No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 838 - Friday PGA Championship Live Show

Episode Date: May 18, 2024

What an interesting day in golf. Join us as we break down all the events around Scottie Scheffler and what led up to his 2nd round 66 while Xander Schauffele's 68 finds him atop the leaderboard at -12. We discuss ESPN's excellent reporting throughout the day, run down the leaderboard and more. Presented by High Noon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Be the right club. Be the right club today. Johnny, that's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! the first. Expect anything different. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the no laying up live show presented by high noon. It's may 17th, Friday at the PGA championship, a day that will live in infamy for avid golf fans everywhere. A day that started in the Louisville slammer at 6 0 1 a.m. And ended with the grand slam, grand slam still alive.

We've got a lot to cover tonight. And you've got Neil here running the ones and twos. You've got Tron down at Jack's beach. Tron, what's going on? Yo soy fiesta, Neil. I got the prickly pear tonight. Uh, ready to, I just wish we had more to talk about. Kind of an eventful day.

A big day. Randy calling in from Denver. How are things? Hey guys, I'm mellowing out on guava lane right now. TC, I want you, I want you really taking that prickly pear to heart during this show and in a tail as old as time and anything crazy happens in the golf world. lane right now. T.C., I want you, I want you really taking that prickly pair to heart during this show. And in a tale as old as time, if anything crazy happens in the golf world, Sully has a personal commitment already on the calendar. So he will not be here tonight. It pains him, it pains us, but he had already made plans, which we kind of knew it was going

to happen if something crazy goes down. We will be bringing in KVV a little later to help us break down a few of today's events. But first, let me address our thirst. Yes, the moment everyone's been waiting for is finally here. We talked about it last night. The high noon pool pack is back. So grab a case, text the group and get your friends to the nearest pool. It's only here for the summer. So now's the time to enjoy lime, peach, and two limited edition flavors, guava, like Randy tonight, and kiwi. I've actually got passion fruit.

It's kind of digging into the back of the fridge tonight. I'm not huge on passion fruit. I think I might have to crack open a second one, a mango I have on deck. So- The mango's good. We will get there. I'm sure, you know, it's kind of a

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That's why Sally's not here either. He's busy issuing citations. You know, he's going to leave the block party at the first chance he can, but we're going to bump that down the list. We've still got some golf on the course, but it looks like Xander will take the lead into the weekend or at least to share the lead at minus 12 We've got Colin Moore Kyle with a great round. He's second at minus 11 and saw hit the still out on the course Currently at minus 10. He's having a very volatile round which has been fun to watch But I do want to start with kind of the news of the day that has brought in probably a lot of casual fans

And I want to start off with the you know, just a note of condolence So, you know, there was a fatality of traffic accident this morning. A man named John Mills died, which sucks, like period, point blank. There's a tweet from Terry Miners, local radio host in Louisville, quote, John Mills was killed earlier today heading into Valhalla to work at the PGA championship. Mr. Mills' family released this photo to the media, which we have on screen now, noting he was enjoying his time at Valhalla while working security. He liked to stay busy in retirement and we'd love him and we will miss him. And I saw this earlier and it just, you know, kind of, it's tough, man.

I feel really bad for his family. I feel like it's just a tough way to kick off, you know, a big week, a big day in golf. And it kind of just kicked off this series of wild events, probably the craziest day I can remember in pro golf. So I want to take us through a quick timeline just to get everybody on the same page. I want to try to summarize this as quickly as possible and then go to you, Tron and you, Randy, for some commentary. But because of this fatality, tee times were delayed for over an hour at 6 AM or just about Scotty Scheffler was seems like he pulled out of traffic, a massive traffic jam at the entrance to Valhalla, tried to jump the curb.

They kept saying median, but it looks like it was the curb to the entrance of the club to get into the entrance. It sounds like he drove by a police officer that was trying to stop him. He was wearing a yellow rain jacket. Then the police officer quote attached himself to the courtesy car. I kept hearing that term attached himself. So we went to dig into that. Uh, it sounds like Scheffler drove 10, 20 yards into the entrance of Valhalla.

He then pulled over, uh, and it sounds like the, uh, police officer pulled him out of the car, handcuffed him and he was taken to jail. Uh, then by chance ES ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington was in traffic right behind Scheffler or nearby and he provides firsthand footage of Scheffler being put in the back of a police cruiser. Scheffler even turns to him as he's being cuffed and asks Jeff Darlington, can you help me? Which was just, the first video I saw today was this kind of firsthand account, not from a bystander, but by an ESPN reporter. So dig into that.

By 728, Shuffler's process and booked at the jail. His mugshot is taken with an orange jumpsuit or orange prison shirt on. He has a sandwich with the cops, watches himself on get up, which is on TV in the jailhouse, and he begins his stretching routine in his cell. sandwich with the cops, watches himself on get up, which is on TV in the jailhouse, and he begins his stretching routine in his cell. It sounds like he was released around 834 AM, escorted back to the clubhouse by Jimmy Kirchdorfer Jr., a co-owner of Valhalla. He arrives at 928 AM in street clothes, has time for a quick warmup before he tees off,

I think just after 10 a.m. And then a police report comes out mid morning. It states that the detective directing traffic at Gate 1 was admitted to the hospital with pain, swelling, and abrasions to his left wrist and knee, and his $80 uniform pants were damaged beyond repair. And then Scotty Scheffler goes on to birdie his first hole

and shoot five under 66. He's currently nine under and tied for, I think tied for fourth place. Well, that might change a little bit with golf still going on heading into the weekend. All right. Sorry, that was a mouthful. Did I miss anything? And if not, what is the most outrageous part of this situation? TC, let's go to you. TBD on if Scotty got his sandwich served Scotty style. I thought when Scotty got back on site, Ricky being the first one to say hello to him on the putty greens. I've left that one out, TC. Thank you. It's pretty on the nose. I don't know, I slept in this morning and I woke up to just loads of messages and our slack was melting and all that. It was like when Tiger hit the fire hydrant.

And, you know, and then seeing it, seeing Scotty, hamming it up with, with some of the, some of the police officers, working security after his round was just like, what a surreal day. I haven't really wrapped my head around it. I definitely don't think Scotty has like his, his post-round presser was surreal. I thought it was electric. I mean, he started off saying like, you guys aren't going to get what you want. I can't talk about it. And then he goes on to give just, I mean, half of the details I just mentioned came directly from him. I mean, I thought that was a fantastic press conference, uh, I mean, half of the details I just mentioned came directly from him. I mean, I thought that was a fantastic press conference.

Uh, which yeah, the police report, we can talk to KVV about that, but you know, the Louisville police don't have a great reputation. I'll, I'll put that mildly there. Uh, you know, we can, we'll talk about all the logistics of this later on. Like we've heard a lot of things this week about just like how poorly executed this event has been. Uh, so we'll get all there, but I think bottom line, like props to Scotty for putting it all to the side and going out and pulling golf, playing ball.

100% Randy, what do you got? Yeah, I just don't think that can be overstated. The guy was arrested and then went out almost immediately and shot 66 in a major championship. Like it just, it boggles the mind and I think what really drives that home going back to Scotty's presser, you know, talking about, I listen, I've never been arrested. So I don't know that- I have once, Randy. I got arrested. I think you were with Randy, weren't you? We were at a bar together.

Yeah. I was wearing a Deon Sanders jersey like five days before my 21st birthday. Cops roll. But him just talking about the adrenaline and fear and you just kind of move out of your body and it's, and when he was in the jail cell, like talking about trying to lower his heart rate and getting it to a point where he could then like

begin stretching and warming up for this round of golf, like it really, like I don't think this one's going to set in for me for a while, right? There's no chance this is really set in for Scotty. It truly is unbelievable. I think that that word, I use it a lot. It's probably way overused, but like this fits in my opinion. Like what an unbelievable sequence of events. Not just like getting arrested, like four counts of phony. Yeah. Like the orange jumpsuit, the mugshot. Yeah, I know. Oh my God. It's wild.

The orange jumpsuit, it sounds like a lot of mugshots get taken in street clothes. I don't know if we didn't want to get the sponsor in there, but the fact that the orange jumpsuit was all we had, but then he comes back to the course in street clothes. I mean, there's just a lot of little nuances to this. Another thing I got out as a professor, Scotty, big routine guy, love my routine.

