No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 973: Sunday at the 2025 Players

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun are set for a playoff to determine the 2025 Players Championship. Join us as we break down the rest of the week's action, cover some news and notes, Coldest Moment of the Week, and ask for a Mulligan or two. Presented by High Noon. Support our sponsors: High Noon - Sun's Up! Titleist Golf Pride Yeti ServPro Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining The Nest: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at nolayingup.com/join 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! Expect anything different. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Lang Up podcast. The no laying up live show here to break down the final round of the players championship where the winner is. We don't know

who the winner is. We don't know who the winner is. We're not going to find that out until tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. Eastern time. At which point we will have a three hole aggregate playoff between Rory McElroy and J. J. Respawn. To break down all the proceedings of the week though

we have a an expert crew here headlines not you know first but not most is that is that a way to say it by my guy big Randy Randy. Yeah. Top billing. It's a great to be here. I'm doing that because you know I just I felt so bad as soon as TC was really gassing up your Red Hawks at the end of the show last night I was like oh let's just see how this thing goes. They're up by 12. They're up by 12. Yeah just didn't go didn't go well so I apologize but it's good to have you back. Yeah thanks. Couldn't close the deal last night that one stung no other way to put it, but great season for Lowe's Redhawks. I'm not sure. We might have some time on the back end of this episode. We can get into the X's and

O's if you want. Catch part two of that on Randy's channel. Also here, TC. Greetings, Tron. How are you? Greetings. Randy's just, he's soaking up some, some vitamin B12. He's got some high noon sun sips, some iced tea. It's spring is sprung out in Denver it looks like. And warm weather today it's really nice. Of course rounding out our foursome, the creator himself, our guy T, our guy Solly. I was looking at TC. Solly, hello, how are you? I can get down with Solly the creator. Dej, I know you know you've been taking over a lot of the reads, a lot of the intros. It's the No Wring Up Live show presented by our friends at high noon. And here's the tea

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Not, yeah, I was gonna, you know, I didn't know. I get sidetracked on that. I was B12. I think that's the one you take. And you know, people get shots of that, but Randy's soaking up vitamin D from the sun, I believe. I appreciate that, TC. Thank you for coming correct on that. So I thought we were gonna have a winner and I thought it was gonna be Rory McIlroy. He seemed to be the dude, of course,

we were plagued by a lengthy, lengthy weather delay in the middle of the day. And right after that delay, Rory comes out of that. After birdieing 11, steps up birdie's 12. At that same point, JJ Spahn makes a bogey, and all of a sudden it's a three shot lead about 90 seconds into the resumption of play. I was like, wow, that's pretty much over.

And then Rory steps up, hits a horrible drive at 14, and ends up three putting for bogey. He misses a five and a half footer at 15 for birdie drives it in the rough on 16 isn't able to get there in two and then you know isn't able to birdie 17 or 18 but does make an excellent lengthy 73 foot to put on the 18th hole JJ spawn meanwhile it was kind of going the other way turns in one over bogies eleven not looking great but then after the resumption hits it to a foot on fourteen the hardest on the golf course

uh... tap in birdie on sixteen converts along to put on seventeen almost makes you know one revolution short of a winning putt uh... on eighteen so i'll throw to you guys first what it what are we looking for tomorrow? TC, what's this playoff mean? Are we assigning any big value on this three-hole aggregate playoff or do we kind of know what we know? I don't know. I'm confused. It was just a weird weekend overall. And I don't know what I think here. I don't think it changes anything for Rory. He's been playing really good golf since pebble even before that and for spawn it would be career changing.

But yeah, I just don't I don't really know what to expect tomorrow. I would assume Rory goes out and hits a towering drive on 16 and then do they leave the pins in the same spots? Yes, the playoff leave. So, okay. I guess they could theoretically change it, but they never have, they usually go right to the play. Yeah, I think my biggest takeaway is probably I saw I saw Nancy Faldo talking about this. We had a good friend Wyatt text about it like, Hey, can we use some of that SSG money? Just throw some lights on in 18 and like, like we're just gonna play it till we finish this thing or... You know who did it already TC. That's true.

Hey, if we did the... Every odd. Yeah, that's right. If we did the, you know, if both guys unanimously agree that, hey, let's just go play 17 over and over and over again, even if it's dark, until we have a winner, you could do that too. Because they've got lights out on 17. I don't know. I just feel like this is like, it's a opportunity to do something cool. Whereas tomorrow's playoff feels like an obligation. Feel me? I do. I will say if they had the daylight it is very cool like I think back on the

Ricky year and I'm like dude the 16 17 18 playoff it's fucking awesome it's not as awesome to come back the next day and that was a little out of their hand so it's a risk with going to March too yeah I mean this is this is kind of part of the you run the weather risk that they got and also the daylight ending shorter I would say there's more weather risk in May though. But you have more daylight to get everything in if need be, but yeah, still getting thunderstorms and whatnot. It's good that they got the, you know, they moved up two times, ended up working out, they got the 18 holes in right up against the buzzer. I'm not sure if they would have

waited another 15 minutes that it would have gone nearly as smoothly down the stretch from that. Yeah, if Rory goes on to win or lose, I don't think it changes kind of what I think right now in terms of, this might be bold, and I'm trying not to get caught up in the moment, but I think I'm about as confident in Rory as a golfer right now than I think I ever have been.

I think he's had hotter streaks, bigger peaks. Obviously, he's won bigger tournaments than like Pebble and the Players Championship. But man, the swing changes he made this offseason seem to be working really, really, really well. His iron play, it's not like out of control good, but it doesn't have to be when he drives it as good as he is, as far as he is to be able to maintain this level of skill with how much speed he's gained in the last four or five years is pretty staggering. And the putter in the short game are just excellent. The chipping was kind of a little weak this weekend, but the putter was excellent, excellent,

excellent all week long. The numbers check out for the season. He just seems like he's going to be like really, really, a really, really, really strong contender for world number one, honestly. And I don't mean that as in I don't know if he's gonna catch Scottie in the OWGR because Scottie just has this massive knee. Or Joaquin.

Or Joaquin Nieman. But he just, like right now, I mean we can, we're gonna do a little stock check later but I'll tease the question now. Like, do you feel like that much more confident in Scottie versus Rory at Augusta here in a few weeks like I'm not sure I do I I I'd be I'm struggling to think of a time I feel more confident about Rory going into Augusta and I'm getting caught up in it getting swept up in it

I could see my you know, my soul rising above me looking back at me laughing at myself But that's I can't help it. That's how I feel at the moment The producers are in my ear throw to big Randy big Randy, throw it a big Randy next. Throw it a big Randy. Ready? What do you got? Well, it's an interesting, it's very interesting solid because I would say, you know, it would make me feel really comfortable with Rory or a lot more

comfortable would be closing a three shot lead as players over JJ spawn, which he has not done yet. Last six holes or seven. Yeah. Yeah. And Corey Connors and Lucas Glover and Tom Hoagie. Danny Walker, other other lots of names up there. I think it's it's it's going to be a big ass for JJ in the morning. I have no expectations that he's going to win the three hole aggregate playoff. But it was, I think he had a bit of the momentum coming down the stretch over the last four or five holes that put on 18, just a revolution or too short. We can talk about that.

But yeah, as far as drawing bigger pictures and extrapolating this to the Masters, let's say, I, you know, I'm we got time for that. I don't really go that far. I don't mean to put that on you tonight, Big. I just, that's, that's where my head's at, man. It's been, he's been really freaking good, really freaking good. And I think some of the off-course stuff has been a little distracting for like, hey, this, this is kind of a little different Rory than we've seen in this early stretch of the last few seasons. Which I think it goes back to Pinehurst last year. Like man, he played. He did the hard stuff. Some of the best golf he's ever played there and I think that's why I'm not really drawing a whole

lot from tomorrow is because Bryson beat him at Pinehurst and he's not here, right? Or but Bryson will be at Augusta. I know. I'm kind of, I'm with you TC where it's like, catch me. Let's see which side of the bed I wake up on tomorrow. It's like, on one hand, I'm like, this is everything. You gotta grab the ball and you gotta be an alpha. You gotta go win. And on the other hand, I'm like, it's fucking three holes, man. Who knows? Putt goes in great. Putt doesn't go in. I'm not saying it's luck, but it is, it is a very, uh, very small sample size, you know? And so it's, I think that's where I'm, I'm with you.

I'm just kind of generally confused where I'm like, I don't know that it really means, I don't know. I don't know that it means all that much, which is silly to say, cause obviously all we care about on this show is who wins and who doesn't. But it's all like to your point, like, don't think Royce Fuller has ever been higher. So it's like if he loses, the only thing I would say is like he could have another, you know, Pinehurst-esque very public gagging, right?

Like that's where it's almost like he's, he's got a lot to lose, I guess, maybe more than he, than he has to gain, which is crazy because it's one of the biggest events in golf and a huge purse and all that stuff. But it's like, I think I had to note he hasn't finished outside the top 25 since mid-August of last year. Like he just, this would be his third win in the last six starts.

