No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 447: US Open Recap, Round 4

Episode Date: June 21, 2021

Rahmbo! We close the books on a dramatic finale to the 121st US Open, talking about Rahm's epic finish, well executed fist bumps, a game designed to shine in major championships, Louis, Rory, Bryson's meltdown, Torrey, and everything else from a fun U.S. Open week.  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. shortly that's coming. We're gonna have that. The flyover people, they're a little late, they are coming, but the people who are here with us is Solid, solid you're here. I'm here. The big TV. We had a big day on the tube today. Of course, Tron is here. Tron, how are you? I'm good. You're referring to the flyover people. Like that's the military. You're you're dogging the military here to start the show. And I want to thank you if anybody's watching this live for wearing your camouflage today,

kind of an Arctic troops look going on. I'm sure that's available in the Noling approach shop. John Rom, your winner at the US OpenSally, anything you want to, where do you want to start? Let's get into where I want to start with this epic speed driver, 10 and a half degrees epic speed. Fairway Woods, he uses a 15 degree and an 18 degree Apex TCB irons for through pitching wedge. He's got jaws wedges 52 56 and 60. He's got the

white hot the OG Rossi S putter made I believe some very clutch putts with that the chrome soft x golf ball if you're counting that's two straight major wins for the chrome soft x golf ball. He's got a 45 and a quarter inch long shaft with one inch tipping in that driver and that he used to just win his first major championship. Cal would recommend anybody put that into play. I don't know what it means. But for the equipment nerds that know what that means that is means it swings. He swings it really hard. Probably pretty specific. So Cal Call of a Golf.com for more information on what's in John Romes bag.

And again, two wins in a row for the Chrome SoftX Golf Ball and majors. So, there you have it. How about that? There you have it. Solid take it away. That was fantastic. That was fantastic.

That was fantastic. I was just trying to think of like, with everything we've had in the past year of easing back into fans, right? Just haven't had a fan presence in golf. We've seen some big puts made in big tournaments easing back into fans, right? Just haven't had a fan presence in golf. We've seen some big putts made in big tournaments thinking back to the, this is for you work day last year and the BMW last year, but like, I haven't,

I don't remember a moment like that in golf, those, both of those moments on 71st and 72nd holes. And I kind of feel like I'd kind of lost touch with what made watching golf exciting and I feel rejuvenated now. It feels really good to have watched a major where somebody went out and got it rather than feeling like somebody got crowned. A hundred percent. Could not agree more.

Tron, you want to jump in? I loved it. I didn't realize how much I liked John Rom until the putt went in on 17 and I jumped up and said, F.E.A. It was really like, and then jumped up and said, F.E.A.A.A. like it was really like, and then like just a genuine show of motion. And then I was so proud of him on 18. He did the right thing out of the bunker because that could have gotten squirrely

and just very unnecessarily so. And then to make that putt, but the putt, I mean the putt on 17 was like, it was like one of the better putts I've ever seen. It was unbelievable. It was crazy But I mean like really even going back to birdies the first two holes of the day Filthy up and down on three and then hit a good put on four and I don't know I just had a feeling all day like he just he was melting his irons all day

I mean even though shots that that missed a little bit where he would misjudge the wind or, I mean, shoot, the shot into 18. Like, seemed like he just absolutely peered that and it ended up, you know, just just fading a little bit too much to the right. But, um, a couple long irons in the par threes all day. Like, I just, I haven't seen a guy hit his irons that well. Like, that was, that was cat like. I don't remember. It seemed like ROM, it's been like a decades since I've played the old Tiger Woods video games, but whoever was the top guy in the video game,

whatever the top skill guy was, it was almost like they were pre-determined when the tournament starts to just slowly rise up the leaderboard, right? They were always gonna finish at this number, no matter what the ups and downs were. That's what ROM felt like. It didn't feel like his best tournament he's ever played. It didn't feel like he was unstoppable in any way. He was in control

of everything going on, but his floor and talent level was just so high that it just seemed inevitable that at some point, some puts were going to start falling in and that he was going to do that. I don't know. It felt like the best player won. I mean, I'm sure we can bring this around to Torrey Pines eventually, but I feel like I'm on a, on a high after a week of golf that was not very exciting today was freaking awesome. Yeah. I think that's probably a good place to, you know, kind of quote unquote start is. You and I said one more thing here. Sorry. There's many things as you want. Go ahead. To your point, T.C. of like, I've never, I've never like fucked yet,

fuck you ad for ROM before I don't think. I think I root for him, but I don't start every week with like, oh, what's ROM doing? But honestly, he kind of endeared me, endeared himself to me with like the way he had those press conference going into the week, right? Of, he got a, a, listen,

we were pretty hard on him on the, on the wrap up podcast. He even said, I wish I would have got vaccinated sooner. He owned up to everything that happened about getting COVID week of. He said, you know, I knew I was in the protocol all week. I knew this was a chance. This would happen. You know, a lot of people that were hard on the PGA tour saying,

I should have played alone all that. He said, all that's nonsense. Like he honestly is perspective that not to use that word on that was like great. It was very much like a I don't know like it's almost subconsciously not turn me on him, but maybe like all right This is a guy. It's easier to root for and that affected my enjoyment of today's golf I just want to mean really he like we joke about adversity all the time and You know obviously he was asymptomatic from COVID, but he had like a 1.5 million dollars

and a big ass tournament when ripped out of his grasp, six shot lead, and he handled it like a fucking champ. Yeah. And I feel like he just grew a lot. And that happened because of adversity this week, where you could have seen a lot of guys go the other way with that, regardless of what their feelings are politically or anything like that.

Like, you know, who knows what Rob thinks on that stuff, but he just took it like a champ and basically took responsibility for stuff that was, you know, both in and out of his control and just moved on and plowed that energy towards something positive. It was awesome. And it was, I mean, inevitable is probably the right word, right?

I mean, it kind of felt that way coming in. It's weird. I definitely can't remember a time where a guy, maybe Bryson and Wingfoot a little bit, but like where a guy that had never won a major just felt like such an obvious pick, right? Like I always feel like when somebody is really, really obvious, really high on everybody's boards. Like it's always a guy going for their second, third, fourth major. And Ron was the guy coming in this week that's like, oh, yeah, no, I know he's never won one, but like he's definitely going to win this week. And it even felt that way.

I mean, we said it last night, Tron, like it felt like he should have been up by three or four yesterday. He just was hitting it so freaking good all week. And just seemingly like not, not that he wasn't getting much out of it because I mean, he was around the top of the leaderboard, but wasn't blowing the doors off people the way he probably should have been compared to how he was hitting it, right?

And I think for someone like that, like we joke about this all the time, we will continue to joke about this, but all the temper stuff and, you know, is he gonna hold it together? Like, man, you gotta be really freaking patient in a golf tournament like this. And he totally was. Even when Putsmore and Dropping like, you know, he hung in, hung in, hung in, didn't make any like, didn't make any like brain dead big numbers that just kicked himself out of it and came out today firing hot.

And it kind of even like the shot of number three. I mean, it felt like, you know, two like pretty easy birdies on one and two. And it felt like as soon as he kind of tugged that one a little bit left down into the shit on on three, it kind of felt a little bit like, oh, man, this might be, you know, is he going to just give it all back? And God, what a what an up and down that was. Holy cow. I mean, Deja, I think I said on the on the the draft Kings preview show this week, I was like, this is way too obvious a pick, but like but I can't see him not winning here. It's just playing so freaking good right now.

It's his favorite course on the entire schedule. You're in, you're out. He's had a success here. And man, he just seems like he's, he's like, he just seems like he's maturing before our very eyes. So. That's the go.

I wonder why that might be. I mean, there's nothing in his life that I would make a connection to to make that point. But 67 was not out there in the afternoon. No one else in the afternoon-ish wave or the later wave at all posted anything close to that. Brandon Grace got in early with 67, Patrick Reed shot 67 today,

but the cameras weren't around for any of that. So that has an asterisk on it. And Harris English, Guido, and Daniel Berger and Sergio and Hideki shot three under. But those were the rounds of the day. Ron went, I'll shot the round of the day on Sunday, type of the round of the day and won the golf tournament by two. Or by one, sorry. And it was just freaking, I don't know, I'm feeling it.

