No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 517: Torrey Pines Recap

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

Luke List beats Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win at Torrey Pines, Viktor Hovland wins at Dubai in a playoff over Richard Bland as Rory rinses one on the 72nd hole and Lydia Ko notches another title as she edges Danielle Kang at the LPGA Gainbridge.  We break down all three tournaments, plus a better than expected Torrey Pines, Zalatoris's putting, Rahm, Rory's increased use of his 3-wood and some listener questions as well. We're also proud to announce that we've partnered with our friends at Callaway to bring you a customized Rogue-ST NLU headcover with the purchase of a Rogue ST 3-wood.  Here’s how to pre-order: 1) Pick and customize your Rogue ST 3-wood2) On the Order Summary page (first page of checkout), enter code: NLU to add the headcover to your cart for free. 3) Pre-orders begin shipping on 2/18/21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm going to be the right club today. Yes! That is better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. actually the world of living, Solid. Happy to have you, man. It's good to be back. It has been a tough week getting a little stir crazy here in the soul house, but we are officially negative as of this morning. Big Randy is here. You from the mountain.

I'm talking about your smaller taste or anything. Nothing. Now just big, big head cold. It was, it was not fun. Now it was, you can get the full experience. It was, it was a little worse than I thought it would be. But big Randy is here. Hello, Mr. Big. Hello, guys. Chris, welcome to the COVID survivors with DJ and I, and I agree with DJ.

You didn't really get the full experience. We both lost our taste and smell for quite a while. I'm not a real survivor here. I appreciate you gatekeeping the COVID survivorship here. Thank you. Sure. Yeah, Rady, on second thought, you know, suffering, suffering, man. It's not, it's not a here. Thank you. Sure. Yeah. Radio.

I'm second thought, you know, suffering, suffering, man. It's not, it's not a contest. I got one for you guys. Why don't you stick to sports, huh? Okay. Why don't we do that? All right. We are thrilled to announce with our friends at Callaway, a limited edition collaboration.

The no laying up branded Callaway Rogue ST three wood head cover. Hopefully you saw these circulating on social media this past week. Tron and Neil feel nostalgic for the glory days of high school golf with those big, big birth of fuzzy head covers. They were all the rage. Haven't seen them around in a long time. So we decided to make our own with Callaway. The head cover is available for free. When you purchase a Rogue ST3 wood while supplies last all you got to do go to calaway golf.com slash NLU. We're going to put the URL in the description and show notes of this episode. You can pick and customize your Rogue ST3 wood and on the order summary page, enter code NLU

to get the head cover to your cart for free. Pre-orders begin shipping on February 18th, the 21st. We got a limited inventory available only through calibagolf.com slash in all you with the purchase of the Rogue ST3 would again only available in the US will be available in Canada hopefully by mid February but you guys got to get one of these you I don't if you saw it's on Madeline Sacks from bag this past week at the game bridge. It's going to be in my bag very soon once I'm able to return to the golf course. You know that remember the the fuzzy ones growing up the real ones would would turn them inside out. Remember they had a lot of a few of those, a wild ass colors inside and stuff. I haven't flipped this one inside out yet to check, but that would be an attention to detail from Neil and Tron that that would be second to none if they were able to pull that off.

I did know that was a thing. Oh, yeah. People flipping them inside out. Big thing. Big, big. I legitimately miss that. You're a trend setter. Not a trend follower, Randy.

You wouldn't, you wouldn't know any love brands too. That's true. That's true. I would never disrespect the brands like that. Guys, lot to talk about this week. Saturday finish at the farmers. We got the game bridge. We got Rory and Dubai and Victor Hoveland.

Just a whole lot to talk about. We of course have the Raza come. I turn them at next coming week here on the European tour Which everyone's excited about so Where do we start for you? I guess we probably should start with Luke list. I think so. Yeah, I mean I think that Dubai is probably gonna go down as certainly like the best finish and most interesting wild finish of the week But yeah, let's start kind of Saturday finish in Dubai. Let's go in sequential order here farmers in in say india Go not to buy. Yes. Yeah, so that's what I feel like for someone for a group of guys that are doing a weekly preview show

I feel like I kind of should have picked up on how hot Luke list was coming into this one kind of feel like that That's on us as a group of five. He's coming T 11 T 10 T 22 before this win at a T seven at the Zosoo at T 17 at Santerson Farms. He's number two in Strokes game T degree on the PGA tour so far this season, which I don't know if you guys heard this we're about 25% of the way through the season now. It's not it's not early in the season if you may think it is, but man it's it seems like it's been a long time coming for Luke List and I don't know, I'm happy for him. That that was one of the coolest celebrations after the playoff that I've seen.

Some people are giving him flak for not going and shaking Zalator's his hand. Like, come on, let's have a little bit of Fonney. Rando is family after winning his first PJ Tor event. Who doesn't love that? Come on. That was great. We had a friend of the program. Friend of a friend was was very pumped that they had gotten Luke list at 50 to one.

I believe it was. And my gut reaction was like, oh my god, Luke list is only 50 to one. And then yeah, hearing what you just rattled off is like, okay, I guess I should have played a lot better than I then I realized. I think it was more than that wasn't it? Didn't it wasn't it like a bunch to like, it was like 200 to one, I thought.

Oh, maybe it was. I think it was 200 to one and our friend may have bet $50. Gotcha. Yeah, it was it was a big payoff, if you will. Yeah, that had been a nice nugget to hit. At this point, I feel like I feel like he was trending a little bit more. It shouldn't have been jumping off the page on our end.

But we do not claim to be experts on any of the picks as you might be able to tell. But be for yourself, I pick Victor Haaland. Who could have possibly seen him to win his third in five events? How good was G's man? I don't know where to start on the farmer stuff. How good was that third shot that Luke list hit into 18? That's like, that's so impossible. I do, you know, we're going to do some Tory stuff here.

I do appreciate that like we get that pin for the Sunday every year. We know, we know exactly what it's going to do. do and like you you've seen so many shots to it. You know when somebody lays up you're like oh well he can't get to the pin from the rough like we have that much experience with that pin to know that and he did it well he I mean he did it in regulation and then did it in the playoffs which the regulation shot out of the rough I again when he laid up in the rough was like dude this he's not ready to win. He's not. And then he pulled the old QB sneak on him.

I mean, nobody saw a comedy called his own number. Pulled the QB sneak ran in the putt. And every time he shows somebody that highlight, you know, for the rest of his life, you're going to have to explain what Faldos talking about. We can get to Faldos. You know, I had to come on. Man, for all the bashing that we and others have done on Tory, I all eat a small serving

of humble pie that I thought it was, I thought it actually showed pretty great this week. The pins were interesting. I thought it played really firm and it kind of was separating some some ball striking stuff. I mean, obviously balls were still kind of running through and you still had kind of was separating some ball striking stuff. I mean, obviously balls were still kind of running through and you still had kind of the, you know, six inches into the rough chips on a lot of the holes and stuff like that. But you had to hit pretty proper shots, man, especially coming down the stretch into some of those par threes into 15 into. I mean, obviously 18 is, you know, I don't know that it's like the best design golf hole in the world, but it's literally always fun to watch. It's just maybe part of that is like you said,

just kind of knowledge-based. Like you know, you've just seen it so many times that you have a ton of familiarity with it, but I don't know. Honestly, it's very similar to the 18th that Dubai, right? Or it's like, hey man, the challenge is pretty cut and dry here. Like, can you clear the water and maybe make a three? or do you need to lay up and hit a good wedge? And I enjoyed watching both holes immensely this week. I'll echo that DJ for whatever reason. I thought Tori just looked

better than I can remember seeing it. And I want to give maybe a shout out to CBS for showing it in a much more interesting, compelling light. I was impressed. I knew found like appreciation for the drive on 17. That whole has changed and that that whole has grown up big time. They've renovated that whole brought the canyon in and that's a pro golf hole now. Yeah. right. But just a little stuff like that. Yeah, it was great surprise. It was like it was fun. It felt like, okay, all right, Torey, I see you. I see you. Like I could be down with this each year. Really proper part five on that back nine was at 13 or 14. 13. That holds a little, a little, yeah, I mean, I mean, it's ridiculous, but it's also like on the PGA tour when they're hitting as far as they can,

it is at least interesting to see like, oh my gosh, John Rom can't get there into like that, that makes it kind of interesting at least, you know, it's like, I don't know what, yeah, there's only so many defenses you can put up eventually, right? And it, it sometimes I need to be a little on the side of absurd in order to, to be a real part five these days. But I will say, man, it's just, this is what just a little bit of firmness will do to a viewing experience, right? It made those greens come alive. And they, I don't know if it was just the firmness or some special pin positions they have,

but it was a, it was a separate, like some of the plateaus they used in some of the corners of those greens were true. Like, dude, if you want to go for this, like you got a thimimble you need to land this on and try to hold it up there and it was fascinating to watch guys take that on watch them kind of barely miss by a foot and then it's spinning the wrong direction then it takes a slope away from it there's some couple funnel pins out there and you can't believe you didn't get a shot in on some of those there were some really gettable pins out there but it makes makes the green shapes and formations actually come

alive watching the ball roll a little bit of suspense. Like, is it gonna hold up there? That's so much more fun to watch than like a dark contest or, you know, piece of shit putting, putting contest week or something like that. So that regard, like, yeah, this, this was the best viewing experience we've had to this point. Yes, it would be hard on Tori.

I still think like, I was really thinking about this a lot. I'm like, am I, am I wrong? Are we the baddies here? Are we wrong on Tori? And I'm extremely confident that we're not. I really do think the difference is to the back nine Sunday viewer, like the guy that tunes in to watch the finish. Like Tori almost always, like it delivers in some way.

And it does contribute to that drama. Do I think it's like brilliant design, of course not. But there are some good half-power holes in there. There's a ton of shot value coming in. It's not a putting contest. You've got to hit it in the right spots. You've got to hit the fairways. I just find narrow fairways, thick rough, and bunkers on both sides of the fairway extremely boring. It is a straight execution test. Yes, but it provides some drama. It does. Now, for the people that watch the tournament from like Thursday or in this case Wednesday, all the way through, the process of getting there is tough is tough viewing.

