No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 422: RBC Heritage/Lotte Championship Recap

Episode Date: April 19, 2021

Stewart Cink wins his second event of the season, and we chat about the 47 year old's resurgence, his son on the bag, Morikawa, McNealy, Harbour Town, and everything else from the RBC Heritage. We also chat about Lydia Ko's dominant win, Nelly Korda, Yuka Saso, arm lock putting, a look ahead at the Ryder Cup team, and a lot more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm going to be the right club today. Yes! That is better than most. That is better than most. Better than most. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No-Lang-Up podcast, Sully here. I know a lot of you are expecting me to gloat. A lot of you are expecting me to just taunt and start this, you know, reminding everyone that I picked to sink to win this week. I'm not going to start the show that way.

I'm absolutely refused to start it. Randy is calling in from our Denver office, Randy, hello. Hey, hello guys. I think it's kind of bullshit that you make me call in on the listener line. I'd like a private line for these call-ins. Okay, well, we can talk about that. We can, you're the CFO, you should be setting these kind

of things up. Neil is here in the killhouse. Hello, Neil. Congrats, Sally. Oh, I don't want to the kill house. Hello Neil. Congrats, Sally. Oh, I don't want to talk about it. That's good stuff, man. I don't that's a that's a that was a good pick. I don't want to talk about that.

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Randy, I know you're a big sat for these kind of things. Talk to me about how emotional you got watching Stu St. come down the 18th fairway with the song. Oh my gosh, what a moment that was just really tugged at the heartstrings. It is, you know, the masters into heritage is about the sappyest, you know, if I'm being a cynic, I would say, hokeyest two weeks in golf usually. I will give a little bit of a pass for the stew sink in a sun storyline. One, it is a good storyline

too, like you don't really have much else to talk about when he's running away and hiding, winning the tournament. So great story, great to see his large adult sons out there celebrate the win with them. Yeah, it was it was a fun week. Neil, did this one hitch you in the emotional heartstrings? I you know, they beat it to death, but I didn't get sick of it. I think the lasting memory of the tournament for me is Saturday. They got a CBS and shout out to them. They got an awesome camera angle staring straight back, like down the line, face on with Reagan and Stu going through their process.

And they had, you know, they miked them up. I think they laid out for a minute. And it was just, it was, I can't remember seeing that caddy player conversation from face on before. And so it just kind of gave me a new dimension for I was like, wow, this is really, this is intriguing stuff. I mean, they are deep, deep in their process, which is pretty cool. It feels a little dirty for me to say this without them being here, but it felt a bit like when DJ and Tron get in what they call their process, and I put that in quotes because it just is they it's about one

one hundred. That's interesting as they think it is when they get it going on it and just take some way too long to hit a shot. And it's like, dude, we're at the Jack speech Thursday game. Let's go hit it. That's a bit what it felt like at times. But at the same time, like, I couldn't help but like, so this is Stewart saying 610th career PGA Tour start. And he's getting into shots and backing off and asking his son about the wind. I'm like, who has more experience reading the, you've won twice on this golf course before?

I just found that really interesting. How much you wanted to lean on his son and talk through things and get there. I don't know, that, listen, it was like a perfect made for TV and such a golf thing that happened with them really hon with them really honing in on what they should they had their own Like lingo too That AP seven I don't know what a newkey boy. Give me a newkey boy seven. It was like give me that AP pitching wedge You know, whatever you feel I like that, you know, they were they they they had their own lingo going which I appreciate

I'm Neil. I'm just trying to imagine you and your dad You know, oh my God, the franchise title. Neil, you hit that one like I do. Yeah, I don't think that's the club, man. I'm just going to be honest with you. I don't, you know, there was, there was a lot of disagreement between the two, which I think the franchise and I would probably be at odds on a few shots.

How cool, honestly though, Stuart sing 47 years old two time winner on the PGA tour this season, Randy, you want to go ahead and just do your bit now? Of course. I sent a note out privately amongst our group. That's, uh, that's two wins in the last seven months for 47 year old Stewart sync. That is more than Tony Finau has in his entire career for those scoring at home. You're a parody account at this point. That's pretty neat. It's damning. One of these days, Holly? You'll, you'll come around. I would like to, he's not here, but I, I'd also like DJ at some point in the next few days to answer for himself. He accuses Stu Sink of bathing the ball around the golf course. That's the tron thing. That is your brother.

That's both of them. No, that's both of them. That has been a tron face. It's like he has been 2040 Corey Conner's have become in the new Stu Sink, just big guy babing it around, which we can talk about Conner's in a minute, but Tron and DJ then need to answer for this. I mean, what do you, he was, he was, he's beaten on the ball. I mean, he's got like the old man's strength pop it now. He was third in the driving distance stat this week,

which only measures two holes, averaging 312 yards off the tee, and then for the driving distance overall, he was fifth for the week. There's a lot of noise in that stat because it includes any three woods, five irons you hit off the tee or anything, not a part three. But yeah, he was, I saw, yeah,

he was up there 175-ish ball speed, with driver, I think I saw on Saturday, which I didn't know he moved it like that. And just anecdotally watching, it felt like he was, you know, I mean, he was putting it out there and had a lot of, you know, wedges, eight irons. He was very much in a good position, right, into most of these holes. So let me speak for Tron. First of all, Tron was telling me Stuart Sink was babing the ball back when

we were college kids. I do not want to live in a world where Stu Sink is not babying the golf ball. And if there's one course on tour that you can, baby, the golf ball around, it is, it's Harbor Town. So what do you feel like he was baby in the ball around this week? If I'm being 100% honest, I've never quite known what that means. But it's kind of like culture. Like a big guy that kind of almost has a sacrifice, he probably could hit it a long way, but he chooses not to. His swing is set up to find the fairway and not maximize maybe what could be an advantage.

Out of the two different sides of his mouth, Tron will say, yeah, this guy's babing the ball and then he'll say the young guys don't know how to play golf these days. All they do is pound it. Yeah. Bob is bombing gouges, that's disgusting. It's disgusting. I fully support TC.

I just want to get that on the record. Gosh, all right, we're going to get into some Ryder Cup stuff here later on. But man, a lot of questions came in about two singles on the Ryder Cup team. And I've got a lot to say about that. Even I asked. I know.

And it's not always answered to me was not, and I was like, how close is dude to being on the Ryder Cup team just not close? But apparently, everybody else is talking about it. So it wasn't a bad question. I wasn't going to throw you under the bus. I was going to let you get off of that one. But I really, really, really not seeing that one.

We got to Ryder Cup segment coming on later on. But man, it was just a complete ball striking fiesta. I know Randy, your heart broken to see that putt on 17 fallen because I thought he was gonna do under 25 total feet of putts made on that Sunday. You know, he ended up with 32 feet, four inches of putts made on Sunday, which that is unbelievable for a winner.

It is, it is. I would, you know, too bad you just talked to Justin because I would challenge him, what's the least amount of, or the fewest amount of feet made of putts that a winner has ever had in the final round. That would be an interesting stat. He shot 63, 63 and then closed it with 69 and 70. It was total cruise control today. A little nerve-wracking watching him, you know, with some fake nuggets on the line, a little bit,

just, you know, the lead never got less than four, but at the same time, he could not find the hole with the putter today. But man, we got to talk about the pump fakes. Yeah. The short putt stuff is alarming. Alarming, but like that kind of seems like one of the best ways of addressing maybe some yippy feelings that I've seen. Like that, that's got to be better than standing over a ball and dreading hitting it, right? It kind of goes back to, I think, facts and set it to you a long time ago.

Like, you know, what other sport do you start from a dead standstill? Yeah. Like, athletically, when you're doing something. So, like, even putting, it's like, you should probably move your hands or do something, like get some momentum going. It seems like, you know, he's found that for himself.

Randy, is someone that, I hate to bring this, you know, I hate to bring this up. I know. But you know, I got to ask this question. Is someone who has dealt with some short putt issues in the past, do you see this as a potential whenever those feelings start creeping in? I am interested to try it. I kind of missed it last week at Augusta.

So this was my first time seeing it. And it has my attention. I'd love to try it out, get a feel. I would be most worried I think about accidentally hitting the ball. And then, you know, what happens then, I got to tell my partners, there was no intent. And that gets, you know, that gets a little, I don't know, I feel like that wouldn't be good at all. But yeah, it's, it's curious. It seemed to work for him though. So, so God bless them. But I, you know, I don want to come at too much until I've had a chance to try it personally.

It as someone that I've gotten into tournament play and over 18 inch puts like near blacked out over the ball at times and just been like, oh my God, if I miss this, like I might just crawl into the hole and die. Like it might, you just, it is a weird tournament feeling of just dread of hitting a very short putt and realizing

that it could miss is. So in that regard, like I sympathize with it and I appreciate the way he's addressed it. I did not appreciate how long he would stand over the ball and do it, because it was making me very anxious as a viewer. Does he have a known issue with Yips? I don't think so.

I mean, as far as I know, he's never been known as a yipper in any way. Do we know that this is in response to the Yip Seed? No, actually, there is a, what was it, Southern Hills, where he like for putted the 72nd hole to miss the mark. It was a three putty. Missed a shorty that three putt. Sorry. Would have put him in. I think a three putt. I hope I got that wrong, right? But he did miss a short like an 18 inch putt. Not almost trying to get out of the way. Yeah. When it way. Yeah. When it goes.

