such a. weird thing. It was like directly on it. And I'm not certain. It's uncomfortable, but I agree with solid here. Like, I don't think you're wrong to be like, ah, you know, it's uncomfortable, but it's like there

was, I don't think there was enough evidence with Bryson. And some of it is, I hate to say this, but it's like, well, now we need cameras everywhere. It's like, well, some of it's like, yo, if you're like, if cameras are on you, like, heavy is the crown, baby. And like, that's, you can't just not enforce the rules. Right. Because some people might be getting away with it. Like, that doesn't work for me either. I totally agree. agree on that front. Like the, you know, some guys have the camera on them more often. Cool. Like that, that means the best players and like they've, they've earned the most consequential shots. Yeah. For the competition. So like sometimes a penalty doesn't matter

if you're four off the cut line. Like it just doesn't. Like we, we're not, we're not like saying it's okay to cheat if you get four off the cut line. I'm saying, but it's just like part of, it's part of the nature of the game is like if we are going to, if there's going to be evidence out there of you clearly breaking a rule, then they're, you're going to get penalty. for it, right? And yes, is it a little unfair, but also, like, that's there almost to protect you. Like, otherwise, you broke a rule and just got away with it. Like, what, what's the goal of that? Like, that's, that's, that's, that's not honest. That's like, it's a tree fall in the forest thing. Like, I was wondering this this morning. Like, Bryson was so, you know, he was like, he was not

stepping gingerly, right? Some of it is just like effort. Like, it's a little bit of editing, of like, are you, it's a little bit of acting, you know, where are you like performance? Yeah. Are you making an effort to like, I'm stepping over here. You don't, you know, like some of this does come down to that. And I, you know, you look at the clip of him. You're like, man, that's just like, you're just, I don't know if you're just not thinking, man, but you can't do it like that.

Like, that's not how it works. At, in that exact spot, at minimum, Bryson has to show care around the life. Yeah, like that's what I'm getting at, Holly. That is the most damning. part of it is like you can you can dispute whether or not it laid down the grass enough to affect his back swing like i i think that is a fair thing to dispute that we don't have like indisputable evidence on that but you cannot dispute that he was not careful enough he brought this into question to the point where people thought that like the rules officials thought there

was a violation and they are also a game of honor like if if if if it's hey you know what man there's a chance that that that that did affect it cool i'm going to accept the penalty Like that's the thing like it's been so flipped on its head as a sport of it's on everyone else to prove that that I did something wrong instead of Making best efforts to play by the rules and and go out of your way to appear as though you are playing by the rules Man I also just I go back to you know this is an internet social media Larger cultural thing probably but the the amount of I got so many texts today that we're like I don't know man that doesn't look that different from like what I do on the course, it's like, well, you probably don't know the rules as well as the guys that are the guys that are enforcing it. And that's kind of how I feel too. And this is why I turn into

such an imposter with where did it cross Twitter? Where was there? I'm just like, yo, I shouldn't be making this call. I don't know. I don't know. But like the guy, there were six or seven rules officials whose job it is, who the last fucking thing they want to do is bring the shitstorm onto themselves like they don't want to give that penalty they're not just like licking their chops looking for a way to get to insert themselves into this but guys that literally write the rules for most people on planet earth at enforcing the way the rules are written and what is and what isn't and it's just when you get people on twitter just like i don't know man agree to disagree how's he supposed to line up his ball it's like well well dog like you're not technically you're you're not guaranteed

to just have like a fucking runway to your ball to do your pre-shot routine if you hit in the middle of a tree. Like, that's not how it, you don't, you don't get to chop the tree down so that you can do your, your whole pre-shot. That's not how it works. You might have changed it. Those texts too. And it's like, yo, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's come from, you know, friends, it's like, the, whatever ball you found in the woods, you can't do that either. You know, right? You guys do that was a rule like, you know, there's a one ball rule that you don't even know. Like, it's, it's, it's, it might be, like, to max's point, because he, he had some takes as well. I think he's, what I interpreted with Max, which I disagreed with is like the rule he doesn't it seemed like he disagreed with the rule itself like oh it's for like the junior golfer that's like that there was intent involved and it's like the fact is the intent doesn't matter here you know.

