No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 336: WGC FedEx St. Jude Classic Recap

Episode Date: August 3, 2020

JT avenges the Workday, Brooks comes up short, Berger makes a run, some key action gets missed, and everything else from a busy week in golf. We talk about Bryson's ant situation, Bones' big week, the awkwardness with Phil, Danielle Kang winning on the LPGA Tour, and a ton more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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what would you say you learned the most about when you became Master Club Fetter? Oh gosh. Most important thing I learned was how important the tape is. The fitting tape knowing exactly where your strike was and then from there you can really figure out tendencies and also figure out, you know, all right was that a good strike or not? Was that indicative of, you know, a good strike, good tendency and then from there you can kind of proceed with the fitting. So in a fitting, Calo is distance fitting programs.

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He resisted my advice. I need to go back. A year's worth of stuff to correct, because he had his driver set the wrong way for an entire year, which is... He can't change too many variables at once. You're not supposed to change the only one variable at a time. Right, so check that out on our YouTube channel if you can. We have a lot to talk about.

There's a lot, a lot of golf that has been played this past weekend. We are recording this as the Barakuda is, I think, still in the front nine. If something crazy happens, we're going to go back into the studio in the back half and talk about that. First up on the counter, of course, is the WGC FedEx St. Jude Classic, Justin Thomas emerges as a winner by two shots. I believe, no, sorry, three shots. Final round 65, he wins 1.82 million dollars and takes an insurmountable lead in the FedEx cup now. It takes at least two weeks for somebody to catch him at this point.

At this point, I think it finally matters, right? I think the PGA tours, they're very relieved that it's not Lontogrith and somebody like that leading the FedEx cup at this point. I doubt many people in Panavita were rooting necessarily for Brendan Todd to be the player of the year and to win the FedEx cup or win you know, win the wind and rewards or whatever's coming up. But Justin Thomas, we did this last time when he was not a killer at work day. Is he a dog or a killer? I think he's still a dog.

He didn't have killer tendencies off the tee down the stretch. He got rubbed of the greens pretty good. Oh my goodness. Like, like, how are you missing there? It was a horrible shot. So I don't even understand. I don't even understand. I don't even understand.

I don't even understand. I don't even understand. I don't even understand how they didn't get it. I promise we're saving hamster Dan for hamster Dan. Well, it'll be. The coverage takes, we're gonna let it fly. But we never have to see it go across the bridge, but the way the graphics work,

I have no idea how that ball crossed the ball. No, I was even talking about the one that got hung up on the back of that bunker. Well, he hit that one there. Like he deserved that. No, I know, but like how do you miss, you know, you're on cruise control. How do you miss right there? Yeah. That was, you know, a function of, and we can talk TPC Southwind, but a couple pins with

that were like, hey, go, go get this pin if you want it. But if you hit a Porsche out, you're going to pay the price. And that is why I think we got a separated, strong leaderboard. I know it ended up with a huge two-way tie for second, but there was really good dividing line shots. And we'll talk, we'll get to 16th a little bit later. So, but yeah, JT was feeling it, going for birdies and just tugged a little wedge.

And when you tug a wedge, it goes long and ends up in that bunker. That was the Neil miss. Yeah, I think, I think it, you know, Southwind is not my favorite course in the rotation, but I think a good example of a golf course that creates some good entertainment on television. Yeah, I think I'll come with some positivity on Southwind.

I like it. It's a good tournament course. It looks hard, it looks like there's a lot of dog legs, you gotta shape the ball, greens are small. It's not a driving contest decidedly. And for that, I like it. And it was still a good test, even though it's soggy as hell right there too. It held up very well scoring loss.

Well, like, you had a good example on Twitter of Brooks on that little wedge shot. Yeah. Brooks just not getting quite enough spin on it. And it was a matter of, you know, that thing would have stopped with another 18 inches, but the margins are super thin out there with the short grass around the greens. I tried to combine two points into one with that shot with, you know, how good JT. So to decide to go after that pin and both of them were out of position off the tee. So their

third shot into the par five, 16th were not where they wanted to be playing for them, but there's a back left pin and JT is in the first cut of rough and he had to drop that ball down an elevator shaft with spin to get it to stop close to the hole. And if you wanna go at that pin, which he did, he took on the risk and knocked it stiff and you probably wouldn't have been able to appreciate just how good that shot was until you see Keppka come in. He's a little closer from the fairway,

unable to get as much spin as he needs but his ball rolls just off the back and then down a slope and does not stop in long grass. And it's like everything we've been talking about the last several weeks is he had a chip at the bottom of that hill off short grass to no green to work with. We didn't get to hear him really talking. We can play it a bunch of different ways. We didn't get to hear him talk through all the options with Ricky unfortunately, but he

chipped it way past the whole Maybogee. And that is what I want to see in a PGA tourator event coming down the stretch like guys deciding whether or not to take pins on if you missed the shot you're gonna pay the price and that decided the tournament right there on that hole that was awesome. Yeah, I'm still I'm shook by Brooks dumping it in the water on 18. That was looked yeah that was a you know everything burns kind of move coming down I don't know I don't know I can't figure that dude out, man. Lou Brown tweeted something, he said,

you know, Brooks isn't gonna grind out in the, in the company softball game, which is essentially what he views WGCS, right? But at the same time, from everything I've heard, Brooks loves money. He loves money. He loves money. And that he has,

$450,000, $5,000 is a lot of money. He loves money. And that he has $450,000 a lot of money. Yeah, I know he's trying to win it there on 18, and I'm not even reflecting that much on the T-shot. I mean, you gotta take on that water if you wanna have a good shot at making birdie on that hole. And I understand that, but making double out of it costs him $455,000. And for someone that I've,

here's some rumblings that likes to gamble it from time to time and maybe spend some money lavishly and you know, plays for the money. We've heard Joel Damon talk about playing for the money and I think tour guys don't talk enough about how much the money actually really does matter to them but he made it look like he didn't care there on the 18 more so than, I don't know,

then was maybe reality. It's funny because he plays for these trophies, and then I think the other, and obviously the trophies equal money. But otherwise, he truly doesn't give a shit about the tour events, and it's solely money in the tour event. They actually had a fun graphic before the day to day about, so the storylines going into it was,

like, we'll kept capbalance out his trophy case, which was four major wins and three PGA tour wins, which I've never seen the tour really, go out of their way to acknowledge the major wins and the fact that he hasn't won a bunch of tournaments. Speaking of Tor wins, it was BS today. I think James Corgan tweeted about it today. The tour refuses to acknowledge, so the WGCs are not, they're not just PGA Tor events. They're a collection of all the worldwide association of PGA tours,

or whatever they call it. And it doesn't feel like that when you're watching it. And even on the graphics, they refuse to acknowledge European tour wins. Current year European tour wins. It's like the most jingoistic and career tour. Self-serving thing ever.

Yeah. Yeah, at no point, like every now and then I'll see, I guess it's just how it's presented to us, but you'll see a graphic from the European Tour Twitter or something about this event. And you're like, oh yeah, it's also kind of a European Tour event and it really, really doesn't feel like it.

