No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 435: Saturday PGA Championship Recap

Episode Date: May 23, 2021

Phil v Brooks! We recap one of the great major championship Saturdays since we've been in the podcast. Phil shooting drones out of the skies, questionable drops, and a Sunday battle between two stalwarts. Cannot wait.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm going to be the right club today. Yeah. That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up live show slash podcast Saturday edition solid here in the Kill House. Even though we're on separate screens right now, we're sitting right across from each other. DJ Pies here.

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We got Cooper Tires lined up for tonight. What a fucking day man. Oh my God, I love the sport. We were kind of clowning on more you than me. Kind of clowning on the whole like it feels like Sunday thing, which I thought was honestly a shot at Louis more than anything. He's like, Louis missed that like four footer than I go. Feels like Sunday.

I was like, yeah, hell yeah. Louis, Louis gagged. He's away all the time. They would never throw shade like that. And I look at you opening up with a coverage day too. No, no, no. What I was getting at was the more we got into those last couple of holes. Like it really did feel like a Sunday.

I think Porter said that on Twitter, like how good would that have been? Sign me up right now for exactly what we saw coming down the stretch. Phil's got to get that up and down to win the golf tournament. I mean, that's as good as it gets. That was the most fun Saturday I can remember.

And since we started doing this podcast, I think, of a major. I'm sure there's probably, getting the comments and remind my ass of some I'm forgetting probably, but I remember when Tiger made the, I mean, obviously the Tiger Sunday at 2019 Masters, that's absurd, but when Tiger also made that run at Belrieve, that was a Sunday

and that was earlier on in that day, I remember that being a complete thrill ride. But I mean, remember, remember the Saturday when was it 2010? I think when Phil hold out at the Masters, Phil, what did he hold out for Eagle for Eagle? Eagle, Eagle birdie. Yeah, that's the only thing I can put it up there with Saturday wise. Yeah, and he had the shot. I guess that was Sunday. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. That's probably up there, but that was before the podcast. That's my point. Right.

Right. Well, I'm even going to go and be off just a complete striped show on his front nine when out in 32. I think it to get it 18 whole stretch spanning back to yesterday that he played 10 under. And many people were wondering if that was sustainable. It turns out maybe not so much. He did let it leak a little bit down the stretch, which I'm sure will cover. But what's the what's the image that sticks out to you from today? But what's the image that sticks out to you from today? Honestly, it shouldn't be, but the shot on 13 wasn't great. I mean, if we're trying to be positive, I'd say it's gotta be the shot into two, was bananas. It just walking after it, like over the trees,

knocking it up there to eight feet or whatever. And into three out of the sand on number three. Seriously, I mean, it was just, that front nine was really, really special. It was, you know, the shot on 13 reminded me of when we did your, your, your film room. And it was like, all you got to do is not go left. The only thing you can't do is go left. And he just duck hooks it straight into the water. We got to talk about that sequence.

You want to start there? That feels negative. Okay. Let's, let's unpack the front nine a little bit more. I mean, he comes out and it was in control. It wasn't like the, so we got the full fill experience on the back nine, but the front nine was something that we have not seen. Through 36 holes, we saw a really good golf out of him, obviously, in the last group, type of lead going in. And not even really good fill golf. Just like really solid. That's insane. Really solid golf. God, we're gonna say this 15 times throughout this podcast, he's driving the shit out of the ball.

It's concerning how well he's hitting the driver. That really stuck with me too on that front side. It sucks that he punted two shots back by hitting one into the water on 13 basically, but yeah, the stats would say that he is driving the shit. He was hitting like the, if there was a center cut line of the fairway, that's what he would have been in. And yeah, it was just total control. And there was a big question mark,

at least in my book, going into today, like how many holes is this gonna last? Like 30, 16, like a nice stopping point. You're the last group off. Yeah, I know you've done this a million times, but I have a stamina question, and I still have a stamina question mark on Phil, going into tomorrow.

And didn't know if it was gonna last 36 36 holes 45 54 whatever it is but I think we can say fit fit you know 46 is pretty much where it lasted but he's still there obviously right there with the lead going into tomorrow and gosh it was really impressive on the front not. What I mean what are the shots my missing they all kind of run together like when when someone's doing that is shot into seven par five. Yeah, almost made Eagle on seven. Awesome. Eagle looks on two in seven. He birdied number six too. I mean, he was just he was dialed. If you made that eagle, I don't know. I was thinking about that. It would have been the maybe the gif only gif

you could have used is the guy that rolled down the hill when he made that put on 18 at Riviera. I think it's smack in the ground. That's what I felt, watching it. Like, we almost did that. If he would have made, if he would have hold the bunker shot, or the flop shot on 18, I think we both would have rolled off the couch and started banging the ground.

How good is it to have like fan reaction, Jack? For that ball almost going in, just like that, that is what Major J. B. Chipp golf is all about. That, today got my juices flowing if you can't tell Lane shards in the comments saying It's game on jiff lane fuck off shot lane lane is jinx guy I just found that out on Twitter this week. I hate that I didn't realize that it had been worse if he was aged well guy Speaking of aged well guys speaking of all my my whole crew on Twitter big day for where did it cross Twitter?

I want to give a shout out to all those guys all my whole crew on Twitter, big day for Where Did It Cross Twitter? Cross Twitter. I wanna give a shout out to all those guys. So candidly, I was kinda right in the middle of my big fill Twitter thread I was doing. So I was just furiously Google imaging, looking for photos, which we'll get to in a second. But run the people through the whole, as a representative of Where Did It Cross Twitter.

Yeah, please, go off here. 13th hole is, first of all kind of a silly hole. Like you go across a bridge to basically what feels like somebody's backyard to tee off. Essentially 500 yards usually into the wind. 481 to the narrow green side up there. You're there's water right in front of you. And if you're like Neil and you hit this shot, you hit the reeds five feet in front of the tee box and it somehow rises and covers everything and goes on land of them. I'm not bitter about that at all.