Yes. Yeah, I just thought of that all of a sudden. Very true. Stu, I don't know. Stu's thing's got a bad rap for, you know, just stealing the open championship from Tom Watson, but he's always been steadfast and like, yeah, I didn't feel bad about that, man. Like, I played, I won a major. Like, it's a major championship.

You might as well feel bad about beating him. He kind of beat himself there on 18. This isn't my fault. Yeah. I would say, Stu doesn't over his career, probably doesn't get a ton of people excited. I have a confession to make that I think you guys and definitely Tron and DJ have given me shit for before

is that when I first joined Twitter, I don't know know 2011, 2012, I think Stu Sink was like the first person I followed. And I don't know why. He's got like a Gabylion Twitter followers because I think he was, you know, an early adopter of some kind. And so I remember T.C. So I was just like, yeah, you know, false Stu Sink first. Like, what's he, what's he doing? You know, and I was like, I don't, I don't know, man, it's just, they recommended him to me. I don't want to tell you. So I've been the first golfer on there. Yeah, like I've been deep in, you know, I've been false to for a long time, officially on Twitter. He might have some bots following

him now. I was, yeah, he's there below a million followers. He used to be over a million. He's not as active on there as he once was, but yeah, I don't know. So I just, I need to confess that to you guys and to the people. So there you go. That was back in the day when, you know, any access to pros, like a direct access to pros was really interesting and he painted himself as very interesting. I wouldn't say he's, I wouldn't say he's the pioneer

in that way of being super interesting. But happy for Stu Stink, happy for my draft King's count. That's the last time I'm gonna mention that. And also just hats off to, what a career he's put together, right? Whatever surgeons since 1997, like the longevity is so admirable. So I don't want to. He's not the most exciting golfer, but like good for him, man. That's awesome. He's putting together a serious career. Randy, what's this? What's two things career earnings? Oh gosh, shot in the dark. 35 million. Neal. I'm gonna go. That's a pretty good

guess, Randy. I'm gonna go higher 42. Oh, really close. With this win, he's gonna be like 41.5. That was really, really well done. How much tax is your tiger? Who? Randy, that you're the expert on the tiger tax. Yeah, quite a lot. He's he's got some a large unpaid tax bill. He's been in that that tax bracket for a long time. You know, I had a tax a thought while watching the end of this tournament. And I'm curious what kind of employment relationship he has with his son. And whether he would be better off not paying him anything, you know, I assume he would chip a normal caddy off like 10% or whatever. I feel like he shouldn't

pay a son anything, but instead, at some point this year, you know, gift him the money instead, avoid some taxes. I don't know. Sali is an ex CPA guy yourself. Can you help clarify that at all? No, absolutely. I have no chance of helping clarify that. Uh, I was thinking about the same as well. There is a, yeah, I don't, I don't have to answer that. I was very much not the tax guy. Come on, Ray. You don't put me in the spotlight.

To former financial professionals trying to, trying to find a loophole. I'm just looking out for Reagan. You know, I think it's, I think it'd be best for Reagan, really. So what, what are you saying? He gift him like a percentage of his, what if he has an LLC or no, no, no, you can gift your, your son or daughter. You can make monetary gifts to him. Uh, and there's a pretty high limit, uh, before it becomes taxable. And so instead of interesting, drawing up a player, Catti, employment agreement,

you might as well just not pay him anything, and then give him gifts every now and again, equal to what he would pay a normal Catti. I don't think this is gonna work. So I think I just Googled it at the annual exclusion as somewhere around $14,000, $15,000, maybe $15,000. So that would be, that would be short-shit. You know, hey son, that'd be the Matt Kutcher School

of paying the Catti. Hey son, instead of paying you the 130,000 that I owe you, I'm just going to pay you 15,000 every year annually. So you don't have to pay taxes on. I thought there was something. Yeah, I'm sure people will let us know, but I thought there was something different. I just maybe you throw in a trust or something as a guy named Reagan. I would think you would want to minimize those taxes. That's all a couple question

So Jamie Kennedy asked long he said Bernard Longer said during the last week that an over 50 will win a major if we assume It happens who will be the first. I think that's probably triggered by Stuart sink at age 47 winning here Of the second time this season on the PJ tour. I think that that's a great question. I know who Rainey's going to say. Of course. And you can probably guess where, right? I think Phil and Augusta. That's the most plausible. Well, I have a couple other, I think what Westwood's 47 right now. So if you're thinking five years out, I think he's a candidate for that. He said he said so much other success. I was going to interject. Yeah, he hasn't won one. No, but as somebody that's still like playing at a high level around the right, like maybe like you still got to think about his skill level compared to other guys in his age group.

Furek, I don't know. I don't know if a major tournament. Yeah, but major, maybe not. I got a couple though. I think Bubba, he's 40 right now. So if you look out 10, 15 years, like he's going to have so many looks at Augusta, I can see him winning one in the, you know, 50 to 55 age range. What do you think about that? It's the odds are stacked against anyone doing it. I think I'm with Randy that Phil is definitely the best opportunity. Bubba, I don't know if Bubba's playing golf in 10 years, you know. I don't know. I just don't know. Some of these dudes that have made so much money, I just wonder how much they're going to play into their 50s. And no Phil is still doing it and

has made second most all time. You know what I think is also an interesting question. Who's the next guy to a hundred million dollars? Phil's at like 92 right now. I don't think champions tour money counts in that. I actually, it doesn't. But all time PJ tour earnings, who do you think is the the closest or who would be the next guy to a hundred million? I didn't put this on the agenda, so I didn't give you guys any time to prep for this one. But it's an interesting thought. Maybe you have a list of I can pull it up. I mean, it's gonna be like a Rory or a spieth or someone like that, you know, that does it, I think. Another another 50 guy though that I think is, he's 43 now, Paul Casey.

I don't know, I was still playing at a super high level. Obviously, hasn't won one, but he seems to be, you know, just in the top 10, perpetually, big tournaments. So Dustin Johnson's made 71.4 million. Adam Scott's made 56. I'd say DJ's probably your best bet to the next one to get to 100. I don't know if Phil makes eight, eight more million on the PJ tour. Randy does he? Oh God. No, that that's that's a lot. That's like

three, almost three two great seasons, three solid seasons. I don't think he has that much left in him. Yeah, he needs to get into some of those limited field events and get the cash grab. Yeah, which is a tough ask right now. It's on the top 100. I'd say DJ gets there. It'd be interesting if Tiger and like when Tiger gets past in career earnings. Like JT's at 43 million. Does he have a chance to pass them? Speeds at 45 million. Speaking of over 50, I'd say Dustin's a great candidate when he reaches 50, assuming he is still playing at that time. I can't imagine he loses a ton of length or athleticism, right?

Yeah, I'm with you on that one. All right, I wanna, we gotta talk some more, Cal. Before we do that, this is prime for mispronunciation because I don't follow UFC, but Mazvedal and Usman, did I do that right? You guys know UFC? Who could say? Yeah, who could say?

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What do you think, Randy? I'm kind of with you. You know, of course, he didn't put very well. That's, I think that is a worthy issue or an, an important issue to, to keep an eye on. But I don't think his putter cost him today. I just, like you said, Neil, he just didn't have it. And what it seemed like to me, so he didn't he didn't have he rhythm is what I, I, you know, so it's like almost the puts are going to go in. He just felt like he was just out of his rhythm from the start. So Mr. couple of shorties early, um, he was 57th out of 65 guys that made the cut

overall and strokes game putting. So that's not good. He was second in strokes game T to green hit it good He's just not like I know T.C. is beating up this block that he can't put from short range He's about tour average from from short range. It's not it's not great He needs to be better than that if he wants to be one of the best players in the world He is one of the best players in the world But if you want to win in a more consistent clip you need to be nails from close range

He's really just bad overall at putting, meaning he's from from further out, he makes even fewer in relation to the rest of the PGA tour than he does from short range. So it's the putting as overall is an issue. He can still get hot as we saw during concession and he's also bagged a major in the last, you know, he won the 2020 PGA. So just very weird, weird career so far from War Cow in terms of just looking so lost on the greens at times.

The numbers also not telling a great story yet has obviously had tremendous success and good putting weeks. Like it's just gonna be a thing that goes week to week, I think, and not something that he can rely on, but he knows where he can save quite a few shots if he wants to get better, which I assume that he does. Well, I know we're gonna talk about having a little bit, but it seems like a guy that

maximizes his good weeks, especially on the greens. Like when he is putting, he kind of takes it to the next level. He capitalizes on that. There's a question in here from New Scotland golf. Colin has a major in a WGC as he a dog killer or neither. I would argue he's a killer and not a dog, right? Like when he doesn't have it, he's not in the fight, but if he does, he's just gonna execute people.

Randy, your thoughts. Listen, I yearn for a lot of killers on the PJ tour. I'm gonna give him, he's a dog in my eyes. I think he's training to become a killer. I think something you said, you know, where when his putter gets hot, he maximizes his success that week. It's just a testament to like his iron play and the way he hits the ball really is never too far off.

And so it is just a matter of the putter. He strikes me as a guy and I don't have anything to back this up. I feel like he's going to do some tinkering, you know, I don't think he's like in his final putting grip or setup. And I hope he finds something because man, if he does, I mean, if he just becomes really average with the putter, he's he's going to win a lot of events. And I think that I would be excited by that. I think he's I love watching him play. Would would you argue that the honeymoon phase is over with the saw grip? Yes. Yeah. Did he need to switch? Does he need a new honeymoon phase to go to a different grip?

