No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 468: Tony Finau wins the Northern Trust!

Episode Date: August 24, 2021

The day has come! Tony Finau wins the Northern Trust, and Soly is here to collect on some debts. We chat about his one shot victory, get a surprise guest appearance, and the rest of the group tries their best to downplay his win at every turn. We also discuss Anna Nordqvist's win at the AIG Women's Open, Madelene Sagstrom's runner up (with a guest appearance from Madelene calling in! (58:15) ), the Playing Through debacle, Carnoustie, and so much more from a wild week in golf.  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. We're so proud of our boy. We're so proud of our boy, Tony Fienel. Nobody beats Vita's Caroline at 17 times in a row. Big Randy is here. Hello, big Randy. Oh my God, complete electric factory on 18 there.

What an atmosphere. Great to see Big Tone answer the bell. Silence the haters. Huge, huge environment comes up big. All credit to Big Tone. Let's get it, baby. And lastly, throw it over to DJ. Oh, it appears DJ Pie has chosen not to attend his own trial

and will not be here to issue what I'm sure will be multiple apologies when it comes to Tony Fina. But I'll just start to big-ranny to start. Do you have anything you want to say before we kind of get rolling? Well, first of all, DJ granted me full power of attorney. So I'm speaking on his behalf as well. Yeah, try as he might, you know,

big tone just could not lose that tournament today. He really tried on that back nine, huh? He got crowned on 15 with the drive. Yeah. I want everyone listening just to take, just see how many squirms you're gonna get. I just want to take note of all of them. It's just, like I didn't understand the level of sickness

that is running through the veins of these guys until today, honestly, which is shame on me. I should have learned this a long time ago, but what an approach on 18, right? What, oh my God, when you absolutely have to have it. What did he make? Made four. Okay, four.

He leaked in a pot. How about eight? What's it? Yeah, see, there it is. There's the next one. Wet soggy fan list Liberty National Limited Field. That's the limited field. If that is not putting a stamp on things, I don't know what is. I mean, yeah, of course you were saying the same at, you know, 64 in the final round at Riviera. Of course, I mean, I'm sure you can dog find a way to dog that tournament as well.

We just, listen, we've been over this ad nauseam. He is so unlucky. He finally got a couple bounces today, and he pulled it out in resounding fashion. You know what, he actually got today, Randy? He got a few big breaks. Ha, ha, ha. I mean, I'm just so happy for him.

What a guy. What, how many wins is this now for him? I just, I, I'm just so happy for him. What a guy. How many wins is this now for him? I just, I can't even count him yet. I can't, I have a god in all the way there, right? Of all of the, and I just, I wanted to, you know, kind of throw it out to you to take care of all of your apologies, because I will ask people to go back

and listen to the tapes. If you were gonna kind of weasel your way out of it at all, which I feel like you're kind of 50, 50 weasel in your way out of this one. Just to go back and listen to the tapes, send me minute marks if you need to, anybody that has some of these kind of bookmarked, I should have been doing it a long time ago,

but it's happened so many times I would have ran out of memory space. I would never try to weasel out of a take. This is, I mean, this is legendary stuff. I mean, how it, shit. How many times do people win on the PGA tour? It doesn't happen very often. Only what, like 50 times a year?

I mean, this is incredible. For Tony Fiena to win a PGA tour event. That is amazing. Randy, how many times do you think that Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas and one since the last time Tony Fiena were on the board? T.C. got thiseezy got this maybe four or five times right? Right, I feel like JT I mean he has a one much lately. I you know, I feel like DJ's kind of going into

hibernation. Seven or eight times higher more. I am so impressed with your guys strength. Just just the two of you to be able to lift goalposts like that and just move them seems like way too much. And carry them all the way across the field. More? More.

16. Way more. God, I'm sitting too far away from the mics, the switchboard to be able to mute you guys. 26. 26, Randy. 26. TC can't even get the fact, right?

It's 28. 28. This is what happens when you steal facts from other people. But before we get going any further we have. We saw a lot of John Rams, Cromsoff, ex golf ball today during the Northern Trust. We're going to talk about Ram here in a minute. We probably saw more of it. We saw a lot of other batch. We saw a lot of Madeline Sags from Cromsoff, ex golf ball on Sunday on our recent travels.

A bit more of that please, NBC. I have some qualms. I have didn't see enough of that. How do we get to that? What we saw felt like a lot more of them on NBC. I have some qualms. I didn't see enough of that. How the feeling will get to that. What we saw felt like a lot more of them on Torosau season seven journey, which is not out on video yet, but we'll be coming to YouTube channels, our YouTube channel this fall. It was not our imagination.

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this is historic stuff. This is, this is historic stuff we're talking about. This is giant, this is monumental stuff. Well, you've said, I just want you to be clear, Randa, you have specifically said that he won't win, right? Cause that's where I really turned on like as far as, you know, Randa's a really bad guy, was when you got to that point and said that he wouldn't win. So on this day, I didn't even know like how to add,

I'm trying to beg you to admit being wrong on this and you won't do it. Oh, uh, I believe I did say he will never win. Um, I guess on, on those strict lines, I, I will admit, I am wrong. I, I believe this is an official win. Again, let me, let me feel, I know, I'm strong. I know the words. I know the, I know the words. I know the two words. I know the two words you're looking for. I apologize. That's what you should be saying, because we made an apology bet on this. I thought the whole apology stuff was, I thought all that was predicated upon him winning

twice before the end of the day. We did, and I apologized for that because he didn't win twice before the end of the West Coast swing, and we've renewed that bet. I don't want to drag this out of you anymore than I already am, Randy. We've renewed the bet that he wouldn't win again in the next year. Okay. Listen. I'll say this. I am very, very sorry to you, Sully, first of all, to Tony, of course,

to all Tony's fans out there for even suggesting that he would never win again. It's totally reckless and wrong on my part. Performance is like this is just, God, it's just resounding. It gives me inspiration. It makes me want to be a better man. And so I thank Tony and I look forward to what will surely be many more wins on the horizon. I thought this would feel better than it does. But it just how was that

good? It was pretty much your I'm sorry if you're offended apology. That's what that felt like a little bit. Just reaping with with sarcasm and you think I can't sense that, but. So let's go back to the sixth hole. Okay. You've rinsed one or put one in the native on six. Take a penalty stroke there. Made a great five. Made a great five. Great five.

Maybe the best five. Yeah, unbelievable. Get something down from 88 yards out, basically, to make five. Then we get to eight. It's a decent drive, 307 left rough, 318 yards to the hole, lays up 160 yards in, and just absolute fans won

into the front right, green side bunker, short sides themselves, and then leaves one in the bunker. Oh my gosh. What were you thinking at that point? I mean, as a loyal Tony Acolyte. I was feeling how I normally feel that it just feels like everything is stacked against him and it's not gonna happen.

I didn't think it was gonna happen today. Listen, what in that moment was stacked against him to make him fan one into the bunker? And then on top of it, leave it in the bunker. This was a part of the day when the wind was howling a little bit. And a lot of stuff was going on in that golf course. It just didn't look, Ron was looked pretty invincible, has looked mostly invincible for this entire week.

He's the number one player in the world. Tony didn't look super tight on that front nine. So I'm thinking, yeah, you know what? He probably had maybe a 15% chance of winning this thing, going into today. And yes, the 85% is probably going to win out on this one, as it has almost every single time against almost all odds for Finault over the last four years, which has been my entire point.

And finally, one time, finally one time, it flipped. It fell on the other end, been waiting for a long, long, long time for the numbers to shake out for this guy. It was only a matter of time. Did you keep giving yourself that many opportunities? It was only a matter of time that he was going to win one. And here we go. He did it. And he's had great performances in the final round and fallen up a shot short.

He's had great performances in the final round, fallen up four shots short. He's had bad performances in the final round. But like, the numbers have shown as we've talked about many, many times that he plays better in round fours in contention and still hasn't been able to like round out these wins. That's how hard it is to win on PGA tour. I think some of that's fluffed by playing well after it gets out of contention and then gets back in. Yes.

I'm sure you have the numbers behind that because that would just that you only want to dig into the micro real when there's a story Being told baby. It's the eye test. It's just it's just like your rider cup captain's pigs I mean this guy's what top 25 allegedly in the world so hard to win on the PGA tour yet everybody around him Just keeps winning correct that's what's been really freaking weird and I've been trying to dig into the bottom of it forever And it's probably gonna start evening out And then what are you guys gonna say? What are you gonna say? Do you wanna triple down on this bed? Well, maybe after three, four, five more wins,

maybe we'll be even. Oh, I didn't know you would go. I'm sure you guys will come to the table. I'm sure you will. This is gonna take a couple more though. I thank you. This smells a lot more like the exception that proves the rule to me.

I'm just saying. You guys are truly better sick guys. Have some pride. I have a lot of pride if you can't tell. I put my life on a line with this guy. I'm Liberty National have some pride. It can't be a shot 60 out there. You're lauding him today, Ditty. For 65. Ditty today, did he bail 65 today? 67. Did he bail shoot 65 today? Guys, we're so over it, you know, the game is ready to leave.