And that is what a lot of people that are very into following golf. That's, I, that's where I think a lot of the core issues come from. I don't know what you guys think about that. No, I'm with you. I would put myself in that very hardcore golf fan at least most weeks. Yeah, I wasn't really chomping at the bit to watch, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I was flipping it on here and there, but it's it just kind of washes it washes over you after a while. It really only gets and I think that's kind of. I don't know the right way to say this, but I saw some good questions in there about like for such a quote unquote bad golf course, like why is it always, you know, seem to deliver at the end.

I think part of that is probably because the leaderboard stays fairly bunched. I don't think anybody ever really runs away at Torrey Pine. So whenever it's close, I mean, you can, like we've said a thousand times, you be playing any golf course. And if it's close, you know, coming to the 72nd hole, like that's going to be fun to watch. So I think that's part of it. And then I think the other thing is like, it's just one of those places that that that once the tournament like once the story starts to take shape, then you have all the scenery and you have all the familiarity with 18 you have a little bit of good variety on like 16s a kind of cool part 3 17s got a great cliff shot now and then you've got 18 is very familiar and you've got all these historic moments that have happened there and great highlights they can show. Yaddi, yaddi, yaddi. But yeah, watching somebody play like number four on Saturday morning, number, actually number four is like, I'm not sure I've probably had, but...

...guide, I have such a vivid memory of watching number four. Did I tell you guys this story? I'm sure I probably have, but watching Spencer Levine play that whole, oh god, he just, I forget who he was even paired with. And I forget honestly, I don't know, I know what exactly what you is. I think it was 2015. I was there, uh, because I was looking at the photos yesterday that I took from that day, because Jason day one and Dash day was like, I don't know, three. And he's like running through all the bunkers and like just being a complete menace, uh, during the trophy ceremony. I got all these like pictures of Dash day, which was, as you

pointed out, saw a shocking to see that he's now 35 years old. I know. They just grow up so cool. That's crazy. I can't gray hair. What was he doing? What was he doing with this?

He was doing some like hand signal. Yeah, he was doing signs. Was it a gang sign? Some sort of dog whistle for some internet community, I'm sorry. Was it a gang sign? Some sort of dog whistle for some internet community, I'm sure. It's East Coast West Coast thing. No, I think it might have been a kind of ice in his veins, type of a mode.

I think that's, I hope not. God, I really hope not. I literally think that, what the fuck else would it have been? I don't know. Are deep in the NBA scene, as we know, you know, we've seen them courtside at a historic moment. What was I talking about? We've come back to that in a minute.

I don't. A whole number four is where we all started this. Spencer Levine, like he hit it. I think he hit it in the right rough. And just like didn't even have enough firepower to get there and two hit this like horrible like spinny ass three wood up in the air, wins howling, comes up short he hits this epic chip up there, like really, really,

really good stuff and just misses like the tap in and is so mad he's like he's walking off the, it's gonna be hard to describe on audio but he's he's walking off the green and there's like three fans out there watching him I don't know why I was out there watching them, but he someone's like oh, it's alright Spencer keep your head up And he just like he just goes like this and like waves the guy off like like acknowledges him fully and like from a hundred yards away Just waves him off his hand and then he walks I think he like kicks his driver to the next T going to number five and then I really think he played with Jimmy Walker.

And he just like, he swings the next one at like, I don't know, like 50% like so just like doesn't even give a fuck. He's just so mad that he just made a bogey that he like does even carry. He probably hits his drive like 230 Jimmy Walker out drives him by 100 yards yards and then Spencer does not win the tournament, but it was a, it was a very vivid memory that I have for some reason. Thank you for allowing me to share that. Anyway, as I was saying, Torrey, it's, it's a mix bag contains both teams. It's also like, it's long and narrow, so the stereotypical PGA tour player is likely to succeed there, right? I mean, for all people that like, it always gives you a great leaderboard. It's like, now it gives you like the stereotypical PGA tour leaderboard,

like the guys that hit it long and have all the strength are gonna be up there, right? The fairways are too narrow to really actually even reward accuracy. There's no point in laying back and trying to find fairways. You're better off hitting it as hard as you can. It's what guys hit a ton of drivers, finding it in the rough and figuring it out. And that part is, again, I find boring. But like I said, I enjoy watching this tournament every year.

I try to tell you the guys last week goes like, get pumped. It's farmers week. It's going to be good. It's always good. And it delivered. That was tremendous viewing. I mean, we can skip past hamster dam for me too.

I mean, I think CBS is doing a really good job. I mean, they're flowing better. They're catching the story lines, they're catching the action better. They've cut some fluff, the commercial loads still going to be the same, but man, it does really seem like they've improved to the point that my only real commentaries got well, and that's just very obvious. Should we do Salatourist next? Yeah, can we start with Randy? Randy, I gotta know what a person of your, you know, we set up front that suffering is suffering. I had to be weird for you to watch the Outtores.

Well, some of your past putting woes. For everyone that says, these guys have never done it. They don't know what they're talking about. How can they provide experience? Let's go to Big Randy to tell us about Will's Outtores. Yeah, I mean, suffering is noble, right? And in that where we should start, it's not good. It's uh, yeah, it's, I mean, suffering is noble, right? And in that where we should start, it's not good.

It's not good. I would be very concerned if I were young Will or somebody in his camp, the arm lock grip, he puts like nothing about it looks comfortable. And even on some puts he was making, they don't look good. And he's gonna have to to figure like I don't that's not the answer for him. I don't think he's going to have to go to a different style in my opinion. I can't believe he's not clawing. Honestly, I can't believe he's not clawing.

I mean, I know he's kind of it's like, it's like not really though. Yeah. It's an armlock strangle with like two fingers with his right hand, which is, I don't know what that's really eliminating, but there seems to be a ton of right hand in it. I'm not an expert in it, but it is not pretty. I will say, I was watching some of the replay this morning and from range from long range, he had some really close calls, man. He had some really good puts that just did not go in and he didn't miss shorties on Sunday. He missed a bad shorty on Saturday that everybody saw and I, I just, I'm going to see it for a long, long time. And I mean, obviously the putt to win

on 18 like for a PGA tour player of his caliber straight up the hill. Like it just wasn't hit with any conviction. Like it just wasn't hit with a guy that is not thinking it very much putting stroke. And a lot of people are calling from to come into the film room with Hubert after, you know, what Hubert audited this past week on our YouTube channel. And I have to agree. Hubert is going to turn into one of those like Facebook YouTube, like content moderators. He just has to look at it, look at all that horrible footage all day and screen it. That's all these putting strokes. He's gonna have to watch. It's gonna, it's gonna absolutely ruin his psyche.

So you have, you have access to the stats. What, what is, what was Alatorra's putting for the week? 64th out of 79 guys to make the cut in Stroke's game putting. He missed seven birdies inside 17 feet on Saturday and shot 65. That's the thing, man. It's like a waste of a insanely good putting or ball striking week. Like he was just on fire, led the field in Strokes game to approach, led the field in Strokes game, T to green, you know, even scrambled pretty good. And it's not like the putting was disastrous. He just like gave a little bit away for the three measured days.

He was, he was negative 1.27 strokes. Like, that's just, that's straight up a deque territory. Like that, that's a normal like a deque week. And it's not really even necessarily that bad of a week. It just like, it looked bad and you gonna have, if you, you can strike it really well. And that's gonna put you near the top of leaderboard. But as we've talked about many times,

like it's who puts the best out of the best ball strikers, Luke List did not put on a putting display either, but like got it done, and he was, as I said, he was actually eighth in strokes game putting this week, but over the weekend, he did not put on much of a display. He gained a bunch in round one, but again, if you hit the shit out of the ball,

you're gonna be near the top, and it's just, feels like that's the way golf is trending, man. It's gonna be guys that hit the shit out of the ball, you're gonna be near the top and it's just, feels like that's the way golf is trending, man. It's gonna be guys that hit the crap out of it and like are gonna kind of struggle to get it in the hole and we're just seeing more time after time, how much that doesn't matter in terms of getting near the top of the leader report. But if you wanna win it, you better gain some shots

on the greens. Well, I think that kind of ties into some of what Adam Scott was saying on the pod with consistency, too, right? It's like, you know, that you're not all these guys who have been like legendarily consistent all, you know, we're above average putters as well, right? And having some of these guys that are just kind of trying to ride hot weeks is like, yeah, it's a good formula for the modern PGA tour, but not necessarily to, you know, build a super consistent career.

And I will say we kind of alluded to it, but for all that he is going to probably like rightfully get beat up for for how bad the putting stroke can look occasionally, I honestly thought will like put it pretty good on Sunday. Like his his lag putting was great. He was like lagging to his speed was really good. And he shook in, you know, most of those shorties, it's just, yeah, it was really. Eighteen was bad.

That was tough. He was bad, really, really bad. I mean, speed might have been too good. You know, you don't want to leave yourself that many, that many shorties and that two, three foot range. Well, that's like, I thought, I thought in the playoff, he was like, I was like, oh, that's outside the danger zone. Exactly. All that thing in. That's the big Randy zone, which I thought I put me from zero to seven feet.

Yeah, it's 12 feet and see what have fuck around. See what happened. And that's what I honestly, I thought that's what he did on 18 and regulation almost too. It was that it was that eight footer. He was a little passive on that one. What I mean, so what's his it seems like for his altaurus to win an tournament though, he's gonna have to in essence, he's gonna have to win by multiple shots because he's gonna give up a stroke or two on the greens. Does this put a cap on like his potential or like what do you guys? Now that we've got another year of Will's Out Tourists, like what do you make of them?