And there's water that goes all down the right. And if you hit like a block or a pull in Phil's case, do you have a chance you don't cover anything? And Louis hits like his little, his little cleafball that he's been hitting now for a couple like a month now. And as soon as it goes in the water, Phil is like, oh yeah, that cross, that definitely crossed. And Phil thinks steps up to all the thing, Phil is like, oh yeah, that cross, that definitely crossed. And Phil, then steps up to all the thing you can't do is hit it in that and he just dead

pulls it, doesn't really even really apex. And Phil stands on the tee and kind of wanders for a while and you know, did it cross, did it cross. And then finally just says, I don't think it crossed. And that felt like the right call. Yeah. Watching it. I mean, again, it's really important to know when you're watching this on television

that even with a good aerial image from the blimp, angles are what they are. You don't know for sure. Like we can't know for sure, but if you compare the two images of the two shots from that blimp, they looked more similar than they did different. And Louis ends up taking a drop up in the fairway.

And again, we're guessing on this stuff, right? So when you go, when your ball crosses a red line hazard or penalty area, you are deciding where it crossed, right? You can pretty much choose where you're gonna pick. He chooses a spot right next to a sprinkler head that also gives him relief that gets out. It was into the fairway? Did he get relief all the way into the fairway?

Who could say? That I have a little bit of an issue with. Like, of all places it crossed, it crossed right at that sprinkler head, then you get the relief. Like you're already taking a drop that I don't know. And where that red line was painted was pretty far up that hill and CBS did not help matters and they said, oh, that's definitely cross land right there.

It's like, first of all, there's no definitely involved in this. I'm not saying it definitely didn't, but where that red line was painted was not, you know, it may have crossed the end, but that red line was way up that hill. And I don't know. If I was, you could have consulted video on that, and I would have, you know, rather,

he probably is going off with Phil said, Phil doesn't say that I wonder what actually happens. Yeah. That whole sequence kind of stumped me a little bit. Not to, you know, not to wave it off for anything, but as I said to you, we're also talking about Louis, you know, he's going to give a bunch of shots back tomorrow and Sunday anyways. So it's, I don't think we need to worry about you. Drop or, yeah, Louis, wherever you think, man, it looks, looks good. Just anywhere up there, it's good with me.

Yeah, that's good. That's what, what was it, Phil, like his college match or a USAM match or something like that he gave his opponent like a 20 footer because I'm going to make this anyways. I needed the motivation or something like that. Yeah. Phil makes double. Hit a great shot in after that. Phil had a lot of really good shots down the stretch didn't make anything. You gave it a run on 16. That would just barely miss. That might have been going off agreed. The anti Brooks putt. I mean Brooks left that. What did he have a 20 footer 25 footer for birdie on 17 17 horrible putt. That was tough. Phil shot in 17 was unbelievably good. Just rock, rock, rock solid.

And then he's both him and Brooks like Epic drives on 18. Holy shit. We're gonna get Brooks and Phil horrible on 18. Holy shit. We're gonna get Brooks and Phil horrible. Horrible. Horrible. By Brooks with an eight iron in his hand and just a really bad shop. I feel also like following that up. So that you know, who knows with wind getting up a little bit tomorrow, those guys playing off each other like I we're gonna get there. I know but like I'm so excited. Is it the wind kind of softened a little bit today came out of a different direction coming in. Was it a little more exciting? Dude, it was way more exciting.

Okay, good. I think so. I mean, I think it's a good mix. Like, I think if it was like that all week, I think we would be begging for, hey, oh, this is not how this golf course is supposed to play. There's supposed to be so much more wins, total crowning. Yeah. I can't imagine what the course setup boys would have had to say about that.

But I think for variety sake, I mean, I love Winna golf course and an tournament really like changes throughout the week. Right? I think it's so cool when like we were saying this in the preview. It was so cool that the win was going to switch later in the week. And you know, you got to play those really hard holes with both wins. I mean, that's, without getting too serious about, like that's a proper examination of golf, right? I love that.

And so I thought it was really cool, especially on Saturday, gave guys a chance to, you know, without, again, putting too fine a point on it, moving day, gave guys a chance to get up there to make some birdies. I don't know, I loved it. I had a blast watching today. The course held up.

68 was the best score of the day. It came from one of the guys in the three horse race. We have, I'm kind of mad. No one took the bait on Twitter. I threw that out there. But three horse race, clearly a three horse race, Phil Brooks in speed. Yeah, we've talked about Phil enough.

I think the last 40 minutes is all Jordan. I think, have we talked about Phil enough? Like you were trying to look kidding. No, take this into how many minutes in our week? Who could say? Like a lead. Okay, we keep going. Take me to what we were discussing about Phil today

and about watching this guy play golf for a general like our whole lives. We've been watching it. So I posted a Twitter thread about this and it probably wasn't as clear as what I was trying to say because it's Twitter and it's hard to annunciate or it's hard to get your thoughts out in very small doses. But what I was basically trying to get at is golf, when you're watching somebody that you really care about

and you have a lot of context on watching someone play full-round at golf on your major championship conditions is like the most intimate thing you can do if the announcer shut the fuck up, which is a separate thing that we can talk about later. But like there are moments coming down the stretch like you see it every year in Augusta these great camera shots like you see somebody really go through it, right? You are you feel like you're there with them. You are it's kind of voyeuristic. It's kind of all that like you are watching somebody're there with them. You are, it's kind of voyeuristic. It's kind of all that, like you are watching somebody

try to accomplish something. And it's unique in sports, I think, in that, you know, for all the sports. Oh yeah. For basketball, you have a lot going on with teammates, baseball, it's kind of like with a pitcher trying to close them out or a hit or trying to get a big hit in the club situation.

That's what you're seeing our guy shooting a light for you. It will be the best comparison. But golf, it is freaking lonely, man. So lonely. It's you. You got your caddy, but it's you going through it. So I'm vibing on what you're saying.

So I think like you always get good stuff, you know, every Sunday afternoon, like the last three, four holes, you get whiffs of that, right? But usually one of our biggest complaints about the PJ tour, I think is it's a lot of faceless guys. It's a lot of like, yeah, he grew up and he was a pretty good junior player. And then he became a pretty good pro. And now he's won a couple times. Like it's pretty man.

What a story. Uh, it's a lot different when it's Phil Nicholson. And it's somebody who's been like, you talk about other sports. Guys aren't performing superstars in other sports for three decades. You know what I mean? Like LeBron James is not going to play for 30 years. We're not going to have 30 years worth, well he might. But we're not going to have 30 years worth of like content around, you know, guys and

other sports. We do with Phil and 90 years worth of content from Phil in 30 years. That's what I'm going to say. Exactly. And so I was just like rattling off some of these memories and stuff. And it's like, what makes tomorrow so cool for me is like, you bring all that shit with you. You have this totally isolated, like the guy is like, let's underscore it. The guy is going for one of the most impressive wins in golf history.

