No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 444: US Open Recap, Round 1

Episode Date: June 18, 2021

*Round 1 from Torrey is in the picks, Torrey is who we thought they were, the coverage was ROUGH, Russel Henley and Louis Oosthuizen lead, and we recap everything else from day one. Matthew Wolff is back, Rory survives, Bryson struggles, Brooks does his normal thing, and we've got some flying Molinaris. We go in hard on one of the roughest days of major championship TV coverage that we can recall.  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 into the Kill House, although nobody's in the Kill House DJ Pi here. Welcome back also to the No-Lang-A podcast, if you happen to be listening to this on the No-Lang-A podcast. My name is DJ, joined as always by my friends Randy, Randy. How are you? I am so good. It's great to be here. Are you? Are we good? Yeah, it would be any better.

Uh, Sali is also here. Sali, how are you? Fired up. This is gonna be there. Flames are gonna be launched. Molotov cocktails. That's gonna be thrown and live on the grounds or close to the grounds as you can tell from his You know just getting barreled in that painting behind him picture behind him Cody Cody. How are you? Great happy to be here. It's a beautiful day in California a little too much sun for me after the Marine layer lifted didn't put enough screen on but Alive and well and excited for another life screen on, but alive and well and excited for another life. You can count. I'm going to ask everyone. You can go ahead and count commercial interruptions in this show because there's going to be two and

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footage which again I regret absolutely nothing we made four we're fine let's get into it shall we solidly want to start should we start with story the day what was the story of the day I think you know what my biggest story the day is and I don't think we want to start there so I want to start with Cody who was on the ground today for you being in there in person what's the biggest story of the day is, and I don't think we want to start there. So I want to start with Cody who was on the ground today for you being in there in person. What's the biggest story of the day? I think Russell, first of all, Marine Lair this morning jumped a woke up,

six o'clock wanted to be there for opening T-Shots, got there, and it was a lot of fog, man. Marine Lair lasted forever and delay after delay, after delay, I had so many donuts this morning and I finally started calling. It didn't set me off on a very good note. I'll say this Cody. I hopefully grabbed a pin sheet, had a coffee with those donuts and went to town. I was prepared. I'm good. I don't want to say the word J, but I was prepared, had my pairing sheet and pin positions and ready to go.

And when we finally got rolling, it was an awesome morning. Followed Russell around for a long time. Honestly, his 67 probably should have been a lot more. He didn't have that many fairways. Didn't hit a lot of greens and just potted really, really, really well. Sustainability models do not love that. We have coastal erosion, breaking off into the Pacific out there.

That's not going to happen for like 50 years. You can make it through a couple more routes. Yeah, so it was a good morning, great afternoon, when the second wave started. I know you guys were a little bit upset with coverage by that point in time, but I was loving life walking around, checking out, as many planes as you can possibly see, it was like Banner City out there. If you want a guy co-ad, if you want it progressive on the other, there are some landscaping companies offering 25% off, it was crazy. That's what the coverage looked like too.

That's amazing. You got the full experience in person. Yeah, it was interesting for sure, but awesome golf The rough is thick. I don't know if anybody's heard that yet, but it's it was a good day I'm ready to like quadruple down on pretty much everything we said coming into this tournament for everyone That was trying to convince us that you know, no you guys are too hard on Tori. Like, what? That exhibit A, right there, watching that golf on this day, it felt, I can't even tell you how many tweets we got today. They're like, that felt exactly like the farmers,

both with the way it was covered and the golf that was played, the scoring average was within half a shot of what the cumulative scoring average was in February at, at, uh, on Tori Pines South. And it just, it lacked so much juice every single person I talked to you know that has covered majors for a long time said it lacked juice and it just I'm really pretty pretty upset about pretty much everything about today. It's Matt as hell. It's pretty much the worst we've seen. I mean it was. We're gonna

get there. We're gonna get there, right? Do we need to stick to the golfers? I'm not even talking coverage yet. I'm just talking like the whole setup, the whole course, everything, it just, it blows. But let's start with, how does, how do we not, it's, Lou used to, is in a Keppgar now in the same bucket of like, if you're not just picking

auto top 10s for these guys in the majors, you don't deserve to make picks. I'm in this bucket. I had Louis picked and I deleted him for some reason and kept, I don't even know what I kept, but I deleted Louis out of the top 10. I do think there's something interesting, you know, if you're making picks to win or if you're making picks for top 5s and top 10s because one of those feels a lot different to me than the other. I feel like picking Brooks to win feels a lot different. I feel like we've, you know, no one would be happier to see Louis win than me, but I feel like we've seen this

what about, you know, 45 times now. No one would be happier. Like no one maybe a couple people. Okay, but, you know, I don't, we've seen this before, right? Like I agree. He, those are the two guys that seem to elevate their games more than anybody when the lights are brightest. But it's just funny to me how good one of them is at getting the job done and how bad one of them is at getting the job done.

It's been a couple years for Brooks. I mean, we've talked about injuries. He's had all these had all kind of, I'm not, that's unfair to Brooks. I'm just saying it's been, it's been two years since the collapse at Beth Page that he managed to hold on and got punched in the face a little and hasn't won one since then. I think that's worth noting yet at the same time. Here he is again, the dude, the one dude that elevates his game for major championships. This is Rinse and repeat from Kiowa of just like no form coming in. Mrs. The Cut, one of the worst fields, worst PGA tour

fields that we've seen last week at Kongeree and comes in and shoots. I mean, I know he's not literally in the lead, but I think Brooks and Rom are your leaders right now. If you're looking at that leader board of highest probability to win this thing, he came out and did exactly what needed to do. And we'll get to Ram in a second, but Capca's the biggest story of the day as far as performance on the golf course for me.

Randy, what's your biggest story of the day? I think one guy we haven't mentioned. I saw a lot of them. I was locked into his feature group is Zander. He looked totally in control for most of the day. Hit the crap out of the ball. I think being right there, too under, he kind of falls in that.

He's got to prove it to me that he can get the job done in this situation, but he looked very, very good today. And then the only other guy I want to shout out is, he keeps popping up on these first pages of majors is Hideki, you know, has has any Masters champion been less. I don't want to say respected, but you know, it's it's almost like. Yeah, we're not treating them like a Masters champion this year. I think I think the Masters win came with little form leading up to it.

It's no cup on us and he hasn't really done much since the Masters win, so we went right back to forgetting him. Probably not, if I was to say for better or for worse, probably for worse, because again, it didn't feel like he had all cylinders firing today and he still shoots 200 par. That dude is just a ball striking force. If putts go in, we've seen what happens. So yeah, I agree it's worth noting. I probably would have not even mentioned him today

because I'm lazy like that. But other than that, yeah, it just the course is, it's a bad thing. You want to do Tori now? Do we have permission to do Tori now? Sure, listen guys, I'm trying to hold back, I'm trying to hold back the negativity as much as possible, but let's- Why? I'm overrun. No, you listen guys. I'm trying to hold back. I'm trying to hold back the negativity as much as possible.