Well, one thing I will say is, you can't argue, it's great TV. I mean, you just, you almost feel everyone move to the edge of their seat when he gets a four footer. The announcers are even like, like making you like, I was saying yesterday it's like, it's the perfect golfer for someone like me who's an absolute

just sick person because I can completely appreciate everything, all of the like super high highs of what he's doing, right? On one hand, I'm like, oh my God, like how does he generate so much speed that's unbelievable. That's so fun to watch. How does he hit his iron so good? That's so awesome. I can't get enough of watching that. Oh my god. I can't wait to see if he makes it fun. I'm saying watching a, uh, it's like watching a college football kicker, right? Where it's just like,

you know, I know he's supposed to make it, but God, weird shit keeps happening. I don't know. It's also why they need to outlaw arm lock and all the work. Sure. Well, it's not even helping them. That's the thing. I mean, if you're getting, if you're doing all that to get to arm lock and all the more sure. Well, it's not even helping them. That's the thing. I mean, if you're doing all that to get to arm lock and you know, it's that you still got that going on, not good. But listen, all right. So they talked a lot about his increased distance. And you know, that's all the more reason

where I do think he is going to win. Conmore, Kawa is not an expert putter has weeks where he looks horrible with the putter as well. And Kyle Porter tweeted to that, he's winning 10% of his tournaments. Like absolutely, Zaltors is going to win. It's going to be fascinating to watch. He's going to have better putting weeks than this one.

Like that happens. I don't know what, you know, you know, Poa can do weird things. If you're not very confident on Greens, Poa is not going to help the situation. I don't really recall anyone really putting great at Tory Pines in the past, you know, it just preaching a little bit of patience with it. I think it's listed as going to be fun to watch and make fun of on repeat. Yes, absolutely. Of course, but I'm still buying Zalatoris. I do think like, but I think to Randy's to Randy's point though, I mean, he was basically asking like, does it, does it change the ceiling and I think it

100% has to be yes Right like that like more a collar isn't a different league putting wise compared to Deltors at least it seems like and I haven't Totally looked to that up, but that that's kind of the way it feels and more a collar still is like pushing You know number one in the world. I don't at the current clip it man It really doesn't seem like like like, it seems like I, of course, agree, like, Will's or Shergan a win and probably win, you know, in above average amount of times. But is he going to get to number one in the world?

Is he going to win a bunch of majors? Like, I don't know that I would be betting on that. I watch watching what we just, I'm with you there. I do think more cal a peaks harder. More cal has weeks where he just like forgets that he's not a very good putter and we really haven't seen that from Salatores yet, but there are numbers are around the same. I mean they're but like look at Hadecki man like he wins a shit load and I was out Taurus hits it that good like he really does. And so I yeah, I do think it limits limits a ceiling of course, but like I think we're gonna. So I do think it limits a ceiling of course, but I think we're going to, I don't know, I get, I'm halfway between this, right?

Because I'm like, yeah, his ceiling is huge. He's young. He's just not that young. Like he's 25 and a half now. And like, yeah, it's only, it's his whatever second season on the PGA tour. First is a full-time member, I think, because weird COVID stuff and all that and whatnot. But like at this point, I tweeted this out this past weekend, just looking at it, like, speed had 11 wins by the age of like 23 and JT had nine by

Zalator's current age. I think Rory had 13 worldwide wins at this point. Like, it's not like he's a young, like blossoming player that we're, we haven't seen the rest of like, we're probably looking at like what he probably is going to be. And and it's it's time that he does win what? Yeah, I totally agree. He's what like a year and a half younger than ROM right yeah He's older than more kawa and hovelin and all that so it's it's he's in a weird zone I don't know we need to put him on Fina watch just yet granny But for the guy that only loves wins. I'm surprised I have to make this take for you. I'd watch a potting contest between Finaw and Zoutoris.

Yeah, for sure. Why would you want to watch that? I don't want to watch that. Because I'm sick. You know, my very amateur opinion, he looks super uncut. He's got to find something that he's comfortable with. Because whatever he's doing now, it does not look comfortable.

One thing that I did have in mind, Randy, remember when you used to be deep into Hank Haney's radio show? Do you remember what everybody who called in that had putting issues? Of course. I spent so much time listening to my old friend, Hank. Diagnosed putting those. Do you want me to run through his whole checklist?

Yeah, please. Well, it might only be two things, but he would ask him, people would call in, Hank, I got the Yips, man, I can't make one. I can't make a three footer, I got the Yips. And Hank would tell him, first you got to figure out which hand the Yip is in, right? Is it in your left hand, or is it in your right hand?

So you want to hit some short puts, one handed, which I would encourage young will to do. And then once you figure that out, just quit the game. That's the one. And well, once you figure that out, so I figured out mine, you know, for instance, is in my right hand. So that's why I went to the claw to, you know, move the position of my right hand. But Hank's, Hank's nuclear option for anybody was just, oh, well, you just got to put left handed.

You got to have a total reset, like you got to, you got to completely switch it up. So I don't know, DJ, maybe we're, I don't think we take that off the table either for Zalatoris. No options are, no options are off the table. Yeah. This is a good one from William Hardy on Twitter.

He said, is it Torsoss or intensely amateur to feel hard done when you leave a putt to win short and misread it while having a stroke as solid and straight as Wetspegetti? He did that way too shocked about that putt missing. You didn't get it at all. You should have played it out. You should have played it on Tory. The one thing I will say about Will, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. It's interesting. He's he's very, uh, he's a three dimensional person out there. And I can't

wait to keep watching the rest of the season. I hope he continues to get involved with the majors. Dude, any player that makes you feel things when you watch him, sign me up, man. And I, you could tell on Twitter, it's unfortunately like, he's kind of lost the plot on Twitter. It seems like and he's going to be known for this. He could, he could have positive strokes game putting for the next 30 weeks. People are still going to talk about the the mis put on on Saturday. But he seems to have lost the plot, but he does make people feel some things. It is going to be interesting to see how he how he handles it. But I'm perusing the bottom of the shots game putting standings on pj2a.com.

You guys want to that's a bleak seller down there. There's an interesting game down there. I know. know of course our our good friend Louie used to And which honestly might you know, I think That could be an interesting Salah Careful with sample size here because there's there's he literally what's like number one last night. There's not many I was saying talking about Luke list is down there too if you one last. There's not many. I was talking about Luke list is down there too. If you that's like 208 or something, right? Well, I really wanted to crowbar in one of the best

putters in the world is currently ranked 201. Oh, God. Is it the actor from that farmers commercial like? Yeah. And 19 rounds too. I don't know what's an appropriate sample. But I mean, he's one of the best butters in the world. That's a huge, that's, that was a huge takeaway for me from the week too. Yeah. That's definitely worthy of the top 30 minutes of this show, Randy. That's, that's definitely fair play by you. That's, that's not dirty at all. Well, Finault's 210 just disgusting. Our old friend, our old friend Kyle Stanley is

two hundred and twelve. All right. We are officially taking a break. The moment we've been waiting for us in September is finally here in honor of the big game. Draft King Sports Book and official sports betting partner of Super Bowl 56 is giving new customers 56 to one odds on either team. You just got to bet $5 and get 280 in free bets if your team wins. If you're not a new customer, you can experience Super Bowl 56 with same game parlay as combined multiple bets

from the same game for a bigger payout. The more legs you add, the more money you can win. Draft Kings is of course safe, secure, and reliable. Best of all, you can deposit and withdraw your cash whenever you want. So download the Draft King Sports Book app, use promo code NLU, get 56 to one odds on either team bet just $5 and get 280 in free bets if your team wins.

That's promo code NLU at Draft King Sports Book and official sports betting partner of Super Bowl 56 must be 21 or older in the Anna New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, only new customers, only minimum $5 deposit and $1 wage you're required. One per customer, restrictions supply, cdrafking.com slash sportsbook for details, gambling problem call 1-800 gambler. If in New York, call 877-8 hope and why, or text hope and why for 6-736-9. Not making it easier.

The legal is not making it easier. What do you want to go next? Jason Day or John Rom? What are you guys? What are you burning on? Let's talk Jason Day, I think. That was, I don't know what if you want to kind of just start with biggest takeaway for me, but I think biggest reaction I had is just a nostalgic reminder of like watching that guy's putting stroke. Coming off the conversation we just had is like, man, watching that guy looks like he's going to make every single thing he looks at and it was I

wouldn't say I'm like the biggest Jason Day fan and the whole world entire world but he it was it was fun to have a little pop of Of nostalgia and then also to remember that he's like the same age as me so that maybe feel kind of weird. It looked pretty Sustainable what he's doing. He looks like he's lost a lot of weight He you know they talked a lot about how he's changed his swing to, you know, limit injury, which I mean, I don't know what took him that long to do that. And he's been injured like quite literally like his whole life. They were saying he just has always injured in some way. And how he, I don't know, I don't know what that that process was like for determining how you change your body and your swing to not hurt yourself and still compete. But that looked pretty resurgent in my mind. It did not look like a little flash in the pan.

And it also looks very, very, very bad. The last few holes. Last three holes after you hold out for freaking eagle on 15. 68, 68, 69, like really good holes, three really bad holes company. It was not pretty, but like those final few holes like you got to hit the shots. And yeah, he didn't hit the shots coming in. I do honestly think it is like hard to gather yourself after a whole lot like that. You know, I think your emotions get super amped and you know, you vault yourself into a tie for the lead. And my big takeaway is not the last few holes for him.

It's very much like, dude, this, this is probably a story we're going to need to be following. And also, just to go in and looking like it is data golf page and like they got a great tool on there where you can look up players current profile in terms of their driving distance accuracy, putting approach play and compare it to any year in their past. And if you go back to like 2015 of what that guy's profile

look like, a bomber could put the lights out and hit the shit of his irons like, oh my god, was that guy good? Now I feel like we even we maybe don't talk enough about how good Jason Day was in his prime. Sure. No, it was it was outrageous that that season that he had. It was just like heads and shoulders better than everybody else. And it just yeah, it didn't sustain. I feel like people didn't really even notice that much

when he kind of faded from the limelight a little bit, but we'll be interested to see if he comes back. That's what I mean is I feel like he almost, yeah, it's just weird to hear that he's 34, right? He almost seems like one of those guys that should be like pushing 40 just based on the life cycle of his career And how we kind of feel like we've already seen the the rise and fall right and it's like man He's still young. He still has a lot of very very good years if he can stay healthy But that they're in lies the problem I guess It's almost always health, you know, is in some way it's really do has just lose their ability to get the golf ball in the

Whole if there's no no health tied to it. So, Randy, you want to make some bad takes on John Raul? Yeah. Thank you for asking. And waiting for this. Are you guys concerned that he's not winning? So concerned. I'm freaking out.