Like I definitely don't think that's overblowing it at all. I mean, he is, he would be the oldest player to ever win a major. It's after he's totally lost all of his form, he's going up against, like, you know, we talk all the time about how there's so many horses in golf. Like, there's so many just Clydes Dales. Golf has never been more competitive than in terms of... He's beating all of them at 51. At 51.

Almost 51 years old. And the fact that we are, you know, we have in the back of our minds, we have the 2004 masters, we have the 2010 masters when Amy had cancer, we have the him waving to the boat at Whistling Strait. So we have him sliding down the hill at Whistling Strait. We have the FBI waiting to question him about insider trading at Firestone. 2013 open at Mirafield. We have him and Tiger as singles partners at the 2006, you know, whatever. We have him winning as an amateur on the PJ tour.

We have like the putt, Hazel team on the 18th green against Sergio 2016. Him lighting up Tom Watson in a press conference. We have him starting a coffee line. We have him wearing a dress shirt during competition at the Masters. We have like, and in Florida in May. Yes. All right, maybe it was shirt during competition at the Masters. We have like and in Florida and May All right, maybe I was the player. It's not the Masters

Hey, more of the Masters too. Yeah, it's just you have all this stuff and it's almost feels like It's like compared that to Kevin Streolman. Yeah, it's like almost too big to like wrap your your head around I know we felt like the only other time I felt like that is when Tiger won the Masters in 2019. And we fired up the podcast and it's just like, what do you say? Dude, what the hell are we? This is like too big. It's hard to talk about. And I think, you know, maybe feels just a little less than that, like, you know, context wise, but it's, it's just crazy. Like, it's wild. And then you've got on top of all that, you've got, you know, we don't have to give this too much billing, but all the Saudi Arabia stuff, hovering around as well,

is like, dude, in the next couple months, he might totally commit to this Saudi, to go finish his career in Saudi Arabia. And does that matter? Do you separate the things? Do you not need to separate the things? It's just, I just can't think of like a more compelling round of golf, which is why I'm just so desperate and I really hope he doesn't go like, start bogey double, and he's out of it after three years. I can't, some day, like I will legit be gardening or moan the lawn or something, just be like, God, Tom Watson, man, you should have just made that putt. Yes. It bothers me still, almost over 10 years later, and should have just made that putt. Yes. It bothers me still almost over 10 years later and I don't want that up tomorrow.

And I think like not win, but I don't want it to be like, I don't want them to, you know, bogey 18 to go into a playoff and then lose or something like that. Yeah, I know. I will be able to handle that. And it's just, I don't know, you also start thinking like, obviously you and I are about the same age and are early-ish 30s, mid-30s.

And like, we didn't have all of that context with Tom Watson, but a lot of people did, right? And so I would think for the generation, two generations, three generations above us, like that had to feel very similar going into that Sunday at Turnberry, right? And so I don't know, I'm kind of at a loss for words. I'm not at a loss for words because I've been rambling for five minutes, but it's just, I don't know how I'm kind of at a loss for words. I'm not at a loss for words because I've been rambling for five minutes, but it's just, I don't know how else to say I'm extremely excited. And I can't wait for tomorrow. And I'm totally fine with this.

My laughter at Big Randy for him picking Phil to top 40 may live in infamy. And I'm okay with that. But that's the thing is like top 40's not guaranteed. Like because look at who we're talking about. Like this could just as easily in five years, could just as easily be one of those things. Like, yeah, remember when he shot 86 in the fight around and he lost like 15 balls?

It data golf's got him at 26.6% chance of not a lot. It's not a lot. Brooks at 31%. That's a lot. The week who was tased in at 17 and Strylman at seven, speed is at 0.4%. Strylman. I believe. Strylman would be a tough seed. That would be that would be worse than Stussink. I would have to say. That would be tough. No one, no one likes Strylman more than me. Shout out to Wheaton Illinois, but it's, yeah, that would be tough.

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Here, here. Well, what do you want to come next? Brooks. Okay, that's probably fair. What's your impression watching Brooks today? Without me trying to make it a coverage take, it was a little discombobulated. It felt like they didn't really track him very well.

It was just kind of Hodgpodge and didn't really set him up very well. It didn't really walk you through the process of him building around. So I don't really know other than it felt like a struggle and he shot two under. It just felt a little, it didn't feel like amazing. His shot in the 16 was amazing getting home in two. It was the first time I'd seen somebody get home in two. His shot into 16 was amazing getting home in two. It was the first time I'd seen somebody get home in two. He was not the first to get home in two. Shot he hit into 17.

That's Patrick. Little, little, little math is Patrick. I hope in two. Again, back to what coverage take that I hadn't seen anyone else do that. But I thought he was gonna make Eagle there just because he's made a couple other huge Eagles this week. But I just felt like I'm watching, I feel like, you know, I had a little Twitter thread on this

this morning. And we ran it. I talked about it some last night of watching and getting super hopeful for like Rory and JT and speed in these majors. And then we're talking about guys that have won eight majors between the three of them. So it may be a bit unfair to pick on them. But I think we can easily throw them in a group of probably a large amount of people that want to play well in majors more than anything else in their career, right? Like that's what they want the most.

If you could pick one thing, pick four weeks to play your best golf, it would be these. And it seems like these guys, and this current last four or five years, are playing worse in the majors than they do playing normal golf. So it's working counterintuitively to them. Whereas for Brooks,

he wants to play better in these majors, but it is an expectation. It is not a hopeful thing. It is a committed, I am a better athlete and when it comes time, and I roll my eyes a lot at him, like all the athlete talk that he does, but when it comes time to trust your body to perform,

going right brain versus going left brain and trusting yourself to just like, like how often do you play great golf? You know, any of you listening, how often you play great golf when you go to the course, like hoping to play well? Yeah. Versus like, if I've got an eight footer

and I got it rolling good and you know, I got a decent round going, like my attitude is like, like fuck you, I'm not missing this, like I am a badass and I got it rolling good and you know I got a decent round going like my attitude is like like fuck you I'm not missing this like I am a badass and I'm gonna make this and that's how he treats every shot and I respect the shit out of that I am had so much respect for somebody that has just bullied their way into playing their best golf when they want to play their best golf Which is a unique skill and golf and I just how, how much energy I spend, you know, rooting and doing the hopeful energy with some of these other guys.