As he said, I thought that was funny. So he's like, yeah, I just started my routine in the jail cell. So he's kind of activating the thoracic spine in there. I mean, just a lot of like crazy things to visualize as a golf fan of like, is this really happening? And the other thing I can't get over is how this crazy stuff all seems to happen during PGA championships. I mean, you go back to, I guess, 20, was it 2021? Mickelson wins over 50 years old. You get Mickelson as a

winner. Then we get Blocky, like alley-ooping it, you know, playing with Rory, just absolutely outrageous scenes last year. And now this, it's like, it seems to always be PGA week. And I can't really figure out why. I mean, Scotty won the PIP this week, right? Has to. Then you got his local Louisville attorney who's- Oh my God. I forgot about... What is it? Bovines? I have to dig that up. T.C., can you dig that up for me?

Yeah. Uh, I, uh, I don't know. It was, it's just, yeah. What a weird day. I went from Scotty's press conference. I am, I hope this is true. Right. I'd be very proud of them.

Assuming it is true that he never once, you know, went with, uh, do you know who I am, you know, wasn't, wasn't like name dropping and, and trying to make a big deal out of who he was, which is admirable. Um, Cody, was this a, uh, a very Dallas move of him going around a barricade or, you know, going, going off to the side? I've heard that that's, that's a very Dallas move. going off to the side. I've heard that that's a very Dallas move. No, I don't know. Dallas move.

The Dallas move would have been his car would have lit on fire on the side of the road. But honestly, TC, I appreciate you calling me into the show. Randy, I am kind of there with you on the thoughts and feelings. The number one thing that I think back to here from personal experience, not of I've been detained quite a few times, like five different times, which is you can catch that stories later on the trap drop. But this is one of those things where like when you're a high performing athlete in his example,

and like you live and die by your routine, like that is your comfort space. And I used to have a job where my every single day was about my routine and it didn't really matter what phone calls or other news or anything is like when your pager goes off, you just kind of can walk back in and go into your your comfort zone and be able to turn it on. And I honestly will probably say that as crazy of a day today was for Scotty Scheffler, tomorrow is going to be like worse than today was for him because he's not gonna have Ted Scott there.

And that is gonna throw his routine off more than anything today was. And I know that sounds crazy and you're like, how does that make any sense? But that's just kinda how these things work. And to Scotty, like, I, how does that make any sense? But that's just kind of how these things work. And to Scotty, like, I think there's a, obviously he's imprint, he was booked, right? He was charged with things, but at the end of the day,

he like knows in his heart of hearts, he's like, I followed the instructions of whoever it was, police, guard, who knows? I don't think Scotty still really knows because everybody's out there at 5 30 in the morning in the same exact reflective jacket that he followed the guidance that was given to him and somebody else that wasn't relayed to and they decided to arrest him and I think he knows like deep down that he's like I didn't do anything wrong here so of course I'm gonna go do

this I'm gonna follow the rules I'm gonna get re do this. I'm going to follow the rules. I'm going to get released for it. And then we'll figure this out on Tuesday at 9 a.m. or whatever it is. Cote, you're always banging on the courtesy cars. This is maybe an instance where having a courtesy car was a good thing, right? Yeah, you would say you think so, right? I mean, honestly, this sounds like just a, it's kind of everything that we hear about, like these big events and the courtesy cars are just like a small little example of security and everything that goes on at like these major sporting events. Usually it's because like I'm worried about like these multi multi millionaires, some of them billionaires driving around and Mark cars and like being mugged and something bad happening to them. But on this occasion, it's like just a complete breakdown of all tournament operations as a whole. And I know we're going to get to that later. But this is just a prime example of it. And I think

when we bring KVV in and you talk a little bit of like the comments that Will Zellotorres made, like there's a little bit of fact there. Like, you know, somebody died this morning and that really sucks. Yeah. That not only sucks for like him and his family, obviously, but like this tournament, the the organized the local organizers who have been there like blood sweat and tears trying to get everything ready. The people of Louisville, the people of Kentucky. And it just seemed like, oh shit, like, we got to get this thing like on the air. Let's get it going. We can't get this thing, you know, heaven forbid play goes into Monday.

And that was the first thought there. Anyway, you got a lot, Neil. I don't want to jack. No, it's okay. One thing I want to add to that though, is I, I felt real like for about an hour this morning, um, you know, before he was released, I guess at eight 34, I was up at six and so from like six to eight 30 was like, Oh my God, Scotty is going to have to withdraw. He's going to get DQ and like, this is going to be why he doesn't

get a chance to win the grand slam. Like that's truly was like, Oh, that's that's first off that sucks. Second off, like, I mean, what, like what is going on? And then the rule starts coming out that like extenuating circumstances. So then you're like, Oh my God, are they going to bump his tee time back? So there was just a, a, probably a 90 minute timeframe there where everything was just up in the air and it was incredible that there was a ESPN, your Jeff Darrington from ESPN, one of their main reporters was just like on the

scene and had like pretty much the first information I saw was directly from like somebody that could handle that information. It I saw was directly from like somebody that could handle that information. It wasn't coming in from like user generated content. So I thought that was really interesting and something I want to get to. It wasn't coming in from Marty Smith either. That's for sure. Yeah. There you go. But I do want to get to a question from Nick Anderson, MS Today on Twitter. He said, today has been a top five golf Twitter day, tremendous content all day. Where do you rank it? What are the other quote, best Twitter days or best X days in your opinion?

Tron, do you agree with that? Tron We do. One second before we get to Tron here, because I made this sick graphic and we kind of blew past the agenda for today. All right. But there's people killing us in the comments right now that they're gotten Scotty fatigue. I promise you, we're not going to spend this entire show talking about Scotty Shuffler. What happened to him this morning in the incredible round yet we're actually going to get to stuff. And Randy again, I apologize for your your face job yesterday. So I went with NG shoe. But we're eventually going to get there. But guys, Twitter on fire today. I look like Voldemort in that picture. Like I don't have any nostrils. I look like Ralph

Fiennes from the movie, from Voldemort. Unbelievable. Cody, you owe me no apology for yesterday. It was fantastic. Thank you. All right. So would you guys agree with that top five best Twitter day? Like where would you rank it, T.C.? Yeah. I mean, it felt like the old days, right? It felt like the good old days. It felt like the 2014 PGA championship not the 2024 PGA championship. It was it was it was fun. It was light. It was it was You know Cody, let's roll a few in Blowing I mean, you know, we got Johnson Wagner here. I don't know what he's doing on live from tonight

I don't know if he's he's down at the jailhouse. I don't know if he's exploring the back of a police cruiser. I don't know if he's out analyzing the curb, but I got a feeling he's out there. So this is this is good stuff. I mean, just the police report coming out and being able to analyze like that, we're going to talk to KVV a little bit about that, but the approximate value of Detective Gillis's pants being at $80, of course, you know, whispering in W's ear here trying to visualize this for the podcast listeners. It says, uniform pants valued at approximately $80 were damaged beyond repair with the picture

of George W. Bush hearing about the planes going into the world trade center. We've got a picture of Phil, Phil Mickelson here on the phone with the caption 9-1-1. What's your emergency? Hi, there's a car in front of me. Guys driving real crazy, maybe 6-3-1-70 new father vibes. Blue lives matter. Okay we're moving quick here. We've got a Moneyball meme here.

We've got, guys you're still trying to replace Tiger. I'm telling you we can't do it, but we can recreate him in the aggregate. So we've got Rory getting divorced and Scotty getting arrested in the same week with a picture of Brad Pitt from Moneyball. So just some all time content. TC, do you have anything that stood out? Just people going high together. Yeah. Like this whole morning, Golf Channel, which Sali has said, can we just start calling the channel instead of Golf Channel?

Because it's like the overflow Golf Channel or whatever. They're just stuck on reruns from yesterday. They're not even doing anything. So Sam uh, you know, Sam flood and his, his brilliance keeps, he's, he's leading a really quality operation over there. Uh, Cody, just keep, just keep rolling these memes out, Randy, you got anything you want to call out though? And any, uh, Twitter comments that got you. Well, we're looking at the teardrop picture right now from the tour junkies. Uh, one of my favorites, I'm not sure. I think Cody might have it, but not to put you on

the spot here. You know, after the police, they make a big bust. Usually it's like drug related or weapons. They'll put them all out on the table and they'll stand there behind it. Like, you know, look at what we did today. Somebody photoshopped Scotty's golf bag on the table with the little full Metro police department standing behind it. I thought that was funny.