Randy, I can't even contain myself. I mean, at what point do we need to start to be a little concerned? Randy, let me ask you this. Did you see Kyle Porter's tweet on the winning percentages of the top 10 players in the world? How, how frequently they win? I probably did, but just in case I didn't want you, why don't you remind me? It doesn't support it.

Of those 10 players, who do you think wins at the, at the highest clip of the 10 best players in the world? The current 10 best players in the world? Current best players. John Rom, Colomore, players in the world. Currents and best players. John Rom, Colomore, Cal, Patrick Cantley, Dustin Johnson, Victor Havelin, JT, Zander, Rory, Bryson, Hedekton. Is this world, is this world wide wins? This is world wide wins. See, take that.

Take it away. I knew this is such an ironclad case and you're just a lawyer of your own. You can ask me. You've been asking. I'm guessing. Ram has the. Ram wins at nine, nine point eight percent of his starts. Mara Cala next best at nine percent.

I think Ram. So I think Ram gets a little fat over, you know, across the pond. God, his wins over there are so good. I was just going to gather this because I, you know, it's the DP World Tour Championship. He's won twice, which are good fields. They, uh, the hero world challenge is one of, I don't know if that's counted in his wins, of like the the cheap and easy OWGR points on the on the do perfect world tour You get a couple Spanish Spanney the two Irish open sees one are worth more than like his career builder on the PGA tour in terms of Field strength he has a BMW PGA champion. No, he doesn't sorry Randy. Do you have anything to say for yourself?

Well listen Do you have anything to say for yourself? Well, listen, some of this is tongue and cheek, but at a certain point, I would like to see him win a little bit more, right? Like you go back to, he obviously won the US Open last year. And before that, his last win was August 2020. You know, for as good as he is, like, let's, let's finish a few more.

Come on, come on, big John, let's finish a couple only pushback. And I know you're, you're being slightly tongue in cheek here, but going back to the, the Adam Scott consistency thing that I was talking about, he, he strikes me as, and solid, I'll, I'll offer, I think we're brothers and arms in this conversation. So I'll offer you a, a, a, when it's convenient for you, not for the Finau case. Really, with the Finau thing, if you think Finau is a, you, a sack when it's convenient for you, not for the Finau case. Really hit me with the Finau thing. If you think Finau's a, you know, comparable player to John Rom, I would love to have that. That's exactly what I said.

Yeah, thank you for repeating that for me. Point being I, I do, I get it. I get the, the Finau frustration. It's again, it's a bit tongue and cheek and just kind of funny to talk about. But he's a victim of his own success, right? Like when you see him on the leaderboards all the time, of course, you're thinking about, you know, why does he win more? Why does he win more?

Nobody says about Patrick Cantley. I mean, I guess they kind of have, but it's just easy when he doesn't have those weeks or when he's not relevant, like it's just easy to forget about him. But Ram is just up there every fucking week. So when he doesn't win every week, it just keeps burrowing this stupid brainworms deeper into people's heads that he's somehow like isn't a closer. So he's one like 13 times only only once since September 2020. You know, what about the code? But our our So I always help. I mean, I think listen, if you want to compare John Rob to every other PGA to

her player, I think what you just said is very fair, right? I think where I would love to compare them and what gets me most excited is like when we talk about being the best player in the world and, you know, is he like this generations best player? Is he one of the top one to three best players? I'm not a comparison. I guess the other top 10 players in the world, but that's the thing. I I mean Yeah, but he doesn't feel like 20s. Well, no, he's 27. Sorry. What do you I mean? Would you say about like speed and and Thomas at that age?

Like he just hasn't won as much as other guys. I mean, he's not what I how many worldwide it's not just It's not historically prolific of a winning clip. I get that but it's also like head and shoulders The like he's by so far of a measure the best player in the game by whatever measure I think you want to choose I mean I world, like between the dude perfect world tour and the PGA tour, 12 wins for ROM at age 26, 27. I mean, that's a lot. And as a since the world like yourself, Randy, I thought you would show a little bit more respect for some of these worldwide wins.

He could stay around and beat up the, you know, he could beat up the US tour if he wanted, but he's getting out. He's trying to grow the game. And Randy's the game. I will say this is his. No one of his PA tour wins was a partner event too which you know I think we got to hang out now you're fishing now you're just fishing. He probably can go on that by himself though. Now you're just fishing. I what we outlook is so what I might take away from yesterday was in order, I think, or descending order or whatever, whatever. My top takeaway was not these allotores or Luke List thing.

It was like, man, that looked like as bad as Ram could possibly play and he finished one shot out of playoff. Like he, he just, I know we keep saying this over and over and over, but he just seems like he is ready and poised to just like severely fuck people. Well, that's what I'm saying. He's got to start because he's looked that way for the better part of the last year. Well, many people are calling him the booey because he doesn't sink, right? I see a lot of people on social media saying that.

And that's like definitely a thing you're doing social media now. People just keep calling him the booey. And I'm down with it. I think you were. You need to be social media now. People just keep calling him the booey and I'm down with it. I think we let that happen. I do think there's a great question we got from Dom Brow, Brian. He said, Ram has played so well over the past year, but only has a couple wins to show for it. Yeah, just the 12 wins.

Speed that in monster first half of 2021, according to the whole. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. There are the days of guys winning five plus tournaments a year over. Do we overrate wins? Well, all those year of winning happened at least a few years ago. Like his last one was 2019 over on the dude. Perfect tour.

I think the question was like listen, he was clearly the best player in the world all of 2021. Yeah. Any anyone one time. I mean, I do think it's it's an interesting discussion, right? Maybe it's maybe guys just can't win as much as they used to because of the how good the fields are. I don't know, but I don't want to get to a point where like wins are overrated. That that stinks as a fan. I just think the landscape changes more and more every year.

Just gets a little bit diluted. It inflation. We were seeing inflation live in action here, right? I mean, you know, what was a dollar last year is not worth the same as a dollar this year. It is just like, it's insane. I know we keep saying that the more this game gets homogenized it becomes this driving distance and track man thing. Like guys are just going to get closer and closer and closer together and it's going to be harder and harder to separate yourself. The consistency is truly amazing. It just is going to be

that hard to rack up five wins in a year. It really is. And look, there's a special skill to get out in front and run and like add on birdies when you are two shots clear. I agree. That's like a different thing. It's not, you know, just playing great golf is not, you know, it's very boring to be like, yeah, he's very good. He shouldn't, he shouldn't win. I get it. Like he is that talented. He is a different level. And, you know, it's a, he's not shown that special skill to just like pull the DJ of like, dude, no one's getting within six of me this week. I'm not going to get involved in the mathematical, you know, stuff that goes on when close golf tournaments like no one's getting me. And that is like the final frontier for Ram, I think. So well said, which might be an unreasonable expectation, though, like you could be the best player in the world and still not just run out and have weeks where you just dunk on people because it does feel like Maybe it is a mental thing that he does need to like calm the fuck down in these alternatives and just be like Not get so visibly upset and like very normal things that happen on a golf course. Like, John, we all lip outputs. Like, there are putts that you hit towards the hole that might not go in and you have to be able to come

to terms on that. That get there's a competitive nature of that. But there also is just like an understanding of the world is not out to get you. It is not that shocking when you lip out a putt. You like, you have done this so many times, you should understand the chances of a putt barely missing are pretty good when you hit one. You can't let like your entire composure degrade because of it. There was something like speaking of just like players that make you feel something. There was there was something truly awesome about watching him be like visibly furious on Thursday when he was 1300 par through two rounds. Just slamming gloves, absolutely like at his wits end at his 13th. But you know what's funny?

That was what's what's funny is Rob will pull this after the interview. You know, he's like, you know, it obviously wasn't my best, but you know, we got a decent score out of it. And then like later in a different interview, somebody asked him and was like, you know, he wasn't your best out there. And he's like, well, it wasn't that bad. I mean, like, come on. I got shots.

He like, he will take little slides. If you even like intimate, like, yeah, you didn't play your best out there. And he's like, well, it's not like I shot an idiot out there. Just watch. Yeah. You want to go play? He's gotten this little edge to him. I listen, we're, he thinks we're very hard on him

on social media. I love all the outbursts. Like, I'm gonna post them all. I think they're great. It makes you feel something when you watch that guy. I like rooting for him. I'm a rom fan, but yeah. That's what I think maybe rounding it out.

Just a fun leaderboard this week of like, you know, there's so many leaderboards where I'm just truly numb, like feeling nothing. Especially once we get into kind of the dog days of summer, but it was, it was cool to see like, Luke list trying to break through. It's cool to see Zaltor is trying to hang on on the back nine with, you know, his weird ass potter, cool to see, ROM on the edge of exploding cool to see Jason Dayback, fun to see Justin Rose hit in the water at 18.

Like lots of, just a lot of good stuff. Very, very fun day of golf yesterday, which maybe speaks to, you know, I don't know how much of that was also the Saturday finish. I don't know if you guys want to talk about that. Let's do that. Please. I mean, it's a huge deal. It really is. And there's a great article I shared on Twitter from San Diego Union Tribune talking about. And I guess I did not remember this this way or how it all usually plays out. But this being a week's, you know, the NFL adding an extra week is what slid everything. Farmers used to sit in this cozy little spot in between conference championships and the Super Bowl. And this kind of caused a little bit of a panic on their end. If you may say, if you read the articles, a great article talking with their CEO Jeff daily, who kind of seems awesome.

I don't want to get too far on the CEO train, but like, I got to, I got to, some nice things to say about Jeff daily. One, just like thinking outside the box, I'm getting this done. And all of the, you know, we, I've said this when it happened, like, this is not a simple thing to just slide a tournament up a day. They lose the program, TV schedules change, and like that article does a great job just detailing out all of the things that they had to consider, which, you know, one of them was, you know, it was presented as a choice at first. Do you want to go Wednesday through Saturday or do you go to NBC and keep the Thursday through Sunday format?