And this guy coming and doing it, even when his body is not totally healthy, I can only tip my hat. Yeah, well said. And I think a lot of people could have stopped you very early in that sentence. So like, how often do you play great golf? They could say not often. But when you do, but everyone does play their own version

of golf at some point. And it comes from like a place of like, I got this. Not often. But when you, but everyone does play their own version of golf at some point. And it comes from like a place of like, I got this, like I'm gonna do it. And, and I said it's really a two, but like how often do you hear Brooks talk about what he's got going on with his swing or the mechanics or any of that. And that might just be him keeping stuff close to the chest.

But I also think about, you know, one time he showed up for a major round, like 35 minutes or 45 minutes before the round, and somebody took notice of it and asked him about it. And he was like, oh, I did like, did all my stretching and fitness and stuff at the hotel, and I don't need to hit golf balls like before I go play.

And that just like rattled me. Because before every round, I'm like, all right, we gotta find the slot, we gotta do this. And he is just, the way he treats it is like an athletic competition. Like my body's ready, my juices are flowing, my muscles are warmed up. Like why do I need to hit golf balls?

It's like, whoa, like that, which is even more impressive when his body's not ready. Yes. And he's playing, you know, with the knee injury this week. It's just, yeah, I totally agree. I think that's extremely well said. And I think what's, I don't know, I'm gonna figure this take out as it comes out of my mouth.

But I think it's weird that when you look at the game and maybe this is just, you know, because there's only four majors a year and, you know, perceptions change really slowly and golf. But I feel like Roy's in his own category for whatever reason this, again, this might just be my age and everything. But Roy's in his own category. And then it feels like JT and Brooks and, you know, some of these guys are in the same category and they definitely should not feel that way. You know what I mean? Like Brooks, I feel like we say it on the podcast all the time, but Brooks is by so far in his own category.

And like is that dude? Yes. And tomorrow we have a chance to watch him. Like, I mean, Data golf says this is the likely outcome And I would have to agree probably you know despite what my emotions and romanticism would like to see is Like Brooks has a chance to go tie like put a bullet in Phil Mickelson and tie his career major record tomorrow Phil Mickelson At age 31 and it's just it's he's the favorite at plus 150 fills plus two 75. It's it's it's not talked about enough and and I hate when people who talk for a living say that's something's not

talked about enough. So the listen to it's it's it's point right back in myself like you couldn't even coming into tonight. It took us 16 minutes or however many to get to Brooks. I get I fall for it every single day. Feels a bit of an outlier. Yeah, I feel it does kind of ruin it But I just I don't know it is something I've thought a lot about and I think if he had more a more approachable Personality we would have the same affection for him that we do the Royes and JT's and whatnot But he doesn't let you in in that same way doesn't ever appear vulnerable in any way. And so I don't feel the golf world rooting for him in that way, not to say people root against him, but it's just something I've tussled with. I don't have an emotional tie to his success. I don't have a personal tie to his success. Yet I have tremendous

respect for the greatest major champion of the last. I mean, he's won as many as as Rory. So it's hard to say that he's above Rory, but like we're in done in seven years. Like it, it's a different era. It is. And it's, I see Jay Macatall, a person I've played around to golf with, hope you're doing well. Says in the comments, gotta be careful

who you decide is great based on when you became a golf fan. Brooks has a study, even if you think he's a dick, this is an NLU bias. I totally agree. I totally agree. I mean, I think if I just started watching golf four or five years ago, I would think like I would be banging my head against the wall and like why are people not talking about Brooks more? He's the only guy that that matters from this generation. But listen, man, it's not the way it goes. I have the Rory and Speed and of course team Rose. I mean, these guys are all, all, they're all taking up too much space

in my brain. I need to rewire some stuff. I'll fight back on that though of like a lot of what we do and try to do comes from a place of like our gut and heart, right? Like yeah, just because I should talk about Brooksmore doesn't mean I'm going to because we're which I think confirms what he's saying that it is okay. Yeah, it's really biased.

It is sure. That's fine. But like, I am gonna go, I watch golf change, doesn't change how I feel. Right, yes, I watch golf too. But I'm gonna have to admit it's a bias to feel things. Like, and I don't always feel things when Brooks, when Brooks is up by eight at the PGA,

Beth Page, I was like in all of it, but I didn't feel much. That's not anything against Brooks. And what's gonna be tough is if he goes and wins tomorrow, like, does he, what's the way to say this? Does he, does he get Stewart synced with a large group of an older generation tomorrow? If he goes and puts fill up and it boards him up in a vacant tomorrow, I think Stryoman would. I don't think Brooks would. That's true. I mean, yeah, it like there's gonna be a real we have to no matter what happens tomorrow night We're gonna have a serious conversation about legacies of either one of these but unless not one of them doesn't win

Maybe even Louie we have to have that conversation if Louie goes on to win which you're claiming will not happen definitively correct I mean really to really to win the DJ pies like Sally's last Rady big memorial. Absolutely. There's no not win. There's no consequences that any of these take. So yeah, I'll double down. Phil's not going to top 40 either. Bigger. Any. Can you imagine what's top four?

Do you have this leaderboard? I do. What's what's 40? T 38 is plus three. So you'd have to shoot 10 over. Yeah, which not impossible. It happened. Who was that Jason Gore?

And Jason Gore and 84. Teeth Gooseon. Yeah. My favorite, one of my favorite lines in golf ever was like, yeah, I struggled like the first three holes. And now I was like, then I was like, all right, I got to go get it. That's fine.

There's two on a Sunday of the USO. Yeah, now I'm going to go get it. Now it's time to get it. So a couple of things on the Brooks Phil dynamic, because I think this is gonna be really interesting. Also, I think Brooks seems to thrive on the whole, nobody believed in us all season. Kind of vibe. That crowd is gonna be so, well, maybe, I don't know,

maybe it's not. Wouldn't you think it's gonna be so pro-fill? I would think, but I think there's enough young people who are huge Brooks fans. I don't really. I don't think it's going to be huge pro-fill. I think it'll be 60, 40. It's not like people are going to be rooting against Brooks. He's a big and if it was Strylman, he'd be in some trouble in that final pairing.

Strylman's catching some straights for playing some really good golf. I think people just wouldn't care if it was true. Right. As I'm saying, like Brooks has, we have enough memories with Brooks and a lot of fans have enough memories that like, I think there's, there's reasons to yell his name after he hits a big drive. You know what I mean? Yeah.