And you know what, sorry, this is Hamstam creeping in, but I feel for like the British fans a lot because from all signs, they don't see any golf when playing through happens. And you and Murray on Sky was, it was really upset today on the fact that the directors were not showing Tom Lewis enough, which was insane. And listen, I'd love to blame COVID for all that, but this stuff happened before that

happened. But that's not quite good to that just yet. Let's save the good stuff. We'll save the good stuff. Brennan Todd held the 54 hole lead tough scene today. That's twice that thisaky today. Yes. That's twice that this year that that has happened. And it. Yeah. It sucks. I mean, he's had an unbelievable year. I wish he would, you know, hang in there a little bit longer on these Sundays,

but he ended up tied for 15th with Ricky, of course, who shot three over the the broadcast crew was calling it out pretty early on. They're saying, hey, he's walking like, it's not right. His shoulders look really, really tense and he's walking differently. Yeah. It's gotta be hard on the PGA tour

to wait around for a tea time all day. And it's not all that's pressing. What was it, Timothy Freig, what this guy called on Twitter said, with Brendan Todd and Benon coming down the last like a bunch of drunk girls coming home with Six A and they should have to carry their shoes. That was by a tweet of the week. That was that was hilarious. Benon hit some, I mean, they're talking about all the work he's putting with with facts and all

that and then he had some good puts today and he had some shaky puts. Yeah, yeah, the mega cleaf on the on the first hole today. But Daniel Berger made a run as well. He bogey 18, but he, he gave it quite a scare. Cash my top 10 bet for this week. Phil Mikkelson finished high for second. That was kind of sneaky to me. Yeah. And really he had a bogey free round today, which you don't like, that's not very feel like. That is very, really quite disappointing to be honest. Back to the JT note, obviously we had bones on the bag cadding for him this week. His caddy Jimmy Johnson was out with experiencing some

dizzy spells lately and is out for this week and next week bones on the bag. The first time his career, cadding for the number one player in the world now. That's so bizarre. It's such, I do ever sit in the tweed that are we gonna see bones on the 18th green today, say this is the most important win

of his entire career? That, I was trying to find a picture of Stevie with the microphone in his face at the Ed Bridgestone, and I could not find one. But how many shots of, certainly I don't wanna skip over Tom Lewis. Tom Lewis shots 61 yesterday. What can we talk about the bones thing here?

Because I was looking for some coverage on this of, you know, they saw each other on the range, they saw each other on the putting green or something that already explained, you know, exchange pleasantries. And there's no coverage on that. I understand that. And then I'll be a white wash the shit out of it. They didn't even cover it all day. But Phil rolls up to the tee and doesn't like say hello to JT or anything just says,

hey, I've got a call away. And then I've bones looked like he was kind of laughing about it. That, you know, Phil didn't even acknowledge bones as presents or whatnot, but it didn't seem pleasant. And I don't know the full story. I really don't, but maybe I know more than I think. I mean, it's a new anyway, but I don't, that was crazy that they just didn't even acknowledge that they just didn't even acknowledge

that they hadn't spoken really to each other all day. At least, maybe if they had, if Dottie had seen that or whatever, that's great, let's share that, but yeah, that was missing today. It's bizarre, yeah, and yeah, it seems like, just dig in a little bit more, just do a little bit more work.

And golf, we don't have that many relationships like that, you know, like team. Spent what, 20, 25 25 years 25 years on his bag a little bit more than 25 years even on the bag every week every day state of same hotels eight breakfast together I mean yeah is yeah it was it was bizarre and uh I'm sure bones just smiled a little bit even more about uh you know them winning the tournament this week, but fun fact, I guess question for you.

How many wins does JT have since Speeds last win? I know he's got three this year. Gosh, probably seven. Nine. Nine. Nine. 13 wins for JT. When was Speeds last win? British Open, 2017. 13th win for JT, 12 spiced last win British open 2017 13th win for JT 12 and last four seasons and the third fastest to 13 wins second behind Jack and Tyker.

He's a predator man and gosh yeah couple that have just kind of slipped away or we had a couple questions one of them I can't find the name of it but is basically coming down to are you worried about JT's big right miss coming down the stretch of some of these tournaments? He got away with a lot coming down the stretch. I'm not, I'm just worried about the big miss. It's not left or right. Like he's got to go in both ways, right?

He missed big time left on 15th of all that jumps across the cart path and across the creek, which is legitimately one of the luckiest breaks I think I can ever remember happening in a PGA Tour event. Blows it way right on 16 into the creek, which is legitimately one of the luckiest breaks I think I can ever remember happening in a PGA tour event. Blows it way right on 16 into the trees, blows it right on 17 and then blows it way right again on 18. But never horribly out of position was able to recover and then take care of business and

not, you know, he'd never doubled down on any of the mistakes. But I mean, JT, he's got to be like a lock for player of the year now, right? I would think so. And Brennan Todd, of course, is going to win come back player the air. That's what I'm more concerned with. I guess that they brought up courage or four or five times that maybe maybe not that many times, but you know, saying he's a lock for come back player the air. That award doesn't exist anymore.

They haven't given it out in 10 years. They renamed it like the courage award. And it's not something you give out every year. It's more, I know Jared Lyle got it once. I know Eric Compton got it once. It's much more of like overcoming something physical. I still don't understand how striker wanted twice in a one of the greatest back twice in a year.

And Tor history. He broke the award. He won, it was 06 and 07 come back player of the year, which literally don't call it a comeback. If it's the second year, I don't know how you could win it twice, but many people are saying Patrick Reed's going to win Courage Awards this year. Nancy Fowler floated that on Twitter. Yeah, he overcame a lot of adversity getting there.

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Uh, 61 yesterday on Saturday with a bogie. Ty's the course record. If there was a cut, like he was in the bottom half of the field after two rounds. Yeah. Low key, a beauty of the no cut event is you can get a rare story like Tom Lewis shooting 61. What are you shooting?

Sorry today. I know you shot 66 today, half a McKenzie Hughes. He had a five footer for birdie on 16, and then bogey'd 17. He had a serious series. He was right there. I don't think it would have, I don't think it would have mattered

if he made the five footer. I think any who would have lost by one. Either way, JT's, JT's was so good on 18. Right, but if he's got to get that up and down, that's a little different thought. I think JT bailed out way right on purpose on that second shot knowing you, I think at some point he knew he had a two shot lead.

But yeah, I mean, and then Lewis shoots 30 on the front nine today. Correcting myself, Brooks had just birdied 17. So it was a one shot lead, but he would have thought he had a two shot lead. But the shot he hit into 16 was the nutty part. He flagged it, and it barely rolled off that back. And he, so he,

talking about the Keppka shot earlier, Louis had the same, a very similar shot and he potted it up the hill to five feet. That was really the only way to get it close. But then he missed a five footer. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I missed a five footer that that one hurt. But that is some, some serious, serious golf. They seemed only want to cover it from the plane for a long period. Which was a great bit. I guess it was, but Galle, yeah, he was plus three, starting his round on the back nine on Saturday. I keep having to trick myself into, into, or like actually just fool myself

and kind of remind myself that these guys making big moves in the FedEx Cup, it actually doesn't matter because everybody keeps their card. I know. After this year, but I mean, he moved up 79 spots from 191 to 112. Like I was looking at a couple other guys and I'm like, oh man, they need this out in Tahoe and all that. Well, they still do for category and reshuffle.

Yeah, you can get some pretty good perks. A ton of perks come with making it to East Lake. I mean, that's Masters and I know Tom Loes isn't in any. Really, really even a ton to say it's, it doesn't mean that much, but it means a lot. It is different when you're not fighting exactly for your card. You're right, but it is a much different year of kind of tracking how things come down here. WGC-wise. I don't know if you can see it, but I think it's a lot more than I thought. I mean, I don't know if you can see it, but I think it's a lot more than I thought. I mean, I don't know if you can see it, but I think it's a lot more than I thought. I mean, I don't know if you can see it're right, but it is a much different year of kind of tracking how things come down here.