Well, what what this maybe a good time to transition into this? I know we have this for later on, but there's a there's a style of putting that has become more and more controversial that a lot of people are switching to that I have not seen them try yet, which is of course the arm lock, buddy. Of course the arm lock, which, listen, I think it should be a league. I'm riding with Billy Ho on this. I think it should definitely be a legal, by the spirit of the rules with anchoring, I think it's a format anchoring. How do you feel about that? That's us, let's ask the big guy first.

Well, I, Kudos to Billy. I, rare will a tour player just come out and say it that unambiguously. So can I go ahead and read that Randy and then Yeah, I like your take on it. He says I'm bringing up something different here And I'm sort of going out on a limb, but I don't think this arm lock putting is Should be allowed either. I think when you look at what other what guys are doing now with the arm lock and moving grips to the side where it's parallel or matches the face. And then when you do that up against your arm, I mean, that face is dead square and that face doesn't rotate at all,

it's just sort of locked in. Guys are doing it too good. And this came after, this was just this week after two rounds playing with Will's Outtourists, which I thought was interesting. I think, you know, I feel like the alarm bell should go off just in the name, right? Armlock putting something about that strikes me

as against the spirit of the rules. So I'm in the camp that it should be illegal for sure. I think as long as it's not illegal, you know, maybe it's worth a try for more a car. The only thing I would caution that with is if you get win that it's that a rule change is likely coming in the next, you know, 12, 18 months, I don't think it does them a lot of good to switch to that. And then he's going to have to switch back to something different. I don't know. So the way these, well, the way these comment periods work, like when they did the anchor band on, you know, actually anchoring the putter and your belly or, or, you know, a lot of different anchorings were banned.

It was announced, I think in 2014 that, you know, a year and a half or two years and it was several years of like, this is when it's going to become illegal. And we got some time to figure this out but like there's some time down the road so I wouldn't if it's if it's you know there's not been a hint as far as I know that it actually would become illegal so for that reason I would not hesitate to try it. No but I also I'm shocked that somebody as prominent as Billy Horshaw would say something publicly about it which is to me it's like the first big pushback. It'll be curious to see where it goes from here.

I would say this though. I almost think the ban on anchoring, like the chest anchoring was the answer to a question no one was asking two or three years ago. It's almost like, just, I want them to, this is illegal to me because let's be consistent, right? But I don't fucking care about either of them, right? I'm like, wait, wait, let's go talk about the nets that they had to put up at heritage.

Like why don't we talk about regulating the stuff that matters? Like how far the freaking balls going? It is at a big distraction from a lot of distant stuff. Vinny Cowell asked a great question. Does Billy Horsel being anti-arm lock putting actually make you pro arm lock putting? Or is this a worse person you know makes a great point moment? That's like, that is like one of the greatest questions ever, ever, ever. Remember, I love that onion article that comes up.

It's a totally Alonzo morning gym with Horschl said something. Wow, I mean, I kind of, I kind of buy that. But yeah, it is, I was super curious as to when the anchor band came in, why arm lock was okay. Like, you're clearly still anchoring it. Like that's an anchor. You are resting it up against your arm.

Grand, it's not the butt of the club, which I think is what a lot of the issues are, but I don't know. If it is really that helpful, then, you know, I don't know why they wouldn't have banned that when they did this in the first place. But when I look at the two, the broomstick has never felt like something that would be appealing or help me steady the square up the putter face. Whereas when I look at the forearm thing,

I am really curious about it. It's like, man, that seems like it would increase my consistency striking puts more. Do you feel that? Like, what do you, when you look at the broomstick, did you ever think, like, oh, pinned to my chest, like it just feels like the longer the club, the more they could go wrong, all the way up here by my chin. Whereas with this forearm thing,

you're like, man, you're just straight in that arm out and you're good to go. It almost feels like it's a better version of it. I'm afraid to try it, because I'm afraid I'm gonna love it. Yeah, man. And that's, I'd have to deal with the blowback for that. I know. Randy, would. And that's, I'd have to deal with the blowback for that. I would be good to you.

You do it with me. Yeah, I have this, I have a long putter by our friends at Cal way that I'm trying to, I, part of my problem is finding a putter long enough that will go all the way at my arm, but I'm willing to try it for sure. On the other note, the temporary net that was set up at Heritage this week, can we please talk about that? How they're they brought in cranes as they did last year to, you know, extend the net of the range at Harbor Town rainy. You were just there.

I from what I gathered the Harbor Town ranges, especially small, but they they brought this in because Bryson was pounding balls over the fence last year, putting people on the eighth green in danger, dangering volunteers, dangering volunteers, and then Bryson W.D.'s this week. And Shane Ryan, we're a great piece for golf, I just like going into that, what went into setting up that net and all that and all that fell apart with Bryson with true. But God, what I just read that this week,

and I was like, what are we doing here? This is so dumb. Roll it back. It has to just roll back. It's like here we are talking, spending 10 minutes talking about, you know, arm lock, putty. It's like, yo, man, the look at this.

There's the houses on fire out there. Like the house of popular street is burning. What are we doing? It's crazy. And I can confirm that range is tiny, tiny, tiny. Yeah, from that chain Ryan piece, my heart goes out to those volunteers. It sounds like they were in a terrible spot last year just being

Bombarded with golf balls, you know, you don't pay good money You don't pay good money to be potentially hit by golf balls all day, okay? So I'm glad they're at least trying to make it right for those volunteers But yeah, I had to chuckle what it costs them about $20,000 and 30 man hours just to get the extra net up in place and then Bryson withdraws a couple days before the tournament starts. There's gotta be some other guys that were hitting it out of the ballpark, though, too. Couldn't it just been him? I think Rory was last year when because everyone was playing that one because it was the second event after Golf restarted last year. But yeah, one I was curious as to why

Bryson was playing this event, you know, I got it last year when everyone was desperate for starts once golf restarted, but could, I don't want to do an hour with a distance stuff and just like, one add this to the file. So I think Jeff Shackleford added this to the ball goes too far files of like, what are we doing here? This is just insane. But yeah, yeah, I'm sure everyone, everyone listening will agree with that and won't have any opinions on that. Roll it all back.

I want to be rolled back. Let's play the Hickory. Put give me the Hickories. Come on, you know, give Nibblics. Shout out to first of all, Harold Varner pumped his first ball OB today and went out in shot 66. If you're going to mess up, what hold you want to do it on first of all of the day? I don't know if I would have the mental or intestinal fortitude to bounce back. Well, Harold was the one that got me lit up on that originally when he tripled, he had a great opening round at the Schwab and then tripled the opening hold the next day. And was like, yeah, you

know, when you're playing good, you can get it back pretty easy. And I was like, whoa, that is a way. I do not approach golf that way, but I'm going to try and sure enough, pumps his first ball OB goes and makes five on that ball, shoot 66 and ends up tied for second with a million on a grilo, which no matter how many different ways CBS pronounced it today, it is pronounced grilo, which it was pretty amazed that somehow that's still a thing, but we're not ready for hamshaday, I'm just yet. Those are two guys that I, you know, I'm wanting to break through. They're kind of, they every, I don't know, two months, three months, or maybe, maybe last

they, they seem to get really hot and then come up a little short, but like HV3 easy guy to root for and like he just kind of he kind of slaps it around a little bit, but then he's good. He's one of those guys that could get the ball in the hole and it doesn't have to be pretty, which I really appreciate on the PGA tour. So. Yeah, he's 58th and Stokescane off the tee this week and finish T2. That's that's hard. Yeah, it looks a little sloppy, but it's like, I got to I respect that game. It's, it's, you know, it's kind of, it's fun to root for Corey Conners and Matt Fitzpatrick rounded out the top five. They were both finished T4. Colin Moore, Cal, T7, Chris Kirk, T7, Cameron Smith, Shane Lowry, Russell Henley and Web Simpson, T9. What do we, let me, sorry to interject. What do we make of our friend Corey Connors?

He's, he's on a good, pretty good heater. It seems like. What's his potential? I, I wish he could put in specifically lag putting. I feel like this week. Yeah, but I feel like, and this is again, probably anecdotal, but I feel like he's always leave himself five and six footers on the second putt. And he's like a metronome though. Like I mean, he's just a machine from a ball striking standpoint. And I love the tempo and everything is aspirational. And so you tweeted something today about Mav McNealy saying he maximizes his good weeks and then, you know, his cut, his cut, you know, top five, right?

I feel like Corey Conner's is the counterpoint to that of like, the guy is just like an automatic top 10, right? And but he just can't seem to find it one week where he just takes it to the next level. So I guess there's an argument to be made that like what game would you rather have? Would you rather be the guy that's hot and cold or just like kind of auto top 10? You throw more darts at the board, some are going to hit the bulls. I'm Corey Conn is going to win like a decent amount on the PGA tour, I think. I mean, I'm more impressed by the last several weeks from Corey Connors than I am distracted by not getting it in the hole or not closing it out.