To bring it into golf a little, I saw a tweet that was like, guys, a guy literally got arrested on felony charges and went out and shot 66. Good sign that the setup might be too easy. I appreciated that one. Here it is showing Alan Kenny, Blayton Homerism on Twitter. If you go to jail in the morning and shoot five under that same day, the course is too easy. Amen. Couldn't agree more. T.C. I know you like this one from Tom Martin. I just love the picture that he chose of Nance, a champion in the second degree.

a champion in the second degree. Oh my God. It's, it's, it's good stuff. Um, so the, the, the, you know, we'll, listen, we'll, we'll try to flag some more. We got grand theft auto Valhalla with a picture of the classic video game here. So just way too much content, way too much content today. And you know what else Cody, uh, I think earlier this week, we published some content of you out in California at Omni LaCosta with Cam Young. And it looked like you had a foresight sports quad max launch monitor on the course with you. Did you learn anything about your game as a result of that launch monitor? I learned that Cam Young hits his ball a lot harder

and a lot farther than I do, but it's awesome to be able to get these devices out there Neil and like not only mess around with them But use them on the course and you get obviously instant feedback a couple weeks ago We were in San Diego when we filmed that thing and like just walking around the foresight sports headquarters You see everything that they put together like everything's made in shop in the first floor They're building all the office buildings are on the or the like normal office space is on the second floor and they're just like obsessed with everything precision detail ease of use. It doesn't matter if it's like the bottom end product or anything up to like the big massive like you know big home launch monitors that they have. It's truly an impressive operation and

everybody there just cares about making the best products to help golfers. It was really, really cool. I love it. TC, have you used the Quad Max yet? I have. We used it in Scotland quite a bit, getting our yardages dialed there. I think the craziest part is how it just... You put the ball down and it's just in the, uh, the craziest part is like how it just, like you put the ball down and it's just in the hitting zone and the green light comes on. You can hit it. Like there's no anxiety of like, Oh, is it like, have I set it up correctly? Is it behind the ball? It's like right to the side of there. And it just, it just works. So I love it. If you're looking for immediate feedback on ball speed, carry distance, and a whole lot more. Check out the Foresight Sports Quad Max

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But I figured you guys needed a crime expert might as well bring a high crime. The crime resident did former ESPN man. I know you know, Jeff Darlington from from your days at ESPN. So you know, why did Jeff Darlington just let's start there? Why did he just happen to be there when all this went down? Yeah, so if anybody has covered a golf tournament, who wants to do it right, especially if you're a TV person, you are going to get there at like an

ungodly hour, which means probably leaving your hotel room at 5 a.m. And so I'm sure Jeff was just, you know, thinking I'm going to get set up. Maybe I'll sort of chat with Scottie Scheffler as he kind of rolls into the clubhouse, get a little nugget for getting on, get up this morning. You know, I talked to Shelford this morning, blah, blah, blah. And then just to sort of see this kind of unfold right outside the gates of Valhalla. I think really glad that we had someone like Jeff there, a really good competent reporter who's covered a lot of breaking news, who could sort of deliver in a calm way, all these facts and not get into a sort of, you know, tizzy with the cops, because it's clear that cops were interested in taking no shit from anything or anyone in this whole, you know, as a situation unfolded. It's a small town, KVB. Can't try it.

Okay, don't try it. You know, it's interesting. I think a lot of people don't really grasp, I think. And so if I'm explaining something to you guys, you already know, forgive me. But if you've never been to a major before, like a lot of these majors are essentially at country clubs that are might as well be in neighborhoods, right? They're off, they're down like two lane roads. There's no place to like park 40,000 cars. So there's all kind of buses that are coming in and out. There's different lanes for different people. Every time you know, I go to one you are hopeful that you get like a media parking pass, which might mean that like, might mean if you're lucky, you get to go all

the way up into the clubhouse lot, but it might mean you got to drive, you know, 16 miles around the clubhouse to get into a lot whenever so it's very confusing all the time. And the good majors have like a really good infrastructure, they have people who know what they're doing, people who know where to direct traffic people what's going on. And I can totally understand how I mean, the PGA of America is kind of notorious for not doing this as well as some of the other ones. You might remember the key was owned this fucking course.

You remember the key was stuff where the shuttle buses to the island were taken three hours. How could we forget KVV? How could we ever forget? So, you know, I wasn't surprised honestly, that there was a like, the the fact that we're having a major, right, at a place where there's no traffic that pedestrians can walk on, right? They're like having to walk through people's yards and stuff. I could see how like some terrible incident, like someone getting hit trying to basically cross one thing or another when there's no, you know,

crosswalks, there's no way for them to go. Like we're putting majors, we've kind of always had them in places where 40,000 people are never easily going to go. Like we're putting majors, we've kind of always had them in places where 40,000 people are never easily going to fit. And so it's truly awful that someone, you know, got hit by a bus in this situation. But it's kind of understandable that this kind of was happened because some of the sort of infrastructure issues that you have when you do this kind of thing.

Yeah, I think the it's, it's really interesting that this is the fourth major that they've had here in 30 years, plus a Ryder Cup. And they're having logistics issues like this is the first time they've been there or something. And there's one way in and one way out. And obviously, we're not there, but talking to plenty of people, a couple players text me first thing this morning and say, Hey, like, fortunately, like this wasn't surprising Gabby Gabby

Hurszik from the athletic had heard tweet as well of you know hey like it's been a complete shit show talking to talking to Will's Aura Taurus this morning he told his his uh his parents not to come he said uh Gabby Hurszik said just spoke to Will's Aura Taurus who says he walked two miles to make it to the course this morning with Cam Young and Austin Eckrode. Took them over two hours to make it inside the gates. Was very critical of the set up for the entry this week. Even told his parents on Monday not to come because it was such a mess. Quote, I'm not happy.

I was proven right. So Scotty gets arrested and that becomes a storyline. But like a man died this morning and maybe logistics are to blame for that. I feel like maybe that needs to be a storyline. But like a man died this morning and you know, maybe logistics are to blame for that. I feel like it's been that storyline. Yeah, I mean, like, you know, shuttles for past like like shuttles for fans have been bad water for fans. You know, I was talking to a couple players this morning. They were saying the exact same thing. And I think it's it's a trend with the PGA of America. And I think Beth Page could be like, like, this is a, this is a massive wake up call for them. First thing they got lucky. You TC.

One of the reasons that the owner of the hollow or the co-owner went to go and get Scheffler is because he's embarrassed and he's really upset about how all of this shit is starting to sort of pile up. And he's like, I got to fix this. I got to do whatever I can, because this is a nightmare for me. Which is a bummer too, because the fans, like, it looks like it could be such an electric atmosphere this weekend, right? I mean, the, the, the, I think that if you're going to point to a strength of Valhalla, it's like the, the big ballpark, the, it's almost like

a big backyard concert field where you can get a million people in there and there can be tons of energy. And so the thought that those people like don't have enough water or it's a miserable experience getting in and out, just like kind of pisses me off as somebody that's, that's not there. Like that's frustrating to hear. Do the rider cup could be a nightmare if this is like, you know, a two lane road and you know, only buses can go in and out. I mean, players honestly, like they've got to have a, you know,

a designated lane for them to drive in. If they're going to be driving their own cars in. They're the reason that the event is going on. And that might sound like entitled or privileged, but we don't have a golf tournament if the Scottie Shuffles of the world can't get to the thing. Now, can you make an argument that they should not be

pulling around police officers when there's a tragedy going on? Yeah, but it's also, it's 5.30 in the morning, it's raining, it's dark. Nobody knows exactly what's being sort of said, like, you know, Scottie is rolling down his window trying to understand what's going on as he's sort of cruising by I'm sure you know, he said and one of the things that he a

bunch of other players had already kind of done this I've guaranteed I can almost guarantee what happened is this cop was like, trying to deal with one thing looking up seeing some cars going by getting pissed off about it, turning turning around again and seeing another car go by and being like enough of this shit. Like I'm tired of people not listening to me. And then just like overreacted about it.

Yeah, I think the other thing too, is it seems like talking to some industry people who know who have been attending PGA championships, USGA events, the Masters for decades now. There's this there's a serious brain drain at the PGA of America between layoffs moving from Florida to Texas, people who didn't wanna move from there and just a lot of turmoil and transition there. I'm a big Seth Waugh guy,

but there's stuff that gets lost in transition, right? And it just seems like they're not up to the task of like, these events are getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger because the entire organization is being, you know, floated off of the revenue generated. So I don't know, I think bottom line, if the, if the course isn't great logistically, it better be a damn good golf course. And this is neither. And so this should never be an issue again, because they're never fucking coming back here.