If it was sung J or something like that, I don't think it's the same affection. Yeah. No one's going to have as much affection as Phil is going to garner out there, but I don't know. No enough don't know, no one of Phil can do, can do 18 more holes. That's been the thing, right? And we have kind of said that for a while. It's like, man, it's not a matter of, it's not a matter of 18 holes, it's not a matter of 36 holes. Honestly, we haven't really seen him play 54 holes really well, but we definitely haven't seen him play 72 holes really well. So I don't

know, man, it looks pretty sustainable. And who knows, like the only real miss that we've seen all week feels like that, that shot on 13 and then he bounced back and he was driving it like crazy. So I don't know. Well, I always hate when I, so if we're looking at probability

and we're saying he's a 25% chance, I always think of things in poker terms. Like, if I've got pocket kings and you've got pocket aces, I've got like a 20% chance. And gosh, I do not feel good going into that flop. Like I just don't, like I know the odds in that situation are not in my favor. But I don't know. We'll see what happens. I, I, I don't know who to pick. I really truly don't because. We'll see what happens. I don't know who to pick. I really truly don't.

Because Brooks, all right, successful as Brooks has been. He was once invincible in these things. And since he won his fourth, he has had to deal with a little bit of his first adversity in majors. Big Randy was way out in front of this. Ever since he won a Beth Page, he hasn't been to say, I think there was big scar tissue for me. That was my thing. Or maybe that was your Sunday. He has not played the same golf in majors since that back nine on Sunday. Remember how rattled he was? That's totally rattled.

That's kind of where I'm getting at, is like, that crowd, was he playing with Dustin? No, Dustin was ahead of him. But he made a bunch of bogies in a row and like people started rooting against him. And that's kind of where I'm getting at with Phil. And maybe you're right, maybe people won't be rooting against him outright,

but they're not gonna be rooting for him. They're gonna be so, if you're at a major and you have a chance for one of the most historic things that's ever happened in a 500 year old game to happen right in front of you, like who's not rooting for that? Everybody's gonna be rooting for Phil. I, you're right, you're not wrong.

We gotta talk about who Phil would tie with six majors, which also we probably don't appreciate Fautos career enough. He's so good. Like six majors, yes, so, so many. But I will also say six majors in this era is different than six majors when Fauto did it. Sure. But he would tie, he leaves Sevy in the dust. Sevy had five. Again,

we're not there yet. But also if Brooks gets to five, then that is he's tied Phil's career by timing 31. And we've covered that. But should we go a little further down the leaderboard? Sure. Louis used Hazen. Pretty pedestrian 72 makes it look like he actually struggled today if that was his bad round. I'm not willing to count Louis out. I'll just say that. So there's a couple, a couple of things here. Like any other week, I'd be so on board with Louis winning, but I just feel like it's such a distant third storyline to, to Brooks and Phil. Right? So I think he'll play totally fine. I don't, you know, he's not gonna go shoot 78. Like I think he'll hang no doubt, but I don't know, man, I just, I'm not sure that,

I think we've seen this movie quite a few times, haven't we? It is while there's three South Africans in the top six. Yeah. Christian Bisein, note and Brandon Grace, will be playing together. They're T5 at minus three. Did Stuart sing children? Yeah, he did. He's very chill. They're T5 at minus three. Did Stewart sink chilled today?

Yeah, he did. He's very chill. He's way, way chillin'. No. Kevin Streelman, I mean, they kind of picked him up late and again, kind of scattered shot of fallin' his around, but honestly, if you'd asked me last night did Streelman make the cut or didn't he?

I wouldn't have had to answer. I didn't really know he was in this tournament until today, so. Which might be a me problem, but it's just one of those things that I had not seen him hit a shot really until today. Yeah, man. like his stuff on the mini tours and putting hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles on this car and like just a consummate fucking grinder to my knowledge if I'm thinking right? Like, it hasn't lost his card in what, 10 years, 12 years.

It's been a very long career. And it's just crazy. Like those guys are wild. Did I picture him, you know, being in the second to last group at the longest PGA championship in history? No, I didn't picture that, but good for him. Very good for him. Am I rooting for it? Again, that's a tough. If he was if he was in the lead and Phil is, you know, 18 shots back, like, yeah,

that's probably a different conversation, but that'd be one of the most probably not going to be a ton of street women fans. That'd be one of the most confusing major results, like honestly, in modern history, right? If between those two, between Phil and Brooks and Louis, who has had unbelievable major success as well, if Strylman won that, has, he's three top 25s in his career in majors, no top 10s. There's a, there's a, a case to be made.

Again, shout out to one of the big Randy's best takes ever that, that Tiger never should have won the 2019 Masters. He should have scooped his tap in and walked off retired from the game. Many people say that there is a there's a case to be made if if Stryuman has a putt to get into a playoff with Phil. Let go. Maybe just scoop it. Do the right thing. I don't know. They kind of do you want to be that guy for the rest of your career, I don't know. They bailed on Bryson way too early in this in this broadcast, if I may say. He shot one under today, he birded the last, he doubled, he finished birdie, double birdie. He's T7, probably not in it, but you know, he's five back. It's not dead, totally dead. Well, I mean, you saw it in 13 with Phil. Like somebody in that top, I mean,

one of those two guys is gonna make it doubled, but I don't know, right? I mean, it can happen really, really quickly. That's the whole point of this golf course. And Bryson, this is again, just a model of like, does it feel like everything went Bryson's way this week or did he got as much out of his game as he could? Does it seem like a place that fits Bryson?

No. A little bit. Maybe he's hitting a lot of like less than driver and just kind of playing for position. Like he talked about a ton of that coming into the way which I thought was really smart and interesting. Like, yeah, this is not, you know, Beth Page or Belrieve, like this is,

I gotta be super, super, super patient and just kinda almost not plot his way around. I mean, obviously distance is still in advantage, but like, it's not like the close your eyes and swing as hard as you can. It's just so impressive about Phil. Yeah. Is that basically what he's doing? And he's hitting the middle of every fairway. But yeah, Bryson, it feels like he's left a lot out there. And it just, but it's a, it's a, I mean, I'm saying this as an endorsement as to what he's done with this game, right? And

that his floor has raised so much. And then if you can bring your B minus game to a major and B T seven going into Sunday, like I just you got to salute that. You got to you got to appreciate that. And it's what we don't see from Rory and JT 100% and Cantlay and Patrick Reed and really like all the other guys in that generation. And you see it from Brooks and you see it from Bryson. And sometimes you see it from spieth but not not really. But to that point, like those guys have done that at points in their career and Bryson's in the early part of, you know, consistently being around in major championships.