WGC-wise, I can't tell if I'm supposed to care about this event, like more, no, I'm not being sarcastic, like am I supposed to, you know, be especially amped up for this, and I don't know if that's necessarily a coverage take, but I think, you know, it being the tour's biggest sponsor in what it's supposed to be an elevated event, there was nothing that felt different about watching it.

If anything, it was the opposite. Did you feel that? Yes. I think some of that comes down to, and really I don't think this changes with fans or without fans. Some of it just comes down to the coverage, right? Yeah. So, all right, let's say that then, if we can,

and let's talk Bryson. Yeah, let's talk Bryson. So I missed this on, was it Thursday or Friday? I was stepped away from Martin Little. This was Thursday, we were on the golf, we were our CJ and I, and he's like, oh God, I guess something's going on with Bryson and Fire Ants.

I, we're gonna be watching way too much golf this coming week, and I had to get away from a couple of days, and just everyone melts down. Bryson hits his ball left, I believe, on the seventh hole. Calls in a rules official to look at it. Of course, the rules official can tack it. For the first time, he was actually polite to the rules official. He was.

Which is progress, I think. So I just want to again thank the golf gods for at least the service of that camera man. He put himself in harm's way. It was very close to the conversation. So what he was arguing for and I had to look this rule up. A dangerous animal condition exists when a dangerous animal such as at poisonous, such as poisonous snakes, stingy bees, alligators, fire ants or bears. This is literally the rulebook. That's quite the quite the spectra. Yeah. Near a ball could cause serious physical injury to the player if he or she has to play it as it lies. I looked at that and I was like, technically, like, price might kind of

might be on to something here. And then I looked at it a little bit closer, could cause serious physical injury and contact. It's like, dude, I don't see any fire ads here. Do you also have to prove that they're fire ants and not just regular ants? I would think so. I think it's gotta be real. I couldn't, so this got scrubbed. This is another note of something worth noted that CBS tweeted it. So good on that.

So all of CBS had tweeted it out and it has since been deleted. Hearing some rumors, I guess, of the tour putting some pressure on CBS, not to maybe discuss some of these things with cameraman and all these things that are going on with Bryson. I believe the video of all the stuff that went down to Memorial has also been low key taken down. So the Class X tour strikes again.

MCA tour. But yeah, so I couldn't, I didn't get to see the entire clip, but from all, he wasn't up, it wasn't quite as bad as Memorial, he's laying back. It was still patently absurd. It was, but there, you know, if it had been pulled off or I guess if Phil had done it, it had been looking, using the rules to his advantage. It's a little bit of piling on price

and I think a little bit, but it's also, he brings us on himself. He earned it. Yes, for sure, but did not. And then Brooks, the following, was it the following day or a few days later, you know, basically tries to point out an ant and he's like, oh yeah, I'm not gonna take really. No, he's, he points down, he's like,

oh look, there's an ant and Ricky is caddy, like falls for it and looks over, he's like, I'm just kidding. It was in a similar spot though. It was in a similar, I think everybody, I don't know if it was the same hole or not, but he knew the camera was right there on him. Can we talk about another thing that happened Saturday?

Do you see Brooks sprays his ball way right on, forget which hole it was in the back nine into the Heather? He goes over to it and I am not accusing Brooks of cheating. No one could literally ever know, but he just like says out loud, he's like, oh yeah, it's embedded. It reaches his hand in there and spends like five seconds messing around, pulls the ball out and shows it to the rules officials.

I guess he was embedded, like, because it was dirt on it. And the rules officials say, oh yeah, there's dirt on it. Yeah, that was embedded. And it was just, if a ball was embedded, and I think it's embedded, I want somebody else to verify that. Rooks is an alpha, man. He is an alpha, but it was just, I didn't love it.

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So, go back to Bryson. I thought we were in for a big week from Bryson. Opens was 67, four under, first round. I think he was first round, he got off to, he was off to the races. I think, I don't know if he'd started on the back, but Bertie 12, 13, 16, and then two, I think he was four under at one point.

And then he had a double in that round and still shot 67. Did he try to drive 18 today? Who could say, so who could say? But the graphics certainly looks like he tried to get somewhat closer. He just dead pulled a driver and was trying to get it, you know, into that neck of the fairway. I don't know, but they show him dropping on the other side of the pond and hitting into the green. I was like, yeah, that's not the part of

the hole that we kind of wanted to see for that. You're going to tell me you don't have a camera on the 18th. I know what a hard camera is, but they were using the blimp on Tom Lewis. That's right. So the plane didn't have that. I mean, so I do think it's interesting. Just going down the board because it was so tightly bunched, where especially this is the week before a major.

And so it's kind of a clue to, especially, you know, guys get all four rounds so they can work on stuff. So you've got Zander. I don't think I don't recall seeing a shot from Zander today So it's kind of a clue to, you know, especially, you know, guys get all four rounds so they can work on stuff. Yeah. So you've got Zander. I don't think I don't recall saying a shot from Zander today who finished T6 and shot 66. Jason Day, shot 67 today, Shane Lowry, shot 67 today.

Chez had it going for a while. Chez was, Chez had it to 10, I think, a pot to get it to 11 at one point. Yeah, he bogeyed last two holes to shoot nine under. And he had, yeah, he had a look on, I think 15 that would have got him to 12. Yeah, he had like a 12 foot put on 15 that he barely missed. Uh, Oost Hazen, T6, he shot 68 today, Fitzpatrick, 68.

He's been floated as a, as a good fit for Harding Park. That's what I was going to ask is like, how much do you look at TPC Southwind and say, you know, this is a great outlook for hardening. Is it good? Does it matter, I guess? Like, I think I look at somebody, because certain guys like Fleetwood, for instance, Fleetwood hasn't played a whole lot.

He came over a month late, teed it up at three a.m. and then teed it up this week. I think he was four or five hundred a day. He shot, yeah, actually he was 600, 500. He shot 65 today. So that's somebody who, you know, it sounded like he was kind of scraping it around

earlier this week and then turned it on this week. Or, you know, finally turned it on today, fourth round in and then should be trending for next week. So I think there are some clues out there. Can we talk Ricky a little bit? Yeah, I was just gonna say, we're gonna cover Harding Park and we're gonna do a whole preview episode

that'll be out Tuesday, but Harding is, I don't wanna say Bombers Paradise, but it rewards driving distance. By again, any measurement basically, you know, I always refer to my hitters over at daydagolf.com. They have kind of South Wind almost like a, basically I got 25% similarity. It's like almost, it's not even neutral.

It is like opposite reward for, you know, the style of play that fits or is reward at Southwind is not necessarily what's reward at Harding Park. It's weird. I remember playing, this is kind of a side and kind of personal. I remember playing as you at Harding Park and we played the grand and we were finishing up on nine,

but I just remember thinking, God, like yeah, you can absolutely hit it 40 by me on some of these holes, because you're catching certain slopes and all that. And it wasn't, there's not just a ton of movement in the holes, right? It's like pretty much in front of you and like, hey, hit it really far here if you want.

So spoiler alert for my picks for Tuesday. There's a long-hitting guy that I think a lot of us are gonna be falling in love with. And I have every, I guess it's Brooks, Jay, Brooks and Jay, C or 10 to one, I think I saw, and then Bryson's next to like 14 to one. So. I'm a preemptively RIP the cat.