So, sure. Uh, I mean, I do, I do like the way the leaderboard looks right now. I will say that. So I am still excited about the weekend. Um, I, even if it is a shootout, um, the, the leaderboard gets me excited. KVV, just, I don't wanna stay on this too much longer, but it feels like Arlington, I thought he did a very good job.

It feels like he had the wherewithal to see that like, whoa, breaking news is about to happen and films it. And then it has a really good recollection of what happened. Doesn't really match up with the police report, but what are you doing as a big J journalist in that situation? And what do you think Darlington did well there? I thought the best thing he did was just stay calm, like not kind of interfere in any way. Like that's not his role. Like even, you know, I guess Schaeffer said, can you help or whatever? That's not Jeff's role to like

step in there and be like, guys, guys, it's the number one player in the world. Like your job is to sort of, for better or worse, like, yeah, observe what is going on. Like if you know, for all Jeff knew at that point, make Scotty Sheppard deserve to be arrested. He didn't know anything about what was going on necessarily about what he was, you know, what the reason was for the arrest. And so you know, then he's like documenting what he can, and just basically, all right, I'm going to try to, you know, jot down either mentally or in a

notebook, everything that's going on so that I can testify to this to the world later. And then we'll see later, we'll get the police's official account of this. I think Mike Leaves, another ESPN person, was the first person I saw who got the police report. And this happens honestly a lot. I covered crime for the first six months that I was in Baltimore. I know Jeff worked at the Orlando Sentinel before he bounced around to the NFL Network and ESPN. I know he covered some real quote unquote journalism for a while. And you learn to go and please support his official document

of its public record, right? But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a true accounting of what happened. And there's definitely been an evolution in journalism in the last decade or so of not treating that like gospel because we know, and we've seen it over and over again, that police departments lie or there, or they mislead, they write things in a way that sort of is not exactly the true, you know, accounting of what went down. And I think honestly,

like you can see evidence of this here, like, you know, the cop is trying to sort of shade it in a way that makes it seem very much like you know he was in not all cops. I understand where you're going with this. Not all. We're not going to have that. He didn't say but you know what Cody but the Louisville Police Department has been cited by the Federal Justice Department for sure for being doing all kinds of terrible things to cops in the Louisville Police Department

went to federal prison years ago for driving around and throwing slushies at homeless people. I agree, police department and we don't even have to bring up the sort of big one that you know, the Brianna Taylor stuff. All of that is like, it's it's a part of Louisville Police Department's reputation. I think we'll probably what happened here. That's that's another thing is it like you have security people who kind of are in no event stuff.

And then you throw in cops who are dealing with the tragedy stuff. And it's like, nobody knows exactly like who to follow what's again, that just kind of like, as a cauldron of like volatility at 530 in the morning. Yeah, for sure. One like I'm not going to dump on the PGA of America, like I've been to PGA of America, events that have been really good, too, you know, and so I think it's, it's year by year. I'm not going to dump on the PGA of America. Like I've been to PGA of America events that have been really good too.

You know? And so I think it's, it's year by year, but you know, I, I, I'm just astounded that they've got a level of familiarity with this place and it still could have happened, right? So, all right, KVD while I've, uh, while I still got you got a question to hear from Eric, uh, uh, Braun eyes, Braun eyes, let's say, I don't know how to pronounce that. Can we exhume Dan Jenkins to write the post game this week? I feel like that's a direct challenge to you. What say you, sir? You got some stuff brewing for a for a Sunday gamer?

God, yeah, I'm going I'm gonna be there on on Sunday. We'll see how long it takes me to get to the airport to the actual course could be a four hour trek. I might have to rent a scooter, Randy. I hope you can approve that on the LLU budget. But, uh, yeah, I, I'm that, you know, I love Dan Jenkins, but, uh, hey, let's, let's let, uh, the young kids have a little crack at what's going on here. Hopefully we'll be able to bring back a dispatch of, uh,

some interesting happenings on site. Well, people may not know, but you wrote, I think your best work for us so far is, for no laying up, has been the Victor Hovland feature. Vic, kind of bucking his head today. I think, was it seven under when I last checked? Did he finish at, let me get it here, finished at eight under, five under today, 66.

Any updates to your story? You know, what do you make of Victor's play this week? Yeah, honestly, I'm not surprised to see him playing well, because I think a big part of that story was just that like, Joe Mayo was the one of the few guys who really was able to push back against Victor and be sort of like, there's a quote in there about like, they're crazy kind of aligned. And I think that that's what you're seeing is that now that they're

back together working, that someone is willing to sort of stand up to Victor and be like, yo, this is the best way that your swing works like stop searching for another sort of fad another trend. And as that sort of clicked, you know, it really happened. And I, Joe Mayo texted me today and was like, it's working baby. Like you're not going to believe how how good this is gonna be at the US Open. Uh Pinehurst here we come and yet like he's actually kind of he's not out of this at all like he could shoot two good rounds over the weekend and steal this one which should be a ridiculous turnaround from stinking at the Wells Fargo and talking about how he feels totally lost with his swing and feels like he just couldn't even you know he's scraping it around to believe he gave an interview in Norwegian news stuff. So it's kind of it's fun to see Vic back because Vic's just a fun player to have in the mix. I love it. Any any other parting thoughts before we let you go? Anything else stand out watching golf today? Honestly, when I see the cat, I just don't know like how to feel anymore. And I hope you guys are gonna dig into this a little bit. But I guess I would be curious to know like how my father's generation felt watching Arnie kind of limp his way around. And like, you know, I don't know whether I want Tiger to sort of, I don't want him to go away, right? I don't mind at all like him, you know, still playing and still if he's still getting something out of it, great. Like,'m not going to bully him off the stage in any way. But when we keep up this sort of like,

I still think I can win the golf tournament. I still think, you know, look, I hope it's a long play down the road so that like a few of these, all of a sudden when he's 50 years old and it clicks and one week it's finally got a chance. But right now it just looks kind of sad and that's okay that it looks sad. I just, it doesn't make me super, have a lot of fun to watch it on TV for sure. Maybe in person I'll feel different. Yeah. I mean, the thing that I saw stat up,

they popped up on the telecast. It was like his first on number two, it was what? 1,400 and like 41 holes at the PGA championship with no triples. And then he made two triples on the front nine. It's just like, it sucks. You know, that's, that's, it's seven, four, seven. Yeah. Not what we're looking for there. And TC, you said it last night,

you know, maybe it's time for him to be a little more selective about the courses he plays. I mean, he clearly doesn't care about playing anything but majors. So I guess he's trying to get every rep he can, but it's like, if he's not going to play golf in between, I, it's hard for him to expect to. Yeah. He's a lot better served playing picking his spots at the right majors and then playing a couple of tournaments in between that they can help him knock off some of that competitive rust without, without challenging his body too much places like Harbor town or colonial or you know, uh, even shit, even sawgrass.

You could go stay at spice Bush, Randy, you know, right. You could hook them up over there. We would love that. Cause how about the fact that this is, this is just his 24th missed cut of his career, like in 28 years. I hate seeing these kinds, those kinds of stats, like the, the triple stat and stuff like that. It's like, don't, I don't want to like muddy the resume where you're like,

Oh, well yeah, but late career. career, like that stuff doesn't matter. In some ways it does. It's like, that's kind of the historical record we're trying to preserve here. So I'm with UK. I don't want them to go away. Like, you know, perfect world. I want to see them ball out, but it's like, I don't know if this in between is, you know, what I want to see either. Maybe this is, maybe it's building to something. Maybe we'll look like fools for saying RIP to the cat down the road. But I think for the most part, the party's kind of over and he's, you know, just milling about.

Yeah. Just like the block. Don't worry. We're going to get there. KVV. We'll let you go Friday night. And enjoy your evening and maybe we'll see you this weekend and look forward to seeing what you come up with on site. Sounds good, buddy. All right. Thanks. All right, gentlemen, let's get some more golf talk. They are still wrapping things up. It looks like is still on the course. We've got Xander at minus 12. I think we got to start there. I mean, I feel like Minus 12 is the number we kind of picked for a kind of a job well done or the target for Xander It gives him the lead. I'm sure he would love to have you know that three stroke lead still but I feel like he got the job Done today. I thought he hit it really good played really well on the front nine Kept it together on the back. The only criticism I have is he was just wearing those

blow-by Adidas black shoes. Like those things just don't look good and and it's it's hard for me to get down with the with the all-black kicks, Randy. But what do you think of Xander today? I thought it was a very good round for him. Quite honestly, I was on record anything in the sixties I thought would be good. Comes in with a 68 still leading the tournament after 36 holes only made one bogey looked like he was very much in control of his golf ball didn't to my eye didn't really see any cracks or fissures forming that that would portend struggle this weekend. So I think it's a I think it's a great Thursday Friday for him. Quite honestly, it will be interesting to see him in that final group tomorrow afternoon.