It's like his game is fine. I don't know that we're going to learn much about his game tomorrow, but he is kind of opening himself up to another one of those, those moments, if something was to happen. And it's kind of the golf course where that type of shit does happen. So it's just a weird deal though. Like the better he plays seemingly this year, like the less I like him. And like after all the cell phone stuff this week and the stuff at Pinehurst last year, it's just, like, and he just doesn't look, I don't know. I'm just, I'm just not feeling it.

You're not caught up in, you're not, yeah, not well he's playing, but you're not caught up in the emotion. Totally. I'm like, dude, like you're playing the best golf of like we've ever seen you play and I'm just not feeling it. Like I'm, it's like, I just don't want to roof for you. I think the thing that would give me the most optimism for Rory is not necessarily anything to do with him, but seeing Scheffler and Xander, uh, fighting at the moment. Yeah.

You know, Ludwig even too, right? I mean, Ludwig. Yeah. It's, it's like, there's not that dominant presence out there and, and some of the other top guys just seem off their game right now. Yeah, it's like there's not that dominant presence out there and some of the other top guys just seem off their game right now. And then Rom's, you know, probably seething quietly in the corner waiting to... The other side of the world just doing...

Waiting for me? Well, let's talk about JJ Spahn a little bit. We talked about it on the show last night, but go look at his iron play stats over the last six, seven years and just what he's done in that stat over the last couple of years. I think you can draw some pretty good conclusions on what has changed and what has put him in this position. But big on the flip side, what does a life-changing, career-changing win mean for JJ Spahn? What's the best case scenario for him tomorrow? I mean I think it means everything. I

think there's a ton of pressure on him. I enjoyed our guy Dan Hicks putting a bullet into all those other golf tournaments before quickly correcting himself. I believe the quote was, this guy's never even finished top 20 in any big event. I love meeting the players and the majors. Yeah. I love that they're saying big events. Yeah. That's just, that's, that's one step closer to two tours.

It's great. Um, but yeah, I mean, Jay, you know, he's 34 years old. You never know if a win here can propel them into, you know, Hey, maybe he rattles off a couple more wins this season, or this could truly be the high point of his career. You know, it really does remind me, I'll draw a personal comparison. When I was standing on the 18th tee at Dobson Ranch during our NIT last fall, and I was even par, and I said literally this could be the only chance in my life to break par. Excuse me, I was one under par.

I needed a par on the last to finish under par and I thought this could literally be the only chance in my life to do this. And of course I made bogey, I shot even par. But I got to think there was some of that with JJ standing over that birdie putt on 18 today and there's got to be some of that. It was a good putt. I can't believe he didn't get it to the hole but I just think there's gotta be a little voice in the back of his

head being like, man, this could be like the pinnacle of the whole career or not. You know, that's the fun thing. We'll we'll find out which is where it's kinda tough on, you know, I think that voice is probably pretty loud on 17, right? Yeah. And the other voice seem to be like, don't even take this thing on, man. Like play way away from this hole, which is tough when your whole thing

has kind of become like being a premier iron player and somebody who's just knocking out fucking flag sticks all day, right? Like that's, I get it. You can lose the tournament, I do get it, but like that's kind of the point of the whole thing, right? Is to step up and hit that shot. So

he pitched like, three, maybe four yards left of the ridge back there on 17. Like, I don't know, it wasn't like he bailed out to the safest part. It was, you know, the commentators didn't do him a favor either. Yeah, he wasn't going anywhere near that. I need to go back to I'd be be less than a lot of controversy with him today with the double drop. There, I know Randy was hauled at that. Okshay took a questionable drop this week and the anchoring and, and then you've got spawn. Let's separate the two categories. Yeah, that was what are that like? No, I'm just saying a lot of a lot of weird stuff going on on that front. You got and then you got I forget about the one on 11 coming out of the rain delay, the four hour rain delay.

Spawn and Collie basically played at the same time. Spawn was like four yards closer. Bones Bones was just wildly, wildly confused by it. I don't know, I was going to bring it up later in the show, but that was just such a bizarre, bizarre sequence of events and spawns in that bunker. It was crazy. Well, let's go back to the drop on nine because it wasn't it. You can hate the optics of it. And for whatever reason, I don't hate the optics of this one.

Neil, as much as I did, Bob McIntyre's drop at the Scottish Open last year out of the rough, you know, from a sprinkler head and that's it. But he gets up and he gets a drop from I think a sprinkler head or a drain or something and gets takes a drop intentionally onto a sprinkler head, which then gets him another drop out into the fairway. All of the rules official there all legal, all totally fine. You can hate the optics of it all, but to say like the OXA drop is in a different category. Totally legal, totally immoral in my opinion.

Totally against the spirit of the game. Unethical. Truly. It's two different obstacles. I did the same exact thing in the 2023 Gasparilla, but there's five ropes around a tree, and you could take relief from every single one. And it's part of using the rules to your advantage.

It's disgusting. So this is why we can't put you in charge of the rules. You're trying to change groups. You're trying to repair for the last three holes today you were lobbying for. It's just not what the silent majority is about, is it, Big? No, and I'll say, I don't, not sure we're gonna talk on it, but just the other weird thing that I really got a delight from was Bud Colley stepping on Lucas Glover's ball on 16s.

That was great. Just totally oblivious. That is absolutely something I would do. I wish you would have just like cartoon fell back on his ass like a banana peel. A couple other contenders unless you guys have anything else on JJ and Rory obviously that like we said that is 9 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow they're gonna have that playoff. Shout out to JJ Spahn. I mean if you watched a lot of this golf tournament the last four days, like everybody fell apart at some point and he kind of had his fall apart on the front nine today, but you know he was two over through eight holes.

You guys were threatening that I was going to have to shave my must shave my beard into a blonde mustache because Keegan was going to beat him after Keegan made a hole in one. He was coming. Another top 20 for my captain, by the way. He finished with an 8 of JJ. So close to me having to shave my beard. But battle back, battle through, birdies nine. Do you want to get on this block right now that you'd rather have JJ than Keegan? Is that what you're saying? Or you just...

No, there's a better chance of making the team. Okay. Which on that front, so on that note, big, big, big missed opportunity for Akshay today to make a massive move for the Ryder Cup team. Yeah, he, you know, did not have the putting weekend, putted solidly in the first two days. He just felt like he had so many looks over these last two days and finished his two shots out of a playoff. He's probably kicking himself a little bit, but another great week for Akshay. Yeah, this is me. I think three of his last four events, top tens at like just wildly different places. He just again, we've said it, you know, kind of each night, but he's still 23 years old.

Like he's a guy that is still he's still coming into his own. And and now the, you know, the results are starting to meet the meet the hype a little bit. Although, like you said, Sal, it's less hype and more just kind of like a different path, truly. It wasn't like the, I'm going to turn pro because I just can't wait to start breaking necks. It was more just like, I'm going to turn pro because this is what I'm going to do. And I'm just going to give myself a little head start. And it seems like it's paying off, man. Two wins and now another big kind of validation at a golf course like this. So a lot of anchoring though and a lot of sure. Yeah, that's true.

And he is part of the package. He made 1.325 million bucks for T3 finish. That's going to be a shit ton of Ryder cut points. And I also just want to shout out because Neil's not here. Just the whole aesthetic man. We were laughing about this all day. But like the gold chain always sneaks up on me the kind of like feathered hair but then also just the fact he weighs like 110 pounds it's just though the whole thing is fucking great and I've really come to come to enjoy seeing him on my my TV screen so I'm hearing front do you guys think somebody was floating this other that if you play with a long Potter,

let's I give Lucas Glover a ton of credit because he plays with long Potter and nobody's ever accused him of anchoring because he's clearly not. But if you play with a long Potter, you should have to have the the chalk from like a pool cue on the end and you have to wear a really tight shirt on the end. And you have to wear a really tight shirt. And if you get the chalk on your shirt, you get a penalty. God, that's such a TC that is an exact kind of idea that is like, if you say no to that, give me a reason why why can that? What are you hiding? What are you exactly? I like a buzzer of some kind of like electric, you know, yeah,

it's gonna electrocute. If you make you have to wear a buzzer on your chest and if it hits it, then you get a shockwave or something. Can you imagine the humiliation of walking off the green you got a big, big blue chalk dot. It's objective. It's objective. You can make if you're innocent. You got a white shirt on the chalk is black. You got a black shirt on the chalk is white.

At the Darrell survey people out there chalking it up before Where the relevant what I still don't know is why? Why putters can be longer than 46 inches or whatever so stupid? It's the easiest fix in the world Well because they're trying to grow the game There are millions and millions and trillions of people who are gonna quit if you make the putters less than 46 inches. In theory, can you use your long putter off the tee? Are you allowed to? Otherwise, what's to say?

Why don't I just declare my 52-inch driver's like, no, that's my putter. That's my putter. I'm allowed to use this. Can you use it for a drop? Yes. You can use a long putter as your one-pull-like? I feel like I've seen Adam Scott use it for drops before? Yes. You can use a long putter as like your one-shot like? I feel like I've seen Adam Scott use it for drops before.