You're going Noren shot 66. Okay, how do you finish the tournament? He was manipulating his way. Noren finished, finished strong. God, you guys are just... T4. You know what? You guys are playing snake on the calculator

where you just like have to keep moving the snake as long as possible, right? Just back, switch it back for, switch back and for, switch back and forth. That's what you guys look like. I don't think we're giving you, I don't think we're giving you the W on one female W here. That was literally the bet though.

Not between me, I wasn't a party to that. That's been on the... It seems, I feel like you're on a particular side of this as far as I was to guess. I'm definitely on a particular side, but you know, those are individual bets. Look at guys like speed and capca today. I mean, real, the guys who really know how to win. They had no interest in being there. Oh my God. Of course, Fienaul. Of course, Fienaul picks today to win. Let's just say. Listen, Rom absolutely gagged it today on the back nine.

That was very, very uncharacteristic. He might stink. I think that we need to talk about that. I mean, Rom plays his last four holes in two over par. Did not see that coming. Which really is kind of three over par when considering 16. Which by the way, can we just like, you know, $100 million budget, hundreds of thousands of tons of sand and a blank canvas

and that's what they came up with. That golf course. Are we done with the Fiena thing? I'm happy to discuss other topics. I just wanna make sure you guys have all of your excorming excuses laid out. Listen, we're so early in this thing. Yeah, what are you doing?

What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, I'm soaking up my moment, Randy, what do you think I'm doing? You know what, I've been waiting for this and I'll stressful today, what's for me? Do, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what your case. That's what's going on here. Oh, big tone is who we thought he was. Now, he sent Boyd Summer and Hayes out to the desert, bury the weapons. Well, now this just gets really awkward when Randy didn't want to take Fiena

for the Ryder Cup team because he doesn't win. Now, now what do we do? Oh, no. Oh, my God. You have, like, this is the whole thing. He puts together one good nine-hole stretch and now we're gonna be always a lot for the right Get out of here. Get out of here. He just know. Oh, he's got a great record He played well when the US were non competitive in France. I just know take it all away

Not on my team So you wouldn't want somebody that is playing well is a very good player by any statistical measure and Also a great course fit at Wistling Straits just to be clear that on those three things you're you're out on those three things I will push back on your second point. Yeah, I have statistics measures by which he is not a good player. Okay, stroke play wins Where he has to be to 100% of the field? Just like one big tournament ever in his life. How does this not count? It's like a strength to feel it of like 700 in this event. You don't call this a big win. There wasn't a whole lot of juice today. Guys checked out. Yeah,

total no juice situation. I will say he hit a great shot on 13. That was it right there. You get a great shot on 13. Solidier point. I point. I think he's a great course fit for Whistling Straits. I'm a European fan, so. I'm willing to do some horse trading with you though. I will give you Fina, but you have to renounce Kentlay and Burger. Why would I do that? Because you can't have too many fluffers on the team.

That's my main concern. We're just, we're just letting in all these guys that, you know, look good at guys. Yeah. Yeah. Just another guy guys that look good coming off the bus, but, but have never done it. They've never done it in a big spot. But like to burgers wins, not count. He's got four, he's got four wins.

That's twice as many as Tony Fina at your favorite stat, but, but, but, but no, no real important wins. That's my whole point. I mean, he won the Charles Schwab last year that everyone played. He's won the FedEx ain't you twice. I'm more a coward gave him that Charles Schwab, by the way, because he didn't give because he couldn't make sure the worst. Can't lay one of them a moral like 18 times. That's not good enough for you. I mean, Carl Pederson won the memorial.

Carl Bryan won the memorial for me. David Lingworth won the memorial. Can't lay as one of the memorial twice. He won the Zozo last year. That's within the last year. He's got two wins. He's like number one in the FedEx coming into this. You can't place as many wins as Tony Fiena. That's the last year. I's got two wins. He's like number one in the FedEx coming into this. He's twice as many wins as Tony Fienault.

I want to ask you an honest question. I want to ask you an honest question, Sally. Has Patrick Kalle ever been truly relevant in a major? Yeah, he got into the back nine lead after through the 15th hole at the Masters like two years ago, man. I know. When he going off like eight hours before the leaders, they were, everyone was on the back nine.

It was a real thing. He shot 64, like on Saturday and then another 64 on Sunday or something like that. Yeah, he's been relevant in a major. That's, I don't know. He had to, show me, has Tiger Woods ever been relevant in a major? Let's do this.

Has he ever been relevant in a major? Tiger. Yeah. Has Phil ever been relevant in a major? Yes, yes this. Has he ever been relevant in a major? Tiger. Yeah. Has Phil ever been relevant in a major? Yes. Yes. How have they done in the Ryder Cup? How has that worked out for us?

Why is that a prerequisite to be a good Ryder Cup player? Well, those guys, that's who I want to watch. That's who the golf fan wants to watch. Okay, so now we're talking about a different thing then. It's a spectacle. It's an event. I don't want, you know, I don't want guys that they're not important. They're not, give me the big names. Give me the juice.

It's an exhibition. How much juice did Phil bring in 2018 to France when he conceded his last match for the T-box? I was sick. I want that. I want that. Phil is such a better pick than all these guys. But it feels about the terrible pick in a showman. Exactly. Which I love. Exactly. And do you see where I'm at though? It feel is somehow pick, which I can't even complete that sentence. It feels a pick than what I love about this event is gone. At some point, who gives a shit? It's an exhibition. Like it's fun to watch.

The US sucks. And the world goes on. Like nothing in my life is going to change if the US beats team Europe. But I will take more joy out of those three days of Michelson's a part of it. And so that's the only reason why I care. And I'm sorry, but can't lay burger, fenal, even I love hair in English,

but they just don't move the needle at all for me. If you're ruined for the TV execs and the TV ratings, then I'm happy for you if that makes you happy. But I know Randy loves the TV. I know he does. I know you want to see as many commercials as possible and you want to see those guys get ratings and get those big bonuses this year.

If that's what you're rooting for, then I think we might just be on every wavelengths here. No, no, I'm trying to bring more people into the game. I'm trying to go. Oh my God. And you're trying to keep it closed off and unapproachable. And I hate Whistley's trades because it's a public course.

That's the thing too. It's a little community. Oh my God. Oh, we see her. Oh my God, he's a rock. We eat a rival. DJ Pies in the house unannounced. Wow.

You got to turn a mic on. I don't know which bike that is. Guys, I just want to say a couple things. unannounced. This is awesome. You gotta turn a bike on. I don't know which bike that is. Guys, I just wanna say a couple things. Oh my God. Oh my God. I was out from my nightly bike ride. This is truly on-playin'.

This is weird, not necessarily. You're holding the line here, do you have any help? I was out from my nightly bike ride. You can hear me out of breath. I saw the red light was on. I just wanted to come by. I don't want any kind of narrative to start.

I'm not looking to avoid anything. I'm here to face the music. Sully, I'm here. Take my blood. Okay. I'll give you the first word. I'll give you the first word. No music to face. We already detonated. No, listen, these things only work if you face at least a little bit, which is big-tone, potted, great. You played a great back nine. We can't take that away from them. You're gonna, oh, they tried before you got here. Let me catch my breath. Did you see his shot into six?

Was it a crowning? What do you have a way to play off if he didn't leave one in the bunker? That didn't make any sense. What are you talking about? I mean, did he try to lose the tournament? If you take every player's worst shot of the tournament, if they didn't do that, then yes, the tournament would probably turn out differently. Is that, is that's not how golf works?

It's just, you know, what, what do you have to say? I believe I've made my peace. I wanted to first actually congratulate, Sully, for I think the big winner tonight. Thank you. And these things, I want to say, you know, I think next up on Big Tone's big board is Scott Stallings with three wins. Let's see if he can get to Scott Stallings. I think that would be astronomical.

And then of course, I think stretch goals mark Wilson at five. You know, let's see if he can get to Scott's doling. I think that would be astronomical. And then of course, I think a stretch goal is Mark Wilson at five. You know, let's see if he can get there. Let's not carry, you know, let's not get carried away. Let's see how bad you guys want to double down this. What kind of stakes can we put on

Tony Fiena reaching five career wins? Well, I think where all this comes back to you for me is like, it's hard to get excited about five when it should be 15, right? Isn't that what started this whole thing? That's what's solid.

You know what, the numbers are starting that the luck's starting to flip around, baby. We're moving this big sudden. Big Titanic around. All of a sudden, here we go. It was, you know what, it was fun to watch and here's my parting thoughts. I'll let you guys get back to it is,

you know, without whatever this is, today I truly would not have turned on the TV. There's one thing that was going to get me tune into that fun around. And it was like, can Finau Winner is he going to blow it? That's all I got. I kind of did both. I can't really do it. Enjoy the rest of the pot.

I just want to say congratulations. What a fun afternoon. So big of you to come by. And I can't wait to watch next week. Anything else? Are you sure you want to say congratulations. What a fun afternoon. So big of you to come by. And I can't wait to watch next week. Anything else? Are you sure you want to cover off on? And I hope you guys have a great trip to Baltimore. But you did it really fun.

Randy, did it. Did you apologize? Come on, Randy. Well, I'm a stand up. My word is oak. But for what? I never said he wins. We did another year's bet.