But why I'm overrun. No, you're right. It just sucks at that that the two stories of the day kind of become How and I'm not arguing with any of this. I mean, I watched it for the whole day, but it does suck when you do us open like Arguably maybe my favorite tournament of the year? I fucking love the US open. I love, love, love, love it. Today was so miserable. I hated watching today. And that's not me doing a bit. That's not me trying to be like shocking or anything.

I wanted to, I looked all day for like, you know what? We're not doing that. No, we're not doing that. Come on. We're gonna look for some positivity here. We're going to look for some stuff. I got some great stuff about Russell Henley. We'd love to talk about that a little bit more

after we get all this out of our system. But it was miserable, man. It's awful. Like, the course is tough. It's not interesting. The TV coverage was so bad. Like split that percentage wise. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Let's stick to Tory for now. We'll get to, we'll do a whole handsard in segment, I'd say. I would say it's probably, no, you're right. I think I think 80%, 75 to 80% of what I'm describing is probably due to the TV. Yeah, I think. And I think honestly, that's where I come out too, I think. But Tory still just done do it for me

But can we get there? I guess I'm sorry. What I'm getting at though is that a good golf course like wing foot, you know, masked a lot of A lot of the bad TV, you know what I mean like today I was different last year It was different last year than this year. It was but you know, I'm saying it's it's not that different I mean it's yes, there's more commercials this year and yada yada yada, but it's not a new deal this shot to FDR there wasn't a good interesting golf course can still keep you locked in and and can make you forget about like

Man, they're going to another commercial. That's that's tough, but you know, okay When you don't have that it's it, it's hard to keep your defenses up. Right? So a lot of the defenses that I hear for Tori come from, if I click on your Twitter profile, location, La Jolla, California, location, San Diego, California. You can't deny though that it is public.

It is very public and immunity and people will, like, yeah, you don't, like like of course like they don't have this It's immunity. It's immunity. Okay, then maybe it shouldn't host the US fucking open like how is how is that just a total pass Like if we're looking on the spectrum of all US open courses, right? This is the the last one right so why would you give it a pass? Why would you like try to find like all the great things about it or try to pretend like it's not horrible? Like the USGA is in charge of finding the golf courses to go to and setting them up, right? So I hear people saying like you can't fault the setup like it's just the golf course the USG chose the golf course

And they also choose the the partner that televises this thing and whatever the hell we watch today was like not the tournament that I love I mean I I'm with you. Deage, like say it's not my, I was hoping. Not my, you was hoping. I enjoy tuning in and watching a great challenge and a tournament that means a ton. And you can't do that on a golf course. We just saw a few months ago that's playing way too similar

to the one we just saw a few months ago. They're, it moved like one T-box. The rough's a little thicker. It's maybe a little bit firmer, and there's no, like there's just no interesting shots with it, there's no path to getting there. And then throw in like it's like the worst presentation I've ever seen of a major championship. And yeah, it's a tough day of viewing.

So yeah, I'm not in the best of moods tonight. So I think, you know, I, you so yeah. Yeah. I had a, I had a couple like kind of disparate thoughts, So I think you saw, you saw, yeah. I had a couple like kind of disparate thoughts, really during the PGA where everybody always talks about how the PGA doesn't really have, you know, it's identity and everybody knows kind of what the master's is, everybody knows what the open is

and everybody knows what the US open is. And ordinarily, that's like the toughest testing golf, right? And one of my things about the PGA was like, man, it'd be really cool if they only limited the PGA to public golf courses or like publicly accessible golf courses. That would be really cool. And in my head, I was like, man, it'd be cool if... That's an interesting thing for the US open as well, right?

Like if they're trying to make it the People's Championship, this national championship, like that would be great. But I was like, you know what? Honestly, though, like I think the identity of the US open is more about going to the best test of golf and the most proper, I mean, test is kind of a lame word, but I think that's the one, right? Like the best examination of all these different parts of golf. And if you're going to do that, then you do have to of course go to wing foot and Chinatown and all different parts of golf. And if you're gonna do that, then you do have to, of course, go to Wingfoot and Chinacock and all those types of places.

The point is, you don't have to go to Tori Park. If that's your recipe, if your recipe is like, we are going to, this is gonna be such an examination of these guys. It's like, go to, get a little better test. We do this examination. We do it at the farmers every year. And the examination is long holes, thick rough, narrow fairways. Hit it really far. We don't care about strategy. Do this execution test that also isn't really that much of an execution test because you can hit it in

the rough and not pay that much of a price for it. So like, what are we trying to identify with this? Like the longest player, the best of the longest players? That's pretty much what this modern U.S. open is. It's like, it's not testing your ability to think your way around a golf course very much. There's a couple interesting pins, a couple shots that like, all right, I'd rather be left rough than right rough here, but it's not a comprehensive test at all. And like, this is what the championship is supposed to be about. That's just, that's so frustrating. Cody, how firm was it out there today? Cause I will push back a little bit on just reading some players and hearing some interviews and

stuff. It does sound like it's a lot firmer than it is in January. Yeah. I mean, the ball is definitely rolling. I wouldn't say that it's any other US open venue that we've had in the past, but it's definitely a lot firmer than it would be here for the farmers. And you see that massive first bounces on greens. I think the greens, they rolled really good. They were not extremely fast by any means. You saw a couple good putts made,

but they were consistent across it. I don't, the rough out here is crazy to me. I love how they hype up the three different types of grass and everything else like that. But when you're standing in it, yeah, it's super thick, but in some spots it's just extremely patchy. So if you're get, you know, an unlucky bounce where it rolls an extra inch into Kakuya versus some overseed a ripatch, there's just no consistency in it. And I understand like, don't get it. Which I think is kind of a positive actually

I don't disagree with that. It just I think it'd be more interesting if it wasn't 26-yard wide fairways leading into like Yeah, yeah, foot off and you might get a terrible lie like that just doesn't I don't know That's not matching up for me the thickest rough on the top higher It's around the greens. Yeah. Yeah. And that's dope. I mean, it's super dull.

Another thing, like I understand we're not going to Hamstrang, but TV, when cameras are that high elevated and a flat and it's everything out, it doesn't show you like how good of a shot it actually is then. Case in point, Roy's chip on 16 or 17. I mean, he was down way at the bottom of the slope. They have the overhead camera and then thank God they gave a replay of it coming back and you see like, you can barely see the top of his head.

Phenomenal little flop shot that he hit. That's, that's not, but the one hole that seems to have what I would enjoy around the greens is number seven. Like to the left of number seven and that's a new development. It's a shaved bank. Balls run away from that. LuYus says and pulled putter from over there. The announcers were shocked, completely shocked by that.