That is so scummy. The world's so fucked up, man. I hate this. Tom Hogy shoots 66. Again, this is another one of Neil's blocks, but the guy just loves these SIGgy events, loves hoovering up big checks. And it's just, you'd love to see it, right? I mean, it's become like a thing now. I love it. Tim Cynova Really good week. I think he was one of the only guys under par every round. Lucas Glover was under par every round. Corey Connors was under par every round.

But yeah, just awesome. Like, Pogge, you could tell he wanted that putt on 18. But played great coming down the stretch. He was digging, man. He's got two top 20s this year. Guess which events those were at. So this was his third top 20. The players, Pebble Beach, the century. He did finish seventh at the ProCore last year, but then his most recent top 20 prior to that was BMW. His most recent top five was the Travelers last year. Then he had the T23 at the PGA Championship. He's a poker guy, man. He knows when to push his chips in.

Randy, can you tell me where the Pro-Core is? No. The tournament? Is it a tournament? I would have, that would have taken me a while too. It's helpful, a good mnemonic is the pro. Tell you what, country is in there. That's an easy way to remember, Randy. Speaking of pros, guys, we watched the pros hit a lot of wedges out there this week.

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Is that the oil can or is that the natural raw finish? Yeah, the oil can. It's awesome. It's insane. I want to go through a couple of the other contenders here. Lucas Glover, Danny Walker, Corey Connors, Bud Colley, things of that nature. But who do you guys think, I was thinking about this, like who did the delay help the most? Who did the delay hurt the most today?

NBC. NBC the most. I mean, that was all bang, I thought they did a great job today all day. Sally, you mentioned on our Slack, them just coming out of the delay with commentators on each hole, giving a rundown and setting up the context. I don't think there were any commercials the last few hours. It was just kind of flawless coverage and I thought they'd nailed it. So I waited dinner was ready downstairs. I like I was like, I'll come down when there's a commercial and I was like, I don't think there are

commercials. I think I gotta just go get dinner. They really cooked like to your point, TC if you didn't see it right out, like they had bones, they had smiley out there. They had john wood in three different spots, saying like the getting you up to speed in the spot of you know, what? JJ Spahn was getting ready to do 62 yards of of Fear or whatever bones set out there like I just I love those little cut-ins that they don't normally have time to do in the regular flow of action and

They just up their game this this whole week I think we say this every year at this part of the pod Like if if golf coverage look like it does the players we would never be on NBC's ass nearly as much as we are. The economics of the sport don't work that way and they're not going to change anytime soon. It's not going to stop us from complaining about it, but it is just always worth shouting out how good they can do when they're set up to succeed like they do with the players. I think one thing, even just having Deuce Bobbik come in and talk about Deuce yeah the Deuce was loose talking about uh you know the JJ spawn drop and some of the other

stuff he was he was doing a good job there and yeah I don't know overall I was I was really pleased with like you said Salah the whole week live from was good uh McGinley was even chirping Occhet about the drop on, on seven. So you're saying. Dej, I'll take a crack at answering the question. I think, uh, I think the delay probably helped Ray J a little bit. I feel like off the balloon a little bit of stress. Um, I think some of the, the like Lucas Glover played a lot better coming out of the delay and certainly helped him. But you know, I think like our guy Danny Walker probably got hurt by the

delay. I'm not sure if he was going to make a charge anyway, but didn't didn't do much coming out of the delay. Danny Walker got a lot of got a lot of burn on on the broadcast. I'm sure a lot of you kind of heard this story, but local guy. I'm sure a I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, We've seen these over the years from from the Jeff Maggert's of the world, the David Ligmer's of the world. And it's just that the players brings these guys out. And good for him, man. I love the I love seeing it. I love the kind of random curve balls on the. Did you guys? It's it was a little thick at times.

I mean, they were making them out like he was a roofer down the street. Put him in the bath, pull him off the roof, put him on the open. I was I was like, all right, let them off the roof, put them in the shower, and they won't be open. I was like, all right, let's pump the brakes a little. Well, yeah. Then they're like, well, he practices out here at TPC. He plays here all the time. Like, OK, we'll give you, you know.

Well, he's got like 170k of career earnings. He made 143k, I think, this week. And as of like three years ago, he's working at the Bahama Breeze over at town center, which I just found that out. He'd kind of given up on golf and- What is Bahama Breeze? Is that a, yeah, I was gonna say,

is that a restaurant? It's like a worse, like Applebee's kind of, it's like, or like a worse Chili's. I would say it's probably- Is it like if Chili's and like, like Margot Rietveld had a baby? Yeah, took the words out of my mouth, you see. It's exactly what I'm saying.

If you want something a little, a little bit more chilled than salt life but you still want to be. If you work hard during the week but you play hard as well. I think your parent head could be could be. Yeah, the Margaritaville is booked up. You gotta go down the street to the Bahama Breeze. The description is laid back chain eatery featuring Caribbean entrees and tropical cocktails and beachy decor. God, I would just say the way the way Walker carries himself on a golf course, I'm having

trouble imagining him as a customer facing employee of the Bahama Breeze. Well, maybe it didn't work out great. I think we need to get Jake Knapp at the Bahama Breeze. He's like, you're actually run shit at the Bahama Breeze. Well, maybe it didn't work out great. I think we need to get Jake Knapp at the Bahama Breeze. He's like, you're actually run shit at the Bahama Breeze. That shirt that Danny Walker was wearing certainly looked like something that a dog might have been wearing at the Bahama Breeze. Yeah, exactly.

What else? So we talked a lot of Bud Colley last night. Not going to be his week. TC, much to our chagrin. Man, when Matt dialed up that graphic on the Instagram, but it was like, Sully and Cody picked Rory, and DJ TC picked Bud Colley, I'm like, yeah, come on, man, I don't really like seeing it all spelled out like this.

I thought we were just kind of spitballing. Yeah, it might as well be credit for sticking our necks out. That's right, imagine if he would have fucking won though. Can you imagine how good that would have looked not not the rain delay was gonna help him out more I did too even it did and she came out on 11 one opted over the green into the back cover yeah like don't come off a trampoline I think he thought it was it just skipped right off defense though. JJ respond out of nowhere. That was who JJ cut. Two over 74 for our guy, Bud Colley. But hey, good to see him back. We were going long on this last

night, but you know, injuries, car accident, all of the stuff that has come from that urban Meyer potentially, allegedly, we don't know the connection there. We're still looking into it. Listen to the trap draw for an update on that this week. But yeah, good to see him back and doing his thing. And it sounds like fulfilling the major medical, I believe, right? He should be Yeah, should be squared away there. So that that makes life a lot better for him. So shout out to Optum. Exactly. Well said.

There are things of that nature. I had a question here that was just what stood out, what was different about this year's players than years past. And I actually want to go first here just because I thought I had a good one. We were talking about today, I noticed that the tour had kind of flagged on Google Maps for the first time. I can remember noticing a bunch of different locations. Each hole, each T-box, each green is flagged as like a Google location on Google Maps. Cody, I think we got a graphic of that so you can see what I'm talking

about. And so of course, this was like, oh, that's kind of funny. And so I clicked into them and I, sure enough, I see somebody starts leaving comments in there. There were a bunch of comments from a guy, Tron Carter. This was from the fourth green, best hole of the course, five stars. Best hole of the course by far, exceptionally thoughtful and masterful execution. Compliments to the chef.

He goes on, I believe this is on 18T two stars for the 18th hole. Need to move this T back. 18T because there's a separate location for 18 green. Need to move this T box back to the top of the hill. Time to think boldly! Exclamation point. Could be a larger, part of the larger project to connect the lake to the Intracoastal waterway. And then I think there was one more. This was actually on a location that was flagged back of the range. The pro range at TPC. One star.

I've talked to a number of aspiring locals who ply their craft on the cord fairy at latin tours, and they've repeatedly complained about gatekeeping on this side of the range by a town crier who lives nearby. Management should address another excavation point. complained about gatekeeping on this side of the range by a town crier who lives nearby. Management should address another excavation point. So just good stuff there. I really enjoyed that on Google Maps and would encourage people to, if you've had an experience in any of these locations, get in there and maybe leave your own comments. I'm sure that's- There's a few other ones too.

I'm sure that, yeah, there's some other Easter eggs in there too. You can probably imagine what holes the other ones are on. But that was my answer. Anybody else have a good answer? Just anything that stood out as a little different about this year's players? I mean, I don't know if this is time for more tree talk, but just the fact that they did something that messed with guys as hard as they did on hole number six. And there's a bunch of stats flying around about how the fairway was way, way harder to hit this year.