But currently, if we're talking the last year, I mean, this guy has done it frequently. So the other thing, you know, I, again, there's another take that's being thought out as I, as it comes out, but I feel like a good, maybe it's just because of the coaches and the friendship and all that stuff, but Brooks and DJ always feel like they're kind of in the same category and think about how far in Brooks's dust, DJ is going to end up if he wins tomorrow. You know what I mean? Five, like five majors to one is just, it just makes it, oh, two, sorry, sorry, sorry. But still, five to one is just it just makes it oh to sorry sorry But still five to two is like damn, man. That's that has massive under performer

Like kind of written all over that reminds me of what Rory said way back in I think 2016 on the podcast when he said You know talking about his rivals and other competition. He said, you know, Jason day DJ at the time on a one major These guys, you know, they need three more majors to get to me. I need three more to reach Ronald Palmer. Yeah. Of course, we're still sitting here and he needs three more to get to Ronald Palmer. But yeah, that cat that quote still holds up. And the cat, but not quite because DJ has got to know, but he's got like one and a half with the, that's true. With the favorite.

Ready for speed. Did we hold off long enough? Yeah, I didn't see anything. I was, I was deep in Fixing a toilet today, which is a pretty good metaphor for a speed speed round from what I saw the leaderboard I woke up to do every shot like I always do and I forget which holes, you know He birdie three birdie five, but there were some lip outs in there. I missed a shorty I think you missed a shorty for birdie on seven. It's like honey. I got I gotta go to Jim I gotta go do something. I can't I can't sit here, I can't watch this anymore. So there's a drill I love to do

when I'm kinda struggling with putting. And I will, depending on what length I wanna practice, but I'll put tease on the side of the hole, like maybe three inches on both sides, maybe a little more if I'm further away. And just the drill is to get it through the tease. If it goes in the hole great, but I'm practicing getting something to the whole

and watching it go through those T's and you'll be surprised how much you'll make and how much better you'll hit the putt. If he was doing that drill in this golf course, he would be hitting 98% of the balls through the T's. And it's not like everything's lifting it out, it's had kind of clancing over the edge, but like he's hitting putts,

they just keep going by on high side, low side, whatever it is. And it's so frustrating just to not get rewarded for any of that. He's not hit it amazingly. It's not like, you know, he's wasted one of the great ball striking weeks of his life or career,

but the dude is 77th out of 81 guys in Stroke's Game Pudding. And he's sitting there at even part T-13. He's hitting it. It seems like he's hitting, I mean, it kind of reminds you of Augusta a little bit, right? Where it seems like he's hitting it good enough. I mean, he was hitting it a lot better at the Masters, but he's hitting it good enough to be there where he should be there the last four holes and like, who knows what happens from there. Right. And it's, it's frustrating that he's not. I know you hold a couple from off the

green today. So that that is counted in the, you know, stroke scheme around the green, which he was number one in today. What's he at, even? He's at even right now. Seven back. Yeah. Largest, I saw it. Largest, come from behind margin in PGHAVGP history. Seven shots. And he, he was nine before. There's precedents. He was nine back going to the 2018 Masters when he ran down Reed and then Bogey 18, which I still never forgive that branch. So if it was anyone out, obviously we're to spend a time talking about it because he is prone to doing some wild shit and it's not out of the realm of possibility. It is out of the realm of expectation, of course, but who knows? Something crazy going to happen tomorrow.

Well, so go through the top of that leaderboard one more time if you got it pulled up. So we have Phil who is minus seven prone to be like he doesn't look like he will be, but definitely can't discount the fact that he's 51. He's notoriously one of the most air and drivers in the history of golf on a golf course where you can like shoot yourself in the face very, very quickly. We have Brooks who has a bad knee,

who looks very rock solid and he wouldn't think his, you know, one thing his ball striking would drop off, but who knows. We have Louie, who is, he's at what? Five. He's at five, who is, you know, probably pretty solid. I can't imagine he's going to shoot worse than 73, 74. Who could say?

And Strelman, who knows, who do we got behind that? Strelman's at four, then Bzaidenhote and Gra's real man. Who knows? Who do we got behind that? Streamens of four then Bizzadenhote and Grace are at three. Both fairly unknown quantities, but you know, neither of them are guaranteed 71 tomorrow. Bright. You got a very Brooks thing going on where you just go down the leaderboard. I'm not many guys up there. One one, uh, walking, walking, walking, and cool. Bryson and Woodland, all at minus minus two KC and SungJ and Corey Connors all at minus one So I'll apologize for Corey Connors at this point. Okay. He's had a very nice week. Thank you Harry Higgs the big the big rig is sitting there at even par as well

That's just wanted to give him a shout out as well But so officially this has been projected all week But it is stayed that way which whether forecast has been absolutely on point this week. Nothing has really altered from the forecast. It's show in South, Southwest winds around nine miles an hour when leaders will be teeing off peaking around 12 miles an hour, you know, and then around six and seven. It's 11 miles an hour. So staying in a very consistent direction, a little more westerly in the morning and calm.

So we might see a little bit of scores early on, but it doesn't look to be anything too crazy other than it is a different win than we are going to, than we've gotten to this point. So I feel like we've set it three or four times, but it's a really good golf course. Like I can't outweigh to watch the last three holes tomorrow, especially if downwind, especially if 16's reachable,

like a chance for, you know, an eagle or a double there, 17, who knows, 18, who knows, like that. Man, it's going to, no matter what you think about the golf course or the rough or the angles or how it's played or watering the greens, right? Like, I can guarantee the last three holes for better worse are going to be compelling. It's not going to be over literally until you hit the 18th green. I just love it. It's just freaky.

Just pulled up the tee times. P. Michelson, B. Capcat, 230. Final round of major. How fucking cool is that? Is there a better final group in a major? And I mean, I was the last time a bit. Well, I guess Tiger was in the final group in 19. So any final group that has him in it, it's probably pretty good.