Which again they've made abundantly clear. Yeah. And I think gave him an out on like this was he there was no malicious intent here. This was an accidental improvement of the lie which this is the same is pulling your club back and knocking leaves off or whatever. You know, it's like you're doing that on purpose. But that's still still the rule. Which a couple of things there. Mark Darwin. CEO of RNA today said it's a clear cut decision that's one two we didn't talk about this last night but like the language the RNA came out with of like they said inadvertently was kind of like that that theorizing here that had to be what was under like the what was under such discussion late into the night last night had to be around what the statement's going to be because like he honestly that i understand from bryson's standpoint of like this is a shitstorm for me and uh the last thing i need is being perceived as a cheater here and like getting that language into it was probably a foul golf thing, I would imagine.

And that probably was a lot of the holdup and a lot of the, you know, whatever Rasmataz, what's the word of them I'm looking for around the whole thing? Hola blue. Shit show. Hala blue. I would say also though, Rory had just a little bit of like a, I'm going to get the exact words. He said, hopefully it was careless in there was very, was the most beautiful way to suggest. It might not have been.

not saying that it was intentional, but hopefully it was careful. I'm not in his head. You know, I can't say, I can't say. I mean, yeah, good, man. Like, let's get a little, let's get a little action in here, Dej, huh? That's right. Turn it out. Rory, turn out that Pavradi for me, baby.

Good stuff. If you're going to be, so when we went, you were actually over in those right tree of the, in that dunk when we played there at Burntdale. Like, it can be, it can be. get around your ankles, but like you're going to be pretty heavily protected if you wait in there and you're wearing the, uh, Delta Luper pants. Uh, I believe the Delta, the Delta pants. Uh, I like to just go, we've been doing this lately. I want to go around the horn. Everybody quickly shout out one product you're viking with from

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Why not? T.H. I feel like trying to get your hands on the physical score card for no reason. That's essential stuff and not performative. Oh, God. This guy just had a horrible comment too. Yeah. Yeah, this guy sucks, but I think, no, we got to give it to them.

We got to play by the rules. Beaver. You've had a lot of bad takes in the chat. I've been following them, but we're not going to, we're not going to, we can't stack the deck that way, Cody. Yeah, that would be a bit back. We're met of honor here. This is fair and balance. I understand.

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Now I'm looking for the comment. What did he say? Yeah, what did you say? Something about us being Pussies and just not admitting something. And it's just, I don't know, yeah.

It lived up. A lot of big strong, man. Yeah. A lot of outrageous Twitter bios coming at us today. Yeah, exactly. Real quick, I think we kind of lost over it.

Because I think the most impressive shot I saw all day was Foxy from the bunker on 18. Oh. Pushing his chips in. man. Falsy. It was awesome. It was awesome.

Yeah. I mean, it cleared the, I don't even, it didn't even clear the lip. It, like, grazed the lip as it, as it came out. I mean, it was just awesome stuff. I loved, it shouldn't be an upset because everybody keeps telling us, like, trust me, like, Xander's funny. Zander's cool. Zander's laid back.

He's like, I know, people love Zander. But just him and Foxy being, like, best friends was just, it was delightful to watch. I loved watching them kind of ham it up together. And clearly had a great. time. It was, it was lovely. The blowby's on. Viola counts. Blas there.

Fial accounts, Foxy is the greatest bloke to ever walk the planet. I mean, he's the blokees to the blokes. He's got that, that suburban dad garage gym look going. Just just guys solid, man.

Super solid. A little bit of a gut, but super solid in the shoulders and the arms. He does sport. We do have whole locations. I'm not sure if this will quite show up. Have you any fun pairings tomorrow? But we can look at that as well. But back right,

whole location on seven like we were expecting in that new part of that green. That's the whole location we played. We can confirm that is indeed a gnarly one. Looks like back middle on 17. Front right, big time front right on 16. That one's hidden in there. Also all the way on the right on 14.