And that is where I'm like, that's interesting. Like a lot of dudes have been chipping it from over there. Keppka had trouble getting up and down from over there. And LuYus says and's pulling out putter and putting it into a foot. Like that is, that is, there's little tidbits that Tori's gotten a little bit better. Seventeen has gotten better over the years where they put that new TN and kind of brought in the barankah down that left side there's a couple other things that have made Tori better

it's just like you're kind of put lipstick on a pig and one thing I do want to point out I know we've said this 600 times but it has nothing to do with like all the all the public golf aspects of this are our massive positives, right? There are plenty of private golf courses that suck as well. Yes. There's Medina, feels a lot like Torrey Pines, Firestone, feels a lot like Torrey Pines, Elrief, Congressional, like there, trust me, this isn't, it's not, you know, we're not picking on this because of the, the muni aspect of it.

That's a massive, it's kind of the only thing it has going for. I was just saying, if Tori weren't as public as it is, it would be just an ultimate disgrace. Yeah. It's, yeah, that's, it stinks. I think people thought, from the beginning of the year, really, since they announced Tori, we've kind of been joking that, you know,

that's not a real US Open or just bemoaning that it's kind of going to suck. And, you know, I guess it was a little bit, but there's a ton of truth in that. And it just stunk to, I'm with DDJ in that, I think the coverage, I would weigh it more than the venue for me today, but it just was not a great day at golf. And that's a shame because these major tournaments, you get like 16 rounds a year that are truly,

like let's lock in and watch golf all day. And it just, you know, to waste one of them is a shame. Can I, can we take a quick break before we get into talking about breaks? Sure. Or maybe we can talk a little bit more golf. You tell me what's next, is I tell can I, can we take a quick break before we get into talking about breaks? Sure. Or maybe we can talk a little bit more golf. You tell me what's next as I get, as I tell you about, I don't want to skip over, I don't want to skip over our leader.

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I wanted to talk Russell Henley. Just Cody, you mentioned you went out and watched him a lot. I think he's just an absolutely fascinating guy, fascinating for a couple of reasons today. One, hasn't played the farmers since 2014. So I love kind of throwing that narrative out the window that there's all this like great local knowledge at Tory Pines that people are relying on, which I think is basically just hit it straight and try

to shake in some puts on the Poana. Last time he did play the farmers, he shot 79 and then just did come back, which I think is great. Nah, dog. I just think it's interesting reading, especially reading his quotes afterwards and stuff. And he's having like the best stretch of his career, almost in total anonymity, if that makes sense. What's so interesting about a guy like him is that we trip all over Matt Wolfe and Morkawa and Hoveland, and of course those guys are much more polished and probably more

talented than he was when he came out, but when when he did come out he basically was that guy, right? He had one on the Whatever it was called the web com tour. I think at that point As an amateur. I think he was low-am at the US open. He was an absolute fucking world-beater Came in one is basically one of his first I think first professional start at the Sony open And then has just kind of had this like really, almost anonymous but really interesting career. And I think all that's kind of been missing is like contending in majors.

And so he's a guy that is, you know, people might see him on the top of the leaderboard and just kind of like scroll past him or you know, think he might not hang which he very well might not. But he's a guy that like really fascinates me for some reason. scroll past him or you know think he might not hang which he very well might not but uh... he's a guy that like really fascinating for some reason i'm i'm stoked to see him up there i completely agree with that

fascinating it's really that's a ball well listen i mean i i just feel like we watch the same guys every week and then he's a he's an outlier is got it seems like he's got an interesting life off the golf course i did uh... i don't know if it's his wife, his fiancee, girlfriend. His wife is a very big time artist. Yeah, it's just, it's a phenomenal guitar player also. It's just, he's a very interesting guy. I'm way, way in on Russell Hamley.

That's because when he first came out on tour, we were just hammered with all those inside the PGA tour ads. Exactly. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Russell plays the acoustic guitar. How cool is this? Sweet. Yeah.

What rose me off now real quick is that I don't know who this titleist Russell Henley got his because I'm so used to seeing him like an Nike script. Right. And you see him now and you're like, oh, wow. What's going on here? He looks very generic. Oh yeah.

Who else would you put in this category of like PGA Tour annual regulars? Just put it in, Hank, you're going to be there every year on the PGA Tour. You're going to succeed. Yet you do nothing in majors. Like you're not even a factor. You know what I think a good component would be like Kevin Na.

Yeah. Right? Or just before this kind of late stretch of his career, which I think we're also like might totally be in for is where he gets a little more comfortable being out there, a little more kind of like confident at the right times and has everything fall together. Like there's no no reason he couldn't kind of in this he's not old by any stretch, but in the later years of his career, like there's no reason he couldn't go in like four or five times over the next four or five times

over the next four or five years. Like that's not crazy at all, but he also has just been, yeah, he's just around. He's a complete pro, big, big, little, friendly guy. I think I've sold that. I'm coming on to strong on Russell only now. I, I, I, I, I, I, yeah.

No, I was just to answer your question. You know, like, um, another name I would throw out is a guy, and this might be like the top end of the spectrum would be a guy like Billy Horshull, who I feel like is, oh yeah, Billy Horshull, everybody knows his name, he wins, you know, a few times, and like has he ever really competed at a major? A lot of people throw in a Charles Howell, a lot of people throw in a Charles Howell, a lot of people throw

in Bill Haas. That's the exact kind of comp I would go with. Just print money, do extremely well in the PGA tour, but you just not used to see their names on leaderboards and majors. Can we talk about Charlie Hoffman leads the Masters first round every year? That's true. I was going to say a lot of them. I was going to say a lot of them. I feel like a lot of those Georgia guys are fit in that mold. Yeah. I was going with like Chris Kirk, Harris English, like that whole group and I was like, wait, I just named it on a

George guys. But can we talk about Matthew Wolfe? That was something I did not see coming. One didn't know like before this week that he was going to be coming back and playing this week. And two, eight birdies in route to a 70, truly psycho scorecard today for him. I don't really know what to take away from all that. I think you've got to be playing really good to make eight birdies. That's maybe obvious, but also got to be really frustrating to get only one under out of that. But spoke a lot about, spoke a lot without really saying a whole lot

about what he's been going through. I'm still quite confused as to, you know, what, why he's been away from the game. It doesn't sound like he's mentally checked in and, you know, struggles on the golf course were weighing maybe on his mental health. It sounds quite complicated to be honest, but he seems to be as open as possible about it yet

at the same time I'm still. Maybe that's just kind of part of the deal. Maybe he's very confused, which leads to kind of confusing messaging on what's been going on with him, but I think we can all agree at minimum. It's good to see him back on the golf course and back in contention at US Open. I'll definitely agree with that. Great post-around press conference today. I think that we got a chance to look at the transcripts

There's gonna be lots of articles coming out about it tomorrow But how open he was on the mental health subject, which did you get more out of that than I got out of it? What do you what do you kind of read in between the lines? Yeah, you just basically was like I wasn't having fun anymore Like this became a job and like I was very successful in college and if I had a bad round, I think his quote in there was like, coach would buy me dinner and everything would be okay and like I still had my buddies with me. And then you become termed pro and you may miss five cuts in a row and all of a sudden you're like, man this sucks.

And you'd go home and it started to weigh on him personally. Then his relationship with his friends and his family and everybody else, and he was as open about it today as you can possibly be. I was shocked on Wednesday when I walked out out on the driving range and I saw Gankus there. I was like, what is George doing here? And then next thing I know, here comes Matt walking out.