So I'm having the Elise playing style is so interesting, because I think Struxgain approach is, you know, iron play is essentially the most important thing in golf. And, you know, he admittedly says that's the weakest part of his game. So when he has weeks where he's just like average with irons, he's going to do pretty well. This week he was almost perfectly average with irons and finished T4. He was fifth in Struxgain, putting seven Struxgain around the green and he just chips and puts the lights out and got a T4 out of it, which is an awesome week and he's having a really good year. He doesn't have a lot of those, he doesn't finish between like 25th and 50th.

He like top 25s or top 10s or he misses the cut, which I found that correlation to his overall approach really fascinating. I mean, go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it.

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Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get, when he's a mid American conference guy at a Kent state. So, you know, I'm all about the mid majors, baby. I'm all for Corey. You're you're you're into the action, huh? Exactly. Yeah.

Also a level wear guy, which is they're playing a big part in our pro shop. So shout out to the to another partner. Corey Conner's is definitely climbing the climbing my milekiper bigboard right now. Cleanin out the rest of the notes from Heritage. Seawoo Kim, do you guys see Seawoo Kim's ruling on Saturday? He hits a putt from off the green. I did. Can you explain that to me? I'm there. I got all the way there with the rule. I saw the highlights, saw the clip and was like, this is bullshit, blah, blah, blah. So he hits a putt from off the green, rolls up and just rests on the edge and he's like, he just sets it out loud.

Like, are you kidding me? Takes his time to get up to the hole. And so it's, the player is allowed a reasonable amount of time to get to the hole and then 10 seconds from there to wait to see if the ball falls in. And as he's getting ready, you know, to play the putt, coochers like, you know, talking to him, like, I think it's still moving.

I think it's still moving. And they wait, like close to a minute, like they waited for a really, really, really long time. Obviously, well past the 10 seconds and they knew that they claim the ball is still moving. How am I supposed to play it? And I was very much like, yeah, how are you, how are you supposed to play a moving ball?

Like, what the hell looked into the rule a little bit more. And it says rule 16, two states that when any part of the ball overhangs the lip of the hole, the players allowed enough time to reach the hole without a reasonable delay, dish on 10 seconds, blah, blah, blah. If by then the ball has not fallen into the hole, it is deemed to be at rest. And that's the key point right there. It's like, all right, even if it's moving, if it takes over 10 seconds to fall in the hole,

it's deemed to be at rest. It's been declared at rest, even if it's not correct. Which is, that's tough. I mean, that is tough. I like what that extra 40 seconds, you know, is that really that important? I mean, I don't know.

It, I don't know, there's a reason why it's there, right? For 10 seconds, I think it's a reasonable amount of time. You didn't hold it, man. Like, it didn't go in the hole. You had 10. But it did. It did go in the hole. Yeah. I know. And well, I mean, as much as we talk about the issues with slow play, yeah, maybe that rule is necessary. Otherwise, yeah, you could sit there and wait for five minutes, but it's still moving. I swear, it's still moving. Like, you need that kind of buffer there. So he's penalized for the ball falling

and the holy doesn't have to go replay it. I thought it was reasonable. I mean, it does on the surface just overall stink and I don't think they like fully explained all that. It took a little digging to get all the way there. It just kind of sounded like generalized. Like, oh, yeah, if that's the case, then yeah, it's deemed to be at rest. And it's easy to look at that and be like,

what the hell? It's still in motion, but that's not the case. But I, I'd like to give a, a shout out. And I've been meaning to do this for a couple of weeks. The Tora's had a very clear social strategy change. And like when something controversial happens, they post a shed of it, like with all the relevant information you need, throw it out there and basically be like, do whatever you want with this. The Instagram comments were a complete dumpster fire players, we're coming in on that, just like ripping it.

How can you have this rule ball blah blah? Like they posted it all on Twitter in a timely fashion. And that, I am old enough to remember a time, several months ago when that was not the way that that organization operated. So I want to shout that out. I've noticed it with the read thing and when almost anything happens, they are like in front of it. Like here is controversy.

We, you know, we are to be critiqued on how this was handled. Bubba, blah, blah, but here it is. Here's the situation. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah. It was also a spot where I think he was Stephen Cox rule official. When both players are against you in the group, like that's a tough spot. He's like, well, he's trying to explain the rule

and they're like, but it was still moving. Like he was just getting body shots from both of them, you know, but he stood his ground and I guess, you know, you kind of brought me over to this side because the initial argument was like, well, then what about, you know, fill at Chinnacock? Like, I guess, I guess he's, you know, I guess that was it, you know, he ran up there he that was a

reason about that but at the ball still moving it's like that could be a two stroke penalty instead of like so I guess he kind of got a once not really a one it wasn't a penalty but he got an extra stroke added to his score which sucks that was the key part in this specific instance that I guess rubbed me the wrong ways when even your playing competitors like know that ball was more or less moving the whole time, moving very slowly. I can see where if you go up to a ball and it's not, you know, it's at rest, your playing partner

doesn't think it's moving. You wait like 25 seconds and maybe a gust of wind knocks it in like I get why that rules in place, but when the ball, when both guys think the ball is still moving, that's where I had a little bit of a problem with it. But you know, it's, I guess it's not the end of the world. I think you're also protecting yourself against like ballrest on the lip, everyone be like, no, no, it's still moving.

See, like, and there's no way to really tell if it is. And you could sit there and say like, ah, it's still moving. It's still moving. Whereas 10 seconds is a reasonable amount of time for it to change positions if it actually is still moving. Come on, man, these guys are class acts. They would never do something like that. Oh, no, Jim.

I don't know. I would also like to say kudos to the social team, as you said, embracing the controversy. I would challenge the PGA tour communications and discipline departments to take the same approach. And embrace a little bit of controversy, publish those punishments, like let's be a real sports league.

How, guys? It's not good carried away. And ladies, yeah. Nice tour. Public detonation. Hell yes, Randy. Anything else from Heritage or you guys ready to move on to the Lotte Championship?

I had to practice saying that because I'm not, I'm gonna screw it up at some point. I had one last thing, correct me if I'm wrong, Stu Sink, the group ahead of him was Grio and Wallace. Grio, Grio, Grio, excuse me. You knew I was gonna, I was gonna not pronounce it right, come on dude, that's part of of the course. It looks they will put on the clock today. Yeah, but early. But then I see Grilo and it looks like he play. He's got like Matt Jones pace.

So Amai, is he just slow on the greens? Like, is that I, or is there's the telecast cutting to him right before he hits the ball? You don't know what's live and what's not with ProGul. I don't know. I'm very much, especially when they're in Tucson's on Sunday, like I am just not pace of play police. Like these guys, the camera crew's honestly need some time to get in place to tell the stories and things like that, that they have not figured all that out

enough for me to get upset about guys playing slow. Now, if you're playing slow enough that you're distracting your playing partners, I think that is integral to the competition. And there's some people that are tweeting, you know, you know, Cory Connors played bad on Saturday with Stu Sink, Colin Moore, Cowell played bad with him on Sunday. They're having these really long slow conversations that contribute. I don't know. It's kind of like, dude, that's just something you got to be able to handle and just flying

around of a big tournament on the PJs. Well, to Grilo specifically, I made a note just because I like it when the guys play fast like Matt Jones. It's like I want to call him out like that's awesome. But then I was like, I was like, well, maybe maybe that's not what's going to be. They got put on the clock. I'm trying to maybe it was Matt Wallace. So I don't know. Something to watch, Randy. Something to watch. Yeah. Maybe it was Matt Wallace, so I don't know. Something to watch, Randy. Something to watch. Yeah. My only thing too, Sally, was,

God, Cam Smith's got to be kicking himself this week. 14 birdies, no bogies in the first and final rounds combined, and only finishes tied for ninth. I got to think he's a bit disappointed, especially with that second and third round performance. I felt like this was a week bit more than that. I was really disappointed. Especially that second and third ground performance. I felt

like this was this was a week. You know could have could have been there right right there was sink. You know the main G dog will be back. I know I hope so I loved the guy. Let's give a shout the dozen Johnson

finishing T 13 just safely inside the top 20. He did. He was in the T 34 land for a while there. The God, that was great. Truly like the bone spurs of of of pouch dodging this this week. Not great, bud. Not great. You can answer for that tomorrow, though. Oh God, I'll be happy to all I'll say about that is winners, focus on winning losers, focus on winners.

One, one two bets this week for the record, but also one last thing. Matt Wallace seems to be, you know, hot right now playing Good Golf, except Sundays. It's almost like he just kind of opus days himself a little bit of 73 today. Yeah. You think that's, is that fair? It feels like he's just like Thursday, Friday, Saturdays, balling out and then just implodes a little bit. Hmm. What an interesting golf course. It, you know, is a very claustrophobic course. As someone who, I just can't picture myself playing this golf course in less than 85 strokes

and watching these dudes pick it apart and make it look so easy, it just blows my mind that just easily carrying trees, not intimidated at all. I know that the best players in the world, but that just places looks so claustrophobic. The shot on 14, I would still be out there playing that. I want to be chipping into the water after bailing way left.

It has some true, true shot value on it. Despite it being kind of a birdie fest and some low scores, it is an interesting golf course to watch every single year. Randy, I know you're a big fan of the golf course, but I just wanted to shout that out. Yeah, I love it. I plug our Crash Course podcast series.