Just by putting that tree in there, I would argue that is messing with their minds more than it is a physical hazard that they had to avoid. But how the apex of all these shots went way down because of that tree. It again is just that weird kind of I hope they continue just to just to up the fuckery of this golf course honestly, because again, I'm not a fan of just the straight silliness sometimes, Randy's nodding along,

but I think he is a fan of the straight silliness from time to time. But for whatever reason, the silliness of this place, the outrageous contouring, the weird moguls in the fairway, the crazy thick rough in certain locations, overabundance of pine straw in a lot of these places, the more trees than I would like to normally see on the golf court, it all adds up and works for whatever reason. And I just

like watching these guys get their brains put in pretzels, trying to figure it all out and just like trying to stay calm and watching guys like Danny Walker, navigate it and Scotty Scheffler not be able to it just it sticks out to me that they they still have some room to run on upping the fuckery of this place The six hole was such a kind of throwaway too for a long time, right? Since that tree came down it was it was a little bit of a nothing hole that green is really cool Up there with all those those tall trees that are super skinny. Yeah kind of Mutombo trees up there

But it plays the fifth hardest hole this year. And that was something that like, can only, like, I think only be attributed to the tree. I know they moved the tee back about 20 some yards as well. But yeah, I just, TC, sorry, I cut you off. You're gonna say, I think they're gonna continue some more of that stuff too, maybe. Yeah, just that was kind of some of the chatter around the course was just, you know, talking to people in the know and having talked to DL3, I don't think last year, I think even the year before, like, hey, we have a plan for TPC Sawgrass. And I think like the tours on board, like they would like to see us beef it back up. And I think the greens

need more slope in certain spots. Like some of the stuff that makes TPC Scottsdale work really well. Like some of the greens here just kind of don't have enough slope in them these days, especially if they're going to play it with over-seeded rye. And it's just a slower presentation or whatever. But yeah, I think it sounds like he's got a plan for every hole except for 12. He doesn't know how to fix 12. Can't be perfect. It's perfect. Yeah. I mean, you can't, you can't possibly touch it. Wenceslaw's masterpiece.

Most was designed by Pete Dye. That one was designed by God. I'd be curious if there's a, uh, uh, David golf could probably answer this question, but if like there was more strokes gained putting at TPC sawgrass, cause like straight, like I think the greens are like low key easy to put. Yeah. Super easy. It just like doesn't fool you.

It's not, you know, there's not much deception going on there. It kind of just tells a pretty easy story. That's why you see like, I mean, the scores leveled off throughout the course of the weekend, but I mean, it was, guys were getting after it there on Thursday, Friday, especially just pouring in putts, just because there's just not that much defense when this course does not get windy. Again, rated one of the hardest golf courses in the world and with technology with where it's at,

like dudes still just beat it up. It's crazy. Yeah. Only other thing that on kind of the what stood out just generally, you know, I haven't been on site for a little while. I'm trying to, I think the last year I was there was actually might've been the COVID year, which was interesting for a whole other host of reasons, but just a more laid back vibe, I feel like this year. You know, we saw that in Jay's press conference. I don't know if we really got around to that necessarily in any of the live shows

because we had the creator classic stuff and it just kind of got buried. But that was one of the observations was it just seemed like he was, it's a very stupid thing, but like usually it's kind of the, everybody's dressed to the nines suit and tie very serious thing. And even just the small signaling of like, let's just put Jay in an open collar and a vest, maybe just get in the media center

and start, start gunslinging a little bit was a, was a like market change for what has always been the grip the steering wheel as tight as you fucking can open presented by the PGA Tour. It just seemed like a little bit of a different vibe. And of course you have the creators running amok. The creators are on the field there on Wednesday as well. And so I don't know. There you go. That's what the first tea looked like on Wednesday. But yeah, just a pretty market change there that I noticed. I don't know if you guys saw that as well. I noticed the same thing, man. I think not only from Jay, but even the Q&A that Adam

did the previous week with Eamon. And just generally speaking, it felt like kind of an exhale on the tour of like, everything doesn't feel like it's the highest stakes possible and it's an existential crisis. It's like, we're gonna figure this out one way or another. It may not work itself out immediately, but it finally seems like everybody just kind of settling into a state of semi- comfort and being okay with change and not knowing what's going to happen next. It was just kind of like, you know what, I'm sure like

golf's been around for a long time. I'm sure everything's going to be okay at some point. Let's just, like you said, stop gripping the steering wheel so fucking tight. Well, and I hope this isn't just because we got a chance to be a part of it and film it and make content with it and have so much fun with the greater classic like we did, but it felt like it carried over to fans even energy from the folks watching at home said the energy wasn't quite captured as much on the broadcast as what was felt on the grounds. But like, I mean, it was generous. Yeah, like, there was a buzz and it just kind of felt like, I don't know, the tour was like, wait in on the idea and the concept. And usually there were the ones like trying to put the brakes on

people having fun and Then I don't know that whole vibe just kind of carried through the whole course the week I was thinking about it's like if you go back year by year like why there's been Clouds over the last like many players championships. I mean really 2023, you know coming off the first live year and You know Monahan doesn't speak very often and he's getting back up on the on the stand post framework agreement. Yeah, focus on legacy leverage. Like all the vibes have just been terrible. Then 2021 was fresh off players are you know, fresh off COVID and there was still not a full you

know, kind of fan experience or 2020 obviously COVID was looming 2022 was like, Hey, there's like a league startup league happening around here. Like it just seemed like the first one that was like, all right, here's OBR, let's go do it. And it really is a special and fun event. And the weather really helped up through Sunday. That's my secret spot on the floor. It's my favorite spot on the course to sit on.

Yeah. So and I would even say too, just, it just seems like they're starting to like integrate just common sense back into the program of like, hey, maybe we should use the corn fairy tour to like test out some pace of play stuff, or hey, maybe we should publish some some pace of play statistics or just are just starting to think like golfers again. But yeah, I'm just, it was, I'm, I'm more optimistic than I've been in a long time. That was a takeaway I had that I think is not been shared publicly by us in a long, long, long time. In terms of like,

you know, we're very, despite what you read from maybe the worst people online, we're quite pessimistic on how the tours run and a lot of steps they've taken and the lack of action on some very, very neat, some items they need to address. I still think the biggest one is pending address and is not looking like it's going to be addressed in this current TV contract deal. But it just seems like- The tour championship format sounds like it's gonna be a fucking disaster.

Maybe want to figure that one out as well. Finalize that yet? No, not yet. It's yeah, we'll let you know. We'll keep you posted. It's only March and the championships in August. But I think like to your point, you see there's there's starting to be like, it's still like doing it is the hard part talking about doing the things is the easy part.

But like, for a long time, they haven't even talked about doing some of these easy things that they're now talking about that they're planning to do and Uh, the plan is most definitely still to hold them accountable for a lot of these things like tc holding accountable Holding rory accountable here next to the first t Uh, it looks like he's doing voter intimidation in that photo She's a patriot i'm not doing anything. Oh, I can't stand here. That is a Florida man. Standing there with Claire Rogers. Well, Salah, hey, you mentioned takeaways. And one, you know, maybe the most important part of the golf swing,

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Something we gotta own, Dej. Sure. We will have more commercials in our show tonight than NBC had on the afternoon broadcast. You're right. We gotta be transparent about that. This is a rare week where that happens, but that's what's gonna happen tonight.

Well, those are the straight ad reads we have. We do have a couple segments that are a little more, they're sponsored segments, but they're segments. They're additive content. Segues. Should we go to one of those first? You guys want to do yeti coldest moments? Can I go on leaderboard real quick?

Sure, please. I mean, you know. Nothing we'll make it after. Bob McIntyre, great finish today. We didn't really talk about Lucas Glover much. Lucas Glover shot 32 on the back nine. I think that was fine for a plus 1000 players. I was wondering why you're so invested in Lucas still being in this thing. I was like, I don't know, not really. But Lucas, you know, went out, shot six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six finished two shots out of the playoff. I think that was fine for a plus 1000 players. I was wondering why you're so invested in Lucas still being in this thing. I was like, I don't know, not really. But Lucas, you know, went out, shot 66 first round leader,

and then just kept it between the mayonnaise and the mustard the rest of the way. And you know, great work there. Um, what else we got? We got more Kawa. We, we, we, we talked about him and just his righteous indignation all week and felt like this one kind of got away from him on Saturday but finished T10. Davis Thompson, I don't think I knew he made the cut. He finished T10. I talked about Jake Knapp a little bit on the pod last night.

Really impressed with him, watching him. The tool man, the pat in the hat will to to anonymous today TC. I thought this was gonna be the setup for him to make a little run Yeah, he kind of like he missed that shorty on was that on 16 after the rain delay and and yeah Just didn't quite have it. It's TI 83 big big group at t14 TI 83 Aaron r, Tommy Fleetwood. So unlucky with that 75. Yeah, we'll get there. How many Tommy and Ass's messages were sent in our Slack

this week for him to finish T14? They don't cost nothing, you could just send them, man. Keister adjacent. Yeah, just ship it. Only person to birdie 18 today, TC. I've only person only person to birdie 18 today. Tc. I think that deserves a big victory lap. Yeah. 71. You know, he was under par three of the four rounds just didn't quite have it on Saturday and Sam Ryder

home game for him. He played well. Sep continues to play well in in the face of Sally's rampant disrespect of him. Final round 74 do you want to address you want to mention that address that to fall back to t14? Sure he dropped from one in the FedEx Cup to three. He actually battled though he birdied two or doubled two of his first six holes and then absolutely battled back Sally that's the kind of Alex Smalley. I thought his ball was going to stop on the whole cat. That was a thrill. Leave the ball.