And I was like, I can't believe that he was here because nobody had said anything about it. But he shows up today. First start in two months, Ryan Lavner had is now walking out and I was like, I can't believe that he was here because nobody had said anything about it. But he feels great today. First start in two months, Ryan Lavinner had written a good piece. Ryan's probably written more about him, I would guess, than anybody throughout the college years and stuff. And it just made a lot of good points about how much of an extrovert he is, how much

he gets energy from other people. And just spending that year on the PJ tour when you're what, 22, you know, how much of an extrovert he is, how much he gets energy from other people and just spending that year on the PJ tour when you're what, 22, you know, should be in college. Should be in college. When you're that young and you're that extroverted and your life suddenly becomes like, go to the golf course, then go right back to the isolation in the hotel, don't talk to anybody, don't see anybody, don't really do anything. It's, yeah, I mean, your whole life would become golf at that point, right?

It's what else are you doing besides, you know, kind of watching Netflix and reading or whatever? So it sounds, I mean, massively reading between the lines, but I mean, it sounds like some sort of exhaustion, anxiety, depression, sort of cocktail going on. And it just, you know, I'm sure that stuff just in that kind of life like God that sure seems like it would just spiral and snowball and the more you try to fix it the worse it gets and I it's awesome that he what I

found really interesting about the that presser was you know this idea that like yeah I didn't even know if I could take time off like I don't even know how that works where like everybody talks about how you know all these guys are You know this idea that like yeah, I didn't even know if I could take time off like I don't even know how that works Where like everybody talks about how you know all these guys are independent contractors They could do whatever they want they can set their own schedule and Like it never crossed his mind or it probably didn't even seem okay to him that like yeah, I guess you know I could just not play if I if I wanted to and that even has to be a hard hurdle to get over so It was it was good.

One of my favorite quotes in there was he was talking about why he chose to come back at the US open and he said, well, I figured if I shoot 78 today, there's going to be a bunch of people that do it. So I won't stand out as much, which I thought was pretty funny. Which can we or this is a lot of people going to roll the rise at this and we're going to remove. If you take money out of the equation right money does not exist in this statement Matt's got a lot of money already

Probably set for life if you wanted to be blah. No, I don't know why so fucking sad. What's the big deal take that out of the question Just take and also not a at a certain point even early in a pro golfer's life and a competitive golfer life, the value in playing amazing golf courses diminishes. It just does. You don't appreciate going and play, when you go, when you can play a gust of, you're not gonna appreciate every single round you play at a great golf course. Take those things out, pro golf, being a pro golfer

kind of sucks. On the road so much, alone time, so much, even when non-COVID times like you're just like that there was a picture going around of Victor Havelin just carrying his bag solo up to the hotel at Kilo like that's what so much of pro golf looks like it is eight you know everyone's thinking you're flying with your whole team and private jets all the time and everyone's laughing and drinking champagne and doing all that like not a lot of that stuff that goes into it is not that fun the practice rounds like not that fun like is it that goes into it is not that fun, the pracks rounds, like not that fun.

Like is it look really fun when you see them walking inside the ropes and people are cheering you on as you're playing, sure? But like that comes with like 98% of stuff that is not fun stuff to do. I know that probably sounds ridiculous to a lot of people, but like seeing more and more of it, I'm kind of like, ah, god yeah, I like, I would like to make that much money,

but like that's whole lifestyle for a long, long period of time, you got to be a, you got to be a separate breed. You got to be a special breed. You got to be Mark Kaukebecki, who's played a thousand of these things and loves it and can't wait to get back out there. That is not for everyone. Anthony Kim proved that and like Wolf is kind of, I think, getting a taste of that. Like, this is not, this whole thing is not for everyone. Well, especially think of the idea of what he had gone through the Couple years before that right where he is V kid right every single person is just telling you how awesome it is. Oh my god

You're gonna do so many big things. This is gonna be unbelievable like that had to be so fun He's playing all these events for the first time. He's contending in majors and then all of a sudden like you're you start to play poorly You're completely isolated like got it. It would just be this I would almost picture like it has to be this massive Just like sugar crash, right? Like this just awful. It's a great Sugar crash. Yeah, awful just like come down from What had to be like the most exciting couple years of his life and so Yeah, I mean all that is like of of course, we're psychoanalyzing someone we've barely spent any time with, but it's,

I mean, mental health also doesn't like make sense to people that aren't going through it, right? Okay, you know, I've had people in my life that have gone through like depression and things like that and it doesn't make sense to the outside. It only makes sense to the person going through it. So that's my dose of perspective for the day. No, to your point is before we round this out,

he made a very clear point too. He's like, there's millions and millions and millions of people who would love to be in the situation that I am, so do not feel sorry for me. This is just, I'm answering your question. This is how I feel and this is how you're taking it. And while the about that pressure was how much he had brought up the fans, where he just kept saying, like, God, I was so bummed that like,

I couldn't play in front of the fans. I couldn't play in front of the fans. Like, I wanted to be out there for the fans, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, that kind of external pressure has to even make it more like, you know, imagine not wanting to be out there and just, you know, basically only playing because you think other people want you to play is. Right. That's a tough spot to be out there and basically only playing because you think other people want you to play is. That's a tough spot to be as well.

It's really interesting to just to add on here. How many guys probably suffer silently this same exact feeling? Look at Chris Kirk, like that podcast, we just saw him out anxiety he had and how, you know, the only way he could deal with the anxiety was to drink. And I think that's what led him to being an alcoholic and he wasn't telling a lot of people or anyone about that, no one knew that was going on.

Like there's a reason why golfers, a lot of golfers in the, like on the champions were end up sober because they've been driven to drink because of, you know, probably dealing with some mental health stuff that wasn't probably very well diagnosed or even being aware that other people were probably going through that. So many people in the comments saying credit to Bubba and credit to Wolf for speaking out on this. And I completely agree.

I think there's probably, they've probably had multiple people come up to them and say, like, hey, I've kind of gone through this too, like I'm probably given advice. So I don't know. Yeah, that's all I was gonna say is just Kudos to him for hopefully it feels like such a weight off, just being able to talk about it and really expresses his true feelings. So yeah, that's, it's great.

Glad he's back. Professional sports right now too. This is not just one off for the PGA. I mean if you look at what's going on at tennis, it's crazy. And I will say, you know, we joke a lot about Bubba, but really he is kind of the guy that the sturdy, you know, the veteran that's there to pick these guys up and help him and kudos for that. And I think, you know, you guys know my background. And when we talk about mental health and everything else like that,

and it's something that I deal with completely different. It's not because I'm playing golf, but from past military experiences, unless you have buddies around to pick you up and you're able to talk to you about it, you're not gonna do it just because of the stigma that's attached to it. So I hope he's back.