Chili weather. He's already six years. He's high fifties. He went out for a practice round out there today. He's got good vibes from the place. He likes the place, but I mean, and should fit the cat's game. I would think so.

So yeah, I'm curious to see how long and how tough they set it up, right? If it's a Beth Page all over again. But we're gonna talk about that. Only thing I had to add about Bryson about the rules of official things was afterwards, he says, quote, I'm always going to respect the officials and go, okay, no issue. That's fine.

Always, because I'm pretty sure like two weeks ago, you said, I don't believe that I want a second opinion and didn't even before we got the first, like I said that, even before we got the first opinion preemptively. So I don't know if that quote necessarily rings true. But I'm saying you want to live to 140. Oh God, I almost forgot about that. What the fuck is that? JT called him out. he retweeted it, was like, dude, what are you on?

Like what, you want to live over 100 more years than you've currently lived? I'm kind of getting to the point where we need to, like at some point, he's a novelty and we give him a ton of attention and then at some point we stop giving him attention because he's clearly a charlatan. Yeah, it's weird to me because I don't see the joy

he gets out of the attention. Like, I feel like he's tortured. Like, you know what I mean? He's just super stressed and all of this angst all the time. Yet, he brings so much of it on himself, but it's not, I wouldn't even say, necessarily say he loves the drama, because I don't see him enjoying that.

You know what I mean? Phil, you can see Phil enjoying the show. Yes, exactly. For, with Bryson, just feels like he legitimately can't understand why people get so worked up about this stuff. And yeah, gosh, it just, I don't know if his current version of all the things,

you know, that his current fitness routine and diet routine have gotten him on, I don't think that's gonna contribute to living till you're a hundred and thirty or a hundred and forty. Yeah think that's gonna contribute to living till you're 130 or 140. Yeah, or PDs or whatever. Whatever you're doing. You listen, you said it, don't be. Which actually, I think human growth

hormone is actually good for you. So, I don't know. So maybe that's part of the plan. There's a take. All right, what's next? Ricky, what's up Ricky? We gotta talk Ricky. Big Randy regrettably can't be here.

He was shocked today that Ricky didn't win. It's unfortunate that he's not because today is the day I have the least amount of fight in me to ride for Ricky against Big Randy. That's probably a good thing that he's not here. Yeah, it is, but he would have enjoyed the victory lap tonight. It could have been a 30 second conversation or just like, yeah, he is what he's... I thought... Did you feel a little something when he birded the first couple holes?

Well, yeah, so he, I mean, on the first hole he hits it to 10 feet, four inches, Mrs. The Putt. I'm like, all right, game on, Ricky. Birdies the second hits it to like six feet and then almost jars it from 270 to the most tucked pin narrow green I've ever seen. Up against the water. Like, man, damn, dude.

Like that was a golf shot, makes birdie. Proudly bogie's the fourth. And you're like, all right. And then bogie's seven, bogie's nine. And this was a non-factoral day. Stephen Barr asked, how the hell did Ricky ever win the players in the manner that he did? It was some of the most clutch golf

like I can ever remember seeing. And we haven't really seen that. So Fattos had something about, you know, he was kind of going down the leaderboard of all the guys that hadn't won a whole lot on there. And he's like, you know, Ricky hasn't won a whole lot. Um, he backed into that win at the waste management last year. I was like, I don't know, he like held the 54 whole lead. I know he shot 74 in the final round. He had a, he had a bad final round. We, he, it started raining and he had that ball that freakishly rolled back in the water after he dropped it.

Yeah. And then he birdied, I think he birdied 15 in 17 to come home and win. So I don't know if I would say I know he had a bad overall final day, but I would. He stayed at ship. He didn't back into it. Nobody like gave it to him necessarily. I wouldn't say. So yeah, I don't have a whole lot more to add on that.

You want to get to a couple questions we got about this when we can cover some other other golf stuff. Alan Bradley, will bones get the full 10% or closer to the 5K Kuturgel gave L2K? I mean, I think bones is God, I would give bones 15%. Well, that should be a fair question though, because caddy payouts are, I would guess JT is going to pay them out full 10%. but Built into those big percentages is the fact all the that the guy rides with you and if you're off for You know 10 weeks with an injury like you sit and wait for those you know to come back So but at the same time bones is bones. He's not working. Yeah, like he's he's not working for TV or whatnot Well, yeah, he wouldn't be could have done golf channel, right?

He doesn't do. He doesn't do a good CVS. He's, I don't believe. Maybe I could be wrong there, gosh. But yeah, I mean, I would imagine why JT views all this stuff. I first of all, the coaches think, went down, I would be a super hesitant

to give anything less than 10%, but I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk deal. And I think a lot of guys would say, actually like a sub in Catti, maybe, yeah, it might be. But yeah, in a WGC, I mean, bones, if you get 10% that's 180 grand for a week's. Well, the nice thing about WGC is you know, you're making at least 2500 free grand because you're coming home with a paycheck out of the way. I think Joel Damon might have started thinking about that. A certain

point. He was climbing up the leaderboard. Great shirt today. Made a double late in the round. He also had the maybe the best audio clip ever. What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what you, fuck all of you, you, fuck everybody. Fuck all of you. That was awesome. They kind of reminded me of happy y'all more. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do Poo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-doodoo-d if he could, he would rather do something else for it. And no one, not a lot of pros are willing to say that,

but there are a lot of pros that feel that. And I can understand where he's coming from. He says he's a home body, and he likes to compete, and wants to win championships, but yeah, he can do that in a lot of different ways, and hates leaving home for a couple of weeks at a time. So. Can we do a quid pro quo here?

Sure. I wanna recognize Colin Moracawa for putting well. Okay. This week. And I would like you to recognize Scotty Schuffler. There's not one negative thing I've ever said about Scotty Schuffler other than I have to root against him because of you. What do you finish T10? Or T15. T15. Great week. And shout out to honest Abe. 65, 66 on the weekend. So Mackenzie Hughes minus one. Yeah, but Mackenzie, oh, it was part 70, that it wasn't WinGusty like Mackenzie Hughes's 66, 66 was.

Will Kelly asked, does Brennan Todd make a real case for player of the year? I think we kind of covered that. I think JT has that mostly locked up at this point, especially if there's only gonna be one major. I was gonna say there's one major, but then you've got, let's say, I mean Todd could knock off to FedEx Cup events.

He could. He really very well could. And that's, you know, I don't know, not to make this whole thing about distance, but a golf course that doesn't require distance, you're going to get some Brendan Todd's in there every now and then. I think that's a good thing for golf. It may not, people, a lot of people think he's boring, all that, whatever. I don't really care.

I'd rather have guys like Chez and Brendan Todd in the mix every week. I mean, he is boring. Like, he's been boring. Shit, I remember going up to Chateau-Elon to AJGA event, my sophomore or junior year, good buddy of mine was playing in this big showcase event up there, just watching him even back then. Like, he was the best putter I'd ever seen to that point. And nothing's changed since then. So it was so jarring when you see him really wipe on

or really like some of those four or five footers he had today. Sorry, it was Tilda Daddy that asked about JT's big right miss. I finally found that question. We've covered a little Southwind. I don't know if we had anything more to say. Tucker Blanket, Chibass, TPC Southwind

kind of showed well this week, question mark. It did, except for, and it cracked me up, Polarast tweet on TPC in a tech where, you know, it cracked me up, Polar asked Tweet on TBC in a tech, where it's got the office park, it's to it, and it's, you know, showing a picture of Lumberg or the guys smashing the facts machine out in the back. Like, I mean, it does, it's like there, the old Byron Nelson, and I think Torey's got

some office parks. The Byron Nelson, when I remember, like the 40s hole or something like that, Mike, we were hitting this stinger shot right at this corporate building. I remember that. It's so jarring. Very vividly.