I'm feeling good. Those plots are, can we also comment on this? Fist pumps? John Brown is like tier one. Again. Golfers that suck out of celebrate for the most part, those are some excellent celebrations in fist pumps. I was feeling that.

I think I'm also so jacked up right now because as all this was happening, Bryson is melting down the far very eyes. 44 on that back nine. That was incredible. No matter what happens with Bryson, it's interesting. I would have rooted for Bryson to go out and win it today. I think that would have been interesting.

I think that would have been fun. But also, him shooting 44 on the back was very interesting and very fun. I can simultaneously root for and against Bryson pretty much every time he tees it up. He's the content factory Shout out to whoever said on the show last night, you know Mackenzie Hughes over under solid TV on the back nine tomorrow turn out it was Bryson

44 he hammered the over today Depending on how you measured the TV actually no matter how you measured the TV Bryson was over it today But corner to corner, man. Mackenzie would have been close otherwise. But yeah, so Bryson's nine holes this week, 37, 36, 35, 34, 35, 33, 33, 44. What the fuck, man. That's tough. His post-run press conference was kind of interesting.

I don't know if you guys read through it, but just bad luck. He said, I mean, it just, you know, just couldn't catch any breaks. And he did. Of course, there was like compounding errors that were going on there. But I think he was right, at least a little bit, in that, you know, his strategy was going to be like, yeah, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna hit it out there forever. And if I get good lies, like I'm gonna be dialed. And for a long time, he was and then he wasn't. Like, I don't know what was that on 14,

where he had that like, the one where he had basically the tiger-esque swing out of the right rough there was kind of the beginning of the end and then I guess he had just Double 13 as well 13 13 the slip chain bacon first of all calling that everyone was slipping on 13 and then Bryson going and slipping at what was probably a pretty TC is currently doing a flyover right now, but Having that slip happened and turning that into double bogey having that slip happen and turning that into double bogey, that hole is very much just kind of like, you get, if you get like behind,

what, if Louis Ball doesn't stop right there, like that tournament, I know he didn't end up winning, but things are gonna start to play out very, very differently. If you get like behind the eight ball on 13, there's no place like recover from. You're gonna pitch out to whatever 80 yards and hope to hit that green. If you go long, you know, you could be ping ponging back and forth. Like there was, that's really

the only hole where the disaster was really looming and he just got bit. You have to wonder if that streak or really had had an impact on him in some way. But I was, I was truly getting the, getting the popcorn back out on 13 when Louise ball landed. I was like, oh man, here it comes. Get the fishing reels coming. It's gonna suck back 60 yards like Sergio's did. And yeah, that was it. You know, when that one stayed up, I kind of was like, you know, I think it's,

maybe it's his day. Yeah. T.C. welcome back. We see you glad and clear now. Do you hear us? He apparently does not. Sounds like a nut. All right. We tried. We gave it our best. Rory time. Louis, let's go Louis. Let's go Louis. What do you make of this? How do you, I'm struggling

to reconcile this, right? How somebody can play this much good golf in major championships and play this much good golf in major championships and only have won to show for it. And none of them in any of the times that it's been close. Yeah, it's weird because he today felt like weirdly his, I don't know, I'm trying, there's been so many that honestly, it's like easy to get your wires crossed at this point, but like today kind of felt like his most impressive performance,

right? And maybe that's just a matter of a couple of those putts going in whereas it seems like they they don't typically but The big par save on I forget which hole that was Must have been 16 I guess though the one he had coming back on 16 like there was a lot of nails putts coming down the stretch for for Louie and I don't know man. It's how do you like I you know I mean though. How do you go and play your best he's very kept a like you play your best golf when it matters the most And maybe it's just their styles of play that you know

That promote playing smart, you know, whatever smart golf chasing after pins, plotting along for 72 holes is what puts them there in the mix. But gosh, man, just seven top two finishes in majors with one title. As many top two finishes as Kebka does, more than speed, more than Rory, and you only get judged really by how many championships you win in this sport for many reasons. And for some, I would question that. But gosh, he's one of the greatest major players of this era, and he's going to have, it turns out to be an unbelievably forgetful career.

I'm afraid. It's been weird this year. I mean, I know this is kind of a recency bias, but it feels like some of those are, you know, he just gets beat, right? Like you have the year like Bubba at the Masters, where he just gets beat, that? Like you have the year like Bubba, where at the Masters where he's like, he just gets beat, that's the way it goes. But there's been a couple this year.

I mean, the one at Zurich when he's standing on the tee and the playoff at Zurich and it's like, hey man, hit it anywhere in Louisiana except for right. And he blows it into the middle of pond. He gets on 17 at Torrey, it's hit it anywhere in North America except, you know, left and he hits it left. And it's just, dude, it's hit it anywhere in North America, except, you know, left, and he hits it left. And it's just, dude, it's tough. To that though, like, he needed a birdie, right?

And I know 18s a birdie hole, but it's not a guarantee, right? I'm a believer of, if you are under the gun in these types of scenarios, right, you have to ask yourself the question. Like, the winner of the tournament is gonna hit the shot, right? There's no bailing on the 71st hole of the USO, but of course you don't wanna hit it in there,

but like he's probably trying to hit the fairway, hitting a wedge onto the green and make Bernie, right? That's what he's thinking. And that's kind of like a risk you run in tournament, at a certain point in tournament golf, you turn like the green light on and you say, pretty much each shot from here in has to be perfect if I wanna accomplish what I want to accomplish.

And if I don't do it, I don't do it. So bailing out in that scenario wouldn't have done a much benefit anyways. I know Ron made birdie from that bunker but that was extremely unlikely. So I don't thought of that much for it. I definitely, definitely, definitely don't fault him for laying up on 18. There were a lot. I could see it coming from my way at 247 to a front right pin out of the rough without a good lie over water to a green. Aren't there aren't there some trees down that

left side too? I don't think that block yet. I can't remember. I don't think so. So yeah, he talked about trying to chase it up in front front right, you know, up and on to the green that I've never ever seen anybody do that on the 18th hole at Torrey Pines not once to any success. So I didn't like where he laid it up to. I thought he should have laid it back, laid it back further to add a chance to spin one in the hole to, you know, to make the playoff. But I don't blame him for that. I don't think that was the wrong call at all. From the fairway, guys were not able to hold the front part of that green. Like there was no point in going over that green, even if he launches a three wood

and chipping back towards the water, that's not a likely hole out in that scenario. So were you disappointed you didn't have the caddy tend to flag? A little bit, but it feels like a no brainer on the 18th of the Tory Pines. It's also a little look at me, right? You may want to just have, you know,

I don't want to stay in there on my own. I kind of like having my caddy sit there right next to me as I hit the shot rather than him up there on the, I think it draws more attention to the fact that you're trying to hold it. Whereas, I don't know, with as many balls as we saw bang off the, clang off the flag stick this week.

Maybe you're right a little bit. Scott, that would have been all time. So we've officially lost TC. He, for those listening on the podcast, he's cut in and out of connection. We're still working on it, but our top technicians are on it. But yeah, the guy from the protests

at Forest Gump is currently ripping up the internet cords. Some of you from NBC might be getting revenge on us. This might be a targeted strike after all the coverage takes this past week. But if we had more commercials, maybe we could afford some better Wi-Fi, but you know, these things come as a trade-off. Thank you for that transition.

Let's just go right into it. You keep talking, but mute your mic. And then we'll just have this as a playing through, right? I wish I could change. Can I change? There you go. That was a play through. This is a playing through screen.

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The shadow banning me, man. It's crazy. They can Wi-Fi keeps cutting out. Hate that. Hate that for your TC. So, you know what? I agree with everything you guys said. I have no idea what it was, but I agree with everything.

I know you didn't know what it said, because you definitely wouldn't have agreed with anything we said if you'd actually heard it. But no, we just kind of euthanized Louis Tason. What was your take away from Louis today? Like, why would you hit that drive on 17? It's all I said, it was a smart play. Oh my god, see, this is what you my gosh. This is what you guys do.