I hope he has an awesome round tomorrow. his turn amount strong because man, it was really, really fun to watch today. It was a roller coaster. Hopefully he steadies it a little bit, but I'm excited to have Matt Wolfback. Should still be in college. One give a shout to the bullet. What do you think? I'm talking bullet. Even that I believe. Yeah, absolutely the loving life. First time in California, first US open, fresh off a win on the European tour shot, even par round today.

That was a good, good round of golf. A lot of people, a lot of good names at even par or better, which sneaky Dustin Johnson shot even, which kind of felt like he was, that was a very, very quiet part round for him. Um, did we kind of skip past Brooks a little quickly? I have one, one bullet. Go ahead.

The bullet came off the 17th green, walked to the 18th tee box. I was so excited because I was trying to get caught up to him. He rounds the corner and I was like,et, let's go like right in his face and he looked at me like, what are you doing? Do I know you? Why are you still over? I had no clue and he just turned to his canning

and he's like, what the fuck? Oh man. He just kept him. Fucking Americans man. He's like, as no clue, he's like, people here should know who I am, but quite a few bullet supporters out there is great to see.

God, that's good stuff. The bullet's gonna be an absolute full-cheer. What's the people find out his story. I know we're doing our part, but more people need to know. Is it time for hamster Dan before we get too deep in the lead? I think on a day as special as this one, it might be time for Hampshire Day.

I just have one question before we got there. Who is going to be the low Maulinarie this weekend? God, that's a good question, Cody. You just gave me a lot of energy. I'm going to go with Francesco. I'm going to go out to Leibin, say for Francesco. Eduardo has been live, and man. How much have you watched the only Canary Islands?

I'll go with Eduardo. Sure, that sounds great. I've got to count me on Eduardo. I mean, Eduardo is a complete USG championship monster. You know, is a USAM winner? He totally gets how these things go. Francesco won zero USAM. No four balls, no juniors, no, no, no, that's that. It's bad guys. Only thing I want to say on Brooks, sorry, was I thought he had some interesting quotes as well.

One, of course, reiterating and pointing out that he watched none of the US open at Wingfoot, I thought was a great just just a good one that by the way, just a good twist of the knife like, no, I did well, I was rehabbing, I watch any of it it which is not even different than what I usually do I usually don't ever watch it again anyways so that was interesting to just some of that stuck out for me like it I think it ends up

sounding like a cliche because it sounds so simple and and kind of boring but I think what he he might be the best US open player because he is so incredibly patient and so incredibly like, I don't know if it's process driven or whatever, but he had a quote, like it's so basic, but he just said it quote, it's pretty simple, a lot simpler than a lot of guys make it. And it was just this idea of like, when you watch him play, it's never flashy,

it's never like going at every flag stick. It's just, he's literally just like not making mistakes and outlasting everybody. Like, he doesn't try to do too much. He's the definition of completely keeping it in front of him. And that kind of clicked for me today with the like, of course, when things started to get a little rocky, like, he made a bunch of really good par savers, but it's just, it's always feels boring to watch him because he's never, he's never doing anything crazy flashy, right? Like he just, he's perfect for these because he hits it to 20 feet a bunch and two puts a bunch,

you know, and like, you never see him. He's gonna be right there. You never see him make like, oh, that was dumb. Like why did you do that? He's never makes like a horrible mental mistake. He will make a lot of physical mistakes. He will hit some errant t-shirts. But almost always with his iron approaches,

it makes a lot of sense where he leaves it. Whereas I think I don't personally root like for the human Brooks, but I like when he's involved. I find myself wanting him to make putts when he's standing over a putt of engulfs more interesting when he's in it. And I don't get the same feelings that I get when I'm watching Rory, which so many times with Rory, it's like, how the fuck did you hit it there? Like, what are you doing hitting that wedge there? And I never get that feeling with Brooks. He feels in control, exactly what you said. And that's

that's interesting because he doesn't come off as a super cerebral golfer. Like he doesn't seem like he thinks his way around a course. But I think there's a lot more going on with that in terms of a game plan and just keeping things simple though. He seems like he's doing the center of the green's challenge out there. Man, that's not off. But like there was that,

I forget who, I guess it must've been the TV interview when they asked him, when did this US Open stuff really click for you? And he's like, yeah, probably like the first one. When it became like pretty obvious, like, just don't try to do too much. And I don't know, for whatever reason that really like hit me today, where it's like, man, no, I think he's telling us everything we want to know. Like, it's going to be really boring because it's just not going to be a lot of mistakes. But something's off with hitting 73, just enraged that 73% of your greens in

US opens and all the other events combined 67%. That is messed up. That is messed up. You're doing something weird here. Something's not, something like that. Well, I think it's a different style of focus. Yeah, I just be, you know, a different level of focus and being locked in. Like I think if he did play like this at normal tour events, like he'd get boat race, right?

Like you have, it's a totally different thing where it it does, it's, it's, we joke about this a lot, but I mean, it is kind of a different game, where it's the PJ Tauri a lot of weeks, not all weeks. Of course, there's a lot of, you know, very proper golf courses, but it does become kind of like, you know, it's pillow soft, you better hit it really fucking close to the whole man, you better, you better make 30 birdies this week, otherwise you, you have no chance. And that's just like not, it's not as game. Yeah. Or it's not where he shines the best, I should say. That's a lot about their, their process too, as Brooks, as kind of, as you said, his first major, yes, I realized it. I think if you see like Brooks and DJ, like obviously extremely high golf IQs and DJ always got kind of what's holding the guy that's kind of the dummy, which I

don't think was the case at all because he's so freaking smart on the golf course. But they're kind of like morphing into the same person, and I'm always curious on how much Claude had to do with that, because the processes and how they handled themselves on the course is almost exactly the same. Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. Hmm. I'm surprised Claude is able to work with, wasn't't he, did he sign up his Bubba's life coach? That's all that flashes in my head when I hear about Claude. But I was surprised he works with other clients.

All right. I'm officially kicking it off. We're on hamster, Dan. We're the only talking coverage right now. We can come back to some golf, but I want a round table. I want you guys on the record first. Randy, what did you think of the coverage today? So I spent the first part of the day watching feature group. It was great. Featured is very good. Yeah. You know, as expected, really nice. And then the afternoon, the second wave, I flipped over to the main coverage. And

you know, I don't like to, I don't enjoy, I don't pile on in hamstrame usually. To me, it seemed like a lot of commercials and just didn't have the US open presence to it. The easiest comparison I can make is the US women's open was virtually commercial free shout out Rolex and today felt like they were going to commercial every you know six seven minutes. How many how many commercials from two 17 p.m. until the end of the coverage? How many times do you think they went to commercial just to just to guess? 755.

I'll take give me 463. God damn it. Come on guys. 55 I'll take give me 463 God damn it come on guys Cody how many times they go to commercial in the last eight hours did you count them up? I watched all of five minutes the coverage What would your estimate be what's what's a what sounds like a lot in that time frame 350 Because you're bad people 70 commercial how ready how ready they went to 52 commercial breaks from from the point 350. Because you're bad people. 70 commercials.