It's not scenic. It doesn't pop on TV, but I think competition-wise, it's got good shot value. I would imagine it. It's got sticky bermuda. It'd be really, really good in the fall when the bermuda stops getting quite as many thunderstorms during the week.

It's less soaked. Bermuda starts not dying off a little bit, but just being a little bit less vibrant. That place really fast would be solid. And it didn't, it wasn't super hot and horrible this year. I mean, a lot of people are critical, and ourselves of WGC this in Memphis this time of year, but it seems to have been kind of lucky with the weather. I feel like at this point, I mean, half the country's going to be on fire. Wherever you go.

So is it hamster, Dan time? Not yet. Encouraged or discouraged on speed. Like, I want to keep him top of mind. I would overall say, I hate to say this, but discouraged. Which is- Just because of the drive, like that foul ball drives today.

Yeah, it's just, we've seen enough of this to say he is kind of becoming this guy, right? Which is a good PGA tour player, but obviously not what he was. So I Justin Ray looked this up, he had his handy actually. I wanted to kind of compare, you can look at speed stats for the year and they're not pretty like negative strokes in off the tee, negative strokes in approach, which bad ball striking, but I kind of wanted to look post, you know, return to golf if there's

any trends in that. I think there are some encouraging ones kind of, he's 45th total in strokes gained for everyone that has at least 10 rounds. He's 66th in T-degree, 65th in approach, 108th in Stroke-Sing off the tee and 48th in putting. He's gaining 0.72 shots on the field overall in the return to golf, or since golf has come back, that's not the spieth we're looking for still, but it's not as bad as it has been. So I feel like we're stuck in this pattern though for a little while. I don't know. Night is darkest before the dawn, right little while. I don't know.

Night is darkest before the dawn, right? Yeah, I don't think it's horribly dark though. I'm more concerned these kind of settling into this role that is, he's just so hamstrung by the big numbers. I never feel like he's got it on the rail. He had two doubles today. Yeah. After a good start.

Yeah, but it never looks like he's in control. And so, yeah, it's good to keep in top of mind. It's crazy to forget, you know, think about, he's going for the career Grand Slam this week. And now, like we don't, I don't think of him as, you know, favorite for Harding Park, famous last words maybe, but yeah, it's jarred to think about, he could win the career Grand Slam this week.

Holy shit. Yeah, so. Holy shit. Yeah. So. And Greller too. And Greller. Matt Fitzpatrick, I don't know if we, how much we talked about him, they kind of neglected that, but he had a really good shot. I just, I get so triggered when he, when I, when they cut to him,

he's putting a six footer or four footer with the pen in. Yeah. Come on, we're the ones that have to do it with the foam noodles and everything, man. You don't have to do this, man. Even DJ like or Thomas, we're playing this week and I'm putting on the last hole. He's like, you know what? I'm pulling the pin out for you, man. Well, it just seems, if Patrick seems to be like king of not prime weekend T time and playing

really well in the weekend. Yeah. Not, I wouldn't, I don't want to call him back to our king, but I feel like we see him making moves almost every weekend. Well, he's actually, I mean, this, this week he made his move on Friday. He shot 64 on Friday, shot 69 and 68 on the weekend, but I feel like he's just missed her four round. Yeah. He's not going to crush it one day necessarily.

He's just always, you know, he's kind of poking around T20, T25, heading into the weekend, plays well on Saturday, and then kind of uses that to catapult him into a decent top 10 finish. Which between Fitzpatrick and Tom Lewis today, if I'm a British golf fan, I'm pretty furious. Yeah. Like, it's all, it's just, it's ridiculous. And it, are we ready? Let's all, it's just, it's ridiculous. And are we ready? Let's do it, let's do it, baby.

We did our absolute best to wait 45 minutes before we, I think we did a good job of not. Yeah, it leaks in. That's kind of the goal of Hamster Dam. People ask him what is Hamster Dam? This is the coverage take containment zone. The DRS zone, if you will, we'll get to form you the one here on the back half.

Shout out to Bunny Colvin. Yes, Bunny Colvin. He legalized drugs in hamster dam and in the wire in Baltimore. And it was, you know, that's to keep it from leaking into other parts of society, you do it in this one place. And that's what we try to contain it right here. So it doesn't leak into the rest of the show. I haven't done a great job because I was pretty worked up today.

Can I lead us off? Please, please go. That was the worst performance I've seen from CBS in the last two years. They want you to forget Riviera this year. Please don't forget Riviera this year. But this is, but I mean, at one point, there's five or six of the top 20 guys in the world

within a shot of the lead. You've got a couple other guys that are good stories. Tom Lewis, like they didn't show a shot of Tom Lewis. Tom Lewis was, was what? Nine, he was like 14 or 15 under on his last, uh, however many holes on his last 27 holes. They completely missed it 61 yesterday. Yeah. Saturday.

They totally missed it. Like mention, and then once they pick him up, it's not showing his golf shots. It's showing the tap in birdies or, or longputs after the magic is kind of past. It's so lazy, it's just such a slap in the face. The commercial load today was a warrant. I'm so fed up, man. And that's where I'm tying in what I'm at on am I supposed to feel anything different for this WGC?

Maybe it's just, I hate to do this comparison because obviously we haven't seen NBC post COVID and kind of the dial back production, but doesn't it feel like NBC treats Mexico like a Super Bowl? Like it is a big deal and I get the crowd has maybe a lot to do with that and you know the different environment and everything, but they just treat this like it's the same Jude. Like that's how CBS treated it. Like every other week going to work. You know what kills me too? As CBS seems to, they always use this excuse, they want a front load, the commercials, they want a front.

You know what all the action is? Is on the front end. And, or, you know, not in the last hour. A lot of the time, the last 20 minutes or 30 minutes, do all the playing through or eye on golf or whatever you want, because there's only three groups on the course at that point. Yeah, I'm hesitant to give them the go ahead for playing through.

I just, so they did that. They did that. They used the shit out of that. That's what I'm saying. I don't think playing through was intended for, I think it was, I tried to jot this down. Keppga was playing his 69th hole or 70th hole of the tournament, and he was on playing through.

And I was just like, I had, how about the fucking comic of my notes to swing this? Oh, I know. So like on the 70th hole of the tournament and like, you know what, I'd love to see where his fucking drive went. Yeah. He was putting to take the solo lead

on the 69th hole of the tournament on the 15th hole and it's been playing through. That's your drama period, man. As soon as they went to, it was like, what, four-way tie for the lead? Five-way tie for the lead. As soon as that putt went in and they announced it, they went straight to commercial breaks.

It's just, it's incredible. I mean, it was comical. I was rooting against a five-way tie, so I was like, we were not gonna, they're not gonna be, I'll keep track of it. And then on top of that, all the PGA tour commercials in the commercial breaks, what, you know, there's a new one that makes.

FedEx Cup, you know, WGC commercial. And then I do wanna give a shot to my or stick to the solinas. I enjoy those commercials. Don't take those away. But it's just, it's malpractice, man. It's not good for the sport. It's not good.