This is what you do. You twist my words. I just didn't have a problem. He's got to hit the fairway if he wants to win a tournament, I think. You're not bailing right and winning that golf tournament. I guess I would take those words and say like he has to hit the fairway if he wants to win a tournament. Here we go.

I don't think I won the tournament. I just don't believe in only place you can't miss there is left. You got a one shot lead. Go hit it miles right. Like that's fine. And you can make par from over there. But if you want to, you got a birdie one of the last two. It's not a gimmie birdie on the 18th.

And you could finish birdie birdie and win the damn thing outright. So I don't, I don't have that much for problem with it. I will say on, on Louis, I, I will, a tone, of course, for my russle, Henry stuff, when, when the time comes, but the point is ROM had to Go tie the low round of the week, which is kind of what we said yesterday was like if one of these guys is gonna do it They're gonna have to ball out probably shoot the best round of the day and one of those guys at five hundred is gonna shoot even and it was Louis so Kudos, I don't know where I'm going with that but but kudos to Ron for going and getting them, I guess.

But I guess, I guess, pretty adamant last night that there was not a 67 out there. No, I said that he's not better than 67. What I was not, what I said, I think, what I meant was, like nobody's going out in the first two days with what, twice as many players and perfect conditions. Like we didn't see anything better than 67 odds are we're probably not going to see anything better than 67 on Sunday.

Maybe and everybody always kind of builds up these like hero complexes and things that everybody's Johnny Miller but like it just doesn't usually happen. And it didn't happen today either but John Rom was enough and went and got it. So we were like going to have all those guys at one under we Rom was enough and went and got it. So we were like, and that all those guys that won under, we had no chance. They were out of it. As we said on day one, Colin Morecale was out of this. So I didn't have to sweat that one at all.

Exactly. But no, for the people in the comments saying 18 was a Gimme birdie. No, it wasn't. Less than half the, like way less than half the field was birdying 18. I mean, I know it's the easiest hole in golf course, but it's not, not a gimme birdie. That pin is actually pretty tough to get to,

especially with a second shot. No one was getting close to it. There's one eagle there today, and you got to hit a 27 yard wide fairway to have any chance of hitting the green. So how about 18 being the easiest finishing hole in the history of the US open? That was sick.

Yeah, I mean, I guess places where you have the US open, you don't have, you don't have you don't typically. Yeah, not a lot of hard finishing holes. I would think a chamber, though, that that hole was super gettable. 18 at chambers, wasn't it? Maybe they threw it out because it was the par four, par five combo. Oh, that may have been. Yeah, it's a good point.

I suppose it's horrible. The strong, the strong sweet that they mixed up the, the bars day to day. That was awesome. Didn't the sprawl have a finishing par, oh, that's, uh, that was PGA. the small street that they mixed up the the bars day to day. That was awesome. Didn't the sprawl have a finishing part? Oh, that's, uh, that was PGA. It also didn't happen. That's right. That's correct. Rory, you guys fall for today.

People said I'm, uh, I'm cutting in and out just like Rory. I'm teasing everybody just like Rory. God of TC can birdie these last five, man. He's, he's right there. Uh, I didn't not fall for it today. I'm happy to say that that was a very like, man, we've seen this movie a couple times. It sucks.

I wanted it so bad, but it's just like we've said a couple times now, we gotta start acting like this is a guy that has not closed one of these out in seven years, seven and a half years now. that has not closed one of these out in seven years, seven and a half years now. He pulled me once, shame on you, pulled me 16 times now, shame on us, shame on me. I'm not falling for it.

But he hasn't been close. Like this was the first time he's been close, I would say. I mean, he's back toward a bunch of him and kind of, he was closer. He was close. He was four under as he was playing the 11th hole. He had a good shot into 11. Hit the shot you needed to in 11th and just total brain,

brain fart three putt on there and then turns that around in doubles 12. And that just, it was those two holes. I mean, it was over for him in like a span of 20 minutes, really, because he played bogey free through 10 holes. Granted, a lot of guys were kind of getting through that stretch pretty unfazed, but it did feel a little bit different. You know, you made a clutch par save on 10.

I don't know if you probably don't remember that because it was on 16.8% of your screen during playing through with no audio. That was an awesome putt. It was, and it just, I was like, okay, like maybe this is the time and it was not. Narrator, it was not. That's just frustrating, man.

I don't know what it is other than just kind of, like, I don't know if it's like mental lapses or if that's too broad of a term, it just, you just kind of falls asleep and does like brain dead shit at horrible times, right? And it's just missing in bad spots. It's just, it's just, it just gets really sloppy. And that's like exactly what you didn't see from ROM today,

which I know is easy to say, you know, to point to the winner, but like that's kind of the difference. He looked so, he looked so in control. God, he had what like super awkward wedge yard at it, wedge yardage in like 70, you know, 70, 75 yards on one hole hits it pin high and then just I think you wipe that put Right, and now is when I was like, oh man, I've seen this movie before and I think it's all yeah

I think one of the things is it feels like it's it feels like he is closer a lot because he's he's always playing well in these things at the end Right, it's just a matter of like he plays himself out of it. It may not be on Sunday But he'll play himself out of it on Thursday or Saturday or or something and then it's like all these stupid things Just add up and you're like fuck man like if If you look at the like the the totality of the 72 holes You're like dude you played well enough to win. You just got it. You just got to cut the bullshit out to I had two big positive takeaways from Roy this week. One was his start.

I mean, we kind of said that in the Thursday show, but he has basically shot himself out of these immediately. And then he's playing catch up the whole week. He didn't do that this week. He had a pretty good start, which is a positive sign, I think, just because when you look at like, you know, playing these things mentally, like it's got to be getting off to a big start and good start,

not playing yourself out of it right away has to be a massive hurdle to get over it. It seemed like you got over that this week, so at least that seems like a positive. And two, I kind of like the like light yellow. I was did on that. I thought that was a big positive. I did not see that would cut it good for you, but I mean, I like, he shot 67, he shot 67 yesterday and was one under through 10 today.

Like he was having a really good weekend. It was, you know, it was like really one bad, two bad swing on 12, wasn't even a bad swing on 11. And it just still didn't seem, it still seemed hopeful, it seemed wishful. It didn't seem like Rory carrying himself, you know, like with a big swing and dick. Like it just didn't feel like that.

And when he's gonna be able to channel that, that's how Ron carried himself down the stretch. Like it looked like you were gonna have to pry that from his hands and no one was gonna take it from him. And that's how you close a major champion chip. So, what did you guys think of? How did Harris English's golf swing look this week to you guys? What was the most memorable shot you guys took note of from many?

You know, kind of just like Randy, I had heard rumors from OnSight that he was flushing it, but you really couldn't verify that. The only reason I was following Harris throughout the week was I had him in a heads up bed against my god Jason Kochrack, who was, was gone after Friday. So yeah, I can't give you too much insight

on Harris English. Can't say I saw much of that, but you know, solo third. Good, good for him. I got, so they have like little highlights there on the US Open website. Like if you click on a player's hole, you can see if they, you if they had a shot televised or something like that.

There were six shots of his televised today for his solo third finish. So to their credit, and I'm sure we'll shit on them a lot, so many guys in contention today. There was a lot to keep track of today. There was eight legitimate contenders that you had to try to track what was going on. So that did get a little bit of a pass on there on hair.

It doesn't help when you front load the commercials. And when like you front load the commercials into where all the action is. And do a Mike Davis feature where he comes in the booth. And yeah, that flyover is coming by the way. It should be here any minute. That was so USGA it hurts. I'm being late.

The military being late for the flyover. The military isn't going to wait for anything. Diana Murphy was flying one of the planes. This is Beth Lang. I love the striker. The not striker, but the guy on 13. Many people calling him a striker, even though he had his clothes on, which is kind of stolen value for true strikers. There was a striker mentioned, and then Bones said that someone with a golf club and a couple

of balls ran out in the fairway. And I thought, for a second, I was like, oh my God, Bones has been waiting to make that call for his entire life. And then it turns out the guy actually did have a couple of golf balls in the golf club, And I thought like for a second, I was like, oh my God, bones has been waiting to make that call for his entire life. And then in terms of the guy actually did have a couple of golf balls in the golf club. And he hit nice, nice action in the spring. Great tempo. All right. Louie asked tempo security guard.