How many? How many? They went to 52 commercial breaks from the point where I start where it got so bad that I was like, God, I think I kind of need something to do. I'm going to count it. Like, that's where I started. And then they went to commercial 52 times after that happened. Like, so this is again, I I wanna set the scene for what has happened

in previous years. Fox took over this contract, spent a ton of money, and got one, the US Open, the USGA contract, they presented the US Women's Open commercial free, they did all the US junior, the USM, all that stuff, almost commercial free, if I remember right, that I know the finalities were commercial free.

US Open always had commercials, but it was much, much, much lighter. A lot of under-up to coverage parts were presented by Rolex, blah, blah, blah. Fox signed a bad deal. Let's just get out in front of this, right? It was a loss leader for them. For them, it was like, live sports rights were what you needed to be doing if you wanted to be a sports network. So they wanted golf.

They were fine losing money on it. Then they decide when the pandemic hits, they decide they can get out of this contract and pay what I believe to be 70 cents on the dollar. NBC basically got it for them for 30 cents on the dollar from what I believe somewhere around that number, right? They took it over. They saw it as a chance to get out. They're paying a bunch of money to not broadcast the tournament. Bad deal for Fox But for NBC what I understood to be at least for last year was they took over the Fox contract So when we watch wing foot same amount of commercial windows that we saw last year in 2020 that we would have seen on Fox

Right, and I didn't I don't remember seeing any influx and I have this actually confirmed that the commercial load has increased seeing any influx, and I have this actually confirmed that the commercial load has increased substantially. And by my estimation, probably doubled. So not only is NBC paying 30 cents on the dollar for this coverage, they are hitting us with as many commercials as we get during the PGA tour, which is the most ridiculous broadcasting deal in all of sports as far as my knowledge in terms of commercial per what you get out of it, right? So now your event, the USGA's prime event, the US Open, the biggest event, the National Championship event is on par with the worst part of televised golf in the world.

Like, there's nothing worse in the world for televised golf than a PGA Tour event. And that's what we're getting for the National Championship. You can combine that with Tori, and like. This is what you've chosen to present to people as your flagship event. How are we not supposed to be upset? But what you don't understand, Sully. And it's okay. This is a brand new contract. Don't give me contracts. No, but what you don't understand is like that's how these players are able to play for so much money. Congratulations. It is because of the sponsors. That's the thing is the sponsors, they help put the bill for to make sure these guys can have these great lives.

Which is always my favorite thing. Because I'm like, yo, I don't give a shit how much you guys play for. You guys don't have great lives unless we watch. And that was so fucking unwatchable today that, like, Randy, to your point, there's no way I can do anything other than Then watch the feature groups tomorrow that it was truly miserable. It's just grace. Yeah, it was it was it was bad Randy's doing anything to add on that I just like the bullet. I'm just loving life right now

What do I have to add you know what ticked me off in the afternoon? Put really good groups on feature group and then the whole main cast just showing the feature group. And then like we'll try to wave somebody makes a 20 foot putt and it's like oh this you know so and so it's like oh god I bet this is going in. you know, so and so, it's like, oh God, I bet this is going in. It just annoys me, so I don't know. I'm, as long as they put Mikkelson and Feature Group on our afternoon, that's where I'll be watching. But like that's a very personal thing.

And of course, I can tune in and watch the Feature Group and so many people chime in to say, like, just DVR and fast forward through everything It's like, you know, that's not how like 98% of people take in live sports. It's not supposed to be like this There's nothing I do in my life that I sacrifice a third of the time just for ads like there's nothing I that is no content in the world that's worth that if this podcast was 18 minutes of commercials out of 60, you would not listen to it. You wouldn't, I would not expect you to.

Like, we were getting robbed right in front of our faces and it's so unbelievably frustrating. And like, I've never seen the sentiment so angry of all the coverage stuff we've done over so many years. I've never seen people as angry as they were today. That was the worst day of coverage. Maybe because it was a punch in the face because we weren't expecting so many commercials. Like, I've never seen people as angry as they were today. That was the worst day of coverage, maybe because it was a punch in the face because we weren't expecting so many commercials. Like, I'm budgeted. I know when CBS is taking over, I know there's going to be a lot, but I didn't

know this was coming, and that was a punch in the face. As Neil would say, who did he punch to this? Yes, just a fool. It's hard as I hit that hill with that four iron. That's how I got the face today And we haven't even gotten to like how bad they were at storytelling what was going on like but that's and that's where I would give a pass It's like dude you can't do anything when you have that many commercials. You can't know it is constant just like There's nothing you can do like you're chasing your tail all day, which is where I like, I don't know, you can't, you almost like can't fault the crew for this because they're so, you can tell they're so good at doing what they're doing because you see it at,

we've pointed out but a week like the players championship when they have room to run and they have like no commercials, like they're really fucking good at it. It's not the crew and it's not really, it's not the NBC, you know, it's the NBC executives plus the SVA executives, right? That's where you sweet done. It's all being counters that have totally fucked this up. And whoever B is, B who just counterts out of it.

Okay. Whoever B is on the YouTube comments and just said solid is just back because TV is tiny. Congratulations. You just won a position pro rage fighter. Nice. So DM me and I will send you a precision pro rage fighter because that is very funny. That is like that's a really good comment. My TV it's bigger than it looks, I swear. It's the camera angle. It's got the Michael Scott plasma from the wall.

I love it too. Just on the subject, I wanted to Anthony DeFeliz on Twitter, one of my favorite tweets I saw today. You can't win the fans over on Thursday, but you can certainly lose them. I thought that was actually good. Like God, oh, God. They're going to do the bridge open too. It's going to be the same thing.

But that's different though, right? I mean, it's a different, it's not just an NBC thing, right? There's two sides. Two people have to sign this deal, right? So the USGA is not like, it's not like the USGA just gives them like a blank plan for the week. just gives them like a you know a blank A blank plan for the week and says like why don't you guys just put in as many commercials as you feel is right like they have to both sign off on it You know and it's it's so let's not

You just highlighting a bunch of comments what it's all right. I'm trying to reply to it He's trying to figure out a DM me will fit will figure it out be great great YouTube name I don't, he's trying to figure out a DM me. We'll figure it out, be great YouTube name. Email nolangupagemail.com. There you go. But the, let's not put it on the RNA yet. We haven't seen it yet, let's not pre-judge the RNA. We can judge the shit out of the USDA because it's pretty clear where their priorities have lied.