Keegan T20 bogeyed his last two. Probably should have been a little bit better, but yeah, of course, had the ace today on 13 T20. I think that that improves his strokes gained and I'm sure he's still rising in the rankings as far as the true data golf rankings, the true North Star for Sally that will continue to diminish. What else we got? Foxy played well, Matt McCarty played well, T20 in his debut at the Players Championship. I truly the hottest player in the world for a little while. He kind of cooled off, but I'm ready.

I had truly the hottest player in the world for a little while. We kind of, we kind of cooled off, but I had a good chat with him on, on, uh, what was that Thursday night? Um, he was basically talking about Thursday or Friday night at the Del Campo thing, which was great. He was like, yeah, I've just had to like totally adjust to like not trying to make birdie on every single hole. And that's been real like coming off the corn fairy tour. It's been a big adjustment. Uh, what else you got? I DB straight vibe and I think DB wins this week at the Valspar. Shane Lowry t 20 Scotty talked about him Min Woo can we pause on Scotty for just one second? Yeah, that in my

notes as well. I've got big like, I'm in this photo and I don't like it vibes from Scotty of like just his behavior in general when when things are not going great. I'm like, Ah, fuck, I do that. Bryson may have put him in that back at the yeah, shootout thing out in Vegas. That's right. I just it seems really off. It seems it seems not good of some of the kid have had the year that he had last year and just go five starts without

winning and be that bitchy and frustrated. I think pray for Ted Scott's officially on on watch. I don't know if we're bringing it back yet, but it's on watch. We're ready to bring it back if we need to. That comes back then the year of rejoicing is coming back to it. Yeah, it's weird how how high the bar is, right? I mean, it's been five stars. All of them have been in the top 25, T9, T25, T3, T11, T20, but also just no real threats to other than Genesis, no real threats to win and just look super unfun, unjoyous out

there, especially with the putter and some good quotes this week too about how all these putt, like everybody talked about how many putts he missed last year, but his takeaway was basically like all these putts that I made last year to push all these weeks over the edge just are not going in. And that's, that's kind of golf. So to your point earlier, Sally, I'm like, who do you feel better about going into Augusta? I had a lot of verbal capital built up last year about Scotty and best players since Tiger and all that stuff. So I just I would love for a few more votes to come in before I really want to call that raise. He had surgery and like it's not it feels a lot more like the frustrated like can't break through Scotty right now in a small sample five starts.

I'm not freaking out here. I'm just saying time, time's getting tight. He's gonna play Houston before Augusta. But like, that's gonna be our last look before the biggest tournament of the year for him. And the vibes aren't aren't great. I mean, compared to last year, especially they're most certainly not great. Yeah. Otherwise Minwoo, he got a pretty usual a lot of burden this week for a T20. You know, a lot of burden this week for a t20. You know, like, pardon the food.

Max McGrady played well Harris English, Sal Taurus, T30. I felt like he played better than that, just based on what we saw. And then obviously correct this rig on Saturday. Yeah, I think otherwise, Lowers playing consistent golf, Mack Meissner had a good week. I'm not really too familiar with his game. I saw him out there and it took me, it took me and Ben a while to, to really pin down who it was. And, you know, cool story. I know, but, uh, well that doesn't happen all that much. We're just like, who, who is that?

So shame on, shame on us, Ben, for not, not seeing that one. I didn't realize Xander shot 81 today. Yeah, Xander called a shot, man. We were talking about that Friday night. He came off the golf course. He was like, it's bad right now. It is not good, guys. It's not good.

And what did he go like 77, 81 or something? I mean, 781. Yeah. Well, you're kind of just about to get there, TC, one of the guys I want to talk about. So let's go to the Yetis Coldest Moment. This is a segment we've done over the last year or so. Thank you to our friends at Yeti for serving this one up.

Big, a lot of people don't know they keep the drinks hot and cold in the Yetis, right? Either way. Either way. We're going to focus on cold and we're just going to pick our- It's like rookie of the year. Hot ice. Heat up the ice cubes. Exactly. We're going to do our Yeti coldest moment. And I'm

going to kick it off because you were just about to get to his name TC and I just want to shout out you flagged this on our slack. The disparity between Rico Hoey's driving and putting. He was first, he finished like a friend of the program sent this over. the the the the the the

the like, that's kind of funny, you know, golf, man, golf happens. Then I realized this is not rare. On the on the season here on the PJ tour, he is sixth off the tee in in strokes game, and he's 186 in putting this apparently is what it's like, kind of like every week, man. And I just can't imagine God, I can't imagine playing golf like that. putting has to seem so stupid. When you can do everything else so well. And all you can't do playing golf like that. Putting has to seem so stupid when you can do everything else so well. And all you can't do is just like roll your stupid little ball across this stupid green into the stupid hole. I just, I, that's one of the reasons that that just like really makes me love golf.

So DJ, I'll tell you what's even more remarkable about that stat. He shot 66 today. And he was 13th in putting and I was gonna say he was positive in putting today and he was still almost last in the field for he was last in the field getting word he officially finished the week last in the field is that right? I was 72nd. Oh, there you have it. There we go. See, that's why you get away for the Scotty votes to come in things can

still change at the last minute. He lost almost five shots in round round three alone. Man. So he made 136k. If he'd had just putted average this week, he would have tied for six with the group that made 843k. So the putter cost him about $700,000. With that, guys, I have a scheduling conflict. I was not expecting about a four-hour delay today So I'm gonna duck it's all a your ship. Please. Please continue the the show I'm gonna be excitedly listening to the rest guys. Cheers. Thank you. See you DJ Thank you, man. We will bring this home for you still got a lot to get through here, but Randy What is your yeti coldest moment of the week?

I I was just gonna drill into the Zala Taurus blow up that TC had mentioned a tweet here by Kyle Porter kind of puts a bow on things. So in in the third round on Saturday, Zala Taurus walked to the fourteenth tee at eleven

under par one shot off the lead. He proceeded to go eight six five five five-5-5, that 8 would be a quad, followed it up with a double on 17 to shoot 78 and at the time of Kyle's tweet, he was now 11 shots back. So very quickly wrecked his rig in that five-hole stretch on Saturday. TC, what's your coldest moment? Well, I was going to do the JJ spawn coming out and just him being so he's number two in that bunker there on the graphic on the screen. He's clearly away, I guess. And clearly not away.

Sorry, clearly not away. But, it's clearly not away. But just coming out cold after the rain delay and all that. But I was thinking about it more. And they had this fire pimento cheese in the media center yesterday. And I was just thinking, that would have never ever ever happened under the previous head of the players championships watch. You said this and I had I hate to report they had this last year as well. Really have this in the media center last year I took a picture of it even.

Yeah, which because I so the players has always had like part of that whole gripping the steering wheel less tightly thing would be you even took a picture of it. Yeah, it was good right there. They're keeping it cold. And that, you know, I remember thinking like, wow, pimento cheese at the players that took a picture of it last year. Yeah, but they I, you know, I made a pick plate of it. Yesterday, I just remember thinking, man, like, I just I

don't, I don't think this would have happened under the previous players administration. So it's becoming a little just because they've always had such a hard on for like, like anybody that's even wearing a master's logo, they will like make fun of you or make light of it or say no, like this is the players. It's not like they've had the biggest inferiority complex. And now I finally feel like they're just like, Hey, man, like, no, like we're our own thing. We're, it's like, we're the best version of ourselves. And it's truly like, this is such a great, great, great tournament. It's our hometown event, obviously, Sally, but even beyond that, even before we moved here, like it's just, I've been two or three times. It's such a great golf tournament. They make it a little bit better every year.

It's a great on site experience. It's just elevated and I don't know, I turned my coldest moment into a compliment for the tour of, hey, like it's just a really, really well executed and well conceived event. Amen to that. I always hate, we do four shows a week, five with the happy hour and I'm just like, yeah, it's fun event. You guys should really come to it. But every time I go, I really do that reaction. And it's really good in March. Like it should be like, you know, just thinking the weather was so good this week and you're, you're sweating your butt off in May. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I was hot

this week at times. It's like, yeah, the May thing was no, I just I just wish we could do March without overseed the ultimate. Yeah, just don't think that's gonna happen. But I support your dream and I've supported for having that dream. I would never want to you know, you know, tear down somebody that dreams that big but yeah, I've dreamed for aquifer too because they just they pour so much water on this golf course. My my coldest moment of the week, Phil Mickelson's Sunday Twitter performance.

It's getting pretty unhinged. Torque tweeted, Joaquin Nieman has got to be a top five player in the world. Phil replied, top five, try number one, and then was really, willing to double continue to double down on that one multiple times then he I believe later on he tried to do you know Will Knights quote tweeted it and compared it Scotty has beaten Joaquin Nieman in 15 of the 16 majors that they've played at the same time and Phil

said all true let's keep these tweets and see what happens throughout this year. So now going with I'm not wrong, I'm just early. And then he said, here's a hot take, does Scottie win in 2025 before the Ryder Cup? I don't think so. And then I think a little later he tried to play the Bubba Watson. It's a joke, I was joking, it's a joke, we're just having some takes up here. It's not meant to be taken seriously, but Yeah, the Phil Please look at me I need attention as the high flyer sit in ninth in the standings and I'm missing the players championship

Was was was called it was called is my coldest moment of the week. So Be sure to check out the full line of product at yeti dot com I'm just seeing that Grillo shot 67 or sorry finished 67th. He beat Xander Ricky Valamaki CT pan and Salinda. He shot 85 yesterday. He recovered for a 72 today. Pretty cold of him too. So I'm also told that Lee Smith, the tournament director, took over before last year's tournament. So that could be the pimento cheese. He said, hey, there's a new sheriff in town. We're going to have this cheese.