Maybe he wasn't the most kart smart. Like that thing that was still in motion. And he jumped out of there to tackle the guy, which great form tackle. But he could have got rolled up on right, right up on the ACL. It would have been top. I legitimately thought the guy was gonna run him over. I was texting Tron how great would it have been?

If I wish, I know things are moving quickly in that scenario, but I wish the guy would have kind of gotten a little bit of a loop going where he could have got the golf cart. If that guy gets in the golf cart, it's totally complete, complete sweepstakes. To any future, everybody been flying over if that was the case. It might have been a drone strike. What if he had just gotten in the passenger seat of the golf cart, not made him even tackle him, just kind of gave himself up and said,

hey, take me on out. Well, how good was the look where he looked like he was going to give himself up and then did the like fake crossover dribble. I mean, that was fantastic. All this was captured by citizen journalist Rich Beam, by the way, on Instagram. So thank you to him, because that was great. Bryson never recovered from that. That was, he was, he was six over from then on in.

Just bad luck, you know? So, I mean, Bryson had hidden into into the mouth on a few of the old. Brooks Capka, Bogey's on 16 and 18. If he doesn't, he could have played that stretch in one under and got in at minus five. And I think it's a very different golf tournament. He, they didn't show him playing 18. Unfortunately, until he got greenside bunker. So it was kind of, the drama was kind of led out of that

by the time we got around to it. But gosh, he kind of, he made a little run there. Birdies on 13 and 15, and then turned over and just hit that one left on 16, which I, just no, I feel like I saw no parts coming from the left of 16 today. Like there was no chance to do anything that lesson No one's making birdie on that hole anyways

Just hit the middle of that green to put it and try to get his to let me hit an awesome shot there But yeah, like every like you the announcer said a great job that hole every time somebody hit the center of the green Hit it to 40 feet. It was like great shot like yeah, don't get caught up on this hole today and I Watch three and a half days of the golf tournament. I can't tell you which whole 16 was. It's a part three. Okay. Yeah.

I think let me check. Yeah, it is correct. I sympathize with you though. One birdie. I'm not I'm not being facetious and coughing sarcastic. It legitimately couldn't, couldn't remember. There were a couple on the front nine that were pretty memorable. Of course, remember 18, like 17, 18, 13, but there's 12 or 13 holes in that golf course that I

just legitimately could not distinguish from one another, even if you showed them to me right now after watching golf for four days. 11, 12, 14, 15 are all the same hole. They're not different holes. They just keep playing the same whole. Like they don't, they're not different holes. They just keep playing the same one, which 18 looks like 15, too. Like when Louis got to 15, I was like, oh my God, he's on 18 already. Oh, no, never mind. It just looks the exact same.

It looks like it looks like 15, but if they went to like a minards or lows, they bought one of those plastic landscaping ponds and dropped it in there. Tom Hogi made a 51 footer, 52 footer on on 16 today, only birdie of the day. So and then you had nobody, there's a couple of pars made from that left bunker, but not a good spot to be that nice. Nice. Minards pulled each. Thanks. I've been, listen, I'm up and at people want to know where I'm at. I'm up in Illinois. A lot of minards troops recently. You probably get that kind of thing at Myr too, up in Ohio.

There's a Myr down the street as well. Yeah, I'll have to look if they have a garden section. I'll keep the people abreast of that. Sorry, I got to remind myself that this isn't a trap draw. I can't talk about stores and shit. More Kawa T4 67 70 70 since after opening 75 shot for over finished for that. Tough plots there. Couple tough plots.

You have a tough one there on on eight. That was one that I'll accept responsibility for and own. The power of the jinx was a strength I've never felt before was my ability to just manipulate the actions today by just acknowledging somebody doing something good no matter what something something fell. A lot of people in the comments dialed at the Bernard's, you say big buddy of the Darts. No free ads here. Sorry, come on, that was a good one.

That was a good one. I thought you should have been a little bit more conscientious with the more Kawa, jinx there. I mean, you know, everybody knows you start with the short putts. You know that better than anybody. He was in there tight, man. I didn't think that was exactly he was pouring them into close. Well, 14 feet. If he's inside of four and a half, that's the danger zone. I didn't I did not see that one sneaking up on me. He's the only he's the top guy on the leaderboard negative strokes game putting. So it's, Guido, Guido had negative strokes game putting only because he made a million things from the forage. I think he had five strokes gained around the green, which is accounted for if you're holding out from the fridge.

But I was going to skip over my guy, Guido, Guido's going to the masters, baby. Guido's a four finish box. He needs to go to fist pump camp. Guido was awesome. I would, again, I don't fault them for, you know, not getting, not getting enough players in there. There was a lot going on, but seeing Guido's finish was great. Excited to see more from him. Will you apologize?

Seems like a manipulator comes over, finishes T4 in the national championship. I'm not going to apologize. I've never acknowledged him as a manipulator comes over, finishes T4 in the national championship. I'm not going to apologize. I've never acknowledged him as a manipulator. How did he get in? Japanese guy at the time. He manipulated it. He did it. Did he get in a more world ranking?

Or did he get in through the European tour qualifying or whatever? He finished second to point. I mean, I know, but I'm not going to dignify that. Okay. No, if he got in through world ranking, I definitely want to apologize. But if he, I'm not going to apologize no matter what, how about that?

He's been playing really well. See, he is a hundred and third in the world. So he got in through like the same way that Dick Blan got in. So no, I want to apologize. He didn't manipulate his way in. Okay, good. Save that one. I can't tell you much else about about Guido this week, but glad he's going to

the masters. I was just going to do a stat run down. I mean, basically, ROM was just pretty much a ball striking force that also got it up and down pretty good. Four. Can we talk about? Can we talk about Randy's? I feel like Randy's got in a total pass on saying that ROM doesn't inspire him. There's nothing interesting about ROM. He's not good. I don't get what the big deal is. Like, that's a horrible thing. Let me ride for Randy here. I believe he said he gets no joy

out of watching him play golf, which like- I don't think it was a criticism of ROM skills. I think it was criticism. I don't know. Randy can't get excited about him. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but I would encourage people to go check the tape on that. ROM plays a, and this is a compliment.

One of the most boring styles of golf ever. He is, I feel like Rob is the one of the most stock players in the world. Rob, you said he's the video guy with, video guy with all the stats turned up. I think that's a great analogy. He just, like, his swing is so tight. Like, there's not a lot of variability to it.

There's not a lot of like shot shaping and crazy stuff going on. Like he is, I can see why he's like a, he's like a robot generated golfer. I mean, he plays a lot of emotion, of course, but like his golf game is like out of a factory. Pretty much. So that's probably where Rainy's coming from here. If I can speak for him here, you know, it's horrible of you to talk about him when he's not here to defend himself, but no free. I think that's fair game. No free ads, but like, A, this isn't a free one of B. I legitimately feel this way. A, his speed was absolutely

dialed with the putter all day. Like I felt like even the ones, he had the one that would that kind of lipped any any kind of reacted to it. But that thing was going by like six or seven feet. Other than that, I don't think he would have made that if the pin was in according to the announcers. So, okay. Also many, many people pointing out that Randy's been on this block for a long time. Thank you guys. Not that he's not good at golf, though. Again, Rick.

Rade is pretty harsh sometimes. Paul Thomas Anderson weighing in. Rani said, quote, ROM stinks. And then I didn't read the rest of Thomas' comment there. Should we call Randy right now to see if we could get him on just see if we could get a magical appearance like we did during the PGA. I'm guessing he's asleep right now. It's seven 18. Seven 18. He's definitely. He's definitely asleep. Seven 18 18 definitely But like raw I really like that putter he's using not to like I know I see Kalo is a sponsor But like that was the putter that was like the Rossi the old school

Lillico the OG a lot of see putter, you know now now in the white hot thing But I don't know it was just a clean look because the ones that he was using the past kind of freaked me out His pace was freaking money man, and I I can't know, it was just a clean look because the ones that he was using in the past kind of freaked me out. His pace was freaking money, man. And I can't imagine like trying to make under pressure, trying to blend the line and speed on a downhill, to straight downhill left to right, where you're playing up to eight feet of break,

to nail both of those under pressure. I don't know how you simulate that. I don't know how you prepare yourself for that moment. So what's next? Or is it, do we circle back on Tory? Did any minds change on Tory Pines? The drama that unfolded this week today, leaderboard Twitter, did they went out here?