But if you're the USDA, aren't you mad? Like aren't you upset about the way that we're presented? Like today, like you just, like people, didn't you sign the deal like that's it's the same as the PGA tour right like the PGA Tour signs the deal to have that many commercials every week. They're not allowed to then be like man This is crazy. Yeah, we don't know why there's so many commercials either. It's nuts like the USA had just had to Be okay with this. It's it's awful. It's so bad It everybody everybody is to blame. It's it's it's really not good The purses are going up though

Which is awesome. That's cool. That's cool. Oh, god. That's cool. Yeah And next next week will be I did you know what I got another complaint I'm not augmented reality. I got another complaint. I saw multiple commercials for the Tory Pines. You open that I'm watching. Oh my God. What? Just wait until I want to call. We do. I'm going through and also fuck playing through. Like it is that does not count as coverage. Like that's worse than coverage because then because if you're streaming it,

you don't see it. And then they come back and like oh you saw Phil's shot no I don't my you you are not keeping my eyes on the screen with a commercial playing next to it. If you did the math on whatever percentage of the screen it has to be taking up 12% of the screen where they have this golf coverage right and then it golf coverage is not good enough to have no sound and cover 12% of the screen and keep my attention trust me. Yeah. I'm shocked we didn't see any players commercials this week. It seemed like that would have been just the perfect little, those fire starter logs just

to piss everybody off. And how about sending people to peacock for the last hour? Well, don't come in my hitters at peacock. Peacock's been sweet. Yeah. Getting cocked today was one of the highlights. And also, honestly, like honestly, that serene, like did I just have a stroke?

Yeah, we'll be right back. I feel like I loved it. Well, that was cool too, but the, I meant that like when you switched over and there's no announcers, it's kind of like jumbled ambient noise. You're like, yeah, I might just be toast. This might be, I think I might have finally

short-circuited, but No, it was a technical difficulties, but more of that peacock if you're listening. I thought that was sick when they were good at breaks That was sweet to play this really ambient Zen music. I was like keep it in break. I'm I'm vibing right now Speaking of vibing you know is not vibing today that I honestly, you could have told me he withdrew and nobody would have noticed. Jordan's Speed shot, 77. Top stinks. He stinks.

Which I'll admit, it was very nice to have gone into a tournament with just like a total right off of speed. I didn't even bother with any hype train with this one. I was just like, nah, this is not his week, not his course. I don't want to, you know, drive down the street. It's going to be a complete drive by shooting of a lot of guys, but a lot of horses just absolutely sucked today.

Yeah. Bryson 2 over JT2 over Hovelin 3 over Fina. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Do you think two overs out of it? No, no, no, I don't think it's out of it, but it's not good. I mean, it's like T61. Right, I mean, these are back.

That's the T32. These are our guys that all kind of like fit the models too, right? Where we kept saying in the preview is like, you know, there's probably 30 guys that can win this tournament. It seems like, I mean, I think all these guys are on that list. Where Bryson, 2 over JT2 over, Havlund, 3 over, Fienau, 3 over, Morakawa, 4 over over that's a really frustrating one

Jordan 5 over and team Rose 7 over I'm still good on the legs over plain well. Oh, sorry. I didn't catch up on his last all Phil was 4 over I was pissed. Zalatoris was I think Phil might be Phil might be We might be in a complete house money situation i think it's truly hunting hunting to like let you appreciate what happened at the at the p g a like you need it you you don't understand what happened there right i'm gonna pump this tournament just so you remember how ridiculous it was that i won the p g a

i'm not saying too over is out of it by any means by the way i see a lot of the a lot of the comments people said it's like listen you didn't do so many favors today if you shot two over. Two over is not a good round today. You're not out of it but you got to leapfrog 60 dudes if you want to win this thing that's I mean you guys fucking hell far back too far back is that what I'm ready to up. I'm putting it up. I'm putting it up. Plus five too far about everything. Everything better than plus five. I'm willing to see more.

That's that's wild. I'll say no one plus three or worse is winning this tournament. So I was too far back. That's what I was going to say to you. Cody. Yeah, I'd go with plus three. I think for the first time in a row too far back. That's what I was gonna say to you. Cody, yeah, I'd go with plus three. I think five is a bit much.

Three, three is gonna be where it's at. You were trying to figure out that word, Randy, when they put the horses out of their misery. Yeah. Euthanas? Well, yeah, I think there's a specific word for it. Someone in the comments, if you know the word Hey, I don't think it's destroy

You know they bring they bring out the big the the curtains they put them up around the horse and That's it for a lot of things like how how your boy a baffer bright cut his teeth He's a bad guy You guys gotta go over the trap, Toronto to listen to him. I'm sure he got a big kick out of those days. You've just annihilated Victor Hovland. He was three over.

No, he's still in. He was three over. I said three over, three over, or worse. I think three over is too far back. Oh, all right. Well, then I guess I did too. Except for Tony, maybe as a chance. I mean, for Kyle.

Tony's actually in a great spot to finish T-Six. Top four Americans. Can I do a couple more sneaky good rounds? Patrick Cantling, one under. Just want to take note of that one. Just that one's worth putting a little jot on your paper. Also, I lost it. Am Scott minus one.

Huge Tory record, like a very, very sneaky Tory record. And that, I didn't not notice that. And Burger it even too. I don't think I saw him hit a shot today. Although NBC of course did that. We show one shot from all 156 people that no one's asking for. No one's asking for that. If I'm being honest, positivity, I got a little kick out of them moving around to so many

different guys today. There was a lot more than I can remember. Maybe this is just me checking out a little bit more, but there was a lot more than I can remember. I was like, oh, who is that guy? That's what I thought. You know, a lot of Google and guys. It works when you're not taking over six breaks an hour. Yeah. Okay. No, you're right. When you only have like, yeah, I was going to try to get a blast off today about, you know, there are 12 hours of coverage, which, which means about 91 minutes of golf shown to the, to the hardcore fans. But when you're, it's got that small of a hole, I, I'm with you. That might be a little clever.

It's been insinuated. The coverage is going to be better this weekend. And I, that is very much, very much in a belief it when I see it, a situation here. Well, if that's, well, that is, you know, if I may, I'm sorry, DJ, if I may, all right, really quickly, if I may, you know, zero credit and, you know, what do you want? Like a thank you for your service for putting on a good golf tell guys. Get out of here with that. Oh God. Yeah. So you know, they always get this front loading thing.

Like, oh, yeah, we're front loading into this part. But that just means even at best, you regress to like what's normal on the back half. You don't front load and then do light on the back end, right? You just do front load ton of commercials and then you regress into like an average amount of commercials. There's never, you're never any benefit to the front loading. Good, good comment there for someone asking if they're moving courses this weekend. That's why the telecasts give you a lot better. I would say honestly what the vibe that this telecasts gave me today was if I was a very, very casual fan, so to your point, like I'm sure that it actually will be better on the weekend.

But if I tuned in and I watched that for an hour today, I literally would say I don't care. I like, I'll see it for the back nine on Sunday. Yes. Like I'm not going to follow this it for the back nine on Sunday. Yes. I'm not gonna follow this tournament for the until then, because it's gonna be pretty miserable. And we might get an exciting finish

of a close score at the end. Like we very well might. And there's gonna be a lot of people that just tune in for the back nine and just won't understand why there was a painful, painful path to get here. But I don't know. I here but I know people on the podcast can't see this but this is comic got a got me solid with the world with the world

of the boys have come over the ride making the way towards Berlin. That was really good. David S. That really got me. Anyways, you were saying? Anyways, I do not know what I was saying. I got a couple of shout outs before we get out of here. Hayden Buckley 69 today. That was awesome. Nice.