We did? Yeah, that's how I apologize. This is after you said he was gonna win three times. Is that what you said? No, God, you guys see, look at me. I asked the listeners to count how many times. It's more double or double or double. Exactly. I, we extended it to the West Coast and he was gonna win twice,

turns out he just missed out on that. I apologize, we did another year. You said he wouldn't win. Well, okay. You finally proved all the haters wrong after two and a half years. As we said, shout out to Justin right, nobody beats our guy 143 times in a row. Good night, gentlemen. Thank you for having me.

So do you apologize? He's leaving like, what's going to work in? What a scumbag. What a scumbag. I love it. I love it. That was truly unplanned. All right, I think I got first feet. Do you want to talk about Ron? What a scumbag. I love it. I love it. That was truly unplanned. Uh, all right.

I think I got a few. You know, do you want to talk about, Ron? Do you want to tell me how the number one player in the world stinks, Randy? Yeah, total shocking lack of ability to close a golf tournament today. Oh my God. On 15, 15 was rough. Uh, it was kind of like, he, all of his momentum just went out the window when it went in that bunker on 15 and You know, of course the commentators said for the

97th time today they they lauded the Superintendent the entire crown staff for making a playable which listen credit to them great job making a playable nine inches of rain is insane But you know out of that bunker and then really, I think, you know, Ram basically blading that chip on 16 was like, whoa, that's gonna be tough to settle yourself after. That's what, as somebody rooting for Fina, it was just kind of like, oh, well, there's a million things that could go wrong here.

Like in very little chance that it all flips this way and it actually somehow for once did. But Ram's having like truly one of the best single seasons since our single years, since 2014, DJs in 18 was the only one that covers him off from a Strokes game perspective. And he's gotten so little out of it that this tournament definitely seemed like he should have won this one.

Memorial, I mean, for very obvious reasons, didn't end up winning that one, but seemed like he should have won that one. He, I mean, for very obvious reasons, didn't end up winning that one, but seemed like he should have won that one. He kind of has a little phenoing going on right now of like, dude, how are you not scraping out more wins out of such amazing golf? Can I restate my hypothesis? I think he might stink a little bit. I do not think that I should have done that.

I don't have a problem stinks at all. I really do not have a problem reply that. He hit three. He hit, I can't muster the same energy. He hit two bad drives at the wrong time today on 17 and 18. I think he just, you know what, maybe he needs more perspective. Maybe that's like that's the thing that kills me about Tony too. He has so many kids and he should have so much perspective. It was sick.

He was signing something for Ram's baby, as we're waiting for Ram to finish up, probably chatting up Kelly, like, oh, oh, one child, huh, that seems pretty tough. Ask me how many I've got. Now, can I give you Ram's last year since the BMW that he won? Six with a flunnel pin.

And can we go back to that, which is really quick? Funnel pin at the BMW. The memorial last year, no fans, of course, tried to give it away. Final round 75, just the field refused to take it. When's that maybe the crappiest US open venue there? I would say he won that pretty resoundingly though. It's damning. It's absolutely damning. Sorry, go ahead. You're a pure moron. Not even I can get down six. That the sixth actually at the tour championship last year, 72 whole score, T 23 at the US Open, then T 17, T 2, T

17, T 17, T 17, T 13, T 5, T 32, T 9, T 5, T 5, Missed cut, T 34, T 8 withdrawal memorial when US Open, seventh at Aberdeen T3 at the Open Championship. That's been his last year of golf. Rob's last 20 major starts. This is at propo of nothing. But his last 20 major starts, or sorry, 19 major starts. No, sorry, 15 major starts.

How many things, how many top 10s do you think he's got? Eight, seven, nine. Yeah. Oh my gosh.'s got? Eight, nine. Yeah. Oh my gosh. He's a dog, Randy. He's a buoy. Like you can't say, he's never gonna get too far down

leaderboard. You give him like a 72 whole tournament. Like the chances of him just like dropping off the face of the earth are so small. He's super tough. He's got a lot of perspective. And yeah, I'm not discount. Ram is, he's a, well, he could,

this is a transition year for him into Calaway equipment too. I mean, of course, they're our sponsor, but like, there were a lot of people that were saying, you know, kind of critiquing that decision a little bit and, you know, we were trying to preach a little bit of patience with like, almost every top player going through and equipment change has some adjusting to do. He's playing the best golfers career.

I was just shocked that he hit those drives on 17, 18 when he, like, he looked freaking automatic. He looked flustered at that point though. The beginning of like, you know, I got the one that he hit on 13, sending. Darks. Yeah. Yeah. And just freaking hard to, at the border, he said, he let the term for four and a half days and somehow didn't win the 72 whole event. Cam, man. Cam. Cam. What do you mean?

Bad drive. He ran him down though. Like he had to make in that double. Shut 60, 67 on the pseudo weekend. So he gets credit for taking Liberty D, but no one, no, the guy that wins the tournament does not. Shut 60 on Saturday. I mean, that's pretty good.

I was okay. Yeah, it was soft though. You know, you gotta think about that. He was probably like more like a 60-year-old. Limited field of that. Yeah, of course. But again, I go back, but I go back to number five today. You know, I have to.

We're gonna insist it. You shot 31 on the back nine today. You know, one shot worse than in big tone. You know, he just he just doesn't quite have the firepower of a big tone. I think that's I think that's fair to say. Double five, you know, I think he got lucky to double five to that ball, staying up on the rocks. After he had some weird shots today.

He was he was fortunate to shoot what he did. And then the T shot in the playoff, man, it's a little harsh that that's OB down the right side, but no, you're not supposed to be over there if you're in a playoff. But even if it wasn't OB, he's still dropping like 200 yards back. Yeah.

Yeah, Tom Hogi got a lot of run today. I wasn't expecting that much Tom Hogi coverage. Ben Royan just seems very, very unruitable in big stocks. Yeah, way too much coverage of EVR for my liking. You know, like a little, you know, Seth that he did, you know, on his off day playing the guitar, and it's how tell room? No, I actually would like that more. I would rather watch him sing and play guitar more than watch him play golf.

He's turned me off ever since that PGA T-Marker smashing incident. Just see that was awesome. He's like a whole lot of fun on the golf course. And then he be tripped at the camera today. And he's always just, he's just talking about stuff. And I say this is somebody who, you know, I'm a huge Monty fan

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We gotta relitigate that again. I know. Well, I got a question. They showed the FedEx standing at the end of the tournament. And how is it possible for a guy that we've just said, which I don't mean to relitigate this, but a guy like Fina who hasn't won in close to 2,000 days, how can he be winning this season long points championship now?

Because he won a playoff event. He got a lot of points for winning the playoffs. It's the most important tournament in the year, Randy. I hate that. It's the season of championships. I don't even know if that's what they still call it. I mean, it's not like he's had a bad season. He finished, he said a bad last three or four months, right? But he, I mean,

he finished fourth at the AMX, T2 at Tori for the farmers, solo second obviously for Riviera, T8 at the PGA, T10 at the Masters. That's a lot of points coming into the playoffs. You get like 2000 for a playoff win. So if you're like within shouting distance at the top, whatever, and you win the first playoff event, you should go number one, which I guess that's my problem is I, they need to be reconfigured. I don't like it. But then why would you got to have some volatility in the playoffs or this thing is especially

silly, right? I mean, what's the point of, you know, calling anything? It shouldn't be called the playoffs to begin with, but you got it like just we're in the postseason now or whatever. There's got to be some shit moving around, right? I mean, otherwise, there's not much juice in this as it is. And if they, you can't move around in it, then well, how much juices are gonna be?

I don't know. I mean, you'd take it all away for all I'm concerned. Right, they do the Comcast business top 10, whatever to the top 10, you know, at the end of the regular season, like you get a bonus payout. No, nobody shows up for the window. Nobody shows up, but you get the big cash payout for that.

And so thrown in the play. I mean, it could, it's going to reshuffle again the next week. Like that's just where it is currently. It's still all you got to get hot at the right time, which I think is, it's crazy to me that they're make rib didn't show up really this week. This is, this is what he normally does, right? How many points is, is it playoff win worth? I think like 2000s, I don't, I think they've reset. I think the majors, they need to bump up how many points you win at a major then would

be my, my most immediate tweak. I think a major should be on par with a playoff win, right? Because those are those are the biggest events of the year. Right, but then that makes the playoffs less valuable. Like it makes the playoffs less less playoffie, right? If you have more points earned, because they want to avoid that scenario where like Tiger way back in the day, and I think they have it set up differently now where they kind of, I honestly can't keep track of the points. But Tiger back in the day or VJ back in the day, skipped an event because he had such a big, like didn't even have to show up for the torch

championship or something to win. And they're trying to avoid that where it's like, didn't even have to show up for the torch championship or something to win. And they're trying to avoid that where it's like, you can't mathematically can't do that anymore. Number one, like winner in a playoff event. So these first two events, winner gets 2,000 FedEx Cup points. Second place gets 1200. Third place gets 760.

Fourth place gets 540. So there it so on. So points wise, they're saying a runner up in a playoff event is equal to a major championship more than that. At 600 points for a play out or a major championship win during the regular season, which totally makes sense. I mean, I'm going to remember who on the Northern Trust for for decades. I will for sure. You guys built two because I will be reminding you of this one. When you say like that, Sean, I guess you're right. I will for sure. And you guys will too, because I will be reminding you of this one. When you say like that, Sean, I guess you're right.