It's an interesting one. All the way back right on 11. as well. Not another other two crates. Right on four will be interesting. I'm back right on five. Back to today, I thought the pin on 12 was so good, back right. And McGinley was in the booth.

He said, come on, join the squad. He's doing a great job, but he was calling out like, this a no-go, it's a sucker pin. Can't go at this pin. And, you know, I thought that was a turning point. I bring it up because I thought it was a turning point in Bryson's round. He dumped it in that front bunker, that front run. right bucker and he got that up and down and i feel like that gave him a ton of moe um heading

heading towards the end of the round i know this is not possible because he does sky stuff he's like the busiest man ever but well i'm just voicing what i would like to see terrico and mcginley 15 hours a day i that's all that's all it's all needs to be that's right a bunch of on-course reporters with bones on course yeah john wood on on course sure yeah smile too i think i think that going down yeah anyway we've we've we've talked about that we can get to that tomorrow to your point 12th today um five total birdies uh and only one in the afternoon um on 12 on 12 to that right whole location yeah two guys we haven't talked about i mean we haven't really gone down the board we maybe we do this when we're doing tea times um meal you're you're you're see who kim distressed that play i know

i'm happy happy with that selection uh you want to talk me it's a lot of golf shots from but grade 67 today. Can you talk me through that? Talk me through that decision a little bit. I mean, just a guy that perhaps no bigger no-show in the history of major championships among players that have been just like world-class players.

And what made you bite this week? I mean, we're all, when we're doing the draft stuff, we're all looking at the same sheet. And it's just like, it's either him or I go way, way down the board and, you know, like pick Joaquin Neiman, if I'm Randy. You know, it's like, no, I'll just take the guy that's had a great season.

I know he's had no show, but you got to think that's going to, at some point, he's going to show up because he's getting a lot of look. He's getting a lot of reps, and he has a lot of good finishes on, you know, normal PJ tour stops. 68, 67, 67. Kind of that, you know, mix of playing styles we're talking about coming in, too. When the golf course is super firm, guy who doesn't have, you know, doesn't bomb it, can, I contend in a different way. So, congratulations.

I'd say, biggest massive disappointment with Cam. Cam Young, I fooled me. I'm going to lose some nuggies on that one. I was feeling real bullish. He looked great on the front nine. He looked like between him and Burns, I felt like both of them, every time they cut to the two of them,

they look so solid. It looked really easy. And then he just started driving it kind of erratically. I think he bogeed 11 and 12. And then it just kind of got dropped from coverage from there. And it just was not a good day for Cam Young. The guy that I, like, we didn't really talk to him. I think he's a pretty serious dark horse contender tomorrow is Ryan Gerard.

He really didn't have it going today. He was won over through three, one over through 12, and then birdie's the 13th. One of the best birdies of the day. You know, he laid back off the tee. He had like 220 in, made a 20, 25 footer. Bertie's 14 and, you know, kind of salvages the 69, and he's sitting there at 7 under three back. And, yeah, he's like, I just don't get the sense that Grand Jard's scared the moment. Like, I think, I don't know, I have confidence in him to rise to the occasion.

I agree. I feel like this was his stuck in neutral round, you know. And like you said, he clearly didn't have it going, couldn't get forward momentum, but stayed in it, didn't shoot himself out of it, which would have been very easy to do playing the open for the first time in his career. Like, it would have been easy for this one to get off the rails and instead fought back and got it in red numbers. Great Iron player. I think it'll

I mean Super active similar boat here Doesn't feel Looks pretty comfy out there Like heads up Who I know Gerard's got

You know at 7 under Super's at 6 under But Who do you think Which side of that you take you Neil? I'm taking Subaru I'm just taking

Gerard I'm just taking Gerard As well Gerard in the Liverpool Area He's done it Hard to be it's made the impossible possible.