Yeah. T.C. Yeah, I mean, it was fine. He played well. He did what he needed to do. He hit a great front nine. You know, the up and down on 10 that he had for Birdie, there's just not a whole lot going on out there, man. There's not a whole lot of spots he can get in trouble. There's not anywhere to really go backwards except for maybe a couple of the par threes or get a little wayward on two or three of the par fours. Yeah. I don't know.

We'll see. I mean, it's a, you know, it feels like a WGC, right? So maybe he feels right at home. Yeah. T.C., I do like this though, from just a golf watching perspective, I like having Xander out front because it is a storyline we're used to. And I'm very interested to see if he can hang on.

Can he hold it together over the next two days when he has some serious horses trying to track him down on the last two turns here? But credit to him for playing really well. Really nobody other than maybe Scottie is hitting the ball better than him. And I always feel like his putting, it looks a little mechanical, but he's rolling it really, really good. And he's, he's making a lot of five, six, seven footers, you know, both for par and for birdie cause he's hitting it so close. So I think 18 was a great example of, you know, he goes long left or pin high left, but he's on this, he's in deep rough on this downhill lie straight towards the green, straight at the bunker, lands it

on hits a good chip, but it stops. And like on a real setup, like that ball should have no chance of stopping. I don't care that it's rained a bunch the last two weeks. It's just, there's no slope in these greens. They're, they're fucking flat as pancakes. It's crazy. So, sorry, I'm not, I'm trying not to get frustrated, but like Xander makes me frustrated because I feel like he got away with a lot of stuff on that back nine today. Yeah. Well, a guy I felt like that played really, really well, uh, barring a bogey on 18 was, uh, was Colin. Randy, you were out on Colin. Are we back in? I mean, you kind of missed the dip, I guess.

Like where do we stand with Colin and his, uh, 60, was it 65 today? 65. 65. Yes, sir. So, uh, the best round of the day tied with, uh, Bryson and Matt Wallace and Hideki, uh, all shot six under today. Listen, I think Colin, I think I'm just going to have to accept. I like the idea of Colin, maybe more than I like the reality of Colin.

Um, I, nothing about his round, nothing about his first two rounds have surprised me much. I mean, we, we saw him play for the most part, very, very good golf at the Masters. He's doing the same thing this week. He's won a couple major championships like I, I, I find myself wanting to get excited because he's still a young kid. He could win his third major. There's just, you know, it's hard to get past the little dog shoes, quite honestly.

You know, there's there's some stuff where I probably just don't see eye to eye with him, but I think he's a very interesting character right now in the larger golf world. And if he does get to three majors come Sunday, it just, I don't know, it makes him very interesting, very relevant. Once we turn up to all these majors. And he should be that way a little bit anyway, by virtue of winning twice. But you know, we're, we're looking for guys to kind of, or at least I am, I'm looking for guys to separate and, and, and to peak and to win at these

biggest events and these biggest moments. And if he's going to kind of continue doing that, I got to, I mean, I do respect it. Yeah. I, I, I, he was flagging it today. Yeah, he was. I'm going to find myself in on him. He was, I mean, he was knocking down flagstakes like repeatedly as we were on the air today on, uh, on ESPN two, I mean, just hole after hole after hole made a, one

little stumble coming in. But that was a strong round of golf. Well, and he said to your boy Marty after the round, TC, that he feels like he's really hitting his lines with his putting, which has kind of been the issue, I would say, historically for Colin, is he rolling it well with the claw or the saw grip, whatever you want to call it. And just to clarify for the listeners, Randy has multiple sources that Colin puts shoes on, his little dog, I believe.

It's a very little dog and he puts shoes on. There's pictures. I was going to say these aren't even my sources. This is public info. Yeah, so listen, that's tough. We hate to hear that. I'm not a big dog apparel guy. Like I can't, I can't get down with that either. So you have to, the dog's going to be flying first class. He's going to be eating at, you know, Michelin star

restaurants of things like, you know, it's tough to trust a man with two first names, tough to trust the man that pours a drink for you and not for himself. I have to trust a man that wears a bow tie exclusively. And I think it's tough to trust a man that wears a bow tie exclusively. And I think it's tough to trust a man that puts clothing on his dog. Let's say on a regular basis, right? That's tough. It's just a, it's a totally different lived experience than me. And maybe I'm just the old fuddy duddy, you know, maybe that's a me problem, but, uh,

if he keeps winning majors, I'm, I in. I'm gonna have to respect it. All right, TC, Sahith, I mean, absolute thrill ride today. Roller coaster, what's the spots in Ohio? King Island, Kings Island? Kings Island. Yeah. Not to be confused with King Island. Not to be confused with King Island.

I brought up Kings Island yesterday. Said somebody saw us on ESPN2 at THG. Not just somebody, the Hunk Ghost somebody. I was like, no, it was like, no, the theme park in Ohio. I was like, okay, that blast from the past. Anyway, saw his, uh, balled out today. TC tell us about it. Yeah. I feel like saw his, the new speed interesting hitting it all over the map with the driver. Uh, he can pull off some crazy shit with the irons. Sometimes he doesn't pull it off like we saw on 10 today. He was up the left in the hospitality or he was, I think he hit one off the

cart path. It was on the cart path first and then into the hospitality. And that was a whole saga over there. Which he didn't take, you know, he didn't take a drop assuming because the closest drop would have been to the other side and I'm sure he had a better window or whatever. But yeah, we had the courtesy, you know, we had one of the model cars that I'm sure he could have finagled a drop from there and he didn't, ends up making six, had a putt for five on 10 there and then comes in pretty between the Mayo and the Mustard. Birdie 12 and Pars the rest of the way in. Shot 67 and he's two back. So he'll be playing in the second to last group tomorrow. Yeah. Solo third right now. And I wanted to, go ahead. He, like, Sahir's just a guy that I've wanted to see. I think Pinehurst suits him extremely

well, especially with, you know, being a little bit wayward off the tee, but excellent iron player, great putter. I don't know. He's someone who I've just wanted to see play well in majors and really ascend to that next level. And I feel like he's kind of a confidence guy that he just needs to, kind of like Max, he needs to kind of figure out his own way and build the confidence in himself and chart his own course. He's a really easy guy to root for. I would say it, I would like to see him put it together for four rounds. I worry about one of the next two rounds him, him, you know, going backwards a little bit, but great round today and a fun one to watch. I also want to shout out a couple of things. One, you mentioned the drop where, where he, or sorry, the, uh,

he did not take relief from the hospitality, which is awesome. He didn't take it from the car path either, which is awesome. Uh, it's good theater. Uh, to Wyndham had a, it was looking for a bailout, uh, today when we were on ESPN two, it didn't give it to them. So he didn't get real, uh, TIO relief over on, I believe it was seven. Uh, and Randy, they played the ball down today and I saw several mud balls. And I want to call that out because I thought that was a net positive in my golf viewing and I wish they would do that more often. I'm totally there with you, Neil.

And yes, we, we, for anything that we say against the PJ, I'm glad that they did not play lift clean in place. I think the biggest example I can remember brooks with a three wood in his hands Sniping one out of bounds left with a mud ball ended up making double bogey Believe it on was that ten? Maybe that first par five on the back But yeah kudos to them No, no easy way out these guys have enough of an easy setup for a major championship. Let's get a little dirt on the ball. I want to see how guys handle it. Duvall was not happy about it, which Duvall's, I like David Duvall, but he's been dead weight in the booth this week. Andy North said Tiger had one of the worst marbles he's ever seen in his life. And, you know, talking to a few guys and they're like, Oh, it's, it's just,

it just introduces luck and it's just so random. And I'm like, yeah, cause there's not enough luck and randomness out there on these optimized setups and the characterless featureless course like this, which I would say, if all hollow wants to have another major, they need to make every hole look like 13, like just go all in on looking like a golden tea golf course. Amp it up to a million. Be a showpiece. I mean, 18 and seven are right there with 13 when you see the aerials. I mean, the lake on seven is just outrageously large. There should be pontoon

boats out there. It's crazy. TC, we got Bryson, Big Tone, and JT as as kind of highlights of the day where you want to go next. Yeah, I mean, you're gonna get a lot of flack from people for skipping over homeless hubs, but sure, we're going to homeless hubs is it is it nine under that Scotty we talked about him, we've got DTree. But yeah, Bryson came. He's we're gonna go down the leaderboard towards the end of the shows. That's why I skipped over those guys. Yeah, I mean, Bryson awesome round today. He's why I skipped over those guys. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, Bryson, awesome round today. I think he just finished up. So he shot 65 today, birdie five out of his first 10 holes, seven birdies. I mean, strong stuff. He's right there. I didn't feel like I saw enough Bryson. Maybe I was distracted this afternoon. Did you guys feel that way?