Last segment, we have our serve pro. Mulligan's Serve Pro is the number one brand in cleanup and restoration, known for making any mess like it never even happened. What messes do we have to clean up this week? Randy, you first. What do you need a Mulligan for? like it never even happened. What messes do we have to clean up this week? Randy, you first. What do you need a mulligan for? Pretty much every pick I made in our Wednesday preview, just clean them all up.

I especially want to apologize. I like to get weird on the region plays sometimes. Well, none of them. Actually, Tom Kim might've been the low South Korean. I might have to verify that, just was not close. It was an awful performance by me. And I don't have any excuses. See, who was the low South Korean? See, who clips them? Okay, one shot at it. Well, good. Then I didn't win any of those for

that makes me feel good. You're kind of laying out a blueprint for people to fade you, right? And you ruined our top 20 parlay. For sure. Right. Michael Kim, he let me down. He was my outright, my top 20. Yeah, you didn't even fully acknowledge all the things you need a mulligan on here. I had JT and like a safe quote unquote parlay. He obviously didn't do it. Sorry,C. What's yours? Uh I don't know. A lot of people were calling me to apologize for Tommy. I'm never gonna apologize for a T14 performance. One of

the most consistent players in the world. I am however gonna apologize. Wait, that's that's what everybody gets on Tommy for. Not enough top 15 finishes. He's trending. He's trending. Trending to what? Trending to what? Trending to to to the

promised land all right i do want to apologize for glazing a couple of of first timers this week frankie sapin 3.0 and jackson suber aka the detective uh both of them missed the cut and I think I had in my outrageous top 20 parlay. I think I had plays on both of them. So we'll apologize to all the all the punters out there. Mine is I'm apologizing really to myself. I let myself down when I took Lucas Glover this morning at plus 1000. I said on Thursday show that Roy's gonna win. I said on Friday show that

Roy's gonna win. I said on Saturday show that Roy's gonna win and. I said on Friday show that Roy was going to win. I said on Saturday show that Roy was going to win. And then I got tempted by, uh, the better odds of Lucas Glover this morning. It was close, but like I should just got Roy was like plus six 50 when the day started and that should have been my fan dual pick of the, uh, of the day. So I'll, I'll on that one. A special thanks to surf pro, uh, any Mulligan's or, uh, for any Mulligan's to make it like it never even happened. You can visit ServePro.com or call 1-800-ServePro today.

All right. We're going to turn a little bit, a quick segment here on, as we go into the masters, we play buying or selling a lot. I think that it's an interesting game to prognosticate off of if somebody's trending down, are you buying the stock or if they're trending up super high, are you willing to sell all that stuff of what's going to happen going forward? I thought it'd be interesting to just go one by one the top 15 players in the data golf rankings of what their stock is doing, how you're feeling about

their vibe. You can define it however you want. Yeah, or like, hey, are they closer? They're 52 week higher, they're 52 week low kind of thing. Yeah, or just are they are they vibing straight up going into the masters here as well as the last big tournament before the masters. We're going with Scotty number one. He's dated golf. Number one. What's the, what's, uh, are we, are we feeling the Scotty vibe going into Augusta TC? I'm a hold, a hold on Scotty. Uh, see what happens. I think he normally plays Houston, right? He plays Memorial

Park, plays Slaps. I think he can get it sorted there. It seems like he's just kind of scuffling a little bit, but I'd rather him be working hard right now than trying to search for, or trying to like peek, like he peeked too early or something like that. The game's a little bit hard for him right now. That's fine. That's a good thing. It's kind of a heat check. Right. Randy, how are you feeling? I love a buy position right now with Mr. Scheffler. I feel like his stock is undervalued. It's been beat up a little bit, you know, in this market, lots of uncertainty. I just feel like, you know, even looking at his week this week, didn't make any doubles. It's not like he's out there truly scuffling.

He's just not getting the ball in the hole. Came into the week still, I think, what was he, fourth fifth and strokes gained on tour again, a little bit of a limited sample there for him. I just think a blue chip company like Scotty Scheffler, you're looking for opportunities to buy. And I think this is one it's, it's a bit undervalued at the moment. And so stock rising or falling, I think is it's not as well, I think it's falling. I think it's fallen, but I think it's fallen more on vibes than fundamentals. So I absolutely am using this as a buy opportunity. I think it is falling on fundamentals. I think the revenue is not there. I think there's short term. I don't think it's like a permanent thing, but the Masters is coming up in a short term time period, right? And look, yeah, I don't buy and I don't trade any Scotty Shock.

I'm a holder no matter what. It's a temporary dip. I may even affect how I do DCA into this. I may up the average into it, but no, it's not trending great. It's missing a lot of pieces, honestly. The ball striking, it's not like the ball striking's really good and the putting stinks. The chipping is not like special like it kind of was in the last year.

It's unrealistic to project last year to continue forever, but it is kind of a dip back into that like 2022 wildly frustratingly talented guy that is not getting it done. That's what it feels like right now. Unfair in a small sample, but like that's certainly what it feels like compared to any of the other previous more recent years we've seen from Scottie. Okay, maybe it's, you know, he's putted on a bunch of putter on Poe out west and he's put it on over seeded rye. Maybe he just needs to. But it's not even the just the putting man. It's the it's the the off the tee and the approach play is is not worried

It's not sniffing. It's not missing cuts. He's not no I think he's like the floor is still wildly high. So of course it is high but for him it's win or If he finishes up the top three at the Masters, that's like a poor result, which is unfair But like that's the reality that we're living in. High expectations. Rory stock. I'm official. I'm, I'm declaring it guys. This stock is rising heading up into Augusta and it feels, it feels a little bit more stationary. It feels a little bit more real. It feels like I don't have to talk myself into this being a good,

like again with Xander and Scotty shuffling, you know, a little bit, this feels like it's good of a chance for Roy to win the Masters and doesn't, for once, like just doesn't feel like it's setting up for a massive hype train. Like he can psych himself out in round one. I don't know.

I didn't realize, I've never seen those multi-win bonuses on the OWGR. I don't know what that even is. So you truly feel like there's something different this year? Because I feel like, I don't know, I just feel like we've we've heard that before. We have tell you what a little bit what it feels like. It feels like Palantir stock right now. Just it's been ripping for a while.

People are excited. There's some concerns that leadership might be a little bit out over their skis or things are maybe a little bit too frothy. You know, there's been a slight pullback, but it's still massively valued compared to where it was last year. Sure. And I'm usually the first in this time period to be like, ah, Rory picked the to where it was last year. Sure. And I'm usually the first in this time period to be like, ah, Roy picked the wrong time.

You know, he has too good of a spring, wins Bay Hill, wins the play, whatever it might be, like, you know, has a success in this time period, piques too good, more attention on him for Augusta, bad news. And for whatever reason, you know, maybe it's the second IST high noon that I just I don't know just feels like it could it could be if there's gonna be a year this one feels like a good one. And I don't usually say that heading into Augusta. Okay. Mark Howe is number three. This is a stock that is soaring for

me as well. I know we had just doing Augusta, right? Like this is just stock for the rest of the year. Talk for the Masters. Yeah. Okay. This one's so hard for me. The swing looks so good, but he just, I don't know,

the attitude concerning me. Yeah. And I don't know. I just feel like if you're a real player, you just can't hang a 77 out there yesterday. It's just stuff like that. I little Domi. Yeah, I just can't get all the way there with them, which means I'm selling, which means you should buy because I've been wrong calling at every single turn. Xander is number four now. I think this is, I don't know if we have any much discussion around this one,

but with coming off the injury now, finishing DFL of guys that made the cut. This is a stock that you can get a little bit cheap right now. Yeah. I think McRib. All right. Yeah. I was going to say this week felt like an earnings mess for Xander. I think this stock is, is, you know, when the market opens tomorrow morning, this this stock, it's going to be a pretty big sell off, maybe, you know, six, eight, 10% sell off. Comments he makes on top of the play are enough to say like, yeah, this is not, you know, there's a

few weeks to get things turned around. We know how talented he is, but it's, it's not going in the right direction. This has been an interesting one. John Rahm at number five. What can you say? I feel like the stock got delisted. I was just going to say, I feel like this is a privately owned company. Or you got taken private and he's- I don't know the financials. I have no idea. Yeah, he gets scooped up and Yeah, he gets scooped up and, you know, he's not reporting out. So simply don't know. He continues to top 10 at every single live event. I think all of us just don't know what that means at this point when you've got maybe

30 viable players on that tour. T2 in Riyadh, sixth in Adelaide, T6 in Hong Kong. I think he was top five this week or five this week as well. I think this stock is the exact same as it's always been, which is really, really high, really, really good. And I think he's still got a very good chance of winning the Masters as he did two years ago. I don't buy the, he's ruined his career, can't win a major,

can't, he had a poor major season last year, but wasn't as poor as a lot of us, maybe even myself, made it out to be. And he's playing normal John Rahm golf, which should say he's definitely a contender to win the Masters. Russell Henley is the sixth ranked player in the world in data golf. What are we calling this stock heading into Augusta? I think this is a dividend stock. He's just spitting off a quarterly dividend and you're not gonna buy a new beach house with this stock but at the same time, it's compounding interest, right?