I just talked about my experience there a couple of weeks ago. It is a phenomenal course. It's gorgeous. It requires accuracy. The greens, the bunkering, the little lagoon around the ponds. It's very cool, in my opinion. Unfortunately, last summer, and again, this year, opinion. Unfortunately, you know, last summer and again,

this year, not much wind. So the scores were really low. I like it a little bit better when, you know, that wind picks up and the winning scores around, I mean, gosh, it's been single digit winning scores some years. It can feel a little bit like a US open almost at times. But yeah, great stop on tour. I get why it's the week after the Masters. It's such a great family spot. It's a great spot for guys to decompress after just the pressure of Augusta and the Masters. I would always love to see this tournament

kind of away from the Masters with a consistently good field and just a little bit different time on the calendar Just to just to let it shine and really let the course shine, but you know Well, so you said it earlier today maybe or maybe the notes of It you almost feel like oh the field like it and then it roaps you in yeah, right? You like you you go into the tournament expecting I can't imagine caring about this this week. And that reminds me, it feels like vacation for these guys, and it almost feels like a,

like some murder mystery book that you'd read on vacation. Where you're like, you picked up at the airport like, I don't think I'm gonna like this. And then you just get locked into it. You're reading some, you know, some beach book or something. It's lurs you in. It very much lurs you in by the end of it.

And then it becomes a page turner a littleer. I was very ready to just not be committed to the tournament this week. And you know, I was with my wife on Saturday and we went and got drinks at a bar. And I was like, can you turn the golf on a count? I want to watch the golf a little bit, which I have a note in here to say, I was in several scenarios this this week where golf was on somewhere and I couldn't hear it. And golf is so much more engaging when you can't hear the announcers. It's wild.

I'm serious. Maybe it's because the announcers are telling you what's on the screen, but I could not get away from the action and I couldn't hear it. I was watching the Valero a couple of weeks ago at a, I was out to, to eat with my parents. And yeah, like, spieth on 18.

Yeah, she just hit on the scoreboard. Like what? What the hell is he thinking? What's he doing? And just it allows your imagination to run wild a little bit. Try it sometime. Just try it and, you know, put some music on while you're watching the golf.

And it makes the commercials way more tolerable. Otherwise, you just get so frustrated with all the interruptions. We'll get to hamster Dan. But just try it on mute. It's really interesting. And maybe it's just when you're in a bar setting, it, you know, is that much more intriguing.

But Randy, I got to take for you on tryout. Oh, please. Say that Barbara Towne is a little bit like that gym, both you guys, former basketball players, that gym where maybe the rims a little soft, for some guy they know how, that corner three, like yeah, the three point lines a little messed up in the corner and you get a little extra edge. Like the guy, it's almost like they know playing

the placements and angles and where to land stuff. Like some guys just play real out there. Yeah, I like that. I like that. It's, um, it's an outdoor court, though, right? Because when the wind gets up, the 100%, you struggle to hit those rims. Yeah, it takes a little bit of craftiness to play around there, which I think we all it's a very nice change of pace. Some guys can shoot on double rims. Some guys can't. I certainly cannot. No, not me. I needed the rim help at the low-tay championship in Hawaii. Lydia Coe wins by a touchdown and an extra point. Do this win feel different? You know, she won three years ago that was kind of like her, I'm back, you know, winning for the first time in a couple of years, but then

it went three more years without a win. Randy, as our LPGA expert in correspondent, did this uh, did this statement from Lydia Coe feel a little different this time around? Yeah, I think it's it's phenomenal for not only women's golf. I think it's phenomenal for all of golf. What a dominating performance. Neil, let me ask you a question. I think it's phenomenal for all of golf. What a dominating performance. Neil, let me ask you a question. I think Sally might know the answer, but Neil, not to put you on the spot. How old do you think Lydia Coe is?

Lydia Coe is 23? God, yeah. You nailed it. Nailed it. What a play. And hasn't won in three years. So the idea that she's won, won major and eight or more eight tournaments before the age of she won she won 14 times before she turned 20. Yeah, that so even better than I

thought right. But like the a prolific career so far. Yeah, I read you know Kevin Van Vulcanberg's piece on her for ESPN and just like she's thinking about retiring at 30 like I'd love to I'd love to hear if she's still You know feels that way right like I'm not the game not coming so easy for her the last two or three years Does that reinvigorator or? You know, she's still kind of like yeah, I want to have a life after golf. Yeah Well Neil very impressed kudos to you for for doing your homework Yeah, you were trying you were trying to get bud, and I wasn't gonna let it happen.

I didn't expect that out of you, my strat brother. Well, you could have played along and guessed like 28 or something, that would have been helpful. But I am barest myself enough on this podcast where I am not gonna let that happen. She, no, I'll say this, you know, I think I compared her victory in Jordan's

spieth. I feel like they've had a bit of similar droughts and, of course, re-emerging victories here within a few weeks of each other. I think the one thing with Lydia, she had been knocking on the door. Even you go back to last year's marathon LPGA in Toledo, where she kind of gave it away on Sunday for lack of a better word. Really gave that one away. Yeah, and you know, like this year she just had to run her up at the A&A. Last week, she has been in tremendous form. So yeah, like I said, just really, I think really good for the game that she has broken through. And hopefully, you know, if she's one of the top one, two,

three best players in the world for now, and it just makes golf and women's golf certainly that much more exciting, I think. It's super easy to forget what she did. Justin Ray tweeted this on Saturday night, and I just, I got it wrong. She has 14 wins total now, but wins before the age of 19 in LPGA history. Lydia Co had 12. Every other player all time combined 13. Wow. She has 12 of the 25 wins in LPGA history by teenagers. So there was a question Jake Bailey had,

do you think it's fair all the current spieth and co-comparisons, right? Or does that, is that not doing Lydia Co justice, right? Like, and I'm, you know, I think that's a really good question. I think it's, you know, are we are we doing her disservice by comparing her to speed? Like, I don't think. No, the win numbers are very similar, you know, I mean, he, he's what,

he's, Valera was his 12th win, is that right? And this is her 14th win. So it's not, not dissimilar at all, I wouldn't say. This was her 16th LPGA win. 16, sorry. Yeah, but you know, she has two majors where you can look at speed. He's got he's got three and they are, I, Neil, I don't think it's a disservice really to either one.

I think it's kind of a compliment. Jordan's four years older, but you know, when you think about when their career started or how long they've been playing, even though Lydia's only 23, she's played a ton because she got such an early start. It looked rainy. I got to watch a good amount of it. First of all, having primetime golf on on Friday and Saturday nights, it just hit different. I don't know if it was so fun. The crew, the golf channel crew is small. It's, you know, it's Tom Abbott, it's Grant Boone, it's Karen, Karen Stuppell, Jerry Foltz, K. Cockrole. Like, it's a small crew, but like, they

are just hone in and they'd bring the goods. It was seriously entertaining. Lydia, I mean, we're talking about like, I don't know if she ever saw a drive Apex. I mean, she doesn't murder the ball, but she's, and she's added 15 yards of distance. And like, dude, it was just dead straight, like every single hole. She's, her back swing is not, not I was gonna say that her back swing is not even done and she's picking up a tea Like she hit this like knock down three woods Like and she's not it a couple times. I was like a sheet upset with that drive or she just knows right off the face where it's going It's automatic. So Expert level torso. Yeah some of the best we've seen Randy

Yeah, and solid at your we've seen, Randy. Yeah, and it's all your point. I mean, it fits so well in the prime time slot. And I think that Saturday finish was great. I wish they could do that more often. This week was given the ladies an extra travel day. They go from Hawaii. They come back to Los Angeles this week and then they go to Singapore the week after. So pretty hectic travel schedule here. But yeah it was great to flip on primetime golf and live women's golf. I mean it's please more of that. Yeah. Are they Friday or Wednesday through Saturday this week with a flight to Singapore or they they are yeah, it finishes on the 24th Oh, that's great. It's coming. That's cool there. We'll sure this week that it's another fun one to watch But yeah gosh, I mean so she's got 62 in the final round of the a&a inspiration

Then went 67 63 65 65 and I know this course was set up easy I think they're kind of counting on the wind below out there and it did not It was a bit of a pitch and putt. Maybe a little bit too much was read into Bethan Nichols article, which I know we talked about on the podcast. It was maybe, was it set up too easy for your liking, Randy? Are you worried about that being a trend? I honestly, I, you know, I don't have a big, like mental repository to draw back on this tournament specifically.

So I don't know if it was more the setup or just some some calmer wins. A little too many birdies for my liking. You know, I think I think Beth Ann raised a ton of great points in her piece. And I think I would like to see some changes made. But for me, part of the reason why I like women's golf is it's a little bit of an anecdote to the men's game where it's just, you know, it is as far as you can, hit a bunch of flip wedges who can make the most birdies

most weeks this week, you know, a little bit different at least in the course. But yeah, a little, little easy, but I honestly, I don't know whether to pin that on the weather or the setup. Yeah. Give me a mix of both. Yeah, right.

I got in mind it. Like give me a birdie fest one week and then let's see something in single digits the next. I like the variety. I think it was pleasing to watch it, like it not be a struggle, right? I don't love tuning to the LPJ when they play some of these longer golf courses.

And I think her overall point was like these courses are set up way longer than they than the equivalent on the men's tour, right? And I think that that can be a turnoff for people tuning in. You know, I that's kind of counterintuitive to what we say a lot about setups on the PJ tour, but I think there can be a place, you know, on on both sides of that coin, if you will. Yeah. Rainy, a bigger question for you maybe. Is it time to start talking about Nelly Corda's closing ability? Oh, so you know I love talking about questions like this. I don't think so.