I don't know, I'm a hardcore fan. I don't, like, I don't know why we watch this. It's not good for the sport. It's not good. Like, I don't know. I'm a hardcore fan. I don't like, I don't know why we watch this. It's crazy to me. Yeah. It was today was and the reason we try not to say these same things every week is like, it is what it is. But, and today was one of those days where it is what it is. It just feels like such a middle finger to the people who actually give a shit about the product, which I don't know. I'm so frustrated. It's, they can say what they want about COVID and having less cameras and all that. It's not like, I know you've got your stationary cameras on all these holes, like just using better, right?

Yeah. Yeah. It's very frustrating. That concludes the hampshooter section, I think, for a day, other than I got nothing more to say other than, you know, losing track of losing track of, they can't keep track of shit. It's not an equipment issue. It's a production issue and a narrative issue. I guarantee, right now, the barracuda,

they're doing a far better job of, they know what the storyline is, they're gonna follow that storyline. They're not gonna, it's not golf on golf channel. It's, hey, we're gonna cover the barracuda tonight. Every week is, this is golf on CBS and we're gonna jam. Yes. Whatever narrative is into that.

We're gonna see what kind of golf we can fit into this window, but you're watching us right now. I'm gonna, I'm gonna go back. I've got a couple guys sending me the coverage. Oh, the stats. I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna do stats. I'm gonna, I'm gonna log the whole thing. Oh, they don't want, they don't want to see that. It it was it was disgusting this week And everybody's culpable. It's Jay Monahan for going back to CBS and saying hey, do you guys want to re up for another 10 years? It's Sean McManus. It's Lance Barrow. Thank God. You're going away and it really next week's is last week, right?

Yeah, yeah, they have no playoff events. They've wind them. They've wind them, right? Oh, they have wind them. I think so. Yeah, so he's got two more weeks. I don't know if he goes through the end of the calendar. No, I guess. I think this is last season. Yeah. So and I don't even think they have anything as we get into. I've tried not to look because I remember looking at it and getting depressed at how many

CBS events there were. Because there's NFL football. So they don't, you know, but yeah, I just, I'm fed up, man, it's ridiculous. It is brutal, let's see. Can we talk about LPGA? We can. It was a bright spot. I feel like I had, yeah, let's go, let's do that.

LPGA, only issue I have, and I hate to start with a beef on it. Gosh, they could have scheduled the finish of that to be not right up against the WGC and another PGA Tour event going on. Yeah, boned on Friday with the coverage. It was a 54-hole event, which is sweet. I like that. I don't think it took anything away from...

Not at all. Inverness looked like it was... It looked like a major championship from a little bit that I was able to watch that golf course looks incredible. Major championship leaderboard too. Yes. You know, there's what, five or six players under par? Daniel Kang is the winner. I just wanted to see, like, do a Monday night finish.

Like, give us, like, there's no sponsors, there's no tickets, there's no, I'm sure it's a golf channel thing, maybe it's an LPGA, you know, charter thing or whatever it is, but that's an opportunity to get creative on when you finish the tournament because they could have got some eyeballs if it finished on Monday night, I think, or Saturday or something like that. So I hate to start with that, but it sounds like a heck of an effort by everyone at the golf

course to get that in with all the rain and the weather and everything, but it's good to have the LPGA tour back. Yeah. Hats off the Aeon. They converted a lot of their sponsorship from the risk reward challenge into this event to kind of bankroll that. So Hats off to them. And I think, yeah, I think this is the blueprint for a lot of LPGA events moving forward.

And I know they've tried, you know, this is, I'm stating the obvious here because they've obviously tried to do this over the last few years with the LA event at Wilshire, the San Francisco event at Lake Merced. Like they've, they're, they're going, they're trying to go to, I mean, KPMG's at Aronimink this year, they're trying to go to more classic courses that have been you know more or less neutered by PGA tourist standards, whether it be logistics or distance or whatever. So I think that is absolutely the right thing to do. Yes, they have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. They have to. they have Kind of start to finish. I'm sorry for your girl, Celine Boudier, who missed a short birdie on the 77th.

I felt that. I felt that deeply too. I thought she made the wedge. It was stuffed up. In the air, they're like, that's all over the pin. That's all over. I thought I was going to go in. It spins back a little bit to five feet. And then she very, very tentative stroke. But, yeah, I love watching her going back to Country Club at Charleston a couple of years ago and she's just, uh, corn fairy tour. Here, boy, Ryan Ruffles had a good opportunity. I'm gutted for him. I know.

You've been in place and a lot of bets on him. You can. Fake bets on him. Yeah, and actually some real bets. You can't draw up a better scenario where he's the only guy left on the course within three shots of him and had to basically play the last four in one under par. Birdies 15 and then, you know, probably two bogies and doesn't get it done. So he then gives us seventh. us seventh runner up or seventh top three finish worldwide.

When it's coming. So he's earning points out the ass. He's playing his ass off, hats off to him, yet to learn how to win, you know, and winning's not easy. So keep it up, man. Barracuda is going on currently as we're recording this Troy Merritt.

It's Mike Dup, final round leader, Mike Dup, which I'm excited to go get in front of a TV to watch that. I'm shit on go get from a TV to watch. I'm shit on, I'm shit on Tron Marit a lot, just for how he's dressed. I'm kind of coming around because it's so bad. It's good. It leans into it. Well, White Belt, for the Sunday match.

And he's got so much out of his talent. I think this will be his third PGA Tour win, which I think the, I think the third one is huge win, right? Because it gets you, it gets you status, or at least right now, it gets you status on the Champions Tour, it gets you just kind of bumped up into a different category. And then my guy, Mataya Schwab,

who is on my fake Ryder Cup team. That's right. I remember I dropped him. He is currently in second, two points behind. And then Fabian Gomez is three points behind. Aaron Wise, 19 points today. Basically doubled his... Stable for its suite.

Or then doubled his points total from the first three days. Why doesn't WGC do stable-furt? That'd be such a great question. Or like all the tournaments that they added. Yes, the workday. The workday could be easily been stable-furt. And same thing on the corn fairy. Corn fairy stable-furt would be sick. And same thing on the corn fairy. Corn fairy stable for it would be sick,

because they make even more birdies. Mav is currently five back. He's at plus 33 right now. He's saying it in there. I'm rooting for Mav hard. I really am, but I don't know if I can take a week's worth of Mav and Daniel Kang stories from every golf outlet.

Oh, the boyfriend of girlfriend? What on the same day? I mean, that would be an incredible story. Let's be honest. But bottom line line all in on the barracuda the new venue for that old Greenwood up at Tahoe. It's been firm. It's been windy Angles matter great litterboard. I've enjoyed watching it all week props to the guys Especially Kurt Byram out there always enjoy him on the coverage Thought it was funny yesterday Omar Eresti. Oh God front especially Kurt Byram out there. Always enjoy him on the coverage.

Thought it was funny yesterday, Omar Eresti out front. As a single holding up. As a single and he was holding up for it. ZB was in the group by. ZB put him on blast. Oh, Twitter, that was great. Would you encourage him to tweet that? I said dude, you gotta do it.