I like that. I like that TC. He's not a massive course fit for it but obviously he's had a ridiculous winter and a massive win last week, but Um, you know, I I'm not not a guy that comes to mind the top of the mind Uh when it comes to the masters next one should spark some conversation Thomas fleetwood

buying Long a long fleetwood I mean truly what is it not the way? True how could you not believe fucking results crazy I Have I bet he'll top 20 at Augusta. I'd love that love that forum so we said This coming here is Fleetwood is a municipal bond that that seems that seems about right You know exactly what you're gonna get which is really good. Don't

Get a deposit, you know exactly what you're isn't there a massive municipal bond like crisis looming That's interesting TC. At what point do we call this a crisis? You guys are I mean you tell me I've put myself out there, stuck my neck out. We're waiting to see some accountability on the back end of you giraffe yourself out there. I think the stock is rising. I don't see any reason to think that anything's going to change with this company going forward. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's an excellent stock. But it's, you know, if we're looking to get rich quick, I don't know if this is where I'm going. idea. They've, they've, I just like I'll never know how to how to pick, pick him or when to pick him. I just I've never like there's no signals, or whatever. It's kind of a, you know, counter to the market

kind of thing. Century feels like a long time ago, beta stock. Yeah. Yeah. You know, he hasn't done a whole heck of a lot. It's not been bad, but he has no top 10s, You know, he hasn't done a whole heck of a lot. It's not been bad, but he has no top tens, you know, since winning the century. And the century is obviously very different. And people make the comparisons,

Kapalua to Augusta just because of the elevation changes and non-stock shots and whatnot. But I think this one's, this one's on a little bit of a decline, but Justin Thomas at number nine. If you like volatility, this is your stock. No, JT might be crypto. JT can be crypto.

It's not for me. It's a product that's just not for me. And I know I'm gonna miss some bursts, I know I'm gonna miss some pops, but I just, I can't get there. It doesn't fit my investing philosophy. It's interesting, he's got good results. If you pull up the page, you know, T2 at the Zozo,

finish third at the Hero, whatever you think of that. Runner up at American Express, T6 at Phoenix, T9 at Genesis, but you know t2 at the Zozo finish third at the hero whatever you think of that runner up at American Express t6 at Phoenix t9 at Genesis but uh you know a couple tough weeks here in Florida did not play well at pebble as well did not play well the century he's not he's the opposite of Hogecoin uh you know he's he's not timing up his his big weeks with the biggest events um and does not have the most amazing master's record So cuts in a row at Augusta. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a good, it's been a good run for him.

I would say the stock is still rising. I think the ball striking is on a really good pace and we've seen the possibility of the putter getting hot at least for one day. So that's it. That one's rising a little bit. And it could be a, it could be a Hawk tour situation. little bit. And it could be a could be a Hawk to a situation. I was gonna say it could be a true rug pull. That's a great call TC.

Hatton Tyrell Hatton. I have no idea what's going on there. I don't know what he finished this week. But he's yeah, he's been pretty pedestrian on live so far this year. I also, I wouldn't say that necessarily counts him out. I wouldn't say that that means the stocks in decline. So I think this is a, a deal, another D listed stock. Hatten feels like a commodity, like a volatile commodity play. Patrick Cantlay, number 11.

This still feels in decline for me. I'm gonna buy Cantlay. Here, I think, I think he's slowly but surely trending. He did not have a great year last year. Had a couple good results here. The T5 down in the desert and then the T5 at Tori, Genesis. And a good result this week. So I think he's, I don't know, at some point that one's gonna pop a little bit.

And he's a toolsy player, right? Yeah, I think this is a the most level grade I could give it. I don't know. I'm right there with you. This would be interesting Ludwig Oberg, number 12 data golf rankings, one a few weeks ago the Genesis of course, but T 22 on a Palmer missed the cut this week. Yeah. Weird week. I think it's just some chop. I'm not, I think this stock is still on the rise for me. I like a break out, you know, it's short term, it's going to send the stock down, but that's just a buying

opportunity. We've had some of these guys like Hindenburg Research coming at us, trying to poke holes or get some sort of SEC investigation going. There short sentiment. Not gonna work. Yeah, I think we just gotta wait it out, Randy. I agree. I'm willing to, you can convince me on anyone to throw out the players result. Like you can convince, and Ludwig I would put in that bucket for this week. I don't think it changes anything for somebody coming off a great Masters last year. Shane Lowry up to 13th in the world coming off the seventh place finished last week, second at Pebble. Got some decent course history at Augusta. This one's a clear riser for me. Yeah, Shane Lowry just doesn't do

anything for me. So that stuns me, Randy. I'm sorry. I'm not really buying the decent course history at Augusta. He has the 1 t3 And he has one other top 20. Okay, I bet on him the I bet him the top five That's what I remember He was playing really good going into that one and jumping off the page at me So I may do the same thing again this year. So okay Joaquin Neyman the number one player in the world, you know, wins again this week on live, but does famously does not have a top 10 any major championship. You could make a few jokes here, you know, maybe an inside trading job by

Mickelson, maybe a pump and dump. I don't know what he's angling. A pump and dump. With this Joaquin Nieman number one in the world. I don't know. I feel like this is a stock that we've been waiting on to IPO. I was gonna say it feels like an IPO, Randy. High churn rate. Yeah, I'm not sure they're making money,

but it's an exciting brand. I don't see the path to profitability, but that might not matter in this market. Neiman is there, no, Scott be pretty good there. That was, I'm buying. I think Phil knows something. I think he's been watching him up close. It could be, it could be a Dean foods kind of play, Randy.

Exactly. I know. I, I, I very, I don't know. I've always been bullish on walking. He's won it some proper courses prior. There's never been any reason why he doesn't compete in majors. And I think it's only a matter of time. I think there is one reason, TC. He's a lowball hitter. And when the courses get firm and whatnot, that may be too simple of a conclusion to reach.

I heard he doesn't have a whole, like, I don't mean this as like the biggest slight. He doesn't sound like he has a whole lot of intellectual horsepower either. Like, he's just not the smartest player. And I don't know if you need that at Augusta, right? Maybe you got to think your way around that place a little bit. I'd be surprised.

I think it's the stock, the live wins don't do much of anything for the stock. It's all smoke. I mean, a year ago. Sentosa was a proper golf course this week. But sure. Sure. Yeah. I just feel like it would shock me for Joaquin to given his major results to date, for him to like come out and win one without first taking a step of like at least top 10ing or being in contention, right? I, I just can't picture making that big of a leap. Right. Like it's like an emerging market stock, right?

Or, Hey, you know what? Like they're, they're, they're, they're not being audited by a big four firm yet or whatever, you know, like we got to get them to here. But it's like, I'm looking for a big step from him. You're moving forward. I think that's fair. Yeah. It's gonna be a very interesting, uh, earnings release. You won earnings. Last one. I don't know what to do with this one. Bryson DeChambeau at number 15. I would say it's like I struggle with it because I know that some of the courses they've played of late on live with Adelaide and

Hong Kong, especially like they're just like the worst course fits possible for him. And I feel like he's just kind of treading water and on low power mode and he's going to kind of kick it into gear here prior to the Masters. Then again, like it's never really seemed like Augusta after all that initial bluster that Augusta is maybe not a great fit for him for whatever reason. that Augusta's maybe not a great fit for him for whatever reason. He did T6 last year, which came as a surprise. He had really good results coming into Augusta last year, and I kind of brushed it off and had some egg on my face for that one. But the results not really there as much so far on Liv. You mentioned the bad course fits leading up here at TC, but honestly, it's just not been really great since the US Open. He missed the cut at the Open Championship

to finish out the year and has some results, decent results at a myriad of events that are not significant at all. So it's a tough one to read. I'm not sure they have enough internal controls to justify being publicly traded at this point, and it's just too risky. It's, I don't know if a big four firm is giving an opinion on this one,

but with the data that we have. Soly, one name that you didn't put on this agenda was Brooks. Solo second in Singapore this week. Now means he will win. As soon as you forget about Brooks, he does go out and win. for this week. Now means he will win. As soon as you forget about Brooks, he does go out and win. It has been really tough. Yeah, Brooks. Brooks might have got away with a little slur from what I could tell on from after a poor shot this past week. I don't know if maybe Liv's lack of viewership might have played into into his benefit this past week. But I remember one particular player on this

list getting getting roasted for the JTF bomb. It was a believe one of those from from what I could what I could gather. But he said he should go back to the corn fairy tour. You effing F was was the quote I saw circulating on the social medias. So I was not watching live from anything in Singapore. But yeah, he's 62nd in the data golf rankings to this point. It's never mattered in the past when it comes to majors and when he shows up and balls out. So I don't know with Brooks, but I'm not feeling it. The stock is in decline. I have to call it like

I see it, but you know, you feel like you almost have to cover your ass with every major and say, we should mention Brooks might win this thing By four. Yeah Brooks Brooks might be like a you know, like Philip Morris or something like that Like it's in, you know, there's there's structural stuff there that you just can't can't get over but they're gonna have little pops here and there So, all right, let's get to a treeria now, Randy. I think that's the parent, yeah. Let's get to a final segment here. Just one more thing. One more thing from this past week.