I revoke my suggestion. And you know what, Randy, I mean, I think the biggest thing today was it, nothing speaks huge event like having to go to the antenna on my TV to watch it. The local affiliate here in Pontavidra at Jack speech, didn't even pick it up. They played Dr. Phil instead. What do you think, God, what do you think, what do you think was being said inside two or HQ, inside the moat?

Oh, I'm sure they were feverishly calling the, calling the affiliate here. This is one scenario though, where I don't get super mad about like a Monday finish, like it has to be so freaking hard to get, I don't get super mad about like a Monday finish, like it has to be so freaking hard to get. I don't know how the golf channel doesn't cover it. That'd be my beef, right? I mean, I know they have replays that they have to do for.

Touchbacks, man. I'm sure it's contracts and everything. There's so many contracts. But maybe just one, you know, maybe the NBC slash golf channel shouldn't have every single contract. I'm sure that's probably why CBS, you know, CBS is last day, right of their season. So See and CBS I thought the commercial load obviously was later today I think seller Shies done a really really good job of freshening that broadcast up and I'd like to give him credit

I would like to as well see be at you know a lot of people give us a lot of shit for our feedback from TV But like CBS directly and indirectly replied to it. We've had conversations with CBS, we've talked to them about some of the issues we've had. They have shown a keen interest to improve on certain things. Do I think they're all the way there? Of course not, are we naturally gonna have very, very big differences of what we think golf coverage should be

and what it actually is? Do we recognize the difficulty of golf coverage, all that yes? But changing their executive producer this year, bringing in a whole new look to it, a whole new, a pretty new style of presenting the product as well. A lot more conversational, can I do with a lot, you know, without a lot of the conversation share? Sure, but it's not as still sucks. Horrible.

He's the absolute worst. But all that to say, credit to them for taking feedback and doing something with it and being the better television products to this date, which is a huge upset. I was skeptical of them coming into this year, they were talking a big game about improving and listen, are there still some major issues, of course, but they improved a lot in our hands down

the better television presenting product. And that, it's easy to forget how bad it was. Totally, they controlled the controllables. They changed the controllables. Today is an example of what it can look like when it's not overloaded with Schlock. Now, I will say, did they even make an effort today to cover the top 70 bubble, which is a part of the playoff system? I'm sure the Tor would like them to cover more?

No, not really. It was kind of put on a plate of the, you know, playoff system, I'm sure the tour would like them to cover more? No, not really. It was, it was kind of, it was kind of put on a plate of like, hey, you know, Keith Mitchell just birdied two in a row to get inside and all that. They missed it was actually three at a row. Three at a row. Oh, sorry about that. Yeah, but I mean, it just kind of goes to show you like, you know, this should so overload it already that like we, we just can't effectively tell that story too. Yeah. we just can't effectively tell that story too. Yeah. But yeah, seller shy, good work. A fan, you know, and now it's time for,

when we're gonna get it into some MBSC stuff when it comes to AIG women's open, but they're gonna cover a lot of the events going into the fall, so it's not a hard reset for them right now, but it's time for them to seriously, seriously reconsider how they present their television product because they took, they took steps backwards when everyone else during a challenging COVID time periods took step forwards.

So drones today were awesome. The, you know, no fans out there. They could do a lot more with the drones too. So yeah, I don't know. Good stuff. Let's clean it up on the men's side before we get to the AG women's open, which we are planning to lead with today, but it just turns out that big tone had other plans in store for. Tony is the needle. True black swan event. I know. Yeah, it just had to change course.

A quick rider cup check in. We've done a lot of rider cup talk already today. Of course, presented by our friends at BMW, a global partner of the rider cup and a partner of ours. Randy, I believe you saved your fill case. I hope that wasn't your entire case that you're going to rest on, but I'll let that slide. Is anyone going to ride for kids? Every time I tweet about it, people seem to have a foregone conclusion that he's going to be on this team, and I'm just wondering if we even need to entertain that conversation. Have you seen his, I mean, I'm not a you know, I just want to watch the best players, but like I legitimately just don't like, he's setting himself.

Right. He can't compete on like 70% of the courses on tour. Like, this is one of those courses, I think, right? Yeah, absolutely. And like, I just don't, my whole thing has just been like, I don't know why you pick it, you cherry pick one week's event as that is what's going to tell the story for what's going to happen on a completely different style golf course.

I didn't, you know, this week should not decide whether or not he, whether he should or shouldn't be on the team. And the same way that last week should not have and that his numbers don't even like really come close to entering the conversation and it's a bad course fit. Everything I said last week, I will triple down on, like it just doesn't make sense in this time period where American Golf Talent is probably as deep as it has been. And there's a whole lot of other guys that fit the profile. I know he's saying all the right things in interviews and you know, talking about how he talks about, you know, the team should approach the play

and all that stuff, but like, it just doesn't add up. And I'm sorry. And do I think that there was a time when he would have made sense, like 2018 on a tight golf course, a short golf course that our guys had trouble finding the fairways on and that playing style, his playing style would have fit. Yes, that's a good conversation to have.

Like somebody that changes up the team atmosphere, yes, that's a good conversation to have. But I think we're also forgetting how easy the US steamrolled everyone in 2016 at Hazel team when they set it up, probably pretty similar than what they're going to do at Whistling Straits. When they had a huge talent gap and they've made it, and put the pins in easy spots in the US route of them, and they're gonna try to do the same thing this time around and I just don't think his fits in that plan. So.

I mean, I think if you're gonna pick kids, you gotta pick like, web Simpson, right? Just because you're abolishing distance. Yeah, I think web Simpson's still better picked than him. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's okay. You know, instead of picking kids, you say you pick web. Yeah, oh yeah. Like, I don't dislike, like, I think he's, you know, I think he Right, we're not talking about a dude that is like a savant with eye. I heard people like, oh, yeah, speeds just a total bomber. I guess you should put him on the team too. It's like, speeds are one of the best iron players in the world. Like, his is just like very average at hitting the ball.

That's just a fact. Like, I just don't... For by world class. Yes, just a fact. I'm not going to get torn up. I'm not going to get torn up. I'm not going to get torn up about it. Right, we're not talking about a dude that is like a savant with eye.

I heard people like, oh, yeah, speeds just a total bomber. I guess you should put him on the team too. It's like, speeds are one of the best iron players in the world. Like, his is just like very average at hitting the ball. That's just a fact. Like I just don't for by world class. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Of course. Like by professional golf standards, but what he does have going for him is at least he's, you know, but he's a dog in match play. He's better than average, unlike Phil. But yeah. Anyways, we can we can. He's a dog in match play. I don't want to take that away from him. Sometimes you can't quantify that

stuff, but also like sometimes the stack like like the deck is pre-stacked against you in uncertain courses. Yes. So, Bryson's entering the long drive contest. The day after the rider cup, which begins on the Monday after the rider cup. I don't know. Like, do we have to talk about Bryson? It just puts me in such a bad mood. Like, do we have to talk about Bryson? It just puts me in such a bad mood. I think it's at least worth addressing. He also didn't address the media this week. Continue, Rainy.

No, I don't know. I can't get myself to work up over that. You know, I'm sure he's being paid or you know, some sponsor relationship has him going to the world long drive. Do they drive test in the world long drive? I can't imagine that they do. They should.

The ship, but they also show in the PGA tour and they don't. I don't really think it's going to take away from anything he does at the Ryder Cup. Do you? I think it's either goes two ways. He either goes and shows up at this event and hits that equipment for the, you know, a different equipment, a 48 inch driver and whatever they use, like one degree drivers and that equipment for the, you know, a different equipment, a 48 inch driver and whatever they use, like one degree drivers and stuff on that with, you know, playing it,

he has built his swing to hit them all really far, but how that fits into PGA tour golf courses and professional golf is how he's built it. And so he's either gonna show up and totally kind of winging at that event or he's gonna be training somewhat for that in this month leading up to the Ryder Cup or the week of

the rider cup. I mean, you know, you try to, I can't imagine you take an entire week off from that and then try to show up at the long drive. It seems like an unnecessary variable thrown in that I'm sure he has some explanation for, you know, how one effect is performance, but I don't feel like it, it won't be a positive. I don't think there's any way it's a positive for the US. Do you think he cares about the rider cup? No, that's my point. Yeah.

I was just going to say that. I think I'm not sure it cares more about the writer cup than you do. So I say that like a mean way, but you know, I just don't know if it matters that much at the end of the day. I you're probably right. And you know, the elephant in the room when it's come to the US has been like how their top players have performed in the writer cups it's come to the US has been like how their top players have performed in the Ryder cups that they've lost, right?

It's not always been about the captain's picks or the 11th or 12th guy or the last guy on the team and how they've performed. It's like, Hey, Dustin Johnson, like a need some points out of you and you're not giving it to me. And that's why we've lost a lot of Ryder cups. Tiger was O and four, Bryson was O and three, Phil was O and two, Brooks kept good and play well in France. Like that, I just, we are, it's kind of almost like assumed that these top guys are going

to play well and I'm not willing to reach that assumption. I do not, I don't trust DJ in the Ryder Cup. Like I just don't. Like you just, trust DJ in anything. That's true. That's all pull your DJs. Yeah. It's on or off the course.