ZB also sent a video, I guess he tossed his wedge in a lake. You went in, Zach tossed his wedge and a lake. You went in exact tossed his wedge. Yeah, he went in after the fact he jumped in the lake last night and went back and got the way. It was sick. Sam Horsfield wins on the at wins the hero open on the European tour. The tree had kind of a tough yeah tough scene on the last there, but I don't know more a cow of finish there. I would in a normal circumstance. I would point out that he has the winner of it. What got 24 first place, uh, world ranking points. But the Barakuda also weak strength of field this week also gets to get the, the qualifier of the 24 first place points automatically

for it. So Annie's a gator. I did not know that. And your fiance's a gator. That's exactly right. You don't want to piss off the gator nation, you know? That's exactly right segments. You hate to see it. Oh gosh. So my bets. I had it. I had it rolling this week, folks. And you know what? Who knows? We still could find some gold up in those hills, up in those Sierra Nevada hills, but I dropped the Hines on everybody, which it's a six-way kind of all-way bet, $1.40 each bet, 57 ways. Sungjae doubled two of his last four holes today to basically take me out of the money on that and I ended up losing about $50 on that,

excuse me, 50 units. And then, yeah, I'll set a top five on him and then I had Ryan Ruffles at 70 or 75 to one to win. Yeah, so just a tough day. Could have been a banner day instead it was a tough day. Andy, that is just that's something you do hate to see. I got a struggle for one today. I am gonna go with at least my boy, my favorite racer,

Max Verstappen, Pitz, at the very end of the Formula One race today, the British race group. You laid up. I'm ready to talk to you about this. Could we say the Formula One section? He didn't lay up Christian Horner. No, I disagree on this. We'll say Formula One for the end,

but that was my, you hate to see it. Rubber the green, other than the JT one, ran across the bridge. That's the biggest rub of the green. I've ever seen maybe actually. I've got a, I've got a hate to see it for you. Okay. Brandon Grace having to WD that sucks. He's tied for second in the tournament. Not only do I have to WD from the tournament through 36 holes, which he was probably gonna get a top five. Yeah. Mrs. PGA. He also has to miss the PGA championship. That sucks. Yeah, you also hate to see, and this was gonna maybe be my soapbox Sunday as well. You brought this up last week.

The guy in 10th place in the FedEx cup can't get in the FedEx St. Jude classic. What the hell is the FedEx cup? And what's the sports equivalent of like late in the season? You don't even get a shot to like play for the playoffs. You know what I mean? Like you have a good record, but you don't even get a shot to play for the playoffs. You know what I mean? You have a good record, but you don't even get to play a game in an NFL game or an NFL week or something like that.

I don't think there isn't a clue. I don't know. I try to think about by week for a college football team and everybody passes you or something like that. I think college football is probably the best one. If K state hasn't played anybody, you're both there undefeated. But it's okay. You didn't qualify for this game.

So your game got canceled and he had to go play. And that's that's not only like they also expanded the field. I know Memphis by a lot. Then dict over Reno or or I and I hesitate to call it Reno this year because it's not reaching their up at the lake. But yeah, that's just like not only did they do that? They've got up in Tahoe. They've got like Carlos Franco in the field. He's not qualified for the Champions Tour event this week.

He had to Monday into the Champions Tour event. Now he's trying to win. Six, seven minutes ago. Jim Furek won the ally championship. His first Champions Tour start. Shout out to Jim. That's awesome. Congratulations.

He won by two over Teecusen and break quickly. So sounds like he ran him down down the stretch. He parred the first hole and everybody else was burying and not eagling it back 934. I do think I mean the way that they fill out these fields and I know some of it is is there I mean they were legitimately guys in the WGC field this week that I'd never heard of. Sebastian. Yeah, a couple of Sebastian Soderbergh, I think you said last week, I'd never heard of it. Yeah, I never, like, you can roast me all you want. I've never heard of Sebastian Soderbergh. I looked at the qualification for how you get into those, winning some really random tournaments

gets you into these WGCs. But anyways, my true rub of the green, Joel Sholam on the European tour, had to take a boat to an island at the hero opened to go play a shot. He had like this little canoe that was out, I don't even know why the boat's out there. I don't think it was. I think they had brought over from, yeah, from elsewhere on the lake,

because they have to go landscape that little island. Oh, I got you. So he has to go out on this little island that he hit the ball. He takes a couple clubs in the boat with him, like throws the club on to the island as he gets out of the boat. I never ever got to see him hit the shot. I just takes a couple clubs in the boat with him, like throws the club one of the island as he gets out of the boat. I never got to see him hit the shot.

I just saw him climb out of the boat for it. But ball ends up on the island and you take a boat to go hit the shot. That is truly the rub of the green. Anything else before we do? Rubber the green from, I'm sorry. It's a Ricky shot today. Which one?

Off the rocks. Oh yeah, on 11. And you know, middle of the green. Middle of the green. That's a great shot. Didn't really end up, it didn't end up factoring in the time to his day, but that was wild.

That was a wild shot. I don't know. It went forward and left, but not over the green right into the middle of the green. Are you ready to talk some for me the one? Can we look ahead? Sure. First, we've got, obviously the PGA next week.

We'll have plenty, plenty on that. We are efforting a special guest for this week on the Trap Draw. Big thanks to Kyle Porter. For doing the Memphis event, we also donated some money to the St. Jude's Fund on behalf of Kyle Porter. Which I would say that the working in the kids into the broadcast was kind of a, it was a nice refresher. I mean, a couple, you don't know what you're gonna get out of this kids, but come we're awesome That gives you to code is a star. I was in all the other kids head I know And then we've got the marathon

So the LPGA is back in Sylvania, Ohio this week, so Good to see them back and then we've got the Portland corn fairy event, which is a favorite of mine Excited to see that. I plan on doing an Instagram live with Lauren Kaufland, or Young Hitter out on the LPGA. She had nothing but awesome things to say about Inverness. She got off to a great start yesterday.

She said the conditions were absolutely insane yesterday afternoon. So, but yeah, props to Inverness again. I mean, I think that was one of the coolest, like I'm so excited for this whole time, come up there. Oh, that'll be, that's gonna be fantastic. Props for, that event came together quickly. Yeah.

And there was no sponsor for it and they got together a million dollar per for it. So I don't know how they're doing it, but that's really impressive. My point here, I'd love to get some more eyeballs on it. So any opportunity they have to, you know, not go up against big PGA tour events, I think would serve them very well.

And that's where like going back to the West Coast stuff, the more they can do on the West Coast and finish up in prime time, the more viewers you're going to get. All right. At Char Force One, what's the golf equivalent of winning a grand prix with a flat tire? I've got my answer to this. It's basic. I mean, it's your caddy snapping your putter and half on 16 or four. It's rubber, I mean, somebody, it's your caddy snapping your putter and half on 16 roberts. It's a rubber strap at the green briar, right? Yeah. And to putt with a wedge, it got into a playoff with it. He didn't end up winning that, that event, but of course, we're talking Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix today by, on a flat tire on the final lap. Max for staff and went into the pits to go, he could not catch Hamilton.

It was very clear. He was not going to catch him. He went into the pits to get new tires to go for fastest lap. And if he hadn't pitted, so Hamilton then blows out a tire. If he hadn't pitted in hindsight, that's what I'm missing. And I'm curious on, there's the, I know it's, I know the points are valuable. Yeah. Is the one point that valuable? I don't even think it's that much about the one point as it is securing second. Getting a fresh set of tires. Something could have gone bad with his tires coming down the street.

But it seemed like his tires were in better shape. They they were, but they couldn't have known how bad Louis's were. Well, I mean, Louis was all over the radio. They were talking about it all, you know, but Louis said, Louis said afterward, he said, he thought they were totally fine.

He must have hit debris to make it go fully flat. He was not gonna... Something had to have happened on the track today, right? Clearly. Because Botas' tire just completely got nuked. Well, it was his tire and then Latifi pulled a Bryson. First of all, he said, hey, get these cameras out of here.