But so we got the final few pairings, you know key at starting at one o'clock Keegan and Matthew Fitzpatrick and Then 110 Fina on Cantlay. Oh Fina right there for a T6 non competitive T6 You didn't even say anything about the two-foot ten-edge putty missed on 17 Ricky Fowler and Jordan's be let you stew with that one. Ricky Fowler, Jordan's speed at 120, and then at 140 Cory Conners and SungJM, Paul Casey and Gary were then at 150 Bryson and walking Neiman at two, Brandon Grace and Christian Pizzadon at 210,

220 Louis Uces and his drillman, and then he, Philip Alfred Mickelson and Brooks, Alfred Keppka. Two things, just top of mind, one, shout out to Ricky. Yeah, you know, I will hand up. I was a bit misunderstanding about the whole special exemption and how that works and how many people actually very, very quietly get those.

But still, a lot of people, I don't think, would put their hand up and would stand by like, this fucking guy shouldn't even be in the field. Probably a lot of that swirling around and Ricky just as he always does He's easy to poke fauna of easy to talk about all the commercials shout it to You know corona and he's been on TV a lot. We haven't really seen him play many golf holes, but we've seen a lot of him on TV But he always just like puts his head down Seems to kind of do his thing. So that was, I'm happy to see him have a good week

and I think you said it either, maybe Thursday night. Like, you know, it's not fun for anybody when Ricky's not playing well. No, that's great. So that's awesome. I'm excited for him. And then the second thing, just, I really, really want people to have the joy

that I had today sitting on the couch with you when groups get to 17. Just talk about Marquette Vecchi a little bit. Oh, I said to you in confidence. They're doing that. Shout out to Marquette Vecchi. As you said on the Kiwapod, he's totally owned this. He's talked about it at length.

He seems like an awesome guy. But they're showing that overhead drone shout, which is awesome, where you see the, the T box, you see all the fans, you see the huge pond and then you see this sliver of green up there with all the bulkheads. And we're sitting there today and saw like just, man, can you imagine like, remember when Calc just topped it right into that water? That's, that's amazing. It, you know, in sport, like I've had so many moments of my sport, I think about baseball,

I just play shorts up. And like if there was bases loaded and there was a grounder to me, like the ball would go six inches below my glove. It would be the most helpless to be honest, you just, I can't avenge it, right? You just let a ball go straight through your legs, one run in the score, two runs of scored. You bought the double play ball that but it got the picture out of the inning. It turns into a whole debacle, six more runs coming that inning and it's the most deflating feeling. And you can at worst as a as a fellow middle and fielder is, is when you also just

don't charge it. Yeah. You just let it eat you up. Sit on your back. Yeah. And just slowly watch it go between your feet. And so you all had that moment of like, the dumbest thing I possibly could have done I just did. And that's how I felt by the whole cow sequence. Just like all you wanna do is undo one part of that whole sequence and you can't do it. And, oh god. Ian Baker-Fitch really actually,

this is a great comment, like very much cut to the core of the issue because he's played against Monty. And he said, yeah, you know, if you remember, Monti actually went bogey double, double bogey. And he won all four holes coming in unbelievable. That's wild. Um, so anyways, just keep, maybe look that up tonight and, uh, and keep that in mind. I also, again, I don't mean to just it's, it's, you know, however many decades after the again, I don't mean to just, you know, however many decades after the fact, I don't mean to pile on Mark Alcovec, but I just vivid image of him after he loses that match, just wandering off into the wandering off to the beach. I think somebody

might do that tomorrow. Like that could totally be in play. Somebody just, you know, golf the burst and the best. We didn't talk about Phil almost trying to shoot a drone out of the sky. That was it. Shout out to Dottie. That was a great comment. Yeah, that was not the right. Yeah, it's just it's gonna hit it.

It's right in my line. Dottie's no chance. I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner though, like with the drones, just golfers here and them and seeing them I'm surprised it's been as accepted as it has been. And I have the first thing to pop into my mind when Phil started going off about that was like, oh no man, these have been so cool. I hope we don't have to take a step backwards because

they've been awesome this week. A lot of great angles. What else, what else do we miss? There were some other funny stuff that happened to I feel like. Usually I have a whole list of things to talk about and it's just been. We couldn't even get a list down today. We had no, it's all fill all the time. Feel like I got a crazy break on 16. We should talk about that like, oh, I'm getting the, the, the cart tire. Dottie was all over that.

More so not necessarily hitting the tire, just that he was right in between. He landed in that little sandy patch, sandy area, just right between like monster, monster, rough. Like that's unplayable or even like I don't even know how that would work. Lost ball, retie. I don't know what that would have been, but not a lot of balls are getting lost this week. Fans are finding balls. A benefit that we have not, we were not blessed with when we played Q up, but that's true.

What can we do a little coverage stuff? Sure. Very little. Very little. Let's stay positive. Today was an awesome day. Yeah. I got two things. I'll try to cut to the core as fast as I can.

Just an onslaught drive by shooting of commercials which, as we've said many times, is not CBS's fault. That goes to the PGA of America. But it's just every time, like, to put a very specific instance, Phil blows it way right on 16. You don't know where the ball is. You're watching this guy, like this is kind of what I was trying to talk about earlier where, you know, you're watching this like hugely intimate moment, right?

You've got these epic cameras out there. You're watching this guy who, you know, has been the most relatable golfer in the history of golf the last 30 years. The guy that every weekend, like hacker is like, oh my God, that's me, man. I always, whenever I'm in contention or whenever I'm playing well, I always blow it off the planet. That's what people love about Phil, right? And he does that on 16 and instead of like having this awesome moment where you build up

the drama, oh my God, where's the ball? What's going on? Oh God, brooks just made birdie. Like where you're following Philip this fairway and just letting it develop It's just it's cuts to commercial and it's that over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and every You know important moment. So that sucks too, and I think they'll you know, I I hope Think whatever they'll do a good job of this tomorrow, but like just be quiet, man, just lay out. Like again, Phil, you had an awesome shot of him walking up 17. You've got the most famous hole in the golf course. You've got fans going fucking bananas. You've got this, you know, $85 million 8K camera that you have

following him. You've got all this stuff. the sun's going down, it's beautiful. And like, you don't need to tell me like, and there's fillies, walking slowly, it's got a man, what a cool walk. It's like, dude, just let it be. Let it be. Let us just let us watch. Which, Nance, I think, does a great job.