I think DJ Paul said it best. So you do, it's a dog and one that you do not trust. I had a friend slash listener send me this and I think it speaks this a little bit. He says, I love Sally's passion for the Ryder Cup. But it's all about like equitably rewarding the guys who are most deserving by whatever slim margins may exist.

Does that my theory or?'re, you're not. Like, you're like, it's like this guy needs to be on because he's better in strokes game than this. No, no, I disagree with that, because I think it is all about who you, like who you think is set up to play the best golf in that, in that environment, on that golf course as possible, right?

And I would generally tend to give me, give me the guys that give me the best golf in that environment on that golf course as possible, right? And I would generally tend to give me give me the guys that give me the best math, mathematical chance of doing it. Otherwise, you're hoping for luck, right? Either you give yourself the best chance with the best players and the best course fit or you're hoping for some luck. Like, feel very well, Mego, for no in the Ryder Cup, but you are hoping for a lot of luck in that route, right? But at some point, I think what I think is getting lost there, though, is like match play is a different beast.

It is. Certain ways. And like some of those advantages there could end up being a quarter of a shot, a half a shot. Not at all. Maybe that half shot is on a hole that your partner blows it out of bounds and you're not. It's more timely, right? You have to be timely in the run. Totally, where I think there's so much more subjectivity

to it too, where I want to look a guy in the eye and say, all right, do I want you on the squad? And honestly, some of the qualifiers, I would look and be like, I really don't trust you to go out and play your best golf when this is riding home. Name names please. Dustin Johnson, I just did. Like the guy just, you would leave him home.

If it was 12 captains picks, would you leave him at home? I probably wouldn't have the balls to do that, but I wouldn't have confidence. Because there's just no one that's screaming, there's just not that guy out there that's screaming at me. Like I really think this guy's gonna go ball out

at the rider cup. And if there was, I'd be all in on it, but now I'm just kinda like, give me the best talent. I'm counting on you guys to figure out the math and the science behind who would pair well with who and give the guys some time to figure that out. That's the thing the US captain's have not done

is like give guys time to figure out and give them a plan of what they're gonna do. We always get there and we wing it. And it's such bold, like here in 100 Mayhem talk about like Tom Watson saying like, hey, you're gonna go play with Jim Furek. He's like, yo, what? Like I had no idea that was gonna happen.

And how hard that is to do with different golf balls. Like there's just gotta be a plan. And they've gotta set these guys up to play great golf and they are horrible, horrible at doing that because they take the quarter approach of taking all these options, blending them together in one bad option. I think at some point too, though,

you gotta give the, like, it just feels like you're, you gotta give the captain a little bit more wherewithal and subjectivity to put his own stamp on the team, right? And I'm not saying, if that means picking Phil, no, but I'm with you in, like, if you give me like a good read, like, if you give me the exact good reason

as to like, hey, this guy's gonna pair well with his gun. I'm saying, like, shefffflers on the team, right? Versus somebody that like, that may rank a little bit higher than him or something like that. All that, that's all I'm saying. Yeah, oh, I'm with you there. If you, I just don't trust them to like, piece it all together to say, you know,

take the Paul McGinley approach of like, hey, Victor Dubeson, hey, Grammack Dow, you're one of the best players on our team, but you are gonna play these two matches with this guy. I need you to babysit and guide Victor Duboisone around. And like, you're standing as a player, says that it should be more than that, but this is your role and they need you to do this role for me and do that

months in advance. Does that sound like anything that's happening on the American side? That's where Americans, like, they're making roster cuts. And they've totally forgotten about special teams, right? Where like your second, your third stringers, they better be able to play special teams. And some of these guys have never played special teams in their life. I feel like it's a lot of ego pleasing going on

on the US side and the European side. It's just like, I'll do whatever I can to help my team. And that's where I think, that's where I'm just like, I don't think they're gonna check the box on that, so give me the best talent. And then you almost can't screw it up. That's my thing. Yeah.

Anything else? I wanna talk about Soulheim Cup in a little bit. Oh, we're gonna get there. Let's start with the A.I.G women's open. Again, was planning to have this lead the show, but Mr. Fiena had other plans. Anna Nordquist wins, it's her first win since the 2017 Aveon. She played the fame finishing four holes

at Carnegie Even par. She shoots a 369 to win by one at 1200. Get her third major title, third European women to win three more majors following Anika Swanson and Laura Davies. What? James Lord Davis. Hi, Paul. Thank you. Randy, what is your insight? What is your take on Anna Nordquist? What do you feel when you watch Anna? St Sink of the Women's Game. Just, you know, big build. Seems like she should play a power game. It's more just kind of plotting around. I don't know if she does anything truly flashy.

She can't chip, which is kind of funny. She's a dead eye, though, putting off the green. It's, I don't know. I've watched her play. It's shocking that she's won three majors in a way and that she just has a bit of a quiet game about her. But obviously it was good enough this week and it's been good enough in the past.

But I think she's just very solid and very steady. And we saw her play 36. That's converted a few times. We saw her play 36 at Game Bridge when she was paired with Madeline. And I walked off the golf course. I've been, I was, I was filming shots coming in. So I was separated from you guys. I came off the golf course and said, I believe my quote was Anorquo should be in jail

because she hits the ball so freaking solid and hit just had some of the worst efforts on 15 foot putts. Like it was like the, the, the quintessential bad Rory putting round of like how can you hit it this good and not get anything to go. She was just an absolute nail on the tee. She never sees a ball, even Apex. She was one of the most accurate drivers

the ball I've ever seen and just so saw with her irons playing like the quintessential smart shot into every green and just not converting any of the birdies. And it was maddening to watch, but I left just like watching, leaving like, how does she not win more? Like how is she not like the number one player in the world kind of? Like I didn't even have to watch

your hitter tee shots this way. Oh, it's just miss. Exactly. Where they were going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, her game's just very quiet. And I'll say this, I, you know,

I think this is where not having as build out stats on the women's side. Really leaves us like, it's just opened like narratives, right? It's hard to contextualize why she doesn't win more because we don't have the same amount of stats that we do on the men's side. So it's, I can't really tell you, I can't pinpoint to one thing in her game,

but yeah, it's obviously she's got some short game issues, but she was solid this week. I mean, credit to her 65 on Saturday, super solid, 69 on Sunday. It was, it was a hell of a weekend. Links golf course would make a lot of sense for her though. You know, you can put from almost anywhere if you're missing links. Flatter greens. Yeah.

She had a couple bad. I mean, I had pots this week. Like she was in the mix, you know, all weekend and really in a pretty good place, you know, they're starting Friday. And I mean, you sent a couple through, you're like, like, like, look at this pot. It was not even like in the freaking neighborhood.

Like, leave an eight footers, like a foot and a half short and she went on to win the turn. Like, that's how good her ball striking is though. It's insane. She's, I, my, I think she's Hadecki. She's the female version of a worst chipping version of Hadecki. Yeah, her party numbers would probably check out pretty well this week, but she hits it almost every week, it seems like.

We just don't hear the name enough because she doesn't put it good enough. I think she's got some KJ Choi in her where she she's just really, really solid with like woods off the tees, long irons, kind of streaky with the putter, but just always like always in the mix with the irons, right? I don't know. And then yeah, I just think like it was such a fun leaderboard to watch. I was a great golf tournament. And there were so many people in the mix, like, you know, they're really from Saturday, you know, Saturday afternoon onwards. I thought the conditions sucked for lack of a bad word. I'm with you there. We did not get to open conditions, which is a shame, especially on that golf course. And, you know, I thought, I mean, the course played

even after all that rain on Saturday, it still played relatively firm tea to course. And, you know, I thought, I mean, the course played, even after all that rain on Saturday, it still played relatively firm T to green. And then the greens were just soft. On Sunday, but I thought there were some good pin locations. Like, the whole location on one, I thought was awesome. That's such a fun opening hole there. Carnus is sweet. It is. It's such a good tournament golf course.

It really is a great tournament golf course. They did, like watching the 14th whole all week was so much fun. Honestly, it took me until like Sunday before I realized, I knew the spectacle bunkers, but the fact that the spectacles make it blind. Like that was lost on me for all of it. It was like, glowy brain, like, oh shit, that's incredible. I just always think of like great Gatsby. It's like the watching eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckelberg there.

And then that leads over to the final those final four holes, which we've seen so many major championships come through that stretch and seen heartache and we've seen great shots. Patrick Harrington comes to mind and Sergio missing the plot. Of course, John Van Develle. We have Tiger trying to run down for Inchesco, Moanari. It's just, it's just, you know, Nana Kurtz-Matzin hits it in the bunker there on 18. I think in a Craig Perry hole in the bunker shot

right before Jean Van Develle. Like, venues really matter in pro golf and having that layer of all those men's championships. We've kind of highlighted a lot of the golf courses the women are scheduled to play in major championships over the next several years that we've seen a lot of men's championships on. And it really does, like we've said this a lot of men's championships on. And it really does.

Like, we've said this a lot of times, like the more the women can draft off the men's game, the better for everyone. It's an easier thing to get a casual fan to tune into the golf when they know the golf course. I think that's enormous. And I salute AIG and all they've done to help the purse growth of that event and R&A for getting involved in hosting the event. I think since 2014 for a long time, they didn't even run the event.