I missed this. After he crashes that and then it was a boring race for the entire middle part, the start was great. Groceron's out of control. Steve Hamlin said, don't let today's for me the one race in the UK put you off. Some racers are like that guarantee next time out, be prime time again.

I thought it was great. No, it was great. Yeah, I mean, I think that was so bunky Perkins, he watched his first race today and he was like, honestly, I like all the, all the ancillary elements and the side elements. Dude, I think it the, all the ancillary elements and the side elements. Yeah, I think it's a really good sign for F1 fanhood that the people that are real fans

are like, no, no, that was boring one. And I still enjoy the shit out of it. All the strategy that comes in it. The whole two hour thing is perfect. It is. No commercials. I will say Mercedes does kind of ruin it. So I don't like rooting against them, but when stuff starts to go bad for them,

it's way more exciting. I like rooting for Hamilton, but against BOTUS. Yeah, BOTUS just seems like too much of a system. Because I feel like rooting for Hamilton's, like rooting for Tiger in the early 2000s, whereas BOTUS just seems like very good driver in his own right, seems a little bit more like he's like, like a Davis love almost.

That's a perfect example. And it's like, you know, he's never gonna win the big one. It's just he's just constantly, he's a professional. He's always gonna be in the mix. Ferrari is a complete disgrace. They're there and shot and I like Charlotte Claire. He got crowned with the podium today. Randy's all over McLaren.

Are you a McLaren guy or no? I like McLaren. I like Zach, but you don't like Zach Brown. I think he's totally fine. I don't see what you're saying. He's just too much for me. He's like, he's always got the hair quaffed. He's got the stiff collar shirts.

It's just a lot. I don't know. I like Lando. Randy loves Lando. I think signs might get exposed next year at Ferrari. So I meant to look this up, just to get back to the conversation over step and I forget which race it was,

but in a recent race, that Max did the same exact thing. He was behind and not gonna catch the guys in front of him and went into the pits to get fresh tires to go for fastest lap and like go for a true fast finish. And no one said shit about it when that happened that time. And this time, that's a freak. That shit doesn't happen to Lewis Hampton. Yeah, and I get it like the the tires, you know, some people were saying, oh, the tire

should have should have lasted longer somewhere saying no, they were on them for 40 plus laps, but five of those laps were basically practice laps and get our caution laps. And some of the guys were all over the pace car for going way too slow today too. So I don't know. I mean, I think seeing what happened, and I know Bodis' thing happened right as Max went into the pits and everything like that.

But my big thing, like why can't Albin qualify decently? Cause he was the fastest guy out there, non-mercities all day. Yeah, it was wild like how well they followed it. When he came out was the fastest guy out there non Mercedes all day. Yeah, he it was wild like how well they followed it when he came out in the last after having to pit and take the five second penalty came out in last. They were still following them like he's going to get back in the points and he just sure enough catapulting past racers on the inside. Wilbuckston was and he called this out on Twitter. He was right to say it. I think props to Pierre Gasly, for I think he finished P7 or P8.

And really like, like his force really solid race in a row. He did pass somebody, when he passed someone, it gave a, they cut into the audience, he's like, yeah, baby. Dude, I'm just, I need my man, George Russell, at Williams to get on a better team.

And then... Beirgett was P7 today. P7? And then I need, I was so disappointed in racing point this week. Well, Sergio Perez got testing positive for COVID. That's tough break. Yeah, and then, well, then Nico Holgerberg, not even making the start. Could he get the car started?

Is that his fault? I don't, I don't, I don't. No, it's what happened there. No, I'm then strolling with like shit today. That car looked awful. You know, I'm excited next year to see what happens with Ricardo at a, uh, at McLaren. At McLaren.

Get him out of that Renault. The audio inside Lewis's car, uh, Lewis Hamilton's car during that last lap is amazing. Like the driver counting down like for staff and 18 behind you, he's 16 behind you. And then they get to the very end, like Lewis didn't even know that he won. He's like, I didn't see the checkered flag. And like, hey, you won, mate, you won. You'd great job.

He's like, do I stop? Do I stop? Like for, you know, I have three wheels. For how, yeah, getting it, and shout the boat to us for getting that car all the way around the track on three wheels, because he got the flat at the worst. Oh, did he finish?

Yeah, he got, he did finish. He finished in 11th, so no points, but he got the flat in the worst possible spot. He couldn't get into the pits because he had just passed the pit lane. Yeah. He did see him. I got Kevin Magnus and get bounced there at the start and then Grojean's completely out of control. They got to do something about it.

It's absurd. He finished 16th despite being up there for a long out of control. They gotta do something about it. It's absurd. He finished 16th, despite being up there for a long period of time. I got one more thing I forgot to call out. Just looking back, I think David Bruganio, I just wanna say another thing about that. This was this so ideally, this was his first start and his major medical.

So the changes that they've made this year, this was his first start in his major medical. So the changes that they've made this year, this was his first start of 2020 on his major medical. So everything will basically, he's down to one start. Other guys, their starts have basically been refreshed to the beginning of the year, but since he hadn't had a start yet. This guy's been milking a major medical since 2004. It's incredible.

He gets 20 grand a month from the tour. Tax-free. Either tax-free or after taxes. They had to change the rules because of him. So, like, guys that are legitimately hurt can't stay on a major medical for more than, like, three years now. It's insane to me. And for whatever reason, he pops up at Reno every year.

Yeah, so he's down to one start. I'm really curious to see when and where he makes that start. Because, you know, he's well over 50 at this point. He plays in a bunch of money games out in Palm Springs and in the desert. You know, like the way that the tour fills out these beyond Bergonio, because I know that's kind of one thing. But the way that the tour fills out these opposite field events

is so they can't even go down far enough on the priority list. It's crazy. Whereas like, all right, this week, especially this year of all years, call up the top five guys or top seven guys from the Corn Farrier Tour and say, hey, go win one, get in basically. Battle feel yourself in. Yeah, battle feel yourself in. Call up Davis Riley, Will's Allataurus. Roughly, you know, guys like that, and I give, I give Reno credit for Justin Sowe in the field, you'd missed out for Monday, Q's in a row, they gave him a spot,

he finished his top 25. It's exhausting seeing guys like, you know, Frederick Yackepsen, which my son is literally named after Frederick Yaukepsen, Ted Purdy, Omar Euresty. There's just some dog shit guys in the field. It should not be playing in a PGA tour event. It's time to go watch the end of the barracuda. I'm a Tia Schwab and Troy Merritt are tied right now, but Merritt's got a lot more holes

to go. So he looks technically probably not in the lead, but looks to be in the lead. So thanks everybody for tuning in and getting pumped for major championship for the first it's got a lot more holes to go. So he looks technically probably not in the lead, but looks to be in the lead. So Thanks everybody for tuning in getting pumped for major championship for the first time in over a year. We got some major championship golf We're gonna be doing live shows. We're gonna be doing pods during the week. We are gonna be cranking out the content and watching a hell of a lot of golf this week What was the last major? You came to your show and pretty much just playing port rush Shane Lowry. Yeah. God, that feels like... For every guy.

For every guy. So, TC, have a wonderful evening. We'll see you for our Monday morning meeting, as we always do, and thank you everyone for listening. Cheers. Crack on. It's gonna be the right club. Be the right club today. Yeah! Yeah!

That's better than most. How about in? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different? I Expect anything different