I think we saw plenty of them kind of down the stretch. feel like I saw enough Bryson. Uh, maybe I was distracted this afternoon. Did you guys feel that way? I think we saw plenty of them kind of down the stretch. It was like Bryson, Big Tone, Sahith, unfair, maybe unfair for me because we, we went live before coverage ended. So I'm sure there was plenty of Bryson towards the end. Neil, I'm with you though. We, we could have, you know, subbed a little bit more Bryson in for a little less cat maybe deep into the round today. Sure. It should just put cat on his own feature group. If you want cat, eat your heart out. We got Cody scrolling his Twitter on a live on air here.

Uh, you know, letting the people know who are we trying to check. We're getting breaking news that Tommy lad Eagle 18th. So I want to make sure and see if there's a video or anything over for my guy TC brother I just try to cover your six man. Just in case you're pulling up the wrong tab All right, if one more person Tweets at me saying hey when is when when are you gonna apologize for Ludwig for for what the guy's injured? Okay, first of all the hurt PC is he hurt or is he injured? He's injured. Okay, just he's injured, okay? First of all, the second- Is he hurt or is he injured? He's injured, okay? Just, he's injured, all right?

Secondly, Tommy, like, he's gonna have some off weeks. He's not gonna perform in every single one of these things. What more does he have to do besides win one? What more does he have to do? I'm not looking for another top five. You know, I'm not looking for a backdoor top 10. I don't care if he made the cut or missed the cut. I was going to say if he has made the cut, I'm a little backdoor top 10. Let's see what our friends at FanDuel have those odds at.

I was going to ask you that. Are we breathing past Thomas Detry a little too quickly? And I only say that the guys made one bogey through two rounds. He had a clean card today. You know, of course course he's maybe not the guy any of us would want to be there Sunday, but at least props to him. Sure. Sure. I mean, we can go down the leaderboard if you want. I mean, Detry, Eckrode is right there at eight under Hovland and Fenow. You know how to tough finish what he made double on 17. I mean, there's just a lot of names like

how to tough finish what he made double on 17. I mean, there's just a lot of names like good players on this leaderboard, like, I mean, brand names. And that's why I know you have your complaints about the course TC. Don't be one of those guys. Look at this leader. It's like, Belri, look at this leaderboard. I think, Sally, you know, we talked about last night. I just, I'm cool with just like not worrying about it for the next couple of days. I'd like to just enjoy the golf, you know, execution test. These guys can execute. I'm all, I'm all for that. Like they're, you know, we've tested them on this material. Yeah. TC and I are looking for a little new material to test. And I, I do agree with you guys. Like I'm not like, I'm not writing for the course by any means,

but I, you know, yeah, it's nice to have a good leaderboard though, Neil. If you want to call it the best signature event of the year, like sign me up. Like if all the signature events were like this, then I'd be fired up for, you know, 11 rounds or 11 tournaments this year, instead of, you know, instead of this major. So let's figure out how to make the rest of them feel like this, because it's working for me right now. Yeah. You know, we talked about Hovland a little bit. I think Brooks is the last guy of those big names that we need to talk about before we get into your boy Rory and things of that nature. Brooks just can't make any putts, it seems like. I'm not sure if the stats are bearing this out, but every time I look at the screen, he's missing a 12, 15 footer. They're not bad putts.

They're just not falling. Yeah. I felt like he was playing from the rough a good amount today. He had an up and down round. Finished with a birdie on 18. I thought he battled. Unlike Rory, which we're going to get to, I want to talk a little buying and selling here.

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Randy, give us a quick update while, while we're on Mizuho. What's, what's the LPGA leaderboard look like before we get to the block party? Yeah. Cody's got it up on our screen here for those watching. Attaya Titicum, big, big move today. She shot a bogey free 7 under 65 to vault into first place going into the weekend. She has a two shot lead over Somi Li, who was your first round leader. Excellent, excellent, excellent leaderboard though. Nelly Korda right there. T3.

I mean, it would be, it'd be a bit of a bummer just because the PGA championship is going to take all the oxygen, but we could be looking at it in a Taya versus Nelly showdown this weekend on, you know, a good venue. I know TC we have gripes about it. But it's a legit venue Liberty National. Yeah. Gabby Ruffles is right there. T3 she's she's looking to spoil the fun. area Jutanagarn has has surfaced. That's a name that you know, she has all the talent in the world. See her kind of pop up a couple times a year.

So really, really good event going on. If there is a rain delay tomorrow, I'll just remind folks three to 6 p.m. Eastern on Golf Channel will be the Mizzouho Americas Open. And if it is a Nellie Attiah showdown, you can bet I'm gonna be second screen in that all weekend. Yeah, I gotta check the weather. The weather's just been really bumming me out up here

in the tri-state area. Just can't seem to get a consistent spring sunshine. I feel like we're going to skip right over the intermediate and go right into the hot stuff, the humid stuff in the city, which is tough. All right, gentlemen, I do one other. I want to call JT. I thought he played well today in the hometown. He struggled to make some putts, missed a I do one other. I want to call it JT. I thought he played well today

in the hometown. He struggled to make some putts, missed a few short birdies, but I thought he showed up and played hard. And that's good to see. I mean, the home game model should be off the charts. I'd like to see him find some form this weekend. You were good on the leaderboard a little bit? Well, I want to get to the forgotten men real quick. So we talked a little bit about Tiger. I got to address the block party. Rory, very disappointed. I'm very disappointed, Randy. It just couldn't have been said earlier today. I felt like you-

And this is a safe space. How disappointed are you? Please feel free to let it out. No, I'm more disappointed in myself. I just keep, I'm diamond hands in myself. I just, I keep, you know, I keep, I'm diamond hands and, and I shouldn't be, it's just finished at minus five, even par around the day, birdied 18, which was, you know, a little poetic, but he came out and birdied one. I was feeling great. And then he just got stuck in neutral all day and it kind of was a little bit of the old Rory. Uh, I was hoping the driver would click in.

It didn't seem to have, have much off the tee. Uh, but it just felt like he was not tidy with his, uh, with his iron game was, was what stuck out to me. I thought he battled on the front nine and then that double on 12 was just like, you know, stabbed himself in the chest as TC says, uh, which is. Like, it's just so frustrating. It's very frustrating. This like, there isn't a better, could not create like a movie script that was a better fit for Rory this week.

Course he's one at soggy long, just like flat greens. Like we don't need much from you with the putter just like pin your ears back and go, not to mention your biggest competitor, the guy that you need to vanquish got put in the fucking slammer, took the attention off of you when you were in the news. And like, it was just so set up for him to ball out this afternoon and he didn't do it. And there's like, I don't have anything else to say about it. So like, and I don't feel great. I don't feel great about it at Pioneers number two, right? Like this was it. It's like, it's not like I'm looking ahead like, oh, we got the US Open coming up. We got Troon coming up. Like, I don't feel like there's a course fit for those. Like this was the course fit. This was it. So yeah, I'm fucking with the block.

And Rory should be good enough to where like the course fit doesn't really matter. But that's kind of the problem now. An argument that you could make when I'm in a better mood and probably an argument I'll make to myself in about a month. But like right now it's just like, yeah, I'm frustrated. So, you know, so what's going on with the block party? I mean, I think it's still like, if you want to come by and maybe we sit in some lawn chairs in the garage, but just feels like weather sucks. And if people have better shit to do, like, you know, no sweat, man. Like, I mean, we're not going to have it catered. It's like potluck, whatever.

What's going to suck is he's probably going to play well tomorrow. He's probably going to top 10. Right. And that's the frustrating part is he's going to play well the next two days and just, you know, you're going to try to justify it. What Roy needs to do tonight. Roy needs to go to that Italian restaurant that Rick Petino used to go to. Get an OTP, HGA unbelievable, unbelievable poll from, from Toronto Carter right there. Uh, no, yeah. I mean, I would support them having a couple of bourbons tonight. I got a sarcophagus blast off.