Yes, the imagery is powerful. It's a beautiful golf course. It's a really fun setting and let the crowd drive things, right? And don't tell us things that are on the screen in those moments. You don't even make your venture literally said, there's Phil going for a nice stroll around. Like, oh my God, we can see that. Like, come on. A lot of people, sorry, go ahead. Oh, I just could say, like to your point on the commercial load, they got, it leads them to get so far behind in that matters. Because then they just cut out anything,

anything that's not consequential, they cut out, which is part of the experience. When you cut out five of streaming shots and then you show him putting from 18 feet for birdie, I know it's going in. There's no, it becomes a highlight show and not, you know, you're not covering a sporting event, you're highlighting things that have already happened. And if you're following any feature group stuff at all or stat tracker, like you know, you are, you then learn, your mind gets trained to be like, all right, what is actually going on in the tournament, right?

Because what they're showing me is not live. And maybe that's just me, but it, it, it was a struggle to, I hope they really had way more commercials today than they're going to have tomorrow because that was. I don't seem likely, but maybe. I don't know. Wouldn't things supposed to be different for the majors? Like it. I guess that.

I know. We need to bang on the PJ of America for that. That's not CBS. They're not showing any more commercials than they need to, right? I mean, they're doing their own special, you know, watch this on CBS on Wednesday night or whatever. Promo's. But yeah, it sucks. It kills all the flow.

A lot of people in the comments writing for Coltnost, I'll second that. I think he's great. He's been awesome. He's been really good. And it's just, you know, it's not really the, it's not the analysis. It's not that stuff. It's just, you know, just feels too many commercials and just just chill, just lay out a little bit and give me some excitement. Like, you know, but make me feel the emotion of this thing. It's emotional.

Like this is, which is what ESPN does, which I think you do the best way you do that is, like, yes, natural sound. Just like letting the fans, you know, hearing from the fans. But anyways, what else you got? Trying to flip through some questions. We didn't get to a lot of specific questions.

I think we do always appreciate you setting in your questions, but it's hard. You know, it helps inform the show. I can't always read them verbatim on here, but I think we've covered most of it, but I feel like as soon as we hang that part, we're going to. A lot of people shout out Lisa Loeb.

Looks great after 20 years in the guy co-commercials. You said. This is going to be a weird segue, but speaking of Lisa low aging well. I feel like we need to give a shout out to Phil in that and I'm sure we'll do a lot of this tomorrow on the kind of bigger Sunday night pod, but Phil very easily could have like rested on his laurels and kind of you, you always was a little heavier. He could have just kind of like let himself go and and rode off and, you know, almost like I'm not in any way suggesting these guys have like similar careers, but look at someone like Darren Clark, right? Where it's just like, all right, hey man, like I had a really awesome career and now I'm

just going to kind of chill and maybe I'll pop up here and there. Yadda yadda yadda. Like Phil has nothing to prove to anybody. And it probably doesn't, it gets joked about more than like complimented in that like he's lost a ton of weight. He's kept himself in incredible shape. They did a good bit I thought on the broadcast today about talking about like the meditation stuff and the focus and like, I think that's a very real thing. Like especially when you're out there

and you don't have, you know, this week not with standing where he obviously has a ton to play for this week, but when you're kind of just hacking it around and playing like shit, like, yeah, it probably is really hard to find motivation and keep your focus and all of that stuff. And I don't know, credit to Phil for actually doing that. I mean, that can't be easy to do.

It takes a lot of work. It's not like sexy to talk about, but I mean, he's done a lot of awesome stuff to keep himself so that all of this is possible. So who knows what will happen tomorrow, but at least we'll get that out. And I'll say this, there's nothing you can do to make time slow down or, you know, it's going to be over at this time, Mara, and there's nothing you can do about that, but you never know when you're watching somebody's last hurrah. Like you can't. Exactly.

Ever know. And this could be it for, it probably not, I think he's gonna give us something weird at age 55 or something like that a lot of people have been saying that for a lot of years. I'm not sure I believed it, and now I'm starting to believe it, but this could be it for one of the great entertainers

and golf that we've had for 30 years. And you don't, you know, I feel like it's already been in the path i feel like his career is in the past become more of a parody than he is you know a threat in these anything engulf lately. And here is proving me wrong and proven a lot of people wrong and. Not somebody that was at the top of my tip my tongue at any point going into this week and here he might do it at age 50. So, and the only other thing I got maybe a closing thought at least for me was I feel like for the last 10 years in golf we've had, you know, kind of threats of this idea of like, oh my God, there's going to be this generational shift. There's tiger and fill and urnials and there's all these other guys and what's

going to be so cool about the next 10 years is we're going to see those guys go ahead to head and they're going to really battle. And a lot of this has to do with Tiger injuries and Tiger, you know, just Tiger being Tiger and all the weird shit that's happened with him over the last 10 years. But that hasn't happened, right? It kind of seems like it's been maybe Phil wins a random Phoenix open or Pebble Beach or whatever, but these duels, like Phil and Brooks tomorrow is that, right? That is a this generation versus this generation, and that's awesome because that's one of the coolest things about golf is that you can play across so many different generations. And I'm just, I'm so pumped for that and I wish that happened so much more. I wish we had so many, like we're I'm just, I'm so pumped for that. And I wish that happened

so much more. I wish we had so many, like we're just not going to get them realistically. But like, how cool would it have been over the last, you know, 10 years to have Ernie L's versus Rory, to have Ron versus Tiger, to have, you know, Dustin Johnson's kind of in the middle. But, you know, JT versus Tiger, JT versus Phil Phil like we've gotten so few of those that It's just I'm really happy that we'll have it tomorrow and again as I said up front I hope Phil doesn't like play the first two and three over and and you need to last to the back night at least Shout the Brian Cosby's tweet who had the love Brooks's ode to go TA With his hat today

Phil looking like somebody I used to know You Brooks will have a bad hat tomorrow. We know that we budget that in the models I don't know. That's all I got. I'm exhausted and and thrilled and excited to see what happens I hope we get a little more Bryce in tomorrow That shout the Kagan as well. He's having a solid week. He's sitting there at even par. Sure. We're not ending what could be a historic Saturday and a historic pairing Brooks and Phil tomorrow

with shout out the Kagan. All right, I'm relieved that shout out the fill. Great, great playing fill. Cannot wait to see what happens tomorrow. Let's go get some food and some sleep and just strap in for hopefully one of the great finishes and major championship And our lifetimes and major championships fingers crossed here. We go. Thanks a lot of tune in. This was a lot of fun Right club be the right club today

today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's better than most. How about in? That is better than most. Better than most. Yeah.

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