Gun to my head for a million dollars. Couldn't have named a thing about him. Cornfair tour player. Yeah, I just learned that. I didn't know. Cornfair tour player. Yeah, I just learned that. I didn't know. I didn't know. Actually, I was on a Wikipedia page. I saw Hayden Buckley was a quarterback.

I was like, oh, two sport athletes. But it was a quarterback from the 50s. So it was a different day. Yeah. And then Andrew Caznan, let me make sure I get his name right. Cazn, low-am so far, even round. Love one of the nametra sneaks up there. And then finally, my guy, Guido. I love, love what Guido is doing. Guido, Miggly Ozy, Shot and even Par. One of my favorite names in the game.

G. So, Francesco-Arre is 300. Yeah, that's we we chat about that, I believe. We just who alone aren't dead. No, I know. No, I know. I didn't realize French has to go to play that well. That's outrageous. And we told me. Rafa obligatory Rafa shot 300 mentioned at least.

So talk about it. And even talk about the rib. The rib starting round two, not like 10 strokes back. I know. Let's, we need to talk about the rib before we get out of here. So what'd you see from the rib today? I saw him not play himself out of a major championship in round one, which is progress.

Try, try, progress. Did he? I thought he looked like he was trying on the back nine a little bit. I don't think there's enough places for Roy to really get himself in trouble at Torrey. Like I think his style should match up really well with this course.

There's not the doubles and triples waiting for him there. I don't know. So it makes sense that the rib would stick around for a little bit. We got through round one. We haven't got through round one and honestly a long time.

Oh no, I'm very very Bullish. I thought it was great. Like it was great. I'm saying it looked like it was getting a little wobbly on that back Nine he was he was kind of trying to do his normal Thursday thing, but he hung in there. He made part about there on 17 We are getting reports that after the round he you know, he finished in the dark there and after the round He said I put I put better in the dark As he finished there which listen, that's probably not a great sign, but Mike were worried.

He's got to be feeling himself after banning greens reading books this week, reportedly, as the pack chairman. That was a big step. So he was actually positive. He was a kid. I think he's quickly approaching the kid. Speak didn't look like the kid today.

So the mantle may have been passed. A quick check on putting stats. Taylor Montgomery led in four and a half strokes game putting Patrick Rogers, four strokes game puddings in Wisconsin, sheffler, Russell Henley, almost with four, Francesco Molinarri, almost with four. Keppga gained three shots on the greens today.

So usually his sustainability models are off the charts, but he might be part of the erosion committee unless he maintains, you know, gaining that much on the greens. And then on the other end of the spectrum, Colin Moore, Cal, accost himself almost three shots on the greens today. So in that vein,

watch out for my guy Maddie Fitz, shot a 70 today and I think was like 108th putting Good US. I've always thought good US open game Best trope's game approach was a dancer Grayson sig Shane Lowry and Matthew Fitzpatrick along with Russell Henley So watching a dancer live still blows my mind. He's so good, but he's so small It's crazy how good he eats his irons. Rogan vibes. Oh yeah.

It's just a little good. I think it's a little stronger with the skip bail. As Ava answers too short to with you, as of. No, not saying that. And I also think it's really cool when you have people from other nationalities to speak other languages. And they have small pockets of fans everywhere you go, and they can zone in and focus and respond directly to them.

You get a lot of that with Abe. Really cool. You get a lot of that with Rom too. And it's nice to see out there. Adam, you haven't talked too much about Rom. I've got to think Adam had ones like that as well. Of course. I'm not going to touch that.

Guys, I'm getting loopy. The duck club is going to be angry at me, but hey, shot in the day real quick. Bubba's driver off the deck. Oh, that was sick. That was incredible. Bubba, I wish he just didn't suck so much. He would be so he's so fun to watch like his playing style is so different. Where he had his feet aimed on that driver off the deck, it was so absurd. He looked like who was who was the old red sitter rainy that like had a one foot out the was it Paul and Neil that you sat like a foot outside the batter's box when he would. No, no, no.

Err, John Casey did it too. He was way outside and stepped into it. That's what I remember is like Tony Fernandez. That's the guy like totally open and almost facing the pitcher. That's what that's what he looked like hitting that ball. So you know he's never hit a straight ball in his life. I never listened either. Yeah. Love when the announcer is good at that. What do you think? I'm taking the run out of gas. Yeah. This is it. This is it for me. Bryson, we didn't talk a lot of Bryson. That's fine. I just wanted to talk about that shot. You get a photo bomb routine.

You see him photo bomb Brooks's interview again? That was fun. He's wacky. Super cool. He's so zany. I'm in on that. That was, that was funny. Bryson, he was to play a lot of rounds where it's like,

yeah, it's kind of like the highest you could have shot, man. Like you got nothing out of that. What did you call him today? Hey, he's like, yeah, it's kind of like the highest you could have shot, man. Like you got nothing out of that. What did you call him today? Hey, he's like, stop boogie. It's not boogie. What? From the, from the wire for the first episode of the wire. So he keeps, he keeps, like keeps getting punched down, but like keeps coming back to, like jumping behind Brooks.

He keeps robbing the game. Yeah, he keeps like, he keeps kicking his ass. And he like keeps doing it. Like, he knows the punishment's that reference a little over my head. That's really good really really good Only thing I had in bison was that the shot he hit on the par five was at 13 What is in this awesome Sandfield divot and he tried to hit like this uphill like nippy like spinner like spinner to that tug, tug flag, even everybody on the broadcasts, just like, yeah, I know all I can do is just like, you know, just run one right up that runway to, you know, just 30 feet, make, make your par. And yeah, I

went right at it, just no chance that was going anywhere except for those bunkers short. That was very bad. That's exactly the kind of shit Brooks is not doing. Yes, but it was awesome. I know, that's on Tim. All right. Yeah, it's on, is that, the day strike he has a win as a team loses a team? Because, how is Bryson not getting to 13?

After all that shit, you can't reach a 600 yard par five. Like, here's close. Yeah, but you can't be short. Like you can't, if you're gonna do all that shit, you can't be short. He was going for it and didn't get there. Of all the stuff you've been doing, that can't happen. That's where we're gonna question your strategy. It looks like some of those other teens have some speed.

Maybe they're the guys to watch out for. All the teens that he's hanging with in his simulator. Did anyone reach 13 today? Who could say? Of course. How you said this up for that question? We don't know. I don't know if you remember.

Cody was there, maybe he saw somebody reach it. I don't know. I also didn't realize how far uphill 13 green is elevated. It's crazy up there. Oh yeah, plenty of people reach 13 today. Matthew Wolf reached 13 today. There's a bunch of balls. Xander got over 13 today. And Bryson couldn't get there. Hmm. Hate that. Bryson or Xander was hitting like 370 consistently. It was amazing. It's running firm out there in the fairways. Shout to the ethics feed All right, let's go to bed. Let's stop. All right

Boys, that was fun. We'll see you. We'll see everybody tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for everyone in the live chat That was especially fun. Yeah, cheers good night. Cheers Be the right club, be the right club today. Yeah! That is better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different!

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