Where, what's anything to, I believe our takes are well documented But anything to kind of wrap it up now after what we saw on Sunday Well, I'll go back to again someone can check me word for word here But I think we were pretty pretty deep on the block pretty entrenched on the block of Tori stinks It's gonna be a really boring two three days and it's probably gonna give us a really good leaderboard and the leaderboard is going to give us a good finish. Right? I mean, I don't think that's shocking at all. And I had a blast actually watching today. I thought it was really fun watching the back nine. I don't think like I think that would have been fun on any golf course. So that would

be my only thing for leaderboard Twitter and like, oh, Tory delivers again is like, I think with that leaderboard, any course delivers, and I guess I would rather ramp up the course to be a little bit more interesting. I mean, it's just like, I had a great time watching today. Like, Firestone always had a great leaderboard. Yeah. Bay Hill always had a great leaderboard when the cat was playing.

Like, it's all, you know, Tori always has good fields for farmers. To wrap up. Obviously, US obviously us opens. Yeah, but it's like, it identifies a skill set that the best players in the world have, which good on Tori, right? But I thought Thursday and Friday were painfully boring.

I'd say a specific skill set, right? It's not a broad, it doesn't require a broad set of skills. Well, yeah, a diverse set of skills or like it's just asking the same question right over and over again, right? Which tends to trend, which is very PGA tour, like, which a leaderboard is going to end up looking a lot like the OWGR in that regard. Whereas like a British open style course to the other end of the extreme has a lot of randomness in it, I think. Like there's a lot more variability, there's a lot more chance of a different playing style

being able to compete there. But it was, I mean, it was horses. It's all bombers. By the time you get through 72 holes of this, I mean, who is the shortest hitter up there near the top? I don't even know. Like, what Kenzie used, and when he hit a slinging draw into the first, you know, first whole, tucked right pan, you know, first hole,

tucked right pan, I'm like, fuck, this is not gonna be a big day. Hey. That was a tough look. That was a tough look. What I will say, and a lot of this is due to, you know, Rory and Bryson kinda shit in the bed down the stretch, but the leaderboard's not gonna age very well,

so that kinda makes me feel a little bit better about Tori. People aren't gonna be able to point, they're not going to be able to point back to this and be like, Oh my God, this was the best leaderboard ever. Look at this. John Ram, Louis Harris, English, Guido, Miggly Aussie, Brooks, Columnmore, Kawa, Brandon Grace, Daniel Berger, Paul Casey, Zander, who was kind of mostly irrelevant today, Scotty Sheffler, then you get to Rory Francesco, Russell Henley, et cetera. So it, and if I may, the final look was not quite as sexy as it, as it actually was in, in real time, probably a bunch of stuff happened on the front and that was fun. But like for the most part, the back did not, Tori did not deliver.

Like, you know, Ram made a couple of puts on the last couple of holes. I don't credit Tori with either of those. Like it delivered in that a bunch of guys spontaneously, can busted, which was kind of fun to watch. Yeah. But it's like a blank canvas, right? And anything can happen on a blank canvas. Like you can make magic happen on a blank canvas. The course kind of gets out of the way and that's the players shine, which for some people, that's what they want to see. Like my favorite part

about it was when it started showing that it's actually a muni. When the guy slipped on, like when Bryson slipped on 13T, that was awesome. When the ball almost goes into the box of Stella on Bryson, that shit that happens at a muni, you know. I bring in this in here. James House 99 said, uh, you talk about the free drops. Gonna be maybe forgotten that Ram pumped one OB and got a free drop. Like he did he was playing the ninth hole as if that was OB hits it over there, finds out it's not OB and gets a free drop and turns that into a par on on nine. That's a different golf tournament if that ball is actually OB. JT was in this thing till he popped what OB

on 10. That's something that may get lost to history is just remembering that ROM did that. Never forget. You had a, we need to reform, we need to reform the free drop stuff. Oh, God. On the, on the commissioner for a day, like that, that needs to be on the commissioner for a day. That needs to be on the platform along with the arm lock potting and the greens books and connecting the pond on 18 to the Pacific Ocean, all that stuff. Mackenzie also should

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I wrote for me a little too hard It wasn't good. It wasn't when I saw him go directly at that shortsighted pin on number one from the right rough I was like, oh this could either be really good or really bad today. It turned out to be really bad So I'm happy to happy to apologize. I thought you guys were gonna have to apologize to me when he almost made an A-stack number three, but a last was not meant to be. But, glad still, you know, for all of my aforementioned Russell Henley takes on the podcast this week,

I'm glad he got a little more run this week. Hopefully he'll be a little less anonymous as he's playing some really good golf. How's that for your inner apology? I'll go ahead and apologize for Mackenzie. He used who did beat Bryson DeChambo today. So you know, I don't really know why I'm apologizing because the solid should have to apologize for Bryson. I will. I'll check for Bryson. He was my pick going into it. He was my pick last night. He did not

win the tournament. He was close, really close. Couple couple balls bounced different on that back nine. Who knows? You know, we could be talking about Bryson's perspective here, not Rom's perspective. I would assume that back nine, 45. 44. 44, but that could have been 34. So, it could have been 46 if they gave him a two-stroke kind of a new for slow play.

That's true. What 100 bogie golf on that back nine, which I got to think a lot of people would take at 45. It feels very touch with the public out there. Oh so if I have a 42 inch TV that's small but 44 is all of a sudden a big number for Bryce in the shoot on the back night. Exactly. I'm always consistent for you guys. I'd like to take a victory lap on something. I believe you would of course you would. Oh I'm, you know, the ROM stuff we've litigated that. Where are you when TC picked ROM to win the tournament?

No, where are you? I was picked ROM. Where were you when when TC picked Lee Westwood to finish ahead of Richard Blan? Beat him by one for the tournament. Beat him by one today. That means he must have played bad. I was going to say that means he must have played like shit today. About 77 today. Blanchot 78.

So, hey, it is, it is wild to see Bryson's back nine score. It's like, man, a couple, a couple bounces. Just, just didn't go my way. It's like, you shot 44. Like, how does that, that sounds like a lot of bounces didn't go your way, but I don't know. I guess that's, he also got to go around even E-pler missr is an owner, baby.

From many balances, one score. He got crowned a couple times in like dry, trampled down rough too. I mean, that was, that was something where like going back to the, the whole thing about Tori, there's some of those cliff sides and some of those edges of greens that like if you miss left on the cliff side, you should be like 400 yards down the cliff and it just sits there in a bunker or in long grass. It's so frustrating.

I mean, the golf course is not a major championship golf course. It's just not for those exact reasons. I mean, balls just stopping and rough. It was really frustrating just like, watch guys blow it away, right? Like, oh, the announcer is, oh, this one's going way right, where he will suffer absolutely no consequences at all for this tee shot. Actually, it turns out Bryson's aiming over there. I was going to say there are a couple where you got over there and like, whoa, that's actually, he's got a great angle there. Great lie, great angle.