And the future venues for this, for this straight up tournament, oh my God, it's fire. Mirrorfield next year, Walden Heath, the old course, and then Royal Porth call. Like that variety, Heathland course mixed in there. Mirrorfield didn't allow women members as of four years ago, and now they're hosting an AIG Women's Open,

and then the old course speaks for it. I mean, old course would be more fascinating to watch the women play that than it will be the men. I mean, the shots required for them will be so much different. And then, Porth Call is weird and quirky and funky and whales is just awesome. I don't wanna say uncharted.

It's uncharted in my mind, because I haven't been there. That has me super excited. I just, like, it's crazy how much different Carnus D played this year versus the last time we saw the tournament there when it was just the best summer ever. Yeah, that's true, but, um, yeah, I don't know. I just can't, I can't stop thinking about the T-shot on the par 3 16, which is like one of the hardest

par 3s in the world that Madeline hit in to 16 there in the final round. Which we haven't mentioned, yes, our young hitter, T2 finish for Madeline's Sackstrom. We were all quite glued in. I know. And I thought you were here to say your approach on 17. Yeah, yeah.

The best hybrid I've ever seen. Yeah. We'll get to hear her in a second. I actually caught up with Madeline for about 10 minutes today, just kind of downloaded on her. Incredible, exciting weekend. She shares some insights from the week.

But, you know, I think we both kind of walked away. All of us kind of walked away from the Wild World of Golf. We did last year and filming her at Game Bridge of like, hey, like this is like one of the greatest golf swings in the world of anyone. And you hit it so incredibly well. Like, hey, why is, this isn't quite adding up just yet and kind of been wondering that for the last couple months

and I think internally she's wondered that as well and we got to see it on full display of like what kind of a ball striking, like just force she can be. And now she's doing aim point on her putting and how much that has helped her. Like, this is, it really feels like Saxom's turning a corner

and I mean, she just was one shot out of like, being in a playoff in a major change. I loved it when she missed a putt. I think it was on the front nine. She missed a putt and then she immediately, like, went to look, like, to read it and basically make up her mind. All right, did I misread that?

Let me see what I missed there and then filed that away and went and made the next putt. But it was such a, you could tell she was so wrapped up in her process and her procedure for reading the putt versus the result of the putt. I think, and this is what again, where I would love like a shots gained statistic on the women's side because it seems like she's a pretty good putter.

I know, you know, from the Game Bridge week, she talked about like, she puts the ball online. She's very confident. She got a great stroke. Yeah, she will put the ball on her line now, whether it's the correct line or not, it's a different story. And I almost think like in a weird way, she hits it so well that I think it goes her into areas where like, she's going for a par five and two or she almost takes more chances because she hits the ball so well and has the potential to hit the ball so well.

She gets in trouble. I mean, you know, anecdotally, it seems like she makes a ton of bogies and doubles this year on par five's where, you know, if she didn't hit the ball quite as well, I think she would just be like automatic laying up kind of playing a dollar brand of golf. And so it's all like you said, I'm just so encouraged because I hope this is one of those steps that really allows her to like unlock her game. And you know, when the decision making

and the execution matches up with her ball striking and the putters hot. Like she, I mean, as we saw this week, like there's no doubt in my mind she's a major champion golfer. She has that potential. Well, why don't we kick it to Madeline here for her quick, her insights here.

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That's kind of the biggest feeling. It was a lot of good things at the same time. So I'm just trying to, I don't know if I'm going to crash or if I'm going to just stand this. I don't know if it's adrenaline and if I'm just actually not tired. Well, that's very refreshing to hear, especially. I mean, can you simulate the nerves or the excitement level of coming down the stretch of a major championship?

Is there anything you've gone through in your golf career that compared to what you had going on yesterday? Well, it was kind of my whole thought process yesterday was like, how do I get out of my own way? Because I knew I could play well, but at the same time, it's so easy to get in your own way when you get nervous and you kind of get a bit of a head of yourself. So I was really trying to just like, let my golf do the speaking. And I thought I did that quite well.

The shot, I don't know how I pulled the shot on 17 out. I did not even know it was in there, but that was like, okay. If I just try to step away from this and not worry about it, I'll be fine. But I mean, I was, of course, nervous down the end. I knew that if I could have posted that 12 under, that would have been a very solid score. Well, compared, you know, you were on the podcast a few months ago and we obviously filmed with you back in February, compare, you know, you were coming off a tough stretch in terms of travel and being gone and quarantine and a lot of indoor

Practicing versus outdoor compare compare. Now you're you know a shot away from a playoff at a major championship What's what's changed for you in the last six months or so? Well, I think that's the beauty of what what we do it's that it's the highest can be really high in the lows can be very low It's I think it all comes with the job. It's a bad round. It's not that far normally from a really solid round. A good week is not that far from a bad week. So it's all a bit about, I mean, things have to be on your side.

And I mean, I've grinded hard these last few months. I've changed a few things, started doing aim-point full-out, and just trying to really commit myself to the process and not get to ahead of myself and just really trying to stay in the press and I think that came out, I mean, narcissistically enough, I watched myself a replay on TV this morning. So, I think it's just, I do see it's myself coming out on TV, like I am really enjoying it out there and I think that I haven't done that for a while. I've been putting way too much pressure on myself

and just trying to force those numbers, trying to force the results. So I think just seeing how much I enjoy it, feeling that at the end of the day, I also know I'm dealing with a grass, not every putts gonna go in, but at least I'm giving myself the chances for it. That's the takeaway I had was it look like

you're having fun out there. It wasn't as nerve-wracking to watch. Obviously we're rooting for you, but it looked like you're having fun out there. It didn't, it wasn't as nerve wracking to watch. Obviously, we're rooting for you, but it, it was like, uh, enjoyable, right? It felt like you had a really positive energy. It wasn't like you were just trying to hold on to something. It felt like you were really embracing the challenge. Is that fair to say you had that going on internally? Absolutely.

I mean, I think the last three holes that corner stand, anybody's trying to hold on for their life. Those are just beasts. So, I mean, it's, I'm kind of at a point where I feel like it will happen. It obviously wasn't this week, but I mean, finishing tight second in a major, like I couldn't ask for anything else. Like that's what I've dreamt about being in those positions,

my entire career and the fact of being there. And I mean, I led the first round of the Olympics. I mean, I put out the results and I know it's all going to come together when it's meant to come together. So I'm just going to try to enjoy this ride and enjoy playing well and just remember the grind that I've done leading up to this point. Well, tell me about Cardooste and Ling Skolf in general. I mean, it was incredibly entertaining to watch you guys compete on that course.

And it had opportunities for, you know, you had four puts alone for Eagle on Sunday. I think I heard and obviously you have really challenging holes mixed in there as well. What's it like competing on a golf course like that? It's quite fascinating because, I mean, I don't know how many six-horns I hit off the tee last week. Like, and I, I mean, normally it's

playing America most of the time as a driver. So it is very strategic and And if thing is, if the wind changes, you have, I mean, you have completely opposite. I played a Pernilla and I played the practice around the same day. She was probably three hours ahead of me. She had driver 50 into 18. I had driver five iron the same day. So it can change so much. I think you have to, you have to really keep your mind open for that. You're going to have some tough holes. You're going to have bogies. Don't get too greedy because the federal sponsors are at death. You just have to play out of them. So it's

a game that I have struggled with in my career for most part. And I've really struggled to figure it out. But I have kind of taken in like, I normally play like when Scottish open is before because then you just kind of just get in the grind of how you look at a course, how the ground feels and stuff like that. So it's, I think it's the mastering link, link scoffs take time and I'm extremely happy with how my game looked this week. It wasn't terribly windy at Kernusty, which was probably a blessing for me because I still can still play my normal ball fly.

Well, tell me about the last hole there. You hit your tee shot. It's going slightly right, but were you surprised at all to see that ball end up in a bunker? Because we saw a couple tee shots on TV go towards that right side and not bounce the way that you were stood into the bunker. What was your kind of reaction to how that all happened? Well, I obviously wasn't attending to the another, but it's the same time. It's like, I think you kind of tried to flirt with that bunker.

I mean, that's fairway so narrow. I don't know if it looks narrow on TV, but this course is so narrow being like golf. It's crazy. So it looked all right for the most part of my drive. And I thought it was actually going to blow back into the fairway a bit. But it's just one of those things. wasn't the left rough one day and I don't think that's much better either because then I decided to bounce it over the burn which is not a very solid idea. So at least if you're in the fairbunker, you know, you have to lay up so like at least that you have your decision made when you walk off the tee. So I wasn't

tricked by anything, but it's I mean it's such a tough tee, like those bunkers, even if I had three, those bunkers are implied, and it's just, I mean, if you had less, then you have a three wooden. So it's such a, such a challenging hole. Yeah, it is. I mean, we've seen so many, you know, heartbreaks over the years on that whole alone. What's it like standing over? Well, first of all, what was the distance of your par putt? And have you, have you, uh, did that putt feel different than any other, uh, putt you've had in your career? It was, uh, it was about six yards. Unfortunately, I, I, I shouldn't, I, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I up, I'm a bit nervous, I really want to make this. So most likely I'm going to hit a short. So I just make sure like just hit it, like you have to actually get it to the hole, which

I did. I thought I had, I mean, I had quite, it was breaking quite a lot, probably a couple feet. So it's, it was a tricky putt. It looked very good for a long time and just broke off in the end. So I broke my heart a bit, but in the end though, that, I mean, it is what it is. I said, what if if things might have looked different if I made it, but who knows?