DJ's not here, but I can run through his, I guess Rory had to Uber some old tailor-made clubs to from his home in Palm Beach to Orlando last week and the uber ride cost $995 to Bay Hill because he was switching back into his old reliable equipment which I think has ended up working out well for him that he's got in play this week as well but that's a fun little story how do you do that you send like send equipment in an Uber, did anybody ride with it? Like you just say, Hey, drive this, this

club and somebody is going to meet you there. I'm not sure how that exactly works. But it can't you hire a courier? Courier? I think that's what I'm trying to be right. Yeah, they're kind of trying to be the everything app. It's the aggregator. So that's pretty, I guess it was a it was a $665 trip plus a $330 tip and the clubs arrived at 930. This is from Adam Schupec at golf week.

Okay, I mean, Kutcher shout to Kutcher generous tip. That's a good you think he did a Uber x You think he did like, what do you even choose? Comfort? XL black? TC what's your conversation? Please? Roy should have just sent his G 650 up there to pick it up and no come back with it. Roy should go home tonight. You know, come back in the morning. Anything else you want to shout out TC? Blandi to t14 this week. That's I got like three more things. Sorry, I need the t14.

I wanted to once more just say I cannot get over what Gabby Golf Girls dad did in your line. And it was just that was just really, really, really distasteful and unnecessary. And like like a few other things, that was just really, really, really distasteful and unnecessary. And like a few other things, there was some engagement farming earlier in the week by you know, a competitor and a competitive podcast in the space.

And you just don't need to be doing that. You don't need to be dishonest and, you know, outright lying like that too. So, and so I just wanted to shout you out again for, for, should have been my yeti coldest moment of the week, but for what you did the West Brian was just, it was cold, cold hearted, man. Ice cold. It was cold. So I didn't do anything. I just was playing golf. That was, that was the only thing I was doing TC. So I mean, some could say he did himself.

And then the last thing, this is just kind of how my stupid brain works. Just wondering about how guys, how are guys getting from, like I've been talking to Deej about this all afternoon, how are guys getting from Sawgrass to Tampa? Do they have to give up their courtesy car, drop it off at Sawgrass, pick up a rental car, drive the mules, of course, drive to Tampa and get a new courtesy car at Innisfrook? Or is there some sort of coach bus? DJ labeled it a mule, a potential mule drive. I feel like we can get an answer to this question by the end of the night. I feel like you could have, you know, how many people in your phone would have been able to talk to different people and they have, they've all had different, different

answers. So, uh, you know, and, and of course we, you know, very, very keen to see what the food situation looks like down at the Vals Farfax. The biggest storyline of the week. I heard, I heard, uh, I did talk to Keith, Keith Mitchell. He said he's been consulting, which props to the folks down there to bring him on for his with his expertise to improve the situation. Randy, anything you want to shout out? I just real quick couple other winners on the women's side on the ladies European Tour man in the Roy Wins the Australian women's classic by a shot and then on the Epson tour Gina Kim who's a face that's Some LPGA players have played Epson the last couple weeks of weeks because LPGA is off. They're off next week as well. They come back the end of March. So Gina Kim is one that has LPGA experience,

but this is I believe is their first professional win. So shout out to those two women. And I just want to give another shout out, uh, especially after watching back the video, um, you know, we had such a fricking good time on Wednesday and the highs were extremely high. But my guy DJ pie on the bag was just electric. He was awesome. He was the perfect caddy. We had such a good time and especially watching it back like how good he was at you know, calming me down after things started off very poorly. And I gave him like my two swing thoughts that I needed to hear. And he kept like I

didn't even like tell him to keep repeating him but I bought as I'm watching the video my hands did start to dip lower and lower as the round went on and he was always there to remind me to keep him high and I do have a tendency of like even if I got a good swing feel going to just like forget about it four holes later Cuz it's like oh, I got to figure it out. I don't need to still think about that field. We're all good. But we just were vibing our face off and we had such a great time and it was excellent, excellent caddy. So shout out to him for for guiding me along the way. Even that final read. He's like, don't, don't hit this through the break. You don't need to whack this. And I hit that final one just a bit through the break, but

he was absolutely spot on. So which makes his own game even more confusing if he's that good at shepherding somebody else around but can't shepherd himself around in the way that I know he wants to, we need to crack that code in 2025. Yeah, well said. DJ's caddied for me in the NIT before. He's a great bag man.

Well, and if you're still watching this and haven't watched the video that the guys put together and got out in a record amount of time from every shot at the Creator Classic and kind of behind the scenes of some of it and all the audio and all the all the on course conversations on stuff that is on our YouTube channel as well came out last night. So make sure to check that out because they did. Ben did an amazing job of coordinating all that and traveling in and doing all that TC was.C. was out with the meta glasses, Marimer's out

there shooting it all. It was just a really, really fun night in the video. Turned out awesome. Also, how the PGA Tour doesn't pick a random player that wants a little bit more exposure and mic them up and shoot a video in this fashion and post the same style of video for a Thursday round of the Valspar, I'll never understand because it's people will watch it. On track. No, I tracks. Yeah, I don't know, man.

It seems like a really easy sounds of the game kind of style. And yeah, I mean, it's hard to turn around in the timeframe that they did and shout to them for that. So it was great. Anything else before we wrap? Who you guys got for Valspar? It's like low key. I freaking love these golfers. Who do we have for the players? Who's gonna win tomorrow? Big players predictions. I think Rory wins. I think Rory. I think Rory does as well, which worries me a little bit that we're all on this side. But just one final thing. I I mean we talked a lot about TPC Sawgrass one question I have is the Sawgrass finish the best finish we see all year majors included like 16, 17, 18 in terms of like

suspense of what's like not knowing what's going to happen I don't know if I can think of a better stretch honestly of Luke I could convince myself Lucas Glover was still in it because you can eagle not knowing what's going to happen, I don't know if I can think of a better stretch, honestly. I could convince myself Lucas Glover was still in it because you can eagle 16, birdie 17, you can even birdie 18 if you want and you can also make doubles on 17 or 18, even though the leaders tend to not do that. It just seems to be like, it's an epic playoff. 16, 17, 18 is a really freaking awesome playoff. It sucks that they didn't get it in tonight, but I just didn't want to end the week on a poof because it was a really really good tournament. Yeah It's tough to find another one, I know like green monster love

The green monster with the green mile the green mile. Yeah That's true. Oh a lot of people call it the green monster Yeah. I hate that strength. Oh, a lot of people call it the green monster. Good holes. Travelers is a really good one. Cody knows. But 18's kind of gone away.

Waste management getting a nomination here. That's a really good one. I think the one thing at players is they gotta put that T-box on top of the hill. Like they gotta beef up 18. It's lost so much of its. Yeah, no bit here. I think Rory hit three iron nine iron into that green today.

Nine iron nine, you're right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm with TC. Make it, give it more teeth. And it's just, yeah, it just feels a little bit, you know, either maybe that's one to narrow the fairway on even too. But like, and then just seeing all those guys like not being able to control their spin into that green and the ball just it's weird. I don't know, it's kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. I would also put forth lives going to support the pack this year.

Need I say, oh 16, 17, 18 there but not sure I put it above TPC but I will acknowledge that uh is dope. So, Cody, anything else we missed from uh from players week? Nah, just a champion buddy. We'll get that tomorrow morning. Awesome week. Long week. So, congratulations again. Shout out to Ben. We already said that. Shout out to buddy. We'll get that tomorrow morning. Awesome week, long week, Solly, congratulations again. Shout out to Ben, we already said that.

Shout out to Patty. Those guys, not only Ben filming everything and TC out there with his creator goggles on, but how they worked in the time that they were able to is just truly impressive. It felt like all of NLU's horses were running. And you as the content, you and DJ out there, it was really cool, real special.

I'm just glad it wasn't another sad affair to watch on repeat. That would have been good content too. I know. That's what I keep saying. A video would have been done either way. I was thinking about that too, TC. I mean, I don't really go out on weekends

because we had to turn the show around quickly, but. Like nine to 10 little coffee golf. I might get a cappuccino. Tomorrow, yeah. Yeah. So anyways, check out the vid on YouTube. We are not, unless something crazy happens tomorrow, we're not planning to do any addendum podcast based on tomorrow, but we'll have some more pods hitting your

feed this week as always. And you can check back here. We're off on live shows until of course Augusta, but we'll of course have weekly pods hitting your feed every single Sunday into Monday. So thank you to High Noon, Titleist, Golf Pride, Serve Pro, Yeti, and everyone for tuning in all week. Cody running the ones and twos. Welcome back. We'll see you guys again soon.

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