My initial upset reaction was, let's go to NBC, then cooler heads prevailed. And they said, the short and runway made a costly casualty of the program, a net $1 million hit for the century club of San Diego. That's according to Tournament Director and CEO, Marty Gorsuch. It scrambled TV coverage. It sliced and diced everything from travel and lodging dates to hospitality and attendance rhythms. And in a blink, everything became risky and uncharted golf water. And like, I think I hope it worked out for him. I hope the ratings worked out.

I think that it sounds like there's some serious momentum here for this event to stay in that spot and hopefully even force some change in some earlier January events. What do you guys think? Love it. Obviously, I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to, you know,

we're taping this, which we can talk about later, but we're taping this kind of midday Sunday here. So we're we're going to tack on some other LPGA stuff on the end of it, but it'll be nice to actually, you know, sit and be able to watch football like anybody else. I'm excited about that. I'm a little pessimistic that I am a little nervous about what the ratings will be. I think it's just so much easier to get people in the couch on a Sunday afternoon than it is on kind of a later in the evening Saturday. I think people just kind of have generally more stuff going on, but that's a total, total total guess by me.

I think if you started to kind of hit like critical mass with some of these, you know, getting some of these like January events kind of all switching to Saturday finishes and you start getting more momentum in that regard. I think it's gonna probably do a lot better than just a one off where there's probably a still a massive, massive part of the audience who's gonna flip on the golf at Sunday, you know, on Sunday afternoon and be pissed that they didn't realize it ended yesterday,

just because of the nature of who golf's audience is, but I applaud them for doing something different. I greatly enjoyed it. And I say something to that though, like the comp is not a normal Sunday football-less viewing. That's very good. We're not gonna have a good comp for this because if you want a good comp,

it's like American Express non-network ratings up against the football that happened last weekend, which were horrible, so bad, unbelievably bad ratings. So if anything, that I think validates. And I get, you know, golf channel coverage is different than network coverage viewing wise. And the LPGA on NBC did better than the men's golf does on PGA on golf channel, which the men's golf does on on PGA

on golf channel, which just speaks to people's viewing habits. I think I mean straight up, like LPGA golf does not beat PGA tour golf really ever, but that's just how network coverage works, right? So for them, like they are going to get a big flask. They are going, yeah, it's just a Marty fish. They are going going up against a blind number or a blind. They don't know what it would be. And that takes a little bit of extra trust. We've seen in this industry, people need to prove into them and beaten over the head

before any kind of change ever is made. And so I'm rooting for this. But if you do pull the string back, it's not as simple as everybody moving up to Wednesday through Saturday, because in prior week, this is the first NFL weekend that there's no football on Saturday So in reality, we're talking about either moving up the play on sat to finish, you know, midday Saturday before football starts or even finishing on a Friday Which I don't know if that's gonna be good, but it does help kind of maybe cycle that January flow a lot better if

If you could because you can century can kind of do what they want days of the weekwise right I mean They don't have a tournament the week prior to that and if they move up then Sony can move up American Express can move up and then this fits in a lot better where you can have the programs and all the stuff that go into A normal event so that's what'll be interesting to see Because it sounds like they're you know in that article it made it sound like they're they're know, in that article, it made it sound like they're, they're, they're, even before this week happened that they're here to stay on this, on this time shift. I would be curious, and I know there's no way to answer this, maybe. How a Saturday finish would compare to a hypothetical Monday finish. And did they consider going the other way, like Friday, Friday to Monday, especially on the West Coast finish, right? Where you can kind of push it. Yeah. They were they were already kind of pushing you like and getting that like eight o'clock Eastern Eastern

Finish would be, but that's one that I don't know what the tour rules are handbook rules about going into the next tournaments week, right? And honestly, with Saudi, like you're only probably hurting your recruiting chances of players. If you are going Friday to Monday with the guys in the field that are going to are taking the flight over to go play Saudi. So this, this seems better to me. I would think I mean, you want the term to end on a weekend, right? It might be some chest though. You make them skip farmers and the, uh, what's the next one? The waste management? That's AT&T is next week.

AT&T, yeah. Make it hurt a little bit more, because I know, obviously, Farmers is one that guys play. I don't know. I don't know what the right answer. I mean, it was, the Saturday finish was, I agree with you guys, like just from,

obviously I have very keen to watch the football today. It's much better than having it finish on Sunday evening for sure. And I guess the only other thing too because if I'm remembering right, I read that article a few days ago, but if I'm remembering right, the he says a lot of good stuff in there too about like non ratings things as well and just kind of like the hospitality aspect of it and purely anecdotally. I mean, they mentioned on the broadcast a couple times, but there's a ton of people out there watching on a Saturday afternoon as well.

And when you think about like what farmers is trying to do from hospitality, standpoint, and all that, I mean, it's probably pretty easy to get people to entertain out there on a Saturday, definitely versus a Monday. Yeah, to support that, you know, in the article, it says, as if there was any scenario where the tournament shifts back

to its traditional Sunday finish next year or beyond, given the cement anchoring, the NFL's new schedule, daily could not think of one. He said, I don't think so. It's important to us that the ratings are strong, but we still get a tremendous amount of business benefit because we use this as motivation for our top agents around the country.

The business benefit for us is probably stronger than a few incremental ratings points, which is really refreshing to hear somebody just say like, it's maybe worth some rating sacrifice, which is not something you hear in the TV business. They said, if you take ratings out of it, I like the Saturday finish better. The golfers I talked to like it to, I won't say who, but someone's prediction was that three or four more tournaments might shift their dates as well. So that's very much a watch this space situation because it, I just think it's makes less and less sense as time goes on for the PJ toward start their season or their year or whatever going up against NFL football, which is

only further encroaching on the, on the, the new year calendar. So need to figure out the wrap around portion of the season, I that's where I think they should get creative not necessarily ending on Saturday or Sunday looking into that, you know, maybe a Monday finish or because I think that's where they have some room to be creative and have tournaments kind of experiment with with what might work. And that's where I think it's the answer is going to be network. Like you I don't think you want to be on network during the day on a week day. Like it just that's just not how the network programming works. They do sports really mostly is focused on the weekends. And everyone talks about how important the actual network coverages, CBS NBC for ratings. So that that'd be my guess as to why not. And then I mean,

we'll on talked about that too when you can't want to like, I know, he's like, dude, I'd rather be up against the PGA tour event because I get better ratings with people flipping back and forth channels than I would if we are in our own solo spot, which is like, all right. Well, that's just this. Yeah, I'll disagree with one on that. That's not real. I think another aspect of this too is kind of this disconnect of trying to make 50 however many 48 whatever the number of tournaments is as like equal events on the PGA tour right when you're trying to make the Palm Springs event and Riviera you're trying to give them the same treatment like that's just it's not going to happen. Well, there's 50 extra points every year. So 50 extra fives. Oh, them. Which that's true. I guess every fan does just think about that when they flip it on.

But yeah, that's part of it too, is like, you know, clearing out Palm Springs to finish on a Monday or Wednesday or something like that. It would be so much easier to do if you could kind of treat these tournaments a little bit more realistically as far as what they are and kind of their standing in the game again that was kind of something. People should really go listen to Adam Scott interview, but that was kind of something he was alluding to as well, right? Where it's like you can't have this many tournaments and have them all mean the same thing to people like what are we. Well, I was going to say piggybacking on a rom conversation, I think golf suffers doubly in that, if you're not gonna have people that are capable of winning four or five times a year

and really being dominant, you're just hurting the product too, where it's like, yeah man, who knows who's gonna win this week? It could literally be anybody. Like that's compelling for like a very little time and then over the long run you just need some guys to separate and show how great they are week to week. That's a very good point and it just kind of waters down like to the original question that the person on Twitter

email or whatever that was asked like do we overrate wins it's like man it doesn't help when we're trying to make all these wins feel equal as well. Trying to treat Hudson Swoffer, I think Hudson Swoffer won for last week, right? Palm Springs trying to treat that the same as like a master's win or a Riviera win or you know, even a WGC win or a playoff like all these things trying to be the same is just yeah, that's that's where it starts to get to like whoa, you know, Ram just like hasn't won enough. It's like, yeah, but like, look at look at what's going on. Look at the big picture here. Well, and it's also, I mean, this is not a shot at the broadcasters, but like, you can't keep track of all this stuff. Like they had loop lists as a hometown

wrong. He hasn't lived where they said he lived for like years. They said Aaron Rye has said this is from our friend Ben Coli. He said Aaron Rye has six European tour wins. It's actually two. And he took down Ian Polter in a playoff at the Scottish Open. It was Tommy Fleetwood. Like, you can't, if they can't, like, give information about all these players, then like, what are we? Like, Luke Liss, I'm sorry to say this. Like, Luke Liss is a problem that the PGL solves, right? Like, if you want Ram to win more, so we can talk about that, like 48 person fields make a lot more sense.

So, on to Dubai, before we do that, rapsoto.com slash NLU, promo code NLU for $100 off our favorite mobile launch monitor. These things are extremely accurate. They get within 2% of a unit that will cost you $20,000. I'll tell you, as we're changing over equipment into the new Callaway Rogue ST stuff. This is an extremely handy tool to figure out, you know, what kind of head you should be using, what kind of tweaks you should be making to any new equipment you're putting in your bag. The Rapsoto mobile

launch monitor app automatically track stats and stores video with shot trace or it helps club gaffing helps understand the true distances for each club. It gives you immediate feedback and data creates a better practice environment keeps you from mindlessly hitting balls. I'll go hit some balls, find myself just kind of my mind wandering and I'll just get it out just to make sure like I'm at least checking in to see how far I'm hitting nine irons, how far I'm hitting eight irons. What, how consistent my speed is. It's extremely portable.

The case is about the size of a rangefinder. You can use an indoor and outdoor $100 off. They're like $500 to begin with. These are unbelievable deal. Can't believe everyone doesn't have one. Rapsoto.com slash NAU promo code NLU. Looking forward to breaking mine out later today. Keep keeping.

I'm excited to see you back in the golf game. What are you doing? That's what I said out of respect. Out of respect for my future competitors. I don't want any videos. Why are you doing this? You know I said out of respect. Out of respect from our future competitors. I don't want any videos. Why are you doing this? You know, Randy, that's an interesting question and it's one I don't necessarily have yet.