I don't know if I can say sarcophagus on live TV. Well, I know I could say sarcophagus. I was like, I don't know if I can make it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't that. I don't know if I can say sarcophagus on live TV. Well, I know I could say sarcophagus. I was like, I don't know if I

can make this patina sarcophagus joke, but what am I ever going to get a better opportunity? I you know, we're in Louisville, Louisville slugger. You know, it's a big baseball town. I'd say, you know, Rory, does he, you know, TC's a big baseball town. I'd say, you know, Rory does he, you know, TC needs a slump buster, maybe go out, get bombed, you know, I don't know what else is filed for divorce.

Doesn't mean he's divorced yet though. Yeah. Right. Uh, I don't know. I mean, yeah, maybe, maybe sleep until like noon tomorrow. Kind of just roll out to the first tee, change it up, get out, you know, change the routine up maybe. Um, Jeff Ruby's, but Jeff Ruby kicked my guy OJ out one year. I hate that. Uh, I think that it's just going to be too little too late on the weekend here. I mean, minus five were seven back. I don't, with, with the amount of names on the leaderboard ahead of them, I just don't know if, if he can, uh, I don't know if he can track them down. So Cody, what do you think, man? I mean, you've been riding with me at the block party. It's a lot. You're asking an awful lot from the guy there. Um, but I don't know. I always say maybe it's

the optimist in me that like it's maybe it frees them up now. Maybe today was too stressful for him, even though just like you said, Nail, everything like pointed to be like, today was his day to kind of go out and get it. He just, he didn't have it. So it sucks, man. It just, it just is a really bummer that like he seems to when the time to take, take advantage of it, he just kind of a failure to launch situation. Yeah. If you guys want to come by club magenta. Thank you TC. It seems like a big tone. Well TC here's what I'll say.

I'm stupid. Everybody's smart. You're good looking. I asked you for that. I haven't been opposed to the block. No, we want more, I think self reflection. That's what I'm just, you know. Thank you, Randy.

Are we learning anything about ourselves? Are we? I mean, everybody knows the definition of insanity. I'm just worried about some of my friends. Sure. I just, you know, I'm not scared to get hurt. I enjoy rooting for him. He gets me going when he's playing well.

And I don't know, I like someone vanquishing their demons. I mean, we're going on 10 years, which is a long time. And I thought the script was pretty dialed this week, but alas, uh, we'll keep searching. Uh, maybe I need to set up some time with Wyndham and Max's psychologist. She seems to be doing, I think Wyndham might need to set up big things. This is Wyndham. When I'm trying to get in that, in that chair before I am, uh, that's for sure. A couple other guys I was disappointed in. Cam Young, Cody,

I know while you're here, your boy, your alt shop partner. I just, I felt like this was a good fit for him. I feel like he's just, I don't know, he's a bomb threat off the tee, but he's just not hitting the fairway enough. I could have told you that. If you had watched the video, I mean, I did. I told you that he's got a little spray with that driver right now, but I don't know. He'll get it figured out. Just. Well, I'd like to see him hit the two wood more. Like the second serve. I mean, you know, we got that club in a bag for the re for a reason. Let's, let's get it out. T.C. who give me a forgotten man. Who, who, who am I forgetting here? I was just going down a deep dive of who else could Rory go out with tonight.

going down a deep dive of who else could Rory go out with tonight. Papa John Schnatter, Mark King, formerly of young brands, anyone over to tailor made he's Randy's guy that came up with the big, the big hole the big. Yeah, the cup holes bigger. You know what he's doing now he retired from from from Taco Bell. He is now chairman of the board of the big three basketball league. Wow. So, uh, yeah, I think rain idea other guys, I'm, I'm not disappointed in Ludwig.

I'm just going to say that right now. I think he, you know, I don't think he needed to be playing a bunch this weekend. I first and foremost, I'm disappointed in Rom and I mean, we watched a lot of it the last two days. He was just, just didn't have it. I mean, we watched a lot of it the last two days. He was just didn't have it. Didn't have it off the tee. He was missing left, left, left, and then just not controlling his emotions. I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens over the next two majors. Because I think if he goes into the next off season without much success in the majors, that's two really poor performances by any standard, much less his standard. I think you're looking at a narrative building that he's not going to be able to control unless he just comes out and wins the Masters next year or something. So that'll be really I mean, you know, Wyndham was like, I felt like kind of validated today watching Wyndham. Just, you know, he acted like

kind of a weenie there at the end. JT Poston always sad to see him miss a cut. Best pound for pound player in the world. It didn't feel like a great course fit for it wasn't. It wasn't. Blocky and Tiger tying. Yeah, I think it was a great course fit for it. Wasn't it. Wasn't uh, blocky and tiger tying, you know, a couple of generational talents and uh, yeah, I don't, I mean, no, no huge disappointments. Otherwise I think, you know, mainly I was going to say a few disappointments, quite honestly,

that have snuck inside the cut. I called out Joaquin Niemann yesterday. He did shoot 68. He's going to play this weekend on the number. Ricky's right there with DJ actually, same thing, shot 68. He's going to play. But just some really uncompetitive showings from some guys that we all hope would be a little bit more in the thick of things. Yeah, DJ legit looks like he's like just wants to shut it down and go fishing, which more power to him. I respect it. You know, it's fine, but like don't waste our time. What did I didn't see any any camp Smith today. What did he do? He shot one under, I believe he's four under total. Yeah. I know it's kind of like all those guys at four under a lot of them

Are in that disappointing category? Yeah, because I put camp like cam smith I put Rory in this category like the tournament would be better if those guys were in the hunt and that's kind of where the disappointment comes from It just like come let's you know, let's go fellas. I mean spieth 69-69 nice. He's at four under I Uh, I got to call out, I mean, disappointed myself for my Hogecoin play. That was, that was a bad investment. You took your luck out.

I did. He's shot 73 today. That didn't work out. So. Max. That's what I mean. Like I got Max. He couldn't hit a fairway today. Cantlay, Minwoo, Horschel, Deaw day. Lowry like all really good players. There's just, they're just kind of plodding along, but they're far enough back in that. I don't think the leaders are going to back up. So there's, they're far enough back to where it feels out of reach. They're just playing for, for Wiki yellow, you know?

All right. Well, TC stick with it, man. Let's let, we'll let you cook a little bit longer. I would say, yeah, I, I just want to shout out Austin Eckro T8 right now. 67 67 walk two miles this morning, you know, uphill both ways. Two hours, two miles in two hours is we're sitting in the car for a while. And then we got out and walked. Yeah. I feel

like, I feel like 18 was kind of an eraser today to a lot of guys, like a lot of Eagles on 18 They kind of covered papered over some bad stuff Big shot Bob McIntyre. Nobody nobody has believed in this guy And I think it's telling that Sally's not on the podcast tonight that I don't think you wanted to face No, that was me. That was me. I called him out. No, that was me. Oh, Sally hates him. Sally Sally has no respect for Big Shot Bob.

Matt Wallace playing really well. He had kind of a provocative blue outfit on today. The DECI, you know, nice 65 from Hideki today and H.E. Randy Harris English flush. Yes. Love seeing that TC. So, uh, Lee Hodges hanging in, you know, you mentioned Justin Thomas Keegan's up there, Lucas Herbert, Aaron Rye, Dean Bermester. We're, we're good. We don't, you know, toasties up there. Yo, Tom young Tom Kim, he made it. He was, he was vibing early and then he kind of,

he doubled his last hole. Yeah, that was a killer. He's wearing that horrible vest. Not good. Wow. That thing, the derelict collection as TC was calling it. It's not a good look. Um, yeah, I'm this, I'm not, I wasn't feeling that.

So I'm kind of happy. He doubled the, the last hole. Um, anybody deep down the leaderboard, you want to call out TC? Oh, not really. I think we got everybody. Oh my God, you're cutting yourself off. Unbelievable. Yes, for Svensson. Want to shout him out, you know, and then Martin Comer. We had a clique make the cut. I did hear Mironk air milled a green by like 35 yards today. I mean, just outrageously long, kind of like you at New South Wales.

It's gonna happen. Maybe you got a bad number from his distance device, you know? All right. Anything about Duff? I mean, you shouted the guy out there. I think you predicted that this round was going to come. But what you think you touched the sun a little too early? Yeah, I mean, you know, he was playing with house money. Duffner is just, you know, good stuff. He didn't embarrass himself. I saw some stuff this morning of like, did daily turn around once he saw the police presence.