It's a short corner. The odds as of now per fan duel, Sam Burns is plus 125, Siwu plus 500, Ryan Fox plus 750, Ryan Gerard plus 1,300. What a top four that is. Only major champion,

only major champion on, I believe in the top 10 right now, Bryson DeShambo plus 1,500. Ludwig is 1,600, Lucas Herbert is plus 2,000. Tommy Fleetwood plus 2,200, and Scotty, 2,700. Super is plus

3,500. Officially, Super got the detective named on his Wikipedia page and got a shout out on the world feed today. Huge. I did. Congratulations. Congratulations to the whole law enforcement community out of that way. How about

Herbert shot into 17? I thought that was legitimately like I thought that was like a golf ball being hit from another hole or so. I was like, clearly it was his ball. There's no way his ball ended up there. What a shot. man. Talk about another guy. Like, I know he's been a pro for a long time.

He's played a lot of golf tournaments, but didn't let it get away from him today when it started to get squirly. I mean, he's still within shouting distance. Again, kind of backing up what seemed like a very just heavy for him, 62 yesterday. Like, I think the, I think he grasped everything that went into that 62 and it would have been easy to kind of lay an egg. And, you know, one over is not ideal on this golf course, but could have been three over, could have been four over. could have been like not going to see him again but still has a good fight and chance tomorrow tc anything on ludwig three under today kind of snuck in there he woke up yeah i mean the putter's

been just atrocious all week and um most of the week i think you know especially Thursday pretty clean car bogeed the first and then yeah no i mean the ball striking's there it's been he's just exhausting himself trying to get the ball in the hole in the hole I think. So we'll see. I mean, if there's a guy that can go just fire at pins and kind of black out tomorrow, I'd say Ludvigs is qualified to do that as anybody. DJ, any comment from you on Rasmus near guard Peterson sitting at T.9?

We're monitoring this. I think for those just joining the program, T.C. and I have a lifelong bet. First Rasmus to win a major. I have Rasmus Hoygard. He has all other Rasmus's present and future. And so this is, you know, we haven't had one knocking on the door for a little while. So we'll be. We have a DefCon 2 here.

Yeah, we'll be monitoring it. I'm not super worried. He did have a nice finish today. But I'll monitor it at TC. You can hedge it if you want. He's 100 to 1 to win if you wanted to sprinkle a little something on that. Tea times for tomorrow. Last pairing out Ryan Fox and Sam Burns.

2.10 is Ryan Gerard and Siwu Kim. 2 o'clock Ludwig Oberg and Lucas Herbert. Herbert, 150 Jackson, Super, Bryson, Deschambo. Tommy and Rasmus, Deergar, Peterson will be at 140. Eric Coles, Andrew Shoffley, at 130, Hedekke, Kazuma Kabori. Sneaky, great little spot for Kazuma Kabori there at 4 under par. Cameron, John, I'm not going to lie that is the first time I've ever heard that name, not just, I did not realize he was 4 under par in this tournament.

There was one point in the tournament, Cam Smith, Cameron John, Jordan, Smith and Jordan Spieth were all like in the same area and it's just really playing with my brain rom and lowry we'd be playing together uh but hose Luis bias bias is playing with scotty sheffler tomorrow max homa had a nice day today he's at three under par he'll be with alex smally tomorrow um cam young and big shot bob mackintyer playing together at 12 o5 uh jordan smith will be with rory mackleroy a little disappointing uh kind of continue tournament here for Colin Moracow after a really good start. He's at 2 under.

He'll be 1120 with Francesco Molinari. Who would be, who's your guys' ideal kind of storyline tomorrow? What's your preferred, your preferred outcome if you had one? And let's say maybe we keep it five under or better. Not like Rory shoots 56. I feel like you almost got to take. Can we keep this? Yeah, can we do the second?

Can we do our second favorite? Everybody's on the same page. It's Tommy, right? That's the best thing that can happen. What's, yeah, what's after that? Neil, I'll throw it to you first. Burns holds off a charging Bryson by one stroke. And then we get all the discourse around how Bryson should have won.

That's best case. You don't want that. No, I think that's sick. I want that. It's good for ratings. I think it's, it's, I want that. Yeah. Because I, yeah, I would like to see Sam Burns get done tomorrow.

I think I'm in the same boat. Yeah, I think I'm rooting for it. If you're eliminating like a great final round 62 from like Scotty or Cam Young or, you know, Bryson would that be super interesting if you did something like that. Rom doing that like would be a really interesting final round. Then yeah, I want I want burn to get one. I think Jackson's super winning to his first time like ever playing links golf would also be just a, you know, not quite a Ben Curtis level wrinkle.