Yeah. Left pin, right on the right. Like, oh, shitty. Say that they're all four days. Maybe that's just part of his strategy there. Right. Um, and for all the, for all the coverage takes that we had this week, I will say they, they delivered the drama on the rom, they delivered the goods on ROM on both 17 and 18, especially like, feel like they're super good at conveying excitement when something exciting happens. Uh, and super good at quickly getting into multiple replays that help set the scene for, like, what we just witnessed, right, and help document that moment for, like, why we invested time to watch this. I felt that today, at least on eight teams, like, ah, shit, that's, maybe

I didn't need to watch, like every hour of this tournament, but that felt like validating that I did that because we got to deliver that moment at the end. So, I'm just gonna go to the moment, they know how to handle the moment, and when the moment is gonna be, like I feel like that was pretty interesting. I just, it's just a lot of, I just wish things were different

in getting to the moment sometimes. Literally everything else was bad, but that, so. Well, and that, that's where I do wanna be at least a little self-aware or self-facing that like maybe this isn't meant to watch, you know, 40 hours of coverage straight. Like we are judging it through that lens where it's like, I watch it for 13 hours straight and I was super bored. It's like, well, maybe you should know watch it for 13 hours straight Maybe that's not what it's like. You watched it, you know yesterday and today just when it was on NBC I I'd probably feel pretty similarly, right? I watched it with some Very I would say casual golf fans somewhat serious golf fans. And yeah, they were

shocked Shocked and appalled by the commercial load early Without I was kid was not even saying anything about it. So it's like you say you're not meant to watch it for 40 hours, but like literally any of the one hours that you would have watched in that first 26 were all like we're awful. No, I'm with. I mean, yeah, for sure. Like there was all just early in the day and then when you know, in the evenings,

it was good. I'll argue that point too. Like when ESPN does it, I never feel like, oh, I should not have watched that for eight hours because they deliver, like they make it feel like a major sporting event. So you would think that they're backwards in innovation. We don't have school boards on the screen. Yeah.

Like the, the Translucent scoreboard, you would think that ESPN's under pretty similar constraints and certain, certain spots. Um, I don't know, it's just so frustrating too when like, sometimes I think that ESPN's under pretty similar constraints in certain spots. I don't know, it's just so frustrating too. When like, sometimes I think the NBC broadcast is starting to feel a little bit more self-serving than it used to, right? Where like CBS is really good at being self-serving and doing a FALTA O'Fluff piece or something like that. But I feel like NBC's done a couple things

with Jimmy Roberts and with you know Mike Davis today some of that's USGA but it's just like man this is this is really ill-timed not serving the audience. It's hard to know how much of that stuff too is just like production breaks also right where it's like all right let's run we've been on the air for eight hours like let's run this Jimmy Roberts four minute things so guys can go take a piss. But it's so poorly timed. Like, you gotta even know the cadence and you gotta know the flow and, you know, of the tournament, right? You can't give me six commercial breaks an hour and that, like, oh, we need a break. Like, we haven't taken any breaks.

I love, I like some feedback in the chat. Just simple question. Did was the coverage of the US open by NBC Good. I just want to see yes or no answers. I don't need more than that. But just to see if we're off on this, was the coverage yes or no good? I just would like to see.

And I don't want to bunch people in the Twitter mentions tomorrow, like, oh my God, you guys banged on the, all you guys did on the podcast was bang on the coverage and bang on Torey. Like, let's talk about some more stuff. Let's talk about the rest of the tournament. Because I think there's, you know, like we, I don't think we're belaboring it, right?

We're just kind of summing up the week, maybe not everybody listened to, you know, all four of the recap pods this week. All right. I, my hamster dam would, I don't know if we're in hamster dam, mine would be limited to, it's just, it's one billion percent commercials for me. It's just commercial load, dictates everything,

it's way too many commercials, then you get like, you have to run all those, so then you get behind, and it's just, you can't do anything, and it's just, it's miserable, man, and it makes me like, I don't know how much clearer I can say it, it makes me feel like a complete jackass for tuning in. You're the most important.

It makes me feel like a complete goon for, in. You're the most important. It makes me feel like a complete goon for. And then, like, and the USJ is fine and whatever, but the idea of like, A, watching a bunch of commercials today for the US women's open, which happened what two weeks ago now was sick. To all the US, all the constant, like straight out of the PGA tour playbook, just like the commercials of, you should totally watch the US open.

It's like, man, I'm fucking trying to. Please get off the screen. I'm literally trying to watch the US open. And three, the idea of like sitting through all those commercials and then having a commercial, it's like, man, you should send a check to the USGA. Join as a member. Come on. You'll get, we'll send you a bag tag.

It's like, dude, get, please away. It's just please show me the golf That's that's all yeah I think there's no way there's not a conversation that happens hopefully within this next week between the USGA and NBC Like you as she cannot be pleased with how their product was presented like it was honestly like worse than a PGA Tor event and felt like and you if this event's gonna stand out you can't go to a PGA Tour course and have the broadcast look like a PGA Tour event. So, I mean, honestly, like, I bitched about it in the past, but at this point, I would say, like, the Lexus, when they had the cars staged on the course at certain places before, put a fucking car in the middle of the lake at 418.

Sure. Like, straight up, if that means I don't have to watch two or three more commercials, do it. Drive the players from whole to whole in a fucking car if you have to. I also, the last thing I got to make fun of the augmented reality thing, because that's truly a question nobody's asking. Nobody's asking. Nobody's massive waste of time. Or the, all the cameras on low is at the 6T box?

Yeah, 88 cameras are with it. Again, no one's asking that. I mean, at least that's somewhat additive, but like the, the augmented reality stuff is so like, not to go, God, just when I was out, and you guys drag me back in. But what I was going to say is I was hit me this week. So I think I was texting you about this, but like, people want to know why the masters, like why people trip over themselves to praise the masters and why they love the

masters and all this stuff. Despite the fact that Augusta National is basically like cartoon villains, like just complete like rich guys. Like, I've reached literally like Nazi Germany. Like, I've reached power just like and everyone's like, God like God those those guys are so cool, man But the reason is because they're constantly like answering questions that fans are asking like hey, how do I customize my streaming? Cool, let us build a product for that for you. Hey, how do I see less commercials cool? Let's figure that out for you Hey, how do you know how do I get cheaper snacks boom figure that out? How do I get good merch? How do I get great great social media that's additive

and makes me want to watch the tournament? Like they nail all of those things and it just feels like, I mean, you can throw a lot of, you know, golf organizations, I'd say most golf organizations into this bucket of just constantly, habitually answering questions that fucking nobody's asking. Nobody needs an augmented reality app to relive the 2008 US Open

that is so clearly something you did because Deloitte had a bunch of money to spend and you're just looking for a way to flush it down the toilet. It just does not make any sense to me. And I'm sorry to all the big AR heads out there. I'm sure in 20 years, augmented reality is gonna be unbelievable, but right now it's fucking Google Glass. And it's just constantly like, I know, I don't need this.

I don't need this, please. Just give this commercial time back. It makes no sense to me. I would just hope that the USGA, there's some, there's a fresh set of eyes up top starting like this week, right? Is it into the years at this week? I thought this was just my, I think it was, hey, this is the last US Open. or is it this week? I thought this was just Mike. I think it was this summer.

Hey, this is last US Open. Okay. Well, I think this was kind of, hey, through the US Open or through through kind of June and then like into July, it's Mike Wands show. So, you know, I'm not I'm not paying him to be a miracle worker, but I think at least the guy listens and at least the guy

is very like a little bit more keen to like what his, and I'm not even saying that this is Mike Davis's fault, right? But it just seems like there's a, there's a certain disconnect there between, you know, what the USGA is doing and what golf fans want to see. I see all your jokes in the chat about my TV. The range fighters are given away, okay? You can't make the same joke three days later.

The people who write the TV is fucking small. It's 42 inches. This is a discerning. I know that's small. That's not that small. You can buy like a 60 inch TV at Costco or Walmart or Target or Amazon. To be fair, he stopped using his TV. Now he broadcasts his TV down onto his desk table

I'm using the AR he's he's living in 2040 man. This is Hannah's old TV. It's our backup TV I don't even watch it very often. It's decorative. Don't let him don't let him shave you so I'm I'm gonna get a smaller one. Even Randy got a big TV now. In the main room we have a big one, all right. Daniel Berger top 10, I was, that was sneaky. I would have liked to see him play the golf term a little bit. Brandon Grace top 10 as well. Scotty Sheffler didn't really get much going this weekend, but I'd say what didn't feel like an out of body week at all for him in these top 10 in a major, that's probably a good sign for him. Anyone else that we, Matt Wolf,

tough day today, tough weekend for him? That was kind of, I don't know, not that it's a pat yourself on the back thing, but I think what we were kind of saying about Wolf is like, dude, imagine how tough it is going to be to come in your first time playing in two months and be extremely consistent on four incredibly demanding rounds.