Oh, sure. I'm all set guys. I'm going to call in a WD here. Randy, do you want to shout out any of the Corbridge Financial PGA pros out there? I would TC, yes, thank you. We do have officially one inside the cut line. Braden Shattuck has completed his round. The second round as we're recording

has been suspended due to darkness. A couple other guys, my guy, Jeremy Wells, has a couple holes to play. He's two under, he's low club pro right now. And then the other guy, Ben Paulin is right on the cut with two holes to play. So we might have three club pros this weekend playing TC. We'll see if anybody can venture up to that immortal tide for 13th place that

Blocky got to last year. Maybe they get to chase Sapphire shot of the day. I mean, that's what they're playing for, right, Randy? Yeah. It's so crazy. Sorry, real quick. It's so crazy that Block has a sponsor exemption to play next week on the PGA Tour. Like what are we doing? Second year in a row, yeah. TC gives a forecast forecast update for the weekend. Yeah, real quick. One other thing I want to call out.

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not quite hot enough to produce these massive massive thunderstorms. Cody, I think we've got a European model in there as well. There we go. There we go. A little bit more moisture on that one. And then, you know, when not much wind to speak of, like, maybe some gusts on Sunday up to up to 10 or 11 miles an hour out of the northeast. So curious to see what they do with the setup, see if they move some tees around, but it seemed

like there's just not a whole lot to do out there, right? The greens don't have a ton going on. They've tucked some pins already in certain spots. There's a couple bunkers that are kind of diagonal, you know, against like hard up against some of these greens that they've tucked some pins on. So we'll see what happens. And then, yeah, just as far as I think, like, just looking at coverage the last couple of days, watched a lot of golf, ESPN, generally speaking, has been great. I know we've been working with them, but kind of working with the Omaha side of things. Jeff, Jeff Darlington, Scott Van Pelt, Curtis Strange, I think they've all been great. I really enjoy Curtis. I wish, yeah, I kind of feel like, I wish NBC would maybe

look at him. I don't know how contracts work, but if Faldo can split time on networks like he used to, I feel like Kurtis Strange would have been a decent, I wish he would have gotten a look from, from NBC for that, uh, that, you know, 18th booth job. I'm not sure if Kurtis wants to work every week or if he wants to do that much. Um, but like, I don't know, like again, I like David Duvall. It just feels like he's been a little bit rudderless. I think Andy Norris always good, always enjoyed his contributions.

And I think I'm a little bit disappointed with Jeff Ogilvie. I think I liked the idea of Jeff Ogilvie. And I think we've said, hey, he'd be a great commentator and maybe he just needs more reps to get into it. But it just felt a little Jeb, you know, kind of low energy the last couple of days. I thought the same thing too, Tron. And I, I promise this is not like a joke, but I wonder if Jeff would be better

on like a more strategic course, like almost this, this venue is not putting him in the best position horrified by it. Well, the other thing though, I feel like between the two of those guys, I feel like I'd never know who's going to be in the booth. Like they almost are switching them out too often. I feel like every time they go to the booth, it's like, oh, it's Duval. And then like Duval disappears and it's Ogilvy. And I feel like you don't like that new. Well, I don't like it on the same day, Cody. Like it doesn't feel. Crazy thing is that one of the other premium broadcast partners, that's their go-to play

right now too. Well, but they do it week to week. They kind of do it week to week. And I feel like, I like the idea of them sticking with one of those guys for a full day or just, it feels like they're going back and forth. Like do vol them pop up later, later later on and I'm not familiar with either of their voices you know I don't you don't hear a ton of them uh in you know on like major broadcasts so it it's kind of like wait wait is that Duval again like I thought he left the booth but now he's back so it does feel like it maybe I'm trying to give them maybe the benefit of the doubt of like are they not being put in a great position yeah I agree I agree. SVP North dynamic duo, but you guys did another hit on ESPN2 today. Thoughts? I thought today was fun. I was a little, a little comfier in there. Felt like, you know, we hit the tech is, is complex. But it feels like sometimes it's,

you're like in the kitchen, like on a show, The Bear. And I just feel like producers, it feels like sometimes it's like in the kitchen, like on the show, The Bear. And I just feel like producers, it's like behind corner. You know, it's like, there's a lot going on in my ears. Like TC yesterday couldn't, you know, didn't show up for like 30 minutes because he's doing some tech stuff. He was troubleshooting and I could hear the whole thing in my ear. And I thought that the audience could hear the whole thing. And so I was like, Oh my God, this is a train wreck. This is awful. And, and turns out nobody could hear that, but it's very, it can be very distracting. I thought, uh, Rom just dropping F bombs galore was awesome. Life, life highlight of mine

to apologize for. Yeah. Our mics may have picked up. Yeah. Well, speaking of that, we will be back tomorrow morning, bright and early, 9 a.m. Eastern to 11 a.m. Eastern. We're going to ESPN Plus tomorrow morning. So if you're trying to catch some early coverage, yeah, we're back to the kids' table, keeping it loose over behind the paywall. But join us on ESPN Plus 9 a.m. tomorrow and on Sunday, same time, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. We will be calling early golf. Guys, two questions. Yeah.

Questions for the group. First of all, do we wake up tomorrow and Scotty's charges are either reduced or dropped? I think I saw something that was like the 24 hours, the DA has the within 24 hours, they'll kind of decide what to do. I don't know if that's true. I'm not a lawyer. Like they'll decide to like drop the charges or I saw a lot of tweets out there like, oh, this is definitely going to just be the traffic ticket. So I don't know what the timeline on that is, though. And then B, how far back is too far back. Good question. Tc. Now we're talking. Now we're asking the good question. I think seven is too far back.

So if you're at seven, I think if you're at seven or too far back, I would include seven in you're still in it. I think six is too far back. The only guy if you want to include Capca or not. Yeah, I could. I don't know. Does JT have like a 65 in a tomorrow? Is that even good enough? I think I'm with you, but I might include, I might carve out Kepka from the 7-under brigade. I mean, I would carve out Hideki there too, though, because I feel like with this, this course, I mean, it's not like they're, the Greens are flummoxing anyone. I mean, he can, he can throw darts just like everybody else. So I feel like he, of all those guys, other than Brooks, on the, you know, in the T-11 or, the deck, he's got a chance to go really low. Who's your pick?

Oh man, guys, I'm going to take Scotty. I think I hold bold. I'm going Scotty or I think Bryson continues to like Bryson is going to start running out of major I think Bryson continues to like Bryson's going to start running out of major starts. Bryson's at nine. Wow. I mean, guys, I kind of want to, you know, be, you know, I don't want to change it up on you. Maybe, maybe ride for Xander. Why not? You know, just be in the minority zig while you guys zag. I don't know. Say again. Alexander. Alexander. Weird Al. I don't know. I'm not ready to make a pick. I really... Too raw from the block party. Yeah, exactly. I'm just like, it feels wrong for me to make a pick right now. I don't want

to do it. Please respect my privacy. I've got no comment at this time. Cody, I assume you have Scotty. Yeah, it's so hard not to look past him. But I like the Bryson pick. The issue there with Bryson is I don't know if he'll... I don't know. It's hard to go back and think of his major win. We give Colin so much crap about his COVID majors and like Bryson was kind of right there with him. I don't know how, how he'll be able to hold up on Sunday, but it's very hard when you got Scotty, I mean, staring this leaderboard down, it would be awesome if it was like Sahith

hubs, but let's be realistic here. Like I think Scott is just going to keep running downhill. Because places Ben, we don't have tee times tomorrow. I assume they're going to try to go into some still. And I think so. Yeah. Was Scotty in at nine under before D tree? I mean, Scotty could be in the second to last group, which I really like for him.

I think Scotty was in first. Scotty and Sahith. Yeah. Or we don't have pairings yet because ZB still has some holes to play. So he's very much grinding to make this cut. What's he's inside the cut right now? Yeah, he's right on it. So TC your your play blocky versus ZB hits.

Oh, I mean, it hits regardless of whether he makes the cut or not. Like he beat him. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm congratulating you. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. And Zach Scott, like a nine or 10 footer on eight for bird. So we're looking good there. He's good. He's 300 a day. All right. Well, that's I think that's it for us. We'll see you tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. Thank you for watching. Crazy day. And yeah, make sure you drop some likes and, you know, subscribe on your way out. Why not? You know, yeah, make sure you drop some likes and, uh, you know, subscribe on your way out. Why not? You know, thanks for, uh, thanks for coming back to the channel.

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