I mean, I think she just ran into a freight train this week. I'm not sure anybody's beaten Lydia Co. You know, Nelly's had what, I think, five top 10s and six starts this year. So four top threes and six starts, five top three, five top 10s. You're right. Yeah. Um, I'm with a win at the game bridge. I'm more, I'm more seen if you know, you put some of your fiend out things to the, to the, uh, to the women the same way you do to, to my guy, Fina. Oh, no, there's a certain, you know, I've put a couple on on Death Watch.

I believe Brooke Henderson and Lexi Thompson, I better start making some some final arrangements if they don't, you know, Randy, are you are you scheduling any wakes? Not yet. You know, we have the whole year ahead of us, but, you know, start getting the affairs in order order maybe. No, with Nelly, I think, you know, I certainly would love to see her. I think the next logical step is, you know, let's let's get a major here whether it be this year or certainly next year. I mean, she is like the talent. Everybody like, yes, I think everybody just wants her to be that big American best player in the world talent that you can market around.

And that's maybe not fair to her. That's us putting a lot of pressure and expectations on her. But she's a hell of a golfer. And I'm willing to give her at least through this year and next year. I'm confident she's going to, you know, at least clip one major in that time frame. Four career wins for Nelly Corda. She's 22 years old. How many do you have? I forgot. God, that's good. How do we meet the line? I have a question for you guys as, you know, watchers of more than I am of LPGA.

Do you think it's easier for younger, like, somebody to come out and break out on the LPGA tour? Big time. Right. It is, right? I didn't want to make that statement. And that'd be like, nah, that's just, that's Lydia Coe. She was an outlier.

No, it is very much a, I'm hesitant to answer it because there's a lot of factors that go into it, but when it comes to parenthood and being a mother and the way women's bodies progress, and I've asked, I forget who I, who I asked, one of the LPJ players that came on the podcast this question and their perspective on it was really interesting.

I often dig that up because they gave a way better answer that I'm about to, but it is kind of like a get in there and do some stuff while you're young because you have have an advantage while you're younger more so than like the men do. Sure. And I wish I could fully explain it, Randy. Maybe you can help me out with that a little bit, but it does, it is a very real thing. And there's women retire earlier in the game. They don't, you know, there's there's outliers, of course, but they don't play into their 30s and 40s nearly as deep as a lot of the men do. Yeah. Oh gosh, that's a hot potato. I'm not sure I wanted. I don't have, I don't have a better answer than that. I think instead of just talking out of my ass, I'll defer to anybody

listening, maybe inform us. My anecdotal take would be Yucasazo. Right. You see, it's like, man, look at that swing. Holy shit. That's like intimidating for me to see. And you think you're a veteran on the LPGA and you're just like every year, there's like, that's coming out on tour, like two or three of those swings. Like, man, this is like, that feels, it feels more like other sports say, like basketball where younger athletes can just come in and make a splash and make an impact a lot quicker. I somebody remembers it might have been Lydia on the podcast that talked about this, you know, about how I was going to say. Yeah, sorry, no, I was going to say we talked to Lydia. The only other thing I was going to say if I'm hypothesizing this is this is perhaps half baked like most of my takes, but

you know, I think what we're seeing now is a little bit of that, for lack of a better word, like the Tiger Woods effect infiltrating the women's game now, right, like these athletes that have grown up in a post-Tiger world where there's such a premium put on strength training and flexibility and optimizing distance. That's just starting to hit the women's game, in my opinion.

And somebody like Yucasazo, if somebody shows up with a real power game, it stands out more on the women's tour, I think, than it would on the men's tour, just because it's almost like a prerequisite to get it out on the PGA tour, where it's not quite to that point yet on the PGA tour where it's not quite to that point yet on the LPGA. You casseroe. That was about as encapsulated by a golf swing as I've been and they did a great care and supples that a great comparison putting it side by side with Rory and how she modeled her swing after Rory and it was almost identical and she is fascinating to watch at the golf ball. 19 years old Phil Pino playing on a sponsor's exemption. She did not get into Wilshire with the top 10 finish this week. I don't know if she I don't think she is in the field this next week,

but that is going to be someone that's going to be very, very fun to follow if she continues to swing it like that. So something about those the the young Filipinos, her and Bianca Pogdenon, and you know, they just hit the crap out of the ball. That's yeah, definitely fun to watch. Can I add another thing for any LPGA folks that are listening, maybe new listeners? When I say death watch and get your affairs in order,

that is obviously just a joke. That is a long standing joke that goes back to, of course, we buried Rory a couple of years ago, so I don't want that to be taken in the wrong way. And you can still send, you know, in lieu of flowers, you can still send donations to golf pass. No, it's by the subscription to golf pass. Yes. Thank you. Usually I jump into clarify that, but I'm so used to hearing about death watch now. Right. Those were fully baked cakes. All of them. All of I love them. Well, I don't need, yeah, I don't need Stanley or any of the Canadian journalist

coming at me about, you know, for a kinder. Shout out to Leonna McGuire, former top ranked Amateur in the world. T2, her best finish in her young LPGA torque rear. I know the Irish lads were quite excited about that one as well. Say Young Kim had a great Sunday 65 to finish T2. And A-Lim Kim, you might remember from last year's US Open down in Houston in December. She has joined the PJ tour, top 10 here. Hopefully she'll be LPGA tour. Sorry LPGA tour. Hopefully she'll be a mainstay here.

Good to see more of her as well. It is time for our BMW Ryder Cup segment. BMW is a global partner of the Ryder Cup. They are a partner of ours and they help us, help support us as we have several Ryder Cup segment, BMW is a global partner of the Ryder Cup. They are a partner of ours. And they help us help support us as we have several Ryder Cup conversations leading up to Wistling Straits coming this fall. A lot of questions about the Ryder Cup this week. Early in the week, it was about someone that was arm locking. Now it is trending now towards Stewart sink, which we get to, but

wills out to us for the Ryder Cup. He was 18th in the points coming in this week. A lot of questions. Can he be on the Ryder Cup team? If he's not a PGA tour member, blah, blah, blah He was 18th in the points coming in this week. A lot of questions. Can he be on the rider cup team if he's not a PGA tour member blah blah blah. He's rising in the standings. We're as we're standing right now. If you had to make teams, I know I'm putting you on the spot with this is Will's Allataurus on your rider cup team. I would say no, not right now. But we're monitoring the situation, Randy. I think we're looking at things. We have some time left, but right now, I would say no. Is that too much, there's too much depth for that.

I was going to say, is that an indictment of Zell Torres? It's the US deput. And if I was a captain, I would say, you know, why throw the young buck in too quick? Like he looks like he's here to stay. Let's, you know, we've got some, we've got some dudes in the stable right now. Oh, Randy, what's your take?

God, Neil, I mean, we're, we're perfect point counterpoint on this. I absolutely am taking them on my Ryder Cup team. For exact phenal? Well, yeah. For exactly the reason that you just said, like if this is the dude and he's gonna be, you know, among the top American men for conceivable index dozen years or so,

I would rather pick them two years too early, but have them get that crucial experience, especially with a rider cup on US soil. I've long been yearning for rider cup captains to be a little bit more prognosticators in, you know, bring up those young guys. I want to see guys who are maybe untested, but with the world of potential over the coaches and some of these other guys that just seem to be on the team every year and don't really, it's like they have very unexceptional records. I think that's a very fair point,

but by counter-point to that would be, do you want to see a Christian, late-natured dream team situation? We don't know if Zalatoris is going to be the dude. He's going to be around, but is he the dude? Wouldn't it be fun to find out though? And if he's not, then you're right. You know, that informs us. But, you know, I'd look at him, I'd look at Sheffler, you know, I'm a huge Max Homa, Homer. So of course I'd pick my friend Max. But I would rather air going that way than, you know, just recycling some of these names over and over again

that haven't made it on points, but are just like just right outside. And it's like, that's where I am. We've seen you the last four, five Ryder cups. I'm with you on the old guys, you know, let's not go with the conservative picks, but it feels like there's enough young guys that haven't gotten the chance ahead of Zalatoris

in the young buck stable that he wouldn't be on my squad right now. So Ali, you are the resident writer cup expert here. Die hard. What do you think? I think that Zalatoris is if he's if he continues training this way, no reason why he shouldn't be on the team. And I'm putting him on right now.

I'm kind of like right now, but yes, because like Brooks is not on my team right now. I mean, we're talking about a health perspective. Like there's no way he's on my team right now. He's a giant question mark. Big key, this might sound extremely obvious, but based on some of the questions we got, apparently it's not that obvious. The Ryder Cup is several months away. So I am honestly, I will not lock in one single player as of right now into the Ryder Cup team. Like Dustin Johnson, not a lock in my book. All right. I know

that sounds crazy, but like, dude, if he has like a shitty three month and that has some more injury, like he was shooting the the eighties last July, right? If that happens right before, and he's got a knee problem going on or a back problem going on, and he doesn't have a great rider cup record to start with, give me the hot guys. I want the, the guy's coming in hot, okay? You sound like a, you sound like a high school football coach. Exactly. That's the team.

Like, point it to start by her. You, hey, you, yep, you're out. No, you're out just trying to make an, make an example out of it. DJ. No, he's not, he's not a lot. Come on. Every Monday we compete for a spot. Exactly. Yes.