First of all, I will say my wife, shout out to my wife, Justin, catching a little bit of the golf club as well. So it's just been a fucking blast going out to the range with her trying to figure some stuff out, figure out what's going on with her swing, figure out what's going on with my swing, going in-plane. It's just been, you know, it's, it hasn't been very recreationally fun for what. It's kind of felt like work for a little bit. And I feel like I'm kind of on the other side of that. It's just been a lot.

That's legitimately exciting. Like we haven't like played golf as a group. It's so long. Like we don't, you don't do that anymore. No, and that's what, and yeah, we don't have to go and hold you listen to the trap. up. All very often times when we're going to the golf courses, like there's a bunch of cameras, you got to figure out what's going on or the batteries charge, who's mic'd up, is that mic track rolling? Oh my god, is that group behind us going to catch up to us? Yeah, it's just not a very fun way to play golf. And so I think, yeah, I probably OD'd on that that type of golf for a little while. And so I'm trying to, trying to reach, shock the system, Randy. And also my Lord and Savior, Kalimura, of course, and I've been completely rebuilding my swing.

Got a playing lesson, playing lessons with the pro with Justin Hubert this week. Uh, I'm much like Ram. I think I'm positioned to fuck people up in 2022. It's going to, I'll play anybody in America right now as a 7.0 handicap. Well, speaking of fucking people, well, of course you will. Yeah. Speaking of fucking people up, why don't you take us to the desert where Victor Houghlin wins in a playoff over our guide, Dick Blan. Oh, man. Great stuff. I won't pretend to have watched it live, caught it up on DVR this morning. Victor Houghlin starts the day six back, finishes finishes birdie eagle birdie, which is decent

to post 12 under. Blandy, excellent little plotting his way down the 18th, little three shot, par five rolls in like a 25 footer, 20 footer, 25 footer, something like that to force a playoff or to also get to 12 under. And then of course, you know, our sweet boy, the rib, to also get to 12 under and then of course, you know, our our sweep boy, the rib, comes to the final hole after an amazing escape par on 17, which we can talk about. It comes to the final hole and this is in very conflicting, like, is this called the No-ling a podcast or not? Just really catches the opposite side of that sword that you're really catches the the opposite side of that sword that you're that you're you're hoping for and blows one into the water on 18 doesn't make the playoff and Victor Holland comes out on top with Just excellent, excellent golf to catch up on. I was talking with Sally earlier, I think European tour golf on on DVR, that gosh, that might be the, that might be the spot that feels like

the table secret just brew a pot of coffee and skip through all the ads, it's, it's really, really good stuff. Hey, Blendy, Blendy, it's about time people put some respect on Blendy's name. Yeah, people need to be harder on John Rob. And they need a really difficult. This plan. Well, listen, he's he's he's going to be 49 years old in March.

Okay. He's playing the best golf of his life. He he's ranked 80th in the world right now. Actually, that might not even be updated. He might you might go even higher. He's like people, who's ranked behind him, for instance? You got a guy like Lanto Griffin and Keith Mitchell and Ricky and Blanc's 50 second average.

Per VC, 606 on Twitter, 52 in the world now. Almost in the masters. Yeah. But people should take a look in the mirror. Find a little harder. It is legitimately awesome. It was so like, you know, kind of cheeseball alert here a little bit, but watching a playoff between like young up and coming stud Victor Havlan and 48 year old Richard Blan is a thing you don't get in any other sport.

That's it's the best. And yeah, Randy in all seriousness, it is an awesome, awesome story. It's really fun to watch. Also cool that it's swing coaches on the broadcast, kind of a Paul Casey Peter Costas, maybe a little less polarizing on both sides of that equation example, but it's just it was a real, real delight. When the Euro tour hits, man, it's, it's such a good one. It's, while it's probably fair to say of any golfers in the top 52 in the world, the most physically limited is probably Richard Blant, right? And like, to watch the most physically limited player among those players, finish birdie, birdie.

And to watch Rory finish par Bogie to miss the playoff by one is like as gut wrenching. That is tough, man. That's a that's kind of a normal sport example. Yeah, I don't know where you guys want to go. Do we want to talk about the rib? Do we want to talk about people? People seem the most fired up about the rib.

I mean, Hovelin seems to be fulfilling his destiny, which is to be truly one of the best players in the world. He's now third ranked player in the world, which also maybe the most likable player in the top 10. Like what an awesome player watch. So Rory, Rory or Stone Roy, where would you prefer to start, Deach? I don't have too much more to add on on Stone rory that is Victor hovelin just in that I mean it's he went out and got it He needed to shoot a crazy low round and he went out and did it started the day six back and shot six under right and It's just I think the next step is obvious right we haven't totally seen him contend in any majors

We haven't seen him take that next step. So I'm like, that honestly is probably like one, two with me right now. And kind of my like, what I'm most excited about for the majors this year is Rom and Hoveland. I think seeing if Rom can truly like hit the afterburners and knock off a couple and seen if Hoveland can get in the mix because I think that would be like truly awesome to watch. And I think he's gonna make so many freaking fans. I think that's a prediction. I think he's gonna have like,

he's gonna have some mic'd up, some mic'd up moment or something where he just completely wins over everybody in the world and on a really huge stage. So just had a blast watching him. Didn't have a blast watching Rory. Rory had his entire kind of richy-tening bomb. I'm not having a good time vibes going on.

He's kind of chirping at photographers. He's moving fans around the, I don't know how close of you watch it this morning, but the as he's hitting the ball out of the bush on 17, he's like, kind of shouting at fans like, you don't understand this kind of fucking anywhere. That's an actual quote too. The F Bobby threw in there. Yeah, 16. He's, you know, trying to hit a wedge in the middle of the green. He's got a photographer snapping in his backswing. He had some choice words for him.

And then basically kind of gets out of 17s, a driveable par four, he hit driver and pulled it way left in this bush, hacked out of the bush, which was like kind of an edge of your seat moment, which was, it was very like, is this, this doesn't seem like it's going to go great. Plays actually a great little pitch out, kind of back to the grass and then hits an unbelievable chip shot to stone dead and makes makes par. And then he's sitting there waiting on 18, waiting, waiting, waiting. And I guess kind of the decision of the week will be whether he should have hit, you know, driver or or three wood on the the reachable par five, the 18th. I don't know. This is

where I always feel like such a fraud where I'm like, what a fucking idiot, man, he should hit drivers. Like he's Roy McElroy, like he, you know, he has far more information than I do standing on that T-Box. A lot of the commentators, like in the moment seemed very comfortable with the decision. Like they kind of were predicting that he was going to hit three wood because there's a pond that if he leaves one out to the right a little bit and kind of juices one, it kind of brings the water into play on the T ball. So he lays back with a three wood hits it in the fairway.

It has like two sixty seven, I think, and then just like truly an awful, awful three wood. I don't know if he was trying to take something off of it. I don't know what the time it just was bad, bad vibe. But the individual decision to hit three wood off the tee, I don't think I would scrutinize that tightly if it didn't come with this whole this this concept he's come up with for the current year. I know we've alluded to it in the previous weeks, but haven't really read the actual quotes. As he said, I think the fairways hit stat is always a big one for me. If I can hit the ball in the fairway 60% of the time with how how far that I hit it, I'm gonna create a lot of opportunities for myself, the more opportunities you give yourself,

you know the putz will fall, blah, blah, blah. He said again, that goal of hitting more fairways, it means maybe thriling back and hitting three would a little more often or hitting clubs that are maybe not as aggressive off-tees and just putting yourself in the fairway. Maybe just being a little bit more measured and a controlled golfer.

I'll certainly pick and choose my spots where I can take advantage of the driver and hit it. But the best player the last 30 years, Tiger, he picked and chose where he hit driver. And he played a very, very controlled game. It didn't work out too badly for him. I'll get to why I think that's called his troublesome, but I think trying to eliminate the big miss off the tee,

those destructive shots where you make doubles from rain that in a little bit and get more effective with scoring clubs. All right, Rory, your greatest skill is your ability to drive the golf ball. It is. So again, the individual decision to hit three wood over driver. I think that there's reason there on that 18th T, but this whole mindset is not vibing for me. Like you can't, you don't have Tigers iron play and putting. Tigers approach play is the best we've ever seen in the game.

And also he was like the best putter. Like that is a lethal combo to be like, all right, Tiger said, I don't need to be out of play off the tee because I'm so good at everything else that we're not going to cost ourselves. Rory gets to being the best by driving the shit out of the golf ball. So I kind of get where he's saying of like he feels come to enough hit enough greens that you know you're just going to start making putts eventually.

But like dude, you don't realize the effect of getting 25 yards closer to the green. How much that is actually affecting your approach play because average shot from 125 is better than a good one from 150 and like that plays out over the course of a tournament in great numbers. It really, really does add up. So through that lens, I have an issue with them pulling three wood because it seems to be like a conscious decision for him. And if it's going to put you 266 out with the risk of hitting it in the water, it's hard not to be like, dude, yeah, you had a chance to take on more risk off the tee.

And if you don't drive it great and you still got to avoid the more risk off the tee. And if you don't drive it great, and you still got to avoid the water off the tee whatever, if you don't drive it great, you can still lay it up and hit a wedge on, but you got to put yourself in a great place to get on and to when he did not do that. That was, yeah, just seeing Hoveland in the in the playoff having 230 instead of 270 is like such a, it's got to just such a big difference, especially when, you know, you're, now I'm not advocating that like, man, maybe just lay it up and hit a wedge in there close from 80 yards, but he was tied

rather than, you know, rather than needing to, you know, he wasn't trailing, which was, just a weird, weird kind of sequence of events all the way around. And I think the, again, this is where I, you know, kind of proceed with caution and feel like a bit of a fraud because it's like, of course, he is a very smart, very, like, intelligent golfer who has a ton of great information

at his disposal and a great, a bunch of great people around him. But yeah, when I heard those quotes, man, it was hard to not feel exactly like what you just said, where it's like, yo, it's a true like the, the why not both, gif of, you know, yo, what if you just like remained the best driver in the world and, and improve the scoring clubs? Like, why do those two things need to be like mutually exclusive, man? This doesn't, this doesn't make a ton of sense, which to me, it either seems like total conjecture here, but it either seems to be telegraphing like, is he losing a ton of confidence in his driver or is he losing a ton of confidence in improving his wedges? Like,

is he at the end of his rope in improving his wedges and is almost more like, oh no, no, no, but like what if I think the answer is actually like not to have to hit as many wedges like what if I just you know leaned into hitting more fairways and hang more irons like that would be much easier than you know keep trying to solve this wedge problem that I've been trying to solve for five six years. So I don't know man the whole thing is just it's it was really it was a sincere bummer to watch all the happiness happiness that that hovelin and Randy's got Blandy ended up bringing me eventually. The, yeah, the Richie Tendon bomb, everything sucks. Act down those last three holes was not fun to watch. It does not, it's not telegraph great things on the horizon.