Well, I think for people that were rooting for you too, just your reaction and your genuine excitement over your finish and your performance for the week, it helped us enjoy it too. I mean, you could go two ways. You could be disappointed you didn't win, and I'm sure there's some disappointment there, but also seeing genuine joy and happiness

and an excited nature of such a strong week and such a strong finish is something that I don't feel like that's a normally regular thing in professional golf. So I wanted to commend you on your perspective on that. Thank you. Now I'm worked hard for that, and I think it's, we're in a sport in the line of work where we're very critical of ourselves.

So I'm really learning how to credit myself, give myself credit for the hard work that I put in. And that was that was one of those things. I mean, if you would have told me before the week that I would finish time for second, I would have taken it. So I'm really, really pleased with it. I mean, especially if you played the last two holes, last three holes, I guess was the last four even in even par. You can't, you know, nobody's birdie, excepted to be good with. I mean, that was such a strong birdie that you can't hang your head about bogey in 18, especially speaking to how difficult that shot was. But what's your relationship like with Anna and, you know, cool.

What's it like to see a fellow countryman when a major championship like that? We've grown a lot closer over the years, which is, it's a lot of fun to watch. I mean, she's such a phenomenal golfer and like, their results she's put up is just, I mean, it's incredible. And I mean, you can relate so much to somebody that is from the same country as you. We grew up slightly close to each other too. So, I knew, I mean, we know what it's like to be where we're from and what the kind of the work that we put in to get to where we are. So, I mean, I have so much respect for her and what she's done. And just getting to spend a lot of time with her at the Olympics was just amazing. And I think that we both have a lot of respect for each other. We know that we're working hard. And it's just,

it's obviously from my side. If I wouldn't win myself, that's the outcome that I was excited to see. So it it was nice to be there. And I know how much she has worked for that and I mean I give her all their credit And it's just and it's a it's a difficult course and she pulled it all the way through so I'm very very happy for her Well not only on top of your T2 finish you get some more exciting news that came came today When did you did you get any heads up? Or did you have any any any notice before that this week or at all that you would be getting a cap and selection for the Soulheim Cup? No, it's, I mean, we all speculate, it's so fun to actually like, to watch people around this time of the year because it's like

everybody's talking to everybody about everything, but I had no idea. I was told after my round yesterday, so I mean, I knew that I had to play well to on this bottom, that team. And I knew that I had consistent game and mean, I knew that I had to play well to earn a spot on that team. And I knew that I had consistent game in me. I just told myself, I wasn't really worrying about it because I knew if I'm good enough, if she wants my game there, then I will get a spot. If not, I'm just going to go home and continue to work. And I mean, in the end of the day, I do play for myself.

And I know that my game is in a very, very solid spot. So I'm extremely happy that she wants me there. And I'm excited that I'm playing really well. So that should be very good for Toledo. Well, we look forward to seeing you there here in a couple of weeks. It's exciting, exciting stretch on the calendar for you guys. And thanks for making some time for us.

I know you got busy travel travels ahead shortly after a big tournament like this. But and a lot of emotions going on. But thanks, of course, for making some time for us. And we will see you in Toledo here in a couple weeks. Always. Thank you. All right. This question from all day, every 365. What was it like to see your own sponsor golfer get coverage? Alas, Sagstrom's putt on 18. Was it a different reaction than being a fan? Rainy, you want to the the Madeline's, but to either win or get into a playoff at a major championship. I still haven't seen it. I still haven't seen it either.

It was such a punch in the gut. I mean, riding and, you know, it was a rider die situation. It felt like with Madeline, probably the, you know, among the most invested I've ever been watching any golf tournament. And coming off birdie on 17, knowing that in all likelihood, a par will get into a playoff if not win outright. We see the approach shot. I'm watching on NBC here in Denver. And it goes to a commercial break. And on the back end, I see her like

walking up and giving a score a ball. And I'm like, that's really weird. Like, why would she do that before she puts? It seems like something you do after the round. And then like the slow dawning of, oh my God, they didn't show the part, but it was just like, you know, I was furious, right? Like I was so angry because you devote, you know, what, three hours, four hours of your day, like you're invested in this result and the literal climax of the round, it's like, ah, sorry, we're in commercial,

we're not gonna show you. It just was, oh, yeah, it's the worst. It sucks, like I don't know, like I don't wanna be hyperbolic, like it just absolutely sucked. And it's the worst. It sucks. I don't know, I don't want to be hyperbolic. It's just absolutely sucked. It's just such a middle finger. I mean, this is not a coverage take. I mean, we're talking about one of the worst gaps in major championship coverage.

I'm going to say history. I mean, that in my lifetime, I can't recall a putt that could have been to win a major championship in the second to last group wasn't she or third to last group or third to last group. This is not something that she stuck up on the front. And the the darling, the feel good story of the entire tournament in Duncan and you know, home like basically homegrown Scottish amateur golf or you know, amateur women's golffer of the year,

and they missed her. Like it was, you know, they showed her hugging her caddy there at the end. Like I was just confused. At first I was like, what happened? Wait, like, see I was streaming it on my phone, driving home from the,

or riding home from the airport. My wife was driving. I'm tweeting from her phone, streaming it on my phone, and it gave me, it on playing through, which, it's worse. Which is even more disrespectful, right? It's so ridiculous. And again, this is not like, golf coverage is really hard, you guys don't get, like this is not, this is not bad. This is, you cannot miss this moment. It's not even like a

remote option, it's not a judgment call of any kind. And like, they're, they're going off of the sky, the world feed here. So the world feed was obviously covering it. It just wasn't. That was your choice to put commercial on. It was a direct conscientious decision. And it sucked. And to make matters even worse,

the commercial that was playing for me at least was the Rolex commercial about perpetual and greatness and winners and all that. Supporting of women's golf. Yeah, and it's like, holy shit, how, how hollow it is this feel right now. So like, like, and it's just so emblematic of everything that's going on over a golf channel and NBC right now. Oh, yeah. Like, like, Molly Solomon, just do better.

It's, it's fucking sad. It's embarrassing. And, you know, I hate a crit as as someone that has been just watching that a lot of this as a fan getting to experience it on the side of like, oh no, we sponsor that player. Like I am one of the sponsors. Like I'm one of the supporters of this game and I by I mean we as a team of course, but like I have personal investment in this. Now I see exactly what that lens looks like. Imagine how pissed off these sponsors get at the whole when coverage breaks down like this. Now I see exactly what that lens looks like. Imagine how pissed off these

sponsors get at the whole when coverage breaks down like this. Your player in the feature moment, like the player you've invested time, money, resources in, whatever that may be, is a chance in the spotlight and it doesn't get on television. What? Like, how are you going to incur? Like, you're letting the, this isn't even like a male versus female thing though. This is just like a breakdown of of of of of, of, of, of, of, presenting a major championship sports. Just the lack of pride, a lack of, you know, and, and that's not to say like the, I thought they, I thought that the, the team that was on the ground did a,

did an incredible job. I thought it was a good telecast on Saturday and Sunday, but, you know, again, like shit like this happens because leadership is super poor and you're putting your people in a bad situation And you have your priorities all fucked up and this is just like the cherry on top of a million like a huge pile of whipped cream on top of a huge Jazz Sunday, you know that we've been playing together for many years on how badly they've screwed up commercials and golf and you this only Happens when you have your priorities completely out of line. You're abusing the playing through the begin with. I don't know. It's just, it's so. Disappointing.

It's so disgusting. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. And no, like this, again, this is not a judgment call. No statement today. No nothing. No, you know, get out in front of this. It's like, you know what we made a mistake. You know admission of the mistake? That just tells me that there's no. And it's like at some point, it feels like they're kind of like hollowing the game out from the inside out, right?

Of like, hey, you know what, we're gonna take this once-proud asset and I realize there's constraints. I realize the media landscape looks like shit right now. I realize ratings are down, you know, across the board on some of this stuff. But also like at some point, like that's not an excuse or it's not a death now. Like you still have to try hard.

Yeah. So Randy, anything to add? I would just say Jeff Shackleford wrote like a personal letter to the powers that be at Comcast and be like begging Comcast to sell golf channel and like their rights to the game. It's it's it's bad. Yeah, it's it's bad.

I mean, you guys said it the best. Like it was it's like it's a little I'm not gonna get you to spell different. Yeah, this felt different than other times, it's like a total indication of a different. Yeah. This felt different than other times where it's just like, holy shit, that, that is such a massive screw up that like, it, yeah, it makes you question, like, what is going on? And, and just zero ownership of it 24 hours that follows. It's, it's, I don't know why I was expecting that, but like that just seemed like this, this scenario called for it. And maybe enough people aren't calling for them to speak out on it.