Exactly. What's that? Chess. He's got a chance. I'm right. Dustin Johnson got suspended before the 2014 rider cup. He has not been a reliable guy for the, he's been one of the best players in the world for the last decade.

Has he been a reliable rider cup player? I wouldn't say so. So like, prove to me that your, me that your spot should be a lot. Like it is, we have to, you have to approach this thinking about who gives us the best chance to win in September at Wistling Straits in a different environment than every other golf tournament you watch, right? To Stuart Sink, you know, give you a great opportunity to win at Wistling Straits because he won a tournament the year prior to that and also won at Hilton Head, a polar opposite

golf course in April? Absolutely not. Like Stuart Sink would have to win five more tournaments before I'm like, okay, put them on the Ryder Cup team. And he would have to have like not finished outside the top 20 and any of the others. So you're way out on like the rankings. Oh, the points are so dumb. So it should just be any of the all cap and pick was I know Randy's body. I love that. Yes.

He's like 37th and he was coming into this week. His points were not even close. I know he won in the fall, but like the way they're doing the points this time around, it's even worse than normal. And listen, the top six guys and the points have probably earned their spot, right? Now, Capca's sixth right now and falling, and if he's not going to be playing, I don't know if he's going to make it on points. Sure. If he comes back and proves it and is healthy, then of course, I think he should be on the team. But as of right now, do I want to pencil them in? Of course not.

That's a giant question, Mark. Hit me. Do you have the list, Andy? I do. DJ, Bryson, JT, Morakawa, Shoffley, and Capca right now. Reads in seventh, 1800 points behind Keppga, then goes Finaweb, Burger, Speed, Horsel, Cantlay, English, Sheffler, Holma, Co-Crax, Zalatoris, Wolf.

It's deep. I would say I'm fully on board with the list is a tool for the captain to pick the team. Right. Like, so that's a barometer for him to kind of evaluate what he's thinking, but it's 12 captains picks. And if he wants to pull somebody off, you know, who's 30, but is hot right now.

You know, sign me up, Randy, I'll ride with you on that. Maybe, maybe we got like, Akshay could be the Christian Latenter, right? Like let's bring Akshay to the writer. I think Zalatore is a pretty good Latenter comparison, right, with the blonde hair and just, I mean, who knows? I mean, I don't know if this guy's got it, but he played well for Duke and he had a good run. Let's throw him in with Jordan and Barclay and the boys.

Yeah, yeah. I know people don't want to remember this, but J.B. Holmes was a captain's pick in 2016 at Hazelteam because they knew they're going to cut the rough down and they made the pick based on like, we are going to bomb pick based on like we are gonna bomb it like we are gonna play you know to cut corners and hit it far and he went I Forget what he how what he actually did in that writer cup looks like he went he was one and two so it didn't go great But still like that's how you should approach it right if you're gonna set the team up for like this style of golf course Then that's the way you should approach it. Stoosink like winning around a tight little golf course does absolutely nothing for me.

Am I happy for Stu Sink? Is that tremendous what he's done? The US depth is out of control right now and to add in 47 year olds, Stu Sink would be a nightmare. But the driving distance that's for this one week is tremendous. Then that's fine. And look, I get it, but there's no reason. Again, if he has a major career in a science, we can talk about it. Like if he beats the door down, then we can have the conversation.

But winning an event in April does absolutely nothing for me. Am I convincing you? You have it. I was just going to say that. I'm on board with that. German fits 88s. As if Billy Ho is seventh in the Ryder Cup standings, does he get a pick? Could combust at any moment at Whistler and Straits?

You would be fun to watch in that environment. I'm on that boat with with P. Reed too. Send a both, man. I think he would care. I'm out on read. Read's got to go. Read's got to go. There's no reason to go with read.

Horseshoe, you could talk me into that. Okay. Well, I don't know with read. He's a killer. I think you could. I know he's bad team. He's a team killer. He's a, yeah.

But how he doesn't offense with read as selfishly for content. Sign me up. Can I remind you what he did the last writer cup? He shot 84 playing with Tiger Woods, claimed Tiger Woods apologized to him about how bad Tiger played. And then bitched about how he said, oh, I guess Jordan doesn't want to play with me, bitched about the pairings lied about what Furik had told him and threw the captain under the bus on his way to going. What did he go? He won his singles match, I think, but just completely bombing out of team play and being like the poster boy for what was wrong with the 2018 team. And then since then he was sick.

Yeah, he's been in two cheating incidents. And now you put him on the back of the rider cup. And his daddy punched a fan. Yeah, that's a good, that's such a good rap sheet. I was gonna say now what's the bad news? Yeah, no, I'm in, man. Like that would be fun to watch. Mm. Take me out, take it away.

Take it all away. Listen, it's like Matt Wallet. It's new perspective, you know, he's grown up. Come on, man, come on. Take it away. Take it away. On the European Tour front, John Catlin wins the American. John Catlin wins in a five hole playoff.

It's his third European Tour win in eight months. I think he should be around 77th in the world per, of course, per VC 606 on Twitter. Some people are saying it's a manipulation. Do you know what to be 77th in the world playing the European Tour? But, you know, listen, I gotta be fair, just because he's American doesn't mean he's not manipulating the world rankings But impress that that was awesome maximum key for made it eight on the fifth playoff. Oh

They played the same part three same part three on repeat. It was so silly and yeah I didn't get to watch much more than then just the playoff But gosh got a got to set up a little bit better for a playoff and just playing the same part three. Like a 12% birdie hole. I think that's all 12% of the field was birding it. So it's just going to be trading parts back and forth forever until somebody messed up. Just a just an unsubscription just forward slash unsubscribed app. I made Nate. I'm out guys. I'm out. Take me off your list. I had never hand up. Never heard of John Catlin, which, I never, never heard of John Catlin, which, Sali, I think, almost compels me to side with you in that he's probably a manipulator.

But I was looking on his Wikipedia page. He played at the University of New Mexico, which is really, has me wondering if our, if our friend Fegs ever ran into him out there. That'd be a question for Fegs. I can't answer that one for you, but I've got Scott, Scott Fagley of Strapfam shot up Scott. Yeah. Great guy. He was a, he was at New Mexico for a couple of years, I think.

You know who else said in Mexico for, for a year, T a, T a three, a long time ago. And then you know what he did. He went and played the Euro tour. Hmm. He's going to be knocking down the door on some WGC's here pretty soon. Anything from hamsterdam from you guys? For the new listeners, hamsterdam is where we try to isolate all of our frustrations with golf television coverage into one segment of the show, so it doesn't bleed into other segments of the show. I have two things. One, I want to shout out the A on risk reward segment. Yes. It's another example this week of a sponsored segment that was adding value. And I learned something from it.

And it's basically the counterpoint to the FedEx file. Kudos to the A on risk reward. FedEx Cup file has gotten better. Okay. They've taken some notes on that as well. They took a beating for what it used to be, but it's gotten a little bit better. It's not. I'd say a little bit.

Not, not, not where we need it. Risk a little pitch. Yeah. And I would say another is, it's a question to you guys. Why is it that some see a beautiful golf course? Oh my god. An incredible view. You had Dustin Johnson season aggressive pin

and a two club headwind. Shout out to Roy Munson for calling that to my attention. He didn't really need to because it's the same RBC commercial on every break. It bugs me. Especially the title sponsor who's going, you know they're going to have a commercial every segment. It should be a requirement that there's more than one. Yes.

The brand damage. Exactly. It's brutal. It's like, yo, what, who is your agency? What are we doing here, guys? Like you are doing damage to your brand by saying, the same, you're mailing it in. This is bullshit. Period point blank. It is such a middle finger to the viewer, the golf fan to run a repetitive golf commercial that doesn't make sense from a golf perspective. Like it is so freaking backwards. And listen,

I know that we are in a commercial for a title sponsor on the PGA tour, so take that for what is worth. But the Charles Schwab commercials, like they created interesting golf content around people in golf, right? And like put their name on it and say like identified challengers, like people that ask questions. There's a Mike Kaiser one. There's a Troy Mullins one. There's a Mark Brody one. There's going to be all kinds of new ones this year. Like they switch up their commercial flow and give the golf fan like something to go off. And there's actually a strategy. It's like go watch this video on our website. There's a eight minute video.

Here's a 15, 30 second teaser. And then there's like a there's a funnel. There's a strategy, the RBC and also like, I'm sorry, but Dustin Johnson isn't calling out to me as like, man, that guy can pick stocks, right? Like I want to put my money with DJ. So then there's just that whole disconnect of like, dude, I don't know if DJ's like, I'm, why is there a branch in the way from the middle of the fairway also?

And he just, the whole time he doesn't say anything, he's just looking. It's just not good. And it's like somebody do something. This is, they're wasting their money. It's doing the opposite of what you wanted to do, which is make me go call you to give you my money. I'm not gonna do that So sorry, I'm no I'm Randy. I'll give you the last word Amsterdam I'm I'm seeding my time today. I'm giving back my time to the committee Neil, I love you getting worked up about it. That helps me justify getting worked

I mean because also that same freaking commercial is on every week. It's like, you're the title sponsor this week. Bring me something new, guys. What are we doing? I don't, I truly don't understand. RBC, you hear this? Get at me. I would be happy to, you know, this is bullshit. All right.