And this is where like I get, I truly do get the feeling of like this, what he's saying probably feels better to him, right? And if the numbers didn't scream something totally different, I could be like, you know, if that's what you're feeling, like don't do something you're not comfortable with, right? But what you're telling me you're not comfortable with is like sheltering the best club in your bag. And that like, if you, if I'm auditing what you're saying right now, like that's, that's not, that doesn't sound like a good strategy. And that should, you know, if I, if I'm auditing what you're saying right now, like that's, that's not, that doesn't sound like a good strategy.

And that should, you know, if I, if I, if I'm getting ready to hit a shot and I'm like, all right, yeah, I'm going to, to a caddy, I'm going to punch it through that hole. I'm going to fade it. And then like I'm going to hook it as it gets near the green and then use that slope and it's going to feed. It's like, dude, if I said that out loud, it's like, fuck, okay, this is a bad strategy. I should not do that. And that's almost kind of like what I hear, like when you say that out loud, you should

be like, ah, you know what? As I say that, I don't know if modeling my okay approach play, okay, putting and comparing it to like the greatest ever while diluting my best skill is the best way towards me winning a lot. I don't think that's probably right. That's what that's what I mean. It's not like he's not smart enough to know that figure that out. Which is where I'm like, well, like, let's get back to the root of like, why the fuck is this on his mind? And it has to be either like the, it just seems like it has to be either the driver or the wedges is like not,

you know, he just doesn't feel like those are his, the driver especially, like he, maybe must just not feel like that is his killer club the way that it used to be. And if you're standing on the tee, like it was, again, this is a projection in a analysis. But watching, watching him stand on that tee on, uh, at Dubai today was like, he had pulled the three wood. He's standing there waiting for, I think with Paul Casey or Eric Van Ruin or whoever was to hit in front of him. And he was so stuck in between.

It looked like he wanted to go back to the bag and hit driver and just was so in between and then holding on for that same club. Like, it's just it was the bad sequence of events. Randy, any thoughts? No, I just really appreciate you guys breaking it down because very early in the morning here, I've not, I've not caught it on DVR yet. So you might want to seek out the game tape. It could be a, it feels like it could be a pre pivotal one for later in the season, unfortunately.

All right. We got to change gears a little bit. We recorded the first part of this podcast on Sunday morning prior to LPGA Playing was to get back into recording LPGA section, but first we got to talk about what just happened to Big Randy's Who The bagels who they Never done never done what a world guys 21 to 3 in the first half, but weren't getting a hand on my homes did not did not look good there for for a little bit and

I have no idea how they won that game. I have no idea how they got back in that game Apparently they kicked a field goal to win. It's it's been a very surreal last 90 minutes. I The fangirls are going to a super bowl. It's so stupid. It's so stupid. I'm super happy. I chose the reds and not the Bengals to root for for some reason. The bag, the Bengals, like the worst franchise in all of sports, heading to the Super Bowl. With out of line. Yeah, like they weren't even blocking either. That's the thing. I don't know how they got back in the game. Yeah. I thought when that the ball was in the air, I thought Nance had

pulled one of the great pulls of all time. Like, oh, last time this happened, you know, very similar dropped interception. Montana through a touchdown on the next pass. Here's a 40 yard pass in the air. It's like, oh my God, how does he do this? This guy's so good. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry to report, Rainy, you're going to have to miss the Super Bowl. It's waste management Sunday.

We need you on the pod that night. So sorry, we need you to get absolutely blacked out in the birds. Yes, Rainy. I'm sorry. It's work, man. You have. I'll come on. I'll come on the pod.

But like Sali said, I might be 12 beers deep at that point. We'll not take responsibility for anything I say. Are you ready to tell us about Lydia co-winning or 17th Pete LPGA Tournament? Yeah. Nice win for her. You know, six points shy of the Hall of Fame now. I think firmly like back, right? I think she, I think we all kind of sense that she was back, but great to have Lydia co-back in, you know, amongst the best of the best on the LPGA tour. I think it makes, it obviously makes the

women's game awesome. Like she's, she's so additive so great great result her and Kang the mud hen battling down the stretch it was it was a good week did you see my tweet on the stat about her wins if not I want to quiz you on it oh no hit me because I did okay so it's her 17th win how many wins in her 20s oh, that's that's probably. I will say five. Three. She had 14 when before she turned 20 years old. And how old is she now? 24. She'll be 25 in April, which that's incredible too. She's younger than more a cow. Somebody said to me. me Which is insane her rookie year was 2014. Well, she's not a troop anymore She was honorably discharged and no lead better now like seems to be truly truly the top might be coming up the defense back again for Lydia

Coe which God there's enough going on with the LPGA right now But I've truly reemerged Lydia Coe is about as good of a storyline as you can have. There's something to happen. Like somebody can back me up with anything factual here because this is clearly like a gut feeling. That's sort of the best. There's something that happens when the Foley students like start running downhill. You know what I mean? Like it seems like something that gets like hyper hyper hyper technical at first. And I think you could kind of see a little bit of that maybe in Lydia where she kind of was flashing but not necessarily super super consistent.

And there's just something happened that happens when she said it in her quotes after the round two where like all that technical stuff starts to feel natural eventually. And I feel like you saw it with, I don't know, I mean, I'm kind of just pulling names. You saw it with Hunter Mayhan weirdly when he, when it clicked for him, he just like beat the shit out of people. You saw it with Justin Rose for a period and I really, really hope that we're going to see it with Lydia because there were three big takeaways. You mentioned the PXG stuff is gone for the most part.

I think there's still a couple clubs in the bag. A couple of high notes. She's done rolling around in the mud. The lead better stuff is over as you mentioned. And also the other big takeaway, could watch her hit bunker shots all day. Oh, God. It's unbelievable how like she's in that green side bunker

around 18. I'm just like, well, there's, if this is outside of a foot, like it is, it's a horrible mistake for her. And of course, and I was like, oh, here we go. Could be a bogey. And I was like it is, it's a horrible mistake for her. And of course, and I was like, oh, here we go. It could be a bogey. And I was like, actually, it's more likely that she will hold this

and then she won't get it up and down. So yeah, the other big thing, speaking to people that just start running down hill, man, it seems like that's that's Daniel Kang's MO as well. So like when she gets hot, she just stays hot for a month, six weeks at a time, you know? That's I'm glad you said that because that was my other big takeaway was like when when Danielle starts feeling it, it's it's a true like you can almost go ahead and cancel Christmas. Yes, I mean, it was one last week and then finishes in solo second this

week, losing to Lydia co by one shot. That's about as quite literally almost as good as you could start start away a season here, if you will. Not the not the only thing we heard from Danielle Kang on social media this past week. Solly, will you please please make a statement on before you do, Sally mentioned this before he went on. He wants to redouble his efforts to monitor slow play. So if you see something, say something something tweet you got to be tweet. Please don't. Please don't. At no like. No, no.

You will see it. Or on Instagram at sea Solomon NLU. You could set it on the carder DMs as well. At Tron Carter NLU any other Carter brothers. So they wanted they decided they want to be the slow play police. I am so I'm out. I'm done. I can't do it. I can't do it. Take it away I want nothing to do with auditing slow play anymore. I don't know if that's consistent with takes I've had in the past I

Obviously disagree with slow play. I'm just out on like this super righteous like you have to police every one's time and call out Everyone for it. If not you are playing favorites and there's totally unfair. I'm out. Take it all away. Take it all. Well, you're in bed with the LPGA. So I'm here. We all know that. I think you know, everybody knows you draw a second, pretty hefty salary from the LPGA. So it makes sense that you won't, you won't call out every instance of this. I hope it changes. Here's my official stance.

All right. So, like, of course, the Daniel King video that was circulating Saturday looks awful. It took her a minute and 20 seconds to hit a putt. Okay. Like, of course, that looks bad. Who needs to say that? Like, honestly, who needs, who, like, oh, come on, Saul, you got to admit that looks bad.

You need to say that. Like, Saul, you gotta admit that looks bad. You can just say that. Like, of course it does, okay? I was watching the game bridge all day on Saturday, had it on, I've had COVID, I've had nothing else to do. I've been sitting here watching golf. And insane conditions, wind blowing every single hole, leaves blowing across lines. In professional golf, when the wind blows like that,

it takes a long time, okay? It does. And also in professional golf when the wind blows like that, it takes a long time. Okay, it does. And also in professional golf, when you don't have anywhere to go, there's no reason to play fast. Okay. If she hadn't gotten into the put a minute and 20 seconds into it, I would feel differently about the fact that she backed off a putt. Like that happens. When you stand over a putt and you get a gust of wind and there's leaves blowing across your line, like, you can back off a putt. That's okay. When you're the last group, there is no hurry. There's no rule. Like, everyone keeps like, they got enforced rules. Like, try and keep that. You got to enforce the rules. That's not the rule.

If you're in position, that's not the rule. There is an in position timing thing in the LPGA tour. It's like a two page long rule. And that is the point where I'm out. I'm unsubscribe. I take it away. I don't want to do this. Like I just don't care. And you can't pretend to care. Like you can't like you can't like it's a social media cloud. CPG is doing his thing. I'm not mad at him. I'm mad at everyone else that's like you have got to make a stand for this. This is your responsibilities. Not the LPJ tour officials, it is your responsibility. You gotta admit that video to look good. Ah, God, like, and listen, I remember, call it out, Bryson's two minutes and 20 seconds for that one put under very normal conditions in the Northern Trust.