But like that maybe because he kind of looks like Ben Curtis. the first thing that popped into my head. Yeah. Listen, Ben Curtis, people think that's a slight. Ben Curtis had a nice career. He did, but at that moment,

I think he was 3.96 in the world. He's from Oster and Ohio. Like, we knew Ben Curtis in Ohio. And like that, that was a transformative, sporting event in my childhood of, like,

somebody, a massive, massive long shot can win the game's oldest championship. And like, that would, like, it illustrated the beauty of this championship is, that'd be really,

cool if super did it i mean it wouldn't be like ratings galore and and probably the most popular story in the world but uh that that's when i'm i'm certainly monitoring um i mean ludd you know setting aside tommy ludwig going nuts would be awesome i think i'm gonna say foxy i think you'd i don't just having a have to say foxy tc having a proper bloke yeah he's he's a dude like having a dude win it but i'd be fine with sam burns i'd be fine with ryan gerard i'd be fun with seawoo like i'm like i'm i'm excited i just hope we get good action tomorrow that's that's what i'm i'm prepared to be entertained tomorrow like i'm there's no storyline that you know other than obviously we'll be rooting for to but there's nothing like there's nothing that uh i'm bound to

in any way like if sam burns blows up yeah okay all right well something else crazy is going to happen like sometimes you go in with like this needs to follow the script or this is going to get really ugly tomorrow's just give me the chaos like i think it uh it's gonna be any wrinkles with the forecast tomorrow, with the weather? Or is it? Looks like stronger wind as of the last official forecast

that was on the media site for the open. It looked like just a little slightly stronger wind in the afternoon than we've seen so far. Again, nothing like crazy dramatic, but I can get you the exact.

Oh, we have that here. There we go. It looks like around 2 o'clock local time, or I guess noon local time, uh, 10 to 10 miles an hour, Gus up to 14, uh,

2 o'clock, uh, out of the northwest, 10 to 15, gusts up to 18. And then by 4 o'clock, uh, 12 to 18,

gusts up to 24, uh, and Gus up to 22, continuing all the way up until 6 o'clock. So that's, that's the strongest we've seen. Um, and,

and, and we've seen with Burkdale, like it doesn't need a ton of wind for it to have an effect. So, um, again, if I'm one of those, water off.

one of those early guys man like it's it could still be a low number out there in the morning i and i i think if that happens i would recommend any of you listening or watching i get really upset about it like i would let that ruin my sunday morning if i wake up and somebody is really deep in the red like i would just get super yeah he's not on the show tonight worked up about it i think that's a really good use of your energy i i dig that vibe it's really fun I waste my energy on far more trivial matters. Really? What?

How much water they're applying to the greens is moving? T.C. Foxy's never had a top 10 at a major. I think I might be rooting for it tomorrow. It would be awesome. It would be sick. Then Salo even shambles tomorrow night. There is something cool about like we say this all the time, but we've been on such a run of just heavyweights,

winning majors that it's like 20 26 remember like Aaron Ryan Foxy won those two majors like that's it's a cool blip in uh in the history of our sport. Yeah, I don't know. That would be fun too. A lot of bad options tomorrow. Weird major year. We do have some set up notes for tomorrow. They will be moving to an up tee on four with the front left hole location on that part three. It'll be playing 183 yards. They'll be returning to the championship tee on the seventh hole playing 154 yards to that back right hole location. 15 will be playing back as well. This will be stretched out to the full 241 yards

to the back left hole location. So we saw back to the up pin on 15, but they'll be going back all the way to the back with the northwest wind. Do I have that right? It'll be off the left. Yeah. That'll be a tough hole tomorrow.

I think that will definitely play as one of the more challenging ones. I feel like Foxy already feels like he won this week because the all blacks beat Ireland this morning and he came out on the right side of that bet everything else is gravy. I can't believe I forgot this in first blush when you're doing tea times, but

it was also, that was the playoff in Canada, wasn't it? Sam Burns and Foxy? Buzz. That's right. When Foxy got the plaque put in? I mean, he already, you know. TVC Toronto, TBCBercdale. He's done it before. He's done it before. Yeah. T. See any comment on P?