It is. I mean, the commercial love is a total. And that's not even CBS related. No, commercial love told us grace. That's on PJ tour. Same thing every week. I'd say going off the air on Friday while the cut was still in jeopardy. I like tuned into watch like, all right, Tommy Fleetwood might make the cut.

Like 100 mayhem might make the cut for the first time. And like they show them to you off on 17, just never followed up, went off the air, never updated on what happened on the cut line. The cut line moved against. They went off the air. It's like, dude, again, we're gonna, we're gonna transition to form you the one after this. Like, they make you care about the midfield. Like, what the hell is the point of paying 65th place,

$5,000 or whatever it is? If you're not gonna cover it, like, make me feel something for the guy that makes the cut in place the weekend. Friday afternoon should be that every single time. Like, the leader might not be on the golf course. You might not have a great story out there. Give me the guys on the cut watch.

You know, free, I mean, free idea for the telecast, PGA tour. They could sell a sponsor of like, you know, the cut line. Sure. Just the cut line red alert. Like hit me with some dudes that like pick five guys and be like, yo, this guy's grinding right now. Cut line. You got Edward Cesar's hands.

You could, yeah, you could own Friday night with like whatever random NBA games on. Like people are looking for something to have on in the background. Like, why are we cutting to, you know, golf central or whatever? So, yo, I'm sorry, I'm with you on that. That's, that's a, that's a massive miss by the, uh, by the powers of B. Hmm. I think that's, that's pretty much all I have. But I've got to work up this hamster, damn, huh?

Also, not, not acknowledging Danny McCarthy's hole in one because they don't have the video for it. I mean, it's pretty much part of the course of this point for CBS, but that's about it. Formula one. That was no more golf talk. If you are, if you do not like Formula One talk, go ahead and we'll see you next week. Thank you for tuning in. But we, Formula One is back.

Second race of the year. Max for staff and wins at Emola. I don't know if you guys saw you see Polter was streaming the F1 match during his round on his phone this week. I did not see that. P Fitz for is asking is Polter watching the F1 race on his phone during the front nine, not a penalty? How is I don't know how I don't know what the phone rules are? What prevents you from calling your coach during the middle of a round? Like, yeah, what's going on here? It feels like it's a, I think that frowned upon thing. Yeah, and that like explicitly illegal. Aren't you going to allow to get advice from any of the other side?

Or caddy or something. I guess, but what if it, what happens if it, if, if, while you're watching the F1 race, a text comes in like you are dipping your right shoulder really bad to the impact zone. It's a gentleman's game. I think you have to call penalty on yourself. Hmm.

Are you team Botos or team George Russell on the collision today? Well, Botos is on my, on my, I guess our fantasies, our fantasy league squad. So I obviously have to stand up for my dude, but I think, you know, I'm team Russell. And it looked like they were trying to say that he went over to say like, oh yeah, I'm not gonna see if he's okay. Legitimately thought he was gonna help

out of the car. That's not what happened. He spooked him, man. That was, I think that was on Valtteri. It was drifting right and it spooked my boy George. I felt bad for him. That was pretty gnarly crash. Russell's comments afterward, you know,

and watching it again, it wasn't like blatantly obvious that Boatos, you know, it was at fault, but he was just, the point was like, dude, when you're on that straight, going that speed, like you can't juke someone like that. That's, it's one thing to kind of make a move at somebody around a turn where you're breaking, but when you're going 200 plus miles an hour, like, yo, that is dangerous. It almost, like Boatos is having a horrible race to begin with. Yeah. So it was almost like he just really frustrated and he was just, you know, yo, that is dangerous. It almost, like, both of us are having a horrible race to begin with. Yeah.

So it was almost like he just really frustrated and he was just, you know, just didn't have his stuff basically. Yeah. It looked like he was frustrated. And my god, Georgia had his Williams up in the points at that time. Like it was a travesty.

God, Georgia just, how about, how about Louis Hamilton getting almost stuck in an Austin power situation? Where he couldn't, he couldn't hit reverse. Like I don't think those cars have reverse, right? He was trying to turn the wheels. He couldn't, he couldn't get it off the wall for a while. He got, he got crowned by that, by that crash. I, I wouldn't put a pass to, to, to call that play into, to Bo Toss, to help out Lewis. Oh, wow. That's the 40 chess. I'm, I'm talking about Randy.

That hell yeah. It always falls Hamilton's way. Like I appreciated him, you know, when they restart the race, he's in ninth and he like overcame and then he takes advantage of it. Yeah. It always does break his way. But like they were so much debris though, like they had that they did, but he got he was lapped. He like after going into the wall, he was lapped. He was so far down. And like when you restart the race, you're not lapped anymore. Like you get you unlaps yourself.

So once you roll that back out, like starting under the safety, like you can't stay in front of Hamilton, like he just, he's gonna get you. You're gonna have a bad time. And so I, but I appreciate watching Hamilton just, just, you know, inhale racers one by one. I got's awesome to watch. First, tapping was just pure class.

I mean, he was, that was a near perfect race for me. He's a sociopath. Well, the start was awesome. That movie made inside of Hamilton on the start was so cool. And I'm just excited. It looks like we have a real drivers race this year with Hamilton and Verstappen. I want to shout out, you know, the Ferraris,

good week on their home circuit. And the McLaren's looking as frisky as ever. So I think exciting stuff. Do we get another race next week or do we have to take a week off? I don't think there's many back-to-backs. You know, we got a little too used to the COVID schedule, I think, could be wrong.

April 30th through May seconds, we have a week off in Portugal. So come on, they got to get this, those cars somewhere else. Do you like the, do you like the wet? I thought the start was sweet. I love one. When the conditions get, uh, get a little dire. I thought the strategy element of it is so much better when you have to start on wets and like wait for the track to dry out and, and you can kind of wait for somebody to go out on on slick tires and see what happens. Like they all waited and Vettel went out and was like kind of skidding all over like, all right, not yet, not yet. That was an interesting element to him. Gasey came out on the wrong tires and just you know, intermediate guys were

just flying by him. I'm starting to get the hang of the tire strategy. That's one thing that kind of took a bit of time to get used to in the sport. The rain for a newbie like me, that helps me understand the strategy. Because it's almost like you get the drivers talking to the team in just, you know, plain English of like, when are we switching the tires? It's like, okay, so they have two sets of tie. It just kind of helps you pick it up faster. So and obviously just rain like it's chaos anyway, right? You get you get these kinds of crashes that's just exciting stuff. So one race this morning. I'd say the goat tax you guys are making me pay on Hamilton's points, where I only get 66% of Hamilton's points for my fantasy team is it's a tough penalty.

Don't you dare complain. You knew exactly. I know. I'm with you too. You were not surprised by that. I know, but it's just it's a little harsh, especially with how good Verstappen's been. But no, I can't. I this is going to be a tremendous, tremendous season for what I can tell. In my second season as an F1 fan, and this is going to be the best one. Anything else before we wrap? Do we want to talk big, big content week coming this big content week coming? We content week coming. We have the debut of a new series of ours. I don't know if it's a series or not.

Part one of maybe you'll love one. Hopefully not, but it's called A Week in the Life. Rainy once you tell us about it. Yeah, this is one of the more proud projects. Am I saying that right? I'm as proud of this project as I am of anything we've done. I'm very excited for everybody to see it. DJ and I and in Eukriss, we went down to the Game Bridge LPGA in the middle of February

down in Orlando and thanks to Madeline Sackstrom and a couple people in her camp essentially followed her around all week and got to see what life was like both at the course, all parts of the course, but as well as at home. And DJ has been deep in the edit bay for about a month and a half and it's finally ready. And so it's I'm really excited. I think it will be, you know, I don't know what the cadence will be, but hopefully we can do a week in the life on a lot of different tours and a lot of different levels of golf. I think it's a really fun, exciting premise. And I think Madeline is like the perfect person to start out with. If you're not on Madeline Saction fan after watching the video this week, then I don't know what would convince you. If you wanted, a lot of people have been clamoring

for a, you guys should do a drive to survive, like that on professional golf. If you want to see what drive to survive would look like on quite literally like one 100th million of the budget, that's what I think this looks like. It is very much not the same, but at the same time, kind of like as close to a behind the scenes kind of interest piece as I think we're capable of doing with our current setup and big shout to the LPGA tour folks for as cooperative as they were and letting us do that shoot tournament footage, do all kinds of things that we would get shot for on the future. That was a pretty optimistic end year. Should be all about.

Well, I don't think a lot of tours. Well, that would be in tour maybe. Yeah. I know one tour would be a cooperation. Exactly. Well, no, it's essentially like one tour that we won't do it on. But you know, you think about different levels to go off like college golf, right?

You know, maybe a mid-AM going to a big tournament like there's just drive chip and put. Exactly. Yeah. Lead up to the masters. The possibilities are endless, but don't look for one on the PGA tour anytime soon. We got some, we got the Wild World Golf in the, in the edit bay right now. We've got a new series, the NLU Film Room. There's a lot of good stuff coming. There's a podcast coming this week as well with Mad on Sackstrom, which kind of adds a little bit

of color and background to her story and, you know, to the video as well. So, gentlemen, thank you for a lovely Sunday evening in the Kill House. We have some traveling to do this week. We will see all of you guys back here at this time next week. Cheers. It's gonna be the right club. Be the right club today. Yes! That is better than most. How about in? That is better than most.

Better than most! Expect anything different.