I guess it's not gonna happen. So the fact that he came back, the fact that he had a couple good rounds, put himself in contention was fucking awesome. It was great to see him back. I know I said this last night, but like maybe the most watchable guy in the field, like put Matt Wolf on my TV constantly, can't get enough.

It was awesome to see him back. Guys, I think we could have had a scare today from Paul Casey. Now we've seen that movie before. Yeah, I wouldn't worry. He made what it needed to go bogey double right on time. That was. Or even just too involved too late, right? Where he's taking airtime away from other people

hardy park party park was very scary I thought you're gonna say maybe we're gonna see a shot of his life which I I contend I don't think I've ever seen a Paul Casey shot live it's all on tape delay it's all they catch up with him when he's already hit the shots they were showing shots at his from the 2008 US of it pretty much yeah uh Daniel burger I had no he he finished T7, had zero clue. I just told you that. 90 second look at my fucking internet keeps cutting in and out. So you're kind of, you're kind of, you're kind of good.

You're kind of good. Brian Roberts is so deep in your ass right now. How about this? No, the Comcast guy. Oh, Brian Roberts, I was thinking the second phase from for the Baltimore Orioles back in the day. Oh, if he, and Brian, he was in the chat. Yeah, Brian, if you're listening, I love to talk to you about some of those early 2000s

Orioles teams. How about this? Taylor Montgomery made the cut in the US Open this week and it could cost him his PJ tour card. He went from 24th to 28th in the standings because he didn't go to Wichita this week. That tweets from Joshua Perry 22. Oof. That's wild.

I think you're now right. You should not have to decide between going to the US open and going to a cornferry event. Especially if they go it wasn't an issue, I don't think. I don't think they they scuson anything against it, but I think it was an issue three years ago. Yeah, especially if they don't have an event like the players is an off week, right? Like they don't schedule a cornferry tour event against the players and but they do schedule against the US Open which is kind of a bummer but I get why it happens but it's I would probably I would give the cornferry tour break this year of all years that's

sure they're they're trying to duct tape it together yeah did you guys say anything about Molinari? No go off. Slide Mollonari. No, I just figured he's starting to play some good golf again. Yeah, even par for the week, even par or final round. Yeah, that's three rounds of par or better and only got T13 out of it. That's got to be pretty frustrating.

And he said a couple top 10s lately on on on tour. So it seems like science of life. He's moved to, uh, he's moved to Southern California, right? Right. I think I feel like we've been up in the air on this, whether it's San Francisco or LA. I think it is. No, he was going to, he had joined Cal Club. And I think now, now, he's down in LA. He's, I think he's playing a riff is what I heard. His wife got to San Francisco. I was like, this sucks. It's too cold here. Let's get out of here. Seems like something a pretty simple Google search could have

stored it out, but whatever. A bunch of hitters at T19, Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia, Charles Swartz, O'Brien Harman, Jordan Speeth, Justin Thomas, and Dustin Johnson. Would you give Paul, Paul, guys, for DJing, T19? You didn't speak this too far back right now. That's just, he's trending. He's on his way.

If they would he just ran a holes. I think they would have they would have played one more round. I mean, what a bit interesting. I mean, take a look at a poll. Just for JT absolutely not. I had I called I could not have been less a poll needing a autopology for his major record every week. We every major we make fun of his major record.

I'm not gonna apologize even really. I don't know. I don't know. He was online for one of his best showings that he piped out ball O'B today and we never saw him again. So. Are you asking?

I can ask. I'm asking what, what's for sure? Hey, man, what's your, what's your fucking deal? What's your deal, man? Are you gonna apologize to Rikuya Hoshino? Why would I do that? To him or for him? No, to him. To him. Why would I apologize to him?

Finish T26. Tyler Bryson. Will you apologize? I tweeted that he was tied with Bryson. I gave him a shout out. T.C., I got a question for you. Someone on Twitter had a really good point. Does was the Henley thing? Was it that he was hunting too big a game today? 80s to go back to Kenzie? No, Russell Henley. You know, you mentioned that he's

kind of a, he's more of like a squirrel and kind of possible, like more small rodents. Did anything you want to say to him in that regard? Yeah, I think he was hunting like he was on like a safari today. And the freaking rhinoceros who are a hippopotamus like charged the vehicle. Just stuck to the cuckaburrant. Whereas and then Mackenzie used his bog. It stuck up in a tree. He's open a. I'm in a new one He's open a, a dear stand up there. It might be a crackhead.

Got into the wrong stuff. How outrageous that was. The ball hits the carpet and then it just never comes down. And then they have to identify it. And they're like, wait, like we saw it go up there, but we got, we're not sure if it's there or not, right? Cause the ball came out of the tree. There was a video that somebody sent of a ball came out when his ball came out, when he hit the tree,

but I guess it was his ball that was up in the tree. So it was like, it's like a first in, first out. I guess it was. I guess it must have been, but, uh, yeah, that's, that was a tough break because he had just birdie, he had just birdie 10, right? Or, yeah, he just got himself back, birdie 9 antenna to get back into it. And, uh, that was, I was tough break. Great week for him, man.

It was, uh, obviously, it, you know, six over today is not going to look pretty, but that's a hell of a hell of a run to us open. I got a shout out Chris Baker T 26. That's a big big week for him. Part of the burrito gallery of the North Florida. A lot of points. He beat Lontoy today. They were they were paired together in the Jacks Beach Sunnay. Jacks Beach Burdy Challenge at 25. Lontanta shot five over Baker shot, sorry, Lanta shot four over Baker shot two over today. And then it's good to see Martin Kimer playing well. Mm-hmm, yeah.

Especially after a tough first round, right? 77 in the first round, that'll stack, T26. Man, what are you guys gonna remember the most about this tournament? Rambos side. I mean the finish aside. I was gonna say rambos is pretty easy. It's pretty easy. Can we call him? Rambo now? Is that deserved? I hate that it's it's matriculating in it's this was such a like God, this is such a force of will this was not a thing until the brands got got involved and started pushing this idea that everyone calls it a promo. I think it was, when he played the Phoenix Open and he had a Arizona Sun Devil's Jersey. And he called himself Rambo,

but I've never heard anybody else call that. I probably remember Richard Blan. I was fine. I honestly had forgot about him to this moment. I was fine. I honestly had forgot about him to this moment. I had forgotten that that happened. It lasted like a good nine holes yesterday too. That was just a tough, tough final 27 holes. That's a good, I think I'll coastline that.

That was great. I don't know what else it would be, honestly. I'm trying to think. I think I'll remember the action today. That was a true I don't know what else it would be, honestly. I'm trying to think. I think God remember the action today. I mean, that was a true load up the jiff cannon there for about an hour of just like birdie here, birdie here, this action here couldn't keep up with it. With the back nine of Chambers Bay. Yeah, it kind of had harding park vibes too, of just like, you know, people going out and getting in. And then the back nine did not keep up with that, but gosh, that was, that was, it felt like a golf tournament for the first time, I think, today.

But, uh, anything else, LPGA, Nellie Cornelli, yeah. I think Randy, you know, she's starting to sniff around a little bit. I think Randy's on his heels a little bit there. He's very, very non-plused by Nelly. Called her. It's time for me. We're rolling into KPMG Women's PGA week coming up here. It's time for her to get one. I guess time for her.

And then I'll let it be a great course for her. She's got to be the favorite, right? Oh, I'd think. But yeah, not a great day from Madeline or young, young hitter today, but she'll be back, seems like she's trending right now. Big win on the corn fairy this week by proper English bloke, is it Harry Hall?

That's correct. Callaway guy, shout out to him. Yeah, really, really interesting look look he's got like the English Bryson look almost. Anything else from the world of golf this week or anything else we're missing from you. We talked about it last night a little bit. The amateur.

Oh, we lost DJ. He's coming back. I haven't caught up on the British amateur. Take us there. Oh my gosh, dude. It was, I watched some of it on streaming. I gotta look, I gotta look up the guy's name. It was two of the most English names or British names

you could possibly imagine. Can't be more British than Ashley Chester's. Ashley Chester. No, but the one guy he was down, he was down eight holes. He was eight down through the first 18, and he was four down with four to play, and he comes back and wins in 38 holes. Just to absolutely triumph of the human spirit. So.