Yeah, pretty disappointed. Both P. Alex Fitzpatrick just laid a fucking egg today, too. That one stunk. Bud Collie laid an egg today. Just some guys I was expecting more from, but Pee especially. Pea had him right where he wanted him. He bogeyed the first hole, birdie three out of his next four.

And I'm like, all right, we're cooking. He's cooking. Meanwhile, Foxy's doing his thing and, you know, guys are going low. And then, yeah, Pete, just too many bogeys today, man. He had five bogeys today. And just not greasy enough. His putting wasn't good. Lost shots putting.

He wasn't good off the tee. I thought off the tee it was going to be more of an advantage for him this week of like just shaping it and being kind of mediocre. Like it was going to be more of a, you know, hey, this is an iron player's golf course. And like his iron play has been fine. But overall, the putting's been absent. So hate it. We're losing T.C.'s voice with all the screaming, he's done, Tommy. I think we have an update for our leaderboard for this week.

Again, remember all you're trying to do is outrun the bear on this one. You just don't finish fifth. Very interesting. Fifth in our pool. Very interesting. You got to do a get ready with me video. Fifth place currently is big Randy. The only two players make the cut, Scotty and Godder up.

A lot of stock in Scotty. he's around tomorrow's gotter up went backwards today he's in a tie for 50th uh so randy's in 5th jays eking it out into fourth it's a zander versus scottie thing tomorrow that is going to be an interesting match uh to watch for this tc not in the clear he is not in the clear at all randy or me i mean i'm only 60 grand ahead of randy he's got two players i have four players i got p bob bob bob bob uh Alex fitzpatrick and and russell henley I'd rather be one of the guys in the top too, right, Neil? That's right.

Me, I'm at 1.3 mil, Neil at 1.8 with Siwu. Carrying a lot of that, I will say. Yeah, but still, you know. Spot this. Good spot this. Yeah, I don't love where I'm at with basically putting Min Wooley and Scotty and kind of a heads up tomorrow is not. It doesn't make me feel great, but, you know, we're not out of it yet, Cody. we're all right we're still we're fighting another day i honestly thought we were done yesterday so for sure

i thought we're like oh my goodness there's life we're i was already over here i was planning with the girls like they're you know they're gonna help me uh everybody's excited in this house we're you're gonna outsource the get ready with me to cody no no i mean i hadn't been discussed at all i j DJ will do it for sure but i of course am a part of this uh this coalition and i will stand the with him. I threw it out that you can opt out, potentially out of the Get Ready with me video if, but you have to watch the Will Ferrell Golf series and report back to everyone on it. Like you have to watch it in totality and report back. What's it called the Hawk? I don't know what's actually. I think it's called the Hawk. It is a rock. Real quick, I want to give shout out to

somebody who is right around that two over. Usually, you know, when we're talking about people who are too over like, oh, that stinks. This is a rare occasion. Markets. Markets. Plunkett. West Point grad, former transpo officer in the United States Army, first major ever sitting in there, made the cut, going to make a check.

Basically, I'm pretty sure he has zero status anywhere right now, so good on him. I'm kind of a shame that it took us this far to shout it out, but there we go. Thank you, I'm sorry. I kind of missed that story.

Just look, we'll do our this or that audit tomorrow here. I'm just, I'll highlight some of the, some of the worst we've seen of it so far. DJ is the only one that took Min Wu Lee over Joaquin Neiman, compared to everyone else. We did all take Ryan Gerard over Jake Knapp.

Feel good. A lot better about that one. That feels good. Big shot Bob versus the top 10 is certainly one that we'll need to follow into tomorrow as well. What's Bob at? T20. 3-under. Yeah.

Yeah. It's exactly the kind of. Man, the guy's making these lines. the kind of round. He goes out and he pins his ears back and then he has a late bogey trashes the place and then the last. Goes back to Oben.