Like that, I consider these two situations to be different, right? If you are playing horribly slow on Thursday, Friday and dragging your group down and pulling them behind, that's different than the final group on a Saturday and blustery conditions, while you're in the lead or type of lead or close to the lead, like it's just, there's some circumstantial evidence here

that like in a out of context clip that you're gonna see on social media, like you can't tell that story, like you can't tell the full story of how insane the conditions were on Saturday. So it's just a different, it's a sliding scale. And also what doesn't help is LPGA does not have enough cameras out there to follow enough groups. So they are stuck on a player's routine. Like this stuff happens in other spots and on that golf course and an PGA tour and things like that.

And producers have an ability to cut away when there's more cameras to cut to and they don't have that and an PGA tour and things like that and producers have an ability to cut away when there's more cameras to cut to and they don't have that on the LPGA tour. So like, listen, I'll go out on the limper. I will admit the video looked bad, Randy. Okay, I'll admit it to you, okay? I'll be brave and I will say that to you. Thank you, thank you.

Thank you. God, that's a start. That's a start. I love the fire. That's great. I love the passion. I'm so anti-passionate about it, though. I'm only passionate about not being passionate about it.

Okay. Like, look at how much I don't care. I don't, I don't care. I don't even care. Like the worst thing that happened to me this weekend was that slow play incident. That was the worst. I had a great weekend otherwise. That was the worst thing that happened to me. incident. That was the worst. I had a great week and otherwise. That was the worst thing that happened to me. Well, we did, uh, we did hear from, from some LPGA insiders that, you know, I think Danielle can get a little slow on the greens. Yes. I think somebody told us that she makes on the greens, she makes Lizette Salis look fast, which listen, that's fine. I, I net out where you do, Sully like if I'm just watching on TV

It really doesn't bother me like sometimes it's fun to like pretend it bothers me But really my life doesn't change if somebody's takes a minute 30 to put rather than like 40 seconds Especially just the drive-by on the LPGA like again I don't the people that were super mad about it online, I'm gonna, I'm gonna call into question whether or not you were grinding and watching the game bridge on Saturday afternoon, okay? Like if that was your big takeaway of like watching it, like dude, I can't watch this anymore because of this clip that Club Pro Guide just happened to have clipped and put also put

to social media, I'm with, like I'll, I'll, I'll stay on with you on that. That's fine, but I'm going to guess you weren't actually watching what was going on and could put that clip properly into context. Like sure. Are we friends with Danielle? And like it's like that contributing to what I think about it potentially. Sure. I'll take that. I don't care. But I just I truly can't cannot muster the passion to defend this at every stop. Direct that at trunk card or NLU, he will be your man. He will call out every instance of slow play, but please don't let him get away with not calling out a single one.

Because if you call out one, you got to call him out all. That's the rule on Twitter, apparently. T.C. was on a heater this weekend up in Charleston, and I was, he would have been all over it. No, he was watching the game bridge on Saturday, too. I'm sure. Yes. God, take it away. Take it all away. I don't want it. and a top. I had a blast kind of watching the watching the final round this afternoon was really fun. Fliped them back and forth between that and the game and a lot of, you know, Danielle and Lydia obviously are great, but having sling booty A up there and having you cassero up there. It's just just a good mix player. LPG is in a good spot to have a big season. I'm really looking forward to watching a lot more of this year. I totally agree. I think, you know, one one thing that I need to get a little information on if anybody listening knows.

So Yucasaso won the US Open and burst onto the scene playing under the Philippines flag, and she has changed to Japan now. And at first I thought that was maybe just like the LPGA website had gotten some wrong, but I see on the Rolex rankings website, they have her under the, but I see on the Rolex rank, the Rolex rankings website, they have her under the Japan flag now. So very curious. I know she's like Filipino and Japanese. I just curious, I've not heard why she made that decision to play for Japan now. But yeah,

looking at the top 10 DJ to your point, like Nelly Corda, 23 years old, Jin Young Co's 26 rank second in the world, Lydia Co, 24, you know, Yucasaso. Sorry, if I may, Randy, I looked this up earlier as to why this made this is the case. So yeah, why? She held both Japanese and Filipino citizenship, but was obliged to renounce one of her two citizenship by the time she turns 22 years old in 2023.

So as per Japanese nationality law. So in November 2021, Taso announced her attention to keep her Japanese citizenship and completed the process by January 2022. That's it. Also for the Japanese. I was going to say, I think, you know, I know she signed with Calaway as well and it's possible. Tron was filling her in on the fact that the Calaway Japan stuff is absolute fire. And and maybe she now gets access to that. So I know this spoils the upcoming racial draft in the shipell show that I'm sure is coming up. But yeah, the Japanese have recruited you cassero. You know, I mean, honestly,

that's that's that's a great closest we've seen. Yeah, I mean, wait a wait a seal that the deal there. It leaves it leaves Bianca Pogged in on it as the only well, not the only, but I guess the most well known now, Phil Pino women's golfer. I'm put so she solo third for Yuka this week and then finished six last week. She might a T3 this week actually. No, she solo third this week and six last week. So a hot start to her season. Again, I call this one. She's 20. Future world number one. I'm saying you cassaso. I'm saying it. She's 20 years old. She's quite good, I think. So that's the analysis he come here for.

He print that. He quote me on that. Any other news to get to this week. The symmetrical has become the Epson tour minimum purses are raised to 200,000 player entry fees are lowered by 10% per tournament. Not only that, the yearly Epson tour and BASER program that officially launches in 2022 grant $10,000 to each of the 2021 Epson Tour graduates to help aid their move to the LPGA tour. This seems like a great move to be celebrated all around. The living is tough out there on the what was the symmetric tour. And this is a move that should be widely celebrated in golf. Yeah, and I just want to maybe take a second to pause and kind of give some, some thoughts

and prayers to some of the PJ tour guys who are not going to get that money. I know. Yeah, Web Simpson's, Frank Sinettaker's of the world, you know, thinking about those guys this week as the women's game continues to get a little more, a little more dough funneled their way. It's going to be, I don't know if the flight, yeah, over to Saudi has Wi-Fi or not. And they've read that this report yet. But when they do, they're going to be, I don't know if the flight, yeah, over to Saudi has Wi-Fi or not, and they've read that this report yet. But when they do, they're going to be really upset about how this plays out. Jim Hartzel, our buddy, is asking an important question. Who's carrying the most momentum into

the Razao Kamae this week? That's going to be a tough field. I got to think that Razao Kamae. I got to think that the razzle could buy. The razzle cool. I did enjoy the little graphic. They flashed of the tournaments this week and of course did not list the Saudi event on their CBS did not for this coming week. What do we have coming up this week? We got a podcast coming out on Tuesday with JR Smith. I've been absolutely buzzing since I recorded this one.

He was freaking awesome. Just greatly enjoyed hearing his perspective on the game of golf. I'm not exaggerating when I think when I say I think he has a great chance of the next several years to become one of golf's great ambassadors. And just wait until you hear the interview to kind of hear the things to support that. The dude gets it and God, he was great to talk to great story teller. I'm really excited for this episode. You're you're buzzing about that. I can't great to talk to. Great storyteller. I'm really excited for this episode. You're buzzing about that.

I can't wait to hear it. I mean, it was fire. It was so good. He's coming back on. We got to have him back on. He's got the, it's so fascinating to like hear his journey, his appreciation for going back to school and like,

how he's going about through golf and the, like how he first got into it and how he first played his first tournament and was like too focused in on it. He's like, I'm acting like a rich dick on the golf course. Like I hate myself. He was awesome. I don't want to spoil too much of it.

He's great. So you guys get deep in the academic side of it. His class isn't stuff. Not too deep, but the fact that he got, he is extremely proud. The fact that he got a 4.0 in his first semester, which I'll tell you. And I never got a 4.0 in college, man. And he, dude, it's really, really good. I'm excited for people to hear that and follow his golf journey.

So. I don't know if this is in there. I haven't had a spoiler anything, but the fact that you were mentioned on our slack that he had to keep up in the time back because he had tutoring. Yeah. It's truly one of my favorite things. The first time that's happened on this podcast.

So yeah, I think that pretty much does it for a very, very fun week. Really. I appreciate the PJ tour moving up a day and giving us a little bit of our Sunday back. And guys, thank you. Thank you for giving us, given the audience your Sunday as well. Of course. We got Randy. I'm, I hope you don't mind. I'm taking the controls from you on the trap draw this.

I know. He, he kept and philipsed me. We've got myself and KVV and Mr. Pooch, Micah Poochel from the band. God, I hope people don't get sick at KVV and Pooch. They, they get a lot of burn lately. Yeah, and that's, that's what I always hear from people after they come on our podcast. Like get those guys off.

Wait too much of a ready to start managing their innings a little bit. Randy, but yeah, we went hard two hours on the Peter Jackson Beatles get back documentary. So that's going up on the trap draw. I don't know what day you posted trap draw Randy Randy but it's it's usually Tuesday or Wednesday. It's like a condition. The only one that conditions are right. That's right. That's right. Tuesday and Wednesday is a very philosophical thing in Randy's world though. It's not like how we see the calendar necessarily. Well,

sometimes it's Thursday. Yeah. Whatever it feels like Tuesday, right? I will, I will make the people a guarantee that it will post next week or this week whenever you're listening. On the video front, we got two, two girthy film rooms for the people to watch. Those both went up on the YouTube channel. This week, we might have a full more video coming out this week. We'll see how much progress we make on that.

But we got some very, very fun stuff coming up on the video front shortly. We'll keep you posted there. And then finally, for me, I just need to give a shout out to Niel's fiance, Carson, who beat ass in settlers and contend this week. I'm on like a 10 game losing streak. I need to get my head on my ass completely. I need to start diving in maybe to some strategy guides or some sort of different philosophies because it's just it's a really bleak scene over here. So if anybody you know I'm sure there's a lot of players out there,

please please reach out. You have any any seminal texts I need to check out. God we're so cool. All right. Thank you everyone for tuning in. We will see you back here next week. Cheers. Give it a right club. Be the right club today. That is better than most. How about in? That is better than most. Better than most. Better than most. Better than most.