At now, none of our favorite golf courses in Scotland. Yeah, Laird Shepherd. He beat his compatriot Monte Scoso or Scalsil. But yeah, great display of sportsmanship afterwards. Like you could tell both guys were kind of, you know, kind of gave it their all. We were totally moved by 36 whole finals or suite. I think it's a, that's what the US Open should do.

Instead of an 18 hole playoff, it should be a 36 hole playoff. Match play situation. Match play, 36 holes. That'd be awesome. I mean, just, I mean, because like, come on Mike, come on. I know you're listening.

This guy, he was eight down after 18 holes. You know, just because like, come on, Mike, come on, I know you're listening. This guy, he was eight down after 18 holes, you know, fucking demoral. I can't go back out to be an eight down. And then he comes back and and like, you know, it sounded like it was a little bit of the other guy not playing well. And a lot of this guy just playing really, really solid golf. And and then it starts to build, it starts to build, it starts to build, it starts to build and then sure enough just to, you know, epic last two or three holes there. So, no, but it sounded like Naren,

Naren played awesome. They've done a lot of improvements and changes to the course and sounded like, you know, just showed really well for the course and that's a place I love. They appreciate their golf and their golf history there. So, cool for them to get a proper finish. How about this? We get an open championship next month. We haven't had one in two years. Like, I am so freaking excited. It's amazing how much more jacked up for a tournament you get having missed one the prior year. Like I feel like I've forgotten what watching Ling Skolf looks like. I haven't watched a Ling's golf tournament, and I don't even remember what the last time it was. And it's in a Link, a Linksy, Linksy, Linksy course too.

Like a Rubber the Green course. Orky, yeah. Yeah, that's gonna be a blast. But I kind of, yeah, kind of the opposite of a Tory, right? Or like I think we heard a single complain about anything from any of the players this week. Which is an issue, I agree. I'm not, I'm not an extremist like you and Randy are with like,

you know, it's gotta be pain, it's gotta be, you know, whatever you guys were saying about Wingfoot, I will not concede on, but like, there's gotta be a little bit of something that made players really uncomfortable this week. It was, especially if it's a golf course, they know really well, like, something's got a freaking look different.

I mean, they moved like, they moved on like maybe five of the holes they moved one T-box, a T-box one day. That's it. The rest they played. When they did that for the most part, those, those holes played cool. Yeah, like a variable of some kind. They moved 17 T to the left T today and look what happened. Like it ended up maybe affecting the golf tournament. So, yeah. So guys brutal scene over here. You lost power. So, uh, I was also guys brutal brutal scene over here. You lost about being a thunders, power flickered, why router went down, I'm streaming to my from my tethered to my phone right now.

Just, it's brutal. It's tough out here, man. It's tough. An effort. Uh, you're just, I totally disagree with what you guys were saying. Of course, yeah, you're just in time because I'm gonna request another apology from TC. Toto. Okay. One last thing on Torey. One last thing on Torey.

I do think that they, I thought the firmness and speed of the greens was good all week. I thought they, like they didn't have to pull back on anything and I know they had marine layer all weekend and it was kind of foggy and cloudy and all that. So I think that kind of, may have crowned them a little bit but that was my big issue last

year was just that they didn't like the course played so unevenly Thursday versus Friday and you can say that with wind and all that but at least this year like it played relatively consistently and I feel like the the challenge escalated each day you know pretty pretty progressively. the challenge escalated each day, pretty progressively. Now, as far as Toto goes, yes, like Toto did he shit his pants today, and did their engineers shit their pants today? Absolutely.

Is Botos a disgrace? Yes, absolutely. Both of those things can be true. Botos called a shot today. This is not on Botos. Don't give me any of that today. He's a malcontent. Was Louis on a one-stop strategy?

Many people are asking. Should Louis hit it? Yeah, Louis should have. Louis should have hit it. Got completely laughed by rum. God, like Harto F1 Twitter got in my ass this morning. Oh, is it called? Well, you came in with a very hot take.

Which was, yeah, but it was meant for like our golf, you know, our kind of casual effluent. Wasn't meant for a minute. But it was called on Twitter. Comes in and I'm at, I'm at, uh, I'm at Father's Day brunch. And all of a sudden I'm just, my phone's just melting. I got, I got a guy from hungry in my ass.

I got a guy, it just all sorts of of people just just climbing down my throat like I believe I believe what you said was Lewis Hamilton should have pitted it beat the shit out of Botos. Is that what you said that was among other things. Yeah Did you get did you get the F1 data boys in your mentioned I did they I did. They called me Lulu fanboys. And you know, all sorts of derogatory stuff. But I tried to unite everybody again and I just said, hey, like, listen, I know I have some bad F1 takes.

I'm new to the game. We've been watching two or three years. Like, I don't know what I don't know. But at the same time, I feel like we can all be united in the fact that the Ferrari was a complete fucking disgrace today. That's a distraction from Christian Horner just dancing your boy Toto today. Just, just, yeah, driving the strategy.

It was a great, great move. And it just needed to be, needed to be saluted. He couldn't wipe the smirk off his face after today. Listen, do you guys want to apologize for hating on Checo? Checo, Checo's literally on my team. He was my first big hit man. No one. Very much.

Max is on my team. No, buddy. What would you say about Checo, huh? What would you say about Checo? You guys were talking all sorts of shit about him when he was on racing point. Now, now we're talking about racing point. We all were down with check out. He's very clearly a very, very good racer. There's a reason that was being in the bottles because he's a malcontent and he's

always bitching about everything. But are you bitching about something if you're right? Like he told them we need to be the boy that it's like the boy who cried wolf. That was very funny. Like they were they never I never heard of a apologize to to Bo Tosser. Like, uh, because Lewis got mad on the on the horn as well. They're like, yep, this one, this one's on us.

Lewis and I was hoping they'd cut to like, the boat just be like, yeah, it was too, what the fuck off. Voucher, you man, just go race your damn car, all right? Just play better. Another good result for Pierre. Pierre's, here's a good place right now. My man, Yuki, my beautiful boy Yuki,

I'm a little bit concerned right now. Good reason to be concerned. It sounds like. T.C. But I'm late in doing this. But of course, a happy father's day to you. And. And I hope you had a wonderful day with the boys. I'm off to Atlanta tomorrow.

Had enough for the KPMG women's PGA this week. Stoked about that. Got a great pod coming out Tuesday with Tuesday night. With Stacy Lewis. One of my favorite LPGA pods I've ever done. If I may overhype it, she was just freaking fantastic, awesome perspective on hashtag perspective on on motherhood and the things to go into balancing the differences between what we're used, the storylines we're used to on the men's side versus the women's side.

I found the conversation riveting. So got a lot of good stuff in the hopper. Might have a video with myself and us open champion, John Rom. Maybe we'll roll, maybe we'll roll that out. Have you guys seen that video? Yeah, I should have sent it to you. We got that. I think I've seen that one.

We got that in the hopper. Got some more film rooms in the hopper. We've got we've got Maybe going on a little trip here to maybe capture some content next week We'll see man. We'll see lots of lots of good stuff the chefs the chefs are cooking right now It's amazing how much more content we can we can create when there's not a major championship going on Let's get these majors in the review. Yeah, Yeah. I'll be up in the Northeast this week playing some golf Wednesday Thursday. Out of by week. Yeah. I'll be on an island in Northeast playing some golf and then and yeah, out to Denver, A.R. wedding in Boston and then out to Denver

on Monday. We've got our BMW On Monday, we've got our BMW drive for the cup tournament out there at Lakewood a week from tomorrow or a week from Monday. Awesome. Well, boys, I think it's time to put another major championship week in the books. It was a fun one. Thanks everyone for tuning into the live shows all week. If you did so, thank you, everyone, for roasting my TV. I will be putting a new 60-inch on the company account just so I can stay focused during

the live shows. If you don't get a smaller TV for back there, then the comments are too far at your head. You should get a box TV, like one of the rare projections. Hell yeah. Really, really pissed people off. On it. Alright boys, have a wonderful evening and thanks everyone for tuning in we'll see you next time channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel channel Better than most. How about in? That is better than most.

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