Should we linger or loiter and then get our winner picks and get out of here? Sure. Yeah. Sam Burns. Loitering. Loitering. Yeah.

Has to be. Keep showing up, man. Ryan Fox. Yeah. was looting this morning. Yeah. Yeah, you know. God, are we concerned at all about the amount of downtime that Foxy's

lingering? Yeah, lingering. I think it's, no, I think Foxy probably had a couple of beers this afternoon. Exactly. To fall off of 62 playing in the final group. I think he's lingering.

Plus, he plays so fast. Like, I don't know if he, I think that could come into play for him tomorrow. I desperately, desperately want him to be loitering. And it's,

it's, I'm going to believe in it. I'm going to believe that he's loitering. I think he's going to make it. interesting tomorrow, but he just, he hasn't before is all I would say. Ever. Lingering. I will say lingering.

Say loitering. Siwu. I want a scar tissue, man. I think he's lingering. I think he's lingering too. I want him to be a bad boy so bad. I do too. I do too.

All these guys. I'm rooting for these guys. But we got to, you know, we got to pick some. Seawoo and Gerard's going to be so vibey tomorrow. two we're gonna see three shots from that group for yeah that might be i take that under yeah t shot on one tapping on 18 yeah i'm playing through uh gerard i'm gonna say loitering yeah i'm with you Herbert i think he's lingering yeah i think the the like i give him credit for keeping it on the rails this afternoon but he uh i think he he used up a lot of energy

Getting it in the house for that 62 on Friday. A few good balance. They could go the opposite way. It could have been a big number. Broken bar one time this week. And it was when the get only time that the getting was good. And that was Friday morning. I'll say,

I'll say loitering just for, for the sake of argument. I'm just trying to engender sympathy from the live bots. For sure. Ripper G. Ripper G. He's, listen,

guys won before. He's one on tour. He's one on the DP World Tour. three or four times. I think he's you know, he knows if he catches the scent, he's done it before. Ludwig. Launching.

I think lingering. I think lingering for just fool me, fool me a couple times. Again, I hope it's not. I hope they all win. But I'm going to say lingering. I'll say loitering. Oh.

Ooh. You're to try to, this is political. You're trying to. He's on my team. He's on my team. Back into good graces. I get to enjoy the heck out of Tommy and Ludwig this week. I'm running them straight to the top.

You're welcome. Thank you. Bryson. Leaping. Lords of leaping. Mining. Performing. Yeah.

Loitering, man. Yeah, definitely. He's got the firepower. Yeah. Leveraging. And the grit. I mean, truly, like kind of didn't. seem to have it today and he manufactured a round to keep himself in it i'd say loitering i don't know

i am going to say lingering i feel like we've we've seen him seen him waiver one under part of day was not that great around i think i think it uh yeah i'm going to say lingering jackson suber or loyering or leaving lingering. Poor bogeys today. I think he's on borrowed time. I need to get a guy like an IV or something like that.

I felt like he's limping in the house coming. God, he's going to have a front row seat tomorrow playing with Bryson. That's an interesting pair. That's a full. That's a full does. That was a weird take. That was a weird take. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know about that one. Welcome to show, brother. Last two, Rasmus Nearguard Peterson. Truly, who could say? Yeah. I'm going to hit lingering here. I hope so. Do you tell me.

Do we need to do Tommy? No one's ever been loitering more than Tommy. I think Tommy could be lurching. Like, doing something very suddenly and then, but not consistently. Are you ready for tomorrow? There's going to be a round lurch. T.C. Are you ready for tomorrow?

night yeah whatever comes comes what may um you always have these memories tc i'm proud of finno i meant for the show i mean what's coming tomorrow night for the show yeah what i'm not allowed to ever pick him again and i have to apologize no i'm like you just you you said talk to me after burkdale and shenicock yeah and we're going to talk okay i'm just i'm just saying and we will talk yeah we will talk tomorrow's the day tomorrow's the day does he have the bottle we're going to feel something tomorrow by that front nine that's that's the only thing i'll guarantee he will he will get off the bus and give us some moments early on yes so that's who he is anything else yeah just another shout out to beaver gladiator oh were you giving another one

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