But I think LPG AYC, I just want like, I've been critical of was that Salis for her pretty horrific pace of play in the past. I couldn't tell this weekend they were kind of, they were doing a good job of getting between shots and stuff. Yeah, she's a dog, man. She just stays in the mix. She's killing people with those those hybrids and those in those like fairway woods. Third major runner-up since 2019 and second in this event and second this year. She does not go away. Great round from Minji Lee 66. Again, Nanakor's Madsen, that was tough to watch on you know not only like not winning the tournament but not even finishing you know t2 finish t5 double and eighteen and shank out of a great tough

downhill i and greenside bunker like a links bunker live that ball just yeah slow those it we talk about this all the time those bunkers on links golf courses play so much bigger than they are because they have gradual slopes that lead down into them. What happens is if you have a ball that's kind of trying to skirt that bunker, but slowly rolls in, you end up on a down slope, mat on, pay the price with their ball, barely creeping in there on 18 fairway, and then Kurt's mats and pay the devastating price and making double bogey there on 18.

Uh, Georgia Hall. Great, great final round. I mean, two, two eagles on the part five. I love links part five Yeah, there it's just like it's it's like get a bowl But like you got it simple not easy. Yeah, I think you know you got to execute and you can also end up making eights You know a little bit disappointed in the jatana garn sisters again Louise Duncan. That was so much fun to watch You know people are all over Nelly or or golf channel for not showing more than Nelly. It's like, Nelly didn't insert herself.

It felt like a rory round. Yeah, it was like Nelly's C game maybe. She's still tied for 13th. I'll give Moira, Jutana, garn a little bit of a past T.C. I think maybe we're being a little harsh on her, but I do want to call out in general, Thai women's golf right now is super strong. Place three in the top 10 at Karnu's T.

And that's not even with a tie at Tidakul had a terrible Sunday, but I'm mega, mega bullish on her. I think this is blasphemous, but I, I, it's golf, my P. And in another couple of years, it really depends on how good Aria plays, right? But I love patty. Patty won the Onica majors award this year on the LPGA, given to the player across the five majors with the best cumulative performance. And she didn't even play the Ebbion, which is cool. She, uh, she edged out Nelly. So I, I, I, very, very bullish on Thai women's golf. I think South Korea better watch their backs. Randy, why are you giving Moria past, but, but, because I don't, she's just not that good. I mean, I feel like she's, you know, just that the physical talents that are, yeah, she's pretty close to her ceiling.

I guess is what I'm saying. Okay. Yeah. The week's Duncan, we mentioned finished T 10. I'm assuming she's staying amateur to play in the Curtis Cup this coming week, $113,000 paycheck. She missed out on it. If she would have been playing as a professional.

You'll leave me no tough finish on Saturday. She was right there. But she's on the on the Soul Heimkup team. Yeah, we have we have the Soul Heimkup teams are in the automatic qualifiers for the US side. Nelly Corda, Daniel Kang, Al Ewing, Austin Ernst, Lexi Thompson, Jessica Corda, Megan Kang, Lizette Salis, and Jennifer Cupcho. They announced their captains picks today on this Monday, Brittany Al-Tamari. Oh shit, Mina Harag. How did that say it?

Heragay. Heragay. Gosh,. How did you say it? I think it's Haragay. Haragay, gosh, yeah. That was the only one I got on me. I could understand the rationale there. It's all safe. I don't love that pick either from being honest. As someone who is unable to pronounce her name currently, yes, I also don't like that because I,

that means she hasn't been enough leaderboards for me to have learned it, which is more my fault than anyone else's. But you'll let me know. It's the last pick there. And on the European side, Qualifiers in a Norquist, Sophia Popov, Charlie Hall, Carlota Segonda, Emily Kristen Peterson, Georgia Hall, and then their picks are Madeline Sagsstrom. As you heard, we discussed with her, Matilda Castro, Leonima Guyer, Nana Kurtz Madsen,

Mel Reed, and Celine Boudier. Those are some good captain's picks on the European side. I was gonna say, I'm kinda in on Team Euro. It's awesome. Come on, a whole ver man. I was glad Celine made it. She used to kill her three years ago, and she's been, there's a two years ago or three years ago.

It was two years ago. 19 years ago. Okay, your Ryder Cup's got me all. And she's got good history at loss of the mud hen, right? At an inference. Interesting. I think, Randy, you said it earlier, and she's got good history at loss of the mud hen, right? At, at an inference. You know, I think, Randy, you said it earlier, I think the one that, the one that needs to step up

to the plate, Allie Ewing. Yeah, official, official challenge to Allie Ewing. Is she just, you know, she won the match play event in, in Vegas, yeah, Shadow Creek, just is not very relevant in the majors though. I need to see a little bit more out of her. For those that don't know, the Soulheim Cup will be Labor Day weekend at Inverness in Toledo. And we will be there for that.

We are very, very, very excited about that first one. Saturday, Monday. Like a Monday finish. Labor Day is going to be awesome. Awesome golf course. They got awesome. We're going to have a crash course video coming out and advance of that as well.

Rain and I would made the trip up and played in for Ness with Pat Hurst, the captain got the full insight on how they're setting up the first and 10th tee are going to be, it's going to be sick. They're combining the first and 10th tee into one tee box and setting up grandstands with 2,000 people around it and it's, they're just counting on one huge S party until you know, like the way that

you see down that little, you know, kind of like the half pipe over half types towards yeah, down that green next to the creek is so cool. It's going to be a perfect. I think Toledo is going to show out too, you know, Iowa, a few years back was back was excellent. I think Toledo is going to be in that same mold. It's just a great golf town and you're going to get a lot of people from around the Midwest Michigan, parts Ohio, Indiana that you know don't get that much tour golf in their back yard. So I'm God, I just hope the weather is really really good for it. The glass city. I'm, God, I just hope the weather is really, really good for it. The glass city.

Is it the glass city or the rubber? Not the glass city. Yeah, glass city. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The glass. That's right, that's right. Albert sends Boise open. We had Grayson SIG 65, 65 on the weekend.

Tough to watch backstopping or grandstanding situation there. Do you guys see that? Oh, yeah. I did not. The grandstand was was maybe maybe two feet off the back of 18 green and that course always always super firm. So guys are landing at pin high. It's taking one bounce bouncing off of the grandstand and then back onto the green. It was it was incredible. Aaron Rye, he made double on 72nd hole to not win lost by one. But wrapped up his twerk card in the process.

Yeah, wrapped up his twerk card, along with JJ Spawn, who respawned. He's been waiting an hour to make that. Aaron Rye just, he uses iron covers. It's sick. Did you hear why? I saw this on Twitter. Yeah, it's so like, come on. He says it's because his dad taught him to,

something like to protect the expensive things or protect his valued things or something like that. I've also got an ungood authority from a couple different people that he's, like, he will legitimately get, you'd be the first player to get fined or penalize next year for slow play. He is like, ungodly slow. He took like six hours playing nine holes in a practice.

Does that money come out for Fred X Cup purposes? That's a good question. Yeah, just, you know, we need some transparency on these matters, right? We'll have to explore it. We do. So a lot, a lot of euros in there though. Mattias Schwab, you got,

Lucas, or Lucas Herbert's always Australian, but, Bazaidon Hote was up there. I was out in South African. Tom Lewis, Opie Bondrat shot 74 on the weekend. Just a lot of like typical Euro tour players coming over and playing, uh, playing some corn fairy tour. So they're, they're, they're headed to Columbus this week for, uh, a tour around

Jack's place. I'll just call it Jack's place because it's, it's certainly not Alistair McCann's anymore. It's not the doctors anymore. We gotta give a shout to our reds, of course, Randy. Oh my God. As of the time of recording that, we are one game up in the wild card, which has been a tremendous,

I'm still not cut out for this. I still live and die too much with each result of every, but we won four in a row. So I'm a little sweep over the weekend. A four game sweep, we should have over your Marlins, T.C. Oh, we lost two out of three to the shitty cubs this past week and still I. But I'd sorry.

I take it weeks at a time, just one day to Sunday. And you set a goal. My goal at the start of last week was five and two. And they got to five and two. See, when it comes to baseball, I'm the fickle fan that you are about golf. It's got to be like, win right now or you're dead to me.

So I'm not cut out for it. I just, I flipped on the TV last night or a couple of nights ago and they had that stupid little league thing. Oh my god. This feels like the trap draw. All right, this is a trap draw conversation. I think. And then what I've got to talk to.

I do, I do want to say I have no comment right now regarding Lawrence Stroll and Toto Wolf. Please reach out to my, my legal counsel. They'll have nothing to say. It's going to all be settled in court. So we will expect you to speak on that at some point. But boys, this was an absolute treat. I've just thrilled that this night has finally come and there'll be some celebratory

Occasions in the Solomon household tonight and shout to my guy Tony. I always believe in you You get a great interview after you lost at the To Max and the playoff at Riviera it was all positives and you said that wind was gonna come and tonight is that night and How could you pick out just just one of these interviews? He's always stayed positive always stayed positive being. I'm always trying to be classy. Glad you guys get in one last dig show with kind of scumbag. These victory dinners just don't taste the same on a Monday night.

Oh, they taste even better because we celebrate last night too. So we're going to ball tomorrow. Thanks so much. Tune in. Our second pod this week will be out on Wednesday. I think you'll really like the guest, assuming it goes as scheduled. So look forward to that. Cheers, boys. Good night. See you in Baltimore. Cheers! How about him? That is better than most. Better than most.